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The Rita Panahi Show | 15 April · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scorn lits Australia. This is the winder Panety Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panney Show.
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Speaker 3: Coming up tonight more details about the government's proposed changes
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Speaker 3: to capital gains tax. My panel will join me to
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Speaker 3: discuss that and the day's other top headlines.
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Speaker 2: Chris Bowen reminds voters of the benefits.
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Speaker 3: Of renewables during a few crisis.
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Speaker 2: I'll get in Fimer's reaction to that.
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump says the war against the Iranian regime.
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Speaker 2: Is almost over.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Horowoods will be here with the latest from
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Speaker 3: the US and Michael LOFTUS is back and I'll get
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Speaker 3: his take on Harry and Meghan's tour of Australia and
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Speaker 3: Left is Losing. It features an old favorite, Joe Biden,
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Speaker 3: who seems to think every black man is Barack Obama.
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Speaker 4: What are you doing?
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Speaker 5: Good?
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Speaker 6: Come ahead, come here.
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Speaker 7: I feel like he should be standing on the right.
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Speaker 2: They should be sent on left but first.
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Speaker 3: Industry experts have sounded the alarm over the Albanese government's
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Speaker 3: rumor changes to capital gains tax. Treasurer Jim Chalmers is
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Speaker 3: widely expected to reduce the CGT discount on property from
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Speaker 3: fifty percent to thirty three percent.
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Speaker 2: Real estate industry.
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Speaker 3: Experts have worn that changing the discount could drive a
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Speaker 3: thirty percent spike in rents over the next two years.
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Speaker 3: Government insiders are leaking details of the tax plan to
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Speaker 3: favorite journalist. News dot Com reports. The big sales pitch
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Speaker 3: all comes down to rewarding the voters that put the
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Speaker 3: Prime Minister in the lodge in the first place. That
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Speaker 3: would be millennials and Gen Z voters, and they've now
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Speaker 3: overtaken Baby boomers as the largest voting block. Into generational inequity,
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Speaker 3: which refers to the fact that it is harder for
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Speaker 3: younger people to buy a home now than it was
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Speaker 3: twenty years ago, has emerged as a code word of
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Speaker 3: sorts for negative gearing reforms. That's what the government is
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Speaker 3: going to be selling you. Joining me now for more
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Speaker 3: on this is former Labor MP Michael Danby and Sky
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Speaker 3: News contributor Luise Roberts. Michael, this is the politics of
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Speaker 3: envy all over again, and it's going to end in tears.
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Speaker 8: Well, I'm worried that, first of all, rents will spike
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Speaker 8: by thirty percent because they seem to be the people
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Speaker 8: who can afford things the least. Number two, when you
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Speaker 8: put percentages up like that, you often wonder it's going
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Speaker 8: to lead to a further private housing shortage, and whether
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Speaker 8: you'll collect as much revenue as you think. Often when
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Speaker 8: you put the rates up, the actual amount that comes
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Speaker 8: in is less. And finally, I just wonder why it's necessary.
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Speaker 8: Why don't they cut back a bit on spending. They've
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Speaker 8: got a fifty billion dollar bonus from resources that are
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Speaker 8: on top of the huge amount that we collect already.
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Speaker 3: Absolute And do you think it's going to be grandfathered?
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Speaker 3: Is it going to be retrospective or just apply to
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Speaker 3: new investments.
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Speaker 8: I think it's to new investments, but that's only a rumor.
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Speaker 8: I don't have an insight into Jim Chalmer's mind or
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Speaker 8: what he's looking.
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Speaker 2: To the camera.
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Speaker 3: Michael Halloyes into generational inequity is the new buzz word.
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Speaker 3: How do you think the coalition is going to tackle
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Speaker 3: this labor tactic?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think for labor it's like socialism one oh one.
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Speaker 5: They love to go after people's nest eggs. If it's
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Speaker 5: not inheritance tax or capital gains tax, it's superannuation or
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Speaker 5: something that honest, you know hard working. Australians have worked
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Speaker 5: their entire lives to build up a nest egg, and
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Speaker 5: now they're finding if it's going to be a retrospective tax,
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Speaker 5: as Michael says, or something which actually cuts into their
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Speaker 5: their profits or their countable retirement, then label go for it.
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Speaker 5: So that's what the Liberals and the Coalition have to
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Speaker 5: really target.
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Speaker 6: I think that people who worked.
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Speaker 5: Hard and pay their taxes shouldn't now find that money
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Speaker 5: being garnered off. And we know that it's hard for
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Speaker 5: young people to get a foot on the property ladder,
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Speaker 5: but I don't understand how this actually helps housing supply.
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Speaker 5: How does that drive more properties and more investment for
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Speaker 5: young people. That's what's not really explained to me in
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Speaker 5: this whole scenario here.
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Speaker 3: Well, it will do the opposite, won't it, because it
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Speaker 3: will discourage people from investing in property that will be
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Speaker 3: investing in other asset classes. And less investment means less development,
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Speaker 3: less new builds. So it is counterproductive in so many ways.
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Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean it won't happen folks.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 3: There are also concerns from Australian investors that the move
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Speaker 3: could trigger a stock market sell off if the capital
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Speaker 3: gains tax reduction is extended to all asset classes, including shares. Michael,
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Speaker 3: surely it has to apply to shares. You can't just
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Speaker 3: target one asset group and ignore shares.
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Speaker 8: But there are a lot of people with share portfolos
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Speaker 8: who are ordinary people. To just draw one sanguine lesson
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Speaker 8: to your reader of all of this. Just before I
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Speaker 8: retired as an MP in twenty nineteen, I was being
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Speaker 8: bombarded with telephone calls from principles, retired policemen, all kinds
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Speaker 8: of people, middle of the road about the fringe benefits tax.
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Speaker 8: If you would start affecting people's incomes from shares, it's
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Speaker 8: the middle punters who get worst affected, and they were
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Speaker 8: the ones who lost Bill Shorten the unlosable election in
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Speaker 8: twenty nineteen. Now with a ninety three seat majority, Charmers
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Speaker 8: and Elbow probably don't care.
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Speaker 3: They don't, but you'd also argue that you should have
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Speaker 3: taken these things to an election. You don't have a
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Speaker 3: mandate to actually do any of this because none of
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Speaker 3: this was discussed before the last federal election. Now, Treasurer
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Speaker 3: Charmers has been trying to bolster the government's revenue leading
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Speaker 3: up to the federal budget as if faces a decade
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Speaker 3: of budget deficits and Deaddy announced on Friday that broadening
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Speaker 3: of the thirty percent capital gains tax on foreign investors
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Speaker 3: selling property related assets in Australia. Luise the AFI reports
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Speaker 3: that he is now also proposing that the law change
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Speaker 3: applied to transactions dating back to two thousand and six.
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Speaker 3: Is that fair to retrospectively change the rules.
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Speaker 5: No, it's not, because people would have made these investment
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Speaker 5: decisions based on a law at the time, and some
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Speaker 5: of them, according to that story, even had to get
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Speaker 5: those cases through court. So it's a real cash grab,
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Speaker 5: isn't it. They're trying to top up the budget or
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Speaker 5: top up there sort of spending paper over the massive
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Speaker 5: overspend that they've had, which we've talked about on many
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Speaker 5: occasions on your show, Rita by retrospective tax, which is
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Speaker 5: terribly unfair and also a massive global message don't invest
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Speaker 5: in Australia because this is what could happen to you
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Speaker 5: if you do.
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Speaker 3: Now, we've seen One Nation gaining more and more support
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Speaker 3: from younger voters and might have something to do with
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Speaker 3: their social media strategy. Have a look at this post
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Speaker 3: by One Nation's South Australian leader Cory Bernardi, and then
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Speaker 3: we'll look at some examples from labor and the liberals.
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Speaker 3: But first this is a new one nation MP Corey Bernardi.
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Speaker 9: We need to know how deep and farthest penetration there's boom.
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Speaker 10: Thank you.
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Speaker 9: Apply the lefties, the bleeding heart lefties who don't want
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Speaker 9: any talk about immigration, that refer to this sort of
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Speaker 9: stuff as racist. I'm really sorry that you've done that,
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Speaker 9: but I presume you're a bleeding heart lefty. It's now
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Speaker 9: called the younger kicking Kuka wildly sender. No one knows
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Speaker 9: where the Google Waggly Center is. Again, I'm not fast.
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Speaker 9: If they're offended by it, you can be offended by anything.
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Speaker 9: I'm offended by people eating too much.
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Speaker 3: Donald. Now compare that with this offering from Labor MP
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Speaker 3: Jed Kearney and Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
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Speaker 11: A lot of people would like to know what's a
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Speaker 11: really important piece.
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Speaker 2: Of advice you would give your younger self.
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Speaker 12: My advice to my younger self would be, don't waste
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Speaker 12: any time thinking that you don't belong or you don't
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Speaker 12: have a contribution to make in our kinds of jobs.
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Speaker 13: Somebody's got to run the country.
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Speaker 6: Might as well be us.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's lovely.
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Speaker 3: You know what I wish you did wander a bit
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Speaker 3: longer about not belonging and picking something else. Maybe I
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Speaker 3: don't know, becoming a barrister, owning a cafe, anything else,
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Speaker 3: Jim Chalmers. Now Labor Minister Clara O'Neil's offerings have become
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Speaker 3: increasingly annoying on social media, and I warn you you
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Speaker 3: might get dizzy watching this one.
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Speaker 12: What would happen in one nation for the government.
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Speaker 10: To build yourself up into an alternative governor?
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Speaker 6: You bet it is.
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Speaker 12: First, you be getting paid because one nation have consistently
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Speaker 12: failed to backflow paid workers. Second, you'd have west rights
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Speaker 12: in your workplace because one nation have voted again and
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Speaker 12: again to support your boss's position over yours. And you
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Speaker 12: be pay more for the basics.
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Speaker 3: And let's have a look at the libs his Andrew
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Speaker 3: Bragg I figured it out.
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Speaker 4: So imagine this is the housing system.
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Speaker 3: Five percent deposits put more pressure on an already constrained system.
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Speaker 4: And when you have more buyers, and more buyers and
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Speaker 4: more buyers, you get more.
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Speaker 14: Pressure on the system.
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 4: Which is fine unless you're not building up houses.
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Speaker 15: But then you've got a problem because more buyers with
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Speaker 15: the same supply means higher house prices.
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Speaker 2: Oh, dear man.
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Speaker 3: Now, social media is critically important. Every political party realizes
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Speaker 3: that very different approaches they're luise from one nation to
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Speaker 3: what we saw from labor and liberal politicians.
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Speaker 2: How do you judge it?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think for social media for politicians to work
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Speaker 5: and has to have an element of being self deprecating.
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Speaker 5: So maybe that's where Korybernardi actually does quite well because
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Speaker 5: he's taking the mick out of himself and he's not
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Speaker 5: afraid to put up comments that are maybe a little
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Speaker 5: bit ris guy, but it does get your attention. But overall,
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Speaker 5: you do wonder all of them are trying to go
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Speaker 5: for the younger vote clearly, you know, and to be fair,
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Speaker 5: even I will watch a social media post from a
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Speaker 5: politician because I'm waiting for them to do something ridiculous,
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Speaker 5: probably ahead of reading an interview with them.
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Speaker 6: But whether it actually.
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Speaker 5: Appeals to younger voters. Obviously, it's very hard to get
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Speaker 5: a policy across, and I mean to do a Stranger Things,
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Speaker 5: Stranger Things trope was ultimately cringey. As of next week,
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Speaker 5: I'll have two young voters in my household. My daughter
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Speaker 5: turns eighteen. I showed that to her, she'd be like,
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Speaker 5: oh my god, that's creat. She wouldn't take anything away
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Speaker 5: from the messaging on that, And that's always the problem
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Speaker 5: I think with politicians. They're trying to be hip and cool,
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Speaker 5: but does it actually translate to younger voters my guess
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Speaker 5: is probably not.
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Speaker 3: The very good point I think on social media, authenticity
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Speaker 3: is still key. Social media is seen is such an
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Speaker 3: artificial place, so fake, and yet those who seem authentic,
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Speaker 3: seem genuine, seem to cut through. How do you judge
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Speaker 3: the different tones that the political parties are taking. I
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Speaker 3: don't think you can say that one nation has really
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Speaker 3: copied any strategy, because you look at what's happened in
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Speaker 3: the US and the UK. One nation seem to run
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Speaker 3: their own race with what they're doing on social media,
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Speaker 3: and I.
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Speaker 8: Think the cartoons, the cartoons they run it very effective.
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Speaker 8: But that's because it's clearly marked as something that's not
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Speaker 8: attempted reality. Claire O'Neill's walking while insisting about denigration by
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Speaker 8: one nation of working conditions is half serious. If she's
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Speaker 8: stuck to the issues, it'll be okay.
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Speaker 2: But again, she's trying to be authentic and sometimes when.
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Speaker 8: You try to walking to work and she's.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just like I'm just like you. I'm going
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Speaker 2: for a walk around the block.
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Speaker 3: And she's done similar videos doing the laundry and unpacking
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Speaker 3: groceries and putting them away in the kitchen. So it's
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Speaker 3: trying to be authentic, but to me it's failing.
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Speaker 8: But this social media and its algorithm can be incredibly effective. TikTok,
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Speaker 8: for instance, have got a lego series against the deployment
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Speaker 8: against Iran, and it's driving young people to have a
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Speaker 8: completely anti or pro Iranian position effectively, and I mean
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Speaker 8: a lego video, I mean just.
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Speaker 3: Beyond belief that that could just be reading the bulk
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Speaker 3: of the mainstream media or watching the main bulk of
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Speaker 3: the mainstream media, and they probably come away with a
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Speaker 3: very similar repeat.
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Speaker 8: But it turns it into something because they don't read
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Speaker 8: the Wall Street Journal, but they do watch this TikTok video.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll have to talk about this again because whether
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Speaker 3: you like it or not, social media is becoming a
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Speaker 3: key factor in determining election results. Looise Roberts, Michael Dambi,
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Speaker 3: thank you for Tom. Thanks reader, as Australia battles and
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Speaker 3: energy crisis. Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen took
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Speaker 3: the time yesterday to remind us all of the benefits
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Speaker 3: of renewables.
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Speaker 1: No war can impede the flow of sun to Australia,
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Speaker 1: No sanctions can be applied to winds, and the sun
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Speaker 1: has to travel one hundred and fifty million kilometers to Earth.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to travel the one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: kilometers and the Straits of Hormores.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is Professor Ian Primer, leading geologist, author
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Speaker 3: and executive director at Hancock Prospecting. I do you agree
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Speaker 3: with Chris Bowen that the current fuel shortage only highlights
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Speaker 3: the strengths of renewables.
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Speaker 11: Well, I don't know whether the last or to cry.
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Speaker 11: I mean, we have no sun at nighttime. We cannot
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Speaker 11: use solar power when it's cloudy, So what on Earth
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Speaker 11: are you talking about. We already had an energy crisis
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Speaker 11: well before this war, and that energy crisis was an
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Speaker 11: own goal. It was done because we've tried to run
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Speaker 11: an industrial society on sunbeams and sea breezes. There's just
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Speaker 11: not enough grunt to do it. Plus we have to
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Speaker 11: capitalize a whole new grid, plus we have to destroy
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Speaker 11: a whole lot of farmland plus plus plus plus plus.
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Speaker 11: We live in a hydrocarbon world. More than ninety percent
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Speaker 11: of the energy we use comes from hydrocarbons. There's no
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Speaker 11: way you can go to hospital and have an operation
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Speaker 11: unless we've actually got oil drilling gas and chemicals from
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Speaker 11: the gas and the oil. There's no way that a
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Speaker 11: medical practitioner could use anything on you unless we got oil.
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Speaker 11: So mister Bone's got to get the sunshine. Is not
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Speaker 11: going to give us the chemicals we need to go
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Speaker 11: to hospital full stop. Is wrong again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's he's used to being wrong, so I
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Speaker 3: don't think he's going to be too alarmed by that.
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Speaker 3: The government's own Department of Climate Change and Energy is
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Speaker 3: warned that old solar panels could pollute the environment by
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Speaker 3: leaching toxic chemicals into landfilled. Local councils and regional communities
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Speaker 3: have blasted the Abdezy government for putting millions of dollars
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Speaker 3: into the roll out of renewables but not into the
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Speaker 3: decommissioning of them. In a small percentage of solar panels
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Speaker 3: thrown away today are recycled, but it's understood a significant
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Speaker 3: share will end up in landfill.
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Speaker 11: Well, reader, your viewers would know that we've been saying
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Speaker 11: this on your program for years. What have you been
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Speaker 11: saying that solar panels leach out lead, tellurium, and selenium
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Speaker 11: and cad them, all of which are highly toxic, all
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Speaker 11: of which stain the soil, all of which get into
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Speaker 11: the plant cycle. We've been saying that for years. We've
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Speaker 11: also been saying that wind turbines are braid chemicals like
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Speaker 11: this fennel a. The wind turbine blades cannot be recycled.
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Speaker 11: They are cut up and buried, such as the noxious
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Speaker 11: and poisonous chemicals can get into the soil and get
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Speaker 11: into the waterways. I am surprised that a government department
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Speaker 11: and generally stacked with primate activists, but a government department
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Speaker 11: they can come down and says, I'm not surprised. It's
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Speaker 11: taken them more than a decade to where it is out.
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Speaker 11: They just need to understand what's happening. We are destroying
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Speaker 11: our country, our farmland, and adding toxins to our food
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Speaker 11: by having wind and solar. Now, the worst thing is
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Speaker 11: the foundations for the wind turbines. These are massive areas
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Speaker 11: of reinforced concrete and these are very very hard to remove.
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Speaker 11: And for those of us that are involved in mental exploration,
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Speaker 11: this is the worst think you can have is some
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Speaker 11: massive metal hidden in the ground, but when you're flying
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Speaker 11: at low altitude doing magnetrometry surveys and you get all
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Speaker 11: this interference. So we've actually destroyed farm land and we've
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Speaker 11: stopped future mineral exploration with this fad of renewable energies,
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Speaker 11: which has been shown worldwide to be an absolute failure.
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Speaker 11: So I'm really quite surprised that the Government Department is
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Speaker 11: coming out and saying this. They should have said it
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Speaker 11: ten years ago.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely now, three quarters of Australia's trucking operators face closure
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Speaker 3: within six months if the fuel crisis continues. Premier Chris
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Speaker 3: Means yesterday announced an incentive program to encourage operators to
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Speaker 3: upgrade diesel trucks to electric vehicles, but industry and fuel
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Speaker 3: experts say electrifying the nation's freight network is unfeasible. I
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Speaker 3: seventy percent of trucking companies believe they will be forced
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Speaker 3: to close unless the fuel crisis is resolved. Does the
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Speaker 3: government really have a solid plan to deal with this crisis.
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Speaker 11: No governments never have plans. I just work on knee jerk. Now,
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Speaker 11: blind Freddick could have told you that you cannot use
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Speaker 11: electric trucks for general transport of goods around the country.
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Speaker 11: You can't use electric vehicle for flowering, proceeding, for weeding,
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Speaker 11: for harvesting. They don't exist. And any electric motor that
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Speaker 11: does exist gives you much much lower grunt and much
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Speaker 11: shorter life, gives you a much heavier vehicle, and if
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Speaker 11: it's a road vehicle, you're going to knock the roads
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Speaker 11: around even more than they have been knocked around. If
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Speaker 11: this was viable and if it was cheaper, we would
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Speaker 11: have done it years ago. And there's plenty of information
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Speaker 11: out there to show you the amount of energy that
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Speaker 11: you get from diesel compared with petrol or a gas
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Speaker 11: or gas. It's the most effective way of actually moving
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Speaker 11: material from a to b. If you look at the
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Speaker 11: sizes of electric batteries and you put them in a
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Speaker 11: big truck, the truck becomes incredibly inefficient. Most of the
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Speaker 11: weight is the battery and the truck doesn't have the
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Speaker 11: range that you have to have in a country like Australia.
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Speaker 11: So we have known this again for a very long
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Speaker 11: period of time, and we have not yet got electric
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Speaker 11: systems that will drive trucks. They might come in the future,
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Speaker 11: but let's not be the first with experimental technology. In
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Speaker 11: a country where we have vast distances and we need
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Speaker 11: huge amounts of diesel for farming, the government is trying
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Speaker 11: to avoid the reality we need fossil fuels and if
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Speaker 11: we can't get them from overseas, which is looking increasingly riskier,
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Speaker 11: then we should be drilling in this country for our
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Speaker 11: own fossil fuels to create as much diesel as possible.
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Speaker 11: It's about time we woke up to reality.
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Speaker 3: Well that perhaps a waking up to reality. In Queensland,
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Speaker 3: they've started drilling. Apparently they have found some oil, but
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Speaker 3: the reserves they are supposed to be quite limited.
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Speaker 2: But we've got plenty.
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Speaker 3: Of reserves elsewhere in the country and in this state,
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Speaker 3: in Victoria, we are blessed with all sorts of natural resources,
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Speaker 3: and possibly we are the worst place when it comes
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Speaker 3: to energy policy.
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Speaker 2: As the imply mark, we've run out of time. Thank
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Speaker 2: you so much for your time.
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Speaker 11: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Coming up left is losing ed Plus the latest from
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Speaker 3: the Iranian regime is almost over. Mihrowitz is up next.
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Speaker 7: Chairman and Chancellor elect dean. And by the way, I
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Speaker 7: always want to turn around one guy and say, Barack,
21:19
Speaker 7: what are you doing.
21:22
Speaker 6: Here? Come here, come here.
21:31
Speaker 7: I feel like he should be standing right and I
21:33
Speaker 7: should be standing on the left at Barack.
21:38
Speaker 4: Anyway.
21:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe Biden stopped mid speech to call on Jeffrey Scruggs,
21:44
Speaker 3: Syracuse University Board of Trustees chairman, to join him, because apparently, well,
21:50
Speaker 3: he's practically Barack Obama in Joe Biden's eyes. Now from
21:54
Speaker 3: the former president to a man who is likely to
21:57
Speaker 3: be the next president of the United States.
22:00
Speaker 2: JD.
22:00
Speaker 3: Vance was heckled by pro Palestinian protests accusing him of
22:05
Speaker 3: killing children.
22:07
Speaker 2: Listen to how he handle it.
22:09
Speaker 16: But the President, the President, excuse me, sir, right right now,
22:17
Speaker 16: right now, you right now, you see more humanitarian aid
22:21
Speaker 16: coming into Gaza than it has anytime in the past
22:24
Speaker 16: five years, because we have taken that situation seriously.
22:28
Speaker 3: And the VEEP delivered a reality check to the confused
22:32
Speaker 3: lefties who'd found themselves at a turning point event yelling
22:36
Speaker 3: things like Jesus Christ does not support genocide.
22:39
Speaker 4: I believe he.
22:40
Speaker 16: Said the administration supports a genocide in Gaza. And here's
22:44
Speaker 16: my response to that. When we came in, the humanitarian
22:49
Speaker 16: situation in Gaza was an absolute catastrophe. You know who's
22:53
Speaker 16: the person who got a peace agreement in Gaza, Donald J.
22:57
Speaker 4: Trump.
22:57
Speaker 16: So if you want to complain about what happened, So
23:06
Speaker 16: if you want Sarah to complain about what happened in Gaza,
23:09
Speaker 16: why don't you complain about Joe Biden In the last administration.
23:12
Speaker 16: We're the administration that solved that problem.
23:17
Speaker 3: Back to Krichella, Now, gosh, we've had a few trips there,
23:20
Speaker 3: haven't we. Where songstress Sabrina Carpenter got herself into all
23:25
Speaker 3: sorts of trouble with the Wakelings because she didn't fully
23:29
Speaker 3: appreciate some Middle East.
23:31
Speaker 2: Yodling during her set.
23:33
Speaker 3: She has been labeled a bigot, Islamophobic, and worse for this.
23:42
Speaker 13: Is that what you're doing, I don't like it. That's
23:52
Speaker 13: your culture is yodling?
23:57
Speaker 2: Is this burning man? What's going on? This is weird? Yes,
24:02
Speaker 2: for that.
24:03
Speaker 3: She has been roundly condemned by the Left, and of course,
24:07
Speaker 3: like a good little obedient pet, she has apologized profusely.
24:11
Speaker 3: She posted this to X.
24:13
Speaker 2: My apologies.
24:14
Speaker 3: I didn't see this person with my eyes and couldn't
24:17
Speaker 3: hear clearly. My reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not
24:23
Speaker 3: ill intended. Could have handled it better exclamation point. Now
24:27
Speaker 3: I know what a zagrista is. I welcome all cheers
24:31
Speaker 3: and yodels.
24:32
Speaker 2: From here on out.
24:34
Speaker 3: Oh Sabrina, we should have known better than to expect
24:37
Speaker 3: you to have a backbone. After all, you thought this
24:40
Speaker 3: wildly contradictory virtue signaling from Billie Eileish that the Grammys
24:45
Speaker 3: was profound.
24:46
Speaker 2: No one is illegal and stolen lund.
24:51
Speaker 3: Let's now go to a man who the Left have embraced,
24:54
Speaker 3: from Democrat politicians to mainstream media outlets like CNN and
24:58
Speaker 3: The New York Times. Sad Pika is the flavor of
25:02
Speaker 3: the month despite his love of her Maas, and he
25:05
Speaker 3: confesses to that love in this interview with Barack Obama's
25:09
Speaker 3: formust speech writer.
25:11
Speaker 17: So my question is, when you say Hamas a thousand
25:13
Speaker 17: times better, do you actually mean that?
25:16
Speaker 18: Or is that a rhetorical move or like a solidarity signal?
25:19
Speaker 6: Like what I mean?
25:20
Speaker 4: It's all of the above.
25:22
Speaker 2: I do mean it.
25:23
Speaker 16: I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a
25:25
Speaker 16: lot of people. I've also said, I'm a harm reduction voter,
25:27
Speaker 16: I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote
25:29
Speaker 16: for Hamas over Israel every single time.
25:31
Speaker 3: He couldn't be more crystal clear? Could he now do
25:35
Speaker 3: the unfunniest man alive? Late night TV host and stage
25:39
Speaker 3: four TDSA for a Jimmy Kimmel, who again again shows
25:44
Speaker 3: himself to be the Iranian regime's biggest cheerleader.
25:47
Speaker 6: How is this negotiation even gonna work?
25:50
Speaker 17: This is a government of religious fanatics who don't believe
25:53
Speaker 17: in democracy, and they use domestic security forces to terrorize
25:57
Speaker 17: their own citizens, and now we expect Iran and a
25:59
Speaker 17: gootiate with them.
26:03
Speaker 3: Never mind Yep, even his easily pleased audience could not
26:08
Speaker 3: bring themselves to laugh at that pitiful effort.
26:11
Speaker 2: And Jimmy Kimble was not done yet.
26:13
Speaker 3: Listen to him, admit here that the Iranian regime is evil,
26:17
Speaker 3: admit that they slaughter thousands of protesters, But then he
26:21
Speaker 3: still finds a way to blame everything on President Trump.
26:25
Speaker 17: A lot of presidents, after wasting forty billion dollars and
26:28
Speaker 17: blowing up a school full of children.
26:30
Speaker 4: Would stick with it.
26:31
Speaker 17: They would keep going until their demands for the reasons
26:34
Speaker 17: they started this war were met. They would keep bombing
26:36
Speaker 17: until they knew for sure that Iran would stop enriching
26:40
Speaker 17: uranium and murdering protesters. But not Donald Trump, our president.
26:44
Speaker 17: He looked at the pricing gas, he looked at the poles.
26:46
Speaker 17: He said oops, and he tucked his pointy little tail
26:50
Speaker 17: between his porky pink legs and tiptoe right back down
26:53
Speaker 17: to the golf course. Mission accomplished, everyone.
26:56
Speaker 3: Let's now cross to documentary filmmaker and comment to Ami Horowitzami,
27:02
Speaker 3: what do you make of Jimmy Kimmels considered and not
27:06
Speaker 3: at all insanely senine analysis?
27:10
Speaker 15: I mean, look, he's so irrelevant. I don't even know
27:13
Speaker 15: why we're discussing him, but you're bringing up so here.
27:15
Speaker 15: It is he cried more for the death of a
27:20
Speaker 15: lion than he did for thirty two thousand Iranians were slaughtered.
27:24
Speaker 15: He run, you know, And it's so funny because again
27:27
Speaker 15: it just continues to exemplify the fact that the mainstream left.
27:32
Speaker 15: I'm not talking like he's not a hard leftist, right,
27:34
Speaker 15: he represents the mainstream left. They cannot see any of
27:40
Speaker 15: the positives of taking down the Iranian regime. They are
27:44
Speaker 15: all one hundred percent, except for my man John Fetterman
27:48
Speaker 15: in lockstep against this war, even though they're seeing the
27:52
Speaker 15: fruits of their labor.
27:53
Speaker 6: It is unbelievable to me. But even in.
27:55
Speaker 15: That clip itself, he does lay out how bad the
27:59
Speaker 15: Irani region.
28:00
Speaker 6: So Jimmy and the rest of the Democratic Party, I
28:03
Speaker 6: don't get it.
28:04
Speaker 15: Why are you so loudly against this war against the regime.
28:09
Speaker 15: I just don't understand this policy they're taking, this position
28:12
Speaker 15: they're taking.
28:14
Speaker 3: Now we're going to be speaking more about the conflict
28:17
Speaker 3: in the Middle East shortly, but let's first address the
28:21
Speaker 3: issue of former Democratic presidential hopeful Eric Swolwell and what
28:27
Speaker 3: he's dealing with right now. He's vowed to fight what
28:30
Speaker 3: he calls false allegations made against him by several women,
28:34
Speaker 3: some of whom sat down with CBS News.
28:38
Speaker 15: I know personally that we're not walking away from this
28:40
Speaker 15: fight for me.
28:42
Speaker 19: Justice won't be until he can't ever harm a woman
28:45
Speaker 19: ever again, and he has faced the consequences for the
28:49
Speaker 19: women that.
28:50
Speaker 14: He has harmed.
28:51
Speaker 10: I think in regards to the governor's race, he never
28:54
Speaker 10: should have ran for governor to begin with, knowing the
28:57
Speaker 10: kind of history and receipts that are out there, so
29:02
Speaker 10: that's a non starter. And then in terms of Congress,
29:05
Speaker 10: I think he absolutely should have resigned. I think we
29:09
Speaker 10: just prevented another thirty to forty years potentially of him
29:13
Speaker 10: harming people if he were to stay in Congress. So
29:16
Speaker 10: in that sense, I think we have served justice for
29:20
Speaker 10: his future victims.
29:21
Speaker 6: Wow.
29:22
Speaker 3: And among the women's seeking justice is Alna Drews, and
29:28
Speaker 3: she spoke earlier today.
29:30
Speaker 14: He raped me and he choked me. And while he
29:39
Speaker 14: was choking me, I lost consciousness and I thought I died.
29:46
Speaker 14: The assault and it's impact or later documented during my
29:50
Speaker 14: therapy sessions at a sexual assault center in Connecticut IMI.
29:56
Speaker 3: The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is invis mistigating an
30:00
Speaker 3: allegation of sexual assault against Eric Swowell after detectives met
30:06
Speaker 3: with that Lady Lonna drewser.
30:09
Speaker 2: This is gone very quickly for Eric Swowell.
30:15
Speaker 3: A few days ago he was one of the front
30:18
Speaker 3: runners to be the next gover of California, and now
30:22
Speaker 3: not only is his political career in tatters, he may
30:25
Speaker 3: be facing the prospect of jail.
30:29
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I know, this stuff is super serious.
30:32
Speaker 15: Look, I knew this was in coming handy, Rita, So
30:35
Speaker 15: if you don't mind, I'm sorry. She bent her lips
30:38
Speaker 15: to mine, kissing till Van's imploded and exploded until blood
30:42
Speaker 15: rolled down our chins. Oh Eric, Oh, Eric.
30:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was very impressive. Y. I did not, Rita,
30:50
Speaker 6: I did not.
30:51
Speaker 15: You know, by the way, absolutely great way to try
30:54
Speaker 15: to help people forget that you were banging a Chinese spy.
30:57
Speaker 6: Eric's well done on that.
31:00
Speaker 10: You know.
31:01
Speaker 15: I recall the debate that or the you know, the
31:04
Speaker 15: when he had Ben Shapiro uh in Congress to testify
31:09
Speaker 15: and he had this smarmy attitude and he was like,
31:12
Speaker 15: you know, he was talking, he was attacking Ben's religious beliefs, right,
31:15
Speaker 15: and saying, oh, you know, is it so is it
31:17
Speaker 15: really so hard for you not to give it a temptation?
31:20
Speaker 15: Right to use your power with women? But I was like, yeah,
31:22
Speaker 15: it's really hard. Yeah, Eric, it obviously is really hard,
31:26
Speaker 15: really hard for.
31:27
Speaker 6: You because you simply couldn't do it.
31:29
Speaker 15: You know, it's just so fun, you know when you know,
31:31
Speaker 15: as those women said, the receipts are out there, and
31:33
Speaker 15: they are because he kept.
31:34
Speaker 6: Setting dick picks the people.
31:35
Speaker 15: Guys, guys, I don't women don't want to see this stuff.
31:40
Speaker 6: I don't know why you keep doing this.
31:42
Speaker 15: He knew the receipts were out there, yet he was
31:46
Speaker 15: loudly me too, believe all women, right because oh, in
31:51
Speaker 15: a performative way, obviously considering that what he's done, it's
31:56
Speaker 15: unbelievable to me. And by the way, this really doesn't
32:01
Speaker 15: look well for the Democrats and the California Democratic Party.
32:05
Speaker 6: This is not a top secret.
32:07
Speaker 15: Things rumors is an open secret for years, this is
32:11
Speaker 15: going on. Reporters are now coming out and talking about it.
32:13
Speaker 15: How they knew about it, had the Alameda California Democratic
32:16
Speaker 15: Party knew about it in California, and they still chose
32:21
Speaker 15: him to be one of the front runners for the
32:24
Speaker 15: batorial race. And by the way, it just points out
32:26
Speaker 15: how weak their benches in the Democratic Party.
32:29
Speaker 10: Right.
32:30
Speaker 15: This is Eric Swalwell was your front runner on this thing, right,
32:34
Speaker 15: and Katie Porter, who try to kill whatever people with
32:39
Speaker 15: a comb. I mean, this is what we're dealing with here,
32:42
Speaker 15: this is what you got. Yeah, this is not good
32:45
Speaker 15: for the California Democratic Party and the race for government's
32:48
Speaker 15: happening right now. I mean, this is a They have
32:50
Speaker 15: what they call a jungle primary, which means that there
32:53
Speaker 15: isn't a count a Republican primary or a Democratic Party.
32:57
Speaker 15: Everybody kind of jumps in at one time and people
32:59
Speaker 15: just vote the top two guys go against each other
33:03
Speaker 15: at the end.
33:04
Speaker 13: Uh.
33:05
Speaker 15: And this plays right in the Republican hands that there
33:08
Speaker 15: were they not are. There were five people than five
33:11
Speaker 15: points of each other, two of them were Republicans, and
33:13
Speaker 15: our Swalwell is gone. So yeah, this is really interesting.
33:18
Speaker 3: We gonna work out well for the Democrats because you
33:22
Speaker 3: would think all those Swollwell voters are going to go
33:25
Speaker 3: to another Democrat and really bolster that vote. So it might,
33:29
Speaker 3: in some perverse way, actually help the Democrats.
33:32
Speaker 6: That I don't know go to. I don't think so.
33:39
Speaker 2: Still has a campaign. She still has a campaign. I
33:41
Speaker 2: mean in any sane.
33:44
Speaker 3: State anywhere in the world, she would not be able
33:48
Speaker 3: to run, she would not be able to mount a
33:50
Speaker 3: serious campaign. But California she is also a front runner.
33:55
Speaker 3: So it is really they're crazy. They vote crazy, and
33:59
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be some if we get another crazy result
34:02
Speaker 3: in California.
34:03
Speaker 6: Now.
34:03
Speaker 2: President Trump has spoken about.
34:05
Speaker 3: The war against the Iranian regime, saying he had to
34:08
Speaker 3: act and that the war is almost over.
34:12
Speaker 2: Almost.
34:13
Speaker 19: I had a divert because if I didn't do that
34:16
Speaker 19: right now, you would have Iran with a nuclear weapon.
34:19
Speaker 19: And if they had a nuclear weapon, you would be
34:22
Speaker 19: calling everybody over there, sir.
34:24
Speaker 6: And you don't want to do that.
34:25
Speaker 2: Well, you keep saying, was is this war over?
34:28
Speaker 19: I think it's close to over here. I mean I
34:31
Speaker 19: view it as very close to over. You know what,
34:34
Speaker 19: if I pulled up stakes right now, it would take
34:36
Speaker 19: them twenty years to rebuild that country. And we're not finished.
34:42
Speaker 19: We'll see what happens. I think they want to make
34:44
Speaker 19: it deal very badly.
34:45
Speaker 2: And let's see now.
34:46
Speaker 3: From the Ambassador to the UN Mike Walls, on what
34:49
Speaker 3: the US is doing to tackle Iran effectively taking the
34:52
Speaker 3: strait of hermose hostage.
34:54
Speaker 20: We cannot, I can tell you from the United Nations
34:56
Speaker 20: standpoint Live in a world where two parties have a
34:59
Speaker 20: com regardless of whether you agree with the conflict or not,
35:02
Speaker 20: and you have I don't know a country trying to
35:05
Speaker 20: shut down the Strait of Gibraltar or the Bearing Straight
35:08
Speaker 20: or any other international waterway as leverage and a conflict.
35:12
Speaker 20: We've taken that off the table, and that isolates the
35:15
Speaker 20: whole issue to what President Trump has been consistent on
35:18
Speaker 20: since the nineteen eighties, even since before he was in politics.
35:21
Speaker 20: We cannot have a genocidal regime with its finger on
35:25
Speaker 20: a nuclear button.
35:26
Speaker 3: I mean, there is so much pressure from allies, particularly
35:31
Speaker 3: NATO allies, pressure domestically, pressure from the business community to
35:36
Speaker 3: end this war. How do you see President Trump handling
35:40
Speaker 3: that pressure right now?
35:43
Speaker 6: Unbelievable.
35:44
Speaker 15: I mean, yes, he's getting pressure from all sides, domestically
35:47
Speaker 15: from his allies, his allies right around the world. And yeah,
35:53
Speaker 15: no he's done it, and he does. In fact, he
35:56
Speaker 15: hasn't not as he's not caved to it.
35:58
Speaker 6: He's ratchet it up now.
35:59
Speaker 13: Right.
36:00
Speaker 6: He said, I will sit down and negotiate. They did.
36:04
Speaker 15: They came up with this insane proposal of saying, we
36:07
Speaker 15: want essentially everything right, I mean, we want to continue
36:12
Speaker 15: in riching your radio for nuclear Bob, And he said, Okay,
36:15
Speaker 15: I'm out of here. Now I'm gonna blockade the strain
36:17
Speaker 15: up of Hormuz. That's exactly what he did. And by
36:20
Speaker 15: the way, uh, you know, all those allies were putting
36:23
Speaker 15: pressure to allies who were putting pressure on Donald Trump,
36:27
Speaker 15: England and France, who kept to.
36:29
Speaker 6: This is not our war. This is a war of choice. Yeah,
36:32
Speaker 6: you know what all the president.
36:34
Speaker 15: Has to do with say, guys, you need us.
36:37
Speaker 6: More than we need you. Remember that.
36:40
Speaker 15: Oh and they did, remember that. All of a sudden,
36:42
Speaker 15: they changed their tune.
36:43
Speaker 6: All of a sudden, you have England and you have France.
36:46
Speaker 15: And now they're going to be sending warships to help
36:49
Speaker 15: police the Gulf of hor moves right, They're gonna try
36:51
Speaker 15: to create free navigation, they're gonna try to clean minesweepers,
36:55
Speaker 15: they're going to do to escort ships through. Yeah, all
36:58
Speaker 15: of a sudden they're getting because they understand, we better
37:03
Speaker 15: help this president out, we better help the US out
37:05
Speaker 15: because we need them. And yeah, you know, in terms
37:07
Speaker 15: of what you know, what the President was talking about,
37:09
Speaker 15: what he's achieved. Look, I don't I cannot understand when
37:14
Speaker 15: people say, well.
37:15
Speaker 6: There's no goal. Of course, there's a goal.
37:17
Speaker 15: We want to degrade the Iranian regime where they can
37:21
Speaker 15: no longer threaten US or their allies. And guess what
37:25
Speaker 15: that has been achieved. And now he's going a step
37:27
Speaker 15: further and saying we want regime change, because we've all
37:30
Speaker 15: wanted that four years. If again, I've said it before,
37:33
Speaker 15: I'll say it again. If he stopped today and walked away,
37:36
Speaker 15: which I hope he doesn't, and he won't, Okay, it
37:39
Speaker 15: will still be one of the most formidable foreign policy
37:42
Speaker 15: achievements in decades, full stop.
37:47
Speaker 3: Yet the way he has been presented in the media,
37:50
Speaker 3: the why is some of our well some of the
37:53
Speaker 3: US's biggest allies, have been behaving. You could be mistaken
37:58
Speaker 3: for thinking this entire venture has been an enormous failure.
38:02
Speaker 3: It has backfired, It has messed with the global markets
38:06
Speaker 3: and fuel supplies. How do you say that coverage Because
38:10
Speaker 3: that coverage, I can tell you here in Australia is
38:13
Speaker 3: pretty much all people are hearing. And it's probably not
38:16
Speaker 3: that different across Europe.
38:19
Speaker 6: No, it's it's the exact same thing.
38:21
Speaker 15: And it's unbelievable to me that they continue continue continue
38:25
Speaker 15: to say the same talking points written by the way,
38:29
Speaker 15: primarily by the Democratic Party, essentially reading the talking post
38:32
Speaker 15: Democratic Party is in light of the continued success of
38:37
Speaker 15: this campaign against the Iron, they continue to double down
38:41
Speaker 15: and double down and lie and oct escaped.
38:44
Speaker 4: Right.
38:44
Speaker 15: We talked about that Chiron that C and N had
38:47
Speaker 15: talked about. Oh my god, price are up one dollar?
38:49
Speaker 6: Didn't say one word and price up three dollars under
38:52
Speaker 6: Joe Biden. Yours media, you are.
38:54
Speaker 15: So transparent that you're carrying the water for the Democratic Party.
38:58
Speaker 15: It's why you have no credibility and why the entire
39:01
Speaker 15: media ecosystem is in disarray.
39:05
Speaker 2: It is in disarray.
39:06
Speaker 3: And they're not only just echoing regurgitating Democratic Party talking points,
39:11
Speaker 3: but they're now regurgitating Iranian regime talking points and that
39:16
Speaker 3: is particularly disturbing. Army Horowitz, thank you so much for
39:20
Speaker 3: your time.
39:21
Speaker 15: Tonight was a pleasure.
39:23
Speaker 2: Still to come.
39:24
Speaker 3: The latest in royal and entertainment use including Harry and
39:28
Speaker 3: Meghan's Australian tour. Michael LOFTUS is up next. Welcome back now.
39:44
Speaker 3: This is a sensational development. The Herald Sun reports US
39:48
Speaker 3: pop star Katie Perry is being investigated by Victorian police
39:52
Speaker 3: over sexual assault claims. After Australian actress Ruby Rose filed
39:56
Speaker 3: a complaint, Detectives from the Melbourne Sexual af Defences and
40:00
Speaker 3: Child Abuse Investigation Team confirmed to The Herald Sun they
40:04
Speaker 3: are investigating a historical sexual assault that occurred in Melbourne
40:08
Speaker 3: in twenty ten. In a post to social media this week,
40:12
Speaker 3: Ruby Rose said Katie Perry's sexually assaulted me at a
40:17
Speaker 3: Spice Market nightclub in Melbourne. Who gives a shiit what
40:22
Speaker 3: she thinks?
40:23
Speaker 2: Joining me now is.
40:24
Speaker 3: A writer, comedian and editor of the loftusparty dot com,
40:29
Speaker 3: Michael Loftis Michael, these are serious allegations that Katie Perry
40:35
Speaker 3: is facing. Ruby Rose has described in graphic detail what
40:39
Speaker 3: allegedly happened, and it's now up to police to determine
40:43
Speaker 3: if there's going to be any charges.
40:46
Speaker 21: Yeah, this is a scandalous, Like Katie Perry is accused
40:53
Speaker 21: of some really horrifying actions here and I hope this
40:57
Speaker 21: goes to trial because I want a manic reenactment.
41:02
Speaker 3: No oh no, don't say that, Michael, Oh.
41:06
Speaker 2: That is discussion now. No, we did not want that
41:09
Speaker 2: at all.
41:11
Speaker 21: Katy Perry, her first hit song was like I kissed
41:14
Speaker 21: a girl and I liked it. Well, now I think
41:16
Speaker 21: we need to go back and find out if that
41:18
Speaker 21: girl liked it, because that girl might have been a victim.
41:22
Speaker 21: And I think this is why Katy Perry went up
41:24
Speaker 21: on the rocket. Maybe she was looking at an escape plan.
41:27
Speaker 21: Maybe that's how she was trying to get away from
41:30
Speaker 21: all this.
41:32
Speaker 3: Well, this if the allegations being made, go a lot
41:38
Speaker 3: further than kissing a girl.
41:40
Speaker 2: I can tell you that.
41:42
Speaker 3: I was shocked when I saw the post and I thought,
41:46
Speaker 3: where's this going to go? Are we going to get
41:49
Speaker 3: a denial? Is it just going to disappear? But no,
41:52
Speaker 3: there's a police complaint. It looks like an investigation now now,
41:57
Speaker 3: and also we've had.
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Speaker 4: How do you investigate that? How do you investigate that?
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Speaker 2: Well, this is the scene, this is a thing.
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Speaker 3: So many allegations of this nature are one person's version
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Speaker 3: of events against another person's version of events, And I
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Speaker 3: guess it's up to the police to determine if there's
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Speaker 3: a likelihood of getting a conviction, whether they're going to
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Speaker 3: investigate further late charges and take it to trial. So
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Speaker 3: it's not unusual, I guess, particularly when you've got a
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Speaker 3: case that's historic. We're talking back about this back in
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Speaker 3: twenty ten, and interestingly, a comment from actress Anna Kendrick
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Speaker 3: back in twenty fourteen has resurfaced and meet these allegations.
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Speaker 13: I said it was a crazy I've never been around
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Speaker 13: so many Katy Perry fingerbanged my cleavage.
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Speaker 2: It was a weird name.
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Speaker 6: Very sure.
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Speaker 4: Pinte the scene.
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Speaker 6: So you're standing still and Katy Perry wants buy it.
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Speaker 16: I have membered for and yeah, she's like such her thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know she's aggressive.
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Speaker 6: I like it.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how Katy Perry's team is going
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Speaker 3: to handle this, Michael. Do you think she's just gonna
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Speaker 3: ignore it, wait for the investigation to play out and
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Speaker 3: hope nothing comes off of it. Or do you think
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Speaker 3: the PR team I'm going to kick into gear and
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Speaker 3: provide a response, A meaningful response.
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Speaker 4: I hope.
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Speaker 21: So maybe she'll maybe she'll write a new song about it.
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Speaker 21: I'm secretly a monster, or I can't keep my fingers
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Speaker 21: away from Anna Kendrick's cleavage.
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Speaker 4: And what person gets away with this?
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Speaker 21: That's like, that's that's not like a funny story you
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Speaker 21: tell her on a talk show. Oh, someone just poked
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Speaker 21: me write the cleavage. That's that's that's a disturbing one.
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Speaker 21: And I think any any guy would be in jail.
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Speaker 21: And I'm already.
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Speaker 4: I can account for where I was that evening. I
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Speaker 4: was nowhere near that.
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Speaker 2: No accusations against you. And there's all sorts of other clips.
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Speaker 3: Surfacing now of Katie Perry being a bit handsy with men,
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Speaker 3: not just women, asking for kisses that perhaps weren't welcome,
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Speaker 3: and all sorts of other clips that are coming to
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Speaker 3: light and circulating.
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Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about Vice President J D.
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Speaker 3: Vans has taken another shot at the Catholic Church for
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Speaker 3: its relentless criticism of the Trump Administration's efforts to secure
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Speaker 3: America's borders.
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Speaker 16: Some of the Catholic clergy have attacked mercilessly the Trump
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Speaker 16: administration on immigration. It is a constant idea that somehow
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Speaker 16: everything that the Trump administration does when it comes to
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Speaker 16: securing our borders is inhumane. And my constant response to
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Speaker 16: that is, how is it humane to allow drug traffickers
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Speaker 16: and sex traffickers to bring little kids across the southern bordermen?
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Speaker 4: How is that you mean?
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Speaker 3: Michael the vape is a devout Catholic bot.
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Speaker 2: It seems to be pretty.
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Speaker 3: Clear right here on the church, and it's a habit
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Speaker 3: of playing politics.
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Speaker 21: Yeah, it's kind of inexplicable where the Pope and the
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Speaker 21: Church feel like they have to comment on everything that
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Speaker 21: Trump does and they're like, oh, we don't like this
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Speaker 21: border idea, this border's bad. Well we'll try getting into
45:26
Speaker 21: the Vatican without a hall pas.
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Speaker 4: Yes, last time I checked. It's not the easiest thing
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Speaker 4: in the world to do. And like, how about a
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Speaker 4: thank you?
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Speaker 21: Like the last time I looked around, like Iran was
45:38
Speaker 21: trying to get nuclear weapons and so we just saved
45:41
Speaker 21: millions of lives. And suddenly the Pope is upset with Trump.
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Speaker 21: This is a tempest in a teapot, It's a tempest
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Speaker 21: in a communion cup. I don't understand any of it.
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Speaker 21: And now people are saying, oh, these comments from Trump,
45:56
Speaker 21: these are gonna cost him votes with Catholic voters. Well, hey,
45:59
Speaker 21: here's a one. Trump's not running again, so he can
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Speaker 21: let loose. And I love to see it.
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Speaker 3: And I'd love to see what candidate the Democrats put
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Speaker 3: up who is a more devout in.
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Speaker 2: Their religion than JD. Vans.
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Speaker 3: I mean, really, if they think religion is going to
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Speaker 3: decide the next US election, then they may want to
46:23
Speaker 3: rethink that little bit of analysis. Now we've got to
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Speaker 3: talk about Prince Harry and Meghan Markel. I've tried to
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Speaker 3: avoid it as long as I could on tonight's show,
46:32
Speaker 3: but here we are.
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Speaker 2: They are in Australia.
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Speaker 3: This is their first visit since twenty eighteen, and they
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Speaker 3: did visit Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital yesterday, of course, with
46:43
Speaker 3: a lot of cameras there, and Harry even tried his
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Speaker 3: hand at Ozzie rules football. He today trained with the
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Speaker 3: Western Bulldogs Ossie Rules team in the AFL.
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Speaker 2: Here, Michael, you know the level of interest is I've
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Speaker 2: got to say minimal.
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Speaker 3: Nothing like twenty eighteen, where there was just over the
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Speaker 3: top atulation for this couple.
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Speaker 2: Now I think we're like, oh are they here? Really?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, be careful what you wish for.
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Speaker 21: They've done everything like, oh, we just want to be
47:19
Speaker 21: private people, we just want to be left alone. Well
47:22
Speaker 21: now it looks like people are going to leave you alone.
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Speaker 21: And Harry seems desperate to prove to the world that
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Speaker 21: he still has a tiny shred of masculinity and testosterone like.
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Speaker 4: Like that dude, he just should have stayed home.
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Speaker 21: Just stay home, hang out with the fellas, have a beer,
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Speaker 21: watch TV.
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Speaker 4: You don't have to go.
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Speaker 21: Everywhere that Megan goes because they don't want to see
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Speaker 21: her either, So just let her fly be free.
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Speaker 2: Oh dear may Now.
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Speaker 3: Earlier I played footage of President Joe Biden Clayy that
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Speaker 3: a Syrah Whose University employee.
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Speaker 2: I think he's the hold some position as chairman there.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, he is an attractive black man, and of course
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden assumed it's Barack Obama.
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Speaker 2: He must think all black men look alike. Michael, this is.
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Speaker 21: I still cringe, Like when Joe Biden does this stuff.
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Speaker 4: You still like, first, I feel bad.
48:26
Speaker 21: I feel bad for everybody that had to endure a
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Speaker 21: speech like they trotted Joe Biden out.
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Speaker 18: And he's just trying to string words together and then
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Speaker 18: he does this thing, come here, come here, the way
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Speaker 18: he was saying, come here, come here to this poor guy.
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Speaker 21: Oh, I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
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Speaker 21: It was the worst feeling ever. God blessed that guy
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Speaker 21: for being such a great sport. When Joe Biden, come here,
48:53
Speaker 21: come here, Oh, that had some bad vibes.
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Speaker 2: Bad vibes. Pretty much.
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Speaker 3: That sums up his four years in the White House.
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Speaker 3: Michael loftus, thank you so much for your time tonight,
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Speaker 3: and that's it from me. Don't go anywhere. Newsnight is
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