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The Rita Panahi Show | 3 September · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panaghi Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to The Rita Panaghi Show.
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Speaker 3: Coming up tonight, Jim Chalmers hits back at accusations that
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Speaker 3: Treasury underestimated the impact of his government's tax changes on
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Speaker 3: home values and rents. My panel will cover that and
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Speaker 3: the day's other top headlines. Australia's electricity grid faces extra
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Speaker 3: strain with hundreds of data centre projects planned for the country.
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Speaker 3: Aidan Morrison will join the program for more on that.
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Speaker 3: John Heinderaker will have the latest from the US, including
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump's crackdown on bogus charities. And speaking of Donald Trump,
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Speaker 3: he makes his feelings about Meghan and Harry clear. Kinsey
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Speaker 3: Schofield will have all your royal and entertainment news. And
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Speaker 3: Lefty's Losing It features a man who identifies as a
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Speaker 3: woman who identifies as a lesbian.
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Speaker 2: Do keep up.
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Speaker 4: If this is how cis women react when you even
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Speaker 4: suggest that trans women might be equals or might be
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Speaker 4: able to share in womanhood, they're going to really freak
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Speaker 4: out when they find out we can also be dykes.
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Speaker 3: But first, we were told axing negative gearing and hiking
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Speaker 3: up capital gains tax was going to help first home buyers.
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Speaker 3: But it turns out first home buyers are opting out
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Speaker 3: of the market in greater numbers since the May budget.
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Speaker 3: The Daily Telegraph reports today the number of first home
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Speaker 3: buyers accessing stamp duty exemptions in New South Wales has
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Speaker 3: plummeted in the wake of Labor's controversial tax changes. And
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Speaker 3: experts warn shaky confidence and high interest rates are keeping
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Speaker 3: buyers from entering the market. Joining me now is Menzies
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Speaker 3: Research Centre Senior Fellow Nick Cater and News24 contributor Prue McSween. Nick,
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Speaker 3: this is a dramatic drop we're talking about, around a 30%
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Speaker 3: drop in first home buyers accessing Menzies. tax first-home buyer grants.
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Speaker 3: This budget has not worked out the way the Albanese
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Speaker 3: government told us it would.
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Speaker 1: You're You could say that again. Yes, it hasn't worked
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Speaker 1: out quite as Jim Chalmers expected, I'm sure. But look,
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Speaker 1: if you're a first time buyer, if you were in
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Speaker 1: the market now, you'd be a mug to invest in
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Speaker 1: the market right now with prices in the major capital
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Speaker 1: cities still on their way down. You're going to be
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Speaker 1: sitting on negative equity before you know it. So, of course,
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Speaker 1: first time buyers are keeping out of the market. So
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Speaker 1: that's not working. We're not getting more first time buyers. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: of course, they're having to put up with paying increasing rents.
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Speaker 1: Rents are increasing faster than inflation and forecast to increase
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Speaker 1: even faster. So you're paying more rent. You can't get
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Speaker 1: into the market. I mean, where have we got to
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Speaker 1: with this? And we can talk about new homes, of course,
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Speaker 1: which is the other big thing that Jim Chalmers said.
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Speaker 5: We'd all be.
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Speaker 1: Building more new homes. But in fact... Building approvals have
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Speaker 1: gone down and we're seeing developers going bust now because
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Speaker 1: they can't survive in this slow market.
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Speaker 3: Prue, the stamp duty data released today in the Daily Telegraph,
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Speaker 3: it's backed up by ABS data, which has also found
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Speaker 3: new owner-occupier first home buyer loan commitments for dwellings has
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Speaker 3: fallen 3% in the June quarter. All the indicators are
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Speaker 3: that people have no confidence in the housing market and
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Speaker 3: first home buyers in particular who typically borrow the maximum
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Speaker 3: amount are do not want to enter a market where
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Speaker 3: their asset could depreciate in the next two years.
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Speaker 6: Well, this is the problem, the threat and the real
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Speaker 6: risk of negative equity. And then, of course, you have
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Speaker 6: this situation where AI is now sort of rearing its
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Speaker 6: ugly head in terms of employment. So you're... employment prospects
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Speaker 6: are perhaps under risk. There are so many. It is
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Speaker 6: like a perfect storm when you add up all of
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Speaker 6: these things. And then, of course, you have the state
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Speaker 6: governments now who have been relying so much on the
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Speaker 6: stamp duty that it rewards them. And we're having this
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Speaker 6: ridiculous situation where you've got the federal Labor government penalising
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Speaker 6: the state Labor governments and, of It's just a whole schmuzzle.
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Speaker 6: And this impacts on infrastructure, the ability to spend on
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Speaker 6: roads and hospitals and schools. So it's just a circle
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Speaker 6: of nightmare.
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Speaker 3: Now, Jim Chalmers has admitted he is a negative gearing
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Speaker 3: and capital gains tax reforms have contributed to house prices plunging,
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Speaker 3: but he has vowed not to overhaul the policies.
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Speaker 7: The Treasury assumptions in the budget are over the next
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Speaker 7: couple of years, not the past couple of months. And
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Speaker 7: so it would be unusual to compare outcomes or forecasts
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Speaker 7: from the first couple of months and compare that with
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Speaker 7: the Treasury assumptions over a couple of years.
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Speaker 3: Nick, this refusal by the Treasurer to concede that.
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Speaker 3: Treasury underestimated the impact of these changes, not just on
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Speaker 3: home values, but also on what rents are going to
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Speaker 3: do in the next two years.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the.
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Speaker 3: Refusal to admit that is quite astonishing. It reminds me
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Speaker 3: of that infamous Iraqi information minister just denying the undeniable.
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Speaker 1: Treasury have got some huge questions to answer. But I think,
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Speaker 1: to be honest, Treasury normally gets forecasts wrong. And it's
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Speaker 1: very hard to forecast. It's very hard to model. What's
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Speaker 1: wrong here is you've got a government that bases its
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Speaker 1: policy on the assumption that these things are cast iron guarantees.
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Speaker 1: And we saw it with electricity prices, right? You know,
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Speaker 1: they've done the modelling.
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Speaker 9: We were going to.
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Speaker 1: Save $ 275 a year on our electricity bills. None of
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Speaker 1: that happened, but they've based a whole policy on this,
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Speaker 1: a whole series of promises. And they've done the same
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Speaker 1: with this budget. But let's not forget that the real
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Speaker 1: aim of this budget, Charmer's real aim, of course, is
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Speaker 1: to increase revenue by increasing taxes. Everything else is just
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Speaker 1: an add-on explanation and apology for what he's doing. And
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Speaker 1: It's just turned into a complete muddle and, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I've never known a budget. Have you ever known a budget, Rita, where,
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Speaker 1: what are we.
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Speaker 2: Now, September?
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Speaker 1: And we're still discussing May's budget because it was so
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Speaker 1: awful and appalling.
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Speaker 2: I have never, ever seen anything like this.
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Speaker 3: Normally budgets come and go and we start talking about
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Speaker 3: other things within a week, two weeks at most. We're
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Speaker 3: still talking about this because the impact is has been
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Speaker 3: so profound and so negative.
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Speaker 2: There is no upsides here.
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Speaker 3: If we're at least seeing first home buyers entering the
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Speaker 3: market in record numbers, you'd go, OK, there's plenty of pain,
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Speaker 3: but there is some good happening.
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Speaker 2: But there is no good.
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Speaker 3: You can't tank the housing market and pretend you're helping Australians.
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Speaker 3: You've made the majority of the country poorer. But you
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Speaker 3: do have some winners and wealthy Australian investors are in
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Speaker 3: the box seat to profit from this sharp jump in
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Speaker 3: rents that we're going to see. Forecasters and economists predict
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Speaker 3: home values may fall around 10%, but rents will jump
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Speaker 3: up between 15% and 30%.
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Speaker 2: And Prue, that means rental yields are going to go up.
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Speaker 3: And those rent increases are going to just keep going
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Speaker 3: up and up and up as the number of rental
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Speaker 3: properties shrinks because we don't have new investors entering the market.
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Speaker 3: There's no incentive to invest in existing property anymore.
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Speaker 6: Well, this is Labor's social equity in play where we
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Speaker 6: have the rich getting richer and the opportunists and, you know,
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Speaker 6: good on them. I would be too if I could
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Speaker 6: be doing it. But, you know, the point is this
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Speaker 6: is socialism that is just absurd. You know, I always
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Speaker 6: thought the Wayne Swan was the worst treasurer we have
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Speaker 6: ever had, but this bloke could back him into a corner.
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Speaker 6: Jim Chalmers has absolutely no idea. The guy is floundering.
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Speaker 6: But the worst thing is he doesn't understand that he's
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Speaker 6: so crook. He really thinks he can spin his way
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Speaker 6: through with all these lines that he seems to, I
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Speaker 6: don't know where he dreams them up, maybe lies awake
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Speaker 6: at night every night thinking, how can I possibly spin more?
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Speaker 6: But the man is really floundering and we're all paying
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Speaker 6: for it. And this country is headed like the Titanic
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Speaker 6: for a huge economic iceberg.
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Speaker 3: Well, we all remember that essay he wrote where he
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Speaker 3: reimagined capitalism.
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Speaker 2: So I think we are getting a glimpse of that.
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Speaker 2: It ain't pretty.
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Speaker 3: Now, the Prime Minister has been grilled about spending $ 20
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Speaker 3: million for a pre-COP climate summit that no one's turned
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Speaker 3: up to. Only five leaders outside the Pacific are confirmed
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Speaker 3: to attend. Let's have a listen to his rather remarkable response.
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Speaker 3: Minister Bowen said the pre-cop was about building momentum.
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Speaker 10: It's also going to cost taxpayers a lot of money,
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Speaker 10: more than $ 20 million. Is that money well spent, considering
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Speaker 10: only five leaders.
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Speaker 5: Are showing up?
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Speaker 11: Well, that's not true.
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Speaker 9: With respect, you are being so disrespectful to the Pacific leaders.
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Speaker 1: Who are here.
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Speaker 9: That was what the VG said. Did they count VG?
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Speaker 9: Did they count Australia? Did they count...? Well, you're being
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Speaker 9: very disrespectful here in the Pacific. Well, sorry, but we
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Speaker 9: need to actually have some respect for the process.
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Speaker 5: Respect.
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Speaker 9: And respect for our Pacific leaders.
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Speaker 2: Nick, who is he kidding here?
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Speaker 3: Let me remind everyone of the five superpowers that have
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Speaker 3: opted to attend. They are Cabo Verde, a little country
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Speaker 3: with 500,000 people no one's heard of, Thailand, the Maldives,
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Speaker 3: East Timor and Antigua and Barb... So that's the five
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Speaker 3: superpowers that have come to this little junket in Fiji.
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Speaker 3: And people are supposedly rude for pointing that.
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Speaker 2: Out, Nick.
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Speaker 1: That's an extraordinary clip, isn't it, the Prime Minister? You know,
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Speaker 1: if you ever wanted sort of a textbook example of
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Speaker 1: a Prime Minister on the back foot with no answers,
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Speaker 1: that's it. He's falling back on, oh, we've got to
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Speaker 1: be respectful to Pacific Island nations. Look, this is Chris
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Speaker 1: Bowen's vanity project. It's gone very badly wrong. It's been
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Speaker 1: very good, by the way, for five-star hotel operators in Fiji,
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Speaker 1: as far as I can see, but nobody else. And
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Speaker 1: nobody cares, Chris, actually, about climate change anymore. I mean,
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Speaker 1: those of us on the Conservative side always thought that
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Speaker 1: most of it was a lot of baloney anyway, and
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Speaker 1: those on the left are now more interested in Palestine.
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Speaker 1: than they are about climate change. So, you know, nobody's looking,
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Speaker 1: nobody's listening. You've wasted a whole lot of money on
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Speaker 1: a total nonsense. I mean, can you even tell us
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Speaker 1: what this meeting is supposed to achieve, by the way?
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Speaker 1: You know, is it going to raise or lower climate?
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Speaker 1: He can't even tell us. It's a junket, pure and simple.
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Speaker 1: And it would be laughable if it wasn't the fact
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Speaker 1: that it's our money going on it at the very
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Speaker 1: time when most people are feeling cost of living pressures rising.
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Speaker 1: and won't be terribly impressed with this whole exercise.
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Speaker 3: Now, a cattle farmer with no political experience is the
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Speaker 3: shock frontrunner to claim Jacinta Allen's former seat of Bendigo East.
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Speaker 3: One Nation announced on Wednesday it had selected Cheryl Hawken
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Speaker 3: to contest the seat, which now hangs in the balance.
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Speaker 2: After a growing revolt over the.
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Speaker 3: Labor Government's Emergency Services Volunteer Levy. Labor is yet to
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Speaker 3: announce who's going to replace the former Premier as their candidate.
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Speaker 2: Prue, this is Jacinta Allen's legacy.
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Speaker 3: She may have been Premier of Victoria, but having One
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Speaker 3: Nation favourite to win a formerly safe Labor seat, that's
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Speaker 3: her legacy.
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Speaker 8: It sure is.
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Speaker 6: And this woman ticks all the boxes. She's been a
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Speaker 6: single mom. She's a cattle farmer. She's a grandmother. She's
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Speaker 6: been a small business owner. She's had business experience in
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Speaker 6: finance and in administration. So she's a real person, you know,
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Speaker 6: unlike the mob that we get, who get trotted out,
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Speaker 6: the labour unionists, the apparatchiks, you know, who we normally
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Speaker 6: see being lined up by labour. Of course, the national guy,
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Speaker 6: Andrew Lithley, I think it's Lithian, I can never pronounce
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Speaker 6: his name, is considered to be probably a stronger candidate
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Speaker 6: because he's done quite well. But I think she's going
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Speaker 6: to give him a really good run for his money.
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Speaker 6: And I think it's so refreshing that One Nation is
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Speaker 6: actually getting people who have real life experience and who
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Speaker 6: can bring all that knowledge out of that Canberra bubble
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Speaker 6: and the bubbles that are in all the states. I
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Speaker 6: just think it's wonderful and good on them.
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Speaker 3: Well, I Got to say, as a Victorian, it would
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Speaker 3: be particularly delicious to see Jacinta Allen and Labor lose
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Speaker 3: that formerly safe seat because she has shown nothing but
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Speaker 3: disdain for people in regional areas, despite being from a
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Speaker 3: regional area herself, Jacinta Allen, and she has nothing but
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Speaker 3: disdain for One Nation and its supporters. She's described them
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Speaker 3: as far-right and extremists. So to lose that seat, I think,
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Speaker 3: would be a dose of instant karma.
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Speaker 2: Nick Cater, Brimock Sweeney, thank you so much for your
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Speaker 2: time tonight.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is the Centre for Independent Studies Director
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Speaker 3: of Energy Research, Aidan Morrison. Aidan, let's start with the
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Speaker 3: Sydney Morning Herald that had this headline, Renewables are slashing
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Speaker 3: power prices, but energy chiefs fear it may not last.
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Speaker 3: The article also stated the Australian energy market operator and
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Speaker 3: major electric companies insist that replacing those plants with wind
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Speaker 3: and solar backed up by batteries pumped from hydroelectric storage
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Speaker 3: and gas powered generation is the cheapest way to maintain
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Speaker 3: grid reliability.
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Speaker 2: Aidan, are they right?
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Speaker 3: Are renewables slashing prices and the way to have reliable
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Speaker 3: sources of energy?
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Speaker 10: Well, Rita, they're definitely not right about it being the
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Speaker 10: lowest price option. And it's really appalling that the market
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Speaker 10: operator is still persisting in saying that because they've made
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Speaker 10: it abundantly clear. If you read the fine print or
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Speaker 10: even the main sort of statements in their reports, that
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Speaker 10: they are forced to assume that all the government policies
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Speaker 10: are successful. So none of their analysis actually proves this
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Speaker 10: is the least cost option. They just prove it's the
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Speaker 10: least cost option to doing what the government has told
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Speaker 10: them to do, which is to push renewable energy into
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Speaker 10: the grid. So that's really appalling. And I think there
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Speaker 10: is actually not much chance that the honeymoon continues much further.
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Speaker 10: We've had a subdued period of energy prices just recently
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Speaker 10: on the wholesale market. That's because we haven't taken any
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Speaker 10: coal fired power stations offline for a while. But that
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Speaker 10: is actually just around the corner. And the most recent reports,
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Speaker 10: the market operator says that we're going to be experiencing
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Speaker 10: potentially blackouts very soon after that takes place, which will
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Speaker 10: definitely push the spot prices higher as well. So it's
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Speaker 10: going to get much worse soon enough. And things are
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Speaker 10: not working out as well as that pleasing headline wants
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Speaker 10: to imply.
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Speaker 3: So you're saying when they look at the cheapest form
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Speaker 3: of energy, They're looking at it in the framework of
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Speaker 3: the government achieving its net zero target. They're not looking
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Speaker 3: at really what is the cheapest form of energy that
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Speaker 3: we have available to us, including gas and coal.
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Speaker 10: That's exactly right. That's been the main con that's underway
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Speaker 10: for the last few years is that they only say
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Speaker 10: it's the cheapest form of energy. But there's normally a dot, dot,
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Speaker 10: dot and some qualifying statement that says something like on
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Speaker 10: the way to net zero or in accordance with government policies,
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Speaker 10: which means that things like the 82 percent renewable energy
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Speaker 10: target and pursuit of net zero mean there's no chance
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Speaker 10: for them to do an alternative test against what it
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Speaker 10: looks like to, say, stick with coal or put some
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Speaker 10: nuclear in the grid. So it's only a one horse race.
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Speaker 10: And these statements that this is the cheapest form of energy,
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Speaker 10: extremely misleading and really disappointing to see supposedly trusted authorities
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Speaker 10: continue to persist with them.
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Speaker 2: One horse race sums it up.
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Speaker 3: Now, the Climate Change Authority says raising concerns about Energy
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Speaker 3: prices or the impact of solar and wind farms on
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Speaker 3: regional communities can be misinformation. In a new paper, he
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Speaker 3: called out narratives that, and I quote, seek to increase
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Speaker 3: uncertainty about climate policies, technologies and solutions, focusing on the
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Speaker 3: cost of living, energy prices and reliability, jobs, regional impacts,
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Speaker 3: biodiversity and environmental impacts and whether Australia's action matters. Aidan,
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Speaker 3: are regional communities and their concerns about solar and wind
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Speaker 3: farms due to misinformation or are they more informed than
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Speaker 3: anybody because it's happening in their backyard?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly right. And if you go and talk to
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Speaker 10: regional communities, and I've been to a good bunch and
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Speaker 10: given some talks around there, the concern is extremely widespread
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Speaker 10: and for very good reasons. They're concerned about how they
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Speaker 10: operate their machinery, whether they can get support for bushfires
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Speaker 10: from the air, how their countryside looks, the noise, et cetera.
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Speaker 10: So there is a whole bunch of very genuine concerns
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Speaker 10: out there. And actually, there's a section in that report
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Speaker 10: as well that says there could be something very real
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Speaker 10: in the community's experiences. So it's an absolute, an amazing
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Speaker 10: set of contradictions and a desperate overreach to say that
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Speaker 10: everything that calls into question current policy could be classified
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Speaker 10: as misinformation. It really just presumes that the policy must
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Speaker 10: be perfect. And there can be no debate. So incredible
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Speaker 10: they actually put that to paper, I think.
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Speaker 6: It really is.
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Speaker 3: I could not believe the range of issues that they
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Speaker 3: said could be due to misinformation. So if you're concerned
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Speaker 3: about living standards, if you're concerned about biodiversity, if you're
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Speaker 3: concerned about the.
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Speaker 2: Harm done to wildlife, well, it's all misinformation.
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Speaker 3: Just ignore all the dead eagles around the wind farms.
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Speaker 3: They're just in your imagination, misinformation. Now, the AI boom
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Speaker 3: will put a huge strain on Australia's electricity grid, AMO,
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Speaker 3: says data centres currently use around five terawatt hours of
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Speaker 3: electricity per year, but by 2036, that's not that long away,
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Speaker 3: that could jump to 34 terawatt hours. Aidan, there are
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Speaker 3: 225 data centre projects planned across Australia. What's that going
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Speaker 3: to do to energy demand?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, look, it's actually a really good question. And if
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Speaker 10: you read that report carefully, which I have, AEMO is
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Speaker 10: the first to admit they really don't know how many
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Speaker 10: of those data centres are going to materialise because it's
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Speaker 10: very cheap to lodge an expression of interest and begin
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Speaker 10: the application process. And it's quite a different thing, again,
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Speaker 10: to put up the millions or billions of dollars required
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Speaker 10: to actually close a deal and get it done. So
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Speaker 10: we don't really know is part of it, but it
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Speaker 10: could be really big. I think what really determines whether
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Speaker 10: we get a lot of that data centre activity happening
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Speaker 10: here in Australia is whether there's certainty about whether they
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Speaker 10: can access the energy they actually need. And I'm not
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Speaker 10: sure whether that's going to take place if the government
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Speaker 10: keeps forcing them to use sources of energy that can't
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Speaker 10: supply reliable round-the-clock energy, which is what these data centres
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Speaker 10: really need. So it is an opportunity, actually, for Australia
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Speaker 10: because there are economies of scale in energy systems. So
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Speaker 10: adding more demand, if it's just as well located and
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Speaker 10: has just the same or a better profile of consumption,
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Speaker 10: which data centres could do, can actually reduce costs by
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Speaker 10: buying more energy from the system and reducing the fixed
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Speaker 10: costs that we all have to cover. But it's very
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Speaker 10: unclear as to exactly how much will materialise, but I
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Speaker 10: think we need to be developing the sort of energy
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Speaker 10: that provides reliable round-the-clock power, which is what the data
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Speaker 10: centres are going to need.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and we've got just bundles of coal. We've got
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Speaker 3: just hundreds of years of reserves, maybe even more.
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Speaker 2: Quickly, before you go, David.
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Speaker 3: Chris Afuli, the Queensland Premier, has met with leaders of
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Speaker 3: Anthropic and Open AI, two of the world's biggest AI firms.
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Speaker 3: He's lobbying for Queensland's share of the $ 150 billion industry boom.
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Speaker 3: No deal has been signed yet, but Chris Afuli seems
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Speaker 3: very optimistic about these talks and future investment.
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Speaker 2: Aidan, just quickly... These data.
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Speaker 3: Centres would be expected to pay for additional electricity generation.
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Speaker 3: Is Queensland in the box seat to get the, well,
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Speaker 3: the most desirable projects?
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Speaker 12: Definitely.
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Speaker 10: Hard to look past Queensland if you're a data centre
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Speaker 10: operator because they have a relatively young coal fleet. It's
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Speaker 10: the youngest in the East Coast, actually. It's relatively large.
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Speaker 10: And they're actively maintaining it and doing long-term renovations and rejuvenations,
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Speaker 10: that coal fleet. So they've got a really strong base there.
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Speaker 10: They also still have the government owning most of the
21:39
Speaker 10: coal fleet and owning the transmission and distribution. So they
21:42
Speaker 10: really are a one-stop shop. You can turn up to
21:44
Speaker 10: the Queensland government.
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Speaker 2: Aidan Morrison, thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 10: Thank you, Rita.
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Speaker 3: After the break, lefties losing it and Donald Trump's crackdown
21:55
Speaker 3: on bogus charities. John Heinderaker is up next. You're watching
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Speaker 3: The Rita Panahy Show and it's time for Lefties Losing It.
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Speaker 3: Let's start with a dude who identifies as a woman,
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Speaker 3: who identifies as a lesbian. So basically a man who
22:20
Speaker 3: is sexually attracted to women, just with extra steps.
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Speaker 4: If this is how cis women react when you even
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Speaker 4: suggest that trans women might be equals or might be
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Speaker 4: able to share in womanhood, they're going to really freak
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Speaker 4: out when they find out we can also be dykes.
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Speaker 2: The term cis really is a slur. It should never
22:40
Speaker 2: be normalised.
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Speaker 3: If you hear anyone use it unironically, then go right
22:45
Speaker 3: ahead and assume they're a lefty losing it and ignore
22:48
Speaker 3: whatever opinions they have to offer on anything.
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Speaker 2: Now to another member of the.
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Speaker 3: LGBTQIA + + community who loves everyone, even the mass
23:00
Speaker 3: murdering terrorists of Hamas.
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Speaker 2: Who kill people for being gay.
23:28
Speaker 3: And more stellar work from Zach Sage showcasing that it's
23:32
Speaker 3: silly white liberals who want to defund the police and
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Speaker 3: empty prisons.
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Speaker 2: Not black folk.
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Speaker 13: You agreed to abolish all borders?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Great.
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Speaker 11: And the presidency and the Senate and.
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Speaker 8: Police, all jails.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 14: Right now, yes. Okay.
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Speaker 12: Is that something you as a person of color might
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Speaker 12: be interested in?
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 13: No. Really?
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Speaker 8: But you're diverse.
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Speaker 2: Why would I want to abolish the police?
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Now let's check in on my favorite podcaster,
23:58
Speaker 3: the woman with the most annoying voice in the world
24:02
Speaker 3: and responsible for the most cringeworthy exchange of the past decade.
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Speaker 2: Remember this? Very first question, because I think in friendship,
24:11
Speaker 2: it's so important.
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Speaker 3: And I think so many people also have this question
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Speaker 3: for you is, you know, Megan, how are you?
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Speaker 2: And are you okay? That's so kind.
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Speaker 5: I am.
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Speaker 2: Megan, how are you?
24:25
Speaker 3: Well, Jamie Kern-Lima is back, and this time she is
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Speaker 3: with former First Lady Jill Biden pushing this incredible new conspiracy.
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Speaker 2: Theory, suggesting that old Joe Biden was drugged.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps his drink was spiked before that disastrous debate performance
24:43
Speaker 3: against Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean, there's all kinds of theories. You know,
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Speaker 2: he had been travelling....
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Speaker 14: I know he was tired.
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Speaker 2: He didn't feel well that day. And there's no way
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Speaker 2: anyone could have, God forbid, laced his drink.
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Speaker 1: Who knows?
24:59
Speaker 2: Who knows? Right? Who knows?
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Speaker 3: From the most annoying voice to the most loathsome woman
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Speaker 3: on the internet in 2026, we haven't heard from Jennifer
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Speaker 3: Welch for a couple of weeks, but... She's back spewing
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Speaker 3: the same hateful nonsense whilst pretending to be morally righteous.
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Speaker 15: There's not one redeemable quality, not one, about Stephen Miller,
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Speaker 15: about Donald Trump, about Stephanie Bice, about Ted Cruz, and
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Speaker 15: they're running the country. And you can't find one redeemable...
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Speaker 15: The Republican Party is completely... The party of 1,000% cruelty,
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Speaker 15: all gas, no brakes, let's be as mean and as
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Speaker 15: horrible and as awful as we can.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a woman who laughed about Charlie Kirk's murder,
25:52
Speaker 3: who has said the most reprehensible things. She makes the
25:56
Speaker 3: mad banshees of MSNOW look sane and balanced. And on
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Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk, let's hear from his killer's defense attorney who
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Speaker 3: decided to defame Charlie by uttering these lies in court.
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Speaker 16: True that Mr. Kirk spoke hatefully.
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Speaker 2: Of certain groups of people.
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Speaker 16: He spoke hatefully of people who don't have traditional norm-conforming
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Speaker 16: gender identities. He spoke hatefully... of people who are not
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Speaker 16: strictly heterosexual. He spoke hatefully of people who have sexual
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Speaker 16: relationships out of marriage.
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Speaker 3: And by hateful comments, he means statements like men can't
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Speaker 3: be women, men can't give birth, that we shouldn't reaffirm
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Speaker 3: people's delusions, that being honest is actually kinder than feeding
26:51
Speaker 3: a dangerous delusion.
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Speaker 2: That's what they consider hateful. hate speech.
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Speaker 3: To our favourite old school lefty now, here is Bill
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Speaker 3: Maher together with Byron Donalds, both of them trying and
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Speaker 3: failing to educate leftist dolt Molly Jong Fast. She thinks
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump just started a war with Iran for the.
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Speaker 11: Heck of it.
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Speaker 5: The Strait was open. Wasn't the Strait open?
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Speaker 8: The Strait has always been the leverage point of the Iranians.
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Speaker 5: But the Strait was open before Donald Trump went to
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Speaker 5: war with Iran, never explaining to us why.
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Speaker 3: He did.
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Speaker 4: He did explain. He did explain early on they can't have.
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Speaker 2: A nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 17: It's such a dumb talking point.
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Speaker 2: Of course they explained why.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so why?
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Speaker 2: To stop them from getting nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 11: And also they were a terrible actor in the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: There was no way there was ever going to be
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Speaker 1: peace in that part of the world as long as
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Speaker 1: Iran was funding and.
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Speaker 5: But we knew it was an unwinnable war.
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Speaker 2: It's a humongous country. Well, we did not know that.
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Speaker 3: Yep, just how deliberately dumb and ill-informed do you have
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Speaker 3: to be to have missed the many expansive explanations from
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Speaker 3: the President on why the Iranian regime was attacked? And
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Speaker 3: it seems Molly Jong Fass is just as ill-informed when
28:13
Speaker 3: it comes to the case of Lindsay Clancy. She declares
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Speaker 3: here with confidence that Lindsay was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
28:22
Speaker 3: For the record, despite extensive medical attention, Lindsay Clancy said
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Speaker 3: was never diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. It's something her defence
28:31
Speaker 3: team is using to try to get her off a
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Speaker 3: triple murder charge.
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Speaker 2: Molly forgets to mention that.
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Speaker 17: What I don't get is, why does she have fans?
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Speaker 11: There are so many women now who are, like, outside
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Speaker 11: the courthouse.
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Speaker 8: It's a.
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Speaker 2: Little like Luigi.
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Speaker 5: My guess is that postpartum psychosis, which is what she had,
28:50
Speaker 5: is very real.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thanks, Dr Molly.
28:54
Speaker 3: Now to the greatest governor in the United States of America,
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Speaker 3: the man who has seen Florida prosper on every meaningful metric,
29:02
Speaker 3: the man who could be president, should be president, Ron DeSantis. Well,
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Speaker 3: he was interrupted earlier today by some uncouth heckler during
29:10
Speaker 3: a speech in Tampa and he handled it like the
29:13
Speaker 3: boss that he is.
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Speaker 12: Three or four million more residents than New York State does.
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Speaker 11: And New York State, hey, Soros isn't paying you enough
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Speaker 11: because you're not very good at this.
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Speaker 2: You should try again. He needs to pay some better talent.
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Speaker 4: Instead of having people like you show up.
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Speaker 17: This ain't my first rodeo, lady.
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Speaker 11: I've seen it all and you ain't very good at it.
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Speaker 3: That's how you handle lefties losing it. Call them out,
29:49
Speaker 3: mock them and then chuck them out. These are not
29:51
Speaker 3: people who can be reasoned with. They are not acting
29:54
Speaker 3: in good faith. So don't waste your time giving them oxygen.
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Speaker 3: Let's bring in Center for the American Experiment president and
30:02
Speaker 3: co-founder of the popular Powerline blog, John Heinderaker.
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Speaker 2: John Byron Donalds.
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Speaker 3: The man favorite to be the next Florida governor. He's
30:12
Speaker 3: got some big shoes to fill.
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Speaker 11: Well, Ron DeSantis is an impossible act to follow, Rita.
30:19
Speaker 11: Florida has more people than New York State. but its
30:22
Speaker 11: budget is less than half of New York's. DeSantis is
30:26
Speaker 11: cut spending four years in a row. Florida's got the
30:29
Speaker 11: lowest taxes in the country. People are flocking to Florida
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Speaker 11: from all over the place. I don't think there's any
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Speaker 11: way Byron Donalds can improve on that record, but we
30:40
Speaker 11: all hope that he can keep it up.
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Speaker 3: Now, Ron DeSantis referenced George Soros when he.
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Speaker 2: Addressed that rogue heckler.
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Speaker 3: And the Trump administration is set to target George Soros' non-profit,
30:54
Speaker 3: along with the Southern Poverty Law Centre, I should say
30:57
Speaker 3: the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Centre, and a number of
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Speaker 3: other organisations in a major tax crackdown. This is long overdue, John.
31:08
Speaker 3: This is part of a crackdown on bogus charities. Treasury
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Speaker 3: officials are drawing up a sweeping audit of outfeeds that
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Speaker 3: are deemed to be using and misusing their nonprofit status, John.
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Speaker 11: Well, there's a tremendous amount of corruption in the nonprofit sector.
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Speaker 11: We've seen that in my state, Minnesota, where there are
31:28
Speaker 11: many nonprofits that are actually criminal enterprises that and have
31:32
Speaker 11: been at the center of my state's fraud scandals. You
31:36
Speaker 11: mentioned the Southern Poverty Law Center. We now know that
31:39
Speaker 11: that's a criminal enterprise, which is currently under indictment. And
31:43
Speaker 11: CARE is a terrorist-supporting organization that was an unindicted co-conspirator
31:49
Speaker 11: in a major terrorist prosecution. So there are a lot
31:53
Speaker 11: of organizations out there that deserve some scrutiny and should
31:57
Speaker 11: not be getting favored treatment under our tax laws.
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Speaker 3: Now let's hear from supposed free speech warrior and A-list
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Speaker 3: Hollywood star George Clooney, who is taking a stand to
32:11
Speaker 3: protect fellow Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo, who has come into
32:15
Speaker 3: some criticism he's been accused of using anti-Semitic tropes.
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Speaker 5: They're going to be people.
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Speaker 18: There are going to be people tonight in the room
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Speaker 18: that are going to disagree with most everything I say
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Speaker 18: or stand for.
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Speaker 9: Fair enough.
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Speaker 18: That's how it's supposed to be. We're supposed to argue
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Speaker 18: these things out and come to a conclusion based on
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Speaker 18: the information that we take in.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's funny, John.
32:37
Speaker 3: Fellow leftist Mark Ruffalo cops a little bit of hate
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Speaker 3: for his many idiotic comments. And George Clooney is suddenly
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Speaker 3: talking about the importance of free speech.
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Speaker 2: I looked and looked, John.
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Speaker 3: I could not find George Clooney saying a word, opining
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Speaker 3: in any way about the importance of free speech after
32:55
Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk was murdered.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, that whole riff by George Clooney was a red herring.
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Speaker 11: Nobody is questioning Mark Ruffalo's right to make anti-Semitic comments
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Speaker 11: or to say dumb and offensive things. but by the
33:09
Speaker 11: same token, other people have got a right to criticize
33:11
Speaker 11: him for it, which they have done. What you don't
33:14
Speaker 11: have a right to do is to shoot the people
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Speaker 11: that you disagree with, which leftists have done over and
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Speaker 11: over again. Charlie Kirk being just one example out of many.
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Speaker 2: Out of many.
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Speaker 3: And his trial today, I saw the defense attorney claimed
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Speaker 3: that Charlie Kirk was hateful, that he made hateful remarks
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Speaker 3: about people, everyone from trans people to those who are
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Speaker 3: having sex outside of marriage. And it was such a
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Speaker 3: disgusting misrepresentation of the facts, John, because Charlie Kirk was
33:52
Speaker 3: the joyful warrior.
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Speaker 2: He had love for everybody.
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Speaker 3: He didn't agree with everybody, but he never came at
33:59
Speaker 3: anybody with hate or vitriol.
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Speaker 11: Liberals love to accuse other people of being haters, being hateful.
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Speaker 11: But day after day after day, we all see where
34:09
Speaker 11: the hate is coming from. It's not coming from people
34:12
Speaker 11: like Charlie Kirk, who literally risked his life to go
34:15
Speaker 11: out and have conversations with people who disagreed with him.
34:18
Speaker 11: But the hate is coming from the other side.
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Speaker 3: Now, let's hear from Abdul El-Saeed again. I've been featuring
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Speaker 3: him all week, the Democrat socialist running for the U.S.
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Speaker 2: Senate in Michigan.
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Speaker 3: Here the devout Muslim and radical leftist somehow manages to
34:37
Speaker 3: compare himself to Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.
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Speaker 12: You know, Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him, was
34:45
Speaker 12: considered radical in his time too. And there is a
34:49
Speaker 12: radical nature to being willing to stand forthright in a
34:54
Speaker 12: time of corruption.
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Speaker 2: John, what can you say about that?
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Speaker 3: There is self-delightedness and then there's that.
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Speaker 14: That is.
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Speaker 2: another level.
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Speaker 11: Well, El Sayed has delusions of grandeur. You know, he
35:08
Speaker 11: calls Jesus a radical, but of course, Jesus didn't preach
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Speaker 11: about politics at all, let alone advocate politically radical positions.
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Speaker 11: He never said the Roman Empire should be socialist. It
35:20
Speaker 11: is hard to think of a single respect in which
35:23
Speaker 11: he resembles Jesus.
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Speaker 3: That was just incredible. He makes so many crazy comments.
35:31
Speaker 3: That's why he features regularly on Lefty's Losing It. But
35:33
Speaker 3: I think that is a top three all time. Now
35:37
Speaker 3: let's talk about the ongoing conflict in Iran. Let's hear
35:41
Speaker 3: from Treasury Secretary Scott Besant on how the US is
35:45
Speaker 3: using military and economic sanctions to crush Iran's economy and
35:50
Speaker 3: bring them to the negotiating tables.
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Speaker 8: We destroyed their Navy. We destroyed their Air Force, a
35:56
Speaker 8: large portion of their missile and drone inventories, and more importantly,
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Speaker 8: probably 85% or 90% of their factories that have the
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Speaker 8: ability to rebuild those. So they don't have access to
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Speaker 8: hard currency. Inflation is through the roof. They're having to
36:10
Speaker 8: print money at the central bank to try to pay
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Speaker 8: government employees, to pay troops. Militarily, they were crushed. Second,
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Speaker 8: the blockade is very powerful. When everyone says, well, sanctions
36:23
Speaker 8: don't work, I can tell you, sanctions plus a blockade work.
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Speaker 8: And now the sanctions are something that we have never engaged.
36:32
Speaker 8: It's something at this level of intensity. The Treasury now
36:36
Speaker 8: has five new authorities, and it is across digital assets.
36:39
Speaker 8: It is across aviation. It is across maritime. And we
36:43
Speaker 8: are flexing every day.
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Speaker 3: John, Scott Besant said his job was to make sure
36:49
Speaker 3: that the Iranian regime want to have a deal. But
36:53
Speaker 3: it looks like that's going to take a little bit
36:55
Speaker 3: longer than many are comfortable with.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Iran is in a very bad way economically, Rita.
37:02
Speaker 11: The currency is worthless. But the regime still may not
37:06
Speaker 11: fall as long as it has all the guns. But
37:09
Speaker 11: I like what the Trump administration is doing here. And
37:12
Speaker 11: I'm hopeful that eventually it will bring down the IRGC
37:16
Speaker 11: and the Mulas. But what I especially like, Rita, is
37:19
Speaker 11: that Trump has made it clear that he won't be rushed.
37:22
Speaker 11: He's not going to be influenced by political considerations. He's
37:26
Speaker 11: not going to be deterred by the midterm elections. He's
37:29
Speaker 11: going to keep up the pressure for as long as
37:32
Speaker 11: it takes. I hope it works. And I think Trump
37:35
Speaker 11: deserves a lot of credit for this approach.
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Speaker 3: He's absolutely doing the right thing to eliminate that regime
37:43
Speaker 3: as opposed to doing what is politically expedient at home.
37:48
Speaker 3: A lot of people in the GOP won't thank him
37:51
Speaker 3: for that. But like you said, the regime still has
37:55
Speaker 3: all the guns. Is it going to come to a
37:58
Speaker 3: point where they can't pay the soldiers, they can't pay
38:01
Speaker 3: the public servants. Is that when we're going to see
38:05
Speaker 3: the regime in real trouble? Because without boots on the ground,
38:11
Speaker 3: it's hard to see how that regime is going to
38:13
Speaker 3: be defeated because every time there's an uprising from the
38:15
Speaker 3: local population, they just crush it. They just shoot people
38:19
Speaker 3: en masse.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, they've shot maybe as many as 100,000 people. I mean,
38:24
Speaker 11: it's astonishing. I think they're already at the point where
38:26
Speaker 11: they can't pay their soldiers. I don't think we know, Rita.
38:29
Speaker 11: I don't think we've ever seen a situation like this
38:32
Speaker 11: play out to the bitter end. I have to think
38:35
Speaker 11: it's not going to be easy. It's not going to
38:37
Speaker 11: be painless for the people of Iran, that's for sure.
38:40
Speaker 11: But I have to think that the day comes when
38:42
Speaker 11: this administration, this regime finally crumbles.
38:48
Speaker 3: Now to some news from your home state and a
38:51
Speaker 3: man guilty of a mass shooting at a downtown Minneapolis
38:55
Speaker 3: bar was sentenced overnight. Dantrell Clark got around 60 years
39:00
Speaker 3: in prison, but he somehow, when he was given the
39:03
Speaker 3: opportunity to speak, still managed to play the victim and
39:06
Speaker 3: inject race into proceedings during his sentencing.
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Speaker 19: It's kind of hard being black, you know. Even though
39:14
Speaker 19: me and him wasn't friends, he's still one of my peers. John,
39:19
Speaker 19: from what I understand, the victims in this shooting.
39:30
Speaker 3: Were black, but still race is being used as some
39:34
Speaker 3: sort of a mitigating factor, this time by the perpetrator.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this was a gang conflict at a bar that
39:41
Speaker 11: ended up in a mass shooting. Everyone involved in the
39:44
Speaker 11: situation was black. This guy was convicted of second degree murder.
39:48
Speaker 11: He got, I think, 60 years in prison. It's obviously
39:52
Speaker 11: ridiculous for him to try to play the race card.
39:54
Speaker 11: But the thing you have to understand, Rita, is that
39:57
Speaker 11: in America, there are some people who have been taught
40:00
Speaker 11: all their lives to use race as an excuse for everything.
40:05
Speaker 11: And that's what we're seeing here. It's really very sad.
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Speaker 2: John Heinrich, thank you so much for your time.
40:13
Speaker 11: Thank you, Rita.
40:14
Speaker 2: After the break, Donald.
40:15
Speaker 3: Trump makes his feelings about Meghan and Harry very clear.
40:20
Speaker 3: Kinsey Schofield will have the details next.
40:31
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
40:32
Speaker 3: Now, Donald Trump has made his feelings about Meghan and
40:35
Speaker 3: Harry clear, saying if he was King Charles, he wouldn't
40:39
Speaker 3: have taken them back after the way they treated the
40:42
Speaker 3: royal family, particularly the late Queen.
40:45
Speaker 5: What's your reaction to the recent news that Prince Harry
40:47
Speaker 5: and Meghan have left the United States and gone back
40:50
Speaker 5: to prison?
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Speaker 14: I'm happy about it. No, I was not a fan.
40:54
Speaker 14: I thought, look, I had a very good relationship with
40:58
Speaker 14: the Queen. I thought they treated the royal family with
41:01
Speaker 14: great disrespect. I didn't like it. I didn't like the
41:04
Speaker 14: way she acted. I thought she was terribly disrespectful to
41:08
Speaker 14: the Queen, to King Charles.
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Speaker 11: And I don't know.
41:15
Speaker 14: Maybe I'm different.
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Speaker 9: I wouldn't have taken him back, right?
41:18
Speaker 14: If I were the royal family, I would not have
41:21
Speaker 14: taken him back.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is host of the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered podcast, Kinsey.
41:27
Speaker 3: Couldn't have said it any better myself. I wouldn't be
41:29
Speaker 3: laying out the red carpet for them either.
41:33
Speaker 13: I know. Respect your elders. President Trump just said what
41:36
Speaker 13: a lot of people are thinking. Harry spent six years
41:39
Speaker 13: trashing the institution, monetizing family arguments and criticizing the UK.
41:43
Speaker 13: And now he's back. Most families would change the locks.
41:47
Speaker 13: Or if Trump were in charge, I imagine they'd be
41:50
Speaker 13: in the tower by now.
41:53
Speaker 3: Well, we know King Charles is quite happy to see
41:57
Speaker 3: them back from reports, but it's a different story when
42:00
Speaker 3: it comes to William and Kate. How is that going
42:03
Speaker 3: to be handled? Because surely there will have to be
42:06
Speaker 3: some effort to make peace, to be civil to each other.
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Speaker 13: I mean, I hope that there's not any pressure put
42:14
Speaker 13: on Prince William to make peace because it's Harry that
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Speaker 13: should be doing the grovelling. I don't think that Prince
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Speaker 13: William has to be the bigger person here. We saw
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Speaker 13: Prince William be the bigger person on multiple occasions. Remember
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Speaker 13: their last royal engagement where their names were stripped from
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Speaker 13: the list. So William and Catherine walked with Harry and
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Speaker 13: Meghan and took themselves out of the I want to
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Speaker 13: call it a parade. It's a terrible word, but it's
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Speaker 13: all I got right now. When they called Harry and
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Speaker 13: I almost called them the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,
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Speaker 13: but called Harry and Meghan and invited them to walk
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Speaker 13: along Windsor Castle and greet the people that were there
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Speaker 13: mourning Queen Elizabeth, William has made multiple attempts to be
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Speaker 13: friendly towards Harry. It's Harry's turn to do some groveling.
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Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: Now, one of the stars of The Gentleman, Theo James,
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Speaker 3: has shut down rumours of Meghan Markle starring in the
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Speaker 3: UK series. Kinsey, he described the rumours as hot air,
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Speaker 3: but as we've discussed, this is possibly hot air circulated
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Speaker 3: by Meghan's camp.
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Speaker 13: I totally agree with that opinion. This is just like
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Speaker 13: when we heard Meghan was going to be the new
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Speaker 13: face of Dior. No one hypes a non-existent Meghan Markle
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Speaker 13: project quite like Meghan Markle. Allegedly. Truly, no one has
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Speaker 13: a more successful imaginary career than our favourite Duchess.
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Speaker 3: Now, country singer Jelly Roll has lost hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 3: of followers after trashing President Donald Trump and his supporters
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Speaker 3: on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Of course, he was filling in
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Speaker 3: for Jimmy Kimmel. Kinsey, he has gone and bud lighted himself.
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Speaker 3: I said that last night.
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Speaker 2: This is just.
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Speaker 3: idiotic work from him because country music fans are typically conservative.
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Speaker 2: And he really just he didn't just attack the president.
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Speaker 3: He attacked the president's supporters with those unfunny monologues.
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Speaker 13: And look at the support surrounding Dolly Parton. They're not
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Speaker 13: just typically conservative. They're typically very committed and engaged and
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Speaker 13: And so as long as you, you know, stay above
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Speaker 13: the fray, you're in a safe space because they will,
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Speaker 13: they're ride or die. But nothing says thank you more than,
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Speaker 13: you know, thank you for making me rich. Quite like
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Speaker 13: insulting half the people who bought your records. It's common sense.
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Speaker 13: Know your dedicated fan. You can have whatever political opinion
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Speaker 13: you want. But if you publicly insult people that are
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Speaker 13: buying your concert tickets, don't act surprised when they stop
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Speaker 13: buying them.
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Speaker 2: And conservatives have got a high.
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Speaker 3: Level of tolerance for artists who've got different opinions. You
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Speaker 3: don't see them cancelling people, but it's not a matter
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Speaker 3: of having different opinions. It's about attacking the other side.
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Speaker 3: And when you do that, then you've stepped over a
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Speaker 3: line and you're basically telling those fans, stop buying my records.
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Speaker 3: I don't welcome your type.
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Speaker 2: To my concerts.
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Speaker 3: So I think It's going to be interesting to see
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Speaker 3: what impact it has on his tours because he's always
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Speaker 3: on tour, that one. Now, the influencers have taken over
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Speaker 3: the US Open.
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Speaker 2: Let's have a look.
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Speaker 4: Okay, guys, we're back.
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Speaker 11: Did you miss us?
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Speaker 17: Because we missed you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, dear.
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Speaker 3: And the umpire was forced to intervene, Kinsey, to tell
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Speaker 3: off a group of influencers who are using ring lights
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Speaker 3: midpoint to see. That is the thing with tennis. You're
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Speaker 3: not allowed to make a sound. You're not allowed to
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Speaker 3: move around. These kids, I call them kids, young people,
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Speaker 3: were taking full, doing photo.
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Speaker 2: Shoots during a point.
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Speaker 3: And they're now calls for these influencers to be banned
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Speaker 3: from the US Open. Someone is inviting them because they're
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Speaker 3: getting access to some prime areas.
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Speaker 2: What's going on, Kinsey?
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Speaker 13: I'm happy to see them banned. I mean, whoever did
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Speaker 13: invite them obviously didn't teach them tennis etiquette. Act like
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Speaker 13: you've been there before. A ring light during a tennis match?
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Speaker 13: Narcissism has officially become a spectator sport. You're at the U.S.
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Speaker 8: Open.
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Speaker 13: Nobody bought a ticket to watch you twerk for the gram.
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Speaker 2: Like, get a life.
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Speaker 13: Get real.
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Speaker 3: Now let's have a look at the latest Calvin Klein
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Speaker 3: campaign starring some actress I've never heard of.
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Speaker 2: She may be a big deal, who knows.
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Speaker 3: But this is the Calvin Klein promos that we used
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Speaker 3: to see in the good old days, very much in
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Speaker 3: the Kate Moss mould. A far cry from the I
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Speaker 3: Wouldn't Change Anything campaign of 2019, which was all about
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Speaker 3: body positivity. They've abandoned that woke marketing. They've gone back
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Speaker 3: to skinny girls and hot guys. When you look at
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Speaker 3: the two ads side by side, Kinsey, it's quite the contrast.
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Speaker 13: It is. And that's Sadie Sink from Netflix's Stranger Things.
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Speaker 13: And apparently Calvin Klein has discovered something even stranger about
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Speaker 13: Pretty people sell underwear. Who knew? I mean, this is
47:35
Speaker 13: corporate America discovering that Twitter applause, you know, doesn't necessarily
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Speaker 13: equal sales. Stop virtue signaling and give us Marky Mark
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Speaker 13: and his tighty whities. Okay. That's what we're looking for.
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Speaker 8: Yep.
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Speaker 3: They're not the first one to figure out going woke
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Speaker 3: doesn't end up improving your balance sheet.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, they have reverse caused very quickly. Now, thousands of.
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Speaker 3: People have signed a petition to boycott Sacha Baron Cohen's
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Speaker 3: new Ali G movie. The film is a sequel to
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Speaker 3: the 2002 comedy Ali G in the house.
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Speaker 2: Let's have a look.
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Speaker 17: Has been gone for 20 years, chilling. And in that time,
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Speaker 17: the world went to crap. There was COVID, wars and
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Speaker 17: Ed Sheeran. Fire's going to get back on top. with
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Speaker 17: a brand new thing called a documentary. For the first
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Speaker 17: time ever, this is a film with real people, not actors.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey, critics are saying the film reinforces harmful stereotypes.
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Speaker 2: What do you think?
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Speaker 13: I just think that comedy cannot survive if every joke
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Speaker 13: has to pass a sensitivity committee. Ali G was offensive
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Speaker 13: 25 years ago. That was the purpose. We've reached the
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Speaker 13: point where people are petitioning against jokes they haven't even seen.
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Speaker 13: They've not even seen this movie. If you don't like
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Speaker 13: Ali G, I have wonderful news for you. Nobody is
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Speaker 13: legally required to buy a ticket to see this film.
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Speaker 2: No, they're not.
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Speaker 3: And I'm sure it's going to insult people across the
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Speaker 3: political spectrum. That's what he normally does. He did that
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Speaker 3: with Borat. He's done it with other projects. He's an
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Speaker 3: equal opportunity attacker.
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Speaker 2: Offender. He will have a go at everybody. But as
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Speaker 2: long as you're funny, I am on board. I'll be
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Speaker 2: watching it.
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Speaker 3: Now, Jennifer Aniston and Jim Curtis could be one of
49:29
Speaker 3: the strangest new couples in Hollywood. The actress's hypnotherapist boyfriend
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Speaker 3: was on the Jamie Kern Lima show, not her again.
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Speaker 2: And he revealed how.
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Speaker 3: The pair use meditation to settle arguments.
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Speaker 18: We do a lot of meditation. We do a lot
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Speaker 18: of talk, you know, like But we don't use this
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Speaker 18: particular prayer.
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Speaker 13: We have.
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Speaker 18: Jen and I have been together a year and a half.
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Speaker 18: So this tool isn't, you know, isn't the first tool
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Speaker 18: that we go to.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: What is the first tool?
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Speaker 13: Meditation or?
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: Meditation, acceptance, understanding, you know, kind of those kind of things.
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Speaker 18: And in the honeymoon phase, your tools don't have to
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Speaker 18: be like big sledgehammers.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey, it sounds wacky to me.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, of course Jennifer Aniston meditates through arguments. This is Hollywood.
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Speaker 13: Normal couples slam doors and delete Instagram pictures. In Malibu,
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Speaker 13: they align their chakras and FaceTime their Etsy witch. I'll
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Speaker 13: never understand.
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Speaker 3: This is why most of their relationships end in tears.
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Speaker 3: This does not help anything. Kinsey Schofield, thank you so
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Speaker 3: much for your time tonight. And that's it for me.
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Speaker 3: Up next, it's Late Edition.
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Speaker 2: Good night. Good night.