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The Rita Panahi Show | 31 August · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panahy Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to The Rita Panahy Show.
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Speaker 3: Coming up tonight, the Prime Minister in panic mode as
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Speaker 3: One Nation surges ahead of Labor in the latest polling.
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Speaker 3: Daniel Weil will join me to cover the day's top headlines.
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Speaker 3: Uproar in Victoria as a man identifying as a woman
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Speaker 3: wins a top goal scorer award in In the women's competition,
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Speaker 3: Stephanie Bastien will have more details on that. Josh Hammer
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Speaker 3: will have the latest from the US, including proud feminist
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Speaker 3: Governor Kathy Hochul donning a hijab. And later in the hour,
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Speaker 3: Kinsey Schofield will have news on Harry and Meghan's expectations
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Speaker 3: of an apology from the palace. And we never forget
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Speaker 3: Lefty's Losing It featuring more WNBA shenanigans now involving a
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Speaker 3: former women's soccer player who doesn't know what a woman is.
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Speaker 4: The people who were trying to protect women, first of all,
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Speaker 4: from who, guys? From who?
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Speaker 5: It's yourself.
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Speaker 3: But first, the orange tsunami is here. The latest news
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Speaker 3: poll has One Nation ahead of both major parties and
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Speaker 3: that has the Prime Minister in absolute panic mode.
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Speaker 2: More on that later. Let's have a look at the numbers.
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Speaker 3: One Nation's primary vote sits at 30% ahead of Labor
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Speaker 3: on 29%, The Coalition trailing way behind on 19%. Support
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Speaker 3: for the Greens and others fell to 13% and 9% respectively.
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Speaker 3: The poll also showed Pauline Hanson's personal rating has improved.
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Speaker 3: She sits at minus 1%, well ahead of the opposition
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Speaker 3: leader and the PM. Anthony Albanese's net approval rating remains
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Speaker 3: at minus 21%. with 38% of voters satisfied with his
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Speaker 3: performance and 59% dissatisfied. Meanwhile, Angus Taylor's net approval rating
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Speaker 3: is minus 17%. Let's take a deeper look at some
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Speaker 3: of those numbers with Deputy Executive Director of the Institute
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Speaker 3: of Public Affairs, Daniel Wildan. This news poll also revealed
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Speaker 3: There's now a generational divide over house prices. Those most
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Speaker 3: in favour of house prices lifting are Australians with a
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Speaker 3: mortgage and those aged 35 to 49, while younger people
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Speaker 3: are the group that want to see prices drop. But
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Speaker 3: the key overall figure that will alarm the Labor government
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Speaker 3: is that a clear majority of voters do not want
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Speaker 3: to see housing prices drop. 62% want house prices to
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Speaker 3: increase or stay the same over the next two years,
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Speaker 3: while only 32% support property values decreasing. Dan, Labor's tax
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Speaker 3: hikes have seen house values drop dramatically in some areas.
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Speaker 3: They can't be liking these figures.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's probably right. I think if you own a house,
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Speaker 6: you want it to go up. If you don't, you
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Speaker 6: want it to come down. So I think that polling
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Speaker 6: confirms that observation. Look, I think more broadly what you've
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Speaker 6: got here is obviously a lot of One Nation voters
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Speaker 6: are those who are middle income earners who have a
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Speaker 6: mortgage or are getting squeezed. cost of living pressures and
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Speaker 6: so forth. And these are the ones that really feel
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Speaker 6: the effects of mass migration, which is putting them under
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Speaker 6: the pump, the rising energy prices because of net zero.
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Speaker 6: They're wanting to see some change. They want to see
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Speaker 6: a bit of relief. to help them get ahead. So,
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Speaker 6: you know, I think a lot of One Nation voters
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Speaker 6: used to be certainly those that were deeply disgruntled. Now,
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Speaker 6: this has now grown into different demographic groups voting or
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Speaker 6: saying they're going to vote for One Nation for a
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Speaker 6: lot of different reasons. And this is why there are
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Speaker 6: now enough people who are willing to vote One Nation
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Speaker 6: so that One Nation is now not only winning seats
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Speaker 6: off the Liberal Party, but as we saw in WA,
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Speaker 6: they're also winning seats off Labor.
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Speaker 3: Well, yes, One Nation has claimed a historic victory over Labor.
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Speaker 3: In the formerly safe Labor seat of Secret Harbour over
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Speaker 3: the weekend, One Nation won the by-election with a massive 17.5%
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Speaker 3: swing against Labor. Incoming MP Luke Hedigan said no seat
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Speaker 3: is safe from the orange tsunami. The people of Secret
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Speaker 3: Harbour have sent a message that no seat is safe.
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Speaker 7: None of these MPs are safe.
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Speaker 5: From the orange tsunami.
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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the Prime Minister used the historic loss to attack
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Speaker 3: One Nation and its voters, calling the party hard right
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Speaker 3: and guilty of peddling lies.
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Speaker 2: Have a listen.
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Speaker 7: This is a crucial time for our movement because across
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Speaker 7: the world, hard right populists are on the march, peddling
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Speaker 7: politics that is dangerous, divisive and downright dishonest. We simply
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Speaker 7: must defeat them. We owe it to history. We owe
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Speaker 7: it to the nation. And we will defeat them. They'll
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Speaker 7: say anything and do anything to win votes, bend any facts,
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Speaker 7: peddle misinformation and disinformation, turn Australian against Australian. Parties like
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Speaker 7: One Nation have no serious answers to problems which are there.
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Speaker 7: Their own divisions and disagreements are now showing through. They
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Speaker 7: think Australians are lazy. They think they're overpaid. They think
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Speaker 7: people working from home are bludgeoned.
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Speaker 3: Dan, this is an astonishing thing for a Prime Minister
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Speaker 3: to say. We've heard similar sentiments from the Treasurer. Labor
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Speaker 3: must be in panic mode to resort to calling their
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Speaker 3: own voters because Secret Harbour was a safe Labor seat
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Speaker 3: until the weekend. Labor are calling their own voters essentially
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Speaker 3: here dumb and mean. Dan, these are just people sick
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Speaker 3: of the left's relentless culture wars and they're sick of
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Speaker 3: paying more taxes while their living standards plummet.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, this is the voice to Parliament all over again.
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Speaker 6: You know, if you voted no, you were dumb, you
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Speaker 6: were deceived by misinformation or you're a racist. That's what
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Speaker 6: they're saying about One Nation voters. So 40% of Labor
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Speaker 6: voters voted no to the voice, by the way. And
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Speaker 6: you've probably got a similar share that are now looking
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Speaker 6: at One Nation or actively voting for One Nation. So,
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Speaker 6: like you say, Albanese is in full panic mode. He's
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Speaker 6: got no idea. I mean, he is saying that if
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Speaker 6: you vote One Nation, you're doing it because you're dumb
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Speaker 6: and you've been misled by misinformation. What exactly is it?
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Speaker 6: that Pauline Hanson has said that is a lie. I mean,
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Speaker 6: Albanese said you're going to get a $ 275 cut to
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Speaker 6: your electricity bill.
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Speaker 5: That was a lie.
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Speaker 6: Albanese said no changes to capital gains tax. That was
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Speaker 6: a lie. Albanese said they're going to cut immigration. That
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Speaker 6: was a lie. Albanese has lied to the public time
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Speaker 6: and time and time again. Nobody is listening anymore. to
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Speaker 6: what he has to say. He has done his dash.
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Speaker 5: With the voters. It is over.
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Speaker 6: And One Nation is now going to monster Labor in
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Speaker 6: the outer suburbs, as we saw here in South Australia.
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Speaker 6: They won a ton of votes, even off pretty boy Malinaskis.
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Speaker 6: They won tons of votes off Labor in the outer suburbs.
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Speaker 6: They're doing it in WA. So Albanese has no idea whatsoever.
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Speaker 6: And by the way, I'll just make this point quickly.
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Speaker 6: He is saying this because later in this parliamentary year,
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Speaker 6: Labor is going to try and ram through some more
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Speaker 6: anti-free speech laws around disinformation, misinformation, so-called duty of care.
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Speaker 6: So he's sort of prepping the groundwork now to silence
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Speaker 6: the One Nation and Australians that don't agree with him.
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Speaker 6: That's the play here. He's going to weaponise these laws
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Speaker 6: just like they did in The Voice, right? They try
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Speaker 6: to silence people. That's exactly what they're going to try
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Speaker 6: and do here.
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Speaker 3: Well, Pauline Hanson has hit back at Anthony Albanese and
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Speaker 3: Jim Chalmers in a Facebook post saying they crossed a line.
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Speaker 2: She wrote, no matter how worried.
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Speaker 3: Jim and Albanese are about losing their jobs, telling Australians
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Speaker 3: that their democratically elected opponents are dangerous and a threat
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Speaker 3: to our country invites people to treat them as a threat.
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Speaker 3: Words have consequences. That is how political violence is incited.
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Speaker 3: She also said during a press conference today that she
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Speaker 3: has been receiving more death threats due to this rhetoric.
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Speaker 1: I've been getting that many death threats and that's happening.
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Speaker 1: It never happened in a country like this before. And
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Speaker 1: the incitement that is happening is through our educational system
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Speaker 1: and a Prime Minister who should know better than that.
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Speaker 1: If he wants to come out with this, he takes
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Speaker 1: full responsibility for it. So I don't take any note
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Speaker 1: of what he says. I think he's a pathetic Prime Minister.
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Speaker 3: And, Dan, after that press conference, she posted this photo,
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Speaker 3: which was taken in Bendigo in Victoria. It says, kill
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Speaker 3: Pauline Hanson, and we know she's already been dealing with
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Speaker 3: several death threats. Dan, Labor are guilty of causing the
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Speaker 3: very division they decry.
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Speaker 5: Yes, you're right. I mean, what Pauline Hanson said there
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Speaker 5: is correct.
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Speaker 6: The Prime Minister is creating a permission structure for to
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Speaker 6: dehumanise his political opponents, primarily Pauline Hanson at the moment.
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Speaker 6: So he does bear responsibility for doing that. And what
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Speaker 6: other people do, obviously, is their responsibility. But the Prime
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Speaker 6: Minister does have a responsibility. He has said in the
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Speaker 6: past he wants to tone down the rhetoric, to dial
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Speaker 6: it down. Well, why don't you dial it down now,
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Speaker 6: Anthony Albanese? Or was that just a politically convenient thing
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Speaker 6: for you to say.
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Speaker 5: At the time?
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 6: Everybody sees through Albanese now. There's no hiding for him.
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Speaker 6: His true colours have been seen by the public. But
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Speaker 6: we have seen what's happened in the United States. We
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Speaker 6: have seen the threats on Nigel Farage's life in the
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Speaker 6: United Kingdom, where those, you know, they say, you know,
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Speaker 6: these people are a threat to democracy. They're going to
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Speaker 6: take away your rights. These are right wing demagogues. Well,
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Speaker 6: it just takes one lunatic to take this seriously for
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Speaker 6: something tragic to happen. So I really hope this doesn't
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Speaker 6: happen in a country like Australia, because, you know, we
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Speaker 6: haven't seen that happen here in any meaningful way. But
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Speaker 6: The Prime Minister does need to take this much more
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Speaker 6: seriously and he needs to be much more statesmanlike with
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Speaker 6: his language.
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Speaker 3: Well, we just saw recently those school protests where we
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Speaker 3: had young children, teenagers in the streets calling for violence
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Speaker 3: to occur to Pauline Hanson, calling for her to be killed,
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Speaker 3: calling for her to be tortured. And they were happy
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Speaker 3: to chant this in the street, Dan. They were happy
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Speaker 3: to say that to people asking them questions and filming them.
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Speaker 3: It seems like violence has been normalised amongst the left.
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Speaker 5: Well, I think that's a part of it.
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Speaker 6: Another part of it is so much of this takes place,
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Speaker 6: you know, people get to know politicians through social media
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Speaker 6: and it's very easy to dehumanise someone when you don't
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Speaker 6: actually see them in person. So they don't really make
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Speaker 6: the connection that this is a real human being you're
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Speaker 6: talking about here. The other thing that I don't get
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Speaker 6: is how come the police aren't involved with this, right?
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Speaker 6: You're not allowed to make threats on people's lives. I mean, okay,
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Speaker 6: you might say they're kids and they don't know what
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Speaker 6: they're saying or they don't mean it, whatever, but they
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Speaker 6: are saying these things. And if the shoe was on
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Speaker 6: the other foot and a group of children were out
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Speaker 6: there saying something about a left-wing politician, don't you reckon
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Speaker 6: there'd be a crackdown, and quite rightly, at least on
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Speaker 6: the parents? I mean, shouldn't they have a knock at
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Speaker 6: the door saying, hang on a minute, your kid's out
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Speaker 6: there saying that, They want someone to be harmed or killed.
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Speaker 6: You can't do that in this country. So I don't
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Speaker 6: understand why the law isn't enforced on this matter.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: This isn't a free speech manner, calls for violence. threats
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Speaker 3: of violence are already.
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Speaker 2: Against the law.
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Speaker 3: You can actually prosecute that if the police choose to
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Speaker 3: follow it up. Meanwhile, whilst all that is happening, we've
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Speaker 3: got Social Services Minister Tania Pliberseg saying the government is
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Speaker 3: looking into limits on social media algorithms to protect young
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Speaker 3: boys from... what she calls misogynistic content.
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Speaker 8: Social media algorithms are driving division and hatred in our
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Speaker 8: community and young boys and men in particular are being
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Speaker 8: fed a diet of violent misogyny that is translating into
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Speaker 8: real world harms. That's why our government is investigating how
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Speaker 8: we can give power back to people to switch off
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Speaker 8: those recommended algorithms that are doing so much harm. Social
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Speaker 8: media companies shouldn't be profiting off the misery they're causing.
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Speaker 2: Really, that's what's causing concern.
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Speaker 3: Dan, I wonder if the solution to this manufactured problem
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Speaker 3: is just more censorship.
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Speaker 5: Well, like I said before, that's the play from Labor.
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Speaker 5: I mean, isn't it funny? Does Plibersek not get this?
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Speaker 6: She's saying that the algorithm is a problem while she's
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Speaker 6: using the algorithm to communicate her message, right?
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Speaker 5: She's feeding the beast.
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 5: OK, well, then isn't that hypocrisy? Like if you've got
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Speaker 5: a problem.
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Speaker 6: With the system, don't use the system to get a
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Speaker 6: benefit that you want. Now, she's saying that social media
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Speaker 6: companies are profiting off of this. Well, maybe they are,
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Speaker 6: but she's profiting politically off of it as well by
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Speaker 6: peddling this divisive nonsense to say basically that young men
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Speaker 6: are bad.
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Speaker 5: She's putting this out.
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Speaker 6: They're hyping it up, hyping the fear with the algorithm
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Speaker 6: and then saying everybody else is doing it. Why don't
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Speaker 6: these politicians actually look in the mirror? It's you people
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Speaker 6: that are the problem. It's the politicians here that are
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Speaker 6: the problem, not the young men at home. It's people
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Speaker 6: like you, Tanya, that are the problem in our society.
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Speaker 6: So why don't you start with yourself? Rather than feeding
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Speaker 6: fuel to the fire and this fear-mongering that you engage in,
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Speaker 6: look at your own backyard first before you try and
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Speaker 6: censor everybody else.
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Speaker 2: Daniel Weil, thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 3: Football Victoria has come under fire after a transgender player
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Speaker 3: won a top goalscorer award in its women's competition. To
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Speaker 3: be clear, a man who identifies as a woman won
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Speaker 3: an award for female players. Now, this player has competed
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Speaker 3: in Victoria's Women's National Premier League in recent years and
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Speaker 3: has bragged on social media about, and I quote, smoking.
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Speaker 2: These b * * * * es.
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Speaker 3: One player who previously competed on the same team as
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Speaker 3: the trans athlete told the Herald Sun that it was
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Speaker 3: clear they had a physical advantage in speed and strength
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Speaker 3: and raised concerns about injury risk and unfair advantages. When
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Speaker 3: she raised concerns with Football Victoria, she was told inclusion
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Speaker 3: is their foremost priority. Joining me now is Women's Forum
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Speaker 3: Australia Head of Advocacy, Stephanie Bastion. Steph, it seems for
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Speaker 3: Football Victoria, so-called inclusion is more important than fairness and safety.
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Speaker 9: Well, good evening, Rita. Great to join you. Yes, it
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Speaker 9: seems to be the case. And if you look at
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Speaker 9: Football New South Wales, the same code where a female
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Speaker 9: player broke her leg in two places after clashing with
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Speaker 9: a transgender male identifying player in the league. In New
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Speaker 9: South Wales, they are starting to dominate. You've got the
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Speaker 9: Flying Bats with several male players. This is not a
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Speaker 9: niche once-off token player here and there, not that it
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Speaker 9: would make any difference because these teams should be based
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Speaker 9: on biological sex, not gender identity. I think what's really
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Speaker 9: apparent across the football code is that they have been
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Speaker 9: ideologically hijacked and they're promoting diversity inclusion. There's enough evidence
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Speaker 9: there to see that there are serious risks associated with
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Speaker 9: allowing males to play against females in a female competition.
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Speaker 9: And they're ignoring it. The Sex Discrimination Act does allow
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Speaker 9: them to discriminate on the basis of biological sex over
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Speaker 9: the age of 12. So they could rely on that
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Speaker 9: and impose fair sanctions on sorry, fair play for women,
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Speaker 9: but they're not. And the fact that they're promoting diversity
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Speaker 9: and inclusion over fairness and safety says all you need
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Speaker 9: to know. So we want change from the federal government.
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Speaker 9: We want them to enforce biological sex when it comes
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Speaker 9: to female sport. There should be things in place such
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Speaker 9: as being stripped of funding or you should not be
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Speaker 9: able to identify as a female team if you're allowing
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Speaker 9: males to play full stop.
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Speaker 3: And it seems there's a double standard when you're talking
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Speaker 3: about the very top echelons, when you're talking about the
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Speaker 3: most elite leagues, they don't care about inclusion as much
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Speaker 3: as community football. They seem to think if you're playing
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Speaker 3: at a lower level, then this is something you should
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Speaker 3: just cop as a female player. And to me, again,
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Speaker 3: that seems so unfair, not only robbing women of opportunities
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Speaker 3: to make teams, but also presenting a safety issue and
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Speaker 3: a fairness issue.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 9: The double standard is just, it's so obvious. And it's
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Speaker 9: not only the fact that every time there's a trans
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Speaker 9: player on the team, a male trans player, there is
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Speaker 9: a girl that's missed out. There is a girl that
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Speaker 9: is potentially not going to make it into the elite.
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Speaker 9: Quite often community and school sport is.
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Speaker 2: Where young girls train and then start to dream big.
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Speaker 9: To go on to elite sport. But they're being robbed
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Speaker 9: of that opportunity either because they've lost a place in
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Speaker 9: the league or they're going to be, they're at risk
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Speaker 9: of injury that will limit their career or their future competitions.
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Speaker 9: And it's incredibly unfair.
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Speaker 3: Now, veteran AFL player manager Peter Jess has warned that
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Speaker 3: allowing trans players to compete against biological women is will
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Speaker 3: increase the chances of serious concussions. It comes after the
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Speaker 3: AFL approved a biological male who identifies as female to
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Speaker 3: play in South Australia's community footy league. He is around
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Speaker 3: six foot two, weighs more than 90 kilos and played
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Speaker 3: in the men's league before identifying as a woman. Peter
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Speaker 3: Jess has managed hundreds of AFL and VFL players and
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Speaker 3: told the Herald Sun it cannot be considered safe at
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Speaker 3: any level. Steph, the AFL is not backing down though.
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Speaker 3: The AFL is.
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Speaker 2: All in on its gender diversity policy.
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Speaker 5: It is.
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Speaker 9: And I mentioned on your show a little while ago
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Speaker 9: that we'd written to Dylan, the CEO of AFL, and
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Speaker 9: he has yet to respond. It seems that he's totally
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Speaker 9: dismissed our letter altogether, which is really frustrating. But yes,
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Speaker 9: they're ignoring the risks. And when you have a Female clash,
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Speaker 9: I mean, the statistics for women full stop being injured
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Speaker 9: in this contact sport against women are high. There have
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Speaker 9: been at least four deaths as a result of concussion.
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Speaker 9: There's also memory loss associated with mothers. In the Herald
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Speaker 9: Sun article, they mentioned that some women had not been
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Speaker 9: able to remember their children's names, like horrific, horrific outcomes
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Speaker 9: for women.
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Speaker 7: Sure.
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Speaker 9: And the reason that is because often women have weaker necks.
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Speaker 9: There's hormonal reasons in the brain. They are already more vulnerable.
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Speaker 2: Than men to concussion.
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Speaker 9: Put a male player in the mix and they are
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Speaker 9: at even more risk because of the heavy impact that
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Speaker 9: comes from being up against a biological male. I spoke
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Speaker 9: with a woman who had received a concussion playing at
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Speaker 9: a university club in Melbourne and she had to quit
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Speaker 9: university because the concussion had left her with a debilitating injury.
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Speaker 9: I mean, these are real consequences for having this so-called
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Speaker 9: trans inclusion policy and it's not good enough.
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Speaker 2: And my question to AFL is what will it take?
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Speaker 2: A death?
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Speaker 9: More serious injury, another brain injury. I mean, this is
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Speaker 9: just incredibly unfair. And it's not enough that our political
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Speaker 9: leaders are turning the other way, because I wrote to
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Speaker 9: the Minister for Women, Katie Gallagher, and the Minister for Sport,
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Speaker 9: Anika Wells. And today, Ms Gallagher got back to me
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Speaker 9: and said it's not her problem. She's handballed me on
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Speaker 9: to another department. But I think it's a disgrace because
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Speaker 9: this is an issue about women's sport. And our Minister
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Speaker 9: for Women should be going and doing something about it.
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Speaker 2: It really is a disgrace.
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Speaker 3: When we're talking about AFL, we're talking about a full
20:39
Speaker 3: contact sport. So for them not to consider that and
20:43
Speaker 3: the risks involved, again, seems astonishing. And for Andrew Dillon,
20:48
Speaker 3: the CEO of the AFL, not to get back to
20:51
Speaker 3: Women's Forum Australia, when you've written to him about these concerns, again,
20:55
Speaker 3: shows you the utter disdain they have, despite all their
20:58
Speaker 3: talk about respecting women and prioritising the interests of women
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Speaker 3: when it comes to the crunch. This is how they behave.
21:06
Speaker 3: Stephanie Bastian, thank you so much for your time. Still
21:09
Speaker 3: to come, lefties losing it, plus the latest from the US,
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Speaker 3: including proud feminist Governor Kathy Hochul donning a hijab. Josh
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Speaker 3: Hammer is next. You're watching The Rita Panahy Show and
21:31
Speaker 3: it's time for.
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Speaker 2: Lefties Losing It.
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Speaker 3: Let's start the week with the queen of incomprehension, the
21:38
Speaker 3: word salad specialist who had a professional social media team
21:42
Speaker 3: put this next clip together where she needed no fewer
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Speaker 3: than 15 cuts to produce this mess where she still
21:50
Speaker 3: manages to sound like an income poop.
21:52
Speaker 2: Hey, everybody.
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Speaker 9: Just this week the United States Supreme Court backed up
21:57
Speaker 9: the President's agenda to He's trying to make.
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Speaker 2: It more difficult for you to vote by mail.
22:02
Speaker 3: By the way, he votes by mail from Mar-a-Lago, but
22:06
Speaker 3: he doesn't want you to vote by mail because he
22:07
Speaker 3: knows you're paying attention.
22:09
Speaker 2: Context is so important. Gas prices are up. Food prices
22:13
Speaker 2: are up. They are cheating. They are trying to cheat.
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Speaker 3: She needed 15 cuts for a 47-second clip.
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Speaker 2: Some of those cuts are just two words. Amazing.
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Speaker 3: And she's still the frontrunner to be the next Democrat
22:27
Speaker 3: presidential candidate. Now let's go to the unholy mess that
22:32
Speaker 3: is the WNBA and our brave and beautiful and sometimes
22:36
Speaker 3: trans women are not backing down. Here is Royce White.
22:41
Speaker 3: You may remember him as former NBA player Royce White
22:44
Speaker 3: at a WNBA game scouting the competition.
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Speaker 10: The queen has arrived.
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Speaker 7: All hail.
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Speaker 10: Bow to the queen, Royce.
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Speaker 2: And why are you here?
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Speaker 10: Well, first of all, black trans lesbians matter. We've always mattered.
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Speaker 11: We've always existed. We have a right to exist. And
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Speaker 11: we have a right to be included and participate. And
23:06
Speaker 11: that's what I'm here to do.
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Speaker 10: I'm here to participate and scout some of the competition
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Speaker 10: as well.
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Speaker 3: We are with you, Roysha. News 24 stands by Roysha White.
23:15
Speaker 3: You know, the situation is so grim that even Charles
23:18
Speaker 3: Barkley is calling on the WNBA and the NBA hierarchy
23:22
Speaker 3: to show some backbone and save themselves from further embarrassment.
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Speaker 10: Under no circumstances do I think men should play against women.
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Speaker 7: Zero.
23:34
Speaker 10: I'm disappointed in Adam Silver and Kathy, the commissioner. They
23:39
Speaker 10: should have come out two weeks ago before all this. Like,
23:42
Speaker 10: the people looking for attention now. Including this guy. But
23:46
Speaker 10: he has a point, though. Because Kathy and Adam haven't said, hey,
23:50
Speaker 10: it's in the title, WNBA. We're not going to have
23:54
Speaker 10: transgender people in the WNBA and we're not going to
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Speaker 10: discuss it again. There's no transgender people going to play
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Speaker 10: in the WNBA. If you don't like it, kick rocks.
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Speaker 10: And we're not going to discuss it anymore.
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Speaker 2: Hallelujah. It's that simple. It really is.
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Speaker 3: And good on Charles Barkley for not blaming Royce White
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Speaker 3: or Enos Cantor Freedom for bringing attention to this absurdity.
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Speaker 2: He didn't shoot the messengers. Contrast that with former U.S.
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Speaker 3: Soccer player and hard left simpleton Megan Rapinoe, who doesn't
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Speaker 3: know what a woman is, but she's sure that this
24:29
Speaker 3: is only an issue because of Enos Cantor Freedom and
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Speaker 3: Royce White.
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Speaker 4: The people who were trying to protect women, first of all,
24:38
Speaker 4: from who, guys?
24:40
Speaker 5: From who? It's yourself.
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Speaker 3: Well, buckle up, Megan, because Enos has called you out.
24:47
Speaker 3: He recognizes you're a vacuous attention seeker.
24:50
Speaker 2: And if you really.
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Speaker 3: Embrace inclusion above all else and think men can compete
24:55
Speaker 3: with women, then take up this challenge. Let's hear Ines
24:59
Speaker 3: Cantor Freedom's response to Megan Rapinoe.
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Speaker 11: You've been seeking attention and I will give you that
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Speaker 11: attention because I'm a nice guy. I grew up playing soccer, right?
25:07
Speaker 11: And you are one of those female athletes that advocate
25:10
Speaker 11: in male playing and women's sports. And so here I am.
25:13
Speaker 11: I am offering you $ 5 million to any charity you want.
25:17
Speaker 11: If you beat me one-on-one in soccer, I promise you
25:21
Speaker 11: any charity you want, I will be donating $ 5 million.
25:23
Speaker 11: And this is a promise. I'm going to name the place.
25:27
Speaker 11: I'm going to name the time. So you better show up.
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Speaker 11: You are seeking attention. And here it is.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to New York now and check on the
25:34
Speaker 3: empowered girl boss governor, the proud feminist Kathy Hochul, has
25:39
Speaker 3: decided to don a hijab to speak to Muslims. Now,
25:42
Speaker 3: to be clear, this is a garment millions of genuinely
25:46
Speaker 3: subjugated women living under Sharia law.
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Speaker 2: Consider a symbol of oppression.
25:51
Speaker 3: A garment forced upon tens of millions of women in
25:54
Speaker 3: countries like Iran, where women have fought and died, died
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Speaker 3: to get rid of compulsory hijab laws. Women have had
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Speaker 3: acid splashed on their face for not wearing the hijab.
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Speaker 2: And Kathy Hochul, a free woman.
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Speaker 3: In America, demoralises and undermines all those women by doing this. Yep,
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Speaker 3: the same Democrats who bleat endlessly about Republicans turning America
26:31
Speaker 3: into the handmaid's tale are participating in a real-life version.
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Speaker 2: Well done, Cathy, you absolute coward. But Kathy is also versatile.
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Speaker 3: One minute she's in a hijab, next minute she's dancing
26:44
Speaker 3: or watching actor Kevin Bacon dance in one of the
26:48
Speaker 3: cringiest clips you'll ever see.
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Speaker 2: If I was to come into this club and wanted
26:53
Speaker 2: to say salsa?
26:55
Speaker 6: Nada.
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Speaker 5: Macarena?
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Speaker 2: Maca no-no.
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Speaker 12: Whip?
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Speaker 5: Nay-nay.
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Speaker 3: The state used to demand you get a license to
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Speaker 3: allow dancing, but we tossed that rule out.
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Speaker 5: What do you say to that, Kevin? I say, let's dance.
27:12
Speaker 9: We couldn't afford the rights to the original Footloose music,
27:14
Speaker 9: so whatever.
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Speaker 2: Goodness me.
27:20
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Newsweek senior editor-at-large Josh Hammer. Josh,
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what's harder to watch, Cathy in a
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Speaker 3: hijab cosplaying or whatever the hell that was.
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Speaker 13: So, Rita, this is actually not the first time we've
27:38
Speaker 13: seen a major Democratic politician in the year 2026 don
27:41
Speaker 13: a hijab. My memory immediately went back as soon as
27:45
Speaker 13: I saw this clip. I thought back to Minnesota, where
27:47
Speaker 13: earlier this year, Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor, put on
27:51
Speaker 13: a hijab in solidarity with the Somali community in Minnesota
27:54
Speaker 13: that at the time was being exposed for ripping off
27:57
Speaker 13: the federal government to the tune of billions of dollars
27:58
Speaker 13: of fraud. A story that we know, by the way,
28:01
Speaker 13: that Tim Walz, the entire Minnesota Democrat establishment, was utterly
28:04
Speaker 13: complicit in. So this is now a repeated thing that
28:08
Speaker 13: has happened within the party. And read in the past,
28:10
Speaker 13: I think you and I discussed in the past Linda Sarsour,
28:12
Speaker 13: who I love noting was the literal face of the
28:15
Speaker 13: Women's March when that happened back in 2017, 2018, whatever
28:18
Speaker 13: that even was, whatever the Women's March even purported to be.
28:22
Speaker 13: Linda Sarsour was the nominal putative face of it. If
28:26
Speaker 13: you actually look back at Linda Sarsour's Twitter history, she
28:29
Speaker 13: praised Sharia law. She actually had this bizarre tweet saying,
28:33
Speaker 13: oh my God, do you like having low interest when
28:35
Speaker 13: you're behind on your credit card payments? Sharia law is
28:38
Speaker 13: for you. And it's kind of like, well, you're the
28:40
Speaker 13: head of the women's March. I mean, like make up
28:42
Speaker 13: your mind here, but they can't make up their mind
28:45
Speaker 13: because this is the entire purpose of the intersectional world coalition.
28:49
Speaker 13: It's this utterly bizarre idea Coalition of aggrieved interest, coalition
28:53
Speaker 13: of the subjectively downtrodden, the downtrodden really only in the
28:58
Speaker 13: eyes of those who I suppose make such decisions. That
29:02
Speaker 13: apparently is where America is. That's where New York State is.
29:05
Speaker 13: And by the way, Reid, I can't help but note
29:07
Speaker 13: that we are now less than two weeks from the
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Speaker 13: 25th anniversary of 9-11, September 11, 2001. the bloodiest terrorist
29:14
Speaker 13: attack in American history, a terrorist attack that apparently the CBC,
29:18
Speaker 13: the Canadian broadcasting channel, is no longer referring to as
29:21
Speaker 13: a terrorist attack. But that happened. I remember it vividly.
29:24
Speaker 13: I was 12 and a half years old. I grew
29:25
Speaker 13: up in suburban New York. I remember seeing the smoke
29:27
Speaker 13: from the Twin Towers on that very day. And this
29:29
Speaker 13: is the governor of New York State who is now
29:31
Speaker 13: putting on the hijab as we come upon the 25th
29:34
Speaker 13: anniversary of that terrible day. The mayor of New York City,
29:37
Speaker 13: I might add, as we know, is a Muslim man
29:41
Speaker 13: who has some ties to some very shady imams in
29:45
Speaker 13: New York City, who has repeatedly refused to condemn Hamas,
29:48
Speaker 13: Muslim Brotherhood, various other terrorist outfits. So New York State,
29:52
Speaker 13: shall we say, not heading in a great direction as
29:55
Speaker 13: we mark maybe the saddest anniversary in the history of
29:58
Speaker 13: the Empire State.
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Speaker 3: Josh, just quickly on the CBC, telling editorial staff not
30:03
Speaker 3: to call 9-11 a terrorist attack. We had those revelations
30:06
Speaker 3: late last week. This is the Canadian Public Broadcaster, a
30:11
Speaker 3: taxpayer-funded organisation, and it has caused all sorts of shockwaves
30:16
Speaker 3: in America. FBI Director Kash Patel posted this. He said
30:20
Speaker 3: any agency in Canada that doesn't publicly reject this CBC
30:24
Speaker 3: is naturally reverse course. They're trying to rewrite history, Josh.
30:27
Speaker 3: But what does this tell you about what's happened in
30:30
Speaker 3: North America? How much America and Canada has changed in
30:34
Speaker 3: the last 25 years?
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Speaker 13: Listen, it's really not that long ago. I'm 37, so
30:50
Speaker 13: I was 12 years old. I remember it vividly. I mean, Rita,
30:53
Speaker 13: one of the most sobering things that I've ever experienced
30:56
Speaker 13: in my life, and it's happened many times, actually, is
30:58
Speaker 13: I've spoken to people. I have friends who were NYPD,
31:02
Speaker 13: FDNY first responders on that day. One of my good
31:04
Speaker 13: friends who lives out here in South Florida was an
31:07
Speaker 13: NYPD patrol officer at the time. And I've listened to
31:10
Speaker 13: him talk for hours about what he experienced on that day.
31:14
Speaker 13: And anyone who lived through that day The notion that
31:18
Speaker 13: this was not a terrorist attack, I mean, does up
31:21
Speaker 13: mean up? Does down mean down? I mean, do words
31:23
Speaker 13: in the English language ultimately have meaning or do they not?
31:26
Speaker 13: That's essentially what we're getting at here. But I'm not surprised.
31:29
Speaker 13: I was not shocked when I saw this. After all,
31:30
Speaker 13: this is the public taxpayer-funded broadcasting arm. In Canada, Canada,
31:36
Speaker 13: which is already a fairly liberal country, even by anglophone standards,
31:40
Speaker 13: even here in the United States, of course, NPR, PBS,
31:42
Speaker 13: our taxpayer-funded media outlets for decades have been left leading
31:46
Speaker 13: the BBC in the UK, very much the same story.
31:48
Speaker 13: So I'm not surprised. that this happened in CBC, especially
31:51
Speaker 13: in the context of this ongoing tariff dispute between Donald
31:54
Speaker 13: Trump and Prime Minister Carney in Ottawa. So I'm not shocked,
31:57
Speaker 13: but it is just grievously insulting, just utterly grievously, horrifically insulting.
32:03
Speaker 13: I mean, again, I knew people. Thankfully, I didn't know
32:07
Speaker 13: anyone personally who they lost that day, but I knew
32:10
Speaker 13: plenty of families. I remember my hometown candlelight vigil where
32:14
Speaker 13: we went there, we prayed for each other. I mean,
32:16
Speaker 13: the people were sobbing tears. They lost their loved ones.
32:18
Speaker 13: This was a terrorist attack the likes of which this
32:20
Speaker 13: country has never seen before. And, you know, if Canada
32:23
Speaker 13: wants to get on good terms with the United States again,
32:25
Speaker 13: that's great. I personally have no big issue with our
32:28
Speaker 13: neighbors to the north. But maybe, maybe, maybe stop acting
32:32
Speaker 13: like this. I mean, I don't know, just a food
32:33
Speaker 13: for thought there, I suppose.
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Speaker 11: Yep.
32:36
Speaker 3: Now let's move on to more ridiculous matters. I've played
32:40
Speaker 3: more WNBA shenanigans and lefties losing it tonight. And this
32:45
Speaker 3: ongoing crisis, Josh, would be resolved within minutes if the
32:50
Speaker 3: league just adopted the policies that are embraced by the IOC,
32:54
Speaker 3: International Olympic Committee, and a number of other professional sporting
32:58
Speaker 3: leagues that acknowledge biological reality. Why won't the WNBA do this?
33:05
Speaker 3: I just don't understand why they want to prolong this pain.
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Speaker 13: Right, so this is actually the most hilarious thing. You're
33:11
Speaker 13: totally right to point to the IOC because in 2024,
33:15
Speaker 13: in the last summer games that happened in Paris, there
33:18
Speaker 13: actually was a transgender controversy. I believe it was in
33:20
Speaker 13: the women's boxing competition. There was a pretty severe injury
33:24
Speaker 13: because there was a woman, well, it was actually a man,
33:27
Speaker 13: but who was cosplaying as a woman, and there was
33:29
Speaker 13: a pretty severe injury, and there was a whole lot
33:30
Speaker 13: of backlash. And then Donald Trump stepped in, and now
33:34
Speaker 13: we know that for the next summer games in Los
33:36
Speaker 13: Angeles here in the U.S. in 2028, we will have,
33:39
Speaker 13: let's call them chromosomally segregated athletic competitions, right? Which, aka
33:45
Speaker 13: like actual like men competitions. First men and women versus women.
33:48
Speaker 13: So that's the IOC policy. So I say all that
33:50
Speaker 13: because if the WNBA want to take the most cowardly
33:54
Speaker 13: way out of this possible, they can literally say, you
33:56
Speaker 13: know what? Tough question. We don't really know what a
33:59
Speaker 13: woman is. We've never seen the Matt Walsh documentary. We
34:02
Speaker 13: don't really know.
34:03
Speaker 2: But you know what?
34:04
Speaker 13: The IOC, you know what? We'll go with what they say.
34:08
Speaker 13: They could easily just say that, and they just won't
34:10
Speaker 13: do it. They literally just won't do it. On the
34:12
Speaker 13: other hand, they're tossing out Enos Cantor from the game
34:16
Speaker 13: for wearing a t-shirt supportive of biological reality. And the reason,
34:21
Speaker 13: to answer your question, that I think that they're refusing
34:23
Speaker 13: to do this is actually very simple. is that people
34:25
Speaker 13: like you and I are actually talking about the WNBA
34:29
Speaker 13: for the first time in my entire lifetime. The WNBA,
34:32
Speaker 13: for as long as I've been alive, I think the
34:33
Speaker 13: league was founded in the 1990s, if I'm not mistaken,
34:36
Speaker 13: it was a total punchline, an absolute laughingstock. I remember
34:39
Speaker 13: it was the butt of jokes for my friends in
34:41
Speaker 13: high school and college. We would say, oh my God,
34:43
Speaker 13: the WNBA, it's so irrelevant. What a joke, ha, ha, ha.
34:47
Speaker 13: But you know what? Now we're talking about it. Admittedly,
34:49
Speaker 13: we're making fun of it, but we're still talking about it.
34:51
Speaker 13: So I mean, maybe, maybe, just maybe the genius is there,
34:55
Speaker 13: are of the no such thing as bad PR school
34:57
Speaker 13: of thought. That's my best guess on anything.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's that calculated. I genuinely think it's ideological.
35:05
Speaker 3: They just don't want to give up this position because
35:08
Speaker 3: it would mean that they're betraying their identity politics and
35:14
Speaker 3: they're just so committed to this craziness that they can't,
35:19
Speaker 3: even in their own interests, just say, okay, we are,
35:23
Speaker 3: Maybe you have some issues with it, but we're going
35:24
Speaker 3: to embrace the IOC policy. It's just what sporting leagues
35:28
Speaker 3: around the world are doing and we've got to.
35:30
Speaker 2: Fall into line.
35:31
Speaker 3: There's an easy way out of this, but they just
35:34
Speaker 3: won't do it because they're ideologues. They're not interested in
35:37
Speaker 3: media attention, profits, doing the right thing.
35:41
Speaker 2: It is a political movement. It should be a sporting league,
35:44
Speaker 2: but it's a political movement.
35:46
Speaker 3: Now, this is a fascinating story about cause and effect.
35:50
Speaker 3: The Trump administration's restrictions on SNAP benefits has seen, Josh,
35:56
Speaker 3: a drop in soda sales, according to a recent study.
36:00
Speaker 3: The study's authors say the drop in sugary drink sales
36:03
Speaker 3: could reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 2.6%
36:08
Speaker 3: over the next 10 years per patient. So that's some
36:12
Speaker 3: 34,000 fewer cases in the US. This was a controversial
36:17
Speaker 3: move when it was introduced, Josh.
36:20
Speaker 2: Has it worked?
36:23
Speaker 13: It's working in real time. I think the stats don't
36:24
Speaker 13: lie on this one. There's actually a very similar program
36:26
Speaker 13: happening here in Florida where state-level welfare payments are now
36:31
Speaker 13: conditioned on you not using them for various other vice activities,
36:35
Speaker 13: not limited to drinking and eating, but things like gambling,
36:38
Speaker 13: lottery tickets, things like that. So There's probably broader trends
36:41
Speaker 13: happening both at the federal level and at the state level,
36:44
Speaker 13: and that is auspicious because it's about time that Americans
36:47
Speaker 13: get at least somewhat serious, well, about multiple things. One,
36:50
Speaker 13: about health. I mean, that's the whole MAHA agenda. That's
36:53
Speaker 13: the whole RFK Jr. agenda, which, by the way, is
36:55
Speaker 13: a wildly popular agenda, and the media loves to tar
36:59
Speaker 13: and feather it. The Maha movement, Make America Healthy Again,
37:02
Speaker 13: say that it's a bunch of cuckoo heads and wing
37:04
Speaker 13: nuts and this and that, but it's really not actually.
37:07
Speaker 13: It's born out of a base desire to make America
37:10
Speaker 13: anything other than the most obese country in the world,
37:13
Speaker 13: which tragically we have been for a number of decades now.
37:17
Speaker 13: It's as commonsense as looking at things like the food pyramid,
37:20
Speaker 13: which was last created back in the 1960s in some
37:23
Speaker 13: dimly lit basement in the nation's capital and saying, you
37:26
Speaker 13: know what, maybe it's time for an update. So, you know,
37:28
Speaker 13: maybe just maybe in this case, you know, people who
37:30
Speaker 13: are on the federal dole maybe shouldn't be using their
37:33
Speaker 13: food stamps to buy soda or anything else that's going
37:37
Speaker 13: to make you fat and make you get diabetes or
37:40
Speaker 13: make you get any kind of long-term illness there. So
37:42
Speaker 13: I personally support this very much. And the additional benefit
37:47
Speaker 13: of that is it's also just kind of a cost-conscious
37:50
Speaker 13: attempt to rein the cost of welfare more generally because
37:53
Speaker 13: not necessarily soda, but a lot of these things end
37:56
Speaker 13: up being a little bit more pricey than kind of
37:58
Speaker 13: your run-of-the-mill. Just get like water, for instance. Water will
38:00
Speaker 13: be cheaper than pretty much any other alternative beverage that
38:02
Speaker 13: they might purchase there. So there's a cost element as
38:04
Speaker 13: well here. But overall, on the Maha front, I think
38:06
Speaker 13: that the politics of this cannot be beaten.
38:09
Speaker 3: Now, before you go, Josh, Milo Yiannopoulos is being deported
38:14
Speaker 3: from America.
38:15
Speaker 2: Tell me about this story. How did this come about?
38:19
Speaker 3: And what does it do to the narrative of the
38:22
Speaker 3: left who say ICE operations are inherently racist?
38:27
Speaker 13: Yeah, it couldn't happen to a nicer chap. I am
38:30
Speaker 13: no fan of Milo Yiannopoulos, to put it mildly. I
38:33
Speaker 13: think that he is a loathsome, execrable figure. someone who
38:38
Speaker 13: perhaps when he first was getting started had a decent
38:41
Speaker 13: point to say, but has gone down several inexplicable and
38:45
Speaker 13: at times quite dark paths. So I'll be honest with you,
38:48
Speaker 13: when I saw the story, I was actually surprised because
38:50
Speaker 13: I didn't even know that Milo Yiannopoulos was an illegal alien.
38:53
Speaker 13: I thought that he was still here on a legitimate visa.
38:56
Speaker 13: Turns out he's not. Turns out that he actually came
38:57
Speaker 13: here on a legal visa. So he originally was a
39:01
Speaker 13: legal immigrant, but Like many illegal aliens, he did not
39:04
Speaker 13: come across the border from Mexico. He actually just overstayed
39:07
Speaker 13: his visa. Speaking of 9-11, which we were talking about earlier,
39:11
Speaker 13: most of the 9-11 hijackers were actually those kinds of
39:14
Speaker 13: illegal aliens. They were here on expired visas. So this
39:16
Speaker 13: is a very common thing in immigration law for decades.
39:19
Speaker 13: It's actually, by the way, it's shocking that America has
39:21
Speaker 13: not fixed this problem. In fact, the 9-11 Commission back
39:25
Speaker 13: in 2005 recommended that Congress put into place universal biometric
39:29
Speaker 13: tracking visas. Here we are 21 years later, it still
39:31
Speaker 13: hasn't happened. So that's a whole nother story. But anyway,
39:34
Speaker 13: Milo apparently overstayed his visa and he had a final
39:36
Speaker 13: removal order from ICE in July, and then he refused
39:39
Speaker 13: to show up to his removal hearing. And then the
39:42
Speaker 13: naps at the airport in New Orleans, Louisiana. So I
39:44
Speaker 13: say good riddance. And on the politics of this, I
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Speaker 13: think I think it does indeed show is a very
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Speaker 13: high profile figure who not my kind of ready, let's say,
39:53
Speaker 13: but I think is broadly considered to be on the, quote, unquote,
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Speaker 13: broader rights. I think on the immigration, on the politics
39:58
Speaker 13: of immigration, it does show that Trump is not just
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Speaker 13: going after leftists, not just going after Mexican drug lords
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Speaker 13: or things like that. He actually is going after, really,
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Speaker 13: everyone here who has violated the law. And fundamentally, Rita,
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Speaker 13: if you're here illegally, if you have violated the law,
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Speaker 13: whether you've crossed the border, whether you've overstayed a visa, whatever,
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Speaker 13: you've got to go.
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Speaker 5: Period.
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Speaker 13: Full stop. End of story. No exceptions to that rule.
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Speaker 2: Josh Hammer, thank you for your time.
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Speaker 13: Thank you, Rita.
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Speaker 14: Appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Still to come, news on Harry and Meghan's expectations of
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Speaker 3: a royal apology. Kinsey Schofield is up next.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back.
40:41
Speaker 3: Now, let's see what former First Lady Michelle Obama is
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Speaker 3: talking about on her podcast. Here she is with her
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Speaker 3: brother and Jon Stewart talking about how.
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Speaker 2: Little she misses her kids.
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Speaker 3: It makes a nice change from the usual topics she
40:56
Speaker 3: talks about, which are whining about her marriage and the
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Speaker 3: terrible ordeal of being floaters and almost universally adored by
41:05
Speaker 3: the media.
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Speaker 2: Barack cried when they went to college. I was like, bye, little.
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Speaker 5: Goodbye.
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Speaker 8: Now Friday nights aren't wrecked with terror and fear about
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Speaker 8: where are you?
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Speaker 2: Where are you?
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: Interesting.
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Speaker 3: You think you should be way more worried about where
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Speaker 3: they are on a Friday night when they're at college
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Speaker 3: with no one watching over them, but no. Michelle is self-obsessed.
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Speaker 3: She makes that clear. It's all about me, me, me.
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Speaker 11: Like, don't you miss?
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Speaker 14: See, your kids are still in high school, so it's
41:37
Speaker 14: still a job.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 14: It gave a meaning and pattern to my life.
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Speaker 5: I'm good.
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Speaker 6: Look at all the meaning I have.
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Speaker 13: She's different.
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Speaker 5: I have a wonderful pattern.
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Speaker 13: Oh, man. I love my kids' schedule. I love it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's something about the schedule.
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Speaker 13: I love this schedule.
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Speaker 2: I love my schedule.
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Speaker 14: I have a great schedule and it's all mine.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is host of the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered podcast. Kinsey,
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Speaker 3: why is she still doing this podcast? It's not doing
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Speaker 3: her credibility much good and she doesn't come across as
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Speaker 3: likable or relatable.
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Speaker 12: Every time I hear a clip, I learned something about
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Speaker 12: her that I was perfectly happy not knowing. For years,
42:24
Speaker 12: Michelle was presented as this incredibly polished, aspirational former first lady.
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Speaker 12: And now we get the marriage complaints, how difficult the
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Speaker 12: White House was, how little she misses her children. At
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Speaker 12: some point, you have to ask yourself, is the podcast
42:39
Speaker 12: humanizing her or simply dismantling the mystique that built her
42:46
Speaker 12: and made her this icon?
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Speaker 14: That she used to be. But you're right, she always
42:50
Speaker 14: ends up being the main character.
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Speaker 12: The kids go away to college and her reaction is like,
42:55
Speaker 12: finally back to me.
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Speaker 14: Most mothers are tracking their children on Find My iPhone.
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Speaker 3: I know, and she's talking about how fantastic her schedule is.
43:05
Speaker 3: Just look around and you're like, look around at what?
43:07
Speaker 3: A podcast nobody's listening to. And you're so right about
43:12
Speaker 3: that mystique being dismantled because I think before she was
43:17
Speaker 3: doing endless podcasts and doing her own podcast, she was
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Speaker 3: a real chance to be a Democrat presidential candidate. There
43:26
Speaker 3: was so much goodwill for her, so much positive press,
43:29
Speaker 3: but I think That's not going to be the case
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Speaker 3: if she does decide to run. Now to the Clintons,
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Speaker 3: the former floaters who wanted to be POTUS. That didn't
43:38
Speaker 3: work out. Well, the couple are on the lookout for
43:41
Speaker 3: an unpaid intern to help their global foundation.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey, in the job ad.
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Speaker 3: It says the position requires a high level of professionalism
43:51
Speaker 3: and discretion.
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Speaker 2: I bet it does.
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Speaker 12: I'm sorry, but putting the words Clinton, intern, and discretion
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Speaker 12: in the same job description is practically entrapment for the comedians, okay?
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Speaker 14: The internet obviously went exactly where you would expect.
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Speaker 12: My favorite line or comment was, Bill lost intern privileges.
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Speaker 14: Short, brutal, historically informed.
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Speaker 12: Although depends on what the definition of internship is, deserves
44:19
Speaker 12: an honorable mention. That is a joke for people old
44:23
Speaker 12: enough to remember the original programming.
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Speaker 14: But Hillary's office must have known this was coming.
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Speaker 12: You cannot advertise for a Clinton intern requiring a high
44:31
Speaker 12: level of discretion and then act surprised when the entire
44:34
Speaker 12: internet turns into Jay Leno 1998.
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Speaker 3: I tell you, some of her staff must hate her because, yeah,
44:41
Speaker 3: you're right, this was entirely predictable and they still did it.
44:45
Speaker 2: They still went ahead.
44:46
Speaker 3: Now, Prince Harry's friends claim the Duke of Sussex is
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Speaker 3: still unhappy with certain members of the royal family.
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Speaker 2: And expects an apology, a source told the Daily Mail.
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Speaker 3: He is still in that Oprah mindset and is still
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Speaker 3: frustrated by the men in grey suits who surround his father,
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Speaker 3: King Charles.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey, surely, surely he's not that delusional.
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Speaker 12: He's as delusional as whoever photoshopped that picture of him
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Speaker 12: that you just showed and gave him a full head
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Speaker 12: of hair, Rita.
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Speaker 14: Okay, it is a new level of Delulu.
45:20
Speaker 12: At some point, Harry has to ask himself the very
45:23
Speaker 12: uncomfortable question, if everyone around you owes you an apology.
45:27
Speaker 14: Could there possibly be one common denominator? You know, it's you.
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Speaker 12: But speaking of delusional, Meghan's friends have told People Magazine
45:35
Speaker 12: that Meghan is feeling more confident about her UK comeback
45:38
Speaker 12: because she finally.
45:39
Speaker 14: Gets to play by her own rules.
45:42
Speaker 12: I think the Sussexes have a history of overestimating their leverage.
45:47
Speaker 12: Six years later, they're the ones coming back. I'm not
45:50
Speaker 12: sure that's the power move they think it is.
45:54
Speaker 3: Now, The Sun reports that Sarah Ferguson is returning to
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Speaker 3: the UK imminently. The former Duchess of York will be
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Speaker 3: renting a six-bedroom, three-bathroom residence in the home counties outside London.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey, a source said... She has had her eyes.
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Speaker 3: On a return for some time, but spent a while
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Speaker 3: looking for the right place to leave. Is she going
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Speaker 3: to be welcomed with open arms?
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Speaker 5: I doubt that.
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Speaker 12: This is actually brilliant timing for Sarah Ferguson. Harry and
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Speaker 12: Meghan have just moved back to Britain. The press is
46:27
Speaker 12: following their every move, and Fergie can slip back in
46:30
Speaker 12: like she's entering under witness protection. If you are Sarah
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Speaker 12: Ferguson and you've been waiting for the perfect moment to
46:36
Speaker 12: return quietly, this is probably it.
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Speaker 14: And frankly.
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Speaker 12: Sarah has always been a survivor. Scandal, divorce, feet pictures, debt,
46:44
Speaker 12: more scandal. Somehow Fergie keeps popping back up. She is
46:48
Speaker 12: the royal family's inflatable clown. Knock her down and she's
46:53
Speaker 12: standing again.
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Speaker 5: There she is.
46:54
Speaker 3: Now, one of Howard Stern's channels has been dropped after
47:01
Speaker 3: the Radio Star was rocked by mass layoffs. Stern has
47:05
Speaker 3: been scaled down to one new show a week after
47:09
Speaker 3: he was replaced on the Sirius XM 101 channel by
47:13
Speaker 3: media rival Andy Cohen. Andy Cohen, Kinsey, I'm not sure
47:17
Speaker 3: who is worse, Stern or Cohen.
47:21
Speaker 12: Well, Howard may be down at Sirius XM, but unfortunately, Rita,
47:25
Speaker 12: he's not completely out. He's reportedly landed an HBO Max steal.
47:30
Speaker 12: that would turn his three-hour Monday SiriusXM broadcast into a
47:34
Speaker 12: condensed 60 to 90-minute streaming show later in the week.
47:38
Speaker 12: So while SiriusXM has dropped Towered 101, he's potentially gaining
47:42
Speaker 12: a new audience, but probably not because he's pretty boring
47:45
Speaker 12: these days. When he was popular on E!, we saw
47:48
Speaker 12: lots of sets of You Know What, you know? There
47:50
Speaker 12: was a very specific genre or demo he was trying
47:54
Speaker 12: to attract there, and I don't know if he still
47:56
Speaker 12: has that in him.
47:57
Speaker 14: He's kind of a snore these days.
47:59
Speaker 2: Absolutely. He's turned into a massive Karen.
48:03
Speaker 3: Now, before you go, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has announced
48:07
Speaker 3: plans to name Nashville International Airport in honour of Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 2: Lee said it.
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Speaker 3: Was fitting that the airport would bear the name of
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Speaker 3: the state's favourite daughter.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey, surely there'll be no objections to this move?
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 12: I am already seeing friends in Nashville joking that they
48:27
Speaker 12: can't wait to be departing from Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 14: I love the idea that Dolly's.
48:32
Speaker 12: Name could be the first thing millions of people see
48:34
Speaker 12: when they arrive in Nashville. I mean, she spent her
48:36
Speaker 12: entire career making Nashville look warm, funny, glamorous, and welcoming.
48:40
Speaker 12: And can you imagine the merchandise opportunities? I'm buying a
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Speaker 12: Dolly snow globe and a bedazzled over the shoulder boulder
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Speaker 12: holder that says Nashville.
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Speaker 14: I'm like, take my money.
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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: And one of my favourite places on earth. And if
48:57
Speaker 3: you're welcomed by Dolly Parton Airport. I mean, it's just,
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Speaker 3: it's perfect. I just wish they did it when she
49:03
Speaker 3: was still alive because I think she would have been
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Speaker 3: so chuffed by something like that because she was such
49:09
Speaker 3: a proud daughter of Tennessee. So many songs referenced Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey Schofield, it's always a pleasure. Thank you so much
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Speaker 3: for your time tonight. And that's all the time.
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Speaker 2: We have. Don't go anywhere. Late Edition is up next.
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Speaker 2: Good night.