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The Rita Panahi Show | 1 October · 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, youth crime and bail laws emerge as
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Speaker 3: the single biggest issues driving voters in Victoria. My panel
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Speaker 3: will cover that and the day's other top headlines. Outrage
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Speaker 3: in North Queensland over a ban on gillnet fishing. National
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Speaker 3: Senator Susan Macdonald will have more on that. Kelly Jane
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Speaker 3: Torrance will have the latest from the US, including Pete
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Speaker 3: Hegzett's no fatties, no trannies military policy. And Tom Cruise
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Speaker 3: fawns over the Princess of Wales. Kinsey Schofield will have
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Speaker 3: all your royal and entertainment news later in the hour.
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Speaker 2: And Lefties Losing It features the latest riots in France.
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Speaker 2: This time a leftist mayor joined in the destruction.
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Speaker 4: Money!
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Speaker 5: Money! Money!
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Speaker 6: Money!
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Speaker 3: Money! But first, despite the cost of living crisis, youth
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Speaker 3: crime and bail laws have emerged as the biggest issues
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Speaker 3: driving voters at the Victorian state election. The latest freshwater
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Speaker 3: strategy poll commissioned by the Herald Sun reveals 48% of
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Speaker 3: all voters named youth crime as an issue likely to
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Speaker 3: influence their vote. Crime was well ahead of housing.
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Speaker 2: Affordability on 37%, energy and power.
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Speaker 3: Bills at 32%, and state debt and government spending at 30%.
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Speaker 3: Corruption and cost blowouts on the disastrous Big Build, also
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Speaker 3: rated as a significant concern, with 23% of voters saying
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Speaker 3: it would influence their vote. 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 data is going to surprise many people. We've got
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Speaker 3: a cost of living crisis.
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Speaker 2: We've got.
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Speaker 3: Victoria dealing with crippling debt, the worst of any state
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Speaker 3: in the country, and yet crime is the key issue.
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Speaker 1: Well, it has a material effect on your quality of life,
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Speaker 1: particularly if you live in one of those suburbs like
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Speaker 1: Melton or ones with high youth crime. So you go
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Speaker 1: out of your door and you're looking over your shoulder
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Speaker 1: in case there's some kid with a machete or a
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Speaker 1: knife or you're worried when you lock up the car
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Speaker 1: that it's not secure or somebody might burst into your
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Speaker 1: kitchen and take your keys. That is serious for people,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not surprised it comes out as even worse
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Speaker 1: than cost of living. It won't in those posh, enclaved
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Speaker 1: suburbs where politicians tend to live, but it will for
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Speaker 1: real people. And what gets me, Rita, is here in Victoria,
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Speaker 1: and it's nice to be here and see the place
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Speaker 1: for myself, in a sense, you are half... Kids are
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Speaker 1: half as likely to find themselves in youth detention as
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Speaker 1: they are in New South Wales. They're a quarter as likely,
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Speaker 1: as in Queensland... Is it any wonder that you've got
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Speaker 1: the highest youth crime rates? You know, the answer is
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Speaker 1: quite simple and I think this will come to the
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Speaker 1: fore at the next election.
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Speaker 3: Prue, I'm old enough to remember the usual suspects in
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Speaker 3: the media, the commentariat, telling the Libs to stop talking
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Speaker 3: about crime, to appeal to the so-called centre. That was
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Speaker 3: terrible advice because not only is this important, it's a
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Speaker 3: genuine issue. As Nick said, it impacts people's standard of living.
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Speaker 4: Well, you're in fear of your life, really, when you
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Speaker 4: think about it. You know, you don't want to sleep
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Speaker 4: at night. You wonder if your business is going to
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Speaker 4: be raided by, you know, machete-wielding kids. And until we
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Speaker 4: get real about, you know, minimum sentences and we show
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Speaker 4: that they're not going to just get a tap on
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Speaker 4: the backside and released again... We have to really start
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Speaker 4: getting absolutely tough on these kids and also think about
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Speaker 4: who we are allowing into this country.
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Speaker 3: Well, opposition leader Jess Wilson has vowed to recruit 3,000
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Speaker 3: additional police and reopen more than 40 police stations. She
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Speaker 3: also promised to overhaul Victoria's Court of Appeal to bring
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Speaker 3: Sentences in line with community expectations.
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Speaker 2: Nick, there's a big problem there.
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Speaker 3: We've had, what, I think 22 of the last 26 years,
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Speaker 3: if I remember correctly, Labor has ruled this state. They
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Speaker 3: have appointed all the judges and amongst them have been
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Speaker 3: a lot of activists, left-leaning, soft-on-crime judges. That is not
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Speaker 3: a problem you can easily overcome. Those jobs are for life.
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Speaker 5: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: Well, until you're 70. That's your problem.
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Speaker 1: I mean, putting more police on the beat, of course
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Speaker 1: that's important. That makes a measurable difference to crime. If
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Speaker 1: people think there's going to be a couple of cops
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Speaker 1: walking by in five minutes' time, that reduces crime. But
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Speaker 1: your real problem here in Victoria, without a doubt, is
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Speaker 1: the judiciary. And I don't know what Jess Wilson does
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Speaker 1: about that, whether she comes in like Trump and sacks
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Speaker 1: the lot of them I'm not sure.
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Speaker 2: That that's very easy. Well, you can't do that. You
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Speaker 2: can't do that here.
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Speaker 3: They have a job for life, essentially, for their working life.
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Speaker 1: You can pass the toughest laws you like, but if
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Speaker 1: the judges are just going to ignore them, then there's nothing.
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Speaker 3: Well, you can have mandatory sentencing, so you take it
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Speaker 3: out of the judges' hands and hope that they don't
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Speaker 3: find any loopholes to get people.
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Speaker 2: softer sentences.
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Speaker 3: Now New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has called for
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Speaker 3: the Albanese government to rein in spending to assist the
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Speaker 3: RBA in containing inflation. He said every government had a
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Speaker 3: responsibility to do whatever it takes to take demand out
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Speaker 3: of the economy. We have heard the advice from the
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Speaker 3: RBA over the last two years that.
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Speaker 2: We need to be careful with public funds.
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Speaker 3: Prue, this is significant to have a Labor premier essentially
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Speaker 3: rebuking the Feds and their spending. It says something about, well,
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Speaker 3: Minns is a very smart political operator, isn't he?
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Speaker 7: He is.
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Speaker 3: reading the signs and he knows this government is on
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Speaker 3: the nose and they're particularly on the nose when it
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Speaker 3: comes to their economic management.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and of course, self-interest is a powerful motivator and
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Speaker 4: he's facing an election in March. So, you know, he's
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Speaker 4: going to try and distance himself from the thinking and
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Speaker 4: the so-called economic management of this disastrous government. But in reality,
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Speaker 4: he is facing a deficit of something like, I think
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Speaker 4: it's $ 2. 35 billion. So, you know, he's overspending as well.
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Speaker 4: It seems to be a signature of Labor. And he's
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Speaker 4: invested in wooing the public service. He's now changed the caps.
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Speaker 4: public servants are getting 10% wage increases and all sorts
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Speaker 4: of sweetness when the rest of us, you know, the
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Speaker 4: average private sector is doing it so tough. So while
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Speaker 4: I agree that he needs to criticise this government because
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Speaker 4: they're abysmal, at the same time, he ain't doing that
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Speaker 4: much well by the rest of the state either.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's have a.
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Speaker 3: Look at a pertinent question posed to the Treasurer earlier today.
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Speaker 2: And his rather pitiful response. Jim Chalmers did not handle
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Speaker 2: this well.
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Speaker 6: Treasurer, back in 2022, just before he came into office,
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Speaker 6: rates rose from 0.1% to 0.35% under Scott Morrison. You
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Speaker 6: accused him of having, quote, an excuse for everything and
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Speaker 6: a plan for nothing and said he took, quote, all
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Speaker 6: the credit when things went well, but, quote, none of
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Speaker 6: the responsibility when they didn't. Rates are now 4.6%. yet
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Speaker 6: you're saying it's not your fault. Aren't you doing the
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Speaker 6: same thing? Why shouldn't you take responsibility for the state
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Speaker 6: of the economy?
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Speaker 8: Well, I take responsibility for all aspects of my part
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Speaker 8: of the fight against inflation. And that means continuing to
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Speaker 8: manage the budget responsibly, rolling out cost of living relief
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Speaker 8: where we can afford to do that, and also dealing
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Speaker 8: with some of these longer-term challenges that Scott Morrison and
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Speaker 8: his colleagues left neglected for too long.
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Speaker 3: Nick, we've had 16 interest rate increases since Anthony Albanese
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Speaker 3: was elected Prime Minister the first time. It is causing
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Speaker 3: enormous pain across the country with Australians who've got a mortgage.
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Speaker 2: That's around one in three Australians.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how long Jim can keep up this pretense,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 2: Well, you didn't answer the question. You didn't even try
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Speaker 2: to answer the question.
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Speaker 1: But, you know, here they are, what, almost four and
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Speaker 1: a half years after the election of the Albanese government,
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Speaker 1: they're still trying to blame this on poor old Scott Morrison. Look,
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Speaker 1: it's just absolutely absurd. It doesn't pass the pub test.
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Speaker 1: I think the fact that Minsk has called them out,
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Speaker 1: all by his hands aren't exactly clean when it comes
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Speaker 1: to debt, is another sign that this is just an
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Speaker 1: unsustainable position. And the idea that our inflation comes from Iran,
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Speaker 1: for goodness sake, no, it comes from Canberra. That's where
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Speaker 1: inflation starts.
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Speaker 3: That's where it comes from, and that's why I've been
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Speaker 3: critical of the RBA, because they are hurting the wrong
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Speaker 3: people with these rate increases. I know they don't have
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Speaker 3: anything else at their disposal to tackle inflation, but I
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Speaker 3: don't know how much longer we can just bash around
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Speaker 3: people trying to pay off a house for the government's overspending. Now,
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Speaker 3: let's talk about an attempted hijacking that took place overnight.
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Speaker 3: Israeli officials say the co-pilot of a flight from Dubai
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Speaker 3: to Tel Aviv tried to crash the plane after stabbing
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Speaker 3: the pilot. The plane's captain, Smith McIntyre, has been praised
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Speaker 3: as a hero after he managed to open the cockpit
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Speaker 3: door despite his wounds and that allowed passengers and crew
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Speaker 3: to burst in and subdue the attacker and thankfully there
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Speaker 3: was a second set of pilots on board who managed
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Speaker 3: to land the plane safely. Nick, this could have been catastrophic.
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Speaker 3: This was an act of terrorism that was thankfully foiled,
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Speaker 3: but it could have been an enormous.
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Speaker 2: Loss of life.
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Speaker 1: Of course, locked cabin doors were one of the measures
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Speaker 1: that were put in place worldwide after 9-11. That was
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Speaker 1: one of the results of them. And here, were it
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Speaker 1: not for the brave pilots who, despite being stabbed, managed
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Speaker 1: to force the door open, and were it not for
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Speaker 1: a lot of brave passengers... who came to his aid
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Speaker 1: and managed to get this guy off the controls and
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Speaker 1: got hold of the controls themselves. How they had the
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Speaker 1: presence of mind just to pull the lever back, I
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Speaker 1: suppose we see it in the movies, but how close
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Speaker 1: this was to disaster.
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Speaker 2: Well, they say if it was a minute later, it
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Speaker 2: could have been catastrophic. It was that close.
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Speaker 1: They're travelling pretty fast in a downward direction. So, look,
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Speaker 1: a brilliant story of heroism, but how close, how that
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Speaker 1: threat still lingers, particularly for the Israelis. And the Israelis
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Speaker 1: have to fight this and face this every day of
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Speaker 1: their lives, this kind of threat and worse.
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Speaker 2: Well, Prud, that.
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Speaker 3: Level of awareness, though, that Israelis have and the fact
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Speaker 3: that many of them have trained in the IDF, that
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Speaker 3: seemed to be another layer of protection with this attempted
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Speaker 3: act of terrorism, because the passengers were sparked into action,
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Speaker 3: the crew was sparked into action. And I wonder if
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Speaker 3: this had happened with a different set of people who
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Speaker 3: don't have that sort of background and that sort of awareness,
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Speaker 3: whether the results would have been entirely different.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're right.
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Speaker 4: And of course, the Israelis are fighting for their lives
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Speaker 4: on a.
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Speaker 2: Day to day basis.
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Speaker 4: So it's not unbelievable that this could happen. But, you know,
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Speaker 4: it seems to be a really disturbing trend. And when
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Speaker 4: you think about the fact that in Dubai, they actually
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Speaker 4: have the IDF checking security as well as the local
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Speaker 4: security people. It's astounding that this pilot was able to
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Speaker 4: bring this machete or axe or knife, whatever it was.
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Speaker 4: Somebody on Twitter was saying that there is an axe
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Speaker 4: that's actually in the cockpit. And if that's the case, then,
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Speaker 4: of course, he didn't have to worry about security issues. But,
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Speaker 4: you know, it's so scary now that, in fact, the
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Speaker 4: world seems to be facing a rise of terrorism again.
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Speaker 4: even more than the, you know, normal threat that we
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Speaker 4: have when you look at what happened in the UK recently.
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Speaker 4: So we all need to be vigilant and be very concerned.
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Speaker 3: And some of the media coverage, Nick, I've got to say,
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Speaker 3: was appalling, trying to play this down as an altercation
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Speaker 3: between two pilots. They updated that to a struggle report.
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Speaker 3: And we're talking about multiple media outlets. New York Times
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Speaker 3: has been highlighted by many people, but it wasn't just
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Speaker 3: the New York Times. This was one pilot attacking another, Nick,
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Speaker 3: in order to bring down this plane. This wasn't some
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Speaker 3: spat between a couple of pilots that got out of hand.
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Speaker 1: I suppose two planes going to the Twin Towers is
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Speaker 1: an altercation, if you want to describe it in those terms. No,
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Speaker 1: this is. Well, anything to do with Israel is played
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Speaker 1: down by these outlets. They're desperately ashamed of their own anti-Semitism,
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Speaker 1: that's all I can think of, and they try and
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Speaker 1: cover up in the most absurd ways. But it's obvious
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Speaker 1: for anybody who's seen the footage or read the accounts
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Speaker 1: what was happening. We don't know, I think, of course,
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Speaker 1: of the motivation the guy did it. We don't know
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Speaker 1: much about him. But it was, it seems to me.
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Speaker 2: A deliberate attempt to.
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Speaker 1: Bring the play down for whatever reason.
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Speaker 3: We can make some assumptions fairly safely, Nick Cater. Thank
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Speaker 3: you so much for your time and thank you, Prue McSween. Now,
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Speaker 3: commercial fishermen in North Queensland are trying to persuade the
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Speaker 3: government to review a ban on gill net fishing set
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Speaker 3: to come into effect next year. Temporary licences introduced in
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Speaker 3: 2024 allow commercial operators to use nets until their planned
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Speaker 3: phased withdrawal. National Senator Susan McDonald has said this ban
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Speaker 3: means Australians will get less local seafood on their plates.
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Speaker 9: 65% of the seafood consumed in Australia is imported. This
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Speaker 9: is a crazy statistic. In 2023, Tanya Plibersek signed a
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Speaker 9: dirty deal to shut down gillnet fishing, mostly in North Queensland.
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Speaker 9: This was not based on science. It was based on politics.
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Speaker 9: What this means for Australian consumers is you won't be
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Speaker 9: able to eat wild-caught barramundi.
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Speaker 2: Susan MacDonald joins me now. Susan, tell me why you say...
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Speaker 2: This policy is all about politics, not science.
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Speaker 9: Well, to be clear, Rita, the UNESCO never asked the
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Speaker 9: Australian government to remove gillnet fishing as part of the
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Speaker 9: protection of.
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Speaker 2: The Great Barrier Reef.
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Speaker 9: But yet this is the protection, the excuse that Tanya
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Speaker 9: Plibersek and then Murray Watt and other Albanese Labor government
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Speaker 9: ministers have used. There was absolutely no reason to shut
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Speaker 9: down the most targeted and and sustainable fishing measure that
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Speaker 9: Australian fishermen have. And I don't know about you, but
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Speaker 9: I can't fish to save myself. Fish should be a
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Speaker 9: part of our diet, particularly in a country where we
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Speaker 9: are surrounded by oceans. And yet this is an ideological
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Speaker 9: activist campaign to ensure that we shut down ocean-caught fish,
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Speaker 9: Australian ocean-caught fish, that we have less Australian fishermen less
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Speaker 9: generational expertise, but worst of all, less Australian fish on
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Speaker 9: the plates of Australian consumers. I think that this is
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Speaker 9: an absolutely mad policy and we need the federal government
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Speaker 9: to at the very least extend the closure date from
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Speaker 9: next year, 30 June 2027 through to 2030 to allow
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Speaker 9: the Queensland government's fish light campaign to pursue alternative methodologies
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Speaker 9: to be completed. I'm pretty sure that from the methodologies
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Speaker 9: that have been tested to date that there is nothing
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Speaker 9: to replace the efficiency, the carefully targeted measures that gillnet
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Speaker 9: fishing brings, and to support Australian fishermen as opposed to
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Speaker 9: illegal fishermen coming into our waters.
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Speaker 3: Well, how much of a boost is this going to
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Speaker 3: be for illegal fishermen and just for imported seafood? Is
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Speaker 3: the average Aussie going to be able to afford local seafood?
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Speaker 9: Well, that's a great point. We've already seen that seafood
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Speaker 9: shops across Australia are showing us that seafood prices go
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Speaker 9: up when there is less ability for our local fishermen
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Speaker 9: to use the fishing season, the barramundi season, to subsidise
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Speaker 9: and offset the cost of their fishing in other species
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Speaker 9: and other parts of the year. So being able to
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Speaker 9: allow fishermen to fish all year across species, but particularly
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Speaker 9: to use a method like gillnet fishing that is targeted
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Speaker 9: and allow us to catch enough fish to not only
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Speaker 9: put food on the table for you and me, but
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Speaker 9: also what about all these Olympics tourists and food tourists
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Speaker 9: who come to Australia? They want to go to our
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Speaker 9: islands and other places and they want to be able
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Speaker 9: to eat wild caught Australian fish, particularly barramundi. So this
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Speaker 9: is a bad decision. It will drive up the cost
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Speaker 9: of fish for Australian consumers. It will drive out Australian fishermen,
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Speaker 9: particularly in North Queensland. And the only people who win
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Speaker 9: out of this is green activists who want to see
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Speaker 9: us have less fishing in Australia.
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Speaker 3: Now, before you go, you've been outspoken on the government's
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Speaker 3: failed energy policy. You've said that the proposed domestic gas
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Speaker 3: reservation scheme could wipe out smaller Australian domestic producers. What
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Speaker 3: impact are Labor's energy policies having on the sector, Susan?
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Speaker 9: Well, we know that Labor's crazy ideology on renewables only
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Speaker 9: and the rush to renewables has driven up the cost
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Speaker 9: of electricity massively. So whether you're a small business or
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Speaker 9: a smelter, a household, all of these people are already
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Speaker 9: paying significantly more in electricity. You can forget Albanese's $ 275
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Speaker 9: reduction in the cost of electricity. It's going up rapidly.
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Speaker 9: But worse, this gas reservation, unless it is very carefully
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Speaker 9: drafted and targeted, will mean that Australian gas producers, Australian-owned,
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Speaker 9: domestic-only gas producers are particularly on the East Coast, will
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Speaker 9: not be able to compete with the LNG exporters that
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Speaker 9: the government is proposing to flood Australian markets with. It
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Speaker 9: sounds like a noble cause, but we have got to
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Speaker 9: get this right because it is so important that we
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Speaker 9: protect and preserve Australian businesses. and Australian gas producers, particularly
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Speaker 9: those ones in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, that
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Speaker 9: only produce for the domestic market, as prices reduce for them,
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Speaker 9: they can't offset their production costs against export markets. And
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Speaker 9: so they will just lose capital, lose investment and go
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Speaker 9: out of business. That would be a disaster. And obviously,
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Speaker 9: against any right-thinking public policy.
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Speaker 2: Senator Susan McDonald, thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 8: Thanks, Rita.
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Speaker 3: Still to come, lefties losing it, plus the latest from
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Speaker 3: the US, including Pete Hegzett's no fatties, no traddies military policy.
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Speaker 2: Kelly-Jane Torrance is next.
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Speaker 3: You're watching The Rita Panahy Show and it's time for
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Speaker 3: Lefty's Losing It.
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Speaker 2: You know what this segment needs is high fashion.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to Paris and see what the great Tom
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Speaker 3: Ford is showcasing at Fashion Week. That's quite enough fashion
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Speaker 3: for now, thank you. We won't be making that mistake again.
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Speaker 3: But let's stay in France and check on the latest
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Speaker 3: protests slowly destroying the country from within.
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Speaker 2: This one involves students blockading schools. No, no.
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Speaker 3: No, no.
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Speaker 10: No, no.
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Speaker 3: Now, supposedly these protesters want more resources, so naturally they
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Speaker 3: decided to set fire to the joint, set fire to
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Speaker 3: multiple schools. Here they are doing their best to burn
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Speaker 3: down the Leonardo da Vinci High School. CHEERING Yes, the
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Speaker 3: young are revolting.
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Speaker 2: But it's not just the young. Have a look at
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Speaker 2: this mayor.
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Speaker 3: This is the far leftist mayor of Sandunny, Bully Bagayoko,
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Speaker 3: joining the mayhem, joining the violent, destructive protest.
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Speaker 2: And is doing it all in his suit. What's that line?
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Speaker 3: If you import the third world, you become the third world. Now,
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Speaker 3: it's been a while since we featured Jimmy Kimmel. This
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Speaker 3: was a curious exchange on his program overnight. He was
22:13
Speaker 3: interviewing has-been broadcaster Howard Stern who warned ABC not to
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Speaker 3: axe or mess with Kimmel's expensive program.
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Speaker 1: He has done everything for the company and I hope
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Speaker 1: that they keep that in mind.
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Speaker 11: Well, thank you.
22:29
Speaker 7: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 9: And, oh, my God, I don't know about you.
22:35
Speaker 1: But if something goes wrong, oh, is ABC going to
22:38
Speaker 1: have hell to pay?
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Speaker 4: Am I correct?
22:41
Speaker 1: Are you with me?
22:42
Speaker 3: Now, these next women may be Kimmel fans. I don't
22:45
Speaker 3: know whether to blame the culture, their parents or the
22:50
Speaker 3: education system for this.
22:51
Speaker 5: Do you have three favourite countries in Europe?
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Speaker 2: In Europe?
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Speaker 10: England.
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Speaker 2: I don't know any countries in Europe. Yeah, a lot
23:00
Speaker 2: of them.
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Speaker 12: What are your three favourite countries in Europe?
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Speaker 7: In Europe.
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Speaker 2: Countries in Europe?
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Speaker 3: I don't even know.
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Speaker 13: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I lucky don't know. That's a good question.
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Speaker 12: What are your three favourite countries in Europe?
23:12
Speaker 2: I don't know three countries in Europe, but I can
23:14
Speaker 2: tell you that I love a man who can sail.
23:16
Speaker 2: Oh dear.
23:17
Speaker 3: Here is a woman old enough to know better, but
23:20
Speaker 3: then she chooses to live in the leftist heartland of
23:23
Speaker 3: Portland as she advocates for teaching 12-year-olds how to use
23:28
Speaker 3: illicit drugs.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 8: What do you think about Portland?
23:31
Speaker 2: I think it's marvelous.
23:33
Speaker 12: The diversity, seeing everyone, the homeless living outside.
23:38
Speaker 6: What should the United States do to try to combat
23:40
Speaker 6: the fentanyl crisis here?
23:41
Speaker 13: Should they allow people to use drugs openly here in
23:43
Speaker 13: the streets of America?
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Speaker 12: I think that we have to be taught as young
23:48
Speaker 12: children how to use drugs. We've used drugs since we've
23:52
Speaker 12: been cavemen. So if we don't start teaching the Indian
23:56
Speaker 12: way where we have them at 12 years old going
23:59
Speaker 12: out in the wilderness or doing whatever, doing quests, vision quests,
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Speaker 12: and taking drugs that way.
24:05
Speaker 3: Now to another example of the WNBA being weird and
24:10
Speaker 3: hostile to their own fans. Look at the hysterics of
24:13
Speaker 3: one of their stars, Asia Wilson, who had a full-blown
24:17
Speaker 3: meltdown and aggressively marched into the crowd Because a fan
24:22
Speaker 3: dared point his finger at her.
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Speaker 2: Really.
24:25
Speaker 3: Just look at this encounter between Wilson and an Indiana
24:29
Speaker 3: Fever fan during the Aces Fever playoff game.
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Speaker 9: Fever!
24:45
Speaker 3: Fever! Fever!
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Speaker 5: Fever!
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable levels of idiocy there.
24:53
Speaker 3: And post-match, she was still playing the victim, claiming the
24:57
Speaker 3: man pointing at her and standing up was some egregious
25:01
Speaker 3: offence that is unacceptable.
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Speaker 11: I don't really get into the bulls * * t.
25:05
Speaker 10: I know.
25:06
Speaker 11: I try to play my game, keep it pushing. But
25:09
Speaker 11: if I'm just walking because I just got the foul,
25:13
Speaker 11: I'm chilling, and if I see a man come at me,
25:17
Speaker 11: taking steps towards me and pointing at me, I don't
25:20
Speaker 11: give a damn what you said. I don't give a
25:22
Speaker 11: damn how you said it, the tone. That is unacceptable.
25:25
Speaker 11: You don't step towards me. You never should step and
25:28
Speaker 11: point at me. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not putting
25:30
Speaker 11: at all.
25:31
Speaker 3: Now folks are not allowed to point at a game
25:35
Speaker 3: or step towards you. And lady, you're the one who
25:39
Speaker 3: invaded his space, not the other way around. Let's bring
25:43
Speaker 3: in the Washington Star editor, Kelly Jane Torrance. Kelly Jane,
25:48
Speaker 3: what is it with the WNBA? They seem to be
25:51
Speaker 3: just a miserable pack of activists who hate their own
25:56
Speaker 3: fans and they seem to have zero interest in actually
25:59
Speaker 3: turning a profit and standing on their own two feet
26:02
Speaker 3: as a league.
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Speaker 13: I mean, Rita, what can I say? You said it
26:06
Speaker 13: so well. And of course, a lot of the players
26:09
Speaker 13: hate the Caitlin Clark, who has actually gotten them way
26:14
Speaker 13: more attention than they have in years and made the
26:17
Speaker 13: league more money than they have in years. But Rita,
26:21
Speaker 13: you used the word meltdown perfect. But you also said, what,
26:24
Speaker 13: I'm not allowed to point at you? No, you are, Rita,
26:27
Speaker 13: because you're a woman. Notice she said, a man points
26:31
Speaker 13: at me? I mean, this is a league of women
26:33
Speaker 13: who are, they hate men. It's kind of crazy, right?
26:37
Speaker 13: But this is what we are. And again, a lot
26:40
Speaker 13: of guys who have, you know, I'm in Manhattan. So,
26:43
Speaker 13: you know, let's face it. I know a lot of
26:44
Speaker 13: guys who have been suddenly interested in the WNBA. And
26:48
Speaker 13: they're like, wait, now they're competitive.
26:50
Speaker 10: It's great.
26:50
Speaker 13: Let's watch. But clearly the players do not want male
26:55
Speaker 13: fans because as soon as a male fan gets excited,
26:59
Speaker 13: does something, you know, they get called out. It's totally insane.
27:05
Speaker 2: It is totally insane.
27:06
Speaker 3: And if they're anti-male, they're not anti-men identifying as women
27:10
Speaker 3: who want to play in their league because this is
27:13
Speaker 3: the league that has women in its title, WNBA, but
27:17
Speaker 3: they don't know what women means.
27:20
Speaker 2: It's just a bizarre league.
27:21
Speaker 3: It's almost like a political movement masquerading as a sporting organisation. Now,
27:26
Speaker 3: earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegzett made a big
27:31
Speaker 3: announcement about studying the future of warfare, a project that's
27:36
Speaker 3: going to be co-led by Elon Musk.
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Speaker 7: At my direction, I'm announcing Project Meridian, an effort led
27:44
Speaker 7: by America's best minds to study the future of warfare.
27:50
Speaker 7: Under the leadership of the department's chief technology officer, Emile Michael,
27:54
Speaker 7: Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's
27:58
Speaker 7: best minds. Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich.
28:05
Speaker 3: And Hegsett also reaffirmed his commitment to cleansing the armed
28:09
Speaker 3: forces of woke DEI policies to focus on excellence.
28:15
Speaker 7: No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps,
28:19
Speaker 7: no radicals.
28:21
Speaker 2: Just warriors.
28:22
Speaker 7: Just tough, ready, committed troops.
28:27
Speaker 3: Kelly Jane, tell me about this study into the future
28:30
Speaker 3: of warfare and.
28:32
Speaker 2: Why the War Secretary has also cut the number of
28:35
Speaker 2: generals and admirals by 20%.
28:36
Speaker 13: Well, you've got to understand, Rita, as I'm sure you do,
28:42
Speaker 13: here in America when Pete Hanks says something like that,
28:45
Speaker 13: the media go completely insane. He said the word trannies. Oh,
28:50
Speaker 13: my gosh.
28:52
Speaker 2: You know, the.
28:52
Speaker 13: Media have been really, really... hating on Pete Hegseth. And again,
28:58
Speaker 13: it's because he wants warriors. Of course he does. You know,
29:02
Speaker 13: it's obvious. I have to say, yeah, these guys are
29:06
Speaker 13: some of the best minds in America. But, you know,
29:09
Speaker 13: studying the future of warfare, Elon Musk, by the way,
29:11
Speaker 13: you know, I was in Ukraine in 2023 when they
29:16
Speaker 13: were doing their counteroffensive and everyone in Ukraine appreciated Elon
29:21
Speaker 13: Musk's Starlink because that's what kept them connected to the
29:25
Speaker 13: internet and what got them, you know, able to do
29:30
Speaker 13: what they were able to do that summer. But I
29:32
Speaker 13: have to say, again, the future of warfare, we need
29:34
Speaker 13: to be studying places like Ukraine, because the future of warfare, it's,
29:38
Speaker 13: you know, yes, we still need... the big missiles. We
29:41
Speaker 13: need to worry about, you know, big, you know, competitors
29:44
Speaker 13: like Russia and China. But drone warfare, Ukraine has shown
29:48
Speaker 13: how much can be done with drone warfare. They have
29:52
Speaker 13: taken on Russia with way more manpower, way more money. And,
29:57
Speaker 13: you know, they've been really successful. So, you know, Pomerantsev,
30:00
Speaker 13: Elon Musk, New Greenwich, all great people. But again, yes,
30:04
Speaker 13: the future of warfare is going on right now, and
30:08
Speaker 13: we need to be paying attention to what's going on
30:10
Speaker 13: in both Ukraine and, of course, Israel, which is also
30:14
Speaker 13: showing us the future of warfare.
30:17
Speaker 3: Now, I've been keeping a close eye on James Tallarico,
30:21
Speaker 3: the Democrat weirdo who wants to be a senator for
30:25
Speaker 3: the great state of Texas and is Done another backflip, KJ,
30:30
Speaker 3: this time on energy. We've seen him do backflips about
30:33
Speaker 3: the number of genders, about meat, and he's previously, when
30:38
Speaker 3: it comes to energy, said that, and we're talking when
30:41
Speaker 3: I say previously, just three or four years ago, not
30:43
Speaker 3: ancient history, he was railing against fossil fuels.
30:48
Speaker 2: Even said... He said the industry.
30:51
Speaker 3: Would die out like cassette tapes. But now he is
30:55
Speaker 3: a proud capitalist who supports Texas energy dominance, including the
31:01
Speaker 3: oil and gas industry and LNG production.
31:04
Speaker 2: Are you buying this?
31:07
Speaker 13: Rita, I am not. You're not going to be surprised
31:09
Speaker 13: to hear that. But, you know, again, yeah, as you mentioned,
31:12
Speaker 13: he's backflipped on so many things. And it's kind of like,
31:16
Speaker 13: you remember when Beto O'Rourke was going to win against
31:19
Speaker 13: Ted Cruz? The Democrats, I don't know what they do,
31:22
Speaker 13: but they managed to pick the craziest candidates in Texas
31:27
Speaker 13: of all places. You know, Texas, you know, one of
31:30
Speaker 13: the reddest states, very energy dependent, you know, very dependent on,
31:35
Speaker 13: you know, cattle, oil, all the things that leftists hate.
31:39
Speaker 13: And yeah, this guy said, You know, the fossil fuels,
31:44
Speaker 13: they're going to be obsolete. He said this, you know,
31:46
Speaker 13: just a few years ago. He's too young for this
31:48
Speaker 13: to be ancient history. I have to say, Donald Trump
31:52
Speaker 13: is kind of right in comparing him to Alfred E. Newman,
31:54
Speaker 13: you know, the mad magazine character. He does look like that,
31:57
Speaker 13: but he's this young guy. And yeah, he's back flipping because,
32:00
Speaker 13: of course, the Texas economy depends on energy. And in fact,
32:05
Speaker 13: a lot of the American economy does because energy. energy
32:09
Speaker 13: fuels America. And we've seen, you know, China has claimed, okay,
32:15
Speaker 13: we're going to shut down all the coal plants. We're
32:17
Speaker 13: going to rid of fossil fuels. We're going to do
32:19
Speaker 13: clean energy. They are lying. And they are the ones
32:21
Speaker 13: that are actually contributing more, you know, greenhouse gases than
32:26
Speaker 13: any other country. They're doing nothing. So nothing America does
32:30
Speaker 13: is really going to matter because the worst polluters are
32:33
Speaker 13: still polluting. And so why should America ruin its economy?
32:37
Speaker 2: It's crazy. But here's James.
32:39
Speaker 7: America's.
32:41
Speaker 3: America's energy independent right now and they seem to be
32:45
Speaker 3: focusing a great deal more on energy. Trust me, you're
32:48
Speaker 3: a long way ahead of Australia because we are blessed
32:51
Speaker 3: with every natural resource and we are not using it
32:55
Speaker 3: for the benefit of our own population. But staying on Texas, yes,
33:00
Speaker 3: this guy is a uniquely bad candidate for Texas, but
33:04
Speaker 3: the polling shows he is well in front. They are
33:07
Speaker 3: pouring so much money into getting him to succeed. And
33:12
Speaker 3: if he does beat Ken Paxton, explain to my audience
33:16
Speaker 3: why that would be such a blow for the GOP
33:18
Speaker 3: and particularly for the Trump camp, because Ken Paxton replaced
33:23
Speaker 3: a four term senator, an incumbent. in John Cornyn, a
33:29
Speaker 3: man that many see as a rhino, a Republican in
33:32
Speaker 3: name only. And if he fails to get up here,
33:36
Speaker 3: I think that will give a lot of strength to
33:38
Speaker 3: other rhinos across the country to say, you need us
33:42
Speaker 3: if you want to win these close races.
33:45
Speaker 13: Yeah, Rita, you have captured it so well. And it
33:48
Speaker 13: really is unfortunate that John Cornyn happened to be where
33:52
Speaker 13: he is because Ken Paxton was the guy.
33:56
Speaker 2: Going against him.
33:57
Speaker 13: And of course, Donald Trump was not a fan of
33:59
Speaker 13: John Cornyn, as you say, a rhino Republican in name only.
34:02
Speaker 13: So the guy, you know, challenging Ken Paxton, he's got baggage.
34:08
Speaker 13: You know, he's he's got some, you know, some You know,
34:11
Speaker 13: he cheated on his wife. He's admitted it. He's got
34:14
Speaker 13: some issues. Even Donald Trump in that big Dallas midterm convention,
34:19
Speaker 13: the first time the Republicans or any party really has
34:21
Speaker 13: had a midterm convention, even Trump kind of made fun
34:25
Speaker 13: of Ken Paxton a little, making fun of the way
34:27
Speaker 13: he talks, making fun of the way he dresses, but
34:30
Speaker 13: said he's going to be a great senator for you.
34:33
Speaker 13: And yes, you know, I have issues with Ken Paxton,
34:35
Speaker 13: but he's going to do much more for the people
34:38
Speaker 13: of Texas than James Tallarico is going to do. I
34:42
Speaker 13: do say I always kind of, you know, take polling
34:45
Speaker 13: with a grain of salt. As you know, they always
34:50
Speaker 13: kind of underestimate the right. You know, in Britain with Brexit,
34:54
Speaker 13: they thought, no, it's not going to happen. Polling was wrong.
34:57
Speaker 13: Donald Trump in 2016, like almost no pollsters got it
35:01
Speaker 13: right that Donald Trump is going.
35:02
Speaker 2: To be elected.
35:03
Speaker 13: So I'm hoping the pollsters are wrong here. But you're right.
35:06
Speaker 2: It is going to be a huge blow for the GOP.
35:09
Speaker 13: It's Texas. It's been a long time. since there's been
35:12
Speaker 13: a Democratic, you know, Senator in Texas.
35:16
Speaker 3: Especially someone like a Tallarico. I mean, if he does
35:19
Speaker 3: get up, I'm with you. I don't think that polls
35:23
Speaker 3: are really going to be reflected on election day. But
35:28
Speaker 3: if he gets up, I mean, well, it's going to
35:30
Speaker 3: be good for lefties losing it. It's going to give
35:32
Speaker 3: me so much content almost daily.
35:34
Speaker 2: Now, this next story beggars belief.
35:38
Speaker 3: I cannot believe this, Kelly Jane, a mother of four, Allegedly,
35:42
Speaker 3: I'm saying allegedly, but she was arrested getting off the boat.
35:45
Speaker 2: She left her four children.
35:47
Speaker 3: At home, including a toddler and a two-month-old, to go
35:52
Speaker 3: on a cruise to the Bahamas. She was arrested getting
35:56
Speaker 3: off the Carnival cruise and Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer
36:01
Speaker 3: could barely hide her contempt for the accused, Natalie Belezar.
36:08
Speaker 9: You cannot make this up.
36:10
Speaker 11: It says she went on a cruise and left her
36:12
Speaker 11: children home alone.
36:13
Speaker 2: Including a two-month-old baby.
36:17
Speaker 7: She's going to drop them off at the mother's house,
36:19
Speaker 7: but never did.
36:20
Speaker 4: These poor kids, we're home alone for three days.
36:26
Speaker 2: I guess there's probable.
36:27
Speaker 7: Cause for child neglect.
36:29
Speaker 2: We're just grateful nothing worse happened to these kids.
36:32
Speaker 5: Judge Ms.
36:32
Speaker 2: Belizer denies these allegations. Of course she does. One baby,
36:37
Speaker 2: the baby was born in July of this year.
36:40
Speaker 3: And let's look at the footage of the kids being
36:43
Speaker 3: rescued by police officers.
36:46
Speaker 11: Kelly Jane, what more can.
36:51
Speaker 2: You tell me about this case?
37:05
Speaker 3: Miracle, really small miracle that it didn't end in disaster.
37:10
Speaker 3: Leaving a two month old without adult supervision for three days.
37:14
Speaker 2: Incredible.
37:16
Speaker 13: These kids are going to be somebody when they grow up.
37:19
Speaker 13: I mean, imagine a two month old surviving for days
37:24
Speaker 13: without a parent. Rita, I feel guilty when I leave
37:26
Speaker 13: my cat overnight. I can't imagine leaving children. You know,
37:32
Speaker 13: it's just unbelievable. And we've seen more of this in
37:36
Speaker 13: the last few years. And I think, you know, it
37:39
Speaker 13: is a sort of culture of, you know, you have
37:40
Speaker 13: to make yourself happy. You know, don't worry about your kids.
37:44
Speaker 13: They're going to be fine. You know, you got to,
37:46
Speaker 13: you know, it's all about self-actualization, the new age word.
37:49
Speaker 13: But no, it's absolutely outrageous.
37:52
Speaker 2: And these kids, I mean, they're brave.
37:54
Speaker 13: And the fact that they, you know, the, you know,
37:56
Speaker 13: the big ones obviously help the two month old, but
37:59
Speaker 13: they're only like little kids themselves.
38:02
Speaker 2: It's incredible.
38:02
Speaker 13: And I appreciate it. Judges like that, because here in
38:05
Speaker 13: New York City where I am right now, judges actually
38:09
Speaker 13: are more sympathetic to criminals than they are to the victims.
38:14
Speaker 13: So kudos to this Florida judge.
38:18
Speaker 2: Oh, I think we were all with her.
38:20
Speaker 3: She was discovering with the less of us the details
38:23
Speaker 3: of this case. and she could not hide her disdain
38:28
Speaker 3: for the accused because this could have ended in disaster.
38:32
Speaker 3: It was just pure luck that these older kids, as
38:36
Speaker 3: you said, not too old, managed to keep the younger
38:40
Speaker 3: ones alive.
38:41
Speaker 2: Kelly-Jane Torrance, thank you so much for your time.
38:43
Speaker 13: Thank you, Rita. Great to be on your show.
38:46
Speaker 3: Coming up, Tom Cruise fawns over the Princess of Wales.
38:50
Speaker 3: Kinsey Schofield is next.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back.
39:01
Speaker 3: Joining me now is host of the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered podcast. Kinsey,
39:06
Speaker 3: we showed footage last night of Tom Cruise checking on
39:10
Speaker 3: a worker that he thought was in distress. Turns out
39:13
Speaker 3: she was just doubled over, doom-scrolling. I know you've been
39:17
Speaker 3: keen to talk about the time he spent with Kate Middleton.
39:20
Speaker 2: Watch here as Tom Cruise.
39:23
Speaker 3: positively fawns over the princess.
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Speaker 10: They're amazing people and how dedicated they are to their
39:31
Speaker 10: country and also what they create, what they give to
39:35
Speaker 10: the world. And they're just beautiful people and fun, very funny.
39:39
Speaker 10: She's got a great sense, incredible sense of humour. I mean,
39:43
Speaker 10: obviously very intelligent and fun. You know, they were shocked
39:47
Speaker 10: and surprised and kind of like, You know, wrote me later,
39:50
Speaker 10: can't stop thinking about the movie.
39:52
Speaker 7: It was really beautiful.
39:54
Speaker 2: It's fun.
39:55
Speaker 10: And her dress, of course, both of them, they're so
39:57
Speaker 10: charismatic and so elegant. That dress that she was wearing.
40:00
Speaker 2: Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
40:02
Speaker 3: I know.
40:04
Speaker 10: William did well.
40:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did look bad.
40:06
Speaker 1: Way to go.
40:09
Speaker 3: Kinsey seems smitten. He praised both of them.
40:13
Speaker 2: Both are beautiful. Both are elegant. Both are fun. But
40:16
Speaker 2: I saw that footage. He had her eyes only for Kate.
40:21
Speaker 5: Oh, completely smitten. Tom Cruise looks at Catherine the way
40:25
Speaker 5: most women look at a Birkin. They're mesmerized and wondering
40:28
Speaker 5: how to secure one. But I love seeing this because
40:31
Speaker 5: Tom has known the Prince and Princess of Wales for
40:33
Speaker 5: years now. This isn't some celebrity meeting a princess and
40:37
Speaker 5: getting starstruck for five minutes. He clearly has genuine affection
40:41
Speaker 5: and enormous respect for both of them. And frankly, William
40:44
Speaker 5: did make a smart choice. Catherine has proven herself to
40:47
Speaker 5: be one of the monarchy's greatest assets.
40:51
Speaker 3: She certainly has, and she is the most popular, I
40:54
Speaker 3: would say. I don't know what the latest polling on
40:57
Speaker 3: that is, but she is always right up there. Now,
41:01
Speaker 3: you featured in the New York Post earlier this week
41:03
Speaker 3: talking about Prince William feeling betrayed by his uncle, Charles Spencer,
41:08
Speaker 3: after he reopen all sorts of emotional wounds with his
41:11
Speaker 3: new book. Kinsey, Charles Spencer is somewhat of a loose cannon.
41:17
Speaker 3: There could be more tell-all books in his future.
41:21
Speaker 5: That's the concern. Charles Spencer has discovered that nearly 30
41:24
Speaker 5: years after Diana's death, there's still an enormous commercial appetite
41:28
Speaker 5: for intimate stories about his sister and the royal family.
41:32
Speaker 5: And William is the person who ultimately pays the emotional
41:35
Speaker 5: price for that.
41:36
Speaker 2: He has hairy.
41:39
Speaker 5: Monetizing his memories on one side, now his uncle reopening
41:43
Speaker 5: the most traumatic periods of his life on the other.
41:46
Speaker 5: And William has chosen not to participate in the endless
41:49
Speaker 5: public relitigation of Diana's life. I mean, isn't it sad
41:53
Speaker 5: to you that William is the only man in Diana's
41:56
Speaker 5: life that isn't making money after her death off of
42:00
Speaker 5: her memory? My concern is if this book performs well,
42:04
Speaker 5: What incentive is there to stop? Diana's 30th anniversary is
42:08
Speaker 5: next year. Charles Spencer says in the book that Harry
42:11
Speaker 5: actually approached him about a Diana documentary. At what point
42:15
Speaker 5: does remembrance become an entire industry?
42:20
Speaker 3: And we know Charles Spencer has also said that he
42:23
Speaker 3: could write a tell-all book about the King, that he
42:26
Speaker 3: has deliberately held back what he says are damaging details.
42:30
Speaker 3: So he's already putting it out there that there's a
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Speaker 3: lot more that he knows or is willing to divulge
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Speaker 3: at some later date. Now, the sports betting company behind
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Speaker 3: that infamous Sydney Sweeney ad, the one that got lefties
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Speaker 3: so triggered, so many women on the internet losing their minds, Well,
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Speaker 3: it's reportedly quadrupled its valuation to $ 2 billion.
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Speaker 2: This is extraordinary, Kinsey.
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Speaker 3: Given Sydney Sweeney has an equity share in this company,
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Speaker 3: I think we should be applauding her keen business sense.
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Speaker 3: Do we know how much equity she does have in
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Speaker 3: this company?
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Speaker 5: We don't know the size of her stake. That hasn't
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Speaker 5: been publicly disclosed. But yeah, I mean, everybody got offended.
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Speaker 5: Cindy got equity. I know which side of that transaction
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Speaker 5: I'd rather be on. I have to give this woman credit.
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Speaker 5: While everybody else was mean tweeting, she simply said, wonderful,
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Speaker 5: can I have some shares? And that's the American dream.
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Speaker 5: Don't just take the check. Take equity and let everybody
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Speaker 5: arguing about you online increase the value of your investment.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think she's mastered the art of outrage
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Speaker 5: being free advertising, the way we have discussed it so
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Speaker 5: often on your show. And, you know, they're going to
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Speaker 5: teach college courses about this woman one day.
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Speaker 2: And I had Michael Loftus on the program last night and.
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Speaker 3: We looked at some footage of her water skiing. The
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Speaker 3: girl is sporty. I had no idea she had skills
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Speaker 3: like that.
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Speaker 2: So all those.
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Speaker 3: People say she knows nothing about women's sport.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 3: She's actually a very good sportswoman when it comes to
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Speaker 3: water skiing. Not that the ad had anything to do
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Speaker 3: with women's sport. That was the whole point they seemed
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Speaker 3: to miss. Now let's talk about 90s heartthrob John Cusack.
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Speaker 3: His ignited plastic surgery rumours after his appearance on a podcast. Kinsey,
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Speaker 3: he is 60 years old.
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Speaker 2: What do we think?
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Speaker 3: Is he looking good for his age or...? Is the
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Speaker 3: plastic surgery a little too obvious?
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Speaker 5: I think the goal of cosmetic work should be you
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Speaker 5: look fantastic, not who is your surgeon and why is
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Speaker 5: he angry with you? I feel like I'm looking at Frankenstein.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there is.
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Speaker 5: Something happening in Hollywood where men are beginning to chase
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Speaker 5: the same completely wrinkle-free face that women have been chasing
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Speaker 5: for decades. And sometimes you end up erasing the handsome
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Speaker 5: ruggedness that made these men attractive in the first place.
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Speaker 5: Gerard Butler has the right idea keep a wrinkle you
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Speaker 5: hunk you want to look like you've lived a life
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Speaker 5: not like you've been laminated.
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Speaker 3: Well I saw Gerard Butler in New York just about
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Speaker 3: a month or two ago during the World Cup and
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Speaker 3: you're right you don't look at him and think oh
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Speaker 3: he's had his eyes done or he's had some sort
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Speaker 3: of weird Botox treatment he's aging gracefully but I tell
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Speaker 3: you also with these men getting plastic surgery, often it's
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Speaker 3: the sort of surgery women get and it's feminising. Look
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Speaker 3: at before and after pictures of Bradley Cooper, for example,
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Speaker 3: and he's lost that masculinity.
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Speaker 5: I mean, Bradley Cooper, absolutely. But I feel like with
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Speaker 5: him he's specifically trying to keep up with his super
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Speaker 5: young girlfriend or fiancée, Gigi Hadid. But with John Cusack,
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Speaker 5: you know, we talked about Cusack on your program before.
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Speaker 5: I'm not necessarily sure he has a very nice heart.
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Speaker 5: And is that what's being reflected in the outer shell?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there's no surgery for an ugly heart, is there?
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Speaker 3: The former Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr is back on
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Speaker 3: the runway after nearly a decade.
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Speaker 2: Kimsey, she was on the catwalk for Stella McCartney.
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Speaker 5: And she looks spectacular. Miranda Kerr, she's 43 years old.
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Speaker 5: She's a mother of four. And after almost a decade
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Speaker 5: away from the runway, she walks back onto a Stella
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Speaker 5: McCartney catwalk looking like she just took a long weekend.
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Speaker 5: If this is what 43 looks like, Victoria's Secret might
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Speaker 5: just be the fountain of youth, okay? The whole show
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Speaker 5: was stacked though. I love that it was ocean centric
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Speaker 5: and that she's trying to save the dolphins and the whales.
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Speaker 5: I'm on the same train. But Miranda Kerr was there.
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Speaker 5: Carly Kloss. We had Jennifer Lopez sitting front row. So
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Speaker 5: Stella wasn't messing around with this show.
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Speaker 2: Tell you, she is aging beautifully.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people make comments about her rather strict diet.
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Speaker 3: But if that's the result, she's doing something right now.
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Speaker 3: Before you go, Blake Lively has reportedly parted ways with
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Speaker 3: her publicist, Leslie Sloan. The star severed ties with Sloan
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Speaker 3: following the Justin Baldoni showdown. Sloan was accused of launching
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Speaker 3: a smear campaign against Baldoni, planting malicious stories about him
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Speaker 3: in the media. A judge did dismiss those claims, Kinsey,
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Speaker 3: but the damage to Blake Lively's reputation is done. So
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Speaker 3: many people look at her differently now.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: You can change a publicist overnight, but you cannot reset
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Speaker 5: public opinion. Hollywood loves a rebrand, but unfortunately, I mean,
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Speaker 5: you're not going to be able to put the entire
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Speaker 5: internet in witness protection here. And it's interesting because Leslie
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Speaker 5: represented her for 20 years. So ending that relationship is
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Speaker 5: going to look like a new chapter, but Blake's problem
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Speaker 5: is not her publicist. It's trust. A new publicist is
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Speaker 5: can change the strategy. She can't make the internet develop amnesia.
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Speaker 5: They don't like her. They don't trust her. It's over
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Speaker 5: for Blake Lively.
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Speaker 3: It kind of is, unless I think she has a
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Speaker 3: I don't know, a rebirth. She has some tearful apology,
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Speaker 3: some awakening where she's finally realised the error of her
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Speaker 3: ways because people love a redemption story.
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Speaker 2: So I wouldn't write her off yet, but right now
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Speaker 2: she ain't that loved. Kinsey Schofield, thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for your time. And that's it from me. Up next,
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