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The Late Debate | 14 November · The Late Debate

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  Speaker 1: Late, welcome the Late to pay.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening and thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: I'm James Macpherson with Liz Store and filling in tonight
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  Speaker 3: for Caleb Bond from the Menzies Research and Freyer Leitch.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us, Freyer, awesome to be here.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot to.
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  Speaker 3: Get through tonight, so let's get cracking. A little later,
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk about one of those stories that can only
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  Speaker 3: happen in Australia. A family come home to find an
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  Speaker 3: animal they were not expecting in their bed. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: one of their pets. We'll show you what it was
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  Speaker 3: a little later. Plus, when we get to the papers,
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  Speaker 3: that the cost of renewables is a lot higher than
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  Speaker 3: you've been told. Try half a trillion dollars higher. That's
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  Speaker 3: the front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph.
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  Speaker 2: We'll unpack that.
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  Speaker 3: Plus Maya have canceled the opening of their Christmas window
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  Speaker 3: display after threats from Palestinian protesters. So all of that
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  Speaker 3: when we look at the papers. But first, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: hasn't even taken office yet, but the lefty meltdowns continue.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, The Guardian, a former newspaper, announced they will
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  Speaker 3: no longer be posting articles on Twitter. Here's the great
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  Speaker 3: thing about this story, though. You know when the Guardian
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  Speaker 3: post articles on Twitter, Freyer and Liz, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: have a look and most of their articles get like
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  Speaker 3: one hundred likes, maybe one hundred and twenty likes, maybe
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  Speaker 3: two hundred likes.
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  Speaker 4: They be very kind. Ye.
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  Speaker 3: The post that the Guardian put up saying they'll no
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  Speaker 3: longer be on Twitter had twenty nine thousand likes.
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  Speaker 2: What does that tell you they I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: they have to announce on Twitter that they're leaving.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like an airport where you have to announce
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  Speaker 3: your departure. But they said that the benefits of being
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  Speaker 3: on Twitter are now outweighed by the negatives because of
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  Speaker 3: what they described as quote disturbing content. Can I suggest
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  Speaker 3: maybe the Guardian would be a little less disturbed about
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  Speaker 3: the content on Twitter if they didn't read their own
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  Speaker 3: Twitter feed. Let me give you an example or two
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  Speaker 3: of this. Lots of things that Guardian have been posting
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  Speaker 3: on Twitter, and remember they're worried about disturbing content. Here's
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  Speaker 3: one of the articles they posted to Twitter. Is it
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  Speaker 3: okay for scientists to weep over climate change? I think
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  Speaker 3: we can all agree that's a waste of a tweet.
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  Speaker 3: All about this one? Stop calling women girls. It's either
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  Speaker 3: patronizing or sexually suggestive.
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  Speaker 2: What about this one?
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  Speaker 3: The Guardian posted teaching my daughter to cook does not
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  Speaker 3: make me a bad feminist. This is one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 3: They actually tweeted an article. Remember the Guardian, they're leaving
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  Speaker 3: Twitter because of the disturbing content, and yet they tweeted
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  Speaker 3: an article, the headline of which read, I'd read the
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  Speaker 3: day my daughter's poos get smaller. I have read that
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  Speaker 3: is about I don't why let me give you two more?
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  Speaker 3: Barbecue is an American tradition of enslaved Africans and Native Americans.
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  Speaker 3: And one final headline from the Guardian, would you believe it?
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  Speaker 2: Should?
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  Speaker 3: It really be a crime to look at child pornography?
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  Speaker 3: And the Guardian are worried about disturbing content on Twitter. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now that they've left Twitter, Liz, the amount of disturbing
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  Speaker 3: content has been reduced drastically. Talk about own goal.
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  Speaker 1: The transition to new media is full steam ahead. Last
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  Speaker 1: night we were telling you about the ratings deep dive off
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  Speaker 1: a clip being experienced in CNN MSNBC post the election.
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  Speaker 1: Now The Guardian, the mouthpiece of the establishment, is joining
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  Speaker 1: their ranks just by bowing out unasked. I think the
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  Speaker 1: real reason why they did this, though, is because they
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  Speaker 1: have been losing on average sixteen followers for every single
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  Speaker 1: tweet they post, which amounts to thirty six thousand followers
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  Speaker 1: unsubscribing from The Guardian in the last thirty days.
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  Speaker 4: So they know, ex users.
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  Speaker 1: We've figured out I'm not interested in our propaganda.
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  Speaker 4: They are.
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  Speaker 1: You're not interested in the utter slop we are calling
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  Speaker 1: news and feeding them.
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  Speaker 4: So I absolutely love this.
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk quickly followed up by the way being like
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  Speaker 1: the Guardian is a dying publication.
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  Speaker 4: And funniest of all.
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  Speaker 1: Was the fact that they finished up this statement being
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  Speaker 1: like we're leaving there's all these right wing conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 1: and racism, always with the racism. Obviously there's so much racism.
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  Speaker 1: And then they finished their little statement by saying we
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  Speaker 1: are supported by readers, so if you can please pitch
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  Speaker 1: in and help us out, you are our sole benefactors.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, leaving out the fact that Bill Gates has
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  Speaker 1: donated well over ten million dollars to this establishment mouthpiece.
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  Speaker 1: So here they are crying poor.
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  Speaker 4: The truth of the matter Israel.
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  Speaker 1: They simply can't compete on a level playing field, which
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  Speaker 1: is what Elon Musk turned X into when he got
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  Speaker 1: all the Conservatives out of Twitter jail when he bored
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  Speaker 1: it in twenty twenty two. Now they're all crying poor,
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  Speaker 1: either leaving or they literally can't have the heat.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, funnily enough, people aren't particularly interested in far
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  Speaker 5: left propaganda. They had to struggle through it when Twitter
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  Speaker 5: was run by lefties, and now that they don't have
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  Speaker 5: to see it in their feed, it's no surprise that
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  Speaker 5: people just simply scroll past, unsubscribe, unfollow. I mean it
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  Speaker 5: truly is just ridiculous, to be honest, though, I didn't
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  Speaker 5: even know The Guardian had a Twitter account until they
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  Speaker 5: announced they were leaving.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, clearly they've not been very SINU haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Been a subscriber, Pryer.
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  Speaker 3: I wondered why you were always so happy. It's because
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  Speaker 3: you weren't reading The Guardian. It's not only The Guardian
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  Speaker 3: who have now boycotted Twitter as a result of Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump's election win. Jamie Lee Curtis, the actress, is no
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  Speaker 3: longer on Twitter. I'm not sure how any of us
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  Speaker 3: will sleep at night, and Don Lemon, the former CNN
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  Speaker 3: host will He's announced to everybody on Twitter that he's
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  Speaker 3: leaving Twitter.
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  Speaker 4: Here is hi, everyone.
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  Speaker 6: I have loved connecting with all of you on Twitter
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  Speaker 6: and then on x for all of these years, but it's.
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  Speaker 2: Time for me to leave the platform.
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  Speaker 3: Heart's breaking all over the world because of that announcement.
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  Speaker 3: Don Lemon actually said, I once believed that Twitter was
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  Speaker 3: a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free speech,
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  Speaker 3: but I now feel it does not serve that purpose.
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  Speaker 3: This is a guy who used to host a show
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  Speaker 3: on CNN.
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  Speaker 4: For real, that's all he's known for.
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  Speaker 1: Really, this is Don Lemon, and we still screenmembercy Honest
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  Speaker 1: debates the infamous interview that he did with Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: where Elon Musk was like, well, you're for censorship and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, and Don Lemon's like, no, no, that's not
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and then Elon Musk basically just gave
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  Speaker 1: a short synopsis of everything Don Lemon had said in
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  Speaker 1: the interview and.
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  Speaker 4: Said, yes, yes you are.
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  Speaker 1: You're saying that this platform, my platform, must be censored. Otherwise, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's rife with racism and conspiracy theories, et.
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  Speaker 4: Cetera, and so on.
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  Speaker 1: So it was absolutely do you remember that.
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  Speaker 5: I do remember that, and I must say I love
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  Speaker 5: seeing the Lemon be a little sour. It's pretty entertaining
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  Speaker 5: to watch. But another person, I would have had no
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  Speaker 5: idea he had a Twitter account unless he announced he
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  Speaker 5: was leaving.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, it's pretty ironic.
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  Speaker 5: To claim that Elon Musk's X is about censorship when
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  Speaker 5: before Elon Musk took over, there was legitimate censorship. Did
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  Speaker 5: he prefer a time when discussions around COVID were censored?
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  Speaker 5: When the President of the United States was kicked off
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  Speaker 5: the platform?
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  Speaker 4: That is censorship.
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  Speaker 5: What Elon Musk has done with X is truly transformative,
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  Speaker 5: and as you said, Liz, it is revolutionizing journalism, and
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  Speaker 5: people like The Lemon and the Propaganda Guardian they will
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  Speaker 5: be left behind in this new world.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 3: They're upset that people they disagree with are allowed to
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  Speaker 3: exist on Twitter, so that's why they're leaving it.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're also there retired of community notes, because
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  Speaker 1: when I then went to the Guardian Twitter feed and
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  Speaker 1: checked out a lot of their posts community notes. Now
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  Speaker 1: anyone can slap a community note on anyone's tweet and
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  Speaker 1: just be like ah ah, excuse me, correction, and the
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  Speaker 1: Guardian had a bountiful supply of those to the States
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  Speaker 1: now where it is a great day for democracy, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, because today is the day that we learnt
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  Speaker 1: that the GOP has clinched the trifecta. Not only have
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  Speaker 1: they won the Senate and of course the presidency, but
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  Speaker 1: they are maintaining their majority in the House.
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  Speaker 4: So it was a beautiful day.
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  Speaker 1: It was a perfect day for Donald Trump to do
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  Speaker 1: the usual I'm taking over from the president visit with
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  Speaker 1: President elect and current president shaking hands. Now, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are all over this like a rash, a
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  Speaker 1: good one, being.
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  Speaker 4: Like these guys seem.
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  Speaker 1: To be great mates. Watch this short clip and see
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  Speaker 1: what you think. There seems to be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: genuine regard going on here.
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  Speaker 6: President elect, former president and you found congratulations, thank you,
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  Speaker 6: and looking forward to having Like we said, it's through
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  Speaker 6: the transition. Soever we can make sure you're a comedy
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  Speaker 6: what you need and we're gonna get a chance to
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  Speaker 6: talk across some out to this good welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Bling back, no animosity, all smiles, and check out this
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  Speaker 1: happy snap of the Bidens with Trump on this auspicious occasion.
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  Speaker 1: Check out the size of these smiles and it seems genuine.
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  Speaker 1: Am I wrong in saying.
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  Speaker 4: Winners are grinners?
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  Speaker 1: There's no convincing me now that the Bidens didn't. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: as gossip has had it, voted for Trump at the
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  Speaker 1: election in order to flip the bird to the establishment
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  Speaker 1: that had flipped the bird to them so unceremoniously after.
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  Speaker 4: Years of service.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone had been making a lot of talk about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Jill Biden on election Day wore a brilliant
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  Speaker 1: red suit, which everyone knows stands for Republicans for the win,
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  Speaker 1: especially on election Day, and she did this loud and proud.
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  Speaker 1: It hasn't been any secret that these guys do despise
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  Speaker 1: Kamala and have actually warmed to Trump in recent days.
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  Speaker 3: I just can't believe how happy Joe Biden looked in
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  Speaker 3: that photo.
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  Speaker 2: I've not seen him look.
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  Speaker 3: That happy in at least four years, but he was
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  Speaker 3: positively beaming in that photograph.
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  Speaker 5: He looked so happy. I was honestly shocked. He didn't
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  Speaker 5: start sniffing Trump's hair or nibbling on his shoulder.
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  Speaker 4: He was chill, and he was leaning he wanted.
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  Speaker 5: To get there, but they kept it very cordial, which,
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  Speaker 5: to be honest, I mean, there definitely is an element
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  Speaker 5: of self interest here. The Biden's got absolutely slammed by
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  Speaker 5: the Democrats and completely shafted.
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  Speaker 4: But it is nice to.
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  Speaker 5: Actually see political leaders getting along and supposedly respecting one
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  Speaker 5: another like that was refreshing.
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  Speaker 2: That was refreshing.
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  Speaker 3: And the other thing I thought was amazing was just
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  Speaker 3: how comfortable Joe Biden looked welcoming a fascist who was
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  Speaker 3: going to absolutely destroy democracy to the White House and saying, look,
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  Speaker 3: we'll make this transition as peaceful and as easy as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Let us know what you need so you'd hand.
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  Speaker 3: Over so easily to add off Hitler. What an amazing thing.
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  Speaker 3: This is not official, but I have heard rumors of
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  Speaker 3: some of the discussion. Apparently Joe Biden leaned over to
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  Speaker 3: Trump and said, hey, listen, I want to make you
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  Speaker 3: a deal when you get into office if you could
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  Speaker 3: pardon my son Hunter, and I of course will have
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  Speaker 3: all the charges dropped against you. And Trump liked the idea,
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  Speaker 3: but said to Joe Biden, the problem is, in ten
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  Speaker 3: minutes from now, you'll forget we had.
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  Speaker 2: This talk, to which Joe Biden said, what talk all all.
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  Speaker 1: Here's hey, ladies and gentlemen, do not spread that around.
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  Speaker 1: But a very very funny idea there. The AI world
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  Speaker 1: has gone absolutely mad after seeing this very friendly visit
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  Speaker 1: between the incoming and the outgoing president. And if this
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  Speaker 1: video that you're about to see doesn't convince you that
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  Speaker 1: AI is completely out of control. This is the mashup
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  Speaker 1: that the online trolls did up saying these two were
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  Speaker 1: forced to be enemies but born to be friends.
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  Speaker 2: Check out those beaming smiles. All the world that we
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  Speaker 2: could live in.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually very heartwarming to see, as he said, Ray,
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  Speaker 1: the whole montage actually goes on for longer and longer,
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  Speaker 1: like they're both.
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  Speaker 4: Wearing medieval night armor.
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  Speaker 1: Like it got absolutely ridiculous, but of course they were
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  Speaker 1: just taking it to the nth degree. Staying in America now,
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  Speaker 1: this has got to be We've been introducing you to
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  Speaker 1: Trump's new appointees as they come to light and what
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  Speaker 1: absolute legends they are, but none has shocked the establishment
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  Speaker 1: more than the appointment of Matt Gates to the all
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  Speaker 1: important position of Attorney General. This has absolutely sent shock
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  Speaker 1: waves through Washington. This is their worst nightmare confirmed. And
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what, this guy is an absolute firebrand.
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  Speaker 1: For years and years prior to entering Congress, he was
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  Speaker 1: a very tenacious attorney and that is simply the guy's disposition.
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  Speaker 4: And when he's.
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  Speaker 1: Cornered by the left, he doesn't back down. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite Matt Gates clips. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't know him, just remember this one when he's
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  Speaker 1: asked by a reporter, I'm you sorry for offending women?
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  Speaker 3: Is it safe to see that based off of your comments,
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  Speaker 3: you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are
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  Speaker 3: ugly and overweet?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what do you see to people who.
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  Speaker 4: Think that those comments are offensive?
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  Speaker 7: Be offended?
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  Speaker 1: Now you may think that's hah, sure, okay, but this
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  Speaker 1: is what we need to see in conservatives. We always
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  Speaker 1: say every capitulation to the left emboldens them.
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  Speaker 4: This guy just backs himself. Be offended.
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  Speaker 1: What's going to happen, Beryl? Absolutely nothing? Did you mean
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  Speaker 1: what you said? Yes, do not capitulate, Just back yourself in. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk has got a great friend in this guy,
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  Speaker 1: because as Attorney General, he's all about cutting the fat
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  Speaker 1: out of government departments. Elon Musk has famously said, we
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  Speaker 1: currently have around four hundred and thirty government agencies, and
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  Speaker 1: I think ninety nine sounds like a great number. Well,
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  Speaker 1: here's Matt Gates talking at SEE last year. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you, but I think he's in furious agreement.
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  Speaker 7: Seems like every time I turn around, they're engaged in
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  Speaker 7: surveillance or list building or monitoring. And I don't care
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  Speaker 7: if it takes every second of our time and every
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  Speaker 7: ounce of our energy. We either get this government back
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  Speaker 7: on our side, or we defund and get rid of,
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  Speaker 7: abolish the FBI, CDC, ATFDJ, every last one of them.
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  Speaker 7: If they do not come to heal.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get them all.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to see him in action on
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  Speaker 1: the job, you actually may remember this clip that you're
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  Speaker 1: about to see. This is when the government we're taking
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  Speaker 1: the FBI to task on this atrocious cover up that
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  Speaker 1: they undeniably did when it came to the Hunter Biden
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  Speaker 1: laptop scandal.
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  Speaker 4: This is Matt Gets in action.
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  Speaker 7: I have other questions. I'm sitting here with my father.
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  Speaker 7: I will make certain that between the man sitting next
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  Speaker 7: to me and every person he knows, and my ability
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  Speaker 7: to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not
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  Speaker 7: following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the
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  Speaker 7: call with my father. Sounds like a shakedown, doesn't a director.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into company with that.
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  Speaker 7: You you seem deeply uncurious about it, don't you? Almost
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  Speaker 7: suspiciously uncurious? Are you protecting the bidens?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not the FBI.
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  Speaker 7: Anti that's a shakedown, And everybody knows why you won't
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  Speaker 7: answer it because to the millions of people who will
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  Speaker 7: see this, they know it is. And your inability to
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  Speaker 7: acknowledge that is deeply revealing about you. You preside over
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  Speaker 7: the FBI that has the lowest level of trust in
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  Speaker 7: the FBI's history. People trusted the FBI when Jaye Ercover
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  Speaker 7: was running the place than when you are. And the
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  Speaker 7: reason is because you don't get straight answers.
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  Speaker 1: You That FBI director was a grease spot on the
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  Speaker 1: carpet by the time Matt Gates had.
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  Speaker 2: Gotten through with him.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is a very controversial pick. If you're a lefty,
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  Speaker 1: this is your worst nightmare come true. And there's all
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  Speaker 1: these objections going online. People are having absolute meltdowns. And
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  Speaker 1: I loved elon mouth Sweet today where he was replying
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  Speaker 1: to the ball saying, the hammer of justice is coming,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what Gates is known for.
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  Speaker 3: The Wall Street Journal they were particularly scathing about this pick.
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  Speaker 3: They said, he's a nominee for those who want to
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  Speaker 3: use the law for political revenge. What have you been
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  Speaker 3: paying attention for the last four years? That's the reason
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  Speaker 3: Trump has appointed this guy, because the DOJ had become
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  Speaker 3: under the Biden administration so politicized. Trump is doing exactly
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  Speaker 3: what he said he would do and exactly what the
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  Speaker 3: American people voted for.
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  Speaker 2: And he's appointing people in charge of intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: Get to Tulsi Gabbard in a moment, in charge of
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  Speaker 3: the military and in charge of the DOJ, who are
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  Speaker 3: deeply suspicious of these institutions. But if you're going to
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  Speaker 3: drain the swamp, then you can't have establishment people. You've
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  Speaker 3: got to have outsiders who come in and are prepared
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  Speaker 3: to get their hands dirty. And so you would expect
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  Speaker 3: pushback from the media and from public servants and those involved. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but I think Americans they voted for change, they want
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  Speaker 3: to see it.
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  Speaker 4: Trump's going to do it exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And I think perhaps the mistake Trump made last time
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  Speaker 5: was going for too many of these establishment types and
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  Speaker 5: putting them in senior leadership positions. But if he wants
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: to make the radical change that America is crying out
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: for desperately, you need to take radical measures, and that
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: might actually include putting people into power who actually are
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: committed to the vision that Americans elected by an overwhelming
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: majority at all three levels the House, the Senate, and
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: the popular vote, and so Americans.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Voted for this, this is what they should get.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: And I think there are a lot of lessons Australia
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: can actually learn from this in having rain in government bureaucracies,
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: because seriously, as you actually dig into the data, into
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: the budgets and you look at the kinds of things
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: even we here in Australia spend money on, it is
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: genuinely insane. There are a lot of bureaucrats benefiting off
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: the gravy train of taxpayer dollars. There are some great bureaucrats,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: for sure, But I think Elon Musk is right when
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: he says you could probably cut a quarter of all
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: government spending, and no one with three quarters realize he's
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: talking cutting three quarters.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: In matter fairness to.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Trump, It's true that a lot of his appointments first
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: time around.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Were pretty like Rah really made what are you doing?
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But he was a stranger to Washington.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: He wasn't even supposed to win.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So when the president comes in, he's supposed to have
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: ten thousand staff lined up, bombs in seats, ready to go,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and so first time he kind of floundered. But this
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: is such a revenge appointment because remember it was Matt
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Gates who was investigated for sex trafficking of all things,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just a few years ago by the Department of Justice.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Remember what I told you the jokes in the name.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And now as part of his appointment, guess what comes
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: under him the Department of Justice. Trump's mandate reads, Matt
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: will root out the systemic eruption at the DOJ and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: return the department to its true mission of fighting crime
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and upholding our democracy and constitution. But speaking of revenge picks,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Tolci Gubbard has gone from being on a terror watch
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: list because keep track here, so Matt Gates being an
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: actual gun, they want to take him out, so they
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: come out with these ridiculous trafficking allegations. They put Tolci Gubbard,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: who is a war vet. She's done several tools. She's
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: an incredible woman. Former Democrat or Hawaii, former Democrats. She's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: one of the ones who said I'm leaving the Dems.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I'm running for the Republicans. Now she is now Director
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: of National Intelligence. I love these revenge picks because Trump
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: knows that these guys who have been prosecuted by the
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: very agencies that he needs to gut and transform completely,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: people who have been hurt by them so unjustly. They're
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the perfect people for the job.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: She also has the distinction not only of having been
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: on a terror watch list. Now she's in charge of
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: America's seventeen intelligence agencies, and she also is famous for
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: getting more votes in a Democratic primary than Kamala.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Harris ever got. So there's that as well.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: But I think John Fetterman, the Democratic Senator, he summed
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: it up best, and he's probably the smartest of all
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: the Democrats these days. He knows exactly what Donald Trump
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: is doing.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Have a listen.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: I mean it's I would describe it as guard to
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: your level trolley to trigger a full line China syndrome,
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: to own the lives and perpetuity.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I reckon there is a little bit of trolling in
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Trump's pigs. But it's not just trolling. He's serious about
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: really changing the culture of the bureaucracy there in the US.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Let's come back home where.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Politics sadly is not much better if only we had
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: a Trump, like you said, Freyer.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: But you know the housing crisis.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: We all know why we have a housing crisis, right
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: massive immigration. We talked last night about incredible inefficiency when
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: it comes to the bureaucracy. But now there's a third
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: key as to why we've got a housing crisis, and
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: that's because the people charged with fixing it have got
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: absolutely no idea at all. Have a listen to the
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: New South Wales Housing Minister Rose Jackson who went on
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: radio for a just an easy interview on the ABC
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: and was asked about, sorry, what was it?
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: This one was with the Project SORR.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I was with the even easier. No, it was with
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: the ABC.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: It was okay, my dad, my dad.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Either way it would have been a cushy interview, and
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: she was asked, you know what's it cost people these
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: days to get a two bedroom unit in Sydney.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Have a listen, what do.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: You reckon is a reasonable price to pay in rent
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: for a two bedroom flat in Sydney.
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I mean it kind of depends where in Sydney.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, Sydney's a big city.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: You know, I mean a couple hundred bucks, right Like.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Where can you get a two bedroom flat for a
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: couple of hundred bucks well a.
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: Week, I don't know there are places in Sydney you can.
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, is like there's a.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Two bedroom flat and there's a two bedroom flat. Like
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: not all flats are the same.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: This is the thing about the housing market.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: She sounds kind of like she's just having a coffee
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: with a mate. They're just kind of, you know, spitballing,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: and she's forgotten she's on radio as the Housing Minister
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: a couple hundred bucks for a two bedroom flat in Sydney.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: The median price to rent a two bedroom apartment in
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Sydney is not a couple hundred bucks. It's seven hundred
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: and twenty dollars. In the last four months of twenty
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: five thousand two bedroom apartments in Sydney that were rented out, Wow,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: twenty three went for two hundred dollars or less. Twenty
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: three out of twenty five thousand. I suggest that maybe
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: they should get the Housing Minister to look for Hen's teeth,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: because she'd be able to find them anyway. She went
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: on social media to explain it was all a big mistake.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: She wasn't actually saying you can get apartments for a
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: couple hundred bucks. She was saying, you know, she wished
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: you could get apartments for a couple hundred bucks.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Did I say that rent in Sydney is two hundred
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: dollars a week?
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: No? No, I didn't.
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: I did a live radio interview in which I was
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: asked what's the reasonable rent someone should pay in Sydney,
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: not what are people in Sydney actually paying? What's actually
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: average rent? What would be a reasonable out to pay
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: in rent? And, in the course of a admittedly somewhat
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: garbled answer talking about different types of apartments and where
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: they're located in Sydney and all of that, I said
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: a couple one hundred bucks a week.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I know that that's.
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: Not what people are actually paying in rent in Sydney,
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: but that wasn't the question.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Frayer, I am not convinced, do you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I am so unconvinced. It's not funny.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: But to be honest, more than unconvinced, I'm actually offended
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: because of the tone that she uses. It's like, mate,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: you're not making a TikTok. You're on national radio talking
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: about an issue that is actually really serious. I'm a
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: young person and I talk to my friends a lot.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: We're kind of at that moving out stage. The average
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: age people are staying at home with their parents is
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: now something like twenty five years old, and that has
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: all sorts of flow and effects in people's lives. It
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: means they are not partnering up and getting married, they're
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: not having kids early because they simply cannot afford to
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: house themselves, let alone buy a property. And if they
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: do want to buy, they have to move back home
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: because rent is so expensive. And so I just think
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: the whole way she is approaching this discussion with the
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: hoodie and the TikTok response to the interview where you
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: know it was so unfair that they asked.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: You that question.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: It's like, Uh, you're the housing minister who's supposed to
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: be solving a really critical problem for a lot of Australians.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: You're not just going to kind of make.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Us forget by just checking on a TikTok and using
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: some pink font The.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Other thing I wondered Liz is she says, you know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: the reasonable price for a couple hundred bucks, what do
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: you reckon landlords would think of the housing saying a
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: couple hundred bucks that would be a reasonable.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Thing to charge.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: That was the point that I was going to make,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: because even if that's what you meant, two hundred bucks
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a week for a two better is completely unreasonable.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: That is way too low.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Even if we did live in utopia, no reasonable person
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: would be like, well, I'm only paying two hundred bucks.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: This is the most populated city in our nation, it
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: is the most expensive city in our nation.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: It is a wonderful.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Place to live, but gosh, do you have to pay
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: for the privilege two hundred bucks for a too better?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, even if we were doing incredibly well, that
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be reasonable for landlords and never going to.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Drop that low exactly. And the other thing is, whose
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: mortgage is two hundred bucks? Whose mortgage?
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: The average mortgage has gone up by thirty thousand dollars
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: in the last year because we've had something like twelve
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: intestate rises, no sign of relief anytime soon, and so
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: you cannot expect landlords to bear the brunt of this
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: cost of living and inflation crisis.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: They have to pass it on.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: The majority of landlords are mom and dad investors with
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: one investment property. They themselves are struggling with unaffordable housing.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: And so to say yeah, yeah, no, they should just
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: only be charging two hundred bucks a week, that's ridiculous.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Are to nonsense.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: And this couldn't come at a worse time for the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Housing Minister or the men's.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Government, by the way, because I remember.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Just yesterday we were talking about the facts that despite
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: being in power for eighteen months now and for saying
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: till they were blue in the face, oh housing, housing
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: crisis is our number one priority. Took them eighteen months
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to ask the relevant department for a flow chart of approvals.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: How do you get a building?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: How do you get a house up off the ground?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And this government, the New South Wales government.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Realized where the problem.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Check out this flow chart that took them three months
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to put together. So firstly, you're the government and you
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: didn't know your own process, the process in your own
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: state to build a home. You've just realized it's a disaster.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: We've got to reform it, okay. And then the next day,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: your housing minister goes on radio and tells everyone she
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: reckons a too bat costs two hundred bucks a week.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the housing crisis is far worse
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: than any of these guys are remotely aware of.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: I've got to say the most disturbing part of that
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: discussion was nothing to do with housing prices. But when
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: you said most young people are staying at home till
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: they're twenty five, I've got twin nineteen year olds. I'm
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: thinking another six years. Dear lord, that's just depressed me now.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: But speaking of depressing, you know, look at every area
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: at the moment in our nation and the government are
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: just failing miserably, whether it's immigration, housing, detainees, energy, the
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: cost of living. They just are getting everything wrong. So
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: why when you've got a government that can't manage anything,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: would you trust them to decide what you can and
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: can't say on social media or read on social media,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: even if you should thought they should have that sort
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: of power, Would you trust this government to get anything right?
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: The Communications Minister, Michelle Roland went on radio with Ben
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: f Fordham to talk about the Misinformation Bill, which they're
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: hoping to get through Parliament in the next week, and
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: ben Fordham quickly found out that the Communications Minister is
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: completely at odds with her own Safety Commissioner about exactly
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: what this Miscommunication Bill will look like and the consequences
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: it will have for Australians.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Have a listen at how mixed up she is.
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: We'd like to discuss the misinformation laws. I know that Australians,
• 30:27
  Speaker 11: including myself, are concerned about the Misinformation Bill that Labor
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: is introduced to Parliament. Is the point of this bill
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: to minimize the amount of content that Australians can see online?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Not at all? Then?
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: Okay. Some are saying that this acts as a recalibration
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: for a whole range of human rights playing out online,
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: including freedom of speech. Do you agree?
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: I don't, The.
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: Minister, You've got a bit of an issue because I've
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: just put two statements to you that you have disagreed with.
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: Both statements come from your e Safety Commissioner, julianman Grant.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Seriously, this government cannot get anything right. If they're serious
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: about this piece of legislation, and they know how contentious
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: it is, you would think they would have this absolutely
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: nailed down. They are making it up as they go
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: and of all the things to make up as you go,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: censoring citizens and they can't even get that right. I'm
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: talking as if it were a legitimate thing. We obviously
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: know it's not. My point is you just can't trust
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: this government with anything at all.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Why would you trust them with speech?
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think anybody does.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I'd get to speak to any Australian who is in
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the bureaucracy who is a fan of this bill whatsoever.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: No one wants to be censored, whether they're on the
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: right or the left. Even the left isn't championing this.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: The alb and Easy government is, the Online Ey Safety
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Commissioner is. But other than the people who want to
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: get the bill up, nobody is a fan of this.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And the fact that they still have no idea what
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: they're doing when there's only two sitting weeks left, you
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: What you're doing.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: But you're just going to ram this through both houses.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: We know it's currently with the Senate. And remember this
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: is playing out in tandem with this other bill that's
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: concerned with censoring anyone under sixteen years of age. They
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: just won't be allowed to use these social media platforms now,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: we have been told ad nauseum, this is about keeping
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the youth safe. I maintain you've known that social media
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and youth are a bad mix for as long as
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the two have both existed at the same time. There's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: mountains of research on it. But they got really concerned
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, just two weeks after they passed
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: their Digital ID bill. Now we already know due to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the brilliant work of David Shuebridge. Yes I just called
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: greens work brilliant. Even a broken clock is right twice
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: a day, yes, twice a day. Well, he took them
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to task on this. We got their own admission that yes,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: this would mean absolutely checking everyone's ID online. The only
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: way to do that is, of course, with the digital ID.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Well ben Fordham ask Communications Minister Michelle Roland about this
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: bill and if you're making sure that these people under
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: sixteen years of age can't use Instagram, can't use Facebook
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and the like, why aren't you censoring them on Snapchat
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: as well, which is one of the most popular platforms
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: in that age bracket.
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: You say messaging and gaming services will not be in
• 33:31
  Speaker 11: scope of this definition, So where does Snapchat fall?
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: Well, Snapchat under the online Safety Act, depending on how
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: it's defined. Coult for within that definition. But we will
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: go through in a methodical way through having these criteria
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: and the East Safety Commissioner applying what will be a
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: very transparent process.
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: If you're banning Instagram, Facebook and TikTok and Twitter, you've
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: got a band snapchat right, well, that is an argument.
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: That has been put. We are very prepared to go
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: through having a process of criteria and seeing how this
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: fits against it. Also, as your listeners, I think we'll
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: understand some of these platforms do present themselves in different ways.
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: They will argue, for example, that they are messaging services
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: and not social media services, but we need to assess
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: that objectively against a transparent set of criteria.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: So the bill is before Parliament now and you're still saying, oh,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: we need to assess that. Are you unaware you've only
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: got two setting weeks left in the year. That interview
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: by Fordham was just brilliant from start to finish.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: He ran rings around that woman.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Simply proving this government has no idea what they're doing.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: And we're talking about the most dystopian bills I think
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: that have ever entered the Australian Parliament.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: It's pretty scary to think where this is all going,
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: and it reminds me of something else that's going on
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: in the realm of free speech, and.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: That is over in the UK.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: A columnist for the Daily Telegraph, Lovely Alison, had a
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: unfriendly knock on her door on Remembrance Dage just this
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: last Sunday. Police showed up her to her house and
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: said they were investigating some sort of non crime hate speech.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: When she asked, well, what is this non crime hate speech,
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: they wouldn't tell her. When she asked who was making
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: the complaint, they also wouldn't tell her that either. It
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: is rather dystopian. What kind of a world are we
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: entering into. When the Essex Police only solved twelve percent
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: of a violent assault against the person, yet they're spending
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: all their time going around and policing people's tweets from
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: over a year ago. It does seem rather disturbing.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, at best, this is an example of
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: misplaced priorities. They're investigating ancient tweets, as you said, from
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: a year ago that they told her has since been deleted,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: though they wouldn't tell her exactly which tweet it was.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Than that it's from an anonymous complaint. She wasn't allowed
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: to know who made the complaint. But the most disturbing
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: part is just massive overreach where instead of investigating actual
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: crimes that are affecting people right now, they're trawling back
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: through social media at the behest of anonymous complainants and
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: knocking on people's doors at nine point thirty a m.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: In the morning asking would you like to come for
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: an interview. We can't tell you what it's about. We
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: can't tell you who made the complaint. Who's going to
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: agree to go along to the police station. Under those
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: kind of circumstances, how can.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: You build a defense when you don't know what they're
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: referring to? You know, it's a nonviolent hate crime, so
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: why am I even in this position? Obviously that rules
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: out incitement if it's nonviolent. The sheer nonsense of this,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and now she can't do anything to build a defense
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: if you don't know what the charge actually is.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: If they're not solving the violent crime, why are they
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: wasting their time with the non violent hate speech?
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Seriously, where are their priorities?
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: And again it just shows you it's not just Americans
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: who are saying thank God for Donald Trump. People all
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: over the Western world are saying thank God for Trump.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Let's hope it reverberates to Western countries right around the world.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: We're going to go to a break.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll look at what's making news
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: in the papers tomorrow, including the cost of renewables is
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: going to be a lot more than the Albanezer government
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: have let on.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in just a moment. Welcome back.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure you've figured out already that renewables are
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: going to cost us a lot more than we've been told.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: But Liz, it's even worse than that.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Color me shop to the front page of the Daily
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Telly Labor accused of hiding real cost of renewables only
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: grid by five.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Hundred billion dollars.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: The real cost of building a renewables only power grid
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: is more than half a trillion dollars higher than the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: alban Easy government has claimed.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Bombshell new research reveals.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: According to the modeling, replacing a predominantly coal fired power
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: system with mainly solar and wind will set Australia back
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: at least six hundred and forty two billion dollars, not
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the one hundred and twenty two billion dollars, Labor has claimed.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, are any of us surprised? Are any of
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: us surprised whatsoever? Thank goodness for the people doing this research.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: But I think the vast majority, especially of you guys,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: we already knew this.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah we did.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: And of course then they're making this argument against nuclear
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: it's too expensive and talk about hypocritical. They can't even
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: get the numbers right on their own renewables project. Or
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: maybe it's more sinister than that, because the Opposition Energy
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: spokesperson Tet O'Brien is saying, no, no, it's not that they've
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: got it wrong.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: It's that they're deliberately hiding the cost.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: From Australia in because if we knew just how much
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: it would cost, no one would agree to this madness prayer.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: That's exactly right.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: And look the problem with renewables is you have to
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: build all the transmission lines and extra infrastructure to make
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: it usable. We're talking about building around twenty seven thousand
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: kilometers of new transmission lines. That doesn't come cheap. This
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: is going to cost a mutza, but at least be
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: honest about it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Let's go to the Herald Sunlink. You've got there,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Yes on there, fray So.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: In Melbourne, pro Palestinian activists have been slammed after forcing
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: Maya to cancel the opening event for its iconic Christmas
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: windows display, ignoring pleas from police to respect the holiday ritual.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: The so called disrupt Wars group will converge on Burk
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: Street Wall on Sunday, with Victoria Police saying the force
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: would have a visible presence as a result. Jewish leaders
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: have described the plan as hateful, while the Victorian Chamber
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: of Commerce and Industry has called for urgent action to
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: the ugly protest ruining the city. This is what I
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: have always said, Anti Semitism is not just a Jewish problem.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: It is an Australian problem because this sort of hatred
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: will spread and will impact the lives of all Australians. Now,
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's any coincidence that Maya was founded
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: by a Russian Jew, Sidney Meyer, and now they are
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: choosing this to be the target of their hateful demonstration.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: It is absolutely despicable.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I think we've got an example of the poster that's
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: been used to promote this protest, and bear in mind
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: police have begged the protesters, Please don't do this.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: It's Christmas. Let people enjoy it.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Every year there's about two point four million people who
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: visit the Maya window display. It's only the second time
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: in seventy years that they have canceled the opening. The
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: other occasion was in twenty twenty because of COVID and
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: a pro Palestinian organizer said, and I quote, children in
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Australia shouldn't have more rights to enjoy Christmas than the
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: children in Palestine. Talk about warped thinking if that's the attitude,
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: But there you have it. Maya have decided to cancel it.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: And I got to say I was really online people
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: getting stuck into.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Maya saying, oh your cowards.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: But Maya, what choice do they have when you've got
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: huge numbers of people going to turn up and protest,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: You're going to have families kids there. I don't think
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Maya have got much choice. It's still on my it's
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: on the Victorian police. And I mean, I don't want
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: to say this ad nauseum because we've been saying it
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: for the last twelve months.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: But this has been allowed to get to this.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Stage because authorities in Victoria, in New South Wales failed
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: to knit this stuff in the bud in October last year.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Here we are.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: And what's harrowing about this is the article says that
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: these these protesters, the so called disrupt Wars group, have
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: ignored please from police to respect the holiday ritual. Our
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: police are pleading with these guys. You don't negotiate with Jarris.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: This is like we all saw on the steps of
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the Opera house being like, well, where's the stormtroopers, man
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Premier Inns. If you're ever gonna use them, get them
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: out here and now fail that test. And now these
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: guys are basically waging a war on a widely celebrated
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Western holiday, and our police, our law enforces, are pleading
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: with them, please don't do it, and they're just like, nah,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: stuff is, We're going.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: To do it. I'm sorry, how does this work again?
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I thought we had laws in New South Wales where
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: you had to get.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: A permit to.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Do something like this.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Obviously they don't have a permit, therefore it's an unlawful protest.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: So what's going on here that they're like, oh, okay,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: we pleaded with you, you said no over for a
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: free past, then okay, maya cancel it. Yeah, we're just
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: going to have to bli down and take it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: From these guys.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: There must be something going on in Victoria, because also
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: in Victoria is another example of gross government incompetence. The
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: Education Minister Ben Carroll is facing serious questions about his
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: handling of the VCE exam blunder, as he was forced
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: to concede that he knew about the debacle a month
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: ago but only received a high level briefing on Wednesday night. Now,
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: the Victorian Opposition leader has called on the State Ombudsman
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: Marlow Barrowanath to investigate this significant error, which has enabled
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: thousands of students to access cheat sheets. Now, this is
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: not the first time the VCE has come under fire
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: for gross miscompetence. In last year, thousands of students were
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: awarded a bonus point because there was an error in
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: the math exam. It was so bad that a group
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: of Monash University professors got together and said all five
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: questions in the zam displayed gross misunderstandings of basic mathematical concepts.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: There seems to be something with labor and numbers here.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: At least they consistent ten.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: You've got thousands of students doing their year twelve exams
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: and for the Education Minister to have known about this
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: for a month and he's only just received a proper
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: briefing in the last twenty four to forty.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Eight hours is just another example. I don't know what
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: government ministers do. Chairman's lounge.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Probably Let's go to the front page of the Townshaw
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: bulletin mild stomping ground.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: We want a breakup, reads the headline.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Shock Polling says that the North wants to split with
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: the south of the state.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Now this is not a new concept.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: This has been bandied around by numerous politicians and business
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: leaders for a long time, but new polling has found
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: not only do Northerners support breaking away from the rest
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: of the state, but that Townsville is the preferred home
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: of a hypothetic North Queensland States capital. Matt Canavan is
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: one of the politicians who's been pushing for this. He
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: pointed out that twenty five percent of the economic output
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: in Queensland per person comes from North Queensland compared to
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: South Queensland. And of course at the election we had
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Stephen Miles promising fifty cent bus fares if you lived
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: in the south of Queensland.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: And Olympic Games.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: If you lived in the South of Queensland and yet
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: so much of the economic activity is coming from the north,
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: I well understand having lived in North Queensland, why people
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: there feel completely forgotten and wouldn't mind their own state
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: with who knows Bob katter as the Premier of North
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: queens and.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: Their streets would be paved with gold.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: It would be like this dystopian wasteland in the south
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: if they actually did, just be like, we're breaking away
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: and we're keeping everything.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Indeed, we're going to go to a break when we
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: come back.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: One of those stories that could only happen in Australia
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: a family come home to find an animal, not their something.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Else in the bed with their pet. Actually it's coming
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: up in a.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: Even noticed how so many sports people are just brilliant athletes.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: I mean they could turn their hand to any sport
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: and be successful. Take Steph Curry from the Golden State Warriors,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: for instance, brilliant basketball player, but I'll tell you what,
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: he can hit a golf ball as well.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Check out this shot.
• 46:26
  Speaker 10: Is he can really play.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Boy?
• 46:31
  Speaker 12: It's just right at it if it gets there?
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable basketballer, unbelievable golfer. So you can imagine that people
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: thought that Caitlin Clark from the Women's NBA would also
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: be great on the golf course, and so when she
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: played a exhibition game, they crowded around as she made
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: her tea shot.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: And here's what happened, Jesus ChRI.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: That is an absolute shank and had people diving for
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: cab check that out. They regretted standing so close Steph Curry,
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: much better golfer.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark should stick to basketball.
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: Stick to what you're good at, I say, but good
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: on her for giving it a go. I mean, I'm
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: not sure I would have been much better, but look
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: I'm not a professional athlete, so that's okay.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: Another story that we saw this week, which was so
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: funny and only in Australia, folks, only in Australia. An
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Adelaide couple walked into their bedroom and saw something quite remarkable.
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: A koala was asleep in their bed with their dog
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: just meters away.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Check this out.
• 47:51
  Speaker 12: Oh my god, Oh my god, what what what do
• 48:02
  Speaker 12: I do?
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: Win?
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: What do I do?
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: Has been?
• 48:14
  Speaker 12: Oh my god?
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: What do I do?
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: So many questions, how did it get there? Why was
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: it just hanging out? What is going on? I mean,
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: that is unbelievable.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: And if that couple thought they had anything of a guard.
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Dog in their pant dog, that would just.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Be like mate.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Seriously, at one point they were in bed together. This
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: couple walked through the door and the koala is just
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: looking up like welcome home. I guess hi, guys.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: They should be thinking they're lucky stars. I would much
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: rather find a koala in my bed than a snake.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: That's all we've got time for tonight stick Around. Coming
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: up is the Rida Pedi Sho