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The Rita Panahi Show | 25 August · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: Starting right now the Pane Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panekey Show.
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Speaker 3: Coming up tonight, Queensland bows to fight for a fair
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Speaker 3: deal on the GST. My panel will cover that. In
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Speaker 3: today's other top headlines, New South Wales and Victoria facing
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Speaker 3: an electricity squeeze over the next decade. Professor Ian Plymer
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Speaker 3: will join me to discuss that. Kosher Gator will have
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Speaker 3: the latest from the US, including Iran's threats to assassinate
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump's youngest child, and the WNBA trans saga takes
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Speaker 3: another twist. Alex Stein will have all those updates and
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Speaker 3: Left is Losing It features more women emoting wildly on
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Speaker 3: the Internet. But first, a new tax on supranuation has
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Speaker 3: been discovered among Labour's capital gains rules. Millions of people
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Speaker 3: whose super accounts have investments in managed trusts will be
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Speaker 3: paying additional tax, according to analysis by the Financial Services Council.
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Speaker 2: Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanezi.
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Speaker 3: Have repeatedly claimed their tax changes would not hit superannuation.
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Speaker 3: Just last week, the Treasurer said they would defend the
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Speaker 3: supersystem to their last breath.
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Speaker 4: The Liberals, the Nationals and One Nation don't support Super
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Speaker 4: because they only pretend to support workers. They do share
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Speaker 4: an anti SUPER agenda. We will defend superannuation until our
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Speaker 4: last breath.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now for more on this is News Corps
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Speaker 3: senior writer Patrick Carline and Institute of Public Affairs research
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Speaker 3: fellow Colleen Hark and Patrick. We are still finding nasty
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Speaker 3: little surprises in the budget. Have you ever had a
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Speaker 3: budget in a lifetime be so poorly received?
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Speaker 5: Certainly not. I mean we keep using that term unintended consequences.
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Speaker 5: Was this an unintended consequence or was it an ideological thing?
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Speaker 5: Because retirees have been beaten up all you haven't they
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Speaker 5: They have been demonized for making it harder for young
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Speaker 5: people to buy homes and get on in life. And
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Speaker 5: now Super it's meant to be. You know, this this
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Speaker 5: sacred sort of thing that can't be touched. We're seeing
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Speaker 5: it touched again and again by this government. Is it
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Speaker 5: incompetence or is it ideology? I mean we've been talking
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Speaker 5: about that. I'm really not sure.
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Speaker 3: And I think Super in the long run is just
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Speaker 3: going to be too tempting for them as that debt
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Speaker 3: sauce and they look for where there are big bundles
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Speaker 3: of cash for them to apply additional taxes. It's going
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Speaker 3: to be too tempting.
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Speaker 6: Well, Charmas is already on the record as having said
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Speaker 6: that that it is effectively public money, which clearly it isn't.
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Speaker 6: It isn't you know, I mean, this is a backdoor
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Speaker 6: tax on retirees. They've spent decades doing what they have
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Speaker 6: to do. You don't have a choice. You have to
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Speaker 6: do this, and then we're at then when they're moving
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Speaker 6: into retirement. And don't forget that retirees don't have an
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Speaker 6: opportunity to reset their savings plans. It's already done and
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Speaker 6: us said they don't like not like younger people that
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Speaker 6: can revisit it. You know, this is just going to
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Speaker 6: reduce the incentive for people to be independent.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it's also going to just reduce trust in
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Speaker 3: the super system because you're thinking, Okay, these are the
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Speaker 3: rules that I am investing under.
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Speaker 2: These are the taxes that are going to apply. But
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Speaker 2: they can.
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Speaker 3: Retrospectively go back and change change arrangements that are supposed
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Speaker 3: to be long term planning, which I think is really
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Speaker 3: quite unfair. Now, staying with the budget, Jim Chalmers negative
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Speaker 3: gearing reforms could drive rents up higher than the spikes
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Speaker 3: that we saw back in the nineteen eighties. We've already
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Speaker 3: had warnings from the National Australia Bank, Ray White Group
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Speaker 3: and financial experts, and now property developers are issuing similar warnings,
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Speaker 3: noting that anemic productivity, higher ir regulationation and approval delays
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Speaker 3: could reduce supply and put further pressure on rents. Colleague,
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Speaker 3: this is another warning about rents jumping around twenty percent
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Speaker 3: over the next two years. That would be devastating for renters.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the government is certainly playing with fire on the
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Speaker 6: Australian residential rentals market. And the other interesting component here
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Speaker 6: is that the vast majority of investment property is provided
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Speaker 6: by mum and dad investors. It's not you know, it's
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Speaker 6: not a scenario where, like, you know, the government really
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Speaker 6: has a place to intervene. It should be like leaving
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Speaker 6: these people be excuse me. It's not treating them like
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Speaker 6: there's some kind of problem. The government should be addressing
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Speaker 6: the issues that are causing the pressure on the rental
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Speaker 6: markets and the shortage of housing in the mass immigration
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Speaker 6: and the supply issues. But they keep demonizing small time
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Speaker 6: investors who are only trying to get ahead and make it,
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Speaker 6: you know, an investment plan, and the more pressure you
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Speaker 6: put on them, the costs get put up somewhere.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to just suck it up and wear it.
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Speaker 3: Well, Patrick, you would have thought property developers would be
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Speaker 3: the one group would be happy with the budget, because
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Speaker 3: if you want to get those tax concessions on property,
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Speaker 3: you have to invest in new property, new builds. And
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Speaker 3: even they are issuing warnings, even they're worried that the
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Speaker 3: property market is so badly affected that they will do
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Speaker 3: a development and not be able to sell.
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 5: Look, I think first home buyers are the ones who
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Speaker 5: really suffer here. They don't meant to be the people
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Speaker 5: who benefited, but they're still back. They're not going to
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Speaker 5: go and buy a property that's probably going to be
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Speaker 5: worth less than a year's time or three years time.
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Speaker 5: So a lot of them are going to be forced
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Speaker 5: to keep on renting because they don't want to buy,
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Speaker 5: and the rents are going to go up.
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Speaker 8: Through the roof.
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Speaker 5: There's no new there's no settings for new housing developments
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Speaker 5: in this budget, and the regulations is through the roof.
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Speaker 5: Everyone agrees that the regulations make it so difficult for
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Speaker 5: new housing I mean, it really is a cluster something
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Speaker 5: of really bad things, isn't it. At the same time.
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Speaker 3: Well, this is what happens when you've got a bunch
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Speaker 3: of people who have poor economic literacy, who have no
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Speaker 3: private sector experience, and you let them run.
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Speaker 2: Right and do what they want.
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Speaker 3: And then also when they're also ideologically captured by a
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Speaker 3: certain side.
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Speaker 2: Well you get what we're getting now. Now.
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Speaker 3: The Prime Minister has delivered a speech at the Business
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Speaker 3: Council of Australia's annual dinner in Sydney, where he issued
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Speaker 3: a call to arms for employers to help protect Australia's economy.
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Speaker 3: In his speech, you defended Labour's reform agenda, but Business
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Speaker 3: Council Chief Executive brand Black use this speech to warn
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Speaker 3: that Australia cannot tax, regulate or redistribute its way to
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Speaker 3: high living standards. We have to grow and we have
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Speaker 3: to become more productive, and to do this we have
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Speaker 3: to create the conditions for businesses to invest, innovative spand
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Speaker 3: and employ more Australians. Patrick, the PM wants business chiefs
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Speaker 3: to back Labour's economic agenda, but it's pretty clear there
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Speaker 3: from brand Black's response that was pretty pointed what he
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Speaker 3: said there, that's what the business community is crying out for,
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Speaker 3: and it's they're almost getting the exact opposite from this government.
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Speaker 5: Look from what I've read of mister Albanzi's speech, I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's just motherhood statements. Basically, let's we're all in it together,
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Speaker 5: let's make it better, let's blame the world for all
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Speaker 5: the troubles that Australia faces at the moment, Whereas the
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Speaker 5: Business Council and mister Black actually was constructive and basically saying, look,
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Speaker 5: we've got to rise. We're going to raise productivity, we're
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Speaker 5: going to increase growth. And I thought he made a
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Speaker 5: good point. He said most ordinary people don't understand what
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Speaker 5: productivity actually means. I don't know how it affects their
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Speaker 5: standards on living and he said we need to educate
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Speaker 5: Australians on that. And I think that's actually a really good.
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Speaker 2: Point, Colleen.
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Speaker 3: This is going to become an issue for them. I
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Speaker 3: think leading up to the next election, we've seen the
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Speaker 3: business community really take a back step. They don't advocate
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Speaker 3: for their shareholders. It seems if they're going to be vocal,
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Speaker 3: it's about social issues like same sex marriage.
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Speaker 2: Or the voice.
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Speaker 3: But I wonder if that's going to change in the
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Speaker 3: lead up to the next election once they've had a
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Speaker 3: couple of terms of the Albanese government.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think that the comments that were made is
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Speaker 6: actually an indicator of that that they are actually getting
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Speaker 6: to be more engaged in the economic agenda than they
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Speaker 6: have been for quite a few years. And you know,
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Speaker 6: in response to Albanzi's speech, the business community is actually
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Speaker 6: being asked to endorse a model that they've been warning
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Speaker 6: for ages is going to make us poorer. I actually
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Speaker 6: think it's quite audacious of the Prime Minister to call
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Speaker 6: on them to say support me, support me, and it's
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Speaker 6: not their role to be the cheerleaders.
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Speaker 2: Of the government.
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Speaker 6: The other component of this is that they're asking the
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Speaker 6: business community and the Australian population to celebrate our economic
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Speaker 6: resilience as we're heading into a trillion dollars of debt.
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Speaker 6: You know that we've sort of got this sort of
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Speaker 6: like craziness going on though with a disconnect with reality delusion.
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Speaker 2: The delusion is strong.
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Speaker 3: As the kids say they're a little bit delulu at
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Speaker 3: the moment.
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Speaker 2: Now Queensland's not delulu.
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Speaker 3: They're vowing to fight for a fair deal on the GST,
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Speaker 3: and in interim report by the Productivity Commission has concluded
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Speaker 3: the twenty eighteenth GSD deal was a mistake and needed
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Speaker 3: to be phased out.
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Speaker 2: Colleen Premier David CHRISA.
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Speaker 3: Fooley will be coming face to face with the Prime
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Speaker 3: Minister at a National Cabinet meeting tomorrow. Easy, right, is
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Speaker 3: Queensland being dudded with this deal?
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Speaker 6: Well, Chris phil is doing exactly what he should be doing,
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Speaker 6: is looking after Queensland's interests, So it's what you're supposed
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Speaker 6: to do. And Queensland is wanting to use its resources
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Speaker 6: for its benefit to provide prosperity and jobs, is doing
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Speaker 6: exactly what they should be doing.
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Speaker 2: So you know, well power to him. Patrick.
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Speaker 3: I can understand what Queensland won a fair share of
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Speaker 3: the JST, but we need some of that money right
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Speaker 3: here in Victoria where are broke folks. And I can
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Speaker 3: see clashes between the Chris of Foley government and Anthony
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Speaker 3: Albanese's government. You've got a conservative state government a hard
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Speaker 3: left federal government also clashing over the issue of the
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Speaker 3: national gun buy back.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Look, there's a history here of performative energy. I mean
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Speaker 5: the premier. As we've been saying, go in to bat
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Speaker 5: for their states. They're never happy though. I feel like
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Speaker 5: they've been ripped off, or they present as are they've
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Speaker 5: been ripped off. I'd take this back to the simple
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Speaker 5: electoral numbers. In Western Australia, Labor has eleven of the
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Speaker 5: sixteen seats. In Queensland they had twelve. I think of
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Speaker 5: the thirty seats, they're going to do whatever works best
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Speaker 5: to protect those seeds, as cynical as that sounds, for
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Speaker 5: the next election.
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Speaker 3: Now, let's talk a little bit about media hysteria.
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Speaker 2: Listen to this report from Channel seven.
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Speaker 10: A week after five Swans players plunged the league into crisis.
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Speaker 10: Seven News has obtained vision of the Richmond Football Club's
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Speaker 10: Mad Monday celebrations in Garfield, a small country town southeast
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Speaker 10: of Melbourne. In the footage, you can see players whipping
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Speaker 10: each other shirtless while consuming alcohol. One player pulls down
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Speaker 10: his pants and asks another.
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Speaker 2: To whip him now.
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Speaker 3: The vision was obtained by seven News from a private
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Speaker 3: event attended by only players at the Garfield Hotel in
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Speaker 3: Country Victoria. The hotel has released this statement saying we
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Speaker 3: could not speak more highly of the way they conducted themselves.
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Speaker 3: They enjoyed a few quiet beers to unwind after a
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Speaker 3: long season, and we see nothing wrong with that. In
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Speaker 3: our view, this has been blown out of proportion. Patrick,
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Speaker 3: you're a Richmond man. Are you disappointed in your players' antics.
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Speaker 5: I'm disappointed that they're celebrating twenty twenty six because they
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Speaker 5: think it's pretty second last on the ladder. Look, I
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Speaker 5: think it'd be better if we hadn't seen that footage.
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Speaker 5: I think a lot of Australians would probably privately smirk
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Speaker 5: at some of it. But I do. Look, I do
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Speaker 5: about the graver issues here, which is there are allegations
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Speaker 5: of sexual assault, there could be victims. It raises all
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Speaker 5: sorts of questions culturally for the AFL. Besides that, it
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Speaker 5: is very serious stuff, so it's probably not a.
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Speaker 2: Great look at the mind. But Colleen, do we have
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Speaker 2: the media here.
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Speaker 3: Looking to drum up outrage because these players aren't accused
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Speaker 3: of any wrongdoing. There's no victims in what we just saw. Yes,
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Speaker 3: they had a terrible season, but it's customary for football
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Speaker 3: clubs to have a Mad Monday, Wacky Wednesday, whatever it is,
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Speaker 3: end of year celebration. It seems to be a pretty
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Speaker 3: low key one in Garfield normally fari and they weren't
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Speaker 3: even doing that in the eyes of in front of
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Speaker 3: other people, so that what footage well is secretly recorded
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Speaker 3: and are put on Channel seven And I wonder who
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Speaker 3: is that helping? I mean, I mean, are we exposing
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Speaker 3: some ugly underbelly here and it's useful to discuss it
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Speaker 3: or are we kind of looking for problems that don't
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Speaker 3: necessarily exist in that instance?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I look at that. I mean I
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Speaker 6: don't follow football, right, so I don't care where Richmond
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Speaker 6: finished on.
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Speaker 2: Sorry Patrick, but.
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Speaker 3: You don't think what sort of a victorian.
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Speaker 6: You know, ask guys are having a quiet drink in
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Speaker 6: a very private environment. Who knows what they were actually doing.
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Speaker 6: And I don't like the sort of idea that every
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Speaker 6: man is tarnished with this brush, and every AFL footballer,
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Speaker 6: you know, we're sort of kind of creating issues that
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Speaker 6: don't belong everywhere. There are certain issues that need to
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Speaker 6: be dealt in small doses and they need to be
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Speaker 6: dealt significant, you know, properly, But sort of tarnishing everybody
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Speaker 6: with the same brush I think is very unfair. And
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Speaker 6: they're entitled to have a few drinks after they've had
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Speaker 6: their games.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I agree.
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Speaker 3: I mean you could argue about the notion of mad
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Speaker 3: Mondays whether they should continue in the modern setting, but
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Speaker 3: as long as they're taking place, I would have thought
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Speaker 3: that was a fairly mundane mad Monday compared to our
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Speaker 3: I was a sin Kilda football club. They decided to
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Speaker 3: set some dwarves on fire at one of their mad Mondays. Really,
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Speaker 3: I'm talking a few years ago, so they really used
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Speaker 3: to be out of control.
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Speaker 2: And we don't endorse that.
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Speaker 3: We are not making light of that. That is in
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Speaker 3: the public record. Patrick car Line, Colleen Harken, thank you
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Speaker 3: for your time. Now, New South Wales is facing an
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Speaker 3: electricity squeeze three years.
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Speaker 2: Earlier than originally feared.
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Speaker 3: The Australian Energy Market Operator forecast the state will breach
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Speaker 3: its reliability benchmark from twenty thirty rather than twenty thirty three,
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Speaker 3: as it predicted just a year ago. Joining me now
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Speaker 3: is a steam geologist, author and executive director at Hankok
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Speaker 3: Energy professor in Plymer. In Amo expects data centers to
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Speaker 3: significantly increase their electricity consumption over the next ten years.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to help, is it.
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Speaker 11: Well, of course not. The whole business has been mismanaged
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Speaker 11: from day one. What has happened is we once had cheap,
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Speaker 11: reliable electricity and then we had the ideologue come in
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Speaker 11: and fiddle with it. Then we had the white subri
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Speaker 11: gade come in and try to squeeze money out of
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Speaker 11: solar and out of wind, and the inevitable happened that
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Speaker 11: we now don't have enough power. Now this has been
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Speaker 11: exacerbated by various states all dozing and flattening coal fired
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Speaker 11: power stations, such as happened in South Australia, such has
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Speaker 11: happened in New South Wales, such has happened in Victoria.
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Speaker 11: And Victoria was once the envy of the world. It
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Speaker 11: had the cheapest reliable electricities and now they're having problems.
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Speaker 11: Why because they've cut out coal and they're relying on
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Speaker 11: sea breezes and sunbeams to acceed running in dust state.
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Speaker 11: So this has been inevitable. It's been coming for a
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Speaker 11: long while. The data centers have just sped it up.
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Speaker 11: And we are living in a world where.
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Speaker 12: We have a government that just doesn't care about what
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Speaker 12: the energy costs are and if they go too much
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Speaker 12: over the mark, then they start to give big subsidies
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Speaker 12: to energy yearsers such as smelters.
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Speaker 11: So we've just contact in that and we're sending ourselves brand.
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Speaker 3: Well, twenty thirty isn't too far away. Are we going
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Speaker 3: to see governments at state and federal level reverse course
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Speaker 3: on their net zero strategy? We are coming to the
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Speaker 3: crunch time. We're almost there.
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Speaker 11: Well, we are almost there, but governments and their bureaucrats
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Speaker 11: have a habit of continuing to make matters more complicated,
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Speaker 11: rather than saying, folks, we've got it wrong and we've
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Speaker 11: got to fix it by going back to what gave
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Speaker 11: us originally, the cheap, reliable electricity. However, we've got so
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Speaker 11: many interests of people who own win turbines, so many
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Speaker 11: foreign interests that sell us the infrastructure for turbines, so
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Speaker 11: many foreigners that are running the solar farm, so many
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Speaker 11: people selling us batteries, that this is going to be
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Speaker 11: politically very hard to do. So governments are having the
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Speaker 11: public just bleed money unnecessarily, and really the only way
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Speaker 11: to do it is to vote out any government that
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Speaker 11: wants to go down the path of Paris or the
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Speaker 11: path of met zero. That's the only solution.
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Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned Victoria.
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Speaker 3: Victorian households are being warned of the future threat to
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Speaker 3: their power supply. Amo's report flag that the state faces
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Speaker 3: a squeeze on the electricity grid over the next decade.
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Speaker 2: The y Lawn plant in the Latrobe Valley.
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Speaker 3: Which is providing around fifteen percent of the state's power supply,
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Speaker 3: is set to close in mid twenty twenty eight, not
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Speaker 3: too long from now, and in that's going to have
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Speaker 3: a dramatic impact across the greed. Victoria is the most
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Speaker 3: climate crazy of all the states, and according to Chris Bowen,
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Speaker 3: we have nothing to worry about the climate change and
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Speaker 3: energy minister claims his renewable plan is strengthening reliability as
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Speaker 3: aging coal fire powerstations approach retirement. Do you agree with
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Speaker 3: that assessment that the more we lean into renewables, the
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Speaker 3: more reliable the greed becomes?
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Speaker 11: Not at all? And we see it in our own lives.
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Speaker 11: The grid has become far less reliable twenty twenty eighteen
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Speaker 11: just around the corner, and the reason why they're becoming
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Speaker 11: less reliable is that governments have made it so difficult
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Speaker 11: for cold five power stations that give us cheap power.
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Speaker 11: They are supporting their mates and their mates like the
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Speaker 11: super funds who own a lot of the renewable entities.
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Speaker 11: They're making it very easy for people who own sol
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Speaker 11: and win by subsidizing them. That doesn't make it more
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Speaker 11: reliable somebodies that just cost us more money will be
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Speaker 11: a crunch time. And the crunch time is that when
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Speaker 11: your lawn runs out of power. There are huge problems
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Speaker 11: because we have some thousands of years of coal in Gippsland.
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Speaker 11: Why should we just leave it in the ground. Why
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Speaker 11: shouldn't we use it to make electricity? And that electricity
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Speaker 11: doesn't only run electrons to Victoria, it actually goes into
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Speaker 11: South Australia through the interconnectors. So once we have your
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Speaker 11: lawn reduced them amount of power it produces and we
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Speaker 11: add our power consumption by putting in data centers, we
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Speaker 11: have serious problems in Australia. These have been inevitable fifteen
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Speaker 11: years because we've been chasing rainbows, sunbeams and wind and
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Speaker 11: we have failed like every other country that's tried to
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Speaker 11: do it.
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Speaker 3: You say, we've got thousands of years of coal reserves,
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Speaker 3: how much gas do we have? Because amos forecasting that
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Speaker 3: the East Coast will experience a gas shortfall in the
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Speaker 3: next decade.
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Speaker 2: How can that be because I've sure I've read.
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Speaker 3: Somewhere that we are just sitting on enormous reserves of gas.
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Speaker 11: In We have gas come into Eastern Australia down pipelines
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Speaker 11: from the Moonber area, and these pipelines go into South Australia,
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Speaker 11: into Victoria, into New Southwest and into Queensland. We're also
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Speaker 11: producing increasing amounts of cold seine gas from Queensland, much
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Speaker 11: of which is exported. And at the time there's export contract,
20:25
Speaker 11: resigned gas wasn't worth worth anything and these are long
20:29
Speaker 11: term contracts. The pipeline carrying the gas from Queensland to
20:34
Speaker 11: Victoria is just not big enough for Queensland to take
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Speaker 11: its gas, then for New Southwest to take its gas,
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Speaker 11: and then for Victoria to take its gas. Now Victoria
20:43
Speaker 11: has re bought it sommer. There has been a ban
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Speaker 11: on exploration for gas for a long time in Victoria. Constitutionally,
20:51
Speaker 11: in Victoria now you cannot frack, which is a very
20:54
Speaker 11: easy way of getting out gas. There's been fracking going
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Speaker 11: on around the world for eighty years, and again ideology
21:01
Speaker 11: has ruled over simple principle that we know that work.
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Speaker 11: So I see for the future. I think we don't
21:09
Speaker 11: have enough energy. I don't listen to the prattle that
21:12
Speaker 11: come down of mister barnes Mouth. He had no idea
21:15
Speaker 11: and he's only following his ideological dream, and that's going
21:19
Speaker 11: to lead to disaster, that's going to lead tod inciviization,
21:22
Speaker 11: that's going to lead to people losing jobs.
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Speaker 2: You're one hundred percent right.
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Speaker 3: In Victoria, we have that in our constitution, in our
21:31
Speaker 3: state constitution, a ban on fracking.
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Speaker 2: The liberals voted for it, so the constitution was changed.
21:37
Speaker 3: And I think we are just uniquely idiotic when it
21:41
Speaker 3: comes to this area because the Obama administration, who are
21:45
Speaker 3: hardly right wing deniers of climate change, they fracked extensively,
21:51
Speaker 3: and fracking is something that is done around the world,
21:54
Speaker 3: has been for years, but for some reason in Victoria
21:58
Speaker 3: it is absolutely out of bad prophecy. In Plymouth, thank
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Speaker 3: you so much, and enjoyed Croatia. Thank you still to karma.
22:07
Speaker 3: Left is Losing It plus the latest from the US,
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Speaker 3: including Iran's threats to assassinate Donald Trump's youngest child.
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Speaker 2: Kosher Gator is up next Welcome Back. It's time for.
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Speaker 3: Left his losing it and it seems communist Crest and
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Speaker 3: Hassan Piker has found a crowd even more contemptible than him.
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Speaker 3: Here he is being booed for saying America didn't deserve
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Speaker 3: nine to eleven. America does not deserve nine eleven?
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Speaker 8: And is that my new thing?
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Speaker 5: Which is?
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Speaker 3: And then her son and the hateful mob sang a
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Speaker 3: song mocking Charlie Kirk, a man who had many debates
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Speaker 3: with Piker.
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Speaker 2: Hassan knew him by all accounts.
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Speaker 3: That were civil and friendly to each other off the stage,
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Speaker 3: and yet he does this afraid. Now, let's check in
23:17
Speaker 3: with the awfools, you know them, the affluent white female lefties. Ah, yeah,
23:35
Speaker 3: she's not doing well, is she? But you are allowed
23:38
Speaker 3: to have a meltdown and not tape it and share
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Speaker 3: it on the internet.
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Speaker 2: It is allowed.
23:42
Speaker 3: But you know, nothing tells you just how poorly someone
23:45
Speaker 3: is going and how broken their moral compass is. Then
23:49
Speaker 3: their desire to defend and rationalize a triple child killer.
23:53
Speaker 3: Stop thinking about these kids as people and think about
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Speaker 3: them as ceramic visas for just one second for me. Okay, no,
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Speaker 3: not okay, I'm not going to think of them as
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Speaker 3: anything other than as people, because they were human, they
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Speaker 3: were defenseless, and they deserve better than having their killer celebrated. Now,
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Speaker 3: this next last is actually helping by removing herself from
24:17
Speaker 3: the dating pool of sane men.
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Speaker 13: My new vetting process for if I want to date
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Speaker 13: a man, first dat question, I'm always going to be
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Speaker 13: asking him do you think that Lindsey Clancy.
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Speaker 14: Should go to jail for what she did?
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Speaker 2: And if that man says yes, I'm getting up and
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Speaker 2: walking out rate then and there.
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Speaker 3: Now, let's hear from an Australian lad judging by the accent,
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Speaker 3: who goes from calm to a feral misfit in record time.
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Speaker 2: Wonder what triggered him?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, it's not a kafia like some people think.
24:52
Speaker 15: It's a coffea actually comes from me dark and the
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Speaker 15: Palestinians stole it and meet it theirs. But it's not
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Speaker 15: really originally from the Palestinian era, as it's actually Iraqi.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, like your mom, she's a dirty Did you know
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Speaker 16: your mom?
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Speaker 14: Why are you saying that?
25:07
Speaker 16: Are you so Palestini? Your thugs Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald
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Speaker 16: Trump have sex together and take over the country.
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Speaker 8: Shut up?
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Speaker 2: Yep, no mystery? What triggered him?
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Speaker 7: All right?
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Speaker 17: Because you Israeli people, who do you stand for?
25:23
Speaker 16: You clearly stand for Israel.
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Speaker 15: Of course, what because the Palestinians ideology is written by
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Speaker 15: Do you guys so easy to trigger?
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Speaker 17: Actually, I don't give I don't care.
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Speaker 16: I'm not triggered.
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Speaker 15: Man, you're crashing out you people that stand.
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Speaker 10: For Israel other other scums of the earth.
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Speaker 2: That's what you people are right and knows everyone knows it. Mate,
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Speaker 2: So eloquent, so tolerant, and consider it. I can't wait
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Speaker 2: to hear more from this genius. I wonder what he
25:51
Speaker 2: thinks of domestic political matters in Australia.
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Speaker 4: This song's gonna get a lot of people come.
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Speaker 16: I don't give up, but pulling my gun, I'm looking now,
26:03
Speaker 16: I'm back. I'm watching ricking Morny. I am horny.
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Speaker 3: Now to the Democrats' latest poster boy Abdul al said
26:15
Speaker 3: he's the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Michigan.
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Speaker 2: Here is with Jesse Waters. Do you know how much
26:21
Speaker 2: the federal budget is?
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Speaker 11: Now?
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Speaker 2: Not neither do I.
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Speaker 14: Here's here's exactly a federal budget. You guys want to
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Speaker 14: write p hexseeth and you to alser your question? Do
26:29
Speaker 14: you know what the federal budget to raise? No, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 14: I just I just want to talk about this. Look,
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Speaker 14: you want to talk about budgets, I'm happy.
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Speaker 11: To do that.
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Speaker 3: In fact, is not happy to do that because he
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Speaker 3: has no idea. He's the male AOC, zero economic credentials.
26:44
Speaker 2: That's a feeling at all.
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Speaker 14: You don't even know how much money the government spends
26:48
Speaker 14: every year, do you know? Look the question Jesse to me.
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Speaker 14: So you don't know, let me tell you what it is.
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Speaker 14: It's seven trillion dollars a year.
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Speaker 2: And your plan just to take over that?
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Speaker 14: Tell that here's the problem with it. So to exactly
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Speaker 14: your point, I mean, you know what, I'm not very
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Speaker 14: good at I don't think you're very good at math either,
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Speaker 14: But go ahead, clearly, but clearly, clearly, clearly you don't.
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Speaker 2: No, Abdul has no idea.
27:15
Speaker 3: Instead of being honest about that, he thinks he can
27:17
Speaker 3: filibuster his way out of any difficult interview. I want
27:21
Speaker 3: to face with even the easiest of questions at dull flounders.
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Speaker 8: So you think it's okay, You think that's okay?
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Speaker 14: I mean, do you so? Do you really want to
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Speaker 14: have this conversation? Are you circumcised.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but I mean that's personal question. Okay, doctor,
27:41
Speaker 2: you probably.
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Speaker 14: Should want to move on. You probably should want to
27:44
Speaker 14: move on.
27:44
Speaker 2: A circumcision is different than castration.
27:47
Speaker 14: I think it's a it's a problem. It's a problem
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Speaker 14: that you think that you get to decide.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he really did attempt to compare a male being
27:55
Speaker 3: circumcised with castration with being left infertile, and he is lying.
28:01
Speaker 3: He knows precisely what he thinks about that issue as
28:04
Speaker 3: a devout Muslim, he just doesn't want to say it yet.
28:07
Speaker 3: But here is President Trump earlier today, clearly articulating his
28:11
Speaker 3: administration's position.
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Speaker 18: Every public school in America is now on notice that
28:17
Speaker 18: if they tell a child that they're trapped in the
28:19
Speaker 18: wrong body, they're committing child abuse. And as we remove
28:24
Speaker 18: the far left extremism from the classroom, we're taking historic
28:28
Speaker 18: action to ensure that every child in America has access
28:31
Speaker 18: to a first class education.
28:35
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Sky News contributor Kosha Gaida. Kosha
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Speaker 3: tell me about the Trump administration's position on transactivism in
28:43
Speaker 3: the classroom. It is something he campaigned on and he's
28:47
Speaker 3: never stopped talking about it.
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Speaker 7: He campaigned on it, he did those two hundred and
28:51
Speaker 7: eighty seven executive orders on his first hand office, and
28:53
Speaker 7: this was one of them. And it's really broadly about
28:56
Speaker 7: standing up for biology and standing up for prontal rates
29:00
Speaker 7: school so in the school system, and so what he
29:02
Speaker 7: can do is use the leavers that are available to
29:04
Speaker 7: him in the executive office executive orders cutting back on
29:09
Speaker 7: funding or tying federal funding, which a lot of the
29:11
Speaker 7: public schools get, even though they're largely funded by the state,
29:14
Speaker 7: they do receive federal funding, tying that to this issue,
29:17
Speaker 7: and also trying to sort of police and audit the
29:21
Speaker 7: types of books that are in their libraries and you know,
29:23
Speaker 7: all of that good stuff that we know happens in
29:25
Speaker 7: a very insidious way. This ideology creeps in to out
29:29
Speaker 7: of sight as well as you know insights. So he's
29:31
Speaker 7: been doing that. There's some of those iconic photos, for instance,
29:34
Speaker 7: where he banned boys in girls sports by EO and
29:37
Speaker 7: had all these girls and there are sporting uniforms behind him.
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Speaker 2: That's certainly in the history books.
29:42
Speaker 7: So this fits kind of under that broader umbrella where
29:45
Speaker 7: he is not backing down from that because it's an
29:47
Speaker 7: eighty twenty or ninety ten issue. He knows it, and
29:49
Speaker 7: he's doing what he can as the leader of the
29:51
Speaker 7: executive branch to advance that issue.
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Speaker 3: And it's something I think conservative parties in Australia can
29:58
Speaker 3: learn from because obviously during that election campaign there were
30:02
Speaker 3: huge issues unchecked illegal immigration from that southern border, huge
30:07
Speaker 3: cost of living issues, and yet the number one most
30:11
Speaker 3: effective ad the Trump campaign ran was on this.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So to think that you can't talk about so.
30:19
Speaker 3: Called cultural war issues or issues of values when you've
30:22
Speaker 3: got an economic crisis or other pressing issues, I think
30:27
Speaker 3: is really shortsighted, and you don't appreciate how voters think
30:32
Speaker 3: these days and what they value. And it doesn't mean
30:35
Speaker 3: that that is going to determine an election, but it
30:39
Speaker 3: certainly doesn't hurt, particularly when it is an eighty twenty issue,
30:43
Speaker 3: and it.
30:43
Speaker 7: Did move votes, as you very greatly pointed out, especially
30:45
Speaker 7: the suburban moms and those swing steams, a lot of
30:48
Speaker 7: the independence, lots of independence. They get animated on that
30:50
Speaker 7: because you can picture it. It's a kitchen table topic,
30:54
Speaker 7: just like the economy. Is your girl is getting beaten
30:57
Speaker 7: up on the basketball court or what have you, That
30:58
Speaker 7: really resonates. It's really such an easy, open playbook for
31:02
Speaker 7: the right side of not even the right side, but
31:04
Speaker 7: it tends to be the right side of the political
31:06
Speaker 7: aisle and people not taking it. The only thing I
31:08
Speaker 7: can jock it up to is political cowardice.
31:10
Speaker 3: It is absolute cowardice, and we see it here federally,
31:13
Speaker 3: but particularly at state level here in Victoria, where they're
31:17
Speaker 3: terrified to talk about any of these issues, no matter
31:20
Speaker 3: how far left and radical the state government goes. Before
31:24
Speaker 3: we get to the serious geopolitical issues, let's talk about
31:27
Speaker 3: tennis legend Novak Djokovic. He has a new documentary and
31:31
Speaker 3: he has been completely vindicated for his stance during COVID.
31:36
Speaker 3: You'll remember his refusal to get the JAB saw him
31:39
Speaker 3: thrown out of Australia. He wasn't able to take part
31:41
Speaker 3: in the OS Open. Let's remember how he was smeared
31:45
Speaker 3: by the tennis world by the media. This is NBC
31:48
Speaker 3: Sports presenter and former tennis player Mary Krillo.
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Speaker 17: I live in Florida where the governor Destantas doesn't even
31:56
Speaker 17: believe in telling people that mask or sarry. So now
32:01
Speaker 17: to bring sports into it, Novak djoko It, so let's
32:04
Speaker 17: talk about my sport, tennis. He has his own beliefs,
32:07
Speaker 17: and he's firm in them. He does not believe in
32:09
Speaker 17: the sanctity of science. He's one of so many people
32:13
Speaker 17: in this world, especially in our country, it seems to
32:16
Speaker 17: just think that science is just another opinion, and that
32:20
Speaker 17: scares the hell out of me.
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Speaker 3: So if you disputed the effectiveness of masking, you did
32:26
Speaker 3: not believe in the sanctity of science, Mary, really, did
32:30
Speaker 3: you really say that?
32:31
Speaker 2: Could you possibly say anything dumber?
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Speaker 9: Bottom line, Well, this controversy cost him his legacy.
32:39
Speaker 19: It will cost him, and I think his personal legacy.
32:41
Speaker 17: You cannot take away all the majors that this remarkable
32:44
Speaker 17: tennis player has already won.
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Speaker 9: But this is a big smear.
32:49
Speaker 2: Smear is the right word there, Kosher. I don't think
32:51
Speaker 2: she meant to tell on herself, but she did.
32:56
Speaker 3: And if anything, I think his legacy now is so
32:59
Speaker 3: much greater because he showed rare courage to take that
33:04
Speaker 3: stance at great personal cost.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes you.
33:09
Speaker 3: Need to wait twenty thirty fifty years. Sometimes it's after
33:12
Speaker 3: your death you've vindicated. He's been vindicated very quickly.
33:16
Speaker 7: Smear and vindicated are the two correct words for him,
33:19
Speaker 7: and absolutely his legacy is so much greater than sports
33:22
Speaker 7: for people that are not into sports like me. He
33:26
Speaker 7: transcended that because of what he did, you can be
33:28
Speaker 7: completely uninterested in sports and tennis. But now you know
33:30
Speaker 7: who he is, you know what he stood for. He
33:33
Speaker 7: has become a symbol of freedom and around the world
33:36
Speaker 7: for everybody. And he really did expose and make a
33:39
Speaker 7: mockery of governments. The Australian government and the way they
33:43
Speaker 7: handle that really did become the laughing stock of people
33:45
Speaker 7: around the world. The US government was not far behind.
33:48
Speaker 7: They also banned him from entering the country because if
33:50
Speaker 7: you're a non citizen, you were not allowed to enter
33:53
Speaker 7: if you were vaccinated, because somehow the virus understands immigration
33:56
Speaker 7: status and infects people disproportionately. All of that was just
34:01
Speaker 7: put into the forefront of how ridiculous every was.
34:04
Speaker 3: As he explains, I'm going to play a clip of
34:06
Speaker 3: from the documentary The Wolf in Winter. Nervaka responds to
34:11
Speaker 3: the smear campaign, explaining why he didn't get the COVID shots.
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Speaker 19: Because I didn't feel like I needed it. Why why
34:18
Speaker 19: should I get a vaccine? You know I'm healthy, I'm
34:21
Speaker 19: an athlete, I had corona, I have protection. I'm not
34:25
Speaker 19: a threat to anybody. Why should I get vaccine? It's
34:30
Speaker 19: my freedom to choose, which that fundamental right that you
34:36
Speaker 19: have as a human being on this planet, freedom to choose,
34:42
Speaker 19: was taken away from a lot of people in this planet.
34:45
Speaker 2: Kosher.
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Speaker 3: The treatment he got, particularly here in Australia, was just horrific.
34:52
Speaker 2: The media in particular were.
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Speaker 3: Feral I remember writing about it several times at the time,
34:58
Speaker 3: and he was presented as the most hated man in
35:02
Speaker 3: Australia for this decision, the most.
35:04
Speaker 2: Heighted person in Australia.
35:07
Speaker 3: And we've got to remember it was a Conservative government
35:10
Speaker 3: that decided to chuck him out. It wasn't the Victorian
35:13
Speaker 3: government where the Ozo open is held here in Melbourne.
35:17
Speaker 11: It was.
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Speaker 7: Yes, it was really bipartisan insanity at that time, and
35:22
Speaker 7: the federal government, which was a Conservative government, was banning
35:25
Speaker 7: Australian citizens from re entering their own country. And you know,
35:28
Speaker 7: we can relitigate that and we probably will tell the
35:31
Speaker 7: end of time. He just became such a symbol because
35:33
Speaker 7: it's absurd. All of those regulations are absurd. But then
35:36
Speaker 7: on top of that, you take him one of the
35:38
Speaker 7: most the healthiest people on the planet, as he said,
35:41
Speaker 7: he literally is.
35:42
Speaker 2: And had COVID already, so he had correct and he.
35:45
Speaker 7: Was not a public health threat or whatever they were
35:48
Speaker 7: trying to say that he is. So the whole thing
35:50
Speaker 7: just really got exposed. That has aged very well, his
35:54
Speaker 7: comments have aged well. He does get to transcend beyond sports.
35:57
Speaker 7: There are some others like Kyrie Everson, the NBA player,
36:00
Speaker 7: go over his thirty two million dollar contract because he
36:02
Speaker 7: wouldn't get it. So there are a few here and there,
36:04
Speaker 7: but definitely Djokovic.
36:05
Speaker 2: Holds up well.
36:06
Speaker 3: There was a couple of There was a handful of
36:08
Speaker 3: football players in the AFL who couldn't get exemptions, didn't
36:14
Speaker 3: want the vaccine and bad to give up their careers,
36:18
Speaker 3: so it cost a lot of athletes. Now, the Carmelo
36:23
Speaker 3: Anthony case, I know we've spoken about it several times.
36:26
Speaker 3: The killer has now been denied a retrial and that
36:30
Speaker 3: has made Don Lemon very angry.
36:32
Speaker 1: Breaking and is complicated, So make sure you pay attention.
36:35
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony is not getting a new trial, and after
36:39
Speaker 1: what came out in the court last week, I have questions.
36:42
Speaker 1: We learned there was a private, off the record agreement
36:45
Speaker 1: to keep the trouble Youth's backgrounds. Both teenagers away from
36:49
Speaker 1: the jury. Austin Metcalf had allegations involving racial slurs, bullying,
36:54
Speaker 1: and assault. Carmelo had allegations involving threatening texts, stalking, and assault.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but one of those teenagers murdered the Elblo. I
37:03
Speaker 3: think that's the relevant part that we're missing here. But
37:05
Speaker 3: I've been talking about this for the last week, this
37:09
Speaker 3: sickness in America where killers are defended, even celebrated, money
37:15
Speaker 3: is raised for them. This is just another example. It's
37:18
Speaker 3: not isolated. It really speaks to something very wrong in
37:23
Speaker 3: society that something like this could happen. If you told
37:26
Speaker 3: me even ten to fifteen years ago we would have
37:29
Speaker 3: a case where child killers are lauded.
37:34
Speaker 2: I would say, you're crazy. We would never get to
37:36
Speaker 2: that point. It's a good point.
37:37
Speaker 7: It really is a sign of a seic society in
37:40
Speaker 7: some ways, and there's different layers to it. So in
37:42
Speaker 7: this case, it's all about race. And I think President
37:44
Speaker 7: trump On's called Don Lemon the dumbest person in news,
37:48
Speaker 7: and maybe that comes into play here that he just
37:51
Speaker 7: can't think beyond that framework. And you can say that
37:54
Speaker 7: the flashpoint in that framework was og Simpson, and that
37:57
Speaker 7: completely racialized the reactions, and you've had some people celebrating
38:00
Speaker 7: in the streets in broadly speaking Black America, and people
38:04
Speaker 7: on the other side thinking that that was a MISSI.
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Speaker 3: Well, I've heard Lindsay Clancy referred to as white women's
38:10
Speaker 3: O J. Simpson, and it seems to be that way.
38:13
Speaker 3: They know she's guilty, but they see some sort of
38:17
Speaker 3: a political imperative that can push through her. And it
38:21
Speaker 3: really is it takes very fine to jump through those
38:25
Speaker 3: hoops and sort of can tort yourself into a position
38:28
Speaker 3: where you could rationalize what happened.
38:31
Speaker 7: Yes, So that's another I was just going to mention
38:33
Speaker 7: her because obviously one of the hardest stories in news
38:35
Speaker 7: right now, and she symbolizes sort of this the feminization
38:39
Speaker 7: of the culture and how there's a swat that people
38:43
Speaker 7: just believe that it's a paternalistic society that we live in,
38:45
Speaker 7: and she's a victim of the system, even though she
38:47
Speaker 7: murdered her own kids.
38:49
Speaker 4: So you have that.
38:49
Speaker 7: Then you had people who were cheering for the United
38:52
Speaker 7: Healthcare of course, CEO's assassination Luigi and sort of fangirling
38:56
Speaker 7: around him, which is another bizarre, weird thing. And then
38:58
Speaker 7: of course Charlie saw people dancing all over social media
39:02
Speaker 7: with that. So they're different reasons for all of them,
39:05
Speaker 7: but it does broadly, I think you're putting your finger
39:08
Speaker 7: on something astute and very sad about society. The broadly,
39:12
Speaker 7: just the fact that people are celebrating murder, regardless of
39:15
Speaker 7: what the pathway is, race, feminism, whatever it is, is
39:19
Speaker 7: not a symbol or a sign of a healthy society,
39:21
Speaker 7: and I fear what that says about society overall and
39:25
Speaker 7: what comes next.
39:27
Speaker 3: Now, the United States has formally removed Syria from its
39:31
Speaker 3: list of state sponsors of terrorism, and movest Secretary of
39:34
Speaker 3: State Michael Rubio says will eliminate the final major barrier
39:39
Speaker 3: to investment and economic recovery for that country, since a
39:43
Speaker 3: controversial move.
39:44
Speaker 7: Kosher very controversial obviously. You know the history of Syria.
39:49
Speaker 7: They've been under sanctioned since nineteen seventy nine. This leader
39:52
Speaker 7: who came in after Asad was toppled, came from al Qaeda,
39:56
Speaker 7: has roots over there. So the controversy is it's or
40:00
Speaker 7: at least removing the punishment from somebody like that too quickly.
40:03
Speaker 7: The flip side, of course, what the Trump administration. Marco
40:06
Speaker 7: Rubio seemed to be doing is trying to free up
40:10
Speaker 7: as much of the world and in that region as possible,
40:12
Speaker 7: maybe creating more of a pressure point on Iran. The
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Speaker 7: Syria under this person's leadership has sort of choked off
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Speaker 7: the inroads that Iran had into Syria, and they're trying
40:23
Speaker 7: to bend Syria back towards the US and away.
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Speaker 2: From the access of Russia and Iran.
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Speaker 7: So there's probably that kind of play in there. But yeah,
40:30
Speaker 7: now it leaves us three countries that are sanctioned by
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Speaker 7: the US, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba, and we shall see.
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Speaker 2: What happens well on Iran.
40:37
Speaker 3: The Iranian state TV is the moment broadcasting a video
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Speaker 3: purporting to track the movements of Donald Trump's youngest child, Baron,
40:45
Speaker 3: who is only twenty years old. The footage for portally
40:49
Speaker 3: shows barn being tracked, showing the location of his university
40:53
Speaker 3: escort vehicles and Secret Service post, and leedging his movements
40:57
Speaker 3: were fully monitored. Kosher claiming a ten million bounty has
41:03
Speaker 3: been placed on Barren and if they wanted negotiations with
41:08
Speaker 3: the Trump administration to be fruitful, this really isn't the
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Speaker 3: way to do it.
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Speaker 7: No, they are flexing where they can flex. We've covered
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Speaker 7: before the same thing with Millennia and where she's shopping
41:19
Speaker 7: and all of that. And they're very good at information
41:21
Speaker 7: warfare and using sort of the psychology of information on
41:25
Speaker 7: top of everything else. That's certainly a formidable enemy to have.
41:30
Speaker 7: We can only hope that the Secret Service is doing
41:32
Speaker 7: his job. A lot of people are not very confident
41:34
Speaker 7: in the Secret Service given their performance of lead.
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Speaker 3: But after what we saw in Butler, I think we're
41:39
Speaker 3: all a little bit nervous about just how competent some
41:42
Speaker 3: of those agents are.
41:44
Speaker 2: Koshergata, thank you so much for beank. You still to come.
41:47
Speaker 3: The WNBA Translaga takes another twist. Alex Stard will have
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Speaker 3: all the details welcome back now in his Canter Freedom
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Speaker 3: and Royce White, former NBA players have brought more media
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Speaker 3: attention to the WNBA than the league could have ever dreamed.
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Speaker 2: Have a look at this AI ad they made. The
42:14
Speaker 2: WNBA should take notes.
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Speaker 8: What is a woman?
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Speaker 2: Being a woman.
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Speaker 15: Is not so black and white and size doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: That's our model.
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Speaker 17: Okay, what is being a woman mean to you? Buckets?
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Speaker 2: Buckets?
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Speaker 3: Of course, both players have nominated for the WNBA draft,
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Speaker 3: and we're going to talk about that with my next guest,
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Speaker 3: comic and host of After Hours with Alex Stein.
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Speaker 2: Alex, what is the latest? Are we going to see
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Speaker 2: those two in the WNBA?
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Speaker 9: Well, I think it's obvious. The WNBA is xenophobic, they're bigoted.
43:16
Speaker 9: They're not letting you know their latest thing, as they're saying,
43:19
Speaker 9: they're not going to let Royce White and in his
43:21
Speaker 9: cancer freedom join the league. And you know, I'm actually
43:24
Speaker 9: not surprised because you know, half of the league identify
43:26
Speaker 9: as being lesbian, and lesbians hate women the most. I
43:29
Speaker 9: hate to put that label. I mean they hate men
43:31
Speaker 9: the most and they hate women. That's why they have
43:33
Speaker 9: the highest divorce rate out of all couples. So it's
43:35
Speaker 9: just a tough battle for these two lovely ladies. And
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Speaker 9: I'm sad that we're not going to get to see
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Speaker 9: him in the WNBA because I would gamble on him
43:42
Speaker 9: and win money.
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Speaker 2: Reader, Well, yeah, I don't know.
43:44
Speaker 3: You like men in women's sport because you think it
43:46
Speaker 3: makes it easier to make bets. But in his Canter Freedom,
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Speaker 3: he can't even watch a WNBA game. He was verbally
43:53
Speaker 3: attacked by Chicago player from the WNBA and then thrown
43:58
Speaker 3: out of the stadium. Apparently the player was irate because
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Speaker 3: of a shirt that he was wearing saying the.
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Speaker 2: Definition of a woman an adult female.
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Speaker 3: Why do biological facts and dictionary definitions trigger these leftist
44:14
Speaker 3: women so much, Alex.
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Speaker 9: Well, because they're not based in reality rita. And you
44:20
Speaker 9: would think if you're playing in a WNBA game, a
44:22
Speaker 9: serious game, you'd be worried about guarding your player, making
44:26
Speaker 9: you know, a good shot. But they don't care about that.
44:29
Speaker 9: They want a virtue signal and they want to just
44:31
Speaker 9: try to bring attention to themselves. And listen, I would
44:34
Speaker 9: say that the NBA is woke, the NFL has become woke,
44:37
Speaker 9: Major League Baseball is woke. But when it comes to wokeness,
44:39
Speaker 9: the WNBA is leading the charge. So this is what
44:42
Speaker 9: they do to create headlines, to create more money. It's
44:45
Speaker 9: not about the basketball players. It's all about the drama
44:48
Speaker 9: on and off the court.
44:50
Speaker 2: Now, Alex, I don't know if you saw that, but
44:52
Speaker 2: Ennis was on Fox News.
44:53
Speaker 3: Early this morning and he revealed what Chicago sky guard
44:57
Speaker 3: Natasha Cloud said to him on the.
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Speaker 8: Court towards the you know, third quarter, Uh, they put
45:04
Speaker 8: Sophia Cottenham in and I remember around three, the last
45:09
Speaker 8: three minute mark, she shot the ball and I put
45:11
Speaker 8: my hand in the air to celebrate it, right, and
45:13
Speaker 8: then Natasha Cloud saw that my celebration. Literally the next position,
45:18
Speaker 8: she came back and she started yelling at me and said,
45:21
Speaker 8: she's not going to sleep with you.
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Speaker 1: Who's not going to sleep with you.
45:24
Speaker 8: Sophia, Sophia Conningham is not going to sleep I don't
45:26
Speaker 8: even understand what are you trying to? You know, I'm
45:29
Speaker 8: not trying so definitely not, definitely not. I want to
45:32
Speaker 8: make this very clear. Definitely not.
45:33
Speaker 2: And I'm just confused.
45:35
Speaker 8: At that point, I'm like, I turned, I turned around
45:37
Speaker 8: to my manager. I'm like, what is she talking about?
45:39
Speaker 8: And he was he would shot And after that I
45:44
Speaker 8: was like, the next position, I was like, I'm not
45:45
Speaker 8: trying to sleep at her. I'm just here the protect
45:48
Speaker 8: woman and support my friend Sophia Cottenham. And then after that,
45:53
Speaker 8: obviously the next position she started to yell and cost me.
45:58
Speaker 3: Alex swearing and carrying on in front of children, being
46:01
Speaker 3: triggered by a shirt triggered by him cheering.
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Speaker 2: On Sophie Cunningham. What is wrong with Natasha Cloud is
46:09
Speaker 2: the question here?
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Speaker 9: Well, Natasha has no self control. And listen, Sophie Cunningham
46:14
Speaker 9: is a very beautiful lady, so you know, I'm sure
46:16
Speaker 9: there's a lot of guys I would like to go
46:18
Speaker 9: out with her, but that's neither here nor there. What
46:21
Speaker 9: is important when it comes to you know, her getting
46:23
Speaker 9: mad at Inis everything the left does. And I hear
46:26
Speaker 9: this trope. It's so common they make everything sexual. For
46:28
Speaker 9: some reason, it's always about sex. I don't think Inis
46:31
Speaker 9: cancer is trying to sleep with Sophie Cunningham, but for
46:34
Speaker 9: some reason that sex is always on their mind.
46:36
Speaker 15: Rider.
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Speaker 3: Now, President Donald Trump has again paid tribute to White
46:42
Speaker 3: House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, even joking about how sad
46:47
Speaker 3: he is that she loves her children more than she
46:50
Speaker 3: loves Trump.
46:51
Speaker 18: Have a listened and our press secretary and mother of two,
46:54
Speaker 18: and well, she decided she loved her children more than
46:58
Speaker 18: she loved Donald Trump. I'm very opas about this. She
47:01
Speaker 18: has to go home and spend time with her children.
47:03
Speaker 18: That does happen on occasion with some people when they
47:07
Speaker 18: love their children.
47:08
Speaker 3: Alex, give me a scoop. Do we know who will
47:11
Speaker 3: be replacing Caroline Levis.
47:14
Speaker 9: Well, people are speculating that Scott Jennings from CNN the
47:17
Speaker 9: one conservative voice on the entire network. But honestly, and
47:20
Speaker 9: I'm not just saying this because I like you so much, Rita,
47:23
Speaker 9: but Donald Trump needs to think outside the box. He
47:25
Speaker 9: needs to hire you. Rita Panahey, I think you would
47:28
Speaker 9: dominate it. And you know, honestly, all the people that
47:31
Speaker 9: call the Trump a xenophobe this and that we need
47:34
Speaker 9: another attractive woman. And I'm not trying to sound like
47:36
Speaker 9: a misogynist, but there's something about having a woman up
47:39
Speaker 9: there to basically handle all these sideways questions. It disarms
47:43
Speaker 9: a lot of the negative, you know, questions and all
47:46
Speaker 9: the scrutiny that these women face. Because Carolyn Macknie was
47:50
Speaker 9: a very attractive woman. Caroline Levitz an attractive woman. You
47:53
Speaker 9: would be a great pick. I would really hope that
47:56
Speaker 9: Donald Trump would at least consider.
47:57
Speaker 3: You, Rita.
48:00
Speaker 2: You just flattery will get you everywhere. Alex sat down
48:03
Speaker 2: before you go.
48:04
Speaker 3: It is a sad day because the breakout star of
48:08
Speaker 3: this year's World Copling Holland, has cut his beautiful hair.
48:12
Speaker 2: Let's have a look at some of the reactions.
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Speaker 4: What did you do.
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Speaker 13: Oh my god, what is this you must have been
48:23
Speaker 13: or what? Oh my god, can block me and e
48:28
Speaker 13: raise my numbers?
48:32
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, you just know.
48:42
Speaker 3: So I'm not looking like a girl anymore.
48:43
Speaker 8: What do you think, old?
48:53
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my god, it
49:01
Speaker 2: looks nice.
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Speaker 15: I see.
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Speaker 2: Alex. He was arguably the biggest star out of the
49:10
Speaker 2: World Cup.
49:10
Speaker 3: Is certainly dominated the online world during that tournament.
49:15
Speaker 2: What do you make of this? Was this a grave,
49:17
Speaker 2: grave mistake?
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Speaker 11: No way?
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Speaker 9: I mean, Earling was a fan favorite. The guy's a
49:22
Speaker 9: soccer stud who cares if he has long hair short hair?
49:25
Speaker 9: But Rita, this doesn't care. Comes over. No, no, But
49:29
Speaker 9: I'm telling you, we got college football this Saturday. I'm
49:31
Speaker 9: here in America. We're ready for some American football. I've
49:34
Speaker 9: been waiting forever. And then the Cowboys. You know, I'm
49:36
Speaker 9: gonna use Dallas Cowboys fan starts here in about three weeks.
49:39
Speaker 9: So I'm ready for some American football. And I'm done
49:41
Speaker 9: with soccer at the moment. I'm soccered out, So I'm
49:43
Speaker 9: ready for some good old fashioned American football.
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Speaker 2: That is very American of you.
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Speaker 3: You guys only care about the most about the sport
49:52
Speaker 3: of soccer once every four years, so I get at
49:55
Speaker 3: alex Stein. Thank you so much for your time, and
49:58
Speaker 3: that's it for me too. Up next, it's late edition
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Speaker 18: M mm hm