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The Rita Panahi Show | 9 March · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On Scoring Lives Australia. This is the Da Panee Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita panihe Show. I'm
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Speaker 2: Caroline Marcus. Coming up tonight. The ABC is flooded with
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Speaker 2: complaints over its Middle East coverage. Will show you the
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Speaker 2: most complained about segments. Shortly, the CEO of Ford warns
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Speaker 2: the government's new carbon taxes could drive its engineering and
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Speaker 2: design teams straight out of Australia. We'll speak to Josh
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Speaker 2: Hammer about why the newly named Supreme Leader of Iran
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Speaker 2: shouldn't get too comfortable in the job. Prince Harry and
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Speaker 2: Meghan Markle are planning another trip down under amid her
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Speaker 2: dumping from Netflix, and lefties are now embracing their Trump
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Speaker 2: derangement syndrome like a demented badge of honor.
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Speaker 3: Keep fact Trump. If you listen to this, you listen good,
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Speaker 3: because where I'm getting ready to say is what a
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Speaker 3: lot of peaceeople in this country speak for. Who I
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Speaker 3: speak for, and I speak for a lot of people
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Speaker 3: here me you fat.
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Speaker 2: But let's start with the war in the Middle East.
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Speaker 2: And there's been lots of developments in the past twenty
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Speaker 2: four hours, but one of the key revelations has been
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Speaker 2: Israel's disclosure about why it first struck Iran late last month.
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Speaker 2: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sar has told the Zionis Federation
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Speaker 2: of Australia in a zoom address that the attacks were
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Speaker 2: driven by intelligence Tehran was planning to relocate its nuclear
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Speaker 2: facilities deep underground, beyond the reach of any air force.
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Speaker 2: He said, we would have stood in a hopeless situation
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Speaker 2: where Iran could just decide they want to be nuclear
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Speaker 2: and you couldn't attack them from the air. That would
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Speaker 2: be a desperate situation. This is why we decided the
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Speaker 2: Security Cabinet unanimously to take action, and to do it now.
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Speaker 2: Joining me to discuss this and more of the day's
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Speaker 2: headlines is Sky News contributor Louise Roberts and Better and
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Speaker 2: broadcaster and journalists DD Don'tlivy welcome both of you ladies, now, Louise.
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Speaker 2: There's been a lot of analysis and questioning as to
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Speaker 2: what prompted the preemptive strikes from both Israel and the US,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of analysis and challenging of the legality,
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Speaker 2: the so called legality of this action, particularly by our
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Speaker 2: own ABC. But if Israeli intelligence is accurate here and
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Speaker 2: it often is. It's very good. This move to fortify
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Speaker 2: Around's nuclear weapons and program from future attacks, well, that
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Speaker 2: is really endangering peace on a global scale, and surely
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Speaker 2: they would have had no choice but to act.
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Speaker 4: I agree, And certainly Trump's agenda here is willpeace. Let's
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Speaker 4: not forget that. It's not just about aggression. And for Israel,
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Speaker 4: I think this was a tactic for survival, not aggression
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Speaker 4: as well. And they acted before the window before Iran
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Speaker 4: moved all this, you know, weaponry and missiles and yuke's
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Speaker 4: underground into a bunker which we may never have found.
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Speaker 4: And they've been very clear about their mission, which is
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Speaker 4: to obliterate Israel. So had Israel not acted first, well peace,
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Speaker 4: we wouldn't have. It would be an absolute chaos. I mean,
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Speaker 4: Iran and nukes together is a recipe for disaster, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, And it's interesting to me the countries that
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Speaker 2: are sticking up for a run like having a nuclear
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Speaker 2: weapon is somehow they're right in other countries, we cannot
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Speaker 2: allow that to happen, did he. We've also seen in
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Speaker 2: the past twenty four hours last day or so, the
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Speaker 2: Iranian regime finally announced it's new supreme leader. It's the
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Speaker 2: son of the late ayotole A Taba Hamine. He is
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Speaker 2: going to be their man in the role and a
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Speaker 2: bit of a nepotism baby, I guess you could say
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Speaker 2: Israel and the US have flagged though already he won't
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Speaker 2: last long. They will take him out if he is
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to follow what they want, which you
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Speaker 2: dare say, he's not going to someone who's the son
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Speaker 2: of the Ayatola. What do we know about this guy?
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Speaker 5: Oh, well, he's a very dangerous man, and he's said
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Speaker 5: to be even more radical than his father, with a
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Speaker 5: deeper hatred of the US. And bear in mind that
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Speaker 5: in the US Israeli strikes that not only was his
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Speaker 5: father killed, but his mother, his wife, and one of
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Speaker 5: his sons as well. He's got no previous government experience
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Speaker 5: as such, and so you have to wonder, Well, it's
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Speaker 5: entirely conceivable that the Iranian National Iranian forces, who he
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Speaker 5: is closely aligned with, that they've pushed him forward.
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Speaker 6: The Iranian Revolutionary Guard apologize that they've pushed.
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Speaker 5: Him forward and that he's just there to do their bidding,
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Speaker 5: that whatever they tell him to do, they've not got.
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Speaker 6: A person in a seat of power.
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Speaker 5: And I do know he's got a personal wealth of
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Speaker 5: over three billion dollars. How he creates that we'll never
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Speaker 5: know owns a millions of dollars worth of property in London.
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Speaker 5: So I just want to wish Sakias Starma well with
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Speaker 5: that particular citizen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, well, he's Sakis Starmer hasn't exactly been too
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Speaker 2: clear on which side he sits on himself. Maybe he's
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Speaker 2: trying to be welcoming to his neighbor there, tity. Let's
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Speaker 2: talk about the disturbing footage that's emerged of the Iranian
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Speaker 2: women's soccer team bus as it left a Gold Coast
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Speaker 2: stadium last night, showing what appears to be one of
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Speaker 2: the players making the international sign for help. The clip
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Speaker 2: has renewed calls for Australia to intervene here, calls that
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Speaker 2: Foreign Minister Penny Wong won't say whether she's answered.
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Speaker 5: Is it safe for them to return home?
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Speaker 7: I want to say about the Iranian women's team that
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Speaker 7: it has been really moving for Australians to see them
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Speaker 7: in Australia. We stand in solidarity with the men and
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Speaker 7: women of Iran and particular Iranian women and girls. I
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Speaker 7: don't want to get into commentary about the Iranian women's
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Speaker 7: team Louise.
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Speaker 2: After refusing to sing the anthem at their first match,
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Speaker 2: they were branded wartime traitors on state Iranian TV and
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Speaker 2: it was said that they are deserving of serious punishment.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you'd have to say, there's no doubt that
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Speaker 2: their lives are at risk if they had back home.
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Speaker 2: Should we be doing something more to help these women?
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Speaker 4: I think well, the Foreign Medicine needs to be a
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Speaker 4: bit more decisive in her comments rather than saying I'm
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Speaker 4: not going to make any comment about them. I mean, clearly,
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Speaker 4: if you've got them in buses making help signals, it's
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Speaker 4: absolutely harrowing. And I do feel a bone chilling fate
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Speaker 4: awaits these athletes when they go back to Iran, even
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Speaker 4: if they go via Turkey, because we know that it
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Speaker 4: already a national footballer and a referee were murdered by
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Speaker 4: the regime four speaking out, so they already have blood
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Speaker 4: on their hands and no matter who's now taken up
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Speaker 4: the cudgel, there definitely at risk. To see them fight
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Speaker 4: against you know, seeing the national anthem and then have
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Speaker 4: to see the national anthem was absolutely heartbreaking out very
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Speaker 4: harrowing to watch them because you could see they were
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Speaker 4: most of them were dead eyed and very frightened and.
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Speaker 2: Do the salute. On top of that, there was no
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Speaker 2: doubt that words were said in their ear. You have
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Speaker 2: to make up for what you did the first time.
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Speaker 2: You're right, it was harrowing, did he Assistant Foreign Minister
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Speaker 2: Foreign Affairs spokesman Matt there's a way he's somewhat walked
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Speaker 2: back comments that he made earlier that the government could
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Speaker 2: not give these players preferential treatment. He's now said, like
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Speaker 2: Penny Wong, he can't make any comments about this. He
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Speaker 2: said he didn't want to prejudice any decisions later on.
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Speaker 2: Do you think that this is a positive sign that
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Speaker 2: maybe there are things happening behind the scenes.
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Speaker 5: Look, I want to believe that there are negotiations going
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Speaker 5: on that we're not being made privy to, and that
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Speaker 5: would be okay if that was happening, But I don't
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Speaker 5: have the confidence that it is.
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Speaker 6: And it must be terrifying for these young women.
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Speaker 5: Most of them are only maybe twenty three, twenty four,
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Speaker 5: they've never been outside of Iran before, and they're faced
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Speaker 5: with the prospect of if they do try and seek
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Speaker 5: asylum and stay here in Australia, what will happen to
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Speaker 5: their families back home, who have very likely been detained
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Speaker 5: as a sort of a means to put pressure on
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Speaker 5: them to come back home again.
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Speaker 6: I've got questions too.
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Speaker 5: About the people, the officials who are surrounding this team.
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Speaker 5: They're cutting them off their communications, their phones, They're not
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Speaker 5: being allowed to speak to anyone else. Those people are
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Speaker 5: clearly doing the bidding of the Iranian government, and so
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Speaker 5: how are they able to exercise that sort of control
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Speaker 5: on Australian soil. Tracy Holmes on her substack has been
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Speaker 5: doing some excellent reporting on this particular issue, and she's
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Speaker 5: reported today that the women are being denied access to
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Speaker 5: a human rights lawyer. So it just becomes more and
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Speaker 5: more concerning, and I feel for these poor girls.
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Speaker 2: Let's hope that their futures they don't have to head back,
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Speaker 2: and if they do that they're safe. But I don't
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Speaker 2: have a lot of hope for that if they have
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Speaker 2: to go back. Look, let's talk now about the coalition
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Speaker 2: and the Australian reports that the opposition is considering forcing
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Speaker 2: people who appeal their visa cancelations to do so in
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Speaker 2: their country of origin, rather than be allowed to remain
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Speaker 2: here on bridging visas while the legal process plays out.
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Speaker 2: The paper also reports the Coalition as likely to propose
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Speaker 2: an extra layer of vetting for visa applicants from countries
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Speaker 2: with high levels of radicalization. Did I'll come to you
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Speaker 2: first on this one. I would imagine this would be
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Speaker 2: an easy vote winner for the Coalition. Australians is sick
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Speaker 2: of lawyers and migration agents weaponizing our legal system, that
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Speaker 2: concerned about national security. If you look at any of
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Speaker 2: the recent polls, especially after what happened in BONDI surely
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Speaker 2: this is a winning policy.
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Speaker 6: I absolutely agree with you, Caroline. Idiots. We've got more
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Speaker 6: than one hundred thousand.
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Speaker 5: Asylum seekers currently on Australian soil, and the lawyers and
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Speaker 5: the migration agents are finding those loopholes, and we really
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Speaker 5: need a crack down on people who are saying that
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Speaker 5: they're coming here to study something in particular or work
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Speaker 5: in some particular way and then changing that once they're here.
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Speaker 5: But stay in your own home until your visa is clear.
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Speaker 5: That's the way it should work. And we need an
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Speaker 5: overhaul of the migration Act. It was written back in
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Speaker 5: nineteen fifty eight. It's stale and musty and definitely needs
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Speaker 5: an update. But as you said, I agree it's a
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Speaker 5: vote winner.
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Speaker 2: Well, I hope that they follow through with it. I
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Speaker 2: think they'd be mad if they didn't. Look, it's been
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Speaker 2: revealed the ABC has copped a deluge of negative feedback
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Speaker 2: about its Middle East coverage, driving more than fifty percent
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Speaker 2: rise and complaints in the six months to December thirty. First,
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Speaker 2: they were the three thousand and forty three complaints specifically
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Speaker 2: about ABC content in that period, up from two thousand
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Speaker 2: and eight complaints the year before. And the segment that
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Speaker 2: drew the most plants was Sarah Ferguson's seven point thirty
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Speaker 2: interview with former Treasurer Josh Fredenberg following the Bondi tarror
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Speaker 2: attack last year. Let's remind you.
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Speaker 8: Of that exchange, widely viewed as inevitable that you will
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Speaker 8: return to politics. How do we not see this through
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Speaker 8: a political lens. I mean the case that you're making
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Speaker 8: a personal case against the Prime minister.
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Speaker 9: I'm deeply offended by what you just said. I'm deeply offended.
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Speaker 9: Explain that, and you know what, there was a man
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Speaker 9: called Murray Watt, who sits on the labor front bench,
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Speaker 9: who tried to say that about a year ago, and
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Speaker 9: then labor ministers like Mike Kelly and others he hear
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Speaker 9: me who came out and said exactly what I'm about
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Speaker 9: to say, which is that is an insult. That is
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Speaker 9: an insult to say that there's any political motivation in this.
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Speaker 2: It was extraordinary. But another moment which drew fierce audience
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Speaker 2: criticism was on Hardcore Is, hosted by Tom Gleeson.
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Speaker 10: The Social network opens with Mark Zuckerberg getting dumped by
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Speaker 10: his girlfriend, who tells him that if girls don't like him,
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Speaker 10: it's because he's an asshole, not because he's a what
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Speaker 10: it's wide open, Mike, do increase Its still wide open? Quick?
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Speaker 10: Someone feel the awkward silence? Time's up, Nerd, Yeah, it's.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if leaving that in there wasn't bad enough,
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Speaker 2: all the laughter that continued afterwards just compounded at Louise.
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Speaker 2: The ABC Onbudsman cleared the broadcaster for both segments. They
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Speaker 2: did take down that hard quiz one off IVY, but
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Speaker 2: said that was just due to rising sensitivities after the attack.
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Speaker 2: But clearly that sort of anti Semitism is never, of
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Speaker 2: course not.
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Speaker 4: I mean the ABC always seems to be responding to
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Speaker 4: pressure rather than having this consistent you know, playbook or
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Speaker 4: consistent rules whatever the new cycle. You don't suddenly decide
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Speaker 4: it's bad because it's bad for the new cycle at
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Speaker 4: the moment. I mean, you watched that footage and he
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Speaker 4: absolutely wins the laughter as you say, and the host
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Speaker 4: is laughing. And the fact they broadcast that it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 4: They've taken off the website. The damage is done. And
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Speaker 4: I mean to Sarah Ferguson's interview with Josh was just
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Speaker 4: even now. I would say it's one of the worst
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Speaker 4: things I've seen on TV. The way she made him square,
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Speaker 4: and when we know his grief was so visceral and real,
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Speaker 4: for her to politicize in that way is absolutely appalling.
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Speaker 2: Did he I agree with Louise, I think that it
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Speaker 2: was fair to ask a question in a certain way,
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Speaker 2: But it was the way she put the question and
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Speaker 2: continued to try, as she often does, to interrupt the
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Speaker 2: former treasurer as he was trying to answer that question
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Speaker 2: that exacerbated the offense. I think in the first.
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Speaker 5: Place, absolutely, And he's a man who's used to the
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Speaker 5: Rothham tumble of politics and being asked all sorts of
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Speaker 5: things at different times, and even he looked like he
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Speaker 5: was struggling to gather himself to maintain his decorum, which
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Speaker 5: he did and ieolute him for doing that. It's interesting
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Speaker 5: that four out of the top five most complained about
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Speaker 5: programs on the ABC news and current affairs content, and
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Speaker 5: you know when you turn on the ABC you're going
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Speaker 5: to get lefty content.
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Speaker 6: So I'm actually slightly baffled by these.
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Speaker 5: Statistics because is if the lefties who are watching it,
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Speaker 5: who have finally had enough and their complaining, I mean,
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Speaker 5: who are these complaints coming from.
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Speaker 2: Well, in terms of the Middle East coverage, interestingly, it's
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Speaker 2: pretty divided, people saying they're two pro Palestinian, two pro
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Speaker 2: Is around me. To be honest, I can't see how
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Speaker 2: anyone could say they're two pro Is well, but that
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Speaker 2: just tells you how far to the left many of
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Speaker 2: their viewers and their bases. But look, they receive taxpayer funding,
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Speaker 2: don't they, And they are meant to be impartial, and
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Speaker 2: so their news needs to meet those editorial standards. Did
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Speaker 2: he done? Leave the Roberts? Thank you both so much
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Speaker 2: for your time. Joining me in our is geologist and
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Speaker 2: author professor in plimber Ian. Great to have you again.
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Speaker 2: Australians are now facing fuel rationing and exorbitant prices at
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Speaker 2: the pump as petrol and diesel wholesalers scramble to manage
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Speaker 2: fuel supplies. United Petroleum, one of the nation's largest wholesalers,
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Speaker 2: has already suspended its normal fuel allocations nationwide while it
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Speaker 2: reviews stock levels and the current risks due to the
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Speaker 2: conflict in the Middle East, and some economists are even
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Speaker 2: forecasting prices at the bowser will surpass three dollars a
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Speaker 2: liter in Chris Bowen. Meanwhile, he's been reassuring us everything
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Speaker 2: is going to be fine.
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Speaker 11: But the government has been warned about this for at
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Speaker 11: least two decades. We don't have enough fuel in storage
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Speaker 11: in this country. To exacerbate that, we've slowed down exploration
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Speaker 11: for oil and for gas. To make it even more,
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Speaker 11: we've gone some eight refineries to two refineries. And mister
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Speaker 11: Bowen is in Lalla Land. We have a crisis in
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Speaker 11: this country. We don't have enough petroleum to keep this
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Speaker 11: country going now. We need diesel to take food from
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Speaker 11: warehouses to supermarkets. We need diesel to plow, to plant,
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Speaker 11: to seed, to harvest, and to bring our crops to
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Speaker 11: the cities for people to eat. So we've been talking
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Speaker 11: about this for decades. Nothing has happened, and this is
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Speaker 11: the hallmark of the government. Nothing has happened on the
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Speaker 11: major strategic issues in this country. So I think we
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Speaker 11: can suffer higher fuel prices. You also have to bear
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Speaker 11: in mind that petrol is cheaper than say buying wine,
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Speaker 11: or buying beer, or buying some bottled water or some
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Speaker 11: fermented soft drinks. Now it's a very, very complex and
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Speaker 11: expensive process to go from ex exploration to actually putting
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Speaker 11: petrol or diesel into your car. And mister Baron's solution
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Speaker 11: is going to be a simple one.
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Speaker 1: Just wait for it.
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Speaker 11: He'll tell us, I'll forget driving petrol cars start to
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Speaker 11: drive electric cars.
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Speaker 1: We have been let down badly by our government.
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Speaker 2: Well we're already hearing that from some sections of the
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Speaker 2: government too, that ivy cars should be the answer. Well,
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Speaker 2: they're clearly not going to be for everyone, especially in
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Speaker 2: a country like ours doesn't have the infrastructure. And the
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Speaker 2: CEO of Ford has blasted the Albanese government's new carbon
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Speaker 2: taxes on vehicles wanting the high extra costs on the
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Speaker 2: company may put its Australian based engineering and design team
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Speaker 2: of fifteen hundred workers at risk. Speaking while at the
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Speaker 2: Grand Prix over the weekend, Jim Farley said, it's a
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Speaker 2: choice because that engineering can be done in a lot
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Speaker 2: of other places cheaper and faster here in Australia versus
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Speaker 2: China or Vietnam or other places. There is a premium
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Speaker 2: for innovation, so we're willing to pay. But your government
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Speaker 2: has to decide if they want engineers in their country
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Speaker 2: or do you want a country of hairdressers and bankers.
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Speaker 2: And I love a good hairdresser. And don't get me wrong,
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Speaker 2: but Ford is one of the few carmakers that still
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Speaker 2: designs and engineers. It's car from the ground up in Australia,
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Speaker 2: even if they don't manufacture them here anymore. But now
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Speaker 2: it looks like Albanize is apparent preference for these Chinese
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Speaker 2: evs will force what is left of Ford out of
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Speaker 2: the country.
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Speaker 11: Well, that's quite correct, and we just had a lesson
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Speaker 11: in reality Ford and trying to give the government a
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Speaker 11: fundamental economic lesson. Now I like to have the choice,
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Speaker 11: do I want to buy a petrol vehicle. Do I
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Speaker 11: want to buy diesel vehicle? Do I want to buy
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Speaker 11: an EV? Do I want to buy something can go
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Speaker 11: out back? Do I want to buy something to go
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Speaker 11: from the house to the local supermarket. We are having
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Speaker 11: that choice denied by governments and they're forcing us to
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Speaker 11: use an EV. You cannot plow a field with an
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Speaker 11: electric vehicle to produce food. You cannot drive from Brisbane
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Speaker 11: to long Reach in an electric vehicle. You just don't
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Speaker 11: have the infrastructure and you don't have the range. So
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Speaker 11: what we are being given in this country is no choice,
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Speaker 11: a lack of freedom, and we are told go and
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Speaker 11: support your Chinese mates, help out the Chinese economy, destroy
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Speaker 11: your own economy, help out the Chinese, and don't drive
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Speaker 11: a Ford or a GM.
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Speaker 1: Car or something else.
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Speaker 11: And I think he's absolutely on the money. And the
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Speaker 11: Grand Prix was a great place to give us this message.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, Australia's Bigcause Data center operators have more than
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Speaker 2: double they reported carbon emissions over the past five years.
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Speaker 2: As artificial intelligence continues to see more and more investment. Operators, Amazon, Air,
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Speaker 2: Trunk and CDC all declared annual scope to emissions increases
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Speaker 2: of more than twenty percent in the year between twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four and twenty twenty five a loon Ian No
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Speaker 2: one tell chrispo in this.
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Speaker 11: Look, Caroline, if we can concerned about emissions and data centers,
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Speaker 11: we could put small modular nuclear reactors there.
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Speaker 1: Now, if we're not concerned.
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Speaker 11: About emissions of carbon dioxide, which are the gas of life,
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Speaker 11: which is plant food, then we should cheer that we're
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Speaker 11: putting more plant food into the atmosphere. The green should
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Speaker 11: be really pleased that our forests are growing more and
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Speaker 11: since we've got more food for wildlife. So it's a
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Speaker 11: case again of get real. If we want data centers,
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Speaker 11: we need more energy, and we're not going to get
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Speaker 11: that increased energy from sea breezes and sunbeams.
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Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen. It doesn't have enough Grunt No.
20:37
Speaker 2: One Nation. Let's talk about that party because they've announced
20:41
Speaker 2: their new candidate for pharaoh, and it's an agricultural businessman
20:45
Speaker 2: called David Farley. He said that water and power will
20:50
Speaker 2: be key issues on his agenda. We know One Nation
20:53
Speaker 2: is surging in popularity in the polls, but do you
20:57
Speaker 2: think this candidate in particular will pose a bill threat
21:01
Speaker 2: to the coalition in the upcoming by election in Susan
21:04
Speaker 2: Lee's old seat in Sparah.
21:07
Speaker 11: We have three big rivers, the Darling, the Murrambidgee and
21:10
Speaker 11: the Murray, which provide us water to grow food. One
21:14
Speaker 11: Nation is the only party that has a water policy,
21:17
Speaker 11: so I think that's going to make them quite popular
21:20
Speaker 11: in that area. In terms of energy, One Nation have
21:23
Speaker 11: been consistent for decades that the whole net zero business
21:28
Speaker 11: is just a load of rubbish. Now last weekend I
21:31
Speaker 11: spoke to a One Nation group in Rockhampton and what
21:34
Speaker 11: we read in the press so these are swivel eyed,
21:37
Speaker 11: gun toating, Nazi saluting Trump lovers, and they're not.
21:42
Speaker 1: They're just normal people.
21:43
Speaker 11: And I was really impressed with the questions that I
21:46
Speaker 11: had from people with my climate talk. These people have
21:50
Speaker 11: done their reading, they knew this stuff. And I think
21:53
Speaker 11: the major political parties have got to be worried because
21:55
Speaker 11: One Nation are actually in the middle ground.
21:58
Speaker 1: They're not an extremist group.
22:00
Speaker 11: And in the seat of Farah, water is absolutely fundamental.
22:04
Speaker 11: In the seat of Farah, like everywhere else in Australia,
22:07
Speaker 11: the price of energy is fundamental to our costs. So
22:12
Speaker 11: I think it's probably a good policy to pursue, and
22:15
Speaker 11: I look at interested with what happens in Farah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head
22:20
Speaker 2: that in particular will be really key issues for that seat.
22:23
Speaker 2: And on top of that, what you say about the
22:26
Speaker 2: people who vote for one nation. They've been demonized for
22:28
Speaker 2: such a long time, but our poles are showing more
22:31
Speaker 2: and more people are supporting them, and they're attracting quality
22:35
Speaker 2: candidates like this one here in parah Ian Plymouth. Thank
22:38
Speaker 2: you so much for your time.
22:39
Speaker 1: Thank you, Caroline.
22:40
Speaker 2: Still to come. Left is losing it and Whya RAN's
22:44
Speaker 2: new supreme leader shouldn't get too comfortable. I'll speak to
22:47
Speaker 2: Josh Hammer next. And now it's time lefties losing it.
23:01
Speaker 2: Sunday was International Women's Day, so in honor of that,
23:04
Speaker 2: let's begin with some unhinged lefty ladies single handedly setting
23:09
Speaker 2: back the case for women's rights. Here's a group of
23:12
Speaker 2: them gathering in a New York park to collectively screen yep,
23:39
Speaker 2: really helping to dismantle the patriarchy their ladies. Meanwhile, everyone's
23:45
Speaker 2: favorite feminist Kamala Harris managed to make American civil rights
23:49
Speaker 2: activist Jesse Jackson's funeral, Well, all about her. I predicted
23:55
Speaker 2: a lot about what's happening right now.
24:03
Speaker 7: I'm not into saying I told you so, but we
24:07
Speaker 7: did see it coming.
24:09
Speaker 2: But Kamala wasn't the only Democrat making a fool of
24:12
Speaker 2: themselves at the reverence farewell. Former US President Joe Biden
24:17
Speaker 2: seized his moment to tell a mostly black audience, He's
24:21
Speaker 2: smarter than them.
24:22
Speaker 12: I told you all earlier when I was a kid,
24:25
Speaker 12: I had a cleft palate or a club foot, and
24:28
Speaker 12: none even laughed. But it's okay to laugh at stuttering.
24:33
Speaker 12: I'm not being critical of you, but think about it.
24:35
Speaker 12: It's the one place for people think you're stupid. Oh really,
24:41
Speaker 12: I'm held a lot smarter most of you.
24:45
Speaker 2: And the crowd just laughed. Yet apparently Trump is the racist.
24:49
Speaker 2: But the Democrats weren't done yet, another former president using
24:52
Speaker 2: the funeral to take a cheap shot at MAGA supporters.
24:57
Speaker 13: Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying.
25:04
Speaker 11: And mockery masquerading as strength.
25:07
Speaker 2: Why not just call them a basket of deplorables again.
25:10
Speaker 2: The reverend's son, Jesse Jackson Jr. Wasn't having a minute
25:14
Speaker 2: of the politicization of his father's funeral.
25:18
Speaker 1: I listened.
25:22
Speaker 11: For several hours of three United States presidents.
25:29
Speaker 9: Who do not know Jesse Jackson.
25:33
Speaker 2: But now to another committed anti Trumper, Woillo Pee Goldberg,
25:37
Speaker 2: who actually claimed on the view Joe Biden could have
25:41
Speaker 2: fixed a legal immigration if only Donald Trump had let him.
25:46
Speaker 14: Because you know, Joe Biden, I remember doing the speech
25:52
Speaker 14: to the nation, said I we have a good border
25:57
Speaker 14: plan that is bipartisan.
26:00
Speaker 2: If you let us know. It didn't fail.
26:03
Speaker 14: The Republicans were told by you know who, don't do.
26:08
Speaker 6: This to block this.
26:10
Speaker 1: So that's the person.
26:12
Speaker 2: Do you love how they can't even bring themselves to
26:15
Speaker 2: say Trump's name. It says if he's Voldemort, out of
26:18
Speaker 2: Harry Potter. Meanwhile, Democrats strategist James Cavell is embracing his
26:24
Speaker 2: Trump derangement syndrome in this truly insane right.
26:29
Speaker 3: Give fact Trump. If you listen to this, you listen good,
26:32
Speaker 3: because what I'm getting ready to say is what a
26:35
Speaker 3: lot of people in this country speak for. Who I
26:37
Speaker 3: speak for, and I speak for a lot of people.
26:40
Speaker 3: You hear me, You fat I got.
26:43
Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome.
26:45
Speaker 15: I hate, And you know what I don't want to
26:48
Speaker 15: get rid of it. I don't want to get better.
26:51
Speaker 15: I want to get worse. I want to hate him more.
26:55
Speaker 15: We want more.
26:56
Speaker 3: We want to hate the son of so much that
26:58
Speaker 3: we can't see straight.
27:01
Speaker 2: Someone please fetch that man's mouth some soap. But back
27:05
Speaker 2: to International Women's Day, and I want to leave you
27:07
Speaker 2: with these scenes from Sydney where Iranian Australian protesters standing
27:12
Speaker 2: up for the human rights of Iranian women told a
27:15
Speaker 2: group of pro Palestinian gate crashes in Persian where they
27:19
Speaker 2: could put their flags. Now that's some screaming I can
27:41
Speaker 2: get behind.
27:43
Speaker 12: Well.
27:43
Speaker 2: Iran has ended the speculation surrounding its next leader, naming
27:48
Speaker 2: Mataba Hamone as its new Islamist dictator after his father,
27:53
Speaker 2: Ayotola Ali Hamone, was killed in joint US Israel strikes.
27:58
Speaker 2: But Donald Trump has warned a RAN's new Ayotola, shouldn't
28:02
Speaker 2: make himself too comfortable in his new office, telling ABC America,
28:07
Speaker 2: if he doesn't get approval from US, he's not going
28:10
Speaker 2: to last long. I don't want people to have to
28:13
Speaker 2: go back in five years and have to do the
28:15
Speaker 2: same thing again, or worse, let them have a nuclear weapon.
28:20
Speaker 2: Israel has also vowed to go after the new Supreme
28:23
Speaker 2: leader and those who appointed him. For more on this,
28:27
Speaker 2: let's now bring in Newsweek's senior editor at large, Josh Hammer. Josh,
28:31
Speaker 2: great to see you. You'd have to imagine the new
28:34
Speaker 2: Ayotola would be feeling slightly nervous at this point. How
28:38
Speaker 2: long do you give his leadership?
28:41
Speaker 16: Yeah, I don't think there's much in the way of
28:44
Speaker 16: job security or job tenure when it comes to Ayotola
28:48
Speaker 16: these days in the long Republic of Roan. Frankly, I
28:51
Speaker 16: think back to the post October seventh Hamas leadership or frankly,
28:54
Speaker 16: that has bowl leadership of the matter. Look, when the
28:57
Speaker 16: United States and are allie Israel, when these two countries
28:59
Speaker 16: go to war, or they mean what they say and
29:02
Speaker 16: they act upon what they say. Already you've actually seen
29:06
Speaker 16: some interim iatolas after the Commedy Association a little over week.
29:09
Speaker 16: You've already seen some interim iotols who have already been
29:12
Speaker 16: taken out of course, earlier this past week and in
29:15
Speaker 16: the Iranian city of Calm, where you had the assembly
29:17
Speaker 16: of experts they call that that were that were meeting
29:20
Speaker 16: to elect a new iatola. Israel Es sense you blew
29:23
Speaker 16: up the entire meeting. You had dozens of dead experts.
29:25
Speaker 16: Of these experts, so I would not place a particularly
29:29
Speaker 16: large wager that that that the son of comedy is
29:32
Speaker 16: going to last on the job for a very long time.
29:34
Speaker 16: As far as who he is himself, he frankly has
29:37
Speaker 16: actually not been particularly outspoken. He's been someone behind the scenes,
29:41
Speaker 16: someone more of a shadow figure. Certainly, we can surmise
29:44
Speaker 16: a lot based on his last name Kameni, and we
29:46
Speaker 16: believe based one we can tell that he is just
29:49
Speaker 16: as some people are speculating action potentially even more hard
29:51
Speaker 16: line than his father, who of course is one of
29:53
Speaker 16: the most brutal, despotic Islamis thugs ever, I mean literally
29:57
Speaker 16: in the entire history of mankind. So this doesn't bode
30:00
Speaker 16: particularly well for the future of Iran. But as I said,
30:04
Speaker 16: if I were a Betty Man, which I'm not, but
30:05
Speaker 16: if I hadn't thought he were a Betty man'd be
30:07
Speaker 16: very keen with you. I probably would bet ah, I
30:10
Speaker 16: would say he's probably gonna last but a week or
30:12
Speaker 16: two tops on the job. I had to place wager.
30:14
Speaker 2: Honestly, yeah, I wouldn't be buying too much new funiture
30:17
Speaker 2: if I was him, it might all need to be
30:19
Speaker 2: redecorated soon. But President Trump has also responded to accusations
30:23
Speaker 2: the US was responsible for an apparent strike on an
30:27
Speaker 2: Iranian girls school which just destroyed the school and it
30:31
Speaker 2: killed scores of children. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force
30:35
Speaker 2: One that the Iranian regime were the ones responsible.
30:39
Speaker 10: Here, he is, did the United States bomb a girls
30:43
Speaker 10: elementary school in southern Iran on the first day of
30:45
Speaker 10: the war and kill one hundred and seventy five people?
30:48
Speaker 13: Based on what I've seen, that was done by Iran?
30:52
Speaker 1: What's that true, mister? Except who was Iran? Who did that?
30:55
Speaker 13: Was safely investiget It was still funny.
30:58
Speaker 6: The only side the targets Sibilillians is Iran.
31:02
Speaker 2: But Iran's foreign minister Abbas Aarachi told NBC News that
31:07
Speaker 2: it couldn't have been then because get this, Josh, they
31:11
Speaker 2: don't kill their own people.
31:13
Speaker 6: President Trump said Iran is responsible for that strike. What
31:18
Speaker 6: is your response to what the President said.
31:24
Speaker 17: Well, it is you know funny. It is our school.
31:28
Speaker 17: These are our students, our girls, and they are attacked
31:33
Speaker 17: by an American fighter, a judge fighter, and they have
31:37
Speaker 17: been killed why it is responsibility. Have we started this war?
31:42
Speaker 17: Have we attacked our own people?
31:45
Speaker 2: Oh well, josh heah, I think we can say they
31:47
Speaker 2: have attacked their own people. Some estimate the regime have
31:50
Speaker 2: killed now more than thirty six thousand of its own
31:53
Speaker 2: people in recent months alone. So no one's possibly buying this,
31:58
Speaker 2: are they?
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Speaker 13: So?
32:00
Speaker 16: First of all, I might be in the minority in this,
32:03
Speaker 16: but I am of the opinion that when your country
32:05
Speaker 16: is at war, like literally actively at war, you probably
32:08
Speaker 16: should not be giving interviews to high ranking members of
32:12
Speaker 16: the country that you were at war with. So I
32:13
Speaker 16: don't I don't really know why Kristen Weilcore and MBC
32:16
Speaker 16: News are dating to get this interview in the first place. There,
32:18
Speaker 16: But to your point, yeah, actually, the fact that Aron
32:21
Speaker 16: slaughtered tens and tens of thousands. We don't even know
32:24
Speaker 16: the exact number there, I mean, esmens vary from as
32:26
Speaker 16: quote unquote low as twenty five to thirty five thousand,
32:28
Speaker 16: potentially as high as God forbid eighty to one hundred thousand.
32:31
Speaker 1: We have no idea.
32:32
Speaker 16: But the fact that they slaughtered so many and literally
32:34
Speaker 16: probably the single worst instance of a government turning its
32:38
Speaker 16: weapons on its own people in the entire twenty first century.
32:41
Speaker 16: I mean this, this hearkens back frankly to the killing
32:43
Speaker 16: field of Cambodia under Poulpot or the Maoist struggle sessions,
32:48
Speaker 16: and all the nineteen fifty ninety since he's turmoil in
32:51
Speaker 16: communist China, the Soviet Goulacs there. I mean this is
32:54
Speaker 16: twentieth century to talentarium, to talentarianism style brutal Islamist thugery.
33:01
Speaker 16: So no one is buying this precisely, no one is
33:04
Speaker 16: buying this there. And there's also an additional point to
33:06
Speaker 16: make here too, which is these radical Islamic factions, whether
33:09
Speaker 16: they are non state actors like Hamas and Hasbala or
33:12
Speaker 16: state actors like Iran, do this over and over and
33:14
Speaker 16: over again. I have a long enough memory where I
33:16
Speaker 16: remember just in the first week or two of the
33:19
Speaker 16: post October seventh, twenty three war in Gaza, there was
33:22
Speaker 16: this whole controversy as to whether Israel actually bombed a hospital.
33:26
Speaker 16: Joe Bien actually shamefully got in on the blood alible,
33:29
Speaker 16: and it turns out that it was a Palestinian rocket
33:32
Speaker 16: that didn't make it to Israel and it landed, and
33:33
Speaker 16: it landed actually not even on the hospital and actually
33:35
Speaker 16: landed a parking lot next to the hospital. So this
33:38
Speaker 16: has happened before where you have a lot of Western
33:40
Speaker 16: media that immediately gobble up and say, oh, the United
33:42
Speaker 16: States is default or Israel or some other ally is
33:45
Speaker 16: default there. But no more often than non situation like this,
33:48
Speaker 16: it is it is the Islamist state or non state
33:51
Speaker 16: actor that's responsible for the very simple reason that Pete
33:53
Speaker 16: Hesset said they're on Air Force One, which is that
33:54
Speaker 16: the United States is a first World's country bound by
33:58
Speaker 16: the rule of law, and we do not target civilians.
34:00
Speaker 16: And moreover, were pretty accurate when it comes to a weapony.
34:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you're right, Aroun and its proxies definitely
34:07
Speaker 2: have form on this matter. So I know who I
34:11
Speaker 2: trust in this situation. But we'll see what comes out
34:14
Speaker 2: of the investigation. Now. In that same exchange aboard Air
34:18
Speaker 2: Force One, the President was also asked to justify a
34:21
Speaker 2: US strike on an Iranian desalination plant, and boy did
34:26
Speaker 2: he unleash.
34:27
Speaker 13: They are among the most evil people ever order. They
34:31
Speaker 13: cut babies heads off, they chop women that have what
34:35
Speaker 13: they did. Take a look at October seventh, Take a
34:37
Speaker 13: look at what they've done over the last forty seven years.
34:40
Speaker 13: So I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than
34:44
Speaker 13: to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we
34:49
Speaker 13: complained about the fact that they should be chopping baby's
34:51
Speaker 13: heads off.
34:52
Speaker 2: Okay, Josh, what is with the left media and they're
34:56
Speaker 2: fixation with defending or finding ways to minimize what this
35:00
Speaker 2: brutal authoritarian regime is doing here.
35:05
Speaker 16: The brutal truth, and I genuinely do not think that
35:06
Speaker 16: this is overstaying. The matter is that there are a
35:09
Speaker 16: lot of folks on the left who actively root for
35:11
Speaker 16: actors like the islam Republic of Iran. Frankly, some of
35:14
Speaker 16: this actually is explicit out in the open. For instance,
35:16
Speaker 16: there are there are various left wing student groups like
35:19
Speaker 16: this group, this horrific group at Columbia University of New
35:21
Speaker 16: York City called CUAD Columbia University Apartheid divest or something
35:26
Speaker 16: like that. There they were actively cheering on Iran's missile
35:30
Speaker 16: and drone response after the initial bombing run between the
35:33
Speaker 16: United States and Israel last Saturday, you had various other
35:36
Speaker 16: students for justin palestein chapters that were that were showing
35:39
Speaker 16: video clips of the italiatory Iran missiles and drones that
35:43
Speaker 16: are fired at Israel, the UAE who waits lots of
35:46
Speaker 16: other agricundries there and celebrating it. So there is a
35:49
Speaker 16: subversive fifth column. There's a fifth column here in the
35:51
Speaker 16: United States. And this is not just an American fill unfortunately,
35:55
Speaker 16: because the organized political left for really as far back
35:58
Speaker 16: as we have had this right left political devid because
36:00
Speaker 16: our contemporary right political divid goes back roughly to the
36:03
Speaker 16: French Revolution, That's where this nomenclature actually comes from. And
36:06
Speaker 16: going back to the French Revolution, to the Jacobins, to Robespier,
36:10
Speaker 16: the reign of terror there, the left has had a
36:12
Speaker 16: fetish for political violence, for not just settling scores through
36:16
Speaker 16: through the ballot box or or through legislation or bills there,
36:19
Speaker 16: but they actually have a love of violence. That is
36:21
Speaker 16: why some of the of the great tyrants in the
36:23
Speaker 16: twentieth century, like Stalin infamously Mauzidong and China, these are
36:27
Speaker 16: ardent at their core, Marxist Leninists, left wingers there, you know,
36:32
Speaker 16: as the late grade David Horowitz said, inside every progressive
36:35
Speaker 16: is a totalitarian waiting to get out. So I think
36:38
Speaker 16: a lot of these folks look at these totalitarian regimes
36:41
Speaker 16: like Iran, and it's not only that they're that they're
36:44
Speaker 16: trying to downpload their atrocities. I think a lot of
36:46
Speaker 16: them are genuinely rooting them on. That's that sounds pretty harsh,
36:49
Speaker 16: and that's that sounds pretty callous there, but it's my
36:51
Speaker 16: genuine read the situation there. It's very difficult, frankly, for
36:54
Speaker 16: me to look at things other than to look at
36:56
Speaker 16: things like the Barack Obama Nuclear Deal, for instance, and
36:59
Speaker 16: conclude that they are trans do anything other than to
37:01
Speaker 16: arm the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
37:03
Speaker 2: Look, I have to agree with you. We've seen very
37:05
Speaker 2: similar scenes on our campuses here in Australia, as I'm
37:08
Speaker 2: sure you'd be aware, and on our streets openly people
37:11
Speaker 2: holding flags of these terrorist leaders, including the IATOLA. So
37:17
Speaker 2: it's hard to disagree with your assessment. I think. Unfortunately,
37:20
Speaker 2: one consequence of what's happening in the Middle East is
37:23
Speaker 2: obviously the volatility of the oil market now, and to
37:26
Speaker 2: offset that, the Trump administration has turned Venezuela into a
37:31
Speaker 2: significant oil supply. Global oil prices have soared past one
37:36
Speaker 2: hundred US dollars a barrel amid Israeli strikes on Iranian
37:40
Speaker 2: oil infrastructure and disruptions in the hallmus Strait. Now Josh
37:45
Speaker 2: Venezuela has gone from being an adversary to the United
37:49
Speaker 2: States to an ally under Trump.
37:52
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's quite remarkable. Actually, just as past week, I
37:54
Speaker 16: believe it's on Thursday Friday, the United State has actually
37:56
Speaker 16: opened its diplomatic facility in Caracas, Venezuela, the first time
38:00
Speaker 16: since twenty nineteen. So this pretty remarkable stuff. Look, the
38:03
Speaker 16: current women leave Venezuela. Delsa Rodriguez is definitely a socialist
38:07
Speaker 16: in the Ugo shaves Nicholas Manduro mode, but she's apparently
38:10
Speaker 16: willing to play ball with the US when it comes
38:11
Speaker 16: to our petroleum at oil natural gas companies going in
38:15
Speaker 16: there to try to take advantage of the of those
38:17
Speaker 16: resources there. It's true that oil prices are rising on
38:21
Speaker 16: the global crew market. There's been a rise of roughly
38:24
Speaker 16: fifty percent since the war started, and that's politically that's
38:28
Speaker 16: not good for Republicans here in the United States when
38:30
Speaker 16: it comes to a mid term election year. I could
38:32
Speaker 16: be wrong with this. I have a sning suspicion that
38:34
Speaker 16: Donald Trump has a card here up his sleeve. That
38:37
Speaker 16: card could potentially be as simple as just tapping into
38:39
Speaker 16: what we in the States refer to as the sec
38:41
Speaker 16: Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is something that we basically store
38:45
Speaker 16: a lot of oil and natural gas essentially for situations
38:47
Speaker 16: exactly like this, to try to contain price fluctuations there.
38:51
Speaker 16: I am hearing rumors, and it's just rumors, and I
38:54
Speaker 16: don't typally like to deal in rumors. I am hearing
38:56
Speaker 16: rumors that the United States might make some sort of
38:58
Speaker 16: strong plates potentially, and Iranian Island near the Strait of
39:02
Speaker 16: Horne moves trying to essentially open those lines of shipping there.
39:05
Speaker 16: I think that think, frankly that the United States Navy
39:09
Speaker 16: is not done when it comes to letting the price
39:11
Speaker 16: of oil get too far out of hand there, because
39:13
Speaker 16: energy is ultimately the mother's milk of really all goods.
39:17
Speaker 9: There.
39:17
Speaker 16: When energy prices sore, the prices of a virtually every
39:20
Speaker 16: really good stores soars as well. Because you rely on
39:23
Speaker 16: shipping and planes and trucks and everything to get all
39:26
Speaker 16: the groceries in your store and your goods and your services.
39:28
Speaker 16: It all comes down to energy there. So I suspect
39:31
Speaker 16: that Donald Trump is going to have a trick up
39:33
Speaker 16: his sleeve here. It's worth knowing as well, by the way,
39:35
Speaker 16: that even though what I said is true that oil
39:37
Speaker 16: has spikes since the war started, it would have spiked
39:39
Speaker 16: a lot more had Donald Trump and his administration not
39:43
Speaker 16: engage in prolific offshore and onshore or oil and natural
39:47
Speaker 16: gas drilling just over the course of the past year
39:49
Speaker 16: after the buying Harris regime shut down a lat of
39:51
Speaker 16: those wells there. So it's not ideal right now. Again,
39:54
Speaker 16: I think it's going to get better, but it would
39:55
Speaker 16: have been a lot worse. We're not for much more
39:57
Speaker 16: of this drilling that they've done already.
39:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, before I have to let you go, let's turn
40:01
Speaker 2: our attention quickly to New York because a pair of
40:04
Speaker 2: ISIS trained extremists have been charged with allegedly hurling an
40:09
Speaker 2: improvised explosive device and the mayor's official residence during a protest,
40:13
Speaker 2: which police say would have caused serious death, thought or
40:17
Speaker 2: injury had detonated. Law enforcement sources close to the case
40:22
Speaker 2: have told The New York Post the two suspects had
40:25
Speaker 2: allegedly self radicalized in recent years, having traveled to Turkey
40:29
Speaker 2: and other terror training hotspots, but his reaction to the incident,
40:34
Speaker 2: Mayor Zorah and mum Dani decided not to mention them
40:37
Speaker 2: at all, instead releasing a statement blaming Josh white supremacy.
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Speaker 2: He wrote, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside
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Speaker 2: Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has
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Speaker 2: no place in New York City. It is an affront
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Speaker 2: to our city's values and the unity that defines who
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Speaker 2: we are. Josh, how the heck did he manage to
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Speaker 2: turn the threat of radical Islam into an attack on
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Speaker 2: white supremacy.
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Speaker 16: Uh, there's a very simple answer to that question, which
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Speaker 16: is or Mamdani is sympathetic to radical Islam. That that
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Speaker 16: is the That is the unequivocal answer to your to
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Speaker 16: your very astute question. Sir Ramdani is a man who
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Speaker 16: founded his Students Were justin Palestine chapter back when he
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Speaker 16: was in voting college in Maine years ago. S jp
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Speaker 16: AS is frequently known as essentially a Muslim Brotherhood of
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Speaker 16: Hamas front group openly orchestrating openly in citing for for
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Speaker 16: murderous jihad and anti Western civilization. Subjugation on America's university campuses.
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Speaker 16: This is a man who on the first day of Ramadan,
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Speaker 16: just over the past couple of weeks and the very
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Speaker 16: first day, spoke at a an infamous mosque in New
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Speaker 16: York City that that that has long been on the
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Speaker 16: FBI's RDAR for having close ties to you guessed, the
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Speaker 16: Iranian regime itself. In fact, the e Mom of that
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Speaker 16: very mosque. After Memdannie said his remarks and exited stage
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Speaker 16: will Aft, the e Mom then came to the lectern
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Speaker 16: and said into the microphone that he that he hopes
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Speaker 16: that the sword will ultimately be the final fate of
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Speaker 16: all infidels, essentially wishing death for infidels. Man Donnie spoke
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Speaker 16: of that monster's man's prior to the EMM, saying that
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Speaker 16: they're so this is the guy who who not only
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Speaker 16: does not have a problem with radical Islamic jihad, he
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Speaker 16: has I'm not saying he's personally been involved. He's not
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Speaker 16: strapping on suicide vest or anything there. But this is
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Speaker 16: a man who has been a cheerleader. Most recently, it
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Speaker 16: just came out this past week that his wife was
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Speaker 16: very active, shall we say, on Instagram and social media
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Speaker 16: and liking a lot of posts, not just downplaying October seven,
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Speaker 16: twenty twenty three, celebrating you, saying that the wanton murder
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Speaker 16: of twelve hundred people, the two hundred and fifty folks
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Speaker 16: that were three injured, whatever was that they were absolutely
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Speaker 16: tragically murdered of the Nova Music Festival. All the mass rapes,
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Speaker 16: the pillages, the kidnappings there, the execution of Holocaust virus
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Speaker 16: and butchering and babies there she was celebrating. And this
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Speaker 16: is six six sick, demented stuff there. Frankly, I look
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Speaker 16: at this, and as someone who was from the New
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Speaker 16: York area originally myself, I sometimes just throw my hands
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Speaker 16: and I say, how did New York get here?
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Speaker 1: Really? How did it actually get here?
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Speaker 16: It wasn't that long ago that New Yorkers were debating
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Speaker 16: the infamous ground zero mask and they defeated the ground
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Speaker 16: Zero mask. This is an attempt to build a mosque
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Speaker 16: near ground zero at the sight of the Alkaita had
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Speaker 16: that brought down twin towers there. We've gone from this
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Speaker 16: to that there, and it's ultimately just truly, truly, truly
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Speaker 16: tragic stuff for the city of New York.
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Speaker 2: It is look, I'm concerned for people there, but they
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Speaker 2: have voted him in, so we'll see what happens. Josh Hammer,
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Speaker 2: appreciate your time as always, thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
43:30
Speaker 2: Still to come. Harry and Meghan are officially heading back
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Speaker 2: to Australia next month. What sort of reception can they
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Speaker 2: expect here? Kinsey scofields on that next welcome back joining
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Speaker 2: me now is celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey schofields Kinsey,
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Speaker 2: great to see you. Netflix has officially cut ties with
43:59
Speaker 2: Meghan Markles polarizing lifestyle brand as ever, in a fresh
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Speaker 2: blow to the Duchess's ambitions for the company, Kinsey, the
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Speaker 2: streaming service has issued a statement as artificially soothing as
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Speaker 2: Michael's voice on her two season show With Love Megan.
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Speaker 2: But there's no other way to spin it, is there.
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Speaker 2: She and Harry have been a massive disappointment for Netflix.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: I feel like we had this on our twenty twenty
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Speaker 18: six bingo card, didn't we? Sources told Page six The
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Speaker 18: return on investment simply wasn't there. The show was a
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Speaker 18: significant disappointment to the streamer, and with the product line
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Speaker 18: being an extension of With Love Megan. It makes absolutely
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Speaker 18: no sense to maintain this working relationship. I also reported
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Speaker 18: on my podcast weeks ago that Netflix was eager to
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Speaker 18: get rid of excess as ever inventory that was sitting
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Speaker 18: around their offices. This was one of many omens that
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Speaker 18: the relationship was wrapping up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, not great for Megan, but it seems like one
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Speaker 2: failure after another for the former royal couple Kinsey. It's
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Speaker 2: also been revealed that Harry and Meghan planned to rebound
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Speaker 2: from this latest flop with another tour of Australia. A
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Speaker 2: spokesperson for the couple telling news dot com Dot a
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Speaker 2: U the couple will be visiting in mid April. Kinsey.
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Speaker 2: Their last tour here was back in twenty eighteen, eighteen
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Speaker 2: months before they quit their royal duties and relocated to
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Speaker 2: the US. What sort of reception would you expect them
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Speaker 2: to get this time?
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Speaker 18: Hasn't Australia suffered enough? What have you done to deserve this?
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Speaker 18: I mean the couple's I think, thoughts and prayers. Gobble's
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Speaker 18: popularity in Australia in twenty eighteen was the catalyst for
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Speaker 18: Harry and Meghan making demands as working members of the
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Speaker 18: royal family.
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Speaker 6: I don't know if you know that.
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Speaker 18: In trying to step out of William and Catherine's shadow,
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Speaker 18: Meghan started comparing herself to Princess Diana and tried to
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Speaker 18: use this trip as leverage with the late Queen. As
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Speaker 18: of late twenty twenty five, Harry and Meghan's popularity in
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Speaker 18: Australia is at an all time low, following a consistent
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Speaker 18: downward trend over the years. Pulling indicates they're among the
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Speaker 18: least popular members of the royal family. I would say
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Speaker 18: reception will be a combination of morbid curiosity with the
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Speaker 18: side of why are they here?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, technically speaking, it's still our royal family here,
46:20
Speaker 2: but you're right, the mood has changed. I covered that
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Speaker 2: royal visit back in twenty eighteen. I believe she was pregnant,
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't widely and publicly known at the time,
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Speaker 2: and of course that prompted, as you say, all the
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Speaker 2: rumors later, well, the stuff that she was pushing about
46:35
Speaker 2: someone in the royal family speculating about the skin color
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Speaker 2: of her baby. I expect there'll be a very different
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Speaker 2: level of public access to them this time. Would they
46:46
Speaker 2: be likely to be doing public events with meats and
46:51
Speaker 2: greets of members of the public. Do you think or
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Speaker 2: willis will be very tightly controlled?
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Speaker 18: It will be totally controlled.
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Speaker 6: I've seen.
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Speaker 18: What I thought was interesting was the announcement included private events.
47:03
Speaker 18: Private events. Wouldn't we just assume that they would want
47:06
Speaker 18: privacy throughout the excursion. But don't forget or don't think
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Speaker 18: for one second they won't try to make it look
47:14
Speaker 18: like an official royal engagement. They will want certain photo
47:19
Speaker 18: opportunities where there's an audience clamoring for them, so that
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Speaker 18: they can send those pictures to People magazine. But for
47:25
Speaker 18: the most part, I do think that it will be
47:26
Speaker 18: mostly private events and commercial ventures that they're pursuing more
47:31
Speaker 18: so than charity opportunities.
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Speaker 2: Well, keep those thoughts in praise coming. I think we're
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Speaker 2: going to need it to be here. No doubt we'll
47:39
Speaker 2: be speaking a bit more about this soon. But let's
47:41
Speaker 2: talk about another royal Princess Eugenie. Now, she's the daughter
47:44
Speaker 2: of course of disgrace former Prince Andrew. She stepped down
47:48
Speaker 2: as patron of an anti slavery charity, I mean the
47:52
Speaker 2: continuing fallout from her father's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Kinzie,
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Speaker 2: She's served in that role for seven years now, so
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Speaker 2: it has to be tied to this scandal, doesn't.
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Speaker 18: It Absolutely, Because one of the causes this charity champion
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Speaker 18: against was sex trafficking. And it is clear that not
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Speaker 18: just Andrew Mountbatten Windsor engaged with Jeffrey Epstein post incarceration
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Speaker 18: for being a sexual predator, but Beatrice and Eugenie voluntarily
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Speaker 18: did as well. According to that DOJ dump in the
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Speaker 18: Epstein files, the alleged sex trafficker paid for the York
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Speaker 18: daughters and their mother to visit him after he was
48:31
Speaker 18: released from jail. That's not a great look for any
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Speaker 18: charity or royal for that matter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and as you say, one of the its focuses
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Speaker 2: on this issue in particular, you know, sex trafficking as
48:45
Speaker 2: a part of its remit. Let's quickly talk about actor
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Speaker 2: Timothy Chalomay. He's been lambasted online after claiming during an
48:53
Speaker 2: interview that no one cares about ballet or opera. Here
48:57
Speaker 2: was that exchange, and I don't want to be working
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Speaker 2: in ballet or opera or you know things where it's like, hey,
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Speaker 2: keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this.
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Speaker 6: All respect to the ballet and opera people out there.
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Speaker 6: I just lost fourteen cents in viewership.
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Speaker 2: But I just took shots for no reason.
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Speaker 1: That's no shot to hear what you say?
49:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, Kinsey, he has been absolutely dragged by the
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Speaker 2: opera and ballet woods. There's plenty of gold memes out there,
49:30
Speaker 2: and also some canny groups offering special discounts of people
49:33
Speaker 2: use the code Chela may.
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Speaker 6: Is this the Kardashian curse?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 18: Like I want to love him despite his very bizarre
49:41
Speaker 18: relationship with Kylie Jenner. I want to give him the
49:43
Speaker 18: benefit of the doubt. But he went to art school,
49:46
Speaker 18: you know, I think he knows better. He continues to
49:49
Speaker 18: put his foot in his mouth when he does any
49:51
Speaker 18: interview whatsoever. I saw someone joke that, you know, he's
49:54
Speaker 18: making this statement while promoting a movie about ping pong,
49:57
Speaker 18: talk about a topic no one cares about me. Hire
50:00
Speaker 18: a media trainer or do less talking. The more I
50:03
Speaker 18: know about him, the less I love him. And he
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Speaker 18: was so cute and little women don't ruin this for me, Timmy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just keep your mouth closed. I think that'd be
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Speaker 2: safest for everyone. Tathy Kinsey Schofield, thank you so much
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Speaker 2: for your time as always, that's it for me. OP.
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Speaker 2: Next is Newsnoch