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The Rita Panahi Show | 16 September · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panaghi Show. Good evening and
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Speaker 1: welcome to The Rita Panaghi Show. Coming up tonight, in
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Speaker 1: a bitter blow for the Albanese government, new home sales
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Speaker 1: crash as investors abandon the market. My panel will cover
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Speaker 1: that and the day's other top headlines. Spanish police transfer
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Speaker 1: hundreds of migrants in Suta. to a new shelter facility,
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Speaker 1: Ralph Schollhammer. We'll have more on that. Will Chamberlain will
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Speaker 1: join the program and he will give us his analysis
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Speaker 1: of the candidate most likely to lead the Democrats in
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Speaker 1: the 2028 presidential election and Hunter Biden's shock appearance on
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Speaker 1: Matt and Evan's show. I'll get Alex Stein's reaction to
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Speaker 1: that later. And Lefty's Losing It features Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
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Speaker 1: Weighing in on the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore controversy and suddenly she's
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Speaker 1: a champion of free speech.
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Speaker 2: What has happened with the Act and not just in
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Speaker 2: removing Macklemore from the line-up, but when you see what
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Speaker 2: Robert Kraft did to line up all of the stadiums
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Speaker 2: to censor speech in that one specific way.
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Speaker 1: But first, the Albanese government's housing crisis is deepening with
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Speaker 1: new home sales crashing by around 20%. in just three months.
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Speaker 1: The Housing Industry Association recorded another 10% fall in new
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Speaker 1: home sales in August, which is the fourth consecutive monthly decline.
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Speaker 1: In the past three months, New South Wales has suffered
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Speaker 1: an 18% decline, but it's Victoria where new home sales
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Speaker 1: have collapsed by 27%. The Housing Industry Association warned the
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Speaker 1: government's tax changes and interest rate rises have combined to
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Speaker 1: drive investors away from new housing. HIA Chief Economist Tim
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Speaker 1: Reardon said the deterioration would translate into fewer homes being built,
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Speaker 1: while continued population growth drives demand higher. Joining me now
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Speaker 1: is former Liberal MP Nicole Flint and Prue McSween from
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Speaker 1: Verve Communications. Nicole, the Housing Industry Association has ordered warned
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Speaker 1: the government's tax changes and interest rate rises have combined
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Speaker 1: to drive investors away from new housing. We were told
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Speaker 1: these tax changes would do the opposite, that they would
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Speaker 1: boost new builds.
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Speaker 3: And clearly that is not the case. We were also
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Speaker 3: told that their changes, that Labor's changes to housing and
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Speaker 3: tax related to housing would also get more first home
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Speaker 3: buyers into their first homes. And that hasn't happened either.
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Speaker 3: I think the figures last time I looked was something
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Speaker 3: like a 30% crash in new home buyer applications. So
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Speaker 3: from start to finish, Labor's changes have been an unmitigated disaster.
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Speaker 3: And honestly, Claire O'Neill, the responsible minister, is really quickly
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Speaker 3: becoming very much like Chris Bowen. Everything she touches is disastrous.
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Speaker 3: She was the migration minister. They shifted her from that
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Speaker 3: portfolio because it was a complete debacle. And now she's
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Speaker 3: in housing and she's had exactly the same impact. As
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Speaker 3: I said, the only other minister As accident prone as
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Speaker 3: Claire O'Neill is Chris Bowen.
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Speaker 1: Prue, the government does seem to be in denial about
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Speaker 1: the reality on the ground. And Claire O'Neill, the housing minister,
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Speaker 1: is still claiming that Labor's budget measures will actually deliver
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Speaker 1: more homes. Here's what she said.
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Speaker 4: We have a pro-supply government and we just delivered a
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Speaker 4: pro-supply budget which will build an additional 30,000 homes for
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Speaker 4: the country. For honourable members opposite me who are evidently
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Speaker 4: incredibly confused about this, I'd encourage them to come and
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Speaker 4: have a look at the budget documents themselves.
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Speaker 1: Look at the budget documents. I mean, the arrogance of that,
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Speaker 1: never mind what's actually happening on the ground. How much longer, Prue,
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Speaker 1: can members of this government deny the reality of what
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Speaker 1: their budget measures have done to the housing sector? It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 5: I mean, looking at the budget papers, it's like reading
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Speaker 5: a crime novel. It's just unbelievable that they're so deluded.
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Speaker 5: She said today on radio, or I think it was
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Speaker 5: on TV, commercial TV, that it's all going to plan.
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Speaker 5: So is the plan to force people into negative equity?
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Speaker 5: Is it to force people having to move back with
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Speaker 5: the bank of mum and dad that is going to
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Speaker 5: dry up now because they're going to have to live
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Speaker 5: with mum and dad? probably for years, to be able
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Speaker 5: to afford the kind of housing hikes that we're seeing.
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Speaker 5: You know, the whole dynamics of the housing industry is
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Speaker 5: going to change. We've got record builders, construction companies going broke.
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Speaker 5: Supply is down. People are too scared because we know
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Speaker 5: we're going to have another rate hike, an interest rate hike,
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Speaker 5: making that $ 16 and perhaps potentially 17 interest rate hikes.
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Speaker 5: How the hell are we all going to survive this?
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Speaker 5: And meanwhile, they're deluded. They're in denial.
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Speaker 1: They have no solutions.
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Speaker 5: But you can bet coming up to the election, they'll
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Speaker 5: have all sorts of sweeteners and gimmicks to con people
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Speaker 5: yet again.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's have a look at one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: they may be making some of these bewildering decisions, which
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Speaker 1: on the face of it are economically illiterate and helping nobody. Well,
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Speaker 1: one of these calls certainly did help one group, industry
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Speaker 1: super funds. The Australian Financial Review reports Investors shifted approximately
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Speaker 1: $ 27 billion from industry super funds to self-managed super funds
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Speaker 1: over the last four years to June 30. And that sector,
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Speaker 1: self-managed super funds, has grown to a record 680,000 funds,
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Speaker 1: holding more than $ 1. 1 trillion. Nicole, the question has to
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Speaker 1: be asked, did Labor ban self-managed super funds from borrowing
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Speaker 1: to invest in housing or to protect industry super funds?
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Speaker 3: Labor will do anything to help out the super funds
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Speaker 3: and their union mates who dominate a lot of the
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Speaker 3: boards of the super funds. But they also, of course,
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Speaker 3: Labor do not want individuals having control over their own
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Speaker 3: money that they have earned and worked hard for. And
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Speaker 3: they certainly don't want them making their own economic decisions.
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Speaker 3: Of course, Labor are trying to force people out of
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Speaker 3: self-managed super because they want them back in the union-controlled
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Speaker 3: super funds and they want those unionists controlling the decisions
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Speaker 3: that people, well, stopping people from controlling decisions over their
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Speaker 3: own economic future.
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Speaker 1: Prue, it's quite a feat, you've got to say. The
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Speaker 1: net effect of these policies is we've got less houses
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Speaker 1: being built in a housing crisis, less investment in housing.
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Speaker 1: We've got fewer first home buyers entering the market. And Also,
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Speaker 1: higher rents. So when you put all that together, really,
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Speaker 1: it's quite an achievement. It's unbelievable, isn't it?
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Speaker 5: I mean, Jim Chalmers, who spins so much, you know,
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Speaker 5: has obviously convinced himself that what he's doing is correct,
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Speaker 5: but no one else believes it. You know, and when
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Speaker 5: you look at what's going on with the dynamics in
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Speaker 5: this country in terms of economic dynamics, you know, and
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Speaker 5: the fact that As you pointed out, people are now
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Speaker 5: taking back control of their money. They don't trust this government.
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Speaker 5: They don't trust these government-run super funds. They want to
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Speaker 5: get access to our money. You treat it as a
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Speaker 5: piggy bank and bail themselves out of all these renewable
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Speaker 5: projects that they're spending on. You know, this country is
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Speaker 5: in chaos economically and we're going down the toilet so fast.
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Speaker 5: And unless people start waking up to the fact that
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Speaker 5: this government is toxic and dangerous, then we're really in trouble.
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Speaker 1: Well, you put a bunch of leftists with little private
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Speaker 1: sector experience in charge and this is the result. We
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be shocked because we've seen that in Victoria in
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Speaker 1: a big way. And let's go to Victoria because the
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Speaker 1: Albanese government's renewables plan has been dealt with. Another blow
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Speaker 1: after Victorian Premier Ben Carroll announced a review into the
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Speaker 1: 190 kilometre Western Renewables Link Transmission Project. This is in
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Speaker 1: the state's west and the project was estimated to cost
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Speaker 1: $ 370 million back in 2019. It has already blown out, Nicole,
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Speaker 1: to $ 1. 5 billion and it's not even finished yet. Premier
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Speaker 1: Carroll said he would Order an immediate cost assessment, he said.
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Speaker 1: I respect the public's money. This project was planned almost
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Speaker 1: 10 years ago and Victorian consumers deserve updated, transparent costings. Nicole,
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Speaker 1: interesting that he called for this review just moments after
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Speaker 1: his energy minister dismissed calls for the project to be cancelled.
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Speaker 3: And isn't it extraordinary that it's taken this long to
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Speaker 3: review the project at all, Rita, given that you've had
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Speaker 3: farmers and rural and regional communities saying, do not build
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Speaker 3: this monstrosity, don't wreck our beautiful farming land, don't wreck
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Speaker 3: the environment and take your renewables nightmare somewhere else. But
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Speaker 3: like a $ 1. 1 billion blowout, this hasn't happened overnight. Just
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Speaker 3: a bit too cute that he's suddenly called a review
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Speaker 3: just before the Victorian election. Again, this is not just
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Speaker 3: on Victorian Labor. This is also on Chris Bowen.
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Speaker 6: What an absolute genius.
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Speaker 3: Disaster. And this week we've also seen South Australia's steelworks
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Speaker 3: closing down and Premier Peter Malinowskis, who had committed $ 600
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Speaker 3: billion to the wild green nightmare of green hydrogen, admitting
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Speaker 3: that it will never power the steelworks. So wherever you look,
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Speaker 3: we have Labor... green nightmare renewable projects falling over and
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Speaker 3: the costs blowing out and it's just tragic that it's
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Speaker 3: a bit too late for the Australian taxpayers who have
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Speaker 3: had to underpin this spending to date. What an absolute disaster.
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Speaker 1: Prue, it's not just economically catastrophic for the country, but
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Speaker 1: it's also done such incredible damage, these mass renewable projects
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Speaker 1: to the Australian landscape. If you travel outside the big
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Speaker 1: cities and particularly if you're flying over these projects, they
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Speaker 1: have soiled that beautiful landscape with these wind farms, solar farms,
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Speaker 1: and people in regional areas are keenly aware of this
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Speaker 1: and so many in the city are ignorant of what's
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Speaker 1: happened in the name of renewables.
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Speaker 5: Well, Bowen and his cohort have created graveyards, environmental graveyards.
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Speaker 5: When you look at the incredible destruction of the environment
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Speaker 5: to save the environment and the impulse on, you know,
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Speaker 5: where they've taken farmers' land. These are generations of farming
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Speaker 5: families that have just found they have no influence, they
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Speaker 5: have no power over their land. And you have these
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Speaker 5: energy companies, the government, just stomping all over them and
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Speaker 5: inflicting these energy sources that we know are not going
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Speaker 5: to do the job. It's just, you look at the wildlife,
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Speaker 5: you look at agriculture, you look at all the repercussions
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Speaker 5: of these failed decisions. And it's just a nightmare. And,
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Speaker 5: you know, Bowen will go down in history as one
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Speaker 5: of the worst, if not the worst ministers we have
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Speaker 5: ever had inflicted on us in this country.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you there 100 percent. The impact he has
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Speaker 1: had on Not just every Australian household, but the manufacturing sector, businesses,
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Speaker 1: it really is catastrophic. Before you two go, I'm interested
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Speaker 1: in your take on what's happening with the free speech debate.
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Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran's tour of North and South America has been
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Speaker 1: plunged into chaos with four of his supporting acts abruptly
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Speaker 1: quitting in solidarity with rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for
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Speaker 1: making pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel comments on stage. But Ed Sheeran isn't
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Speaker 1: backing down. He said, there is a reason I do
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Speaker 1: not use my professional platform for politics. Those who come
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Speaker 1: to my shows do not expect a political forum. I
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Speaker 1: have always used my platform of music to bring people
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Speaker 1: from all backgrounds and cultures together. and this won't ever change.
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Speaker 1: I say bravo to that, Nicole. This is what we want.
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Speaker 1: We go to concerts, we go to sporting events to
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Speaker 1: escape all of that and to be able to have
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Speaker 1: some escapism from the troubles of the world. The last
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Speaker 1: thing you want is to be lectured by some pop star.
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Speaker 3: Precisely Rita couldn't agree more good on Ed Sheeran for
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Speaker 3: taking a stand reminding his colleagues that it's actually all
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Speaker 3: about the music that's what people are there for not
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Speaker 3: to be lectured and Rita I sincerely hope that the
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Speaker 3: likes of the AFL, Crick Australia, Tennis Australia are paying
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Speaker 3: attention and also full marks to the stadium owners as
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Speaker 3: well for saying we will not tolerate this sort of anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian,
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Speaker 3: divisive and destructive and dangerous language in our stadiums. So
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Speaker 3: we're seeing the corporate sector finally standing up properly as well.
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Speaker 3: So congratulations to them all. I hope everyone in Australia
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Speaker 3: in those sorts of decision-making roles, particularly our sports leagues,
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Speaker 3: are paying close attention.
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Speaker 1: Prue, what about the argument that Macklemore is a victim
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Speaker 1: of cancel culture, that he took a stand and now
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Speaker 1: he's been denied the opportunity to open for Ed Sheeran?
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Speaker 5: Well, I know he was a friend of Ed Sheeran,
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Speaker 5: but I can't believe, in fact, that Sheeran had him
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Speaker 5: on as a support act. When you know that he's
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Speaker 5: had a long history of being one of these, you know,
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Speaker 5: sanctimonious woke-ites, who want to preach to everybody. So why
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Speaker 5: he actually had him on his show, I have no idea.
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Speaker 5: And I just feel a little bit too little too
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Speaker 5: late from Ed Sheeran.
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Speaker 1: He's lost me a little bit.
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Speaker 5: But, you know, I don't understand why these kids so-called influencers,
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Speaker 5: these actors. I mean, half of them haven't got a brain.
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Speaker 5: They've just got a tiny bit of talent and they
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Speaker 5: rode a wave. And I just feel we don't want
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Speaker 5: your opinion. We want to pay an outrageous amount for
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Speaker 5: a ticket and get entertained, not preached to by these people. So,
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Speaker 5: you know, I just hope it's a lesson to many
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Speaker 5: other performers. Don't ram that stuff down our throats. We're
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Speaker 5: not interested.
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Speaker 1: Prue McSween, Nicole Flint, thank you for your time. Joining
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Speaker 1: me now is broadcaster, columnist, academic and international relations expert
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Speaker 1: Ralph Schollhammer. Ralph, let's start with Donald Trump. He made
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Speaker 1: some interesting comments during his recent trip to Ireland about
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Speaker 1: Europe's decline, the self-harm many leaders are inflicting on their countries.
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Speaker 1: Have a listen. I hate to see what's happening with Europe.
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Speaker 1: I hate to see what's happening on trade.
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Speaker 7: I hate to see what's happening on Ralph, he is blunt,
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Speaker 7: but is he wrong?
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Speaker 8: Well, I would say the trade part is a little
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Speaker 8: bit his fault as well. But I think on energy
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Speaker 8: and migration, he's absolutely correct. And the United States did
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Speaker 8: mention this in their national security strategy already in winter
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Speaker 8: of 2025. So this is nothing new. And we see
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Speaker 8: it all over Europe. We're also going to talk about
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Speaker 8: the elections in Sweden. I mean, migration increasingly has a
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Speaker 8: political impact. And I think the United States are right
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Speaker 8: to recognize it. The only sad thing is, right, it
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Speaker 8: took Donald Trump and none of his predecessors to make
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Speaker 8: these remarks.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's go to Sweden. It appears the centre-right coalition
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Speaker 1: led by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has lost its majority
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Speaker 1: in the weekend election. The Social Democrats have emerged as
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Speaker 1: the largest party. What does this mean for Sweden, Ralph?
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Speaker 8: I mean, Sweden is interesting. As you correctly pointed out,
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Speaker 8: the Social Democrats, quote unquote, won the election, but it
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Speaker 8: was still their worst result in a very, very long time.
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Speaker 8: Who actually won were the parties on what we would
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Speaker 8: probably call the far left. And the same is, by
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Speaker 8: the way, true that the center rights did fairly well.
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Speaker 8: It was the Sweden Democrats, which usually in the media
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Speaker 8: would be called the far right, who lost three percentage points.
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Speaker 8: But overall, one could argue they have now been finally
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Speaker 8: arrived in the Swedish political mainstream. But the really interesting
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Speaker 8: thing is, and this is something we see all over
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Speaker 8: the place, the more, quote unquote, diverse the society gets,
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Speaker 8: in many cases, this also supports the left because a
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Speaker 8: significant number, I looked at the Swedish numbers, the unemployment
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Speaker 8: rate in Sweden is is between 3% and 4% among
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Speaker 8: Swedes with a migrant background and non-Swedish citizens in Sweden.
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Speaker 1: It's up to 12%, 15%.
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Speaker 8: So there's a clear inclination for migrants or migrants from
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Speaker 8: specific areas to vote for left-wing parties because that's where
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Speaker 8: the handouts are. I mean, from a human perspective, right,
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Speaker 8: it's an incentive structure. It makes complete sense.
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Speaker 1: Well, support for Sweden's Greens Party did rise, as you
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Speaker 1: pointed out, 7.4%. And they were very happy about it.
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Speaker 1: Let's have a look at their antics on election night.
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Speaker 8: Ralph, the exit polls show that around 7 in 10
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Speaker 8: voters with non-European backgrounds.
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Speaker 1: Back the left-wing opposition bloc. When you import massive numbers
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Speaker 1: of immigrants, you're going to change the voting patterns of
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Speaker 1: your country, perhaps irreversibly.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's particularly the non-European, non-Western background. Like we
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Speaker 8: have very reliable data from the country of Denmark, for example,
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Speaker 8: where we see the lifetime contribution to the state, you know,
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Speaker 8: via taxes, you know, pretty much for the entire social system.
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Speaker 8: Usually it's a net positive if the migrant has a
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Speaker 8: Western background, and it's a net negative if it's a
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Speaker 8: non-Western background. And again, these are just the hard numbers.
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Speaker 8: So if you have people coming to your country primarily
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Speaker 8: because they want to use what the welfare state has
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Speaker 8: to offer, they will always vote for the parties that
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Speaker 8: offer them more handouts. And then, of course, you end
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Speaker 8: up in a vicious cycle because, as you said, demography
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Speaker 8: is destiny, but unfortunately demography is particularly destiny in democracies.
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Speaker 1: Well, can you see that shifting? Because we saw that
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Speaker 1: in America. I know it's a very different situation there
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Speaker 1: and perhaps it's taken decades, but we saw Hispanic voters
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Speaker 1: that have traditionally voted left, voted for the Democrats, shift
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Speaker 1: and quite a significant number of voting for Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: at the last election. Can you see that happening in
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Speaker 1: European nations as well?
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Speaker 8: Well, it will shift, but it will not be pretty
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Speaker 8: because at some point the money for the welfare state
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Speaker 8: is going to run out. So what will all these
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Speaker 8: people do, the significant number of them that came for
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Speaker 8: the welfare state? Then you have a chunk of the
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Speaker 8: population that is not integrated, that is not assimilated, and
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Speaker 8: that no longer gets money from the state. I think
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Speaker 8: these are precisely these conditions that the British academic David
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Speaker 8: Betts is warning of, when you create the condition that
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Speaker 8: potentially could lead to civil war in the future. Because
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Speaker 8: then you have people that don't have any money, that
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Speaker 8: are not integrated, that feel no loyalty to the state
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Speaker 8: or the society they live in. So what are they
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Speaker 8: going to do? So then turning to crime, to violence
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Speaker 8: or something similar is, of course, significantly higher.
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Speaker 1: Now let's talk about Spain. The police there have transferred
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Speaker 1: more than 800 migrants who had been camping on the
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Speaker 1: streets in Ceuta to a new shelter facility. Ralph, tell
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Speaker 1: me about the ongoing crisis in Ceuta and also about
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Speaker 1: these controversies surrounding three Real Madrid starters who refused to
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Speaker 1: wear T-shirts showing support for the local population there. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think it shows you two things. One is the
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Speaker 1: role of the media.
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Speaker 8: We have been told now over a month ago that
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Speaker 8: the whole issue in Ceuta, the wave of immigrants, I mean,
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Speaker 8: it was around 80,000 people that came into a Spanish
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Speaker 8: exclave where 90,000 people live. So I think the term
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Speaker 8: invasion is accurate in this sense. It was all over
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Speaker 8: after 48 hours. Everybody's gone. Now we know that at
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Speaker 8: least another 10,000 are still present. So this is where
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Speaker 8: a significant chunk of the legacy media simply lied. And
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Speaker 8: the issue about the Spanish players, I mean, overall, I
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Speaker 8: think sports and politics should be separated. But of course,
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Speaker 8: it does show you one thing, right? That even among
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Speaker 8: the high-paying athletes of Real Madrid, the number of those
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Speaker 8: who are loyal to their new home country or the
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Speaker 8: country they live and pursue their sports career is somewhat limited.
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Speaker 1: Ralph, tell me the impact the Suta crisis is having
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Speaker 1: in the Spanish mainland, because as we've discussed in the past,
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Speaker 1: they've just allowed an enormous number of migrants to become naturalised,
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Speaker 1: to participate in the democratic process. What sort of an
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Speaker 1: impact is the Suta crisis having on Spanish politics?
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Speaker 8: Well, absurdly enough, they're doubling down. They are now considering
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Speaker 8: issuing a Spanish citizenship to around 200,000 people. I mean,
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Speaker 8: that would be the highest number. It might be 150,000
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Speaker 8: people in Western Sahara. So this is yet another door.
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Speaker 8: Spain is, even though last year the number of illegal
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Speaker 8: arrivals was lower than in Italy, but overall Spain under
22:28
Speaker 8: Pedro Sanchez is becoming the open door to mass migration
22:32
Speaker 8: yet again into Europe. So it's a little bit like
22:34
Speaker 8: a whack-a-mole in Europe. You close down one route to Europe...
22:38
Speaker 8: then somewhere else another one is being opened. But the
22:40
Speaker 8: important part in Spain is this is deliberate government policy.
22:44
Speaker 8: Like this is not a crisis that couldn't be averted
22:46
Speaker 8: or they weren't prepared for. This is something that was
22:49
Speaker 8: created by the Spanish government on purpose.
22:51
Speaker 1: Because if you.
22:52
Speaker 8: Offer people citizenship, if you offer people legal status, of
22:55
Speaker 8: course they're going to come. It's like in the Kevin
22:57
Speaker 8: Costner movie, if you build.
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Speaker 1: It, they will come. And it's the same thing.
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Speaker 8: If you legalize them, they will come, which makes complete sense.
23:05
Speaker 1: Well, it makes complete sense and you have just brought
23:09
Speaker 1: on hundreds of thousands of new voters who are probably
23:12
Speaker 1: going to stay loyal to your party for the coming decades.
23:17
Speaker 1: So you can see the incentive from some of these
23:20
Speaker 1: left-wing parties. They're thinking in the short term and not
23:23
Speaker 1: thinking about the impact on their countries in the long term.
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Speaker 1: Ralph Schollhammer, we always love your insights. Thank you so
23:29
Speaker 1: much for your time tonight.
23:31
Speaker 8: Thank you so much for having me.
23:32
Speaker 1: Still to come, lefties losing it. Plus, who's the candidate
23:36
Speaker 1: most likely to lead the Democrats in the 2028 presidential election?
23:41
Speaker 1: Will Chamberlain has the details next. You're watching The Rita
23:53
Speaker 1: Panaghi Show and it's time for Lefties Losing It. Now
23:58
Speaker 1: there is high drama afflicting its Sheeran's tour with Macklemore
24:02
Speaker 1: essentially sacked and every other supporting act going out in sympathy.
24:07
Speaker 1: And really what this drama needs right now is the
24:10
Speaker 1: interjection of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Speaker 2: What has happened with the act and not just in
24:16
Speaker 2: removing Macklemore from the line-up, but when you see what
24:19
Speaker 2: Robert Kraft did To line up all of the stadiums
24:24
Speaker 2: to censor speech in that one specific way, it's become
24:29
Speaker 2: clear that this is not just about one music artist
24:33
Speaker 2: or two music artists.
24:34
Speaker 1: Don't you just love it when these free speech hating
24:37
Speaker 1: lefties suddenly become passionate about protecting free speech? These are
24:42
Speaker 1: the same people who say words are violence, even factual
24:46
Speaker 1: words like there are only two genders and illegal aliens
24:49
Speaker 1: are in America illegally, stuff like that. And talking about
24:54
Speaker 1: curbs on free speech, here is Guardian Australia journalist Sarah
24:58
Speaker 1: Martin cheering on more censorship in Australia.
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Speaker 9: This is harmful content that is being mainlined into children.
25:07
Speaker 9: And I feel like, whose free speech are we censoring here?
25:11
Speaker 9: Are we censoring the internet? Well, it probably needs a
25:13
Speaker 9: bit of censorship, right? There's a good argument for it.
25:17
Speaker 1: And to the UK, where free speech is also in peril,
25:21
Speaker 1: including on university campuses, when those wanting to debate key
25:25
Speaker 1: issues like immigration are labelled Nazi scum, abused and threatened
25:31
Speaker 1: by pitiful, feeble, unmanly little brats like this.
25:37
Speaker 7: Scum and you should get off our streets.
25:39
Speaker 2: This is not, we are not doing a fake debate
25:42
Speaker 2: about mass deportation.
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Speaker 8: You are f * * * ing racist and you
25:44
Speaker 8: are not welcome in our university.
25:46
Speaker 6: I'm just having a.
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Speaker 10: Nazi scum off our streets!
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Speaker 1: Nazi scum off our streets!
25:53
Speaker 6: I'm having a nice conversation with this gentleman.
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Speaker 8: I don't give a f * * * about your conversation.
25:57
Speaker 7: Relax, bro.
25:58
Speaker 6: We don't need to be aggressive.
26:01
Speaker 1: There is no point arguing with these people.
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Speaker 2: They are f * * * ing.
26:04
Speaker 3: Now.
26:04
Speaker 10: Some good news.
26:06
Speaker 3: If you're confused about the complexities.
26:10
Speaker 6: Of AI and its impact on human civilization.
26:26
Speaker 1: Well, don't be, because this resurfaced Kamala Harris video explains
26:30
Speaker 1: it all. Now, I don't know why this didn't go
26:33
Speaker 1: viral when she said it as vice president and why
26:35
Speaker 1: it's gone viral today. Maybe AI can explain it.
26:39
Speaker 11: AI is kind of a fancy thing. First of all,
26:42
Speaker 11: it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence. But ultimately what
26:47
Speaker 11: it is, is it's about machine learning. And so the
26:51
Speaker 11: machine is taught that Wow.
26:55
Speaker 1: So AI stands for artificial intelligence. That's two words. Thanks, Kamala.
27:01
Speaker 1: Can't imagine why she didn't win the presidency. But as
27:04
Speaker 1: has been widely reported, she may try again. But not
27:08
Speaker 1: if this next dude has anything to do with it.
27:11
Speaker 1: Here is fellow Californian Democrat and media darling Gavin Newsom.
27:16
Speaker 1: The outgoing Californian governor says he's now ready to run.
27:22
Speaker 1: Watch this bit of propaganda featuring CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
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Speaker 7: How does one even make a decision to, like, run
27:29
Speaker 7: for president? I have no experience in this process, so
27:33
Speaker 7: I'm I'm going through it. I remember people thinking, oh,
27:37
Speaker 7: he should have run in 2024. I wasn't ready.
27:41
Speaker 6: You weren't ready?
27:42
Speaker 5: No.
27:42
Speaker 3: God, no.
27:43
Speaker 7: Do you think if you'd taken on Biden? I would never.
27:45
Speaker 7: First of all, I wouldn't do that. And second, if
27:48
Speaker 7: I did, I would have gotten crushed because I didn't
27:50
Speaker 7: have a why. You don't have a big enough why,
27:53
Speaker 7: then you don't belong there. I'm not screwing anything up anymore, man.
27:57
Speaker 7: I mean, I know what matters in life. You know,
28:00
Speaker 7: I got four kids. It's the only thing that matters
28:02
Speaker 7: to me. They got to be on board. And if that's,
28:06
Speaker 7: forget it. If they're not on board, that's a non-starter.
28:10
Speaker 7: And then you just have to meet the moment. You
28:11
Speaker 7: got to be honest with yourself. Do you represent the
28:14
Speaker 7: zeitgeist in the moment or are you wasting everybody's time?
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Speaker 1: Yep, these two manly men are just out there fly
28:19
Speaker 1: fishing in Montana or pretending to fly fish for the cameras.
28:24
Speaker 1: And Newsom wants a clear run at the presidency. He
28:27
Speaker 1: doesn't want Kamala to complicate matters by running again. Listen
28:32
Speaker 1: at the passive-aggressive way he tells her to stand down.
28:36
Speaker 1: With the help of his mate, Jake Tapper, of course,
28:39
Speaker 1: the impartial CNN anchor.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but I wouldn't run if she ran.
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Speaker 12: If she runs, you will not?
28:46
Speaker 7: Of course not. Why would I? I wouldn't do that
28:50
Speaker 7: to her. I wouldn't do it to me.
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Speaker 12: Why would I?
28:51
Speaker 7: I wouldn't do that to you. I wouldn't waste everyone's time.
28:54
Speaker 7: Who needs that? What do you mean? That doesn't even
28:57
Speaker 7: make sense to me.
28:57
Speaker 1: I just, I wouldn't.
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Speaker 7: No, I wouldn't. First of all, electorally, it's a gift
29:03
Speaker 7: from God for everybody else. They enjoy the hell out
29:06
Speaker 7: of it. Mutual assured destruction. It services no greater good.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you do whatever you want.
29:11
Speaker 7: I don't care. But like counterargument would be like, you know,
29:15
Speaker 7: she had a shot.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:17
Speaker 7: And you've never run and she's run twice.
29:19
Speaker 11: Yeah.
29:20
Speaker 7: I mean, that would be the approach to the campaign, certainly.
29:24
Speaker 7: That would be the case you'd make. Pretty good one, actually.
29:26
Speaker 7: You know, that's objectively true. Mm-hmm.
29:30
Speaker 1: Fascinating. Joining me now is Article 3 Project Senior Counsel,
29:34
Speaker 1: Will Chamberlain. Will, what did you make of that exchange
29:38
Speaker 1: between Jake Taylor and Gavin Newsom? He's running, that much
29:43
Speaker 1: is clear to me, and he wants Kamala to get
29:46
Speaker 1: out of the way.
29:49
Speaker 6: Well, I actually take him at his word that, I mean,
29:52
Speaker 6: if Kamala got in the race, it would be a
29:53
Speaker 6: real problem for Gavin Newsom to get the votes. They'd
29:56
Speaker 6: both be running in the same kind of establishment lane
29:58
Speaker 6: with the same donors. They're both from California. I mean,
30:00
Speaker 6: they've known each other for decades now. So I'm not
30:04
Speaker 6: surprised that what he's trying to do now is before
30:06
Speaker 6: this even gets started to kind of remind her that
30:09
Speaker 6: she's not going to have a good time. It's going
30:10
Speaker 6: to be a rough campaign for her if she runs,
30:13
Speaker 6: even if he's not there. But I wouldn't be surprised
30:16
Speaker 6: if he follows through on that. Like, I mean, if
30:18
Speaker 6: he's got to run against Kamala as part of the Democratic,
30:23
Speaker 6: you know, essentially debate stage, it's just not a good
30:26
Speaker 6: situation for him. It would really hurt him, I think.
30:28
Speaker 6: So I actually take him at his word. I think
30:31
Speaker 6: if Kamala runs, he won't.
30:34
Speaker 1: Well, I think he's doing everything within his power to
30:37
Speaker 1: make sure she doesn't run and And what is his
30:41
Speaker 1: biggest impediment to beating her if they do run together?
30:45
Speaker 1: Is it the fact that he is a white heterosexual
30:49
Speaker 1: male and she isn't?
30:52
Speaker 6: That's I mean, that's a big part of it.
30:54
Speaker 1: Right.
30:54
Speaker 6: I mean, and also she's just the person who's supposed
30:57
Speaker 6: to be consolidating his voters.
30:59
Speaker 9: Right.
31:00
Speaker 6: Like he would be representing her. kind of the older
31:04
Speaker 6: Democratic establishment constituency, you have to expect that somebody like
31:07
Speaker 6: AOC or somebody from the DSA wing of the party
31:09
Speaker 6: is going to run. So, you know, he's going to
31:13
Speaker 6: want to not, you know, essentially he won't want the
31:16
Speaker 6: establishment to cannibalize itself in those early primaries. That would
31:19
Speaker 6: make things much, much harder for either of.
31:21
Speaker 7: Them, really.
31:22
Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about something that happened earlier today when
31:26
Speaker 1: Congressman Thomas Massey, a Republican... Move to Impeach Secretary of
31:32
Speaker 1: War Pete Hegseth.
31:34
Speaker 12: Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense for High Crimes
31:38
Speaker 12: and Misdemeanors. Resolved that Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense,
31:43
Speaker 12: also referred to as Secretary of War by the administration,
31:46
Speaker 12: is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the
31:49
Speaker 12: following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate.
31:54
Speaker 1: Will, what does he mean by high crimes and misdemeanors?
31:59
Speaker 1: What's happening here?
32:02
Speaker 6: Well, it seems like Thomas Massey struggles to understand the Constitution.
32:06
Speaker 6: He makes such a spectacle of saying that he defends
32:10
Speaker 6: the power to make war is vested in the executive branch.
32:13
Speaker 6: The executive branch in the United States have been involved
32:16
Speaker 6: in any number of conflicts over the last 80 years,
32:19
Speaker 6: and only the last time we declared war was World
32:21
Speaker 6: War II. The idea that because he's been involved in
32:24
Speaker 6: conducting the conflicts in Venezuela and Iran that Hegseth has
32:28
Speaker 6: somehow violated. His oath is absurd. And moreover, Massey's a
32:33
Speaker 6: coward because he won't actually impeach the guy who made
32:35
Speaker 6: the calls on this. You know, if he thinks that
32:37
Speaker 6: these wars are unconstitutional, then he can impeach President Donald Trump.
32:39
Speaker 6: But he doesn't want to do that because he knows
32:42
Speaker 6: President Trump is extremely popular and powerful in the Republican base.
32:45
Speaker 6: So he's going after someone else because Thomas Massey, at
32:47
Speaker 6: the end of the day, is a coward.
32:51
Speaker 1: Well, Tell me about his journey as a congressman because
32:57
Speaker 1: he seems to have moved from what we or some
33:01
Speaker 1: of us initially expected from him. How did that come about?
33:04
Speaker 1: Is it all over the single issue or is it
33:09
Speaker 1: a range of issues that have gone into him now
33:12
Speaker 1: taking the positions he's taking?
33:16
Speaker 6: I think over the course of the last eight to
33:18
Speaker 6: 10 years, he's built up a seething resentment towards Donald
33:21
Speaker 6: Trump to the point that he's taking positions that are
33:24
Speaker 6: actually kind of bizarre and out of step with libertarian
33:28
Speaker 6: principles that he supposedly defends. I mean, it's led him
33:31
Speaker 6: to become completely obsessed with the Epstein files, reading the
33:35
Speaker 6: names of innocent people, people who are just in a
33:37
Speaker 6: police lineup on the floor of Congress and accusing them
33:40
Speaker 6: the most vile crimes imaginable. There's nothing libertarian about that.
33:44
Speaker 6: There's nothing about abusing government power that resembles anything in libertarianism.
33:49
Speaker 6: So I think it's just a really sad thing. And
33:52
Speaker 6: his career is about to end, thankfully. I think, you know,
33:55
Speaker 6: we're soon to be able to use some very beautiful,
33:57
Speaker 6: a very beautiful phrase in the English language, which is
33:58
Speaker 6: former Representative Thomas Massey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not far away. Now we're learning more about
34:05
Speaker 1: the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case, the man
34:09
Speaker 1: who withstood enormous pressure to hold the line and ensure
34:13
Speaker 1: there was a mistrial, ensure that she didn't literally get
34:17
Speaker 1: away with murder. Will, the man activists are now trying
34:21
Speaker 1: to dox and destroy is not only black, which has
34:25
Speaker 1: shocked elements of the identity politics obsessed left, but he's
34:30
Speaker 1: also an immigrant to America from Haiti. He's a devout
34:35
Speaker 1: Catholic and his life and even his family's life has
34:40
Speaker 1: been turned upside down. His brother spoke to the New
34:44
Speaker 1: York Post and he said, my family cannot leave the house.
34:48
Speaker 1: They are leaving notes at my mother's house. They won't
34:52
Speaker 1: leave us alone and we don't know anything. Well, tell
34:56
Speaker 1: me about this case and really more specifically what this
35:01
Speaker 1: case has revealed about America?
35:06
Speaker 6: I mean, it's revealed that we have a lot of
35:07
Speaker 6: people in this country who have no business being on juries.
35:10
Speaker 6: Lindsay Clancy is guilty as sin. She strangled her three
35:15
Speaker 6: children one by one in their basement with exercise bands.
35:18
Speaker 6: She should never see the light of day again. And
35:21
Speaker 6: it's appalling that apparently there was only one juror out
35:24
Speaker 6: of 12 who was willing to stand up for the
35:26
Speaker 6: lives of those three poor children and for that husband
35:29
Speaker 6: who had to walk in and discover something that I
35:31
Speaker 6: think no husband could ever conceive of discovering. And the
35:35
Speaker 6: fact that this man is now being harassed by these people,
35:38
Speaker 6: I would want the book thrown at anybody who's intimidating
35:41
Speaker 6: this juror and them to face serious criminal penalties for
35:44
Speaker 6: doing so. And I hope that, I mean, clearly the
35:47
Speaker 6: prosecutors did not do a very good job here both
35:50
Speaker 6: in jury selection and in their presentation to the jury,
35:53
Speaker 6: this is a straightforward murder. And the fact that, you know,
35:57
Speaker 6: the idea that she had no idea what he was
35:59
Speaker 6: doing is completely belied by the fact that she was
36:01
Speaker 6: able to take a phone call from her husband right
36:04
Speaker 6: in the middle of when she was committing the murders
36:06
Speaker 6: and talk about the medicine that he needed to pick up, suppose,
36:10
Speaker 6: for the children that were about to die. I think that,
36:13
Speaker 6: you know, this is a cold, these are cold-blooded murders.
36:16
Speaker 6: by a woman who did something truly evil. And I
36:18
Speaker 6: have no time for any other sort of point of
36:20
Speaker 6: view on this question.
36:22
Speaker 1: Well, we've had some of the jurors do a media tour.
36:26
Speaker 1: I've seen so many interviews with different female jurors in particular.
36:32
Speaker 1: One of them, Will, spoke about how they wanted to
36:35
Speaker 1: make a statement about women and the mental health treatment
36:41
Speaker 1: that women have available to them. How could that sort
36:46
Speaker 1: of activism be allowed to hijack a jury? Was this
36:51
Speaker 1: just the prosecution really failing in their jury selection or
36:55
Speaker 1: is there something deeper happening? Is it going to be
36:58
Speaker 1: difficult to keep these activists away from the jury when
37:03
Speaker 1: you've got jury pools in deep blue states that are
37:06
Speaker 1: full of people like this?
37:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't envy the prosecutor's job, especially in a retrial,
37:12
Speaker 6: given how much this trial has been in the news.
37:16
Speaker 6: I mean, these people are moral reprobates. I'm sorry, I
37:19
Speaker 6: saw that woman talk about how she was going to,
37:23
Speaker 6: this was a way to make a statement to ensure
37:25
Speaker 6: that this never happened again. Well, I think the simplest
37:27
Speaker 6: way to make sure this doesn't happen again is to
37:29
Speaker 6: ensure that the woman who committed these vile crimes is
37:31
Speaker 6: punished for it. This isn't postpartum depression. This is eight
37:35
Speaker 6: or nine months after her youngest child was born. That's
37:38
Speaker 6: not postpartum. That's just cold-blooded murder because these children are
37:42
Speaker 6: an inconvenience to your life. And the fact that, you know,
37:46
Speaker 6: the idea that this would be some feminist victory, I mean,
37:49
Speaker 6: if this is really some sort of feminist victory. I
37:51
Speaker 6: don't think it's much of a victory. At the end
37:52
Speaker 6: of the day, what you're saying is you can't control your,
37:55
Speaker 6: you can, any sort of hormones can lead to women
37:58
Speaker 6: unleashing a psychotic rage and that's normal and they can't
38:00
Speaker 6: be held accountable. So apparently I think we should remove
38:03
Speaker 6: all apparent, if that's the case, then I don't know
38:05
Speaker 6: why women should be allowed to vote. I think that,
38:07
Speaker 6: you know, people, the feminist movement would be very badly
38:09
Speaker 6: set back by adopting this view.
38:13
Speaker 1: That's my view that this has set back the feminist
38:16
Speaker 1: movement decades. You got so many women who call themselves feminists,
38:25
Speaker 1: outrage about Sydney Sweeney's latest commercial and saying that set
38:29
Speaker 1: back feminism decades. Are you kidding me? Have a look
38:34
Speaker 1: at what's just happened in America with the Lindsay Clancy case.
38:38
Speaker 1: That is what they used to say back in the
38:42
Speaker 1: dark ages, that you can't trust women in positions of
38:45
Speaker 1: power and influence because they're ruled by their hormones and
38:49
Speaker 1: they're too emotional. And basically, we've now got supposed feminists
38:53
Speaker 1: making that argument. Now, I saw you involved in a
38:58
Speaker 1: rather heated debate on Piers Morgan's program. You were speaking
39:02
Speaker 1: with or debating with a couple of commentators who say
39:06
Speaker 1: the MAGA movement is in peril. It's over. The GOP
39:10
Speaker 1: is essentially rudderless. What's your position on the state of
39:15
Speaker 1: the Republican Party as we head into the midterms?
39:20
Speaker 6: I mean, I think we're actually in as good a
39:22
Speaker 6: position as normally any party is going into a midterms
39:26
Speaker 6: where they're just on the presidency. We're probably going to
39:28
Speaker 6: take some losses, but I don't think it's going to
39:30
Speaker 6: be out of the ordinary. I mean, American politics right now,
39:33
Speaker 6: we're barely talking about the war in Iran, for example.
39:35
Speaker 6: We're talking about AI and data centers and surveillance cameras.
39:41
Speaker 6: It's just sort of the natural pattern. Meanwhile, the economy
39:44
Speaker 6: is doing pretty well. Unemployment is down. Crime is down
39:46
Speaker 6: at record lows, honestly, 50-year lows. And President Trump's done
39:50
Speaker 6: a remarkable job on the border. So he's fulfilled a
39:53
Speaker 6: lot of his promises. I think at the end of
39:55
Speaker 6: the day, we're going to do just fine in the midterms.
39:57
Speaker 6: We'll probably lose the House, but I think we'll hold
39:59
Speaker 6: the Senate, which is the most important thing to hold,
40:02
Speaker 6: because that controls who can get appointed into the executive branch.
40:06
Speaker 6: So I think ultimately we'll do just fine.
40:08
Speaker 1: Will Chamberlain, thank you so much for your time.
40:12
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
40:13
Speaker 1: Still to come, Hunter Biden's shock appearance on Matt Arne Evans' show.
40:18
Speaker 1: Alex Stein will give us his reaction next. Welcome back. Well,
40:33
Speaker 1: I didn't see this coming. Hunter Biden has appeared on
40:37
Speaker 1: Matt Arne Evans' show, This is a teenage comic and
40:41
Speaker 1: content creator better known for this sort of content.
40:46
Speaker 8: If your wife doesn't listen to the established rules, what
40:49
Speaker 8: is your punishment?
40:50
Speaker 1: There's no way for me to punish my wife.
40:52
Speaker 12: Boom!
40:52
Speaker 1: No, no, none of that. What was I saying?
40:56
Speaker 7: Um, you were talking about the homeless.
40:59
Speaker 2: Hey, Kaya, go.
41:01
Speaker 7: Back to the bed.
41:02
Speaker 1: Yep, that's the sort of shenanigans you typically see on
41:05
Speaker 1: his program. He's deliberately controversial. But I didn't expect to
41:10
Speaker 1: see Hunter Biden appear on his program. This may be
41:15
Speaker 1: Martin's biggest coup since his viral Bonnie Blue interview. And
41:19
Speaker 1: he did ask the tough questions.
41:22
Speaker 2: Why do you think you're so scrutinized for doing drugs
41:26
Speaker 2: when that's what all the other rappers do?
41:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what? I think the reason is, is
41:31
Speaker 1: because I didn't rap, you know? Okay. Or, you know,
41:35
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is that.
41:37
Speaker 2: Color your skin.
41:38
Speaker 7: No.
41:39
Speaker 1: You know, at least the former first son walked away
41:43
Speaker 1: with a gift, a much-needed replacement.
41:46
Speaker 10: I actually want to give you a present, not just
41:48
Speaker 10: because you did so good on that game.
41:49
Speaker 7: Oh, boy.
41:51
Speaker 4: Okay.
41:51
Speaker 1: You're going to like it.
41:52
Speaker 10: It's a gift.
41:53
Speaker 2: Okay. I promise you're going to like it. Okay.
41:55
Speaker 1: It's actually very thought out.
41:56
Speaker 7: I think this is the perfect gift to give you.
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Speaker 2: Feel free.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of heavy.
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Speaker 7: I know.
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Speaker 1: It's a good gift.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't cheap either.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we'll see.
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Speaker 1: Is this going to explode on me?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 12: No.
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Speaker 1: Is it going to cause.
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Speaker 7: Me to relapse?
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Speaker 1: It very well might, but that's up to you. That's
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Speaker 1: pretty cruel. Let's see here.
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Speaker 5: Okay. You really wrapped this.
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Speaker 7: Oh, come on.
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Speaker 1: I haven't had one in seven years. That's a great gift.
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Speaker 7: That is a great gift.
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Speaker 12: It's a brand new 2017 MacBook.
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Speaker 5: Look at that.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Oh, my goodness. Yep,
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Speaker 1: he went there. Joining me now is comedian and host
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Speaker 1: of After Hours with Alex Stein. Alex, this is a
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Speaker 1: missed opportunity by you, I've got to say. How did
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Speaker 1: Matan secure Hunter Biden before you? You've got to do better, Alex.
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Speaker 10: I know you're exactly right. You know, I've been lucky
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Speaker 10: enough to have been a guest on Matan's show, and
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Speaker 10: the guy is crazy. I love him, but he is
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Speaker 10: a brilliant young comedian. I think he's going to be
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Speaker 10: the future of crazy content. But I will say this.
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Speaker 10: The real reason that Hunter Biden is doing this media
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Speaker 10: tour is that he just did a rug pull on
43:12
Speaker 10: a laptop-based crypto coin. So I don't think Hunter Biden
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Speaker 10: is really trying to go out there and, you know,
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Speaker 10: face his demons. He's really just trying to sell a
43:21
Speaker 10: cryptocurrency not much different than Hawk to us. So once
43:25
Speaker 10: you realize that he benefited from this rug and pole
43:29
Speaker 10: crypto scam, it kind of makes more sense why he's
43:31
Speaker 10: going on a podcast that he knows are going to
43:34
Speaker 10: bring up all the skeletons.
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Speaker 11: In his closet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you even did Candice Owen's podcast recently. That was
43:41
Speaker 1: a surprise as well. But yeah, this one shocked me more. Now,
43:44
Speaker 1: the Emmys were on last night. No one much seemed
43:47
Speaker 1: to notice or care, I've got to say. There was
43:50
Speaker 1: very little chatter about it online. Stephen Colbert's Axe Late
43:56
Speaker 1: Show won the Outstanding Variety Series Award months after it
44:00
Speaker 1: aired its final episode. Now, he did miraculously avoid mentioning
44:05
Speaker 1: Trump in his speech and dodged a few questions by
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Speaker 1: the press, but he did praise his writers.
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Speaker 12: I just want to point out that if you like
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Speaker 12: the comedy tonight, my old writers wrote it tonight.
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Speaker 6: Ariel Dumas, my head writer, is the head writer of
44:22
Speaker 6: tonight's Emmys.
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Speaker 1: Alex, are you shocked by just how massive his team
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Speaker 1: is or was? How many writers did it take to
44:31
Speaker 1: come up with the same lame anti-Trump joke night after night?
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Speaker 10: I mean, way too many, and that's just stating the obvious.
44:40
Speaker 10: But listen, Stephen Colbert at one point was a talented comedian.
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Speaker 10: I used to like him when he was on Comedy
44:46
Speaker 10: Central and he kind of pretended to be conservative. But
44:48
Speaker 10: once he started to actually become the caricature of the
44:51
Speaker 10: crazy left, That's when he got less popular. That's when
44:54
Speaker 10: he made the move to the mainstream media. And I
44:57
Speaker 10: just think that was why he became such a Trump hater,
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Speaker 10: just because he was trying to play ball and fit in.
45:03
Speaker 10: Because I will give him credit. Back in the day,
45:05
Speaker 10: he was funny. But Stephen Colbert has been such a disappointment.
45:08
Speaker 10: And this is a pity, Emmy.
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Speaker 6: If I was him, I.
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Speaker 10: Wouldn't even take it. So, I mean, I guess congratulations.
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Speaker 10: But at the end of the day, what could have been,
45:18
Speaker 10: it would have been a lot better if he didn't
45:19
Speaker 10: get Trump derangement syndrome.
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Speaker 1: Pity Emmy is a perfect description of what just happened.
45:26
Speaker 1: And of course, the Hollywood elite are pretending that his
45:30
Speaker 1: axing had something to do with Donald Trump. Donald Trump
45:34
Speaker 1: engineered his show being axed when it was his terrible
45:38
Speaker 1: ratings and the fact that the show cost a fortune
45:40
Speaker 1: to produce for a small audience. Now, Alex, I know
45:44
Speaker 1: you've been wanting to talk about Sidney Sweeney. So Let's
45:48
Speaker 1: do it. We spoke on the show last night about
45:51
Speaker 1: the visceral outrage from so many women over her new
45:56
Speaker 1: commercial and they continue to post these videos.
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Speaker 10: MUSIC PLAYS.
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Speaker 6: So this phenomenon of women often scantily clad.
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Speaker 3: Posting videos with captions slamming Sydney Sweeney for that.
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Speaker 1: Commercial is What is this about? I mean, it wasn't
46:36
Speaker 1: an ad to promote women's sport. It's some sort of
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Speaker 1: a gambling site. And why are we now shaming a
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Speaker 1: woman for supposedly objectifying herself when just about every single
46:47
Speaker 1: one of these videos, you could argue, is doing the
46:50
Speaker 1: same thing? They're choosing to work out in teeny tiny
46:53
Speaker 1: outfits and yet when Sydney Sweeney capitalises on her body,
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Speaker 1: she's committing crimes against the sisterhood.
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Speaker 10: Well, Rita, you know the answer. I mean, there's a
47:05
Speaker 10: lot of women out there in this new body positivity
47:08
Speaker 10: movement that feel like if a woman is attractive and
47:11
Speaker 10: in good shape, that is somehow a threat to them
47:14
Speaker 10: or that's some sort of personal attack to them because
47:18
Speaker 10: we have such a fat centric society in America. So
47:21
Speaker 10: they see a beautiful woman like that. Of course, they're
47:23
Speaker 10: going to say, oh, well, she's, you know, naked. When
47:26
Speaker 10: in reality, women all the time, when they're on a date,
47:29
Speaker 10: they wear low-cut stuff. I mean, it's just the way
47:32
Speaker 10: that women like to attract men's attention. And I guess
47:34
Speaker 10: there's a lot of women out there that are frustrated
47:36
Speaker 10: that Sydney Sweeney is taking all the attention from the
47:39
Speaker 10: internet and they can't compete. So I think it's a
47:41
Speaker 10: jealousy issue really more than anything, Rita.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't get the contradiction though, how you
47:50
Speaker 1: can be all for men saying sex work is work
47:55
Speaker 1: and OnlyFans models should be celebrated because they're empowered and
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Speaker 1: my body, my choice. And they are happy to use
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Speaker 1: their bodies to promote themselves. But when she does it,
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Speaker 1: it's suddenly horrific. I just don't get that. I mean,
48:11
Speaker 1: just stay consistent, ladies. It ain't hard. Now, before you go,
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Speaker 1: we did speak last week about the one-year anniversary of
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Speaker 1: your great friend Charlie Kirk's death, the horrific murder, and
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Speaker 1: you might remember a character called Naima Trout who had
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Speaker 1: debated Charlie in the past. Have a look at what
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Speaker 1: she posted on the one-year anniversary of his murder.
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Speaker 6: Counting or not counting gang violence?
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Speaker 12: Great.
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Speaker 7: Gang violence. Gang violence.
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Speaker 1: Gang violence. Alex, what a disgusting ghoul. How can you
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Speaker 1: do that when you have had interactions with this man
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Speaker 1: where he was polite to you, where he outsmarted you
48:58
Speaker 1: but he never humiliated you? He was very much kind
49:01
Speaker 1: and polite as Charlie always was.
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Speaker 10: No, Rita, you're exactly correct. Charlie always treated no matter
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Speaker 10: who he was dating with love and respect. But when
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Speaker 10: it comes to Naima, she owes her entire career basically
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Speaker 10: to Charlie Kirk. And it's kind of sad that she's
49:18
Speaker 10: making a joke about it considering that she has some
49:21
Speaker 10: of her most viral videos were with Charlie Kirk. So
49:23
Speaker 10: she owes a lot of her success to him. But
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Speaker 10: she's just a disgruntled loser at the end of the day.
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Speaker 10: And she's trying to get some sort of clout with
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Speaker 10: the people that are You know, using Charlie Kirk's death
49:34
Speaker 10: as some sort of like meme creation tool. And it's
49:37
Speaker 10: kind of sad that that's where we've come as a
49:39
Speaker 10: society is that like people celebrate Charlie Kirk's death as
49:42
Speaker 10: some sort of political win. When in reality, Charlie would
49:45
Speaker 10: have had a conversation with any of them and they
49:47
Speaker 10: would not have done the same probably for Charlie. So,
49:50
Speaker 10: you know, the hypocrisy is unreal, but she's just a loser.
49:53
Speaker 10: I think Charlie would ignore it and laugh it off
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Speaker 10: if he was here today.
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Speaker 1: Alex Stein, thank you for your time. And that's it
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Speaker 1: from me. Up next, it's Late Edition. Good night.
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Speaker 7: Good night.