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The Rita Panahi Show | 13 October · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panahy Show. Good evening and
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Speaker 1: welcome to The Rita Panahy Show. I'm James Morrow filling
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Speaker 1: in for Rita. And here's what's coming up tonight. The
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Speaker 1: Anti-Semitism World Commission is set to hold a last-minute secret hearing.
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Speaker 1: My panel will have the latest on that and the
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Speaker 1: day's other top headlines. Plus, climate change and energy minister
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Speaker 1: Chris Bowen put up for the night as a guest
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Speaker 1: of the Saudi Arabian Kingdom. Ian Plymer's going to have
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Speaker 1: more on that very curious arrangement. Kosha Gana will be
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Speaker 1: here with the latest on the raid of Democrat Congresswoman
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Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar's home. Oh, brother, what a story that is.
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Speaker 1: And actress Selma Blair taken into custody at JFK Airport
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Speaker 1: after an alleged fraca on a plane. Michael Loftus will
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Speaker 1: have that and all your entertainment news. Plus, lefties losing
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Speaker 1: it with more grandstanding by woke celebrities.
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Speaker 2: I just want us to take a moment to think
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Speaker 2: about West LaBelle Gal tonight. And I want us to
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Speaker 2: just think and remember.
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Speaker 3: To just look after each other.
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Speaker 4: Oh, just look after each other. Hey, sounds lovely, right?
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Speaker 1: But the Anti-Semitism Royal Commission is going to hold a
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Speaker 1: last-minute secret hearing to probe whether there were major security
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Speaker 1: and intelligence blunders in the lead-up to the Bondi terror attack. Well,
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Speaker 1: the Royal Commission has said that the classified hearing... would
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Speaker 1: take additional evidence related to the security environment in the
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Speaker 1: lead-up to the mass shooting. It will focus on the
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Speaker 1: terrorism threat level at the time, the conduct of intelligence
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Speaker 1: and law enforcement agencies, and the sharing of intelligence between agencies.
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Speaker 1: But quite rightly, there have been questions over why the
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Speaker 1: hearings are being classified at all. Former Defense Department Deputy
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Speaker 1: Secretary for Strategy Peter Jennings, for one, has said that
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Speaker 1: better transparency was the more important thing. Well, joining me
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Speaker 1: now to discuss this and a whole lot more is
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Speaker 1: News Corp senior writer Patrick Carlyon and One Nation upper
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Speaker 1: house candidate Colleen Harkin. Patrick, let me start with you
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Speaker 1: on this one here. This seems like a case of
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Speaker 1: them realizing far too late in the piece that they
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Speaker 1: haven't done their homework on this royal commission that was
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Speaker 1: supposed to report by the end of the year. Now
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Speaker 1: they're rushing. But Patrick, I feel like this is all
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Speaker 1: a product of very bad terms of reference started by
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Speaker 1: a reluctant Albanese government from the start.
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Speaker 5: Look, I think you've got it, James.
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Speaker 6: I mean, this Royal Commission took 24 days to be
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Speaker 6: called after the Bondi shootings. The federal government didn't want it.
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Speaker 6: They placed this silly deadline on finishing the Royal Commission.
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Speaker 6: And it is an opportunity. That's probably the kindest way
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Speaker 6: of putting it. It is an opportunity that has been
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Speaker 6: lost because we need to know, all Australians need to
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Speaker 6: know how this happened. And there are so many elements
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Speaker 6: to this. And it's sort of been it's just been
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Speaker 6: crammed the entire way. It's been squeezed. And I agree
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Speaker 6: with Peter Jennings, who actually went on to say we
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Speaker 6: should be talking to foreign countries. We should be finding
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Speaker 6: out how best to do all these things. This is
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Speaker 6: all this is all sort of it feels like it's
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Speaker 6: for show, doesn't it?
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Speaker 1: Well, it does feel like it's for show, Colleen, but
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Speaker 1: I'm also really quite concerned because there's a serious issue
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Speaker 1: behind this.
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Speaker 4: There has been a lot of.
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Speaker 1: Discussion that there were real intelligence failures beforehand, failures of
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Speaker 1: agencies to discuss things with one another, and also failures
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Speaker 1: even within the prime minister's office himself, itself, to heed
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Speaker 1: warnings from Jewish groups that the rising tide of anti-Semitism
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Speaker 1: was going to lead to tragedy. Colleen, is this just
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Speaker 1: an epic tragedy? a bit of CYA on the part
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Speaker 1: of the Prime Minister and the Royal Commission to keep
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Speaker 1: it all under wraps so that we don't actually find
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Speaker 1: out what the failings were?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's a real concern of most people,
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Speaker 7: the idea that the really important questions are going to
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Speaker 7: be heard behind closed doors. The public has to have
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Speaker 7: confidence reinstated about what our agencies do, whether the Secret
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Speaker 7: Service and the police and all of those people who
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Speaker 7: are involved in the intelligence industry have the tools that
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Speaker 7: they need, who knew what when, and if there were failures,
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Speaker 7: how we fix them. We only get one shot at this,
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Speaker 7: and having this done so late in the piece, this
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Speaker 7: is the core business of the hearings. I mean, it's
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Speaker 7: heartbreaking to hear the stories of the people who were there,
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Speaker 7: but that's not going to actually prevent it from happening again.
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Speaker 7: What we need to know is who knew what when,
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Speaker 7: and if they have to extend it, extend the terms
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Speaker 7: of reference, whatever has to happen. That's what we have
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Speaker 7: to get to the bottom of.
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Speaker 1: Look, I agree with you completely, Colleen, and I just
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Speaker 1: think that it absolutely stinks that this government had to
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Speaker 1: be dragged kicking and screaming to hold this Royal Commission
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Speaker 1: in the first place, and now the whole thing is
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Speaker 1: going to come out, I'm worried, looking like... an exercise
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Speaker 1: in just trying to do a bureaucratic cover-up, and I
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Speaker 1: think we deserve a lot better. But on a separate
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Speaker 1: but sort of related issue, we spoke yesterday on this
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Speaker 1: program about the funding that was given to a mosque
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Speaker 1: that was attended by the accused Fly Dubai hijack pilot. Well,
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Speaker 1: Pauline Hanson has demanded a review into the funding given...
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Speaker 1: into the My Center Mosque in Broadmeadows in Victoria, which
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Speaker 1: was awarded almost $ 70, 000 in grants for what was said
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Speaker 1: to be language services. Now, the leader of the mosque,
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Speaker 1: Abu Hamza, rejects any association with the pilot and insists
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Speaker 1: he never met him. But this is a man who
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Speaker 1: previously called Hansen a, quote, filthy human and called the
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Speaker 1: Jewish community, quote, blood-sucking humans.
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Speaker 5: Um.
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Speaker 1: Colleen, beyond this mosque, and I want to ask you
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Speaker 1: why this mosque was given a grant for language services
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Speaker 1: in the first place, but why are we giving out
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Speaker 1: so much money to all sorts of multicultural groups to
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Speaker 1: do things that seem to be about preserving people's identity
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Speaker 1: that they've brought from somewhere else rather than you know,
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Speaker 1: using this money to help integrate people and turn them into,
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Speaker 1: you know, fully assimilated Australians.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and this sheik apparently also is alleged to have
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Speaker 7: told people not to subscribe to Australian values and moral standing.
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Speaker 7: So it's a real problem when Australian taxpayer dollars are
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Speaker 7: helping fund division and segregation in the community. It's not
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Speaker 7: what it means to be Australian. I think most People
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Speaker 7: here would be horrified to learn that money is being
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Speaker 7: spent on actually helping cultural groups who don't support Australia
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Speaker 7: or what we stand for. There is no space, there
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Speaker 7: is no place in Australia for this kind of language
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Speaker 7: that's being used, these attitudes that's being used. And if
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Speaker 7: there is evidence to show that that's the case, these
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Speaker 7: mosques should be closed down. They just should not be
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Speaker 7: able to exist if that's what's going on inside them.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, look, I think you're absolutely right there. But, Patrick, again,
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Speaker 1: you know, I say that there's possibly a bigger issue
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Speaker 1: too when, again, we are having politicians give money to various...
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Speaker 1: ethnic community groups, which sounds lovely and wonderful on the
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Speaker 1: one hand. But my worry is that when you see
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Speaker 1: all of this money going into labor electorates and into
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Speaker 1: community centers and labor electorates, this is really about creating
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Speaker 1: ethnic bloc votes, which to me seems like the last
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Speaker 1: thing you'd want to do, no matter what the ethnicities were,
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Speaker 1: when it came to creating a cohesive society of Australians
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Speaker 1: where You know, you vote for who you want as
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Speaker 1: an individual because of your own interests, not because you
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Speaker 1: identify also with some other group.
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 6: Look, this leader of this mosque, I mean, he talked
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Speaker 6: about at one stage Islam being at war with Australia.
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Speaker 6: I mean, that's not very inclusive, as Colin was trying
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Speaker 6: to say.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: And the idea, and actually, you.
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Speaker 6: Know, funding, and that was the other point too, they're
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Speaker 6: promoting a school. I mean, they want to have a
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Speaker 6: lot of students there. What are they going to teach them?
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Speaker 6: It isn't going to be Australian values. It's not going
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Speaker 6: to be inclusion. It's going to be this dreadful hate
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Speaker 6: speech that has no place. And, you know, we've been
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Speaker 6: dealing with this for years and years, especially after October 7.
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Speaker 6: The idea that this can sort of go, you know,
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Speaker 6: unchecked is unbelievable to me.
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Speaker 4: Indeed, indeed. It is shocking.
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Speaker 1: And I want to stay in Victoria because so much
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Speaker 1: shocking stuff does come out of Victoria these days, I'm afraid.
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Speaker 1: Their libertarian MP, David Limbrick, he has vowed to tackle
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Speaker 1: Victoria's crime crisis. And we've seen headlines about that around
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Speaker 1: the country by introducing a bill which would allow people
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Speaker 1: to forcibly fight back against home intruders. What a wild idea.
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Speaker 1: He's calling it the F around and find out bill.
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Speaker 1: And he promises to introduce it within his first hundred
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Speaker 1: days in parliament if he is reelected at the state election.
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Speaker 1: And the proposal would also legalize pepper spray for law
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Speaker 1: abiding adults. Now, Colleen, different party, but as one nation,
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Speaker 1: would one nation support this sort of legislation?
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Speaker 7: Well, I can say there are several people out there
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Speaker 7: and parties out there who are just copying One Nation policy.
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Speaker 7: One Nation already has announced pepper spray and castle law.
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Speaker 7: And with great respect to David Lindbergh, because he's certainly
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Speaker 7: not the worst of the Victorian MPs, but he has
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Speaker 7: been there for eight years. So, yes, we would definitely
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Speaker 7: support it. We already announced it well ahead of David.
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Speaker 1: And, Patrick, do you think, you know, as a Victorian yourself,
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Speaker 1: do you think that it would be a good idea
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Speaker 1: to give Melbournians and Victorians a bit more legal cover
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Speaker 1: if they decide to, you know, try and take on
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Speaker 1: these people? Because you know what the old saying is,
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Speaker 1: we say this in America, you know, when you need
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Speaker 1: them in seconds, they're there in minutes when it comes
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Speaker 1: to the police.
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 6: Look, Victorians, or Melbournians, I should say, have felt helpless
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Speaker 6: for years. I mean, just to give you context, James,
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Speaker 6: I mean, we're not talking about isolated examples of people
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Speaker 6: waking up in their beds with men with machetes standing
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Speaker 6: over them. We're talking about dozens upon dozens upon dozens
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Speaker 6: over many years at this point.
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Speaker 4: They have felt helpless.
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Speaker 6: I didn't know, to be honest, that pepper spray was illegal.
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Speaker 4: It makes sense.
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Speaker 6: I mean, anything that makes people feel slightly more empowered,
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Speaker 6: because they haven't in Melbourne for a long time, it's.
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Speaker 4: Got to be a welcome thing. Indeed.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, when you see people bailed
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Speaker 1: for having committed machete attacks and yet, you know, homeowners
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Speaker 1: could be facing far worse. You know, you wonder who
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Speaker 1: who the authorities are really there to protect. But staying
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Speaker 1: on politics, new polling has revealed that one nation would
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Speaker 1: pick up in Queensland nine coalition seats in Queensland. If
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Speaker 1: an election were held there this weekend and this Demos
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Speaker 1: Australia poll had Labour's primary on 27, One Nation on
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Speaker 1: 26 and the LNP on 22.
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Speaker 4: That's up in Queensland.
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Speaker 1: That would translate to Labour winning about 84 seats, the
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Speaker 1: College 34 and One Nation 24. Colleen, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: interesting in Queensland, which is the biggest state with a
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Speaker 1: LNP government, that One Nation still seems to be polling
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Speaker 1: very well.
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Speaker 7: Look, I think it's across the nation, state by state
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Speaker 7: and federally, that One Nation's voters are sticking. You know,
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Speaker 7: for a while there, I think people thought that it
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Speaker 7: was just going to be a bit of a bubble
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Speaker 7: and it would fall away. And it's proving not to
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Speaker 7: be the case. The Victorian election is a matter of
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Speaker 7: weeks away and the One Nation numbers have stuck and
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Speaker 7: they're increasing. So I think there's a great challenge to
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Speaker 7: be had because This situation has never existed in Australia
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Speaker 7: before where there are genuinely three alternatives for people to
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Speaker 7: choose from because they do offer very different things. One
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Speaker 7: Nation is very different to the Liberal Party. The truth
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Speaker 7: is that One Nation wouldn't exist if the Liberal Party
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Speaker 7: had have done its job. So, you know, voters now
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Speaker 7: have a choice and those One Nation numbers are sticking
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Speaker 7: and growing, which I'm clearly, obviously, pleased to see.
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Speaker 1: And, Patrick, earlier today, Josh Frydenberg officially announced launched his
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Speaker 1: memoirs about his life in Australia, but also his political
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Speaker 1: manifesto as well, all wrapped up in one volume. John
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Speaker 1: Howard was there giving the speech to launch that book.
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Speaker 1: But do you think that with this intervention into politics
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Speaker 1: on the center-right, do you think that this is going
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Speaker 1: to help One Nation's cause? Because Josh Frydenberg, for all
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Speaker 1: of his charms and all of his strengths, the idea
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Speaker 1: that the road back to power is through Kuyong, I
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Speaker 1: think that may put a few people on the right
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Speaker 1: off a little bit.
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Speaker 6: Look, I spoke to Josh about this last week. I
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Speaker 6: interviewed him as a journalist. We talked about it at
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Speaker 6: great length. He made some good points. He basically said
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Speaker 6: the Liberal Party is on the brink of extinction if
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Speaker 6: it doesn't do better in the 2028 election.
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Speaker 4: And he actually surprised me.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think of Josh as a sort
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Speaker 6: of hard right or anything like that, but his manifesto,
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Speaker 6: as you called it, talks about, you know, possibly introducing
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Speaker 6: national service or volunteering.
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Speaker 4: As a gap year.
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Speaker 6: It talked about pushing up our defence forces, which are
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Speaker 6: abysmal at the moment. And he actually seemed quite right
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Speaker 6: in a political sense in actually sort of saying what
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Speaker 6: we needed to do to address these issues. He's obviously
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Speaker 6: very strong on the anti-Semitism side. and the terrorist threat.
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Speaker 6: But it is an interesting time, isn't it? Because I
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Speaker 6: think a lot of Australians are actually looking for their
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Speaker 6: cues from One Nation at the moment rather than the
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Speaker 6: Liberal Party or the Coalition.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And Patrick, let me just stay with you on that.
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Speaker 1: Just I'm curious, because you did interview him. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's a perception with some people that I've talked to
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Speaker 1: that you've got a guy who's now at Goldman Sachs
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Speaker 1: dealing with, you know, almost challenging the guy from McKinsey,
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Speaker 1: you know, the consultant. And it feels a bit to
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Speaker 1: some people like this feels like this is a return
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Speaker 1: almost to the old sort of, you know, kind of
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Speaker 1: corporatized management class liberal party. And, you know, does he
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Speaker 1: have any answer to the idea that this feels like
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Speaker 1: a very insidery kind of move?
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Speaker 6: Um, Look, I mean, Josh sort of holds his cards
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Speaker 6: very close. He won't say whether he will go back
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Speaker 6: into politics. I suspect he would like to one day.
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Speaker 6: But I think he wants to see how the landscape
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Speaker 6: will fall, to be perfectly honest, politically, before he actually
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Speaker 6: commits to the Liberal Party or whatever. So I think, look,
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Speaker 6: I think what he has to say is interesting, but
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Speaker 6: he is outside the bubble at the moment. He's not
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Speaker 6: pulling any levers in the way that he did as Treasurer.
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Speaker 6: Whether he will or not, I honestly don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, it'll be interesting to watch, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure Angus Taylor's going to have a lot of fun
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Speaker 1: watching that, too. But before you guys go, just a
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Speaker 1: quick one. Australian golfing legend Greg Norman the Shark, well,
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Speaker 1: he took aim at Qantas after a lengthy delay he
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Speaker 1: experienced on a flight from Sydney to Dallas. He said
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Speaker 1: his flight was three hours late, and then there were
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Speaker 1: further problems with collecting his bag in Dallas.
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Speaker 4: He said he's always tried.
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Speaker 1: To support the airline but will now be looking elsewhere. Colleen,
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Speaker 1: just quickly, do you think he's right about Qantas? Does
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Speaker 1: it need to lift its game?
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, coming from a former ambassador, I think
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Speaker 7: it's pretty damaging to the brand. But I think Qantas
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Speaker 7: lost its way quite a long time ago when it
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Speaker 7: actually got into the political, social, you know, supporting the voice, LGBT,
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Speaker 7: you know, all of that sort of stuff. And so
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Speaker 7: I think they would be better off just focusing on
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Speaker 7: what they call businesses and providing a service of planes
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Speaker 7: on time and getting your baggage delivered. in, you know, 15,
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Speaker 7: 20 minutes after you're flying, not an hour and a half,
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Speaker 7: as we've all experienced sometimes.
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Speaker 1: It's a shame when I think about what quantum was
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Speaker 1: like when I started first flying here 25 years ago.
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Speaker 1: It's been the journey, let's just say. Patrick Carline, Colleen Harkin,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much, guys, for your time as always.
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Speaker 1: All right, joining me now is esteemed geologist, author, and
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Speaker 1: executive director at Hancock Energy, Professor Ian Plymer. To talk
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Speaker 1: about this story, this great story, it's been revealed that
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Speaker 1: climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen was put up
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Speaker 1: for the night as a guest of the Kingdom of
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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia just days before his pre-cop talk fest in Fiji. Now,
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Speaker 1: his office said he had meetings with Saudi Arabia's energy
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Speaker 1: minister about the evolving situation in the Middle East. and
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Speaker 1: its implications for global energy security. Ian Plymer, I want
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Speaker 1: to ask you about this, though. It seems very funny
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Speaker 1: to me that on the one hand, you know, Chris
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Speaker 1: Bowen is saying, oh, we must never do anything with
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Speaker 1: the evil fossil fuel people. And then the next thing
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Speaker 1: we know, he's turning up at some $ 2, 000 a night
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Speaker 1: or however much it costs to stay the night in
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Speaker 1: Riyadh Hotel Suite in Saudi Arabia, a guest.
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Speaker 4: Of the kingdom.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's fascinating, isn't it? It is. Now, I often
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Speaker 5: go to Saudi. The Crown Prince Hotel, which is where
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Speaker 5: I think he was put up by, because that's where
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Speaker 5: royalty stays in Saudi, that's a couple of thousand a night.
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Speaker 5: If he was in one of the prince's suites, that
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Speaker 5: would have cost him 30,000 for the night. and we
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Speaker 5: taxpayers are paying for it.
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Speaker 1: But it does cut to the sort of the two-faced
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Speaker 1: nature of this government and this policy that, you know,
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Speaker 1: on the one hand, it's all shame, shame, shame, down with,
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Speaker 1: you know, all of these terrible fossil fuels. But on
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Speaker 1: the other hand, then, Chris Bowen, you know, after shaming
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Speaker 1: fossil fuel companies here in Australia, then he's going... It
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Speaker 1: sounded to me like going cap in hand to the Saudis, saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know, we need to make sure we've got our oil,
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Speaker 1: we need to make sure we've got our diesel. If
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Speaker 1: he was realistic, he would understand that, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: the Saudis who aren't the problem and what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: It's that we don't have enough of it here.
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Speaker 5: Well, if he's a true Western Sydneysider, he'd have a V8,
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Speaker 5: the window down, his arm hanging out, huge noise coming
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Speaker 5: out of the back of it, and he would be
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Speaker 5: talking cars with the Crown Prince because they love their
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Speaker 5: big cars. They love chewing up what they produce, and
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Speaker 5: that's fossil fuels. They love selling it, which is why
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Speaker 5: they're so wealthy. Saudi Aramco, which is one of the
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Speaker 5: biggest companies in the world, is the government oil company.
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Speaker 5: He has gone there wearing this wonderful smarmy, hypocritical smirk
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Speaker 5: and then will go beating his chest with moral discussions
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Speaker 5: at COP. Now, this is just a massive waste of
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Speaker 5: our money. I think people see that he's enormously hypocritical.
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Speaker 5: If he was really concerned about emissions of plant food,
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Speaker 5: carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, he wouldn't have even gone
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Speaker 5: in an aeroplane.
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Speaker 1: And Ian, you know, you've dealt with the Saudis quite
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Speaker 1: a bit. You do work with them. You just said,
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Speaker 1: do you reckon they would have had his number?
18:42
Speaker 5: Of course they would have. They're not mugs. They can
18:45
Speaker 5: pick a hypocrite straight away. They deal with a lot
18:48
Speaker 5: of people slithering up to them, chasing them for money.
18:51
Speaker 5: And they know how to deal with hypocrites. They know
18:54
Speaker 5: how to deal with the left.
18:55
Speaker 1: I would have loved to have been a fly in
18:58
Speaker 1: the tent for that discussion, just to see how that went.
19:01
Speaker 1: But I want to also stick with this here, too,
19:02
Speaker 1: because there's also this whole story about this controversial EV
19:07
Speaker 1: charger tax. Now, it's been backed by the Australian Energy
19:11
Speaker 1: Market Commission, but interestingly here, frontbencher Christy McBain has been
19:16
Speaker 1: saying different things about this tax.
19:18
Speaker 4: Have a look at this.
19:20
Speaker 8: It's not something that the government is suggesting.
19:23
Speaker 7: I think that, you know, if you're buying an EV,
19:26
Speaker 7: you do so and you've got a range of incentives already.
19:29
Speaker 4: Out there to do that.
19:30
Speaker 8: It shouldn't be, you know, agglomerised to the rest of
19:33
Speaker 8: the country.
19:33
Speaker 1: It's interesting to me because Chris McBain has a rural seat,
19:37
Speaker 1: a country seat, and do you think that there's a
19:40
Speaker 1: bit of a disconnect here between our very urbane Chris
19:44
Speaker 1: Bowen and the real world here?
19:46
Speaker 5: If you're in a rural area of Australia, you get no...
19:49
Speaker 5: incentives to drive your Toyota four-wheel drive. You get no
19:54
Speaker 5: incentives to have a tractor which ploughs, seeds, creates the
19:59
Speaker 5: food that we eat and transports it to the city.
20:02
Speaker 5: You don't get any incentives. So this is a city-based
20:05
Speaker 5: policy to give people money to drive these electric vehicles
20:09
Speaker 5: and My car has a range of 1,200 kilometres. The
20:14
Speaker 5: sort of distances I drive out back, there's no way
20:17
Speaker 5: I could take an electric vehicle. I wouldn't make it.
20:20
Speaker 5: I'd have to take rations.
20:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly right, exactly right.
20:22
Speaker 1: But it's this disconnect here, this split between city and country,
20:27
Speaker 1: and now also we're seeing another split within Labor, not
20:31
Speaker 1: just between Chris McBain and Chris Bowen, but between the
20:33
Speaker 1: New South Wales Premier, Chris Minns, and Anthony Albanese. where
20:38
Speaker 1: the state government has now announced it is using its
20:41
Speaker 1: own subsidy scheme to develop renewable energy generation. He's using
20:46
Speaker 1: this scheme to build new gas power plants as early
20:50
Speaker 1: as next year because, of course, they've got the memo
20:52
Speaker 1: that the lights are going to go off. It's very
20:56
Speaker 1: interesting now that Chris Minns in New South Wales is saying,
20:59
Speaker 1: this is electoral poison for us, this renewable stuff, going
21:03
Speaker 1: into the March election.
21:05
Speaker 5: Well, he's got a problem. There's not enough gas coming
21:08
Speaker 5: from the Queensland gas fields into New South Wales, let
21:10
Speaker 5: alone into Victoria. But constitutionally, both sides of Parliament have said, no,
21:15
Speaker 5: we're going to put in a constitution. We can't frack
21:18
Speaker 5: and extract the gas. New South Wales has got some
21:20
Speaker 5: big gas fields. It's been nearly 20 years to go
21:25
Speaker 5: through approvals and they still haven't been granted. And New
21:28
Speaker 5: South Wales could have a lot of gas. So Minns
21:31
Speaker 5: has got another problem, but he's quite right. He is
21:33
Speaker 5: realising that you can't run an industrial country on sea
21:38
Speaker 5: breezes and sunbeams. You've got to have gas. Preferably, you've
21:41
Speaker 5: got to have coal.
21:42
Speaker 1: And he knows this, and he knows that New South Wales,
21:45
Speaker 1: which should be the engine... of the Australian economy. It
21:48
Speaker 1: is not that anymore. I mean, he knows what's happening
21:50
Speaker 1: to energy prices. Does he need to, with a stroke
21:53
Speaker 1: of a pen, turn on Narrabri and go and change
21:56
Speaker 1: the regulations that created that problem in the High Court
21:59
Speaker 1: the other day with the Stage 3 emissions?
22:02
Speaker 5: Well, Narrabri is a very good example of environmental lawfare.
22:07
Speaker 5: And it's stopped people getting energy. It's pushed up the
22:10
Speaker 5: price of energy. The Hunter Valley and the Wollongong and
22:13
Speaker 5: Illawarra area have got a lot of coal. It's really
22:16
Speaker 5: good quality coal. This coal has run power stations. It
22:20
Speaker 5: has got a very high amount of energy. It hasn't
22:22
Speaker 5: got much water. It doesn't create much ash. We used
22:25
Speaker 5: to have cheap coal-fired electricity. We've still got a lot
22:28
Speaker 5: of this coal, only a couple of thousand years of it.
22:30
Speaker 5: But he is ignoring the fact that New South Wales
22:34
Speaker 5: is very well blessed with energy. New South Wales doesn't
22:37
Speaker 5: have any uranium, to note, but it certainly has a
22:40
Speaker 5: lot of coal and certainly has a lot of gas.
22:42
Speaker 5: And he's starting to come to reality, and that is
22:44
Speaker 5: you have to use cheap, reliable fossil fuel... He would
22:47
Speaker 5: be aware that the power generators are running 24-7 and
22:51
Speaker 5: burning up coal, and it's only when the sun's shining
22:53
Speaker 5: and the wind's not blowing that they take a feed
22:55
Speaker 5: of electricity. That is a massive waste, and he's very
22:59
Speaker 5: much aware of that. If he's concerned about carbon dioxide
23:02
Speaker 5: going into the atmosphere, you wouldn't have coal-fired power stations
23:05
Speaker 5: running at all. You'd turn them off all the time.
23:07
Speaker 1: And with all of those extensions that they keep granting
23:10
Speaker 1: to coal power stations.
23:11
Speaker 5: Well, that's called reality.
23:12
Speaker 1: That's called reality. Reality Bites. Thank you so much, Professor
23:15
Speaker 1: Ian Plummer, as always. Well, stick around, because still to come,
23:18
Speaker 1: it's lefties losing it. Plus, Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar pins
23:23
Speaker 1: a homeland security raid on her home as a Trump
23:26
Speaker 1: smear campaign. Kush Gada talks us through it next. OK,
23:38
Speaker 1: now it's time for lefties losing it. And first up,
23:41
Speaker 1: let's check in with Harry Styles, who's wearing some very
23:45
Speaker 1: unstylish shorts, giving his crowd a lecture about those mean
23:49
Speaker 1: and nasty ice agents.
23:52
Speaker 2: I just want us to take a moment to think
23:54
Speaker 2: about Russell Bell-Gall tonight. And I want us to just
24:00
Speaker 2: think and remember.
24:05
Speaker 3: To just look after each other.
24:07
Speaker 4: Oh, just look after each other.
24:08
Speaker 1: Now, you may be wondering, who is this Oscar Delgal
24:11
Speaker 1: he's talking about? Who are we supposed to be having
24:13
Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers for? Oh, it's this guy, Oscar Delgal,
24:18
Speaker 1: who was, turns out, shot by ICE agents in New
24:21
Speaker 1: York who were trying to arrest him and kick him
24:24
Speaker 1: out of the country because he's got a long rap
24:27
Speaker 1: sheet and ties to a terrifying street gang. But Stiles
24:31
Speaker 1: wasn't done there.
24:32
Speaker 5: Please.
24:34
Speaker 2: It's up to us to make these cities that we
24:36
Speaker 2: live in the places we want to see. It's up
24:38
Speaker 2: to us to make the world the place that we
24:41
Speaker 2: want to see and we want to give to our children.
24:47
Speaker 2: So please continue looking after each other. And remember your friends,
24:52
Speaker 2: the people you love, the people.
24:54
Speaker 3: Who don't look like you and aren't born where you're from.
24:57
Speaker 2: They deserve respect and love and dignity.
25:01
Speaker 1: Hmm, tell that to your security detail, Harry. I mean,
25:05
Speaker 1: how intolerant, if not downright xenophobic, was it when your
25:09
Speaker 1: own security tackled someone who didn't look like you when
25:12
Speaker 1: they got too close at a concert you held in
25:15
Speaker 1: Brazil in 2023?
25:18
Speaker 4: Absolute utter hypocrisy.
25:21
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, here's singer Hayley Williams losing her mind about Trump
25:25
Speaker 1: and MAGA and who knows what else at a concert
25:28
Speaker 1: in New Orleans.
25:29
Speaker 9: Hope you got a little break. Please vote in November.
25:36
Speaker 9: All these people. KKK look different. And they will not win.
25:57
Speaker 5: Until I see you again, take care of you and
25:59
Speaker 5: take care of each other.
26:02
Speaker 3: I love you so much, Louisiana.
26:04
Speaker 5: Good night.
26:06
Speaker 1: And I don't know what happened here, but some of
26:08
Speaker 1: those unhinged fans seem to have made their way into
26:11
Speaker 1: a Jerry Seinfeld show. But good old Jer gave as
26:14
Speaker 1: good as he got, and then some.
26:16
Speaker 5: Fouled!
26:18
Speaker 10: Signed, fouled!
26:19
Speaker 4: Listen to me! You're a racist! There are 74,000 dead Palestinians!
26:25
Speaker 11: 74,000 Palestinians have been killed by the racist state of Israel!
26:33
Speaker 4: I am a racist.
26:35
Speaker 9: I am a racist.
26:39
Speaker 7: I'm going to find out how much.
26:44
Speaker 11: Your ticket was and I'm sending it to Israel.
26:57
Speaker 12: Two million Palestinians don't get to dream.
27:01
Speaker 3: Because of the genocide.
27:04
Speaker 1: But in more serious news, you may have heard me
27:06
Speaker 1: talk before about that weird alliance between hard-left Greens and
27:10
Speaker 1: radical Islam. Well, here we have a UK Greens campaigner
27:13
Speaker 1: saying Israel doesn't have a right to exist.
27:16
Speaker 3: Israel doesn't have a right to exist. The people of
27:19
Speaker 3: Israel do have a right to exist.
27:21
Speaker 6: And those people, those Israelis, will live with dignity and respect.
27:25
Speaker 10: Right, so historic Palestine... Historic Palestine includes a part of
27:31
Speaker 10: the Middle East that was once known as Judea. Do
27:34
Speaker 10: you understand what the word Judea means, Mr Wakelin-Green?
27:38
Speaker 3: I do indeed, but feel free to.
27:40
Speaker 10: It's the linguistic root of the word Jew, isn't it?
27:43
Speaker 10: It means the Jewish homeland. So when you say that
27:46
Speaker 10: historic Palestine should be the only place that exists and
27:50
Speaker 10: that includes Judea and other areas, you're effectively calling for
27:54
Speaker 10: Israel to be wiped off the map. What, therefore, happens
27:58
Speaker 10: to the 10 million Jews that live there?
28:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder how long that guy would last in
28:02
Speaker 1: a Palestinian rule situation. Anyway, finally, let's talk a little
28:07
Speaker 1: bit about Ilhan Omar.
28:09
Speaker 4: What a case. You might even say, oh, brother.
28:12
Speaker 1: But the FBI's raid on her home, well, that's really
28:15
Speaker 1: causing a lot of consternation amongst the usual suspects.
28:18
Speaker 13: Federal officers have conducted a search and did so early
28:22
Speaker 13: today at the home of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. CNN's
28:26
Speaker 13: Caitlin Polantz is gathering the details on this for us
28:30
Speaker 13: and joins us now. Caitlin, what are you learning?
28:33
Speaker 14: Caitlin, we're learning bits and pieces of what's happening here.
28:36
Speaker 14: But there is a search that was going on this
28:39
Speaker 14: morning or is going on still at the home of
28:43
Speaker 14: Ilhan Omar, the Democratic representative from Minnesota, who is also
28:48
Speaker 14: running again for Congress in the middle of this election season.
28:52
Speaker 14: Could be some level of immigration fraud. We don't have
28:56
Speaker 14: any of that substantiated at this time, and there haven't
28:58
Speaker 14: been any criminal charges or other immigration enforcement actions against
29:03
Speaker 14: Representative Omar.
29:04
Speaker 1: Spare me the outrage, because remember how overjoyed they were
29:08
Speaker 1: when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago?
29:10
Speaker 5: It may be hot outside, but in here, it's Christmas.
29:15
Speaker 15: Because yesterday, we all got the present we wanted.
29:18
Speaker 5: FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago.
29:19
Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
29:27
Speaker 1: Well, as I mentioned a moment ago, the home of
29:29
Speaker 1: Democrat Illinois Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was raided early Monday morning
29:34
Speaker 1: by Homeland Security investigators. Border Enforcement Chief Tom Homan told Fox...
29:40
Speaker 1: News that an investigation was ongoing for a while and
29:43
Speaker 1: that there was a warrant executed that morning.
29:46
Speaker 15: Now.
29:47
Speaker 1: Omar, of course, claimed that the action was part of
29:49
Speaker 1: Trump's repeated attempts to weaponize federal law enforcement and said, quote,
29:54
Speaker 1: for 10 years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies
29:58
Speaker 1: and smear campaigns.
29:59
Speaker 4: This is just the latest.
30:01
Speaker 1: Escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. Well, to talk
30:05
Speaker 1: about this and a lot more is News 24 contributor
30:08
Speaker 1: Kosha Gada. Kosha, first of all, what do we know
30:13
Speaker 1: about this and how much, uh, Does Ilhan Omar have
30:19
Speaker 1: to stand on here, given that the Justice Department under
30:23
Speaker 1: Joe Biden in 2024 opened up investigations into her financial dealings?
30:28
Speaker 1: I'm not sure this is all just politics.
30:33
Speaker 3: Good point.
30:34
Speaker 8: And I think, James, we can imagine that she probably
30:37
Speaker 8: is feeling the heat right now and has lawyered up.
30:41
Speaker 8: So what this current investigation is about is allegedly, reportedly
30:44
Speaker 8: about immigration fraud or misstatements that were made by her
30:48
Speaker 8: late father when the family immigrated to the U.S. in
30:52
Speaker 8: 1995 as refugees. And then subsequently in the year 2000,
30:56
Speaker 8: her own naturalization process into becoming a U.S.
31:00
Speaker 5: Citizen.
31:01
Speaker 8: So the raid was court authorized. That means a judge
31:05
Speaker 8: in a federal district granted permission based on enough probable
31:09
Speaker 8: cause for the Department of Homeland Security to go in,
31:13
Speaker 8: execute that warrant, raid her home, collect paperwork around that
31:16
Speaker 8: issue of how the family died. immigrated and the naturalization
31:19
Speaker 8: process that she followed. So that's what they're doing. No
31:22
Speaker 8: charges have been brought yet. We don't know much more.
31:25
Speaker 8: But it has long been rumored and reported that potentially
31:29
Speaker 8: the father committed or stated some inaccuracies on his paperwork.
31:33
Speaker 8: And then, of course, that unconfirmed, and she denies it,
31:36
Speaker 8: but that longstanding rumor that she improperly married somebody that
31:39
Speaker 8: she was related to, maybe her brother, in order to
31:42
Speaker 8: fast track his pathway to citizenship as well. So that's
31:45
Speaker 8: what this is about. The point that you mentioned about
31:48
Speaker 8: Joe Biden's administration and DOJ going after her is yet
31:51
Speaker 8: another vector of financial fraud. And we all know the
31:55
Speaker 8: level of fraud in Minnesota that has been coming out
31:58
Speaker 8: into the news. So it's not a stretch for people
32:00
Speaker 8: to believe that her fingerprints might somehow directly or indirectly
32:04
Speaker 8: be involved in some.
32:04
Speaker 5: Of that as well.
32:05
Speaker 1: Well, it is very interesting because we had that whole
32:07
Speaker 1: issue around her husband's disclosure statements about his net worth,
32:11
Speaker 1: which was said to be in the millions when they
32:14
Speaker 1: were declaring values and properties to Congress as part of disclosure.
32:19
Speaker 1: And then suddenly, you know, all of that wealth somehow
32:21
Speaker 1: disappeared and they blamed it on an accounting error. But
32:24
Speaker 1: this point you make about naturalization is an interesting one
32:27
Speaker 1: because I wonder if this has an end in mind
32:32
Speaker 1: of potentially denaturalizing Ilhan Omar from her citizenship if they
32:37
Speaker 1: find that there was some sort of fraud committed in
32:40
Speaker 1: her acquisition of said citizenship.
32:44
Speaker 8: That would be the logical endpoint if they are willing
32:47
Speaker 8: to go there politically. We know the Trump administration is
32:50
Speaker 8: willing to go there more than certainly his predecessors on
32:53
Speaker 8: the Republican side and, of course, the Democrat side have been,
32:56
Speaker 8: with denaturalizing criminals that have been found liable of all
32:59
Speaker 8: sorts of criminal conduct, canceling visas and green cards of
33:02
Speaker 8: students who are protesting on campus. And, you know, they
33:04
Speaker 8: have done those things, some controversial things. This one would
33:07
Speaker 8: definitely ignite a firestorm politically because she is a sitting
33:11
Speaker 8: United States congresswoman. However, if she did commit crime and
33:15
Speaker 8: they can actually prove that reasonably in a court of law,
33:18
Speaker 8: it would certainly make a statement and hopefully it would
33:21
Speaker 8: be a deterrent towards all sorts of other people that
33:23
Speaker 8: are committing fraud. We know that they are. And if
33:25
Speaker 8: somebody as powerful as a congresswoman can be indicted and denaturalized,
33:29
Speaker 8: then that will go a long way.
33:30
Speaker 4: Well, yes, certainly.
33:31
Speaker 1: And I suspect that when that indictment is unsealed, It
33:34
Speaker 1: could be quite the October surprise for the Democrats, but
33:37
Speaker 1: we will sit ever presently by waiting for this. But
33:40
Speaker 1: let's move down to Texas now. And The New York
33:43
Speaker 1: Times has found what they called dozens of TikTok accounts
33:47
Speaker 1: that were receiving payments of four dollars for every thousand
33:50
Speaker 1: views they got to.
33:51
Speaker 4: Upload positive videos about.
33:54
Speaker 1: The recently found, but for a while missing, Democrat Senate
33:58
Speaker 1: candidate for Texas, James Tallarico. Now, the Tallarico campaign has
34:03
Speaker 1: denied any involvement in the scheme, so who knows who
34:06
Speaker 1: or why anybody would be funding these payments. But this
34:10
Speaker 1: does seem to suggest that this campaign, which has had
34:13
Speaker 1: a lot of controversy around it, It just can't escape
34:17
Speaker 1: this sense of constantly being embattled by one or another
34:21
Speaker 1: controversy and that these suggestions that their support is actually
34:26
Speaker 1: somewhat artificial.
34:30
Speaker 8: Definitely. And they are in the homestretch in this race.
34:33
Speaker 8: It wouldn't be the first time that people pay to
34:36
Speaker 8: look more popular than they are on social media. Celebrities
34:39
Speaker 8: do that. Products do that.
34:41
Speaker 3: Companies.
34:42
Speaker 8: And it would not be surprising at all that political
34:44
Speaker 8: figures do that as well. And sort of a fake
34:47
Speaker 8: it till you make it strategy that you do that
34:49
Speaker 8: and then it looks good. And then that maybe helps
34:51
Speaker 8: shape opinion polling and you can sort of influence things
34:54
Speaker 8: in your favor. That said, the Republicans certainly are not
34:57
Speaker 8: resting on their laurels. This race is very, very close
35:01
Speaker 8: in the polls, in the betting markets and other markers.
35:03
Speaker 8: So he is overperforming what you would expect. In general,
35:08
Speaker 8: a Democrat should be how they should be performing in
35:10
Speaker 8: the state of Texas, and particularly him, given all of
35:13
Speaker 8: his issues and just his profile, it really beggars belief
35:16
Speaker 8: that he's doing as well as he is. Trump aptly
35:19
Speaker 8: nicknamed him Talafrico, as we know, and I think that's
35:21
Speaker 8: how a lot of Texans look at him. But, you know,
35:24
Speaker 8: he's doing well. So if this is true that some
35:26
Speaker 8: of it is astroturfed and they're sort of paying to
35:28
Speaker 8: appear more popular and make his campaign appear more popular
35:31
Speaker 8: than it is, then I guess that is a little
35:33
Speaker 8: bit of good news for Ken Paxton.
35:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I suppose so. Although, I mean, look, between
35:37
Speaker 1: Ken Paxton and James Tallarica, you've got. Two of the, well,
35:40
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have put either one of them up in
35:42
Speaker 1: Texas for the Senate, but hey, I'm not the one
35:44
Speaker 1: who makes a call on these things. Let's go over
35:46
Speaker 1: to the Pacific Northwest, to Portlandia, a Portland anti-ice activist
35:52
Speaker 1: who has a tendency to film her morally righteous protests
35:55
Speaker 1: against federal enforcement. may have landed herself in hot water
35:59
Speaker 1: with one of her own videos. It's a misery of
36:02
Speaker 1: her own making. Kylie Delgado, according to PJ Media, has
36:06
Speaker 1: allegedly filmed herself recruiting drivers to block a vehicle carrying
36:10
Speaker 1: federal immigration officers. That's a big no-no, and the question is,
36:15
Speaker 1: is this footage going to be used against her? You know,
36:20
Speaker 1: this is quite something. I normally hate these idiot protesters
36:24
Speaker 1: filming themselves doing stupid stuff, but it's quite the bit
36:27
Speaker 1: of blowback if they are hoist on their own.
36:29
Speaker 4: Petard, so to speak.
36:32
Speaker 15: Indeed.
36:33
Speaker 8: And after that very sad and tragic episode that happened
36:37
Speaker 8: in Minnesota not too long ago with Renee Goode doing
36:40
Speaker 8: something similar, obstructing. And of course, in that case, she
36:42
Speaker 8: was shot and killed by an ICE officer. These people
36:44
Speaker 8: should learn better and should know better that doing this
36:48
Speaker 8: and even using a vehicle to physically impede ICE officers
36:52
Speaker 8: going about their business and trying to discharge their duties.
36:55
Speaker 8: is criminally liable. That is a felony, Section 111 in
36:59
Speaker 8: the U.S. Code. She obviously doesn't know that, but she
37:02
Speaker 8: should after what's happened before. And then going on top
37:05
Speaker 8: of that, as you say, such an own goal to
37:07
Speaker 8: film it, I think we're seeing an intersection of self-righteousness,
37:11
Speaker 8: that people of her ilk are so convinced that they
37:15
Speaker 8: are morally superior and ICE is evil and wanting to
37:17
Speaker 8: deport illegals is evil, coupled with narcissism that the social
37:21
Speaker 8: media era that we live in has unfolded and allowed
37:25
Speaker 8: these people to just immediately run to a camera in
37:27
Speaker 8: their pocket because they're oh so righteous and so morally
37:30
Speaker 8: superior that they must also filmed themselves and put it
37:32
Speaker 8: out there because they want to be famous for some
37:35
Speaker 8: version of that, probably. And that is to her own
37:39
Speaker 8: demise because this is documented evidence that absolutely they could
37:45
Speaker 8: use to prove under that statute that she is impeding justice.
37:49
Speaker 1: Stupidity and narcissism. What a winning combination, Kosha. Hey, let's
37:53
Speaker 1: go to Florida now. Talk about Ron DeSantis, the governor there.
37:58
Speaker 1: His term as governor is coming to an end. Donald
38:00
Speaker 1: Trump was asked about appointing him to a cabinet position.
38:03
Speaker 1: Here's what the president had to say.
38:05
Speaker 13: Would you consider Ron DeSantis for a cabinet position?
38:11
Speaker 4: Well, I like him a lot. I like him a lot.
38:14
Speaker 4: Bit of speculation there.
38:16
Speaker 1: Would the thought of bringing him into the cabinet there,
38:19
Speaker 1: would that potentially also be a move to give him
38:22
Speaker 1: something to do other than potentially throw his hat in
38:25
Speaker 1: the ring to distract from whomever Trump's appointed successor is
38:30
Speaker 1: for the nomination, whether that's J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio?
38:36
Speaker 8: These moves are never accidental. And, you know, they could
38:39
Speaker 8: be serving multiple purposes at once. We know Trump has
38:42
Speaker 8: sort of had a love-hate relationship with DeSantis. He certainly
38:47
Speaker 8: has been a very successful governor. Florida is one of
38:49
Speaker 8: the most well-run states in the union.
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Speaker 3: Everyone knows that.
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Speaker 8: He did have his unsuccessful run against Trump when Trump
38:56
Speaker 8: nicknamed him Ron DeSantis. sanctimonious, I believe it was at
38:59
Speaker 8: the time. But generally speaking, that's, you know, the rough
39:01
Speaker 8: and tumble of the primary process. He knows that he
39:04
Speaker 8: is well regarded by many precincts of the base on
39:06
Speaker 8: the Republican side. And so, yes, given his executive experience
39:11
Speaker 8: and track record in Florida, I'm sure there are many
39:12
Speaker 8: roles in the cabinet that would benefit from Ron DeSantis' experience,
39:17
Speaker 8: and it would elevate him to more of a national
39:19
Speaker 8: stage and would make things interesting when we look at J.D. Vance,
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Speaker 8: Marco Rubio, DeSantis, those are all the big names in
39:27
Speaker 8: Republican politics that I don't think it would be a
39:29
Speaker 8: surprise if they all go for it in the primary
39:32
Speaker 8: process that is going to kick off very shortly.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're talking about Ron DeSantimonious, but, you know,
39:36
Speaker 1: little Marco, look where he is now, the great Secretary
39:39
Speaker 1: of State, probably the best one we've had since Kissinger. Hey,
39:41
Speaker 1: just very quickly here, I want to get your thoughts
39:43
Speaker 1: on this back-and-forth situation. between President Trump and Ukrainian President
39:47
Speaker 1: Volodymyr Zelensky about attacking Russian oil refineries. Now, he told
39:53
Speaker 1: reporters outside the White House that it was time for
39:56
Speaker 1: the Ukraine to, quote, get a new president. I got
39:59
Speaker 1: to say, Kostya, just very quickly, Trump hasn't come out
40:02
Speaker 1: ahead of this whole claim of having a deal about
40:04
Speaker 1: not attacking the energy on either side and all of this,
40:08
Speaker 1: because clearly his word hasn't had a lot of sway
40:10
Speaker 1: on this one.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 8: And, you know, there is no love lost between these
40:16
Speaker 8: two men. That famous Oval Office meeting or infamous, I
40:19
Speaker 8: should say, and the whole you have no cards. Trump
40:22
Speaker 8: has long criticized Ukrainian corruption in general as a general country.
40:27
Speaker 8: The Biden's issues with that and the fact that Zelensky
40:31
Speaker 8: has suspended elections for a very long time, calling his
40:34
Speaker 8: his war powers corrupt. So that is something that has
40:36
Speaker 8: always rubbed Trump the wrong way, notwithstanding the broader conflict and,
40:40
Speaker 8: you know, everything that Putin does as well. It's not
40:42
Speaker 8: surprising that he's saying that. He's trying to wrap up
40:46
Speaker 8: this war as best he can.
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Speaker 1: Coach, we're going to have to leave it there. Coach,
40:49
Speaker 1: you got it. Thanks, as always, for chatting. We'll speak
40:51
Speaker 1: to you real soon. Still to come, a Hollywood star
40:54
Speaker 1: arrested for allegedly attacking two Delta Airlines staff members midair.
40:59
Speaker 1: Maybe it was all about the Wi-Fi. Michael Loftus joins
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Speaker 1: us up next with more on that. Well, seeing a
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Speaker 1: Hollywood actor on your flight would no doubt give many
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Speaker 1: people a bit of in-flight entertainment or at least a
41:18
Speaker 1: fun little story to brag about when they got home.
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Speaker 1: But passengers on a New York-bound Delta Airlines flight got
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Speaker 1: not only a Hollywood actor, but a scene from a movie.
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Speaker 4: Perhaps even a horror movie.
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Speaker 1: Actress Selma Blair, known for her roles in Legally Blonde
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Speaker 1: and Cruel Intentions, had allegedly a mid-air meltdown in which
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Speaker 1: she allegedly punched a flight attendant, bit another, and tried
41:44
Speaker 1: to open the aircraft's door. The actress was then arrested
41:48
Speaker 1: after the alleged altercation and detained at JFK Airport. Now,
41:53
Speaker 1: Blair has received medical attention and is reportedly in a
41:55
Speaker 1: stable condition, but the What a story. And joining me
41:58
Speaker 1: now to discuss this is comedian and host of the
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Speaker 1: Loftus Party podcast, Michael Loftus. Michael, what more do we
42:06
Speaker 1: know about this bizarre story?
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Speaker 3: Well, sadly, we know that it's happened before.
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Speaker 16: Now, in full disclosure, I worked on a show for
42:18
Speaker 16: a few years with Selma.
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Speaker 3: I know her.
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Speaker 16: She's a lovely girl. But evidently, Selma and airplanes don't mix.
42:27
Speaker 3: And I have to think.
42:29
Speaker 16: That there might have been a little bit of booze
42:32
Speaker 16: and medication in there.
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Speaker 3: She's a lovely person. And she's a great actress. But
42:37
Speaker 3: I tell you what, as.
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Speaker 16: Soon as you start saying you're going to open the
42:40
Speaker 16: door while we're flying, all bets are off.
42:42
Speaker 3: All bets are off.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and, you know, it's interesting because you mentioned that
42:46
Speaker 1: there were previous incidents here. In 2016, apparently, she was
42:51
Speaker 1: removed from another plane on a stretcher after another outburst
42:55
Speaker 1: on another flight, and at the time she said, quote,
42:59
Speaker 1: I mixed alcohol with medication, and that caused me to
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Speaker 1: black out and led me to say and do things
43:05
Speaker 1: that I deeply regret. Maybe this is perhaps a bit
43:11
Speaker 1: of a warning to her about either, you know, Booze
43:13
Speaker 1: and pills on the one hand or flying on the other?
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Speaker 16: I think this is probably going to get you on
43:21
Speaker 16: the no-fly list. Like, the first time, you're like, okay,
43:25
Speaker 16: you went a little kooky. The second time, I hope
43:28
Speaker 16: you enjoy rental cars. I hope you're familiar with traveling
43:32
Speaker 16: by rail.
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Speaker 3: Because you're not getting on a plane with me.
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Speaker 1: What a story for the pilot when they got home. Gosh, anyway.
43:39
Speaker 1: But hey, you know, moving on to other sort of
43:41
Speaker 1: sliver news here. You know, we had all that fallout
43:44
Speaker 1: around Ed Sheeran's tour. And I think you would agree
43:47
Speaker 1: with me that an awful lot of us are sick
43:49
Speaker 1: and tired of artists giving lectures at concerts, and I've
43:53
Speaker 1: played a bunch of them on Lefty's Losing It Here,
43:55
Speaker 1: rather than just playing the music people have paid to
43:57
Speaker 1: come and see. And I gotta say, Metallica's James Hetfield
44:01
Speaker 1: certainly seems to get it.
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Speaker 15: And I just gotta say, Metallica's not here like some
44:08
Speaker 15: other entertainers to influence you with their.
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Speaker 4: Bulls * * t, okay?
44:17
Speaker 16: We are here.
44:21
Speaker 15: We're here to forget about all the.
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Speaker 5: Outside, okay?
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Speaker 1: Michael, I've always been a bit more Mozart and Mingus
44:30
Speaker 1: than Metallica, but I think I may have a new
44:32
Speaker 1: fan here in me.
44:33
Speaker 4: I think that's some great common sense.
44:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great.
44:37
Speaker 16: Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which
44:40
Speaker 16: I desire, and keep your political commentary at home.
44:43
Speaker 3: I'm here to rock out.
44:45
Speaker 16: This guy, James Hetfeld, needs to go give Harry Styles
44:49
Speaker 16: a lesson in this.
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Speaker 3: He also needs to give him a fashion lesson.
44:52
Speaker 16: Like, James Hetfeld is like rocking out with a black ensemble.
44:56
Speaker 16: Harry Styles, meanwhile, looked like something out of some rock
45:00
Speaker 16: opera band.
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Speaker 3: Of the sound of music.
45:03
Speaker 16: The hills are alive with the sound of people sneaking
45:06
Speaker 16: into our country.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We played a bit of Harry Styles early on in
45:10
Speaker 1: the program, and I tell you what, I had to
45:12
Speaker 1: give everybody a bit of a trigger warning before showing
45:15
Speaker 1: the clip of him wearing those shorts, which just, I
45:18
Speaker 1: didn't need to know any of that stuff. But, you know,
45:20
Speaker 1: speaking of all of that and fashion sense and talking sense,
45:25
Speaker 1: Judi Dench joins the party and says that Trigger warnings,
45:28
Speaker 1: like the one I had to give for Harry Styles' shorts,
45:31
Speaker 1: have gone too far that we are now mollycoddling audiences.
45:35
Speaker 1: And she has said that if you are sensitive, don't
45:38
Speaker 1: go to the theater. And I got to say, Judi Dench,
45:41
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. But it's interesting, isn't it, that
45:44
Speaker 1: it takes, you know, the older, more seasoned, shall we say,
45:49
Speaker 1: generation of performers who've you know, got their fame and
45:52
Speaker 1: made their money, perhaps.
45:54
Speaker 4: To say these things.
45:55
Speaker 1: Is there a problem that, you know, is it the
45:58
Speaker 1: young artists, they're still too terrified to say this?
46:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they are.
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Speaker 16: And it's great to have such a phenomenal actress like
46:08
Speaker 16: Dame Junie Dench saying this.
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Speaker 3: Because, yeah, she doesn't care anymore. And here's the deal.
46:13
Speaker 3: It's a great.
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Speaker 16: Reminder that I'm not responsible for your feelings. There's this
46:18
Speaker 16: weird lack. We were just talking about it with Selma Blair.
46:21
Speaker 16: She's like, oh, I had some booze and I had
46:23
Speaker 16: some pills, so I'm not responsible.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you still are responsible for what you did.
46:29
Speaker 16: So when people go to the theater, you shouldn't have
46:31
Speaker 16: to warn them about, oh, there's going to be this,
46:33
Speaker 16: there's going to be that, there's going to be that.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 16: Just enjoy the show. And if you can't handle it,
46:38
Speaker 16: hit the bricks, buddy. And then here's the other thing.
46:41
Speaker 16: With these warnings, if you're going to give me a
46:44
Speaker 16: warning about something, now I'm expecting to see it. There's
46:47
Speaker 16: nothing more disappointing than you're watching, like, Game of Thrones
46:50
Speaker 16: on HBO and they warn you about, like, Like, ooh,
46:53
Speaker 16: there's going to be nudity and sex. And then there
46:55
Speaker 16: isn't nudity and sex.
46:56
Speaker 3: And then I'm upset. Where's my compensation?
47:00
Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Where is your compensation? You know, I think you've got
47:02
Speaker 1: a claim with the authorities. They're a big class action
47:05
Speaker 1: suit led by Michael Loftus for all those episodes of
47:08
Speaker 1: Games of Thrones that didn't have any nudity and.
47:12
Speaker 4: Sex and all that stuff.
47:13
Speaker 1: But hey, speaking of, well, here's a great segue here
47:16
Speaker 1: to a bit of nudity. Sydney Sweeney is doubling down
47:20
Speaker 1: on stripping down. She has appeared in another ad for
47:23
Speaker 1: the sports prediction market and trading app Novig, which I
47:27
Speaker 1: believe that she's also a stakeholder in.
47:29
Speaker 4: Let's have a look at this latest ad.
47:35
Speaker 12: There are grown men making spreadsheets to bet on what
47:38
Speaker 12: color underwear I'm wearing. I mean, I'm flattered. There's Insider
47:44
Speaker 12: trading on dictators dying and armies of bots manipulating it all.
47:49
Speaker 12: There's someone sitting in a bathroom stall betting their 401k
47:52
Speaker 12: on a war. And then there are people who just
47:55
Speaker 12: trade on sports.
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Speaker 1: Michael, it's no surprise she's doubling down. The company's value
48:01
Speaker 1: apparently quadrupled after its last ad.
48:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a solid investment.
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Speaker 16: Sidney Sweeney, she's got a brain for business and a
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Speaker 16: body built for sin. There's like zero downside to this.
48:17
Speaker 16: She looks wonderful. She's an owner of the company. She's
48:21
Speaker 16: making bank.
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Speaker 3: I'm just glad I'm not a sports.
48:25
Speaker 16: Gambler because I would put money that she's going to
48:27
Speaker 16: do yet another one.
48:29
Speaker 3: But then we all win, don't we? Every time, Sidney.
48:33
Speaker 3: Takes off her clothes.
48:34
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, isn't it interesting, Michael, that there's so
48:37
Speaker 1: much outrage about her and it's coming from a lot
48:40
Speaker 1: of the feminist left. And is it because it's Sidney
48:42
Speaker 1: Sweeney is just too confident and unapologetic in her, for
48:46
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, hotness for their comfort?
48:49
Speaker 3: Yes, she is the ultimate feminist. She really is.
48:53
Speaker 16: She owns her sexuality. She's wonderfully brilliant. She's independent. She's business-minded.
48:59
Speaker 16: She does what she wants. And it's hilarious to watch
49:03
Speaker 16: so-called feminists get upset.
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Speaker 3: At a girl who's just doing great.
49:08
Speaker 16: So it's almost like they really don't believe what they're
49:12
Speaker 16: saying at all.
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Speaker 4: Hollywood hypocrisy. Michael, I don't know. That's very cynical.
49:19
Speaker 1: But hey, also, I just want to ask you, too,
49:22
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, and he's been praised for saving Hollywood's ass
49:26
Speaker 1: by Steven Spielberg with his 2020 blockbuster Top Gun Maverick. Well,
49:32
Speaker 1: apparently he's gone from Hollywood hero to Hollywood disaster with
49:35
Speaker 1: the release of Digger, where the actor plays an eccentric
49:38
Speaker 1: oil magnate whose relentless drilling leads to an ecological disaster.
49:43
Speaker 1: And the film is set to lose Warner Brothers close
49:45
Speaker 1: to half a billion Australian dollars. Michael, tell me what
49:50
Speaker 1: you think about this, because I haven't seen the film,
49:53
Speaker 1: and yet I've heard some people who are very smart,
49:56
Speaker 1: who I respect, say, actually, it's actually quite an act
49:59
Speaker 1: of subversive genius, but people haven't quite recognized it yet.
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Speaker 16: I think that might be the case, because Tom Cruise
50:07
Speaker 16: has not shied away from this. He's been posting scenes
50:10
Speaker 16: from the movie recently, And I love it. Everybody's like, oh,
50:14
Speaker 16: stop giving me the same superhero movie. Stop giving me sequels.
50:18
Speaker 16: Give me something original. And Tommy Cruise delivers. And now
50:22
Speaker 16: he's the bad guy?
50:23
Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: This makes me want to see it even more now.
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Speaker 16: And I never believe a movie studio when they're like, oh,
50:32
Speaker 16: we lost so much money on this. New Line Cinema
50:36
Speaker 16: used to like to say they lost money on Lord.
50:39
Speaker 4: Of the Rings.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure you did. I'm not your accountant. I'm a
50:43
Speaker 3: movie fan. And I think this digger looks intriguing. I
50:48
Speaker 3: want to see it.
50:48
Speaker 1: I think I want to see it too, despite all
50:50
Speaker 1: the headlines. Michael Loftus, we're going to leave it there,
50:53
Speaker 1: but maybe next time we can chat about the film. Anyway,
50:55
Speaker 1: that's it for me. Stay tuned because Late Edition is
50:58
Speaker 1: coming up now.