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The Rita Panahi Show | 8 December · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scolds Austrolia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Wider Panekey Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Pattehy Show. Coming
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Speaker 3: up tonight, Communications Minister Anika Wells Bassis calls for an
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Speaker 3: independent investigation into her taxpayer funded spending spree. Adam Crichton
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Speaker 3: and Jack Horton will join me to cover the day's
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Speaker 3: top headlines. In another blow to the renewable sector, a
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Speaker 3: Gal Energy abandons its offshore wind project in Victoria. Professor
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Speaker 3: m Palmer will wane on that. Josh Hammer will bring
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Speaker 3: you the latest from the US, including the backlash following
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump being awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, and
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Speaker 3: Kinziskofield will give her unfiltered views on Prince Harry's cringeworthy
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Speaker 3: late night TV appearance and Left is Losing It features
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Speaker 3: the former leader of the Free World.
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Speaker 4: Back up and remember who the hell we are. We're
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Speaker 4: nine States of America. That's who we are. For the US.
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Speaker 3: But first, Communications Minister Anaka Wells is under intense pressure
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Speaker 3: over her controversial travel expenses. During the week, it was
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Speaker 3: revealed the minister spent ninety four thousand dollars for flights
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Speaker 3: to New York for herself and two others. She also
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Speaker 3: spent thousands for a work trip to Adelaide in June,
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Speaker 3: during which she attended a friend's birthday. What a happy
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Speaker 3: coincidence that was. She also built taxpayers for extravagant mills
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Speaker 3: when she was in Paris for the Olympic Games. There
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Speaker 3: was also a work trip to Threadbow where the taxpayer
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Speaker 3: picked up the bill for her family to join her.
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Speaker 3: And just this morning the Australian Financial Review revealed Wells
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Speaker 3: bill taxpayers around eighteen hundred dollars for her and her
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Speaker 3: husband to attend the Melbourne Formula one Grand Prix, and
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Speaker 3: the Age reports she charged taxpayers more than four thousand
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Speaker 3: in flights so her husband could join her at three
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Speaker 3: cricket events, but Wells insists she followed the guidelines on
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Speaker 3: all of these expenses.
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Speaker 1: Traveled from Brisbane to Adelaide and spent thirty six hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars of taxpayer money to do so. And you went
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Speaker 1: to the birthday party of your friend. Did you know
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Speaker 1: about your friend's birthday party before you booked this trip?
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Speaker 1: And you booked your meetings?
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 3: I can check the timeline for you. But Andrew this
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Speaker 3: is a work trip. I follow the guidelines. I followed
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Speaker 3: the guidelines on all of the occasions. I will continue
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Speaker 3: to do that.
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Speaker 5: I appreciate Andrew your entitlement scrutinized your.
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Speaker 1: Family ghost scheme. They did right, Yes they did. They
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Speaker 1: might pass the guideline test, but you must see that
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Speaker 1: they don't pass the pub test.
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Speaker 6: Andrew, you and your viewers can absolutely have an opinion
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Speaker 6: about the rules.
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Speaker 3: Jordie me now is senior fellow and chief of Connors
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Speaker 3: Something should of Public Affairs Adam Crichton, and sky Uses
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Speaker 3: digital editor Jack Houghton. Adam, I'm going to start with you.
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Speaker 3: It's all within the guidelines. That's what she said. That's
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Speaker 3: what the Prime Minister has said. It's a rather arrogant
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Speaker 3: response in my opinion.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, look, I think she looks very silly in that
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Speaker 7: clip there. I mean, clearly she knows that she was
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Speaker 7: wasteful with taxpayers money.
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Speaker 3: She clearly was.
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Speaker 6: But look, I'm not going to defend.
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Speaker 7: The minister, but I do find these amounts of money
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Speaker 7: in the big scheme of things very small. I mean,
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Speaker 7: we have a federal government who's spending is out of control.
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Speaker 7: Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars a year and we're
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Speaker 7: talking about eighteen hundred dollars here and there. Now it's
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Speaker 7: not right that she's doing it, but it's just such
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Speaker 7: a distraction from you know, the NDIS, which is growing
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Speaker 7: seven percent a year and is about to cost more
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Speaker 7: than the armed forces. But also with these stories, there's
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Speaker 7: just so much hypocrisy on both sides. I mean they
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Speaker 7: come up every couple of years, both sides do it.
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Speaker 7: Remember you know had Brombin Bishop's helicopter.
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Speaker 3: And the guideline.
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Speaker 7: Also know that's the point all in all in the guidelines,
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Speaker 7: So change the guidelines.
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Speaker 3: Change the guidelines. Were just more free for all for everybody. Jack,
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Speaker 3: that's an economist response. Worried about the spending. It doesn't
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Speaker 3: care about a couple of thousand here, ninety four thousand there.
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Speaker 3: To me, this is a serious scandal. Can Anika Well
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Speaker 3: survive this? She is the responsible minister right now for
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Speaker 3: a very contentious World first policy.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm going to be a fool and disagree with
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Speaker 6: an economist slightly. I take the point that Adam's making
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Speaker 6: that there are broader, more systemic issues with labour spending.
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Speaker 6: But you've got to realize it starts at the little things,
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Speaker 6: and when you have a government that's barely into their
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Speaker 6: second term that has the arrogance to rack up bills
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Speaker 6: like this on things that are things that the average
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Speaker 6: person in their life would not get to go and
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Speaker 6: do these things as a holiday. And it's clearly calculated.
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Speaker 6: Whether she says it isn't or it is, it's quite
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Speaker 6: obvious that she's picking these things that are around these
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Speaker 6: formal business events and charging the taxpayer now eight thousand
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Speaker 6: dollars for AFL Grand final access for her husband thousands
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Speaker 6: of dollars to go skiing. The average person looks at that,
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Speaker 6: and they look at her response, which I've got to say,
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Speaker 6: the press conference, the National Press Club appearance, it was
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Speaker 6: just contempt the way that she answered those questions. She's
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Speaker 6: clearly being told, no, you have to be more transparent.
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Speaker 6: But if you look at the rules, the rules that
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Speaker 6: they are written in Parliament always have this caveat of
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Speaker 6: what's reasonable, and I don't really care if they are
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Speaker 6: part of it or not. I don't really care if
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Speaker 6: they are in or if they're in breach. The point
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Speaker 6: is there is a government who right now has just
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Speaker 6: announced that they're going to get rid of the energy rebate.
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Speaker 6: So this Christmas, six days after Christmas, Australian's going to
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Speaker 6: wake up. They're going to be paying more for their
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Speaker 6: energy bills. And meanwhile, these ministers are not treating their
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Speaker 6: responsibilities with any austerity measures at all. It is just
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Speaker 6: contempt for the taxpayer. And I think every dollar matters,
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Speaker 6: and every thousand dollar matters, and if that's their attitude
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Speaker 6: towards money on a small scale, you can see how
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Speaker 6: that flows through on all the big ticket items.
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Speaker 3: I'm still trying to figure out how she managed to
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Speaker 3: pay ninety four thousand for three airfares to New York
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Speaker 3: and she said she didn't fly first class. It wasn't
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Speaker 3: first class. So it would literally take five minutes to
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Speaker 3: find something far cheaper for the Australian taxpayer to be
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Speaker 3: paying for. But I don't know, I don't know why
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Speaker 3: that wasn't done. Now, a new poll has revealed most
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Speaker 3: Australians want the country's immigration intake polls to give the
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Speaker 3: housing market an opportunity to catch up. The Resolved political monitor,
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Speaker 3: conducted for the Age newspaper, found fifty three percent of
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Speaker 3: voters thought immigration was too high. Voters said the high
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Speaker 3: intake of people was putting pressure on housing, health and
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Speaker 3: education services. Adam. Only one in three voters thought the
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Speaker 3: current immigration level was acceptable. I think that says plenty.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, look it's tally a surprise and I think
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Speaker 7: this is a great opportunity actually for the Coalition when
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Speaker 7: they finally have an immigration policy. They've basically been absent
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Speaker 7: on this issue the whole year pretty much. It's only
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Speaker 7: been one nation, which of course, by the way, has
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Speaker 7: been surging in support that has been saying that immigration
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Speaker 7: levels are too high and that is what the community thinks.
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Speaker 7: And of course if the Coalition was saying it was
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Speaker 7: too high as well, those numbers would be even higher,
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Speaker 7: right because people would change their mind. So it's a
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Speaker 7: great opportunity it should change.
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Speaker 3: And you know, these people are right.
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Speaker 7: I mean three hundred and fifty thousand people a year
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Speaker 7: net migration at the moment that is extraordinarily high. It's
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Speaker 7: the highest of any country in the Western world as
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Speaker 7: a percentage. No one has more immigration in Australia at
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Speaker 7: that level. So people are right, it is too high
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Speaker 7: and we're seeing that in house prices, infrastructure and health
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Speaker 7: as you said, So it's just a matter of time.
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Speaker 7: Someone has to seize this issue and prosecute it.
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Speaker 3: Jack took forever for the Coalition to come to a
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Speaker 3: position on net zero, a position that was sufficiently sufficiently
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Speaker 3: different to Labor. How long is it going to take
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Speaker 3: to get an immigration policy? When are they going to
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Speaker 3: land on a figure that again differentiates them from Labor
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Speaker 3: and gives this Australian people a clear choice?
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Speaker 6: Well, exactly are they going to be too crippled by
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Speaker 6: internal fighting to actually do the only smart thing that
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Speaker 6: they could do in this situation, and to campaign to
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Speaker 6: lower migration numbers. It's so obvious the majority of Australians
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Speaker 6: want this. And I'd also make a point as well,
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Speaker 6: when you've got both major parties in lockstep on these
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Speaker 6: major issues. The polling resembles that. And I'll just mention
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Speaker 6: that the Voice seventy percent of Australians supported the Voice
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Speaker 6: until one day they didn't. Now, if you campaign on
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Speaker 6: an issue, you change hearts and minds, and right now
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Speaker 6: the Coalition is absent from this. It creates space where
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Speaker 6: voters are going to one nation because they're not feeling
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Speaker 6: listened to. And the Liberal Party in particular has a
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Speaker 6: big issue where they are too scared of corporate Australia
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Speaker 6: because corporate Australia wants high immigration numbers because they want
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Speaker 6: to pay people less to do those jobs. And the
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Speaker 6: Liberal Party traditionally historically is lockstep with these corporations and
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Speaker 6: Labor has very successful fully pivoted into being closer aligned there.
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Speaker 6: The Coalition needs to understand though, that this is their
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Speaker 6: moment electorally, this is how they can actually win an election.
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Speaker 6: If they come forward with a campaign, You've already got
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Speaker 6: the majority of Australians wanted to happen, and that is
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Speaker 6: in the absence of a national debate happening. So there
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Speaker 6: is right now margin for that those numbers to completely
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Speaker 6: blow out. And that is how you take down an
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Speaker 6: Albanezi government. You find two or three really fundamental issues energy, immigration,
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Speaker 6: cost of living, and you campaign solely on those issues.
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Speaker 6: And honestly, it's shocking, absolutely shocking that they haven't realized
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Speaker 6: this yet.
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Speaker 3: They've got people within the opposition who are offended by
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Speaker 3: the term mass migration. I mean, that's where we are.
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Speaker 3: It's part of the reason why there is no coherent
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Speaker 3: policy that is giving the Australian people what they're crying
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Speaker 3: out for which is lower numbers of immigration. Now talking
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Speaker 3: about the corporate sector and what they're up to, let's
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Speaker 3: talk about ACON. It's one of Australia's largest lobby groups
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Speaker 3: trans Lobby Group. Hundreds of businesses and government agencies compete
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Speaker 3: in its Workplace Equality Index, which they get points on
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Speaker 3: offer for things like having a cupcake day, or gender
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Speaker 3: neutral bathrooms or gender affirmation le all sorts of political activism.
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Speaker 3: The index ranks each organization out of a score of
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Speaker 3: two hundred on how they implement acon's policies. And among
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Speaker 3: those organizations is the ABC, which has spent tens of
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Speaker 3: thousands of dollars implementing acon's workplace demands and it's achieved
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Speaker 3: platinum status for its commitment to trans riot Shack. The
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Speaker 3: Australian Newspaper has done some absolutely superb work in the
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Speaker 3: recent days and exposing the manner in which Acorn exercises
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Speaker 3: this enormous power, this enormous influence in the corporate sector,
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Speaker 3: in government agencies as well, and the public broadcaster is
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Speaker 3: amongst them. But the power they will extends to the
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Speaker 3: private sector as well.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, look the reporting on gender issues. There's been
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Speaker 6: a reckoning in the BBC as well, where they've had
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Speaker 6: to go back and realize that basically every story they
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Speaker 6: were doing on trans issues and gender ideology was through
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Speaker 6: a positive lens. Everyone who reads the ABC, watches the
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Speaker 6: ABC knows that they are guilty of that crime as well.
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Speaker 6: So if you've got an organization which is a lobby
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Speaker 6: group which is pushing very contentious ideas about puberty blockers
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Speaker 6: and the gender affirming approach, the same sort of stuff
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Speaker 6: that got Tavistock shut down in the UK, some people
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Speaker 6: say it's even worse what we're doing here in Australia
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Speaker 6: and there will be a reckoning. The ABC is now
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Speaker 6: on the side where that lobby group is giving them
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Speaker 6: a platinum badge. So basically what they're saying is the
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Speaker 6: journalism is so biased and one sided that the lobby
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Speaker 6: group is recognizing them with a badge of honor. The
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Speaker 6: journalists should not be wanting to be celebrated by the
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Speaker 6: lobby group. The journalist should be wanting to basically say
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Speaker 6: what is one side? What is another view? And that
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Speaker 6: is absent from the ABC, and that is the problem.
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Speaker 6: We're paying for this. You pay for this with your
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Speaker 6: tax dollars and they have taken an editorial position, and
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Speaker 6: it's an editorial position which in my view, in ten
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Speaker 6: years time, everybody, everybody will accept it was the wrong
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Speaker 6: thing to do.
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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, and they will add a memory hold their
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Speaker 3: activism in this. The ABC, I'm sure, will hope everyone
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Speaker 3: has selective memory loss when it comes to the role
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Speaker 3: they played in pushing this ideology. But it goes beyond
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Speaker 3: the ABC. This is essentially a social credit system, a
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Speaker 3: Chinese Communist Party style social credit system for the corporate world. Yeah, look,
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Speaker 3: that's exactly right.
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Speaker 7: I mean, the ideology is extremely far left, extremely extremely totalitarian,
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Speaker 7: and you can make the same arguments with big corporates
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Speaker 7: ter I mean, the vast majority of shareholders in those companies,
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Speaker 7: be it through their super funds, all directly, would not
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Speaker 7: have the same values as that organization at all. And
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Speaker 7: the boards of these companies are siphoning money to it.
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Speaker 7: I mean, it's wrong, and it's good that that it's
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Speaker 7: been brought to our attention. It's a sad fact that
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Speaker 7: the elites of our society, the views are completely opposed
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Speaker 7: to the vast block of people. That's the sad reality.
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Speaker 3: At the moment now before you go, Jack, I've got
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Speaker 3: to get your input into this news. This is good news.
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Speaker 3: This network Skuy News Australia has cemented itself as one
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Speaker 3: of the world's the world's most popular political news channels online.
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Speaker 3: We've broke into the top ten most watched news channels
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Speaker 3: on YouTube globally, finishing a ninth physician ahead of the BBC. Jack,
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Speaker 3: it's an incredible result. You are heading the digital team.
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Speaker 3: You can take a lot of credit for that. Are
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Speaker 3: there any other Australian broadcasters in that top ten list?
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Speaker 6: No, I mean they're not even close. And reader, I
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Speaker 6: know way you love this story because you're our number
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Speaker 6: one performer there on YouTube. We've obviously got Power out
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Speaker 6: with Gabriella Power, who's sensational as well. And the format
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Speaker 6: that I think that you guys do so well is
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Speaker 6: if there is something that's difficult to talk about, you're
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Speaker 6: up for the challenge. You're in there to have a
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Speaker 6: crack at it, debate things that are maybe a little
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Speaker 6: bit more contentious than other broadcasters, and people are screaming
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Speaker 6: out for that. They're crying out for conversations that are
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Speaker 6: more engaging that they aren't just these cookie cutter replicated
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Speaker 6: conversations where everybody says the same predictable, boring thing. And
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Speaker 6: I think that it's a testament to the work you do.
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Speaker 6: Reader that you've got so many people internationally that follow you.
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Speaker 6: It's a testament to the work that you and your
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Speaker 6: team do. It's great to see and.
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Speaker 3: Also the great local guests.
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Speaker 7: Also the great local guests too, a great local guests.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's never forget at crits. Thank you so much
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Speaker 3: for your time tonight and Jack Howton, congratulations to you
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Speaker 3: and the rest of the digital team. An incredible result
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Speaker 3: joining me now is leading geologists and author professor Ian
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Speaker 3: pimer Ian. Agal Energy has abandoned its offshore wind project
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Speaker 3: in Victoria's Gippsland region. The company and its partners have
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Speaker 3: surrendered their feasibility license, effectively halting plans to explore the
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Speaker 3: potential for running large scale turbines. The disentt Alan government
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Speaker 3: here had hoped that Gibbsland could become a hub for
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Speaker 3: large scale renewable energy investment, but the company decided to
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Speaker 3: dump the project. I only nine offshore wind power generation
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Speaker 3: developments remain standing, and only a few of those are
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Speaker 3: undergoing substantial work.
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Speaker 8: Well, this is a case of reality finally striking home.
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Speaker 8: We've had this ideological energy for quite a long period
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Speaker 8: of time, and we once had cheap, reliable electricity in
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Speaker 8: this country. We now have some of the most expensive
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Speaker 8: electricity in the country because we've followed an ideology, and
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Speaker 8: the ideology is that we can run an industrial society
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Speaker 8: on sea breezes and sunbeams. We just can't do it.
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Speaker 8: There's just not enough drunk to do it. We export
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Speaker 8: huge amounts of energy. This country's got a lot of uranium,
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Speaker 8: thousands of years of coal, thousands of years of gas.
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Speaker 8: Yet we've got a fuel shortage, and we have high
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Speaker 8: electricity prices, and we're encouraging companies to build more and
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Speaker 8: more unreliable electricity. So what's happened is that we have
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Speaker 8: our electricity supplies now run by companies. If these companies
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Speaker 8: decide not to go ahead with the project, we just
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Speaker 8: don't have electricity. And that's the reality that's finally come
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Speaker 8: and hit us. Some of us have been saying this,
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Speaker 8: and your show has been saying it for a long while,
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Speaker 8: that this is totally unsustainable, and this is why these
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Speaker 8: offshore wind turbines, many of the onshore, wind turbines and
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Speaker 8: solar areas when they are finding have to be massively subsidized.
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Speaker 8: If they weren't subsidized, they wouldn't be operating. So one
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Speaker 8: day we might wake up and so we once had cheap,
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Speaker 8: reliable energy that wasn't subsidized. It's a wonderful material called coal.
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Speaker 8: When we burn it, we put plant food back to
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Speaker 8: the atmosphere where it originally came from.
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Speaker 3: And now we've got this self inflicted energy crisis where
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Speaker 3: people can't afford to pay their bills now. One of
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Speaker 3: Australia's biggest solar farms caught fire over the weekend after
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Speaker 3: a heat wave in New South Wales. I mean, who
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Speaker 3: could have thought we could have heat waves in New
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Speaker 3: South Wales in summer? But a grass fire broke out
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Speaker 3: at light sourcevp's four hundred megawatt Wellington North Solar farm
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Speaker 3: on Saturday and it's spread across eighty seven hectes ian
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Speaker 3: This is an area that has been touted as an
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Speaker 3: example of renewables and agriculture coexisting.
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Speaker 8: Well again reality has struck. These areas are prime agricultural areas.
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Speaker 8: They have been destroyed by putting in solar and wind.
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Speaker 8: We have perfectly good other supplies of energy and we've
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Speaker 8: totally ignored them. And solar not only has the potential
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Speaker 8: of catching fire because when the sun's rays hit the
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Speaker 8: solar panels, they produce a little bit of electricity and
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Speaker 8: a lot of heat, but they also contaminate very, very
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Speaker 8: large areas with heavy metals. We've known this for a
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Speaker 8: long time. This is reality again striking us. And one
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Speaker 8: day people in the cities might realize that their food
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Speaker 8: supply is under threat because we have destroyed so much
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Speaker 8: valuable farmland putting in solar panels and putting in wind turbines.
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Speaker 8: One day the environmentalists might say, oh, wait a minute,
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Speaker 8: this is not a very good idea to flatten pristine rainforests,
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Speaker 8: to put in wind turbines made from Australian coal but
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Speaker 8: made overseas, contaminating the area with asbestos and heavy metals
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Speaker 8: and complex organic compounds. Maybe that's not a very good
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Speaker 8: environmental idea. So again, reality has finally struck home.
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Speaker 3: As a implimer, thank you so much for your time,
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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me coming up left He is
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Speaker 3: losing it. Plus b laters from the US, including the
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Speaker 3: backlash over Donald Trump's FIFA Peace Prize. Josh Hammer is
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Speaker 3: up next. You're watching the Reader Paney Show, and it's
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Speaker 3: time for Left is losing it. Let's start with the
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Speaker 3: former president Joe Biden, who was wheeled out to again
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Speaker 3: attack Donald Trump, and he also received an award from
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Speaker 3: something called the LGBTQ plus Victory Institute. Joe Biden delivered
19:53
Speaker 3: a powerful message there about remembering who the hell you are.
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Speaker 4: We just have to give up. So long as we
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Speaker 4: keep the faith, someone hope we get back up and
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Speaker 4: remember who in the hell we are. We're the United
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Speaker 4: States of America. Got it, That's who we are. We're
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Speaker 4: the US where the United States of America got it.
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Speaker 3: That's who we are. The United States of America got it. Powerful,
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Speaker 3: powerful stuff. They're from. Old Joe can't believe people doubted
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Speaker 3: his mental acuity. How dare they? Someone else who has
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Speaker 3: suffered a significant decline in recent years is Prince Harry.
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Speaker 3: Remember when he was the most popular royal along with
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Speaker 3: the Queen, When he was beloved in the United Kingdom
20:36
Speaker 3: and beyond. The second in line to the throne is
20:39
Speaker 3: now reduced to this. Whatever this is so?
20:43
Speaker 2: If he was treated like a king for the day,
20:45
Speaker 2: What would you want me to do for you?
20:48
Speaker 9: Beck?
20:48
Speaker 2: For me, probably you'd want me to do what beg
20:53
Speaker 2: beg beck beg the kay beck bak oh bank.
21:02
Speaker 3: If that's not the most cringe worthy, pitiful and unfunny
21:07
Speaker 3: mess you've ever seen? What was he thinking, Prince Harry,
21:11
Speaker 3: I'm soon to be unemployed Stephen Colbert's awful program doing
21:16
Speaker 3: whatever that was? And then there was.
21:17
Speaker 9: This Stephen, you just have to believe. Doesn't this prove
21:23
Speaker 9: anything can happen? I mean, minutes ago he said it
21:27
Speaker 9: wasn't it was impossible. But look, isn't there a handsome
21:31
Speaker 9: prince standing in front of you right now?
21:39
Speaker 3: Latore? I'm sorry, handsome? Okay, reminder that this clown abandoned
21:45
Speaker 3: his family, abandoned his duty, not his title, though, he
21:50
Speaker 3: abandoned Britain because of the media attention, the intrusion. He
21:54
Speaker 3: wanted a private life, He wanted normality for his family.
21:58
Speaker 3: He fled the awful media intrusion to do reality programs,
22:03
Speaker 3: do tell all interviews, and embarrass his family with little
22:07
Speaker 3: skits like this.
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Speaker 7: You're an actual prince, why would you be why would
22:12
Speaker 7: you want to be in one of those movies?
22:13
Speaker 8: Well?
22:14
Speaker 9: Your Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies, and you're truly
22:18
Speaker 9: obsessed with royalty, So why.
22:19
Speaker 3: Not hold on, hold on, Look, look, I wouldn't say
22:25
Speaker 3: we're obsessed with royalty.
22:27
Speaker 8: Really, I heard you.
22:31
Speaker 9: I heard you elected a king.
22:37
Speaker 8: That's a fair point.
22:38
Speaker 3: Now, let's check in on the clash between pop stars
22:41
Speaker 3: Sabrina Carpenter and the White House. You remember last week
22:45
Speaker 3: Little Sabrina had a massive tantrum because her song was
22:49
Speaker 3: used by the White House to promote the Trump administration's
22:52
Speaker 3: immigration agenda. Well, the White House has responded to that
22:57
Speaker 3: tantrum by releasing a new commercial. Have a look, I'm
23:01
Speaker 3: going to make me to arrest someone priveing to Aliga.
23:04
Speaker 3: Oh well, I turned myself in. You're under arrestmer.
23:07
Speaker 8: You'll get to pag and tumbler. I get to pag
23:10
Speaker 8: and clipping and tumblette straight up. A lot put on
23:12
Speaker 8: the cats and.
23:13
Speaker 3: The contentment checkmate. Sorry, Sabrina, but that is bloody hilarious.
23:20
Speaker 3: Let's bring in Newsweek Senior Editor at Large and Article
23:23
Speaker 3: three Projects Senior Council Josh Hammer. Josh, we have a
23:27
Speaker 3: lot to cover today, from the War Secretary's latest comments
23:31
Speaker 3: to the world Cup, which is going to be North
23:34
Speaker 3: America in twenty twenty six. But let's start with President
23:37
Speaker 3: Trump's approach to ideological opponents. It's been groundbreaking and it's
23:42
Speaker 3: now been adopted very successfully, I might add, by center
23:46
Speaker 3: right leaders around the world, from Milay in Argentina to
23:49
Speaker 3: Maloney in Italy and Farage in the UK, everywhere, it seems,
23:54
Speaker 3: except here in Australia. Trump learned early that attack is
23:59
Speaker 3: the best form of offense, and there's really no reason
24:01
Speaker 3: to try to appease people who are never going to
24:05
Speaker 3: back you.
24:07
Speaker 10: Well, that's definitely part of it. There's no point in
24:09
Speaker 10: trying to appease the unappeasable. I think there's also another
24:12
Speaker 10: element to the whole Trump approach to his political opposition
24:15
Speaker 10: read that, which is that he believes, as I believe
24:19
Speaker 10: in in mockery, frankly, sometimes just just snarling and just
24:24
Speaker 10: mocking your opponent for saying totally outlandish, crazy things. For
24:28
Speaker 10: I mean, if really kind of being somewhat sophomora for
24:30
Speaker 10: a time, just sounding deeply dim witted in like and
24:33
Speaker 10: frankly just just low iq. You know, there's something to
24:36
Speaker 10: be said for that, actually, and that kind of resonates
24:39
Speaker 10: to think with a lot of people. I'm not saying
24:41
Speaker 10: that that is necessarily the number one calling card that
24:44
Speaker 10: you should do. I mean, I'm a public policy guy,
24:46
Speaker 10: I'm a law guy. I care about political philosophy, I
24:48
Speaker 10: care about battled ideas. But when it comes to political messaging,
24:52
Speaker 10: when it comes to running campaigns, when it comes to
24:54
Speaker 10: running advertisers, there, when it comes to trying to maintain
24:56
Speaker 10: your approval ratings and your favorability and all that, there,
25:00
Speaker 10: there really is something to be said, actually for just
25:02
Speaker 10: trying to disembowel and invistiate your opponents in deeply unrestrained,
25:08
Speaker 10: uninhibited fashion. I think that also includes some elements of
25:12
Speaker 10: just mocking the dumbest of their possible opponents. There, there
25:15
Speaker 10: was no point in giving more credit than credit is due.
25:19
Speaker 10: Where you have a intellectually sophisticated sparring partner, that's great,
25:23
Speaker 10: there's nothing wrong with that. These intellectual debates been a
25:25
Speaker 10: part of humanity for thousands and thousands of years. But
25:27
Speaker 10: when you have let's call it a Jasmine Crockett or
25:30
Speaker 10: an Alexandria kazi Ortez, you know, sometimes it's not worth
25:33
Speaker 10: getting into a mensa standoff. When it comes to who
25:35
Speaker 10: you know, you know, who has the best idea to
25:37
Speaker 10: help this istory. Sometimes you just say, you know what,
25:39
Speaker 10: you're stupid. You sounds to do with your proposing stupid ideas.
25:42
Speaker 3: That's it. Now, talking about elements of the hateful media,
25:45
Speaker 3: President Trump has gone on the attack with a post
25:49
Speaker 3: targeting SINN anchor Caitlin Collins. The President wrote, Kaitlyn Collins
25:53
Speaker 3: of fake New CNN, always stupid and nasty. Ask me
25:57
Speaker 3: why the new ballroom was costing more money than originally
26:00
Speaker 3: thought one year ago. I said, because it's going to
26:03
Speaker 3: be double the size, and the quality of finishes and
26:06
Speaker 3: interiors has been brought to the highest level. Josh, how
26:10
Speaker 3: do you see the Trump's the President's relationship with the
26:15
Speaker 3: media this time around. Is it more of the same,
26:19
Speaker 3: more of what we saw in the first term, or
26:21
Speaker 3: has there been a shift in that dynamic.
26:25
Speaker 10: So, first of all, let me just say something about
26:27
Speaker 10: Kaitlyn Collins, because Kaitlyn Collins is actually a unique individual
26:31
Speaker 10: in a certain way. Kaitlynd Collins is not just someone
26:33
Speaker 10: who was part of the left wing chartering class, the
26:36
Speaker 10: left wing homogeneous group think echo chamber here in the
26:38
Speaker 10: United States. Kitland Collins actually used to be on the right,
26:41
Speaker 10: at least purportedly. At least she came up she was
26:43
Speaker 10: trained through rate of center journalistic institutions. Specifically, she had
26:47
Speaker 10: a stint with the Daily Caller. I think she actually
26:51
Speaker 10: might have gone her start at the Daily Caller of
26:52
Speaker 10: memory source, so's she's something, you know, trader, I think
26:57
Speaker 10: would be a suddenly overseteening the point, But I didn't
27:01
Speaker 10: think there's a certain type of journalist who goes from
27:03
Speaker 10: the nominal putative right to become part of the deeply
27:07
Speaker 10: anti American, anti Western civilization left. There's a certain part
27:11
Speaker 10: of that that I know that I personally that gets
27:13
Speaker 10: really under my skin. So I can only imagine frankly,
27:15
Speaker 10: what Donald Trump, who's at the eye of the storm,
27:18
Speaker 10: is thinking when he sees someone like Kaitln Collins, who
27:20
Speaker 10: is really just again at the end like borderline traders
27:23
Speaker 10: fashion and frankly, of the course of your career there.
27:25
Speaker 10: But this is part of this is part of the
27:27
Speaker 10: whole contempt and mockery approach there. I mean, I do
27:31
Speaker 10: think that as a pro toarce of media readA more
27:33
Speaker 10: generally in the second term, is even more adversarial even
27:35
Speaker 10: more hostile. And there's a very good reason for that,
27:37
Speaker 10: which is that the media, since Donald Trump left the
27:39
Speaker 10: office in January twenty twenty one, since he came back
27:42
Speaker 10: four years later, I mean, they were deeply complicit in
27:45
Speaker 10: the attempts to incarcerate him, to bankrupt him, to throw
27:49
Speaker 10: him in jail, to ruin his life. Essentially, Yeah, the
27:52
Speaker 10: media was complicit every single step up the way, and
27:54
Speaker 10: the unprecedented, completely completely historically unmatched a tempt to just
28:01
Speaker 10: destroy this man, to destroy this former and now we
28:04
Speaker 10: know at that time then future president of the United
28:06
Speaker 10: States there So the media is complicit every step of
28:08
Speaker 10: the way. I think that you're frankly seeing the fallout
28:12
Speaker 10: of that now in this second term. We know from
28:14
Speaker 10: Isaac Newton, the seventeenth century physicist, that for every action
28:17
Speaker 10: there's an equal and opposite reaction. But we also know
28:19
Speaker 10: reader from Donald Trump himself, then when someone punches at you,
28:22
Speaker 10: you punch back twice as hard. So you know, let's
28:24
Speaker 10: not call it Newton's law of physics. Let's call it
28:26
Speaker 10: Donald Trump's law of pr which is what we're seeing
28:29
Speaker 10: play out here in the second term.
28:31
Speaker 3: Now, it's been revealed in a Washington Post fluff piece.
28:35
Speaker 3: It was a bit of a fluff face on Rosie
28:37
Speaker 3: o'donald that the former actor comics obsession with Donald Trump
28:42
Speaker 3: is reaching new disturbing Lay's jars. She we know, fled
28:46
Speaker 3: the country with a non binary child once Donald Trump
28:50
Speaker 3: was elected, but she's also got that poor child now
28:54
Speaker 3: obsessively talking about Donald Trump. And when Rosie's therapist urged
28:59
Speaker 3: Rosie to detach from posting about President Trump for just
29:03
Speaker 3: two days, for just two days. It was a request
29:06
Speaker 3: that came just before Thanksgiving, well she caved almost immediately. Josh,
29:12
Speaker 3: she was posting within hours. It really is an illness.
29:17
Speaker 3: I know, we joke about TDS Trump derangement syndrome and
29:21
Speaker 3: hay can overtake people's lives and make them completely mad.
29:26
Speaker 3: But with Rosie it seems to have actually happened. I mean,
29:29
Speaker 3: is she working, is she happy? Is she productive? Or
29:33
Speaker 3: is she just obsessively posting and talking and ruminating about
29:39
Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
29:41
Speaker 10: You know, I don't claim to have my thumb deeply
29:44
Speaker 10: on the scale of American pop culture when it comes
29:46
Speaker 10: to folks like Rosie Donald, but I will say that
29:49
Speaker 10: I couldn't even tell you the last time that I
29:51
Speaker 10: heard Rosie o'donald's name in a non Donald Trump contact.
29:54
Speaker 10: I mean, I have what is this woman doing with
29:56
Speaker 10: her lated hesips? I mean I actually I actually have
29:59
Speaker 10: no idea. I mean, has has she been cast in
30:01
Speaker 10: something like third rate you know, stand up bit on
30:05
Speaker 10: some second rate channel. I literally couldn't tell you what
30:09
Speaker 10: Rosie o'donnald is doing other than just covetching and griping
30:12
Speaker 10: about Donald J. Trump. Trump and Rosie go back quite
30:15
Speaker 10: a long way if you think back, read all the
30:16
Speaker 10: way to the very first primary debate back in August
30:20
Speaker 10: twenty fifteen to launch up that very chaotic primary cycle.
30:24
Speaker 10: That was when Megan Kelly was actually moditating that back
30:27
Speaker 10: on Fox News and he got into she got into
30:29
Speaker 10: it with Donald Trump, and that was in the infamous
30:31
Speaker 10: exchange where Donald Trump made some jab about but only
30:35
Speaker 10: Rosie o'donald as far as the only women that he
30:37
Speaker 10: hates in his life. There, So Rosie and the don
30:40
Speaker 10: go back decades. When it comes to the New York
30:42
Speaker 10: you know, you know, upper class social scene there, she's
30:46
Speaker 10: probably not okay. I mean, look, I'm not a psychiatrist.
30:48
Speaker 10: I'm not a psychologist. There far for me to try
30:50
Speaker 10: to diagnose her from afar. But Donald Trump does have
30:54
Speaker 10: He's getted with many unique abilities, the art of the
30:58
Speaker 10: troll and the art of getting under your opponent's skin,
31:01
Speaker 10: which kind of ties into a whole Markrot conversation. This
31:03
Speaker 10: is absolutely part of it. He absolutely has a way
31:06
Speaker 10: to just deeply, deeply make his opponents lose their everlasting
31:11
Speaker 10: mind and focus in monolithic fashion on the underseering hatred
31:15
Speaker 10: of him. And it's a very unique political skill. I'm
31:18
Speaker 10: not frankly sure like I can think another American political
31:20
Speaker 10: figure I've ever seen have this particular skill, but Rosie
31:22
Speaker 10: o'donald's kind of exhibit a. That's for sure.
31:26
Speaker 3: He does have that ability to make his political opponents
31:30
Speaker 3: just behave in a crazy fashion. If that would just
31:33
Speaker 3: remain normal and if they just have a proportionate response that,
31:38
Speaker 3: I think that would be a lot more successful in
31:40
Speaker 3: a trying to defeat him. But you're right, Rosie already
31:44
Speaker 3: has her own psychiatrist who she's spoken about, and she
31:48
Speaker 3: told Jim Acosta during a recent chat that she was
31:52
Speaker 3: disgusted with the White House Press Corps for allowing Trump
31:55
Speaker 3: to verbally rape a reporter verbally I mean she is
32:00
Speaker 3: not well. Let's move on from Rosie and talk about
32:03
Speaker 3: the World Cup. Twenty twenty six is shaping up to
32:07
Speaker 3: be an incredible year for the US two hundred and
32:09
Speaker 3: fiftyeth birthday, and you're hosting the soccer World Cup, josh
32:14
Speaker 3: arguably the world's biggest sporting event. President Trump was in
32:18
Speaker 3: excellent spirits during the World Cup draw, where he received
32:22
Speaker 3: a peace prize from FIFA. He danced to YMCA and
32:26
Speaker 3: guess which country he drew.
32:30
Speaker 9: Let's see are you sure? Are you sure this is
32:32
Speaker 9: the ball?
32:32
Speaker 5: You can still change it if you want.
32:35
Speaker 3: Does he know something that I don't know? Let's give it.
32:39
Speaker 9: Let's give it a shot. Let's give it a shot.
32:41
Speaker 8: I agree, Okay, this is shocking.
32:49
Speaker 2: United States of America.
32:54
Speaker 3: And then there was a dancing. There's always dancing, but Joshua.
33:06
Speaker 3: There are those in the soccer world very upset with
33:10
Speaker 3: FAIFA for honoring the president. Among them is Australia's own
33:14
Speaker 3: Craig Foster for the player, who called the event a
33:17
Speaker 3: shameful day for the beautiful game. What's your response to
33:22
Speaker 3: the critics.
33:24
Speaker 10: Well, first of all, Rita, I'm pretty sure that the
33:27
Speaker 10: United States and not Australia are actually gonna be in
33:28
Speaker 10: the same group of group yes, twenty twenty six. So
33:31
Speaker 10: I very much look forward. I very much look forward
33:33
Speaker 10: to seeing my country and your country gear up in
33:36
Speaker 10: this most beautiful game. I'm a big sports fan general.
33:38
Speaker 10: I love the World Cup. I look forward to it
33:40
Speaker 10: very much every four years. But I'm not the only
33:43
Speaker 10: one who loves sports. Donald Trump loves sports as well.
33:45
Speaker 10: Sport has been a big part of Donald Trump's public
33:48
Speaker 10: facing persona for decades and decades and decades. He was
33:51
Speaker 10: always seeing back in New York City at Knicks games,
33:54
Speaker 10: Yankees games, things like that. And now I'm on the
33:58
Speaker 10: world stage right now. He's in timiately involved when it
34:00
Speaker 10: comes to live golf, the rival to the PGA Tour
34:03
Speaker 10: and professional golf. They have a tournament actually at Trump Derell,
34:07
Speaker 10: his his very iconic, well known South Florida golf course.
34:10
Speaker 10: Also my wedding venue, so whatever whatever that's worth. As well,
34:14
Speaker 10: he's very he's very, very involved within with golf. He's
34:17
Speaker 10: very involved with with with international motor sports. He's been
34:21
Speaker 10: seen when it comes to the Formula one US races
34:23
Speaker 10: things like that as well, and he's also involved in
34:26
Speaker 10: trying to get the Washington I still say Redskins, but
34:28
Speaker 10: the Washington commanders of the name is. He's trying to
34:31
Speaker 10: get the football team back from Maryland into Washington, d C.
34:35
Speaker 10: They're trying to rebuild the old RFK Stadium in eastern Washington,
34:38
Speaker 10: d C. He's behind that, So he cares a lot
34:40
Speaker 10: about sports. He cares a lot about this. There they're
34:42
Speaker 10: allegedly doing a UFC fight rita on the White House
34:45
Speaker 10: Lawn on Netflix, which, yeah, it's gonna be in conjunction
34:48
Speaker 10: with the tune and fifty the anniversary. I mean, you know what,
34:51
Speaker 10: what what an amazing spectacle. I frankly just an other
34:55
Speaker 10: world expectable that's going to be. But sport is a way,
34:58
Speaker 10: in theory to try to trans and the bitter partnership
35:01
Speaker 10: of politics. Unfortunately, so much a sport has been subsumed
35:04
Speaker 10: by politics. So we're gonna have to work, we have
35:07
Speaker 10: to have to bring that back to what it used
35:09
Speaker 10: to be. But I think Trump understands that sport is
35:11
Speaker 10: something that resonates with everyone on every single rung of
35:14
Speaker 10: the economic ladder. It's something that resonates with the workingman,
35:17
Speaker 10: middle class, upper class, whatever, you are. If you're a patriot,
35:20
Speaker 10: if you enjoyed just watching successful people compete against the
35:23
Speaker 10: successful people and strive to be the best the best there,
35:26
Speaker 10: you are going to have some sort of inate simpthy
35:28
Speaker 10: for sport. I think it's really kind of part of
35:29
Speaker 10: Donald Trump's, frankly, his working class, blue collar appeal, and
35:33
Speaker 10: again as a big sports for myself, I respect it
35:36
Speaker 10: very much.
35:38
Speaker 3: And it's incredible that that loss in twenty twenty means
35:42
Speaker 3: his president now, and he's not only got the soccer
35:45
Speaker 3: World Cup, he's got the two hundred and fiftieth birthday celebration,
35:49
Speaker 3: He's got the Olympics. He's going to be president for
35:52
Speaker 3: those momentous events, Josh, before you go. War Secretary Pete
35:57
Speaker 3: Hegsitt has been under intense pressure in the past world
36:00
Speaker 3: after a Narco boat bringing large amounts of deadly drugs
36:03
Speaker 3: into America was neutralized along with the Narco terrorists on board.
36:08
Speaker 3: There's been talk of war crimes, but Hexit is not
36:12
Speaker 3: taking a backward step. He made these comments at the
36:16
Speaker 3: Reagan Presidential Library.
36:17
Speaker 6: The War Department will not be distracted by democracy building, interventionism,
36:22
Speaker 6: undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke, moralizing.
36:28
Speaker 1: And feckless nation building.
36:31
Speaker 3: We will instead put our.
36:33
Speaker 6: Nation's practical, concrete interests first.
36:37
Speaker 9: We will deter war, we will advance our interests.
36:40
Speaker 4: We will defend our people.
36:43
Speaker 1: Peace is our goal.
36:46
Speaker 3: Peace through strength. That's the philosophy. There was a lot
36:50
Speaker 3: of conjecture, Josh, that his position was under threat. Is
36:55
Speaker 3: that how you see it? Is he going to have
36:58
Speaker 3: issues with this scan? Was this another manufactured crisis by
37:03
Speaker 3: elements of the media.
37:05
Speaker 10: You know, this story makes me want to pull my
37:07
Speaker 10: hero because how many times, how many times have we
37:10
Speaker 10: seen this same playbook? You know, right after Donald Trump
37:13
Speaker 10: nominated Pete heggs As to be the then Secretary of
37:15
Speaker 10: Defense and now it's rebrand that the secretary of War.
37:18
Speaker 10: Right after that last November, over a year ago, if
37:21
Speaker 10: you recall, the media immediately sprang up into action trying
37:25
Speaker 10: to rerun the twenty eighteen Breck Cavanaugh playbook. They were
37:28
Speaker 10: immediately besmirching petegs aff They said he was a drunker,
37:31
Speaker 10: that he was drunk while on set of Fox, that
37:34
Speaker 10: said that he was a philanderer and adulterer, and oh,
37:36
Speaker 10: by the way, he was actually a rapist to boot
37:38
Speaker 10: in case that wasn't bad enough for you, So we
37:40
Speaker 10: had that. Thank goodness, we got Jony Ernst of Iwan
37:43
Speaker 10: board and all the senators on board, so he became
37:45
Speaker 10: the secretary. Okay, fast forward a few months. Then you
37:47
Speaker 10: had this signal gate scandal which came in March during
37:50
Speaker 10: this US operation against the WHO, this and Yemen. Was
37:53
Speaker 10: this done in the most kosher fashion imaginable?
37:56
Speaker 8: Maybe?
37:57
Speaker 10: Maybe not? Okay, maybe there's a better app than signals,
38:02
Speaker 10: some sort of super encrypted secret app to communicate. I
38:05
Speaker 10: don't know, Probably there is. Was this the end of
38:07
Speaker 10: the world? No, there was not. How do I know?
38:09
Speaker 10: Because nothing happened because not a single hair of a
38:12
Speaker 10: US soldier, marine, or sailor was harmed, as was all
38:14
Speaker 10: of this. So that operation failed too. Now they're onto this.
38:17
Speaker 10: Now they're onto the latest information operation, political acts, political
38:22
Speaker 10: warfare act against Pete Hexeth and for what literally for what?
38:26
Speaker 10: Because a Navy admiral, acting under his chaining commands, decided
38:30
Speaker 10: that the drugs on this particular boat were about to
38:34
Speaker 10: be interdited and intercepted by another vessel, and that cocaine
38:38
Speaker 10: and fence wall could have been headed to the United States.
38:40
Speaker 10: If you accept the premise as I do read it,
38:42
Speaker 10: the chemical warfare is indeed a form of de facto
38:46
Speaker 10: warfare upon the United States, then it absolutely stands to
38:49
Speaker 10: reason that targeted, tactical, preemptive, prophilactic action to secure the
38:53
Speaker 10: American people in the American homelands against such a threat
38:57
Speaker 10: is absolutely called for. So this scandal is is ridiculous.
39:01
Speaker 10: I've been calling it out every day now for a
39:03
Speaker 10: week and a half. The Washington Post, by the way,
39:05
Speaker 10: which initially report of this, literally got their facts wrong.
39:08
Speaker 10: In fact, the New York Times ball Alos was actually
39:10
Speaker 10: the one that called out the Washington Post for doing
39:12
Speaker 10: that there, so they frankly OpEd Heggs had something of
39:15
Speaker 10: an apology for accusing him of just callously ordering so
39:18
Speaker 10: called war crimes there. But you know, I guess the
39:21
Speaker 10: last thing on this I'll say, Rita, is that you know,
39:23
Speaker 10: there's as someone who follows the Middle East closely, I've
39:26
Speaker 10: become almost numb to the war crime allegation because of
39:29
Speaker 10: just the routine matter in which they attempt to accuse
39:32
Speaker 10: Netanyahu and the israelities of committee war crimes there. So
39:35
Speaker 10: I mean, I guess they're trying to bring the specific
39:38
Speaker 10: Middle East accusations. Now try to take it into the
39:41
Speaker 10: American context. It's not gonna work. It's not work because
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Speaker 10: the heck set that we saw in the video was
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Speaker 10: a very confident, well spoken secretary of war. I happened
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Speaker 10: to be a big fan of him, and I wish
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Speaker 10: him nothing but the best. He's gonna survive this relatively unscathed.
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Speaker 10: This story will be dead by the next few days.
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Speaker 3: I predict. Josh, Amma, thank you for your ti Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Still to come Prince Harry's cringe worthy appearance on Stephen
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Speaker 3: Colbert's show. Kinsey Schofield is up next. Welcome back, joining
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Speaker 3: me now, celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey Schofield. Kinsey, we
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Speaker 3: have to talk about Prince Harry's appearance on Stephen Colbert's
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Speaker 3: awful program. Let's have a look.
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Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, come on, come on, come on, just
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Speaker 9: look at this. We're suddenly surrounded by beautiful Christmas trees.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's for a Christmas bit I was going to
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Speaker 7: do before you interrupted me.
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Speaker 3: Oh Stephen, Stephen, look it's snowing, Kinsey. The whole thing
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Speaker 3: was just so incredibly embarrassing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, not funny, and Harry takes the swape at Donald
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Speaker 5: Trump and at the same time the Royal family. Actually,
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Speaker 5: Prince Harry's reality is that he's living in a gig
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Speaker 5: economy now, hustling from one paid project to the next,
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Speaker 5: not a steady income. His income depends on Americans buying
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Speaker 5: his shows, books and speaking engagements. That's why taking a
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Speaker 5: job at President Trump on national television is such a
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Speaker 5: terrible gamble. Trump won the election, and Harry's comments risk
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Speaker 5: turning off a huge portion of the audience He needs
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Speaker 5: to support his ventures. Why antagonize the very people he's
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Speaker 5: trying to sell instead of just staying quiet and safeguarding
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Speaker 5: his brand. But you know what, at least Colbert won't
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Speaker 5: be lonely in the unemployment line. He'll have his friend,
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Speaker 5: Prince Harry standing right there next to him.
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Speaker 3: Well, the timing of Harry's appearance couldn't be worse. It
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Speaker 3: was as terrible as the appearance itself is. At a
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Speaker 3: time when Megan Michael's father was gravely ill in hospital,
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Speaker 3: The Sun newspaper has revealed that the Duchess of Sussex
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Speaker 3: has sent her strange father an email he has begged
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Speaker 3: Meghan to say before he dies.
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Speaker 5: Kinsey messy Markle is back. Megan says she emailed her
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Speaker 5: father after his life for death surgery, though he says otherwise.
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Speaker 5: The email she supposedly used has been inactive for five years,
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Speaker 5: leaving the public to wonder who's telling the truth. It
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Speaker 5: seems funny to me that one of Fortune's most powerful
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Speaker 5: women can't make a simple phone call to her father.
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Speaker 3: And an email. Really, like, you couldn't even send a
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Speaker 3: message to the hospital. Send some flowers and a message
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Speaker 3: via a sibling, perhaps pick up the phone or visit.
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Speaker 3: I know those two things are quite dramatic, but an email,
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Speaker 3: I mean, it just is so transactional and lacking in feeling. Kinsey.
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Speaker 5: I don't know what else we expect from her these days,
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Speaker 5: but I think that she had to do this. She's
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Speaker 5: trying to promote a Christmas special where she shoves family
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Speaker 5: down our throat and it's literally familyless. So this was
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Speaker 5: She knew that this was detrimental to her brand and career,
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Speaker 5: so she claimed she reached out to her father despite
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Speaker 5: him saying otherwise.
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Speaker 3: Now let's talk about share. The seventy nine year old
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Speaker 3: singer is reportedly set to tie the knot with her
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Speaker 3: thirty nine year old boyfriend Alexander Edwards, and she wants
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Speaker 3: to get this wedding organized before her eightieth birthday in May.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey and Insider told The Mirror that sher doesn't give
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Speaker 3: a hoot about their forty year age difference, and they're
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Speaker 3: both ready to commit to each other. She sees her
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Speaker 3: upcoming celebration at turning eighty as the perfect time for
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Speaker 3: her and Alexander to seal the deal. Kinsey has been
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Speaker 3: nearly fifty years since her second marriage ended. I guess
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Speaker 3: it's time.
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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a bit of a shock because
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Speaker 5: she previously said she didn't really want to get married again,
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Speaker 5: but recently she said her boyfriend reminded her that it's
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Speaker 5: never too weak to find love, and what matters is
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Speaker 5: how relationships feel.
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Speaker 3: Not what anyone else thinks.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I do think what's beautiful about Sheriff's perspective
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Speaker 5: is that she's never treated love as a certificate of completion.
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Speaker 5: She's always seen it as a choice, a luxury away
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Speaker 5: to add joy to an already full life, and maybe
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Speaker 5: that is the way we should all think about it.
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Speaker 3: She has she has had some very noteworthy quotes about
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Speaker 3: men and relationships, over the years. We won't go through
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Speaker 3: them now, but she has away with her words that
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Speaker 3: Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau have made their relationship Instagram official.
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Speaker 3: They posted this little video of a sushi date Kinsey
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Speaker 3: Justin Trudeau. He's looking at Katie like she's a Canadian
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Speaker 3: trucker's bank account. He just wants to seize all of that,
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Speaker 3: all of.
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Speaker 5: It hashag never forget. That's a very good reference. I
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Speaker 5: really expected more from Katy Perry here, like a caption
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Speaker 5: that said I kissed a Canadian and I liked it.
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Speaker 5: If they ever break up, Canada is legally required to
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Speaker 5: play the One That Got Away on repeat on every
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Speaker 5: radio station, like a form of Chinese torture. That's what
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Speaker 5: I think should happen.
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Speaker 3: Oh dear, I mean, really, why would you get together
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Speaker 3: with Justin Trudeau after he's out of office. This was
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Speaker 3: a chance to be first lady after she was an astronaut.
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Speaker 3: She could have just ticked off another first on her list.
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Speaker 3: Sydney Sweeney. She's opened up on the backlash over her
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Speaker 3: American Eagle commercial. These are genes commercials that seem to
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Speaker 3: trigger the left. She was abused online for the campaign,
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Speaker 3: so I'm calling her a white supremacist. She told People
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Speaker 3: magazine she was surprised by the reaction, and she also said,
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Speaker 3: anyone who knows me knows that I'm always trying to
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Speaker 3: bring people together against hate and divisiveness. Is she gonna
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Speaker 3: have to be asked about this commercial for the rest
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Speaker 3: of her career, Kincy?
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Speaker 5: I mean, hopefully this shut it down. I hate that
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Speaker 5: Sidney Sweetey even has to address baseless rumors, but sometimes
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Speaker 5: those narratives take on a life of their own. In
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Speaker 5: her case, she chose to step in set the record straight.
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Speaker 5: I respect that, but you're right. Can we close this
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Speaker 5: door now? Or are people going to continue to look
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Speaker 5: for this clickbait and ask her about it every time
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Speaker 5: she sits down in front of a microphone.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know what, in a way, it's not bad
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Speaker 3: for her brand. As far as endorsements go, this campaign
46:42
Speaker 3: was enormously successful for American Eagles. So much free publicity,
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Speaker 3: and even the negative publicity seemed to work for them
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Speaker 3: because it was negative on such unreasonable grounds. Most people
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Speaker 3: who looked at that ad didn't see all the crazy
46:59
Speaker 3: races tropes that the left seas. Now let's get to
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Speaker 3: the truth behind jay Z and sister in law. Is
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Speaker 3: it Solange Solange Nole's infamous elevator fight. Surveillance footage from
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Speaker 3: inside that elevator at New York City's Standard Hotel showed
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Speaker 3: Solange lunging out, swinging at and kicking jay Z. Look
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Speaker 3: at it go. This was following an after party at
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Speaker 3: the Boom Boom Room. And what was always fascinating to
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Speaker 3: me was the way that Beyonce just stood by and
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Speaker 3: watch that assault happen with Really, it seemed like she
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Speaker 3: was not to engage, she was just observing.
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Speaker 8: Well.
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Speaker 3: Now, fashion designer Oscar G. Lopez, who made Rachel Roy's
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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen metgala gown, claims jay Z complimented Roy's dress
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Speaker 3: at the event and that's what set off this chain reaction. Kinsey,
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Speaker 3: Surely a compliment about address wouldn't cause.
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Speaker 5: That, look, says who he wasn't in the elevator. Literally
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Speaker 5: never heard of this designer until the resurrection of this
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Speaker 5: ten year old story where he claims jay Z complimented
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Speaker 5: his client's dress his dress. I'm not trying it. There's
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Speaker 5: no new real information here.
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Speaker 3: We knew the fight was about infidelity. I do believe
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Speaker 3: at the Core.
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Speaker 5: The fight was about infidelity, and it's Backy with the
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Speaker 5: good hair, Rachel Roy and you know, Beance probably didn't
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Speaker 5: want to break a nail. You know, I'd sit back too,
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Speaker 5: and you know I'm not trying to mess up my manicure.
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm just how can you be that this passionate
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Speaker 3: your sister is going nuts attacking physically attacking your husband
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Speaker 3: who you assume has been cheating on you, and you
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Speaker 3: just stand there and I watch like you're just watching
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Speaker 3: grass grow. I mean the whole thing. That was my
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Speaker 3: first red flags about Beyond S because the reaction there
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Speaker 3: was just so bizarre.
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Speaker 5: To say, typical Tuesday for them, apparently, Oh.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know what, I want to see a reality
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Speaker 3: show on those two. Then forget about Meghan and Harry
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Speaker 3: because their reality show was amongst the most boring television
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Speaker 3: ever produced. That it may be a little bit trashy,
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Speaker 3: but I'm going to be honest, I'd watch it. Kinsey Schofield,
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Speaker 3: thank you so much for your time tonight, and that's
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Speaker 3: all the time we have. I'll see you at eleven
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Speaker 3: tomorrow night. Near's Night is up next