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The Rita Panahi Show | 20 Feburary · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On sky Lives Ostrodia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Wider Panalty Show. Good evening and welcome
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Speaker 2: to the Rida Panety Show. Coming up tonight, massive job
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Speaker 2: cuts coming to the public sector as Victoria's debt skyrockets
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Speaker 2: to new highs. Laban the Coalition to prepare their ad
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Speaker 2: campaigns for the upcoming election, will analyze the good, the bad,
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Speaker 2: and the ugly. Mi Horowitz will join me with the
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Speaker 2: latest from the US, including Donald Trump's attacks against President Zelenski,
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Speaker 2: and later in the hour, Kinsey Schofield joins me with
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Speaker 2: the latest on all the celebrity and royal news, including
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk's a thirteenth Child and Left He's Losing. It
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Speaker 2: features a number of hysterical clowns, including this one.
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Speaker 3: With concentration camps looming in the United States. Here's what
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Speaker 3: queer people are doing. Yes, I said concentration camps. You
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Speaker 3: can maga.
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Speaker 2: But first, the Australian Defense for is closely monitoring a
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Speaker 2: fleet of Chinese warships which were spotted sailing just two
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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy six kilometers away from Sydney. The vessels
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Speaker 2: were first detected in international waters off the Queensland coast
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Speaker 2: last week I have been traveling down the Australian coastline.
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Speaker 2: Defense Minister Richard Miles described the ship's activity as unusual.
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Speaker 4: There is no doubt that this is not unprecedented, but
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Speaker 4: an unusual event.
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Speaker 2: The fleet is believed to be the furthest that Chinese
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Speaker 2: ships have ventured down the coastline of Australia outside of
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Speaker 2: an official visit. Joining me now for more on this
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Speaker 2: is a senior fellow at the Menzies Research Center, Nick Kaita. Nick,
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Speaker 2: is this something that should be concerning authorities?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think it should be concerning Richard Miles a
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Speaker 5: bit more. He just says, well, it's unusual.
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Speaker 6: To me.
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Speaker 5: This is positively spooky. Reta. I mean, why on earth
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Speaker 5: would the Chinese have any reason to waste of perfectly
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Speaker 5: good warship sailing this far south unless they had hostile
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Speaker 5: intentions on Australia. Maybe they're on the way to take
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Speaker 5: over Tasmania or something. I don't know, but I mean,
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Speaker 5: the point is that they have legitimate security and strategic
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Speaker 5: interests around China. But I think this kind of thing
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Speaker 5: is provocative. I'd like to know if they notified the
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Speaker 5: Australian government they were going to do this, and I'd
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Speaker 5: like to know what the Australian government's response has been,
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Speaker 5: because from the sound of what Richard Miles is saying,
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Speaker 5: it might be yeah, this is a bit unusual Beijing,
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Speaker 5: you know. No, we should be reading the right act
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Speaker 5: to them, because as we know, they have their eyes
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Speaker 5: on the Pacific.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 2: I would hope that behind the scenes that they are
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Speaker 2: much stronger in expressing and their feelings about this. Perhaps
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Speaker 2: they're being diplomatic in the media and not saying much,
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Speaker 2: but I do fear give it the form of this
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Speaker 2: government that they're just as weak behind the scenes now
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Speaker 2: Asioboss Mike Burgess has warned of foreign government hit lists
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Speaker 2: and plots to steal defense secrets during his sixth and
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Speaker 2: most sobering annual threat assessment. He gave this last night.
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Speaker 2: I talked about countries such as Russia Iran ramping up
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Speaker 2: sabotage operations against Australia. Here's part of what he had
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Speaker 2: to say last night.
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Speaker 7: As investigations have identified at least three different countries plotting
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Speaker 7: to physically harm people in Australia in a small number
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Speaker 7: of cases, we held great fears for the life of
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Speaker 7: the person being targeted. Working with our international partners, we
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Speaker 7: determine this plot was part of a broader effort by
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Speaker 7: the raging to eliminate critics of the foreign government around
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Speaker 7: the world, activists, journalists, ordinary citizens.
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Speaker 8: Nick.
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Speaker 2: He also spoke about the threats facing the Australian Jewish community.
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Speaker 7: Antisemitism fested in Australia before the tragic events in the
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Speaker 7: Middle East, but the drawn out conflict gave it oxygen
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Speaker 7: and some anti Semites and excuse. Jewish Australians were also
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Speaker 7: increasingly conflated with the State of Israel, leading to an
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Speaker 7: increase in anti Semitic incidents.
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Speaker 2: Nick, It's frightening to think that we've got countries like
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Speaker 2: Iran planning to use violence to silence their critics who
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Speaker 2: live in Australia.
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Speaker 5: It's extremely concerning, but also this use of misinformation which
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Speaker 5: comes from places like Russia and probably Iran and China too.
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Speaker 5: The rise of this anti Jewish feeling has been sudden
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Speaker 5: and dramatic, and although I don't think we yet have
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Speaker 5: high evidence of this, the New South Wales Police have
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Speaker 5: at least canvased the idea that this might be funded
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Speaker 5: by foreign money. And I think if you look at
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Speaker 5: this whole pro Palestinian thing around the world. It's clear
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Speaker 5: that somebody is putting serious money into this and filtering
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Speaker 5: down various organizations. So this should be alarming. I mean,
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Speaker 5: I think we tend to be a little bit relaxed
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Speaker 5: and comfortable over this stuff in Australia, a little bit
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Speaker 5: naive perhaps thinking, oh, you know, we're good fellows. People
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Speaker 5: come down here to pat our coalas and have their
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Speaker 5: photo taken outside the opera house. But no, you know,
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Speaker 5: in the minds of you, malicious countries like North Korea,
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Speaker 5: like like Iran, like China, like Russia, they're perfectly prepared
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Speaker 5: to go to one evilence it takes to meddle in
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Speaker 5: our democracy, undermine our democracy, and take direct action against
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Speaker 5: people that they see as a threat.
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Speaker 2: And Nick, you spoke about the increase in anti Semitism,
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Speaker 2: and there seems to be real institutional power behind some
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Speaker 2: of this sentiment, particularly when you look at what's happening
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Speaker 2: on our university campuses. What some of these academics are saying.
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Speaker 2: We're not just talking about a few people on the
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Speaker 2: fringes who've got no power, no influence, People in prominent
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Speaker 2: positions influencing young minds are viewing this poison.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean, of course they want to portray this as
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Speaker 5: some kind of spontaneous community reaction, because it's nothing like that.
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Speaker 5: We've been watching the left for twenty years or more
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Speaker 5: to see their modus operandian and whether it's climate change
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Speaker 5: or transgender rights or whatever the cause, when you delve
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Speaker 5: into it, there is serious money going into these causes,
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Speaker 5: deliberately fueling and funding people to work full time on
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Speaker 5: these campaigns. I've got no reason to believe it's any
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Speaker 5: different at all with this anti Jewish movement, the pro
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Speaker 5: Palestinian movement, which is disrupting our civil fabric. It is
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Speaker 5: really putting it threat the whole idea of sort of
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Speaker 5: multiculturalism I wanted to work, but now I'm doubting it
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Speaker 5: with this going on. But if we don't think that
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Speaker 5: there's foreign actors or even people within Australia who deliberately
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Speaker 5: provoke this, then we're just totally naive.
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Speaker 2: Now let's go to Victoria. Premier Justint Allen has announced
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Speaker 2: a plan to cut down on the state's bureaucracy. It's
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Speaker 2: going to be fairly severe cuts. Next sources of claiming
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Speaker 2: that more than six and a half thousand jobs could
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Speaker 2: be acts from Victoria's fifty five thousand strong public service.
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Speaker 2: This comes amid revelations that the state's wages bill has
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Speaker 2: nearly doubled from when labor first came to power. So
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Speaker 2: we've gone from eighteen point eight billion to thirty seven
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Speaker 2: point five billion, and that wages bill blew out by
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Speaker 2: three billion in just one year. And it comes after
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Speaker 2: a report by the state's financial watchdog showed that cost
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Speaker 2: of major projects in Victoria had blown out by close
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Speaker 2: to eleven point seven billion. That's with a B in
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Speaker 2: just the past year. Nick, Victoria is in serious financial peril.
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Speaker 2: There's no other way to describe the record debt.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's six and a half thousand. They're talking about
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Speaker 5: worst case scenario. That's just a drop in the ocean. Retail.
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Speaker 5: You know, the public service in Victoria increased by seventeen
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Speaker 5: percent during COVID, and you expect after that, you know,
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Speaker 5: people go back to the normal day jobs, but no,
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Speaker 5: it's kept growing since then. So this is a very
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Speaker 5: small cut of a very large number of people that
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Speaker 5: this government has put on to the payroll. And you
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Speaker 5: bet your bottom dollar that they won't be cutting this
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Speaker 5: in any logical fashion, if they cut it at all.
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Speaker 5: I mean, after all, the review is being led by
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Speaker 5: a senior Victoria form of sceenior Victoria public servant. So
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Speaker 5: it's highly Elon Musk, is it.
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Speaker 9: You know?
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Speaker 5: So I don't take this seriously, but there's certainly a
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Speaker 5: need to cut. And you make the point about infrastructure, right,
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Speaker 5: Their infrastructure products are blown out. Not only that, you
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Speaker 5: know you're not actually finishing anything in Victoria.
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Speaker 2: Are you.
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Speaker 5: I mean you don't want to come here and look
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Speaker 5: at our railways and our tunnels. You'd have infratry structure
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Speaker 5: envy here in New Touth Whales because we've just got
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Speaker 5: the stuff down. They haven't done that in Victoria. So
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Speaker 5: they're paying more, they've got a larger public service and
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Speaker 5: it's actually doing less. It's less effective. Something has to happen,
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Speaker 5: doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you would hope. So if you unleashed someone like
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Speaker 2: an Elon Musk in Victoria, it would be remarkable the
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Speaker 2: way we would find. Just give them a month and
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Speaker 2: I think things would sort out fairly quickly. But we
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Speaker 2: don't have anybody like that. Before you go talking about
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Speaker 2: mad spending, it's been revealed that federal and state and
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Speaker 2: local governments are spending madly. The expended check is exceeding
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Speaker 2: more than a trillion dollars combined last year, even more
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Speaker 2: than they were spending during COVID and Nick, this exorbitant
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Speaker 2: spending is certainly helping to keep inflation high and discouraging
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Speaker 2: the RBA from lowering the hash rate further.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think people get this message now. People understand
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Speaker 5: that inflation is driven by too much money circulating the
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Speaker 5: economy and if the government's pumping money and then that's
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Speaker 5: a big cause. So, you know, we get that sort
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Speaker 5: of you know, tiny rate drop from the RBA this week,
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Speaker 5: which I'm sure is welcome, but very small for mortgage owners.
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Speaker 5: But you know, there's two ways to fight inflation. One
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Speaker 5: is to raise interest rates. The other is for the
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Speaker 5: government to cut its own spending. Well, the government hasn't
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Speaker 5: cut its own spending, so mortgage rates have risen even
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Speaker 5: higher than they should have had to. So, you know,
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Speaker 5: because the government can't spend cure its own spending habit,
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Speaker 5: ordinary people with mortgages have to take the brunt of that.
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Speaker 5: It's totally unfair.
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Speaker 2: Nick Keta, thanks for your time. Tonight, let's talk about
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Speaker 2: political messaging. Joining me now as DPR and co advertising
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Speaker 2: founder Richard Ralph Smith Richard. The major parties have already
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Speaker 2: started ramping up their ad campaigns ahead of the upcoming election,
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Speaker 2: and both parties seem to be focused on extending their
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Speaker 2: reach on social media. Here's what Labor's pushing.
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Speaker 4: These are all cost of living measures introduced by the
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Speaker 4: federal Labor government because we understand the pressure families are
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Speaker 4: under and every little bit helps.
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Speaker 2: But look who was opposed to every single one of them.
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Speaker 9: Whichever way you look at it.
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Speaker 2: You'll be worse off under Dune. It may be a
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Speaker 2: little bit boring, but I think that's actually a pretty
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Speaker 2: effective ads. It's focused on cost of living. It's simple,
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Speaker 2: easy to understand.
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Speaker 6: Yeah it is.
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Speaker 10: It's simple, and it's clear whether it's going to be effective.
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Speaker 10: I'm not entirely sure. We know cost of living is
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Speaker 10: the biggest issue in the election, but when you look
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Speaker 10: at the big cost of living issues housing, food and energy,
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Speaker 10: that ad doesn't really touch the first two and then
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Speaker 10: the third one has been Labour's biggest broken promise and
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Speaker 10: it puts the emphasis on that. So I do wonder
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Speaker 10: whether people look at it and go right, You've given
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Speaker 10: me three hundred dollars as a handout, but does that
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Speaker 10: really compensate further massive increase in my energy bills? So
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Speaker 10: I wonder about its effectiveness from that point of view.
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Speaker 10: Time will tell, And I also wonder whether or not
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Speaker 10: we're seeing very early. You know, is labor going to
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Speaker 10: make the same mistake by demonizing or over demonizing.
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Speaker 6: It's a very Dutton focused.
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Speaker 10: Ad, a conservative leader from the liberal side, because every
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Speaker 10: time they've done that, you know Howard Abbott now Dutton,
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Speaker 10: it has backfired.
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Speaker 2: Now let's contrast that Labor commercial with what the liberals
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Speaker 2: have got.
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Speaker 11: Sometimes we were the only thing between vulnerable people and
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Speaker 11: serious harm. So I learned the importance of always turning
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Speaker 11: up and getting on with the jaw. Later I started
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Speaker 11: a small family business. He grew to forty staff who
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Speaker 11: had families, mortgages and aspirations, which means that you were
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Speaker 11: relied on to balance the books and be responsible.
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Speaker 2: Peter Dutton in that ad talks about being a police officer,
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Speaker 2: small business owner, talks about his time as a government minister.
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Speaker 2: In the full ad. How effective is that?
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Speaker 6: Well, it is.
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Speaker 10: It's a solid effort at humanizing Dutton, you know, showing
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Speaker 10: him as a police officer, showing him as a family man,
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Speaker 10: showing him interacting with people in the electorate. With John
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Speaker 10: Howard in particular as well. It's pretty stock standard playbook
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Speaker 10: stuff to humanize an opposition leader when people aren't really
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Speaker 10: familiar with a person.
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Speaker 6: I think what they really.
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Speaker 10: Need to do with him is get bolder as the
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Speaker 10: campaign progresses, both in policy but also as in communications.
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Speaker 2: Well, I fear they're a little bit scared to be
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Speaker 2: bold because they're in striking range, and I think they're
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Speaker 2: worried about making a mistake and having some sort of
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Speaker 2: a backlash. Now, what have you observed in terms of
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Speaker 2: how political parties have changed their ads spending? Obviously the
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Speaker 2: focus isn't just on television and print anymore. You've got
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Speaker 2: a lot of online ads, You've got a lot of
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Speaker 2: ads on social media. How do they manage those competing concerns?
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Speaker 10: Well, certainly prints dropped off, although when you do a
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Speaker 10: print buyer you're always buying the digital package as well.
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Speaker 10: That if you consider TV in terms of TV streaming
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Speaker 10: video and catch up video and then online video, all
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Speaker 10: of that in the package.
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Speaker 6: Steve that that is still the bulk.
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Speaker 10: Of the media spend for both parties and it's the
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Speaker 10: quickest and most effective way to get to the mass
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Speaker 10: audience quickly. And we also know that, you know, every
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Speaker 10: TV ad, every new TV ad, is picked up by
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Speaker 10: the news media and that's the way most people interact
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Speaker 10: with it, and that's free. So they know that that's
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Speaker 10: what sets the agenda and they will still be putting
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Speaker 10: the money behind that. But having said that, social media
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Speaker 10: spend in this election will be the highest we've ever seen,
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Speaker 10: will be increasing.
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Speaker 2: And that's what you said about being bolder, because if
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Speaker 2: you do have a bold ad, you are going to
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Speaker 2: get that free publicity. The TV programs are going to
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Speaker 2: play it, people are going to write about it. But
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Speaker 2: do we see those bold ads in Australia. It seems
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Speaker 2: to not be such a feature here.
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Speaker 10: We're certainly not as polarized as they are in America,
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Speaker 10: where the whole game is, you know, with voluntary voting
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Speaker 10: charging up the base.
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Speaker 6: But we will certainly on the liberal side.
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Speaker 10: I mean, sure, the Poles are very very close, but
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Speaker 10: the Liberals have a mountain to climb. And if you
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Speaker 10: look at what Dunton has done so far to get
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Speaker 10: himself in the position that he's in.
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Speaker 6: He's done it by being bold, making bold.
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Speaker 10: Calls, primarily on the voice and on nuclear power, wherever
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Speaker 10: you stand on them. That's what's put in in this
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Speaker 10: position today. He should take a queue from that, and
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Speaker 10: the Liberals should take a queue from that.
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Speaker 6: That bold point.
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Speaker 2: The two really adviceive you could say, polarizing positions he's
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Speaker 2: taken are the reasons he is in this position.
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Speaker 6: And I'd even be you.
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Speaker 2: Should be advising him instead of some of his inner circle,
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Speaker 2: who I think are telling him to play it safe.
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Speaker 2: I think this is why we're seeing him. Yeah, kind
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Speaker 2: of step step back from those.
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Speaker 10: Days, very early days, he ought to go bolder, and
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Speaker 10: I'd be raising the specter of minority government. You know,
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Speaker 10: everybody knows what a nightmarit was in twenty ten with
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Speaker 10: minority government. I would be saying, imagine, if you don't
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Speaker 10: like the way labor's going, imagine labor but minority supported
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Speaker 10: by the Greens.
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Speaker 6: Raise that specter.
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Speaker 10: And then put out policies there to really energize people
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Speaker 10: and be bold. I think that's the strategy to go
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Speaker 10: for for the Liberals.
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Speaker 2: That sounds like an absolutely brilliant idea because the Greens
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Speaker 2: have become so radical and it is entirely possible. In fact,
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Speaker 2: many say it's likely they were going to have a
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Speaker 2: labor minority government with the Greens and give even their
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Speaker 2: stance over the recent years, everything from their crazy economic
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Speaker 2: policies to their attitude to Israel, that would be frightening
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Speaker 2: for so many people. So that could be a really
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Speaker 2: powerful campaign if the liberals, I think it would get
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Speaker 2: that right. Yeah. Now, we've also seen a lot of
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Speaker 2: attention on social media trying to reach younger voters through
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Speaker 2: Instagram and TikTok. Let's look at this effort from ministers
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Speaker 2: Chris Bowen and Tania Plibasak.
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Speaker 4: Nuclear uses forty percent more water than even coal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and not only is it per but will Peter
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Speaker 2: Dutton to do his nuclear plan, he'd actually need this
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Speaker 2: much water?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, because he says.
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Speaker 1: They're going to get a lot more electricia on the
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Speaker 1: nuclear then we currently get a coal And when you
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Speaker 1: put that together with the nuclear needing more water, that
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Speaker 1: means they will need.
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Speaker 12: A lot lot of water.
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Speaker 2: And this isn't enough. I just don't think think they
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Speaker 2: do these well, both labor and liberal. I see very
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Speaker 2: few ads on that platform where I think, yeah, this
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Speaker 2: one hits the mark. What do you think about that?
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Speaker 2: Is that speaking to the converted? Is it going to
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Speaker 2: convince undecided voters?
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Speaker 10: I don't think it'll can convince a single undecided in
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Speaker 10: fifty you have a look at the comments section of
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Speaker 10: that ad, it gets pretty negative. But look, yes, of
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Speaker 10: course Instagram does skew younger than mainstream TV, and they're
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Speaker 10: obviously trying to do that, but does it really skew
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Speaker 10: play school young You know, it's like they're in kids
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Speaker 10: chairs pouring water out to try to make this really
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Speaker 10: quite simple point, which I don't think is the main
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Speaker 10: game anyway when it comes to nuclear energy. So I
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Speaker 10: think it's probably going to be saying there's a little patronizing,
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Speaker 10: And yes, you're right that they feel a little bit
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Speaker 10: uncomfortable in the social media area. TikTok in particular labor
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Speaker 10: really really uncomfortable if you have a look at what
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Speaker 10: they're doing. But yeah, they're trying to be the cool kid.
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Speaker 10: When they're not the cool kid. It's much better to
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Speaker 10: embrace your weakness and be yourself, which is what Dunton
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Speaker 10: is strangely enough doing quite well on TikTok.
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Speaker 2: He's got a bit of a following on TikTok, which
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Speaker 2: is surprising. Now before you go, we've got a touch
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Speaker 2: on Clive Palmer. He tends to spend a lot of
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Speaker 2: money on these campaigns. Is now bankrolling a new political
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Speaker 2: party called the Trumpet of Patriots, which is supposed to
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Speaker 2: mirror Donald Trump's policies. But I just think it's such
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Speaker 2: an absurd name, Trumpet of Patriots. I mean, why wouldn't
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Speaker 2: you just go for something simple like make Australia Great
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Speaker 2: Again or make Albow go away? That still says mega
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Speaker 2: something a bit more. I don't know. This seems like
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Speaker 2: a like a.
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Speaker 6: Satire that's complicated, isn't it.
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Speaker 10: I can't even remember. I've got to read what was
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Speaker 10: it Trumpet for Patriot? If it time I hear it,
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Speaker 10: I've got to try to remember it again. He has
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Speaker 10: done billboards with make Australia Great Again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen those. Yes.
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Speaker 6: What I think it does do, though.
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Speaker 10: Is that it's time he's Labour's attempts to paint Peter
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Speaker 10: Dutton as Donald Trump, Because the Donald Trump in this
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Speaker 10: selection is Clyde Palmer.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 10: He makes Peter Dutton look mild, moderate considered, and I
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Speaker 10: think that could be a real positive for That's not a.
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Speaker 2: Bad point as well, because our media has just been
20:16
Speaker 2: so utterly deranged in covering anything to do with Donald Trump.
20:20
Speaker 2: So there is this real negative connotation and labor of
20:23
Speaker 2: try to paint Dutton as Trump. See if you do
20:26
Speaker 2: have an actual Trump figure larger than life who's saying
20:30
Speaker 2: I'm Australia's Donald Trump, then that that's I can only
20:33
Speaker 2: work for Peter Dutton. Fascinating. Richard Ralph Smith, thanks so
20:36
Speaker 2: much for your time tonight, Thanks again, Champ. Still to
20:39
Speaker 2: come left He's losing it class will have the latest
20:41
Speaker 2: from the US, including the real reason behind Donald Trump's
20:45
Speaker 2: fresh attack on the Ukrainian President. Armi Horowitz is up next.
20:58
Speaker 2: Welcome back, And now it's time for lefties losing it.
21:01
Speaker 2: And we've been showcasing spectacularly unfunny comedians broken by their
21:06
Speaker 2: hatred of Donald Trump and incapable of producing anything approaching comedy.
21:11
Speaker 2: And I've got another one for you, sad Brick John Oliver,
21:14
Speaker 2: though in his defense he details here precisely why Donald
21:19
Speaker 2: Trump won and why his supporters are ecstatic.
21:23
Speaker 1: In just the past four weeks, he's pardoned or commuted.
21:26
Speaker 1: The sentences of January sixth, writers withdrew the US from
21:29
Speaker 1: both the Paris Cars and the who announced plans to
21:31
Speaker 1: take over Gaza Is in an executive order trying to
21:33
Speaker 1: undo birthright citizenship, blamed the fatal DC plane crash on DEI,
21:38
Speaker 1: renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, responding
21:40
Speaker 1: to device in La County by releasing billions of gallons
21:42
Speaker 1: of water to California's Central Valley one hundred and fifty
21:46
Speaker 1: miles away. Replaced a four star general with the host
21:48
Speaker 1: of Fox and Friends and Secretary of Defense, and announced
21:51
Speaker 1: twenty five percent tarrifs on Canada and Mexico.
21:53
Speaker 2: You know what, Donald Trump should use that in his
21:56
Speaker 2: next ad campaign. Promises made, promises kept. Thanks for the update,
22:01
Speaker 2: John Oliver. Now to possibly the dumbest woman in America.
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Speaker 13: And yes, I know that is a big claim, but
22:08
Speaker 13: you've ever been unfortunate enough to read any of Jen
22:11
Speaker 13: Ruben's crazier moting masquerading as analysis, you'd understand why I
22:16
Speaker 13: feel very confident in making that claim.
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Speaker 2: This is a woman who said that Republicans who weren't
22:23
Speaker 2: even in power were responsible for her mass attacking on
22:27
Speaker 2: October seven. Incredible, and she claimed that Republicans want to
22:33
Speaker 2: kill your children. How about this, Republicans want to kill
22:37
Speaker 2: your kids? It's actually true. Yep, it's a fact. She's
22:41
Speaker 2: madder than a cut snake. And I can bring you
22:43
Speaker 2: about a thousand other examples of how irredeemably thick this
22:48
Speaker 2: woman is. But let's look at the latest example where
22:51
Speaker 2: she claims that those who support Donald Trump, that would
22:54
Speaker 2: be the majority of voters Jennifer, She claims, they don't read.
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Speaker 14: I would ABC Disney, the mouse who has more money
23:05
Speaker 14: than God settled with Donald Trump.
23:09
Speaker 2: I honestly don't know.
23:11
Speaker 14: You know, I've asked why would ABC? But people ask
23:15
Speaker 14: me all the time why is the media so ramsey pamsy?
23:19
Speaker 2: And there are two explanations.
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Speaker 14: The one is they are convinced that if they would
23:25
Speaker 14: just move a little bit to the right, all those
23:29
Speaker 14: MAGA readers out there. Now you'll notice the contradiction in
23:32
Speaker 14: terms MAGA readers would pick up the Washington Post and
23:38
Speaker 14: they would have more readers. What is the logical fallacy here?
23:42
Speaker 2: Yes, reader, the audacity of that dim wit is astonishing,
23:47
Speaker 2: and sticking to those with a room temperature. IQ. Let's
23:51
Speaker 2: check in with this hysterical clown, a trans woman. We
23:54
Speaker 2: are told, well so a man who believes concentration camps
23:59
Speaker 2: are just around the corner.
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Speaker 3: With concentration camps looming in the United States, here's what
24:03
Speaker 3: queer people are doing. Yes, I said, concentration camps. You
24:07
Speaker 3: can maga. We are getting a go bag ready. We're
24:12
Speaker 3: going to have a go bag with shoes closed for
24:14
Speaker 3: seven days, dehydrated food, think astronaut food for seven days.
24:18
Speaker 3: We're going to have one thousand dollars cash or prepaid
24:23
Speaker 3: credit card on hand. And this is just for the emergency.
24:27
Speaker 3: This isn't for permanency. This is for a week of
24:30
Speaker 3: getting by off the grid. We're going to have anything
24:33
Speaker 3: ready for the pets that we're taking with us, So
24:36
Speaker 3: put some cat litter in your trunk.
24:38
Speaker 2: Don't forget the cat litter. That's very important. You know what?
24:41
Speaker 2: That is so wacky that almost suspect he's trolling us,
24:45
Speaker 2: but I'm told it's real. And really, with the craziness
24:49
Speaker 2: of the modern left these days, it's becoming increasingly difficult
24:53
Speaker 2: to distinguish between satire and lefties losing it. Like this
24:58
Speaker 2: dude who wants to kick gas white Zionist men out
25:02
Speaker 2: of the lgbt community.
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Speaker 12: I'm finally starting to realize that white gay Zionists should
25:12
Speaker 12: be demoted from being gay, Like it's not okay for
25:17
Speaker 12: someone to be so open and accepting of queer culture
25:23
Speaker 12: or be part of the LGBTQ community when you are
25:26
Speaker 12: supporting genocide. These type of gays, let me tell you,
25:29
Speaker 12: they are the worst. They are the worst because they
25:33
Speaker 12: are basically becoming their oppressors.
25:36
Speaker 2: So if you're a white gay man who believes Israel
25:39
Speaker 2: has a right to exist, then you're backing your oppressors.
25:43
Speaker 2: Does that income Poop realize that Israel is the only
25:47
Speaker 2: country in the Middle East where gay men enjoy real rights,
25:51
Speaker 2: freedom's protections. I want to go announcing your gayness or
25:54
Speaker 2: your membership of the LGBTQ community in places like Gaza,
26:00
Speaker 2: you be thrown off the roof of any building that's
26:02
Speaker 2: still standing. But this is not isolated. This suicidely stupid
26:08
Speaker 2: impulse of lefties to back regimes that would have them killed.
26:13
Speaker 2: Have a look at this slot.
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Speaker 15: Between these two choices, who would you say is more
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Speaker 15: likely to be supportive of the LGBTQ community.
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Speaker 16: Okay.
26:21
Speaker 17: Why would you say that because he's a brown person
26:23
Speaker 17: and he's not for Trump.
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Speaker 15: Do you think the fact that he's part of her
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Speaker 15: eyes would stop him from supporting that community?
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Speaker 7: Not at all?
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Speaker 2: Probably Number one? Number one persons.
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Speaker 15: Why would you say that because Trump supporters are typically
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Speaker 15: anti LGBT Number one?
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Speaker 11: Okay?
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Speaker 8: What makes you say that they just look kinder?
26:42
Speaker 15: Kinder? Do you think that you know somebody that's, say,
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Speaker 15: a member of her eyes, would be supportive of the
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Speaker 15: gay community.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost impossible to adequately describe how ill informed
26:53
Speaker 2: these kids are, and their vote counts is just as
26:55
Speaker 2: much as yours does. Scary, isn't it now? Sticking with
26:59
Speaker 2: a crazy Let's check in with the Cathedral of Hope
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Speaker 2: Church in Dallas here. This is a church in Texas
27:07
Speaker 2: which had a drag queen do it in a wig
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Speaker 2: an address joking about killing those who voted for Donald Trump.
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Speaker 18: Any don't voted for Trump?
27:15
Speaker 3: Please don't tell us. No, don't tell us.
27:23
Speaker 18: Or do you and.
27:28
Speaker 3: Cap we start keep voting for Trump?
27:35
Speaker 5: Okay, because how we will kill you?
27:40
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a drag fundraiser at a church in Dallas, Texas.
27:45
Speaker 2: And that's the same church that had this depravity, including
27:48
Speaker 2: some degenerate in a leather dog mask on.
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Speaker 16: All fourste our guests, our family to come and join
27:58
Speaker 16: me for a moment, especially the members of the Lonestare
28:01
Speaker 16: Royal Court, the sisters of Perpetrol Indulgence, and members of
28:04
Speaker 16: the Bears. If you were with us this morning, would
28:06
Speaker 16: you just come and join me up the front, and
28:09
Speaker 16: asked the clergy to come down to the front.
28:22
Speaker 2: And thanks to Sarah Gonzalez for bringing us those clips.
28:26
Speaker 2: Now we need some light relief. And here is an
28:28
Speaker 2: actually funny comedian. This is Jerry Seinfeld. And watch how
28:32
Speaker 2: he gracefully dismisses some loser who asks for a selfie
28:37
Speaker 2: pretending to be a fan before getting political about Palestine.
28:41
Speaker 2: Gonna get a selfie?
28:42
Speaker 3: Sure, free Palestine, I don't care about bastline.
28:50
Speaker 2: Joining me now is filmmaker and journalist Army Horowitz. Army,
28:54
Speaker 2: let's start with us efforts to brokor eight peace still
28:57
Speaker 2: between Russia and Ukraine. And it's clear Trump is pulling
29:01
Speaker 2: out all stops to encourage some would say bully President
29:05
Speaker 2: Zelenski to agree to a deal. He's launched an attack
29:09
Speaker 2: on the Ukrainian leader, calling him a dictator without elections
29:13
Speaker 2: and saying he's done a terrible job. And I mean,
29:17
Speaker 2: this has shocked the world, But it shouldn't have shocked them,
29:20
Speaker 2: because if they were paying attention during the election campaign,
29:24
Speaker 2: it was clear that Donald Trump wants an end to
29:27
Speaker 2: this war and he wants to stop sending billions to Ukraine.
29:32
Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Okay, Look, first of all, let me start by saying
29:35
Speaker 9: I said it on this program I've set to public
29:37
Speaker 9: in other places. I've been a firm and solid supporter
29:40
Speaker 9: of the war against Russia by Ukraine and for a
29:44
Speaker 9: variety of reasons. Real quick, the fact we've had this one.
29:48
Speaker 9: This is from a real politic perspective, Right, what if
29:51
Speaker 9: this war has done. It has degraded and in fact
29:54
Speaker 9: almost destroyed the Russian military, degrade almost destroyed the Russian economy.
29:59
Speaker 9: Take our essentially are one of our biggest geopolitical foes
30:03
Speaker 9: off the board for almost a generation. What it's also done,
30:08
Speaker 9: it has made a very clear and important message to China,
30:12
Speaker 9: which says, look, if we're willing to go to the
30:15
Speaker 9: mattresses for Ukraine, which is not as important to us
30:18
Speaker 9: as Taiwan, imagine what we're gonna do for Taiwan. I
30:20
Speaker 9: think China understands that, and I think even more importantly,
30:24
Speaker 9: it has allowed NATO to understand the importance of self
30:28
Speaker 9: reliance and the importance of self defense. I think that's
30:30
Speaker 9: a vital part of the equation. Look what he said.
30:34
Speaker 9: It was outrageous. But I am done condemning Trump for
30:38
Speaker 9: his crazy statements. I've done it before and I've been burned. Okay,
30:43
Speaker 9: he did that with NATO. He said, unhinged things, We're
30:46
Speaker 9: gonna leave NATO. Well, guess what happened. They called them crazy,
30:49
Speaker 9: they called them insane. Well, before he made that statement,
30:53
Speaker 9: the vast majority of NATO countries were not paying their
30:56
Speaker 9: two percent of defense spending. After he made those statements,
31:00
Speaker 9: now the vast majority of those thirty one countries are
31:03
Speaker 9: in fact paying their two percent. Okay, he said, we're
31:06
Speaker 9: going to invade Greenland, right, crazy man, What does this
31:10
Speaker 9: guy say? Well, guess what his point was, Hey, Denmark,
31:14
Speaker 9: you're not doing your job with Greenland. Greenland's an important
31:17
Speaker 9: strategic point. Choke hold o this in the Western Hemisphere,
31:23
Speaker 9: and you are not doing your job with time and
31:26
Speaker 9: money defending and making sure that Chinese and Russian ships
31:31
Speaker 9: and submarines are not crossing compunity, Well guess what they
31:34
Speaker 9: are now. Denmark now is spending more money and time
31:38
Speaker 9: in Greenland. So look, I'm done condemning Trump for crazy things.
31:43
Speaker 9: What do I think is happening here? I think he's
31:45
Speaker 9: playing the heel, right, I think he's trying to bring
31:48
Speaker 9: guten to the negotiating table. Putin has a fear of Trump.
31:52
Speaker 9: Let's be honest. Why is there a fear of Trump?
31:54
Speaker 9: Because actually Trump's record the first time around was supporting Ukraine.
32:00
Speaker 9: For Trump, what did the US give under Barack Obama?
32:05
Speaker 9: They gave them blanket? What did Trump do? He gave
32:07
Speaker 9: them weapons. So he's trying to say to God the look,
32:11
Speaker 9: I'm on your side, you can trust me. I'm down
32:14
Speaker 9: with you. And I think that's ultimately what is needed
32:17
Speaker 9: to end up bropriate peace deal. So let's see what
32:19
Speaker 9: happens before we go crazy.
32:23
Speaker 2: And what's that line from the Art of War? You
32:25
Speaker 2: build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat on something
32:29
Speaker 2: like that, And I think that's part of this entire strategy.
32:33
Speaker 2: But I'm glad you've learned because many other analysts clearly
32:37
Speaker 2: haven't learned about waiting and seeing what the impact of
32:41
Speaker 2: Trump's rehtoric and actions actually are. And in this case,
32:45
Speaker 2: some of that is already apparent. It's been immediate. We've
32:49
Speaker 2: seen a number of European countries being motivated to do more.
32:53
Speaker 2: This is what Donald Trump wants. Within hours of Trump's
32:56
Speaker 2: comments about Zelensky, European countries to Ukraine support promising increased
33:02
Speaker 2: defense and security is spending within Day's army. This is
33:07
Speaker 2: precisely what Donald Trump wants to see.
33:10
Speaker 9: I think people tickle. The Europeans know is reactionary. We
33:16
Speaker 9: don't know what he's going to do. But if that
33:17
Speaker 9: rhetoric that he does which pushes them in the direction
33:21
Speaker 9: he wants them to go, it's all negotiating tactic. It's
33:23
Speaker 9: all about the art of the deal. Yeah, I'm here
33:26
Speaker 9: for it.
33:27
Speaker 2: And Americans have made it clear they don't want to
33:29
Speaker 2: see these forever wars ten years, twenty years. They don't
33:32
Speaker 2: even want to be involved financially in these wars. Now
33:36
Speaker 2: contrasts that to how President Biden made executive decisions that
33:42
Speaker 2: some of them he wasn't anyone aware of. According to
33:46
Speaker 2: Speaker Mike Johnson, have a listen to this story real quickly.
33:49
Speaker 17: Miss President can I ask you a question. I cannot
33:51
Speaker 17: answer this from my constituents in Louisiana.
33:54
Speaker 9: Sir, why did you.
33:55
Speaker 17: Pause llenng exports to Europe? Like I don't understand. You know, look,
34:00
Speaker 17: find natural gas is in great demand by our allies.
34:02
Speaker 17: Why would you do that because you understand we just
34:04
Speaker 17: talked about Ukraine. You understand your fuel in Vladimir Putin's
34:07
Speaker 17: war machine because they got to get their gas from.
34:09
Speaker 6: Him, you know.
34:10
Speaker 17: And he looks at me, stunned with this, and he
34:12
Speaker 17: said I didn't.
34:13
Speaker 6: I didn't do that.
34:14
Speaker 17: And I said, miss President, yes you did. It was
34:17
Speaker 17: an executive order like you know, three weeks ago. And
34:19
Speaker 17: he goes, no, I didn't do that, and he's arguing
34:20
Speaker 17: with me. I said, miss President, respectfully, can I could
34:24
Speaker 17: I go out here and ask your secretary to print
34:26
Speaker 17: it out. We'll read it together. You definitely did that,
34:27
Speaker 17: and he goes, oh, you talk about natural gas? Yes, sir,
34:31
Speaker 17: he said, oh no, did you misunderstand? He said what
34:34
Speaker 17: I did is I signed this thing to We're going
34:36
Speaker 17: to conduct a study on the effects of LERG. I said, no,
34:40
Speaker 17: you're not, sir, you paused it. I know I have
34:42
Speaker 17: the terminal the export terminals in my state. I talked
34:45
Speaker 17: to those people this morning, your this is doing massive
34:48
Speaker 17: damage to our economy, national security.
34:50
Speaker 2: It occurred to me, Barry, he.
34:51
Speaker 6: Was not lying to me.
34:52
Speaker 17: He genuinely did not know what he had signed. And
34:55
Speaker 17: I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing.
34:57
Speaker 2: Will we ever know who was making those decisions during
35:00
Speaker 2: those four years? And again you talk about retorick versus reality.
35:07
Speaker 2: And despite what Donald Trump has said, even during his
35:11
Speaker 2: first term, he was in Europe warning the Germans about
35:14
Speaker 2: becoming reliant on Russian energy, telling them that this was
35:18
Speaker 2: going to cause them issues down the track, and they
35:21
Speaker 2: laughed at him, Army. The contrast between the two leaders
35:25
Speaker 2: could not be greater. Can we just.
35:30
Speaker 9: Let Biden go the long good night? Do we really
35:33
Speaker 9: have to go over all this? Oh the fuck?
35:37
Speaker 12: Yes.
35:38
Speaker 2: I want to know who was making the decisions. I
35:41
Speaker 2: want to know who was ruling the world, who was
35:45
Speaker 2: in the chair as the leader of the free world,
35:47
Speaker 2: Because it appears it wasn't Joe Biden.
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Speaker 9: I want this story to be apocryphal, okay, because it is.
35:54
Speaker 9: It was truth, and I have no reason to doubt
35:56
Speaker 9: Speaker Johnson. It is one of the worst things I
35:59
Speaker 9: have ever heard. The man didn't know that he was
36:03
Speaker 9: pausing natural gas shipments at the US. I mean, that's
36:07
Speaker 9: crazy town if that's true. Look, this is exactly why
36:12
Speaker 9: they You want to know who was in charge. It
36:14
Speaker 9: was a It was doctor Jill Biden, right, the greatest
36:17
Speaker 9: doctor says doctor Pepper and doctor j And it was
36:21
Speaker 9: a cadre of unelected officials that were primarily from the
36:25
Speaker 9: bamadministration who wrung the show. Of course it wasn't Joe Biden.
36:29
Speaker 9: When you're talking about rhetoric versus reality, Biden wasn't living
36:33
Speaker 9: in reality. Are you kidding me? He didn't know reality
36:35
Speaker 9: was Frankly Luita. That's the charitable version of this. The
36:41
Speaker 9: uncharitable version is that, look, he knew exactly what you're
36:45
Speaker 9: saying and exactly what he's doing, and he sees that
36:49
Speaker 9: our energy independence as an evil because he is in
36:53
Speaker 9: the pocket of the Green New Deal people, and he
36:56
Speaker 9: simply wanted to make sure we had no ability to
36:59
Speaker 9: have energy independence ourselves and no way to make money
37:03
Speaker 9: on the stock. Even though the one thing you want
37:06
Speaker 9: to do is you want to decrease again, going back
37:08
Speaker 9: to Ukraine, decrease European dependence on Russian natural gas the
37:13
Speaker 9: only lifeline Russia has. And how do you cut that
37:17
Speaker 9: is by increasing and selling our natural gas to Europe. Look,
37:21
Speaker 9: the whole thing is crazy, anyway, look at it. It's terrible, sad.
37:24
Speaker 2: Gee, let's move on, let's move on. Let's talk about
37:28
Speaker 2: the UK. Our great friend Douglas Murray has written a
37:31
Speaker 2: fantastic piece about a poll that was released this week
37:35
Speaker 2: showing that only forty one percent of young British people,
37:40
Speaker 2: that's young people eighteen to twenty seven felt proud to
37:45
Speaker 2: be British, just forty one percent. And you contrast that
37:49
Speaker 2: to just twenty one years ago, back in two thousand
37:52
Speaker 2: and four, the figure was eighty percent Army and I
37:57
Speaker 2: would think this is not confined to the UK. This
38:01
Speaker 2: is a phenomenon we're seeing in the Western world. And
38:05
Speaker 2: I would argue it's a dangerous phenomenon.
38:09
Speaker 9: Oh, it's not just that dangerous phenomenons. It's the death
38:12
Speaker 9: of Western culture and Western supremacy. If that trend continues,
38:17
Speaker 9: it's incredibly dangerous, it's incredibly awful. And look, Michelle Holdback
38:24
Speaker 9: wrote this phenomenal book called Submission, and it was it
38:27
Speaker 9: was I recommend everyone read. It's about how It was
38:30
Speaker 9: a novel about how Islam took over France, and a
38:35
Speaker 9: large part of that was because there was a lack
38:36
Speaker 9: of French nationalism and the degradation of French nationalism. If
38:40
Speaker 9: you indulge me with two personal stories, I think exemplifies this.
38:43
Speaker 9: If you don't mind read A friend friends of mine,
38:46
Speaker 9: visited it from from England a couple of years ago,
38:48
Speaker 9: and their young daughter remarked to us and to their parents,
38:52
Speaker 9: She's like, I don't understand why there's so many American flags.
38:56
Speaker 9: That she was labrigased by it because the Union Jack
38:59
Speaker 9: is flown nowhere in England. And then another story that
39:03
Speaker 9: I've told before but it bears repeating, is that here
39:07
Speaker 9: in the US, you know, my coffee shop that I
39:09
Speaker 9: go to, like most coffee shops, right left leaning, and
39:13
Speaker 9: during Gay Pride Month, they have the Gay Pride flag up.
39:16
Speaker 9: And during Black History Month and I'm sorry doing Juneteenth,
39:21
Speaker 9: they have a Juneteenth flag up. You don't flag they
39:23
Speaker 9: don't have up during the Fourth of July the American flag. Right,
39:28
Speaker 9: This is a problem we have with the left. The
39:30
Speaker 9: left wants to destroy patriotism because when you destroy patriotism.
39:33
Speaker 9: That's how you are able to remake society in their
39:36
Speaker 9: own warped image. That's the goal, you know. During the
39:40
Speaker 9: Spanish Civil War, Franco remarked, there are five there are
39:44
Speaker 9: four nationalist columns approaching Madrid, and there's a fifth column
39:49
Speaker 9: in Madrid looking to attack from within. That is what
39:53
Speaker 9: the left is. The hard left is a fifth column
39:56
Speaker 9: inside the United States and inside Western because they see
40:01
Speaker 9: hatreotism as a wall against them, buttressing American society and
40:07
Speaker 9: Western society, and they don't like that. They don't want that.
40:11
Speaker 9: The good news is is that Trump he really made
40:14
Speaker 9: massive strides with young people.
40:16
Speaker 6: In this country.
40:17
Speaker 9: We're hoping that gen Z is actually flipping the script
40:21
Speaker 9: and will actually move more toward the Republican column and
40:24
Speaker 9: more toward patriotism. And by the way, there's a fasting
40:27
Speaker 9: article recently in The Atlantic about the youth and said
40:30
Speaker 9: Covid is one of the major reasons why the youth
40:32
Speaker 9: has moved to the right, because they saw their freedoms
40:34
Speaker 9: being taken away and they didn't like it. So I'm
40:37
Speaker 9: hoping there's hope we'll see.
40:42
Speaker 2: Well, let's hype, sorry, I mean, because we said right
40:44
Speaker 2: here in Australia country where every citizen should be proud
40:47
Speaker 2: that so many youngsters have got that anti West sentiment.
40:52
Speaker 2: Before you go, I just want to quickly ask you
40:54
Speaker 2: about this latest executive order we're saying from Donald Trump.
40:58
Speaker 2: He's probably signed more since this one. Yesterday, he signed
41:02
Speaker 2: an order to expand access to IVF and other fertility
41:06
Speaker 2: treatments through the reduction of out of pocket costs. Amy,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure we were told repeatedly throughout the election campaign
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Speaker 2: that Republicans wanted to ban IVF altogether. Obviously that's not
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Speaker 2: the case.
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Speaker 9: No, it's exactly this. You know, this is the trunk
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Speaker 9: Dranger syndrome exemplified right where everybody was out there saying
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Speaker 9: that Trump's against IVF just could take away the ability
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Speaker 9: to have children. The exact ops he telegraphed this. He
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Speaker 9: said he was supporter of IVF, he wanted to do this.
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Speaker 9: It's exactly what it did. Unfortunately, there are a lot
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Speaker 9: of people on the right who are actually condemning this.
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Speaker 9: I think this is an extremely pro life, pro family.
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Speaker 9: I think it's great, I think it's wonderful, and this
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Speaker 9: is how we lose elections.
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Speaker 6: We got to be careful.
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Speaker 2: Mey Horowitz, Thank you so much for your time. Tonight
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Speaker 2: still to come. The latest on Elon Musk's baby dramas a.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey Schofield has the details. Welcome back. Joining me now
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Speaker 2: is celebrity and role commentator Kinsey Schofield Kinsey. Some spicy
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Speaker 2: tweets between Elon Musk and Ashley Saint Clair have been uncovered,
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Speaker 2: following claims from Saint Clair that the pair have had
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Speaker 2: a child together. This would be Elon's thirteenth child. I
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Speaker 2: think the text are a little bit tawdry. Do we
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Speaker 2: have any confirmation yet of what is actually happening here?
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Speaker 8: I mean, you're exactly right.
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Speaker 18: I blush looking at the screen right now at some
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Speaker 18: of those messages, it appears that there's a little bit
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Speaker 18: of fomo going on, and that might be one of
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Speaker 18: the reasons why this is all kind of exploding at
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Speaker 18: this point in time. Imagine being Ashley watching Elon living
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Speaker 18: his best life, sitting next to the President and just
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Speaker 18: kind of I'm sure that she feels a little but
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Speaker 18: excluded after.
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Speaker 8: Creating with him.
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Speaker 18: But Elon, you know, there are rumors he has a
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Speaker 18: child with Amber heard we actually don't even know the
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Speaker 18: total when it comes to Elon and his babies.
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Speaker 2: So thirteen is just a guess, is it? My gosh?
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Speaker 2: That is just yes, well exactly because if there could
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Speaker 2: be any number of baby mammas around the world who
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Speaker 2: are just quietly raising their kids and not speaking with
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Speaker 2: a New York poster. Now, an acquaintance of Ashley Saint
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Speaker 2: Clair has said that the reason why she went public
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Speaker 2: with news of the pair's baby was because Elon Musk
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Speaker 2: had ghosted her on Valentine's Day, and, according to Saint Clair,
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Speaker 2: has been ghosting her ever since. The acquaintance Kylie Kramer
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Speaker 2: made these claims on x She wrote, seems like she
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Speaker 2: wasn't getting what she wanted, was emotional and hurt on
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Speaker 2: Valentine's and decided to parade her crazy on the front porch,
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Speaker 2: thinking people would be sympathetic to her as a victim
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Speaker 2: of a powerful, wealthy man. How reliable is this account
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Speaker 2: because she doesn't seem like too much of a friend
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Speaker 2: with it with those comments.
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Speaker 18: Well, that's a very good point, But I think that
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Speaker 18: she is taking a side that I've seen a lot
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Speaker 18: of females in the Conservative Party take, because these aren't
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Speaker 18: conservative values.
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Speaker 8: To have a baby with.
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Speaker 18: A man that's not your husband, and you know that's
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Speaker 18: just not really the conservative way. So I do think
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Speaker 18: that there is a lot of I don't know, judgment
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Speaker 18: coming from the party when it comes to this woman
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Speaker 18: who's supposed to be a conservative influencer, pushing morals and
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Speaker 18: values and having a strong character, having a baby out
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Speaker 18: of wedlock with one of the most powerful men in
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Speaker 18: the world, and then complaining about it wanting sympathy. You're
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Speaker 18: supposed to be, You're supposed to be somebody that people
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Speaker 18: can look up to as a quote unquote conservative influencer.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's the issue. I don't think that's
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Speaker 2: why they're having a go at her, because from what
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Speaker 2: I understand, she already was a single mumple before this child.
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Speaker 2: I think it's to do with going public. That's where
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Speaker 2: the angst comes from, about seeking attention or trying to
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Speaker 2: make something that should be a private affair into you know,
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Speaker 2: the tabloid news. I think that's where there's a bit
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Speaker 2: of heat. Whether that's fair or unfair is a discussion
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Speaker 2: for another day. Let's talk about one of our favorite
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Speaker 2: topics of the moment, the entire Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds
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Speaker 2: Justin Baldoni catastrophe. A saur s whit attended the recording
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Speaker 2: of Saturday Night Live's fiftieth anniversary show, told TMZ that Blake, Lively,
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Speaker 2: and Ryan Reynolds were the talk of the entire evening.
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Speaker 2: Many of the guests avoided them, and many of the
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Speaker 2: guests were big Hollywood stars, and Blake has shared this
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Speaker 2: intimate moment with alleged comedian Amy Schumer. According to a
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Speaker 2: professional libreader, during this footage, Blake told Schumer, I need
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Speaker 2: this hug so much, before glancing over at her husband,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds and saying, God help me. You're going to
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Speaker 2: be okay. Schumer responded, they're projecting onto him. This saga
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Speaker 2: isn't going to end anytime soon, is it, Kinsey, Because
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Speaker 2: we've got multiple court cases.
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Speaker 18: It's five the last day checked and the joke Ryan
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Speaker 18: Reynolds stands up and makes during the three hour special
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Speaker 18: Saturday Night Live Special, And you see the look on
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Speaker 18: Kevin Castner's face.
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Speaker 8: He's not amused. Kevin Castner.
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Speaker 18: You know, it looks like Kevin Castner thinks that this
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Speaker 18: is in Porteste. But Ryan kind of makes a joke.
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Speaker 18: You heard when asked if he's how he's doing. You know,
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Speaker 18: you don't joke about sexual harassment. And now the reports
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Speaker 18: are that Baldoni's team are just going to.
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Speaker 8: Take that little clip and head on.
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Speaker 18: Over into the courtroom a year from now and utilize
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Speaker 18: that to prove that potentially, you know, this is a
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Speaker 18: contradictory to Blake and Ryan's claim that they have all
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Speaker 18: of this emotional distress over justin Baldoni's behavior on the
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Speaker 18: set of It ends with us.
47:30
Speaker 2: Now, let's turn our attention to Meghan Markol. She's had
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Speaker 2: a rebrand of her lifestyle line. I'm devastated about this, Kinsey,
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Speaker 2: because you know how much I've liked making fun of
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Speaker 2: American Riviera Orchid like the dumbest combination of names you've
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Speaker 2: ever put together. It's like a he gave the task
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Speaker 2: to an eight year old child and said, come up
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Speaker 2: with a fancy name. That's what they would that could
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Speaker 2: come up with. So that's gone. It's now called as ever.
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Speaker 2: But not only has she copied the logo allegedly, but
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Speaker 2: it's now come to light that a boutique in New York,
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Speaker 2: a clothing label, has been operating under that same name
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Speaker 2: for around a decade. Can say this is an ideal.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, they have, and you know they have said we
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Speaker 18: they're begging their followers please help us. We see our
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Speaker 18: digital footprint shrinking with every markll mention.
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Speaker 8: There's real concern there that this.
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Speaker 18: Could jeopardize their business established since twenty thirteen Rita. There's
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Speaker 18: also a professional photography company with the exact same name.
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Speaker 8: Does this woman not own an owner?
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Speaker 18: To do a quick Google search, Megan doesn't even own
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Speaker 18: the trademark yet for this. So you see how she
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Speaker 18: rushes things with little to no due diligence, and it
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Speaker 18: helps you to understand why she was not able to
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Speaker 18: function properly within the structure of the British royal.
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Speaker 8: Family, go by the rules.
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Speaker 18: They you know there are there's protocols in places for
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Speaker 18: a reason, and she just could not function in that structure.
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Speaker 2: No, and never mind the name. We've focused so much
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Speaker 2: on the silly name and now this borrowed name. What
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Speaker 2: is this website actually going to do? Because the last
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Speaker 2: we heard, she'd moved about three jars of strawberry jam,
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Speaker 2: gave them away to some prominent people, but does seemed
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Speaker 2: to be much product or services on offer on this website?
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Speaker 2: So I don't know how much of a lifestyle brand
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Speaker 2: it is yet. Kinsisco, Phil, thanks for your time tonight,
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Speaker 2: and that's it from me. I'll see you at nine
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Speaker 2: pm tomorrow night for Left is Losing it Up. Next
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Speaker 2: is Nis Night.