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The Rita Panahi Show | 13 January · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On Scone wields Australia.
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Speaker 2: This is the winder Panalty Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Patty Show. Great
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Speaker 3: to be back with you. Coming up tonight, Opposition leader
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Speaker 3: Peter Darton promises to cut red tape and green tape
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Speaker 3: to kick up the economy. I'll discuss that and plenty
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Speaker 3: more with Dan Ward also joining me tonight.
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Speaker 1: They always droll.
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Speaker 3: Alex Stein with the Latest from the US, and Kinsisco
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Speaker 3: Field brings us to the latest from Hollywood where celebrities
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Speaker 3: are battling the deadly California fires. And we have an
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Speaker 3: extended edition of Left is Losing It for you before
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Speaker 3: the first ad break, and it features the great Mick
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Speaker 3: Jagger in Canada who was among the very first to
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Speaker 3: learn just how unpopular Justin Trudeau is.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we love your mister Trudeau.
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Speaker 5: I mean his fan has always been such a big
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Speaker 5: fans of our fans.
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Speaker 3: But first fresh polling has revealed a surgeon support for
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Speaker 3: Australia Day being celebrated on January twenty six. Despite the
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Speaker 3: Left's attempts to demonize our national holiday, it continues to
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Speaker 3: enjoy majority support it always has and that support is
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Speaker 3: growing sixty nine percent of Australians agree that Australia Day
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Speaker 3: should be held on January twenty six, compared to sixty
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Speaker 3: three percent in last year's poll commissioned by the Institute
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Speaker 3: of Public Affairs, and this figure includes a ten percent
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Speaker 3: increase in support for the day amongst eighteen to twenty
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Speaker 3: four year olds, an age bracket that typically leans heavily left.
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Speaker 1: Joining me now with more on this is Deputy Executive
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Speaker 1: director of the IPA, Dan Wild. Dan tell me more
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Speaker 1: about what this polling revealed.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Rita, Look what.
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Speaker 6: It shows is that we're getting a surge and support
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Speaker 6: for Australia Day on the twenty sixth of January. As
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Speaker 6: you mentioned, it's being driven by young Australians, those aged
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Speaker 6: eighteen to twenty four, which is really significant. They are
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Speaker 6: rebelling against political correctness. They've had a gutful of it
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Speaker 6: because they've been presented with a very negative, one sided
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Speaker 6: view of our history and our culture at school and
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Speaker 6: at university and they're just over it and they're saying
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Speaker 6: that they want to support the national Day along with
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Speaker 6: the rest of the population. What's so significant about this
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Speaker 6: survey this year region and we've been doing this for
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Speaker 6: seven years now. Is it's the first time that we've
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Speaker 6: had every single age group with majority support of our
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Speaker 6: national Day. It's a very significant moment in our national
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Speaker 6: history and what it shows is that Australia Day is
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Speaker 6: back in a very big way and Australians are over
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Speaker 6: this wokeness, They're over political correctness and I think that we.
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Speaker 4: Just want to get on with it and celebrate our
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Speaker 4: national Day.
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Speaker 3: You know what, Anthony ALBERNEEZI has plenty of criticism, including
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Speaker 3: from me, for the referendum. Nobody wanted the race based referendum,
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Speaker 3: but I wonder whether in the long term is done
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Speaker 3: the country a favor because it's starts to address some
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Speaker 3: of these issues that have been ignored, where the majority
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Speaker 3: opinion was ignored, and now the majority have had their
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Speaker 3: voices heard through the referendum.
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Speaker 1: And they're demanding further changes.
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Speaker 3: They want to get rid of this racial division, this
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Speaker 3: ridiculous agenda that the left is pushing that is just divisive.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you spot on.
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Speaker 6: I think that in hindsight, the referendum was a very
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Speaker 6: good thing for our nation because it did force us
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Speaker 6: to think about, well, what does it mean to be
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Speaker 6: an Australian and so we had to ask these tough
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Speaker 6: questions that often were not asked, and a majority of Australians,
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Speaker 6: a strong majority, said they don't want racial division. And
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Speaker 6: it wasn't just a left right thing. Almost forty percent
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Speaker 6: of those who voted no were labor voters, or forty
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Speaker 6: percent of labor voters voted no, So it was across
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Speaker 6: the political spectrum. And since then what we've seen is
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Speaker 6: a real pushback against the work corporations will Worst backing down,
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Speaker 6: the Australia Venue Company, the pub conglomerate backing down, the
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Speaker 6: UK or the Commissioner to the UK, Stephen Smith backing down.
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Speaker 6: So we've seen this across the board. Sporting codes member
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Speaker 6: Cricket Australia are now coming out and supporting Australia Day.
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Speaker 6: It was only a few years ago that they supported
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Speaker 6: Black Lives Matter and remember when all the cricketers were
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Speaker 6: standing around in a circle of bare feet to take
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Speaker 6: on racial injustice. Now Australia Day is back on the
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Speaker 6: agenda for Cricket Australia. So I think we're seeing a
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Speaker 6: really big energy shift in our nation around our values,
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Speaker 6: our flag and our national day. And I think it's
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Speaker 6: incredibly encouraging.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely Now Peter Darton has revealed his policy agenda for
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Speaker 3: the upcoming election under the banner of get Australia back
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Speaker 3: on track.
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Speaker 1: His promised to lower taxes.
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Speaker 3: And eliminate or at least reduce the red and Green
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Speaker 3: tape that is preventing private enterprises from investing in Australia
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Speaker 3: and getting us out of the cost of lif living
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Speaker 3: crisis is probably the number one issue going into the
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Speaker 3: federal election. Some of these reforms is announced include expediting
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Speaker 3: gas developments, slashing government spending and having approval times.
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Speaker 1: For resource projects.
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Speaker 3: Dan this is all music to my ears, But is
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Speaker 3: this going to be a winning formula going into an
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Speaker 3: election when you've got a first term government. It's unusual
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Speaker 3: for Australians to get rid of a first term government.
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Speaker 6: It is unusual, but it's also an unusually bad government.
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Speaker 6: So I think there's every chance Anthony Ibnezi could lose.
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Speaker 6: If there ever was a government to go down in
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Speaker 6: one term, that would be this one. Of course, in
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Speaker 6: twenty ten, the rad Gillard government almost went down basically.
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Speaker 4: Abbot got them to a draw.
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Speaker 6: I think it'll be something probably fairly similar to that,
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Speaker 6: I think that the agenda that Peter Dutton has outlined
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Speaker 6: is showing very important leadership across a number of areas,
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Speaker 6: including in relation to education where he mentioned the politically
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Speaker 6: driven ideology of our education system, of course is the
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Speaker 6: energy system and nuclear power. So I think it's very encouraging.
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Speaker 6: What I would say is the coalition needs to take a.
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Speaker 4: Bit more risk.
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Speaker 6: They can get over the line, but they're going to
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Speaker 6: need to take more risks, particularly around migration. Their migration
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Speaker 6: policy is a good policy, but they need to go
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Speaker 6: a bit further with that, and I also think they
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Speaker 6: need to show now they need to tell Australians well,
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Speaker 6: what are you going to get on day one? What
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Speaker 6: are you going to get on day one of a government?
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Speaker 6: To ease the cost of living, to rain back on migration,
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Speaker 6: and to help achieve social cohesion. Those are the three
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Speaker 6: big issues. So I think in terms of the unofficial
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Speaker 6: start of the campaign, it's a very good start and
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Speaker 6: hopefully they build on this by having a bit more
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Speaker 6: ambition as we head towards the actual election, which will
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Speaker 6: probably be late March early April.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think that is fantastic advice to have some
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Speaker 3: courage conservatives need to have courage and need to be
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Speaker 3: clear in articulating their message, and there are policies that
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Speaker 3: are just easy for conservatives to explain to the electorate
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Speaker 3: where they will have overwhelming majority support. A lot of
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Speaker 3: those are the so called cultural war issues, something that
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump capitalized on, and you'd love to see that
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Speaker 3: locally you have a political leader come out and say
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Speaker 3: clearly that women deserve to have their own spaces. We
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Speaker 3: know what a woman is, we know what a man is,
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Speaker 3: and men don't belong in women's sport.
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Speaker 1: These are simple statements that.
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Speaker 3: The overwhelming majority of the country agree with, but certainly
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Speaker 3: in states like Victoria, you've got both the liberals and
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Speaker 3: the labor government on the same side of the activist
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Speaker 3: who may represent maybe ten percent of the population. And
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Speaker 3: talking about Victoria, there's been a damning report by energy
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Speaker 3: expert Professor Paul Simschauser who's warning that Victoria's renewables push
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Speaker 3: is going to see demand outweighing renewable energy supply by
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Speaker 3: more than thirty percent this coming winter, which could make
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Speaker 3: Victoria's power devices even more expensive. And of course you've
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Speaker 3: also got the risk of blackouts there.
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Speaker 6: Dan, Yeah, well, there will be blackhoats if those numbers
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Speaker 6: are correct. And you know what we've what we've seen, now,
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Speaker 6: what was I mean, We've been warning about this for years,
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Speaker 6: you know, I mean we've been how long we've been
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Speaker 6: talking about this issue, which is you know, Victoria is
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Speaker 6: ground zero for net zero. They've gone faster and harder
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Speaker 6: than any other state with this climate zealotry. And it's
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Speaker 6: got to be said that the Liberals have been as
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Speaker 6: bad as labor, sometimes worse than labor on energy policy.
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Speaker 6: And this is what happens when you get rid of
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Speaker 6: your baselow power supplies, which is coal. You know, coal
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Speaker 6: and gas is what gives you the capacity to operate
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Speaker 6: an energy system twenty four to seven, three sixty five
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Speaker 6: days a year, rain, hail, or shine, and you replace
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Speaker 6: it with weather dependent, intermittent energy supplies from wind and solar.
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Speaker 6: Of course, you're going to have these problems. It's totally predictable.
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Speaker 6: I just don't understand for the life of me, while
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Speaker 6: we keep going down this path. Obviously, this was always
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Speaker 6: going to happen, and I think what we need it's
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Speaker 6: just a common sense energy policy.
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Speaker 4: Sure, if you want to have.
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Speaker 6: Some wind and solar where it's sensible, Go do that,
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Speaker 6: but you're going to have to have at least eighty
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Speaker 6: percent of your energy system based on coal or gas,
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Speaker 6: or in certain circumstances, hydro where it makes sense. Otherwise
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Speaker 6: you're going to have high prices and blackout risks. So look,
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Speaker 6: the chickens are now coming home to roost the very
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Speaker 6: bad policy decisions that have been taken over the past
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Speaker 6: decade plus.
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Speaker 3: Now, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has
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Speaker 3: told its employees that it will be dismantling its DEI
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Speaker 3: that's a diversity, equity and Inclusion team due to a
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Speaker 3: shift in the legal and policy landscape in the US,
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Speaker 3: announcing that it doesn't want there to be any impression
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Speaker 3: that people were being hired based on race, or gender
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Speaker 3: or other diversity factors. A Meta Australia spokesperson has told
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Speaker 3: The Australian Financial Review that the company's new mantra is
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Speaker 3: to create a cognitively diverse workforce. We will always value
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Speaker 3: teams with differences in knowledge, skills, political views, backgrounds, perspectives
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Speaker 3: and experiences, the company has said dan this is another
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Speaker 3: impact of the Trump landslide. These companies know that these
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Speaker 3: policies are discrimination. You might call it positive discrimination, reverse discrimination,
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Speaker 3: but it's just discrimination. And you're basically saying that other
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Speaker 3: factors other than merit are going to get people over
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Speaker 3: the line to get that coveted job.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 6: I mean, there's something positive about discrimination. I've never understood
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Speaker 6: the term positive discrimination. It's sort of a weasel word
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Speaker 6: that they used to use to get away with it,
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Speaker 6: you know. I mean, firstly, this is an admission that
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Speaker 6: Facebook has been doing that, that they have been meta
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Speaker 6: have been discriminating based on political views and based on
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Speaker 6: characteristics like race, ethnicity, or gender. And you shouldn't do
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Speaker 6: that as a company. Now, if you want to be
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Speaker 6: discerning in terms of skills and knowledge, of course you
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Speaker 6: can do that as a company, but you shouldn't be
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Speaker 6: doing it based on political views. But I think this
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Speaker 6: is an incredibly important development. I welcome it and encourage it,
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Speaker 6: and I hope more corporates go down this path because
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Speaker 6: we're all fed up with this diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Speaker 6: People should be hired on their capacity to make a
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Speaker 6: contribution and to do a good job, regardless of their background.
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Speaker 6: That's one of the basic fundamentals of our society. I
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Speaker 6: think that you're right that this is the Trump effect,
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Speaker 6: and it certainly he's not even president yet, he's President
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Speaker 6: elects and they're already starting to change their corporate policy.
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Speaker 6: So I really hope we start to see this in Australia.
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Speaker 6: We should hire based on merit, not based on any
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Speaker 6: other characteristics. So you know, I think this is a
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Speaker 6: very welcomed and positive development.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and again this can be something our conservative politicians
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Speaker 3: are both at state and federal level, could emprace because
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Speaker 3: I think it would enjoy enormous popularity. Most people do
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Speaker 3: not like these sort of policies being instituted in their
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Speaker 3: workplaces or anywhere else. Staying in the US, Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: has lashed at at California Governor Gavin Newsom and la
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Speaker 3: met Karen Bass over the states lack of preparedness for
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Speaker 3: the catastrophic wildfires ravaging the state. Trump wrote on truth
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Speaker 3: Cecial the fires are still raging in LA, then competent politicians.
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Speaker 1: Have no idea how to put them out.
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Speaker 3: This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history
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Speaker 3: of our country. They just can't put out the fires.
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Speaker 3: What's wrong with them? Dan There has clearly been massive
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Speaker 3: failure here with forest management, water management, with properly resourcing
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Speaker 3: the fire department, those deipolicies we spoke about. They seem
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Speaker 3: to be preoccupied with that rather than actually being prepared
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Speaker 3: to fight these fires. And it's California, They're always going
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Speaker 3: to have wildfires or bushfires as we call them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 6: I mean, look, nobody cares about the color or the
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Speaker 6: gender of a firefighter, right. They want the fire put
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Speaker 6: out and they want to be kept safe. You know,
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Speaker 6: there's always going to be challenges no matter how hard
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Speaker 6: you work, some fires can get out of control. But
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Speaker 6: clearly this has been widespreading competence. As you mentioned, I
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Speaker 6: don't understand how they can't have enough water. I mean,
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Speaker 6: how is that possible? Don't have enough water coming out
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Speaker 6: the fire hydrants. That's just unbelievable that that could happen.
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Speaker 6: But that's what happens when you have a state that's
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Speaker 6: run based on woke identity politics rather than based on
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Speaker 6: actually dealing with the issues that people are concerned with.
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Speaker 6: What I have found so fascinating is I don't think
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Speaker 6: anyone of any sort of credibility has really blamed these
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Speaker 6: bush fires on climate change. You know, I know there's
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Speaker 6: probably a couple of academics out there that have done it,
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Speaker 6: but I already think the debate is starting to change
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Speaker 6: around climate change as well. More and more people understand
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Speaker 6: that it's to do with preparing the ground. So you
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Speaker 6: need to have proper burnoffs and native vegetation management and
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Speaker 6: so forth, which often you can't do because of the
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Speaker 6: red and Green tape. You've got to have the reservoirs
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Speaker 6: which are for You've got to have fire access and
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Speaker 6: road access to deal with these things. So, you know,
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Speaker 6: I really hope people stay safe, and I know there's
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Speaker 6: over twenty casualties so far and I hope that doesn't climb.
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Speaker 6: But in terms of the politics of it, it sort
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Speaker 6: of feels like the debate has changed around climate change
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Speaker 6: as well. When look, I think that's going to be
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Speaker 6: a positive development as well, and.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully again that feeds through to Australia because we've got
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Speaker 3: the exact same issues. We've got people in the bush
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Speaker 3: who say there's no back burning happening, the fuel loads
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Speaker 3: are out of control, and when a fire does come,
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Speaker 3: it's going to burn more intensely than it should. It's
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Speaker 3: going to be harder to put out. So we've got
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Speaker 3: those exact same issues here, Dan, and let's just hope
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Speaker 3: that we're learning from what's happening in California.
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Speaker 1: Dan Wile, thank you so much for your time this evening.
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Speaker 1: Now it's time for.
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Speaker 3: Lefties losing it, and we have so much content. The
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Speaker 3: lefties have been extra crazy over the Christmas break, so
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Speaker 3: get ready for a barrage of woke lunacy. Let's start
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Speaker 3: in Canada, where the neo Marxist timbo himself, Justin Trudeau
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Speaker 3: finally realized how loathe he is and he is stepping down.
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Speaker 3: I wonder if over the last few months there were
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Speaker 3: any clues to his unpopularity.
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Speaker 1: Take it away, rock legend, Mick Jagger, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean we love your mister Trudeau.
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Speaker 6: I mean his fan has always been such big fans
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Speaker 6: about fanis.
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Speaker 3: By the way, congratulations on the Canadian socer team.
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Speaker 7: In the.
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Speaker 3: Very skillful of MiG there to just quickly change the
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Speaker 3: topic to soccer as the Rolling Stones, I don't think
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Speaker 3: are too used to hearing booing at their concerts.
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Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau was a media darling.
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Speaker 3: The picture perfect progressive male feminist. But the people in
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Speaker 3: Canada have finally seen through him. He has caused untold
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Speaker 3: damage to the country.
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Speaker 1: And Canadians are no longer shy about.
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Speaker 3: Confronting him, whether it's in the streets or in a diner.
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Speaker 8: Mister Prime Minister, please get the PC.
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Speaker 4: Have a wonderful day, man, you zuck.
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Speaker 3: Now, many deranged folks have been utterly broken by Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: And there are also those who we once thought were
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Speaker 3: sane and mildly intelligent who have allowed TDS trumped arrangement
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Speaker 3: syndrome to completely destroy their standing among thinking people.
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Speaker 1: And no man better.
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Speaker 3: Demonstrates that than Sam Harris, a member of the intellectual
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Speaker 3: Dark Web.
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Speaker 1: Remember that, but turns out he's just a massive hysteric.
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Speaker 3: Here's Sam Harris, who's now a ballistic expert, apparently embarrasses
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Speaker 3: himself by questioning whether Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: Was actually shot.
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Speaker 3: Even fellow TEDS sufferer Bill Maher was left shaking his head.
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Speaker 9: I'm surprised that a rifle round making any degree of
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Speaker 9: contact with an ear wouldn't do more damage. I think
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Speaker 9: I think a shattered piece of shrapnel from a teleprompter
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Speaker 9: was far more likely to have done that to his
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Speaker 9: ear than a rifle round. It's so silly well, he said,
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Speaker 9: if you said, what rifle rounds doing the human bodies?
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Speaker 9: I know, but like if it just hit it by
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Speaker 9: the slightest possible degree, it just you know, it makes
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Speaker 9: much more sense. The guy behind, No, but I do
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Speaker 9: know there's no question there are rifle rounds. Fine, I
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Speaker 9: mean someone was killed. I'm not debating that at all.
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Speaker 1: He acknowledges that Corey actually died.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what an absolute descries Sam Harris's these days.
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Speaker 1: And if you think I'm being too hot on him,
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Speaker 1: remember this from.
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Speaker 3: A couple of years ago when he said he didn't
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Speaker 3: even care if Hunter Biden had dead bodies in his basement.
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Speaker 1: This guys deranged, I mean Hunter Biden.
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Speaker 9: At that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the
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Speaker 9: corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared.
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Speaker 3: Right now, I'm going to bring you plenty on the
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Speaker 3: suicidally stupid lefty policies that have devastated California and Hamstrong
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Speaker 3: the ability of firefighters to fight fires. But first let's
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Speaker 3: checking on a typical Californian lefters somehow finds a way
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Speaker 3: to blame Donald Trump for the fire response in a
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Speaker 3: state where the Democrats enjoy a supermajority, so we should.
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Speaker 1: Have seen this coming.
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Speaker 5: Instead of reaching out with compassion to the people in
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Speaker 5: my city, Los Angeles for losing everything and the fires,
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Speaker 5: miserable Trump and his cronies are politicizing it, of course,
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Speaker 5: for their own advantage. They're blaming Gavin Newson. They're blaming
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Speaker 5: the Democrats. Funny, he doesn't blame the Red States for
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Speaker 5: hurricanes and tornadoes and floods. No, he's a miserable man
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Speaker 5: out for his own good. And by the way, he
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Speaker 5: doesn't live in climate change.
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Speaker 1: It's a hoax.
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Speaker 5: So you know what we are in big trouble.
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Speaker 1: Where do you start.
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Speaker 3: Well, the difference between hurricanes and tornadoes and fires is
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Speaker 3: you can't cause a hurricane or tornado or fight a
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Speaker 3: hurricane or tornado. You can only do a stella rescue
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Speaker 3: and recovery job.
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Speaker 1: Which Ron de Santa's and others like him managed to do.
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Speaker 3: But you can do plenty to prevent the severity of fires,
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Speaker 3: like managing the fuel loads, a forest management, water management,
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Speaker 3: having a well resourced fire department plenty. Well, we'll speak
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Speaker 3: about that a little bit later, but first let's check
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Speaker 3: in on just how violently deranged the left have become
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Speaker 3: where they literally defend and indeed celebrate murder on the streets.
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Speaker 10: So the CEO of the multi billion dollar you know
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Speaker 10: I did healthcare insurance company was shot and killed this
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Speaker 10: morning in New York City. And I will say that
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Speaker 10: it is it is pretty tragic that the shooter was
20:09
Speaker 10: only able to get one of them.
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Speaker 4: But it's a good start. I mean, it's a good,
20:13
Speaker 4: good foundation. Good. We can only only move up from here.
20:17
Speaker 4: And before any of you come at me with oh
20:19
Speaker 4: my god, I can't believe you'd say that, go for yourself. Seriously,
20:23
Speaker 4: go for yourself.
20:25
Speaker 3: Now, bring you worrying news about Rosie O'Donnell, who's teds
20:29
Speaker 3: maybe causing an outbreak off herpes.
20:33
Speaker 8: And look what I have on my lip. Everybody's been
20:35
Speaker 8: saying you have herpes, You have herpes all this time.
20:38
Speaker 8: And I never had a cold sore in my life,
20:41
Speaker 8: and now I have a cold soar, and it makes
20:43
Speaker 8: me think that perhaps this weird pimple that had a
20:46
Speaker 8: tiny little head was a cold soar too.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know.
20:49
Speaker 8: I will let you know tomorrow if I do in
20:51
Speaker 8: fact have herpes. As some of the taunting from the
20:55
Speaker 8: MEGA people in the last.
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Speaker 11: Couple uh of weeks.
21:00
Speaker 8: Hasn't it been fun, ladies and gentlemen, to be standing
21:03
Speaker 8: in direct opposition to everything he is and represents and
21:10
Speaker 8: always happened and always will be.
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Speaker 1: She's right. The feud with President Donald Trump goes a
21:18
Speaker 1: long way back, years and years. You might remember this
21:21
Speaker 1: from twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 12: You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slavs,
21:28
Speaker 12: and disgusting animals.
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Speaker 1: Your Twitter account.
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Speaker 9: Only rosio o'donald, No, it.
21:35
Speaker 1: Wasn't your Twitter account.
21:45
Speaker 3: Now, let's check in with leftist Supreme Court Justice Katanji
21:49
Speaker 3: Brown Jackson. She's now made her Broadway debut, yes, in
21:54
Speaker 3: a production called Anne Juliet, which is a queer twist.
21:58
Speaker 1: On Romeo and Juliet. Of course it is female empowerment sick.
22:11
Speaker 1: I like it too.
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Speaker 5: I think what I like about it is that I
22:14
Speaker 5: am having it very strongly negative reaction to it, like
22:18
Speaker 5: I hate it, which.
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Speaker 3: Makes me think it must be Oh, you'll remember that's
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Speaker 3: the woman who didn't know what a woman was. She
22:25
Speaker 3: thought you had to have a biology degree to answer
22:28
Speaker 3: that question.
22:30
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next next clip.
22:32
Speaker 3: It's pretty incredible and if you want to see the decay,
22:35
Speaker 3: the lawlessness that exists in parts of America. Then this
22:38
Speaker 3: clip demonstrates it perfectly. Here you have thieves threatening to
22:44
Speaker 3: call the cops on the storekeeper if he doesn't open
22:47
Speaker 3: the doors so they can take their loot home.
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Speaker 1: Open.
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Speaker 13: Okay there, glhead Cola.
23:28
Speaker 3: The sense of entitlement is off the charts. Let's look
23:32
Speaker 3: at a new Netflix program. I think this is a
23:35
Speaker 3: movie that looks like it was made by the jokesters
23:38
Speaker 3: at Babylon B. This is a true story. This is
23:42
Speaker 3: not something they've made up. But I've got to say,
23:46
Speaker 3: as lefties often do, they will destroy the telling of
23:49
Speaker 3: this important story with their usual self delight and idiocy.
23:53
Speaker 3: This is a movie called six Triple eight starring Oprah's president.
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Speaker 8: This is Simon is proven to be legistical nightmare.
24:03
Speaker 1: The women's you mean the white women's, Amy col.
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Speaker 12: They did not send us because they thought we could
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Speaker 12: do it.
24:16
Speaker 4: We are here because.
24:18
Speaker 1: They are sure we cannot.
24:20
Speaker 3: Now to this attention saking victim who is complaining about
24:24
Speaker 3: a wine tasting at a castle because he was misgendered again, our.
24:30
Speaker 7: Server said yes, sir, when I was asking some questions,
24:34
Speaker 7: and I said, oh no, no, no, I'm actually not
24:36
Speaker 7: a sir. And instead of apologizing or I don't know
24:39
Speaker 7: what else you would do other than apologize, they just
24:42
Speaker 7: walked away, did not acknowledge what I said, just walked away.
24:46
Speaker 7: We saw the server like whispering to a manager, and
24:48
Speaker 7: a few minutes later the manager came over in a
24:51
Speaker 7: really big smile, not acknowledging at all that the misgender
24:54
Speaker 7: had happened. And I say, hey, look, the last person
24:57
Speaker 7: they misgendered me and that really hurt. And they just
25:00
Speaker 7: walked away, and the manager said, oh, well, some people
25:03
Speaker 7: just aren't as progressive as you. And then they gave
25:05
Speaker 7: us a nice little chocolate that suggested they wanted our
25:08
Speaker 7: money but didn't want to say sorry. So we left
25:10
Speaker 7: and got a full refund.
25:12
Speaker 1: So they annoyed.
25:13
Speaker 3: The servers got a free meal, and they're still complaining.
25:17
Speaker 3: Let's go back to the devastating California fives and that
25:20
Speaker 3: DEI madness that has afflicted the estate, the far left
25:24
Speaker 3: Democrat stronghold of California, where the LA Fire Department Assistant
25:29
Speaker 3: Chief Christine Larson has made statements like this. When we
25:32
Speaker 3: talk about woke lunacy, folks, this.
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Speaker 1: Is what we mean.
25:36
Speaker 14: You want to see somebody that responds to your house,
25:39
Speaker 14: your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call,
25:42
Speaker 14: that looks like you. It gives that person a little
25:45
Speaker 14: bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.
25:49
Speaker 14: Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't
25:51
Speaker 14: carry my husband out of a fire, which my response
25:54
Speaker 14: is he got himself from the wrong place. If I
25:55
Speaker 14: have to carry him out of a fire.
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Speaker 1: Where does one start.
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Speaker 3: I don't care if zero point five percent of firefighters
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Speaker 3: a female. The last thing I and I think any
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Speaker 3: sane person cares about if face with a deadly fire,
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Speaker 3: is the diversity of those who are rescuing me.
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Speaker 1: Can you believe she actually said there?
26:18
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if she can't carry a man to
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Speaker 3: safety because he shouldn't have got himself in the wrong place.
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Speaker 1: That's the attitude we've got in the fire department.
26:28
Speaker 3: Now, let's check in with la Mayor Karen Bass, who
26:31
Speaker 3: had these words of comfort for her constituents after returning
26:35
Speaker 3: from an overseas junkard.
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Speaker 15: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while
26:39
Speaker 15: their homes were burning? Do you regret coming the fire
26:43
Speaker 15: department budget by millions of dollars, Madam, there have you
26:48
Speaker 15: nothing to say today that? Have you absolutely nothing to
26:53
Speaker 15: say to the citizens today? Elon Mosk says that you're
26:57
Speaker 15: utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position, madam mayor have
27:04
Speaker 15: you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who
27:07
Speaker 15: are dealing with this disaster?
27:12
Speaker 16: Now?
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Speaker 3: She promised she will not use her position for these
27:15
Speaker 3: overseas trips, but she was gallivanting around Ghana when the
27:19
Speaker 3: fires started. But the lefties are turning on each other
27:23
Speaker 3: in California, here is La Fire Chief Chris and Cally
27:27
Speaker 3: admitting that she has been failed by the City of
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Speaker 3: Los Angeles.
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Speaker 5: Does the City of Los Angeles fail you and your
27:33
Speaker 5: department and our city?
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Speaker 12: It's my job to stand up as a chief and
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Speaker 12: exactly say justifiably what the fire department needs to operate
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Speaker 12: to meet the demands of the community.
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Speaker 17: Did they fail you?
27:46
Speaker 12: That is our job and I tell you that's why
27:48
Speaker 12: I'm here. So let's get us what we need so
27:50
Speaker 12: firefighters can do their jobs.
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Speaker 1: Do they fail you?
27:54
Speaker 6: Yes?
27:55
Speaker 3: Still to come, they always roll. Alex Stein joins me
27:58
Speaker 3: with the latest from the US AS, including increasing pressure
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Speaker 3: on Donald Trump to release all of the January six prisoners,
28:11
Speaker 3: you're watching the Rita Panicky Show. Joining me now is
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Speaker 3: comedian and host of Prime Time with Alex Stein on
28:17
Speaker 3: Blaze TV. Alex Stein, he is my second favorite Texan
28:22
Speaker 3: in the world.
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Speaker 1: Alex.
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Speaker 3: Let's start with jd Vance, the incoming Vice president, has
28:28
Speaker 3: said that Donald Trump will issue pardons for peaceful.
28:31
Speaker 1: January six protesters only. Is that enough?
28:35
Speaker 3: Should every January sixth prisoner now be released. They've been
28:39
Speaker 3: behind bars for several years.
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Speaker 4: Reader they should all be pardoned on day one.
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Speaker 17: This is something that I'm very passionate about because there
28:48
Speaker 17: was a lot of bad actors play that day, and
28:51
Speaker 17: there's people that were pushed in there that didn't even
28:54
Speaker 17: know what they were doing, and there was a lot
28:55
Speaker 17: of bad actors. And if Donald Trump does not pardon them,
28:58
Speaker 17: because what it comes down to is whether they acted
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Speaker 17: bad or not. Nobody that had a trial in Washington,
29:04
Speaker 17: DC had a fair trial.
29:06
Speaker 4: All of the trials were rigged against them.
29:09
Speaker 17: So because of that, because they weren't on a level
29:11
Speaker 17: playing field legally, and nothing was fair when it came
29:13
Speaker 17: to the legal system, they all deserve a pardon, even
29:16
Speaker 17: if they did something that would be considered violent. Because
29:20
Speaker 17: none of them got a fair shake. So Donald Trump
29:23
Speaker 17: has to do that, not just on day one, but
29:25
Speaker 17: it has to get done very fast. People will give them,
29:28
Speaker 17: the cabinets some time to get this done, but it
29:31
Speaker 17: has to be done, and it needs to be a
29:33
Speaker 17: high priority, probably the most important priority.
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Speaker 3: This is a big issue for a lot of Donald
29:41
Speaker 3: Trump's supporters. This is something the media doesn't seem to understand.
29:45
Speaker 3: This is not a secondary issue. The lawfare that has
29:50
Speaker 3: taken place in that country, not just against President Trump,
29:54
Speaker 3: but also against his supporters, against conservatives.
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Speaker 1: That was a big issue in the election campaign.
30:01
Speaker 3: And I think the supporters of Donald Trump expect to
30:04
Speaker 3: see actions now. He's talked a big game and they
30:08
Speaker 3: now want to want to see him follow through with
30:10
Speaker 3: some of those promises.
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Speaker 17: You're exactly right, and he has to, I mean cash Mattel.
30:16
Speaker 17: A lot of people in the cabinet. They know that
30:19
Speaker 17: nobody got a fair shake, and they know that a
30:20
Speaker 17: lot of people's lives are ruined and just you know,
30:22
Speaker 17: having the Department of Justice weaponize against American citizen.
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Speaker 4: Trump knows that the Department of.
30:27
Speaker 17: Justice was weaponized against him, So he should be more
30:30
Speaker 17: empathetic than anybody when it comes to January sixth, and
30:33
Speaker 17: all those people were there because you know, they didn't
30:35
Speaker 17: trust the election. And it's not Donald Trump's fault, but
30:38
Speaker 17: I think that he can make it better and rectify it,
30:40
Speaker 17: and he should use his power to do so.
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Speaker 3: Now there are reports that President Joe Biden, he's still president.
30:48
Speaker 1: Is going to issue a preemptive.
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Speaker 3: Pardon for some of Donald Trump's enemies. He gave his
30:55
Speaker 3: son Hunter sort of a preemptive one. He cleared of
31:00
Speaker 3: all the charges he was facing in any charges he
31:03
Speaker 3: may face, and this suggestions he might provide something similar
31:08
Speaker 3: to the vice chairwoman of the January sixth Committee, Liz Cheney,
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Speaker 3: What do you think about that?
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Speaker 17: I mean, when it comes to Liz Cheney, this guy's
31:19
Speaker 17: letting people out of Guntanamo obey.
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Speaker 4: I mean, there's nobody that Joe Biden won't pardon.
31:23
Speaker 17: So the fact that he's going to pardon Liz Cheney,
31:26
Speaker 17: I don't even care. You know, he's literally partnering some
31:29
Speaker 17: of the most evil people in the world. So Liz
31:31
Speaker 17: Cheney doesn't even move the scale in my opinion, and.
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Speaker 3: The number of people he is using his pardon powers
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Speaker 3: for is astonishing. We might look at that later in
31:43
Speaker 3: the week, but some would say he's abusing that privilege. Well,
31:48
Speaker 3: he's certainly abusing it in the people he's selecting to pardon.
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Speaker 3: Special Counsel Jack Smith. I want to talk to you
31:54
Speaker 3: about him, Alex. He's the man who was at the
31:57
Speaker 3: forefront of the witch hunt against Donald Trump. He has
32:01
Speaker 3: now resigned from the Department of Justice after submitting his
32:04
Speaker 3: final report yesterday. Donald Trump has reacted to his resignation.
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Speaker 3: He said that Smith was fired. He wrote on truth
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Speaker 3: Social Deranged. Jack Smith was fired today by the DOJ.
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Speaker 3: He is a disgrace to himself, his family, and his country.
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Speaker 3: After spending over one hundred million on the witch hunt
32:25
Speaker 3: against Trump, he left town empty handed. And let's have
32:29
Speaker 3: a listen to what incoming FBI Chief Cash Patel had
32:33
Speaker 3: to say about Smith.
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Speaker 2: A little while ago, the judge just unsealed documents in
32:38
Speaker 2: the Jack Smith case down in Florida, which says the
32:42
Speaker 2: prosecutors themselves have admitted to tampering with evidence, to moving
32:46
Speaker 2: the very boxes from one location outside of DC to
32:51
Speaker 2: South Florida before they ever even charged Donald Trump. How
32:54
Speaker 2: in the world can you not be prosecuting and charging
32:58
Speaker 2: these constitutional gangers that are at DOJ, and they learn
33:01
Speaker 2: it from the same place, the top downs, the same ags,
33:05
Speaker 2: the same decks, the same FBI directors who are cheering
33:07
Speaker 2: them on. Judge Cannon should be implementing actual contempt proceedings
33:12
Speaker 2: against Jack Smith and the Department of Justice, flying to
33:15
Speaker 2: a federal judge and withholding evidence of exclusion and innocence.
33:20
Speaker 4: From Donald Trump.
33:21
Speaker 2: Those contempt proceedings would be righteous and I'd like to
33:23
Speaker 2: see those. Maybe we could put Jack Smith in prison.
33:27
Speaker 1: Wow, that's Cash Ptel on the Benny Show.
33:30
Speaker 3: What do you think, Alex Should Jack Smith end up
33:34
Speaker 3: behind Boz?
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Speaker 17: I mean, honestly, I don't disagree with anything that Cash said.
33:39
Speaker 17: I mean, these people have weaponized our Department of Justice
33:42
Speaker 17: or what we call the Department of Injustice against American
33:45
Speaker 17: citizens and the top American citizen, Donald Trump, and he
33:48
Speaker 17: hasn't gotten a fair shake.
33:49
Speaker 4: And that's why you could say that.
33:51
Speaker 17: You know, his first term and the presidency was constantly
33:55
Speaker 17: plagued by people like this attacking him and going after him,
33:59
Speaker 17: trying to impede.
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Speaker 4: So people like this need to learn their lesson.
34:02
Speaker 17: I don't know if they will actually prosecute them but
34:05
Speaker 17: people need to stop messing with Donald Trump and try
34:07
Speaker 17: to help him make this country great again. I mean,
34:10
Speaker 17: California is on fire, we're having terrorist attacks, everybody's worried
34:14
Speaker 17: for their lives readA. And that's not really just an
34:16
Speaker 17: over exaggeration.
34:17
Speaker 4: America.
34:18
Speaker 17: We're just everything shifted and everybody's expecting something big to happen,
34:22
Speaker 17: and we need these people to all come together, whether
34:25
Speaker 17: they're liberal, it doesn't matter if they're conservative and support
34:28
Speaker 17: the president. He's been elected in my opinion, three times
34:31
Speaker 17: in a row, and definitely two times, so he deserves
34:33
Speaker 17: America's respect, and people like Jack Smith see you later.
34:37
Speaker 4: I would not want to switch positions with you right now.
34:41
Speaker 3: Yes, the rubbish is taking itself out, but I think
34:44
Speaker 3: you'd be naive to think the swamp, the bureaucracy, whatever
34:49
Speaker 3: you want to call them, are going to say the
34:52
Speaker 3: president has a mandate and we're going to implement his policies.
34:56
Speaker 3: I think they're going to do everything that can straight
35:00
Speaker 3: his agenda, to undermine him, to white hand him. But
35:04
Speaker 3: I think this time around you're going to get a
35:06
Speaker 3: very different Donald Trump. He's aware of what they're going
35:10
Speaker 3: to do, and I think he's going to going there
35:13
Speaker 3: fully equipped to deal with that bureaucracy, let's hope. So
35:17
Speaker 3: there is a little bit of conflict within the MAGA
35:19
Speaker 3: camp though, and it's continuing. Steve Bannon has slashed out
35:24
Speaker 3: at Elon Musk, calling him evil. His slammed musk support
35:30
Speaker 3: for the skilled worker visa program, which Silicon Valley loves,
35:36
Speaker 3: and he said that he's planning to limit Musk's ability
35:39
Speaker 3: to influence Donald Trump's agenda. He said, why do we
35:43
Speaker 3: have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white
35:46
Speaker 3: South Africans making any comments at all on what goes
35:49
Speaker 3: on in the United States, He told an Italian newspaper,
35:54
Speaker 3: and he said, also.
35:55
Speaker 1: Elon Musk should go back to South Africa.
35:57
Speaker 4: Wow.
35:58
Speaker 3: Is this causing many waves within the Trump camp? Or
36:03
Speaker 3: are you always going to have some level of disagreement
36:07
Speaker 3: even if it's a robust disagreement when you've got such
36:11
Speaker 3: a big majority of people with different world views who
36:14
Speaker 3: are fundamentally part of the Trump agenda, But they're not
36:19
Speaker 3: going to agree on every topic every time.
36:23
Speaker 17: No, you know, I don't want to go as far
36:25
Speaker 17: as Steve ben and say that we need to deport
36:28
Speaker 17: Elon Musk, but a lot of conservatives have always been
36:30
Speaker 17: kind of a little bit more wary of Elon because
36:33
Speaker 17: you know, he's into neurallink, where he wants to hook
36:35
Speaker 17: a computer up to your brain, and you know, to us,
36:38
Speaker 17: that just seems kind of weird to normal human beings
36:41
Speaker 17: that they're going to have a computer hooks to their
36:43
Speaker 17: brain so they can park their tesla and listen.
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Speaker 4: Elon Musk has done so many great things when it
36:47
Speaker 4: comes to free speech on X.
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Speaker 17: I love Elon Musk, but at the same time, you know,
36:51
Speaker 17: he is a immigrant in our country and he's calling
36:55
Speaker 17: the shots, some really important shots, So I think that
36:57
Speaker 17: just makes people always skeptic call of you know, the
37:01
Speaker 17: people that are in power. But honestly, when it comes
37:04
Speaker 17: to Elon muss as long as he keeps Twitter where
37:06
Speaker 17: I can survive on there, I'm going to respect Elon.
37:08
Speaker 17: You know, he wants to go to Mars, so dang bad.
37:11
Speaker 17: I think we need to worry about America first, you
37:14
Speaker 17: know what I mean, And I think we should put
37:15
Speaker 17: America before Mars. But rather than that, Elon's a good
37:18
Speaker 17: guy and I support him.
37:21
Speaker 1: Now before you go, Alex.
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump has posted footage of his viral exchange with
37:27
Speaker 3: that President Barack Obama at President Carter's funeral. I've got
37:33
Speaker 3: to say, this is hilarious stuff, and I like to
37:36
Speaker 3: believe it's pretty close to the actual discussion they had.
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Speaker 9: Well, mister president, for a second term. Bro, I'm very
37:46
Speaker 9: nice to see.
37:47
Speaker 10: Congratulations the hell you do it a lot.
37:50
Speaker 4: Better, Dan Hell.
37:51
Speaker 15: I bet I know when.
37:53
Speaker 11: Totally well, come on, anyone could beat her.
37:59
Speaker 4: I was just as a you know what happened.
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Speaker 9: He just didn't want to leave.
38:04
Speaker 4: I know is what happened. I did what I could
38:07
Speaker 4: to help her. She was for a singer.
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Speaker 13: Do you know what?
38:10
Speaker 11: I realized.
38:13
Speaker 17: So much?
38:14
Speaker 4: I know she'll never forget me.
38:19
Speaker 3: I wonder if one day we will have lip readers
38:22
Speaker 3: tell us precisely what was said there. But what do
38:24
Speaker 3: you think of the fact that, after everything Barack Obama
38:29
Speaker 3: threw at Donald Trump, calling him a fascist, modern day hitler,
38:35
Speaker 3: spreading all sorts of lies about him, even the most
38:38
Speaker 3: debunked lies about the very fine people hoax, he sat
38:43
Speaker 3: down and had to chat with him, was very very
38:47
Speaker 3: friendly and polite. Is that a surprise or is everything
38:54
Speaker 3: forgiven in the world of politics.
38:58
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think anything's for again.
39:00
Speaker 17: And there's no love loss between Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
39:03
Speaker 17: But Barack is probably happy that he had an excuse
39:05
Speaker 17: to not bring Michelle so he could just have a
39:07
Speaker 17: boys trip with Donald And you saw him paling around
39:10
Speaker 17: with George Bush. So you know, Barack Obama realizes that
39:13
Speaker 17: they are in a special fraternity of men that very
39:15
Speaker 17: few people are. You know, there's only been forty seven
39:18
Speaker 17: presidents there.
39:19
Speaker 4: I mean, let's excuse me.
39:20
Speaker 17: There's been more presidents than that, less than that, but
39:24
Speaker 17: I'm saying.
39:24
Speaker 4: There's actually presidents before the first president there.
39:27
Speaker 17: So you know, there's a lot of conspiracies behind how
39:29
Speaker 17: many presidents you've ever had. And I'm saying that on
39:30
Speaker 17: Sky News, but you got to look into that. But Rita,
39:33
Speaker 17: I'm just saying they're in a very special fraternity. So
39:35
Speaker 17: they're all kind of friends, you know at the end of.
39:36
Speaker 1: The day, right, Yeah.
39:39
Speaker 3: And I always got the feeling that Barack never really
39:43
Speaker 3: rated Kamala Harris. He may have campaigned for her, but
39:46
Speaker 3: I mean he's campaigning wasn't very helpful, but he never
39:49
Speaker 3: thought he had his heart in it, just the same
39:51
Speaker 3: with President Biden, and I think he really thought he
39:54
Speaker 3: was up to it either.
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Speaker 1: Alex Stein, thank you so much for your time this evening.
39:59
Speaker 4: Thank you, Rita.
40:00
Speaker 17: It's a pleasure and I missed you so Happy Holiday's,
40:02
Speaker 17: Happy new Year. Let's go sky News, Thank you, Rita.
40:06
Speaker 3: Still to come, we'll bring you the latest from Hollywood,
40:08
Speaker 3: where celebrities are battling the deadly California fires.
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Speaker 1: Kinsey Schofield joins me next. Welcome back.
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Speaker 3: Joining me now is celebrity and rural commentator Kinsey Schofield. Kinsey,
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Speaker 3: let's hear from Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson.
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Speaker 1: And Mel Gibson had some very interesting.
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Speaker 3: Things to say about California Governor Gavin Newsom's failure to
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Speaker 3: prepare the state for these catastrophic wildfires that are ravaging La.
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Speaker 11: Still in twenty nineteen, I think Newsom said, you know,
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Speaker 11: I'm going to take care of the forest and maintain
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Speaker 11: the forests and do all that kind of stuff. He
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Speaker 11: didn't do.
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Speaker 9: Anything, didn't do anything.
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Speaker 4: And then on top of that, they cut the water off.
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Speaker 11: Yeah that's right. Yeah, it's all funny. And then I
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Speaker 11: think all our tax dollars probably went for Gavin's Hairjill.
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Speaker 11: I don't know, but it's like you know, it's that
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Speaker 11: it's like the place is just on fire.
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Speaker 4: Well, the whole state is just so poorly mannered.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey is everyone knows he's conservative. There's not too many
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Speaker 3: conservatives in Hollywood. He has to finance his own films
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Speaker 3: these days, but it seems to be working for him.
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Speaker 3: Is his opinion on this issue widely held in Hollywood
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Speaker 3: in California? Or are they blaming Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: And climate change for these fires? And the response?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, I do think he's given a lot
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Speaker 16: more credibility because his son is a firefighter out there.
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Speaker 16: His son is fighting these fires, so he does have
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Speaker 16: some inside information and some intel. But you know, I
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Speaker 16: do believe that the majority of people believe that this
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Speaker 16: is on the government. According to Fox News, Gavin Knewso
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Speaker 16: cut funding for wildlife and forest resilience by more than
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Speaker 16: one million just months before these wildfires. Mayor Karen Bass
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Speaker 16: initially tried to cut from the LA Fire Department's budget
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Speaker 16: twenty three million in twenty twenty four, but settled for
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Speaker 16: seventeen point six million in cuts, and she ordered an
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Speaker 16: additional forty nine million dollars in cuts to the fire
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Speaker 16: Department's budget a week before the fires started.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey Oscar nominee actor James Woods. He's a resident of
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Speaker 3: the Pacific Palisades and he posted this on x He said,
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Speaker 3: the work ahead to rebuild our beautiful Pacific Palisades and
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Speaker 3: all areas destroyed by Gavin Newsom's hillatious fires will be monumental.
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Speaker 3: We can't waste time and energy easing this creep out
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Speaker 3: of office. If this piece of shiit had one ounce
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Speaker 3: of decency, he would resign. The pretty strong words there.
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Speaker 3: How much pressure is there on Gavin newsm because it
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Speaker 3: seems to be he has failed on just about every
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Speaker 3: level when it comes to preparing the state for this
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Speaker 3: sort of fire, which he would have known was coming.
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Speaker 3: This is Calorfuna near after all that have wildfires.
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Speaker 16: And he keeps passing the buck. I mean, I have
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Speaker 16: seen some journalists really press him and say, you know,
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Speaker 16: you've got to give us a better answer than that.
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Speaker 16: But what he continues to do is pass the buck
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Speaker 16: and say, oh, well, that's LA's problem.
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Speaker 1: We're going to have to talk to La about that.
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Speaker 16: You know, at the end of the day, like I said,
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Speaker 16: he cuts significant amounts of resources. When he did cut
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Speaker 16: that one hundred million dollars. He does have to look
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Speaker 16: in the mirror and figure out where he is to blame,
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Speaker 16: because this does not all fall on Karen Bass.
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Speaker 3: Now, Harry and Meghan Markle have been meeting with victims
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Speaker 3: of the LA fires along with first responders at the
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Speaker 3: Pasadena Convention Center. This is an evacuation site for victims
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Speaker 3: of the Eton fire and out of the devastation. Meghan
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Speaker 3: is also delayed the launch of her new Netflix series
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Speaker 3: to focus on the needs of those impacted by the
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Speaker 3: wildfires in my home state of California.
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Speaker 1: She said, Kinsey, we've seen footage of.
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Speaker 3: Harry and Megan meeting with victims, hugging them.
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Speaker 1: Is that something that has.
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Speaker 3: Brought some comfort to those who are facing this deadly catastrophe.
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Speaker 16: I think I stand with Family Ties star Justine Bateman
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Speaker 16: when she called this a photo op, she said, Megan
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Speaker 16: and Harry are no better than ambulance chasers. What a
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Speaker 16: repulsive photo op they achieved. They don't live here. They
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Speaker 16: are tourists, disaster tourists. There are plenty of things they
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Speaker 16: could do in Montecito, but they jumped in the car
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Speaker 16: and drove over almost two hundred miles to be in
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Speaker 16: the middle of ground zero. These are two people that
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Speaker 16: are paranoid about security. Why bring that drama and chaos
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Speaker 16: to a place that's already hurting and a place that
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Speaker 16: doesn't need any additional drama and chaos.
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Speaker 3: As many people said on x having these people suffered enough,
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Speaker 3: the last thing they need is Aaron Meghan descending upon
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Speaker 3: them with camera crews getting images that they know are
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Speaker 3: going to go around the world. Don't they know if
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Speaker 3: they're going to be there, they're going to get plenty
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Speaker 3: of footage that we've played for you tonight now, Kinzi
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Speaker 3: Kim Kardashian has prompted outrage on social media for posting
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Speaker 3: ads for her Skims brand while these buyers are devastating, La,
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Speaker 3: what do you think about this? A lot of people
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Speaker 3: are saying she should be doing what other celebrities are doing,
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Speaker 3: which is showing solidarity and just sort of pulling back
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Speaker 3: from the marketing and promotion whilst this is happening.
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Speaker 16: And you also saw Chloe Kardashian going after Karen Bauss,
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Speaker 16: you know, saying what a joke you are for not
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Speaker 16: being prepared for this, and Chloe saying that she sided
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Speaker 16: with our fire chiefs. They are clearly if you watch
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Speaker 16: our news, they are delivering different messages, and they are
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Speaker 16: clearly behind the scenes going out at each other's throats.
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Speaker 16: My favorite headline is Kim Kardashian was busy promoting her
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Speaker 16: clothing brand while Los Angeles burned to the ground. Let's
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Speaker 16: hope that's not her legacy. I have heard that she
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Speaker 16: has donated to some of the firefighters when it comes
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Speaker 16: to meals and things, so she has tried to step
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Speaker 16: up since those horrible headlines.
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Speaker 3: I think you're going to see a big fat donation
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Speaker 3: from her coming because this is the sort of bad
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Speaker 3: press that can stick. Actor Tyler Perry a good friend
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Speaker 3: of Megan and Harry. He's posted a lengthy statement on
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Speaker 3: Instagram slamming insurance companies for canceling millions of policies just.
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Speaker 1: Before the LA fires broke out.
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Speaker 3: He wrote, does anyone else find it appalling but insurance
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Speaker 3: companies to take billions of dollars out of communities for
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Speaker 3: years and then all of a sudden be allowed to
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Speaker 3: cancel millions of polo for the very people they became
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Speaker 3: rich on? Can you tell me more about this, kindsy,
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Speaker 3: because it seems incredible that insurance company could cancel any policy.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the deal. You pay them these premiums.
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Speaker 3: You may never make a claim over thirty forty years,
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Speaker 3: but it's therefore a disaster just like this.
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Speaker 14: You.
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Speaker 16: According to the insurance companies, they they were afraid they
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Speaker 16: wouldn't be able to afford the payouts and that's why
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Speaker 16: ultimately they canceled hundreds of these victims insurance policies months ago.
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Speaker 16: There is one woman that stayed despite the evacuation. Her
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Speaker 16: parents were ninety years old, they'd been in the home
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Speaker 16: for seventy years, and she just stayed there with her
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Speaker 16: fire hose sprang the house down. Thankfully, the last time
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Speaker 16: I checked it had been spared. But that's all her
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Speaker 16: parents had. They were ninety years old. They were afraid
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Speaker 16: they were going to lose their house, and she did
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Speaker 16: that because they lost their insurance. They had no other option,
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Speaker 16: so she risked her life. So this is not just
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Speaker 16: a celebrity thing.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 16: This is impacting a lot of different people of all
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Speaker 16: age groups and different classes, and it's devastating.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and those people are less equipped to recover from
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Speaker 3: this than your celebrities whose properties are worth millions and
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Speaker 3: they probably have several of them. It's incredible. I mean
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Speaker 3: the fact that they can cancel these policies. It's not
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Speaker 3: just financially devastating, it can lead to loss of life because,
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Speaker 3: like you said, people will stay back at their properties
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Speaker 3: when they should be leaving to try to save them
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Speaker 3: and this is just putting themselves in greater danger.
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Speaker 1: Kinsey Schofield, thank you.
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Speaker 3: So much for your time this evening, and that's all
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Speaker 3: the time we have tonight. I'll see you tomorrow night
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Speaker 3: at eleven up. Next is Newsnight.