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Speaker 1: On scorn Lives Austrodia. This is the Wader Panalty Show.

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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the readA Panny Show.

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Speaker 3: Coming up tonight, Australian business leaders fight back against industry

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Speaker 3: super funds and the file left ideology infecting the corporate world.

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Speaker 3: Gary Hardgrave and Prum McSween will be with me shortly

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Speaker 3: to discuss that and the day's top stories. Matt Cunningham

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Speaker 3: will join me with some shocking news from the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 3: The brilliant Fatia Unga Sagon will have the latest from

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Speaker 3: the US, including the death of man feminism as beta males.

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Speaker 2: Learned that they are not immune from me.

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Speaker 3: To activism, and later in the hour will look at

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Speaker 3: Megan Markle's latest rebrand efforts with Diane Dunlevy.

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Speaker 2: And Left is Losing It features They them energy, the.

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Speaker 4: Energy, the Energy.

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Speaker 3: Okay, But first the election is close and the.

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister is on a charm offensive.

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Speaker 3: He was on the front pages of the newspapers to day,

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Speaker 3: The Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph with fiance Jody talking about

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Speaker 3: his marriage plans. It's a bit of a puff piece.

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Speaker 3: It included details about a possible outdoor wedding and the

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Speaker 3: role the couple's dog may play on the day. The

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Speaker 3: media blitz comes days after the couple posted this now

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Speaker 3: infamous val Valentine's Day video on Instagram. Jody we now

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Speaker 3: for more on this. Sky News contributors pro McSween and

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Speaker 3: Gary Hardgrave Gary, We've had our first interest rate cut

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Speaker 3: in more than four years. We're hearing about outdoor weddings

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Speaker 3: and dogs.

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Speaker 2: An election isn't far away.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm waiting for a close up shot of the

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Speaker 5: covertal corsage.

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Speaker 1: You know it's coming.

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Speaker 5: Reader, Look anything other than the reality that an interest

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Speaker 5: rate cut is not going to solve the everyday problems

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Speaker 5: of people paying more for everything. You know, they might

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Speaker 5: give you zero point two five percent reduction in about

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Speaker 5: ten days or a fortnight after the banks have made

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Speaker 5: tens of millions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: But let's face it, for a lot of every.

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Speaker 5: Day Australians, the price of fuel just went up. You know,

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Speaker 5: the price of electricity is going up constantly.

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Speaker 1: The price of.

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Speaker 5: Electricity keeps increasing at such a rate, and not that

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Speaker 5: knots that nobody actually can keep up with the increasing costs,

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Speaker 5: and it's killing industry.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the reality.

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Speaker 5: So Albo says, you know, never mind the quality, feel

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Speaker 5: the width, this is this is a pe under a

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Speaker 5: shell game going on here, and I don't think Australia

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Speaker 5: is going to fall for it. It's you know what, Frankly,

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Speaker 5: a lot of people can't afford the kind of intimate,

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Speaker 5: covertle corsage wedding that he's talking about. So I think

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Speaker 5: a lot of people have tuned right out. It's going

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Speaker 5: to take a lot more charm to get a you know,

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Speaker 5: ticked from me.

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Speaker 3: I can assure you, well, pray, what do you make

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Speaker 3: of the charm offensive? The media bleedzer Obviously they've had

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Speaker 3: some sort of focus group data coming in telling them

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Speaker 3: that well, Jodie is a good look for the PM.

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Speaker 3: The more we see of her, the more we think

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Speaker 3: of him. Is this going to be a boost for

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Speaker 3: the Prime minister and for the Labor Party coming up?

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Speaker 2: Or we're going to be weeks away now from an

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Speaker 2: election date.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's so predictable, you know, wheel out the little

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Speaker 6: missus or the little missus to be and you know

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Speaker 6: all the you know, the old old ladies might think

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Speaker 6: it's so sweet. Look the Women's Weekly, you know the

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Speaker 6: media today, nothing's going to save him. This is the

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Speaker 6: point that Gary was making that we're so focused on

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Speaker 6: just staying alive, basically economically alive, being able to put

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Speaker 6: that you know, he can will out as much charm

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Speaker 6: as he likes, and it is offensive. That's what I

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Speaker 6: find when he's talking about and timing his wedding, you know,

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Speaker 6: announcement and the intimate details to soften us up. Oh well,

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Speaker 6: he's really a nice guy. Well, he may be a

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Speaker 6: nice guy, although I'm yet to appreciate that, but you know,

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Speaker 6: he's incompetent and he's basically you know, the nuptials that

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Speaker 6: he's proposing will not work out for him with the

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Speaker 6: Australian public and the Australian voter.

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Speaker 1: I believe.

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Speaker 6: I think it'll be a know at the altar of

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, we've alould prefer competence over niceness.

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Speaker 2: About to pick between the two.

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Speaker 3: Now, company directors shareholder groups are at war with Australia.

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Speaker 2: It's four trillion dollars superanuation.

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Speaker 3: Industry over corporate diversity guidelines. The nineteen members of the

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Speaker 3: ASX Corporate Governance Council were asked last week to vote

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Speaker 3: on a new set of corporate governance principles, which could

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Speaker 3: have resulted in company directors needing to disclose their sexual

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Speaker 3: orientation and even their religious beliefs.

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Speaker 2: Now it's the.

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Speaker 3: Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia that's pushing for these

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Speaker 3: diversity reforms.

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Speaker 2: But it's good to see business leaders.

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Speaker 3: Including the likes of John Wiley, calling for an end

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Speaker 3: to this sort of debate. He said, I personally think

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Speaker 3: it's a gross invasion of people's personal privacy to have

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Speaker 3: to disclose their sexual identity when it comes to eligibility

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Speaker 3: for board positions. And mister Wiley also told the Australia

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Speaker 3: And what is the relevance to corporate performance and the

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Speaker 3: suitability of sitting on a board?

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Speaker 2: Very good question there.

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Speaker 3: Through the ASX Council is now set to drop its

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Speaker 3: push for these diversity reforms for the time being. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: there's no consensus even amongst those council members. But isn't

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Speaker 3: it good to finally have some corporates taking a stand

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Speaker 3: against this sort of insanity.

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Speaker 6: Well, they've been so limp and weak up till now,

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Speaker 6: you know, following this whole energy debarcle, and you know,

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Speaker 6: so scared that they're going to be whipped by the

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Speaker 6: government if they don't support them, even though it's against

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Speaker 6: their principles. In this case, I suppose they feel empowered

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Speaker 6: because Trump's rubbish DEI. And we're seeing also examples with

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Speaker 6: you know, with Woolworths, what happened to them when they

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Speaker 6: went woke, But like Disney, all these profits that are

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Speaker 6: going down the toilet and the branding impacts that it's having.

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Speaker 6: I don't care what the sexuality of a board member is,

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Speaker 6: whether they're indigenous, if they're disiabled, you know, all these

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Speaker 6: ridiculous imposts they're wanting them now to impose on them

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Speaker 6: or proposing to impose on them, impose on them.

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Speaker 1: I want to know that.

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Speaker 6: The people in boards are actually worrying about delivering a

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Speaker 6: profit to shareholders, that they have proper corporate guidance and

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Speaker 6: they have the expertise to be able to give this guidance.

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Speaker 6: And that's all you worry about if you're either an

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Speaker 6: have the superation mob.

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Speaker 7: Wanting to take a stand.

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Speaker 6: I would say that a lot of the superannuation people

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Speaker 6: they represent are older people who would be horrified to

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Speaker 6: think that this is going to be posed on board members.

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Speaker 7: It is gary.

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Speaker 3: The industry super funds are behind so much of this

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Speaker 3: far left ideology that we're seeing adopted in the corporate world,

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Speaker 3: even pushed by the corporate world but pre touched on

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump's policies is cut DEI programs, diversity, equity inclusion,

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Speaker 3: and it's seen a massive shift in the debate even

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Speaker 3: in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and thank heavens for Donald J. Trump.

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Speaker 5: But you know, DEI is an anagram of DEE, which

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Speaker 5: is what's happening to a lot of companies who are

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Speaker 1: On box ticking.

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Speaker 5: And you know, these industry super funds, they've completely begged

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Speaker 5: up the power generating investment regime in Australia. They're the

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Speaker 5: ones that are behind the wind farms. They're the ones

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Speaker 5: that are behind and I shouldn't call them wind farms

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Speaker 5: because they're industrial installations. Are the wind turbines and the

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Speaker 5: solar panels. These are the people who are driving your

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Speaker 5: electricity prices up, your superannuation funds. The industry funds are

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Speaker 5: helping to drive up the price of electricity. They load

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Speaker 5: them up with lefties and they expect the world to

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Speaker 5: con Look. I think you just need competence. I'm a

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Speaker 5: company director, I'm said on a couple of different organizations,

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Speaker 5: and what we hire is competence. If you keep putting

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Speaker 5: people into boxes rita that you have to tick and

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Speaker 5: say I've got one of them, I've got one of

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Speaker 5: those things, we're not building Noah's ark. I mean, heavens above,

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Speaker 5: look at me. I can't get any whiter than I am.

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Speaker 5: I can't be any more male than I am. I

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Speaker 5: don't think I'm as alpha as some others. But I'm

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Speaker 5: just saying I'm a bloke. I'm an older bloke, I'm white. Heavens,

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Speaker 5: I'm completely bigger, aren't I? Under this regime?

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Speaker 7: So you are?

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Speaker 5: You are the problem on competence, not on They got

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Speaker 5: to hire on competence, not on identity.

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Speaker 1: This is crazy, and yet I've got a problem.

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Speaker 3: I get to know, Well, yes, you don't tick any boxes. Gary,

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Speaker 3: You're white, you're male, your privilege, your heteronormative able body Duman. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's downhill for you now. Before you two go, ask

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Speaker 3: you about the Queensland government being warned that its decision

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Speaker 3: to pause cross sex hormones for children for children, mind you,

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Speaker 3: could result in a tsunami of court cases being brought

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Speaker 3: against it. A group of high profile mental health experts, scientists,

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Speaker 3: churches and lawyers have written to Premier Christa Fooley and

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Speaker 3: they're saying that this pause may be in contravention of

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Speaker 3: Queensland's Human Rights Act. Really, Gary, this pause came about

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Speaker 3: after it was discovered that children at Ken's Sexual Health

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Speaker 3: Clinic had been given puberty blockers cross sex hormones without

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Speaker 3: either the required specialist input or parents' permission. Can you

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Speaker 3: believe the activism that's coming from these characters, From Patrick mcgruorie,

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Speaker 3: who I would have expected more from, and even church groups.

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Speaker 5: And the Human Rights Act in Queensland is obviously written

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Speaker 5: by the extreme left who were in power to write

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Speaker 5: this act for a start, So they're using a tool. Look,

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Speaker 5: I think in so many ways these people are part

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Speaker 5: of an industry that's heavily get around. Frankly, you're turning

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Speaker 5: our children into elaborates, turning our kids into a great experiment.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, they think they're this, so let's do that

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Speaker 1: to them. You can't do that.

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Speaker 5: I think kids, people, individuals are able to make their

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Speaker 1: It's such a small percentage of people.

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Speaker 5: They obviously clearly have some trauma, mental trauma in their

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Speaker 5: mind about who they are and what they are. But

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Speaker 5: these doctors and church groups are just looking for victims.

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Speaker 5: They're victim farming with this, and the mere fact they're

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Speaker 5: raising this means they're not reading the room. So they

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Speaker 5: look like they're clever, but they're pretty stupid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're ignoring the best research that has been

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Speaker 3: done in this area. You only have to look at

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Speaker 3: what we've seen in the UK and Scandinavia, what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: If you want to talk about a tsunami of court cases,

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Speaker 3: it's probably going to come from people who've been irreversibly

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Speaker 3: damaged by these drugs and treatments and irreversible surgeries. That's

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Speaker 3: where the tsunami of court cases is going to come from.

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Speaker 2: Prim Ex Sween, Gary Hardgrove, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: your time tonight.

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Speaker 3: Joining me now is Sky News Northern Australia correspondent Matt Cunningham. Matt,

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Speaker 3: you've reported some alarming statistics out of the NT this week,

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Speaker 3: school attendance rates amongst Indigenous students in the territory have

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Speaker 3: fallen to just fifty five point two percent, with many

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Speaker 3: children attending schools so infrequently that more than sixteen hundred

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Speaker 3: of them have been removed from the official attendance roles altogether.

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Speaker 2: Matt, how much has the.

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Speaker 3: Attendance rate for Indigenous children fallen in the NT and

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Speaker 3: Well, the way they count those stats, it almost is

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Speaker 8: Well, I think that it's clearly an issue at Catherine

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Speaker 8: That they're many and varied, and they've been going on

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Speaker 8: Well, I think there's an argument that they're not. Reader

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Speaker 8: We talked about those School of tendant's rates falling, Well,

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Speaker 8: That is a shocking statistic and overwhelmingly the victims in

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Speaker 3: The amount of overrepresentation is shocking, and you called it

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Speaker 8: Well, it's interesting because you know, every time one of

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Speaker 8: There is a great program run up here. It's called

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Speaker 8: We need to see more responsibility taken by absolutely these

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Speaker 2: Matt Cunningham, thank you so much for your time. Appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 7: Rader, still to come.

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Speaker 2: The left is losing it.

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Speaker 3: Plus the latest from the US, including the growing romance

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Speaker 2: But Tijunga Sagon is up.

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Speaker 3: Next, Welcome back, and ow it's time for lefties losing it,

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Speaker 3: and we have more celebrities stepping up, eager to embarrass

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Speaker 9: seen The Apprentice, because it's a fifteen. It's not on Nickelodeon.

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Speaker 9: See Donald Trump. I've said his name three times. It's

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Speaker 9: like beetlejuice of summoned and talking of villains.

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Speaker 2: Yes, about as funny as an ingrowing tone.

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Speaker 3: Who actually gave us the biggest laugh the height when

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Speaker 2: This wasn't a skit.

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Speaker 3: This was Hamill looking like some deranged hobo desperately scrambling

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Speaker 2: So what makes us love.

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Speaker 11: Cinema so much that we're all gathered here to celebrate tonight.

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Speaker 11: For me, it's a Films create world so vivid and

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Speaker 3: Now, that was funny, and it just proves that TEDS

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Speaker 2: Inside real evil.

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Speaker 3: Concentrate on buying I don't know a belt and keeping

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Speaker 12: You want to talk about the map, talk about da Vinci,

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Speaker 12: You want to talk about murders in Chicago.

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Speaker 7: Talk about Michaelangelo. So it's the same with every other group.

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Speaker 2: Yes, if you can work it out, by the way.

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Speaker 7: That crisis is supposed to come down, not in airplan.

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Speaker 13: Well let me let me let me say someplace that

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Speaker 13: could really use a lot of cutting, you know, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 7: Elon has very many what do you call it? Government?

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Speaker 7: Government contract?

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Speaker 13: I think because I don't remember. Maybe y'all heard it,

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Speaker 13: but I don't remember looking for an armored car and

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Speaker 13: I don't remember.

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Speaker 7: I don't I don't care what it looks like. I

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Speaker 7: don't remember asking for it. I don't know why I'm

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Speaker 7: paying for it. I want to know.

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Speaker 13: When did I say, hey, we need another agency.

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Speaker 7: Next to NASA.

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Speaker 13: So let's just so, when did we start paying for

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Speaker 13: his stock?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 7: No, you know that he's he's going to be cut.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for pet Now, I think we could all do

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Speaker 3: with a musical interlude. Here is a performer and transactivist

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Speaker 3: promoting they their energy and breastbinding.

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Speaker 4: The energy, the energy, energy, energy. This is a public

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Speaker 4: service announcement. Anyone dressers outfit.

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Speaker 13: This is a swim friend that you receive your show

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Speaker 13: off your binder.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure the binding is working, love, but good luck.

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Speaker 7: You know what the.

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Speaker 2: Left is really need.

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Speaker 7: They are so lost.

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Speaker 2: What they really need is some sage words.

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Speaker 3: Of advice, and who better to deliver it than Senator

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Speaker 3: John Kennedy from the Great State of Louisiana.

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Speaker 14: I've got a lot of friends Democrats, and they want

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Speaker 14: to ask me for advice.

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Speaker 9: But if I did, I'd tell them, look, you just

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Speaker 9: got to try harder not to shock.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about.

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Speaker 3: It, and there'll be plenty more left these losing it

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Speaker 3: content with My next guest and joining me now is

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Speaker 3: journalist Batiya Unga Sagon. But tire, let's start with the

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Speaker 3: beautiful bromance between the world's most powerful man and the

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Speaker 3: world's richest man who is working for free in President

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Speaker 3: Trump's team at the moment. Here is Elon Musk with

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Speaker 3: the President describing the effects of TDS.

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Speaker 7: It is they call it like.

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Speaker 10: Trump duration syndrome, And you don't realize how real this

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Speaker 10: is until like it's you can't reason with people. So

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Speaker 10: like I was at a friend's birthday party and allegis

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Speaker 10: birthday dinner and it was like a nice quiet dinner

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Speaker 10: and everything was everyone was behaving normally, and they happen

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Speaker 10: to mention this is before the election, like a month

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Speaker 10: or two before I have to mention the president's name,

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Speaker 10: and it was like they got shot with a dart

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Speaker 10: in the juggular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm like, maybea's attacks against Musk at the moment

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Speaker 3: and their desperation to drive a wedge between him and

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Speaker 3: the President. I've gotta say this is a taxa getting

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Speaker 3: increasingly desperate.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's amazing because they seem to have realized that

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Speaker 14: due to Donald Trump's immense popularity, which only keeps growing

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Speaker 14: as he keeps succeeding at all of the things he

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Speaker 14: promised he was going to do. Has meant that their

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Speaker 14: usual line of attack, you know, Orange Man Hitler, is

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Speaker 14: falling really flat. And so what they've tried to do

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Speaker 14: is simply change the object of their obsessive, insane hadred

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Speaker 14: from Donald Trump to Elon Musk. And unfortunately, there is

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Speaker 14: a lot that Musk is worthy of criticism over. There

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Speaker 14: are big potential conflicts of interest. This is a person

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Speaker 14: who is a defense contractor who is now investigating the

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Speaker 14: Department of Defense. He was himself investigated by the SEC.

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Speaker 14: He is now himself investigating the SEC. He met with Mody,

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Speaker 14: the Prime Minister of India. He's now hiring people in India.

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Speaker 14: There are a lot of problems here. Elon Musk is

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Speaker 14: incredibly close with China, which is the United States's greatest adversary.

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Speaker 14: Their conflict of interest everywhere you look. And yet because

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Speaker 14: the lefties are losing it Rita, nobody is talking about

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Speaker 14: the important things and instead they're out there just screaming

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Speaker 14: and shrieking and braying and doing the same exact stuff

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Speaker 14: they did to Trump, now they're doing it to Elon Musk.

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Speaker 3: You are so right, because there are meaningful discussions to

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Speaker 3: be had, investigations to be had about some of what

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Speaker 3: you just described. But no, they're going for the chape easy.

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Speaker 3: He It's just exactly the same tactics and having the

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Speaker 3: same impact. The people have just tuned out except for

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Speaker 3: that tiny audience.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to New York now, where.

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Speaker 3: Governor Kathy Hockel is considering sacking New York City Mayor

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Speaker 3: Eric Adams after four of his top deputies quit.

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Speaker 2: The governor said she would meet.

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Speaker 3: With key leaders in Manhattan for a conversation about the

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Speaker 3: path forward. And one of those key leaders appears to

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Speaker 3: be our Sharpton. But t, I'll get your take on

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Speaker 3: why the governor is consulting with a character like Sharpton

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Speaker 3: when making this important call. As for Mayor Adams, well,

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Speaker 3: he had this message for the media.

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Speaker 12: Running two questions from the press, running two questions from

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Speaker 12: the press, What are we lying about?

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Speaker 7: Exactly?

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Speaker 3: Because you're all liars, That's what he said.

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Speaker 13: There.

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Speaker 3: What's happening in New York and what would happen if

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Speaker 3: Governor Hokel does remove the pop elected may.

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Speaker 14: I'll tell you what's gonna happen. Andrew Cuomo will become

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Speaker 14: our next mayor because he said that if Eric Adams

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Speaker 14: hangs on, he's not going to enter the race. But

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Speaker 14: if she pulls Eric Adams, that leaves the lane wide open.

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Speaker 14: And Andrew Cuomo is very clearly, you know, lining up

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Speaker 14: his ducks for a may or a bit. At this point,

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Speaker 14: it seems like the reason she had Al Sharpton and

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Speaker 14: is because she wants to know is there going to

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Speaker 14: be a racial backlash to her, calling her racist if

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Speaker 14: she takes Eric Adams in tell and basically forces him

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Speaker 14: to resign. So she brings in the race Bader in

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Speaker 14: Chief Al Sharpton to say, are you going to cover

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Speaker 14: me if I do this? Or do I have to

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Speaker 14: worry about being sneered for, you know, getting rid of

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Speaker 14: Eric Adams. That's what you saw play out. There was

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Speaker 14: a classic scene of New York City politicking. It will

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Speaker 14: not be the last time that happens.

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Speaker 2: That is a pulling.

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Speaker 3: If it's that simple, and I think you one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent right, that is just appalling. Of course, the optics

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Speaker 3: are terrible, and if you're from the left side of politics,

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Speaker 3: and Kathy hokul Is and sorr Is mayor Adams. Those

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Speaker 3: accusations are going to come for you because that's the

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Speaker 3: game they play. Everything is seen through that racial filter. Now,

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Speaker 3: I want to ask about this fantastic piece you've written

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Speaker 3: on the entire Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, the fake me

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Speaker 3: Too scandal. You've argued it signals the death of man

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Speaker 3: bun feminism. Explain to my audience what man bun feminism

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Speaker 3: is in the first place, and how did a man

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Speaker 3: who presented himself and Justin Baldoni is this man who

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Speaker 3: is this new age perfect male feminist. Ally he is

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Speaker 3: now suing a woman who's accused him of sexual harassment.

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Speaker 14: So you see the man bun there in full display

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Speaker 14: on your screen. Justin Baldoni literally wrote the book on

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Speaker 14: beta maildom. He wrote a book called Undefining My Masculinity

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Speaker 14: or something like that. He wrote another children's book called

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Speaker 14: Boys Will Be Humans. You know, his whole public persona

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Speaker 14: as a celebrity was an ally of women, and this

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Speaker 14: ended up being a key to his downfall here when

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Speaker 14: Blake Lively, sensing his weakness, started to bully him on

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Speaker 14: the set of his own film, demanding the right to

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Speaker 14: rewrite scenes, demanding the right to have her own edit

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Speaker 14: of the film, and then finally, when she was hit

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Speaker 14: with a ton of negative press when the film came

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Speaker 14: out for the way she was handling herself in some

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Speaker 14: old clips in which she was fat shaming a reporter.

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Speaker 14: She then argued that he had, you know, sexually harassed

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Speaker 14: her in an attempt to launder her image by becoming

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Speaker 14: the victim, she cast herself as the victim of a

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Speaker 14: me too scandal and cast him as the aggressor. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 14: a more beta male you couldn't have found. I mean,

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Speaker 14: he had all of the receipts showing that in every

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Speaker 14: interaction she had had the power and he hadn't. And

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Speaker 14: what I argue in the Free Press piece is that

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Speaker 14: basically this is not just the end of the Me

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Speaker 14: too movement, but it's the end of this kind of

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Speaker 14: man bum bun ally feminism, because what we really see here, Rita,

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Speaker 14: is that the problem with the Me too movement, the

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Speaker 14: problem with Believe all women, is that the relationship between

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Speaker 14: sexuality and power is very, very complicated. It cannot be

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Speaker 14: reduced to just who is the woman and who is

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Speaker 14: the man, and in this case, the man was the

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Speaker 14: one being bullied, the woman being the one bullying him.

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Speaker 14: And when that was revealed, she claimed the victor status

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Speaker 14: and it fell on its face.

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Speaker 2: It did.

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Speaker 3: It has been such a chamozzle for her. She should

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Speaker 3: have just helped, you know, God on holidays for two

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Speaker 3: weeks and the whole thing would have blown over.

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Speaker 2: The film was a dud. Everyone would have forgotten about her.

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Speaker 3: But no, she couldn't have any bad publicity because you know,

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Speaker 3: she's a golden girl and she's part of this golden couple.

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Speaker 3: So she comes up with this insane story. The New

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Speaker 3: York Times just prints it. I think New York Times

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Speaker 3: is going to be looking at a massive payout to

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Speaker 3: Justin Baldoni here. And as much as of a beta

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Speaker 3: male he is, and we've we've heard some of the

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Speaker 3: calls he plays to Blake Lively, some of these recorded calls,

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Speaker 3: and oh gosh, it is cringe worthy, just how over

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Speaker 3: the top he is with this male feminist ally narrative.

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Speaker 2: But he's got.

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Speaker 3: Himself an absolute killer lawyer, and he's going he's not

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Speaker 3: one you want to mess with. He's got a fantastic

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Speaker 3: track record and with each New Revelation, Blake Lively and

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Speaker 3: Ryle Ryan Reynolds ended up looking worse, and I noticed

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Speaker 3: they were both at the special Saturday Night Live anniversary

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Speaker 3: edition of the Playing the Awful skit. Ryan was involved

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Speaker 3: in a little bit later in this show, but also

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Speaker 3: on that program, we had that Tom Hanks skit painting

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Speaker 3: Trump supporters the majority of the country that is as

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Speaker 3: racist and stupid.

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Speaker 2: How is that being received in the US?

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Speaker 14: Oh, people are so upset about this. You have to understand.

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Speaker 14: The election we just went through was the least racialized

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Speaker 14: election probably in American history. It united working class voters

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Speaker 14: of all races, including a quarter of black men, a

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Speaker 14: historic number for a Republican to have gotten. This is

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Speaker 14: a moment of unbelievable unity among Democratic and Republican voters

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Speaker 14: who are working class because Donald really spoke to them.

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Speaker 14: He basically cobbled together the New Deal Democrat coalition for

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Speaker 14: the twenty first century. But the Democrats refuse to admit

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Speaker 14: that they lost the working class, which in and of

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Speaker 14: itself is utterly outrageous. What the Democratic Party represents today

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Speaker 14: is exactly what was in that skit. An unbelievably wealthy

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Speaker 14: person pretending to himself probably as well, that he is

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Speaker 14: a good person because he can smear poor and working

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Speaker 14: class people as racists to hide the fact that they

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Speaker 14: are rich. I mean, this is the move of the Democrats.

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Speaker 14: The liberals in America today are rich. The Democrats are

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Speaker 14: the party of the wealthy, and they masquerade as having

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Speaker 14: the higher moral high ground, as being somehow more compassionate

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Speaker 14: by smearing poor people.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's.

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Speaker 14: Utterly disgusting and everybody can see it. Rita. The backlash

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Speaker 14: has been immense, and people are pretending on the left

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Speaker 14: like this is not a big deal. It is a

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Speaker 14: really big deal. The country is uniting around Donald Trump.

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Speaker 14: They are uniting around this agenda. They are uniting around

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Speaker 14: the strength and the efficiency and just the utter, utter

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Speaker 14: competence on display. It is such a relief. Every day

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Speaker 14: in the last three weeks that he's been president, to

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Speaker 14: two months, whatever it's been, Donald Trump has said to

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Speaker 14: the American people, you are not alone. I'm here, I'm

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Speaker 14: gonna help you. It is an unbelievably amazing thing to

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Speaker 14: be seeing. And I'll just end with this, Rita. This

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Speaker 14: has changed the game for future presidents because we've never

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Speaker 14: seen anybody do this. We've never seen anybody actually do

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Speaker 14: what they promised they were gonna do. We've never seen

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Speaker 14: anybody show up and say to forgotten Americans, I am

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Speaker 14: here and I'm gonna make your life better. This has

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Speaker 14: changed the game going forward, no more going back to

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Speaker 14: whatever the last four years was. But also I would

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Speaker 14: argue even what keen before that.

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Speaker 3: It has been an astonishing four weeks that the pace

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Speaker 3: of it has blown I think everybody away, even all

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Speaker 3: those people who believe that Trump would execute his agenda.

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Speaker 3: He was going to do what he promised to do.

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Speaker 3: We didn't think it was going to be keeping up

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Speaker 3: this pace. This is something else before you go. We've

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Speaker 3: talked about the media's tactics against Trump administration, and there

681
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Speaker 3: is nothing they will not seek to blame on him,

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Speaker 3: including a Delta plane crashing, crash landing in Canada. Thankfully

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Speaker 3: nobody lost their lives. The usual suspects on the View,

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Speaker 3: including Sonny hostin Joey Baha said plenty of silly stuff

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Speaker 3: and whoopee. Goldberg wasn't going to miss out on the

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Speaker 3: ill informed hysteria either.

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Speaker 13: I have been panicking of all this insanity these plays, yeah,

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Speaker 13: you know, and.

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Speaker 7: There's all kinds of stuff going on.

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Speaker 13: So let's start with the string of mass firings by

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Speaker 13: Elon Musk's Doggy Dogy dog Dog.

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Speaker 7: Dogie has sparked a lot of chaos, confusion, and fear because.

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Speaker 13: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is defending the firing of four

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Speaker 13: hundred FAA workers, but former Secretary Bullta Judge slam the

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Speaker 13: firings of employees.

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Speaker 2: That's enough of that. Incredible.

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Speaker 3: But as we watch this astonishing footage of passengers being

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Speaker 3: rescued from the crash plane, tell me about some of

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Speaker 3: the media hysteria and misinformation about who is to blame

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Speaker 3: for this crash.

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Speaker 14: Oh gosh, they try to blame everything on Trump, and

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Speaker 14: then anything good he does they won't give him any credit.

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Speaker 14: It's utterly, utterly disgusting. I'll just say about our Secretary

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Speaker 14: of Transportation Sean Duffy, this is an incredible, incredible human being.

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Speaker 14: Watch closely what he does with that office. He's going

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Speaker 14: to do amazing, amazing things. And again it all comes

707
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Speaker 14: down to the fact that they cannot admit how incompetent

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Speaker 14: they have become on the left, how utterly divorced from

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Speaker 14: the needs of the average American and this is all

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Speaker 14: just projection.

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Speaker 11: Reader.

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Speaker 14: Every accusation from the Democrats is a confession. They can't

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Speaker 14: stand the efficiency with which Donald Trump is carrying out

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Speaker 14: the mandate given to him by the American people. It's

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Speaker 14: going to be long four years for them. That's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Going to be a long four years. And if JD.

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Speaker 3: Vance keeps up his current form, it maybe a long

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Speaker 3: twelve years. Buttiyo Ga Sagon, thanks for your time tonight.

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Speaker 14: Thank you so much. Rida God bless still to come.

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Speaker 3: Megan Michael's latest rebrand effort goes a ride.

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Speaker 2: Dady dun Leavy joins me next. Welcome back. Joining me

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Speaker 2: now is veteran broadcaster d D. Done Lee v DEDI.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni saga, which

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Speaker 3: has now entangled Taylor Swift. A sources told Page six

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Speaker 3: that Taylor Swift feels like a pawn in the lawsuit

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Speaker 3: between her bff Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.

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Speaker 2: Taylor is taking a break from their friendship right now.

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Speaker 3: The source said, she is really hurt by this whole situation.

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Speaker 3: Taylor wants nothing to do with this Hall ordeal. She

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Speaker 3: has always been a loyal friend to Blake and doesn't

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Speaker 3: appreciate being thrown into this at all.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: If you're a loyal friend, surely you stick by your

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Speaker 3: best friend when she's being absolutely savaged in the media.

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Speaker 3: Because Blake Lively's reputation has gone from Golden Girl to

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Speaker 3: well Megan Marko levels.

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Speaker 7: Really that low?

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Speaker 1: Gosh?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, look, I agree with you.

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Speaker 15: When this story first prog, I had no idea who

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Speaker 15: Justin Baldonie was, and was a fan of Gossip Girls,

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Speaker 15: so I sort of and we've just been have been

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Speaker 15: taught to believe people when they make such claims of

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Speaker 15: sexual impropriety. But I have read in detail all of

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Speaker 15: the stuff that's been posted online by Baldoni and you

746
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Speaker 15: can see the whole thing unfolding from his point of view.

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Speaker 7: We don't know that it's all correct.

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Speaker 3: But he's got receipts, he's got text messages, he's got audio,

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Speaker 3: he's got.

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Speaker 15: We don't know have the are they the genuine texts?

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Speaker 15: Have the screenshot's been edited?

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Speaker 3: We don't know that it's his version, But that Blake

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Speaker 3: Lively side went first, so they released a bunch of

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Speaker 3: texts when The New York Times ran the story that

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Speaker 3: were edited, so he released his to show how those

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Speaker 3: were edited, how they were sort of taken out of context.

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Speaker 3: And we haven't seen the other side response, so yeah,

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Speaker 3: perhaps they.

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Speaker 2: Will in court.

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Speaker 15: The impression that I was left with reading through it

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Speaker 15: was that he was falling on himself to please her.

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Speaker 7: And I can't remember her.

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Speaker 15: It was I heard someone saying that she and the

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Speaker 15: way she started to exert herself on that production was

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Speaker 15: well above what she was employed to do. It would

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Speaker 15: be like if your plumber was there and fix the

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Speaker 15: pipe and then popped out and said, now, what are

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Speaker 15: we doing about the colors of these walls? And what

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Speaker 15: are we doing with that so far? You know, she

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Speaker 15: absolutely overstepped what she was there for.

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Speaker 3: And her version of the film, her cut, tested not

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Speaker 3: as well as his cut, and he was the director,

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Speaker 3: and yet it was the one that got that got

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Speaker 3: the release. Use again, she's got the star power, But.

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Speaker 15: I never thought I would be cheering for Taylor's with anything.

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Speaker 15: I don't agree with her on most things she says,

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Speaker 15: but she's a bad friend though.

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Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, even if

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Speaker 3: Blake is a brash you're supposed to be her friend.

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Speaker 4: Stick with her.

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Speaker 15: I don't think so, not when there's a multimillion dollar

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Speaker 15: lawsuit brewing. I think Taylor's done something smart in this instance.

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Speaker 15: It's backing away from the whole thing because they're on

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Speaker 15: the nose.

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Speaker 3: That couple.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely well.

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Speaker 3: They were at the Saturday Night Live fiftieth anniversary day

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Speaker 3: made their red carpet appearance. I think it was the

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Speaker 3: first one they've had since this whole saga began with

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Speaker 3: Justin Baldoni and that lawsuit was launched. But have a

791
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Speaker 3: look at this rather embarrassing little skit that Ryan Reynolds

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Speaker 3: was involved with, and you can see Blake Lively sitting

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Speaker 3: next to him.

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Speaker 7: How's it going great?

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Speaker 1: Bye? What have you heard? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Okay?

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Speaker 14: My question is that you know that the materials that

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Speaker 14: they made the cone heads with are those are those edible?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 8: And based on them being made in nineteen seventy five,

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Speaker 8: I'd assume that they're highly toxic.

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Speaker 14: Oh oh, okay, So somebody hypothetically took a couple of.

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Speaker 7: Nables backstage and got excited. Should they go to the

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Speaker 7: hospital or should they.

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Speaker 8: Yes, they should go to the hospital right away.

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Speaker 3: Good Saturday Night Live supposed to be a comedy showman

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Speaker 3: Get me in Italy, Breda.

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Speaker 2: I need to stitch up my sides.

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Speaker 3: Every bit I've seen out of that special has just

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Speaker 3: been more cringe worthy than the next.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to help them in.

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Speaker 7: I don't think so.

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Speaker 15: No build there and the face on her she did

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Speaker 15: not seem happy with that.

816
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Speaker 2: And maybe she read the skit and knew how badly.

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Speaker 15: Was so she knew what was going, what was coming.

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Speaker 15: Their people worked with the producers of Saturday Night Life

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Speaker 15: on that joke, so she knew it was coming. So

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Speaker 15: is she acting when she looks shocked?

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Speaker 7: She probably is.

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Speaker 15: She's not such a great actress.

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Speaker 3: We've mentioned Meghan Markle, and she's been forced to change

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Speaker 3: the name of her lifestyle brand from American Riviera Orchard.

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Speaker 2: Why that's such a great name, just rolls off the time.

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Speaker 3: It's now called as Ever, following a series of trademarks setbacks,

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Speaker 3: including just this station laughing at it incessantly.

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Speaker 2: But now Meghan is under fire over.

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Speaker 3: The new logo for as Ever. She has been accused

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Speaker 3: of copy the coat of arms for the village of

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Speaker 3: Where in Majorca. On the left is her logo, and

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Speaker 3: on the right is the villagers. So compare your Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're pretty similar, I guess. The mayor of that town

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Speaker 3: told the local newspaper the likeness was surreal and that

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Speaker 3: the town hall was deciding whether or not to take

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Speaker 3: legal action against the duchess.

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Speaker 2: I laughed, because it's ridiculous. But can she do anything right?

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Speaker 3: I mean, this ridiculous brand was launched with this absurd

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Speaker 3: name that I've had so much fun with, and she's

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Speaker 3: managed to sell about three jars of strawberry jam that

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Speaker 3: seems to be the entirety of the business.

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Speaker 15: I don't think she sold any she gave them away.

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Speaker 7: And that was twelve months ago. We've been waiting for

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Speaker 7: the jam.

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Speaker 15: We've been promised more jam readers, and don't stress, it's coming. Yeah,

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Speaker 15: look at the logo, I think, look at it.

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Speaker 7: The town is Pereirees. I've never been there.

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Speaker 15: It's only tiny, and I think they're only jumping on

849
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Speaker 15: this for the publicity of it. But the logos are

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Speaker 15: incredibly similar, so she can't do anything original at all.

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Speaker 15: And even this much vaunted Netflix show where she's going

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Speaker 15: to put a walnut next to a slice of melon,

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Speaker 15: next to a slice of cheese or whatever she's going to.

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Speaker 7: Do that will not be original.

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Speaker 15: We know from her, I keep seeing this new brand

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Speaker 15: as ever dropped the A and you've just got sever

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Speaker 15: and she knows a lot about severing things, doesn't she relationships.

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Speaker 3: With There is a great name actually that's strong. Should

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Speaker 3: have gone with that, and yes she knows all about it.

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Speaker 3: Before you go, just quickly, there's been another development in

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Speaker 3: Elon Musk's latest baby mama drama. Do you love saying

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Speaker 3: that now the Ashley Sinclair she's supposed to be the

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Speaker 3: latest baby mama, has made Musk's baby news. He hasn't

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Speaker 3: really owned up to this, so we're saying alleged Musk

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Speaker 3: baby and she's now saying that he's essentially ghosted her, disappeared.

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Speaker 15: From her life, purely not Something doesn't add up with

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Speaker 15: this whole scenario. Firstly, she said she went public because

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Speaker 15: there was a tabloid journal snipping around.

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Speaker 7: Where's the journal?

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Speaker 15: Where's the tabloid story? If you were the journo who

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Speaker 15: was onto that story, you'd be telling everyone that was me.

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00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 15: I was onto it exactly. He's been, from what we

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Speaker 15: can tell, in his own unique way, a responsible father

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Speaker 15: with all twelve of his children so far, so for

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Speaker 15: him to not even acknowledge there does seem to be

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Speaker 15: something not quite right with this entire story. So maybe

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Speaker 15: he's asking for a paternity test.

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Speaker 3: When you're worth whatever he is worth. I don't know,

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Speaker 3: three four hundred billion. Probably a paternity test is a

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Speaker 3: good idea. Yeah, Dummley, thank you, so spend your time,

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Speaker 3: and that's all the time we have. I'll see you

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Speaker 3: tomorrow night at eleven up. Next is Newsnight.