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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting in Whip with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Tenacious Stey Jack Black. This story you'll

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Speaker 1: see all over the news today. It was a shocker.

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Speaker 1: It's really bad. So let me paint a picture for you.

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Speaker 1: Tenacious Tea have just kicked off their Australian tour. We

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Speaker 1: saw the footage of them coming into the country the

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Speaker 1: other day. Jack Black and his long socks and he's

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Speaker 1: signing signatures and anyway, so this is the morning. This

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Speaker 1: is on Sunday. This is the morning that we woke

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Speaker 1: up to find out that Donald Trump assassination attack had happened. Now,

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Speaker 1: it happened to be on that day that they had

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Speaker 1: a show that night and Jack Black's bandmate, Kyle Gas,

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Speaker 1: it was his birthday. Now on stage, as they sing

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Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, a cake is brought out to Kyle. Kyle

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Speaker 1: then asks he's asked for a birthday wish and he

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Speaker 1: makes a statement. Have a listen to the audio.

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Speaker 2: Time.

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Speaker 1: If you didn't pick up on what he said, it

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Speaker 1: was don't miss Trump next time.

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Speaker 3: Now, from the reaction of the crowd, you would have

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Speaker 3: felt that you would have got away with it because

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Speaker 3: a majority of the crowd was sort of laughing and cheering,

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Speaker 3: but I think you know, when these things then get.

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Speaker 2: Into the media, it's escalated.

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Speaker 4: So they then had to cancel the Newcastle gig, which

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Speaker 4: was the night after Whip, which a lot of people

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Speaker 4: in Newcastle here were fuming because they had to make

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Speaker 4: the trip.

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Speaker 1: And Jack Black, I mean, we've had him on the

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Speaker 1: show numerous times. He's obviously a very funny guy. He's

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Speaker 1: obviously a very smart guy. He was in shock. He said,

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Speaker 1: I've been blindsided by what his mate has come out

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Speaker 1: and said and the comment that was made publicly on

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Speaker 1: the night. I mean, they don't support Donald Trump, but

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Speaker 1: they certainly don't support that kind of behavior either. So

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Speaker 1: I think what happened with the crowd. If you hear

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Speaker 1: everybody each year and sort of yeah, scream out, Really

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Speaker 1: they're lost in the hype of the moment, and probably

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Speaker 1: half of them didn't even hear what he said. But

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Speaker 1: don't miss Trump next time. So Jack Black has come

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Speaker 1: out and said I would never condone hate speech or

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Speaker 1: encourage political violence in any form. After much ref reflection,

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Speaker 1: I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the

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Speaker 1: tenacious detour.

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Speaker 2: So it's all the whole tour is off.

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Speaker 4: We've found out this morning and frontia'te hearing and looking

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Speaker 4: after this, and they do an amazing job. But I

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Speaker 4: dare say that this would have got quite serious. There

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Speaker 4: would have been threats Jack Black. I mean that both

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Speaker 4: of them have families. You then think to yourself, can

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Speaker 4: we go on stage and be exposed. I think they've

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Speaker 4: had to make the right decision here.

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Speaker 1: Kyl, who made the comment come out, said the line

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Speaker 1: improvised on stage Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate,

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Speaker 1: dangerous and a terrible mistake. I don't condone violence of

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Speaker 1: any kind in any form against anyone.

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Speaker 4: We were talking about this before as well. And Jack

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Speaker 4: Black is you know he is also in a lot

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Speaker 4: of children's movies. Yeah, I mean, and I know that

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Speaker 4: he supports He was at a rally for Joe Biden recently.

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Speaker 4: You were just saying, but you know, like this, this,

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's you just cannot go into those areas.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you can obviously think it, but you know,

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Speaker 4: when you're on stage and you have that platform, you

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Speaker 4: cannot be promoting anything like that.

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Speaker 1: Do you need to cancel the tour? I mean it's

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Speaker 1: a shocker. I mean, the tour probably can't go on

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Speaker 1: with that Kylon stage. So you'd need to consider that

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Speaker 1: he would need to be there because he's a big

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Speaker 1: part of it.

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Speaker 4: Well, no, it's the it'd be the whole band, and

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Speaker 4: the unfortunate thing is that you would have people threatening

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Speaker 4: both of them.

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Speaker 2: Now, so my question to you is, let's say.

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Speaker 4: It was you, you have a family and you get

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Speaker 4: a gig tonight Whip and you're getting death threats.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to go up there and perform in Australia?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Probably, Oh that's why he's the bestius g No, I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Whip Flea.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you'd have to weigh the whole. It's impossible for

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Speaker 1: me to say I'm not in the situation, but I wonder,

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Speaker 1: like I mean, it is, it is a shocker, like

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Speaker 1: what he said is the worst, But I wonder. I

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Speaker 1: just think of like you were talking about the shows

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Speaker 1: that were coming up, and people came out and said,

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Speaker 1: we flew into town, we got the train, we bought accommodation.

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Speaker 2: I don't care we did all of this. People's safety

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Speaker 2: is the number that's paramount.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a risk, no.

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Speaker 2: Not, But if there's death threats from.

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Speaker 1: People in We don't know that. We don't know that

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Speaker 1: at all.

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Speaker 2: But also it looks like the whole group they've split up,

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Speaker 2: have they? Yeah goes out.

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Speaker 4: He goes on on his statement and says he's put

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Speaker 4: all creative projects for Tenacious Tea on hold, so they're

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Speaker 4: not doing anything.

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Speaker 1: How angry would you be if you're Jack Black at

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Speaker 1: you mate, Kyle, like you would be.

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Speaker 4: I think they have the same sense of humor. But

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Speaker 4: I know, I know we make mistakes. We've done it

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Speaker 4: on this show.

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Speaker 2: Not me a freaking the amount of threats I get

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Speaker 2: that guy off air.

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