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Speaker 1: You're listening to I'm Ama Mia podcast. Good morning, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Quickie. I'm Claire Murphy. Week one of the

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Speaker 1: Milano Cortina Winter Olympics is done and dusted, and quite

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Speaker 1: a bit has happened. Today. We'll take you through the

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Speaker 1: highs and lows of some of the biggest names in

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Speaker 1: winter sport. We'll find out how our Rossie athletes are fared,

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Speaker 1: plus give you some behind the scenes dramas of the games.

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Speaker 1: As we introduce you to the quad God Line Guy

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Speaker 1: and tiramasou Man. I promise this will all make sense

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Speaker 1: eventually before we reveal their identities. Here's the latest from

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Speaker 1: the Quickie newsroom, Friday, February thirteen. The special Party Room

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Speaker 1: meeting to decide the future of the Liberal leadership is

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Speaker 1: set for nine am today after weeks of speculation over

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Speaker 1: Susan Lee's ability to lead the party following division over

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Speaker 1: voting for the new hate Crimes Bill and the subsequent

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Speaker 1: split from the Nationals culminated in Angus Taylor and several

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Speaker 1: other front bench colleagues resigning from their positions. Yesterday, in

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Speaker 1: preparation for the leadership's spill, mister Taylor released a video

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Speaker 1: explaining that he didn't believe Susan Lee, the party's first

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Speaker 1: ever female leader, was able to lead the party the

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Speaker 1: way it needed to be led. He believes he now

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Speaker 1: has the numbers to win the leadership, with sources saying

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Speaker 1: both mister Taylor and Miss Lee's supporters both admitting that

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Speaker 1: he does. Miss Lee has not spoken publicly about the

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Speaker 1: impending spill, instead publishing a series of social media posts

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Speaker 1: in which he offered a better future and promising to

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Speaker 1: ease the squeeze. While speculation over threats to her leadership

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Speaker 1: started in late twenty twenty five, Liberals began openly contemplating

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Speaker 1: a leadership change after a news poll published in The

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Speaker 1: Australian on Monday showed the coalition had slipped to a

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Speaker 1: primary vote of just eighteen percent. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: support for Pauline Hansen's One Nation has surged to twenty

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Speaker 1: seven percent. Israeli President Isaac Hersog has wrapped up his

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Speaker 1: visit to Australia, with thousands taking to the streets in

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Speaker 1: a final wave of protests marking the end of a

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Speaker 1: controversial week. Mister Herzog concluded his final, closely guarded four

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Speaker 1: day visit to Melbourne on Thursday, where he met senior

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Speaker 1: politicians and community leaders. Despite the President declaring there was

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Speaker 1: hope in the air in his final speech, about ten

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Speaker 1: thousand people gathered on the steps of Flinders Street station,

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Speaker 1: saying he was not welcome. The demonstrators remained largely peaceful,

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Speaker 1: despite a small scuffle breaking out as Palestinian organizer Tasnim

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Speaker 1: Samak addressed the crowd. Victoria Police said special powers granted

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Speaker 1: for the event were not used. Meanwhile, President Herzog addressed

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Speaker 1: more than five hundred Jewish and Victorian leaders and senior

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Speaker 1: school students, claiming his visit to Melbourne had ignited a

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Speaker 1: we returned to Israel feeling empowered because we've seen firsthand

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Speaker 1: the beauty and resilience of this community. US President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's borders are Tom Hoeman has announced that the ICE

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Speaker 1: immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, known as Operation Metro Surge, will

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Speaker 1: be wound down. The move comes weeks after two people

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Speaker 1: The thousands of agents at one point believed to outnumber

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Speaker 1: the local police force, will now leave Minneapolis. The head

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Speaker 1: of Meta's Instagram has testified during a landmark social media

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Speaker 1: that people can be clinically addicted to social media. The

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Speaker 1: where plaintiffs are seeking to hold social media companies responsible

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Speaker 1: for harms to children who use their platforms. Meta Platforms

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Speaker 1: and Google's YouTube are the two remaining defendants in the case,

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Speaker 1: which TikTok and Snapchat have settled. Adam Masseri, who has

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Speaker 1: When quizzed about his use of the word addiction when

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Speaker 1: years ago, Masi said he was probably using the term

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Speaker 1: a twenty year old identified only by the initials KGM,

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Speaker 1: whose lawsuit could determine how thousands of similar lawsuits against

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Speaker 1: plaintiffs have been selected to essentially may be test cases

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Speaker 1: before a jury. Masi was asked about the impact on

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Speaker 1: long term profit. Masi responded saying often people try to

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Speaker 1: saying it's really hard to imagine any instance where prioritizing

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Speaker 1: James van Derbeek, saying it's a lot to process. In

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Speaker 1: thank you. To share space with your imagination is sacred,

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Speaker 1: breathing the same air in the land of make believe

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Speaker 1: and trusting that each other's hearts are safe in their expression.

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Speaker 1: Vanderbeek died on Wednesday, aged forty eight, after suffering from

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Speaker 1: bow cancer. Holmes went on to talk about her memories

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Speaker 1: on it. That's what's happening in the world today. Next,

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Speaker 1: everything we've learned from Week one of the Winter Games.

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Speaker 1: On Friday last week in Italy, the Winter Olympics kicked off,

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Speaker 1: where for the first time, the opening ceremony was held

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Speaker 1: Two cauldrons were simultaneously lit for the first duel hosting

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Speaker 1: of an Olympic Games at the Milano Arco della Pache

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Speaker 1: the Arch of Peace and Cortinas Piazza di Bona. I

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Speaker 1: speaks Italian. The ceremony introduces to Italian maestro's Verdi, Puccini

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Speaker 1: and Rassini in their bigger headed form, and Ray Carey

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Speaker 1: sang volare, which means fly in Italian, which many Winter

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Speaker 1: Olympians do literally. Why is an American performing at a

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Speaker 1: each other every year, but Italian tenor Andrea Bacelli did

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Speaker 1: also sing belting out in nessendormer as the Olympic Flame

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Speaker 1: to play you anything from the opening ceremony because media

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Speaker 1: outlets pay a lot of money for the rights to

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Speaker 1: We're only allowed little snippets and news bulletins with very

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Speaker 1: ceremony and the athlete's parade was time so that each

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Speaker 1: country's representatives all marched out at the various stadiums at

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Speaker 1: they weren't even allowed to tell each other in the

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Speaker 1: one was the comeback of veteran US skier Lindsay Vaughne.

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Speaker 1: Just days before the game, she'd crashed and tore horatio,

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Mark had a bit of a bail and had

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Speaker 1: next week, I get to ride. He had not done

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Speaker 1: questions as to why the Australian two women bob sled

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Speaker 1: The answer is because they're really nice humans who let

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Speaker 1: Sarah Blizzard, yes we have a Winter Olympian whose surname

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Speaker 1: if they could borrow their sled. Blizzard, who owns the

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Speaker 1: she'd bought it second hand. These things can cost up

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Speaker 1: like it was the right thing to do and to

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Speaker 1: give them mixed Nedlands duo a decent shot at winning.

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Speaker 1: Jake Paul, the former YouTuber turned boxer, was in the

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Speaker 1: crowd to watch his fiance, Dutch speed skater Yuta Lidam,

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Speaker 1: joyful tears blackened from her very obviously not waterproof mascara.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard about the quad God? Actual name is

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Speaker 1: Ilia Melanin. He's a twenty one year old figure skater

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Speaker 1: who's the first to land a jump that many thought

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Speaker 1: the video of him doing it in slow motion. The

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Speaker 1: done the first legal backflipping competition since it was banned

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Speaker 1: in the seventies. But before you give him all the praise,

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Speaker 1: look up the story of French skater Sarriya Bonelli, a

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Speaker 1: She's been asked how she feels watching Ilia do it

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Speaker 1: free skier Hunter hess was asked about his views on

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Speaker 1: the US. The next day, President Donald Trump took to

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Speaker 1: social media calling him a real loser. And Ozzie has

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Speaker 1: tally big air snowboarders always said. Owski. Signo was born

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Speaker 1: one of the sport's premiere tricks, a backside triple cork

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Speaker 1: fourteen forty Do I sound like I know what I'm

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Speaker 1: Remember the guy who went viral at the Summer Olympics

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Speaker 1: in Paris Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen when he went in

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Speaker 1: search of the athlete's village best chocolate muffin, dubbed the

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Speaker 1: muffin Man. He has officially passed the torch to a

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Speaker 1: new athlete, with Swiss snowboarder Eonics Hassler taking over the mantle,

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