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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 1: I'm Claire Murphy. This is Mumma me is twice daily

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Speaker 1: news podcast The Cookie. But rather than getting you up

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Speaker 1: to date with what's happening today right now, we're heading

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Speaker 1: back to the beginning to remember all the things that

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Speaker 1: have gone down this year, from presidential elections to an

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Speaker 1: Ossie Olympic breakdancing moment. Taylor Strano is joining me once again. Taylor,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to January to kick this off today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's start with January. Of course, this is a

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Speaker 2: story that was a bit of a hangover from December.

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Speaker 2: The year prior, a gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was known

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Speaker 2: for basically living with Munchausen's by proxy, killed her mum,

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Speaker 2: four she had this massive rise to fame. She had

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Speaker 2: a relaunch I think we called it. There was wedding,

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Speaker 2: a divorce. I think she's now having a baby. But

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Speaker 2: most importantly she was on the Kardashian She.

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Speaker 1: Was have a lizard. How is reentry?

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Speaker 3: Ben reentrys ben a world when for me, Yeah, unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: we are living at a residence and they're pressuring us

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Speaker 3: abrackground check. I think it's like this system is just

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Speaker 3: built to fail.

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Speaker 1: It really is. Yeah, to say that girl had to

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Speaker 1: glow up is an understatement. She's had a lot going

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Speaker 1: on this year. But she also has completely removed her

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Speaker 1: private life from her social media now, so we won't

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Speaker 1: get as many juicy updates of behind the scenes. I

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Speaker 2: Probably for the best. Something else that happened in Jen,

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Speaker 2: of course, the Oscars, the Oscar nominations. We're all still

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Speaker 2: obsessed with Barbie writing the Pink Coattails of Margot Robbie,

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Speaker 2: except for the Academy apparently because Barbie was snubbed.

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Speaker 1: Just what a crime against humanity That movie just it

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Speaker 1: really hit at the real crux of how women feel

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Speaker 2: Something else that happened across Jen, But I feel like,

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Speaker 2: just in general, whenever Taylor Swift is involved is the

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Speaker 2: NFL community. The men were so angry at her.

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Speaker 1: This year. Yeah, the men's got real mad because they

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Speaker 1: kept being told that Taylor Swift was basically bringing NFL

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Speaker 1: that they don't need no Taylor Swift. Who is she anyway,

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Speaker 1: And she's just immediate hungry and she wants the camera

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Speaker 1: her boyfriend's games and it's the camera operators choice to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was also a moment where people were accusing

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Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey, had such a terrible start to the season.

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Speaker 2: His team was still winning though, so I feel like

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Speaker 1: They won the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I think they're fine, which.

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Speaker 1: They then said was rigged because they would want the

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Speaker 2: As Phil's peak, America really is something else that happened

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Speaker 2: I reckon, maybe around the August September, yes, even post election.

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Speaker 1: Yea will get that bit idea. All right, well, let's

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Speaker 1: move into February and starting on a somber note. This

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you're complain we write, Claire. I know at the

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Speaker 1: is that nearly one hundred women have been murdered in

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the story of February. Oh, okay, the

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Speaker 1: story of February was that Charlotte the stingray, who lived

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Speaker 1: When we discussed this, Taylor was like, I don't think

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Speaker 1: This Yeah, this will come up a few times. But

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Speaker 1: quickly pivot into when Australia went wild because Taylor Swift's

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Speaker 2: The Mummere office was a light four weeks in fact,

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Speaker 1: There were so many sequins and sparkles and fringes and

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Speaker 2: It's all encompassing. And you're right. Her largest ever concept,

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Speaker 1: I've been to the MCG for a really big footy

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Speaker 1: crisis and Brad Banducci sat down and did this interview.

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Speaker 5: Rod Sims, the former head of the A Triple C,

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Speaker 6: It's lying, it's not true.

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Speaker 5: His words are the By the way, I don't think

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Speaker 5: you would impune his integrity and his understanding of competition.

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Speaker 1: Law.

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Speaker 6: I'm just saying the world has got much more competitive.

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Speaker 5: He retired eighteen months ago.

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Speaker 6: He's not okay, well, can we take that out? Is

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Speaker 6: that okay? I mean, he is retired, but I shouldn't

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Speaker 6: have said that. I guess are we going to live

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Speaker 6: it in there? If we are?

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean we're on the record, you said it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, let's let's move on. But yeah, yeah, no,

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Speaker 5: I think I'm done.

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Speaker 2: Guys.

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Speaker 3: You know I do this is good intent.

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Speaker 6: You know, I don't do this a bad intent.

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Speaker 5: You're walking out, really, and can we just talk about present?

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Speaker 3: Let me just a minute.

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Speaker 1: I just.

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Speaker 2: Like, cringe isn't even the right word at this point.

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Speaker 2: It's anger, it's cringe. Its second hand embarrassment. It was

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Speaker 2: just it was so bad, Claire.

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Speaker 1: Like, I have never done an interview where someone has said, oh,

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Speaker 1: we're just going to take that out right, sir, No,

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Speaker 1: you don't get to make that decision on the record,

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Speaker 1: my friend.

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Speaker 2: But also it's his media advisors leaping in to.

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Speaker 1: Say, hang on, hang on, hang understand, they've gone this

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Speaker 1: This felt like an apology for the photoshop fail. She went,

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Speaker 2: This is the Stormy Daniels which I thought we were

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Speaker 1: Okay, welcome back to the second half of the year.

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Speaker 2: That was strong.

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Speaker 1: Finish, Claire, can we just yes, my voice sounds terrible?

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Speaker 2: In the spirit of transparency, Claire, why does your voice

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Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake was in the Hamptons this year in June

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Speaker 1: smells like alcohol and he's a little bit wobbly and

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Speaker 1: a little bit slurry. So took him in and booked him.

439
00:20:43,334 --> 00:20:46,414
Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake says to him, oh, this is going to

440
00:20:46,534 --> 00:20:49,414
Speaker 1: ruin the tour, and the police officer, no word of

441
00:20:49,414 --> 00:20:53,374
Speaker 1: a lie, turned and said what tour had absolutely no

442
00:20:53,494 --> 00:20:56,854
Speaker 1: idea who Justin Timberlake is. I'm hoping he knows now,

443
00:20:57,174 --> 00:20:59,654
Speaker 1: but that's all kind of been I think he played

444
00:20:59,734 --> 00:21:01,454
Speaker 1: something and now that's all kind of gone on.

445
00:21:01,494 --> 00:21:03,054
Speaker 2: It was like, look, I had four minutes to save

446
00:21:03,094 --> 00:21:06,094
Speaker 2: the world. We don't have time for bos Oh.

447
00:21:06,134 --> 00:21:08,454
Speaker 1: I love that. Please take a moment for June twenty third,

448
00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:12,414
Speaker 1: because this day brought us the story that made Taylor

449
00:21:12,454 --> 00:21:16,854
Speaker 1: and I laugh out of every other story that came

450
00:21:16,894 --> 00:21:19,854
Speaker 1: across our desks this year, because June twenty third, and

451
00:21:19,854 --> 00:21:21,814
Speaker 1: I wish I practiced so hard to say it correctly

452
00:21:21,814 --> 00:21:24,934
Speaker 1: in French, but it's like dude or shit ins the

453
00:21:24,974 --> 00:21:28,134
Speaker 1: send something along those lines anyway, So yes, it was

454
00:21:28,134 --> 00:21:31,974
Speaker 1: shit in the Senne day. Please remind us Taylor, what

455
00:21:32,094 --> 00:21:33,534
Speaker 1: exactly sit in the Sun day was.

456
00:21:33,574 --> 00:21:36,574
Speaker 2: So essentially, if you forgot Paris hosted the Olympics this year.

457
00:21:36,614 --> 00:21:41,014
Speaker 2: As part of some of those open channel swimming competitions,

458
00:21:41,374 --> 00:21:42,934
Speaker 2: people were to get in the sand, which is that

459
00:21:42,974 --> 00:21:44,854
Speaker 2: big river that flows through Paris. They were going to

460
00:21:44,894 --> 00:21:46,294
Speaker 2: swim through it. I think it was part of some

461
00:21:46,374 --> 00:21:49,734
Speaker 2: of the marathons, the triathlons. If you haven't been the

462
00:21:49,734 --> 00:21:53,494
Speaker 2: water there is less than desirable to swim in.

463
00:21:53,614 --> 00:21:55,494
Speaker 1: It's like any river that runs through a major city.

464
00:21:55,854 --> 00:21:57,854
Speaker 1: It's like you don't jump an a era, No, it's

465
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Speaker 1: just you don't do.

466
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Speaker 2: It, absolutely not. Well you shouldn't anyway.

467
00:22:00,614 --> 00:22:02,734
Speaker 1: Gitarrans there just don't jump in city rivers.

468
00:22:02,814 --> 00:22:05,174
Speaker 2: No, there was a big campaign to clean up the scent.

469
00:22:05,374 --> 00:22:08,934
Speaker 2: It costs a lot of tax payer money. Parsians were

470
00:22:08,974 --> 00:22:11,694
Speaker 2: not happy about this. They thought that they would protest

471
00:22:11,774 --> 00:22:15,214
Speaker 2: in the ultimate way by dropping dak pooping in the Seine.

472
00:22:15,694 --> 00:22:19,014
Speaker 2: The day before the French leader Emmanuel Macron was set

473
00:22:19,054 --> 00:22:21,414
Speaker 2: to swim in there and show everybody that it was safe.

474
00:22:21,854 --> 00:22:24,694
Speaker 2: Safe to say, though that event was canceled.

475
00:22:24,774 --> 00:22:26,374
Speaker 1: Well, if there's one thing the French know how to do,

476
00:22:26,414 --> 00:22:30,054
Speaker 1: it's protest, like they really know how to get to

477
00:22:30,094 --> 00:22:32,894
Speaker 1: the center of the issue. And they ended up having

478
00:22:32,894 --> 00:22:35,334
Speaker 1: to post security along the banks of the send to

479
00:22:35,374 --> 00:22:39,454
Speaker 1: stop anyone who was going to PLoP in before Emmanual Macron.

480
00:22:39,614 --> 00:22:40,854
Speaker 2: You cannot save ploping.

481
00:22:41,774 --> 00:22:44,454
Speaker 1: Well, I just did so shit in sundaz is I

482
00:22:44,494 --> 00:22:47,014
Speaker 1: think the day of the year for us, so twenty

483
00:22:47,054 --> 00:22:50,534
Speaker 1: twenty four. But also something major happened in June that

484
00:22:50,694 --> 00:22:54,254
Speaker 1: was really unexpected, and that was when we heard that

485
00:22:54,494 --> 00:22:56,854
Speaker 1: Juliana Sange was coming home.

486
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Speaker 2: This was massive news. I know that not across the

487
00:23:00,414 --> 00:23:03,294
Speaker 2: entire country. Everybody sort of maybe it fell by the

488
00:23:03,334 --> 00:23:06,254
Speaker 2: wayside for them. They sort of forgot about Julian Nosange.

489
00:23:06,294 --> 00:23:06,854
Speaker 1: This was huge.

490
00:23:06,854 --> 00:23:10,054
Speaker 2: He was taken from the prison he was being held

491
00:23:10,094 --> 00:23:13,894
Speaker 2: in the UK, brought to a little island nation close.

492
00:23:13,614 --> 00:23:16,414
Speaker 1: To Australia, which is technically in American territory because he

493
00:23:16,414 --> 00:23:18,294
Speaker 1: didn't want to go to the American mainland to face

494
00:23:18,334 --> 00:23:19,894
Speaker 1: a court because he didn't know if they would ever

495
00:23:19,974 --> 00:23:21,214
Speaker 1: let him leave exactly.

496
00:23:21,334 --> 00:23:24,694
Speaker 2: And then eventually he touched back down in Australia towards

497
00:23:24,734 --> 00:23:28,334
Speaker 2: the back end of June. He was considered a free

498
00:23:28,374 --> 00:23:30,774
Speaker 2: man for the first time in fourteen years.

499
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Speaker 1: It's amazing. And you know, he holed up in the

500
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Speaker 1: Ecuadoran embassy in London for years and years and years,

501
00:23:35,654 --> 00:23:38,974
Speaker 1: and so much has gone on due to WikiLeaks putting

502
00:23:38,974 --> 00:23:42,054
Speaker 1: out all that information about the US military and some

503
00:23:42,214 --> 00:23:45,414
Speaker 1: of their international skirmishes and exactly what had gone down.

504
00:23:45,814 --> 00:23:48,694
Speaker 1: And you know, we thought that he was going to

505
00:23:48,774 --> 00:23:51,294
Speaker 1: end up in the US and potentially in jail forever,

506
00:23:51,454 --> 00:23:53,854
Speaker 1: if not if worse, if not worse than that. So

507
00:23:53,894 --> 00:23:56,094
Speaker 1: it was really it took us by surprise. But he

508
00:23:56,214 --> 00:23:59,094
Speaker 1: did actually speak to the media when he landed back

509
00:23:59,094 --> 00:24:01,054
Speaker 1: in Australia. It was really the first time we'd heard

510
00:24:01,094 --> 00:24:03,934
Speaker 1: from him, because we thought his health was in such

511
00:24:04,174 --> 00:24:06,934
Speaker 1: poor state that he was no longer able to do this.

512
00:24:07,534 --> 00:24:10,894
Speaker 8: The criminalization of news gathering activities is a threat to

513
00:24:10,934 --> 00:24:16,094
Speaker 8: investigative journalism everywhere. I was formally convicted by a foreign

514
00:24:16,214 --> 00:24:24,014
Speaker 8: power for asking, for receiving and publishing truthful information about

515
00:24:24,054 --> 00:24:24,734
Speaker 8: that power.

516
00:24:25,174 --> 00:24:27,614
Speaker 2: One last thing on Juliana Sange. Will be very interesting

517
00:24:27,694 --> 00:24:30,414
Speaker 2: to see between now and when Donald Trump is inaugurated

518
00:24:30,774 --> 00:24:33,614
Speaker 2: if he will actually get a pardon from outgoing President

519
00:24:33,694 --> 00:24:37,094
Speaker 2: Joe Biden. It's very, very unlikely that it had happened

520
00:24:37,174 --> 00:24:39,454
Speaker 2: under Trump. In fact, I would be worried something maybe

521
00:24:39,494 --> 00:24:42,294
Speaker 2: of the opposite effect would happen when Trump takes power

522
00:24:42,334 --> 00:24:44,934
Speaker 2: in the US. But there is still a chance that

523
00:24:45,014 --> 00:24:46,254
Speaker 2: he could be pardoned under Biden.

524
00:24:46,294 --> 00:24:48,374
Speaker 1: And saying that Biden's been thrown around pardons like his

525
00:24:48,494 --> 00:24:49,294
Speaker 1: no tomorrow.

526
00:24:49,054 --> 00:24:50,614
Speaker 2: So well negative and pardons.

527
00:24:51,494 --> 00:24:52,734
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into July.

528
00:24:52,894 --> 00:24:56,094
Speaker 2: Okay, looking at July speaking of Trump, the world was

529
00:24:56,094 --> 00:24:59,134
Speaker 2: thrown into complete chaos because that is when the first

530
00:24:59,214 --> 00:25:02,854
Speaker 2: assassination attempt on Trump happened. He was speaking to a

531
00:25:02,894 --> 00:25:06,374
Speaker 2: crowd at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. There are photos

532
00:25:06,814 --> 00:25:09,374
Speaker 2: all across the world of the moment that he was

533
00:25:09,974 --> 00:25:13,654
Speaker 2: maybe hit, maybe grazed on the by a bullet.

534
00:25:13,774 --> 00:25:16,454
Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw this, that remarkable photo. And I'm sorry,

535
00:25:16,494 --> 00:25:18,294
Speaker 1: I don't remember if he took it, but he's on

536
00:25:18,334 --> 00:25:21,654
Speaker 1: the ground, he's surrounded by his security people. Someone's managed

537
00:25:21,694 --> 00:25:23,654
Speaker 1: to take a shot, like through the gap of the

538
00:25:23,694 --> 00:25:27,054
Speaker 1: security people, of Trump's face as he's crouched down on

539
00:25:27,134 --> 00:25:29,494
Speaker 1: the stage and there's blood dripping down the side of

540
00:25:29,534 --> 00:25:31,814
Speaker 1: his face. And that's really the first vision we saw

541
00:25:31,854 --> 00:25:34,414
Speaker 1: and we were like, oh my god, Like, we haven't

542
00:25:34,454 --> 00:25:37,094
Speaker 1: seen an assassination attempt on a president in a really

543
00:25:37,134 --> 00:25:39,774
Speaker 1: long time. They do have quite an established history of

544
00:25:39,814 --> 00:25:42,414
Speaker 1: doing that. But he survived. And then there was a

545
00:25:42,454 --> 00:25:44,534
Speaker 1: lot of conspiracies off the back of that. Was he

546
00:25:44,614 --> 00:25:46,774
Speaker 1: actually hit by a bullet? Was he hit by shards

547
00:25:46,814 --> 00:25:49,054
Speaker 1: of whatever the glass was that was around him. So,

548
00:25:49,374 --> 00:25:52,414
Speaker 1: but after that moment, we saw that he attended rallies

549
00:25:52,414 --> 00:25:56,414
Speaker 1: surrounded by plexiglass, a bulletproof plexiglass. So and lots of

550
00:25:56,414 --> 00:25:57,974
Speaker 1: others too, got behind glass.

551
00:25:58,294 --> 00:26:00,774
Speaker 2: Claire, We forgot to include this, but I think it's essential.

552
00:26:00,814 --> 00:26:03,494
Speaker 2: The day, the entire Internet shut down, you couldn't pay

553
00:26:03,534 --> 00:26:06,454
Speaker 2: for groceries. The crowd strike action happened.

554
00:26:06,654 --> 00:26:08,894
Speaker 1: CrowdStrike, I forgot about that.

555
00:26:09,014 --> 00:26:09,254
Speaker 3: Do you know?

556
00:26:09,574 --> 00:26:12,134
Speaker 2: We forgot about it. Muma Mia wasn't affected. We still

557
00:26:12,134 --> 00:26:12,654
Speaker 2: had to come TOIME.

558
00:26:12,734 --> 00:26:15,774
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, okay, if you forgot.

559
00:26:15,774 --> 00:26:19,294
Speaker 2: People were abandoning trolleys all across the country because soupermarkets

560
00:26:19,334 --> 00:26:22,134
Speaker 2: had shut down. You were unable to scan and check out.

561
00:26:22,174 --> 00:26:24,534
Speaker 1: And then for like weeks after some of their electronic

562
00:26:24,574 --> 00:26:26,774
Speaker 1: signage DI didn't work. They had like page four h

563
00:26:26,854 --> 00:26:29,334
Speaker 1: four not found kind of vibe going on everywhere. Yeah,

564
00:26:29,334 --> 00:26:30,454
Speaker 1: I completely forgot about that.

565
00:26:30,494 --> 00:26:32,334
Speaker 2: Like I said, we still had to cover with folk.

566
00:26:32,574 --> 00:26:35,294
Speaker 2: And of course the paras Olympics happened in July.

567
00:26:35,694 --> 00:26:38,854
Speaker 1: So many things. Can I just say as a fan

568
00:26:38,894 --> 00:26:42,454
Speaker 1: of gymnastics and a former gymnast myself, this just felt

569
00:26:42,734 --> 00:26:46,294
Speaker 1: like the most amazing time to be uh you know,

570
00:26:46,654 --> 00:26:50,534
Speaker 1: watching gymnastics unfold. There was the first ever all black

571
00:26:50,694 --> 00:26:54,294
Speaker 1: women podium at that game. Simone Biles came back from

572
00:26:54,294 --> 00:26:57,614
Speaker 1: her shocker after Tokyo and sort of had her redemption

573
00:26:57,774 --> 00:27:00,214
Speaker 1: arc fully fulfilled. It was just it was a glorious

574
00:27:00,214 --> 00:27:01,614
Speaker 1: time to be a fan of gymnastics.

575
00:27:01,894 --> 00:27:04,734
Speaker 2: There were so many main characters that emerged from these games.

576
00:27:04,734 --> 00:27:07,654
Speaker 2: Simone Biles obviously, Snoop Dog was the unofficial.

577
00:27:07,174 --> 00:27:09,294
Speaker 1: Matt Why why, I don't know.

578
00:27:09,334 --> 00:27:11,414
Speaker 2: I'm we're not questioning it. We're just gonna go with it.

579
00:27:11,454 --> 00:27:13,054
Speaker 1: I mean, I loved it, don't get me wrong, But

580
00:27:13,094 --> 00:27:15,134
Speaker 1: I don't quite understand the connection. But I know that

581
00:27:15,174 --> 00:27:19,534
Speaker 1: he did commentate some equestrian in the previous years and

582
00:27:19,574 --> 00:27:21,774
Speaker 1: it was hilarious. So I'm presuming that's the link.

583
00:27:21,934 --> 00:27:25,654
Speaker 2: Absolutely, let us hold space for the Turkish shooter.

584
00:27:25,854 --> 00:27:29,494
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so cool. If you do not remember, this guy,

585
00:27:29,854 --> 00:27:33,134
Speaker 1: like everyone around him in the shooting is wearing protective

586
00:27:33,174 --> 00:27:37,534
Speaker 1: eye wear, they're wearing earmuffs, they're dressed in their team uniform,

587
00:27:37,654 --> 00:27:40,174
Speaker 1: They've got all the safety gear on. They look really cool.

588
00:27:40,534 --> 00:27:43,614
Speaker 1: This dude looked like he went from dropping his kids

589
00:27:43,614 --> 00:27:47,694
Speaker 1: off at school to the Olympic Games. He stood there

590
00:27:47,734 --> 00:27:50,814
Speaker 1: with barely a piece of safety equipment with his hand

591
00:27:50,854 --> 00:27:54,134
Speaker 1: in his pocket, and one I believe he was like, Oh,

592
00:27:54,174 --> 00:27:55,294
Speaker 1: this is an Olympic sport.

593
00:27:55,334 --> 00:27:57,214
Speaker 2: I do this in the backyard on the weekend. This

594
00:27:57,294 --> 00:28:00,294
Speaker 2: is easy, this is fine, hilarious very quickly as well

595
00:28:00,334 --> 00:28:03,174
Speaker 2: of course Australia's and Reygun There's that's taken on a

596
00:28:03,254 --> 00:28:06,214
Speaker 2: life of its own, and I want to hold space

597
00:28:06,694 --> 00:28:13,134
Speaker 2: once more for our pole Malter, specifically for the Polarar

598
00:28:13,214 --> 00:28:13,654
Speaker 2: pop alter.

599
00:28:14,414 --> 00:28:16,494
Speaker 1: Yep, that is a photo that I don't think I

600
00:28:16,534 --> 00:28:17,054
Speaker 1: will forget.

601
00:28:17,254 --> 00:28:23,054
Speaker 2: It's one to rival though. Okay, moving on to August.

602
00:28:22,734 --> 00:28:26,454
Speaker 1: Oki dokis so Oasis got back together this year in

603
00:28:26,494 --> 00:28:27,854
Speaker 1: a move that no one saw coming.

604
00:28:28,614 --> 00:28:30,294
Speaker 2: Do you're not the jury still out? We've got a

605
00:28:30,374 --> 00:28:32,014
Speaker 2: long way to go till I make it down Under.

606
00:28:32,054 --> 00:28:33,614
Speaker 1: That is so true. I feel like a lot of

607
00:28:33,614 --> 00:28:36,334
Speaker 1: people bought tickets just to see if they'll fight on stage.

608
00:28:36,654 --> 00:28:39,854
Speaker 1: So because the Gallaghers have got such a long history

609
00:28:39,894 --> 00:28:43,334
Speaker 1: of like publicly hating each other, we never in a

610
00:28:43,334 --> 00:28:45,094
Speaker 1: million years thought that they were getting back together for

611
00:28:45,134 --> 00:28:47,654
Speaker 1: a reunion tour. But maybe I don't know. Funds are low,

612
00:28:47,894 --> 00:28:50,174
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand the motivation because they haven't spoken

613
00:28:50,214 --> 00:28:51,574
Speaker 1: to each other in a long time as far as

614
00:28:51,654 --> 00:28:54,334
Speaker 1: I'm aware. But we shall see when they do actually

615
00:28:54,414 --> 00:28:57,854
Speaker 1: arrive on our shores later next year. Right to disconnect

616
00:28:57,894 --> 00:29:00,894
Speaker 1: laws kicked in August twenty twenty four, So boss, if

617
00:29:00,894 --> 00:29:04,734
Speaker 1: you're listening, meer Friedman. As soon as this is finished,

618
00:29:05,414 --> 00:29:07,014
Speaker 1: you can't call me anymore.

619
00:29:07,814 --> 00:29:11,534
Speaker 2: Until early January unless something really made that happens to

620
00:29:11,574 --> 00:29:13,014
Speaker 2: the news, and then of course we'll come to.

621
00:29:13,014 --> 00:29:15,614
Speaker 1: Work breaking news. We'll always cover that. And of course

622
00:29:15,734 --> 00:29:20,534
Speaker 1: the Paralympics began in August, and I need to note

623
00:29:20,534 --> 00:29:23,414
Speaker 1: and I cannot remember what country she was representing, and

624
00:29:23,494 --> 00:29:26,174
Speaker 1: I apologize for this, but I watched a visually impaired

625
00:29:26,174 --> 00:29:30,054
Speaker 1: athlete do the long jump, which for starters would be

626
00:29:30,214 --> 00:29:32,334
Speaker 1: terrifying if you're visually impaired. If you haven't seen this,

627
00:29:32,334 --> 00:29:34,494
Speaker 1: there's like a guide that stands at the jump off

628
00:29:34,534 --> 00:29:36,614
Speaker 1: point and they kind of clap and make noise so

629
00:29:36,654 --> 00:29:38,294
Speaker 1: that they know that they're running in a straight line

630
00:29:38,334 --> 00:29:40,814
Speaker 1: towards that person. And then that person has to at

631
00:29:40,814 --> 00:29:42,974
Speaker 1: the very last second duck out of the way. And

632
00:29:42,974 --> 00:29:45,134
Speaker 1: then this visually impaired athlete has to fling themselves out

633
00:29:45,174 --> 00:29:46,934
Speaker 1: into the unknown in the hopes that they land in

634
00:29:46,974 --> 00:29:49,094
Speaker 1: the sand pit at a really good distance. Talk about

635
00:29:49,134 --> 00:29:52,374
Speaker 1: jumping two feet in yes, like you would have to

636
00:29:52,414 --> 00:29:55,854
Speaker 1: have so much faith between yourself and your guide, and

637
00:29:55,934 --> 00:29:57,934
Speaker 1: like I was so impressed at how well they were

638
00:29:57,974 --> 00:30:01,854
Speaker 1: doing it. And then this woman jumped her long jump,

639
00:30:02,094 --> 00:30:05,374
Speaker 1: got up, brushed that sand off and then wandered over

640
00:30:05,454 --> 00:30:08,054
Speaker 1: to the track and wow, like a two hundred meters

641
00:30:08,134 --> 00:30:11,054
Speaker 1: or something. Oh my god, literally from the sand to

642
00:30:11,094 --> 00:30:13,094
Speaker 1: the starter's block. She was on the right field. She

643
00:30:13,214 --> 00:30:14,974
Speaker 1: was on the correct field. But it was like the

644
00:30:15,054 --> 00:30:17,854
Speaker 1: scheduling was so tight with some of these events, wow,

645
00:30:17,894 --> 00:30:20,214
Speaker 1: that they couldn't finish one without going to the next.

646
00:30:20,254 --> 00:30:23,294
Speaker 2: I can't play, like, I can't imagine competing professionally in

647
00:30:23,374 --> 00:30:25,174
Speaker 2: one sport, not one, two.

648
00:30:25,254 --> 00:30:27,334
Speaker 1: But they would often do several and there were a

649
00:30:27,374 --> 00:30:29,494
Speaker 1: lot of and even the Australian team did this too,

650
00:30:29,534 --> 00:30:31,454
Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of crossovers and we have to

651
00:30:31,454 --> 00:30:33,734
Speaker 1: know it too. We had some great Olympians and Paralympians

652
00:30:33,734 --> 00:30:35,214
Speaker 1: on the show this year. If you didn't get to

653
00:30:35,254 --> 00:30:36,694
Speaker 1: listen to those, go back and listen.

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Speaker 2: Well papalink to listen to those episodes in the show

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Speaker 2: notes of this EPP today. All right, September there was

656
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Speaker 2: so much news that happened. We find it in the

657
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Speaker 2: news cycle. There's usually spikes, spikes and lulls, spikes and lulls.

658
00:30:47,214 --> 00:30:51,374
Speaker 2: September was a big spike month. The French rape trial begins.

659
00:30:51,414 --> 00:30:55,534
Speaker 2: The name Giselle Pelicott became a household name for lots

660
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Speaker 2: of us here at Mamma Mia. There's lots and lots

661
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Speaker 2: to read about her on their Mumamea website. There's also

662
00:31:00,814 --> 00:31:03,654
Speaker 2: lots that we've done here on the quiki about Gazelle. Essentially,

663
00:31:04,014 --> 00:31:07,654
Speaker 2: it was found out historical charges of sexual abuse. She

664
00:31:07,734 --> 00:31:10,494
Speaker 2: was being drugged by her husband and then raped by

665
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Speaker 2: I think the number ended up being something like fifty

666
00:31:12,774 --> 00:31:13,774
Speaker 2: two individuals.

667
00:31:13,814 --> 00:31:15,414
Speaker 1: She think fifty two was the number of men who

668
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Speaker 1: they actually identified and took to court. There was more

669
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Speaker 1: than that.

670
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Speaker 2: It's quite a disturbing case. But the thing that was

671
00:31:21,774 --> 00:31:24,734
Speaker 2: so monumental about Gizelle Pelicot is that she not only

672
00:31:25,174 --> 00:31:27,854
Speaker 2: stood there in courtant face for people who allegedly did

673
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Speaker 2: this to her, she also took to the stand and

674
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Speaker 2: it was a really pivotal moment when we got to

675
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Speaker 2: hear her speak and testify about the impact that this

676
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Speaker 2: has allegedly had on her too.

677
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and she could have done this very privately. She

678
00:31:39,454 --> 00:31:41,694
Speaker 1: didn't have to be a public face of this, but

679
00:31:41,774 --> 00:31:44,614
Speaker 1: she chose to go public because she wanted a cultural

680
00:31:44,654 --> 00:31:49,934
Speaker 1: shift in France against this idea that somehow sexual assault

681
00:31:49,974 --> 00:31:55,054
Speaker 1: isn't that bad, or that victims are somehow contributing to

682
00:31:55,134 --> 00:31:57,814
Speaker 1: this themselves, even though this is called chemical submission. She

683
00:31:57,894 --> 00:31:59,614
Speaker 1: had no saying this and had no idea this was

684
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Speaker 1: even happening at the time. So like, if anyone should

685
00:32:02,694 --> 00:32:04,214
Speaker 1: have been Time Person of the Year, it should have

686
00:32:04,214 --> 00:32:08,134
Speaker 1: been Jazell Pelicott. Like that woman is an absolute boss.

687
00:32:08,614 --> 00:32:11,814
Speaker 2: Something else that happened in September the Murdocks went to

688
00:32:12,054 --> 00:32:16,134
Speaker 2: court Rupert Murdoch the real life succession Plan it's being

689
00:32:16,174 --> 00:32:20,494
Speaker 2: played out. They started a closed hearing in a Nevada

690
00:32:20,494 --> 00:32:23,534
Speaker 2: court about, quite literally the succession plan. What's going to

691
00:32:23,574 --> 00:32:26,614
Speaker 2: happen when Rupert eventually leaves this mortal coil? Will his

692
00:32:26,694 --> 00:32:30,454
Speaker 2: son Lachlan take supreme power? Spoiler alert The court case

693
00:32:30,574 --> 00:32:32,854
Speaker 2: has come to an end. That doesn't look like it's

694
00:32:32,894 --> 00:32:34,694
Speaker 2: going to be the case, but who knows. They could

695
00:32:34,694 --> 00:32:35,934
Speaker 2: be an appeal in the process.

696
00:32:36,054 --> 00:32:38,174
Speaker 1: So we're obsessed with the Murdocks. We so desperately want

697
00:32:38,214 --> 00:32:40,214
Speaker 1: to know what's really going on behind closed doors.

698
00:32:40,414 --> 00:32:45,614
Speaker 2: Something else that came from September was the relationship contract.

699
00:32:45,654 --> 00:32:48,574
Speaker 2: There was a contract that surfaced online looked like an

700
00:32:48,614 --> 00:32:51,894
Speaker 2: alleged relationship timeline for Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift. It

701
00:32:51,974 --> 00:32:53,334
Speaker 2: said that they were going to break up and it

702
00:32:53,414 --> 00:32:56,934
Speaker 2: all been signed, steal delivered, and it sent the internet

703
00:32:57,014 --> 00:32:58,734
Speaker 2: into a friends.

704
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Speaker 1: March twenty eight's the date if you've forgotten and you

705
00:33:01,254 --> 00:33:02,494
Speaker 1: want to just keep an eye on that. If they

706
00:33:02,534 --> 00:33:04,854
Speaker 1: break up around March twenty eight. We know that contract

707
00:33:04,894 --> 00:33:08,854
Speaker 1: was real, but we actually spoke to Travis Kelce's PR guy.

708
00:33:09,054 --> 00:33:10,734
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he might have shot himself in the

709
00:33:10,734 --> 00:33:14,934
Speaker 2: foot because this conversation admittedly did take place before Taylor

710
00:33:14,974 --> 00:33:17,694
Speaker 2: and Trav got together, but he kind of spelled out

711
00:33:17,734 --> 00:33:21,254
Speaker 2: for us and how Hollywood relationships.

712
00:33:20,934 --> 00:33:22,974
Speaker 1: Work, and he'd explained exactly how he done it for

713
00:33:23,014 --> 00:33:25,854
Speaker 1: clients before, and that looked very much like what was

714
00:33:25,894 --> 00:33:28,494
Speaker 1: going on here. So what was it fate? Well, watch

715
00:33:28,574 --> 00:33:30,374
Speaker 1: this space, I guess March twenty eight, get it in

716
00:33:30,414 --> 00:33:30,814
Speaker 1: your diary.

717
00:33:31,054 --> 00:33:33,094
Speaker 2: Something else that we could not turn away from this

718
00:33:33,214 --> 00:33:38,494
Speaker 2: year was the presidential debate Kamala Harris Donald Trump. They

719
00:33:38,654 --> 00:33:42,454
Speaker 2: faced off in a televised debate, which is where we

720
00:33:42,574 --> 00:33:48,494
Speaker 2: got so many questions not answered but raised.

721
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Speaker 1: Can we just mention this that was said about the

722
00:33:53,374 --> 00:33:56,054
Speaker 1: pets in a certain US.

723
00:33:55,814 --> 00:34:00,094
Speaker 4: Town in Springfield. They're eating the dogs, the people that

724
00:34:00,214 --> 00:34:04,454
Speaker 4: came in, They're eating the cats, they're eating they're eating

725
00:34:04,614 --> 00:34:08,454
Speaker 4: the pets of the people that lived there. And this

726
00:34:08,494 --> 00:34:10,334
Speaker 4: is what's happening in our country.

727
00:34:10,614 --> 00:34:12,294
Speaker 2: I actually don't think we need to spend any more

728
00:34:12,294 --> 00:34:15,254
Speaker 2: time no Trump and Harris because they appear so much

729
00:34:15,254 --> 00:34:18,734
Speaker 2: in the timeline and like that audio is fixed for itself.

730
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Speaker 1: But also Kamala Harris's facial gestures during that debate are golden.

731
00:34:23,174 --> 00:34:25,934
Speaker 2: Something that did come immediately after the debate though, Taylor

732
00:34:25,974 --> 00:34:28,454
Speaker 2: Swift two people were sort of on the fences. She

733
00:34:28,574 --> 00:34:31,134
Speaker 2: going to endorse somebody? Is she going to say anything

734
00:34:31,174 --> 00:34:33,734
Speaker 2: about politics, because at this point a lot of celebrities

735
00:34:33,734 --> 00:34:36,934
Speaker 2: had come out actively endorsing a one party or the other,

736
00:34:37,014 --> 00:34:40,374
Speaker 2: one candidate or the other. Immediately as the debate ended,

737
00:34:40,414 --> 00:34:43,734
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift posted online a picture of herself and one

738
00:34:43,774 --> 00:34:45,414
Speaker 2: of her cat's Swift is don't come for me.

739
00:34:45,454 --> 00:34:48,934
Speaker 9: I don't know which one, Meredith, maybe, Okay, that sounds good,

740
00:34:49,454 --> 00:34:53,734
Speaker 9: and with a very long explanation, endorsed Kamala Harris very publicly,

741
00:34:54,334 --> 00:34:57,374
Speaker 9: shouting out to the lonely cat women everywhere.

742
00:34:57,414 --> 00:35:00,454
Speaker 1: But yeah, unfortunately, that endorsement did not get her over the.

743
00:35:00,374 --> 00:35:03,934
Speaker 2: Line moving across to another part of the world. We

744
00:35:04,014 --> 00:35:07,494
Speaker 2: watched on in awe and I don't want to say amazement,

745
00:35:07,534 --> 00:35:11,534
Speaker 2: but it was quite astounding the level of engineering that

746
00:35:11,574 --> 00:35:16,454
Speaker 2: took place because HESBLA, multiple people from HESBLA were injured,

747
00:35:16,934 --> 00:35:21,814
Speaker 2: were killed when a bunch of their pager devices miraculously

748
00:35:21,894 --> 00:35:23,614
Speaker 2: spontaneously exploded.

749
00:35:23,814 --> 00:35:26,774
Speaker 1: This is probably the wildest espionage story of the year

750
00:35:26,814 --> 00:35:30,334
Speaker 1: because either because they blamed Israel for this, and either

751
00:35:31,054 --> 00:35:35,014
Speaker 1: Israel's intelligence is that good that they were able to

752
00:35:35,254 --> 00:35:39,374
Speaker 1: through back channels seldom communications hardware that was hardwired to

753
00:35:39,614 --> 00:35:44,214
Speaker 1: all explode simultaneously within a certain window, or they bought

754
00:35:44,254 --> 00:35:47,294
Speaker 1: a dodgy batch. We really don't know exactly what happened,

755
00:35:47,294 --> 00:35:50,134
Speaker 1: but it did. It maimed and it killed and it

756
00:35:50,294 --> 00:35:53,974
Speaker 1: injured like it was. It all happened like a movie plot.

757
00:35:54,094 --> 00:35:55,454
Speaker 1: It was wild, all these things.

758
00:35:55,454 --> 00:35:57,494
Speaker 2: By the way, in September one week, All of this

759
00:35:57,614 --> 00:35:59,934
Speaker 2: one week all happened the same week. No wonder we're

760
00:35:59,974 --> 00:36:02,494
Speaker 2: tired did He was also arrested in September.

761
00:36:02,694 --> 00:36:05,334
Speaker 1: That's right, he was too. Yeahsh A lot's happened since

762
00:36:05,334 --> 00:36:06,534
Speaker 1: that arrestannel.

763
00:36:06,054 --> 00:36:09,094
Speaker 2: A lot has he's finally gone. He's in jail. He's

764
00:36:09,094 --> 00:36:11,174
Speaker 2: remained in Dale that whole time. He didn't make bail

765
00:36:11,494 --> 00:36:11,814
Speaker 2: at his.

766
00:36:11,814 --> 00:36:13,774
Speaker 1: Court because he applied for bail and asked if he

767
00:36:13,814 --> 00:36:15,494
Speaker 1: could go stay on his private island.

768
00:36:15,894 --> 00:36:18,494
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder why they said no, no thing. His

769
00:36:18,534 --> 00:36:22,374
Speaker 2: court date is officially next year, though. Trump was also

770
00:36:22,614 --> 00:36:26,574
Speaker 2: an attempted assassination at his golf course in Florida.

771
00:36:26,814 --> 00:36:28,934
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one not quite as dramatic as the first one.

772
00:36:28,974 --> 00:36:30,654
Speaker 1: They just saw a guy hiding in the bushes off

773
00:36:30,694 --> 00:36:32,894
Speaker 1: the edge of his golf course with his rifle scope

774
00:36:32,894 --> 00:36:34,454
Speaker 1: pointing in Trump's general direction.

775
00:36:34,814 --> 00:36:36,854
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a moment where they weren't quite ready

776
00:36:36,894 --> 00:36:39,254
Speaker 2: to call it an assassination attempt. I think it's pretty

777
00:36:39,294 --> 00:36:40,574
Speaker 2: safe to say now it was.

778
00:36:40,694 --> 00:36:43,254
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, Okay, let's get into the best month of

779
00:36:43,254 --> 00:36:45,934
Speaker 1: the year because it is a certain quickie host's birthday

780
00:36:46,174 --> 00:36:50,654
Speaker 1: on Halloween. But to start off the month, this is

781
00:36:50,654 --> 00:36:53,054
Speaker 1: something that we did not expect, and that is that

782
00:36:53,134 --> 00:36:57,534
Speaker 1: we marked the one year anniversary of Harmas's terror attack

783
00:36:57,734 --> 00:37:00,414
Speaker 1: on Israel and what was the catalyst that has kicked

784
00:37:00,454 --> 00:37:04,734
Speaker 1: off on what is now a fourteen month conflict in Gaza.

785
00:37:05,094 --> 00:37:07,774
Speaker 1: It just seems like in the beginning, a lot of

786
00:37:07,814 --> 00:37:13,854
Speaker 1: the infighting between Palestinians and Israelis has been some rockets

787
00:37:13,894 --> 00:37:16,094
Speaker 1: were launched, and then things go quiet, and then it

788
00:37:16,174 --> 00:37:18,894
Speaker 1: escalates again, and then it goes quiet. This is full

789
00:37:19,254 --> 00:37:23,414
Speaker 1: scale war. There are accusations of genocide. Entire cities have

790
00:37:23,534 --> 00:37:27,974
Speaker 1: been leveled. Tens of thousands of Palestinian people have been killed,

791
00:37:28,014 --> 00:37:30,814
Speaker 1: a lot of them are women and children. There's a

792
00:37:30,814 --> 00:37:33,774
Speaker 1: lot of accusations being flung back and forth, and as

793
00:37:33,774 --> 00:37:37,334
Speaker 1: we speak, ceasefire negotiations seem to be ramping up again,

794
00:37:37,374 --> 00:37:41,134
Speaker 1: whereas they went quiet for some time, but still no result.

795
00:37:41,574 --> 00:37:45,014
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting to see the ceasefire negotiations pop up

796
00:37:45,614 --> 00:37:47,894
Speaker 2: every other week. It feels like at this point is

797
00:37:47,934 --> 00:37:49,894
Speaker 2: this going to be the one? Will this get over

798
00:37:49,894 --> 00:37:52,614
Speaker 2: the line? The UN General Assembly as well has voted

799
00:37:52,654 --> 00:37:56,574
Speaker 2: on this numerous times at multiple points throughout the year. Australia,

800
00:37:56,574 --> 00:37:58,614
Speaker 2: in the last couple of votes, has actually joined the

801
00:37:58,654 --> 00:38:03,854
Speaker 2: side of demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Whether

802
00:38:03,974 --> 00:38:06,894
Speaker 2: or not those actions are heard by Israel from the

803
00:38:07,014 --> 00:38:09,774
Speaker 2: UN is another question. We'll continue to update you that

804
00:38:09,814 --> 00:38:10,774
Speaker 2: story unfolds.

805
00:38:11,934 --> 00:38:14,334
Speaker 1: Another really sad moment from October, and one that really

806
00:38:14,334 --> 00:38:16,934
Speaker 1: shook everybody was the death of former One Direction sty

807
00:38:17,054 --> 00:38:19,894
Speaker 1: Lie in Pain And this is still an ongoing investigation,

808
00:38:19,974 --> 00:38:22,614
Speaker 1: so we don't fully understand what's happened here. But we

809
00:38:22,734 --> 00:38:24,974
Speaker 1: know that he was in a hotel in Argentina. He'd

810
00:38:24,974 --> 00:38:27,654
Speaker 1: been with his girlfriend, but his girlfriend had returned home.

811
00:38:28,294 --> 00:38:30,134
Speaker 1: He was by himself, essentially, but we know that he

812
00:38:30,174 --> 00:38:32,654
Speaker 1: spent some time with some young women in his hotel room.

813
00:38:32,934 --> 00:38:34,814
Speaker 1: We know that there were some drugs involved. They were

814
00:38:34,814 --> 00:38:36,534
Speaker 1: found in his hotel room. We know there were drugs

815
00:38:36,574 --> 00:38:39,534
Speaker 1: in his system. We know he fell from the balcony.

816
00:38:39,974 --> 00:38:42,214
Speaker 1: We know some people have been arrested in connection with

817
00:38:42,254 --> 00:38:46,734
Speaker 1: that for potentially supplying the drugs. It's just it's a

818
00:38:46,814 --> 00:38:50,894
Speaker 1: sad indictment on young people and fame and the little

819
00:38:51,054 --> 00:38:53,854
Speaker 1: support that they get. And this is what happens to

820
00:38:53,894 --> 00:38:57,094
Speaker 1: a lot of sports stars and those in the entertainment industry.

821
00:38:57,094 --> 00:39:00,654
Speaker 1: That they get famous real quick, real young. Their egos

822
00:39:00,694 --> 00:39:03,814
Speaker 1: are inflated beyond anything we could ever imagine. There are

823
00:39:03,854 --> 00:39:06,014
Speaker 1: people pandering to them, there are people who work for

824
00:39:06,054 --> 00:39:08,934
Speaker 1: them who can't front up, and you be real with

825
00:39:08,974 --> 00:39:11,374
Speaker 1: them because they can very easily get fired family do

826
00:39:11,454 --> 00:39:14,534
Speaker 1: what they can. But it really was this moment where

827
00:39:14,614 --> 00:39:17,014
Speaker 1: one direction, fans kind of all stopped and said, Oh

828
00:39:17,054 --> 00:39:20,014
Speaker 1: my god, that's it. We can never have them together

829
00:39:20,254 --> 00:39:20,734
Speaker 1: ever again.

830
00:39:21,414 --> 00:39:23,534
Speaker 2: Okay, strap in November was huge.

831
00:39:24,054 --> 00:39:25,974
Speaker 1: Oh didn't get a little sleep in November.

832
00:39:26,134 --> 00:39:28,374
Speaker 2: Truly, we did not. The US election happened at the

833
00:39:28,454 --> 00:39:31,174
Speaker 2: very start of the month. It was chaotic. There were

834
00:39:31,214 --> 00:39:34,054
Speaker 2: a lot of feelings and a lot of emotions flying around,

835
00:39:34,094 --> 00:39:37,534
Speaker 2: not just our office, but across the globe too. Trump

836
00:39:37,574 --> 00:39:39,694
Speaker 2: of course won the election. I want to say, in

837
00:39:39,734 --> 00:39:41,414
Speaker 2: a bit of a landslide. He took out all the

838
00:39:41,414 --> 00:39:42,134
Speaker 2: swing states.

839
00:39:42,214 --> 00:39:42,414
Speaker 1: Yep.

840
00:39:42,654 --> 00:39:46,534
Speaker 2: It was a massive victory. It cannot be understated. Prior

841
00:39:46,574 --> 00:39:49,854
Speaker 2: to the election. Immediately before the election, there were those

842
00:39:49,934 --> 00:39:53,134
Speaker 2: last ditch attempts from both candidates. We saw Harris pop

843
00:39:53,254 --> 00:39:56,334
Speaker 2: up on SNL Saturday Night Live. We also saw her

844
00:39:56,854 --> 00:39:59,934
Speaker 2: as a guest on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast,

845
00:40:00,654 --> 00:40:02,214
Speaker 2: an attempt I want to say, to win over that

846
00:40:02,294 --> 00:40:03,534
Speaker 2: young vote.

847
00:40:03,854 --> 00:40:06,694
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Trump trumpter, he truly.

848
00:40:06,414 --> 00:40:08,854
Speaker 2: Did trump her. He ended up on not just one

849
00:40:08,894 --> 00:40:12,534
Speaker 2: but two major podcast Joe Rogan's podcast and THEO Von.

850
00:40:12,814 --> 00:40:15,214
Speaker 1: Can we just give a massive shout out to Amelia Lester,

851
00:40:15,294 --> 00:40:18,974
Speaker 1: who we really leaned on throughout this entire US election cycle.

852
00:40:19,414 --> 00:40:24,454
Speaker 1: She gave us insight into how people like everyday ordinary

853
00:40:24,494 --> 00:40:27,574
Speaker 1: Americans were feeling about this on the ground. Also our

854
00:40:27,614 --> 00:40:29,694
Speaker 1: colleague Ruth who reached out to her a lot of

855
00:40:29,694 --> 00:40:31,414
Speaker 1: people that she knew who were based in the US

856
00:40:31,454 --> 00:40:33,014
Speaker 1: to give us an idea of how they were feeling

857
00:40:33,014 --> 00:40:36,814
Speaker 1: as this election result unfolded. Donald Trump comes with a

858
00:40:36,854 --> 00:40:39,814
Speaker 1: lot of interesting stories. So he will do and say

859
00:40:39,814 --> 00:40:41,374
Speaker 1: things over the next four years that will keep us

860
00:40:41,374 --> 00:40:44,654
Speaker 1: in business exactly, and for that we are thankful. King

861
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:47,174
Speaker 1: Charles and Queen Kimmela came down under. They did a

862
00:40:47,214 --> 00:40:49,494
Speaker 1: bit of a visit round the joint. Remember when the

863
00:40:49,494 --> 00:40:52,094
Speaker 1: premiers were like, nah, I'm cool. Thanks. Yeah.

864
00:40:52,334 --> 00:40:56,974
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. It's not nice when you throw

865
00:40:56,974 --> 00:41:00,174
Speaker 2: a birthday party and nobody shows up. It's worse when

866
00:41:00,174 --> 00:41:03,334
Speaker 2: you're a world leader and the heads of state don't

867
00:41:03,334 --> 00:41:04,214
Speaker 2: show up to that ere.

868
00:41:04,574 --> 00:41:07,854
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was almost like like we're not okay. I mean,

869
00:41:07,854 --> 00:41:10,174
Speaker 1: other than Lydia Thorpe, who really down.

870
00:41:10,054 --> 00:41:11,414
Speaker 2: In front of it, really did not want to go

871
00:41:11,454 --> 00:41:12,094
Speaker 2: to that party.

872
00:41:12,254 --> 00:41:15,214
Speaker 1: No, and like, more power to her. I actually really

873
00:41:15,214 --> 00:41:17,734
Speaker 1: am impressed by Lydia thought because she is doing what

874
00:41:17,774 --> 00:41:20,574
Speaker 1: politicians just don't do, and that is show the passion

875
00:41:20,734 --> 00:41:24,174
Speaker 1: and show that they understand that the colonization of this

876
00:41:24,254 --> 00:41:27,654
Speaker 1: country has had major impact still does on First Nations people,

877
00:41:27,774 --> 00:41:29,894
Speaker 1: and she's willing to kind of shout it from the rooftops.

878
00:41:29,894 --> 00:41:32,334
Speaker 1: But there is also a section of First Nations people

879
00:41:32,334 --> 00:41:34,534
Speaker 1: who also thought that it was disrespectful and she was

880
00:41:34,534 --> 00:41:37,974
Speaker 1: censured in parliament because of it. But I mean, I

881
00:41:37,974 --> 00:41:40,694
Speaker 1: think we're a bit met over King Charles. Like people

882
00:41:40,694 --> 00:41:42,734
Speaker 1: went and saw of them, but not the massive crowds

883
00:41:42,734 --> 00:41:44,254
Speaker 1: that would have turned out to see Elizabeth.

884
00:41:44,454 --> 00:41:47,374
Speaker 2: I know. And that's the commentary running commentary about a

885
00:41:47,454 --> 00:41:50,254
Speaker 2: royal visit, and since the Queen has passed, it is

886
00:41:50,334 --> 00:41:54,014
Speaker 2: the going rate that he's just not Queen Elizabeth.

887
00:41:54,174 --> 00:41:54,534
Speaker 1: He's not.

888
00:41:54,814 --> 00:41:57,454
Speaker 2: I remember when all the polligues were throwing shit on

889
00:41:57,454 --> 00:41:59,294
Speaker 2: each other because they were all getting flight upgrades.

890
00:41:59,374 --> 00:42:01,734
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is the weirdest story of the year,

891
00:42:01,814 --> 00:42:03,534
Speaker 1: don't you think, because it's like, of all the things

892
00:42:03,574 --> 00:42:06,454
Speaker 1: we could be throwing mud at the fact that politicians

893
00:42:06,494 --> 00:42:09,294
Speaker 1: get flight upgrades, which I presumed they got anyway, Like,

894
00:42:09,694 --> 00:42:12,094
Speaker 1: if you're the Prime Minister of Australia. I don't expect

895
00:42:12,094 --> 00:42:13,894
Speaker 1: you to be sitting next to me in economy, Like,

896
00:42:13,974 --> 00:42:16,534
Speaker 1: it just makes sense that he gets in business class

897
00:42:16,574 --> 00:42:17,814
Speaker 1: or whatever it is getting upgraded.

898
00:42:17,974 --> 00:42:20,494
Speaker 2: It'd be like, what media stunt? Are you trying to

899
00:42:20,534 --> 00:42:22,734
Speaker 2: pulter getting back here in cattle class?

900
00:42:22,814 --> 00:42:25,694
Speaker 1: Yes, but also it's like I'm also appreciative that they're

901
00:42:25,694 --> 00:42:28,374
Speaker 1: catching commercial flights and don't have private jets. So it

902
00:42:28,414 --> 00:42:30,254
Speaker 1: felt weird that they were like, oh, you got an

903
00:42:30,334 --> 00:42:32,014
Speaker 1: upgrade and then someone turned around said hey, didn't you

904
00:42:32,094 --> 00:42:35,614
Speaker 1: get one too, and they're like, oh, whoops. Yeah.

905
00:42:35,654 --> 00:42:37,254
Speaker 2: It's the same as when the Prime minister bought a

906
00:42:37,254 --> 00:42:39,094
Speaker 2: new house and everybody lost their mind, and it's like,

907
00:42:39,094 --> 00:42:41,934
Speaker 2: I'm sorry he's got to live somewhere, But also, do

908
00:42:41,974 --> 00:42:43,974
Speaker 2: we not have bigger fish to fry right now?

909
00:42:44,174 --> 00:42:45,934
Speaker 1: Yeah? Like, I know, it seemed a little bit in

910
00:42:46,014 --> 00:42:47,854
Speaker 1: poor taste because the entire country is like, well, I

911
00:42:47,894 --> 00:42:50,294
Speaker 1: can't afford a house and probably never will. But at

912
00:42:50,294 --> 00:42:53,654
Speaker 1: the same time, it's like he's the Prime Minister of Australia.

913
00:42:53,734 --> 00:42:55,374
Speaker 1: He's not going to go and live in a council

914
00:42:55,374 --> 00:42:57,694
Speaker 1: flat after he's kicked out of Kurabilly House, right.

915
00:42:57,614 --> 00:42:59,774
Speaker 2: No, but I'm pretty sure that's where Albo did start.

916
00:43:00,374 --> 00:43:02,574
Speaker 1: He came from. Yeah, that's where he came from.

917
00:43:02,974 --> 00:43:05,454
Speaker 2: Alan Jones was also arrested in November.

918
00:43:05,694 --> 00:43:08,614
Speaker 1: Wow. Look, there is a lot I could say about

919
00:43:09,694 --> 00:43:12,934
Speaker 1: members of the commercial radio industry of that ILK which

920
00:43:12,974 --> 00:43:15,494
Speaker 1: I legally cannot and will not say.

921
00:43:15,574 --> 00:43:16,934
Speaker 2: We don't have a big enough legal team.

922
00:43:17,014 --> 00:43:19,694
Speaker 1: We do not. But I was not surprised and Alan

923
00:43:19,814 --> 00:43:22,534
Speaker 1: Jones's arrest. In fact, I was more surprised that it

924
00:43:22,534 --> 00:43:23,414
Speaker 1: had taken this long.

925
00:43:23,614 --> 00:43:26,774
Speaker 2: Something else that happened in November, just a few weeks

926
00:43:26,774 --> 00:43:29,494
Speaker 2: ago from when you're hearing this episode of The Quickie,

927
00:43:29,734 --> 00:43:33,254
Speaker 2: the story of two Melbourne teenagers on the trip of

928
00:43:33,294 --> 00:43:37,334
Speaker 2: a lifetime who unfortunately their lives cut short due to

929
00:43:37,534 --> 00:43:41,134
Speaker 2: methanol poisoning. Of course, talking about Hollybowls and Bianka Jones.

930
00:43:41,174 --> 00:43:45,974
Speaker 2: They were on a trip backpacking through Lao and as

931
00:43:46,054 --> 00:43:48,614
Speaker 2: part of the group they were staying with in a hostel,

932
00:43:48,654 --> 00:43:50,294
Speaker 2: they all had a couple of drinks at the bar

933
00:43:50,814 --> 00:43:55,094
Speaker 2: all fell sick with methanol poisoning. Holly in Bianca, airlifted

934
00:43:55,294 --> 00:43:59,774
Speaker 2: to a hospital in neighboring Thailand, and eventually both passing

935
00:43:59,774 --> 00:44:02,854
Speaker 2: away while in hospital. Their families raced to be there.

936
00:44:03,294 --> 00:44:05,894
Speaker 2: The entire nation was gripped by this story because you

937
00:44:05,974 --> 00:44:08,254
Speaker 2: either have a child that you've had to let go

938
00:44:08,374 --> 00:44:10,694
Speaker 2: on a holiday or you some stage have been that

939
00:44:10,774 --> 00:44:15,294
Speaker 2: young person finding your independence on holiday like this, and

940
00:44:15,334 --> 00:44:17,814
Speaker 2: this is the absolute nightmare that keeps people up at night.

941
00:44:17,894 --> 00:44:19,654
Speaker 1: And for a lot of Ossies who traveled to Balley

942
00:44:19,734 --> 00:44:23,294
Speaker 1: quite frequently, were all warned about the potential for methanol

943
00:44:23,334 --> 00:44:25,494
Speaker 1: poisoning and not to drink local spirits like a rack

944
00:44:25,574 --> 00:44:28,414
Speaker 1: for example. But you just when you're a young person

945
00:44:28,414 --> 00:44:31,654
Speaker 1: and you're out, you know, having your gap year, like

946
00:44:31,774 --> 00:44:33,814
Speaker 1: you're going to take some risks. And if that risk

947
00:44:34,374 --> 00:44:36,014
Speaker 1: is just having a drink at a bar like it,

948
00:44:36,214 --> 00:44:39,454
Speaker 1: just it seems such a waste of a young life

949
00:44:39,494 --> 00:44:41,654
Speaker 1: who was just they were just aout to have a

950
00:44:41,654 --> 00:44:43,694
Speaker 1: really good time and a really great gap here. That's

951
00:44:43,734 --> 00:44:45,334
Speaker 1: such a sad ending to that story.

952
00:44:45,574 --> 00:44:48,134
Speaker 2: Something else to round out November, though on a lighter note,

953
00:44:48,814 --> 00:44:53,094
Speaker 2: it depends which way you approach this Wicked Part one, which,

954
00:44:53,134 --> 00:44:55,214
Speaker 2: by the way, I forgot this was only a part one.

955
00:44:55,254 --> 00:44:57,734
Speaker 2: There's another part to come. Wicked the movie Part one

956
00:44:57,854 --> 00:45:02,094
Speaker 2: came out Ariana Grande Cynthia Orrivo. People lost their mind.

957
00:45:02,134 --> 00:45:06,214
Speaker 2: There was collective crying in the streets, and Claire, we

958
00:45:06,294 --> 00:45:09,534
Speaker 2: simply must hold space for the most batshit pressed to us.

959
00:45:09,734 --> 00:45:13,654
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, wasn't it. I've never seen two stars

960
00:45:13,694 --> 00:45:15,494
Speaker 1: cry more in front of cameras than I have seen

961
00:45:15,534 --> 00:45:19,414
Speaker 1: on this press tour, or as much handholding or finger holding,

962
00:45:19,494 --> 00:45:24,734
Speaker 1: finger holding, sorry on nail holding I've seen this week.

963
00:45:24,774 --> 00:45:27,894
Speaker 7: People are taking the lyrics of defying gravity and really

964
00:45:27,934 --> 00:45:31,134
Speaker 7: holding space with that and feeling power in.

965
00:45:31,054 --> 00:45:35,214
Speaker 2: That musical theater is polarizing and the band of time.

966
00:45:35,294 --> 00:45:39,814
Speaker 1: I'm actually a massive musical theater and musical fan. Sure,

967
00:45:40,014 --> 00:45:43,254
Speaker 1: I wasn't hugely into I've never seen Wicked on stage,

968
00:45:43,294 --> 00:45:45,654
Speaker 1: but I understand you really like fanning out over it,

969
00:45:45,694 --> 00:45:47,854
Speaker 1: and especially when it does get to the cinema, because

970
00:45:47,854 --> 00:45:49,414
Speaker 1: it takes it next level and can give you an

971
00:45:49,454 --> 00:45:51,654
Speaker 1: experience that you can't get watching it in a theater.

972
00:45:52,254 --> 00:45:55,774
Speaker 1: But I didn't understand the emotional attachment to it and

973
00:45:55,814 --> 00:45:58,214
Speaker 1: why so many people were crying over it. And then

974
00:45:58,254 --> 00:46:00,454
Speaker 1: I understood that there was this beautiful friendship and this

975
00:46:00,534 --> 00:46:03,654
Speaker 1: wonderful kind of women lifting up other women narrative that

976
00:46:03,694 --> 00:46:06,854
Speaker 1: I wasn't aware of. And even our entertainment head of entertainment,

977
00:46:06,894 --> 00:46:10,494
Speaker 1: Laura Brodneck, who actually is Laura sat down had interviews

978
00:46:10,574 --> 00:46:13,694
Speaker 1: with Ariana and Cynthia, and Cynthia one on one, like

979
00:46:14,254 --> 00:46:16,494
Speaker 1: she said, she cried so much that she was making

980
00:46:16,574 --> 00:46:19,174
Speaker 1: the whole row of seats in the cinema shake like.

981
00:46:19,574 --> 00:46:22,494
Speaker 1: She's not a hugely emotional person, but I wish in

982
00:46:22,494 --> 00:46:25,094
Speaker 1: this life to be so moved by something like that. Yeah,

983
00:46:25,174 --> 00:46:27,054
Speaker 1: it's yet to happen. It is lovely And we'll put

984
00:46:27,094 --> 00:46:29,574
Speaker 1: linksin so you can have a listen to Laura's interviews too.

985
00:46:29,734 --> 00:46:33,254
Speaker 2: Okay, bring us home strong in December. What the heck happens?

986
00:46:33,414 --> 00:46:36,374
Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's start off by acknowledging the fact that

987
00:46:36,534 --> 00:46:41,494
Speaker 1: the conflict in Gaza does influence us here in Australia.

988
00:46:41,534 --> 00:46:44,454
Speaker 1: I mean, aside from seeing protests on the streets, which

989
00:46:44,454 --> 00:46:46,174
Speaker 1: we have done in the past year and a bit,

990
00:46:46,654 --> 00:46:50,414
Speaker 1: we have seen an increase in anti semitism. We've seen vandalism,

991
00:46:50,734 --> 00:46:54,214
Speaker 1: we've seen people's cars set on fire. Then we saw

992
00:46:54,254 --> 00:46:56,934
Speaker 1: the fire bombing of the synagogue in Melbourne, which is

993
00:46:56,974 --> 00:47:00,614
Speaker 1: now being investigated as a terror attack. And we would

994
00:47:00,694 --> 00:47:04,894
Speaker 1: like to take this moment to understand that tensions regardless

995
00:47:04,894 --> 00:47:06,974
Speaker 1: of what side of this conflict you feel like you

996
00:47:07,014 --> 00:47:10,254
Speaker 1: are more closely aligned to, we understand the passions coming

997
00:47:10,294 --> 00:47:12,734
Speaker 1: from both sides. What we do want to say is

998
00:47:12,774 --> 00:47:16,414
Speaker 1: that we here in Australia give people the opportunity to

999
00:47:16,454 --> 00:47:20,574
Speaker 1: speak freely, but when it comes to violence, absolutely one

1000
00:47:20,654 --> 00:47:22,574
Speaker 1: hundred percent not acceptable.

1001
00:47:23,294 --> 00:47:28,294
Speaker 2: Just no, No Australian or no person broadly should feel

1002
00:47:28,574 --> 00:47:31,494
Speaker 2: fear and intimidation when walking down the street in their

1003
00:47:31,534 --> 00:47:34,774
Speaker 2: own country. I would love that to apply across the world.

1004
00:47:34,814 --> 00:47:36,774
Speaker 2: We know that is not how the world works, but

1005
00:47:36,854 --> 00:47:39,694
Speaker 2: in your own backyard you should not feel unsafe, regardless

1006
00:47:39,694 --> 00:47:43,054
Speaker 2: of which side of the political religious spectrum you fall on.

1007
00:47:43,614 --> 00:47:46,214
Speaker 2: So it has been absolutely devastating to see not just

1008
00:47:46,294 --> 00:47:49,574
Speaker 2: these attacks and these acts of graffiti and defiance from

1009
00:47:49,654 --> 00:47:52,374
Speaker 2: wherever they come from and for whatever reason, but to

1010
00:47:52,414 --> 00:47:55,974
Speaker 2: see how it so affects a community after that, whether

1011
00:47:56,014 --> 00:47:57,934
Speaker 2: they are next door to it or whether they live

1012
00:47:58,014 --> 00:47:59,534
Speaker 2: inter state or across the world.

1013
00:47:59,814 --> 00:48:03,334
Speaker 1: On a much much lighter note, but also maybe grieving.

1014
00:48:03,054 --> 00:48:05,214
Speaker 2: For smelling Colleyes bittersweet.

1015
00:48:05,254 --> 00:48:09,214
Speaker 1: Bittersweet is that Taylor Swift's more than six hundred day,

1016
00:48:09,574 --> 00:48:15,014
Speaker 1: two year, multiple city, multi billion dollar years. Tour finally

1017
00:48:15,094 --> 00:48:18,014
Speaker 1: came to a close in Vancouver. Lord knows how many

1018
00:48:18,054 --> 00:48:21,294
Speaker 1: Friendship bracelets have been made. Lord knows how many yards

1019
00:48:21,334 --> 00:48:24,374
Speaker 1: of sequin material were sold at Spotlight stores across the country.

1020
00:48:24,454 --> 00:48:27,134
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Spotlight has single handedly lifted this

1021
00:48:27,254 --> 00:48:31,574
Speaker 1: country's within it just so we saw that she actually

1022
00:48:31,574 --> 00:48:34,654
Speaker 1: officially became a billionaire throughout this process as well, and

1023
00:48:34,974 --> 00:48:36,894
Speaker 1: that she is one of the first musicians ever to

1024
00:48:36,934 --> 00:48:39,854
Speaker 1: do so, just purely on the songs and the albums

1025
00:48:39,894 --> 00:48:42,654
Speaker 1: and the tours, et cetera that she has been on.

1026
00:48:43,134 --> 00:48:46,254
Speaker 1: And it's like we all collectively started to learn the

1027
00:48:46,334 --> 00:48:49,254
Speaker 1: law of Taylor Swift throughout this too, whether we wanted

1028
00:48:49,254 --> 00:48:51,094
Speaker 1: to or not. Whether we wanted to or not, there

1029
00:48:51,134 --> 00:48:54,774
Speaker 1: were theories and numbers and all the releases and the

1030
00:48:55,374 --> 00:48:57,454
Speaker 1: things we needed to look out for as clues, and

1031
00:48:57,534 --> 00:48:59,854
Speaker 1: it was just it's been our wild two years, but

1032
00:48:59,934 --> 00:49:01,694
Speaker 1: finally coming to when and we know Swifties are a

1033
00:49:01,734 --> 00:49:03,774
Speaker 1: little bit sad, but at the same time, I feel

1034
00:49:03,774 --> 00:49:06,374
Speaker 1: like they've collectively had this thing for two years that

1035
00:49:06,374 --> 00:49:09,174
Speaker 1: they've all banded together over and we understand now the

1036
00:49:09,174 --> 00:49:11,854
Speaker 1: SWIFTI these are actually quite a big political force, like

1037
00:49:11,894 --> 00:49:15,094
Speaker 1: they can actually make stuff happen, and they're single handedly

1038
00:49:15,174 --> 00:49:18,774
Speaker 1: like propping up a massive profit now that the NFL

1039
00:49:18,974 --> 00:49:22,534
Speaker 1: have because they're joining the footy to watch Travis Kelcey

1040
00:49:22,574 --> 00:49:25,134
Speaker 1: play too. So what an amazing couple of years that

1041
00:49:25,214 --> 00:49:29,854
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift has had. And we also saw a dictator overthrown.

1042
00:49:30,174 --> 00:49:32,254
Speaker 2: Just throw one in there for good measure this month.

1043
00:49:32,334 --> 00:49:36,654
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Bashah Alissade who's been the dictator of Syria

1044
00:49:36,814 --> 00:49:39,214
Speaker 1: for a couple of decades. His father was in power

1045
00:49:39,254 --> 00:49:41,014
Speaker 1: before that, so it's been a dictatorship for more than

1046
00:49:41,014 --> 00:49:44,614
Speaker 1: fifty years. And this is such a complex little story

1047
00:49:44,694 --> 00:49:48,734
Speaker 1: because if you understand that Syria is backed by certain

1048
00:49:48,814 --> 00:49:52,534
Speaker 1: foreign powers the dictatorship that is, that is Iran and Russia,

1049
00:49:53,134 --> 00:49:55,934
Speaker 1: but also there is backing from the other side from

1050
00:49:55,934 --> 00:49:58,094
Speaker 1: as far as the US is concerned. And then Lebanon

1051
00:49:58,134 --> 00:50:00,854
Speaker 1: also has a role to plane here too, as does Turkey,

1052
00:50:00,854 --> 00:50:03,694
Speaker 1: who border a share a border with them, and so

1053
00:50:03,814 --> 00:50:05,854
Speaker 1: all of this stuff has been ongoing for quite some time.

1054
00:50:05,854 --> 00:50:07,894
Speaker 1: There has been a fierce civil war going on for

1055
00:50:07,934 --> 00:50:12,014
Speaker 1: more than a decade when Russia is otherwise occupied with

1056
00:50:12,174 --> 00:50:16,534
Speaker 1: Ukraine at the same time as Iran is otherwise occupied

1057
00:50:16,574 --> 00:50:20,614
Speaker 1: by supporting those that they back in the Gaza Israel

1058
00:50:20,814 --> 00:50:26,614
Speaker 1: Israel Hezbollah conflicts. They just quietly rebellion overthrew a dictator,

1059
00:50:26,654 --> 00:50:28,654
Speaker 1: and now we have no idea if Syria will continue

1060
00:50:28,654 --> 00:50:30,334
Speaker 1: to exist as Syria for much longer.

1061
00:50:30,534 --> 00:50:33,654
Speaker 2: Yeah, as this is being recorded, it's very fresh in

1062
00:50:33,734 --> 00:50:36,134
Speaker 2: the news cycle. We're still waiting to see what will

1063
00:50:36,134 --> 00:50:38,614
Speaker 2: come of it. But at the current moment, the vibe

1064
00:50:38,654 --> 00:50:42,614
Speaker 2: in Syria is one of relief but also uncertainty. Yeah,

1065
00:50:42,654 --> 00:50:44,694
Speaker 2: having that regime overthrown.

1066
00:50:44,254 --> 00:50:47,894
Speaker 1: Because those rebels aren't just one homogenized group of people.

1067
00:50:47,934 --> 00:50:51,014
Speaker 1: They all have different things that they want to achieve

1068
00:50:51,054 --> 00:50:52,854
Speaker 1: from this political move.

1069
00:50:53,134 --> 00:50:54,934
Speaker 2: And the agenda is still not yet clear.

1070
00:50:55,174 --> 00:50:56,054
Speaker 1: That is very true.

1071
00:50:56,174 --> 00:50:58,254
Speaker 2: One more final one. We have to slip it. In

1072
00:50:58,294 --> 00:51:01,774
Speaker 2: December Time magazine Person.

1073
00:51:01,374 --> 00:51:05,094
Speaker 1: Of the Year. Drum roll, it's Donald Trum. Yeah, sorry,

1074
00:51:05,094 --> 00:51:06,974
Speaker 1: should have been Jazelle Pellicott. That's all I'm gonna say

1075
00:51:06,974 --> 00:51:08,774
Speaker 1: on that matter. Can we just take a little moment

1076
00:51:08,814 --> 00:51:10,614
Speaker 1: to talk about some of the geisty stuff that has

1077
00:51:10,614 --> 00:51:12,174
Speaker 1: happened this year? I love that we're just not going

1078
00:51:12,254 --> 00:51:15,334
Speaker 1: to talk about No, we're not gonna Okay, let's talk

1079
00:51:15,374 --> 00:51:18,414
Speaker 1: about the songs that got us through twenty twenty four.

1080
00:51:18,414 --> 00:51:20,374
Speaker 1: And I do not mean like songs on the charts.

1081
00:51:20,414 --> 00:51:23,134
Speaker 1: I mean songs are in your social media feed because

1082
00:51:23,214 --> 00:51:30,574
Speaker 1: this one and this one.

1083
00:51:30,454 --> 00:51:33,774
Speaker 5: I'm looking for a man and fine OUs fin Sex

1084
00:51:33,854 --> 00:51:36,014
Speaker 5: five their eyes fine.

1085
00:51:35,734 --> 00:51:38,214
Speaker 1: Ours both got us through like doom scrolling for many

1086
00:51:38,254 --> 00:51:39,054
Speaker 1: an hour this year.

1087
00:51:39,094 --> 00:51:41,294
Speaker 2: I actually forgot looking for a out in finance happened

1088
00:51:41,334 --> 00:51:44,214
Speaker 2: this year because there have been so many iterations and remixes.

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00:51:44,534 --> 00:51:46,814
Speaker 1: Okay, who's your icon of the year? I have listed

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00:51:46,854 --> 00:51:48,534
Speaker 1: off three here If you have any you would like

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00:51:48,614 --> 00:51:50,774
Speaker 1: to add. But my three icons of the year, of

1092
00:51:50,814 --> 00:51:53,374
Speaker 1: course are ray Gun Yep. Whether you think she faked

1093
00:51:53,414 --> 00:51:56,014
Speaker 1: that or not, we're still talking about it. My second

1094
00:51:56,054 --> 00:51:59,534
Speaker 1: is Moodang of course, the tiny little hippopotamus who is like,

1095
00:51:59,774 --> 00:52:02,774
Speaker 1: oh my god, she's so cute and like has taken

1096
00:52:02,854 --> 00:52:05,014
Speaker 1: social media by storm. And then, of course we have

1097
00:52:05,094 --> 00:52:09,334
Speaker 1: our own homegrown icon, which is Pesto. Everyone who is

1098
00:52:09,334 --> 00:52:10,174
Speaker 1: a unit?

1099
00:52:12,294 --> 00:52:14,734
Speaker 2: I've never heard it of penguin described as a unit.

1100
00:52:14,934 --> 00:52:19,254
Speaker 2: May I also enter into this category of animal icons.

1101
00:52:19,614 --> 00:52:22,134
Speaker 2: We have to, of course, in the Like Award ceremony

1102
00:52:22,174 --> 00:52:23,774
Speaker 2: section when they do the Inn memorial.

1103
00:52:23,974 --> 00:52:27,494
Speaker 1: Oh yes for Charlotte the story Yeah, Charlotte, May she

1104
00:52:27,574 --> 00:52:33,454
Speaker 1: rest in peacec okay, very quickly the moments on social media,

1105
00:52:33,454 --> 00:52:35,694
Speaker 1: you might have forgot this happened this year, but Reesa teases,

1106
00:52:35,734 --> 00:52:37,614
Speaker 1: who the fuck did I marry? Okay?

1107
00:52:38,134 --> 00:52:42,734
Speaker 10: So this is part six, Part seventeen, Part thirty six,

1108
00:52:42,934 --> 00:52:45,934
Speaker 10: Part twenty nine, Who the fuck did I Mary?

1109
00:52:46,214 --> 00:52:49,214
Speaker 1: Part fifty, Who the fuck did I Mary?

1110
00:52:49,974 --> 00:52:54,094
Speaker 10: So the aftermath, there are some realizations I had to

1111
00:52:54,134 --> 00:52:54,614
Speaker 10: come to.

1112
00:52:56,054 --> 00:53:02,534
Speaker 1: After the divorce and everything wild. Fifty tiktoks was it?

1113
00:53:02,574 --> 00:53:05,214
Speaker 2: I think it's about fifty is allegedly being made into

1114
00:53:05,254 --> 00:53:08,054
Speaker 2: a TV series now I cannot wait.

1115
00:53:08,294 --> 00:53:11,654
Speaker 1: Amazing Taylor Strato, So thank you so much for sitting

1116
00:53:11,694 --> 00:53:14,174
Speaker 1: us through what was twenty twenty four. It's been a

1117
00:53:14,214 --> 00:53:16,854
Speaker 1: wild year. Cannot wait to see what twenty twenty five

1118
00:53:16,894 --> 00:53:17,414
Speaker 1: brings us.

1119
00:53:17,494 --> 00:53:19,774
Speaker 2: I cannot wait, Claire, Hopefully you'll be there by my

1120
00:53:19,854 --> 00:53:22,294
Speaker 2: side because I just need an emotional support person. I

1121
00:53:22,294 --> 00:53:24,734
Speaker 2: think we are at every moment for next year.

1122
00:53:24,894 --> 00:53:26,574
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for tuning in to the

1123
00:53:26,654 --> 00:53:29,454
Speaker 1: Quickie this year. To those of you who have given

1124
00:53:29,494 --> 00:53:32,894
Speaker 1: us story ideas, for those of you who have contributed

1125
00:53:32,934 --> 00:53:35,974
Speaker 1: to individual stories, to those of you who have sent

1126
00:53:36,054 --> 00:53:39,774
Speaker 1: us emails and dms and all of the above. We

1127
00:53:39,894 --> 00:53:42,974
Speaker 1: absolutely appreciate you to all of the people who regularly

1128
00:53:42,974 --> 00:53:46,934
Speaker 1: appear on this show, Doctor Brad, Elizabeth Shore, Bally Dober,

1129
00:53:47,094 --> 00:53:49,494
Speaker 1: Carlie Dober. There are so many of you who contribute

1130
00:53:49,494 --> 00:53:52,054
Speaker 1: to this show. We absolutely appreciate you. To the people

1131
00:53:52,054 --> 00:53:54,814
Speaker 1: who have worked on this show, yourself, Taylor, it's been amazing.

1132
00:53:55,014 --> 00:53:57,334
Speaker 1: Callie Borgs worked on the show this year. We've had

1133
00:53:57,334 --> 00:54:02,254
Speaker 1: Teaken Sadler, Tom Lyon, Jacob Brown, Loue Hill working in

1134
00:54:02,294 --> 00:54:04,134
Speaker 1: the audio team as well all.

1135
00:54:03,974 --> 00:54:05,654
Speaker 2: Of our Evening Headlines crew.

1136
00:54:05,894 --> 00:54:09,094
Speaker 1: Also Eliza who is like our commander in chief who

1137
00:54:09,134 --> 00:54:12,014
Speaker 1: is absolutely been helping us out throughout this process too.

1138
00:54:12,134 --> 00:54:13,694
Speaker 2: And Claire of course you as well. You are the

1139
00:54:13,774 --> 00:54:15,574
Speaker 2: voice of the Quickie, are the person that so many

1140
00:54:15,614 --> 00:54:18,214
Speaker 2: differents rely on every day to find out what's actually

1141
00:54:18,254 --> 00:54:19,294
Speaker 2: happening in the world.

1142
00:54:19,494 --> 00:54:22,214
Speaker 1: Although this voice does not sound great today.

1143
00:54:22,374 --> 00:54:25,534
Speaker 2: Please refer to ten minutes ago when we said karaoke

1144
00:54:25,774 --> 00:54:26,294
Speaker 2: go to pre.

1145
00:54:26,334 --> 00:54:29,094
Speaker 1: June and that's what I actually sound like. Thank you

1146
00:54:29,134 --> 00:54:31,614
Speaker 1: so much. The Quikie, of course, is produced by me

1147
00:54:31,774 --> 00:54:35,374
Speaker 1: Claire Murphy, our brilliant executive producer who actually got a promotion.

1148
00:54:35,414 --> 00:54:37,174
Speaker 1: If you didn't notice. She went from senior producer to

1149
00:54:37,294 --> 00:54:40,454
Speaker 1: executive producer halfway through this year. Taylor Strano and this

1150
00:54:40,534 --> 00:54:43,814
Speaker 1: episode of The Quikie was produced by Jacob Brown.

1151
00:54:45,374 --> 00:54:46,374
Speaker 2: We'll see you next year.

1152
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Speaker 1: I've been new year, guys,