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Speaker 1: Richard, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well.

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Speaker 1: We need details on this Greenland Iceland thing.

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Speaker 2: Details you want details? Sorry? No, After all the storborn fury,

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Speaker 2: Trump is returning to the White House with a little

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Speaker 2: in hand. As anticipated, he ditched his invasion Tarot threats

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Speaker 2: over Greenland and emerges.

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Speaker 1: With this, well, we have a concept of a deal.

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Speaker 2: That idea. The concept of a plan is how Trump

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Speaker 2: also talks about his health reform ideas, right. It's a

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Speaker 2: description he's been using from about the past decade, with

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Speaker 2: no plan actually surfacing after all that time, Trump was

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Speaker 2: pressed about the Greenland concept.

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Speaker 1: Designs of the United States having worship of Greenland like.

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Speaker 2: You've said you wanted log Forard, it's a long term deal.

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Speaker 2: This concept of a deal is said to have been

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Speaker 2: shaped in a meeting with NATO's Secretary General Mike Rutto,

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Speaker 2: who was pressed on the details by Fox News as well.

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Speaker 2: Here's how that went.

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Speaker 1: What I don't hear is Greenland still? Is it still

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Speaker 1: under the Kingdom of Denmark in this framework deal? That

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Speaker 1: issue did not come.

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Speaker 2: Up anymore in my compensation for Nightdress A pleasant didn't

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Speaker 2: even talk about it, Denmark's minister says Greenland sovereign. The

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Speaker 2: use quote non negotiable. What they are open to is

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Speaker 2: to Greenland being used as part of this so called

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Speaker 2: Golden Dome anti missile system kind of like Ronald Reagan's

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Speaker 2: Star Wars thing back in the day, and an extension

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Speaker 2: of US controlled military bases. But the US already has

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Speaker 2: basing rights in Greenland under an agreement reached in nineteen

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Speaker 2: fifty one. Folks, through NATO and the US had more

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Speaker 2: bases there in the past than they demolished them. So

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Speaker 2: is this anything other than the status quo? You have

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Speaker 2: to wonder. Meantime, the whole RUCKUS has brought many slurs

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Speaker 2: against the NATO allies, Trump himself referring four times, got

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Speaker 2: to love this to Greenland as Iceland.

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Speaker 1: Not there for us on Iceland that I can tell you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday

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Speaker 2: because of Iceland. So Iceland's already crossed this a lot

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Speaker 2: of Greenland Iceland. You know, they're both pretty cold. Trump

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Speaker 2: also told a room of German speakers at Davos that

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Speaker 2: without the US they would all be speaking German. His

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Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant weighed in on Denmark, calling the

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Speaker 2: country and its ten billion dollar US investments quote irrelevant

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Speaker 2: Denmark because had the highest per capita death toll among

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Speaker 2: US led forces in Afghanistan. The Belgian PM said being

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Speaker 2: a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave

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Speaker 2: as something else. Canada's Marke Khney, who was in Beijing

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Speaker 2: last week brokering new trade deals, said quote, let me

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Speaker 2: be direct, we are in the midst of a rupture,

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Speaker 2: not a transition. And this distancing from Europe was apparent

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Speaker 2: with the announcement of Trump's new so called border peace.

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Speaker 2: Apart from Hungary's dictator Victor Orban, there were no Europeans

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Speaker 2: at this event, which did draw Russian acolyte Belarus. France

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Speaker 2: and Norway and Sweden have said no thanks to paying

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Speaker 2: the one billion dollars that Trump is seeking as a fee.

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Speaker 2: So far, only one country has agreed potentially to pay

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Speaker 2: into the Trump Fund. That is Russia and Vladimi Putin.

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Speaker 1: They tell me Marty's Supreme's pretty good, So the nods deserved.

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Speaker 2: I guess I think it was about half an hour

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Speaker 2: too long, but I'll take I'll take the advice of

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Speaker 2: some others. The film industry though has been changing shape

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Speaker 2: in recent years, with the streaming becoming the norm of

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Speaker 2: course and movie houses struggling ever since COVID. It's affecting

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Speaker 2: the award shows as well. Although the events starting the

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Speaker 2: awards season the Palm Springs Film Festival that just wrapped

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Speaker 2: up through some pretty big crowds. They had one hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty films on show. Also, the Academy Awards had

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Speaker 2: a five year viewership high last year almost twenty millionaires,

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Speaker 2: hosted by Colonel O'Brien, who was back again this time.

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Speaker 2: Even so, they're shifting to YouTube from twenty twenty nine,

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Speaker 2: whatever that might bring. As for this year, the horror

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Speaker 2: movie Sinners, set in Jim Crow Times, has set a

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Speaker 2: record for the most nominations ever sixteen, beating the mark

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Speaker 2: set by All About Even nineteen fifty one. Here is

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Speaker 2: a clip from the new movie. I never seen old

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Speaker 2: deans under your seats though your course your mess.

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Speaker 1: Teal now Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Leo DiCaprio film came in second with thirteen nominations,

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Speaker 2: with the movie One Battle after Another about rebellion in

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Speaker 2: and out of control police state. Wherever did they get

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Speaker 2: that idea? Mike other Best Picture choices include The Muddy

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Speaker 2: Supreme with for Timothy Shallow May third Best Actor not

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Speaker 2: for him, and Hamnet, The Beautiful film about Shakespeare's Hamlet

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Speaker 2: and said around the loss of a charted star. Jesse

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Speaker 2: Buckley has the best scream of the year. I'll spare

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Speaker 2: you from that, but she says when she first saw

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Speaker 2: the finished film, she was pregnant actually in real life,

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Speaker 2: and so.

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Speaker 1: It was a complete mess. I was like slobbery.

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Speaker 2: The Academy also has expanded it so to seased membership.

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Speaker 2: So there are many more international movies, including the Iranian

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Speaker 2: revenge film It was just an accident Now. I met

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Speaker 2: up with its director on a visit here the other

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Speaker 2: day and he said that in a run, there is

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Speaker 2: a criminal case. It's just been levied against him for

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Speaker 2: speaking out against the regime. If and when he returned

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Speaker 2: to his home country and he insists he will go

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Speaker 2: back to a run, he expects that he be put

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Speaker 2: in jail. So pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: You have a good week here, mate, Richard Donold's Sightside.

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