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Speaker 1: And American band Tenacious D has turned out to be

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Speaker 1: not quite as tenacious as the name suspects. They have

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Speaker 1: canceled their Wellington and Auckland shows after backlash surrounding controversial

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Speaker 1: comments about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Band member

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Speaker 1: Kyle Gas said on stage quote don't miss Trump next

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Speaker 1: time during their Sydney show. Jack Black, his BANDMATEE, has

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Speaker 1: signaled via social media that all future creative plans are

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Speaker 1: on hold. Janita nevel Tededitor is a marketing expert and

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Speaker 1: managing director of RX and as well US This evening, Yoda,

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Speaker 1: good evening, good evening, How are you very well? Thanks?

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Speaker 1: Come on? Do they really need to cancel their entire

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Speaker 1: tour over this?

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Speaker 2: Look, it's really tough because I think the fans will

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Speaker 2: be feeling gutted. But it's not an overreaction. You know.

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Speaker 2: The comments that were said are totally inappropriate. They might

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Speaker 2: feel a little innoxious, but I think canceling was totally justified.

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Speaker 1: I don't know see even that canceling right. If you

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Speaker 1: think about Donald Trump, Donald Trump's all about hating on

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Speaker 1: cancel culture. So isn't this the kind of cancel culture

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Speaker 1: that Trump's aborders hate.

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh here and it probably feels like fake news

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Speaker 2: as well. But if you think about the comments and

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Speaker 2: the type of people that are involved in you know,

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Speaker 2: political camps, this is something that's really highly volatile. It's

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Speaker 2: about an individual, if you like him not, who you know,

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Speaker 2: can express his freedom and shouldn't be you know, punished

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Speaker 2: as a result. That's what democracy is all about.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't wasn't it just a joke?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm not saying it was a good joke

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Speaker 1: or a tasteful joke even, But isn't it just a joke?

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Speaker 2: Look? I think us Kiwi's in US and you know

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Speaker 2: it started and Ossie, we're a little bit laid back.

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Speaker 2: We do take a bit of a joke. We sit

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Speaker 2: in that moderate camp. But when it gets to politics

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Speaker 2: like this, In situations like this, people can be extremists.

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Speaker 2: We're not used to that, and you know, you have

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Speaker 2: to take those type of things into consideration. Whilst it

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Speaker 2: feels like a joke, it was about something that was

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Speaker 2: actually quite serious.

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Speaker 1: So how much apprecia do you reckon? There would have

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Speaker 1: been from you know, advertisers and sponsors and that kind

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Speaker 1: of thing.

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Speaker 2: Look, I reckon. These guys were a step ahead of

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Speaker 2: the game and they reacted before anyone else could. Because

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Speaker 2: just think about the pr fallout after that, because whilst

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Speaker 2: Trump wasn't hurt, other people were and that'sn't really that funny.

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Speaker 2: And you're right, that's what advertisers would react to when

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Speaker 2: and maybe some extremists as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I suppose you know, and one sense

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Speaker 1: this might help to protect fans, even if it means

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Speaker 1: they're not going to be seeing their favorite band.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, I think as much as we don't like it,

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Speaker 2: the world is not as safe as we sometimes think,

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Speaker 2: and we've seen some horrible things happen at concerts than

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Speaker 2: it is. It's about protecting the hand bands. Well's case scenario.

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Speaker 2: You might have a protest that you've got to get

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Speaker 2: through sort of as a best case. Worst case could

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Speaker 2: be far worse. So they do have to put their

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Speaker 2: hands first and also think about the venue that they

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Speaker 2: were at as well. So taking a real assessment of

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Speaker 2: what might happen. As much as we wouldn't like to

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Speaker 2: think we're in you know, countries that that might happen,

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Speaker 2: they do have to think about that.

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Speaker 1: So Jack Black said on social media afterwards that quote

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Speaker 1: all future creative plans are on hold for Tenacious D.

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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, canceling a tour is one thing that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty big call, But canceling a friendship. Come on,

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Speaker 1: that man's too far right.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, if you know it sort of sucks. Yes,

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Speaker 2: But there's commerciality within this as well, and Jack Black

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Speaker 2: probably has to think about what is his the future

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Speaker 2: capability of earning money, and sometimes that is impacted by

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Speaker 2: the people you hang out with, because maybe people won't

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Speaker 2: book him again, maybe he won't get gigs. He does

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Speaker 2: have to think about that. But if anything, they've made

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Speaker 2: a good call in owning it and making apology in

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Speaker 2: saying that they are going to be reflective about this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, hey, thanks so much for your time. We

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Speaker 1: need to really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: It's vita pleasure.

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