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Speaker 1: They every buddy, it's time for charity and a man's

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Speaker 1: fine bullow. Something that we missed on the show today

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to touch on. David Copperfield is denying

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Speaker 1: sexual misconduct allegations made by sixteen women and a new report.

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Speaker 1: So when you have one woman, you go ah, but

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Speaker 1: then when you're sixteen file up then you think, oh, well.

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Speaker 2: This has been going on for some time and he's

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Speaker 2: always denied it. But the Guardian has put together a story.

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Speaker 2: He's apparently contemplating legal action against the Guardian newspaper. The

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Speaker 2: report includes allegations from sixteen women, more than half of

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Speaker 2: whom alleged they were under eighteen at the time. So

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Speaker 2: some of these allegations have been made a long time ago,

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Speaker 2: but they did interviews with more than one hundred people,

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Speaker 2: and the court reports, police reports, and the Guardian is

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Speaker 2: a reputable newspaper. So he's denied all of this and

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Speaker 2: they have said he's denied it, then he's denying it.

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Speaker 2: Now these are historical accusations that have come to nothing.

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Speaker 2: So in twenty eighteen, David Copperfield was accused of drugging

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Speaker 2: and sexually assaulting a seventeen year old a claim that

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Speaker 2: came hours after he called for people to not quickly

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Speaker 2: judge others during the Me Too movement. So one of

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Speaker 2: his alleged victims saw him make that claim and went,

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Speaker 2: you know what, how about I stepped forward right now?

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Speaker 2: Odd And in two thousand and seven, he was also

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Speaker 2: accused of sexual assault charges whenever filed, and the case

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Speaker 2: was dropped. You don't know what's gone on behind the

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Speaker 2: scenes there, but here we are sixteen women. This allegations

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Speaker 2: have dropped. David Copperfield, in case you don't know, is

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Speaker 2: that famous big stage magician.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Puffy's shirts. You used to go with

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Speaker 3: Claudia Schiffer. He went out with Claudia Shiffer. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And a friend of mine was in Vegas and was

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Speaker 2: called up on stage to be.

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Speaker 3: Part of arish.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to say what it was because it's

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Speaker 2: against the magician's code.

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Speaker 3: So as drugging.

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Speaker 2: Women, I think allegedly went against the magician's code.

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Speaker 3: If for me to tell you what she had to do,

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Speaker 3: what the trick was? What was a trick?

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Speaker 2: It was a trick where she was up on stage

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Speaker 2: and bam, the whole number of people up on stage

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Speaker 2: all disappeared, right, and then bam reappeared.

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Speaker 3: And here's a trick. It wasn't magic, but I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to tell you what it was.

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Speaker 2: Give me a I don't want to be that person

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Speaker 2: who ruins things for people, unlike David Copperfield.

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Speaker 3: Allegedly it's ruined. He wishes this all disappeared.

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Speaker 1: Because have you ever been a volunteer and a magician show.

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Speaker 3: Someone wants well?

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Speaker 2: I often wonder about this though, is that he's not

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Speaker 2: Is he a hypnotist?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: No, howatists conduct their lives. I've someone's tried hypnotize me

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Speaker 2: a couple of times, and various hypnotists.

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Speaker 3: I've never gone under.

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Speaker 1: No, because you know why, you're too curious. That's I

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Speaker 1: was told that once by Peter Powers, a Peter Power,

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Speaker 1: Peter Powers, you know Peter Powers.

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Speaker 3: He looked like the full magician with the man Drake Beard,

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Speaker 3: the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And I was also on a show called You're

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Speaker 1: Back in the Room, which.

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Speaker 3: Was hosted by Daryl Summers.

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Speaker 1: One of my great shows that ended up on my

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Speaker 1: show and hypnotize you to go on anyway. I was

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Speaker 1: trying to the other guy that was on that who

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Speaker 1: wasn't Peter Powers, but they said the same thing. Because

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Speaker 1: we work in this business, we are naturally inquisitive. We

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Speaker 3: My mind is always ticking over.

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Speaker 1: I tried to go under hypnosis, but Peter Power said

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Speaker 1: it's not going to happen because you're trying to go under.

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Speaker 3: You have to have a non inquisitive mind.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been alongside people on a stage and I've

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Speaker 2: watched them and he says, oh, it's freezing, and I'm

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Speaker 2: watching them shake, and I go, ain't making this up?

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Speaker 3: But no, they're under.

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Speaker 2: So I wonder how do hypnotists conduct their personal lives.

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Speaker 3: If they have the power to do this? Do you

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Speaker 3: see their powers for good and not evil? What if?

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Speaker 2: What if David really goes home and cuts a woman

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Speaker 2: in half? Yeah, well what happens then.

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Speaker 1: That's his list of woes, your molesting women and now

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Speaker 1: you're chopping him in half.

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Speaker 3: What's it going to be, David? What this conversation will

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Speaker 3: be tallied in court? Well? I hope not.

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Speaker 1: I remember once seeing a magician show though as of

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Speaker 1: they do is they get the assistant to.

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Speaker 3: Ruin the secret.

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Speaker 1: Not right if they wear the high cut leotard and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, because that takes your focus.

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Speaker 3: It's all about distraction, slide of hand. So you didn't

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Speaker 3: notice anything. But I watched the.

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Speaker 1: Guy and I clearly so I was the one to

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Speaker 1: check the padlocks to make sure the tape was on

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Speaker 1: the padlock, and I signed my name on the padlocks.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, the curtain comes up and I'm looking over

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Speaker 1: the top of the curtain and the assistants there. I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at the top of the curtain and I clearly

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Speaker 1: see the assistant hand him the key to the padlock

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Speaker 1: and she rips the tape off and unlocks him. But

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Speaker 1: I'm watching this, I'm part of the show.

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Speaker 3: Where do you supposedly think she's during that time?

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Speaker 2: She's there, she's standing, we're above the But what are

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Speaker 2: the people in the audience think.

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Speaker 3: Well, they don't see it. It's all sleight of hand.

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Speaker 3: They're looking at the high cut leotard. But how do

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Speaker 3: they not see her lean over her and do that.

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Speaker 1: They don't see all they see. She's very good at it,

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Speaker 1: just very sleight of hand.

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Speaker 2: What if they had a fight one day and he

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Speaker 2: had to go into an underwater tank and she had

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Speaker 2: un locked him.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, but at the time, when the

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Speaker 1: magician was out of the keys, he looked at me

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Speaker 1: and went and gave a wink. And then I was

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Speaker 1: in on the scam because I'm a show man. I

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Speaker 1: just went along with it. And they said, Brendan, do

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Speaker 1: you can you attest that this was your signature? Yes,

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Speaker 1: yes it was. I was twelve years of age. I

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Speaker 1: could have ruined the whole act there and then. And

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Speaker 1: I was standing there was a crowd of a thousand

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Speaker 3: Where were you at Luna Parks is down here? Wow? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and I remember it. So you had to sign a

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Speaker 3: thing saying that I happened. No, I didn't sign anything.

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Speaker 1: I just signed the masking tape to indicate that the

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Speaker 1: locks hadn't been tampered with, when indeed they had been

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Speaker 1: tampered with, maybe dubbed David Copperfield should have put that

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Speaker 1: same tape over his assistance and not tampered with them allegedly.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, this story broke while we were on here today,

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Speaker 2: so obviously be on the news tonight. And you'll hear

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Speaker 2: him say. This is a quote from his people. David

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Speaker 2: will be considering the position of his legal team is

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Speaker 2: that they said the Guardian's character characterization is not who

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Speaker 2: David is. He continues to support anyone who's experienced any

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Speaker 2: form of abuse or discrimination.

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Speaker 3: Is a loving b That's what it says.

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Speaker 2: If only can disappear in a if only people who

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Speaker 2: pay to see that, my kids.

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Speaker 1: That's it for today.

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Speaker 3: That was Chelsea and a man's coming home. For that

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Speaker 3: tomorrow for some more