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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is a woman of many talents. She's

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Speaker 2: a barrister, a Real Housewives TV star, a wedding celebrant,

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Speaker 2: and now a podcast judge. She's here to tell us

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Speaker 2: about her new podcast called Judge Gina. I wonder who

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Speaker 2: it is, of course it's Gina Leana.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Gina, Hello this morning. How are you.

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Speaker 3: Great to talk to you again? So you're doing pretty

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Speaker 3: much what Judge Judy did, but in podcast form.

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Speaker 1: Something like that, probably a little bit more fun than

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Speaker 1: Judge Judy. I would say, so, what kind of cases

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Speaker 1: are you going to be handling? What's an example of

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Speaker 1: the staff? So it's well, what it is is at

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Speaker 1: two parties get to present their evidence to me and

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Speaker 1: I make a decision which is actually binding. We've got,

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Speaker 1: you know, the bachelor, Osha Gunsberg and previous contestant Maddie

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Speaker 1: Johnson Matti j Y, and they're beefies or beef is

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Speaker 1: that he wasn't invited to the wedding, that he had

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Speaker 1: actually been very instrumental in introducing the couple, and he's

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Speaker 1: he was seeking compensation. I won't spoil it for you.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't financial, but it was very funny and a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so it's regular people as well as celebrities.

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Speaker 1: Yes, definitely.

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Speaker 2: Now you're obviously you are a successful barrister. You have

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Speaker 2: been for over twenty years. What are some of the

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Speaker 2: media things in real life that you've covered. What are

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Speaker 2: some of the heavier cases.

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Speaker 1: Oh, dear, okay, Well, I'm in court every day and

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Speaker 1: I prosecute in the children's courts, so we don't really

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Speaker 1: talk about those cases, but you can imagine when by

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Speaker 1: the time they arrive in court, they're all pretty hairy

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Speaker 1: and a bit ugly.

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Speaker 2: So this must have been a breath of fresh air

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Speaker 2: for you to do something that was a bit lighter.

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Speaker 1: Very much. So.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well I was reading about you on the weekend

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Speaker 3: with the Real Housewives in Melbourne. You were ready to

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Speaker 3: come back to that, and then the pandemic kicked in

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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden it just all shifted.

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Speaker 1: Well it did, actually, so we'd signed on. I think

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Speaker 1: we even did the photo shoot, and we'd done the

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Speaker 1: first group of publicity events and the launch in fact,

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Speaker 1: and then everything went on hold. And that was a

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Speaker 1: really difficult time. I had friends whose partners had passed away,

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Speaker 1: children who were really unwell, and I really just threw

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Speaker 1: myself into my practice. Over the period of time that

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Speaker 1: production said well, let's just put this on hold. By

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Speaker 1: the time they came back to it the following year,

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Speaker 1: I just thought, you know what, I'm not really keen

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Speaker 1: to do that. How did Peace state? How do people

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Speaker 1: view you.

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Speaker 2: In court because they know you from well, most of

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Speaker 2: us first met you from Housewives of Melbourne. How do

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Speaker 2: people respond when they walk in and they see that

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Speaker 2: it's you.

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Speaker 1: Well, I get all sorts of responses. I think I

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Speaker 1: probably don't really pay so much attention to it, but

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Speaker 1: I do occasionally have my colleg league saying to me, oh,

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Speaker 1: my client's a fan of yours, And she said, even

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Speaker 1: though you've prose prosecuted her case, she still loves you.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's there is a little bit of excitement

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Speaker 1: there at times.

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Speaker 3: Imagine there would be excitement around you all the time, Gina.

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Speaker 3: I would imagine.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine as be try and keep it exciting.

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Speaker 3: There's a raft of excitement. You know. Maybe you could

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Speaker 3: have presided over the case between me and Amanda, which

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Speaker 3: one mine is. I came up with a saying a

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Speaker 3: little bit from Colin an a bit from Colin b

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Speaker 3: did not come up with that, Amanda, and Amanda has

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Speaker 3: used that on many many occasions, I.

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Speaker 1: Think the world since the nineteen fifties as usual.

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Speaker 3: What I'm saying is she's stolen from me. And if

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Speaker 3: you steal from me, you've stolen twice. So can you

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Speaker 3: in some wayside drafta love to cease and desist for Amanda?

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Speaker 1: And I'll have to make some decisions. You have to

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Speaker 1: present your case to me one one. You're welcome to

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Speaker 1: come on any time and I will make that decision.

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Speaker 1: And I you know, I do have opinions. You better

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Speaker 1: be ready to hear.

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Speaker 3: As you said, they're bind You're not just You're not

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Speaker 3: just the beak. You're right there.

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Speaker 1: Well I'm right there, and it's arbitration. So they sign on,

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Speaker 1: they're contractually bound by the decision, and so it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Right, Okay. Was Maddie Jay's punishment that he had to

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Speaker 3: listen to Osha Ginsburg podcast.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm not well. Am I allowed to tell the story? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not allowed. I'm getting.

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Speaker 3: Don't say what. Judge Gina is available now on the

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Speaker 3: iHeart podcast app or wherever you get your podcast Gina Leano.

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Speaker 3: It's always a treat to catch up with so nice.

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Speaker 2: To talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you you too, love you both. Thanks, take care,

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Speaker 1: good on your Gina