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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On Canberras hit one or four point seven.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Roden Gabby rat right now. A lot of people
talk about the Kentiki. Ethan cannot get his headphones off
holding according.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It's such a big instrument. It was tethered to the desk.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I hear people talk about Kentucky all the time. Yeah,
this is the commercial they were running last year for it.
This is Mitch.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He wants to travel to places like this if we're
planning a holiday.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It makes him feel like this, the organizing mates, the
language barriers, not to mention the tourist traps.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Luckily for Mitch, there's social travel with Kentique.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
What is social travel where you travel with big group
of people?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So do you do you go as a crew or
you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You can just join a.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Crew, chuck in with a bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Depends which way you go about it.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I did Kentiquy when I was eighteen, just after school
and I met a friend in London who was there
for the year, and then I went on a Kentucky
with her around Europe.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But it was the best time in my life. My
sisters did it.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
It was a real thing for millennials to do. Kentucky
or Top Deck was the other one that everyone did.
But they're starting to change how they do things because
the next generation doesn't travel the same way we wanted
to travel back in the day. For starters, they don't
want a messy trip like I know. As an example,
(01:25):
my sister went to Prague and never saw Prague except
for the nightlife. Got it sleep all day, party at night.
You don't see all the sites that you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Want to see, little conscious memory of Prague itself.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, so the next generation doesn't want that. They want
to actually visit an experience, and they don't want to
get messy. They don't want a drinking to us.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So Kentucky's had.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
To reevaluate what they're doing in future to try to
continue on as a business. But they've branched out in
two different ways. By what I can see, they're still
targeting millennials and then they're going to target the younger
generation who were just finishing school and traveling now. Part
of me so I know this because my niece has
(02:10):
been looking into travel for next year, so I was
looking into it a little bit. And they're starting to
do tours for the young people who.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Don't want to travel in massive groups of people.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
They want a smaller crew where they can actually dictate
the itinery a little bit, because they want to go
to all the places they see on TikTok, and they
want to go and take photos where all the influencers go,
and they want to be able to experience it from
how they see it on their algorithm.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And you can't do that with one hundred and fifty
dollars drink card. Well, you can start, who knows where
it land.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
You also can't do that with fifty people because it
has to be a pretty set itinery when you've got
that many people. So they're shrinking it down and they're
making a bit more malleable so that the younger people
are more interested. So it's like a TikTok tour more
so than a drinking thirty day camping trip. I'm pretty
sure they've also gotten rid of all of the camping
trips because no one wants to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Who that was half the fun. So you go to
another country in camp.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, I camped the whole way through Europe. We have
to set up a ten of a morning, take it
down the next day.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It was great, hungover, it was cheap.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It was a good time.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
But the other one that I'm more interested in because
I didn't care about the young people. The millennials are
very excited about this. They're opening up reunion trips.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So this is for thirty five to forty five year olds.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Oh and it's like the tours that we went on
as kids again and you can you can have a
reunion with people you traveled with before.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
If you're silly, contact with them, or you just go
again and relieve all a good memory. So that one
still messing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That one's seeing. Yeah, categorically the millennial probably more messy. Yeah,
there's still got some drink cards in the in the
head office, and we'll be able to That's why they're
keeping the millennial trips alone.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They've got to get rid of their drink cards where
they can.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They they would have a record of who went, they
would have all this, all this recorded and so if
you received the things saying hey do you want to
go again with the people you went with fifteen years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Now new people.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
There's probably people listening that went on my tour with
me because there was a bunch from Canberra, but now
want new people.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Whether you do or you don't. You might turn up
and find you're the only one in the group that said, yeah,
let's go aget.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
This is Ron Gabby wrapped on camera sit on her
four point seven.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Biyanka Die is a friend of the show, and she
was actually scheduled to be on the show. She lives
on the Gold Coast and there was a cyclone about
to strike and oddly that night that she was bunkered
down and was scheduled to come on the show. The
next morning, she received a phone call confirming an application
(04:45):
that she had submitted at some other random time to
go somewhere. That was her explanation to it.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
She's like, actually, guys, I can't come on.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I've got to pack my bags because I've been told
I need to be somewhere for work immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
And we I thought it was going to be our
a celebrity to get me out of here. That was
my first thought.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And then last night on The Golden Bachelor she appeared,
and so we know now that she went off and
she was filming that secret. I don't think it could
have gone any worse. I can't believe she even went.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I feel for her.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I think she's the most relatable out a lot, to
be honest, because she went in there with the best intentions,
but her brain got in the way, like it happens
to a lot of us, where you've got to build
up that courage to do something and you're just not
quite able.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
To push yourself to do it.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So we get to the rose ceremony last night, and
he's going through all the ladies' names, and this was
Biancha's subconscious while that was happening.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
I feel really disappointed in myself. I'm like, you don't
deserve a rose. You didn't do anything. You didn't get
out of your comfort zone like you promised you would,
like she said that this was what you were here to.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Do, interjecting for a moment, she didn't speak.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
To him, She didn't go up and well, she spoke
to him when I first met at the very very
very beginning.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Everyone else if during the.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Cocktail party, everyone's pulling him aside to have conversations, and
she couldn't quite get herself the confidence to go up
and pull him aside from all the other ladies to say, Hi,
get over.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That mental barrier.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
You didn't have a connection with him. All the other
women seem to find out all these beautiful personal details
about Bear. I'm just sitting there going, oh god, I
don't know any of this. I'm going into this row
ceremony so pissed off with myself.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Amazing self awareness and credible honesty. But can you imagine
you've been there?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Sure, but none of us have had to watch it
back on national TV months down the track beanking good morning.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Oh god, that hurts hearing that, that hurts?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
How did you did you watch.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It last night?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
My god?
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Are you kidding? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (06:43):
We had, We actually had.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
We actually had a beautiful Channel nine had a big
screening VIP screening viewing for us out event cinemas in
George Street. So we all got to watch it in
the cinema like holding hands and laughing and crying, and
next to influencers who I've never heard of.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Who are you after?
Speaker 8 (07:07):
A million followers?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Okay, sorry I.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Don't follow you.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I don't know. Sorry, but it was.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
It was.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
It's so confronting when you see it all back because
you think, oh, yeah, I said that, and I went
through that, and that was and now everyone sees it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And perhaps the most confronting anything's ever been for anyone
on planet Earth. You were at the George Street Cinemas,
you were thirty feet high in front of you.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
I know, I know, I know, and a high definition.
It's like, wow, I need to get more botox.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You absolutely do not.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But I wanted to ask that because it looked like
from the start of the night when everyone was greeting there,
everyone was.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Looking very fresh. To the rose ceremony, everyone was looking
a little Yeah, so how long was that filming hours hot?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
No one would notice that, because yeah, I especially for
any woman who's over forty five or fifty going through perimenopause,
who knows that when you're when you.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Get a blow dry at eight o'clock in the morning,
the hormonal changes and the thebam secretion in your hair changes,
and by the time it gets to ten o'clock that night,
that blow dry has not held on at all.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
And so I look piped to my hair and gone
totally from this fabulous blow dry into like like a
rat's mop, sort of sitting like stuck to my head
and my makeup, and I think my eyes were bloodshot.
That it is. It is long. There is a there
is a very long time in between when we when
we meet Bear and that cocked up and then rose ceremony.
(08:48):
It's a long time. So yeah, we were we were exhausted,
but we're excited. We're on adrenaline, and none of us
knew what to expect. We know what we were in for,
so we were just still standing there. I actually got
in trouble twice because the producers kept sort of saying,
stand still. Got the shoes, the stilettos. I'm not used
(09:09):
to wearing stilettos.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Girl, mate. I'm like you, I'm like, if someone bring
me my birken Stock.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
In here all night, if they give me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
The hose, yeah, I wouldn't stand in heels all night,
No chance.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Oh that was It wasn't easy. Some of the girls
were great. I mean she's you know people like Catherine
who beautiful, Catherine, who's the trainer, you know, she's the
body bodybuilder. She's wearing these little like little they're like
nine twelve in chiels and she goes, oh, I can
run around the block and these and I'm like, oh,
good luck to you. And she goes and she's over
(09:45):
sixty and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
These women like they were inspiring me.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
There's sort of super women in the bunch, including you, Bianca.
But I quickly wanted to ask you were the last
one to get the rose last night, but we all
knew you were getting through because there's trailers going around
of you getting your first kiss from bed, which looks
like quite the moment.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Yeah, I think I was fine.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
I think that was at the very end of a
long night too, So I think I think the look
on my face is not just oh wow, at least
his breath smells knife, it was also oh God. I
can't wait to have my magnesium tablet because I'm I mean,
(10:29):
it's not It's not called the Golden Bachelor for nothing.
You know, we're old and we want to go to bed,
So hurry up and kiss.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Me and let's go to our separate beds.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
I want to put my mouthguard in cat, my magnesium tablet,
you know, put my head on my orthopedic pillow, and
go to bed.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, in spite of not actually hanging with the Golden
Bachelor last night, you were the start of the show.
We can't wait to see where this goes. For all
we know, he's on the couch right now. Real quiet,
we'll find out. I guess by the end of the
season unless you want to tell us something.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Now there why one mate, if you really saw me
one more time? Sorry we ain't good guy.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We're going to see you back on the TV. Thank
you so much for the time this morning. We'll chat
again during the season.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
I would love that. Thank you guys much.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
This is ro Gaby wrapped on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Here we go, bye bye bye bye bye bye bye.
Trolley fight Australia is talking about camera today for the
most unexpected reason in the history of our great city.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I'm imagining a trolley fight like in a ring and
people are betting around it and see which trolley comes
out on top.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Not quite what is happening.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So we're looking at Dixon where the new Coals is
gone in and the Woolies has been there for younx
correct and and this new system that they've been able
to implement at.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Cole's is where if you go past a certain perimeter,
the trolley locks up so that you can't steal it
with a.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Perimeter through the doors of Woolies.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I think it's like it's definitely toward Woolies. You can't
take a Coal's trolley into Wollies, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It locks up and it locks up.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
And because they've put that perimeter there, and I guess
both places use the same system. Now the Woolies trolleys
lock up at the same place, so you can't take
Woolies trolleys to Coals.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So the Coal's secret wall lock up wall trolley lockwall
is malfunctioning the new Woolies trolleys.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Because Woolies have put up a note to say, due
to the recent upgrade of our trolley's our lock when
taken near the Coal center, we apologize for this situation
and are working to rectify this as soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
So people don't think.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
It's the Wooly's trolley's fault, but they're reacting to the
Coal's system.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
People being being the supermarkets. The Supermarket's trying to explain
this away. The reality is they're both being jerks. And
so if anyone's ever had the good fortune of taking
being over at Madua Park and taking one of those
giant Costco trolleyies to the neighboring Woolies.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's like they've had to expand the aisles of Woolies
at Madura because so many people take those ridiculously large
trolleys through that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It's the lap of luxury, it is. It's fantastic. However,
if one of the coals or woolies or in this
case both in Dixon are being nasty pasties, you end up.
Do you remember the great run in the great Casey
marketplace running?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
What?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
So if you did your shop at Superbarn and then
you went into Aldi, there was a manager. This is
usually there's a manager at the time that would inspect
your superbarn shop to make sure that nothing from Aldi
had gone into your Superbarn bat. He didn't want you
to come in.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
There, so that was his entire job was to stand
there and check your bags.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I think there was self appointed. I think he had
another job. I think he just took that upon him.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
He was just to go from the street. I wanted
to make sure.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
He was a company there. He loved Albi, and I
wonder whether or not Super crossed him at some point.
I don't know the history.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah, you're right, it is like that.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
The point is that happens and everyone around the country
is laughing at us.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, but are we shocked like their enemies, their competitors.
Of course, they don't want to share.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Their choice unless you are doing half a shop at
one and half at the hour. There is no reason
for a Wooly's trolley to go into that Coal's area.
Even if you go into the car park, you go
diagonally in front of the library, you're not going into
the coal zone.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I do because I shop at Woolies.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But there's some gluten free things that I can only
get at Coals because Woolies don't stock them.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
So sometimes I do crossover.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
In the words of Ronald Reagan, bring down this war
history there it is Australia's talking about the trolley war
between Holes and wool worse in Dixon where apparently an
invisible walls stops the trolley's working. If you get too
close to the other store.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
They'll lock up, the wheels just won't roll.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Canberon's not believe it? Gone do' makeup stuff about us Australia.
So we crossed to Dixon, now where we have sent
baby whears. Which supermarket have you chosen to start the
test in?
Speaker 11 (15:19):
Well, given that we saw the photo of the sign
at Woolies, I'm now in woolies in front of the
shopping carts.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Okay, shopping carts.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Trolley's you were saying, all right, okay, so have you
got We didn't even give you a dollar. Have you
got a coin? To unclick the see Gabby and I
live in New South Wales.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
We don't have the You know, I have a doovy
whacker that a dude gave me one time when I
was struggling getting the coin out of my pocket.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Don't need it in Queen being at the shops there,
and we don't need it in yass.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No, I don't think we do.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay, you need it in Dixon. Have you got a coin? Yes?
Speaker 11 (15:53):
I stole Ethan from promotions key.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Good forward planning. Here's the keys. People want to talk
to him about that. Okay, so unclick for us.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
All right, okay, good sounds taken me there.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Okay, now, let's not mess around. I think you need
to get a runner. And so you're at the at
the at the door there on the When I say
the side, the side facing the Dixon Library, I'm now
facing the Coals. Great, okay, Dixon Library, you're right. Camera's
first McDonald's to the left and Coals the new Coals
(16:32):
just about two years old, but it feels new to
everyone else. To me, it's fantastic. One, don't take your troiler. Well,
let's find out, okay, And so there's different ballards and stuff.
You can you can thread the eye of the needle
and get the trolley straight through your reckon. Yeah, definitely, okay,
start running, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Don't actually run, you're gonna run.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Run run?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh my god, let's get this. Get hurt. Oh my
god's running. Oh we stopped.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
How close did you get to the entry to Coles.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
I'm like maybe four or five meters away the ballards, Yeah,
it was like skid and so the wheels just lock up. Yeah,
the front are like completely locked.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
All right. The myth is busted. I mean, the myth
is confirmed.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So what if you were parked in the multi level
and walk to Woolies? Too bad? Take your own trolley?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You park like where the Coals is. There's like underground
parking there. There's some men, right are your parks there?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
To then walk over to Woolies somewhere else to park anymore?
But you can't get your trolley to your.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Car life hack Woolies receipt in the car park under
coals won't validate your parking and you got to pay.
They don't wantch you go to Woollies.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
They're so against it, they're really fighting.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
They all right, baby, where's well done. You've tested it out.
We're just going to assume it works the same the
other way, because it had just sounds the same, except
you know with the Coles trolley. You can come back, sweet,
no don't can you? Can you get the new Tim
TAM's with the with the mango cream. There's a new
Tim Tam release today. Oh yeah, I could do that
when you're there, Well might as well.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Is it Cos or Woolies? Which one did their release?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Don't take the trolley though.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All right, baby wears down there, be aware of that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
This is Ron Gavy wrapped on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I was interested to see and I like the thing
that Donald Trump does when he has an international leader
into the White House. It's a bit more like a
midday talk show. He gets everyone in there and everyone
sits around and they chat and sometimes, you know, like
a midday talk show like Jerry Springer, there's a problem,
and then other times, hopefully it's more cordial like Oprah right,
I was.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Gonna say, I don't think there's ever been a Jerry
Springer that didn't have a problem.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
No, it's a very good point. And so things were
going well with the talk show part. But we signed
a big deal. So it was into the White House
Cabinet room. That was where they had to do some
signing and get the job done with our Prime Minister
Anthony Albanezi. And then we noticed that our ambassador to
the United States, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, was in
(19:19):
the room. Or when I say we, donald Trump noticed.
Now we forget that, well some of us forget that.
Kevin Rudd hasn't been that kind with the things that
he said about Donald Trump in the past. Donald Trump
heard about it, and this happened.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Did an ambassador to say something bad about it?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Don't tell me where is he is? He still working
for Albow points him out the room. Well, Albow's got
to throw him under the bus. If Albo had tried
to cover for him. And then the President found out
the deal they're signing might have fallen over. So then
the President sees, Kevin Rudd, you said bad positions to
(20:00):
I don't like you either, and I probably never will,
all right, a lot of nervous laughing. Let's go to
his political editor Mark Riley, who is traveling with the
Prime Minister and Ian Washington at the moment. Mark, has
there ever been an international leader visit the White House
without incident?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I don't think so, guys.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I think that was the Jerry Spring apart of the
official meeting and a bit like you know, Jerry, Jerry
was all a bit performative in ways. But I'm told
that later on Donald Trump and Kevin rud had a
conversation with Anti Albanese in the Oval office and Trump said, oh,
that's okay, you know, I forgive you. We'll move beyond that,
(20:41):
and sort of laughed it off. But you, I mean,
in the same room. It was quite a scene. We
had Donald Trump and Anthey Albanese sitting side by side
in the cabinet table and in the cabinet room in
the White House, and next to them was JD. Vance,
the Vice President.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Of course, j E.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Vance said some pretty uncomplimentary things Trump at the park
as well, so he's pretty used to dealing with people
who've said things about him, and I think it's all
water off a Duck's back with this guy.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh good, because every like Australians very jovial. So Albo
Stanley is sitting there laughing along as if like it
was one big joke.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
But it could have very easily turned a little bit nasty.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Thankfully that didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Right, Yeah, he's thankfully on with you too. Gabby just
pinged him though, like he he pointed to him, But
he's over there, thanks a lot, thanks very much, slotted him.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Was there any mention of the ABC reporter that's been
banned from any of Trump's.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
John Lyons, who's a great sign. No, no, but I
think there was another moment, and I think it's just
all reflection. Michael Cosiol, who's the Sydney Morning Herald and
Age correspondent here, who doesn't look looks like a smaller
version of John Lynes, same sort of hair and glasses,
and Trump pointed him out at once and said, you're
(22:01):
very aggressive. I don't like you, but he said that
we told another one to be quiet, you know, but
it's incredibly performative to stand there in that room. I
was opposite Trump and to Kevin Rudd's right when that
was going on. It was a kind of an awkward
moment to be standing there and watching that, but to
(22:22):
see how he just controls that room. He took probably
twenty twenty five questions about absolutely everything year from US,
who's really generous of a train media. You took questions
from the whole heap of US, and then from the
American press as well. There was a White House press
pool in there, and in the end, I think people
(22:45):
were looking at the personal contact between the two leaders,
so not an oval office meeting, and Trump has sort
of shifted his meetings formal meetings into this cabinet room. Recently,
Zelenski Vlowim Mislensky from Ukraine was in there with him
last week, and a couple of other leaders who've come
in the past two weeks have been in the cabinet room.
So but it's very business like and he commands the
(23:09):
table like he did in the Apprentice, you know, admiring
people left right conca having a crack at him, and
it was very similar in that in that regard. But
some big business done too, guys like eight and a
half billion dollar deal on critical minerals and rare earths
from Australia and the commitment on Orcas that we haven't
had from Trump publicly before, and he says, of course,
(23:31):
being Trump, being Trump, I can build submarines bigger and
faster than anybody else. We not only do our part
of the deal. We'll get to you quicker so and
and if you want more of them, you can have them.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's deal because it's the way. Time's huge. Not to
mention obviously the question mark hanging over that contract and
the threat by the President to rip it up now
a sudden, he's delivering them earlier, So we'll take that.
We're looking at a photo here, and I suppose it's
reassuring when it comes to the interest from the US media,
although a big chunk of the must be Aussie's. I
think I can see you too. The President's left opposite
(24:06):
him there in that room. Now, the turnout was extraordinary.
You've used the word performative a couple of times during
this conversation. Well, you're normally here in Canberra. You've seen
all the theatrics of politics has to offer. Is this
another level in your experience?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Next level? It's like nothing else. So I've been in
the I've been in the White House. I don't know
eight times with our presidents Bush and Obama, Biden Trump
twice now, and there's nothing quite like a Trump moment.
He takes it to places where I'm sure that building
(24:43):
has never been before, and the people in it either
some of them unwilling passengers, really like going there. But
once they're there, they just have to make good and
make do and we all do you know. It's a
different scene.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Fantastic Inside Mark Riley, political editor for seven years. We
appreciate the time this morning, mate, travel safe on the
way back. We'll see you here.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
This is ro Gabby Raps on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
If you come here for one thing, and that is
what some call smart and some call romanticy very smart.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Gabby's not just any smart, very smart, very smart.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Gabby's your hookup, you know, I am because I'm really
into it. I've I've started reading these romanticy books a
couple of months ago, and I am so addicted, like
I cannot put them down.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
They're so good.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Have you broadened from just the romanticy that is focused
on fairies, ye.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now into this world of dragons. But the dragons are
part of the romanticy. Well, the dragons, you know, they
do it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
They dragons too, but it's about the people.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
But anyway, it turns out romanticy is a term that
was only really created in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
It's a new term.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Romance fantasy has been around for longer than that, but
the term romancey started trending in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And when you look.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Into the data, Australia ranks as the number one country
where the search term is most popular, and when you
dive deeper, the act is double that of the search
volume of other states.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
In the past few years, We've done it again, yes.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
And so that I dove even deeper and I found
out here in Canberra, we actually have a bookshop called
the Romance Mafia, and there's a Canbra Romance and Fantasy
book Club.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Sign me up.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
You don't want to have a falling out with the
romance Mafia.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
What would they leave in your bed?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I could tell you that you need a black light
to prove whether or not I was telling you this
has gone far enough
On Canberras hit one or four point seven.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Roden Gabby rat right now. A lot of people
talk about the Kentiki. Ethan cannot get his headphones off
holding according.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It's such a big instrument. It was tethered to the desk.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I hear people talk about Kentucky all the time. Yeah,
this is the commercial they were running last year for it.
This is Mitch.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He wants to travel to places like this if we're
planning a holiday.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It makes him feel like this, the organizing mates, the
language barriers, not to mention the tourist traps.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Luckily for Mitch, there's social travel with Kentique.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
What is social travel where you travel with big group
of people?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So do you do you go as a crew or
you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You can just join a.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Crew, chuck in with a bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Depends which way you go about it.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I did Kentiquy when I was eighteen, just after school
and I met a friend in London who was there
for the year, and then I went on a Kentucky
with her around Europe.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But it was the best time in my life. My
sisters did it.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
It was a real thing for millennials to do. Kentucky
or Top Deck was the other one that everyone did.
But they're starting to change how they do things because
the next generation doesn't travel the same way we wanted
to travel back in the day. For starters, they don't
want a messy trip like I know. As an example,
(01:25):
my sister went to Prague and never saw Prague except
for the nightlife. Got it sleep all day, party at night.
You don't see all the sites that you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Want to see, little conscious memory of Prague itself.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, so the next generation doesn't want that. They want
to actually visit an experience, and they don't want to
get messy. They don't want a drinking to us.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So Kentucky's had.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
To reevaluate what they're doing in future to try to
continue on as a business. But they've branched out in
two different ways. By what I can see, they're still
targeting millennials and then they're going to target the younger
generation who were just finishing school and traveling now. Part
of me so I know this because my niece has
(02:10):
been looking into travel for next year, so I was
looking into it a little bit. And they're starting to
do tours for the young people who.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Don't want to travel in massive groups of people.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
They want a smaller crew where they can actually dictate
the itinery a little bit, because they want to go
to all the places they see on TikTok, and they
want to go and take photos where all the influencers go,
and they want to be able to experience it from
how they see it on their algorithm.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And you can't do that with one hundred and fifty
dollars drink card. Well, you can start, who knows where
it land.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
You also can't do that with fifty people because it
has to be a pretty set itinery when you've got
that many people. So they're shrinking it down and they're
making a bit more malleable so that the younger people
are more interested. So it's like a TikTok tour more
so than a drinking thirty day camping trip. I'm pretty
sure they've also gotten rid of all of the camping
trips because no one wants to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Who that was half the fun. So you go to
another country in camp.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, I camped the whole way through Europe. We have
to set up a ten of a morning, take it
down the next day.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It was great, hungover, it was cheap.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It was a good time.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
But the other one that I'm more interested in because
I didn't care about the young people. The millennials are
very excited about this. They're opening up reunion trips.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So this is for thirty five to forty five year olds.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Oh and it's like the tours that we went on
as kids again and you can you can have a
reunion with people you traveled with before.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
If you're silly, contact with them, or you just go
again and relieve all a good memory. So that one
still messing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That one's seeing. Yeah, categorically the millennial probably more messy. Yeah,
there's still got some drink cards in the in the
head office, and we'll be able to That's why they're
keeping the millennial trips alone.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They've got to get rid of their drink cards where
they can.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
They they would have a record of who went, they
would have all this, all this recorded and so if
you received the things saying hey do you want to
go again with the people you went with fifteen years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Now new people.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
There's probably people listening that went on my tour with
me because there was a bunch from Canberra, but now
want new people.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Whether you do or you don't. You might turn up
and find you're the only one in the group that said, yeah,
let's go aget.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
This is Ron Gabby wrapped on camera sit on her
four point seven.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Biyanka Die is a friend of the show, and she
was actually scheduled to be on the show. She lives
on the Gold Coast and there was a cyclone about
to strike and oddly that night that she was bunkered
down and was scheduled to come on the show. The
next morning, she received a phone call confirming an application
(04:45):
that she had submitted at some other random time to
go somewhere. That was her explanation to it.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
She's like, actually, guys, I can't come on.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I've got to pack my bags because I've been told
I need to be somewhere for work immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
And we I thought it was going to be our
a celebrity to get me out of here. That was
my first thought.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And then last night on The Golden Bachelor she appeared,
and so we know now that she went off and
she was filming that secret. I don't think it could
have gone any worse. I can't believe she even went.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I feel for her.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I think she's the most relatable out a lot, to
be honest, because she went in there with the best intentions,
but her brain got in the way, like it happens
to a lot of us, where you've got to build
up that courage to do something and you're just not
quite able.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
To push yourself to do it.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So we get to the rose ceremony last night, and
he's going through all the ladies' names, and this was
Biancha's subconscious while that was happening.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
I feel really disappointed in myself. I'm like, you don't
deserve a rose. You didn't do anything. You didn't get
out of your comfort zone like you promised you would,
like she said that this was what you were here to.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Do, interjecting for a moment, she didn't speak.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
To him, She didn't go up and well, she spoke
to him when I first met at the very very
very beginning.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Everyone else if during the.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Cocktail party, everyone's pulling him aside to have conversations, and
she couldn't quite get herself the confidence to go up
and pull him aside from all the other ladies to say, Hi,
get over.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That mental barrier.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
You didn't have a connection with him. All the other
women seem to find out all these beautiful personal details
about Bear. I'm just sitting there going, oh god, I
don't know any of this. I'm going into this row
ceremony so pissed off with myself.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Amazing self awareness and credible honesty. But can you imagine
you've been there?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Sure, but none of us have had to watch it
back on national TV months down the track beanking good morning.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Oh god, that hurts hearing that, that hurts?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
How did you did you watch.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It last night?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
My god?
Speaker 8 (06:41):
Are you kidding? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (06:43):
We had, We actually had.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
We actually had a beautiful Channel nine had a big
screening VIP screening viewing for us out event cinemas in
George Street. So we all got to watch it in
the cinema like holding hands and laughing and crying, and
next to influencers who I've never heard of.
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Who are you after?
Speaker 8 (07:07):
A million followers?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Okay, sorry I.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Don't follow you.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I don't know. Sorry, but it was.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
It was.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
It's so confronting when you see it all back because
you think, oh, yeah, I said that, and I went
through that, and that was and now everyone sees it.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And perhaps the most confronting anything's ever been for anyone
on planet Earth. You were at the George Street Cinemas,
you were thirty feet high in front of you.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
I know, I know, I know, and a high definition.
It's like, wow, I need to get more botox.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You absolutely do not.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
But I wanted to ask that because it looked like
from the start of the night when everyone was greeting there,
everyone was.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Looking very fresh. To the rose ceremony, everyone was looking
a little Yeah, so how long was that filming hours hot?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
No one would notice that, because yeah, I especially for
any woman who's over forty five or fifty going through perimenopause,
who knows that when you're when you.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Get a blow dry at eight o'clock in the morning,
the hormonal changes and the thebam secretion in your hair changes,
and by the time it gets to ten o'clock that night,
that blow dry has not held on at all.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
And so I look piped to my hair and gone
totally from this fabulous blow dry into like like a
rat's mop, sort of sitting like stuck to my head
and my makeup, and I think my eyes were bloodshot.
That it is. It is long. There is a there
is a very long time in between when we when
we meet Bear and that cocked up and then rose ceremony.
(08:48):
It's a long time. So yeah, we were we were exhausted,
but we're excited. We're on adrenaline, and none of us
knew what to expect. We know what we were in for,
so we were just still standing there. I actually got
in trouble twice because the producers kept sort of saying,
stand still. Got the shoes, the stilettos. I'm not used
(09:09):
to wearing stilettos.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
Girl, mate. I'm like you, I'm like, if someone bring
me my birken Stock.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
In here all night, if they give me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
The hose, yeah, I wouldn't stand in heels all night,
No chance.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Oh that was It wasn't easy. Some of the girls
were great. I mean she's you know people like Catherine
who beautiful, Catherine, who's the trainer, you know, she's the
body bodybuilder. She's wearing these little like little they're like
nine twelve in chiels and she goes, oh, I can
run around the block and these and I'm like, oh,
good luck to you. And she goes and she's over
(09:45):
sixty and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
These women like they were inspiring me.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
There's sort of super women in the bunch, including you, Bianca.
But I quickly wanted to ask you were the last
one to get the rose last night, but we all
knew you were getting through because there's trailers going around
of you getting your first kiss from bed, which looks
like quite the moment.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Yeah, I think I was fine.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
I think that was at the very end of a
long night too, So I think I think the look
on my face is not just oh wow, at least
his breath smells knife, it was also oh God. I
can't wait to have my magnesium tablet because I'm I mean,
(10:29):
it's not It's not called the Golden Bachelor for nothing.
You know, we're old and we want to go to bed,
So hurry up and kiss.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Me and let's go to our separate beds.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
I want to put my mouthguard in cat, my magnesium tablet,
you know, put my head on my orthopedic pillow, and
go to bed.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, in spite of not actually hanging with the Golden
Bachelor last night, you were the start of the show.
We can't wait to see where this goes. For all
we know, he's on the couch right now. Real quiet,
we'll find out. I guess by the end of the
season unless you want to tell us something.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Now there why one mate, if you really saw me
one more time? Sorry we ain't good guy.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We're going to see you back on the TV. Thank
you so much for the time this morning. We'll chat
again during the season.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
I would love that. Thank you guys much.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
This is ro Gaby wrapped on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Here we go, bye bye bye bye bye bye bye.
Trolley fight Australia is talking about camera today for the
most unexpected reason in the history of our great city.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I'm imagining a trolley fight like in a ring and
people are betting around it and see which trolley comes
out on top.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Not quite what is happening.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So we're looking at Dixon where the new Coals is
gone in and the Woolies has been there for younx
correct and and this new system that they've been able
to implement at.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Cole's is where if you go past a certain perimeter,
the trolley locks up so that you can't steal it
with a.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Perimeter through the doors of Woolies.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I think it's like it's definitely toward Woolies. You can't
take a Coal's trolley into Wollies, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
It locks up and it locks up.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
And because they've put that perimeter there, and I guess
both places use the same system. Now the Woolies trolleys
lock up at the same place, so you can't take
Woolies trolleys to Coals.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So the Coal's secret wall lock up wall trolley lockwall
is malfunctioning the new Woolies trolleys.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
That's what they're saying.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Because Woolies have put up a note to say, due
to the recent upgrade of our trolley's our lock when
taken near the Coal center, we apologize for this situation
and are working to rectify this as soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
So people don't think.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
It's the Wooly's trolley's fault, but they're reacting to the
Coal's system.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
People being being the supermarkets. The Supermarket's trying to explain
this away. The reality is they're both being jerks. And
so if anyone's ever had the good fortune of taking
being over at Madua Park and taking one of those
giant Costco trolleyies to the neighboring Woolies.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
It's like they've had to expand the aisles of Woolies
at Madura because so many people take those ridiculously large
trolleys through that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It's the lap of luxury, it is. It's fantastic. However,
if one of the coals or woolies or in this
case both in Dixon are being nasty pasties, you end up.
Do you remember the great run in the great Casey
marketplace running?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
What?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
So if you did your shop at Superbarn and then
you went into Aldi, there was a manager. This is
usually there's a manager at the time that would inspect
your superbarn shop to make sure that nothing from Aldi
had gone into your Superbarn bat. He didn't want you
to come in.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
There, so that was his entire job was to stand
there and check your bags.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I think there was self appointed. I think he had
another job. I think he just took that upon him.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
He was just to go from the street. I wanted
to make sure.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
He was a company there. He loved Albi, and I
wonder whether or not Super crossed him at some point.
I don't know the history.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah, you're right, it is like that.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
The point is that happens and everyone around the country
is laughing at us.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, but are we shocked like their enemies, their competitors.
Of course, they don't want to share.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Their choice unless you are doing half a shop at
one and half at the hour. There is no reason
for a Wooly's trolley to go into that Coal's area.
Even if you go into the car park, you go
diagonally in front of the library, you're not going into
the coal zone.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I do because I shop at Woolies.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But there's some gluten free things that I can only
get at Coals because Woolies don't stock them.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
So sometimes I do crossover.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
In the words of Ronald Reagan, bring down this war
history there it is Australia's talking about the trolley war
between Holes and wool worse in Dixon where apparently an
invisible walls stops the trolley's working. If you get too
close to the other store.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
They'll lock up, the wheels just won't roll.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Canberon's not believe it? Gone do' makeup stuff about us Australia.
So we crossed to Dixon, now where we have sent
baby whears. Which supermarket have you chosen to start the
test in?
Speaker 11 (15:19):
Well, given that we saw the photo of the sign
at Woolies, I'm now in woolies in front of the
shopping carts.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Okay, shopping carts.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Trolley's you were saying, all right, okay, so have you
got We didn't even give you a dollar. Have you
got a coin? To unclick the see Gabby and I
live in New South Wales.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
We don't have the You know, I have a doovy
whacker that a dude gave me one time when I
was struggling getting the coin out of my pocket.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Don't need it in Queen being at the shops there,
and we don't need it in yass.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No, I don't think we do.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay, you need it in Dixon. Have you got a coin? Yes?
Speaker 11 (15:53):
I stole Ethan from promotions key.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Good forward planning. Here's the keys. People want to talk
to him about that. Okay, so unclick for us.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
All right, okay, good sounds taken me there.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Okay, now, let's not mess around. I think you need
to get a runner. And so you're at the at
the at the door there on the When I say
the side, the side facing the Dixon Library, I'm now
facing the Coals. Great, okay, Dixon Library, you're right. Camera's
first McDonald's to the left and Coals the new Coals
(16:32):
just about two years old, but it feels new to
everyone else. To me, it's fantastic. One, don't take your troiler. Well,
let's find out, okay, And so there's different ballards and stuff.
You can you can thread the eye of the needle
and get the trolley straight through your reckon. Yeah, definitely, okay,
start running, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Don't actually run, you're gonna run.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Run run?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh my god, let's get this. Get hurt. Oh my
god's running. Oh we stopped.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
How close did you get to the entry to Coles.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
I'm like maybe four or five meters away the ballards, Yeah,
it was like skid and so the wheels just lock up. Yeah,
the front are like completely locked.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
All right. The myth is busted. I mean, the myth
is confirmed.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
So what if you were parked in the multi level
and walk to Woolies? Too bad? Take your own trolley?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
You park like where the Coals is. There's like underground
parking there. There's some men, right are your parks there?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
To then walk over to Woolies somewhere else to park anymore?
But you can't get your trolley to your.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Car life hack Woolies receipt in the car park under
coals won't validate your parking and you got to pay.
They don't wantch you go to Woollies.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
They're so against it, they're really fighting.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
They all right, baby, where's well done. You've tested it out.
We're just going to assume it works the same the
other way, because it had just sounds the same, except
you know with the Coles trolley. You can come back, sweet,
no don't can you? Can you get the new Tim
TAM's with the with the mango cream. There's a new
Tim Tam release today. Oh yeah, I could do that
when you're there, Well might as well.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Is it Cos or Woolies? Which one did their release?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Don't take the trolley though.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All right, baby wears down there, be aware of that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
This is Ron Gavy wrapped on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I was interested to see and I like the thing
that Donald Trump does when he has an international leader
into the White House. It's a bit more like a
midday talk show. He gets everyone in there and everyone
sits around and they chat and sometimes, you know, like
a midday talk show like Jerry Springer, there's a problem,
and then other times, hopefully it's more cordial like Oprah right,
I was.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Gonna say, I don't think there's ever been a Jerry
Springer that didn't have a problem.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
No, it's a very good point. And so things were
going well with the talk show part. But we signed
a big deal. So it was into the White House
Cabinet room. That was where they had to do some
signing and get the job done with our Prime Minister
Anthony Albanezi. And then we noticed that our ambassador to
the United States, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, was in
(19:19):
the room. Or when I say we, donald Trump noticed.
Now we forget that, well some of us forget that.
Kevin Rudd hasn't been that kind with the things that
he said about Donald Trump in the past. Donald Trump
heard about it, and this happened.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Did an ambassador to say something bad about it?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Don't tell me where is he is? He still working
for Albow points him out the room. Well, Albow's got
to throw him under the bus. If Albo had tried
to cover for him. And then the President found out
the deal they're signing might have fallen over. So then
the President sees, Kevin Rudd, you said bad positions to
(20:00):
I don't like you either, and I probably never will,
all right, a lot of nervous laughing. Let's go to
his political editor Mark Riley, who is traveling with the
Prime Minister and Ian Washington at the moment. Mark, has
there ever been an international leader visit the White House
without incident?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I don't think so, guys.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I think that was the Jerry Spring apart of the
official meeting and a bit like you know, Jerry, Jerry
was all a bit performative in ways. But I'm told
that later on Donald Trump and Kevin rud had a
conversation with Anti Albanese in the Oval office and Trump said, oh,
that's okay, you know, I forgive you. We'll move beyond that,
(20:41):
and sort of laughed it off. But you, I mean,
in the same room. It was quite a scene. We
had Donald Trump and Anthey Albanese sitting side by side
in the cabinet table and in the cabinet room in
the White House, and next to them was JD. Vance,
the Vice President.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Of course, j E.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Vance said some pretty uncomplimentary things Trump at the park
as well, so he's pretty used to dealing with people
who've said things about him, and I think it's all
water off a Duck's back with this guy.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh good, because every like Australians very jovial. So Albo
Stanley is sitting there laughing along as if like it
was one big joke.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
But it could have very easily turned a little bit nasty.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Thankfully that didn't happen.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Right, Yeah, he's thankfully on with you too. Gabby just
pinged him though, like he he pointed to him, But
he's over there, thanks a lot, thanks very much, slotted him.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Was there any mention of the ABC reporter that's been
banned from any of Trump's.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
John Lyons, who's a great sign. No, no, but I
think there was another moment, and I think it's just
all reflection. Michael Cosiol, who's the Sydney Morning Herald and
Age correspondent here, who doesn't look looks like a smaller
version of John Lynes, same sort of hair and glasses,
and Trump pointed him out at once and said, you're
(22:01):
very aggressive. I don't like you, but he said that
we told another one to be quiet, you know, but
it's incredibly performative to stand there in that room. I
was opposite Trump and to Kevin Rudd's right when that
was going on. It was a kind of an awkward
moment to be standing there and watching that, but to
(22:22):
see how he just controls that room. He took probably
twenty twenty five questions about absolutely everything year from US,
who's really generous of a train media. You took questions
from the whole heap of US, and then from the
American press as well. There was a White House press
pool in there, and in the end, I think people
(22:45):
were looking at the personal contact between the two leaders,
so not an oval office meeting, and Trump has sort
of shifted his meetings formal meetings into this cabinet room. Recently,
Zelenski Vlowim Mislensky from Ukraine was in there with him
last week, and a couple of other leaders who've come
in the past two weeks have been in the cabinet room.
So but it's very business like and he commands the
(23:09):
table like he did in the Apprentice, you know, admiring
people left right conca having a crack at him, and
it was very similar in that in that regard. But
some big business done too, guys like eight and a
half billion dollar deal on critical minerals and rare earths
from Australia and the commitment on Orcas that we haven't
had from Trump publicly before, and he says, of course,
(23:31):
being Trump, being Trump, I can build submarines bigger and
faster than anybody else. We not only do our part
of the deal. We'll get to you quicker so and
and if you want more of them, you can have them.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's deal because it's the way. Time's huge. Not to
mention obviously the question mark hanging over that contract and
the threat by the President to rip it up now
a sudden, he's delivering them earlier, So we'll take that.
We're looking at a photo here, and I suppose it's
reassuring when it comes to the interest from the US media,
although a big chunk of the must be Aussie's. I
think I can see you too. The President's left opposite
(24:06):
him there in that room. Now, the turnout was extraordinary.
You've used the word performative a couple of times during
this conversation. Well, you're normally here in Canberra. You've seen
all the theatrics of politics has to offer. Is this
another level in your experience?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Next level? It's like nothing else. So I've been in
the I've been in the White House. I don't know
eight times with our presidents Bush and Obama, Biden Trump
twice now, and there's nothing quite like a Trump moment.
He takes it to places where I'm sure that building
(24:43):
has never been before, and the people in it either
some of them unwilling passengers, really like going there. But
once they're there, they just have to make good and
make do and we all do you know. It's a
different scene.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Fantastic Inside Mark Riley, political editor for seven years. We
appreciate the time this morning, mate, travel safe on the
way back. We'll see you here.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
This is ro Gabby Raps on camera four point seven.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
If you come here for one thing, and that is
what some call smart and some call romanticy very smart.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Gabby's not just any smart, very smart, very smart.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Gabby's your hookup, you know, I am because I'm really
into it. I've I've started reading these romanticy books a
couple of months ago, and I am so addicted, like
I cannot put them down.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
They're so good.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Have you broadened from just the romanticy that is focused
on fairies, ye.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now into this world of dragons. But the dragons are
part of the romanticy. Well, the dragons, you know, they
do it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
They dragons too, but it's about the people.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
But anyway, it turns out romanticy is a term that
was only really created in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
It's a new term.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Romance fantasy has been around for longer than that, but
the term romancey started trending in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
And when you look.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Into the data, Australia ranks as the number one country
where the search term is most popular, and when you
dive deeper, the act is double that of the search
volume of other states.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
In the past few years, We've done it again, yes.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
And so that I dove even deeper and I found
out here in Canberra, we actually have a bookshop called
the Romance Mafia, and there's a Canbra Romance and Fantasy
book Club.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Sign me up.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
You don't want to have a falling out with the
romance Mafia.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
What would they leave in your bed?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I could tell you that you need a black light
to prove whether or not I was telling you this
has gone far enough
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