Nov. 6, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| But certainly, in the recent two or three years, we've seen a massive influx of people. | ||
| We think there are almost as many as 2 million new immigrants, which on a population of 27 is a significant chunk, which has been a policy of this Labor government, including recently allowing the widows or brides from ISIS to return to Australia, which is a very, very dangerous and controversial thing to be doing, of course. | ||
| All right, Senator Alex Antic, a pleasure. | ||
| Pleasure to meet you. | ||
| I feel like I already interviewed you. | ||
| We did a half hour where we should have just had the cameras rolling, but we're going to sit down and repeat a bunch of things that I think we just spoke about. | ||
| But first, I should mention, so we're here in Melbourne. | ||
| How was my pronunciation there? | ||
| It was good. | ||
| That was pretty good. | ||
| It was excellent. | ||
| Can you say it? | ||
| Because I'm nervous for my live show tomorrow. | ||
| Melbourne is good. | ||
| Melbourne, but just don't say Sydney. | ||
| Definitely don't say Sydney. | ||
| I should mention you are not Senator of Melbourne. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| You are Senator of Adelaide. | ||
| Can you break down? | ||
| I thought we'd do a little Australia 101 for the people. | ||
| Because even me coming in, it's a big country. | ||
| We know Crocodile Dundee. | ||
| We know Bluey. | ||
| That's kind of the extent. | ||
| And spiders, I'm told as well. | ||
| Everyone's frightened of Australian spiders, and you should be. | ||
| Yeah, well, look, and look, this is going to test me as well because my knowledge of Australian history and politics might not be. | ||
| But essentially, that's right. | ||
| I'm a senator. | ||
| Similar system to the US, but we sit in two chambers of the parliament, Senate and the lower house, as we call it, the House of Representatives. | ||
| Senators are elected by their whole state, whereas a little bit like in the US, the lower house is just elected in districts, if you like. | ||
| We call it electoral districts. | ||
| So yeah, each state has 12 except for our territories. | ||
| And it's a house of review. | ||
| We review laws and make it sound quite boring. | ||
| No, no, politics. | ||
| No, we have similar systems. | ||
| We have similar people also. | ||
| And I do want to talk to you a little bit about what you think it means to be Australian because that seems to be a debate in all Western countries right now. | ||
| So we'll get to that in a sec. | ||
| But why don't we first talk a little bit about just sort of what do you think the state of the country is at a moment before we get to the people specifically? | ||
| What's the state of Australia? | ||
| I think this is a very different country than the one I grew up in. | ||
| I grew up in the 80s and to a certain extent the 90s as well. | ||
| The world's very different. | ||
| The West is very different now than it was then, but Australia in particular is. | ||
| We have, I suppose, you would say we are the land of opportunity in many respects, resources, natural resources, beautiful beaches. | ||
| And yet for some reason, there is this cloud hanging over this country at the moment. | ||
| And I think it's across the board. | ||
| I think it's all the way through the country. | ||
| There is a feeling of pessimism a little bit. | ||
| And that has changed over the years. | ||
| I think we've seen that more and more over the last 10 years. | ||
| COVID, of course, has had a, I think, a long-lasting impact on the country. | ||
| I think that many respects, the country hasn't recovered from COVID. | ||
| A lot of economic problems, a lot of businesses just never reopened after lockdowns, particularly in this state. | ||
| So it is an interesting question. | ||
| And historically, Australians are very laid-back people. | ||
| As you said, the idea of Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee, that is, and to some extent is, but certainly was what Australians were like when I was growing up. | ||
| They still exist, but we are seeing an urbanization of the population, which has changed that a little bit. | ||
| And I think people are perhaps a little more reserved with their behavior. | ||
| So how much of that unease that you're talking about is a COVID hangover? | ||
| Because one of the most shocking things, I lived in Los Angeles during COVID, which was as dystopian as you could get, except for the city we are in right now. | ||
| I mean, we saw videos out of Melbourne that looked like they were coming out of China. | ||
| So how much of what's going on in this country right now is that people kind of had a good great land mass, as you said, laid-back population, beautiful, everyone looks great here, have this weird authoritarian thing happen. | ||
| And now the years out of that seem to be what's going on. | ||
| Well, I guess it depends. | ||
| From an outsider, that's kind of the way I'm seeing it. | ||
| And Americans saw that and they saw the images. | ||
| We were very conscious of that at the time. | ||
| And I think it was very important that they did because to me, it reflected some of the things that we don't have in this country that you do in the United States, things like the First Amendment. | ||
| And so we went through this period during COVID where things were pretty bleak, pretty tough. | ||
| And for me, that was a very strong wake-up call. | ||
| That was 12 months into this job, into a parliamentary career. | ||
| And for me, it showed the very frail nature of Western democracies, Western liberalism, if you like, because with the swipe of a pen, parliaments all over the country simply handed off huge blocks of power to our public service, to our bureaucrats, who started making decisions for us. | ||
| So many of the decisions you saw, such as the lockdowns that the city was put into, came at the behest of public servants rather than politicians, which was a very unusual scenario and almost a little unique to Australia in the way in which the country is made up of states in a federation. | ||
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Right. | |
| So basically the kind of managerial class. | ||
| You mentioned to me when we sat down a moment ago that if you were put in a quarantine for two weeks. | ||
| I was. | ||
| I was coming back from, seems incredible now, but at the time I was coming back from parliament. | ||
| And the rules in my home state there were that you needed to get a, it's hard to say out loud, but you needed to get a visa almost, like a pass to come home to your own state, which I put in. | ||
| I gave them all the information and they said, you can't come. | ||
| And I said, all right, well, I'm coming. | ||
| And before I knew it, they said, well, you come back, but you have to do two weeks in a hotel not dissimilar to this. | ||
| Now, that hotel had a big metal fence around it in the middle of the city. | ||
| It had police downstairs. | ||
| I wasn't allowed to leave the hotel room. | ||
| And having tested six times for negative for COVID, I was put into an area where there was actually COVID. | ||
| I can remember vividly, so the most, you know, it was a sort of a parody in a sense, but I can remember vividly going, they would serve you meals. | ||
| And on the first day, I had a knock on the door, boom, like that. | ||
| And I sort of woke up and went to the door immediately. | ||
| And then I got a phone call from downstairs. | ||
| It was constable, you know, police sergeant, something. | ||
| You got up and got your meal too quickly. | ||
| The person hadn't cleared the room. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So next time I waited two minutes and I got a phone call saying you need to go and collect your meal. | ||
| It's been left out there and that's not within the rules. | ||
| So, you know, this was an extraordinarily authoritarian approach to the problem. | ||
| And back to the original question, I do think that's left a mark on Australians. | ||
| I think for many of us, it now feels as though the things that we never thought were possible in the country are possible. | ||
| So, okay, so before we get to the what, who is an Australian, what does it mean to be Australian? | ||
| I have one other question for you first, which is, so you are a member of the Liberal Party here. | ||
| And as we discussed earlier, the word liberal from an American perspective has been completely mucked up because now the people who proclaim to be liberals are the least liberal people, actually. | ||
| So anytime I go to another country and someone says they're a liberal, I go, well, do they mean they're a liberal like for individual rights and laissez-faire economics and logic and reason? | ||
| Or do they mean liberal like I'm sort of a progressive authoritarian? | ||
| I think I know your answer to that, but can you explain a little bit what does it mean to be part of the liberal party in Australia? | ||
| Well, I'm just waiting for someone to agree to being called the authoritarian. | ||
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Right, right. | |
| I am. | ||
| I am actually. | ||
| That'll be a one for the agents. | ||
| Look, no, it is. | ||
| It's a strange use of term. | ||
| I mean, I think we would look at it that the Liberal Party in the sort of spirit of Milne, you know, like, you know, classical liberalism. | ||
| And that's the way the party was formed. | ||
| It was really formed as a, you know, as a sort of conglomerate of centre-right parties that had a conservative and a, you know, a liberal, libertarian angle bent, if you like. | ||
| And they came together after the war, and that was the modern Liberal Party. | ||
| Quite different. | ||
| We actually wear the colour blue as the logo as well. | ||
| So it's quite, you know, you would be well understood for being mistaken for coming to Australia seeing blue and liberal and thinking you're dealing with basically the centre-left. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| But that is not the case. | ||
| So, no, in Australia, that's what it means. | ||
| It's interesting, though, in the sense that politics in Australia doesn't quite overlay into the United States. | ||
| Probably the same in Europe as well. | ||
| Our politics tends to be probably a little more to the center on both sides, I think. | ||
| You know, our far left is probably a little closer to the centre and the same with the so your far left is what party now? | ||
| Well, we would say the Australian Greens, who are our furthest left party. | ||
| I mean, there are others, of course, there are minor parties that was on the ballot, as there are in every country. | ||
| But in terms of parliamentary representation, the Greens are they're an environmentalist party that has really drifted into sort of far-left doctrine of, you know, I would say, you know, angles that involve, you know, all sorts of things that aren't related to the environment. | ||
| Immigration. | ||
| All of that. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So they are certainly. | ||
| And we do have further right parties than the Liberal Party. | ||
| We've got a party called One Nation, which is a minor party that deals in sort of nationalist issues, if you like. | ||
| So there's a broad spectrum. | ||
| I know that's the case in Europe as well. | ||
| It's not quite as binary as it is in the US. | ||
| But, you know, if you were overlaying, people would disagree with this, but the Liberal Party is probably closest to the Republican Party, I'd say. | ||
| Right, which is funny. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| In America, we basically now have a Republican Party that is pretty much filled with all ex-libs. | ||
| And we have a Democrat Party now filled with what I would say are largely kind of crazy people, but we can leave that there. | ||
| So, okay, so let me ask you: what does it mean now to be Australian? | ||
| Because even being here just for a day and wandering around, it's a little hard to tell in a sense. | ||
| The bluey sort of Steve Irwin thing maybe is not the perfect encapsulation. | ||
| It's a very difficult question to ask because I think it depends, answer. | ||
| It depends where you're going and where you are. | ||
| In the city, and I mean, if I went back to when I was growing up, I think that the demographic in the city was largely the same as in the country areas. | ||
| That's not the case anymore. | ||
| My feeling is that really to get a feel for what is in Australian, you almost need to get out to the country areas, the regional areas, where a lot of what we consider to be Australian is still alive and well. | ||
| People fly the flag out there. | ||
| You know, if you come to Australia, it's one of the very few countries that still, I think, finds it acceptable to have three different flags on a government building. | ||
| You know, I notice in the United States, despite even in places like California, where you might see the California flag, you'll still always see the American flag. | ||
| But here, you will see a myriad of Australian, you know, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags. | ||
| Well, I don't have a problem with any of those flags, but there is one flag for the country. | ||
| In the country, you'll see very much the opposite. | ||
| You'll just see the Australian flag. | ||
| Now, these days, the person living the urbanized Australian is quite different, I think. | ||
| They do tend to lean further to the left, and they are a mix. | ||
| They're very multicultural and quite different. | ||
| In the country, I think the Steve Irwin character still exists, and I think they're very real. | ||
| But overall, the Australian nature is laid back. | ||
| We are very outdoors-loving people. | ||
| We're very laid-back. | ||
| People, I think, here are very forgiving as well. | ||
| The other thing that makes Australians quite unique is they're very apolitical. | ||
| So, there just isn't the interest in politics. | ||
| In fact, I was having a conversation on the plane with some young people who had just no grasp of it. | ||
| And that's fine. | ||
| But that is a very, you know, we're not quite as engaged in the political process as which in some sense probably led to a lot of what happened during COVID because we were kind of checked out. | ||
| I think it did. | ||
| Yeah, I think it did. | ||
| And, you know, it doesn't take much for that authoritarian nature to creep out unless, you know, I think Ronald Reagan said it's freedom's only a generation away from being lost or words to that effect. | ||
| So, you know, we do have that constraint here in Australia. | ||
| And I think people, you know, it would be good to see people more conscious of their freedoms and what's being lost at the moment. | ||
| I don't think it's been lost across the entire spectrum of the Australian nation at the moment. | ||
| So speaking of that, where is Australia as it pertains to immigration right now? | ||
| Because you guys are a freaking giant landmass that it is its own continent. | ||
| Most people don't realize that. | ||
| You're an island. | ||
| You're a very large island. | ||
| You have no borders with anyone else. | ||
| It seems like this place should be a fortress, which in some sense it was kind of set up to be. | ||
| And yet it seems like there's also a lot of problems on the immigration. | ||
| Yeah, look, I mean, it's been historically, I mean, it's quite interesting, you know, backlog of how Australia came to be where it is. | ||
| It's probably too long for today's conversation, but essentially we were settled by the English and the Irish and the Scottish or out of Europe. | ||
| And that continued really largely until around about the 60s or 70s when we started seeing, you know, our post-war two, of course, where we started seeing influxes from Europe. | ||
| There was, in fact, a white Australia policy for a long period of time. | ||
| And that all changed in the latter half of the 20th century when we started seeing more immigration from Asia and now in recent times from the Middle East and so on. | ||
| But you're quite right. | ||
| I mean, we had a population when I was growing up of around about just under 20 million. | ||
| It's about 28 or thereabouts now, depending on where you look. | ||
| In a country that's the size of the United States, it's pretty close. | ||
| 350 million. | ||
| Yeah, it's pretty close. | ||
| Now, the difference with Australia is most of our arable land is on the coasts. | ||
| So there's a lot of land mass in the middle where there's minerals and a bit of farming, but not a huge amount else, although they'd probably scream at me for that. | ||
| That is the fact. | ||
| So most of the population is centered in those urban areas. | ||
| So it's sort of a little bit misleading in the sense that we do have a large mass. | ||
| The thing we do have is resources. | ||
| We have plenty of water up north. | ||
| We've got minerals everywhere. | ||
| We've got some of the largest stockpiles of uranium and coal and iron and gas. | ||
| We just don't use them because we are under the thumb of this green ideology, which is telling us to sort of self-harm by not using it and not burning it and so forth. | ||
| But certainly in the recent two or three years, we've seen a massive influx of people. | ||
| We think there are almost as many as 2 million new immigrants, which on a population of 27 is a significant chunk, which has been a policy of this Labor government, including recently allowing the widows or brides from ISIS to return to Australia, which is a very dangerous and controversial thing to be doing, of course. | ||
| And so the dynamics change. | ||
| What is their argument? | ||
| In a place that has this many resources that is this big, what is the argument? | ||
| So we're going to bring in 10% of the population in two years or well, the argument that would be used is that COVID, there was almost a moratorium on immigration and we need to catch up. | ||
| So that's the argument. | ||
| And the argument is also always about skilled labor and we don't have the expertise in certain areas. | ||
| The truth of the matter is that I think people are just coming in and working normal jobs. | ||
| And of course, the net effect of that in many respects has been oppress on housing, oppress on living standards. | ||
| And there are stories in Australia now of people, places like Sydney and Melbourne lining up with 200 people for a single bedroom apartment. | ||
| So the effect on the cost of living and the lifestyle in Australia has been quite dramatic in a short amount of time. | ||
| We're all very worried about that. | ||
| I'm very worried about it. | ||
| And of course, you know, this country was built on immigration. | ||
| So this is, as they say, not about patting the player. | ||
| It's about the game. | ||
| The numbers are extraordinary at the moment. | ||
| The United States had this same problem. | ||
| It was illegal immigration. | ||
| This is legal immigration. | ||
| But the effects are the same. | ||
| And, you know, you have to be in control of your borders in a country like this. | ||
| And I'm very worried about where we're headed. | ||
| Where does the kind of guilt about the Aboriginal population fit into this? | ||
| We obviously have a version, every Western nation in some sense, a version of it. | ||
| We have a version of it in the United States. | ||
| Yeah, look, it's really interesting. | ||
| I saw a clip this week on social media of a journalist from our ABC going around and talking to people in the 50s and 60s about whether Aboriginal children should swim in a swimming pool with white children. | ||
| Now, if you believe the left, you would say that we were, they would say that we were a country based on racism and have always been. | ||
| This is black and white footage. | ||
| These people, though, responded by saying, of course they should. | ||
| Why wouldn't they? | ||
| They're our brothers and sisters and so on and so forth. | ||
| So this construct that Australia is a racist nation has been brewing for a long period of time. | ||
| It's in overdrive at the moment. | ||
| I think we're the least racist nation in the world, actually. | ||
| I think people, Australians, as I said, with that laid-back nature, are very, very warm and welcoming. | ||
| But the left have found a way to achieve their goals. | ||
| The classic example is the voice to parliament referendum, which we had now. | ||
| Referendum in Australia is a serious thing. | ||
| It's changing our constitution. | ||
| I know it happens in the US too with amendments and so forth. | ||
| But a couple of years ago, the government proposed enshrining an Aboriginal voice in parliament, which would be a sort of effectively, they would have argued, but effectively a third chamber of our government. | ||
| The Australian people shot it down, something like 65% voted no, depending on where you go. | ||
| But the rationale that was used was this rationale of guilt. | ||
| You've stepped on these people for years. | ||
| You need to give them a voice. | ||
| Of course, it was never true. | ||
| And in fact, many Aboriginal people and groups, including my friend, Senator Jacinda Nambajippa-Price, who was a leading voice against it, is Aboriginal herself and spoke against it because it's the very essence of division, effectively, giving certain people certain rights and certain categories. | ||
| So we've had to fight with a lot of that. | ||
| And I think Australians are waking up to it. | ||
| But that ethos is alive and well in the left, and they want to push that division. | ||
| How much of this also is now that there's an integration problem for the second generation of people that have come here? | ||
| I was reading even this morning about this machete ban that just was instituted in the last six months or so here. | ||
| And it sounds like most of the violence is not from illegals. | ||
| It's from second generation immigrants, meaning like 15-year-olds whose parents came here and feel different somehow or other. | ||
| Yeah, look, I think that's always been a bit of a problem. | ||
| When I was growing up, there were complaints about knife use from immigrant second generation immigrants from Southeast Asia. | ||
| So I think it has always been an issue. | ||
| But certainly, I think it is. | ||
| This is one of the real world effects of this problem: people do take time to accustom. | ||
| They do acclimatize and become accustomed to their new environments. | ||
| And many are coming from very dangerous places like some of the war-torn parts of Africa. | ||
| So, you know, it's a very difficult balance to mix, particularly when you throw such large numbers at a community that's not necessarily geared up for that. | ||
| And as I said, I mean, Australia is a sort of a deceptively small country in a very large landmass. | ||
| And I think we're starting to see that play out. | ||
| Where does the Islamist part of this fall into place? | ||
| Because when I tweeted out first that I was coming here, a lot of people said, Dave, you're going to have to watch out. | ||
| Especially, well, they mostly told me about this city, actually. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Look, I mean, there certainly has been a wave of crime. | ||
| You know, the machete ban is one of them. | ||
| Look, I don't know whether it could be honestly be attributed to any one group or other. | ||
| I wouldn't say that it could be, honestly. | ||
| But, you know, I mean, this is the nature of taking people from different parts of the world. | ||
| I mean, you know, sometimes cultures don't. | ||
| don't always mix and uh we have to be careful of that we really do um so but look melbourne is going through its own problems it's got a a very left-leaning government has had for a very long period of time and uh you know if you look around i mean it's a it's a sort of a city that looks like it's uh it's in trouble honestly it's funny because i i was expecting that and have i've only been in these few blocks we happen to be in a particularly nice area and so far i haven't seen the trouble part but everyone keeps telling me about so i believe it's there i just haven't seen it | ||
| i don't think i mean i think it's all it's all relative as well i mean there'd be parts of the us and parts but i go to blue cities in the u.s you'd be you'll be you'll be well acclimatized to it i'm sure but i you know we're just not used to it it's always been a very trouble-free country you know we and i think that's been part of the problem is we have thought that our institutions will always serve us well we've always thought that there will never be trouble in this country and that we don't have this sort of social cohesion problem because we haven't we've had people that have mixed | ||
| we had greeks italians uh and people from other parts of europe that came here after the war and would have been lumbered with many of the same problems um and arguments but have assimilated well after a generation or two so we're just not used to it and uh and and that's just a a feature of having large numbers coming in at one time i would say so you guys have a labor majority government right now | ||
| you're i'm not sure when we're airing this interview but i believe on this monday this coming monday uh your prime minister is going to be meeting with donalds in the states what would you like donald trump to say to him oh well i mean look i well what we need actually is uh is to keep the partnership going i mean ultimately that that's really what we need | ||
| i mean we you know we we we think we are an island away from everything but we have um you know neighbors that are not necessarily friendly all the time so i think the most important thing is that that we keep that going we have a there's this long-running debate in australia about uh orkus which is an alliance between the uk and australia and you know military equipment and submarines in particular which uh australia is looking to buy so look i hope that all goes well because we we do need it what | ||
| what's been interesting though is that australia has historically um for reasons of the the uh the the past had a connection to the united kingdom um that all sort of changed back swung to the us after vietnam yeah when the united states became our main uh ally perhaps and certainly in terms of military equipment and transfer that was the main thing we're seeing a little bit of a swing with this labor government away from the trump administration i think now back towards the sort of the the european elites uh who have perhaps more in common politically | ||
| um so i assume you're not happy with that i'm not happy with that at all no i don't i think you know i i'm a very strong believer in the us australian alliance and i think we need it and uh uh you know um and i hope That continues, but I would say that that's a challenge at the moment because I think the Trump administration as they unashamedly are very America first and want to know what we can do for them as much as anything else. | ||
| So let's hope that continues. | ||
| But I don't know. | ||
| We just hope for poor old Elbow the lights don't get switched off because when the lights go off in the White House, you're in trouble. | ||
| You're in a lot of trouble. | ||
| And Trump is not above shutting the lights. | ||
| He is not above it at all. | ||
| What else should we know about this country that we don't know? | ||
| I mean, we've talked mostly about problems, actually, but it is an incredible country. | ||
| It's an incredible country. | ||
| I mentioned to you that I was supposed to come back from my first book tour, which was going to be the only international stops we were doing because I so fell in love with it when I was here in 2018. | ||
| So I'm so happy to be back. | ||
| So give me some of the positives. | ||
| Well, there's a lot. | ||
| I mean, how long have you got? | ||
| We'll probably take the rest of the week to tell him. | ||
| But honestly, I mean, it is a great part of the world down here. | ||
| You're close to Asia, so there's all of that other side of it. | ||
| But certainly inside our boundaries, I mean, you can't go past the beaches. | ||
| Not so much in Melbourne. | ||
| It's a bit cloudy. | ||
| In fact, we should be all right. | ||
| But other parts of the country, you've got tropical Queensland, you've got Sydney, which has the most incredible beaches. | ||
| So to Perth, some of the best metropolitan beaches you'll find anywhere in the world. | ||
| In South Australia, where I'm from, it's the wine regions. | ||
| It's actually like going to Europe without being in Europe. | ||
| I had a great Australian chirage last night. | ||
| Yeah, and they're all there and it's great. | ||
| And look, I think the most impressive thing about this country, though, is the laid-back manner. | ||
| We have, you know, I sort of, it is a little bit like a theme park. | ||
| We have thought that the world is as friendly and as generous as Australians are every time we travel. | ||
| You see Aussies when they travel. | ||
| I think sometimes get themselves into trouble because they just think the world operates like it does when you go down the road here. | ||
| And of course, it's a big, bad world out there. | ||
| So, but in terms of a friendly, you know, friendly place to come, and they love Americans too. | ||
| They'll tell you they don't, but they do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And there's a lot of affinity with American people. | ||
| Why do they tell you they don't? | ||
| Because, you know, Aussies like to be their own thing, but they'll say all sorts of things. | ||
| But of course, the friendship is real. | ||
| And they love hearing about America and they love the connection to America. | ||
| So Americans are very, very welcome in Australia, I have to say. | ||
| So it's a good thing. | ||
| But the other thing I'd say is that you just can't be frightened of the wildlife. | ||
| There are no, you know, we haven't seen a single anything in the middle of Melbourne. | ||
| Although we are in the city right now. | ||
| It has happened. | ||
| There are times where Americans think it's nonsense, but there are times when kangaroos probably not here. | ||
| But certainly in Adelaide, I have seen it in very, very built-up areas. | ||
| You will see a kangaroo coming through. | ||
| So when I take my guys in Sydney, we're going to go to that big kangaroo preserve and the koalas have media. | ||
| Do I have to, what else do I have to warn them about over there? | ||
| Almost everything. | ||
| I just wouldn't touch or get near anything. | ||
| And there are some big animals around there. | ||
| You go up north and those crocodiles are serious. | ||
| Which made Steve Irwin all the more incredible that he was happy to. | ||
| We're from Florida. | ||
| We got a lot of gators. | ||
| A lot of gators. | ||
| Ours are a spider situation. | ||
| Spiders are out of control. | ||
| We're getting them all the time. | ||
| My wife has found two at home. | ||
| And I did remind her this morning that we live in Australia. | ||
| So, you know, you're not getting away from the spiders here. | ||
| But there are some really nasty ones. | ||
| Anything with red or white on them, just to step around. | ||
| Step away. | ||
| Does this qualify as Australia 101? | ||
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Did I? | |
| This is Australia 101. | ||
| Is there anything else that we should do? | ||
| We covered pretty much all of it. | ||
| But what else can we cover? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| I don't think we've covered it all. | ||
| You can only give Americans so much at once. | ||
| I feel like this was a little bit of a download. | ||
| It was a pleasure, Alex. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Absolutely. | ||
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Thank you. | |
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