Latest / The Rita Panahi Show / The Rita Panahi Show | 29 June
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- 0:02Speaker 1: On Scarlett's Australia leaves.
- 0:05Speaker 2: It's the Rita Panahey Show.
- 0:09Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panahe Show. I'm
- 0:12Speaker 3: James Borrow filling in for RITA. Coming up tonight. Employers
- 0:16Speaker 3: ramp up their campaign against the next round of tax
- 0:19Speaker 3: heights to hit Parliament by panel will join me to
- 0:21Speaker 3: discuss this and all the day's top headlines. Plus a
- 0:25Speaker 3: devastating heat wave hits Europe and it's crippling the energy supply.
- 0:30Speaker 3: I Flower will give us all the details and why
- 0:32Speaker 3: they're so scared of air conditioning over there. Plus ab
- 0:36Speaker 3: Horowitz will have the latest from the US, including fans
- 0:39Speaker 3: crime foul over what some say is racist treatment of
- 0:44Speaker 3: white w NBA star Caitlin Clark, and reports Harry and
- 0:49Speaker 3: Meaghan could backflip on their plans to visit the UK.
- 0:52Speaker 3: Kenny Scofield will have all your royal and sliverty news
- 0:56Speaker 3: bit later on in the show. Oh yeah, and of
- 0:58Speaker 3: course don't worry, We're gonna have some lefties losing it
- 1:01Speaker 3: for you. And guess what, Joe Biden, he's as articulate
- 1:06Speaker 3: as ever.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Let's get up and fight back.
- 1:08Speaker 5: God guard it, Ah.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Gosh, start it. Well, you know what else, Gosh darn it.
- 1:14Speaker 3: The Prime Minister has secured a tiny little bounce back
- 1:16Speaker 3: and voter support after was forced to scrap contentious measures
- 1:21Speaker 3: from his disastrous budget that broke a number of key
- 1:25Speaker 3: election promises. The latest News poll showed core support for
- 1:28Speaker 3: labor increasing from thirty percent to thirty three percent, so
- 1:32Speaker 3: still within the margin of error, while again also within
- 1:36Speaker 3: the margin of Era one Nation dropped from thirty one
- 1:38Speaker 3: to twenty nine percent, while coalition woes they're getting worse.
- 1:42Speaker 3: They are now at a historic low of seventeen percent. Anyway,
- 1:47Speaker 3: Albanize's record load net approval rating of minus twenty four
- 1:50Speaker 3: it proves slightly to minus seventeen percent, but fifty seven
- 1:54Speaker 3: percent of US are still dissatisfied with his rule as
- 1:58Speaker 3: Prime Minister. I reckon that's optimistic for Prime Minister anyway.
- 2:03Speaker 3: Angus Taylor as well, his satisfaction rating has trashed lowest
- 2:07Speaker 3: level since he replaced Susan Lay, with just thirty one
- 2:11Speaker 3: percent of Australian saying he's doing a good job. To
- 2:15Speaker 3: discuss this and a whole lot more, let's bring in
- 2:17Speaker 3: Menzies Research Center Senior Fellow Nick Cator and Sky News
- 2:21Speaker 3: contributor Louise Roberts. Guys, thanks so much for joining me
- 2:25Speaker 3: here this evening. Nick, I've got to start with you
- 2:27Speaker 3: and these approval ratings for the Prime Minister for One
- 2:31Speaker 3: Nation and Angus Taylor. And I'm sorry, Nick, it's looking
- 2:36Speaker 3: very dire right now for the Liberals. Is there a
- 2:41Speaker 3: way back for the Libs to catch up with One Nation?
- 2:44Speaker 3: And are they going to have to wind up doing
- 2:46Speaker 3: a deal?
- 2:46Speaker 6: Sure there is, Sure there's a white back for them
- 2:48Speaker 6: where they can find is another thing. Look, I mean
- 2:51Speaker 6: they are a party that believes in free markets and competition.
- 2:54Speaker 6: Now they've got it. There is competition on the center
- 2:57Speaker 6: right to replace the Albanese gvernment, which I think good
- 3:00Speaker 6: because in the end, consumers always win. So I think
- 3:03Speaker 6: this will inevitably make the Liberals be better than they
- 3:08Speaker 6: have been. Otherwise they're out of the game, and I
- 3:10Speaker 6: think they already are just quietly. I think Angus's budget
- 3:13Speaker 6: in reply speech had some solid policy reforming. And I
- 3:17Speaker 6: know people don't like economic reform. It's not something people
- 3:20Speaker 6: like to talk about, but it's domn important for the country.
- 3:23Speaker 6: So yes, you'll have to lift his caments. The old
- 3:25Speaker 6: you know, you remember those ads, you know, personal wash
- 3:28Speaker 6: is whiter yeap, like who can cleanse this country of
- 3:31Speaker 6: the Albanese government?
- 3:32Speaker 3: Better? Let's see see. Well, Louis Nick just mentioned the
- 3:37Speaker 3: R word reform, and as the Albanez has been very
- 3:40Speaker 3: fond of calling what he has just done now reform.
- 3:43Speaker 3: But you know, I don't know. I was kind of
- 3:44Speaker 3: thought reform met you were cutting taxes and making the
- 3:47Speaker 3: tax system simpler and encouraging productivity. But as far as
- 3:52Speaker 3: I could tell, they've done none of these things. And
- 3:56Speaker 3: you know, we've just seen all of these auction clearance rates.
- 3:59Speaker 3: It feels to me like the housing market and eventually
- 4:02Speaker 3: I think this is a harbinger for the broader economy
- 4:04Speaker 3: is starting to seize up.
- 4:05Speaker 7: What's your take, Well, my take would mirror what you're
- 4:08Speaker 7: saying there, James, because it was all about improving affordability
- 4:12Speaker 7: for young people who couldn't get a foot on the ladder.
- 4:14Speaker 7: But it doesn't exact opposite. You've got auctioneers saying don't
- 4:17Speaker 7: turn up to an auction because nobody's going to be bidding,
- 4:19Speaker 7: And so why would someone buy a property when they
- 4:21Speaker 7: feel it could be cheap?
- 4:22Speaker 4: The next week.
- 4:23Speaker 7: And the whole housing industry relies on confidence, doesn't it,
- 4:27Speaker 7: So that's an automatically dip into the market. But the
- 4:30Speaker 7: toll tax situation they've dreamt up is just it's hurting
- 4:34Speaker 7: people and they just don't want to know. I mean,
- 4:36Speaker 7: you know, the Treasure was saying it calls the anger industry,
- 4:40Speaker 7: that that's the problem, that people are angry about it,
- 4:42Speaker 7: but it's not the problem. The problem is the policies
- 4:44Speaker 7: and what they're trying to face through the electorate.
- 4:46Speaker 3: Indeed, and i mean Nick on this idea of reform,
- 4:49Speaker 3: is it going to have to be because there's people
- 4:51Speaker 3: in the Alberteezer camp who are briefing this idea that well,
- 4:54Speaker 3: people kind of get over this, they'll get over it,
- 4:56Speaker 3: then we're going to be fine. But is it more
- 4:59Speaker 3: of the case that there's kind of two speeds running
- 5:01Speaker 3: here in the economy and they're helping the politics play
- 5:05Speaker 3: for them now. But by the time we get to
- 5:07Speaker 3: the next election, all of these things will actually start
- 5:09Speaker 3: to be biting people and they'll feel it in their jobs,
- 5:12Speaker 3: their pay packet, their tax and whatever, you know, their
- 5:16Speaker 3: financial accounts and tax advisors say, hey, we've got a
- 5:18Speaker 3: problem here.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're right.
- 5:20Speaker 6: I mean, our uneasy team to have the approach that
- 5:22Speaker 6: people's attention span is about half the length of a
- 5:25Speaker 6: TikTok video.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Yeah right.
- 5:28Speaker 6: I don't think in this case it's going to be.
- 5:29Speaker 6: Because these are things that are going to get deep
- 5:31Speaker 6: set in, falling house prices, falling wealth, riding costs of living,
- 5:36Speaker 6: They're still going to be there at the next election.
- 5:38Speaker 6: Is going to have to face it. This is certainly
- 5:40Speaker 6: not reformed by the way. I mean, as you intimated
- 5:42Speaker 6: at the start. If tax reform has to do two things,
- 5:47Speaker 6: it has to make the tax simpler, system simpler, and
- 5:50Speaker 6: it has to bring down the tax burden. This did
- 5:53Speaker 6: both the opposite. So I don't know what what's the
- 5:55Speaker 6: opposite of reform.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Deform defamm That's a good line, that's a good line.
- 6:02Speaker 3: But Louise, you know, just on all of the people
- 6:04Speaker 3: who are being hit by this one of the things
- 6:06Speaker 3: that I've been really struck by too. First of all,
- 6:09Speaker 3: we are weeks and weeks and weeks on from the budget.
- 6:11Speaker 3: We're still still talking about it. So you know, any
- 6:14Speaker 3: calculation that they've got that the Australian people, you know,
- 6:18Speaker 3: have the attention span of half a TikTok video I
- 6:20Speaker 3: think is dead wrong. And what I also think has
- 6:23Speaker 3: been dead wrong is this idea that well, this is
- 6:26Speaker 3: only hitting you know, the top end of town, but
- 6:29Speaker 3: very us to see that. Cosboa the small business lobby,
- 6:32Speaker 3: and they've been very silent, very silent through much of
- 6:36Speaker 3: the Albanesi government. In fact, they clapped in you know,
- 6:40Speaker 3: that big summit that they had at the start of
- 6:42Speaker 3: their government. Now suddenly their head Sky Capuccio is coming
- 6:45Speaker 3: out and saying, oh, well, no, no, no, these assaults
- 6:48Speaker 3: on trusts and so on. We're going to raise a campaign.
- 6:51Speaker 3: But I feel like with so many business groups here,
- 6:54Speaker 3: it's a bit where have you been all along in
- 6:57Speaker 3: this government?
- 6:57Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, at least now I guess it's speaking out.
- 7:00Speaker 7: But we have all these business groups raising the red
- 7:02Speaker 7: flag and saying this hurts investment. But the government, of
- 7:05Speaker 7: course is saying most people won't notice. They're saying ninety
- 7:08Speaker 7: percent of small businesses won't be hit by this. But
- 7:10Speaker 7: a lot of people run their small business, family business
- 7:13Speaker 7: and dad investment companies, plumbers, builders, you name it, they
- 7:17Speaker 7: run it through a trust operations. They will get smashed
- 7:20Speaker 7: so again another tax on aspiration. Why not go after
- 7:23Speaker 7: the small business people?
- 7:24Speaker 8: And that's exactly what they've.
- 7:25Speaker 3: Done, absolutely right. But Nick, you know, there's more to
- 7:28Speaker 3: all of this than just the economics. You know, economics
- 7:32Speaker 3: is part of it, but there's also culture. And I've
- 7:35Speaker 3: been so fascinated by the debate we've been having over
- 7:39Speaker 3: multiculturalism versus monoculturalism here and I'll be frank, I think
- 7:44Speaker 3: Pauline hasn't kind of maybe could express yourself a little
- 7:48Speaker 3: bit more articulately around the idea, but I think we
- 7:50Speaker 3: knew what she meant. But I do think that you
- 7:52Speaker 3: had a very good column in Today's Australian newspaper where
- 7:55Speaker 3: you talk about, you know, really where rubber hits the
- 7:58Speaker 3: road on this, which is the teaching and learning of English,
- 8:03Speaker 3: and just tell us about that and what you're talking
- 8:06Speaker 3: about here in the context of this broader debate around
- 8:09Speaker 3: what kind of culture we have? Are we multicultural? Are
- 8:12Speaker 3: we monoculture? And this language that binds us together?
- 8:15Speaker 6: I think this whole thing about culture, I mean we've
- 8:17Speaker 6: got two made up words, multiculturalism which was made up
- 8:20Speaker 6: by Pierre Trudeau, and monoculture and culturalism, which was made
- 8:24Speaker 6: up by Paul and Hansen. Leave the culture to the
- 8:27Speaker 6: sociologists and the agurt makers. I say, let's actually talk
- 8:30Speaker 6: about what we expect, what values we want people to
- 8:34Speaker 6: have in this country, and how we want them to assimilate.
- 8:38Speaker 6: Now there's an old fashioned word. Let's revive it right away, assimilate.
- 8:42Speaker 6: The where you assimilate is with English. And it's alarming
- 8:45Speaker 6: to see a larger and larger number of migrants more
- 8:48Speaker 6: than eight hundred thousand now that either don't speak English
- 8:52Speaker 6: or speak it very poorly. I mean, how on earth
- 8:55Speaker 6: are you going to get everything that this country has
- 8:58Speaker 6: to offer if you don't speak English? How are you
- 8:59Speaker 6: going to get a job? How are you going to
- 9:01Speaker 6: talk to your neighbors? How are you going to be
- 9:03Speaker 6: able to ring the police and make a complaint? How
- 9:05Speaker 6: are you going to be able to go and see
- 9:06Speaker 6: the doctor. We have to go back to teaching English
- 9:11Speaker 6: as an absolute priority. I mean, ideally people should have
- 9:14Speaker 6: a pretty good grasp of the English language when they
- 9:16Speaker 6: come here, as you did, a reasonable glass or a
- 9:20Speaker 6: little bit getting better, but it's still working on the
- 9:23Speaker 6: accent though it is, But we have to teach them.
- 9:26Speaker 6: We have to teach them in ways that's going to work.
- 9:28Speaker 6: I mean, we have Joe Lingo these days. I'm not
- 9:30Speaker 6: supposed suggesting we go back to some green owl, but
- 9:34Speaker 6: let's actually teach English in an effective way and make
- 9:37Speaker 6: sure people understand that that is a prime condition, not
- 9:40Speaker 6: just as being a citizen, but of striving in this country.
- 9:43Speaker 3: Well, you know, Louis, this brings up a really interesting
- 9:45Speaker 3: point because one of the things that Pauline Hansen said
- 9:48Speaker 3: she would do if one nation was to take government
- 9:51Speaker 3: was to get rid of the multicultural, multi lingual broadcaster SPS.
- 9:55Speaker 3: I could not agree with her more.
- 9:57Speaker 6: What about the soccer It's a bit of a rough
- 9:59Speaker 6: thing to say in of the world.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Cus well, sorry, sorry, sorry, You know what, Let let
- 10:03Speaker 3: let one of the networks do it. You know, people
- 10:05Speaker 3: can stream it. We do have more than just terrest
- 10:07Speaker 3: real television now, like how we get our wonderful Sky news.
- 10:10Speaker 3: So but beyond that, though, Luiz, I am concerned though
- 10:15Speaker 3: that there's other things that the government and every government
- 10:18Speaker 3: has been doing for a long time to encourage people
- 10:21Speaker 3: to stay within their cultural ghettos. And I'm talking about
- 10:24Speaker 3: multicultural grants, language grants, community grants that are also clearly
- 10:29Speaker 3: designed for the local mp to go out and have
- 10:31Speaker 3: these things out. But at the end of the day,
- 10:34Speaker 3: these are saying we're using our money to see you
- 10:38Speaker 3: stay separate.
- 10:39Speaker 4: That's right.
- 10:40Speaker 7: And also when a lot of Australians have clearly said
- 10:42Speaker 7: that they want to cap on immigration, which you know,
- 10:45Speaker 7: until now has been a very racist thing to say,
- 10:47Speaker 7: hasn't it. Apparently because of the impact on our infrastructure
- 10:50Speaker 7: at schools, our hospitals arose, et cetera, et cetera. When
- 10:53Speaker 7: they see that money being carved off to those causes,
- 10:57Speaker 7: naturally they feel very aggrieved by this. It all ties
- 11:00Speaker 7: back into what can we afford to do? We're all
- 11:03Speaker 7: smashed by costs of living. Can our children afford to
- 11:05Speaker 7: buy homes?
- 11:05Speaker 4: Eventually?
- 11:06Speaker 7: Probably not, which is meant to be the problem the
- 11:08Speaker 7: Albanese government is solving.
- 11:10Speaker 4: So we'll get angry.
- 11:12Speaker 7: It's like one pot of money for them and everyone
- 11:14Speaker 7: else is struggling.
- 11:15Speaker 3: Well, exactly right, hey, you know, just on this whole
- 11:17Speaker 3: sort of question of multiculture and multi faith in all
- 11:21Speaker 3: of this, Nick's talking about your homeland at the moment
- 11:24Speaker 3: here the UK I was a little disturbed here by
- 11:28Speaker 3: the latest news out of the UK that his Majesty
- 11:32Speaker 3: King Charles the Third has recast his title as defender
- 11:36Speaker 3: of the faith, i e. The Church of England, which
- 11:39Speaker 3: for all of its issues, it's still the Church of England.
- 11:42Speaker 3: To say, he's now kind of this sort of monarchical
- 11:45Speaker 3: human resources department, who's now there to defend all faith
- 11:52Speaker 3: and you know, many faiths and maybe even faith said,
- 11:55Speaker 3: I don't know. It might be a little bit opposed
- 11:56Speaker 3: to the Church of England, but might be gaining toe
- 11:59Speaker 3: holds elsewhere within the realm.
- 12:01Speaker 6: Nick tell us about that the Anglican Church here, which
- 12:03Speaker 6: I'm a proud member. It's not the same as the
- 12:08Speaker 6: Church of England. Let's say that. But I do want
- 12:10Speaker 6: him to stand up first and forward foremost for the faith,
- 12:13Speaker 6: the faith that he's supposed to be defending, and his
- 12:16Speaker 6: constitutional position at the head of the church being that said,
- 12:19Speaker 6: I'm going to cut him a bit, am I allowed
- 12:21Speaker 6: to cut Prince Charles a bit of slack on sky. Well,
- 12:23Speaker 6: here's the king now he is, and what he is
- 12:26Speaker 6: standing up for, and this is also his duty is
- 12:28Speaker 6: freedom of religion. And I think we have to uphold
- 12:32Speaker 6: freedom of religion, whatever your religion is. And if we're
- 12:34Speaker 6: going to attack anybody. Let's attack those godless greens. You know,
- 12:38Speaker 6: it's godlessness. It's got a lot of the trouble in
- 12:40Speaker 6: this world. And I include in that political Islam, which
- 12:44Speaker 6: is just not really a religion. It is a godless ideology.
- 12:47Speaker 6: We can't So you know, if people, I think, by large,
- 12:51Speaker 6: people inspired by faith tend to be better people, not always.
- 12:56Speaker 3: Look, I've always been a believer that people should be
- 12:59Speaker 3: believing in something and anything and they should find something.
- 13:03Speaker 3: But on the subject of religion too. In the US,
- 13:06Speaker 3: this story here, there's a group of sisters, nuns, and
- 13:10Speaker 3: they are a group of nuns. Their order provides palliative
- 13:15Speaker 3: care to the sick and the elderly and the dying.
- 13:18Speaker 3: This is, you know, God's work. If there ever was
- 13:21Speaker 3: God's work, this is it. They are now being harassed
- 13:24Speaker 3: by the government because they are refusing to bend the
- 13:28Speaker 3: need to the pronoun police tell us about this.
- 13:30Speaker 7: So this is Yeah, these nuns in the state of
- 13:32Speaker 7: Orban is it that do work with the sick and
- 13:35Speaker 7: the poor for free because they're nuns, they're benevolent and
- 13:38Speaker 7: apparently they're being criticized for not using the correct pronouns.
- 13:43Speaker 7: But if you're a sister of the faith, everyone is equal.
- 13:46Speaker 7: You look after everyone, you don't discriminate, and you certainly
- 13:49Speaker 7: don't allow any sort of warped gender ideology to affect
- 13:53Speaker 7: how you actually look after these ill people. So the
- 13:56Speaker 7: nuns have actually fought back, and I would I would say,
- 13:58Speaker 7: being a foremost talk about your faith. Being a former
- 14:01Speaker 7: Catholic schoolgirl, you take on nuns at your peril.
- 14:03Speaker 3: And I really applaud.
- 14:05Speaker 7: Them for pushing back on the government here because it's
- 14:07Speaker 7: a ridiculous argument. It's like the state was looking for
- 14:10Speaker 7: someone to have a crack at because there's been no complaints.
- 14:13Speaker 7: None of their patients have complained about being discriminated against
- 14:16Speaker 7: or overlooked or anything. So it's a complete fallacy. So
- 14:19Speaker 7: why go after the sisters when they're doing great work
- 14:22Speaker 7: in the community for free. Imagine the state had to
- 14:25Speaker 7: pay something to do all this work.
- 14:26Speaker 3: You know. I just wish, guys, that these nuns would
- 14:29Speaker 3: take a great, big yardstick to whoever is harassing them
- 14:32Speaker 3: and give them one over the knuckles. Good old school,
- 14:35Speaker 3: good old school dune behavior. Louis Robbers, Nick Kettorth, thanks
- 14:38Speaker 3: so much for your time, really appreciate it. Well, stop
- 14:41Speaker 3: the presses. It is late June, and that means in
- 14:45Speaker 3: Europe it's hot. The temperature has been hitting as high
- 14:48Speaker 3: as thirty five degrees. Oh my gosh, the humanity, how horrible.
- 14:53Speaker 3: But of course in Europe this means that, well, it's
- 14:56Speaker 3: a much bigger problem because unlike Australia or the United States,
- 15:00Speaker 3: they don't believe in air conditioning, and they're having a
- 15:03Speaker 3: huge cultural and economic and political fight over the use
- 15:07Speaker 3: of technology the rest of us take for granted. In
- 15:10Speaker 3: France only twenty five percent of households are equipped with
- 15:12Speaker 3: air con, and in Spain and Italy the figure is
- 15:15Speaker 3: more like fifty percent, whereas in the US and Japan
- 15:18Speaker 3: we're looking at ninety. Looking at France particular, we've seen
- 15:22Speaker 3: thousands of schools now forced to shut this week, and
- 15:25Speaker 3: medical and nursing staff have complained that conditions in their
- 15:28Speaker 3: hospitals have become intolerable. Well, joining me now to discuss
- 15:33Speaker 3: this and a lot more is the esteemed geologist, author
- 15:37Speaker 3: and executive director at Hancock Energy, Professor Ian Plymer, Professor.
- 15:43Speaker 3: I'm so glad to have a chat with you about
- 15:45Speaker 3: this because I've been watching all of these Europeans lose
- 15:48Speaker 3: their mind and say, oh no, no, no, no, we
- 15:49Speaker 3: can't have air conditioning. It might make us cool and
- 15:53Speaker 3: comfortable in the summer. We must wear our hairshirts of environmentalism.
- 15:58Speaker 1: At these design Europeans that actually got to the Greek
- 16:00Speaker 1: Islands for their summer holidays. These are the same Europeans
- 16:05Speaker 1: that go to Thailand in winter time just to warm
- 16:07Speaker 1: on a bit. Come on, get real. We had Europeans
- 16:11Speaker 1: come to Australia in the nineteenth century where it was
- 16:15Speaker 1: very warm.
- 16:15Speaker 4: It was warmer in.
- 16:16Speaker 1: The eighteen nineties than now, and they were explorers. They
- 16:19Speaker 1: went all the way through the outback. They didn't winge
- 16:22Speaker 1: and complain. And Europe's got very soft. When I lived
- 16:25Speaker 1: in Europe, I lived in Munich. It was freezing cold
- 16:28Speaker 1: in winter time, and the architecture was such that we
- 16:32Speaker 1: could survive the cold when it wasn't built for the
- 16:35Speaker 1: warm weather. And in the warm weather it was warm,
- 16:38Speaker 1: it was stuffy, but it was only for a short time. Now,
- 16:42Speaker 1: European governments, being as powerful and as important as they are,
- 16:46Speaker 1: should just get a big chain and pull that low
- 16:50Speaker 1: that's hanging over the far east of them, and pull
- 16:52Speaker 1: the high over to fill that low. They should be
- 16:55Speaker 1: able to change the weather. They've been telling us about
- 16:57Speaker 1: it for a long while, so Europe has been I
- 17:00Speaker 1: have a sensitive they're not acclimatized this sort of weather,
- 17:03Speaker 1: which we are. Yeah, the architecture is not for warm weather.
- 17:06Speaker 1: They seem to have forgotten that it was much warmer
- 17:08Speaker 1: in the nineteen thirties, and now they seem to have
- 17:11Speaker 1: forgotten that in the time from nine hundred to thirteen
- 17:13Speaker 1: hundred ID, in the medieval warming, it was so warm
- 17:17Speaker 1: in Europe that they were able to have two crops
- 17:19Speaker 1: a year. So get real. These people are completely engrossed
- 17:25Speaker 1: in their own importance, and socialism has got a grip
- 17:28Speaker 1: of them. I understand the world, and.
- 17:30Speaker 3: It's crazy to me too, because you've got countries like
- 17:32Speaker 3: Germany now and I've seen reports of cardiac units where
- 17:35Speaker 3: the temperature is thirty eight degrees for people who've just
- 17:38Speaker 3: come out of heart surgery because they haven't built in
- 17:41Speaker 3: air conditioning entirely because they feel like there's some political
- 17:45Speaker 3: problem and it's disreputable to put in air conditioning because somehow,
- 17:49Speaker 3: you know, if they put in air conditioning, they're going
- 17:51Speaker 3: to be the ones who are going to be changing
- 17:53Speaker 3: the climate, not you know, if you believe in that
- 17:55Speaker 3: sort of thing. The Chinese with all of their new
- 17:57Speaker 3: call fire power stations, well.
- 18:00Speaker 1: They have air conditioning in laboratories, they have air conditioning
- 18:03Speaker 1: in computer centers, they have air conditioning in big buildings
- 18:07Speaker 1: in Europe. Why not, cardiac wards, This is just bad
- 18:09Speaker 1: planning and you reap what you say. And they haven't
- 18:13Speaker 1: thought that. We have something that happens every year, it's
- 18:17Speaker 1: cold summer, and I just haven't thought it through, so
- 18:20Speaker 1: I have no sympathy at all. We also know from
- 18:23Speaker 1: extensive studies of about thirty three million deaths from climate
- 18:28Speaker 1: over the last two hundred years that more than ninety
- 18:31Speaker 1: percent of people will die before their time in cold
- 18:34Speaker 1: climates rather than warm climate. Yes, so this is just
- 18:37Speaker 1: a beat up by the loopy left press who are
- 18:41Speaker 1: trying to make us feel guilty about a beautiful warm
- 18:44Speaker 1: day when you can actually enjoy the sunshine.
- 18:47Speaker 3: And I just can't went in for all of the
- 18:50Speaker 3: Europeans are over in the US for the World Cup
- 18:52Speaker 3: enjoying the air condition to go back and demand air conditioning, onsy,
- 18:56Speaker 3: go back, just like in America. Hey, I want to
- 18:58Speaker 3: also ask you too. There was a story today and
- 19:01Speaker 3: hoping you can walk me through it here about the
- 19:02Speaker 3: Queensland government helping a plan to turn a gold mine
- 19:06Speaker 3: into a renewable energy project at Mount Raden. I believe
- 19:10Speaker 3: it's a pumped hydra project. Tell me this isn't another
- 19:13Speaker 3: thing like the Snowy Hydro two point zero deal that
- 19:17Speaker 3: has been going on and on and just burning through
- 19:20Speaker 3: billions of taxpayer dollars here in New South Wales.
- 19:23Speaker 4: No, I can't.
- 19:24Speaker 1: I can't tell you it's different from Snowy art.
- 19:26Speaker 5: Now.
- 19:26Speaker 1: Yes, the volume of water is less because it's a
- 19:29Speaker 1: big open pit. However, pumped hydro doesn't work. It hasn't worked,
- 19:34Speaker 1: and it's for a very good reason. You lose a
- 19:36Speaker 1: lot of energy in pumping, you lose a lot of
- 19:39Speaker 1: energy in gravitating that water down to create electricity. There
- 19:43Speaker 1: are much better ways of making electricity in Queensland, especially
- 19:46Speaker 1: with all the coal they have, so it's no wonder
- 19:49Speaker 1: that it's been killed off for all the right financial reasons. Now,
- 19:53Speaker 1: for the gold company, it would have been wonderful to
- 19:55Speaker 1: have a pumped hydro system there because that then solves
- 19:58Speaker 1: rehabilitation problems for them, But there is a reality and
- 20:02Speaker 1: you cannot make negative energy. And this is what these
- 20:05Speaker 1: processes want to do, to spend our money to actually
- 20:08Speaker 1: create energy, but it comes out at a loss, and
- 20:11Speaker 1: the loss with the energy balance and the loss financially.
- 20:14Speaker 1: So it's a dumb project which has been buried for
- 20:17Speaker 1: the right reasons.
- 20:18Speaker 3: Well, that's good to hear. I wish we could bury
- 20:20Speaker 3: Snowy Hydro two point zero. It's a huge disaster here.
- 20:22Speaker 3: They're talking about tens of billions of dollars here in
- 20:25Speaker 3: this project. But finally, before I let you go, you've
- 20:28Speaker 3: been around a lot of mining projects in your life,
- 20:30Speaker 3: and I just want to ask you very quickly about
- 20:32Speaker 3: this report about the government's plans to change ir laws
- 20:37Speaker 3: in favor of unions, and that also means that miners
- 20:42Speaker 3: are now saying the Minerals Council is saying that this
- 20:44Speaker 3: could hit mining projects and extractive projects and you know,
- 20:49Speaker 3: tilt the balance of favor into the union's hands to
- 20:52Speaker 3: such agree that it could actually lead to corruption. Is
- 20:56Speaker 3: what's this concern all about you? Because I've seen the headline.
- 20:58Speaker 3: It sounds pretty bad.
- 21:00Speaker 1: While corruption and unionism go hand in hand. Just look
- 21:03Speaker 1: at the CFMEU. The second thing is that we only
- 21:06Speaker 1: have eight percent of Australian workers who are in a union,
- 21:10Speaker 1: and most of those are in some of the heavy industries.
- 21:14Speaker 1: The third thing is that the unions are interfering with
- 21:16Speaker 1: our energy policy to try to keep more members. For example,
- 21:21Speaker 1: we have this wonderful gas reservation policy that's got nothing
- 21:25Speaker 1: to do with reserving gas for the consumer. That is
- 21:28Speaker 1: to do with keeping unionized businesses thriving such that we
- 21:32Speaker 1: can keep our union members there and such that we
- 21:35Speaker 1: have energy for these unionized heavy industries. So the unions
- 21:38Speaker 1: are only acting in self interest. They never act in
- 21:40Speaker 1: the interest of the community. They are organizations which are
- 21:44Speaker 1: huge financial organizations, running big super funds. If you're in
- 21:49Speaker 1: the CFMAU and Melbourne, you need to buy your brown
- 21:52Speaker 1: paper bags by the gross instead of getting one or two.
- 21:56Speaker 1: They are organizations which are already corrupt. Now to make
- 21:59Speaker 1: it even a corrupt is not hard, because all they
- 22:02Speaker 1: do is to hold the gun at a at a
- 22:04Speaker 1: mining company's head to stop exports, and that's it. They've
- 22:07Speaker 1: done their job.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Professor, I'm gonna have to leave it there in plymath.
- 22:10Speaker 3: Thank you so much for your time. Always great to chat,
- 22:12Speaker 3: Thank you so much, thank you still to come, and
- 22:16Speaker 3: Lefties Losing it? Plus all the latest from the US,
- 22:19Speaker 3: including fans crying foul over what say is racist treatment
- 22:23Speaker 3: of white WNBA star Caitlin Clark. Ama Horwitz is here next. Well,
- 22:38Speaker 3: now it's time for lefties losing it. And guess who's
- 22:41Speaker 3: back Joe Biden. They actually trotted him out in what
- 22:46Speaker 3: can only be called a case of elder abuse, to
- 22:49Speaker 3: give a speech to the Maryland Democrat Party a couple
- 22:52Speaker 3: of days ago. He was heckled by protesters who called
- 22:56Speaker 3: him genocide Joe, which tells you where the party is going.
- 23:00Speaker 3: And Joe Biden, for his part, well, he was as
- 23:04Speaker 3: articulate as ever.
- 23:06Speaker 4: Let's get up and fight back.
- 23:08Speaker 5: God darn it.
- 23:10Speaker 9: House.
- 23:10Speaker 5: See I was previously held by a Republican. She had
- 23:15Speaker 5: won the last election by nineteen points. That see, just
- 23:20Speaker 5: happens to represent quite a little place you all heard of. Marrono.
- 23:28Speaker 5: I love you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 23:35Speaker 3: Still hasn't mastered walking off a stage, has he? Anyway?
- 23:39Speaker 3: You know, it was only two years ago that he
- 23:42Speaker 3: had that catastrophic debate performance against Donald Trump. I think
- 23:46Speaker 3: if I remember correctly, at the time they blamed that
- 23:48Speaker 3: performance on a gold This could be the longest colt
- 23:51Speaker 3: in history. Meanwhile, I hate to see this say this,
- 23:54Speaker 3: but I've got to say that, unlike Joe Biden, Bill
- 23:58Speaker 3: Maher seems to be distinguishing himself as the only sane
- 24:03Speaker 3: man left on the left, at least one of the
- 24:06Speaker 3: public platform. Here he is actually telling a few truths
- 24:09Speaker 3: about the latest crop of communists to be elected to
- 24:13Speaker 3: Congress from New York on the Democrat Party ticket.
- 24:16Speaker 2: There's one candidate. She will be a congressperson from New
- 24:19Speaker 2: York's thirteenth Sistrict who The New York Times asked if
- 24:22Speaker 2: someone murders someone randomly, should they go to jail. Couldn't
- 24:25Speaker 2: get her to say yes for that. She says, no
- 24:27Speaker 2: more police ever at all. Ever, she says, our veterans
- 24:31Speaker 2: are war criminals. She said Kamala Harris and Joe Biden
- 24:34Speaker 2: is So there is a woke mind virus, and I
- 24:39Speaker 2: think we found patient zero.
- 24:46Speaker 3: Good on Bill, I suppose, but that also looks like
- 24:48Speaker 3: the face of a very panicked democratic establishment. But maybe
- 24:53Speaker 3: he ought to take a trip over to Toronto, Canada,
- 24:56Speaker 3: where as part of their pride celebrations, members of something
- 24:59Speaker 3: called the Toronto Dyke March have made some new demands.
- 25:05Speaker 3: Not equality, not marriage. No, no, you're gonna love this one.
- 25:29Speaker 3: Let me follow the logic here, we're here, we're queer
- 25:34Speaker 3: free Palestine is our demand. I don't know how this
- 25:36Speaker 3: makes sense. I mean, honestly, look, as you know, the
- 25:39Speaker 3: only place in that part of the world where you
- 25:42Speaker 3: could contemplate holding that sort of parade is actually in Israel.
- 25:47Speaker 3: Try it in Ramala or Gaza and you'd be pretty
- 25:51Speaker 3: quickly invited up to the roof, and not to have
- 25:53Speaker 3: a drink or go to a party either. But this
- 25:57Speaker 3: is what happens when intersectional politics collects is on itself,
- 26:01Speaker 3: and you've achieved all the things like equality and that
- 26:04Speaker 3: you want it, and so you just need something else
- 26:08Speaker 3: to latch onto, which bizarrely is against all the things
- 26:12Speaker 3: you claim to want. I can't figure it out either,
- 26:17Speaker 3: But never let it be said that I'm not an
- 26:20Speaker 3: equal opportunity defender. And there are plenty of straight lefties
- 26:24Speaker 3: who are also absolutely losing it as well. Meet German
- 26:28Speaker 3: anti natalist Varena Brunschwiger. I hope I got that name right.
- 26:33Speaker 3: Who wants people, particularly white people to have fewer babies
- 26:37Speaker 3: because white people are bad for the planet. And she
- 26:41Speaker 3: suggests we should just take in more refugees because well,
- 26:44Speaker 3: I don't know, I guess they bring us a lot
- 26:46Speaker 3: of vibrant cuisines or something.
- 26:48Speaker 10: Everyone, especially writing politicians like Trump brands, is that to
- 26:52Speaker 10: want women to have more and more white babies, and
- 26:55Speaker 10: this is a dangerous development which I'd really like to fight.
- 27:00Speaker 10: Of course, my focus, and that's what drives the AFT nuts,
- 27:03Speaker 10: is we have to cut back on our numbers. I
- 27:05Speaker 10: admit that because we produced so much, and everyone knows
- 27:08Speaker 10: the iPad formul the impact oilways consists of population, effluence,
- 27:13Speaker 10: technology and if we emit like crazy and use resources
- 27:18Speaker 10: way more than we have, so yes, it's.
- 27:21Speaker 3: Preferred absolute genius that one. And look, I'm the last
- 27:27Speaker 3: person anyone would ever accuse of being a woman's basketball fan,
- 27:31Speaker 3: but the ongoing situation with WNBA League star Caitlin Clark
- 27:37Speaker 3: is absolutely unbelievable. Now Clark is basically the star of
- 27:42Speaker 3: this league, and she has been on the receiving end
- 27:44Speaker 3: of an increasing number of blatant fouls that, as far
- 27:48Speaker 3: as I'm concerned, look a lot more like assault than
- 27:52Speaker 3: legitimate gameplay, and others have been absolutely shocked by the
- 27:56Speaker 3: poor treatment Caitlin Clark has received from her very own league,
- 28:01Speaker 3: despite her being big, the big star, the big draw
- 28:03Speaker 3: card that makes them all the money. They even excluded
- 28:07Speaker 3: her from a recent anniversary poster, and now her fellow
- 28:12Speaker 3: player Sophie Cunningham has called out Caton's treatment, putting the
- 28:17Speaker 3: league on blast.
- 28:19Speaker 11: Unfortunately, this type of happens every single game to her,
- 28:22Speaker 11: and the league and the refs do absolutely nothing about it.
- 28:26Speaker 8: It's been a minute you got fined on this podcast.
- 28:28Speaker 3: I have.
- 28:29Speaker 11: But then like you see the videos of like literally
- 28:33Speaker 11: ning and and cheap shotting, see in the throat, like
- 28:37Speaker 11: if she did that to any of our teammates, but
- 28:40Speaker 11: like they are, they're definitely targeting her, and the league
- 28:44Speaker 11: and the refs do nothing to protect her.
- 28:46Speaker 3: Well, to talk about this and a whole lot more,
- 28:47Speaker 3: let me bring in my next guest filmmaker and potster extraordina. There,
- 28:52Speaker 3: my good friend Amy Horwitz. Amy, this is an extraordinary
- 28:56Speaker 3: circumstance playing out in this league, and I have to say, uh,
- 29:00Speaker 3: I'm not the only person who has thought there might
- 29:02Speaker 3: be a bit of a racial element to some of
- 29:04Speaker 3: what Caitlin is experiencing on the court and maybe even
- 29:08Speaker 3: with some of the refs. What's your take on all
- 29:10Speaker 3: of it?
- 29:12Speaker 4: Yeah, if you watch the montage of hits she's taken
- 29:16Speaker 4: over the years, the three years been playing, it's really unbelievable.
- 29:19Speaker 4: You really can't come to any other conclusion. I'll tell
- 29:22Speaker 4: Sophie Cunningham, Sophie, you say she's being targeted. You're a
- 29:25Speaker 4: teammate in the NBA. If they're targeting one of your players,
- 29:29Speaker 4: some's gonna lose some teeth. I think you got to
- 29:31Speaker 4: enforce the fact that you're gonna pay a price if
- 29:34Speaker 4: you target my player, the person on my team. Okay,
- 29:37Speaker 4: I'll say start with that. But there's no question that
- 29:41Speaker 4: she is being targeted. Okay, just some outside of the
- 29:45Speaker 4: actual montage of hits she's taken. The've all seen. She's
- 29:49Speaker 4: the recipient of seventeen percent of all flagrant fowl fouls
- 29:55Speaker 4: across the entire NBA. Almost one out of five flagrant
- 29:59Speaker 4: fowls are committed on her hits. Us she's one of
- 30:02Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty players that says it all And
- 30:05Speaker 4: what does it come down to? Yes, it is well
- 30:08Speaker 4: race could absolutely be a component, and certainly they're WNBA
- 30:11Speaker 4: players and analysts who have said, hey, why is this
- 30:14Speaker 4: white girl getting all the attention? Well, why is she
- 30:17Speaker 4: getting all attention? I don't know. First of all, she
- 30:20Speaker 4: is one of, if not the best player in the WNBA,
- 30:23Speaker 4: and only her third year, she's fourth in points and
- 30:26Speaker 4: second assists. James, who were clear, I didn't know that
- 30:29Speaker 4: off the top of my head. I had to look
- 30:31Speaker 4: it up because I've never seen more than five minutes
- 30:34Speaker 4: of a WNBA game. I've tried. I actually have tried, James.
- 30:37Speaker 4: It's just so utterly dull. I'm sorry, But she is
- 30:43Speaker 4: she doing getting all this attention because she's white? No,
- 30:45Speaker 4: she's one of the best players before she got there. Okay,
- 30:49Speaker 4: the sixteen years the WNBA was in existence, they never
- 30:53Speaker 4: cracked one million views for a game. Her rookie year,
- 30:58Speaker 4: they hit it twenty three times, and she was playing
- 31:01Speaker 4: in twenty of the twenty three. Okay, that's where we're
- 31:04Speaker 4: talking about. Okay, there's there's an economic analysis that she
- 31:08Speaker 4: makes up twenty five percent of all revenue. Okay, all
- 31:13Speaker 4: economic activity in the WNBA. She's the reason why they
- 31:17Speaker 4: fly private now, Okay, they should be they being the
- 31:20Speaker 4: WNBA players should be hailing her. They're all making more
- 31:25Speaker 4: money because of her. They're all getting going to be
- 31:27Speaker 4: letting larger contracts. Right, you just signed another massive deal
- 31:34Speaker 4: for the broadcast rights, and she's driving it. But they
- 31:37Speaker 4: are utterly and totally jealous. And that's what's going on here. Okay,
- 31:42Speaker 4: by the way, just to make a point, you don't
- 31:44Speaker 4: see in the NBA. Right in the NBA, who the
- 31:47Speaker 4: five top players are white? No one cares, No one cares.
- 31:52Speaker 4: But yeah, this is the state of the WNBA. It's sad.
- 31:55Speaker 3: It's utterly sad. And it's just bizarre to me that
- 31:57Speaker 3: you know, as you say, they are killing or at
- 31:59Speaker 3: least foully the golden goose who is laying all of
- 32:02Speaker 3: their golden eggs. That's making anybody even know that this existed.
- 32:05Speaker 3: I literally didn't know that the WNB existed before all
- 32:08Speaker 3: of this controversy. But hey, Amy, i want to go
- 32:10Speaker 3: over to Washington, D C. And the politics in Washington,
- 32:14Speaker 3: not of the White House or the Congress, but actually
- 32:18Speaker 3: I'm interested in the mayor's race because it looks like Washington,
- 32:21Speaker 3: d C. Where to tell you, I have lived there
- 32:24Speaker 3: once upon a time, and which I have to say
- 32:26Speaker 3: is one of the most disgracefully mismanaged cities in America. Well,
- 32:30Speaker 3: they're about to go full Democrat socialist zoron Mom Donnie style.
- 32:36Speaker 3: They've just elected this woman, Genice Lewis George to win
- 32:41Speaker 3: the Democrat primary and therefore presumably become the next mayor Amy.
- 32:46Speaker 3: Donald Trump has said he won't let DC be destroyed
- 32:49Speaker 3: by communist governance, But it seems like we have yet
- 32:52Speaker 3: another city in America where these Islamist adjacent Democrats socialists
- 32:57Speaker 3: are saying, No, we're the future of the Demo crats.
- 33:00Speaker 3: I'll be what's happening here?
- 33:03Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know why you'd say is Liamus adjacent?
- 33:06Speaker 4: Some of them are just straight up Islamis right, Okay, Michigan,
- 33:10Speaker 4: New York, New Jersey, right and and and by the way,
- 33:14Speaker 4: and of course you're seeing this, this this DSA movement
- 33:18Speaker 4: is really encapsulating what we're saying for years about this
- 33:21Speaker 4: red Green alliance. You're seeing that now across the border.
- 33:25Speaker 4: The two go hand in hand together, right, like peanut
- 33:28Speaker 4: butter and chocolate. DC specifically, Look, this is a a
- 33:34Speaker 4: city that has been plagued by crime, for decades. This
- 33:38Speaker 4: is nothing new because they have consistently unlike other cities
- 33:43Speaker 4: like New York. Like New York, we've had good mayors
- 33:45Speaker 4: and we've seen the net results of that. Now we've
- 33:47Speaker 4: had bad mayors and we're seeing the negative results of that.
- 33:50Speaker 4: DC has never had a good mayor. She and that's
- 33:53Speaker 4: saying and she I think is gonna be one of
- 33:55Speaker 4: the worst mayors of all time. And that's saying a
- 33:58Speaker 4: hell of a lot. Consider one of them was the
- 34:01Speaker 4: rest of her snorting crack with a hooker. Okay, that's
- 34:03Speaker 4: the state of d C. And they're doubling down on
- 34:08Speaker 4: this mayor. Right, she just won the primary, but obviously
- 34:10Speaker 4: that means she's going to win the general. And guys,
- 34:13Speaker 4: you bought the ticket, You take the ride the only reason.
- 34:15Speaker 4: I mean, Look, you see, you saw when Trump took
- 34:19Speaker 4: over and sent in the National Guard. You saw a
- 34:22Speaker 4: precipitous decline in crime. Now, if he doubles down on that,
- 34:26Speaker 4: if he continues on that, I think you can still
- 34:28Speaker 4: see an arresting of crime. But I'm not sure how
- 34:31Speaker 4: long that will last. How long it could last. She's
- 34:33Speaker 4: been pushing back against it both by way, She's a
- 34:36Speaker 4: straight up defund the police advocate, right, considering how bad
- 34:41Speaker 4: the crime is, it's unbelievable. But the real crazy thing
- 34:45Speaker 4: is the breath of her victory.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Right.
- 34:47Speaker 4: She won among white people, black people, young people, old people,
- 34:52Speaker 4: so you only have yourselves to blame DC. And yeah,
- 34:56Speaker 4: and I was gonna say say that, you know this,
- 34:59Speaker 4: this trend with the DSA, I think that I find
- 35:01Speaker 4: so fascinating. James is people, the Democrats and the media
- 35:06Speaker 4: are doing whatever they can to try to blunt their radicalism.
- 35:10Speaker 3: Right.
- 35:11Speaker 4: They're trying to say, no, no, no, they're not Marxist, they're
- 35:13Speaker 4: not socialists. You guys are crazy, you're gaslighting us. They're
- 35:16Speaker 4: just democratics, socialists like Norwegians riding on bikes. It's not true.
- 35:20Speaker 4: By the way, I've done a deep dive on the DSA.
- 35:24Speaker 4: They're number five out of five of their top caucuses
- 35:28Speaker 4: are all straight up Marxism, that is their core belief.
- 35:32Speaker 4: And yet the media and the Democrats are keep telling
- 35:35Speaker 4: us no, no, no, it's not true. They the DSA
- 35:39Speaker 4: is dominating the linguist Kronka, the Democratic Party in general.
- 35:43Speaker 3: Amy, this is my question here to you. Then, you know,
- 35:45Speaker 3: because I've been studying this, we saw the three congressional
- 35:48Speaker 3: districts in New York that went DSA this past week.
- 35:51Speaker 3: Here we see the same Is this where the energy
- 35:54Speaker 3: is now on the Democratic Party? Have they moved from
- 35:58Speaker 3: the woke stuff and the interest sectional stuff over to
- 36:01Speaker 3: now the even more radical full on you know, race, communism,
- 36:06Speaker 3: Islamism and economic Marxism. Is this where the energy.
- 36:10Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, But then they do not
- 36:14Speaker 4: move on from the woke stuff. This is all an
- 36:17Speaker 4: outgrowth of that. That was just the next step, right,
- 36:20Speaker 4: the next step on that path, two sides the same coin.
- 36:24Speaker 4: They certainly haven't moved on from it. And again you
- 36:26Speaker 4: can argue, and I get the argument. You're saying, hey, look,
- 36:28Speaker 4: this is just a number of elections. This is right,
- 36:31Speaker 4: there's just a handful election that that is true. But again,
- 36:34Speaker 4: like I said, but they are the motivating movement within
- 36:40Speaker 4: the Democratic Party. They're controlling the language, They're controlling the
- 36:44Speaker 4: tone of the Democratic Party. You hear moderates the Democratic
- 36:47Speaker 4: Party using words like genocide and Israel and unfair system
- 36:51Speaker 4: and systematic racism. Thing they didn't say before they're saying
- 36:56Speaker 4: now because they have to, and that the power of
- 37:00Speaker 4: the radicals and DSA. It's not just the election they're
- 37:02Speaker 4: winning themselves, but they are setting the tone across the
- 37:05Speaker 4: entire Democratic Party.
- 37:07Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think you're right, and I think it's
- 37:09Speaker 3: pretty disturbing going in twenty eight who they wind up
- 37:12Speaker 3: picking there and how are they going to fit into that.
- 37:14Speaker 3: But before I let you go, because we've got a
- 37:15Speaker 3: couple of minutes here, I did want to talk about
- 37:17Speaker 3: your latest video. And you took to the streets of
- 37:20Speaker 3: New York City for the Pride Parade, and it was
- 37:23Speaker 3: a pretty colorful scene here. Chuck Schumer was booed and
- 37:27Speaker 3: there was controversy over letting uniformed NYPD march in the parade.
- 37:32Speaker 3: I don't know. I guess maybe the cop from the
- 37:33Speaker 3: Village people was the only man in blue they wanted there.
- 37:36Speaker 3: But you talked to some of the parade goers. I
- 37:39Speaker 3: just want to show a little bit of this here.
- 37:41Speaker 4: What does the lesbian bring on the second day? You a,
- 37:44Speaker 4: what is the man? Does the game man bring on
- 37:45Speaker 4: the second day? What second day?
- 37:50Speaker 3: I watched the whole thing. It looked like he had
- 37:51Speaker 3: a been a bit of fun over there. And one
- 37:53Speaker 3: thing I was struck by was it seemed more a
- 37:55Speaker 3: political than some of these other Pride parades where you
- 37:58Speaker 3: got a lot of the queerst for Paleri, what was
- 38:00Speaker 3: the moood over there?
- 38:02Speaker 4: Yeah, look it was still I did have a lot
- 38:06Speaker 4: of fun with them, right, and but the truth is
- 38:08Speaker 4: that there were still a lot of politics involved. They
- 38:11Speaker 4: banned the police officers from from marching them in uniform.
- 38:15Speaker 4: This is, by the way, They've been doing that for years.
- 38:17Speaker 4: And they say that, you know, they're so anti cop,
- 38:20Speaker 4: they will let them. They won't like gay cops mark
- 38:22Speaker 4: with them. I mean, they're one of them. There were
- 38:25Speaker 4: palses in flags there was My my favorite was stop
- 38:29Speaker 4: gay genocide. I don't know where that's coming from. Guys,
- 38:33Speaker 4: I don't know. You why just normalize it a little more?
- 38:36Speaker 9: Right?
- 38:36Speaker 4: There's the ass list chaps and the lewd behavior. I
- 38:39Speaker 4: don't know why they keep doing that. I mean it
- 38:41Speaker 4: just people look at that and say, well, why can't
- 38:43Speaker 4: you behave normally? If you just do that, and I'm
- 38:46Speaker 4: talking about the Pride parade, then we will treat it
- 38:48Speaker 4: more normally, right, And I think I think we'll have
- 38:50Speaker 4: an easier time with people gay together understand one another.
- 38:53Speaker 4: I don't know why you have to always kind of
- 38:55Speaker 4: stick it in people's eyes, like.
- 38:57Speaker 3: Right, fair enough, fair enough, Alb Hawitz, We're gonna have
- 38:59Speaker 3: to leave it there. Thank you so much for your
- 39:01Speaker 3: time in the great chat. As always, where is the pleasure? Well?
- 39:05Speaker 3: Coming up reports Harry and Meghan could backflip on their
- 39:08Speaker 3: plans to visit the UK, Kinsey Schofield, We'll have all
- 39:12Speaker 3: your royal news and celebrity news next. Welcome back to
- 39:24Speaker 3: the program. Well let's get stuck into all the latest
- 39:27Speaker 3: royal and entertainment news. Joining me now to talk about
- 39:30Speaker 3: all of it is host of the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered
- 39:34Speaker 3: podcast Nopes, one other than Kinsey Schofield. Thank you so
- 39:39Speaker 3: much for joining me here tonight here. Want to start
- 39:41Speaker 3: off with the royals here. It's been revealed that Harry
- 39:44Speaker 3: and Meghan are currently on a family trip around Europe
- 39:47Speaker 3: as their reported trip to the UK remains up in
- 39:51Speaker 3: the air. Apparently, their trip to the UK would be
- 39:54Speaker 3: their first back home since twenty twenty two, but it
- 39:56Speaker 3: remains unclear whether they're going to do it because Harry
- 40:00Speaker 3: and Meghan may be denied taxpayer funded security for their trip. Kinsey,
- 40:07Speaker 3: are they going to make it back, and why should
- 40:10Speaker 3: the leaguered UK taxpayer be paying for their security? Right?
- 40:15Speaker 9: I mean, I think the only thing interesting about Harry
- 40:17Speaker 9: and Meghan these days is that they are unpredictable. The
- 40:21Speaker 9: royal sparkle they once had has completely disappeared. So I
- 40:24Speaker 9: understand why they need a visit with King Charles. That
- 40:27Speaker 9: royal proximity gives them credibility. But with Harry previously stating
- 40:31Speaker 9: that his wife and children are not safe in Britain,
- 40:33Speaker 9: he's backed himself into a really awkward corner here.
- 40:37Speaker 8: But you're absolutely right.
- 40:38Speaker 9: It would be catastrophic if anything happened to Harry and
- 40:41Speaker 9: Meghan while they were visiting the UK. But that's why
- 40:45Speaker 9: I trust the process. Ravik, who did deny Harry this
- 40:49Speaker 9: additional security that he's requested. It's their job to assess
- 40:53Speaker 9: credible threats using intelligence the public doesn't have access to.
- 40:56Speaker 9: And if they concluded Harry doesn't require the level of
- 40:59Speaker 9: taxpayer funded to security he's demanding, I have to assume
- 41:02Speaker 9: that decision was based on the best available evidence.
- 41:05Speaker 3: Well, but sure, what, Needa, we've seen Harry being I
- 41:08Speaker 3: thought there were being Netflix stars and they had all
- 41:10Speaker 3: of this other body coming in from all sorts of
- 41:12Speaker 3: other things. Why can't they just, you know, hire some
- 41:15Speaker 3: private security, like an ordinary billionaire might do.
- 41:19Speaker 9: No, you're you are correct, and they will arrive with
- 41:23Speaker 9: some of their private security. But what Harry wants is
- 41:27Speaker 9: armed security waiting for him at the airport to shadow
- 41:30Speaker 9: him throughout his trip, automatically every time he comes back
- 41:34Speaker 9: to the UK.
- 41:35Speaker 8: And he was warned that this level.
- 41:37Speaker 9: Of security would be taken from him when he quit
- 41:40Speaker 9: his job as a working member of the Royal family.
- 41:42Speaker 9: And actions have consequences, so he will He actually is
- 41:46Speaker 9: going to have some help from the government and the
- 41:48Speaker 9: Metropolitan Police. He's going to have his own chourage of security,
- 41:51Speaker 9: and it's my opinion that he'll be perfectly fine.
- 41:55Speaker 2: You know.
- 41:55Speaker 3: I just think he's suffering from a bit of motorcade
- 41:57Speaker 3: deprivate deprivation syndrome. Here misses all the lights and the
- 42:02Speaker 3: motorcycles and all of that stuff. But hey, let's stick
- 42:04Speaker 3: with the royal family here. Going to cap Middleton, the
- 42:07Speaker 3: Princess of Wales. She has recently completed a grueling twenty
- 42:11Speaker 3: three mile hike. That's better than I could do. That's
- 42:14Speaker 3: over thirty seven kilometers For our viewers, here in Australia.
- 42:17Speaker 3: Now she did this. She took part of the National
- 42:19Speaker 3: Three Peaks Challenge Sunday. It's apparently a twenty four hour
- 42:23Speaker 3: endurance event. I'm getting tired just reading about this. Here
- 42:27Speaker 3: Ben Valls climbing the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales.
- 42:31Speaker 3: Pretty remarkable achievement, though, given that she has been struggling
- 42:35Speaker 3: with some pretty serious health issues up color me.
- 42:37Speaker 8: Impressed absolutely all of us.
- 42:41Speaker 9: Princess Catherine completed one of Britain's toughest in durance challenges
- 42:44Speaker 9: only eighteen months after announcing she was in remission from cancer.
- 42:48Speaker 9: And this wasn't a glamorous photo opportunity.
- 42:51Speaker 8: This was grit. She quietly put one foot in front of.
- 42:54Speaker 9: The other while raising money for the cancer hospital that
- 42:57Speaker 9: saved her life. She posted a very emotional video where
- 43:00Speaker 9: she almost breaks down in tears discussing this. She's always
- 43:04Speaker 9: been athletic, but after everything she's endured, this sends a
- 43:07Speaker 9: powerful message that recovery isn't just surviving, it's rebuilding and
- 43:11Speaker 9: her perseverance is very admirable.
- 43:14Speaker 8: It's the kind of quality we look for in a
- 43:16Speaker 8: future Queen.
- 43:16Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I was just going to say it is remarkable,
- 43:19Speaker 3: because it is great to finally see somebody involved with
- 43:22Speaker 3: the Royals who's not being tainted by scandal and is
- 43:25Speaker 3: actually doing the sort of life of service that people
- 43:28Speaker 3: who are in that family should be engaged in. Unfortunately,
- 43:32Speaker 3: I can't say the same thing though, for the former
- 43:35Speaker 3: Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, and it's been revealed that
- 43:38Speaker 3: she visited oh No, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times while he
- 43:43Speaker 3: was serving a jail sentence in two thousand and nine
- 43:46Speaker 3: for child solicitation in Florida. Now, according to the Telegraph newspaper,
- 43:51Speaker 3: Ferguson visited Epstein twice at a Palm Beach office where
- 43:55Speaker 3: the convicted sex offender was serving his thirteen months sentence
- 44:00Speaker 3: after copying that rather controversial plea deal can see. Not
- 44:06Speaker 3: a great look, is it?
- 44:08Speaker 9: Oh my gosh to say the least, I think her
- 44:10Speaker 9: days as a public figure are so over. Anyone associated
- 44:15Speaker 9: with Jeffrey Epstein deserves scrutiny.
- 44:17Speaker 8: That simply the reality.
- 44:18Speaker 9: After everything we've learned, whether Sarah Ferguson knew the full
- 44:22Speaker 9: extent of who Epstein was or not, these associations have
- 44:25Speaker 9: aged pretty terribly and the royal family has spent years
- 44:28Speaker 9: now trying to distance itself from the Epstein scandal.
- 44:32Speaker 8: Stories like this just reopen old wounds.
- 44:34Speaker 3: Yeah, to say the least, it's pretty disturbing stuff here.
- 44:39Speaker 3: On a liner note, though, this year is a bit
- 44:41Speaker 3: of American royalty. The wedding that will probably break the Internet,
- 44:45Speaker 3: and a lot more that's playing out. It's to time
- 44:47Speaker 3: with the knot between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelse Now
- 44:52Speaker 3: page six, The New York Post has revealed that musicians
- 44:54Speaker 3: Stevie Nix and Tim mcgrawll big names here, are set
- 44:57Speaker 3: perform at the wedding, which is going to take place
- 45:00Speaker 3: at New York's Madison Square Garden over woh the July
- 45:04Speaker 3: fourth weekend. How patriotic is that? This week's City Hall
- 45:08Speaker 3: confirmed there is a permanent MSG for a Friday bash
- 45:11Speaker 3: more than one thousand people. Kinsey, who is going to
- 45:16Speaker 3: be at this wedding here? Tell us about this? This
- 45:18Speaker 3: seems like a massive party.
- 45:21Speaker 9: Well, we're clearly not dealing with two introverts here, are
- 45:24Speaker 9: we now? Doesn't have a guest list, she has an
- 45:27Speaker 9: industry convention.
- 45:29Speaker 8: This is what I would call Kelsey Kahn. Travis Kelsey.
- 45:32Speaker 9: It's a joke on his name, to be fair, but
- 45:35Speaker 9: both individuals are used to playing in stadiums.
- 45:37Speaker 8: I think this is kind of appropriate.
- 45:39Speaker 9: If there's one couple capable of shutting down New York
- 45:43Speaker 9: for a weekend, it's Taylor and Travis, and good for them,
- 45:46Speaker 9: they're clearly in love.
- 45:47Speaker 8: But I do think it's going to.
- 45:49Speaker 9: Be who's who of Hollywood, the entertainment industry, and the
- 45:53Speaker 9: sports industry.
- 45:55Speaker 3: Yeah no, we'll be pretty big. Menu can see who
- 45:57Speaker 3: turns up, or rather who didn't turn up. I'm sorry
- 45:59Speaker 3: my invitations somehow got lost in the post, but I've
- 46:02Speaker 3: got to work this week and anyway, so couldn't make
- 46:04Speaker 3: it anyway. Sorry, But speaking of weddings, also, this has
- 46:08Speaker 3: kind of been a fun here. Musicians Ed Sheeran and
- 46:11Speaker 3: Martin Garx have gone viral after the hilariously crashed a wedding.
- 46:16Speaker 3: Take a look at this.
- 46:17Speaker 11: Martin did a show, I did a show.
- 46:20Speaker 4: We finished. He's got a DM from someone saying, can
- 46:22Speaker 4: you crash my sister's wedding? So we're going there.
- 46:24Speaker 2: So we're going to go and crash the wedding.
- 46:41Speaker 3: That's quite the fun little thing to do. What do
- 46:43Speaker 3: you reckon.
- 46:45Speaker 9: I mean, that's the kind of wedding story people tell
- 46:48Speaker 9: for the rest of their lives. You can spend thousands
- 46:51Speaker 9: of dollars on flowers, but you can't budget for ed
- 46:53Speaker 9: Shearon crashing your.
- 46:54Speaker 8: Wedding walking through the door. I can't imagine the bride's
- 46:58Speaker 8: jaw hitting the floor. You know, it's one of.
- 47:01Speaker 9: Those rare celebrity moments that actually feels genuine instead of manufactured,
- 47:05Speaker 9: and that is really hard to create these days thanks
- 47:08Speaker 9: to social media.
- 47:09Speaker 3: That is very very true. Also, this just you know,
- 47:13Speaker 3: looking at these numbers here, this made me feel old.
- 47:16Speaker 3: Here finding out that musician Kanye West has celebrated his
- 47:20Speaker 3: forty ninth birthday over the weekend with his wife and
- 47:23Speaker 3: close friends at the Palace of Versailles, where TMZ revealed
- 47:28Speaker 3: that the party cost a little under four hundred thousand dollars. Look,
- 47:32Speaker 3: that actually seemed kind of kind of like chump change
- 47:35Speaker 3: to me. Tell us more about this this party that
- 47:37Speaker 3: they had.
- 47:39Speaker 9: Well, I mean, I think that it's Kanye's desperately seeking
- 47:44Speaker 9: relevance again. You know, he has been canceled multiple times.
- 47:49Speaker 9: I really rarely have to report on Kanye West. If
- 47:51Speaker 9: I'm being honest with you. He seems convinced that bigger, louder,
- 47:55Speaker 9: and more expensive automatically means more relevant. I don't think
- 47:58Speaker 9: that's true anymore. There was a time when he dominated
- 48:01Speaker 9: the culture because he is a very talented musician, but
- 48:04Speaker 9: today he typically dominates headlines because of the spectacle and
- 48:09Speaker 9: the after years of anti Semitism and offensive behavior online,
- 48:14Speaker 9: the fascination has faded for a lot of people, and
- 48:17Speaker 9: a lavish birthday party at Versailles doesn't erase the damage
- 48:20Speaker 9: he's done.
- 48:21Speaker 3: Yeah, look at Versailles. Well, that has a bit of
- 48:23Speaker 3: historical memories that are a bit fraught themselves. But anyway,
- 48:26Speaker 3: that's a little heavy there. But anyway, Nikola Peltz, So
- 48:29Speaker 3: finally just to want to ask you about this one
- 48:30Speaker 3: here because it's kind of interesting to me. The wife
- 48:33Speaker 3: of Brooklyn Beckham has mysteriously parted ways with the Beloved
- 48:38Speaker 3: Dog Foundation she co founded with a friend. Despite repeatedly
- 48:42Speaker 3: screaming its praise, the thirty one year old name was
- 48:45Speaker 3: repeatedly wiped from the importantly wipe from the White Yogi's
- 48:48Speaker 3: House website, and she has since followed the foundation on
- 48:52Speaker 3: social media. The shock move comes soon after the actress
- 48:56Speaker 3: and her billionaire businessman father, Nelson Peltz, suffered legal setbacks
- 49:00Speaker 3: on a pair of high profile lawsuits. Tell us about this.
- 49:04Speaker 3: Is there anything more you can tell us about this
- 49:06Speaker 3: rather bizarre one? Just quickly?
- 49:08Speaker 9: Well, remember we were told this charity was important enough
- 49:11Speaker 9: to become part of the family rift with the beckhams
- 49:14Speaker 9: now Nikola has quietly distanced herself from it. That doesn't
- 49:17Speaker 9: automatically vindicate Victoria Beckham because Brooklyn said, my mom refused
- 49:21Speaker 9: to share a post about rescuing dogs, but it does
- 49:23Speaker 9: make people wonder whether that disagreement was really about the
- 49:26Speaker 9: charity after all.
- 49:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 49:27Speaker 3: No, I think there's more to that story. I know
- 49:30Speaker 3: people could be barking up the wrong tree on that one.
- 49:33Speaker 3: Kinsey Schofield, thank you so much for your time here tonight.
- 49:37Speaker 3: That's it for me. Up next is Newsnight.