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- 0:02Speaker 1: On Scolds Australia. This is the Winder Paney Show.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panehe Show. Coming
- 0:11Speaker 2: up tonight. One Nation becomes Australia's most popular political party.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Nikata will join me to cover the day's top headlines.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Leading child psychologist Clairerow receives backlash after calling out the
- 0:23Speaker 2: normalization of climate anxiety among children. She will join me
- 0:28Speaker 2: on the program shortly. John Heindereiker will have the latest
- 0:31Speaker 2: from the US, including more revelations about the Nazi tattoo
- 0:36Speaker 2: wearing Democrat Graham Platner. Jennifer Lopez spotted at the high
- 0:40Speaker 2: school graduation of her newly trans son Kinsiscofield will speak
- 0:46Speaker 2: about that and the day's top entertainment and royal news
- 0:50Speaker 2: and Left is Losing It features a Democrat who calls
- 0:53Speaker 2: women our neighbors with a utress seriously.
- 0:57Speaker 3: Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the
- 1:00Speaker 3: property of the state.
- 1:02Speaker 4: One of our neighbors with the uteriust to be able
- 1:04Speaker 4: to control their own body.
- 1:05Speaker 2: But first, One Nation has surged past Labor to become
- 1:08Speaker 2: Australia's most popular political party. The latest Australian Financial Review
- 1:13Speaker 2: red Bridge Accent poll shows One Nation's primary vote rose
- 1:17Speaker 2: four points to thirty one percent over the past month,
- 1:20Speaker 2: while Labour dropped three points to twenty eight percent. The
- 1:24Speaker 2: coalition's primary vote has also slipped from twenty two to
- 1:27Speaker 2: twenty percent on a two party per therred basis. Labour's
- 1:32Speaker 2: lead over One Nation has been reduced from fifty five
- 1:35Speaker 2: to forty five percent in the last poll to just
- 1:38Speaker 2: fifty one to forty nine percent. That's well within the
- 1:42Speaker 2: margin of era. One Nation's Pauline Hanson remains the nation's
- 1:46Speaker 2: most popular federal political leader, while Anthony Albanese's net favorability
- 1:52Speaker 2: plunged ten points to minus nineteen percent. Pauline Hanson was
- 1:57Speaker 2: on Sky News yesterday and was asked if is ready
- 2:00Speaker 2: for the top job? Do I want to be Prime Minister? Well,
- 2:04Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
- 2:05Speaker 5: I won't knock the job Andrew, because I believe that
- 2:08Speaker 5: I have the ability.
- 2:09Speaker 6: To do it.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Joining me now is Mensi's Research Center senior fellow Nick Kata. Nick,
- 2:16Speaker 2: the magnitude of Labour's budget disaster is clear in this poll,
- 2:22Speaker 2: but it's not the Lips who are the beneficiaries here.
- 2:26Speaker 2: It is One Nation who have been clear in their
- 2:29Speaker 2: policy positions for years now, whether we were talking about
- 2:33Speaker 2: energy policy, immigration policy, or those important values the culture
- 2:39Speaker 2: war issues.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what.
- 2:42Speaker 6: There's a Netflix series, isn't there in the Rise of
- 2:44Speaker 6: Pauline Hanson. I'm not sure how it ends, by the way,
- 2:47Speaker 6: so I won't give you the spoiler alert.
- 2:49Speaker 1: We don't know yet how it earns.
- 2:50Speaker 6: But reader, it's thirty years would you believe since I
- 2:54Speaker 6: went to Canberra to work in the press gallery and
- 2:56Speaker 6: had the most miserable two years of my life.
- 2:58Speaker 1: But that's another story.
- 3:00Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean Pauline Hanson was new to parliament
- 3:03Speaker 6: then I was new to parliament. I went along to
- 3:05Speaker 6: a press conference when she announced that she was setting
- 3:08Speaker 6: up the Pauline Hansoon One Nation party, and I said
- 3:11Speaker 6: to her, look, if you name a party after yourself,
- 3:14Speaker 6: it's not really got much longevity. And she looked at
- 3:17Speaker 6: me and she said, I'm going to be around for
- 3:19Speaker 6: a long time yet, Nick. And she's reminded me of
- 3:23Speaker 6: that story on multiple occasions since. But I would never
- 3:26Speaker 6: I mean, even you go back nine months, you know
- 3:28Speaker 6: this time last year, you wouldn't have even credited that
- 3:32Speaker 6: One Nation will be rising as fast as they have
- 3:35Speaker 6: and now overtaking Labor as the most popular party, Pauling
- 3:41Speaker 6: the most popular leader. It's a very very interesting it's
- 3:45Speaker 6: a long way around of saying I don't know how
- 3:47Speaker 6: this ends, but it's a very interesting journey to follow.
- 3:50Speaker 6: But the message for the Libs of courses. They've got
- 3:53Speaker 6: a lot of work to do. It was always going
- 3:55Speaker 6: to be a marathon, not a sprint for them to
- 3:57Speaker 6: regain the trust which they've have taken nine years to
- 4:01Speaker 6: lose the trust of the Australian people.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Longer.
- 4:04Speaker 6: It will take a long time to get it back.
- 4:06Speaker 6: But I think Angus Taylor is on the right track.
- 4:09Speaker 6: He's doing the right things and we'll.
- 4:11Speaker 2: With he's having Tony.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Abbott back at present, He's not, is he? I mean,
- 4:16Speaker 1: I think it was not having the cut.
- 4:18Speaker 6: That's right, retail politics, retail politics, but I also think reta.
- 4:23Speaker 6: I think that it's going to take a long time
- 4:26Speaker 6: really to regain that bond of trusts and to make
- 4:29Speaker 6: people realize that they are serious, that they've really shaken
- 4:32Speaker 6: off those left elements of the party that were going
- 4:37Speaker 6: in a peculiar direction. I think they have, but I
- 4:40Speaker 6: think it's going to take a while to convince the
- 4:42Speaker 6: Australian public of that now.
- 4:44Speaker 2: This poll also had some interesting results as far as
- 4:48Speaker 2: the attitude to the budget. A record sixty three percent
- 4:52Speaker 2: of voters believe this country is heading in the wrong direction,
- 4:56Speaker 2: and over half think Labor's budget nick will be bad
- 5:00Speaker 2: for the country.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 5:03Speaker 6: I just sort of imagined Jim Chalmers as he was
- 5:06Speaker 6: three weeks ago today, just putting those final little touches
- 5:09Speaker 6: to his budget speech and looking at it thinking yeah,
- 5:12Speaker 6: this looks rather good.
- 5:14Speaker 1: And look at him now.
- 5:15Speaker 6: I've never known a budget to go down as badly
- 5:20Speaker 6: as this. They spent three weeks trying to recover from it.
- 5:23Speaker 6: They're going to spend longer. They've lost business community almost entirely.
- 5:27Speaker 6: I think now with this budget, it is a complete
- 5:30Speaker 6: train wreck, an absolute disaster, a disaster for the country
- 5:34Speaker 6: and a disaster for Labor if you care about that.
- 5:37Speaker 6: I mean twenty eight percent they're down to now in
- 5:39Speaker 6: the poll. That's extraordinary. I don't remember a sitting government
- 5:43Speaker 6: being down as low as twenty eight percent. That's if
- 5:46Speaker 6: we went to a poll tomorrow. That means fewer than
- 5:49Speaker 6: one in three people would vote for ALBANIZI First, he's
- 5:53Speaker 6: in a lot of trouble. I think he's been he's
- 5:56Speaker 6: been rather arrogant. I wasn't going to use the other
- 5:59Speaker 6: word that anger tailor is the other day. But he's arrogant.
- 6:02Speaker 6: He doesn't think he's in trouble. He's got that massive
- 6:06Speaker 6: majority in parliament. I tell you what, that's going to
- 6:09Speaker 6: disappear very quickly. Indeed, on those kind of primary boat numbers.
- 6:14Speaker 2: It's going to disappear if his senior ministers perform as
- 6:18Speaker 2: badly as Tannya Plibuseca did this morning on Sunrise. Have
- 6:22Speaker 2: a look at this debate between her and One Nation's
- 6:26Speaker 2: Barnaby Joyce.
- 6:27Speaker 7: What's Barnaby's housing policy? What has he done to assist that?
- 6:31Speaker 7: What would he do to make medicare stronger? Lukenis the
- 6:36Speaker 7: talking point to Barbie.
- 6:37Speaker 8: He keeps skint points for you, email talking points you
- 6:43Speaker 8: would do to make the country. I'm trying to tell you,
- 6:45Speaker 8: but get to a jazz. We'll get rid of the
- 6:47Speaker 8: Climate Change Department, We'll get rid of climate policy so
- 6:50Speaker 8: that we can actually open up the industrialized reindustrialization of Australia.
- 6:54Speaker 8: We'll build col fire power stations again. Because we're not
- 6:56Speaker 8: embarrassed about using coal, seeing we've got one of the
- 6:58Speaker 8: greatest coralserves in the world, yet we don't want to
- 7:00Speaker 8: use it.
- 7:01Speaker 2: I love that line. Just email us the talking points.
- 7:04Speaker 2: You're wasting our time. Just email the talking points. That's
- 7:07Speaker 2: what all you're doing. There's a boldness, there's a brashness
- 7:10Speaker 2: about one nation. Barnaby Joyce is clearly enjoying himself and
- 7:15Speaker 2: that authenticity, though, Nick, I wonder whether that's a risk,
- 7:19Speaker 2: because you can see it in leaders like Pauline Hanson
- 7:22Speaker 2: and Barnaby Joyce and Corey Bernardi in South Australia. But
- 7:26Speaker 2: do one nation risk losing that risk, diluting that authenticity
- 7:32Speaker 2: by growing too quickly and having to select candidates that
- 7:35Speaker 2: are more conventional.
- 7:38Speaker 6: All the challenge is huge for one nation on an
- 7:41Speaker 6: organizational level, particularly to get the right candidates in place.
- 7:46Speaker 6: I mean, Pauline wants to be Prime Minister will good honor,
- 7:49Speaker 6: I mean she gets a majority in the House of Representatives,
- 7:52Speaker 6: you know, possibly with the help of some coalition voters.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Let's suppose that happens. I'm not saying it will.
- 7:59Speaker 6: She's going to need She's going to need a cabinet.
- 8:01Speaker 6: She's going to need people around her. Every prime minister
- 8:04Speaker 6: needs a strong team around her, and she's got to
- 8:07Speaker 6: assemble one. I think Barnaby Joyce. We know he's been
- 8:11Speaker 6: an experienced member of cabinet and you know he fights
- 8:14Speaker 6: his corner. I love that double act. By the way,
- 8:17Speaker 6: him and Plibersek. Why can't Sky News get that? Come on,
- 8:20Speaker 6: You've got to get those two on. It's the funniest
- 8:22Speaker 6: thing of the week whenever those two get together. But
- 8:25Speaker 6: you know, seriously, there is a lot of talk for
- 8:27Speaker 6: each other. Yes, I know, but the pictures of Barnaby
- 8:32Speaker 6: in the corner making those faces, it's always very amusing.
- 8:36Speaker 1: But you know that'll only gets you so far.
- 8:38Speaker 6: Obviously, if you get into government, they're going to face
- 8:41Speaker 6: the problem that Trump has faced. Trump of course, has
- 8:45Speaker 6: gone about it very well. Draining the swamp. They've got
- 8:47Speaker 6: to drain the swamp.
- 8:49Speaker 1: That's very hard.
- 8:50Speaker 6: You've got a very entrenched public service there that you know.
- 8:55Speaker 1: They go their own way.
- 8:57Speaker 6: They won't even change their ways for a labor government,
- 9:00Speaker 6: let alan for a one nation government or a coalition government.
- 9:04Speaker 6: That is the big problem right now, That is the swamp.
- 9:07Speaker 6: And whoever comes in to really improve and churn this
- 9:11Speaker 6: country round.
- 9:12Speaker 1: We need to tackle that bit.
- 9:15Speaker 4: Well.
- 9:15Speaker 2: I think that's been part of the betrayal when it
- 9:17Speaker 2: comes to the Coalition over the past couple of terms
- 9:21Speaker 2: they were empowered. They really didn't do anything about that
- 9:24Speaker 2: bureaucracy that runs the show, and it showed. It showed
- 9:28Speaker 2: in their policies, it showed in the way they governed,
- 9:31Speaker 2: and you have to take a brutal approach. It's got
- 9:34Speaker 2: to be scorched earth. You've got to go in there
- 9:37Speaker 2: and clean that up. It's not easy. I'm not pretending
- 9:40Speaker 2: it's easy, but it needs to be done. Now, let's
- 9:42Speaker 2: talk about business leaders. You mentioned that before they've conceded,
- 9:46Speaker 2: they need to do a better job convincing people to
- 9:49Speaker 2: support their fight against Labour's tax package. Industry leaders told
- 9:54Speaker 2: The Australian newspaper that despite white hot anger across businesses,
- 9:58Speaker 2: the government had offered limited consultation and resisted any meaningful
- 10:04Speaker 2: negotiation on its tax policy. It has forced them to
- 10:08Speaker 2: consider new unconventional strategies, including using social media and mobile
- 10:13Speaker 2: game adverts to reach voters. Business Council of Australia Chief
- 10:17Speaker 2: executive Brand Black said I firmly believe that when business succeeds,
- 10:22Speaker 2: Australia succeeds, this means high wages, more jobs, and more
- 10:27Speaker 2: tax revenue that funds the services Australians rely on every day.
- 10:32Speaker 2: But I'm not sure how much of that message that
- 10:35Speaker 2: when business succeeds, Australia succeeds resonates Nick. This is self
- 10:41Speaker 2: inflicted damage. The business sector has been too gutless, too
- 10:47Speaker 2: eager to push leftist social engineering movements instead of actually
- 10:52Speaker 2: focusing in on what matters to them, what's in their
- 10:56Speaker 2: best interests of their key stakeholders, particularly their shareholders.
- 11:01Speaker 6: Yeah, well you've got a leader, you've got a prime
- 11:04Speaker 6: minister and a treasurer, both really committed socialists. Neither of
- 11:08Speaker 6: them get the fact that if you're going to redistribute wealth,
- 11:12Speaker 6: and they like to do that, that's a labor thing.
- 11:15Speaker 1: You have to make that wealth first.
- 11:17Speaker 6: And to make the wealth you need investment, You need business.
- 11:21Speaker 6: You need people be willing to risk their money to
- 11:24Speaker 6: set up factories, to set up services, to employ people.
- 11:29Speaker 6: And if you don't get that, then you can forget
- 11:32Speaker 6: everything else you want to do. And there's a sharp
- 11:35Speaker 6: contrast here with this crowd and the hawk keeping labor government.
- 11:41Speaker 6: When Bob Hawk went out of his way to get
- 11:43Speaker 6: business leaders together in the room not just once, but
- 11:46Speaker 6: time and time again, along with the unions, along with
- 11:49Speaker 6: the Farmers Federation, to get around and say, well, look,
- 11:53Speaker 6: if we're going to reform the tax system, if we're
- 11:55Speaker 6: going to float the dollar, if we're going to do
- 11:57Speaker 6: all these important things, what does it look like from
- 11:59Speaker 6: your perspective. So there was no problem with Bob Hawk
- 12:03Speaker 6: getting on with business because he had to, because that's
- 12:07Speaker 6: the way you change things. You need every part of
- 12:09Speaker 6: the whole machinery in there. But Albniz he just sees
- 12:12Speaker 6: him as the enemy. It's extraordinary really that a man
- 12:16Speaker 6: who's been around that long has a university degree somewhere,
- 12:20Speaker 6: I guess, still thinks in this rather undergraduate way that
- 12:24Speaker 6: business is the enemy instead of the thing that makes
- 12:27Speaker 6: this country great and gives people prosperity in wages and
- 12:31Speaker 6: everything else we want.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Well, here's famous for that line. He lives to fight Tories.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Is trapped in this undergraduate mindset. It's quite evident when
- 12:44Speaker 2: you look at his policies. Really, Now, before you go,
- 12:48Speaker 2: let's go to Queensland and the premiere there, David Chris
- 12:51Speaker 2: O Fooley, has declared that work will start on Victoria
- 12:54Speaker 2: Park Stadium despite massive protests scen over the weekend. Police
- 12:58Speaker 2: descend it on Victoria on Friday to remove protesters who
- 13:03Speaker 2: had pitched an Aboriginal tent embassy in a bit to
- 13:06Speaker 2: disrupt construction. Two arrests were made by police about midday,
- 13:11Speaker 2: and three more were made on Friday afternoon, including a
- 13:14Speaker 2: dramatic takedown shortly after three pm. Let's have a look Neick.
- 13:30Speaker 2: Protests continued into the rest of the weekend, but the
- 13:33Speaker 2: premiere has stood firm, saying it's game on and it
- 13:38Speaker 2: seems the people of Queensland are with him. A poll
- 13:42Speaker 2: by The Courier Male found ninety four percent of respondents
- 13:45Speaker 2: believe the Olympic Stadium will improve Victoria Park.
- 13:51Speaker 6: Oh yeah, good on him, keep going. We want the Olympics,
- 13:54Speaker 6: You've got to have the stadium. And look, it's a
- 13:56Speaker 6: city park for goodness sake.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Are these people I don't know.
- 14:00Speaker 6: Are they environmental protesters, Are they Aboriginal protesters?
- 14:03Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 14:04Speaker 6: But where were they when they were building massive wind
- 14:07Speaker 6: farms in central Queensland in native vegetation knocking down huge
- 14:14Speaker 6: sways of native vegetation that had never been touched before,
- 14:17Speaker 6: removing Koala habitat and everything else to stick up twiggy
- 14:21Speaker 6: forest wind farm.
- 14:22Speaker 1: You know where were they then? We didn't see hide
- 14:25Speaker 1: nor hair of them.
- 14:26Speaker 6: Then they just you know, they don't want to move
- 14:30Speaker 6: five minutes out of the city, it seems to me.
- 14:32Speaker 6: And certainly they're not protecting the beautiful country.
- 14:36Speaker 1: You know there's.
- 14:36Speaker 6: Huge sways of natural bushland in Queensland. Look after that
- 14:40Speaker 6: unlet's pick a fantastic stadium in that park. Queenslanders are
- 14:46Speaker 6: going to love this Olympics when it happens, I promised them.
- 14:50Speaker 2: Nick Kata, thank you so much for your time now.
- 14:54Speaker 2: Clara is an educational and developmental psychologist, and she recently
- 14:59Speaker 2: wrote a report calling out the normalization of climate anxiety
- 15:03Speaker 2: among children. She wrote, in clinical terms, fear is affirmed
- 15:08Speaker 2: rather than examined, distress is sustained rather than contained, and
- 15:12Speaker 2: emotional intensity is reframed as a moral virtue. Well Now,
- 15:17Speaker 2: a group of more than three hundred climate and mental
- 15:20Speaker 2: health organizations, scientists and psychologists have signed an open letter
- 15:25Speaker 2: which criticizes that research, saying climate anxiety is closed by
- 15:30Speaker 2: and I quote by failing to hear, validate, and respond
- 15:34Speaker 2: to real fears, grief, uncertainty, and loss of hope that
- 15:39Speaker 2: young people have already experienced goodness. May Claire wrote, joins me, Now, Claire,
- 15:45Speaker 2: what is your response to the claims made in this letter?
- 15:50Speaker 5: Thanks Rita. Well, it's an astonishing argument that they are making.
- 15:54Speaker 5: In fact, as far as I can see, they're walking
- 15:58Speaker 5: back from saying that kids are anxioent. Groups like the
- 16:01Speaker 5: Climate Council have been calling out climate anxiety for quite
- 16:04Speaker 5: a while a while now to suit their own cause,
- 16:07Speaker 5: but they're now saying no, no, no, this is not a
- 16:10Speaker 5: pathological mental health condition. This is just a normal human
- 16:14Speaker 5: reaction to a very real event. But my reporter, my
- 16:18Speaker 5: research is not about debating the climate science. And as
- 16:21Speaker 5: a psychologist, we don't take into account whether it's a
- 16:25Speaker 5: real event or not that someone is worried about. It's
- 16:28Speaker 5: about the impact on your functioning, and I am seeing
- 16:32Speaker 5: very very young children with significant impacts. They're not eating,
- 16:34Speaker 5: they're not sleeping. We have a child in my clinic
- 16:37Speaker 5: who is compulsively checking weather apps for the rainfall predictions
- 16:42Speaker 5: because they're so worried about rising floodwaters. And if you
- 16:46Speaker 5: ask why, they say that they learned about it at school. Now,
- 16:49Speaker 5: these groups are telling me that, no, this is not
- 16:52Speaker 5: learned at school. These are actually children who are experiencing
- 16:56Speaker 5: the absolute increase in floods and fires and the effect
- 17:01Speaker 5: of climate change. Well, I'm telling you the kids in
- 17:04Speaker 5: Metro Sydney and in Melbourne that I'm seeing are not
- 17:08Speaker 5: directly affected by climate change. They are learning about it
- 17:12Speaker 5: at school. And about now, I'm feeling quite gas lit
- 17:15Speaker 5: by these organizations who are telling me, know, the kids
- 17:18Speaker 5: aren't anxious apparently, and it's all fine.
- 17:23Speaker 2: I can understand why you feel you've been gasoline. I
- 17:25Speaker 2: think the rest of us feel similar way. On this
- 17:29Speaker 2: list of signatories, you've got the Royal Australian and New
- 17:32Speaker 2: Zealand College of Psychiatrists, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners,
- 17:38Speaker 2: large medical representative bodies saying kids should be anxious about
- 17:43Speaker 2: the climate. Essentially, I mean to me, that is terrifying
- 17:46Speaker 2: in itself.
- 17:48Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're really not meeting me at my argument,
- 17:51Speaker 5: which is about developmental science, and it's about what a
- 17:54Speaker 5: child at six seven years old can cope with. And
- 17:59Speaker 5: I just wanted to have any of those signatories. One
- 18:01Speaker 5: have worked with kids clinically sat across from a young
- 18:05Speaker 5: child in tears who does not think that they're going
- 18:08Speaker 5: to make it to adulthood. That is not a child
- 18:11Speaker 5: who is motivated and mobilized to solve the issue of
- 18:14Speaker 5: climate change. If that's what you're after, their children who
- 18:19Speaker 5: are helpless and hopeless. And Two, I wonder whether they've
- 18:23Speaker 5: actually had a look at the curriculum, as we've done
- 18:26Speaker 5: at the IPA, a really comprehensive mordit into it. And
- 18:30Speaker 5: I just don't buy the argument that a lot of
- 18:32Speaker 5: them are telling me about You know, they're going to
- 18:35Speaker 5: inherit this world anyway, Claire, so they have to know
- 18:37Speaker 5: about it. Well, we don't do that with war and
- 18:41Speaker 5: terrorism and economic collapse and pandemics. We don't expose very
- 18:46Speaker 5: young children to those issues. I have no problem with
- 18:50Speaker 5: teaching kids to take care of their environment. Come back
- 18:53Speaker 5: to saving water.
- 18:54Speaker 2: It's not about that. It's not about that. We know
- 18:58Speaker 2: perfectly well. The anxiety comes from these doomsday predictions, which
- 19:04Speaker 2: are not scientifically based. We know that these doomsday predictions
- 19:09Speaker 2: where these poor kids think that they have no future,
- 19:13Speaker 2: that their families are going to die, that rising sea
- 19:17Speaker 2: levels are going to swallow up their homes. That's what's
- 19:20Speaker 2: causing them anxiety, not littering or things that they can
- 19:24Speaker 2: actually do something about. It is these doomsday predictions. And
- 19:29Speaker 2: I've got to say I'm not surprised by the gas
- 19:32Speaker 2: lighting or the straw man arguments from these bodies, because
- 19:35Speaker 2: these are the same groups and individuals who who think
- 19:38Speaker 2: a child's gender confusion should also be affirmed and validated
- 19:42Speaker 2: and then possibly medicalized. I think there's a fundamental problem
- 19:47Speaker 2: with the bodies representing mental health professionals cleared. They seem
- 19:52Speaker 2: to have been hijacked by political considerations and the welfare
- 19:57Speaker 2: of their patients. I would think, which should be top
- 20:00Speaker 2: of mind above everything else.
- 20:03Speaker 5: Well, this is the thing. They've had to do some
- 20:04Speaker 5: serious mental gymnastics to make this argument, because their first remit,
- 20:09Speaker 5: of course, should be about improving mental health, and I
- 20:13Speaker 5: think that to argue otherwise, they're really abandoning their responsibility
- 20:19Speaker 5: there to children's mental health. I've had a parent email
- 20:22Speaker 5: me today this morning to say, you know, plastered across
- 20:25Speaker 5: the classroom wall is a big sign saying how can
- 20:28Speaker 5: I save the world? This was a classroom of six
- 20:30Speaker 5: year olds. I mean, what an emotional burden to put
- 20:33Speaker 5: on a six year old to ask them to save
- 20:35Speaker 5: the world. It is doomsday. It is catastrophic the way
- 20:40Speaker 5: that they are taught it. And I think that's astonishing
- 20:44Speaker 5: that the Black Dog Institute and the College of Psychiatrists
- 20:47Speaker 5: can't see what we're doing.
- 20:50Speaker 2: This catastrophizing. It is just so destructive, and to pretend
- 20:56Speaker 2: it's not happening, I think is really willful ignorance or dishonesty.
- 21:01Speaker 2: I don't know. I know I'm not speaking for you here,
- 21:03Speaker 2: I'm speaking for myself, but I think there's a fundamental
- 21:06Speaker 2: problem with this profession. We've never been more focused on
- 21:10Speaker 2: mental health, never spent so much money on it and
- 21:13Speaker 2: time on it, and we've never been more miserable, anxious, depressed.
- 21:18Speaker 2: And you mentioned one of the signatories is the Black
- 21:21Speaker 2: Dog Institute. I found that rather shameful, and those who
- 21:25Speaker 2: donate to groups like that may want to re examine
- 21:28Speaker 2: how their money is spent. Clairo, thank you so much
- 21:31Speaker 2: for your time.
- 21:32Speaker 5: Thanks Racher.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Still to come, Lefties Losing Ed plus all the latest
- 21:37Speaker 2: from the US, including more revelations about the Natsu tattoo
- 21:42Speaker 2: wearing Democrat Graham Plattner. John Heindereika is up next watching
- 21:57Speaker 2: the Reader Paney Show, and it's time for lefties losing it.
- 22:02Speaker 2: Let's hear more from the man who wants to represent
- 22:04Speaker 2: the great state of Texas. We've heard him called God
- 22:08Speaker 2: non binary, We've heard him claim there are at least
- 22:11Speaker 2: six genders, and now James Tallerrico refers to women as
- 22:16Speaker 2: our neighbors with a uterus. This dude is nuttier than
- 22:20Speaker 2: a fruitcake.
- 22:21Speaker 3: Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the
- 22:24Speaker 3: property of the state.
- 22:25Speaker 1: One of our neighbors with the uterus to be able
- 22:27Speaker 1: to control their own.
- 22:28Speaker 2: Body, Texas, you know what to do. Now to California
- 22:32Speaker 2: and cashed up commies are lashing out wildly against independent
- 22:36Speaker 2: candidate Spencer Pratt. The outsider is copying it from all
- 22:40Speaker 2: sorts of lefties losing it, including the insufferably unfunny Jimmy Kimmel.
- 22:46Speaker 9: His profession is to be the screaming jerk on reality shows,
- 22:49Speaker 9: and his house burns down, and even though he had
- 22:51Speaker 9: no private insurance on his house and doesn't believe in
- 22:53Speaker 9: climate change, he is understandably upset about his house burning down,
- 22:58Speaker 9: and since he's moderately famous person, he gets attention.
- 23:01Speaker 1: He's on the news.
- 23:02Speaker 2: What a patronizing decade? Was a climate change that drained
- 23:06Speaker 2: the reservoirs, failed to do fuel reduction, and defunded the
- 23:10Speaker 2: fire department and little pertinent fact the fire was started
- 23:14Speaker 2: by an arsenist, yet not climate change. And let's really
- 23:18Speaker 2: crank up the hypocrisy with actress Hannah Einbinder who said
- 23:22Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt must be rejected because Donald Trump likes him.
- 23:26Speaker 10: A lot of wealth in this city. And I think
- 23:28Speaker 10: that there are a lot of people who basquerade as Democrats,
- 23:30Speaker 10: are people on the left, but really money is their
- 23:33Speaker 10: key issue and that's what leads them to vote for
- 23:36Speaker 10: people like Spencer Pratt, who is endorsed by Donald Trump.
- 23:40Speaker 11: And I will remind everybody of that.
- 23:41Speaker 10: So yeah, it's important to resist that. And you know,
- 23:49Speaker 10: I'm not.
- 23:50Speaker 2: Like la is a lefty heartland city and it shows crime,
- 23:55Speaker 2: homelessness and general dysfunction is out of control as state taxes.
- 24:01Speaker 2: Let's check in on a couple more lifty strongholds, starting
- 24:04Speaker 2: with Portland. It's as bad as it keets vokes. This
- 24:07Speaker 2: is what happens when the left rule uninterrupted. Portland has
- 24:11Speaker 2: been under Democrat rule for more than sixty years and
- 24:15Speaker 2: it shows.
- 24:17Speaker 12: So I'm about to walk through a pedestrian underpass below
- 24:20Speaker 12: a very busy freeway. This is a notorious underpass that's
- 24:26Speaker 12: oftentimes occupied by a lot of homeless people. Now, as
- 24:30Speaker 12: you can see, there's a lot of junk, a lot
- 24:33Speaker 12: of furniture, there's a couch, you a betting. Looks like
- 24:40Speaker 12: they have a notice to leave, but of course they
- 24:45Speaker 12: always come back within days. It's blocked in the end here,
- 24:50Speaker 12: which of course most people would not feel comfortable walking
- 24:53Speaker 12: through here. It obviously does not feel too safe because
- 24:57Speaker 12: you don't know who's living down here, and it's actually
- 25:00Speaker 12: quite dark without the light I have, so I don't
- 25:02Speaker 12: really know what's behind here. So this again, as you
- 25:13Speaker 12: can see, very very busy road to the next of
- 25:16Speaker 12: us above us.
- 25:18Speaker 2: And so this.
- 25:20Speaker 12: Is the only way, the safe way apparently to get
- 25:23Speaker 12: from this side of the freeway to the other side
- 25:26Speaker 12: of the freeway.
- 25:27Speaker 2: Wow, and let's hear from the mayor of this filthy,
- 25:31Speaker 2: dysfunctional hellhole. Here is Portland Mayor Keith Wilson. Earlier this year,
- 25:36Speaker 2: riling against yegestat ice.
- 25:39Speaker 13: Know what the federal government says happened here.
- 25:42Speaker 14: There was a time when we could take them at
- 25:44Speaker 14: their word.
- 25:46Speaker 11: That time is long passed.
- 25:47Speaker 2: To Seattle now, where Democrats have ruled for over fifty years,
- 25:52Speaker 2: must be in nevana.
- 25:54Speaker 15: Can we make it.
- 25:58Speaker 4: Well?
- 25:58Speaker 2: D like it has got so bad that the locals
- 26:11Speaker 2: are barricading their own streets.
- 26:13Speaker 16: Time has gotten so bad and one Democrat led city
- 26:16Speaker 16: that people are taking their safety under their own hands.
- 26:19Speaker 16: Residents in a Seattle neighborhood have built homemade barricades to
- 26:23Speaker 16: block their streets, and they're trying to stop the surge
- 26:26Speaker 16: of shootings, a lled prostitution, another illegal activity in their community.
- 26:30Speaker 2: And what is the socialist mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson, doing, well,
- 26:34Speaker 2: She's raising taxes and bragging about being noticed by the president.
- 26:39Speaker 11: I had the honor of being noticed by the President
- 26:42Speaker 11: of the United States, who called me a very, very
- 26:48Speaker 11: liberal slash communist mayor.
- 26:52Speaker 2: Now, it's not often that this segment praises CNN, because frankly,
- 26:56Speaker 2: they are awful. But the Democrats have gone so far
- 27:00Speaker 2: off the reservation in selecting a candidate like Graham Platna
- 27:04Speaker 2: that even CNN has taken issue.
- 27:06Speaker 15: As for the taktoo, he didn't cover it until October
- 27:09Speaker 15: of twenty twenty five, eighteen years after getting it, and
- 27:13Speaker 15: only when it became a political problem. Think about that
- 27:16Speaker 15: for a moment. Eighteen years of getting out of the shower,
- 27:19Speaker 15: eighteen years of looking into the mirror and seeing the
- 27:22Speaker 15: tote cough. That's not a drunken mistake in Croatia, that's
- 27:26Speaker 15: a daily choice, sustained for nearly two decades.
- 27:29Speaker 2: Now to Treasury Secretary Scott Pissent, who had this rather
- 27:33Speaker 2: succinct description of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
- 27:37Speaker 14: Vunor Gavin Newsom has floated this idea of one hundred
- 27:40Speaker 14: percent state tax on Californians who had received money from
- 27:43Speaker 14: President Trump's anti Weaganization fund. Your response to the governor's
- 27:47Speaker 14: call from from seven, there's no cure for stupid now.
- 27:50Speaker 2: I talked last week about Alexandriacazia Cortez's rather shameful antics
- 27:55Speaker 2: in New York City donning a he jab like it's
- 27:58Speaker 2: a fashion accessor and not an instrument of oppression forced
- 28:02Speaker 2: on millions of women living under Shariah law, including in Iran,
- 28:06Speaker 2: a country at war with the US right now. Since
- 28:10Speaker 2: the Islamic Revolution in Iran, women have risked their lives
- 28:13Speaker 2: fighting against hijab laws. Instead of standing with those women,
- 28:18Speaker 2: AOC donda hijab to address a crowd of men or men.
- 28:23Speaker 2: No diversity in this crowd, No trans women, no real
- 28:27Speaker 2: women either, just men who really didn't seem that interested
- 28:31Speaker 2: in what the congress woman had to say. Let's bring
- 28:56Speaker 2: in Center for the American Experiment president and co founder
- 28:59Speaker 2: of the popular power Line blog, John Heinderecher. John, why
- 29:04Speaker 2: is AOC a staunch feminist, not even a little bit
- 29:09Speaker 2: concerned about the plight of women in Iran fighting against
- 29:12Speaker 2: he jab litles? Surely she understands the symbolism of her
- 29:17Speaker 2: wearing a he.
- 29:17Speaker 13: Jab reader, AOC is like almost every Western feminist. It's
- 29:24Speaker 13: all a performance aimed at a Western audience. When it
- 29:27Speaker 13: comes to women who are actually oppressed, whether it's in
- 29:30Speaker 13: Islamic countries or in our own country, they couldn't care less.
- 29:35Speaker 13: Our democratic politicians here in Minnesota do the same thing.
- 29:39Speaker 13: They try to show how progressive they are by wearing
- 29:41Speaker 13: he jobs, and they never say a word about the
- 29:44Speaker 13: condition of women in Iran or Somalia or other Islamic countries,
- 29:49Speaker 13: and sometimes in Islamic communities here in the United States.
- 29:54Speaker 2: And it's done to celebrate diversity, to show how intolerant
- 29:59Speaker 2: and inclusive they are. But you know what, there wasn't
- 30:03Speaker 2: much diversity in that crowd. You look around there, there
- 30:05Speaker 2: were no real women. There was really very little in
- 30:09Speaker 2: the way of diversity. And the men were talking amongst themselves,
- 30:13Speaker 2: many of them, even some of them on stage whilst
- 30:15Speaker 2: she was giving a speech. So the lack of respect
- 30:18Speaker 2: there was palpable. Now AOC was at this event with
- 30:23Speaker 2: the New York City Mayor Zorn ma'm danny, who has
- 30:26Speaker 2: refused to attend the Israel Day Parade. The Governor of
- 30:30Speaker 2: New York was there, Kathy Hokul, former mayors like Eric
- 30:34Speaker 2: Adams and Michael Bloomberg. But John Zorn ma'm danny was
- 30:39Speaker 2: riding his bike during this event quite literally.
- 30:44Speaker 13: Read I believe that New York City has the largest
- 30:46Speaker 13: Jewish population of any city in the world, second only
- 30:50Speaker 13: to Tel Aviv. The Israel Day Parade as an institution there,
- 30:56Speaker 13: but mom Danny is viciously anti Israel, and he made
- 30:59Speaker 13: a point of not participating, and instead he wrote his
- 31:03Speaker 13: bike around the city, which is a classic liberal thing
- 31:06Speaker 13: to do, so people could see that it wasn't that
- 31:09Speaker 13: he was tied up and couldn't make the parade.
- 31:11Speaker 1: He was out and about.
- 31:12Speaker 13: He was just deliberately insulting not only Israel, but New
- 31:16Speaker 13: York's Jews as well.
- 31:20Speaker 2: Now, this was quite a revelation from Scott Besset, the
- 31:24Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary, about golf nations, allies of America who were
- 31:29Speaker 2: not being completely honest with the US about the Iranian
- 31:34Speaker 2: money in their banking systems.
- 31:36Speaker 3: A big mistake that the Iranians made was attacking their
- 31:40Speaker 3: GCC neighbors, their neighbors in the golf Because we had
- 31:44Speaker 3: many very good allies who maybe weren't completely transparent with
- 31:48Speaker 3: us on the money Iranian money that was in their
- 31:51Speaker 3: banking systems, all of a sudden became very compliant in
- 31:55Speaker 3: terms of being willing to turn over accounts or helpless
- 31:59Speaker 3: free use block accounts. And then the third part was
- 32:03Speaker 3: the incredible blockade. I really think it's the economic blockade
- 32:08Speaker 3: of funds and the physical blockade of the ships not
- 32:13Speaker 3: going in or out of the Iranian ports. Carga Island
- 32:17Speaker 3: is shut down. That's our big oil voting facilities, and
- 32:21Speaker 3: that means that they're going to have to start taking
- 32:23Speaker 3: down the wells.
- 32:26Speaker 2: John, how much of this conflict is economic warfare right now?
- 32:31Speaker 13: Well, reading, economic warfare is really fundamental to the Iran
- 32:35Speaker 13: conflict on both sides. We have hurt their economy badly
- 32:39Speaker 13: by freezing bank accounts, and above all, through the blockade,
- 32:42Speaker 13: Iran is getting hardly any oil revenue. But their economy
- 32:46Speaker 13: was already in terrible shape, and I'm not sure how
- 32:49Speaker 13: much worse it can get. On Iran side, their most
- 32:53Speaker 13: effective move has been closing the Strait of Horror, moves
- 32:56Speaker 13: which raised gas prices worldwide and made them an effect
- 33:00Speaker 13: allies with the Democratic Party going into the midterms. So
- 33:03Speaker 13: it's economic warfare on both sides.
- 33:07Speaker 2: John, We're told the deal is ninety five percent done
- 33:10Speaker 2: with the Iranian regime, and Donald Trump has been clear
- 33:14Speaker 2: he's not in a hurry to do this deal. What
- 33:18Speaker 2: is he ultimately hoping for here beyond commitments to completely
- 33:23Speaker 2: disband their nuclear program? Does he really want the Golf
- 33:26Speaker 2: States to step in here and keep Iran in check?
- 33:31Speaker 15: Well?
- 33:31Speaker 13: Maybe, reader, but I'm not sure how much the Golf
- 33:33Speaker 13: States can really do. And I also questioned whether a
- 33:36Speaker 13: deal is all that close. The latest report we've heard
- 33:40Speaker 13: is that Trump has sent another counterproposal to the Iranians,
- 33:44Speaker 13: and it includes details on how and where Iran is
- 33:47Speaker 13: going to turn over its enriched uranium and also a
- 33:50Speaker 13: clear understanding that Hermus is an international waterway, not a
- 33:55Speaker 13: tollway for Iran. Now, those are very basic terms, and
- 33:58Speaker 13: it seems to me that at this point we really
- 34:01Speaker 13: don't have a deal. And it does seem that, as
- 34:03Speaker 13: he says, Trump is not in any particular hurry.
- 34:09Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about this character in main, this Marxist
- 34:13Speaker 2: freak show has to be said, history of saying just
- 34:17Speaker 2: horrendous things. Now, he was asked, this dude who wants
- 34:21Speaker 2: to become a senator for the Democrats Platna. He was
- 34:26Speaker 2: asked if there was any more skeletons in his closet.
- 34:30Speaker 1: But the geop is going to dig up everything.
- 34:34Speaker 2: And more that they can.
- 34:35Speaker 17: Yeah, and probably why at some point.
- 34:39Speaker 10: Is there something new you want to get ahead of?
- 34:41Speaker 17: No, I mean, like we've I've been I've lived my
- 34:44Speaker 17: life like I've been there for the whole thing. And
- 34:48Speaker 17: it's because of that, Like I I mean, I know
- 34:53Speaker 17: what I've what I've been through, I know what i've
- 34:55Speaker 17: I know what my behavior has been, I know all
- 34:57Speaker 17: of it.
- 34:59Speaker 2: Well, John, it turns out there are quite a few
- 35:01Speaker 2: more skeletons. It's emerged the Nazi tattoo wearing democrat sexted
- 35:06Speaker 2: with numerous women outside his marriager. Platner's wife even flagged
- 35:11Speaker 2: to ex campaign director Genevieve MacDonald that she discovered he
- 35:15Speaker 2: was sexting with twelve women. And the New York Times
- 35:20Speaker 2: has all those reports. Wall Street journalis reporting this New
- 35:23Speaker 2: York Post. These messages, I mean, there are hot mess
- 35:27Speaker 2: I can't even read them out on a family program
- 35:30Speaker 2: like this. And it has to be said, John. The
- 35:34Speaker 2: site he was on called kick I've never heard of it,
- 35:37Speaker 2: but it's been involved in a number of scandals. It's
- 35:39Speaker 2: been labeled predatory because, according to Forbes, nearly sixty percent
- 35:45Speaker 2: of its fifteen million active users are between the ages
- 35:49Speaker 2: of thirteen and twenty four. What is a married forty
- 35:53Speaker 2: year old doing on a site like that? John, Yeah, Well, you.
- 35:58Speaker 13: Know, reader, I believe he was sexting with these women
- 36:00Speaker 13: within a matter of months after he got married. It's
- 36:03Speaker 13: kind of amazing. And keep in mind that this is
- 36:06Speaker 13: exactly what destroyed Anthony Wiener's political career, and Wieder didn't
- 36:11Speaker 13: have a Nazi tattoo, and he wasn't a communist. Nevertheless,
- 36:16Speaker 13: so far as far as I know, all of the
- 36:18Speaker 13: National Democrats are sticking with Platner.
- 36:23Speaker 2: Incredible, and I want to play you a clip from CNN,
- 36:26Speaker 2: and let's give them credit here because I actually spoke
- 36:29Speaker 2: to one of the veterans that Platina attacked.
- 36:33Speaker 18: I'm upset about the comments that he made about Chris Kyle,
- 36:38Speaker 18: but you know, Chris Kyle has kids. He's not here
- 36:41Speaker 18: to defend himself. I have kids, and you know, with
- 36:45Speaker 18: people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders backing this man,
- 36:51Speaker 18: I want them. I want Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders
- 36:55Speaker 18: to My youngest is eight. He turns nine in a
- 36:58Speaker 18: couple of days. Tell my kids that they're supporting a
- 37:01Speaker 18: man who said their father didn't deserve to live.
- 37:07Speaker 2: That's not hyperbole. That's precisely what he said. He told me.
- 37:11Speaker 2: He said a purple heart recipient didn't deserve to live.
- 37:16Speaker 2: You've written about this character in the power Line blog,
- 37:20Speaker 2: and you've argued that one of the keys to Platiner's
- 37:23Speaker 2: success is his overt anti semitism.
- 37:26Speaker 13: Explain that, well, when Platner's campaign took off and he
- 37:31Speaker 13: actually drove the sitting governor of Maine out of the race,
- 37:35Speaker 13: he had no experience in politics, was very little known,
- 37:38Speaker 13: but the most famous thing about him, the one thing
- 37:41Speaker 13: that every voter knew about Platner was that he had
- 37:44Speaker 13: a Nazi SS tattoo. And we've since learned that he's
- 37:49Speaker 13: a bitter enemy of Israel, and he constantly talks about
- 37:52Speaker 13: so called genocide in Gaza. He cheered on a Hamas
- 37:56Speaker 13: attack in Israel in twenty fourteen, shared a social media
- 38:00Speaker 13: post by a neo Nazi attacking Israel. But all of
- 38:04Speaker 13: that has not dented his popularity with Democrats in Maine.
- 38:09Speaker 13: On the contrary, and so I think the conclusion is
- 38:12Speaker 13: that Platner is popular with Democrats in May not in
- 38:16Speaker 13: spite of his anti Semitism, but in large part because
- 38:20Speaker 13: of it.
- 38:22Speaker 2: John, where is this anti semitism coming from in the Democrats?
- 38:26Speaker 2: We know the radical elements of the party have an issue,
- 38:29Speaker 2: but it's become normalized. We saw that with Kamala Harris
- 38:33Speaker 2: bypassing Shapiro, who was the best candidate to be her VP.
- 38:38Speaker 2: She went some weirdo Tim Walls instead of someone who
- 38:42Speaker 2: could have actually helped her get elected because he was Jewish,
- 38:45Speaker 2: it'd served in the IDF, and he was unacceptable in
- 38:48Speaker 2: the eyes of modern Democratsdo.
- 38:51Speaker 13: It's coming from the grassroots? I mean, I can't fully
- 38:54Speaker 13: explain it, but it's not the leadership of the Democratic
- 38:56Speaker 13: Party that initiated this whole anti semitic when it's really
- 39:01Speaker 13: coming out of the grassroots. And I think a lot
- 39:03Speaker 13: of the leaders of the Democratic Party, I mean Chuck Schumer,
- 39:06Speaker 13: the minority leader in the Senate, for example, have got
- 39:09Speaker 13: to be horrified by it. But for whatever reason, anti
- 39:13Speaker 13: Semitism has become rife within the base of the Democratic Party.
- 39:17Speaker 13: We see it almost every day.
- 39:21Speaker 2: Now, let's go to Boston. I've been wanting to ask
- 39:23Speaker 2: you about this before. Before you go. We have to
- 39:27Speaker 2: get to this because it just shows you these blue
- 39:30Speaker 2: cities find new depths of crazy. The Democrat mayor there,
- 39:34Speaker 2: Michelle wou She's got an office of LGBTQ Plus Advancement,
- 39:40Speaker 2: which is now facing a backlash for promoting a trans
- 39:43Speaker 2: Period Pride event trans Period Provide event at a Public
- 39:48Speaker 2: Library centered on what it calls Menstrual Equity and transgender
- 39:53Speaker 2: Experiences with Menstruation. John, I know you've been keen to
- 39:57Speaker 2: talk about this, so please tell us what is the
- 40:00Speaker 2: point of all this?
- 40:03Speaker 13: I can't read it, honestly, I'm speechless. You know, there's
- 40:06Speaker 13: the event is supposed to promote menstrual equity, but there
- 40:09Speaker 13: is no menstrual equity. We'men have periods, men don't. I
- 40:13Speaker 13: honestly have no idea what they are talking about here
- 40:17Speaker 13: when they talk about trans periods. I think these people
- 40:21Speaker 13: are simply nuts.
- 40:25Speaker 2: They are simply nuts. But they are promoting these programs
- 40:29Speaker 2: using taxpayer funds, and at least they're giving us some
- 40:33Speaker 2: good content. John, thank you so much for your time tonight.
- 40:37Speaker 13: Thank you reader.
- 40:38Speaker 2: After the break, all the latest in rural and entertainment news,
- 40:41Speaker 2: including Jennifer Lopez spotted at the high school graduation of
- 40:45Speaker 2: her newly trans son Kinsey Schofield is next Welcome Back.
- 41:02Speaker 2: Musician and actress Jennifer Lopez was this week spotted at
- 41:05Speaker 2: the high school graduation of her newly trans son. Yes,
- 41:09Speaker 2: Emmy is now calling herself Oscar Munez. This is a
- 41:14Speaker 2: child Jaylo had with singer Mark Anthony. That's her third husband,
- 41:18Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, There's been another marriage and divorced
- 41:21Speaker 2: since then. Previously, Jalo has introduced Emmy on stage as
- 41:25Speaker 2: a plural a they them, but now Emmy is called
- 41:28Speaker 2: oscar and identifying as a he hymn. Joining me now
- 41:32Speaker 2: to discuss this. More's host of the kinsisco Field Unfiltered podcast, Kinsey.
- 41:38Speaker 2: There seems to be a lot of this in Hollywood,
- 41:41Speaker 2: a hugely disproportionate amount, it seems, right.
- 41:45Speaker 4: I mean, we also believe that one of ben Aflex
- 41:49Speaker 4: Jlo's ex husband, we believe that one of his children
- 41:53Speaker 4: might use the them pronouns as well. Shirley's theerone. I mean, yes,
- 41:58Speaker 4: your rate. The list goes on and on. I don't
- 42:00Speaker 4: know the exact statistics, but I do know that Sylvester
- 42:04Speaker 4: Stallone's wife, Jennifer Flavin, she theorized that chaotic or excessively
- 42:09Speaker 4: loose Hollywood parenting environments may contribute to this. She's argued
- 42:14Speaker 4: that a lack of traditional boundaries and structure in celebrity
- 42:18Speaker 4: lifestyles can foster an environment where children in brace shifting
- 42:22Speaker 4: identity labels. So that's probably the most common sense explanation.
- 42:29Speaker 4: I've heard from somebody that's in the business that is
- 42:33Speaker 4: seeing what's going on around them.
- 42:37Speaker 2: And there's always a theory of social contagion, and a
- 42:40Speaker 2: few other theories could float here, but we do not
- 42:42Speaker 2: have the time. Let's move on to a contestant on
- 42:45Speaker 2: the upcoming season of Love Island USA being removed from
- 42:49Speaker 2: the program after a clip of her went viral where
- 42:53Speaker 2: she's using the N word while singing along to a
- 42:56Speaker 2: rap song that contains the N word. Twenty five year
- 43:00Speaker 2: old Thesana Montgomery will no longer be featured on the
- 43:04Speaker 2: show after the previously private video was leaked online. Let's
- 43:08Speaker 2: have a quick look, Kinsey, it's in the song lyrics.
- 43:14Speaker 2: Is she supposed to alter the song lyrics or not
- 43:18Speaker 2: sing along to songs that contain that word. I'm not
- 43:21Speaker 2: sure around the correct procedure here.
- 43:26Speaker 4: Well, the rules do keep changing, but she probably shouldn't
- 43:29Speaker 4: have been singing it with the camera in her face.
- 43:32Speaker 4: You know, producers tend to act quickly when something becomes
- 43:35Speaker 4: a distraction from the show. I feel like we're very
- 43:37Speaker 4: sensitive here in the States. Remember longtime Bachelor host Chris
- 43:42Speaker 4: Harrison was ruthlessly fired from the franchise for defending a
- 43:46Speaker 4: former contestant for attending a plantation themed fraternity formal while
- 43:51Speaker 4: she was in college. So he was asked about it
- 43:54Speaker 4: on a podcast. He asked for compassion and argued that
- 43:57Speaker 4: her behavior should be viewed differently because it happened years ago,
- 44:01Speaker 4: and he asked his job. So I do think that
- 44:04Speaker 4: there are different rules here in the States. I mean,
- 44:07Speaker 4: you could run for office and probably weren't, but you
- 44:10Speaker 4: can't be on reality TV.
- 44:14Speaker 2: It's just mad to me because if you love rap,
- 44:17Speaker 2: if you know the lyrics, if you sing along to
- 44:19Speaker 2: the lyrics because you love the genre, then I would
- 44:23Speaker 2: have thought that was a celebration of a black culture
- 44:27Speaker 2: as opposed to something that should get you blacklisted a
- 44:31Speaker 2: band from reality programs because we know how discerning they are.
- 44:35Speaker 2: Let's go to Miami now, where singer Lizo performed at
- 44:39Speaker 2: Sports Illustrated swimsuit runway show Kinsey who else took part
- 44:59Speaker 2: in this parade? I've seen a few clips. We saw
- 45:02Speaker 2: comedian in Tiffany Hattish just in that clip with Lizzo,
- 45:05Speaker 2: and there's been plenty footage of Bethany Frankel taking to
- 45:10Speaker 2: the catwalk with a barely there bikini.
- 45:14Speaker 4: Yeah, so most of the headlines I'm seeing coming out
- 45:16Speaker 4: of this was influencers and reality stars rule the runway,
- 45:20Speaker 4: So consider me unfamiliar with ninety nine percent of these
- 45:23Speaker 4: people and their spree tends. I recognized Molly Simms, Maura
- 45:27Speaker 4: Higgins who was also on Love Island UK, and Alex Earl,
- 45:31Speaker 4: but only because she's fighting with another girl named Alex.
- 45:33Speaker 4: I have no idea what her employment status is. Bethany
- 45:37Speaker 4: Frankel really was the bell of the ball though, to
- 45:39Speaker 4: your point, we got a lot of booty shots of
- 45:41Speaker 4: Bethany thanks to Instagram over the weekend.
- 45:45Speaker 2: There were a couple of athletes involved as well as
- 45:47Speaker 2: far as I saw, So, yeah, it's an interesting lineup
- 45:51Speaker 2: they've put together there. Now let's go to the Royal Family,
- 45:54Speaker 2: where Harry has been given the new nickname of Hijack
- 45:58Speaker 2: Harry after claims that he and Megan Mark will deliberately
- 46:02Speaker 2: timed public appearances and announcements to overshadow major ryal engagements
- 46:08Speaker 2: involving King Charles and the rest of the Royal family.
- 46:11Speaker 2: The new nickname comes after the pair released romantic photos
- 46:15Speaker 2: celebrating their wedding anniversary while King Charles and Queen Camilla
- 46:20Speaker 2: were carrying out a visit to Northern Ireland. Kinsey surely not?
- 46:25Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean well you and I've kind of
- 46:27Speaker 4: addressed this previously. Harry shows up in the Ukraine to
- 46:32Speaker 4: challenge President Trump and President Putin. Days before King Charles
- 46:36Speaker 4: lands in DC to heal this riff between the Prime
- 46:40Speaker 4: Minister KR Starmer and Donald Trump, like you know, you're
- 46:43Speaker 4: not being helpful there a days before King Charles visits
- 46:47Speaker 4: victims of anti Semitism in the UK, Harry writes that
- 46:51Speaker 4: op ad for the Statesman, which a lot of us
- 46:55Speaker 4: found completely inappropriate and bizarre. It does feel like they
- 47:00Speaker 4: tried to distract from the British royal family. I am though,
- 47:04Speaker 4: just better that I didn't come up with the nickname
- 47:06Speaker 4: hijack carry.
- 47:09Speaker 2: It is pretty damn good, isn't it. Let's go with
- 47:12Speaker 2: Meghan Marko. Now we need a better nickname for her
- 47:14Speaker 2: as well. The Ginger and the wind jard that's getting old.
- 47:17Speaker 2: But she's being trolled after her lifestyle brand as Ever Matchstick.
- 47:23Speaker 2: She does have those skinny legs. Well, this is exciting news.
- 47:28Speaker 2: As Ever now has a new must have item matches. Yes,
- 47:33Speaker 2: look how nice the packaging is. The heavy matches are
- 47:37Speaker 2: presented as part of a curated set involving her sixty
- 47:41Speaker 2: four dollar candles and various teas. The blue matchpox with
- 47:45Speaker 2: the as Ever logo, is included in a one hundred
- 47:48Speaker 2: and ten dollar morning ritual and evening ritual set, including
- 47:53Speaker 2: honey tea and a candle. I mean, this sounds like
- 47:56Speaker 2: a bargain, Kinsey. Are these matches available to buy separately?
- 48:00Speaker 2: I'm sure the audience is dying.
- 48:03Speaker 4: To know, slamoring. Now you have to spend like two
- 48:06Speaker 4: hundred dollars on over two hundred dollars on this candle set,
- 48:09Speaker 4: and what a metaphor for Megan Markle's riple relationships. I mean, predictively,
- 48:14Speaker 4: social media had a field day. They joked that the
- 48:16Speaker 4: matches were an interesting choice for someone frequently accused of
- 48:19Speaker 4: burning bridges, you know, pointing to Megan's ongoing astrangement from
- 48:23Speaker 4: both the royal family and her poor father, Thomas Markle.
- 48:26Speaker 4: The marketing campaign wrote itself, here, reader.
- 48:31Speaker 2: Absolutely now this is sad news. The son of Angelina
- 48:35Speaker 2: Jolie and Brad Pitt Maddox has dropped Pitt from his
- 48:38Speaker 2: last name, and it troubles in the high profile A
- 48:41Speaker 2: Strange family. Maddox file paperwork requesting a legal name change,
- 48:45Speaker 2: specifically dropping Pitt from his last name. So he's now
- 48:49Speaker 2: just going to be jolly, Kinsey. He's not the only
- 48:52Speaker 2: child to do this in the family. Shiloh change her
- 48:55Speaker 2: name legally, Zara has dropped it informally, and Vivia and
- 49:00Speaker 2: removed it from the playbill of a Broadway production she
- 49:03Speaker 2: worked on. It's pretty clear, Kinsey, the kids are siding
- 49:07Speaker 2: with Mum in this ugly family war.
- 49:11Speaker 4: You're right, and I've heard that Brad has cleaned up
- 49:13Speaker 4: his act as really happy right now and living a
- 49:17Speaker 4: clean life, and he's deeply hurt by what he considers
- 49:20Speaker 4: Angelina poisoning the children against him. It's obviously a very
- 49:24Speaker 4: sad situation, because family disputes play out in public. You know,
- 49:29Speaker 4: those rarely end well for anyone involved. But I don't
- 49:33Speaker 4: think that Angelina comes out smelling like Roses here either.
- 49:38Speaker 2: No, it's a big deal though, to legally change your name.
- 49:43Speaker 2: It sends a clear message, and it's a sense of
- 49:46Speaker 2: very public message, Kinsey, that they would know that this
- 49:49Speaker 2: would get coverage in the news media, and it would
- 49:52Speaker 2: have a fairly profound impact on their father.
- 49:56Speaker 4: Right, and that's why his team doesn't hesitates to leak
- 50:02Speaker 4: stories about how much he misses the kids and how
- 50:04Speaker 4: he's sad that this is the path that they've chosen,
- 50:09Speaker 4: and how he feels like there is an instigator, and
- 50:11Speaker 4: that instigator is his ex who he's still fighting in
- 50:14Speaker 4: court over business dealings and homes. So it just is
- 50:19Speaker 4: the probably the nastiest Hollywood divorce I've seen in my lifetime.
- 50:25Speaker 2: Kinsey Schofield, thank you so much for your time, and
- 50:28Speaker 2: that's it from May News Night is up next. Good night,