Latest / The Rita Panahi Show / The Rita Panahi Show | 25 November
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- 0:02Speaker 1: On scor us Oskodia. It's the Reader Panehy Show.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panehy Show. Coming
- 0:11Speaker 2: up tonight, Australia's Gender Equality Ambassador spend over three hundred
- 0:16Speaker 2: thousand dollars of your money in less than two years
- 0:19Speaker 2: on airfares and hotels. Gary Hardgrave will join me shortly
- 0:24Speaker 2: to discuss that and much more. Professor im Plimer will
- 0:27Speaker 2: be here to fact check the Prime Minister's latest claims
- 0:30Speaker 2: about renewable energy. Also joining me tonight is Alex Stein
- 0:34Speaker 2: with the latest from the US, and later in the
- 0:36Speaker 2: hour best in the Business, Kinsey Schofield with royal and
- 0:40Speaker 2: celebrity news, including Justin Trudeaux anticks at a Tailor Swift
- 0:45Speaker 2: concert and of course Left He's Losing It features more
- 0:49Speaker 2: Trump induced meltdowns.
- 0:52Speaker 3: May dresses were too long? After what our country has
- 1:01Speaker 3: been through this week, you all deserve to see my unfiltered.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Joining me now a Sky News contributor Gary Hardgrave. Gary.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Australians have the worst decline in living standards since the
- 1:15Speaker 2: nineteen fifties, with analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistic STATA
- 1:20Speaker 2: showing the fall in living standards over the past two
- 1:23Speaker 2: years is worse than what we suffered during the last
- 1:26Speaker 2: four recessions. Australia is doing considerably worse than many other
- 1:31Speaker 2: developed nations. Gary it all paints are rather alarming picture.
- 1:36Speaker 2: We can't ignore the fact that we're in a per
- 1:39Speaker 2: capita recession right now. It seems to be glossed over,
- 1:43Speaker 2: but the reality is hitting households.
- 1:47Speaker 4: And reader's been like that for what eighteen months, maybe
- 1:50Speaker 4: even two years. I mean, look, we came out of
- 1:53Speaker 4: COVID and we knew times were tough in COVID. We
- 1:56Speaker 4: pulled everything back, we went into some additional debt and an
- 2:01Speaker 4: enormous amount of debt and the capacity to repay that
- 2:04Speaker 4: was always relied on growing the economy. And then we
- 2:07Speaker 4: had Chris bowencom and Anthony Alban easy cuff and all
- 2:10Speaker 4: they did was kill off our economy big time by
- 2:12Speaker 4: going helpful leather on this renewables push. The secret to
- 2:16Speaker 4: all of our problems, the key pointer on all of
- 2:19Speaker 4: our problems is the price of electricity. I mean, we
- 2:21Speaker 4: used to have plenty of food. We used to make
- 2:23Speaker 4: stuff here Victor Lawnmowers, Hills Hoyst saw these things. We
- 2:26Speaker 4: invented Wi Fi and all these other things. We all
- 2:29Speaker 4: did this off the back of cheap, reliable and plenty
- 2:32Speaker 4: of it power and we don't have that anymore. And
- 2:35Speaker 4: the reason why Australia can't pick itself up is because
- 2:38Speaker 4: we're now reliant on other countries to provide everything that
- 2:41Speaker 4: we used to make ourselves. And reader even coming out
- 2:44Speaker 4: of this Council of Parties, this COP twenty nine event,
- 2:48Speaker 4: the idea that they're are going to try and impose
- 2:51Speaker 4: the Australian style emissions reduction standards, all these taxes and
- 2:56Speaker 4: stuff on Chinese stuff. I mean, we can't have a
- 2:59Speaker 4: future made in Australia if our present is currently being
- 3:02Speaker 4: made in China.
- 3:04Speaker 1: We're going to kill off China as well.
- 3:06Speaker 4: I mean, we are so stupid or sorry, we're being
- 3:08Speaker 4: governed by stupid people. And I think the anger is there.
- 3:12Speaker 4: It's very large and it's very loud, and I reckon
- 3:15Speaker 4: come the next election, there's going to be a few
- 3:17Speaker 4: big baseball or maybe cricket bats out for this government,
- 3:20Speaker 4: and so it should be.
- 3:23Speaker 2: You wouldn't have thought, after a very comfortable victory for
- 3:27Speaker 2: the Albanezy government that they could be a one term government,
- 3:32Speaker 2: but it is looking like a real possibility, like you said,
- 3:36Speaker 2: because the impact of their economic irresponsibility is being felt
- 3:44Speaker 2: so far and wide, businesses, households. There's really nobody you
- 3:49Speaker 2: can think of who's untouched by this per capita recession
- 3:53Speaker 2: that we're in the midst of. And you're right, it's
- 3:55Speaker 2: been going on for almost two years now. To add
- 3:59Speaker 2: insult to injury for those of us live in Victoria,
- 4:02Speaker 2: the state government here, led by Dan Andrews and now
- 4:05Speaker 2: just in to Allen, has been spending like crazy. Victoria's
- 4:09Speaker 2: economy is looking more die than ever. Look at these
- 4:12Speaker 2: figures as reported by Today's Herald's son. Victorian government's tax
- 4:17Speaker 2: take has more than doubled gary from sixteen point three
- 4:20Speaker 2: billion to thirty six point three billion in just ten years.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Government wages have blown out, the bureaucracy is huge, it's
- 4:29Speaker 2: gone up from eighteen point nine billion to thirty six
- 4:32Speaker 2: point seven billion, and the debt per capita has more
- 4:37Speaker 2: than tripled. Net debt was forecast in May state budget
- 4:42Speaker 2: to reach one hundred and eighty seven point eight billion
- 4:45Speaker 2: by twenty twenty seven twenty eight, and that's twenty two
- 4:50Speaker 2: percent of Victoria's gross state product well above the average
- 4:55Speaker 2: of eleven point two percent for other states and territories.
- 4:58Speaker 2: That's as reported by Today's Herald's signing Gary, and it
- 5:02Speaker 2: all paints a very dire picture. Indeed, it shows you
- 5:07Speaker 2: why so many people are fleeing Victoria going into state,
- 5:12Speaker 2: whether they're business people, whether they're employees, If you are
- 5:17Speaker 2: paying payroll tax, if you're paying land tax, you're seeing
- 5:21Speaker 2: those bills explode. And if you're just trying to make
- 5:25Speaker 2: ends meet, it's becoming increasingly harder in the state of Victoria.
- 5:31Speaker 4: You can't tax your way into prosperity. Reader, we do
- 5:35Speaker 4: need a department of government efficiency. To borrow the Trump mantra,
- 5:40Speaker 4: we do need less government. We need government to be
- 5:44Speaker 4: as big as it needs to be to do what
- 5:46Speaker 4: needs to be done, but as small as it should
- 5:49Speaker 4: be to make sure it's not interfering in people's lives.
- 5:52Speaker 4: But Victoria's gone exactly the other way. And this is
- 5:55Speaker 4: the problem. And you know, they can build a statue
- 5:57Speaker 4: to Dan Andrews, never get a statue built while is
- 6:00Speaker 4: still alive, because the pigeons may not be the only
- 6:03Speaker 4: thing that's pupping on you. This whole government of Victoria
- 6:07Speaker 4: is dragging the whole of Australia down, and it is
- 6:11Speaker 4: the place, the place to flee. Victoria. That's what the
- 6:13Speaker 4: number place should say. Victoria the place to flee. It
- 6:17Speaker 4: used to be the place to be. Look, Rita, this
- 6:21Speaker 4: has to be fixed. It has to be repaired. No
- 6:23Speaker 4: one will want Victoria. The symbolism of paying Glasgow to
- 6:29Speaker 4: do the Commonwealth Games kind of sums it all up
- 6:32Speaker 4: to me. This is a state that's now lost its
- 6:35Speaker 4: way to the point where it doesn't get the basic
- 6:37Speaker 4: stuff done, but it certainly does employ a lot of
- 6:40Speaker 4: favored friends and a big constantly growing wages and I
- 6:46Speaker 4: think that it's holding back the whole of Australia. This
- 6:50Speaker 4: is the rust bucket state. Look and I'm in Queensland
- 6:53Speaker 4: and there's a whole lot of trouble. It's got to
- 6:55Speaker 4: be repaired here because at one stage we were per
- 6:57Speaker 4: capita even worse than Victoria's that level under the previous government.
- 7:02Speaker 4: I don't know what the current stats are. New government
- 7:04Speaker 4: will see what happens. But unless we get the confidence
- 7:07Speaker 4: to build for the future, our president is going to
- 7:09Speaker 4: continue to be poor. And we've got people in government
- 7:13Speaker 4: who just want to manage our misery and they reward
- 7:15Speaker 4: themselves well and line themselves up for jobs after politics.
- 7:19Speaker 4: That's just not what Australians need right now.
- 7:24Speaker 2: You're so right, and that perception of Victoria as being
- 7:29Speaker 2: broken broken, I think is spreading across the country. That's
- 7:35Speaker 2: going to help with investment into the state. Why would
- 7:37Speaker 2: you want to move here or invest here when that's
- 7:41Speaker 2: how the state is viewed and you can understand why
- 7:44Speaker 2: it's viewed because those numbers are pretty grim. Indeed, I
- 7:48Speaker 2: want to speak to you about Australia's Gender Equality Ambassador,
- 7:52Speaker 2: Stephanie Copper's Campbell. I don't know if you've heard of
- 7:55Speaker 2: her before, but we learned today that she has spent
- 7:58Speaker 2: more than three hundred and thirty five thousand dollars in
- 8:01Speaker 2: taxpayer funds on airfares and hotels. She's traveled to twenty
- 8:05Speaker 2: four countries, including five trips to the US. This is
- 8:09Speaker 2: since her appointment in December twenty twenty two, so we're
- 8:12Speaker 2: not talking about a lengthy period here, less than two years.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Is this a good use of taxpayer funds?
- 8:21Speaker 4: Gary, Well, of course it isn't. But at least she's
- 8:25Speaker 4: got a spot in the chairman's lounge. I mean, Rita,
- 8:28Speaker 4: you know, I'm sure she had fain that would get
- 8:31Speaker 4: her in the chairman's lounge. That sort of money being
- 8:34Speaker 4: spent quants and say, come this way, you know, let
- 8:36Speaker 4: us make it comfortable. Would you like a chamblis? Look, Rita,
- 8:39Speaker 4: this is the problem. Government is just constantly finding new
- 8:42Speaker 4: ways to take your money, my money, everybody's money, and
- 8:45Speaker 4: spend it on what they think is right. Who do
- 8:47Speaker 4: they think they are? Government, the super funds and the
- 8:49Speaker 4: big banks. They just keep taking money office and spending
- 8:52Speaker 4: it on the things they like to talk about. And
- 8:54Speaker 4: this is just a nonsense. This will be one of
- 8:56Speaker 4: the first things you could get rid of. But I
- 8:58Speaker 4: would like to volunteer, and would volunteer for the role
- 9:01Speaker 4: of the head of the Department of Government Efficiency. I
- 9:04Speaker 4: could get rid of a whole lot of this stuff.
- 9:07Speaker 4: I would have governments smaller, I would have it more efficient,
- 9:10Speaker 4: I would have it less intrusive. I'd actually have it
- 9:12Speaker 4: doing things like, oh, building infrastructure so people could be productive,
- 9:16Speaker 4: using taxpayer funded money to build infrastructure, so the private
- 9:20Speaker 4: sector can go and make money and employ more people. Reader,
- 9:24Speaker 4: These are the sorts of things that are doing all
- 9:26Speaker 4: our heads in and rightly so, because everyday Australians are
- 9:29Speaker 4: doing it tough and they're seeing a few people who
- 9:32Speaker 4: are well placed doing it very very well. Three ound
- 9:34Speaker 4: thirty five thousand in less than two years.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Where do you get it?
- 9:38Speaker 4: As the old TV ad used to go, how do
- 9:40Speaker 4: you get a piece of this action? It's offensive to
- 9:43Speaker 4: me in any decent person, and.
- 9:48Speaker 2: I think there'd be if you would argue that office
- 9:50Speaker 2: doesn't even need to exist. So the mentally having that
- 9:54Speaker 2: sort of expenditure is but yeah, who needs an Elon
- 9:58Speaker 2: Musk and Vivet gramas we've got, Gary Hardgrave. You could
- 10:02Speaker 2: go in there and just cut, cut, cut, cut, and
- 10:06Speaker 2: got them line all for it. You would be excellent.
- 10:10Speaker 2: Add it now got a political row erupting between the
- 10:15Speaker 2: Coalition and Labor figures over the Albanese governments deal with
- 10:20Speaker 2: Indonesia to have convicted drug traffickers who were part of
- 10:23Speaker 2: the Bali Nine brought back to Australia. Labor insists that
- 10:28Speaker 2: they won't be released into the community when they return. Gary,
- 10:33Speaker 2: I've heard several Coalition MPs speak out against this. They've
- 10:37Speaker 2: been very strong in condemning the deal, but I'm going
- 10:41Speaker 2: to take a contrary view here. Haven't these Australians paid
- 10:45Speaker 2: a heavy enough price for their crimes? Do they really
- 10:49Speaker 2: deserve to die in prison?
- 10:53Speaker 4: Well, no they don't, and read I'm on your page. Look,
- 10:56Speaker 4: I think nineteen years in prison is equivalent to three
- 10:58Speaker 4: life sentences under the Australian supposedly judicial but really just
- 11:03Speaker 4: legal system. They would have probably gone to jail for
- 11:05Speaker 4: a handful of years max and been out in our
- 11:08Speaker 4: community anyway. And look, I declare that I had made
- 11:12Speaker 4: advocacy for the Rush family, Scott Rush, Christine and Lee Rush.
- 11:18Speaker 4: Those two people, the parents of Scott, were constituents of
- 11:21Speaker 4: mine in years past. We've met with former Prime Minister
- 11:24Speaker 4: John Howard at one stage. This is twenty years ago
- 11:27Speaker 4: when it all first happened. I feel very sad about it.
- 11:29Speaker 4: I understand that there's nothing nice about anybody involved in
- 11:32Speaker 4: dabbling in drugs, but I think there's some mitigation, particularly
- 11:36Speaker 4: for young people like Scott Rush. I just say to you, Rida,
- 11:39Speaker 4: that the penalty has been paid and I think that
- 11:42Speaker 4: whatever the deal is, we need to know. I think
- 11:44Speaker 4: it's reasonable they come back. The Australian system takes it
- 11:48Speaker 4: over and if after a period of time there's a
- 11:50Speaker 4: determination they're allowed out in the community, well, you know
- 11:53Speaker 4: what they've done the time, because they did the crime.
- 11:56Speaker 4: But this is becoming inhuman now. I'm pleased to see
- 12:00Speaker 4: that maybe after three different presidents and five or six
- 12:04Speaker 4: different Prime ministers, we're actually starting to see a relook
- 12:08Speaker 4: at this. And look, there'll be people who say go hard,
- 12:12Speaker 4: but no, I think that they need to go home.
- 12:14Speaker 4: It's time for them to come.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Home with you one hundred percent. I thought we were
- 12:19Speaker 2: going to have an argument on this one, but I
- 12:22Speaker 2: just think it's inhumane to keep punishing these young Australians.
- 12:27Speaker 2: Well they're not young anymore. They were most of them
- 12:30Speaker 2: when they were convicted that they were not the brain's trust.
- 12:34Speaker 2: They were the very bottom of the wrong. They were dumb.
- 12:37Speaker 2: I'm not saying they shouldn't have been punished. They have
- 12:40Speaker 2: been punished. They were used, but they were greedy and
- 12:44Speaker 2: they paid a price. But serving time in Indonesia is
- 12:50Speaker 2: significantly harder than serving time in Australia, and they have
- 12:53Speaker 2: served it, as you've said, for close to two decades.
- 12:57Speaker 2: I think they've paid their debt. You've dealt with the parents,
- 13:00Speaker 2: of one of these Australians. And we've had the death
- 13:05Speaker 2: penalty for people who've been convicted of these crimes in
- 13:09Speaker 2: Indonesia and I've been dead set against that as well.
- 13:12Speaker 2: It's just the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
- 13:17Speaker 4: Yeah, time to bring them home. Reader. Look, I think
- 13:20Speaker 4: that anybody who goes there is really plainly stupid thinking
- 13:24Speaker 4: that they can get away with trafficking in drugs. The
- 13:26Speaker 4: signs are writ large in all of those airports. But
- 13:30Speaker 4: they did a dumb thing. They got used a couple.
- 13:32Speaker 5: Look.
- 13:32Speaker 4: I can only speak about the Scott Rush matter. I'm
- 13:34Speaker 4: satisfied this is a kid troubled and looking for attention,
- 13:37Speaker 4: filling with the wrong crowd, got used, being penalized for
- 13:40Speaker 4: twenty years basically in jail. I think it's time for
- 13:43Speaker 4: him to try and get a bit of a life back,
- 13:45Speaker 4: and hopefully.
- 13:46Speaker 1: He can.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Well, said Gary Hardgrave. Thanks for your time tonight. Joining
- 13:54Speaker 2: me now is leading geologist and author Professor Ian Plymer,
- 13:58Speaker 2: ins from Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi, who posted this little
- 14:04Speaker 2: rant on X and was promptly fact checked.
- 14:08Speaker 6: Even if you were a climate skeptic and didn't believe
- 14:12Speaker 6: any of the science and didn't notice that there were
- 14:15Speaker 6: more floods and more bushfires and more cyclones. It would
- 14:18Speaker 6: still be good policy. It will produce the cheapest form
- 14:23Speaker 6: of energy, not the most expensive, which we know is nuclear.
- 14:26Speaker 6: It will create jobs. It will allow Australia to have
- 14:29Speaker 6: a future made in Australia, because the vision of clean,
- 14:33Speaker 6: renewable energy powering advanced manufacturing is where Australia's future is
- 14:40Speaker 6: into the twenty thirties.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Let's start with the first part of that statement, that
- 14:46Speaker 2: claim that we're having more floods, more bushfires and cyclones
- 14:50Speaker 2: because of climate change.
- 14:52Speaker 7: Is that true, Well, mister Albanez, he should follow his
- 14:56Speaker 7: own misinformation and disinformation legislation and he would be jailed
- 15:01Speaker 7: for what he said.
- 15:03Speaker 1: We have more people building on floodplanes.
- 15:06Speaker 7: We have more people building on floodplanes, but we don't
- 15:09Speaker 7: have more flooding. And what that's doing is diverting the
- 15:12Speaker 7: amount of runoff and showcage and changing that formula. We
- 15:16Speaker 7: have extremely good records that we have and fewer bushfires
- 15:20Speaker 7: now that in the past, the big years for nineteen
- 15:23Speaker 7: thirty nine and eighteen fifty one. We also have very
- 15:27Speaker 7: good evidence also over one hundred and fifty years showing
- 15:30Speaker 7: us that the number of cyclones and the intensity of
- 15:33Speaker 7: cyclones has decreased over time. And since Cyclone Tracy, we've
- 15:39Speaker 7: been building cyclone proof buildings in the cyclone prone areas.
- 15:44Speaker 7: So that is absolutely totally misleading and deceptive.
- 15:51Speaker 2: It is, and the same is can be said for
- 15:55Speaker 2: incidents of cyclones and bushfires and floods overseas. And yet
- 16:00Speaker 2: we hear this misinformation consistently from the climate catastrophists and
- 16:05Speaker 2: really with very little pushback from anybody in the media,
- 16:09Speaker 2: any of the fact checkers. What about the claims he
- 16:13Speaker 2: made there about renewable energy boosting the economy, boosting jobs,
- 16:18Speaker 2: lowering our energy costs, and making us a more attractive
- 16:23Speaker 2: for manufacturing. Any of that ring true?
- 16:27Speaker 1: None of it.
- 16:28Speaker 7: Every country in the world that has embraced the renewables
- 16:34Speaker 7: has actually had their electricity costs go up. Countries like
- 16:37Speaker 7: Germany have lost their major industries, Countries like Australia. Every
- 16:41Speaker 7: time we put in more renewables, our electricity costs go
- 16:45Speaker 7: up and we kill off small businesses and we drive
- 16:48Speaker 7: businesses overseas. As for powering advanced manufacturing, pull the other
- 16:54Speaker 7: one that's got bells on it. Exactly the opposite has happened.
- 16:58Speaker 7: You cannot have advanced manufacturing which operates twenty four to
- 17:02Speaker 7: seven when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
- 17:05Speaker 7: What is an advanced manufacturing unit go to do at
- 17:08Speaker 7: three o'clock in the morning. So this is just absolute,
- 17:11Speaker 7: total nonsense. We know from the building of nuclear power
- 17:15Speaker 7: stations in places like Finland the cost of electricity has
- 17:19Speaker 7: gone down enormously and the productivity has gone up. And
- 17:23Speaker 7: the decrease in Australian project productivity is an absolute embarrassment.
- 17:28Speaker 7: We also have a decrease in our standard of living.
- 17:31Speaker 7: We are now going backwards in this country and that
- 17:35Speaker 7: is driven almost one hundred percent by our embrace of
- 17:39Speaker 7: renewable energy. And as I keep saying, the only thing
- 17:41Speaker 7: renewable about renewable energy are the subsidies.
- 17:44Speaker 1: They just keep coming.
- 17:46Speaker 7: You're paying for it with your electricity bills, and we
- 17:49Speaker 7: are sending this country broke. We are finding that major investors,
- 17:53Speaker 7: and I'm only talking to one this morning here in Brisbane,
- 17:56Speaker 7: they are preferentially if investing in our Argentina.
- 18:01Speaker 1: Rather than Australia, I mean.
- 18:02Speaker 7: Argentina investing rather than Australia. That's telling you about sovereign
- 18:07Speaker 7: risk and this country has become so risky and so
- 18:11Speaker 7: expensive you can go to wild South American countries and
- 18:15Speaker 7: invest rather than in the country like Australia.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Shame on us.
- 18:20Speaker 2: Well, Argentina. Argentina has Javier Milay and we've got Anthony Albanesi.
- 18:26Speaker 2: That could be an explanation for why the investment is
- 18:30Speaker 2: flowing over there. And soon the US is going to
- 18:33Speaker 2: be drilling baby drilling, and that can't be helping us either,
- 18:38Speaker 2: because they are going to create an environment where there'll
- 18:41Speaker 2: be less red tape, lower corporate tax rate and again
- 18:46Speaker 2: very attractive for investment. I want to ask you about
- 18:50Speaker 2: COP twenty nine. It's a concluded. Enormous amount of money
- 18:54Speaker 2: was spent just holding this gap fest. The UK government
- 18:58Speaker 2: alone sent four hundred seventy delegates. But the end result
- 19:03Speaker 2: of this whole thing is countries like Australia, rich countries
- 19:07Speaker 2: handing over huge bundles of cash to developing countries. The
- 19:12Speaker 2: deal is for three hundred billion US in essentilly climate reparations.
- 19:19Speaker 2: How is any of this actually helping the environment In.
- 19:23Speaker 7: Well, the UK sending over four hundred and seventy delegates.
- 19:27Speaker 7: It's just laughable. They are sending people, which is costing
- 19:30Speaker 7: a fortune, over to Buku and Azerbayan so that their
- 19:35Speaker 7: money can be stolen and going to dictators and third
- 19:38Speaker 7: world despots, such that the UK can have higher energy costs,
- 19:43Speaker 7: can have more people struggling, have more pensioners having to
- 19:47Speaker 7: make a choice between warm water, a warm meal and
- 19:50Speaker 7: heating a house. Now, this is what it's got to.
- 19:53Speaker 7: This is an absolute wrought. It's time that these cop
- 19:57Speaker 7: functions were stopped.
- 19:59Speaker 1: They have no to do with climate.
- 20:01Speaker 8: They're all to do with highway robbery. They have nothing
- 20:04Speaker 8: to do with the environment, and they have nothing to
- 20:06Speaker 8: do with science. We cannot change the way the Sun
- 20:10Speaker 8: operates and the Earth orbits, and those are the two
- 20:13Speaker 8: factors driving climate, and no legislation will change that.
- 20:18Speaker 5: We are, in this country and in many other countries,
- 20:21Speaker 5: destroying our wildlife by putting up these bird and bat
- 20:25Speaker 5: munching wind turbines, by putting up turbines offshore which are
- 20:29Speaker 5: killing whales, by destroying all of our agricultural.
- 20:33Speaker 7: Land with solar panels. Now, if the English, the four
- 20:38Speaker 7: hundred and seventy English delegates really wanted to do a
- 20:42Speaker 7: good conference, they should argue to have it in, say Hawaii,
- 20:45Speaker 7: so these sun starved English bureaucrats could actually get a
- 20:50Speaker 7: bit of sunshine and maybe a bit of common sense
- 20:52Speaker 7: would shine on them as well. These cop functions a
- 20:56Speaker 7: rip off. They are aimed at destroying Western sization, and
- 21:00Speaker 7: we have to see it for what it is. It's
- 21:02Speaker 7: got nothing to do with climate the environment. It's to
- 21:06Speaker 7: do with destroying our culture.
- 21:10Speaker 2: I want to ask you about this video the UN
- 21:12Speaker 2: posted on its social media pages talking about the importance
- 21:17Speaker 2: of gender positive climate action gender positive climate action. This
- 21:23Speaker 2: was focused at COP twenty nine, the same conference that
- 21:27Speaker 2: the Taliban we're attending, and we're talking about gender and climate.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Let's have it. Listen to the message the UN is pushing.
- 21:36Speaker 9: By breaking down data by gender, they can point to
- 21:40Speaker 9: opportunities we cannot afford to miss because a gender responsive
- 21:46Speaker 9: approach isn't just the right thing to do, it is
- 21:50Speaker 9: in fact the smart thing to do.
- 21:53Speaker 2: I claim there that the world needs climate action and
- 21:57Speaker 2: gender equality to go hand in hand. I'm not even
- 22:01Speaker 2: sure what that means.
- 22:02Speaker 10: Ian.
- 22:02Speaker 2: Can you explain this intersectionality to me?
- 22:06Speaker 7: Well, I'm just having a moment recovering from vomiting, because
- 22:11Speaker 7: if you had gender involved with climate, you would actually
- 22:16Speaker 7: make sure that women in the Third World didn't have
- 22:20Speaker 7: to collect twigs, leaves and done to cook and heat
- 22:24Speaker 7: inside huts where they died of respiratory diseases and their
- 22:28Speaker 7: children died of spiratory diseases. You would tie them into
- 22:32Speaker 7: a grid based on coal fired electricity. So that is
- 22:36Speaker 7: the role of gender in climate. Stop women dying from
- 22:42Speaker 7: having you and imposed restrictions that actually kill them. Another
- 22:47Speaker 7: gender equality measure could be maybe we could counsel that
- 22:53Speaker 7: little Swedish pixie and tell her how climate works, How
- 22:57Speaker 7: it's got nothing to do with traces of a tray
- 23:00Speaker 7: guests in the atmosphere, how we've had billions of years
- 23:03Speaker 7: of climates.
- 23:04Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about Greta, and you don't
- 23:07Speaker 2: have to worry about Greta anymore. She's now focused on
- 23:10Speaker 2: the pro Palestinian course. She's an anti Israeli activist these days,
- 23:16Speaker 2: so she seems to have got bored with the climate
- 23:18Speaker 2: message for now, but I'm sure we'll hear more from
- 23:21Speaker 2: her again. Professing in Clymate, thank you so much for
- 23:24Speaker 2: your time this evening and congratulations on the special award
- 23:28Speaker 2: you won at National Mining Day last Friday. That was
- 23:33Speaker 2: quite an honor. We'll speak about that next time.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Thank you, reader.
- 23:39Speaker 2: Still to come. Left is losing it? Plus why is
- 23:43Speaker 2: MSNBC scared of Trump's Attorney general pick? Alex Stein? Joins
- 23:49Speaker 2: me next, welcome back. Now it's time for lefties losing it.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Let's start lefties with the neo Marxist kendole himself, Justin Trudeau, who,
- 24:08Speaker 2: if the polls are ride, is going to lose in
- 24:10Speaker 2: a massive landslide. And what is the Canadian prime minister
- 24:14Speaker 2: doing as parts of his country for victim to violent
- 24:18Speaker 2: anti Semitic writers. Well, he's swapping bracelets with teenagers at
- 24:24Speaker 2: a tailor swift concert and dancing the night away like
- 24:29Speaker 2: some giddy teenager. Oh yes, there he is, dancing without
- 24:40Speaker 2: a care in the world, never mind that his country
- 24:42Speaker 2: is in crisis on a number of fronts. He's getting
- 24:46Speaker 2: he's swifty on And I wasn't kidding about him swapping
- 24:56Speaker 2: bracelets with teenagers. Even they were wondering what he was
- 25:00Speaker 2: doing there. What is Justin trudodoing your guys?
- 25:06Speaker 11: Who Hello, thank you, Jenna Brala, Thank you so much.
- 25:24Speaker 2: Time to listen to this screachy performance from Democrat Jasmine Crockett,
- 25:29Speaker 2: who seems desperate to appropriate the suffering of her ancestors,
- 25:35Speaker 2: and she seems more than a little ignorant about the
- 25:38Speaker 2: history of slavery.
- 25:40Speaker 12: You'll tell me which white men were dragged out of
- 25:43Speaker 12: their homes. You'll tell me which one of them got
- 25:47Speaker 12: dragged all the way across an ocean and told that
- 25:50Speaker 12: you were gonna go at work.
- 25:52Speaker 2: We are gonna steal your wives. We are gonna rape
- 25:55Speaker 2: your wives. That didn't happen. That is oppression. We didn't
- 25:59Speaker 2: ask to be here. Well, Jasmine, as a free woman,
- 26:03Speaker 2: you can now be anywhere you want to be, and
- 26:05Speaker 2: yet you choose to be in America. But despite the
- 26:08Speaker 2: considerable power and privilege you hold, you want to play
- 26:12Speaker 2: the victim eternally and just to educate you. Slavery has
- 26:16Speaker 2: existed since the dawn of time, from the first civilizations.
- 26:20Speaker 2: We're talking three and a half thousand years BC, and
- 26:25Speaker 2: plenty of white men, women and children were taken as slaves,
- 26:29Speaker 2: including more than a million Europeans stolen and sold as
- 26:32Speaker 2: slaves in North Africa. Facts are our friends. Yes, Now
- 26:37Speaker 2: to comic and TV hosts Jonathan van Ness, whose pronouns
- 26:42Speaker 2: are he him, but he also likes she her, and
- 26:45Speaker 2: they then seems a little greedy. Here's one his Here
- 26:49Speaker 2: he is on stage talking about how hard it's been
- 26:54Speaker 2: since Donald Trump won the election.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Let's just get the elephant out of the room right away.
- 27:00Speaker 3: Need to make an apology. My dress is way too long,
- 27:11Speaker 3: and after what our country has been through this week,
- 27:13Speaker 3: you all deserve to see my unfiltered.
- 27:18Speaker 2: That's what passes for comedy nowadays, folks, it's Graham. What's
- 27:23Speaker 2: really funny is the unintentional comedy from lefties losing it,
- 27:27Speaker 2: including a man we've featured heavily in the past week.
- 27:31Speaker 2: Here is election forecaster professor Alan Lickman, who got it
- 27:36Speaker 2: so wrong and has gone into this unseemly meltdown on
- 27:40Speaker 2: multiple programs. He has deluded, folks, and he's clinging to
- 27:44Speaker 2: that delusion. He claims that Donald Trump ran a terrible campaign,
- 27:49Speaker 2: despite the fact that he won in a landslide while
- 27:52Speaker 2: spending a fraction of the money that Kamala Harris met.
- 27:57Speaker 7: So the idea that Trump was this great charras matter
- 28:00Speaker 7: figure is absolute nonsense.
- 28:02Speaker 1: And again, if you looked at this campaign.
- 28:04Speaker 7: It was the worst campaign we've ever seen in the
- 28:07Speaker 7: history of the country.
- 28:09Speaker 2: Now this lefty lady is disturbed to learn that she
- 28:13Speaker 2: can no longer use the red heart emoji. Let's pray
- 28:17Speaker 2: for her.
- 28:17Speaker 13: Does anybody else feel like the red heart emoji has
- 28:21Speaker 13: been totally ruined for them after this week? I did
- 28:24Speaker 13: not realize until Wednesday that I have a habit of
- 28:29Speaker 13: ending every text, DM, email, et cetera with a red
- 28:33Speaker 13: heart emoji. And now I feel like a red heart
- 28:36Speaker 13: emoji implies maga and so I no longer know how
- 28:41Speaker 13: to punctuate my sentences. I guess I'll have to go
- 28:45Speaker 13: back to using like an exclamation mark. What emoji are
- 28:49Speaker 13: we using now in lieu of the red heart? Because
- 28:53Speaker 13: the red heart for me is dead at least for
- 28:55Speaker 13: a while.
- 28:56Speaker 2: Joining me now for more LIFTI is losing its content
- 28:59Speaker 2: is commit and host of Primetime with Alex Stein on
- 29:02Speaker 2: Blaze TV. Alex Stein MSNBC gives us so much content
- 29:09Speaker 2: on this program. The Morning Joe program is in all
- 29:13Speaker 2: sorts of trouble. They've seen some of their lowest ratings
- 29:16Speaker 2: since twenty twenty one. The lefties are really upset with
- 29:20Speaker 2: the host Joe and Meeker for visiting President elect Donald
- 29:24Speaker 2: Trump at mare Lago. We've got Elon Musk meanwhile teasing
- 29:30Speaker 2: the idea of buying MSNBC after its parent company, Comcast,
- 29:36Speaker 2: put the network up for sale. Alex, is this a
- 29:39Speaker 2: real possibility or is he just having some fun and
- 29:42Speaker 2: games with the MSNBC crew.
- 29:45Speaker 14: Well, I think with Elin, I mean everything is possible.
- 29:49Speaker 14: Anything is absolutely possible with Elin. And when you saw
- 29:51Speaker 14: Rachel Maddow crying because of Elon Musk or you know,
- 29:56Speaker 14: being emotional and they say maybe the video is edited,
- 29:59Speaker 14: it doesn't matter. NBC's viewers realize that they can't trust
- 30:02Speaker 14: that network. That network called everybody a Nazi for eight years.
- 30:05Speaker 14: They said Kamala Harris is going to win the election.
- 30:07Speaker 14: So their audience is just leaving in droves because they
- 30:10Speaker 14: feel like they were duped, and that's exactly what happened.
- 30:13Speaker 14: So I would love for Elin to buy MSNBC and
- 30:17Speaker 14: resurrect it like he made.
- 30:18Speaker 1: X the best social media network in the world, Alex.
- 30:23Speaker 2: It would be fascinating if Elon Musk does follow through
- 30:27Speaker 2: with this threat and actually purchases MSNBC to see if
- 30:32Speaker 2: there would be wholesale resignations where all the hosts like
- 30:36Speaker 2: Madow and Joy Reid and Joe Scarborough would resign on
- 30:40Speaker 2: principle whether they try to work with him, it would
- 30:44Speaker 2: be fascinating. He would grab the popcorn. But the man
- 30:46Speaker 2: is pretty busy. He's got a few things to us
- 30:49Speaker 2: to take care of that. There's pressure on the newly
- 30:53Speaker 2: formed Department of Government Efficiency, which Elon Musk and Vivek
- 30:56Speaker 2: Gramaswami will be leading. There's course for them to cut
- 31:01Speaker 2: funding to NPR, and for good reason. Let's listen to
- 31:05Speaker 2: the woke boss of NPR who used to be the
- 31:09Speaker 2: Wiki Media Foundation chief. This is Catherine Mass who seems
- 31:14Speaker 2: to have some very strange ideas about truth. She thinks
- 31:18Speaker 2: our reverence for truth is a distraction.
- 31:22Speaker 15: The wikipedians who write these articles aren't actually focused on
- 31:26Speaker 15: finding the truth. They're working for something that's a little
- 31:29Speaker 15: bit more attainable, which is the best of what we
- 31:32Speaker 15: can know right now, and after seven years there, I
- 31:36Speaker 15: actually believe that they're onto something that for our most
- 31:39Speaker 15: tricky disagreements, Seeking the truth and seeking to convince others
- 31:44Speaker 15: of the truth isn't necessarily the best place to start.
- 31:47Speaker 15: In fact, I think our reverence for the truth might
- 31:51Speaker 15: become might have become a bit of a distraction that
- 31:55Speaker 15: is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
- 32:00Speaker 2: The truth is a distraction. It's a little disturbing.
- 32:04Speaker 14: Alex you know, Rita, I'm a full blown conspiracy theorist.
- 32:09Speaker 14: And they've even made that word, you know, an incredible description.
- 32:14Speaker 14: If you're described as a conspiracy theorist, you're demonized. But
- 32:17Speaker 14: during the pandemic, if you looked into it, if you
- 32:19Speaker 14: did your own research, they called you stupid.
- 32:21Speaker 1: So this is a.
- 32:22Speaker 14: Serious issue where they don't want citizens to even seek truth,
- 32:25Speaker 14: ask questions, have any idea what's going on. They want
- 32:28Speaker 14: us confused, they want us stressed out, they want us
- 32:30Speaker 14: focusing not on trying to fix the problems, and they
- 32:33Speaker 14: want us fighting with each other.
- 32:34Speaker 1: So this is a much bigger issue.
- 32:36Speaker 14: In the head of NPR, the National Public Radio is
- 32:38Speaker 14: saying that truth is not important. It's just that's the
- 32:42Speaker 14: real what that's really what's happening in America is they're
- 32:45Speaker 14: hiding the truth.
- 32:46Speaker 1: And you hear it right then and there.
- 32:48Speaker 14: From the person that controls our public radio. It's insane, reno.
- 32:53Speaker 2: It is, and it helps explain why trust in the
- 32:56Speaker 2: media in the US is that historic lows. I think
- 33:00Speaker 2: they've earnt that mistrust well and truly. And the trust
- 33:04Speaker 2: in the public institutions in general is so low, and
- 33:08Speaker 2: that's why Trump won so comprehensively. People want him to
- 33:11Speaker 2: go in there and clean up these institutions that have
- 33:15Speaker 2: become so politicized and really lost their way. Talking about
- 33:20Speaker 2: Donald Trump, let's have a look at his new attorney general.
- 33:24Speaker 2: He selected former Florida Agpam Bondie after Matt Gates dropped out.
- 33:30Speaker 2: That was a surprise to many, but lefties everywhere are
- 33:35Speaker 2: still freaking out about this latest selection. Let's have a
- 33:39Speaker 2: look at what MSNBC had to say.
- 33:41Speaker 16: Pam Bondi is exactly what I was saying in the
- 33:43Speaker 16: last segment that we should all fear because she's competent.
- 33:46Speaker 16: We may not agree with her ideologically, but she actually
- 33:49Speaker 16: knows how to do this job. So if anyone on
- 33:52Speaker 16: the Democratic side or anyone who cared about liberty or
- 33:54Speaker 16: justice was thinking, well, maybe Matt Gates will screw this
- 33:57Speaker 16: up and that'll give us some time, no, pambody knows
- 33:59Speaker 16: what she's doing. She is a dangerous and effective pick.
- 34:03Speaker 16: And that's frankly worse than what we would have got
- 34:05Speaker 16: with Matt Gates.
- 34:06Speaker 2: Well, that's music to my ears. I want to hear
- 34:09Speaker 2: that that she's got the same ideology as Matt Gates
- 34:13Speaker 2: and has been highly effective in implementing the sort of
- 34:16Speaker 2: changes Trump wants to see at a national level. What
- 34:21Speaker 2: can you tell me about Pam Bondie, Because she's also
- 34:24Speaker 2: received praise from rhinos, including Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.
- 34:29Speaker 2: That's worried a few people if that's not normally a
- 34:32Speaker 2: good sign. Do you know much about Pam Bondie?
- 34:37Speaker 1: You know, my knowledge is limited. She kind of, for me,
- 34:40Speaker 1: came out of nowhere.
- 34:41Speaker 14: And I was really disappointed when Matt Gates wasn't the
- 34:43Speaker 14: Attorney General and he stepped down because I know MATD.
- 34:46Speaker 1: Gates would actually go after a lot of the corruption.
- 34:48Speaker 14: That's happening within you know, the unelected bureaucrats of the
- 34:52Speaker 14: FBI and all of our alphabet agency, So that.
- 34:54Speaker 1: Would have been great.
- 34:55Speaker 14: Pam Bondi, though, is supported by, like you said, a
- 34:58Speaker 14: lot of rhinos, and you know Rita.
- 35:00Speaker 1: That is one problem. Trump is great.
- 35:01Speaker 14: Trump is anti establishment, but even there's conservatives on the
- 35:05Speaker 14: right that don't have Donald Trump's back, that will you
- 35:08Speaker 14: pretend to have Donald Trump's back. So I'm not saying
- 35:10Speaker 14: that's the case of Pam Bindy. I'm just saying it's
- 35:12Speaker 14: hard to trust anybody that's in politics because they all
- 35:16Speaker 14: seem to lie to her. So I hope Pam Bindy
- 35:18Speaker 14: does a great job. The fact that the left is
- 35:20Speaker 14: afraid of her that is a good indication. That's a
- 35:22Speaker 14: good start. And if they're saying she's effective and she
- 35:24Speaker 14: is effective, well then she'll.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Be a great pick. But the jury's out. We got
- 35:28Speaker 1: to wait and see.
- 35:31Speaker 2: Well, it's such a critical role, isn't it. You really
- 35:34Speaker 2: want someone who gets the agenda, is on board and
- 35:38Speaker 2: willing to fight the good fight. In that role, ed
- 35:41Speaker 2: is one of the most important ones Alex. The mayor
- 35:44Speaker 2: of Denver, Mike Johnson, has said that he'd deployed local
- 35:48Speaker 2: police to block Donald Trump's mass deportations, and it's worth
- 35:54Speaker 2: noting that hours after he made that vow, an illegal
- 35:59Speaker 2: immigrant in Denver was charged with sexually assaulting a fourteen
- 36:03Speaker 2: year old girl. How much resistance is Donald Trump going
- 36:07Speaker 2: to face, Alex from sanctuary city mayors and other lifters
- 36:13Speaker 2: who are determined to obstruct his administration's deportation plan.
- 36:20Speaker 14: Well, you know, the mayor of Denver me being polite
- 36:23Speaker 14: as an idiot. If he thinks he's going to stop this,
- 36:26Speaker 14: Donald Trump's kicking people out that are here illegally. Donald
- 36:29Speaker 14: Trump's going to do that. I mean Tom Homan, the
- 36:30Speaker 14: guy he appointed, is a no nonsense guy that's going to.
- 36:33Speaker 1: Get these people out of there.
- 36:34Speaker 14: And if you really look at the people in the
- 36:36Speaker 14: cities that are plagued by this problem, the illegal immigration
- 36:39Speaker 14: is in New York and you have Mayor Eric Adams,
- 36:42Speaker 14: who's a lifelong Democrat, basically cozying up to Donald Trump
- 36:46Speaker 14: because he needs his help, he needs to support. He
- 36:47Speaker 14: realizes that a lot of these people have criminal records.
- 36:50Speaker 1: And that we can't vet them at the border. So
- 36:52Speaker 1: if you're.
- 36:52Speaker 14: Unvetted and we don't know that, if you're a murderer,
- 36:54Speaker 14: if you have a sexual assault on your record, and
- 36:56Speaker 14: we're just letting go in the country, that's unacceptable.
- 36:59Speaker 1: So we have to stop that. If you want to
- 37:00Speaker 1: come here, you've got to come here legally.
- 37:02Speaker 14: And I think Donald Trump has even said that if
- 37:03Speaker 14: you graduate from a school, who's going to make it
- 37:05Speaker 14: easier for you to get citizenships. So it's like these
- 37:08Speaker 14: mayors to think what Donald Trump is doing is sinister
- 37:11Speaker 14: or bad for trying to protect American citizens makes me sick.
- 37:14Speaker 14: And the sanctuary the sanctuary cities are not going to
- 37:17Speaker 14: be able to stop Donald Trump. If Donald Trump wants
- 37:20Speaker 14: to get the job done.
- 37:23Speaker 2: Well, he has a mandate to do this. This isn't
- 37:26Speaker 2: a surprise. This was an election promise and the American
- 37:29Speaker 2: people voted for it. So I just don't know how
- 37:34Speaker 2: any mayor can say we're not participating in this talk
- 37:39Speaker 2: about democracy denying that's a threat to democracy right there,
- 37:43Speaker 2: denying the will of the American people. Before you go, Alex,
- 37:47Speaker 2: we don't talk about art enough on this program. We're
- 37:50Speaker 2: clearly Philipstein's and I've got to say this painting here
- 37:54Speaker 2: looks to me like it was painted by a untalented child,
- 37:59Speaker 2: But it's a mass apiece.
- 38:01Speaker 17: The star of this Evening's auction the fabulous Mark roth
- 38:04Speaker 17: Goo from nineteen fifty four, fifty percent of the works
- 38:08Speaker 17: from this incredible year for the artists to house in
- 38:11Speaker 17: permanent museum collections. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to
- 38:13Speaker 17: buy one of the greatest works by the artist, Alex.
- 38:18Speaker 2: It ended up selling for thirty two million US. That
- 38:22Speaker 2: is thirty percent lower than it sold for a few
- 38:24Speaker 2: years back. But I'm starting to believe you said you're
- 38:28Speaker 2: a conspiracy theorist, and I'm starting to believe these conspiracy
- 38:32Speaker 2: theories about the art world being largely funded by a
- 38:36Speaker 2: money laundering operation. I mean, how can that be worth
- 38:39Speaker 2: thirty two million US?
- 38:42Speaker 14: Reader, you nailed this is some sort of CIA moneyliner scam.
- 38:46Speaker 14: I don't know what it is, but that doesn't make
- 38:48Speaker 14: any sense to me.
- 38:50Speaker 1: So I think you're right on the nose.
- 38:51Speaker 14: You're right on the money when it comes to seeing
- 38:53Speaker 14: what is going on it doesn't make sense.
- 38:58Speaker 2: Well, yes, but I should make clear for legal purposes,
- 39:03Speaker 2: I'm not suggesting whoever purchase that painting for thirty two
- 39:06Speaker 2: million US is involved in money laundering. I'm just talking
- 39:10Speaker 2: broadly about these conspiracy theories that exist about the art world.
- 39:16Speaker 2: Just making that crystal clear. Alex Stein, thanks for your
- 39:19Speaker 2: time tonight.
- 39:21Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 39:21Speaker 2: Red Still to come all the latest royal and celebrity news,
- 39:25Speaker 2: including Justin Trudeau's antics at a Taylor Swift concert, The
- 39:30Speaker 2: best in the business, Kinsey Schofield joins me next welcome back,
- 39:42Speaker 2: joining Me naws celebrity and royal commentator Kinsey Schofield Kinsey.
- 39:47Speaker 2: But Light has been trying to redeem itself ever since
- 39:52Speaker 2: that crazy Woke episode where they had a transactivist promote
- 39:57Speaker 2: their brand and promptly lose most of their custmers and
- 40:00Speaker 2: more than a billion dollars. Here is their new ad
- 40:04Speaker 2: featuring comic Shane Gillis, Because a passion?
- 40:14Speaker 1: What oh, where's a snake?
- 40:21Speaker 18: We are all lost?
- 40:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm lost lost.
- 40:24Speaker 16: Year, but we are on.
- 40:27Speaker 1: I spuke for s. That's hey, I think I'm in
- 40:32Speaker 1: the wrong commercial. What Yeah, this isn't right?
- 40:36Speaker 19: Wait aren't you Andre?
- 40:38Speaker 1: No, I'm I'm Shane Why Shane.
- 40:42Speaker 2: Kinsy. What's been the reaction to that ad? I know
- 40:47Speaker 2: they've done others that have tried to be anti woke
- 40:51Speaker 2: to say that was a mistake. It's behind us, But
- 40:55Speaker 2: I wonder if they're customers are actually forgiving and forgetting
- 40:59Speaker 2: and drinking bud Light again.
- 41:02Speaker 19: Unfortunately the answer is no. The content is great, but
- 41:06Speaker 19: their customers, our former customers, are asking why can't they apologize?
- 41:10Speaker 19: I mean six million people have viewed that ad alone
- 41:13Speaker 19: from one tweet, but reaction is not all positive. Some
- 41:17Speaker 19: are saying, you know, why couldn't you have responded with
- 41:20Speaker 19: humor from the start? Translation too little, too late. Others
- 41:23Speaker 19: are asking if they are allergic to apologies. The execution
- 41:27Speaker 19: was great, Shane was the right personality, but it's going
- 41:29Speaker 19: to take some time for these people to come back around.
- 41:34Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And the parent company has lost more than
- 41:37Speaker 2: a billion dollars. It just shows you, when you go work,
- 41:41Speaker 2: you can go broke. That's saying can apply to some companies,
- 41:46Speaker 2: and Jaguar, the car company, should hate that advice because
- 41:50Speaker 2: they've just gone completely crazy with their latest ad Now,
- 41:55Speaker 2: let's talk about the much anticipated cinema adaptation of the
- 41:59Speaker 2: Broadway musical musical Wicked. It's in cinemas now. The co
- 42:04Speaker 2: stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arrivo have been doing the
- 42:08Speaker 2: media rounds promoting the film, including here in Australia, but
- 42:12Speaker 2: the pair have been widely mocked for their often cringe
- 42:16Speaker 2: worthy efforts in these interviews, including this bizarre interaction this
- 42:22Speaker 2: is with out magazine.
- 42:24Speaker 10: I've seen this week. People are taking the lyrics of
- 42:28Speaker 10: defying gravity and really holding space with that and feeling
- 42:32Speaker 10: power in that.
- 42:33Speaker 2: I didn't know that that was happening. I've seen it. Yeah,
- 42:37Speaker 2: that's really powerful. That's why I wanted.
- 42:46Speaker 11: I didn't know that was happening.
- 42:48Speaker 10: I've seen it on a couple of posts. I don't
- 42:50Speaker 10: know how wide spread, but you know, I am in
- 42:52Speaker 10: queer media, so that's my cool.
- 42:56Speaker 2: Yeah, she's just seen a couple of them. What can
- 42:59Speaker 2: you tell me about this project? I've got to be honest,
- 43:02Speaker 2: I know absolutely nothing about Wicked. I have zero interests.
- 43:07Speaker 2: But tell me, against my will, it informed me kinzy
- 43:12Speaker 2: about this project, why some people are obsessed with it
- 43:15Speaker 2: and about this interviews, because it's not the only one.
- 43:20Speaker 2: I've seen other ones where they're both crying along with
- 43:23Speaker 2: the interviewer.
- 43:25Speaker 19: Have you seen the way they hold fingers too. They
- 43:28Speaker 19: don't hold hands, they hold fingers with like index fingers.
- 43:32Speaker 19: It is so weird. Yeah, I mean a lot of
- 43:34Speaker 19: people are passionate about Wicked. I think that that's great,
- 43:38Speaker 19: and this movie was made for those people that are
- 43:40Speaker 19: passionate about Wicked, But Cynthia Arrivo has ruined the experience
- 43:45Speaker 19: for some of them. I hate when people take themselves
- 43:47Speaker 19: too seriously, and that's the definition of Cynthia throughout this
- 43:51Speaker 19: promotion of the film. My favorite comment under that video was,
- 43:55Speaker 19: am I an ketamine?
- 43:56Speaker 2: What's going on?
- 43:57Speaker 19: And another one said the interviewer sounds like mala And
- 44:01Speaker 19: how accurate is that description?
- 44:05Speaker 2: Am I on ketamine? Yeah, that's not the response you
- 44:10Speaker 2: want from a heartfelt moment, which I think they thought
- 44:13Speaker 2: that was Meghan and Harry. We can't get enough of them.
- 44:17Speaker 2: The Sussexes have released the trailer for their latest Netflix documentary,
- 44:22Speaker 2: It's About Polo, but the trailer has already been torn
- 44:26Speaker 2: to shreds, with former friends of Prince Harry who actually
- 44:29Speaker 2: played the game, saying that this is just appalling. They
- 44:35Speaker 2: were left in appalled hysterics by the trailer. They called
- 44:39Speaker 2: it hilarious but not in a good way, and they
- 44:42Speaker 2: labeled it tacky and cringey. Let's have a look at
- 44:46Speaker 2: some of that trailer.
- 44:47Speaker 17: Yeah, channel when they've got so your buddy, it's addictiny.
- 44:54Speaker 1: Oiler is not just a sport.
- 44:56Speaker 2: Olo is a life statue, Need we breathe, we sleep?
- 45:02Speaker 1: Polo?
- 45:04Speaker 2: Really a documentary about Polo? Mainstream appeal doesn't come to mind.
- 45:11Speaker 2: Is that really the project that they thought was going
- 45:15Speaker 2: to work?
- 45:17Speaker 19: I mean it's not a documentary, it's a reality show
- 45:19Speaker 19: because if you watch how dramatic that trailer is, it's
- 45:22Speaker 19: like it was in Bravo's Rejection Pile, for sure. But
- 45:27Speaker 19: you can't ignore the hypocrisy of Prince Harry and Megan
- 45:31Speaker 19: Markle telling us that we need to be more conscious of,
- 45:34Speaker 19: you know, the environment, and we need to watch how
- 45:37Speaker 19: we travel through Travelist and then you have a man
- 45:39Speaker 19: in your trailer saying he flies to Argentina or wherever
- 45:43Speaker 19: two times a week to play polo. I mean, like,
- 45:47Speaker 19: who watches these people and holds them accountable because it'll
- 45:50Speaker 19: drive you crazy. But yeah, Netflix incredibly disappointed that Prince
- 45:54Speaker 19: Harry is not more involved throughout the project. You know,
- 45:57Speaker 19: their return on investment simply isn't there. And they've learned
- 46:00Speaker 19: the hard way.
- 46:03Speaker 2: They invested plenty in those two and yeah, you're right,
- 46:06Speaker 2: the returns have been very low. Indeed, Canadian Prime Minister
- 46:11Speaker 2: to Justin Trudeaux come under fire for attending a Taylor
- 46:15Speaker 2: Swift concert while violent and destructive protests were underway in Montreal.
- 46:21Speaker 2: Tell me about the reaction to this video of him dancing.
- 46:24Speaker 2: There's lots of videos of him dancing at the concert,
- 46:28Speaker 2: just having the time of his life and seemingly unconcerned
- 46:32Speaker 2: about what's happening on the streets in Montreal.
- 46:36Speaker 19: I mean, this man should have known better. This was
- 46:38Speaker 19: such a pr fell on his partner because he wasn't
- 46:41Speaker 19: just at a Taylor Swift concert. He was living his
- 46:43Speaker 19: best life at the Taylor Swift concert. And it's amazing
- 46:47Speaker 19: that when truckers were protesting the vaccine, Justin was engaged
- 46:51Speaker 19: enough to freeze their personal and corporate bank accounts. But
- 46:54Speaker 19: when pro Palestine and anti Semites take to the streets
- 46:58Speaker 19: and are destructive, he's too busy twerking at the Taylor concert.
- 47:02Speaker 19: It's not a good look and a lot of people
- 47:05Speaker 19: are up in arms over it.
- 47:09Speaker 2: Trudeau twerking that the words I don't want to hear
- 47:12Speaker 2: ever again in the same sentence Kinsey before you Go.
- 47:17Speaker 2: Billboard has published its staff selected list of the one
- 47:21Speaker 2: hundred best country artists from the last one hundred years,
- 47:24Speaker 2: but it has not included country music star Jason Aldi,
- 47:29Speaker 2: known for his conservative beliefs, is a big Donald Trump supporter.
- 47:34Speaker 2: He has twenty eight number one hits under his belt already,
- 47:39Speaker 2: and one of his most popular songs of the last
- 47:41Speaker 2: couple of years is try that in a small town.
- 47:46Speaker 18: Try that is smart town, CFFI make them, Kinsey, his wife,
- 47:56Speaker 18: Brittany Aldan is blaming woke politics for a husband being
- 48:01Speaker 18: excluded from this list.
- 48:03Speaker 2: What else can you tell us?
- 48:05Speaker 19: Yeah, I'm confident that Jason and Brittany Aldan are correct.
- 48:09Speaker 19: Jason stumped for Trump in Georgia. We saw them at
- 48:11Speaker 19: the Republican National Convention. Journalists are typically pretty liberal and intolerant,
- 48:16Speaker 19: so I do imagine that this was a political and
- 48:18Speaker 19: personal exclusion. Number ninety nine was Maren Morris. And if
- 48:23Speaker 19: you are familiar with Jason Aldean and Brittany Aldan, you'll
- 48:27Speaker 19: know that they do not get along because of their
- 48:30Speaker 19: conservative values. And I mean, she's a terror. She said
- 48:33Speaker 19: she was no longer going to be a country musician,
- 48:36Speaker 19: So the fact that she's included no longer going to
- 48:40Speaker 19: be one because of the conservative values. So the fact
- 48:43Speaker 19: that she's included is kind of a slap in the
- 48:45Speaker 19: face to the Aldans.
- 48:49Speaker 2: Absolutely, Kinsisco, Phil, thanks for your time tonight, and that's
- 48:52Speaker 2: all the time we've got. I'll see you at eleven tomorrow.
- 48:56Speaker 2: Up next is Newsnight