Latest / The Rita Panahi Show / The Rita Panahi Show | 1 July

Transcript

The Rita Panahi Show | 1 July · The Rita Panahi Show

0:02
Speaker 1: On Scarletand's Australia.
0:05
Speaker 2: This is the Rita Panady Show. Good evening again. Welcome
0:09
Speaker 2: to the program. I'm James Borrow filling in for Rita.
0:13
Speaker 2: Coming up tonight, our physician leader Angus Taylor calls for
0:17
Speaker 2: unity within the Liberal Party. My panel will cover that
0:20
Speaker 2: and the day's other top headlines. Plus the government's tax
0:24
Speaker 2: cut has been swallowed up five times over by illumining
0:29
Speaker 2: August cash rate height. Economist Warren Hogan will join me
0:32
Speaker 2: on the show to discuss. Plus Stelle Escabata will have
0:35
Speaker 2: the latest from the US, including the president's latest win
0:39
Speaker 2: and loss in the Supreme Court. You're not gonna want
0:42
Speaker 2: to miss that. Also, veteran comedian Michael Loftus will be
0:46
Speaker 2: here to discuss how super Girl going super woke has
0:50
Speaker 2: resulted in a box office bomb and the Lefties really
0:55
Speaker 2: are losing it, with an American news anchor offering a
0:59
Speaker 2: tricking before saying that shock horror biological males can't compete
1:07
Speaker 2: in sport. Now, Angus Taylor has read the Riot Act
1:12
Speaker 2: to coalition MPs, calling for unity and discipline. The opposition
1:16
Speaker 2: leader is attempting to boost morale in the party room,
1:19
Speaker 2: which is a bit belieguered at the moment, after support
1:22
Speaker 2: for the party fell to a record low of seventeen
1:26
Speaker 2: percent in the latest News poll. This also follows front
1:29
Speaker 2: bencher Melissa McIntosh's call for a Liberal Party rebrand, which
1:34
Speaker 2: was shut down pretty quickly by her colleagues. Taylor said
1:38
Speaker 2: Coalition MPs needed to present themselves as a quote strong
1:42
Speaker 2: team with a quote strong plan, and he also said
1:46
Speaker 2: there's no silver bullet, but we just need to be
1:50
Speaker 2: focused on one thing, the interest of this country and
1:54
Speaker 2: the Australian people. Easier said than done. Meanwhile, the coalition's
1:59
Speaker 2: Jane Hume has insisted things are still going all right
2:04
Speaker 2: for the Liberals.
2:06
Speaker 3: Everybody is moving in the right direction and it's not
2:08
Speaker 3: just about fighting against Labour's bad taxes, although that is
2:12
Speaker 3: really important now. Labour's poor management of the economy and
2:16
Speaker 3: their intentions are raising taxes is now written large, so
2:20
Speaker 3: we have something to fight against. But more importantly, we've
2:23
Speaker 3: already announced a policy suite that we can fight for
2:26
Speaker 3: that will deliver that fair, freer and better Australia that
2:30
Speaker 3: Angus is talking about. That is what unites liberals.
2:34
Speaker 2: Well, sounds pretty positive. There anyway to discuss this. I've
2:37
Speaker 2: got an all star panel tonight. Joining me for more
2:39
Speaker 2: on this is former Labor MP Michael Danby and Verve
2:44
Speaker 2: Communications prove Ecsween. Michael, let's start with you. You're a
2:49
Speaker 2: former Labor MP. How does it feel watching the Liberals
2:54
Speaker 2: at the moment and what advice would you give them?
2:57
Speaker 2: Do you think that this party can be saved.
3:01
Speaker 4: As a Democrat? I feel for them.
3:05
Speaker 5: I agree with Andrew Bolt that they have a problem
3:08
Speaker 5: beyond Angus. With a very strong party president in Tony Abbott,
3:12
Speaker 5: I'd give him the old submarine advice run silent, run deep.
3:18
Speaker 5: And I would also say that I think the Liberals
3:21
Speaker 5: should try and hold on to the Victorian state election.
3:24
Speaker 5: I hope the Victorians fix up their deeming problem and
3:29
Speaker 5: do well with a very low profile one nation presence.
3:33
Speaker 4: And finally, Angus.
3:36
Speaker 5: Or angry tailor, as I jokingly, William has got to
3:38
Speaker 5: stop using cliches that focus groups give him.
3:42
Speaker 4: It makes him sound like a parrot.
3:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think Michael's got a little point
3:48
Speaker 2: about that. Every time I hear things like, you know,
3:50
Speaker 2: the toxic taxes and things like that, I kind of
3:53
Speaker 2: feel like this is a communication strategy from twenty years ago.
3:57
Speaker 2: But pro you're the communications expert. If you were giving
4:00
Speaker 2: communications advice to the Liberals, what would you be telling them?
4:05
Speaker 6: Well, for a start, stop making motherhood statements, you know,
4:10
Speaker 6: and inname things like drop the flop. Whoever thought? I mean,
4:15
Speaker 6: for God's sake, what idiots? But they're so desperate, you
4:18
Speaker 6: know the reason, you know, I would say Pulline Hanson's
4:21
Speaker 6: probably the less articulate politician we've ever had, but she
4:25
Speaker 6: resonates because she's talking about things that we want to hear,
4:31
Speaker 6: not all these values things and all this stuff that
4:34
Speaker 6: really doesn't mean anything. I'm trying to pay, put food
4:38
Speaker 6: on my table, and pay my bills. That's what I'm
4:41
Speaker 6: interested in. And the Liberal Party is so full of
4:45
Speaker 6: moderates as well. They don't actually know who they are representing.
4:50
Speaker 6: And this is their problem. Until angers can pull them
4:52
Speaker 6: all in together and say this is what the Liberal
4:55
Speaker 6: Party stands for, and this is then we know what
4:58
Speaker 6: we're buying, then may have a chance.
5:01
Speaker 2: Do you think Augus Taylor knows what they stand for?
5:05
Speaker 5: I'm sure he does in economic terms, he's a Rhodes scholar,
5:09
Speaker 5: but he should do what Pruss and that's stick to
5:12
Speaker 5: the issues like tax indexation, abolishing their ridiculous climate policy,
5:21
Speaker 5: the government's climate policy. These are the kinds of things
5:25
Speaker 5: that resonate with people. I think they should be getting
5:28
Speaker 5: stuck into that, Mackain and he's double interest.
5:34
Speaker 4: It's a made for kicking the head.
5:37
Speaker 2: Goalkick, absolutely right, and I don't know why they don't
5:40
Speaker 2: do it. But also there's a lot of other things
5:42
Speaker 2: happening here, guys, because the coalition is now questioning I
5:45
Speaker 2: love this story here. Whether Chris Bowen has failed to
5:49
Speaker 2: manage an alleged conflict of interest with Matt Kean, our
5:53
Speaker 2: favorite Matt keyed him of the renewable energy zones and
5:57
Speaker 2: so much else here in New South Wales. Well, he's
6:00
Speaker 2: got this climate authority role. Is he balancing that well
6:03
Speaker 2: with his job for a private employer, Walami Capital, which
6:07
Speaker 2: deals in green energy projects. We spoke yesterday about a
6:10
Speaker 2: freedom of information request which found taxpayers that spent thirty
6:14
Speaker 2: two thousand dollars sending Keen to the COP thirty climate
6:17
Speaker 2: summit in Brazil, where he appeared on a panel backed
6:22
Speaker 2: by his private employer. As I said, Walamye Capital, a
6:25
Speaker 2: former top public servant says at the very least, there
6:28
Speaker 2: was a perception problem here. Prue. Let me start with
6:32
Speaker 2: you this, you know, and again we're not letting any
6:35
Speaker 2: wrongdoing here, but in terms of there's so much money
6:38
Speaker 2: and so much perception of problems around you know, these
6:42
Speaker 2: green energy projects. Surely this position not tenable, is.
6:48
Speaker 6: It absolutely not? And there is such a stench now,
6:52
Speaker 6: whether that's real or perceived, the perception is that there's
6:57
Speaker 6: something very off. And the fact that Bonan and I
7:00
Speaker 6: mean Bollham would have to be the biggest liability that
7:03
Speaker 6: labor has because I don't know one person that thinks
7:06
Speaker 6: he's doing a good job. He's chasing a fantasy and
7:10
Speaker 6: he lied, as they all have, about the cost of
7:13
Speaker 6: our energy bills and the benefits of renewables. He's carving
7:18
Speaker 6: up our environment to save the environment. And you have,
7:21
Speaker 6: of course Keen who is so keen On is short
7:26
Speaker 6: man with a huge ego. You know, he wants He's
7:28
Speaker 6: got this inflated opinion of himself. He's never been a
7:34
Speaker 6: success as far as I'm concerned, as a minister, and
7:36
Speaker 6: now he has this really I think big conflict of
7:41
Speaker 6: interest in the employee the employer while in my capital
7:46
Speaker 6: that invests in a lot of the you know, the
7:48
Speaker 6: green energy things that he as chairman of the Climate Authority,
7:53
Speaker 6: has jurisdiction over it. The whole thing is so murky.
7:56
Speaker 2: You know. And Michael Labor also has a big problem
7:59
Speaker 2: here too, because I know that we supposedly have moved
8:02
Speaker 2: on from the two hundred and seventy five dollars, but
8:04
Speaker 2: that still stings for a lot of people. All of
8:06
Speaker 2: our power praises are still higher even if they've moderated,
8:09
Speaker 2: and you know, in terms of their change, this thirty
8:13
Speaker 2: two thousand dollars sending keen to cop thirty. Why can't
8:16
Speaker 2: these people, you know, zoom for these meetings?
8:19
Speaker 4: Well, obviously they could.
8:22
Speaker 5: Imagine if Andrew Hasty, senior advisor worked for Lockheed Martin,
8:27
Speaker 5: do you think the Labor Party or the government wouldn't
8:32
Speaker 5: crucify them?
8:33
Speaker 4: And so they should.
8:35
Speaker 5: No one should be working for private commercial interests while
8:38
Speaker 5: an official government employee.
8:40
Speaker 4: Last night, last night I said he should.
8:42
Speaker 5: Return his government salary from the entire time he's had
8:45
Speaker 5: this conflict of interest.
8:47
Speaker 4: It's outrageous.
8:48
Speaker 5: Angry Taylor, why didn't you get angry about this and
8:50
Speaker 5: just have ten questions about.
8:52
Speaker 2: It, Well, in did I mean? Look, I reckon that
8:54
Speaker 2: they ought that he ought to actually be out of
8:57
Speaker 2: the rule because the salary is one thing, But it's
8:59
Speaker 2: the axe that I think is also the other huge
9:02
Speaker 2: perception problem here, but also another issue here. China's ambassador
9:07
Speaker 2: to Australia, Jiao Quan, has launched an extraordinary attack on
9:12
Speaker 2: ASIO and other Western intelligence agencies. I couldn't believe this.
9:16
Speaker 2: He said that they've fabricated spying claims against China. Oh
9:20
Speaker 2: heaven forfend. In an opinion piece submitted to the Nine Newspapers,
9:25
Speaker 2: Jao argued that quote certain Australian organizations and media outlets
9:30
Speaker 2: have repeatedly fabricated and hyped falsehoods and fallacies regarding the
9:37
Speaker 2: security threat posed by China. Michael, is he for real here?
9:45
Speaker 2: Because he went on to say that this sort of
9:47
Speaker 2: allegation was hurting the feelings of Chinese people everywhere. I
9:51
Speaker 2: thought this was extraordinary.
9:54
Speaker 5: Well, it's you can't believe that the cheek of the
9:58
Speaker 5: Chinese to criticiz eyes proven examples of people being recruited
10:04
Speaker 5: by LinkedIn made some criticisms of China in Mike Burgess's
10:10
Speaker 5: preview to his annual State of the Nation address and
10:14
Speaker 5: also outright criticism of the Five Eyes for highlighting this
10:17
Speaker 5: kind of thing.
10:18
Speaker 4: Now, the arrest of two Chinese people in Canberra.
10:22
Speaker 5: For spying on local Buddhists is outrageous and the ambassador
10:29
Speaker 5: should get back in his box and some of the
10:32
Speaker 5: Canberra press gallery or to go after him for these
10:34
Speaker 5: kinds of things that Beijing is doing interfering here in Australia.
10:38
Speaker 2: Now, look, I agree, but Prue, you know, this does
10:41
Speaker 2: seem to me be a bit of a return to
10:43
Speaker 2: the old wolf warrior diplomacy that characterized relationship with China
10:48
Speaker 2: during the Morrison government. Ethne Albinizi has made a very
10:51
Speaker 2: big point of saying that his government has stabilized the
10:55
Speaker 2: relationship with China. That's not looking so accurate now, is it.
11:00
Speaker 6: Well, I think he's stabilized it by cartowing to them
11:04
Speaker 6: so much. Let's face it, you know, I find it
11:08
Speaker 6: astounding that how much labor capitulates to China, and we
11:14
Speaker 6: saw how those warships were circumnavigating Australia. We hardly even responded.
11:20
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just appalling and we've succumbed when it
11:24
Speaker 6: comes to the trade deals all sorts of things we
11:26
Speaker 6: seem to be you know, we had in twenty eighteen
11:29
Speaker 6: foreign inference laws imposed mainly because of China, and now
11:34
Speaker 6: we seem to be bending over backwards to appease it.
11:37
Speaker 2: No, I think you're absolutely right prove and I think
11:39
Speaker 2: that this idea of stabilizing the relationship, it really translates
11:43
Speaker 2: to just shutting up about the things that they do.
11:46
Speaker 2: But let's bring it back closer to home, guys, because
11:49
Speaker 2: you know, I know it's only July, but it seems
11:52
Speaker 2: like the Australia Dead debate season comes around earlier and
11:55
Speaker 2: earlier every year. But I was glad to say that
11:58
Speaker 2: some common sense might be returning to to Melbourne, of
12:00
Speaker 2: all places, where a councilor's campaigning to bring back the
12:04
Speaker 2: City of Melbourne's Australia Day celebrations. During a motion allocating
12:08
Speaker 2: money to Melbourne Day on August thirtieth, which marks the
12:12
Speaker 2: anniversary of the first European settlement in nineteen or eighteen
12:16
Speaker 2: thirty five, Greens Counselor Olivia Bell noted that this council
12:22
Speaker 2: and the great majority of our citizens do not support
12:25
Speaker 2: celebrating the twenty sixth of January that sparked a rebuttal
12:29
Speaker 2: or retort by Councilor Philip Lee Lou who said that
12:32
Speaker 2: Melbourne should follow the federal government in recognizing January twenty
12:37
Speaker 2: sixth as Australia Day. Michael Danby is a proud and Albernian.
12:42
Speaker 2: This must make your heart sing well.
12:46
Speaker 5: I remember when the Greens pulled a similar trick when
12:48
Speaker 5: I was a member of Parliament in the city of
12:50
Speaker 5: Port Phillip, and I emailed every person in that person's
12:54
Speaker 5: ward and the council had to repudiate him and he
12:59
Speaker 5: had to retreat. Look, some rich white Green doesn't speak
13:05
Speaker 5: on behalf of all Australians.
13:06
Speaker 4: In Melbourne. We used to enjoy Moomba.
13:09
Speaker 5: COVID put an end to that great celebration and it
13:14
Speaker 5: doesn't appear to be coming back. But I'm telling you
13:17
Speaker 5: there's a great sentiment for many of the Australian customs
13:21
Speaker 5: we used to have here, and the Greens and their
13:24
Speaker 5: farleyft allies won't wipe them out.
13:26
Speaker 2: Prou There's an interesting point that Michael makes. I have
13:28
Speaker 2: noted that here in Sydney and in Greater Sydney and
13:32
Speaker 2: in Western Sydney you often see the councilors and community
13:36
Speaker 2: members in the more multicultural parts of Western City, Fairfield,
13:39
Speaker 2: places like that saying yeah, no, no, no, no, we
13:41
Speaker 2: really want to do Australia. And it's people like you
13:44
Speaker 2: know around my council Inner West and in the East
13:47
Speaker 2: and so that they say, oh, no, no, no, we
13:49
Speaker 2: won't do anything like that. In a sense, that's kind
13:53
Speaker 2: of a rebuke to Paullinhasson that says that actually it's
13:57
Speaker 2: the new migrants who are a bit more positive on
13:59
Speaker 2: Australia in Australian history than the people who've been here
14:02
Speaker 2: a while.
14:03
Speaker 6: Well, I think the migrants move to Australia and understand
14:06
Speaker 6: what an amazing country it is, and they cherish it
14:10
Speaker 6: and support it. I think with Hansen, you know, she
14:15
Speaker 6: is talking more about the value side that people who
14:19
Speaker 6: we've seen people come here who bring what wars and
14:23
Speaker 6: you know, troubles from overseas, and that is I think
14:26
Speaker 6: what she's more worried about than necessarily the lack of
14:30
Speaker 6: amalgamation and you know, assimilation that I believe most migrants
14:37
Speaker 6: do enjoy here.
14:38
Speaker 2: Well, speaking as a migrant myself, I would say I
14:41
Speaker 2: very much enjoy Australia Australian customs, and I hope that
14:45
Speaker 2: I have assimilated well, although the veger might still remains
14:48
Speaker 2: a problem. KRUMI sweeten Michael danby, thank you so much
14:50
Speaker 2: for your time. The government's tax cut, which they have
14:54
Speaker 2: spent their time raving about, is kicking in for Australian
14:57
Speaker 2: taxpayers today, but it faces being swallowed up five times
15:01
Speaker 2: over if a looming August cash rate hike happens. From
15:06
Speaker 2: July one, every taxpayer gets at least two hundred and
15:09
Speaker 2: sixty eight dollars a year back from the government, which
15:12
Speaker 2: works out to about five dollars a week, which is,
15:16
Speaker 2: as we say, less than the cup of a cup
15:18
Speaker 2: of coffee depending on I guess we'ree a shop. But
15:21
Speaker 2: if interest rates rise by a further zero point twenty
15:23
Speaker 2: five percent later this year, that alone will add one
15:27
Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen dollars a month to the average mortgage,
15:30
Speaker 2: swallowing Jim Chalmers' tax relief five times over. And that
15:35
Speaker 2: is without factoring in hikes to the price of food, fuel, power,
15:40
Speaker 2: council rates, everything else that goes into that inflation basket.
15:44
Speaker 2: Joining me now to discuss this and more is EQ
15:47
Speaker 2: economics managing director Warren Hogan, Warren, are you feeling richer
15:52
Speaker 2: with the tax cup today?
15:55
Speaker 1: Well?
15:55
Speaker 7: I think I can maybe go out for dinner one
15:57
Speaker 7: more time this year, but I doubt that will happen.
16:00
Speaker 7: So the answer is no, because I know better than
16:03
Speaker 7: anyone that that tax cut is all but going to
16:07
Speaker 7: be soaked up in cost of living, higher prices at
16:10
Speaker 7: the supermarket, and most, I think importantly, some of the
16:15
Speaker 7: big ticket items like our electricity and gas bills for
16:18
Speaker 7: our home.
16:20
Speaker 2: Well, Warren, you know, I'm just struck by the almost
16:23
Speaker 2: ideological nature of this budget here and the way that
16:27
Speaker 2: it's been received very poorly. But Jeff Chambers has written
16:31
Speaker 2: an interesting piece in the Australia Today that also knows
16:33
Speaker 2: that Anthony ALBINIZI, Jim Charles and Chris Bowen are all
16:36
Speaker 2: sleepwalking Australia. He says, into a potentially hugely damaging economic nightmare,
16:42
Speaker 2: writing that the government will force change to students political
16:46
Speaker 2: and ideological narratives. Quote, even if that means putting Australia's
16:50
Speaker 2: power grid and property markets at risk. I thought Jeff
16:55
Speaker 2: Chambers was spot on their ward. What do you reckon?
16:58
Speaker 1: Yeah?
16:58
Speaker 7: I have to agree it's one of the best summaries
17:02
Speaker 7: of the sort of anti economics and anti market economy.
17:08
Speaker 1: Approach of this government.
17:09
Speaker 7: That I've read in this whole episode that's now into
17:13
Speaker 7: its fourth or fifth year, and really what it says,
17:17
Speaker 7: and I think the important point for how this government
17:19
Speaker 7: is managing the economy is that it says the government
17:23
Speaker 7: doesn't believe markets deliver, and that's another way of saying
17:27
Speaker 7: it doesn't believe everyday Australians and businesses deliver, and so
17:31
Speaker 7: we're going to intervene, whether that's through higher taxes or
17:35
Speaker 7: more regulation, to make this.
17:38
Speaker 1: A better world.
17:39
Speaker 7: And of course, what we've learned through all of history
17:42
Speaker 7: in every society around the world is that you over
17:47
Speaker 7: tax and you overregulate, and things start going wrong, not
17:51
Speaker 7: least the performance of your economy and its ability to
17:54
Speaker 7: deliver higher living standards. And then, of course, as things
17:58
Speaker 7: start going wrong, you know, we're three four five years
18:02
Speaker 7: into this government and things are going wrong, their reflex
18:05
Speaker 7: action is to start trying to patch the holes in
18:08
Speaker 7: the leaky ship by doing more regulation, spending more money,
18:12
Speaker 7: and of course taxi more.
18:14
Speaker 1: And that's where we find ourselves.
18:15
Speaker 7: And I thought the article articulated that perfectly.
18:20
Speaker 2: Well, Warren, you know, we were told that all of
18:22
Speaker 2: this was about the bogie of intergenerational equity and helping
18:26
Speaker 2: the young people to buy into a house, which sounds
18:28
Speaker 2: great on the surface of it, but we seem to
18:31
Speaker 2: be in this position now where on the one hand,
18:34
Speaker 2: home prices are falling, and yet already we're seeing that
18:38
Speaker 2: housing affordability isn't getting any better because of course everything
18:41
Speaker 2: else is getting worse. And to pick up on what
18:44
Speaker 2: you were just saying there, Warren, it feels to me
18:46
Speaker 2: like what they've done is they've taken a bunch of
18:48
Speaker 2: the paper value off of the property assets of Australians.
18:53
Speaker 2: But because they haven't created any sort of incentive to
18:56
Speaker 2: put money elsewhere with productivity or industrial relations or ax reforums,
19:01
Speaker 2: that money is gone, but there's no place else for
19:04
Speaker 2: investment to go to actually create more productive wealth.
19:09
Speaker 1: Well, I think that's at the core of it.
19:11
Speaker 7: We don't have an economy that it's productive, it's growing
19:15
Speaker 7: its productivity, and that's despite some incredible technology that's now
19:19
Speaker 7: on offer, and of course that is essentially showing up
19:24
Speaker 7: in terms of house prices falling as wealth destruction because
19:28
Speaker 7: as we do start to lose income because of the
19:31
Speaker 7: loss of productivity, we still have this debt burden, whether
19:37
Speaker 7: it's a mortgage or corporate debt or government debt, and
19:40
Speaker 7: then that starts to weigh on the balance sheet of
19:44
Speaker 7: businesses and so forth and the whole thing. And I
19:47
Speaker 7: think this is the point in Jeff Chambers article highlights this,
19:50
Speaker 7: and I suppose the point I'd make is that you
19:53
Speaker 7: start to get into a vicious cycle, things just get
19:57
Speaker 7: worse and worse. And I think that's really this tipping
20:01
Speaker 7: point that the budget represents that the broader community is
20:04
Speaker 7: now really starting to worry about. Is is this economy
20:08
Speaker 7: and is our nation sort of going to see things
20:11
Speaker 7: go from bad to worse over the next year or two.
20:14
Speaker 7: And I think that's at the heart of it, is
20:16
Speaker 7: we're not a productive economy. We were a productive economy,
20:20
Speaker 7: and we've got this sort of debt burden, whether it's
20:22
Speaker 7: with households or governments that's still got to be met.
20:25
Speaker 7: So it's it's a really tenuous position we find ourselves
20:29
Speaker 7: in and not much has to go wrong in the
20:31
Speaker 7: international economy or in some sort of circumstance domestically for
20:37
Speaker 7: this to really go downhill quick and of course the
20:40
Speaker 7: bounding market reflects out at the moment, I think, well, and.
20:43
Speaker 2: You know, we saw a few hours ago we had
20:44
Speaker 2: the leaatest building approvals numbers dropping one point one percent
20:48
Speaker 2: in May. Now that's not all of man, that's not
20:50
Speaker 2: you know, the entire budget in there, but it does
20:53
Speaker 2: suggest that already this sort of talk by the government
20:57
Speaker 2: is starting to have an effect, even before the budget
20:59
Speaker 2: was legislated.
21:01
Speaker 1: Well, this is actually the core problem.
21:03
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, intergenerational inequity, and government attempts to fix.
21:08
Speaker 1: That I think are dangerous at the least.
21:12
Speaker 7: I mean, understand the problem before you start offering solutions.
21:16
Speaker 7: But the housing market, we do know the problem, and
21:19
Speaker 7: that's what we don't have it up dwellings And of
21:21
Speaker 7: course we have seen a recovery in construction activity, but
21:25
Speaker 7: the recent building approvals data is a bit of a
21:28
Speaker 7: concern because we're certainly not sort of building at the
21:31
Speaker 7: rates we saw ten years ago, and we've still got
21:34
Speaker 7: a massive shortage on just about anyone's metrics.
21:37
Speaker 1: So if we see this sort of.
21:40
Speaker 7: Downturn in the market and a weaker economy result in
21:43
Speaker 7: a pullback in building construction activity, then the housing shortage
21:47
Speaker 7: won't get better, It'll get worse. And that's that example
21:51
Speaker 7: I think of careful what you wish for, because all
21:55
Speaker 7: this government and invention may be actually making the problem
21:58
Speaker 7: worse rather than fixing it.
22:00
Speaker 2: Government intervention making things worse, Warren Hogan, I've never heard
22:04
Speaker 2: of such a thing. We're gonna have to leave with
22:06
Speaker 2: their Thanks so much, your time as always, and we'll chat.
22:08
Speaker 1: Again, Sue, Thanks James.
22:10
Speaker 2: Still to come. Lefties losing it, plus all the ladies
22:13
Speaker 2: from the US, including the President's big win and bigger
22:16
Speaker 2: loss at the Supreme Court. Still Escabato is next. Well,
22:29
Speaker 2: now it's time for lefties losing it and let's check
22:32
Speaker 2: in with our friends at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, who
22:36
Speaker 2: are promoting a new series of the program Stuff the
22:40
Speaker 2: British stole. Yeah, I think you know where this is going.
22:44
Speaker 2: Only now they've also given us an insight into how
22:48
Speaker 2: young Australians are being taught to hate their own country.
22:52
Speaker 2: Not in the government's own government run public schools, but
22:55
Speaker 2: at what appears to be a fairly tony private academy.
23:00
Speaker 2: The kids are being led on a journey through designing
23:03
Speaker 2: a new flag for Australia.
23:06
Speaker 8: This is our proposed design for a new Australian flag Australia.
23:12
Speaker 8: I chose the colors of green and gold.
23:15
Speaker 4: We thought the kangaroo on it. It's just so iconic.
23:17
Speaker 3: A sun represents an Indigenous symbol for family, the.
23:20
Speaker 8: Three oceans that's around Australia. I kept the Southern Cross
23:23
Speaker 8: but removed the union jack.
23:25
Speaker 9: We need to be more inclusive.
23:28
Speaker 2: We need to be more inclusive. Honestly, what is this?
23:31
Speaker 2: The sun is an Indigenous symbol for family? What is
23:34
Speaker 2: going on here? And what are they teaching in this school? Anyway?
23:40
Speaker 2: I hate to tell you, but you probably guessed it.
23:42
Speaker 2: There's more. What do you reckon? They think about the
23:45
Speaker 2: union jack, which graces one whole quadrant of the Australian flag.
23:51
Speaker 4: How do you all feel about that?
23:54
Speaker 1: How do you feel about our current flag?
23:56
Speaker 8: I feel like it doesn't feel distinctly Australian.
23:58
Speaker 9: There are so many countries that are red and white
23:59
Speaker 9: and blue.
24:00
Speaker 1: Okay, one thing that none of you have included is
24:02
Speaker 1: the union jack.
24:04
Speaker 10: Yeah.
24:05
Speaker 8: I guess we don't really associate ourselves with the British,
24:07
Speaker 8: not much like in modern Australia.
24:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, British in modern Australia. Seriously, not one of
24:14
Speaker 2: them wants to keep the Union jack with all of
24:17
Speaker 2: its connections to Australia's British heritage, a heritage which incidentally
24:22
Speaker 2: gives us the rule of law of parliamentary democracy and
24:26
Speaker 2: the right almost unheard of through history, namely to say
24:30
Speaker 2: your own national symbols are pretty crap. What an absolute
24:35
Speaker 2: indictment of the schools as well as the ABC. Here.
24:39
Speaker 2: Speaking of schools, let's swing over to Monroeville, Pennsylvania, where
24:44
Speaker 2: this leftist lady with lore Keith glasses, I mean, seriously,
24:48
Speaker 2: she is straight out of Karen Central Casting is furious
24:52
Speaker 2: that the local library took down a display of LGBTQ
24:56
Speaker 2: books designed not for adult readers for kids.
25:00
Speaker 11: We basically held a impromptu protest sit in, read, read along,
25:05
Speaker 11: read a fond, whatever you want to call it, where
25:08
Speaker 11: a number of mandrival residents showed up to the library
25:10
Speaker 11: and we read the books. The council did not want
25:13
Speaker 11: to be on display. We kept them out with us
25:17
Speaker 11: and put them nearby where people could look at them.
25:19
Speaker 11: And we had many, many children who were just there
25:22
Speaker 11: for the day because unlike what our council believes the
25:25
Speaker 11: library is used a lot.
25:27
Speaker 2: Now here's what's funny about this is that while this
25:30
Speaker 2: presumably straight savior is all about pushing sexuality on the kids,
25:36
Speaker 2: this pair of gay ladies are pretty shocked about what
25:40
Speaker 2: their local big chain bookstore is doing in this direction.
25:44
Speaker 12: We're gay, but we're in Barnes and Nobles and there's
25:48
Speaker 12: a kid's book section, a gay kids book section, And
25:51
Speaker 12: this is crazy.
25:52
Speaker 2: Look at this.
25:53
Speaker 12: There's the Gay BC's right, bye by binary, Bye by
25:59
Speaker 12: binary with a mohawk on a baby gabc's you're not ready, holmus.
26:06
Speaker 1: Okay, what.
26:10
Speaker 8: A is for arrow? And ace B is for bid.
26:14
Speaker 12: This is crazy.
26:15
Speaker 13: We're gay, but this is crazy.
26:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is pretty crazy, and good on them. But
26:20
Speaker 2: i'll tell you what. The American ABC is having a
26:23
Speaker 2: tougher time coping with news that the US Supreme Court
26:26
Speaker 2: has said boys can't play on girls' sports teams, calling
26:29
Speaker 2: it a blow on the last day of prime months.
26:33
Speaker 10: That's right, a fifteen year old, the only known openly
26:36
Speaker 10: transgender student and athlete in the state of West Virginia,
26:40
Speaker 10: bravely brought this case to the Supreme Court, insisting that
26:43
Speaker 10: she had an equal right to play with the girls
26:46
Speaker 10: but the Supreme Court today six to three decision written
26:49
Speaker 10: by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said states school districts can draw
26:53
Speaker 10: lines based on biological sex when it comes to sports
26:57
Speaker 10: teams in schools, and so that is a setback for
26:59
Speaker 10: beck Key. Twenty nine states that have similar laws as
27:03
Speaker 10: West Virginia will continue to stand. And I will note
27:07
Speaker 10: Kia that twenty one states don't have bands on transgender athletes.
27:10
Speaker 10: Those are unaffected by this decision, but certainly a blow
27:14
Speaker 10: to that transgender community and student athletes on this last
27:17
Speaker 10: day of Pride month.
27:18
Speaker 2: Curra but you'd seen nothing that. Check out the NBC's
27:23
Speaker 2: Melvin Craig, who had to offer a trigger warning over
27:27
Speaker 2: reporting on the Court's decision, which used and let me
27:31
Speaker 2: give you a trigger warning the terms biological male and
27:35
Speaker 2: biological female.
27:37
Speaker 14: Just a quick note here, the terms that we're using
27:40
Speaker 14: here during our reporting biological male, biological female. The High
27:46
Speaker 14: Court put those terms in quotations in their decision, in
27:51
Speaker 14: their descent, but just so you know, we're using those
27:54
Speaker 14: terms from the decision itself, biological male, biological female.
27:58
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, over in the UK, that heat wave is really
28:01
Speaker 2: cooking some brains over there in the land that air
28:04
Speaker 2: conditioning forgot. Let's check in on this lovely lady who
28:09
Speaker 2: is losing it because despite the heat wave, she doesn't
28:13
Speaker 2: want any more air conditioning in her country.
28:16
Speaker 4: No no, no, no no, give it away.
28:17
Speaker 8: As much as I'm sweating right now, I don't want
28:19
Speaker 8: the UK to start adopting AC culture because I think
28:22
Speaker 8: it will just separate the halves and have not even more.
28:25
Speaker 8: I feel like the UK would turn into a mini
28:27
Speaker 8: Dubai where rich people kind of just rushing from AC
28:31
Speaker 8: chauffeur driven car to AC shopping center, AC household and
28:36
Speaker 8: kind of avoiding the poor people on the street. It
28:38
Speaker 8: also doesn't incentivize our government to do anything about the
28:41
Speaker 8: climate crisis. It's only going to expedite it. I know
28:44
Speaker 8: the UK traps heat like nothing else and the way
28:46
Speaker 8: our infrastructure in cities are built is meant to keep
28:49
Speaker 8: heat in. But every year the UK is getting hotter,
28:52
Speaker 8: al we're seeing more and more rainfall. Climate change is here,
28:55
Speaker 8: and I think giving rich people an excuse to like
28:58
Speaker 8: further that is not going to help anybody in this society.
29:01
Speaker 8: Aces in commercial building sure, but I don't want to
29:04
Speaker 8: see aces in private household.
29:06
Speaker 2: AC culture a mini Dubai. I don't know if she's
29:09
Speaker 2: been to kensingtunor Mayfair lately. Well, just maybe I might
29:13
Speaker 2: suggest that the thoroughbred racehorse has already bolted on that one. Finally,
29:18
Speaker 2: let's check in on our friends at the United Nations.
29:20
Speaker 2: Shall we meet Thalong moffa king who is something called
29:25
Speaker 2: the UN Special Rapporteur on Health. Yeah, I know, anyway,
29:31
Speaker 2: let's let her explain. The real cause is why people get.
29:34
Speaker 15: Sick the failure of states to adopt an anti racist
29:38
Speaker 15: into colonial and dignity based approaches through extractive capitalistic practices,
29:43
Speaker 15: pillaging of resources, coloniality genocides and then crushes people under
29:50
Speaker 15: the weight of indignity. Health cannot be realized without dignity.
29:55
Speaker 2: Yes, that's your Special Rapporteur on Health, Ladies and gentlemen. Anyway,
29:59
Speaker 2: this caled an flu season. Make sure to get plenty
30:02
Speaker 2: of vitamin C to fight against colonialism. Well, the US
30:06
Speaker 2: Supreme Court has struck down an executive order President trumpets
30:09
Speaker 2: signed denying birthright citizenship to the children of illegal migrants, tourists,
30:14
Speaker 2: and any other kid who just have to be born
30:17
Speaker 2: on US soil. Trump's Day one order had been in
30:20
Speaker 2: limbo amid a legal battle over whether it violated the
30:23
Speaker 2: Fourteenth Amendment. The court ruled five to four that even
30:28
Speaker 2: those quote born in the United States to parents unlawfully
30:32
Speaker 2: or temporarily present, are covered by the Equal Protection Amendment,
30:37
Speaker 2: meaning a change to the Constitution would be required potentially
30:41
Speaker 2: to change their status. Reacting to the ruling, Donald Trump
30:44
Speaker 2: post on Truth Social quote, I would like to congratulate
30:48
Speaker 2: President g and the great country of China on their
30:52
Speaker 2: massive birthright citizenship win forty mean now is an Emmy
30:56
Speaker 2: Award winning journalist and host of Stella News Stella Scabata Stella.
31:01
Speaker 2: Thanks much for joining me here. This ruling by the
31:04
Speaker 2: Supreme Court. It was not unexpected that it was going
31:07
Speaker 2: to go against the Trump administration, but I was a
31:09
Speaker 2: bit startled that it was so close, just five to four.
31:13
Speaker 9: Yeah, James, good to see you. Thanks for having me. Yeah,
31:17
Speaker 9: you know what President Trump is right. You know, birth
31:20
Speaker 9: tourism is a big thing, especially in China. It's a
31:24
Speaker 9: big industry. They send a lot of their people here
31:29
Speaker 9: to give birth. Those people coming from China pay thousands
31:33
Speaker 9: of dollars to do it. While they're here in the
31:35
Speaker 9: United States. They take advantage of our system and boom.
31:39
Speaker 9: Now you know, they have the same rights as my
31:42
Speaker 9: children who actually live in the United States. Meanwhile, they
31:44
Speaker 9: go back to China now they're also citizens of the
31:47
Speaker 9: United States, you know. And it's not just China, it's
31:51
Speaker 9: other adversarial countries that are doing this as well as well.
31:55
Speaker 9: They are literally voting us out of existence. That is
31:59
Speaker 9: what is so frustrating about this.
32:02
Speaker 2: And I've heard, you know, many other stories, not just
32:04
Speaker 2: about Chinese birth tourism operations, but also you know, you
32:08
Speaker 2: have many many illegal aliens who come to the United
32:11
Speaker 2: States while pregnant. Then once they have their kids, that
32:14
Speaker 2: kid they can use to sponsor them. This seems madness
32:17
Speaker 2: to me.
32:18
Speaker 9: Well, that's exactly what's happening, and that's exactly what China
32:21
Speaker 9: does it so then your family can come here. So
32:23
Speaker 9: again this goes back to voting us out of existence.
32:27
Speaker 9: Real Americans who you know, born and raised here generationally
32:32
Speaker 9: here are being voted out of existence. Look at what
32:35
Speaker 9: happened under the Biden administration. How many millions of people
32:39
Speaker 9: came here. We already have that problem, and then we
32:41
Speaker 9: have this huge, you know, tourism industry that's literally abusing
32:46
Speaker 9: our system.
32:47
Speaker 16: What other country allows this. This is insanity.
32:51
Speaker 9: And so you know, President Trump is saying, look, Congress,
32:54
Speaker 9: we got to do something about this.
32:56
Speaker 16: One of the things that they.
32:56
Speaker 9: Can do is they can really you know, go hard
32:59
Speaker 9: on this birth time. They can stop that when they're
33:01
Speaker 9: approving people's visas, and then they really have to look into,
33:05
Speaker 9: you know, congressionally, what we can do congressionally to stop this.
33:08
Speaker 2: And I mean, it seems to me like a very
33:11
Speaker 2: generous misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment and the history of this.
33:14
Speaker 2: I don't want our viewers out there to understand. The
33:16
Speaker 2: Fourteenth Amendment was passed after the Civil War, and the
33:20
Speaker 2: idea was to ensure that the children of slaves and
33:24
Speaker 2: slaves were not disenfranchised from American citizenship. Very different of
33:28
Speaker 2: course to what we're talking about here. What can Congress
33:31
Speaker 2: do practically or do you expect that maybe the Trump
33:35
Speaker 2: administration goes out size an executive order potentially? I mean,
33:39
Speaker 2: I've heard people say that women of child burying age
33:42
Speaker 2: could be forced to present a pregnancy test before they
33:46
Speaker 2: get a visa. Could they go that far?
33:48
Speaker 9: I mean, they should go that far. A country, I
33:51
Speaker 9: always say, a country without no borders is not a
33:54
Speaker 9: country James, if we cannot protect this country. He basically
33:58
Speaker 9: just said to the building, millions of people in this world,
34:02
Speaker 9: to the entire world, that come to America.
34:06
Speaker 16: You can become a citizen here, I.
34:08
Speaker 9: Have a baby, here, bring your family, and you're welcome.
34:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is just shocking. But again five four, I
34:15
Speaker 2: reckon that with a bit of a change in the
34:18
Speaker 2: Supreme Court in the years to come, we will see
34:21
Speaker 2: this problem fixed. This is not the end of the story,
34:23
Speaker 2: hope fully, Stella, I want to move on to another
34:26
Speaker 2: story here. Also, in the Supreme Court, they did have
34:28
Speaker 2: a big win on the issue of transgender athletes, particularly
34:33
Speaker 2: biological males competing as in girls teams. All nine justices
34:39
Speaker 2: on the Court decided that state laws banning this practice
34:43
Speaker 2: do not violate civil rights law. This is again common sense,
34:47
Speaker 2: but it shocks me that it had to go all
34:50
Speaker 2: the way to Supreme Court.
34:52
Speaker 9: I mean literally, James, it shocks all of us that
34:55
Speaker 9: I was just thinking about that today as well, like
34:57
Speaker 9: this actually common sense had to go a all the
35:00
Speaker 9: way up to the Supreme Court. But here's the thing, though,
35:03
Speaker 9: there are twenty seven states in the United States who
35:06
Speaker 9: already said, like this isn't Okay, we're going to protect women,
35:10
Speaker 9: which they should. Okay, but there are twenty three states
35:12
Speaker 9: who are not protecting women, including the state of California,
35:15
Speaker 9: the state that I live in. And you know, I
35:18
Speaker 9: feel like, you know, people on the left exploited the
35:24
Speaker 9: me to movement, but then at the end of the day,
35:27
Speaker 9: they actually hate women because in the state of California
35:31
Speaker 9: they are not protecting girls. There are enough saying that
35:34
Speaker 9: it's not okay for boys to compete.
35:37
Speaker 16: In women's sports.
35:38
Speaker 9: So essentially the US Supreme Court gave them the green light,
35:42
Speaker 9: being like, yeah, go ahead and protect women. Those states
35:46
Speaker 9: like California actually do that, I think, so, so what
35:50
Speaker 9: you're saying here then, I mean, this has been presented
35:52
Speaker 9: as a huge win for common sense here, but just
35:55
Speaker 9: so our viewers understand, actually what's happened is just the opposite.
35:59
Speaker 2: If you are practicing common sense, they're saying, good on
36:01
Speaker 2: you continue to practice it. But other states like California,
36:05
Speaker 2: are you saying that this same problem will continue to
36:08
Speaker 2: exist because they haven't decided to protect women in law.
36:13
Speaker 9: Because what the Supreme Court decided was just common sense, right,
36:15
Speaker 9: but they haven't put anything on the books. They basically
36:18
Speaker 9: just said, yeah, it is wrong to do this. So again,
36:21
Speaker 9: the left, deranged left, like I just said, in California too, exploited, exploited,
36:28
Speaker 9: you know, the Me too movements, saying they care about women,
36:30
Speaker 9: but they actually really don't hate women.
36:32
Speaker 16: I mean, they actually don't really like women.
36:34
Speaker 9: And you know, we saw what happened on our college
36:36
Speaker 9: campuses where they were like cheering us, the same deranged left.
36:42
Speaker 9: So again the Supreme Court basically said, yeah, it's common sense,
36:47
Speaker 9: but will states like California actually protect girls and women?
36:52
Speaker 9: I don't think so.
36:53
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it said deranged left, and I was
36:56
Speaker 2: sort of like, eh, are we sort of being redundant here?
36:58
Speaker 2: You know, I don't need to waste that manuch words
37:00
Speaker 2: because I think they're all kinds of deranged. But you know,
37:02
Speaker 2: there is one sort of thing out of California that
37:03
Speaker 2: was interesting here too. I am noting that California Democrats
37:07
Speaker 2: are keeping a bit of distance from a proposal to
37:10
Speaker 2: allow non citizens to vote in city and school board elections.
37:14
Speaker 4: Now.
37:15
Speaker 2: The Los Angeles City Council, though, is set to vote
37:17
Speaker 2: on the proposal, but it would require Mayor Karen Bass's
37:21
Speaker 2: approval before going forward. In November, former Democrat La Mayor
37:27
Speaker 2: Antonio Valgrosso said that right now, this is not the
37:30
Speaker 2: best time for all of this, but it feels to
37:32
Speaker 2: me again, this is again about this idea of breaking
37:36
Speaker 2: down the distinction between citizen and non citizen. We saw
37:39
Speaker 2: that with the birthrights citizenship case. They're pushing on every
37:43
Speaker 2: sort of button here, aren't they.
37:45
Speaker 9: So I follow this this particular story very closely because
37:48
Speaker 9: I grew up in Los Angeles. So this was actually
37:51
Speaker 9: proposed by a Democrat Socialist of America DSA council member
37:55
Speaker 9: who goes so too, Martinez. Okay, it went through a
37:58
Speaker 9: vote in city council through DSA and DSA council member
38:03
Speaker 9: Nithia Rahman, who is now running to be the mayor
38:06
Speaker 9: of Los Angeles, actually voted.
38:07
Speaker 16: In favor of this. The reason why middle the ground
38:11
Speaker 16: Democrats are saying no to this because they actually think
38:14
Speaker 16: it's a really bad idea because there's no system in place, James,
38:18
Speaker 16: to actually make it work.
38:20
Speaker 9: How will you you have to have a whole new
38:23
Speaker 9: voting system to say, Okay, I'm a non citizen, I'm
38:26
Speaker 9: voting here. It's going to cost millions of dollars. So
38:30
Speaker 9: that's why you have democrats, actual Democrats, and democrats socialists
38:34
Speaker 9: who say they're Democrats, they're actually Islamo Marxist who are
38:38
Speaker 9: actually distancing themselves because they don't actually have a system
38:41
Speaker 9: in place to make it happen. Do They still probably.
38:46
Speaker 8: Want they do.
38:47
Speaker 9: Of course they want this idea, but it would just
38:49
Speaker 9: be a disaster for the County of Los Angeles and
38:53
Speaker 9: the City of Los Angeles. That's why I think they're
38:55
Speaker 9: personally distancing themselves from it.
38:57
Speaker 13: But they love the idea.
38:58
Speaker 9: I mean, they always want non ct is voting.
39:00
Speaker 2: Well, I was just about to say, I mean, the
39:02
Speaker 2: city would say there might be a few non citizens
39:05
Speaker 2: already on the rolls around California, but I'll leave that
39:08
Speaker 2: to other people to speculate on that one. Hey, finally,
39:11
Speaker 2: you know, we have the big two hundred and fiftieth
39:14
Speaker 2: anniversary of the United States of America this weekend. Very
39:18
Speaker 2: exciting stuff, you would think. But Representative Alexandria Acasio Cortez, well,
39:24
Speaker 2: she says she sympathizes with Americas who are finding it
39:27
Speaker 2: hard to be patriotic these days. Have a listen, a.
39:30
Speaker 5: Lot of people are kind of struggling with patriotism right now.
39:33
Speaker 2: What do you have to say to those folks. I
39:35
Speaker 2: have to say that no one can take America away
39:38
Speaker 2: from us. America is not you know, whoever is in
39:43
Speaker 2: charge right now.
39:45
Speaker 11: And I think that.
39:47
Speaker 9: America is such a meaningful place to the world because
39:52
Speaker 9: of precisely the kinds of struggles that we feel sometimes.
39:55
Speaker 2: Right still, it seems to me that the left can
39:58
Speaker 2: never feel good about America unless they're in power.
40:02
Speaker 9: I mean, who is not enjoying celebrating America. The only
40:07
Speaker 9: people who hate America are the anti American haters, and
40:11
Speaker 9: it's you.
40:11
Speaker 16: Know, the aocs and the DSA.
40:13
Speaker 9: Oh, nobody hates America more than DSA.
40:16
Speaker 16: Let's make that clear.
40:18
Speaker 9: So again, James, anybody who hates America, who has a
40:21
Speaker 9: hard time celebrating America's two fiftieth is anti American.
40:26
Speaker 2: I think you're absolutely right. Still, Escavator, We're gonna leave
40:29
Speaker 2: it there. Have a great Fourth of July. Celebrate America.
40:33
Speaker 2: I know I'll be doing it too. Have great Fourth
40:35
Speaker 2: of July, and we'll see you next time. Thanks for
40:37
Speaker 2: your time.
40:37
Speaker 9: Thank you.
40:38
Speaker 2: Coming off, Supergirl has gone super woke, resulting in one
40:42
Speaker 2: of the biggest box office bombs in recent memory. Writer
40:46
Speaker 2: and comedian Michael Loftis joins me next to discuss that
40:49
Speaker 2: and a whole lot. Burrower from the world of entertainment,
41:01
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the program. Well, let's get stuck into
41:04
Speaker 2: the latest entertainment news. And joining me now is writer
41:07
Speaker 2: and comedian Michael Loftis. Michael, Welcome to the program. Here,
41:11
Speaker 2: and it seems like there's not just the Fourth of
41:14
Speaker 2: July celebrations this week and in America, there's also the
41:18
Speaker 2: big celebration of the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey,
41:22
Speaker 2: which is taking place apparently at New York City's Madison
41:26
Speaker 2: Square Garden. I can't think of a more romantic venue.
41:31
Speaker 2: Page six is now revealed that the heavy couple is
41:33
Speaker 2: set to have a massive castle built within the venue
41:38
Speaker 2: for the wedding, which is set to have over one
41:41
Speaker 2: thousand guests. Michael, this seems a bit much to me
41:46
Speaker 2: or am I just you know, missing something here?
41:50
Speaker 13: I think this is the perfect recipe to doom your relationship.
41:55
Speaker 13: Like Taylor Swift, I feel bad for over here. He's
42:01
Speaker 13: gonna have his heart broken. She has to break his heart.
42:04
Speaker 13: That's how she writes records she finds guys, she breaks
42:08
Speaker 13: their heart and then she acts like she's the one
42:10
Speaker 13: who got dumped. This is a horrible affair, Like like
42:14
Speaker 13: she's gonna make the entire city of New York not
42:16
Speaker 13: happy with her. You want to get married, you want
42:19
Speaker 13: to do a private little ceremony in a chapel. I
42:22
Speaker 13: was thinking we'd build a castle in Madison Square garden
42:26
Speaker 13: and shut down a couple of city blocks. This thing,
42:30
Speaker 13: this thing is doomed.
42:31
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's so over the top, Michael, And
42:34
Speaker 2: I know, you're right, it's almost gonna be like, you know,
42:35
Speaker 2: when the United Nations comes to New York City, the
42:38
Speaker 2: entire city such down. But you're right, there is such
42:40
Speaker 2: a great possibility for her to do some sort of
42:44
Speaker 2: wordplay with the garden and the castle, and well that's
42:47
Speaker 2: gonna be a breakup song for the ages. But you
42:50
Speaker 2: know what, There's so much more to chat about him, Michael,
42:52
Speaker 2: including the apparently hugely woke Supergirl movie. I have not
42:56
Speaker 2: seen it, but that's what people are saying, which has
42:59
Speaker 2: this week had a bit of a stinker at the
43:00
Speaker 2: box office, where industry sources have suggested that the movie
43:04
Speaker 2: is set to lose over one hundred million dollars Michael,
43:09
Speaker 2: as I pointed out yesterday, maybe it's because the star
43:13
Speaker 2: said the movie appealed to its non binary audience. It
43:16
Speaker 2: was a movie for the queer community, not for all
43:20
Speaker 2: Americans and all moviegoers everywhere.
43:23
Speaker 13: Yeah, this, this Milly Alcock girl isn't doing herselves any
43:29
Speaker 13: favors by talking on the red carpet about this, that
43:31
Speaker 13: and the other. But with Supergirl, this is the movie
43:35
Speaker 13: that nobody asked for. Like, everyone knew this was gonna
43:40
Speaker 13: be a dud as soon as they heard they were
43:43
Speaker 13: doing it. They're like, look up in the sky. It's
43:45
Speaker 13: a bird, it's a plane. It's a flop. It's not
43:48
Speaker 13: gonna go well. Hollywood is like is like a restaurant
43:52
Speaker 13: and they're supposed to serve you food that you want.
43:55
Speaker 13: You got James Gunn back there making sushi with five
43:59
Speaker 13: day Old man Ai, and then Warner Brothers is slinging it,
44:03
Speaker 13: and then you've got Melly Alcock delivering it to the people,
44:05
Speaker 13: and everybody's mad at Milly. I think we got to
44:08
Speaker 13: get angry at chef James Gunn. We're serving up this
44:13
Speaker 13: girl Boss sushi that nobody wants.
44:16
Speaker 2: Well, Michael, I mean That's a really interesting analogy you
44:18
Speaker 2: make there about Hollywood and what it's serving up. Is
44:22
Speaker 2: part of Hollywood's problem that they're making not just you know,
44:25
Speaker 2: woke or non binary or whatever movies, but that they're
44:28
Speaker 2: serving up these superhero movies when people want, you know,
44:31
Speaker 2: steak free.
44:33
Speaker 13: Well, people aren't upset with superhero movies. The new Spider
44:37
Speaker 13: Man movie is tracking really well. It's gonna do well
44:40
Speaker 13: at the box office. They keep doing this girl Boss thing, right,
44:44
Speaker 13: It's like they're trying to create these movies for an
44:46
Speaker 13: audience that doesn't exist. There's no woke audience that's gonna
44:51
Speaker 13: run screaming to them. They didn't go for the last
44:54
Speaker 13: Star Wars movies, they didn't go for the Marvels, they
44:57
Speaker 13: didn't go for the Furiosa movies. They're not digging the
45:01
Speaker 13: new Amazon Lord of the Rings girl Boss. The audience
45:04
Speaker 13: just isn't there. But here comes James Gunn with a
45:07
Speaker 13: blade of rotten sushi and over the bad guy. If
45:10
Speaker 13: you say you don't like.
45:11
Speaker 2: It, yes, keep that ron sushi, that gas station sushi
45:14
Speaker 2: away for me, thanks very much. But hey, Michael, you know,
45:17
Speaker 2: also just sort of the same neighborhood here, fame TV
45:21
Speaker 2: creator Taylor Sheridan, known for shows like Yellowstone and The
45:25
Speaker 2: Fantastic Landman, has blasted TV executives and critics in a
45:30
Speaker 2: recent interview on the Bill Simmons podcast, Have a look
45:33
Speaker 2: at this.
45:35
Speaker 17: The critics and me, I don't care what they think,
45:38
Speaker 17: and it annoys out of them that I don't care.
45:41
Speaker 17: And I'll be the first to tell you that there
45:44
Speaker 17: are things I do that rage bade them a bit,
45:47
Speaker 17: and this is one of them.
45:50
Speaker 2: And he also said he would never return to LA, Like.
45:54
Speaker 17: The only way you're getting me back to Los Angeles
45:58
Speaker 17: is if it seceedes from the Union and I'm drafted
46:01
Speaker 17: into the army to take it back.
46:03
Speaker 1: I love New York.
46:04
Speaker 13: I love New York.
46:05
Speaker 17: Doesn't That city's way way stronger than whatever political wind
46:10
Speaker 17: is blowing it in any direction?
46:11
Speaker 1: Right?
46:12
Speaker 13: Whereas LA's built on sand, it ain't strong.
46:15
Speaker 17: There's no foundation there.
46:17
Speaker 2: Look, he's not wrong about New York. But some pretty
46:19
Speaker 2: strong words from Sheridan there about LA. What do you
46:21
Speaker 2: make of all that?
46:23
Speaker 13: I think? I think Taylor just looked at his bank account,
46:28
Speaker 13: and he looked at his investments, and he looked at
46:30
Speaker 13: the ratings for his latest show and he's like, oh, yeah,
46:33
Speaker 13: I can be honest here. I can let him know
46:35
Speaker 13: what I really. He's completely right. He's he's the hit maker.
46:41
Speaker 13: He doesn't need Hollywood. They need him. Why would he
46:44
Speaker 13: want to go back. He's got his own studio in Dallas.
46:48
Speaker 13: I can't believe he wants to stay in New York.
46:50
Speaker 13: I tell you what, He's going to dance a couple
46:52
Speaker 13: of rounds with mom Donnie the comedie, and he's gonna
46:55
Speaker 13: be saying the same thing about New York soud.
46:57
Speaker 2: Oh gosh. I hope not as a as a former
46:59
Speaker 2: New Yorker myself, but hey, also, Michael, I wanted to
47:02
Speaker 2: get your thoughts on Serena Williams, whose return to professional
47:05
Speaker 2: tennis was short lived after she was beaten in the
47:08
Speaker 2: first round of Wimbledon by twenty year old Australian Maya Joint. Michael,
47:13
Speaker 2: what did Serena expect? She's forty four years old.
47:15
Speaker 13: Come on, I tell you, I think this is Serena's husband.
47:21
Speaker 13: I think I think Serena's been hanging around the house
47:25
Speaker 13: since like twenty twenty two, and he just can't take
47:28
Speaker 13: it anymore. He's like, sweetheart, you're so talented. You could
47:32
Speaker 13: get back out there. I bet you could win Wimbledon.
47:34
Speaker 13: Out the door you go. I'll be at home with
47:37
Speaker 13: the kids.
47:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
47:38
Speaker 2: Most retirement aged couples, I know one of them sends
47:41
Speaker 2: the other one, I have to drive uber or something,
47:43
Speaker 2: not go do Wimbledon. But she didn't even attend the
47:47
Speaker 2: compulsory media conference that the players I thought were required
47:51
Speaker 2: to do win or lose. This strikes me as exceedingly
47:56
Speaker 2: bad sportsmanship.
47:58
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's not a classy move whatsoever. And and Serena
48:02
Speaker 13: is gonna find out that, like ultimately father time wins
48:06
Speaker 13: all these events. And yes, the rules apply to you
48:09
Speaker 13: as well. You you were once a great champion. At
48:13
Speaker 13: least at least keep some class. You can go, you
48:15
Speaker 13: can do the Q and A. It's it's gonna it's
48:18
Speaker 13: gonna be a big old fat slice a humble bye,
48:21
Speaker 13: but smile and grab a fork.
48:23
Speaker 4: Michael.
48:24
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time and your fantastic insights.
48:27
Speaker 2: A lot of fun out there in the entertainment world.
48:30
Speaker 2: Much appreciate it. Speak to you soon and stick around everybody,
48:32
Speaker 2: because newsnight is next. Bye bye,