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