WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 3 December 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:04.440 On scolds as Kodia. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.200 This is the Reader Panalty Show. 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.600 Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panicky Show. Coming 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.960 up tonight. Foreign billionaires funneling money to a taxpayer funded 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:21.400 activist body to block Australian energy projects, The unintended consequences 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.200 of Labour's under sixteen social media band. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.320 Senator Alex Antik will join me shortly to discuss Queensland 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.440 Premier David Prisso Fooley under pressure to review. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.320 The state's radical gender laws, and will take a close 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.479 look at the extraordinary scope of the Hunter Biden pardon 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.680 and what it means for President Joe Biden's legacy. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.199 Josh Hammer will join me shortly and Left. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.120 Is Losing It features I rate hosts of the View 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.040 having to issue yet another correction under legal advice. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.080 Of course, I have a fairy quick smart and it's 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.800 not got be that quick. Pete had said has denied 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:01.680 any wrongdoing. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.840 But first, it's early in the week, but we've already 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.000 had two apologies. We've had one from the foreign to 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.600 owned Australian venue company, the nation's second largest pub group, 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.840 has apologized for its anti Australia Day activism. I'll be 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.199 speaking to Senator Alex Antick about that shortly, about whether 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.920 we should accept that apology and how to counter corporate 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.360 virtue signaling. And this week we've also had an apology 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.280 from Senator Lydia Thorpe. The former Green has apologized to 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.800 Senator Pauline Hanson for calling her a convicted racist during 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:40.520 a press conference last week. This is after Senator Hanson issued. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:41.360 A legal threat. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.400 Thorpe's apologized in a letter to Senator Hanson and also 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.120 apologized publicly on the social media platform X. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:50.520 Channel nine and the. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:55.760 ABC have also apologized for airing the defamatory comments. Let's 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.320 bring in News Corps Senior writer Patrick Carlin and Patrick. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.120 This apology from Lydia Thought must have been a painful one. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.480 She gets away with so much, but the threasher of 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.080 legal actions saw her apologize and apologize very quickly. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.480 Yes, look, she got it wrong. She had to apologize, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.200 and I think it was what two sentences or about 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.960 six words on X that actually constituted the apology. She 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.600 obviously didn't want to do it, but I think it 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.360 just goes to the biggest story of Lydia thought. You 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.720 look at King Charles, when was that about a month ago. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.760 I think that was the moment where perhaps Australia said 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.239 hang on, enough is enough. And I think she sort 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.000 of jumped the shark at that point. And I think, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.400 you know, you're getting apologies, you're getting finger gestures in 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.320 the Senate, you're getting papers thrown around. She seems you're 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.880 getting angrier and even less constructive than she was. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.800 I think she has to do herself these days. Because 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.880 she had the big stunt with King Charles, got so 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:52.640 much international attention. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.080 She was on every TV network in the UK, and 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:56.480 I think. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:57.040 She misses that. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.000 I think she wants a bit more of that kind 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.800 of attentions. I think the type where any attention is 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:07.480 good attention, whether it's negative or not. Now, this disturbing 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.560 report was in Today's Daily Telegraph on the billionaire widow 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:16.240 of Apple's Steve Jobs leading a foreign charge to funnel 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.960 money to the taxpayer funded activist body, the Environmental Defenders Offers, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.640 which tries to block Australian energy projects in court. It 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:30.160 often succeeds in delaying or stopping these projects. It's emerged 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.160 the foundation, launched by Lourene Jobs as well as American 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:39.640 clothing giant Patagonia, two of the top foreign contributors to 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.240 the Environmental Defenders. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.800 Offers doesn't amount to foreign interference. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.720 Patrick, Look, possibly, I think the problem with this is 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.840 the government doesn't know who is funding the EDO. The 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.760 IDEO is going to court. They're making up stories according 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.920 to this last ruling, trying to you know, they're acting 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.680 like activists, like political operative to actually shut down big projects, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.640 big jobs, and it's ideologically driven, and they are being 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.640 funded by people we don't know the full situation with. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.520 They could be funded as has been outed by a 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:18.200 foreign government that seeks to sort of undermine Australia's energy security. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.320 And the fact the problem is a they're activists and 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.680 b the government doesn't know it who's funning them. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.800 And another problem is we're also funding And I don't 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.159 understand why a single cent of tax payer money goes 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:35.080 into impoverishing us, into stopping much needed projects, particularly when 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.200 it comes to energy, because we are paying some of 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.400 the highest energy costs anywhere in the world despite having 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.600 abundant reserves of everything coal. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.040 Gas, uranium. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.599 A report by the Business Counsel of Australia has ranked 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.839 you'll be shocked to hear this Atric Victoria as the 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.560 worst state to run a business. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:57.400 Who would have thought that. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.720 BCA Chief executive Brand Black said that Victoria must address 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.600 its regulatory environment, which is putting a handbreak on the economy. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.400 He also said Victoria has some of the least competitive 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:16.720 property tax settings, payroll taxes and business business licensing requirements 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.640 in the country. It fundamentally needs to look at how 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:24.760 these are holding back its economy. Yes, we've got also 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.120 the biggest state debt by some margin. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:29.840 South Australia, which is. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:34.080 The country's most efficient planning system, came in at number one. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.560 I think that would surprise a few people. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.919 Oh look, it's not a shock that Victoria has been bad. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.400 Melbourne is called the fourth most livable city in the world. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.039 It's not in the top four Liverpool cities in Australia 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.960 at the moment. This is just more of what Melbournians 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.239 already known. It is not a good place to do business. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.640 It is not a good place to own a house, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.520 or run a restaurant or do anything. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.800 Everything invest We've got the number of mum and dad 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:07.040 property investors selling out. You've got small business owners who 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:12.800 are fleeing, and those state taxes, the payroll tax and 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.240 the land taxes are just skyrocketing. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.080 They're goudgets and it sort of takes you back to 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.400 nineteen ninety in Melbourne. We had the recession, we had 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.120 a long term labor government that had completely buggered up 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.760 the numbers for a long time, and back in nineteen 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.720 ninety we had to wait until nineteen ninety two to 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.640 actually vote out that government of the day. We're in 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.880 the same position now. There is no blue sky ahead. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:36.520 At this stage. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.920 We're two years away from a state election. Nobody's happy, 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.839 everybody's miserable, and it just feels like Melbourne really is 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.800 on the nose in such a such a really tangible way. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.080 At least back then, the Victorian people had the option 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.159 of a different party with a very different set of 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:59.120 policies and a very strong leader. We had a Jeff 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.960 Kennett on that and he was voted in and he 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.240 transformed the state under his time there. Whether you loved 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.400 him or hated him, he definitely had a strong impact. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.640 We don't have a Jeff Kennett in the Liberal Party now. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.960 We've got John Pursuit. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.200 On and that's part of the problem, isn't it. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:15.640 That's almost part of the problem. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.800 Yes, I was talking to a liberal person the other 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.560 day who's talking about Pursuito being knocked off. And we're 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.000 going to have this person or that person. You've got 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.720 the defamation case coming out soon. That's going to distract 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.480 and suck up so much oxygen. We need a decent 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.720 opposition more than ever. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.200 You can't have good government without having a decent opposition, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.760 and we certainly have neither of those things in Victoria. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.280 Before you go, Patrick a report from Sky News his 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.960 own Caroline Marcus on Sydney University referring one of its 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.680 own academics to the police after he posted online threats 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.160 about a Jewish group and Sky News Australia hosts, including myself, 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.600 But the university says it cannot sack this character because 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.280 the threats were made in a personal capacity. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.040 Joel Griggs wrote on. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.520 X of the Australian Jewish Association in August that the 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:13.880 AJA r a fascist terror cell. If the government isn't 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.000 going to move on these dangerous psychopaths, can we maybe 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.400 pull something together on Twitter? Could it be too hard 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.760 to find out where these people live? That's disturbing? He 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.800 also replied to a Sky in his Australia post on 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.680 X featuring Andrew Bolt saying will get you one day. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:36.520 He also called Andrew Bolt, myself, Rowland Dean, Peter Credlin, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:43.400 traitorous scum and great deal more there. Ah, dear me, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:49.880 he sounds like a charming learned fellow. Indeed, Australian academia 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.559 this is this is a little bit disturbing. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.120 I've got to say, look, all of it is disturbing. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.840 He's made bold threats against a number of people and 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.960 the university says, well, has nothing to do with us, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.720 even though we employ I think on a casual basis. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.520 But it's been there for a long time from what 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.560 I've read, and he's sitting there. You have to wonder 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.640 all the sort of post made after midnight or there's 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.120 something that they are very disturbing, and they are threats. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.679 I think just as disturbing is that someone's academic future 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.400 could be in the hands of individuals like this. 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.280 Patrick Carline, thanks for your time tonight. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.800 Joining me now is South Australian Liberal Senator Alex Antiq 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:31.760 Alex the foreign owned pup chain, Australian venues Co, the 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.760 Band Australia Day celebrations and it's two hundred plus venues 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.480 across the country is now issued an apology for causing 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.960 what it calls concern and confusion. And of course this 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.400 apology only came after there was a massive backlash and 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.319 calls for boycotts. Let's roll the list of the venues 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:57.000 this mob operates, Alex. It seems these corporate virtue signals 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:02.080 signalers have learned nothing from the war referendum that continue 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.760 to play these divisive political games. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.480 Yeah, reader, I mean it seems that the sort of 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.719 the life cycle of wokenness now for the corporates is 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.560 about twenty four hours, because that's about how long it 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.319 took to turn the whole thing around, getting increasingly quick, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.920 and it's just staggering that any of them are still 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.400 continuing to push these kind of agendas. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:26.840 Through their businesses. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.040 I mean, it's bizarre. Michael Jordan, of course famously once 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.920 said when he was asked why he wasn't more politically 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.720 involved words to the effect of well Republicans by sneakers too. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.520 But in twenty twenty four in these sort of businesses 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.640 are learning that lesson very very slowly. I think my 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.439 advice to them would be, if you're sitting around the 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.360 bordroom table and you've got your advertising people there in future, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.600 just do the opposite of what they suggest and you'll 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.360 probably be on a winner. Otherwise you're going to end 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.520 up down the same track as as Gillette and with 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.520 their toss toxic masculinity campaign you remember for a few 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.760 years back, and then bud Light last year, who also 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:14.760 on the receiving in they're very slow learners, reader, very. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.160 We've seen that right here in Australia only last year, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:21.480 where there was a lot of there were boycotts, but 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:26.200 people were upset by the big corporates getting involved in 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:32.800 the Voice referendum, advocating for one side exclusively and almost 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.920 putting pressure on their customers, their staff, their stakeholders to 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.000 vote a certain way in a divisive referendum and they 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.480 were on the wrong side it turned out. And they 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.640 haven't seemed to have learned anything. It'll be interesting to 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.920 see if this is forgiven and forgotten or people like 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.600 the bud Light experience going to say, stuff your apology, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.959 We're going to go elsewhere. There's lots of options when 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.199 it comes to pubs and clubs now, Alex the Albaneza 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.040 government did have a big win last week passing a 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.760 world first social media band for under sixteens. You were 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.600 one of the few in the coalition to vote against 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:14.960 this bill and this legislation it's not really hair brained 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.640 alex ideologically. It is confused, to say the least, and 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:24.080 it comes with a whole bunch of unintended consequences. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.800 Tell me you know this bill better than most. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.800 How is a sixty five year old going to establish 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.480 there over sixteen so they can use Facebook without submitting 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:40.680 to digital ID or providing their passport or driver's license 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.839 to the social media site to identify themselves. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.160 Well, this of course was the subject of what very 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.440 limited debate we had last week on the bill, which 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.040 was one of the main problems. I mean, this was 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.320 extraordinarily complicated stuff that was rushed through in about an hour. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.600 We were lucky to get that as labor busted through 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.600 about thirty bills at the end of the week. So 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.600 that was one of the questions. The answer is less 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.160 clear though, it has to be said, if it's not 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.480 digital ID, which I think it still can be by 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.719 the way, I don't think that's been completely ruled out 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.440 by the amendment that was made. And it's not handing 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.960 over documents. Then what is it? Well, I asked that question, 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.199 and of course the answer to that is biometrics. These 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.920 companies are going to scan our faces, our children's faces, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.679 and use that information to determine how old you are, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.760 and if you're close, if there will obviously be a 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.240 margin of error, then they'll start asking the questions. And 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.760 I mean, I don't know about anyone else, but that 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.160 alone is enough for me to have crossed the floor 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.000 on this. So I just can't support that. I can't 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.400 support the speed with which it went through. We got 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.080 the bill on a Thursday, It went to a very 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.920 brief three hour Senate hearing on the Monday, The bill 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.480 came to us on the Tuesday, and it was passed 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.320 shortly after that. So, I mean, you know, by the way, though, 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.640 we found time during that week to do all sorts 0:13:54.640 --> 0:14:00.079 of other things, censure motions and suspending people and you know, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.400 you know, valedictory speeches, but when it came to actually 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:08.560 drilling down into this world first piece of censorship law, 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.040 we didn't have the time. So what's going on up 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.040 in that building, I don't know. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.400 I do wonder if it's ever going to be implemented 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:22.479 given the massive issues with having any sort of adherence 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.960 to this that is palatable to people because I think 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.040 this is a sort of policy, particularly for those who 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.280 don't really use social media, which sounds good in theory. 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.600 Oh yes, social media does harm to under sixteen. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:35.520 Let's ban it. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.000 But as soon as you start scrutinizing the policy, you 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:44.120 see it's comes with huge issues. What do you if 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.440 the coalition wins, the coalition back this, most of the 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.720 MP's back this, will you be implementing it? And will 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.080 that mean that you're going to give the Office of 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.520 the e Safety Commissioner even more power? 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.160 Well, I mean I hope not. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.840 But this has passed. It will go through an implementation 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.240 phase bureaucratics speak for let's see if we can make 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.720 it work. And the idea is that it'd been in 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.720 force by twenty twenty six. So what the hurry was 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.840 the last sitting week of the year is anybody's guest. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.640 But you know the answer to that is we don't know. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.160 I mean, there are so many things we don't know. 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.320 Within a space of a week, we were told YouTube 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.440 was out, snapchat was in, then snapchat was in, and 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.200 YouTube was out. So I mean, I don't think anybody 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.080 really knows how this is going to work, or if 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.480 it's going to work, and if it's going to fix 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.880 this problem that we're talking about, which we're all sympathetic 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.200 to kids getting bullied online. No one wants that. But 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.120 the problem is throwing out the baby with the bath 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.920 water here. And the other problem is kids are getting 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:46.040 legitimate news sources from social media. There are many kids 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.480 in remote locations that use this as a way of interacting, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.920 and there are many kids with learning difficulties that rely 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.960 on a lot of these products as well. So look, 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.840 I don't know if it's workable. I doubt that it 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.760 will be, but we're we're going to let the bureaucrats 0:15:58.800 --> 0:15:59.680 take it from here over to you. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:15:59.960 Boy. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.280 Yeah, this is just SoC shortsighted. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.720 And you're right, people, kids, people. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.360 Of all ages get their news from social media, even 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.920 if it's coming through a mainstream media network. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.680 And I'd much rather kids. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:21.120 Be watching podcasters on YouTube than I don't know, exclusively 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.720 reading The Guardian or the ABC. They probably have a 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.200 much more nuanced view of the world if they were 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:32.160 watching YouTube as opposed to the ABC. Before you go, Alex, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.560 I want to get your thoughts on the ABC cheir 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:42.040 Kim Williams and his bizarre attack against podcaster Joe Rogan, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:47.960 saying he's deeply repulsive and other slurs. He's now labeled 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:52.760 the backlash against him as demonic. This man is prone 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.280 to a bit of hyperbole, isn't he? What do you 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.680 make of this entire bizarre episode. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.680 When I first read it, I could be wrong about this, 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.040 but I read that he didn't really know much about 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.240 Joe Rogan but then found him deeply repulsive or whatever 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.160 the language was, which was current contradictory in its first step. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.720 But he clearly hasn't watched or listened to the Joe 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.280 Rogan experience. I mean, Joe Rogan is the sort of 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.000 guy who probably would share a lot of fairly left 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.680 wing views libertarian views as well. I mean, he backed 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.000 Donald Trump, but I don't know whether or not the 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.600 left are now punishing him for that. Maybe who knows, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.520 But I don't see anything other than pretty considered, pretty sensible, 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.080 and very very interesting commentary coming from there. I would 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.560 spend more of my time listening to the Joe Rogan 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.880 experience than I would opening up a newspaper or listening 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.159 to talkback radio in this country and state, to be 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.600 absolutely honest, and that's what the kids are doing. They're 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.360 picking up their news that the generation, by the way 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.840 that we were told had a ten second attention span 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.200 and now listening to three hour deep dive discussions about 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.280 serious subjects. So what's deeply repulsive about that is is 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.280 anyone's guests. I think it'd do mister Williams the world 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:04.760 of good to actually go and have a listen to 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.000 one of these podcasts might change his mind. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.439 He embarrassed himself and I think he really put into 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.399 question whether he is fit for that role. He seems 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.040 to be so completely out of touch with the modern 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.200 media environment and how people consume news, and to make 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:27.560 those sorts of comments about a personality whose work you 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.320 don't even know. Again, you've got to question his judgment. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.800 Listen to a podcast and then if that's your opinion, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:38.120 at least it comes from an informed position. Senator Alex Antick, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:39.760 thank you so much for your time this evening. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:41.560 Thanks reader. 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:47.560 Still to come, A Lefty's Losing Ed plus the extraordinary scope. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.480 Of the Hunter Biden pardon and what it means for 0:18:50.560 --> 0:19:01.560 President Joe Biden's a legacy. Josh Hammer has the details. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.600 Welcome back now it's time for lefties losing it And 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.360 another day, another apology delivered by Sonny. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.120 Houston on The View. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.239 You know these are happening so often that I'm not 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.080 even featuring them all on this segment, but this one 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:23.119 was particularly bitter and passive aggressive, so I had to share. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.480 I see you, I see you over there. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.480 I have a very quick sess and it's not gonna 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.639 be that quick. Pete head Seth has denied any wrongdoing. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.680 His lawyer said he paid the woman in twenty twenty 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.320 three to head off the threat of a basis lawsuit. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.359 No charges were ever brought. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:50.879 You rushed me for that. They're not a happy bunch, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:52.399 are they? Not much joy there? 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.840 And remember when the Democrats tried to gaslight America in 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.280 the world with the lie that they were the Party 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.320 of joy, when we we all know they're the party 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.480 of grievance, hysteria and screechy sounds. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.879 We will go back what are we not going back to? 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:13.040 We're not going back to the past where women had 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.440 no rights everever whatever to. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.760 A young man now desperate to play the victim, here 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:24.399 is an American climate activist just bagging his country. 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.640 I've got to say, dude, you know you're free to leave. 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:31.320 I come from a country where we ban books for 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.040 sport and where we tell children to hide in the 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.840 corners to avoid the shooters. I come from a place 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.800 where we bully LGBTQ kids in schools, and where we 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.560 are actively taking away women's rights. I come from the 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:47.520 United States. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.960 We have a lot to be grateful for after the 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.840 US presidential election, including being spared the pain of having 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.199 this young last shove down our throats for the next 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:07.320 four years. Here is almost first daughter, radical leftist activist 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:08.119 Ella M. 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:12.680 Hoff. You sim girl, Sam, I can't even believe you 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:14.040 know who I am and I'm are you. 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:14.639 You cant believe me real? 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:15.159 Are you? 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:16.040 Well? 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.800 You are like a breath of fresh air. Every kid 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.560 I know is just like he knows your name is 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:21.480 singing your praises. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.800 The way that you play with fashion and just unabattedly 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.760 yourself is the most exciting thing I've ever seen. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.000 The most exciting thing she's ever seen. 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.919 Seriously, and if you like most saint people have no 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.440 idea who that woman is. She's Jenna Lyon, someone told 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.119 me that I have no idea who she is, to 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.600 be honest with you. Let's see now from American Democrat 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:45.560 Party strategist. 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:48.480 Julie Riginsky, who thinks she's going. 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.840 To stop the military from deporting illegal migrants. 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.080 Promise you with every fiber of my being, because I'll 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.960 probably be one of those people that if anybody comes 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.119 to these people and tries to drag them out by force, 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.960 be protests of people like me, American citizens who are 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.399 going to stand there and do everything possible to prevent 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.160 these women and children, which is all who these people are. 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.160 Remember when they found that cocaine in the. 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:14.840