WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 11 July 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:08.520 Lately, well late debate, Well, good evening. I'm James Macpherson 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:12.000 with Liz Storer and Joe Hildebrand coming up tonight. Fake 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.600 Picasso's discovered in a Hobart museum. We'll tell you all 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.360 about that later. Plus when we look at the papers, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.919 the depth of Tasmania's drug problem revealed, And why is 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.400 Chappelle Corby on the front page of Tomorrow's Gold Coast Bulletin. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.520 We'll get to all of that a little later, but first, 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.760 just when you thought it could not possibly get any 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.879 worse for US President Joe Biden. I mean, he had 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:39.519 that terrible debate, then Democratic lawmakers abandoned him, donors abandoned him, 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.160 the left wing media abandoned him. But it's just got 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.279 even worse. The entire cast of Ocean's eleven have now 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.920 abandoned him, or at least George Clooney has. George Clooney 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.960 wrote a devastating column in The New York Times. The 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.320 headline read, I love Joe Biden, but we need a 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.560 new nominee. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:56.800 Now. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.520 What's amazing about this column is that less than a 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.680 month ago, go George Clooney and Julia Roberts were fronts 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.440 and center of a fundraising campaign that raised thirty million 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.520 dollars to help Biden in his reelection campaign. Well, listen 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.720 to what George Clooney wrote in The New York Times yesterday. 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.200 It's devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.679 was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.559 the Joe big f and dal Biden of twenty ten. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.280 He wasn't even the Joe Biden of twenty twenty. He 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.480 was the same man we all witnessed at the debate. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:30.880 Now. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.160 I could go on reading what George Clooney said, but 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:53.000 why don't I just show you what George Clooney did. Liz. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:54.400 That pretty much sums up. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.680 Well, I don't put any more stock in celebrity disendorsements, 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:04.040 and I do celebrityments. But Clooney's clearly realized, well, let's 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.280 be gracious and say that he just realized three weeks 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.520 after raising thirty million dollars for the Dems and watching 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.720 that disastrous debate, he's clearly realized, I don't want to 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.320 be seen as backing this kid either, And in doing so, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.760 he's joined a very, very long list of people who 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:26.040 have actually knowingly lied. I mean, what a fraud We're 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.679 supposed to believe that all of a sudden, just over 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:33.000 the last three weeks, George Clooney's been like, wait a minute, 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.600 where have you been the last four years? Why this 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.480 poor old man has slurred and stumbled his way through 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:46.200 the most prestigious and important high office in the world. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.960 I don't buy for a second. He's just come to 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.520 his senses and been like, well, actually, three weeks after 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.320 raising thirty grand for the thirty million dollars for the Dems, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.080 I have to disindorse him now. I just can't go 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.800 through with it. He always knew. They all always knew, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:09.800 the mainstream media, the guy's press secretary, everyone who works 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.360 for him, his friends and family. They all knew. The 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.840 president has been struggling for a very long time. So 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.120 this pretending I'm just just had my come to Jesus moment, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.760 great act, George Clooney, that's what you do for a living. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.720 Well, I don't think he's done that at all. I 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.240 think the video is actually the most accurate representation. Clooney 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.680 hasn't just decided to He hasn't just so sat up 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.240 and I might knock out an op ed for The 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.000 New York Times. He's clearly doing this at the behest 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.160 of the Democratic Party. You have clearly asked him to 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.600 do this because they know that it's going to take 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.160 a name and as much momentum as they know that 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:49.600 will gather. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:53.000 Why have they lied for so long? Because if you are, it's. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.120 Not about not about the lying, it's just about it's 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.360 about it. It's nothing to do with the lying. It's 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.960 nothing to do with morality or honesty or this is 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:00.480 been a. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.680 Massive cover up for a very long time. Who cares 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.160 those holt Stan Who cares. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.560 They're just trying to win the next election, right, And 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.520 they thought maybe we can get away with it like 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.240 we did in twenty twenty, and we keep him in 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.960 his basement for as long as possible, stage manage his appearances. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.280 He now reached here. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.640 They've now realized there's absolutely no way they can do that. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.440 Biden's not going because he is deranged and senile, and 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.480 his handler Jill won't let him, and so they. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.920 Need to lying about it. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.440 Well, we all know, we've all seen that, yes, exactly, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:33.919 in the State of the Office. It's like saying the 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:34.760 sky is blue. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:35.080 No. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.800 This many people who were complicit in propping this poor 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.159 old man up on the world stage for years and years. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.400 I certainly like George Clooney turning around and being like, oh, 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.839 a sad state of affairs. Actually, I think we might 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.880 need someone else. Here's one of those Democratic reps, Daniel Goldman, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.159 being pressed by a reporter in the hallways of power, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.920 being like, oh, what do you make of George Clooney's comment. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:08.080 I appreciate hearing mister Flooney's opinion. And you know, we'll 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.640 continue to deal with this within our democratic family to 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:13.640 make sure that we. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.400 Beat Donald Trump as a protectivemocracy in the future. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.760 People close to President Biden are being honest about his 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.200 mental scene. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.440 Just to beat Donald Trump and protect democracy, because those 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:32.440 two terms, according to the Democrats, are synonymous. If Trump 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.599 is not beaten, that is the end of democracy. As 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.520 we know what, the world is falling apart. But speaking 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.440 of lying Democrats, let's go to a woman who does 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.160 it for a living. In fact, she's paid by the 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:49.840 American taxpayer one hundred and eighty thousand US dollars every 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.839 year to play cover up for the president. Her name 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.560 is Karine Jean Pierre. She is the Press secretary She's 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.760 going to be very familiar to you, I'm sure. So 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.839 she was asked recently. I'm about to play you this clip. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.200 She was asked recently about a visit to the White 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.240 House by a very esteemed neurologist. This visit took place 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.159 on January seventeenth. Now they knew, through they being the press, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.440 knew through the White House visitor logues that this neurologist 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.919 and Biden's personal doctor had been there at the same time. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:31.320 So the press simply asked Jean Pierre, so were these 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.719 guys there to inquire after the president's health, maybe run 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:40.600 some tests, And in typical Jean Pierre style, she dutifully 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.200 lied for the president, misleading the American people and the 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.440 rest of the world still trying to convince us. Oh no, 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.720 these two rando doctors just happened to be there hanging out. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.279 I guess I get a current. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.120 Vacation on the ladder that was not last night from 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.760 my doctor O'Connor. And you can correct me if I wrong, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.760 But it didn't seem to explicitly describe in the nature 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.200 of doctor Connor's meeting with doctor O'Connor. So can you 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.720 say whether that one meeting is related to care for 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.480 the presidents himself, I can say that. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:11.720 It was not. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:16.480 It was not very agree So their visit wasn't with 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.360 regards to Biden's health. They weren't there to check him 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.320 out or anything. Well, it turns out she lied, and 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.160 she's had to back paddle big time as it came 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.440 to light that the two doctors were indeed there to 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.320 run some tests on Biden and swap notes, she said 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.920 because the date was not mentioned in the question, I 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.520 want to be clear that on January seventeen, meeting between 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:44.440 doctor O'Connor and doctor Canned was for the president's health. Now, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.000 that is the only meeting between the two doctors that 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.000 the press could have ever been referring to, because that 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.480 is the only meeting in the White House visitors' logs 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.920 that they knew had ever happened. Ever, so for Jean 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.120 pr to now come out and say, oh no, no, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.160 I was confused. I thought you meant maybe another meeting 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:11.240 between these esteemed medical doctors. Oh, oh no, the January 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:11.760 six that's. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.360 My favorite part. Yes, you meant that meeting. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.400 Yeah, I thought you were talking about all the other 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.360 days in January where they didn't oh, you mean the 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.240 meeting in January where they did meet. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:24.520 Oh, yes, that did take place. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.440 To b Joe Biden spokes basing, it's almost a prerequisite 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.920 for the job that you are perpetually confused. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:36.680 One and eighty k K is not actually that much 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:37.840 American money. 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.560 No, no, by Australian top Australian spin doctors here would 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.560 get paid more, and I think I think our PM 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.520 actually gets paid more than the president. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.280 It's very lowly more than the average American, that's right. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.400 Because they don't have unions and minimum wages, which I'm 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:52.199 sure you would endorse. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.240 And it doesn't count to income from Chinese business people 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:56.600 Ukrainian business that's right. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.360 That's why, that's why you've got to get the lobby 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:58.959 of stuff on this. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.200 As the visitologues showed that this doctor, while he only 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.520 is recorded as meeting with Biden's personal doctor on one occasion, 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.360 this expert on Parkinson's disease visited the White House eight 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.120 times in eight months, and so Jean Pierre said, well, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.040 he was also promoting research into Parkinson's disease. They were 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.440 doing the research in the over. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.640 In the whole life of the White House. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:25.160 How can you. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.200 Research. It is absolutely speaking of the words. Do you 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.760 remember when we were worried about the age and declining 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.880 mental health of another scenior Democrat, mainly the former House 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.520 Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Well, now it seems that Nancy, who 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.880 is only marginally better at stringing a sentence together than 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:49.000 Joe Biden, has has basically she's came out in recent 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:53.560 days and said, Joe Biden needs to decide whether he's 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.400 running for president or not. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:56.240 It's up to him. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.920 And this surprised a lot of people because Joe Biden 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.240 has said on multiple occasions that he has decided and 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.440 he is running for president. Maybe Pelosi hasn't, maybe Nancy 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.520 hasn't renewed her subscription to The New York Times, but 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.400 very much on the record, and so a lot of 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.400 people said, well, clearly this is Nancy Pelosi's not quite 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.240 as articulate as George Clooney, but clearly this is Nancy 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.160 Pelosi saying that Biden shouldn't run, or at very least 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.120 perhaps Joe Biden should have run, which indeed is what 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.200 she seemed to be saying when she was saying what 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.200 she wasn't saying about him needing to make a decision 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.280 when he'd already made the opposite decision, but she just 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.640 pretended that he hadn't made a decision. So, in case 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.360 this wasn't crystal clear to all and sundry, here's Nancy 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.840 Pelosi clarifying it for a reporter who's trying to find 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:52.400 out just what exactly she is trying to say. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:53.040 About, do you want to get you a three election? 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.760 I'm made, I'm. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:00.920 About pining a. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:05.040 Cap They now in the folly amazing is it? That 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:10.520 was Nancy Pelosi's impersonation of an American abroad in any 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.760 non English speaking con Do you speak English? Do you 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:19.080 speak English in your country Australia. It's just un level. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.760 But anyway, point being, the Clooney hit job was not 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.240 just Clooney having a come to Jesus moment. Clearly there 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.800 is an orchestrated campaign being run by every Democrat under 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.440 the sun to send out these people, one after the other, 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.120 after the other after the other, to just drop the bombs. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.560 And then of course they have their ass covering sort 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.480 of catch all, which is that, oh well, no, I 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.240 didn't say that he should resign. I just said he 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.400 should consider his future or whatever whatever whatever. Clooney doesn't 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.640 have to do that, of course, because he's not actually 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.520 an elected member of Congress or the Senate, so he's 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.480 got more leeway to be able to say, Joe, just go. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.000 But clearly there is a full on someone top absolutely 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.600 that Joe Biden had all the momentum of Kevin Rudd 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:57.240 in twenty ten. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.720 It's a hit job. I mean, Clooney lives in France 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.520 for first year and second, you know, he says that 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.920 it was clear at the fundraiser three weeks ago. Well 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.560 then why didn't he speak up immediately because we're trying 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.320 to protect democracy? But he waited until fifty two million 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.520 people who watched live the debate had all seen the 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.800 same thing before he bravely spoke up. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:19.760 Told her by the DNC. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.439 That's exactly. That's why for Pelosi, I mean her claim 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.320 that I don't make comments in the hallway, Well she 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.520 does if it's to trash Donald Trump all about Joe Biden. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.200 And then politicians get accosted in the hallway, and always 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.920 she says to the black reporter, am I not speaking English? 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.200 Could you imagine if Donald Trump said that to an 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.120 American reporter or a woman? I mean, there would be 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.680 hell to pay. But my favorite part of that interview 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.680 is she's saying, you know, I'm sure Biden can win, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.800 but her tone of voice and her body language says 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.880 the exact opposite. She's a woman who knows they're in 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:57.480 all sorts. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:57.760 Yeah. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.120 And this is the closest that Nancy has has come 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.360 to being like, look, maybe there is a problem. Just 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.360 so you can watch it yourself. Here she is on 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:10.040 the MSNBC saying, oh, Biden has to make up his 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.439 own mind. As Joe said, long after Biden has just 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.160 kept on announcing I'm running. I'm staying in the race. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.480 There's no getting rid of me. Does he have your 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.320 support to be the head of the Democratic ticket? 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.840 As long as the president had the president, it's up 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.000 to the president to sucide if he is going to run. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:34.240 We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.000 is running short to subside. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.839 Not if they're not encouraging him to stay, that's board. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.600 They're encouraging him to make a decision, a decision that 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.520 he's already that's right. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.080 And it is can't stress enough. It's like, even if 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.440 you have one Democrat saying to a sitting president. Don't. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.440 The last time this happened was with Lyndon Johnson in 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.880 nineteen sixty eight, which turned out very very poorly, by 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.880 the way, and you know, and he pulled out of 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.200 the race. He said, right, if a single person is 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.880 not going to is not going to back me, or 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.520 the party leadership is not going to back me off, 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.400 there's going to be a move against me, against me, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.280 screw you. I'm out of there. And that is what 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.199 you do. That's how big a deal it is if 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.280 a party moves against an incumbent president as the candidate 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.680 for the next election, you know, four more years. So 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.600 but again there's a couple so there's absolutely no ambiguity 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.560 or question that these people are all telling Biden to 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.400 go and to go. Now. The most amazing thing, though, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.760 is can you just imagine when it's Nancy Pelosi telling 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.880 someone that they are too old and infirm to serve 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.600 in public. I would listen. I would listen because this 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.440 is someone knows, because there's someone who knows from deep, 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.520 deep experience. Now, this is just someone that this is 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.480 coming from a place of true empathy. And they're also 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.800 big ice cream lovers as well. I think you'll remember. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.840 What you said earlier is so true that I mean, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.680 I always thought, how can Nancy Pelosi still be front 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.080 and center? But now compared to Joe Biden, she's practiced 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:06.080 good right. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.280 He has a long and making out in the back 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:09.480 of the Cadillac come. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.920 Longman, promising ahead of her. Well, Joe Biden is not 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.160 the only man in the world with problems. Plenty of 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.760 guys in Australia have problems. An article in the press 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.960 today told how ossie blokes are spending fifteen hundred dollars 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:27.920 to go on mail only retreats to tackle their toxic masculinity. Now, 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.320 at these retreats, these guys get into ice baths, sit 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:36.400 around fire circles, discussing all of their vulnerabilities, crying with 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.840 each other, and apparently this is supposed to help. Now 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.280 we may talk seriously about some of the issues men 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.120 are facing in a moment, but this is not simply 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.600 unique to Australia. That article from the Career Mail, But 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.960 check out this video of a similar men's retreat where 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.400 the guys are just helping each other to connect with 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:55.840 their real masculinity. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:23.000 Clean my soule, Lena cry. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:19.480 With the joy and the soul, the fear. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:29.840 Let myself cry. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.880 I got that retreat costs ten thousand dollars to go 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.880 on that and completely lose all self respect. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.000 Can I just say if I just paid ten thousand 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.200 dollars for that experience, I would be crying too. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.080 I think a lot of guys back up. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:49.840 I think they call that bs war. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.200 I mean, clearly there are issues with guys, right, I 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.680 mean that the Australian Health Department recently reported one in 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.800 eight men in this country suffer depression at some point 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.240 when it comes to education with males, the labor market, 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.240 addiction rates. There's lots of problems with guys. But I 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.959 don't think they need to redefine masculinity. It'd be good 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:11.320 if they rediscovered them. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:16.320 Masculin's here, Oh my goodness. I mean the amount of 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.359 things that are now told to men. You must be this, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.399 you can't be that, and inevitably everything in the can't 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:28.520 aisle is everything masculine. It's what women want. We want 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.080 men to please be. Men don't hang out and cry 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.840 together and sob and hold each other in some ten. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.520 Thousand tollar Do you not find that attractive? 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.400 So repulsive and repugnant. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.960 There there is a little bit of Stanley. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:48.680 There is genuinely the testosterone levels of men, look this up. 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:54.159 Has been decreasing over decades now because the stuff we 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:59.159 have in our water, food, in our environment. This is 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:03.040 something that has knowingly, willingly being done. And I genuinely 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.960 believe it's because what government sphere more than anything is 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.000 healthy testosterone filled men. Because those guys aren't too busy 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.840 to take on the establishment. Those guys are keeping a 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.920 finger on the pulse. No, they are, and they take 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:18.440 the fight to injustice. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.640 And the government is the government is deliberately reducing. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.720 The levels of Why is it Why is it in 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.920 our food? Why are men fed things that have been 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.600 shown through studies to reduce testosterone? 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.359 The goverment, the men are going out and buying this 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:35.439 that they're feeding themselves. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:40.440 We can still do that, tested the strength of men's hands. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.639 The government, the government doing that was the last your 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.160 heads on for the government come out and start feeding your. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.680 Have things in our water that are affecting testosterone levels. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:50.760 Do you not agree with that? 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.160 I do not know what is in the water affecting 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.720 testosterone levels. My wife, My wife is the one who 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.920 does that at my house, but I just love like. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:02.760 Here's here's some other things we need to talk about. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:02.960 Right. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.600 Firstly, this is in America, but it would be similar 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.639 to Australia. Thirty one percent of boys grow up without 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.760 a biological father. That's certainly contributing to troubles that males 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.560 are having. And it seems to me these retreats, and 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.200 I'm not making a direct parallel at all, but you 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.639 used to go to church for self reflection, for a 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.919 sense of community, to talk to people about where you're at. 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.000 These days we don't, and so we've got people doing no. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.000 People talk about that really seriously. They talk about what's 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.240 called the third place, and this is something that they 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.680 actually is coming too. This review of schools where where 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.480 you've got home, you've got schools slash work when an adult, 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.960 and then you used to have the third place, where 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.120 it be church or it might be you know, boy 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.159 scouts or community organization, sporting a sporting team that you 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.400 would do and that would give you other sense of community. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.160 So you know, the family didn't have to do everything, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.160 the school didn't have to do everything, and the church 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.520 or whatever other organization didn't have to do everything. But 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.959 between those things, You've got what you needed. And as 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.440 we're going into a much more sort of secular society 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.880 and where people I suppose and not participating in other 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:08.680 community events as much. Line, So it's a big it's 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.119 a big problem for educators as well, because, for example, 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.639 suddenly the school is meant to do all the things 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:16.760 that every other organization. 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:21.760 Schools are basically parenting kids. Governments are making lunch. In Queensland, 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.920 they've just announced we're going to provide lunch for kids. 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:25.720 And I mean mum and dad used to do that. 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.359 Now the schools are doing right, But let's go back 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.080 to the ice parts and fire circles. Can I just 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.840 stress right, this is a courier male storry. Yeah, it's 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.360 a creer malester queens Queensland. This is Queensland men. These 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:42.600 are Queenslanders who are paying one thousand, five hundred. 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:48.520 Southeast queens If this is what's happening in Queensland, this 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.280 is what Queensland men are doing, imagine what the Victorians are. 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.560 Although, to be fair for the men, it's not just 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.560 the men. Check out a similar retreat. This one's in 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.560 bar where women go to do I guess the female 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:24.280 version it's like an exorcism, but a witch instead of 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.719 a priest. And I'm pretty sure the demons are entering, 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.080 not exiting. I mean, who pays for this stuff? You 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:31.280 can scream for free. 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.000 At home, exactly. This is the old thing. If you 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.320 want to see a screaming woman and a bloke completely 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.760 just deprived of testosterone, come to my place. You can 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:39.720 see it for free. 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.479 But one minute you're fighting that it isn't lowered levels 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:44.280 of testosteron. 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:46.919 No, I'm just not sure that. 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:49.200 I'm just not sure that it's the water. I suspect 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.000 it's probably an evolutionary trend that's the result of us 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.000 not having to go out, and that is and has. 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:57.760 Been absolutely disproven. 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.000