Speaker 1: On scorn Lands Australia.
Speaker 2: This is the Wader Panicky Show.
Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the reader Panicky Show. Coming
Speaker 3: up tonight. Your taxes funding neither classes for bureaucrats. Patrick
Speaker 3: Carline will be here to discuss that and much more.
Speaker 4: The politicization of the.
Speaker 3: Australian curriculum is back in the headlines, including a requirement
Speaker 3: to incorporate indiculous dance into MAT's classes.
Speaker 4: Colleen Harkin joins me.
Speaker 3: Shortly, the back between President Trump and cos Zelenski intensifies
Speaker 3: as the Ukrainian leader declares the end of the war
Speaker 3: is very far away. Kosher Gator will break down their
Speaker 3: latest and later in the hour they always droll. Alex
Speaker 3: Stein will bring us some good news from the US
Speaker 3: southern border. The illegal immigration crisis is over.
Speaker 4: To take long, did it?
Speaker 3: And of course your favorite segment and mine left his
Speaker 3: losing it featuring the most nominated film at yesterday's Oscars,
Speaker 3: a Mexican musical about a transgender cartel leader.
Speaker 4: I wish I was kidding.
Speaker 2: Man to woman from Pstuina.
Speaker 4: Is it for you for Me? Yes?
Speaker 3: That got thirteen nominations. Can't imagine why people aren't going
Speaker 3: to the movies nowadays.
Speaker 4: But let's start with the Day's a big stories.
Speaker 3: And the same fringe indigenous group that brought down the
Speaker 3: billion dollar Regis gold mine has now set its sights
Speaker 3: on Mount Panama Rama, the home of the iconic Bathurst
Speaker 3: one thousand. The Worried Jury Traditional Owner's Central West Aboriginal
Speaker 3: Corporation launched a bid to have the peak of Mount
Speaker 3: Panorama declared a sacred State Heritage site after its scattered
Speaker 3: the ashes of former member Uncle Brian Grant there in
Speaker 3: late twenty two. Bathurst A Local Aboriginal Land Council Chief
Speaker 3: Executive Tony Lee Scott has hit out at this rebel group,
Speaker 3: saying the proposal had been made without informing the Land
Speaker 3: Council even though it is the legislated cultural authority.
Speaker 4: Of that region.
Speaker 3: The local Aboriginal Land Council had criticized Tanier Plibask last
Speaker 3: year when she used the fringe group submission to block
Speaker 3: the Regious gold mine that will cost the hundreds of
Speaker 3: well paying jobs for that region, as well as around
Speaker 3: two hundred million dollars in royalties.
Speaker 4: For New South Wales.
Speaker 3: Joining me now for more on this is News Corps
Speaker 3: Senior writer Patrick Carli and Patrick, will we see the
Speaker 3: minister side with this fringe group again? I do wonder,
Speaker 3: And if scattering ashes in twenty twenty two is going
Speaker 3: to be grounds for declaring an area an Indigenous heritage site,
Speaker 3: then I can see that causing a few issues.
Speaker 5: This is game changing with its audacity, isn't it. When
Speaker 5: you think of sacred, you think ancient, you think of caves,
Speaker 5: you think of trees or whatever. The ashes were scattered
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two, that's two three years ago, basically
Speaker 5: the man's ashes. It wasn't even born or raised in
Speaker 5: bass from what I read. It's such an audacious claim.
Speaker 5: If it is successful, it actually opens the door to
Speaker 5: actually laying ashes wherever and saying this is a sacred
Speaker 5: site because we laid our ashes here last week or
Speaker 5: last year. I mean, it's ridiculous. It is utterly ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Well remains to be seen if there's any other grounds
Speaker 3: for this claim. But as we know with the Region's
Speaker 3: gold mine, we still don't actually know why that was rejected.
Speaker 3: There's really not clarity on that decision. And that was
Speaker 3: such a momentous decision Patrick, A billion dollar project, all
Speaker 3: these well paying jobs for a regional area that desperately
Speaker 3: needs them, and enormous amount of money going to New
Speaker 3: South Wales in loyalties.
Speaker 4: Premier means was a gas.
Speaker 3: The Prime Minister didn't seem to be on board, and
Speaker 3: yet Tania Plebusk made this decision.
Speaker 5: I think anyone who's looked at that closely would be
Speaker 5: a ghast. I mean, the argument was the Blue Banded
Speaker 5: B and the story of the Blue Banded B. Now
Speaker 5: apparently no one can trace that story back any further
Speaker 5: than twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: Again, twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5: Beggars belief that these massive projects that do they provide jobs,
Speaker 5: they provide royalties, Everything was done properly in terms of
Speaker 5: the application at the twelve hour basically was kibosh over
Speaker 5: a story which honestly sounds like it's complete nonsense.
Speaker 3: Well, even people within the indigenous community, people associated with
Speaker 3: the Visual Land Council, have come to that determination, but
Speaker 3: the Minister has sided with this group.
Speaker 4: So here we are now.
Speaker 3: It's been revealed that the federal government has spent more
Speaker 3: than twenty five thousand on drama classes for just thirteen
Speaker 3: Services of Australia employees in an effort to teach them
Speaker 3: how to communicate with empathy.
Speaker 4: The government agency listed the National Institute of.
Speaker 3: Dramatic Arts neither to provide the training for its top
Speaker 3: ranking leaders across two days. So that's that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: That's twenty five thousand dollars for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: Probably was a nice little junket or away from the office.
Speaker 4: Not a great use of our money.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have thought, surely you can communicate with empathy
Speaker 3: without prancing around in a nier class, probably doing interpretive dance.
Speaker 5: I was on the phone to Services Australia this morning
Speaker 5: just oh were they They were not very empathetic. I
Speaker 5: don't think it's working. So they're not getting banged for
Speaker 5: their buck. Look, I think the fact it's twelve people,
Speaker 5: Look it was for one hundred people or one hundred
Speaker 5: managers or whatever. You'd sort of say, well, well, possibly
Speaker 5: this is ridiculous. And you've got Services Australia doesn't provide
Speaker 5: very good services, and you had the story not long ago.
Speaker 5: I think last year with a speech writer was being
Speaker 5: paid three hundred thousand dollars a year for speech writing,
Speaker 5: which is miles above the odds. This does not pass
Speaker 5: any pub test whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I tell you the public service, it's a different world entirely.
Speaker 3: Now it's looking like Victoria is going to have more
Speaker 3: bad policy, perhaps three more decades. Of the state's transported
Speaker 3: infrastructure blueprint for the next thirty years.
Speaker 4: Is calling for slashing.
Speaker 3: Speed limits to just thirty kilometers an hour in local streets.
Speaker 3: He wants to expand desalination plant capacity, build more tunnels.
Speaker 4: Patrick. The projects here are extensive.
Speaker 3: The cost has been put around seventy five billion dollars.
Speaker 3: But I've got to question the wisdom of anybody putting
Speaker 3: this plan together, who thinks it's fantastic to have thirty
Speaker 3: kilometer limits across town. What's the point? Might as well
Speaker 3: be out there, I don't know, going for a jog.
Speaker 3: It's making the use of cars almost a nuisance.
Speaker 4: If you have to go, you've got these Some of.
Speaker 3: These streets are white boulevards and you're crawling along at
Speaker 3: thirty kilometers.
Speaker 5: It's the Nanny State gone mad.
Speaker 6: Really.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've driven down streets in Collingwood in the
Speaker 5: north of Melbourne that are thirty kilometers an hour and
Speaker 5: you can barely get up the speed hunt to get
Speaker 5: over the other side. This is Look, I think the
Speaker 5: big thing here is the fact that we've got no money.
Speaker 5: I mean, Victoria's can't really afford a one year plan
Speaker 5: at this stage if you're talking about seventy five billion
Speaker 5: dollars for all these expenses, and it includes extending tram
Speaker 5: routes and all sorts of things that are fairly controversial
Speaker 5: or have a massive impact. Yes, cars obviously are second
Speaker 5: and drivers a second class citizens. Now you can't get around,
Speaker 5: and it's all about sort of pedestrian safety or whatever. Well,
Speaker 5: there are all sorts of ways to have better safety
Speaker 5: for pedestrians. Driving at the same rate as you could
Speaker 5: on escape is not really the first pick, is it.
Speaker 3: And you know what a good safety measure for pedestrians
Speaker 3: is is not stepping in front of cars. Yes, so
Speaker 3: that's something that has always worked for me, something that
Speaker 3: perhaps could be taught at school. Now, before you go
Speaker 3: and ask you about the Alan government here in Victoria,
Speaker 3: they're just sent to Alan government trying to keep twenty
Speaker 3: nine documents detailing complaints about CFMU misconduct on Victoria's big
Speaker 3: build road and rail projects secret. They want to keep
Speaker 3: this secret. With a Victorian Infrastructure Development Authority, the public
Speaker 3: service unit running the projects is refusing to release them
Speaker 3: to the press. The Australian newspaper has been trying to
Speaker 3: get hold of this under the freedom of information laws,
Speaker 3: but they're suppressing here seventeen other documents as well. We
Speaker 3: are in the suppression state. Victoria has been called that.
Speaker 4: But why would we not want to know.
Speaker 3: What's happening on the big build projects, these projects that
Speaker 3: are over budget, taking way longer than we were told.
Speaker 4: Surely we should know what's happening.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. Look, it's probably tens of billions of dollars that
Speaker 5: has been sort of potentially misused here. We are entitled
Speaker 5: to know exactly how this money got used. We know
Speaker 5: that the CFMEAU, whether it's Queensland or Victoria, the price
Speaker 5: of their projects that they work on a twenty five
Speaker 5: to thirty percent more. What struck me about this story.
Speaker 5: It's a very good story. I think the surveyor has
Speaker 5: had a meeting which is sent to Allen and she
Speaker 5: was very sympathetic and said, I understand there are delays
Speaker 5: and so on, but I'm powerless to actually do anything
Speaker 5: about it. This is the politician who actually administrates billions
Speaker 5: of dollars, actually saying, well, I can't do anything about this,
Speaker 5: and when it goes to the depth of the extortion
Speaker 5: and the stronger tactics that have been applied for so long.
Speaker 4: It's victoria for you. Patrick Carline, thanks for your time tonight.
Speaker 3: Joining me is Institute of Public Affairs Research Fellow and
Speaker 3: director of the IPA's Schools Program, Colleen Harken. Colleen, let's
Speaker 3: talk about the Australian curriculum. Analysis of the curriculum shows
Speaker 3: of the more than twenty four hundred lesson suggestions and
Speaker 3: the revised curriculum, three quarters relate to Aboriginal antres Strait
Speaker 3: Islander history and culture.
Speaker 4: And it even mandates that.
Speaker 3: Maths teachers incorporate Indigenous dance and storytelling into maths classes.
Speaker 4: What more can you tell me about this revised curriculum.
Speaker 3: It seems to be even more preoccupied with race and
Speaker 3: climate and even more politicized.
Speaker 1: It is so the National Curriculum is a body called
Speaker 1: a Current that sets the national curriculum and it prioritizes
Speaker 1: and it says its priority is Aboriginal and torres Straate
Speaker 1: Islanders histories and culture, and sustainability, which is climate change, diversity, equity, inclusion,
Speaker 1: all that kind of activist agender and it mandates that
Speaker 1: it's in every subject, every year level, every opportunity. So
Speaker 1: it's not just maths, it's physic it's art, it's science,
Speaker 1: it's every single subject, every year level. The child is
Speaker 1: exposed to this kind of activism within the curriculum.
Speaker 4: And it's mandated.
Speaker 3: It's not like the teachers have a suggestion, you may
Speaker 3: like to do this.
Speaker 1: They have to well, let's sort of what I call
Speaker 1: a market is it states what the what they want
Speaker 1: them to do, and then it gives them a whole
Speaker 1: range of suggestions as to how they might go about
Speaker 1: doing that. Okay, but it is mandated that these are priorities.
Speaker 1: It actually specifically says these are the curriculum priorities.
Speaker 3: Oh dear man, Now it seems like no amount of
Speaker 3: activism is even enough. The Australian Human Rights Commission, which
Speaker 3: we of course fund as taxpayers, has scolded schools for
Speaker 3: celebrating Harmony Day on March twenty one, claiming that it
Speaker 3: actually hides long standing systematic racial discrimination and that they
Speaker 3: should rename the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
Speaker 3: turning it the day from a protest against racial discrimination
Speaker 3: into a celebration, so that seem to be upset that
Speaker 3: this isn't angry and activist enough.
Speaker 4: It's been celebrated.
Speaker 3: People are celebrating different cultures and foods, and we.
Speaker 4: Can't be happy in school.
Speaker 3: We've just not always have a grievance, always just behating
Speaker 3: the country.
Speaker 4: Tell me about what's happening there.
Speaker 3: And our school's taking notice of this service.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there are about thirteen name days, Aboriginal and Toastrate
Speaker 1: Island name Days, in addition to those cross curriculum priorities
Speaker 1: we just spoke about. Now, Harmony Day in theory is
Speaker 1: a really nice idea that we should celebrate our shared values,
Speaker 1: but that's not what they're aiming at. This is again
Speaker 1: a constant sort of activist agenda to divide us.
Speaker 4: They don't want harmony.
Speaker 1: What they want is this perpetual industry of griev and
Speaker 1: they're teaching the children from very young to be indoctrinated
Speaker 1: to that divisive agenda. We did a research article on
Speaker 1: the Early Learning Framework, which is mandate by the government
Speaker 1: for early learning centers, So we're talking children who are
Speaker 1: literally in nappies who are mandated to doing a daily
Speaker 1: acknowledgment to country to fly an Aboriginal flag.
Speaker 4: And that's how we find.
Speaker 1: Things like in prime in kindergartens where children are walking
Speaker 1: in and touching the ground and saying always was, always
Speaker 1: will be. This agenda is running all the way through
Speaker 1: all of the institutions from the earliest of years, and it.
Speaker 3: Does not stop once high school finishes. Right through the universities,
Speaker 3: and mcquarie University has students been forced to sit through
Speaker 3: a series of far left learning modules and in these
Speaker 3: modules they are reportedly told that if you are living
Speaker 3: in Australia and you are not Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander,
Speaker 3: well you're a settler and deaf, war a guest and
Speaker 3: Colin and I guess I understand then why we need
Speaker 3: to have all these welcome to countries because the message
Speaker 3: there is this isn't really your country.
Speaker 4: It's not very inclusive, is it.
Speaker 3: Well no, I've always said, as a migrant, I see
Speaker 3: these acknowledgment of countries welcome to countries. Not only do
Speaker 3: I see them as incoherent in many cases, but it's
Speaker 3: a pc way of.
Speaker 4: Saying, go back to where you came from. This place
Speaker 4: isn't yours.
Speaker 3: You're not as entitled to feel this is yours as
Speaker 3: somebody else based on ethnicity.
Speaker 4: I mean that is so toxic.
Speaker 1: And how long do you have to be here before
Speaker 1: they will consider you Australian? I mean at what stage?
Speaker 4: Who am I? Who are you?
Speaker 1: I mean you're an immigrant? You know I'm born here,
Speaker 1: like we're all Australian. And this is the device.
Speaker 4: You're a sessler.
Speaker 3: This isn't If you go to mccurra University, you'll be
Speaker 3: taught that doesn't matter. If you go back seven generations
Speaker 3: and you have no other country in the world where
Speaker 3: you have an allegiance or a link, you are still
Speaker 3: a sessler.
Speaker 4: You're a guest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so then reader, it's not I wonder that
Speaker 1: our young people don't want to defend Australia.
Speaker 4: We did a survey that showed.
Speaker 1: That almost half of our young eighteen to twenty four
Speaker 1: year olds, if we're in the same situation as Ukraine
Speaker 1: right now, they would not stay and fight. And why
Speaker 1: would you If you've been told all along you don't
Speaker 1: belong you hear, your presence is illegitimate, why would you
Speaker 1: stay in fight?
Speaker 3: Well, the whole country is not legitimate. There is on
Speaker 3: stolen land. There was an invasion, there was a genocide.
Speaker 3: When if you're taught to be ashamed of your history,
Speaker 3: why would you go to wolf to try to defend
Speaker 3: that country?
Speaker 7: Correct?
Speaker 1: And we spend all this money on universities.
Speaker 4: We want.
Speaker 1: The return on investment is to have a workforce and
Speaker 1: a future generation that are independent and capable people.
Speaker 4: But what we're churning out is just a bunch of activists.
Speaker 3: We are, and a bunch of self loathing activists. It's
Speaker 3: not even healthy activism. It's not actually activism that I
Speaker 3: don't know. It could be enriching and make them happy
Speaker 3: and make them productive. Before you go the IPA's education
Speaker 3: program class action, it's had a tell me about that,
Speaker 3: and tell me in thirty seconds how you're countering the
Speaker 3: madness that's happening.
Speaker 1: So we change it from class Actions now called the
Speaker 1: IPAs Schools Program because it was sort of confused with
Speaker 1: being to do with law that wasn't helpful. What we're
Speaker 1: doing is providing free curriculum materials for teachers. They can
Speaker 1: download it free from the IPS from Schools program dot
Speaker 1: org dot au website. We've also done things like given
Speaker 1: every primary school in the country a board game about
Speaker 1: the First Fleet that positions the story of who we
Speaker 1: are and how we can you know the Australian, the
Speaker 1: first Fleet and the arrival of that. All of our
Speaker 1: curriculum materials are free. It's a balanced view of our history.
Speaker 1: We have a history to be proud of and we
Speaker 1: should be proud of it, and the children should be
Speaker 1: learning to be proud of it and to know the facts,
Speaker 1: like the balance, So just.
Speaker 3: To know the facts, just to actually get something other
Speaker 3: than this black armband view of our entire history.
Speaker 4: Colin Harkn, thanks so much for problem still to come.
Speaker 4: A left is a losing it.
Speaker 3: The spat between President Trump and President Zelenski intensifies. Koshagaida
Speaker 3: is here to break it down.
Speaker 4: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Now it's time for lefties losing it and let's have
Speaker 3: a gander. The Oscars the night devoted to celebrating excellence
Speaker 3: in cinema.
Speaker 4: Well, except it's not anymore.
Speaker 3: It's a massive leftist snallfest featuring a bunch of pretentious films.
Speaker 3: No one's brought it to watch but satisfy the Academy's
Speaker 3: diversity quotas or inclusion standards, as they call it, And
Speaker 3: of course they started the ceremony with an incoherent land
Speaker 3: acknowledgment delivered by actress Julianne Hoff.
Speaker 8: We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral
Speaker 8: lands of the Tonga, Tatavium and Chumash peopils, the traditional
Speaker 8: caretakers of this water and land. We honor in p
Speaker 8: our respects to indigenous communities here and around the world.
Speaker 4: The what tribe? Now?
Speaker 3: Didn't they slaughter the previous tribes that lived there? Matt
Speaker 3: Walsh tweeted this response to the Oscars vacuous virtue signaling.
Speaker 3: He wrote, she paid homage to the Tomba tribe, But
Speaker 3: the Toma moved into southern California thousands of years after
Speaker 3: he had already been occupied by more ancient tribe. They
Speaker 3: killed and displaced the inhabitants and took over. If they
Speaker 3: get to claim the title of indigenous, then so do we.
Speaker 4: Interesting interesting point.
Speaker 3: They're almost like lands and people have been conquered over
Speaker 3: and over again throughout history, and perhaps assigning collective guilt
Speaker 3: or collective reverence and praise to people based on their
Speaker 3: color or ethnicity is not the best of ideas. But
Speaker 3: back to the Oscars, and when you think about what
Speaker 3: a far left lunatic asylum Hollywood has become, then you
Speaker 3: won't be surprised that the most nominated film this year
Speaker 3: was a Mexican musical about a transgender cartel leader. Now really,
Speaker 3: the film Emilia Perez, had thirteen nominations, including for Best Picture,
Speaker 3: and he even scored a Best Actress nomination for a
Speaker 3: dude identifying as a woman, Carla Sophia Gascon.
Speaker 4: In the end, the.
Speaker 3: Film won two Oscars, including for Best Supporting Actress for
Speaker 3: Zoe Saldana.
Speaker 4: And let's have a look at her stellar work. This
Speaker 4: is just amazing man two woman? Is it for you?
Speaker 9: For me?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: She got an oscar for that, and the audience those
Speaker 3: crazy enough to sit through that entire film got an
Speaker 3: edge education in all the different types of trans operations.
Speaker 7: Blasi lab, blasi, control, Lavin, god blastin, what is that?
Speaker 4: Adama?
Speaker 3: And it's not just actors who've been spewing activist nonsense.
Speaker 3: Seeinger Pink is never one to miss out on an
Speaker 3: opportunity to make a full of herself.
Speaker 4: He she is earlier in the year claiming that.
Speaker 7: What ladies and gentlemen and every other gender that absolutely exists.
Speaker 5: I give you the incredible genre.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they don't pink. There are two, count them two.
Speaker 3: Everything else's performative attention seeking. Now to a transactivist posing
Speaker 3: this important question, the answer is quite obvious, I would
Speaker 3: have thought, but sadly lost on this soul.
Speaker 10: So trans people are considered a danger to women in sports,
Speaker 10: yet they're considered a weakness to the United States military.
Speaker 4: Make it make sense, MAGA.
Speaker 3: I would have thought, that's because the US Army isn't
Speaker 3: fighting against female combatants exclusively. If it were, then perhaps
Speaker 3: your question would be valid. But alas, you just went
Speaker 3: and made a massive full of yourself and provided more
Speaker 3: content for lefties losing it.
Speaker 4: So I do thank you for that. Let's have a
Speaker 4: look now at.
Speaker 3: The great work of Charlie Kirk. He goes to university
Speaker 3: campuses around America debating lost lefties, and this next gal
Speaker 3: needs all the help she can get.
Speaker 11: Let's say there's you know, a black kid right now?
Speaker 11: Would you rather have that black kid have a role
Speaker 11: model be Kendrick Lamar or Clarence.
Speaker 8: Thomas Kendrick obviously.
Speaker 11: So not the not the black American on the United
Speaker 11: States Supreme Court.
Speaker 8: No, he's he's trying to ban interracial marriage.
Speaker 4: He's trying to like do it.
Speaker 11: Wow, he's in an interracial marriage. He literally like he's
Speaker 11: married to a white woman. Yeah, I know the Roe v.
Speaker 12: Wage thing, Like goes again, he's trying.
Speaker 11: To ban his own marriage.
Speaker 4: Yes, what can you say?
Speaker 3: But it's not just the students, it's the teachers too
Speaker 3: that Charlie Kirk has exposed for being out a fools.
Speaker 3: Here he asks the teacher a simple question, what is
Speaker 3: a woman? The guy thinks he's prepared for this obvious question,
Speaker 3: but watching flounder.
Speaker 11: For teacher, Yes, what is a woman?
Speaker 6: What is a woman?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Buddy?
Speaker 12: Hi?
Speaker 6: So we define gender as a set of preferences that
Speaker 6: you have, excuse me, gender, gender the set of preferences
Speaker 6: we have women. Woman is a social construct that we've
Speaker 6: agreed upon. Typically we imagine womanhood as makeup or whatever
Speaker 6: it is. There is a difference between the word woman
Speaker 6: and being a biological female. Women is a social construct
Speaker 6: that we use. Listen for a suck, I'm telling you
Speaker 6: what it means.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: It's just a set of preferences, a social constructs. So
Speaker 3: if you like makeup and the color pink, then you're
Speaker 3: a woman. I mean, can you get more backward than that?
Speaker 3: They had more enlightened values in the nineteen twenties. These
Speaker 3: are the so called progressives these days, that's what they
Speaker 3: call themselves. And now, educator, I continue to dig himself
Speaker 3: a hole trying to answer a question which a child
Speaker 3: could easily answer.
Speaker 6: Women is a social construct. We agree on these set
Speaker 6: of preferences. If I tell you that I'm a man
Speaker 6: is because I want you to know that I'm like
Speaker 6: these set of preferences. If I tell you I'm a woman,
Speaker 6: is because I want you to know that I agree
Speaker 6: with these set of preferences.
Speaker 11: And men give birth?
Speaker 6: Can men? Or can males? If you listen to your
Speaker 6: bio professors, you'd understand there's the difference between biology and
Speaker 6: what we think.
Speaker 11: Of I want to thank you for proving a great point. Well,
Speaker 11: you are why we should eliminate the Department of Education.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: That is scary. That is who's teaching your kids. That's
Speaker 3: why you save up for those college fees. I'll tell you,
Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk is so effective because he just gives them
Speaker 3: enough rope and they do the rest and no wonder
Speaker 3: the lefties are tearing down posters for his events.
Speaker 4: Look at this mug entitled brat Why do you feel
Speaker 4: they need to do that?
Speaker 8: Why do you feel they need to do that?
Speaker 4: Why do you feel they need to tip tear posters? Dound? Okay,
Speaker 4: I don't like them?
Speaker 7: Why I think.
Speaker 4: You know what? Why?
Speaker 3: Joining me now is Sky News contributor Kosher Gator Kosher
Speaker 3: Let's jump into the intensifying war of words between President
Speaker 3: Trump and President Zelenski, who has completely shifted from pledging
Speaker 3: to negotiate a piece still, President Zelenski now says the
Speaker 3: end of the war is very very far away, a
Speaker 3: statement that has seen a swift response from the White House.
Speaker 10: He said he thinks it was going to go on
Speaker 10: for a long time, and he'd better not be right
Speaker 10: about that. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: President Trump also wrote, this is the worst statement that
Speaker 3: could have been made by Zelenski, and America.
Speaker 4: Will not put up with it for much longer. Kosher
Speaker 4: Trump also.
Speaker 3: Pointed out in that statement the Kiir Starmer's comments and
Speaker 3: the comments from other European leaders who have pledged to
Speaker 3: support Ukraine. They've also said they can't do the job
Speaker 3: without the US. That's an important point that much of
Speaker 3: the media has missed, and I do wonder how that's
Speaker 3: going to happen with relations at this point.
Speaker 12: So as the dust from that dust up settles, there's
Speaker 12: a picture that's clarifying it's coming out, which is, on
Speaker 12: the one hand, you have a war that is not
Speaker 12: winnable and was never winnable without the US and the
Speaker 12: US involvement in large, large measure to the tune of
Speaker 12: one hundred billion a year or more, plus this looming
Speaker 12: specter of security guaranties in whatever shape or form that
Speaker 12: took or was implied under the past administration for four years.
Speaker 12: And on the other hand, you have an election that
Speaker 12: took place, and Trump is a reflection of that election,
Speaker 12: which is that the American electorate has long time not
Speaker 12: been in favor of this. It is dropping like a
Speaker 12: stone their support for the level of US involvement, and
Speaker 12: Trump is reflecting that and personifying that. And it seems
Speaker 12: like President Zelenski has not caught up to that. He
Speaker 12: hasn't updated his software yet in his mind. Maybe it's
Speaker 12: his own failing, Maybe it's that he's just been in
Speaker 12: sort of the eastern East Coast, West coast bubbles whenever
Speaker 12: he visits, and he doesn't understand the pulse of the American.
Speaker 3: Electric really is advised better than that. This is what
Speaker 3: was astonishing to so many. It was astonishing to me.
Speaker 3: It was astonishing to a lot of pro Ukrainian experts
Speaker 3: who been commenting on this crisis for three years, that
Speaker 3: he seemed to think it was twenty twenty or twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. He did not go into that meeting with
Speaker 3: any sort of appreciation of how the public mood has shifted.
Speaker 3: What Trump can paint on and this is not a
Speaker 3: position Trump has come to just in the last week.
Speaker 4: He can paignt on this.
Speaker 3: It should be crystal clear where the current administration stads.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, it's where he has stood previously, even before he
Speaker 12: entered political office. He has long time been against US involvements.
Speaker 12: He's very much a non interventionalist. Everybody knows this. To
Speaker 12: the point of advice, It almost sounds like to the contrary,
Speaker 12: he's been getting really bad advice because he met with
Speaker 12: Democrat senators before that meeting, like one hour before that
Speaker 12: infamous meeting, had bad move and received advice from Mark
Speaker 12: Kelly and Murphy of Connecticut and others who seemed to
Speaker 12: have They ran to their ex feeds afterwards and presented
Speaker 12: little snippets where they were saying, we think it's a
Speaker 12: bad deal. It's reducing this to business transaction, et cetera.
Speaker 12: So he seems to totally have misread how serious Trump
Speaker 12: and Vance are. These are not just words. And now
Speaker 12: there's reports that they're cutting off potentially all aid, humanitarian
Speaker 12: and military. So these stakes just got a lot higher
Speaker 12: for him.
Speaker 3: I think that is that pause is going to be
Speaker 3: the wake up call that we need now that if
Speaker 3: you actually do want to have any sort of meaningful,
Speaker 3: lasting piece, you have to come to the negotiation table
Speaker 3: with the willingness to negotiate. Otherwise we're going to have
Speaker 3: another three years of this disastrous war that the destruction
Speaker 3: in Ukraine in particular is just heartbreaking now Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Kosher also pointed out Kiir Starmer's comments, and there's been
Speaker 3: a lot of commentary about those comments and that of
Speaker 3: other leaders who've pledged to stand by Ukraine.
Speaker 4: Let's have a listen to what Kiir Starmer had to say.
Speaker 2: The UK has prepared to back this with boots on
Speaker 2: the ground and planes in the air. Together with others,
Speaker 2: Europe must do the heavy listing. But to support peace
Speaker 2: in our continent and to succeed this effort must have
Speaker 2: strong US backing. We're working with the US on this
Speaker 2: point after my meeting with President Trump last week. And
Speaker 2: let me be clear, we agree with the President on
Speaker 2: the urgent need for a durable peace Kosher.
Speaker 3: He went very quickly there, from boots on the ground
Speaker 3: to this plan is dependent on the US backing it too.
Speaker 3: He agreed with President Trump about the urgent need for
Speaker 3: a durable peace.
Speaker 4: How do you see that statement?
Speaker 3: Because people have listened to that first section about boots
Speaker 3: on the ground, the whole thing only goes for thirty seconds,
Speaker 3: and they seem to have disregarded the subsequent twenty seconds.
Speaker 12: And in this datage of social media, you can just
Speaker 12: clip what you need and then engineering narrators around that.
Speaker 12: But it's really it was funny for me because it
Speaker 12: reminded me of that great quote from the lead and
Speaker 12: Greed Margaret Thatcher, who's seat he currently sits in, who
Speaker 12: said the problem with socialism has eventually you run out
Speaker 12: of other people's money, and he and all of Europe
Speaker 12: is kind of showing that not at a national level,
Speaker 12: but at a global level. Easy for them to talk
Speaker 12: tough when it relies on spending American money and maybe
Speaker 12: American troops. You can add troops to that sentence in
Speaker 12: addition to money. And so they're all paper tigers. And
Speaker 12: this Ukraine thing is sort of a flashpoint and what
Speaker 12: Trump is trying to do in terms of recalibrating the
Speaker 12: European US alliance as it released to defense more broadly,
Speaker 12: and this is just an accelerant, I think, to that
Speaker 12: endgame that he wants to get to.
Speaker 3: And we do hear a lot from the European countries
Speaker 3: about how much they're doing for Ukraine, how much money
Speaker 3: they're contributing, how strong their support is. Meanwhile, this is
Speaker 3: the reality there. You imported Russian fossil fuels in the
Speaker 3: third year of the evasion. The amount that they imported
Speaker 3: surpassed the eighteen point seven billion of financial aid they
Speaker 3: sent to Ukraine in twenty twenty four. So Kosha, on
Speaker 3: the one hand, they are providing some aid, none of
Speaker 3: them as much as the US, but they're also enriching
Speaker 3: Russia because there are inn energy policies are so broken
Speaker 3: that they have become reliant on Russia for their energy.
Speaker 12: That's such a great point because there's been a lot
Speaker 12: of focus on one side of the ledger, which is
Speaker 12: how much money the US is spending versus them on defense,
Speaker 12: and there's some dispute around the number we've put into Ukraine.
Speaker 12: But the point is nobody disputes of the US is
Speaker 12: carrying the line's share of it. But the other side
Speaker 12: of the ledsuer what you're showing is fascinating too, because
Speaker 12: if they really cared, they would, I don't know, Germany
Speaker 12: would turn back on their nuclear industry that they decimated
Speaker 12: for green and other reasons. That would be one way
Speaker 12: to weaken them, maybe buy more from the US, maybe
Speaker 12: cut other types of deals. They're not doing that, so
Speaker 12: it's all talk, little action unless it's easy action like
Speaker 12: sanctioning Russia or freezing some of their assets in the
Speaker 12: banking sector. They've done a little bit there, but not
Speaker 12: really much more. And unless Zelensky comes back to the table,
Speaker 12: I think you're just going to see this whole trend continue, and.
Speaker 3: All this talk about the Trump administration is pro Russia
Speaker 3: propute to this absolute idiom nonsense.
Speaker 4: Passing for analysis, let's not forget.
Speaker 3: Even in the first Trump term, he was in Europe
Speaker 3: telling Germany and other countries do not become reliant on
Speaker 3: Russian energy. It is a weakness, and they laughed at
Speaker 3: him Kosher. They did not heed that advice at all.
Speaker 3: And here we are where they are emboldening, enriching the
Speaker 3: Putin regime at a time when they're saying that we
Speaker 3: stand with Ukraine.
Speaker 12: Great point, and so many of the things that Trump says,
Speaker 12: they age really well when they come out of his mouth.
Speaker 4: People don't like them.
Speaker 12: He's a little bit coarse, he's a little bit rough
Speaker 12: around the edges, but they always age and he always
Speaker 12: ends up being true. And that was something that was
Speaker 12: very prescient, as are many other things that he said.
Speaker 12: And on the flip side, a lot of these European
Speaker 12: leaders are not exactly sympathetic figures. Certainly not kurre Steimer
Speaker 12: among the electorate, not Zelenski. A lot of people just
Speaker 12: don't like him personally in terms of his demeanor and
Speaker 12: the amount of travel he does. And he goes to
Speaker 12: awards shows and has rung the bell at the Stock Exchange.
Speaker 4: Fashion magazine.
Speaker 12: Yes, here's aisympthetic figure. And on the side. They're trying
Speaker 12: to paint Trump as a stewge of Russia, and that
Speaker 12: whole thing has lost as potency, so that's not going
Speaker 12: to work anymore.
Speaker 4: No, I think it had a bit more.
Speaker 3: Credibility when they were running that entire Russian collusion hoax,
Speaker 3: not credibility, that's the wrong word. But people were believing
Speaker 3: that hysteria. But since that's been completely debunked, it just
Speaker 3: sounds like desperation. And on Europe here is some more
Speaker 3: sobering data. Again, Europeans, many of them feel that Ukraine
Speaker 3: should be getting more support. The polling shows that you
Speaker 3: can see that there, but the polling also shows that
Speaker 3: they don't want that support to come for their country.
Speaker 3: As you can see, they're even the countries with the
Speaker 3: highest percentage of people wanting greater support for Ukraine, Denmark
Speaker 3: there is at the top of the list. Sixty six
Speaker 3: percent think Ukraine deserves more support, but only seventeen percent
Speaker 3: of Dan's kosher what.
Speaker 4: Denm to increase its support.
Speaker 3: It really just sums up this European virtue signaling where
Speaker 3: they talk a big game, but really even their own
Speaker 3: populations don't have the appetite for greater support and this
Speaker 3: is on their doorsteps.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I see how people think Americans should care more about this.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't have an America first approach in the United
Speaker 3: States when this conflict is in Europe and the Europeans
Speaker 3: seem to be a little bit apathetic about it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's going to be a big reckoning for them
Speaker 12: because the flip side of them stepping up spending on
Speaker 12: defense and maybe them providing the security guarantee is going
Speaker 12: to mean cutting back spending, austerity measures, these big lavish
Speaker 12: social safety nets that Europe has loved and had for
Speaker 12: half a century. There are meaningful repercussions from this for
Speaker 12: them to kind of recalibrate their approach to government as
Speaker 12: a whole. And the other thing about that is that's
Speaker 12: very useful. Is it gets to the crux of the point,
Speaker 12: which is, yes, we all support this war ending, We
Speaker 12: support Ukraine's right to sovereignty. We certainly support their soldiers
Speaker 12: and civilians who've been harmed and killed and injured and displaced.
Speaker 12: We support democracy. Everybody supports those things. But when the
Speaker 12: rubber hits the road, what does it mean in terms
Speaker 12: of prioritization and you as a nation spending money and
Speaker 12: spending troops to do that. That's where things shift because
Speaker 12: we live in reality, we don't live in utopia. And
Speaker 12: that's when that even the DN see that, and everybody
Speaker 12: sees it, but the leaders don't seem to want to
Speaker 12: acknowledge it.
Speaker 3: Well, most people do see it, but sadly the bulk
Speaker 3: of the media seems to be not living in reality.
Speaker 3: They're living in some fantasy world. Well, it's some sort
Speaker 3: of Greta Thumberg approach to geopolitics, where you know what
Speaker 3: you want to happen must happen regardless of the reality.
Speaker 3: And the reality is Ukraine is losing this war. America
Speaker 3: doesn't want to keep funding it. And either you surrender
Speaker 3: to Russia, which nobody wants. You keep fighting with backing
Speaker 3: of European countries and the US soldiers on the ground,
Speaker 3: which could spark World War III with a nuclear power.
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody wants that either.
Speaker 3: Or you negotiate a peace still that's advantageous to Ukraine.
Speaker 3: And that's where we were before this meltdown in the
Speaker 3: Oval Office, and we've seen many pro Ukraine foreign policy experts,
Speaker 3: those who have championed extra funding for Ukraine from the
Speaker 3: US have admired Zelenski for many years, be appalled by
Speaker 3: his antics in the White House and what has followed,
Speaker 3: and among them is Washington Post columnist Mark Theeson, who
Speaker 3: has written a piece that saying Zelenski must mend the
Speaker 3: breach with Trump or resign. Koshiki details Zelenski's conduct in
Speaker 3: that fifty minute press conference leading up to that clash.
Speaker 3: Everyone's seen the clash, but what led up to it
Speaker 3: that fifteen minutes. If you've watched the entire thing, it
Speaker 3: gives you a very different perspective. And he called presidents
Speaker 3: Ski's behavior unnecessary and reckless and questioned why he'd be
Speaker 3: so rude to Trump in front of the media when
Speaker 3: Trump was offering him a really advantageous deal. He was
Speaker 3: getting a great deal of what he wanted, and there
Speaker 3: were even concessions made, you know, quite late in proceedings.
Speaker 12: When you've last Mark Theesen and Lindsey Graham, by the way,
Speaker 12: who's been on a fire excoriating Zelenski, he was the
Speaker 12: most pro war US involvement senator that we have. That
Speaker 12: is a signal that he did misstep here in the
Speaker 12: not everybody in international media and even US media seeing
Speaker 12: it that way. And this was a great piece pae
Speaker 12: Mark Deson because he went through the entire forty nine
Speaker 12: minutes and forty of those forty nine minutes where actually
Speaker 12: Trump was very magnanimous, very cordial, and throughout that time
Speaker 12: there are multiple points at which Zelenski was kind of
Speaker 12: golding him.
Speaker 3: When you watch the whole thing, I've got to say,
Speaker 3: one of the more shocking things was how patient President
Speaker 3: Trump was.
Speaker 4: That's not his style.
Speaker 3: He lets so much go to the keeper until at
Speaker 3: at some point it was too much and he had
Speaker 3: to step in and check Zelenski. But there was a
Speaker 3: lot of disrespect, a lot of behavior that.
Speaker 4: Trump would normally tolerate up until that point.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, and that point was when he said. Zelenski said
Speaker 12: that you know what, you will feel it too, because
Speaker 12: you have an ocean. That's why you don't feel it.
Speaker 4: Now, you will feel it too.
Speaker 12: And at that moment you can see Trump's entire demeanor change.
Speaker 12: His face lit up, and he said, American people are
Speaker 12: watching this.
Speaker 4: You do not come here.
Speaker 12: You're in no position to see that.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it was an astonishing comment to suggest that
Speaker 3: America somehow should be fearful of a Russian invasion. Koshigeta,
Speaker 3: thank you so much for your time. Pleasure still to come,
Speaker 3: Milania Trump at the Capitol.
Speaker 4: Why is the First Lady becoming increasingly political? Alex Steyne
Speaker 4: is unleased.
Speaker 3: You're watching the Reader Penny Show, and now the world's
Speaker 3: media is again engaging in hyperbole, shrieking in unison about
Speaker 3: President Trump's attempts to engineer a peace still between Russia
Speaker 3: and Ukraine.
Speaker 4: But Donald Trump's approach, one he.
Speaker 3: Articulated at length during the election campaign, is actually popular
Speaker 3: with Americans who are sick of funding these endless wars.
Speaker 3: Even CNN can't deny that reality.
Speaker 11: Well, I think the easiest way we can kind of
Speaker 11: just ask this is do Americans like the way that
Speaker 11: Trump's handling his job in compared to how they felt
Speaker 11: about Joe Biden?
Speaker 4: So this is the net approval rating.
Speaker 11: You look at Joe Biden back in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 11: he was twenty two points underwater.
Speaker 4: Holy cow, you look at Donald Trump. It's just a
Speaker 4: different planet entirely.
Speaker 10: I mean, the gulf between these two is wider than
Speaker 10: the Gulf of America or Mexico, depending on which side
Speaker 10: of the are you stand on He's at plus two.
Speaker 4: So look at this.
Speaker 6: Particular point, Americans are giving Donald Trump the benefit of
Speaker 6: the doubt.
Speaker 11: He's doing considerably better than Joe Biden was.
Speaker 4: Doing on the handling of the Russia Ukraine conflict.
Speaker 3: Joining me now is comic and host of Primetime with
Speaker 3: Alex Stein on Blaze TV. Alex Stein. Those numbers are
Speaker 3: for all voters, but among Republican voters, amongst Trumps supporters,
Speaker 3: the figures are much higher.
Speaker 4: And I've got to.
Speaker 3: Say it's mighty nice to see CNN forced to.
Speaker 4: Report all of that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, it does feel nice to see them
Speaker 7: have to actually, you know, show Donald Trump in a
Speaker 7: positive light. But I still don't believe anything that's CNN
Speaker 7: posts with numbers. I don't trust them whatsoever. But listen,
Speaker 7: people are sick of it. There's people struggling in California
Speaker 7: with the wildfires, there's people struggling in North Carolina, and
Speaker 7: there's people that are just struggling because of the inflation
Speaker 7: that Biden caused us. So listen, we're sick of sending
Speaker 7: billions of dollars to Ukraine where American citizens on both
Speaker 7: sides of the aisle are struggling, So we're sick of
Speaker 7: this warrant in his end right now.
Speaker 3: Now, today we had the first Lady at the Capitol.
Speaker 3: She attended a roundtable in support of the Take It
Speaker 3: Down Act, is a bill that seeks to protect people
Speaker 3: from the others sharing non consensual sexually explicit images as
Speaker 3: well as deep fake pornography.
Speaker 4: It's a relatively new issue. Let's hear from Millennia.
Speaker 9: A fifteen year old, brave young woman, Aliston Spears, used
Speaker 9: AI to create non consensual intimate images of her and
Speaker 9: then spread the images across social media. They superimposed her
Speaker 9: face into pornographic content without her consent, solely to humilate Alex.
Speaker 3: I've always seen her as a massive asset and underutilized asset,
Speaker 3: I would argue in the Trump cap she's clearly passionate
Speaker 3: about this project.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, I think Taylor Swift will agree with
Speaker 7: Millennia that this is very important. And you know, this
Speaker 7: is a serious issue that happens with not just well
Speaker 7: known people on the Internet, but small unknown people. So
Speaker 7: you know, you have no privacy, and I'm happy that
Speaker 7: Milania is actually doing something to protect people's privacy.
Speaker 3: And well, I wasn't even aware that these deep fakes
Speaker 3: were being used, I don't know, to blackmail people, to
Speaker 3: intimidate them, so where they just manufacture pornography that features
Speaker 3: someone's face and then use that to terrorize them. So
Speaker 3: it is frightening what they're able to do these days.
Speaker 4: Alex.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I mean with technology, you can make anything
Speaker 7: look real. So it's a very scary dark future with
Speaker 7: the technology that they can do with all of this
Speaker 7: AI generated pornography. So this is necessary and I hope
Speaker 7: that we can stop it. But Reata, I don't know
Speaker 7: if you can stop AI generated images like this. It's
Speaker 7: just it's going to be difficult.
Speaker 3: Now I've got some good news, more good news from
Speaker 3: the border. Illegal crossings have plummeted further. Latest data shows
Speaker 3: that February was the lowest illegal crossings in history. That's
Speaker 3: the clime they're from the White House, just eight thousand
Speaker 3: to three hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 4: Alex.
Speaker 3: They said this couldn't be done. They said this was
Speaker 3: issues that were.
Speaker 4: That America could not address.
Speaker 3: The people were being persecuted in countries in South America
Speaker 3: and they were fleeing for their life and nothing was
Speaker 3: going to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, and Donald
Speaker 3: Trump within a month has got the numbers down to this.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is astonishing.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, and I'm not trying to lessen all
Speaker 7: the great work that Trump administration has done, but really
Speaker 7: and truly, they've just stopped people from coming here by
Speaker 7: not subsidizing their trips here by giving them free hotel
Speaker 7: rooms and free flights around the country. So, yes, Donald
Speaker 7: Trump is doing a great job. But all he had
Speaker 7: to do was say stop coming, not getting a free
Speaker 7: handout anymore, and now they can't afford to come here
Speaker 7: on their own. So Tom Holman's doing a great job.
Speaker 7: President Trump is doing a great job. But this is
Speaker 7: a simple problem that they could have solved four years ago.
Speaker 7: And listen, I understand there are people that are having
Speaker 7: issues in countries, and there are, you know, real reasons
Speaker 7: why a person would need to claim asylum, but we
Speaker 7: have had an open border policy where people have been
Speaker 7: able to manipulate it and just say that they're claiming
Speaker 7: asylum and come into our country and receive better social
Speaker 7: security benefits or social services than even some of our
Speaker 7: military veterans. So it's absolutely disgusting and the Trump administration
Speaker 7: has put their foot down, and now people are less
Speaker 7: motivated to come here and illegally across our border.
Speaker 3: Well, I always knew that this would happen, but the
Speaker 3: speed at which it has happened has surprised me.
Speaker 4: It has just been.
Speaker 3: Amazing how quickly they have just pulled those pull factors
Speaker 3: off the table. And guess what if you take the
Speaker 3: sugar off the table, the numbers stop coming.
Speaker 4: Canada and Mexico, I'm very happy they've run out of time.
Speaker 4: The tariffs are right.
Speaker 11: Is there any room left for Canada and Mexico to
Speaker 11: make a deal before midnight?
Speaker 6: And should we expect those Chinese tariffs the extra extra
Speaker 6: ten percent.
Speaker 10: To take a room left or Mexico or for Canada. No,
Speaker 10: the tariffs, you know, they're all set. They go into effect.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, alex We know Canada and Mexico understandably unhappy about
Speaker 3: all this.
Speaker 4: What's the reaction being in.
Speaker 3: The States because imports from those countries are going to
Speaker 3: cost more? Is there any sort of a backlash to
Speaker 3: these tariffs?
Speaker 7: You know, I do think there is going to be
Speaker 7: a you know, a temporary backlash where you know, it's
Speaker 7: going to cost us some money in the short term,
Speaker 7: but I think in the long term it's going to
Speaker 7: be better for our country if we can actually, you know,
Speaker 7: tax these people correctly, because we've been giving them basically
Speaker 7: free money, and Mexico needs to play ball, and I
Speaker 7: don't think they've done enough, and they haven't stepped up
Speaker 7: to the plate enough and to satisfy Donald Trump. So
Speaker 7: at this point, I think they're necessary, and yes, we
Speaker 7: are going to feel the pain. But now you see
Speaker 7: car manufacturers saying they're gonna build cars, They're gonna build
Speaker 7: Hondas in America. So in the end it will be
Speaker 7: better for our country, even though it might hurt in.
Speaker 11: The short term.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, this is all about long term boosting manufacturing
Speaker 3: in America, boosting investment, and making it an even bigger
Speaker 3: economic powerhouse. Now I have to ask you about the
Speaker 3: oscars before you go. They were on overnight. What was
Speaker 3: the highlight for you? There were so many highlights.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, what a virtue signal fest. I do
Speaker 7: have to say. I thought Conan O'Brien did a good job,
Speaker 7: and I really liked Adam Sandler, you know, wearing his
Speaker 7: basketball shorts. That was the highlight of the night for me.
Speaker 7: But you know, just the virtue signaling and the Academy.
Speaker 7: But you know what, Reta, Do you remember how cool
Speaker 7: the Academy Awards used to be. Everybody was watching it.
Speaker 7: I mean there was a Sunday night the whole world
Speaker 7: watched it. Now nobody cares. So Hollywood has lost its luster.
Speaker 7: And it's actually a sad sight to see because I
Speaker 7: didn't see one of the movies nominated this year. You
Speaker 7: need to make better stuff that you know people can relate.
Speaker 3: To, and they need to actually remove all these diversity
Speaker 3: requirements for nominees and also, yeah, make better movies, pick
Speaker 3: better options.
Speaker 4: But I don't think you're alone.
Speaker 3: I think many people have not seen or even heard
Speaker 3: of some of these nominations, and it's lost all relevance.
Speaker 3: It's no longer a night where you tune in eagerly
Speaker 3: to see who's going to be the best actor and
Speaker 3: the best actress. And I was surprised. I've got to say, though,
Speaker 3: that there wasn't more political activism. There's a teeny tiny bit,
Speaker 3: but given that it's the first month of Trump's second term,
Speaker 3: I was expecting to see speech after speech after speech
Speaker 3: decrying the state of America and Maga and all things Trump.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: Even Hollywood appears to have read the room, Alex Stein,
Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure. Thank you so much for your
Speaker 3: time tonight.
Speaker 7: Thank you for having me read. Always a pleasure.
Speaker 4: And that's all the time we have tonight.
Speaker 3: I'll see you tomorrow night at eleven, but don't go
Speaker 3: anywhere near.
Speaker 4: Tonight is up next