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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jones Brendan.

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Speaker 2: You've used a lot of our show today to congratulate

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Speaker 2: yourself on the fact that New South Wales government has

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Speaker 2: backflipped on a plan to spend twenty five million dollars

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Speaker 2: on a new flagpole with the Sydney Harbor Bridge already

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Speaker 2: because it is Nadoc week, the indigenous flag is flying

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Speaker 2: where the New South Wales flag often is, but that

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Speaker 2: will now be permanent, so no new flagpole will go up.

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Speaker 3: You brought this to the table.

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Speaker 4: I brought it to the table because I was watching

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Speaker 4: PD's news last night. Yeah, and Pde dropped this bombshe

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Speaker 4: making news.

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Speaker 5: The state government has just scrapped its plan to spend

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Speaker 5: bade million dollars wrapping you up a new flagpole for

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Speaker 5: the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The Aboriginal flag will instead replace

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Speaker 5: the New South Wales flag, which will be moved to

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Speaker 5: a new home on Macquarie Streets.

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Speaker 3: And what and what about when I spoke to the

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Speaker 3: flag lady, She's.

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Speaker 2: Not the flag lady, she's the Minister for Metropolitan Roads.

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Speaker 3: Can you run it past John, run it past it?

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Speaker 2: Shift to run it past the men.

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Speaker 3: He's the Premier he's the Premier, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Or Natalie's the minister for this?

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Speaker 4: Well past the guys just spitball and say hey guys,

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Speaker 4: I know and you know when the PowerPoint presentation is going,

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Speaker 4: what about we don't put up the third pole and

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Speaker 4: we just take down the New South Wales one put

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Speaker 4: out front of the Government House. We all appreciate New

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Speaker 4: South Wales and then we got the two flags boom

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Speaker 4: money saying.

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Speaker 2: Well Natalie, now you see what I have to work

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Speaker 2: with every day and I appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Common sense.

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Speaker 3: I was at the parish pump. I'm like, you're the

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Speaker 3: eye of the storm.

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Speaker 4: One of these on the twenty first of July when

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Speaker 4: I said that I've gone straight through, well the powers.

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Speaker 2: Of stop talking, the powers of corridors, and government does

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Speaker 2: listen to yourself anyway, the powers and corridors. The powers

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Speaker 2: of corridors lead to a very small door where you're involved.

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Speaker 2: But I did see a tweet from Ben Fordham of

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Speaker 2: course yesterday who said that the New South Wales government

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Speaker 2: has backflipped on this plan. He said the premier has listened.

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Speaker 2: Common sense wins. I don't think it's fair brand that

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Speaker 2: it looks like Ben Fordham is taking your thunder because

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Speaker 2: you're the power of corridors right around here. I've taken

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Speaker 2: the liberty.

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Speaker 3: He's like a gatling gun.

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Speaker 4: He just goes and says all this stuff and then

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Speaker 4: he takes credit for it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've taken the liberty of contacting his executive producer,

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Speaker 2: James Willis, who joins us now, Hello.

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Speaker 1: James, Hello both, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: James morning.

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Speaker 2: Ben's on holidays we here.

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Speaker 3: That's outrageous slack.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think he's entitled to a break. He's

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Speaker 1: just got a big, long slog campaigning to have this

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Speaker 1: twenty five million dollar spend overturned. And look, I think guys,

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Speaker 1: I think we're splitting hairs here. But ultimately the one

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Speaker 1: two punch from two GB and Ben and the rest

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Speaker 1: of the two GV workday and also some you know,

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Speaker 1: some side campaigning from yourself has has really made this

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Speaker 1: decision what it is. So I think we both deserve

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Speaker 1: a bit of a panele.

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Speaker 3: I agree one side camp the one two points.

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Speaker 4: So we're the one and then you guys came along

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Speaker 4: and we don't have the might of your network.

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Speaker 2: Well let's look at when when when did you first

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Speaker 2: discuss this, because I know that we Jonesy first.

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Speaker 3: Did twenty first of straight onto the flag.

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Speaker 1: Lady, But what twenty first of July last year?

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Speaker 3: Twenty first of July, just last year? When June twenty

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Speaker 3: first of June. Yeah, twenty first of June.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, look we've checked the records and I look again.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be splitting airs here, but Ben

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Speaker 1: had the Premier don Perrite on at eight fifteen on

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Speaker 1: the Monday June twenty and the question to him was

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Speaker 1: why not just replace the new South Wales flag.

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Speaker 3: With the Oh? What did you both? Brend?

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Speaker 1: Then I think what's happened is I think Jones he's

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Speaker 1: heard our podcastify then Fordham and then you know, you

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Speaker 1: guys have run with it the next day, which is.

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Speaker 4: Great, James, That's where you're mistaken, because I've got a

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Speaker 4: live If I'm not listening to Fordham's podcast.

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Speaker 3: Well, what can we say? I think it's what I think.

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Speaker 3: I think we're in. I think we're.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to the power of corridors and stay

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Speaker 2: there for a long time.

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Speaker 4: James, you find Ben, do you wear any secret you

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Speaker 4: want to divulge about Ben?

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Speaker 3: Why? Well, he's away. Is he a fair employer? Do

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Speaker 3: you like him?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? He's extremely generous, looks after his staff, takes us

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Speaker 1: out to lunch all the time.

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Speaker 3: We don't need to hear that rubbish.

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Speaker 1: There's not a bad word to say about him at all.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, it's against the lord to take stuff out

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Speaker 2: to lunch. IM was telling our staff.

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Speaker 3: That, really, James, you've done enough. James, thank you.

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Speaker 2: And how do you feel about Jones's plan to put

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Speaker 2: a giant flag with his face on?

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Speaker 5: It?

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Speaker 4: Is what I suggested, This is what the people of

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Speaker 4: New South Wales want, James.

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Speaker 1: I love that, My aunt would love that. Hey, before

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Speaker 1: we go, can I request the song about how this works?

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Speaker 3: What would would you like to hear?

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Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've already played one of those.

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Speaker 2: We played Rhiannon this morning.

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Speaker 1: You can never play too much, but.

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Speaker 3: There's a good chance we'll be playing in the next

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Speaker 3: half hour as well. Mate.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, James.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think I like the idea of

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Speaker 3: the one two punch there.

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Speaker 2: I like the idea of a power of corridors