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Speaker 1: The War On twenty twenty four is coming to the

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Speaker 1: ASTA Theater Saturday, December seven, that's Saturday week.

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Speaker 2: Tickets are through.

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Speaker 1: Ticket Tech and James Schlowfall is joining us now. Good morning, James.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, good morning, great to be here.

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Speaker 2: How are you good, James schlowfull from the shovel. It's

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Speaker 2: not the easiest. The easiest person I've introduced on a you.

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Speaker 3: I'm the one who I have to pronounce my name

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Speaker 3: every Sunday.

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Speaker 2: You do how many times do you get asked to

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Speaker 2: spell your name in a day?

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Speaker 4: James nuts about forty times a day?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, spelled that name. I've carried that around with me

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Speaker 3: like a wait for my life. Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't let it go at this stage though, you know,

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Speaker 2: did you come to name?

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Speaker 3: Do you?

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Speaker 5: You can just call you have James?

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Speaker 2: I guess make them work it out. Now, what a year.

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Speaker 1: It's been in terms of news and culture and where

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Speaker 1: do you even start with the show?

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Speaker 3: Do you know where we start is with one of

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Speaker 3: the biggest news stories. I mean, there were a lot

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Speaker 3: of big news stories, yeah, yea, but one of the

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Speaker 3: biggest in the context of world events was right back

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Speaker 3: in January when David Warner lost his baggy green.

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Speaker 4: Cap to remember that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right he did.

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Speaker 3: It was like a national emergency, like everyone got involved,

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Speaker 3: even the Prime minister. Even the Prime Minister came out

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Speaker 3: had a press conference asking for people to look for

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Speaker 3: David Warner's hat.

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Speaker 4: He was it was a national and in the end.

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Speaker 2: Did he have a man out. He was having a.

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Speaker 3: Man his mom.

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Speaker 4: His mum came down, had a proper look.

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Speaker 3: Ridiculous.

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Speaker 5: I know, I'm to think someone was going to start

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Speaker 5: a crowdfunding to try and send search parties out. It

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Speaker 5: was ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: I know. It said something about this country though, when

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Speaker 3: you know there's a there's a lot of bad stuff

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Speaker 3: going on in the world. But that was the thing

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Speaker 3: that captured our attention for about a good a good

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Speaker 3: seven days back in January.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a couple of embarrassed having baggie greens

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Speaker 5: this week, but we weren't going at the cricket.

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Speaker 2: Enough about the cricket.

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Speaker 1: I think one of my favorite moments of the year

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Speaker 1: has been Peter Dutton boycotting Woolworst because they stopped selling Chinese.

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Speaker 3: Speak speak about the big issues. I mean, you know

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Speaker 3: there's a bit going on and here's a guy who's

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Speaker 3: calling up radio stations to let them know that Woolly's

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Speaker 3: stocking Chinese made plastic flags and calling for a ball boycott.

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Speaker 3: It is good to know that he has focused on

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Speaker 3: the division. Another thing about Peter Dutton though, this is

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Speaker 3: this is the pers story. You might remember this something.

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Speaker 3: This was back in about March. He flew over He

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Speaker 3: flew to Perth for one hour but Gina Reinhart's lavish

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Speaker 3: birthday party, remember that. And then he flew back again

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Speaker 3: to Melbourne to campaign in a by election there on

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Speaker 3: cost of living pressure after after going on a private

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Speaker 3: jet for one hour, and he said that cost of living.

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Speaker 3: He said, cost of living is my number one priority.

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Speaker 3: I think he said that he had a mouthful of cabat,

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Speaker 3: so it was hard to tell what he was saying.

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Speaker 3: But but that was That was a great It.

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Speaker 5: Shows the influence of Gina, doesn't it? Very very powerful?

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Speaker 1: To be fair, she puts on quite a showbish.

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Speaker 3: Great, great, I've heard, I've heard, yeah.

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Speaker 2: What about over over there man there, James.

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Speaker 5: Is not just Trump, is it? It's it's the whole

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Speaker 5: Biden thing. It was such a it's been such a

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Speaker 5: weird year.

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Speaker 3: We forget about Biden, don't.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a weird year, wasn't it. We we

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Speaker 4: had we had a moment there when.

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Speaker 3: It looked like Joe Biden was was just going to

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Speaker 3: loose spectacularly. And then and then you know, Democrats ended

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Speaker 3: up losing anyway.

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Speaker 4: But oh my gosh, the situation over there, it's almost

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Speaker 4: as if they have this competition. Like if you were

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Speaker 4: like an alien who came down it from out of

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Speaker 4: space and looked at this thing from you know, without

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Speaker 4: any context, you would be convinced that they have this

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Speaker 4: competition to find the very worst person in the country. Look,

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Speaker 4: they go to this long protracted.

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Speaker 3: Event and then and they're like, Okay, we found it.

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Speaker 3: We found the absolute worst person in the country, and

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Speaker 3: he's going to run the place. It's observed.

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Speaker 2: I see.

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Speaker 1: I have a theory, James, that we live in an

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Speaker 1: intergalactic candid camera show, and people on another planet somewhere

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Speaker 1: they are laughing their asses off at us because it's.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Donald Trump is from the other planet.

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Speaker 2: Because it's too it's just too bizarre.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes it is.

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Speaker 5: It is all right, hey, James, it is the war

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four. But it's so tantalizingly close to

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Speaker 5: a federal election, it'd be nice just to stretch it

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Speaker 5: to me because you have so much material. By about March,

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Speaker 5: we will have a lot of material.

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Speaker 3: Look, we are going to have a good look at

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Speaker 3: at Olbow and his performance or all lack of performances. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we've got actually a special guest which is Albow's wedding planner,

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Speaker 3: which is going to be a lot of fun. Albert's

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Speaker 3: got a wedding coming up, so you'd be more focused

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Speaker 3: on that day, I nique, rather than the data. So

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Speaker 3: we'll we're having a look at some of the plans

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Speaker 3: for his wedding. But yeah, better election coming up, a

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Speaker 3: lot of a lot of news next year as well.

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Speaker 1: Imagine well, I mean coming off the US election into

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Speaker 1: the Australian one.

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Speaker 2: It's it's basically like Christmas for you guys.

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Speaker 3: I know, it never stops. We say every year that

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Speaker 3: that you know, things can't get more ridiculous. I think

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Speaker 3: we said that back in twenty sixteen. You know that

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Speaker 3: was the most ridiculous year ever, and since then it's

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Speaker 3: just got worse the most every year, but better and

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Speaker 3: better for stat of it.

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Speaker 5: No material, Yeah, really there's so much material.

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Speaker 1: Before we let you go, just tell us about the

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Speaker 1: Shovel and how it came about and how people can

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Speaker 1: make sure that they're across it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, so the Shovel became about that ten or

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Speaker 3: twelve years ago. It was it was it was around

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Speaker 3: that time when Tony Abbott first came on the scene.

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Speaker 3: You might remember that about twenty and fourteen fifteen when

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Speaker 3: he first became Opposition leader and Australian politics just started

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Speaker 3: to go a little bit ridiculous, and so the Shovel

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Speaker 3: just became this space to kind of make sense to

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Speaker 3: Tony Abbott initially and you know, you know, a serious

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Speaker 3: place to make to make fun of Tony Abbott.

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Speaker 4: And then from there it just kind of took off

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Speaker 4: and now it's just.

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Speaker 3: A more general, I guess, satirical, you know, network to

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Speaker 3: comment on the news, and it's kind of it's grown

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Speaker 3: since then. And and this this comedy Garla we the

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Speaker 3: end of every year is a fantastic chance to bring

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Speaker 3: people from all over different parts of the comedy world.

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Speaker 3: And we have Charles first from the Chaser. We have

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Speaker 3: Mark Humphreys, who people will know from his work on

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Speaker 3: the ABC and Channel seven and then Veronica Milsom as well.

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Speaker 3: He's joining us this year, which is great that she

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Speaker 3: is from mad as Hell and as a triple j Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so it's a great mix of different people coming together

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Speaker 3: to have a look at the year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we were in radio with Veronica here in Perth

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Speaker 5: where she started out brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Oh great, Yeah, we thank you for your service.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where we direct what we do with

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Speaker 1: all of this, without the shuffle, without the war on

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: We look forward to seeing you. What are you hear

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Speaker 2: in just over a week.

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Speaker 3: You have to have a laughter next Saturday. Yeas James.

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Speaker 5: That is incredible, isn't it? And he's just reminding us,

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Speaker 5: reminding us of that time when Abbott came in and

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Speaker 5: Australian politics went nuts and being the PM was like

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Speaker 5: a doornut, wasn't it. Everyone got to turn for a

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Speaker 5: little while there, so bizarre