Episode 185 "Everything's Going So Well!"
Jeremy checks in to see if everything's okay, and fortunately it is!
Jeremy checks in to see if everything's okay, and fortunately it is!
* Nats and Libs doing nonsense irrelevant stuff * Murray Watts and the ALP setting fire to the planet (audio from Greg Jericho of The Australia Institute) * Jeremy Makes Excuses * Nick Fires Up
* Lefty podcasts of Australia unite! * The worst people in the country paying Bandt the compliment of gloating * Will the Greens take advice from the people who hate them? Helpful advice like "give up on human rights, social justice, unions and the environment" * No, under new Greens leader Larissa Waters they're going to do more of the stuff their voters voted for! * What about Gaza? Didn't Australians show they're on Israel's side when they turfed Peter Dutton from his seat? I mean, didn't the...
Nick and Jeremy wake up bleary-eyed to remember some of the great hits last night, including * "35% Is A Mandate, Right" - Albo's Big Balls Band * "We Are The Champions (with LNP preferences)" - Albo vs Max * "It's Not Easy Being Green (or a party with significant support that isn't geographically concentrated)" - Kermit The Frog * "Killing In The Name Of" - Rage Against The Greens * "Farewell Dirty Lefties, Enjoy Your Weekend" - Creepy Pete * "Don't Cry For Me, Nasty Kooyong" - Amelia * "Sucks ...
00:00:47 The Howard Housing Crisis election (don't platform the Greens!) 00:13:53 Dutton's no good very bad election - Australians notice from the Trump example that "anti-woke" politicians actually make things much worse 00:27:22 A wild ballot appears and is dealt with 00:41:39 AUKUS: for the $400bn, we don't get subs, we get a future administration pissed off with us for being suckers to predecessors they hate
Jeremy and Nick have a chat with the Greens candidate for the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, Jackie Carter. A candidate for Kooyong not related to a premier and not having to lie about being a renter (like her LNP opponent) or having access to A TRILLION DOLLARS (like her Teal opponent)? Maybe the Well May We Say bump will help (occupy an hour of your time).
01:30 Dutton's Difficulties - It's not Easy being a Temu Trump in Australia in April 2025 03:52 Waking from the "anti-woke" scam 16:40 Covering for Coles and Woolies 25:24 The Real Canberra Bubble (apologies to any toddlers who may overhear)
01:09 Let's just keep trusting the US to defend us 09:27 Labor's gut punch to environmental protections in Australia 20:10 I guess we should talk about the budget 24:18 Worst MP in Victoria wasting parliament's time to attack trans people 33:44 six magic letters for the useless national media - "tax cut"
The US threatens to punch itself in the balls Peter has some new ideas to make your life worse Leftist podcasters unite
01:15 Nick sells out 03:17 Lefty indoctrination spreading 04:45 ABC pretends housing crisis is just about immigration 07:20 Moreton Bay council listens to residents who want it to attack homeless people 15:59 Virtue signalling gone mad, Nick and Jeremy have a go about blaming foreigners for everything 18:08 Nick and Jeremy bang on about housing as if they want it to be affordable or something 27:47 Some woke commie BS about liveable wages and worker solidarity helping each other, frankly do thes...
01:23 test time 08:07 appeasing bullies usually works 30:38 questions
00:05:38 mandatory idiocy 00:16:11 sucking up to bullies 00:34:50 childish nicknames
04:13 A "unifying" date 23:03 It Couldn't Happen Here 51:35 Where is the Protest? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering Protest
02:31 It was 20 years ago today, John Winston Howard did some things we're just finding out about 13:00 The Follow-Up 20:53 Longer terms - Why Should We Be Subject To The Whims Of Peasants 28:25 Gentlemen! To Evil! 35:06 Nick's mate Peter Dutton
00:01:48 Santa's end of year sack 00:04:09 SHUT UP PEASANTS - Jacinta Allan ALP government in Victoria seriously trying to destroy the right to protest 00:09:10 RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY - The Victorian LNP not sure if they stand with Nazis or not (in their own words); also Pessutto fails to defend himself against a virulent FART 00:22:34 AUSTRALIA VS HUMANITY - councils ramping up cruelty against homeless people in 2024 like they're Dickensian villains 00:26:10 HAND US A MATCH - US setting fire to the...
00:03:00 How we talk about terrible people "when they cark it" 00:20:05 What if the "left" parties in in parliament rediscovered these people called "workers" and their mysterious needs
00:03:05 Luigi's Mansion and America Is Not About Violence 00:07:56 Housing - Max and Sukkar at the NPC and Sukkar's terrible lines not being swatted down 00:26:35 Woolworths and filthy workers wanting safe working conditions like they're royalty or something 00:40:36 Wrong sort of guillotines in parliament
00:01:45 Greens wave ALP's housing plan through 00:18:47 Rising Tide protest at Newcastle 00:23:27 Australia Vs Humanity - LNP promises not to arrest war criminals with warrants out from ICC
00:01:56 #worldisfukt - Trump - Nazis - local attempts to seize on it 00:31:52 Rigging the Game 00:32:24 A foolproof plan to keep 15 year olds from social media 00:33:04 20% HECS discount bribe by idiots who don't know how to bribe voters effectively 00:50:46 Australia & NZ vs humanity - Haka vs anti-Treaty MPs in NZ; Sneaky senators vs Lidia Thorpe
04:23 Permission to be awful 09:03 Monkey Brains 22:20 The Right Wing Monkey Brain Cycle 27:14 ALP's HECS offer - but not now, silly, only if you re-elect us 37:23 Fed Covid-19 inquiry 37:56 A left-wing cycle 46:59 The golden rule
* Labor politicians across the country celebrate the party suffering a large swing against it in Queensland and losing government to the LNP, because it might possibly have won a seat from the Greens on LNP preferences * Nick apologises * Nick Has A Plan For The Regions * Jeremy Bangs on About Boardgames * Jeremy's Still Banging on About Boardgames * Poor Nick
In the beginning, Lidia was "rude" to the British monarch. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded, by the worst people in the country, as "a bad move".
A quick one (well, once Nick found the SD card with the recording three days later) mainly about that time Albo bought a house on the coast and almost everyone missed the point.
We’ve sort of recovered enough from Australia beclowning itself on reconciliation to try to get back on the podcast horse. Fortunately, there’s new and more uplifting stuff to talk about! Australia beclowning itself on housing; Australia beclowning itself on civil rights; and Australia beclowning itself on what you’d think was a really easy one, whether it should oppose genocide or not
Australia just beclowned itself. Why? What can we do next?
00:04:14 Hypocrisy 00:10:10 RoboDebt 00:17:02 Voice 01:00:17 Meetings 01:15:04 Games 01:32:50 Lies
Pretty hard to do timestamps this week, it was a pretty wide-ranging discussion. But some real ideas on what we can do did emerge during our chat.
02:07 Painting Protest 11:34 Do diversity for us but don't actually say anything 19:35 Go home Cardinal Pell 22:38 Farewell Jacinda, we like you much more than the brief mention here would suggest 30:20 Perrotet: who knew in 2003 that dressing up like a Nazi is bad? 35:22 Molan: the tragedy when war criminals die 40:16 It's perfectly okay to say not-nice things about evil dead people 50:10 Tom's Book
01:53 Victorian Election This Very Saturday 21:26 What Shall We Do About Poor Little Twitter
02:39 Naughty Sportsminions thinking they're there to play sport 22:43 Media Watch Goes To The TERFs 32:04 Because Lidia Thorpe Dated An Ex-Bikie, Now The Greens May Not Criticise Actual Corruption