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00:11Hello and welcome to The Weekly. I'm Charlie Pickering. We have a massive show for you tonight.
00:16We'll roll up our sleeves and sort out the Middle East and heat up a bowl of the bean
00:20soup theory with Rhys Nicholson.
00:25And as always, we've watched all the news so that you don't have to.
00:29So let's kick things off with the week.
00:35Beginning on Thursday, and before Donald Trump ignited war in the Middle East, he first unleashed
00:41hell on an unsuspecting nation.
00:43A Trump Tower has been proposed for a beachfront site on the Gold Coast.
00:48A six-star resort, butlers, beach clubs, Michelin star restaurants and 270 luxury residential
00:56apartments.
00:57I think it'll be terrible for the community. I wouldn't like to see anything to do with
01:02him come anywhere near the Gold Coast.
01:03And fair enough. Trump is, after all, the world's most prolific toolie.
01:10Meanwhile, with Trump being referenced thousands of times in the Epstein files, the US Congress
01:15wanted some answers. So naturally, they subpoenaed Hillary?
01:18Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton behind closed doors facing questions about her and
01:25former President Bill Clinton's alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The former first lady was
01:29grilled for six hours behind closed doors.
01:32I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein. I never went to
01:39his
01:39island. I never went to his home. It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started
01:47being asked about UFOs.
01:49Mm. Preserably by UFOs, they mean uncomfortably frisky old men.
02:02Speaking of which, Bill Clinton faced the music just 24 hours later.
02:06I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong. That is what former US President Bill Clinton told
02:12Congress.
02:13How would you characterise your relationship with Mr. Epstein?
02:16It was cordial.
02:18Former US President Bill Clinton is being grilled right now on his relationship with the late
02:23pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
02:26Congress had some important questions about the relationship between the pedophile financier
02:31and the pedophile fancier.
02:34The most important question of all, what the f*** were you wearing?
02:45The former President spoke after the deposition to restate his innocence.
02:50I know what I saw and more importantly what I didn't see. And I know what I did. And more
02:56importantly what I didn't do.
02:58In other words, he did not have sexual relations with the pedophile financier.
03:06And actually, a word of advice, Bubba. Given the subject matter, maybe next time a little
03:15less tongue.
03:16And more importantly what I didn't do.
03:23Let's head into Friday. And at an event in Melbourne, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sat
03:28down for a harmless game of word association.
03:31One Nation voters.
03:35Frustrated.
03:37Pauline Hanson.
03:39Divisive.
03:40Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
03:44Grub.
03:46Actually, Andrew has been stripped of the title, Grub, and must now be called Larvae Mountbatten-Windsor.
03:54But with the audience on side, Smooth Talk and Albo was on a roll. Just one more hurdle
03:59to clear. How about former Australian of the Year, Grace Tame?
04:03Grace Tame.
04:04Um, difficult.
04:06Oh, Albo! Dude! That is an extremely poor choice of word. You could have said anything
04:13like strong, survivor, side-eye.
04:19After a significant backlash, the PM attempted to apologise.
04:23She has had a difficult life, and that was what I was referring to. If there was any misinterpretation,
04:30then I certainly apologise.
04:32Oh, great! Now, not only is she difficult, but she's also prone to misinterpretation.
04:39But there was no misinterpreting Grace Tame's response.
04:42On social media, the sexual abuse survivor was unforgiving.
04:46Spare me the condescension, old man, she wrote in one post.
04:50A patronising cop-out from a total coward.
04:52Yeah, sorry, Grace, I'm going to need that in one word.
04:55Uh, some saw this as a chance for Tame to turn insult into opportunity.
05:01Well, if I was Grace Tame, I'd take that as an enormous compliment, because I'm a difficult
05:06woman.
05:07I think she should put difficult on a t-shirt. More power to her.
05:11Not a bad idea. I mean, she has always had a side-eye for fashion.
05:16And now it's time for another ACA Newsbreaker.
05:21Tonight, we go inside the Sphinx Spiritual School, led by two former police detectives
05:28who claim to channel the spirits of Jesus and Princess Diana.
05:32The spirits speak through Ian's body.
05:35We will now talk to the Royal Highness Princess Diana.
05:39You are my youngest son. You are very sister.
05:42You are deeply loving, but you're hurt.
05:45It's Lady Freaking Dine!
05:47From Sigmund Freud, Gandhi, Leonardo da Vinci, even Princess Diana.
05:53And where do these come from?
05:54I have no idea.
05:56Good thing we asked you, then!
05:58Sphinx also believes in an extraterrestrial zoo tour.
06:02What I observe on the Earth.
06:05Okay, this is getting weird.
06:07When you first saw him do that, what did you think?
06:09What I would call gobbledygook.
06:11It's gobbledygook, woman!
06:13Ian charges hundreds of dollars to apparently cure almost anything through so-called spiritual surgery.
06:21He's giving us the finger!
06:23How would you describe Ian and Pearl?
06:25Like the wolves in a sheep outfit.
06:28It's sheep's clothing, you nitwit!
06:30Is Sphinx a cult?
06:32A cult?
06:34Well...
06:35I'll take that as a yes!
06:36That was another ACA Newsbreaker!
06:41To Saturday and chaos in the Middle East as the US and Israel bombed Iran,
06:47with the world's news organisation scrambling to find their most credible foreign policy experts.
06:52For more is ABC News contributor and former UK national security official Steve Hill.
06:57Mr Ahmed Alibrahim is a Saudi political analyst.
07:00Anthony C. Boyer, military and national security expert.
07:04War has erupted across the Middle East.
07:06Let's get straight to today's talkers.
07:08Nationals leader David Littleproud and Gus Woolland from Widewater Sports.
07:12A quick score check.
07:13Iran is down 5-0.
07:15Donald Trump has been reported for striking.
07:17And the Ayatollah has been stretched off with a career-ending injury.
07:21After the break, how to solve the housing crisis with our chief economist, Agro.
07:27So, Gus, while you're here, what is your take on the Middle East crisis?
07:32Last night I got on a bus to the city and I drove past, you know, one of the servos.
07:36It was $1.41 for petrol.
07:38When I came back on a bus four or five hours later, it was $2.11.
07:43However, according to Gus's sources, despite the turmoil, you can still get two Cornettos for $10.
07:50For more geopolitical insights as viewed from the window of a moving bus, tune in to Channel 9's Wide World
07:56of War.
07:59Back to the conflict and the official name for the U.S. mission is Operation Epic Fury, which narrowly beat
08:06out Operation Awesome Source and Operation We Like Big Bombs and We Cannot Lie.
08:15And inexplicably sun-smart Donald Trump addressed the people of Iran directly, making it clear that despite bombs destroying public
08:24infrastructure and killing civilians, they shouldn't take his epic fury personally.
08:29To the great, proud people of Iran, don't leave your home.
08:33It's very dangerous outside.
08:35Bombs will be dropping everywhere.
08:37When we are finished, take over your government.
08:40It will be yours to take.
08:42A message of hope.
08:43We will bomb everything everywhere to a pile of dusty rubble.
08:47But after that, it's all yours, baby!
08:56Soon, Dubai, Bahrain, Cyprus, Jordan, Qatar, Israel, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had all come under retaliatory fire in the
09:05war waged by Donald Trump.
09:07A real kick in the nuts to the self-appointed Director for Life of the Board of Peace, Donald Trump,
09:13who less than two weeks ago was taking credit for all the peace going around these days.
09:18We have peace in the Middle East right now.
09:20That's bigger than people who said it couldn't be done.
09:23For 3,000 years, they've been talking about Middle East.
09:26They said it couldn't be done.
09:28We settled eight wars.
09:31Ended eight unendable wars.
09:34I settled eight wars, whether you like it or not.
09:36Hey, it's okay, Donald.
09:38As everyone knows, when you end eight wars, you get to start a ninth war for free.
09:48With flights across the region grounded, thousands are unable to escape,
09:53many taking to social media to share the harrowing ordeal.
09:57Look at that.
09:58Literally directly above us.
10:01That is insane.
10:02They were so loud.
10:04It's on top of us.
10:06It's mental.
10:07No, actually, that's really bad.
10:10No, we're f***ing staying.
10:11The music's still on.
10:12We're not dying at home.
10:13No, we're not dying at home.
10:14The f***ing music's still on.
10:16Yeah, man, these air raid sirens are going off.
10:20You know, I remember a more cautious time
10:23when you had to send Hans Blix in to have a good look around
10:27before you went bombing Middle Eastern countries.
10:30So what is the Trump administration's rationale for Operation Epic Fury?
10:35We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
10:37We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
10:40And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them
10:43before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.
10:46So America had to launch a preemptive strike to preempt Israel's emptive strike
10:52before Iran could preempt their preemptive strike, having another preemptive strike.
10:58But for anyone wondering if the attack was legal,
11:01U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made America's position abundantly and incriminatingly clear.
11:07America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say,
11:11is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history.
11:17B-2s, fighters, drones, missiles, and of course, classified effects.
11:23All on our terms.
11:25With maximum authorities.
11:27No stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire,
11:30no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars.
11:35We fight to win.
11:37They fight to win.
11:38Good to know America isn't tanking for the draft picks.
11:42Back home, the Prime Minister condemned the U.S. actions.
11:45Nah, just kidding.
11:46We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
11:52And Ayatollah Khamenei was responsible for the regime's brutal acts of violence and intimidation
11:59against its own people.
12:01The Prime Minister went on to describe the late Ayatollah as difficult.
12:10Let's move through to Sunday.
12:12And in a week dominated by bad news,
12:14the world found unity in the form of a little monkey named Punch.
12:18Let's talk about Punch, the baby macaque from Japan
12:21who is stealing hearts across the world.
12:23Punch is a seven-month-old macaque in the Ichikawa City Zoo near Tokyo.
12:29Abandoned by his mom at birth,
12:30when Punch tried to connect with the rest of the troop at the zoo,
12:34he was met with rejection there as well.
12:36So, is everyone else just casually crying over Punch, the baby monkey?
12:43I need like a real-time feed update of what this monkey is doing.
12:48Like, what is Punch doing?
12:49Like, is he okay?
12:50And the whole world is basically just watching right now,
12:53thinking like, oh my gosh, she's the cutest thing ever.
12:55Punch the monkey is officially the most loved animal in the world,
12:59bringing an end to the merciless reign of Moo-Dang.
13:03You hear that, Moo-Dang?
13:04Yeah, now you're just a stumpy, wet cow.
13:09A stumpy, wet cow!
13:11You make me sick.
13:13Thankfully for little Punch, he wasn't entirely on his own.
13:17The zookeepers brought him this orangutan plushie from Ikea for comfort.
13:21Staff hoped the toy, shaped like another primate,
13:24might one day help him fit with the troop.
13:27Punch instantly bonding with the stuffed toy,
13:29seen here cuddling and dragging it with him everywhere he went.
13:32The zoo maintains the punches, gradually integrating into the troop.
13:37His heartbreaking journey for acceptance, getting a happy ending,
13:40with some of the monkeys including him in grooming activities,
13:43a sign of bonding and friendship.
13:46I had a very similar experience with my hairdresser, Sven.
13:51Having earned his trust,
13:53he now lovingly picks the nits out of my hair and eats them.
13:57But Punch the monkey's story doesn't end there,
14:00because there is only one thing the world loves more than an underdog.
14:04Unrestrained capitalism.
14:06Punch's plush pal selling out instantly.
14:09Fans going bananas for their own stuffy.
14:12Ikea even joining in with this heartfelt post about the craze.
14:17Hoping to cash in further,
14:18Ikea has gifted Little Punch two new friends,
14:21a Stockholman stool and a Kallax shelving unit.
14:25Aww.
14:30Still to come, Reece Nicholson explains the bean soup theory,
14:33whether you like it or not, and that's kind of the point.
14:35But first to Monday,
14:37and Kyle Sandilands addressed the ongoing feud
14:41with his on-air partner, Jackie O.
14:43Kyle Sandilands has confirmed this morning
14:45that his co-host Jackie O will remain off-air for another week
14:48following the duo's explosive on-air fight.
14:50It happened on Friday when Sandilands claimed
14:52an obsession with astrology was affecting her work.
14:56Your fixation on this has made you almost unworkable.
15:00You're off with the fairies with the...
15:02Tell me where...
15:03No, no, no.
15:03Tell me where I've been off with the fairies.
15:05You've had your head on that looking into the stars.
15:07Yeah, I did.
15:08Every segment, every time you've spoken,
15:11you're off with the...
15:12You don't even know what's going on.
15:13I would never say things like that about you.
15:16She seemed shocked, but her horoscope did say she would...
15:20LAUGHTER
15:21It did say that she would transit out of a giant Uranus.
15:26LAUGHTER
15:27APPLAUSE
15:31For years, they had an unbeatable formula.
15:34Kyle, the biggest prick on radio,
15:36and Jackie O, adjacent to the biggest prick on radio.
15:40LAUGHTER
15:41But then industry insiders said the duo were on shaky ground.
15:45There is a very long, dark cloud over what will happen next.
15:49Most people I've spoken to don't think she's ever going to return.
15:53Jackie O with a principled stand.
15:55Sure, you can put a 14-year-old on a lie detector
15:57and ask them about their sex life,
15:59but I draw the line when you question my passion for astrology.
16:03LAUGHTER
16:05But then we got this shocking news.
16:08We have breaking news just in.
16:10The Kyle and Jackie O radio show is over.
16:13The plug pulled on this partnership,
16:15which is worth $100 million each.
16:18From Sydney, Australia,
16:21The Flash, apparently official...
16:23..the Kyle and Jackie O show...
16:26..died at 1pm Eastern Standard Time.
16:30APPLAUSE
16:35Not since 1963 has a Jackie O lost their partner
16:40in such tragic circumstances.
16:44The Weekly now goes behind the microphone
16:47to take a deeper look at the rise and fall
16:50of the king and queen of radio in Sydney and nowhere else.
16:55The Weekly investigates...
16:59..behind the mic.
17:01Shock waves were felt on the radio waves
17:04as it hit the headlines that Australia's sweetheart, Jackie O...
17:08..fucks...
17:10No! That wasn't me!
17:12..had waved goodbye to radio fathead
17:15and penis analyst Kyle Sandilands.
17:17You got a tiny penis?
17:19Yes, I've got a very tiny penis.
17:22Radio industry insiders are in shock
17:25as the Scott and Charlene of the grubby world of commercial radio
17:28have ended their unique brand of banter for good.
17:32All the girls here, well, not all of them,
17:34but a lot of them have recorded themselves urinating...
17:37Yeah.
17:38..and the boys will try and figure out
17:40whose flaps made that wee.
17:42Appearing recently on Kyle Stefanovic's podcast,
17:45the closest thing the Australian entertainment industry
17:48has to giving confession to a priest,
17:50Kyle revealed he has nothing but respect for Jackie.
17:53I actually respect what she's got to say.
17:55And that she holds him in the highest esteem.
17:57But she did pull a few facts out the other day.
18:00It had me aligned with Donald Trump.
18:02I do believe he's the best president
18:04that's ever happened to the United States.
18:07With the dynamic duo done and dusted,
18:10where are everyday Aussies meant to go
18:12to hear people urinating live on air?
18:14I don't like this game.
18:17If you can't handle some vag, just step back.
18:20Where can they listen to two multi-millionaires
18:22talk about the most important things on their minds?
18:26Don't you ever get, like, an Angus truffle burger or something?
18:29No.
18:30How much have you to drive
18:31with an Angus truffle burger in one hand?
18:33She orders Fanta these days.
18:34She does.
18:35John Ibrahim loves Fanta as well.
18:36Does he really?
18:37Oh, oh, oh.
18:39And the legs spread quicker than a Balinese whore.
18:41And while some at the time called ARN Media's decision
18:44to pay Kyle and Jackie $100 million each
18:47to bomb in the ratings in Melbourne, a miscalculation...
18:50They've signed a record-breaking new deal
18:52worth an estimated $200 million.
18:55It's a lot of money.
18:56You sure they're going to be a hit?
18:58They're once-in-a-generation talent.
19:00They're surely now calling it a Miss...
19:02Oh, you f***ed up!
19:04The nation will never hear Kyle and Jackie O
19:07on the airwaves together again.
19:09A loss that will be felt for years to come.
19:12I'd put it in my mouth.
19:13It was like I'd put a dog turd in my mouth.
19:18To Tuesday.
19:19And the war in the Middle East
19:21was providing a useful distraction
19:22from debate over the government's handling
19:24of a group of women known as the...
19:26So-called ISIS brides.
19:28ISIS brides.
19:29ISIS brides.
19:30ISIS brides.
19:31Young women who moved to Syria
19:33and married Islamic State fighters.
19:35Yes, the most controversial episode yet
19:38of married-at-first-fight.
19:39LAUGHTER
19:42For whatever reason,
19:44being wed to a terrorist in a war zone
19:46didn't work out.
19:47And now the women, some with children,
19:50want to return to Australia.
19:52So what are our obligations to bring them back?
19:55Legally, does the Australian government
19:57have to let these women and children
19:59back into this country?
20:00Any Australian citizen
20:02who applies through the normal processes
20:04is entitled to have a passport issued.
20:07That's an essential service
20:09at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
20:11Some would say that if these women
20:12are prepared to go through the excruciating ordeal
20:15that is applying for an Australian passport,
20:18maybe they've suffered enough.
20:20But with One Nation's rise in the polls
20:22dragging the major parties to the right,
20:25for the ISIS brides,
20:26finding friends in Canberra has proven difficult.
20:28The government maintains
20:30it's not helping these families.
20:33I have nothing but contempt for these people.
20:35My mother would have said
20:36if you make your bed, you'll own it.
20:37We do not want these women
20:39or their children back here at home.
20:42We need to shut the door to people
20:43who will bring hate and terror
20:45to our shores from another place.
20:47So Labor says they don't want them here,
20:49but the Coalition says Labor
20:51doesn't not want them here hard enough.
20:54And the ISIS brides unfortunately
20:56find themselves in the middle
20:58of the Australian politics lack of sympathy
21:01Venn diagram
21:02of terrorism, refugees and single mums.
21:10It's true.
21:13But while it's easy to talk tough
21:15and say these women have made their beds
21:18and now they have to lie in them,
21:19what about the children we're punishing
21:21for the sins of the parents?
21:23For the youngest of these Australians,
21:25they've known no other home
21:27but a sprawling refugee camp
21:29in northeastern Syria,
21:31paying the price for their mothers
21:33marrying Islamic State terrorists.
21:35This is the first time
21:36that we have heard from any of the children
21:38who are part of this group.
21:40For one hour last week,
21:41they saw the world outside.
21:43I saw houses for the first time
21:46and trees and grass.
21:47I was very excited.
21:49When you hear them speaking,
21:50they're just these little Aussies.
21:52The kids in sort of bright pink parkas
21:54and hoodies
21:57talking about Bluey and bingo
21:59and, you know, wanting to see the ocean.
22:02These kids sound like kids.
22:05I mean, they love Bluey.
22:07My kids love Bluey.
22:08They want to go to the beach.
22:09My kids want to go to the beach.
22:10They don't want to spend their whole lives
22:12in a camp and my kids hate camping.
22:16We can all agree the kids,
22:19some as young as six,
22:20are innocent victims.
22:22Well, almost all of us.
22:24They married hardened terrorists.
22:25They had children to hardened terrorists
22:28to breed the terrorists of the future.
22:30Breeding the terrorists of the future.
22:32It was a hell of an agenda reveal.
22:38So, are they kids or are they terrorists?
22:42Have they been indoctrinated by ISIS or Bluey?
22:45Before we let them back into Australia,
22:47we need to know exactly what they think of this country.
22:50What do you know about Australia?
22:53I know Australia's a beautiful country.
22:56There's kind people.
22:57Well, it kind of depends on the polling.
23:00LAUGHTER
23:02To Wednesday.
23:03And while Australia has protected kids
23:05by kicking them off social media,
23:07according to the eSafety Commissioner,
23:09the number of adults having negative experiences
23:11on the internet has steadily increased.
23:14But what if it's not all someone else's fault?
23:17What if we need to take responsibility for ourselves?
23:20Here to unpack the latest theory lighting up the timeline,
23:23it's Rhys Nicholson!
23:30Hello, Charles.
23:32You look well.
23:33Nice to see you trying.
23:35LAUGHTER
23:35Thanks.
23:36I love the suit.
23:37I do not care for the tie.
23:38I'm sorry?
23:39That's OK.
23:40I'm aware that not everything is for me.
23:42Sadly, the internet is not across that yet.
23:45Are you getting trolled again?
23:46No, and I've spoken to the social media team at Backroads
23:49and we're in mediation.
23:51LAUGHTER
23:51So there's a new theory on the internet, Charles,
23:55and surprisingly, it's not my speculation
23:57that Robert Irwin was grown in a Tourism Australia lab.
24:01LAUGHTER
24:01I've never seen him blink
24:03and I will not be silenced about it.
24:06I'm talking about bean soup theory.
24:09Bean soup theory?
24:10Bean soup theory.
24:12Bean soup theory.
24:13Bean soup theory.
24:15Enough now.
24:16Picture the scene.
24:17It's 2023, the Barbie movie versus Oppenheiber
24:20was the only nuclear war we were thinking about,
24:23and a vegan food influencer
24:25has just posted a vegan bean soup recipe on TikTok.
24:29Almost immediately, people flooded comments declaring,
24:32I can't eat beans.
24:34Can I make it without the beans?
24:36LAUGHTER
24:37Uh, from your tone, I'm assuming you can't?
24:40Of course not.
24:41Bean soup without the beans is just tepid bath water
24:44and I'm not talking about the good stuff
24:46I'm selling on my website.
24:47Right.
24:48Right.
24:49So, what is bean soup theory?
24:51I'm trying to tell you.
24:53LAUGHTER
24:53Bean soup theory describes a phenomenon
24:56where something is clearly made for a specific audience
24:59and someone outside that audience says,
25:01yes, but what about me?
25:03It's known in some circles as the Shannon-Knoll complex.
25:06LAUGHTER
25:07Mmm. Mmm.
25:08We see it everywhere.
25:09International Women's Day.
25:11Where's International Men's Day?
25:13A pride event.
25:14What about straight pride,
25:15a support group for left-handed people?
25:18What about people whom scissors were designed for?
25:21LAUGHTER
25:21Right.
25:23So, this sounds a lot like whataboutism to me.
25:26You get it.
25:27In fact, you're doing it right now.
25:29LAUGHTER
25:29Philosophers have been talking about this for centuries.
25:32Francis Bacon, no relation to Kevin...
25:34Wow, that's...
25:35That's genuinely ironic.
25:38LAUGHTER
25:39Yes, it is.
25:40He called it the idols in the cave.
25:44He said,
25:45every person lives inside their own little cave,
25:47shaped by their experiences, beliefs, fears
25:50and era of ABC kids they grew up on.
25:53LAUGHTER
25:53If the Baba theme song still settles your nervous system,
25:57you are my people.
25:58LAUGHTER
25:59So, when someone shows us something outside of our cave,
26:02a different identity, culture, experience or soup recipe,
26:06our instinct isn't curiosity, it's caution.
26:09OK, I think I'm starting to get it.
26:11Again with the I.
26:13LAUGHTER
26:14The theory helps explain a pattern
26:16we keep seeing in public debate.
26:18And we can all agree it's crazy, right?
26:20Except, what if you swapped bean soup
26:23for a marginalised community like,
26:25oh, say, just off the top of my head,
26:27trans people?
26:29Trans people?
26:30Trans people.
26:31Right, trans people.
26:32Trans people.
26:33LAUGHTER
26:34When trans people talk about their lives
26:36or when policies are proposed to protect them,
26:39the loudest response is often,
26:41but how does this affect me?
26:42Which is a strange question
26:44because the answer is usually,
26:45it doesn't and that's fine.
26:47LAUGHTER
26:48When you see someone living differently to yourself,
26:50the first instinct can be discomfort.
26:52That's human.
26:53Your second instinct should be kindness.
26:56It's actually easier.
26:57Do your best not to call someone
26:59by their old soup name, for example.
27:01LAUGHTER
27:02Don't ask your co-worker
27:03if they've had their beans surgically removed.
27:06I feel like we're losing sight of the metaphor here.
27:09Charles, now more than ever,
27:11the most radical act is allyship.
27:13And honestly, basic maturity
27:15is letting someone else enjoy their lunch
27:18with or without beans.
27:19A recent study shows
27:2188% of trans kids have been targeted by online hate.
27:24That's a lot of energy spent
27:26on targeting a very small group of people.
27:28Less than 1% of Australians identify as trans or gender diverse.
27:33That's about 179,000 people nationwide.
27:36For context,
27:37there are more people in this country named Charles.
27:40Charles.
27:42And I say this to you, the people of the nation,
27:45I know who I'd prefer to bully out of those people.
27:49LAUGHTER
27:50Would you please thank Rhys Nicholson!
27:54APPLAUSE
28:00That's all for tonight.
28:02And if you'd like to be in our studio audience,
28:04you can just scan the code on your screen right now.
28:06And don't forget to tune in to my radio show, TGIF,
28:09Friday Afternoons on ABC Radio and Radio National,
28:12or download it on the ABC Listen app.
28:14We'll be back next week with Abby Jelmy and Hannah Gadsby,
28:17but until then, on behalf of the team,
28:19thanks for watching, I'm Charlie Pickery.
28:21Good night.
28:22APPLAUSE
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