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00:02Charlie Pickering host of the weekly for team ABC just snap that down you're lucky I don't
00:09usually do interviews no one asks so the end of season 12 we've had some laughs we've tackled
00:28some big important news stories without having any real impact I think that's the way satire
00:35should be the engine room is the writers who tirelessly hunt down crucial stories then find
00:41a unique cutting-edge angle so Trump again yes good job Rob that balance of comedy and information
00:53it's an art but thankfully I am supported by some of the finest political minds ah Jesus I mean
01:01when I found out that Iraq and Iran were different countries I was like the key is preparation
01:19but at the ABC we work hard and we play hard
01:37it's true occasionally tensions run high
01:49hey I mean that grading high-pitched squeal could be anyone and talk me through the incident the
01:54incident well when you're a public figure sometimes things get taken out of context and after years of
02:01research here's why I'm certain 9-11 was an inside job what the hell is he doing
02:07idiota
02:09shim or
02:12coincidence like fun it is
02:15copy
02:17I said I'm coming
02:37hello and welcome to the weekly I'm Charlie Pickering it's our final show for the series and
02:41it is jam-packed Rhys Nicholson has the cure for burnout Alexi Toliopoulos is here to save cinema from
02:47itself Margaret Pomerantz slaughters home shopping and queens of comedy Anne Edmonds and Kitty Flanagan
02:56big show
02:58and as always we've watched all the news so that you don't have to so let's kick things off with
03:03the week
03:07we begin things with Thursday and with the oil crisis dragging on a current affair captured the
03:13nation's mood perfectly FOMO used to stand for fear of missing out these days it could mean
03:20fear of missing oil yeah it could mean that and uh ACA could mean always crap acronyms who knows
03:29so racked with FOMO the PM jetted off to Malaysia on a regional charm offensive the prime minister has
03:36landed in Malaysia on the next leg of his trip to secure fuel and fertilizer supplies Australia is
03:42not one of those friends that only rings up when they want something we will be mates
03:49I don't know why you use that term
03:52we use the term mates because calling the Malaysian PM a sick could be misinterpreted
04:00while Albo and Anwar were getting on like a house on fire the PM had to rush home because
04:05a Geelong oil refinery was going up like a house on fire explosions and a massive fireball lit up the
04:12night sky in Geelong the prime minister has flown overnight to Geelong in Victoria to assess the
04:17damage of one of Australia's only oil refineries it's a major setback in our fuel crisis one of
04:23Australia's only oil refineries erupting in an inferno that's taken petrol production offline the
04:30Geelong plant supplies half of Victoria's fuel a major fire broke out at the Viva oil refinery near
04:35Geelong
04:36oh la la Geelong
04:43home of mighty football team Les Chat
04:49where you can treat yourself to the local delicacy Cristal de Meth
04:55despite fighting for hours to contain the blaze one firefighter remained upbeat
04:59how was it oh yeah it's um there's a fair bit going on there yeah a fair bit going on
05:04there
05:04that's from the new fire warning chart right between bit dicey and shit a brick
05:10next up Friday and struggling to keep up with Pauline Hanson in the polls
05:15Angus Taylor was outselling his new immigration policy the federal opposition has unveiled its
05:20hardline migration policy in a bid to claw back supporters that it's lost to one nation
05:25Angus Taylor's sweeping new policy proposing to make the Australian value statement legally binding
05:31learning English would be compulsory for permanent residents
05:35taking a leaf out of John Howard's election winning playbook
05:38we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come
05:43we'll decide who deserves protection and the circumstances in which that protection is
05:482001's back baby yeah time to bust out my cargo pants pop on some Limp Bizkit and hold a September
05:5611 yeah
05:58I'm sorry it's probably too soon to make jokes about Limp Bizkit but as Angus Taylor tried to attract
06:05voters with outdated rhetoric and discrimination one disgruntled rival jumped in to say hey you're ripping
06:11off my gear Pauline Hanson accusing Angus Taylor of plagiarizing her policy a lot of what they're
06:18saying is directly out of my policy booklet yeah is it a policy booklet or more just a four-word
06:23slogan
06:24that fits neatly on a t-shirt but like any good politician Angus Taylor's drawn on a bunch of playbooks
06:33from
06:34around the globe the coalition borrowing from Donald Trump's hardline border policy too every visa
06:40applicant would have their social media scoured under the new social media rules getting caught
06:46praising Isis on Twitter no entry get caught praising yourself on Facebook fantastic great move well done
06:53Angus to Saturday and more than 2400 Hollywood actors directors and filmmakers have signed an open
07:02letter opposing one of the biggest media mergers in history paramount and warner brothers discovery
07:07reportedly signed an agreement today on a 110 billion dollar deal a merger that will make paramount one
07:13of the largest media empires in the world a hundred and ten billion dollars that is more than double the
07:19size of Australia's annual defense spending which poses an interesting question defend the nation or make
07:26top gun three they're both good options with more on the deal please welcome our instant expert alexi toliopoulos
07:38so alexi who's got to spare 110 billion dollars more in the spirit of big papa rupert murdoch
07:46this deal is being driven by billionaire david ellison backed by his dad mega billionaire larry ellison
07:53and on the scale of rich larry is worth eight rupert murdochs and in my opinion he's top contender for
08:01father of the year i mean he bought his odd little movie loving kid a piece of hollywood's golden age
08:07my parents didn't even pay for my film school degree and technically i haven't paid for it yet either
08:12all right so what is in the deal for paramount well they're buying cnn they're buying hbo they're
08:19buying some of the biggest showbiz franchises including the greatest american franchise of them
08:24all tens of billions of dollars worth of corporate debt well it's not like we're going
08:31to be footing the bill for that so why should we care how much debt they have well with all
08:35due respect
08:35uh you couldn't be more naive sir you think that purchase isn't trickling down onto your next streaming
08:41app bill or movie ticket do you know how much you'll have to pay to see your favorite show euphoria
08:46charlie featuring those beautiful adult teenagers that you love so much incrementally more charlie
08:53that's a good point well made uh but aren't there laws against these kinds of massive
08:58mergers how is this even getting through regulators well if you're trying to suggest that trump
09:03a good personal friend of the ellisons and the notorious hater of cnn is in any way behind this
09:10well as someone who currently holds a foreign press u.s visa
09:13i have no comment on such a thing how very diplomatic of you alexi but it's fair to say
09:20you're not in support of this deal i'm a freaking film critic dude not a finance freak the mergers i
09:25want to talk about are godzilla versus kong freddy versus jason or abbott and costello meet frankenstein
09:33and i'm having to be trotted out and do appearances like this just to communicate how
09:36shit this crap is because corporate growth and greed demand it and the victim as always ends up
09:42being art artists and the audience that appreciate them and all i want to do all i want to do
09:46is just
09:46talk about the films i love well have you seen anything good recently yeah i have well unfortunately
09:52that is all we have time for tonight you can catch him touring the country now with his comedy show
09:59vhs would you please thank alexi toliopoulos
10:09coming up in a tick for hilarious ann edmunds and kitty flanagan join me at the desk to preview their
10:13brand new abc sitcom and reese nicholson asks could prison be the key to curing burnout but first with
10:20so many enormous international calamities to cover this season we've neglected one of our absolute
10:25favorites closer to home so for the season finale we welcome back toto albanese the nation's most
10:33powerful dog it's one of australia's favorite tv favorites a behind the scenes look at one of the
10:39country's most powerful men and his loyal and frankly pretty annoying dog this is a brand new episode
10:46of alba's dog episode six where in the world is toto
10:53as you know elbow used to go everywhere with his dog toto we're doing a calendar of toto and other
11:01world leaders and he'd let her sniff the finest butts in the country they even took a trip together
11:07to the swiss alps where toto had a wonderful time but she got too excited and tried to grab the
11:13wheel
11:14toto no but lately elbow had ditched toto and had been going everywhere on his own taking selfies with
11:24fans the last time anyone had seen elbow's dog in public was on an episode of the weekly with charlie
11:31pickering being threatened by a big ginger really i want to get it put down oh so while elbow was
11:38playing the man about town his dog was locked up in her room at the albanese mansion on the central
11:44coast
11:45forced to watch tv all on her own my fellow australians my name's anthony and elbow was on every channel
11:55don't tell toto
11:57luckily out elbow and the word had gotten out that toto was locked up you're a monster and people were
12:04starting to protest free elbow's dog and the protest movement was really taking off free elbow
12:12dog free elbows what will happen on the next episode of elbow's dog you decide call 1300 free toto if
12:25you
12:25want the prime minister to let his dog out of her room and get back to taking her everywhere he
12:30goes
12:31find out on the next episode of elbow's dog
12:38to sunday and we finally heard from australia's most high-profile defendant
12:43australia's most decorated soldier ben robert smith has just been granted bail i can promise everybody
12:51that i have never run from a fight in my life the 47 year old has just been released from
12:57silver
12:57water correctional center under strict conditions he can't leave the country can only travel to sydney
13:03or perth he'll have to report to police three times a week and he's not allowed to own more than
13:08one
13:08phone and one computer one phone and one computer brutal uh although the judge placed no limit on the
13:15number of usbs he can bury in the backyard but his release on bail did carry a hefty price tag
13:22the bail today
13:23was set at 250 000 his parents have agreed to pay for that if the sas veteran breaches
13:29any of these conditions his dad len is on the hook for a quarter of a million dollars his parents
13:35had their own bail conditions that the 250 grand covers both his birthday and christmas presents
13:42but having secured bail the drama wasn't over for brs this was ben robert smith stepping out of
13:49silverwater what should have been a routine release quickly turns into a covert operation a waiting
13:56photographer's car is obstructed but determined to get his shot he makes a run for the car that stopped
14:02at an intersection one flash after another until ben robert smith turns on a wry smile giving a thumbs up
14:10you know i gotta say as far as custody release photos taken through a car window go uh it could
14:16be a lot
14:16worse let's move into monday and our favorite quasi royals had left the country after a jam-packed aussie
14:26tour harry and megan have drawn cheers and applause winning hearts as they began their whirlwind australian
14:32visit right here in melbourne an early morning touchdown at tullamarine among some very surprised fellow
14:38passengers everyone was um very excited to see them on board i've never seen anybody look so
14:43refreshed getting off a flight from the us they were super friendly around the toilet areas when they
14:47went to the toilet yeah super friendly around the toilet areas absolutely eyes down no small talk
14:58zero splash back class act all the way the main event on the itinerary was megan's three thousand
15:06dollar ahead women's retreat for those with issues including having exactly three thousand too many
15:12dollars megan is right now at the her best life a women's wellness weekend here at the international
15:18international inter concert international intercontinental hotel rather ah yes the incontinent hotel
15:26where they're always super friendly around the toilet areas but while the sussexes were out winning
15:32hearts and minds i couldn't help notice the haters in the media were harder to win over i don't really
15:38care about harry and megs don't really follow them but i find them very divisive australia was good to
15:43harry and megan now they want to use us as an atm these guys are grifters par excellence i call
15:49them the ginger
15:50and the whinger boom you just got credlin while they tell us that they hate having to talk about harry
15:58and megan they all just keep talking about harry and megan just because they need the eyeballs but then
16:04out of nowhere there came a moment of unexpected introspection if this thing was sold out uh we'd
16:12be sitting here saying what fools buying tickets now it's not sold out so we sit here saying ha ha
16:17ha it didn't sell out does that not say a bit more about us than it does about megan wow
16:23uh is that
16:25self-awareness after years of harassment is it possible that the media is learning empathy do we really
16:34feel better because she's failing yes no you're right stuff them yeah absolutely still to come
16:40margaret pomerantz demands a refund from the home shopping network and reese nicholson heads to the
16:45big house to get a big rest but first our guests tonight are two of australia's funniest comedians
16:51who've teamed up for the new abc comedy bad company set inside a theater company facing financial ruin
16:57would you please welcome back ann edmunds and kitty flanagan
17:04welcome back welcome back the show bad company is hilarious kitty you play a cruel and ruthless i'd
17:13say administrator brought in to save a struggling theater company and and you play the passionate
17:18artistic director yep who wants to stop her no matter what let's have a little look i've been the artistic
17:23director here for six years and i'm in charge of absolutely everything except the boring financial
17:29stuff but i'm also a storyteller i'm a truth custodian i'm a disruptor i'm a witch i'm a feminist i'm
17:37a
17:37mother my work is constantly grappling with the universality of our biological makeup combined with
17:44a collective sense of the sublime so margie your character is described as wildly confident but
17:56mildly unstable yeah how much of that is autobiographical well she's quite different to me
18:01because i'm completely unstable right she's just mildly is this a familiar person to you though have you
18:07met margies in various theater companies over the years well it's name and shame let's go
18:14it's kitty um no well obviously i work in the arts i work in the entertainment industry so i'm very
18:20familiar with deluded vain people and it's wonderful to have you back on the show yeah absolutely
18:28so kitty your character when when ann told you that you were going to play something of a cruel
18:34heartless tyrant of a character uh how did that make you feel well i was just delighted that there
18:42was no nudity so right i tried but um she didn't want to and on the other hand there's a
18:48whole ep where
18:49she's all nude all the time and now if you want i will
18:55i've been told i've been told we'll have to bump it up from pg to ma but we're happy to
19:00do it
19:00we're absolutely happy to do it so kitty this is your first time back at the weekly desk in quite
19:06a while are you getting ptsd coming into the studio not at all chuck i have missed it because you
19:10know
19:10what i don't have a public megaphone for my opinions anymore and i've got so many opinions and i've got
19:17a few opinions as well oh yes please please is trump that bad um so tell me you are both
19:25experienced
19:26touring comedians but you've both also worked in theater what is the main difference between
19:30comedy and theater i would say that in comedy we're so insecure never would we give anyone the
19:37chance like an interval the chance to leave yeah do you know what i mean like never would we give
19:42people 20 minutes to think about the show and go oh no no it's like we lock them in don't
19:46we that's
19:46crazy yeah i've been to so many theater shows never seen the second half because they give me
19:52they give me that option it's like don't give me that option it's madness uh the show is bad
19:58company it premieres this sunday at 8 15 pm on abc tv you can also check it out on iview
20:03would you please
20:04thank ann edmunds and kitty flatt again let's roll through to tuesday and there was further escalation in
20:15donald trump's endless pointless and politically damaging conflict and by that i mean his fight
20:20with the pope president trump lashing out at pope leo of course the first american pope after the
20:26pope's comments on the war in iran his tirade against pope leo accusing the head of the catholic
20:32church of being quote weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy why did you attack pope leo on
20:38true social uh i don't think he's doing a very good job he likes crime i guess wait wait do
20:46you think
20:47the pope's job is to fight crime like he's not a superhero i mean just because he wears a cape
20:54and
20:54drives the pope mobile i but the pope or pope man didn't back down openly criticizing people who use
21:02jesus to justify war and in response trump posted this the u.s president portrayed as the son of god
21:10criticized as blasphemy before being removed the u.s president has deleted an ai image from his social
21:17media that showed him to appear as jesus he's now said that he wasn't depicting himself as jesus i did
21:24post it and i thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with red cross as a
21:29red cross worker there
21:30which we support it's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better and i do make people better
21:35i make people uh a lot better uh sir just because you go around touching people doesn't mean you're a
21:42doctor although it might qualify you to be a cardinal
21:56and while eventually trump did delete the pic he very soon posted another image in its place the
22:03president saying he's not a big fan of the pope and today reposting this ai generated image of the
22:08president hugging jesus christ yeah and well done to trump for removing a religiously offensive image
22:14and replacing it with one where he and jesus look super horny for each other
22:21i'm looking forward to their remake of the sensual 90s classic holy ghost
22:30um that image is obviously fake there's no way trump would hug a man from the middle east
22:37coming up in a moment could incarceration hold the key to getting a proper rest but first from the
22:43moment we saw a knife cut through a shoe we've been happy to hand over our credit card details to
22:48buy
22:48what we see on tv but what happens when australia's premier cultural critic is forced to watch a 24 7
22:55channel made entirely of infomercials let's find out with margaret pomerantz and the week in tv
23:06hi i'm margaret pomerantz and if you ever see me at a charity fundraiser it means i'm lost
23:13television shopping has revolutionized commerce enabling lonely shut-ins to purchase dazzling products
23:19no sane human would buy move the shake weight back and forth with short rapid motions and recently
23:26after breaking my tv remote while i'm on the heck of a bender i watched 72 hours straight of australia's
23:33version the television shopping network hosted by a cast wielding terms like shacket and whatever in satan's
23:41name as leisure is tvsn is a series of expertly delivered advertorials now i just want to show you
23:48at the top here magic and it's a fabulous array of products ranging from tasteless crap to useless
23:59you will notice that our robot maid does not go over the edge we're going to keep cleaning but don't
24:05go too far because we've got a chance meanwhile models with painted on smiles deftly wander back and
24:11forth pondering what demon they crossed to deserve this cursed existence and that exact expression is my
24:18next of kin's cue to pull the plug this is more than a show for the elderly to blow their
24:24pension and
24:24dead shits off their gourd at 4am who simply must buy a munted plastic lamp well have a look at
24:31these
24:31gorgeous creatures they are just superb broadcast live tvsn grabs you by the groin and says hold on
24:39for the ride as presenters flawlessly peddle premium goods oh my gosh my eyes burning
24:46avoid contact with eyes while celebrity cameos electrify eloquently heralding the dangers of a
24:53mismanaged career frankie jay's gone mad frankie jay's gone man and you can get the product he's
25:00demonstrating for half the price at my local banditos chapter as one watches a paid grifter flogger hat
25:07designed by a child with a glue gun one is consumed by the show's mystery such as who is buying
25:13this
25:13shit and for how long did the parents lose custody after endangering this toddler tvsn is a reflective
25:20commentary on consumerism boldly accentuating materialistic thirst in a stark reminder of
25:26society's wasteful extravagance and if my 181 air fryer isn't here by friday i'll take my diamond
25:33studded wheel brace to somebody's kneecap i'm margaret pomeranth good evening
25:46and so we arrive on wednesday and burnout costs australia an estimated 14 billion dollars a year
25:53and according to beyondblue one in two australians are experiencing it right now it's distressing news
25:59but it does explain why half of us are one zoom meeting away from moving to a lighthouse here with
26:04an idea of how we might combat it would you please welcome reese nicholson hello charles how wonderful
26:19of you to join me here reese what are you doing in jail i'm having the time of my life
26:27charles and
26:28not just because my long eyelashes and slender frame make me like currency in here please take a seat
26:37uh okay
26:41welcome charles this is my full-time guard and carer helen right and and what are your qualifications
26:48uh cert two in hospitality and i've been rejected from nida twice congratulations
26:56now this is no ordinary prison charles this is a relaxation prison hotel a very real thing happening
27:04in south korea it's a retreat for people who feel overworked it's like an escape room for your life
27:10which you can't escape i've been here for two days meditating journaling shiv making what shiv making
27:19are you in danger no no no no no i just love to shiv hang on is that my toothbrush
27:25it used to be
27:30this feels like a cross between a day spa and squid game it's kind of bleak it is and it's
27:37what we
27:37deserve because this is what self-care looks like now thousands of people are flocking to opt out of
27:43everything just to rest and feel normal again we're only four months into 2026 charles and we've
27:50already had wars natural disasters and i'm just talking about kyle and jackie arm rip valet they're not
27:58dead what you're kidding no god the news just keeps getting worse okay reese beyond blue
28:06say one in two of us are suffering from burnout one in two is quite high one in two of
28:13us is quite high
28:18yes from ceos all the way down the income ladder to people with real jobs like nurses and carers
28:25it's gotten to the point where people are cosplaying mandatory detention just to get a bit of shut eye
28:30charles right does anything like this exist here i mean we have prisons and they seem fine don't they
28:38charles the system isn't broken from the ground up at all and it shouldn't be a concern to us that
28:43all the private companies are running them like businesses yeah and from what i hear there aren't a
28:48lot of vacancies depending on your background charles they'll find a way to fit you in well not you
28:55obviously reese let's return to your mantra say it with me i avoid stress i avoid stressful people
29:12whoa wait reese oh boy reese what is that noise i really shouldn't be telling you this charles but
29:19i've learned a few things in here and i was able to smuggle in my old nokia where is it
29:29i probably shouldn't tell you this either but i will say it's set on vibrate and i have no intention
29:35on answering it i have a lot of questions but i do not want to hear the answers would you
29:45please
29:46ask for a sec reese nicholson call me charles i will not call you do you still think of the
29:55lands
30:01one quick story before we go and it's fair to say it's been a big week for robots this humanoid
30:08robot
30:09captured driving away a herd of wild animals shouting go away in polish as they ran into the
30:16forest edward as is known has become an online celebrity in the european country appearing on
30:23morning tv and even visiting parliament incredible robots can now chase wild boars appear on morning tv
30:31and visit parliament proving we no longer need barnaby joyce but short distance pig chasing isn't the
30:41only robot running event we saw this week robots powering on and hitting the pavement training for
30:46beijing's second ever humanoid half marathon this weekend you see some here zooming through the track
30:53with ease while others seem to be having a more difficult time at the starting line
31:03wow robots can now take a few steps fall over and flail about on the ground proving that we no
31:11longer
31:11need barnaby joyce that is all for tonight would you please thank reese nicholson kitty flanagan
31:21ann edmunds margaret pomerantz lexi toliopoulos and bare knuckles special guest virginia trioli
31:30and don't forget to tune into my radio show tjf friday afternoons on abc radio and radio national or
31:35download it from the abc listen app that is it for this season of the weekly don't miss the premiere
31:41of bad company this sunday and next week ruins back followed by spelling bee we'll be back in
31:47december with the yearly but until then i'd like to thank everyone who makes the show for doing an
31:51amazing job this season and on behalf of the best team in tv thank you for watching i'm charlie pickering
31:57good night
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