The Taylor Swift Eras tour is underway in Australia bringing with it billions in economic activity. For all that, she has been subject to criticism from the Left - "too white, not sufficiently feminist" and from the Right who think's Swift is a liberal plant from the Biden Government. Whatever happened to appreciating other people's joy, folks?

Albo gets engaged and HK Jack plays wedding planner.

The two boat arrivals in WA have brought headlines but the real problem, HK Jack says is there are more than 100,000 asylum seekers in this country with their claims rejected. HK Jack has a solution.

The Tories get smashed in by-elections in the UK with swings against it in the stratosphere.

In the US will Trump seek to implement an abortion ban 16 weeks after conception? JTI says the whole topic is political death to Trump.

In sport, the Two Jacks can tell you how to get into major events if you have your dad around or JTI's dad in particular. 

Craig Kelly either got hacked or retweeted a video of incest foot porn. Dunno which - but it's difficult to be hacked in the way he is suggesting. Evidence points to no. BUT we must take him on his word. Must we? The lawyers suggest we should.

Economist turned cooker Dr. Wilson Sy has released a paper suggesting that COVID doesn't exist - and that it was simply a mass euthanasia program in the UK. Some deaths might be from the jab but the rest are from MIDAZOLAM. Segment is worth the listen just to hear Jack pronounce it.

We bring back BPFW thanks to a cracking submission from Garth but it went to the wrong person! So Jack had the joy of answering one.

And in SovCits we look at Shorty and Guru making a fuss at the court house in Wollongong.

Aaaaaand Babet is a twat!

Enjoy!

The Stage 3 tax cuts as amended by the Albanese Government have been an early success. Does it give Albo the opportunity to reset the political narrative for 2024? The early polling is unclear and JTI suggests the polls can be ignored until the cash drops to the punters in July.

Nemesis runs on the ABC with most of the Libs and Nats giving us their take on the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Years. Why do they subject themselves to these exercises? Is it ego?

Meanwhile in the US, the DC four count indictment has been delayed. Will Trump now face any criminal indictments before the presidential election?

In sport, Rachin Ravindra emerges as a star for the Black Caps with a 240 against South Africa. 

We're back with a deeper dive on the executive producer of the Sound of Freedom - Paul Hutchinson.

He's a money man. Made his money being a money man in real estate. Now he's a money man for the movies and a money man for saving the kids.

An interesting chap. Very accomplished if you take his word for it. But it seems like there might be an interesting relationship between Hutchy and the truth.

Does he suck as much as Tim Ballard? Maybe. Probably not. But the fact that we have to ask the question is why you need to listen to the episode.

He sucks. Enjoy!

The electoral support for tax cuts is yet to drop and JTI says there's no point looking at polls until at least July when the money drops. Politicians lie as one of listeners reminds us (as if we needed reminding) and live to lie another day. HK Jack says there may be a little loss of skin but overall the package should be well received. The Government actuary (yes, there is one) predicts extraordinary cost blow outs in the NDIS over the next decade and HK Jack makes a few suggestions on how money might be saved to keep the programme going. In the US, polling shows Trump with leads in key battleground states but the Orange One is going to get hit hard in the wallet over the next week or two with multimillion dollar losses in court heading his way. In France, the farmers are blockading Paris. JTI says never get in the way of the Parisians and their food. Test cricket is back and so are the Windies while England also pull off a stunning win at Hyderabad. 

The Stage Three tax cut restructure has been announced. Albo has backed away from a promise and bracket creep remains real. He may lose some skin over it but overall, the announcement means 11 million Australian workers will pay lower taxes as of July 1. JTI believes it's designed to wedge Peter Dutton in the regions and outer suburbs where Dutton wants to take the Libs.

Scott Morrison resigns from the parliament. Where does he stand on the pantheon of Prime Ministers? A fair way down but not quite Billy McMahon status.

Trump takes New Hampshire but Nikki Halley is proving a difficult opponent.

South Africa goes to the elections later this year with the possibility that the ANC's lock on power may start to shift.

In sport, the BBL wraps up with the Heat winning the tournament as the Australians face the Windies in Brisbane and England play India in the first Test in Hyderabad.  

Jack examines the life of Roger Rogerson, part creature of NSW Police culture and part psychopath, Rogerson killed in the line of duty and killed for profit. What was his role in Chris Flannery's death? Sally Ann Huckstep's murder?

EDIT - CORRECTION:

From @daggydad on Twitter.

Dr John Campbell is an a&e nurse with a PhD, not a doctor of medicine.

@GasmanR went on to elaborate

Small pedantic correction, Dr John Campbell is a nurse not a doctor. He does hold a valid Phd and can use the honorific doctor - but it is in the discipline of nursing education, he is not a medical doctor. While unfortunately a small number of my fellow doctors are raving cookers (including unfortunately a guy I went to university with and with whom I also did specialist training in anaesthesia - Paul Oosterhuis) Dr Campbell is owned by our nursing brothers and sisters. His descent from reasoned provider of sound information at the start of the pandemic into full on antivax disinformation grifter is well documented on both YouTube and Twitter by Australia's own Dr Susan Oliver and US based Debunkthefunk.

Thanks for everyone who wrote in to say that. We love getting corrected!

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It's been a bit on and off recently but we are on. A bit of a hybrid episode that took the fast and loose nature of a Black Label with a bit of script to keep it tight.

Deep dives are on the horizon but the news keeps newsing and it's time to start delivering the goods. This week we look at the imminent (now very much completed) death throes of Roger Rogerson. Old mate dodged a lot of death in his time but finally it was falling over that really seemed to get him. What a bad person he was.

The WEF is annoying. Not because it's a meeting of elites who go skiing and talk about making a shitload of money from us peasants - but because idiot conspiracy theorists need to make it all about them. Disease X is especially annoying and so is that dickhead from Argentina. And Elon Musk. He is very, very annoying.

In SovCits we look at a bleach merchant from NZ who gets his comeuppance and Pete is still posting. Dunno why. Nobody except for us seem to care.

Enjoy!

The Two Jacks discuss the latest furore over Australia's National Holiday. Have the arguments hit a new low? With Peter Dutton's calls to boycott Woolworths, the Two Jacks say it couldn't possibly get crazier.

A day of nationhood is needed, one that will unify Australians and not divide them.

In the US, Trump takes Iowa with Nikki Haley looking like having a fighting chance of winning New Hampshire.

Around the world, how do progressive Jews view the response from their fellow non-Jewish travellers. Has anti-Semitism infected the progressive Left?

In sport, we look at the West Indies tour and ask how can it be that their players earn one tenth of the Australian players. Is a bit of socialism required to keep Test cricket alive? 

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