November 25, 2024 • 7 mins
Satirical writer James Scholeffel chats to Clairsy & Lisa about Gina Reinhart, David Warner’s baggy green and the bizarre world of US politics.
‘The War On 2024’ is on at the Astor Theatre Saturday December 7.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The War On twenty twenty four is coming to the
ASTA Theater Saturday, December seven, that's Saturday week.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tickets are through.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Ticket Tech and James Schlowfall is joining us now. Good morning, James.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Welcome, good morning, great to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you good, James schlowfull from the shovel. It's
not the easiest. The easiest person I've introduced on a you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm the one who I have to pronounce my name
every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You do how many times do you get asked to
spell your name in a day?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
James nuts about forty times a day?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, spelled that name. I've carried that around with me
like a wait for my life. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I wouldn't let it go at this stage though, you know,
did you come to name?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
You can just call you have James?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I guess make them work it out. Now, what a year.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's been in terms of news and culture and where
do you even start with the show?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Do you know where we start is with one of
the biggest news stories. I mean, there were a lot
of big news stories, yeah, yea, but one of the
biggest in the context of world events was right back
in January when David Warner lost his baggy green.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Cap to remember that.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Yeah, that's right he did.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It was like a national emergency, like everyone got involved,
even the Prime minister. Even the Prime Minister came out
had a press conference asking for people to look for
David Warner's hat.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
He was it was a national and in the end.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Did he have a man out. He was having a.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Man his mom.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
His mum came down, had a proper look.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I know, I'm to think someone was going to start
a crowdfunding to try and send search parties out. It
was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I know. It said something about this country though, when
you know there's a there's a lot of bad stuff
going on in the world. But that was the thing
that captured our attention for about a good a good
seven days back in January.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yeah, it was a couple of embarrassed having baggie greens
this week, but we weren't going at the cricket.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Enough about the cricket.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think one of my favorite moments of the year
has been Peter Dutton boycotting Woolworst because they stopped selling Chinese.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Speak speak about the big issues. I mean, you know
there's a bit going on and here's a guy who's
calling up radio stations to let them know that Woolly's
stocking Chinese made plastic flags and calling for a ball boycott.
It is good to know that he has focused on
the division. Another thing about Peter Dutton though, this is
this is the pers story. You might remember this something.
(02:29):
This was back in about March. He flew over He
flew to Perth for one hour but Gina Reinhart's lavish
birthday party, remember that. And then he flew back again
to Melbourne to campaign in a by election there on
cost of living pressure after after going on a private
jet for one hour, and he said that cost of living.
(02:52):
He said, cost of living is my number one priority.
I think he said that he had a mouthful of cabat,
so it was hard to tell what he was saying.
But but that was That was a great It.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Shows the influence of Gina, doesn't it? Very very powerful?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
To be fair, she puts on quite a showbish.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Great, great, I've heard, I've heard, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What about over over there man there, James.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Is not just Trump, is it? It's it's the whole
Biden thing. It was such a it's been such a
weird year.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
We forget about Biden, don't.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, it was a weird year, wasn't it. We we
had we had a moment there when.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It looked like Joe Biden was was just going to
loose spectacularly. And then and then you know, Democrats ended
up losing anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
But oh my gosh, the situation over there, it's almost
as if they have this competition. Like if you were
like an alien who came down it from out of
space and looked at this thing from you know, without
any context, you would be convinced that they have this
competition to find the very worst person in the country. Look,
they go to this long protracted.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Event and then and they're like, Okay, we found it.
We found the absolute worst person in the country, and
he's going to run the place. It's observed.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I see.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I have a theory, James, that we live in an
intergalactic candid camera show, and people on another planet somewhere
they are laughing their asses off at us because it's.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Maybe Donald Trump is from the other planet.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Because it's too it's just too bizarre.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
It is all right, hey, James, it is the war
in twenty twenty four. But it's so tantalizingly close to
a federal election, it'd be nice just to stretch it
to me because you have so much material. By about March,
we will have a lot of material.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Look, we are going to have a good look at
at Olbow and his performance or all lack of performances. Yeah,
we've got actually a special guest which is Albow's wedding planner,
which is going to be a lot of fun. Albert's
got a wedding coming up, so you'd be more focused
on that day, I nique, rather than the data. So
(05:05):
we'll we're having a look at some of the plans
for his wedding. But yeah, better election coming up, a
lot of a lot of news next year as well.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Imagine well, I mean coming off the US election into
the Australian one.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's it's basically like Christmas for you guys.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I know, it never stops. We say every year that
that you know, things can't get more ridiculous. I think
we said that back in twenty sixteen. You know that
was the most ridiculous year ever, and since then it's
just got worse the most every year, but better and
better for stat of it.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
No material, Yeah, really there's so much material.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Before we let you go, just tell us about the
Shovel and how it came about and how people can
make sure that they're across it.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes, okay, so the Shovel became about that ten or
twelve years ago. It was it was it was around
that time when Tony Abbott first came on the scene.
You might remember that about twenty and fourteen fifteen when
he first became Opposition leader and Australian politics just started
to go a little bit ridiculous, and so the Shovel
just became this space to kind of make sense to
Tony Abbott initially and you know, you know, a serious
(06:06):
place to make to make fun of Tony Abbott.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And then from there it just kind of took off
and now it's just.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
A more general, I guess, satirical, you know, network to
comment on the news, and it's kind of it's grown
since then. And and this this comedy Garla we the
end of every year is a fantastic chance to bring
people from all over different parts of the comedy world.
And we have Charles first from the Chaser. We have
Mark Humphreys, who people will know from his work on
(06:32):
the ABC and Channel seven and then Veronica Milsom as well.
He's joining us this year, which is great that she
is from mad as Hell and as a triple j Yeah,
so it's a great mix of different people coming together
to have a look at the year.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, we were in radio with Veronica here in Perth
where she started out brilliant.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh great, Yeah, we thank you for your service.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I don't know where we direct what we do with
all of this, without the shuffle, without the war on
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
We look forward to seeing you. What are you hear
in just over a week.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You have to have a laughter next Saturday. Yeas James.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
That is incredible, isn't it? And he's just reminding us,
reminding us of that time when Abbott came in and
Australian politics went nuts and being the PM was like
a doornut, wasn't it. Everyone got to turn for a
little while there, so bizarre
The War On twenty twenty four is coming to the
ASTA Theater Saturday, December seven, that's Saturday week.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tickets are through.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Ticket Tech and James Schlowfall is joining us now. Good morning, James.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Welcome, good morning, great to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you good, James schlowfull from the shovel. It's
not the easiest. The easiest person I've introduced on a you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I'm the one who I have to pronounce my name
every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You do how many times do you get asked to
spell your name in a day?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
James nuts about forty times a day?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, spelled that name. I've carried that around with me
like a wait for my life. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I wouldn't let it go at this stage though, you know,
did you come to name?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
You can just call you have James?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I guess make them work it out. Now, what a year.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's been in terms of news and culture and where
do you even start with the show?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Do you know where we start is with one of
the biggest news stories. I mean, there were a lot
of big news stories, yeah, yea, but one of the
biggest in the context of world events was right back
in January when David Warner lost his baggy green.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Cap to remember that.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Yeah, that's right he did.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It was like a national emergency, like everyone got involved,
even the Prime minister. Even the Prime Minister came out
had a press conference asking for people to look for
David Warner's hat.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
He was it was a national and in the end.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Did he have a man out. He was having a.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Man his mom.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
His mum came down, had a proper look.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I know, I'm to think someone was going to start
a crowdfunding to try and send search parties out. It
was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I know. It said something about this country though, when
you know there's a there's a lot of bad stuff
going on in the world. But that was the thing
that captured our attention for about a good a good
seven days back in January.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Yeah, it was a couple of embarrassed having baggie greens
this week, but we weren't going at the cricket.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Enough about the cricket.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think one of my favorite moments of the year
has been Peter Dutton boycotting Woolworst because they stopped selling Chinese.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Speak speak about the big issues. I mean, you know
there's a bit going on and here's a guy who's
calling up radio stations to let them know that Woolly's
stocking Chinese made plastic flags and calling for a ball boycott.
It is good to know that he has focused on
the division. Another thing about Peter Dutton though, this is
this is the pers story. You might remember this something.
(02:29):
This was back in about March. He flew over He
flew to Perth for one hour but Gina Reinhart's lavish
birthday party, remember that. And then he flew back again
to Melbourne to campaign in a by election there on
cost of living pressure after after going on a private
jet for one hour, and he said that cost of living.
(02:52):
He said, cost of living is my number one priority.
I think he said that he had a mouthful of cabat,
so it was hard to tell what he was saying.
But but that was That was a great It.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Shows the influence of Gina, doesn't it? Very very powerful?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
To be fair, she puts on quite a showbish.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Great, great, I've heard, I've heard, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What about over over there man there, James.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Is not just Trump, is it? It's it's the whole
Biden thing. It was such a it's been such a
weird year.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
We forget about Biden, don't.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, it was a weird year, wasn't it. We we
had we had a moment there when.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It looked like Joe Biden was was just going to
loose spectacularly. And then and then you know, Democrats ended
up losing anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
But oh my gosh, the situation over there, it's almost
as if they have this competition. Like if you were
like an alien who came down it from out of
space and looked at this thing from you know, without
any context, you would be convinced that they have this
competition to find the very worst person in the country. Look,
they go to this long protracted.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Event and then and they're like, Okay, we found it.
We found the absolute worst person in the country, and
he's going to run the place. It's observed.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I see.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I have a theory, James, that we live in an
intergalactic candid camera show, and people on another planet somewhere
they are laughing their asses off at us because it's.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Maybe Donald Trump is from the other planet.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Because it's too it's just too bizarre.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
It is all right, hey, James, it is the war
in twenty twenty four. But it's so tantalizingly close to
a federal election, it'd be nice just to stretch it
to me because you have so much material. By about March,
we will have a lot of material.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Look, we are going to have a good look at
at Olbow and his performance or all lack of performances. Yeah,
we've got actually a special guest which is Albow's wedding planner,
which is going to be a lot of fun. Albert's
got a wedding coming up, so you'd be more focused
on that day, I nique, rather than the data. So
(05:05):
we'll we're having a look at some of the plans
for his wedding. But yeah, better election coming up, a
lot of a lot of news next year as well.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Imagine well, I mean coming off the US election into
the Australian one.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's it's basically like Christmas for you guys.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I know, it never stops. We say every year that
that you know, things can't get more ridiculous. I think
we said that back in twenty sixteen. You know that
was the most ridiculous year ever, and since then it's
just got worse the most every year, but better and
better for stat of it.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
No material, Yeah, really there's so much material.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Before we let you go, just tell us about the
Shovel and how it came about and how people can
make sure that they're across it.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes, okay, so the Shovel became about that ten or
twelve years ago. It was it was it was around
that time when Tony Abbott first came on the scene.
You might remember that about twenty and fourteen fifteen when
he first became Opposition leader and Australian politics just started
to go a little bit ridiculous, and so the Shovel
just became this space to kind of make sense to
Tony Abbott initially and you know, you know, a serious
(06:06):
place to make to make fun of Tony Abbott.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And then from there it just kind of took off
and now it's just.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
A more general, I guess, satirical, you know, network to
comment on the news, and it's kind of it's grown
since then. And and this this comedy Garla we the
end of every year is a fantastic chance to bring
people from all over different parts of the comedy world.
And we have Charles first from the Chaser. We have
Mark Humphreys, who people will know from his work on
(06:32):
the ABC and Channel seven and then Veronica Milsom as well.
He's joining us this year, which is great that she
is from mad as Hell and as a triple j Yeah,
so it's a great mix of different people coming together
to have a look at the year.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, we were in radio with Veronica here in Perth
where she started out brilliant.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh great, Yeah, we thank you for your service.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I don't know where we direct what we do with
all of this, without the shuffle, without the war on
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
We look forward to seeing you. What are you hear
in just over a week.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You have to have a laughter next Saturday. Yeas James.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
That is incredible, isn't it? And he's just reminding us,
reminding us of that time when Abbott came in and
Australian politics went nuts and being the PM was like
a doornut, wasn't it. Everyone got to turn for a
little while there, so bizarre
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