🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Anthony Albanese Wearing A 'Joy Division' T-Shirt?

Does Anthony Albanese wearing a Joy Division t-shirt (despite its controversial meaning) pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam nycy.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Down to the Jonesy demand of arms of the pub
test and today Prime Minister Anthony Albanizei's Joy Division shirt
does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
He recently got off an aeroplane Froy. He'd been in Washington, DC,
all eyes on him. He had big discussions with Donald Trump.
He knew he'd be photographed at the airport. He gets
off the plane in casual dressic. We know he loves
his music. He's wearing a Joy Division T shirt.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Joy Division and it was of a time Joy Division
landing into wartime. I guess Nazi fascist propaganda. But then
what would you say about you? Two were named after
the U two rocket, which the Nazis invented, and we're
going to blow up London.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
With interesting because most of us wouldn't know what Joy
Division was.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I didn't know until that moment.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well that's the thing we talked about this way until
we talked about this. But I'll tell you what it
means in a minute. But he was made aware of
this on a podcast a number of a couple of
years ago in twenty twenty two, that the name was
taken from a wing of a Nazi concentration camp with
Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery. That was the
Joy Division. And when he was on a podcast with
Nigel Marsh in twenty twenty two, he was made aware

(01:10):
of that and he said, Wow, that's dark, isn't it.
So it's only a T shirt, sure, but if I
knew that, and I knew I'd be photographed at an airport,
I don't know if I'd have worn it.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
And but the dudes of Joy Division they were more
or less named after that because they wanted people not
to forget about the atrocities.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
That's right, and that's actually greed about that. That's the
context for them. But it being worn by a Prime
minister without that context around it. Susan Lee has said
that it's hugely inappropriate at a time when Jewish Australians
are facing a rise in anti Semitism and families asking
for reassurance and unity, the Prime Minister chose to parade
an image derived from hatred and suffering. How do you

(01:48):
feel about this? Is it just a T shirt? Doesn't matter?
Should Susan lay not bother with this discussion? Albo's Joy
Division T shirt? Does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Made.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's just a fand shirt. That's ridiculous. I know whether
the name of the band comes from. So they're going
to go that far back, They're going to go that
deep to find something to criticize him just for a panshirt.
Leaves a guy alone and concentrate on what they're doing
in their lives and no, get offended for nothing.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
This is getting ridiculous. It's like the Parliament are a
bunch of school yard wings. Can't wear this T shirt
is offensive? Like, really, Parliament, you need to grow up
and get over yourself to me, But al go wear
what he wants to wear soa to meet past the subtest.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
No, it doesn't and he knows better as a band
pointed out that he was fully aware of it, and
he's upsetting the Jewish community and he's doing it deliberately.
So no, it does not pass the pub test.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I don't think it's a problem with the T shirt
is not intentional. It's one of his favorite bands. What
if he wears a Diostrates T shirt and Diastrates means
we're all depressed. He gets picked on about that seasonally.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
These are just reset and think at.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
The boshy camping rather than picking about things like this,
she's just being silly. Definitely not.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
My father was a soldier, thought for his country. He
was a prisoner of war for four years.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Definitely not.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I'm highly insulted, insulted, mixed and mixed bag.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Thank you for all your calls.