🎼 Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson Stuns Parliament By Singing Billy Joel Parody

Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson has sung a parody of Billy Joel hit We Didn't Start the Fire, taking aim at Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Amanda podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm not the kind of guy who likes listen to
politicians sing. We've just been talking about that. We've had
an unusual array of them. We've had Craig Emerson, let's recap.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Why allah wife out there on my TV?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Why we had Bob Catter. I can assure you, Bob
Katter Journe, you're older.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
The rest for you.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
We've had Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Teach me to the
Times too.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now the time to hear good radio, because Judy and
Amanda do yourself a favor well.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson said, hold my beer. Yesterday in
question time he performed a stunning rendition of a very
famous song. So labor has been accused of driving up
inflation through excessive spending by the Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson,
and rather than just mentioning it and maybe fair enough,
as if we were going to be talking about that today,
instead he decided to sing his thoughts. So this is

(01:00):
what happened yesterday in the House of Reps.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
There's a Billy Joel song that sounds kind of relevant.
Do to Do, To Do, Do The treasure did start
the inflation fire. The inflation's burning while the treasurer is squirming.
The treasurer did start inflation fire. Yes, he got and
has organized crime to fuel.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Even people sitting behind him in his own party are gold.
Did he practice? I bet he practiced. Would have said,
you sound great?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Do it?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Billy Joel, by his own admission, hates that song.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, Billy Joel won't be suing because it doesn't sound
anything like it. What did make me leave?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
These are the people that are running our country.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
We're playing him on the radio. His ideas have come
across and we're now we're going wow. Tim Wilson Anthony
Albernezi had this to say.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Two days without act a single question on the economy
of costabliving. We've had the clown who's just shot a
treasurer singing.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
There is stats box, which is.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
A human rights issue for all those who had to
listen to it. Order order.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Should it be if you see apologian come out with
a boombox.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Or you start to they start to hit the desk
with two pens, stop it, just stop it. All that
does give us Christ for the mill