‘This guy makes sense’: Aussie miner goes viral over hilarious renewable roast

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: I think you're right there now this gained attention it went viral around the world not just Australia this is mining industry veteran Jerry Noonan and this interview with him is just had tens of millions of views Europe US he's explaining here the folly of abandoning coal [00:00:22] Speaker 2: fired power we have coal because we've got the biggest coal deposits in the world but we're not allowed to burn the stuff so the world's rooted really it's all right to be idealistic but you also have to be realistic and until the lights go out the idiots that want to be green on everything and not do mining not do coal not do anything they're going to have to go back and use candles and live in tents and then they'll realize no you might laugh but it's true you understand what I'm talking about I'm not talking bullshit I'm talking reality if we don't get realistic we're [00:00:54] Speaker 1: it's as simple as that so you know Jerry is an international sensation now and he talks sense [00:01:01] Speaker 3: plenty of profanities yes but sense oh Rita he's my kind of guy I'm happy to marry him I'm I've just fallen in love with him alone hello I can't believe it when China is building between two and three new coal mines a week a week Rita this guy makes so much sense and I think the rest of the world is cottoning on look at the problems in Germany now who have been flat out about renewables for over two decades and it's now all gone you know uh the wrong way so yeah good on you keep keep going [00:01:33] Speaker 1: now Prue I've got a little bit more of Jerry for you my next door neighbor I was talking to him he's a [00:01:41] Speaker 2: lawyer he's so he's not an idiot well he is a but that's another problem but he said oh that's right you just put plugs along the highway so I said but if you haven't got a source from a power station plugs on the highways aren't going to do right do you understand me the people don't understand they think the electricity comes out of space but if you haven't got a charging system which is a steam coal burning power station how the f*** can you charge your batteries do you understand that well there's a lot of the f*** don't and that's the problem with the world [00:02:08] Speaker 1: Prue again no lies detected plenty of profanities but no lies detected then you can't just have these charging stations where's the power coming from that's right look the thing is that mainstream [00:02:23] Speaker 4: Australia I really believe the average you know Aussie would really be thinking like this you know he resonates so well because we all understand that it is bull and you know he's and we speak in those terms to each other it's just that sadly these politicians are so stupid and such lemming like individuals that they don't they just don't get it and none of them have apart from a Barnaby and a few of them the libs are now waking up to themselves unless we actually say the emperor has no they're closed this is all absolute crap we're going to park net zero and you know move on we're going to all end up as jerry says [00:03:07] Speaker 1: now one nation leader Pauline Hanson's moved an urgency motion in the senate calling on the Albanese government to dump net zero declaring that any coalition senator who abstains from this vote is a coward Prue what's going to happen here because this is causing great debate amongst the coalition ranks even amongst nationals we've got certain MPs who are publicly saying we've got to back away from net zero and others clinging on for dear life [00:03:42] Speaker 4: well let's hope and good on Pauline for skewering them because she's talking sense and this is the point of difference if Susan Lee doesn't adopt the abandonment of net zero then she's lost a lot of people this is her chance to prove that she's not just a pseudo conservative conservative that she's not just one other progressive which is really just labor light if she could back this, we've seen it with Liberals in South Australia, Western Australia and, of course, Barnaby and McCormack. And I think unless we do this, you know, thanks to Pauline Hanson, that she's making them, you know, show their true colours. And it's about time because until we abandon net zero, you know, we're going to have China, everybody else just carrying on and, you know, pretending that they're going to follow it. But, of course, we know they're not. And who's going to find them? Who's going to keep them accountable? Meanwhile, we're the mugs who are paying all these electricity prices that are just soaring. [00:04:52] Speaker 1: Tina, I'm going to be speaking to Senator Alex Antic about this very shortly. But you can probably speak a little bit more freely than he can. When are we going to get some direction from new opposition leader Susan Lee? When are we going to know where they stand on this crucial issue? [00:05:09] Speaker 3: Well, she's going to have to act soon or we're going to lose our base. And Pauline Hanson's right. Not only are Liberal members cowards that don't support this, I would go even further. I would say do not pre-select them. Take very careful what seat they're in. If they oppose this and go against the will of the majority of the Australian public, get rid of them. Dump them. Pre-select someone else more in line with those views to save the country. Prue McSween, Tina McQueen, thank you so much for your time tonight.