Albo’s podcast appearance helps him get down with the kids
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has appeared on the Happy Hour podcast with Lucy Jackson and Nikki Westcott and accepted their challenge to work a weird phrase into parliament as he tries hard to connect with young voters.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has shown he is not “delulu with no solulu” when it comes to reaching Gen Z voters in the coming election.
The PM appeared on the Happy Hour podcast with Lucy Jackson and Nikki Westcott and accepted the challenge to use the phrase in parliament.
“Budget week next week – listen up,” he said on the podcast. “That’s the task.”
True to his word, in the face of opposition leader Peter Dutton’s criticism of Labor’s planned tax cuts this week he fired: “Well, Mr Speaker, they are delulu with no solulu.”
It may not have been the first time the PM has slipped in an unusual phrase. “I have a thing sometimes where I will work in lines from songs and just see if anyone picks it up,” he confided.
The PM is following a tried and tested election strategy from the US which saw President Donald Trump appear on The Joe Rogan Experience and then vice president Kamala Harris on controversial podcast Call Her Daddy.
Mr Albanese spent the Happy Hour podcast offering solutions to the dilemmas of readers – “Red flag. Move on. He doesn’t have the ticker” – and translating Gen Z slang.
It turns out that listeners think Albo has “the rizz” – charisma – to win their votes with comments on the podcast including one that raved: “QUEENS!! This is absolute GOLD!”
Another said “It’s really cool learning who he is in a different light. The PM seems really down to Earth.”
Certainly the PM did not hold back in sharing details of his personal life with the Jagger and Stone fashionistas’ 39,464 Instagram followers.
He explained how he met partner Jodie and was greeted with coos of delight when he said: “She slipped into my DMs basically.”
But he said he would be “very focused” on the election campaign with no wedding plans until the second half of the year when it will be “something pretty small” with no “razzamatazz”.
Mr Albanese said he and Jodie bonded over a mutual love of South Sydney and said the club’s co-owner and Hollywood star Russell Crowe had some ideas of his own for the forthcoming nuptials.
“Russell is trying to lobby to run the bucks night but I reckon that could be dangerous,” he said.
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