DAN, HOST: Excuse me. Have some respect. The Prime Minister of the country’s in. Albo good morning.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, mate. He’d have more credibility if his socks matched.
DAN: Could you not have put some effort in? Albo’s in a wonderful suit.
MARTO: I didn’t know he was coming in.
PRIME MINISTER: Have a good look at yourself, son.
DAN: This is as good as it gets Albo. Are you wearing towel shorts again?
PRIME MINISTER: Just to paint the picture for the listeners. There’s toweling shorts that basically looks like he’s just stepped out of the shower and he’s just put a bit of toweling around him and there’s a little black sockette and a white sockette.
DAN: Can I be honest?
PRIME MINISTER: It’s a shocker.
DAN: At Marto’s advanced age, there’s potentially dribbling going on, so it’s better to just wear a towel as shorts.
PRIME MINISTER: And I won’t talk about the front of his shirt.
MARTO: But if I said to you, my mum makes and my wife both make toweling shorts in team colours, okay? If I got you a pair of Rabbitohs.
PRIME MINISTER: Now we’re talking, red and green toweling shorts. Who doesn’t want that?
DAN: Remember you wore the socks to the coronation for us.
PRIME MINISTER: I did.
DAN: So, the next coronation, when we get Will in there, if you’re invited Albo –
PRIME MINISTER Well it probably won’t be for a long time.
DAN: You got to wear toweling shorts for us alright.
PRIME MINISTER: It was 70 years between coronations. Souths were playing that day, to be fair.
MARTO: Now listen, we’ve had a couple of calls on our burner phone. One from Peter from Dayboro. Rang in with this earlier on, knowing that you were coming.
PETER DUTTON, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION: I think the Prime Minister has a lot of questions to answer because I just don’t believe that Australians can trust him anymore.
MARTO: Thank you. That was Peter. Peter from Dayboro
DAN: He’s a big listener.
MARTO: Yeah, he loves listening.
PRIME MINISTER: The great naysayer. Well, he just says no to everything, doesn’t he.
MARTO: That’s his job.
PRIME MINISTER: And this is about a tax cut. It’s actually not, his job is to be an alternative Prime Minister and to come up with something, not just saying no to everything. We’re giving a tax cut for every Australian, not just some. And for people in his electorate. Almost nine in ten will be better off.
MARTO: Can we move on to something else? We had someone on the show earlier today.
DAN: Yes okay. Marco Renai is this fellow’s name. I’m not sure if you’re aware of him. Albo, but he was the Queensland nominee for Australian of the Tear. He’s got a wonderful program helping out disaffected kids. Have a quick listen.
MARCO RENAI, QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR: We’ve got 220 boys from all over South East Queensland that are in education, finding jobs, pathways, working with psychologists and Conners assessments and truly changing their lives. I’m inspired, mate. I’m looking forward to roll these programs and support programs all across Queensland because no one’s looking after early intervention.
DAN: So, it’s twofold, as I’m sure you can understand, Albo. These kids who are doing damage then actually become not only not doing the damage, they become useful to society. He’s got land in Southport, Marto, where he wants to build this facility and he’s selling off bricks. He needs $20 million.
MARTO: He got 20,000 bricks at $1,000 of each.
DAN: But can the Government help someone like him? Because he’s actually helping the Government?
PRIME MINISTER: Absolutely.
MARTO: Did you meet him? He would have been down at Parliament House.
PRIME MINISTER: I met them all. I had the whole lot of them to The Lodge, to the Prime Minister’s residence for morning tea and then the dinner was just inspirational. It’s incredible.
DAN: Well, we’re just happy that you did make Latrell Mitchell the Australian for many Year, for many years running Albo.
MATRO: Another bloke who goes against his word.
PRIME MINISTER: No, he’s a good mate of Richo’s who’s gone across to the Tigers. And gee, does such an amazing job with the Goanna Foundation. Talk about people helping disadvantaged people.
DAN: One last one. What do we do with the Gabba, Albo? Do you want to put a nuclear power plant there? We put the Gabba in, we take it out. Are we knocking it down? What do we do?
MARTO: You are throwing money into it aren’t you?
DAN: What do we do?
PRIME MINISTER: Well, I spoke with Steven Miles, the Premier, yesterday. They’ve got this review. It’ll come down pretty soon and I’m sure that they’ll make the right decision.
MARTO: We better wrap it up, but we’re on to you. I see how you’re going around talking to FM stations these days. Never happened previously because that’s where the listeners are.
PRIME MINSITER: Absolutely.
MARTO: We ask easy questions about rugby league.
DAN: We should reference the booing at the tennis as well. Why do people do that? Is it just because?
MARTO: Because it’s funny to boo the Prime Minister.
PRIME MINSITER: It’s Tradition. Australian tradition.
DAN: Good on ya Albo. Thank you for your time, sir. Don’t boo him on the way out. Behave yourself.
