What Does The Left Get Wrong? With Punters Politics
5/13/20261 hr 9 min
Konrad Benjamin (known as Punters Politics) has amassed a huge following online, gone viral numerous times for his political commentary, recently found himself in parliament speaking up about the gas tax and also ref early found himself on Karl Stefanovic's podcast. He has a knack for reaching over political lines, engaging with people who would consider themselves right wing and apolitical. So today, I want to chat to him about why and how that is.
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First 90 secondsKonrad Benjamin· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] A LiSTNR production. Can we paint him in a certain way where he's the extremist? 'Cause politicians know they're political animals, so when I sit next to them and debate them, they kind of succeed in painting me as a partisan hack as well. You wrestle with pigs, you get muddy.
Sarah· Host0:16
[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Sarah, and this is Small Talk. It's not quite a news headline, but it is what the girls are talking about, and I am here with Conrad Benjamin, who you might know as Pundit Politics.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest0:33
The girls are talking about me.
Sarah· Host0:34
The girls are talking about you- Are they though? ... specifically. Now they will be.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest0:38
[laughs] I don't know. But yeah. [laughs] I'm like, my audience is heavily male.
Sarah· Host0:41
[laughs] I'm just- So I feel welcome here.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest0:43
This is great.
Sarah· Host0:43
Why have you on?
Konrad Benjamin· Guest0:44
[laughs] Yeah. I'm like, "Am I allowed in here?"
Sarah· Host0:46
I know.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest0:46
Was that, is that why they were patting me down, just like, "Mm- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sarah· Host0:48
We were checking. Well- "...
Konrad Benjamin· Guest0:49
I don't know about this" ...
Sarah· Host0:50
this year has been the first year we've like, had guys on the, on Small Talk.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest0:53
Right.
Sarah· Host0:53
We've, we've really, we've opened it up. We've, we were like- And what number am I? Like, maybe three or four.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest0:59
Okay, okay.
Sarah· Host1:00
Yeah.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest1:00
Top 10, I'll take it.
Sarah· Host1:01
Yeah, top 10, top 10.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest1:02
Yeah, great.
Sarah· Host1:02
I mean, like, it's not, we're not, it's not a weekly thing. [laughs] [laughs] Like, it's not.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest1:06
Top, can I be on top 10 at, or let's say top five men from Big Small Talk?
Sarah· Host1:12
You- Just like a ranking, like a Cosmo list. At the end of the episode, I'll tell you where you are.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest1:17
[laughs] Great.
Sarah· Host1:18
That was about a four.
Konrad Benjamin· Guest1:19
[laughs] [laughs] We're MySpace friends? Oh, wait, too young. [laughs] Wrong reference, Conrad. Idiot.
Sarah· Host1:24
Oh. Oh, no, I never had MySpace. Did you have- I- How old are you?
Konrad Benjamin· Guest1:26
Oh, don't. Don't even go there.
Sarah· Host1:28
Prune. Um,