The Two Jacks - Episode 159 - The Pandemic We Parked: Long COVID, Broken Trust & the Populist Wave

About this episode

The episode discusses the political landscape in 2026, focusing on the rise of One Nation and its implications for Australian politics, alongside a look at UK political turmoil.

If you are worried about China taking over due to having better robots than the yanks, I got mixed messages for ya here. This was created using DeepSeek v4 Pro. Remember when DeepSeek could do the same thing as chatGPT but on shitty processors and not much RAM? All those stocks shit themselves? Oh what memories. Would have been a great time to buy NVIDIA stocks. I didn't, if you're asking.... It's pretty good but it really didn't follow the instruction in the prompt that Joel Hill is Jack the Insider on the transcript. So that's a minus point. But also, this took fucking ages to generate. It's better than lots of the yankee slop but damn son this took MINUTES. So they might take over if we are patient or whatever. Enjoy the episode. ---------------------------------------------- Joel Hill (Jack the Insider) and Hong Kong Jack return for a sprawling episode that tackles two of the biggest stories shaping politics in 2026. The pair open with the jaw-dropping Redbridge poll putting One Nation at 31% of the primary vote — a number that would all but wipe the National Party off the federal map and potentially deliver Anthony Albanese a strengthened majority government by splintering…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jack the Insider, Joel Hill

Guest: Hong Kong Jack

Topics covered

• Long COVID
• politics
• populism
• trust
• Australia
• UK chaos

Keywords

• Long COVID
• politics
• populism
• One Nation
• Anthony Albanese
• UK chaos
• Peter Mandelson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: One Nation

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