Fans of the radio-listening arts will be familiar with the charmingly-hyper tones of the top-rating Smallzy’s Surgery’s host Kent “Smallzy” Small and know how he is very across the goings on of music and pop culture.
But you are probably not aware that he’s also a political tragic, and therefore the perfect person to guest on GOAT’s third episode of Who Doesn’t Love Politics?, hosted by NOVA’s Michelle Stephenson and GOAT’s Andrew P Street.
“Contrary to popular belief, my interests are wide ranging,” he makes clear, “It’s the yin to the yang. I live so much pop culture and so much Kardashian and Kanye, I need to fill the other half of my brain with something else – and politics is it.”
Specifically, how everyone could maybe do with calming the hell down a bit.
“I wish that both sides of politics right now could sit back and observe themselves and actually realise how hyper-peak ridiculous they all are, and perhaps the conversation about what we think and what we believe would go in a different direction. But instead we’re stuck in this merry-go-round of peak right and peak left and let’s have a vote in the senate to say it’s OK to be white. That is where we are in 2018.
“The problem with Pauline Hanson is that it does not matter how close to any point she gets and how right she is, the white noise which is around her in everything she does derails completely any message which she’s trying to put forward.”
To be fair to Pauline: she’d be the first to make clear that when it comes to noise, it’s OK to be white.
You can hear Smallzy hold forth about that, offshore detention, his early enthusiasm for Donald Trump, the profligate ABC, and his on-air response to the removal of Tony Abbott – and an interview with Wentworth’s Liberal candidate Dave Sharma – right now on Acast and iTunes!