Planet America

There is now be a fireside chat episode listed for this Friday (17th) on the ABC News Channel at 8pm AEDT (45 minutes)

Chas and John return to cover Trump’s sentencing, inauguration preparations, Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, LA wildfires, Biden’s farewell plus Ukraine, the Middle East, Elon, Meta and farewell Jimmy Carter.

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How will history rate Joe Biden? We’ll ask Gov. Howard Dean tonight.

One thing of note is that the Friday editions are being branded as Planet America Weekend, rather than the Fireside Chat. The fireside set-up is gone, with both editions coming from the main Faux-val Office set.
Wednesday:


Friday:

Also this on the PEP Discord from Chas:

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Not to pre-empt the Media Watch segment on this, but Chas did explain what was happening in the latest episode of PEP. The podcast has always had a weird relationship with the ABC: there was one point where the pod was recorded in the ABC lobby and I’m fairly sure a long period where the pod was essentially recorded in secret in the ABC. More recently the podcast has been recorded in the RN space before just recently moving to The Chaser HQ. It hasn’t ever been an official ABC podcast, but it has regularly been promoted at the end of Planet America’s Friday episodes for a while now.

What has pricked the ears of Media Watch though was the introduction of the merch store late last year. If the podcast is a product of the ABC, then this goes against their policy (even though it only made $156.95 last week). Essentially, the ABC is making a final decision this week over whether the podcast is officially part of the ABC or not.

At the end of tonight’s show Chas did the usual promo for Friday’s show + iView and Facebook replays.

John then said as the camera pulled back "Nothing else to plug Chas?
Chas: No
John: Entirely sure?
Chas: I don’t think so

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On Weekend Edition tonight:

Donald Trump has spoken with Vladimir Putin on the phone about negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. Chas and John discuss the latest on the week in America including 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.

Still odd that Friday night’s episodes are now coded as “Weekend Edition” rather than the “Fireside Edition”. I don’t like change! lol. But will get used to it sooner rather than later.