the city of christchurch new zealand, i don't sounds like activism but a slightly different faith thef the payroll but i'm sure they will find a different way to whiz on the taxpayers since 1998, chanel served as wizard of new zealand drawing a salary of $11000 a year to provide acts of wizardry for christchurch. the duties include performing rain dances during droughts and casting spells to keep children happy dreams. city council decided the job is no longer necessary. the wizard said he will not curse the city council for firing him but he will continue to show up to tourist attractions dressed as a wizard. in other words, he will continue to be homeless and not shave and he will shrivel testicles raw mail politicos. i said it. topic number three. here's a video beat him from watch what happens in australia when a labrador retriever became friends with a whale shark. so cute, i haven't seen and intercedes relationship like this michael douglas got married. the whale shark is not going to eat the dog could actually, whale sharks are the options gentle giants because they pose no thr

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you can tell there's been a bit of a party here in christchurch.urora, that's my personal way of doing things, but this is pretty exciting times. this stuff is important, right. tourism is important to our country, and whatever happens tonight, and i hope to god we see an aurora, 'cause otherwise i'm hiding in the toilet...this is really important. ijust want to say, rachel, what an amazing job your company have done. applause thank you, ian. flights to the light is our pivot project. we came into covid as specialists in travel to latin america and antarctica. 0bviously, covid put a bit of an end to that, so we knew we had to do something else. as it turned out, there had been an astronomer, dr ian griffin, who, in 2017 and 2018, had done some private charters to see the southern lights. so i reached out to him, isaid, "hi, i'm rachel." what we'd like to do, we'd like to recreate these flights again. he kindly said yes and came on board. we're sold out, so we've got 273 on board tonight. 273 also coming on board tomorrow night. so, you know, it's r

i love how quirky it could be, for more than 20 years the city of christchurch has had an official wizard, and he's paid around 11,000 u.s. dollars a year to be the official wizard of christ church. which is a weird salary when you think about it. $11,000 is way too high for a guy who's not really a wizard but also way too low for a real wizard. if a guy can turn me into a frog, he can name his price. but christ church says he no longer fits the city's image and is going to let him. go he's definitely not happy because he's had the job for so long and as he made clear a while ago, he definitely deserves it. >> i'm the only wizard in the world who has any reason to be called a wizard, i have been trained in university, appointed by chancellor and as 1990 appointed by the government as a real wizard. i'm not some idiot wearing a hat and taking to drugs: ( laughter ) okay, to be honest, i feel like this whole thing would be less weird if this guy was on drugs. i get that he doesn't want to be associated with people who drop too much acid, but at least they have an excuse. i feel bad for the

and the shooter who killed 51 people at a mosque in christchurch, new zealand named his own manifestoement. >> this is an invasion. >> reporter: the theory amplified again by the former president this weekend. >> our country is being turned into a migrant camp. joe biden has thrown the border wide open, and our country is being invaded by hundreds of thousands of people every single month >> reporter: voices on fox news by members of congress this week. . >> what do you think they're going to vote for? this is trying to take over our country without firing a shot. >> reporter: republicans normalizing the theory leaving some to fear what could profit even more violence. >> it is an insurgence. it's an invasion. >> thanks to sunlen for that report. and now we have this week's "before the bell." >> reporter: hi, jim. brinkmanship is add to go wall street worries. it is just another thing on the list concerning investors. september actually was the stock market's worst month in a year. it looks like inflation will stick around longer. that is causing bond yields to rise and high-flying te

to poway, to el paso, to christchurch.se acts of violence were animated by many of the same grievances that carlson promotes. in fact we just learned yesterday from the child in charlottesville, that crit over the cantwell, the kind of crying nazi, he said that he and his friends watch tucker carlson every night from their jail cell. so, you know, honestly, what makes this so dire, so frightening, is that tucker carlson is host -- is from some far fringe website hosting a call-in for a dozen friends. he has a platform literally on primetime on the most watched news network in america. so murdoch has to look in the mirror and ask himself, this really what we want to promote. >> we have been covering the charlottesville trial and he said he gets his legal advice from watching tucker carlson's program. now they know, right? it's all out there. i wonder -- tucker carlson doesn't russia is have a platform. he is the most watched host. and he is the most anti-semitic, the most pro-white extremism, the most sort of permission str

there is a bit of a party here in christchurch.rtant. ijust want to say, rachel, what an amazing job you have done. thank you. the flight�*s our pivot project. we came into covid as specialists and traveled to latin america and antarctica. covid put an end to that so we knew we had to do something else. as it turned out, there had been an astronomer, doctor ian griffin, who in 2017 and 2018 had done some private charters to see the southern lights. so i reached out to him, hi, i'm rachael. we'd like to recreate these flights again. he kindly said yes and came on board. we're sold out, 273 on board tonight. 273 also coming on board tomorrow night. so, it's really, it's amazing. we are excited. we're starting to get into the aurora zone, and as you can tell from all the tape, we're trying to see the aurora, but in a minute the lights will go down and hopefully we can get some good pictures. can the lights go down? we will turn them down right now. awesome. yay! start looking out the window. look, you can see it just ahead of us. look