Alan Jones begins new live show with rant about being silenced, before being cut off

Alas, he was silenced.

The one-time 2GB shock jock was back two hours later, and delivered about an hour of fanciful and often fact-free ruminations.

The overarching theme was familiar. Jones is the man to give voice to the mythical silent majority. He sketched out an imagined Ye Olde Australia, a land where men are free and the 389 bus route cannot be changed without his permission.

He evoked nostalgia for this past where wealthy, high-profile Sydneysiders like him were free to say whatever they liked on the airwaves and be financially rewarded for it.

The New South Wales premier, Dominic Perrottet, joined the show. He displayed a remarkable nimbleness, and managed to keep Jones cheering for him while not actually agreeing with some of his more outlandish claims.

Jones and the Queensland senator Matt Canavan, that reliable outlier, egged each other on to new heights of adoration of coal and fear-mongering about renewables.

And then it was over, for now.

At last glance, Direct to the People had racked up 5,500 YouTube views. After that stuttering start, Jones chose not to end with the song he began with: