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#143 Josh Hamilton - Brexit & How Social Media Disrupts Democracy

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Josh Hamilton is the founder of the website The Jist and author of the new book, 'Brexit: The Establishment Civil War' - a case study of how social media is disrupting our democracy. We discuss the motivations behind Brexit, how social media exploits political division, and what can be done to regulate our usage and the power of Big Tech - on a personal and governmental level. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

What's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls around the world.

0:21.0

I would like to welcome you back to the real talk with Zubi podcast.

0:25.0

Now on today's episode, I've got on the founder of the website The Gist and author of

0:29.9

a brand new book about everybody's favorite topic, which is Brexit.

0:34.2

Josh Hamilton, welcome to the show, how are you doing man?

0:37.0

Yeah I'm doing good man, how are you?

0:39.3

Yeah, I'm doing alright man, we're living in weird times, very weird times right now.

0:44.1

I think as everybody knows, as every listener of mine certainly knows.

0:48.1

But yeah, doing as best as I can be despite the nonsense, despite the nonsense,

0:53.7

things are actually going very well for me in general.

0:57.1

But yeah, I would quite like the world to return to normal and everyone to become sane again.

1:01.2

So how about yourself?

1:02.5

Yeah, that would be really nice.

1:04.6

If you figure out how to do that, please give me a call.

1:09.6

But you know, we're doing like a really good job of like staying sane in amongst all this madness.

1:16.1

Like your tweet last night was quite, you know, just reminding that there are some still some

1:20.9

same people out there was quite, you know, I wouldn't say it's original, but yeah, definitely did.

1:26.6

Yeah, just resonating with people all over the world. It's gone, it's also gone viral on Facebook as

1:31.4

well, which is really interesting because so there's obviously a lot of people out there feeling like

1:35.8

they're the only sane person out there. But yeah, Josh, I've done a really brief intro there,

1:40.3

but why don't you tell the people a little bit about who you are and what it is that you do?

1:45.8

So I'm from Belfast, Northern Ireland and yeah, so I'm here to talk about my book

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