Ask Me Anything: Labour, cats, Biden, the NHS and thirst traps
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 11 December 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Ok, so this was an experiment - I let people listening choose what we spoke about. This was a lot of fun!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, how are you doing? This is a bit of an experiment. Yeah, I don't know |
| 0:16.4 | why I decided to do this, but I just thought to shake it up a bit. I used to do, so I |
| 0:22.6 | used to do this video channel for the Guardian, and so they got really bit, which we were going |
| 0:26.3 | to see. But what I used to do with, oh dear, I'm using the wrong one, that's a good start. |
| 0:34.0 | There we go, sorry everyone, I'm now using the correct microphone. Yeah, I used to do |
| 0:37.8 | these videos responding to comments left by you, you guys, well, some of you, and it |
| 0:46.8 | worked really well, because it was more of a back and forth all the rest of it, and we |
| 0:50.0 | do do that obviously in the live shows where we have our guests, but I just thought instead |
| 0:57.4 | of having a guest and having a chat with them today, what we do is just let you, let you |
| 1:03.0 | decide, people just cut, mending my hoodie, by the way, I'm not just running it, wearing |
| 1:06.3 | a random hoodie, I'm actually wearing, so this is the independent workers of Great Britain. |
| 1:12.1 | It's a trade union. I was at the 10th anniversary last night. They represent vapor careiest |
| 1:18.4 | workers, often disproportionately migrant workers, who are some of the most exploited in the |
| 1:23.0 | world, in this country. And they've had 10 years of organising, they've won these massive |
| 1:28.9 | victories, so do look up the IDBGB and support their work. I've written lots of articles about |
| 1:35.5 | them organising. For example, university workers, cleaners, often, as I've said, the most |
| 1:41.8 | precarious workers in the country. What do I think of Sonnet, the hedgehog? So the way |
| 1:47.5 | this is going to work is, I will go through some of the comments. We've already had lots |
| 1:51.0 | of comments, so I will check those. One of them says, John Smith, could you please be quiet? |
| 1:56.8 | Don't have to, don't have to tune in, John. Don't, it's not compulsory. It's not like you're |
| 2:03.6 | obliged to tune into the show. What I'll do is there's been loads of comments already. |
| 2:10.5 | I will prioritize super chats. So if you're watching live, if you click on YouTube and then |
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