Bari Weiss: Quitting The Mainstream Media
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Yippee-ki-yay, Josh has quit his ABC Radio show to double down on Uncomfortable Conversations. Starting in the new year, you'll get additional free episodes, a YouTube channel, a live tour and more. Before embarking on his adventure, Josh wanted to speak with the most successful person who has recently pulled it off. Bari Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She walked away to do her own thing at The Free Press.
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| 0:00.0 | Gahy humans, welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas and what exciting times for this old project, which is about to expand massively. |
| 0:13.0 | Great news, uncomfortable conversations will now become my main gig in the new year, meaning you will get a lot more episodes. You will get them |
| 0:22.3 | in video form instead of just audio. And we'll be branching out and providing you a lot more |
| 0:28.8 | content. If you've ever been on the fence about whether or not to become a premium subscriber, |
| 0:32.5 | I would tactfully suggest that you do so now. It's probably worth getting ahead of whatever it is that we roll |
| 0:39.0 | out in the new year there will be benefits to people who got in ahead of the game |
| 0:44.7 | uncomfortable conversations.substack.com. It's very easy. You don't even necessarily need a credit |
| 0:50.4 | card yet if you don't want to become a premium subscriber. You can just become part of the |
| 0:53.4 | community for free just by entering your email address and then at least you'll be kept up to |
| 0:57.8 | date with whatever one of things we're rolling out. If you didn't hear the news and the rest of the |
| 1:04.4 | press, I'm designed from my ABC radio show last week. Without further ado, I think rather than |
| 1:10.4 | explaining any ins and outs, it might be |
| 1:12.4 | easier just to let you hear the way that I announced it to my listeners on the air. |
| 1:20.3 | It's 20 to 3. Zoe texts in on the text line saying, hi Josh, happy in your return from holidays. |
| 1:25.9 | You can hear the chirpier within you. |
| 1:28.8 | Holidays, as we all know, do help in a good break. Take care in regards. |
| 1:32.6 | Thank you, Zoe. That's very sweet. |
| 1:35.8 | What you're hearing in my voice may not only be because of holidays. |
| 1:40.8 | As we approach the end of the year, there's always some speculation about the lineup of shows and presenters for the next year. |
| 1:48.7 | And look, it's time for my contract to be renewed for 2024, and I want to tell you why I won't be signing it, and we'll be ending the show this year. |
| 1:59.9 | I could spin you a lot of PRGAR about how I just don't have time in |
| 2:04.4 | my life for all the other things that I want to do, which is true. And I could talk about how I could |
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