Pod Save the Truth w/ Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Enough is enough! Nish stages an intervention with Coco about her troubling relationship with Chat GPT. Or as Coco puts it: her mate “Chatty G”. But Coco’s not the only one embracing generative AI - it’s creeping into politics. From MPs using it in their daily work to the Swedish prime minister turning to it for a second opinion on running the country. Is AI a useful and harmless political tool or will it erode trust even further? Despairing, Nish catches up with internet pioneer and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. What can our increasingly polarised and trust-depleted world learn from the man who turned a crazy idea into one of the most popular websites in the world? Nish and Jimmy cover Musk’s “Wokepedia” attacks, the rise of AI and the Online Safety Act. And Nish and Coco check in on some other questionable distortions of reality - featuring everyone’s favourite charlatan Nigel Farage and Prince Andrew’s infamous inability to sweat. CHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS CALM https://www.calm.com/PSTUK SPOTIFY https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheuk GUESTS Jimmy Wales CREDITS Al Arabia BBC The Sun Reform UK Donald Trump Bloomberg Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Build your own package with TUI.
0:02.0	Let's go.
0:03.0	City break or a beach escape.
0:05.0	Lovely.
0:06.0	Fly from your local airport.
0:08.0	Taxis here.
0:09.0	Handy.
0:10.0	Any day of the week.
0:11.0	Ideal.
0:12.0	On a TUI flight or a partner airline.
0:15.0	This is your captain speaking.
0:17.0	Nice.
0:18.0	How many nights?
0:19.0	Three, five, 14? Perfect. More options, more choice. All wrapped up with a towy smile.
0:25.7	Tui, live happy, atoll and after protected. Booking Tee's and C's a plow.
0:32.0	Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kamah. And I'm Coco Khan. Nish, you're in the studio and I'm joining you down the line
0:38.6	to Pod Save the Pod from me and my horrible flu I've got going on here. Cold, virus, lurgie,
0:44.3	whatever. Coco has come down with some sort of unspecified combo illness. And as a consequence,
0:50.6	for listeners of the podcast, I am sat on my own in the studio, in the bonkette,
0:57.0	looking like somebody who overestimated the interest in their own birthday drinks.
1:01.9	It's really got the energy of, I need the booth for five or six, and I'm currently sort of
1:08.5	sat here on my own with a laptop out in front of me.
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