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Gahy humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. I just wanted to touch base with

you, check in, answer some of your ask me anything questions,

and say a great big, fat, wet, sloppy, thank you.

This last month has seen a huge jump in subscriptions after I announced my resignation from

the National Public Broadcaster in Australia, the ABC. It's been a great run of having an

afternoon show there for two years, but I'm doubling down on this little project. You're going to get

more of me. I'm going to get more of you. We're going to be in a big loving embrace. There'll be

rivers of milk and honey, lions sleeping with lambs, postmen hugging Great Danes, and so on.

So thank you if you've subscribed.

If you haven't subscribed, you'll hear a little bit of this episode, and then it'll be just

for members, and you'll get lots of other great free content in the new year.

We're shooting for the end of January.

A YouTube channel,

you'll be able to watch stuff. If you're already a subscriber to my substack and you're listening to this on the podcast, you can see a video episode of me sweating away on a hot early

summer's day in not a beautiful day in Sydney. Instead of being out there swimming at the

beach or frolicking in a park or doing ringer ring of rosies or making daisy chains with my

daughter, I am here committed, dedicated to you. So thank you. Let's get to some questions. Anthony

writes in on the substacks saying, you've mentioned

before that you believe the far right is a bigger threat to our culture, is the biggest threat

to our culture. It seems that many reasonable podcasters and political commentators agree with you.

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