Should Americans Ban Social Media for Kids like Australia Just Did?; Guest: Former Governor of Maine, Paul LePage, on running for Congress in The Pine Tree State

The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

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4.7 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The nation of Australia has banned social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram for kids under the age of 16. Should the United States of America follow their lead and do the same? Our pugnacious host, Mike Slater, has A TON of thoughts on this subject and you'll want to hear every SYLLABLE out of his mouth on it. After that segment, Slater gabs with the former Governor of Maine, Paul LePage, about his quest to become a U.S. Congressman in his state at the spry age of 78 so that President Donald Trump and the Republicans can keep control of the House of Representatives. MAGA!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Brevard News Daily. Thanks for beating. We have a three-hour show on Sirius XM. We'll give you two segments here for free.
0:22.3	Kicked off talking about Venezuela, the seizing of the Venezuelan oil tanker.
0:26.9	The short of it is, this is a serious administration. We're not messing around and we're enforcing
0:30.6	the laws and the sanctions that have been on the books since Obama in 2015. That's what that is.
0:37.6	Now you don't need to freak out.
0:38.9	Oh, escalation.
0:39.9	No, just enforcing laws.
0:41.1	It exists.
0:41.8	Let's play here, though,
0:43.4	the segment we did in the second hour
0:44.7	about banning social media like they did in Australia.
0:47.5	And I was encouraged by the 10 listener poll results at the end.
0:52.5	And I thought this was an important segment.
0:55.2	So enjoy.
0:55.9	And by the way, a different than would have gone five years ago.
0:59.6	I think people are in a very different place now than even five years ago.
1:01.9	I think people are gears a bit here.
1:25.2	I was talking to Alex,
1:26.8	that's Marlow, the other day about this.
1:30.0	I think he'd say this out loud, so I'll just say it.
1:33.2	He thinks there will be a generational shift away from social media.
1:41.4	He thinks as time goes on, more and more people will voluntarily turn social media off.
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