"The One With The Shark"
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Two intriguing debates this week. Firstly, is it even possible to take Rishi Sunak seriously (did we to start with?) after his confounding conference speech this week. And secondly - Donald Trump and death row. There’s a connection, trust us, though maybe not the one we’d all like to see.
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Hello, I'm Mac Kelly. And I'm Matt Dancona. And this is the two mats for the weekending |
| 1:01.6 | Friday the 6th of October. Matt, what did we talk about this week? Well, the first half we talked about |
| 1:06.6 | Rishi Sunak and his attempts to upgrade himself as C3pm and we're looking forward to how that goes. |
| 1:14.4 | So we kicked about that about. |
| 1:15.6 | And then I have to say, I think we got on to, I think we moved up a year this week actually. |
| 1:19.9 | I think we should, I think we should consider changing the whole bloody format, to be honest. |
| 1:23.3 | I mean, we got into really deep philosophical waters about sharks, |
| 1:28.1 | electrocution and, you know, AI. |
| 1:31.3 | It was an astonishing, I mean, it was a very deep, |
| 1:33.5 | honestly, it was a landmark podcast episode. |
| 1:35.5 | Do you think we should go into the, |
| 1:36.9 | we might get higher up in the chart |
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