Best String And T Podcasts (2025)

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Best of 2025: Is this the beginning of the end of the American empire? 17:23

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We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. It was another big year for the human headline that was U.S President Donald Trump, and political and international editor Peter Hartcher was an essential listen each week on our podcast as we tried to make sense of it all. This episode was recorded i…

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Jeans-Mas Vacation w/ Chevy Chase | Your Mom's House Ep. 841 1:07:56

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Best of 2025: The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson 25:35

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We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. Well, the mushroom murders was the criminal case of the year and in this episode, we take you inside the court on the day Erin Patterson was sentenced to life imprisonment. Patterson received a triple-murder conviction for the now infamous lunch of be…

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Best of 2025: Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy? 25:02

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We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. Today, we return to an episode recorded in October with senior columnist Jacqueline Maley, when more torrid tales emerged of the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and his connection to sex offender and disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein. Wh…

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Best of 2025: Belle Gibson's cancer con 28:30

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Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. This one is about Belle Gibson. One of the original wellness influencers, Gibson claimed to have healed herself from terminal cancer through healthy eating. The problem was, she …

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Tony Abbott on running for Senate, AUKUS and cultural ‘self-loathing’ 42:44

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In this bonus episode of Inside Politics, former primer minister Tony Abbott joins host Jacqueline Maley and chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal. Abbott has penned a new book, Australia: A History, describing a more positive view of our past. He also discusses the current political and cultural challenges facing the Liberal Party, as well as …

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Anger in the aftermath: Albanese and the Bondi attack 23:54

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This week it feels wrong to talk about politics in the wake of the horrific antisemitic massacre at Bondi Beach on Sunday. Australians and Sydneysiders in particular are still trying to make sense of the senseless. But the fact is that the response to the massacre has been deeply political, and things got divisive very quickly. So this week on Insi…

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#531: Talk Python in Production 1:21:13

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Have you ever thought about getting your small product into production, but are worried about the cost of the big cloud providers? Or maybe you think your current cloud service is over-architected and costing you too much? Well, in this episode, we interview Michael Kennedy, author of "Talk Python in Production," a new book that guides you through …

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Our Jeans Are High & Tactical | Your Mom's House Ep. 840 1:24:02

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Courage and kindness in the face of the Bondi attack 18:15

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On the evening of the shooting at Bondi, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian” – that was indeed proven when the entire community sprung into action, those who ran towards the disaster, not away from it. There are tales of heroism, like the couple who first tried to stop the gunmen …

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Holocaust survivors chose Sydney after the war. Then came the Bondi attack 21:08

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When Michael Visontay heard of the shootings at Bondi Beach on Sunday, his first instinct was to call his son, who often swam there. Then came the sickening feeling of dread, when his son didn’t answer his phone. Something that thickened this dread even further, was a family history that taught him to always be alert to possible threats. His father…

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A voice note from our reporter who was caught up in the Bondi shooting 5:34

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We’re releasing an additional episode today featuring one of our reporters, Elias Visontay, who was at Bondi Beach with a friend on the day of the terror attack. Elias recounts his first-hand experience as the gunmen fired bullets at the unexpecting crowd. You can read his story on our websites here. And if you’re struggling with the bad news at th…

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Bondi terror attack: On the ground after mass shooting 17:30

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Sunday’s Bondi Beach terrorist attack, which targeted a Hanukkah celebration, was the worst mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur. Some in the Jewish community have been fearing a deadly attack for years. This episode features the stories of witnesses, such as reporter Elias Visontay, and mother-of-three Jacqui Cohen, who took cover with her…

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67: Demonic Chant or Deep State Psyop? – The Satanic Secrets Targeting America's Kids! 49:40

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67: Demonic Chant or Deep State Psyop? – The Satanic Secrets Targeting America's Kids! Today, folks, we're diving deep—real deep—into the rabbit hole of this so-called "67" craze that's got kids everywhere chanting like they're in some kind of trance. You know what I'm talking about: "Six-seven, six-seven!" It's everywhere—schools banning it, paren…

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How horror Bondi Beach terror attack unfolded 7:04

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As we record this on Sunday night, 12 people, including the shooter, have been confirmed dead in a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, with the New South Wales Police Commissioner declaring it a terrorist incident. The number of dead has since increased to 16, including a child. Dozens of people had been gathered to mark the first night of Hanu…

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#530: anywidget: Jupyter Widgets made easy 1:11:21

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For years, building interactive widgets in Python notebooks meant wrestling with toolchains, platform quirks, and a mountain of JavaScript machinery. Most developers took one look and backed away slowly. Trevor Manz decided that barrier did not need to exist. His idea was simple: give Python users just enough JavaScript to unlock the web’s interact…

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Inside Politics: The ‘dirty business’ of MP expenses 26:18

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Today, we're delving into the expenses scandal, if indeed we are calling it a scandal, that has engulfed the Communications Minister Anika Wells. A $100,000 taxpayer funded flight to New York snow-balled into a drip-feed of information about flights to the Formula 1 grand prix, the Boxing Day tests and even a family reunion at Thredbo. All of this …

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Trump and the Caribbean boat strikes: Did a war crime occur? 24:47

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The video is, according to those who have seen it, horrific to watch. Two sailors cling to the debris of a blown-up boat in the Caribbean, when they’re killed by a US military strike. This occurred after the first strike on their boat failed to kill everybody on board. It has sparked outrage, and led to accusations – by Democrat and Republican lawm…

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Is It Gay To Drink Matcha? | Your Mom's House Ep. 839 1:36:47

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The sex offenders being protected under secretive orders 17:13

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Our mastheads have discovered that a number of sex offenders have committed crimes - in our communities - after serving their time in prison. And here’s the thing. They committed these crimes while under a “supervision order”. This little known order, issued by a court, is meant to keep a “ring fence” around these known offenders, to keep tabs on t…

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What happens when social media goes ‘dark’ for Australian teens 15:15

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Parents across the country have been wringing their hands for months about how the social media ban will work – and more so, if it will work. So, what exactly does the ban cover? And how will it be enforced? Today, reporter Bronte Gossling on the main methods children plan on using, to circumvent what the federal government has called a “world-lead…

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Is 2025 the year of the Psy-Op? 1:24:20

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Is 2025 the year of the Psy-Op? The question on everyone's mind: Is 2025 the year of the psy-op? From the Epstein files dropping like a bombshell—real or hoax?—to the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, the beef between Candace Owens and Tim Pool that's splitting the right wide open, and every other conspiracy that's "turned true" this year. We…

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Blood on the ground: What’s happening in Sudan 32:18

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When American author Anne Applebaum travelled to the frontlines of the Sudanese civil war this year, she gave herself a stern remit. Bear witness to, and report on, a lawless world that - since the United States has pulled most of its aid - is now run by warring militias, clans and families. Crucially, she would keep emotion out of it. But then she…

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Candace Owens: Patriot or Psy-Op? Unraveling the Deep State Puppet Strings 59:57

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Candace Owens: Patriot or Psy-Op? Unraveling the Deep State Puppet Strings Today, we're revisiting and expanding our deep dive into Candace Owens—is she a genuine firebrand or a deep-state psy-op engineered to divide, distract, and destroy the conservative movement? However with fresh developments from late 2025, including her explosive feuds with …

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$100k flights, uncomfortable truth about PM's wedding, and the fight over social media 26:36

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This week the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was on his honeymoon after his low-key Lodge wedding last weekend, while Senate estimates rolled on in Canberra, uncovering some interesting secrets. Notable was the head-scratching amount that Communications Minister Anika Wells spent on flights to New York, made public ahead of the mammoth social medi…

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Kate McClymont on the fake accountant, the solicitor, and the stolen millions 19:35

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When Mark Leishman and his wife Kathy first sought out the help of George Dimitriou, they were suffering with cash-flow problems at Mark’s business. By the time their working relationship with Dimitriou finished - and after they discovered he was only pretending to be an accountant - their Newcastle home was repossessed, and they lost, they say, $4…

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Hard For Hot Dads | Your Mom's House Ep. 838 1:21:34

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#529: Computer Science from Scratch 1:17:00

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A lot of people building software today never took the traditional CS path. They arrived through curiosity, a job that needed automating, or a late-night itch to make something work. This week, David Kopec joins me to talk about rebuilding computer science for exactly those folks, the ones who learned to program first and are now ready to understan…

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Will ‘gentle density’ help fix our housing stupidity? 16:09

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New figures out on Monday show that the median house values in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane have become, well, kind of insane. They’re the kind of figures that make people who’ve been desperately saving to break into the housing market tear at their hair by the roots. But new research shows that allowing Australians to subdivide their properties c…

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Poor Little Rich Kids: The Spoiled Elites Fueling the Socialist Takeover 1:08:00

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Poor Little Rich Kids: The Spoiled Elites Fueling the Socialist Takeover Today, we're diving deep into a topic that's got my blood boiling: "Poor Little Rich Kids." Yeah, you heard that right. These silver-spoon brats who have everything handed to them on a platinum platter, yet they're out there whining about inequality, pushing socialism, and coz…

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Why shark attacks in Australia are increasing 13:36

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It really was the stuff of nightmares. A Swiss tourist, who was swimming with dolphins off the NSW coast, was suddenly mauled by a three-metre bull shark. The 25-year-old died from her injuries, despite her heroic boyfriend, an exchange student also from Switzerland, fighting off the shark and carrying her to shore. Today, environment and climate r…

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How real is the rise of One Nation? 21:34

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When Pauline Hanson marched into the Senate last week wearing a burqa, it felt, for a moment, like we were back in the 1990s. Those were the sorts of stunts – and anti-immigration rhetoric – that the former fish and chip shop owner from Ipswich used to pull when she first swept into power. But, with a high-profile member of parliament on the verge …

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#528: Python apps with LLM building blocks 1:16:46

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In this episode, I’m talking with Vincent Warmerdam about treating LLMs as just another API in your Python app, with clear boundaries, small focused endpoints, and good monitoring. We’ll dig into patterns for wrapping these calls, caching and inspecting responses, and deciding where an LLM API actually earns its keep in your architecture. Episode s…

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DTOM Exclusive Interview w/ Professor Marc Defant 1:17:11

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DTOM Exclusive Interview w/ Professor Marc Defant On today's show I interview Marc J. Defant is a tenured professor of geology and geochemistry at the University of South Florida. We discuss a variety of topics including his recent peer-reviewed paper, "Evolutionary Psychology and the Crisis of Empirical Rigor in Feminist Studies," authored solely …

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Barnaby defects, Hanson offends and Sussan Ley comes on the podcast 25:31

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Well, Barnaby Joyce finally announced his resignation from the Nationals this week, paving his way to join One Nation, in a week where Pauline Hanson recycled a burqa stunt from 2017. And it’s amid this turmoil that we have a special guest with chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal and Jacqueline Maley - Opposition Leader Sussan Ley. Subscribe …

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'Nice is nice': How a dancing Robert Irwin became America's antidote 23:50

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We feel like we’ve known him since he was in nappies. But now, at 21, the fame enjoyed by Robert Irwin - the son of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - has been supercharged after winning one of America’s top reality television shows, Dancing with the Stars. Today, culture editor-at-large Michael Idato on the Irwin family empire and how Robert Irwin’s b…

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MAGA's Final Fracture – The Rise of True America First 1:03:57

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MAGA's Final Fracture – The Rise of True America First Today, we're extending our deep dive into the crumbling empire of MAGA. We'll unpack conspiracy theories fueling the fire, why Trump's top dogs are bailing, and why the base is ripping itself apart like a pack of rabid wolves. Plus, we're zeroing in on the America First movement – the real deal…

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‘They view it as a contagion’: Why Trump wants our migrant data 16:57

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Donald Trump has long tried to stamp American institutions - and the daily life of his country’s citizens - with his ultra-conservative ideology, openly waging war on diversity, transgender rights and women, among other targets. But now he wants American diplomats in Canberra to report back to him about the way we live. Today, North America corresp…

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Why the BOM spent $96 million on its website 15:40

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The Bureau of Meteorology has been plagued with public stuff-ups, including, just a few years ago, a false tsunami alert sent to half of the country. This is a problem because farmers use the site to plan harvests, fisherman use it navigate the seas, and the rest of us rely on it to decide if we need to bring an umbrella, or can safely travel from …

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'Blood oil': How Australia is funding Russia's war 27:03

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Shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Australia banned the importation of Russian crude oil. Even so, Russian oil is still making its way to our shores, and into our petrol. Kateryna Argyrou calls this blood oil - money from which goes to fund the Kremlin’s war machine. Today, Argryou, who chairs the Australian Federation of Ukrainian…

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Shadows On the Rooftop and Echoes of Dallas '63-- The Charlie Kirk Killing! 50:07

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Shadows On the Rooftop and Echoes of Dallas '63-- The Charlie Kirk Killing! On today's show were going deep into the murder of Charlie Kirk! We have new developments trickling out as of 11/20 and it's time for a full breakdown: the official story, and the holes in it, and the wild conspiracy theories bubbling up from X, YouTube and beyond - now wit…

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Albanese wants to protect Australia ‘as it is’. But is it good enough? 29:18

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Recently on this podcast we have been highly fixated on the problems within the Liberal opposition and we have neglected the government somewhat. So this week we are going to focus on Labor, and to that end we have a real treat for listeners. Sean Kelly, a columnist for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, was previously a Labor staffer with Kevin Ru…

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The Epstein Files: The Final Blackmail Drop or the Deepest Cover-up EVER? 57:10

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The Epstein Files: The Final Blackmail Drop or the Deepest Cover-up EVER? On today's show I'm going to drop the hammer on H.R. 9511- the Epstein Files Transparency Act! I have obtained access from names who I will nit name, but the names they gave me....... those names I WILL name! Who are they, who or what do they represent? Listen and you too wil…

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The 'helpers' of Singapore – raising expat children, while never seeing their own 19:46

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It’s a Sunday at a park in Singapore, and, as journalist Zach Hope observed, it’s the servants day off. They lounge on picnic rugs, shaking off the week of cooking, cleaning – and raising other people’s kids. Singapore has more than 300,000 migrant domestic workers, or “helpers”, as they’re called and many care for the children of expats, including…

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Come Get Fat With Tom Segura | Your Mom's House Ep. 837 1:18:10

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The political 'killing season' has begun, so who are the new leaders? 19:34

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There can be no mistaking it – it is that time of year known as the killing season. Because, as of this morning, there are two state political leaders who’ve lost their jobs. One whose job is rumoured to be on the chopping block. And all this, as rumours swirl that federal Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, might not last through to the new year. Today,…

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Trump and Epstein: How significant are the new emails? 21:09

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Donald Trump has long sworn that his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was no big deal, that he didn’t know about his abuse of girls and women, and there was nothing of consequence in the so-called Epstein files. Then came last week, when a group of Democrats, and later Republicans, released thousands and thousands of pages of emails and correspond…

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Wasting billions: The government system hurting your hip pocket 23:22

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Four years ago, when our senior economics correspondent, Shane Wright, pointed out the failings of our central bank, government leaders, including the federal treasurer, sat up and took notice. Well now, he’s at it again. And this time, he’s got his sights on what he calls an unspoken economic problem that is driving down our quality of life. Today…

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DTOM Exclusive Interview w/ Lisa Ekman author of Deprogramming Democrats & un-Educating the Elites! 1:48:29

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DTOM Exclusive Interview w/ Lisa Ekman author of Deprogramming Democrats & un-Educating the Elites! On today's show I sit down with Lisa Ekman the author of the boof titled "Deprogramming Democrats & un-Educating the Elites! We have an awesome conversation, not just about her book but about a bunch of topics that concern ALL Americans! Web Site: ww…

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Inside Politics: The Coalition’s net zero word salad, and Ley’s leadership ‘not safe’ 24:16

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This week in federal politics there was really only one show in town, and that was the compelling and 'can't look away' car crash that is the Liberal party's continued ructions on its net zero policy. They culminated, or maybe even concluded, on Thursday afternoon, when the Liberal Party met and finally came up with a policy. Today, host Jacqueline…