The Delingpod - James Delingpole - Carbon Mike II - a taster...

April 25, 2020 - The Delingpod - James Delingpole

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Carbon Mike II - a taster...

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James Delingpole urges $5 monthly Patreon donations to secure editorial independence from government control, promising early access to upcoming Carbon Mike episodes. He critiques the nation-state system as a target for revolutionary subversion by entities like The Guardian and highlights the absurdity of US cable television bundling, where consumers are forced to pay for unwanted channels alongside desired ones like HBO or ESPN. Ultimately, these segments underscore a broader struggle against centralized corporate and state power that dictates both media consumption and political discourse. [Automatically generated summary]
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Early Access Podcast 00:01:54
	Welcome, special friend.
	As you know, you are my only special friend and I love you very, very much.
	But I can't pretend that I don't love you even more if you give me some money for my Patreon account.
	This enables me to be free, to be free of the man, to do what the hell I want, to make myself better for you.
	Anyway, as a special treat for donating to my Patreon at the special $5 a month level, You get early access to the week's podcast.
	Or possibly one of several podcasts in the week.
	And this week is no exception.
	I'm giving you not one but two podcasts this week.
	And the second is with your old friend Carbon Mike.
	How cool is that?
	If you want to listen to it now, just be a Patreon donor.
	If you want to listen to it not now, well, you'll have to just wait, won't you?
	That is all, my friends.
	Lots of love.
	Bye.
	Skepticism about, you know, this whole, is this nation-state thing really all that whatever?
	And at the worst, you know, people like, you know, the folks who I imagine run The Guardian, right?
	Who actively, they're like, yeah, we want to subvert this.
	We, you know, we're revolutionaries, right?
	And here's the thing.
	Think about, I don't know what the television, the TV situation is vastly different in the UK, but okay, in the US we have cable.
	We have, you know, cable television.
	And there's this thing that was very controversial that we're talking about doing.
	I'm unbundling, right?
	So the cable companies would sell you some large number of channels in a bundle.
	Meanwhile, if you subscribe to cable TV, you really only maybe want a handful of those channels, right?
	If you like movies and exclusive content, you might like HBO, you might like ESPN. But you're forced to buy all these other channels.

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Early Access Podcast 00:01:54

Welcome, special friend.

As you know, you are my only special friend and I love you very, very much.

But I can't pretend that I don't love you even more if you give me some money for my Patreon account.

This enables me to be free, to be free of the man, to do what the hell I want, to make myself better for you.

Anyway, as a special treat for donating to my Patreon at the special $5 a month level, You get early access to the week's podcast.

Or possibly one of several podcasts in the week.

And this week is no exception.

I'm giving you not one but two podcasts this week.

And the second is with your old friend Carbon Mike.

How cool is that?

If you want to listen to it now, just be a Patreon donor.

If you want to listen to it not now, well, you'll have to just wait, won't you?

That is all, my friends.

Lots of love.

Bye.

Skepticism about, you know, this whole, is this nation-state thing really all that whatever?

And at the worst, you know, people like, you know, the folks who I imagine run The Guardian, right?

Who actively, they're like, yeah, we want to subvert this.

We, you know, we're revolutionaries, right?

And here's the thing.

Think about, I don't know what the television, the TV situation is vastly different in the UK, but okay, in the US we have cable.

We have, you know, cable television.

And there's this thing that was very controversial that we're talking about doing.

I'm unbundling, right?

So the cable companies would sell you some large number of channels in a bundle.

Meanwhile, if you subscribe to cable TV, you really only maybe want a handful of those channels, right?

If you like movies and exclusive content, you might like HBO, you might like ESPN. But you're forced to buy all these other channels.