The Delingpod - James Delingpole - Carbon Mike II - a taster...
Aired: 2020-04-25
Duration: 01:54


=== Early Access Podcast (01:54) ===

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[00:00:56]  Skepticism about, you know, this whole, is this nation-state thing really all that whatever?
[00:01:02]  And at the worst, you know, people like, you know, the folks who I imagine run The Guardian, right?
[00:01:08]  Who actively, they're like, yeah, we want to subvert this.
[00:01:11]  We, you know, we're revolutionaries, right?
[00:01:13]  And here's the thing.
[00:01:15]  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.
[00:01:22]  We have, you know, cable television.
[00:01:24]  And there's this thing that was very controversial that we're talking about doing.
[00:01:32]  I'm unbundling, right?
[00:01:34]  So the cable companies would sell you some large number of channels in a bundle.
[00:01:39]  Meanwhile, if you subscribe to cable TV, you really only maybe want a handful of those channels, right?
[00:01:45]  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.