1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I've got a life tip for you. Grown 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: ups should not post their opinions on social media. Case 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: in point, Gary Lineker. Now Gary is about to announce 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: that he's leaving his job at the BBC because of 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: a social media post. Now, this in the UK is 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: big news. Gary's a very very popular host. He's the 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: highest earner at the BEE. Because of how popular he is, 8 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: he gets a salary of about three million New Zealand dollars. 9 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,240 Speaker 1: He's a former professional football player. I wager that if 10 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: you ask anyone in the UK who Gary Lineker is, 11 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: they'll be able to tell you. That's how well known 12 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: he is. But he just torpedoed his own career, didn't 13 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: he by reposting a pro Palestine video on social media 14 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: that criticized Zionism and included an illustration of a rat. 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: Now know your history on this. A rat is an 16 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: image that was used in Nazi Germany to characterize Jews 17 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: as vermin. You don't get away with that. You got 18 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: to know what you're doing right. And the thing about 19 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: it is this wasn't even Gary's first mistake. Like first mistake, 20 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: you could go, oh, you know, cut the guy. But 21 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: a slack. He'd posted about migrant policy, got in trouble, 22 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: posted about the Tories, got in trouble, posted about politics 23 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: in general, got in trouble. And he'd be given chance 24 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: and chants and chance to learn that having a rant 25 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: on social media gets you in trouble. But he just 26 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 1: couldn't stop himself when it came to post in that 27 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: video in the little image of the rat. Now he's gone. 28 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: It is mind blowing to me that in twenty twenty five, 29 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: after twenty years of social media and of people get 30 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: in trouble, we still have people doing this. I mean 31 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: we had Bussy Galore the other day. We had Damian 32 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: O'Connor last year saying Hamas was justified in what they 33 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: did in October seven to women and children. We had 34 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: Penny Henare posting a picture of David Seymour with poe 35 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: coming out of his eyes and a bum hoole for 36 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: a palth. These are grown adults, like It's like kindergarten stuff, 37 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: isn't it. Ah? You would think people would think it 38 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: would learn it's not worth it. But I guess the 39 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: dopamine hit that you get from people loving what you 40 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: say and narcissism those things are strong motivators. It would 41 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: trans anyway. Now here's the thing, this is what I think. Okay, 42 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: some people need social media for work influences for example, 43 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: or the Maori Party who appear to do all of 44 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: their politics there, and politicians who need it for publicity, 45 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: and maybe for them the rules are a bit different. 46 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: Maybe they just need to stick to the subject at hand. 47 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: Like footballers post about football nothing else, Marti Party post 48 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: about politics nothing else, and maybe don't tweet after you've 49 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: been drinking. But for the rest of us, get off its. 50 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: Adults do not need social media. For more from Heather 51 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: Duplassy Allen Drive. 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