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Speaker 1: In the Brady UK correspondence with I Sayinda.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Heather, lovely to speak to you again.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of the Guardian taking itself off Twitter?

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Speaker 2: I absolutely applaud them. It's a toxic platform. It has

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Speaker 2: been for a very long time. The abuse of people,

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Speaker 2: the hounding of people. I just a personal anecdote. I

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Speaker 2: think back to when I was ill and I couldn't walk,

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Speaker 2: and I was in bed and my daughter was taking

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Speaker 2: me to the bathroom. I gave one interview to a

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Speaker 2: radio station in Ireland because the producer is a very

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Speaker 2: good friend, and I was quite concerned that if this

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Speaker 2: new COVID variant had left me on my knees, what

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Speaker 2: was it going to do to vulnerable people like my sister.

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Speaker 2: So I gave that interview and within an hour I

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Speaker 2: had people wishing me dead. You know, when you're flatting

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Speaker 2: your back in bed, you're scrolling on a phone and

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Speaker 2: there's nothing else to do. I just I remember thinking

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Speaker 2: at the time, Wow, this is a really, really toxic platform.

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Speaker 2: Since Musk has taken over, it's got worse. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: can see why the guard they're doing it. And look,

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Speaker 2: I guess people would say, oh, you know if you're

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Speaker 2: a journalist and you're sharing information, you need as many

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Speaker 2: platforms as possible. No, you don't. Nobody needs Twitter in

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Speaker 2: their life or X or whatever he calls it. It

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Speaker 2: is such a toxic, negative place. It's just like, you know,

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Speaker 2: imagine being that perpetually angry every hour of the day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah too. Right. It's interesting though, because obviously what the

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Speaker 1: Guardian could have done is I mean, I still retain

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Speaker 1: my Twitter account. I just don't. I don't read what

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Speaker 1: any very occasionally I'll go and see, you know, if

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Speaker 1: I need to see some stupid thing that some stupid

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Speaker 1: New Zealand politicians tweeted out, then I have the access

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Speaker 1: to that because I have an account, right, But I

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Speaker 1: need to look at what people say to me because

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Speaker 1: I don't need that negativity in my life. But why

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Speaker 1: didn't the Guardian choose to do that, just post it

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Speaker 1: stuff out and never look at it again. Why did

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Speaker 1: they take it? It feels like it taking a stands

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Speaker 1: a stand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're taking a stand against Musk. I think they're

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Speaker 2: just saying enough is an off and look what we're

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Speaker 2: seeing this guy. He's not American. You know. We were

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Speaker 2: told old Labor Party people from the UK, interfering in

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Speaker 2: the selections. You've got a guy going around giving a

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Speaker 2: million dollars out of people to vote for Trump. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you couldn't make this stuff up. So I think what

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Speaker 2: they're doing is just taking a stand. They don't want

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Speaker 2: their name and their brand associated with Twitter or him.

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Speaker 2: And there are plenty of other places out there, and

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Speaker 2: you know, I read the Guardian like I read every

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Speaker 2: other newspaper. They're very good. They've been going since the

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Speaker 2: eighteen hundreds and they are a bastion of British journalism.

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Speaker 2: You know, it is not a bad newspaper.

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Speaker 1: No, it's an excellent newspaper. Actually, all right, tell me

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Speaker 1: about this dynamic pricing at this English public in the

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Speaker 1: London pub, because I don't mind it. You order after team,

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Speaker 1: you get your beer for four backs.

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Speaker 2: No, you get four books added onto your beer. This

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Speaker 2: is outrageous. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, dynamic pricing. So so

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Speaker 2: hang on, let me just so. Basically, you buy a

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Speaker 2: beer at nine to fifty nine pm and at sixteen dollars.

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Speaker 2: This is O'Neill's in Soho in London. Yeah, claimed to

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Speaker 2: be an Irish pub. It's about as Irish as a Penguin,

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Speaker 2: So sixteen dollars a beer at nine to fifty nine,

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Speaker 2: you order the exact same product a minute later, and

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Speaker 2: they're now putting on a four dollars sor charge, so

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Speaker 2: your beer suddenly becomes twenty dollars. And they're saying that

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Speaker 2: this is, you know, in keeping with prices in the area.

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Speaker 2: And I think what they're doing is they're cashing in

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Speaker 2: on the fact that there's probably some luxurious hotels in

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Speaker 2: that area that if you go for a beer very

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Speaker 2: late at night, they will charge you twenty dollars. But

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Speaker 2: you're sitting in a five star hotel surrounded with very

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Speaker 2: glamorous people, and O'Neill's, which is a bang average irish

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Speaker 2: and inverted commas pub. I think they're cashing in shamelessly.

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Speaker 2: I think it's really really wrong. We've seen dynamic pricing

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Speaker 2: with the Oasis tickets here, basically fleecing working people, and

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Speaker 2: I real concern that other premises will think, hang on,

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Speaker 2: they're doing it, we can do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And not to mention, eighteen o'clock at night, you

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Speaker 1: probably quite drunk, can't you, so you don't realize what

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Speaker 1: just happened to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's not advertised anywhere. There's no you know,

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Speaker 2: it's not like they tell you coming in that you

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Speaker 2: know by the way we whacker our prices up after

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Speaker 2: ten o'clock. I mean, I don't know. I just honestly

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Speaker 2: I'm dreaming of Christmas in Ireland and our local pub,

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Speaker 2: Martiv is the best pub in Ireland and I can't

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Speaker 2: wait to get back there. And you get the best skinness,

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Speaker 2: the best skinness in the world, and you get change

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Speaker 2: out of ten dollars.

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Speaker 1: How good we're all dreaming of Christmas. Inda, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much Into Brady, UK Correspondent.

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