Speaker 1: My name is Lily Madden and I'm a proud Runda
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Speaker 1: of the Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal
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Speaker 1: to the first peoples of these countries, both past and present.
Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily os It's Monday,
Speaker 2: the fourth of September. I'm Sam Kazlowski.
Speaker 3: I'm Zara Seidler.
Speaker 2: It is a big week for the Daily Oas because
Speaker 2: this week we officially go from a media company with
Speaker 2: an Instagram, TikTok website and podcast to a media company
Speaker 2: with our very own book.
Speaker 3: That's right, we share the news with you a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago that pre sales were open. We've been absolutely
Speaker 3: blown away by the numbers we've seen on those pre sales.
Speaker 3: But this week the book will finally be hitting the
Speaker 3: shells at your favorite bookshop. To celebrate, we thought that
Speaker 3: in today's Deep Dive, we share a little sneak peek
Speaker 3: into the audiobook of chapter one and talk you through
Speaker 3: what that process was like before we get into that, Sam.
Speaker 3: What's making headlines this morning.
Speaker 2: Opposition leader Peter Dudden has said he will hold a
Speaker 2: referendum on constitutional recognition if the upcoming referendum fails and
Speaker 2: the Coalition wins the next election. The Coalition supports the
Speaker 2: recognition of first Nation's people in the Constitution, but not
Speaker 2: the establishment of a constitutionally enshrined voice advisory body.
Speaker 3: Australian house prices have risen for the sixth consecutive month.
Speaker 3: According to property data firm core Logic. Property values rose
Speaker 3: by zero point eight percent in August, with Brisbane, Sydney
Speaker 3: and Adelaide experiencing the biggest growth. Hobart was the only
Speaker 3: capital city where property values fell.
Speaker 2: About seventy thousand people are stuck at the Burning Man
Speaker 2: Festival in Nevada after heavy rain caused flooding across the site.
Speaker 2: In the statement, festival organizes told participants to conserve food,
Speaker 2: water and fuel and shelter in a warm, safe space.
Speaker 2: The festival is scheduled to wrap up today.
Speaker 3: And the good news. A volleyball game in the US
Speaker 3: state of Nebraska has set a new world record for
Speaker 3: the highest attended women's sport match in history. Over ninety
Speaker 3: two thousand people watch that volleyball game between the University
Speaker 3: of Nebraska and Omaha.
Speaker 2: So we are just super excited to finally get to
Speaker 2: the week where the little no silly questions book that could,
Speaker 2: the little wood idea in our brains is actually going
Speaker 2: to make it into bookshops.
Speaker 3: We're going to feel it, look at it, sign it
Speaker 3: when no one's looking.
Speaker 2: Is that what you're planning on doing in airports or
Speaker 2: in bookshops that kind of think?
Speaker 3: I mean, you're going to kill time somehow. And you
Speaker 3: have seen my signature. We actually signed a few hundred
Speaker 3: books the other day for book Topia, and by the
Speaker 3: end of it, I was writing someone else's name.
Speaker 2: It was nice to start with Zara and then with Janis.
Speaker 2: That was really lovely. But it's actually a really exciting
Speaker 2: week for us.
Speaker 3: We thought that a nice way to introduce you to
Speaker 3: the book itself would be to play you a little
Speaker 3: snippet of the audiobook and Sam, what was recording an
Speaker 3: audiobook like for you?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: I have half diagnosed EDDIEHD.
Speaker 3: Do you want to talk us through what are half diagnosed?
Speaker 2: Casually diagnosed? Okay, the idea of sitting in a small
Speaker 2: studio box thing.
Speaker 3: It's really small for reference, it's like a single person.
Speaker 2: Booth, and you can't really miss a word, like you
Speaker 2: have to go on each individual word and nail It
Speaker 2: took a long time and took a long time of
Speaker 2: focusing very hard, and actually that night I sounded a
Speaker 2: bit like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a bit like that. I have a
Speaker 3: couple of friends who are also publishing books around this time,
Speaker 3: and I really really resonated with something that Chanel Kontos said,
Speaker 3: which was that she couldn't stop burping. I don't know
Speaker 3: what it is. One of our listeners can explain that
Speaker 3: to me, but it was a really strange thing to experience.
Speaker 3: We're going to stop rambling now. You're also going to
Speaker 3: hear my voice for the next couple of minutes, so
Speaker 3: I'm especially going to stop rambling. But if you like
Speaker 3: what you hear and you want to hear more or
Speaker 3: read more, please go out and buy our book. We're
Speaker 3: really proud to have it out in the world, and
Speaker 3: we're really thankful for all your support. Without further ado,
Speaker 3: here is the introduction to No Silly Questions. Hi Wizara
Speaker 3: and Sam co founders of The Daily ods, there are
Speaker 3: no silly questions. That's where we want to start this
Speaker 3: news journey with you today with a very simple fact
Speaker 3: that any question you have about the news is a
Speaker 3: good one, a worthy one, and we're going to try
Speaker 3: really hard to answer your questions in this book. The
Speaker 3: news shouldn't feel overwhelming. Overwhelming either because you're struggling to
Speaker 3: understand some of the key ideas that lie behind a
Speaker 3: recent development. Why should I care about interest rates going
Speaker 3: up when I don't know why interest rates matter, or
Speaker 3: because you're reading so much that.
Speaker 4: It's all getting on top of you.
Speaker 3: The news can, in fact feel like a space you're
Speaker 3: meant to be in, a space where it's okay for
Speaker 3: ideas to develop, to be challenged, and where no question
Speaker 3: is a silly one. Why are two twenty year olds
Speaker 3: telling me how to feel about the news, we hear
Speaker 3: you mutter from the other side of this book, A
Speaker 3: very good question, dear listener. Well, the answer to that
Speaker 3: is that we've been trying for the past few years
Speaker 3: to build a media company that makes everyone feel like
Speaker 3: the news is for them, even if they're not newspeople.
Speaker 3: Building the Daily Ohs. In twenty seventeen, we started the
Speaker 3: Daily Ohs. The mission back then and the one that
Speaker 3: still drives us today, was to create a news service
Speaker 3: that empowers young people to engage with the world around them.
Speaker 3: For years, we'd heard things like young people are lazy
Speaker 3: and they don't realize how good they've got it. Yet
Speaker 3: when we were talking to our friends, all in their twenties,
Speaker 3: the reality was different. Many felt like there was nowhere
Speaker 3: for them to get information that was clear, concise, and
Speaker 3: in their language. Importantly, they weren't out buying papers or
Speaker 3: surfing the web, and there were no news outlets catering
Speaker 3: to a social first generation. And so the Daily ODS
Speaker 3: was born, the antidote to the opinion first, noisy news cycle,
Speaker 3: a digestible and bite sized way to consume news which
Speaker 3: explained the context behind a story, not just the headline
Speaker 3: of the day. We weren't trying to make people change
Speaker 3: their daily routines or consumption habits.
Speaker 4: Instead, we wanted.
Speaker 3: To meet young people where they were and ensure that
Speaker 3: accurate and factual news was intercepting people mid doom scroll.
Speaker 3: At the beginning, that looked like uploading five news items
Speaker 3: to Instagram stories every single day. Despite both of us
Speaker 3: working in other jobs. Crucially, the fifth story of every
Speaker 3: bulletin would be a good news story, ensuring the reader
Speaker 3: ended each interaction with the new news on a positive note.
Speaker 3: In those early days, though our audience remained very small,
Speaker 3: they were phenomenally engaged. This was our training ground where
Speaker 3: we learned what young people need from their news, how
Speaker 3: they best understand complex ideas, what traditional outlets expect them
Speaker 3: to know, and how an issue moves from being a
Speaker 3: story for the diehard current affairs consumer to a part
Speaker 3: of everyday conversations we want to take part in. When
Speaker 3: the COVID nineteen pandemic hit, we knew what to do.
Speaker 3: We knew we had to bring the same level of
Speaker 3: clarity to pandemic news as we had to other stories,
Speaker 3: and we had to make sense of a seemingly incomprehensible news.
Speaker 4: Event for our audience.
Speaker 3: Rightly or wrongly, the pandemic forced everyone, regardless of their age,
Speaker 3: socioeconomic status, race, or religion, to pay attention to the news. Suddenly,
Speaker 3: news outlets had the answers about where you could go,
Speaker 3: who you could see, and what you could do. The
Speaker 3: exponential growth of our audience was a huge responsibility that
Speaker 3: we didn't take lightly. We wanted to get it right
Speaker 3: for them, keep them informed with the facts, but also identify.
Speaker 4: When something was noise and not news.
Speaker 3: It was about towing the line between informing and overwhelming,
Speaker 3: and it relied on us listening and responding to our audience. Today,
Speaker 3: that audience has grown considerably, with the Daily Os reaching
Speaker 3: over one million young Australians every month. We have a
Speaker 3: daily podcast, newsletter, TikTok video channel, website, and now a book.
Speaker 3: Our intention for this book is for it to be
Speaker 3: the world's best cheat sheet for understanding how the world works.
Speaker 3: Think of it like a friend in your pocket that
Speaker 3: you can whip out to explain all the big concepts
Speaker 3: in life, but in a way that makes sense to you.
Speaker 3: One challenge with writing the book is the ever changing
Speaker 3: nature of news. We know how fast things move, from
Speaker 3: changes in governments and regimes around the world to understanding
Speaker 3: pa endemics, science and technology. We've tried to include explainers
Speaker 3: that will stay relevant and to which you can refer
Speaker 3: when you need to.
Speaker 4: Brush up on a topic.
Speaker 3: Part of the problem, and therefore part of the reason
Speaker 3: we wanted to write this book, is that most of
Speaker 3: us weren't really taught a lot of this stuff growing up.
Speaker 3: Unless you took an economic subject at high school or university,
Speaker 3: it's not easy to understand superannuation, tax GST, inflation, GDP,
Speaker 3: interest rates, tariffs, all currencies. That's not your fault, but
Speaker 3: it's a problem that can be fixed by taking time
Speaker 3: to read explainers on the big questions. You might feel
Speaker 3: silly asking or don't even know how to go about asking.
Speaker 3: So we hope you can use this book when you're
Speaker 3: reading a news story about climate change, politics, technology, war
Speaker 3: or money. Keep it handy and come back to a
Speaker 3: specific chapter when you need to. For now, make yourself
Speaker 3: a cup of tea, find yourself a sunny spot. Let's
Speaker 3: get into all your questions, the ones you might think
Speaker 3: are silly.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on the Daily OS. If you
Speaker 2: want to grab a copy of the book, I've put
Speaker 2: a link in today's show notes. Otherwise you can head
Speaker 2: to your favorite real life bookstore from tomorrow. We'll be
Speaker 2: back with a normal episode of The Daily OS tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Until then, have a great week.