WEBVTT - A sneak peak inside No Silly Questions

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Lily Madden and I'm a proud Runda

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<v Speaker 1>Bungelung Calcoton woman from Gadigl Country. I like the Daily

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<v Speaker 1>oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on the lands

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<v Speaker 1>of the Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal

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<v Speaker 1>and Torres Strain island and nations. We pay our respects

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<v Speaker 1>to the first peoples of these countries, both past and present.

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning and welcome to the Daily os It's Monday,

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<v Speaker 2>the fourth of September. I'm Sam Kazlowski.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm Zara Seidler.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a big week for the Daily Oas because

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<v Speaker 2>this week we officially go from a media company with

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<v Speaker 2>an Instagram, TikTok website and podcast to a media company

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<v Speaker 2>with our very own book.

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<v Speaker 3>That's right, we share the news with you a few

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<v Speaker 3>weeks ago that pre sales were open. We've been absolutely

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<v Speaker 3>blown away by the numbers we've seen on those pre sales.

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<v Speaker 3>But this week the book will finally be hitting the

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<v Speaker 3>shells at your favorite bookshop. To celebrate, we thought that

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<v Speaker 3>in today's Deep Dive, we share a little sneak peek

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<v Speaker 3>into the audiobook of chapter one and talk you through

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<v Speaker 3>what that process was like before we get into that, Sam.

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<v Speaker 3>What's making headlines this morning.

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<v Speaker 2>Opposition leader Peter Dudden has said he will hold a

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<v Speaker 2>referendum on constitutional recognition if the upcoming referendum fails and

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<v Speaker 2>the Coalition wins the next election. The Coalition supports the

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<v Speaker 2>recognition of first Nation's people in the Constitution, but not

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<v Speaker 2>the establishment of a constitutionally enshrined voice advisory body.

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<v Speaker 3>Australian house prices have risen for the sixth consecutive month.

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<v Speaker 3>According to property data firm core Logic. Property values rose

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<v Speaker 3>by zero point eight percent in August, with Brisbane, Sydney

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<v Speaker 3>and Adelaide experiencing the biggest growth. Hobart was the only

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<v Speaker 3>capital city where property values fell.

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<v Speaker 2>About seventy thousand people are stuck at the Burning Man

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<v Speaker 2>Festival in Nevada after heavy rain caused flooding across the site.

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<v Speaker 2>In the statement, festival organizes told participants to conserve food,

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<v Speaker 2>water and fuel and shelter in a warm, safe space.

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<v Speaker 2>The festival is scheduled to wrap up today.

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<v Speaker 3>And the good news. A volleyball game in the US

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<v Speaker 3>state of Nebraska has set a new world record for

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<v Speaker 3>the highest attended women's sport match in history. Over ninety

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<v Speaker 3>two thousand people watch that volleyball game between the University

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<v Speaker 3>of Nebraska and Omaha.

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<v Speaker 2>So we are just super excited to finally get to

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<v Speaker 2>the week where the little no silly questions book that could,

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<v Speaker 2>the little wood idea in our brains is actually going

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<v Speaker 2>to make it into bookshops.

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<v Speaker 3>We're going to feel it, look at it, sign it

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<v Speaker 3>when no one's looking.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that what you're planning on doing in airports or

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<v Speaker 2>in bookshops that kind of think?

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, you're going to kill time somehow. And you

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<v Speaker 3>have seen my signature. We actually signed a few hundred

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<v Speaker 3>books the other day for book Topia, and by the

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<v Speaker 3>end of it, I was writing someone else's name.

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<v Speaker 2>It was nice to start with Zara and then with Janis.

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<v Speaker 2>That was really lovely. But it's actually a really exciting

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<v Speaker 2>week for us.

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<v Speaker 3>We thought that a nice way to introduce you to

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<v Speaker 3>the book itself would be to play you a little

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<v Speaker 3>snippet of the audiobook and Sam, what was recording an

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<v Speaker 3>audiobook like for you?

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<v Speaker 1>So?

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<v Speaker 2>I have half diagnosed EDDIEHD.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you want to talk us through what are half diagnosed?

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<v Speaker 2>Casually diagnosed? Okay, the idea of sitting in a small

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<v Speaker 2>studio box thing.

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<v Speaker 3>It's really small for reference, it's like a single person.

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<v Speaker 2>Booth, and you can't really miss a word, like you

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<v Speaker 2>have to go on each individual word and nail It

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<v Speaker 2>took a long time and took a long time of

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<v Speaker 2>focusing very hard, and actually that night I sounded a

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<v Speaker 2>bit like.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was a bit like that. I have a

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<v Speaker 3>couple of friends who are also publishing books around this time,

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<v Speaker 3>and I really really resonated with something that Chanel Kontos said,

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<v Speaker 3>which was that she couldn't stop burping. I don't know

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<v Speaker 3>what it is. One of our listeners can explain that

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<v Speaker 3>to me, but it was a really strange thing to experience.

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<v Speaker 3>We're going to stop rambling now. You're also going to

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<v Speaker 3>hear my voice for the next couple of minutes, so

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<v Speaker 3>I'm especially going to stop rambling. But if you like

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<v Speaker 3>what you hear and you want to hear more or

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<v Speaker 3>read more, please go out and buy our book. We're

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<v Speaker 3>really proud to have it out in the world, and

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<v Speaker 3>we're really thankful for all your support. Without further ado,

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<v Speaker 3>here is the introduction to No Silly Questions. Hi Wizara

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<v Speaker 3>and Sam co founders of The Daily ods, there are

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<v Speaker 3>no silly questions. That's where we want to start this

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<v Speaker 3>news journey with you today with a very simple fact

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<v Speaker 3>that any question you have about the news is a

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<v Speaker 3>good one, a worthy one, and we're going to try

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<v Speaker 3>really hard to answer your questions in this book. The

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<v Speaker 3>news shouldn't feel overwhelming. Overwhelming either because you're struggling to

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<v Speaker 3>understand some of the key ideas that lie behind a

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<v Speaker 3>recent development. Why should I care about interest rates going

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<v Speaker 3>up when I don't know why interest rates matter, or

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<v Speaker 3>because you're reading so much that.

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<v Speaker 4>It's all getting on top of you.

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<v Speaker 3>The news can, in fact feel like a space you're

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<v Speaker 3>meant to be in, a space where it's okay for

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<v Speaker 3>ideas to develop, to be challenged, and where no question

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<v Speaker 3>is a silly one. Why are two twenty year olds

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<v Speaker 3>telling me how to feel about the news, we hear

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<v Speaker 3>you mutter from the other side of this book, A

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<v Speaker 3>very good question, dear listener. Well, the answer to that

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<v Speaker 3>is that we've been trying for the past few years

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<v Speaker 3>to build a media company that makes everyone feel like

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<v Speaker 3>the news is for them, even if they're not newspeople.

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<v Speaker 3>Building the Daily Ohs. In twenty seventeen, we started the

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<v Speaker 3>Daily Ohs. The mission back then and the one that

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<v Speaker 3>still drives us today, was to create a news service

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<v Speaker 3>that empowers young people to engage with the world around them.

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<v Speaker 3>For years, we'd heard things like young people are lazy

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<v Speaker 3>and they don't realize how good they've got it. Yet

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<v Speaker 3>when we were talking to our friends, all in their twenties,

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<v Speaker 3>the reality was different. Many felt like there was nowhere

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<v Speaker 3>for them to get information that was clear, concise, and

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<v Speaker 3>in their language. Importantly, they weren't out buying papers or

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<v Speaker 3>surfing the web, and there were no news outlets catering

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<v Speaker 3>to a social first generation. And so the Daily ODS

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<v Speaker 3>was born, the antidote to the opinion first, noisy news cycle,

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<v Speaker 3>a digestible and bite sized way to consume news which

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<v Speaker 3>explained the context behind a story, not just the headline

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<v Speaker 3>of the day. We weren't trying to make people change

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<v Speaker 3>their daily routines or consumption habits.

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<v Speaker 4>Instead, we wanted.

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<v Speaker 3>To meet young people where they were and ensure that

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<v Speaker 3>accurate and factual news was intercepting people mid doom scroll.

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<v Speaker 3>At the beginning, that looked like uploading five news items

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<v Speaker 3>to Instagram stories every single day. Despite both of us

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<v Speaker 3>working in other jobs. Crucially, the fifth story of every

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<v Speaker 3>bulletin would be a good news story, ensuring the reader

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<v Speaker 3>ended each interaction with the new news on a positive note.

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<v Speaker 3>In those early days, though our audience remained very small,

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<v Speaker 3>they were phenomenally engaged. This was our training ground where

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<v Speaker 3>we learned what young people need from their news, how

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<v Speaker 3>they best understand complex ideas, what traditional outlets expect them

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<v Speaker 3>to know, and how an issue moves from being a

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<v Speaker 3>story for the diehard current affairs consumer to a part

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<v Speaker 3>of everyday conversations we want to take part in. When

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<v Speaker 3>the COVID nineteen pandemic hit, we knew what to do.

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<v Speaker 3>We knew we had to bring the same level of

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<v Speaker 3>clarity to pandemic news as we had to other stories,

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<v Speaker 3>and we had to make sense of a seemingly incomprehensible news.

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<v Speaker 4>Event for our audience.

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<v Speaker 3>Rightly or wrongly, the pandemic forced everyone, regardless of their age,

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<v Speaker 3>socioeconomic status, race, or religion, to pay attention to the news. Suddenly,

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<v Speaker 3>news outlets had the answers about where you could go,

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<v Speaker 3>who you could see, and what you could do. The

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<v Speaker 3>exponential growth of our audience was a huge responsibility that

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<v Speaker 3>we didn't take lightly. We wanted to get it right

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<v Speaker 3>for them, keep them informed with the facts, but also identify.

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<v Speaker 4>When something was noise and not news.

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<v Speaker 3>It was about towing the line between informing and overwhelming,

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<v Speaker 3>and it relied on us listening and responding to our audience. Today,

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<v Speaker 3>that audience has grown considerably, with the Daily Os reaching

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<v Speaker 3>over one million young Australians every month. We have a

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<v Speaker 3>daily podcast, newsletter, TikTok video channel, website, and now a book.

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<v Speaker 3>Our intention for this book is for it to be

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<v Speaker 3>the world's best cheat sheet for understanding how the world works.

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<v Speaker 3>Think of it like a friend in your pocket that

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<v Speaker 3>you can whip out to explain all the big concepts

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<v Speaker 3>in life, but in a way that makes sense to you.

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<v Speaker 3>One challenge with writing the book is the ever changing

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<v Speaker 3>nature of news. We know how fast things move, from

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<v Speaker 3>changes in governments and regimes around the world to understanding

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<v Speaker 3>pa endemics, science and technology. We've tried to include explainers

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<v Speaker 3>that will stay relevant and to which you can refer

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<v Speaker 3>when you need to.

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<v Speaker 4>Brush up on a topic.

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<v Speaker 3>Part of the problem, and therefore part of the reason

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<v Speaker 3>we wanted to write this book, is that most of

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<v Speaker 3>us weren't really taught a lot of this stuff growing up.

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<v Speaker 3>Unless you took an economic subject at high school or university,

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<v Speaker 3>it's not easy to understand superannuation, tax GST, inflation, GDP,

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<v Speaker 3>interest rates, tariffs, all currencies. That's not your fault, but

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<v Speaker 3>it's a problem that can be fixed by taking time

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<v Speaker 3>to read explainers on the big questions. You might feel

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<v Speaker 3>silly asking or don't even know how to go about asking.

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<v Speaker 3>So we hope you can use this book when you're

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<v Speaker 3>reading a news story about climate change, politics, technology, war

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<v Speaker 3>or money. Keep it handy and come back to a

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<v Speaker 3>specific chapter when you need to. For now, make yourself

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<v Speaker 3>a cup of tea, find yourself a sunny spot. Let's

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<v Speaker 3>get into all your questions, the ones you might think

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<v Speaker 3>are silly.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for joining us on the Daily OS. If you

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<v Speaker 2>want to grab a copy of the book, I've put

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<v Speaker 2>a link in today's show notes. Otherwise you can head

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<v Speaker 2>to your favorite real life bookstore from tomorrow. We'll be

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<v Speaker 2>back with a normal episode of The Daily OS tomorrow.

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<v Speaker 2>Until then, have a great week.