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Tied Up - He Looks Like Something Out Of A Monty Python Movie · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: 5G.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It's a touchy subject in different parts of the world,
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  Speaker 1: but for different reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Are you talking like in some parts of the world,
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  Speaker 2: people will don a foil hat because of the 5G? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And others have a conniption when the 5G doesn't work right? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm of the conniption sort of side of things. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not too worried about it. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: a chip or anything.
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  Speaker 1: You don't think it's a.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think my COVID chip is... It's not a conspiracy. No,
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  Speaker 2: but I do.
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  Speaker 1: But there was so much hoo-ha about 5G when the
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  Speaker 1: towers first went up, wasn't there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, particularly in this hard-doorly village in Uttar Pradesh in India.
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  Speaker 2: The village locals outraged at poor 5G connectivity. have tied
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  Speaker 2: up the technician sent to fix the signal issues.
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  Speaker 1: There's a photo of this poor bugger.
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  Speaker 2: There is a photo. It looks like a scene out
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  Speaker 2: of Monty Python. Police described the dispute as related to
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  Speaker 2: connectivity issues with villagers having to make do with unstable
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  Speaker 2: 4G despite paying for 5G for over two years. They
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  Speaker 2: were so angry that not enough had been done to
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  Speaker 2: improve the signal despite frequent complaints that when Aditya Bansingh
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  Speaker 2: arrived to have a look, to fix the issues, they
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  Speaker 2: tied him up to the telecom tower.
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  Speaker 1: They threw away their foil hats and they tied him
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  Speaker 1: to the mast.
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  Speaker 2: And they threatened not to untie Singh until officials from
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  Speaker 2: the network provider solved the problem. He was soon released.
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  Speaker 2: They calmed down. They thought, hang on, we might want
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  Speaker 2: to rethink what we're doing here. But I hope that
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  Speaker 2: also the network provided a solution to their problem. Five
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  Speaker 2: people have been charged with unlawful confinement. and disturbing public order,
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  Speaker 2: and another has been awarded a great photo.
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  Speaker 1: So Telstra workers, if you reckon you've got it tough,
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  Speaker 1: check this story out.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, boy. And unstable 4G, how far we've come. That
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  Speaker 1: even 4G is not good enough anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I know, right? 4G was it. Unstable. It was it.
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  Speaker 2: A few of the villages were a bit unstable.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so thankfully we haven't got to that stage where
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  Speaker 1: people are tying up technicians. And don't get any ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: When they say they're going to be there between 12
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  Speaker 2: and 4.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: And they get there.
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  Speaker 1: They turn up at 10 past 4. Don't tie them
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  Speaker 1: to the tower.
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  Speaker 2: You can't tie them up.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: It's frowned upon.