Chris Masters
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85 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Chris Masters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He got away with it because they let him.
But every now and then, in a battle of wits, a lot of them could easily take him on.
Malcolm Turnbull did it famously on one occasion.
I support... But at the time, even though he might have bested Alan in front of the microphone...
there was no upside in opposing him.
You came off worse off at the end of the day, because to Jones's audience, you know, you were the enemy.
It made me think that, you know, in one respect, he retained his omnipotence because of that microphone.
One of the chapters in my book, Jonestown, was called Dictators and Tigers.
And I speculated way back then that
Jones was riding a tiger, and as soon as he got off that tiger, it threatened to devour him.
And, of course, that's pretty much the way it's panned out.
There's a book in that.
Yeah, I think it's a really sad story, actually, at the end of the day.
I think he was a very, very lonely man.
I think it was awful for him to go back to that expensive apartment night after night and be essentially alone.
I'm not sure that he had a lot of friends.
But I think the worst thing about him is...
His formula for success, the shock jock formula for success, which was to be strident, never sit on the fence, he'd say, because it only gives you splinters.
The reverse index of certainty is how I explained it.
Alan Jones would be absolutely certain about issues where very little research was involved.
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