John Fea’s Virtual Office Hours: U.S. History Survey Edition – Episode 18
Transcript
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welcome history 141 students John Filion
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here for the virtual office hours this
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is your weekly update on lectures and
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all things u.s. survey to 1865 our
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trusted producer megan p.m. is here with
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us as usual by the way if you haven’t
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watched all of episode 17 go to the end
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and you’ll see Megan and her Napoleon
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costume for Halloween I think I even put
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that on the blog too if someone can
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follow the way of improvement leto but
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today we’re coming up on an exam so I
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want to do one more office hour just to
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cover the last two lectures in class
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where we’ve been talking about
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Jeffersonian America and one of the
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things are several things that I want
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you to think about as we think about our
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man here Thomas Jefferson I’m going to
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be playing around with these Pez
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dispensers a little bit today remember
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Jefferson really sees his election in
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1800 as it almost a second revolution
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the revolution of 1800 he disagrees with
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many of the policies of the Federalists
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presidents and go back and look at my
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fabulous one versus fabulous two bonus
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track that we did last week just to make
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sure you know what I’m talking about
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when I refer to these Federalists but
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here they are Washington and John Adams
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we don’t have Alexander Hamilton because
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he wasn’t a president intends doesn’t
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make that Alexander Hamilton dispenser
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although if anyone out there finds an
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Alexander Hamilton dispenser or any
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other founders for that matter send him
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along and we’ll add him to the group but
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obviously Jefferson does not like the
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way in which the 1790s went and he is
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really sees his presidency as a sort of
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new birth of Liberty we’re at the
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Enlightenment Liberty moving forward you
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know going against the tyranny of the
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Federalists right that George George the
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third it’s not George the third this
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time is George Washington
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and the whiskey rebellion and their
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vision for America of course Jefferson’s
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vision much more area much more
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spreading out via land much more
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concerned about the common farmer so
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he’s elected in 1800 and we spent some
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time talking about his administration we
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talked about his first term in which the
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Louisiana territory Lisa Hanna purchase
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is really the pinnacle of that first
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term when you think about the Louisiana
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territory don’t just think about it as a
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huge land mass right that’s certainly
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the basic stuff that you need to know
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but think about the meaning of that
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think about the political meaning of it
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right Jefferson is wants to spread the
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country westward he wants to establish
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in many ways places in the west where
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more and more common people are going to
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go and get access to land land equals
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independence land equals the American
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dream so it’s the purchase of Louisiana
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fits very well into his political vision
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for the country and of course the
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Federalists don’t like this at all
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because they’re worried that well what
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are you gonna do you’re gonna
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Jefferson’s going to establish all these
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new states out in Louisiana they’re
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going to be you know they’re not going
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to like the Federalists in these new
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states and we’re going to basically you
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know disappear from the face of the
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political landscape and of course that’s
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pretty much what happens so the
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Federalists are very much aware this is
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this is in the works also realize the
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constitutional debates over over the
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Louisiana Purchase and I think I made a
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quick comment in class that here in
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these very early years and it’s always
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it’s not much like we have it today
people use the Constitution interpret
the Constitution either loosely or
strictly to basically get what they want
out of the Constitution and Jefferson
clearly is doing this when he when he
takes a very loose interpretation of the
of the Constitution saying i think the
Constitution doesn’t forbid me from
buying this territory as a president so
I can do it
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so you have the Louisiana territory talk
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a little bit about Lewis and Clark some
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of the things associated with their
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mission a mission force both scientific
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exploration and the declaration of
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political power or sovereignty one is
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fairly successful to scientific the
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political announcement to these Indian
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tribes that America now owns this land
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and that one doesn’t go go as well as
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Jefferson would like but go back and
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look at you know some of the things we
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said about that expedition we talked a
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little bit about Sacagawea and the way
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she’s been portrayed in American culture
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the second term for Jefferson not so
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good foreign policy problems he finds
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himself again in a situation in which
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the europe is not respecting the neutral
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rights of the Americans Britain
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especially as impressing American ships
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and I think to Jefferson’s credit and
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again we can debate this but I don’t
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want you to perceive Jefferson to sort
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of be a wimp on this I tend to see him
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more is trying to come up with a
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peaceful solution to stop the
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impressment of ship so the United States
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doesn’t have to go to war unfortunately
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the result is the embargo act of 1807
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which becomes another disaster for the
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United States and especially hurts the
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common people in the common farmers who
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tend to vote for Jefferson so understand
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why the Embargo Act fails understands
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jeffers this is Jefferson’s major
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attempt to to deal with these problems
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of impressment in the seas and
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especially in and around the Caribbean
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and the West Indies so by the time
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Jefferson leaves office remember when I
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said he doesn’t even list the presidency
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as one of his major accomplishments on
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his tombstone he says I wrote the
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Declaration of Independence I founded
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the University of Virginia I wrote the
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Virginia statute of liberty licious
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Liberty but he never quite saw his
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presidency as one of his great achieve
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greatest achievements i should say in
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life so Jefferson successor where is he
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here James Madison he comes on the scene
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in 18
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1808 he had 1809 he has to basically
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deal with all the problems that
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Jefferson left him and really now has to
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deal with this what you know this kind
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of perfect storm leading to war one you
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had these young congressman Calhoun
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Webster clay the Warhawks who are saying
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enough of this we need to assert
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ourselves we need to go to war with
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Britain until they stop a crema and
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pressing our ships and until they start
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respecting our neutral rights you have
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to come sit and the Prophet incident out
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on the frontier where there’s rumors
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that to come say is actually working for
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the British and then you have of course
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the third the impressment of British
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ships this storm this threefold stole
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these three storms sort of coming
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together leads the United States into
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war and after the exam are actually on
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Friday we’ll talk a little bit more this
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week will actually talk a little bit
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more about the consequences and the
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implications of the war of 1812 and how
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that shapes what’s going to what’s going
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to happen in the future so hopefully
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you’ll do well in the exam go go look at
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your notes about the office hours and so
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forth you know prepare well and if you I
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always say this if you don’t believe in
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luck i should say good luck and if you
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don’t believe in luck may God
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providentially give you the grades you
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deserve this exam and i will see you on
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I was in discussion with a modern cleric
who’s a sort of reformist figure and
Meyer in some ways who in a discussion
about something said well you know also
Mohammed Prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him was was he took criticism in his
early he took criticism very very well
he never minded people criticizing him I
like that’s absolute crap that is real
crap I mean whatever else you say he
Muhammad not really good on this on the
criticism of himself
bit and I gave an example of a female
poet s who he had killed because she
criticized him and this guy went
absolutely apeshit and refused to
continue and so on and because you gave
an actual because I gave historical
example from his own religious texts and
and in the end it was a pre-recording
day and the end the BBC were like it was
can you find another way of trying to
make the same point and you know and
that was what we had to do I mean I mean
another way of making the same point yet
rather than pointing out the historical
exact same that showed that Muhammad did
have a female poet killed yes you just
what other way would there be to make
that point that is hard but that’s the
ultimate way to make that
exactly which is by pointing to the
texts and the facts but you know I can
think of no other situation in which
somebody has veto rights like that yeah
in a normal discussion and it’s because
they were terrified of the retaliation
yes I mean I knew everyone in the
production box was like oh no what’s
Douglass done so how can we stop it
affecting us
what was his clerics response to that he
yeah he just he went yeah they’re a bit
nuts and wouldn’t continue unless I you
know wouldn’t say that
and so what did he deny that it was in
the tent oh yeah yeah I said I was
making it up and has a liar
I’m used to that but that that’s a crazy
thing for him to say when someone can
just read the text yeah but they have
they’re banking on nobody doing that
well no this day and age don’t bank on
that yeah this is this is one the
releasing things isn’t it because
although it’s true you can like suppress
a lot of this you know we do live in an
age when basically anyone can google and
find texts and they can destroy a time
did a billion people of read I’m not
sure they’ve read it but yeah well
possess it they don’t know how many
people you think read it how many really
think read the Bible like if you had a
like gasps there are number of
Christians in this country there are
those tests on that they’d sometimes to
the human society invaded a few years
ago asking very basic questions and self
professed Christians about their
knowledge of the texts and very few my
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favorite is self professed Christians
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with religious tattoos like hey man you
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got to read the whole book like you are
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literally showing on your skin right
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that you didn’t read the whole book
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didn’t pay attention don’t do that yeah
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this is Leviticus is in Leviticus that’s
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got the implications against writing
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like you know if you read a little bitty
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there’s a heck of a lot you can’t do if
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you if you go down where are two pieces
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of different cloth yes exactly
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yeah Leviticus is a wonderful book it’s
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going it’s very good for the mohair what
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Leviticus wasn’t the one which was the
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book where the guy called upon the
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she-bear to kill
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children who were mocking his baldness
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do you know about that one my favorite
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special on bald guy this guy was getting
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mocked by children fucking kids and God
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called upon a she-bear to come down and
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tear apart these children who were
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making fun of his bald head here uh-ohhh
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lash and the two bear two kings yeah
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look at that Wow
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went up to pass if you were going to
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intervene in human affairs for anything
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this would be the time that’s got a step
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in Jung kid young kids came out from the
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city and mocked him and said to him go
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up you bald head go up you bald head
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which is very mild and when he looked
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behind him and saw them he cursed them
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in the name of the Lord all caps then
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two female bears came out of the woods
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and tore up 42 lads of their number and
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he went from there to Mount Carmel it’s
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like you know deal it’s over got it done
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and that’s that’s yeah that’s my
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favorite reading from Scripture was the
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one at the end of one of the books that
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come which one it was I was a chorus
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when I was young I always made me laugh
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there was a this did the destruction of
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the city of Nineveh it really in it
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finish is I think not any faces chapter
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of the whole book it says you know and
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and lo in that in that city were forty
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thousand human souls that were destroyed
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and had also some cattle cattle just by
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disassociation some cattle bad cows
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there are bad cows some of those cows
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too but no the rather bald-headed one
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that’s very that’s that’s a yeah that’s
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a heck of a time to you know to tread
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into human descent even an insult you
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know all dead no your bald head is just
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an accurate description the I mean that
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is not an insult
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if you like you ugly sloppy bald-headed
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loser okay yeah then maybe God need to
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step in and see some wolves to attack
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you and vitamin D specify that they’re
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female yeah yeah why is it female 32
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number yeah 42 kids two bears for those
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of subhead those are some bitch-ass kids
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need to learn how to run that doesn’t
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even make sense how the fuck those bears
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even catch all 42 of those kids what
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kind of kids are they raising over there
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in Bethel they’re well they’re all
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sitting around waiting their turn yeah I
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mean trying out cuss words til one
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causes the Bears to calm down you shaggy
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bear that didn’t work you Shaggy’s mangy
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dirty stinky bear head yeah there’s so
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many of those stories that are so
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strange but I’ve been I bet I bet that
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that most if we were to go to the the
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people who say that their questions in
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the polls and ask him about we don’t
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even need to go the baldhead bear right
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I’ll catch them it is they don’t except
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though most people don’t even bother
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reading that cuz it’s just it’s almost
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too crazy yeah but but but yeah the very
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very little knowledge even about very
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basic things you know even Commandments
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and so on all right so that’s the case
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with the religion that America and
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Britain is known best with Christianity
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so there’s no reason to assume that
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that’s not the case with Islam as well
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isn’t that just the case with people I
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mean it seems to be the same thing that
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we’re talking about with headlines
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someone reads the headlines they don’t
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bother reading into it and then they
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accuse someone or something it’s almost
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like with religion I’m a Christian and
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I’m a Christian man oh really
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please tell me about the Bible right
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it’s um there’s something better I’ve
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often thought this is one of the reasons
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why there’s it’s possible to get a
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certain fanaticism going within Muslim
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communities on some issues to do with
mass for me is I think is to do with a
realization of this you said that this
was the case about our prophet I didn’t
know there I he did what I had this all
my life with with arguing with Muslims
about things the they very rarely know
for the problems in their own tradition
and when you bring them up what he did
what like the Christians with the bald
ben and and this causes a really serious
problem for them because they are told
from the cradle that that they are
following a religion founded by the most
perfect man imaginable and if you
discover that if you it’s like you know
no there’s no description of Helen of
Troy
in the ancient texts why does nobody
escribe Helen of Troy why didn’t nobody
say did you know she was a sort of this
beautiful blonde ringlets order it’s
because it actually catches on as a
theme because everyone makes Helen of
Troy their most beautiful woman if you
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start to describe you me like I’m not
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into redheads everyone would Helen of
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Troy becomes a person upon you whom you
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put all of those things and in the same
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way Mohammed becomes if you say is the
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perfect human being the people will just
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throughout their lives put the kind of
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things they think are perfect on to
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Mohammed you must be very kind very
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generous very caregiving and so on
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so that if you then say well what about
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when he then did this I think it just
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causes an extra hurt this is something
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they’ll have to get over of course
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because I mean we can’t go away and not
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rather identify these for these issues
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but it causes in the short term an
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enormous enormous pain I have a an
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example I gave recently in a book of
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them somebody I spent some time with
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couple years ago an extraordinary man
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called Morten storm he was a Danish
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bikers a big in a biker gang and
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in Denmark went to prison and in prison
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about 2000 or so he converted not just
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to Islam he converted to al-qaeda
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basically he’s not a not a common person
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in any way and he ended up being the
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main go-to person for so our Lackey was
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a head of al-qaeda in Yemen and in fact
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was asked to give him up get a wife our
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Lackey to supplement his wife collection
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and a Morten storm a lot of things ended
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up falling out with al Qaeda and ended
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up working for the CIA and Danish
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intelligence and ended up helping lead
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them to our Lackey who was then droned
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by Obama in 2011 or so anyhow I once
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said to MotorStorm what was the moment
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that made you get out of al-qaeda and he
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has such a fascinating answer he because
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he came out of al-qaeda and Islam at the
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same moment he says what was happening
was he was sitting in his he was waiting
for a package when I’ll kind of drop off
to get then from him to our Lackey and
the the person carrying the package was
late and then really late and he was
sitting in his apartment somewhere in
Germany I think at that point and he was
so pissed off about this and he had a
laptop that was there on the table and
he thought basically how can i express
my pissed-off Ness with my al-qaeda
colleagues for wasting my time like this
so much and he went to Google and he
typed in contradictions in Islam and
began to read that was how he got out
Wow that’s what did him in some just
late he just started reading again they
told me this they never told me that I
never knew that and that was so as I say
he’s a very very uncommon but but I
think that might be happening quite a
lot more than we know people just
googling things finding stuff out for
ourselves it’s the most dangerous
religion to leave because they kill
apostates they do yeah so what’s how is
he dealing with that well he lives in
hiding I mean wow
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yeah yeah fancy may he read a book agent
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storm two years ago one of the weirdest
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conversation that I ever saw anybody
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have with someone who was a believer was
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Dawkins I think it was yeah was having a
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conversation with someone in the asked
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him point-blank whether or not he
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believed that Mohammed split the moon oh
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yes I think I know this was with a very
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close enemy of mine called Mehdi Hassan
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who worked for Al Jazeera and who
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Richard Dawkins did a interview with and
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I think he that’s why he fluffed
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something earlier on Dork is he didn’t
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take him on then he took him on on this
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that’s wrong and I think that Sam said
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yes yes yes and then it led to this
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terrible problem which is a really
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interesting interesting problem of our
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era which is then dorking said I can’t
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believe that somebody or said afterwards
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I can’t believe that somebody could be a
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working journalist and believe that you
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know Mohammed Sloot a meal and a half
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human horse right and of course I mean I
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there’s a interesting point there yeah
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but of course we do quite rightly allow
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people to believe bizarre and insane
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thing well sure exactly and if we
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started saying you can’t have public
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office of working journalism if you
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profess to be of this particular faith
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then we wouldn’t get any way we wouldn’t
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have anyone left and how does the story
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go Mohammed flew to the moon on a half
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human horse yeah and split the moon with
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a sword as I would yeah I counted they
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could have then been attacked by female
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bears but I can’t no I can’t
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yes he it’s the night journey which is
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central and how the moon get glued back
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together again
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is it back together it looks like it is
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I haven’t looked close maybe I need to
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pay more attention it’s just the the
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fact that a per mile I believe this was
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a few years ago let’s just say it was
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2010 that this interview or that this
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debate took place yes he was around then
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eight years ago that someone would be
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comfortable saying oh that they believe
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that oh you see I got into a little
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trouble Richard Dawkins got a bit
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annoyed about me because I took the
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mickey out of him for dodging the one
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earlier in that what was the earlier one
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he a great admirer of it as everyone is
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sure but he he knows exactly where the
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cliff edge is hmm and in that interview
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he he was asked on al-jazeera by this
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interviewer he read out the bit from The
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God Delusion about you know as a great
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bit of rhetoric about the most the God
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who smokes God is something like the
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most appalling narcissistic murderous
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blob of our character in all of fiction
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is a terrific piece of writing and the
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interviewer says the Dawkins do you do
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you stand by that as a description of
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the Christian God Dawkins says yes this
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is you stand by it does the description
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of the Jewish God says yes and then he
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says and would you say the same thing
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about the Muslim God and I just knew
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exactly what’s happening at Richard
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Dawkins says um about the Muslim God I
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didn’t know so much which he as I say he
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thinks I shouldn’t rip him on this and
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the thing was what I noticed was just I
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just I know I completely felt he’s been
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a very brave and brilliant writer and
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thinker on these matters and nobody’s
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done more in some ways but he I knew
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exactly what was happening he was
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staring right over the cliff edge and
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somebody was behind him nudging yeah and
64:24
that if he had have said as it were live
64:27
on al Jazeera oh yes
64:29
Allah you know the total bastard then I
64:34
don’t know maybe yes maybe you’re then
64:38
in real trouble you know and so he
64:41
stepped back from the brink there and I
64:42
rather crudely perhaps took the mickey
64:44
out of him afters for it I said that it
64:46
was just that Richard Dawkins was
64:48
demonstrating a survival instinct of his
64:50
species but I I feel bad about it but it
64:54
is true it is true but we’ve all been
64:56
there to some extent and what was his
64:58
response to that though to my general
65:02
criticism he well he basically I think
65:07
he did take it on board in a way
65:10
so complex reasons but I know I know he
65:15
was also annoyed that I was where I
65:16
think he felt that I was doing that to
65:18
him then you do it right right and that
65:23
is very common in that I’ve had that a
65:25
lot in my life of in this particular
65:28
area of people trying to egg me over why
65:31
don’t you say that
65:32
mmm of course and and you know that
65:36
they’re the people who’ll be a million
65:38
miles behind me oh yeah they would their
65:40
ears plugged yeah I behind a wall I was
65:43
a very I was a very very visual aid of
65:45
it somebody who etches is a terrific
65:47
reformer in Islam that now and another
65:51
cleric who once described me he went to
65:53
fight for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan
65:54
and you know 30 years ago now and
65:57
described to me he’s not very fighting
65:59
li-like person but described how he did
66:01
actually sort of really rile them up to
66:02
sort of run over and get at the Soviets
66:04
and he’s like you know we’re all agreed
66:06
yes we’ll go yes and I go and he guys
66:13
guys and everyone else stayed in the
66:15
trench and I’ve always thought this is
66:17
exactly the experience of anyone in this
66:21
area what grabbed eyes is that there’s
66:23
inherent danger and this criticism even
66:25
that’s the discussion right now I’m sure
66:27
that people right now firing up their
66:29
webcams and writing blogs and tweeting
66:32
and getting upset about it yeah it’s any
66:35
rational discussion of that particular
66:37
subject you could kind of get away I
66:40
mean I get criticism from Christians but
66:44
it’s not scary right yes that is um
66:48
that’s that is a big difference of the
66:50
timing isn’t it right this is this is
66:52
something it’s just so important about
66:54
the new ones that almost never gets
66:56
added in but of course we all just
66:57
assumed it so we don’t think it’s worth
66:59
saying but we are aware that any
67:00
religion or thought like this could be
67:03
this dangerous at different phases yes
67:06
you know we might under wanted to be in
67:09
Spain in certain points in the last
67:12
millennium sure we might not have wanted
67:16
to be a Catholic descent to at certain
67:17
points or Protestant dissenters others
67:19
and so on and so forth we all know that
67:20
yes it’s just that at the moment that’s
67:23
pretty question
67:24
and and quiet and of course it’s less
67:27
quiet here than it is in my country one
67:30
can’t imagine the Anglican Church
67:31
becoming militant about anything at any
67:33
point soon you do have some angrier
67:37
types of Christian here than we have in
67:38
my country so it’s easy for me to think
67:40
they’re slightly less risky at some
67:44
point in the future than than you might
67:46
but but it’s just that we do recognize
67:48
this could happen elsewhere as well it’s
67:50
just at the moment it’s it’s it’s not
67:51
the Quakers they they really don’t send
67:57
me a death threat from one year to the
67:58
next right rather nice people there’s an
68:02
inherent danger of a retaliation from
68:06
people who are more radical Christian
68:10
that if this continues and if you see it
68:13
more and more of more and more attacks
68:16
from people of Muslim faith yes you
68:18
could possibly see a retaliation from
68:21
people especially in this country like
68:23
after 9/11 there was an extreme amount
68:26
of hate for Muslims and irrational hate
68:30
mostly which nothing directed at Sikhs
68:33
yes well there was a lot of that out of
68:35
ignorance they just didn’t they didn’t I
68:37
mean that was the most disturbing
68:39
because Sikhs are pretty interesting
68:41
people and the fact that they just
68:45
instantaneously with no information at
68:48
all no understanding out of complete
68:50
ignorance yeah attack them I I have a I
68:54
second no one in my gloominess about
68:56
some of the things that we’re going to
68:57
go through in Britain and Europe and
68:58
their coming years but I recently had a
69:02
reason to even more gloomy about one
69:04
aspect of it relating to this which is
69:05
this we had three big bad terrorist
69:10
attacks last year in the UK including
69:13
the Manchester Arena bomb 22 young
69:15
people were blown up on a Monday night
69:17
for going to hear ariana grande and
69:22
after the third of those attacks which
69:25
was on London Bridge went three people
69:28
who actually known the authorities as
69:30
they generally are slashed people’s
69:33
throats on the street and ran to borough
69:35
market as people were drinking and
69:36
stabbed people while shouting this is
69:39
for Allah after the third of those
69:41
attacks it was a fella is this really
69:45
just gonna keep happening what are we
69:48
gonna do about it and what can we do and
69:50
after the Manchester one in particular
69:51
there was this kind of thing of everyone
69:54
saying apart John Lennon’s Imagine there
69:56
was this hit don’t Lee don’t look back
69:58
in anger and these themes that say we
70:01
weren’t meant to think anything other
70:02
than that we weren’t meant to be angry
70:03
enemy and then then just terrible thing
70:09
happened from another direction
70:12
outside Finsbury Park mosque which the
70:15
muscular very troubled and bad history
70:18
in London a guy from Wales in a van
70:22
drives into the crowds as they’re
70:25
milling around outside the mosque kills
70:28
one man and injures a number of others
70:32
that guy by the way just show how
70:34
complex all this can get is he was tried
70:38
and guilty last month in the courts in
70:41
the UK he he had been his office he very
70:45
mentally deranged and had a history of
70:47
mental illness and all that sort of
70:48
thing as very often people do in these
70:50
situations but he he had watched the BBC
70:54
drama called three girls which is the
70:56
first time the BBC had really addressed
70:59
the issue of the Rotherham
71:01
Rochdale rape gangs that happened in the
71:04
last decade in the UK which is still a
71:05
saw that’s going on where about 1,500
71:07
girls in one town alone were basically
71:10
abused by gangs of Muslim mainly
71:15
Pakistani men and it’s a very very ugly
71:18
business partly because it was so awful
71:21
that nobody there that nobody at the
71:22
State at the police level and the arts
71:24
wanted to look into it and they are now
71:26
in the governing choir so they they
71:28
didn’t be looking to excel worried about
71:30
being called racist and there’s a Lama
71:31
phobic and so on the press did a lot of
71:33
not being interested in this as well
71:35
eventually after all these years the BBC
71:38
makes a documentary called three girls
71:40
about three of the girls who suffered
71:42
from these rape gangs and then a man in
71:45
Wales sees it and gets so enraged people
71:48
say at the local pub he was railing
71:49
against the bloody
71:50
limbs and all this sort of thing and
71:51
then he hires a van and drives in to
71:53
have a crowd of people outside a mask
71:55
and you have this awful feeling that the
72:00
BBC didn’t want to deal with the issue
72:02
that the program was about for years
72:04
because it was so awful and ugly and
72:08
sounded like something made up by some
72:10
kind of nativist racist you know it’s
72:12
had everything and then they do and then
72:17
it turns out remember the public sees it
72:19
and drives a van into a crowd yeah I
72:20
mean you know this this sort of couldn’t
72:23
get more complex and wait so and I
72:25
thought after that okay maybe maybe the
72:27
maybe the BBC were right maybe they
72:30
shouldn’t maybe they should cover up the
72:32
gang rape for 1500 girls maybe the
72:35
public can’t cope with it maybe they
72:37
will get into vans now as it happens I
72:39
know the British public I think fairly
72:41
well and I think that that guy in well
72:44
is a very very unusual figure I don’t
72:46
think it’s very common I don’t think
72:47
everyone’s going to do that I don’t
72:48
think we’re all like that wicked
72:50
Madeleine but I don’t know I mean I
72:54
don’t know for sure everywhere I don’t
72:56
know what the I don’t know what happened
72:58
in this country with various other
72:59
countries if there were three attacks
73:00
like that in quick succession I don’t
73:02
know but this is this is really it is
73:07
going to get complex it’s already
73:09
complex and the response to it’s complex
73:12
to how do you how do you if you if you
73:16
are a journalist if you are television
73:20
channel how do you report on this do you
73:22
think about the responsibility of
73:24
alerting someone to these actual real
73:27
atrocities that’s going to force them to
73:28
react on innocent people that did
73:30
nothing in front of this mosque that the
73:32
fact that these people in this mosque or
73:34
somehow or another connected to these
73:36
people that did these horrible crimes
73:37
just by virtue of the fact they’re in
73:38
the same religion that’s insane – yeah
73:41
it’s all insane I mean it seems to me
73:43
the only the only way through it is to
73:45
say first of all I mean I don’t I I
73:48
really American press all the time I
73:49
think that it’s it’s worse than the
73:50
British press in in in that
73:53
self-appointed role of believing its
73:54
task is to stand between the public and
73:57
the facts you know and sort of negotiate
73:59
between the to see what they think the
74:01
public can cope with or shouldn’t know
74:03
and
74:03
and feed them that the American press
74:07
seems to me to be rife with that that
74:09
temptation as ours is but it seems to be
74:12
the only way around this is to not not
74:14
give in to that and to try just to
74:16
publish the facts when they happen
74:18
because it’s just obviously seems to be
74:20
much work we always know in political
74:22
scandal what’s worst to cover up it’s
74:25
always the cover-up right and that that
74:27
may be the case with all this maybe
74:28
maybe the the argument for just the
74:31
papers explaining stuff that’s happened
74:33
is maybe that’s maybe that’s all they
74:38
can do and that it I could just say to
74:41
them it’d be a lot worse if you bottle
74:44
this up because otherwise people will
74:47
get the idea that there is some
74:48
conspiracy to cover over certain stories
74:51
and and they’ll be on to something in
74:53
fact if you think about the millions of
74:55
people that must have seen that the
74:57
story on the rape of fifteen hundred the
75:01
fact that only one person responded that
75:03
way right it’s a pretty extraordinary in
75:05
and of itself yes yes III would have and
75:07
I would have thought on some of this I
75:09
mean you know I don’t know again I mean
75:11
there are there are lots of examples one
75:14
could use but when something bad happens
75:17
like the Manchester Arena attack I’m
75:21
amazed in a way that people are so
75:23
decent I mean I’m so pleased they are
75:26
but they we really we don’t go out
75:29
looking for people to attack you know
75:31
that the public certainly Britain I can
75:33
that happy saying I think it’s a
75:34
monomeric the public we’re not really
75:36
lynch mobs waiting to be got going again
75:39
but the expectation that we are is the
75:42
only possibility of creating us in such
75:45
a way it’s only by treating us as if we
75:49
can’t deal with ugly things that go on
75:52
that you could see the situations where
75:55
you’ve again to see the situation in
75:56
which that all goes wrong in that
75:57
different way yeah I mean I don’t envy
76:03
their position especially trying to pick
76:05
up the ball from here yes with all the
76:08
history and all the terrible things
76:10
especially in England with so many
76:12
attacks over such a relatively short
76:14
period of time where there was a very
76:16
small hist
76:17
before yeah it seemed like this
76:19
immediate eruption of all these issues
76:21
yes and I mean the country in some ways
76:24
I wrote about my latest but most is
76:26
France where yes you the book comes out
76:29
in translation there in a couple of
76:30
months time very interested to see what
76:32
happens because France had of even I
76:36
mean we mention Charlie I’ve David that
76:38
eighteen months or so it had was just I
76:40
mean again we’d all sort of disappears
76:43
now every day’s got bad news of some
76:44
kind but you know to have a major
76:48
Western capital city with 130 people
76:50
killed in an evening with multiple
76:52
suicide bombings and people being gunned
76:54
down from mopeds as they’re sitting
76:56
outside a bar and you know another group
77:00
of people going into a rock concert and
77:02
and you know going through the disabled
77:04
section shooting everyone one by one in
77:06
the disabled section and gunning
77:07
everyone else down and catch him in the
77:09
lavatories and shooting him in there I
77:11
mean that that happened in one night
77:14
alone in Paris the Parisians didn’t
77:17
become you know they didn’t become
77:20
wicked terrible people anything but they
77:22
have I think these I think that the a
77:25
lot of these terrible events have
77:27
happened
77:27
they actually what happens is they sink
77:30
down to a lower level of our
77:32
consciousness so that we what actually
77:35
happens is we we we get over the
77:37
immediate thing quite fast but that
77:40
something that the foundational level
77:42
changes I had a case nobody really
77:44
wanted to linger on but there was one in
77:46
in November in the UK on Oxford Street
where because of course everyone does
after these attacks they always say you
know we will not be changed everyone
tries to sort of channel the spirit of
Churchill and all that sort of thing I
in Churchill hear me roar and and so on
and and actually the the facts are
otherwise in November on Oxford Street
there was a wall we know is that there
were two men who may have had some
disagreement on the platform of a tube
Trevor tube platform whatever happened
it was misunderstood by crowds and it
developed into a stampede out of the
tube station then all the way down
Oxford Street people were locked and
barricaded into the big department
78:26
stores a pop singer got Olly Murs
78:30
tweeted out his
78:31
million followers you know there are
78:33
shots of being fired I’m in the back
78:35
room of the store H&M; and there’s
78:37
something and other people claim that a
78:39
truck had gone down Oxford and mowing
78:42
people down they’ve seen bodies the
78:44
police said it was a major terrorist
78:45
event they were on top of an and the the
78:48
press were all you know running stories
78:50
turned out nothing happened nothing
78:53
happened the next day two men handed
78:55
themselves into a local police station
78:56
saying they thought they might have been
78:58
responsible for it but they were let off
78:59
without any charge what I’m saying is
79:02
they thought they might have been
79:03
responsible for it because they had been
79:04
in an argument that they’d had an
79:06
argument maybe they were they they won’t
79:07
say we’re responsible healthy but like
79:08
they were asking for information and
79:11
they will let go but my point is is that
79:14
is that we can simultaneously say we
79:18
will not be cowed and also actually be
79:21
at the stage where if you just hear a
79:23
bang yeah everyone goes running you you
79:26
don’t want to be the last person to
79:28
figure out what’s going on so as soon as
79:31
something you think is happening people
79:34
in this day and age when there’s just
79:35
this recent history of horrible things
79:38
happening over and over again in Orlando
79:40
here I mean there’s just so many of them
79:42
just instantaneously want to react and
79:46
then like in the Vegas shooting one of
79:48
the things that was very confusing about
79:50
the big Vegas shooting is people would
79:52
go into casinos they would flee from the
79:55
concert into casinos and then talk about
79:56
a shooter and then people would say
79:59
there’s an active shooter at Tropicana
80:01
there’s an advocate always happens
80:02
there’s always that’s why I never
80:04
believe immediate aftermath there’s
80:05
always a claim of other shooters there’s
80:07
always a claim of something that turns
80:08
out not everywhere they were there were
80:10
claiming their shooters all over the
80:12
city but there was no actual shooting in
80:14
these other casinos who was just reports
80:16
of active shooters that’s and by the way
80:20
if you’re interested I there’s a
80:23
fascinating thing about why this happens
80:25
and I wrote a book some years ago about
80:28
Bloody Sunday a terrible event in
80:30
Northern Ireland in 1972 and one of the
80:33
things I went through all the tests many
80:35
of everyone who one of the most
80:36
interesting things was the number of
80:38
people whose memories were just totally
80:40
different from what we know
happened and you know one of the
conclusions I came to was that there’s a
book by a Harvard professor but they
called the seven sins of memory about
this but one of the things that clearly
happens is after any very traumatic
event or very terrible event where
people are effectively in the situation
of a war zone when they were just
shopping or a concert a moment before is
that our memories immediately become
even more suggestible than they are
already and the most obvious thing of
suggestibility in these situations is
that the situation was was worse around
you and you came off better than you did
and that’s almost always the case the
shots that were quite quite a bit away
were very close you you you have to your
memory without knowing it we all do it
our memory tells us we behave better
than we did and that the threat was
worse because this is our over one of
our ways of coping I think mm-hmm
but but it’s a terrible thing obviously
with the I mean with these school
81:46
shootings and things that are going on
81:48
here at the moment I mean this is
81:49
obviously one of the things I watched
81:52
your podcasts the other day where you
81:53
were discussing this for the latest one
81:54
with the Florida and and I think you
81:58
know in a way bafflement
82:00
going on in this society about this is
82:02
understandable yeah the I mean it’s the
82:06
unimaginable horror of being involved in
82:09
that situation your mind is just not
82:10
prepared to cope with that I mean maybe
82:12
if you are a soldier and if you
82:13
experienced combat exactly and you know
82:15
how to stay calm and a firefight because
82:18
you’ve been at a bunch of them but for
82:19
the average person I mean it’s one of
82:21
the reasons why I witnessed testimony
82:24
it’s one of the worst pieces of evidence
82:25
you could ever get including I mean
82:27
about it about basically everything
82:29
about fistfights you know anything oh
82:32
yeah now we all have examples in our
82:33
lives of seeing you know friends who’ve
82:35
been through the same thing we know that
82:37
they’ve burned through the same thing
82:38
and yet they have two totally different
82:39
right so of course you know what
82:41
happened I mean that’s that’s a real
82:44
problem but now you have this thing here
82:46
where I mean some ways even worse than
82:48
we do of the search to notch it up for
82:52
your own political science yeah or
82:53
against the enemy yeah same thing with a
82:55
82:56
the Twitter pointment that I mean this
82:58
this obscene glee that goes on after any
83:02
terrorist attack in Europe but I think
83:03
also here as well the attempt is to
83:05
immediately call it for the other side
83:08
or for your side or whatever and to try
83:12
to use terrible events as a way to
83:14
justify whatever your own team is yes I
83:19
have I find it amazing with a gun debate
83:21
here and I would find it amazing coming
83:24
from a different society on it but the
83:26
wages will not shit up for one side or
83:28
the other in it and it’s you’ve got a
83:32
real problem on it I’ve been watching a
83:34
lot of it from the perspective of the
83:36
gun owners NRA members and the people
83:40
that want to defend the idea of having
83:43
guns even of arming teachers and you’re
83:47
looking at their perspective on it and
83:48
their perspective on it is all about
83:50
their rights all about the Constitution
83:52
all about the bill of rights all about
83:54
protecting the second Amendment all
83:56
about its gun ownership being taken away
83:59
gun ownership under attack the NRA under
84:01
attack they’re coming after our guns and
84:03
this is this constant battle of ideas
84:05
it’s on Twitter not addressing the
84:08
actual issue I mean I’m sorry no it’s
84:12
watching this thing harming teachers
84:16
yeah that’s insane I mean this Samuel
84:18
Jackson had a great quote about it but
84:20
you mean it’s you know he put it on
84:23
Twitter like someone tell a motherfucker
84:25
who’s never been in a gun fight the
84:26
problems of arming a bunch of teachers
84:29
right yes somebody said someone’s been
84:31
in a gun fight please tell ya
84:33
motherfuckers somebody said somebody
84:35
said anyone who thinks is a good idea
84:36
giving teachers guns is clearly never
84:39
seen one try to use an overhead
84:40
projector ah yeah there’s there’s Samuel
84:42
Jackson look at that three hundred and
84:44
six thousand likes so you know was an
84:47
effective tweet check the number it was
84:52
only yeah you got three tweets it can’t
84:54
be true nobody likes yeah I I thought
84:57
there was a very pertinent one a few
84:58
years ago in New York on fifth when
85:00
somebody shot their colleague and
85:04
outside the office they came back his
85:07
disgruntled worker shot the colleague
85:08
and
85:09
locally there was some policemen around
85:11
the corner and they came out and started
85:13
firing at the guy who’d done it ended up
85:17
wounding about 11 pedestrian well you
85:19
would I mean I’m not saying by the way
85:22
we have we have our own problems but I
85:24
mean this is a big problem for American
85:25
what I kind of more guns and we have
85:27
people I mean I completely understand
85:31
why the Amendment exists and I think
85:35
it’s a very good idea for the time and I
85:38
think it’s a very understandable idea to
85:39
hold on to it now but but why can’t
85:43
people say for instance I mean we all
85:45
have abstract ideas we have to hold on
85:46
to but we and we all in our countries
85:48
have like weird things that other people
85:50
don’t understand that I think it’s odd
85:52
to have a hereditary constitutional
85:54
monarch for instance and right it is
85:57
weird
85:57
it’s a great way to put it it’s strange
85:59
and if you were starting from now you
86:01
might not do that but but clearly with
86:05
the gun ownership thing it is we are
86:08
willing to take bad things happening
86:12
quite often because we want to hold on
86:14
to the Second Amendment well the second
86:17
amendments been around forever the bad
86:18
things happening quite often is really
86:20
from Columbine on I mean there was a few
86:22
of them before there was the Austin
86:24
Texas but Tower shootings but it seems
86:28
to me I mean again I mean just it’s such
86:31
an obvious point and I don’t it sound
86:32
like it’s not he Britt his saying
86:34
something about America that’s not at
86:37
all welcome but it seems obvious that
86:38
you just you could do a lot more damage
86:41
with a semi-automatic rifle than you can
86:45
with a knife and most people we see this
86:48
in the terrorism as well there are
86:50
really committed terrorists who don’t
86:52
commit acts of violence unless they can
86:54
get hold of a the means to do it
86:57
because we often think well why don’t
86:58
you just like go out with a knife some
87:01
people do but most people actually want
87:04
to go out in that way and what they see
87:05
as being a blaze of glory right so they
87:09
like stopping them having the means of
87:12
getting that very easily seems to me
87:14
very obvious but that isn’t to say that
87:17
I mean of course I think you made a
87:18
point near the dam it’s like saying if
87:20
you say everyone who has a gun is part
87:22
of promises and
87:23
see not because it’s like saying
87:24
everyone who’s got a truck is about the
87:25
problem right but there is there are
87:27
obviously two things one is the
87:29
psychological and whatever the social
87:30
issues are that caused this to keep
87:32
happening and that that is obviously
87:34
very very important to try to get to the
87:36
root of but you can get to the root of
87:39
that or try to get through to that and
87:41
also recognize that people having access
87:43
to some of the weapons they have access
87:46
to in this country must be a part of the
87:49
problem it has to be and there also the
87:55
idea that you should just be able to go
87:59
out and buy a gun without really
88:01
understanding how a gun works at all
88:03
yeah and which is exactly how you do it
88:05
I got my first handgun license in 1994
88:08
that’s when I bought my first handgun I
88:10
just went and bought a handgun I did a
88:12
background check on me that’s it
88:14
I mean I went to the range they showed
88:15
me what the safety is pointed this put
88:17
the earphones on make sure you don’t
88:19
blow your is out bang bang bang and then
88:21
you leave with a gun I mean once your
88:23
background checks clear they find out
88:24
you’re not a criminal there’s not much
88:25
to it there’s a there’s a giant problem
88:29
with that if you want to drive an
88:32
automobile you have to show that you
88:34
understand the laws you have to
88:35
understand you have to sit with an
88:38
expert was to sit there a driving
88:39
instructor they have to go through it
88:41
with you they have to watch your
88:42
movements they have to watch you make
88:44
turns they have to wouldn’t wouldn’t you
88:47
imagine that it would be a good idea to
88:49
have some sort of a clinical evaluation
88:51
of a person that’s gonna gonna buy a gun
88:53
and here’s another thing there was an
88:56
article recently that was saying
88:58
contrary to popular belief most school
89:00
shootings are not committed by people
89:02
who are mentally ill well that’s a
89:04
fucking stupid thing to say you know why
89:06
because if you’re you’re committing a
89:08
school shooting but you’re mentally ill
89:09
okay period then on top of that what
89:13
they’re ignoring conveniently and this
89:15
is another headline thing psychiatric
89:17
medications right these people are
89:20
almost entirely on some form of
89:23
psychiatric medication whether it is
89:26
anti-anxiety pills
89:28
whether it’s antidepressants whether
89:29
they’re they’re all I’m not saying that
89:32
correlation equals causation I’m not
89:34
saying that but to say that
89:36
or not this is just a bullshit this is
89:38
clickbait headlines they’re mentally ill
89:40
100 percent 100 percent of them are
89:42
mentally ill there’s there’s a
89:44
conservative commentator in the UK
89:46
called Peter Hitchens who always makes a
89:48
point after Islamist terrorist attacks
89:50
in Europe that there’s a large number of
89:52
them as well as other types of attack
89:54
who seem to be on some kind of
89:55
medication yes and my point is always
89:58
I’m very very happy to have that
89:59
conversation I think we need to have
90:01
that conversation and we also have to
90:03
have the other parts of it as well
90:05
yes you’re right to say yeah I can’t see
90:08
why we can’t have all of this it’s the
90:10
same thing that we were talking about
90:11
earlier it’s these idea sports right
90:14
these Wars people don’t want to give up
90:17
their idea they don’t want to give up
90:18
any ground whatsoever on their second
90:21
Amendment rights whether it’s owning a
90:23
50 caliber fucking tank gun or whether
90:26
it’s having a gun for home safety or for
90:29
hunting they don’t want to give up
90:31
anything and they feel like it’s a
90:33
slippery slope the people that I follow
90:34
online that are tweeting about this on a
90:36
regular basis if you can go to a lot of
90:38
them like they’re making videos about it
90:41
Dana lash and Colin it is actually its
90:46
name is it’s not Collins Co Lyon Co Lyon
90:49
noir noi are he’s very very vocal about
90:53
and i’m reading all the stuff it’s like
90:54
all anyone’s taking into account is that
90:57
this idea that they’re coming after your
90:59
rights right and and emphasizing the
91:02
idea of a good person with a gun that
91:05
can protect people in these terrible
91:07
situations which can happen as well but
91:09
with what we have to address that’s not
91:11
we’re talking about we have to address
91:13
how the fuck do these crazy people get
91:15
guns why why are so many people on
91:18
mental health medications yeah well
91:20
that’s a huge huge I can’t understand we
91:23
always have this sort of wanting to have
91:25
the conversation about it but there’s
91:26
very little done on it that’s one thing
91:28
I’m very struck with we we have in all
91:31
our countries I miss slipped into a very
91:33
weird attitude towards this type of
91:35
medication yes very weird very just very
91:39
accepting of something that radically
91:41
alters the way your mind works I and
91:45
macaws there’s not an incentive drug
91:48
companies obviously don’t have an
91:49
incentive quite the
91:50
to look into it but it’s another example
91:53
of the the set of a set of things we
91:57
should be thinking about at the moment
91:58
and looking at which we just don’t
92:01
why don’t we because it’s sort of shut
92:03
down because we shut it down ourselves I
92:06
I think it’s just such a range of issues
92:09
this is the case with and it’s always
92:12
the same thing it’s always that if you
92:14
address the question difficult as it
92:16
might be you are attacking an individual
92:19
who might suffer from it yeah who might
92:21
be upset by us addressing the question I
92:24
mean I have a lot of suspicions about
92:27
all sorts of things I’m a very you know
92:29
skeptical person as it were about things
92:31
that I’m told so I’d like to look into
92:32
intending I’m amazed at the number of
92:35
things in our societies that we just
92:37
don’t discuss and they’re all the things
92:39
that we ought to be discussing issues
92:42
like mental health issues issues that
92:45
have to do with the social presumptions
92:47
that are going on left right in the
92:48
center at the moment where you’re not
92:50
meant to discuss things that have Puffs
92:53
anything else very very interesting and
92:54
very important and I just see it
92:59
everywhere this might by the way so this
93:02
is a slightly strange segue to make but
93:04
there was a fascinating one in in
93:07
Britain a couple of days ago a slightly
93:10
lighter subject but there was not that
93:12
much like that but there’s a diver in
93:16
the UK called Tom Daley who married a
93:17
screenwriter from Hollywood called
93:19
Dustin Lance Black and it was announced
93:21
a couple of weeks ago on Valentine’s Day
93:23
that they were having a baby and there
93:25
was a photograph of them holding a scan
93:27
they sent out on their Twitter of two
93:30
men who married who have ultrasounds
93:32
gear and all of the papers and the BBC
93:35
and Evan also report is saying Dustin
93:37
and Tom are having a baby and I mean I’m
93:42
gay and I’m I don’t think I’m homophobic
93:44
but I look this as a thing how someone
93:50
else involved I mean you know there’s a
93:52
joke yeah
93:53
gays a kind of Tim doesn’t mean we can’t
93:55
keep trying but I just glued his eyes
93:59
although nothing
94:01
in the articles about this tells me
94:03
anything I would like to know like I
94:06
know that they didn’t just have a roll
94:07
around and woke up in the morning and
94:08
one of them was preggers I know that and
94:10
I know that there has to be a woman
94:13
involved at some point we know this but
94:16
we are meant just like adapt okay great
94:20
cool
94:21
and it’s almost as if it’s set up so
94:23
that somebody says wait isn’t isn’t
94:27
isn’t a woman isn’t there a uterus so
94:31
that then everyone goes biggert right
94:39
and and of course somebody did somebody
94:43
from the Daily Mail wrote a column
94:45
saying come on to Dad’s isn’t a new
94:47
normal sort of thing and of course then
94:49
everyone piled in on that and all these
94:51
advertisers withdrew their advertising
94:55
literally literally until the day before
94:57
yesterday it was possible to say I don’t
95:00
think you guys can just like have sex
95:02
and make a child literally that was okay
95:05
until the day before yesterday and it’s
95:06
not okay today so what will not be okay
95:09
tomorrow and I just think I think and I
95:13
wrote about it and and maybe a couple
95:16
other people ended up doing it too but I
95:18
think that’s really interesting like a
95:20
lot of this answer I think it’s really
95:22
interesting about this that you are the
95:24
things that seem very obvious to us are
95:27
all the things you’re not meant to write
95:29
about almost as if they’re like booby
95:31
traps where you need to go off yeah and
95:33
and I just think why don’t more people
95:36
pile on in right um because we could
95:39
have a heck of a time and we might well
95:45
people don’t want to pile in on anything
95:47
revolve involving gender or sexuality
95:49
it’s too scary it’s a landmine field joe
95:54
they just name it is then walk in
95:56
especially as you said earlier people
95:58
with regular jobs yeah if you get called
96:00
out for being a racist or a homophobe or
96:02
anything along those lines you’re doomed
96:04
sure it’s some manat case anyone who
96:09
does have a voice
96:11
as a writer or speaker whatever
96:14
broadcaster I think has a
96:16
disproportionate duty to do so right to
96:19
do so I mean there’s no point in just
96:22
repeating those same new lies there’s a
96:26
disproportionate duty to try to break
96:28
them down yeah I come I’m one of my
96:30
favorite quotes that one from HL Mencken
96:31
who says you know that history was
96:32
always progressed by jolly fellows
96:34
heaving dead cats into sanctuaries and
96:37
going roistering down the highways of
96:39
the world and I just I I I wish that
96:44
there were more dead cat heavers it’s
96:51
not a bad job you can make a living
96:52
sometimes and and it’s it’s it’s one of
96:56
the only things worth doing if if we’re
96:58
all going to be told lies and expect it
97:00
to go along with them whether it’s about
97:02
terrorism or gay parenting or mental
97:07
health or anything else
97:07
whole set of them it’s a really
97:09
target-rich environment it is and I
97:12
think there’s more people doing that now
97:14
than ever before but it’s more people
97:17
like you and I who can kind of get away
97:19
with it yeah I don’t know what why do
97:21
you think you get away with it
97:22
me yeah cuz you can’t take me seriously
97:24
right I’m a cage fighting commentator
97:27
and a dirty comedian writing nobody’s
97:30
listening to me and taking me seriously
97:31
in that regard yeah book sort of it’s I
97:37
just first of all I’m a kind person I
97:43
think that helps like I’m not a mean
97:45
person right when I’m saying these
97:47
things I’m saying these things from I’m
97:48
going what what the fuck is this like
97:51
here was one that I thought was really
97:53
fascinating and this is one of the great
97:55
example of how strange we get on
97:59
subjects Caitlyn Jenner when when
98:02
Caitlyn Jenner transitioned that was the
98:05
primary thing that people talk about oh
98:07
my god she’s a woman now and it was
98:09
right after she had been spacing out
98:12
behind the wheel slammed into a woman
98:15
and pushed her into traffic and a
98:16
head-on collision and the woman died and
98:18
that was almost just completely
98:20
forgotten
98:20
yes completely forgotten yes not only
98:23
that she doesn’t believe in gay man
98:25
right like what your you have the wrong
98:30
spokesperson I mean you could not have a
98:33
more wrong spokesperson yeah but yet
98:36
ESPN and glamour Woman of the Year and
98:39
these all these different things and
98:41
athlete of the year yes wearing dresses
98:43
and fabulous and glam and let’s get your
98:45
chin shaved down right because that’s
98:47
who you really are who you really are is
98:49
not this person there now you got to you
98:52
got to shave your chin down it’s it’s
98:54
it’s big it goes right that thing about
98:56
the almost as if you’re being dead yes
98:58
you better discuss it I said this to Sam
99:01
Harris I got him into trouble just on
99:03
his podcast by saying this and he didn’t
99:05
attack me apparently he got a whole load
99:07
of transfer of accusations because of me
99:09
but I said to him I thought what was
99:12
happening was that we were being asked
99:14
not only to agree that Caitlyn Bruce
99:16
Jenner to become Caitlyn general the
99:17
Caitlyn Jenner was a woman but that but
99:20
that you had to find her yes Jenny you
99:26
were just and and I find those those
99:29
ones are just there was one the other is
99:30
a bit like that they gave her it’s like
99:33
I dare you you just you just try
99:35
pretending pretending that Tom and
99:37
dusting can’t happen and and it was the
99:41
same with those a little while ago
99:42
there’s a boy in Britain who was I kind
99:45
of whether he he wanted to turn up to
99:47
school in a dress he’s like nine years
99:48
old and I think there was a row I kind
99:50
of where the school said yes or no it
99:53
was a big thing and then it became her
99:54
way in on the behalf of the
99:55
nine-year-old trans kid lots of
99:59
questions to ask there yeah and and then
100:02
it became the the nine-year-old kid was
100:04
a was was a became a model for a fashion
100:08
shoot and then it’s like find the
100:12
nine-year-old boy who said he’s a girl
100:14
attractive and say it’s beautiful how
100:19
much more do you want to push people
100:21
like no they’re rewarding they’re like
100:24
like isn’t she lovely right what are you
100:30
doing to us I what are you trying to
100:34
make us agree to what what’s the cause
100:38
of
100:39
all of us you must have been talking
100:42
about this like what this is this
100:44
bizarre illogical conversation that
100:46
falls into these very convenient yeah
100:49
well cut grooves that you’re really not
100:52
allowed to slide the ideas arrived
100:54
what’s causing this I think it’s so many
100:59
things I one is one is that it’s
101:00
possible this is what happens when the
101:03
economics goes wrong I’ve got a feeling
101:06
the economics I mean is that if people’s
101:09
if people aren’t saying like wait it
101:11
increases in their living senses I mean
101:13
my generation I know I’m 38 by just
101:17
above this generation but the
101:18
generations ever so slightly below me is
101:21
becoming aware that France it won’t get
101:23
on the property ladder at all maybe
101:26
property ladder meaning owning a home
101:28
owning a home the things that their
101:30
parents generation got not easily by any
101:33
means but it wasn’t the wasn’t easy for
101:35
boomers but that that somehow they’re
101:40
going to have it harder than their
101:41
parents generation or might not enjoy
101:43
the living standards that their parents
101:45
generation enjoyed might be certainly in
101:48
Western Europe coming home it might be
101:50
occurring to them what do you do in
101:52
those search situations you’ve got to
101:56
have other things to to get worth from
101:58
if for instance you’re not going to own
102:01
a home until you’re 40 and at that point
102:04
if you’re a woman at your career you
102:05
need to have children but you can’t
102:06
afford to take the time off work and you
102:09
might not be able to start a family and
102:10
then you’re trying to start a family in
102:12
your 40s and it’s harder very hard and a
102:15
whole set of other things like that that
102:17
are definitely delayed for new
102:19
generation I think that it’s possible I
102:21
not saying certainly it’s it’s possible
102:24
it seems to me that that generation
102:25
might discover new gods and might want
102:30
to enforce the new rules just as avidly
102:33
as the old gods and and there is an
102:38
element of that going like I can’t
102:41
understand why otherwise every time I
102:43
talk about the things we talked about
102:46
there they would just continuously be
102:48
this very angry reaction not oh that’s
102:51
interesting you know I never thought I
102:52
know
102:53
I think probably like you now I mean
102:54
it’s quite hard to shock me it ought to
102:56
upset me you know that’s interesting you
103:00
know why do you think that but so why do
I always get this like we’ve got to stop
him other than that these are new
Commandments that we’re breaking hmm and
and white so and I mean they’re all sort
of connected aren’t they these things
yeah they’re all attempts to but they’re
all attempts to something like purity
which disturbs me we’re sort of if we
could just get everything in a row you
know you even hear that thing get in
your lane yeah that’s Oh get in your
lane
Oh do you think you are what’s my lane I
think I’ve said it a few times you know
but I mean but only people that needed
to stay in their Lane New York I’m
different New York Times yes as we disap
103:50
Lane over okay no I’m reading your times
103:52
the plane oh and and there’s a there’s a
103:54
question as you know agony aren’t we
103:57
call it what do you call self help
103:58
whatever advice column hmm this woman
104:00
says she was on the on the train a
104:04
couple days ago and there was a man who
104:06
came on with his girlfriend he was being
104:07
really abusive to her and it just kept
104:09
happening and he was really it was kind
104:10
of nasty brawler violence situation she
104:15
doesn’t know what to do other people the
104:16
care they’ll move away isn’t and she’s
104:18
and of course you can see what’s coming
104:19
the culmination of it is she says she
104:21
gets off the train and she wonders
104:23
whether she should have said something
104:24
but she says conscious of her white
104:26
privilege and these people were people
104:29
of color hmm and I am reading this I’m
104:33
thinking what you now now if you saw a
104:38
man of different skin pigmentation from
104:42
you abusing a woman of different skin
104:45
pigmentation from you the right thing is
104:48
not to defend the woman that seems like
104:50
a just a real justification for being a
104:53
coward yes
104:54
but but but I tend the advice was you
104:56
know you did sort of the right thing
104:57
maybe you should have spoken to an
104:58
official certainly but there was no kind
104:59
of so all this stuff all this weird get
105:02
in your lane no you know notes your
105:06
privilege you know way up your privilege
105:07
I mean that’s a good way to make society
105:09
have a nervous breakdown wake up you’re
105:11
privileged you know it’s privileged
105:12
scorecards I mean my god I am but but
105:16
all of these things seem to it’s almost
105:18
as if people think if we get the the the
105:21
lanes correct everything will be sorted
105:25
and here’s a problem is that that first
105:29
of all the means of doing this are just
105:31
hideous
105:32
I mean hideous they accentuate racial
105:35
difference they accentuate sexual and
105:37
gender difference they accentuate
105:39
everything else and the destination is
105:43
horrible it is not the Nirvana they
105:47
think that they’re creating mmm so this
105:50
is a really good moment to try to look
105:53
at some of this and to talk about it and
105:56
to think about as widely and as freely
105:58
as we can and yet and yet the effort is
106:02
to do the opposite I think your honor
106:04
something with the idea that this
106:05
radical progressive very restrictive
106:08
line of communication ideology that
106:11
we’re experiencing we’re talking about
106:13
it’s coming from a lot of people that
106:15
don’t have a religion yes they’re
106:17
atheists or they’re at the very least
106:19
agnostics modern progressives very
106:21
rarely religious yes and this mouse
106:25
before somebody who’s non-belief like
106:27
myself this is a painful thing to look
106:29
at but again we have to think about it
106:31
but that’s isn’t that an interesting
106:32
thing as well because you think of
106:34
yourself as being on a team with these
106:35
other atheists or agnostics see I don’t
106:38
but you don’t but I’m saying as an
106:40
atheist yourself you have to look at it
106:42
that way you’ve already lumped yourself
106:43
in with them yes III had speaking of
106:46
camps in the US a while ago and I spoke
106:48
to a guy who’s really really clever
106:50
skewed and he was a free thinker he said
106:54
he said the afters we were talking he
106:56
said you know he’d had some hideous
106:58
experience at a local free thinker
106:59
Society you know where everyone’s like
107:01
get in your lane and he was like I
107:03
thought that being among free thinkers
107:06
like the rest would all be good they no
107:08
no no they they’re free thinkers turn
107:11
out to be just as able to be blindfolded
107:13
if you know on certain things down when
107:18
you imagine is of course self proclaimed
107:20
freethinkers would be even more inclined
107:22
to adopt a rigid ideology they’re
107:25
proclaiming themselves to be a free
107:27
thinker and and it’s possible this comes
107:29
from that you know the the old Jaguar
107:33
sensors you know that the sensor knows
107:36
everything that the people are really
107:38
into and I spoke once to a band who was
107:42
on the British Board of Film
107:43
classification
107:44
he said all day watching really hardcore
107:46
pornography deciding what could be
107:47
legalized so that’s you must have a very
107:50
dark view of humanity it wasn’t justice
107:53
scalia’s interpretation of pornography I
107:56
don’t know how to describe it but I’ll
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know it when I see it right exactly
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like why aren’t you our fucking judge
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and it may be it but it may be that
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these people but a lot of conservatives
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have this thing that one becomes rigid
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about something because you’ve seen into
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the abyss because you don’t know you
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might and behave in a certain very
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terrible way and so you you you want to
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pull back from that chaos you want to
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pull other people back as well it seems
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to me that a lot of so-called free
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thinkers self designated free fingers
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may well have these glimpses and may
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well think I don’t know what’s holding
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this together and therefore might
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precisely for that reason be
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disproportionately rigid on almost any
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new ideology that came along get in lane
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yeah yeah I like this idea that this is
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almost like a substitution for religion
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it’s almost like there’s an inherent
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need that we have because human beings
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have operated under these patterns for
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so long we can’t have this yeah yeah
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it’s it’s interesting because the more
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you like we found ways to mock it right
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and one of the ways to mock it and I
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think that that’s important and that
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mockery although it seems trivial what
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it does do is let people know how
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ridiculous other people feel those ideas
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are and then it makes them really they
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don’t like being mocked the term social
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justice warrior is wonderful for that
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because it just makes you look like such
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a fucking fool you know social justice
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warrior yes like that I was a colleague
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of mine a spectator in London called
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a-rod little wrote a few years any any
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man who says he’s a feminist clearly
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just as seeking a shag for sure well I
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mean it’s one thing to want equality but
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to proudly state that you’re a feminist
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is it’s almost yeah I have joked around
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about it like I see what you’re doing
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yeah you don’t run fast you can’t pick
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things up there was must he liked to
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fuck I get it somebody said is very
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faulty in Britain they said they
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described himself as an anti-racist
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party and some comedian who said it
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actually makes makes you think they
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might be racist
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we like saying you’re an anti pedophilia
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children’s agency that’s hilarious
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that’s so true it’s so true it’s a it’s
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virtue signaling to the highest degree
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it’s like you you’re putting up your
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flag of moral superiority standing on
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your high ground but it is it is it
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obviously means a great deal to these
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people but yeah but then the question is
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just how to how to invite them not to
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think like that
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I think mockery mockery is one of the
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best ways because it just lets them know
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that other people think it’s
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preposterous so it’s not achieving the
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desired result the desired result is oh
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look at this amazing person there’s
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incredible progressive ways of thinking
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not like oh look at this transparent
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fuck who’s just trying to get laid
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that’s that’s how a lot of us see it
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yeah they don’t see that we see it that
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way and some of them I mean it’s in a
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lot of ways a lot of our behavior is its
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experimental you know I mean people are
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experimenting with various different
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ways of gaining social preference points
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well this is this is why I was saying if
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people aren’t believers there are things
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they can learn from religion and from
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tradition mm-hmm
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and I’ve always thought that the I’ve
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always thought there’s one central
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insight to the judeo-christian tradition
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which I wish that the social justice
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warriors bore in mind and that is that’s
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the guy
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Navid n’ and and and the the or can’t
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recall the Crooked Timber of humanity
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mm-hmm just just to recognize the
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central truth which is in that tradition
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and in others that that we’re not born
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in this situation of Rousseau e’en
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perfection or goodness quite quite
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otherwise we are we are this very very
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contorted being which is part which is
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capable of incredible greatness and
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beauty and kindness and forgiveness and
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also capable of their opposites and
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that’s and that it’s not it’s not that
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you are one and other people are the
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other but all of us all of us both all
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the time and so there never is a victory
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and there never is a win rather than
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trying to deal with and restrain your
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own worst impulses in the life that you
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have and honestly express all the issues
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that arrive while you’re trying to do
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that absolutely and and trying to tell
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the truth where you see it and and
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giving voice to it and trying to I mean
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you know this is just it’s just you so
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clear to me that that if people if
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people could realize this is a central
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problem of the thing that you and I and
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others all faces the the desire to claim
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that the that somebody who disagrees on
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an issue isn’t just of a disagreeing
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mind but evil hmm and that in any you
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know we have in Britain we are wracked
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at the moment still by 18 months after a
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single vote on a single matter of
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governance we are still wracked by
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really unpleasant politic from brexit
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yeah
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and I suspect it’s it’s not I hate the
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overlap of the two but it’s probably
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something like the Trump events here but
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again and again you come back to the
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same thing which is just instead of
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thinking one side is entirely right and
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the other entirely I didn’t say you give
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up on objective fact or anything I’ve
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been just consider that your opponent
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might be approaching this with an honest
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mode
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I might have honest reasons for
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disagreeing with you and in the absence
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of that and with media just endlessly
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feeding us whatever wood is we know our
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own side happens to think in the absence
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of that I just see our trenches in both
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our countries just being dug deeper and
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deeper until until there’s just no hope
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of being able to even shout over the top
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and be heard and one can only get to
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that stage if if as I say you recognize
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that it’s it’s it’s not a constant fight
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against Nazis and you know I mean it’s
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by the way and also never to forget that
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the Nazis didn’t seem like the Nazis to
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a lot of people when the Nazis were
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being with Nazis but it’s just it’s just
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not as easy as that no it’s not you know
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but it’s it’s an easy way to demonize
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the other side yeah it’s an easy way to
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prop up your side it’s a it’s a cheap
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trick it is but came back to where we
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started
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what if the cheap trick ends up having
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some terrible consequence hmm of making
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all of our defenses go down you know
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well the both of you that I mean we
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started the conversation off with that
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Community Guidelines strike good lord
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yeah this is this really is a very very
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strange time very strange always was
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Douglas thank you very much I really
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really enjoyed this conversation I
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really appreciate it and your book that
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is out now is death of Europe it’s
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called immigration identity Islam and
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it’s variable if you can find any book
115:47
shops left minutes um you gotta get it
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online you can get it online as well
115:52
there’s a few Barnes and Nobles out
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there all right thank you Douglas Murray
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ladies and gentlemen great pleasure
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thank you
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Joe Rogan Experience #1139 – Jordan Peterson
45:04you’ll be able to participate in and ifhe’s fun to play with in adults we’llteach him things and then he wins atlife and so when you say to your kid itdoesn’t matter whether you win or losematters how you play the game whatyou’re saying is don’t forget kid thatwhat you’re trying to do here is to dowell at life and you need to practicethe strategies that enable you to dowell at life well you’re in any specificgame and you never want to compromiseyour ability to do well at life for thesake of winning a single game andthere’s a deep ethic in that and it’sthe ethic of reciprocity in games partof the reason that we’re so obsessedwith sports is because we like to seethat dramatized you know like the personwe really admire as an athlete isn’tonly the person who wins we don’t likethe narcissistic winners they’re winnersand that’s a plus but if they’renarcissistic they’re not good teamplayers they’re only out for themselvesthen we think well you’re a winner inthe narrow sense but your character issuspect you’re no role model even thoughyou’re a winner and it’s becausewe’re looking for something deeper we’relooking for that the manifestation ofcharacter that allows you to win acrossthe set of possible games and that’s areal thing that’s a real ethic it’s a46:13fundamental ethic I think what you’re46:15pointing out that’s very important is46:16we’re we’re searching for the person46:18who’s got it all nailed someone who46:21tries their hardest but is also honest46:25enough about the circumstances to not46:28cry foul when it’s gone46:30the other person’s way yeah well that’s46:32part of resilience that’s right like46:34you’re not gonna win it you’re not going46:36to you’re not gonna score on every shot46:37right it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take46:39the shots doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try46:40to to hit the goal but part of part of46:43being able to continue to take shots is46:46to have the strength of character to46:48tolerate the fact that that in that46:49instance you weren’t on top it’s more46:52trivial in games than it is in fights46:55and it’s also the response is much more46:59negative to the from the fans if you47:01lose a fight and complain about it it is47:04it’s ruthless there because they47:07understand that you’ve made a huge47:09character error yeah so why do you think47:12it’s more important in fights than it is47:14in games why do you think it is because47:15the consequences are so grave because47:17you recognize that the high is much47:19higher and the lows are much lower to47:21lose a basketball game sucks but it’s47:23nothing like losing a fight there’s no47:25comparison it’s not even so what do youthink it is the damages the fighter ifhe complains about losing why is that amistake why do the fans respond sonegatively to that because they knowthey know that you lost they know thatyou’re complaining for no reason andyou’re not a herothey want you to be better than themthey want you to be the person that hasthe courage to step into a cage or a47:47ring or wherever you with whatever the47:49format is you’re competing and to do47:51something that’s extremely difficult and47:53when you do that they hold you to a47:54higher state right to lose with grace47:56yes and when you fall especially if you47:58were a champion that is one of the most48:00disappointing things ever when champion48:02complains right and and it is okay so48:04response is horrific from the audience48:06okay so that’s a great example so let’s48:08imagine what does the person who loses48:11something important with grace do and48:13the answer is fairly straightforward48:16accepts the defeat and thinks okay what48:18what is it that I have left to improve48:21that will decrease the possibility of a48:22similar defeat in the future yes right48:24soso so what he’s doing is because the48:27great athlete and the great person is48:30not only someone who’s exceptionally48:31skilled at what they do but who’s trying48:33to expand their skills at all at all48:35times yes and the attempt to expand48:38their skills at all times is even more48:40important than the fact that they’re48:41great to begin with because the48:42trajectory is so important more48:43important in particular to the audience48:46it’s extremely important the audience48:48because you are the person who’s48:49competing you are expecting them to live48:52out this life in a perfect way or in a48:54much more powerful way than you’re48:55capable yes and so part of that is the48:57skill because they put in the practice48:59but part of that also is the willingness49:01to push the skill farther into new49:03domains of development with each action49:05and that’s really what people like to49:07watch right they don’t like to watch a49:08perfect athletic performance they like49:10to watch a perfect athletic performance49:12that’s pushed into the domain of new49:14risk they want to see both at the same49:16time you’re really good at what you do49:18and you’re getting better okay so you49:19lose a match which is not any indication49:22that you’re not good at what you do you49:23might not be as good as the person whobeat you but if you lose the match andthen whine what you’ve done is sacrificethe higher order principle of constantimprovement of your own skills yesbecause you should be analyzing the lossand saying the reason I lost insofar asit’s relevant to this particular timeand place is the insufficiencies Imanifested that defeated me and I need49:45to track those insufficiencies so that I49:47can rectify them in the future and if49:48I’m blaming it on you or the referees or49:50the situation that I’m not taking49:53responsibility and I’m not pushing49:54myself forward and so then you also take49:56the meaning out of it like one of the49:58things I’ve been doing on my tour people50:01are criticizing me to some degree for50:03saying things to people that are obvious50:04well first of all it’s not like I didn’t50:06bloody well know they were obvious when50:08I wrote those rulings you were the rules50:10in my book for example stand up straight50:12with your shoulders back you know treat50:14yourself like you’re someone responsible50:16for helping it’s like I know perfectly50:18well that those can be read as cliches50:20the question is cliche let’s say is50:23something that’s so true that it’s that50:25it’s become that it’s become it’s widely50:29accepted by everyone well but we don’t50:31know why it’s true anymore and so it’s50:35this issue that the issue that we’re50:37talking about here or the issue of being50:38a good sport we need to figure out why50:40that’s true and the reason that it’s50:42true is that you’re trying to push your50:44development farther than you’ve already50:45developed at every point in time and now50:47that’s the proper that’s the proper50:49moral attitude so50:56when you see an athletic performance50:58where someone is pushing themselves50:59beyond what they are you see someone51:01dramatizing the process of proper51:03adaptation it isn’t the skill itself51:05it’s the extension of the skill when you51:07see someone acting like a bad sport then51:09they’re sacrificing that and so they’re51:10sacrificing the higher for the lower and51:12no one likes that in the fights it’s got51:15to be see the question is that’s the51:17thing I can’t quite figure out is why51:19that would be even exaggerated in a51:20fight situation and you said it’s51:23because the stakes are so high51:24yeah the consequences of victory or51:26defeat they’re just so much greater51:29there’s your your health is on the line51:32it’s one of the rare things that you do51:34where your health is on the line your51:37physical health right so there’s more51:38extreme victories and more game defeats51:40and so the morality that’s associated51:42with defeat is more extreme exactly51:44because there’s more on the line and the51:48way people treat the champions it’s it’s51:50a it’s a very different thing it’s the51:53the respect and adulation that a51:55champion receives is it’s the pinnacle51:58of sports in terms of the the love from52:01the audience when someone wins a great52:04fight it’s there’s nothing like it and52:06this is one of the reasons why these52:07people are willing to put their health52:09on the line because that high the high52:11of victory and it’s not just a victory52:14it’s a you know what what is that who52:16was it who said the victory is really52:21the victory over the lesser you it’s a52:24victory it’s always the victory is over52:28you’ve got to realize a guy like steep a52:30Miocic who defends is heavyweight title52:33this weekend in the UFC he is he’s the52:37heavyweight champion the world but he’s52:39not undefeated he lost in his career52:41he’s lost a couple of times and he you52:43know as I’m sure he’s lost wrestling52:45matches and sparring sessions in the gym52:48and all he’s a product of improvement52:51right he’s a product of discipline and52:53hard work and thinking and strategy and52:56constantly improving upon his skills and52:58so so in because of that he’s the53:00baddest man on the planet so my in my53:01book rule for is this is 12 excuse me53:05this is from 12 rules for life rule 4 is53:09come53:10carry yourself to who you were yesterday53:11not to who someone else is today yes53:13because you need to be you need to have53:15a hierarchy of improvement you need to53:18be aiming something for something and53:19that means you’re going to be lesser53:20than people who’ve always already53:22attained along that dimension yes and53:23that can give rise to envy so the53:26question is who should you defeat in the53:27final analysis and the answer is you53:29should defeat your former self53:30you should be constantly trying to do53:32that and you’re the right control for53:34yourself to because you’re the one who’s53:36had all your advantages and53:37disadvantages and so if you want to53:39compete fairly with someone then you53:40should be competing with you and it is53:42the case and this is what we were53:44talking about – with regards to the self53:46improvement of the fighter is well if53:49you’re improving yourself then what you53:51are doing is competing with your lesser53:52self and then you might also ask well53:54what is that lesser self and that lesser53:57self would be resentful and bitter and53:59and aggressive and vengeance seeking and54:04all of those things that go along with54:05having a negative moral character and54:07those are things that interfere with54:08your ability to progress as you move54:10forward through life so it’s very54:13necessary to understand that this is why54:15you know I’ve been stressing this idea54:18of personal responsibilities like well54:20personal responsibility is to compete54:21with yourself is to be slightly better54:23than yourself the next day and it better54:25in some way that you can actually manage54:27and that’s humility it’s right like well54:29I’m a flawed person and I’ve got all my54:31problems could I be as good as person X54:34it’s like not the right question the54:36right question is could you be slightly54:38better tomorrow than you’re currently54:39flawed self and the answer to that is if54:41you have enough humility to set the bar54:44properly low then you could be better54:46tomorrow than you are today because what54:49you also have to do is you have to say54:51well here’s all my flaws and my54:54insufficiencies and the best that54:56someone that flawed and insufficient54:58could do to improve and actually do it55:00is this and that’s not worth going out55:02in the street and celebrating with55:03plaque arts you know it’s like well this55:05is why I tell people to clean the room55:07it’s not going to brag to someone that55:08you did that but someone is insufficient55:10as you might be able to manage it and55:12that means you actually are on the55:14pathway to self improvement and you’re55:15transcending your former self and you55:17might say well what’s the right way of55:19being in the world if there is such a55:21thing and it’s not acting according to a55:23set of rules55:24it’s attempting continually to transcend55:26the flawed thing that you currently are55:28and what’s so interesting about that is55:30that the mean meaning in the meaning in55:32life is to be found in that pursuit so59:56it’s things are going really badly foryou and that there’s just chanceassociated with that sometimes and youand the people around you are doingstupid things to make it worse it’s likeokay what have you got under thosecircumstances you’ve got the possibilityto slowly raise yourself out of the mireyou’ve got that the possibility to dojust what the fighter does when he’sdefeated which is to say well regardlessof the circumstances that might have ledto my defeat like even if there wereerrors on the part of the referee thisis no time to whine about it this is atime to take stock of what I did wrongso that I could improve it into thefuture and that’s the right attitude youknow in the Old Testament one of thethings that’s really interesting aboutthe Old Testament stories is in the OldTestament the Jews keep getting wallopedby God it’s like they struggle up andmake an empire and then they just getwalloped and then it’s all crushed inthere and they’re they’re out of it forgenerations and then they struggle backup and make an empire and then they getdemolished again and it happens over andover and over and the the attitude ofthe Old Testament Hebrews is we musthave made a mistake it’s never to shaketheir fist at the sky and curse fateit’s never that the presupposition is ifthings aren’t working out it’s my faultand that’s a hell of a presuppositionand you might say well of course youknow what’s that that underestimates thedegree to which there’s systemicoppression etc etc and and the and thevagaries of fate it’s like it doesn’tover underestimate it it’s not the pointthe point is your best strategic61:28position is how am i insufficient and61:31how can I rectify that that’s what61:33you’ve got and the thing is you are61:35insufficient and you could rectify itboth of those are within your grasp ifyou aim low enough one of the things whydo you see the that’s another thing youkeep saying aim low enough have a lowenough bar why do you why do you meanthat well let’s say you’ve got a kid andyou want the kid to improve you don’tset them a bar that’s so high that it’simpossible for them to attain it youtake a look at the kid and you thinkokay this kid’s got this range of skillhere’s a challenge we can throw at himor her that exceeds their current levelof skill but gives them areasonable probability of success and solike I’m saying it tongue-in-cheek tosome degree you know it’s like but ifyou’re but I’m doing it as an aid tohumility it’s like well I don’t know howto start improving my life someone mightsay that and I would say well you’re notaiming low enough there’s something youcould do that you are regarding istrivial that that you could do that youwould do that would result in an actualimprovement but it’s not a big enoughimprovement for you so you won’t loweryourself enough to take the opportunityincremental steps yes and so this isalso what is achieved through exerciseit’s one of the most important well whatdo you do when you go and lift weightsyou don’t go on like if you haven’tbench press before you don’t put 400pounds on the damn bar and drop the anddrop the bar through your skull I knowyou think look when I started workingout when I was a kid I was I was waitabout a hundred and thirty pounds and Iwas six foot one so thin kid and Ismoked a lot I wasn’t in good shape Iwasn’t in good physical shape and I wentto the gym and it was bloodyembarrassing you know when people wouldcome over and help me with the goddamnweights here’s how you’re supposed touse this you know it was humiliating andmaybe I was pressing 65 pounds orsomething at that point you know butwhat am I gonna do I’m gonna lift up ahundred fifty pounds and injure myselfright off the bat no I had to go inthere and strip down and put my skinnygoddamn self in front of the mirror andthink son-of-a-bitch there’s all thesemonsters in the gym who’ve been liftingweights for ten years and I’m strugglingto get 50 pounds off the bar tough luckfor me but I could lift 50 pounds and itwasn’t fair very long until I could lift75 and well you know how it goes but andI never injured myself when I was latelifting and the reason for that was Inever pushed myself past where I knew Icould go and I pushed myself a lot youknow I gained 35 pounds of muscle inabout three years in University I kindof had to quit because I was eating sogoddamn much I couldn’t stand itseething like six meals a day it wasjust taking up too much time but there’sa humility in determining what it isthat the wretched creature that you arecan actually manage aim low and I don’tmean don’t aim and I don’t mean don’taim up but you have to accept the factthat you can set yourself a goal thatyou can attain and there’s not going tobe much glory in it to begin withbecause if you’re not in very good shapethe goalYuuka day could attain tomorrow isn’tvery glorious but it’s a hell of a lotbetter than nothing and it beats thehell out of bitterness and it’s waybetter than blaming someone else it’sway less dangerous and you could do itand what’s cool about it there’s astatement in the New Testament it’scalled the Matthew principle andeconomists use it to describe how theeconomy in the world works to those whohave everything more will be given fromthose who have nothing everything willbe taken it’s like what’s verypessimistic in some sense because itmeans that as you start to fail you failmore and more rapidly but it also meansthat as you start to succeed you succeedmore and more rapidly and so you take anincremental step and well now you can64:58lift 55 pounds instead of 52 point 565:01pounds you think well what the hell is65:02that it’s like it’s one step on a very65:04long journey and so it’s it and it65:07starts to compound on you so a small65:10step today means puts you in a position65:11to take a slightly bigger step for the65:13next day and then that puts you in a65:15position to take a slightly bigger step65:16the next day and you do that for two or65:18three years man you’re starting to65:20stride you know what I have so many65:22people coming up to me now this is one65:23of the things that’s so insanely fun65:25about this tour which is so positive65:27it’s it brings me to tears regularly65:30it’s mind boggling because people come65:32up to me and this is happening wherever65:34I go now and they say they’re very65:36polite when they come and talk to me you65:38know and they’re always apologetic for65:40interrupting and so it’s never it’s75:34that what that means is that these kidshave been educated for twelve years andno one had ever sat them down and saidokay what the hell are you doing and whyand how are you gonna get like where doyou want to go why do you want to getthere how are you gonna get therehow are you gonna mark your progressthey’ve never walked them through thatexercise you walk people through thatexercise just to get them to do thatincreases the probability that they’llstay on track by 50% that’s incrediblewell it’s one of the things I’ve alwayscomplained about is that they know onepeople teach you facts they don’t teachyou how to approach life they don’tteach you how to think they don’t teachyou how to confront why do theinsecurities and different traps thatyour mind will set up for you yeah wellthat’s what partly what’s so fun aboutdoing this lecture tour because that’sexactly what I’m talking to people about..
83:28right I’m transmitting information thatI’ve learned from very very wise peopleand so there’s that but also we don’twant to underestimate the utility of thetechnology right because we have thislong-form technology now and it’senabling us to have this discussion andso we can get deeper into thingspublicly and socially then we were ableto before and I see this I see this as amanifestation of that and and as and I’mhoping too that maybe maybe what’shappening because we’re gonna have a lotof adaptation to do in the next 20 yearsas things change so rapidly we canhardly comprehend it and hopefully theway we’re going to be able to managethat is to think and hopefully theselong form discussions will provide thepolitical or provide the public forumfor us to actually think to actuallyengage at a deep enough level so we’llbe able to master the transformationsand I think that’s possible and himpart of the reason that I wrote thisbook and well part of the reason thatI’d be doing what I’ve been doing for84:24the last thirty years because I reallyhave believed since nineteen eighty fivesomething like that that the way out ofpolitical polarization the way out ofthe excesses of the right and the leftis through the individual I think theWest got that right the fundamental unitof measurement is the individual and thefundamental task of the individual is toengage in this process of humbleself-improvement I believe that’s thecase and that’s where the meaning is andthat’s where the responsibility is and Ithink and I’m hoping that if enoughpeople in the West and then and then therest of the world for that matter butwe’re very polarized in the West rightnow if enough people take responsibilityfor getting their individual life’stogether then we’ll get wise enough sowe won’t let this process of politicalpolarization put us back to the sameplaces that we went so many times in the20th century I don’t see anotherantidote for it it’s not political it’sethical this is the message that Ialways hear from you and this is you asa friend this is the you that Iunderstand but this is not how you’recommonly represented you are the mostmisrepresented person I’ve ever met inmy lifeI have never seen someone who has somuch positive that gets ignored andwhere people are looking for any littlething that they could possiblymisrepresent and switch up and changeand I’m kind of stunned by it I mean II’m really not sure what it is about youthat’s so polarizing with all thesedifferent people that are deciding that85:58you are some sexist transphobic evil86:04person that’s this right-wing86:06all right the figure you know even to86:11the point where it’s it’s it’s kind of86:14humorous to me sometimes when I read86:16some of these these takes on you what do86:20you think that’s from like what what is86:22have you this is a new thing for you86:25you mean this only been the last few86:27years that you’ve gone from this86:29relatively unknown professor in a86:33university into86:33Anto to being this worldwide figure86:36where people you’re obviously your86:39message is resonating with people in avery huge way but the people that areopposing you they’re vehemently opposedwhat do you think that is collectivistdon’t like me collectivists what do youmean by thatpeople who think the probably properunit of analysis in the world is apolitical and B group oriented theidentity politics types don’t like me atall and they have every reason not tobecause I’m not I’m not a fan ofidentity politicsI think things that’s why you’remisrepresented but mentally there’sother reasons I mean I came out againstthis bill in Canada bill C 16 that thathypothetically purported to do nothingelse but to increase the the domain ofRights that were applied to transsexualpeople but there was a there was plentymore to that bill man let me tell youand I read the policy dot the policiesthat went along with it and it was acompelled speech bill and so I opposedit on the grounds that the politicians87:36are not supposed to leap out of their87:37proper domain and start to compel speech87:40it’s not the same as forbidding hate87:42speech I’m I think hate speech should be87:44left alone personally for all sorts of87:46reasons but to compel the contents of87:48speech is a whole new thing it’s never87:51been done before in the history of87:52British common law English common law87:53and it’s actually the Supreme Court in87:56the 1940s in the u.s. said that that was87:58not to be allowed and so it was a major88:00transgression and they said well we’re88:02doing it for all the right reasons it’s88:03like no no you don’t get it88:05you don’t get to compel speech I don’t88:07care what your reasons are and why88:09should I trust your damn reasons anyways88:11what makes you so st. like so that you88:14can violate this fundamental principle88:15and I should assume that you’re doing it88:17for nothing but compassion and that88:18you’re wise enough to manage that88:19properly it’s like sorry no I read your88:22policies I see what you’re up to I don’t88:24like the collectivists I think they’re88:26unbelievably dangerous and I have reason88:28to believe that so I think that when88:31push comes to shove if your unit of88:35analysis is the group and your worldview88:37is one group and its power claims88:39against all other groups that that88:41that’s not acceptable it’s it’s88:43tribalism of the worst form and it lead88:45to nothing but mayhem and desire88:47and part of the reason you’re doing it88:48isn’t because your compassion it’s88:50because you’re envious and you don’t88:51want to take responsibility for your own88:52life and I’m calling you on it and so88:55you don’t like me so I must be an88:56alright figure I must be a Nazi saying88:59your house needs a lot of work man89:01there’s a lot of rot in the in the89:03floorboards89:04the plumbing is leaking the water’s89:05coming in you’re not you’re not the sage89:07and Saint you think you are there’s so89:10much work you have to do on yourself89:11that it would damn near kill you to take89:13a look at it do everything you honestly89:15think that that’s why people are89:16responding to you in a negative way that89:18they only have their own personal89:20problems that they’re avoiding it can’t89:22possibly be that you represent to them89:24something that is either cruel or89:30something that is not compassionate89:33about people and their differences and89:35their flaws and their their humanity89:38because I think it’s certainly the case89:40that there the vision that’s been89:42generated of me is yeah that’s but89:44that’s what I’m getting at oh yeah89:46there’s that too but why is layers say89:48theirs well part of its the political89:51polarization you know at the moment89:52we’re viewing almost everything that89:54happens in the world through a political89:56lens at least the journalists at least89:58first of all first of all I gotta make90:01this clearconditions oh no we can’t do that it’s134:32like the discussion you guys wanted whydo you continue and agree to have theseconversations that are gonna be editedoh well that’s a good question the JimJefferies one was another one yeah Jim’s134:43a friend of mine but I mean he gave you134:45a good question and you actually gave a134:46good answer you said actually I’m134:49probably wrong about yeah yeah and you134:50were talking about whether or not gay134:52people should whether someone should be134:55forced to bake a cake for cake for gay134:57people yeah I said forced to probably134:59not they said well what if they don’t135:00want to get baked a cake for black135:02people yeah and he said well actually135:05probably it probably should be forced to135:07yeah well probably wrong yeah well I was135:09probably wrong in everything I did and135:11that in that part of the discussion135:12because I hadn’t thought that issue135:15through enough to actually give a good135:16answer he didn’t expect that issue135:18because this is not something you talk135:19about commonly no and it’s it’s actually135:21complicated right I mean obviously the135:23whole I won’t serve you because you’re135:25black thing is not good but then again135:27you have you also have the right to135:29choose who you’re going to affiliate135:30with but135:31that’s complicated because it’s a135:32commercial circumstance and then if135:33you’re making a cake is that the same as135:35serving or is that compelled speech it’s135:37like oh my god these are border cases135:40that cause a lot of controversy I don’t135:42mean serving black people obviously135:43that’s not a border case but these cases135:45that caused a lot of controversy is135:47where two principles are at odds and it135:49isn’t exactly clear where to draw the135:50line and I’m not happy with you know I’m135:53not happy with my answer to that but I135:55hadn’t spent that like week it would135:57take to think through the issue and135:59really have a comprehensive perspective136:00you didn’t expect that to be a subject136:02anyway no no what how long did you talk136:05to Jim for oh I think about 45 minutes136:08maybe an hour first Oh two minutes yeah136:11well my daughter has told me and and my136:14wife as well my son as well and these136:16discussions we’ve been thinking about136:18how to handle the media which is a verycomplicated question and one hypothesisbeing don’t do interviews that will beedited and I’ve thought about that andand and and being thinking about it andthat might be the right answer it mightbe the right answer going fooling it isright and well it could it could easilybe although it’s the only way you can’tbe misrepresented just all the problemsthat I’ve seen with you all of them comefrom you being edited yes I mean there’scomplex subjects that people woulddisagree with you on but when you lookat complete mischaracterizations of yourpointthese have been established because ofediting yes well I guess the onlycounter-argument is this and I mean alot of these a lot of theseopportunities come I’ve hadopportunities that are coming at me arate at a rate that doesn’t allow me tothink them through as much as I couldoptimally but but then there’s anotherthing which is it isn’t necessarily amistake to lay yourself open to attackbecause sometimes it reveals the motivesof the attackers like that’s whathappened in the Kathy Newman interviewno that could have gone really sidewayslike I was lucky there to some degreebecause she interviewed me for 40minutes or whatever and something likethat and then they did chop it down toseven minutes or three minutes and itwas exactly what you’d expect and thatis what I expected afteraway from the interview I thought oh mygod they’re just gonna chop this intoreprehensible segments and pillory mebut I walked away from it because therewas 50 other things to do but then itwas so funny because they did do thatand then they put up the whole interviewand the reason they put up the wholeinterview was because they thought theinterview went fine it isn’t that theyknew that that was gonna cause commotionnot at all not a bithe141:23journalists I’m certainly not taking141:24anywhere near the number of141:26opportunities that I have in front of me141:27right we are trying to be very carefulin picking and choosing but that doesn’talways go well and it’s like it could bethat it could be that I shouldn’t doanything that is edited at all that’scertainly possible so well this is theproblem you speak in these you speak inthese long-form podcasts and interviewsand you get a chance to extrapolate andunpack some pretty complicated issuesand compare them to other complicatedissues and try to find meaning andmiddle ground and and try to try toilluminate certain positions when youexpose yourself to editing you youexpose yourself to someoneidea of what the narrative should be andhow to frame your positions in it in anddishonest way yeah and you’re seeing ittime and time again when it exposes the142:23problem with medium look I went to the142:25Aspen ideas festival last week which is142:27a whole story in and of itself but I was142:29interviewed there by a journalist from142:31the Atlantic Monthly and it was a142:33relatively long form interview I think142:35we talked for 40 minutes something like142:37that and it’s going to be edited142:39now I trusted her I trust her now142:42whether that’ll be well how that will142:44play out in the final edit I don’t know142:46because she won’t be the only one making142:48the decision right well the question is142:50should have I done it well look it was142:53the Aspen ideas festival it’s a142:54different audience it’s left-leaningI thought well maybe I’ll go talk to aleft-leaning audience people are alwayscriticizing me for not doing that Iusually don’t do it because I don’t getinvited but so I went and talked to themit’s like and Barry Weiss interviewed mein front of the Aspen ideas festival andthat was long-form uncut and put on theweb and so maybe that was useful theAtlantic thing well it might be goodwe’ll see it does expose me to the riskthough because it’ll be edited so and itwas it wise to do itlook I’ve been fortunate so far despitethe fact that I’ve been taken out ofcontext at times and fairly significantproportion of times but not theoverwhelming majority of times the netconsequence of all of that has been to143:46engage more and more people in a complex143:48dialogue as far as I can tell so that’s143:51the good that’s the good it doesn’t mean143:54the strategy that I’ve implemented so143:56far is the only strategy that will work143:58into the future we can also clearly144:00establish it you didn’t planning this to144:02happen this this whole thing that144:04happened from you opposing that bill and144:07then going to where you are how manyyou148:11know what you’re talking about so you148:13take the listeners on a journey right148:15it’s an exploratory journey but148:17fundamentally what’s propelled you to148:19superstardom in some sense is not justyour ability which is non-trivial butthe fact that you’re on this gianttechnological wave and you’re one of thefirst adopters and I’m in the samesituation we’re first adopters of atechnology that’s as revolutionary asthe Gutenberg printing press and sothat’s all unfolding in real time it’slike look at what’s happening yeah wellthe spoken word is now as powerful asthe written word that’s never happenedbefore in human history and we’re on thecutting edge of that for better or worsethat’s a very good way to put it thespoken word is just power yeah and maybeeven more so why is it so accessible topeople that don’t have the time to readwell or stuck in traffic you know or orand here’s another possibility maybe tentimes as many people can listen tocomplex information as can read complexinformation in terms of their ability toprocess it sure could easily we don’tknow maybe it’s maybe it’s the same it’scertainly easier to listen to a book ontape for me than it is to read a bookyeah well so for us so the question isfor how many people is that true and Iwould say it might be true for them forthe majority of people and then peopleare doing hybrids you know so becauseyou can sync your book with audibleright so they’ll read when they have thetime but then when they have found timewhich is also a major component of thisthat that’s the time when you’re drivingor the time when you’re doing dishes isnow all of a sudden you can educateyourself during that found time this is149:40a big revolution and the band blowing149:43out the bandwidth makes a huge149:44difference because while we talked about149:46that at the beginning looks like people149:48are more intelligent than we thought and149:49you and I are both and the rest of this149:51intellectual dark web that’s kind of149:53what unites us say is everybody has an149:55independent platform virtually everybody149:57they have an idiosyncratic viewpoint150:00they’re interested in having discussions150:02and pursuing for the furtherance of150:04their knowledge even though they might150:05have a priori ideological commit150:07Sam doesn’t I suppose I do and and Ben150:09Shapiro certainly does but they’re still150:11interested in having the discussion but150:14more importantly they’re capitalizing on150:16the long form and and the fact that150:18that’s possible is a reflection of this150:19technological transformation and the150:21technological transfer information might150:23be utterly profound it looks like it and150:27so that’s you know I’ve been trying to150:29sort this out because I keep thinking150:30why the hell are these people coming to150:32listen to what I’m saying it’s like well150:33
I’m a guru you know I’m a sage it’s150:35something like that it’s like don’t be150:37thinking that first think if there’s150:41situational determinants first take your150:43damn personality out of it okay what’s150:45going on oh yes this is all fostered by150:48YouTube and fostered by podcasts what’s150:50so new about that150:52no bandwidth restrictions no barrier to150:55entrance possibility of dialog because150:58people cut up the YouTube videos into151:00chunks and make their own comments on it151:02it’s a whole new communication151:03technology also a lack of interference151:06by executives and producers and all151:08these different people that have their151:09own bodies unmediated yes unmediated is151:11giant yeah yeah well that’s all part of151:13the reason you’re so popular too is like151:15you just put this on like so you’ve got151:17exactly the right balance of competent151:21production because there’s nothing151:23excess about it like it’s competent but151:26no more than that I know that’s by151:28design but you also don’t edit it it’s151:30like what you see is what you get it’s151:31like everyone’s relieved by that we can151:33make our own damn decisions no I think151:35that’s very important if you’re gonna151:36have a conversation with someone that’s151:38honest you you can’t decide what to151:40leave in and what to take out and it’s151:43just well that’s partly also why I deal151:45with the press the way I do yeah if I’m151:47gonna have a full conversation it’s like151:48I’m willing to take the hits yeah and151:50and I understand what you’re saying but151:52that’s one of the reasons why itfrustrates me so much is that I see whatthey’re doing and I’m like what you’redoing is ancient what you’re doing isit’s it’s this is what people did twentyyears ago thirty years ago for you can’t152:03really do that anymore152:04you can’t misrepresent people you used152:06to be able to if you were in the press152:07you could take people quote amount of152:09context do whatever the fuck you wanted152:11put an article about them they couldn’t152:12do a goddamn thing about it it happened152:14to me in nineteenit was like ninety-nineI did a I had a comedy CD that came outand this woman wrote an article about itand it just she just lied she lied aboutmy perspective she lied about the bitsshe misquoted the bits she didn’t justparaphrase themshe changed what the bits were to makethem you know misogynist or hateful orwhatever it was and in doing so I thatthere was no recourse there was nothingthat I could do about them like wow I’dnever experienced that before I was likethis is stunning and then I found outthis person did that a lot and this iswhat she did and there’s ultimate powerthat comes at being the person who hasthe pen being the person who has thetypewriter and you you’re the person whoworks for you know the Boston Globe orwhatever the publication is that that issomething that existed forever you knowand that you had to be either a friendof the press you had to play ball youhad you had a bend to their will you todo what they wanted you to do and theycould misrepresent you and choose topaint you in any way they like and it’sone of the reasons why I don’t doanything anymoreI don’t do any interviews anymore Idon’t do anything I don’t want to doanything yeah this I do enough man you153:28want to know about me it fucking there’s153:29a thousand podcasts there’s more than a153:32thousand there’s I think there’s there’s153:351,100 and there’s a bunch of other ones153:37three right let’s just it doesn’t make153:38any sense153:39yeah well that that’s that that it may153:41also be the position that I increasingly153:43find myself in I think it’s the right153:45position because then the153:47misrepresentations don’t exist anymore153:48so then the only problem is the dispute153:50over the actual ideological153:52conversations or the other the actual153:55concept but you know the thing is you153:57know you made a point there that’s quite153:58interesting it’s like we are in a new154:00media landscape so now if someone comes154:02out as a as a media figure with some154:06institutional credibility and154:09misrepresents its exposed and so then154:12the question is how much risk should use154:14shoulder to expose the proclivity for154:16media misrepresentation and the answer154:19to that might be some now it might be154:22moving you know maybe I’ve done enough154:23of that I mean it would be easier for me154:26in many ways if I just stopped doing it154:28but but there’s some utility and having154:31it play out and so154:33well so I’m trying to get I’m trying to154:36only take those opportunities that154:38appear to have more benefit than risk154:41and when I defining benefit154:44well the question is then what154:46constitutes benefit and I guess what154:48constitutes benefit is well that would154:52further the attempts that I’m making to154:55bring information to a vast number of154:57people that could conceivably help them154:59stabilize and improve their individual155:02lives that’s worth a certain amount of155:03risk155:04well it certainly increases your profile155:06increases your profile and even if you155:08know you have 60% of these people are155:10gonna get a bad perception of you 40% of155:12these people that never heard of you now155:14we’re going to understand who you are155:15because they do further investigation155:16yeah so there’s some benefit in that but155:18the negative I mean I get text messages155:21from random people that I was friends155:22with years ago let’s say this Jordan155:24Peterson is just such a lying sack of155:26shit and he’s this not only I don’t even155:28know who the fuck you are and then155:30second of all like why are you155:31contacting me you know I’m saying hi155:33you’re saying he’s a scam artist he’s a155:40fraud he’s in it and I’m like wow and so155:43they’ll see an interview you know like155:45the the Jim Jefferies clip which is a155:47minute long or whatever it is or the155:49Vice piece or the the initial Kathy155:52Newman piece and they just form this155:55determined position on you and then Reid155:58hit pieces on you and then this is where156:01they take their opinion this is where156:03it’s from it’s and it’s like these arethe last gasps of a dying medium Ireally do I just I think too I don’t Idon’t think that people appreciate it Ithink the people that are listening tothis that do appreciate long-formconversations and with all warts and allall the ugliness and the mistakes andthe critical errors and the the peoplethat appreciate that they they they have156:29a real hate for being lied to you know156:32because it’s it it changed when when you156:35try never being treated as if they’re156:37stupid yes156:38yeah which they aren’t yeah that’s both156:41it’s just it’s it’s deceptive when you156:44when you added someone and take their156:47wordsto context and change them around you’rebeing deceptive the New York Times didthat again this week they had somephilosophy professor from Hong KongUniversity write a piece on me and hetook they quoted me it was a sentencethere’s like the first phrase was inquotes and then there was some joiningwords and then the second phrase was inquotes and there was some joining wordsand then the third phrase was in quotesand the three quotes added up to astatement that bore no resemblancewhatsoever to what I was saying how canthey do that in the New York Times thatseems to me to be something that shouldbe the the I don’t but they still Idon’t think they can do I think they’rekilling their brand so fast that theycan’t but it is so disturbing to me as a157:24person who’s been a fan of the New York157:26Times forever I just don’t understand157:28how they could allow that to happen how157:30could you allow your what what is the157:33gold standard for journalism how could157:36you allow it to become something that157:37willfully misrepresents someone they157:39never did to push an idea I never did157:41put my book on the New York Times157:43bestseller list it’s quite comical how’s157:45that possible oh they have rules which157:48they don’t disclose but one of them157:50apparently is well if the book is157:51published and counted and distributed in157:53the United States then it doesn’t count157:54even though they’ve had books like that157:56on the New York Times bestseller list157:57before and I think okay well is this bad158:00or good it’s like well it’s bad because158:02to the degree that I might want to be on158:04the New York Times bestseller list158:05although I haven’t been losing any sleep158:07over but you’re selling I know how many158:09books are selling yeah it’s basically158:10being the best-selling book in the world158:12since January you know it’s gone up and158:14down to some degree but right it should158:16be the number one New York Times158:18bestseller so they they they have the158:20reasons and but I look at that and I158:22think oh well you can only do that ten158:24times until you’re done like because158:27it’s a fatal error158:27you have the gold standard for158:29measurement you’re not measuring158:31properly you’re burning up your brand158:34you think well we’re the New York Times158:35so we can burn up our brand it’s like no158:38you can’t Newsweek is gone Time magazine158:40is a shallow is a shell of its former158:42self like the big things disappear and158:46they disappear when they get crooked and158:48ideologically rigid and so that’s what’s158:51happening at the New York Times not with158:53everyone there but with plenty of them158:55and they’ll die faster than people think158:58but it’s so confusing to me that159:00it didn’t used to be that yeah and now159:04it is and are they just responding to159:06this new world where you have to have159:08clickbait journalism and you know some159:11people are struggling to find people to159:12actually buy physical newspapers which159:14is well it’s a different thing it’s hard159:16to say like because maybe see it’s weird159:18because you don’t have to resort to159:20clickbait because these long-form159:23discussions are the antithesis of159:24clickbait right are they struggling in159:27terms of like how many people buy them159:29safer oh absolutely every newspaper the159:32newspapers in Canada went cap and hand159:34to the federal government for subsidies159:36about six months ago because they’re159:37dying so fast and so some of it is159:40they’re being supplanted by technology159:42that’s a huge part of it but as they are159:44supplanted they get more desperate they159:46publish more polarizing stories that159:48works in the short term to garner more159:50views but it alienates people from the159:52brand and speeds their demise classic159:54death spiral of a big of a big159:56organization and that’s going to clean159:59things out like mad I mean I don’t know160:00where CNN is in the Cable News rankings160:03now our cable show rankings but it keeps160:04falling but it’s falling in the rankings160:07as cable itself disintegrates and dies160:09why do you need cable TV right160:12no one needs cable TV the only people160:14who have cable TV are the people who160:16haven’t figured out yet that you can160:18replace it entirely online for like 1/10160:20the price with with much less hassle but160:22the art is people want a location they160:25can go to to find out what’s going on in160:26the world and this is the one thing that160:28they used to represent and you know I160:31mean I don’t think Fox News is any160:33better I think you just have these160:34ideological extremes left and right and160:37I remember very clearly watching the160:39election coverage before the election160:42like we were leading up to the election160:44I would go Fox News and then I go CNN I160:46just would go back and forth with them160:48on my cable yeah and I would just be160:49laughing I’m like what is really160:51happening in the world because I’m160:53getting to different stories I’m getting160:55Russia and I’m getting Hillary’s emails160:56this is I don’t know what the fuck is160:58what what is happening I’m getting pussy161:00grabbing and I’m getting you know161:03Benghazi yeah you know I’m this is what161:05I’m getting and I don’t understand like161:06why this is obviously ideological this161:10is well not just look it might be that161:11as the technology is supplanted161:14the ideological polarization increases161:17as the thing dies right there struggling161:19for anyone to pay attention and this is161:21the way they have to do it to any shore161:23and I think what’s happening on the161:24other side which is the side you occupy161:27say is that a new technology that’s long161:29form that deals with many of those161:32problems is emerging and it’s going to161:33emerge it’s going to be victorious161:35but in the me might already be161:37victorious in the meantime little baby161:39stuff still exists in the digital world161:42yeah you know and then you’re getting a161:43lot of the articles that are written161:45about you people are absorbing these161:46articles not from a physical form you’re161:48getting it from from digital yeah well161:50okay so then the sense is well do you161:52have fundamental trust in the judgment161:54of your fellow man let’s say and my161:57answer to that is yes because although161:59I’ve been pilloried to a great degree by162:02the radical types in the commentariat162:05and in that classic journalists though162:09comments with regards to me on YouTube162:11are 50 to 1 in my favor and and that’s162:15even the case when the ideologues put up162:16videos about me they’re designed to162:18discredit me and I’ve sold a million and162:21a half books it’s going to be published162:23in 40 countries and thousands of people162:25are coming to my lectures and so I would162:27say the attempts to discredit me aren’t162:30working so and now I think that’s162:34because that even like even if you go to162:35youtube you can see Jordan Peterson162:38smashes leftist journalists you know as162:40a clickbait thing someone’s taken a162:41two-minute clip from a video and they162:43put it out and they’re using that162:44clickbait headlines to attract attention162:46it’s like it does attract attention and162:48that probably even furthers polarization162:50but I think that most people enough162:53people that’s the prayer enough people162:56are going for the long form thorough162:58discussion so that the sensible will163:02will triumph that’s what I’m hoping for163:05the sensible will triumph no I agree and163:07I think that is what’s happened yeah I163:09think that’s why this fifty to one163:10number exists is that there but the the163:13number one in that 50 the 50 verses you163:17know the 50 people that are actually163:18understanding what’s going on and163:20agreeing with you versus the number one163:22that are trying to willfully163:24misrepresent you they still exist and163:25they’re loud you know they’re and163:27they’re163:27to be right and this is one of the163:29things that people love to do they love163:31to fight to be right instead of163:33examining their position and wondering163:34whether or not they are taking you out163:36of context and misrepresenting your163:38positions to the world willfully and163:40doing so in order to paint a negative163:43picture of you that does not accurately163:45represent who you are what you stand for163:47yes but by doing this virtue without any163:50of the work they’re also destroying163:52their own credits this is what’s163:54devastating it’s like the in they’re163:55trying to win they’re killing themselves163:58right well and that’s a good that’s a164:00good motif for the entire conversation164:03it’s like try hard to hard to win you164:06kill yourself you were talking last164:07night when we were when we were over164:08dinner you said that one of the most164:10deadly things for a fighter to do is to164:11overestimate his own position you’re164:14gonna get your abilities yes if you164:17overestimate your abilities you you’re164:18you’re in deep deep trouble because164:20you’re gonna get a wake-up call right164:22and objectivity is one of the most164:24critical aspects of development you have164:26to be you have to be objectively164:28assessing your strengths and weaknesses164:30at every step of the way that’s brava164:33bravado right I’m I’m trying to prove164:35how I’m so powerful I’m so powerful it’s164:37an ego shield and that’s why I was164:39saying that the ego is the enemy were164:40talking about right so I get you know I164:42want to get into this because this is a164:44I think this is a fascinating thing with164:47you personally that your diet you’re on164:51this carnivore dog yeah no okay so I164:53want to preface that with something I am164:55NOT a dietary expert so I’m not speaking164:58as an uninformed citizen yes well this165:01is anecdotal evidence from a human being165:03it is dealt with autoimmune issues yes165:05their whole life yes you have done this165:08for how long now I’ve been on a pure165:10carnivore diet for about two months and165:13a pretty very very low carb greens only165:16modified carnivore diet for about a year165:20so in the year and-and-and-and a165:22low-carb diet for two years so from the165:25time that I’ve known you I’ve known you165:26for what two and a half years now165:27sometimes yeah yeah when I first met you165:29you had much more weight on your body165:31yeah you look different yeah and you165:34were back then you were eating like the165:36standard diet right like normal people165:38yes pasta165:40bread yeah chicken whatever yes right165:42you shifted over to only meat and greens165:46I saw you and like you look fantastic165:48I’m like what are you doing165:50you’re like I changed my diet I only165:51meat in green so I was like wow that’s165:53fascinating well I felt like okay what165:56you’re doing is cutting out refined165:57sugars and all these different things165:59that are problematic preservatives all166:01the bullshit processed foods and you’re166:04having this extreme health benefit I was166:05like wow that’s really excellent you’re166:07showing great discipline then you166:10decided to take it to another place and166:11cut out the greens you know what was the166:13motivation for cutting out the greens166:15well all of the motivation for this has166:17been my experience with my daughter166:19because she has an unbelievably serious166:21autoimmune disease I just talked to her166:22this what is it called166:23well it’s rich arthritis but it there’s166:26there’s way more to it than that166:28but the arthritis was the major set of166:30symptoms she had 40 affected joints and166:32she had to have her hip replaced and her166:34ankle replaced when she was 15 and 16166:36and so she basically hobbled around on166:38two broken legs for two years in extreme166:41agony and that was just a tiny fraction166:42of the whole set of problems I just166:45talked to her this morning she’s in166:47Chicago looks like she has to have her166:48ankle replacement replaced so that’s166:51next on the horizon but but apart from166:54that she is doing so well now it is166:55absolutely beyond comprehension so she’s166:59she’s she’s very trim she had a baby but167:02she’s very trimmed she’s down to about167:03118 pounds she’s about five foot six167:06she’s just glowing with health all of167:09her autoimmune system symptoms are gone167:11all of them and she was also seriously167:13depressed like severely depressed way167:16worse than you think she couldn’t stay167:17awake for more than about six hours167:19without taking Ritalin167:21and she was dying and hide a cousin my167:23cousin’s daughter she died when she was167:26thirty from an associated autoimmune167:28condition so there’s a fair bit of this167:30in our family it was bloody bleak I’ll167:32tell you and my wife always had a167:34suspicion that this was dietary related167:37you know and well we did notice that167:41when Michaela was young if she ate167:43oranges or strawberries that she’d get a167:46rash like there were there were there167:47and then when she developed arthritis if167:50she ate oranges in particular that would167:51definitely cause a flare it was the only167:53thing we could see167:54the problem is is that in order to167:56identify a dietary component the167:58response has to be pretty quick after167:59you eat the thing like if it’s two days168:01later how the hell are you gonna figure168:02that out a lot of these responses appear168:04to be delayed for four days and last a168:07month so good luck figuring that out168:10anyways Mikayla noticed about three168:12years ago no more than that now five168:13years ago she was at Concordia168:15University and struggling with her with168:18her illness and and all the Association168:20associated problems she noticed that168:22around exam time she was starting to168:24develop real skin problems and my168:27cousin’s daughter who I mentioned had168:29really bad skin problems and wounds that168:31wouldn’t heal and that was partly part168:32of the process that eventually killed168:34her and she thought oh it must be stress168:36and then she thought wait a second I168:38really changed my diet when I’m studying168:40all I do is eat bagels all I do is eat168:42bread sandwiches she thought maybe it’s168:44the bread so she cut out gluten first168:47and it had a remarkable effect like a168:50really remarkable effect and then she168:53went on a radical elimination diet all168:55the way down to nothing but chicken and168:57broccoli and then her symptoms started168:59to drop off one by one like and and like169:02one of the things that happened is she169:03started to wake up in the morning she169:04started to be able to stay awake all day169:06when you’re only staying awake for six169:07hours with riddlin staying awake all day169:09that’s like having a life and so a whole169:12bunch of things improved then her169:14depression went away and I’ve had169:17depression since I was 13 probably and169:19very severe and I’ve treated at a169:21variety of ways some of them quite169:22successfully but it’s been a constant169:24battle and my father had it and his169:26father had it and it’s all just rife in169:28my family and my wife has autoimmune169:31problems and her niece a depression169:32define it oh oh would you define it169:36because that’s a word that’s a blanket169:38term yeah169:38well imagine imagine that you wake up169:40and that you remember that all your169:42family was killed in a horrible accident169:43yesterday you would feel that even169:45though the times wrong yes yes169:47just-just-just worse than that because169:50well one of the things Mikayla told me169:52was she thought well what’s it like to169:53be depressed169:54imagine you have a dog and you really169:55loved the dog and then the dog dies and169:57then about three years ago our dog died170:00and that was Mikayla’s dog and she170:02really liked that dog and she said that170:05was bad but it’s nowhere near as bad as170:06being depressed170:08and I asked her to at one point when she170:09was about 15 or 16 I said look you’ve170:12got a choice kid here’s the choice you170:14can either have depression or arthritis170:16which one I’ll take the arthritis170:21after she’d lost two joints so it was no170:26joke it’s no joke man it there isn’t any170:28no I wouldn’t say that I wouldn’t say170:31there’s nothing worse because worse is a170:33very deep hole right but it’s bad yeah170:35people prove you wrong right oh yes170:37definitely worse worse is a deep hole170:39anyways her depression went away all170:41these symptoms went away and like170:43radically so what changed her from170:45chicken and broccoli to carnivore well170:47she she kept experimenting and she got170:51very sensitive to all sorts of foods in170:53the aftermath of that too so this is why170:55I wouldn’t recommend that anybody does170:56this casually because we don’t170:57understand much about it but the upshot170:59was that well she kept she kept she kept171:02experimenting and she started to add171:04things back and take them away and171:06sometimes when she added things the171:07results were devastating she was like171:09done for a month she eats the wrong171:10thing done for a month all the symptoms171:13came back the depression came back she171:15thought that her whole dietary theory171:16was wrong because it lasted so long it171:18was so extreme and it’s like I took her171:20two years to figure out that really what171:22she could eat was beef and greens and171:24then she figured out that she could only171:25eat beef so greens themselves well look171:29so what happened okay so two years ago171:32she said dad you have tried this diet171:33because you have a lot of the same171:34symptoms as me now I didn’t have171:36arthritis but I had a lot of the other171:38symptoms and I thought oh Christ171:41okay Mikayla I can try anything for a171:43month she said try it for a month I171:44thought okay whatever I can hang by my171:46fingernails from the windowsill for a171:48month it’s like it’s just not that big a171:50deal171:50and so I eliminated I went on really low171:54carb diet okay so this is what happened171:56I had gastric reflux disorder and I was172:00snoring quite a lot I stopped snoring172:03the first week I thought what the hell172:05that’s supposed to be associated with172:07weight loss because I had gained some172:09weight I weighed about 212 pounds and172:11I’m I what six one and a half so that172:12was my maximum weight I stopped snoring172:15which was a great relief to tear me so172:17that just quit and that’s a big deal172:18right because if you snore you have172:19sleep apnea and then you don’t sleep172:20right it’s like not a good thing okay172:22next I started waking up in the mornings172:25I’d never been able to wake up in the172:27mornings my whole life I always had to172:29stumble to the shower and then maybe I172:31could wake up took me an hour and I felt172:33terrible and so172:34all the sudden I woke up it was like oh172:36look at that I’m awake in the morning172:38and I’m clear-headed and things aren’t172:40gloomy and horrible it’s like well he’s172:42not weird then I lost seven pounds the172:44first month I thought seven pounds172:47that’s a lot in a month and I’d already172:48gone for a whole year on a sugar-free172:50diet I didn’t lose any weight and I’d be172:52the exercise a sugar free but did you172:53cut out bread no no it was just no172:55desserts no sugar no and I thought that172:57might do it didn’t make any difference172:58at all seven pounds well then then I173:02lost seven pounds the next month then I173:04lost seven pounds the next month I lost173:06seven pounds every month for seven173:07months like I’d throw away all my173:09clothes I went back to the same weight173:10that I was when I was 26 and my173:12psoriasis disappeared and I had floaters173:15in my right eye and they cleared up and173:17then the last thing that went away from173:20me I was still having a bitch of a time173:21with mood regulation and that sucked173:23because when I changed my diet I didn’t173:24respond to antidepressants properly173:26anymore they weren’t working and so173:28although I was getting better physically173:30on a variety of ways like radical ways I173:33was really having a bitch of a time173:35regulating my mood and I was having173:36sporadic really negative reactions to173:38food when I ate something I shouldn’t so173:40that took about a year and half to clear173:42up and I was still really anxious in the173:44morning up to three months ago like173:45horribly and then it would get better173:47all day people said well you’re under a173:48lot of stress and I thought yeah yeah173:50I’ve been under a lot of stress for like173:52ten years it’s like it’s a lot but it173:54wasn’t any more stressful than helping173:56my daughter deal with her illness that’s173:58for sure that no this is something173:59different and she said to me quit eating174:03greens and I thought oh really174:04Jesus Mikayla I’m eating cucumbers174:07lettuce broccoli and chicken and beef174:11it’s like I have to cut out the goddamn174:12greens it’s like try it for a month okay174:17within a week I was 25% less anxious in174:20the morning within two weeks 75% and174:23I’ve been better every single day I’m174:24better now probably than I’ve ever been174:26in my life and I haven’t been taking174:27antidepressants for a whole year so I174:30don’t know what and I weigh 162 pounds174:33like I have no I’m and I’ve actually174:36gained musculature I’ve been doing some174:38working out but not a lot and so I can174:42sleep six hours a night no problem I174:44wake up the morning I’m awake if I take174:45a 15 minute nap that used to take me an174:47hour to recover for174:48that’s gone here’s the coolest thing174:50I’ve had gum disease since I was 25174:53that’s been serious enough to have I’ve174:55had to have minor surgical interventions174:57scraping and that sort of thing to keep174:59it at bay174:59it’s go on I checked with my dentist175:02before this last tour no inflammation175:04and that’s associated with heart disease175:06by the way gum inflammation and175:08gingivitis it’s a good risk factor heart175:10disease it means the systemic175:11inflammation is gone and it’s not175:13supposed to happen you’re not supposed175:15to recover from gingivitis and my gums175:17are in perfect shape it’s like what the175:19hell so here’s what happened I lost 50175:21pounds it’s like that’s a lot right I’m175:26nowhere near as hungry as I used to be175:27my appetites probably formed by 70% I175:30don’t get blood sugar dysregulation175:32problems I need way less sleep I get up175:36in the morning and I’m fine I’m not175:38anxious I’m not depressed I don’t have175:39psoriasis my legs were numb on the sides175:42that’s gone I’m certainly intellectually175:47at my best at the moment which is a175:50great relief especially doing this tour175:51depression is gone175:54I’m stronger I can swim better and my176:01gum disease is gone it’s like what the176:03hell and you’ve done you’ve done no176:05blood work so you don’t know what your176:06lipid lipid profile is or no I’ll get176:09that done again when I go back take any176:10vitamins no no I eat beef and salt and176:13water that’s it and I never cheat ever176:17not even a little bit no not soda no176:19wine I drink club soda well that’s still176:23water well you know when you’re down to176:26that level no it’s not Joe there’s176:28there’s club soda Joe’s really bubbly176:31there’s Perrier which is sort of bubbly176:33there’s flat water and there’s hot water176:34so that’s crazy well we ate last night176:40and I ate what you ate just we both had176:43that giant tomahawk yeah I had wine176:46though yeah176:47I’m curious about this I’m very curious176:50and I think you might try it but I eat a176:53lot of vegetables yeah but I don’t have176:54any problems like health problems hey176:56man like I’m not176:58disclaimer number two I am not177:01recommending this to anyone however I177:03have had however I have had many many177:06people come up to me on the tour and say177:09look I’ve been following your daughter’s177:10blog and I’ve lost like a hundred pounds177:13I think what you lost a hundred pounds177:16see I lost 100 pounds in six months I177:17talked to a woman yesterday she lost 15177:19pounds in one month she was 70 it’s like177:22this is all right here’s a question177:25why is everyone fat and stupid that’s a177:29question man because it’s new is there177:32something else it is it’s new and it’s177:35not a sedentary lifestyle that that177:37hypothesis doesn’t seem to hold water177:39there’s something wrong with the way177:41we’re eating and the what’s wrong is177:43that we’re eating way too many177:44carbohydrates I think but they’re never177:46on a no x8 shift the elimination of most177:49carbohydrates has made a big shift in my177:51life and I do cheat occasionally with177:54bread and occasionally with pasta I will177:57I will go off with ice cream and things177:59along those lines but most of the time178:02I’m just eating meat and vegetables most178:05of the time and then I have a cheat day178:07like you know once a week like yeah178:09especially if I go to dinner I’ll have a178:11little pasta and it doesn’t seem to mess178:13too bad but I do feel shitty after I do178:16it it’s like for simple mouth pleasure178:18I’m allowing myself to feel tired after178:21we’re tired yeah that’s a big one man178:23yeah but like I out yeah like well178:26really I can’t no and it’s so178:29interesting to like I can’t believe I178:31can wake up in the morning okay that’s178:33never happened to me in my whole life178:35and when I was a kid 13 12 I had a bitch178:38of a time waking up in the morning it178:40was just brutal I just thought that’s178:42how it was this is what I mean again I’m178:44not a nutritionist either but what’s178:46fascinating to me is I haven’t heard any178:49negative stories about people doing this178:50well I have a negative story okay okay178:53one of the things that both Mikayla and178:56I noticed was that when we restricted178:59our diet and then ate something we179:01weren’t supposed to the reaction to179:03eating what we weren’t supposed to was179:04absolutely catastrophic but it show what179:07did you switch to what did you eat179:09rather um well the worst response I179:11think we’re allergic to or allergic179:13whatever the hell this is having an179:15inflammatory response to something179:17called sulfites and we had some apple179:19cider that had sulfites in it and that179:21was really not good like I was done for179:23a month that was the first time I talked179:25to Sam Harris you were done for a month179:27oh yeah it took me out for a month it179:28was awful real yeah yeah so I would sell179:31oh and what so this is right before this179:32whole truth conversation with Sam Harris179:35at the Guthrie in the mud during during179:36it was I think the day I talked to Sam179:39was like the worst day of my life not179:40because of talking to Sam but it was179:43just physical Jesus I was so dead but I179:45didn’t want to not do it179:46cider like what was his own fights in179:49what was it doing there oh it produced179:52an overwhelming sense of impending doom179:55and I seriously been overwhelming like179:57there’s no way I could have lived like179:59that if that would have lasted for see180:01Mikayla knew by that point that it would180:03probably only last a month and I was180:04like a month yeah my fucking cider well180:08I didn’t sleep that that month I didn’t180:10sleep for 25 days I didn’t sleep at all180:12I didn’t sleep at all for 25 days how is180:15it possible that I’ll tell you how it’s180:16possible you lay in bed frozen in180:20something approximating terror for eight180:22hours and then you get up oh my god oh180:24yeah no and this is some fucking cider180:26from180:27that’s what we thought yeah I mean look180:29again I don’t know what the hell I’m180:32talking about okay this is all a mystery180:34to me180:35the fact that my daughter was so sick180:37see the one thing that I did know cuz I180:39scoured the literature on arthritis when180:41she was a kid the scientific literature180:42and because we were interested in the180:44dietary connection and the only thing I180:46could find that was reliable was that if180:48people with arthritis fasted their180:51symptoms reliably went away and that’s180:53actually a well-documented finding but180:55then if they started to eat again then180:57there were symptoms came back and I180:59thought well what the hell does it not181:01matter what they eat they can’t be181:03reactive to everything it’s like no but181:07they can be reactive to almost181:08everything and the difference between181:10everything and almost everything that’s181:12a big difference181:13and so Mikayla seems to be maybe me too181:15and hammies on the same diet because she181:18has autoimmune problems on her side of181:19the family so Mikayla seemed to inherit181:21all of them your skin looks better old181:24Jesus Joe I’m waiting whatever here yeah181:26yeah you you you look like more vibrant181:28it’s very strange thank you thank you181:30welcome181:31but the see my point is I you’re saying181:34that there’s a there is problems with181:37this diet but that doesn’t seem to be a181:38problem with a diet seems a problem with181:40deviating from the diet your body181:41becomes a custom with well one of the181:43thighs Isis that we’ve been pursuing and181:46there’s some justification for this and181:47the scientific literature is that the181:49reason that you lay on layers of fat is181:52because the fat acts as a buffer between181:54you and the toxic things that you’re181:56eating because fat is actually an organ181:58it has functions other than merely the181:59storage of of calories and maybe when182:02you strip out that protective layer then182:05you’re more sensitive to what you182:06shouldn’t be eating this is all182:08speculative hypotheses right or maybe182:10you sensitize yourself by removing it182:12from your constant diet I don’t bloody182:14well know well I would think it would be182:16much more likely that because you think182:17about people who are alcoholics they182:19develop a tolerance to alcohol182:20you know you get off of that and then182:22you have a drink and your tolerances are182:24shot and then you immediately have a182:26reverse reaction to the alcohol yeah182:28same thing with marijuana yeah when182:30people do it all the time you your body182:32becomes tolerant well I think I think182:34that the layering of fat on might be182:36part of the tolerance mechanism hmm so182:39it’s not merely a matter of182:40caloric intake it’s a matter of of toxic182:43telluric intake buffered by whatever it182:45is that fat is doing as a neuro182:47endocrine organ but again like I said I182:50said I’m out of my depth here but you182:52know the whole everyone’s out of their182:54depth the goddamn food pyramid was made182:56by the Department of Agriculture not the182:58Department of Health it wasn’t182:59predicated on any scientific studies183:01whatsoever183:01we should have we shouldn’t be eating183:03massive quantities of corn syrup we we183:05way too many carbohydrates Michaela183:09posted a paper the other day a doctor183:11has successfully treated type 1 diabetes183:14with a carnivore diet type 1 not type 2183:17so that’s bloody impressive yeah it’s183:21it’s very curious to me because you’re183:24talking about the one adverse reaction183:26which is when you deviated from the diet183:28yeah what I’m talking about is when I183:30read people’s accounts of trying this183:33diet it’s almost universally positive183:35you know but again that’s probably and183:41it’s the same with all these stories183:42that I’m collecting as I’m touring and183:44you know people lots of people have come183:46up to me and said look I lost 45 pounds183:48in the last three months I think yeah I183:51think what’s shocking to me I think well183:53what do you make of that say well I183:55can’t believe it well who can oh I183:56couldn’t believe it183:57fifty pounds it’s like first of all I184:00didn’t know I had fifty pounds to lose184:01you know I thought it was maybe 20184:03pounds heavier than I should have been184:04there should have been 185 something184:06like that I guess that’s 25 to 30 pounds184:09that was the maximum thought no no I184:11lost I meant 162 and I was at 212 so184:14what’s that fifty fifty pounds it’s a184:18lot of weight Jesus I threw had to throw184:20all my clothes away184:22it’s I can’t believe it when I saw you184:24last night I was like you’re so slim184:26like your your stomach is completely184:28flat and it’s and this is not a lean184:31mean fighting yeah man and you’re not a184:33an exercise fanatic it’s not like you’re184:36starving yourself it’s not like you know184:37and I’m not running 5 that’s another184:39thing I should say to people if you want184:40to try a diet like this you eat enough184:43meat and fat so you were not hungry okay184:46you can’t get hungry184:47you’re not eating enough if you’re184:48hungry and if you’re hungry you’re gonna184:50cheat and it’s gonna drive you stark184:51raving mad the other thing that was184:53really cool is like I really liked184:54sweets like I’ve kind of lived on peanut184:56butter sandwiches and chocolate milk184:58not really but that was my go-to food185:00you know both of which were terrible for185:03me but after I stopped eating185:06carbohydrates for a month the185:08carbohydrate cravings went away you know185:11last night when we were out for dinner185:12somebody ordered bread pudding and I185:13bloody love bread pudding with caramel185:15and and and ice cream so it was sitting185:17there and I could smell it like you know185:19I thought I could go all fantastic mr.185:21Fox on that bread pudding and just tear185:24it down in about 15 seconds but it185:26wasn’t it wasn’t as intense as a craving185:28for a cigarette if you’re Nick’s185:29ex-smoker it was like God be really nice185:31to eat that but like my appetite185:34declined by about 75% that’s been185:36permanent that’s been so there’s a185:38perverse thing for you185:39I eat way less and now I’m not as hungry185:42okay how does that make sense185:44well you’re not eating way less you’re185:46eating way less thing yes you have 30185:48ounce steak last night yes yes I’m doing185:51my best not to be hungry although it185:53didn’t look like I was 30 no no no185:55there’s a small 30 on the steak well I185:57think it starts out 30 ounces before185:59they cook it right loses a considerable186:01right right very fatty right but that’s186:03the other thing too you you must have to186:06get a lot of fat yeah well I eat fatty186:08cuts of steak and yeah Michaela is186:09buying fat directly from the butcher186:12store and we cooked that up cut it into186:13small pieces and fry it up till it’s186:15crispy Wow it’s actually quite delicious186:18it’s not bread pudding with ice cream186:20but it’s not funny186:21you mean Dino it’s so ridiculous well I186:23wanna I want your blood profile I want186:25to find out what’s going on with you186:27because one of the big misconceptions186:29when it comes to cholesterol and186:30saturated fat and food is that if you186:33eat dietary cholesterol that it affects186:35your186:35blood cholesterol levels it’s not it’s a186:38super common misconception well those so186:40the thing about clinical studies with186:42diet are virtually impossible to conduct186:44because you just can’t you can’t conduct186:46a proper randomly distributed controlled186:49experiment it’s too hard so a lot of186:51what we’re trying to do is pull out186:52information from correlations right you186:55can’t do it which is one of the real186:56problems with correlating meat with186:59cancer and diabetes and all these187:01different diseases is because people are187:02eating a bunch of shit with that oh yeah187:04and they have different lifestyle187:06profiles or like there’s just endless187:07numbers of confounding variables you187:10only need one con founding variable187:12that’s that’s relevant to screw up the187:13study right you can’t get that187:15information with correlational studies187:17we try because it’s impossible to do the187:19studies but how many people are187:20incredulous when they’re honey people187:22wouldn’t when they’re hearing about this187:24Oh everybody everybody well you or not187:27but you know you’re interested in this187:29sort of thing but they should be187:29incredulous like when people make absurd187:31claims is like oh well I had 50 health187:34problems and I stopped eating everything187:35but meat and they went away it’s like187:36whoo sure it’s like yeah well wasn’t you187:39dying so yeah and I see the results and187:44I know it’s an anecdote I bloody well187:45understand that and I’m highly skeptical187:47about all of this but I’m telling you so187:49that’s why I’m telling you what happened187:51to me and what happened to my daughter187:52and also what happened to my wife187:53because she’s Tammy was always in good187:55shape and she’s exercised a lot and she187:58reduced to the to the pure carnivore188:01died about a month ago she lost like 12188:04pounds188:04she was already slim she’s back to the188:06same weight she was when she was 21188:09she’s like 58 you know and she doesn’t188:13look 58 I can tell you that so it’s188:16really fascinating it’s really188:18fascinating because I just I as a person188:22who studied diet for many years I would188:25assume that you need phytonutrients I188:27would assume do you need vitamins188:29supplements like vitamin C for example188:30turns out if you don’t eat carbohydrates188:32you don’t need vitamin C ha who woulda188:34guessed how does that work I don’t I188:37don’t remember Michaela outlined a paper188:39for me188:39vitamin C is necessary for carbohydrate188:41metabolism but if you don’t if again188:44remember everyone listening I am NOT an188:46expert in this field right so188:49but but I want you to get your blood188:52tested because I think if be pretty188:55funny if it was in good shape yeah it188:57would be I mean I’d like to find out188:59what your nutrient levels are and where189:00they’re coming yeah I mean what what I’m189:03getting a little cramping in my toes189:05from time to time so I’m not sure about189:07potassium possibility that’s a189:10supplement it’s very easy which is why189:12I’m concerned but like and also minerals189:15you know you know in certain minerals189:17you’re getting from vegetables that189:18you’re probably not getting yeah well189:20this is all like look it seems not hard189:23to supplement that stuff though189:24colloidal minerals you know there’s some189:26mineral pills you could take plenty of189:28well there are plants are people who189:30basically lived on meat you know the any189:32what did the mess I basically did yeah189:35there some supplementation but not a lot189:36yeah and apparently if you do a189:39carnivore diet you’re supposed to eat189:40more organ meat and I do some of that189:42but not a lot but I can tell you like189:44I’m I mean well look I wouldn’t be doing189:48this if it wasn’t producing positive189:49results yeah it’s not like it’s fun189:51running for a while well it makes you a189:53social pariah mm-hm like let’s invite189:56the Petersons over oh yeah they don’t189:58eat anything oh we have other friends189:59that’s like well that’s how it works190:01it’s not malevolence right it’s just if190:03you’re a pain no one invites you out so190:05so I’m a social pain and an ideological190:08pain and now I’m a nutritional pain190:10because there’s no friends how difficult190:12is it when you’re trying to get190:13breakfast like what do you do when you190:15oh well lots of times when we were190:17traveling we cook so we’ll usually stay190:20in places where you can cook oh okay but190:22most places you can get a steak mm-hmm190:25and so that’s mostly what we do I’ve190:26been traveling in a Motorhome and so190:28we’ve been cooking in the Motorhome190:29and so not carry beef jerky with me190:32which we make what so yeah it’s crazy190:35you make your own beef jerky well it’s190:38like we have a dehydrator and you just190:40basically put salt on and throw in the190:41dehydrator so that works pretty well you190:45anticipate continuing this well forever190:48Cod forevers a long time I’d like to be190:51able to eat more things but I’m gonna190:52experiment with that very very very very190:55very cautiously I’m gonna add mushrooms190:57next because maybe I could eat them well191:00this is why I’m asking there191:02positive benefits that a lot of people191:04achieve and and experience when they191:07switch to a vegan diet yeah one of the191:09things it is is you get off of the191:10standard American diet with lots of191:12refined sugars and a lot of191:15preservatives a little shit and then you191:18find positive benefits Chris Kresser has191:21gone into depth about this but then over191:22time the nutritional bent deficiencies191:25in that start to wear on your health yep191:28and I’m wondering well it’s certainly191:32possible well certainly eventually this191:34diet will kill me no life will well191:38you’re right191:39biology will yes unless so it science191:42intervened191:42might be that for some people of Megan191:45dieters or vegan diet is preferable to a191:48standard American diet well for sure to191:50a standard American diet but also191:52there’s so much biological variability191:54yeah you know the things that bothers191:56some people don’t bother other people at191:57all and that’s that’s something that we192:00got to take into consideration yeah well192:01that’s why I don’t want to universalize192:03from my experience you know but but this192:05is what’s happened to me and this is192:07what’s happened to my wife and my192:08daughter192:08so and all of its being well with192:10Michaela it’s it’s miraculous I cannot192:13believe it the last time I saw it made192:14me cry I’ve never seen her look like192:17that she looks so good she’s so healthy192:19and all her other joints are not192:21experiencing any problem and she’s192:22taking no immunomodulators at all192:25no medication none and she was on him192:27fro Jesus yes more medication than you192:30can shake a stick at methotrexate which192:31is basically they use it to treat cancer192:34it’s a it’s a what’s what’s the cancer192:36treating drugs called whatever I don’t192:39remember at the moment she was on Enbrel192:42which really really helped but but later192:43opened to bacterial infections so she192:45always had pneumonia in the fall but192:48envel really helped and then heavy doses192:52of antidepressants and Ritalin and Jesus192:54how long has she been on this carnivore192:56diet oh god she’s only been eating meat192:59it’s got to be at least six to eight193:02months now Wow and does she get blood193:06work done uh yep and her blood work I193:08won’t comment on that I don’t know the193:11details of her blood work193:14I don’t know to answer that hmm it’s193:17fascinating I’m curious I’m considering193:19trying it for a while the problem is I193:21eat so much game meat you know what193:23there’s a lot get some fat yeah that’s193:25the trick there try it for a month see193:27what happens you what the hell a month193:29you know just a month ya know a months193:32not hard yeah interesting193:36all right let’s wrap this up all right193:38three hours it’s re 2:20 believe it or193:40not hey crazy prison it’s always a193:42pleasure great see one thing I want to193:44bring up ya for it how weird is this193:46whole association to you cuz it’s weird193:50to me the IDW yeah oh I D WI yeah193:54of course it’s election darkweb it is193:56it’s like I’ve been trying to puzzle it193:58out I mean I think what it is is a loose194:01collection of early adopters of a194:02revolutionary technology that’s what it194:05looks like to me and and it we found194:06each other because we’re all doing the194:07same thing but it’s also a bunch of194:10people that are honest intellectually194:11honest about their and and maybe don’t194:14even disagree even agree on folio194:16definitely but honest about perceptions194:18well and also I think interested in194:20long-form discussion yeah right and and194:22able to engage in it because otherwise194:23we wouldn’t be having the relative194:25success that we’re having in the in the194:27in the milieu you know and it got a name194:29and that’s kind of interesting and194:31that’s Eric though yeah that’s right194:32that’s Eric yes he loves it most194:42interesting about I love to rib him yeah194:44well it’s got this funny conspiratorial194:46element there that’s sort of true and194:48sort of mostly dramatic and was a194:50mathematician he’s always looking for194:52patterns codes yeah yeah I don’t know194:55what to make of it I mean things get a194:57name and then you think well why did194:58that get named and well someone named it195:00but yeah but the name stuck so it seemed195:02our proposed is some degree and well195:04what do we have in common most of us are195:07entrepreneurial most of us have our own195:08platform so we can speak independently195:11most of us are interested in long-form195:14philosophical discussions primarily not195:16political but but bordering on political195:18well just band’s more political oh yes195:20he’s the most yeah but he’s also very195:22sophisticated political commentators so195:24he borders on both the philosophical and195:26the religious yes so195:28and then we’re we’re we’re all the newly195:32new adopters of this new technology so195:34that’s enough to put us in a group and195:35then well it turns out that we’ve all195:37been talking to each other but part of195:38the reason for that is while we’re all195:40doing the same thing on the net so it’s195:42not surprising that we’re talking to195:43each other so I always go for the simple195:45explanations first you know it’s not a195:47movement exactly what it is it’s the195:49manifestation of a new technology and195:52then well do we have anything in common195:53that’s worth discussing that would make195:56this a viable group let’s say and the195:58answer to that is I don’t know you know196:01I’ve been touring with Ruben that’s been196:03good it’s been good to have a comedian196:04along and he’s also a good interviewer196:06he does the q and a’s with me and it’s196:09nice to have some levity in the mix196:11because of the conversations are the196:12discussions with the audience are very196:13serious although I can crack a joke and196:15I can’t tell a joke but if something196:19funny occurs to be I can say it and196:22sometimes it’s funny so that’s something196:24you know and we’ve been we’ve been196:27discussing a fair bit and I had good196:29conversations with Shapiro and Harris196:30for that matter so there is lots of196:32interplay between us but I think that’s196:35more because we we inhabit the same196:37technological space more than the same196:39ideological space apart from the fact196:42that we are actually interested in196:44dialogue fundamentally so we’ll see I196:49mean I’m watching it with curiosity are196:53you apprehensive do you think this is196:54sure potential downsides so there’s lots196:56of downsides to it sure there’s lots of196:58downsides I mean first of all you know197:01most of us are on an individual197:04individualistic path I’m not come I’m197:06not really much of a group guy you know197:08so am I in this group it’s like well I’m197:11pleased to be associated with you guys197:13that’s for sure but I don’t really know197:16what it would mean or if it should mean197:17anything or if it’ll screw up what I’m197:18doing or if it I don’t know anything197:20about it197:21but mostly I’m curious it’s like huh197:24this is a group I thought this is the197:26Rat Pack I thought what I walked into197:28the restaurant of us because we were out197:29last night was Ben Shapiro Sam Harris197:32Eric Weinstein Dave Rubin Joe Rogan and197:35me right and my wife Tammy and so we’re197:38all walking in there and I thought well197:40this is kind of like being197:40back in the 1950s I thought well I know197:42maybe it isn’t but that’s what came to197:44mind so I thought that’s funny and it’s197:46it’s it’s kind of cool and it’s197:48interesting and it’s edgy and all of197:50that but I’m not I’m not taking it197:53seriously197:54I’m not also not you know I’m not taking197:56it not seriously either197:58but I’m just watching I’m watching198:00everybody interact because it is a very198:01motley crew of people it is so and198:04they’re very different and so but it was198:07very much joy thank you okay so why did198:10you think it was enjoyable it’s good198:11conversation I mean yeah everyone that198:14was in that group has been on my podcast198:15or I’ve been on theirs and you know it’s198:18a fun group of really honest interesting198:22people that you Lear very peculiar198:24people specially Eric yeah he’s198:27listening right now I’m fucking with him198:28I love that guy but no I mean they’re198:30all it’s there everyone’s different but198:33everyone’s also unique and they all198:34bring a lot to the table and that’s198:36what’s interesting about it you know198:37think the weird collection yeah you know198:40I I don’t know what to think of it like198:42when Eric called me up about the whole198:44New York Times thing I’m like what are198:45you talking about right like why did you198:49do that198:49what I do what what did you be part of198:51the New York Times article I barely was198:53I just answered a couple questions but198:56there’s a review you’ve got a picture198:57yeah they didn’t direct they didn’t199:00obsess they shouldn’t taken a picture of199:02me I was dressed like I was going199:03onstage at the Comedy Store I didn’t199:05wear anything any differently they were199:06trying to make a big deal of it I’m like199:07look I don’t have any time this you want199:09to take a picture means is what I’m199:10wearing yeah and and we we did it on the199:13parking lot above the Comedy Store and199:15started to rain I go we’re done I got to199:17go I got to go onstage I can’t be199:19soaking wet you know and and then go199:21onstage and that was it199:22you know it was just okay so your take199:24on it is that it’s well it’s in turn is199:26its interest yes well this is the this199:29is probably another thing that unites199:31that group of people everyone in that199:33group of people is likely to get in199:36trouble because they find you too many199:37things interesting199:39right and it’s trade openness that’s199:41another thing that unites all of us yes199:42yeah and so and you know curiosity199:45killed the cat and so yeah but we’re not199:47cats true curiosity also built the199:50pyramids it did it did it and it saved a199:52lot of caps too199:55let’s end with that all right all right199:57Jordan all right pleasure my friend199:59chewy again see you always yeah yeah200:01that’s it folks see you soon200:05[Music]200:10[Applause]200:12[Music]