In this week's episode, we talk about a bunch of random stuff, including: a kid who thinks he's a rock star, a guy who's not, and a man who's in a coma because he can't remember his name.
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00:04:42.000And I remember saying to him, should I just take that pick and go up his chin and into his brain and try to kill him?
00:04:49.000And eventually I decided, I think I have to stay here.
00:04:51.000I'll ship my family out, and then I have to stay here and try to fight a guy who's obviously powerful enough to shapeshift and kill everyone in the world.
00:13:16.00013-year-olds, like 13-year-old boys, they do that thing where they act real tough and then you call them on it and they collapse and start crying and they miss their mama.
00:13:26.000Or they see a horror movie and they poop their pants.
00:13:28.000So it's a funny stage because they front like they badass.
00:13:35.000But when confronted with anything, they go back into Little Kid Town.
00:13:41.000So they're a little kid and a grown-up at the same time.
00:15:06.000You know what, this, just like I said, that women are trivialized by this whole concept of all you have to do is identify as a woman and you're a woman.
00:21:18.000By the way, the implication here, the insinuation is that when women are lesbians, they walk around with their tits and they don't feel like men.
00:21:29.000I'd say about a third of the men I hang out with have tits.
00:21:34.000Like, to say you're not a man if you have tits, you haven't been to Disneyland.
00:21:41.000Pretty much every parent there, every dad has tits.
00:22:50.000Now, if he was fucking underage girls, yes, yes, throw him in jail.
00:22:53.000But if he's not, and the whole thing is like he controlled these women and made them have sex with him.
00:22:58.000What about maiming them and making them cut off four tits so you can have two?
00:23:04.000I know he didn't literally take their tits, but you get the concept.
00:23:06.000It's sort of like these women who think that they're feminists and they're rich, you know, American housewives and they fly in a nanny from the Philippines.
00:24:44.000So an insider told me, he said, all of this stuff with COVID and mandates as far as the FDMY and NYPD goes, what they're really trying to do is make the old timers quit.
00:28:13.000Eric Adams, new NYPD Commissioner, is being appointed in front of a mural featuring Malcolm X. Okay, I like Malcolm X, but he's pretty radical.
00:29:40.000All Eric Adams cares about is that they're black.
00:29:43.000Well, would he put a black conservative in?
00:29:46.000Not really, but that's just because a black conservative would be less likely to be on his affirmative action squad and would get in his way.
00:31:52.000I look him up and he's like this big public school advocate in Brazil because they love public school and they got to get their Hispanic numbers up.
00:34:22.000Speaking of Elliot Page, in a way, of all the people who jumped on this, they're just such fucking sheep over at the DNC and they're lackeys in the media like Joy Reed.
00:35:52.000For a good chunk of the last year or so.
00:35:54.000Isn't it weird how writers at The Guardian, Huffington Post, and Washington Post don't realize they're a joke and no one takes them seriously?
00:36:07.000Like, it's not like academics and scientists constantly refer to The Guardian as a source.
00:36:13.000You can always, if they call proud boys crypto-fascist or neo-fascist, you know you're dealing with underdeveloped minds.
00:36:29.000Revere or remove the battle over statue's heritage and history.
00:36:33.000And really our subject, in a way, is memory and how we grapple with that publicly.
00:36:39.000It's one thing how we grapple with it in our own personal lives, but the larger question here is how do we deal with memory in the public sphere?
00:36:47.000Part of that is going to be about statues, but we're going to also, I hope, explore other areas in which we have to reckon with our past.
00:36:56.000And with me are four people who do that professionally and are really extraordinary.
00:37:01.000So this guy in the end is just such a twat.
00:37:45.000Yeah, that's to win a battle of power.
00:37:47.000And so just to inform this bit of the conversation, why don't you, because I know you've written about this, say something about the context in the United States about these Confederate generals on horseback often, which people assume were built in the Civil War and therefore we mustn't take them down because the Civil War is a big part of American history.
00:38:03.000The history of their construction is slightly different.
00:38:16.000Most of the statues in the Civil War, which was 61 to 65, were not put up in 1866 when people were, the wounded and the veterans were still alive.
00:38:26.000There's a great burst of statues being put up around the time of 1919 at the end of the First World War.
00:38:33.000Around the same time, 21 African-American soldiers were lynched for wearing their uniforms in public.
00:38:38.000Can you also comment on how from a distance your hair looks like a white man's.
00:38:42.000When you zoom in, it looks like a bit of worms.
00:38:45.000When you zoom in, it looks like a 14-year-old girl who works at Five Guys.
00:38:50.000Wait, go back to the beginning of his first appearance, though.
00:38:54.000It just, if I was black, I would just say, shut the fuck up and stop making us look like pussies who are constantly complaining about being lynched and how horrible it was and how we're the only ones who were ever putting it.
00:40:26.000But keep going, because there's one part here, I should have time stamped it, where he says, I mean, a lot of these statues, really, to be honest, you know, we all feel the same way about them.
00:40:51.000It looks silly to you because you're an asshole and you disdain your country's past because you make money whining about it and pretending that America's racist.
00:41:02.000I mean, sorry, Britain's racist and you're a victim.
00:41:50.000What about in New York City, we've got a big sort of mound of dirt on the West End by Chelsea Piers, and it's in memorial of the potato famine.
00:42:34.000What putting it in a museum is doing is I control the narrative.
00:42:38.000So I'll take your Confederate soldiers and then I'll put them in a museum of slavery and it'll be in the asshole section down the cunt wing.
00:46:10.000Do you know how stupid you'd have to be to still celebrate Kwanza after it's been exposed that the guy started it was a corrupt, depraved, perverted, career criminal, scam artist?
00:46:24.000Unlike Santa, who is literally a saint.
00:46:29.000No, I'm not interested in saints if they're white.
00:46:31.000I'd rather just follow some made-up shitter, a pathetic, disgusting, criminal pervert made-up.
00:46:40.000Wait, the one behind her is not black.
00:46:46.000And one of them looks kind of like a Sambo, a gollywog.
00:46:53.000You've mentioned that you don't agree with the concept or having to see it to be it, so you should like this.
00:46:58.000Oh, sorry, he says I don't agree with the concept of see it to be it.
00:47:02.000So you understand there's this thing where the reason they make every surgeon on TV black and they make every astronaut a woman or a black girl is because these young people need to see that in order to dream.
00:47:14.000And they always say like, I finally someone who looks like me is on TV, which is such a weird thing to say.
00:47:49.000Anyway, so here is, this is both Black Santa and See It to Be It combined into sheer idiocy.
00:47:58.000When talking about showing the children in the community her diverse array of Santas, she's quoted saying, I think it's very important that they see and they can identify with it.
00:50:53.000I was telling you earlier, I like reading books by cops that are bad because it feels more authentic when they're sort of grammatically sluggish and they have non-sequiturs stuck in and it feels real.
00:51:06.000It's like if you were hearing an interview with a criminal, you wouldn't want it to be perfectly polished.
00:51:14.000Similarly, a documentary about a bare knuckle boxer who had a film career towards the end, Lenny McLean, you want it to be a little rough around the edges.
00:52:33.000It starts off immediately talking about what pieces of shit white people are during apartheid and even utters the phrase, I had to use my white privilege for good.
00:52:40.000Then it shows him and his white buddy planting bombs.
00:52:43.000I shut it off at this point because I could see where it's going.
00:52:45.000The preview showed them in prison, so obviously the main story is them escaping from prison.
00:52:49.000The filmmakers are trying to make us sympathetic to these characters.
00:52:52.000It's pretty disturbing, the obvious message they're sending out.
00:52:56.000We are in modern-day apartheid, and you must use that white privilege to do something radical and violent to send a message and fight for the black struggle.
00:53:04.000When you do this, you will be viewed as a hero.
00:53:06.000You may end up killing people and go to prison, but don't worry, you're a hero.
00:53:11.000Yeah, it's sort of like Nelson Mandela.
00:53:14.000I mean, he killed or was responsible for the bombings that killed hundreds of people.
00:53:54.000By the way, baby monsters, I can't thank you enough for writing to Max and John.
00:54:00.000John has, John sent to Zenoa a box this big of all letters from all over the world, Africa, Russia, all over Europe.
00:54:11.000He has more than one letter where it's the guy's last letter before he dies, which is, as Larry David points out in Curb Your Enthusiasm, fourth stage cancer wisdom.
00:54:22.000And it's people going, I have brain cancer.
00:54:24.000I'm not going to be around for next month.
01:02:08.000I like, too, how they go, we're women, and the first thing they do is want to get aggressive and kick the shit out of you.
01:02:13.000You know, like the way men do when they get ridiculed.
01:02:19.000Like that dude, Zoe Tour, who was debating Ben Shapiro, and she said, you're going to go home in an ambulance.
01:02:27.000Because Ben doubted the validity of the guy's femaleness.
01:02:32.000And then everyone pointed out, you don't go home in an ambulance.
01:02:35.000You go to the hospital in an ambulance.
01:02:37.000Anyway, the worst thing for the oppressed, the unusual, the maligned, the oppressed groups, as they're called, is for us to get out of the way and let them handle their own business because it's like giving a five-year-old keys to the car.
01:02:56.000And they're driving each other insane.
01:02:58.000They're driving each other to suicidal decisions like cut your tits off.
01:03:04.000So I'm afraid we're going to have to continue with the patriarchy for now because as we learned from pre-Christianity paganism, matriarchies lead to a lot of deaths, a lot of sacrificing babies, sacrificing virgins.
01:03:19.000When everyone is right, nobody's right.
01:03:21.000When everyone is racist, no one's racist.
01:03:22.000When everyone is wrong, no one is wrong.
01:03:25.000And a world without standards is no world at all.
01:03:30.000So we're going to prevent them from ruining Earth.
01:03:34.000And if that means we get in trouble or get fired, fine.