Barry Weiss
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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One of the people that's being revisited in light of the revisiting of this story more generally is Keir Starmer, the current prime minister who was the head of the Agency for Criminal Prosecutions between 2008 and 2013 when many of these crimes were committed. How culpable is Keir Starmer here? Is he a villain of the story?
Elon is really seizing on the Keir Starmer of it all. He's saying things like prison for Starmer, Starmer's complicit in the crimes. All of this has bubbled up. There was a Bloomberg report out really recently that said that several senior officials in the U.K.
have urged Trump to distance himself from Musk over this whole thing, basically saying that his statements about the prime minister and the U.K. in general—he's saying that civil war in the U.K. is inevitable— are inflammatory and not how an ally speaks about another ally. I'm curious how this is being received by people in the UK.
But then are the Conservatives also compromised? Because as you just pointed out, for the past 15 years, the UK has been run by the Tories. Right. It's not like Jeremy Corbyn was running the party during this scandal. It was David Cameron and Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, people who were elected. They are compromised, but they've been driven out of office. Yes, of course. No, but no.
But my point is, from an American perspective, it would seem like forgetting the morality. Right. And what's right and what's wrong. It would seem strategic for the conservative party who is generally more conservative. you know, conservative about things like immigration, generally more less fearful about criticizing Islam, to talk about this a lot.
And yet they also did nothing or seem to do almost nothing. Explain that dynamic, because from an American perspective, that just seems really strange.
The Italian mob in the U.S. was an embarrassment to Italian-Americans. And it was basically Italian-Americans that wound up destroying it or at least turning it into a shadow of what it once was. You know, when he was U.S. attorney in New York, Rudy Giuliani, now he's, you know, fallen into disarray.
But at the time, he did a lot and he launched his political career by sort of dismembering the mafia. Are there any prominent Muslim leaders or politicians in the UK that are trying to do something similar when it comes to these rape gangs who maybe we haven't heard of that we should be paying attention to?
Both of you in your own lives have taken tremendous personal risk to stand up for your views, whether in criticizing Islamism or standing up for feminism. Julie, you've been... run out of public libraries in recent years in the UK because of your views about feminism. Ayaan has lived under armed guard for many years.
And I guess I, you know, given the sort of conspiracy of, if not silence, then the conspiracy of whispers around this topic. I wonder if we could end on a personal note, why each of you has been willing to take such personal risk to stand up on this issue, going back many years, long before Elon Musk on Twitter.
Well, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Julie Bindel, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you, Barry. Thank you. This show is called Honestly, and I believe this conversation fulfilled that promise. If this conversation challenged you, if it made you think differently, or any of the above, please share it with your friends and family and use it to have an honest conversation of your own.
From the Free Press, this is Honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss. I've never quite had a conversation like the one I had today. Do you think that you're going to die?
Really?
You think you're going to live forever?
And that's with tech founder, centimillionaire, and the king of longevity, Brian Johnson.
Now, going into it, I knew it was going to be an unusual conversation. If you haven't heard of Brian or watched the new Netflix documentary about him, it's called Don't Die, The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. Brian is a person who has given over his whole life and his body to the science of longevity. It means he's essentially turned himself into a human lab rat.
undergoing hundreds of tests and studies on every human biomarker imaginable to discover the best ways to stop the process of human aging, or maybe even to age in reverse. What he does is unconventional, to say the least. He eats dinner at 11 a.m. He has swapped blood with his 17-year-old son, just to name two of the hundreds of things that I had never heard of a person doing before.
So I knew it was going to be one of the weirder conversations I've ever had on this show. What I didn't anticipate was that it was going to be challenging in a deeper way. What do you think I think the idea of being human is?
Brian, do you think being human is a social construct?
That we'd get to talking about the fundamental meaning and purpose of life. And that I'd feel challenged about what I know and believe to be true. Because it's not just that Brian wants to live forever. It's that he believes, agree with it or not, that we're at the bleeding edge of a new kind of reality.
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