Graham Linehan
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 506. Europe Imploding | Andrew Doyle & Graham Linehan · 12 Dec 2024
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I sometimes call it my apology tour. Didn't you try and stop his crowdfunder from getting... I did. I did. Something for which I'll spend a few years in limbo.
But, you know, I did that.
And saying something cures that cognitive dissonance. Even briefly. You get to turn it off just for a few seconds and think, oh, at least I've made a decision.
I think it's like, it's not just that it's weaponized. It's that the panopticon, or whatever you want to call it, is frictionless, right? Like, there's a very funny Onion thing about arson at a party being disproved by the 60,000 photographs that were taken at it, you know? Yes. And everyone just has a different angle of a cigarette falling to the floor, you know, that was taken.
I've seen that, yeah.
Yeah, and it's just because we, without realizing it, have become the apparatus of a police state, you know. But it's all just part of the fabric of our lives. We would not, it's like recently I found out, Do you remember Pokemon Go was big for a while? So people were going down the street and they were finding Pokemons.
Well, apparently that was a company who wanted to get people to do their GPS work for them. So they put Pokemon in places where there wasn't a GPS record of it. And they got all these people to go out and film it for them. That's smart.
Yeah, a hundred years of it afterwards, wasn't it?
Now we just need to turn that into a logo.
It was funny. It's an escape valve, you know, and we've known, there's been, I've never seen riots in Dublin until last year, you know. I think it was last year they happened.
It wasn't earlier this year, yeah. I've never seen riots in Dublin. I grew up in Dublin. I've never seen a riot in Dublin, you know.
And I'm not saying, I'm not making any great claims for comedy, but one of the things that it does do is that it lets a little bit of steam out when everyone notices the same thing at the same time. And maybe people aren't talking about it elsewhere. So comedy and satire is a great place to let this steam out. But we have a show called Have I Got News For You in the UK.
And it's supposed to collect the news of the recent week. And you could watch it and not have a clue that any of the stuff we spoke about today is going on. Yeah. You know, because they deliberately avoid anything that will get them complaints. And as a result, it's like completely toothless as a satirical show. We need things that make people, that just make people feel a bit sane.
That's what we tried to do with my YouTube about the gender issue. Yeah. Just wanted to make people, yeah, you have noticed that. People are. Yeah, right, right. You know.
Yeah.
Like I said, I can plead illness at the time, but that's still... But there's also the apparatus that I was talking about earlier. You just take it as a normal thing that you would issue a statement on it. And we all do. I remember that in the before times on Twitter. If everyone's talking about something, you sit there thinking, oh, I better come up with a joke. Who cares if you talk or not?
I don't really like... Knowing, you know, the way in the old days, you'd watch a show like The Monkees. Like, I used to love The Monkees, the TV show they had, you know. And then you'd wonder about these people and you'd hear from them every so often for the rest of your life, just in little spots than when they died. But now they are telling you their political opinions all day every day.
Which you don't want to know. Which you either don't want to know or maybe you think you want to know and you actually don't.
What I'm saying is that we're all on a stage now. As soon as you have a Twitter account or Facebook or whatever, you step onto a stage. And I think that always being... being audience-facing is perhaps not the best thing for us. Yeah, definitely.
I'm kind of confused by Elon's decision to put in the For Utah, which seems like a surefire way to create...
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