Louis Theroux

And, um, and, and truthfully, um,

I don't think there's much thought behind it.

I don't think he's really particularly troubled by the idea of Jewish people.

I think he just knows that it's outrageous and it will be picked up.

But at the same time, I think he is genuinely sexist, like in the old fashioned sense.

I think he's someone who thinks that women are basically just a way for him to get his sexual needs met.

And at the same time, he deplores the idea of women being promiscuous.

So it's complicated.

The internet is very lucrative.

I sometimes say it's very lucrative to be a dick on the internet.

It's almost become a job to actually go online and be a plonker.

And at the same time, it doesn't come from nowhere.

They know it resonates with people.

Not partly because it's funny to some and partly because they're connecting with the idea of feeling disempowered and that there needs to be a reset and that men aren't getting taken seriously enough.

Right.

Well, as a program maker and having sort of lived through this disruption of the media landscape, that part of it I find quite depressing.

Like, you know, the fact that all of the big channels, the legacy channels, BBC, Channel 4, ITV are struggling, right?

That I do find depressing.

As a student of the human condition,

who has a kind of pyromaniacal pleasure in observing the degeneracy of how we are as people, like something I think I might've got from my dad.