Speaker 2
I think it's valuable to public because as I said at the beginning, at a broader level or in general, Bill Maher isn't that far away politically from where you and I are, which is just sort of center lefty but not hyper progressive, a bit skeptical of some left wing stuff but still basically liberal and so on. And he could still be really very terrible on certain issues. It's not the preserve of the right wing to be stupid and conspiratorial about things. It's something that can happen across the political spectrum. And I'll also just agree with you. I guess we'll dig into it when we record the Garometer episode on Bill Maher. But I don't think he'll ding many of the alarm bells on the Garometer because it is as you say, secondary. He's just a genuine anti-vaxxer. He's an entertainer who happens to have some
Speaker 4
stupid opinions and beliefs rather than someone who's going
Speaker 2
about it in a much more strategic way. Yeah.
Speaker 1
He's not RFK Jr. He just probably has a lot of sympathy for what RFK Jr. says. So, yeah, that's important to keep in mind. But just to remind people, part of the whole point is that we take various figures that may or may not be secular. So if you want to hear our more detailed breakdown as the high well he fits with our template, you can listen to this episode if you join the Patreon. Yes. So that will be forthcoming. But now I'm at, now that we're done with the decoding for this week and we know that the Vroobin is coming shortly after maybe relatively more shortly since we have everything prepared. I've got some feedback and it's a review of sorts. We have the review of review segment, the wisdom of Mikila, which is complete now. We've exhausted wisdom. But this is a bit of an unorthodox review, Ma. It's a subreddit post and it's by Anki Steve who is an individual on Twitter that we both know and there's a wise chap. But he wrote a, what is it, a Reddit thread and the title was, consting Kisson's brilliant repost to decoding the girl's take down of his Oxford speech. And I think it's worth reading in full. It's a little bit long, but I'll try to make it a dramatic reading for you and see what you think. Okay. So it's a review of Konstantin's repost to us. If I'm going to be completely honest, I didn't want to like what Konstantin Kisson said about decoding the girl's in his recent response to their take down of his recent Oxford speech on Walkness and Climate Change. When I saw Chris Kavanagh's tweet today, I wanted to hear how ridiculous Kisson was to claim that Chris and Matt had low IQs and were arguing in bad fear. So I clicked through and give it a listen. At first I was underwhelmed. He spent the first 10 minutes or so of his reflection explaining how he reasoned his way through all the bad fear of arguments he's had the endurore and outright lies made about him since becoming a public figure. Anyone who follows the modern day gurus of our time knows this feel well, but I muscled through and I'm glad I did. It was right about the 12 minute mark he dropped an absolute bomb on Chris and Matt for their bold face misrepresentation of his speech. Konstantin never said poor people don't care about the environment, like Chris and Matt claimed. He said they don't care about climate change. I didn't want to believe the coding the gurus would get something so wrong and misrepresent Kisson that this honestly. So I went back and listened to his Oxford speech just to check to make sure he wasn't representing what Chris and Matt said. Actually Kisson got things kind of wrong himself. Kisson didn't say that poor don't care about climate change. Nilo did he say the word care? What he actually said was poor people don't give a shit about saving the planet. He said this twice. In fact, at any rate, let's not quibble over Kisson's word choice. However, there is an absolute world of difference between don't give a shit about saving the planet and don't care about the environment. The first phrase is eight words. While the second phrase is just five words, that's almost half as many words as what he actually said. And Kisson didn't even mention the blatant censorship of don't give a shit to the more politically correct don't care. If you don't see the magnitude of distortions here by Chris and Matt, consider you may in fact be caught in an ideological bubble. Kisson has opened my eyes to make sure I look at Chris and Matt more skeptically. I have to give him credit if, begrudgingly, for pointing out an important distinction that somehow I slipped my notice. I think Chris and Matt should swallow their pride and apologize for this gross distortion of his words. We have an eye towards helping us all argue in good fear so we can find common ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was very good. There's nothing we can say. Caught Red-handed. He, they, they yelled us and
Speaker 4
hoist my grudges and the turd. Yeah. I mean, we, we, we talk a big game about, you know, good faith criticism being accurate and stuff. But really, are we any different? Are we
Speaker 1
not really just like the gurus out selves, Chris? I mean, five versus eight, Matt. It speaks for itself, it speaks for itself. That's a world of difference. And political correctness on the show has run rampant indeed. Taking out the word shape,