Banned On Instagram, Britney Spears & Alex Jones - Danny Polishchuk

1. 0:00 – 1:30

   Explaining Santa-Con

   1. CWChris Williamson0:00

      Danny Polischuk, welcome to the show.

   2. DPDanny Polishchuk0:01

      Hey. How you doing, buddy?

   3. CWChris Williamson0:02

      I'm good, man. How are you?

   4. DPDanny Polishchuk0:03

      I'm excellent.

   5. CWChris Williamson0:04

      It's SantaCon at the moment.

   6. DPDanny Polishchuk0:05

      Mental.

   7. CWChris Williamson0:06

      What is that?

   8. DPDanny Polishchuk0:07

      Uh, it's, this is actually the first year I've ever been here for it. Every other year, I've somehow managed to avoid it. But basically, the worst people you know dress up like Santa Claus, and they get hammered. Like, it's, what time is it right now? It's like 3:00?

   9. CWChris Williamson0:23

      Yeah, 3:30.

   10. DPDanny Polishchuk0:23

       So it's, yeah, so they get hammered in the afternoon. Like, did you see the lines?

   11. CWChris Williamson0:27

       Yeah.

   12. DPDanny Polishchuk0:27

       For the bars? Like, bars right now are at, it's like, uh, St. Patty's Day kind of lines right now.

   13. CWChris Williamson0:32

       So it's what, the, like-

   14. DPDanny Polishchuk0:33

       There was, there was a bar-

   15. CWChris Williamson0:34

       ... two Saturdays before Christmas or something?

   16. DPDanny Polishchuk0:36

       I guess, yeah. And, uh, but it's, yeah, yeah, I guess, and, uh, it's like, like there's lines l- literally bending around the corner for just pubs.

   17. CWChris Williamson0:44

       And everyone's dressed up whatever way.

   18. DPDanny Polishchuk0:45

       Everybody's dressed up. Everybody's getting, like, really drunk in the afternoon. Comedy on Santa, SantaCon day is, like, generally-

   19. CWChris Williamson0:53

       Shit show.

   20. DPDanny Polishchuk0:53

       ... really bad.

   21. CWChris Williamson0:54

       Yeah.

   22. DPDanny Polishchuk0:54

       It's really bad 'cause everybody shows up wasted. And, uh, fights, like, there's like-

   23. CWChris Williamson0:58

       What's the demographic of people that attend SantaCon?

   24. DPDanny Polishchuk1:01

       Oh, that's a good question. (laughs) Uh, I, you know what? It's pretty diverse.

   25. CWChris Williamson1:04

       It's equal opportunity degeneracy.

   26. DPDanny Polishchuk1:05

       Like, I was looking around, yeah, it's like you're looking, you're like, "It's a bit of everybody." It's pretty wild. But, uh, yeah, so, 'cause it took me s- like, just, uh, a lot longer to get over here from my house.

   27. CWChris Williamson1:15

       Mm-hmm.

   28. DPDanny Polishchuk1:15

       And I was wondering, I'm like, "What is going on?" And then I start kinda, you know, I was listening to, like, my, my audiobook, and I'm looking around, I can see all the Santa Claus hats that go... And then when I got out of the-

   29. CWChris Williamson1:23

       It feels the same, right?

   30. DPDanny Polishchuk1:24

       Yeah, yeah. But then when I got out, I go, "Oh, okay."
2. 1:30 – 8:24

   Why Danny Got Deleted From Instagram

   1. CWChris Williamson1:30

      us the, what's the story?

   2. DPDanny Polishchuk1:31

      Essentially what happened is, uh, there's a w- like, I know some people who are kinda high up fairly in the world of technology. A lot of people have a lot of opinions. But essentially on October... We actually figured out last night, it might be as a result of you, actually.

   3. CWChris Williamson1:45

      Fantastic.

   4. DPDanny Polishchuk1:46

      Yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we think that, that's like my new, uh, current theory.

   5. CWChris Williamson1:49

      Right.

   6. DPDanny Polishchuk1:50

      So on, on October 8th, I've had an Instagram account for 12 years. Never had a post taken down.

   7. CWChris Williamson1:55

      Yeah.

   8. DPDanny Polishchuk1:56

      Nothing, no issues at all. And then on October 8th, I got, uh, I logged into Instagram and it says, "Your account's permanently suspended for, uh, sexual solicitation." Which is essentially what they get for, like, OnlyFans girls, right?

   9. CWChris Williamson2:07

      (laughs) Okay.

   10. DPDanny Polishchuk2:09

       I'm like, "What the hell? This must be a mis-" I'm like, you know, "Oh, this must be a mistake," right? So I appeal it, and in Instagram there's just, like, a blue button that just says, "Would you like to appeal?" And I pr- press the button, and then one minute later they say, "We've denied your appeal." And then, uh, there's, but they say, "If this is a mistake," uh, you can write a little, like, kinda blurb to them.

   11. CWChris Williamson2:28

       Mm-hmm.

   12. DPDanny Polishchuk2:28

       So I write a thing, I get it back. And I'd been posting some content, remember? Like, basically the thing that you showed Douglas Murray, right?

   13. CWChris Williamson2:34

       Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah.

   14. DPDanny Polishchuk2:35

       About the, uh, uh-

   15. CWChris Williamson2:36

       Gays for Gaza.

   16. DPDanny Polishchuk2:37

       ... Gays for Gaza stuff, right? And I was making fun of those people. And, uh, and you'd have to think that a lot of people who probably work in content moderation and at Meta probably side more with those people than me-

   17. CWChris Williamson2:47

       Yeah, maybe.

   18. DPDanny Polishchuk2:47

       ... than the person making fun of those people, right?

   19. CWChris Williamson2:49

       Yeah.

   20. DPDanny Polishchuk2:49

       So anyways, I get it back. Two days later, exact same thing happens. I get suspended again, same thing. And I'm going pretty hard on, like, you know, posting about the Israel-Palestine conflict. G- again, same thing happens, and then, um, loo- loo- get it back again, though. And then on No- November 8th, which would be one month ago, exact same thing happens. This time, though, I appe- press that blue appeal button, lose one minute later, and there's no option for me to, like-

   21. CWChris Williamson3:18

       Three strikes and you're out.

   22. DPDanny Polishchuk3:18

       I guess, right? And so, and then we were talking last night, uh, we, and, 'cause we were, he brought up the thing, and then I went, and you posted that thing on November 6th that went super viral. Now, I don't know if it's related, 'cause I was obviously having issues before that. But I have, like, a target on my back and-

   23. CWChris Williamson3:34

       The Douglas Murray fucking splash, splash zone, dirty zone.

   24. DPDanny Polishchuk3:36

       I guess, but, but at Meta, like, they put a target on me, and so m- well, I have one friend who thinks either it's some content moderator there who just, like, doesn't like me, saw that I had a bunch of stuff, like, going viral-

   25. CWChris Williamson3:47

       Hmm.

   26. DPDanny Polishchuk3:47

       ... and they're just like, "We gotta get rid of this guy." Someone, my f- one friend thinks that maybe someone actually literally paid money, because there's this whole black market, like, underground economy with, um, like, Instagram and... Because I, I think it's related to the OnlyFans stuff, because OnlyFans girls, they promote OnlyFans on Instagram, make tons of money, then they get kicked off, but then they're happy to pay $2,000, which is what I have to pay to get, to maybe get-

   27. CWChris Williamson4:13

       It just costs them business.

   28. DPDanny Polishchuk4:13

       ... my thing back. Yeah, it's just like a tax for-

   29. CWChris Williamson4:15

       Yeah.

   30. DPDanny Polishchuk4:15

       And they're happy to pay, they go-
3. 8:24 – 11:56

   Travelling Life of a Comedian

   1. CWChris Williamson8:24

      Cummings on the show about a month ago, and I was super impressed with her. Like, I, I didn't-

   2. DPDanny Polishchuk8:27

      Yeah, she, she's great.

   3. CWChris Williamson8:28

      She's very, very impressive. She said to me before I went on tour, "In order for art to imitate life, you have to live a life."

   4. DPDanny Polishchuk8:36

      Yeah.

   5. CWChris Williamson8:36

      And it was her explanation for why comedians just talk about airports, dinner, and comedy.

   6. DPDanny Polishchuk8:42

      Yep.

   7. CWChris Williamson8:42

      Because if you're on the road, that's all you know. And this was a month ago, and since then, all I've done is be on the road.

   8. DPDanny Polishchuk8:48

      (laughs)

   9. CWChris Williamson8:48

      For one full month-

   10. DPDanny Polishchuk8:48

       (laughs)

   11. CWChris Williamson8:48

       ... all I've done is be on the road. And I've found myself having conversations with my friends about all that I've got to talk about is, like, airports and check-in-

   12. DPDanny Polishchuk8:56

       Yeah.

   13. CWChris Williamson8:56

       ... and luggage and shows and what I had for dinner last night, and that's it.

   14. DPDanny Polishchuk9:00

       I mean, when that's your life, that's your life, right?

   15. CWChris Williamson9:02

       It's so strange.

   16. DPDanny Polishchuk9:03

       Yeah, yeah. That's... I, I know, like, 'cause sometimes you will have a joke, something happens at the airport, and you're like, "Ugh."

   17. CWChris Williamson9:09

       It's the most comedian comedy ever.

   18. DPDanny Polishchuk9:11

       Right? And you're like, "But this is a movie." It still is funny, but yeah, it is that kinda thing where you're like, yeah, you have... And that, that's why I do try and make a point of doing stuff. You know, like, traveling-

   19. CWChris Williamson9:22

       You need to have a life.

   20. DPDanny Polishchuk9:22

       ... and having a life, and... Like, traveling not for comedy.

   21. CWChris Williamson9:24

       Mm-hmm.

   22. DPDanny Polishchuk9:25

       You know, 'cause a lot of comics were like, "Yeah, I'll go somewhere if I'm doing a show," but other than that...

   23. CWChris Williamson9:28

       Did you do Asia recently?

   24. DPDanny Polishchuk9:30

       Uh, recently? No. I've been, I've been to Southeast Asia, though.

   25. CWChris Williamson9:33

       Right.

   26. DPDanny Polishchuk9:33

       I spent, I spent, uh, like 15 years ago. I spent a lot of time there.

   27. CWChris Williamson9:36

       Oh, okay.

   28. DPDanny Polishchuk9:37

       Yeah, yeah.

   29. CWChris Williamson9:37

       I see. But yeah, I've been, I've been thinking about that. I can kind of see... I know that it's... Everyone hates it. It's like comedians just talking about comedy, and, "Oh, you, you know, the, the crowd and the venue and all the rest of the stuff." But if that's, like, the fucking front and center of your life-

   30. DPDanny Polishchuk9:50

       Yeah.
4. 11:56 – 14:49

   The Britney Spears Saga

   1. CWChris Williamson11:56

      have you been watching the Britney Spears arc recently?

   2. DPDanny Polishchuk11:59

      Yeah, I mean, I was, I was day one being like, "They should not be removing this conservatorship from, from the jump." So, this is very much chickens coming home to roost. I mean, she obviously... Have you ever heard the, the saying with k- child stars, where-... like, the point that you become super famous is the point where you stop developing, like, as a person. So-

   3. CWChris Williamson12:21

      The Arrested Development of fame.

   4. DPDanny Polishchuk12:22

      Essentially. So it's like, that's why Michael Jackson was, like, a 13-year-old.

   5. CWChris Williamson12:25

      Interesting.

   6. DPDanny Polishchuk12:26

      So she's like a six-year-old. She was like super, you know, Disney Club whatever, Mickey Mouse Club, and like maybe whatever she got really famous, but she's like a child. And then, uh, and y- y- it kind of tracks, not for everyone obviously, but it kinda does track. But yeah, sh- sh- like you see, I don't know if she's on medication or anything, but you can just see it in the eyes.

   7. CWChris Williamson12:45

      She either is or should be.

   8. DPDanny Polishchuk12:47

      Yeah, but you can see it in the eyes. Like there's, there's not a lot of activity in the eyes.

   9. CWChris Williamson12:51

      It's so, it's, it makes me feel uncomfortable. Like, I don't follow her, but y- you know, you just, stuff surfaces.

   10. DPDanny Polishchuk12:57

       My fiance cons- my fiance loves her constantly 'cause-

   11. CWChris Williamson13:00

       Loves her-

   12. DPDanny Polishchuk13:00

       ... Chicks just-

   13. CWChris Williamson13:00

       ... or is like watching it like a slow motion car crash?

   14. DPDanny Polishchuk13:03

       Honestly, chicks like, uh, they, no, not like a slow motion car crash. Like, y-

   15. CWChris Williamson13:09

       But if you're emp- like most girls are pretty empathetic and emotionally tuned in and can see what's going on, how do you not look at Britney and go, "This person needs some fucking help and also needs to stop posting selfies of her dancing in her hallway"?

   16. DPDanny Polishchuk13:22

       Y- yeah. Yeah, and she looks mental. I, I mean, the one with the knives that ended up being like the meme and stuff. (laughs)

   17. CWChris Williamson13:26

       Britney Spears puts aside family drama to post a racy Instagram video of her running her hands over her body while promoting Victoria's Secret bras and underwear.

   18. DPDanny Polishchuk13:36

       Yeah.

   19. CWChris Williamson13:36

       It's like, I've watched this video-

   20. DPDanny Polishchuk13:37

       Yeah, yeah.

   21. CWChris Williamson13:38

       ... over and over. It's like her in bed-

   22. DPDanny Polishchuk13:39

       Yeah, yeah.

   23. CWChris Williamson13:39

       ... like full on underwear.

   24. DPDanny Polishchuk13:40

       Yeah, my, that, my girl sent that to me. She, she just send it-

   25. CWChris Williamson13:43

       What the fuck is going on?

   26. DPDanny Polishchuk13:44

       But y- when they say promoting, like Victoria's Secret's like, "We don't want anything."

   27. CWChris Williamson13:47

       They have sponsors.

   28. DPDanny Polishchuk13:47

       Yeah, they're like, "We don't have anything to do with this." (laughs)

   29. CWChris Williamson13:49

       They're just wearing it.

   30. DPDanny Polishchuk13:50

       Yeah, yeah, just wearing it, like she's not a-
5. 14:49 – 20:37

   Never Make Fun of Taylor Swift

   1. CWChris Williamson14:49

      uh, Meat Canyon? Do you know that guy? He does those, uh, illustration videos.

   2. DPDanny Polishchuk14:53

      Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

   3. CWChris Williamson14:53

      He's really great.

   4. DPDanny Polishchuk14:54

      Yeah, yeah.

   5. CWChris Williamson14:55

      Um, so he's got a second channel called Papa Meat, which is pretty good. And he did a reacting to Swifties-

   6. DPDanny Polishchuk15:02

      Okay.

   7. CWChris Williamson15:02

      ... thing.

   8. DPDanny Polishchuk15:03

      Yeah.

   9. CWChris Williamson15:03

      He ended up getting tons of death threats.

   10. DPDanny Polishchuk15:05

       Oh, yeah, yeah, they're crazy.

   11. CWChris Williamson15:07

       So, I mean, Britney Spears I, maybe has some fans and that conservatorship thing was like people were chasing after that. The, at least the advantage you have if you do criticize Britney Spears is her fans aren't rabid and totally current, like everyone's kind of just like historical fans.

   12. DPDanny Polishchuk15:24

       Yeah.

   13. CWChris Williamson15:24

       Taylor Swift has very motivated, unbelievably motivated fans. So yeah, he had full on death threats from what I've seen.

   14. DPDanny Polishchuk15:30

       Well 'cause, 'cause, uh, Britney Spears doesn't have 13-year-old fans.

   15. CWChris Williamson15:34

       Yep.

   16. DPDanny Polishchuk15:34

       Right? And those are like, the 13-year-old girls maybe the meanest-

   17. CWChris Williamson15:37

       (laughs)

   18. DPDanny Polishchuk15:38

       ... meanest iteration of a human-

   19. CWChris Williamson15:39

       Do not get on the-

   20. DPDanny Polishchuk15:39

       ... that can possibly exist.

   21. CWChris Williamson15:40

       Do not get on the other side of them.

   22. DPDanny Polishchuk15:41

       Yeah, yeah, yeah. (laughs)

   23. CWChris Williamson15:42

       It's like Hamas and then 13-year-old girl.

   24. DPDanny Polishchuk15:44

       Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. (laughs) Like if you get, like get, uh, you know, if Taylor Swift became, uh, like Muslim or something, like, like Islamic jihad-

   25. CWChris Williamson15:52

       (laughs)

   26. DPDanny Polishchuk15:52

       ... the, the West would fall. (laughs) We'd be done.

   27. CWChris Williamson15:56

       Yeah. I r- I saw a video, this was before her most recent tour kicked off, and someone had taken one from inside of a stadium. You know you're in the, the gangway and you're kind of walking around the side and maybe like kinda high up. And you could hear the music and see the crowd and she's videoing the crowd like inside the stadium, and they're all singing along and stuff. And then she pans to outside where there's a car park and there's 40,000 people in the car park-

   28. DPDanny Polishchuk16:20

       Yeah.

   29. CWChris Williamson16:21

       ... singing along with the show that they couldn't get tickets to get into inside.

   30. DPDanny Polishchuk16:23

       Oh, for sure. I mean, my, my friend, he has a six-year-old daughter and his daughter was like, "I wanna go in Toronto to see Taylor Swift." And he went and looked and tickets were like, two tickets were $5,000 to get in, just to get in. We're not talking-
6. 20:37 – 28:04

   Getting a Vasectomy for the Climate

   1. DPDanny Polishchuk20:37

      call.

   2. CWChris Williamson20:37

      What do you think?

   3. DPDanny Polishchuk20:38

      I th- I mean, the n- natural, logical conclusion is if you were so worried about human impact on climate, you kill yourself, right? If you really care, right? Like, isn't that, like, okay? "Well, you know, if you wanna get a vasectomy, I can do you one further." Right? It's crazy. I mean, these people are mental. Their, their, their brains have been so destroyed with, uh, this, like, anxiety and fear about the future. Like, you know, eh, e- civiliza- humanity is not the type of thing you wanna bet against. Like, there al- it kinda always finds a way, you know? Like, everybody's like, "Oh my God, we're doomed." Like, this doomerism, I, it's probably existed forever. There's never... And, you know, and yet here we are. So I don't know. What, what do you think about it? (laughs)

   4. CWChris Williamson21:26

      "For about a year and a half, I'd been offering to get a vasectomy to do more than just talk about how the world didn't need any more humans. In and around our old Nova Scotia house, I'd periodically make that horizontal siver mime, uh, scissor mime-"

   5. DPDanny Polishchuk21:37

      (laughs)

   6. CWChris Williamson21:37

      "... to reiterate my offer. News of rising temperatures on the kitchen radio? Finger snip. Atlantic Ocean looking more and more disturbed? Finger snip. Even back then in 2007, the North Atlantic hurricane season was intensified-"

   7. DPDanny Polishchuk21:49

      (laughs)

   8. CWChris Williamson21:49

      "... due to climate change. Snip, snip. (laughs) Daryl, my then partner, called out from a few rows back in a crowded flight. We'd originally been seated together but relocated so her mum could sit with her kids. When I looked back over the packed seats amidst the roar of burning engines, she smiled at me and mimed a scissor cut with two fingers. 'Yes,' she finally said, in a jester, gesture understandable only to me. My then partner called out." This sounds like a guy who did, and now is no longer with the person who he-

   9. DPDanny Polishchuk22:14

      Yeah. Also, an interesting thing here, because this is a ultimate in virtue signaling-

   10. CWChris Williamson22:18

       Mm-hmm.

   11. DPDanny Polishchuk22:18

       ... obviously, to say, like, "I'm saving the planet by not reproducing." And then they insisted on including-

   12. CWChris Williamson22:25

       Froze his sperm.

   13. DPDanny Polishchuk22:26

       ... no, but they insisted on a, it's interesting, they insist on including, which is unnecessary, that they were not s- they were sitting separately because they had to give up their seat so a mother could sit with her child.

   14. CWChris Williamson22:36

       (laughs)

   15. DPDanny Polishchuk22:38

       (laughs) Like, that's, like, a weird thing. You're like, "Okay, you didn't have to say that, other than you just have to be-"

   16. CWChris Williamson22:43

       The best.

   17. DPDanny Polishchuk22:43

       ... the best human-

   18. CWChris Williamson22:44

       Yeah.

   19. DPDanny Polishchuk22:44

       ... possible, and everybody else who's reading this is just scum."

   20. CWChris Williamson22:47

       "That's part of why it was so thrilling when my now wife, Giselle, volun- voluntarily mentioned not wanting kids on our first date. Three years later, we got married and moved in a kind of working honeymoon to sweaty equatorial Singapore. Admittedly, our next four years of travel around Asia made us more a part of the climate crisis problem-

   21. DPDanny Polishchuk23:03

       (laughs)

   22. CWChris Williamson23:03

       ... than the solution. (laughs) Basically, I decided to carbon offset my destructive, selfish lifestyle by not propagating my own DNA and instead traveled the world."

   23. DPDanny Polishchuk23:12

       Thi- this is, like, a borderline Onion article.

   24. CWChris Williamson23:15

       Yeah.

   25. DPDanny Polishchuk23:15

       From not that long ago. And i- it's r- but this is the CBC. I mean, this is-

   26. CWChris Williamson23:19

       Right.

   27. DPDanny Polishchuk23:19

       ... this is Canadian Broadcasting. This is government funded, uh, propaganda right here.

   28. CWChris Williamson23:23

       Did you see, I came up with this idea of toxic compassion? Do you read my little-

   29. DPDanny Polishchuk23:27

       Mm-hmm. Uh, no, I haven't seen that. No.

   30. CWChris Williamson23:28

       All right, so, uh, toxic compassion is the prioritization of short-term emotional comfort over everything else. Over truth, reality, actual long-term outcomes, flourishing, everything. It optimizes for looking good rather than doing good. People would rather claim that body fat has no bearing on health and mortality outcomes to avoid making overweight individuals feel upset, even if this causes them to literally die sooner or have a worse quality of life. People would rather say that children growing up in single parent households suffer no worse outcomes than those from two parent homes, even if this misleads parents, children and teachers about why kids behave the way they do. Campaigners would sooner shout, "Defund the police," as a response to what they s- perceive as unfair treatment of criminals, even if this r- results in more crimes being committed against people from those minority backgrounds due to the abandonment of police officers from those areas." So it's people that say what they think sounds good, but ultimately might net a negative outcome. Peterson said, "It's the prioritization of short-term emotional comfort over long-term thriving. It's going to hurt now, but the consequences long term are positive."
7. 28:04 – 31:14

   Residual Trauma from Covid

   1. CWChris Williamson28:04

      Well, we, uh, we've been doing these meet-and-greets after the show, uh, which is really great, but you do realize that, like, if, if anybody of these 600 people that I've just shook hands and taken a photo and, like, hugged or, like, s- you know, like, slapped five with-

   2. DPDanny Polishchuk28:16

      Yeah.

   3. CWChris Williamson28:17

      ... if any of them, it's like, I've just got, I got it all. We did get COVID. All of us got COVID separately, James in Australia, Luke in the UK, me in Austin. We all got COVID about two months before the show, uh, the, the tour began, and we were like, "Tour antibodies," like, "Fuck yeah."

   4. DPDanny Polishchuk28:30

      Yeah.

   5. CWChris Williamson28:30

      "Like, we've done it, I'm gonna be immune."

   6. DPDanny Polishchuk28:31

      Yeah.

   7. CWChris Williamson28:31

      Immediately went on tour and just got wrecked by, like, other, like, different viruses-

   8. DPDanny Polishchuk28:36

      Other... Yeah, yeah.

   9. CWChris Williamson28:36

      ... that, like-

   10. DPDanny Polishchuk28:36

       I mean, that's, that's kinda the nature of, uh, of how it goes, but yeah, I don't know. Th- i- it's unavoidable. Like, I was, I was just on the train over here. One thing I, I still find so difficult to understand is couples where one's masked-

   11. CWChris Williamson28:51

       (laughs)

   12. DPDanny Polishchuk28:51

       ... and one's not. Because surely, the one that's unmasked will then give you whatever you're trying to avoid, right? Like, am I missing something? But I see it all the time. You're, like, a couple where one's masked, but, like, how...

   13. CWChris Williamson29:09

       You're gonna get in the same bed tonight.

   14. DPDanny Polishchuk29:10

       Yeah, like, you're gonna kiss later, so... I, I, I don't know. I don't know. May- maybe there's someone who's way smarter than me who can explain that to me. 'Cause I, I see it all the time. Like, I saw it literally just on the train right over here.

   15. CWChris Williamson29:22

       We were in Banff in, uh, Alberta.

   16. DPDanny Polishchuk29:25

       Yeah.

   17. CWChris Williamson29:26

       And, um, yeah, there was people walking out and about in what looks like the cleanest air in the world.

   18. DPDanny Polishchuk29:32

       Oh, it's like the, yeah, you can, like... Yeah, it's-

   19. CWChris Williamson29:34

       It's-

   20. DPDanny Polishchuk29:34

       ... the best.

   21. CWChris Williamson29:35

       ... the purest air on the planet. And yeah, people still outdoor, uh, masking, which I didn't, I, I did reflect on this a little bit, like, how I feel now about, like, someone in a car on their own or something, you know, when people wore masks in cars on their own.

   22. DPDanny Polishchuk29:50

       Yeah, yeah.

   23. CWChris Williamson29:50

       Or someone out and about in fresh air at this stage of post-pandemic, like, fucking non-case risk. It does make me think, people who were so vehement against any masking ever, like, "No one should ever have to do it," it's like, well maybe just my judgment of the situation is that my sensitivity needed it to be a few years later-

   24. DPDanny Polishchuk30:12

       Yeah.

   25. CWChris Williamson30:12

       ... whereas they were like, "Even now, in the midst of it, even though we don't know it," that's, like, how-

   26. DPDanny Polishchuk30:17

       And I mean, do what you want. You know, like, this is America. Like, that's, it's the most ethos of this country is, is it's more just, like, do, if you wanna wear a mask in a car, like, that's your right. It's m- the problem was when they were saying, "You have to do it."

   27. CWChris Williamson30:29

       Mm-hmm.

   28. DPDanny Polishchuk30:29

       And then people are like, "Okay, well, that's very much un-American, you know?"

   29. CWChris Williamson30:32

       (laughs)

   30. DPDanny Polishchuk30:32

       "To, to make anybody do anything." But, I mean, you, uh, y- have you spent any time in Asia?
8. 31:14 – 34:30

   Cultural Differences in Asia

   1. CWChris Williamson31:14

      are they wearing the mask? Is it because of, like, historical air quality?

   2. DPDanny Polishchuk31:18

      Yeah.

   3. CWChris Williamson31:18

      Or is it because of COVID?

   4. DPDanny Polishchuk31:20

      Yeah. I heard in Thailand, actually, someone explained to me that some people, 'cause they wear these really big masks that go, like, literally here. And it's because they ... their class system, like many other places, is the more tanned you are-

   5. CWChris Williamson31:32

      Yes, the lower class you are.

   6. DPDanny Polishchuk31:33

      ... the lower class you are, so it's a... And skin whitening's huge in Thailand.

   7. CWChris Williamson31:37

      Dude. I went to Thailand. I saw this. The girls that worked at the front of the, uh, restaurants, the secretaries for like offices, for massage places, all of that stuff, would have, like, lighter skin. But you can see, there's a line here. And it's ... It just completely drove home how culturally inculcated I was in the UK for me to look at that and say, "Oh, how strange. Like, purposefully making your skin lighter." Because people who work in the fields are seen as, like, indigent laborers.

   8. DPDanny Polishchuk32:06

      Yeah.

   9. CWChris Williamson32:06

      That means that they're of lower status. The people who have white-collar jobs that work in zo- indoors, they don't get tan. How silly that you would try and lighten your skin. I go back to Newcastle upon Tyne, the place where the British version of Jersey Shore was filmed, Geordie Shore-

   10. DPDanny Polishchuk32:18

       (laughs)

   11. CWChris Williamson32:19

       ... to see girls make their faces fucking orange-

   12. DPDanny Polishchuk32:21

       Right.

   13. CWChris Williamson32:21

       ... to, like, give the appearance of, "Oh, you know, I spend time outside and I can go to Marbella whenever I want and stuff."

   14. DPDanny Polishchuk32:27

       Right, right.

   15. CWChris Williamson32:27

       And it's the exact same, but in reverse.

   16. DPDanny Polishchuk32:29

       Yeah. That, that's pretty funny.

   17. CWChris Williamson32:31

       And I just didn't see it. I was like, "Ha, how strange," as I go back to Newcastle to get caked in fake tan.

   18. DPDanny Polishchuk32:35

       Right. I guess it's the quickest way to signal something, right, is just you're s-

   19. CWChris Williamson32:38

       Visually.

   20. DPDanny Polishchuk32:39

       ... visually, like, you ... It's, it's the equivalent of wearing, like, a Rolex, you know?

   21. CWChris Williamson32:42

       Hmm.

   22. DPDanny Polishchuk32:42

       But for cl-

   23. CWChris Williamson32:43

       Such a strange quirk. I'll never forget, one of my friends who's a DJ told me this story. We kind of d- uh, what do you say, like, cultural thermometer of what you're used to anchoring off and what you actually, uh ... That you go to somewhere new and everything's upside down, fucking bar stool's been turned around. He went and played a gig, DJ gig, in South America. He's a DJ, he parties, he wanted some cocaine. He was like, "I'm in, like, fucking Ecuador or Argentina or Colombia or some shit." He's like, "I'm fucking ... The source is here."

   24. DPDanny Polishchuk33:09

       Yeah.

   25. CWChris Williamson33:10

       Like, the f- the fountain of cocaine is here.

   26. DPDanny Polishchuk33:12

       (laughs)

   27. CWChris Williamson33:12

       Uh, so he goes to the promoter and he's like, "Can you get me some cocaine?" And he looked at him and was like, "Are you sure?" He's like, "Yes, I would like some cocaine." He's like, "Fucking hell, man. I mean, like, I can get you some, but..." And he was thinking, "Oh God, like, maybe there's gonna be police. Maybe there's like a d- d- um, prison sentences for it are really high-"

   28. DPDanny Polishchuk33:31

       Mm-hmm.

   29. CWChris Williamson33:31

       "... or it's, like, very h- you know, we're going to involve ourself in some gang stuff." What it turned out was that people who do cocaine in these areas, it's seen as super dirty, it's seen as a scummy drug.

   30. DPDanny Polishchuk33:41

       Yeah. Mm-hmm.
9. 34:30 – 40:46

   The Most Popular Drug in Mexico

   1. DPDanny Polishchuk34:30

      ... I was ... I had this guy on my call-in show, uh, Ioan Grillo, if you ever heard of him.

   2. CWChris Williamson34:33

      I do know him.

   3. DPDanny Polishchuk34:33

      You know him? Yeah, yeah.

   4. CWChris Williamson34:34

      Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's great.

   5. DPDanny Polishchuk34:35

      I talked a few weeks ... Yeah, he's amazing. I was talking to him and he's, uh, like a narco reporter-

   6. CWChris Williamson34:39

      Mm-hmm.

   7. DPDanny Polishchuk34:39

      ... in, in Mexico or whatever, and he was saying actually, like, yeah, cocaine is just, like, popular, but it's not the m- ... The most popular drug is actually, I think, meth right now. And, and they have no issues, 'cause all the fentanyl comes over the border, but they have, like, no issues with fentanyl there. Like, they, they just create

   8. CWChris Williamson34:53

      Douglas Murray went to this place in Philadelphia. Have you heard of Trank?

   9. DPDanny Polishchuk34:57

      Yeah, yeah.

   10. CWChris Williamson34:58

       Trank's like fentanyl's fentanyl.

   11. DPDanny Polishchuk35:01

       Mm-hmm.

   12. CWChris Williamson35:01

       It's for people who-

   13. DPDanny Polishchuk35:02

       Like, like, makes your, like, skin peel and ... (inhales)

   14. CWChris Williamson35:05

       Just people, yeah, like, bits of you drop off. It's like leprosy in a drug.

   15. DPDanny Polishchuk35:07

       Yeah.

   16. CWChris Williamson35:08

       And, um, yeah, he went to this place in Philadelphia and filmed this. I'm on, like, a campaign to get Douglas Murray, uh, acquired by The Daily Wire.

   17. DPDanny Polishchuk35:16

       Yeah.

   18. CWChris Williamson35:16

       I sat down with Jeremy Boring, the CEO-

   19. DPDanny Polishchuk35:17

       Oh, okay.

   20. CWChris Williamson35:17

       ... and I was like, "Dude, you need to acquire, uh, Douglas Murray." So anyway, fucking Jeremy-

   21. DPDanny Polishchuk35:20

       Yeah.

   22. CWChris Williamson35:20

       If you're watching, go and do it. Um, but Douglas went and, and filmed this thing. He hasn't released it yet, uh, but yeah, he went to Philadelphia and apparently, like, Trank has just taken over-

   23. DPDanny Polishchuk35:29

       That's the new one, yeah.

   24. CWChris Williamson35:30

       Yeah, taken over the city. So, like, fentanyl ... Uh, heroin, not enough, fentanyl, not enough, and then there's carfentanyl.

   25. DPDanny Polishchuk35:36

       Yeah, which is, like, even more potent.

   26. CWChris Williamson35:38

       So fentanyl's fentanyl, and then this is like carfentanyl's carfentanyl.

   27. DPDanny Polishchuk35:41

       Yeah.

   28. CWChris Williamson35:41

       Trank.

   29. DPDanny Polishchuk35:42

       Yeah, it's ... I mean, it's sad that people are ... Yeah, I don't know. To, to get to the point where you kinda (laughs) ... That's what you need. Like, if even fentanyl's not doing it for you.

   30. CWChris Williamson35:51

       Shit that would kill-
10. 40:46 – 50:58

    Kim Jong Un Crying at Birth Rates

    1. CWChris Williamson40:46

       he asked North Korean women to have more children?

    2. DPDanny Polishchuk40:48

       Yeah, and then the funniest thing is they're all in the audience and they're all cr- the moment, uh, the moment one tear, they're all just like, "Aww."

    3. CWChris Williamson40:56

       (laughs)

    4. DPDanny Polishchuk40:58

       They don't wanna get in trouble.

    5. CWChris Williamson40:59

       Yeah, uh, assessments show that the fertility rate in North Korea has been falling for a decade amid increasing concerns within families over lots of money being needed to raise children, and food. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to wipe away tears as he urged women to halt a decline in the country's birth rate. Mr. Kim was seen dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief in a rare moment of emotion as he addressed the National Mothers' Meeting in Pyongyang. The Hyundai Institute report said that North Korea's population was expected t- to shrink starting in 2034.

    6. DPDanny Polishchuk41:30

       Yeah, that's, uh, (laughs) I don't know. I don't know what their demographic situation is like.

    7. CWChris Williamson41:36

       Fucked, dude, they, South Korea, I think is at 0.6 or 0.8 as a birth rate, 2.1 is replacement.

    8. DPDanny Polishchuk41:42

       2.1 is replacement, yeah.

    9. CWChris Williamson41:43

       And they, for every 100 South Koreans alive right now, there will be four great-grandchildren.

    10. DPDanny Polishchuk41:52

        Wow.

    11. CWChris Williamson41:52

        It's a 96% extinction rate over the next 100 years.

    12. DPDanny Polishchuk41:55

        Jesus.

    13. CWChris Williamson41:55

        Fucking crazy.

    14. DPDanny Polishchuk41:55

        Is there any country that's above 2.1?

    15. CWChris Williamson41:58

        Yes, um, so like (laughs) funnily enough the highest on the planet, Chad.

    16. DPDanny Polishchuk42:01

        Chad, yeah, yeah, just like the-

    17. CWChris Williamson42:03

        Because they're Chads, um. (laughs)

    18. DPDanny Polishchuk42:04

        (laughs) Nice.

    19. CWChris Williamson42:06

        Um, no yeah, that's the highest but even, uh, Sub-Saharan Africa, every 15 years the number of children that each mother has is decreasing by one. So it's like, I think it's about seven now and then in 15 years it'll be six and then in 15 years it'll be five, in 15 years it'll be four.

    20. DPDanny Polishchuk42:21

        And subsequently the average family size is seven children?

    21. CWChris Williamson42:24

        At the moment, yeah.

    22. DPDanny Polishchuk42:24

        Wow.

    23. CWChris Williamson42:25

        Um, but I, I don't know whether that is per woman or per mother, because that's different. There are some women who don't have kids.

    24. DPDanny Polishchuk42:31

        Mm-hmm.

    25. CWChris Williamson42:31

        And if you do that, if you actually look at that number in America, the number is still the same as it's always been, it's like 2.3. Mothers have about 2.3 children or 2.5 children or something like that. It's the non-mothers that is increasing-

    26. DPDanny Polishchuk42:44

        Right.

    27. CWChris Williamson42:44

        ... so women that have zero.

    28. DPDanny Polishchuk42:45

        Right, yeah, yeah, the-

    29. CWChris Williamson42:46

        If you have one, you end up having like two and a half.

    30. DPDanny Polishchuk42:48

        Yeah.
11. 50:58 – 58:01

    PornHub Trying to Turn Kids Trans

    1. CWChris Williamson50:58

       PornHub employees want porn to steer young people's sexual energy?

    2. DPDanny Polishchuk51:01

       I saw... Uh, you know what I saw? I saw that trending, I didn't actually watch the video. So it's just like a kind of Project Veritas type thing?

    3. CWChris Williamson51:06

       Exactly like that, yeah. Employees of PornHub's parent company were caught on camera touting the benefits of underage kids watching pornography and even suggesting that making videos of transgender-identifying people engaging in sex could help young people figure out their sexuality, according to a new video released exclusively on The Michael Knowles Show on Wednesday. Employee, Dylan Rice, a senior script writer at the company-

    4. DPDanny Polishchuk51:25

       Script writer? (laughs)

    5. CWChris Williamson51:26

       ... is seen-

    6. DPDanny Polishchuk51:27

       They still do that?

    7. CWChris Williamson51:28

       I don't know.

    8. DPDanny Polishchuk51:29

       (laughs)

    9. CWChris Williamson51:29

       Is seen arguing that pornography usage can be beneficial for preteens. "Let's say you're 12 years old, you're still figuring out your sexuality, maybe even your gender. Wouldn't it be helpful to see a celebration but not just, uh, but maybe just a normalization of something that you think is what you want?" Rice is seen saying. Rice went on to specifically reference a pornography site centered around transgender individuals, remarking, "Let's say I was 12 and I saw Trans Angels. It would help me figure out what I do like and what I don't like."

    10. DPDanny Polishchuk51:54

        Um, I mean, I guess? I don't (laughs) I don't, I'm not sure. Like, you know, I, I, I haven't gone through every category of, on porn websites, but I imagine there's quite something for everybody there.

    11. CWChris Williamson52:07

        Do you know what India, the second most popular type of porn in India is?

    12. DPDanny Polishchuk52:11

        No.

    13. CWChris Williamson52:11

        Breastfeeding.

    14. DPDanny Polishchuk52:13

        Ugh.

    15. CWChris Williamson52:13

        Breastfeeding porn. Dude, it's so strange. So this is from, uh, Seth Stephen Davidowitz's book, um, uh, Everybody Lies. And he, his argument was basically, you tell Google things that you don't even tell yourself or your journal or your partner.

    16. DPDanny Polishchuk52:27

        Mm-hmm.

    17. CWChris Williamson52:27

        Because it's what do you want, not what do you think about, like, writing and reflecting on.

    18. DPDanny Polishchuk52:32

        Yeah.

    19. CWChris Williamson52:33

        And he looked at PornHub data and it's just... Breastfeeding porn isn't big any... It's not even big in like surrounding countries. Whatever the fuck's around India, uh, it's not big. Indian people, Indian men specifically, just seem to fucking love breastfeeding porn.

    20. DPDanny Polishchuk52:47

        Weird.

    21. CWChris Williamson52:47

        Yeah.

    22. DPDanny Polishchuk52:48

        And what... Is there any, uh, theory as to why?

    23. CWChris Williamson52:50

        He gave me like some... Because cows are sacred that there's maybe like-

    24. DPDanny Polishchuk52:54

        Oh, wow. This is like deep. (laughs)

    25. CWChris Williamson52:56

        Yeah, yeah.

    26. DPDanny Polishchuk52:57

        It's like-

    27. CWChris Williamson52:57

        It's like some fucking religious-

    28. DPDanny Polishchuk52:58

        Deep symbolism here.

    29. CWChris Williamson52:59

        Yeah, I don't know. Um, but yeah, this... I, I don't know, like, I've been thinking this more and more about the, um, some of the expose shit that we see online. There was a, a screengrab of maybe a Tinder conversation or a dating conversation that went mega, hyper, hyper viral of a guy saying that he wanted a traditional wife, and the woman saying, "That's really great, 'cause that's what I want too." And then he accused her of being a gold digger because she said that she would stay at home.

    30. DPDanny Polishchuk53:30

        Mm-hmm.
12. 58:01 – 1:00:02

    Rising Trend of Antisemitism

    1. CWChris Williamson58:01

       honestly, like between Kanye and fucking Middle East and...

    2. DPDanny Polishchuk58:03

       Yeah, yeah. Well, everybody's so surprised about the, the what's going on now with the Jewish stuff. But, uh, I saw it firsthand with the Kanye stuff. Because when the Kanye thing... You know, I was commenting on that and, you know, like I was making sketches around that. And so, I would see... Go on YouTube on, on... And it was, you know, pretty much all in favor of Kanye. So then p- so I was not surprised now. People are like, "What the... What's going on? People don't like Jews, huh?" And I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, I've seen that for... That's kind of been, been bubbling up."

    3. CWChris Williamson58:35

       I-

    4. DPDanny Polishchuk58:35

       I think that's always kind of under the surface, literally for the last 3,000 years or whatever.

    5. CWChris Williamson58:40

       But I don't have my head up my ass that much. Like, I, I notice trends and I, I pay attention to shit as best I can. And I had no fucking idea that there was this much latent antisemitism.

    6. DPDanny Polishchuk58:50

       Yeah, it's just... It's kind of... It's, it's like herpes. It's like a cultural herpes, where it just, it has these outbreaks, like these flare-ups, you know.

    7. CWChris Williamson59:00

       Mm-hmm.

    8. DPDanny Polishchuk59:00

       And then it kinda, like, goes away and then it kind of flares up again, and then it...

    9. CWChris Williamson59:03

       Interesting.

    10. DPDanny Polishchuk59:04

        Yeah. (laughs) It is really weird to see, 'cause I have some friends who, who kinda don't reali-... 'Cause I get it, 'cause I comment on this stuff a lot. A lot of the sketches I make are, like, around this stuff. Like, the ones I personally make, not with like Ryan. And, uh, yeah, and then, like, some of the... (laughs) You can just see, like, insane comments. But, I mean, I don't know.

    11. CWChris Williamson59:23

        But I mean people have started to use iced-

    12. DPDanny Polishchuk59:25

        The, the only thing I can do is just make fun of it. There's no, you know, it's the only...

    13. CWChris Williamson59:28

        Even the episode I did with Peterson a couple of weeks ago, there was a bunch of comments calling him Juden-

    14. DPDanny Polishchuk59:32

        Juden Peterstein (laughs)

    15. CWChris Williamson59:35

        ... Steiner.

    16. DPDanny Polishchuk59:36

        Yeah. I love it. The problem is I'm like... Yeah, I find it so funny. You know, I think a lot of Jews are, uh, don't find it funny. They're like, "This is more serious." And, you know, I guess that could be determined. I, I sometimes joke about it where, uh, I make too much fun of this stuff and then I'm, you know, getting put on a train and I go, "Ah, I made too much-"

    17. CWChris Williamson59:57

        (laughs)

    18. DPDanny Polishchuk59:57

        "... fun of that. I was... I should have taken that more seriously." (laughs)

13. 1:00:02 – 1:06:25

    Alex Jones’ Naked Biden Revelations

    1. DPDanny Polishchuk1:00:02

    2. CWChris Williamson1:00:02

       Alex Jones tells Tucker Carlson that President Biden walks around the hou- the White House naked, drugged on amphetamines and benzos, as Elon Musk says that he's considering allowing Alex Jones back on X.

    3. DPDanny Polishchuk1:00:14

       Yeah. Yeah, that, I mean... I don't, I, I don't know about that. I mean, I s- I suppose it's possible.

    4. CWChris Williamson1:00:22

       Well, we've... Everyone's been-

    5. DPDanny Polishchuk1:00:23

       They should let him back on, though.

    6. CWChris Williamson1:00:24

       Everyone's been, uh, speculating for quite a while about what they've had to pump Biden with in order to roll him out on stage.

    7. DPDanny Polishchuk1:00:32

       Yeah.

    8. CWChris Williamson1:00:32

       You know, like some, uh, like sort of punch drunk WWE star. Like Hulk Hogan coming back for another... They need to... Like a cortisol shot in the knee.

    9. DPDanny Polishchuk1:00:40

       Yeah, yeah.

    10. CWChris Williamson1:00:40

        I'm gonna get some, like, fucking opioids for my spine and then-

    11. DPDanny Polishchuk1:00:43

        (laughs)

    12. CWChris Williamson1:00:43

        ... your chiropractor's gonna come in and do this thing.

    13. DPDanny Polishchuk1:00:47

        I, I, uh, I don't know. He, uh, he seems to have his moments, for sure, where he's better and when it like... Sometimes-

    14. CWChris Williamson1:00:52

        When he loses it.

    15. DPDanny Polishchuk1:00:52

        ... you'll see him talking and you go, "Oh, he seems okay right now." But then sometimes... But I, I, I mean, I kinda joke about it. He's the only 81-year-old who we treat poorly like this. Like, if he was, uh, not like a civilian, like we would ne-... Remember when he fell off his bike and everybody was like, "That fucking idiot fell off his bike." And you're like, "He's an old man."

    16. CWChris Williamson1:01:09

        Yeah.

    17. DPDanny Polishchuk1:01:09

        (laughs)

    18. CWChris Williamson1:01:09

        Like, you'd pick him up and be like, "Hey, you want to go get a cup of tea?"

    19. DPDanny Polishchuk1:01:11

        Yeah, yeah. You're like, "Are you okay? Yeah, are you okay?" Like, "Can we get you..." And now we're just like, "Ah, ha ha, he fell off his bike." But I guess when you're the most powerful person in the world, there's, uh...

    20. CWChris Williamson1:01:20

        That's so right.

    21. DPDanny Polishchuk1:01:21

        There's a higher standard.

    22. CWChris Williamson1:01:22

        That's so right. Like, everyone's really mean-

    23. DPDanny Polishchuk1:01:25

        (laughs)

    24. CWChris Williamson1:01:25

        ... to old people.

    25. DPDanny Polishchuk1:01:26

        He's like a sweet old man (laughs) .

    26. CWChris Williamson1:01:27

        That being said, I think-

    27. DPDanny Polishchuk1:01:28

        Or not sweet, maybe not sweet, but-

    28. CWChris Williamson1:01:29

        Yeah. I think, uh, someone highlighted that if Trump gets in office next year, he will be older than when Biden got in office.

    29. DPDanny Polishchuk1:01:37

        I believe so, yeah.

    30. CWChris Williamson1:01:38

        In his first term.

Episode duration: 1:28:39