Joe's a friend and I was trying to be gentle with him about what I regard as being a dangerous tilt that he and some other

podcasters are encouraging. What I really maybe should have said then, can now, is that everybody recognizes expertise in the areas they know about. I get very annoyed when I hear people who are in no way recognizably historians,

in no way recognizably expert in the subjects they talk about, regurgitating false versions of history that I saw debunked already in my lifetime.

I mean, there's an area of the American right, which is at the moment simply reheating David Irvingism.

I'm sick of talking about Douglas Murray, and I'm sure you are too, but it's important.

And I'm going to have to connect some dots on this one.

So by the end of this, you'll either think I'm a genius or a crazy person,

but I implore you to stick with me because I have a genuine point to make,

and I think it's an important one for people to at least consider.

You just have to consider it, okay?

You have to consider it.

So Douglas Murray drops an article today in the New York Post,

and I'm going to read through some of it for you

because I want you to get a feel for it.

Basically, he's calling for standards when it comes to the podcasting world.

And I think we all know what he's hinting at with standards. Who will set those standards?

Who will enforce those standards? How are we to do so? What will be the punishment?

Well, sounds like a hop, skip, and a jump to censorship now, doesn't it?

Ironic, given that Douglas Murray rose to major prominence, railing against the woke,

censorious nonsense under the Biden administration, and now he seems to be taking much of the same

tactics and repackaging them for his own cause.

But I want to point something out about Douglas Murray that I don't think most people are

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