Summary
They go on to talk about Yuval Harari’s calling for ‘conspiracy theorists’ to be banned from the internet and Toby ask James to respond to Harari’s claim that many conspiracy theories, particularly those that blame the world’s problems on an elite cabal of billionaires and their acolytes, have an antisemitic component and that leads to a bigger argument about whether James’s conspiracy theory about the ‘death jabs,' Paul McCartney and 'manufactured' bands.
In Culture Corner, Toby heaps praise on They Cloned Tyrone, a new sci-fi conspiracy thriller (Netflix) and Lioness, the new Taylor Sheridan series (Paramount+), while James enthuses about Kohrra, an Indian police procedural (Netflix.)
This week's opening sound is Yuval Noah Harari's appearance on The Lex Fridman Podcast #390.
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| 0:00.0 | This is London Calling. |
| 0:02.0 | London Calling. |
| 0:03.0 | Well, the Global Cabal theory, |
| 0:05.0 | it has many variations, but basically there is a small group of people, |
| 0:08.0 | a small Cabal that secretly controls everything that is happening in the world. |
| 0:13.6 | All the wars, all the revolutions, all the epidemics, |
| 0:17.0 | everything that is happening is controlled by this very small group of people who are of course |
| 0:21.7 | evil and have bad intentions. And this is a very well-known |
| 0:27.9 | story that it's not new, it's been there for thousands of years. It's very attractive. with me James Denny Paul and my very good friend Mr Toby young. |
| 0:44.0 | Tobes I see you're still in the country for a change in the UK. |
| 0:48.8 | I am in the UK. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah I'm not I'm not planning to go away again this summer, although my wife has rented somewhere in Norfolk for a week that coincides with a tennis tournament called Hun Stanton, which she and two of my sons have been entering for the last three or four years or so. |
| 1:10.0 | In fact, Caroline won the ladies doubles cup one year with one of her best friends and her tennis coach, |
| 1:20.8 | Brady. And they had to give it back the following year and it hasn't been one since but Caroline is quite |
| 1:27.1 | hopeful this year. She's playing with the daughter of some friends of Oz who's pretty good. So I don't know if they're seated, but could be quite exciting. |
| 1:38.4 | Well, for you. Norfolk, Norfolk is, is I think probably the second smartest place to go for your |
| 1:51.0 | your summer after Cornwall? Well I was thinking if you're really really |
| 1:56.7 | really smart you probably go up to Scotland don't you in August? Somebody's |
| 2:01.9 | somebody's estate but a notch but a notch below that the sort of upper |
| 2:07.8 | upper middle classes would go to Norfolk and then yeah it was surprised at the the Hun Stanton tennis tournament it's like a kind of it's like a throwback to you know the cheese and wine appreciation society in Oxford in the 1980s except all the people we saw there are now middle-aged and |
| 2:29.0 | red-faced with blood vessels bursting on their noses and their kids have all got mullets or wearing very short skirts. |
| 2:37.0 | Yeah, yeah. I still haven't planned my where I'm going to go for the summer, but I just like I'm going to go for the summer because I just like I'm terrified that well all sorts of things |
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