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Can you feel it? It's about that time Came back to the old style You know in the James Donald first we can camoram plan pod ca ca ca ca ca ca ca an audio only podcast today The video Component with Sam Clark's busy this week Sam Clark is putting together a little comedy special that'll come out soon And hopefully that'll lead more people to bite tickets to my upcoming comedy shows I've got two I think sold out I think we sold out two shows in Perth and I'm with another show in Perth on sale and there will be a link somewhere for that up coming to Perth on the 20th and Sam gears Sam Clark putting together. Why did some shows in that light and he's editing them up and Well, there's other things that I'm getting in the way I don't like to describe it as getting in the way you bring in the podcast because they're more important Oh, what could be more important than the podcast what tell you what we had a child We had a child and so anybody is waiting on an email from me. I apologize. The reason you email hasn't come through yet It's because we've had a child and we're looking after the child He's a sweet baby boy and that's all I have to say about it keeping as I do of my family life very private But I will say this the baby's doing well. Thank you for your prayers. My wife's doing well. Thank you for your prayers And I don't know if it's because we had a child And that's a scary time. I don't know if it's Well, look I suspect this because I watched a documentary on the ABC about starving Afghani children There's itty bitty Afghani a children starving and I watched a program on that and I think because of that the next day I started fasting and We're on about day three of Fasting now, I don't I don't know if I'm I mean, I would hope that I'm fasting for the length and reasons as something to offer up the guide three days of fasting three days of the rosary every day Is it to give a little sense of control? Maybe very thin edge girl with me. It's not that I'm not eating at all. I'm just Eating very seldom and it is sort of nice to feel like you can you know everything's out of It's crazy It's just crazy times very happy to have the hell. It's not as bad as it has been in the past It feels manageable, but it's it's more four. There's four of them. There's four I am proud to announce that the transition from three to four thus far early days, but so far It's the easiest transition of all people told me it would be Someone said you know three children is hell four children is cattle and There's I don't think three children is hell, but it's really tough, but I think there comes a point They've taken everything they you have to give You know first child comes long they take you know 33% of everything you got Second child comes up they take another 33% of everything you're time for yourself. It's fast time for reading Third child's got they take they take 30 they take 34% you're at a hundred percent, you know And the fourth child comes on there's nothing left to take away from me Really what this child is taking away from giving to the other kids You know, they're all getting a small portion now, but I don't have anything left for me so They might get upset. They're actually all doing really well. They were very happy to have a new baby brother are the other children And we got a nice Broder perambulator and I get to walk the baby. It's nice walking a baby in a big pram It's a good feeling makes you feel like you're doing getting something done, you know Walking a baby to slip there are only so many opportunities as The father to feel like you are making our contribution This is not much I can do with it. I can hold the baby. I can change the baby That's it. I can't entertain the baby. I can't teach the baby anything. I can't feed the baby But I can put that baby in a machine and walk that machine Around the neighborhood while I don't eat Yes, let's I don't know. I don't again. I don't really understand why I'm radically limiting. I mean I look It's not that I'm so skinny that you go through a little fasting I was never really a fasting person. I don't fast very often. I'm more of a slow guy but I just Do you know I know that's part of the faith it's meant to fast especially in this lantern season But um, you know, I don't like it because it's unpleasant But I have been doing it and it has been actually quite nice Um, and I don't think I'm doing it to lose weight. I don't think I'm doing it to look good But um, I think I'm doing it to offer it up to God But then you're in my delirium. I think God wants you to be beautiful God wants you to be skinny You have a look up at a stained glass window and see a chunkster not very often God wants skinny disciples I've only ever once seen a fat depiction of our Lord It was at the stations of the cross at the Brisbane Cathedral check it out if you get up there These stations at the cross of the at the Brisbane Cathedral I mean, you're just you're just a bad thing where he's going to fall off that cross. It's not strong enough Um, and if you say oh James, that's a very that's not that's inappropriate Yeah, tell that to the guy who worked on the Brisbane Cathedral other complaints. I have three the Brisbane Cathedral Uh, the main crucifix behind the altar Uh, kind of um, provocative Is another problem I have with it. They didn't have pews. They had chairs with backs on them Set up straight and what's nice about pews something. I think natural happens with the lines of visibility is you got someone right in front of you You're you're on a pew. They're on a pew. Someone's right in front of you Just move a little to the left or the right, you know, and you can you can stagger just a little bit Just a couple inches give you a whole line of sight and it's everybody's doing that because then you know that that And it works beautifully But if it's seats in set locations nobody can because the seats have a little ridge on the side It's too linear. You've got to have a little more room for freedom. That's the joy of the pew One of the many joys of the the joy of the pew and you book up and work on The new joy of the pew Yeah, look it's mostly it's mostly fasting and having a baby And trying to get things ready Then there's a big America tour Uh, I should should I plug tickets and at some point as well adds up to start it. We've approved all these Advertisers. We've said to them. Yes We don't have a problem with you doing ads. They go, do you have a would you have a problem if we gave you money for ads? This is part of the system and we say No, I don't have a problem that and they go oh good to know and then I just haven't heard back But I'm looking for the first one that got in contact with blue true Which is the it's for having a more powerful erection and I could do ads for that. I mean, I would be difficult for me to say um I mean, I've never used that and I Frankly, I'd I'd like Some sort of drug that did the opposite if I was looking at my life and um I'd say get that I'm shacking me from this mad man Anyway, we'll figure out I don't think there's anything morally wrong with letting people know about that I mean, I'm not gonna give them anymore a free advertising because no one's come through with it But at some point There'll be ads. Oh That team I chose them. That's what people use their podcasts Jump into the the juicy stuff. I'm it's a big tour. It's a ridiculous tour I counted up and I think it's something like 40 shows all up in in a month Um, which is Elvis Presley going mad type stuff. So April 24th To the 26th. I'm in Austin one two three four five six seven seven one two good lord seven is that six six shows in Austin And all but one I sold out one two three four five I sold out and one is not sold out And I will also say we I did have to cancel San Antonio show I'm very sorry the San Antonians That was going to be on the next it was on the 27th, but it had to be canceled So please get on up to Austin if you're a San Antonian and you have time and um and the ability to brave the i35 get on up We're next. I'm going to Albuquerque after that I've known to Phoenix and then I have a weekend in San Diego And then I'm going to be at the Netflix is a joke festival in Hollywood, California And then I uh, I think Seattle's almost sold out Portland is sold out Another Portland show got outed Chicago's selling out Uh, what's this one Detroit sold out and they cannot add another one Uh, one of the Toronto gigs sold out, but the other one is only almost sold out Uh, after that I've got a New York gig that sold out and they've added another one Then Boston Pittsburgh Orlando Naples in Florida a Tampa one that sold out, but we've added one and after that also in Tampa and then Denver And then San Francisco So that's they're selling very well and I'm grateful to you for that if you are going uh Oh Jay some people think I go James you're not coming to Ohio well in the yes I apologize in the classic Midwest tradition though of driving for hours to go and see something might I recommend that you come and see me in Pittsburgh because that's a huge room and it's a lot of shows and I know that some of the sweet wonderful people from Stubanville might come up and see the show in Pittsburgh but there's just so many tickets to sell in Pittsburgh and if you want to go and I think I'll be staying in Stubanville for that weekend I mean Cummins I high if you're a normal cool guy come and say hi I'll be in Stubanville Ohio not doing shows but I just well maybe we'll do a little poetry thing I don't know maybe anyway it's I'm looking forward to it I've got a couple more shows coming up in Australia I did one in Sydney we've got the Perth anyway places spaces faces and so on and so forth forever and ever it's a good time there's a war yes but I never think about the war because it's so very far away it's one of the really nice things about being in Australia is that when a war breaks out you can go oh it's quite far away it's always far away from where I am a war hasn't been close to Adelaide since I mean you could call it a war when Whitey got here and took it but if you're not calling out a war then there's never been a large scale industrial warning here and it's so far what I mean it's close to those people and I've got Persian friends and they seem pleased by and large I won't speak for them they seem they go haza but also oh spooky that's about all the geopolitics much more these other people you can go to for geopolis that's that's about for me I'm not much of a guy for geopolitics you know I'm about local politics not enough people interested in the local politics a very big broad ideas about how to cover up in the Middle East new world auto-type business I'm interested in why is this Labor government taking out some of the buildings from a park that I'm very fond of as a park I'm fond of and it looks like that the side that's definitely going to win I mean all things sort of it would I sort of anything the guy who's currently the premier is so convincing maybe he's the adjective he's gonna win again Jimmy what's he done well he brought a golf tournament here and there's slightly more football being played here than there was before and he built a new built a new street at a new swimming pool built you go really is that it you go kinder I mean there was other stuff going you know sex offenders registered it's just like populist stuff and he looks good with his shirt off his name is Peter Mellon Askus I'm not against him I'm not against anybody love to have him on the show but it I I do I would hope a little more grander anyway they want to knock down some trees they can build a nicer golf course that the Saudis will delight more so in golf he brought a motorcycle race here it's all events that's the secret I think to being a state leader is not because you can you get balanced the people go oh you've got to balance the budget of the state why the country will value out the country if you use your money as a state if you go way into debt to get like staff so that people move to your state and you build up really fast and then you're a big powerful state hey guess what at a federal level they'll bail you out I know there's that Gerald Ford you know what did he say go to hell he said something about the New York but mostly most of the time states in Australia if you use it to grow double yeah don't worry about it so it's like a state premier you've got governors in the United States but here state privilege is like you know you just kind of a guy throwing a party you control income taxes in Australia the amount of money is kind of set he's everything the amount of money you get in Australia as a state is kind of set by how badly you're doing like if you're doing better they take money away from you and if you're doing worse they give you more money so why get better just like throw a party be popular that seems to be the answer oh with one exception if you're in Queensland then you can just torpedo free speech that's what I mean whoo I don't know if you sing what's happening in Queensland at the moment they banned the saying and if you're in Queensland and you're listening to this podcast maybe just turn the volume down for a little bit because we don't want what I'm about to say to be you don't want people to hear it but when people say from the river to the sea if you say that they can arrest you the government can't arrest you the state government can't arrest you and can send you to jail for two years if convicted so that's I mean I'm not a person who frequently says the sentence from the river to the sea unless it is followed by the supplementary sentence Israel shall be free Israel forever pure beautiful one state Israel you know I'm not really geopolitics geopolitics guy but I would say it's footage out of an 18 year old girl with the from the river to the sea on her shirt being marched into a into a paddy wagon by the cops they're taking her away and she's gonna be charged and they're really holding her up my goodness the cops are really holding her up and you know what is I would say gonna be difficult for the state government is you know she's only 18 and she looks pretty normal she looks like a nice normal person who's wearing a shirt like a a political shirt not an especially nuanced political shirt and then she's being arrested and looks like she's gonna get charged I mean that's it's just so not helpful you're not it's not that is not helping I would just I remember when Kanye was coming out and saying Jewish people could take away all my bank accounts if I keep talking about Jewish people and then Kanye lost access to his bank account and maybe people say oh that isn't actually how it happened is more specific more nuanced okay but it was it's not a good look and this is it's not a good it's not a good I know what they were hoping was that they would arrest like you know like big militant scary looking guys and they're a big a big scary anti-Israel guys anti-Jewish guys big scary ones and they'll there's footage and on October 8th like a meteor after October 7th they're on the steps of the Sydney Opera House and they're trying to think things about Jewish people and it's spooky footage and rather than like lock those guys up they just made it so you couldn't go on the steps of the Sydney Opera House someone might write to me say chances not actually way good well let me tell you this last time I went to Sydney after that it happened I couldn't get to the Sydney Opera House at night because it was closed off because they got all the security there now presumably so that doesn't happen again and these I've said this before and I'll say it again I don't think the you know atheist slash wicked you know young woman anti-Israel you know I'm saying you thrift store women second-hand bookstore women this is not an inspiration for the hotbed of violent terrorism I understand that we had an active terrorism this country against Jewish people it wasn't ladies studying for their arts degree who were responsible for that in some way and those guys who did the killing I don't think we're trying to win the hearts and favor of these women so you're bringing these laws we can't say from the river see anymore in a certain way it's a band phrase I mean can we just stop banning phrases what do we do we don't have free speech in this country excuse me I mean it would just be unthinkable for conservatives to bring that in I mean again what do I know about a geopolitics but I can't see conservatives in the United States getting on board with banning a political phrase well anyway that's the doing Queensland and isn't nice there not doing it here in South Australia how am I meant to go to Queensland and not say I think it's globalized the interfartee not let us say and from the river to the sea you're not supposed to say it's just puts me in a position when I go there because I don't believe in globalizing the interfartee and I don't believe that from the river to the sea, all the Jews should be whatever, you know, whatever you think that means. I don't think that should happen. But having made that a crime, how am I not supposed to do it when I'm there on the stage? Do you understand? How is anyone not supposed to get into a mic and share? Like, it's an unjust law. Hey, I'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Over the river and into the sea. I'm reading Simone Vile at the moment. I think that's how you say her name. I borrowed a sword on a shelf and I started reading it and within about a paragraph, I was hooked. I've really been enjoying reading Simone Vile. Sometimes she, there's an introduction by T.S. Eliot at the start and he says, I mean, also I may attach to it for those who haven't quickly Googled Simone Vile. She was a French. I think she was Jewish and she, I mean, she became a Christian, but she never got baptized because she had something about being on the outside. It was, it explained to me hastily. And anyway, then she, she only ate, I think like the rations that they were allowed to have in the, is she originally well, prisoners of war or something? Anyway, she died young. And there's some sense it was like a moral stand of not eating. James, are you fasting because of that? I don't know. I'm just hearing and seeing all these things about not eating. And anyway, Simone, wow, she's pretty good. She's an exciting, sometimes she does lose me. And T.S. Eliot mentions this in the introduction. He writes, apparently, T.S. Eliot was a fan, but like she'll just say things that are so broad as to be, yeah, equality is a need of the human soul. And you go, okay, who are you? Why are you saying that? But then other times, it's beautiful, beautiful sentiments. She writes about democracy. And you know, can you tolerate the anti-democracy forces within the democracy? Because if you push them out, then you're like a hypocrite. But if you keep them in, you're a cuck. It's just, it's just a nice, nice little, the moral of the lima there of it. Alright, it's, it's like an hour later. My, my newest son of all my sons, he's the most new. He woke up and it took ages getting him back down. And on the way back, I found some books that I bought recently. I've been spending some time at Sandhand bookstores. And I got bang, the merchant of Venice, if you cut us to not bleed, if you kill us to not die. So that's a good one. I think, yes, I also got Correlanus, which is one of my favorite. What is it? Is it better to perish than to starve? I'm going to get that wrong. I really enjoy the mentioned events. I don't, whoa, whoa, die than to famish. Couldn't have got that more wrong. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. And the citizens go, speak, speak. You are all resolved to die rather than to famish rather to die than to famish. Resolved, resolved. And it goes on from there. Good times. The Oxford book with Christian verse, my wife got the one. That's probably the most important one there. Cut paradise lost is in there. And and others semiotics in the philosophy of language by Umberto Ac. Who I've never read. I got that one about the rose, but I never read it. Ibsen, the master builder in other plays. I was specifically looking for a doll's house, but couldn't find it. I was wondering if I read the dolls house now. It's when I read it when I was a younger man at school. I was of course on her side. But now thinking back on it, I suspect I'm on the husband side. And the magic lantern by Ingmar Bergman. I got that. I always I hired rented. I got that out of the library very, very briefly. And I didn't get to read it. But here's one I'm really excited about. It's cultures in contrast, miscommunication and misunderstanding between Chinese and North American. And it's a book I think I've spoken about on the podcast before. But let's, um, would you like to hear it? It'll be like this. It'll be like this. I'm just opening up to a random page, but they're all fun like this one. Hopefully this one's fun. Cheryl is a Chinese American teaching in China. On the first day of class, she told the students that she was from Los Angeles, California. However, right after the first class, a few students came up to her and asked her where she was from. Cheryl was a little surprised. Then maybe the students did not catch a wheel of class. So she said Los Angeles, California. Very slowly, the students did not seem to be happy with the answer. Finally, one of the most, which part of China are you from? Cheryl was startled. I'm not from China. I'm from the United States. The students in turn were confused. And then it gives you the Chinese perspective and the North American perspective. And the Chinese perspective is, though people have told the United States and Canada immigrant countries, it is difficult for them to imagine how diverse these cultures are. It's harder for them to think that someone who looks Chinese would call, so they're just saying like, they're asking, where's your ancestors from? Where's your Chinese origin? They expect people to speak Chinese just because they look Chinese. This expectation has a lot to do with the tradition in which people consider the place where their fraternal ancestor was born as a hometown. As a result, someone born and still living in Guangzhou would tell people that Shanghai is his or her hometown, simply because his or her ancestor came from that city. Such a tradition was taken for granted. I didn't know that. Did you know that? Did you know that? Some of them, that's not a fun one. The other ones are more fun. There's one where it's like a guy fell down and Chinese people laughed at them. And the white guy is like, oh, I better help him up. Why are you laughing at him? And the Chinese people are like, oh man, he fell down. It's the perspective. It's like, Chinese people love when a guy falls down. Unless he's like really brutally hurt. But if he falls down normally, that's so funny when a guy is so weak and silly that he falls down. I don't know. I'll ever read any of these books. I was a, oh yeah, Simone, I'm reading Simone, and she's calling out Andre Guid, who I'd never heard of before I see that except that someone I had heard in hindsight, like when I looked at it, I was like, oh, that's a name that I associate with Oscar Wilde because he writes about Oscar Wilde's peterasti and peter pimping. The North African Escapade in which Oscar Wilde makes puff daddy look like you just you just insert someone you whoever it makes him look like someone who wouldn't do a traffic people across state lines for sex. So Andre Guid I was reading about and he chose a G-I-D-E guidae I was saying but Andre Guid is apparently how it's said and he was a peterest and and wrote all these differences of homosexuality but people said to him, you know, are you a Sotomite? And he said, I'm not a Sotomite, I'm a peterest. You see because he was interested in young boys and was very open about it and then he won the Nobel Prize in literature after that was all that and about in 1947 because he was French and it was a different time. I mean it was it was homosex was legal, I believe, in France at the time but it was still considered socially damaging and so I mean I was reading about how he he was against he didn't like a Proust. He said Proust it wasn't sufficiently gay. Proust was gay but Proust should have been open about being gay and Proust's big thing was never say, I, you know, I can have gay characters do things but I enjoy. The more I read about Proust the more he seems to enjoy being closeted and this is an interesting type of man who I've met many times, the man who enjoys being, people go, I cannot live a lie anymore but there's a certain kind of gay guy who's like, ooh, living a lie, sounds cheeky and so Proust someone started that and Guides on the other way. Guides says, I hate me if you must I love and I'm going to cut myself off that impression goes on for a long time. I've gone back in the podcast and I've I've made I think people should have to hear that impression. I don't actually know what he sounded like but apparently he owned right Guide who I've read some of his work now after reading the people, people are not as keen to champion him. Now if you can believe it Namal siya, I'm not there. Homosexual, I'm a pedorast. It's in a documentary. Oh it's a film, that might be recorded. Can't wait, can't wait to see him say it. It's different, the French, you know, the French, they're different and I'd have to think that this like him being the premanent man of Parisian arts litus. I think he was born in the fifth arrondissement and he died in the sixth I can't say it was something like that. Anyway but after in the generation after him so he does 51 but then all the people come to you know the satra and someone did before and I think not come but I do think you're for coal and oh yeah it's probably others as well but then they they're all really like bull like pumped up for Peterasti they're like that's what are we do with these bourgeois people taking away our peterasti. The French man different interesting in my opinion bad bad stuff going on there call me a prude if you must but I disapprove but I am looking forward to reading the books and in redoubling again you don't you don't hear as many Oscar Wilde defenses out in about in in the wild if you will but the wilde knew as it may have been if you're a young boy but yeah people really stand up for wilde and you say he was a peterasti and people go oh that is at the most fire he was he was he was he was on rigged yeah look we'll be back to our more regularly schedule I assure you there will be more regularly more scheduled I think we were doing such a good job of taking the podcast to a whole nother level visually and professionally and I hope you've enjoyed this brief step back into the past but yeah good big good positive big good big good positive man you know what I'm saying yeah I must gilds in town he might try to get him on the show that sort of business yeah we're gonna start in a museum it's gonna be called the museum of greatness I think although I think I'm gonna mostly talk about that museum on the patreon thank you to everybody doing the patreon thousand plus you know oh yeah we'll get back with Sam Clark it's good having Sam Clark in the room I drown in one of them I eat food when I break my fast I feel so much lethargy tired I'm just having heaps of carbs crackers crackers crackers what else have I got here I'll tell you the other books I mean I've got a sort out my books I've got I've been when I left for America I just went Dante's hell I got Shannon Burns childhood I got I ran the fountain head the big three I I have all these I was a as an avid book collector when I was in Australia before moving to America I got thousands of books and I managed to get get rid of a lot of them before I went over stateside but some of them just went in storage and then I had to pay all this money it was you know sometimes we didn't have enough money to eat and I've looked at the account I mean money had been taken out to preserve the books just not clever anyway I'd like to get on top of that I'd like to actually read them just some in vow I got so many book my rooms of mess but important to have I'm gonna get all affirmation I'm gonna clean my room thank you Dr. Peterson I'm gonna and we pray for his good health we pray for the good health of a lot of people I'm here and all these these poor speed people out there with cancers oh I should also say three I mean it's it's huge events are coming up for me are you talking about having a child down yeah yeah but also Eurovision's coming up real soon love Eurovision can't wait to pick which song is going to win Australian survivor love and Australian survivor love and that's it now and the crowboys plan on set on it it's very big it's a very big AFL football starting up again you baby and so many one of my glasses is how many of the seven of this I don't know I'm gonna clean my I gotta go to clean my room that's what I thank you for listening to this admittedly stopgap episode I love you I miss you I want you I need you can't imagine how good bye