Eric Mataxas is far too pleased with himself to have a proper conversation with anybody. His podcast is unlistenable!
@Alex-mj5dv
9 ай бұрын
Pompous as heck.
@piesho
9 ай бұрын
"I like the one-word interview answers" Yeah, when he's the one doing all the talking, sure.
@paulnejtek6588
9 ай бұрын
I don't know what you're talking about. I've met Eric before and seen him many times on video. Not only is he in person one of the most down to earth, kind, very likeable......nah,that's all bullshit. He's a douche.
@overallgreatidea6433
9 ай бұрын
@@piesho Umm.. Mataxas was being sarcastic
@SAK1855
9 ай бұрын
He’s being nervously defensive.
@thelaughingphilosopher2421
9 ай бұрын
Imagine having Peter Hitchens in front of you, and not being able to shut up...
@wiseonwords
9 ай бұрын
Yes, the interviewer was a bit full of himself.
@FannyShmellar
9 ай бұрын
The less we hear from Peter the better.
@elvisleeboy
9 ай бұрын
I agree, but more annoying were the lengthy pauses and confused look on his face, as though it were a cat having the rules of chess explained to it.
@stamatissavvanis5862
9 ай бұрын
@@wiseonwords Not surprising for someone who "speaks" for Socrates.
@seanquinn4540
9 ай бұрын
Imagine thinking Peter Hitchens has anything of worth to say anyway.
@eltubster14
9 ай бұрын
This is a great example of how not to behave as an interviewer. Never think you're more interesting than the interviewee.
@matttiberius1900
10 ай бұрын
Peter Hitchens has turned gentle condescension into an art form.
@piesho
9 ай бұрын
Ge got that from his bro
@tcrown3333
9 ай бұрын
@@pieshoWeeeell...he does have his own agency.
@piesho
9 ай бұрын
@@tcrown3333 I'm sure his bro was more influential to him.
@tcrown3333
9 ай бұрын
@@piesho Yes, Chris Hitchens is sorely missed.
@stephenholmes1036
9 ай бұрын
I prefer Peter
@JJKasper
9 ай бұрын
I am rarely if ever embarrassed to be an American. Watching this American interviewer makes my toes curl.
@Pdotta1
9 ай бұрын
True.
@CIMAmotor
9 ай бұрын
Yeah, he's a real smug prick.
@FeckWoke
9 ай бұрын
You've seriously misunderstood the situation if you're not embarassed.
@likelydaily6767
9 ай бұрын
It's not that he's American. It's that he doesn't seem to know Peter well enough to hold this interview.
@josephthomas2226
9 ай бұрын
Eric is usually very good, but this one was indeed embarrassing.
@Alex-mj5dv
9 ай бұрын
This host needs to realise we are wanting to hear Peter, the interviewee. Not himself. Terrible pomposity.
@arriuscalpurniuspiso
7 ай бұрын
That's the problem with most interviewers today. A far cry from Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson
@jameseverett4976
3 ай бұрын
Eric Metaxis is notorious for this. Every now and then I forget, or don't realize he's the interviewer, and have to be remidned.
@paulhart1218
9 ай бұрын
The interviewer needs to learn the rudimentary legal skill of asking short, precise questions
@elvisleeboy
9 ай бұрын
Agreed. It was tedious waiting for him to get to the point. Let's face it, we're all here for Peter Hitchens, but the interviewer's ego and effort to make it about himself, hindered the process somewhat.
@goodyeoman4534
9 ай бұрын
They're all the same, aren't they? Infatuated with the notion of their own importance. And oblivious to the fact that no one is there to listen to them.
@MagnificentFiend
9 ай бұрын
Metaxas is always a bore.
@1oxyoke
9 ай бұрын
@@elvisleeboyThe comments about Mataxas were spot on. Can't stand the guy.
@nrutasberlin
9 ай бұрын
@@elvisleeboyThe only thing I would disagree with in your comment is your use (presumably for reasons of politeness) of the word "somewhat". ;-)
@bruth6138
9 ай бұрын
That interviewer is more concerned with himself than getting information from Peter.
@ErikPortland
9 ай бұрын
Yep. That was obvious in the first 10 seconds. Christopher lived in DC. Even I knew that. You didn't do any homework?
@xyourarsonistx3826
8 ай бұрын
Lol the idea that you can get information from Peter is hilarious
@Bingbangboompowwham
8 ай бұрын
Sitting across from Peter Hitchens, it’s hard to live up to his expectations.
@danielbaladad5959
7 ай бұрын
Yes, a jerk interviewing another jerk.
@conordelaney76
7 ай бұрын
@@ErikPortlandHis name is Christopher, not Chris. He didn't like being called Chris.
@stevendouglas3781
10 ай бұрын
Kind of a disappointing exchange. The question was obviously about the philosophical differences that led to their bad terms. Peter just muses on the commonality of family issues and Freud. Interviewer is kind of cringe though.
@rcla77771
9 ай бұрын
Terrible interviewer.
@overallgreatidea6433
9 ай бұрын
Agreed. Not much meat here
@kugelblitzen
9 ай бұрын
This interviewer is terrible. He spoke more than Hitchens did and seems very self-satisfied and self-absorbed. I bet Peter was biting his tongue through a lot of that.
@hiddenriverarts
9 ай бұрын
American interviewers are too often stupid, uncultured, uninformed, and embarrassing. I say that as someone unfortunate to have been born in America. Too many people here are proud of their vulgarity.
@Philusteen
9 ай бұрын
Don't get me wrong, Christopher is and shall continue to be my guy; but it's odd to see an interview where the tacit topic is "let's talk diagonally about your more interesting late brother."
@overallgreatidea6433
9 ай бұрын
Yeah irritating you interviewee is not likely to lead to a good interview
@matthewstokes1608
9 ай бұрын
Less interesting late brother
@adrianrose7703
9 ай бұрын
Peter realised this and didn’t like it. I don’t blame him. Personally I respect them both.
@irielion3748
9 ай бұрын
90 minute interview. I'm sure it wasn't always about his bro
@stormhawk3319
10 ай бұрын
Who let this Eric Mataxsmas interview the brilliant Peter Hitchens. Hopelessly out of his depth but Peter was civil towards him despite the inane questioning.
@captainzappbrannagan
9 ай бұрын
Christopher was a giant among men. His eloquence and intellect in the command of language, was unmatched. His real-world experiences to truly know what he was talking about was also unmatched. He is missed.
@brucecombs3108
9 ай бұрын
"Christopher Hitchens was a giant among men" Now come on, he wasn't THAT fat!
@malcolmmitchell4709
9 ай бұрын
Christopher Hitchens looked and sounded like an english lower middle-class Sir Les Patterson
@captainzappbrannagan
9 ай бұрын
@@brucecombs3108 lol
@LukasGemini
8 ай бұрын
No he is not. Toxic atheist.
@revbenf6870
7 ай бұрын
Whereas Peter Hitchens is a self important opinionated "plonker" as we say on this side of the pond.
@andydixon2980
9 ай бұрын
Would have been nice to hear more from Peter Hitchens.
@rimmersbryggeri
9 ай бұрын
You did. He pointed out the "interviewers" pretentiosness with utter class. I dont really like Peter but this really was some of the best dialogue Ive seen that he has been a part of.
@jameshogan6142
9 ай бұрын
It was a delicate situation. Two brothers internationally renowned who did not get on very well. It required much more tact diplomacy and discretion as well as a great deal more of allowing his guest to speak than this interviewer displayed.
@pomx2900
9 ай бұрын
Not a sentence one reads often, and with good reason tbf.
@jameshogan6142
9 ай бұрын
The interviewer evidently was of the opinion that his contribution was the most important element.
@andydixon2980
9 ай бұрын
Yah well thanks for that Mr Freud. As a British man.....I kinda already know, and my statement above wasn't about Peter's 'british-ness'. @@Besthinktwice
@MrMjp58
9 ай бұрын
This interviewer seems like he's trying to be some kind of alternative comedian.
@chesterdonnelly1212
9 ай бұрын
Yes he reminded me of Ben Elton just in the way he was supposed to be interviewing someone but he wouldn't shut up.
@rishabhaniket1952
9 ай бұрын
Peter Hitchens has taken sibling rivalry to a level 1000. His whole philosophy seems to be stretched to the opposite pole of his elder brother on purpose.
@reggie18b
9 ай бұрын
What absolute nonsense. He has his own conservative outlook and faith, to simply reduce him to the level of being a reflection of his brother is just insulting. He has published many books which are extensively researched and argued, and stand in their own right. The idea that he has done all this just to be the opposite of his brother is frankly silly.
@jackjohnson2171
9 ай бұрын
disagree@@reggie18b
@Fruity_White
9 ай бұрын
@@reggie18b The video got lots of views and the low IQ Christopher Hitchens fans started flooding in, I can't exactly blame them, after all it was the whole point of uploading the video - i.e. to generate clicks
@SagaciousFrank
9 ай бұрын
No, it's because he realised that his brothers general views on life are nonsense.
@Gablesman888
9 ай бұрын
@@reggie18b You are so right. We just have here a case of two famous brothers. In the same family. Like Jacob and Esau.
@davidburgess2354
9 ай бұрын
Hitchens is always good value but the interviewer was very poor. Does he not understand that if you ask closed questions you invite a one word answer?
@michaelmcgee335
9 ай бұрын
At least it wasn’t a hit piece in the manner of the BBC. Also Peter didn’t have to answer with one word that was his call.
@adrianrose7703
9 ай бұрын
He did struggle a bit but, personally, I think he did OK in the circumstances.
@chesterdonnelly1212
9 ай бұрын
@@michaelmcgee335 I am sure he was enjoying watching the interviewer making a tit of himself.
@LeonSKennedy7777
9 ай бұрын
He’s a world famous radio host named Ronald Metaxas, so most people watching are more interested in hearing him speak. Peter Hitchens is just icing on the cake.
@LaChicaconSuerte-1111
7 ай бұрын
All he had to do was come up with some good follow up questions, but was not up to the task! He could have just said something like, now I think our audience might be quite surprised and a little intrigued by your answer, simply because you look and sound so much like your brother and you both had similar talents. Do you think that despite this, you were actually very different from each other? In what ways?
@user-zj7hf5se4u
9 ай бұрын
it's like he wants to interview himself...
@clorofilaazul
9 ай бұрын
We miss Christopher.
@baggerdave
9 ай бұрын
We all do!
@jabulanij.mabika6298
9 ай бұрын
Bro sounds exactly like his brother it’s scary 😂
@georgejunior2929
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for that bit of useless information.
@henntendo
5 ай бұрын
That’s what similar upbringings get you … what utterly a stupid comment
@jeffreyhearn8930
9 ай бұрын
His brother’s voice so, so alike…
@brucecombs3108
9 ай бұрын
I bet even as children, the Hitchens brothers were a hoot. I wish their parents had had about 5 more.
@user-pe9qg3hg3k
9 ай бұрын
Both Peter and Christopher are very different, but brilliant men in their own rights
@MM-yi9zn
9 ай бұрын
Hitch was the ultimate brilliant & most articulate on the flaws of religion. Miss him always. No one can even come close!
@Jamlmx73
9 ай бұрын
I think Peter is better. Why ? Because he aint a socialist
@Fruity_White
9 ай бұрын
I also thought this when I was in my early teens
@MrZORROish
9 ай бұрын
one can be dazzled by brilliance and articulation - it does not necessarily mean th orator is right - all they do is select material to promote their views
@Jamlmx73
9 ай бұрын
@@MrZORROish youre right. Christopher hitchens has been proven wrong about quite a few things. One of these is the invasion of iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussain
@stephenholmes1036
9 ай бұрын
His brother is
@itsfine5818
6 ай бұрын
"Well, it was a question inviting a one word answer" really sounds like something Christopher would say.
@therepublicofcynica
9 ай бұрын
I've got three brothers and five sisters. Apart from one sister I don't talk to any of the others. Can't stand em!
@jaysterling26
9 ай бұрын
Cheaper too ( even more so if ignoring their offspring).
@Get_them_all
9 ай бұрын
Imagine interviewing Peter Hitchens and not being up to speed on Christopher? Who is this guy?
@Matthew-ve7uv
9 ай бұрын
I mean, it's clearly 10 mins from a longer interview
@ThievesHand
7 ай бұрын
I think Peter is right; just because brothers are related, doesn't it mean both have to be smart.
@charliesmithers7663
10 ай бұрын
There was little point having Hitchens there the way the interviewer prattles on
@fractal97
9 ай бұрын
I still can't get over not having Christopher.
@overallgreatidea6433
9 ай бұрын
Be careful about cult figures. He was just a man
@matthewstokes1608
9 ай бұрын
… try harder…
@yussepig6629
9 ай бұрын
Weird how Christopher has these disciples. I never found him particularly intelligent.
@MrZORROish
9 ай бұрын
Could he cope with the idea that we will always have God but not always have Christopher - he raged against it but now he knows
@goodyeoman4534
9 ай бұрын
Fanboy alert.
@RJStockton
10 ай бұрын
"That is, for American audiences, an important thing." I feel roasted but I'm not sure why.
@LadyGreyAgeingDisGracefully
9 ай бұрын
I concur
@williamtoner8674
9 ай бұрын
I think the point he's making is that Christopher was very well-known in the USA and so they think of Peter as 'brother of chirstopher' whereas in the UK we know them both as separate people. So I think Peter is showing annoyance here that this is how he is to be understood - as the brother of somebody
@jameshogan6142
9 ай бұрын
I made that mistake onetime by referring to the person I was addressing as the brother of someone well known. He brusquely replied. No. He is a brother of mine! @@williamtoner8674
@saltriverpirate3172
9 ай бұрын
Christopher Hitchens is literally the man who finally set me free of the crippling influence of faith on the mind. Comedians, philosophers, so many with the same message, "Man is free the moment he chooses to be" _Voltaire. I discovered his videos posthumously and will be indebted to that great man for the courage to speak truth to power, to challenge the willing, cheerful ignorance of the masses who long to be sheep and share simple, unvarnished truth. No one who debated him ever successfully made their point that faith is superior to reason. Well, how could they? "Faith is the belief in what reason cannot" __Voltaire 'Atheist's Handbook', can't recommend enough.
@Fruity_White
9 ай бұрын
one more Epicurean, fantastic
@jameshogan6142
9 ай бұрын
You are never free of the cares of life though. The need to eat and find shelter the loss of health and the need to answer the calls of nature. The pain of loss of friends and everything else one holds dear in life. These things will affect believer and atheist alike. The theist's only hope is that there is redemption.
@prashants5071
9 ай бұрын
My experience with discovering Christopher Hitchens on youtube was similar to yours. Just opened up my perspective and clarified a lot of things. It is nice to find a person with the ability of thought once in a while.
@Real_Lion_of_Judah
7 ай бұрын
"Logic" is associated with the left hemisphere of the brain, whereas "intuition" is associated with the right hemisphere. The more your two hemisphere work in tandem, the more you will begin to realize that all the religions are pointing to the same reality underlying the physical universe, although things get lost in translation over thousands of years.
@SUBZER0GREEN
6 ай бұрын
@@Real_Lion_of_Judahthere is no such thing as a "left" and "right" side of the brain
@jameshogan6142
9 ай бұрын
When the interviewer mentioned that Peter was a brother of Christopher. Peter should have replied "No. Christopher was a brother of mine."
@christopherp.hitchens3902
2 ай бұрын
Peter Hitchens: The "Fredo" of the Hitchens family.
@willr8768
10 ай бұрын
Oof, interviewer out of his depth. Peter lets him stumble on with cringy results, it was a missed opportunity to dig deeper. Christopher would have seemed nicer and helped him early on, but a verbal skewering would have been dished out as he lost his patience.
@S_Edward_Burns_ArtsEditor
10 ай бұрын
When the interviewer is too self-absorbed this is the type of interview we always get. Thanks to the Hitch-bros thou.
@SAK1855
9 ай бұрын
“People would listen to you for two hours.” Yet he won’t let him speak for two seconds.
@bobbyhanly3466
9 ай бұрын
Who is the interviewer? He seems to think very highly of himself. People will say that that is the American disease. All mouth and no trousers.
@tpstrat14
9 ай бұрын
Well then he said no he wasn't close with Christopher and eric didnt just say why not, but instead spent the rest of the interview being offended
@mynameisnunyabusiness2210
6 ай бұрын
Opened the comments as soon as the video started. Thought, “it can’t be that bad.” It was WORSE. SO MUCH WORSE
@Jay-uc8rm
9 ай бұрын
They have great voices
@nuuky
7 ай бұрын
Thinking deeply comes naturally to Peter. It doesn't to most of the people who misunderstand him.
@daz6637
9 ай бұрын
I must say, I did enjoy this from Peter Hitchens. He will always live in the shadow of his brother, funnily enough it was him I saw first on bbc Newsnight.
@chesterdonnelly1212
9 ай бұрын
In the UK I believe Peter Hitchens is at least as well know as his late brother, if not more so.
@jamesrobertson432
9 ай бұрын
"Were you close?" "No" lol
@JustineBrownsBookshelf
10 ай бұрын
Nabokov indeed had the right idea about Freud, breaking down the word “the/rapist”
@johnwatts8346
10 ай бұрын
dont stand so close to me.
@bfFAN221
10 ай бұрын
Damn, I never thought of that. Gotta admit, Freud seems like a secret nonce...
@johnwatts8346
10 ай бұрын
@@bfFAN221'secret' ?
@lingolarker9318
9 ай бұрын
@@johnwatts8346 Faaaaamous book by Nabakov 🎤😩😄
@overallgreatidea6433
9 ай бұрын
The narcissism of the "intellectuals" all the way from psychology to Bloomsbury writers, has always been off-putting to me.
@MMircea
9 ай бұрын
I wish we still had Christopher to put Peter in his place on the war in Ukraine.
@Fruity_White
9 ай бұрын
🤣
@deanvo503
9 ай бұрын
@@Fruity_White oh come on, don't be bitter, just because Cristofer took it upon himself to show the fraud that is the religion you profess.
@SgtAndrewM
22 күн бұрын
Peter put christopher in his place on the war in Iraq and he didn't talk to Peter for years after that.
@TDashem
9 ай бұрын
Dear interviewer: Not good.
@IngmarSweep
9 ай бұрын
I was waiting for Peter Hitchens to get a chance to say something, alas it did not happen.
@carlettoburacco9235
9 ай бұрын
Both blessed with the Hitch Gene albeit completely opposite sides of the same coin. I'm much more on Christopher's side but it's always a pleasure to hear from both brothers. Please Mother Nature concoct a lot of combinations like this: we need them.
@arrivagabry
8 ай бұрын
He looks a lot like his brother, also his voice is very similar
@scousepie2
2 ай бұрын
The interviewer loves the sound of his own voice... !!
@TJ-kk5zf
9 ай бұрын
Metaxas obviously didn't even glance at Hitchen's book
@MizzouRah78
9 ай бұрын
This was very intriguing. I'll be looking into more material from Peter. You can definitely see and hear Christopher in him. Both eloquent speakers with pleasant voices and witty, dry senses of humor.
@147sterling6
9 ай бұрын
Peter is the opposite of Christopher and writes for a right wing newspaper.
@chesterdonnelly1212
9 ай бұрын
Peter is a fantastic public speaker and a very thoughtful political commentator. And the best thing is he answers to no one. He is not part of any political party or group. He is fearless and honest.
@lucasrinaldi9909
9 ай бұрын
@@147sterling6 What is the opposite of stupid?
@147sterling6
9 ай бұрын
@@lucasrinaldi9909 Very smart, prudent, intelligent, mercurial, accountable. Christopher was all of these.
@lucasrinaldi9909
9 ай бұрын
@@147sterling6 Nah.
@reddyornott9981
7 ай бұрын
Christopher was awesome..... Peter on the other hand is a complete see you next tuesday
@hebejeebies2452
9 ай бұрын
Its an important thing for British audiences
@ayb100
9 ай бұрын
Peter Hitchens is good at what he does, yet Christopher was the GOAT ! Sorely missed.
@Jamlmx73
9 ай бұрын
He’s the goat if youre an atheist leftist who doesnt mind wrecking countries like iraq and turning it into a cesspool of psychotic terrorists.
@johnferguson4089
9 ай бұрын
He sounds so like his brother! Straight to the point, beautifully spoken!
@albanianmmakid.9300
9 ай бұрын
Sorry m8 he is 10% in the intellectual and narrative expertise culture, compared to the Great Hitch
@Fruity_White
9 ай бұрын
@@albanianmmakid.9300 🤣
@a_voice_in_the_wilderness
9 ай бұрын
Don't mistake bombast and rhetoric for beauty!
@jameshogan6142
9 ай бұрын
Correct. Christopher was 90% bluster and belligerence. @@albanianmmakid.9300
@albanianmmakid.9300
9 ай бұрын
@@jameshogan6142 you seem very simple, I guess religion has done it's work on you as well, simplistic minds are the first to fall, and you are the perfect example.
@ffrederickskitty214
9 ай бұрын
I had four siblings. I only got on well with one of them, now deceased. I get on with one more, though that can get stressful at times. Two of them are bone idle and entitled, happy to hold out their hands for a living, and I rarely speak with them as I have little in common with them. I love them all dearly though
@maxwelldownham235
9 ай бұрын
Jesus. You sound like a Christian. Nobody else gets that confused with reality.
@d23bw
9 ай бұрын
This man is interviewing himself and using Peter as a straight man.
@miguelurdaci7884
9 ай бұрын
Ok. Some guy sat Peter down to tell him what he and his brother are like.
@ParkerPPipe
7 ай бұрын
I have two sons. They are half blood siblings. I tell them every day since they were little kids. People will come and go. Always. Always. Always stick together
@iankclark
10 ай бұрын
Look at the captivated young men in the audience towards the end of this video clip... a picture is worth a thousand words.
@lenblack1462
9 ай бұрын
Captivated by what?
@EFOELI.7
9 ай бұрын
Whats the title of the book?
@subsadventure
9 ай бұрын
I can almost hear the “Hitch slap” coming, echoing through the hall. Oh how we miss your brother 😢
@henntendo
5 ай бұрын
“Hey, you could make a religion out of this!”
@BANKO007
9 ай бұрын
How old is this interview?
@DeusEx_Machina
8 ай бұрын
Must be strange going around and one of the first questions being asked is "Are you Christopher Hitchens' brother?"
@stewartcohen-jones2949
6 ай бұрын
The decline and death of their mother proved critical in their opposing and somewhat extreme approaches to life. One became a puritan and one became a hedonist. Grief can for some only show itself in an obstinate position drawn against it.
@paulos36
9 ай бұрын
"Were you close?" "No." Eyes flicker.
@user-gg2zw3mc2l
3 ай бұрын
I felt that Eric Mataxas, the interviewer, was ingenuous, sensitive, and fascinated with what I also see as a thought provoking little mystery about the difference in views of the brothers (not that it needs to be solved). Eric’s genuine curiosity seemed to properly draw Peter out. The pause and Eric's face after Peter said "No" were amazing. Peter was relaxed, and I didn’t notice any condescension, snobbery or discomfort in him at all; he’s too much of a real deal human being for that rubbish. The audience enjoyed Peter’s dry wit, and when that happens, one should realize the interviewer is doing their job. Eric is talkative, so what? Sometimes the interviewer is just as interesting as the interviewee, and I was once surprised that a black British lady interviewer with an incredible laugh (forgot her name) who interviewed Harrison Ford - who had a rarely witnessed laughing spell 🤣🤣🤣 - was just as interesting as he was.
@takeiteasycheesy
9 ай бұрын
The rake and the peace treaty stories made me instantly think on Frasier and Niles Crane 😂
@WoefulPie
6 ай бұрын
The lunch with the Three Geniuses comes to mind!
@Ronnyjackson25
10 ай бұрын
this would be amazing of the metexas guy disappeared
@nigelscott1922
9 ай бұрын
I’ve always thought Peter was upstaged by Christopher and he still tries to be as good as he was.
@jeffhegarty
9 ай бұрын
They both wanted different things and saw the world in different ways, so it's not really a matter of rivalry between them, in my view
@adrianlekay7715
9 ай бұрын
You mean you agree with Chris more
@jeffhegarty
9 ай бұрын
@@adrianlekay7715 On balance yes, but Peter (a) was right about Iraq, and (b) is more gentlemanly to his opponents (unless they get out of order)
@goodyeoman4534
9 ай бұрын
Not at all. You're just biased. Probably because you're one of those "I miss him dearly" Christopher sycophants, but I could be wrong.
@jeffhegarty
9 ай бұрын
@@goodyeoman4534 Having never met a human being who isn't in some way biased (because such a creature does not exist) and not being any kind of sycophant, I'm curious as to know exactly where are you going with this.
@joeb5765
7 ай бұрын
"I haven't spoken to my brother and my sister for twenty years", are not the words of a wise or happy man.
@tuss1252
7 ай бұрын
While Peter has a whistling wind kind of component to his speach, as in the way he speaks, that grows more dominant, distracting and annoying as the days pass, Christopher's voice was always far more compelling and pleasing to my ears, as were his observations and arguments. Christopher is so sorely missed.
@hughjass8430
9 ай бұрын
If you imagine both brothers sitting at a dinner table talking politics, then you can easily imagine them falling out. Christopher, in particular, seemed like a man of ironclad principles, who could distance himself from someone who shared different beliefs on fundamental ideas. That said, who knows what goes on in families. It could also be something related to their parents, which neither of them was ever going to speak about publicly.
@noemptychairs4283
9 ай бұрын
Can you imagine if the interviewer was the 3rd brother? He would have been hung drawn and quartered.
@Vingul
9 ай бұрын
I couldn't, he has none of the wit of either.
@Confucius_76
10 ай бұрын
Who is the interviewer?
@Fruity_White
10 ай бұрын
eric mataxas
@bustercrimes7379
9 ай бұрын
Link from GMM
@Saskobest
9 ай бұрын
No one compares to Christopher. One of a kind, the most important public intellectual of the last 40 years
@edwardcatt2399
9 ай бұрын
Not really ay . . .
@rustysmalls
9 ай бұрын
All I can say is thank God there was only one of him
@lucasrinaldi9909
9 ай бұрын
Not even close
@CanadianMonarchist
9 ай бұрын
I would say Camille Paglia was the most important public intellectual of the last 40 years, but Christopher Hitchens would be up there.
@lucasrinaldi9909
9 ай бұрын
This comment section demonstrates the intellectual crisis of the American audience.
@buddahluvaz8
9 ай бұрын
I get where he is coming from I’ve never been close with my brother, we haven’t spoken in 10 years, there’s no Freudian reason we’ve just never been close.
@RealDaveHelm
9 ай бұрын
A gift of being compelling? All he does is moan about e-scooters in the Mail on Sunday 😂
@sjmckee1609
9 ай бұрын
The voice! WOW!
@kpl775
9 ай бұрын
"How can this guy be related to Christopher Hitchens? -Same parents. Anything else I can help you with?" that's so simple and funny at the same time 😂😂
@AS-nc1wi
10 ай бұрын
So rare to find a fellow based Australian - you're doing Gods work with this channel, keep it up!
@ClannCholmain
9 ай бұрын
😂 You only mean the one you believe is real.
@deanvo503
9 ай бұрын
I feel sorry for Peter, he has lived and will live the rest of his life in the shadow of Cristofer, who was an outstanding writer, journalist and speaker, respected by people who had a similar vision and by detractors, unlike Peter. And to the believers reading this, especially the channel owner, DO NOT DECEIVE YOURSELF, most people watching this video are watching it because of Christopher Hitchens, not his brother.
@jackjohnson2171
9 ай бұрын
that's me
@ds8457
9 ай бұрын
Me too! No interest in this brother at all! Hitch any day of the week. And this interviewer should go deeper into that point.
@MrPomdownunder
9 ай бұрын
I'm here for Peter... Chris was a good speaker ....
@CIMAmotor
9 ай бұрын
Are you American?
@normiedeathsquad40
9 ай бұрын
Nonsense. Peter is a far more prolific author and speaker than Christopher.
@loaded2820
9 ай бұрын
If you are unable to appreciate both brothers commentary, you've ceased being able to think for yourself and fallen for the intellectual partisan trap.
@RobbieHatley
7 ай бұрын
Both brothers are interesting, yes. However, only Christoper is _accurate._ Peter, on the other hand, cares mostly about the optics and utility of propositions, rather than their truth or falsity. Perhaps he doesn't even think that truth exists (some people don't). But it does, and it is important, and unless humankind starts to learn that, and soon, it will probably go extinct before this century is over.
@zaq9339
3 күн бұрын
Never seen an American handle a raging Brit so adeptly. Peter Hitchens is a handful and banter is his primary mode of operation. So to make it out alive you roast them back. Perfect blend of adulation (where its due) mixed with slap on the wrist witty retorts when Peter goes full diva.
@EndoftheTownProductions
7 ай бұрын
Metaxas interviews Metaxas with Peter Hitchens there in the room.
@latetodagame1892
9 ай бұрын
Christopher was the second movement of the Enlightenment. He had to be in America.
@Fruity_White
9 ай бұрын
Hahahahah
@Freethinkingtheist77
9 ай бұрын
Meet the Hitchens brothers - the intellectual's answer to the Gallagher's!
@saravieira90
7 ай бұрын
True. Brothers and sisters do fight and stop speaking with each other for several years or for good.
@andrewcorbett5729
21 күн бұрын
This interviewer debated Christopher hitchens?! That can't have gone well for him.
@MaryamBraisby-hn9lo
6 ай бұрын
let us just say, i have a sister who has such a psychosis which makes her seem so real and truth is she has no idea how far we have travelled together with her in my head
@Joseph-ax999
9 ай бұрын
I think a better way of putting it would be that you would be glad to read either of them even if you totally disagreed with what they had to say.
@grayintheuk8021
9 ай бұрын
Christopher Hitchen had many great things to say about the utter nonsense that is belief in a deity.
@ThePatrickFamilyBand
9 ай бұрын
I have a feeling that Peter and Chris went down two separate paths after the loss of their mother to a suicide pact with a man who cheated with her on the Hitchens' father.
@historyiwitness5915
7 ай бұрын
8:29 Embarks on explanation of why American audiences lap up anything spoken with a UK accent, but fails miserably.
@a_voice_in_the_wilderness
9 ай бұрын
Hitchens, he simply asked if you were close, you answered "no". He then asked if you could elaborate which I'm sure you could have done. Instead you berated him for presuming things he did not presume, lecturing him on the purported frequency of estranged siblings in society. He said nothing about those things, he did not say you should be close or it was surprising you were close. Like your brother you are overly rhetorical and obtuse.
@tedclemens4093
9 ай бұрын
re: "No" as the answer to "Were you and your brother close?" Most elaborate through their emotions. Simple facts are clearer. Even during this discussion, Eric talking to Peter is like Dr McCoy talking to Spock.
@Nordicroo
9 ай бұрын
Christopher Hitchens was a lot less prone to magical thinking and beliefs.
@DK_______
9 ай бұрын
And fully supported the illegal war in Iraq.
@Nordicroo
9 ай бұрын
Yes, it was terrible helping the oppressed and all the families who had loved ones murdered. After all, Saddam Hussein was such a nice guy.
@stephenholmes1036
9 ай бұрын
I cannot get on with my eldest brother he's arrogance personified
@goodyeoman4534
9 ай бұрын
There is a superb chapter on Christopher Hitchens in David Horowitz's "Radicals", free on Audible. Some of the Christopher fanboys might get outraged, as it dares to criticise some of Christopher's views, but for objective minds it's an exemplary chapter of an otherwise forgettable book.
@CosmicValkyrie
7 ай бұрын
Not just american audiences. I'm from India and i consider christopher my hero, he wouldn't like that description though.
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