Peter Hitchens on his brother Christopher Hitchens

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  • @aurelius1964
    @aurelius1964 Рік тому +192

    Eric Mataxas is far too pleased with himself to have a proper conversation with anybody. His podcast is unlistenable!

    • @Alex-mj5dv
      @Alex-mj5dv Рік тому +20

      Pompous as heck.

    • @piesho
      @piesho Рік тому +9

      "I like the one-word interview answers"
      Yeah, when he's the one doing all the talking, sure.

    • @paulnejtek6588
      @paulnejtek6588 Рік тому

      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
      @overallgreatidea6433 Рік тому +3

      @@piesho Umm.. Mataxas was being sarcastic

    • @SAK1855
      @SAK1855 Рік тому +7

      He’s being nervously defensive.

  • @eltubster14
    @eltubster14 Рік тому +148

    This is a great example of how not to behave as an interviewer. Never think you're more interesting than the interviewee.

  • @thelaughingphilosopher2421
    @thelaughingphilosopher2421 Рік тому +247

    Imagine having Peter Hitchens in front of you, and not being able to shut up...

    • @wiseonwords
      @wiseonwords Рік тому +28

      Yes, the interviewer was a bit full of himself.

    • @FannyShmellar
      @FannyShmellar Рік тому +28

      The less we hear from Peter the better.

    • @elvisleeboy
      @elvisleeboy Рік тому +3

      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
      @stamatissavvanis5862 Рік тому +5

      @@wiseonwords Not surprising for someone who "speaks" for Socrates.

    • @seanquinn4540
      @seanquinn4540 Рік тому +8

      Imagine thinking Peter Hitchens has anything of worth to say anyway.

  • @Alex-mj5dv
    @Alex-mj5dv Рік тому +135

    This host needs to realise we are wanting to hear Peter, the interviewee. Not himself. Terrible pomposity.

    • @arriuscalpurniuspiso
      @arriuscalpurniuspiso Рік тому +2

      That's the problem with most interviewers today. A far cry from Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson

    • @jameseverett4976
      @jameseverett4976 10 місяців тому

      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.

  • @matttiberius1900
    @matttiberius1900 Рік тому +232

    Peter Hitchens has turned gentle condescension into an art form.

    • @piesho
      @piesho Рік тому +1

      Ge got that from his bro

    • @tcrown3333
      @tcrown3333 Рік тому +3

      ​@@pieshoWeeeell...he does have his own agency.

    • @piesho
      @piesho Рік тому +2

      @@tcrown3333 I'm sure his bro was more influential to him.

    • @tcrown3333
      @tcrown3333 Рік тому +6

      @@piesho Yes, Chris Hitchens is sorely missed.

    • @stephenholmes1036
      @stephenholmes1036 Рік тому +3

      I prefer Peter

  • @JJKasper
    @JJKasper Рік тому +262

    I am rarely if ever embarrassed to be an American. Watching this American interviewer makes my toes curl.

    • @Pdotta1
      @Pdotta1 Рік тому +2

      True.

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor Рік тому

      Yeah, he's a real smug prick.

    • @FeckWoke
      @FeckWoke Рік тому +4

      You've seriously misunderstood the situation if you're not embarassed.

    • @likelydaily6767
      @likelydaily6767 Рік тому +23

      It's not that he's American. It's that he doesn't seem to know Peter well enough to hold this interview.

    • @josephthomas2226
      @josephthomas2226 Рік тому +8

      Eric is usually very good, but this one was indeed embarrassing.

  • @paulhart1218
    @paulhart1218 Рік тому +144

    The interviewer needs to learn the rudimentary legal skill of asking short, precise questions

    • @elvisleeboy
      @elvisleeboy Рік тому +16

      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
      @goodyeoman4534 Рік тому +11

      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
      @MagnificentFiend Рік тому +2

      Metaxas is always a bore.

    • @1oxyoke
      @1oxyoke Рік тому +1

      ​@@elvisleeboyThe comments about Mataxas were spot on. Can't stand the guy.

    • @nrutasberlin
      @nrutasberlin Рік тому +1

      ​@@elvisleeboyThe only thing I would disagree with in your comment is your use (presumably for reasons of politeness) of the word "somewhat". ;-)

  • @captainzappbrannagan
    @captainzappbrannagan Рік тому +75

    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
      @brucecombs3108 Рік тому +15

      "Christopher Hitchens was a giant among men" Now come on, he wasn't THAT fat!

    • @malcolmmitchell4709
      @malcolmmitchell4709 Рік тому +4

      Christopher Hitchens looked and sounded like an english lower middle-class Sir Les Patterson

    • @captainzappbrannagan
      @captainzappbrannagan Рік тому

      @@brucecombs3108 lol

    • @LukasGemini
      @LukasGemini Рік тому

      No he is not. Toxic atheist.

    • @revbenf6870
      @revbenf6870 Рік тому +5

      Whereas Peter Hitchens is a self important opinionated "plonker" as we say on this side of the pond.

  • @kugelblitzen
    @kugelblitzen Рік тому +42

    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
      @hiddenriverarts Рік тому

      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.

    • @Darticus42
      @Darticus42 3 місяці тому

      Moreso than the person he's interviewing, which is saying something 😂

  • @bruth6138
    @bruth6138 Рік тому +95

    That interviewer is more concerned with himself than getting information from Peter.

    • @ErikPortland
      @ErikPortland Рік тому +2

      Yep. That was obvious in the first 10 seconds.
      Christopher lived in DC. Even I knew that. You didn't do any homework?

    • @TopherBHC
      @TopherBHC Рік тому +2

      Lol the idea that you can get information from Peter is hilarious

    • @Bingbangboompowwham
      @Bingbangboompowwham Рік тому +1

      Sitting across from Peter Hitchens, it’s hard to live up to his expectations.

    • @danielbaladad5959
      @danielbaladad5959 Рік тому

      Yes, a jerk interviewing another jerk.

    • @conordelaney76
      @conordelaney76 Рік тому +1

      ​@@ErikPortlandHis name is Christopher, not Chris. He didn't like being called Chris.

  • @Philusteen
    @Philusteen Рік тому +41

    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
      @overallgreatidea6433 Рік тому +4

      Yeah irritating you interviewee is not likely to lead to a good interview

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 Рік тому +3

      Less interesting late brother

    • @adrianrose7703
      @adrianrose7703 Рік тому +4

      Peter realised this and didn’t like it. I don’t blame him. Personally I respect them both.

    • @irielion3748
      @irielion3748 Рік тому +1

      90 minute interview. I'm sure it wasn't always about his bro

  • @stevendouglas3781
    @stevendouglas3781 Рік тому +28

    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.

  • @andydixon2980
    @andydixon2980 Рік тому +97

    Would have been nice to hear more from Peter Hitchens.

    • @rimmersbryggeri
      @rimmersbryggeri Рік тому +3

      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
      @jameshogan6142 Рік тому +4

      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
      @pomx2900 Рік тому +1

      Not a sentence one reads often, and with good reason tbf.

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 Рік тому +3

      The interviewer evidently was of the opinion that his contribution was the most important element.

    • @andydixon2980
      @andydixon2980 Рік тому

      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

  • @rishabhaniket1952
    @rishabhaniket1952 Рік тому +115

    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
      @reggie18b Рік тому +75

      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
      @jackjohnson2171 Рік тому +7

      disagree@@reggie18b

    • @Fruity_White
      @Fruity_White  Рік тому +22

      @@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
      @SagaciousFrank Рік тому +2

      No, it's because he realised that his brothers general views on life are nonsense.

    • @Gablesman888
      @Gablesman888 Рік тому +2

      @@reggie18b You are so right. We just have here a case of two famous brothers. In the same family. Like Jacob and Esau.

  • @davidburgess2354
    @davidburgess2354 Рік тому +51

    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
      @michaelmcgee335 Рік тому

      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
      @adrianrose7703 Рік тому

      He did struggle a bit but, personally, I think he did OK in the circumstances.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 Рік тому

      ​@@michaelmcgee335 I am sure he was enjoying watching the interviewer making a tit of himself.

    • @LeonSKennedy7777
      @LeonSKennedy7777 Рік тому +1

      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
      @LaChicaconSuerte-1111 Рік тому

      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?

  • @MM-yi9zn
    @MM-yi9zn Рік тому +68

    Hitch was the ultimate brilliant & most articulate on the flaws of religion. Miss him always. No one can even come close!

    • @Fruity_White
      @Fruity_White  Рік тому +20

      I also thought this when I was in my early teens

    • @MrZORROish
      @MrZORROish Рік тому +14

      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

    • @stephenholmes1036
      @stephenholmes1036 Рік тому +2

      His brother is

    • @NaCreagachaDubha
      @NaCreagachaDubha Рік тому +7

      Brilliant when you're a kid

    • @stephenholmes1036
      @stephenholmes1036 Рік тому

      @@NaCreagachaDubha spot on like Haughey

  • @stormhawk3319
    @stormhawk3319 Рік тому +28

    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.

  • @saltriverpirate3172
    @saltriverpirate3172 Рік тому +29

    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
      @Fruity_White  Рік тому +2

      one more Epicurean, fantastic

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 Рік тому +2

      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
      @prashants5071 Рік тому +2

      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.

    • @BabaJeez
      @BabaJeez Рік тому

      "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
      @SUBZER0GREEN Рік тому

      ​@@BabaJeezthere is no such thing as a "left" and "right" side of the brain

  • @speedbagboxer7451
    @speedbagboxer7451 Рік тому +6

    In my opinion Christopher was widely entertaining, extremely charismatic and unbelievably intelligent. Peter on the other hand… not so much. Just from watching this short clip I can see why they didn’t get along.

  • @itsfine5818
    @itsfine5818 Рік тому +5

    "Well, it was a question inviting a one word answer" really sounds like something Christopher would say.

  • @user-pe9qg3hg3k
    @user-pe9qg3hg3k Рік тому +20

    Both Peter and Christopher are very different, but brilliant men in their own rights

  • @clorofilaazul
    @clorofilaazul Рік тому +118

    We miss Christopher.

    • @baggerdave
      @baggerdave Рік тому +5

      We all do!

    • @Albertanator
      @Albertanator 5 місяців тому +1

      @@baggerdave No we don't.

    • @theborderlinegiant
      @theborderlinegiant 5 місяців тому +2

      @@Albertanatorspeak for yourself.

    • @JW-xi4yu
      @JW-xi4yu 11 днів тому

      ⁠@@theborderlinegiant Why don’t you tell this to the guy who says “we all do” too?

  • @luvisacigarette8
    @luvisacigarette8 4 місяці тому +1

    It's amazing how similar Christopher and Peter Hitchens are in *some* respects. For example, C. Hitchens had said the same exact phrase @6:44 in response to the same question, and both Hitchens also implied the same broader answer in regards to their expert wielding of the English language (eg, @6:55 and @7:04)

  • @willr8768
    @willr8768 Рік тому +19

    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.

  • @MrMjp58
    @MrMjp58 Рік тому +38

    This interviewer seems like he's trying to be some kind of alternative comedian.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 Рік тому

      Yes he reminded me of Ben Elton just in the way he was supposed to be interviewing someone but he wouldn't shut up.

  • @deanvo503
    @deanvo503 Рік тому +37

    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
      @jackjohnson2171 Рік тому +4

      that's me

    • @HappyinJapan358
      @HappyinJapan358 Рік тому +2

      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
      @MrPomdownunder Рік тому +4

      I'm here for Peter... Chris was a good speaker ....

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor Рік тому

      Are you American?

    • @normiedeathsquad40
      @normiedeathsquad40 Рік тому +5

      Nonsense. Peter is a far more prolific author and speaker than Christopher.

  • @therepublicofcynica
    @therepublicofcynica Рік тому +9

    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
      @jaysterling26 Рік тому

      Cheaper too ( even more so if ignoring their offspring).

  • @Saskobest
    @Saskobest Рік тому +53

    No one compares to Christopher. One of a kind, the most important public intellectual of the last 40 years

    • @edwardcatt2399
      @edwardcatt2399 Рік тому +6

      Not really ay . . .

    • @Rusty69-er
      @Rusty69-er Рік тому +3

      All I can say is thank God there was only one of him

    • @lucasrinaldi9909
      @lucasrinaldi9909 Рік тому +4

      Not even close

    • @CanadianMonarchist
      @CanadianMonarchist Рік тому +1

      I would say Camille Paglia was the most important public intellectual of the last 40 years, but Christopher Hitchens would be up there.

    • @lucasrinaldi9909
      @lucasrinaldi9909 Рік тому +5

      This comment section demonstrates the intellectual crisis of the American audience.

  • @S_Edward_Burns_ArtsEditor
    @S_Edward_Burns_ArtsEditor Рік тому +45

    When the interviewer is too self-absorbed this is the type of interview we always get. Thanks to the Hitch-bros thou.

    • @SAK1855
      @SAK1855 Рік тому +9

      “People would listen to you for two hours.” Yet he won’t let him speak for two seconds.

    • @bobbyhanly3466
      @bobbyhanly3466 Рік тому

      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.

  • @RJStockton
    @RJStockton Рік тому +55

    "That is, for American audiences, an important thing."
    I feel roasted but I'm not sure why.

    • @LadyGreyAgeingDisGracefully
      @LadyGreyAgeingDisGracefully Рік тому

      I concur

    • @williamtoner8674
      @williamtoner8674 Рік тому +5

      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
      @jameshogan6142 Рік тому

      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

  • @sidjones-u3y
    @sidjones-u3y Рік тому +23

    it's like he wants to interview himself...

  • @brucecombs3108
    @brucecombs3108 Рік тому +8

    I bet even as children, the Hitchens brothers were a hoot. I wish their parents had had about 5 more.

  • @fractal97
    @fractal97 Рік тому +57

    I still can't get over not having Christopher.

    • @overallgreatidea6433
      @overallgreatidea6433 Рік тому +13

      Be careful about cult figures. He was just a man

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 Рік тому +3

      … try harder…

    • @yussepig6629
      @yussepig6629 Рік тому +11

      Weird how Christopher has these disciples. I never found him particularly intelligent.

    • @MrZORROish
      @MrZORROish Рік тому +4

      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
      @goodyeoman4534 Рік тому +4

      Fanboy alert.

  • @tpstrat14
    @tpstrat14 Рік тому +6

    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

  • @ParkerPPipe
    @ParkerPPipe Рік тому +1

    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

  • @Get_them_all
    @Get_them_all Рік тому +25

    Imagine interviewing Peter Hitchens and not being up to speed on Christopher? Who is this guy?

    • @Matthew-ve7uv
      @Matthew-ve7uv Рік тому

      I mean, it's clearly 10 mins from a longer interview

  • @jeffreyhearn8930
    @jeffreyhearn8930 Рік тому +7

    His brother’s voice so, so alike…

  • @reddyornott9981
    @reddyornott9981 Рік тому +3

    Christopher was awesome..... Peter on the other hand is a complete see you next tuesday

  • @jameshogan6142
    @jameshogan6142 Рік тому +5

    When the interviewer mentioned that Peter was a brother of Christopher. Peter should have replied "No. Christopher was a brother of mine."

  • @MizzouRah78
    @MizzouRah78 Рік тому +13

    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
      @147sterling6 Рік тому +3

      Peter is the opposite of Christopher and writes for a right wing newspaper.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 Рік тому +5

      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
      @lucasrinaldi9909 Рік тому

      @@147sterling6 What is the opposite of stupid?

    • @147sterling6
      @147sterling6 Рік тому +1

      @@lucasrinaldi9909 Very smart, prudent, intelligent, mercurial, accountable.
      Christopher was all of these.

    • @lucasrinaldi9909
      @lucasrinaldi9909 Рік тому

      @@147sterling6 Nah.

  • @ayb100
    @ayb100 Рік тому +19

    Peter Hitchens is good at what he does, yet Christopher was the GOAT ! Sorely missed.

  • @nuuky
    @nuuky Рік тому +2

    Thinking deeply comes naturally to Peter. It doesn't to most of the people who misunderstand him.

  • @jabulanij.mabika6298
    @jabulanij.mabika6298 Рік тому +14

    Bro sounds exactly like his brother it’s scary 😂

    • @georgejunior2929
      @georgejunior2929 Рік тому +2

      Thanks for that bit of useless information.

    • @henntendo
      @henntendo Рік тому

      That’s what similar upbringings get you … what utterly a stupid comment

  • @davedraycott5779
    @davedraycott5779 5 місяців тому +1

    The interviewer seemed to speak for longer than Hitchens

  • @jonhill3328
    @jonhill3328 5 місяців тому

    Loyalty, if nothing else, is why it’s important to keep communications open with siblings and family. Blood is thicker than water

  • @charliesmithers7663
    @charliesmithers7663 Рік тому +28

    There was little point having Hitchens there the way the interviewer prattles on

  • @daz6637
    @daz6637 Рік тому +6

    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
      @chesterdonnelly1212 Рік тому +6

      In the UK I believe Peter Hitchens is at least as well know as his late brother, if not more so.

  • @JustineBrownsBookshelf
    @JustineBrownsBookshelf Рік тому +6

    Nabokov indeed had the right idea about Freud, breaking down the word “the/rapist”

    • @johnwatts8346
      @johnwatts8346 Рік тому +2

      dont stand so close to me.

    • @bfFAN221
      @bfFAN221 Рік тому +1

      Damn, I never thought of that.
      Gotta admit, Freud seems like a secret nonce...

    • @johnwatts8346
      @johnwatts8346 Рік тому +1

      @@bfFAN221'secret' ?

    • @lingolarker9318
      @lingolarker9318 Рік тому

      @@johnwatts8346 Faaaaamous book by Nabakov 🎤😩😄

    • @overallgreatidea6433
      @overallgreatidea6433 Рік тому +1

      The narcissism of the "intellectuals" all the way from psychology to Bloomsbury writers, has always been off-putting to me.

  • @johnferguson4089
    @johnferguson4089 Рік тому +26

    He sounds so like his brother! Straight to the point, beautifully spoken!

    • @albanianmmakid.9300
      @albanianmmakid.9300 Рік тому +13

      Sorry m8 he is 10% in the intellectual and narrative expertise culture, compared to the Great Hitch

    • @Fruity_White
      @Fruity_White  Рік тому +3

      ​@@albanianmmakid.9300 🤣

    • @a_voice_in_the_wilderness
      @a_voice_in_the_wilderness Рік тому +1

      Don't mistake bombast and rhetoric for beauty!

    • @jameshogan6142
      @jameshogan6142 Рік тому

      Correct. Christopher was 90% bluster and belligerence. @@albanianmmakid.9300

    • @albanianmmakid.9300
      @albanianmmakid.9300 Рік тому +2

      @@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.

  • @a_voice_in_the_wilderness
    @a_voice_in_the_wilderness Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @ffrederickskitty214
    @ffrederickskitty214 Рік тому +5

    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
      @maxwelldownham235 Рік тому

      Jesus. You sound like a Christian. Nobody else gets that confused with reality.

  • @andrewcorbett5729
    @andrewcorbett5729 7 місяців тому +3

    This interviewer debated Christopher hitchens?!
    That can't have gone well for him.

    • @WinstonSmith19847
      @WinstonSmith19847 5 місяців тому

      He referred to Christopher as a character that's something you call someone when you don't like them and you are trying to be diplomatic.

  • @timmygibsonkc
    @timmygibsonkc 5 місяців тому +1

    Peter Hitches can’t hold a candlestick to his late brother Christopher Hitches! Christopher was better in every way, better writer, better speaker, better debater, and better at humor than his brother Peter!

  • @HeatherAndrews-r3q
    @HeatherAndrews-r3q 2 місяці тому +1

    The questions he asked shows he did NO background on either man.

  • @Jay-uc8rm
    @Jay-uc8rm Рік тому +5

    They have great voices

  • @TJ-kk5zf
    @TJ-kk5zf Рік тому +3

    Metaxas obviously didn't even glance at Hitchen's book

  • @carlettoburacco9235
    @carlettoburacco9235 Рік тому +5

    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
    @arrivagabry Рік тому +4

    He looks a lot like his brother, also his voice is very similar

  • @jamesrobertson432
    @jamesrobertson432 Рік тому +6

    "Were you close?" "No" lol

  • @frankmurphyburr3598
    @frankmurphyburr3598 5 місяців тому

    This is a great interview

  • @nigelscott1922
    @nigelscott1922 Рік тому +36

    I’ve always thought Peter was upstaged by Christopher and he still tries to be as good as he was.

    • @jeffhegarty
      @jeffhegarty Рік тому +3

      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
      @adrianlekay7715 Рік тому +5

      You mean you agree with Chris more

    • @jeffhegarty
      @jeffhegarty Рік тому +4

      @@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
      @goodyeoman4534 Рік тому +2

      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
      @jeffhegarty Рік тому +2

      @@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.

  • @Philitron128
    @Philitron128 Рік тому +9

    Jesus, they really are two sides of the same damn coin. Both are incredible writers, both are among the most eloquent speakers in history, both are incredibly intelligent, and both are strictly no nonsense. But their ideological views are diametrically opposed. What an incredible family.

  • @DeusEx_Machina
    @DeusEx_Machina Рік тому +2

    Must be strange going around and one of the first questions being asked is "Are you Christopher Hitchens' brother?"

  • @monwellchassion923
    @monwellchassion923 Рік тому +2

    There was nothing wrong with this interview. Geez. If Peter would have cussed at God once or twice, atheist would have loved this interview.

  • @christopherp.hitchens3902
    @christopherp.hitchens3902 9 місяців тому +17

    Peter Hitchens: The "Fredo" of the Hitchens family.

    • @anthonymccarthy4164
      @anthonymccarthy4164 5 місяців тому

      Christopher Hitchens was the successful gangster boss of the Hitchens family. Supporting the illegal and disastrous Bush II invasion of Iraq, which has had catastrophic consequences and hundreds of thousands dead condemns him as a morally vacuous figure.

    • @tefilobraga
      @tefilobraga 5 місяців тому +2

      And much less talented than Christopher. Overcompensates by his insufferable arrogance. It is apparent that becoming a Christian did not improve him in that respect, despite his protestations to the contrary...

  • @takeiteasycheesy
    @takeiteasycheesy Рік тому +1

    The rake and the peace treaty stories made me instantly think on Frasier and Niles Crane 😂

    • @WoefulPie
      @WoefulPie Рік тому

      The lunch with the Three Geniuses comes to mind!

  • @mynameisnunyabusiness2210
    @mynameisnunyabusiness2210 Рік тому +1

    Opened the comments as soon as the video started. Thought, “it can’t be that bad.” It was WORSE. SO MUCH WORSE

  • @mkc1rrc
    @mkc1rrc 4 місяці тому +1

    How on Earth did this interviewer rise to this level? It surely was not through his oratory excellence or ability to ask compelling questions and then shut up during an interview - he's interviewing HIMSELF in this one. Dreadfully distasteful.

  • @HughColling
    @HughColling 9 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @vinnycochrane5139
    @vinnycochrane5139 4 місяці тому

    I was, during my Oxford Union years, always the liaison for Peter - several times, to the extent we became friends. I managed never to divulge that his brother was and is one of my heroes. It would have soured the atmosphere. But I must say he is very different from his media persona. He’s open-minded, sociable, and really quite liberal.

    • @lepidoptera9337
      @lepidoptera9337 2 місяці тому

      Yes, but unfortunately his invisible friend is messing him up all the time. ;-)

  • @IngmarSweep
    @IngmarSweep Рік тому +5

    I was waiting for Peter Hitchens to get a chance to say something, alas it did not happen.

  • @historyiwitness5915
    @historyiwitness5915 Рік тому +1

    8:29 Embarks on explanation of why American audiences lap up anything spoken with a UK accent, but fails miserably.

  • @joeb5765
    @joeb5765 Рік тому

    "I haven't spoken to my brother and my sister for twenty years", are not the words of a wise or happy man.

  • @iankclark
    @iankclark Рік тому +2

    Look at the captivated young men in the audience towards the end of this video clip... a picture is worth a thousand words.

  • @hebejeebies2452
    @hebejeebies2452 Рік тому +2

    Its an important thing for British audiences

  • @Confucius_76
    @Confucius_76 Рік тому +3

    Who is the interviewer?

  • @noemptychairs4283
    @noemptychairs4283 Рік тому +4

    Can you imagine if the interviewer was the 3rd brother? He would have been hung drawn and quartered.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul Рік тому

      I couldn't, he has none of the wit of either.

  • @RealDaveHelm
    @RealDaveHelm Рік тому +2

    A gift of being compelling? All he does is moan about e-scooters in the Mail on Sunday 😂

  • @d23bw
    @d23bw Рік тому +8

    This man is interviewing himself and using Peter as a straight man.

  • @stevendouglas3781
    @stevendouglas3781 Рік тому +20

    It may be common but it’s unnatural to not be on good terms with your immediate family. Even so, I respect Peter for not enjoying his brother’s shtick.

    • @jasse85
      @jasse85 Рік тому +10

      Well he's religious and his brother despised the idea of being slaves to a deity.

    • @stevendouglas3781
      @stevendouglas3781 Рік тому +6

      @@jasse85 “slaves” lol

    • @ozzo8573
      @ozzo8573 Рік тому

      @@stevendouglas3781Listen to me or burn forever, it's your own free willed choice

    • @ozzo8573
      @ozzo8573 Рік тому

      @@stevendouglas3781completely free!

    • @AfroGaz71
      @AfroGaz71 Рік тому +7

      ​@@stevendouglas3781You're free to to do what you please but be damned for eternity if you don't do as your told. Eternal slavery is the punishment.
      Of course it's all nonsense, but it does show the minds of those that proselytize it as such.

  • @Judge_Meridian
    @Judge_Meridian Рік тому +18

    The best thing about Peter Hitchens is his brother was Christopher Hitchens.

    • @spm36
      @spm36 Рік тому

      You clearly need to listen to Peter more then...his brother openly supported the Iraq lie

    • @mad_god_mcmullen
      @mad_god_mcmullen Рік тому

      Agreed

    • @robmarshall956
      @robmarshall956 Рік тому +4

      That’s a comment only a hateful soul would make.

  • @NorsePJ
    @NorsePJ Рік тому +5

    Christopher Hitchens was a lot less prone to magical thinking and beliefs.

    • @DK_______
      @DK_______ Рік тому

      And fully supported the illegal war in Iraq.

    • @NorsePJ
      @NorsePJ Рік тому

      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.

  • @bobgom4915
    @bobgom4915 Рік тому +3

    There's no doubt that Hitchens can at times being compelling, but he is undeniably deranged on a fundamental level, and that derangement inevitably quickly surfaces. Those that fawn over him are either similarly deranged themselves, or willfully overlook it.

    • @cperez1000
      @cperez1000 Рік тому

      You're deranged, just bc I say so

    • @jameseverett4976
      @jameseverett4976 10 місяців тому +1

      Man you said it. Chris was a con artist, rarely answered questions, just threw insults instead. He seemed to have nothing to offer but his rage.

  • @EFOELI.7
    @EFOELI.7 Рік тому

    Whats the title of the book?

  • @MMircea
    @MMircea Рік тому +4

    I wish we still had Christopher to put Peter in his place on the war in Ukraine.

    • @Fruity_White
      @Fruity_White  Рік тому

      🤣

    • @deanvo503
      @deanvo503 Рік тому +1

      @@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
      @SgtAndrewM 7 місяців тому +3

      Peter put christopher in his place on the war in Iraq and he didn't talk to Peter for years after that.

  • @rosemaryrojahn584
    @rosemaryrojahn584 4 місяці тому

    Which brother is the wiser? The one who did not believe in God or the one who does?

    • @lepidoptera9337
      @lepidoptera9337 2 місяці тому

      Christopher Hitchens was, by far, the more intelligent brother. That doesn't mean that Peter Hitchens isn't towering over most of mankind, but that he can't shake his invisible friend proves that deep down he never grew up. He is still run internally by the scared child that Freud talked about a lot.

  • @TDashem
    @TDashem Рік тому +3

    Dear interviewer: Not good.

  • @ascheuring1
    @ascheuring1 5 місяців тому +1

    “Let’s start with the most important thing about you, your brother”
    😒

  • @scousepie2
    @scousepie2 8 місяців тому +1

    The interviewer loves the sound of his own voice... !!

  • @nerdyali4154
    @nerdyali4154 Рік тому +2

    Peter Hitchens is a fine example of a religious apologist. Substitutes appeals to sophistication and an air of superiority for a cogent argument. Like all the cool kiddies on the right nowadays he promotes ludicrous "anti Western Imperialist" rubbish straight out of the Russian media pipeline and thinks he's casting pearls.

  • @loaded2820
    @loaded2820 Рік тому +3

    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
      @RobbieHatley Рік тому

      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.

  • @miguelurdaci7884
    @miguelurdaci7884 Рік тому +10

    Ok. Some guy sat Peter down to tell him what he and his brother are like.

  • @paulos36
    @paulos36 Рік тому +1

    "Were you close?" "No." Eyes flicker.

  • @fvw1187
    @fvw1187 4 місяці тому +1

    After Peters appearance with Alex O'Connor i have no respect for him.

    • @lepidoptera9337
      @lepidoptera9337 2 місяці тому

      The best orator can not defend an indefensible position. Peter Hitchen's problem is that he still hasn't learned that lesson.

  • @MARStheFORSAKEN
    @MARStheFORSAKEN 2 місяці тому +1

    Ive only heard peter speak a couple times and now i understand why gis broyher never speaks ro him, why try and reason with unreasonable people?

  • @buddahluvaz8
    @buddahluvaz8 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @kpl775
    @kpl775 Рік тому +19

    "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 😂😂

  • @MaryamBraisby-hn9lo
    @MaryamBraisby-hn9lo Рік тому

    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

  • @qutaibabahaayousif1024
    @qutaibabahaayousif1024 4 місяці тому

    That voice❤ we miss you hitchens RIP

  • @AS-nc1wi
    @AS-nc1wi Рік тому +11

    So rare to find a fellow based Australian - you're doing Gods work with this channel, keep it up!

    • @ClannCholmain
      @ClannCholmain Рік тому

      😂
      You only mean the one you believe is real.