The James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan - and anime on my side

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

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at $19 per month at ZenSurance.com. Be protected. Be Zen. Hello, welcome to this episode of the James Donald Foolsbancan catamaran plan. So many things going on in the life. Oh wow, lots of good things. So many things. A lot of good things going on in the life. I am at home. I have a brief moment. Some people have come over to take the children while I did the podcast. I think they think I'm taking a nap, but my commitment to doing the podcast is greater than even any nap doing I could do. And then I just people, you know, friends.

So the important. So listen, I'm a little scrambled. My wife is on vacation and that's been so good. She's on a vacation to New York City and she's recharging the batteries and she's hanging out with her sweet friend and friend of the show, Anna Freer. And I've just been looking after the kids for a few days and a few more days of that to go so there's no video visual component this week. It's just, I'm just hanging on and doing the very best we can and we are actually having a great

great time happening so many people have been very helpful and it's lovely and honey if you're listening enjoy the trip things are actually going fine here there was it's sort of a there was some poo spread around the bedroom but I'm I'm on that I think I've got it all off the floor and I will inspect all the things that were on the floor see if they have poo on them as well. So we're on that don't worry about that. Yeah it's good I'm going to the UK later this month for a similar amount of time and then the shoe will be on the other foot where it usually is. My wife hasn't gone away without the kids before for very long. I don't I don't know that she's

done an overnight trip anywhere and I don't think she long. I don't, I don't know that she's done an overnight trip anywhere. And I don't think she has, I don't think she has. And I'm so, you know, just going out in the evening, sometimes with babysitter, but a proper overnight trip. So this is very nice to get to do that for her. Um, and to keep this house running. Shipshake. It's good.

Uh, and I'm going away. So I'm going to the UK. I'm only doing one show. I've only got one show booked in in the UK. And I think I might get, I might get to do something in Ireland as well. But my plan is just to do a run of podcasts and build that UK audience. Because that is, when I look at the stats, you know, that's a big chunk of the English speaking world we've currently got left on the table.

I mean we've got, we've got about 4,000 people per audio episode, and then it's about 10 times that with the visual. Yeah, we've got to do something about that. The audio, I'm not going to let the audio, this is audio only, and we've got to figure out the audio thing. I think the audio and the visual have to, I'm going to think about that on my own. That's not exciting. I don't want to share that.

What I want to share with you is I can just see, I can't see where they are on the YouTube. I think there's a way to do it and I'm not good enough at the numbers, but, and I assume it just is the same, but we've got, yeah, like 2,759 audio only listeners in the United States per episode. Wow! I mean this is one episode but it's typical. And then Australia, we've got over 700 listeners. Ah, the Prophet will not be recognized in his hometown. I think that's the expression. And it's, yeah, it's growing. It's good. It's growing.'s growing but the UK wow there's a full-off section when we get to the UK we've got well Canada comes next as well

226 Canadian listeners thank you Canada love you Canada almost all of them are in Toronto we're not all 37 of them in Toronto, 17 in Vancouver, 15 in Calgary, 11 in Victoria, Ottawa 7. We made so many attempts to get White Horse listeners and we're two. Just two. But thank you White Horse listeners and of course our sweet Moose Jaw 2 and then a lot of your Duncan, Grand Point, Grand Prairie, Halifax, Kilkenny, there's a lot of, ah man, I didn't know there were so many little, so many little places in Canada, Thunder Bay,

Tofino, Trenton, Vernon, Waterloo, Windsor, Wolfville, you are all alone if you're in those places listening to this podcast, no one else is doing it. But the UK, you know the UK has so many more people than New Zealand, but only double. Anyway, I don't want to play around with this, that's the whole time. But the point is we've only got 129 UK listeners, so assume that's actually 10 times bigger, it's about a thousand. And we've got London, we've got like 110 listening. My point is the UK, I want to do something about it.

And you're a closed market in the UK, as UK people will know. You've got your own shows, you've got your own podcasts, you've got your Taskmaster, and oh, you love a panel show, you love some toffee boys sitting around a desk at night with one working class guy guy a black lady and a gay dude and you know everyone else is a hoover and I went to Eaton and just talking through the news that's what you love and there's nothing wrong with that I'd love to be on one of those shows but in the UK we are gonna I'm gonna jump in I'm

gonna do a bunch of UK podcasts and I'm gonna try and rip the UK open. I've got to do, I'm gonna do one show I think to just, you know, pay for getting over there. And so details about that shortly to come, but we've got to rip the UK open. Ireland, I'm proud to say, is pretty, pretty good. We got 27. Dublin is a bigger city for me than anything in the UK. So I would actually on this trip, I don't have any plans yet, but I'd love to come to Dublin and it's it's late to be organizing a show, but I would definitely, if you're from Dublin, let me know if there's a bookstore that I can, you

know, there's a small room that I can have however many people in Dublin want to come along. I would love to make the day trip to Dublin. But you know, anyway, listen, what am I saying? The UK, we're going to go to the UK and the audio, we've got to figure out the audio. I've got to crack the audio. We've got to crack it. I've also got to figure out a way to get through the next couple of days. Nah, we're getting along. We're getting, got this pain in my side. There was this raw

milk problem in my head. I won't go in and on about it, but now I have this dull ache in my side and I just keep hoping it goes away. It's not going away. So I may have to bite the bullet, figuratively speaking, and go and see a doctor in the United States. And frankly, the engagements I've had with doctors in the United States have been pretty good thus far, and not nearly as expensive as I've been led to believe. I think if you need a procedure, a pro-see-ger, pro-see-ger, pro-see-ger, pro-see-ger, anyway, pro-see-ger. Procedure. Procedure. Procedure anyway. Procedure. I think that sounds very expensive and if

you need certain kinds of medicine it's very expensive. But just like getting in to see a guy, man, you NHS listening MFers will understand what I'm talking about and certainly in Australia it's the case. If you need to see a specialist, you know, because you've got something wrong with your penis, you gotta wait months sometimes to see a specialist about that. In America they're just like, yeah, where he is? You got a hundred bucks? You got a hundred and fifty bucks? You can talk to him. It's weird, different points in the system are easier and harder. I think if you have money, this is probably the best place in the world, the United States for medicine. If you don't have

money. Well, it's pretty publicly well attested to what happens to you if you don't have money. So you better go and get some money. Every problem in America, the answer seems to be, well, have you thought about going and getting some money? You know, my neighborhood is violent. Well, consider getting some money. I can't get around. Public transport is terrible. Oh oh you'll need some money for that but there are you start at some point running into things that can really only be done by public works like a beautiful walkable cityscape where you

know people and get along you can't buy that I know people keep trying to buy that. The Domino's Man tried to buy that. Elon's trying to build that. Epcot. I think those things, to be nice, have to happen naturally. I think the Prince of Wales did build his own town, actually, and it sounds great. But, uh, in general, I think it's better if that happens spontaneously. Alright, that's enough of that. Time for a poem. Oh, my sweet wife has just written to me and she sent me a picture of a building.

Oh, and my friend in front of the building. That's nice. What day do I get back from? Um, ah, look that up later, excuse me, a poem! A poem! I'm working on a bunch of poems, you should know that. Sorry, I'm I'm a-maggot-ed

I am absolutely maggot-ed Have you should have taken that nap, Jimmy? Alright, I wrote one about Vine It's called, uh, and anime are on my side, but I'm not so sure of that one. I'll read you my Charles Manson poem. I uploaded a bit of it, but it's longer than that. Alright, here's my Charles Manson poem.

Who runs the underground? Who holds the cards? Who decide who does what and where they do it at? Charles Manson said it was him in an interview but I don't personally believe Charles Manson was doing it. I have been wrong before. I could be wrong again. The motorcycle and the sleeping bag? Sure, absolutely. And 10 or 15 girls?

Well why not? People do it. And not wanting to take your time going to work for someone else's money? I think most people can relate to those sentiments. But all the money in the world and making the money man, actually rolling the nickels at your personal mint, not on your life Charles Manson. I do not believe you and it says something profound that however many girls, be they 10 or 15 girls, kept on listening, kept believing that this man who could boast neither bed, job nor car

ran the underworld, the guy, and held all the cards. You know, at some point, when he was sitting in prison with a swastika carved deep into his forehead, he has to have had at least one moment where he could see that the game wasn't his, and never was, and that being a teeny bopper wouldn't have been all that bad in comparison to the jail time and the swastika forehead, etc. But who does run the underground? Who does hold the cards?

Who does decide who does what and where they do it at? Those are the sorts of questions sure to drive a person mad. Is it the government, the UN? Is it some kind of cabal? Is it me? Is it you? Is it, you know, the those guys? The guys folks keep saying that it is and getting in trouble? Or is nobody holding the cards? Is the underground unrun?

Is who does what and where they do it at not really a decision? Is it actually a multitude of angry sad people making do with limited information and varying levels of self-control? Which is for sure the scariest answer because if it is we are all screwed, stuck between chaos incarnate and 12,000 nuclear weapons. And I suppose that when a man says it's not that, it's me, I am, I can see some people buying it. People with disquiet about the world, not heaps and heaps of people, something like 10 or 15 girls. And I'd like to say a word, just a few words now, to all the lonely and frustrated men out there, men who say that they can't find a lady to love them because they're

too short or too poor or ugly, autistic, don't have a job or money. These men who say women are materialistic and shallow. Remember, Charles Manson was something like 5 foot 2. He got more women than he knew what to do with. He was full blown insane and was pushing a race war. He was ugly and poor and imagined the smell and he was ordering women to commit acts of murder. The problem is you, you don't have charisma and what women want, a baker's dozen of women, give or take two or three, is to get swallowed up in the kind of Charisma that makes a person not worry about murdering a famous director's pregnant wife

Driving that director to despair until he takes haunting solace in Jack Nicholson's hot tub Anyway, we might I don't know if that poem should keep going or be much shorter, but I think I'm going to call it Jack Nicholson's Hot Tub. Not enough is said about it having been Jack Nicholson's Hot Tub. Yeah, the poems are longer this time around. There's a lot of them and I don't know, you know, I want to read them. I would like to read them out loud. Frankly, Dublin, land of poetry, land of great writers, land of song.

I want to subject you to that. I love that song. I want to subject you to that. I love that song. It's like, anyway, I used it on an earlier podcast. As with so many Irish things, it's all funny and jaunty and silly and then just one devastating moment in it. Just a devastating. I mean the opposite with some of the Cranberry songs like that in your head in your head. That's like that's the opposite that's a very bleak

song with a little weird funny moment in it but not does anyone mix the light in the dark like the Hoyrish dark beer and harp Guinness and a harp mixing the light in the dark. Anyway I would like to read my poems. So if you, that could be a thing I could do in Dublin. If you know a bookstore in Dublin that I can come to, a cool bookstore in Dublin that I can come to and experiment with my new poems and see how they play with an Irish audience. Coming up with this on the fly, that would be a cool day. Can I speak that into big 27 Irish listeners? Please send me on Instagram information or my my emails on my website send me information please about a cool

bookstore and I'll get in touch and I'll try and do a reading there and my poetry readings they're not good they're fine it's just not as fun as stand up, but I'll do some stand up. Maybe I won't, maybe I'll just read my poems. This is my hard relaunch as a serious poet. I fantasize now about once I've had the boat and I've sailed back to Adelaide, what my life looks like. And I look at realestate.com.au and domain.

And I look at the houses that I think, you know, just distant shacks in fields that I can raise my children in. And I think, oh, the poetry, Jimmy, I think who you are is a man who publishes a book of poems once a year. That's who you are. And there's nothing wrong with that there's nothing wrong with a man who just that's what we disappear from public life I do quite like doing the podcast we disappear from public life

and I just quietly you know people anxiously await the poems all here I could just keep releasing them myself don't let any middlemen get in the way. People who come at you with notes, I don't need your notes. You know. Did Homer have notes? Yes. If he wasn't one guy. If it was a multitude of people down the edge. Let me just say this about great man theory. I believe it. Because I've met some great men and most of and they're not always the way like if you if I said who do you think is a great man that I mean I don't think you'd get them because some of them are not famous

because many of the great men are insane. Not all of them but like I know a lot when you meet someone who is a great man or a great woman, but mostly it's a great man. You know, they're existing outside of normalcy and it's terrifying, it's horrible, but like that's who moves history. If they can move out of their own way they can move history. I really believe in them. Not good man, but great man. Yeah because these are the two, I like Helen Lewis and she's got a new book out. I don't think Helen Lewis and I would politically agree on very much but I used to listen to the New Statesman. Here's another little overture for those UK

listeners with Stephen Bush and Helen Lewis on the New Statesman podcast. It was a really, you know, they had a lovely rapport. And, but they are, you know, the sort of soft left journalist types. I think they'd accept that. Helen Lewis, I think probably mostly known in America as one of the ladies who interviewed Jordan Peterson and got some shut down moments. I did think she was a

lot better than the other the other ones who were doing it and she writes quite frequently. I think she's come to the comedy mothership. I don't know that I was there that night but she does write quite a lot about the you know Joe Rogan and the comedy mothership and all those things. I would love to talk to Helen Lewis. Helen Lewis if you you're listening, hello! Really like your work. But the reason I bring up Helen Lewis is she's got a book out about... I don't... I don't want to miss... it's broadly speaking about the possibility of genius

and the reaction to it. Helen Lewis... Let me get this right. Let me clear my throat. She's got a new one about Andrew Tate who I don't like. She's got another one about Ayala who I also that sex woman I also don't like. But I like Helen Lewis. I don't have any serious problems with that sex woman except that she's a... you know we're pushing different things. So Helen Lewis would love to have Helen Lewis on the podcast. Genuinely would love to have Helen Lewis on the podcast. I

think she, I mean, as a, she, I think she, anyway, her new book, where, where? Well, there's a couple of interesting things about Helen Lewis and I was, I don't think she got into them with Jordan Peterson, but she, uh, she, I mean, here's a, here's a bit from the Wikipedia that is interesting. She just, she doesn't, she doesn't, she doesn't have the take exactly that you always think someone in her position writing for those publications is going to take. I don't think she's a hack. So she wrote, it's, you know, she was questioning about letting trans women into self-identified women into rape shelters.

You know, in this climate, who would challenge someone with a beard exposing their penis in a women's changing room and all this stuff, and the TERFs come after her. And you know, even though she's a fellow traveler on that, she just had some questions about the organizational practices and they really came for her. And uh, Oh, what? I didn't read this. This has been going on for ages. Ubisoft removed Watch Dogs Legion to in-game political podcast featuring Lewis's voice.

She was scrubbed from Ubisoft game. I'd like to talk about that. It feels like she could have talked about that anyway. What is the book about? I'm sorry, new book. I'm just going to genius. And I think I disagree. I would like to talk about it. It's called the genius myth. It's coming out soon. And I'll read the bio. A tortured poet, the rebellious scientist, the monstrous artist, the tech disruptor. You can tell who a society values, what a society values by who it labels as a genius. You can also tell who it excludes, who it enables, and what it is prepared to tolerate. Taking us from Renaissance Florence of Leonardo da Vinci to the Floridian rocket launchers

of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Helen Lewis unravels a word that we all use. I haven't slept. I did sleep, but not enough. A word that we all use without really questioning what it means. Along the way, she uncovers the secret of the Beatles' success, asks how biographers should solve the Austin problem, and reveals why Stephen Hawking thought IQ tests were for losers before taking one herself. And she asks if the modern idea of genius, a class

of special people is distorting our view of the world. Sounds interesting. I'd like to talk about it. I mean, I, I think I disagree with the premise. You know, that we use I think geniuses. I think genius appears in the world and we're also enamored of it that we change our values around that genius and they sort of get I think that's sort of where the values come from and so I really believe Homer was one guy I think Shakespeare was one guy I don't you know I just un-gut I don't maybe this is because I have a hopeless view of myself I don't think I am a I don't, maybe this is because I have a hopeless view of myself. I don't think I

am a, I don't think I'm nasty and strange enough and outlandish enough to be a great man. I'd really, I'd really just rather be a saint. I mean, isn't that the greatest of all? And I'll have to read the book and formulate my thoughts on it. And I don't believe the book has come out yet outside of ebook. Maybe it's only going to ebook I don't know I'd love to talk to Helen Lewis about it excuse me there are so many people in the UK that it would be nice to talk to Skepta, Labyrinth, I think Dave I think there's one whose name is Dave I want the man who goes just fit nine gallon in the Sprinter. 100 eaters they don't fit in one SUV. SOS somebody rescue me. I got too many gallons. You know that one? I'd like to talk to him. And some

non-rap individuals. Prince of Wales now, King of England. Eric Manal. Love to talk to him. Who else is a famous British person? I tell you I've only been to the UK once and I was, I went with a woman in that relationship. It did not last long after that trip and I also was very sick in London. I got very sick and I did. We had different flights out of the country due to an administrative difficulty and I also was very sick in London. I got very sick and I did. We had different flights out of the country due to an administrative difficulty. And I just remember, I had like two extra days in London

and I just was in a sick bed. And I remember, I think the only thing that I really got to, I had like a nice day walking along the Thames. The Thames, I think it's the Thames, I know. Oh, I'm gonna get to talk to Blondie I think. The Blondie Way. Check it out. I can't say it enough. The Blondie Way. Wonderful show. I'll re-watch that on the flight over there and then I'd like to interview Blondie and let people know about that wonderful program. It's so good. What else? You know, Britain. I'd really like

to go to a working man's calf. One of the lovely trigonometry lads this week and I said, there's this scene in Blondie where they're eating somewhere. What, where is, what is this? He went, that's a bougie take on a working man. I don't know if he said bougie. Toffee, he might have said posh. It's like a posh boy's working man's calf.

I was like, I, I don't think there's anywhere I've ever wanted to be more than a posh working man's calf. I didn't even know about working man's calves before. You've got to not only celebrate your culture and tradition of the working man's calf, but you've got to let some rich boys do it properly. I really believe in that. I'm looking forward to examining their class system. Anyway, I have all these bad memories of being in Scotland and London. Some quite good memories of being in Manchester actually. It was beautiful. Lots of garbage on the street

by recollection and there was like a 50 degree day and everyone took their shirts off and ran around in the fountain. Might have been a 60 degree day. It wasn't very warm. Anyway, looking forward to the UK. And more details on that to come. And it looks like I'll be able to take sweet Sam Clark. We'll be able to get a work permit for him to film things while I'm there. And then he'll come back to America and not work and just have a little hallway because I haven't sort out the visa. I'll get to actually just show him what America's like like he hasn't been here and and that will be a very sweet thing indeed oh anyway ladies and gentlemen hello boys and girls hello

what else now that's it I've got to figure out the audio version of this podcast I don't think I think I edited out a bit where I talked about it but I'm happy to talk about it now we've I've got a man I think I edited out a bit where I talked about it, but I'm happy to talk about it now. We've, I've got a, man, I've got to figure it out because I don't want to like make content for the visual algorithm. And what's really nice is that, uh, you know, the podcast, you, you listen, you know, you queue it up and you listen, and I can have anybody on. And that really is so much more exciting to me to think that I could just have people who interest me on rather than people who are successful you know. Clout! Now that I've got a tiny morsel of it I don't want any more. I have to go to a doctor about this pain in my side. I have to. Oh I'm gonna need to see a doctor about this pain in my side. And I'm gonna have to clean this room. I'll clean the room first and then I'll do that.

Excuse me. Gosh, with quality... With quality audio podcasts like this, why would you even want the visual? Question mark. I'll read you another poem. I'll read you another poem. Um...

Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. not that one, not that one, not that one, not that one. I, I've got one I'm working on about airports. That's really long. I think I've read that one. I don't even, I mean, I'm sorry. I'll read my one about vines and anime are on my side. The Canon used to choose itself from generation to generation.

Writing whole books down by hand was a full-time occupation. And if your book wasn't some real hot shh, then baby, the monks wouldn't put the effort in. And personally, I think that was a win for Christendom and happiness. The printing press fk'd the whole enterprise. And the internet, well, you can see how it turns out prostitutes of the heart and minds and soul and also the conventional kind and there's not much worth reproducing online with the exception of sweet dead vine. The only one of its kind to die, a dead vine offering up fruit to the ages. You can sit down with your friends and family and spend some quality time watching a vine

compilation and you'll all be better for it. And out there somewhere is the sublime Vine compilation. The umbrellas are there and the freestyle dance teacher and the girl with the braces and little sunglasses. And why is everybody afraid of love? One day the perfect compilation will rain and it'll show all the best ones and only the best ones and it'll never cut from the square to a wide screen where some dickhead curator thought he knew better than the canon itself and

tried to turn the canon into a poverty ass America's Funniest Home Videos. That's not what Vine Compilation is for. It's not about watching a man fight a kangaroo or a fat guy falling down or a fire that breaks out. It's about four years crushed into twenty perfect minutes. It's about two hundred million people trying and failing. Very nearly all of them failing by heaps, and 0.00, etc. one of them is, I can't believe you've done this. For a long time the test of time was all people had, and honestly the test of time is all that's worth having.

Staring at the algorithm is a waste of your time but the aggregate starts to resemble the power of God. And anime is on my side! I think it is ah not is. We've got to figure that out before it's over. Oh yes, I think the poems. I think the poems. I think I'll live in a little shack, I'll get the boat, I'll sail it back to Australia, I'll dock it in a harbour, I'll go to the house, I'll go out on the weekends on the boat, Hemingway styley, and I'll just sit and write the poems. And that's how people will hear from me from then on. And then what would be nice if I could write a couple of books of poems a year and then have them keep coming out after I die.

Wouldn't that be nice? Keep coming out after I die. And then my family will still be provided for because they'll still be the James Donald Fawkes who can annual book of poems coming out and that will continue to provide from them. When this pain in my side strikes me down, I think I know what it is, I think it's gonna be alright. Oh I love you, I miss you, I want you, I need you. Huge exciting news coming on, A-boat front, not the boat, but A-boat coming very soon and I'm looking forward to sharing that with you and I'm looking forward also I've booked a bunch of tour dates I'm gonna be working myself to the bone this year and dates in Australia as well so that's all

good and positive and I hope that I'm coming somewhere near you soon I love you I miss you I want you need you, catamaran hug goodbye! Do you have business insurance? If not, how would you pay to recover from a cyber attack, fire damage, theft, or a lawsuit? No business or profession is risk free. Without insurance, your assets are at risk from major financial losses, data breaches, and natural disasters. Get customized coverage today starting at $19 per month at ZenSurance.com. Be protected. Be Zen.