Full Interview with Steve Hughes About the Absolute State of Things
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- Carl interviews legendary comedian and heterodox thinker Steve Hughes about life, the universe and everything.
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For Christ sake give him a weekly spot
I second the motion'
give him pot weekly 😉
Steve's great value. Amazing comic and love his deep, oddball wisdom.
Steve Hughes, another example of great comedians being the most messed up people around cause they can see the world for what it really is.
Ignorance is bliss, Clarity is almost misery
@@NocentreNoborder Steve was. He's playing down his breakdown here but he disappeared for a while because of it, and I'm glad to see he's really recentred himself since.
I smell a joker reference
this is overstated
Oh, you have NO idea...
I was hoping you were going to release a section for free, respect for giving this away. It's appreciated.
ikr, i was thinking "i wish i had the money to spend on that" when i saw it mentioned but literally next clip lined up was this one..... im shocked.
It is however stuffed with adverts every 7 minutes, how’s that Working for you?😉
Not free. Ads every 5 mins.
@Alex i didnt get a single one, im laughing all the way to the bank.
@@yeahno.... Firefox with Adblocker; didn't even know about adverts til you mentioned them... =)
I can't but notice that the more we grow alongside technology, we understand less of our humanity.
During lockdown i bought my kid a tent so we could camp in the backgarden.
Years ago i'd camp a lot and had most the gear but i'd stopped due to my lung damage and ill health.
During lockdown i started with sleeping at weird hours and it messed me up.
But i wanted to do something different.
Not only did it break the monotony but just being in the smallest bit of nature fixed my issues.
I had that staring into the campfire moment, we talked about anything, everything and nothing, on topics shallow and deep and sometimes not at all.
We stared at the stars and i taught my kid some constellations and star names and we watched the meteor shower.
We played Chess (one of those portable travel ones, takes up no space) and made up our own rules to Super Mario Monopoly.
Later, we were warm near the little camp fire i'd made and we froze our asses off during the dead of night when it went out.We kept hitting each other for farting too much and even told the odd ghost story and finally i slept and by the next morning i woke up to the birds and a deep fog, cooked some beans fried some bread on a portable stove.
It was just my silly back garden, but to me it renewed my spirit and to my kid it was a fun adventure.
It's important to keep in touch with what makes us human and moments like that.....they are what count.
Your kid will never forget that day.
Your kid will think back to that day when he is your age. These are things good parents do. You're a good parent.
Hooray
There’s a balance to be struck.
Houses now have a lot of distractions now, going no tech for even a few hours can give a sense of perspective/reflection/unwinding.
Excellent except the farting.. And then you cooked MORE beans! (see Jack Black Tropic Thunder, the fatties trailer)
Love to see Steve get the attention that he so rightfully deserves. When he speaks on comedy, political correctness and life, he never misses.
You’re a comedic genius dude!
&
You’re a fearless philosopher of our time 🤩
you’re amazing!!
Steve is right, Australians are treated like children by the government, and we act as if the government is our parent.
It is why we are seeing incredible authoritarianism from Australia right now.
This country has been a nanny state for... Well, I'm not old. But even as a kid, I just remember the government treating us like we're stupid and that they are our benevolent saviours, and that all authority is to not be questioned because anything else would be 'un-Australian'. It's always been like that, and it's only gotten worse for us as time goes on.
The problem is he's not a salt of the earth ocker. The real blue collar Aussies I know have no cringe about themselves. Middle class Australians cringe so much about everything Australian and the bottom line is a huge insecurity about not being true blue Aussies. They go in for this Midnight Oil romanticisation of Aboriginals, Australia-White-Genocide, archetypal psychology, 'deep work', shamanism, 'spirituality' blah blah blah.. Go to Glastonbury in the UK, go to Nimbin, every other middle aged guy with a midlife crisis knot-top will give the same very generalised '90's spirituality lectures. These people stood by and watched the people who own Australia rob the working man of their sports teams, then bring in all these penalties for everything, FLOOD - absolutely Flood Australia with Migration since 2012 - and they said, and did, Jack Sh*t. Because they weren't really "connected with the Land" in the way they pretend to be. And the people that are.. the people that work the diggers and work the scrap yards etc, poor Aussies, are 'beneath them'. THOSE people have been screaming blue murder for years now about this NWO attack and no-one was there to listen. Noone even talked to them. So hey presto the World Bank and friends bring in Covid Communism and all the 'spirituality' section of Barnes and Noble' crowd want to act wise and smart about this. Well, they were useless then. They are useless now. And still full of themselves.
@@powerbite92 Well said mate. Steve Hughes is sometimes funny, but is also massively full of shit.
@@fozzilla123 All I'm hearing is you guys like Steve but you are letting your dogmatic politics take over your person, and that's one of the biggest problems in society in 2021.
@@Hardcastle83 Wtf are you talking about? You can like someone and still think they have shit ideas or thoughts.
Steve Hughes is a stand up guy. Thanks for putting this out.
heh, "stand up guy".
@@cold_static ^_^
Badum tshh
Ayyyyyyy
I bloody love Steve Hughes! A seriously underutilised comedian and human being. He really is an "everyman", from views to delivery, in comedy and in conversation.
This was one of the most entertaining lotus podcasts to date. What an absolute legend of a guy.
The Anthrax band Steve mentioned was actually called Stormtroopers Of Death (SOD). Their first album was called Speak English or Die
That's based.
@@mclatchyt Thank you for the correction.
They are not an "Anthrax band." They had no connection to Anthrax.
@@tolpacourt No connection except 3 out of the 4 members of S.O.D. having also been in Anthrax. Don't be obtuse.
@@NoFeckingNamesLeft DING DING!
We have a WINNER.
This was the best unstoned, stoner convo I've ever listened in on.
Much respect for putting this out for free, I get you need to make your money, but this guy needs to be listened to, its important.
I will be subscribing when I can, i was before this, but again, much respect.
Is the channel monetised? Heck of a lot of adverts on it...someone makes money from this freebie. Good interview though.
@@golfbulldog Read youtubes policy mate: any video, for any reason, can be monetised, for any reason, by youtube's own discretion, and the channel/video has no right to any of the money, it is YTs discretion if they get any of it. 99.99% likelihood: YT make 100% of the money on the adverts on this, given their hatred for anything non-radical left.
@@danielseaburg9763 thanks for the details.
Best hour and a half I've spent on TH-cam this year. Hope lots of people are connecting the dots after watching this.
"Modern comedy is like a luke warm steam room"
Brilliant and apt
Steves a voice that needs to be heard especially in Australia. He cuts through a lot of bs that would be much appreciated for a laugh at the very least at the moment!
Wow Steve Hughes is like all the good bits of joe rogan and none of the annoying crap + buckets of wisdom. Great interview
Less DMT
@@yhyh8990 I think Steve smokes weed, or did.
I saw Steve live some years back. During his set I shouted out something that linked back to a joke he'd made earlier in the night (a somewhat niche reference to the artists Gilbert and George), he responded with something like "I like it! Come talk to me after the show", which I took to have been a sarcastic dismissal of my attempting to make jokes in his set that nobody else got. It's only seeing him in interviews recently that I realise it's far more likely that he genuinely meant I should come and have a beer with him after the show.
Ah, you should have!
He seems like if you sent him an email about it, he might still go for that beer. He just seems like a cool, chill kind of guy.
@@hansellius hes tee total now or so i belieive.
@@philgriffin483 Oh really? I didn't know that.
I still think he'd be down for hanging out and chatting, but maybe not the beer.
Every couple of years I go back down the ‘Steve Hughes rabbit hole’ and came across this…great interview, would love to see him back on…Legend!
The BRILLIANT Steve Hughes... xx SF
Steve is so fucking interesting. He's becoming like Carlin.
Becoming?
That’s what I was going to say, becoming? Where have you been?
@@tonyromano6220 I love Steve also but seriously that's like comparing Russel Brand to God. Russel is absolutely fantastic but a long way from God. Yes of course I see the irony in comparing George to God.
I left the barracks after my one year mandatory service in the Yugoslav communist army in '88 wearing the S.O.D t-shirt. My CO couldn't believe what I was wearing, his eyes and mouth were wide open.
Something wonderful about wearing a SOD sport in an army. At least you didn’t have a Star Wars Stormtrooper tshirt at the shooting range 😂
Haha classic. "Speak english" was so damn heavy for its time. It was so absurd you have to laugh. This was way before absurdly edgy kinda psychopathic lyrical content got trendy in Metal like 30 odd years later.. Don't really care for all the copycat metal bands that rehash these tropes, do something original ffs. Still love the old thrash bands like that who wrote stuff they knew would never really sell 💪
Steve Hughes' comedy is pure gold. He's an extremely insightful guy.
Steve's stand up bit about gay guys, straight guys, and homophobes is one of my favorites. I think about it every so often. It's one of those bits that pops in your head and stays with you throughout the years.
Is it the "They fuck men" bit? Because that's an epic bit
@@garethbattersby "there's nothing gay about rhat"
@@garethbattersby Yeah haha
I’ve since as long as I can remeber thought about homophobia in that way and when I grew older I saw him do that joke. Fuck it, I could’ve been famous :)
@@Concerned_citizenNZ "That's hardly gay!" is the correct quote. ;) (Love it, too.)
This talk of the cosmic self really hits home for me.
I spent my entire life working, running my own business and helping others improve their businesses.
I was kind of pleased with how my life was going, but I was never satisfied.
I was driving from York to London and was on a time limit. Stressing the fuck out because the motorway was packed, and everyone was driving like arseholes.
I got a pain in my chest, pulled over and got out of the car in this shitty layby.
Honestly thought I was going to die.
I collapsed on top of the green mound at the layby.
The other side of the layby, the busy motorway behind me, was green fields, trees and blue skies as far as I could see.
I remember thinking how alien it looked, and I'm from rural Norfolk. I should be used to it.
But with the motorway rumbling behind me, and that vista in front of me, it just felt alien.
I sat there for a good couple of hours, the pain on my chest gone, and I felt rejuvenated.
And all of a sudden my brain said "Fuck work"
I went home to Norfolk, sold the business, and got back to my roots.
There is something spiritual going on there, because I may not have the money, I'm pretty broke these days, but I'm married, I have my animals, sadly I can't have children, but we can't have everything.
And I'm pretty content, I never lose my temper, and stress washes off of me like water off of a duck's back.
Tony so true i live near Kings Lynn in a tiny Hamlet .....views from all of the windows of farmers fields and church spires......always been a country boy grew up in Suffolk, brought my kids up in Cornwall.......i did live in London for 3 years and it was awful .....dirty , dangerous and depressing i a bed sit in the attic ...watching fights outside the kebab shop.....never again ....
There is a disused medieval church half a mile from me i often go there to ground myself if im stressed out ....
@@HUMPTYNUGGET
I hated London and refuse to go there.
But it does feel like there is a cosmic connection between us, nature and the universe, that we are abusing by living in these big cities, separated from nature, packed together and behaving like good little drones.
We've managed to remove the social aspect of society by doing it.
I honestly think that it's this disconnection that leads to so much violence and rage.
We have trapped ourselves in cages that we call cities, we live on top of each other but may as well be in solitary confinement for all the connection we have with each other.
Our food is brought to us in little packages, by people we don't know or care about.
We're not supposed to live like that.
It's small wonder that drink, drugs and sex provide a substitute for the things that we've deprived ourselves of.
Excitement, escape and connection with another person.
@@tonyhudson8235 indeed ...where i lve there is a church roughly every 4 miles, i live in an old farm workers cottage where there were so many people required to cultivate and harvest the crops the vast majority of the pèople worked on the land and, then came the industrial revolution and everyone left the fields to work in inhumane factories, a living hell with up to 10 members of one family sharing a room no running water etc
@@HUMPTYNUGGET
Maybe we do need a Great Reset.
Reset back to the 1900s lol
It wouldn't be so bad. Let the rich folk have their luxuries and live shoulder to shoulder with people they don't know or care about.
I'll happy just strumming my guitar, growing my own food, trading with others and playing at the local pub for a few pints.
@@tonyhudson8235 sounds like a good life mate.....thats how it was in the old days......i stumbled across the old Jack Hargreaves telly series on the old ways of the countryside from the late 70s and early 80s on youtube last week , been binge watching them all ...well worth a look pal.
Thanks for introducing me to Steve Hughes. I love metal and comedy.
You just found him? So lucky.
This is one of the best ten mins of stand up ever recorded IMO
Steve Hughes performing in Stockholm in 2009.
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Steve Hughes is such an intelligent guy, he has always put real topics in his comedy. It is absurd that we can not challenge the ridiculous with comedy ( to real we can't have that ) You are a spiritual man who sees the absurdity in society. Keep going Steve you are a good soul.
Great to see Steve on here. A perfect match.
Regarding his point about "Not watching telly and spending two weeks sat outside with a real fire".....i do that to destress both myself and friends. I had a life long mate in the music/arts scene "Go off the deep end" and had an open door, space to kip policy for him for two years.
What did we do?
Play music and cook up hairbrained arty schemes then go out when it was dark and sit around my oil drum fire pit and chat shit.
It saved his sanity.
He took great pleasure in taking calls from "People in the business" and friends and informing them "Ya haven't seen me in a while? Yeah....i'm sat in a back garden in Yorkshire, chillin by a fire drinkin whiskey. What?....You wana come and join us?"
I coulda taken bookings.
So, adding to Steves idea....YES! Get yersens off the internet, outside round a fire pit on the regular.
Excellent chat between you both .
"Spreadsheet culture" possibly my favourite new term of reference, I'm gonna start using that for sure.
Love Steve Hughes for his realness and wise humour, top bloke ❤
Brilliant . Great to see Steve Hughes chat. One of my favourite comedians of all time. He spoke about Adverts. Ironically I was hit with Ads here every 7 minutes. Haha !
Love Steve's comedy, but this made me realise there is so much more to the bloke. Could listen to this for another 90 minutes easily
He used to do a podcast years ago and there's some great stuff there too
@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 that's great! I'll try and find it. Thanks for letting me know :)
I get the part where it feels good to reset, take time out and just sit, listen and look around.
For 15 years I worked nights in a supermarket. Eventually I got a job working during the day and within a few weeks my body had reset, I was healthier, happier and felt younger.
Now a few years down the line I take little moments where I can to stop and look around, cloud formations, leaves from the trees, the birds in the sky and even random moments where I caught a feather that was flying by and just looked at it for a while, I find myself looking at the rain hitting puddles more than I ever did or going to a beach and just holding sand in my hands.
These moments all prove weirdly calming, and even thought they're just moment they do kind of reset my mood into either neutral or happy.
Its weird.
Sounds a bit like what I do during my "no phone" walks. I go out for an hour or two just walking, thinking and looking at interesting stuff.
I did ten years on night shift at morrisons .....but it suited me as im a night owl.....
I also have ptsd from military service and what you are describing there has a name and its is called Mindfulness, its taught to help anxiety and stress and severe mental problems .
You've naturaly discovered it .
Beautiful and wise.
Yess Steve Hughes! One of my favourite stand up comedians.
Thank you so much Carl for making this interview public!
That was a really great conversation. What a pleasure to listen to it. Also thanks for putting it up for people to watch.
Love the interview fabulous to know their is still like minded sane people in the world.
Glad Steve Hughes is on here, he's one of my all time favorite comedians that consistently makes me laugh!!!He's also very reasonable and antiauthoritarian (see his bit on second hand smoke). I was very excited to see his name pop up on this channel!! Good takes!
He is right, people have lost lack of understanding. Since covid, people have lost free will, stopped questioning, lost being actual adults and have allowed themselves to controlled by other people. It's truly insane and sad.
Ah i've watched Steve's stuff for years, so cool to see him on here speaking his mind. Thanks to all of you, you're doing an extremely positive thing.
what a pleasure to have Steve on, just being Steve, love his comedy, but its great to see its source, the person its born in.. great interview.
I knew when you uploaded the second sample of the interview you were going to upload it for free viewers, and I personally thank you for it. Steve has an enlightening mind and making an exception for this interview and making it free is a respectable thing to do
I could ave listen to this for hours more keep these kind of chats coming
Lotuseaters & Steve Hughes? I liked the video instantly, looking forward to watching it these days. Much love from Germany guys ❤
My first memory of Steve Hughes "gay is the new straight" very funny man.
I can't describe how good it felt to listen to this conversation. I can only
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing it.
Total love and respect to the pair of you.
Respect to this Gentleman, funny honest insightful and humane and very very funny.
Love Steve, remember him when he had long hair, great comedium. Seeing people make sense in the absurdity we live in, it gives hope
Brilliant! A conversation between wise and talented men with experience of the real world. Enough to make the WOKE shudder in their safety zones.
Steve is physically unrecognizable from his years with the Frank Zappa look. Wow at the flat top ... that looks great now. 👏🏻👍🏻
Good to see Steve Hughes is still around and didn’t lose his edge. You missed an opportunity to ask him about Jim Jefferies, they were roommates that first time he was in London and goddamn if there isn’t an interesting observation in how their careers have differed. By the way Steve has a shirt of a great album/band....Bathory-....The Return. Hail the hordes!
I'm so glad they did not discuss Jim Jeffries. What's the point anyway
Ohh Jim Jeffries is a good one also.
@@nickacelvn he was he sold out to comedy Central
I thought they shared a flat in Moss Side.
00:38:32 "Australians never defended that land"
They did. And lost.
Against Emus.
😂😂 I vaguely remember watching a hilarious yt video about this years ago, th aks for reminding me
This was awesome. Thanks guys. Steve is an absolute legend.
Deep cosmic thoughts from Mr. Hughes! Thank you for visiting
I've been having a pretty shit weekend but this discussion has helped me feel a bit more optimistic about things. Thanks gents!
The Lotus Eaters is one of the few podcasts that I consider essential to help get through this actual clown world we (especially in the commonwealth, particularly Canada) live in....
Good ol' Stevie, been watching him for years, love his comedy, such a blast that you got a chance to speak with him.
I'm making myself wait for the house to empty before watching. Steve Hushes is one of the few I give my undivided attention to. The man was sounding the alarm from before the fall of common sense and the attack on based-reality.
Thank you Carl I love Steve and this is very much appreciated
Thankyou so much for this podcast, life changing, when you two guys talk its like your talking directly to me, all my thoughts and feelings.
I would love to be a fly on the wall of a conversation between Steve Hughes and Alex Jones.🍿🍿
Thanks for releasing the full interview. 👍
I would swap jones for Eddie Bravo.
Bravo is a literal flat earther. I despise that guy.
@@alkestos despise is a bit strong don't you think?
@@matthewstone1362 to be a flat earther level of science and reality denier is equal to these people who believe men can be women. So no, it's not too much because that's how I feel.
@@der0keks why?
So refreshing to see two ordinary blokes talking some common sense & stating the obvious - thoroughly enjoyed it, THANK YOU!
One of my favourite stand up comics of all time!
Was calling out all this stuff well over a decade ago.
great conversation, really valued Steves outlook and his openness and honesty both in regards to his opinions but also in regards to his weaknesses and struggles.
This was fantastic- just bought tickets to your gig, Steve!
On the topic of learning within a tradition, see Kipling's poem "The Palace". An examination of it would be amazing.
Like most of Kipling's stuff, it's really good. It touched me quite deeply, actually.
Thanks for the recommendation.
I have to say I've really enjoyed this podcast it felt just like three blokes sat around having a good chat ,great work Carl as always, great guest in Steve my only point of disagreement is property rights I honestly believe it separates great civilisations from anything else ( an English mans home is his castle)
All the best chaps .
One of the historical housing solutions to loneliness and lack of localised food growing was monastery and convent lifestyle...where hundreds of people would live together and praise God not each other and themselves all day...and grow a lot of their own food and alcohol and offer each other medicinal help..without a lot of artificial fertilizers.. same with the huge houses/manors/mansions/keeps and castles where everyone had a place and a purpose...we see in England and Europe...These huge places were hard to heat but easier than separate housing....the class system was unfair I admit that...about 5% or less were wealthy and had servants...and serfs...to obtain food, clothing, transport, heat from fire places etc. entertainment...etc... but the isolation and estrangement that many people feel these days...is not making a happy healthy society....Thx Steve ......I now add you to the comedians that keep life funna when the day is hard or emotionally sad...Fiona McLoughlin, Emma Holland, Hannah Gadsby, James Veitch, Danny Buoy, Dylan Moran, ...a bit of Carr, and now Steve Hughes....formerly along time ago Barry Humphries, Monty Python, Spike Milligan, bla bla...see ya
By far the best lotus eaters video - big feels in this one - watching it for a second time.
Jesus Christ almighty, can’t believe he is sill going, I thoroughly in joyed that interview Thanks for having him on and God bless that man.
I could listen to these two guys talk all day. Great stuff and all spot on 👍.
Steve is my favourite kind of person
Steve truly is an incredibly talented comedian. I think of 3 of his jokes (gay/straight, earring, and X Factor in England) at least once a month. I showed his routine to so many people, and they all appreciated it and laughed like crazy. I feel like I should thank him for those life-long laughs. So, from an Italian fan, thank you Steve!
Thanks for releasing this, been on a Steve Hughes binge for last week since I seen you had him on as I had no Idea who he was. Great guy.
This was fantastic. Enjoyed it immensely
Stuck in work,but it's ok.im looking out the window and listening to you guys. Best work day ever.
A very enlightening spiritual discussion. Good work Carl, you getting the hang of the incorporeal.
Steve Hughes … legend…..thanks mate
Just bought tickets to see Steve in Brum. Very excited. You lads should come to the Midlands too. Love to see yas.
Thank you, this was much needed.
Never clicked on a thumbnail so quickly. Thankyou for sharing this episode, I was glued for the full 90 minutes.
Never head of Steve, what a great guy! Loved listening to your conversation. Thank you both
" My left brain is like a grape" ..... I've been smiling all day after hearing that... thanks Steve.. great listening to you guys chew the fat.
That was fantastic. What a treat! Steve is hilarious.
JUST BRILLIANT. We're on the rise. Hold the line.
I really enjoyed the charm of this conversation.
I like the Neapolitan analogy. Thanks Carl for putting this one out for free, as I really enjoy listening to this.
Brilliant bit about stay at home moms and raising children.
Great interview Carl,loved the way you let Steve speak even when he interupted you,Made the conversation flow
Kinda rare these days... A lot of hosts will cut off the person being interviewed... might aswell interview themselves in a mirror..
@@aarondavidson6409 totally agree,have to say I was expecting Carl to do that but was very impressed he didn’t,all power to him
Utter respect to you lads for putting this up for free.
If Jordan Peterson & Russel Brand had a child. It’d be Steve Hughes. Please bring him back; regularly!
What?
@@seanpadraigobrien1260 what “What?”?
No it wouldn't.
@@Rugmunchersauce3 oh…OK 🫡
Keep spreading the word
i am so glad the put this for free, so funny and insightful at the same time
This will for sure a few hundred thousand views. As usual, excellent work from the Lotuseaters boys.
YES! Love me some Steve Hughes. I have to wait 30 min before I watch it though because I've ordered a pizza for the occasion.
Damn this is one of the most grounded conversations I have ever listened to. Kinda makes you want to opt out of the system and go live in the bush with nothing but a knife and a loin cloth.
But to the end of, “you can’t just watch a couple of TH-cam videos”, you can if you’re watching the right videos and listening to the right people. I can tell that Steve Hughes has done the reading and I feel I can trust what he says.
I learned something. That is enough. Good interview.
I love the mindset of Steve. Just pre-ordered the new DVD. I wish he played the states, would love to see him live
The best interview I've seen on this platform! Please get him back!
Holy shit this was great. It's nice to see people talk about the more spiritual aspects of humanity and not immediately devolve to "aliens/god, lets smoke some weeeeeed maaaannnn". There's value in the aesthetic of humanity, a value these people look to destroy because it gives mankind meaning beyond their faux utopia.
Met Steve after a gig at the comedy store in Manchester in 2006. Absolute hero!