Rebecca Watson | Carpool

The wonderful, clever and skeptical Rebecca Watson takes a ride in the carpool.
Carpool Podcast on iTunes @ bit.ly/CarpooliTunes
ABOUT CARPOOL:
Carpool is an online show hosted by Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge, Fully Charged), who gives a wide variety of passengers a lift in a hybrid or electric car and they talk. It's as simple as that. Previous guests include Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Charlieissocoolike and Jim Jeffries.

[@geniepixels]

Robert, thank you so much for this fantastic series. I love the intelligent informal conversation, the natural humour, the geniality and the selected gusets who are genuinlt very interesting... all set in a very familiar secnario. Brilliant! I’ve only watched 3 episodes but each time it had been with a guest that I thought was ‘a great unknown to the masses’. I hope you enjoy making this production as much as I do watching it.

[@1958darkstar]

Rebecca Watson is absolutely amazing! I could listen to her for hours.

[@blindlabyrinth5573]

I love all the hate from the misogynists here. Rebecca Watson must be doing something right! You keep on keepin' on, Skepchick!

[@billionthfish]

love her she talks so much sense

[@Myrph]

As a scientist I feel that it is important to emphasise the fact that the gravitational force between two people sitting 1m apart is approximately 4 orders of magnitude smaller than the force between that same person and the moon (assuming both persons weigh 80kg, distance from person to moon is ~356,400km), so the statement made at 11:40 is technically false. Other factors relating to proximity, however, will definitely have greater influence, but aren't numerically comparable.

[@KAL00KI]

What a great young lady... I'm now a fan.

[@LMarti13]

The worst part about misogyny is that misogynists are absolutely clueless that they are misogynists.

[@carpool]

@gfmarket I am uploading all the old carpools, so yes, you may have seen this one before. I just do it whenever I get a spare moment, later this year I will be uploading new ones after they've been broadcast on Dave.

[@johnhaigh99]

This whole elevatorgate furore is a storm in a teacup. Rebecca Watson is a bright pleasant woman. She felt nervous in an elevator when some guy asked her politely to come to his room for coffee. So what? She said he was out of line. Maybe yes, maybe no. Maybe in future he will not ask, maybe he will ask outside the elevator where he can stand back a bit further. She felt uncomfortable. She felt he was insensitive. But she did not viciously condemn him. My guess is that he had no malicious intent

[@Adendri38]

Hi Robert, Anyway i'm just wondering, what sort of in car camera mount do you use for your main camera pointing at you, i would like to have a similar set up, where i have a camera at the front facing me and i do sort of reviews, and talks whilst driving. I hope you can help me, sort of guide me as to what i would need , many thanks Robert

[@benthejrporter]

I just did the Skeptic Survey and I got 58% This is weird because I always thought I was NOT a Skeptic. I believe in ghosts UFO's etc. It said: "You aren't exactly a skeptic, but you're no blind believer. You doubt what you hear, especially when you hear it for the first time. When it comes to doing your own research, you sometimes fall short. Question your beliefs a little more. You might be surprised what you find out!"

[@Omni315]

Gravitational force between Rob and Rebecca ~ 2.668 × 10^-9N Between a person and the moon ~ 0.00003858N

[@crazytosh1]

"Gone in a puff of logic" hitchhikers guide to the galaxy!

[@everything543210]

Excellent conversation and a great girl to listen to. Thanks for another interesting show Bobby!

[@danielcrocker]

For some reason 240p is showing as the highest quality on this video. Could have sworn it was 720p when I added to my "watch later" a few weeks ago...

[@thenodfather]

A the start where she was talking about her father working for DuPont where he worked in the I.T. Department reminded me of Bill Bailey's joke about working for the Axis Of Evil in a different area as a Secretary HAHA.

[@Omni315]

It seems to cut out at 18:42, I've reloaded twice and I'm not sitting though another 30 seconds advert that I've seen 1000 times already

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you ,

[@Tonyblack261]

What an incredibly interesting guest!

[@Mentisia]

yes there is an audio version of Demon Haunted World

[@reznor12]

@Zed1967 Is that a reference to the lift thing?

[@becca2398]

Yayyyy carpool is back!

[@carpool]

@themalloys Good idea. Thanks, will do

[@carpool]

@Adendri38 I use Sony HXR MC1 cameras They are not cheap though, around £3,000 each

[@Tufty1989]

"I may be a skeptic, but I'm not convinced". Being skeptical about being skeptical sounds like it may be the seed of a mind-shattering paradox.

[@themalloys]

bobby, would you post date when recorded in description?!?!? PLEASE

[@MewCat100]

Well said.

[@OzoneoceanMJM]

Oh, it's Kryton. How cute.

[@666or999]

I was just clicking through suggested videos if I remember correctly.

[@krashd]

You use your car as a studio for a show, lubricate your windscreen wipers ;D

[@n0st1l]

At the end of the day, she has the right to comment on her feelings, and we have the right to (respectfully) disagree.

[@MarkJoseph4]

Ahhh the wipers from 4:56 onwards really cracked me up.

[@fuccasound3897]

If you like Rebecca Watson, check out Chelsea Sexton in this series, she is cool and clever too.

[@benthejrporter]

"I may be a Skeptic?" Are you a Skeptic or a sceptic?

[@avidvideo]

Heaven for the weather, Hell for the company... Genius!

[@Keyser666]

She actually seems nice here!

[@meteosurreal]

I could barely get you, and still get you, there.

[@Keyser666]

OK

[@joshuasmith7369]

I grew up playing rad racer on a commodore 64.

[@carpool]

Wow, I had no idea Rebecca Watson would generate such hatred, such incredible male fear and misogyny. She has clearly said something that has really upset a lot of men, there are obviously a lot of men finding this video because they are searching for Ms Watson because she has made them so angry. I don't know what she is supposed to have done/said which has struck so much fear/hatred into a certain group of men, but it has to have been profound.

[@EvilUmpire]

Screen wiper sound? I thought Bob had wind!

[@ElevatorGATE]

@zed1967 probably.

[@FaxanaduJohn]

Watson was approached by a dude in an elevator at an atheist conference in Ireland. Dude told Rebecca that he found her "interesting" and he aksed her if she would like to "come to his room for some coffee." Watson made a video talking about how inappropriate this was, and that men should not approach women in elevators spouting euphemisms for sex. Some felt that she was right whilst others felt that the dude, having accepted her refusal, hadn't done anything particularly wrong. Kryton rules.

[@Olysk8er]

Get some Rain-X for that Pious, I'm mean Prius.

[@illuminatusds]

@PeytonFarquhar1 I reckon you might be right. Doing some back of envelope calculations I think the force between her and the moon is around 7 orders of magnitude bigger than between her and Robert. This assumes they sit about 1 metre apart and both weigh around 50 kilos. OK, that's an error, but it doesn't blunt the scepticism angle any as far as I'm concerned.

[@grsadr]

Except she was invited in with him, it's not the middle of the night and..... oh yea THERE'S FUCKING CAMERAS EVERYWHERE.

[@TheJinksd]

She's very sweet- clever AND cute!!

[@chebob2009]

+1 to Demon Haunted World. Aka 'How to Think'. By Carl Sagan

[@brushfuse]

You are a Jolly Man, and that makes you NOT an old man. :)

[@weelittledragon]

FFS people. All Rebecca said was 'Guys, don't do that'. Is that really deserving of the amount of shit you're all flinging her way? Really? I don't even care whether you agree with her or not, just stop this hating on her. This has gone way too far and i is not her or any of the Skepchicks that's continueing this madness.

[@blenderpanzi]

Learning yourself html is not that big of a deal. It is just a markup language, not a programming language. Still, you have to be really interested in something if you learn it yourself. I learned html myself. :) Well, I use a small tutorial, pages like selfhtml de and looked at the source of a lot of pages. Then I went to a IT college and to university studying computer science. (So I'm not really representative.)

[@Konform2zoidberg]

I like Kim Kardashian, she's entertaining in a fucked up, "oh god this is a reflections of us and our culture way."

[@baillou2]

It's like Cash Cab except no one wins any money...

[@daquifsta]

25:38 The unsinkable rubber duckie :-)

[@kablamo9999]

But you see, it only works one way :D

[@sagenev]

Rebecca is fantastic. Thanks for the great interview.

[@ItsJakeTheBrake]

Yep I proved your point by offering an argument that had NOTHING to do with her gender... you actually proved my point.

[@john_mckinney]

“My dad worked at Dupont’s but he was not involved in Dupont destroying the planet, he was in IT” Nice critical thinking!

[@toaste9026]

Isn't that Kryten?

[@meteosurreal]

It's actually 100% water, we are all watery blob soggy-sacks not wearing diapers!!! Bon Appetito Bullfucking Upgods!!!

[@WreckItRolfe]

what the

[@carpool]

As expected, not the most breath takingly mature response. I'm not suggesting for a moment that anyone on Carpool is beyond reproach, including me, no one is expected to think she is amazing, but the comments posted here are brutal and full of what appears to be irrational hatred of a woman is clearly very intelligent and outspoken. Maybe women should shut up and just agree with men? Is that it?

[@grsadr]

Did you mean YOU'RE putting out the word... in KZbin comments? :)))))

[@RevDevilin]

merh

[@SykeMediaTV]

googled her , and still no idea who she is :)

[@randomsamno9]

Reading up on that 'incident', although it did sound like an odd reaction from her, also made me think "well I wasn't there", I don't know how this other person was acting towards her, so considering she has said a lot of things on this show that I agree with, I think i'm going to side with her for now. I'm going to keep an open mind, but the fact that she bases her life on being rational makes me think she probably had a good reason to react the way she did.

[@WreckItRolfe]

What do you think now?

[@jumpoutatree]

You couldn't be more wrong. Is this really all you imagined happened? If so, you don't know what you're talking about. Go watch the actual video where she talks about the encounter.

[@stitcha123]

James Corden should turn up at our Bobbeh’s house with a huge sack of cash and apologise. Then apologise for being as funny as a burning orphanage.

[@SpookyJohnathan]

Could you please give an example of and cite a source for one "authoritarian feminist" view she's espoused? I ask out of genuine curiosity because as of yet, I haven't heard her say anything I would consider authoritarian, and so far anyone I've spoken to who claims that they have has consistently failed to defend their position. Again, I'm curious, and not trying to be snarky or to attack your point of view, so please indulge me.

[@carpool]

Ooookay, clearly I don't know all the facts as to why so many people are upset, I have no idea what the argument is about but it doesn't show the 'skeptic' community in a very good light. No matter how you frame it, many of the comments on this feed are, without question and by anyones measure, deeply woman hating, angry white male emotive and reactionary.

[@UncleMort]

As a black woman I find your comments towards white men both racist and bigoted.

[@soundslave]

James Randi has a great KZbin channel. It's well worth checking out.

[@Tritium8]

rebecca watson!!! and why the frack did'nt i sub this channel... i follow fullycharged and the other channels...

[@Dream0Asylum]

No, it's perfectly skeptical. It's just not rational. The two aren't mutually dependent. Skepticism = Universal Doubt Rationalism = Being persuaded only by evidence and logical reasoning. That being said, whether it is rubbish or not is the burden of the one making the claim towards veracity and not doubt. Please give me quantifiable data regarding the "net affect" of distant stars. As a rationalist, only evidence will convince me of integrity.

[@paulbottomley42]

Eh, I only know her by reputation. In the flesh she seems perfectly personable and reasonable. I do hope she is known in the future for more than being elevator girl.

[@SamNichol]

@waspsoul95 Grow up.

[@captainchaos3667]

What is that annoying repeating background noise?

[@oerthling]

Stumbled upon this 12 years later. Oh those good ole times ;) when the crazy conspiracy theories were about 9/11 and Obama's birth certificate.

[@meteosurreal]

This Psiraises, Godfucks me. Here's to a Phasic, Blobby, Vocabulary; develop it.

[@kitchenaut]

*looks at thunderf00t's video* right... *yawn* 'skeptics' squabbling among themselves about identity bullshit; all very dull, all very parochial.

[@reasonableself6202]

I can't believe this woman is still getting air time

[@666or999]

Stop trying to frame this in some kind of Woman vs Misogyny light that isn't want this is. There are men and Woman on both sides. What she did was inadvertently start a conflict among the 'skeptic community' by showing some authoritarian feminist views and trying to piggy back upon the movement. It is not right that you try to make it into something it's not for the sake of easily dismissing it.

[@LudicFallacies]

I really don't like this car vblogging but at least the cameras are fixed and carpoolUK doesn't look into the lens and rant some diatribe. It's a good shtick but again I don't like people doing this as it most certainly will lead to car accidents.

[@MewCat100]

There are cameras in hotel elevators as well and elevators are public spaces (at least semipublic in hotels), so no invitation is necessary to enter an elevator. It was a joke, try to take it easy. Her presence on this show demonstrates that it is a of a very low caliber.

[@undodog]

8:30 Flirts with Bob saying she has his number and will invite him out. 8:40 Bob doesn't make a speech about how vulnerable he was being alone in a car with a potential rapist.

[@Jac70]

Sorry, I'm not getting into a net argument over this person. She's not worth the time. I love the show and you've had some great and interesting guests in that seat.

[@AlaricHolmes]

25:24 There's nothing like a strawman to make it look like you've addressed an issue. I can always tell by the level of derisiveness and dismissiveness with which one discusses, offhandedly or otherwise, the 9/11 "conspiracy theory" (the unofficial one -- or ones, since there are many, and not all are created equal -- as the official "explanation" is itself a conspiracy theory by its very definition, with the only difference really being whether the Enemy is intrinsic or extrinsic), or if one says that the "conspiracy theory" has been thoroughly investigated and debunked, they've probably never seriously looked into the events of that day -- and if they've done _any_ research on the subject at all, it was from a completely one-sided publication that set out to "disprove the conspiracy theories" rather that "objectively investigate the events of that day to determine who was right and wrong" -- like a responsible publication would -- such as, for example, Popular Mechanics; or they caught some Nova special on the topic. If there is indeed one fact about that day (and the months) afterward that can be asserted without a doubt, it's that no such thorough investigation of 9/11 has ever been undertaken by authorities with the power to render official rulings and hold responsible those whose parts in the attack are reveal in said investigation. - Why did it take more than an unprecedented 400 days to start the official 9/11 Commission? - Why was Henry Kissinger (the King of Coverups and the mastermind behind several coups d'état in Central and South America!) tapped to head it -- a job that he ultimately had to decline due to conflicts of interest with regard to his connections to the Bin Laden family -- and why did Condoleezza Rice's close pal, someone with whom she co-authored a book (a feat that requires a serious friendship as well as shared beliefs), take Henry "I eat babies" Kissinger's place? - Why did Cheney and Bush (listed in descending order of authority) "testify" behind closed doors, without any transcripts or note-taking allowed, and together instead of apart (which is what the Commission asked for)? - Why were Generals Eberhart and Meyers, as well as others, confirmed to their positions or even promoted after (allegedly) such a disgraceful failure to defend the country instead of being fire (as one might expect)? No one of consequence was fired. - Why was the military running several concurrent war-game scenarios, some of which dealt with precisely the scenarios that occurred (thus further confusing the FAA and NORAD)? (Couldn't have been better timing for Bin Laden, eh?) Asking this question, as well as others, got her voted out of Congress. - And just consider a moment all those put-options and how the SEC and 9/11 Commission addressed that issue. Too bad, though, 'cause it was a good interview up 'til that point, but no one's perfect, and her flippancy and dismissiveness with regard to that -- and not just hers, but the anyone's -- is down to neurology and information processing and the fact that people generally have a very hard time objectively analyzing the details of such a deliberately traumatizing event. So, I'm not sure there's much to be done.

[@MewCat100]

Does anyone wonder if Rebecca felt cornered while in the car with this chap? After all, this car is much smaller and more private than an elevator, she was in the car for much longer than anyone would be in an elevator, and......there could have been coffee somewhere in that car!!!

[@Muonium1]

Robert, this is precisely the sort of thing Watson has, in my opinion justifiably, earned so much scorn for. Assuming her detractors are male, assuming they're white (as if this has relevance in any case), and assuming they must "hate women", assuming they're irrationaly angry, etc. etc. if they happen to dislike this particular woman. It's very silly. Rebecca Watson, quite simply, is a bigot, and a large number of people have finally gotten very tired of her farcical drama queen nonsense.

[@SaelPalani]

Uh, no. There's a qualifier you totally missed. Don't care what you think anyway.

[@ItsJakeTheBrake]

Uploaders comment marked as spam. I LOVE It. This woman is the worst thing that has happened to the skeptic community because she is MALE hating, accuses everyone who doesn't agree with her of being a mysogynist or even a rapist if you're lucky. But I guess its only sexist when men do it...(what they do doesn't actually matter because everything they do is sexist, right Becca?)

[@Roj0307]

I agree with your post but it is beautifully ironical. Yes, pretty much the entire human race agrees elevatorgate was a storm in a teacup. While she did not viciously condemn him, she does visciously condemn anyone, male or female, who dares suggest it was a storm in a teacup. She has made it absolutely clear she feels elevatorgate was an example of misogyny, male privilege and rape empathy. People who disagree, like say, you, just don't "get it."

[@Excessivecontrast]

Ever since I saw that segment where she told an audience about the time she got her own personal assistant, and made a bet with a friend to see how long she could demean them before they quit, I have HATED her. Now I hate her on even more levels. She's just a bad person.

[@sadochrist8534]

You probably shouldn't have given this nobody attention on your wonderful channel, it's a good thing that you have it all on camera too as she would have said that you tried to rape her otherwise.

[@MewCat100]

It isn't irrational hatred of a woman, it is disdain for a person. A person who has made sexist, inflammatory, and derogatory statements in an effort to gain attention. Frankly, Ms. Watson would be disliked by the same people even if she were male. It is her attitude and her politics that people dislike.

[@neoPelagian]

Interesting claim to being both Atheist and Skeptic, from a philosophical view. Is this a paradox?

[@caseybv74]

Depends on how you define Atheist.

[@neoPelagian]

caseybv74 Well with atheist meaning 'does not believe in (a) God' rather indicates a predefined position, whereas skeptic indicates a questioning of all positions. Which was my flippant point. Mind you it is broader than that, Buddhism for example has no God, but we would struggle to label a Buddhist as an atheist. Perhaps we would be wrong to struggle. I find more in common between skepticism and Anglicanism, say, than with atheism. Maybe says more about the CofE than anything else.

[@meteosurreal]

caseybv74 ...And also multi-stage Social Movements, Factor that, I've seen em', on ALL Good and Bad sides. Plus, This is interesting, in vague blurbs, and so much perverse, paradoxes, floating blob-things, any of em' are backing and deflecting off of me and they.

[@Petrock508]

+neoPelagian Atheism is also defined as being a lack of a belief in God. Therefore it is sceptical, because it doesn't believe something without reason.

[@grsadr]

What authoritarian feminist views ?

[@patrick_test123]

Forced Gender Reassignment for Everybody NOW!??

[@chebob2009]

Maybe try not generalise across all men? Just a thought

[@Jac70]

Well obviously anyone who doesn't think she's amazing is a misogynist. "yeaarp, da pretty lady, she talking. dat's all I needs to know!"

[@ItsJakeTheBrake]

She's alone in a car with a dude? Watch out she doesn't feel "sexualized and uncomfortable" with all those questions...

[@DDazzle1]

You should be embarrassed. I don't like Rebecca Watson, therefore I'm a misogynist? You should be embarrassed.

[@jamieriley8444]

*...I wish leaving a comment would actually accomplish something, like stop him from interviewing evil Feminists...*

[@docgspot]

+Jamey Hedgehog shes smart not a feminist you fool

[@HerrFenchel]

+docgspot lol, good one

[@jamieriley8444]

+Herr Fenchel ...I'm so confused.

[@AlaricHolmes]

+Jamey Hedgehog *...I wish leaving a reply would actually accomplish something, like stopping people from leaving ludicrous and hateful comments...*

[@jamieriley8444]

+Alaric Holmes How do you justify comments like this, then? "LOL. You men always show up and prove my point to why YOU can't be around women in ANY community."

[@TheDensley7]

Bobby, I think you're brilliant, but you're backing the wrong horse in regard to Rebecca Watson; we're not misogynists, rather, Rebecca is a misandrist.