Adam Curtis is the oracle of 21st century. An amazing man with an incredible ability to describe our super complicated world with detailed knowledge and reassuring sobriety

Adam Curtis changed my life. Not even joking

This episode was ridiculously insightful. Hats off to both Adams. It's so rare to hear people intelligibly parse through the madness of whatever the fuck is going on right now

Whut….. how did this happen?! If you had told me ten years ago I would be watching an interview with Adam Curtis and the Spaghett guy I would have called you a madman

I first got turned on to Adam Curtis with The Century of Self and I’ve not looked back. Brilliant work I’ve watched them all and only just found out he directed a few of the episodes of a documentary series we used to stay up with our parents to watch on a Thursday night called ‘just another day’ which was bloody brilliant - a day in the life of Waterloo train station or Selfridges - stuff like that. I think Glynn Worsnip or someone used to narrate - great memories - come to think of it, I credit those films in the early 80s with my lifelong curiosity for people and interest in the humanities. Thanks Adam for making us look at the world properly.

Curtis is brilliant Hypernormalisation is one of my all time favourite documentaries

And what the viewers believed was that they lived in a comfortable reality. One in which Tim would continue to make whimsical comedies like Tom Goes to the Mayor forever and ever. But this was a fantasy.

I can't believe y'all got Adam Curtis on, legends

Adam Curtis is maybe the most important documentarian of the last 30 years. Gotta hold that dumb isht down though a bit more with some guests guys. Still, great you got him on Tim. Biggup from UK

Adam Curtis is really on point with the COS playing journalist now a days. IT is why i don't use twitter.

I have been watching the documentaries of Adam Curtis for 3 decades and I give much credit to him for waking me up to what the really is really like. The one that really woke me from the Matrix was "The Trap" - I have seen that 3 part series 23 times and each time I still learned something new. That's how deep his work is. If you are dumbfounded by the world then take the red pill and watch the films of Adam Curtis. But I warn you; there is no gong back. All he is offering is the truth.

Wow, you have been getting some incredible guests lately. Looking forward to watching this one later

A true visionary. Thanks for having him on again Tim!

I love that you seek out and can get such a legendary filmmaker!

The power of nightmares series was one that struck home when I first saw it

I can't get my head around Tim interviewing Adam Curtis?! Like one of my favourite comedians and documentary makers from SUCH different fields! Together! Wow! Good job! 😉

Wow, Adam even allowed himself to relax and have a laugh. How cool/rare is that! :) When he spoke to Russell Brand, he kept his serious the whooole time because he didn't want to get played. The fact that he joined in the fun is an absolute sign of respect from Curtis.

Tim Heidecker interviews Adam Curtis! Yes, i'll watch this.

I am so glad you guys got Adam Curtis on.

great to have someone like Adam Curtis on the show to talk about UK politics, which is confusing as hell right now and so easy for people to get misinformed when they're looking from the outside and getting their takes from twitter (the queen memes were good tho tbf)

What a cool find. I completely grew up with this guy. My group of friends passed around century of the self way back in the mid 2000s and I’ve been following him ever since.

Never thought I would see Adam Curtis and Adam Conover on the same show, it's brilliant

An incredible conversation, thank you.

I don't saw this a lot but Hypernormalization changed my life. It came at a general turning point in my life and was an integral part in a complete paradigm shift for me, it's such an amazing experience to have. I truly, deeply started to realize back then that I actually do. not. know. anything. about. anything. I was deep down the bell curve of the Dunning-Krueger effect. I started dropping misconceptions and stepping away from political affiliations, re-examining why I think the way I think. I've been watching most of his work ever since and most of them just kept blowing my mind.

Hypernormalization is sensational. Didn't expect this interview!

mind baffling how literally every response t what Adam says goes in a completely different direction to the interesting point hes tryna make

Well, now I have a 7 hour deep dive into the USSR to watch thanks to OHs.

love Adam curtis!

surprisingly, one of the best discussions on the future of politics...(& it's on tim heidecker's office hours channel !?)

The Documentary was very immersive indeed. The images needed no narration at all. I found it fascinating.

Adam is the number one journalist and thinker, basically he is the Goat of our century

this was a struggle. poor adam

Been watching TraumaZone the past day, and it was as a result of watching a PoliticsJoe video on the subject in an interview with Curtis. He is new to me but his framing is familiar from my own. Difference is that he is a genius at telling stories with art. Inspiring.

Great job!

Thanks very much, great conversation with a great film maker. Cheers.

Gotta get this man on the oscar special. I love all of Adam's work. Makes me proud of the BBC. Should of got him to help you with ZERO HOUR

I like how Adam is finally breaking America 👏👏👏👏👏

amazing 🙏🙏

Superb Analysis 😊🏴‍☠️

The first thing this man had to comment on regarding Trauma-Zone was how cold it looked in Russia. my head. it hurts

Learned more about the current situation in the UK watching this than watching the BBC

What a great crossover

Adams speak the truth

I love politics. Politics is so fun and gives me hope for the future. I love thinking about it all day, I especially love our leaders. I love the people who vote for them. Politics is the way of enlightenment. I can't wait to vote for my favorite politician. Politicians are going to save the world. I can't wait for the next debates!

omg this is like the crossover of my dreams

How is this the only interview with Adam Curtis about Trauma Zone on KZfaq and why the fuck is it Tim Heidecker?

love him

Politics became Entertainment. The masses want celebrities not grown ups who will tell them the truth.

I want more of the 2 Adam's

Needed. A discussion between Jeffrey Sachs & Adam Curtis.

Adam Curtis is brilliant the other guys are ....

Great insights. High intelligence.

Trauma Zone's great, and I get what Curtis is saying, but I miss his VO (which I've never mistaken for a 'hot take'). Great interview.

Everyone has the attitude of that's not my job, meanwhile everything is everyone's job.

This is the good corner of social media

A crossover I had no idea could even happen

I usually sympathize with Curtis's point of view BUT, I'm pretty certain the Royal Family didn't seem to 'control' emotion after the Queen died, they were worried that there would be much less when compared to Di's death. They tried to manufacture woe and despair! It didn't work and was spotted by anyone here over 60!

One hell of a crossover

great job just to get him to interview ..

Thanks for interrupting him at 20:01

The cat at number 10 should be the new PM.

Which full episode is the Curtis interview from?

Tim receives payment from the same people who fund Info Wars. On a surface level, they seemed like they were in opposition to one another, but this was merely stage craft.

It's all true.

Book rec if you liked the series: “Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets”

Hey Guys!

I am being hypernormalised right now in the UK, and I don't even know what THAT means.

A phyco witch hunt? That sounds remarkably accurate.

Wow, Tim has lost a bunch of weight!

adam(s) heads rejoice!

I think you were asking about the UK? England doesn't have a PM or even its own government.

Did Adam Curtis say in passing at the end of the interview say that he actually "support"s the Conservative Party? What?!? Did he misspeak?? edit: Forgot to say "say".

Curtis: "We have had 4 or 5 Prime Ministers in the UK in the last 6 years and none of them have been elected". Nope. Theresa May elected, Boris Johnson elected and of course David Cameron was was elected twice. In reality, one was recently sacked and another has taken their place, mid government term. This entirely derailed your point, which unfortunately was somewhat true.

I can’t believe I only found out There was a master film maker called Adam Curtis this year at 38 yrs old. And I’m kinda glad I did, I feel I’ve been beaten up by life quite tenderly in which it helps me really appreciate the work that goes into his work. Mrs Curtis you are an absolute legend

Constitutionally, the pm is just the "first among equals" Just the person who can form a government, ie get laws passed. The electorate just vote for representatives, MPs So any one of those MPs could become PM, if they can get enough support

Adam Curtis is great and all but he doesnt touch half the controversial topics that Decker does. Decker is the true American hero.

Casey Tatum x Adam Curtis

How is UK politics affecting the average Brit? Lemme tell you that it's traumatising and exhausting, and like I'm living in a Kafkorwellian dream. So confusing that I literally don't know what and who to believe anymore. I'm watching this in the middle of the Palestinian genocide by the way, and Alexei Navalny just 'died from poisoning' in a Siberian gulag. Britain and the 21st century world is absolutely insane.

As much as one can respect and appreciate the work of Adam Curtis, it’s difficult to overlook how he presents Trump as someone who “just reduced taxes for the wealthy”. There’s nothing *just* about his policies and role in politics. It all had a resoundingly negative impact, including his pandering to reactionary culture wars narratives. Then we have his anti-intellectual stance on climate change and what he did with the EPA, paired with the fact that he turned the Supreme Court into a theocratic, backward apparatus with the judges he picked, one of them being pushed through when Trump was a lame duck president. All this despite the fact that Republicans shrieked that lame duck presidents shouldn’t be making such picks when Obama was in the last year of his presidency, and prevented his nomination of a milquetoast centrist like Merrick Garland from going through by not having the relevant hearings and causing the nomination expire. Of course, broadly speaking, Adam Curtis isn’t wrong: the conditions for a Trump and various other populist demagogues have been in place and fomenting over the last fifty years. He wasn’t some anomaly and his phenomenon is a product of those conditions. However, it is without doubt that Trump had a serious impact on a host of things and his actions as president, as well as an agitator, played a notable part in things deteriorating the way they have.

It's good to know we're not the only f'd up country politically

i like Curtis as a kind of visual stylist that works on media but that's it. A guy able to find incredible lost footage in the BBC archive, anecdotes and make engrossing montages out of it all. But it's scary how he barely knows anything about politics.

Wow , The British accent is way much more appealing than the American ones .

This is one of most typical American interviews where the "host" (and his sophomoric crew members) can't restrain themselves from either interrupting or wisecracking the guest.

I'M NOT USED TO TIM BEING NORMAL IS THIS SATIRE?

So, when did we really end up in a rut, unable to meet our challenges and devolving into consumption monkeys of passivity with no future?

Sidekick dude: "Oh this sounds great. I have to see this!" Well, how about before interviewing the creator and commenting on the work and situations, you take an hour out to actually watch the first part at least? Otherwise, interesting stuff.

This irritated me so much that he could not let the guest on the phone finish his narrations and clipped him out to let anybody know his ideas. He should just listen when Curtis speaks!

The great Adam Curtis...if you have a short attention span but want to be more informed than PhDs....watch -all watched over by machines of loving grace part 3 monkey in the machine- covers imperialism,genetic evolution and capitalism in one hour.

@22:50 The World Economic Forum?

16:40 The China Connection

So so so so, Mr Curtis is going to do his next project on Britain Brexit until the next election maybe? I would love to see how he analyses people's frustration and schadenfreude while politicians are mercilessly put down and the hysteria over covid and the utter mania of 2022 with three Prime-Ministers and two Monarchs and how dumfounded everyone is. I found out while at a bus-stop and when in the bus someone behind me asked me whether she was gone and looked completely joyously exasperated at the @~?£ed up situation we are in. However, he is so correct with rail and everything, the ordinary joe is like, what exactly is going wrong?

"Trauma-zhun"

Cosplay journalism is rife over here- opinion pieces that the writer clearly doesn't believe... politics is a game to so much of our political and media class.

it's cool that the jerry maguire kid grew up and pretends to read

awkward start. childish snickering.

Love Adam Curtis's stuff, this series I really missed his narration. It's interesting footage but seems an unfinished work to me, I didn't watch it all.

Very difficult to listen to and a missed opportunity. Every time they start discussing a topic and Adam gives a remark which could lead to a thought-provoking conversation, it has to be explained to the host due to him not knowing events in the last few years in the UK and therefore not running with it.

century of self is pretty dope, yes

I feel like Adam Curtis would appreciate the work of Vic Berger IV

If you don’t know adam Curtis your not cool