Prodos has been very active in a comment thread of this website over the past week, defending his viewpoints without ever resorting to childish insults. Besides from utterly destroying the arguments of people like John Surname and Bridgit Gread by telling them to think (you see, Prodos truly believes that he is the only person on earth who thinks, and that everyone else is unable, too lazy or too stupid to do the same), Prodos used a sound effect (.wav) of a toilet flushing (called “flush_the_editor_down_the_loo”) to conclude his argument that I am a poo. It’s this intellect of titanic proportions that makes all of us here at GrodsCorp tremble.

Over the years Prodos has left a vast spiderweb of footprints all over the internet and I have a long list of URLs pointing to Prodos bizareness. Going through this list this morning I rediscovered an interview that Prodos did with a New Zealand website called Free Radical in 2001. The interview is worth quoting from extensively because it’s brilliant in the extreme. The title of this post is a direct quote of Prodos talking about himself.

Perhaps the most interesting question and answer in the interview is this:

Free Radical: In Australia you face the imminent prospect of a Labour (sic) Government. Could it be much worse than the weasel-worded appeasement of John Howard’s Liberals?

Prodos: Personally, I don’t get that excited about politics or politicians. I don’t think they’re that relevant. At least not to the work that I do.

And yet, five years later Prodos is shouting “John Howard Forever!”, is a Liberal Party member, and is desperately running for election in any federal or State seat that presents itself.

The next thing that jumps out of the interview is instant hypocrisy. Near the beginning Prodos says, “I’m not the proselytising type… It just isn’t my cup of tea.” yet by the end he is explaining his efforts to convert the (unthinking?) masses to the cause of capitalism through his Walk For Capitalism campaign. Prodos’ conversion mindset is revealed when he says, “It’s a tough battle ahead, but with Ayn Rand at our side, I am hopeful that victory will be ours.”

However, the strongest theme in Prodos’ interview is humility. Talking about his “radio show” (actually just audio files downloadable from a website) Prodos says this:

I am the greatest. I am the best. No other show even comes close. Many thousands of listeners log on to PRODOS.COM every day.

It’s impossible to keep up with my fan mail from all over the world: India, Norway, France, Japan, the UK, Israel, lots from the USA, everywhere, everybody loves PRODOS!

Those shows must be pretty awesome. They’re still online at prodos.com (scroll waaaaay down the page to find them) so go have a listen to find out for yourself. Two of my personal favourites include How to find love and romance and What exactly is Coca Cola?. You simply must listen to the Coca Cola show for the bit where Prodos opens a can of Cola and analyses the fizzing sound.

And finally, Prodos talks the talk of capitalism but does he walk the walk?

I’m actually terrible at making or saving money.

No.