"... I dated a sex-worker in Thailand. But this is the thing - that a lot has been said on YouTube where there's not based on anything that I've said and it's not even based on things that Kim Silvio has said. People have just raced to conclusions based on the fact that I went to Thailand..."
He’s either knowingly misrepresenting information to Gold or he had deluded himself into thinking he didn’t already admit to having seen sex workers for 3-4 years and that he had “met” more than one there. What’s problematic for Lloyd was that FB statement on 02.02.22. I don’t have the quote handy, but he essentially said “not that it’s anyone’s business, but the sex workers I met in Thailand were all in their 20s”.
This does two things. One - It lends a lot of credence to the claim the M7 and others made that he went to Thailand for a sex holiday since he speaks of sex workers in the plural. This was no chance meeting with one on Bangla St. after returning from seeing the elephants as he would have you believe.
Two - He says he ‘’met” sex workers. I’m sure he’s taking the literalist route if confronted with that FB post today - as in he met them at the bar but did not pursue it any further. If so, why insist that they were all in their 20s? This is how Lloyd gets caught in a lie. He’s a native English speaker, so none of this was lost in translation, nor was he ignorant of English writing composition and reading comprehension. He knew precisely what he was trying to fend off and at the time it seemed convenient for him to admit to the sex holiday with the silly caveat that all were in their 20s. Lloyd’s problem was that later he went back on that and pushed the narrative he “dated” one sex worker.
He has little understanding of how things work outside what was once his exJW echo chamber. Unlike Lloyd, Gold has a real job, education and credentials as a journalist, formerly of the BBC. If he had a PR agent as he once stated he was looking into getting, they would have probably advised against him going on the Gold show. And had he insisted, he would have been coached to keep to his talking points and not be drawn off them as evidenced by those lengthy soliloquies where he was struggling to sound coherent.
That’s the essence of journalism - they seek out the real story the interview subject is seeking to avoid. Gold did that quite adeptly. A good journalist is calm and collected, and goes out of his way to think you are in control of the interview when it was quite the opposite.
Lloyd set himself up for what had to be his second worst decision behind the livestream. ExJWs come and go, but Gold has 283K subs and this interview is staying up. All unforced errors - it was Lloyd’s decision to do the interview and all the words were his own. It will someday be up to his daughters to decipher what their father meant by dating a sex worker, and being confused, searching for the full story.
