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Oct. 13, 2021 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Low Seeders for the 13th of October 2021.
	I'm joined by Byron Burcham, a Canadian comedian and actor.
	Sorry if I butchered your name a little bit there.
	Oh no, yeah, Byron Burcham.
	Like, Lord Byron, you're Byron.
	Byron Burgers, Byron.
	Anyway, so I don't know if you want to introduce yourself now a little bit, and then we'll do it for your segment as well.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm a comedian from Canada, actor as well, and over here in the land of the free.
	Well, the freer than Canada, which is why I'm here.
	How we're achieving that is just a reference to how low Canada has fallen.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Pretty much, yeah.
	Anyway, so the things we're going to talk about today, so we're going to talk about the Southwest Airlines anti-mandate strike, also the COVID randomness in Canada, and the Dave Chappelle winning the trans war.
	So he has actually defeated Netflix and the trans lobby and has come out on top because the trans lobby are literally getting fired for...
	Yeah, so the woke is finally going broke.
	Yeah.
	I love it.
	I love the Netflix is actually being like, yeah, don't we like money?
	I enjoy money.
	Maybe we should go for the money instead.
	Yeah, I mean, that's weird, like, how many times that they don't go for the money.
	They're like, no, optics is more important than the bottom line.
	Yeah.
	I want to look like something like Far Left Fruitcake instead of being rich.
	Yeah, finally they're just like, you know what, let's keep our billions.
	Yeah, so they're going with that.
	Anyway, a couple of things to mention first on the website.
	So some of the new stuff we have on the site for people to check out.
	So the first thing here being a direct video, Carl did, about socialism's direct lineage to fascism in a short segment.
	So I think people might remember we did a book club on this on Zeev Sternhalm's Neither Left Nor Right, but this is the shortened version of that, especially shareable for friends and whatnot to get them understanding the argument.
	So anyway, go check that out.
	Next thing to mention is a new article from Josh.
	He's written, As the world gets better, political discourse gets worse.
	I think this is actually an old article, but I think we've republished it with, because if you can scroll down, audio now.
	So we have audio for the silver and gold tier members to listen instead of having to read the whole thing, because not everyone likes reading, which I could sympathize with.
	Anyway, so...
	Let me go to the last one here.
	We have a premium video.
	So this is from the live event we did.
	So this is Carl talking about how to justify crack babies.
	So this is the worst of critical race theory.
	I don't know if you've heard about critical race theory.
	I have heard of critical race theory, but I haven't heard of the justify crack babies.
	Yeah, so there's a big-ass textbook, Carl Brought, to understand it.
	It's called Critical Race Theory is the Key Writings that Form the Movement.
	And it's co-authored by Kimberley Crenshaw and all these other critical race theorists.
	And there's all the different arguments they have in there.
	And there's one, I think it's, I can't remember her name now, I'm forgetting it.
	But anyway, go and check that out.
	Because in there he mentions, and there's one essay in which he's trying to justify that black women who have crack babies are being oppressed by the government, by the US government saying that's illegal and will discipline you for doing that.
	Oh, for smoking crack and having a kid.
	Yeah, so then the kid is addicted to crack when he's born.
	And it's like, yeah, that should be a crime, US government.
	And the critical race theorists are like, I'm not sure about that.
	I think her bodily autonomy matters more here.
	Right, right.
	Right, okay.
	So go check that out.
	That's premium on the website.
	Bit spicier, so maybe that's why it's premium.
	But it's also just that at one point she starts arguing that black women aren't even human if they can't have crack babies.
	And she's like, how is this in universities?
	Of all the other things in the textbook, I mean, this is the worst of the worst.
	Well, he's calling it the worst of critical race theory.
	So, anyway, go check that out, chaps, and sign up to get access.
	So, without further ado, let's get into Southwest Airlines' anti-mandate strike.
	Wow.
	So, Southwest Airlines is going broke because they decided to institute a mandate on vaccines for all of their pilots, and the pilots were like, new, get stuffed, not doing it, personal choice.
	And turns out you can't just replace the pilots like that, so it's actually working.
	So, I thought we'd go through the story because there's also some comedic stuff in here as well.
	They can't just have a flight attendant that identifies as a pilot?
	No.
	I did see the Babylon Bee put out an article being like, what is it?
	Southwest Airlines invites passengers for free flights, provided they know how to fly a plane.
	It's just like, well, how do the passengers do it?
	Because there are no pilots.
	So if we get this first one up, so this is Jack Sobiak, who has done a lot of reporting on this because he's tuned into this sort of thing.
	And I'm going to trust him for this because he seems to have been following quite closely and has some good stuff.
	So, we see this first one here.
	So, the pilots are not being unreasonable, in my opinion.
	The stock graph kind of looks like the COVID case count of the United States, actually.
	It goes up, and then it goes down, and it just goes up a little bit, and then it's going down again.
	Just flops and flops.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But also the point there being that they're not being unreasonable and saying just that, you know, COVID's not real or that anti-vaxxers or anything of the sort.
	No, they're being perfectly reasonable, which is you're applying a mandate.
	I mean, number one, mandates are generally evil.
	So let's go with that.
	But also the fact that they're making the point, no, we accept natural immunity exists as to most COVID studies as compared to the vaccine.
	And if we had the virus, we should be able to do our jobs without getting the vaccine.
	These exemptions should exist.
	Yeah, see, this one's different than here, than Canada.
	You know, and Canada's just ridiculous right now.
	We could talk about this, obviously, after.
	But when it comes to flying, like, if you had COVID, I'm not even totally against vaccine mandates in certain ways.
	But when it comes to, like, if you had the virus, then you should, you know, you actually got stronger.
	The argument is you have stronger antibodies than even the vaccine could give you.
	So, therefore, you should be able to do your job or travel freely or do what you got to do without being reprimanded because of the...
	Just having to get the vaccine if you already had the antibodies.
	That's what the science shows.
	That's what the science shows.
	The governments don't agree.
	The governments don't agree, but it seems to be most, like outside in the UK, most times people seem to be, it seems to be the worst fact that if you had the virus.
	Anyway, this is in the United States, so these guys are making that point.
	Oh, okay, this is in the States.
	Not being accepted by Southwest Airlines, by the looks of it.
	So if we go to the next one here, I also love the Freedom Flu as an idea.
	We can see some of the striking.
	So this is some chap in his uniform, and he says this isn't about health, it's about control, and some science saying let's talk, except everything's crossed out, because they don't want to talk, do they?
	So he's outside the training center there.
	If we go to the next one, someone else who's claiming to be a pilot from Southwest Airlines.
	And if we scroll down to this one, you can see his sign.
	Right.
	No job.
	Why?
	Father of five.
	20 years, Navy vet.
	4,000 hours, Southwest Airlines.
	But he can go screw himself because he hasn't got the jab.
	There's also some trolling going on.
	I don't know if it's by the people using Southwest Airlines or by the staff.
	So if we go to the next one...
	Some footage came out of people waiting at some airport at the Southwest Airlines part, and someone was asking for no-man dates to come to the checkout.
	No-man dates, could you please come check out your bag?
	And I was like, oh, okay, great.
	They're referred to as person dates now.
	Yes.
	So if we go to the next one, we also have the pilots themselves having some good fun.
	So this is some plane, and they're hanging the Gadsden flag out of it.
	Don't tread on me, because it's our choice to make...
	Our decision about our health, not for the company to just mandate it upon us.
	That's their point.
	So if we go to the last one here, this is the last thing I found of the activism from the pilots, and in here a chap makes his argument, and he says it's not about being anti-vax, blah blah blah blah, in case the media are going to be so stupid as to insist on that.
	It is about we have the freedom of choice to make these decisions and it's up to us.
	It should not be up to the company to insist.
	Also, the points that there are no exemptions are absurdist because, of course, if you had it, then you are better protected than the vaccine itself, which seems reasonable to me.
	I mean, fits in with American ideals, all the rest of it.
	Would have thought this would be a pretty easy argument, but no, we don't live in that kind of America anymore.
	At least the Americans don't.
	So, we go to the opposition, so there's the left-wing view on this situation.
	Right.
	Which is, screw the workers who are taking strikes, which, very traditional leftism there, much leftism.
	Yeah, I mean, the left was based on, I mean, it was founded on forming unions and strikes and stuff like that.
	That was usually, that was old left mentality, pro-union, pro-workers' rights, pro-able to strike.
	Yeah.
	But not part of the new left.
	But the left is the new whatever it is.
	Yeah.
	So you can see here Occupy Democrats.
	So these are the guys who back here.
	See all the rest of it.
	Breaking.
	American and Southwest Airlines announced that they will ignore Republican Governor Greg Abbott's foolish ban on vaccine mandates and will continue to enforce them in deference to Biden's administration orders.
	Retweet if you support this decision.
	So this is Texas saying we're going to ban vaccine mandates because we don't believe in mandates.
	I mean, the governor there being a man who has taken the vaccine, again, this is why I can't get over it.
	I saw people being like, he got the vaccine and yet he banned mandates.
	Yes, those things are not contradictory.
	No, they're not.
	I mean, if you get the vaccine, I mean, I got vaccinated and I'm pro-vaccine, but at the same degree, there's got to be a point where you take responsibility into your own hands and you're looking after your own health.
	Even if it's contagious, then if you're vaccinated, then you're probably going to be protected to a large degree.
	There's also the pro-vaccine argument here.
	I remember we had the commentator Helen Dale down, and she is very knowledgeable on history and law and stuff.
	And she reminded us that the modern anti-vax movement as it exists is in response to vaccine mandates within England.
	Like the mandating of things is what makes people distrust them.
	So if you want to be pro-vax as well, you should be anti-mandate by definition to try and help people get on board, let's say.
	But anyway, so the Occupy Democrats don't give a toss about that.
	They don't give a toss about the fact that these guys are striking because of their rights, and instead they should go screw themselves and just get vaccinated.
	Or else.
	If we move on from this, we have the Palmer Report, who had an even funnier response.
	This is an attempt by the unvaccinated Southwest Airline employees at crippling US air travel is the latest reminder that it's a very short distance from anti-vaxxer to domestic terrorist.
	You know, I wonder if somebody who'll go back for the history books will blame 9-11 on the pilots being anti-vaxxed.
	Oh, God.
	I mean, they probably were being selfish.
	But these guys going on strike because they want their rights.
	They're basically terrorists trying to destroy the United States.
	Oh, the pilots.
	Yeah, the Southwest pilots themselves.
	I mean, they're closed in the cockpit anyway.
	Sorry?
	They're closed in the cockpit anyway.
	Well, I mean, if they wanted to be terrorists, they could just do it.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	Nobody's seen the pilots anyway.
	You can't get into the cockpit.
	You're safe.
	That's a good point.
	Yeah, let them spread their disease in the cockpit.
	They're fine.
	Are they going to spread it to themselves?
	Yeah, there's just two of them, right?
	Yeah.
	I mean, maybe the hostess goes in there to give them their lunch, but that's about it.
	Yeah, they're already wearing masks anyway.
	Yeah.
	Aren't masks supposed to stop the COVID? Meant to.
	Yeah.
	The vaccine totally stops it, even though the government says it doesn't.
	Yeah.
	It stops you dying from it, which is good, but not something that stops it.
	Not good enough, I guess.
	Yeah.
	But also, if you've had the thing, that's not good enough either, even though the data shows that's better.
	But whatever.
	What do I know?
	So if we go to the next one on this, we have the response from Southwest Airlines themselves, which is, Nothing is going on brother.
	Don't look.
	Nothing to see here.
	So ATC issues and disruptive weather have resulted in high volume of cancellations throughout the weekend while we work to recover our operation.
	So weather's the term for unvaccinated pilot?
	Yes.
	Right.
	The weather, bro.
	This reminds me of news out of United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia where there's been some prince killed somebody drinking and driving and then they blame it on a sandstorm.
	Yeah.
	Literally, the weather did this.
	Yeah.
	They were just like, the weather did this.
	No, prince did nothing.
	No, no.
	Prince was elsewhere.
	He was at home.
	Prince was fine.
	Drink?
	I don't think so.
	Anyway, yeah, so this is the defence from Southwest Airlines, which is, nothing is happening, we swear, and also was repeated by some representative who told various news outlets, agencies, that it was totally the weather.
	So if we go to the next one here, we have the artworks believing them, for some reason.
	So you have Newsweek here, Southwest Airlines cancellations not due to vaccine mandate walkout, says the pilots.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, that's good.
	You know, I like when the mainstream media goes, this just in, our fact checkers said this is true.
	And you know how we fact checked it?
	We called up the organization, who totally has no interest in finding what the truth is, and they told us one thing, so we're just going to print that.
	Yeah, our stockholders at Pfizer says this is awesome.
	Yeah, that's the level of journalism right there.
	Anyway, so they have a quote in here.
	Although we were staffed for the weekend, we could not anticipate the significant disruption that was created by unexpected air traffic control issues and bad weather across our Florida stations.
	Do you know what those airlines need to do?
	They need to get some Tesla planes because those could fly themselves.
	But they still start working on planes.
	Did they?
	I don't know.
	I'm asking.
	No, no, but maybe that's what they need to do then.
	I mean, probably.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Save a lot of money as well, but then you also wouldn't need the plebs, would you?
	No, you wouldn't.
	Yeah, so that's the executive vice president of daily flight operations who called up them and said, totally, it's the weather, it's the weather, nothing to see.
	Now, do we know what's going on?
	What about other, like, what's United doing America and all that?
	Oh, they're flying.
	But are they demanding the pilots be vaccinated, or...?
	They will be eventually, but what I find funny is that they're flying right now, and the weather's not stopping them.
	Right.
	The weather was stopping Southwest from flying.
	Yeah, yeah, for sure.
	Which totally makes sense.
	So we have the Daily Beast here.
	Well, the weather hates the anti-vaxxed.
	It specifically targets them.
	It does.
	No one else.
	Yeah.
	Same thing as COVID comes out at like 10.01 in some places.
	Yeah.
	Specifically hangs around the bars.
	Let's go, yeah.
	So you can see here the article from the Daily Beast, so another left wing outlet, there's just one slight problem, there's no evidence that actually exists, talking about the fact that there's a shortage of airline workers that is then causing the shortage of flights.
	And if we go to PolitiFact, PolitiFact also rated this false.
	Totally false.
	Not happening.
	It's got nothing to do with the people going on strike.
	This is why I can't get over it.
	All of them are just like, yeah, yeah, there's totally false.
	Why?
	Some guy from the company told us so.
	Do you not think he might have a vested interest in saying that the strike action isn't affecting his company?
	Please don't sell our stock if you could, bro.
	No, none of them.
	So we go to the next one here.
	We have the response from people just looking at the situation.
	So this is local news who just called up people flying for Southwest who were like, yeah, the idea that it's the weather doesn't make any damn sense.
	That's BS. I mean, also the fact that apparently air traffic control had a bunch of people walk out is claimed in here because they also tried to implement a vaccine mandate and the workers at air traffic control weren't going for it.
	But I'm not able to confirm or deny that.
	Sorry, if we go to the next one, we also have people who just looked up the weather map.
	So, get the next one up, John.
	Yeah, we go.
	That's the weather map there.
	And if you can take a look at it, that's the weather.
	Seems to be predominantly white with a smattering of green.
	Yes, so there's some rain, some places, and that's it.
	Oh, so that's just rain, yeah.
	Yeah, so it's just a bit of rain.
	Not real any wind that would stop you from flying.
	No thunderstorms.
	That kind of looks like a big swarm of the COVID virus.
	Yeah.
	No hurricanes, anything like that.
	Yeah, no tornadoes, no hurricanes.
	Florida to Dallas or whatever flights.
	Not happening.
	Just not the case.
	No locusts, no.
	No.
	And also, this weather, which we can't see on the weather map, is also only specifically targeting Southwest Airlines flights and no other flights.
	So presumably you have to work at Southwest Airlines to see the weather on this map.
	Right.
	It's like that movie where you put in the glasses and you see what's really behind the messaging.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	The one with Ferrari Roddy Piper.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	So if we continue on this, I love some of the memes that came out of this.
	So we have this.
	Disrupted weather, localized entirely in the Southwest Airlines flight path.
	Right.
	Yes.
	Of course.
	So the Southwest chaps eventually had to admit that, yeah, okay, maybe we're lying.
	Maybe this is a pretty ridiculous thing for us to try and claim.
	So you had the CEO going on, I think this was Fox News, sorry, CNBC, and says he's against the vaccine mandates, so he didn't want to do this.
	Oh.
	But defers to Biden's federal mandate.
	Which is not actually exist.
	And the reason Poso is saying it doesn't actually exist is not because Biden didn't do it, it's because Biden's executive order only applies to federal employees.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Yeah, because it's, I mean, states or corporations, they have their own...
	Southwest Airlines doesn't work for the US government.
	So the idea that this is actually Biden's fault, eh, you could argue maybe culturally in the fact that he tried to push it, but de facto, no.
	No, it is not.
	It is entirely this chap's fault if his employees walk out in response to his policies.
	Yeah, so he's just dodging a weave in right here.
	Yeah, so as Jack says, if you scroll down this one, Biden's executive order affects federal employees slash federal contractors only.
	Not all companies over 100, as he keeps liking to talk about, because he doesn't have that power, because that would be unconstitutional.
	And therefore, the Southwest guys here are just spinning us a yarn, let's say.
	Yeah, yeah, he's just trying to hold the stock from collapsing.
	Yeah, he wants to run.
	Anyway, if we go to the next one on this, we can also see the flights getting delayed, and as was noticed in this clip as well, only that weather seemed to affect Southwest Airlines flights.
	Everyone else was able to carry on, but a certain number of them had to stop because of the weather.
	Again, I mean, I just can't get over the bald-faced lie, which would be like, yeah, the weather did this.
	As if no one has access to weather reports.
	They're like the select few in society who can only access what the weather looks like.
	It's not on the news literally every day.
	Yeah, it's pretty obvious to know that.
	Just go to the weather on your phone, you'll find out what's going on.
	So yeah, delayed 10 hours.
	That's kind of standard in Canada anyway.
	No, is it?
	Yeah.
	It's just delayed there.
	Just got to deal with it.
	If a plane takes off on time, you know there's something going wrong.
	Terrorists have hijacked it.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Right, okay.
	The terrorists are punctual.
	The German terrorists, we will take off on time.
	Anyway, if we go to the next one, we have more memes from this, so you can see the Let's Go Brandon rebranding, stuff what Stalin's probably going for.
	Do you know about this meme?
	No, I don't.
	So there was, I think it was some NASCAR racer was being interviewed by someone for NASCAR news or whatever, and she's interviewing him, and the crowd are in the back, and they're all chanting F Joe Biden, and she doesn't want that on the news, presumably?
	So she went, yeah, they're chanting Let's Go Brandon, am I right?
	Ha ha ha!
	So now Let's Go Brandon has become shorthand for F Joe Biden.
	That's funny.
	They're here to tell me to go Brandon.
	When we move on from this, we have 4chan got in on the fun.
	And you know when 4chan gets in on the fun, it's going to get interesting.
	So Southwest Airlines apparently has some kind of forums where you can post about...
	Oh, there's forums for everything, yeah.
	But like, why?
	I mean, who goes online to join some community of posters about an airline flight?
	Why do people review corner stores on Yelp?
	People have got a lot of time.
	I just can't think of anything more boring to do.
	As you can see, 146,000 members on Southwest Airlines community posts.
	That's insane.
	Who is wasting their time with this?
	But anyway, so...
	Apparently not enough because 4chan was able to hijack it and you can see a bunch of the headlines there of people just, let's say, posting memes or trying to hijack the situation.
	Gets a bit small if you open it all up.
	But we're going to go through one because I thought it was really funny that I saw posted.
	So if we go to the next one, we have 4chan Greentex who likes to post some of the more funny stuff on 4chan.
	And there's a story here from one of the people posting.
	It must be a joke, I swear, but I can half imagine a boomer writing this.
	So they write...
	What the bleep is wrong with this place?
	I've been visiting Southwest Airlines for a week now, and so far I have had had my life threatened by someone claiming to be an ex-Navy SEAL, been told multiple paragraphs that I will never have ovaries or be a woman, I've also been called rabbi more times than I can count.
	I don't know if you get the ex-Navy SEAL one.
	You know the Navy SEAL copy paste?
	It's like, what the F did you effing say to me, kid?
	I'm an ex-Navy SEAL, I've got 400 confirmed kills.
	Oh, yeah, I think I saw that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So, just referencing memes.
	Nice.
	They continue, every time I try to get a genuine response from any of you people when I address what I have been told, I'm either called the N-word or the K-word, and I'm told to dilate, glow, or kill myself.
	Can we please just have a normal discussion where we can talk about flights without racist slurs and weird terminology?
	What the hell is Sneed, anyway?
	I just don't know.
	I know almost certainly it's going to be someone just fake posting, but I love the idea of a boomer having to deal with the autistic nonsense that is 4channers, and then being like, I don't understand what's going on.
	Why have my lovely Southwest Airlines forums been overrun by people just...
	Let's say hardcore memeing right there.
	Anyway, the Biden administration did respond to the whole situation in the end, which is to say that they stand with the glory of the company because they are doing the glorious thing of trying to get rid of their own pilots.
	No, there's a little hubbub.
	I love that word.
	Anyway, so this is press secretary...
	How do you say her name?
	Paxi?
	Paxi?
	I don't know how it's spelled, yeah.
	I always get it wrong.
	The red-headed lunatic...
	So she says the vaccine mandates are good for the economy.
	Quote, Presumably she's referencing the weather.
	Yeah, yeah, of course.
	The weather that isn't there?
	Yeah.
	She's also the press secretary for Kim Jong-un as well, right?
	Yeah.
	You know, she actually does have a similar dress sense to her.
	She does, yeah.
	She's got that very sort of communist kind of red attire there.
	That little, like, whatever she's wearing there.
	Yeah, I think she borrowed that of Hillary Clinton.
	God, it always looks terrible, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	High bright colours.
	Anyway, so that's the Biden administration response, which is that nothing to see here, bro.
	She kind of looks like the girl from Wendy's as she grew up.
	I actually know the girl.
	Did you mean the girl from the fast food store?
	Yeah.
	Oh, you don't have that here, do you?
	No, we don't have that.
	No, you don't.
	Do you have that in Canada?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, we got Wendy's.
	I must say, we do have like one Wendy's.
	I think it's in Reading or something.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	If you go to London on the way back, you should stop over Reading and get yourself some Wendy's.
	Yeah.
	Try it out.
	So you'll tell me if it's any good.
	Yeah.
	So if we go forward on this, there's some other responses that I had to include because I thought they were funny.
	So you can see Sinovich here being, what's the word for a system of government whereby corporations and the regime act as one unit, even go so far to share each other's propaganda, in this case, that the weather is totally stopping Southwest Airlines from flying and not the worker striking.
	Right.
	You also have, of course, the collusion between them and Facebook on striking down content they don't like, which is also unconstitutional, but...
	Yeah, which is constant.
	Who cares about that anymore?
	Anyway, so if we go to the next one, we have some more stuff here.
	So, Jeff Sobiak, as he says, there's way more to the Southwest thing, other airlines are joining in, and the point being that, well, it takes years to train pilots, and plus time under an experienced pilot to learn how to actually fly the bloody thing, so you can't just replace them.
	So if this expands, it's only going to get worse and worse because you can't just throw in new guys to fly the planes.
	Not going to happen.
	So we go to the next one here.
	As you mentioned, this is obviously expanding and you have Boeing requiring its 125,000 workers in the United States to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8th.
	So that's the deadline, which I assume is going to go swimmingly.
	I'm sure if you've got a flight that's booked from December 8th onwards, you're totally secure that the flight is going to go fine and totally not be distracted by the weather.
	Yeah, no major delays there.
	Didn't the RAF, didn't they need more pilots in that at one point?
	They had more planes than pilots.
	Imagine they only took vaccinated pilots to fight the Nazis.
	Yeah, I think they have mandated here as well for pilots.
	Churchill mandated the vaccinated.
	If you can't do that, you can't fight in the war.
	Yeah.
	Last story to mention here on this topic was just something I found which I can't actually go into detail on.
	So this is breaking New York judge grants injunction against vaccine mandate for healthcare workers on religious grounds.
	John, do not scroll down because what is below this we can't show on YouTube.
	Nor can we show the reasons given for why the judge said this after listening to the plaintiff's arguments because of YouTube's editorial guidelines.
	But there we are.
	That's another instinct, sorry, an incident of where vaccine mandates are at least being fought back on.
	Oh, wow.
	So can I just like say, I don't want to get vaccinated while I'm agnostic?
	I think you have to be a religious person.
	Okay, so can I just get...
	Yeah, because it has to do with...
	Can I get baptized and then I don't need to get vaccinated?
	Yes, that's the way around it.
	Okay, great.
	At least in the state of New York.
	So just jump in the water and I don't need to inject myself.
	Yes.
	Okay, cool.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, that's all that.
	I love the Strikers.
	All glory to them.
	It's their choice.
	Now, which god protects you the most from COVID? Oh god, that's a question, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	To be honest, I don't think there are any vaccine mandates anywhere in the Islamic world, so maybe Allah.
	That's one thing, the Taliban, they're being anti-vaxxed.
	They're extremely anti-vaxxed.
	Yeah, but they take it seriously because they make all their women wear masks.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	Gotta fight the virus somehow.
	Yeah.
	So anyways, I look forward to you taking the Shahada on the flight back home.
	Yeah, exactly.
	72 Virgin Airlines.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, should we move on?
	Yeah, let's move on.
	I see John's writing a note.
	You should probably introduce yourself again because of the YouTube clip.
	Oh, yes.
	Yes, my name is Byron Bertram.
	I'm a comedian and actor from Canada, and I'm over here in the UK. I love it here because Canadian travelers to the United Kingdom are not required to quarantine starting Monday.
	This article's from just over a month ago, but...
	I've decided to bring this up.
	That's kind of the reason I'm here.
	So is this like one of the few countries you can still visit from Canada?
	Kind of.
	It seems much freer here.
	It's on the green list.
	I've been vaccinated.
	I had to take a test before I left, and I had to take another test here.
	And you've got to pay for it.
	So that's another thing about COVID where it's just like, do we take this seriously?
	It also seems to be a bit of a shakedown too.
	And then they're giving you options of the COVID test too.
	They're like, if you want the premium COVID test, it's $250.
	And if you want, it's like, I don't care how the quality of the test, just let me in.
	Can you pay to get positive or negative results?
	Because I mean, that would be useful.
	That would be useful, wouldn't it?
	Yeah, so no, I guess I don't know if you could do that.
	You have to pay a lot more for that, I guess.
	But the reason I'm here is COVID in Canada, it's still, I'm a comedian and there's so many shows that are still being canceled or partial capacity or...
	You know, the mask mandates.
	We have the COVID passport in Canada.
	You don't have that here.
	The COVID passport is...
	It's kind of crazy.
	Yeah.
	I can't believe that's happening in a, let's say, Anglo country.
	Like, I half expect it to be happening in France, because the French.
	But to be happening in a country that's part of the Commonwealth, you know, essentially assist a country to ours.
	Yeah, it's strange where you just, like, you know, you need to show your ID and your...
	Passport to go to a restaurant or a movie theater.
	What happens if you don't?
	Well, then you can't get in.
	There's just no food for you.
	Get lost.
	Pretty much.
	Well, you could go to the grocery store.
	You could go to food courts and stuff like that, apparently.
	You could still go get the soup kitchen.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So the virus can't be spread in a food court.
	But it can be spread in Denny's.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Oh, you don't have Denny's over here.
	But it can be spread in any sit-down restaurant, apparently.
	But it's so random, just the mask mandates, too.
	Where you need to wear a mask.
	Unless you're eating, then you don't need to wear a mask because the virus has table manners.
	Waits for you to take your sips.
	Yeah, and then a lot of times at 10 o'clock, you know, like last call's at 10 because COVID comes out at 10 of 1 with a hockey stick and an attitude.
	I don't know if you saw the solutions people had for that, because on the trains here, there was a period in which they were like, yes, you must wear your mask on the train, unless you're eating or drinking.
	Yeah.
	So then people were like, okay, can of Pringles, and then just for the entire train journey, just one.
	Yeah, perfect.
	Very slowly eat the thing.
	Oh, totally.
	Or just very slowly take sips from the water.
	Just nursing your water.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	One solution.
	It was like that in film sets, too.
	It's like that in film sets in Canada, as well.
	So they'll be like, quiet on set, wear your mask, wear your mask, and then you had to put a visor on, too.
	When you're around more people, then take off the visor, okay, and cameras will only take off the mask.
	It'll be like, because the virus respects quiet on set in Canada.
	I also love the idea that you're going to have little red marks everywhere whilst you're trying to film.
	Yeah.
	Like people wearing it tight and whatnot.
	It's the equivalent of filming a pornography and it's like, wear a condom, all right, camera's on, okay, take the condom off.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	It isn't loggy.
	Yeah, so it's very bizarre.
	There was a brief period in time in Canada where I was on set, and for seven weeks, the mask mandate was gone.
	For seven weeks, from July 1st till near the end of August.
	Like, almost the whole summer, we got away from just raw facing it.
	It was glorious.
	And then I was on set, and there was like, cast and crew don't need to wear masks.
	But if you're background, you need to wear a mask, because apparently the virus respects a class system.
	Yeah.
	The plebs have to wear it, but the on-screen don't.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, we saw this at the Met Gala as well.
	I'm sure you saw that, with AOC not having to wear it, but the person behind her picking up a tail or whatever.
	Yeah.
	The plebs, literally, had to wear the gown masks, or any of the Democratic lunches they keep having.
	Yeah, so the reason I'm over here too is like I'm in full capacity shows, full capacity everything, and I'm like, oh my god, this does feel as normal as life has been before COVID. To me, I feel like this is kind of a bit of an oasis right now.
	So I'm kind of a COVID Canadian refugee at the moment.
	A little bit, for a bit anyway.
	Well, I mean, you're more legitimate than most of them that we get at the Port of Dover, so.
	Right.
	Yeah, so it feels like an oasis here.
	Yeah, my country's, it's still in the COVID-loving land.
	It's ridiculous.
	Is this mostly to do with Trudeau?
	Trudeau's been a real just, yeah, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine.
	Yeah, he's very basically, get the vaccine or you're racist.
	Did you vote?
	Yeah, I did vote, yeah.
	Do you mind if I ask how you vote?
	I voted, I put a check.
	I didn't do a cross.
	Because I don't understand why Canadians like Trudeau.
	You know what?
	Basically, it represents our nation very much.
	It's very surfacy.
	It's a very passive-aggressive country where we're just like – there's a sliding of a nice smile on our face.
	We pretend to be nice, but it's really – we're just kind of passive-aggressive.
	We're just like, we should totally go mountain climbing together.
	I'll never talk to you again.
	It sounds like the British.
	Well, we're a British influence.
	We do come from you guys.
	The Americans don't understand that.
	Yeah, but Trudeau, he's all service.
	He'll say like he's going to give the indigenous people drinking water.
	He never does.
	He says, you know, he just racked up so much debt.
	There's been sexual allegations against him too.
	Maybe multiple blackface.
	Multiple blackface incidences, you know, go on about racism.
	Then another picture comes up with more blackface too.
	I mean, I love the quote from him.
	I mean, Carl mentioned it, which is Trudeau's response to being caught with blackface was, I can't remember how many times I've worn blackface.
	Yeah.
	Do you remember how many times you've worn blackface?
	Yeah.
	No, I mean, it's not intentionally.
	Yeah.
	It's like, yeah, Trudeau, most of us, it's zero.
	Yeah.
	We can pin that number for you.
	What?
	We did the Harry Belafonte one.
	There's the Arabian Nights party.
	And the best one was he was like river rafting.
	And then he's just like, I don't know why that one he had to paint his face black to go river rafting.
	That was the best one.
	I don't actually remember that one.
	Yeah, that was the weirdest one where he's just sticking his tongue out and he's all blacked up so he could go river rafting.
	Oh God, is that the one where there's like footage of him?
	Yeah.
	Mendo says that one.
	The other one's like, all right, kind of a costume party theme, culturally insensitive.
	But then that one, just like that makes no sense.
	It'd be like, oh, I need to just, like, slant my eyes back because I'm going swimming.
	Anyway, I expected that to be the end of his political career, but, I mean, not that, I guess.
	No, he survived because he's got nice hair and he's too handsome and gay men and women love him.
	That's pretty much it.
	And he gave us all $2,000 for a month.
	So I even have friends who are like, yeah, he gave me $2,000 for a month.
	So Daddy Trudeau's paying my bills.
	Seriously?
	Yeah, because of COVID. Two grand.
	Two grand, yeah, two grand.
	For about six months, then it went down $1,800.
	Wait, two grand a month for six months?
	Yeah, about that.
	About eight months?
	Yeah, but it was two grand.
	What did you have to do to get this money?
	Just tell them you're broke.
	Did you get the money?
	Yeah, I did.
	I mean, I'm an entertainer.
	I wasn't able to perform.
	But you'd also be a moron not to.
	Yeah.
	Like...
	Yeah, I mean, yeah.
	But I mean, it's...
	So, but because of the COVID restrictions.
	So, I mean, he did kind of buy a lot of people's...
	Buy a lot of people's odds.
	Fantastic.
	But yeah, he's pretty nauseating.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he's not my favorite.
	Call him President Pool Boy.
	Used to be a drama teacher.
	Used to teach skiing.
	Snowboarding instructor.
	But yeah, he's just kind of like one of these creepy male feminists who just, like, hit on your girlfriend as soon as you're...
	You know, try to get your girlfriend drunk as soon as you go to the washroom.
	He's a rapist.
	Yeah.
	I feel like male feminist has that connotation.
	Yeah, it does.
	I'm an ally.
	Yeah, whatever.
	You can't be left alone with women.
	No, exactly.
	Yeah, I don't trust him, but...
	Yeah, so he barely won, but he's got a minority government, so we'll see what happens.
	Yeah.
	So, but it's, yeah, so, I mean, that's another reason, too.
	He loves keeping the COVID thing going.
	He loves keeping just, there's mandates for kids.
	You gotta be like, gotta wear a mask from five to like, I feel bad for the school kids.
	You're like, from ages five to like 12, you need to wear a mask.
	And it's, yeah, it's just, it's bananas, and I don't know when it's gonna end.
	Do you feel like you're going to end up staying here if it just keeps getting worse?
	Well, I'll stay here for a bit.
	I'm going to go back sometime around December in that, but I'll stay here for a little bit.
	This is a good time to get out of there for a while, but it's such an uncertain time.
	You never know what's going to happen, what's around the corner.
	Hopefully restrictions will ease more, but man, it's great to be out of my country.
	I don't blame you.
	I mean, if I had a vaccine passport here, I wouldn't feel comfortable being here either.
	Yeah.
	I feel bad.
	You know what sucks about the vaccine passport, too?
	Because, like, they don't even...
	Similar to Southwest Airlines, where, like, if you had the virus, they should just be like, all right, well, you got the antibodies.
	You could show that you had the virus.
	So if you're not vaccinated, that's fine.
	We recommend you get vaccinated, sure.
	But if you already had the antibodies, then, you know, you should be able to get on your life, like, vaccinate people, too.
	Right.
	I have a friend, he got COVID, and then apparently the doctor advised him not to get vaccinated because apparently they said he might have complications with his heart.
	So then now he can't go to a restaurant because the doctor advised him not to get vaccinated.
	Like, how ridiculous is this?
	That's just, that's effed up.
	Like, that's actually segregation.
	Yeah.
	I mean, what's he meant to do?
	Nothing, I guess.
	Because like, oh, we don't have that policy in place.
	Sorry.
	We don't have the policy to accept you.
	You can't go to a game.
	You can't go to a movie.
	You can't do anything.
	Because you haven't been vaccinated.
	Even though doctors advise you not to.
	Or another guy I know who's got a potential allergic reaction to the vaccine.
	Potentially.
	So he's not getting it.
	And then it's like, alright, he can't go to a sporting event.
	Can't go to a movie.
	Can't go to a restaurant.
	It's like, this is crazy.
	But it's inhuman.
	Yeah, it's inhuman.
	There's no even exceptionary clauses.
	It seems like here you had that exceptionary clause, right?
	There's at least some lip service paid to the idea that, yeah, there are exceptions.
	But in Canada, it's like, no, it's none.
	And I'm vaccinated, and I'm like, I got my vaccine passport.
	I don't like it.
	It's weird.
	I feel like I'm dual citizen of Canada and COVID. It's like a PR card for polio.
	Yeah.
	It's ridiculous.
	But you got to show this to get in.
	And it's, you know, if this truly is needed to fight the virus, okay.
	But, you know, people say, just trust the government, trust the science.
	And I'm like, can you trust the government?
	This is the same people that put Japanese people in tournament camps and what we did to our indigenous population.
	Like, you can't really trust the government.
	Who knows what's going to happen?
	Who knows what's around the corner?
	But let's kind of hope for the best.
	Until then, staying here?
	Until then, I'm staying here for a bit, yeah.
	Alrighty.
	Yeah.
	Oh, what's that?
	I didn't say anything.
	Oh, sorry.
	I don't know if you wanted to end it there.
	Oh, no.
	Here, we can move into this, I guess.
	Sure.
	Yeah.
	Or you guys are going to be cutting in between a bit and all this stuff?
	It's up to you.
	Oh, okay, sure.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, so yeah, so now the U.S. has its day.
	They're going to lift.
	Apparently, we're allowed to go to the States now.
	We were able to fly there, but now we're able to drive there.
	So the land border was closed.
	The land border was closed since COVID started.
	But now it's open, apparently, if you're vaccinated.
	Before, if you fly to the States, if you're vaccinated, you would have to quarantine for a little bit.
	But now they're letting you drive there because apparently from last number of months, COVID couldn't be spread by air to the States, but it could be spread by land.
	So it's basically just a restriction on the rich.
	Sorry, on the poor.
	Yeah.
	So if you can afford to fly, go ahead.
	No problem.
	But now, if you're just driving across or walking across.
	Yeah.
	Like, aren't there some Canadian-American towns that literally, like, border each other?
	Yeah, yeah.
	As in, halfway through the town?
	Completely, yeah.
	Like, Windsor and Detroit, and there's a lot of these cross-border towns.
	So what's happening there?
	I guess now they're finally starting to talk about lifting that restriction, which is great.
	But it's just amazing how long that went on for.
	The border closure.
	The land border closure.
	To fly, they're fine.
	Fly, yes.
	Drive, no.
	Makes perfect sense.
	Yeah, it just doesn't really make any sense at all.
	A lot of these rules are kind of all over the place, and I'm not really sure.
	And this is what confuses me about the UK. Here you're getting like 30-something thousand cases a day.
	And everything seems to be, you know, hospitalizations manageable.
	And it's like, all right, Canada, let's just say it's just over half the population of the UK. We're getting at 2,000 to 3,000 cases a day.
	So a tenth of yours, but we're half the population.
	Yet we have way more restrictions.
	It's not about health.
	So I don't know how, you know, they're justifying that.
	And if you ask questions, it's just like, I would just shut up and listen to the science.
	I trust science.
	I mean, the way you talk about it, it makes it sound like Canada's essentially become the new Sweden.
	Yeah, we're just basically like, get the vaccine or you're racist.
	Yeah.
	How's that work?
	Shut up.
	You don't trust science.
	Half my Facebook feed is just shut up and trust science.
	And I'm vaccinated.
	I mean, I'm taking a...
	I'm so far so good.
	I'm not anti-vax at all.
	I feel fine.
	But it's very...
	There's weird...
	I mean, there's questions that I'm certainly not getting answers for.
	I see John mentioning there that Sweden's also the only country that seems to have decided that let's just not do restrictions, at least on the mandates and all the rest of it, and their cases are going down.
	You know what's so funny?
	Before, everybody's talking about Sweden, Sweden, Sweden.
	Nobody's talking about Sweden at all anymore.
	No.
	You know, just immediately, yeah, Sweden, shh, shut up about Sweden.
	Do you know about Denmark as well?
	Denmark, they, so they had the passport, they dropped it, same with Russia.
	Yeah, Denmark just said, now screw it.
	But I love now, they literally have no restrictions, like we have a Danish girl who sends in like video comments, who's just like, yeah, no restrictions, sucks to be you, and then just like walks off and gets drunk.
	Bastard.
	Yeah, just enjoy your pastries and your Carlsberg and get on with life, right?
	Beer and porn is what I usually think of for Denmark.
	Yeah, right.
	Oh, they got a thriving porn scene?
	I don't know.
	Seems so.
	The Viking porn industry?
	It's usually just a joke about them, but...
	Yeah, right.
	No idea.
	I've never actually been to Denmark.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	Especially now.
	No restrictions.
	But yeah, I guess Mexico as well.
	Mexico seemed to be the place that a lot of Canadians I knew.
	They were just like, I don't want to get vaccinated.
	I don't want to deal with restrictions.
	They flew to Mexico.
	Mexico said, yeah, come on in.
	We don't care.
	I got a friend there.
	He's just like basically in some hippie...
	Hippie escape camp, and he's just been there for almost a year now.
	Okay.
	Mexico just seems to be the place where anybody who's not wanting to get vaccinated just seems to just take off to.
	A land of freedom and drugs.
	Yeah.
	Mexico is just hanging out with the cartel and get some sun.
	I can't believe they're anti-vax.
	Yeah.
	The cartels.
	That's the worst thing about them, I swear.
	Yeah.
	Now, the weird thing is, I don't know what it's like here, but if you're anti-vax for some reason, you seem to need to get into cryptocurrency.
	Yeah.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	Everybody I know who doesn't get vaccinated just loves cryptocurrency.
	Okay.
	Maybe I should.
	Yeah, I'm one of the few people who's vaccinated who got some crypto.
	What do you recommend?
	Yeah, don't throw everything into it.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, I guess we should move on to Dave Chappelle.
	Sorry, I think you have some opinions on this.
	So, Dave Chappelle has won the trans war.
	So, you may remember Dave Chappelle got in a big hub-hub with the trans lobby because he told a joke with one of his specials in which he said that everyone in this room has come through the legs of a woman.
	How dare he?
	That's the bad part.
	And then the joke part being that he went on to say that I'm not saying it's not the P-word, but it's like, I can't believe it's not P-word, or so on and so forth.
	It's like, I think...
	And Sticks and Stones' last special, yeah.
	Yeah, I think Carl referred it to...
	I still can't believe they actually call it this, but apparently the trans lobby do actually call them neofaginas.
	As in, like, neofaginas, but...
	Right.
	Vagina 2.0.
	I thought they were mocking themselves, but whatever.
	So Dave Chappelle did that, and in response, the media is very mad, of course.
	Oh yeah, of course, yeah.
	So we have Pink News here.
	Very, very mad.
	So you can see the headline, Trans Comedians Explain Why Dave Chappelle's Netflix Special is So Infuriating and Degrading.
	Don't care.
	Like, literally all he said was that everyone comes through the legs of a woman.
	So did they.
	And they know it.
	And...
	That's always going to be the case.
	Or the stomach, I guess, if you cut it open, right?
	Yeah, that's also a fair point, let's say.
	But it's not going to come on the stomach of a man.
	No.
	That's not where babies come from.
	I don't know why.
	I thought it was a stork with the handkerchief.
	Presumably that's what the trans lobby believe.
	Right.
	So if we go on, there's some interesting stuff out of this.
	There was a salty employee who got very mad about this, so you can see this, this person named Jacqueline.
	So I told the story of my transition for Netflix and at most Pride Week.
	It's a network that's been my home on dear white people.
	I've loved working there.
	Oh, fantastic.
	The kind of person who spends her entire life just being a SJW and writing for SJW. Yeah, yeah.
	What do you do for a living?
	Angry.
	Yes.
	I write a show called Dear White People.
	I'm sure you're saying.
	I will not work with them as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content.
	Dangerously?
	Dangerous.
	Dave Chappelle and his jokes.
	Yeah, I mean, I saw Dave Chappelle.
	At not one point did he say you should treat a trans person with disrespect at all.
	He talked about at the end, I don't know if you've seen the special...
	I saw that in there he even mentioned I'm not anti-trans.
	Yeah, I saw at the end he had a very powerful, I don't know if I could give a spoiler, but at the end he talked about basically a trans person that opened for him.
	And was a friend of his and stood up for him and they bullied this trans person into killing themselves.
	So this is like the woke eating themselves.
	This is like the – this is the true cannibalism of the left.
	It's like the French Revolution of Pierre Robes.
	Nothing adheres to the standard of excellence that we're looking for here with this woke mob mentality.
	Nor will I ever achieve excellence.
	I mean nobody is ever going to be good enough.
	Anyway, so I thought we'd just...
	Just in case you weren't convinced that this person was mad, let's just read their bio, because that's always interesting, isn't it?
	So verify checkmark, because of course.
	Writer, showrunner, dear white people, queer as folk.
	Fantastic.
	Used to write about politics at GQ. Used to be a sex worker.
	Imagine my shock.
	Bisexual, tall girl, she, her, trans flag.
	I always love how they just list the kind of things.
	Imagine if someone came up to you and spoke to you like that.
	Seems on point, yeah.
	What do you do for a living?
	And they just list all that in front of you.
	It just gets absurdist.
	Yeah.
	Like, have you ever seen, I think it was, like, Labor Pie Conference and some stuff.
	They'll actually stand there and be like, yes, so my name's Tracy Michaels or whatever.
	She, her.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	Like, that is internet stuff.
	Keep it away from real life.
	It's not human to talk like that.
	But, anyway.
	What is, I mean, it is, when people make this, like, you know, social justice their whole identity, you know, before it's like, what do you do for a living?
	I hate Trump.
	Do you have any hobbies?
	Not racist.
	You're like, okay, great.
	The point is Douglas Murray makes the difference between being gay and being queer for him.
	So I don't know if you know Douglas Murray, but he's a gay conservative.
	And he defines being gay as being attracted to someone of the same sex.
	Right.
	Big shock.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And that's just part of their lives, and then lives his life doing all the rest of his stuff.
	And then there are the queers, and then Douglas just writes like three paragraphs of why he can't stand queer people.
	Right.
	That's the type of people who make being homosexual or whatever the entirety of their identity, and therefore you can't talk to them about anything else, can you?
	Right.
	Because they spend all their time raging against the white supremacists, heteronormative patriarchy of the West, or whatever the hell else.
	Anyway, so this is one of those people.
	I would have it a guess.
	Yeah, of course.
	I mean, it's just one of those I could just tell, like, it doesn't matter, not if, just when I'm going to say something to offend them.
	Yes.
	You know, I talk about gluten the wrong way, and they're just going to blow up.
	So they had that experience with Dave Chappelle, daring to say a thing.
	So if we go forward from this, we can see more media who are very mad.
	So MSNBC, Dave Chappelle finds that mocking transgender people can revive a career.
	Oh, MSNBC, of course.
	All he does is mock transgender people.
	Just mocks them.
	Ruthlessly.
	Revive a career.
	Presumably he does it in his spare time as well.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, I mean, he was famous for a long time.
	I don't know how he was revived just by that.
	He was a nobody, and then all of a sudden he released this special on Netflix.
	Yeah, then he basically just recited, just got this sort of hate speech going, and boom.
	They have a quote in here, which I find telling as well, of course.
	So they say, Dave Chappelle represents a segment of society, along with white supremacists, hoteps, incels, and others, that is anxious about a waning power of sitch heteronormativity and patriarchy.
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	You know the ideology's talking when you have to listen to that kind of dribble?
	Yeah, I mean, if there's one thing I know about Chappelle is he's quite the white supremacist.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	I think he's the black face of white supremacy, like Larry Elder, according to the Los Angeles Times.
	I like how, I mean, the fact that Chappelle stood up for J.K. Rowling, that's...
	That's terrible.
	We need to stand up for an author of some children's books.
	Maybe we should be bullying someone just because they don't agree with us.
	Yeah.
	So we move on from this.
	We have other outlets who are also very mad.
	So we have GQ as that person.
	Oh, GQ, Matt?
	Yeah, GQ's also mad.
	So remember that person said they used to write for GQ? Well, then we have the title in here from GQ, Dave Chappelle's Betrayal.
	I've been betrayed by Chappelle!
	As if, I don't know, you own him?
	I used to be a fan, but not anymore.
	It breaks my heart.
	Yeah, I don't think he cares.
	Which fixates on gay and trans people.
	Feels like a stab in the back.
	It's comedy, and he's talking about his point of view.
	But also, like, he owes this random person.
	Yeah, like I was just like, you owe me, I can't believe you betrayed me, a person who doesn't know you, with these jokes you wrote.
	Don't you know I write for GQ? Yeah, don't you know I wrote for this periodical and you hurt my feelings?
	Yes, that's why I did it.
	Unbelievable.
	That should be the response.
	Anyway, so move on from this.
	There's also more of this, of course.
	So I love this response.
	We go to the next one.
	I'm not asking comedians to stop telling trans jokes.
	I'm asking them to stop telling the same trans jokes over and over.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, and they'll stop telling it when it stops being funny.
	Well, I mean, I don't know.
	It wasn't the same trans joke.
	It was a different material.
	Well, their argument in here is that basically every person who makes jokes about trans people is that their joke is, ha-ha, not a real woman.
	And, um, yes...
	That's that?
	I mean, literally, that's why it's funny as well, is because you people react like this.
	Well, I mean, like, biologically, you're born a man.
	I mean, if you identify as a woman, you should be treated with respect and just treat everybody with equal respect.
	But if you're going to say that you can give birth or, you know, you can have your period as a trans person, I mean, it's just biologically that's...
	You've lost your mind.
	You're not living in reality.
	Yeah, so for you to say that, and if you say that, that's hate speech.
	It's kind of like, well, the emperor's got no clothes.
	It's just like, come on.
	I mean, he was basically...
	I mean, I feel this cancel culture and political correctness has gone so far that he's finally being sort of a pioneer in a big, meaningful way of pushing back and going like, hey, there's bullies of all different people, and this has become a real bully, witch hunt kind of thing.
	If you don't believe what I believe, we're going to ruin you.
	I mean, that's exactly what we're looking at here.
	So all of these articles here and these people trying to gin up support for cancelling Dave Chappelle is exactly this emotion, which is that he said a thing they deem heresy, therefore let's do the old trick of just cancelling him.
	And it doesn't work.
	Yeah, I love this.
	It always looks like...
	This reminds me of just an emotionally manipulative ex-girlfriend type.
	It's like, it just broke my heart.
	It just broke my heart.
	You betrayed me.
	Betrayed me by what?
	By going to...
	By going to this restaurant instead of that restaurant.
	Or just something random.
	You betrayed me.
	It's like, okay, but just the randomness of you owed me something.
	So we were on this.
	We'll go to the next one.
	We have some more stuff out of this.
	So this is someone being very mad.
	That looks like Trudeau on the left.
	Yeah, I think that's the person in question.
	Yeah.
	I don't know what to say, so I'm just going to keep calling them the person because what else am I meant to do?
	So there's a quote in here which I found funny.
	So they continue to say that I worked for Netflix for so long.
	I have so many people I worked with at Netflix, brilliant people and executives who have been collaborative and fought for important art, but I've been thrown against the walls because I'm not a real woman.
	I've had beer bottles thrown at me, so Netflix, I'm done.
	And then this person quit.
	Did somebody actually throw beer bottles at that person?
	That steel man the position and say this is all true and there's totally not any exaggeration?
	Sure, why not?
	You know, this could happen.
	What's it got to do with Dave Chappelle?
	Yeah, right.
	This is his fault, is it?
	Because in your past, someone who'd never watched J.C. Chappelle heard...
	Threw a beer bottle at you.
	Well, just assume it's because you're trans.
	And therefore, Dave Chappelle shouldn't be able to say that people come between...
	with people's legs.
	Yeah, yeah, you know, that's completely just like...
	My ex-boyfriend was abusive, therefore...
	You know, if you don't text me back within 30 seconds, that's abuse.
	Come on.
	There is the most based of base takes, so we go to the next one here.
	We have the New York Post reporting.
	Damon Wayans says Dave Chappelle freed the slaves with Netflix specials.
	Yeah, that's funny.
	He freed the slaves.
	And by that, apparently he means the comedians, right?
	Yeah, so the quote from him, I feel like Dave freed the slaves, yeah, the comedians, a masked Wayne61 told TMZ while heading to catch his flight at LAX. We were slaves to PC culture, and he just, you know, as an artist, he's Van Gogh, he cut his ear off.
	He's trying to tell us it's okay.
	So, basically, you don't have to be tyrannized by the trans lobby who insists that if you dare disgender them, your career's dead.
	No.
	Instead, these people are going to lose this fight because reality is what it is and you can't fight reality and just hold your ground and you're not going to get cancelled.
	No.
	These people are weak.
	They've lost their mojo.
	Well, Chappelle's in a position where he's just too powerful to cancel.
	Like, if you cancel him, it's going to make him even more powerful because then you're going to make him a martyr for free speech.
	But I also love, there is a little bit of context being left out here, which is, he then went on to talk about in his special that he had the trans stuff, but then he mentioned that, what was it, DaBaby, the rapper?
	Yeah, yeah.
	He said that he killed a black person and no one cared, and he was trying to make the comparison between black people and trans people.
	That trans feelings are worth more in society than black people's lives.
	Yeah.
	So then you have to combine that with, like, you know, he freed the slaves.
	I mean, I love the idea that essentially he's firmly cementing black people as on the stack of intersectionals.
	So, you know, there's always, like, the women were the big thing, and then trans people came along, and they're more sacred than women.
	Yeah, when it comes to just the hierarchy of the oppressed.
	So he's firmly sticking black people at the top of that hierarchy.
	No, no, no, no.
	No one's beating us on this.
	Yeah, no one's – yeah, yeah.
	Well, I mean he's living through his own eyes and his own experiences, and that is of a black man.
	So he's going to be talking from his own experiences, and there's nothing wrong with that.
	I mean the fact is like why can't you disagree to disagree or talk about your own personal experiences?
	It's like I don't like what you said.
	You should lose everything.
	And these same people are wearing shirts that say tolerance.
	This is what he's pushing back against.
	I saw the special.
	I thought it was amazing.
	I thought it was not necessarily like super hilarious most of it, but it was like – it was kind of something that need to be said.
	It was just like, hey, stop.
	You were bullied and now you were being – you were oppressed historically and now the oppressed become the oppressors.
	And how it's pushed back too far.
	And I think we all know incidences of people getting thrown into the fire, getting just the pitchforks coming out on the social media brigade of just coming after you if we don't like what you're saying or you've been accused of something without any actual proof or whatever it is.
	Yeah.
	And he's pushing back against that and he does a really powerful example at the end where – He talks about his friend who was trans who stood up for him and that trans person got bullied by members of his own community and killed themselves.
	So to say that does not have actual ramifications is – yeah, it's ridiculous.
	Yeah, but they don't care about the ramifications.
	All they care about is the ideology and the conformity.
	Yeah, yeah, just the optics, and I'm on the right side of history.
	Why?
	This is what's trending right now.
	I must follow this.
	What will you do for the right side of history?
	Yeah.
	Literally anything.
	Yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	Right.
	So, where's that gonna lead?
	I gotta put my profile, I gotta put a, you know, it's like, oh, stay home, stay safe, Black Lives Matter.
	I'll bully people for suicide.
	You know, maybe I'll beat people up if they're fascists.
	Maybe I'll start some riots.
	Why not?
	Whatever, yeah.
	Whatever the cause is this week.
	Me too.
	Asian lives matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	Just like, I need the optics.
	But if we move on to this, the reason I mention he's firmly putting black people at the top of the hierarchy again, as you can see here from a chap who I did not expect to be on Dave Chappelle's side on this, but maybe I should have.
	So you've got Bishop Tolwart Swan.
	I've gone into arguments with this guy before about slavery because he doesn't know anything about the slave trade other than the narrative, well, the very lazy American narrative that gets taught, which is basically the white people went to Africa, went out and stole black people, then brought them to the Americas, and that's it.
	That's all that slavery ever took place.
	It's only in America.
	It's also, that's the entire process.
	There's no Kingdom of Dahomey.
	white people of various kinds not just british of course but anyway that's a valid point oh yeah yeah so i expected him to not back chapelle or at least keep quiet but now he came out and said dave chapelle is the uh the goat so i believe you mentioned was his greatest of all time so yeah chapelle up here and uh if we continue with this this is where we get some of the funny stuff from netflix and why chapelle has one which is uh netflix suspends trans employee he spoke out against dave chapelle special as pink news right which uh is dishonest because of course it wasn't because they spoke out.
	So if we go through this, the trans employee said, I work at Netflix.
	Yesterday we launched another Chappelle special where he attacks the trans community and the very validity of transness, all while trying to pit us against other marginalized groups.
	You're going to hear a lot of talk about offense.
	We are not offended.
	Well, okay, who cares what you say then?
	Get lost.
	I mean, you would have thought that would be the end of it.
	Like, it's just a big long spiel about why Chappelle is a bad man, because he doesn't accept that you're definitely a man.
	Sorry, definitely a woman.
	But you're totally not offended either.
	I don't know how that gets 46,000 likes, but...
	We're not offended.
	Okay, but then they suspended this person for what reason?
	So they continued in their rant against Chappelle.
	I want to go through the full rant, and then they reveal the real reason why they got banned.
	So she continues, What we object to is harm that content like this does to the trans community, especially trans people of color, because of course we have to bring in the race war, don't we?
	And very specifically, black trans women.
	Promoting TERF ideology, which is what we did by giving it a platform yesterday, directly harms trans people.
	It's not So this is Chappelle saying that women exist.
	That's the harm here.
	There's no direct harm that they can point to.
	No physical that they can point to from Chappelle.
	Yeah, this is what bugs me about comedy.
	It's like, no, you are promoting harm, or you're bringing harm when it's comedy or a performance.
	Like, who, like, you know, rapes or kills or murders somebody or assaults somebody or after they see a comedy special?
	It doesn't happen.
	No.
	It's ridiculous.
	Because your feelings are, you know, no, but my feelings.
	So therefore, you can't be allowed to say these things specifically.
	Like, no one listens to Ricky Gervais talking about Hitler and is like, oh, you know what I'm going to do in my evening?
	Yeah.
	Go out and carry a genocide.
	Doesn't happen.
	No, it never happens.
	Anyway.
	So they continue in here, this is not an argument with two sides, it's an argument with trans people who want to be alive and people who don't want us to be.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Dave Chappelle wants you dead for being trans, does he?
	Nonsense.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, as you mentioned, he had a good friend who was trans.
	Yeah.
	In a 38 further tweets listed by trans people murdered in the US. I love the leftist memes always have to take up like half of your page to teach you one thing.
	But also just it doesn't matter.
	None of these people were killed by Chappelle, nor by his jokes, nor by anyone who listened to his jokes.
	So again, just you trying to create smoke where there isn't.
	But then they go on and they're like, yeah.
	There's been a lot of Netflix specials where I wanted to kill myself after I watched them.
	Fair enough.
	Yeah.
	But this wasn't one of them.
	This was...
	I'm trying to remember the last time.
	What was it?
	Samantha Bee or something I watched?
	Yeah.
	Netflix?
	I was just like, what the fuck is this?
	So they continue to whine.
	When I watched Annette, I was tempted.
	Yeah, they continue to whine and whine about the fact that they're totally not offended, but also totally offended.
	And then they end it with, after posting her Twitter thread, Field was suspended, along with two other employees, for trying to attend a director-level meeting they weren't invited to.
	Right, so Twitter, sorry, Netflix, didn't care that they had posted all this stuff on Twitter.
	Couldn't give it a toss.
	They were slagging off the company, calling it transphobic, all the rest of it, which, you know, is weird.
	I work for a transphobic company, and that's why I work here.
	Yeah, yeah, why you work for that?
	Why don't you quit?
	You know, I mentioned earlier, but like, if you went to a company, you're like, yeah, this company hates black people, and that's why I work here.
	It's like, well, what do you mean?
	If that's why you work here, doesn't that tell me something about you?
	Yeah, I work for Coke.
	It's racist.
	Anyway, so that doesn't make any sense.
	No, they got fired for trying to join a director's level meeting, and the directors were like, yeah, this is only for directors.
	You're not a director.
	Get the hell out.
	And presumably they refused, and the director was like, well, then you're fired.
	Get lost.
	Yeah, well, fair enough.
	Fair enough at all.
	So if we go to the last one here, such as the Times reporting on it, I won't go through all of this because there was a lot in there we've basically already covered.
	But it wasn't just them.
	Netflix employees who criticize Dave Chappelle's comedy special all get axed.
	All get axed, sorry.
	So they all get axed seeing the fact that Netflix recently suspended three employees, including a transgender employee who posted a Twitter thread last week criticizing Dave Chappelle.
	So not only that one, two others, and also the one who just quit because they don't want to work for a company that's concerned with money.
	Instead, they want them to be concerned with leftism, which, yeah, nah.
	Yeah, I mean, Netflix seems to be standing up for making money now.
	We were talking about that.
	It's amazing.
	This is a new chapter.
	They finally turned a corner.
	Yeah, they finally turned a corner.
	They think that if we make things that entertain people, they might pay us money and then we'll get rich.
	Yeah, it did.
	For a while, it seems to be like that wasn't the priority.
	No, it was lecture people on leftism and then question mark money.
	Yeah, the Terminator was four women.
	We could have the all-female Ghostbusters that bombed.
	They would produce all this stuff that would be like, no, this is about inclusivity.
	This is about just, you know...
	You know, all this, you know, just checking all the optics boxes.
	And always, like, commercially, big failures.
	But it seemed to be...
	Yeah, I mean, it's where get woke, go broke comes from.
	Yeah.
	It's primarily, I think, not just through gaming it or whatever, but also just Netflix specifically with all their nonsense.
	Yeah.
	So maybe they want that money back.
	Anyway, we'll end that there.
	So that's Dave Chappelle winning.
	Chad.
	We're going to skip the video comments today because we went through them beforehand, at least Michael did, and a lot of them were references to previous stuff we've done, so it wouldn't make much sense for you, so we're going to keep that.
	So we're going to go through some of the written comments on the site, so if we go through these, so these are people who have paid to write comments on the site, and then we talk about them.
	So Justin says, for self-worth airlines, apparently they have to blame the issues on the weather.
	If they say it is anything other than the weather, then the airline has to put all passengers in hotels and compensate them.
	With the weather, they can act of God get out of course.
	Eh, okay.
	That does make sense, actually.
	Oh, okay.
	I can see the argument there.
	That does illuminate it.
	Justin also says, the main problem with talking about exemptions to a mandate is that they accept that the mandates aren't a valid thing, only arguing about who they should apply to.
	There should be no circumstances with government mandates that people undertake a medical procedure.
	That's correct, I think.
	is extremely detrimental or something like that.
	Like, I mean, there's the debate between like, what if it was the Black Death, you know, 30% chance of death or something?
	Right.
	You know, there's more of a strong argument.
	But the fact that it's what, 2%, 3% for COVID?
	Yeah, what is it, like 1%?
	Depends on who you ask.
	Yeah, but I think I mostly agree with that.
	I just, in extreme circumstances, you know, hypothetical, and maybe I might disagree.
	Sorry, so a student of history says...
	Like we have this zombie flesh-eating virus that they just maybe should have.
	Yeah, I'd be like, you know, I don't want you turning.
	Then the vaccine should be mandated.
	But that's not going to happen.
	Right.
	Thankfully, I don't have to answer that question.
	So, student of history, Callum, the issue that all the companies are going to run into is that if you can train professionals, it's very difficult to replace them if 20-40%, those being the guesstimates of pilots, bail.
	That's going to lead to critical failures.
	Pilots and ATC, air traffic controllers, can only work so many hours per time period before needing to stop, so 40% say F-40%.
	No, and the others have to keep the load.
	It's like a cable suspension bridge losing that many cables, and then what happens to the rest?
	Right.
	I mean, that's what I was mentioning.
	You can't replace them with the National Guard or cheap labor from Mexico or whatever.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You need an actual pilot.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's like the coal workers of the Soviet Union or something.
	The one group that had any leverage with the central government, because the Soviet Union needed coal.
	Right.
	And you couldn't just retrain the coal workers.
	Yeah, you can't just automate the pilots.
	Yeah.
	You know what's funny?
	The unvaccinated, like if they hold a ground, they'll probably get some leeway.
	Because I heard like...
	Was it the NBA or something like that?
	Or there was, you know, some major sports leagues where, like, some players refusing to get vaccinated or enough of them, they apparently got some, like, clause saying, like, oh, okay, you got, like, an exemption clause.
	Yeah, that's what's going to end up happening.
	They probably have something like that.
	I mean, we had the same here with the lockdowns.
	It was like, yeah, lockdowns.
	Unless you work in the films industry.
	Yeah.
	Oh, interesting.
	Yeah, totally.
	I remember there was some breakdown, like, Tom Cruise was filming here and he broke down and started screaming at his stuff.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	I will not get this production shut down.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so M1Ping says, I've heard if a pilot had an adverse effect to the vaccine, that that would effectively end their flying career.
	Easy to see why there's hesitancy.
	Yeah, same with Royal Marines.
	So Edward of Woodstock says, Pilots exercise their right in a free market system to withhold their service due to a breach of employee-employer relationship.
	The left, oh my god, this is literally terrorism.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I don't know why I'm surprised at this point, but I am still surprised sometimes with some of the stuff that I see left-wing groups coming out with.
	I mean, the Occupy Democrats being one, being the most absurd.
	Like, the fact that they are in opposition to workers striking so they can keep their employment contract the way they want it.
	I mean, what the hell is wrong with you?
	I mean, on literally any level of left-wing thought, you would have thought you backed the strikers in this case, but...
	Yeah, I mean, that's what the left used to be all about.
	Used to be.
	But workers' rights and right to strike.
	Things that are no longer important.
	Yeah, it's changed.
	Freewill says, if the Taliban are anti the vaccine, then why do they still have a Twitter account?
	Isn't that blasphemy against the holy word of Fauci?
	Does the Taliban have a Twitter account?
	They've got multiple.
	They also post quite a lot of memes.
	And the memes are pretty damn spicy.
	Right.
	Twitter doesn't delete them.
	So...
	Well, I mean, at least they're not Trump.
	At least they're not Trump.
	Yeah.
	I mean, they murder people for, I don't know, stepping out of line.
	Yeah, throw gays off buildings and that, but, you know, don't let women drive or read or vote or...
	God, but, you know, at least they agree with Jack Dorsey.
	Yeah.
	Well, they got the same beard.
	Yeah, I mean, literally, Muller-Dorsey over there.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So, on the COVID Canada stuff, so this question for you, so Ty Buffett says, Hi, Byron, can you explain Trudeau to a foreigner?
	Why does he keep getting power?
	What is it all about...
	He's got nice hair and he lies to people nicely.
	That's good enough for most Canadians.
	They just want you to lie to them nicely.
	But it's so transparent with him.
	That's what I don't get.
	I would have thought most people, if a British politician tried to pull the kind of crap he's pulled, at least they'd lose their position.
	Yeah, you'd think so.
	But, yeah, no, because we're very optics-driven.
	Basically, we had sort of controlled opposition.
	This guy, Aaron O'Toole, just was kind of a wet fish, too.
	And his policies weren't really that different.
	It was kind of pick-your-poison.
	He's a conservative leader.
	Yeah, the conservatives and the liberals weren't too much different.
	So it really was kind of just...
	Was he back in the vaccine mandates, passports?
	Yeah, he was, too.
	He was back in all that stuff, too.
	The conservative was, yeah.
	What's the point of being the opposition, then?
	Yeah, it pretty much was very similar.
	I'm the opposition.
	I agree with the government.
	It was kind of – there wasn't much of a difference.
	So yeah, Canada is just – we're just basically – we just want to be nice.
	We just want to be lied to nicely.
	I'm sorry, this is very blackpilling.
	I expect some freedom from Canadians, but all right.
	Just be nice when you lie to me.
	Yeah.
	So Student of History says, should the Australians trust the government?
	Let me quote a lovely friend down Omda named Buzek.
	F the government and F director Dan.
	I don't know if that's a reference you get.
	Yeah, no, we're not as bad as Australia.
	That's just crazy.
	It's like, oh, two blokes got COVID, so we've got to put masks on all the kangaroos and vaccinate the caller bears.
	Also get up the nightsticks and hit everyone with them.
	Yeah, and just hit them all year.
	Just nobody leave your house for a year.
	We're going to shoot you.
	It's insane.
	I can't get over the Victoria situation, though.
	You know how big Australia is?
	It must be in the rural parts.
	At least they are presumably sane, because they've not gone through the lockdowns and the oppressive policing.
	Yeah, it's weird, because most of the countries, a good chunk of the country has been quite open, like South Australia and Adelaide, and I think...
	Perth has been open, but then there's been some snap lockdowns.
	Three days, don't leave!
	But when it comes to Melbourne, Victoria and Melbourne and Sydney, they've been just hardcore.
	Yeah.
	I mean, literal international embarrassment for the entire West.
	It's insanity.
	So moving on, so Shaker Silver says Trudeau is not solely responsible for the vaccine mandates.
	He had the cooperation of our so-called conservative province leadership.
	The premiers of Ontario and Alberta, who during the summer said they would resist the call to implement the vaccine passports, immediately folded after Trudeau urged them to step up, while offering each province a billion dollars to fund their proof of vaccine application.
	That's true.
	Our conservatives here are a joke.
	They want to play well in leftist Toronto and are embarrassed to actually be conservative, lest they be compared to Trump or other conservatives down south.
	Yeah, our conservatives aren't even that conservative.
	I mean, we have the same problem here.
	Yeah, our conservatives are pretty much, um, whatever.
	There's not much of a difference.
	Yeah.
	I know, like, Maxime Bernier and the People's Party of Canada has been rising going up.
	Yeah, so I mean, I don't even know if I agree with everything he stands for, but I like the fact that he said, when it comes to social media and all that, we're not going to resist anything for...
	The tech tyranny of like – because anytime you just write something, it's like computer says you're racist.
	Why?
	I don't know.
	Just no computer – a harmful hate speech where you said something about the vaccine, just like ban your account, ban – like all that stuff.
	As a comedian, that is just ridiculous and also no new lockdowns.
	I'm like we got to come to a point where we had to have some security where we're not just going to worry like at any given point my job as an entertainer could just be taken away.
	Why?
	Because you can't.
	Everything is shut down again.
	I mean, there's no security there whatsoever.
	I mean, not to mention, I imagine Trudeau's also big on the hate speech stuff.
	Oh yeah, that's the thing too.
	He loves it.
	He loves the whole hate speech.
	Everything's hate speech.
	So he's trying to ban these, didn't pass these bills.
	And I'm like, and when it comes to hate speech, like what is hate speech?
	If I tell you I'm allergic to peanuts and you're joking about peanut butter...
	To me, that's hate speech because I have a peanut allergy.
	So that's hate speech, and you better not joke about that.
	In Britain, yes.
	It's grossly offensive.
	Exactly.
	So it doesn't matter what it is.
	We spoke about Count Dankula being the law here that you cannot do anything grossly offensive online.
	But what is that?
	That's the thing.
	When there is no line, that's the thing.
	So it's like, we'll tell you after the fact.
	We'll tell you after the fact.
	Once you cross that line, we'll tell you after the fact.
	It's like, well, what is this line?
	I had a friend in Canada.
	His name is Guy Earl, and he got to...
	He got an argument with just like these hecklers who are lesbians.
	They were just like heckling.
	Then he said something about they're not being lesbians.
	They're just fat and ugly.
	No guy wants them.
	Anyway, threw a glass of water at his face.
	He broke one of their sunglasses.
	It was just like a drunken Super Bowl open mic.
	They took him to a human rights tribunal for hate speech and they fined him $15,000.
	And anytime they look for his name, he applies for a job.
	They look at his name and they're just like, oh, homophobe and all this.
	It's screwed up his life big time.
	All because of them heckling him in a terrible open mic situation.
	And that's because of hate speech.
	Just because of some pay dispute?
	Yeah.
	15 grand?
	Yeah.
	Sorry, that's ridiculous.
	Yeah, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.
	At least Dankler only got 500 to 800 quid.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he didn't pay it.
	He's still running away from it.
	But this is like 14 years old.
	And it's still kind of haunting him.
	So this is hate speech for you.
	Ty Buffett says, I don't agree with the vaccine mandates, but the only problem I can see is if there are international flights, if you can't travel to a country and stay in the hotels without a COVID certificate, then that's a problem.
	However, if it's domestic, then it should not be an issue if they get the exemptions.
	Um...
	Yeah, I can see that argument because, I mean, a foreign country's laws are not up to you, regardless of what you think of them.
	If they have, you must have this vaccine, otherwise you're not allowed to enter our country.
	That's one thing.
	My understanding is the vast majority of Southwest Airlines go U.S. to U.S. Yeah, I don't think Southwest flies anywhere outside of the States, from my understanding.
	Maybe it goes to Mexico, I don't know.
	Maybe, but I think it's only...
	The majority, it's quite a domestic airline.
	So Lucas Kennedy...
	I don't know whether it's in the post.
	Lucas Kennedy says weaponized autism is a beautiful thing.
	Yeah, it certainly was.
	And Shaker Silver says Callum Ridgis exemption is very broad in the US. It does not need to be a theistic or official sanctioned belief.
	but anything that is a sincerely held belief that fills the same niche as something religious even if you are an atheist this can be a simple belief that bodily autonomy and a simple belief in bodily autonomy and informed consent so yeah i mean you could still be an atheist and say i'm against abortion is what that was about because this part's not going on youtube right here it was to do with uh stem cells let's say oh right right right yeah yeah
	So, Chappelle, on the Chappelle segment, Chris Wolfe says, one of my favorite parts of the Chappelle special was the story about his trans friend, as you mentioned.
	The first time she got angry at Dave was when he told her that he understood her.
	She said, quote, I don't need you to understand me.
	I need you to see that I'm having a human experience.
	That special was a chance for everyone to grow, and a lot of people missed the point.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you've seen the full thing, so.
	I did, yeah.
	No, I agree.
	It was great.
	That story really, yeah.
	Yeah, that was very powerful.
	So Base Ape says, Yeah, it's true.
	I mean, if you apologize, nothing's good enough.
	They want to burn you alive.
	They do not want you.
	You apologize.
	It's not good enough.
	Because it's a mission of guilt.
	Yeah.
	If I say sorry, that just means I'm guilty.
	Okay, well then we'll go to the sentencing stage, won't we?
	Yeah, exactly.
	You'll just be like, nah, don't care.
	Deal with it.
	So we move on.
	TypoFed says, the writer for Dear White People only transitioned in December 2020.
	They never would have been able to try and get Chappelle cancelled beforehand.
	Also, crazy they had a white guy writing Dear White People.
	You would assume it would have been seen as not diverse enough.
	I'm sure the writer's room had, let's say, diverse hiring practices applied to it.
	And, I mean, he transitioned, so I imagine he was some level of diversity beforehand.
	So, Henry Ashman, there's a lot of things I disagree with Chappelle on, particularly his race material, but I do not mind it because a lot of his material is just inherently clever and funny.
	He conveys his views through jokes, not through a lecture masquerading as a comedy set.
	I hate to say it, but he's now old school and there's a new generation of comics are just pink-haired dullards.
	I mean, Samantha Bee comes to mind for me, personally.
	Right, right, right.
	I don't understand why she has a show.
	I mean, I know it's ideology, but it's just...
	Oh, she's got an audience, obviously.
	Does she?
	I guess so.
	Is she still on the air?
	I mean, the viewing figures I hear from that show are just terrible, though.
	Right.
	Yeah, I mean, I haven't heard much of her lately.
	Yeah, well, who wants to pay attention, you know?
	Yeah, I guess it's, I mean, but I guess she's still on.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, sorry, just a personal thing I find absurd.
	Yeah, I mean, some of the comics that really, like, you know, when it comes to just, I want to have the right talking points, you're just like, hey, everybody, yeah, I'm not racist.
	Check this out.
	Racist people suck.
	Am I right?
	Woo!
	Woo!
	I think consent is awesome.
	Woo!
	Is that comedy?
	Yeah, it's just sort of preachy nonsense.
	But, you know, this seems to get greenlit by a lot of stuff.
	I also love how it doesn't even conform to just the basic form of what a joke is.
	Because a joke is like, you know, in its simplest terms, I don't know if you've watched Jimmy Carter, he does a lot of stuff on like the foundation of comedy, right?
	So then you have like the, it's a setup, which makes you make an assumption, and then the punchline challenges your assumption.
	You know, it's a surprise, the element's a surprise.
	Yeah, you go da-da-da-da-da, you didn't see that coming.
	Oh my god.
	Yeah, but just, uh, I'm against rape.
	Is that...
	Well, now it's funny, like...
	Like, where's that gonna go?
	Otherwise than, no, I'm for it, and that's the joke, as in, like, ha-ha, imagine being for it, that's absurdist.
	Well, I guess, you know, maybe there would be some elements to the joke where, you know, it'd be, like, sort of some of you were clever, but it seems to be now comedy needs to...
	Industry standards, it needs to be not funny, but brave.
	Yeah.
	It's not comedy.
	Yeah.
	It's gotta be brave.
	It's gotta make you think.
	So Chad Koala says, given how much Chappelle lauded the trans person he knew in his skits, that even he can be called transphobic shows how little consideration for nuance is made by those dispensing the accusation.
	Even if they were quickly reinstated, the suspension of the three employees bargaining to a meeting to a protest is still far more than I expected from Netflix.
	Could this be a turning point?
	With Korea and Japan on track to overtake Western media in the West, Western media makers better start dealing with the cause of their increasing irrelevance if they want to survive.
	Yeah, so, I mean, this is a big thing.
	We were going over yesterday with Harry.
	The comics industry, for example, very much a Western phenomenon historically.
	And yet the East, so Korea and Japan, have basically overtaken that market completely.
	For comic books?
	Yeah, because the comic industry is the same thing, infested with woke ideology.
	That's right, Superman's son is gay now, Robin is gay.
	Yeah, so the storylines, the good writing, all the rest of it.
	Spider-Man is trans, what, I don't know.
	That's all secondary to ideological pushing.
	Therefore, no one buys that crap.
	And while the same thing will happen with a lot of other stuff.
	I imagine a lot with the movie industry as well, to be honest.
	Yeah, I don't know how many...
	Is anybody still buying Superman?
	Is anybody still buying Batman?
	Apparently there are 15 million comics sold every year in the West.
	Oh yeah, okay.
	From Western outlets.
	100 million of random comics from Japan get sold.
	Right, well, anime is huge there.
	Yeah, but it's being sold in the West as well.
	That was the point being made, which is that if you endorse work ideology, well, then no one buys the crap, and then the East will take over that market, because, well, they're making their stuff.
	So Shooting of History says, so did anyone else hear Dave Chappelle betrayed me, and think of the last tweet last year where Democrat operatives were saying Trump was stealing the black vote?
	I'm not sure I get his point there.
	Oh, because he's a race traitor, right?
	Okay, I can see that.
	Oh, right, right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He's not signing up with Democratic ideology, therefore he's not black.
	The you ain't black thing.
	Well, you gotta think the same way.
	You gotta vote the same way.
	You don't have that skin color anymore.
	No.
	Maybe when Joe Biden was just like, if you don't vote for me, you ain't black.
	Yes.
	I mean, literally.
	Also the, what is it?
	Black kids are just as smart as rich kids or something like that?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Anyway, honorable mentions.
	Nol Nol says, Lotus Eaters, an oasis of insanity.
	I can like that.
	Henry Ashman says, I feel like we need to record the Douglas Murray clip about gays versus queers.
	The level of dismissal, posh scorn he can lay into a single word like queer is glorious.
	It should be a soundbite of a lazy writer pressing it for them to say, make the queer button you talked about yesterday.
	Yeah, I don't know if you've read Douglas Murray.
	I know I've heard of him, though, yeah.
	Okay, so he read a book called The Madness of Crowds, and that's where that's from.
	I'm sure he's done an audiobook on it, so if someone can find the audiobook, I'm sure there's a quote in there where he talks about queer.
	I just love how he's a gay guy, so you can get away with it.
	He'll be like, yeah, so there are gay people like me who are perfectly normal, and then they're like, damn queers!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Okay, Douglas.
	These aren't the queers we're looking for.
	Yeah.
	So, Shaker Silver says, what's interesting about the madness in America is the federal government doesn't actually have effective mandates in place yet.
	Just outline their plans for it.
	Most states also don't have mandates themselves.
	All businesses buckling like Southwest Airlines are doing so purely from political pressure.
	Yet, the CEOs blame Biden for making him do it, and not his own spineless folding into the pressure.
	Just passing the buck, yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I mean, I thought it was evident.
	Just by the fact that Biden can't force him to do it.
	I mean, he would have thought that is not going to fly, but whatever.
	Marcus says, patriotic noncompliance is based AF. Certainly is.
	Benjamin, labeling dissidents as domestic terrorists is increasingly cliched, ink-sock-style propaganda, and it's not even funny anymore.
	Yeah, I do know how everyone's getting called a terrorist.
	Like, I don't know if you saw the parents who were complaining about critical race theory in schools.
	Oh, okay.
	They got labeled terrorists by the...
	Domestic terrorists.
	Yes.
	Yeah, the word terrorist and Nazi just get thrown around so easy now.
	Yeah, but when it's being thrown around by the government, it sort of gets a bit like, ah, crap.
	I mean, I think it was the Department of Homeland Security or something were calling these parents terrorists.
	Oh, really?
	They literally go to PTA meetings and be like, yeah, don't teach this stuff to my kid if you could.
	That's enough to be a terrorist.
	Man, the bar's getting really low now.
	Yeah.
	We're all terrorists now, bro.
	Yeah, Al-Qaeda would just be really offended.
	We need more representation.
	So Nunya Business says, I've been gone a while, so interesting to hear the Canadian on the show.
	Glad you are expanding beyond the UK. Well, we're not expanding the office beyond the UK, but it's good to have a Canadian.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	It's great to be here.
	Alex Ogle says, just watch Byron's Street Ballerina video on YouTube, stunning and brave.
	Oh, nice.
	Thank you very much.
	You've got to tell us about that.
	I got this character called Good Person, where I'm basically this social justice tattletale, and I just do all sorts of ridiculous stuff.
	It's on my YouTube channel, at Byron Bertram.
	I got this crazy Russian character called, and he's Donald Trump's love child.
	I did see you on the street trying to self-cancel yourself.
	Yes, that was one of my good person videos.
	I try to cancel myself for hate speech for my album, Password and Prozac.
	A lot of hate speech in it.
	Check it out.
	That's how you know it's good.
	Edward Woodstock says, Oh yeah, Trudeau just gave us two grand.
	I can hear Stan Rogers spinning in his grave to the tune of The Idiot.
	I don't get that reference, but sorry.
	So Joe says, I just wish Coke would stop using slave labor to get their sugar to make Coke to give black people diabetes.
	Diabetes.
	The Type of Fet says, The new Antifa slash trans chant should be, With stick and stone will break your bones because your words are the real violets.
	Yeah, words are the new violence, aren't they?
	Words are violence.
	Physical violence has been outsourced by words.
	But also silence is violence.
	But silence is violence, too.
	So just Kafka trap.
	That was the thing I noticed about the Black Lives Matter movement.
	It was like, as a white man, you need to shut up and listen, but also silence is violence.
	So you better speak up.
	You got to shut up when you speak up.
	Speak up when you shut up.
	I mean, literally, incoherent.
	Yeah.
	So, Lord Neva says, be like Southwest employees, BTFO the communists, go on, you know, you want to.
	Yeah.
	So, Joe also says, also, no one gets the Chappelle, sorry, no, also, sorry, almost no one gets the Chappelle in the KKK leader bit.
	He is saying blacks are the most racist of all.
	I haven't seen his KKK stuff.
	Sounds weird.
	Oh, from the Chappelle show?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he did this thing where he was a black guy.
	He was a blind black guy where he's pretending to be, where he didn't know he was black, and he was like a white supremacist.
	He was a member of the KKK. But yeah, it's a historic sketch.
	It's very funny.
	I swear that did actually end up happening in real life, though.
	Like, it wasn't that the black guy didn't know he was black, but he just never told them.
	It was a member for like a year or something.
	Oh, right.
	Oh, yeah.
	I think I heard about that.
	Maybe an FBI or something.
	Right.
	So Servant says, did you guys fire Sargon?
	No, he's working on his Critical Race Theory stuff in the corner, as he always is.
	David Shipton, I watched the Dave Spel special last night and found myself in tears of laughter all the way through.
	Needless to say, I had genuine tears by the end.
	A genuinely heartwarming story about human connection above all this modern-day tripe.
	The man's a legend.
	Yeah.
	I should really give it a full watch.
	Yeah, it's great.
	I mean, you gotta watch it.
	Anyway, the last question here.
	So I think this is from the chat.
	So chap says, what does Byron think of most people of his countrymen are happy with authoritarianism?
	I've spoken to my Canadian friends and they honestly don't care about losing their freedoms.
	Is it a common thing there to value safety above all else?
	Our biggest – basically our biggest commodity in Canada is apathy when it comes to just everything.
	We're just kind of like, oh, I don't know.
	We'll just let America – what's America doing?
	What's Europe doing?
	I don't know.
	Oh, we got to do that?
	Oh, I guess.
	I don't like it.
	I don't know.
	What are you doing?
	We don't have any opinions.
	We're just kind of – we're just – we're basically – we just look to the United Kingdom and the United States and we're just like, what's mommy and daddy doing?
	I mean, sorry, yeah, but that does come across as like a complete lack of identity.
	We totally have a lack of identity.
	We don't know what we are.
	We don't know who we are.
	We have no star system.
	Only Canadians you've ever heard of that are famous are only famous because they got famous in the United States, or to a lesser extent, maybe here.
	But just the fact that there's no, like, you know, we have traditions that are political, we have principles, these are things we hold by as a political system and as a people.
	Well, I mean, yeah, historically, you know, yeah, exactly, democracy.
	We didn't fight for independence, though.
	We just kind of, like, waited and signed a treaty with you guys.
	I said, okay, do you want to just lease us the land?
	Okay.
	And then you gave up the good flag for the leaf.
	Actually, I like our flag.
	It's nice.
	It's the one thing about Canada I just can't stand.
	The flag?
	Yeah.
	Literally a leaf.
	If they got rid of the leaf and just kept the colors or something, or a coat of arms in there or something, it'd be much better.
	I can't stand the leaf.
	Oh, we changed the national anthem from On All Thy Sons Command to On All of...
	The command or something.
	It's like, because Sun is representing the patriarchy and it's excluded to women.
	So yeah, Trudeau did that.
	Trudeau changed the national anthem.
	A verse in it.
	Eric O'Toole said he's going to reverse it or just...
	I don't even know if he...
	Yeah, he talked about it.
	He's going to keep it, isn't he?
	Probably just keep it, yeah.
	There is one more.
	So we'll end with the last one here from Andrew.
	On all of thy 14 genders command.
	Well, then the last one here from Henry Ashman, who says the only people not being called terrorists are the Insulate Britain lots, when it probably fits them better than any other group being labelled terrorists.
	I mean, yes, they are literally going to terrorise the motorists of Britain into their will, which is insulating their homes, which their leader won't even do.
	I don't know if you've been following the Insulate Britain stuff.
	Oh yeah, I know you got a petrol thing, right?
	Yeah, but there's also some guys who keep blocking the motorways, insisting that we need to insulate all the homes of Britain, and their founder hasn't even insulated his own house off his own pocket.
	Oh, that's funny.
	Even though he's rich as hell.
	So is he trying to make asbestos great again, or?
	In his own home?
	Anyway, on that note, probably time to end the show.
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