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Oct. 21, 2021 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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Good afternoon folks.
Welcome to the podcast, The Lotus Eaters, for Thursday, the 21st of October 2021.
I'm joined by Leo.
Hello!
And today we're going to be talking about what's happening in America and how Biden's destroying it.
What happened at the, what's it called, COP26? Climate summit.
Yes, it hasn't happened yet.
It's in November.
Right, but it's coming up, is it?
It's coming up.
The wheels are already coming off it.
They should make it more environmentally friendly, because if the wheels come off something, it can't move and burn diesel.
And we're also going to be talking about the amazing Netflix walkout, which has been incredible.
But before we get into it, we've got loads of stuff up on the website that I've got to show.
So we've got a new audio track for one of the older articles, The Unraveling of the Fake News Matrix by Hugo.
Then we've got an article by Harry, which is the unbearable artificiality of late night talk shows.
Which is really good.
I was reading through this before I started.
And another article by Luna about just what if we all said no.
Good question.
We also have another video by Mark Wharton, not so obvious, about finding authenticity in a world of abstractions.
Now, I was at this conference when he gave this talk and it was a really, really good one because, frankly, things that are real have more value than things that are digital and that's Obviously true.
But also there's the sort of more intellectual side of the things we're doing.
Callum and myself recorded this Origin of Intersectionality because it's worth knowing where all this stuff comes from.
It comes from Kimberlin Crenshaw.
And we're going to be, we recorded the first of the podcasts about the great bible of critical race theory that will be coming up soon.
And Thomas and myself have been going through what critical theory is.
So you can see the deep roots of The malign influences that we're facing now.
And that's really good.
And tomorrow we're going to record part two of this because you need to know this stuff.
So that's all on the website.
And so without further ado, because we have a lot to get through.
Let's talk about Biden's demented United States of America.
Everything I see coming out of America these days is absolutely back to front.
It's like being in a hall of mirrors.
The opposite of what you should be seeing coming out of a responsible government is what Biden is doing.
And so first things is his Build Back Better bill, the $3.5 trillion spending agenda that they claim has a price tag of zero.
Man, the thing is, they're generating so much money.
And this is, for me, for government, particularly a supposedly conservative, Republican, right-wing government, to be spending money.
Well, he's not.
He's a Democrat.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry.
But it's still supposed to be conservative.
For them to be printing money and spending money like he's the drunk Chancellor of Zimbabwe, it's ridiculous.
I think, is it 40% of all the dollars in existence were printed last year?
I would not be surprised because this is just literally money printer go burr, right?
But they're claiming this is going to have a price tag of zero.
And what they mean is this is going to add to the federal debt zero because they're just going to tax people to reap this money.
Which isn't the same as it not costing anything.
No, it's not even slightly.
But the thing is all of these projections always end up sort of tailing off anyway because people end up moving their money outside of the reach of the government.
So they're never going to get this money back, so it will add to the debt.
And quantitative easing in its essence contributes hugely to inequality because all the extra money that's printed… We'll get to that.
We'll get to that.
You're jumping ahead because, yeah, it's all coming, right?
And so when asked about this, Joe Psaki was just like, does the president really believe, if we can go to the next one, John, that Build Back Better does not add a dime to the national debt?
And she's like, correct, it won't.
And the reporter's just like, well, why should Americans believe that?
And she's just like, because it won't.
It's like, oh, well, if you say so then, Jen, then it just won't.
Moving on.
How's inflation looking in the United States at the moment?
Well, not good.
5.4%.
Why?
Because the Biden administration is just pumping literally trillions of dollars out into the economy.
Well, that has an effect.
This is an increase in the inflation as well.
August had a 5.3%.
This is now 5.4% in September.
I'm sure that by November we'll find out that it's even higher for October.
And so, not good.
And this is essentially just theft from poor people.
Theft from everybody.
If you've got savings, it's theft.
Quantivising steals from prudent financial savers and hands the money to borrowers.
That's right.
But the people who are least impacted by this are the people with millions of dollars.
Because why would they care?
It's not their problem that, you know, petrol prices have gone up or the food prices have gone up, because they're incredibly rich.
No, it's really poor people who have this problem.
And also, the richer you are, the more likely you are to own fixed assets such as property or...
That go up in value.
Or shares or anything like that that goes up in value.
The extra money that's created flows into these assets.
Absolutely.
So then it contributes to inequality because if you own these assets, you're cushioned.
The money flows to you.
If you don't have any assets, if you're just living paycheck to paycheck, you've got a family, you've got a blue-collar job, then you're… You're screwed.
Yeah, you're screwed.
Yeah.
And so this was finally admitted by, like, mainstream media, where one CNBC commentator was just like, well, yeah, it was worse than expected.
Worse than we thought it would be.
Well, I mean, any Austrian economist has been saying this is a terrible idea, and all of the modern monetary theorists have been like, no, no, no, it'll be fine, it'll be fine, there won't be major inflation.
And, well, major inflation's arrived.
But anyway, let's move on to the supply chain problems.
Why are there supply chain problems?
Well, nobody seems to have a solid answer on this, which is weird, because you'd think it is something that people would know something about.
So this was an article on worldgrain.com, talking about how the Port of Los Angeles has been, apparently, will be operating around the clock in a bid to regain terminal space and things like this.
But rail, barge, ocean freight, and trucking are all down, and of course the fuel prices have gone up, so this is making all things more difficult.
So the Transport Secretary for the United States, Pete Buttigieg, has said, well, the bottlenecks we're seeing at our nation's ports are exactly why we've been calling for a generational investment in our infrastructure, so validating the trillions of spending.
As our economy continues to grow, we must build port and freight infrastructure that can handle increased demand.
But why is there suddenly increased demand?
What's going on?
And, you know, Mayor Pete has basically been on maternity leave.
So this is his first statement on this in weeks.
If we can go to the next one, you can see that he's just, like, just been having a month off.
Mm-hmm.
Weird.
I like how you called it maternity leave instead of paternity leave.
I think that's correct.
That's what they called it!
I didn't actually say that.
But, you know, I don't know why his husband can't take care of the children while he's doing his job.
How did they have babies?
They adopted them.
Right.
So anyway, supply chain problems, say, was it the New York Times, I think, is the next one?
Well, just, sorry, Washington Post, just lower your expectations.
Literally.
That's what they say.
So they're complaining that, well, they point out, well, a huge flotilla of container ships is stuck offshore in California, waiting to unload.
American consumers, their expectations pampered and catered to for decades, are not accustomed to inconvenience.
So the problem is the consumers.
The problem is the people who want to buy things, Well, how come when it happens in the UK, it's blamed on Brexit?
Well, exactly.
Is Brexit impacting California now?
I mean, good, if it is.
For generations, American shoppers have been trained to be nightmares, says Amanda Mole in The Atlantic in August.
The pandemic has shown just how desperately the consumer class clings to the feeling of being served.
Customers' persistent whine, why don't they just hire more people?
Sounds feeble in this era of the great resignation, especially in industries such as food service with reputations being tough places to work.
Why are these people resigning?
Because Biden is literally paying them more to stay at home.
Wow.
Pumping this money into the economy and just giving it to people for free means they don't have to work, which is surely going to have no long-term consequences.
Yeah, I mean, at least under communism, people were forced at gunpoint to work.
I suppose there is that.
I think Biden should, if he's going to institute this sort of communism light, like paying everybody this wage, then at least bring in the guns as well.
Get people down the salt mines.
Well, careful what you wish for, because I think we'll eventually get to that point.
But I love some of the comments here.
I understand people are getting frustrated, but it's time for people to take a chill pill.
I'm just going to not have the things I usually have.
So just accept it.
Just accept you're not going to have these things.
And if we can get to the next one, Wally Ademio, the Biden administration's second highest official in the Treasury Department, said, the reality is that the only way we're going to get to a place where we can work through this transition is if everyone in America and everyone around the world gets vaccinated.
What's that got to do with the buildup of ships over the coast of California?
Well, take a guess.
Oh, the people on the ships haven't been vaccinated, so they're worried they're going to bring in...
No, the truck drivers need to be vaccinated, and if they're not, they're getting fired.
Oh, really?
Why does a truck driver need to be vaccinated?
That's a great question.
Are they going to give, like, coronavirus to a prostitute they pick up?
I mean, there is no need for a truck driver to be vaccinated.
They're in a cab.
You would think so, wouldn't you?
But no.
But anyway, he says, describing the disastrous economic conditions as, quote, an economy that's in transition...
There's a lot of transitioning going on these days...
He says, we are seeing higher prices for some of the things that people have to buy.
While he praised the administration's stimulus payments, he also pinned the blame squarely on the unvaccinated.
He explained the primary reason that Biden continues to push for everyone to be vaccinated because only then could the White House, quote, provide the resources the American people need to make it to the other side of the supply chain problem.
Sounds like they're being held hostage, doesn't it?
Yeah, that is...
I mean, everything seems to lead back to strong-arming people into getting vaccinated.
Yeah, but also I'm very concerned about the...
Provide the resources the American people need, as if the White House is the creator and author of all of the resources and productivity and prosperity of America.
Well, it is when they're printing like four and a half trillion.
How much is it?
Well, three and a half for that one, but they've done this previously for over a trillion as well.
So it's got to be looking at about five trillion in Biden's like eight months, nine months of being president.
So it looks, I mean, like all I'm saying is if you're trying to destroy America, what else would you do?
Yeah.
And considering, you know, traditionally the Democrats have been famous as a sort of fiscally conservative.
Oh, I don't agree with that.
Balancing the books.
Well, I mean, under Clinton, I mean, you know, the books were balanced and then, you know, Bush came in and slashed taxes and stuff so that, you know, there was a bit of a disparity.
But this is just, I mean, this is just insanity.
It's mad.
Quantitative easing is theft.
Yes, it is.
But the thing is, it's also literally a meme that's been going around.
In fact, I posted this a few hours ago.
Well, yesterday.
But if you scroll down a little bit, just, we'll keep the supply chain broken until you get the jabs, says Klaus Schwab of the Economic Forum.
And it's like, well, how's that wrong?
It seems to be what's happening.
And the weird thing is, if we can get to the next one, there are people who are posting videos they take themselves.
This is on the 14th of October.
If you can just play the video without the audio so we can see what's going on.
But you can just see that this guy is just driving past one of these container shipping ports, and it's just empty.
There's nothing going on there.
So it's not that there's a backlog that can't be processed because of a lack of space or something like that.
And there was another one that was posted today about a chap who is a truck driver.
And he's like, well, we've got all the trucks.
They're just turning away our empty trucks.
And not letting us actually load anything up.
So there are truck drivers, there are trucks, it's just nothing's coming off the ports for some reason.
And so the question is, is this part of a green initiative in California?
Because I found this from back in June this year, where apparently there's a quest to green an empire of mega warehouses in California.
So this is basically ideological.
Because 40% of the nation's consumer goods come through California, because it's the closest place to China where they're being produced.
And the goal is to make the World Logistics Centre the most sustainable logistics centre in the world, says Ido Benzivi, the President and Chief Executive of the Highland Fairview Properties.
This comes as a constellation of new regulations and investments conspire to clean up the industry.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District, a regional pollution regulation agency, approved its long-awaited indirect source rule on May 7, making warehouses responsible for the pollution generated by the trucks that visit their docks.
And California Governor Gavin Newsom had proposed a 1.5 billion investment in clean transport and things like that.
And says one of them, sorry, Heather Arias, the Division Chief of Transportation and Toxics for the Division of the California Air Resource Board, says we're working toward a zero emissions freight system.
So I wonder if it's anything to do with all of this.
Hmm.
Anyway, so after her little press conference, Jen Psaki, looking a bit rattled, just decided to walk off without putting a mask on, which actually violates the Biden-imposed mask mandate on the White House.
Well, I'm sure the police will be visiting her home soon.
Hmm.
It's not going to be a case of rules for me.
But it is going to be a case of rules for children.
Because for some reason, in America, they're forcing...
Some states are forcing children to wear masks in schools.
Even though the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, while they issue this new recommendation, it just seems that their own data would contradict the need for forcing children to wear masks.
A number of US states have required their students to wear masks following that recommendation.
But the thing is, the fatality rate for children under the age of 16 has been less than 0.003%.
Yeah.
I mean, this is like the JCVI.
So the government's medical advisors in the UK recommended that children aren't given the And I don't want to talk about the vaccine too much and get this taken down from YouTube.
But the government overruled its own medical advisors and said, you know, no, we're going to vaccinate everybody.
Yeah.
And so Biden puts in rules.
You have to wear masks in the White House.
Nope.
But children have to wear masks even though there's no particular need for them to do so.
In fact, this isn't just me saying this.
I mean, there are studies.
Is this scientific?
No, not really.
Studies findings have cast doubt on the impact of the most many common mitigation measures in American schools.
In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective.
Do it anyway.
Anyway, moving on.
What's going on in Chicago?
You know, the safest place on earth.
Oh, that's right.
The Chicago police are being put on unpaid leave for not being vaccinated.
Apparently, they're placing officers on no-pay leave for unreported vaccination status.
Now, how many people do you think that is?
Do you think there's going to be like 10, 15 people?
I thought it would be ludes.
It's not like Chicago needs its police or anything.
Nothing bad has ever happened in Chicago.
Well, according to a CNN anchor, it's 35% of their force.
We can get to the next one, John.
They've got 12,770 total officers and 35% did not give their vaccination status, which means 4,500 could be placed on no-pay status.
I'm sure they'll work without pay, though.
But surely, I mean, that's unworkable.
They're not going to lay off, like, 35% of their police force.
Yeah, you would think that.
In a sane country, they wouldn't do that.
But America has been taken over by absolute effing lunatics, and they seem to be going full bore down into the abyss.
I mean, this is good news for Chicago either way, because, I mean, like, last weekend, 24 people were shot.
24 people in one weekend.
And the thing is, that's actually quite a low weekend.
I've seen literally Chicago weekends where it's twice that.
Only four people killed, so you know, they don't need all those cops.
But when Chicago Mayor Lori Leifert was asked about this, she said that the city's Fraternal Order of Policing is attempting to induce an insurrection by opposing the vaccine mandate.
Induce an insurrection.
Yeah, I mean, that's interesting.
After the year that the police have had and everything they've had to deal with, all the opprobrium from the public and from the media, and to then, you know, hit them with this.
It's, yeah.
You're not getting paid because you aren't...
Doing what we tell you.
And so what they've done is decided to just threaten to withhold their retirement benefits.
So if you don't submit to the vaccine mandate, you aren't getting your retirement either.
But all police get shot a day before they retire anyway.
That's lucky for them really, otherwise they'd need that.
So there has been a vaccine mandate for the firefighters as well, and of course there have been firefighters who have been posting, saying, well look, I'm not having this, I'm not being subjected to a vaccine mandate, I'm resigning.
And so Seattle police, that was in Chicago previously, but this is also happening elsewhere.
In Seattle, fire and police are just handing in their boots about the non-compliance of the vaccine mandate.
So why?
Why are you doing this?
Why are you literally turning on the institutions that make your country run?
And also, firefighters, police, they're going to generally be fit and healthy and quite young, so coronavirus isn't a huge risk for them.
And if they're interacting with the public or whatever, I'm sure they'll comply with whatever distancing and face masks and all the rest of it.
So the risk to the public is pretty low.
I think the risk to the public is far higher if you're getting rid of 35% of your police and fire brigade.
I'd rather be rescued from a fire by somebody who's got coronavirus than burning the fire.
Yes, I would as well.
Well, absolutely no questions asked.
But anyway, so yeah, these people then went out and fed the homeless because they're not scum.
Unlike the people who are in charge of them.
Anyway, so then we get on to the...
It's tasty as well.
It does, actually, and I haven't had lunch, so anyway.
So the Biden regime decided to try and impose a vaccine mandate on pilots as well, which absolutely destroyed Southwest Airlines' ability to fly planes.
And the Guardian was complaining that Tucker Carlson has claimed the cancellation of flights by Southwest Airlines was a direct consequence of the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for federal workers.
Carlson also said that a Florida group of air traffic controllers who were subject to federal rules apparently walked out on Friday to protest against the rules, contributing to difficulties facing the passengers.
Disruption to Southwest flights began shortly after the Airline Pilots Association asked the federal court to block the airline's own vaccine mandate, a kind of measure praised but not ordered by Biden.
So, right, okay.
And so that was obviously, like, oh, nothing Tucker Carlson says is true.
And you get, like, CNBC and then have to report, well, I mean, it is, you know, weather and staffing.
Weather and staffing.
The weather in Texas.
Was it, it wasn't raining jabs?
Maybe it was.
But the staffing issue, I think, is one thing that they have to dance around because they're like, well, I mean, bad weather, air traffic control issues, and its own shortage of available staff.
Where are those available staff?
I've no idea.
But, like, a left-wing source came out and said, Gizmodo particularly, they go, despite pilots, like, leftist media is claiming otherwise.
They say, you know, how the Southwest flight's cancellations turned into a bogus vaccine conspiracy theory.
Oh, really?
A bogus vaccine conspiracy theory.
Conservatives spread baseless theories about spontaneous uprisings of anti-vax pilots.
Patriots, sorry.
Was behind mass flight cancellations of Southwest Airlines.
It's like, yeah, because we can see them doing it because they post it to social media.
I mean, you can go to, like, a right-wing source, like LifeSite News, and they have got all of these links, and they'll just tell you about what's actually happening here.
I mean, but you can go to Twitter.
If you just go to the next one, you can actually see them interviewing pilots.
Mm-hmm.
Asking them, why are you, a captain of a plane, protesting?
They're like, well, I don't like the vaccine mandate.
And you can see people there protesting, saying, stop the vaccine mandate.
Yeah.
By the way, I've got to say, so last night I went to a live event that had enforced the vaccine passport.
So I've got one because I need to travel overseas and stuff.
So I showed him and it was fine.
And then my mate didn't have one.
So they were like, well, you're not getting in.
And then I was like, no, you've got it, Darius.
And I just sent him a screenshot of my one and they looked at it.
Literally with WhatsApp JPEG written at the top of it.
They looked at it and just let him in.
So I think a lot of these things, maybe if you're a pilot, they check a bit closer.
But there are ways around such things, apparently, which we obviously don't endorse.
Anyway, so Delta Airlines eventually just abandoned their vaccine mandate because it was divisive, not because, obviously, pilots weren't flying.
So, well, I mean, doesn't this completely discount the, you know, the Gizmodo headline that said, oh, this is all a conspiracy theory, and then, well, they've abandoned their vaccine mandate.
I mean, they literally said, we're proving you can work collaboratively with your people, trusting your people to make the right decisions, respecting their decisions, and not forcing them over the loss of their jobs.
But it's nothing to do with the protest, according to left-wing media.
No.
But the question is, why would the media lie about all of this and the vaccine mandates?
Well, this particular little clip show does raise an interesting point.
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I think that has made the point because I think that obviously just goes on and goes on and goes on.
But as you can see, the corporate media has all been brought up by Pfizer.
So, you know, using government money that they have been poured into their pockets.
Yeah.
So there we go.
And I mean, apparently, according to the FDA in America, you can just mix and match the vaccines now, if we can get the next one up, John.
Oh, sorry.
Okay, we'll have to fix it.
Right, there we go.
Apparently the FDA's just like, oh, just mix and match the vaccines?
Because that's how it works?
Is that how it works?
I don't think so.
I don't know much about vaccines, but I wouldn't have thought.
I wouldn't have thought.
That's like what you did for Heath Ledger.
You know what I mean?
You can't mix different drugs together.
Yeah.
I know these aren't drugs, but you know what I mean?
No, no, no.
But they operate in different ways.
And yes, no, I'm not an expert, but I don't think that's how it works.
I mean, what do I know?
Apparently, the best level of immunity is if you have two jabs, two vaccinations, and then you catch coronavirus.
Oh, wow.
I just skipped to the end result and caught it in the first place.
The whole point of vaccinating someone is they don't get it.
So then the government's saying you're going to have the top immunity if you get vaccinated and then get the disease that you've been vaccinated against.
I mean, I just had it, so...
I had it as well.
To be honest, I wish I'd got vaccinated.
It was horrible.
It wasn't too bad for me.
But anyway, moving on, because we've still got loads to get through, and I want to get through this segment quickly.
So apparently the National Recreation and Parks Association has decided that you shouldn't call each other Americans now, if you're in America.
Oh, God!
Call them residents or members of a community.
Well, it's because American has quite a lot attached to it, right?
He's got a set of assumptions.
What is an American?
American is someone with a particular kind of accent, lives in a particular kind of place, has a particular set of values.
And you don't know that these people are going to have those, so just call them residents.
People who exist.
It's so dehumanizing.
It is.
Taking everything that makes a person, everything that somebody can be proud of and stand up for and believe in, and just removing it to this horrible computer code.
And in fact, on that note, what would be more valuable to the concept of being an American than, say, the founding fathers?
Yeah.
Not much.
So that's why we have to take away the statue of Thomas Jefferson from the New York City City Hall.
The founding people who don't have cervixes.
Yes.
We do not need those around anymore.
And because, we have a quote from the Commission, Council Member Inez Barron says, we're not waging war on history, we're saying we want to make sure the total story is told, so get rid of this statue, because that's somehow not a war on history.
That's a war on history.
Fair enough, add or have a plaque saying, oh yeah, so there's other stuff going on as well, and there's these guys, and there's some issues with Thomas Jefferson, he owned slaves, because it was the old days, and everybody was bad back then.
There weren't gender studies degrees you could do in the 1700s or whatever.
Obviously, people in the old days, we can't judge them by modern standards.
Nope.
Fine, add, you know, add to the history of being taught, but don't tear it down.
Don't destroy it and hide it.
No, that's what they're doing.
They're hiding it.
They're removing it.
Anyway, so, I mean, you know, this is what I would consider to be an attack on American cultural identity.
Why not?
You can't call each other Americans.
We can take down your statues of the Founding Fathers.
And don't forget that it's pronoun day, though, according to the Department of State.
What are your pronouns, Carl?
He, him, actually.
Mine are she and they.
Based.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm not going to remember that, though.
Ban Dave Chappelle.
Ban Dave Chappelle.
We'll get to it.
But yeah, so this is what they're wasting their time with after trying to deconstruct the American identity.
And anyway, moving on, Rachel Levine, do you know who that is?
Yeah.
Yeah, a very sane person who's been promoted to a four-star admiral.
Never served in the military.
An Admiral S. An Admiral S, yes.
Well, I mean...
I'm not sure the language we're supposed to use, to be honest.
But this was Biden's health...
Yeah, she was health before.
Health Secretary, yeah.
Sorry, Assistant Secretary for Health has been sworn in as a former Admiral.
Because why not?
Because they're laughing in your face while they do all of this, right?
But listen to her statement.
Well, it's kind of weird because women are better at being Secretaries, I'd have thought.
LAUGHTER Disavow.
But listen to this, right?
I am truly honoured to join the ranks of men and women across this great nation who have committed to defend the United States against small and large threats, known and unknown.
My father often spoke about his service in the Air Force during World War II, a young man from a small town in Massachusetts stepping up to answer the call, serving Africa and Italy as a Jewish-American, just as he stepped up to defend our rights and freedoms.
I now follow in the storied tradition of service as I step up to defend the health of our nation, especially now as we face the biggest public health crisis across our country and the world has faced in modern times.
I stand on the shoulders of these LGBTQ plus individuals who came before me, both those known and unknown.
May this appointment today become the first of many more to come as we create a diverse and more inclusive future.
Diversity makes us stronger.
Hmm.
Yeah, I mean, like, inclusivity, diversity, there's definitely advantages to it, but I think it only works if everybody's included.
You know what I mean?
Like, at the moment, the media narrative, the mainstream narrative, the societal narrative is that being cisgender, being white, being male, being Christian, all the rest of it is bad.
And I think that's bollocks.
Well, that's because a lot of Americans used to be cisgender white Christian men.
But anyway, moving on, you may remember that Rachel Levine is the person who forced nursing homes to accept COVID patients, probably killing around 20,000 elderly people in Pennsylvania.
She was in charge.
So the nursing homes are a diverse mix of healthy people and people with coronavirus.
Yes.
And then the people with coronavirus.
I mean, I don't know if that's an example of diversity being good.
Yeah, well, the American Healthcare Association said, well, look, this is going to kill people.
And she was like, yeah, but not my 95-year-old mother who she moved out of a long-term care facility and into a hotel.
No way!
Not even joking.
Not even joking.
No way!
It's exactly what she did.
So, I mean, you could call her a murderer and it wouldn't be an inaccurate charge.
It's worse almost.
Oh, it's awful.
Pure evil.
Like, to move, at least, you know, when mad cow disease was around.
I remember the Tory politician in charge of it fed his kids beef burgers.
Yeah.
To show that it's safe.
He didn't eat it himself, you know, because I guess he was thinking I can have other kids if these ones...
But, yeah, to do this, that's disgusting.
Anyway, we've still got more and I want to get through it.
While this is happening, well, one of the Navy's warships burned down.
New Admiral...
Ship burns down.
Apparently this was an entirely preventable catastrophe, avoidable catastrophe.
But one particular sailor said that he was charged with it.
But basically, the commanders, sorry, not the commanders, the reporters, suggesting that the vessel could have been salvaged if not for the commanders and crew's lack of basic training and skills.
Interesting how the training and skills of the military are going down under the Biden administration.
Because they're being distracted, being sent on, like, diversity training.
Even better, right?
Go to the next one, John.
Even better, the female soldiers can now wear lipstick, nail polish, and locks.
Man, like, fine.
No, not fine.
Not fine at all.
No, that's kind of hot.
Yeah, but that's exactly the problem.
If hot soldiers come over the hill at you, you're going to be, like, the Russians or whatever are going to be less likely to shoot a hot soldier.
Well, the army has approved healthier style options that are more inclusive of various natural styles in an effort to stop hair damage and loss stemming from hairstyles in a bun.
Oh my goodness, why don't they get their heads shaved like the men?
Right?
But anyway, so, you know, it doesn't matter.
While this is all happening, the US generals are getting their nails done.
If you open up that image on the right, John, that's a US general who's just been getting her nails done.
And at the same time, China's testing hypersonic missiles.
US intelligence and military officials stunned.
Or maybe if they get out of the salons for five minutes, maybe they'd be able to figure this out.
But yeah, literally, if you can go to the next one, a source told inside a paper...
Do you think there's a link between the number of Asians working in nail salons?
LAUGHTER I'm on the decline of the US military.
I can't confirm.
They sowed the seeds of nice nails.
Maybe.
But I love this.
One of the five people familiar with the test said, we have no idea how they did this.
Oh, well, that's good.
Even if you think that, don't say it out loud.
Try and look like, oh, yeah, no, we know about this and we know how to deal with it.
They know how to get their hair done and do their makeup when they're on campaign.
They don't know how the Chinese are testing hypersonic missiles.
But they can carry nuclear warheads, incidentally.
But anyway, what was Jen Psaki's response to this?
Jen Psaki's response was, we welcome the competition.
China's testing nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles, and Jen Psaki's like, yes, we welcome the competition.
No, we don't, Jen.
That's bad.
But anyway, so it's no surprise that Biden's approval rating is through the floor.
It's very, very low.
It's 42.9% approval on RealClearPolitics average as time of recording, which means that Donald Trump is at the moment more popular than Joe Biden.
And not surprising, because if you go back a year, what was it like under Donald Trump?
They were paying you to take away fuel.
And it was the roaring economy.
Lowest unemployment in like, you know, 50 years or something.
Everything was going brilliantly, and Joe Biden has literally screwed this country up on purpose, right?
I mean, unless you're a shareholder in one of the companies.
Yeah, unless you own Pfizer stock, you know.
Anyway, so 48% of respondents said they had a positive view of Trump, compared to 46% who had a favorable view of Biden.
And 51% believe that Trump was a better president than Biden, which is obviously true.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's with a 90% negative media campaign against Trump as well.
And almost 100% positive media campaign for Biden.
And it's interesting people see through it because I was talking to somebody who...
Well, they can't afford anything.
Somebody who lived in Russia.
And so the media they get there is obviously very state-heavy, very sort of state propaganda-driven.
But people know that, so they filter it out.
And I think the same has happened in the West.
When people read the papers here, when people read The Guardian, they're filtering it.
They know it's biased, propagandist bullshit.
I absolutely hope so.
But interestingly, the people who are happy with Joe Biden are everyone outside of the United States.
Around the world, watching America crumble is very, very positive for those countries that hate America.
And that's bizarre, because it's not as if America's had any overseas victories.
Afghanistan was a disaster!
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
And I couldn't even find the time to shove that in here either, obviously.
But this is the thing.
Apparently Biden's median approval rating across 46 different countries is 49%, whereas Trump's was 30%.
Why?
Because Trump was acting in American interest and making America strong and great again, meaning they were all salty about it.
And Biden's making America weak and failing, and so they're all thrilled about it.
Yeah.
And also, I mean, I'm not sure how much I believe that.
I think more people like Trump than let on.
I think so too.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think so too.
But the people polled, you know, don't say that.
The people willing to speak to a polling agency, which is the only people who ever get polled.
Yeah.
Anyway, I know that dragged on a little bit, but there was so much there.
Let's carry on.
Okay, so my segment is about COP26, which is a climate change summit being held in Glasgow, of all places.
So 25,000 delegates are going to fly into Glasgow and try and convince everyone to burn less fossil fuels.
I mean, unless you're doing something really vital and important, like flying to Glasgow for a taxpayer-sponsored party.
So, yeah, the S&P are obviously already screwing it.
It hasn't even started.
It starts at the 31st of October.
It hasn't even started, and the S&P are already screwing up.
So the next slide...
So, basically, the S&P hired a fleet of...
It's not Teslas.
It was reported as Teslas.
And then, like, this is an interesting thing.
Like, the fact change...
Fact change people said, oh, no, this is a lie.
They're not hiring Teslas.
It's like, well, they're hiring Jaguars.
Electric Jaguars, which doesn't mean that they're not lavishing huge amounts of taxpayer largesse on these people.
Jaguars are more expensive than Teslas.
But anyway, they've hired a fleet of Jaguars, electric Jaguars, to ferry the delegates around.
But there's not enough charging points, so they're having to hire diesel generators.
LAUGHTER Carry them around on flatbed trucks to power the electric cars, which just blows my mind.
I mean, there's no way that that's more efficient than just hiring diesel cars.
Hiring a diesel engine to create electricity to put into an electric car is definitely Less environmentally friendly than just driving a diesel car.
Amazing.
It's insanity.
I mean, you couldn't make this up.
Just the farcical state of the SNP. I mean, it's lucky no part of the climate conference involves some sort of alcohol imbibement in a place that creates alcohol.
It does sound like a skit out of The Office or something, doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
It's so cartoonishly stupid.
It is insane.
And apparently electric cars aren't that great.
As well as, obviously, there's a lot of the toxic metals and stuff that are involved in the batteries.
So Munich is banning electric vehicles because they keep burning.
Good news.
That looks like a terrorist attack.
Yes, it does.
But yeah, it's just an electric bus that's blown up.
I saw a video of this happening the other day where it was like a CCTV camera of just a bay with a bunch of vehicles that were charging.
One of them catches fire and then they all catch fire and they all burn down.
Right, right.
It just goes on like one to the next.
Yeah, exactly.
And I was just like, Christ.
Yeah, like in Grand Theft Auto where that happens.
Basically, yeah.
And the next tab.
So as well as flying everybody in and giving them all electric Jaguars, they've eased COVID travel restrictions.
Because apparently COVID doesn't transmit.
It's not a problem when you're trying to save the environment.
Like it wasn't a problem when you're protesting against Black Lives Matter.
Oh, you don't need your vaccine passports.
Why do we even bother developing a vaccine?
That's a great question.
We could have just joined Greenpeace and bought White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.
You know what I mean?
If COVID is a thing, it's a thing for these people as well as for us.
It's a thing for climate change conferences and Black Lives Matter rallies as well as nightclubs and comedy clubs and football stadiums.
Because they do have those vaccine passports for those in Scotland, don't they?
Yeah, so vaccine passports are now mandatory in Scotland, although very easy to fake.
We don't encourage faking vaccine passports.
I 100% encourage faking vaccine passports, so you can just get a screenshot.
Yeah, we might get in trouble for that, so we're not going to encourage that.
Okay.
So, yeah, I mean, I just think this is disgusting hypocrisy.
And also, you know, if you're going to...
Man, they keep banging on about how, you know, COVID is such, you know, so dangerous and it's, you know, contributing to everything like the supply chain and, you know, all kinds of issues.
But they're like, oh, no, but our thing, we don't need it.
It's not for us.
It's just for you guys.
So the next tab...
I mean, the whole all green policy, all climate change stuff is just elitist...
The data, the science is so nebulous and the data has been manipulated so much and it's so many things crunched together.
I used to work as a criminal intelligence analyst and when we were evaluating police operations, man, we never had an unsuccessful one.
Because you can manipulate the data to show anything you want.
You cherry-pick whatever times and patterns and whatever you're reviewing.
You can always show success.
So you can make data show whatever you want.
And I feel the same thing's happening with climate change.
And it's elitists that have given themselves high-paying roles.
There's so much money.
It's a real industry.
And it's all paid for by taxpayers.
So, for example, the delegates to COP26 are going to get...
Free smart cards for travel and public transport in Glasgow.
And not only is it free, it's not free for Glaswegians, it's going to be free for them.
Glaswegians don't even get...
There's no smart card system like you can in London.
There's no smart card system in Glasgow.
If there's a smart card system available, why do we all get to use it?
You know what I mean?
It's ridiculous.
Wow, that really does just highlight the two-tier society, doesn't it?
Absolutely, absolutely.
I mean, it couldn't be more obvious.
You've got these free smart cards with glass windows, you're like, what?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they're like, no, not for you.
Not for you, you plebs.
This is just for Leonardo DiCaprio.
Oh, and so the next tab, I've got an artist's impression of what it would look like if you scroll down.
This is Leonardo DiCaprio getting on the tube at Cessnock.
And yeah, so the Climate Change Conference, they're not going to look at any of the positives.
Climate change debate is always incredibly one-sided.
It just looks at the negatives.
So this is actually from a website, climate.gov.
So this is an official website of the United States government.
And so it's generally anti-climate change.
So even they have to concede that there are some positive benefits from climate change.
California will be underwater.
Bristol will be underwater.
Unfortunately, Brighton survives.
We're not ready for that one yet.
So yeah, I mean, it's going to be warmer.
I mean, that seems obvious, but it's going to be warmer.
And to be honest, I like being warm.
It's freezing out there right now.
It is.
It's too cold.
So fewer people will die from cold snaps.
Maybe a few more will die in heat waves.
So it'll benefit the homeless.
So benefit the homeless, which is actually very important for Scotland, because one of the SNP's key feelings is the rise in drug abuse and homelessness and general poverty and just the poverty of ambition as well in Scotland now is terrible.
So yeah, fewer junkies are going to die.
Tundra is going to be usable as farmland as it thaws out.
So that's going to be hugely useful.
The Northwest Passage is going to open for faster shipping across the North Pole.
CO2, nobody ever talks about this.
It's plant fertiliser.
And it's already having an effect.
So plants are growing faster and stronger, and they're also more drought-resistant as well.
And historically, if we move on to the next graph, we're actually in a dangerously low era for carbon dioxide.
So this graph shows it's across geological scales.
We're talking hundreds of millions of years from the Precambrian all the way through to the modern era.
And you can see the CO2 levels.
So that's the purple chart.
So it was up around 10,000 parts per million.
And it's dropped.
Overall, the trend has come right down to very, very small.
And it's just started lifting up since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
And if you look at the blue graph, that's the temperature.
So again, the global temperatures have fluctuated across the eras, and temperatures are very low.
And if we're going to revive dinosaurs, we're going to have to get the atmosphere back to about the Cretaceous area, right?
Absolutely.
And people talk about carbon capture.
You know when you look at the white cliffs of Dover?
Or if you look at the chalky soil in Buckinghamshire?
Or chalk anywhere?
That is all from...
Or the sand on the beach, so much of that from seashells.
That is all from animals that have created shells, which is calcium carbonate.
So carbonate is, I think it's two or three carbon dioxide.
So basically, they're capturing the carbon.
And that's all carbon.
That's a huge carbon store.
So historically, we've got incredibly low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere right now.
They're starting to tick up now.
But some scientists believe that we're actually restoring some balance to the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
I have no idea about any of it.
And also global warming, it doesn't affect the equator.
It just affects the poles, really.
I mean, there's some issues like rising sea levels.
But I'm from Scotland, it's made out of mountains.
I suspect we can't actually put this segment on YouTube now.
Why?
Because YouTube doesn't want you to be...
Their thing was, you're not allowed to deny climate change, but they didn't say anything about being pro-climate change.
Yeah, I mean, there's going to be negative impacts and positive impacts.
But climate change is happening.
But it's always happened, as that graph shows.
There's always been climate change.
It strikes me as a deeply conservative position to be like, we don't want the climates to change.
Why not?
It's always changed.
It's not very progressive, is it?
It's ridiculous to say that we can stop the climate from changing.
Of course we can't.
It's an absurd statement.
Yeah, absolutely.
Some people think we should just surf the benefits.
And there's strikes, because the eyes of the world are going to be in Scotland, everyone is striking.
So train drivers, which means they're not going to be able to use low-carbon public transport to get around.
Council staff, so bin men, school janitors, cleaners and cooks, they're all on strike, doing even less work than usual for public sector workers.
And lawyers are also striking.
Thank God.
There's a benefit to everything.
Yeah.
But who's going to represent all the crusties who get arrested at the protest?
Oh no, the left-wing human rights lawyers aren't going to screw the country up for five minutes.
Terrible.
Yeah, the next tab.
So even Greta Thunberg thinks Scotland is not a world leader on climate change.
Well, if Greta Thunberg said it, it's gospel now.
So she'll be riding her horse or yacht or whatever to the conference, no doubt.
The Queen has also criticised the climate conference, saying these things never make any substantial change, which I agree with her on that.
It's really just an excuse for a bunch of world leaders to have a jolly, have some free lunches and get drunk at taxpayers' expense.
The next tab, so we can see some of the failures of the SNP.
So all of Scotland's steel is shipped abroad for recycling.
You know, the SNP is like, oh, we do so much recycling.
No, you ship it to other countries.
And obviously the standards and the sort of oversight in other countries isn't anywhere near as strong as it is in, you know, a Western country.
Which is presumably why they do it.
Yeah.
I mean, a lot of this, when recycling is shipped abroad, a lot of it gets burnt, a lot of it isn't recycled.
It can be hugely environmentally damaging.
And not just for that, but also when they're burning plastic or whatever is going into the air and putting all the greenhouse gases and incredibly toxic gases back into the air.
The next tab shows that while we're talking about plastic, so three tonnes a minute From Scotland of plastic waste, that's 1.7 million tonnes of rubbish a year is exported to other countries to be dealt with.
And it's not being exported to Sweden or somewhere like that.
It's being exported to the third world where you've got unscrupulous companies trying to make a quick buck and you might as well get Tony Soprano to deal with it.
It's all like going in the canal or getting burnt.
It's not being dealt with properly.
And this is a real scandal of green policy, I think, because after everybody making so much effort to separate out their plastics and put it in the right bucket and all the rest of it, And none of it matters.
Giving themselves a pat on the back.
It just goes to Gambia and gets burnt in the middle of the jungle or whatever.
So yeah, more failures.
So the S&P said they were going to set up a state-run energy company which was going to sell on gas and electricity to the consumer at cost prices.
And that hasn't happened.
But they've spent half a million pounds on consultants to fanny around and not actually do anything.
The next one, another S&P target that's been missed if you scroll down.
So there's supposed to be 10% of journeys by bike in Scotland.
And they missed it.
Not missed it by a bit.
They missed it by a lot.
So only 4% of journeys in Scotland are being taken by bike.
I understand Scotland.
I mean, it's very hilly and it rains all the time.
Yeah, you don't want to go cycling in there.
It's not Holland.
No.
You go to Holland and it's like...
Cycling there's lovely because you never have to break a sweat.
But yeah, and another...
Another SNP failing?
This is, man, this is just basically, we need about three hours to go through all the SNP's failures.
So Scottish wildlife is at risk.
So they've cut £100 million from environmental bodies.
So that's down 40% in a decade, right when the SNP are, you know, rattling the drum and saying, oh, we're being so green, we're being so positive, let's have the climate conference here.
Scotland has a lot of rare flora and fauna.
The next tab, we've got one in nine Scot species is at risk of extinction.
So that's a ptarmigan there, lives in the grouse moors.
And this is interesting because I know a lot of environmentalists.
Who aren't familiar with how the countryside actually works think that grouse shooting should be stopped because it's cruel, it's rich people going out in the moors and shooting these rare precious birds.
And the truth of the matter is that grouse moors are...
I used to work in the grouse moors up in Scotland.
My dad's a gunsmith.
What they do is they maintain the grouse moors very carefully, so it provides this incredible habitat for things like ptarmigan, but also raptors, orchids, all kinds of flora and fauna.
So it creates this amazing habitat.
Rare environment, which, like, what people don't understand is, like, the countryside is a business.
Somebody owns the land.
So if it's not used for grouse shooting, it'll be used for the next most lucrative use, which could be upland sheep farming.
And a lot of times, the next most lucrative use is blanket coniferous forestry, which is horrible.
A complete monoculture.
It's ugly.
It's...
They're not native species.
And yeah, like I said, it's complete monoculture.
It doesn't support any flora and fauna apart from the trees being grown.
And it also acidifies the soil and acidifies watercourses downstream.
So it's a real ecological...
It does a lot of ecological damage.
But environmentalists would quite often rather have that than have grouse moors because, oh, it's cruel because the grouse are getting shot.
Even though the grouse are then getting eaten.
So the grouse live an amazing life, a natural life.
Yeah.
You can't raise...
Pheasants are raised and then put down on the land.
Grouse have to live wild.
So they just make the environment nice for them.
And grouse are delicious as well.
And it all gets eaten.
So yeah, breeding seabird numbers in Scotland have almost halved since the 1980s.
Just to be honest, I don't care about, man.
Seagulls are absolute shits.
Actually, there's some...
There's some nice seabirds, though, like these Arctic skuas.
They've dropped 81%.
And, man, the SNP should be doing something about this.
They're teamed up.
They've been propped up in Scottish Government by the Green Party, and they have been for some years now.
But for some reason the Green Party is just obsessed with trans issues instead of anything that's actually green.
And if anything, transgender people are bad for the environment because they're extra plastic.
So...
If we go down, Scotland has also missed another SMP failing.
It's missed 11 targets on preventing species extinction, even though they lied and they said they were on track.
So this is 11 out of 20.
So this is more than half of their targets on species extinction.
So you can see there's the red squirrel, there's some kind of fish, there's what looks like a narwhal.
I've never seen any of these things.
Actually, I've seen red squirrel in Scotland, but I haven't seen a narwhal.
So, yeah, it's ridiculous.
The S&P have failed to hit their greenhouse gas targets for the third straight year.
They've had plans to have carbon sequestration units on the power stations in Peterhead and stuff.
And it's amazing they can't do this, given that the North Sea oil has basically just died.
Oh, is it?
Oh, man.
Last year, I think it was less than half a billion dollars in revenue.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it's crazy, considering that it was up around 15 billion not long ago.
So, yeah, I mean, the whole government and the whole Western world, particularly the UK, has been moving from fossil fuel, a carbon-based power economy...
To renewables.
So they're putting all these windmills up.
So, you know, windmills being a 14th century technology used in Holland to grind grain.
It's coming back.
A lot of shout-outs to Holland today.
I don't know why.
Seems to be doing something right.
Yeah, yeah.
And, yeah, windmills, you know, they're fine.
I mean, there's some issues with windmills.
They actually draw power from the national grid when...
Yeah, because they've got to balance and stabilize all the rest of it.
When they're churning, they do generate power, but then they break very easily because of the buffeting by wind.
It's not like a turbine in a power station that's very pristine and being fed directionally and stuff.
So, yeah, there just aren't – when the wind doesn't blow, as we saw a few weeks ago, we don't generate any power.
Also, the SNP said there's going to be 28,000 jobs created in the offshore wind farm.
You know, because Scotland's got, I think, 25% of Europe's, or the UK's got 25% of Europe's, like, wind farm available land.
We've got, you know, sea shelves with shallow water.
And, I mean, these wind farms, they do do some environmental damage.
They're bad for migrating birds.
They're bad for shipping.
But, yeah, they said, oh, we're going to create 28,000 jobs.
Only 6%.
6%.
A tiny fraction of the jobs they promised were actually created.
And you know why?
Because they're not making anything in the UK! It's all getting offshored, like they do with the recycling.
They send it to Africa to get burnt.
And same thing here, they're getting all the wind farms being made in France or the Netherlands, in Holland.
LAUGHTER What's Holland doing right that we're not doing?
Well, they've got that windmill history.
But, yeah, so, I mean, the SNB is just an absolute shambles of a government.
And, you know, you'd think at least, you know, if you're bringing it, if you're spending so much taxpayers' money, well, UK taxpayers' money, not Scottish taxpayers' money.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But if you're spending all these taxpayers' money, you know, building wind farms and stuff, they promised a windfall in jobs and it didn't arrive.
None of it materialized.
It's disgusting.
So yeah, I've rattled through that.
But yeah, I just think the whole concept of having a climate change conference in Glasgow is ridiculous as a concept.
Like Scotland is the one country that's really crying out for some climate change.
The climate there is horrible.
So it's ridiculous.
Right, well, we're running over, but let's power on.
Right, so, let's talk about the ridiculous Netflix walkout over Dave Chappelle's The Closer special, in which he declared himself to be Team Turf while defending J.K. Rowling.
We won't reiterate this, so let's go on to the next one.
This was well-received among comedians.
One black comedian said he freed the slaves with this Netflix special.
The comedians, being the slaves to PC culture, literally says we're slaves to PC culture.
Yeah.
Just ring a bell.
And you went to see him last night, in fact, didn't you?
Last night, yeah.
Look, there's me.
Free tickets because I'm also problematic and I got cancelled for transphobia.
So there's me and Darius Davies going to see Dave Chappelle.
Was it a good show?
Yeah, yeah, it was a good show.
Good.
Right, and so basically the Netflix CEO is like, right, I've got the world's most successful stand-up comedian, or I have a bunch of angry transgender activists who work at my company.
Who am I going to side with?
And obviously he was like, well, the money's with Dave Chappelle.
And so he sent around a memo to Netflix on Monday.
We know that a number of you have been angry, disappointed, and hurt by a decision to put Dave Chappelle's latest special on Netflix.
With the closer, we understand that the concern is not about offensive to some content, but titles that would increase real-world harm.
Last year we heard similar concerns about 365 days and violence against women.
While some employees disagree, we have a strong belief that content on screen doesn't directly translate to real-world harm.
That's only because that's supported by science.
And also, what about cuties?
Well, I mean, like we were saying before the podcast, the Netflix staff probably supported that.
They masturbated over it.
I cannot confirm nor deny, but...
100% categorically state that all the blue-haired freaks masturbated over cuties.
I know where I'd put my bet if I was making one.
He says, what we object to is the harm that content...
Sorry, this is a Netflix employee called Tara Field posted on Twitter.
What we object to is the harm that content like this does to the trans community, especially trans people of colour, and very specifically black trans women.
So why is it specific to black trans people?
I have no idea.
Well, actually, I do know.
It's because the majority of murders of trans people is in the black community.
Care to hazard a guess why?
Is it because of sort of unprogressive values?
Yeah, and surprises.
So if you go to a nightclub, you pick up a very beautiful woman, and it's not, well...
Well, you're home now, so...
Well, so anyway, they carry on saying, make no mistake, Chappelle's alleged jokes do not impact hypothetical people.
They in fact cause real harm to transgender and non-binary viewers and black LGBTQ youth who may once have looked up to him as a role model, says queer author and attorney Preston Mitchum.
Prove it.
And also if you watch the show, he's not advocating any harm against trans people.
He talks with great empathy and love for a transgender friend of his who actually committed suicide after being hounded by trans rights activists.
So not being hounded by terrorists, being hounded by trans rights activists because she was friends with Dave Chappelle.
Well, there we go.
And so they point out that, well, you know, a study has shown that on-screen violence doesn't correlate with violence in the real world, but the trans campaign is like, yeah, but there are the highest rate of trans murders since these killings were being tracked in 2013, and so this is Netflix's fault.
Spoiler alert, there's no proof that it's Netflix's fault.
And Sarandos went on to say that Netflix is working hard to ensure marginalized communities aren't defined by a single story, and that they're increasing diversity on the content team itself, with titles such as Sex Education, Orange is the New Black, Control Z, and the stand-up of Hannah Gadsby as companions to Chappelle's special on the service.
And, uh...
Excuse me.
In fact, I think the next slide is Hannah Gadsby screaming and moaning like a child over this.
That's exactly it, yeah.
Just a quick note to let you know, I'd prefer if you didn't drag my name into your mess.
It's like, why?
This is good news for you.
You're going to go viral over this.
And the thing I loved about this was she complained.
She's all like, you didn't pay me enough!
Yeah, that was exactly right.
Yeah, you didn't get paid that much because you're not as popular as Dave Chappelle.
You know what I mean?
Now I have to deal with even more of the hate and anger that Dave Chappelle's fans like to unleash on me every time Dave gets $20 million to process his emotionally stunted partial worldview.
You didn't pay me nearly enough with the real-world consequences of the hate speech dog-whistling you refuse to acknowledge, Ted.
F you and your amoral algorithm...
Cult.
I do S's with more backbone than you.
That's just a joke.
I definitely didn't cross a line because you told the world there isn't one.
It's not that good a joke.
It's not that good a joke.
Honestly, Hannah Gadsby, I watched Nanette, her breakthrough special that was supposed to be so amazing.
I forced myself to watch it to the end.
There was quite a gripping interest in what she's talking about, talking about the abuse she received.
But actually, the first half that's supposed to be the superlative stand-up was just awful.
It was jokes like, you know, people say laughter's the best medicine.
I think it's penicillin.
It's like, man, that is like a Christmas.
It's like a Christmas cracker joke.
From like 1982.
It's not even a new Christmas cracker joke.
Gosh.
And for her to complain about not getting paid enough when she's been paid millions.
Absolutely millions.
And like, also, that's the free market.
It's like when people complain that women's footballers aren't paid enough.
It's like, well, go and buy a ticket.
Buy a season's ticket to watch women's football then.
But you won't because it's rubbish.
And same with this.
Nobody's watching the net because it's rubbish.
They'll all crow about it.
They'll say on Instagram, live in the net.
I'm not actually going to watch it.
But let's go to the next one, John, because comedian David Daris pointed this out.
Can you summarise it quickly?
Turn the noise up.
It's only 10 seconds.
Okay, go on.
Turn the noise up.
It's like we're all human at the end of the day.
So I thought it was very funny.
There's a few bits that weren't funny, but the same people would tell you that Dave Chappelle, the closer, wasn't funny are the same people that will straight face look you in the eye and say that Nanette is the greatest comedy special of all time when we know for a fact that Nanette is drizzling shit.
I think both have, like, comedic value, but you have to agree with the...
Radu, I'll kick you off the podcast.
No.
No, Radu.
No.
Nanette has no comedic value.
Nanette is shit.
No, listen.
So that's Darius Davies and the podcast we do together called Three Speech Podcast.
And yeah, he's right, man.
I remember Darius posted saying, like, you know, he posted, man, it was so funny.
So Darius is a comedian as well, and he posted on Facebook, he's like, how come it's all the shit unfunny comedians who think Nanette is good, who think Hannah Gadsby's funny?
It's a really great question.
Like, all these, like, shit comedians posted, oh, Nanette was funny!
Like, Darius is just like, yeah, you're shit!
You're proving my point!
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
So, a black trans person came out and defended Dave Chappelle.
Someone called Flame Monroe is a black transgender comedian.
Says, as a comedian, I don't want this to be censored.
I think nothing is off limits.
The world has become too censored.
There's three dogs I have in this fight.
As a comedian, I don't want to be censored.
As a trans woman, I want equality.
As a black person, I want fair treatment in this country that we've been trying to get for 400 years.
All of this, what you can or cannot say is ridiculous.
I absolutely do not think the special should be taken down.
I think the great Dave Chappelle, what he's done, is opened up a forum to have a real conversation between the heterosexual and gay community.
There is no heterosexual community.
There's no gay community either.
That's true.
This idea of putting people out.
It's like a chicken-eating community.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like, everybody's an individual.
Yeah.
Anyway, so the Netflix social media team took to social media and complained about this, saying, to be clear, as queer and trans people who run this account, you can imagine that the last couple of weeks have been hard.
And so they complained about that and said they were going to organise a boycott.
And so there was a Netflix walkout, if we can get to the next one, amid cheers and chants of team trans.
I think it was more of a mince out than a walkout.
I think that's probably true.
Dozens of Netflix employees walked out of a company office in Los Angeles on Wednesday protesting Chappelle.
Carrying signs that read, hey Netflix do better and transphobia is not a joke.
I beg to differ.
The employees you think can make jokes about anything.
I got in trouble once, right?
Because I was asked on Sky News or something, and they're like, do you think racist jokes are funny?
I was like, some of them.
Because they're jokes.
Yeah, but they're racist.
But they could still be funny.
Because that's the point of a joke.
Anything could be funny.
Anyway.
Yeah, and I've heard that from black comedians as well.
You know what I mean?
Obviously, racist jokes can be horrible and can be cruel.
But Dave Chappelle's actually a great example of this.
I love his white guy voice.
You know, when he does his white guy voice, that's a racist joke.
That's funny.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, and he even did last night, he did a joke.
It was very funny about, that could be conceived as racist.
It certainly would be racist if I had that, about black people in Britain.
He said it's not the same as in America, like, because he saw a black guy riding a bike with, like, cut flowers in the basket.
You wouldn't get that in Detroit.
So anyway, Joey Soloway, the creator of Amazon Prime series Transparent, urged Netflix executives to add a transgender person to its corporate board and the entertainment industry as a whole to begin significantly hiring more transgender people.
Well, why didn't they just, somebody on the board can just be like, oh yeah, I'm a woman.
You know what I mean?
Checkmate.
Because apparently that's all you need to do.
I'm a woman.
But the thing is as well, there aren't that many trans people in existence.
So they can't just be like, right, we're going to hire loads and loads of trans people because there just aren't that many.
Well, I'm a trans.
Honestly, now that it's so easy to become a woman and also everybody needs to hire a transgender, I'm a woman.
If we ever get called here about diversity quotas, well, I'm happy to transition.
Then you've got two women.
Exactly.
So another person was complaining, of course.
But the protest was met with a counter-protest.
May as well watch some of this, because I agree with this counter-protest.
Let's play it.
We like jokes!
Change my mother.
Jokes are funny!
You can stop there, John.
So, the irony of this, of course, is that the trans protesters are literally saying jokes aren't funny.
Yeah.
I mean, that was literally their point.
Transphobic jokes aren't funny.
It's like, well, it depends.
Yeah.
But, yeah, so, I mean, people were complaining about this.
But if we can get the link up, John, just to show the next one, you can see, you know, Dave is funny, jokes are funny.
And that chap there with the jokes are funny sign is a YouTuber called Vito.
He's alright.
You know, he's like, you know, a sort of centrist, I guess we'd say, YouTuber.
He does, you know, movie reviews and stuff like that.
He seems like a decent chap.
And he got harassed and intimidated by this very sane crowd.
if we can play the next clip that's a big match yeah He's got a weapon.
Uh-oh.
He's got a weapon. - Oh, you want me to drop my weapon?
Yes.
There's my weapon.
I'm not distracting anything.
That's a rich shot today, you see that?
Yeah, all this on something.
I'm just here to say that jokes are funny, people.
Dave Chappelle is a funny guy!
I love James!
I don't know why all the violence...
I don't know why all the hate...
I just love James Chappelle!
James Chappelle!
They took my stick!
They took my stick!
My stick!
They took it!
My side!
I need my post I think you can stop it now.
You can see the quality of people that are involved with this.
Yeah.
But this is important for some reason.
Do we have the video of the big Tonka truck?
Oh man, there's like...
No.
Oh man, I don't know if we've got time to...
We have, let me carry on because we're running out of time.
So the Netflix employees have produced a list of demands.
Create a new fund to specifically develop trans and non-binary talent.
Increased investment in trans and non-binary content on Netflix comparable to our total investment in transphobic content.
So pay them as much as they pay Dave Chappelle.
What?
They're asking.
He's not transphobic!
Ah, well, that's where you're wrong, in their opinion.
They say invest in multiple trans creators to make both scripted and unscripted programs, revise internal processes on commissioning and releasing potential harmful sensitive content, hire trans and non-binary content executives, especially BIPOC, in leading positions, recruit trans people, especially BIPOC, for leadership roles in the company, eliminate references or imagery of transphobic titles or talent inside of the workplace...
I bet there's none.
Fire a bunch of transphobes.
Acknowledge the harm, and Netflix is a responsibility for this harm from transphobic content, and in particular harm to the black trans community, which has never been demonstrated.
Fire transphobes.
So basically transphobe is now just a magical word like witch that you can just say at someone and they'll get fired.
Yeah, exactly.
Prove you're not a witch.
Well, how do I do that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Prove you're not transphobic.
I'm not casting a spell, am I? Yeah, prove you're not transphobic.
You'll be like, well, I've never, you know, I haven't done anything.
I've never phobed a trans in my life.
I perceive you to be transphobic.
Exactly.
It's ridiculous.
And of course they want to add a disclaimer before transphobic titles that specifically flags transphobic content, misogyny, homophobia, hate speech, etc.
And then suggest trans-affirming content alongside and after-content.
Oh, that sounds hilarious.
Trans-affirming content.
Let's hear your hilarious trans-affirming joke.
Well, it's Hannah Gadsby, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
God.
And so you would have thought that this would have just been a bunch of people who got fired.
Because that's what I would have done if I were the person in charge of Netflix.
But instead, the Netflix boss has collapsed over this, and he didn't even wait for the protest to take place.
The day before, he was like, I screwed up that internal communication.
I screwed it up in multiple ways.
I should have done this.
I should have done that.
It's like, no, you should have fired these people and never taken them seriously in the first place.
I know you should quit for being a pussy.
Yeah, yes you should.
But he says, of course storytelling has a real impact in the real world.
I reiterate that that's because why I work here, and that's why we do what we do.
That impact can be hugely positive and can be quite negative.
Okay, so you're accepting that Dave Chappelle is causing trans people in the black community to die.
You know, because that's the allegation.
There's no causal link, and that's what they're claiming.
But he still stands on his like, well, I don't think it intends to cause physical harm.
I don't think it's hate speech.
It's like, well, you've accepted all of their premises, and so now you've conceded the ground.
These people were right, and you were wrong.
That's ridiculous.
Let's go to the video comments.
I am so angry right now.
I'm going to make this quick, but apparently it's 20 grand fines if I'm not vaccinated by the 31st of January.
Thank you, Mark McGowan, you smarmy little...
But you want to know the kicker?
Members of Parliament and the media won't be fined if they're not vaccinated.
They're just not allowed to work if there's a lockdown.
Why would there be a lockdown if we're all vaccinated, Mark?
Australia's being run by Nazis, man.
Yeah, Australia's really lost the plot.
And coercing people like that into getting vaccinated doesn't encourage you to get vaccinated.
I was up for getting the vaccine until the government was like, oh no, you've got to get it.
Get it right now.
You know what I mean?
What sort of sales technique is that?
You go to the car...
To look at a new car.
And the guy's like, you've got to get this car!
You've got to get it right now or I'm going to fucking put you in jail!
It's like, whoa, whoa!
I'm not getting this car!
It makes me think there's something wrong with that car.
Yeah!
Because, you know, previously I was like, oh, maybe I'll get a car.
But now I'm like, well, I'm a bit sus.
You know, you're acting really weird.
Why are you doing this?
You know, but yeah, the Australian government was a bunch of Nazis.
And I didn't realise they were going to start fining people 20 grand for not getting the vaccine.
And, of course, the two-tier society, the politicians and media...
Exempt.
That's the thing, like the climate change summit where they don't have to obey COVID restrictions.
It's awful.
Yeah, yeah.
It's awful.
And they're like, oh, but this is important and we need to be together.
It's like, well, so do we!
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like, if it's something that's so important, everybody has to do it.
What happened to the rule of law?
What happened to one rule for everyone?
And leading by example.
Exactly.
It's obvious, a vanguardist attempt to create a class of people who are just exempt from the rules that the plebeians have to follow.
And as a plebeian, I don't really approve of that.
Anyway, moving on to the next one.
Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art?
The reason why I bring this up is I've been playing Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
In the Legend of Zelda series, there is a race called the Gerudo, an all-female race.
Consequently, they need men outside of their race in order to keep their species going.
They take fertility classes.
And of course, there is a feminist at the back of the class who messes up every lesson, and it is glorious to watch.
I've never heard of that, so I can't comment on it.
And that's in a computer game?
Yes.
But that's also in Oxford University.
Right.
In Oxford University, they've started giving the women fertility classes.
Really?
Yeah.
Because they're like, look, don't wait until you're 40 to try and start a family.
Yeah.
You know, you're actually on a ticking clock.
Yeah.
And it's going to be a bit late by then, so, you know, start a bit earlier.
Yeah, yeah.
And that just goes to show how far things have gone, doesn't it?
Well, fertility has plummeted in the West.
I think it's 1.4.
So to maintain the same population, you need between 2.1 and 2.2.
And yeah, it's at 1.4.
So we're way below.
And to be honest, man, I would have had kids if I could afford to buy a house.
You know what I mean?
Just build.
If I could buy it.
It's not a lot.
I just want to buy a house I can sit in and have children in.
Just want to sit in my house and have children.
Yeah.
Let's go to the next one.
But I want it to be a farmhouse and I want it to be in Zone 2 of London.
I honestly feel really bad for those we call incels.
Everyone is so mean to them and there's nowhere to go.
They have no safe spaces, so to speak.
And the safe spaces they create, people are trying to tear down.
And the girls who are bullies to them then don't understand why men don't like them and they get mad at me because men like me And they say it's because of fin privilege and white privilege and because I'm a dirty traitor to women.
No, I just don't treat men like trash.
Amazing.
Yeah, I think incels are just chads who haven't been laid yet.
As soon as they get laid, they're going to be walking down the street like Saturday Night Fever.
Chads who haven't been laid yet.
Yeah, yeah.
And I think that the demonization of the pickup artist community, despite what people wrote about it in the media, it wasn't about abusing or misusing or tricking women or anything.
It was mostly just guys who wanted to get a girlfriend.
You know what I mean?
And developing the social skills and the confidence to get it.
It's what women do that for each other.
Absolutely.
Men don't do that for each other.
Women do that in women's magazines.
You see this constantly.
But what I love is what's the main thing we're talking about?
Virgins.
They're a bunch of virgins and we're scared of them.
They're going to kill people.
Oh my god.
Is there anything we can do about it?
Well, certainly not have sex with them.
Like, you know, sorry ladies, this is up to you now.
You know, I don't know what I'm supposed to do about it.
Yeah, yeah, stop a school shooting.
Give somebody a handjob.
Let's go to the next one.
What follows is conjecture.
Much of the anti-incel movement seems to arise from the left or left-leaning voices.
The left's current worldview is nurture Trump's nature.
In other words, we're all good people.
It is the outside influences that make us bad.
It follows then that they would treat...
Incels is terrorists.
Incels must be indoctrinated as no one is born bad.
The idea that there is an inherent immutable component, such as deformity, psychiatric disposition over intelligence, etc., cannot enter their thinking.
What was that about?
So he was talking about the left nurture over nature, so incels are being created.
I think that's what he was saying.
Is that...?
I didn't hear it.
Yeah, I think that's pretty much what he was saying.
So, I mean, it's interesting.
I think incels, yeah, it's a societal thing because, you know, society for some people can be very atomised and lonely.
Oh, absolutely.
So, yeah, like...
I think incels, man, I'm going to say it again, the pick-up artist community wasn't like a toxic thing.
I mean, maybe some of them were toxic, but for most of them, it was just guys who wanted to get a girlfriend.
And wanted to be...
Better with women have more choice or whatever.
Which, if it was a woman saying that, society would be like, hey, you go, girl.
You're so sassy.
Men owe you.
That's what they would say.
Men owe you is the opinion they'd have.
But when it comes to these poor men, they're just like, no, you're scum.
You're a terrorist.
Dude just wants a girlfriend.
Society continually shits on men and then wonders why men are committing suicide.
No, they don't.
They don't wonder that at all.
They just don't care.
That doesn't even come up, does it?
Let's go to the next one.
Okay, so I'm going to end up having to do more videos than I wanted to.
I apologize.
30 seconds just isn't a long time.
But I want to give some pre-context before I touch on the time of Christ.
So...
The religious situation that Christ ends up going into is you have the Jewish religious leaders who were taken in exile and has returned to Jerusalem practicing monotheism.
At the same time, you have the Hebrew people who weren't taken into exile still practicing the ancient faith.
And we know this a lot in part to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
There's some other archaeology as well, but mainly the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Okay, that's interesting.
I've never actually read the Dead Sea Scrolls.
It's been one of those things I probably should read.
Yeah.
Just as interesting.
I guess they're quite short, because it was the old days, they didn't have much paper.
No, no, you'd be surprised.
Are they quite long?
I don't know about the Dead Sea Scrolls in particular, but a lot of ancient texts are actually quite long.
Right.
And they just don't care.
And are they quite hard to read?
Are they boring?
No, no, no.
It depends what it is.
I tried reading the Zoroastrian texts, and they're insanely boring.
I thought, oh, this would be really interesting.
It's a totally different worldview, and it was just really dull.
I'm sorry, I just don't care.
But it depends what it is.
A lot of stuff's good.
Let's go on to the next one.
This is a radical idea.
Everyone also has the responsibility to integrate into their own culture.
That's true.
Is he talking about incels as well?
Well, I think he might actually be talking about progressive activists in the West who are sat there complaining about, oh, you know, we'll get rid of America as a concept.
It's like, no, you're an American.
You have a duty to integrate into that culture because otherwise you make people around you uncomfortable.
Yeah, although I guess annoying, bratty, self-centered protesters, that's part of American culture.
It is now, yeah.
It is now.
Let's go for the next one.
Hey Lotus Eaters, Tony D and Little Joan here with another legend of the Pines, the Gabriel Davis Tavern House here in Glendora, New Jersey.
It was built in 1756 and designated a field hospital during the Revolutionary War by General George Washington.
It still has the bloodstains in the attic from that time, and legend has it that the ghosts of the men who died here still walk the grounds.
I know it's the dogs being a lot better behaved when you're outside.
Yeah.
I've never seen them outside before.
No, I haven't, but I like the fact that the dog is now like knows its place.
Yeah.
You know, it's not yapping and it's not biting.
Yeah.
That's good.
Maybe it's like when you've got like a kid in a pushchair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
One of those things that like, and they fall asleep as soon as you're outside.
They do, yeah.
It's like there's the motion and the fresh air and stuff.
But no, I love those legends of the pines, man.
Let's go to the next one.
Guys, I wanted to show you around this house.
I work for a non-profit that fixes hurricane-damaged houses.
We had to cut this one to the studs because there was black mold on everything.
Just wanted to make Carl jealous by having a satisfying job.
Yes, I am jealous that you have a satisfying job.
Are you not finding this job satisfying?
This job is, but I've done plenty of jobs that are deeply unsatisfying.
And it was always one of those things, especially when I was younger, I was stuck in the research councils.
And even on a rainy day, I'd be typing, typing, typing, typing.
I'd just look out the window, and I'd be like, why don't I work outdoors?
Why don't I do something else?
Why do I do this?
And thankfully that's not a problem now, but like back then I remember just thinking, God, I wish I made things.
Yeah, yeah.
Rather than just changing numbers on a computer.
Yeah.
But anyway, so Henry says, given that it's Biden, and he says the quiet part out loud, does he really mean it will cost nothing because by the end of his term, that's how much 3.5 trillion will be worth.
I'm waiting for him to stop printing physical dollars because the linen they make them out of is worth more than the number printed on them.
Well, that is literally what's coming at the rate that things are going.
So, you know.
Bomb Tombadillo says, I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Biden, probably.
I think we're ascribing way too much agency to Biden at this point.
I think Biden is just a senile old figureman, figurehead.
Jen Psaki and whoever's running the administration behind the scenes, they're the ones substituting reality with their own.
Ryan says, the more I hear about what's happening in America and the more it looks like the US is being ruled by the false King John Biden.
I'm just waiting for the return of Trump the Lionheart.
Yeah, is conquest third law, is it?
To explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation, just assume it's being ruled by a cabal of its enemies.
And it's like, yeah, that's kind of what it looks like.
Bucket says, funny how the Democrats won basically everything last year on the federal level.
You have zero political momentum less than 12 months later.
Yeah, and generally less popular than the person they made everyone hate.
Jacob says, the death penalty is one of those dilemmas of liberal thought.
Granted, we can say that there are crimes that without a doubt deserve to get you that sentence.
However, will a liberal of any sense hand over that much power to the state to take one of its own citizens' lives?
The state that is doomed to make bureaucratic failures.
Well, I mean, technically they do since, you know, they shoot terrorists if they're running around armed and things like that.
So it's a matter of negotiation.
Clayton says, this is what happens when you let your economy be run by people who hate capitalism.
That's true.
And I think they've got this kind of messianic vision.
It's like, oh, we're going to fix the environment.
We're going to fix homelessness.
We're going to fix all the housing crises.
We're going to fix the job market.
We're going to fix all of these things.
Do you really think that Joe Biden and his administration are the guys for that?
Are these big brain geniuses going to fix every problem?
I don't think they are.
Yeah, absolutely.
And these are problems that fix themselves when the government steps back.
You need lower taxes, not higher taxes to fix these things.
Lower taxes for, you know, not talking about billionaires and stuff, but lower taxes for regular, you know, the guys in the street.
And then, you know, they're going to spend more money and, you know, they're going to, like...
Employ more people.
They're going to build things.
The world will get better.
There's a case to be made for improving America's infrastructure because a lot of the roads and bridges are now in a state of disrepair.
The trains are abominable.
Yeah.
So, I mean, there is, you know, the state does have a role to play.
But it always baffles me how, you know, the same people who say, oh, the government, government's so terrible.
It's like, well, what's the solution?
And they're like, well, we need a bigger government.
That doesn't make a lot of sense.
Have we tried even more money from the taxpayers going to people who are unaccountable in every way?
No, no, we shouldn't try that.
Anyway, JJHW says, the so-called Conservatives are now going to put a tax on meat to help the climate.
Get ready to eat the bugs and to minch.
Are you going to be eating bugs?
I've eaten bugs before.
I've eaten locusts in Thailand.
How was that?
Man, they tasted alright.
Except they cut my lips because I didn't realise you were supposed to just not eat the legs.
So I was eating the legs as well and they had these hooks on the legs ripping my lips.
But...
But a lot of meat.
So, for example, lamb is very sustainably farmed.
It's very cruelty-free as well because it lives outside on pasture.
You can't intensively rear lamb.
And that land, Upland Hill Farming, can't really be used for anything else.
Yeah, you're not growing wheat on it.
Yeah, it's not like you're cutting down soy to go.
I can understand the case for beef because you've got to cut down soy and corn and all the rest of it for all this feed.
But lamb is environmentally sustainable and the lamb can't really be used for much else.
So it's a good thing to eat.
Risk says if the COP26 seriously wanted to reduce climate change, they'd go ham on China and India.
However, because they know they couldn't care less, they go after European and Northern American countries.
Because Western elites love to look like they care about climate change while flying to Glasgow.
Yeah, absolutely.
And that's what it's all about.
Absolutely.
And also they know all the people, all the elitists who are making these rules and setting these taxes and running the climate change industry, they know they're going to get money from Western countries.
If they go to Xi Jinping and say, give us some money, he's going to be like...
Well, he's just come out recently and been like, right, we need to increase coal production.
Hugely, hugely.
He's seen what's happened in the UK when we slashed our coal production.
We have an energy crisis, you know what I mean?
They're having an energy crisis as well because they get a lot of their coal from Australia and there's recently been a bit of a hoo-ha there and there's some sort of Yeah, yeah.
Another thing is that we do actually export a lot of our...
The UK makes a great fuss about the fact that only 1% of global emissions come from the UK, but then we're importing a lot of stuff from...
Because of globalism, we're importing a lot of stuff from India and China.
That has been made in China.
Yeah, yeah.
So we've just offshored our emissions to other countries.
Yeah, yeah.
But on the plus side, when we write our spreadsheets, we're only 1%.
So there we go.
It's that data.
Yeah, it is.
We've massaged the figures so that you don't have to worry about it.
Jimbo says, the Netflix employee screaming he's got a weapon reminds me of that meme of the SWAT team screaming at a child to drop a weapon.
And he's holding a 9th grade sociology textbook.
That was amazing, wasn't it?
So I'm going to break his sign.
Oh, he's got a weapon.
It's like, dude, I'm just standing here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
George Hap says, a question for Leo.
How can one differentiate between a comedian's genuine opinion and a performative joke?
Late night hosts that use humour as a defence whenever they are challenged on their political positions and we know that the role of the court jester is to tell the truth from time to time.
Chappelle used his specials to declare himself Team Turf but then he also said he hates white people.
Also, I don't think his George Floyd special was meant to be funny.
What do you think?
Well, this is an interesting question, because in my show, Cancel Culture, which you can see in London on October the 28th at Top Secret Comedy, in my show, Cancel Culture, I dig into this, because whenever a comedian says something that offends people, there's this assumption that there's no...
People never, they take the statement at complete face value.
There's no space for irony or nuance or context or even just the concept that maybe the comedian might have been joking.
I mean, sometimes comedians are joking.
Occasionally, they have been known to.
Yeah, it's not, when you go and see a comedian's show, it's not a manifesto.
It's literally comedy.
You need to change that.
LAUGHTER So it is, I mean, it blows my mind.
And also, the thing that people come out, they're like, oh, it's not funny.
And it's like, well, how can you say it's not funny?
I mean, comedy's subjective.
There's loads of stuff.
I think Hannah Gadsby, like, completely unfunny.
I think she's actually objectively unfunny, and I think people are just straining to pretend that they find her funny to make some sort of political point.
It's the same with all woke comedy, though.
Yeah, it's clapter comedy.
It's like they make a point and everybody claps.
Laughter's an involuntary response.
You can't fake laughter, really.
So you decide to clap, you don't decide when you laugh.
But what it is, is she's presented the correct sort of philosophical worldview, right?
She's been like, so I'm sufficiently progressive.
And they're like, oh, very good, very good, very good.
And that's what it is.
And by clapping, they're saying, look, I am too.
Yeah, exactly.
Look at me.
That's what I wanted to hear.
That confirms what I already believed.
It's not, like you say, the involuntary surprise of laughter.
It's all about what's unexpected.
I get these people in the club sometimes who they'll laugh at a joke and then you can see them catch the laugh.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I mean?
I shouldn't have found that funny.
I know exactly the sort of thing you're talking about.
Callum says, Leo, one of my top three favourite Scots.
I'm one too, FYI. Just has one problem.
He keeps jumping the gun ahead of the script and spoiling everything.
Once, tell anyone a secret, tell Leo last.
Is that because I started talking about quantitative easing?
I didn't actually look at the script for that, so the Biden bit.
Right.
I was just jumping in.
It's fine.
It's because you know that things are happening.
Rose finally says, Carl, would you please just read Atlas Shrugged?
You keep sort of quoting it without knowing it, and as a bibliophile, it's driving me nuts.
Honestly, I've seen Atlas Shrug as massive, and I just don't have time.
And I'm not really...
I mean, I've read a bit of Aymran's essays and stuff, and they're okay, but I'm not an objectivist, so I've never spent the time going into it, and I've got too many other things to do.
But anyway...
Carl Shrug.
Yeah, Carl Shrug, yeah.
Sorry.
Sorry.
But I will do one day, I promise.
But anyway, if you'd like more from us, you can go to loadstates.com, and if you'd like to find Leo, where can they find you?
I'm on Twitter, Leo Kers.
I'm on YouTube, man.
If you like this, you probably love my YouTube channel, so I've got a bunch of videos on there.
So yeah, Leo Kers on YouTube.
And we'll see you tomorrow.
Take it easy, folks.
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