Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

Nov. 29, 2021 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

01:29:42

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #273

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 29th of November 2021.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello there.
	And today we're going to be talking about the conversation Seth Rogen had with Casey Neistat which proves that LA is trash.
	Also the return of masks because the she variant, although no one's calling it the she variant for god knows what reason.
	Well it would be the new variant but that's just too on the nose really.
	Yeah.
	Also, borders are racist, so let me in, says one migrant who was not allowed into Britain.
	And I kind of want to...
	You know the Poland meme where it's like, there's the fence and there's like the Pepe, the people on the fence screeching?
	Oh, God.
	It's literally that, but with the crossing instead.
	I mean, he's literally started being like, yes, let me in.
	I can't get the visa.
	Let me in.
	It's like, no, I'm just gonna say no.
	Anyway, so I'll enjoy an interview from a chap who is clearly fucking mad.
	Yeah.
	So, some things to mention first on the website, some announcements.
	First thing here being the book club, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which me and Carl did, in which Carl got his, well, half of his thoughts out about John Stuart Mill and utilitarianism, about why it's trash, and Mill's trash, and all the rest of it.
	But otherwise, we did focus on the book, and again, a big thank you to the chap who sent in, the 18-something edition.
	Yeah, so a lovely old copy.
	Yeah, so that's on the bookshelf behind me, and that's where we're keeping it, because it's nice, so thank you for that.
	That's also a good spur as to why we did it.
	Other than that, go and check that out, but that's premium as well.
	So, the next thing we have is an article, Hollywood Does Not Care About Justice.
	From me, yes.
	It'll tie in quite nicely to what we're talking about with Seth Rogen, because it focuses around Hollywood, but everybody knows Hollywood is in LA, and LA is trash, Hollywood is trash, mainly focusing on the fact of...
	Kyle Rittenhouse verdict comes out and then all of a sudden you have all of the Hollywood superstars eulogizing Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, the convicted domestic abuser and convicted pedophile, and basically just talking about how even if they do know that he's a convicted pedophile and a domestic abuser...
	It's not really that surprising that they would stick up for them.
	They'd probably see them as one of their own.
	All the people who stuck up for Harvey Weinstein want to stick up for a pedo as well.
	Yes, I talk about that and some of the other controversies throughout Hollywood's history, so give that a read if you're interested.
	There's also the audio track for Silver and Gold Tears, in case you don't like reading.
	So if we carry on, we go to the next one.
	We have The Contemplations, which was got up over the weekend.
	So this is Tribalism and Group Preference, so that's Josh talking about that, so go check that out.
	And the next one is an article from Rory about castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually.
	I assume this is an old one that's now been republished, so we have the audio track there, so if you didn't get a chance to read it or don't like reading, you can go back and check the audio track instead.
	I'm going to assume you don't recognise the Jimi Hendrix reference in the title.
	Uh, shock and awe, I don't.
	Oh my goodness, for good god!
	No idea.
	We need to educate you at some point, Callum, I swear.
	We'll get you, like, a clockwork orange.
	No.
	It's not propaganda, I'm not listening.
	So let's go to the next one.
	We have the Epoch.
	So this is Belisarius.
	So this is the third part of the three-part series about Belisarius and his tour of, I don't know, Mediterranean, in which he took back Rome and then lost it and got betrayed by everyone around him.
	So yeah, kind of getting screwed there.
	But go and check that out.
	That's Bo and Carly.
	We'll give a much better representation than I will.
	And of course, follow us on Getter.
	So this is Getter.com.
	And as you can see, LotusEaters underscore com is the account.
	So follow us on there.
	And also all our social medias, of course.
	But special mention to Getter here because I want to see the numbers go up.
	Numbers go up.
	What more good?
	The last thing to mention, of course, is the Counter Conference.
	So this is a conference that the Getter guys are setting up in London, which will be on the 8th of December.
	And as you can see, Nudge of Farage, Lawrence Fox, blah, blah, blah.
	Everyone's going to be there.
	Andy Ngo's going to be there as well.
	There's a lot of people that I follow, you know, like all the gang, let's say, of anti-PC people.
	The Scrooby gang.
	Going to be there.
	So it's going to be good fun.
	Callum will be there as well.
	I'm going to be taking my camera while now.
	It's going to be good fun.
	So go to that.
	International superstar Callum.
	No.
	I'm going to dress down though.
	I'm going to dress like a hobo.
	So it's enough of the announcements.
	Let's move on to the Seth Rogen retardation.
	Another day.
	Anyway.
	So Seth Rogen has decided to come out and say that LA is literal trash, and I agree.
	He didn't say it willingly, he said it accidentally, but I thought we'd go through it because, yeah, it's a bit of a Twitter drama, and I think it's funny.
	Yeah, and he was super proud of it as well.
	Yes, so this is the New York Post reporting on it.
	Seth Rogen ripped for downplaying crime in Los Angeles.
	As life in a big city.
	It's just part and parcel of living in a big city.
	Being robbed.
	Or threatened with your life.
	Or whatever else goes on in Los Angeles.
	Having spent time in Manchester, you could make an argument that yes, it's just part of the big city lifestyle.
	I mean, this is the 4chan meme.
	Like, you get off on the plane in England and you hear Allah Akbar and get bombed.
	You get off the plane in America and you hear everyone clap and then gunfire.
	So, you know, pick one.
	So if we go to the tweets itself.
	So this is Casey Neistat complaining that Los Angeles is a...
	Trash place.
	And then Seth Rogen responding.
	So Casey Nice, that says.
	So our cars got robbed this morning because Los Angeles is a crime-ridden, third-world S-hole of a city, but tremendous appreciation and gratitude to the hard-working officers of the LAPD, who not only arrested the mother-effer, but they got all our stolen goods back.
	So, terrible day for Casey.
	Kind of sucks.
	Shocked that the police actually managed to do something about this.
	Yeah, and also get the stuff back, which is neat.
	Being involved in burglaries before, generally speaking, at least in England, the police just show up and go, ah, sucks that.
	Yeah, I think the resolve rate in England for burglaries is like 4% or something.
	Something ridiculous.
	Hate crimes is 84%.
	Somebody keep in mind.
	Yeah, well, that shows where their priorities are.
	But, congrats LAPD, I suppose?
	Yeah, still an actual police force, which is nice.
	And, yeah, bad day for Casey Neistat, getting robbed.
	You would think that would be the end of the conversation, you know.
	Best wishes, thoughts and prayers with you, or whatever.
	Kind of sucks, but glad you got your stuff back, you know.
	But!
	Seth Rogen jumps in and is like, no, hang on.
	Don't slander my city.
	Dude, I've lived here for 20 years.
	You're nuts, haha.
	It's lovely here.
	Don't leave anything valuable in it.
	It's called living in a big city.
	I'm reminded of the dog meme, you know, with the fire around him.
	Oh, yeah.
	Everything is fine.
	Just, like, cars around him will get broken into, and he's like, it's fine.
	I love it here.
	It's lovely.
	Yeah, I think Seth Rogen has shown himself to be the bike cook.
	Yes.
	He's sort of like, well, if they steal it, at least they're happier for it.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So what would you want to live in?
	It's called living in a big city, bro.
	So Casey, if we go to the next one, responds with saying, I can still be mad though, right?
	I feel so violated.
	Again, as if you're asking for permission.
	Who cares what this moron thinks, but rightio.
	And then we have the next one in which he says, well, Seth responds, you can be mad, but guess I don't personally view my car as an extension of myself.
	And I've never really felt violated any of the 15 or so times my car was broken into.
	Once a guy accidentally left a cool knife in my car, so it seems it keeps happening, you might get a little treat.
	Well, that solves that, doesn't it?
	Crime fixed.
	The 15 or so times my car has been broken into in the 20 years he's lived there.
	So it's almost every year his car's getting broken into.
	Yes.
	Just get over it, bro.
	You know, I got over it like eight or so robberies ago.
	Don't worry about it.
	Some Stockholm Syndrome right there.
	I mean, to be fair, I imagine you developed long-standing Stockholm Syndrome living in a city like LA, but seriously, you could be mad, but I guess I don't personally view my car as an extension of myself.
	You don't have to view it as an extension of yourself, Seth, to be able to understand that there is a certain sanctity to your own possessions, your property.
	Yes.
	Yes, you could say.
	Is my house an extension of myself?
	What about my second home?
	What about all of the labour that I put into affording everything that's in my home?
	Well, I didn't put that much.
	Oh yeah, that's true.
	Smoke weed, Lamau.
	But again, more about the point of just being like, oh man, it's a total normal life.
	I get my car broken into 15 times in 20 years just living here.
	That shows that it's a lovely place.
	Yes.
	Come one, come all.
	And also, you get a cool knife in the car, and it's a nice little treat.
	That's a good job that you just left it in the car and not in your back or something.
	His lover's like, yo, piece of candy.
	Knife covered in blood, put your fingerprints on it.
	Fantastic.
	Oh, God.
	Wasn't involved in a crime at all, was it?
	Anyway, so let's move on.
	So Casey responds to him saying this nonsense.
	So we go to the next one.
	We have Seth continuing, saying, I've lived in Hollywood for 20 years and parked on the street.
	I guess that was a dumb idea, Seth.
	Okay, but yeah.
	So, and then he continues and he says, Also, it sucks that your S was stolen, but LA is not some S-hole city.
	As far as big cities go, it has a lot going for it.
	And this is the point, more in my mind, of cities are trash.
	Literally the worst places.
	Yes, they are trash and they're generally filled with trash and covered in trash.
	Yeah, but you get this narrative, especially around racial narratives, about white flight, for example, right?
	It's like all the white people are leaving the cities and going to the countryside and minorities are moving in and this is racism because the white people don't want to live next to minorities.
	I think people want to live in areas that are nice.
	And safe.
	Not full of crime, full of disease in this current world as well.
	All the COVID happens in the cities, not in the Devon Shires.
	This is true.
	Yeah, and so on and so forth.
	I mean, there are a million reasons why cities are trash, but I just love how Seth kind of points it out so clearly, which he's there with cars and car alarms going off all around him as he types, and he's just like, yeah, well, it's not a bad city.
	I mean, all cities are awful, but this one, eh, you know.
	Yeah, you just learn to live with it, bro.
	I mean, okay, if having your stuff stolen from your car 15 times in 20 years...
	You think after the 7th, you'd be like...
	Yeah.
	Rampant crime.
	I've seen documentaries on LA. It's also filled with tents full of homeless people, and you can get stabbed if you go down the wrong corner.
	Okay, if those aren't the criteria for making a place an asshole, what is, Seth?
	Eating dirt cookies, I guess?
	I mean, like the Haiti style?
	No, bro, you just need to get used to it, yeah?
	Well, no, you can't call Haiti an asshole country, can you?
	Oh, yeah, sorry.
	And it's like, well, they're literally eating dirt to survive, so...
	Well, I suppose they're setting the...
	I mean, they're setting the bar for anything that we can consider an asshole pretty damn low.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so I thought we'd go through some other stuff in response to this, so if we carry on, we have, I think it's some memes, and you mentioned the bike cuck, so of course people made it, and as you can see here, it's Seth Roken being like, my car got stolen 15 times.
	I was pretty bummed about it, but I think whoever stole it was probably more happy to get it than I'm sad to lose it.
	Total happiness increased in the world, Weed Lamao just walks away.
	It's such a good point about, I mean, we mentioned On Liberty in the intro for some of the things that are out on the website, but the utilitarianism there is like, well, the more happy in the world, therefore good.
	It's like, dude, you've got your car stolen.
	It's not good action.
	Number big, good.
	Yeah, there's a monkey brain right there.
	Yeah, also just the absolute, I know this is the bike cook meme, but what a cooked mentality for a man.
	Yeah.
	For a man to have as well, just be like, you know, I don't need to defend myself or my property, I'm just happy to just go through, someone punches me in the face in the middle of the street, I wave them a good day, sir.
	You know what's weird as well?
	He's a multi-millionaire, so he could live anywhere, and he could live in a safe neighbourhood, and he probably does have a gay community, apparently he just leaves his car out on the...
	S-hole streets for some reason.
	Yeah.
	Maybe he's just hoping for more treats to be left for him.
	He's trying to collect those knives.
	Anyway, but the weird thing to me is just like, if this happened to Elizabeth Warren or one of the other elitists who run the United States...
	Oh, it would be tyranny, mass oppression.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But I just...
	It's like...
	I mean, multi-millionaire isn't exactly petty bourgeoisie, but it's kind of petty bourgeoisie.
	Where he's like, you know, I just accept these conditions.
	I think...
	You don't have to.
	At the very least, it's an entitled mentality.
	It's weird.
	It's weird to me.
	So we go to the next one.
	There's also some good memes I saw around this.
	You have him saying, the Talmud tells us not to leave anything valuable in your car.
	It's called living in a big city.
	You can see memory TV. I love memory TV. Memes.
	Sorry, I thought I'd include that.
	But also, we could just look at the data, of course.
	So we go to the crime data.
	So this is just a website that has crime data.
	And if you scroll down on here to the violent crime graph, you can see that violent crime is about twice what the average is for California.
	So that one there.
	Which is purely in LA. Yeah, so there's Violent Crime California, 4.41, and then Violent Crime Los Angeles, 7.43.
	Great.
	It's quite a jump.
	Again, national medium being 4, but it doesn't matter, apparently.
	It's just living in a big city, bro.
	Just part of life.
	I mean, it's literally not by the standards of other cities, but whatever.
	I, in my gated community, can deal with it, but if you, who presumably works three jobs just to be able to live in LA, gets robbed, you know, it's just no big deal, bro.
	Just get in one of the tents down the road.
	I mean, if you can replace your car 15 times in 20 years, then that's fine.
	I think you're doing pretty well.
	I mean, most people can't do that.
	No.
	Good for you, I suppose.
	There's also the politics around all of this, because it's a blue hellhole.
	So if we go to the next one, we have the LA Times reporting on the defund the police narrative falling apart, of course.
	Police commission gets back 12% increase in LAPD budget for next year.
	This is because they defunded the police by taking away money, and then realised, hmm, crime go up when police go away.
	Hmm, maybe put more budget into police and then crime go away.
	I mean, literally, like, it is the level of, like, you know...
	Stone Age thinking with these people, but okay.
	So they say in here there's a president of the Union of Policing who responds by being a normal person and not some kind of, like, caveman, and says, As the city grapples with increases in gun crime, homicides, and fatal follow-home robberies, it is critical that the department recovers from the defund the police cuts and that the city leaders stop listening to reckless ideas of anti-police groups.
	And people like Seth Rogen who think this is fine.
	This is just absolutely fine.
	Of course, increasing crime.
	That's racial justice right there.
	Saying some things, aren't you there?
	How are black people supposed to get anything if they can't steal it?
	Yikes.
	Okay, Seth.
	Yeah, Seth, okay.
	Yeah, anyway, so going on to the next one, we have Count Dankula, who made a good response to this as well, which is most people aren't multi-millionaires, Seth, so this is kind of a problem for normal people.
	Be a minimum wagey.
	Car has been broken into 11 times.
	Every time have to choose between replacing the window slash lost property or eating that week.
	The literal millionaire.
	Dude, just like, don't care.
	LA is lovely, dude.
	Weed.
	Lamau.
	And that's Seth Rogen's personality.
	Just imagine being that guy stood there as your bicycle that was there has just vanished and Seth Rogen drives past in a Cadillac smoking a joint.
	Just deal with it, bro!
	I love LA. And yeah, multi-millionaire quite a bit.
	So if we go to his net worth in the next link, we have apparently it's about 80 million.
	These websites can be very wrong because this is assuming he made smart financial decisions usually and not just blowing it all on drugs.
	So God knows.
	But that's half it.
	40 mil.
	Still a pretty penny to be living off of.
	He's doing alright.
	He's doing fine.
	He's not like anyone else in this situation who has their car stolen and then can't replace it because they don't have their damn money to.
	Anyway, so we also have his response to all this because people started mocking him, of course, especially a load of people writing articles being like, what an entitled B-word or something, right?
	Mm-hmm.
	And so this guy who writes for the Post Millennial got a message from Seth that he just says, get effed.
	It's like, okay, taking it well, are we?
	Cheers.
	And he responds to Seth by saying, crime is a bad thing for those of us who don't live in gated communities.
	Also, Sausage Party was awful.
	I've not seen Sausage Party.
	I'm going to assume it's true, though.
	Yeah, to be honest, it's not going to stand the test of time.
	It was fun for like an hour, and then you realize, what did I watch that for?
	Yeah, it seems like one of those films that you do need to be stoned to enjoy properly.
	And also, this is, once again, this is another in the long line, the now quite revered history of Seth Rogen randomly DMing people on Twitter.
	Yeah, I'll mention that in a minute.
	Oh, okay.
	No, I haven't, but the sausage party ends with just all the food having an orgy, and it's just really weird.
	I knew about that.
	I also know that isn't there like a...
	Spoilers.
	Isn't there like a German schnitzel that's Hitler or something like that?
	Are you Jewish, Seth?
	I said we'll get that question.
	I think he is, actually.
	He also messaged someone else who used to be working in the Trump administration.
	The same thing.
	Hi, go F yourself.
	Happy Thanksgiving.
	And she responded by saying, that's not something I need to do because I'm not a 5'9 manlet with a BMI of 32.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I don't know what half those numbers are because I used metric, but radio.
	I'm sure it's a good put-down.
	So we've got the next one.
	We have, of course, the Jewish thing, as you mentioned as well, which is James Lindsay getting messaged from him.
	Wait, James Lindsay got one?
	Yeah.
	Just Seth Rogen messaged James Lindsay.
	Are you Jewish?
	Seth, you can just ignore these people.
	Just block them like every other blue checkmark, for God's sake.
	But also it's like that film with Mr.
	Dreifuss, so you're hiding Jews under your floorboards.
	God.
	I imagine him in the uniforms.
	There is an ominous history to that question, isn't there?
	Are you a Jew?
	I have some milk.
	Anyway, he's not the only one, of course.
	Dankler as well got a message from Seth asking, are you a Jewish person?
	I am not.
	Have you seen the video?
	Dankler responded, because he's presuming he's talking about the Nazi pug meme, for example.
	And Seth responds in just like the weirdest way, and I know this has been talked about before, but let's bring it back up, because it's still weird.
	And he says, then you're either someone who is not funny, has outstandingly bad judgment, or most likely both.
	I have.
	I have what?
	Bad judgement?
	And I'm funny?
	I would agree!
	Anyway, I assume he's talking about the video, as John says.
	And he also says, you're not funny, open brackets, I work in the sphere.
	Oh, good.
	The official comedy judge is here to tell what's funny or not.
	Yes.
	Rightio.
	And he says...
	Comedy inquisition has arrived.
	And if this breaks your country's lords in regarding hate crimes, you're an even bigger idiot.
	I'm like, okay.
	I guess you can also say that to those in China who get arrested for anti-communist activities.
	Lamao, idiot.
	Didn't you know it's the law?
	I'm like, that's an argument.
	Okay.
	Let's talk about George Floyd and drugs.
	To be fair, I think it was around the same time Gad Saad had an interaction with Rogan on Twitter where Rogan was like, yes, I'm an avowed socialist, how could you tell?
	It's pretty evident.
	We also just have the fact that it's Hollywood, so I don't know how to word this, but we'll just get the next image up and show that.
	Nobody in Hollywood has anything to say ever on morals ever again, and if they do, you should just post pictures of them with Harvey Weinstein.
	There's always plenty of them.
	Yeah, quite frankly.
	There's also this accusation.
	So someone who worked with Seth on a movie, presumably, they posted on their Facebook, as an extra for Superbad, trust me, Seth Rogen is just as bad as the rest of these Hollywood moguls.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Rogan himself is a producer as well.
	So, don't know what the truth is in that, but it's there.
	And then I thought we'd end this with the fact that I don't know what it is with people, especially in, like, LA or whatever, who try and back up their S-holes.
	This is good places, because, like, we have videos.
	Like, people visit and film it.
	So, I mean, like, this is a great video, and I think I mentioned it before.
	Oh, is this Gling?
	I can't remember who made it.
	I don't remember the creator, but it's a video called The Dark Reality of Los Angeles.
	And quite frankly, it's just a good, balanced video where he went to Los Angeles and just talked about the positives and the negatives, let's say.
	Yeah, and he spoke to some of the people out on the street as well.
	I mean, the footage we're playing right now is just the endless homelessness, because it's ridiculous.
	I mean, it really does come off like, I don't know, I want to say the Hunger Games or the Capital or something.
	Like, the difference between the wealth and the poverty in the same place.
	And it looks, to me, I don't know if you'll have seen this, like Escape from New York.
	Where New York has just been left to become a prison city and everyone's trapped inside there and it's cut off from the rest of the mainland.
	It's just turned into a hellhole.
	You see there just some guy just passed out on the floor.
	A bunch of other guys who had passed out or just laying down on the floor in filth.
	And it's like, okay.
	Again, deeply blue.
	These people who endlessly whine about inequality.
	This is their neighbourhood.
	This is their backyard.
	And when they finally get tired of it, they will move out to Texas and try and vote blue there.
	Yeah.
	And then the last thing to mention is just the next timestamp, which I found interesting, which is, of course, you have this compiled with the politics of such people who have pride flags, racial pride flags, everywhere.
	I mean, asshole.
	That's all I've got to say about that.
	But I thought we'd end that there.
	Let's move on.
	Shame.
	Speaking of shame...
	As of Tuesday, it looks like the UK is returning to mask mandates.
	On Saturday evening, Boris Johnson went onto the podium to give a conference speech about what was going to be happening in the UK as a result of the Omicron variant arriving within the UK. A whole two cases.
	And as such, he laid out a few new mandates that would be...
	That we will all be moving forward with.
	So I've got this article here just because it sums up some of the stuff that has been mandated quite well.
	So face masks are going to be made mandatory in schools and colleges in England for pupils in years seven and above.
	The Department for Education has said...
	And under the new guidance, all staff, visitors and pupils are strongly advised to wear a face covering unless exempt.
	The variant of Omicron was identified earlier this week and it was called Omicron.
	I think this was first reported to the World Health Organization on the 24th of November.
	So it's still less than a week we've known about it this whole time, internationally speaking.
	I'm going to try my best, YouTube, to avoid discussing vaccines or efficacy of those sorts of things, and I'm going to try my best not to downplay the deadliness of the virus.
	I'm going to try and stick strictly to what the experts have said, but as always, the experts seem to have varying opinions on how dangerous this whole thing is, so we'll see how we get along there.
	And remember, before you take any advice from anybody like us, consult your doctor.
	Sound good?
	If you mess up, I'll go in with the editing machine.
	Yeah, there we go.
	We can figure this all out in post.
	If you want to say the full thing, go to lotusseeders.com, anyway.
	Yeah, there you go.
	So, yeah, and here's what is going on.
	So, it has an unusually high number of mutations, and scientists believe that some of these mutations are likely to increase transmissibility and vaccine resistance.
	Two cases were identified in the UK on Saturday in Brentwood and Nottingham.
	Both cases are thought to be linked to travel from South Africa.
	A third case was identified in Westminster on Sunday, but that person is no longer in the country.
	I think they actually were from South Africa and went back.
	The UK has taken the precaution of blocking flights from 10 countries where the variant has been identified.
	Now just imagine if that had been Trump in America doing anything like that.
	Including Botswana, Eswatini, and South Africa.
	All international arrivals entering England must take a day two PCR test and self-isolate until they receive a negative result.
	Face masks will be required in shops and on public transports across England from Tuesday and in communal areas in secondary schools.
	So they're back everybody.
	You get to rejoin with your face nappy and enjoy going around.
	Possibly stifling your own breath.
	I know really for the majority of people they don't really affect their breathing that much.
	But I just think it's not, as far as I can tell, not entirely a necessary precaution to take.
	So the standard on this is that basically masks can have a role in playing to combat COVID. However, that presumes, number one, that they're being used correctly, and number two, that you're actually using ones that will stop a large percentage of the virus, or entirely, which, that's an N95 mask being worn on everyone all times whilst interacting.
	That's not happening.
	Yes.
	And also we know that these restrictions don't seem to be taking a logical course, seeing as, I mean, if they were going to be applying these evenly, not to give them any ideas, that that would make sense if you were to be applying them in, say, pubs and clubs and other such places where, you know, people are going to be rubbing up close to one another in environments where you're a few drinks down, your immune system might not be exactly working its best.
	But no, instead it's just going to be shops and public transport and schools, although there is word that they might not stay that way, of course.
	The Prime Minister has said that he would also seek to speed up the booster jab programme, asking for approval to expand it to under 40s and lowering the time between jabs.
	So, there are other countries following suits.
	I got this information from the BBC. So, travellers from South Africa, Nambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola, Mozambique, etc.
	will not be able to enter the UK unless they are UK or Irish nationals or UK residents.
	US officials said that foreigners will be blocked from travelling from South Africa in those countries.
	Again, Mary Angolia moves taken by the EU. They will come into effect on Monday.
	Okay, base, now expand it to all the foreigners.
	Yeah, anyway.
	Australia announced on Saturday that flights from South Africa, all those same countries, would be suspended.
	Japan has also announced that travellers from South Africa will need to quarantine for 10 days and take a total of four tests during that time.
	India has ordered more rigorous screening and testing for travellers arriving from South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong.
	Canada is barring all foreign internationals who have travelled through South Africa and those countries in the last 14 days.
	So this all kind of sounds to me like it's bad news, right?
	If it's...
	If they're taking all of these precautions, the Omicron variant must be really bad, must just make you drop dead on the spot, right?
	Well, the person who discovered it might have some words with you about that, so if we skip along...
	Yeah, I'm not going to play the clip because it's a little bit long, but just to sum up some of the things, this doctor is Dr.
	Angelique Coetzee, who is a South African doctor who is the woman who discovered the variant in the first place, and she basically just sums it up with, You actually had COVID for a little bit, didn't you?
	Did you experience the loss of smell and taste?
	Taste a bit, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Made all the foods taste the same, so there was no point in eating junk food, which was nice.
	Oh, that's alright then.
	Good dieting option.
	Yeah, not a recommended diet.
	Not a recommended.
	But, yeah, this doesn't seem to sound anywhere near as bad as the sort of symptoms that you experienced that took you off work for a little bit.
	And she's basically just summed it up with very, very mild symptoms.
	When she figured out what was going on, she alerted the advisory committee, and everybody that she works with knows that it's extremely mild.
	And she said that we've already probably had it in our country without knowing it.
	She can't say for certain, but that's what she thinks.
	I'm sorry.
	Just the idea of like, yes, this new deadly virus, you've probably really had it in the country and not even known.
	Yes.
	Sounds deadly, doesn't it?
	Right.
	Doomsday scenario knocking at our doors.
	And she says we're panicking.
	Everybody taking all of these precautions, she is saying, is panicking far too much.
	Two weeks from now, we might know a bit more, but from what we can see now, we are all panicking.
	And this may remind you of the hysteria that came up at the beginning when people discovered the dreaded Delta variant, which everybody was...
	Summing up in a very similar way of being, oh, it's going to be the end of the world, we need to do this, we need to do this, we need to do this, and then when it became better known, we figured out that the symptoms were a headache, a sore throat, and a runny nose, which is less than deadly as far as I can tell.
	It's still COVID, so you could...
	It is still COVID, so obviously you can still be very badly affected and die of it, but those are the predominant symptoms that we can recognise within people.
	But the panic in regards to the Omicron variant is being pushed by certain scientists and people like this, who we've found on Twitter, Eric Fagel Ding, who...
	Oh, that's the CCP guy.
	I don't know if he's CCP, but he appears to be a World Economic Forum plant, as far as I can tell.
	He's put, my god, the new B.1.1.259 variant being possibly 500% more competitively infectious is the most staggering stat yet.
	Okay, if it's very infectious, that could be a bad thing, but judging by what the actual woman who discovered this said, the symptoms are not necessarily going to be particularly damaging to people, obviously.
	Still not a great thing.
	More than COVID usually is.
	Yeah, more than COVID usually is infectious.
	Judging by this, how he got these stats, I don't exactly know, given that it's been...
	This is why I mentioned the CCP, because I swear I've seen this particular account lots of times, trying to gin up the West should lockdown constantly.
	That's the narrative.
	And it's like, well, that's interesting, isn't it?
	CCP endlessly wants the West to lock down its economy.
	Yes, he's very certain about everything that he's saying.
	There's a big, long thread, but if you just click, you can see these very strange-looking graphs that I can only sum up as, look at these graphs!
	Panic!
	Panic at these graphs!
	Be scared!
	Because it's just basically like, look, line go up mean more bad.
	I mean, you have got me.
	The line does go up.
	Yes.
	But if we move along, like I say, you can see here, if you go over to the next link, Dr.
	Eric Feigel-Ding, who's a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, is noted here to be a member, if you go down just a little bit, of World Economic Forum Global Shaper.
	Hmm.
	So connections to the World Economic Forum always make me...
	Imagine my shortcut.
	I know.
	Always make me a little bit suspicious.
	And also make me think that he might be pushing a few of the World Economic Forum's goals a little bit and trying to gin up a lot of hysteria.
	But there are more than one set of political motives going into this and mentioning the CCP. If we move along again, you can see from Slate here...
	Why did the WHO skip over two letters in the Greek alphabet to name the latest variant Omicron?
	Because as we know, so far we've been naming them by the Greek alphabet.
	The last one that we were fully aware of, which one was it?
	Moo or something?
	Moo.
	It was going to go to new because they skipped over two.
	And they say here, there's been lots of head-scratching since Friday when the World Health Organization decided that this new variant was the first detected in South Africa would be named Omicron.
	In doing so, the WHO decided to skip over two letters in the Greek alphabet, new and ji.
	Turns out it was all about avoiding confusion and preventing or necessarily offending a large group of people.
	Which group of people?
	The Chinese cabinet.
	I think less...
	A large group of people and possibly one very specific person who might have been offended.
	No, no, no, there's the news as well.
	The news are also very offended by what's going on.
	Oh, yes, that's true.
	When the Who named the Moo variant in August, Moo was next in line, but the Who decided to skip it over.
	What has happened to our language?
	I know.
	They felt the letter was too similar to the English word new, which could have led to a bit of confusion.
	Then came Xi, but the Who also decided to nix it, because it's the same as a common last name Xi, and using it would violate the organisation's guidelines to name diseases.
	Sure.
	Yeah, I'm sure.
	I believe this.
	I'm sure that's the real reason why.
	But anything that we could say is just really speculation in regards to that.
	But speaking of speculation, let's see what the sun has been trying to spread about this new variant.
	So if we just scroll down...
	Outbreak fears!
	Twickenham rugby match may have been Omicron's super-spreader event as fans are urged to come forward.
	A rugby match with more than 80,000 spectators may have been a super-spreader event of the new COVID variant of concern, Omicron.
	Fans at the England vs South Africa game at Twickenham Last weekend are being urged to get tested after a surge of cases in the area.
	A COVID pass system was in place at the stadium, which meant everyone in attendance had to prove that they had been double jabbed and had a negative lateral flow test.
	There have been no confirmed cases of the new variant in the area.
	Okay.
	No evidence, but...
	Maybe?
	I also love COVID passes.
	Got them.
	Didn't do nothing.
	Evidently, it doesn't really...
	The COVID passes don't seem to really be doing much.
	And yeah, they've just plucked this speculation out of...
	This is completely baseless.
	Just panic, everybody!
	Remember to panic!
	This is a new variant.
	We need to panic, no matter what.
	So Sajid has been speaking about the new measures in regards to this, and he's been speaking to Andrew Marr, I believe this was.
	This is from Lawrence Fox, pointing out the look at Sajid's eyes, that he looks quite scared.
	So if we want to just play this clip, we can hear him talking about these new measures.
	I think that's an appropriate response, but as you know...
	I'm sorry to interrupt, but just to be absolutely fair, this is a new rule which is in place now, and people who don't obey that, people who go into shops without masks, can be fined, will be fined.
	Well, what has changed, I think, with this announcement is that Yeah,
	so it took him quite a bit of prodding just to get to that very clear mandate right there.
	Like, just say, yes, the government is forcing you.
	Yes.
	You're the health minister.
	I mean, I don't know what other answer you could give, Sajid.
	I mean, you were trying to give a number of others, but you got there eventually.
	Yeah.
	And then you've got a bit of a response from other members of the media.
	So we've got Dan Wooten from GB News saying, BBC News, why aren't you going harder and faster?
	Sky News, why aren't you locking down again?
	ITV News, why aren't you going to order people to work from home?
	Our broadcast media is completely broken because none of them are actually really questioning these measures other than just going, why aren't you doing more to strip people of their daily liberties and going about their day and just removing people's freedoms?
	He then throws in a little shill for GB News, which...
	Which is well deserved, to be honest, because, I mean, we can't mention specifically what was discussed, but GB News did have a recent segment where they discussed something that we can't discuss.
	Oh, was this the Neil Oliver?
	No, there was a chap who came on who advised them about the vaccine.
	Oh, okay.
	And gave his opinion, which is that it's glorious and great and works and everything's fine, of course.
	And that segment, well, no one else was going to host it, so good job.
	I mean, they're actually giving a platform to someone who isn't getting a platform anywhere else.
	Good job, guys.
	I've not watched that segment, but I will have to, and everybody out there should give it a look in as well, by the looks of it.
	Then we can move on to Julia Hartley Brewer, who's pointing out that face masks in Germany were mandated medical grade masks in January and in most indoor public spaces, and they're currently seeing their biggest spike in cases.
	Again, not pointing out that this is necessarily correlatory to one another, but it's just an interesting thing to consider.
	Especially when we don't mandate medical grade masks, we mandate the cloth masks.
	If we carry on, we can also see, shockingly, Right Said Fred, a 90s boy pop band or something like that, who Callum, of course, has no idea about, have been pointing out that Boris Johnson said that this can be spread between people who are double vaccinated, which again is just pushing more the boosters.
	If we carry on again, we've got this article from The Independent saying that, from Javid saying, we can carry on, but there's no real guarantees.
	England is nowhere near introducing tougher COVID restrictions yet, says Sajid Javid.
	Despite the return of mask wearing and PCR tests for travellers, the health secretary rejected stricter curbs such as social distancing or a working from home rule, arguing they carry a very heavy price and are not necessary now, despite the arrival of the Omicron variant.
	Mr.
	Javid also said that people should continue with their plans as normal for Christmas, although warning it would be irresponsible to make guarantees.
	And there you go.
	Sorry, Sajid, given the way that the government has handled this whole thing, I just don't believe you, what you're saying there.
	I'm fully expecting a lockdown.
	Yeah, they're going to try.
	They're going to issue an order, and there'll be a bit of paper.
	And, well, don't care.
	Yeah, I don't care.
	You're not going to stop me from seeing my parents and family at Christmas, Sajid, no matter what you say.
	And I also don't trust any of the scientists who are advising you.
	If we move along, we can see this Guardian article.
	Another COVID Christmas, Britain's urge to delay festival plans.
	And who in particular do you think might have been urging that?
	So rates of transmission, and just to make a point as well, this article is from the 22nd of November, which is two days before the Omicron variant was reported to the WHO.
	So before we knew about any of this and before the new hysteria has been gymmed up.
	So rates of transmission are still very high.
	Numbers of COVID weekly deaths continue to be around 1,000.
	And the NHS is described by those running it as hitting breaking point and unsustainable with COVID cases taking up hospital beds with the potential to tip the NHS into a crisis.
	And we haven't even yet hit winter, said Professor Susan Mitchie of University College London.
	Hello again.
	Yes.
	Hello, commie.
	Yep.
	A member of the government's COVID-19 behavioural science team and the independent SAGE group of experts.
	What else?
	I know!
	Who would have- Communist Party member, as well!
	Who would have been surprised that the famous Communist Party member, as you mentioned, Susan Michie, would be advocating for more government restrictions and more government control?
	I never saw that one coming.
	And, uh, yeah, just to point out as well, if we move along, she's been advising lockdowns and stricter and stricter lockdowns for ages now.
	So, Professor Susan Mitchie, a behavioural psychologist who sits on the all-important SAGE committee.
	This is back from, if you scroll down a little bit, John, I think it's from like June or July or something.
	Yeah, June.
	SAGE committee made headlines last week by appearing to suggest that social distancing and wearing face masks should be remaining in place forever.
	Okay.
	I mean, literally, the South Park meme, the post-COVID special they've done, where they're like 30 years later at the end of COVID. Yeah.
	So we're literally going to just do this forever now.
	This is life.
	Even if COVID did go away, well, you know, it's better safe than sorry.
	Best just wear them forever.
	Yeah.
	What about the flu?
	What about anything?
	What if I trip over and scrape my elbow?
	Should I be going out wearing elbow pads constantly, all the time, every day?
	It's pointless, but that is actually part of the special.
	They have all the old people locked up, and if one of them escapes, the whole country breaks down, so they're like, we're kind of an old person, die.
	Oh, no.
	We need to keep them alive forever.
	The professor of health psychology has been an outspoken advocate of strict lockdown measures, both serving on SAGE's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviour and advising the World Health Organisation on COVID-19.
	This, honestly, Sajid, is why I don't trust you, because the people advising you and the World Health Organisation in regards to this are all communists.
	Jeremy Clarkson made the joke earlier this year and got in trouble for it, but tell me where he's wrong.
	When they stop being Communist Party members, I'll stop calling them communists.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, when they stop sounding like communists, I'll stop calling them communists.
	I mean, that's true, but they literally are party members.
	That's the thing.
	If you can't call them commies, who's a commie?
	Move along again.
	We've got an independent article.
	Now that all of this has come out, Susan Mitchie has said that in this independent article measures the spread to deter...
	Capitalism did this, or...?
	Probably.
	Maybe she muttered it under her breath.
	Measures to deter the spread of Omicron variant of coronavirus have been dismissed by scientists as Plan B Light amid warnings that the new mutation is far more transmissible than earlier ones.
	And which scientist said that?
	It was Professor Susan Mitchie, of course, a member of the blah-blah, who said that the measures were Plan B Light when we should have gone Plan B+. Okay.
	I know.
	I'm very surprised that he hasn't gone further, especially in light of the World Health Organization and Sir Patrick Vallance, our chief scientific advisor, saying that you must go early and go hard in these situations.
	And I'm sorry, but generally, as far as I'm concerned, this isn't medical advice, but the liberties of the British people should take precedent over these things.
	Also, even just from a scientific, like purely, just ignore politics for a minute.
	You follow the data.
	Okay.
	Yes.
	Like, that's how you respond to these things.
	And the person who pointed this, who found this in the first place, is going, well, it's kind of just mild.
	And they're going, we need to freak out!
	So who do you trust?
	Yeah.
	Sir Patrick Vallance, the, well, what's been recommended is less than what the SAGE were suggesting in September before the Omicron threat was looming, hence why people have kind of stopped taking SAGE anywhere near as seriously, even in periods where the numbers are all going down.
	They're still like, panic, we need to lock everything down!
	Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific advisor, joined Mr Johnson at the press conference.
	He said in the UK might need to face up to the possibility of further action if the Omicron variant is very transmissible.
	But there appears to be a little bit of division within the science trademark.
	If we move along, there are other members of the SAGE group saying that, well...
	Come on, guys.
	It's not as big a disaster as you're making it out to be.
	So the Omicron variant is not a disaster, and some people may be hugely overstating the situation, a scientist advising the government says.
	Microbiologist Professor Callum Semple says vaccines are still likely to protect you from severe disease and asked whether people should be fearful of the new variant.
	Professor Semple, who sits on the UK government's scientific advisory group for emergencies, told BBC Breakfast, this is not a disaster, and the headlines from some of my colleagues saying this is horrendous, I think are hugely overstating the situation.
	Immunity from the vaccination is still likely to protect you from severe disease.
	You may get a sniffle or a headache or a filthy cold, but your chance of coming into hospital or intensive care or sadly dying are greatly diminished by the vaccine and still will be going into the future.
	So, reasonably, who am I more likely to believe?
	The people doomsaying and saying that the whole sky is going to fall or this man who seems to trust in the efficacy of the vaccines and be keeping a calm and collected head over the whole situation?
	I mean, that's the point of the vaccines.
	Yes, is to keep you safer from these symptoms.
	The point of these vaccines is the fact that you get them, you have less chance of dying.
	That's, you know, we did the job.
	What is it, like 80-90% of the British public have the vaccine or whatever?
	I think something, double jabbed, I think it's like 80%-ish.
	The concern was never, people might die.
	That's not a concern legitimate enough to do anything on this kind of level.
	The concern was always, will the NHS be overwhelmed?
	That was always the argument, and I keep bringing it up because there was a, it just gets forgotten by the wayside.
	People have lost sight of that.
	If everyone's got the vaccine, and the vaccine means you don't go to hospital, or a massively reduced rate, the NHS is not going to be overwhelmed.
	That's the whole point of why we spent all this money.
	Yeah, so we do not need these measures, as far as I can tell.
	That was the original argument.
	Yeah, and then if we go along, once again, in regards to the soft, softly, softly touch that the media has been taking with this whole thing, we've got Calvin Robinson pointing out that within the Ofcom guidelines, if you just click on this so I can see it a bit better there, John, Within the Ofcom guidelines, they have said that we strongly advise you to take particular care when broadcasting.
	For example, statements that seek to question or undermine the advice of public health bodies on the coronavirus or otherwise undermine people's trust in the advice of mainstream sources of information about the disease is to be avoided, as far as I can tell.
	tell.
	So Ofcom is stifling public debate and free speech.
	That's directly to SAGE, and SAGE having commies on it who are insisting on full lockdowns.
	Cannot question them according to the regulator.
	Having worked under an organisation, a community radio station, who were regulated by Ofcom in the past, all I can say is that Ofcom must be destroyed.
	Personally.
	Moving along again, politics for all pointing out the six cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant have been identified in Scotland.
	So, just throwing it out there, Scotland, prepare for a lockdown.
	That's all I can really say there.
	Just assumed they were still in one.
	Yep.
	However, across the pond, we can see that there is a shining beacon of hope.
	Who is that in the distance I see?
	Why?
	It's Florida man himself.
	Rhonda Santes.
	Oh, God bless.
	The fucking trumpet music plays.
	Yeah, so on Friday, Florida reported 1,393 new cases of COVID-19, roughly six cases per every 100,000 residents, and Governor DeSantis has engaged in unparalleled legal fights to ban mask and vaccine mandates, sparking condemnation from the media and health officials.
	Florida's trend doesn't follow that of the U.S., with cases spiking in the nation and expected to rise even more during the holiday season.
	Meanwhile, the CDC data shows that Florida reported a seven-day average moving death rates of just one.
	DeSantis was branded the Angel of Death, what a contrast there, by a Vanity Fair article that blamed him for preventing constituents from contacting the virus and dying.
	I don't know if that's a typo from the Daily Mail there.
	I would think that preventing constituents from contacting the virus and dying is a good thing, or maybe the Vanity Fair are just that stupid.
	To have written that in the first place.
	Yeah, so basically Florida's doing great right now, and they're desperate to make Ron DeSantis look bad, even though, judging by everything, he's doing a fantastic job.
	And it shows just once again that the success of Governor DeSantis' science-based and data-based policies, DeSantis' press secretary told Fox News.
	He's always made decisions based on the data, and they continued even during the Delta surge this summer, when he realized what would help was not mask mandates in school or lockdowns, But to provide treatment that actually works.
	Yeah, they're focusing on those who are going to die.
	The elderly being the first thing he did, for example.
	Yes, and they kind of just sound like they're mocking the media at this point.
	They're still trying to take him down.
	And he opened the 25 state-supported monoclonal antibody sites and provided that treatment all over the state free of charge to over 150 Floridians.
	Saved thousands of lives and that happened starting in August.
	Since then, our cases are down by over 95% with no restrictions on people's freedoms.
	And it sounds to me, I mean, YouTube doesn't have anything about monoclonal antibodies, so I'm pretty sure we can say it sounds like they're doing a good job, and it sounds like he saw the data, saw what the science was actually pointing to, and just went with that.
	Good job, Ron!
	Good job!
	And DeSantis has led a relentless fight against judges to make COVID-19 mandates illegal, and has repeatedly appealed court rulings.
	And withheld money from school districts to continue to enforce masks.
	And that's kind of what real leadership looks like, Boris, just in case you want to take any notes.
	So, yeah, sadly, we don't have our own DeSantis leading us into safety.
	But we are getting the mask mandates as of tomorrow.
	We're filming this on Monday, so that'll be Tuesday when we get these.
	But just for anybody, and this is not me giving any medical advice, I would recommend if you just skip over again, John, just to take a look at the exemptions.
	On the government guidelines of face coverings.
	For instance, if you are caused distress by wearing a face mask or anything like that, you don't have to wear one.
	And there are no laws in place where you need to hand over any documentation or anything to prove that you are caused distress by these.
	So, I'm not giving medical advice, and be careful.
	That's just what the law is.
	Yeah, that's just what the law is.
	I'm not saying that you should do anything in particular with that advice, but just keep that in mind, just in case.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Let's go to the I don't know why I can call it, but quite frankly, I don't know.
	It's just a fucking lunatic.
	Let's enjoy some lunacy.
	So, Borders are racist.
	Let me in.
	And that is the cry of one asylum seeker stuck in France who, I don't know, just being in France is the worst thing in the world and just needs to come here.
	I can sympathise to a certain degree.
	Who can't?
	Frogs.
	Anyway, so this is obviously revolving around the situation with the channel migrants, and we won't dwell on this too much because...
	Yeah, you know, who's not bored of it?
	It's gone on forever, but quite frankly, it's a problem that needs fixing.
	So this is the French insisting they won't do a deal with the UK. And who's seen this coming?
	Everyone, because it's not in their interest.
	So let's move on.
	Let's go to Trevor Phillips, who said something dumb.
	You know, I've picked them up before, so I'll probably bring them up again because I disagree with him on this.
	He's like, yeah, there's no way of suppressing this.
	Just return them.
	Literally just, oh, okay, you'll try to come to the UK. That's very nice.
	Go back to France now.
	Apply over there.
	Just do the Hungarian thing.
	Just turn them around, pop them in the other side of the border, and then go, bye-bye!
	I know, like, leftists think that we're returning them to Syria by doing that, but France is not that bad.
	At least not Northern France.
	You may remember, but before all this was going down...
	Some people pay to go on holiday there.
	I know, exactly!
	I've spent many a lovely fortnight in France.
	Anyway, so also we have to, of course, deal with the kind of people, or look at the kind of people we're dealing with.
	So if we go to the next one here, we have the Polish migrants, for example.
	So this is Visigrad24, who is a lovely account.
	And they just tweet out news from the Visigrad group, and this is the Polish-Belarusian migrant war, because, of course, the Belarusians are using it as a weapon against the Poles and Europe, de facto.
	And, of course, these are the migrants that have got through, and they put them in a detention facility, and they're beating the crap out of the place.
	Because they want to go to Germany.
	They're not asylum seekers.
	These people are fakes.
	They don't waste your time.
	Anyway, so we also have the people who have died in the channel, and you may have to excuse my lap of sympathy, but I really don't care at this point, quite frankly.
	So this is a woman who died in the channel, and there's a picture of her at some kind of get-together in a dress.
	And it says in here, Mariam Nori...
	I can't pronounce that.
	A 21-year-old Kurdish woman from northern Iraq has been named as the first victim of Wednesday's tragedy in the channel.
	Mariam had travelled to Germany and on to France in a journey to join her fiancé who already lives in Britain.
	So she went through many safer countries, couldn't be bothered with applying there, or maybe did, and was rejected, as most are, and then was like, I'll just go to the UK because my fiancé's over there.
	The fiancé, they were texting, so he didn't think to get a ferry over and come see her.
	Pretty lazy of him, really, to decide to just sit my arse in England, just wait for her to show up.
	I'll pay the people smugglers three grand, or whatever it is, so she can risk her life to come here and then be an illegal.
	Or I could get the ferry over and see her, maybe get her some, I don't know, a hotel room or something if she needs that, or fill in the paperwork for asylum application.
	No.
	No.
	I guess bad choice, chap.
	Yeah, so that's why I have no sympathy for this.
	It's just, you know, grown adults risk their lives in a stupid way and then die.
	Imagine my shock.
	No sympathy for them.
	If you're paying someone to illegally smuggle you over the channel, you kind of got to recognize the risks that come with that.
	You're the one risking your life.
	Exactly.
	And if you end up dead, well, that is your fault.
	You had no reason to do it.
	You could have applied in France and you didn't.
	The only people who have sympathy, and we should have sympathy thought, is of course the kiddos.
	So in here they say 17 men, 7 women.
	I love how, you know, the images of her and all the rest of it, because that's how humans work.
	We care about the woman dying.
	The 17 men, fighting age, just like all the other men, every other time of the year.
	Nah, don't care about that.
	So anyway, two women, sorry, seven women, and two teenage boys and a girl died in Calais while trying to reach the UK in a small inflatable boat.
	So, you know, endless sympathy for the kiddos, because it's not their fault.
	For the adults, they're just evil.
	You risk the lives of your children and yourself for a meaningless reason.
	Yes.
	Just because you want to be in the UK. And this is what happens.
	Anyway.
	So then we get to the lunatic, who I want to talk about mainly.
	So this is Bordes' racist man, and so this is a friend of mine, Connor.
	He went on France 24, and there was a member of the French Parliament, some other frog, and this guy and Connor.
	And they were debating the situation, and the French guys...
	Kind of pointless.
	I mean, there was like a sense on their face that they've been through hell and quite frankly they don't want to talk about it.
	And, you know, as much as we make fun of the French, you make fun of us.
	Yeah, you have been through hell, especially with migration and terrorism.
	And so, you know, I feel...
	But the correct solution to this is, of course, to return them back to France, process them there, and if they're legitimate, we'll take them.
	If they're not, then we send them back to Sudan together.
	But that's not going to happen because the French government, from their perspective, of course, it's better to just send them all to England.
	And, well, they are right from their perspective.
	It's easier, that's for sure.
	Yeah, so anyway, so there is a chap on here, the most interesting chap, who is a photojournalist who applied for asylum, has got the asylum, so a legitimate asylum seeker.
	There are some in this train.
	And he's now working in France, and he is mega butthurt that you can't just run over to the UK. And he gives the most amazing parts of this interview, and we're going to enjoy them.
	Oh, no.
	This is clip one in which he says, well he gets asked, why don't the native French homeless essentially do this?
	And here's his response.
	Why don't the migrants or the asylum seekers go to shelters or file papers to apply for their asylum in France?
	So, I think the answer to this question, like why immigrants don't want us going to the shelter, because there is not enough shelter to the immigrant, and most of the immigrant who's living in Calais, their application been refused in other European countries.
	What's that?
	Do you hear what he just said?
	Their applications have already been refused in other countries.
	Why might that be?
	Because they're not legitimate, perhaps?
	They're fakers.
	Well, yes.
	They're not people fleeing war or persecution.
	That is not an asylum seeker.
	That is a migrant who has no more right to be in Europe than any random Indian chap you might meet in India.
	Yes.
	I would imagine that all of these people are economic migrants.
	They just, well, I'm my country poorer than that country, therefore I deserve that country.
	Me want big number, make happy.
	You know, that's not how it works.
	You break into Russia, go for it.
	See how that goes for you.
	Try Hungary.
	Not gonna happen.
	Heard they're very welcoming to outsiders these days.
	But anyway, you would have thought that'd be the end of the debate, or someone would have butted in or something, but I don't know.
	People let that fly for some reason.
	But I just love it.
	He literally opens his mouth in the first part of the debate and immediately admits, this is all a farce.
	Why won't they apply for asylum in France?
	They've already tried and failed.
	Says their advocate.
	The guy advocating for their position.
	They know they'll fail again, so just let them in.
	You could even see as the question was being asked, the cogs turning in his head, he just looks super confused.
	He's like, I just want to get in.
	What's the problem?
	Literally, that is going to be the argument, and it'll get more blatant as we go forward.
	So we'll go for the next clip in which he's asked, well, you know, why are they not safe in France?
	With many people, when I speak, they speak perfectly German, Spanish, Italian.
	They've been in other European countries.
	They've been refused, and they know it's very dangerous, and they know their friends have been dying in the sea.
	Today, when I talk to people, I say, you don't scare?
	You still want to try to go?
	And I say, yeah, of course, I still want to try to go, and this is not the place to live, and I'm not safe here, and I'm in danger here.
	Liar.
	I mean, I love, again, at the start of that, because that's one clip I just paused there because of the point.
	But again, mentions, you know, they've already been refused.
	Yeah, okay.
	Whose fault is that?
	Anyway.
	Yeah, also, just because you can speak the language of a country doesn't mean you have any right to be there.
	Yeah.
	That's pretty simple.
	But the argument goes, they've been refused in France and Germany.
	That would be the end of the conversation.
	He says, no, because of that, they're unsafe in France.
	Whose fault is that?
	Who else could it possibly be except the individual who made a fake asylum claim, is not legitimate, and has now found himself in a situation where he doesn't feel safe?
	Whoops.
	I think the French did it.
	Anyway, let's go to the next clip.
	I think when I speak to many Afghans, they're waiting years and years and years to get asylum.
	They're looking for the safety.
	The first thing is when I ask them what you want and the first answer will be to this question.
	We want to get asylum and we want to be legal because people still call them illegal.
	No human being should be illegal.
	Stock leftist rhetoric.
	No human being should really be illegal.
	Don't break the law then?
	Yeah, this is the exact rhetoric that we see from the Refugees Welcome Brigade who are down in Bristol and Dover and wherever.
	But also I love the idea that while they're unsafe in France because they're fake asylum seekers.
	Okay, whose fault is that?
	As I mentioned.
	But also, what should they do then?
	Go home.
	Yes.
	You have no right to be here.
	You have no reason to be here.
	You made it all the way there.
	I'm sure you can make it all the way back.
	We'll pay for the flights.
	We do.
	Many a time.
	But okay.
	If anything, it's the cheapest option for us.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's go to the last clip here.
	The next one.
	There's no bitter life.
	When you leave home, there is no bitter life in the UK than living in your country.
	You don't have your friends in the UK. You don't have your family in the UK. You don't have the documents.
	You don't have any of these things what you had before.
	But people have no choice.
	What's the bitter life to the immigrant when they're coming to the UK? Because people, they just want to save their life.
	They're just trying to save their life.
	They have no choice.
	But also, it's not good to be in the UK because they don't have their friends or family, but they do be back in the home country.
	It's like, okay, then...
	Okay, well, then just don't come over here, I suppose.
	Also, what entitles you to get a better life from where you came from when you come here?
	Are we supposed to just hand that out to people?
	No more right to be here than anyone else.
	Anyway, go to the next link.
	We have the data.
	So the data shows that 46% of asylum applications from the House of Commons are unsuccessful.
	So more than 50% don't make it because they're fake or lying or withdraw their claims.
	So there's that to take into our mind.
	Anyway, but the tens of thousands of applicants apply every year.
	So this argument that there's no route to get here either is just BS. You can apply.
	Thousands do every year.
	Thousands get accepted every year.
	Just don't fall for it.
	But also the French sea people are a new thing, of course.
	So let's go for the last clip in which he just screeches out that borders are racist at the end of the interview so no one can respond.
	Let's go for the last one.
	I think, as I said before, people have no choice and they will try to cross because there's no legal system to them.
	It's very shame.
	But as you see, like he said, people have to come legally.
	They want to come legally.
	Who try to go by boat?
	Who want to risk their life?
	Because...
	I'm legal refugee.
	I have the documents in Europe.
	I had contract to go to UK to photograph little Amal and I applied to go legally and I had the contract.
	They didn't give me the visa.
	Okay.
	He said people have to go the legal way, but it's legal way exists to you, not to us because of our color, because where we are from.
	And he said the border we need, you don't think is the borders are racist.
	Yeah, of course it's racist.
	You can come where you want to go legally.
	You call yourself legally, but you still don't understand.
	It's not legal to us.
	And there's no legal way.
	How they can go legal?
	Just apply.
	Just apply like anyone else.
	But anyway, that's...
	Rambling to himself there.
	Yeah, you can see Connor in the middle just being like, I have to live through this.
	But that's the degree of debate that we have to deal with, which is just, borders are racist.
	Why?
	Because I can't go.
	I love as well, he says that he tried to go and he couldn't go.
	Like, he's an official asylum seeker in France, and the British government said, no, you don't get the visa.
	Why?
	Why might they do that, my friend?
	Who keeps doing all the terrorism?
	And I'm not joking.
	I mean, what is it?
	60% of the terrorist attacks we've had in the UK since 2010 have all been asylum seekers.
	That's just the fact.
	It's like, look, you were disproportionately involved in terrorism or anything else.
	Also, you're fine in France.
	No, we're not going to take you.
	Well, I mean, if you read The Guardian, for instance, it's not going to be the asylum seekers doing the terrorist attacks, but...
	Anyway, we'll end that next round of time, and I'll save the other stuff for another time.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Okay, so I brought a new fridge today, and I'm going to say that picture is the main reason why I brought it from that store.
	That's brilliant.
	Well, not that fridge, because it's ugly as sin, but a different fridge.
	Still brought it from that store.
	If you want to sell something, make me laugh.
	Not bad.
	Did that just come fitted in the fridge?
	Fair play.
	It's also good marketing advice.
	Yeah, actually.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey fellow Lotus Eaters, DJ Chee here and this is an all call for any creatives, artists, illustrators.
	I see everybody's making a big push to start collaborating and getting together.
	I've got a Twitch stream.
	I do turntables music production.
	My buddy is a legitimate music producer.
	We want to work with you.
	We have our own ideas.
	We want to do broader story based multimedia endeavors.
	Definitely, let's get together.
	Make this happen.
	Okay, if you're interested, get in touch.
	I feel like I was being hypnotized.
	A bit weird, but I love how the community is becoming a thing.
	The video commenter community.
	We're going to get that word into the English language.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Sophie, promise you, just don't feel bad.
	It doesn't matter how many times you lose, so long as you win once in the future.
	Something I've learned from martial arts.
	But I'm glad that everyone's liked my idea for the US court system, but if you're not thinking big enough, imagine courts with super chats, but a divorce case.
	A divorce case?
	Where both the man and the woman in question are both entitled and narcissistic and think it's the other person's fault entirely.
	Oh yes, imagine the super chest that will come out of that.
	That was a good idea.
	That would be pretty fun.
	I feel like there would be some weird couple that would actually sign a contract to do that as well.
	Oh, as part of the nuptials or something.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Livestream the divorce case.
	Ashley, please start doing that, America.
	Come on.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Quick PSA. Why are you watching the show from your mum's basement?
	Join the Friday Chad tier.
	I love over here in the background, I don't know who you're hanging out with, it's just someone shouting, effing commie!
	I didn't catch that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	If anyone still doesn't know how to access the Gold Tier Zoom call, in order to get to it, what you need to do is go to cscooper.com.au, you then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on this link here.
	After that, you click on this link, and then you click on this button.
	You also have to be signed in, so make sure you're signed in, because I know otherwise Vicky's going to get a lot of emails being like, it didn't work, the CS Cooper tutorial didn't work.
	Those are the legal routes into our gold Zoom tiers.
	You also have to be a gold tier member as well.
	Yes.
	Because it turns out that she dates a lot, and she's not a great success in it.
	There's lots and lots and lots of articles talking about the men Taylor Swift has dated.
	The figure's alright.
	What about her face?
	Oh, I'm assured, sorry, to the fairest in all Normandy.
	What about her, uh...
	Fullest in all Normandy.
	She's been chased.
	All over Normandy.
	But I am assured, never caught.
	Already?
	And it's true, even, like, ten years ago, even then, people were going on about Taylor Swift going out with loads of different men just because it was good songwriting material.
	Let's go to the next one.
	It's been a while since I posed the question on the value of life and property, but I was glad to see the monarchist monarchist comment on this because that was the thought I was having as well.
	The issue I have with the statement, life is more valuable than property, is that there is a presumption that life and property are mutually exclusive concepts.
	I don't believe this is true, however.
	Property is necessary for the preservation of life, whether it is food, water, shelter, or the means by which you acquire that property, which is why one's labor is referred to as their livelihood.
	In this respect, destroying and robbing property is an infringement upon one's right to life.
	I can see that point.
	Yeah, yeah, interesting.
	I hear this group would be interested in this, so I'm going to do some shilling.
	Game company Insul Riot is crowdfunding their next game, Portland Occupied Zone.
	It looks pretty much like you'd expect.
	The cast of characters is every SJW stereotype you can possibly think of.
	They even have the Chaz's sad little garden.
	And even if you don't want the game, you can pledge just for the medic miniature.
	He looks kind of familiar.
	I might have to invest in that.
	This is really awkward and sorry to do this, but I really need to pee.
	Oh, really?
	I really do need to go to the bathroom.
	Oh, alright then.
	John, let's keep the show rolling.
	This is what I get.
	I play into the meme and...
	Crying Crying Crying Crying Crying Crying Crying Crying Ladies and gentlemen, we have a surprise guest star for this afternoon, welcoming Josh Fermi himself.
	Hello, everybody.
	We're a very professional show.
	Yes, you are.
	I'm filling in for him for the brief few seconds.
	I don't have an earpiece in, so I can't hear the video comments.
	Tell us about your favorite communist regime music.
	My favourite communist regime music.
	It's got to be the Soviet National Anthem.
	It is a banger, let's be honest here.
	I mean, as far as propaganda goes, that's the go-to one.
	It really inspires some loyalty.
	Absolutely.
	Let's play a video comment that Josh can't hear.
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	It's been a while since I sent in a video, so I thought I'd give you an update on a project of mine.
	I've been working on this piece of scenery in my spare time, and I think it's far enough now to show off.
	I still want to pour in some resin to simulate a river of sorts, but I require some more tools and practice before I put that in.
	It's been a rather fun experience to step away from larger scale projects to building this, so if any one of your viewers is interested in something like this for his own, feel free to message me on Discord.
	That's really awesome.
	For Josh's benefit, that was just him describing how he's been moving on from larger scale projects to smaller scale projects and creating pieces of scenery for his Warhammer by the looks of it, which looks awesome.
	I do not know how to do that.
	It is one of those hobbies where I kind of admire the amount of work that goes into it, although I've never indulged myself.
	I know that Carl is a big fan.
	Yeah, I've got quite a few weeks ago, right before I moved for this job, my friend just dumped an entire army's worth of Warhammer on me.
	Just because he was like, I need friends who are also doing the hobby, so please just have all of this.
	And so far I've managed to paint, in its entirety, one whole figure.
	Impressive.
	That's with a wash and all.
	He looks really cool, to be fair.
	He's a little Plague Marine dude.
	He's got guts spewing out of him.
	However, it's just the one.
	Certainly not enough to be going and playing any games.
	I'm absolutely terrible at painting, so I wouldn't want to...
	I'd feel like it'd be so wasted on me.
	It's a very relaxing skill I've found so far in terms of you can just sit there with a podcast or some music on in the background and the hours just fly away.
	I've just not picked it up in a few weeks, primarily because my video game setup is back up in order and I am planning on indulging in a lot of Kingdom Come Deliverance.
	Great game.
	Very soon.
	Very good for Czech history.
	I was kind of picking up some of the language as well.
	Oh really, were you?
	Little bits and pieces.
	But no, I appreciate the dedication to historical accuracy.
	So I feel like lots of media tends to kind of divert.
	I'm just going to have a chat until Callum comes back and then you can carry on.
	Yep.
	Here he is.
	Hey, there we go.
	Do a quick swap.
	Nice and professional.
	Just keeping your seat warm.
	And here we see the return.
	Sorry, that's all quick.
	The triumphant return of Callum.
	Really did need to go.
	He seems a few pounds lighter.
	That's why I wasn't drinking so much.
	I was just like, aw, this is good.
	I was wondering why you seemed more and more...
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's get back to the show.
	Let's get back.
	You've not missed much.
	Well, hello.
	I have returned.
	Yes, I have completed TAFE. No, I did not do gender studies.
	I thought I'd do a little video about the flag that's behind me, because I think some of you might be wondering what it is.
	This is the flag of West Papua, also known as the Morning Star flag.
	Set up by the Dutch and then relinquished in 1962, only to be invaded the following year by Indonesia, it suffered brutally under the hands of the government.
	For more information, click here.
	Alright, cool.
	I did always wonder what actually unifies Indonesia.
	Like, I don't really get why it exists.
	It just seems like we're all on a bunch of really small islands next to one another.
	Yeah, well, I get that it's the Dutch East Indies just remade, but I always thought there'd be more independence movements.
	Maybe there are, and I just don't know.
	I don't know enough about Indonesia, to be honest.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So on Friday's call, I talked briefly about black seed oil, which is just something you can get at the health food store.
	But you can learn a little more about it by listening to the interview with Kyle by Dr.
	John Campbell, talking about his pericarditis post-vaccine.
	Or if you hop over to PubMed, there's a whole bunch of peer-reviewed papers that deal with thymoquinone, which is the active ingredient in black seed oil that works as an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.
	So, I hope that helps.
	Very interesting.
	On a related note, if you stick around until about 3 o'clock on the website, a premium video podcast with me and Carl talking about the rampant increase of heart attacks that have been going on recently will be going up on the site if you're interested in learning more about that.
	And that is definitely stuff that we cannot talk about on YouTube.
	Now that we're not doing the segments, that's what I was referencing.
	So on GB News, there was a doctor who came on and said that, well, actually, no, I think it's a specific vaccine was increasing the chances of heart problems.
	The MRI vaccine is doing it.
	The one in which I remember Carl was, well, we got a strike for it.
	So Carl made a video quoting some German doctor saying, look, this is a bit weird of me, because this is this.
	I think he was mostly focusing on the idea that it could affect periods and childbirth and whatnot.
	And the video got taken down off YouTube and we got a strike for medical misinformation.
	And then when it's come out, well, actually, no, it's got problems with the heart.
	And if someone makes a video about that right now, are they going to lose the channel or what?
	Well, that's the thing.
	One of the people that we refer to in this premium podcast that's coming up is a man called Dr.
	Byron Bridle, who is an immunologist and an epidemiologist who has pointed out a number of the issues that come with some of these mRNA vaccines.
	And if you type his name into Bing, the first thing that comes up is a website under his name that is just smearing him.
	accusing him of being a quack and saying that he's spreading medical misinformation and it's the second result that comes up that's his actual website so it's like people are definitely and it's all attributed to a concerned scientist so it's very suspicious so people are definitely trying to keep some of this information under wraps I mean I mocked Carl a little bit Well, I shouldn't say mocked.
	I doubted him, let's say, because he's more into conspiracy theories that way, so he takes it a little bit further.
	But the criticism, essentially, of the vaccine program that was made by Democrats until Trump lost office and then has been made by Republicans because, you know...
	Yeah, that's how the political pendulum swings.
	Yeah, well, you know, it's very fast.
	We don't really know what some of the side effects are going to be, especially the mRNA one.
	And now we're finding out that there are some that are not normal side effects to an extent.
	The criticism being that the mRNA one gives you a higher chance than is acceptable for heart problems.
	And that's bad enough.
	The censorship is the really bad thing.
	The fact that we as a society have got to that point.
	And where even Ofcom and places are like, don't question the scientists, but only the official state-approved scientists who are saying the things that we want them to say.
	Any other scientists that you question, like the ones that we got strike for, or who appeared on GB News, is like, well, you can't listen to them.
	I mean, there was a guy in the Discord who mentioned, he was talking about fascism and history of using violence against the people to make them believe something or do something.
	And he brought up a really interesting point, which is just he had a criticism that was, well, violence is cool and all, but you can't really use it forever.
	You know, you can't sit on a bayonet, as the old saying goes.
	And in the modern world, we have instead the society is oppressing you instead of directly the government.
	So the fact that you can't shop in certain areas, or you'll be disbarred from these areas, or your name won't be murdered, you won't be able to work.
	The UN can't really call up the government on that, but if the government can get society to do that for them, then they can influence them well.
	And I think a lot of that has happened around this sort of thing.
	Yeah, it's quite scary.
	Well, it's just, you know, we really have shifted as a society to somewhere else, and that other place isn't good.
	Anyway, sorry, I've...
	actually upset about that so let's go to the next one.
	I'm Ian Little Joan with another legend of the pines the blob of Little Egg Harbor covered in Weird New Jersey magazine and the Atlantic City Press this blob appeared on August 6 2003 and the locals freaked out called the authorities who tested it and determined that it was made of some biological thing but couldn't determine what exactly it was some say it smelled like rotten eggs or rotting flesh
	eventually it was towed to the middle of the bay where it was never seen again.
	See I can't tell how many of his stories are like mythology or actually true at this point They're all pretty cool stories, to be fair.
	I can imagine some weird thing being found that smells like rotten eggs.
	But is that a legitimate picture of it or not?
	I don't know.
	It looks like a legit picture.
	It looks like just a series of stones with some gross puss on it or something to me.
	But I mean, that would be a blob.
	I don't really know what to say.
	Thank you.
	Where is this guy?
	the Floyd's prayer.
	Our Floyd, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
	Give us this day our daily fentanyl and forgive us our knee presses as we forgive those who press knees against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil police.
	For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever.
	Amen.
	Beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	Brings a tear to my eye.
	That is so well done.
	That's amazing.
	That is actually phenomenal.
	We can never put that out on, let's say, progress prog social media, but we'll put it out on Getter and whatnot, because that's great.
	That was fantastic.
	Well done.
	Oh, I love it when a good spicy joke gets made.
	Anyway, let's go to the written comments on the site.
	So, let's start off with the L.A. S. Hall place.
	Can I swear yet?
	No, I still can't swear, can I? Oh, Carl, I'll be mad.
	So, Baron Von Warhawk says, Seth Rogen's solution to crime?
	Lol, dude, don't worry that your stuff is getting stolen and your civilization is collapsing into anarchy.
	Having your safety violated by criminals is just part of life.
	P.S. Well done, today is my 22nd birthday.
	Can I hear a happy birthday for the Baron and a special request from Callum?
	We'll get to that in a minute, but firstly, Baron, happy birthday.
	Happy birthday.
	Should we sing this song or not?
	Happy birthday to you.
	Happy birthday to you.
	Happy birthday, Baron from Warhawk.
	Happy birthday to you!
	We won't do that for everyone, so it'll get chaotic if we do.
	Everyone will be telling us it's their birthdays if we keep doing that.
	Yeah, yeah, that's the last one.
	So, Callum, I want to say a quote from one of my Dungeon and Dragon characters in a Cockney accent.
	Bah humbug?
	I don't know how to do Cockney.
	Sorry.
	I don't pay kindly to barbarians.
	Savages and Frenchmen who have the audacity to exist.
	I think that's Cockney.
	I might be wrong.
	Is it?
	I don't know.
	I'm from the north.
	I don't understand these things.
	Sorry, yeah, I can't really do Cockney.
	It's weird as well, because it's sort of like doing Elvish or something now.
	They're not real.
	I think I was doing a vague Russell Brand impression, possibly.
	That actually did make more sense.
	But anyway, hopefully that'll do.
	There you go.
	Anyway, Free Will 2112.
	Rickage Bays hit the nail on the head with his Golden Globe speech.
	The reason crime is out of control is because people keep voting for politicians who don't think robbery is a crime, but some kind of reparations for past wrongs.
	Yeah, this is definitely true of how left-wing politics views black people in America.
	Yeah.
	I'd also say it's an extension of the socialist attitude of property not being a thing that anybody has a right to.
	So if you're offended that somebody has stolen your stuff, well, you're just playing into the capitalist oppression.
	You know, it's a deadly mixture.
	But the racial aspect of that, especially of left-wing politics, is stark.
	And you can see it sometimes when you get these racial justice activists or the community organizers, as Saul will call them, Where they will literally talk about reparations while they're stealing sneakers.
	And it's just like, what's wrong with you?
	Who's going to give that guy reparations that you stole from?
	Dismount reparations.
	And it's just like, stop.
	Just stop, for Christ's sake.
	You are just a criminal.
	You are not some heroic, historical justice activist.
	Yes, you're a joke.
	Supreme Duck, I read an article about California having terrible shoplifting laws, so as long as the value is not higher than $950, it's considered a misdemeanor, and the police will possibly not do anything about it.
	California equals trash, blue states in general equal trash.
	Yeah, I believe this is a point.
	This is true.
	I covered this on the podcast last week when I was talking about the many flash robberies that have been going on, where there have been groups of like 80 people showing up.
	Whether or not this stops certain people from going into prison, all it's done is actively encourage people to increase the level of crime that they are doing.
	Because you give people the golden ticket to steal up to $950 and barely get a slap on the wrist for it, they're going to go, well...
	Maybe if I steal $2,000 worth of stuff, let's see how far we can push this.
	You can see the idiotic reasoning as well.
	It's only $950.
	Yeah, well what if I get 19 of my mates?
	Yes, and we each individually steal $950 worth of things.
	Got you there, boyos.
	How many guys do you need to fit in a Ferrari?
	I don't know.
	Well, one of the clips that I showed did look like a clown car full of people just rushing into this one tiny shop and then just running all straight out again.
	They just never end because there's like 50 people running in to steal from a shop that's about the size of our studio.
	If you were going to set up a criminal syndicate of just people who robbed something, I really would actually make it clown-themed.
	It's just going to be funny.
	Like the surveillance footage being shown on TV. I mean, isn't that, what's his name, Ghazi, the black nationalist guy who wears the Joker face paint?
	And he is a bit of a clown, so.
	Edward of Woodstock says, My brother lives in Islington, the People's Democratic Republic of Islington, according to the both of us.
	In a ground floor apartment.
	At one point he was robbed and the police turned up and yes, bad luck mate, and left.
	This was with him having CCTV of the fellow doing it.
	So he went out, asked the local homeless person who pointed out the fellow who did it.
	He ended up buying back his possessions and going off with various porn jewellery shops to buy back what was already fenced.
	According to him, this took him hours.
	This should not have.
	This should have been what the police do investigate and find the perpetrator and get back the stolen goods.
	I'm sorry to hear this.
	What's tragic about stuff like this is that the statistics really do bear it out.
	The police do not care.
	They really don't.
	If you are a burglar, you are the safest criminal in Britain.
	And if you are a hate preacher, or someone who makes spicy memes, you're probably most risk of actually getting another law thrown at you.
	Somebody who is not an actual criminal.
	Yeah.
	I mean, he has the footage.
	You know, he even gets the name of the homeless guy.
	I mean, at that point, you could just, if you had a police force, arrest him, but we don't.
	So...
	That base chick says, there are reasons I'm not interested in living in a big city, increased property crime, and the concurrent lack of police interest in doing anything more than taking a statement and writing a report so you can get your insurance to pay for...
	It's R2. The smugness of urban dwellers is another.
	Give me a rural small town over a big city any day.
	These people are nicer in small towns too, assuming you aren't being a douchebag to them.
	Yeah.
	There was a nice talk when we went to Academic Agents Conference from Poe the person.
	So there's this, for people who don't know, Academic Agent made a video called Trumpton in which he's proposing the ideal society.
	I think I've seen Carl talking about that in that conference.
	There's the speech on lovelessities.com.
	But Poe was sort of like just recounting where she lives and it was quite funny because everyone was just like, yeah, that's Trompton.
	You live in Trompton.
	Like in this little idyllic town where everyone has their role in life and everyone gets along.
	Yeah, I mean, coming from a relatively rural town up north, it is nice.
	There's a certain peace to it and there's a certain humbleness that everybody there has that is not conducive to living in the big city.
	Everybody in the big city thinks they're Billy Big Bollocks purely because of the fact that they live in the city.
	But also the ability to talk to people.
	I remember my ex-girlfriend used to live in a city in London.
	But it's just that you don't even try and talk to your apartment neighbours.
	You wouldn't.
	It's so weird, but compared to living in a town.
	Yeah, there's a massive disconnect, whereas down the street where I came from, I could walk down the street and run into four or five people just randomly that I already knew, and you just wave them a happy hello.
	It makes you feel way more connected to the community.
	Because you are.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So, Jules, a foreign name you can't pronounce, says, imagine being a millionaire and lecturing some guy upset about getting his car broken into.
	Well, I think Neistat's also very rich.
	He's probably not as rich as Rogan, but...
	He just seems to be a little bit more connected to reality.
	Yes.
	Shockingly enough, being Casey Neistat.
	The blogger is more connected to reality than the guy who makes films.
	Actually, why am I surprised by that?
	Kevin Fox says, Seth Rogen obviously has an empty cutlery drawer in his third mansion, so he's leaving his car on the streets to collect a full set of knives.
	I really hope.
	Really, he just wants more treats.
	Richard Lewis says Seth Rogen is becoming the new Phil Fish of the entertainment industry.
	He has also done bad money decisions by funding the bail for Antifa and BLM in 2020.
	Do you know Phil Fish?
	No.
	He was an indie developer of video games who basically just freaked out and tanked his own career by screeching everybody on Twitter and then deleting his entire existence.
	What did he make?
	He made Fez, the 2-slash-3D indie platforming game that was stupidly complex in some of the puzzles that you had to solve if you wanted to reach the end of it.
	You had to do, like, hexidecimal stuff.
	So, what a big smarty-pants-I-am kind of energy coming from him.
	And then when everybody started ripping into him on Twitter, he just couldn't handle it and tanked everything.
	Yeah, I think I remember Jim Sterling talking about him.
	Yeah, I remember Super Bunny Hop talked about it back in the day.
	Anyway, we'll move on to the mask tourney, if you want to read this.
	Yeah, so Chisholm says the only places that should have any form of mask mandate are hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities.
	If you're entering these places, you are likely to either A, get sick, or B, coming to close contact with vulnerable members of the population.
	So we want to limit the spread of a pathogen in these places, especially beyond that, it should only ever be recommended in left and individual's discretion.
	That's fair.
	Even so, I would still prefer it to just be down to the individual what they want to do, even in a hospital, because if you're potentially going to get sick in a hospital, it's your choice, really, what precautions you want to take, as far as I'm concerned.
	I mean, the counter-argument is, of course, spreading it to other people, but it's always calculated risks.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And I'm of the opinion that if you are sick and you feel sick, you should just stay at home.
	It's what we've always done.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The same thing.
	It's shocking, I know.
	A shocking idea.
	So, George Happ says, I guess calling it the not-shee variant was too on the nose, and Omicron is like a scary-sounding transformer.
	Kind of, yeah.
	Like Aaron Drew Lawrence said in one of his latest videos, the correct response is non-compliance.
	People have been shopping without masks for a couple of months now, so I hope even normies won't follow the mandates.
	That is what I would recommend, but there is also, of course, the risk of getting fined, so, you know, take it your own precaution.
	The normies just do, like, the it's not covering your nose thing.
	Oh, what?
	Yeah, over their mouth, yeah.
	I mean, I'm going to be trying out my exemption, because it worked before, it probably will work again.
	Well, I remember last time there were people who sued because it is illegal to ask because it's Discrimination Under the Equality Act.
	Yeah.
	Disability.
	Play the game.
	Everyone who took Tesco's and whatnot to court over it did win and got a payout.
	Oh, wonderful.
	I'm going to definitely be trying my hand at that one then.
	Second time.
	Supreme Duck says, in Denmark we got mask mandate again, also from today.
	I'm sorry to hear that friends.
	Oakwood Woodward says, ah, yes, the Omicron variant that according to doctors in South Africa, where it was first identified, is less dangerous than previous variants.
	No hospital cases and most people don't have even have the loss of taste symptoms from previous variants.
	So, of course, it's time to wheel out the fear mongering yet again.
	I think this is something John has made point of as well, that each subsequent variant in any sort of endemic disease tends to get less and less deadly as it goes on.
	I'm not a scientist, so I don't know how true that is, but it seems to be the way that COVID is going.
	You want to be less deadly, more infectious, if you're a disease, right?
	And then you can get natural immunity, which, shock of all shocks, does still exist.
	Henrik Glare says, I really love how this entire Africa strain thing sounds like a story being told.
	First off, the papers talk about how Africa isn't doing anything, then suddenly new strain, and then suddenly new strain is here.
	It really sounds like somebody's telling me a story.
	It has the entire setup and payoff thing to it.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	Justin B says, mask mandates you do not comply your way out of tyranny.
	I've never worn a mask and never will.
	Good on you.
	Ross Diggle, as a nurse who's being forced to wear these face nappies that shed fibres constantly, we will see a huge increase in bisinosis in 10 years.
	I think I've butchered that, but we'll see.
	They are designed to stop surgeons sneezing in a wound.
	That is it.
	It's a pointless knee-jerk reaction.
	I've no idea what bisinosis is, but...
	I assume it's bad.
	Sounds bad.
	Henry Ashman says this is always going to happen regardless of whether a new variant was found or not.
	The writing was on the wall the moment the MPs voted to maintain the temporary emergency powers before they expired, with a laugh and a smile on their face as they did so, as you covered.
	Once sweeping universal powers were granted, they would never rescind them.
	Yeah, there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.
	As we all know.
	Tish Potato says, I'm autistic and wearing a mask is a constant frustration.
	It's even worse seeing people wear them though.
	They stop looking like humans.
	I've been very glad to see masks fade out over the past few months as the visual inhumanity fades out with it.
	Shame to see them coming back.
	Well, seeing as you're autistic, Tish, I've got some good news for you.
	You can just tell them you're exempt.
	There you go.
	Sorted.
	If they cause you distress, these are the actual written government guidelines on their website.
	If they cause you distress to put on, wear, or take off, you do not have to wear them.
	Sorted.
	Do you want to go on to how borders are racist again?
	Sure.
	So Jimbo says, how about you can only claim asylum here if you're present with a vaccine passport?
	Let the left tear each other apart.
	That's fantastic, Jimbo.
	It's a great idea as well.
	Free Will says, I can hear the Coast Guard helicopters flying overhead now.
	There must be more people in the channel.
	I mean, if you're down there, there's guys who go down there and film.
	Just the stuff.
	I'm trying to remember the names.
	Was it Active Patriot or something like that?
	He's always down in Dover filming.
	It's bad enough, being anywhere in this country and watching this goes on, but when it's in your backyard as well, it must be infuriating.
	I remember when I lived in Canterbury, there were some taxi drivers I got with.
	This is how bad this problem is going on.
	There was a taxi driver, and he was just like, yeah, I just saw some migrants the other day walking up the road after they got the boat.
	Oh, okay.
	That's just life here, I guess.
	Just how things work.
	Don't have a border.
	So Henry Ashman says, the entitlement of this asylum secret is insane.
	You have a nice country.
	My country is bad.
	Let me come to your country so I can act like I do in my bad country.
	Yeah.
	Sorry, but that's why I wanted to desperately talk about that clip.
	It's just because he's so blank about it as well.
	He's just like, yeah, I've effed everything up.
	All these countries are terrible.
	Also, just let me in.
	I want the legal route.
	Let me in.
	I want the legal route.
	And it's like...
	No.
	Yeah, he just gets angry and angry in his own line of argumentation.
	Just Chad, no.
	Anyway, but we're basically out of time, so let's end it here.
	But if you want more from us, go to lotuses.com.
	You can subscribe to get access to all the premium content, and of course, there's all the free content on there as well, so go and check that out.
	Otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.

▲