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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #295
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Load Seaters for the 29th of December 2021.
I'm joined by Leo.
Hello!
And today we're going to be talking about the Yankees who need to go home.
So Yankee go home.
I'm sure the Americans in the audience will agree with me that the Yankee types do need to go home.
Also, your BBC pilot outrage and the people who are mad about, I don't know, pre-thoughts.
Yeah, it's like in Minority Report, they had the pre-crime division that could identify crimes that hadn't happened yet.
And the people, there's thousands of people on Twitter who are furious that some sort of more heterodox, diverse voices such as myself have got a BBC pilot, and they're furious and offended at the material which we haven't even written yet.
Reminds me of when Dan Kilo got like I think it was an interview or something he did with the BBC on some segment about offensiveness and they all lost their minds like I haven't even done the interview yet.
Anyway and the last thing we're going to talk about is what the heck is going on in New York City because it's gone full Australia and I thought we'd have a look at that.
So, some things to mention first on the website.
So the new stuff up here.
So the new thing first being Critical Bass Theory number four.
So this is Thomas' series in which he talks about what he calls Critical Bass Theory.
Go and check that out.
That one's free.
If we go to the next one, I believe this is a republishing of an article from Hugo now with an audio track.
So meet the G7 results expectors.
And this is available for silver and gold tiers to listen to now, instead of having just have to read, because reading sucks.
And if we move on, we have more stuff.
So this is Ditch the Masks, Pussies.
So this is a rant video from Thomas, I'm going to say, which I overheard while working, and it sounds very good.
So I'm hoping it comes out wonderful.
And that'll be at 3pm, so after the podcast, go and see that on the website.
And the last thing to mention, of course, which is follow us on Gitterit.com.
So that's lotus eaters underscore com for the ad there.
But anyway, without further ado, let's get into the Yankees.
So probably going to title this section something like Yankee Go Home, which is an FDJ slogan from East Germany, which originates, which is this anti-imperialistic slogan, as the leftists of the world like to call it, and was then shared around the world, wherever the Americans went, just Yankee Go Home.
you know, G.I. Go Home, all that stuff.
Good stuff, which is just funny.
But I am making it in response to, of course, the Yankee export of Wokism.
And, of course, Americans, right-wing Americans, all the rest of you, you are a godsend and fighting a good fight.
But there are the left-wing Americans and they are the literal worst and, well, they have exported this stuff to the West and beyond.
Was it originally seeded in Western universities by the KGB and by people who wanted to disrupt and bring down Western capitalism?
This is Yuri Besbinov's telling of leftist infiltration at American universities, which has got a lot of ring to it.
But at the same time, we can just name the names in the articles they've written.
Kimberley Crenshaw, for example, and her writing on intersectionality.
Well, there you are.
You don't even need to do anything special for this.
It's just, okay, you have these Yankee leftists who apply this weird leftist logic to American society, and then just copy and paste it onto everyone else.
Yeah.
That doesn't work.
Anyway, but here's the Bloomberg opinion article here that I'm referring to.
Verified checkmark.
The woke movement could be the next great US cultural export, and it is going to do many other countries some real good.
Go to hell.
I don't know what else to say to such a person.
Why don't you explain why it's bad?
I think wokeism's great.
It's wonderful, isn't it?
It's just about human rights.
Well, it's a new class system for all these privileged, educated, mainly white people.
They're not all white.
If you've got the resources and the time and the educational attainment to study and read The Guardian every week and keep up with all the new woke terms, then you can elevate yourself above other people who don't understand these terms.
So it's a new class system.
It's like in the Victorian era, you had all the etiquette and everything.
It's just a new etiquette system.
But it's also like a new religion.
You've got all the hierarchy and the rigidly enforced scriptures and rules.
But unlike traditional religions, they change on a weekly basis.
Yes, that is something you've got to deal with.
There's no forgiveness as well.
There's only guilt and shame.
There's only class traitors.
So if we go to the next one, we have the article itself, which is titled Why Wokism Will Rule the World.
Oh, fantastic.
And I thought we'd first set up a definition of Wokism, because I do get somewhat annoyed, especially with some right-wing commentators, the real boomer types on Fox News and whatnot, who just use it for like, they want to plant trees.
That's Wokism.
It's just like, shut up.
Anyway...
So if we go to the next one, we have Ash Sarkar's definition of wokeism, as featured in one of Carl's videos called What is Woke Culture?
Which Ash Sarkar says she has no idea what woke culture is, but then defines it, and defines it correctly as, as she puts it, on a political level, the redistribution of wealth, power, and land along class, gender, and racial lines.
Class socialism, gender socialism, and racial socialism.
That is the goal.
And, well, these ideologies aren't new, but putting them all together is a new thing, which is essentially what wokeism is.
So that's the definition you'd like to use.
Because I get asked a lot, you know, what do you even mean by woke?
What is woke?
I'll use Ash Sharko's definition, because literal communist is correct on this.
I define it.
Obviously, this is filtered through my own perspective, my own lived experience, which is a woke term.
So woke is people exploiting identity politics, victimhood, and guilt as a lever to force other people to give them social, political, cultural, and financial capital.
It's ideological and has all the hallmarks of a pre-Reformation religion, has absolute faith in tenets, although unlike religion these change on a weekly basis.
It dehumanises non-believers, ostracises apostates and has group punishment and no forgiveness.
Absolutely.
But this is also the case of, say, class socialism, with the identity there being class, as they have argued for the kulaks, for example, are not part of the class, therefore they can get in the gulaks.
And, well, it's an extension from that into the space of gender and race as well, which is why you end up with the same hallmarks as the Soviet Union, of course.
But anyway, moving forward, so I just wanted to mention as well, we have individual wokers we can point to, such as Kimberly Crenshaw, who is a Yankee.
And I just want to mention, I don't actually see her as, as she would put it, politically black either.
I don't see her as a black woman.
I see her as a Yankee and nothing else.
Because what's really funny, and I'll have to show you the tape because I didn't include it.
She did a debate with, I think, like, Diane Abbott and Kemi Badenoch were on stage debating.
And the really funny part is you can see just how out of her depth Kimberly Crenshaw is around anyone who isn't American.
Well, yeah, both of them against Kemi, because Kemi's, like, just amazing.
Yeah.
Like, fantastic.
Kemi spends the debate just beat T.F.O.ing both of them.
So, it's fantastic.
But it's also just, you can see, like, all of her talking points are so out of her depth as soon as she's not an American.
Right, right.
She has no sort of crossover with the black race of the world.
No.
It is entirely an American...
I mean, America does have a very unique racial, you know, sort of race history and racial issues because all those of the black people were taken there, you know...
You could say black American or something, but to say black, I don't like this because it implies that there's some unique truth that can be applied to, like, Barbados.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, yeah, I mean, Barbados is vaguely similar because black people were taken there sort of against their will, whereas in the UK, black people were invited here as guests and willing participants.
Sure, but I'm mentioning Barbados because we'll get to that in a minute as well.
But anyway, back to the article, because there is a lot to get through.
And so we'll start this off with a quote from them, in which he says, this is an economics professor who's written this, Sure,
and you would have left it there, maybe, but now we have to go for...
Well, and for all those reasons, we should do it, which is a weird thing to do.
So, headline here, wokeism is global, as if that's an argument.
Too many critics of wokeism make the mistake of focusing on its purely local status relations.
They are obsessed with the influence of woke forces on their intellectual communities, their universities, their media universe, and so on.
Oddly, but perhaps appropriately, this is exactly the mistake the woke make themselves.
But the woke are engaging in a much larger international arena.
One question raised by the woke movement, though hardly ever asked, is whether the US will be able to deploy this new intellectual tool for exporting American cultural influence to Put another way, if there is going to be an international progressive class, why not Americanise it?
Because it's even less useful than class socialism.
That has been tried in many a country and just brought horror.
So adapting that to include, well, new identities, do it on those lines as if that's going to work.
And again, what limit of identities?
Why not do it on height?
Why not do it on hair colour?
Yeah, and also, I mean, doing it on height is actually a good idea because, I mean, people talk about structural discrimination.
I'm six foot six!
There's actual...
Structures!
Structures discriminate against me.
Doorways are often too short and I bang my head.
If I get on a plane or a train or whatever, there's not enough legroom.
This is the actual structural discrimination.
If you've got a different skin colour, but you're 5'7", you can fit in a Ryanair seat.
I'm 6'6".
I can't.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what the perceptions or prejudices of people are.
The actual physical seat space isn't enough for me.
That's structural discrimination.
But your disgusting tools also make up an over-representation of presidents and prime ministers.
So therefore, reparations please.
Because we have to fight for representation.
We have to fight for power.
You're over-represented.
Because the short man keeps shitting on us.
Anyway.
Not literally, because they couldn't get their ass high enough to do it.
Okay.
But anyway, the point being made here that, oh, well, we'll just have a progressive class that rules the world.
Why not America?
You're an idiot.
Both of these things are terrible.
Isn't it a shame that this is happening just at the time when America is pulling back from the sort of global superpower role, which, you know, really kept and preserved democracy and freedom in a lot of the world.
And we're seeing democracy and freedom dissipate, you know, throughout, you know, Southeast Asia and throughout the, I mean, I would say the Middle East, but it never really had any.
Never.
But you know, Russia, China, all these places are getting much less democratic.
Sure.
Well, let's continue with this.
So he says, Wokeism is an idea that can be adapted to virtually every country.
No.
Identify a major form of oppression in a given region or nation, argue that people should be more sensitive to it, add some rhetorical flourishes, purge some wrongdoers and a few innocents, and voila, you have created another woke movement.
You've fallen at the first hurdle with that paragraph.
I've never seen anybody.
I've never seen that.
Like, when does wokeism ever do that?
It's always the most privileged, like, absolute perfume-ponce people.
Like, Oxbridge-educated.
You know what I mean?
But they will say that I'm fighting on this level of oppression, right?
So, like, BLM will argue, oh, we're fighting for the black race.
And it's like, no, you're not.
But the thing that he says...
You're fighting for your own property portfolio, Patrice Cullors.
Quote from him, identify a major form of oppression.
What's oppression?
You have to define that.
And to the wokists, people being unequal, or even collectives being unequal, as in not the exact same, is a form of oppression.
Yeah.
So you're already dealing with an insane standard that is not oppression.
So just go to hell.
I don't agree with any of these presuppositions anyway.
Or you could just not and just make one up, for example, such as Barbados, which is why I mentioned Barbados earlier.
So this is a video me and Carl did, and we did a little segment together as well about this.
And you might remember the clips of the, what is it, like 95% black population of Barbados, with 100% of the parliament being black, the prime ministers all being black, and The entire seats being owned by the Labour Party, and yet there were black Barbadans marching down the street saying, end white supremacy.
Name the oppression.
There isn't one.
You don't even need one.
You can just make one up.
Maybe those people had internalised whiteness.
They're all secretly white.
That 100% Labour Party parliament.
Yeah, don't buy it.
Anyway, let's go back to the article so he continues.
As the technology writer and lawyer Paul Skellis has written, hashtag MeToo and Black Lives Matter are essentially US culture issues which provide an effective identity for the internationals of progressive class.
Almost every other country now has its own version of woke, though it might greatly differ from the American version.
Number one, no, it doesn't differ from the American version.
They even have American accents.
I mean, if we can go to the next one, just a story that we covered ages ago.
And if you can scroll down just to get the images, can people remember the images better?
Which is a bunch of middle-class poncers walking into a Churchill cafe and then screeching about how we have nothing to lose with their chains in this cafe because how dare they invoke Churchill?
Did you know Churchill racist?
And I was like, okay.
They literally chant in here, it is our duty to win.
American.
Doody.
They're literally saying it with an American accent.
These English students here.
They are a mirror image of the American movements.
I like how one of them's got a berry.
Yeah.
Like they're in The Simpsons.
There's a pastiche of a sort of beatnik.
The atmosphere in the cafe is so cringe as well, because everyone's just trying to drink their tea and they're just like, could you sod off?
Trying to have a conversation.
Anyway, so we go back to the article.
The French clearly see wokism as a carrier of American cultural influence.
Absolutely, yes.
Quote, French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas, specifically on race and gender and post-colonialism...
We're undermining their society, the New York Times reported in February.
It quoted France's education minister on the need to fight against an intellectual matrix of American universities.
Chad France.
It was just absolute Chad France.
Like, even the government, Macron's government, are like, no, this is cancer, go away, go home Yankee, get out.
Which, uh, I'm very much in, you know, solidarity with him on that issue.
Anyway, so, but even the unwoke among us might think francophone society and culture could do with being a little more woke, he says.
How, you might wonder.
What kind of benefits could wokeness bring to France?
The boss needs to know he doesn't have a right to sleep with his secretary.
I mean, that makes sense, but is that really woke?
That's harassment and rape.
Well, it's not necessarily rape, but it's harassment and...
Well, if he's insisting he has a right to have sex with his secretary, that is the Islamic version of how you interpret your wife, for example.
And yes, well, that would be rape.
We also have a law against that and harassment in the workplace.
And that law came in before wokeism.
Yeah, don't need that.
Right.
Needed liberal ideas for that one.
Didn't need much else.
Could even have conservative ideas for that one, for a frank.
But I guess from a cultural point of view, it needs to change.
So the French, I don't know if they don't have laws against these things, but yeah, I mean, they're there, and you can go to the police and get these things sorted out, at least in the UK. So I don't speak on France because I don't know France.
But he moves on and says, And Belgians need to come to terms more honestly with their colonial heritage in Africa.
Wokism has turned out to be a way to get them to do that.
I don't agree with any of this.
And you can see the game that's being played there.
You need to come to terms with your colonial history.
What does that mean?
What does that actually mean?
It doesn't really mean anything.
He's just saying essentially, and you'll see this in the Decolonise X movement, you know, decolonise the schools or whatever else, decolonise the maths.
They essentially say a morally relativistic position of Nazism is a thing, and you countries, you decolonialism, basically as bad as Nazism, and therefore Belgium needs to undergo decolonisation Right.
That's not decolonisation.
I don't know if the lineage of the king is still around.
They're going to invade Nigeria.
Maybe King Leopold's great descendants are hiring some mercenary groups and going back in as we speak.
Has Belgium still got an army?
Did they ever have one?
Are they amassing?
I think they're amassing in the Mediterranean right now.
This is a very real threat and I hope Woke has stopped Belgium from recolonising Africa.
If we go to the next one, I'm going to make that point about decolonizing X groups.
So this is just close to me being at the University of Kent.
This was the Afro-Diasporic Legal Studies or whatever the hell it was.
I can't remember the full name.
And they say in here, in their complaints about why they need to decolonize Kent University, many disciplines are void of black, queer, feminist, socio-political theory and thought.
Yes, my physics degree was devoid of black, feminist, queer theory.
And thank God, it's also devoid of nationalist, socialist theory.
For the same reason.
Completely irrelevant.
Okay, it's irrelevant to reality.
They also call in here for segregated safe spaces for students of colour, of course, to be segregated off and don't have to be a damn whitey near them, which is not British.
That's not a British thing to do.
The segregated space is based on race.
Yeah.
It's an American thing to do.
People might think it's a progressive, positive thing to do, but you've got to think about how that could be abused.
Say, for example, we get a racist government coming in.
We always do, according to the left.
Yeah, I mean, everything's constantly racist.
But, I mean, an actually racist government, such as, I don't know, like...
Nick Griffin.
Nick Griffin, for example.
Everybody turns around and votes for Nick Griffin.
Then he's going to be like, oh, we're setting up these safe spaces.
We're seeing it in China, Belarus, these places that have got horrible autocratic governments.
They mimic the language, this language that's used in the West, and they copy it.
So people are arrested...
Political dissidents are arrested for breaching coronavirus rules.
I'm imagining in my head the leader of the CCP being like, yes, my Xinjiang safe space is for Muslims.
They literally do!
They've even said some of the Chinese propaganda, the state propaganda around the containment camps, the concentration camps for...
For Uyghur Muslims, they say it's about encouraging feminism and it's a safe space.
They literally say all this stuff.
They mimic the language that's used in the West.
So all this stuff that provides a way of segregating and dividing or controlling or containing people, it can totally be abused.
And it will.
I mean, it's being abused by the people who are inventing it.
So it's definitely going to be abused by other people.
But it also, by definition, isn't a British thing to do.
I mean, you could argue it's a Yankee thing to do, and the critical raceists all believe in segregation, if you go and read any of their texts.
So, yeah, I mean, there's the direct lineage there.
So decolonizing the UK means colonizing it with foreign ideas here.
And, well, I can prove it to you, because even the Yankees in 1943 knew this when they came over to help us defeat the Nazis.
So if we go to the next one, this is just a propaganda film produced by the US during the war, How to Behave in Britain.
I featured it before, but I thought I'd feature it again, also because I don't know if you've seen it, but it's amazing.
There's a clip in here, which...
A white and a black talk to each other.
How do we deal with that?
So let's play the first clip.
Goodbye.
It's been very nice meeting you both.
Glad to meet you, I'm sure.
Funny you should come from Birmingham too, isn't it?
Have you come to my Birmingham?
You should come to my home and have a cup of tea with me.
Both of you.
Thank you, we will.
Goodbye and good luck.
Goodbye.
Bye-bye.
Now look, men, you heard that conversation.
That's not unusual here.
It's the sort of thing that happens quite a lot.
Now let's be frank about it.
There are colored soldiers as well as white here, and there are less social restrictions in this country.
That's what you heard, an English woman asking a colored boy to tea.
She was polite about it, and he was polite about it now.
Look, that might not happen at home, but the point is, we're not at home.
I mean, I just love it.
It's weirdly like, listen man, that happens here.
I have that sort of thing here.
Yeah, yeah.
And it does show a lot of the stuff that's obviously racism.
1943.
1943.
An enforced social rule.
It's an etiquette code, which a lot of the woke stuff is as well.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
But that's 1943 in the UK. And there is even a battle that breaks out at one point in the UK over segregation, which the US tried to do that.
But we won't have time for this, because I'm quickly running out of time anyway.
But anyway, back to the article.
He says...
Just for human rights, bro.
We're just helping out human rights.
And he says women's rights.
It's like...
Yeah, just women's rights.
That's what Wokism is about.
We don't get women's rights any other way.
They never got that in the West any other way.
And this totally will help with that, won't it?
He says, Returning to the glories of American cultural imperialism, consider the British philosophical pessimist John Gray.
He recently wrote the following weird but insightful statement.
Wokery is successor ideology to neoconservatism, a singular American worldview.
This is where you don't...
No, no.
Wokism is not the successor to neoconservatism.
It is the successor to socialist thought applied along more identities.
Nothing else.
That is why it goes along with the exact same tactics, the exact same sort of language, and the exact same outcomes.
Moving on.
He says, "That may be why it has become a powerful force only in countries such as Britain, heavily exposed to American culture wars.
In much of the world, Asian and Islamic societies and a large part Europe for example, the woke movement is marginal and its American prototype viewed with bemusement, indifference or contempt." Which, uh, good.
That's how it should stay.
Does that make you feel better or worse about wokeism, he says?
I say better.
Again, keep the bigger picture in mind.
It doesn't matter who controls the English department at Oberlin College, but it would be nice if the Saudis allowed more rights for women.
It doesn't matter whatever happens where you live.
The only things that matter are whether or not foreigners have more rights.
Therefore, I'm happy to destroy our own societies and our own culture so that Saudi women can drive.
That's your argument, really?
That there'll be more rights in the world because, I don't know, the third world is going to be receptive to wokeism.
You know what the Saudi response is to this stuff?
That's un-Islamic.
And that's the end of the conversation.
They're not Enlightenment thinkers.
They're not susceptible to any of these interests.
And ironically, it's traditional capitalist values that are dragging Saudi Arabia out of the Dark Ages.
So the desire to make money means they're now distributing alcohol licenses.
I don't think they're openly selling alcohol yet, but it's coming.
They're developing a tourist industry because they want to make money.
They need to diversify their economy away from just selling oil to us.
It's not because people turning up and saying, don't you know you're homophobic?
Oh, yeah.
All this woke stuff, man, all this woke stuff totally is completely self-defeating.
Because if you look at it, I mean, we'll get into my bit, but all the people that are outraged at my pilot, I went and looked at them all, they're all just like fat, pink haired, like, you know, I'm gender neutral.
It's like, no, you're just a fat slug of a human.
They're all like ugly.
They're all nobody like, you know, none of them, you can tell immediately, none of them make any money, none of them get any, like, laid.
Like, you know, none of them, none of them, none of them are doing anything with their lives apart from sitting in their mom's basement, like, tweeting away.
They've become this new, like, They put new pronouns in their bios.
Yeah, pronouns in their bios.
They just spend all day on Twitter just slating stuff.
They don't create anything.
They just destroy.
I'm going to have to blast through, because I know I am already over time.
But if we go to the next one, I just want to make the point as well, because he tries to argue that, you know, this will work in the Arab world.
Will it?
Do you not remember, like, we were in Afghanistan for 20-odd years or whatever it was, and the polling done by Pew, whilst under US occupation, 94% of Afghans under US occupation said, a wife must always obey her husband.
60% of Afghan women said that women should have no right to decide if they wear the veil.
60% of their own women.
Beast women.
I should have no rights whatsoever.
If we go to the next one, so we just have a visual representation of how well wokeism was received in Afghanistan, which is, no, it had absolutely no impact because it is hollow and meaningless on a reference to actually changing reality.
Anyway, if we go back to the article, he then goes on to argue that America could be good, and it's like, yeah, the Founding Fathers version of America, not the woke version of America, you moron.
And if we move on, so he says, in conclusion, because I don't have time for the rest of it, he says, what is America really about?
And this is the question, which is...
What are American values slash ideology as perceived by foreigners?
Of course there are fights within the United States, but what do we think of when we think of Yankee ideology or whatever it is?
And there's the Founding Fathers version, or the Liberty-based version, so if we go to the next link here, John, you can see an example of that.
As you always say, Americans will always fight for liberty.
1943, going back to 1778 there, you know, the Liberty version of the United States, the one we all love and cherish.
And there's that version, or it could be the next one, if we go to the next one.
So...
Yeah, this is a US embassy which put up Black Lives Matter flags and the rainbow flags there in Seoul.
And even the Koreans were like, come on.
This is god-awful.
Really, you leave.
So, yeah, no foreigner wants the Yankee leftist nonsense.
We don't want that.
Go home, Yankee.
Why don't they put them up?
I'd love to see them put them up in Saudi Arabia.
Put them up in the embassy in Saudi Arabia.
Have you got any balls?
See how that goes.
If we go to the next one, we can see the Visigrad group's response to this.
People may know the Visigrad group being the selection of countries in Eastern Europe.
It's a no from us.
Go to hell.
Not interested.
And if we go to the last one, we should have the last image here, which is just Yankee Go Home.
That is the correct response to the Kimberley Crenshaw's of the world, at least from us who are not Americans.
As for the right-wing Americans doing their work, God bless you.
Is that Boy George in Unroyal?
Or Unroyal?
Yeah.
I don't know, some advertising campaign.
I was more interested in the propaganda part from the anti-Americans.
But let's move on.
Sorry I went over time so much.
I accept your apology.
So yeah, basically, I'm going to be talking about...
There's this tiny little pilot announced that I'm on a Radio 4 pilot.
And basically it wants to give more diverse voices in BBC comedy because BBC comedy is a lefty echo chamber.
So a survey last year by the, I think it was the Campaign for Common Sense, found that 75% of BBC comedy slots went to comedians that are openly left-wing.
1% went to Jeff Norcott.
But of all the comedians...
The one right-wing comedian.
Yeah, I mean, so it looks like only 75% went to left-wing comedians, but actually, of all the comedians who openly espoused a political position, 99% went to left-wing comedians and 1% went to Jeff Norcott.
So this is clearly a lack of diversity and inclusion, and it should be anathema to WOKUS, because it results in a narrower pool of talent, more prejudice, and it alienates people.
You've got, you know, swathes of the population, because I mean, I think...
If elections are anything to go by, slightly more than half of the electorate might be right-wing because they keep voting for a right-wing government or ostensibly right-wing government.
So you think if you're the BBC, you're taking all the license fee in from everybody, so you want to represent everybody, even if they're people that are currently sneered at or looked down on, such as white working class or Brexit voters or whatever other demographic it's currently You can see BBC comedy is absolutely tanking.
Viewing figures have plummeted for Keystone comedy shows such as Live at the Apollo.
Viewing figures for it are down 95% since its heyday.
And BBC satire.
I mean, nobody watches BBC for the comedy anymore.
BBC satire is limited to Nishkumar bleating like, F Boris Johnson.
See, I didn't swear there because you're not allowed to and Lotus Eaters.
And yet, you know, Tories, Brexit voters, white van man and other euphemisms for white working class people are routinely mocked.
So, you know, they're really openly stating their position on the underbelly of society.
So you'd think liberals would be delighted when the BBC announced the tiniest, most tokenistic step towards addressing this imbalance.
So they want to represent some right of centre and left of centre and, you know, all different opinions on a Radio 4 comedy show called Unsafe Space.
So it's just one tiny little pilot.
It features me, Andrew Doyle, George Zak, Mary Bork and Nick Dixon and Tony Law as well.
So you've got a real diversity.
You've got people from overseas, people with different skin tones, different genders, different sexualities.
And it's also showcasing some right-wing people as well.
So this was announced on...
There's a comedy blog called Chortle run by a little fanny called Steve Bennett.
So he announced this.
I don't know if you can scroll down.
BBC Pilots Anti-Woke Comedy Show.
So bear in mind, the producers didn't describe it as an anti-woke comedy show.
It's Steve Bennett and his little blog described it as an anti-woke comedy show and tweeted about it and then obviously because he called it anti-woke it's just kicked off this absolute storm on Twitter so we're going to flick through these dead quickly so people say it punches down So, decent comedy with any intellectual content punches sideways or upwards.
So-called anti-woker right-wing comedy almost invariably punches down.
They're not laughing with you, they're laughing at you.
And if you don't get the banter, it's your fault.
Like, what on earth?
Like, so, punching down?
Like, who decides who's up and who's down?
People think that, you know, if you make a certain joke about a certain section of society, then you're punching down.
Actually, if you're joking about, if you're making fun of wokists, then you're punching up because...
As we've just seen in that segment that you did, wokeism is the new culturally dominant force in society.
All our institutions, all corporations, all parts of our culture and the arts are systemically woke now.
And it's a huge issue.
So if you're punching, if you're speaking truth to power, you're dismantling and pointing out the hypocrisies and logical inconsistencies and wokeism, then you're not punching down, you're punching up.
Next tweet also says anti-woke is punching down.
They also say, if you punch up, you could upset our paymasters and bettors and never get a slot in Live at the Apollo.
Look, there's no way I'm getting a slot in Live at the Apollo.
There's absolutely no way.
I'm too old.
I'm not the right kind of community.
They're not going to have me.
This is one little tiny Radio 4 pilot.
So I love the idea that because you're anti-woke, you can't be punching up against the paint master being the BBC in this instance.
Because the BBC, as we know, is a bastion of anti-woke intellectual space.
It's come off it.
Yeah, yeah.
And also, people have already decided that the content is transphobic and racist.
And the next one, we just flick through these.
This one's transphobic!
It's transphobic!
I mean, I'm not sure exactly what's transphobic about the jokes that we haven't written yet.
Also...
Also, if we look at the next slide, so all these people say, and there's literally about 100 tweets saying they've only got one joke, and it's identify as an attack helicopter, which I don't understand where this came from.
If we flick through, we'll just go through the next tweets, identify as, so this is in the next tweet.
I identify as an attack helicopter.
The next tweet...
Look, we'll stop laughing at the attack helicopter joke when it stops being funny and true.
Yeah, the one joke they've got.
Next tweet.
Identifies an attack helicopter.
Attack helicopter.
This guy's saying...
They're all saying they've only got one joke.
Right when Camino's only got one joke.
Like...
They've only got one criticism for us, which is that we've got one joke, and we've got loads of jokes, and none of them are about an attack.
I don't understand this attack helicopter thing.
Well, I mean, currently you've got zero jokes as well, because you haven't written them.
We haven't written the jokes yet!
I mean, I kind of have, but for the purposes of this...
We haven't, you know, certainly nobody knows about the jokes, they're just in here and on like, you know.
Do you know about the 4chan post about identifying as an attack helicopter?
Some guy goes down to his local doctor and he's like, I want you to install rotary blades so I can have hellfire missiles shooting at the disgusting foreigners.
You must recognise me as Apache.
That's my pronouns from now on.
You've never seen that stuff?
No.
I'll have to show you afterwards.
Right.
Big man Tyrone.
Right.
Oh, that must be where it came from.
Next tweet.
The one joke about identifying is whatever.
Nobody's got, like, next tweet.
I didn't find an attack helicopter!
Next one.
Attack helicopter!
What on earth are they talking about?
What are they talking about?
Nobody's written the jokes yet!
They're just going on about attack helicopters!
They've only got one joke!
They've only got one joke!
No, you've only got one tweet!
Okay, now we move on to...
Now we move on to my fellow comedians who've been criticising me.
So this is Mitch Benn, who's a musical comedian.
He's got the European flag in his bio, which is a sure sign that he's a fanny!
So yeah, all those, the only conservative comedians in the circuit are going to be busy.
Actually, this isn't that bad, so maybe Mitch isn't that bad.
But again, this is a myth.
Nobody calls themselves the only conservative comedian on the circuit.
I mean, this is all just prejudice against anybody who isn't in their woke little clique.
Mitch Benn, by the way, is a musical comedian, which is just cheating, and it's not real comedy.
It's like using a PowerPoint.
And if we move on to the next thing, so this is Jen Ives.
She is a transgender comedian who, actually, I think she's quite funny, which is, you know, she should be less funny, then she passed better.
But, so, yeah, Leo Kers has some spicy takes on why women are idiots.
Genuinely, I wish I did, but...
Just women's football, mate.
I've got no idea.
I've got no idea why they're idiots.
I have no idea.
I wish...
Maybe Jen can tell us.
It baffles me.
Jen's got some opinions on it, surely.
It baffles me as to why they're idiots.
I'm assuming it's something to do with hormones.
We move on to the next one.
So this is Katie Davison.
Apparently she's in a comedy sketch group or something like that.
It sounds...
Sounds like the sort of thing you see flyering on the Royal Mile.
They'd just be lying on the ground pretending they're dead and holding up a flyer.
Great choice of comic for the project.
I left a compilation show with him at Ed Fringe in 2015 where he shouted down a female audience member about her presumed baggy fanny.
My exit encouraged others so he kicked off at me.
Really funny all round.
Thumbs up emoji.
Genuinely, pretty sure this didn't happen.
Pretty sure Katie Davidson is lying and defaming me.
If she's got any footage, I record all my shows, but I don't keep the recordings for six years, so I can't go back and reference it.
But baggy fanny, that's not a term I'd use, but I will in the future because it's funny.
But yeah, baggy fanny, I'm pretty sure this didn't happen.
Compilation show, it's probably hating live.
It's not a small show.
A lot of people at Edinburgh Finch 2015.
So the host of Hating Live, Darius Davies, he can't remember me saying this.
And it's the sort of thing, you know, you'd think if I was screaming Baggy Fanny at an audience member and people are walking out, there's the sort of thing that would stick in somebody's mind, like my mind or Darius' mind.
So yeah, no recollection of it whatsoever in 2015.
Although I did, in 2014, I saw Katie Davison kick a homeless man's dog.
So, she did.
How did she do that?
She kicked it because she said it was looking at her and it wanted to eat her chips.
So she kicked it over a hedge.
It's a dog?
Yeah, she kicked a homeless man's dog.
I mean, she might not have any recollection of it, but it definitely happened.
If we move on to the next one, Stuart Braithwaite...
Because racism is pure hilarious.
Like, nobody...
I think we've skipped some...
If it was serious racism, though, by definition, it wouldn't.
Like, that's the point in the joke, is that a joke is something that makes you make an assumption and then cracks your assumption.
And all the jokes about racism are, assumption, racism is bad.
Aha!
Imagine if it wasn't!
Yeah, we've skipped a few from other comedians, but anyway, we'll keep going.
So this is, yeah, they're also saying the show is definitely going to be racist.
The jokes that we haven't written yet are definitely racist.
Because, I mean, obviously we'd be able to broadcast racist jokes on Radio 4.
BBC would be like, yeah, sure.
That wouldn't breach Ofcom's rules.
I mean, they're really just showing their own prejudice here.
Next one.
Racist is racist!
Next one.
Racist, misogyny, Islamophobia!
Next one.
This is going to be racist, misogynistic and transphobic!
What happened to Islamophobia?
What did I get drunk?
What else could anti-woke mean?
We didn't call it anti-woke!
This nonceal little beardy fanny, Steve Bennett on Chortle, he called it.
He called it anti-woke.
Nobody else called it anti-woke.
It's not called anti-woke on the thing.
It is anti-woke, though.
If you move on to the next tab...
Punching down on a minority!
You're a shit comedian!
Hasn't actually seen any of it.
Hasn't seen me.
Just automatically knows that because it's not in his little clique, it should be banned.
It's from a separate church.
Okay, move on to the next one.
And yeah, now we move on to the N-word.
So apparently any comedy show that wants to show diversity of opinions...
Diversity of opinions means white men wanting to use the N-word.
Imagine pitching that to a boss at the BBC. Well, you haven't included my opinion.
What's that?
I just really want to say it.
Ofcom, for a start, no comedian's going to say it.
I've seen black comedians say it.
Any white comedian is actually illegal in this country as well to broadcast online.
Ofcom is like the number one bad word that you can't say.
So it's definitely not getting broadcast on Radio 4.
Just to put anybody's minds at rest, if you're worried that Radio 4 has suddenly become a bastion of Nick Griffin-esque evil racism, it would be illegal and we're not going to do it.
Because also none of us say the N-word in our set because...
Why would you?
And we don't want to.
And nobody wants to.
And nobody does.
And it hasn't been done.
So this is just a bizarre leap of logic.
But a lot of people came to this leap of logic.
If we skip through the next couple of...
BBC is going to broadcast the N-word.
Five days till they do it.
It's just going to be people using the N-word and calling trans women men for lols.
Okay, fine.
Next one...
Do you remember the Joker?
N-word swear account.
No.
It was just an account that was like five days until I say the N-word.
Four days until I say the N-word.
And it would count down, and people would get more and more scared.
He never did it.
But it was just a mess with people.
Yeah, this is N-word telling women to get back in the kitchen.
White guys saying the N-word.
Next one...
Is Bernard Manning still alive?
I love how...
So Bernard Manning came up a lot as an example of right-wing comedy, even though I don't think Bernard Manning was particularly right-wing.
But I love how to find an example of right-wing comedy, or supposedly anti-woke comedy, they've got to go back like 60 years.
To find, you know, to dig up Bernard Manning.
He's been dead for a decade and hasn't, you know, made any comedy, you know, for a long time.
You know, particularly since he's been dead.
So, you know, they've got to go back so far to find an example of...
And Bernard Manning wasn't anti-woke because woke hadn't been invented then.
If we move on...
Yeah, also now we start bringing up Nazis.
Godwin's Law there.
Next one...
Oh yeah, so this person says it starts off by being normalised on TV and ends with violence and harassment in real life.
Well, you know, I'm really sorry, Shardeen Taylor-Stone.
Who are you planning on beating up, Leo?
Well, they wouldn't let us do it the other way round.
I wanted to start with the violence and harassment and then move on to the Radio 4 series.
They insisted on the Radio 4 series.
They insisted on doing it this way round.
We've got to do the...
Normalise it first and then do it in real life.
Instead of doing it in real life and then normalising it on TV. I mean, bear in mind Radio 4 generally isn't on television.
But why don't let that get in the way of your nonsensical fantasies, Shardeen Taylor-Stone.
Okay, next one.
By the way, all these people are slagging me off.
All ugly.
So yeah, racism.
Next one.
Yeah.
Next one.
Ah, yeah, look, this guy.
This guy's body shaming me.
He says the only successful job creation scheme in the UK is the BBC constantly finding ways to wheel out desperately unfunny people.
Desperately unfunny.
Desperately unfunny people whose hairlines are reaching escape velocity.
Look at my hairline.
Look at my hairline.
Look at that hairline.
Does that look like it's reaching escape velocity?
I think Sinan Coase or whatever he's called.
I think he stinks.
I think he smells of kippers.
If we move on to the next one.
Yeah, another guy.
Obviously, look at this mop top.
I mean, this guy's like about 12.
So obviously, he's sneering at anybody.
An American trans werewolf in Brooklyn.
Oh, God.
Sad Sonja number four.
Okay.
I can't wait until China takes over.
Next one.
Ah, yeah.
Look at his little skull print shirt.
He's such an edgy boy.
Click on her profile picture.
Click on her profile picture.
Her chins need some edges.
That's what needs to be edgy.
You know what I mean?
Anyway, also, the skin looks greasy.
So close that down.
Next tweet.
How do you stop, man?
They're all ugly.
They're all ugly.
I love this one, though.
Who's this Florida-looking lowlife in the picture?
Yeah, baby.
That's me.
I'm a Florida-looking lowlife.
Florida's glowing.
I'd love I'd love to be...
I'd love to be...
That's a great thing to say about me.
Florida people are cool.
Sunshine State.
They're all Sunshine State.
They're all wrestling alligators, drinking beers.
They're cool people.
Next tab.
Oh yeah, and they keep going.
Why did you not load all my tweets?
We ran out of time, apparently.
Oh, we ran out of time.
Ah, well, yeah, I mean, basically, there's some more tweets from comedians.
There's this guy, Alex Keeley, who slags me off.
He goes on about the attack helicopter thing.
I'm telling you, man, you've got to check out the attack helicopter meme.
It's touched so many people's lives.
Alex Keeley, well yeah, apparently so.
I've never heard a single stand-up comedian identify as an attack helicopter.
I don't know where this thing has come from.
You wouldn't do it in stand-up, I don't think.
Right, I don't know why they've got this thing.
But Alex Keeley, anyway, is a drizzling shit, posh comedian.
And one of his punchlines is literally like, oh, that's the explicit binary of the referendum.
Oh, yeah, I think you'll find that's the explicit binary of the referendum.
That's the level of comedy we're talking about.
Total, like, sect form studies, like, you know, like, obviously slagging off Brexit, because that's so subversive.
Oh, I've never heard a comedian slag off Brexit before.
What a wild angle, Alex.
It's the accent that gives me.
Oh, he's just foppy.
If you search for Alex Keely on there, you'll be able to see his face.
We don't have time, but I wanted to bring up his comedy.
K-E-A-L-Y. Probably, yeah, there we go.
I went to Eaton, apparently.
There we go.
Alex Keely.
I am truly shook.
Yeah, click on his Twitter.
Look at his head.
Look at that posh, white, privileged face.
Top ten jokes according to The Guardian.
Oh, well done!
Top 10 jokes in 2019 from somebody who got paid £30 to write an article for The Guardian.
Geez, you know The Guardian pay really badly and The Daily Mail pay really well because of socialism.
But yeah, absolute nonsense.
I hate that thing the Romainer said!
That's the explicit binary of the referendum!
Oh my god, it's the explicit binary of the referendum!
What an absolute ponce.
What an absolute ponce.
Slagging me off on Twitter.
I've gigged with this guy.
I've gigged with this guy.
Obviously I was much better than him.
But I've gigged with him.
And he doesn't say it to my face.
He'll put it on Twitter though.
What an absolute ponce.
The explicit binary of the referendum.
Man, absolutely.
These people don't realise that they're the privileged ones.
He went to Eton, he went to Oxbridge, like absolute privileged points.
Anyway, so yeah, my other tweets haven't loaded up.
But yeah, I just find, you know, the whole thing.
So the other thing, these other tweets, there's loads of tweets from people saying we should all book tickets.
Because it's a BBC thing, they've got to give free tickets.
So the BBC can't charge for tickets.
So then all these people are saying like, well, let's book free tickets and then go and disrupt it.
We'll set off air horns.
We'll sit there.
We won't laugh.
We'll boo.
We won't turn up.
And it's like, why have you got to?
Why can't you just leave it alone?
Also, political tactics 101.
These people learn nothing from the Jordan Peterson SJW cringe compilations that went up.
If you're asking for yourselves to look ridiculous in front of millions of people and for the videos of you looking like a ponce to go viral, that would be how you do it.
Yeah.
Is turn up and you can't stand someone making attack helicopter jokes.
But, like, nobody...
Like, I didn't go to Hannah Gadsby's Netflix recording and, like, set off air horns or release live chickens.
I mean, I wanted to, but I didn't do it because I'm not the worst person in the world.
These people literally want to cancel something.
They've decided it's racist, misogynist, transphobic and all the rest of it before it's even been written.
Never mind recorded, never mind broadcast.
They've decided it's evil already.
So they want to destroy it.
Woke people never create.
They just destroy.
Any woke comedy is terrible.
It's just woke comedy is like women's football.
It gets written about London Guardian, but it's shit.
But they can't create, they can only destroy.
And it's just, you know, and then they'll turn around and say, oh, cancel culture's a myth.
It's like, if cancel culture's a myth, why are you trying to cancel this thing before it's even had a chance to be created?
Why have you decided, based on your own prejudices, that it's evil and it needs to be destroyed?
Like, when you don't know.
I mean, I did a show about dating a transgender woman.
Probably, you know...
One of the most progressive, wokest shows in comedy that year.
And they've decided that, you know, that I'm racist and transphobic and misogynist, all the rest of it.
I don't know, these woke people, they just want to promote themselves, aggrandize themselves and destroy anything.
just like tear it down before they've even seen if it's any good.
And with that, I guess we'll move on to New York City because a little bit of time left.
I really think what's going on in New York is absolutely mad.
So I asked what the heck is going on in New York City and apparently it is New York's only city and that is being expanded out to the state entire.
And it's, of course, with the COVID situation.
So this is the update from the United States.
We have, of course, Biden here as Disclosed TV, right?
Departs to Delaware Beach House after telling governors there is no federal solution on COVID and it should be solved at the state level.
So a nice admission from Biden again.
Again, Donald Trump was right on this, which is there is little the federal government can even do in this regard, no matter your opinion on it.
It is up to the states to do what they want in regards to try and combat such a thing.
And if we go to the next link, we have, of course, the campaign stuff from him.
So if we just scroll down on this, John, you should be able to get the headline.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a seven-point plan.
So if you can scroll down, John, just a little bit more.
I don't care about the donations.
No one's donating.
Come on.
Seven-point plan to beat COVID-19 and get our country back on track, and it's just rando stuff, which is just like, yeah, what if everything just worked?
Yep, that didn't work, did it?
Anyway, so let's go to the compilation as well, because, of course, Joe Biden campaigned on this hugely, and let's just enjoy this from Ron DeSantis' press secretary, who I'd rather enjoy.
Let's play.
Together, not pull us apart.
I'll put in place a plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly.
I've already done it.
I've said it before.
I'm not going to shut down the economy.
I'm not going to shut down the country, but I'm going to shut down the virus.
I'm not going to shut down the economy.
I'm not going to shut down the country.
I'm going to shut down the virus, not the country.
I'm not going to shut down the country.
I'm going to shut down the virus.
Look, there is no federal solution.
This gets solved at a state level.
There you are, on his fake White House set with fake windows that he changes depending on which press conference he's doing.
I mean, the whole thing is a weird thing.
But anyway, so how does this look on a state level?
Well, I mean, we have two examples, don't we, for the differences, say, partisan-wise.
We could have Florida, the red state, the freedom state has never been touted, the place where Donald Trump resides.
Or you could look at, say, New York.
New York being an extremely blue state and is being rung along those lines.
And you may remember Burger Man.
Do you remember Burger Man?
No.
So this is the mayor of New York here, Eaton's Burgers, because the rule he put in was if you come and get your vaccine, we'll give you a burger, because America, which, I mean, very American, but also just contradictory in terms.
Like, the people most at risk from COVID are fatzos, and we'll give you a burger.
And also, like, man, I'm not being cruel to fat people or anything.
Like, we're two years into this pandemic, probably.
Is it two years?
I can't remember.
But, like, there's still fat people.
So, like, if you're still fat, you've made your choice.
Yeah.
You're, like, basically saying, kill me, coronavirus.
I can see your point.
So why don't we just...
They've made their choice.
I've made my choice by being, like, having a healthy BMI. So why don't we just let coronavirus do its job before it evolves to get any weaker?
Let coronavirus save the NHS. Yeah.
As they say, anyway.
Save the future.
Anyways, let's...
I keep saying it, I don't know.
Let's move on to the next one, which is the vaccine stuff.
So he is brought in here, and as you can see, his tweet.
The largest private sector COVID-19 vaccine mandate in America begins today.
Join us at City Hall with the latest on COVID-19 and more.
And he's very proud of this.
You can see in the video, he's very happy, very proud to announce that he has brought in these restrictions that if you want to go to a restaurant, if you want to do anything, basically, you have to have a COVID-19 vaccine and the papers to prove it.
If you are not that kind of citizen, well, then you are a second-cast citizen.
If we go to the Epochs Times, they have their description of it, which is as the strictest in the country, because of course the United States was not barrel diving into such things.
They wanted to stave off these sort of things because they wanted to be a free country, and certain states are not up for that.
But it must be working, so there must be hardly any coronavirus in New York, and there must be loads of coronavirus in Florida.
I'm sure.
Let's go to the next one in which we can see...
So if you can get up the timestamp here, John, so if you can click on it again so we have the right one, which is the full support, as you can see here, for vaccine mandates for children as young as five begins in New York City.
So I don't know if you can hit play.
Maybe I have the wrong timestamp.
But there's just a video here.
Don't play the audio.
Yeah, it's just that the...
I don't know what's going on there.
So the city is making it so five-year-olds and up have to have their papers as well.
So to even go to, I think this is like a museum or something, it says on the sign, if you're five years old, you have to have had the vaccine and have your papers to even go in and engage in civic life.
Because we're not allowed to have freedom anymore, at least not in a blue state.
So how is all that going?
Let's go to the next one to have a look at how that's going.
This is some dudes getting arrested at Burger King for going to Burger King without the papers.
And this looks like a situation that isn't going to spread COVID. Having lots of people milling around, touching, then bundling them into a closed containment unit and then taking them to another closed containment unit with lots of other people in it.
That's not going to be...
Spreading COVID. But for fairness in the context, apparently this is some guys who are protesting against this sort of thing.
They went into Burger King without the papers to go and get Burger King and obviously make a point.
And there was some arguing and then eventually the cops just turned up and arrested everyone for daring to be in Burger King without the papers.
And as you can see, the guy there in the middle getting arrested because you're not allowed your burgers unless you get vaccinated, of course.
You also get one if you get a vaccine.
So we go to the next one, we have him getting taken to the paddy wagon and thrown in there, along with a few others.
I think it was about four people in town were arrested at Burger King.
The Burger King criminals, the people who were going to pay for them, not steal them, but still, doesn't really matter.
Apparently, stealing isn't a crime, but trying to buy burgers is.
And if we move on, we have, of course, the criticism that, well...
to covid do you remember back in the early stages they started releasing criminals like bail was set at zero dollars there was some people i think it's internet historian who documented there was a guy who was arrested three times the day after he was released after that ordinance and people would go and just steal stuff because if you had a theft of less than what was like a thousand dollars the police just wouldn't respond right yeah And instead, the focus is, of course, on, well, those not vaccinated trying to buy burgers, because those are the real problem.
Anyway.
So if you go to the next one, you might be able to say, well, you know, F those guys, they made a scene in Burger King, therefore deserve what they get, maybe if you're cheering this on.
Well, here's another example.
Video shows cops kick mum and child from New York City restaurant over vaccine mandate.
This is a Queen's Applebee's, apparently.
Don't know why Carl would do this, but let's play the clip.
She just paid the same as she can't serve.
Otherwise, you're not going to pay for, you know, you have the card.
I know, but you don't have it, then you're going to have to leave.
And if not, you're going to leave right now.
- No, no, five minutes.
You're not gonna stay here.
I'm gonna go, thank you. - Thank you. - I'm gonna do that.
Okay?
You do have to leave, man.
Okay?
All right? - Okay. - You came in with Jackie?
- Yeah.
- All right.
You have to leave.
You have to leave. - Wow.
Scaring a child.
Traumatizing a child.
Hope you feel good about yourself, NYPD. This is disgusting!
This is gross!
Motherfuckers!
Unless you have vaccination cards, you have to exit the restaurant.
When you leave voluntarily, you will not be charged against you.
Otherwise, you will be arrested for trespassing.
I mean, mad.
I mean, I've literally gone full Australian on this.
Yeah.
As you can see, a child and their mother getting kicked out.
Why?
I don't know who doesn't have the vaccine there.
I mean, it may just be the child doesn't have the vaccine papers.
And in every situation like this, having lots of densely packed police officers, it doesn't matter if they're wearing masks or not.
If your people are densely packed together and in confined space, that spreads COVID. So the police are creating a situation that spreads COVID. If people are just allowed to sit at their tables...
No problem.
Interacting with no one else but their own bubble.
Yep.
Who's going to get COVID from that?
Well, that's not important, is it?
It's more about the Pfizer money.
Anyway, so let's go to the next one here in which we have Jack Posobiec listening.
Last week, Vish Burra said on The Daily Show that vax mandates would be the new segregation in restaurants.
Today, New York City is sending forces to remove unvaccinated families from society, as Biden and Fauci ordered.
I know they have been encouraging this, but of course this is because of the mayor himself in this instance, not because of Biden and Fauci directly, but it's not like they wouldn't cheer this on now, would they?
I can't get over this.
Five and up.
Because remember, our own scientific advisors in the UK, so our health authorities have said to us that the vaccine...
Is not worth the risk at 16 or below?
Yeah, this is the JCVI. So there's either very marginal, very, very slightly marginal increases in improvements in outcomes when you balance the risk of serious illness or death from the vaccine against the risk of serious illness or death from coronavirus.
But the assessment was that anyone below 16 is not really worth it.
Our government ignored that.
And apparently in New York, they've also ignored that advice.
So the science has gone out the window.
And a five-year-old now has the same responsibilities as a full-grown adult to have their papers in orders.
Yeah.
Five-year-old.
Why not four?
Why not make it three?
What's stopping you?
And people don't understand this.
Well, maybe a lot of people do understand, but this sets a precedent for, you know, five-year-olds have to carry papers proving some sort of, you know, medical intervention or whatever.
And they're also going to be called up for the draft.
Yeah.
Should they have the right to vote?
They're not adults.
This is always the line we drew as a society.
They don't have those responsibilities.
Just these basic notions of freedom, freedom of association, freedom to travel, freedom of worship, freedom to a family life.
These are basic things laid out in the UN Charter of Human Rights.
Not in the United States, though.
They did put a caveat in there around public health, but as we're saying, as the JCVI, as the infectious disease experts in the UK that advise the government, you just mentioned, say this is very marginal improvements or possibly not an improvement in outcome if you vaccinate.
The younger you go with the vaccinations, the weaker the improvements get or even tip into the negative.
So, yeah, this isn't following the science.
This isn't, you know, meeting that thing to breach your basic human rights as laid out in the UN. I mean, this is just insane to look at as someone who isn't in New York City.
And I find it hard to believe that so many Yorkers apparently just gone along with this.
A lot are rebelling, of course, as you saw from the guys who were getting arrested.
Well, so Omicron's come along.
And have you had Omicron yet?
No, not yet.
I should have come in the other week when I had it.
I could have got it.
Yeah, yeah.
It was so mild.
I felt rough and I had to cancel shows and my throat was scratchy so I probably wouldn't have been able to do the shows that well.
But compared to coronavirus, which absolutely laid me out, it was just like a cold.
But instead, no, you have to carry your vaccine papers for you and any children as well.
Yeah, over five.
Let's go to the next one in which we have some of those who are rebelling, and this one is quite poetic, of course.
An outspoken US Army veteran was arrested for the third time in a week while protesting against New York City's vaccine passports.
He held a copy of the US Constitution and said, this is my vaccine passport, when asked to show proof of his vaccination.
Yeah, okay.
That's really Chad.
I like it.
What an awesome guy.
It's just like, look, these are where I get my rights from in this country, and you can't violate them.
They're the damn Constitution.
It's really good.
And if we go to the next one, we can see some of the footage of him getting arrested.
I believe it's him.
And as you can see, Jewish deplorable here saying, a man was arrested in Brooklyn, New York, after trying to order food at a bread place.
Well, the passport.
He can't even buy bread.
Can't even go out and buy food.
Food not allowed unless you're part of the privileged class.
Right.
If we go to the next one, we also have Trump Tower who are enforcing this, and the reason for this is because it's the law.
They don't really get a choice in this.
Of course, Trump not being a fan of it, but it's in New York City, and New York City have passed this ordinance.
It would be nice if they, as a stance, rebelled, but I don't know what the legal proceedings are, so I don't want to class any aspersions because it's the law.
Anyway, moving on.
So let's go to the next one, which is a local bank also had to close because apparently their staff, I presume, weren't vaccinated and therefore couldn't enter their own bank.
So, as you see, our branch is temporarily closed due to New York City's COVID-19 work-based vaccination order.
People can't open their bank and therefore people can't go to the bank.
What a wonderful system.
What a well-thought-out policy.
Moving on.
Let's go to the next one, in which we can just look at the data and, yeah, what's it looking like?
Has this worked?
No.
Has it stopped the virus?
Has it stopped the spread?
Has it shut down the virus, as Joe Biden would say?
Click on image number two on there, please, John, so we can have a look at New York State.
Yeah, all the cases.
Is that deaths or cases?
That's cases going through the roof, as you can see.
But this will be Omicron, so nobody's going to be dying.
Yeah, let's go to the next one, which I think should be the data on this.
As you can see there, the updated version of the cases.
Ooh, it's even higher.
Scroll down, John, so we can see the graph.
Ooh, very high.
But then if you can click just next, new cases, upside statistics there, on the left side, please, you can click on deaths, and then we can go see the deaths as well.
Up.
Under statistics, top left.
Up.
There we are.
It's like that show Nightmare.
But look at the graph.
Oh, there are eight deaths.
I mean, just look at the state of it.
Yeah.
And I know deaths lag behind cases by about two weeks or throughout the rest of the pandemic they have, but with Omicron, it's quite a short, quick illness, so you'd expect the deaths to...
But also what we're seeing in South Africa is where it started off and there they haven't seen a surge in cases.
And bear in mind South Africa has got, you know, it doesn't have the best healthcare system in the world.
It's got a lot of immunocompromised people because of, you know, the AIDS and stuff like that.
A lot of poverty and stuff.
So you'd think if it's going to get hit by an epidemic of deaths, it would happen and it just hasn't happened.
And now South Africa have lifted quarantining, they've ended track and trace and they've stopped routine testing of non-symptomatic people.
But I just wanted to mention, keep that graph in mind there.
And if you can click back on new cases, please, just keep it in mind.
Keep in mind the perks, all the different up and down there.
And you can see in the middle, we also have that wave there.
But people all got vaccinated and therefore didn't die.
The chance of death was reduced as the vaccine did its job.
Take the win.
And instead of taking the win, well, we're going to institute vaccine passports for you and your kids.
New York State, fantastic.
Let's move on.
So there's also them trying to roll it out to the entire state itself, not just the hive city that is New York.
And as you can see here, legal analyst says 40 counties can't or won't enforce New York state's vax or mask mandates.
And in here they say New York Governor Kathy Kuchel's plan to spend $65 million to enforce her vaccine or mask mandate across New York state, which requires the business and venues to require proof of vaccination and We're good to go.
So all of the counties outside of the hive city that is New York, they have the option to just say no and not do any of this, and they'll be fine.
So, I mean, which one are they going to peg?
Would you rather be in a free place or not?
Well, it's all the local politicians, isn't it?
Let's move on.
Let's go to the last opinion here from a local.
So this is a chap here.
New York City is a total s-hole.
And let's play his opinion of how the place is.
So, here's the deal.
I just got kicked out of a bar.
Because I refuse to provide some kind of a vaccination card because I'm not vaxxed.
And look at how ridiculous this is.
They got outdoor dining.
Everybody gets stuck inside and enclosed.
What amounts to a tent, and that's supposed to keep them safe.
So I can't go to a bar because I'm unvaxxed.
They turn us into second-class citizens in New York City.
This is my home, by the way.
This is where I grew up.
This city has turned into an absolute hole.
You got homeless people on the street begging for money just about everywhere.
Here's one of them right here.
How you doing, buddy?
Alright, see what I'm saying?
You got people everywhere, all masked up.
And then, I can't even defend myself in this city.
what an absolute disaster New York City has become.
I love that, because you can see all the problems you already have of living in a hive city.
No self-defense, the routine problems with poverty, the endless sirens, as you can hear in the background there.
And now you also have to deal with the fact that, well, papers please.
I mean, that's what is required to live in these places.
No wonder people are fleeing.
We covered previously, and why are they all fleeing to?
Well, no wonder.
It's also the precedent, it says, because we're having all this papers please nonsense for COVID, but next year it's going to be for something else.
It's going to be for your opinions or whatever.
Climate change.
Yeah, exactly.
Where's your recycling papers?
All this kind of nonsense.
Where's your electric vehicle papers?
I just wanted to check in with Florida because we covered previously that everyone is fleeing New York for Florida, as by the US census data.
And as we can see, this is Christina, who is the press secretary for Governor Ron DeSantis, who has been bulwark for freedom in Florida, saying we're not locking down, we're not doing any of this nonsense, go to hell.
And she's just having a fun time with her memes.
And I just want to feature it because it's just like really funny that this government is press secretary.
It's like Lamal memes.
And you can see she posted cope and seethe with a map of the data as it was when she posted this.
And just everyone else is getting covered in it.
And Florida doesn't care.
And then no masks, no vaccine mandates, no lockdown.
How the F are you still alive?
You ever taste Gator meat?
Shooting off his guns, carrying his gator puppy.
Anyway, let's go to the next one.
So we have more memes from her, in which she's making the point, of course, that Ron DeSantis had the opinion that there is no federal solution.
It's a state-level problem.
And finally, Joe Biden now agrees.
And of course, it is not just him, but also Donald Trump.
So forgive the next one, please.
You can see, Donald Trump also had this position, which is why he was not being some, like, piranical lunatic, or trying to be.
And, well, Joe Biden has come to the same conclusion, but now it's in rainbow text.
So, that's why he's certainly better.
I thought we'd end with just a bit of fake news to spin it off, which is from the Babylon Bee.
Experts, Ron DeSantis' policy is so bad, he's now infecting record numbers in California and New York.
Now we know why.
Still Ron DeSantis' fault, isn't it?
Anyway, that's New York City.
What a hellhole.
Yeah.
Let's move to the video comments.
Toilet paper, I didn't know...
I've never used American toilet paper, so I'll have to suspend judgement on that.
I don't know, Chad, tell us.
What's wrong with American toilet paper?
What are you guys using?
Some years ago, I had the least erotic experience possible at a strip club where the girl was dancing in front of me and turned her back.
The UV lights pick out everything, and I was confronted with a delicately speckled derriere.
That would not have happened with stout and reliable British toilet paper.
Okay, yeah, I mean, that's the test there, I guess.
American toilet paper was so crap.
Yeah.
When Curb Your Enthusiasm, they talk about the toilet paper at the Port Authority being scratchy.
You ever have that in school?
At our school, we had this toilet paper.
It was almost like baking parchment, like greaseproof paper.
It was insane.
It was so crinkly.
It was really tough and sharp.
As soon as it folded, it got sharp edges that would totally scratch your anus to bits.
How is that cheaper?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
But yeah, it was like wiping your ass on barbed wire.
Like, kettle chips.
It was insane.
Child abuse.
Let's go to the next one.
Track's not in a Nigerian accent, is it?
I don't think Jonathan did it in a Nigerian accent.
I hope not.
If he did, it'd be quite funny, to be honest.
I wouldn't complain.
Okay.
Let's have a look.
Jonathan does our voiceovers.
Right.
Nigeria is in dire straits.
Marred by conflicts and issues which might prove to be insurmountable, the giant of Africa might not survive in the present former much longer.
What part of Wales is that?
It's actually like that he embraced the meme.
But then the thing is, as I mentioned, he's got to do it for every other article about every other place.
He's got to start learning Korean accent, Chinese, get all the differences.
Insurmountable task.
Thanks for trying, Jonathan.
Let's make me laugh.
Let's go to the next one.
I'm trying to prep my series of video comments for Carl.
I see a lot of people asking where Carl is, which is he's on holiday.
Yeah, he's taking an extended holiday.
He'll be back next year.
Look, man needs a holiday.
What can I say?
And don't worry, Michael logs them all for whoever it's addressed to, so it tries not to be irrelevant to whoever's on the podcast, so I'm sure they'll be building up for when he's back.
Let's go for Little Joan.
...little Joan with all the food named after the Jersey Devil.
There's the Valenzano Winery Jersey Devil Port, a nice wine.
There's the Jersey Devil BBQ which is also a food truck.
There's Jersey Devil chocolates if you like a little spice in your chocolate.
Salsa, nuts, and barbecue sauce.
And, of course, the Jersey Devil gift basket full of all locally produced Jersey products, including Jersey Boy jerky.
I don't know if there's a place on Earth that has so many ghost stories apart from Jersey at this point.
Like, he's been, I don't know if you're familiar, but like every day he's been telling us a new story about the Jersey Devil or a ghost that haunts this place.
Yeah, and it's mad because, like, I mean, America's not that old a country.
So you'd think Scotland would have more.
Maybe we just got bored of the ghosts in Scotland.
You just killed them all day.
Yeah.
Yeah, Jersey Devil never dies.
I kind of like that it's not just you, but a widespread cultural thing as well, that people enjoy it.
So, that's nice.
Let's go to the next one.
It's a bolt-action rifle.
So, Calum, one of the main things I learned from the Global Archipelago is how to deal with people who are still brainwashed with the psychology, like Lindsay Ellis and those friends of yours that Stonewall know is that you...
Play Comrade with them, and you keep playing Comrade with them until they snap out of it.
That's really the only real way to really show you, to get them to unwind from that.
It's just to keep doing it over and over and over again, and to keep it up in the line.
Once they get out of it, then you treat them like normal.
Did he say you keep combating with them?
I assume he means, you know, in an argument.
Sorry, I didn't quite understand perfectly, but I like the rifle.
I feel like a woman looking at a car or something.
It's got a good colour.
What do I know about cars, actually?
That's also right.
But yeah, I've had some interactions with people who are quite extreme.
I won't name names because that would be rude, because they're people I've met as friends and whatnot.
And if you do just keep bashing, or just, you know, not in an argumentative way, not in a let's be enemies way, but just...
Do you really think that being racist against white people is okay?
Questions like that.
And just give them the examples.
See them, the cocks will turn, their face will turn red eventually, and they realise this is bad.
But they say that you can't be racist against white people because white people are in the matrix of power.
Yeah, but then you give them, okay, well what about when the Labour Party said that no white people could attend this conference?
Yeah.
What about when the BBC said a white person can't apply for this job?
You know, just keep dropping it every so often.
And if you look at, say, the victims of Rotherham grooming gangs, so predominantly white, and being targeted for basically racist reasons, because they're seen as infidel, seen as subhuman.
Gory.
Seen as, yeah, open for abuse.
So that's obvious racism, and the victims there, although they're white, clearly aren't...
They're clearly oppressed.
Ella Hill, Dr. Ella Hill, who's written for us quite a bit, is big on that topic.
Yeah.
And she keeps making the point that this is an anti-white hate crime.
The Home Office doesn't record it as one.
And what's interesting is the Home Office does actually record anti-white hate crimes by default.
So they have the data in there.
And it's actually massively over-represented as well, which is, you know, one thing.
No one ever thinks about it.
Everyone thinks that hate crimes are only things that happen to people with non-white skin.
Nope.
No, it doesn't.
But the grooming gangs are one, and they are not added in those statistics.
And woke people have to understand that, you know, if wokeism...
I assume they're aiming to succeed in bringing about equity across demographics.
Utopia, they have them out there.
Yeah, yeah.
So then, you know, white people won't be in this elevated position.
Then racism against white people will exist.
So surely they need to start recognizing it now because that's one of the goals.
That's one of their goals.
That's one of their examples, one of their indicators of success.
That's a front goal.
A real goal is for white people not to exist, which as you can see in like, here's a 100% diverse room and it's all like brown women.
Well, yeah.
There's no men.
There's no non-brown people.
They had that for...
What was it?
What's that terrible blog thing?
Huffington Post?
Huffington Post, yeah.
All white women?
They're all white women.
This is what diversity looks like.
No!
That's what a monoculture looks like.
That's what complete...
The opposite of diversity looks like.
If they all had different opinions...
And then, no, fine, okay, for a newspaper, that's fantastic.
I mean, who cares about their genitals and whatnot, right?
But the same joke could be applied.
There's a Yes Minister sketch that was made in, like, whenever Yes Minister was in, like, 60s, 70s.
And there's a sketch in which all the civil service are around.
They're like, well, we can't do positive discrimination for women.
This is not right.
Yes, folks, we really do represent a cross-section of the nation.
And the camera pans out and it's all white men.
And the joke is, you know, how ridiculous.
But it's like, yeah, but if they all had different opinions and had different, you know, socioeconomic backgrounds and they understood what it's like to be poor or whatnot...
It doesn't really matter.
I still think there's an obvious benefit to having representation from different ethnicities and genders and all the rest of it, regardless of opinion, because people are going to be informed, their experience is going to be different based on the colour of their skin.
But it's the ideas and the thoughts that matter.
Of course being female can give you those.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's, you know, not irrelevant.
But it's the point of focusing on the identities rather than the thoughts in people's heads.
It looks better in photos as well.
Sure.
That's the most important thing.
You want to look like a university prospectus.
I had some photographer come round to my school when I was in secondary school and literally, like, he just picked out the two black people in my year and I'm like, yeah, those two.
Blatant.
Anyway.
Yeah.
Let's go to the next one.
Don't feel too bad about Lindsay Ellis.
Honestly, everything that's right now happening to her, she did to me all the way back in 2006 when I wrote for a site called The Agony Boob.
And I do think you can still find my articles there.
But yeah, I was a complete no one.
Nobody cared.
And she dogpiled on me with All of her fans, she was leading the attack, so she's been completely encouraging and inspiring this kind of behaviour for a very long time.
And she wouldn't leave me alone.
Maybe she fancied me.
I don't know.
She could just have said so.
What's that reference to?
I don't actually get that one.
So somebody's, like, she's obviously in a bit of a spat with someone, but I didn't understand.
Yeah, sorry.
I usually get what Sophia's talking about as well, but I didn't for that one, so I guess other people will have to let us know in the chat.
But let's get into the comments on the written side.
So, on Yankees Go Home, Omar Awad says if there was a statue of limitations for bringing up S you didn't do, or a pass you had no hand in shaping, the left would have zero arguments.
The supply of problems is so far below demand that the left...
It has to create its own.
Yeah, I remember the best part of the debate about slavery reparations, you've got to say, is Thomas Sowell talking about it?
There's some interviewers talking to him, the white guy, right?
And Thomas Sowell's a black guy.
And the white interviewer's like, so what do we owe you for reparations for slavery and all this?
And Thomas Sowell just looks at him like...
What do you owe me?
What do you mean me?
Like, people look like you did something to people that look like me a hundred years ago and therefore you owe me a thing?
Like, it makes no sense to blame A for what B did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you see the interview and go, oh, okay, right.
It's such a wonderful put-down.
Thomas just looks in with such befuddlement.
It's magical.
So Omar finishes, wouldn't be so bad if they kept those problems for themselves instead of creating problems on behalf of their quote-unquote victims.
Oh god, that's a difficult name.
Svatolia Vladyev.
Best I could do.
The best way to subvert and eventually take over is for people to adopt the language and terminology used.
Want to properly fight back, identify and avoid the language and terminology used by leftists.
This is important.
Yeah, it's something the Conservative Party fails at endlessly.
So, good observation.
Lars Peter Simerson says, To paraphrase a classmate in a glorious moment in secondary school, religious studies, when we had a visit from a Jehovah's Witness.
If wokeism comes from America, and it is all defined and decided there, it is not fair to say that wokeness is American cultural imperialism.
Yeah, I don't even think that would be controversial to say.
It is cultural imperialism.
There's a good friend of mine, he's dead now, but he told me about the term cultural imperialism, and it was always from a sort of leftist perspective, and he was like, yeah, that's interesting.
I've always thought, yeah, that's what Wokner says.
You can see it.
The fact that they say doody when they're chanting.
The American phrase.
Like, you've taken it wholesale and just thrown it into Britain.
And it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Like with Kimberly Crenshaw when she's next to Kemi.
And Kemi's like, yeah, I'm actually from Africa.
You're not.
Which is kind of funny because in the context of intersectionality, Kemi's essentially saying, yeah, I'm black.
You're not.
And Kimberly is sat there so awkward.
And she's like...
I can't actually argue back!
Yeah, you can't.
You're not African.
Christian F says...
There's a brilliant thing on Twitter where this wokest...
So Suze Kempner, she...
I can't remember what she was saying, but she assumed that my mate Nico...
So he's Beijing, he's from Barbados, and he's black.
So he replied to her, and she assumed that he was a white guy replying.
So she's explaining what...
You've had so much privilege in your life.
Yeah, and like saying why, you know, explaining the racism to him.
And he's like, oh, I'm black.
And then she had to do this tweet.
It's actually still the cover of the profile photo of one of our WhatsApp groups.
She said, I apologize for my racism.
I always learn from my mistakes.
So as soon as she found out it wasn't a white person, she was totally like, you know...
I think there's a famous radio host that had that happen to him too.
He would argue politics all day, and some lady calls him up.
It just starts accusing him of having all these privileges, and he lets her go on for like two solid minutes.
And then he goes, Barbara, I'm black.
I just remembered the reason I got this.
I wanted to show you.
I can't remember who recommended The Impossible State, but I've got it.
We'll do a book club.
North Korea Past and Future.
Yeah, we'll do a book club on it eventually.
I'm somewhat enjoying it so far, but it is an American perspective on the things, which...
In North Korea, it's sometimes difficult.
But, anyway.
Sorry, just wanted to mention it because I remember someone recommended it.
Christian S. says a wonderful British response to a woke protesters in the coffeehouse is to get a rabid English football fans to attack them by saying that wokeism fans are advocating to ban on alcohol sales at football games.
A couple of epic beatdowns will stop the annoyance real quick.
Yeah, it might.
Probably make some good football chance out of that as well.
Anyway.
Michael Mengos says, has anyone ever come across a woke person that's happy or content?
Or good looking.
No on all fronts.
All three.
Yeah, Omar Awad says, we already did one from Omar, so I'll move on.
Because there's one here, Baron von Warhawk, who has critique.
Now wait just a minute.
While I agree with your stance that wokeism is a bad thing, you have to admit that this ideology is European in nature, not American.
This ideology has its roots in Marxist socialism, which is from Germany slash Russia slash France, and there is always praising philosophers such as Karl Marx, Engels, and Rousseau, while demonizing American philosophers such as Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin.
Besides, when Antifa protesters, they are not carrying the stars and stripes, but the hammer and sickle and other European commie flags.
Europeans brought their toxic ideology to their shores, and now the mutated version has come back.
I agree that socialism is a European invention, and again, European, not including Britain here, but not professed for that.
And it did go over to the United States in these universities, and Kimberley Crenshaw is a perfect example of someone who believes that crap, but she is a Yankee, and she did expand the theory into what wokeism is, which is not the same as Marxist-Leninism or any of the sort, because she is not fighting just for class struggle, but instead the...
Gender and racial parts as well.
So I'm laughing because John has just written on the screen the American beta variant, which is sort of a way of looking at it.
But to say that wokeism is not American would be denying the truth.
It is not, of course, to say that socialism is American.
Of course it's not.
But the leftist Americans are the ones who have made this theory, and it is why it stands out like a sore thumb whenever it is put in a European or British or Barbados context where they're screaming about white supremacy, where there's like five white guys and they're all Irish.
So, there are no white guys.
Anyway, let's go on to Leo's pilot.
I don't know if you want to read these, or shall I? So, comments about your section?
Yeah, so I've got them here somewhere.
They're in the bottom of the notes.
So my section!
Warning this...
Wait, no.
Leo's pilot.
Leo is not one of the woke anointed, so his views are illegitimate as far as they are concerned, and therefore it is perfectly fine to disrupt what he is trying to do.
If these people lived in China, they would be camp guards.
That's true.
They'd be very camp.
No, it's absolutely true.
There's a lot of echoes with the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
There's no...
This is the thing, the show that we're creating is really about diversity of opinion.
So as well as having the 99% represented who are on the BBC who are anti-Brexit, full-on woke, full-on lefty, pro-Jeremy Corbyn, all the rest of it, anti-free market, anti-freedom, anti-capitalism, we're going to have people who say other things.
So...
We'll be critical of that, or perhaps possibly even pro-Brexit, because as the vaccine rollout showed, there are some advantages.
I'm not a leave voter myself, but I think there are some advantages to Brexit.
But yeah, for whatever reason, they can't accept that.
Even though they preach tolerance and diversity, they're not tolerating us, and they're not allowing us any diversity.
You're only allowed this very narrow sliver of opinion.
I find the power dynamics in that relationship quite strange as well, because of course you can see it as sort of the BBC and GB News, two different entities, right?
You go on GB News and do Headliners, I believe, and Andrew Doyle does Free Speech Nation.
And the BBC, the reason GB News exists is because the BBC has failed to uphold that diversity of opinion.
And so you guys going over for a show to talk about that thing, causing such an uproar, just proves the necessity of GB News.
Yeah, absolutely.
And the fact that one's funded by the state and one is not.
And look at the success of Lotus Eaters.
Nobody's going to watch comedy on the BBC anymore because it's just the most drizzling shit.
It's Nish Kumar being like, Boris Johnson's a dum-dum!
Donald Trump's a dum-dum!
It's like, wow, thanks for the incredibly insightful political satire, Nish.
Now say one thing about Hillary Clinton.
Can't do it.
Yeah, whereas my YouTube channel is taking off.
I'm on 21,000 subscribers right now.
You should definitely subscribe to it.
My last video is on over 50,000 views.
So now I'm going to start doing more and more of them because that's taking off.
The BBC thing is almost...
Five years' time, there won't be a BBC. It's almost like you're going to the zoo.
Just kind of having a look before it all goes extinct.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like going to Woolworths.
You know what I mean?
Let's go and shop at this shop before everyone's replaced by the internet.
I mean, no one my age even owns a TV. Exactly.
Nobody watches a TV. Or if we do watch, we'll watch a film on Netflix or whatever.
Or any other fine outlets.
Watching an amazing film last night.
What's her face?
Carrie Mulligan?
What's it called?
A Perfectly Normal Girl or something like that?
It's really good.
I haven't seen that, but I'm honest.
It's really good.
Do you want to read the next one?
This is from Lars Peter Simonson.
Didn't he comment on the last one as well?
Yeah.
Yeah, he did.
So great, he's getting the comments out.
So he says, Leo, I effing dare you to dedicate one episode to just jokes about attack helicopters.
That would be very meta.
That has got to be the open line of the BBC show.
Just like whoever you're talking to.
So, did you hear this one about the attack helicopter?
And then just move on.
Just don't do it.
That would be funny.
I'll show you the big man Tyrone stuff after this.
Alex Ogle says...
Absolutely, they're showing their small-mindedness and their lack of, you know, their opposition.
They're almost...
All the wokists, they're like the new, even though they're all like 22 years old, they're the new old people.
Like in the 80s, there was all these old people like Vickers Wives and Mary Whitehouse trying to like get stuff banned, trying to get records banned because they were like Satan worshipping or promoted drug use or whatever it was, trying to get comedy bans, it was filthy, it criticised the church or whatever, getting Billy Connolly banned, all this kind of stuff.
And now it's the wokists.
Are the new old people, you know, trying to get all that stuff banned?
It's crazy.
I don't know why they can't just be young.
When I was 22, I was like having fun.
So Rhys Sim says, Here's a hint for these moral midwits.
I like that, moral midwits.
If it was genuinely promoting all those things, people wouldn't be laughing.
That's so true!
That's so true!
When we perform comedy in front of an audience, they're like a jury.
They're from across society.
Anybody can buy a ticket, come in and watch.
So if you say something that's genuinely...
Genuinely nasty, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic or whatever.
People won't laugh because that's not funny.
If you come out and say the N-word, people are going to be like, oh my god, they're going to walk out.
I don't know why people feel the need to police comedy when it's a self-policing medium.
It's not like I'm writing a book and I've got no outside input.
I'm in a constant feedback loop with the audience.
So I'm constantly self-censoring, constantly judging the mood of the audience and seeing where I can go and what material I can do and, you know, clipping and editing my material as a go based on that.
And luckily, you know, most people are open-minded and most people approach it in good faith.
There's a lot of bad faith with Wocus.
They come to things.
Like all the people saying they're going to come and disrupt this recording, they're coming...
In bad faith, not to enjoy it, not with an open mind, but to disrupt it.
Want to have a bad time.
To destroy it, yeah.
Like the last you wrote the complaint email to the comedy club, a performer.
She said, I came to see Leo in July and his show was horrific and offensive.
And I came back to see it in October and it was still horrific and offensive.
Please stop putting his shows on.
Why don't you stop coming to my show?
It's not for you.
Go and watch somebody else.
Go and watch Hannah Gadsby, Nish Kumar.
There's loads of pish comedy out there for you.
This is for other people that aren't you.
That's what diversity is.
Don't disagree.
I really enjoyed your debate with Kate Smurfway on exactly that point.
So I think we're almost about out of time, so I'm just going to take a couple short ones from the New York section.
So Severin Nock says, it's amazing how leftists see fascists everywhere, except for situations like in that restaurant.
And he again says, it kind of looks like the Gestapo, which...
I don't know how as a police officer you carry on doing your job at that point.
I would feel so demoralised by being at sort of orders.
Yeah, surely that's not what you signed up for.
It's like, I'm going to become a police officer and slam five-year-olds against the Burger King floor.
Dude, you're in New York City.
You sign up to fight people with guns and stuff, or 9-11.
You don't sign up to be like, a five-year-old, get out, you don't have your papers.
Do we want to play this or not, Tom?
My first papers.
So for the outro, we'll play this, just to show Leo the lead.
So this is what they're talking about.
So let's give it a play.
I sexually identify as an attack helicopter.
Ever since I was a boy, I dreamed of soaring over the oil fields, dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners.
People say to me that a person being a helicopter is impossible and I'm retarded, but I don't care.
I'm beautiful.
I'm having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 3mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body.
From now on, I want you guys to call me Apache and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly.
If you can't accept me, you are a heliphobe and you need to check your vehicle privilege.
Thank you for being so understanding.
Yeah, that's the reference.
So that's it.
I identify as an attack helicopter.
The attack helicopter bit.
I've never seen that before.
That's like, I mean, it's bizarre.
Oh, I love Big Man Tyrone.
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
Great guy.
Anyway, I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it.
That's the only joke I've got now.
Straight face.
According to Twitter.
We're out of time, so if you want more from us, let us see this.com, subscribe, blah blah, you know the drill.
If you want more from me, you can go to my YouTube channel, Leo Kearse, whatever, just Google Leo Kearse, and it's on there, and if you subscribe, I get more subscribers, which makes me feel good.
And with that, thank you and goodbye.
We'll be back here tomorrow, 1 o'clock.
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