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	Hello and welcome to the podcast Lotus Eaters for the 17th of January 2022.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about Inside Big Tech's insane progressive echo chamber.
	Yes, indeed.
	Ethan Klein betraying Jordan Peterson and also the British man who visits a Texas synagogue.
	And takes it hostage.
	Yes.
	Because that's what British people do.
	Proper British, mate.
	Anyway, some things to mention first on the website.
	So the first thing here being the contemplations which went up over the weekend, why the corporate media hates you and is bad for you.
	Yeah, this is Josh and I think it's Beau discussing the structure and the incentives within corporate media.
	Good watch.
	Go check it out.
	Yeah, I'm very much in agreement as well.
	Let's go to the next one, which you have the Epochs.
	This is Romulus.
	I assume this is you and Beau.
	Oh yeah, this is a really good one as well, because Romulus is literally a villain.
	He's like a jihadi.
	Does he kill Remus?
	Yes.
	So he murders his brother.
	He sets up like a bandit camp that ends up terrorizing all the local areas.
	And then a bunch of them realize they're just men in this bandit camp.
	What are we going to do?
	What do you think they do?
	That's right.
	They kidnap and rape a bunch of women.
	They're all evil.
	They sound like bandits.
	Honestly, they're terrible people.
	I'm not going to spoil it, actually, because the end is really funny as well.
	So the end of Romulus' life is actually hilarious.
	I'm not going to spoil it.
	This is a really good episode.
	I really enjoyed this one.
	Almost as much as the Lycagus one.
	Isn't he like a Roman saint as well?
	Oh yeah, he's the founder of Rome.
	The legendary founder of Rome is a rapey bandit who murdered his own brother.
	BBC Jimmy Savile moment there.
	First King of Rome.
	Yeah, it's mad how evil the origins of the Romans are.
	And these are the stories they told themselves.
	They could have made up any origin story, but they made up this one.
	Could you imagine being Carthaginian?
	They'd be like, we're going to go fight these guys, we should learn about our enemy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Who's their founder?
	Who's their saint?
	A rapey warlord.
	Oh, bloody hell.
	You know?
	Let's go to the next link, which is an article from John Wheatley, Reading the Future in Propaganda, Part 1.
	So I presume that's a written as well.
	Yeah, I listened to the audio track of this earlier, which was brilliantly read by John, of course.
	And it's a really, really good article talking about, look, they have particular ideological messaging, like dog whistles, basically.
	And by being able to understand the dog whistles, you can essentially divine their future plans from them.
	And he's right.
	He's absolutely right.
	It's a really good article.
	And if we move along, we have the next one here, which is a premium live Q&A of the Lotus.
	He does number one, so this is something else.
	Yeah, I mean, we've called it a Q&A, but I don't know how much of a Q&A it's going to be.
	It's going to be talking about things and answering questions from you guys.
	Like, you know, you can put...
	Live stream, isn't it?
	Yeah, instead of doing superchats, you need to put comments in, and so, you know, because you've already paid for them by subscribing.
	So we haven't done this yet, and I think we probably should.
	But it's for premium members only, of course.
	Yeah, premium members only.
	So we can say what we like.
	Yes.
	That'd be fun.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So we have career opportunities.
	So we are, of course, now hiring someone to do a web development side of this.
	Yes.
	We're going to hire an in-house developer.
	Please do not email us and say, but can I do this remotely?
	No, you cannot do this remotely.
	You will have to work in the office.
	So go and check out the description there, the requirements, and then please do email us if you can fit those requirements.
	But we'll be interviewing people soon-ish.
	So send us over a CV. And the last thing, of course, to mention, which is follow us on Getter.
	So go to getter.com and load to see this underscore com being the app there for us.
	So go there.
	Without further ado, let's get into Inside Big Tech's insane echo chamber.
	Yeah, so let's take a look into the inside of the woke administrative state that is running Silicon Valley.
	Now, you might not know anything about this subject, so we're just going to have a quick refresher on the topic.
	For example, in 2016, it turned out that a bunch of the Google top execs were really, really upset when Trump was elected.
	Some of them actually cried in a big meeting.
	Sergi Brin, the co-founder of Google, was like, well...
	This is pretty bad.
	Let's face it, most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad for the election.
	Myself, as an immigrant and refugee, I certainly find this election deeply offensive, and I know you do too.
	This election is offensive.
	You've seen the video of that?
	I have.
	I only found out of it because of Soph, and now she's deleted from YouTube.
	I remember there's that bit where the big fat guy comes up and he's like, White men in the audience, this is a moment for you to understand your privilege.
	Jesus.
	I always knew Google was bad, but...
	It's really bad.
	And so when in 2017, James Damore released his Google's Ideological Echo Chamber memo, just a few notes where James Damore's like, look, right, maybe, maybe there's a biological difference between men and women.
	And of course, this caused Sandar Pachai, I think it was, the CEO of Google at the time, to come back off his holiday in Africa So he cut his holidays short and returned to manage the internal structure of Google because there was apparently some chaos and catastrophe just because James Damore had said this.
	He, of course, was fired.
	And he was, of course, right.
	But anyway, so it's not just Google.
	Of course, in 2018, we learned that Facebook has an internal...
	Conservative Union, because of their intolerant monoculture within Facebook, and they claim to have been actively discriminated against because they're conservatives.
	And of course, Twitter has for years been banning people who misgender and dead name.
	Trans people.
	So those are everything you need to know.
	Saying their birth names.
	Yes.
	The names on their birth certificates and passports.
	You're not allowed to say them, otherwise you get banned.
	Not just the tweet deleted, not just a restriction, banned.
	Does that work if you change your name and you're not transgender?
	I have no idea.
	What if I just don't like my name and I want to change it to something else?
	And someone calls you Callum and you go, no, report.
	No, my max powers, dammit.
	You should try it.
	But anyway, so this is, of course, not limited to any mainstream media, mainstream Silicon Valley platform.
	In 2020, Susan Majiski explained to us why she was going to start trying to engineer the positions that people have on YouTube.
	She decided she was going to promote authoritative sources, and she just explained this in a podcast.
	I can't remember the name of the podcast, so I'm afraid, sorry about that.
	It was a rabbit hole.
	That's it.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	And so she went on this podcast and said, after the terrorist attack in Nice, France on Bastille Day in 2016, she decided she was going to start prioritizing authoritative sources.
	She says, I remember reading about it and just being extremely upset and thinking our users needed to know about it.
	Woman has feelings.
	She happens to be in control of the largest media organization in history, broadcasting to literally 2 billion unique users a month.
	And she's like, I'm in the grip of an emotion.
	Our users need to know.
	Susan, I don't need to follow all your posts.
	No.
	Like, this is her.
	So what you could do, if you're a human, is make a post about the thing that you have feelings about, and then maybe your friends or family will interact with it.
	And that's where it ends.
	You don't, then...
	Catharsis achieved.
	I'm going to send the post to everyone who uses the platform.
	Yeah.
	And, of course, this expanded out into the YouTube COVID guidelines, which are actually kind of hilarious when you start reading them in retrospect.
	Now, I just want to make it clear to YouTube, I'm not commenting on any of this.
	I'm literally just going to read out your...
	Your guidelines.
	They say don't post content on YouTube if it includes any of the following.
	Content that recommends use of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine for treatment of COVID-19.
	Claims that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are safe to use in the treatment of COVID-19.
	Claims that the virus no longer exists or the pandemic is over.
	Can't claim the pandemic's over.
	It's a forever pandemic.
	I assume ever?
	Yeah.
	I mean, there's a point at which...
	No, I can't carry on.
	Anyway.
	Claims that the COVID-19 vaccine will kill people who receive it.
	Which is why we have two premium podcasts.
	Claims that the COVID-19 vaccine will be used as a means of population reduction.
	Ooh, that's spicy.
	Claims that masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.
	Which is why Rand Paul got censored by YouTube.
	We'll go to the next one.
	After, of course, he got censored, the CDC came out and contradicted YouTube's guidelines, as the New York Times reports.
	Very interesting.
	So who are the people running all of this?
	Who are the people actually, you know, who make up the institutions at each level, going up to the lunatic decisions that are made by their CEOs?
	Well, we have an insider here, obviously pseudonym, Hazard Harrington.
	Dead name, you know, who says that he works in Big Tech in a now-deleted thread.
	He says, I work in Big Tech, a name you will know and have probably used before.
	I wanted to give a rundown of what it's like from the inside right now.
	Obviously, insanely radically left-wing.
	BLM, LGBTQ, trans flags hanging in the office, pronouns stated before meetings, special affiliation groups for everyone but white men, all what you'd expect.
	Not in any way shocking, not in any way surprising.
	But with COVID and work for home, this is totally broken people.
	They are fundamentally weak, often with no social support outside of work.
	They're the people with no children and no spouse, only a dog or cat for emotional support.
	There's constant talk even now about how hard things are for everyone.
	Sorry, just imagine describing yourself as I have an animal and my pronouns to keep me up and running.
	That's all you've got.
	I'm a human being.
	Is that what a human is?
	I have an alphabet, which I am a part of.
	There's also a dog at home.
	I have to take him for a walk a couple of times a day.
	Okay.
	Living my best life.
	There's constant talk even now about how hard things are for everyone.
	Often meetings start going around the room to ask, how is everyone feeling?
	Do we do that here?
	No.
	John, how are you feeling?
	No, that's not allowed.
	Literally everyone else went on sad rants about their lives.
	I'm so mad a white supremacist shot three black men in Kenosha.
	You know, that was actually a narrative that was going on in the left-wing space as well.
	Yeah.
	I remember them unironically believing that Carl Rittenhouse only shot black people.
	Yes.
	So it's zero black people.
	Yeah.
	And all in self-defense.
	But he says, it's toxic.
	When it got to me, I said, good.
	And then a lady engineer literally proposed that we should not be allowed to answer the question positively.
	So if you say, how are you?
	I'm alright.
	Well, that's not it.
	Some people aren't alright.
	Have you considered that, Mr.
	Harrington?
	This is even funnier being British.
	Because we have the custom of, like, we say, you're right.
	Yeah.
	And that's, like, the greeting.
	Yes.
	And the response is meant to be, yeah, not too bad.
	Yeah, not bad.
	And, like, the irony is, oh, well, I don't want to hear about your life story.
	Just making sure that everything's fine, you know.
	But anyway, she, uh, he says, I think it hurts her that I wasn't as miserable as her.
	She made some argument...
	I think it's true!
	She made some argument about vulnerability.
	These people not only want you weak, they want you to expose your vulnerabilities to them so they can exploit them.
	That's correct.
	How else can they know how to help you if they don't know how you're weak?
	They may not intend this explicitly, but whatever twisted ideology they worship ends with that result.
	So back to morale.
	Everyone is demoralized.
	Good.
	This may surprise you, but since big tech's extremely well paid and have been able to work from home for the past two years, they've been given extra days off, extra stipends, extra bonuses and stuff they've never had to fear being laid off.
	I have some sympathy, and I can feel some of this myself.
	It's normal and natural to work with people in person.
	Work from home can make it easy to overwork.
	You take fewer breaks, often work past normal working hours.
	You don't feel connected to customers or celebrate success in person.
	As I mentioned, big tech is often the only social life for people.
	Well, if they've only got their cats, what else have they got?
	I, fortunately, never made it mine, but my company had all sorts of after-work activities.
	Sporks leagues, games, nights, different classes taught by employees.
	There was a rhythm and connectedness that's gone.
	The great resignation is real.
	Many employees are leaving for better jobs.
	Remote work has so far resulted in more job opportunities for those working in big tech, especially outside of Silicon Valley.
	And so we backfill those positions.
	Hire new people, all remote.
	We now have two employees who have nearly two years of tenure who have never met another employee in person and lives alone in some city away from where the office was.
	This is why I've got this...
	It has to be that you work in the office.
	Because I don't want to end up in a position like this.
	Or it's just this dispersed company of people who have no idea who the other people are.
	I do wonder what the company...
	Of course he doesn't mention which one, but they're all basically the same on this, which is, what's their problem with that?
	What ideologically can they say is, oh, this is bad, we need to get back into the office?
	Good question.
	I mean, you would think it would be something to do with loneliness or depression, isolation, all of these things that were usually in past areas used as punishments for when people had done something wrong, that people are having this inflicted on themselves voluntarily now.
	Honestly, at some point we're going to have to go through The Wanderer, which is this old Anglo-Saxon poem of a guy who's living in exile.
	And it's the most harrowing poem in the world.
	It's horrible.
	And even like a thousand years later, you can feel the guy's pain.
	And these people are doing it to themselves on purpose.
	But anyway...
	This would be fine for a normal person, but then again, we're attracting the family-less urbanites who are scared of even meeting up with their friends at a restaurant.
	The churn in jobs also has a major effect, constantly dealing with the overhead of reassigning projects from the people leaving and onboarding new people.
	The new employees don't get enough attention to succeed, and the employees that stay end up with a load of work dumped by the former co-workers, plus the responsibility of onboarding the new ones.
	There are many software engineers who have not written a single line of code in the past year.
	Amazing, isn't it?
	While the woke agitation has slowed due to the productive employee's ability to simply log off, in addition to the tiredness of the agitators, there's more and more open rebellion regarding pay and profits.
	Bring your whole self to work was the big tech mantra.
	I remember this years ago.
	This is going to essentially be a big social club.
	But look at those people.
	I'm not choosing to hang out with any of them.
	My social club is the people I choose to hang out with.
	Look at that.
	You know?
	Well, look at them!
	Am I wrong?
	Okay.
	I just am wondering, because we went back to that point in which you mentioned that there used to be, like, on-camp...
	That's the thing.
	It's not on-company.
	Yeah, it's on-campus, but...
	It's on-campus, isn't it?
	Exactly.
	And I remember Google advertising saying, look, we've got, like...
	They had, like, slides and table tennis tables and stuff like that, where people were just, like, chilling out and saying, yeah, I don't really want that.
	Yeah, it's the kind of weird advertising American universities do as well.
	They're like, look at the climbing wall we have.
	I'm like, want to study physics?
	Yeah.
	Do I need a climbing wall for?
	And I'll go somewhere that has, that is, you know, a climbing place if I want to go climbing.
	But anyway, so they say, tell people about your cool hobbies.
	Share your politics, if you're far left only.
	Share your sex life.
	Do you really want to hear about the sex lives of radical leftists?
	I mean, I don't!
	By the sounds of it, they don't have one, so...
	Or worse, they have one that's...
	Yeah, anyway.
	This, plus the feeling of distance an online-only presence creates, has made people braver in speaking their thoughts.
	Used to have the balls to knock on the CEO's office door or schedule a meeting.
	Now you can fire off a nasty Slack message straight to her.
	No, this is her as well.
	People will openly write threads and comments throughout Slack, bad-mouthing the higher-ups at the company, and they do nothing.
	It's unreal what these people will write with no recourse.
	If it were anything remotely right-wing, I'm certain they'd be immediately fired.
	Like James Damore, which was remotely right-wing.
	But so long as they're sufficiently left-wing or minority, anything but a straight white man, they can agitate, complain, do no work, and continue employment.
	And so the entire company has devolved.
	This is where it gets really interesting.
	We're running on code written in years past.
	No major new product initiatives are being launched.
	Workers complain that they're understaffed and demoralized.
	Isn't that fascinating?
	The structure, the entire, you know, one of these Silicon Valley giants is essentially being run by people who can't really create the company itself.
	So if they start again, they wouldn't be able to write all of this and make all of this.
	And so it's the people who have now left, the churned employees, whose work they're profiting from.
	Their ancestors.
	Their ancestors.
	And they themselves were essentially degenerated.
	But I mean, what would Marx say about this being exploitative?
	Shouldn't you be paying money to those people whose code you're using in order to finance yourselves?
	Just curious.
	Anyway, people take costs for six days or don't show up at all by that record.
	It's very easy to hide when you're in work-from-home mode.
	With such a flux of employees and management and so much allowance for mental health, it's easy to simply no-show without punishment.
	We hired a new employee and I pinged them at 1pm to see if they joined a meeting.
	They came 10 minutes later, said they slept in because they didn't have anything to work on.
	It's got to be mind-boggling for someone not in software.
	Yeah.
	It's mad, isn't it?
	It's like emotional support.
	That would be insufferable.
	It's like, go away.
	Let me get on with whatever I'm doing.
	Why do I have so many managers?
	It's like from office space.
	And you can simply say, oh, I've had a hard week, barely slept, felt sick, don't think I can handle much more this week.
	There's no real accountability to anyone.
	So you've got record profits at the top because of existing code and product market fit cruising along so leaders don't notice.
	It's utterly surreal to watch the deterioration, see how quickly an organization can crumble.
	And I'm not productive either.
	I'm constantly bombarded with anti-white, anti-male woke propaganda.
	We've even had explicit discussions of assigning work to URMs, which is underrepresented minorities, because, quote, life is really hard for them right now.
	Not hard for anyone else.
	It's just because they're brown.
	This suggestion was from a lesbian white woman with cats.
	Imagine my shot.
	Yeah, I am absolutely flabbergasted.
	If nothing's being produced, though...
	I mean, I'm just, I'm wondering in my head, no one's making anything.
	They're all living off profits off old products.
	But they're totally right though as well.
	But it's just the fact that, your point about the fact that they're essentially living in a company they couldn't build, they can't even maintain it because you're not producing anything new.
	I mean, look at the innovations that have come out of Silicon Valley, right?
	What's Twitter done that's been an innovation in their thing?
	It's been putting little plates on saying, this is contested information, right?
	Look at YouTube.
	What have they done?
	They've removed the dislike bar, and sometimes they'll tweak the algorithm to change what kinds of things come up.
	But we've always joked, and for a long time, that essentially these ideological worms of people who just are there for the ideology, not for the company...
	We'll eventually take over so much of the company that they'll destroy it.
	Yeah.
	Like a parasite.
	Yes.
	And, well, we're actually seeing it in real time.
	Yes.
	Which, I mean, it's nice to be right, but it's...
	And notice that every innovation, quote-unquote, that the Silicon Valley platform has put out now is a way of restricting what people could previously do.
	So they're just removing things, you know.
	Oh, we're going to shadow ban this.
	We're going to make sure that this is, you know, not present in the search algorithm.
	Yeah.
	It's like that.
	I mean, I've done coding.
	Anyone could program an exception in an algorithm.
	If X, then not Y. That's all you need to do.
	It's the most simple thing.
	There's nothing new and original coming out of Silicon Valley.
	It's totally calcified with a bunch of Jobsworths who are just existing in the structure.
	They're apparently spending the majority of their time just spending their time on woke ideology.
	Who are not producing anything because whoever made the systems was clever and innovative.
	And is also gone.
	And is gone, yeah.
	And so nothing new is going to come.
	It's like, wow, that's a really interesting position, isn't it?
	And so what was the big YouTube innovation?
	YouTube Shorts.
	They ripped off TikTok and no one cares.
	I'm not watching a 60 second video.
	I've got things to do, you know, a little waste of my time.
	That was a girl dancing in front of the camera.
	Brilliant.
	What did I learn from that?
	Nothing.
	You know, I'd rather go watch an hour long documentary about something.
	I agree.
	There's a lot of content creators I quite like, and they're trying shorts, and I try and watch them, but I'm more just like, I came here for your videos.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I don't care about this.
	Not 60 seconds of you talking about geography.
	Exactly.
	Anyway, so he says, as productive as one person can be, you can't add value when you're constantly thwarted.
	No one in IT doing tickets anymore to provision things for you.
	Large bureaucracy to gatekeep any actions.
	Needs review by X number of committees, now including diversity, equity, and inclusion committees.
	It's hard to feel unproductive.
	I'm not the type who feels great about getting paid to not work.
	That's essentially what I've been doing for the last year.
	Great.
	I mean, I'd start getting a book or something.
	You know, start having a read.
	The problem is worse than big tech.
	So if Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon Prime and Netflix go down, the world will probably be better off.
	It's not essential.
	I worry about this apathy spreading to companies that matter, ones that write software for utilities.
	It goes on a bit more, but that's the main meat of that, I think.
	And isn't that a fascinating look at someone who is, I guess we'll say, you know, conservative on the inside of a big tech company who's just like...
	We're just existing.
	It's like some sort of dystopian science fiction, where you've got the Hive that was built by the great architects in eras past, and then you've got the denizens of the Hive, who are just weird degenerate gang members who are staking out their territory.
	It's like, none of you can support this civilization that you've made.
	And that's exactly the impression I got from reading this thread, which is why Twitter had to censor it.
	I'm trying to think...
	Wait, what...
	Oh, well, I have to use an archive, because if you go to the next one, John, you can see that he was getting repeated warnings for hate speech.
	Didn't see any hate speech in that.
	Two tweets removed, ruining the entire thread.
	The account got banned in multiple countries.
	And so he just deleted it.
	What?
	It's restricted to North Korea-only viewers.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Basically.
	France and Germany, I think it was, that weren't allowing that.
	Wow, I mean, that's how you know it stings.
	Yeah, I know, right?
	The midwit neurons who can't make any code are sat there just having to censor more things because...
	Yeah, we resemble that, and so that has to go.
	I'm trying to think of some science fiction you could compare it to.
	To be honest, it sounds like a fascinating Huxley novel or something.
	I'm looking...
	I think it looks like Warhammer 4000, actually, where the...
	Like, you know, all of this great technology was created, you know, 10,000 years ago, and no one can make anything new like that ever again.
	All they can do is the incantations to keep the machine spirit running what we already have.
	You know, nothing new is innovated.
	And then you've got the denizens of the Hive City running around questioning each other's pronouns and then shooting each other.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Woke hive cities.
	But that's what they've made, and it's made people who are unable to create the thing that they live in.
	Isn't that sad?
	It's terrifying.
	I know.
	Because it won't stay there.
	And all of the world uses these platforms.
	Billions of people all over the world are reliant on this technology that's being maintained by absolute self-centered midwits.
	There's a collapse coming, I'm sure of it.
	Anyway.
	I suppose we should move on to, well, another kind of collapse.
	Another, well, not even a midway, actually.
	The collapse of Ethan Klein, to be specific.
	So Ethan Klein is betraying Jordan Peterson, or has betrayed Jordan Peterson, I should say, considering it's been done.
	And I thought we'd start with a throwback to an episode me and Thomas did, in which you can see the segment here, HVH3 mocks Jordan Peterson.
	And it was weird at the time, which is, it's Ethan Klein responding to clips of Jordan Peterson that have gone viral ages ago.
	And it'll be like Jordan Peterson saying that society needs men.
	And Ethan Klein will just start making a childish voice about how stupid that is.
	Why is that stupid?
	He's like, have you ever heard of a lady plumber?
	No.
	No, I literally haven't.
	The 1% doesn't change anything, Ethan, you moron.
	I bet if I looked it up, it's not even 1%.
	Maybe.
	But even if it's 99% male, okay, that's the point Jordan's making.
	You know that.
	And it was just a really weird video series.
	Who's ever heard of a lady plumber?
	Sorry, not to be rude or anything, but I just haven't.
	Yeah, but that's the point made, which is Jordan Peterson saying, well, all the infrastructure relies on men.
	If you just look at the people who are doing it, therefore this is something you should value.
	And if you mock this whilst you're working in a large tech company, like the previous example, talking about anti-white, anti-men stuff all day, then what's wrong with you?
	I like the fact that Ethan Klein expects to sit there in his $3 million studio, presumably living in his mansion, talking into, you know, using all of the amenities around him, expecting him to essentially be at the top of a pyramid of servant women.
	We're maintaining everything.
	No, no.
	The men can go.
	It's going to be women that maintain everything I have.
	I am Ethan Klein, the feminist.
	Well, I suppose so.
	But that's not where it ended.
	He also decided to go after Joe Rogan for a weird reason.
	Yeah, it was very strange.
	So I love this headline from the Postillennial here.
	A beast YouTube star Ethan Klein criticizes Joe Rogan for his health choices.
	We'll leave that story there because we'll probably get banned if we go into the details from YouTube as well.
	Accurate headline, though.
	I thought we'd also just look at how he's doing as a channel, because I don't really watch Ethan too much.
	I know Harry used to watch quite a lot of him.
	And so if we can scroll down on this, it's just his social blade, so the publicly available statistics.
	And in here, if you scroll down more, John, should be up to the graphs.
	And on the graphs, there you can see that he's lost 50,000 subs in the last five months.
	Go back up a second and you can see the big, to the channel numbers.
	The views.
	Right.
	Notice that there's 8 million or so views that have suddenly been deleted.
	Yes.
	And that is because of the news, which is that he has decided to betray Jordan Peterson by deleting the interview with Jordan Peterson.
	That is what that huge red is there.
	Yes.
	If we go to the next link, I also thought I'd mention, because I wondered whether Hassan joining had brought over all his brand new fans.
	Apparently not, because he joins in September.
	Oh, really?
	And then, well, they just keep losing subscribers in the tens of thousands.
	Well, isn't that interesting?
	Ethan Klein used to be quite an edgy boy back in his day.
	And now he is, within the last six months, has gone totally woke, insanely, insufferably woke.
	And now he's doing a podcast with a self-avowed communist who thinks that America deserved 9-11.
	It's a stunning and brave position.
	Yeah.
	And now he's like, Jordan Peterson is bad because he's like, maybe you should become a better person.
	Maybe you should clean your room.
	Yeah.
	That's a bad message.
	America deserves 9-11.
	Based.
	I don't think so.
	Communist revolutionary now?
	Yes.
	Weird.
	Weird how this is not popular with his own audience.
	I wonder what Hugh Mungus would make of this if we asked him.
	Has Hugh Mungus been deplatformed by Ethan Klein yet?
	Oh, I don't know.
	And what prevents it?
	If we go to the next link, we can see the drama, which is that Ethan Klein started to tweet this out.
	Years ago, I interviewed Jordan Peterson before I was very familiar with his politics.
	Oh, really?
	So unfamiliar.
	The only thing people know Jordan Peterson for when he became an international sensation, let's say, was that he stood up to trans activists on campus in saying that I'm not going to be forced to say things.
	Yes.
	And Bill C-16 is going to force you to say things.
	Yeah, so, as if you didn't know that.
	And he doesn't seem to have expanded much in his political views.
	So, Ethan begins with a lie.
	Got off to a good start.
	He was an interesting...
	But before we go on, though, right, what I love about this is that nobody forced him to say this.
	No.
	Like, there's no reason he had to say, he's just sat there, he's like, I'm going to delete my interview with Jordan Peterson.
	Oh, you've become sufficiently woke and radicalised, have you, Ethan?
	You just sat there thinking, yeah, yeah, transphobia.
	Hmm.
	Jordan Peterson.
	Pipeline.
	Nazis.
	Good point.
	I've got to get rid of that interview.
	It's like someone who's just really high and has a handgun and just shoots their foot.
	It's just like, what are you doing?
	I just want to see what happens.
	I don't know why.
	So he says, he was an interesting guest who I enjoyed sitting with.
	But!
	But, especially now, I can see he's a dangerous gateway to the alt-right.
	Transphobia and COVID misinfo.
	I've removed both interviews today.
	God, he's so brainy.
	I love Ethan Klein.
	He literally is so dumb he makes a Sam Piker look smart.
	That's why he's on there, because I don't think a Sam Piker could look, well, even half lukewarm IQ, except in extra Ethan.
	I mean, imagine thinking anyone's a gateway to the alt-right.
	The alt-right doesn't even exist anymore.
	I really hate being devil's advocate.
	I do wonder whether or not he's one of these stupid people who think alt-right just means right-wing on the internet.
	I mean, maybe.
	That is probably true.
	And I'm not convinced that he isn't smart enough to realise that that's not what it is.
	Yeah, I think that's probably true.
	Maybe.
	I love Lord Marl's response there as well.
	Which is, bro, I like Jordan Peterson even more now.
	If we go to the next link, we can see...
	Probably tweeted out from a tent in Kenya or something.
	Yeah.
	I think he's in Kazakhstan.
	Oh, there we go!
	Revolution starts, Miles is on his way.
	So this is Michaela Peterson, so the daughter of Jordan here, saying, Thank goodness H2H Reproductions is out there saving the world from dangerous people like Jordan Peterson.
	Because Jordan Peterson is a dangerous man.
	The irony of this as well, have you ever listened to any of the outright talking about Jordan Peterson?
	They hate him.
	Of course they hate him.
	Because they view him as like a gatekeeper who's blocking the passage of the inevitable millions of people who are just about to convert to Nazism.
	If only it wasn't for Jordan Peterson.
	He's also a Christ cuck, so...
	Why wouldn't he join my neo-pagan cult?
	Well, yeah.
	But it's just wild that Ethan thinks that there are so many people who are on the verge of becoming Nazis.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	The first day they were thinking, oh, maybe I should get a girlfriend, but no, this Hitler dude.
	Anyway, so if we go to the next link, you can see the fact, of course, that I find this particularly strange because Ethan is, of course, a living meme.
	And the living meme, I mean, like, what has he done to become what he is?
	And the living meme, at least when I saw him blowing up, was...
	Anti-SGW. Just...
	SGW stuff.
	Stupid.
	Cringe.
	Look at you being triggered.
	Ain't that funny.
	And now he's gone full woke.
	There's a visual representation of that.
	Let's go to the next link.
	So we can see him responding to Michaela here saying, How is fleecing your father's fandom going?
	$100 per month for the Lion Club, teaching people that eating only meat cures all ailments.
	I don't think she's ever made that argument.
	I think it was just for her.
	She said it weren't for me.
	Right, okay.
	So again, a lie there.
	But must be nice to be posting cute selfies from your father's social media accounts while he nearly died.
	Wow, that's quite inhuman.
	But I mean, it's probably not as profitable as fleecing left-wing activists on Twitter, Ethan.
	Which is what you're doing.
	Seems to be going better.
	But again, the inhuman aspect of that.
	Just to be like, yeah, well, you posted pictures of yourself on social media whilst your dad was dying.
	So?
	I don't know what the dab is there, you know?
	Yeah.
	Weird.
	I'm going to keep my father's subscribers updated as to how his condition is in his illness, because I'm sure they care.
	And Ethan's like, right, you're a bitch.
	Just weird.
	If we go to the next one, it gets even weirder.
	So we of course have here Paul Joseph Watson pointing out him being willfully dense, which is of course he goes on to whine about C16 and then the fact that we go to the next link.
	Yes, no, Jordan Peterson was right about that.
	Yeah, we'll get to that.
	If we carry on, we go to the next link, we can see Peterson's response himself.
	So Jordan Peterson responding here.
	What are you up to, Ethan?
	We had a good conversation.
	I enjoyed meeting you and talking with you.
	What have I said precisely that motivated your actions and your accusations?
	Deleting our discussion.
	An honest question, HAH Reproduction.
	Now, doesn't this feel very much like a son rebelling against his father?
	Yeah, I love how Jordan can always take that stance in the conversation.
	Yeah, this is a very fatherly approach that he's taken.
	And Ethan's like, get out, you're not my real dad!
	Stop acting out, what's wrong?
	Yeah, exactly!
	Son, why are you deleting everything on the computer?
	And so what was Ethan's response?
	Well, I thought we'd finish off because Jordan does say some more.
	Finally, H3HP Productions, you might seriously consider providing me with footage so I can post it given that I agreed to appear on your show based on the agreement that there would in fact be a show.
	So I don't know if that's in response to him saying he will go on subsequently.
	No, no, no.
	Like, send me a copy of the footage so I can put it on my channel if you don't want it on your channel.
	Which is fair.
	Of course he's not going to do that.
	No.
	Also, I should warn you that those who engage in cancel culture generally live to regret it.
	I'm not going to come after you, except politely, in this Twitter stream, but the chickens will definitely come home to roost.
	And it's not like you don't have more than enough in your back catalogue to be cancelled at any given time when you cross Lindsay Ellis or ContraPoints or whoever it is.
	I mean, Lindsay Ellis, what does she do?
	Insult the glory of anime?
	LAUGHTER Ethan Klein's got enough N-words in the skeleton closet behind him that they can feast on for years.
	You will be held to higher and higher and soon impossible to maintain ethical standards by the very mob you currently wish to please.
	Then you will make a mistake and they will devour you with glee.
	Please take this warning seriously.
	I liked you.
	It's completely true.
	But it's also a far better put down than anything I've seen.
	Oh yeah, it's not anything brutal, is it?
	But it's just a statement of fact.
	As an older father figure who knows how this game is played, and Ethan is getting sucked into the Twitter swirl of all this constant veneration.
	Everyone's like, yeah, Ethan, you're so great, you're so great.
	And Peterson's just like, well, it's not going to last forever.
	Great for what, as well?
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	Well, that brings us on to the list of crimes.
	Bringing the judge.
	Let's go to Judge Judy on this.
	The pedigree of his crimes.
	Yeah, so Ethan decides to list a bunch of his crimes.
	What has he done?
	So, to start, you called a ban on conversion therapy moral grandstanding six days ago.
	Oh, God.
	Oh, God.
	Moral grand...
	Oh, my God.
	So this is Jotun Trousseau saying that conversion therapy would be banned in Canada, and Jordan Peterson saying, well, that's just you, moral grandstanding.
	Do you have any idea why?
	What?
	Conversion?
	Everyone voted for it.
	This isn't a controversial issue for the Canadian Parliament.
	The Conservatives and the Liberals voted for it.
	Of course they did.
	But how many conversion therapy sessions do you think there are in Canada?
	Exactly.
	It's going to be literally one.
	Even if it's millions and millions.
	Half the country is being converted to not gay every week or something.
	It's still silly for him to be like, I've achieved something.
	Everyone agrees.
	So we're off to a non-starter there.
	John Peterson, BTFO'd, yeah.
	Let's go to the, if you scroll down, so you can see him with more crimes in search.
	He says, you wouldn't believe in enforced monogamy from a New York Times interview.
	Based.
	Which also you knew about before you interviewed him.
	But also, that's a good thing.
	I don't think Ethan understands what enforced monogamy means.
	No, I don't think either.
	And then he continues, Your mischaracterization of Bill C-16 resulted in a surge of transphobia.
	The bill was created to add trans people...
	Measure it!
	Measure it!
	How much, Ethan?
	How much?
	Tell me, how much?
	Millions of trans people killed since...
	500%?
	1,000%?
	What was the surge?
	Prove it.
	Prove it.
	Prove it!
	Every time Peterson opens his mouth, a trans person dies.
	He's like the devil on a freckle.
	He states it as if it's true, but there's no evidence to suggest this.
	The bill was created to add trans people as a protected group against hate crimes.
	Using the wrong pronoun would not result in anyone going to jail.
	In fact, to this day, zero people have gone to jail.
	Another lie.
	And using the wrong pronoun would need to be considered in totality with other actions for it to constitute a hate crime basically like any other hate crime.
	As a person, I found you amicable and our conversations very interesting and insightful, but I am not comfortable being a part of a pipeline leading to takes like this.
	What are these takes?
	Sorry, can we get these up, John?
	Yeah, so it's Jordan Peterson being like...
	Up yours, Trudeau, yeah, good.
	Because Trudeau is like, hey, I know you got vaccinated, and I said I would give you your freedoms back.
	Ha ha, not this time.
	Get the booster, and I'll give you your freedoms back, I swear.
	Are they falling for this?
	Good luck, Charlie Brown.
	And Jordan Peterson obviously pointing out, no, this is a con.
	Yeah.
	If you're going to argue that you will get your freedoms back this time, we swear, he's already fallen for that.
	You know, his words are, you know, stupid me.
	Yeah.
	But I fell for that.
	Not doing it again.
	Yeah.
	That's not a bad take.
	That's a good take.
	Government distrustful.
	Ethan Klein's like, not on my watch.
	I trust the government implicitly.
	Justin Trudeau has revealed himself to be some sort of China-loving monster anyway.
	I guess we'll talk about that another time.
	But how dare you push people towards China and Trudeau.
	So if we go to the next link, I think you wanted to talk about...
	Jordan Peterson put a post up on his website talking about the enforced monogamy, because obviously idiots on Twitter don't realise that this is an anthropological term.
	As one person on Reddit posted, Peterson is using well-established anthropological language here.
	Enforced monogamy does not mean government-enforced monogamy, but look at the socialists.
	They think, oh, well, the word enforced must mean the state doing it.
	They can't think outside of that.
	Enforced monogamy means socially promoted, culturally inculcated monogamy as opposed to genetic monogamy, which is evolutionarily dictated monogamy, which does exist in some species but does not exist in humans.
	This distinction has been present in anthropological and scientific literature for decades.
	Ethan.
	He's saying it's good for people to get married and be in relationships with one another.
	And the society...
	Isn't going to work.
	Yeah, the society reflects that, and that it should reflect that.
	It's good that it reflects that people are encouraged to, you know, find someone that they love, settle down, start a family.
	You know, like you've done with...
	Was it Healer?
	Right?
	You know, that's an example of that.
	You...
	I'm not going to...
	Call him what I want to call him, but, you know, like you're an idiot, Ethan.
	You're actually an idiot.
	You've got a tiny brain.
	A tiny, tiny brain.
	And he just ends this with, What he's saying, Ethan, is it's good for women.
	Benefits women when they get married and have kids.
	Men tend to be less violent and commit less crimes against women.
	These are what the facts show us, Ethan, you brainlet.
	Anyway, moving on.
	So we go to the next link, of course.
	We also have just the BS from Ethan saying that no one will ever be arrested for this.
	Well, okay, here's the example.
	Yeah, I mean, we can literally name the guy.
	Robert Hoagland.
	So, now what?
	No?
	No, it's still a pipeline?
	It's a pipeline of misinformation?
	Yeah.
	Such as the news?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	The Postmillennial article is behind a paywall, but the Breitbart article has some quotes from it.
	We can go to the next one.
	So, he's the father of a 14-year-old biological female who identifies as transgender and prefers male pronouns, and he was found in contempt of court and jailed on Tuesday after repeatedly calling his child his daughter, despite the court forbidding it.
	You know how you said would never happen?
	Yeah, the dodge from the leftist here is like, yeah, but he was jailed for contempt of court, yeah, for not using the right pronouns.
	Here I am, sitting there as a parent, watching a perfectly healthy child being destroyed, he says, and there's nothing I can do but sit on the sideline, and according to Justice Bowden at the time, cheer it on.
	I can only affirm or get thrown in jail.
	And he chose get thrown in jail.
	Didn't happen, though, did it, Ethan?
	Ethan just being factually wrong on every count.
	Again, a liar.
	I don't know why I'm surprised by it.
	I don't even know why I'm acting like this is something shocking, frankly.
	He becomes a leftist and then becomes a congenital liar.
	Yeah, if we go to the next link, we can see more of this, though, so you can have Ethan responding here again, and him being like, my problem with you, Jordan, is you asked for specific reasons I provided them, all of them false.
	I mean, just on the face of them, ridiculous.
	Instead of acknowledging my response, why would he?
	Because they're all bollocks.
	You retract further into your bubble of flatterers and devotees talking of how you schooled me on cancel culture.
	You didn't school me, Jordan.
	Your room is still messy as your mind.
	Oh, hang on a second.
	Okay, right.
	The idea that Ethan Klein is in a position to tell people to clean up their act is incredible, given how he's...
	Go on, tell Joe Rogan again how he's unfit.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, there's a clip going around of Ethan Klein where he's like, yeah, I'm on medication that means my dick doesn't work and I'm obese and I'm really depressed.
	And it's like, yeah, yeah, but Jordan Peterson needs to clean up his room.
	But the thing is, all of these talking points, right?
	All of this, you know, well, you did something against transgenders, you misrepresent C-16.
	If Ethan Klein was a Nazi, he'd be like, yeah, well, you shopped at the business of a Jewish person, and you haven't condemned the state of Israel, and you did this.
	And all of these are offenses against progressive ideology, but Jordan Peterson isn't a progressive.
	So sitting there and go, well, I mean, it was...
	Why did he care?
	Exactly.
	It's like, well, you did something that was Islamically unorthodox.
	You agree with the Shias.
	Don't you know you drink alcohol?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, I know I drink alcohol.
	You eat pork.
	This is why I can't associate it with you.
	It's literally religious prohibitions that Ethan is coming out with.
	It's not like Jordan Peterson has done something wrong.
	He's just done something unprogressive.
	But then he's got a different religion, doesn't he?
	If we go to the next link, I thought I'd also mention the Room thing there.
	So, I mean, he posted this image, for example.
	Oh, Dunk!
	Left-wing groups all the time.
	It's like, look, Jordan Room, messy.
	And, well, there's reasons for that.
	I watched this stream.
	He acknowledges this in the stream.
	And I think, if I recall correctly, it was years ago when his wife was undergoing cancer treatment and they were moving house.
	Yeah.
	Dunk, though, Ethan.
	Let's hope that your wife never has to undergo cancer treatment and you have to move house.
	Again, kind of inhuman, but let's go to Hassan, because Hassan had to get involved in this as well.
	Of course he did.
	So you have Jordan there just retweeting the Post Millennial, just saying that Jordan Peterson was right, and that's the case.
	And Hassan responds, I think it would be very productive to have a conversation with Ethan and myself on our show, Leftovers.
	You could clarify your stances, Jordan Peterson.
	I would love to see that.
	Comes off really, really brown-nosy, though.
	No, no, no.
	This is the big-brain Hassan thinking he's laying a trap for Dr.
	Jordan Peterson.
	They're not going to win that.
	No, they're not.
	They're going to give ideological Marxist talking points, and Jordan Peterson is going to demolish them.
	Yes.
	And they're going to end up screaming at him.
	This is why Jordan Peterson should do it.
	But I think they are such brainless that they think that they're going to demolish him.
	They're going to have him on.
	Oh, they absolutely do.
	And therefore they've laid a trap here in which it's like, yes, come on the show and we'll get loads of views and people will stop unsubscribing, we hope.
	Because they keep doing it.
	So we continue as well.
	We can see him again talking about this.
	So you can see some people saying that, well, this seems to be the steps, which is just insult Jordan Peterson, demanding he comes on to give his side of the story and then get views and subscribers because you can't get them any other way.
	And Hassan's saying, are these right-wingers actually scared that Jordan Peterson won't be able to clearly communicate his ideas to me?
	Well, let's take an example of a previous lie that Ethan Klein told to Stephen Crowder.
	How trustworthy was Ethan Klein when he agreed to a pleasant conversation with Stephen Crowder?
	He lied.
	Exactly.
	He lied and was basically the pigeon who crapped on the chessboard and was strutting around like he won the thing.
	Like, this is the concern, Hassan, you brainlets, is that you simply won't be there for an actual conversation and that you'll just be screeching like a child.
	Who needs his nuggies because he hasn't eaten anything at lunch.
	You child!
	Their own online conduct also looks like that already.
	Yes.
	You're just going to sit around, as you say, just spouting talking points.
	He literally calls his livestreams every day daycare.
	He gets his mummy to make him nuggies.
	He's a child.
	An actual Kuma child as well.
	It's embarrassing.
	Sorry, go on.
	Let's go to the next link.
	So we're trying to finish this off.
	So we have Hassan here also saying, funniest part about right-wing weirdos is their constant need to bring up old S that people have apologized for years after they have clearly changed.
	Oh really?
	What's all this about?
	Boom boom!
	It's the right wing that does this.
	Yes, the right wing of bringing up that you said bad thing ten years ago, therefore you're haram.
	I must be kicked out of the religion.
	That's so right wing.
	Yeah.
	What's all this about though?
	Because of course Ethan Klein being a bit of a meme in this regard too.
	Because it's just weird and transparent how you can try and claim that I'm morally pure because I no longer talk to Jordan Peterson.
	I'm trying to cleanse myself of the sins by deleting the videos.
	I don't want people bringing it up years later.
	You know, right-wingers.
	Most of what people know for you is the little clips, and you know the little clips.
	And let's go to the next link, in which we can see one of the little clips from Andy Ngo.
	I love saying...
	N-word and F-word.
	Yes.
	Conjoined as well.
	I can't say them.
	Ethan was able to back in the day.
	And let's just play the clip, in case someone hasn't seen it.
	I love that I can just say n*** though.
	Yeah.
	I feel like you're using a little liberally.
	I love saying...
	Even iDubbbz is like, well, hang on.
	It's so wonderful.
	Yeah, so that's the interview with iDubbbz back in the day.
	And I've seen the defense, or at least we played the...
	I was listening to the defense because Harry showed me in an interview.
	Yeah.
	In which, later on in his life, because Ethan also went after PewDiePie, if you remember.
	I did.
	He said the N-word.
	I'm disappointed in him.
	And he was like, well, it was okay when I did...
	I learned it from you, Ethan.
	Yeah.
	He says it was okay when he did it in that context because he's clearly joking.
	He's clearly having fun.
	Whereas if PewDiePie, no, the context is important.
	But then at the same time, the context isn't important because, well, why do you work with Hassan then?
	Because the context of him saying anti-white slurs is around and you don't care about that.
	Oh yeah, he got banned, didn't he, for saying the C word?
	Fine, what if you don't care about slurs and this is all just a big fake face?
	Well, okay, America deserves 9-11.
	Was he kidding?
	Was it a big old joke?
	He doubled down on it, so I don't think he was.
	He doubled down on jokes?
	Is that usually how jokes work?
	You have to make public statements saying, I totally believe this.
	And if we go to the last couple of links here, so we go to the next one after this one, you can see the YouTube link as well here.
	Please, John, go to the next one.
	You can get this up, which is him also talking about black people and how he's scared of black men.
	Isn't it interesting that the interview he did with iDubes, he didn't take that down.
	No.
	I mean, he's literally saying the N-word and the F-word, and that's still on YouTube.
	Who are you not going to interview now?
	Because if Jordan Peterson is that bad, the clean-your-room guy, if that message is that toxic and so evil that'll lead you to becoming a Nazi, what won't lead you to becoming a Nazi?
	Well, I mean, interviews with iDubbbz.
	But I'm really interested, why is that still on YouTube?
	If he's constantly using these unacceptable slurs, why haven't YouTube pulled it down?
	It's about ideological transgressions.
	It's about who you know as well.
	Yeah, that's also the case.
	But anyway, that's the drama.
	That's the nonsense.
	And in case you thought Ethan Klein had any redeeming features, apparently not.
	Let's move on.
	Yeah, moving on to...
	I love this.
	I love this.
	Not the event itself, specifically.
	But let's talk about a British man who went on holiday to Texas, a mostly peaceful holiday.
	And, you know, these things happen, one thing leads to another, and suddenly you're holding a synagogue hostage.
	Last time you were there, presumably, this is what you were doing?
	It's like every British tourist?
	Yes, a couple of times.
	And you can enjoy the reporting on this because...
	It's like a painter who's trying to paint something, but mustn't paint like certain spots on the image.
	And so there are just weird gaps in the image.
	I know there's something there.
	Have you ever seen a map of Berlin during the Cold War?
	No.
	So if you lived in East Germany and you were given a map of Berlin, there's a huge section in the middle that's just nothing.
	Oh, really?
	Like, just blank.
	That's exactly what this is, yeah, yeah.
	It's because it's West Germany and there's loads of capitalism and money.
	Right, yeah, yeah, and they're not allowed to know about that.
	So, as the Associated Press here, you know, over the weekend, a man took hostages at the synagogue in Fort Worth.
	A SWAT team was on the scene.
	It was pretty bad stuff.
	The Swedish police reporting there is a man.
	Just a man.
	A man.
	Yeah.
	A human.
	We haven't actually checked his gender identity, so maybe they want to consider that.
	A person has apparently taken hostages.
	And then we started getting some details, and this was from the Telegraph, again.
	A man with an English accent.
	Ah.
	Corblimy.
	Yeah.
	I was going to say I can't do an English accent, then.
	This doesn't really work.
	I have an English accent, but I can't put one on.
	E by gum.
	You know...
	Yorkshireman with flat cap holds rabbi and congregation hostage.
	A man with an English accent is said to be holding a rabbi and his congregation hostage.
	Why?
	Go up synagogue, get up rabbi, take hostage.
	Exactly.
	Question mark, question mark, question mark profit.
	So the angry voice of a man with an English accent was heard through a live Facebook feed.
	Really, if it's a live Facebook feed, can't you have a look at the guy?
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	He appeared to be repeatedly demanding that negotiators, quote, get my sister on the phone, as well as referring to spending time in England.
	I mean, that's what all English people say.
	What, is he bragging?
	Yeah.
	I'm English.
	I live in England.
	Get wrecked, foreigners.
	Oh, you're jealous.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Hostages!
	I mean, they were, obviously, but like...
	There's one thing being a hostage, but there's another thing learning I don't live in England.
	What's with the sister thing?
	He's got an AK to the head and he'll be like, call my sister!
	Get me sister on the line!
	Jada!
	At one point, he could be heard asking, what the F is wrong with America?
	Oh, bro, it's a long story.
	He was also heard say, don't cry.
	What is that for?
	Is that for not being able to get a sister on the line?
	I don't know.
	Obviously, they were doing something American.
	And he was just like, what?
	He's got the Jews hostage.
	They're like, can we get Burger King?
	He was also heard to say, don't cry for me on go today, shortly before the livestream cut out.
	It was not clear if the hostage taker had a weapon or what his demands were.
	He probably didn't have a license for it.
	Hang on, he didn't even have a gun?
	Did he have a knife?
	Dunno!
	Did he have a license for the knife?
	Dunno!
	He probably filled out the forms, I mean...
	What's he got, like spoons?
	They would have reported if he had a knife!
	But the thing is, nobody knew, it was unclear what his demands were as well, so he's just bursting and being like, I hate America, I want to go back to England.
	Boy, up against the wall, don't you know I'm from England?
	Well, that's the point, isn't it, right?
	So who was this mysterious terrorist?
	Well, he was just a British citizen.
	Which English accent did he have?
	That's a great question.
	Somewhere around the Bradford region, I'm guessing.
	So, if we can get to the next one, John, you can see, if you just scroll down, you can see, like, the breaking news.
	British citizen.
	Don't know anything about him other than he's a British, British citizen.
	He's a British man.
	He's from Britain.
	That's all we know.
	Like I said, no particular information.
	But he was shot dead by the SWAT team after taking people hostage.
	One thing I want to notice just before we move on.
	All of these reports here, they're all saying FBI identifies the suspect.
	You see, they've identified the hostage taker routinely throughout this.
	So it's not like they just know, oh, the police have told us he's a man, that's all we've got.
	They know the name, they know the identity.
	They figured out he's British because they were like, you know, look at his teeth.
	But they know the name.
	They know the identity.
	They've got pictures of him, presumably.
	And now with the headline, every single one of the media went, British man.
	Just British.
	Just average guy.
	Just talking about the tin cans.
	Pakistani state media.
	British man.
	If it's Pakistani, it'd be a British hero.
	So we've got a picture of the guy and what he looked like.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Bowl hat.
	I say, chaps, the synagogue needs to go.
	Where's my sister?
	Don't you know I come from London?
	Have these people even been to England before?
	I wish that was the case, to be honest.
	What was his weapon?
	His handsome smile.
	Cutting wit.
	I'll step out, then.
	Anyway, you see that, again, British man shot dead.
	Oh, good.
	Got lots of information.
	I love how British media is even going with British man.
	There's no information at all!
	You could maybe excuse it for the Yankees, because they're like, oh yeah, all the same.
	British man, English accent, oh, very informative.
	Anyway, so going to the next one, the Associated Press.
	Hostages safe, captor dead.
	Good news.
	Captor.
	Yeah, captor.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if you had a live stream.
	A man held hostage for more than 10 hours at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting at a live stream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill US Army officers in Afghanistan.
	It's all starting to come together now, isn't it?
	Like a British man with an English accent goes over to a Texas synagogue and demands the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist terrorist.
	I don't think he's from the South West.
	Someone from the Cotswolds, no doubt.
	One of the four hostages at the Congregation Breath Israel in Coleyville was released during the standoff.
	Three others were rescued when the authorities entered the building and the hostage taker was killed, and this was a shooting incident.
	Apparently, though, this was specifically focused on an issue, quote, not directly connected to the Jewish community.
	Okay.
	Nothing to do with Islam is what that sounds like to me.
	That's very much like it.
	So the person that the killer was...
	No, not the killer, sorry, he didn't kill anyone.
	The hostage taker demanded the release of...
	We can go to the next one, John.
	Afia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who had al-Qaeda ties, was convicted of trying to kill US military officers while in custody in Afghanistan.
	So this lady, dreadkill military officers, and this guy walks into a synagogue and is like, what, what, chaps?
	This lady, this dame in distress, I'm off to help her.
	Now call Blimey, you better help me out.
	The British national was finally identified, if we get to the next one, as Malik Faisal Akram.
	What a shock.
	What up at the Rapids, bro?
	Yeah.
	What the eff is wrong with Americans, bro?
	Call me sister!
	Is it my heart or my brain, bro?
	I don't want to die in a boots.
	What an absolute clown show.
	This turned out to be, right?
	laughter So the BBC did their best to cover up the fact that this chap was Islamically oriented, should we call it?
	A Mohammedan.
	Yep.
	Look at this headline.
	Texas synagogue hostage taker was British.
	He's British.
	Best of British, that's what it is.
	Thanks BBC. God bless their queen and all that.
	Cockney terrorism is on the rise.
	He's just as British as you and I. Exactly.
	What is this?
	I love how it's framed almost like nationalism.
	Yeah.
	Where it's like, don't you know he was British?
	Yeah, look at that.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's like they're announcing the Olympics record holders.
	You know, this is British.
	The Empire may be gone, well, we're still making our mark on the world.
	So, if you can scroll down to see the text, right?
	A man who took four hostages at the synagogue was British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, 44.
	Like, he's 44 years old.
	He's not even, like, if he was 17 or something, he's a dumb kid.
	No, he's 44.
	Like, this is clearly something he'd thought about, right?
	All of the congregation were released, which is good.
	And his brother issued a statement apologizing to the victims.
	Sorry.
	Is that okay?
	He had mental health issues.
	No S. Yeah, clearly.
	But anyway, so that's how British this is.
	Gadsad gets it, which I liked.
	Please, everybody.
	Malik Faisal Akram was a British man.
	If anything radicalised him, it's probably the white supremacist so he's the British monarchy.
	Please don't link this man's actions to his beautiful, noble and peaceful faith.
	He's British.
	Precisely.
	I love the exclamation point.
	It's totally true.
	He's got it exactly right.
	Well done, Gad.
	But anyway, carry on.
	If we go to the next link.
	What's been happening since?
	Well, we have the updates of what's been happening since.
	Because the investigation has, of course, taken place.
	And this is where it gets a bit more serious.
	Because the problems are, of course, real.
	And the different groups involved in this obviously come from where they come from.
	From Blackburn.
	Sorry?
	From Blackburn, apparently.
	Wonderful British town.
	British as they come.
	Was.
	Maybe.
	And in here he says, of course, US officials says that he was demanding the release of Afia Siddiqui.
	Afia.
	We're going to go with Afia.
	This really is four-line stuff.
	It's like, right, I find myself in Texas.
	I see a synagogue over there.
	This is how I can get a Pakistani terrorist out of jail.
	Yeah, but what I find really funny in this, so she's known as Lady Al-Qaeda, because she was named by, what was it, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a financier for Al-Qaeda, and then she left Pakistan and was just mysteriously in Afghanistan a few years later, where then she opened fire on the marshal turning up to arrest her.
	Right.
	So they shot her in the chest, and then, you know, treated her, took her hostage, and then charged her with the shooting, but not with the terrorism offences, because they didn't need to.
	Because Imran Khan made a statement about this, yeah?
	Backing the terrorism.
	He didn't yet.
	Because that's what I'm expecting him to do.
	But she was given 86 years in a Texas prison.
	So that's why he's gone to America.
	Ah, right, okay.
	It wasn't just because...
	Oh, blimey.
	I'm on holiday.
	Just British men on holiday.
	What do they do?
	Too many Mexicans on the water slide, I guess.
	But also the news back home.
	So the news comes as two teenagers were arrested in Manchester on Sunday evening by officers from counter-terrorism policing, North West, as part of the investigation into the attack.
	And if we go to the next link, you might wonder why the hell this woman has anything to do with anything.
	If you go back and check the news on the arrest of her and the charging, you can see here an article from the New York Times, the US sees a terror threat, Pakistani see a heroin.
	It says more about Pakistan than I think I could ever explain.
	Yeah, talk about self-report.
	Suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda, she was convicted by New York court in February of trying to kill American military officers while in custody in 2008 in Afghanistan.
	Prime Minister Yusuf Razagili, who has described Ms.
	Siddiqui as a daughter of the nation, and the opposition leader, Nassaf Sharif, has promised to push for her release.
	Oh, I bet Imran Khan puts up a bloody statue of her.
	I mean, I do joke with, well, am I joking?
	Pakistan delente-est?
	Quite a lot.
	Pretty much.
	I mean, come on.
	When the Prime Minister is like, this terrorist, she's a lady of the nation.
	Daughter of the nation.
	She represents us best.
	And I thought I'd also just look into Blackburn, because, well, he comes from there.
	Yeah.
	I wonder what the local politics are about.
	This is pure conjecture.
	Who knows if any of these things are correlated?
	So I thought, yeah, look in Blackburn, Islam, see what comes up.
	And this came up.
	Maybe.
	First thing here.
	So this is Macmillan Northwest.
	Blackburn eSegin Mosque is hosting an awareness event with Macmillan to tackle some of the taboos around cancer within the community and showcase local support available.
	Why are there taboos about cancer in the Muslim community?
	There's a men-only event.
	Oh.
	From one o'clock to four.
	Yeah, but what's the taboo about cancer?
	I don't know.
	Maybe it's testicular or something?
	They have the men-only event, and then followed by a women's-only event, segregated.
	Don't know what that's about, but very Islamic.
	Let's move on.
	Let's go to the local response, because there should be a link in here, John.
	I'll get a link if you can get it up, which is the local response by the local mosques.
	Who had something to say?
	Oh, I bet that was very progressive.
	Yeah, they were deeply saddened, as all of us were.
	What were they saddened about?
	Lack of results.
	Sounds that way.
	So let's get up the first image here.
	So this is from their Facebook account, Black Point Muslim Community.
	Faisal Akram has sadly departed from this temporary world and returned to his creator.
	He was the son of Muhammad.
	Malik Akram and a brother of Gulbar, Malik Nasser Yasser Leit Guzmir Akram.
	I'm doing my best.
	These are so foreign.
	May the Almighty forgive all his sins and bless him with the highest ranks of paradise.
	May Allah give strength and patience to his loved ones in dealing with their loss.
	So he dies, and they're like, may Allah give the patients to his loved ones?
	He dies yelling, bloody Americans don't understand how things are supposed to be done.
	They've lost a terrorist in the family.
	This is a tough time for them.
	We need to come together as a Muslim community and support them.
	I hope Allah gives him the highest ranks of paradise.
	There are many stories circulating in the local community, so please avoid taking part in the sin of bagbiting.
	Let the authorities complete their investigations and have respect for the family and land more pleasantly.
	Wonderful.
	That last paragraph is the most revealing, because if we go to the next image here, this is a big long thing, and I'm not going to read it all, you can read it in your own time, of them saying, sorry, actually, we buggered up, we're, oh, just a mistake, core blimey, how could this happen?
	Didn't realise he was in a synagogue, threatening to kill a bunch of Jews.
	Ha ha ha!
	It's a stock-paced response for when one of our members of our beautiful community of peace dies.
	And I don't buy it.
	No one buys it.
	Because if we go back to that original image, you have you mentioning in there that there are stories in the community about what may be going on.
	Let the police do their investigations.
	Into what, precisely?
	The idea that they didn't know.
	Who buys this?
	No one buys this.
	But this is what they're doing.
	Well, they had seen a British man in a synagogue being a terrorist.
	They were like, well, it's not us.
	They were like, yeah, no, it's one of ours.
	And also, I hope he gets the highest ranks of paradise.
	I mean, that's a phrase I saw someone pointing out on Geller, which is highest ranks of paradise.
	Who's that reserved for?
	Oh, martyrs, yeah.
	People who die in the service of Islam.
	Good point.
	Yeah, good point.
	BS, didn't you know?
	Anyway, let's go to the other local events there.
	So if we go to the BBC link, please, John.
	So the BBC one first.
	So the local area also has some demographic changes, as we can see.
	Here's one local story.
	Billionaire Isaac Brothers, 5 million landmark Blackburn mosque approval.
	This is a mega mosque they want to build.
	A 5 million pound scheme by the siblings, who recently brought a supermarket giant, Asda, and faced objections over the height of the minarets and potential noise by the locals.
	They weren't too happy about that.
	However, they are to be reassured the council is on the case.
	Councillor Phil Riley said it would be an impressive facility which could only enhance the spirit of the town.
	I hate local councils sometimes.
	I hate everything about this story now.
	The local Democracy Reporting Service said Liberal Democrat Councillor Paul Brown raised concerns to the committee about the height of the Minaret Towers.
	That's the problem, Paul.
	That's the problem.
	The local Liberal Democrats, well, I mean, are these within safety regulations?
	Is this quite high?
	It should not be about 10 metres shorter?
	No, no.
	That's the concern.
	They're building a mega mosque in an English city, and you're like, yeah, wow, the height of the minaret.
	He says the minarets are absolutely far too big.
	Oh, it's anaesthetically pleasing.
	What is this, like, Islamic criticism?
	Oh, good.
	Like, no, the midiret should be shorter according to the Quran.
	Yeah.
	Unbelievable.
	Oh, we get everything we deserve.
	Yes.
	However, planning manager Gavin Prescott said the proposed 95-foot towers were typical of Islamic architecture.
	And that's so traditionally British.
	So the Democrats are like, good point, actually.
	Islamic architecture, as British as you can be.
	I withdraw my objection.
	As British as the British man in the synagogue.
	Unbelievable.
	With this Islamic architecture, it obviously reflects the changing face of modern Blackburn.
	And this will show Blackburn in the new light of a place where there is diversity.
	Well, I mean, that happens when you have literally just open borders with 700,000 new people coming to live here every year.
	That's what happens.
	Also, just looking up the name of what else is going on in the local town, if we go to the next one, we can also see a local church, which is to be removed and replaced with a mosque as well.
	No, very French.
	Kind of just around the corner of where the proposed Mega Mosque is also going to be.
	Yeah, so they say in here that St.
	Chad's was a single-story stone-built building constructed in 1870.
	It had to be St.
	Chad, didn't it?
	Yeah.
	It was later turned into a school and a Sunday school that is now to be removed because services were discontinued in the late 1970s.
	Thanks, boomers.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You might think, why the hell am I telling you about local stories?
	Because it paints a picture.
	and uh i think the best piece of footage i've found around blackburn that paints the picture about this british man who went on a british stroll is uh local politics 1997 general election let's go to the next link this is a documentary called campaign confessions 2 very small number of views and uh there was a candidate here for the conservatives can't remember her name and uh the local politics are entirely centered around islam is entirely are you for islam
	and if so you're a good candidate and we will see that in the subsequent clip i take it labor on this Yeah, of course.
	But she's the Conservative candidate, and this is how, like...
	The Conservative candidate?
	Are you in favour of Islam?
	That's the discussion.
	That's because all politics fundamentally is local, and the local demographics determine that this is going to be the campaign debate, which is how Islam are you?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and how did she decide to campaign?
	Let's play the clip.
	In Blackburn, the message from one Labour van prompts decisive action from Gita Sidhu.
	Hello?
	The Labour Party is going around with the microphone at the moment, saying she's against Islam.
	She's not Muslim, she's not one of us.
	Don't vote for her, because she's against Islam.
	And this is making it racist, it's making it personal.
	Particularly considering the fact that my husband actually is Muslim.
	So, we're just going to pull the gloves off.
	I'm going to get a car and walk around, drive through town, telling everybody Jack Straw's a Jew.
	And the Muslim is going to vote for someone who's Jewish.
	That's it.
	That's what happened and that's what we're going to do about it.
	I didn't want racism and bigotry to play a part in anything that I had anything to do with.
	I object strenuously to it.
	I did it because I was furious.
	So, I must admit, I wish I hadn't done it.
	laughter Face!
	I'm sorry for people listening.
	She was driving in her car, shouting in Urdu, Jack Straw is a Jew, don't vote for a Jew because the Jews are the enemies of Muslims.
	That was her campaigning tactic.
	What percentage of the vote did she get?
	25% of the vote.
	She ran on a platform of, my opponent's a Jew, Muslims can't vote for Jews.
	She got 25% of the vote.
	And what's the percentage of Muslims in Blackburn?
	35%.
	So, most Muslims in Blackburn may well have been like, hmm.
	I don't know, but...
	She has a point.
	That's the local politics.
	That's the local area in which the British man came from before he went on his stroll to a circle.
	Notice how we're constantly saying, oh, it's Tony Blair who did all this.
	Well, in 1997, before Tony Blair had really done his dirty work, Blackburn still, a huge number of, you know, the politics of Blackburn still revolve around Islam.
	Yeah, I totally agree.
	Every Home Secretary who allowed to have even diplomatic relations with Pakistan is also to blame.
	And should be held accountable.
	I agree.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	I've noticed that left-leaning video game analyses tend to favour the idea that video games are thematically left-wing a lot of the time, and yet in spite of this, they seem to be able to very easily sympathise with people they would otherwise see as villains.
	In Skyrim, for example, progressives tend to side more with the imperialistic, autocratic, corrupt faction Wasteland taxes.
	Which is literally going to be a Democrat.
	Policy in about 20 years in California.
	Have you seen some of the pictures of LA? Oh god.
	I posted one on Guess the other day because it's just like a picture of the LA train system and it's just covered in trash, covered in waste, garbage, rubbish.
	It's just littering the whole thing and it's just like this is gross.
	This is absolutely gross.
	So I mean like wasteland taxes is a good way of describing California.
	Did you ever get much into Skyrim's politics or not?
	Nah, I couldn't get into Skyrim, very much, to be honest.
	I don't know what it is, but the last couple of, like, Fallout New Vegas, I should have worked hard on, but, like, Fallout 4 and Skyrim, I just couldn't get into.
	Fair enough, Fallout 4 is crap.
	But on Skyrim, I felt like the dragon story was far more interesting than what was going on with the Empire and the Stormcloaks, so I just kind of didn't really care about either side.
	I was annoyed.
	Like, I'm annoyed with the way that Bethesda's been making their games.
	It's like, hey, would you like to fight a dragon in the first five minutes?
	Or would you like to ride a power armor and shoot a super mutant?
	Oh, a deathclaw, sorry?
	It's like, no, not really.
	I'd like that to be the endgame stuff.
	You know, what are you doing?
	Stop embarrassing yourselves by giving me the content I'm meant to work for right at the beginning.
	And it just turned me off of those games.
	It almost feels like they want you to play the first five minutes and then log off before you run into a bunch of bugs.
	Yeah, but also, like, you know, the idea is that the people playing it haven't got the patience to grind through the game to get to the bit where they've earned all of this stuff so they can now kill the big bosses and stuff like that, and I hate that attitude.
	Yeah.
	Did you play Fallout 3?
	Yeah.
	So you know you get the power armor and then you can just wear it?
	Yeah.
	In 4, you have to get, like, these cores and put them in.
	That's fine.
	They're sort of abundant, so you can do it.
	But my autistic brain just didn't want to waste...
	I don't like wasting money, so I didn't want to waste the power cores.
	So I ended up spaying most of the game just not wearing power armor, because I just didn't want to waste it.
	I get the same thing.
	It was just annoying.
	It was just like, why do you need that?
	Literally, there were games years ago where it's like...
	Grenades in games.
	Grenades are a great example.
	It's like, oh, well, I've only got five grenades.
	I'm not going to use them.
	And then by the end of the game, I've got like 50 grenades.
	How many of you use a single one?
	I may as well have done.
	But anyway...
	On the Fallout New Vegas topic, I will eventually get around to writing more of that.
	The skeleton's dying anymore.
	Thank you.
	Let's get to the next one.
	Caesar's a really interesting criticism of all the losers out there in the real world who think they're smart because they've read about ancient Rome.
	You know, the kind of people who name their Discord server Athens to make themselves feel a bit smarter.
	Haven't you heard that liking things is...
	Cringe?
	You're just okay with looking like a tool, aren't you?
	Looking like a tool to who?
	You?
	Why would I care about your opinion?
	Well, that's a great response.
	That's really interesting.
	That's why I love JREG. Yeah, yeah.
	No, no, that's obviously a dig at me, but the thing is, I call my Discord Athens just because Athens is wild.
	Ancient Athens was a crazy place where crazy things happened.
	They had really exciting stuff going on, and nothing happened in Sparta.
	Like the weird pedo slave state.
	I didn't call myself after that.
	Which is why the alt-right loves it, sir.
	Sorry, I'll try not to enjoy things, H-Bomber guy.
	I'm sorry I read a book.
	I didn't enjoy his breakdown of Caesar's Legion either.
	It was kind of lacklustre.
	Of course it will be.
	Thank you.
	I'm sorry guys, but we need to be aware of this.
	Daily mail!
	Swelling in breasts, raising unnecessary fears about cancer.
	Swollen lymph nodes, why you shouldn't be alarmed?
	I- What?
	Yes, I'll be alarmed!
	What's going on with my body?
	Women are claiming boobs gets bigger.
	Dude, when that stuff happens, we notice.
	Do you know how much a well-fitting bro costs?
	And side effects to the menstrual cycle?
	Guys, that was the time I was told when there was any changes out there that needs to be checked out because I only need this to grow a healthy baby.
	What's going on?
	I mean, good point.
	Valid complaints.
	I like the fact that, yeah, like, women use the NHS more than anyone else, obviously.
	More than men or any other gender.
	Or dogs.
	But the point is, like, women are constantly going there because they're very sensitive to changes in their body.
	Whereas men are just like, oh, you'll be all right.
	I'm not dying.
	And so, you know, don't go to the doctors and there's probably some sort of manly pride and stuff like that.
	But the idea that they can try and turn that around and be like, yeah, women, don't worry about it.
	Just don't worry about it.
	That's not going to work.
	No.
	That's not going to work.
	Women are very, very sensitive to these things.
	Let's get our next one.
	Since this works so well with Callum, Omicron is a cold.
	Omicron is a cold.
	I mean, that's probably actually a crime in Australia at the moment to say that.
	Yeah.
	I also just kind of love that he pays to do that.
	No, that's great.
	CSCooper.com.au.
	Go to the next leg.
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	I recommend you an anime.
	It's cold and sad.
	It is really based and it's got a lot of dead.
	No!
	But it's...
	You're gonna have to start putting a bunch of these in the shared drives.
	That's a good public service announcement.
	Which is, uh, stop.
	Get some help.
	Let's go next one.
	CDC is like this whole governmental body with scientists that just tell us what to do.
	You don't have to think about it, dude.
	He was losing a lot of weight.
	Yeah.
	My milk wasn't coming in.
	Yeah.
	We took him to the doctor.
	And everyone in the hospital, all they would talk about is breastfeeding.
	Your nipple looks fine.
	There's no reason.
	He's latching.
	Everything is fine.
	We didn't even really consider formula as an alternative when our baby was literally starving to death.
	He was starving.
	Like newborn babies are supposed to sleep 18 hours a day.
	He slept like 5 hours a day.
	And the rest he was just 10 out of 10 agony.
	They just tell us what to do.
	Our baby was literally starving to death.
	You don't have to think about it, dude.
	Everything is fine.
	John, you are going to have to put all of these on this air drive because I'm going to put a bunch of them out.
	That is amazing.
	So I've got a little story, right?
	So my wife, my second son, we come back from the hospital and she has to have a visit from a health worker or something, right?
	And so my wife, like 33 years old, she's now got three children, and so she's a veteran of all this, right?
	Some 23-year-old degree-holding know-nothing comes in, and she's trying to tell my wife what to do to look after a baby.
	And my wife says exactly that.
	It's like...
	You have never given birth, have you?
	You've never nursed a child.
	You don't know how to do anything for a child, but you have a piece of paper that tells you you're supposed to tell me what to do.
	I mean, imagine just some kid coming out of a university with a degree and then going up to an electrical engineer and being like, right, well, you need to worry about this, this, and this.
	I'm a nurse for 30 years.
	Shut up!
	Why do you think, child, that you have expertise where I don't?
	Were they a B about it?
	Were they honestly being like, well, this is what you're meant to do?
	I don't know what you're doing in American accent.
	No, I don't know what you're doing in American accent.
	Do a proper British accent, innit?
	I don't think they were being awful about it.
	Oi, love, go and get your tits out and feed it.
	They're assuming an authority to themselves where they talk from what is purely technical knowledge with no experience of the practical reality of actually doing the thing.
	I'd be embarrassed.
	Yes.
	If I had done midwifery or something and I came to your house and your wife was there and I got three...
	I wouldn't want to say anything.
	I'd be like, well, you're doing very good.
	Yeah, you clearly know what you're doing.
	It's amazing, isn't it?
	And yet these bloody kids will come out and be like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And Ethan Klein will be like, well, I don't have to think about it.
	It's like, no, you have a real problem that they're not aware of because all they have is theory, which is not the same as what reality is.
	And you're just assuming the theory and the reality match when often that's not the case.
	And that's the source of all the problem with science at the moment.
	I've also had it just in my family whenever we've got problems.
	Health, and you have to go to the NHS. Because you end up reading about it endlessly online.
	You don't know what's exactly the case, but you end up doing so much reading that, quite frankly, when the doctor starts talking, you already know what he's going to say.
	And no one knows how to fix your problems better than you, usually, unless it's, of course, a technical or complex issue.
	But, like, raising a child...
	Make sure you feed him.
	Make sure you put him down for a nap.
	My life's just like...
	Who the hell are you?
	Go and have some kids.
	Go get laid, loser.
	Basically, a 23-year-old virgin comes in to instruct me about being a mother.
	Let's go to the next one.
	That's very nice.
	This will be the Isle of Man, I'm guessing.
	Why would you say that?
	Because it was Manx Man who said it.
	This looks like a little bit of England.
	Wait, a Manx Isle of Man?
	Yeah.
	What people from Manchester, then?
	Pakistani.
	That's a fair response.
	They're pretty shy.
	I would define socialism as a centrally planned, rationally ordered society.
	Helots and the Mycenaeans, who the Spartans conquered in, like, the sixth century and just enslaved...
	Returning to my third, dirty-second book club, I think Bo might enjoy reading Shafarevich's socialist phenomenon, as it shows that Kiliastic socialism might have roots going back to, er, in ancient Mesopotamia.
	If anyone says socialism doesn't work, it does, but only works with kingly, priestly and servile classes underpinned by slaves.
	That's true right up to today.
	Fair point.
	They actually have that down perfectly in North Korea as well.
	I'm about to finish the book someone recommended in one of the video comments, The Impossible State.
	He's annoying, frankly, at the end of this, is my review.
	But there's a bit in there he mentions, which is that the old Korean system, at least like the feudal system, there was a class of people who were essentially sort of scum and you could treat it like crap and it wasn't really considered that they had rights of any sort.
	And the same structure with the hostile class of Korean society is still there.
	Well, they are just a slave race, essentially.
	Because it's also lineal.
	Well, it's like a caste system, isn't it?
	I mean, it's literally like Plato's Republic, where you've got the philosopher kings, the people who are going to enact the regime, and then everyone else is going to do the dog work.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another Legend of the Pines from Roadside America and Weird New Jersey Magazine.
	It's the Painted Rock of Forked River.
	This large rock appeared one day and people started painting it at first with graffiti.
	Now it's painted on a regular basis by a local retired painter who puts on tributes to people who have passed on and seasonal things.
	It's a roadside attraction.
	If you are down on 539, check out the Painted Rock.
	That's nice.
	I love how simple local culture can be.
	That's cute.
	It's a big rock that we paint.
	Yeah.
	Unlike him, where was it that was the big rock that was racist?
	I had to remove it.
	I can't remember what university it was, but it was a big rock that was oppressing black people and it had to go.
	They had to move it to the ancient Indian burial site where it could no longer stalk black folks and instead the souls of Native Americans.
	Who were somehow disposable in this calculus.
	Let's go to the next one.
	If you want the corporate media to go away and lose this information war, you've got to support your own, even if you have nothing else to say.
	Completely true statement.
	Yeah, let's go to the next one.
	I don't know, we don't have any more.
	Right, let's do the written comments on the site.
	Freewill says, the hard left are always talking about creating this wonderful utopia, yet their workplace sound more like indoctrination sessions.
	They sound miserable and under constant stress, and they are treading on eggshells as not to offend anyone.
	This does not sound like heaven on earth, more like hell, and it seems to me that the real purpose of these people who create this stifling environment is misery loves company.
	They have no joy or happiness in their lives.
	They're unable to create, so they destroy and control and inflict their own misery on others, being unable to find personal fulfilment.
	Part of their utopia would be those struggle sessions in which you criticise each other and talk about socialist theory.
	But one thing I find amazing is that they've got no plan to create anything.
	Like, they don't create.
	They just rescind whatever was there originally.
	Baron von Warhawk says, With all this gaslighting and censorship, Dr Goebbels must be having a rock-hard three-incher in his hell pit, wishing he came up with these propaganda methods.
	Yeah, he could only have imagined, frankly.
	Richard says, The collapse will come from the arrival of the Web 3 wave, which is essentially the Internet's reaction to the monopoly of Silicon Valley...
	Moving towards decentralized blockchain-based platforms.
	I've already seen this in Odyssey, Steemit, Brave Browser Minds and more to come.
	However, I sincerely doubt Silicon Valley will go down quietly and will try and stop the innovation from happening.
	Watch this space because I bet we'll see more psyops going on against these Web3 platforms.
	Yeah, I've seen quite a lot of psyops going on on Gab, actually.
	It's really weird.
	Things that are obviously bots, posting things that are obviously bot posts, and posting pornography and stuff like that, which obviously Gab don't allow, like Facebook and Instagram and every other YouTube.
	But you can see that there are psyops happening against these platforms.
	In fact, when I first started on Getter, I had an interaction with some account.
	It wasn't a bop.
	It felt like a paid shill.
	They were like, oh, well, it's something about vaccines.
	And I just retweeted it, reposted it with like a commentary and they deleted their entire account.
	Okay.
	Weird.
	Seemed very much like a Fed, you know.
	So there are, I think there are disinformation and site-up campaigns going on against alternative media.
	I actually have got information on active measures, in which he's now talking about that kind of stuff.
	Oh, yeah.
	We're in the modern era.
	Yeah.
	And there are just a lot of, like...
	It's very weird, though, because they...
	It's obviously progressed now, but, like, the early bot accounts, like, they're so poor at it.
	Like, the English is just broken.
	Yeah.
	And they just don't care.
	They'll just carry on.
	Yeah.
	Omar says, James Damore, here's an autistic nerd's explanation of how we can get more women in tech and keep them unhappy.
	The left, risogyny.
	The greatest enemy of progress is progressives.
	Well, they do end progress, don't they?
	They ground whatever progress is being made to a halt and then start regressing back into a controlled organisation.
	Anyway, Ethan Klein vs.
	John Peterson.
	All mighty words have said, Ethan got famous by mocking feminism, identity politics, and the elite.
	Now he's trying to enter a cult, and to enter he must destroy what he's worked for.
	That's exactly what I'm saying.
	There's no progress being made.
	It's all rescinded.
	And what he's built over the years.
	He's breaking himself down so the cult can remake him anew.
	He either actually buys into all this bull, or is ground standing to avoid being hit by cancel culture, unaware he'll most likely end up in the same boat as Lindsay Ellis.
	Like certain Jack said in the live chat, you either die a filthy Frank, or live long enough to see yourself become Ethan Klein.
	That's a great point.
	I remember I was talking to Harry earlier.
	He was wondering, at what point did Ethan Klein flip?
	Because it's a very weird kind of flip.
	Yeah.
	It may very well be, as the couple pointed out, that he's being broken down so he can be rebuilt.
	I think he's been groomed on Twitter.
	I think it's his Twitter usage.
	Sure.
	He is willingly walking into the pit.
	Yeah.
	And then getting into bed with people like Hasan Piker, it's like, well, you know, you turn up next to Sauron.
	Enjoy hell.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You get what you deserve.
	But I'm sure it'll go great for Ethan.
	I'm sure everything will be brilliant.
	Long Talks on the Neach says, Dr.
	Peterson's response is the pinnacle of a disappointed father figure who genuinely wants the best for everyone.
	You actually feel kind of sad for Ethan because you know it had to hurt to read that.
	That implies that Ethan has a soul.
	There are words that cut deeper than insults, and I liked you from Dr.
	Peterson is on par with Mr.
	Rogers saying you're being very mean.
	I don't really know anything about Mr.
	Rogers, but, you know, not an American.
	Don't do these things in England.
	Freeborn says...
	We just take synagogues hostage.
	LAUGHTER Freeborn says, I can't wait for Ethan Klein to spend all his money paying Jordan Peterson for therapy.
	Dad capitalism for the win.
	George says, Ethan Klein is a vile snake.
	Well, that's obviously true.
	He has a tendency to backstab anyone for profit and clout.
	PewDiePie, JonTron, and now Jordan Peterson.
	He'd even manipulate a mentally ill man just for his show, probably.
	He backstabbed JonTron?
	Apparently so.
	This was years ago now.
	I'll ask Jon about it.
	Christopher says, Progressives seem to be under the impression that people having lines, especially moral ones, is extreme all by itself regardless of where that line is.
	If you are not able to be persuaded to ignore those lines for empathy, convenience, or because following them is hard, you're an extreme far-right extremist.
	Well, that's the purpose of progressives, destroy every boundary, make everything acceptable and normal so there are no exceptions, because they want everything to be universal because they're lunatics.
	And this is how they find themselves falling into, oh, those oppressed pedophiles.
	Yeah.
	And long may it continue.
	Keep it that way.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sam says, British man's weapon of choice, weaponized manners.
	It's just whining about America.
	I mean, to be honest, I feel like that's the best bit.
	Yeah.
	What's wrong with this bloody country?
	I'm from England.
	What's effing wrong with these Americans?
	Yeah.
	Get my sister on the phone.
	Oh, dear.
	Kevin says, wait for it.
	The devil says he's a white supremacist because he's British and therefore must be a coconut.
	Ooh.
	Lord Nerevar says, there's nothing more British than a woman leading an ISIS-style parade for a screaming antisemitism in the street.
	Very progressive, very devilish.
	Blackburn, a very British town.
	Yeah.
	He's a Jew!
	Oh god, alright, calm down.
	The interesting conduct there, I don't know at what point Jack Straw said it, but Jack Straw, the guy she's screaming about being a Jew, is the first Labour politician and the Home Secretary who said that no, there is a problem with grooming and it's coming from the Muslim community.
	I'm only saying that because they didn't vote for me because I'm Jewish.
	He's got nothing to lose.
	I'm already a Jew, what more can I do?
	Good for him though, you know, finally saying something that there's a problem with.
	Almighty Wizard says, the same happens here in Canada.
	Every time an immigrant rapes or kills someone, if it's talked about at all, the headline usually reads Montreal resident instead of Pakistani immigrant.
	Yeah, I'm going to put together a segment on Sweden for later on this week, because there's just loads of this stuff, and it's insufferable.
	Did you see the one from Wiggum?
	No, which one was it?
	We did a segment.
	It was a hotel resident.
	An asylum seeker.
	Oh, yes.
	Being convicted of rape.
	Because they're being held in hotels, so he's a hotel resident.
	So, yes, everyone resides in hotels.
	It's like a children's cartoon.
	I miss Money's Worth.
	She stays in a hotel all her life because she's got loads of money.
	Baron Warhawk says, I think it's surprising that he picked Texas to try this because Texas is one of those states you don't ever want to commit terrorism in because everyone has as much guns as in Montana or Alabama.
	I think it's shocking that he wasn't just blasted three minutes in.
	Well, she's being held in the prison there, isn't she?
	Yeah, but I mean, those Jews and the rabbi need to start packing.
	I mean, that's the lesson from this.
	They carry some guns.
	Or they need to stop letting British people in.
	What?
	Oh, that'd be racist.
	No, dog's not Irish, no, British.
	I wouldn't even be mad.
	I'd just be like, yeah, fair enough.
	Well, I'm not British.
	I'm English.
	Alex says, the biggest problem with Blackburn is the segregation.
	I mean, probably.
	In 2011, the population was 34% Asian.
	I wouldn't be surprised if it was close to 50% after the census.
	Yeah, I can't wait to get that census.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Where's the census for 2020?
	Gotta count up all those numbers, I don't know.
	I mean, don't you have, like, computers that do that?
	Heckin' numbers.
	Heckin' numberinos.
	You can draw a line northwest to southeast and split the population almost perfectly.
	It's easily seen on Google Maps if you search for mosques and churches.
	You did that, didn't you?
	Yeah.
	There's also, what is it?
	Is it Trevor Phillips?
	Am I getting his name right?
	He's pointed this out many a time.
	I think Blackburn was his case example, which is that he gave a speech during Tony Blazer saying we were sleepwalking into segregation.
	And he would just show maps and be like, look, if you're white, you're going on the bus to East.
	If you're not white, you're going on the bus West.
	And if we don't do anything about this, it's going to happen with ethnic enclaves.
	Yeah.
	That was Farage, right?
	No, I believe that was Trevor Phillips.
	Alright, because Farage said the same thing.
	He was literally like...
	There are some streets where it's just literal segregation.
	And he got absolutely castigated for it.
	But it is true that this is happening.
	Trevor Phillips is black and a Labour Party member.
	Yeah, so he got away with it.
	He got away with it.
	He didn't almost get away with it, actually.
	Buck Swashler says the fact that Callum thinks you wouldn't find a bug in the first five minutes of a modern Bethesda game proves he hasn't played one.
	BTF-02.
	Literally, you start Fallout New Vegas and you're met by a doctor and his head just spins.
	What's wrong with this game?
	That's not even Bethesda, though.
	No, actually, that's fair.
	Do you know the story about how Fallout New Vegas was made?
	No.
	It's kind of tragic.
	They were given a year...
	Have we got time for it?
	I'll make it short.
	They were given a year, made it super quick, it actually works better than most Bethesda games, but then also they were given...
	You had to get 80 on Metacritic to get...
	Oh, yeah, and they got 79.
	Oh, yeah.
	Dicks.
	Anyway, Kevin Fox says, Hassan is right.
	Jordan Pearson would not be able to explain his views to Hassan.
	Have you ever tried explaining the alphabet to a boiled egg?
	Good point.
	Hassan is only saying that in order to be incredibly bad faith to him.
	I've got an image in my head of you with the alphabet behind you, and there's a boiled egg at Ethan Klein.
	Anyway, we're out of time.
	On their podcast, Hassan is the smart one.
	Yeah.
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