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June 1, 2022 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #405

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Theatres for the 1st of June 2022.
	I am joined by Nick.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about Hashtag Swedengate, the cost of supporting lockdowns, and also Happy Alphabet Month.
	Yes.
	Can I just say, great to be back, and thanks to all the Lotus Theaters fans.
	Everyone was very nice in the comments.
	Lots of really positive comments about my last appearance.
	One person said I had Down Syndrome, but that's also a great thing.
	They're great people, so that's a great compliment.
	So you're doing well.
	Yes, I've smashed it, and thanks so much...
	Thanks so much to everyone.
	I just wanted to shout out.
	Can I also say, I prepared so well for this, for yesterday's topics.
	I was so well-researched on Ricky Gervais and guns, and then I was sending you stuff about guns, and you weren't telling me that that wasn't the topic.
	As if I just send you stuff about guns all the time, which I do, to be fair.
	I sent you both links, and I think you clicked on one and not the other, and then didn't know.
	But then when I was sending you all the gun material, didn't part of you click and you sort of think, maybe I should tell Nick.
	Just thought you had guns on the mind.
	I don't know.
	So anyway, guys, I'm very well researched for yesterday.
	Today, not so well, but I'll do my best.
	It'll be fine.
	We're gonna have good fun with the Swedengate stuff, nothing else, because it's just hilarious.
	But message first for the Gold's Tier subscribers.
	So just a message from the editor in regards to video comments.
	So if you submit video comments, please do them to the most recent podcast, he says, or there's a good chance he won't see them.
	And also, if you send video comments and then we have a guest and Carl doesn't play video comments for that guest, then...
	We usually hold them until the next day, just so people are aware of how the editor's mind works in regards to those.
	Please don't be worried about it.
	Otherwise, we'll be going into hashtag Swedengate.
	There's been a scandal.
	Do you know what a scandal is?
	Is it about Sweden?
	Yeah.
	I knew that.
	They're not very nice, apparently.
	They're very rude to their guests they have in their homes.
	How dare you?
	Unbearable.
	I've always thought they were very nice people.
	I know a couple of Swedish people.
	They're very nice.
	Yeah, I mean, they talk like they're singing as well.
	It's just weird, frankly.
	I like that.
	It reminds me of those old Ingmar Bergman films.
	But go on, I mean, what is the problem, Callum, with Sweden?
	So first off, we must promote, firstly, a video here on the channel, seeing the politics of four lions, which has absolutely nothing to do with Sweden.
	All modern Sweden.
	Keep that in mind as we go forward.
	Because we'll go to the next one.
	This is the accusation, which is essentially that Sweden is accused of being inhumane and treating its guests inhumanely, especially black guests in their homes.
	And this blew up because of a Reddit post on AskReddit from some guy who decided to ask, what is the weirdest thing you've had to do at someone else's house because of their culture slash religion?
	And some guy responded by saying, I remember going to a Swedish friend's house, and while we were playing in his room, his mum yelled that dinner was ready.
	And check this, he told me to wait in his room while they ate.
	That S is so effing wild.
	Yeah, it's a little bit weird.
	That is weird.
	I mean, I was asked to stay in my room while my family ate, but that was just me, I think.
	That was a personal issue.
	Don't want you at the table anymore, son.
	Yeah, that was more personal than cultural.
	But he's claiming this is a cultural thing.
	No, I mean, I've had this too, which is I've gone to someone's house, I believe it was in Larkel, and they weren't expecting me to come round, so they made dinner, and they were like...
	Okay, well, just go upstairs and play some games.
	I don't think it's that strange.
	They didn't make you any because you were unexpected.
	Are they saying this is expected guests?
	Well, no one really confers whether they're expected or unexpected, but either way, I feel the comments seem to show that the suites just don't care either way, which is funny.
	Someone else responds, I slept over at a friend's house when we woke up.
	He said he's going downstairs for a few minutes.
	After about 15 minutes, I go downstairs to see what the F is happening, and they're eating breakfast.
	They see me and tell me he's almost done and will be up there soon.
	I still think about that S 25 years later.
	Okay, that's a little bit weirder.
	You say it overnight, and your friend goes down for breakfast, but the people who run the house obviously are just like, just wear upstairs.
	You're not welcome.
	Stay there.
	Yeah.
	I'm trying to decide if that is weirder.
	It is probably weirder.
	It's not...
	I mean, it's just...
	If the dinner was planned, then it's...
	If the visit was planned, then it's just as bad.
	They're about equal.
	But an impromptu visit, I think you can let someone off maybe not having food ready, right?
	They should at least offer in a token way.
	Do you want some?
	But the breakfast thing...
	I mean, if you ask, I guess.
	I mean, I've been to someone's house where they just didn't have money for food either, so it just wasn't the circumstance where you could just ask either.
	But breakfast is bad.
	I mean, it could just be like a bowl of cereal, like nothing.
	Yeah, you would have thought.
	I mean, what does that cost?
	What does it take to organize?
	Here's some cereal.
	Shut up, strange kid.
	I would give you my house for a day.
	But anyway, this is the thread, and it blew up massively.
	And then there were a lot of memes about this that blew up as well, which are also just very funny, I will say.
	So I have the first one here from the IKEA catalogue.
	Nice little family sat around having breakfast and then someone saying that, well, probably they have someone sitting somewhere in the house waiting to be fed, but they're not allowed in.
	Hashtag Swedengate.
	So if you scroll back up there, John, just so we can see the image.
	And the empty chair.
	Yeah, just the empty chair.
	That's where they would be.
	That's where you would be as a guest, but you're not allowed.
	If we go to the next one, though, we have some summation of this, which is we have some more memes.
	So this one here being Swedish family eating dinner, their guest, not welcome here.
	And if we go to the next one, we have a map that someone made in response to all this.
	And this also blew up.
	So it's a map of Europe for people listening, in which basically you've got the Mediterranean, who are almost always giving their guests food, the Slavs and the...
	French, basically, who usually, most of the southern Germans being unlikely, and then the northern Germanic people, so the northern Germans, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, being like, no, we're just not going to give you food if you come around.
	I'm very insulted that England is unlikely to give you food, although I notice the north is likely, so I think I would come into likely.
	I think Cumbria is in the usually yes section.
	Yeah, but it is interesting that you've got Englanders in the category of unlikely to give you food, but Scotland, Ireland, Celts.
	Ah, it's nonsense.
	Culturally different.
	This is leftist nonsense.
	I mean, there's no way...
	England's very likely to give you food.
	I mean, the North is more likely, I'll give you that.
	But don't you think that's a bit harsh on the whole Midlands to Southern section of England?
	I don't know what the data category was.
	I don't know if they ever broke it down by county.
	What's the sort of swampy yellow?
	What does that signify?
	Swampy yellow?
	What do you mean?
	Down there.
	Where?
	Where?
	There's like a yellowy green bit.
	Are we looking at the same thing?
	Are you colourblind?
	Oh, it's red.
	It's red.
	What do you mean yellow?
	There's a light on it.
	If I go here, I see it is red, but from here, it was a new category.
	Unlikely to give you food section.
	Is that what it's all about?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Sorry, the light was shining weird on it.
	Disregard.
	Sure.
	It was that.
	Although my grandpa did that.
	He had colourblind, so he couldn't be a pilot, tragically.
	But he did work on the planes during the Second World War.
	But I do not have it.
	It was the light shining on it weirdly.
	Did you ever ask him why he joined the army?
	Why?
	Everyone joined the Second World War.
	Yeah, but did you ever ask him what made you enthusiastic for it?
	It was patriotism.
	He didn't ask why.
	Both my grandparents fought in it.
	There's a friend of mine, her dad was in the Royal Navy, and she asked him, you know, what made everyone so excited to sign up?
	Because he went out the first thing.
	And, you know, did you want to fight for the country?
	Did you want to defend Britain?
	Did you want to fight for British values?
	And he went, nah, I want to kill some Germans.
	Nice.
	Very good response.
	Well, they don't give you any food.
	That's the big problem with him.
	I think for my other granddad, it was just a job because he had no money.
	He went in at 16.
	That's what they did, right?
	Fair enough.
	We don't need to get into my...
	Did he give you food if you went round as a guest?
	Good question.
	Yeah, they always gave food, definitely.
	I don't believe it.
	I mean, we are from the north, so we can still question it.
	But I think that pink on the England is a bit harsh, isn't it?
	Well, anyway, this is the map that's made.
	But what's noticeable, of course, is the fact that you've got the cultural differences.
	And primarily, let's be honest, it's the Protestant Germans, essentially, that are in the deep red category of no, and therefore planning for their future instead of just being like, oh, a random person turned up, give him food instead.
	But I'm sure there will be differing opinions in the chat about this.
	If we go to the next one, though, there was a Twitter space.
	You know what these are?
	Yes, they're the sort of audio things that people get together and chat with.
	Like a Twitter Zoom call that you can just jump in, listen to, maybe chat on.
	And this Swedish lady here, this black Swedish lady, decided to host one called All My Life I Had to Fight, hashtag Swedengate, in response to all this.
	And this also blew up in response.
	I listened to it yesterday and it was hilarious, because this is where the racial aspect comes in, which is the, well, if they don't want to give us food, that is racism.
	It's about time Sweden got their comeuppance.
	They've been hiding in plain sight with their convenient furniture and their high standard of living and good-looking people.
	How dare they?
	So she says here, now that Sweden gets over, here's the recording for all you racist peeps.
	Screen recording for your YouTube channels.
	You didn't have to.
	I regret nothing I said.
	Well, you probably should have because it was really dumb.
	But I do have the recordings and I thought we'd go through some of it because it's interesting at least.
	So we'll play the first one in which she says why Sweden is racist.
	All my life I had to fight.
	Right now I'm fighting in my comments.
	I'm fighting the Swedes.
	I'm fighting for my life and my experiences as a black woman.
	Majority of white Swedes are agreeing that, yeah, shit, we have to rethink why we do this.
	And half of them are like, oh, the earth is flat.
	Sweden is perfect.
	And we're the best nation in the world.
	How are we the best nation when you have black and brown people here that are literally sharing our experiences?
	How?
	I am so not surprised because as I lived in Sweden, This is the kind of things I discovered also as a French of African descent.
	The thing about not sharing the food, not sharing the booze during parties.
	This was crazy for me.
	And I was like, what do you mean you don't share booze?
	What do you mean we have to go to the Sistembolaget, which is a state place where Swedish people go, and you have to keep your own booze.
	And they were like, be careful that nobody steals your booze during the party.
	And I was like, what?!
	And after they finish, they take their bottles, their empty bottles and cans back home and they go to those stores and they put them in some kind of recycling machine so they get little cents or little coins back so they can go buy groceries.
	Okay, that's crazy.
	So there's one of the complaints as to why Sweden is racist, because they protect their booze parties, because they want to drink their booze.
	I don't think that's unreasonable.
	You see why they're so rich now?
	They protect their wealth and assets, don't they?
	Yeah, it's mine.
	What are you doing with my bottles?
	It's nice for England and Britain to get a break from being always on the spotlight, and it's moved to Sweden for a bit.
	It's also interesting that hating your own country is now becoming popular in Sweden as well.
	I mean, I love the idea that, like, they're the grand imperial power of the world now.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, I do see, I remember back when the Swedish flag became racist for a while in Swedish politics, and it was like, yeah, because of imperialism.
	I was like, Sweden.
	Yeah.
	Imperialism.
	You didn't do anything.
	What, against the polls?
	What are you talking about?
	She also mentions in here the system, I don't know if you say it, Blaget, which is the government-run liquor stores that they have in Sweden.
	And it's very weird, and I don't understand it, but whatever.
	So apparently the government essentially sells all the liquor through the government-run stores, and there's a ridiculous amount of tax on them, which means that people obviously are quite defensive.
	The fact that alcohol costs about twice as much as it does in Germany.
	Commies.
	They're all commies, man.
	But they're kind of rich commies.
	But they also have to return the bottles, as you said, and you get money back for returning the bottles.
	So it's actually worth having your bottles.
	So someone's stealing your bottles, yeah, that's kind of annoying, I would have thought.
	We used to have that with milk and stuff, didn't we?
	Did we?
	No, we had it with Coke bottles.
	We had it with Coke bottles back in the...
	You're too young.
	Not for me.
	I think I might be too young, but I've heard of it.
	You took back your Coke bottles and you got one peel or something.
	People in the chat, they've got no idea.
	But anyway, this is obviously the reason why, also that they're defensive of their alcohol, which again seems logical.
	Not really seeing where the racism is yet, for example, but they're going to allege that it's essentially because they are black, this happens to them, but it also happens to white people, which isn't racism, you would have thought.
	But if we go to the next clip, we have them complaining that if you ever criticize this, then you are racist.
	Let's play.
	Exactly.
	I feel like now that this information has reached TikTok, like the younger generation are crying about it.
	Like, yeah, but my mom's not a bad person if she doesn't feed my friends.
	We just didn't calculate for them to eat with us.
	And I was like, bruh, you're not stating your case.
	I thought suites are very smart.
	Look at the situation, take a step back and don't try to justify what's unjustifiable.
	This is something I live with my whole life.
	It doesn't matter how perfect Swedish you speak.
	It doesn't matter how much you take their accustoms, no matter how much you assimilate.
	Whenever you do something that they feel you're not being grateful to be in the country, suddenly you need to go back to Africa, you monkey.
	This is not all Swedes that do this.
	Some people actually have shame.
	And we'll see kids in their house and invite them to dinner and give them food or snacks and things like that.
	Then you have a lot of them that will not do that.
	And that is a fact.
	Even towards white kids.
	This is not just black and brown kids.
	It's even other white kids.
	I mean, it just makes no sense whatsoever.
	I mean, firstly, you can tell they're a rich country.
	She's got that much time to spend on this incredibly minor issue.
	Also, I like that the co-host is called Abyss because we have entered the abyss here.
	And why?
	Yeah, at the end, she very quickly undermines her entire argument.
	This is the problem with the racism.
	It doesn't matter how good Swedish is to speak.
	You know, it's always going to be racism.
	And as white people as well, it's not racism.
	Yeah, it makes no goddamn sense.
	I mean, her own job apparently is criticizing Sweden and doing commentary.
	She's definitely doing it.
	Oh, she's smashing it then.
	Oh, they say, go home, you monkey, but then they do it to white kids as well.
	Yeah, no one called you that.
	That didn't happen.
	Like, I'm not believing you that any Swede would actually do that as well for you trying to steal their They're the most ultra-liberal people in the world.
	I've actually checked with my Swedish friend if this happens.
	She didn't get back to me, so we don't know.
	I'd like to know if you've spoken to any actual Swedes and found out if this really happens, or if it's just a meme.
	I checked out the Swedish commentary online and they were all just like, how are you talking about?
	Like, you're not entitled to my food?
	So it is normal that they don't give the food?
	To be honest, I'm down with it.
	Some rando turns up to your house and you don't plan dinner.
	Yeah, I don't think it's that bad, but I'm just trying to establish, does it happen?
	But okay, I'd love to get feedback from my friends.
	So it does happen, but you think it's fine?
	I think it's okay.
	I don't think it's rude at all.
	And the idea that it's because I's black, even though we do it to white kids as well, is logically incoherent.
	It's definitely flawed.
	But if we go to the next clip, she continues that, and another one continues, complaining that Sweden, remember, the country of yes, Sweden memes, is no place for brown-skinned people or queers.
	Let's play.
	All brought alcohol together.
	I can't imagine having to watch my alcohol and making sure that nobody touches it or drinks it.
	Lungiello, Swedish people have eyes in the back of their head.
	The moment you go near their bottle, it's like, what are you doing?
	What are you doing?
	Go back to Africa.
	We often hear things about Sweden being a very accepting country and welcoming country, but what people don't realize is that there really isn't any...
	There are no places that broadly promotes...
	Culture or spaces for people of color.
	The queer community, for instance, you always hear about how welcoming queer spaces are in Sweden and that we're so liberal when it comes to LGBTQ rights.
	But to be honest, there's actually almost no space for queer people in Sweden at all.
	You will not see the huge demonstrations.
	You will not see political, social movements Human rights campaigns that are massive, like you may see in the US, for instance.
	These things don't really exist because it's so integrated in society that you should just mind your own business.
	There's no people in Sweden.
	That's what he's missed.
	It's famously like, there's not that many people there, is there?
	What we had is during COVID, the population density.
	He's saying there aren't these massive movements.
	Yeah, there's no one there.
	And it's too cold to go out.
	The population of London or something like that?
	Yeah.
	So of course you don't have a massive movement.
	There aren't that many people.
	But also just what a stupid criticism is like, oh, they have this culture of mind your own business and it's terrible because we don't have endless pride marches.
	What?
	But they're open and accepting and tolerant of people doing whatever they want, but they don't have endless pride marches, so it's homophobic.
	That's not what homophobia means, you moron.
	The idea that they have a culture in which everyone can do as they please and mind your own business, surely that's the ideal?
	That was the liberal ideal?
	And instead, no, what we need is endless pride marches to remind us that homophobia exists even where it doesn't.
	Yeah, it's weird.
	And you know what?
	They're so liberal in Sweden.
	They've actually gone with the spousal maintenance laws.
	They're actually the next stage from us.
	You know how we, in our country, men have no rights, but then if you do get divorced, you have to pay for everything.
	In Sweden, they've got rid of that.
	So, you know, the woman is not expected to, like, get money from a man anymore.
	That's how liberal they are.
	They say no women can stand on their own TV. So they're super, you know, super progressive.
	Just to demonstrate the queer liberality as well.
	I don't know if you ever saw this.
	This always made me laugh.
	So this is a Svenska dog blogger.
	This is a newspaper headline here.
	If you scroll down on this, you can see the headline, which is a flag worth defending.
	And then it's Swedish soldiers with the rainbow flag.
	Not the Swedish flag, of course.
	That is the flag worth defending.
	I mean, the idea that Sweden is not open and accepting the homosexuals, I mean, you couldn't be more stupid.
	What invading army is trying to attack that flag as well?
	That's the key point.
	Coming in from Norway with their hetero army.
	Just Russians coming through Finland.
	I mean, this is the ultimate escalator quickly, isn't it?
	We started off with, you're not allowed to fish fingers when you go around your mate's house.
	Then it was, go back to Africa.
	Now it's the LGBTQ thing.
	How did this happen?
	Just clearly all made up by these people.
	I just remember my friend who's Swedish is half...
	She's half Tunisian, so when she has to go back to Africa, it's actually just visiting her dad.
	Confusing for her.
	She's trying.
	I've got the plane ticket.
	But if we go down on this, if you can click away and then scroll down, there's also another headline in here, which is the funniest one, which is, we don't always march straight, is the poster headline.
	So if you keep going, there's a post that says we don't always march straight there.
	That one.
	I mean, again, I mean, that's the recruitment ads for the Swedish military.
	There's no place if they're near a rainbow flag.
	Otherwise, it's obviously just, you know, queer propaganda, and not about acceptance either, because it's not about tolerance, it's instead about promotion, which is a different matter.
	But if we go on to the next clip, we also have the final complaint from this Twitter space that blew up, which I find hilarious, which is, one of them complains, it's awful.
	Because if you go to a barbecue in Sweden, God forbid, you're expected to bring food.
	Let's play.
	Being invited, like I said, to a barbecue, and then being told to bring your own food.
	That's, and I've heard people defending it in terms of, oh, you know, it's about getting together.
	And I'm like, yes, but no, because you've invited me to have food.
	So I'm going to leave my house, bring my food to your house, cook my food at your house, and then what?
	Like, I can't wrap my brain around that.
	Yeah, and it's not as unusual as people would like to think.
	Like, I know I limit the amount of white Swedish friends I have because some of the weirdness I just cannot take.
	The idea that if you go to a barbecue, you should ask, well, what do you want me to bring?
	I'm going to bring some sausages.
	That's what a barbecue is.
	Yes.
	It's like saying, oh, we had a picnic and they made us go outside.
	You bring stuff to a barbecue.
	Everyone knows that.
	You bring different meats to a barbecue.
	That is part of the barbecue, isn't it?
	Yes.
	It's like the fondue.
	You dip it in the thing in the middle.
	That's the point.
	I went to the fondue.
	They asked me to dip my stick in the middle.
	I wanted to just eat the stick because I'm brain dead, apparently.
	What's...
	That is a barbecue.
	And then, by the way, what was that thing...
	What was that bit of racism you suddenly got in there?
	I've limited my amount of white...
	Swedish friends.
	But you're in the wrong country in Sweden.
	All these white people.
	Gothenburg.
	Hang out with the refugees, I suppose, instead.
	If that's your future.
	But then I would have thought you'd be...
	That's rad.
	I've limited my white friends because they won't give me food.
	Yeah, so that's all the Swedengate stuff that blew up, in the sense of just being like, what the hell is wrong with you people?
	You won't give us food when we come.
	And then there was a bunch of other stuff that blew up that I thought I'd reference, because Sweden does have a lot of funny memes, as most other foreign countries do, with some of the naming conventions they have, if nothing else.
	So if we get this one up, this is someone saying that Sweden not only starve children, but they also have racist ice cream, 88 or Heil Hitler flavor, N-word black and N-word plain as well.
	I'll be honest, this one looks worse.
	Yeah.
	To the layman.
	None of it's true, obviously.
	It's like, strangely enough, in Sweden, they don't name their ice creams after the N-words or Heil Hitler.
	Imagine you go around, they don't offer you any food, this is all they offer you.
	They do offer you that, but nothing else.
	Yeah.
	That would be pretty racist if you were just like, only this.
	Nothing more for you, child.
	But yeah, no, it gets its name from Nougat, of course.
	Not from the N-word.
	That would be kind of weird for a modern-day ice cream.
	And funnily enough, 88 is not Heil Hitler in this case.
	From the way they were talking in that Twitter space, you'd probably think this is what goes on.
	Yeah.
	I can't tell how much of this is jokes and how much of it is people being stupid as well because the previous one was very stupid.
	If we go to the next one, we have a tweet that someone deleted, presumably because they looked stupid.
	BLM, load of fists in the bio, of course.
	The Swedish Midsommar Pole is a tradition dating back to the Swedish colonialism in the 1600s that actually is meant to represent the gallows used to hang escaped slaves.
	No, it's not.
	It's just BS. Someone's just made up.
	It's like, okay, right?
	That was also part of the hashtag Swedengate that blew up.
	Just the idea that white supremacy still remains because of Midsommar Bulls.
	If we go to the next one, there is the funny response that I did see from some internet racists, which was in response to stuff like this, being like, actually, we agree with the leftists.
	Sweden is terribly racist.
	Please don't come.
	Okay.
	Isn't this your burner account?
	This is...
	I would never put the Ukrainian flag in my body.
	No, you're right.
	No, this is obviously just someone who's engaging with the dialogue and coming to the same conclusions, but from a different angle there, of course.
	Although there is some funny instances in Sweden, which I think do have more merit than they won't give me food when I visit, or at least are weirder.
	This is a story that blew up ages ago that got re-shared.
	A Swedish minister in racist cake controversy.
	Can you tell what it is yet?
	Oh, yeah.
	If you scroll down on this one, this is pretty bloody weird.
	So if you keep scrolling to the next image, please, you can see in here.
	Yeah, this was the Swedish cultural minister who was at some opening and can't open a cake that is pretty horrific for that.
	The artist behind the cake was progressive, which makes me laugh even better.
	Mr.
	Linda, who is black but born in Stockholm, said the work had been misunderstood.
	A black man made this installation and then was complaining that it was misunderstood when people called it racist.
	He told the BBC that his art had tackled different prejudice and ideas of oppression for many years.
	I have been doing this by revamping black faces into different contexts so that when the Swedish art organisation asked me to design a cake, it felt totally natural.
	And I like how it says he placed his own head at the top of it.
	Is that his own head like poking through from under the table?
	Or like a representation of his own head?
	Or is it literally him popping up?
	I don't know.
	It's all kinds of weird.
	This image got shared a lot without context, so I thought I'd demonstrate the context in case anyone runs into it.
	And the context doesn't help, funnily enough.
	It makes it worse.
	It's like, guys, you've got to see it in context.
	Just to have, and it's still bad.
	Can't confirm.
	Don't worry, Jesse Lee Peterson made this.
	The only way it'd be worse is if he was eating one of those ice creams we just saw at the time.
	It is ridiculous.
	But then there is one last thing, which is true.
	It is strange for Swedish culture, which is we go to the next one here.
	We have the woman who made the space complaining here.
	In Sweden, white people are fighting for their life to call chocolate bulls I'd like to see the Ferrero Roche they had,
	but with these...
	You're really spoiling us, for sure.
	Yeah, well, they've been, as she says, renamed to Chocolate Balls, Chocolate Ball, some places.
	And then if we go to the last one here, there is one other response that I thought was of note, which is...
	I'm not actually that surprised if there are some strange views in Sweden, given the history Sweden has had.
	You might say that Sweden is being inhumane to these black ladies by not giving them food as soon as they arrive at their house.
	I think there's probably more inhumane things going on in Sweden, and we can name them with the migrants.
	So if you just scroll through this just quickly, there's a whole bunch in here.
	There's the fact that the refugees have cost Swedes 18.6 billion US dollars every year.
	It's about 60 grand per refugee.
	Fantastic.
	The next one is him saying that they found that 60% of all rapists in the last year were of immigrant backgrounds, half being outside Sweden.
	And it goes on and on and on of just inhumane things that have happened to Sweden over the previous years.
	If you scroll down to the videos, there's then just endless videos.
	So if you go to the next one here, there's just endless videos of just horrible things happening to people.
	This is just some poor girl who's just walking.
	My god.
	Perfectly nice people who have turned up.
	Very, very welcoming to the hospitality.
	And then it just goes on with just another whole bunch of horrible things.
	And frankly, I think it's worth mentioning because it would be wrong to leave it out.
	And if you go right to the very bottom, there's a barbecue where someone's been forced to bring their own food.
	Ha ha ha!
	It's unbearable.
	This one's gross as hard.
	Some lady throwing fecal matter at strangers.
	It's because she's oppressed, presumably.
	And then if we play the last clip here, this is just the local Gothenburg's man on his opinion on what's happened.
	Min son har blivit rånad två gånger utav Somalier och en gång från Araber.
	Han är 19 år och han är mer eller mindre märkt för livet.
	Han vågar inte gå ut själv.
	En annan gick ut i Göteborg och när man var i den åldern var det inga problem.
	Idag är det ju fruktansvärt.
	Hade jag haft en dotter hade förmodligen gått med en laddad hagelbussa och följt efter en ungefär 10 meter bakom.
	Det är ju helt absurt.
	So, yeah, nej.
	Alltså, den här invandringen är totalt hänsynslös mot det svenska folket.
	De har förrott vårat land.
	Jag är 60-talist.
	Jag vet hur det var att växa upp på 70-80-talet.
	Tittade idag.
	Det är helt otroligt.
	Jag åker till mina gamla förorter på Hisingen, Angered.
	Det går inte att gå där.
	Det är helt otroligt.
	Alltså...
	Ja, jag kan inte uttrycka det med ord.
	Alltså, avsky för den här invandringen.
	So there you have it.
	And I thought I'd include that because it'd be wrong to leave it out.
	Because you can claim all you want that there are inhumane actions going on in Sweden with requiring people to bring sausages to a barbecue.
	But there are actually, the Swedish story does have some much more inhumane things going on.
	Yeah, that's horrendous.
	He would follow his daughter with a shotgun.
	I mean, I'd like to see that movie, like a Swedish revenge movie.
	But other than that, horrific.
	Yeah, for people listening who couldn't see the subtitles, he was celebrating the diversity of Gothenburg and how it has brought glory and wonder to Gothenburg.
	I suppose we'll leave it there.
	Yes, that was it.
	Because of the cost of sporting lockdowns.
	So do you want me to just start this one?
	Yeah.
	I was waiting for some sort of like intro or sting or something.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	So, well, you know, I don't want to do a Leo curse and make it all about me.
	But there is a shout out to my friend Leo there, my friend, esteemed Collie.
	But I featured a tiny bit in this.
	I thought we'd do a bit on it.
	We've all heard about the cost of lockdowns.
	So the economic cost, the NHS waiting list, you can name it, right?
	It's been a complete disaster.
	But I'm talking about the cost of supporting lockdowns for the various mainstream media goons that supported them.
	And it's just fun to see them now get their comeuppance.
	And I was going to focus on that.
	So very much the two themes, you know, legacy media losing it and being punished for COVID hysteria.
	So the first one is...
	GB News, which full disclosure, I do work for, is beating Piers Morgan in the ratings.
	And Guido Forks covered this.
	You can see there all the heads.
	You've got Farage is smashing it, Turner, Stein smashing it, Wutton.
	But there's another one, which even has Simon Evans' head on, because even our show, Headliners, is beating it.
	And we're on at 11pm.
	No big names, unless you count me.
	You know, it's a paper review show.
	And we actually beat Piers' figures.
	And they have a huge budget.
	It's Talk TV. It's Murdoch.
	It's advertised everywhere you go.
	You see them on the...
	And for people who aren't in England, I can't walk around without running into a bus stop that just says Piers Morgan on it.
	Yeah, and it's got like little Piers with an angel and devil, love him or hate him.
	Well, you're not watching him, isn't it?
	It could be the slogan.
	So this was just very interesting to me, not just because we beat him, but just because why is Piers Morgan completely...
	And by the way, just quickly, Pace Guido, which is a Latin word throwing in to look clever...
	He says we don't break news, and it's just comedians reading the papers.
	It makes it sound like we're sat there like your dad just reading the paper silently.
	We don't just read the papers, we add commentary.
	And we do sometimes break news if it comes out.
	But anyway, it's good that he covered it.
	I don't know if you scroll down, it says we beat him somewhere, but it's in there somewhere.
	Anyway, you can check it yourself at home, I'm sure you will.
	So they're not Lotus Eaters numbers, by the way, like the mighty Lotus Eaters, but we are smashing...
	Yeah, but you do really well, don't you?
	But we are beating Piers.
	So I just thought it was interesting.
	And it's like, why has this happened?
	Is it because...
	Oh, by the way, it's so bad that Piers has had to go on a six-week holiday.
	I don't know if we have that in the Express.
	He suddenly had to go on a sort of enforced holiday.
	Oh, I'm sure.
	Is this like Andrew Neil's holiday, where he just decided, I've had enough?
	Yeah, it's very much related to his viewing figures.
	I don't know, have you seen Piers' show?
	I watched the first episode and then put a clip up on my Twitter just being like, I'm disappointed in this.
	Because one of the weirdest things was just the fact that his name was friggin' everywhere.
	I don't know if I showed you those photos.
	Oh yeah!
	It's on the roof!
	It's on the ceiling!
	In case he forgets it.
	He's got like three things behind him, on his desk, in front of the chyron, and then on the roof there's his name, Piers Morgan.
	I was like, okay.
	And yeah, some people said he really lost it with the Trump thing.
	He got big views.
	Well, Trump said this.
	He got big views, good numbers, great numbers for the Trump thing, didn't he?
	But then he did that weird...
	There was that weird video.
	It looked like Trump had stormed out, but he hadn't really.
	Yeah, so Piers betrayed his first guest, which is the best thing you want to do, especially to a big name like Trump, obviously, and then thought he would get away with it.
	Yeah.
	So of course you won.
	Yes.
	You're not working for the Mirror anymore.
	That's it.
	It was fake news in an era.
	We're in the podcast era now.
	We're in the era of authenticity.
	And then Piers is doing that.
	And I think that's why people like Mark Stein are beating him, because they're much more authentic.
	But anyway, I'm sure Piers doesn't mind that we're beating his figures.
	And as Alan Partridge would say, I think we have a video which confirms that Piers...
	I can't be with you because I'm on a nationwide tour, performing in person each night to an audience bigger than Piers Morgan gets on the actual telly.
	But the good thing about Piers is it doesn't bother him.
	It doesn't bother him.
	It's just funny that that exists.
	It doesn't bother him.
	He's just gone on a six-week holiday.
	But I just wondered if this was part of the shift away from the legacy media, you know, and as a result of promoting this COVID hysteria, right?
	Because COVID is kind of the acid test.
	test it's like do you think it's okay for the government to lock us in our houses take away our jobs stop us seeing dying loved ones force you to take a vaccine potential vaccine passports are you against all that do you believe in human rights right and some people didn't pass that test Right.
	And what Piers did is he didn't realise he has this audience.
	I don't have anything against Piers Morgan, by the way.
	It's just an interesting story.
	He alienated his audience by not understanding that.
	And if you look at this tweet, where he said, to all the anti-vaxxer cov idiots, predictably now screaming that they won't have the jab, let me say this.
	If it's approved, then I will have it done live on TV. If you refuse to have it, then no more flying for you and no use in the NHS if you get COVID deal.
	And people forgot he tweeted this.
	I was always reminding people, but people forgot that he took that stance.
	And you could say he's sort of joking, but is he joking?
	Quite a lot of people took this stance that...
	Genuinely.
	People were saying you shouldn't have access to the NHS. It was like, okay, but you're fat, so what do we do about you?
	Exactly, exactly.
	And by the way, I pointed out, I don't know if we have my tweet, not to make it about me, but I pointed this out to him and managed to get blocked.
	And this tweet, my tweet got, it's one of those tweets that unexpectedly did well.
	It got 12.6 thousand likes.
	Weirdly, Twitter revised it down to like 11 thousand.
	I don't know how they did it.
	Elon Musk needs to sort that out.
	But I said, so Piers Morgan says the unvaccinated shouldn't receive a healthcare.
	Edwina Curry thinks they shouldn't be lied out in public.
	And New Zealand's PM has had them moved on from their jobs.
	Let me know when this goes too far for you, assuming I haven't already disappeared.
	So that's not even that great a tweet, but it did very well.
	But I pointed out, people are going to me, when did Piers say this?
	But he did say it.
	Ironically, he's disappeared now on holiday.
	It's such a good litmus test, as you say, which is just, well, do you actually believe that people have any rights at all, frankly?
	Because if you're going to take that all of this is fine, then you don't.
	You can't, by definition.
	Exactly.
	And I think when he's now reaping what he sowed because he's lost his...
	Lots of people have said, we're not going to watch Piers after what he did.
	Loads of people comment on my thing, we're not watching because of that.
	And it's interesting that Mark Stein does so well because no one can really say Mark Stein's a massive name in this country.
	He does quite well in...
	in the U.S.
	But he's smashing Piers' numbers.
	Why?
	To me, it's because he talks about vaccine injury.
	He talks about he's honest and authentic and people respond to that.
	Whereas the time of Piers is kind of of the mainstream media stitch ups is kind of over.
	I mean, a guy that really thought he could get away with smearing Trump by doing deceptive editing and thinking that would work.
	It's like, as I said, you know, he got done for working at the mail for putting out fake news.
	And it's just like, yeah, doing fake news doesn't make you popular when you actually have to be held accountable now because it's the internet age and not the papers age where you could just jump around and no one cared because you cared who you were anyway because of the papers.
	Do you know what that reminds me of?
	Did you watch that podcast with Matt Hancock?
	Which one?
	He was on the Diary of a CEO podcast.
	You just reminded me.
	We covered the story on GB. It was a funny thing where he didn't like the question and he goes, you're going to ask that again in a more respectful way?
	And the guy just went, well, I'm just asking you, Matt, this is just what we do.
	Yeah, yeah, just ask more respect.
	We'll do it again.
	We'll do it again.
	It's a podcast.
	This is all going in.
	We'll do it again.
	We'll just do it again.
	And he's going, well, I mean, I'm just like, no, just ask it more.
	Yeah, ask it more respectfully.
	That's literally a South Park sketch or something, isn't it?
	Right.
	It was definitely pure Partridge.
	It was...
	Just do it again.
	It's like it's live, you moron.
	I know.
	This isn't fake.
	Actually, until then, I was being very generous.
	He was coming across all right.
	I was going, oh, Matt's not so bad.
	He's not such a bad guy.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I was going, oh, he's got his own perspective on it.
	And then he did that.
	I was just like, oh, this guy's an idiot.
	It was so, just ask it.
	It's like me saying to you, can you just ask that again?
	That bit about Sweden.
	Yeah, so people forget.
	So I'm just reminding everyone.
	People use this argument about the anti-vaxxers, so-called, shouldn't be allowed in the NHS. And Sean O'Grady here in The Independent was another one of these freaks.
	This is what we do about anti-vaxxers.
	No job, no entry, no NHS access.
	So originally there was a thing about it stops infection, which proved to be not true.
	You can still pass it on.
	You can still get it with...
	I think we're allowed to say that, but I don't know how much we are allowed to say, because YouTube is incredibly autistic about this.
	Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you about that.
	I forgot to even say, should I not be using the word?
	I meant to say that.
	This will all get cancelled.
	Yeah, but it should be fine.
	Let's change the V word to something else for the next whole section.
	We'll call it something safe, like the dodgy death jab or something.
	We'll call it something else.
	You're right, I should have checked that.
	Sorry if there's any strikes against Lotus.
	I'll never be back.
	Yeah.
	You get the full-on censored version on lotuses.com.
	So let's rephrase, like Matt Hancock.
	Let's do that again.
	Let's do that again.
	Basically, look, they said certain things about the what's-it, and then they were proved to be possibly questionable.
	But this thing about the NHS, it then came to the argument about hospital beds.
	You know, you're taking up a hospital bed by not getting it.
	You're irresponsible because you're taking...
	And that opened the Pandora's box of obviously saying, well, if you're obese, like Piers Morgan maybe, if you're a smoker, you're in the same boat.
	Well, right, do you have a hospital bed?
	Exactly.
	Once you've opened the argument...
	Are you doing a dangerous job?
	Well, you don't have a right to a hospital bed.
	In which case, no one has a right to a hospital bed.
	Okay, good.
	Then we can just get rid of the NHS, can't we, finally?
	Right, which would be fine, but that's not what the NHS is.
	We don't ask, hey, how did you break your arm?
	Were you messing about?
	You know what I mean?
	Were you winding up Mike Tyson on a plane...
	We don't ask.
	Do you know what I mean?
	The ethics of the NHS is healthcare for all.
	Get to A&E, yeah, but how do you do it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Because if you were just horsing around...
	Exactly.
	So I'm trying to not swear on YouTube.
	But that's not what the ethics of the NHS are.
	It never was that.
	So the irony of these idiots is that they open the question, why should you receive...
	And they actually open the door to an insurance-based system that I'd be totally down with.
	That's the funny thing.
	Because I thought about this.
	I was like, okay, Piers...
	I will take some...
	We'll have an insurance system.
	I'll lose points for my thing in the arm status.
	I'll pay a little more in insurance.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And you can pay more because you're fat and we'll be better off.
	Exactly.
	We'll take into account my resting heart rate.
	It's very low.
	I do all...
	Sten's training 3,000.
	Let's put it all in there.
	Don't drink.
	Don't smoke.
	Got my testosterone checked.
	It was high, ladies.
	That's all I'm saying.
	Let's get...
	That's the most tragic moment on this podcast that has come from me.
	But let's weigh all that up.
	Let's have this insurance-based system that you guys are kind of saying you want.
	Because it's not the NHS, is it?
	Singapore actually did it.
	They actually had, we've got an article somewhere, but they actually charged people for not getting the thing in the arm.
	They said, okay, pay for your own healthcare.
	So they did it, which is fair if we do it for everything.
	You know what I mean?
	So yeah, I don't know if we have that link on it, but it doesn't really matter.
	It's just a link to Singapore saying, there you go.
	Singapore's unvaccinated, may face COVID medical bills over $18,000.
	So that's that.
	Another one who made this point, by the way, at the time, while we're going through all these legacy media goons, was Mr Andrew Neil, formerly of GB. It's time to punish Britain's five million vaccine refuseniks.
	They put us all at risk of more restrictions, says Andrew Neil.
	Why shouldn't we curb some of their freedoms?
	Now, we know people don't write their headlines.
	They write the articles and someone else does the headlines.
	But the headline, sorry, the article wasn't any better.
	The article wasn't any better.
	It was basically going on about France and how great it is because they have COVID passports.
	Like, yeah, yeah, France is so great, bro.
	Whatevs.
	And this ties back neatly to my GB News theme because Andrew Nill left GB News because he said it was traumatic and humiliating to be on there and it was this horrible time.
	He cried about it.
	Whereas now, of course, he's gone to Channel 4 and he's never humiliated, never humiliates himself at all, as we saw the other day in this clip.
	I'm here to present the Andrew Neal Show.
	I'm on the mic, so get with the flow.
	Top politicians here on C4. It's just half an hour, but they all want more.
	I ask all the questions like I just don't care.
	So come on, Boris, and get in the chair.
	Thanks, Nadine.
	Nailed it.
	Okay, if you ever do anything that cringe on GB News, just end it.
	It just reminded me of this from Cathy Newman as well.
	This is what these people like on Channel 4.
	Let's play this one for...
	What about Seaport Style?
	It's still bad.
	I've watched this about five times just for this show.
	It's painful every time.
	Seaport Style.
	It's not like a human.
	Sexy news run...
	Mate, you've got to provide cringe warnings if we're going to do stuff like this.
	That's the next level of cringe.
	I just wanted to show you, like, that's what, that is, just reminding me of that, because that's what these mainstream media people are like.
	Who are they?
	Who are these people?
	I know.
	That's the classic.
	Yeah, so what you're saying is you're a massive weirdo alien.
	Peterson's putting her in her place.
	Yeah, so they've all basically lost their audience because of this.
	The fact that Morgan, despite the massive budget, is getting hammered by our little humble show, 11 o'clock at night.
	And, you know, the thing is, what Piers has found is you can't be in both camps.
	You can't be in both camps.
	You're on the side of truth and you get attacked.
	You do podcasts like Lotus Eaters and you're totally based.
	Or you're part of the cathedral, as Michael Myers calls it, the regime.
	And he's tried to sort of, you know, he's tried to go back like, hey, I'm an anti-woke guy.
	I'm really cool.
	I'm like down with you guys.
	Like, no, we all remember.
	You're part of this problem.
	You have been for a while in that regard.
	Yeah.
	It's just like you can either be authentic or you can be a smear merchant.
	And when you literally open your show by being a smear merchant to Donald Trump, it's not going to go down well, obviously.
	Right.
	And what's going to happen is more and more the people that said those kind of things, that villainized people for not wanting to take this medical treatment...
	It's going to become mainstream because we covered a story the other day on Headliners.
	The Telegraph, AstraZeneca vaccine causing Ghislaine Barre syndrome.
	So this is now becoming mainstream.
	And the more these things do come mainstream, the more Mark Stein is exposing vaccine injuries on GB. These people are going to look very, very bad and increasingly so.
	It's not going to go better for them.
	I don't see it happening.
	And they are going to try and backtrack, by the way.
	But when they do, we'll be there.
	Because if you see my tweet when Piers tried to do this, I was blocked at this point.
	But I found him anyway.
	And he said, So nice to get the masks off.
	England feels more normal today than it has since the start of the pandemic.
	And that's how it should be.
	Now we have effective vaccines and COVID's mutating to weaker variants.
	We should all embrace freedom again.
	Not be trapped in unnecessary fear.
	After two years of just heavy fear-mongering.
	Like you were the guy promoting unnecessary fear.
	So glad we have people like Piers Morgan to counter the hatred and fear stirred up by people like Piers Morgan.
	Not bad.
	6,000 likes.
	Solid.
	Not trying to make it about me.
	But, you know, that sums it up pretty neatly.
	Yeah.
	And that's where we're at.
	Now, I don't know if we have time for the other one or not.
	I don't mind.
	But Rod Little was the other one.
	This was very topical.
	This happened just a couple of days ago.
	I totally backed the lockdown and quite enjoyed it.
	But was I just a mug?
	Yes.
	Chad meme, yes.
	I mean, I quite like Rod Little, but yeah, 100%, mate.
	I quite like him, and that's even worse in a way, that he's kind of vaguely on our side.
	He sort of gets things a bit.
	But that's the thing.
	I mean, have you seen Magic Now's breakdown of the psyops that basically took place in February of 2020, I believe it was?
	2021, sorry.
	The fact that Magic just breaks it down.
	Like, he shows you the people who were working for Her Majesty's government in the department of making sure the public were informed about COVID. And then the strategies they used.
	And he says it on the Joe Rogan podcast.
	And he just lays it out.
	It's perfectly true.
	Weapons-grade psychological operations against the public to make them afraid.
	I mean, it really is the fact that a lot of people fell for this who otherwise would be well-thinking people.
	I can't even hold it against them.
	Because what was done to them by the government is not normal.
	Yes, Sage had that document, didn't it?
	The level of personal threat is not sufficiently felt.
	We need to scare the public.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And of course, we keep seeing those posters.
	Look into his eyes.
	You would never bend the rules, would you, Boris?
	Right.
	And now we know that they've all broken the rules.
	It's extra absurd.
	Yeah, but you're right about Lidl.
	He's sort of on our side, but then he's against some woke stuff.
	He's socially conservative to a degree.
	He's basically associated with the SDP, isn't he?
	So as a lefty, which he really is ultimately, this is even worse for him.
	To say that he loved lockdowns, you shouldn't really be saying it.
	You should be embarrassed to say it only because what about all the key workers?
	What about all the supermarket staff had to work?
	What about all the delivery drivers while you sat at home?
	Those of us like me who lost all our work immediately, even though we're only...
	Okay, I was doing sign-up comedy.
	Who cares?
	But we lost all our work immediately.
	I immediately saw, like, this is completely wrong, the government shouldn't have these rights.
	Whereas if you were a little or something like that, you're just exposing yourself.
	Like, even though he's apologizing for any article, I still think it's bad.
	Yeah, but there's also not just the immediate effects, the knock-on effects to everyone else in every sector of the economy, being screwed by this.
	Yeah, and he also admits, by the way, his wife got it right, which is even more beta, that his wife got it right, and he was like, going, no, we'll be fine.
	No, no, come on, this is fair.
	I mean, he's opening up to his mistakes, which is, you know, it's progress of a kind.
	I'll give him that.
	Yeah.
	Be charitable.
	And it just exposed, obviously, lockdowns were a radically different experience depending on what sector you were in.
	Either you lose all your work like me and people in the private sector and self-employed people, or you're working harder than ever.
	You're on the front lines.
	Let's say it was really as bad as they said.
	You'd be in danger as a supermarket worker and so on.
	Or you're getting paid fully or 80% to sit at home and watch Tiger King.
	So it's a radically different experience.
	So you should be very aware of that when you come up with really complacent statements like this.
	Even Lord Frost, another sort of relatively sound person who's kind of on our side-ish, side of truth, he admitted in the Telegraph podcast he didn't realise people were at home.
	He talked to these people who just office work.
	Maybe they were civil servants.
	I can't remember.
	They'd been in the office.
	They hadn't really seen anyone for a year.
	And he said he just hadn't realised that.
	And it kind of shocked him because, as we've seen from Partygate, they were carrying on as normal.
	But anyway, so Rod Lill's another one.
	He's not as bad as Piers.
	He's okay in some ways, but the one thing he did get right in this article is he said people feel like mugs because they believed the rules, which I never did.
	They believed the elite were following them, which I never did.
	We saw John Kerry on the plane.
	We saw Nancy Pelosi's haircut.
	Boris not wearing masks.
	No one was wearing it.
	No one was following it.
	But he says people feel like mugs because they believed it.
	And I think that's true.
	But anyway, he's just another mainstream media person who got it wrong.
	That's mostly what I have to say on that.
	How long was that?
	Did I get the timing?
	Yeah, that was great.
	I can also just see in the chat people being like, well, in IT, it's pretty chill, to be honest.
	Just sat around.
	What's chill?
	In IT. The fact that some people in the chat are just like, yeah, didn't have to do much.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Very different world.
	Anyway, let's move on to Happy Alphabet Month.
	Okay.
	Heedly, heedly, folks.
	It is a holy time of year.
	It is the holy month of Alphabet, or whatever the hell else we're renaming it now.
	It's Pride, folks.
	It's June.
	So we'll start off here.
	I don't know if you can...
	There should be another link in there if you can load it up, John.
	Which is...
	I just want to start off with promoting, of course, the Ethical Companies podcast we did ages ago, which is obviously relevant to the, well, rainbow in the profile picture, isn't it?
	So, this is a podcast ages ago with Carl, talking about the fact that ethical companies are not new, and also the collectivist ends without collectivist means is related to all of this.
	But also, go and check that out, and also just subscribe to the YouTube channel if you're on YouTube, of course.
	But otherwise, we shall get into it, because if we start off, we have the billionaire himself, Elon Musk, the mad lad, warning...
	June is coming.
	The day before.
	June is almost here.
	Every logo being with rainbows.
	Here it comes.
	Of course it is.
	And if we go to the next one, I do prefer the other meme in regards to this.
	Your month is coming, isn't it?
	Dean, do you know about homophobic dog?
	No, I'm not as up on these things, Callum.
	It's a...
	Hilarious meme.
	Basically, these gay guys on Instagram got this really cute dog, but it has a really suspicious look on its face.
	So whenever they take pictures with it, it just didn't look like it wanted to be there.
	And then it became a meme that it was homophobic.
	And then you have homophobic dog.
	It's a crap meme.
	I love it.
	Anyway.
	So if we go to the next one, we have, well, the rightists, who are all ready to mock this, of course.
	The fact that it's not about acceptance of homosexuals, which is all good and proper, of course.
	It is about something else.
	It is about...
	The alphabets.
	The queers, as they call themselves, which are not the same as gay people.
	In the same way that you can be black, but not politically black.
	As Joe Biden reminded us.
	If you vote for Trump, you're not black.
	And if you're the wrong kind of gay, then you're not in the alphabet.
	You lose your gay card.
	Douglas Murray and my friend Andrew Doyle talk about this.
	You lose your gay card if you're the wrong one.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I love it.
	I've said it a million times, but I'll say it again.
	In Douglas' book on the madness of crowds, he just puts it beautifully.
	Where he's just like, there are gays like me who are gay, but we have lives and so forth.
	And then there are queers, and he just goes off for two pages, just being people who make it their whole personality, and I can't stand them, and it's like, okay, Douglas, he's not wrong, though.
	So we have here the meme being that here's all the evil corporations with their logos, all in bright colours.
	Mind you, is he a queer?
	Remember that?
	Harry Enfield.
	We should tell you that one day.
	But this is, of course, you have Umbrella there, Habstergo, so forth, all engaging in pride, so they must be good.
	If we go to the next one here, we also have the Ministry of Truth, who are celebrating Pride Month this month.
	I love this logo here.
	Of course, they have Ukrainian flag as part of the phalanx eating into the traditional conservative pride flag as well.
	I hate to be a spoilsport, wasn't this a parody account?
	It is, and that's why I'm mentioning it, because it's obviously ridiculous, but kind of true.
	Oh, okay.
	But the thing is, it's also annoyingly true in Britain, because if we go to the next one here, GCHQ! Immediately on it!
	They raised the racial pride flag outside their office this morning.
	This one is real.
	Yeah, this is real.
	The people who literally spy on us all day and then determine if things are true for us or not are out there with their racial pride flags hanging as high as the British ones.
	It's not quite as high as it, if you look.
	That's good.
	It's just slightly lower.
	Still maintaining slight dominance that GCHQ does owe its allegiance to the United Kingdom over the, well, the gay race.
	You know they've probably had a meeting about that as well.
	How high should it be?
	I think it should be higher.
	And other people are going, no, no, just below.
	We don't want to get in trouble on Twitter for being too woke.
	Yeah, but it's...
	I don't know how much you think about this, but you know it's the difference between the conservative pride flag, you know, the traditional just a rainbow, and then the phalanx.
	You see the triangle that comes in?
	Yes, yes, the trans triangle.
	Yeah, except it's not just trans, is it?
	Because there's two more colours on there, aren't there?
	There's black and brown.
	I'm black sexual.
	No, of course not.
	It's meant to represent black and brown people, but not sexually.
	It represents people who won't be fed in Sweden.
	Yeah.
	But that would include whites as well, though.
	There's a white bit.
	You see that white bit next to the pole?
	I think that's for intersex or something, I believe.
	But that's the thing.
	The fact that it's a racial pride flag to me is just, well, why have you got a racially segregated flag?
	Because surely black and brown people are also gay, they're also trans, so forth.
	So why are they segregated into their own separate but equal space on the flag?
	And no one's ever been able to answer me that one, so I guess we'll eventually find out from GCHQ after they, well, send me to jail.
	So if we go to the next one, we also have the fact that every bloody government department is, of course, putting the flag in their bio, although they have gone with the Conservative Pride flag after a memo was sent around telling them not to put the racial on.
	So that's called the...
	Are you calling it that, or is it that's what it's called?
	Oh, we're calling it a meme.
	It's a long-running meme.
	Oh, is it?
	Because you've got the LGB Alliance, which is like a sort of conservative...
	Well, that's the thing.
	Like, they're the conservative pride.
	It's just being like, we just want to be accepted and nothing more, really.
	Right, right.
	Whereas you have folks who are then like, oh, I want to groom your kids, which...
	No, that's not going on.
	You can see here the Government Equality's office, they decided to celebrate with some guy...
	Giving party doctoring.
	And in between, they've got stock footage of brown people or gay people.
	And you can see how corporate it is.
	So if you scroll down, John, just so people can better see this footage I'm talking about, which is just like, you've got this guy clearly reading from a script, not even interested in the department.
	Then occasionally, they just cut it to stock footage they've brought off Shutterstock.
	I mean, it's just so corporate, it hurts, in my view.
	Like, why did you even bother making this?
	Anyway.
	That's the thing about all of it, isn't it?
	What does it achieve?
	What's the point of it?
	It's the thing you have to do now.
	If you don't do it, someone will notice it, but it means absolutely nothing.
	So it's to show party allegiance, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	There's the wonderful story that the guy who became, I think it's Prime Minister of the Czech Republic after communism fell, and he tells a story in which there's a green grocer who has a sign outside of his shop that says, workers of the world unite.
	So he goes in and asks, well, why have you got that?
	I know you're not a communist, mate.
	And he's like, well, you know...
	Communism.
	Got to keep it up.
	Got to keep up the side so people don't think he's suspicious, even though he doesn't believe in any of it.
	And then eventually, the day communism fell, Simon's gone.
	That's it.
	That's all it's there for.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And when I did all my research for the Ricky Gervais bit that we weren't doing, I noticed, you know, James Acastle had that bit about...
	About cis boy.
	It just made me think about this trans-stopping comedy.
	It's not about, because Dave Chappelle had his trans friend who died.
	It's never about actual trans people.
	It's just about saying a set of things.
	James Acaster says cis.
	And cis is really, as Norm Macdonald brilliantly put it, it's a way of marginalising a normal person.
	That's all it is.
	It's saying, will you accept being called cis?
	And if you sign up to their religion, cis is like, there's something unclean about me.
	I'm cis.
	There's something slightly bad about that.
	You know what I mean?
	Which is just almost all people are cis.
	It's to marginalize and make it strange.
	And by saying it, you're just saying, I conform to this new religion.
	I mean, it's just saying that I am ideologically on your side.
	I mean, it's the same with the workers thing.
	I mean, no one killed more workers than the communists.
	I mean, the amount of lives they've ruined.
	I mean, there was the poorest first who had to eat each other, and every goddamn famine those people caused.
	They never cared about the workers.
	The kulaks didn't do well, did they?
	No.
	They were just farmers who'd done quite well.
	But that's the thing.
	It's not about the people.
	It's about the ideology.
	And that's what this conformity is.
	Although it's a rock standard, at least with the British government.
	If we go to the next one, of course, we have the Race Disparity Unit who put up their flag this morning.
	Ministry of Defence as well here, this one being.
	I think the next one's the Race Disparity Unit.
	If we can go to the next one here.
	Yeah.
	Didn't even know that exists.
	Don't even know that is.
	Who even cares?
	Why does this even exist?
	Again, is it?
	Apparently it doesn't look like it.
	No, this is a genuine government.
	It's just...
	Just shut it down, you would have thought.
	The weirdest one, though, if we go to the next one, is Her Majesty's Prisons.
	So this is Her Majesty's Prisons White Moor, who have an old rainbow one just still on there, which...
	Yeah.
	When you're getting stabbed in the showers with the toothbrush, do it in a caring way.
	Yeah, it's like, our whole thing is that we house rapists for a living.
	That's what we do as a prison, but at least we're inclusive of those rapists.
	Alright.
	But if we go to the next one here, I wonder if they've changed it.
	No, they haven't.
	Here's the Conservatives.
	Oh, shock horror.
	What have they done?
	No!
	They have not changed their flag!
	They have stuck it to Ukraine.
	They're stuck on Ukraine.
	That is so last month, bro.
	I know.
	It's unbearable, isn't it?
	If we go to the next one, there's a meme representation of that.
	There it is.
	Come on.
	Get with the times.
	I support the current thing.
	And you can see all the other departments did.
	The Ministry of Defence used to have the Ukrainian flag, but not anymore.
	Bye-bye.
	And I'm saying it's a matter of time until the Conservatives do it as well.
	If we go to the next one here, we can also see just last year, I don't know if you noticed, but every single party had the racial pride flag.
	Except the Conservatives.
	So if you can click on these, John, you can see the first one there being the cons, who just had the normal one, and then everyone else, if you just flick through them real quick, just had the racial pride flag involved, the black and brown stripe of tolerance and diversity.
	There was also the SNPs one, because you know the SNPs looks like a noose?
	Right.
	Bad optics.
	Makes sense.
	Bad optics for that.
	The noose found Scotland's neck.
	Yeah, but if you go to the last one here, there's also the fact that I'm betting within a day this will be on the Conservatives logo.
	I mean, we'll see, I guess, but there you have it.
	The design is already ready for them.
	Oh yeah, and you had a pop at GB News here.
	Why are you capitalising the B in blackness?
	Oh yeah, because some individual was celebrating Black History Month, which, why?
	Very woke.
	You have to understand with GB, shout out to GB, but they are regulated by Ofcom.
	And this is the issue.
	You've got things like Ofcom and Stonewall, these shadowy organizations that dictate things behind the scenes.
	BBC is enthralled to Stonewall.
	We're all regulated by Ofcom as broadcasters.
	And Ofcom is setting the tone.
	And the Overton window is so far left that they set that just to be moderate and balanced, you're already far left.
	Oh, come on now.
	Ofcom is very partisan.
	They would never do anything that made them obviously partisan, would they?
	We'll come back to them in a minute.
	Okay.
	So if we go to the next one, we can see the fact that there was actually a memo put out to the government last year, I don't know if you're aware of this, which they had to tell everyone, stop using the goddamn racial pride flags.
	So if you go to the last one on this, John, the last image there, you can see that the government literally had to tell everyone, stop doing that, because it's obviously intersectionalism that you're promoting, allegiance to party ideology, rather than anything else.
	Although, they have other questions about the other one, of course.
	And I forget the last one here, just of last year's stuff.
	This didn't stop 22-sexual becoming a thing.
	This is from the Welsh police.
	I don't know what's alphabet and what's Welsh in that statement there.
	What is 22-sexual?
	Is that just a number of different letters that you now have on the alphabet thing?
	Or is it a type of sexuality?
	Someone has said, I'm only attracted to people in their absolute prime.
	22.
	Maybe?
	I mean, I feel like we're trying to reason with a wolf.
	What do you mean, 22 sexual?
	Oh, it means 2022.
	I've just figured it out.
	Presumably, but then it's just the fact of, like, why couldn't it mean 22 sexual?
	You're right, it could mean 22.
	You know, I actually thought for a second it was that, because we had an objectum sexual the other day.
	Did you see that?
	It was a woman who wants to marry a model airplane.
	She has a model airplane called Dickie.
	I'm just going to leave that.
	It's quite big, and it sleeps with her.
	It's a big model airplane.
	It sleeps with her at night in her bed.
	It sleeps with her?
	Well, she sleeps with it more accurately.
	And she wants to marry it, but Germany won't allow it.
	She's German.
	Germany hasn't slid quite that far yet.
	And she has relationships with 50 objects.
	You can check this.
	We did this story.
	And she calls herself objectum sexual.
	She's went out with two men.
	By the way, how terrible were these two men?
	And she said, I'm done with men.
	I'm going with model airplanes.
	It's like, you know, there's always the joke of like, you know, you date a woman, she turns out to be a lesbian after you've dated her, like you've done something wrong.
	You date a woman, she turns out to be into planes by the end of it.
	No, you messed up.
	I've got a problem.
	Oh God, I can't believe Germany would be so bigoted against plane sexuals.
	I know.
	They'll accept them soon.
	It's only a matter of time.
	If we move forward, we also have the fact that we have Ofcom here, as you mentioned, being very nonpartisan by putting the racial pride flag in their logo there.
	The UK census of all British media on TV. Yeah, nonpartisan in the slightest.
	They've also got the updated circle there, which I can't even remember what the hell that means.
	Apparently I'm being told it's intersex, that circle in the corner.
	They've sort of hidden, because they've got their own logo, so they've hidden it a little bit.
	I didn't see it, but you're right.
	It is definitely there.
	20% gay pride.
	Securing standards.
	Preventing harm.
	Preventing harm is already...
	That's already ideological.
	Because when they say harm, they mean views we want to force you to have.
	Yeah.
	If we don't like your views, then, well...
	It's harm.
	Gotta go.
	And if we go to the next one here, we also have the Alan Turing Institution, who are celebrating racial pride, which I just think is really gross on a certain level as well.
	Yeah.
	Using Alan Turing.
	It's gross because he was a hero, Turing.
	It was terrible how he was treated.
	But do you think he'd have backed all this stuff?
	I don't think he'd be up for racial pride.
	I think he'd find that a bit weird.
	I think he'd be too smart to back the whole thing because all this stuff is doing, gay rights and so on have been established, right?
	Very well established.
	All it's doing is actually creating a potential backlash.
	And I think Turing will be smart enough.
	I can't speak for Turing, but I'd like to imagine he'd be smart enough to say, guys, this is not the way.
	Yeah.
	And if you actually meet someone who is homophobic, showing them pride flags every two minutes and screaming about gay rights generally doesn't change their mind.
	Not in my experience.
	When people have done it to me.
	LAUGHTER We've got the next one.
	We also have the police, of course, and then we've got the next one.
	We have Stone Toss, because we're out of the woods of all the institutions.
	This is Stone Toss' response to Happy Pride Month.
	Nobody is coming for your kids' conservatives.
	And then pans out, and you've got Mickey and Ducky in the background with their racial pride flags being like, hey, kiddos, come with us.
	And if we go to the next one here, we can actually see Disney Pride merch.
	This is some video I found from some individual who went to Disney World, and just the level of capitalism on this I will be impressed by, but the other part I'm confused by.
	Let's play what it's like to go to a Disneyland store these days.
	Full of Rainbow Mickey realness, from ears to bags, clothing, there's even pet clothing, jewelry.
	There's definitely a little something for everyone to choose from.
	Personally, I loved the backpack, but in the end, the classic Mickey ears would not stop calling to me, so I had to bring them home.
	But wait, what's that over there?
	In addition to the classic Mickey logo, Disney also released Pride merchandise featuring Marvel superheroes and Star Wars insignia.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Just look at that BB-8.
	While in the superhero section, I also spotted America Chavez from Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and I'm so happy to see her in the parks.
	The Disney Pride collection was created by LGBTQ plus employees and allies at the Walt Disney World Company.
	And that's not the only change the company has made this year.
	The name of the collection went from rainbow to pride and Disney is donating all sale profits from the pride line to LGBTQIA plus organizations throughout the month of June.
	So there we have it.
	I mean, number one, obviously that's just a race sales.
	So I'm kind of impressed with the hypercapitalism there.
	But we do know who runs Disney.
	We've seen the Zoom calls.
	I'm sure you have as well.
	Yeah.
	The corporate president who said she had one transgender child and one pansexual.
	You know, like most families in America.
	Two things that don't exist.
	There's also just the fact that they're like, we want to get rid of white people from our own shows.
	Right.
	So, you're evil.
	All of you.
	Did you notice immediately that girl at the start had one of those nose wings, the cow ones that kind of come down.
	Anyone with that nose wing.
	In fact, anyone with nose wings, period.
	Immediate red flag.
	100%.
	Talking about flags.
	Immediate red flag.
	Also, notice the way they coopted Star Wars, which we all know about by now.
	They did a tweet yesterday.
	I think it was yesterday.
	We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Reva's story to unfold.
	If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have one thing to say.
	We resist.
	I was like, what are you resisting apart from making good movies?
	Yeah, but the cringe warnings, mate.
	I know, but no one has a problem with it.
	We have a problem with you ruining movies.
	You've ruined Star Wars.
	I mean, it's not Star Wars anymore.
	No.
	I mean, it hasn't been for a while, but it's definitely dead now.
	The coolest character in Star Wars was voiced by a black guy anyway, I mean, in the 80s.
	But whatever they've done now is just murder it.
	Oh, it's awful, yeah.
	I remember when Return of the Jedi...
	No, not Return of the Jedi.
	The Last Jedi.
	The Last Jedi came...
	Return of the Jedi is one of the greats.
	One of the only three Star Wars films I acknowledge.
	The Last Jedi, when that came out, I said the director should be made to do community service.
	Which I thought was quite generous of me.
	I didn't say full prison.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you're not wrong either, though.
	But there we have it.
	There's the rainbow merch at Disney as well, which Stone Toss was right, like that, yet again.
	But it's not as bad, or at least not as just open, as Lockheed Martin's racial pride socks, which I just can't get over, like a weapons manufacturer is here to sell you racial pride.
	We stand for black and brown communities as we bomb them.
	Amazing.
	Lockheed Martin purchased today.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	So we go to the next one.
	We also have BMW, of course, where people were angry about last year because they did Rainbows and then got a lot of angry responses from the Middle East.
	You know what's mad about BMW? When you show me that...
	In the context of all this, I was thinking, oh, what does it stand for?
	I forgot about the company, BMW. I was like, blackmail Wiccans?
	I was trying to work it out.
	I literally was trying to work out the acronym.
	Still with a childhood memory of what it means.
	BMW, in that context, suddenly made no sense.
	I was like, oh yes, the famous cars.
	That's how much they've indoctrinated me, Callum.
	They're getting to me.
	They're brainwashing me.
	But people didn't take kindly to this last time around.
	Certain people in the world, if we go to the next one, of course, you must remember that it's BMW as well.
	So, playing both sides of the space whenever they have to.
	I mean, this is the thing about the Ethical Companies podcast that I spoke about earlier.
	The fact that there are no ethical companies.
	Stop pissing around.
	No.
	IBM helped the Nazis, etc.
	You're here to make money.
	That's what we want you to do.
	Like, just make money and then we know where you stand.
	We know where we stand.
	And there's no weird nonsense of like, oh, I stand for racial collectivism in both of these instances here.
	It's like, stop it.
	Then again, I suppose all that habits die hard for the Germans.
	If we move forward to the next one, though, someone has asked about this year, racial pride.
	What's going on with that?
	And they say, I wonder if BMW Saudi Arabia knows about what you guys are up to?
	Because they just put the traditional rainbow this time around.
	And BMW responded by saying, Respect, tolerance, and acceptance is only a matter of politics.
	It's fundamental in every aspect of society.
	That is why we are committed to fostering positive dialogue amongst our fans, customers, and employees.
	But not the Saudis, presumably.
	Because if you go to the next one, the Saudis haven't taken kindly all of this.
	They didn't get the email.
	No, they've been not CC'd in that one.
	So, CC'ing Saudi Arabian BOW. What are you doing, folks?
	I love the way it's just no colour at all.
	There's almost like, there's definitely no colour.
	It's almost drained of all colour, that background, isn't it?
	No.
	But I suppose we'll end this on, and the last thing I want to talk about in relation to this is the chief of pride himself.
	The President of the United States and his proclamation on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, take a breath, and intersexual pride month 2022.
	So this is Biden's big gay proclamation, which is like the Emancipation Proclamation, but there's more color this time around.
	He says there is an onslaught of dangerous anti-LGBTQI plus legislation that has been introduced and passed in states across the country targeting transgender children.
	And their parents, and interfering with their access to healthcare.
	So there we are.
	That's Biden's proclamation that it is your ride as an American to mutilate kids.
	I am honoured by the service of the first openly gay cabinet secretary and the first transgender person confirmed by the Senate.
	Do you actually know anything about this, the first gay cabinet member that you have?
	No, and I saw the one that Jen Psaki wheeled out when she was like, oh look, it's a black bisexual person who doesn't know anything.
	Because they got completely caught out on inflation.
	I think it was inflation.
	And they read out some notes about climate change in response.
	Then I saw someone else doing the briefing there.
	I was like, have they disappeared already?
	But no, what were you going to say?
	But that's the thing.
	It's not like, here's Diane.
	She's very smart.
	Here's a black queer.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And she's holding her hand in this weird, sickly way, wasn't it?
	Clearly, I mean, that's why you just should call them diversity hires.
	Like, if you're just there for diversity, you shouldn't have accepted the job, frankly.
	It's an insult to yourself, if nothing else.
	But there we have it, which is, Biden mentions his diversity hire Pete Buttigieg.
	And if we go to the next link here, I don't know if you know anything about this, but he's been a disaster as well, because he was put in charge of transport, and then went AWOL on parental leave.
	I didn't know that.
	He went on parental leave as a gay man so that he didn't have to deal with the supply chain crisis that he was responsible for and responsible for fixing and just went, nope, I'm not going to fix that.
	I've got to go and look after my kids.
	And yeah, he's got the kids there, but I mean, you're not needed there.
	And you would have thought, even then, you're meant to be secretary in the American government.
	You should probably be focusing on work.
	And men, as we see there, can get pregnant.
	pregnant it's worth reminding everyone they can always keep trying if not as well so that's a message out there we go the next one okay we also have the fact that uh he is not even the right kind of gay anymore the leftists have thrown him out he's not even part of the coalition so as said he's not part of the alphabet even though he is gay this is uh the response that he can't even read lgbt media anymore because they all keep slagging him off for being the wrong kind of gay so is he not is he not extreme enough for them no Wow.
	Because there's the thing, as I mentioned, you know, you've got gay people, as Douglas would say, and then you've got queers, who gatekeep who is gay or not.
	They determine it.
	It's like that lady who wrote Harry Potter.
	She determines if you're gay, and so do they determine if you're a real gay.
	We go to the next one here.
	We have a continuation with the Big Gay Nation Proclamation, in which he says, We reaffirm our belief that LGBTQI plus rights are human rights.
	A right to what, exactly?
	Never answered.
	Now, therefore, I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2022 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Month.
	Well, that will win the war.
	I just love how it's like he's giving a big message.
	It's just like, Heardley, Heardley!
	It is gay month, folks!
	And like, anyone's listening as well.
	And then he ends it off with, I call upon the people of the United States to recognise the achievements of alphabet people and celebrate their great diversity and to wave their flags of pride high.
	It's like, okay.
	Right.
	Lunatic.
	I mean, just madman on a hill.
	I'd love to hear him actually say this out loud as well because he wouldn't manage to say any of these words at once.
	This would be a disaster.
	There's also a bit further up about the cruelty.
	Did you see that bit?
	The cruel treatment of...
	If you look for cruel...
	Anyway, it's not that interesting.
	But it said that the cruel treatment against trans people and blah, blah.
	It's not happening.
	It's not happening.
	This is the terrible cruel treatment of people with all the rights.
	I'm sorry, just sitting in the chat, someone being like, I hear you, hear you, today is gay.
	I mean, that is literally what this is.
	This is a big old block of text which he says that.
	But talking of the raising your pride flag high, don't raise it too high with the other four around you, though, because you may end up with this, of course.
	Which is another just a funny aspect for people who don't know about the progress flag, as it's called.
	It ain't too progressive when you actually look at it.
	But there we are.
	That's a secret.
	You put it together like the Power Rangers.
	You get the real message.
	You get the final message from it.
	Otherwise, that's that.
	That's because the video comments are my favorite bit.
	Alright, this is our new X4 fire control system.
	It is a full ballistic overlay inside your standard LPBO optic.
	If you look on the right side there where the arrow is pointing to the R, it stands for range.
	If I adjust the range, right now we're at 780 meters, and I'm scrolling up for a longer range shot, I go to a thousand.
	I click it in, it should drop.
	That's a new holdover point, taking into account all of the live parameters.
	So, you know, whatever ballistic profile you typed in.
	That's magic.
	I mean, I know it's probably fairly simple mathematics, but I love it.
	What was happening there?
	So, like, he's changing the range, and then you can see, like, the crosshair changing, to be like, this is where you need to fire to actually hit the target, because, you know, the actual thing isn't...
	All I've learned is that your audience have guns, which doesn't surprise me.
	Well, they're Americans, a lot of them.
	Yes.
	They're giving their God-given right.
	Well, I defended Americans' rights to have guns on GB News twice recently.
	We were going to play it, but it doesn't make any sense because it's not the gun episode.
	But just shout out to the Americans.
	I am doing my bit.
	There was a lady on there saying that the Founding Fathers were making laws for muskets and nothing else.
	The muskets argument.
	The high-caliber magazines of today never existed.
	Historical knowledge is lacking in that department.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So we really need to reframe the good guy with a gun argument, because the argument is not that if we have enough armed teachers, someone will stop a shooter.
	The argument is that you can only control yourself.
	So you should equip yourself such that if you find yourself in this kind of situation, you can protect yourself and the people around you.
	You, as a teacher, should arm yourself so that you can save your students.
	Yeah, it's 100% true.
	I mean, that is the reason that you should have a gun.
	It's just no one else is going to keep you safe.
	Yeah, I mean, Trump said the teachers should be armed.
	Ted Cruz made the good guy with a gun argument that the left ridiculed him for.
	But the only thing about that is you have to actually follow the protocol, because what we saw in Uvalde was the police had the protocol, they had the training.
	The training was you should go in alone if necessary, risk your life to take the guy out.
	They didn't.
	They hid outside the room.
	So it's okay to have the guns, but you've actually got to follow the protocol and actually have the nuts to do it.
	I don't know if you've been following it majorly closely, but the Texas police are now saying basically the local commander who was in charge of the situation is the one who said, don't go in, and just completely blustered the whole thing like a moron.
	Really?
	So it's one guy's call.
	One guy's call can mess it up, yeah.
	But then you would have thought everyone would have just disobeyed orders, frankly, but...
	And did you see in...
	You had your base sheriff, didn't you?
	Was that in Colt?
	That was in Polk County.
	Polk, sorry.
	Not Colt, that's a gun.
	Polk.
	Yeah, and he was so cool.
	He just said, here's a picture.
	This is the last thing you'll see.
	Two blokes with guns taking you out.
	You'll be graveyard dead.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Double dead.
	Let me put that in Polk language.
	You'll be graveyard dead.
	Yeah, so good.
	Fantastic.
	But it is the point, and I think that is true.
	When you speak about a good guy with a gun, it's not about, oh, someone else will save me.
	No, it's about you.
	It is entirely about you.
	Because, as mentioned, no one will protect you.
	The state won't protect you, as evidenced by the police there.
	No one else is coming to your rescue, so it's up to you to defend yourself, frankly, in all circumstances, in all of your life.
	It's tragic, but that is fundamentally how life is.
	That's something we have to reckon with.
	What are the rules about school kids getting guns?
	Obviously, the shooter got hold of them, but...
	He was 18.
	Right, right, right.
	So what do you do if you're too young or you can't get a gun?
	So it's not necessarily for preschoolers, obviously.
	It's about the teachers and that circumstance.
	They would have police officers there.
	Yeah, you'd have teachers with guns.
	The teacher doesn't want to arm themselves.
	That's the thing, isn't it?
	Well, then I don't know what you're doing, frankly.
	Because even not teachers, like just general people, I don't know why you'd live in America and not want a gun.
	I just don't get it.
	Yeah, you've got to take responsibility for yourself.
	And I'm saying the exception to his argument is that kids can't do that.
	They can't take responsibility for themselves.
	Yeah, as a guardian, I mean, you are responsible for the kids.
	So why not this one?
	Okay.
	Fair point.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Callum, I gotta completely agree with you.
	On the whole, every time there's a shooting in America, the debate on it is just so dumb and repetitive, and it just feels like we've been having the same debate for the last five or six years, and nothing ever changes every time, which is probably why people keep arguing it.
	You also make a very good point about common sense car control.
	So I wrote an article about that on my satire website where basically Congress just argues everything they're arguing about with guns just about cars.
	You don't actually need a car to travel.
	I mean, how many dead kids is worth the convenience of traveling?
	That's a true point.
	Also, the debate is over with shall not be infringed, frankly, in regards to that.
	But car control, what do you think?
	Well, the only problem with this satire is that they are going to do car control.
	I mean, they're trying to stop us having cars.
	They're stopping us eating meat.
	We're going to eat insects.
	They're going to stop us traveling by air.
	They're going to stop us having holidays.
	So all those things are actually coming.
	That's the only place.
	I like that guy.
	I remember his video before from last time.
	I'm sure he's very smart, but that would be my worry is that they will do car control.
	They're going to do everything in control.
	I suppose every time you do satire, it does eventually run out and become real.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	But anyway, I think we're...
	Sorry, guys.
	I know we're not going to have any video comments or many comments today, but I don't normally get such a brilliant guest in.
	Carl's special guests are well worth the time on the podcast, but I'd like to clear up the procedure with video comments submitted for the day they appear.
	Mine, submitted on the last two Sunday nights, apparently were discarded, and I had to resubmit them later in the week.
	If that's the procedure, that's fine.
	I'd just like to know.
	So I believe I addressed this at the start, because this is exactly what Michael was talking about, which is that he couldn't, specifically you, Alex, he couldn't find yours on the latest podcast, so we don't know if something's gone wrong there, but that process is how I described earlier, which is the latest podcast, and also if there's guests which we can't play in because of time and whatnot, we just carry them over to the next one, usually.
	See the next one.
	Heyo, we've had a few crashes this week in practice but nothing special so I thought I'd give Callum a brown pants moment when Connor Cummings went off the edge of the world.
	And this will be where I'll be working for the next nine nights.
	I think I've been full of beer and bikers.
	I'll try and get a few videos to show you.
	For people listening, there's a chap who crashed his bike and was going off the edge of a cliff there.
	And the bouncing was horrendous.
	Their body bounced up and down.
	I don't think I'm irrational for thinking that driving that fast on bikes and those crashes are a reason to be a bit like, eh, I'd rather not.
	You can, mate, go for it, but I'm not going.
	I like your view as Northern there, and he said A off at the start, which reminded me of home.
	He's a Manx.
	He's a Isle of Man.
	Oh, Isle of Man, okay.
	Similar.
	Go to the next one.
	Similar.
	What are you doing?
	That's not yours.
	Sasha's gonna be mad.
	Look at Sasha.
	Someone's stealing your bone!
	Hey!
	Hey guys!
	Coco!
	Back up!
	Okay.
	You're fine.
	She's still in your bone!
	She is.
	This is why I love my job sometimes.
	I love seeing Colin Brazier and I have to sit there reading out comments and whatnot, and people just show us the doggos and kitties.
	Nice.
	Nice, healthy, normal people in the fanbase.
	Yeah.
	It's good to see you again, KitKat.
	See the next one.
	To follow my last video, Kellen asked me if I'm making more wine.
	And I am.
	I've got these barrels aging here, some of which have been here for over a year.
	Then over here I've got some spirits aging that some of which have been in here over a year, almost two years.
	And I started this hobby during the toilet paper apocalypse.
	See, I told you it wasn't going to be one barrel.
	He showed us one barrel and he was saying, you know, I'm brewing this and I'm like, there's got to be more.
	So I asked him to show us the rest and there they are.
	Reminds me of the old Asphix comics.
	I love that he's got so many barrels.
	Also, I love that he's got a basement.
	I feel a lot of your viewers probably have secure basements for when it all kicks off.
	I feel like hopefully I'll be welcomed into the community and when it kicks off, they'll have all the weaponry and basements and bunkers available.
	I mean, do you not want one?
	I mean, I'd want one if I can get one.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I live in London, this is not going to happen.
	I'm going to have to come to one of the Lotus Eaters established bunkers.
	You're going to be like the Metro games where you're stuck in the tube, like fighting over the last piece of meat and bullets.
	I've thought about it.
	When COVID kicked off, I started prepping, got a lot of dry food, water...
	What's the point of prepping if you're a Londoner though?
	Because it's all over anyway.
	Well, I was thinking about getting out.
	I was thinking we'd have to get out before they started the checkpoints.
	I was thinking about checkpoints.
	Well, I was going to go up to Cumbria in the middle of nowhere where my parents are, get a shotgun, just hold up there.
	Just get anyone who comes near.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Rogal Dawn is somehow even more boring than Reboote, since his only notable character trait is being hilariously stubborn.
	It canonically got his entire chapter killed after the heresy, because one of his brothers went, Hey, Rogal.
	Look at me.
	Bitch.
	Yeah, Dawn effectively chased him into the Mother of All ambushes, and he just wouldn't retreat.
	He had to get his ass saved by Gillam, and how sad's that?
	Eventually, he went missing after a big fight, with his sons only being able to find one of his gauntlets, which their chaptermasters engraved their names into to this very day.
	Which is why he's definitely still alive as well.
	This is the funniest thing.
	I don't imagine you know much about Warhammer 40k.
	Sadly, no.
	Basically, the Primarchs, I'm just going to say for simplicity's sake, have superpowers.
	And Rogaldorn's superpower is that he can fortify things really well.
	So his superpower is building a wall.
	A big, beautiful wall.
	Yeah, beautiful.
	Did he actually get it done, though?
	That's the key difference.
	I had many a time, so it does work keeping up the Xenos.
	We've still got to go and finish Tom Swan.
	We've got to get over there and finish it off.
	It'll be done.
	Although, I'd like to...
	He was also Northern.
	He was possibly...
	I don't want to get it wrong.
	He was from the Northeast.
	Possibly even Hartlepool, but he might have been Durham.
	What is it with you, Northerners?
	Just want to shout out all the Northerners.
	Just every time you interact with each other, you're like, oh, hello, me too.
	Yeah, yeah, it's a weird thing.
	It's like being British in China or something.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's just when you leave there, you know, you get nostalgic.
	You don't want to actually go back.
	Except in emergency circumstances, as I've said.
	You're prepping.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Another 71 cases of monkeypox done they identified for England over the weekend way bring the UK total to 179.
	No guidance they advise anyone with the virus to abstain from sex while them get the symptoms.
	Alright, well, you've got this burden.
	That was too funny.
	You're doing that now for every video comment.
	We're just reading out BBC Pigeon.
	Do you know BBC Pigeon?
	Yeah, yeah, I've seen it.
	That was hilarious.
	It's unbelievable.
	I mean, there is the famous one, you know, about De Pupu.
	There's a woman who went on a date, and I can't even remember what the story is, because I just ended up laughing at just the way they wrote it.
	She's inhuman.
	It's just like, Dear God, De Pupu, and nor be it dead, because he nor find it.
	I don't know what I'm even reading at this point.
	Let's get to the next one.
	Hey, Dee and Little Joan with another legend of the Pines from TryToScareMe.com comes the story of the Greenville Hotel of Bayhead, New Jersey.
	This hotel was built in 1886 and guests report seeing people from the 1920s, ghosts, wandering around the hotel.
	Some people report the sound of children's laughter and others report waking up in the middle of the night feeling like someone is sitting on their bed.
	You know what's even spookier than that?
	The fact that this thing has one review, and they gave it three stars.
	Not even the owner gave himself five stars.
	Didn't even bother.
	Probably the ghost knocked it down.
	Great breakfast, but the ghost?
	I give it three.
	Not bad.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Last weekend, I helped my dad and my little brother put the motor that my brothers had pulled out of the motorhome into the Ford Ranger.
	So here we've got it hooked up to the skid steer with some big old chains and yeah it's a big motor and it's going in a small engine cavity so it was a tight fit and nothing went easily for us the entire time.
	That was ridiculous.
	Alright, well, I kind of want to see video evidence that actually fit as well.
	I love that your audience are all doing these cool things.
	They've got their own wine.
	They're fixing up cars.
	You know what I mean?
	They're resourceful kind of people.
	There's something very North American about that as well.
	I like just out there doing your kind of...
	I don't know if they're American.
	I said North American in case they were Canadian.
	I got it wrong.
	Yeah, I mean, a lot of them are.
	It's very cool.
	You're used to it.
	You're like, what is he on about?
	But it's just, they're cool.
	They're all working on these things.
	They've all got lives, yeah.
	They've got stuff going on.
	They've got lives, but they're resourceful.
	If it all kicks off, they've got...
	They're the good people to know.
	Yeah, it's also, you know, it doesn't take much more than 3% to overthrow our country.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Prince Oleg of Novgorod was the first Viking to conquer Ukraine and found the city today known as Kyiv.
	For the next 200 years, his descendants, as seen here, ruled the area and each had their own quite fascinating story about conquers, plots and manipulating the church.
	This circle is giving us a rundown of the data sharing.
	Love the music.
	Yeah, very upbeat.
	I think I've got that one.
	Yeah.
	On iTunes.
	So we have the Danish to blame for Kiev.
	Although it makes me think, maybe we should just rename Kiev to solve that whole stupid, oh, is it Kiev?
	Is it Kiev?
	Stupid debate.
	And instead just call it after the guy founded it.
	Like Constantinople or something like that.
	Yeah, very basic.
	Anyway, let's go to the written comments on the site.
	Ah.
	So...
	Casey Darling says, Nick is a great guest.
	Glad to see him back today.
	Bleach Demon says, when will the Lotus Eaters require dancing by hosts and staff?
	I demand added value.
	Normally it's just, is that Carl?
	He looks like Carl.
	I couldn't tell if it was Carl.
	I think you wore a blazer or something that looked incredibly like his as well.
	I looked at it and thought, is that Carl?
	Myself.
	I thought I did a segment.
	It's a lower IQ Carl.
	Carry on.
	So Elvis says, yep, 10 pence for a bottle of cider, return to the off-license.
	There it is, yeah.
	Lord Nerevar says the entitlement.
	As an immigrant, why wouldn't she be grateful for being accepted into Sweden?
	Morally, Sweden has no obligation to her, so taking her in is something she should be grateful for.
	Hmm.
	Yeah.
	These are the bits that only go on the site, by the way, isn't it?
	Not YouTube.
	Yeah, so people comment on the website.
	So I can start to say my actual opinions.
	Go on, carry on.
	Show off the dark, essentially.
	Drew Doomhan says, yeah, they're speeds, they're weird and kind of dickish, but they're not enforcing it on me in America, so let the speeds be speeds in Sweden.
	Don't like it?
	Well, you can move.
	Apparently true.
	There's always that.
	Nothing wrong with that.
	The woman seems oddly selfish.
	I'm getting entitled vibes from Supreme Duck.
	To be honest, I find your name funny.
	It's like Kim Jong-un, but a duck.
	Alex Bradbury says to be fair not feeding their guests is still better than communism where you eat the guests.
	True.
	Ben Vader Platz says I was always told that you should offer drinks for sure and food if a guest is around for a while or around for a meal.
	Is that an American thing?
	But I don't know.
	If someone came around to my house I feel like I offered too much food because I like making sure people are full.
	But if I go around to someone's house I'm not expecting to be fed.
	I went to your house.
	You didn't offer me food.
	You just showed me a series of weapons.
	Yeah.
	Well, now you know not a mess.
	There was food.
	I wasn't offered it.
	So Cam was a bit of a hypocrite.
	I was not offered food.
	I felt it was a very Swedish vibe around there.
	We weren't actually planning on staying there either.
	That's true.
	You weren't eating food.
	We did go and get you coke.
	It's true.
	I grew up literally in a restaurant.
	I don't know why I didn't mention that until now.
	I grew up above a restaurant.
	My dad was a chef.
	Obviously, there was a lot of food.
	We offered food.
	We had to professionally offer it to people in exchange for money.
	That's a bit different.
	I was great at offering food.
	You do offer food, don't you?
	You do offer food if you're having dinner and there's someone there.
	Yeah, if someone's staying around for a long time, if you're visiting, I don't feel like you should be obliged to.
	But presumptuous.
	I like Sweden.
	I support their right to have their own culture.
	It's not what we would do in the north of England, but it's fine.
	There we are.
	You saw the map.
	So on the cost of lockdown, so M1Ping says, find and replace anti-vaxxers with Jews and read those articles.
	Well, we won't be doing it on YouTube.
	I mentioned this previously, but there's a Google plugin that will change white to Jew and whiteness to Jewry, and then go and read left-wing articles, and it really is just like you're reading the Daily Stormer from Nazi Germany.
	It is unbelievably transparent.
	It's like, jury is the problem.
	Okay, okay, the Guardian.
	Someone has to sort that out.
	You do wonder, when will it be recognised that white people are discriminated against?
	If you follow the sort of gay pride, it'll be years after it's actually been a problem.
	2050, maybe?
	Yeah, it'll be a long time, because we'll have to go through...
	It's already happening.
	We'll have to go through when people finally acknowledge it, which will take ages.
	And then there'll be a big lag.
	Then eventually, we'll be fine.
	We'll have loads of rights.
	We'll be winning.
	And then they'll have all these flags for us after we've already been dominating.
	Well, they'll have a, it's happening and it's a good thing as well, before they even get to the point of accepting that it's bad.
	Yes.
	I think we're in that point now, aren't we?
	It's happening and it's a good thing.
	Usually, yeah.
	So, Lord Nervous says, All of those who are responsible for instituting lockdown policies anywhere in the world need to be removed.
	They do not value human rights.
	They do not value their own nation's people.
	They are lost to a globalist bloc.
	We need to make this known.
	Absolutely.
	I didn't even mention that.
	The greatest wealth transfer of all time.
	I know.
	All these lefties are supporting it.
	Idiots.
	Well, it's all they do when they get into power is steal from the poor.
	Bob Saget says, Nick, I like you, mate, but the cringe is causing me physical pain and I'm only listening.
	It was bad.
	Sorry about that.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, don't forget with peers that he ran off to the US to avoid Leveson's inquiry about the papers tapping people's phones.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	I have no love for Piers Morgan, the slyest.
	I mean, you would have thought that the fake news of the Mirror, sorry, would have just been it.
	Like, his career would have ended there after telling lies about British soldiers, but apparently not.
	Free Will 2112 says, Why should anyone believe the mainstream media when they have shown to twist the truth so often?
	Long may their decline continue.
	Anyway, they can all go join Tony Blair's new political movement, Pravda.
	He can afford to employ them.
	Lee B says Piers Morgan doesn't seem to believe anything he says.
	He picks the side he thinks will get him the most attention and viewership.
	This is why his worldview seems inconsistent.
	He grifts both ways.
	He does, but now he's getting his comeuppance for it because he went hard on the...
	He could have gone pro.
	He could have gone anti-lockdown.
	Yeah, but he just picked that one and now he's...
	That lack of integrity is catching up with him.
	I mean, that's actually good, though, that we can demonstrate, because there's the people in government who aren't getting their comeuppance for what they did, but it is good to see that the public figures, at least Piers Morgan being a good example of someone who promoted it, getting results they deserve, which is, what's wrong with you?
	You need to have some serious atonement for that.
	So Chris Bird says, Piers Morgan, love him or hate him, you're probably sick of him.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Supreme Duck says, help, dying from cringe.
	Smaller Libertarian says, God, that Andrew Neal cringe was painful.
	Oh, it's bad.
	Just thinking about it.
	Yeah, Chris Wolfe says, I don't trust universal healthcare advocates anymore.
	They want healthcare for drug addicts, felons, everyone, but not for political opponents or the unvaccinated.
	Such sanctimonious bull.
	Certainly is.
	And we'll end on some comments from The Alphabet Month.
	So Chris Wolfe says, I hate the cis word.
	People get praised for calling themselves a polyamorous transgender werewolf, but I get scorned for calling myself normal.
	Exactly.
	Exactly, like Norman Donald said, it's a way of marginalising a normal person.
	That's all it is.
	I had an argument with Steve Allen, who does GB, and he said, well, no, scientifically, it's a subcategory, so I don't mean it, because Julia Hartley Brewer said she would kick him off her show if he kept saying cis.
	She's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not a cis.
	I'm not a subhuman.
	Yeah, and he said it's a subcategory, so scientifically, even though it's a large category, it's just a scientific classification.
	This was his kind of autistic reasoning, but it actually, but it's still insulting.
	It just feels insulting.
	It's ludicrous.
	It is a normal person.
	That's all it is.
	Like, you can say it's a scientific category all you want, but we know you're using it for political games, or at least those political advocates are doing it.
	Yeah, and you're on that side of people that believe that, coincidentally.
	M1Ping says, I assume the Disney Pride merchandise was made by slaves in a CCP concentration camp.
	Yep.
	100% probably yep.
	I have no reason not to believe it.
	Funnily enough though, a lot of the slave stuff you get from China that you don't know about is because it's made by North Koreans who are de facto slaves, obviously.
	So even the stuff that isn't officially slavery does end up being slave stuff as well.
	Like a lot of the NHS merch we got for PPE was made by North Korean slaves.
	So...
	Really?
	That's a depressing thought.
	But then China import it or what?
	So it's on the border.
	Essentially the North Koreans send workers across.
	They work in China in the factories and then come back at night.
	They're sort of migrant workers in China?
	Okay.
	But they're just slaves because the whole country is a slave state.
	Anthony B says Richard Grenell was the first gay cabinet member under Trump.
	Huh, didn't know that.
	Apparently neither did anyone else.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	It's not relevant, is it?
	It's just, oh, he's gay, he's not choir.
	And M1Ping says, I wonder if the new government in Afghanistan is changing their profile pictures for Pride Month.
	But I'll DM them, I guess.
	They're on Twitter, so they're easy to contact.
	Yes and no.
	I do imagine what the response is.
	But anyway, we're out of time, so if you want more from us and would like to keep us going, loaderseasons.com, please do subscribe to keep the lights on.
	Otherwise, I hope they find you.
	NickDixonComic on Twitter.
	I should have said this while we're still on YouTube.
	We're not on YouTube for this, but anyway.
	Try the link, don't worry.
	And it's at NickDixonComic on Twitter, NickDixon, just NickDixon on Getter.
	And I'm also on GB News all the time.
	Headline is tomorrow night and Sunday.
	Free Sweets Nation with Andrew Doyle, etc.
	If you want to watch the more mainstream media, you know, I'm trying to do different platforms.
	Lower seats, we get wild.
	GB is a bit more, you know, in the box.
	Yeah, it's not after dark.
	Otherwise, that's us.
	So if you want more from us, we'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.
	Thank you and goodbye.

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