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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #407

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	Hello and welcome to episode number 407 of the podcast of the Lotus Eaters Today I'm joined by Leo.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to talk about what I call a disinfo-ception, state-sponsored cancel culture, the wokest reactions to Amber Heard's verdict, and the Platinum Jubilee, to let you go off into the celebratory weekend with a load of British badgeantry, if this wasn't enough.
	I always get mixed stuff on this.
	Why are you pointing at ceiling tiles?
	That one there.
	Oh, right.
	On the camera.
	Oh, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	One step ahead.
	Yeah.
	Right, okay, let's get into it with disinformation wars.
	So there's been a lot of opinions circulating about the Ukraine conflict, and we're going to start with this BBC article about students accusing Elektra of sharing Russian war lives.
	So this is a bit weird because we've got researchers at universities who are researching disinformation, who are talking about disinformation, who are subject potentially of defamation, from BBC defamation, and so there's this constant circle and it's quite hard to work out what's going on, so we're going to unravel a little bit about what's happening here.
	So are you saying they're being defamed by the BBC? I am saying they might be being defamed.
	I would obviously not make a declarative statement on that sort of question.
	Right.
	But we'll get into it.
	So, if we look at this article.
	So, students accuse lecturer of sharing Russia war lives.
	And this is the student they choose for the cover.
	You said she was fit!
	No, we'll get to that.
	This is the student they choose for the cover.
	Should we have a quick look at her?
	I thought this was just your type.
	How dare you?
	Can you see what she's got around her neck?
	Some adipose tissue?
	Apart from that.
	Oh, it's a dick!
	It's a very small dick.
	No, that's a child's dummy.
	Oh, right, right.
	So I'm not going to talk about any of her concerns because she's wearing a dummy around her neck, and I don't think you should listen to anyone who's wearing a dummy around their neck as a grown adult, quite frankly, unless, you know, they're a mother and there are these extenuating circumstances and blah, blah, blah.
	I don't think that's the case here.
	Now, let's scroll down to the next picture in this article.
	See, why didn't you choose that for the cover of the article?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	This is why nobody's going to legacy media.
	They don't lead with the hottest woman.
	Well, exactly.
	I mean, you would think that's the logical choice.
	I mean, in media, it is a fact of the industry that sex sells and an attractive woman on the cover or on the thumbnail, if you've clicked on this on YouTube.
	Sex sells.
	That's why Lotus Eaters is going.
	Yeah, you better believe it.
	Right, so let's get into the meat of the story.
	So Kvitka Perinets, who is this lady, a Ukrainian student at the University of Edinburgh, has been anxiously following the war in her home country from a distance.
	She told the BBC she was distressed by Professor Hayward's recent tweets.
	I'm not even sure if he's her professor, but he is a professor at the University of Edinburgh.
	Days after a maternity hospital in Mariupol was bombed, Professor Hayward retweeted a Russian representative to the UN describing the attack as fake news.
	The tweet said the hospital has been controlled by the Ukrainian military and no patients were there.
	While one of Mariupol's maternity hospitals was no longer operational, the facility that had been bombed was a different one altogether and did contain patients.
	On learning this, Professor Hayward updated his Twitter thread.
	he spread Russian disinformation.
	Yeah.
	Accidentally updated it afterwards.
	So that's what happened here.
	Right.
	But he also says we should strive to hear both sides of the argument.
	And one of the sides is a literal dictator.
	So, you know, I don't think we can give the same weight and credibility to what's said by both sides.
	You know, people say there's Russian, there's Ukrainian propaganda.
	And there is!
	There's obviously going to be propaganda in a war, but it's coming from a relatively...
	Free country that's defending itself against a barbarian who's all this nonsense about defending themselves from me.
	NATO's never invaded Russia.
	It should invade Russia.
	Man, I want us to conquest.
	We should bring back the British Empire and just take over.
	I'm amazed China hasn't done it.
	China needs Russia's oil and gas.
	We need Russia's oil and gas.
	We should meet China in the middle of Russia and divvy it up like we did with Berlin.
	Yeah, fortunately Berlin didn't have nuclear weapons at the time, which adds a slight fly in the ointment.
	Man, I'd be amazed if more than like 10% of those nuclear weapons actually work, having seen the rest of the Russian military.
	So only about 1,600 then?
	Is that they've got like 16,000?
	Yeah.
	Man, yeah, but they've got like pound shop nuclear weapons.
	They don't have like, we've got proper nuclear weapons here.
	Man, they'll probably take out Swindon.
	That'll be an improvement.
	And that's it.
	Well, that's certainly one perspective.
	But we continue here.
	So Professor Hayward continues, acquiring knowledge involves investigation, research and reasoning.
	If that's always going to be dismissed as disinformation, I think it's a very dangerous line to go down.
	But Kvitka said there are no two sides to the conflict.
	The moment we start to sort of equate the two sides in the story is the moment we lose our humanity, she said.
	The oppressor, in this case Russia, should not be given the same kind of platform as those who are being oppressed.
	And I actually agree with that on a level.
	I agree.
	You do have to be a little bit sensitive to the issue at hand.
	However, I do think there is a – I think from the information I've been following, there's a lot of stuff is being retweeted and reposted uncritically from the Ukrainian side, which even the Ukrainians disavow a few days later.
	It's like, well, okay, if we trust the BBC for credibility, and believe it or not, some people still do, then they need to be doing better.
	Yeah, we've seen it with Ukraine took Snake Island and so many things.
	And it means then when something does happen, like the Moskva gets sunk, then there's a lag in actually believing it.
	Yes, absolutely.
	So you do have to be careful.
	Some things are true but sound false and some things are false but sound true.
	It's just part of this information war.
	But moving on, so as we have it here, in BBC World's latest hit piece against Tim Haywood, there was one important point about Kvitka that they didn't mention.
	They said she was a student without disclosing that she is allegedly effectively state-funded.
	She's an author of the newspaper Kiev Independent, which, as he says, was set up with money from the US and Canadian governments and the European Endowment for Democracy.
	So there is arguing that there's, from a funding source, a source of bias there.
	Now, I don't think this completely invalidates her statement.
	I think she was reasonably sensible on this occasion, though some of the stuff she puts out on Twitter is less, is a bit more, you know, untrue.
	But the problem here is that, yeah, this is actually a journalist who the BBC quoted as if she was a student.
	They just didn't even mention that at all.
	And I think that's very disingenuous.
	If we continue, so we have Tim Haywood commenting on this.
	I'm just Googling to see if there's any pictures of her on the beach.
	LAUGHTER So we have from Tim here, the BBC now attacks university professors, suggesting academic freedom should not be used to question Western justifications for war.
	In the US, Jimmy Dore raises this as a matter of concern, with Aaron J. Mate critically analysing the BBC's latest attack.
	And, yeah, if we skip over the next one and move on to truth defence...
	So this is, so pass this one.
	So he's not the only academic to have been caught in the firing line with this line.
	We also have Dr.
	Justin Schlossberg here, research director and co-founder of Truth Defence.
	He was a senior lecturer in journalism and media at Birkbeck University of London, and his work is focused on media ownership, justice and disinformation.
	He's written several books about the media, and particularly about the BBC, including this next one.
	On shaky ground, the BBC in a post-consensus age.
	And the abstract of this essentially research paper is as follows.
	This article reflects on the BBC's role in reshaping a hegemonic agenda consensus and offers a radical appraisal of its public service performance at a time of unprecedented political upheaval in the UK. This was in 2017.
	It draws on a recent case study to suggest that the BBC's overarching lean towards an elite and ideological worldview is increasingly exposed and can no longer be defended with recourse to notions of Jew impartiality.
	An unprecedented political upheaval.
	I don't think 2017 was a time of unprecedented political upheaval.
	We've had Brexit, I suppose.
	Exactly.
	But that was it.
	Right.
	So, I mean, we decided to leave a sort of trade agreement framework.
	But, I mean, it's not exactly beheadings and a new king.
	No, that's true.
	We have had a lot more political upheaval in our history.
	That's pretty fair, yeah.
	But you must remember that this guy, reading between the lines, is a Jeremy Corbyn-leaning academic.
	Yeah.
	You can tell because he's an academic.
	Nah, come on.
	Some of them are all right.
	They just keep it under their hat.
	But this guy, he's an interesting case study because he's written this article, which is essentially dead against the BBC. Not from a right-wing free speech perspective, but actually from a left-wing free speech perspective.
	You know, that increasingly rare animal in political discourse.
	And how has the BBC reacted?
	Well, they have actually interviewed him.
	And accused him of spreading Russian disinformation.
	Right.
	This is another disinformation media researcher who's being accused of disinformation.
	So we have this claim here.
	Last night, BBC Radio 4 aired a documentary which repeatedly accused me and other academics of spreading Russian disinformation.
	In a glaring and twisted irony, this amounted to an apparent smear operation that would not seem out of place on Kremlin media.
	Here's why.
	And he continues, And these are the comments he has.
	So let's talk about Butcher.
	Russian troops left on 30th of March, and I preface these are his comments at the time.
	No mention of any massacre or bodies lining the streets for four days.
	No mention in a video uploaded by Butcher's mayor on the 31st of March in which he celebrates liberation.
	No mention in an eight-minute video uploaded by local police in the evening of the 2nd of April, discussing and showing their cleanup of the town.
	Responsible news outlets, including Reuters and the media in non-aligned countries, rightly reported claims of civilian massacre as alleged, along with Russia's response, which continued to report as foregone conclusion what no journalist or human rights group has yet been able to independently verify.
	To be clear, a civilian massacre may well have occurred for which Russia should be held responsible and accountable, on top of other heinous war crimes that have been committed in Ukraine and elsewhere.
	But Western media must learn lessons of the past and avoid behaving exactly like their Russian counterparts, as stenographers of their governments rather than anything that could remotely be considered independent journalism.
	What do you think of those statements?
	I don't know.
	about what well I think I mean I think he's man the thing is like the UK like we're we're not like to say that you know the BBC is just an uncritical mouthpiece of the government is a nonsense right okay So if we continue, we'll skip over the next two links.
	So we get back to the next one.
	Yep.
	That one shouldn't be there.
	Sorry.
	We go back to the thread reader app.
	That should have it there.
	Lovely.
	So he continues, We're
	which we've read.
	In what can only be seen as a deliberate attempt to mislead, mention of this tweet was omitted in spite of the seriousness of allegations made against me based on the content of the thread.
	The secondary evidence that the programme relied on relates to an allegation that I share material produced by Patrick Lancaster, who is embedded in a pro-Russian fighting unit and was accused early on in the conflict of reporting on an allegedly staged attack.
	Are you aware of Patrick Lancaster?
	No.
	So he's a guy who I am aware of, but I haven't really followed much of his work because he's been embedded with Russian separatist fighters for eight years.
	Right.
	I'd be very surprised if he's a neutral source.
	And where does he publish?
	He publishes on Twitter, on Telegram, and so on.
	Right, but not for a sort of...
	Yeah, I think he reported for Russia Today and probably still does.
	Right, right.
	Where people watch that.
	Yeah, and Russia Today obviously state-funded propaganda.
	Yes.
	The overseas propaganda one of the Russian government.
	Which I've actually been on.
	Have you?
	Yeah, I've been paid by them.
	Oh, so you got those great old Putin bucks then.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But I didn't, because I was like, I knew it was like, you know, I did stuff for them with George Galloway, who have since fallen out with But I did stuff and I was like, I'm aware that they exist to undermine Western liberal democracy,
	but the thing that I spoke about and wrote about was standing up for Western liberal democracy and criticising wokeism, which I consider, you know, it's funny, all these, it's weird, you have the horseshoe of the left and right, so on the left you've got people trying to bring down Western liberal democracy and,
	you know, because It's the empire and everything's racist in the West and we must fill every country in Europe with lots of immigrants who have completely opposite values and principles to us to just bring down this Western liberal democracy.
	And on the right, it's the same kind of thing.
	They're all sticking up for Putin.
	But from a different angle, they admire Putin's strength.
	I mean, it's weird to admire Putin's strength when he's obviously so weak and weird to sort of look at Putin and be like, oh, well, he doesn't allow people in to undermine the country.
	When he's using, or to see him as some sort of...
	He's a bastion of Christendom.
	When he's using Chechen Islamists, he's using Syrian Islamists, he's bussing in to do the fighting for them.
	Russia has a larger Muslim population than Britain, actually, by a substantial margin.
	People don't seem to think about when they think of, as you say, Russia as a bastion of Orthodox Christianity.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Absolutely.
	But he continues.
	So, perhaps worst of all, the programme uncritically featured commentary by former BBC journalist Paul Mason, who almost laughingly accused me and others of being Putin supporters based on the fact that I've offered a critical perspective on some of the mainstream BBC coverage.
	This in spite of my obvious record of posting and publishing damning critiques of Putin's regime, especially in relation to disinformation, including several tweets since the start of the invasion and in 2017, long before Paul Mason showed much interest in Gremlin disinformation.
	I wrote that Rush Today's coverage is conditioned by an overarching narrative that is nothing more than a cynical exploitation and co-option of progressive discourse aimed ultimately at promoting the regressive and autocratic agenda of Putin, which is pretty much exactly what you said just there.
	Hmm.
	Of course, Paul Mason is much more of a public figure than I am making the BBC's wholesale failure to offer me any right of reply to his baseless allegations all the more egregious.
	And Paul Mason isn't the only one at the BBC. In a further ironic twist, the programme gives an unchallenged platform to Mariana Spring, the BBC's specialist disinformation reporter.
	That's a whole disinformation industry, isn't there?
	Yeah.
	Who accuses me of guilt by omission.
	No, there really is a disinformation industry.
	And in fact, the woman who was heading up the disinformation board, what's her name?
	The one who sang the Mary Poppins song.
	Djankovic.
	Djankovic, yeah.
	So she worked for a Ukrainian disinformation, what were they called?
	Stop fake?
	Yes, that's right.
	Something like that.
	And they actually whitewashed Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups who committed pogroms, committed war crimes and pogroms against Roma people in Ukraine.
	And, you know, I'm all for...
	I think Ukraine, if anything, is a European country that can sort of show the value of...
	Because I think in the West, we're very sort of down on ourselves.
	We're like, oh no, we can't show any sort of national pride.
	We can't show any sort of resolve or pride in our values and our culture and all that sort of stuff.
	Whereas Ukraine is like, no, we're Ukrainian.
	We're standing up against Russia invading us.
	We're not going to let it happen.
	So Ukraine's showing the sort of value and the benefit and the positive side of nationalism.
	But the flip side of that is there's some of the negatives of Well, I think it's possible to have nationalism without ultra-nationalism, but I think that's where you kind of want to be in a way, slightly leaning in that direction.
	Yeah, and it's sort of weird to see the left jump on anything that happens in the UK. Anybody waves a flag or whatever, they're like, oh my god, this is fascism!
	This is literally fascism!
	But in Ukraine, you've got literal neo-Nazi groups committing pogroms, killing people and stuff, and they're like, oh no, we need to cover this up.
	I know, that was silly.
	And you get people who are just rabid on Twitter about how they will not wave the flag at all, and then they've got the Ukraine flag in their bios right now, and you're thinking, next to an EU flag and some other flag, LGBT flag, and so on.
	But they'll never wave the flag.
	Yeah.
	Goodness me.
	So I think this is a good...
	This story, the reason I'm bringing it up at length is it's a good example of what happens when someone like the BBC or mainstream media comes to you and they're like, yeah, we're interested in what you think, Leo.
	We want to hear all of your views.
	We're going to talk at length about your specialist subject.
	Then we're just going to report none of that and completely smear you.
	So this is the way they continue.
	In the interview, he says, I made reference to the story fed to the Wall Street Journal by Bellingcat which briefly dominated headlines before it was comprehensively debunked by both Ukrainian and US officials, which was the story of Roman Abramovich getting poisoned by Russian secret agents.
	Oh, is that fake?
	Yes.
	And I included reference to this edition of Panorama on antisemitism in Corbyn's Labour, for which, according to him, there was a total failure of accountability.
	As a matter of practice, I always record such interviews for personal reference.
	And, oh my God, if you are being interviewed by the BBC, record it yourself, because otherwise that could come back to bite you.
	Listening back to the unedited audio, I was reminded of the producer's attempt to stop me discussing the Paranorama episode on the basis that it wasn't relevant.
	This in the midst of a two and a half hour interview in which I was repeatedly asked for examples of disinformation and propaganda in Western media, including the BBC. Now, if you think that's disinformation or not, that's entirely up to you, but this researcher does, and that's the point here.
	And in spite of its obvious relevance to a program that attempts to critically examine my position that all media, to varying degrees, are vulnerable to disinformation.
	I think that's true.
	Ridiculously insinuating that this position somehow lends credence to Kremlin propaganda.
	So this seems to be the argument.
	Oh, if you don't uncritically believe the BBC, then you are a Kremlin propagandist.
	It's like, how about they're both wrong?
	How about they're both lying?
	Obviously, that's not an equation of moral value.
	But come on, let's be real here.
	Everybody lies.
	I don't lie.
	Most honest man in the room.
	Apart from when I click that box, it says, I pay my TV license.
	Let me watch BBC. I haven't paid my TV license in 17 years.
	Nothing's ever happened.
	You still get the letters like everyone else, I presume?
	I don't even get the letters.
	Wow.
	Fabulous.
	You must show me your trick sometime.
	They actually sent a person to the door and I answered the door hungover and in my underpants.
	And then the guy was like, it says you don't have a TV license or whatever.
	And I was like, I don't use it for watching TV. I just use it for watching DVDs and playing Xbox.
	So come and have a look at it.
	I want to prove that it doesn't have any wires going in the back.
	He's like, no, I'll just put a note saying you don't use your TV. That was cleverly done.
	Yeah.
	During the interview, he continues, the producer was overruled by the programme's presenter, Chloe Hodge, who pointed out with a wink that it was, in fact, relevant, and that I should be given a chance to explain my views, though of course not sufficiently to be included in the programme, and this is where it gets worse.
	I subsequently attempted to engage with Chloe in polite and reflexive discussion of the programme's themes via email.
	email.
	I asked for her feedback on my analysis of the Pamarana program, which she promised, still waiting, and responded courteously to her follow-up questions.
	We even exchanged emails on the very day that, without mentioning it to me, she put grossly defamatory personal allegations about me directly to my employer, including this question.
	Is the university aware that Justin Schlossberg is sharing articles containing disinformation about the war in Ukraine and about coronavirus.
	And I should have put it in here, but there was a recent case with Andy Ngo, which I think you've seen, where a journalist basically came to him with a load of, are you aware?
	You know, defamatory statement.
	Are you also aware?
	Another insult.
	Yeah.
	And can you comment on another?
	If a journalist says to you, are you aware of that?
	Be very wary.
	I think that's a fair conclusion.
	I'm weary.
	I'm weary of it, to be honest.
	There we go.
	And he continues.
	But it does seem to me like the BBC is targeting people who are casting doubt on the BBC itself as disinformation sources.
	So there is kind of a disinformation war going on.
	Your disinformation, no your disinformation, no your disinformation.
	And this idea that you can have groups, disinformation groups, and the online safety bill, which I think I spoke about last time when it was on Lotus Eaters, is predicated on the idea that you can have these government or NGO groups That are tasked with finding out what the absolute truth is.
	And they decide what the truth is and then anything that isn't that is disinformation.
	Anything that contradicts that is disinformation.
	And that's not a good way.
	Absolutely.
	You can't have an oracle of truth because then who's funding them?
	What's their agenda?
	But that's what fact checkers set themselves up to be, isn't it?
	It's like, well, this is the truth.
	And when they say mostly false or mostly true, those are exactly the same meaning.
	They have a very different impact when you read it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, mostly false and mostly true.
	The difference between those is a pure matter of opinion, right?
	Yeah.
	You know, everything could be right about your allegation except, I don't know, the color of lipstick that someone was wearing is mostly false.
	Why?
	Because the fact checker says so.
	I'm really not a fan of fact checkers, I think, here in the studio.
	Even the idea of fact checking, the idea that there is just this one fact that you can dictate to the world that, oh yes, this is the case and this isn't, is quite shaky ground a lot of the time.
	That statement is mostly false.
	You heard it here first.
	And with that, let's move on to the reactions to the Johnny Depp trial.
	So yes, with the Amber Heard Johnny Depp verdict, and I think Carl covered some of this yesterday, but yeah, so much more stuff has come out, it's hilarious.
	So the woke responses tend to fall into these categories.
	So they say it's a backlash to Me Too that's going to be used by the bad guys, so we've got to stop it.
	Who are the bad guys this time?
	Bad guys are, well, it's like the fact checkers.
	The bad guys are whoever woke people decide is bad.
	So, you know, men, white people, right-wing people, that kind of thing.
	Some people say Johnny is guilty.
	I mean, even though it's been proven in a court of law that he was defamed, it doesn't matter.
	They know better than the jury and the criminal justice system.
	Although it wasn't criminal justice, it was a civil case.
	But other people are saying, remember black women!
	Because, you know, you got...
	Got to crowbar your own issue.
	I can't believe that.
	Surely that's not...
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, no, there's a lot.
	And also some left-wing people are worried about freedom of speech, which is...
	I love how they become freedom of speech absolutists when it's one of their own.
	Usually at very strange times as well.
	It's like, hang on, freedom of speech has nothing to do with this issue.
	Why are you bringing it up?
	Goodness me.
	Yeah, and there's also some that are just using it as an opportunity to do some generic virtue signaling.
	So current issue, my virtue signal.
	Yeah, got it.
	So a lot of people like Vice are saying that, you know, right-wing people are saying that Johnny Depp killed the Me Too movement.
	The Me Too movement, you know, for the last five years, you know, we've had women saying, you know, bringing up cases of abuse against them.
	It started in Hollywood with accusations against Harvey Weinstein.
	And I think Rose McGowan was the first one to actually, you know, burst open and say, look, I was abused by Harvey Weinstein.
	And it was an essential movement in a way because men had just been treating women terribly for probably as long as there's been men and women.
	I bet even before that, I bet the first amoeba to grow a flageolite was rubbing up against other amoebas, making them feel uncomfortable.
	And yeah, I mean, women in Hollywood, and some of these guys like Harvey Weinstein, total animal.
	You know what I mean?
	He's inviting people to the hotel room at 3:00 AM for a meeting.
	And like, but on the flip side, surely everybody knew they weren't going there.
	To Harvey Weinstein's hotel room.
	Notorious Harvey Weinstein's hotel room at 3am for a meeting.
	You know what I mean?
	There does seem to be a certain amount of suspicion in the deniability of some of these crimes, doesn't there?
	And also, I mean, there's people who are sucking dick for like $50.
	And it's like, if you're a Hollywood star, you suck Harvey Weinstein's dick and you get like a multi-million dollar career and all the fame, all the adulation from it.
	Man, that's come on.
	You've got to be happy with that.
	But no, these women are still coming back round and they're being like, ah, so, you know, I've had this 20 year career, but it's coming to an end now.
	So now, you know, even though Harvey Weinstein, you know, delivered, totally delivered the goods with all this stuff, I'm going to go, I want more!
	I want more!
	I mean, man, there's got to be hoes on the street being like, oh my God, I'm doing this wrong!
	Well, a leftist would say that the fact that that situation existed as an indictment of the system itself, Oh, the power, the power structure.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, it is.
	I mean, it's the men, you know, all these like gross, disgusting, fat old men have got the power in Hollywood, which, you know, to which we can say to women, well, why don't you make better films?
	If you make films as good as Harvey Weinstein, then you'll have the power and you'll be inviting Harvey Weinstein to your hotel room to give you a rim job.
	Okay.
	At 3am.
	But yeah, and also some of these things, like somebody accused Dustin Hoffman of asking her for a blowjob like 20 years ago or whatever, and she said it made her feel uncomfortable.
	And, you know, it's terrible she felt uncomfortable, but that's how we get blowjobs.
	You've got to be proactive about it.
	You've got to get out there and start asking some of those tough, tough questions like, can I have a blowjob, please?
	Otherwise, you just don't get a blowjob.
	I'm just saying, that's the system we've got for blowjobs.
	You've got to, oh, unwanted sexual advances.
	Who's got a 100% hit rate in wanted sexual advances?
	You're going to shoot and you'll miss.
	Sometimes you'll be like, well, do you fancy it?
	And they're going to be like, no.
	And it's like, well, that, you know, if nobody, we'd all die out as a species if we just had to make sure it was 100% yes.
	Can I have a consent form signed first these days?
	Yeah, consent.
	How do you, like, oh my God, yeah, it's ridiculous.
	And anyway, I'm not discrediting genuine victims.
	In many universities in the US now following this Me Too thing, You are advised by the university to get verbal consent before you touch a woman in any way, even just a tap on the shoulder.
	Really?
	Mad.
	Right.
	If you tap them on the shoulder, it's to get their attention.
	So, you know, you get their attention by asking for the consent to tap them on the shoulder.
	It's intrusive.
	It's invasive.
	Yeah, I mean, obviously there's grabby, you know, there's touchy, feely men, there's grabby men and stuff, and I think, you know, most women have, you know, fallen victim to, you know, these creepy men and stuff, and also, you know, there's power structures that encourage it.
	You know, the flip side of that is Harvey Weinstein made some amazing films.
	You know, why should I have to suffer?
	When I go to the cinema, just so that, you know, some Hollywood stars don't get nonced on by creepy Hollywood nonces.
	That's a convoluted conundrum that you opposed to me.
	I preferred the old system when I could go to the cinema and see Pulp Fiction.
	Yeah, alright, some people got their asses felt or had to, you know, nosh him off in a hotel room.
	But I could see Pulp Fiction.
	It was a much better system for me.
	Anyway, so looking at what people are saying about this, the Vice article says, Conservative politicians and talking heads can barely contain their excitement about the verdict finding Amber Heard defamed Johnny Depp.
	I suppose I should have been less excited in that opening bit.
	I've sort of proven their point there.
	But more importantly, they seemingly view the verdict as the end of the Me Too movement and its subsequent push to hold people who've committed abuse and misconduct accountable.
	I don't know.
	I think it's, you know, some people have said it's actually an expansion of the Me Too movement because Johnny Depp has been the victim.
	Has Me Too'd Amber.
	Well, Johnny Depp has been...
	Yeah, he's me-tooed Amber by, you know, by speaking out about her abuse against him.
	And what's interesting is, you know, nobody seems to be talking about this, but there's financial abuse.
	So, you know, every time they went out for dinner, I'm pretty sure Johnny, you know, picked up the bill.
	All right, he's rich and stuff.
	But, you know, this is how...
	This is a sort of...
	An aspect of abuse that nobody ever talks about.
	So, yeah, there's the financial exploitation of Johnny Depp.
	Vox, if we move on to the next tab, Vox says, Johnny Depp's legal victory in the death of Roe versus Wade are part of the same toxic cultural movement.
	Ah, so this is the shoehorn my agenda type of reaction you were talking about.
	Oh man, every single article is like shoehorning whatever they want in.
	Oh man, there's worse ones than this.
	And they say, in the article, they say, this verdict is as much as to say that anyone who says the phrase, I was abused, can be sued as a liar.
	Well, yeah, they can be sued as a liar if they lied.
	And there's evidence that they lied.
	And that caused damage.
	That's why we have a court system.
	Instead of just going on Twitter and seeing what some angry women with wireframe glasses and cats think about it.
	So in the article, Vox says, And they say, Yes, there is!
	So, you know, surely, you know, also, you know, I thought we weren't going to be so focused on gender anymore.
	You know, how come male is still this, like, ultimate, you know, Power paradigm and, you know, female.
	But while there is a tendency to focus domestic abuse on the violence aspect, because obviously it's the most visible, I think that the most important part of Amber Heard's behaviour in this relationship is reputational destruction, which is a form of vengeance and vindictiveness that's far more female in nature than violence, which is more masculine.
	Very patriarchal of you to say that.
	Well, I mean, you could say that, you know, Depp's lawsuit is then revenge against, some people are saying it's revenge against Amber.
	And also Vox says, you know, alright, so Amber, you know, technically she abused him by, you know, hitting him, exploiting him, and there's audio recordings in which she admits hitting him.
	So, you know, that's not a controversial claim.
	But Vox says that at all points, Depp had more power than Herd because he was older and richer.
	That is such a facetious analysis.
	You can't use that to justify violence.
	You can't say, oh, well, you can punch that person because they're older and richer.
	I mean, what, are you going to go up to, what, Stephen Hawkins?
	You know what I mean?
	What's the logical end point of that argument?
	You need a pretty good shovel to start with.
	Yeah, but whoever the new Stephen Hawkins is, there's probably a new one.
	But Teen Vogue, I always go to Teen Vogue for my analysis.
	I mean, I've scrapped my Economist subscription.
	Just read Teen Vogue now.
	So they say the Johnny Depp, Amber Heard verdict doesn't matter after the internet made a spectacle of abuse.
	I don't know.
	I think the verdict does matter.
	I think the courts do matter.
	They deal with objective truth rather than opinion and speculation.
	Because it's Teen Vogue.
	This woman, Lexi McMenamin, she says...
	That sounds like the start of it.
	Is that how you say McMenamin with a very strong accent?
	McMenamin.
	It sounds like the start of the Muppets.
	But anyway, she says it's creepy.
	Because it's Teen Vogue.
	So the ultimate insult for a teenage girl.
	That's creepy.
	He's creepy.
	And then Lexi says Herd isn't good.
	She says she's not saying Herd's good.
	You want to know why?
	Because Herd did a racist tweet in 2018.
	Oh, well, she cannot be forgiven.
	Even if she's on my side of the political movement, as is the case here.
	She cannot be forgiven.
	And do you know what the tweet was that was so racist?
	Oh, that's going to be something absolutely anodyne and pathetic, isn't it?
	It's the most racist thing I've ever heard.
	I've just heard that there's an immigration checkpoint in Hollywood a few blocks from where I live.
	Everyone better give their housekeepers, nannies and landscapers a ride home tonight.
	And that got...
	Amber was torn down for that tweet.
	That's quite funny, isn't it?
	What, are we supposed to pretend that in Hollywood all these, like, Democrat voting, like, rich liberals in Hollywood don't have Hispanic immigrant housekeepers, nannies and landscapers?
	I mean, it's a nonsense.
	Anyway, Lexi McMenamin looks exactly like you'd imagine she's got short, dyed red hair.
	And a nose ring, but I must admit...
	And a nose, yeah, she's got a nose ring as well!
	But she's certainly an improvement on the one we saw in the BBC article with the dummy around her.
	Yeah, but remember the Ukrainian one?
	Ah, that's true.
	Moving on to some tweets that have been sent.
	So here we go.
	This is somebody getting criticised for their take on the trial result.
	And Elie Mistel says, you're focused on the trial, which I could hardly give a crap about, and I'm focused on the verdict and how it'll be used by the bad guys.
	Actually, you could argue this is a philosophical distinction between the left and the right, right?
	The right cares about process, the left cares about Ends.
	That's where the left will use any means to get their ends.
	To get to their utopia.
	It's more about, no, it's the process, it's the means, it's that everything's done fair.
	So you can kill 50 million people if you're trying to find this socialist paradise.
	Exactly.
	It doesn't matter.
	I'm only interested in the ends and how they'll be used by the bad guys.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And also, they don't see people as individuals.
	They see the broader social context, but not the fact that this is a man who's suffered defamation, and the court proved it.
	So justice has been done.
	They look at humanity like it's a load of ant colonies in a big tank, right?
	It's like, oh, it's the grand sway of collectives here, there, and the other, not the individual people involved in human society.
	Yeah, it's ridiculous.
	Mm-hmm.
	Next one says, I don't care how you feel about Johnny Depp or Amber Heard, this is a very bad day for women who are victims.
	The silence so many fought against for so many years will once again descend over survivors of sexual violence and domestic violence.
	I mean, there's maybe a little point that people might think twice about coming forward, especially if they don't have any evidence.
	But, man, there was evidence.
	There was tons of...
	Amber Heard's testimony admitted there was recordings of her saying she was violent.
	There was recordings of her saying she was going to maliciously use...
	You could hardly ask for a more open and shut case.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And even with the...
	I mean, if anybody's a victim of Me Too, it's Amber Heard, because she was lulled into this false sense of security.
	They're like, oh, you know, we believe all women.
	Oh, yes, no, absolutely.
	There's no question, no need for evidence or anything.
	But the court system, you know, they hadn't updated the legislation and the due legal process.
	So when the courts went through it, they were like, well, we're looking at the actual truth.
	The Guardian got involved as well.
	They said the Amber Heard Johnny Depp trial was an orgy of misogyny.
	With a rather stern-looking Moira Donegan there.
	So they say the backlash to Me Too has long been underway, but this feels like a tipping point.
	While most of the vitriol is nominally directed at Heard, it is hard to shake the feeling that really it is directed at all women.
	I mean, that's in your head.
	It was directed at Amber Heard.
	It wasn't directed at all women.
	Imagine taking Amber Heard as a representative of all women.
	You'd have to be quite the misogynist to do that.
	Yeah, if Amber Heard represents the Me Too movement, that's quite revealing.
	If Me Too aficionados think Amber Heard represents them...
	And really, it's not the courts, it's not society, it's not Johnny Depp that's damaging Me Too, it's Amber Heard that's damaging Me Too.
	She's the one who's caught lying.
	And most of the people that beef with her are women.
	Yeah, which I can fully believe.
	Yeah.
	The Guardian also describes Depp's lawsuit, which he won, remember, as frivolous and punitive.
	Now, judges in a defamation case can actually decide if a case is, you know, when they're weighing it up before it gets to court, they can decide if it's frivolous and if it's punitive.
	And clearly in this case, the judge didn't.
	The judge thought it had merit and it progressed to a jury trial.
	You tend not to get jury trials for them in the UK. Lawrence Fox has tried to get a jury for his trial and didn't get it.
	And the Guardian says, It's like, well, yeah, obviously they're going to show the worst moments.
	Why wouldn't they?
	That's their job.
	Yeah, that's what the news does.
	Amber Heard making Johnny Depp a cup of tea isn't news.
	Amber Heard taking a big dump in Johnny Depp's bed is news.
	That's weird and it's extreme and it's newsworthy.
	And apart from the trial, there's tons of evidence that she's the abuser.
	There's previous things.
	The next tab shows she was arrested on a charge of domestic violence against her girlfriend in 2009.
	And the Guardian goes on and says, This cruelty has now been joined in and compounded by the jury who have gone beyond mocking her for telling her story and now declared that she actually broke the law by doing so.
	I mean, this seems to be borderline.
	I mean, this is certainly contempt.
	I thought this is contempt of court or jury intimidation.
	She's accusing the jury of using their decision to harass and bully and mock and belittle Amber Heard, which I don't know if that's legal.
	I think it is, but that's a very interesting question, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I don't know enough about that to say, but I just feel there's...
	Don't you believe all women, Leo?
	I believe some women.
	Yeah, I think that's the right place to be.
	I don't believe this woman.
	Put it that way.
	If hashtag believe all women means believe this woman, then I'm out, right?
	Moving on to some more responses.
	This guy deleted his...
	Too many of y'all dudes.
	A man like you're white!
	I think he's white.
	I better make sure he's white before I say you're white.
	But white people saying you're all...
	He might be transracial.
	He's like, why don't you say thinner as well?
	You're all thinner.
	It's like, you know what, stop trying to appropriate the language of African Americans.
	But too many of you're all dudes are a little too happy about this Johnny Depp thing and it's weird.
	This isn't a huge day for men.
	You just never liked women, my dude.
	Anyone who ends their statement in my dude is automatically worthy of condemnation, my dude.
	Yeah, and that guy, man, he looks like...
	It's funny how these people all look like...
	You can predict it before you even see the...
	They look like their opinions.
	Yeah.
	It's funny how people...
	People used to say it's funny how people look like their dogs.
	Now people look like their opinions.
	That's a very good way of looking at it, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	People look like their opinions.
	It's a bit like Roald Dahl used to say, if you meet a cheerful person, it doesn't matter if they have warts on their face or whatever, you get a pleasant feeling out of them because their good nature just sort of shines out of them.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But with these people, their nasty opinions shine out of them.
	Absolutely.
	And he says on his Facebook, his Facebook is hilarious, I lead the league in pissing off virgins.
	My POV percentage is off the charts.
	Let's just have a reminder of what his face looks like.
	Mr.
	Fucking Pussy Monster gets all the maximum amount of pussy in the world.
	Oh, my God.
	Jesus Christ.
	Ah, disgusting.
	And if you scroll down, there's more nonsense from him.
	But you all.
	He says you all a lot.
	But yeah, if we move on to the next tab, it's also just a simple opportunity for the people of kindness and tolerance to virtue signal.
	So Josie Long, who makes a big point of how nice she is. - Oh yeah. - She's a comedian.
	She's, I mean, comedy is subjective, so I can't say she's a bad comedian, but you go watch some of her stuff, you know, decide.
	Then that's, you know, I've done her a favor, I've increased her audience and stuff.
	Go watch my stuff as well.
	After you've watched Josie Long, in fact, before you watched Josie Long, watch my stuff.
	Leo Kearse on YouTube.
	I've got loads of stuff on there.
	But, you know, one of her bits, she makes this thing about how, you know, she's such a nice person.
	And it's, you know, it's the way she, she opens the show by saying, ah, you know, so I don't have this, I don't, but I'm a nice person.
	And that means that I'm better than, I think she's having a go at Lawrence Fox or something.
	But anyway, so she says, F Johnny Depp, C word.
	Oh dear.
	Kind, tolerant, respectful.
	Suze Kempner is another lefty comedian.
	Actually, I like her.
	She's a nice person.
	Well, I don't know if she's a nice person, but I like her.
	Maybe I like her because she's a nasty person.
	But anyway, she's fun.
	And she says, love you.
	And Joe says, I also love you.
	It's like, man, you're slagging off a guy who's just been proven to be the victim of abuse.
	Just had to take somebody to court for defaming him.
	It's like, man, you can have an opinion, but why just this F Johnny Depp?
	Solidarity against men later.
	Yeah, like, what's the difference between men and women?
	He could literally turn around and be like, you know, I'm a woman, and then he's a woman, and then you're being abusive against a female victim of domestic violence.
	Yeah, that would be vicious.
	Moving on, I better hurry this up a bit, but moving on, we've got to remember, who are the real victims?
	The real victims are black women, obviously.
	So the widespread celebration and joy of a survivor being gaslit is horrifying if a rich white woman can't even be believed.
	I don't think she's rich anymore.
	But if a rich white woman can't even be believed, what about all the BIPOC, queer, disabled folks, working class folks and other marginalized survivors supposed to feel?
	Who the F is going to believe us?
	Is she BIPOC, queer, disabled and working class?
	I mean, I know she's intellectually disabled, but beyond that.
	Goodness me.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, I mean, I think she is sitting in the...
	She's somewhere on the, you know, oppression pyramid.
	I think she's sitting on a large pile of money from simp supporters from about 10 years ago who donated to a thing she never did.
	But anyway...
	Oh, really?
	I believe...
	I don't take my word for that.
	That's my recollection.
	Another defamation trial.
	Yeah.
	Two in one podcast.
	I'm not doing very well today.
	Let's hurry on.
	Let's get to the next one.
	My mate had a defamation trial against a comedian who stole some of his material.
	I never actually made it to court because the guy was trying to use the courts to bully my mate into silence.
	It's Kay Curd.
	If not my mate, Kay Curd's the guy who stole the material.
	But somebody referred to it as a defamation trial.
	Yeah.
	It's like deformation is something else.
	It's defamation.
	Deformation is when you leave.
	Yeah, but Americans, you know, they're not very good at pronouncing things at the best of days.
	Love you guys.
	Yeah.
	And this is in theroot.com, which is basically Pravda for black women.
	Okay.
	So they say...
	They say, where are we?
	If the mistreatment of a wealthy, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white actress is ridiculed by the world, what does that mean for black women?
	I mean, it probably means that you shouldn't lie to destroy someone's career because you might get found out and you might get in trouble.
	So it's the same message for everyone.
	What goes around comes around is the message that's being sent.
	The court isn't.
	Everybody's got equal rights in the eyes of the law and it wasn't, you know, nobody's looking like, oh, well, you're this and you're that.
	It doesn't matter.
	Your intersectionalities don't matter when it comes to the court and when it comes to the objective truth.
	They say, for black women who do not have whiteness or fame or money to protect them, herds words of the verdict as a setback ring especially true.
	And it's like, most white people don't have money or fame to protect them.
	Oh, but they have whiteness, Leo.
	But we just have whiteness.
	And is whiteness the protection?
	We are all equal under the law.
	If you make the secret white power sign, then you just get this magic shield that surrounds you and prevents you from any kind of criticism.
	Is that why chefs are so protected?
	That's it, yeah.
	Because they're always like, mwah!
	And that's the white power sign.
	The article says, some even believe Depp when he said that she was the aggressor in the relationship.
	Yeah, because some of the evidence, like they weren't just like listening to what Depp said and being like, oh yeah, I believe that.
	There was evidence that showed that...
	Evidence is patriarchal and heteronormative and like bad.
	Yeah, because it's provable, which, you know, is the opposite of what Me Too is.
	What happened to Herd is another vile reminder to women, particularly black women, that nothing can guarantee your safety.
	I mean, what's it got to do with black women?
	It's got nothing to do with black women.
	It sends a message to those who lie and make baseless accusations that doing so may have consequences.
	If you defame someone, if you maliciously lie about someone with the intent and the result that you harm them financially and reputationally, then you can get in trouble for that, which is a good thing.
	Also, interestingly, the left suddenly really cared about freedom of speech.
	I love it when they come back to this argument.
	So they say, and they're worried about journalistic freedom.
	It makes a change.
	They say, I'm a bit stunned that more journalists aren't outraged and stunned by the Herd Depp verdict.
	In addition to being a disaster for domestic abuse survivors, it is a disaster for a publication's ability to tell truth to power.
	I mean, Johnny Depp is just one guy.
	It's not speaking truth to power.
	He was the victim in the relationship.
	They're acting like Johnny Depp is the Freemasons.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's ridiculous.
	And if you speak truth to power, it's got to be the truth.
	You can't just make up some stuff and say, oh, Johnny Depp, you know, beat me or whatever.
	And, you know, if you do say that, it's got to stand up in court.
	By the way, Adam Davidson, we've got in the next tab, this guy runs a thing called masterful storytelling.
	This whole thing is from a guy who literally runs a course teaching you how to tell stories to make money.
	Goodness me.
	You know what I mean?
	You can't be...
	I don't know.
	I should make a more cogent point than just noises.
	And the next tab...
	Absolute effing disgrace of a justice system that says, Amber Heard and the rest of us aren't allowed to write about the abuse we've suffered.
	And should we dare, our abusers can freely use the courts to punish us.
	Our abusers can't freely use the courts to punish us unless there's evidence that you lied.
	And there's so much evidence in this case that she was the abuser, he didn't abuse her...
	And she planned on, you know, maliciously using this.
	She threatened him with all this sort of stuff.
	The next one says, I don't know if you guys realize that there is now a very famous precedent for how saying publicly that you're a victim of domestic violence without naming your abuser is considered defamation.
	She did a bit more than that, though.
	Yeah, I mean, she didn't explicitly put his name.
	She didn't say Johnny Depp in the article, but she said, you know, this happened two years ago or whenever it was.
	And it was the time when she was in a relationship with Johnny Depp.
	So it was, you know, it was effectively naming him.
	It wasn't, you know, they didn't pull this verdict out of their ass.
	You know, they did think about it and they did like consider evidence and stuff like that.
	I think really the takeaway lesson from here is the importance of actually thinking about the evidence because otherwise you end up looking like a complete idiot.
	Yeah.
	And nowadays, once you look like a complete idiot on Twitter once, you're, you know...
	Yeah, and also the courts are different from social media.
	It's a place where they try and divine the objective truth rather than the political truth and the wider contextual truth.
	You're saying about Amber's reply?
	Amber's reply, which is interesting.
	She actually defames him again.
	She says, the disappointment I feel today is beyond words.
	I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence was still not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence and sway of my ex-husband.
	She didn't have a mountain of evidence.
	She had some claims and stuff.
	He had the mountain of evidence.
	And, you know, she's saying it's patriarchy that did this, not the fact that, you know, and she's saying, you know, he's got the power.
	I would say that actually she's got the power.
	She's got the institutional strings that are there to literally just believe her, whatever she says, regardless of the evidence, because that's the current thing.
	Absolutely.
	And there's, you know, the institution, we've got the criminal justice institutions that are there to protect victims of abuse.
	So we've got the system, these laws to protect.
	So you can, it's a crime.
	It's a crime to abuse someone.
	And she also had the social cultural power that the Me Too movement gave her.
	And she says, I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women.
	It's a setback that sets the clock back to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.
	It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.
	And this is, you know, it's ridiculous.
	Violence by women shouldn't be taken seriously.
	Yeah, yeah.
	If anything, this is sort of progressing me to, you know, including men.
	Slightly closer to common sense, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And making it less of a gendered thing.
	And as we all know, gender is a construct, so it's about time we moved beyond gender with that.
	I believe Johnny's attorney succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of freedom of speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK. I'm sad I lost this case, but I'm sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American to speak freely and openly.
	I thought this was America defence.
	This is like...
	And she also, by the way, she speaks up for freedom of speech and the replies are locked on this tweet.
	So, you know, there's not much freedom of speech going on there.
	And she's basically saying, can a woman not falsely accuse a man in the Washington Post of raping and beating her for political and financial gain?
	I thought this was America...
	There are limits on free speech.
	You can't just run into a theatre and shout, fire!
	Unless there is a fire.
	Unless there is a fire.
	You know what I mean?
	The evidence is very important in these cases.
	And, you know, Me Too was based on the premise that we should believe all women.
	And, you know, I think all these Me Too advocates, they would do the Me Too movement so much more of a favour if they just came out and said, like, look, you know, maybe there are some instances...
	Where women, you know, particular individual women, lie.
	And have lied.
	And have been proven to lie.
	So, you know, me too.
	We shouldn't believe all women.
	We should believe a lot of women.
	And especially when there's evidence to support it.
	I mean, equal opportunity.
	I think women have the equal opportunity to be an absolute piece of work as men do.
	So, thank you.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And I think Amber Heard is, you know, as much of a victim of the Me Too movement as, you know, as she sort of hurt it.
	She's damaged it as well.
	You know, she was told, oh, we'll believe you no matter what.
	And, you know, that didn't work.
	But we've also got to remember, I'll just finish this.
	We've got to remember Johnny Depp, he's nearly 60.
	He's still carrying on and playing like he's a rock star and stuff.
	It's like, man, you're not.
	You're nearly 60.
	And you're an actor.
	He's a mean guitarist.
	Yeah, does it?
	Man, there's nothing sad.
	Oh man, some guy noodling on his guitar.
	That's absolutely tragic.
	You know the best rock stars can't even play their guitars.
	Look at Jesus and Mary Chain.
	They can't play their guitar.
	The guy can play like three notes.
	That's all you need.
	That's all you need to be a total badass.
	Also, Amber Heard is really fit.
	So, you know, I could tell, looking at Amber Heard, man, she's trouble.
	She's really fit, though, but she's trouble.
	So how come I'm smarter than Johnny Depp?
	How indeed.
	And on that note, let's move on to our next segment, which is about the Jubilee.
	So I thought we'd go through and we'd just explain a little bit about what the Jubilee is for some of our foreign visitors and viewers who don't really know what it's about and so on.
	So...
	We've had now 70 years of Queen Elizabeth's reign since 1952, and this marks the 70th anniversary of that.
	She came in on 6th February 1952, and she turned 96 this year.
	But the celebration is held basically at the same time as her official birthday in the start of June.
	So in the UK, there's an extra bank holiday.
	We don't get that because we're media.
	We get two, I think.
	Yep, and a usual spring bank holiday.
	Thursday and Friday.
	Yeah, that's the spring bank holiday that's been moved from the end of May to the start of June so that we get the four-day bank holiday weekend.
	So yeah, everyone seems pretty happy about that out in town.
	You're not taking advantage of that?
	You're working all the way through?
	I had a few days off at the start of the week.
	But yeah, we had to come back from holiday and record.
	I do this comedy show called Ministry of Offence.
	Mm-hmm.
	On GB News, we normally record it on Thursday, we record it on Wednesday so that people could have the long bank holiday off, the editors and stuff.
	That's going out Saturday on GB News.
	I think it's going to be a good one.
	Got Scott Capuro on, got Andrew Doyle on, who got mentioned earlier.
	There is no rest in media, but the rest of the country is having a bit of a break.
	Now, you might already have Jubilee fatigue, you know, you're fed up with everyone talking about it, so I've just got a quick message if that's you.
	you let's play the next clip No.
	What is our national anthem?
	So why don't we name this the national anthem?
	That's a very good question.
	Maybe it's a bit too militaristic.
	It's a bit too nationalistic.
	Because when the Queen dies, Prince Charles is going to be king.
	So God Save the Queen won't work anymore.
	It changes to God Save the King.
	What?
	You can't change the national anthem.
	That's what they do every year.
	What?
	I know.
	That's the thing with having a gender term for your monarch.
	Right.
	It's a funny feature that we've got there.
	Personally, we don't have an English national anthem, which is one thing.
	And there are three candidates.
	Do you know what they are?
	Jerusalem.
	It wouldn't be like a sort of modern one, would it?
	Like Vindaloo or something like that?
	No, no.
	Much better.
	Is it the Neil Diamond song?
	No.
	I don't know then.
	So it's Jerusalem, it's Land of Hope and Glory, and I always forget the third one, which is the least popular of those three.
	But Land of Hope and Glory, absolute banging classical tune by Elgar.
	It was my vote for it.
	Most people like Jerusalem.
	Can't remember what the third one is.
	But let us know, John, if you find out later.
	So, before we get into the details of the ceremony, I just want to point out that the Queen has, I counted, I may be slightly wrong, 70 corgis.
	She's had 70 corgis.
	7-0?
	Yeah.
	That's too many.
	She's had 14 generations of corgis.
	Oh, you mean over the years she's had that many, right.
	How many has she got, like, one time?
	I don't know.
	There's usually a little bundle, but I'm not much of a royal watcher.
	If you scroll down, John, there's the full family tree on this page of the dogs.
	Corgis, you know their name because they can actually...
	Look at that!
	They can validate the safety of gas appliances.
	Oh dear.
	But yeah, so we're just going to go through a load of photos from the Jubilee and we're going to talk through a bit about what we saw.
	So if we go to the next one, this is the salutes.
	So we start off with salutes from all around the world.
	We've got Gibraltar here, all nicely dressed up in white.
	And then we've also got Tower Bridge.
	Gibraltar is like a rock off the coast of Spain that guards the entrance to the Mediterranean.
	And it's British territory.
	Yeah, just like Suez.
	Oh wait, hang on, I'm hearing Suez is not British anymore.
	Goddamn.
	But we also have this one from the Honourable Artillery Company in London.
	And look at that photo.
	I mean, that's a really good photo, whatever you think about the celebration.
	Yeah, that's been fired across the Donex River.
	It's just arcing its way over Berlin as we speak.
	And then we have the Four Nations Salutes next.
	So you must know that one.
	Oh, is that Edinburgh?
	That's Edinburgh, then Northern Ireland, that'd be Wales, and that's in the garden.
	Cool.
	And if we go onto the flyover, we have this photo here.
	You can see the beef eaters are out in force.
	Do you know what they're called, beef eaters?
	Beef?
	Yes.
	I know, it's literally that simple.
	We're not very imaginative as the people in this country.
	And finally, I just want to play some clips from the ceremony.
	There's a little summary of the listener.
	This is a scene from Hyde Park.
	They don't have anything in the gun.
	John, did you clip this into bits?
	It seems a great sea of people coming down from the far end of the mole.
	These are people who have waited patiently in order to wish that these were a happy classroom jubilee.
	There's some cheering behind me.
	And a lot of people have been saying that the display of so many Union Jack flags is fascist.
	A lot of leftists have been saying it's fascist.
	I know, but they never say that when it's LGBT flags, even in greater number.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And also, the Union Jack represents the UK, which I don't know if you're aware of any history or anything.
	The UK-Britain single-handedly beat the Nazis and bombed Japan.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	No, that's right.
	That's right.
	And if we go here, this is the Queen arriving on the balcony.
	Thank you.
	Oh, and there's no Prince Andrew.
	I know.
	Prince Andrew isn't on there because he tested positive for COVID. Yeah.
	Nothing at all to do.
	I mean, how convenient.
	There's Prince Charles.
	The Queen lived down from this balcony with her father at the end of the Second World War in 1945.
	The Queen's mother lived until she was 111.
	Oh, yes.
	So the Queen is only 96.
	69 years ago today.
	So I don't know if she's going to carry on.
	After 70 years as our sovereign, the Queen, with the working members of her There's Kate Middleton.
	There's Sophie West.
	She's getting a huge happy birthday.
	And I don't know who the rest are.
	Who's the flowerpot woman?
	Is that right at the end?
	Is that Edward?
	Yes, and I think that's the Lady Louise in the hat there.
	Prince Edward.
	So all the sons in the royal family, there's Charles, Edward, Andrew, they're all useless in different ways.
	And Prince Edward wanted to be a theatre person and he staged in the 80s, he staged this thing called It's a Royal Knockout with a disgraced paedophile hosting it, Stuart Hall.
	Was he a paedophile or was he just a...
	No, no, I don't know.
	He got sent down for something.
	Oh dear.
	I'm going to Google it now.
	I hope not.
	Yeah, former media personally.
	But it was absolutely chronic.
	Oh yeah, he's in prison now.
	Goodness me.
	Yeah, child sexual abuse.
	So yeah, sorry, it was a nonce.
	Like 98%.
	Not Prince Edward.
	Not Prince Edward.
	Just to make that clear.
	But he did, Prince Edward did arrange this terrible thing.
	It's a royal knocking.
	So the third anthem was I Vow to Thee My Country.
	Never heard it.
	I think it's sung to the hymn of Jupiter.
	Never heard that either.
	That's the way.
	Alright, alright.
	Let's go to the next one to fly over.
	Are they Chinooks?
	There's a really deep down draft and rumble as they go over here.
	And it's fantastic.
	But look, perhaps one of the greatest sites from the Battle of Britain flight coming towards us now.
	And for the Queen and her generation, as they see this great Lancaster bomber flagged by three Spitfires and two Hurricanes.
	What a great sight.
	Oh, she was an adult.
	How adult?
	When she was born in the 20s.
	Oh, so she would have been, yeah.
	I think two Spitfires.
	Maybe one of them wasn't up to snuff this morning, but look at them flying over now.
	And that's Spitfires.
	The roar.
	Listen to it.
	And a Lancaster race.
	That's right, right?
	1939 to 45.
	So I think it's really interesting the way they're doing this filming actually where you have the split screen and you've got the event happening which is the fly past and then you've got the camera literally on the Queen and the people around her.
	It's actually an interesting storytelling device because you're seeing the reaction in real time.
	It's almost as if they've learned something from internet.
	I mean I don't know how long they've been doing it in that style but it's a really good way of telling the story that way and then occasionally a third camera on the crowd which I think is really interesting.
	And a lot of people have been flying into the UK for this event, even though they're in London.
	Especially the Green Lobby, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Jacinda Ardern, okay.
	They're in London for this, and London is a rubbish place to go on holiday.
	So if you didn't come to London for this, you'd dodged a bullet, like one that would be fired from the tail gun of that Lancaster bomber.
	So yeah, don't come to London on holiday.
	It's a terrible place to go on holiday.
	It's really expensive.
	It's kind of cramped and dirty and noisy.
	There's no beaches.
	Unless you've got a special thing where you want to see some British history or something like that, the best place to go on holiday is Thailand.
	Anywhere in Southeast Asia.
	It's cheap, it's warm, it's fun.
	Australia is good.
	It's more expensive.
	Most of Europe is cheaper than the UK. That's true, but then we have most of the loot.
	So if you want to go and look at loot, we have museums and heritage sites and everything.
	You can look at it on the internet.
	You're just going to look at a bit of stone.
	Who wants to go and look at a bit of stone?
	That's true.
	If we play the next clip.
	Wave 7 and the workhorse of the Royal Air Force, which has helped deploy troops to challenges all over the world, supporting the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and also the army.
	And they used to fly down the valley.
	They did a lot of army training around my place because the locals were like Taliban.
	And they used to fly those airplanes so slowly down the bottom of the valley, below my house.
	It was crazy.
	You looked down on them.
	Wave 10 is a Voyager, a Lightning and a Typhoon.
	And remember, all these aircraft have to be timed at different stages.
	It's a normal plane.
	You've got a normal plane there.
	You've run out of, like, army planes.
	That might be the British airbase.
	The official transport.
	That's what took Prince Andrew to Lolita Island.
	Probably not, no.
	Are they the Harrier jump jets?
	Oh, no, they're the little...
	They're out of service.
	Britain invented this plane called a Harrier Jump Jet and it could just take off like...
	Like Iron Man.
	Yeah, very cool.
	Piece of engineering, actually.
	Very cool.
	Is that the end of the clips or is there one more?
	Let's play the last one.
	Wave 13.
	15 Typhoon making the mark of the Queen's 70 years of summer.
	Yeah.
	Long time.
	Long time.
	Prince Charles was married to a woman called Princess Diana, and she was not funny.
	And she died a ton in France.
	She was being chased by the apparatchiks.
	And here they come, the red arrows in red, white and blue filling the sky with the great salute of the three national colours.
	The Queen, Placidum Jubilee, the commander in St Madison.
	Certainly Meghan Markle, if Meghan Markle was popular with the public.
	Princess Diana was popular with the public but unpopular with the royal family, whereas Meghan Markle is unpopular with the public and unpopular with the royal family.
	That's true.
	So one meme that's come out of this, of course, is Prince Louis, who has been, if we go to the next Twitter, So, he's a very expressive young man.
	Someone compiled a load of his facial expressions, which is quite funny.
	You've seen this meme format.
	But if anybody's at school with him, you should bully him.
	Because he's literally like a prince or something.
	Is he a prince?
	He's a prince already, even though he's like five.
	I believe so, yeah.
	You're born in France, right?
	Are you?
	I don't know.
	It seems wrong that you're just born.
	You should achieve something.
	That's a meritocratic standard.
	It doesn't need to be a meritocracy.
	Like, just you beat somebody in a fight.
	So, oh yeah, whoever kills the king.
	Isn't that how it used to be?
	If you kill the king, you can become king.
	So you can get to be king, but then somebody else can come along and kill you.
	Hmm, I can see that being a rather unstable social institution.
	But they don't get to do anything, they don't get to have any political power apart from...
	What happens if you end up with Mike Tyson as the king?
	He'd be a great king.
	Hardly anybody could kill him.
	He'd be the best.
	Well, that's the one criterion of being a good king, is that he's hard to kill.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I don't buy it.
	And Mike Tyson, I think, well, it'd be representation, some fair representation.
	We haven't had any African-American people as royal family in the UK. Oh, I guess Meghan Markle.
	She claims to me, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	If we go to the next one, we've also got lots of crowds, like loads and loads of people.
	That's a ton of people.
	Where are they all peeing?
	Are they all peeing behind the trees?
	No, I imagine they've got adequate facilities distributed around the area that you probably have to pay £5 to take a leak in.
	I wonder if they pee in the fountain.
	British people love taking their shirts off as soon as the sun comes out and then urinating in public.
	Suggest some photos from Trooping of the Colour with the Irish Guards there.
	They have to wear massive hats.
	Yeah, they're not Irish Guards.
	Irish Guards, a lot of them aren't even Irish.
	Yes, that's true.
	So more than 1,200 officers and soldiers from the Household Division.
	Where's the disinformation?
	Disinformation board needs to get on that.
	Calling them Irish Guards is mostly false.
	It's against trade standards, isn't it?
	No, you're right.
	And then more from the Trooping of the Colour here.
	But even though they look like they're sort of toy soldiers, they're actually pretty hard and they can shoot you.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	If they've got a gun.
	There has been some negative stuff surrounding it, but Josh will be covering that in a weekend segment.
	But there have been tributes from around the world as well.
	So Switzerland's projected a light show onto the mountains, apparently.
	That's pretty cool.
	It is pretty cool.
	If we go to New Zealand, they've also done a salute.
	You can tell they're New Zealand because of the funny hats.
	If we go to President Biden, even he had something nice to say.
	And I think he remembered most of it.
	Macron from Europe, from France.
	He always looks a bit fake, doesn't he?
	He looks like a Ken doll.
	And the way his head bobs about it is like he's on strings a little bit.
	Do you remember Spitting Image?
	Do you know that?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He looks like...
	A spitting image puppet sometimes.
	Yeah!
	That sort of bouncy motion.
	But having said that, this was a very classy message.
	When the French wants to, which is rare, they can be classy, and they pulled it off.
	Probably remembering the time that the United Kingdom, Great Britain single-handedly saved France from the Nazis.
	If we go to the celebratory bonfires in Oceania, yep, we can see they lit a few bonfires.
	I'm told these are celebratory.
	Do they not have any guns?
	Apparently not, no.
	A bit disappointing, really, that the Naurans don't have proper artillery.
	That's from New Zealand there, I believe.
	Then we have the Red Arrows, as we've just seen, so some pictures from there fly past, and that looks pretty stunning.
	Like, wow.
	And then also more from the fly past here.
	That's from the viewing tower that's built next to the Red Arrows.
	I think that's actually in the cockpit.
	No, because you wouldn't get a plane flown by a giraffe.
	Oh, that's a very good point.
	Yeah, I didn't think of that.
	I went to Cotswold Wildlife Park on Tuesday.
	Oh, right.
	It was great.
	Was there a giraffe?
	There was a giraffe.
	There were several giraffes.
	They had baby rhinos that had just been born.
	They had gerbils, which you can see in pet shops and stuff, but it's cool having a big tank where they're running about, zooming about, doing all their stuff.
	They had gundu rats, but last time I was there, there were millions of gundu rats.
	They're saying they can pilot tanks, but not planes.
	What?
	The giraffes.
	Yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	I see that's how it works.
	If we have more from the fly past here, there's one of the helicopters.
	Which is falling to the ground because you can see its rotors aren't spinning.
	Ah, yeah.
	Classic rookie move there.
	You should have known that in training.
	And then some of the police.
	This is actually the police looking decent, wearing their actual uniforms instead of a fluorescent smock.
	They look like police.
	Do you not think this looks better?
	Yeah, I think it would look better if they were actually turning up to my car when it had been broken into and people had stolen stuff from it.
	I think that would have been a better look for the police instead of just not doing anything whatsoever.
	Well, I can sympathise with that, but I certainly think the combination of tactical and fluorescent sacks does not work.
	This is what a police force should look like in Britain.
	Anyway, also in Stonehenge there was a light show.
	I'm told the Queen was only a young child when Stonehenge was built.
	I was going to make that joke.
	And then if we go here, there's a bit of Britpoth, your colleague on GB News.
	Merci Maroki.
	Merci Maroki rocking a Union Jack dress.
	Yep, looks great.
	And is that like an E-Type Jag or something?
	I believe so.
	Right.
	So, yeah, very stylish.
	Exactly.
	Moving on, there are some who have struggled and they see even this in the frame of Trump derangement syndrome.
	As an American, I don't have much use for royalty, but on this jubilee, let us not forget that the Queen hated Donald Trump's stinking guts and so that's good enough for me.
	Long live the Queen.
	It's probably not a good time to point out that the Queen has dined with Robert Mugabe, Nicola Ceausescu, Xi Jinping, and yes, Vladimir Putin.
	So if she hated Donald Trump's guts, then I imagine she had it very well.
	And then we also have Big Ben, which has been renovated recently.
	You can see there, that's standing properly.
	School in Antrim got together to make a Union Jack.
	Like this is in Northern Ireland.
	That's nice, isn't it?
	And that's a divisive issue in Northern Ireland because obviously half of Northern Ireland is Protestant and Unionist and wants to be in the UK and the other half is Catholic and Republican and wants to reunite Ireland.
	And they tend to go to different schools as well.
	I'll let you guess which one this was.
	If we go to the next one, we've also got a Jubilee Medal as one of the beef eaters is modelling.
	I think he's got some beef in his beard there actually.
	And finally, just more of the crowds.
	And us, the beacons, there's lit a beacon this year which is being lit as well in all 54 capital cities of the Commonwealth.
	We'll just close with this.
	Just watching that light up.
	Look at the lights going along.
	So there we go.
	And that's what I wanted to say.
	So finally...
	Oh, she lit it.
	Yeah, I don't think she had a lighter.
	I think it was a button or something like that.
	And then it's all zooming along.
	Actually, I wonder if the Queen has ever been asked if she has a lighter.
	Her husband, Prince Philip.
	How come he was Prince Philip and not King Philip?
	Because technically he was the king, I think.
	Well, it's a precedent established, I think, from the time of Queen Victoria, who wanted her husband Albert to be given the title of king and Parliament wouldn't let him, because Albert was a foreigner and she was the rightful queen.
	So it's Prince Philip, he's Greek.
	Well, so the same precedent applies.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, because he died not long ago, like a year or two ago, so she's sadly been on the decline since you see a lot of old people.
	Absolutely.
	And if you want to check out more stuff from us, you can just go to lotusseaters.com and you can see we have all of our premium and non-premium content here to check out.
	And with that, let's go straight to the video comments.
	While homosexuality was illegal, but now is not, trans people have no such laws interfering with them.
	Similar to abortion protesters, it seems that trans want laws to legalize who they are.
	The trouble is that laws exist to mandate or prescribe certain actions.
	How do you mandate abortion?
	How do you say that abortion must happen under certain circumstances?
	It's as ridiculous a notion as mandating transitioning if certain conditions are met.
	What are the conditions, and what if the person has a change of mind in the future?
	So you're saying that they're a movement that gets their moral legitimacy from what the law tells them they can do, which is a misreading of the law, which is basically there to tell you what you can't do.
	Yeah.
	Interesting perspective.
	But then I guess it's saying you can't deny access to abortions.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, that would be a more sensible look at things, right?
	But he's saying that he feels the legitimacy of these movements derived from their wanting, like, a positive law saying these people exist, mandates their existence.
	Right.
	But, I mean, they exist by, surely by...
	Existing?
	Existing.
	And they've got equal rights under the law because everybody's got equal rights under the law.
	Yeah, but according to their argumentation, it's almost as if you can deny their existence by mistakenly using the wrong pronoun.
	Right.
	So it's almost as if they don't exist because of that.
	We've got quite a few video comments, so let's go through them.
	So because I was actually helping and not standing around in the way with the camera the entire time then I didn't get to film the most interesting bits but at this point then the pulleys on the front were a little too big to squeeze the engine to the slot and get it in and so yeah we had to take those off and even then it was still very tight.
	That looks too big.
	It looks too big to go in, doesn't it?
	It does, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	People often send in their work and it's quite good to see people doing actual work.
	Yeah, work.
	Real work.
	Not like fintech.
	The main reason for the Vikings to invade the East was their abundance of silver.
	And as you can see, the Vikings were correct.
	There was a lot of silver and they made lots of stuff to show their riches.
	- These are some chunky silver necklaces, I tell you what.
	It's an awesome comment.
	Also, where are my reparations, Denmark?
	You know, you invaded us for like hundreds of years and we haven't had a penny out of you.
	So, but you're saying when the Vikings invaded the east?
	Yeah, so presumably like down the Byzantium and so on.
	They got around.
	Right, yeah.
	Got around the Vikings.
	So not us.
	We weren't providing the silver.
	No, but like the Kievan Rus, Kiev was originally settled by, well, it was invaded by the Vikings who took over in the early hundreds, which is why a lot of the Ukrainian Russian people have a kind of Viking ancestry as well.
	Right.
	Rather than being purely Slavs.
	Right, yeah.
	A lot of Irish people as well.
	I think my wife is part Viking.
	Yeah.
	She looks very Viking.
	Yeah, no, the Vikings got everywhere, but they still haven't paid up.
	I mean, what's that?
	I thought they lived in a social justice world.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Sounds of music Sounds of music There's this man.
	Oh great.
	...is that for the TV rally?
	That was on the list.
	He sent us the photos.
	He did suddenly die.
	It's one of the dangerous cyclicals.
	Yeah, I think, if you've seen, and you will have seen the footage, it's just crazy.
	which is just crazy.
	Like, I couldn't do that.
	Oh, this is it!
	Oh, yeah!
	Morning.
	Apologies for the second video.
	Hopefully this goes through.
	I woke up this morning to the news that whilst I was working down the beer tent, we had a fatal crash involving 29-year-old Mark Perslow from Wales.
	All the riders who come here know the risks.
	It's just unfortunate this sort of thing happens.
	Hopefully his family are okay.
	Yeah, I condolences to Mark Perslow, but like you say, you knew the risks.
	You do these high-adrenaline sports and it does happen.
	Yeah, jeez, but I used to ride a moped and I got rid of that because I thought, man, I'm going to die in this thing because, yeah, it's dangerous.
	It's dangerous.
	That's where the thrill comes from.
	Yeah, I got run over by a truck.
	Oh, bloody hell.
	Is that why you got so long?
	No, that's what, like, ironed me out.
	Oh, bloody hell.
	Goodness me.
	That's what happens, so be careful.
	Be your discretion advised, yeah.
	Be careful and don't ride a motorbike.
	Let's get to the next comment.
	All this promotion of eating bugs.
	It makes me think of an old saying, you become what you eat.
	Very good point.
	You've had the stories about insect eating being provided in schools and so on.
	Yeah, and then he's listing the things that we actually get from bugs.
	So carrageenan, a lot of this stuff is already in, we're using bugs in food.
	There's a food colouring as well, I'm not sure which...
	Which one it is.
	There's a red colour that comes from beetles, I think.
	I can't remember what else.
	I have to look that up.
	Let's get to the next one.
	So like another million of Norwegians, I have a problem with my stomach.
	And it turns out that a lot of things got a lot better after I quit eating E407, E433 and E466. Some of the most used additives in food.
	And pills.
	So try to avoid them and see how much better you feel.
	Really.
	7, 4, 3, 3 and 4, 6, 6.
	Oh yeah, carrageenan isn't from bugs.
	That was my mistake.
	It's from red seaweed.
	Oh, okay.
	I'll have a look at those later.
	But yeah, let's get to the next comment.
	So we finally got the engine into the truck.
	However, the...
	Engine mount bracket was catching on the power steering pump because Ford were absolute jerks about where they decided to stick it inside of the engine cavity.
	So my brother hooks up the chain on the opposite side of the motor so he can give it a lift and twist it into place.
	And it pops in but the motor was still crooked and needs some more adjusting so we'll maybe do that next weekend.
	Yeah, good stuff.
	Go to the next comment.
	This is a response to Sean Nav's video retort.
	Whilst I agree with you that autism is not a superpower, along with its cringe romanticization of a disability, I wouldn't put yourself down because of it.
	Speaking as someone who has a form of autism, I understand where you are coming from, as I have been there myself.
	It is painful, but this pain can build your character.
	Everybody's got their strength and their weaknesses.
	Focus on your strength.
	I hope this message finds you.
	Yeah, I think most men are autistic, and a lot of women are autistic as well, on some level.
	Yeah, I think I have a maxim that everyone's crazy when you get to know them well enough.
	And most people pretend to be normal, and they're absolutely not.
	You don't pretend, though.
	That's good.
	Let's go to the next one.
	While browsing Amazon Prime Video, the 2020 CBS adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand appeared in the watchlist.
	I had watched it before, but it is quite forgettable.
	Anyway, imagine my shock when Amber Heard appeared as a main character.
	As I watched, it became clear that Heard has no personality of her own, but is, in fact, Nadine Cross making a deal with the devil.
	Then imagine my surprise when Ezra Miller hoved into view playing a deviant intent on destroying everything around him.
	His main actors don't seem to be acting.
	That's mental.
	Ezra Miller, of course, recently, he's been in the news a few times for violence against women, and then he's criticised the police for misgendering him.
	He's a they them.
	He's not a he, him.
	Yeah, it's quite remarkable.
	Do you know the Harry Potter films, right?
	So I find it really curious that in some way the actors have gone on to resemble their characters quite strongly.
	One of the actors for either Crabbe or Goyle got booted off the set for a drug-related offence later on, which is just quite funny, I think.
	And then, of course, Emma Watson has taken her sort of goody two-shoes character all the way to the UN. So, you know, I find it really interesting how a lot of the time, like, actors really are cast in who they are.
	Yeah.
	Go to the next comment.
	I don't have a problem if they want to try and sell virtual kids, because anyone who wants to be a parent isn't going to buy that anyway, and anyone who would buy that probably shouldn't be in charge of real children, because children are not pets to be cute for your amusement when you're bored.
	Children are developing people, and your job as a parent is to sacrifice and provide to shape them into good people.
	And your reward as a parent is the fulfillment of seeing them come to fruition.
	Wise words.
	Let's go to the next comment.
	Good evening and welcome back to my video comments.
	Now, the left wants to accuse me of being responsible for a mass shooting.
	Well, how do they do this?
	Well, they accuse me of spreading the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory.
	So what do they mean by this?
	Well, they call me a bigot for repeating what they themselves say about immigration.
	They want to pretend they're not saying it because they want to gaslight you.
	This is a great point.
	This is a great point.
	A lot of stuff that right-wing people get criticised for is basically just regurgitating or noticing the same things as a left-wing person.
	But, you know, it's a right-wing person doing it.
	So, for example, when John Cleese, technically, I mean, he's not right-wing, but he said, oh, you know, London's not recognisably English as it used to be.
	And, you know, left-wing people are always saying, oh, London's so multicultural and diverse because, you know, immigrants make such a contribution to it.
	John Cleese said the exact same thing.
	He was criticised for being racist.
	Yeah, because he said it in a right-wing way.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	It almost seems like if you want to inject any idea into public discourse, you have to frame it in a left-wing way.
	Yeah.
	And then just, you know, hope that people pick up on it as it filters through the...
	Yeah, that's a great point.
	But yeah, I mean, man, that guy made a brilliant point.
	I mean, the replacement theory, I can't even believe it's a sort of controversial theory.
	It's a fact of demographics.
	Of course left-wing politicians want to get more votes.
	And they even say that, you know, the right are stifling, trying to suppress immigrant voters or something so that the right can get in.
	So the flip side of that is, you know, then those people are voting for the left, so there's an incentive there for the left to...
	So, yeah.
	I mean, it's not...
	I can't believe it's even controversial.
	I know.
	It's ridiculous, the things that they try to pretend are verboten.
	Yeah.
	You know.
	If we go to the next comment...
	On Thursday the 2nd I went to a Jubilee event with a friend where I saw houses in public areas with more bunting and flags than I could reasonably take photos of, had some good food in a festive ale called Jubilee Ale, pitted a very good boy called Milo, spelled with a Y and not an I like our ex-gay provocateur, and had the benefit of seeing a Lancaster bomber fly over three times.
	It was refreshing to see so much unapologetic patriotism and I thought I'd share some proud Britishness with you guys.
	Classic British cottage.
	Yeah, that's really nice.
	The mini at the side, some nice big flags.
	That's lovely.
	Low-key, understated.
	Good.
	Next comment?
	So it turns out if you keep applying for enough jobs, eventually you do get enough people asking you for interviews.
	A lot of interviews.
	The other thing I'd like to bring up is, load-seaters, stop censoring my video comments.
	So help me, I will make them very cringe.
	And also, to people like that oil guy who's going to be at the barbecue we all are going to do tomorrow...
	See you there.
	And if this isn't played on Friday, just delete the thing.
	If we go to the next comment...
	Here's a little view of Split Rock along the old Oregon Trail here in Wyoming.
	Must be a computer game, didn't it?
	Beautiful country.
	There's a book as well.
	And I can luckily say I didn't die of dysentery.
	That looks amazing.
	Well, that's the meme, isn't it?
	I played this game briefly.
	It's like a really old-school game from maybe even the 80s or something like that.
	And you always end up dying of dysentery.
	It's just like a really primitive survival adventure game.
	Right.
	You're trying to cross the Aragon Trail.
	Do we have multiple videos?
	Okay.
	During the Viking Age in the East, there was a slave trade and the young blonde ones had the highest sales rate while the brown-haired one wasn't worth as much.
	Thank you so much for joining me here at this special exhibition at Moskau, Vikings in the East.
	Please tell me if you would be interested in more of this kind of content, going to different museums and places in Denmark telling about Viking history, and maybe I should invest in a selfie stick for higher quality videos.
	Tell me what you think, and see you next week.
	I'm personally a big fan of the history, the Viking aesthetic and everything, so more of that I'd be very happy with.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	The history, also contemporary, what it's like to live in Denmark or wherever.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I'm just going to read a couple of comments, because we've had a lot of video comments, we don't have much time.
	Maureen says, Maybe
	it was a bit tasteless, but he got scared.
	But yeah, the first person who stopped clapping at Stalin's speeches gets a visit from the...
	Keith Savage gets it.
	He says, BBC journos are slippery, champagne-swilling weasels.
	By and large, a lot of them do fit that description.
	There are some good ones, though.
	You know, it's a big institution.
	Occasionally you find someone who's like, oh my god, he has a brain.
	Usually that's not the case.
	And finally, I'm just going to throw in Alex Ogle says, Leo is right that the BBC isn't an uncritical mouthpiece of the government.
	But that may be the way they obfuscate their bias issue.
	They do seem to favour a powerful elite who will rule by expert advice in the manner of the rationalists in Michael Oakeshott's fantastic essay.
	And they uncritically attack any government that doesn't conform to that ideal, particularly the conservatives.
	So certainly plenty of food for thought there are.
	I'm afraid, I'm sorry I didn't get more time to go through and really chew through your comments because there's some good stuff in here.
	But we are going away for the weekend.
	We finally get a day off.
	We have weekend segments going up.
	You can check out our content on lotusseeds.com and we shall be back Monday for the live podcast.
	So goodbye from Liam.
	Bye!
	Follow my YouTube.
	Alright.
	Just do it.

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