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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #409
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, This is episode 409 on the 7th of June 2022.
I'm your host Harry, joined today by Josh.
Hello there.
And today we're going to be talking about the dismal state of British politics and Britain in general.
Sadly, we're going to be talking about Matt Walsh asking the most dangerous question there is right now, and also Biden's most senile moment yet.
That is right, he has, according to Josh, topped himself yet again.
If only he topped himself.
Disavow, disavow.
And just in case either of us start to sound particularly like Slavoj Žižek today, we must make mention that the pollen has been assaulting me in particular, and a little bit of Josh as well, so please forgive us if we start to sniff.
We did also have Tom's going away drinks last night as well, so...
Yes, sadly Tom has left us.
He will continue as an external writer, but he won't be appearing on the videos of the podcast anymore, so we had to give him a fair send-off, didn't we?
Absolutely.
Anyway, with all that said, let's move on to the news.
So, I wanted to talk about, after the confidence vote in Boris Johnson, just how depressing British politics truly is, because, you know, the world isn't depressing enough.
I want to make it slightly worse.
I mean, you really do live up to your moniker of evil scientists, because even when everybody's having a good day, you're just like, here's some depressing information for you to bring you down.
LAUGHTER So yes, obviously the big news in British politics at the minute is that there was no confidence vote against Prime Minister Boris Johnson and he was backed by 211 Conservative MPs because of course it's only Conservative MPs that get to vote in a non-confidence vote and this was of course triggered over things like Partygate and his response to lockdowns, these sorts of things.
Yeah, we have pointed out before, it's a point that John Wheatley likes to make over and over again, that the complaint about Partygate is kind of stupid and illogical to a certain extent, because just complaining that he broke the rules is not a good reason to complain about it.
What he should be doing is apologising for the fact that the lockdown rules were put in place in the first place.
Because they were immoral and distinctly anti-freedom of choice and freedom of association and all of those liberties that we in England like to consider as our right.
But in this no-confidence vote, it was actually surprisingly close.
So 211 Tory MPs voted in favour of the Prime Minister.
They gave him their confidence, I suppose.
For some reason.
And 148 voted to remove him, which isn't an insignificant number.
And...
This means that about 41% of his own MPs in his own party wanted him removed, which is pretty big, isn't it?
It's almost a majority.
It is pretty big, and they were all cast anonymously as well, so there's varying information on who was actually voting for or against him.
Obviously, his cabinet all came out publicly and said that they would be supporting him, and there are a few that were going against him that came out publicly, like Jesse Norman saying, you know, I supported you for 15 years, I can't do it anymore.
Although, I think, personally for me, when it comes to, because some people are wondering, oh, who voted against him, who didn't vote against him.
For those who did vote against him, I think the important question is why it is.
Yes, and I'll be addressing some of that later on down the line.
Just because when I looked at Jesse Norman's reasoning yesterday, he was saying basically Boris isn't progressive enough, which is great when that's the dissent coming from the Conservative Party, isn't it?
They're Conservatives.
So, to put this 41% figure into context, I'm going to go through a few of the previous non-confidence votes of previous Conservative voters.
So in 2018, of course, you may remember this, it wasn't too long ago, Theresa May survived a no-confidence vote prompted by her Brexit policies.
She had about 37% of her MPs voting against her, which is, of course, less than Boris now.
There was more confidence in Theresa May.
Yes.
In 2003, Ian Duncan-Smith narrowly lost a confidence vote with 55% of Tory MPs voting against him.
And that's Ian Duncan-Smith, the charisma black hole that only got 55%.
You'd think it would have been a little bit more.
Just to point out as well, because I don't know if you mentioned it, when Theresa May had 37% voting against her, she still resigned six months later.
Yes.
If trends are to be considered, things aren't looking great for Boris.
But it's always difficult to get a certain amount of causality, because they say they resigned because of one thing.
You never really know the real reason.
Lots of backdoor politics.
But in 1990, Margaret Thatcher faced a second leadership challenge in about 12 months, and she won But 40.9% of her MPs backed the challenger, Michael Heseltine, and then her cabinet eventually persuaded her to resign.
So that is about as close to 41% as you can possibly get, 40.9%, and she was persuaded to resign.
And that was Margaret Thatcher, who's quite often deified by Conservatives in Britain.
Yes, especially during the 80s when she was winning election after election by landslides.
Mm-hmm.
So this BBC article goes on to outline, the number of rebels was higher than had been predicted, and ex-Tory leader William Hague had advised him to quit.
So you've got senior Tories, more or less, advising the Prime Minister to quit.
This isn't small, this isn't political theatre, this is a serious threat to his leadership, isn't it?
However, Dominic Raab, one of the senior ministers, I think he's deputy prime minister, so you can't get much more senior than that, said there was no credible alternative to Boris Johnson.
And I can kind of see where he's coming from, although I'm not a fan of what Boris Johnson has done.
When you think of the Conservative Party, you don't think of a party brimming with potential, do you, or competence.
No, there's a few backbenchers that I'm aware of who don't get really much spotlight, who seem to actively care about British values, British traditions, protecting borders and such, but they don't seem as far as I can tell.
They're not popular, that's the problem.
There are people that we like, however, they're not the ones that are...
Desmond Swain has seemed to show himself a number of times to actually be someone who cares about the values and traditions of England.
He's said a number of times, Britain is full, we should close the borders.
He's also said we need to maintain our traditional liberties.
All these sorts of things that really speak to me, but there's sadly no chance that he's going to be getting...
There are a handful of really good MPs and members of the House of Lords out there.
Daniel Hannan's one of my personal favourites in the House of Lords.
He's...
Very good on the economy.
Very staunch free marketeer.
Good man.
Good man.
Yeah, we've got the free market podcast today, haven't we?
Right now, yes, we do.
So, I wanted to move on to talk about some of the views within the Conservative Party, and this series of tweets from Lord Frost here is pretty useful.
So he said, Without his leadership between 2019 and 2020, we would simply not have succeeded in getting out of the EU or getting a free trade agreement.
I hugely admire his determination in those difficult days.
So, he's...
Framed it as in, okay, well, he's one of the few people who was able to get us out of the European Union.
However, he goes on to say, and if you can scroll down a bit, John, to some of his other tweets here, but the task now is to make a success of Brexit with our newfound freedoms.
I said when I left the cabinet a few months ago that I had concerns about the current direction of travel, and I do, and if anything, they have become reinforced in recent months.
And this is something that...
I hope to see more because lots of people are concerned that we've not really capitalised from leaving the European Union, which is Boris's obvious prowling jewel of his prime ministerial ship.
Yeah, the main reason that people voted to leave the EU in the first place was for culture and immigration purposes.
The immigration has, if anything, gone up.
It reached a million people in 2021, didn't it?
Yes, and that was during a period where for half the year we were still locked down.
It's absolutely absurd that, you know, these were the issues that were on everybody's lips that were voting Conservative, and the Conservatives have more or less stabbed their own voters in the back.
So no wonder there's some sort of rebellion going on here.
Yes, we can only hope that real Conservatives can actually rise to the top, even though I'm doubtful that that will be possible.
So, Lord Frost goes on to say, I mean,
this is all solid advice.
I was going to say, talking about bringing taxes down immediately gets me in a good mood.
If you could abolish them entirely, even better.
But I understand you've got to take baby steps with these things.
First things first, tackle the cost of living crisis.
Get rid of the government obligation tax that's included in everybody's energy bills, which takes up about 25% of everybody's energy bills.
And the government's going, oh, what can we do to solve this crisis that we have obviously caused?
I don't know.
Let's print more money.
Let's cause inflation.
That'll solve everything.
So, you might find this next part amusing, because before the near-confidence vote, apparently there was an internal memo which branded Boris the conservative Corbyn, and this is obviously circulated by some of the Tory rebels, basically suggesting that he was spending too much money.
Well, it's true.
And it's entirely obvious, isn't it?
I mentioned this yesterday.
The problem is...
The Conservatives are doing the polar opposite of what a Conservative person should do with this, which is sort of accepting that, for the most part, the general public knows what best to do with their time and their money, and stepping back, whereas this government seems to have fallen into the trap of doing the socialist measures.
Some of the most authoritarian policies that have been in Britain in the past, I don't know, 30 years or so.
He's outdoing Tony Blair, which I never thought...
It's the problem of government planning, which is you implement planning, and then when the planning doesn't work, you don't think, oh, maybe planning was the problem in the first place.
You go, how can we plan ourselves out of this problem that our plans created, which always fails?
So moving on to who might replace him, although I am very sceptical about the fact of him stepping down, I think that he is going to cling on to power, like a limpet or a barnacle, he's going to cling on to the whole of Britain.
um however it's worth considering who could potentially replace him and it's not exactly a star-studded uh cast so here we have an independent article looking at the odds this was before the no confidence vote but they listed them anyway and it's interesting to see who some of the favorites are so obviously they've got rishi the money printer sunak um who is the chancellor of the exchequer known for massive spending unparalleled i'm
I mean, Jeremy Corbyn probably wouldn't even dream of spending as much money as Rishi Sunak.
Shockingly, that's probably true.
You've got Jeremy, lockdowns didn't go far enough, Hunt, former health secretary.
So far you're just listing communists as far as I'm concerned.
And Liz Flip-Flopping Truss, who is the Foreign Secretary.
And as you can imagine, these aren't their real middle names, obviously.
These are the things that I've dubbed them, just to make that clear.
Just in case our Americans didn't get it.
So, some other interesting names that were banded about that I wasn't too familiar with in the race at all was Tom Tugendhat, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Is that his real name?
Yes, it's a cool name, isn't it?
Because that sounds like a fake name.
He's a former military man as well, I think.
Oh, okay.
And Penny Mordaunt, who is International Trade Minister, and Ben Wallace, who is the Defence Secretary.
So these were people that were potentially penned as leadership candidates, say, if Boris resigned.
However, I don't think that's necessarily likely.
However, stranger things have happened, and I wouldn't want to predict with 100% certainty that it's going to stay the same.
No, of course.
It's just a shame that when you see the other members of the cabinet who are in for the running, it's basically like you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, isn't it?
Yes.
And talking of Liz Truss, actually, we have an article on Lotus Eaters outlining how and why she got this nickname of flip-flopping Liz Truss from me.
This is written by Thomas, though, and basically he outlines how she's moved around...
Wherever was politically opportune.
So she was a Remainer under David Cameron, Brexiteer under Boris, lots of other things.
So she's a professional politician?
Yes.
Don't think she has any convictions of her own.
But one contender I didn't imagine there might be was this next one.
Tony Blair's new centrist project.
Just don't call it a party.
Remember, it's not a political party.
It's a coalition of people in politics that are loosely associated with shared values and goals.
I can understand why, over the Christmas period, people are tired enough of hearing about parties in the first place.
So I suppose that might have something to do with it.
But if Tony Blair is now a centrist...
That just shows how far left we've all been pulled against our will.
That is a very good point, because Tony Blair is no longer the radical he used to be.
He's now considered a centrist.
I know he's basically said, yeah, radical Islam coming into the country was a mistake.
Is he still for open borders?
I don't know.
Probably not for Muslims, if that's the case.
The final solution to the problems Tony Blair caused is Tony Blair himself.
Is he going on a redemption arc?
Is that what's going on here?
Imagine if he came back into politics and was actually the one that saved Britain.
How depressing would that be?
He just came back uber-based, although I know that's not true.
That's obviously not going to happen.
I remember what he was talking about when lockdowns were happening.
I imagine he's just running from The Hague, but that's what some people are saying anyway, not me.
So don't sue me, Tony, please.
Or the Spire Smugfest.
Tony Blair, smug.
I won't hear of it.
But yes, apparently there's the Future of Britain conference due to take place on the 30th of June, and lots of prominent people are in attendance.
I don't have the time to list them all off, but this will be in the reading list on the website if you want to go through and actually read who's attending.
There are lots of important names there, but I'm not going to bore you listing them all off.
So, let's look at the Britain that Boris is in charge of and why he's actually worthy of contempt in the first place.
And these are just things I've found in the news recently.
So, for example, we've got a tweet here from Paul Embry, who I believe was the...
I think he was a fireman, who was a trade unionist.
Pro-Brexiteer, blue Labour type, yeah.
He got in trouble with his own party.
But...
He's saying this is reportedly the manager of a cinema in Sheffield addressing a theocratic mob protesting the screaming of blasphemous film The Lady of Heaven.
Thoroughly depressing to see him capitulate to their demands and confirm the film has been binned.
So yes, I looked up this film and I think it's a Shia Sunni thing because I think it's depicting one interpretation of Islam.
I can't remember which one it is.
And it also, I believe, according to Rory, shows a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, which you can probably see why there are lots of Muslims out there trying to cancel the film.
It is showing across Britain if you want to stick it to some Muslims, although I think it is made by some other Muslims, so...
It's meant to be really good, though.
I saw lots of good reviews.
As long as it's a good film.
But, I mean, isn't it so great that we've pointed this out so many times?
But it always bears repeating that we have imported ethnic and cultural conflicts from across the pond over here where they never existed before.
Yes.
I mean, if this showed in Britain with non-Muslim Britons, the original inhabitants of Britain, I don't think we would be too fussed about it.
I mean, the thing is, I'm happy to explore and acknowledge and appreciate the art of other cultures, but you don't need to import half of their population for me to be able to watch the film and go, oh, it was good that was.
We do have the internet.
It's possible to, you know, get this stuff outside of the country it comes from.
I didn't need to sit down with a bunch of West Africans to watch Blood Diamond and go, good film that was.
That would be entertaining, wouldn't it?
It would be.
So, next, this is just depressing.
So, censors could ask, do you menstruate instead of are you female to boost trans-inclusivity, study suggests.
This leads quite well into your next segment, although I'm not quite done yet.
Apparently, this is a taxpayer-funded study which received £579,000 of taxpayer money for this nonsense.
I don't know...
Where they found this money, we're all scraping by and there they are.
We're all getting taxed more than we used to.
Tax rises here, there and everywhere.
Government obligation taxes.
And this is all they can think to spend it on.
And this next one isn't Britain exclusive, but it's just funny, and I thought I'd include it anyway.
Burger King pride whoppers come with two tops or two bottoms.
This is the stone toss meme.
This is better than satire, isn't it?
This is the stone toss meme.
Mr Burger King, how will this help us sell burgers?
Burgers?
That's what this is!
But I just thought it was funny.
It's like something that I would make up to satirise Pride Month, but there we go.
Boga King being a bit degenerate.
There we go.
So, far more depressingly, we've got this story of a peer in the House of Lords demanding a, I believe it's a judicial review, as a transgender paedophile has been spared jail, and this is pretty horrific.
Sorry to lower the tone here.
Conservative peer Baroness Nicholls is seeking a sentence review after a paedophile who identifies as transgender was spared jail.
68-year-old Peter Selby gathered over 125,000 obscene images of child abuse, with more than 2,400 of them being classified as Category A, the most indecent.
Selby was born a male, so based on GB News.
Yes, they're calling him by his male name.
I'm not going to respect the pronouns or fake name of some paedophile.
Yes. - That's pretty standard stuff, isn't it?
I know, that's a pretty hardline position to take, but I'm standing by my principles.
Yes, apparently they received...
Normally this would garner a 10-year prison sentence, which is probably not even long enough in my opinion.
But apparently they were handed a 14-month sentence, which has been suspended for two years.
I can say from experience, from knowing people, that the UK as a whole goes far far too easy on pedophiles and sentencing.
There was a person I used to sit next to at a previous job who used to disappear so that he could look after his mum and then just quit the job altogether.
And then in the local newspaper a few years later, I see that he's been arrested and thrown into prison for grooming a 10-year-old child in Stoke-on-Trent, which was especially shocking when I saw he'd only got two years for it after the newspaper article.
Yeah, that's an appallingly low sentence.
Yes, confirmed that he had physically assaulted the child as well as...
Absolutely vile.
But this is where we are with the Conservative Party and conservatism in general.
Well, at least Baroness Nicholson is doing something.
She's actually pushing for a review of this sentence, which is good.
Hopefully we can get something done, but this is happening under the Conservatives' watch.
Moving on to something a bit more absurd.
If you could scroll down to the picture a little bit, John.
Biological males win women's cycling event, kiss, while third place female cares for child.
And in the picture...
It's brilliant.
You showed this yesterday, didn't you?
So I'm not going to talk about it much, but this was in London yesterday.
I think respect to that woman, because I can't accept anything other than that her bringing her child up there was a statement.
I would say so.
It had to be.
Well, in my eyes, she was first place, not those two dudes.
Yeah, of course.
Those two gay dudes making out...
So yes, one of the final things is look at the state of this.
So our very own Nick Dixon, who's been on the podcast a few times.
Friend of the show.
Yes.
He was complaining about a message he received from a place where he was trying to get a gig.
And if you could show this message here, John, it says, I'm aware of...
I'm aware of Nick, might well suit the blank, more than blank, and blank is a great venue.
I kind of have a million billion really good white, straight, able-bodied male comedians that I can call on.
I'm trying to find more of the opposite.
when I say opposite I don't necessarily mean a black gay woman in a wheelchair but I've seen how hard it is for female acts black acts etc to get on good bills and it's a good and it's good to mix it up with character acts like blank might not be ready for it but I am and of course funny That's my question.
I'm going to a comedy show.
are they funny yes and and he's saying nothing new of course but i'm looking forward to the day when i'm judged only on the content of my character or just the content of my content that would that would be a good start wouldn't it And, of course, being notably frustrated with the fact that you're not being booked based on your merit, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
This is obvious discrimination.
I mean, literally, in the classic sense of the term, this is him being refused an offer purely because of the colour of his skin and also his sexuality.
And, of course, pink news...
Reported on this.
Comedian moans he can't get gigs because he's white, straight, able-bodied and male.
And I don't think it's that he can't get gigs full stop, it's just that he got declined a gig.
This one gig.
And also, is that not a legitimate grievance for him to hold?
Well, yes, of course.
I mean, obviously it is.
So, yeah, it goes on to say, speaking to the Express, Dixon whined.
Nice neutral language there.
This has happened to basically every straight white comedian I know.
Whether it's live performances or TV work, everyone this happens to feels it's wrong, even though they might not admit it publicly.
Even right-on left-wing comedians will express anger about it in private.
Dixon thinks diversity happens naturally under meritocracy.
Right.
So pink news directly against meritocracy.
Not really a surprise, is it?
But yes.
I mean, as a publication, it should be obvious enough.
Yes, and Dixon continued.
Some argue that this kind of thing is redressing the balance for past discrimination, but if you ask them to give up their place on a TV panel show for a person of colour, it would be a different story.
I just want a meritocracy because that's better for everyone.
Yes.
It always comes back to Cathy Newman v Jordan Peterson, and Jordan Peterson just going, okay, well, if you're so privileged, give up your job for someone underprivileged then.
And she's just completely dumbfounded by the statement.
She has no response to it, because at the same time as holding all of her principles and opinions and intersectionality, she's still like, I don't want to lose my job.
I've got it sweet here.
Why would I want to give it up?
Because at the end of the day, we're all only working in our self-interest.
But anyway, that is both a review of the no-confidence vote of Boris Johnson, what the political landscape looks like in Britain, and the depressing state that the Conservative government has led us into, I suppose.
So hopefully you're not too depressed.
Maybe some positive change is on the way.
It's always difficult to tell, but...
Moving on.
I just want to, before we go into the next segment, they posted a little comment here, just relating to this, from Kevin Fox.
Leave this out of YouTube, of course.
The only post Tony Blair should get is the one they tie him to before blindfolding him and shouting fire for his part in the deaths of so many service personnel.
Jeez.
Oof!
Oof!
Kevin Fox is not holding back.
But as someone with a cousin in the military, I agree.
Anyway, let's move on, shall we?
To Matt Walsh asking the most dangerous question.
So, Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire have released a new documentary called What is a Woman?
Which I've had the pleasure of watching.
We're going to see a few clips of it.
I don't want to spoil it too much.
I think we might do a review of it.
For the website, so keep your eyes out for that.
It's an excellent, just to give a quick one, excellent little documentary.
My only complaint would be purely because of the fact that it has to be...
You can only access it through the Daily Wire website through a subscription service, and I do think it's of the quality and important enough in its subject matter that it should get a wider release.
Get it in every cinema around the world.
I understand that cinemas aren't obviously going to want to be holding onto it, but at least try and get a Blu-ray or DVD release so that people are able to share it with their friends more easily than you are just huddled around a computer.
Although, Amazon, Netflix, they're not going to want anything to do with it, so I would just like to see a wider release so more people can see it, because it is very good and it's very, very important.
But, it has, as you can imagine from what I've just said, got a lot of controversy, and we're going to look at some of the clips...
That have been spread around and we're also going to take a look at some of the responses and what Matt Walsh has responded to personally as well.
But before we go any further, I just want to draw your attention to this premium contemplations that Josh and I did recently.
It was a lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun, especially given how dry the subject matter could have been because we were talking about why sex is binary and that's in the biological concrete terms why sex is binary.
So yes, I tried my hand at giving people a little biology lesson and went through some what should have been school-level science, more or less.
It was when I was in school, so...
Yes.
I'm not sure it's in school so much anymore, but there we go.
We go through it and we apply that understanding to lots of different...
Articles in the media circulating about these sorts of things and corrected them, more or less, with our correct understanding of biology based on biologists that aren't massive hacks.
Yes, the opinion being, of course, that biology matters, which many people would just deny nowadays.
Anyway, so, just a reminder as well that a lot of the activism that's being done by trans activists and all those types is being done out of concern and care for children and people who they think are going to be damaged by Evil conservatives pushing back against it, but what they're actually doing is pushing children and lots of vulnerable people into decisions that will haunt them for the rest of their lives, which is kind of the point that Matt is trying to make throughout this documentary.
Just to get a taster, let's take a look at a little bit of the trailer that was released earlier on in May that got a lot of people riled up to begin with.
What is a woman?
Can you tell me that?
Well, you're at the Women's March.
You must have some idea.
Please, if one person could tell me what a woman it is.
You are not here for women!
We ask you to leave!
What is that?
I'm a husband.
I'm a father for...
I host a talk show.
I give speeches.
I write books.
I like to make sense of things.
A woman is not anything in particular.
There is not one particular thing.
It could be many things to many people.
Some women have penises, right?
Some men have vaginas.
I like scented candles.
I've watched Sex and the City.
Yeah.
How do I know if I'm a woman?
That's a great question.
You're not a scientist.
You're not a gender studies major.
No.
How do you know that you're a man?
I guess because I got a dick.
That's great right there.
I'm looking forward to watching this, actually.
Yeah, it's good fun.
That sums up a lot of what he's doing now, which is just going around and showing that what's happening is that all of these professionals, these medical experts, these people with their gender studies degrees and all of these useless degrees, are basically, and for all practical purposes relating to reality, completely useless and misinforming people.
Because you're at a woman's march, and now people are in an atmosphere where they can't give an answer to what a woman is, so what are you even marching for?
Whereas just some guy running a Star Wars store is able to go, well, yeah, I've got male genitals.
Obviously I'm a man.
There you go.
And he's just raising the question, what is the point of the word?
What is the point of the category if it doesn't relate to something concrete?
It's not like happiness, which can be relatively subjective depending on who you're asking it to.
The utility comes from being able to apply it to reality, which can help you to navigate the world.
Because I don't know if you've...
I don't know if you out there have spoken to women, but they can be very different to men, and it's kind of useful.
No way, I didn't know that.
I know, shocking nowadays, isn't it?
But it can be useful to know these things so that you don't accidentally throw yourself in a social faux pas with women, for instance, by asking what their weight is.
They generally don't like that one.
Well, when they ask you your height, that's what you've got to respond.
Of course, there are exceptions to these rules, but generally speaking, if you're meeting a woman the first time, don't open with that.
Hello, nice to meet you.
How heavy are you?
I've had a few slaps from encounters like that.
But going on to the social media response that it has received, so you've got people like Ben Dreyfus, who I'm not really familiar with before this, tweeting at Matt, who, if you scroll up a little, just so we can see what this was responding to, John.
John, if you could scroll up just so we could see the tweet this is responding to, please.
Thank you.
Um...
Matt's just pointing out that by the logic that this guy's employing, waiting until puberty to castrate a child is a moderate position.
Because, of course, Lupron and the puberty blockers that they give to children are used for chemical castration of convicted paedophiles, for instance.
So, I think there's a bit of a moral grey area, you could say, to be light on it, of giving that sort of drug to a 12-year-old.
For instance, I think we can ask a few questions and push back against that.
I hate that they're using the term moderate as if there's a moderate position on protecting children, as in...
Yeah, the position is protect children.
Yes.
There you go.
And it's so shocking to somebody that a conservative father of four, who I think is also a diehard Christian as well, Matt Walsh, would want to protect children.
And he's pointing out that these people are monsters.
Ben responds to that.
Are you saying that eunuchs...
Shouldn't be allowed to castrate themselves?
My disgust at your opinion actually has to do with you stopping adults from doing what they want to their own body.
I think it's pretty reasonable to be able to say, hey, you there with the knife, maybe don't castrate yourself.
Unic lives matter.
Unic lives matter, indeed.
And to be fair, Matt is getting to the point where I think he has actively said that he advocates that any and all transitioning should be illegal at any age, which is a bit too far for me as it stands right now, but I can understand how he's come to that position.
I think that it's like saying, oh, I've broken my finger, oh, I'm going to cut it off.
Yes.
It's...
Taking the wrong approach to treating a dysphoria, basically.
Yes, I agree that it probably is.
The problem is that the idea of looking into this scientifically is so taboo right now.
There is no ability to check out what other options there are for these people who are suffering from gender dysphoria or the depression.
There are lots of other dysphoric conditions where you can treat those with...
Similar methods to gender dysphoria and vice versa.
And these are actually perfectly ordinary psychological treatments.
Yeah.
I do agree with the point that he's making overall, which is that the industry, the medical industry that is administering these surgeries, is reckless.
It's hurting people for profit and for ideological purposes, and they're not acknowledging the consequences of what they're doing.
And I like his...
That you can see here.
I'm not talking about what adults are allowed to do with their bodies.
I'm talking about what doctors and drug companies should be allowed to do to other people's bodies for profit.
So he's reframing the conversation because obviously you say, oh, are you against bodily autonomy?
At the end of the day...
People, you know, you can get kitchen knives, you can do whatever you want to yourself with that kitchen knife.
Don't do that though.
Don't do it, but that is something that people can do.
It is a point of like, yeah, but should doctors be able to do that?
It's a restriction on the medical community who are taking advantage of this craze right now to make millions and millions of dollars.
And let's take a look at a clip of somebody from the documentary who has sadly been the victim of this medical profiteering, this ideological pushing, who transitioned at 42.
And what life is like for...
They transitioned from female to male, but they obviously don't seem to be too happy with that decision, so I'll refer to her as a she for this.
So let's carry on.
I never fit.
I was an alpha female, a sales executive that kind of just didn't fit in any box.
When psychologists or somebody that I was in love with or whatever said that I was in the wrong body, I started to think, well, maybe I am.
I'm a biological woman that medically transitioned To appear like a male through synthetic hormones and surgery.
I will never be a man.
Is it transphobic for me to tell the truth?
Why is it that a couple hundred years from now, if you dug up my body, they're going to go, yeah, that was a woman.
Had babies.
Can you tell me about the procedures that you had?
I've had seven surgeries.
I've had one stress heart attack.
I've had a helicopter life ride with a pulmonary embolism.
I've had 17 rounds of antibiotics.
I had six inches of hair on the inside of my urethra for 17 months.
Nobody would help me, including the doctor that did this to me because I lost my insurance.
I get infections every three to four months.
I'm probably not going to live very long.
It's really sad.
It is very sad, because as much as there are parts of the documentary, which I will show a few, which are very, very amusing, it really does also delve into the seriousness of this.
I think people shouldn't lose sight of the fact that it is something that has a human consequence to it.
I think when you get caught up in the politics of it, you lose the human element that people are going to genuinely suffer from this, and it is very sad.
These people are victims, I think, when you get down to the base of it, and it's just terrible to see what they're having to live with, because she is in a position where she's completely ruined her body, completely ruined her life.
She's a mother, she's got children, and they're not going to be able to see her.
She's not going to be there for her children as they grow up if what's happened to her will kill her.
Which, sadly, due to all of those conditions that she mentioned, it probably will.
This is important to know about because we're doing this to 12-year-olds.
We're doing this to 12-year-olds, putting them in the position where their bones will be brittle, they will have heart attacks, they will be medical patients for the rest of their lives.
That used to be something that was...
Generally recognised as being awful for a child with a medical condition.
That means they're a patient for the rest of their life.
But this is just normal now.
And Matt Walsh is pointing out that the left is terrified of the film.
And they are saying that if they thought they could debunk it, they would.
But they can't even make fun of it for being poorly made because it does have good production values.
They can't debunk it, so they just insult it and cower in hopes it goes away.
And let's take a look at some of the examples that Walsh has shared on his Twitter of this.
Because it seems that The Daily Wire sent out some review copies.
Emailed some publications to see if they would be able to review it and see what they think of it.
And of course, here's some of the emails that they got back.
Unsubscribe, written about 50 times.
Unsubscribe, lose my email, forget my name.
There's one that's basically just, I won't platform a transphobic bigot on the site.
And another one that just says hard pass, so these are all very emotionally mature people responding to a difference of opinion.
And there's more of it.
I will also say that the emails there, they list the society memberships of some of these people, and some of them are like the society of the LGBTQ entertainment critics, so they've obviously targeted these for the people they knew would get a bad response from them.
But at the same time, if you are an organisation dedicated to helping LGBTQ blah blah blah blah, surely you would want to be open to criticism so that you can strengthen your own position?
Well, in an ideal world, having a free discussion where a certain side isn't forced out of the Overton window is the best way for people to make an informed decision in the first place, hearing both sides.
Yes.
And if you just go back to that last image there, John, that one here, we can see that one of them just responded with Do Better with a screen grab of a Time article saying anti-trans violence and rhetoric reached record highs across America in 2021.
I hate Do Better.
Shut up.
With the implication being that the kind of rhetoric that Matt Walsh is pushing is causing these trans people to be murdered and have violence enacted against them.
So what I did, I decided just quickly to take a look into this article and see what it's referencing.
And it's taking information from the Human Rights Campaign, who are a pro-trans activist lobbying group.
And they listed over 50 murders of trans people in 2021.
And first of all, this, obviously, the Time article is listing them as American, where some of them are all from...
Some of them are even listed as being from Puerto Rico, so immediately, that's a dishonest headline right there.
Puerto Rico is part of America, unfortunately.
Oh, is it?
Oh, goodness gracious.
Ignore me, I'm not American, I don't care.
I think you...
I'll double-check that, actually, just to make sure I don't want to correct you and then be wrong myself.
I don't know, that's alright.
I looked into the actual circumstances of some of these murders, and as much as I'm just saying this, I'm not pointing this out to be cruel, I'm not pointing this out as a gotcha, I'm trying to be honest about the facts in a way that Time and the Human Rights Campaign is not.
I just took a list of the first five that were listed as being part of this new campaign of trans-violence, And the circumstances generally were ambiguous and not really connected to them being trans.
For instance, there was Tiana Alexander who was murdered in Chicago's South Side.
And when you see places listed as like Chicago's South Side in America, you know that sounds violent.
So, of course, I typed in Chicago's South Side in Google.
One of the first responses that came up, the suggestions, was Chicago's South Side shootings today.
So that's shootings today, so it's known to have shootings every day.
And I think it was also a drive-by shooting in which another person was killed as well.
So, not related to them being trans.
There was one called 50 Bands who was killed in an argument with a boyfriend.
So, that may have something to do with trans, but...
Yeah.
John's got it.
I was waiting for you to stop there.
Oh yeah, of course.
It remains a territory, but not necessarily a formal state.
Oh, okay.
So, it's contentious whether they would be considered American or not, potentially.
Yeah.
Yeah, so technically, but yeah, not really.
Oh, okay.
Well, thank you very much for that little educational lesson right there.
Sorry to throw you off.
Yeah, and then there's other people like Alexis Braxton who was found dead and the case is unsolved.
So these sorts of headlines, I mean, as if it wasn't obvious enough in the first place, are just dishonest attempts to try and put the onus on random acts of terrible violence, which should not have happened because obviously any murder in these sorts of contexts, whether or not It doesn't matter who it's happening to is bad, but it is trying to take advantage of people's personal tragedies so that you're able to use it as a beating stick against conservatives who don't adhere to LGBT agenda.
So always be aware when this sort of stuff is thrown into you.
Take a look into the circumstances of these murders and see what they actually are.
Ah, but because of the fact that these people have responded so violently against it, it's how you end up with this, which is the Rotten Tomatoes score, where it's a 98% audience score with over 500 ratings, with only one critic review, where the tomato meter has not even registered anything, because they are terrible.
Terrified of watching this film.
And I just thought I'd double check it if we go on to this right now and see what the circumstances are right now.
Oh look, it's still 96% audience score with over 1,000 ratings.
Still only one critic review.
Because they are terrified of touching this.
And honestly, no wonder they don't want to touch the film when there are parts of it and interviews and such that make the ideology look so far.
Foolish.
And let's just watch a few of these clips.
And this is one of my favorite ones where he goes and talks to Dr.
Patrick Grzanka, a gender studies professor at the University of Tennessee.
Why are you asking the question?
I think I want to understand sort of why that's so important.
So if someone tells you...
Just sort of understand reality, you know?
I think when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them.
So if a person says that they're a woman or they're a man, then that's them telling you their gender is.
I'm not so sure what social interactions would have to do with maleness or femaleness.
I'm not even talking about social context.
I'm just trying to start by getting to the truth.
Yeah, I mean, I'm really uncomfortable with that language of, like, getting to the truth.
Again, in social life...
Why is that uncomfortable?
Because that, it sounds actually deeply transphobic to me.
The truth?
And if you keep probing, we're going to stop the interview.
If I probe about what the truth is?
You keep invoking the word truth, which is condescending and rude.
I'm saying to you...
How is the word truth condescending and rude?
Why don't you tell me what your truth is, and you're walking on 30 seconds more of thin ice before I get up.
What my truth is?
Well, I don't think I really have a truth.
I think that there's just the truth.
Like, the reality.
And so, we should begin by trying to figure out what the reality is.
Uh-huh.
And why are you concerned with when someone else tells you that they're a man, or even if they use the word male, why are you concerned with not believing them?
Well, you keep bringing it back to, you know, how do you respond in a social situation?
That's what I do.
I'm a social scientist.
Well, right, but we're in a university.
This is a place of understanding truth, isn't it?
Absolutely.
We pursue truth, and I'm a social scientist, and that's what I do.
But you just said the truth is transphobic.
That you would say, if you're saying the truth is that I get to say, you're not a man, show me your genitalia, that's transphobic.
No, no, I don't want to say anybody's genitalia.
I just mean...
Someone can make a statement about themselves that could be untrue.
Yeah, just obviously always got to bring it back somehow to, oh, why are you trying to ask people about their genitalia?
No, I'm not.
I don't want to see anyone's junk, guys, please.
That's not what I'm doing.
I just want to know the truth.
But the truth is transphobic.
How absolutely ridiculous.
It's nice to get it in a sentence, though, isn't it?
Yeah, and when he starts pushing back on it, you can see just his eyes go really dilate and start darting about the place.
He looks incensed and panicked.
Yeah.
And it's ridiculous.
He's like, oh god, I don't normally get this in my classes.
Normally the kids are brainwashed by the time they get to me.
I like Matt Walsh when he's just like, so why is the truth?
And he like folds his arms just like he's telling off a small child.
I mean, in effect, that is what's happening here.
And we've got other interviews with Michel Fossier, a paediatrician and professor.
And Matt Walsh asks, so how young is it when kids can understand their gender identity?
Let's take a look at this clip.
At what age can a child first begin to transition into another gender or identify themselves as a gender different from how they were born?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, there's research and data that show that babies and infants understand differences in gender.
Some children figure out their gender really early, and the reason why we say, oh, that's interesting or important is because they're figuring out their gender identity is not necessarily congruent with their sex assigned at birth.
When the doctor sees the penis and says, this is a male...
As the sex of male, that's an arbitrary distinction.
Telling that family, based on that little penis, that your child is absolutely 100% male-identified, no matter what else occurs in their life, that's not correct.
That's not correct.
That's not correct to just observe reality as it is.
Can I also just mention how much I absolutely hate the sort of condescending, childish way that she was communicating with all the exaggerated facial expressions.
The way she was talking, almost like she was talking to a baby.
I absolutely despise it.
But it goes to show the attitudes of these people.
And then just to round this little bit off, he speaks to Marcy Bowers, the country's most prominent and busiest sex change surgeon.
So as far as I'm aware, child abuser extraordinaire in America, as it stands right now.
And Matt just is like, well, you know, there are other types of dysphoria where people want to have their arms cut off.
What about them?
And let's see her response.
I don't know if you've ever heard of people in the trans-abled community.
These are people who are physically able-bodied but feel like they should be disabled or identify as such.
For example, a man who has two arms but feels like he should have one.
If a man in this kind of marginalized community went to the doctor and said, I want to have my arm cut off, do you think that...
That doesn't have anything to do with gender identity.
Well, it's someone's Someone's self-identity, how someone identifies?
That's someone who has a, and I'll accept it as a mental diagnosis, a psychiatric condition.
I don't even pretend to know what aptomenophilia is all about, but somehow it's the idea that you're fascinated or charmed by having a limb or part of a limb missing.
I would say that's, pardon my non-medical language, kooky.
You don't see any?
You think this is totally irrelevant?
Yep.
Completely irrelevant to everything I'm doing.
You know, I'm more than happy to administer sex change surgeries to 12-year-olds because in the interview she says, oh yeah, youngest I've done is 12.
But, you know, if someone came to me asking to have their arm cut off, oh, that's just kooky, man.
Don't worry about that.
So this is why it's important to get this out here.
It's just the fact that it's exposing this to a wide audience.
There's obviously people calling him a Nazi transphobe.
Let's take a look at the general response that Twitter gave from people who aren't film reviewers and just part of the general Twitter space, shall we?
If we go to the next one.
What have we got here?
John, if we go to the next one.
Oh yeah, it's a death threat.
"Giant comic anvil fell off a construction site and struck Matt Walsh in the head and instantly ended his life." Sounds reasonable to me.
What have we got next?
Is it another death threat?
It's another death threat.
Imagine if someone shot Matt Walsh in the head.
This is a reasonable, insane person, wouldn't you say?
And then we've got another one, if we go next, which is, I'm sick of transphobe YouTube ads.
I hope Matt Walsh gets food poisoning.
Very specific.
I know, right?
Not exactly a death threat, but still something unpleasant to wish on someone, surely.
And then we've got JXC, who's a YouTuber who I actually enjoy the content of sometimes, the media content, but sadly his political takes are absolute trash-fire garbage.
It should be illegal for any doctor to give any care of any kind to Matt Walsh.
Well, that's not particularly caring, is it?
No, that's not very nice.
That's not very nice at all.
And then there's another death threat, of course.
I can't believe Matt Walsh is dead.
Given that he's not dead, that's a rather concerning thing to say.
And then there is the last one here, which is just going the typical leftist route of just saying, if you don't agree with me, you're trying to genocide people, and saying that it's basically a transgender holocaust, just revealing how ridiculous and damaging the ideology is.
But despite all of this, one of my favourite clips, you've seen a bit of it over the weekend.
I have, yeah.
Is when he's in Nairobi speaking to the Maasai tribe, who despite being, by all Western standards, a backwater, very primitive place, seem to have a much firmer grasp on this whole thing than we do, because you've not seen the later part of that clip.
I'll just play a minute of it here.
I wouldn't necessarily call them backwards or backwater, they've got it all figured out.
They do, they really do, don't they?
But let's hear what they have to say on the whole distinction between what sexes are.
So in my country, sometimes you'll hear people say, a man will say, that I'm a woman trapped in a man's body.
And so they say that I have a woman trapped inside me.
They want to know a woman has the breast.
Breast, yeah.
Vagina.
And the question is, does this man deliver?
Does he deliver babies?
No, not as far as I know.
The question is, let's say if you want to sleep a woman, definitely you'll do sex.
Sex with a woman, yeah.
And you f*** the vagina, is it?
But for the man, where do you f***?
You ask that question.
I don't know all the logistics of it.
So yeah, African tribes have it figured out, whereas over here we're saying that apparently babies can understand their gender identity.
That seemed like good fun.
I know, right?
So if that hasn't sold you on it, I don't know what will.
Go check it out, give the Daily Wire some support, because honestly it is one of the most important films to come out this year.
Okay, that was good.
I enjoyed that.
I hope that didn't go on too long.
No, it's okay.
I just thought the clips were too good to leave out.
So, I'd like to propose that Biden has perhaps peaked at his most senile moment yet, and I know that that's a very difficult thing to establish because there's so many, isn't there?
He's getting older and presumably more senile by the moment.
One of my favourites is the sort of shaggy dog story where he talks about his hairy legs.
Why did he tell that story?
I swear to God.
That's one of your favourite ones to reference.
I love it, yeah.
Oh, the kid's pulling on my hairy legs.
Why, Joe?
Why?
President of the United States.
I'm just going to be like, yeah, the kids, they'd come and touch my hairy legs.
Joe Biden.
Oh, and their hair smells so good.
One of the most inspirational quotes.
But anyway, my favourite quotes aside.
They're right up there with Lincoln.
Joe Biden tweeted this out.
At the time I took office about 16 months ago, the economy had stalled and COVID was out of control.
Today, thanks to the economic plan and the vaccination plan that my administration put into action, America has achieved the most robust recovery in modern history.
I mean...
Has it, Joe?
I wonder where the fact-checkers are for this.
Oh, they're probably completely true.
Mostly true.
Yes, of course.
That's probably why, as the Postmillennial reports, gas cost more than double since Biden took office.
Of course, best recovery ever.
Doubling of prices in 16 months.
I will say, as well though, that the economic plan that was put in place, and the vaccination plan, was just a continuation of the plans that Trump put in place.
I did actually have that in my notes.
So we can't just blame it all on Sleepy Joe because Trump also made some bad decisions like printing trillions of dollars, for instance.
I'll fight Trump's corner here a little bit because what happened was I think Congress started passing legislation about these lockdowns and things like that.
And then basically Trump had his hand forced because they're like, well, we're going to do this, but the people need their money.
They need their stimulus checks.
You need to sign the bill.
And it's just the choice between Congress holding the public to ransom to kind of own Trump, so to speak, and So he had his hand forced, and he did lament at all of the waste of money that it would be.
So he said that, he was just like, I don't really have a choice.
So that just goes to show the economic illiteracy of your Congress, sadly, America.
So yes, cost of gas has near enough doubled, according to the postmillennial.
US gas averaged $2.39 per gallon the day President Biden was inaugurated, and it's risen dramatically to $4.82 per gallon on average.
So yes, obviously the Biden administration has been using Putin and the...
The sanctions placed on Russia as an excuse for this.
However, the United States could be completely fuel self-sufficient and also you're not exactly particularly far away from countries like, I don't know, Venezuela.
And I know it makes sense to put sanctions on them because they are socialist hellhole.
But at the same time, if you're in a problem, you've kind of got to take your solutions, don't you?
Yes, exactly.
And of course, one of the significant things that Biden did personally was, of course, in his first week in office, he signed an executive order that cancelled the Keystone Pipeline and also put limits upon fracking, which, of course, would make things...
Yeah, it would have made things so much better, so much cheaper, and of course this was all done in the name of green energy, but of course if you wanted to encourage innovation, well you make the cost of production as cheap as possible.
That's the obvious thing to do.
It turns out what people have been saying for decades, which is green energy is massively inefficient and cannot sustain a modern economy, turns out to be true!
Yes, if you actually want green energy, well what you want to do is have fossil fuels as cheap as humanly possible, not the opposite.
And if you wonder, well, why do we want a modern economy?
Well, to a certain extent, it's because modern economy is the only one that can sustain the amount of people that we have.
Otherwise, there will be Soviet-style famines and starvations.
Not exactly ideal, is it?
No.
So moving on to this article from the Daily Mail, 83% of Americans say the economy is poor or not so good under Biden, and just 27% think they can improve their financial situation, according to another poll, a dire poll for the White House.
So apparently...
More than a third of the country, or 35%, are not satisfied with their own financial situation, which is higher than at least 50 years ago.
So yes, as opposed to Joe's claim that things are going really well, obviously they're not.
So, qualitatively, people are saying it's worse than it was in under-70s stagflation.
Yes.
Oh my goodness.
So, 38% said their financial situation had gotten worse over the past couple of years.
Apparently, concerns also impacted people's views about the future, with only 27% saying they had a good chance of improving their living standards.
This constitutes a steep 20-point drop from just a year ago.
So, yes.
In what world, Joe, are things getting better under you?
Where is the recovery?
Things are getting worse.
People can recognise they're getting worse.
Apparently, a plurality of 46% said they don't have a good chance of improving living standards.
So yes, that's almost half of people polled here that thought that there isn't a chance of them improving their living standards.
That's not a good economy, is it?
A hopeless society.
Great.
Yeah, it's utter madness, isn't it?
I mean, people know they can't save their money because of inflation, therefore there's no point in investing in anything because my money's worthless tomorrow anyway, so...
And even the Biden-friendly press have been giving them a hard time.
So here's an article from Fox News saying, Biden's press office plagued by negative coverage, messaging gaffes as media signals honeymoon is over.
So more or less this article is covering the fact that...
They're no longer asking these sort of nice set-up, putting the tea and the golf ball out in front of the press secretary, just asking them really favourable questions.
They're actually asking them difficult questions for once.
Oh my goodness.
I know.
And this is after they put a black woman as the press secretary.
I know.
It must be racism.
It must be.
But yes, obviously people can't really be deceived by the fact that the number in their bank account is lower than they would want.
So this is a pretty objective measure.
Even if it's the same, they can't buy what they used to be able to.
Yes, exactly.
So this is an objective measure.
You're not really going to be able to...
Convince people otherwise, however left-wing they are, if their living standards are noticeably worse, they're going to become disenchanted.
And this is what this says.
Even the left of centre media has begrudgingly acknowledged that the Biden administration is struggling.
And that's a quote here.
Perhaps what happened was that Biden found himself a copy of the Industrial Society and its future and thought, oh, he's got some good points here.
We're going to have to take it back, lads.
Yes, because it's certainly not going nearly as well as he hoped, and apparently, according to Breitbart, frustrated and seething, Joe Biden is angry about his failing...
His flailing?
Flailing!
Well, that was a bit of a Freudian slip, but it's not too far off, is it, really?
So yes, apparently Politico's...
Jonathan Lemire cites five White House officials and Democrats close to the Biden administration who point to the greatest source of West Wing frustration coming from behind the resolute desk, just meaning Joe Biden's desk.
So, Biden is exasperated, the report says, and his approval ratings are below former President Donald Trump's.
The report also noted Biden is far more prone to salty language behind the scenes than is popularly known and erupted over optics of the baby formula shortages.
I've actually heard lots about Joe Biden being incredibly rude because there was a case of one of his aides questioning him about why he was meeting a business associate when he was in China of Hunter Biden's and when he was just like, don't you think that looks bad?
Apparently Joe Biden exploded at them and apparently they resigned not too long afterwards.
To be fair, all you need to do is look at the press footage of when he was going around campaigning.
Anybody who questioned him, he would immediately start with poking them in the chest and suddenly his language would become much more stern.
He does not seem like a level-headed person.
He obviously has been able to maintain it to a certain degree in public, but even then, not that well.
Well, after all, one of the symptoms of dementia is sudden bouts of aggression.
So there is that, of course.
So, moving on, Biden has been putting his foot in it again.
Biden misleads public, says firearms are children's number one killer, according to the Postmillennial.
And it...
I quote here, amid national debate about firearms, President Joe Biden was caught misleading the public about the number of children dying from guns.
He said firearms are the number one killer in a public address on Thursday.
This must be last Thursday.
The president asserted more children had been killed by firearms than in car accidents.
I'm quoting here directly from Biden.
According to new data just released by the Centre of Disease Control and Prevention, guns are the number one killer of children in the United States of America.
Biden's statement is only true if people between the ages of 18 and 19 are also considered children.
I would consider them children, but still.
According to the CDC, Biden's source, the number of gun-related deaths between those two ages, exceeds the number of deaths between ages 1 and 17 combined.
When pressed on the statistics, the White House said it's used a study evaluating children's deaths from the ages of 1 to 24.
Yes, 24, actually.
Everyone knows that's the cut-off for being a child.
Is there a particular demographic in America known for its excessive violence of the young male population?
Because I feel like he might actually be pointing to a different problem than the one that he thinks he is here.
I'm not going to put my foot in that one.
But I know which demographic you might be referring to.
So yes, it goes on to say, the CDC report did not make the same claim as the President.
It suggested the gap between gun-related deaths and car accidents could close in the future, not that the gap had already closed.
So that's pretty resounding, really.
The report that they were citing didn't even back them up.
So yes, however, on a more positive note, I suppose, let's not be all misery.
An Ohio governor is set to pass a bill allowing school employees to carry guns.
Good.
That's how you solve school shootings.
Make it so that it's too dangerous for the shooters to go to the school.
Yes.
So, Governor Mike DeWine is ready to sign a bill allowing school employees to legally carry firearms on campus.
The bill recently passed the Ohio State Legislature after vigorous debate and staunch opposition from the legislature's Democratic members.
Under the new bill, employees must receive firearm instructions to take advantage of the opportunity to carry.
The amount and the nature of the training...
As well as the decision to allow staff to carry a tool will be left in the hands of local schools and school districts, according to Blaze.
So that's good.
They're actually giving schools the choice to do this, rather than just forcing them to do something.
Remember Ohio residents, your Democratic candidates were very eager to make your schools less safe.
Mm-hmm.
DeWine further elaborated on the decentralised nature of the legislation, and I'm quoting here directly, Ultimately, each school will make its own decisions, so we're not telling any school district.
We have over 600 school districts in the state.
The school board of that school will decide whether they want armed teachers or not.
So yes, this is...
Sounds fair to me.
This is the desirable situation of allowing schools to make their own decisions, not forcing people through government.
They're not forcing anything.
They're actually removing a restriction is what it sounds like.
If this were in tandem with a good amount of school choice as well, where you can actually pick a school where you know your children are safe and then the Democrats can be like, no, we don't want guns around our children.
Well, they can be in the dangerous schools.
And although it's not the children's fault, the parents will be then culpable for such a thing happening.
And I think it's fair to give people choices about the way they want to live their life, the way they want to raise their children.
Yes.
And having the government to interfere.
Exactly, yes.
So clearly trying to carry out a little bit of damage limitation.
Joe Biden is to break his 119 plus days of press silence with a Jimmy Kimmel live interview.
This will not be useful at all.
Jimmy Kimmel is astroturfed to the nth degree and will not be asking any difficult questions.
I mean, if...
I don't know who's going to tune in to watch these clashing of charisma voids, but, oh, dear me.
I mean, talking to Jimmy Kimmel, of all people, I mean, you look into his eyes and you see nothing there.
It's like he's got no soul behind the eyes.
You hear his fake laugh.
It's...
But yes, I don't think this is going to go quite the way he imagines, although Jimmy Kimmel did set up to basically just like, yeah, there's no tomfoolery, no funny business, we're just going to have a chat.
So he's making it as easy as possible for old Joe Biden there.
Yeah, it's just going to be softball question after softball question.
Also, do you want to read out your True Detective quote you've got here?
Just because I noticed it in the notes.
Go on.
Should I do it?
Yeah, yeah.
So it's a quote from season one of True Detective.
I put it in there just because I really don't like Jimmy Kimmel, but there's a line in it that says, I can see the soul at the edge of your eyes.
It's corrosive like acid.
You've got a demon, little man, and I don't like your face.
Sorry, that just came to mind when I saw Jimmy Kimmel.
I can't possibly say why.
But yes, the final thing I wanted to end on, talking of Joe Biden's presidency, is this article from Hugo from the 16th of February, which evaluated his presidency and whether it was successful or a failure on his own terms.
And it goes through lots of other things, such as talking about the fact that he signed 28 executive orders in his first two weeks as president, which far outpaced many other previous presidents, even the quasi-imperial tenure of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as Hugo says.
He outpaced FDR.
Yes.
Good God.
Yes, and as I mentioned earlier, the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was one of the things.
Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement.
I mean, these are all...
Which was just a useless agreement in the first place, where China just gets to sit back and go, we ain't doing anything, and everyone else goes...
Well done.
How brave.
And even back in February, he was pointing out the gas crisis growing.
And also the fact that the, of course, the most obvious one of all, the Afghanistan withdrawal, the horrific lockdowns of the country, the failure to address immigration at the southern border.
Massive inflation.
His horrendous polling in February when this was written, he had a 14% net disapproval, which is pretty awful.
Yes, Joe Biden doesn't seem to me to be doing a very good job, and I think the Democrats are going to suffer in the next congressional election.
And I think that that's probably going to be a good thing.
Things might actually be on the mend if he is prevented from doing anything else.
But we shall have to see.
It's very difficult to predict the future.
But maybe the fact that he's doing so well and struggling to even win over some of the left-wing press that have been so favourable to him, it might mean that there is possibility for some change.
It's not optimistic, but maybe.
I mean, a little bit of hope.
I mean, you don't get that often from me.
More than we have over here.
Mm-hmm.
So.
Anyway, if that's everything, let's go on to the video comments.
Hello there, little lady.
Are you woke?
No?
Then suffer!
You shall be woke!
I am becoming woke.
Also don't watch Bird Box.
It's s***!
That was quite a good little meme there, actually.
I have sadly watched Bird Box in the past, and your review of it is correct.
I even recently discovered a channel called Blackpilled.
I don't know if you're aware of him.
He does movie reviews and looks at the subtly subversive elements of it, and he just points out how subtly subversive all of Bird Box is, where the main human bad guy who's in there is an obvious stand-in for like a Trump supporter.
All the good guys are like women and black guys.
All the bad people are evil white men.
You know, pretty typical of what you expect to see in films nowadays.
A thousand immigrants have arrived, and my guess is none have gone to Rwanda.
here.
Civil service, do the paperwork.
You don't have a choice.
You work for the country, not for yourselves.
Airlines, fly them.
You get so many benefits off the country, it's about time you gave something back.
And forget keeping them in hotels.
Put them into barracks.
Lock them in barracks.
Keep them there until it's time to fly them out.
Yeah, it would be nice if this Rwanda plan was actually going ahead, as you say.
And they were actually put in some barracks, I think it was either in Suffolk or somewhere like that, but I did cover it on the podcast, and they complained about unsanitary conditions, even though it's actively used by our own military.
Like, yes, we're asylum seekers, but you're military barracks with, you know, facilities that work.
Is this just an indictment of how we keep our own military?
Yeah.
Well, no, because we had some military personnel who'd actually stayed in those barracks comment on that podcast, and they're like, yeah, as far as they go, they're all right, to be honest.
Nothing to complain about, because I think there were lots of leftist activists that stirred the pot, and then they burnt the barracks down afterwards.
Because they were saying, oh, if you burn this down, if you make the facility uninhabitable, you'll be put up in a hotel.
And funnily enough, that's what happened.
So they were rewarded for their own arson, basically.
Reasonably, they have no right to be here in the first place, so I don't see why the government should have any right to seize hotels and use them for state interests.
Pay inordinate amounts of taxpayer money to fund people who...
Basically breaking into our country, breaking the law, and then extracting wealth from us.
It's active theft.
As much as, like I said, I would say a lot of what the government is doing is active theft against the population.
But this in particular is probably the most blatant case of it.
Yes.
So a few years ago, everyone was struggling to explain why Jordan Peterson became so famous and so many people had a hunger for his message.
It really would seem topical on what your thoughts are on how it relates to the three messages.
The leader of a government that's been irresponsible, the general sexual irresponsibility of the entire Western world, and kids being expected to make decisions that have responsibility they can't understand and then have to live with for the rest of their adult life.
Something about that seems related to me.
That's an interesting idea, actually.
I think relating to Jordan Peterson, there's also a certain amount of familiarity effect, which is an effect where something familiar makes you like something more, and lots of people are familiar with Kermit the Frog.
So you're immediately predisposed to like him.
Yeah, well, I mean, he's also very earnest and clearly has a great concern for the well-being of other people.
And I mean, that's very difficult not to like someone for, isn't it?
He can come across as a little overly intense sometimes.
But when you really consider what it is that he's passionate about, it becomes very clear that, yes, I think any sane person should be about as passionate as he is.
I think also the fact that he was fighting the corner of Yeah, you'd get laughed in your face if you bring it up to most people.
Yeah, and I think that he fought that corner and didn't care what people said about him, and still doesn't in that respect.
He's just like, yes, I want to help people, which is obviously a very noble thing.
And of course, it does, of course, relate to those three problems, which I'm sure Peterson does help address in a number of ways.
We are not even talking about it anymore, how normal it is for young girls and women to feel insecure and that women have a tendency to constantly compare ourselves to each other.
So if you don't feel good enough, I guess I must be trans.
It's horrible.
And I'm also wondering how many young women are transitioning as an easy way to escape their periods?
Periods are unpleasant and scary at first and kind of hurt.
And then you are offered this version to just escape it.
And I think there's more girls doing that than you would believe.
I can definitely believe that.
And I also think that in the current climate they also get a massive boost of validation in that, well, you've transitioned, you're really brave, and all of a sudden they're really popular because of this new identity.
And even if they just start dressing differently, they're going to get this positive reinforcement that's going to make them feel very good about themselves and want to push it further and further.
Feel better and better about themselves in the short term, but of course this doesn't pay off in the long term because it's damaging.
Yeah, I agree with everything you were saying there as well, Sophie, because having read Irreversible Damage is the sort of thing that Schreier talks about a lot, and obviously it's a lot easier to understand when you're getting the perspective of someone who is a woman who went through puberty and explains how scary it is.
There's also the element nowadays of social media informing a lot of it.
Jonathan Haidt has pointed out that now young girls can actively, numerically score themselves against one another through likes that you get on Instagram posts, Facebook posts, all that sort of stuff.
The way you win is you don't play the game in that sort of scenario.
Yeah, but loads of girls do play it anyway.
And of course, the fact that despite simultaneously being denigrated, men are told at the same time that they have this immense privilege in society.
So these young girls going through all these changes, seeing that they're not as attractive as all of their friends, at least according to their peers, all this sort of stuff being told at the same time men get all these privileges.
Well, of course, you're going to think to yourself, well, maybe if I was a man, I'd have it easier.
And then it just snowballs from there.
It's awful.
Advice for Harry and Carl, you can find Africa Audio on YouTube.
Pretty good conditions.
It is an Italian documentary, though, so it does have different names.
The video is decent quality.
The screenshots all come from YouTube.
And they do come in some different languages because they are a foreign film, but most of them are in English.
And I will admit, though, I do think there is some mugging for the camera going on in a documentary, but that's mostly my own personal instincts at play, and your mileage may vary.
I've never heard of that film before, have you?
Yeah, neither had I before yesterday.
So thank you for pointing out where I can find it.
I have now immediately found it on YouTube, so cheers for that.
And seeing as you've said, review it, you cowards, I might just have to take up your offer.
Play a game where you place three points, A, B, and C, and assign them numbers for a die, say, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, 6, respectively.
Then draw a starting dot at a random location.
Roll the die and move 50% of the distance from the random dot to the point from the die.
Iterate from the new dot.
What will happen over time?
In fact, what forms is a Sierpinski triangle.
It has no surface area, yet it has form, of fractal dimension 1.59.
That's really amazing.
I've always been fascinated by these sorts of things where you can take...
I imagine there's some sort of underlying mathematical formula that informs this.
I haven't had contact with a lot of pure maths, but I've come across a lot of it through my use of statistics as a quantitative psychologist.
And I always find it very interesting that you can almost mathematically explain visual phenomena through equations.
And of course, this is very simple in that you're just moving a die, but that's really impressive.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Yeah, that was very interesting, and you did something similar yesterday, Alex, so thank you very much.
So the Lion, from what I can tell, is essentially a parody of the classic Proud Knight.
Arrogant, not giving a shit who he tells, he often causes issues by proclaiming in the middle of a room how much better he is than others.
During the heresy, a massive chunk of his legion goes traitor, and he has to go and kick their asses himself, ending in a massive anime fight with their leader, Luthor.
It's stated that the Lion is struck down during this great battle, but not killed, as he's apparently in the classic regenerative coma cryopod, waiting to be broken any day now.
Sounds pretty Chad.
I had the poor little chickens outside because I'm trying to acclimatize them to being outdoors but we're having this crazy rain and so they need to go in.
Poor chickens.
Poor things.
They do not know what's happening.
There's an old huddled there.
Although, to be fair, someone recently said to me that I don't feel bad for chickens because if they were human-sized, they would try and eat us.
Would they?
I reckon they probably would.
I mean, it would be slightly terrifying to see a human-sized chicken, but I don't know how docile it would be.
You've seen Jurassic Park, haven't you?
Actually, to be fair, they do peck you, so...
But no, I've always wanted to keep chickens.
They are very sweet.
I've been around the houses of people who have it before.
They're very sweet creatures.
I think liberalism and liberty are very good things.
However, we as Western society are cutting off the roots that bore the fruit we enjoy.
You know, we cut off the source and authority behind our values, both in the decline of religion as an objective moral authority and in the decline of patriotism as an appeal to a social continuum.
Very true.
That is true.
I do think you can appeal to ideas of natural rights, it's just a lot harder to get people to believe in those without some kind of authoritative, god-like figure behind them.
Tony D and Little Joan with another Legend of the Pies from GhostQuest.net and Shadowlands.net comes the story of the ghost car, a fork landing road in Cinnamonson, New Jersey.
Now, the car appears on this road in front of the Jug Handle Inn in the wintertime just before midnight at this intersection and follows you and then disappears.
No word yet on how the state of New Jersey will collect its toll.
Very interesting.
You've had a ghost encounter before, haven't you, Josh?
I've had, well...
I've had a purported encounter, but I don't necessarily believe it.
I know, you were very eager to tell me when we first met.
It wasn't like the first thing I brought up.
No, no, it was still.
No, I was just saying, I think the topic came up and I was just saying that there was a case where we were in the grounds of an old manor house, I think it was a 16th century thing, and we kept on getting hit in the back by, it felt like a coin or something like that, but then when you would look on the ground to see what was there, there was no thing that was clear.
That was hitting you.
And I actually had like bruises on my back.
It wasn't like psychosomatic or anything like that.
I was just like, oh, that really hurt.
But I have no idea to this day what it was.
I thought it might have been like, I don't know, acorns falling from a tree or something.
Although that probably wouldn't leave much of a thing.
But then there were lots of cases of sort of weird things happening there, particularly at nighttime when you...
When you passed through, because it was something that you needed to pass through to get to other places.
And in my youth, I had many a weird encounter there.
And I mean, the scientist that I am, I don't believe in that sort of thing.
But it's still weird.
It's very interesting.
I always find it fascinating to hear ghost stories.
And I think that they add a lot to a place, even if, you know, you're the most skeptical person imaginable.
I think you still get something out of it, don't you?
Yeah, and to be fair, you are from the deep west country.
You're from Devon, so maybe it's just the weird forest people you get over there.
Yeah, well, if you see someone with really webbed toes, run.
Definitely don't try and out-swim them, though, because they'll beat you.
Because it's probably one of Josh's relatives.
The Aleman TT started in 1907 because the UK started to implement speed limits on its roads.
The fastest lap currently stands at 16 minutes, 42 seconds, with an average of 135.5 miles per hour, currently held by Peter Hittman on his TT-modified BMW 1000.
There are currently eight races from all styles of bikes, from sidecars, all-electrics and standard off-the-rack bikes, up to fully modified spec bikes that are currently not allowed anywhere near MotoGP due to the amount of power.
I mean, they are already terrifyingly quick.
And when I see MotoGP races, when they're turning a corner and their knee is almost touching the tarmac, it's terrifying to me.
It's when they skid off and just start flipping around.
That's where it looks scarier.
It's not quite the same as F1, where if you crash, your car's protecting you.
If you crash, you're going flying.
Obviously, you have the...
The suit you're wearing...
It's padded, but still, it's only a certain level of protection.
Yeah, yeah.
So I've got a lot of respect for people, and I mean, those times of 135 miles an hour, things like that, it's ridiculous.
It's insane.
Fair play to the bravery of those people going out and doing that.
I certainly can do it.
Yeah, shall we move on to the written comments then?
Do you want to read through your first ones?
Sure.
The Tory party is a World Economic Forum zombie wearing a skin suit of conservatism.
They won't do anything under a new leader because they do not have permission to do so.
Yeah, I mean, it could be possible that they get taken over by someone who objects to the World Economic Forum, however...
Highly unlikely.
Yes.
I mean, I think even if it wasn't Uncle Klaus pulling strings behind the scenes or anything like that, I just think most of the members of the party don't have the backbone or principles or convictions to do anything useful.
Yes, I think it's a party lacking moral conviction and ideological direction, ultimately.
And that's how you could summarise them.
So General Hai Ping, Chinese Internet Battalion.
Maybe Theresa May thought she would be better trotting off before the mainstream media got hold of the story of her selling off the National Reserves.
Although in this day and age, I'd expect the article to read, why your country having nothing is a good thing.
That's definitely a headline to come, I imagine.
I think the next one's actually relating to my segment, so I'll just read through this one.
But sometimes he can say things in such a way that they are very polarizing and that can come with its own pitfalls by making the left more determined or more isolated.
See, I don't actually really agree with what you're saying there.
I think Matt Walsh, in his manner of speech, is actually very controlled and very reasonable.
And I think that what's happened is that just the discussion has been dragged into such an insane place that asking somebody what a woman is has become such a polarizing question to those...
Excuse me.
You're excused, bless you.
To those who are, like, indoctrinated in the ideology.
Because, I mean, what he said, I understand probably what you're referring to is when he said that you're wearing womanhood as a skin suit or something along those lines.
Yeah, it can sound harsh, but that's true.
So I don't think there's...
I think conservatives metering themselves and trying to be a bit too polite about things has been one of the things that's led to things getting to where they are right now, whereas you do need someone like Matt Walsh who's going to be polite, who is going to be reasonable with the way that he talks, but will also be straight up with who is going to be reasonable with the way that he So, Student of History says I've got a lot of straight white male funny men, but I kind of want to get some black females and gays on stage.
Are they funny?
Funny? - Me?
That's the question they're not asking, isn't it?
Kevin Fox, The Lady of Heaven isn't the first religious film to garner complaints.
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ didn't go well with the Christian groups, but was still screened.
I'm familiar with the controversy around that.
After all, what extreme measures would Christians take?
Hold a fate?
Run a tombola?
Muslims, on the other hand?
Well, it is true that it seems to me depressingly true that the threats of violence from the Islamic religion and the religion of peace, I mean, they would never threaten anyone, of course.
Of course not.
I have worked in making people conform to their religious beliefs, and it's appalling really.
I don't know what time we traded in our spine and stood up for what we believed in.
You even have an article on the British stiff upper lip, don't you?
I do, it's a very long article.
It seems to have been traded in for a quiver.
Very proud of that.
But yes, I went through British history and documented all the cases of the stiff upper lip being on display, from a cruise ship full of British tourists in 2011, playing Rural Britannia on the piano and eating dinner while they're being pursued by pirates, to stories of war heroes in many of the wars we've been involved in.
Yeah, the next one's related to mine, so I'll say General Hai Ping, Chinese Internet Battalion says, with all the talk of what is a woman I'm genuinely expecting to see what is an adult starting to come up We've already got a whole swaths of various groups that act like children let alone the diaper weirdos and nonces Yeah, I can see that happening especially given that the whole map thing is starting to, as much as people are trying to pretend like they're pushing back against it
it is getting a little bit more mainstream as the days go on when you've suddenly got university professors in America could try to push it.
And yeah, you are right, we've already got, I'd say, the generation that you and I belong to.
is very much in arrested development for the most part.
Most of them talk like children.
Most of them act like children.
Most of them have no idea how to take responsibility for themselves.
Most of them are completely averse to any kind of strong relationship bonds.
Most of them don't want children because they would rather just act like children.
A pet your childhood with no responsibility is pretty easy to live through, isn't it?
You have no hardship, but then because you don't have any hardship, you don't have any rewards.
It's I wonder, or no wonder really, that people are quite nihilistic in the modern day because they have nothing really, no purpose but to pursue pleasure.
And it's no wonder that they also believe in basically replacing the parents with the state.
Yeah, that's horrifying.
I don't know what's wrong with him.
It really is.
Shall I read some more?
Yeah, yeah, go for it.
So, Callum Dayton, firearms are children's number one killer in America.
I thought it was abortions.
Yeah, you're right.
By a massive margin, isn't it?
And this is really good, actually, from Shaker Silver.
I read this just a second ago.
Not only did Biden cripple the gas production in the US, but you missed this.
Yesterday, the White House declared an emergency and authorised a temporary extension of That's a really interesting point.
Thanks for bringing that to our attention.
Yes, thank you, especially with what you're saying there, given that China don't seem to have any obligations to anyone to do anything to cut their emissions or anything like that.
Do you want to carry on?
Sure.
Beg a hero, I just filled my gas in the USA, with my area being $5 for a gallon of gas.
As long as the Build Back Better crew in charge, Green Moloch will be pleased.
Oh dear me.
So, student of history again, robust recovery my ass.
You can say ass on the podcast, come on, it's fine.
I tried.
I'm sorry if you have kids at home.
Gas price was $4.95 this morning.
It'll be over five by the end of the day.
It was 30 cents lower on Saturday.
Diesel is $6.29 a gallon.
And there's the food prices that will be coming in in September because of fertilizer price spikes.
But hey, you can tell me how much better my life is getting.
Yeah, just tell me to ignore the evidence of my eyes and ears and everything else that I use to navigate the world and just say, no, everything's getting better.
Just believe me, bro.
Just trust me, bro.
I'll read a few.
So, John Ball, I saw a stat that each transition generates $1.3 million.
That is the reason it's being pushed so hard.
Certainly that's why the medical community is so complicit in it.
I would say the reason most people are pushing it is for ideological purposes, but the surgical and medical community certainly aren't going to turn down all that money, are they?
That is a statistic they also cite in the documentary.
And General High Ping says, again, I like scented candles and I've watched Sex and the City.
How do I know I'm not a woman?
I know, right?
Said by a, um, woman with the smile of a vicious chimera.
He actually says, like, he ends that interview, he ends all the interviews with, what is a woman?
And that obvious woman says, I wouldn't know, I'm not one.
LAUGHTER So yeah, when we've got these sorts of people telling children who and what to believe, then I think I don't see much hope in the world moving forwards apart from something like, what is a woman getting pushed out there and getting more attention, which hopefully it has done.
So, I think that's all we've got time for.
Thank you very much for tuning in to this episode of the podcast.
We'll see you again tomorrow.
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