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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 449 Today I'm your host, Harry, joined by Leo.
	I'm your guest, Leo.
	Hello, and yes, today we are the Tall Gang, and we're going to be talking about the ever-disappointing Frankie Boyle.
	We're also going to be talking about Comedy Unleashed Backlash.
	I think that's versus, what, is it Comedy Unhinged?
	Yeah, so basically the Comedy Unleashed, which is a sort of free speech comedy night, announced the tour, and all the woke lefty comedians lost their minds and tweeted absolute nonsense about it.
	Of course, and we'll get more into that later, and then we'll finish this off with Biden's transitory recession that we are definitely not going through.
	Before we get into the actual news, though, I just want to announce, I think Callum spoke about this yesterday, but anybody who sends in the video comments for us to react to at the end...
	We are implementing new rules where the video comments will be chosen to be aired at our editor's discretion.
	Please be aware that if your video comment has been sent in, like today for instance, and it doesn't get aired today, that it doesn't necessarily mean it won't be getting played at all.
	We might just be saving it for a presenter who's more relevant to the question that was asked.
	And also, any unaired video comments will be still placed on the webpage, even if they're not aired.
	We're still just figuring out how this is going to work exactly and where it's going to be put on the page, but this will be happening.
	So thank you very much for your patience.
	It's like an art attack.
	They couldn't show all the pictures.
	Yes, exactly like that.
	But yeah, thanks everyone for your patience while we're just sorting all this stuff out.
	But anyway, let's get into the news.
	So, the ever-disappointing Frankie Boyle has disappointed us all once again.
	I used to be quite a fan of Frankie Boyle back when I was a young teenager, when I was watching Mock the Week and other such things.
	He seemed to be a style of Edgy comedian that I'd not really experienced before.
	Oh, he's willing to say all of the things that most mainstream comedians aren't willing to say.
	He's willing to push the boundaries.
	And of course, like so many others of that time who were pushing boundaries in such a way, he has retreated to the mainstream and surrounded himself in a nice, cosy mainstream bed of opinion and thought that he's allowed himself to think and, most importantly, allowing other comedians to think.
	What's your thoughts on Frankie Boyle being a fellow Scottish comedian, Leo?
	So Frankie Boyle made his name with outrageous offensive comedy that was very funny and completely, a lot of it was completely indefensible.
	So he had a joke about Harvey Price.
	Oh yeah, Katie Price's disabled son.
	Because Katie Price was dating a cage fighter at the time and the joke was basically Katie Price is dating a cage fighter because she's got to be with someone strong enough to stop Harvey raping her.
	And that's completely indefensible.
	It's based on racist tropes because Harvey's mixed race.
	Oh, is he?
	I didn't even know that.
	It's a racist trope that black men are more likely to do that.
	It's obviously sexist.
	It's a rape joke.
	It's funny, though.
	It's ableist, but it's extremely funny.
	And I think in Scotland, in Scottish comedy, you've seen this with Jerry Sadowitz, with Billy Connolly, there's a defence in comedy, an automatic defence.
	If it's funny, you can say it.
	And Scottish culture is a lot like that.
	People can be incredibly cruel, but it's funny, and everybody accepts that.
	And now Frankie Boyle has gone completely...
	I mean, part of it's self-preservation.
	He doesn't want to get cancelled himself, but he's gone completely super woke and he just produces these shows for Channel 4 where it's all just the wokest, most privileged people sitting around a table.
	I think it's a BBC show, in fact.
	It's a BBC, New World Order.
	New World Order, yes.
	And I'm going to reference that because back in December...
	It might as well be on Owen Jones' YouTube channel.
	That's...
	I wouldn't be surprised if he had Owen Jones as a guest.
	I mean, he used to position himself as anti-establishment, and he still does position himself as anti-establishment without recognizing that all of the establishment agrees with him.
	Or, all the other way around, he agrees with everything the establishment does, which just makes it really disappointing.
	This is the thing.
	All these woke lefty comedians think they're fighting the establishment.
	They don't realise that culturally, apart from certain parts of the government, we're pretty much entirely under the cosh of wokeism.
	And every institution, every organisation in the public sector and the private sector is systemically woke.
	And it's sort of the stultifying fingers around everyone's necks.
	But the thing that got my attention about this was that he was performing at Latitude Festival recently where he made some comments not necessarily about cancel culture but about people who were silenced and therefore I thought it was relevant before we go any further to just draw your attention to a recent article that I came out with about two weeks ago talking about my run-in with cancel culture.
	People who've been following the show for a while might know that I was...
	Emphasis on was in a band and sadly I'm not in that band anymore.
	I thought you were going to say in a neo-nazi group or something.
	I was like, what's he getting cancelled for?
	I got cancelled for being too moderate, that's what it was.
	No, I was in a heavy metal band and we kept it completely separate from everything that I do as part of this show and sadly the management found out about what I do even though I'd already told them about what I do but they actually finally paid attention and I'm no longer in that band anymore.
	Oh my god!
	Yeah, I guess you didn't know about that.
	But yeah, that happened and I wrote an article about it so anybody who's interested can check out that article because it is something very personal to me but also that kind of shows the times that we're in right now, certainly.
	But anyway, let's get on with the news.
	So we have previously covered...
	Frankie Boyle's degeneration into the woke turd that he is nowadays.
	I mean, this is December 29th, 2020, where we were talking about the show that we just mentioned, New World Order, where he did a segment called Let's Kill Whitey.
	Awesome.
	The segment wasn't called Let's Kill Whitey, but there's a comedian called Sophie Duker.
	She's a woke comedian.
	She goes on TV. She talks about privilege, even though she's actually probably one of the most privileged comedians.
	She's got rich parents.
	She went to a good school, then went to, I think it was Oxford, either Oxford or Cambridge, I think it was Oxford.
	And her parents, I think, are involved in the media.
	This may all be true.
	She had a gilded path into comedy and into the media.
	But have you considered the colour of her skin?
	Which is also an advantage in these days.
	Nowadays, no, that's absolutely true.
	I don't know if anybody's turned on a TV in the last few years and looked at an advert, but, yeah, I mean, white people are, it's better, and in comedy as well.
	I mean, we've had comedians like Nick Dixon openly cancelled for the colour of their skin, because he's not black, by the way, he's white.
	So, basically, I can understand it.
	You need more diversity in comedy.
	All the comedians that are there, like Frankie Boyle, came up in the 90s.
	And so we've got all these sort of middle-aged white men who are like, well, let's get some fresh talent.
	What if you're a white guy trying to get through and all the spaces are filled?
	We're basically all waiting for all these white comedians to die so we can get in there.
	You're far too privileged if you're white trying to get into the entertainment business, which is why you have roadblocks and barriers and gatekeeping every step of the way to prevent your obvious privilege that you're suffering from.
	Well, thank God for the internet.
	Thank God for YouTube giving me a YouTube channel where I can connect directly with the audience.
	You should go there right after this podcast.
	Leo Kearse.
	YouTube.
	Yeah, but Frankie Boyle has also made many comments on Ricky Gervais around that time as well because Ricky Gervais is known...
	That's why it's...
	Pains me that Frankie Boyle is still posturing as anti-establishment while he's also so obviously trying to save his own neck, like you say.
	Because Ricky Gervais is relatively anti-establishment on a lot of cultural issues.
	Obviously he makes a lot of jokes at the trans culture and the trans community's expense, but that's where the actual edge is nowadays.
	You can't just be edgy nowadays just by appealing to puerile toilet humour.
	You've got to go against something that everybody knows you're not allowed to say, but they won't say it out loud anyway.
	And that's...
	That's what Ricky Gervais is talking about.
	And Ricky Gervais' comedy about trans people is not dehumanising or cruel.
	I mean, maybe a little bit cruel, but it's funny.
	And he's using comedy to criticise things such as the misogynist violence that's directed towards what people refer to as TERFs.
	So they use the fact that they can excuse the fact that these people are TERFs.
	Yeah, that was the one in the most recent one.
	I think it was Supernatural.
	Was it the Netflix special where he's talking about, oh, what if he rapes me?
	What if she rapes you, you absolute bigot?
	You know, it was really funny stuff.
	But Frankie Boyle's been criticising him for a while.
	And if we go to the next one as well, Frankie Boyle, for a very long time, has been like this.
	This is back in 2015.
	I mean, you can just tell from this screenshot.
	Britain is racist to the core.
	This is not something that he is doing necessarily just as a joke.
	He absolutely believes this.
	Oh, no, yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And he had Akala on so they could talk about, you know, the same sort of, oh, Britain's just structurally racist.
	All of the systems and superstructures of Britain are supposed to be there purely to help the evil white English man get ahead and bring everybody else down.
	Akala is exactly like that.
	I've not really listened to much of his stuff, but I'm aware enough of what he talks about.
	John, can you click the thumb down on that?
	Just so we can voice our disapproval.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much, John, doing the Lord's work right there.
	So Frankie Ball's been like this for a while.
	It's just become more and more and more prominent as the culture has adapted to fit the views that he already had.
	Or perhaps it's just become more obvious to a lot of people because this is where we were going for a long time.
	And going further on, we've got Pink News back in 2020 talking about what I was saying where he spoke to Louis Theroux, I think it was, and spoke about Ricky Gervais' comedy as part of the, I think it was the Humanities special back from 2018 where he was making jokes about, I mean, Caitlyn Jenner.
	Oh yeah.
	Who's great, by the way.
	And is a real example to trans women everywhere.
	Just be super rich, put a lot of effort in, and you two can be kind of hot.
	I mean, that's a controversial opinion around it.
	But, you know, like, whatever floats your boat, man.
	I'm not down with the sort of lumpy ones who look like blokes.
	What, like Caitlyn Jenner?
	No, Caitlyn Jenner.
	Come on.
	Caitlyn Jenner, what, 75?
	How old's Caitlyn Jenner?
	75?
	Something like that?
	Something like that.
	Show me a 75-year-old woman who's, apart from Joanna Lumley, who's totally hot.
	You know what I mean?
	I mean, show me a 75-year-old trans woman who's totally hot.
	Caitlyn Jenner.
	Pretty hot.
	Certainly by the standards of most women.
	I mean, if you're 25, if you're Blair White, it's going to be a lot easier.
	But if you're 75, Caitlyn Jenner's made a good go of it.
	How did I know we'd come to this?
	Anyway, so obviously Frankie Boyle was saying that Ricky Gervais is lazy for making cheap transphobic jokes when Frankie Boyle for a very long time has relied on shock value humour, which has always been very effective.
	But let's not go saying that this is some kind of high argument.
	Some Frankie Boyle.
	I'd say it is high art.
	Incredible comedian, incredible delivery, but incredibly cruel.
	He had a joke about Rebecca Adlington, about how she looked like somebody looking at her face in the back of a spoon.
	And that's just a nasty, cruel jibe about her looks, and the fact that she's got a slightly bigger nose than normal.
	But he can't then come turn around and be like...
	He's like Jimmy Savile suddenly turning around and being like, listen guys, now that I've stopped being a...
	Like, I think, you know, I'm going to call it Gary Glitter.
	It's like, no, you're a nonce for decades.
	So, you know.
	So, Frankie Boyle nonce confirmed.
	No.
	Just clearing up.
	It's an allegory or whatever the word is.
	A metaphor or something like that.
	But yeah, so Frankie Boyle challenged comics like Ricky DeVay's who rely on cheap transphobia.
	He said, in lieu of telling...
	He said it's very lazy.
	He said that...
	Whereas the exact quote here is like, my genuine reaction was, it's not that much weirder than Ricky Gervais saying he's a stand-up comedian to the idea of Ricky Gervais comparing himself as a chimpanzee, for instance.
	But sadly for you, Frankie, Ricky is a stand-up comedian, and nowadays he's a damn sight funnier than you are.
	Because this Latitude Festival that I'm going to get onto, I looked at a review of it, and of course the review was heaping praise on him for doing, you know, such an edgy, such an anti-establishment thing as calling Tories Nazis.
	Ha ha!
	I mean, we've never heard that one before, have we?
	You're really going against the grain there, Frankie.
	Yeah, that's really, wow.
	I mean, just the inventiveness.
	I know.
	The sheer, like, it really makes you think.
	It really does.
	And he says, Boris is a dum-dum.
	Trump is a dum-dum.
	It's like, that man, there's more to come.
	That's why right-wing comedy's, like, funnier and, like, getting more popular.
	Once again, like, Ricky Gervais is not right-wing, but he is challenging cultural norms that people know you can't.
	I think when he fills in his tax return, he's pretty right-wing.
	I reckon when Frankie Boyle fills in his tax return, he's pretty right-winged.
	That's what you see.
	Well, Frankie Boyle, when he's filling in his tax reforms, probably identifies as a libertarian.
	Very briefly, for those few minutes where he's filling it in, you know.
	But he says, I mean, look, we know Ricky Gervais.
	He's a brilliant actor, a brilliant writer, but he's not an effing stand-up comedian.
	Just because he self-identifies as a stand-up comedian, am I supposed to say he is one?
	Is effing political correctness gone mad?
	You know...
	This is obviously trying to make light of it, but honestly, Frankie, it's just not that funny.
	This is like the most predictable response you could get to this sort of stuff.
	And then moving on to that Louis Theroux interview, he spoke about how he's overstepped the line, has been a constant in his career.
	I've always had a sense...
	Since he was a club act of getting cancelled, I'd go and do a weekend somewhere, and it would go well, but someone in the crowd would complain, and I wouldn't get booked again.
	So you know!
	You know what it is, Frankie.
	It's losing opportunities that you would have had otherwise.
	You don't have to get completely ostracised from society.
	Which...
	Is an opinion he seems to flip when he's on stage talking about this whole thing at latitude in the next article along.
	So he said, I'm not one of those comedians who's like, ooh, I've been silenced, the star said in his set.
	I hate those people.
	Anytime I hear someone saying that, I always think, how come I can still hear you?
	Well, what was the fear then, Frankie?
	What was the fear of getting cancelled at clubs?
	What was the fear when you're an up-and-comer trying to make a name for yourself, worrying, will I get stopped from being shown at these clubs?
	Obviously, we still ended up hearing you, so what's the problem?
	Yeah, and when people say this, like, you know, they're saying, oh, but I can hear this part...
	You're not hearing them doing their set!
	You should be hearing them doing their comedy set on a comedy club stage.
	There are comedians who have been legitimately, pretty much completely cancelled.
	Like Alistair Williams.
	I've just been moderately cancelled.
	Funnily enough, from the stand comedy clubs in Scotland, where Frankie Boyle started out.
	So they're owned by the SNP, basically.
	They're owned by an SNP member of parliament.
	And so, you know, obviously...
	I didn't just criticise the S&P, I ran for office against them to raise awareness of their shocking hate crime bill and the devastation of Recon in Scotland.
	You know what I mean?
	And the stand don't book me.
	Basically, when I came out as right wing, it was...
	It was sort of like coming out as gay in the 50s.
	You know what I mean?
	Coming out as right wing in the comedy scene.
	A lot of people just assume that you get called a racist just because you voted Tory.
	You get unbooked from a lot of places.
	The Tory with the most diverse cabinet.
	Proving that ethnic diversity is no barrier to forming a terrible government.
	That's true.
	That's very true.
	But, you know, I think that this is just a lazy response that I've seen so many times from left-wingers.
	They can only really say this because they are at the forefront of the culture right now.
	Being that this has happened to me now, that I've had my own form of cancellation, I can say, yeah, it doesn't mean that I don't have a voice anymore.
	I'm still sat here talking, and Frankie Boyle would say, oh, we've not been cancelled then.
	But guess what?
	I don't get to go on stage anymore.
	I don't get to perform with the band that I enjoyed playing with.
	I don't get to play the songs that I wrote.
	Anymore, because the band's still out there playing them, we're just with somebody else.
	So being cancelled, yeah, it doesn't mean complete, necessarily, ostracization from the entirety of society, but it means that I don't get to do the stuff that I was really enjoying doing, that I was starting to build a career potentially doing as well.
	Which is just sad, and honestly, I hate to say this, it's rather insensitive of him to be able to say something like that.
	I don't get why the music industry and the comedy industry are so hyper-woken, sensitive and, you know, cancel people.
	Like, music and comedy is supposed to be the last bastions of sort of free speech and free expression and, you know, screw everything, I'm going to say what I want, you know what I mean?
	With my own experiences within metal, and I can only really speak specifically to that from here, my experience has been that for a very, very, very long time the metal establishment has been towing the line of correct cultural opinion.
	The problem has been that they still try and do all of that with the aesthetic of rebellion.
	Right.
	Like the same way that Rage Against the Machine pretend like they're a band that don't agree with 99.9% of all of the democrat talking points.
	Yeah.
	For instance.
	But that doesn't change the fact that they do.
	They do still agree with all of this.
	So they're just LARPing.
	They're LARPing as rebels.
	And it's terrible.
	And then Frankie Boyle came out and was like, oh, this is a terrible article.
	I can't believe...
	The BBC misrepresented my opinion so badly in this article.
	I didn't say cancel culture at all.
	I was talking about silencing.
	He said on Twitter, got some column inches saying I supposedly did a routine about cancel culture.
	I didn't, and I never use that phrase because it's a right-wing frame.
	Funny old game journalism.
	That is right-wing.
	For some reason, freedom of speech is now a right-wing thing.
	I really remember freedom of speech being a core tenet of the Nazi party.
	That was a big one.
	Once again, these sorts of people, they used freedom of speech in the 1960s and the 1970s when there was some political power.
	I think it's the rule for radicals.
	Hold your opponents to their own standards, because they can never meet their standards.
	But you don't have to hold yourself to those standards.
	So they held us to the standards of free speech back in the day.
	We said, you know what, you're right.
	We'll give you some ground here, because yeah, we do believe in free speech.
	And then they get in power...
	Gone.
	The second it does...
	Oh, you say something we don't like?
	Gone.
	Done.
	That's how it works, because that's how politics works, sadly.
	But then, of course, after all of this, after he spoke about how, ooh, being cancelled isn't a big thing, being silenced isn't a big thing, if I can still hear what you're talking about.
	If you could still post Facebook statuses, then basically you've not been cancelled and nothing bad has been happening to you.
	Of course, immediately after that, because Frankie Boyle is still an edgy boy, deep down there somewhere, he immediately got cancelled almost...
	Over a joke that he made in his set about raping and murdering Holly Willoughby.
	Yeah.
	Which is your typical Frankie Boyle shocking joke.
	And he said that he was addressing his controversial stand-up routine and he said that the joke was misunderstood because what he was doing as part of his routine was just saying, I'm just questioning the boundaries of what is an acceptable joke and what isn't.
	But we've seen this with other communities.
	Jimmy Carr's gypsy joke that got so much...
	That was hilarious.
	And was funny.
	And he was doing that as part of a longer bit about what you can talk about.
	Ricky Gervais is obviously making some serious points about misogynist violence in his section about trans in his latest special.
	And Frankie Boyle criticised that.
	How come other people aren't allowed to have things in context, but Frankie Boyle can say, oh, wait, there's context that excuses this.
	Well, it's obvious.
	It's because Frankie Boyle is on the side of the angels in his own mind, and the rest of us are on the side of the devil.
	That's just how it works.
	It's friend-enemy all the way down, and Frankie Boyle, for the most part, is a friend to the establishment, whereas we are the enemies.
	But I love the idea.
	I mean, it just shows where we are as a culture, that it's excusable for him to make a joke about raping and killing a woman.
	But if Ricky Gervais makes a joke about, say, a trans woman pointing out, you used to be a man, by the way, let's not forget that.
	That's unacceptable.
	That's where it goes.
	And of course, Frankie Boyle just wanted to make the point that, oh, it's just the Daily Mail doing what the Daily Mail is always...
	Oh, more grief from the Daily Mail.
	The joke they quote is garbled nonsense, a concept and wording no comic would ever use, despite the fact I've heard many jokes of yours that are exactly the way that it was written in the BBC article.
	There is a very long routine in my current show which concludes that certain jokes are probably a product of masculinity.
	Toxic masculinity, I should say.
	You'd struggle to be offended.
	Wow, making jokes about men and toxic masculinity.
	Once again, completely original.
	Papers like the Daily Mail are outraged by safe space comedy and all for free speech until its routine is reflecting on things like stereotyping and toxic masculinity or taking ideas into places where they can't be used to churn out clickbait.
	The Daily Mail never complains about it.
	I've never seen it.
	The Daily Mail flagged up the Sophie Duker thing that was basically calling for genocide against white people.
	I didn't think the joke was funny enough to justify calling for such a thing.
	If it had been flipped and it was a white person saying that about black people, they'd be in jail.
	So, it just seemed unfair and it seemed divisive and it wasn't anywhere near funny enough to justify it.
	But the Daily Mail only flag up.
	It's just the very extremities of woke comedy that get flagged up.
	There's millions of comedians doing jokes about racial stereotype and toxic masculinity.
	The Daily Mail doesn't...
	I don't even find the idea of jokes about toxic masculinity and stereotyping that he's making necessarily a bad thing.
	It's just that it will be framed from a left-wing perspective, which will make it inherently insufferable and not funny.
	And that's the problem.
	And Frankie, I'm sure you still can be funny, but maybe please actually try to be funny.
	Maybe that's how you'll win yourself back into our good graces.
	Not that you obviously care, but until then, stay insufferable.
	And kick against the establishment again.
	Okay, well, carrying on with the comedy theme.
	So, basically, a bit of background to Comedy Unleashed.
	A few years ago, it's wokeness spread.
	It's deadening claws around UK comedians' necks, with comedians forced to sign restrictive behaviour agreements.
	That was Constantine Keesing before performing.
	And there were social media pylons cancelling comedians who discussed comedy.
	Controversial topics.
	So Comedy Unleashed was set up as a monthly night in Bethnal Green in London to give comedians a safe space to offend where they're encouraged not to self-censor and just focus on being funny.
	And, you know, obviously, that is just what a comedy stage should be.
	I'm assuming with something like this as well, there will probably be a bias towards people who are centrist or centre-right, but I'm assuming that the people in charge of this are not restricting left-wingers who have offensive routines.
	Can you There kind of wasn't a bias towards people who are right-wing.
	I mean, there just aren't that many right-wing comedians, so you can't make a right-wing comedy night, because it'd be me and Jeff Norcott, who are on this tour.
	It'd be me and Jeff Norcott, and I can't really think of maybe Nick Dixon, but he's stopped doing comedy.
	Alistair Williams, I don't think Alistair Williams is right-wing.
	Andrew Lawrence, maybe Lee Hurst, but he's not really gigging anymore.
	So, I mean...
	Jim Davison, but I don't know if he's gigging so much anymore.
	So I guess there's a few right-wing comedians.
	But yeah, it was set up by a left-wing comedian, Andrew Doyle.
	And it was seen, obviously, because it said free-thinking comedy.
	It was seen...
	By the same people who try and get comedians banned as far-right extremism.
	Because, you know, as I mentioned before, Hitler was famously very keen on free speech and comedy.
	And the National Front actually started as a comedy night that got out of hand.
	So yeah, now they've announced a UK tour, which you think would make comedians happy.
	You know, they're creating an audience.
	They're creating lots of work for comedians, just as GB News is.
	No, it does not.
	So comedian Andrew O'Neill, not to be confused with Andrew O'Neill, the broadcaster, who's, depending on where we're at now, he was a transvestite, possibly transgender, and now they've decided they, them, are non-binary or whatever.
	I know it's too complicated.
	Man, just pronouns.
	I don't know why people can decide they're on pronouns.
	Pronouns aren't there for you.
	They're there for other people to refer to you as.
	They're not there for you.
	You can't pick your own pronouns.
	You know what I mean?
	Anyway, they then...
	The Chad-Matt Walsh position, yes.
	They then tweeted about the Comedy Unleashed tour, said, if you do that show, fine.
	If you do that tour, you're an effing scab.
	If you do anything on that channel...
	You're an effing scab!
	That's the line I'm drawing.
	Comedians need to pick a side.
	I'm an anarchist.
	Just throw that in at the end, why don't you?
	Just to be clear, Andrew O'Neill does a show.
	He's a basic cook.
	He's done BBC Radio 4 shows.
	I think he's got a Radio 4 show at the moment.
	The definition for anarchist seems to have changed slightly.
	So, according to Wikipedia, anarchists are sceptical of authority and seek to abolish the institutions that they claim maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy.
	Andrew works for the BBC, a state propagandist broadcaster, and threatens colleagues who don't do what he says and who question his authority.
	Sorry, their authority.
	You must use the correct pronouns.
	But yeah, I mean, so he's obviously not an anarchist.
	He's got a rigid orthodoxy that must be enforced, and if you disagree with him, then you're cancelled.
	That's the opposite of anarchy.
	My general rule is left-wing anarchists are all LARPers.
	The only way that you'd be able to ever implement the kind of social order that they're looking for is through massive top-down state control.
	And they know that at heart, but they're LARPing.
	Yeah, and they want to enforce it.
	They're not like, oh, fine, you know, you want to do that?
	Fine.
	Which is, you know, for true anarchy, I think you'd have to be like, you know, fine, you want to go do this gig?
	Absolutely fine.
	You got this opinion?
	Fine.
	I got this opinion.
	Like, each to their own.
	But anyway, let's have a look at they them to see how funny they them are.
	How come Andrew's so clued up about Brexit?
	That'll be moneysupermarket.com, I expect.
	They do have all the data.
	According to moneysupermarket.com, there are now three and a half million vegans in the UK! Three and a half million vegans in the UK! That's incredible!
	We never would have dreamed of that in the United States!
	Three and a half million!
	Wow!
	It's incredible!
	Everyone's vegan now!
	Just anyone's vegan now!
	That's good, isn't it?
	That's good, yeah, that's good.
	Three and a half million.
	That's good, isn't it?
	That's good.
	What?
	No, it's good.
	It's good.
	No, three and a half million vegan.
	No, it's good.
	It's good.
	It's good.
	Just everyone's vegan now.
	That's good, that's good.
	Come on, that's good.
	That's good, that's good.
	How long does this go on for? - Yeah.
	At least I've had enough.
	I will tell you, Leo, if you were to tell me that that person identified as a woman, I would believe you, because I certainly got female comedian vibes right then.
	Very good.
	A bit of casual misogyny, that's what we like.
	So yeah, that wasn't me in a frock doing a piss take of a lefty comedian.
	That was the genuine guy.
	But he also attacked, this is an interesting thing, so he attacked comedian Darius Davies, who's on the Comedy Unleashed tour, who asked Andrew, you know, Darius has got a baby, and he said, you know, how am I going to feed my child?
	I mean, he mentions it down here, you know, it's That is very polite, you know, with all sincerity, would you let me know what you'd like me to do?
	I'm certain my daughter would prefer to be fed rather than go hungry because I've turned down a well-paid tour with good comedians run by good people because other comedians think the show is racist, transphobic and certainly your own prejudice when in actual fact the night is a diverse line-up every single time and a diverse audience.
	But I've never once heard any bigoted stuff.
	I don't think he's been there when I've performed.
	But if we scroll down...
	This is what Andrew O'Neill responds with.
	So if you scroll down a little bit more, he says, OK, comedy doesn't owe you a living.
	You had a kid.
	Well, that's on you.
	Unseeable opinion.
	If you can't afford a kid unless you take part in a right wing project, you should have pulled out quicker.
	Get a job, get funnier and get booked more.
	Man, so he's basically saying he's basically saying if you can't afford to have children, you shouldn't have children.
	That's a Tory policy!
	That is more than a Tory policy.
	That's like fascism.
	That's a fascism, a borderline eugenicist policy.
	You know what I mean?
	Well, the problem as well is that, I mean, if he's, well, if it's saying get funnier, I think his own stand-up shows that that's not how you get booked nowadays, is it?
	Yeah.
	It's about towing the right line.
	And also, Darius Davies is an incredibly funny comedian.
	If you're up at the Edinburgh Fringe, go and see his show.
	It's called The Non-Disclosure Agreement.
	It's about him getting sued because somebody stole his joke and then sued him when he called them out.
	And yeah, it's an amazing show.
	He's incredibly funny.
	So yeah, Darius Davies, Non-Disclosure Agreement show.
	But getting back to this, all the arguments against comedy and leash are just mental.
	Some say it's marketing.
	They're just saying, oh, comedy and leash is just marketing itself by saying they're free speech.
	Oh, heaven forbid that a comedy night should market itself.
	You know what I mean?
	You're supposed to just crawl into the gutter and pull a blanket over your head.
	And do you know who else was good at marketing, though?
	Nazis.
	I mean, Goebbels.
	Nazis and Walt Disney.
	Other people say that Comedy Unleashed damages other comedy nights by suggesting that they're leashed and you can't say what you want at other comedy nights.
	That's nonsense.
	Plenty of comedy nights, for example, say that they're the best comedy nights with rising stars.
	It doesn't mean that they're implying that other comedy nights have fading has-beens and are worse.
	It's just, you know, people say stuff like this.
	And also, other nights do restrict free speech and cancel comedians.
	I was booked on a comedy night in North London.
	I think it was at 2 Northdown.
	It was an unpaid, new material night.
	The venue manager or whatever got wind that I was on and cancelled the whole night.
	So it wasn't just me getting...
	It was like sending a message.
	If you associate with Leo, if you're friends with Leo, if you're willing to work with Leo, then we'll get you cancelled.
	So you've got to completely ostracise yourself and distance yourself from...
	Which just shows why Comedy Unleashed is necessary.
	You know, to...
	Counteract that sort of evil, sort of destructive prejudice.
	It's nuts.
	Anyway, back to Andrew O'Neill and They Them's terrible takes.
	So he says, I'm thinking of starting a comedy tour for comedians whose political views are not shared by half the politicians in Parliament.
	Oh, yeah, because obviously stand-up comedians famously, famously pro-government and all agree with everything that Priti Patel says.
	Absolute nonsense.
	Anyway, and this is why we need a night where alternative opinions are allowed.
	You know, there's only about three openly right-wing comedians on the circuit, and about two of them are me.
	So yeah, comedians say, oh, but you can say what you want at any comedy night, but to get to the point...
	I mean, I do now do stuff...
	I started out doing at Comedy Unleashed and I do it at other comedy nights, but Comedy Unleashed gave me the confidence to try out that material and a place to hone it and get the confidence to then do it at other clubs.
	And there are other clubs that allow diverse views, some great clubs that don't...
	I don't think as part of the marketing, as far as I've seen so far, that Comedy Unleashed is marketing itself as like the monopolization of edgy comedy in any way.
	It's just a night to put on comedians who are a bit more edgy.
	And there are comedy nights such as Quantum Leopard, which market themselves as safe space comedy where you get a badge or a sticker if you don't want to be spoken to.
	And, you know, they've got gender neutral toilets and all that kind of stuff.
	And, you know, they use that as a marketing tool.
	So, you know, marketing, I mean, I don't know why anybody would get upset, but also it seems to be working.
	So yeah, other comedians got stuck in.
	So Martin Moore, who's a lovely guy, I've gigged with him loads, did a tour in Southeast Asia with him.
	He said, why am I on this poster?
	Which, to be honest, was my response when I saw him on the poster, because he's a lovely guy, but he doesn't push any boundaries with his comedy.
	But this is jumped on by lots of critics who said that Comedy Unleashed was just making up bookings.
	And it wasn't.
	It was just a booking error.
	Amy Mason said, who's another comedian, said, if your comedy career is going so badly, you need to share a bill with a man dressed as Hitler.
	Maybe just, like, stop comedy.
	Get a job in Halfords or something.
	I worked in retail for years and it was fine.
	I fully believe that she worked in retail for years.
	But is the man dressed as Hitler funny?
	This is my...
	Is Hitler hilarious?
	That's what all I care about is a comedy night.
	Mel Brooks?
	You know what I mean?
	Alo, Alo?
	Prince Harry?
	Mel Brooks, Jewish man, dressing himself as Hitler for Blazing Saddles.
	And here, who she's talking about is Frank Sinatra, who's a legend of the London Cavaliers.
	Frank Sinatra, that's quite good.
	Let's watch a bit of his stuff.
	Third Reich!
	That's what all the people say!
	I took Poland in April and France in May.
	And you know, I was starting to crown.
	When I took those checks, took those checks in June, I saved the Reich.
	As funny as it may seem, I just got mine cakes.
	Watching nation scream.
	But I won't, won't let it get me down.
	Cause it would soon be my world spinning around.
	Just brilliant stuff, man.
	I saw his full show last year and it had, you know, he does songs.
	He's got a full, he's got the Iraq pack.
	So he's got Sadami Davis Jr., Dean Stalin and Osama Bin Crosby.
	And it's just, man, it's an absolute rag.
	It's what comedy and cabaret should be.
	Just outrageous and fun.
	And obviously not genuinely fascistic.
	You know what I mean?
	He's not empowering Hitler by doing that.
	He's mocking Hitler.
	What do you mean?
	I feel the warm light of the Third Reich racing through me right as we speak.
	Now, in terms of costumed comedy, he's got a few chuckles out of me, which is certainly more than Andrew O'Neill did, so there you go.
	You're officially less funny than Hitler.
	This guy, Tony Cowards.
	So Tony Cowards is a dismal comedian.
	Does he live up to his surname?
	Pretty much.
	Just genuinely awful comedian.
	Check him out.
	Does puns, but not like...
	In a good...
	Like, man, just...
	Just not a good comedian.
	He's had to stop doing comedy for mental health reasons.
	The reason being that any promoter that booked him would be mental.
	But yeah, he's written big screeds about how we need to wipe out any free speech comedy and blah, blah, blah.
	It's so funny.
	He says, my problem with these gigs is who's funding and supporting it.
	Personally, I would not be happy to take money associated with organisations such as Breitbart and Spike.
	There's no money associated with...
	I mean, Breitbart?
	That's like an American website.
	What comedy nights are they sponsoring?
	Yeah, I mean, there's not Breitbart money going into Comedy Unleashed.
	Paul Savage replied to him saying...
	Without wanting to be rude, don't you work for Amazon?
	And Tony Kerr says, yes, that is currently true.
	So, you know, I mean, he's willing to take money from Jeff Bezos who makes people sleep in the warehouse or whatever.
	And when he's working for Amazon, I think it's very much on the delivery side.
	Other comedians on Twitter tried to...
	This is something that started happening in Comrie after Me Too.
	Comedians call out other comedians as sexual harassers or rapists or whatever.
	It happened loads.
	In lockdown, the whole Comrie community pulled together to accuse each other of rape.
	It was a glorious time.
	I'm amazed it hasn't happened to me yet.
	I'm sure it will.
	But yeah, so lots of people came out and said that they're dodgy, just implying that they're dodgy people, you know, sexual harassers.
	Sometimes they named them openly.
	But this guy said, you know, this lineup poster is beyond eyebrow-raising in places.
	This is part of a thread that was about, you know, discussing who are the dodgy people in the lineup.
	So I replied to him, you know, who exactly?
	Are you talking about me?
	You know what I mean?
	Who are you talking about?
	I did know who he was talking about, really.
	I'm not going to say the name, though, because I think he's innocent, and I don't think it's our job to, you know, point fingers like this and speculate.
	But I will.
	I slipped into this guy's DMs just to find out who he was talking about.
	I've had to redact some stuff because I don't identify this guy.
	Because I know that this guy who's calling out people on Comedy Unleashed sent saucy messages of some sort, dick pics or whatever, to the girlfriend of...
	So this person that you're speaking to right now, just to clear it up, is the same person who was saying that the poster was eyebrow-raising?
	Yeah, there's people, there's dodgy people.
	So this was the person saying that there was dodgy people, dodgy opinions, don't go near it.
	Yeah, and specifically referencing dodgy sexual harassment and stuff like that.
	Which, you know, there is quite a lot of in comedy because you've got all these drunk, egotistical men who think they're rock stars.
	I mean, obviously that's not going to be any surprise in any sort of entertainment industry, sadly.
	Yeah.
	So I messaged him directly.
	I'm like, you know, who were you talking about?
	Because he didn't reply to me on Twitter.
	I was like, who are you talking about?
	And then he told me, and obviously I blocked that name out.
	And then I said, because I know that he sent some dodgy messages to a girl, made her feel very uncomfortable, and he denied it.
	And I said, you know, any messages, do you know what I'm talking about?
	And he says, oh, there were some drunk messages back in 2017, but I've apologized since.
	So it's fine for you to go and smear other people and name them and try and get them banned from the industry for sexual harassment, but you did it yourself back in 2017?
	I don't know.
	I just find that side of things just disgusting and hypocritical.
	And once again, apologies count when this guy does it.
	Yeah, it's fine for him to apologise.
	Although the comedian he's talking about actually did a full-on show about his accusations, which I wish I'd seen, but it was really funny.
	Other people, it wasn't just comedians who moaned, so this person said, I can't stop thinking about this.
	13% of the bill is women!
	It's like, well, yeah, it's a comedy night.
	The next person said, and they're just trying to, you know, as soon as they see that, it's like the friend-enemy thing all the way down.
	As soon as they see that somebody's now in the enemy column of the accounts, they try and just smear them.
	They go from, like, loving them, like, fawning over, you know, Reginald D. Hunter to trying to just smear Reginald D. Hunter.
	So this guy said, I saw Reginald D. Hunter at Richmond before COVID. He was drinking way too much and making unfunny jokes about drinking too much.
	I gig with Reginald D. Hunter in Ireland, did the Galway Comedy Festival a few months back, and he was amazing!
	He was absolutely brilliant, and he was really good fun to be around as well.
	And this guy also says, his support act thought it was cool to tell racist gags about the Scots.
	Oh my god!
	Not even him, not even Reginald, but his support act.
	So this is this guy.
	Leo, you're being oppressed.
	Reginald D. Hunter is racist by association with somebody who's mocking Scots.
	By the way, Scotland isn't a race.
	Or the Celts.
	What an absolute nonsense.
	You get nice tanned.
	Because I'm 164th Cherokee.
	Stop flexing for the camera.
	I'm weak right now.
	Somebody give us some steroid cream.
	It's like anabolic steroids that you absorb through your skin.
	So I'm going to get on that.
	roided up and Hulk out.
	Anyway, the next one.
	Yeah, this person.
	When something chooses to self-describe as free thinking, especially comedy of all things, you just know it means free to think bad thoughts.
	You wouldn't have to boast about how free thinking you were if your thoughts were worth thinking.
	Like, what?!
	What on earth?
	That's an absolute nonsense.
	If a chicken is described as free-range, it's because it wants to go to a Nazi rally.
	You know what I mean?
	Absolute nonsense.
	Absolute nonsense.
	You know what I mean?
	The arguments are all self-defeating.
	They say that comedians have already got free speech, but also we must stop them performing and shut this night down.
	You know what I mean?
	If we move on to the final one, this is Josh Howey, a friend of mine.
	Left-wing, very left-wing comedian.
	Very smart guy.
	leftist comedy booker who was attacking the comedy Unleashed tour for politely challenging his statement that woke leftist comedy bookers don't exist.
	And so you can't even question them.
	And anyway, I don't know.
	I just think it's an absolute nonsense.
	Anyway, all this fuss from our self-appointed moral guardians, for me, from my point of view, I think it's fantastic because they're the equivalent of, in the 70s, you'd get angry blue-haired women.
	There's still, a lot of them are blue-haired women, standing outside theatres or cinemas saying, you know, don't see this film!
	It contains scenes of, you know, lesbianism and, you know...
	Gross!
	There's lots of, you see their breasts and everything, like they're licking each other's fannies.
	And now they're out there protesting about these stuff while showing their breasts licking each other's fannies.
	And then you see the protesters saying there's lesbianism and you're like, whoa, this sounds alright.
	And then you go and see the film, which you wouldn't have seen originally because it's some French film that looks boring.
	So these people are just doing the exact same thing.
	They're just doing the same thing for Connery and Alicia.
	They're like, oh, don't go and see this.
	It's free speech.
	It could contain opinions that shock or challenge you.
	You could hear a diversity of voices, see a diversity of comedians, and people are going to be like, what?
	Sounds pretty good, actually.
	So it's free advertising for Comedy Unleashed.
	So yeah, I'm doing six of the tour dates.
	And I'm doing Reading and Glasgow with Count Dankula.
	And I can't remember what other ones.
	But yeah, come along to the Comedy Unleashed tour.
	And also follow my YouTube channel.
	Do that as well, because I want more followers.
	That sounds like it'll be fun.
	I'll go and see Darius Davies' show in Edinburgh.
	Yeah, support comedians who otherwise wouldn't be able to speak to larger audiences.
	That's always a good thing to do.
	Support fun comedians.
	Yes.
	Let's move on then to Biden's transitory recession.
	You may have heard a lot about recession recently, a lot of worries that the economy is going badly.
	Thankfully, elite sponsored economists are here to tell you that actually everything's going great, everything is...
	Isn't getting more expensive.
	Your household income is perfectly fine.
	Don't worry.
	Take the Soma.
	Go back to sleep.
	I'll draw everyone's attention to an article that Rory released this morning called A Day in the Sun.
	Because as we know, a lot of the terrible economic policies that are being pushed that are causing a lot of the strife that's going on right now Are due to green climate initiatives.
	And this is an article that Rory wrote about the recent heatwave frenzy that we had over in the UK. A heatwave that lasted exactly two days and was, if I'm completely honest, at most mildly uncomfortable.
	But not particularly unwelcome because we get enough terrible weather over here as it is that it's nice to at least have one or two hot days per year.
	But with all of the frenzy, you see things like the maps being changed from a nice, lovely, cool green to a deep, Blood red to let everybody know.
	Yeah, we're going to burn in Hades.
	And on a serious note, the British Medical Journal in 2015 did a huge study of deaths during hot weather and deaths during cold weather and found out that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather.
	And I'm not denying that climate change exists as human activity is a factor in it.
	But I'm saying, so far...
	We're not seeing the devastation.
	So far, it's probably saving more lives than it costs.
	I mean, during winter, it's been notorious for a very long time that, yes, old people drop off in winter because they may not put their heating on, they may have trouble paying for their heating, and if they're really cold in the night, they might just go on.
	Yeah, and also being cold means it depresses your immune system, so you can't fight off pneumonia and things like that.
	At the end of the day, you can say that climate change is happening without agreeing with the political policies that are being put in place and going, hold up, isn't this actually destroying any life that we want to live right now in possible hopes of saving a future that our great-great-grandchildren might be able to enjoy?
	And I'm wary of any government that comes to me and says, you know, look at all this.
	All this means that we've got to raise taxes and you've got to give me a whole lot more power.
	That is always worrying.
	Can we deal with this without giving the government a huge amount of power?
	I mean, governments always like to find problems that the only solution is more government.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We can't really be surprised that that's what they come up with.
	But anyway, moving on, in America especially, this is very, very clear that they are trying to change the discourse on what's going on.
	For instance, Wikipedia has had the definition of recession changed a number of times, which I'll get onto.
	I think it's been changed up to 24 times recently, as there has been a slight editor battle on Wikipedia of people trying to frame the narrative in one way or the other.
	Just to make it clear, for a very long time, recession has unofficially and colloquially been understand to happen when there has been two quarters in a row of GDP negative growth, aka shrinkage, where the growth of the country is not positive.
	So that's generally how we use the...
	We use recession, that's generally how we recognise it, or at least one of the indicators.
	But...
	As we can see, the RNC has put together this little compilation of Democrat and mainstream journalists all saying transition period and other such things so they can absolutely avoid saying a recession.
	Let's just play a clip to see how blatant it is.
	How we transition from historic economic recovery.
	We're at a transitional moment.
	We are in a transition, there's no doubt.
	The economy is slowing.
	We are seeing a slowing.
	That is not only expected, but necessary as we operate through this transition.
	What we're seeing is that we are in a transition.
	We're clearly moving through a transition.
	We can make a transition, we hope.
	Well, we're in a transition.
	That's appropriate and Necessary to transition.
	Well, we're certainly in a transition.
	That cooling was expected and part of a transition.
	An economy that is transitioning.
	We transition into this kind of strong, stable, shared growth.
	The goal is for us to be able to make a transition.
	When it comes to the economy at this point, at this time, we're seeing a transition.
	We're in a period of transition in which growth is slowing.
	I'll tell you, that's going to be a problem even as we get through this transition, and that's going to be a focus for us even as we get through this transition as well.
	Yeah, everyone just loves those transitions where you lose your business, you lose your job, you lose your car, you lose the ability to afford basic necessities.
	Everybody loves those transitions, don't they?
	They're all just trying to sweep the problem under the rug and ignore that it's happening and just say that it's like necessary.
	And the thing is, ironically, traditionally, economically speaking, a recession is a transitionary period.
	It's a period where there has been a big boom and then all of a sudden, the economy through whatever mechanism recognizes that there has been malinvestment, People have been putting money into stupid investments that all collapse.
	And then this is supposed to be the economy righting itself.
	Yeah, so it's an opportunity.
	Recessions aren't necessarily a bad thing.
	I mean, they're a bad thing if you get caught in the wrong end of it.
	But they allow money and people, money and labour, to be redistributed to places where it's more productive.
	Yeah, where it's more productive.
	The only problem is that when you have governments trying to insert massive levels of intervention, you end up with the Great Depression of the late 20s and the entirety of the 1930s and the early 1940s as well.
	Because what was it the government tried to do when the stock market crash happened?
	Well, at first they left it alone So that's what economic intervention from the government during a recession gets you.
	And sadly, that does seem to be what the American government is trying to do now.
	We know that they had the Build Back Better bill, which I don't think went through, but was trying to allocate something like $1.75 trillion to intervention and economic infrastructure to make it so that from cradle to grave, you are the property of the government and they have to look after you like, like your parents or something.
	And one of the reasons for all this, as I've mentioned, is the green economic policy.
	And let's take a look at what Joe Biden was saying three years ago today about how they need to clamp down on fossil fuels.
	Could there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking, in a Biden administration?
	No.
	We would work it out.
	We would make sure it's eliminated.
	No more drilling on federal lands.
	No more drilling, including offshore.
	No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill.
	Period.
	I guarantee we're going to end fossil fuel.
	What about, say, stopping fracking and stopping new pipeline infrastructure?
	No more.
	No new fracking.
	I've argued against any more oil drilling or gas drilling on federal lands.
	No one's going to build a coal-fired plant again, and we're going to get rid of the ones we have now.
	Have a transition from the oil industry, yes.
	Would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy?
	The answer is yes.
	There it is!
	Are you willing to destroy hundreds of thousands of people's lives so that you can virtue signal that you really do care about climate change?
	Absolutely!
	To phrase that question in a more honest way.
	And we've seen the exact same thing over here in the UK, sadly, because we've got net zero targets and other such things that People like Farage and even Kemi Badenoch are questioning and saying that we need to be able to do some kind of referendum on net zero, seeing as it is demolishing the economy.
	And it's meant that we've got supply chain issues, we've got issues with energy, we've got electric bills absolutely soaring.
	We've got fuel prices, which have been, you know, kicking my ass for a while now because everything is ridiculously expensive.
	And it is the same over in the US, and we're getting shortages.
	Even butter.
	Have you been to a shop to buy butter recently?
	No.
	It's ridiculous.
	Even the cheap store brand ones are like £3 for a tub now.
	If you go for Lurpak or any of the bigger brands, you can go between £5 to £7 just for a tub of butter.
	This is why I make my own butter.
	I don't need to know any more about that process.
	Do you own a farm?
	No.
	Just get cream and you shake it.
	No.
	Oh, okay.
	Just get cream and you shake it.
	Just get cream and you shake it.
	Just get cream in a bottle.
	Not a bottle like that.
	A jar.
	Just shake the cream.
	Interesting.
	Butter will form.
	We swear.
	But yeah, everything's not looking good economically.
	A lot of people are feeling the squeeze, myself included.
	And it's just not looking great.
	And the fact that the elites are trying to deny this is even happening in the first place is ridiculous.
	As I mentioned, two quarters in a row of negative economic growth GDP-wise is generally seen as an unofficial way of recognising that a recession is going on.
	Look at this.
	Look at this graph.
	United States GDP growth rate.
	What's that we've got right there?
	You can see back in January and July of 2020, there was a massive economic downturn.
	That was to be expected because of lockdowns, which were implemented by the government.
	Let's not forget that.
	But now we do have, even though it's slight and looks like it's nowhere near as bad as it was back in 2020, we do have slight economic downturns in the first two quarters of this year.
	And this has...
	Global repercussions, because America's economy is so huge that it does impact the rest of the global economy.
	If, for instance, Biden hadn't shut down so many domestic oil and fracking industries as part of his initiative for the US, perhaps we in the UK would be able to get oil and natural gas from over there, rather than having to suffer from the imports and other such terrible ideas and sanctions that we've been putting on Russia.
	Well, yeah, it's an absolute nonsense that, you know, so under Trump, you know, they had fracking, they had the tar sands and all this kind of stuff.
	And, you know, so America was pretty much energy self-sufficient.
	And then Biden came in and, like in Europe, you know, was like, oh, no, we need to get rid of all fossil fuels.
	But you can't get rid of fossil fuels because we're all using fossil fuels.
	So what they do is they cut We're good to go.
	As well as removing that leverage that these horrible regimes have over you, it means that you provide jobs to your own citizens.
	The woke ideology has got such a vice-like grip on people.
	The Green Party in Scotland, who support the SNP, say that anybody who wants to work in the oil industry in the North Sea is a far-right extremist.
	Anybody wants a job?
	Yeah, people trying to make a living in their life, that's absolutely ridiculous.
	And the fact that this is all going on while people are generally ignoring the nuclear option, and I mean that in terms of nuclear power, I'm not saying to blow anyone up or anything, but they're ignoring the nuclear option, they don't want to discuss it.
	If you could talk to people like AOC in America, I would imagine that she would have nothing but disparaging remarks to say about nuclear, because if you look at her Green New Deal, I don't I don't remember nuclear power ever being mentioned in that.
	Even though it's the cleanest and safest form of power, apart from, I think, solar.
	But, you know, even wind power kills more people.
	But solar has such a ridiculously low energy efficiency for the amount of space that it needs as well.
	You'd need to destroy half of the UK countryside to even be able to produce a fraction of the power.
	And it only works when the sun is shining.
	So we're screwed here, aren't we?
	Hope for more heat waves.
	Yeah, and let's carry on, though.
	And I just want to point out as well, actually, that I know GDP is not necessarily the best metric for this sort of thing, and I will be looking at other metrics that you could look at to be able to tell whether an economy is doing well, because GDP has a number of issues.
	Primarily, number one being that it includes government spending.
	Government spending is not necessarily productive or positive in any way, and the government, if it comes to it, can just print themselves even more money to spend it on even more useless stuff.
	If they want.
	So it's not always the best metric to check, but it is still a metric of economic growth.
	And like I say, they are trying to block the idea of a recession being in progress as we speak.
	It's been in progress for about two years, I would say.
	But they are saying that what is a recession?
	Wikipedia can't decide from NPR, that bastion of truth, talking about how on Thursday they got the report of the 0.9%.
	Decreased shrinkage in the GDP. And then since then there's been this battle ongoing on Wikipedia of people saying that it's this or it's that or it's this or that.
	And they have blocked it now because it was just getting a bit too much for poor old Wikipedia moderators, eh?
	And then people on Facebook are getting fact-checked.
	Senior economists are being fact-checked by Facebook for saying the US is in a recession.
	He quoted saying we live in an Orwellian hellscape because he can't just say what is...
	Plain and obvious for everybody.
	And then we get on to the mainstream media's look at what this is.
	So we all know Brian Stelter, right?
	CNN clown?
	Right.
	Oh, well, he's one of the reporters for CNN. Absolute clown.
	In this article, it talks about how on his show on Sunday, the New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman replied, No, we aren't.
	No, it doesn't.
	When he was asked, Are we in a recession?
	And does the term matter?
	So, according to a mainstream professional economist, we're not in a recession.
	That's great!
	I can suddenly afford butter now!
	Fuel prices are just magically gone down because Paul Krugman, who is definitely not a completely ridiculous human being, said so.
	He also said none of the usual criteria that real experts use says that we're in a recession right now.
	What does matter, he stated, The state of the economy is what it is.
	Jobs are abundant.
	And this is the frame game they're trying to make.
	They're trying to reframe it so that it's because there's more jobs available, because the job market is good, that means we're not in a recession.
	Yeah.
	Even though you're not...
	And also there's a wage price spiral, which is partly caused by the fact that there's incredibly low unemployment.
	We're seeing double-digit inflation, so then wages have to go up.
	You're seeing people striking to get more pay.
	So then wages go up, so then people have to start charging more for the stuff that those people are making because it's costing them more.
	And then other people have to get paid more to be able to afford the stuff that they're making.
	And before you know it, You're in the Weimar Republic.
	Yes, we do get hyperinflation, which is what the Biden administration seems to be going for.
	And over in the UK, we face the terrifying prospect of Rishi money printer Sunak potentially being in charge, which will not solve everything.
	It will not solve anything, especially when he's like, no, we don't want to give you tax cuts.
	In fact, we might hike taxes for the good of the economy.
	Well, I'm wondering if the Tory party is using tax...
	As a way of dampening the wage price spiral.
	Because I'm paying so much tax.
	That is how they will be looking at it.
	The MMT framework sees taxes as being money taken out of the economy to prevent inflation.
	But that's ridiculous.
	It leaves you with less money to buy stuff with.
	But I mean, I don't want my money.
	Why can't they take off somebody who's already rich?
	I'm just making my money.
	Take it off somebody who sits around all day.
	You could cut the welfare state quite a bit.
	You could think about potentially cutting government spending rather than hiking taxes, but that will never be the answer.
	And just to take a quick moment to laugh.
	Paul Krugman.
	This is the man who wrote this opinion column in the New York Times back in November 2020, making the most of the coming Biden boom.
	I hope you all made the most of it, because it's done.
	If it even showed up in the first place.
	He says that this suggests that Joe Biden will eventually preside over a soaring, mourning-in-America-type recovery.
	Did anybody feel that?
	Did you guys?
	Did our American viewers feel that?
	No.
	There was a brief moment in the stock market.
	I bought a lot of recovery stocks.
	When we were coming out of the...
	When we were right in the trough, I bought oil and airlines and stuff like that.
	And coming out, they did shoot up.
	So IAG, who own British Airways and stuff, they were shooting up.
	IAG went up to 225 or something.
	Now it's down around, I think, 115.
	Yeah, there was a brief period where it spiked a little bit.
	So if that, like, day or two while that happened was the Biden boom, then I suppose congratulations it happened.
	But let's check in on what else he's saying nowadays recently, where a recent article from just over a week ago, he just comes out, I was wrong about inflation.
	How were you?
	Could other people have warned you of what might have been happening there?
	Everyone in the debates back in 2020 agreed that deficit spending would stimulate demand and cause massive inflation.
	Everyone agreed that a stronger economy with lower employment rate would, other things equal, have a higher inflation rate.
	Once again, throwing away the idea that printing billions and billions of dollars that didn't exist before would cause inflation.
	No, no, no, no.
	It's having a strong economy with lots of people working.
	That's the only thing that causes inflation.
	Well, potentially a bit of supply and demand is in work there.
	But yes, perhaps supply and demand also works in terms of the money supply.
	And then he carries on.
	Yet inflation soared anyway.
	But why?
	Much, although not all of the inflation surge, seems to reflect disruptions associated with the pandemic.
	Fear of infection and changes in the way we live cause big shifts in the mix of spending.
	People spent less money on services and more on goods, leading to shortages of shipping containers, overstressed port capacity, and so on.
	These disruptions help explain why inflation rose in so many countries, not just in the United States.
	I mean, he's saying all of this and somehow saying that we're not at the same time in a recession.
	He's admitting we've got massive inflation.
	He's admitting that we've got ridiculous shortages going on because of supply chain issues that mean that people can't get basic necessities depending on where you are.
	And he's still like, eh.
	People are employed though.
	People are working.
	So what's the problem, guys?
	Looking ahead, the economy is currently cooling off.
	The decline in first quarter GDP was probably a quirk, but overall growth seems to be running below trend.
	Oops.
	That really didn't age very well, did it?
	And it was only a little over a week ago.
	Ah, that first dip in GDP in the first quarter.
	Ah, we'll be back to normal in no time.
	Oops.
	Big oops.
	And then he even tried to back this one up again yesterday with this amazing...
	I can't believe he tweeted this in all seriousness.
	Right.
	The problem may be that the Biden economy boomed too much, feeding inflation, and that it now needs to cool off, which may involve a recession.
	So we were so successful.
	When he's talking about a boom, he's talking about all the excess money that was put into the economy, because the US government printed, and the UK government printed, with quantitative easing, printed so much money.
	And every extra pound that's created or every extra dollar that's created devalues all the dollars in existence.
	So all of a sudden you've got all this money flooding into the economy.
	It's going on furlough or whatever.
	So people are getting this, you know, accumulating all this money.
	They also bailed out a load of big industries and firms as well.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So when, like...
	When things open up and people can spend that money, you saw it in restaurants.
	There's the post-COVID hiking prices, which they haven't put their prices down again because people had this excess money.
	But basically, man, don't print money.
	It didn't work in Zimbabwe.
	It didn't work in the Weimar Republic.
	It's not going to work in the UK or in America in 2022.
	Yeah, well, sorry, Leo, but we're the West and we're just better, therefore it will work somehow.
	This time.
	This time it'll work.
	We swear to God.
	And Paul Krugman is the type of person who is the establishment shill egging on the government telling them that this can happen.
	And one of the problems that I didn't really see much of a boom was because a lot of that money came into play during the lockdowns, where a lot of businesses were shut down.
	So if there was a boom, I'll give you the two companies who got most of that money.
	Amazon, Netflix, and maybe a few takeaway restaurants that were still open at the time.
	That's who got all of that money, okay?
	So if there was a boom, I didn't feel any of the positive effects of it.
	And we got this guy, Yossi Gestetner, who posted this tweet trying to refute a lot of this that was going on, especially refute the idea that...
	High employment is a thing that's happening right now, and that that even constitutes whether we're in a recession or not, where he says 152.5 million people were employed right before the lockdowns, 151.9 million were employed last month.
	If adding no net new jobs in more than two years is not a recession, then I don't know what is.
	I actually do know six months of negative GDP and economic activity, and at the bottom of this thread he sums up just saying...
	Long-running definition of recession has been dumped in the last 10 days.
	What is a recession has yet to be declared, and the mumbling that we are not...
	why we are not in a recession, strong labour market, is what they're saying, is false as things are bad.
	Yet people are buying the non-recession talk, and that's because a lot of people are, sadly, slaves to the establishment media narrative.
	And if we carry on, we can see...
	Places like CBS saying, who decides if we're in a recession?
	Eight economists you've likely never heard of.
	And this article, too, just like, the title alone should tell you that this is a worthless article, but I don't know if you've heard of the economist Richard Wolff.
	He's a Marxist economist lolcal.
	A Marxist economist?
	I know it's a contradiction in terms.
	Oh my god, it's like a fat stripper.
	Well, they quote him in this as some kind of authoritative voice on the subject, and he points out, oh, you know, there's a lot of in-group, out-group preference with these few economists and everything, and it's trying to discredit the idea.
	And yes, I do think it's a little bit silly, maybe, that we have eight economists in the US who determine whether we're in recession or not, when it should be obvious to everybody, but still...
	Yeah, it's just a measurable rule.
	It's like, you know, two quarters of economic decline.
	But the article is just basically saying, oh, there are a bunch of white men, though.
	There's only two women on it.
	Therefore, just throw their opinion out the window, as you would expect.
	We've also got one of the other ways that you can measure how well an economy is doing is, as I've mentioned, the shortages that are going on.
	And let's see how America's doing there.
	Well, we've got baby formula shortage due to issues with a recall of products from one of the big...
	I think it's one of the big baby formula producers and the fact that they wanted to shut down a factory so that the government wouldn't be able to look into it because they were about to put a load of regulations on them.
	We've got stores in New York...
	Beginning to lock up spam in plastic cases because of a crime spike.
	And they say petty larceny complaints are up 52% in the precinct where the Port Authority is located compared to last year.
	And in addition to the rise in crime, inflation spiked to 9.1% in June, which the New York Post explained has created a market for thieves to steal...
	So everything's going great in there.
	We've got an egg shortage in Australia, and we've also got warning in the UK over cheese shortages.
	I mean, you'd think that the cheese shortages would be a terrible thing for America, but we're the ones with the cheese shortages, apparently.
	And once again, we've got representatives in America pushing for even more spending and the possibility of Rishi Money Printer Sunak taking over as PM in the UK. Please, please don't let that happen, everyone.
	So, in the end, all I can say, and I don't want to end this on too much of a black pill, but unless the structure of government is changed from the foundations up in terms of what sort of fingers they have and influence they have over the economy, we're all doomed.
	We're all doomed to higher prices, so nice cheery note to end that on.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	A note to everybody in the team who plays guitar, if you ever considered re-finishing one of these Squire strats, don't.
	Jesus Christ, this is some of the thickest paint I've ever dealt with in my life.
	I'm still not done.
	I spend most of the day on this thing.
	Why do I love to torture myself so much?
	So I re-crowned them as much as I could.
	Well, I actually re-crowned them pretty well, but there was no crowding at all on one set, and then no fret leveling at all.
	Nice work, though.
	I mean, at the end of the day, I appreciate that you're trying that in the first place.
	I, whenever I've needed to get a guitar set up, have only ever taken it to a store.
	I do want to try and do a proper full-on setup of my guitar at some point, just for a bit of fun, just because it's something I've not tried before.
	And plus, I don't know, just doing manual labor, stuff like that, makes you feel very masculine.
	Yeah.
	So maybe I'll give you a guitar player in your band.
	Yeah, I was the lead guitarist.
	I've still got a bunch of guitars at home, but like I say, if I'm messing about with them, it'll only be to change...
	Although I do need to change the strings at the moment, because they're a bit natty.
	But yeah, nice one there.
	I've not got a Squire, I've never had one, but I know that if you mess about with them, they can be very, very exceptional instruments for the price.
	So, nice.
	You see this book?
	And this book...
	They're both done by independent guys, not supported by those, uh, disgusting elites who control all the other publishing houses and don't like you.
	They're good dudes who hold similar enough values, like the same things you do.
	So support them.
	And, uh, you know, it gives you a bit of an excuse to, you know, flex a little bit.
	I'm funny.
	Nice!
	Yeah, that's the great thing about the internet.
	It connects artists with people who want to support them.
	There's no gatekeepers.
	I mean, until YouTube delist you.
	But yeah, I think it's fantastic that you get to directly support and see the art created by people.
	Oh yeah, I mean, are you aware of Ripperverse?
	I'm sure you know about how Marvel and DC and all the traditional comic book companies have just gone hook, line and sinker for all the woke BS and everybody hates it now.
	Well, Ripperverse is created by YoungRipper59EricJuly and he just started up with a load of money off his own back.
	It's a comic book company that's just dedicated to telling Good stories that people want to read and he did a pre-order campaign for it and he wasn't expecting it to get that much.
	Within like a day, the pre-order campaign made over a million dollars and now I think they've got to about 3.5 million dollars, if not a little bit more.
	So you've got people out there who really are just putting their necks on the line so that they can create their own culture.
	Razor Fist was very good about it when he said that don't run away from the culture, become the culture.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And it's fantastic to see that there are people doing that out there.
	So, nice one.
	Support those comic books if you can.
	Yeah.
	If the Bobbies are reacting to people getting offended over social media posts, it makes one wonder what they would do if a bunch of, say, Muslims reported being offended over stuff like drag queen story time.
	And what would their reactions be to establishing such a concrete pecking order of priority of offence?
	That would be a really interesting experiment to see.
	I would love to see it just so concretely demonstrated who's on top.
	Is it the drag queens or is it the Muslims?
	I feel like it's going to be the Muslims because they're a bit scarier than drag queens.
	The 70-day drag queen story I don't think they're doing many Muslim areas or libraries or schools or anything.
	I don't know, that just sounds a little bit like it's going against diversity, if you ask me.
	Why are they discriminating against them?
	I mean, do they not trust that it's going to be a wholesome family show for everyone to enjoy?
	No, I mean, why are the drag queens discriminating against Muslims by not doing it in Muslim faith schools?
	They're obviously racist.
	That's the only answer.
	Islamophobes.
	This may come to a shock to most of you, but Lakemba didn't always used to be this Islamic.
	It had an Islamic population, but it was very small.
	In fact, it used to be very highly populated by Greeks immigrating until 2005.
	Something that may not shock you is that around 2008, there was actually a clash between Arab Muslims and Indian Muslims using pens to one-off one another.
	Really?
	Very interesting.
	Very interesting.
	I suppose, you know, you get what's at hand.
	Anyway, thank you for those video comments.
	Let's read some of the site comments.
	So Henry Ashman says, I think the biggest reason why Gervais, as well as the likes of Dave Chappelle, are able to really push comedic boundaries is that they've both reached the point where they have F.U. money, as Scott Adams calls it.
	They bring in enough money to places like Netflix for specials and comedy series, and if they go to a venue for a set, it'll sell out four times over.
	So the venues wouldn't dare to lose out on that income.
	Frankie Boyle can't really do that anymore and is being propped up by that BBC money that's predicated on him being woke.
	Yeah, although venues do cancel Dave Chappelle.
	A venue cancelled Dave Chappelle, I think, just last week.
	And they said, we want this to be the safest space!
	Man, he's just going to tell jokes.
	He's not going to get a chainsaw out and start killing people.
	Yeah, just because the guy's black doesn't mean he's going to shoot the club up, guys.
	That's really racist.
	Racist of them.
	I know.
	Yeah, they do.
	It's like J.K. Rowling.
	J.K. Rowling's got that F.U. money, so she can say what she really means.
	But even then, she's been deplatformed from her own bloody franchise.
	It's ridiculous.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And they're keeping her out of that stuff.
	It's a nonsense.
	There are other people like, you know, so Sharon Davies.
	I went and see a couple of weeks back and saw Sharon Davies speak at the House of Lords.
	and she's actually because she's you know spoken up for uh for female sports and she's lost all of her sponsors and advertising deals and stuff like that because nobody wants to be associated with any controversy because whatever side you're on you're going to be alienating you know a bunch of people and so yeah she's she's living off savings now but i think for a lot of people especially with comedians man you got to like speak you're You can't be following what the trend is.
	You've got to speak your own truth.
	It's an absolute nonsense for a comedian to be like, oh, what should I be saying?
	Running their stuff past a focus group.
	That's the thing.
	I would say that the reason that someone like Gervais and Dave Chappelle have FU money in the first place is because they've never been afraid to just say what they feel.
	They've never been afraid to go against the grain of society.
	And people can recognize that and appreciate that.
	And that's why they've become so successful.
	Obviously, Yeah.
	would be terrified.
	I wouldn't if you're someone remotely right-wing on the comedy circuits coming up.
	I would be scared, but at the end of the day you've got to stick by your principles as far as I'm concerned.
	Anyway, Free Will 2112 says, People choose a tribe sometimes because they are true believers, but more often because they want to belong and not stick out and suffer negative social consequences for swimming against the tide.
	Frankie Boyle was always very left-wing by his own admission, so jumping on the woke bandwagon is not unsurprising.
	This means he has to be careful.
	Who he aims his caustic wit at, so as not to fall foul of the woke rule, but to preserve his career he has had to sell out.
	Well, yeah, that's the thing as well.
	You can be very left-wing and stay funny.
	There are...
	I mean, I can't think of any off the top of my head right now, exactly, but there are funny left-wingers out there because they don't let it become the animus for their entire life and personality.
	I mean, if you're going to be very left-wing, then it shows that you're going to let ideology rule over any facts or any sort of exploratory thought.
	And facts and exploratory thought and reality is what makes great comedy.
	You know, comedy is a truth...
	That hasn't been noticed or you're not allowed to say.
	The basis of all great comedy is truth.
	So, yes, you're never going to be a great comedian if you're very left-wing.
	Yeah, and it's just sad that he still postures.
	I get why he still postures like he's against the establishment, but it's just sad at this point.
	Just admit it.
	Come on.
	Anyway, Brian Thompson, there was a right giggle called Frankie whose humor went decidedly wanky.
	He went to the left, his audience bereft, and now he cries into his hanky.
	What a beautiful little limerick there.
	Quinn Hanley says, I used to love Frankie's stuff when he was on older episodes of Mock the Week.
	Absolutely so did I. I was actually sad back in the day when he got kicked off.
	I think for the Queen's so old she's got bats in her vagina or something.
	Was that the one that got him kicked off?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, he went after everyone.
	Now he's falling flat into wokeism and has just got worse and worse over the years.
	See, I think he still does say that he's going after everybody.
	Like, I saw a few quotes of this Latitude set where he made a few jokes about Joe Biden being old and decrepit.
	But you've got to show that there's a difference in degree between, oh, Joe Biden's a bit old and he's probably senile, isn't he?
	And those Tories are literal Nazis.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, you saw Mark Thomas, left-wing comedian.
	So he was given an honorary degree at Kent University.
	They've got a university there now.
	And he gave this speech just completely angrily eviscerating Boris Johnson.
	But it wasn't any sort of, you know, it wasn't any reason.
	It was just pure invective and anger from him.
	I've got plenty of reasons to dislike Boris Johnson.
	But if I'm going to go up and make a comedy set about them, I'm not just going to go, oh, he's such an awful person, he's basically a Nazi.
	I might want to bring up those reasons to make it clear why.
	But George Hap says, Oh yeah, I forgot he did that, actually.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	The only adverts I see are the stinking ones on YouTube and promotions on Amazon Prime when I want to watch good, based, and funny stuff.
	What even is a telly these days?
	Good question.
	Whenever I'm at my parents, I get a little taste of what's on the television nowadays.
	The adverts are how you're describing them.
	I think Josh has a game he plays with his parents when he goes back to theirs where he says, spot the white person in TV adverts.
	It's almost impossible.
	You can't win.
	Unless it's an advert for gambling addiction.
	Oh, if it's a negative, like the alcoholic crackhead living down the street.
	Yeah, there you go.
	General Haiping, Chinese internet battalion.
	Frankie's just trying to stave the guillotine blade from making contact with his neck by adopting the message after he's no doubt been savaged over the years on Twitter by activists trying to destroy his career.
	Probably a bit of that, but also, once again, I do think he does believe some of the stuff that he talks about when he goes into his woke rampages.
	So, little column A, little column B. Charles Cowley, Boyle is doing what T. Emin and others in the art world did.
	I don't know who T. Emin is.
	Tracy Emin.
	Oh, fair play.
	They reinforce and validate the political opinions and anti-democratic attitudes of those who give them business.
	Contempt for anyone who disagrees with establishment ideology is the sour undercurrent of what he's putting out now.
	It is a miserable sellout of someone who once posed as revealing the worst parts of society.
	Now he is the ally of those who despise society, thinking they're superior beings in a society of their own, with a natural right to order everyone else around the point of attempting to dictate how we think.
	Good point!
	Yep.
	And the comedy unleashed backlash.
	So Colin P says, so if it's okay for Frankie to joke about actually committing rape and even murder, is Carl now uncancelled for joking about not doing it?
	Once again, it depends entirely who is making the joke, sadly.
	Yeah.
	Well, the roasted dank is going to be out, I guess.
	Oh, I'm looking forward to when that comes out.
	It'll be fun.
	So, yeah, I'm sure.
	I couldn't make it, sadly.
	There's some jokes in there.
	Connor said a feminist showed up and did typical female feminist comedian jokes about her vagina and that was all it was.
	What?
	What on stage?
	The Roast of Dank, yeah.
	I think Connor said that somebody had to pull out, so they just got some random feminist comedian to fill in or something.
	That's absolute bullshit.
	Basically, the guy who's organizing it, Sean Hartnett, was just very difficult to work, wouldn't take any advice or anything like that.
	And then he booked.
	He went and booked.
	He didn't, like I said, book these people.
	He went and booked people who live in Manchester and Liverpool instead.
	Obviously, the day before, they looked like, oh, I've got this.
	I've got this in London tomorrow.
	I'm not doing that for 200 quid.
	So they cancelled the day before.
	And then I was like, well, book the people that I said you should book.
	And then he got...
	Really grudgingly, really grudgingly, but Katherine Henson, she's absolutely fantastic.
	Oh, fair play.
	Man, she absolutely smashed it.
	Oh, fair play.
	She absolutely fucking smashed it.
	I'm only going off second-hand information, so when it's released, I'll be able to check it out myself.
	Yeah, you can see, man, she absolutely smashed it.
	Darius smashed it as well.
	So yeah.
	Nicholas Valentine says, it seems to be easy to be a mainstream media approved comedian now.
	Walk out, say orange man bad, Boris dumb, Brexit voters are bad, white people are Nazis, people join in the laugh track.
	Well, it's more of a clap track.
	These days, walk off, take your cut of the TV tax, rinse and repeat.
	So yeah, mainstream entertainment has been bad for years.
	Just remember things like Little Britain, Monty Python and Fawlty Towers is now considered edgy.
	I hope we get more shows like Unleashed.
	Well yeah, Unleashed seems to be growing and growing.
	We've got a national tour now.
	I'm also doing a tour next October to March.
	Freewill2112, a regular commenter, says...
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely nailed it.
	And that's what Andrew O'Neill is.
	Yeah, if you've ever been to an anarchist convention or meeting of the anarchist club at a local university or something, you are nail on the head right there.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, Based Ape says, have you learned nothing, Leo?
	You can't make fun of Hitler.
	Hitler was a progressive.
	It was true.
	Well, yeah, and there's people on the left who would probably agree with that.
	Certainly, Jeremy Corbyn seemed to ape his attitude.
	Attitudes in some ways.
	So Tax Fraud says right when comedy is ableist against progressives because it makes fun of their disability of not being funny.
	It's true.
	Brian Tomlinson says Adolf Sinatra is hilarious.
	So that's Frank Sinatra.
	Yeah, Frank Sinatra.
	Bad people and ideas should always be ridiculed.
	And yeah, he is.
	He's ridiculing it.
	Bay State, another one from Bay State here says, the you didn't get cancelled because I can still hear you argument reminds me of that poor black woman being mocked by BLM supporters with people shouting, shut up, you're still alive.
	As if it's totally fine to try and kill people because you're too...
	Tatar-tar.
	Can't say that word.
	You can't say that word.
	You're too tired to actually pull it off.
	The fact you've failed doesn't cancel it out.
	It means you're both an asshole and useless.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Did you see those clips of the woman screaming at the BLM supporters?
	Is this when her ex had shot at her kids?
	I don't think it's...
	It wasn't her ex.
	It was just the guy living in the flat next over.
	Somebody shot at her and her kids.
	And then the police turned up and shot him when he attacked.
	He was armed and he was like, you know, obviously...
	He could have killed my kids.
	Yeah, but he didn't though.
	Oh, God.
	Kill yourselves.
	Anybody who did that, anybody who was in that crowd, just kill yourself.
	Yeah.
	Rose Ganella, which I've actually had before.
	You need some antibiotics if you get that on your balls.
	Rose Ganella says, There are no evil thoughts, save one, the refusal to think.
	That's a little quote from Ayn Rand, apparently.
	Yeah.
	On to Biden's recession.
	Ilivik L says, Regarding recession, everyone with a basic understanding of economics saw the inflation coming.
	Absolutely, they did.
	I saw it coming when they first started handing out relief checks.
	You print a ton of money, give it away, and simultaneously shut down a huge chunk of the economy.
	Tons more dollars chasing far less goods and services.
	Gee, I wonder if prices will go up.
	Every economist could put the pieces together.
	It's incredibly basic.
	I'm a high school dropout, but I was able to predict it accurately.
	Yeah, well, once again, I think the mainstream economists are less than useless.
	They are actively damaging.
	And it just goes to shows high school dropouts would be more useful in their positions.
	Because high school dropouts would probably go, let's not mess with the economy, guys.
	Maybe let's not lock everybody down.
	Mr.
	Tucker says, can't have a recession if we change the definition of what a recession is.
	In other news, poverty dropped to 0% after the definition was changed to somebody who makes less than negative $1 per year before debts and taxes.
	They will go that far.
	In the future, they will absolutely go that far.
	They will try and make it seem like...
	When people point out that, hold up...
	If you're using the new definition of employment to be the metric, employment's actually gone down, there are less people in jobs, they will redefine what employment means so that they can claim to have full employment in some way or another.
	Or they will probably just, I don't know, start rounding up people who don't have jobs and throwing them in gulags and saying, oh, you know, you're working, aren't you?
	You're digging that ditch, keep going.
	And there's a lot of low-quality employment as well.
	Absolutely.
	It's not like the 60s, where if you had a job, you could afford a house, you could afford to feed a family, run two cars.
	Now you've got three jobs just to keep your head above water.
	Yeah, I mean, if you've got a zero-hour contract or something, you're technically employed, but you've no guarantee of any hours.
	So what's the point?
	Nicholas Valentine, the use of the phrase constantly by all fronts as the American establishment is aiming to exploit anchoring bias.
	There is cognitive bias.
	Oh, this is a cognitive bias where people tend to be overly influenced by the first piece of information that they hear.
	It's why they all have the same narrative and bombard it everywhere.
	It's what propagandists rely on.
	A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
	Very true.
	Rick Archer says the people who think human civilization is a bigger factor on the Earth's climate than the sun are dense and I will die on this hill.
	Well, yeah, that's the thing.
	It's like, oh, yeah, I can say that the climate might be changing in some ways, but I don't necessarily trust the people who are telling me why it is changing in the first place, because, you know, most of those people are the same people telling me that we're not in a recession now, so why would I believe them?
	Ilovik L says, I'm just going to say it.
	The climate change movement is a subversive ploy designed to damage the economy of the West.
	It's the only way that refusing to adopt nuclear energy makes sense.
	Absolutely, you are correct there.
	Calum Dayton again says, Read America's Great Depression, 1920.
	The number of parallels are well.
	History has a nasty habit of repeating itself when its lessons are not learned, and the definition of madness is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.
	I assume by America's Great Depression you're meaning Murray Rothbard's book on that.
	And I was planning on reading that soon.
	I am currently reading a few books tangential to Rothbard.
	And me and Connor or me and Josh should probably do a book club on some Rothbard at some point.
	Charles Ellington says...
	Interesting take.
	Freewill again says, does anybody really think the ultra-rich Biden and Pelosi care about blue-collar workers?
	They couldn't care less.
	Obvious truth.
	Freewill again says, basic economics, if you massively increase energy prices, people will start cutting back on their spending in order to economise.
	This causes the economy to contract.
	If it is bad enough, you will have a recession.
	Also very true.
	Of course, energy prices also feed into higher prices for everything, because everything's made with energy and transported with energy.
	Of course.
	And let's go to some honourable mentions while we've got about a minute left.
	Colin P says, one thing about the price rises, shoplifters will have to be careful they don't go over the amount for non-prosecution.
	Oh yeah, you're going to have to keep it to $995 out there in New York and San Francisco.
	Is there an amount for non-prosecution?
	I think the non-prosecution is either $950 or $1,000.
	You could go in and steal one or two nice, decent-sized flat-screen TVs, and they can't do anything.
	I think it's like a petty misdemeanor.
	You just get banned from the shop.
	Well, barely even that, because how are they going to stop you going in, especially if they've got restrictive gun laws or anything?
	If you go into the shop and you can't do anything about it...
	What are you going to do?
	I'm going to call the police.
	Well, they're going to be here in 10 minutes anyway.
	Yeah.
	So I'm just going to steal as much as I can grab in 10 minutes.
	Goodbye.
	They probably won't even respond because there's rape and murder going on in those cities that they're also not dealing with.
	Free Will 2112.
	Does Biden boom happen after Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan?
	Maybe.
	But anyway, on that note, I think that's all the time we've got today.
	Thank you so much for tuning in.
	Be sure to tune in tomorrow as well, where Connor will be on with Dominic Frisby, which should be a very interesting podcast.

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