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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #452

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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eapers, episode 452.
	It is actually 452 this time.
	I'm your host, Harry, joined today by my guest, Connor.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about the legal war on Infowars, how DC completely dropped Batgirl after it was finished being filmed, and also the British parents protesting Drag Queen Story Hour.
	And let's get into the news then.
	So, everyone's favourite online vitamin salesman, Alex Jones, has been ordered to pay over $4 million in damages to the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre's parents.
	It's because years ago, Jones made the error of saying that Sandy Hook was a false flag attack with crisis actors.
	Of course it wasn't, and he's since walked that back.
	But it's less interesting about the fact that Jones has made this concession, made this error and has to make a payment now, and more about also the malpractice that's been going on at trial from Jones' own lawyers, the activist judge, and somewhat of a smarmy prosecution team.
	But first, if you'd like to subscribe to LotusEaters.com, you can see the ramblings of our very own 19th century madman when Nick and I covered Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground in our book club.
	Now Nick's not that old, come on.
	Well, if you'd like the crazy conspiratorial thoughts of someone from pre-revolutionary Russia and some discussion of Nietzsche and Peterson and all sorts of other remoralising philosophies, you can go and check that out.
	So, in the Alex Jones defamation case yesterday, the judge ordered Jones to pay $4.1 million in damages to Sandy Hook victims and their parents.
	The compensatory damages are awarded to the plaintiff to offset their loss, but most of this will be done in punitive damages, and the reason is compensatory damages can be claimed in a bankruptcy lawsuit, and Jones has technically filed for bankruptcy now.
	For Infowars, even though his revenue stream is still going on.
	It seems to be a similar move that Trump did when he folded one company, filed for bankruptcy, could get tax write-offs, etc.
	Especially considering after he was taken off of social media.
	Some kind of business ninjutsu that I'm not particularly familiar with.
	The actual process of how it works.
	Accountancy genius, yeah.
	Well, obviously his income stream has taken a substantial hit after he was removed from Facebook from...
	And other than if you get YouTube's official say-so, like Tim Pool or Joe Rogan do, you can't even invite him on your show, really.
	But the punitive damages don't work the same way.
	Punitive damages are awarded not because the compensatory damages are set out as, we have lost X amount of money, we can prove this, whereas the punitive damages are meant to be for a deterrent or a punishment.
	It's more of a moral crime to stick on top of it.
	To say, you know, you acted in malice or such ignorance that it caused damage, therefore to an outward societal standard we don't want anyone to do the same mistake again and so we're making an example out of you.
	And most of these will be on punitive damages so he can't claim it on his bankruptcy.
	The jury therefore likely loaded it to make him not be able to avoid paying it.
	So if we go on to the next one, Judy Hartley Brewer was actually celebrating this verdict, and the reason I pulled this up, Carl brought this tweet to my attention, but I was actually listening to her show in the early morning on Wednesday, and a direct quote that she said was, Alex Jones is one of the worst people on Earth, aside from those that actually rape and murder people.
	That's...
	Quite the assertion right there.
	Yeah, well obviously Jones has said something reprehensible here, and even Tim Paul, who covered this recently, said, we like Alex as a friend, he's funny to have on, but this was obviously a misfire and I can criticise him when he does something wrong.
	And no matter how we might find the frogman very funny, this was obviously a reprehensible thing to say, and he has said so himself.
	Well, of course.
	But...
	As much as I like Julia, for example, I've even interacted with her personally many times.
	I've done her show from that very seat.
	This is hyperbolic nonsense, and to sit there and say he should be prosecuted even further for something he's admitted he's done very much wrong, and that actually the justice system are these pure moral arbitrators in this circumstance is quite not the case, unfortunately.
	I will say here, as much as I like Julia most of the time, this does seem to be basically a very shallow take, just sort of going with where she expects the winds to be blowing in terms of general public opinion.
	She has done that before in some American legal cases.
	We've obviously covered the George Floyd verdict on this podcast and how there were more than just a knee on a neck for nine minutes and racial hate crimes involved, and Officer Fentanyl might have caused an overdose, but she didn't take that.
	She took very much the...
	The court line, and obviously it's a symptom of being caught in the news cycle and having enough time sometimes.
	And also the fact that it's so far away from where we're reporting from over in England, the information can be distorted.
	Yeah, we could even be guilty of that sometimes ourselves, but that's why we need to take a closer look at this and watch the first-hand clips.
	So we're going to move on to the next one.
	Just to remind you, Jones set a long-standing record of correcting the record on this.
	And we're not going to play the clip, but I'll just read the little transcript.
	So this is when Alex Jones returned to the Joe Rogan experience.
	And right at the start, Joe made a specific point to challenge him on this.
	So Jones said, I believe mass shootings happen.
	They're real tragedies.
	I believe Parkland happened.
	Joe Rogan said, and you believe Sandy Hook happened?
	Jones said, absolutely.
	Rogan, did you ever say you think it's not real?
	Jones, yes I did.
	Rogan, but now you think it's real?
	Jones, there were some of the anomalies that were not accurate, but yes, I do.
	Yeah, I mean, I remember listening to this podcast when it came out and there was a significant portion of it was dedicated to Alex Jones just repeatedly saying over and over again, Yes, I was wrong.
	What I said was wrong.
	I have apologized for that and I'm going to apologize again right now.
	I shouldn't have put all of that attention on the parents who were so obviously devastated by what had happened.
	So he has repeatedly gone on the record to make it clear that he made a mistake and that he's apologizing for it.
	That doesn't clear up, obviously, the initial repercussions of that mistake that may have gone towards the parents, but to act as though he's still behaving like he was in 2014 when this originally went down is ridiculous.
	Yeah, the parents might have incurred some extra security costs, because he says in here that people showed up to their homes, accused them of faking the incident, and of course that's going to be incredibly traumatic when you've just lost a child to a psychopathic murderer.
	And so Jones has taken responsibility for this and done his apology tour, and I think it's fair, perhaps, to have a defamation lawsuit against him being brought.
	But the way in which it is brought, I think, is worthy of criticism.
	And again, this comes from a place of people who actually like watching his sparse appearances.
	I don't watch the Daily Show, mainly because it's about four and a half hours and most of it's adverts.
	But when he's on things like Tim Pool and Joe Rogan, he is a source of occasional brilliant prophecy and always hilarious memes.
	On this one, he got it wrong.
	So it doesn't look like he's actually going to have much trouble paying this, because in a recent podcast, if we go to the next one with Michael Malice, and there's nothing to play here, but in this he spoke about, and I don't want to get the details wrong, because he said he can't really talk about how it came about, but he received an anonymous Bitcoin donation of multiple millions, and it was almost the exact amount he needed to keep InfoWars afloat that was in the hole, and he doesn't know who sent it to him.
	Very interesting.
	So it seems like he's alright financially, he just doesn't particularly...
	He might also be at the centre of an actual conspiracy there.
	Yes, and so we can't say too much on that until he divulges more information or receipts.
	I'm just going to say it's Soros funding both sides.
	Disavow.
	So, if we go on to the next one.
	So the treatment has been the sort of media circus around the trial is what has taken a lot of the imagination.
	If we can just play this clip from the start.
	Have we got the clip-up, John?
	If not, that's fine.
	Oh, no, no.
	Okay.
	So, basically, Jones was saying that in the Twitter page, he was saying that the press is a witch hunt, you're forfeiting your Fourth Amendment rights, and that he was...
	Subsequently, because of this, the judge actually barred him from talking to the press.
	Even though what he's saying is obviously true, that this is a complete show trial.
	Yes, and to be fair, he's not actually discussing the intimate details of the case, like the jury description or anything like that.
	Well, he's giving his opinion.
	Exactly.
	But there is a...
	How should we say it?
	The judge isn't being super fair or transparent.
	So yeah, if we go to the next clip then, this is the judge scolding him and censoring him like a school teacher.
	Mr.
	Jones, you may not say to this jury that you complied with discovery.
	That is not true.
	You may not say it again.
	You may not tell this jury that you are bankrupt.
	That is also not true.
	You may have filed for bankruptcy I don't know that, but I've heard that.
	That doesn't make a person or a company bankrupt.
	You're already under oath to tell the truth.
	You've already violated that oath twice today in just those two examples.
	It seems Absurd to instruct you again that you must tell the truth while you testify.
	Yet here I am.
	You must tell the truth while you testify.
	This is not your show.
	You need to slow down and not take what you see as opportunities to further the message you're wanting to further.
	And instead, Only answer the specific and exact question you have been asked.
	No asides.
	The comments about discovery.
	The comments about the larynx or whatever it was.
	The comments about bankruptcy.
	None of those were responsive to questions.
	They were just you abusing my tolerance and making asides to the jury improperly and in at least two cases Untruthfully.
	Do you understand what I have said?
	Yes or no?
	Do you understand what I have said?
	Yes.
	I believe what I said was true.
	Yes, you believe everything you say is true, but it isn't.
	Your beliefs do not make something true.
	That is what we're doing here.
	Just because you claim to think something is true does not make it true.
	It does not protect you.
	It is not allowed.
	You are under oath.
	That means things must actually be true when you say them.
	Don't talk.
	You understand what I have said.
	I do understand.
	You understand the instructions I have given you for your testimony in court.
	Yes.
	Oh my god, that sigh at the end.
	I wish that we didn't have to censor ourselves because I would have a few choice words about that condescending bleep of a woman.
	It's an amazingly transphobic statement.
	There is also that.
	Just because you believe it's true doesn't mean it's actually true.
	Just because you say you're a woman doesn't mean you're a woman.
	And this is...
	So cruel to the post-modern gender activists that outside the courtroom, I'm not shocked that this judge should be reprimanded by the activists that she so clearly courts.
	And if we go to the next link, John, she gets off as an activist because it turns out she's a Democrat and supported by a lot of workers' unions and communist front groups, etc.
	Oh, wow, what a shock.
	Why is she able to preside over this court hearing?
	Um...
	Surely there's an obvious conflict of interest?
	Yeah, you would think so, especially considering she keeps jumping down Jones' throat.
	At one point, when he's talking about the larynx, he has a persistent cough, I assume because he's been shouting on his show all day, and they keep castigating him for it and saying he's faking.
	And then also...
	Alex Jones often coughs.
	Yeah, exactly.
	All the time.
	Whenever I've seen clips of him, he'll clear his throat and cough constantly.
	Can I just say as well, that what she was saying there, the whole, just because you think it's true, doesn't make it true.
	It's like, one, she's referring to a lot of information that she probably has no actual in-depth knowledge about, what Alex Jones probably does.
	And two, she's referring to, oh, you're not bankrupt, you have filed for bankruptcy, I don't really know, I just heard about it in the news.
	So, okay, why are you even commenting on this when you've just admitted that you don't actually know anything that you're talking about, Maya?
	Yeah.
	Well, there's another hilarious thing as well.
	If you contrast this to the Johnny Depp hearing, for example, which is also defamation, when Herd's lawyers got up and started reading out those articles on the stand and kept asking Mr.
	Depp, oh, have you read that right?
	It didn't go into the depth of the article.
	When Alex tries to say on the stand in his story, oh, I've read something, rather than allowing the lawyers to object, she jumps in and cuts him off and says, no, that's hearsay.
	There's nothing you can say in print.
	is here and he goes well i want to i can enter the article into into the evidence if you'd like your honor and she just goes nope there's nothing to do with here so you can't say that you can't say if it's in print if it's read and so she is acting like a prosecuting attorney it's utterly unprofessional yeah this is obviously judging by the choice of judge the way that it's being displayed on uh on social media and online and a number of other things this is a rigged show trial as far as i as far as i'm concerned that's just my opinion i think a lot of it is performative
	I think They want to emasculate and denigrate Alex Jones to a mass audience.
	As an icon.
	As a totem of the dissident right and the online conspiracy theory echo chamber.
	Over mistakes that he made eight years ago that he's already profusely apologised for.
	And already been on trial for other parents as well who have sued him over it.
	And we'll get into other trials of Alex Jones slightly later.
	If we can go to the next one, we're not going to play any clips of this, but I did just want to point out So, Alex had said that this woman's husband, who she was separated from, one of the fathers of the Parkland victims, is a slow talker.
	He might be a bit on the spectrum, something like that.
	And they used this to blow it up out of proportion and say, you're disrespecting the parents, etc.
	I think it was probably just an off-the-cuff comment.
	It might have been a bit tasteless, but whatever.
	But I wanted to point out as well that on the other side to this, if you're looking at pure optics, this woman, when you go and watch her testimony, it's linked in the description, but didn't play it for time, but she has clearly learned her story, and it's beat by beat, and it came across very much like when Amber Heard's telling the story of the dirty carpet and keeps coming back to the motifs.
	She tells this story about her child.
	The last time she saw him was on the day as a single mother.
	She dropped him off, and it was the Connecticut snow, and it was cold, and he was drawing hearts, and I love you into the side of her car.
	And she took a photo, and that was the last time anyone ever saw him, and I'm sorry.
	It's like, I obviously have severe compassion, and perhaps learning it like a script is a way to get through the trauma, but it comes off as very inauthentic and artificial.
	And the problem is, obviously it was a very genuine tragedy for her, but contrasted with the way they are hounding Jones, it actually looks bad for the establishment here.
	I wouldn't be surprised if optically it doesn't look great, but I will say, obviously, the last day that you spend with your child while they're alive, I can understand retracing those moments in your head over and over again to the point where it might come across like you've scripted them.
	I don't doubt that this trial is, once again, just for pure show, but I don't want to be going and...
	No, I'm not saying that she's artificial or scripted as if she's making it up.
	She's definitely not.
	And for one, we might get sued for it.
	Exactly.
	But that's just not true.
	Exactly.
	It's obviously a pure tragedy that happened to her.
	I'm just saying in terms of how she has been instructed by the prosecution team to come across on the stand, because of course they do witness prep and things like that, is they've made her scene quite wooden.
	Whereas Jones seems he's constantly on the back foot by a judge that is constantly berating him because she's an activist.
	If we go to the next one as well, his own lawyer has fallen down on the job and the judge again jumps down the throat of Owen Troyer.
	and they're prosecuting him.
	And the lawyer gave such bad advice that Schroer...
	And this is Jones' lawyer?
	Yes.
	They gave Schroer advice that he can talk about the trial outside of the courtroom, even though he was under court order not to.
	So we went on the show the next day and immediately started talking about the details, and now they're threatening to hold Jones' lawyers and Troy in contempt of court.
	And Troy was like, well, I didn't know this.
	And Jones' lawyer is an ex-federal prosecutor, apparently.
	So he should know the law.
	Is there any reason that we know that, because I know that Robert Barnes defended Jones in some of the other court cases, is there any reason we've been given as to why he wasn't I don't know why he wasn't involved.
	I suppose if someone does know, they can leave it in the comments.
	When I was watching a lot of the coverage of Rittenhouse's trial last year, Robert Barnes showed up with Rakita Law and a bunch of other people and spoke a lot about the Alex Jones trial as well and his experiences in that to discuss some certain details, and it made it seem like Robert Barnes does not seem like he would be unwilling to defend Alex Jones again in a court of law.
	Well, I would have advised him if I had a time machine to go back in time and hire Barnes because his legal team is abysmal and we will see exactly why in the next clip.
	This is probably the most headline-grabbing moment of the whole trial where his team accidentally leak his entire phone and email contents history to the prosecutors.
	What?
	Okay.
	Mr.
	Jones, you know how an iPhone works, right?
	You Who's phone is this taking from?
	I don't know who this phone is taking from.
	I mean, I just turned the phone over and said, take the stuff off.
	Can I have you look in the very bottom below the very bottom left corner?
	Is that your phone number?
	Yes.
	So you did get my text messages.
	And instead you didn't.
	Nice trick.
	Yes, Mr. Jones.
	Indeed.
	Is this his own lawyer he's talking to?
	You don't know where this came from.
	Do you know where I got this?
	No.
	Mr. Jones.
	Jones!
	Did you know that 12 days ago, 12 days ago, your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cell phone with every text message you've sent for the past two years, and when informed, did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protect it in any way.
	And as of two days ago, it fell free and clear into my possession.
	And that is how I know you lied to me when you said you didn't have a text message about saying it And you said, in your deposition, you searched your phone.
	You said, you pulled down the text, did the search function for Sandy Hook.
	That's what you said, Mr.
	Jones, correct?
	And I had several different phones with this number, but I did, yeah.
	Of course, I mean, that's why you got it.
	No, Mr.
	Jones, that's not why.
	My lawyer sent it to you, but I'm hiding it.
	Okay.
	Mr. Jones?
	Mr. Jones?
	Please just answer questions.
	There's no questions.
	Mr.
	Banks can also only ask questions.
	Sure.
	Mr.
	Jones, in discovery, you were asked, do you have Sandy Hook text messages on your phone?
	And you said no, correct?
	You said that under oath, didn't you?
	I was mistaken.
	I was mistaken.
	You got the messages right there.
	You know what murder is, right?
	I just want to make sure you know before we go any further.
	You know what it is.
	I'm not a tech guy.
	I told you, I gave, in my testimony, the phone to the lawyers before or whatever, and so you got my phone, but we didn't give it to you.
	No, Mr.
	Jones, one more time.
	Please remember, you need to assert that the amendment you can.
	I need to know that you can do that.
	But you testified under oath previously that you personally searched your phone for the phrase San Diego and there were no messages.
	You said that under oath.
	Yes.
	and you lied to me, sir.
	No, I did not lie.
	Jesus Christ.
	I know.
	I apologise for the slightly long clip there, but I just had to play it in four because the exchange is shocking.
	Remarkable.
	Well, the lawyer is, next to Bingham, who was involved in the Rittenhouse trial, the most disconcertingly smug, smarmy, self-important person.
	I've ever seen cross-examine a witness and I'm a bit of a true crime and legal buff so I've watched quite a few trial coverage and this is just terrible.
	Also, Jones, the fact that his lawyers didn't claim attorney-client privilege over the communications Is shocking.
	So they leaked his entire communications history to the prosecutors.
	And then his lawyer did nothing for him there.
	So I wouldn't be surprised if Jones...
	Well, let's put it this way.
	I think Jones would not want to deprive the families, if he's smart, of their payment.
	Because, of course, he doesn't have anything against the families.
	But I wouldn't be surprised if he at least brought something against his own counsel for insufficient provision of counsel.
	I bloody hope!
	Yeah, because they could have accidentally got Owen Troyer a contempt of court charge, him a perjury charge if somehow they can prove malice, which I don't think they can because all they can do is prove ignorance.
	And you can see him getting very frustrated there where he goes, well, I guess you got me.
	And also capsize his case because they've given over phones that Jones actually claims.
	He has multiple phones.
	He doesn't write any emails because he dictates it all to his assistants.
	And so he hasn't read any of the emails pertaining to Sandy Hook being mentioned, even though it's to the Infowars address, which he doesn't have personal access to except through his team.
	And there's other phones other than the one that he did his personal search.
	So they're potentially using the evidence of other people's correspondence to dob him in.
	Yeah, to the Infowars address rather than this personal address, which obviously the team manages.
	But because this was not properly vetted, and they leaked all of the communications to the prosecutor, the prosecutor can have a field day and just claim what they liked.
	Once again, this is just my opinion.
	I don't want to prejudice anything or anything, but I apologise if this just looks like a complete kangaroo court to me.
	Yeah, well, the predicate for it being that he defamed the victims of Sandy Cook is true.
	He has apologised for that, so it seems now that the punishment actually outweighs the crime, in my opinion, and the administration of justice is more important than the person who's on trial or the crime that's been committed.
	And the administration of justice here is ideologically motivated, snide, And petulant.
	And it's an embarrassment for the American judicial system more than it is, in many respects, an embarrassment for Jones, who's already attempted to apologise.
	Honestly, here, Alex Jones just kind of looks like the victim to me of what's going on.
	If you're going to try and come across as fair, you're not doing it in a very good way, let's put it that way.
	So then his mistrial motion on the grounds of insufficient We're good to go.
	Where he said, obviously, don't go into the Capitol, but they're still trying to indict him in some form anyway.
	That she's seeking access to a treasure chest of information, several years of phone records, thanks to the mess up from Jones' attorneys.
	So she's trying to jump on the fact that Jones' attorneys have screwed up and leaked it all to the prosecution to then develop her own case in getting full custody of her kids back, which she lost.
	She says herself she lost at least the joint custody rights.
	in her twitter but i can't find why because it was only widely reported on as to why he lost the original full custody lawsuit in the first place but it doesn't say why her arrangement she's not very unhappy with the fact that she hasn't got got the full custody she says i know the text and information on his phone will be evidence of all of the nefarious truly conspiratorial things said between him and his employees and their plans to keep my kids from me it's not even about my kids it's about control controlling me um so if we if we go to the next clip
	alex james's wife seems to be almost as unhinged she she's claiming he is because there's this clip here um where she's genuinely trying to claim that he wants people to eat their neighbors when he's just going off on that hilarious rant has become a meme yeah We can just play this job.
	Is she really trying to say...
	I'm starting to think about having to literally look at my neighbours now and going, am I ready to hang them up and gut them and skin them and chop them up?
	You know what?
	I'm ready.
	My daughters aren't starving to death.
	I'll eat my neighbours.
	I will cook your ass up so fast, and I'll tell them, oh, I killed a cow out back, baby.
	Here it is, because my babies ain't going to die for your crap, your failure.
	I will eat your leftist ass like porn on the cob!
	I'm ready.
	So, in this hilarious hypothetical...
	Yeah, exactly.
	This hilarious hypothetical because of potential food shortages, she's trying to throw out as an actual threat to his neighbours.
	And can I just point out the glorious, heroic camera angles they always manage to capture?
	It's incredibly cinematic.
	I love it.
	No wonder he's the focus of such memes.
	If we'd like to just revisit as well another one of Alex Jones' trials, his custody battle is hilarious.
	Alex claims that he forgot what grades his kids were in because he'd eaten a bowl of chilli for lunch in gastrointestinal distress.
	I mean, that would probably put your mind off, wouldn't it, you know?
	Apparently, he also was accused of being narcissistic and paranoid by the prosecuting lawyer in that case, where, if we can just scroll down, John, they showed a video of him, keep going, in his underwear, yeah, there we go, selling male vitality supplements.
	And apparently he said the FBI... Do you not want to look like this glorious figure?
	Well, when he was younger, he was actually in great shape.
	Well, that's the thing.
	You can still tell that he was a guy who has a fitness past.
	Yeah, but he's still got the traps.
	He's just built like a bear now.
	Yeah, I don't want to make eye contact with that photo.
	Take your eyes off it, Connor.
	You were...
	He's captivated.
	I'll just leave it on screen for you for a few more seconds.
	You're welcome.
	Okay, I just thought we'd finish off with two hilarious clips from the trial, other than the struggle session going through.
	First one is Jones add a penny to the Alex Jones' right jar, I suppose.
	One of the things you've been talking about on your show is your allegation that government officials are aiding in pedophilia, child trafficking, and the grooming of children, right?
	You mean like what Jeffrey Epstein did with the cleanse?
	The judge wondering if she should allow them to defeat her employers.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, yeah, it's no longer a conspiracy.
	I mean, we have paedophile Ireland.
	And then one last one here.
	We won't we won't go into it fully, but Owen Troyer, when he was on the stand, the prosecuting attorney decided to pull up a An article on his projector screen.
	As you can see at the top, it says Instahard.
	Wait, what?
	And so he decided to quiz him about whether or not it was a supplement they were selling.
	And so Owen Troyer had to talk about male vitality supplements and their effects while under oath and on the stand.
	Oh, okay.
	And the prosecuting employee got very flustered, to which point I think he should...
	The prosecutor's never heard of male vitality, I assume.
	Well, I think he should, because, I mean, judging by that physiognomy, he clearly needs them.
	But if we can underscore here, it's obviously the fact that Alex Jones knows he has done wrong.
	The Sandy Hook shooting happened.
	It's an egregious tragedy that all those children had died.
	And he has apologized for the fact that he got this wrong.
	But it seems to be...
	Nothing short of a miscarriage of justice, that justice is not being carried out here in a fair and impartial and professional manner.
	The prosecuting attorney is sarcastic, the judge is an activist, and Jones looks like he's about to break down into tears.
	So I'm glad that the families of the Sandy Hook massacre are getting some form of justice, but I don't think they're treating Alex Jones very fairly, and all I can hope is this doesn't derail our one-man meme machine too much for our own enjoyment.
	Alex has been through plenty.
	He always bounces back.
	That's one of the things you've got to respect against him.
	I would say Alex Jones has been defamed as a clown for the past 20 or so years, when more often than not, everything he talks about has at least a grain of truth in it that's actually quite startling.
	Well, not everything, clearly, judging by the lawsuit.
	Obviously not everything, but most of what he discusses.
	Yeah, well, you know, the Silicon Valley elites devouring blood.
	Turns out that I wrote an article on Noticesus.com about them being vampires.
	Which you should check out.
	Yeah, shot.
	They're all evil.
	But onto something perhaps a little bit more positive.
	So, DC... Has decided to cancel their big film Batgirl, and perhaps this will give the fans a chance.
	A chance to finally get what they want, and what they've been asking for for years at this point, which is good content.
	And it will also show how Marvel is still dedicated to giving the exact opposite of that.
	Before I go any further, Ezra Miller is somebody that I've covered on the podcast a number of times and his crazy hijinks that he always gets up to with beating women, abusing women, grooming children, many such cases all under Ezra Miller.
	There is a little bit more to cover with him.
	Because he is relevant, being that he was The Flash.
	And I will emphasise was, because I, at the very least, hope he won't continue to be, because it's ridiculous that DC has so far been happy to associate themselves with Amber Heard, a notorious...
	Husband beater.
	Husband beater.
	And Ezra Miller, a notorious nonce, fugitive...
	Drug addict.
	Drug addict.
	General psychopath.
	I met him on a night out, actually, in Soho.
	You're joking.
	You did?
	I did, yeah.
	Oh my goodness.
	So it was on the last day, I assume, of him filming The Flash in London, because obviously it was him and Ben Affleck were in Glasgow, and he's walking through Soho, and I was in the queue for a pub slash club, and I just went, it was Romilla, and he was wearing a black beret and a thriller jacket, and he just went to me, he winked and walked past.
	And a friend of mine ran up and got a photo with him, she wasn't even a DC fan, and I was like, you got a photo with The Flash?
	This was before all of this came out, by the way.
	Yes, I would hope so.
	And then her phone got nicked on that night out, so...
	Oh, so you've got no proof of this?
	Well, she would have proof of it, but perhaps that's done her a favour of the fact that she doesn't have a photo with a notorious nonce.
	That's all true, but just to go over a little bit of the information that I covered on this particular episode.
	So Ezra Miller met a young girl who was, I think, 12 years old when he met her at an activist protest.
	Struck up a friendship with her, as you do when you're at a protest and you meet a 12-year-old, or I think it's 12 or 14, I forget exactly which one.
	But when you meet a young teenage girl, you often protest, you strike up a friendship with her, and then you convince her that she's actually non-binary or trans.
	You invite her, when she's still a very young teenager, to the set of Fantastic Beasts and where to find them, and just introduce her to all of your Hollywood associates.
	You separate her from her parents, and then when she quits university, You invite her at 18 years old to just come and stay over as a live-in friend after you have admitted many times to Pink News and other such outlets that you like to indulge yourself in a weird groupie circle of sex fiends that you like to have weird orgies with.
	He is also a drug-fueled maniac who has gotten into fights and threatened to kill many women in Hawaii.
	He went to a friend's house and freaked out when they were playing a board game after he claimed it had roots in black culture, and a black guest disagreed with him, at which point he started screaming at everybody and waved around the gun that he was carrying while he was also wearing a very obvious bulletproof vest.
	And he also considers himself to be non-binary, and shockingly enough, many news outlets still give him the dignity of referring to him as they, but I think we're well past being able to treat this man with dignity.
	But, if we move along to the next link, I did find that there's been more allegations regarding him from his time in Iceland in 2020.
	So...
	Here's just some interesting extra information before we get into the meat of this subject.
	So, this is a man that DC stood by, and it seems might not be standing by for much longer.
	This is easy me-in, is it?
	Yeah.
	If they have any sense whatsoever, they are going to drop this man...
	From The Flash and drop this man from any franchise they have in the future.
	The same way that they tried to do with Johnny Depp before it was revealed that Johnny Depp was the victim the whole time.
	Which I doubt that same thing's gonna happen with dear old Ezra here.
	And honestly, I will just say, his adventures are more compelling than any superhero film that I've seen in a long while.
	So if Warner Bros really wanted to monetize this man, they would get a guerrilla crew of filmmakers To follow him around 24-7 and just, on maybe a weekly basis, released the best footage that they've got.
	He does look like an effeminate Charles Manson, doesn't he?
	I think he looks like some LARPing vampire, personally.
	And it seems that he has a life-draining effect on those around him, that's for sure.
	So, in 2020, the world first learned of Miller's increasingly erratic behaviour when a video showed him choking a woman in Iceland, but their time...
	but his... it's so confusing because they refer to him as "there".
	I could go with that, but...
	But his time in Iceland was more eventful and disquieting than even that video would suggest.
	During the two months that Miller spent in Iceland, rumours spread among locals that the actor was running a cult out of an Airbnb.
	Permanent residents described him as an aggressive person with a revolting smell who rarely changed out of his clothes.
	It's monkeypox for ya.
	Yep.
	Three people recalled Miller walking barefoot through Reykjavik, noting long, unclipped toenails and what may have been an infected gash on his foot.
	Lovely.
	The Airbnb was described by one visitor as a commune with beds laid out on the floor, so he'd created his own little pod community, which is very nice.
	He later collected a community of artists, expats, and beautiful young women who were always the most vulnerable to these kinds of cultish psychopaths for some reason.
	Who was said to hang on his every word.
	Oh, they had a typo there.
	They said hang on his every word.
	Oh, they missed out the pronouns there.
	Oh, you're in trouble.
	It felt like everyone was hypnotized, the visitor said.
	He led group meditations, claimed to possess supernatural powers and the ability to read minds.
	He also paid for food lodging, marijuana, and once handed a musician the equivalent of $1,500 for his birthday, but he would also become enraged at dissent.
	Nobody was ever kind of allowed to disagree with him, said a young woman who had been there and had a brief sexual relationship with him when she was 18, which is a bit old for him as far as I can tell, but fair play.
	His reality painted everybody else's reality.
	There was no room for anybody else's opinions or feelings.
	That's all I really wanted to point out on this, is that Ezra Miller is still a psychopath, and more information comes out almost on a weekly basis at this point.
	Just add it to the pile that this man is an obvious psychopath.
	I just like that he was playing The Flash, but he's acting like Eobard Thorn.
	It's like, do you remember who groomed you when you were 12?
	It was me, Barry!
	It was me all along!
	Yes, he is reverse Flash in real life.
	But let's get on to the meat of this, which is that the film Batgirl was cancelled by DC despite the fact that they'd already finished filming the whole thing.
	It was that bad.
	And here's why.
	So, just amusingly, this article from the Scotsman introduces it as a highly anticipated new film...
	Highly anticipated.
	Tell me in the comments below, did you even know that this film was going to happen before it got cancelled?
	I did.
	I was very upset by it all.
	Well, you did, but you're an uber-nerd.
	Yeah, well I literally have the Gail Simone Batgirl on the bus that came out last year because I pre-ordered it and I was just utterly heartbroken at the casting and the complete lack of Sorry, do you hear the blowing of dust wind and sand growing?
	Because that's the sound of all female viewers' vaginas drying up immediately at the sound.
	Well, to be fair, most of our female viewer base will probably cosplay far better than the trash bag that this woman's wearing for a costume.
	Well, that is true as well.
	So the film was directed by Adil El-Abi and Bilal Falah, I should say, who were both involved in the production of Ms.
	Marvel, which is being touted as the most highly rated Disney Plus TV series since they released the service.
	By critics only.
	Yes, by critics.
	They travel back in time to apartheid Pakistan for literally no reason, and her comic...
	It pushed the right messages and wanted everybody to know that it supported the current thing.
	So of course it was going to get a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
	I'm surprised that it didn't even get 100%.
	But the viewer score, as always, is quite a bit lower.
	It is 81%.
	Which is still a bit high for me.
	Well, that's because I suppose that most people that watched it were progressive activists, and therefore you couldn't even be bothered to go on and review on it.
	Well, that's true.
	Why would you or I even consider watching Ms.
	Marvel, for instance?
	But it is still enraging to me that people are considering it to be more highly rated than Netflix's Daredevil series, which is still, to me, the best TV series that Marvel have produced.
	Batman v Superman got a 27% by critics, and then that garbage gets 98%.
	It's unreal.
	Yes.
	But it was the latest film in the DC Comics franchise, and it was filmed in Glasgow, where they made it look like Gotham City, and it was set to star 27-year-old New York actor Leslie Grace in the main role, which was a controversial choice in the first place because it was an unnecessary race swap.
	Oracle and Batgirl, same character.
	Barbara Gordon is white in the comic books, whereas Leslie Grace is black, or at least mixed race, which obviously...
	Set off some bad signs in the first place.
	This isn't like, say, for instance, Catwoman, who was portrayed by Halle Berry in 2004.
	Which was also terrible.
	Which was also terrible, but I doubt the casting was anything to do with intentionally wanting to race swap and more to do with the fact that Halle Berry was...
	She was very popular at the time.
	She also just won an Oscar.
	Yeah, well...
	Well, to be fair, I think...
	No, no, no, no, no.
	In year one, Batman year one, Frank Miller's Batman year one, is...
	I thought maybe it's just something to do with the shading, but Black Woman looks black in that.
	No, no, she doesn't.
	No, it's because of the noir shading.
	She's actually half Cuban and obviously half Italian because her father's...
	Oh, okay.
	That makes more sense.
	Not really.
	Well, that's cleared something up for me there.
	Yeah.
	Well, actually, that's why in The Batman, not to derail us, but when Falcone starts talking about the only reason communism didn't work is austerity, that flies in the face of her character, because her mother was a Cuban refugee, and that's why she learned to steal, and that's why she was in poverty when she was in Gotham.
	I didn't remember that line from The Batman.
	Yeah, I'd retain all it, because that film's terrible.
	I disagree that it's entirely terrible, but it definitely has some issues.
	However, the production will now be shelved entirely, despite a reported cost of almost $70 million and filming being complete.
	It is thought that the production company's main reason for the cancellation is a poor response to test screenings.
	As per a report in the New York Post, the initial test screenings of the film overwhelmingly received poor responses from audiences.
	A secondary rumoured reason for the cancellation is that Warner Brothers had committed to large-scale theatrical films for their DC world, and in short, the release of Batgirl was too far removed from the fictional world that they wanted to create.
	But they have also said that they're suggesting that, well, we might still work with the directors and also the main star of the film, which is very strange because, honestly, and I don't really hold much sympathy to the directors because they seem like partisan hacks, I don't know enough about Leslie Grace to be able to say one way or the other, but why as individuals would I don't know enough about Leslie Grace to be able to say one way or the other, but why as individuals would you want to work with a company after you've I... It would be quite amusing if they carried on working with them.
	Can I just point out that how bad must this have been for the people who agree ideologically with them because they're woke as hell to not put this out when they put out Joss Whedon's Justice League with the CGI Cavill moustache?
	Well, it does seem...
	It must be horrific.
	From the rest of this that we'll be getting into, it does seem that DC is starting to shift their priorities in their approaches to films, and shift them in possibly a very positive way, which I'll get into in a moment.
	But there is another explanation.
	If we go to the next one, it might have been reverse flash.
	LAUGHTER It might have been Ezra Miller behind this the whole time.
	It was me, Barry.
	He does seem to be an actual real-life supervillain, so perhaps Reverse Flash did have something to do with this.
	But, if we carry on as well, this has been so...
	So surprising to a lot of people because it is so unusual for a film studio to just cancel a film after it's already been finished that even Good Morning Britain was talking about it, except the topic of actual question to debate that we had, Dominique Samuels, who's pretty good on this sort of stuff, opposing this generic, woke female woman.
	Film critic, apparently.
	Genuinely, that was her title, film critic.
	LAUGHTER Of course.
	Of course it was.
	But yeah, they were debating the entire wrong question, which was that are female superhero films less successful?
	Which is not the relevant question here.
	Well, female characters are not necessarily less successful.
	Birds of Prey was selling like gangbusters, mainly because of Ed Bennis' cheesecake art.
	Batgirl had good numbers, winning the new 52.
	You've got some fantastic...
	And even among films, as far as I remember, the first Wonder Woman did very well.
	Despite it being a terrible film.
	That's true.
	So it's just frustrating to have this willful ideological blindness from the woman on the left, but from the producers of GMB, obviously who lean left, they don't question the presuppositions of maybe it's because we're packing it full of feminist race-bending nonsense and not just telling a good story.
	And to be fair, Dominique does immediately bring that up.
	She gets right onto the actual meat of the subject, which is that people do not want these films.
	And of course, generic, woke film critic says, well, don't you understand that political attitudes Ideology has been underneath every superhero, which might be true in a sense if you frame it from a certain perspective, but it has been much less blatant in the past,
	much less preachy in the past, and you can also find a way to weave in political undercurrents and political undertones to a narrative while not making it the entirety of the narrative.
	Well, they were contextual, but they weren't an apparatus for furthering an ideological goal.
	Now they're not characters, they're hollowed out, they're representatives.
	And by making, I said this in American Spectator when they changed John Kent to be bisexual, By making the characteristics the heroic virtue, the young, compassionate bi guy, rather than punching the villain, you're making a subset of protected classes the hero by virtue of their birth.
	So, de facto, that means that straight white men are automatically the villains.
	And I don't want to be called Lex Luthor just because of the way I was born.
	I'm not going to pay to see your film if you make me the villain.
	I'd also say, from what you're saying there, the idea of young, compassionate bi guy being the virtue.
	Each of those individually are not necessarily virtues.
	Compassion can be virtuous in certain contexts, but it can also be pathological.
	It can also be a very negative trait if you are overly compassionate to people who do not deserve it and will take advantage of that compassion.
	True virtues would be something along the lines of honesty, commitment to truth, commitment to fighting evil.
	Prudence.
	The American way.
	Yes, all these things that Superman used to represent.
	But there are other reasons that this might have happened, mainly being that just recently, just yesterday, it was reported that Warner Bros., who recently in April had a massive merger with Discovery+, have reported massive quarter two losses on content and merger costs due to this.
	And it might be that they're starting to recognize that they are starting to lose money, they need to revamp a lot of their content in a way that will actually make them money, because for a long time now, the DC Cinematic Universe, as it was originally supposed to be when Zack Snyder was at the helm of it, has kind of gone off in this really weird, as it was originally supposed to be when Zack Snyder was at the helm of it, has kind of gone off in this really weird, fragmented direction where it doesn't really tie into anything, and if they want to
	And it does seem that they are going to be trying to do that in the next article here.
	And I wouldn't necessarily personally say that trying to set up a big cinematic universe is my preferred way that they would go about it, because personally I think cinematic universes are a bit tired now, they're a bit bloated, and I don't feel the need for films to tie into each other constantly, because then you do end up with films and I don't feel the need for films to tie into each other constantly, because then you do end up with films like Iron Man 2 in Marvel, for instance, which ends up rather than a compelling story in its own right.
	So I do dislike now, especially after Marvel has oversaturated it to the point where they've got what I... Five different TV shows coming out every year now, as well as all the rest of the films that they've got released on the production line.
	Just get them out the door, which is why all the CGI's turned out terrible.
	I dislike the atmosphere that it creates.
	I dislike the culture that it must create within the companies themselves of just abandoning creativity for pure corporate welfare.
	But...
	They are changing their tact with a bit of this, and they seem to be doing it in maybe a positive direction, where the CEO, David Zaslav, has promised that the company will not put a movie out unless we believe in it, but they have also confirmed at the same time that the Flash solo film is still slated for release, which you have said might not be the case, but will...
	You see that they might be trying to reshuffle things around that as well.
	So he said that the Batgirl release did not align with the company's new focus on quality over quantity for DC films, which just says it all really there.
	We've got terrible test screenings.
	Also, we can recognize that the film sucked, so get that one out the door.
	Let's not even release that, because you've got to understand as well that marketing costs tend to balloon a film's budget to double what the actual production budget was as well.
	So they've probably already sunk a few million into marketing, even though Maybe they haven't, because I'd never even heard of the film before.
	So they just don't want to sink the rest of the money into marketing when there's no chance of them making the money back in the first place.
	Although I do kind of hope they pull a Morbius on this.
	Please, meme them into releasing the film, and then nobody go see it.
	Nobody goes to it, just like with Morbius, and it will be hilarious.
	The only reason people care about this film is because it's been cancelled.
	Make them release it so we can all go back to not caring about it again.
	Our ambition, Zaslav says, is to bring Warner back and to produce high-quality...
	Great, high-quality films.
	As we look at the opportunities that we have broadly, DC is one of the top of the list for us.
	You look at Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman.
	These are the brands that are known everywhere in the world.
	He noted that the ability to drive these all over the world with great story is a big opportunity for us, and we have done a reset.
	We've restructured the business.
	We're going to focus where there will be a team with a 10-year plan focusing just on DC. And this is where I start to get a bit cold feet and I start to worry a little bit.
	It's very similar to the structure that Alan Hall and Bob Iger put together very effectively with Kevin Feige at Disney which means the Marvel production line.
	Well that's what derailed it originally.
	Snyder had a very clear narrative arc It was paced out very well, quite sustainably, and then Geoff Johns got in and decided to switch from comics to films, wanted to make two expanding a universe, wanted to walk before he could run, wanted to make the tone very much like Richard Donner, who he previously worked for, also like Kevin Feige.
	And the reason they changed a lot of BVS, actually the reason, reportedly, that Captain America Civil War came out at the same time of BVS is because Geoff Johns leaked the plot to Kevin Feige, because they're still in touch with good friends.
	Corporate subterfuge.
	when Snyder's daughter committed suicide, R.I.P. Autumn, Geoff Johns booted him off and got his buddy Joss Whedon to come in and reshoot the whole film.
	So it's this malfeasance, this interference with one director...
	This is all starting to fit into place like a puzzle.
	Well, it's a collaboration between a series of directors from the start who had this cohesive vision, and when you try and too quickly expand it out into a universe and mess with the tone, It all falls apart.
	And if they're going to do that again by trying to emulate Disney, this would be disastrous.
	Instead, double down on what's worked.
	Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and Aquaman were some of the only films that made a profit.
	And Aquaman perhaps excluded because it's a bit silly, but those three, excellent.
	Hate me.
	I don't care.
	We might be having a discussion on this soon.
	We're definitely having a discussion.
	I've only watched Man of Steel like nine years ago when it came out in the cinema, and I'm going to watch them again sometime soon, and we might be having a discussion on that.
	So if it turns out that I hate them, I will be the animus for our audience who are probably screaming at their computer screen right now, going, No!
	Batman v Superman sucked!
	If I end up liking them, then that's just how it will fall.
	I'll convert you to the Church of Snyder, don't worry.
	I still don't like his colour grading choices.
	We're not going to release a film to make a quarter, he says.
	We're not going to release a film unless the focus is going to be how do we make each of these films in general as good as possible, which actually sounds very positive because, you know...
	Films telling good stories again?
	My god, please, somebody pinch me.
	Am I dreaming?
	And there's other positive news in this as well, because Batgirl may have set off a string of cancellations where they're saying that after Batgirl's cancellation, Supergirl could be in trouble too.
	Sadly, not the CW show, which I've only seen clips of, which looks...
	Oh, has it?
	Thank God.
	I saw clips of that and it looked absolutely dreadful.
	And I can't imagine that a Supergirl film would have been much better either because all of these female-led superhero films nowadays, sadly, despite the fact that there is plenty of potential within the characters themselves, tend to be Trojan horses for woke messengers.
	It's not Kara, by the way.
	It would have been the daughter of Lois Lane and Clark from an alternative universe that's modelled on the Flashpoint version of Batman.
	Not Batman, Superman, where he's emaciated and living underground.
	I don't know if you remember.
	I didn't read Flashpoint.
	I only read some of the New 52 stuff.
	Basically, Flashpoint, Superman is never actually discovered, and he gets tested on by the government.
	He's living underground, and he's this really skinny creature that's never seen the sunlight, and so she would have been the dark-haired, Hispanic daughter of Henry Cavill, Superman, and replace him, because they weren't going to hire him again.
	Of course.
	Let's just keep not hiring Henry Cavill, one of the most popular and one of the only nice and seemingly normal actors.
	And a genuine nerd.
	And a genuine nerd who cares about the franchises he gets attached to.
	Let's just keep not hiring him and replace him with diverse replacement.
	Thank God that this might not be happening as well.
	And then we've also got Shazam 2...
	Which might be delayed, and I'm not too happy about potentially Shazam 2, because I saw the first one, and it was a bit of campy fun.
	I know you're not huge into it, but it was more fun.
	Aquaman and The Flash might be delayed, and it looks like they might have already been rebooting the universe with The Flash, but they seem to be reversing that plan in the next one, where they said that rumours claimed that The Flash would erase all three DCEU movies from the shared universe's continuity,
	And these would have been Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and most likely the theatrical version of Justice League, and I don't get how you can have Snyder's Justice League without those original two, and I don't get why you would want to erase from the continuity the two films, two of the films that people seem very enthusiastic about still.
	Yeah, your core constituency, and it actually made a sizable profit.
	Batman v Superman made it over $800 million.
	Yep, and that would have written out Henry Cavill's version of Superman and Ben Affleck's Batman, replacing them with Supergirl, like you said, and an older Batman, played by Michael Keaton, presumably wheeled out for nostalgia points and also to emasculate him, in all likelihood, as well.
	Given, however, that Ben Affleck has reshot scenes intended for Michael Keaton's Batman in the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, it would seem that ideas concerning his being in the DCEU Batman...
	So it seems like they are restructuring this, and we've got even more evidence from this, from Pride of Gypsy's, Jason Momoa's Instagram post, just showing the two of them happy to be reunited.
	It just seems wholesome.
	Yeah, politics aside, absolute kings.
	Nice to see Bruce Wayne back on set.
	Let's just hope that Ben's sorted out his drinking.
	He actually has.
	Oh, excellent!
	That's actually good to hear.
	He's sober and he just got married to Jennifer Lopez after how many years, so...
	Oh, fair play.
	So he's getting things back together, and I just want to see him in the Batsuit.
	Fair play to him.
	And if we move along onto slightly less good news, there is the second Joker film coming out.
	I know we all loved Joker when that originally came out.
	I still really enjoy it.
	It's a great film.
	But do you remember how we were all hounding for a sequel?
	How everybody knew that a sequel was completely necessary?
	And how even the director at the time said, no, I don't want to do a sequel.
	And Joaquin Phoenix said, no, I don't think a sequel is necessary.
	Well, we're getting a sequel.
	And the date has been confirmed.
	Just scroll up a little bit for me.
	Just so, it's the 10th of April, or is it the 4th of October?
	It's the 10th of April.
	No, no, just because it's America.
	Yeah, 4th of October, 2024, for the supposedly musical sequel to Joker, Joker 2, Folly Ado, which will also be starring Lady Gaga.
	As Harley Quinn.
	So hold your excitement, boys.
	I know you must be raring for this one.
	There were rumours it might be a musical, and it's because Bradley Cooper, who was the original producer of the first Joker, best friends with Todd Phillips because of the Hangover movies, did Star is Born with Lady Gaga and is trying to recruit her talents, and so it might be a musical about Joker and Harley Quinn set in Arkham Asylum.
	So, it's a musical for reasons completely unrelated to necessity for the plot or story.
	Great.
	It might be a musical purely for the sake of satiating the actor's egos.
	Fantastic!
	That's just what we wanted from a Joker sequel, isn't it?
	That we didn't want anyway.
	But, despite this, it does seem from all of that that DC is restructuring in a way that might actually please fans.
	Or please me if they do that.
	Which is nice to see, because I like to see companies recognising that the fans are important, but let's contrast this quickly with Marvel, where the She-Hulk director...
	I mentioned Daredevil earlier.
	Daredevil is one of my favourite shows that Marvel has ever put out.
	It was really fantastic, in my opinion.
	And they're bringing Matt Murdock back for She-Hulk, which is going to be absolutely dreadful, and they're going to emasculate him.
	She-Hulk director Kat Coy-lu-lu-lu-lu-lu confirms Disney Plus series developed with focus on inclusivity and making sure that the story was told through the female lens.
	Well, you've just excluded your entire male audience then, haven't you?
	Yes, which is the entire comic book audience.
	Let's be perfectly honest here.
	Well, everyone only bought John Byrne's She-Hulk because of the covers.
	That's true.
	I mean, to be fair though, I've enjoyed She-Hulk in the past and she's a great character when she's written by men, so that's one thing.
	And they also quote in this, I love watching Bruce, because obviously the original Hulk is going to be part of this, get completely thrown off his game thinking that he's the teacher and realising that very quickly she has things to teach him.
	There's Luke Skywalker then.
	There you go, yeah.
	We can't make female characters cool or interesting in their own right.
	We need to humiliate our male characters to show you that the female characters are cool.
	And then there's also Marvel's Ironheart casting RuPaul's Drag Race finalist Shia Cooley as Disney Plus series regular.
	Well, he's already wearing his villain makeup.
	He does look quite evil there, doesn't he?
	Like most drag queens end up looking eventually.
	What do you mean eventually?
	The character he's playing is a drag queen superhero called Dark Vale, who appeared in 2018 Iceman and was originally based on Shea Cooley in the first place.
	And the casting comes four months after Disney CEO Bob Chapek, He said that he wanted to be an outspoken champion for the LGBTQ plus community.
	This is after he originally said they were going to try and separate themselves from politics.
	And then a few activists complained on Twitter, and he walked that back quickly.
	And he said to our fellow colleagues, to my fellow colleagues, but especially to our LGBTQ plus community, thank you all who have reached out to me sharing your pain, frustration, and sadness over the company's response to the Florida Don't Say Gay bill.
	Wrote Shepek in a company-wide email in March.
	Speaking to you, reading your messages and meeting with you have helped me to better understand how painful our silence was.
	Starting immediately, we're increasing our support for advocacy groups to combat similar legislation in other states, and this segment has gone on for a very long time, so all I can say to that is Marvel cannot die.
	Soon enough.
	Can I just point out one final thing?
	John, scroll up quickly.
	Sorry.
	Keep going.
	Yeah, it says legal status, American citizen with no criminal record.
	Big tell.
	Sure.
	Sure, okay.
	And with that...
	So, Drag Queen's Story Hour has besieged our little archipelago over here in Britain, and parents aren't too happy about it.
	Thank God for that.
	They're doing the Lord's work in protesting.
	Unfortunately, some of these protests have been slightly co-opted by dark and nefarious forces, and it's up to us to at once expose these drag queens for attempting to expose themselves to children and excoriate those people who would drag the criticism of concerned parents out of the mainstream.
	Nice pun there.
	Well, there we go.
	But if you'd like to sign up to lotuseaters.com, you can learn exactly why this degenerate nonsense is biologically incorrect, with you and Josh discussing on contemplations the biology of the sexes, of which there are only two, and you should live correlative to your gender norms if you would like a happy and useful life.
	And just as a reminder as well, any exceptions that people might try and find to that rule is basically just overexposure of one or of the sex hormones that are released into the body.
	Abnormalities prove the rule.
	Of course.
	So, if we'd like to go to the Drag Queen Story Hour website, unfortunately...
	Sorry about this.
	Do we have to?
	Yeah, just to prove that this thing is real and I'm not scaremongering.
	If you can click the little X in the top right, John.
	It's begun its Summer 2022 tour.
	There's a little tab there, so if you can go and look at that in your own time.
	It's happened in Awun, Bexley, where I used to live, Blackpool, Bolton, Brighton& Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Cornwall, Crewe, Not crew!
	That's where I'm from!
	Actually, no, to be fair, I was there the other week and saw advertisements for this as well, and I was massively disgusted.
	I'm not shocked.
	Oxfordshire, where I currently am as well, so it seems to be following me like monkeypox.
	Portsmouth, Powis, Reading, Rochdale.
	Of course, it's in Rochdale.
	Somerset, Stockton, Vale of Glamorgan, and Wokingham, the irony of that name.
	I'm sorry, just a quick question.
	Why is monkeypox on your trail?
	Next question.
	So protests have already happened, but the events have already gone ahead in Bexy Heath, Welling, Crayford, Bristol, and St Ives, and we'll have some footage of that in a moment.
	The protesters have actually had fights at the thing because Antifa renter mobs ended up showing up.
	So I'm just going to read briefly from this Daily Mail article where John shows you these rather amusing photos from it.
	A Drag Queen Story Hour at Welling Library in South East London saw clashes between opposing groups of protesters.
	Drag Queen Story Hour UK is a project run by 27-year-old Sab Samuel, who performed as Ada HD, wearing multicoloured sequined outfits in a red wig and heavy makeup.
	Despite the furor, the session happened as planned, unfortunately.
	We have footage of some of the other protests, as we photographed with these articles.
	The protest groups shouted chants and held up signs and said, Stop grooming kids!
	A non-objectionable statement, of course.
	Wake up, this is child abuse, true, and leave the kids alone.
	They're actually paying Pink Floyd at the protest, which I'm sure you'd appreciate.
	A spokesperson from the group at Henley's Library in Bristol said, Ada works in the sex industry as an adult entertainer.
	True.
	This is grooming and it's illegal.
	It should be.
	So we are performing a citizen's arrest and if we can't do it today, we will.
	And as you can see, the tensions have started escalating.
	One of the things that I've never seen answered is why exactly it is that these drag queens who know that they're adult performers and know the sorts of things that they get up to behind the scenes because it's Why they're so eager to speak to other people's children and perform for them.
	I unfortunately have that answer for you in this segment.
	Oh, wonderful.
	Excellent.
	So we're going to play some video footage that I have received from a first-hand source, let's say.
	Inside a source, yes.
	Yes, this one shouldn't have any sound in it, but I was just going to talk over it just because you can see the renter mob that are dressed like the Riddler from the latest Batman film have all showed up with their pre-prepped trans flags, even though drag queens aren't trans as far as I know, saying cross-dressing is harmless and drag is an art.
	I wouldn't call it an art.
	I would call it degenerate performances.
	obviously inciting and goading, obviously, the rest of the protesters, who, as well, some of them weren't as perfectly articulate, but as working-class Brits can be, we agree with them on the sentiment, and they might not put things always the best way and might be a bit football laddish, but protecting your kids, it doesn't matter how you want to intellectualise it, they're your children and they shouldn't be groomed.
	If we can move to the next clip, this same rental mob outside the same library decided to get in a scuffle with the police.
	So the Antifa mob are attacking our people.
	So...
	These guys are predominantly late teens to mid twenties men.
	They've come down here for violence.
	They're all masked up.
	Someone's paying their wages.
	I'd imagine that the same people that are paying the police and paying the drag queen are paying their wages.
	Obviously we can't authenticate that.
	Wait, there is Pink Floyd in the background as well!
	Yes, I know.
	I know your question.
	Are we online?
	They come to me, they assault me.
	I bring most positions on there.
	I'm afraid of these Muppets.
	I've shown their faces.
	Ashamed.
	Say it loud.
	One of them's taken his mask off.
	Say it loud!
	So we can end it here with the chanting, John, before we have all our brains rotten off because they started launching into American protest tactics.
	I believe that woman with the shaved head that was in that prior clip was one of the people that got arrested for having a scuffle with the Antifa line.
	For having been assaulted by Antifa and defending herself.
	Oh, wonderful!
	Well, obviously we've got no footage of the actual assault happening, but given Antifa's track record, as documented by the wonderful Andino, we know that they are agitators and it's not unlikely that they showed up to start a fight.
	This is clown world in action.
	Speaking of clown world, let's hear the dialect and intelligent conversation between Antifa and these protesters, shall we?
	Do you guys trust the government?
	Do you support the government?
	Do you think they tell the truth?
	Not going to engage?
	Not going to talk?
	Are you local?
	Do you come from around here?
	Can you record me, I see?
	Eh?
	Can you record me, I see?
	Can you record me, I see?
	I'm struggling to hear...
	Are you paid to be here, are you?
	Are you being paid to be here?
	He's speaking different.
	He's speaking different.
	Can you hear me?
	Can you hear me?
	Thank you for that bit.
	Thank you.
	So what is it?
	Cornish?
	I love how you said at the end, what is it, Cornish?
	So we'll get Josh in to interpret, because this is in St.
	Ives, but that sounded more like Simlish to me.
	Well, one of the interesting questions that I would have thrown out to one of those people if I was there is, do you have kids of your own?
	Well, they did look like genetic dead ends, so I would presuppose no.
	I can only hope that they don't.
	Yeah, we obviously hope that they don't reproduce.
	So this last...
	If they can.
	Last...
	I'm not going to say anything.
	This last bit of footage is outside Bexley Heath Library, near where I used to live, funnily enough.
	This is really following you around, isn't it?
	I know, it's like a bad smell.
	And this was quite a large protest movement, and honestly I find nothing that this woman with the megaphone says, and I don't know her identity nor her personal background, but nothing she says is either nonsensible or disagreeable.
	We urge you to come and stand with us.
	This is not about any prejudice.
	We are not transphobic, homophobic.
	What we are is against sexualization of children.
	And the infiltration of drag queen storage time in dialogue is just that.
	What does a man in full makeup, twerking around, have to do with your children in a library?
	Exactly.
	If you facilitate this, it's going to come into schools.
	Yes.
	It's a kind of state political correctness.
	What they're trying to get you to do, the children to do, is to normalise sexual behaviour.
	Yes.
	Yes!
	People in the gay and transgender community are disgusted by driving story time.
	They know that pedophiles are using it as a vehicle to protect your children.
	Yes they are!
	And we are here to protect your children.
	This is nothing about their safe agenda waiting their plan.
	This is about your children.
	Yes.
	And a similar agenda at play.
	It is no secret that pedophilia is in a problem.
	It is in the world problem.
	Yes!
	It is everywhere.
	And now it's coming to your local community.
	Yes.
	Rest up as freedom of speech, freedom of identity.
	It is none of that.
	It's sexualization and child grooming.
	Yes, it is.
	And you've got to really step up to the table now, parents, and put a stop to it.
	Do not care if you're called a Nazi.
	They called my best friend's daughter a Nazi.
	What a joke.
	They don't understand what it's called.
	So we can pause it there, John.
	That's fine.
	That lady's pretty based.
	Yeah, again, don't know her identity, but of course.
	So, will the parents listen to, do you reckon?
	No, of course not.
	Why would you listen to parents on the welfare of children?
	Go to the next one.
	Call drag queens pantomime dames to fool protesters, the librarians were told.
	Drag queens should be called pantomime dames to fool protesters.
	Council librarians have been urged in a crisis meeting amid embattled story hour sessions for children.
	More than 100 librarians attended the training earlier this month on how to handle the fierce row with parents over a countrywide summer tour by Drag Queen Story Hour UK. The webinar on managing controversial events was...
	Now, I don't know why they mentioned that, because it's almost like they're trying to victimise him.
	But, funnily enough, I'm on the spectrum.
	So are half this bloody office.
	We don't want to do the kids.
	You know, shockingly enough, it's not something that just comes with being autistic.
	No, no, no.
	It's sort of like specialist areas and our eye contact is our kryptonite.
	But being a nonce, not one of the symptoms, funnily enough.
	One speaker suggested the protesters could be fooled.
	We've always said pantomime, Dane, because we don't want protesters outside our building.
	Ian Anstis, a librarian from Cheshire West and Cheshire, told the seminar.
	"Is that knuckling under pressure?" Poor choice of words.
	"Possibly, but we have no protest.
	It's a good event.
	We run the event," he added, as he criticized how some protesters have no politeness, no trying to see your point of view.
	reference the performer known as Mama G who is unconnected to the story hour but is also touring libraries this summer Mama G was billed as a pantomime dame in Devon County Council Libraries in 2019 but was accused of twerking in front of toddlers prison agreed Parents and librarians have actually hit back, so not everyone agrees.
	Tracy Shaw, a spokesman for Safe Schools Alliance, said this training flies in the face of proper safeguarding practice.
	Very true.
	Librarians should be focused on addressing valid concerns.
	We already know how some in Texas allowed a convicted child sex offender to become a drag queen story hour performer without properly vetting the background.
	I still contend we need to lock up and then exile everybody who's been involved in this.
	Send them all to the nonce island of Pitcairn, which we still own, by the way, so it could be used as our Alcatraz.
	One librarian from the south of England who didn't want to be named said libraries are not an appropriate place for what is just a sexualised parody of womanhood.
	Another librarian from London said, library staff no longer have the time or resources to properly vet these performers.
	We've told we have to tick a box for diversity.
	So literally, don't look into their backgrounds, just nod along and let the kiddos be indoctrinated.
	That is evil.
	Apparently, councils say, the drag queen story has been DBS-checked and is entertaining and age-appropriate.
	But if we scroll through Sam's Twitter account here, just the images from the media thing, just a brief cursory overview, not clicking on any of them, but if we can just look at some of the classes...
	I mean, very effeminate men, almost all liberal white women, and then all the kids have been dragged there having their hands forced up into black power salutes, and some of them look genuinely traumatised.
	So, if you want to look for it in your own time and subject yourself to obvious instances of child abuse and irreversible damage, then go and do it.
	I mean, the idea that they always bring up, oh, the kids seem to enjoy it, you could put...
	Anything in bright colours and sequins in front of children and they will enjoy it on the purely aesthetic level.
	But with this sort of stuff, there is messaging that is going into this that the children will not understand right now, but their brains will internalise it.
	When you are this young, your brain is a sponge, as they say.
	For the love of God, how do people not get this yet?
	Well, this person doesn't get it because this demonic creature in makeup is very egotistical.
	So, apparently in the next article, one of the events went along because they swapped the venue last minute and had no protests.
	They told them in the wrong place.
	And this was excused by Sam because he says drag is not about gender.
	Speaking to MailOnline, Mr.
	Samuel said drag queens and pantomime dames are very similar and cast doubt on the solution to the protests about pretending that they're just pantomime dames.
	The only time gender and sex have been mentioned is by the protesters.
	They actually don't care about whether it's a pantomime dame or drag queen.
	They'd still be calling me a paedophile and a groomer.
	Because, well, we can't say you are, but this is definitely a practice and avenue for grooming.
	Referring to the tragic death of Riley Hadley from Sidmouth, who took his own line in 2019, after a month of bullying and struggling with his sexuality, the performer said he was left devastated and in tears by the news.
	What if I had made it to Devon before this had happened?
	Maybe I could have prevented this, he added.
	It's not about dressing in drag.
	It's about having someone to relate to.
	What I am doing is saving lives.
	How many kids have I read my stories to and been the role model that I wish I'd had?
	How many children have I saved?
	That is the most grotesque thing I've ever heard.
	You're making your political...
	Fetish-based point off the body of a dead child.
	And I don't often break professionalism.
	That is vile.
	And I am sorry about that.
	Anyway, so allow me to clear up any illusions that drag is not about sexuality or gender with this following paper authored by one of the San Francisco heads of the original Drag Queen Story Hour company and Little Miss Hot Mess, a practicing drag queen.
	Drag Pedagogy, the playful practice of queer imagination in early childhood.
	And this paper is available for you all to read in the description.
	Please circulate it among spheres, particularly to parents who are concerned about this kind of thing.
	Queer theorists call drag pedagogy a tool for playfully reading each other into filth, to bring queer ways of knowing and being into the education of young children.
	These are direct quotes.
	Drag is firmly rooted in play as a site of queer pleasure, resistance, and self-fashioning.
	Drag in early childhood education is to give kids a queer sense of imagination, using play as praxis, aesthetic transformation, Strategic defiance and destigmatisation of shame.
	So it's breaking down boundaries of sexual and gender normativity to make you revolutionary.
	Shame is good.
	Shame is very good.
	You should be guilty about doing all of this.
	Grooming kids, basically, into sexually and ideologically destabilised gender identities makes them not only agitated perpetual Marxist gender revolutionaries, but it also makes them viable to sexual exploitation.
	This means dressing up children as a form of revolutionary abolitionist activism coming to a classroom near you.
	And the final line in this, it says, we will leave a trade of glitter in the carpet that can never be erased.
	That is doing indelible damage on impressionable young minds.
	Okay, so this is just evil.
	As if it wasn't already obvious enough what was going on, this is just evil, and admittedly so.
	And the disappointing thing about this is that the establishment is not speaking out about it, the Conservatives are not bringing the hammer down on it because they are utterly impotent, and it leaves up to people like us to bring attention to it.
	And the libraries are run by the councils, so surely...
	It's getting public funding.
	Entirely public funding.
	This is why your council tax has gone up, to fund nonsense like this.
	Now, the problem is the silence on this by the establishment has led people like this to seize upon it.
	And this was sent to me by the same person that sent me the video footage, right?
	And they are basically an anarchist.
	They disbelieve in any kind of government controlling it.
	They homeschool their kid, etc.
	Well, I'm getting slowly closer and closer to full-on anarchists, especially given just the state of the world right now.
	I look around and go, okay, how is government going to solve this?
	Oh, government caused this.
	Fantastic.
	Yeah.
	And he sent me this material that was handed out at one of the protests.
	And if you go on to the next page, it's from Patriotic Alternative.
	I don't know if you know who they are.
	I'm aware of Patriotic Alternative, yes.
	Yes.
	They're headed up by Mark Collett, who has said in the past, and obviously the reporting has come from left-wing sources, so there might be dubious, but I'm willing to bet it because there's been video footage of him calling himself a National Socialist, that Mein Kampf was his favourite book.
	So no, he's not patriotic.
	No Englishman can be a Nazi because it's a German racist ideology that is utterly insane.
	But the problem is, when you allow establishment silence on issues as key as gender abolition and paedophilia, then crazies like this seize upon it and exploit genuinely concerned parents.
	And if we go just to this, we're not going to play this, but they had a massive presence of plenty of the protests.
	This was all pre-organized, and they're marketing themselves as...
	Protecting the nuclear family from the downpour of rainbow gender abolitionist activism.
	But this is just another Trojan horse.
	Just like the drag queens of Trojan horsing paedophilia are in, you're Trojan horsing ethnosupremacy in off the backs of concerned parents.
	So this is why it's our job to talk about this openly and honestly and bring light to it, so people like this can't seize upon it.
	Because if we go to this next one, if you'd like to look on the website, this is a premium video, but Callum and Carl went for a Channel 4 documentary about how...
	Essentially, patriotic alternatives do have links to genuine neo-Nazi groups.
	I'm not going to call them the far right because Nazis are leftists.
	But they are, by all intents and purposes, ethno-nationalists.
	And I don't want to ally myself with these people any more than I want to ally myself with the Antifa people and the drag queens.
	It's disgusting.
	Just leave children alone and stop trying to conscript them into your racist politics or your gender and sexual politics.
	And if we go to just the last one, I just wanted to bring this up because...
	In my segment with Dominic Frisby about the WEF, I made the point about the communists and returning to starvation of the Soviet Union.
	Well, in this, it shows photos of the gay scene and the drag scene in Berlin in Weimar, Germany.
	Weimar, Germany is often looked at as a site of degeneracy that preceded the rise of ethno-fascism in Germany.
	That is nowhere near the level of degradation that is currently happening in the UK, the US, etc.
	today.
	They never expose kids to this through publicly funded institutions.
	And so it's terrifying that something like that could rise as a backlash out of that.
	If we're doing worse, we've got to be very, very careful in shutting this nonsense down, in prosecuting these drag queens, in looking into the digital history.
	And all the people who allowed it to happen in the first place.
	Exactly.
	Including high-ranking members of the government.
	And child abuse.
	And the fact that that is going on at the same time as the grooming gangs, I am also very concerned about the extremity of the backlash to this if sensible people like us don't confront it in the mainstream.
	Alright, I think we should move on to the video comments on that one.
	John, do we have any video comments today?
	Hi, I'm Erin Gibson, and I am a feminist comedian.
	A request to the Lady Lotus Eaters.
	for the tenets of daddism permit you to be no less.
	Please read Erin Gibson's Feminasty as a guide to the uphill struggle against modern feminism.
	It is packed with clueless, self-satisfied smugness and contradictions.
	Gibson says that women shouldn't be upbraided for the way they dress in cases of sexual assault, and yet brazenly describes how her first sexual partner, no, not lover, she hooked by dressing as sluttily as she could and laughing herself hoarse at his unfunny jokes.
	For maximum impact, listen to the author herself read the book on Audible.
	Why would I want to give her money?
	Can I just say as well, speaking of the oxymoron that it's female comedians, when you were on with Leo the other day and he said I was talking nonsense about the female comedians...
	I was wondering when you were going to address this.
	She was bloody dreadful.
	She showed up, and I don't care that it's his mate, right?
	I can criticise the performance, because Leo was fantastic.
	There's a great stand-up set.
	She showed up and said, I don't know who any of you are, but I clearly get more...
	I'm just a dick than you.
	And I shagged your dad and you're all incels.
	And literally, I was in the front row.
	My girlfriend was next to me.
	She didn't crack a smile once.
	She said, typical female comedian nonsense is just saying, oh, you know, I get so much sex, lol.
	And I locked eyes with Cole, who was sitting on the stage, and Cole just went to me.
	And that's the funny thing about female comedians is that most women know that they're terrible.
	Yeah, most women don't find them funny.
	Sorry, humour is a male trait because we have to impress you ladies.
	Well, that's the thing.
	I've seen plenty of clips of male stand-up comedians who basically do the exact same thing where it's all dick jokes the whole way through.
	It's not funny either.
	It's not funny either.
	So I'm catching up on your podcast.
	This is a little bit at behind the times, but talking about the mom comics thing, I just recently severely injured my hand, and so my wife has been picking up the slack doing things I can't do right now, and after a week of this, I feel completely useless, and I don't like it, so I don't know how this woman lives with herself, because apparently her husband does kind of everything, and she just lives this charmed life, and...
	I don't get it.
	How can she do that?
	It's been a week, and I feel awful.
	I feel guilty that I'm not doing things I literally can't do.
	It did read a bit like a pet barking at the fact that his pediory charm isn't expensive enough.
	Yeah, that's the funny thing, is that you're absolutely right.
	When you have those weeks where you're ill and you can't do anything, or something like that, or you're injured like you are, sorry to hear that, I hope you recover soon, by the way.
	Get off soon, Mike.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You do feel really useless, and honestly, when depression can start to creep in...
	Whereas this woman's way of dealing with that seems to be throwing passive-aggressive comments and insults towards her poor beleaguered husband.
	Not even that.
	You're making your relationship a performance, a monetised performance, for the wider world.
	You're not confronting these issues in your own household, and so that just fosters resentment.
	And I will say as well, on the note of men doing things for their women, and I'm going to get in so much trouble for this when I get married, I do literally everything, and it's just because...
	She could be quite inefficient at times and I just get frustrated and impatient.
	Mate, it's the exact same.
	To be fair, I'm more than happy and I rediscovered this last week on my week off when I had the beauty of having nothing to do except of my own choice not forced on me.
	There is a certain power to being there laying on the sofa playing video games while she does the washing.
	Sure.
	But I do do all the washing up for one pure reason, which is she's terrible at it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't want to have to drink out of a dirty mug.
	If I wanted that, I'd go to my local Weatherspoons.
	Exactly.
	I look in it, it's like there's still coffee at the bottom of this mug that's coagulated.
	I don't want to drink out of it.
	It's like, why is there lipstick on the glass?
	It was mine.
	Anyway.
	Website comments it is.
	Yes.
	Honourable mention here from Carbohydrate Crusader.
	Let me try that again.
	Carbohydrate Crusader says, All right, lads.
	My missus gave birth to our first son yesterday.
	Terrific and exhilarating.
	The greatest feeling of our lives.
	Happy weekend, Lotus Eaters.
	If you drink, lift one to my baby and my missus.
	Good health.
	Immensely proud of them both.
	Well...
	It's only water, but I'll give you a quick, like, congratulations there, mate.
	Honestly.
	I'll toast you tonight after work.
	So, with the legal war on Infowars, Baron von Warhawk, let's be real.
	While Alex is clearly in the wrong when it comes to Sandy Cook, agreed, this is about shutting him up and ending Infowars rather than giving justice to the parents.
	Exactly.
	It's a political show trial, as you said.
	Kevin Fox, so cameras in the Alex Jones trial.
	Be interesting to see if, and if it's a big if, cameras allowed in the Paul Pelosi case.
	That's an amazing point.
	That is a great point, but it won't.
	Same with the Hillary Clinton lawyer case with...
	I'm not aware of this one.
	Oh, it happened a little while ago, and it got shot down.
	I would need to revise my coverage of it before I spoke on it, but...
	It was something that clearly should have been prosecuted and the verdict was not, and it was behind closed doors.
	Well, obviously the biggest example of this recently was Ghislaine Maxwell.
	Just completely shut away, away from the public eye, because we don't want to be giving away any names, do we?
	I do think cameras should be in every courtroom.
	Seriously.
	Dave Carter.
	Wow, that judge just gave Alex a big reason for his appeal.
	Yeah, I'll be honest, I don't think he would get anywhere with an appeal, and I don't think he should almost pursue one just for the sake of It could end up backfiring on him.
	Well, it's not even just backfiring.
	I think it's that he would, even though he's been treated unfairly by the courts, he has nothing against the victims, and he's made it pretty clear about that, and he's very apologetic.
	And I think it would be immediately spun, not that Alex really cares about bad press these days, because they've done everything that's ruined his life anyway, but it would be immediately spun as Alex Jones heartlessly tries to take compensation away from the victims that he defamed, even though it's clearly a miscarriage of justice.
	I think that would be ridiculous.
	Bleach Demon.
	Love the name as always.
	This kangaroo trial of Jones is despicable.
	The failure of his lawyers, the smarmy judge, the atrocious prosecutor, make Jones' wildest claims seem plausible.
	Well, I don't know about that.
	Be careful.
	A mistrial is the best outcome he could hope for.
	I never thought I'd do more than laugh at Jones.
	Now I feel sympathy for the man, more than for the parents.
	I wouldn't go that far.
	Not necessarily more than for the parents because their children are dead, but I do actually feel sympathetic for Jones because...
	This is the abolition of forgiveness in modern society, as we both know any time we've argued with our girlfriends.
	The problem is, if there's no path for recompense, then this is just a struggle session to deter you from ever sticking your head above the parachute.
	That's what they want to do.
	They just want to shut him up.
	Yeah, and on that one he should have shut up, but on every other issue, unfortunately, he's been right a fair few times and globalists are winning.
	Raz Kratz was right.
	How is it acceptable for the prosecution to claim the defence's legal team messed up as part of the cross-examination?
	This isn't a trial, this is a struggle session, and it's pretty cringe to watch them pretend this is how lawyers act.
	True.
	Yeah, shouldn't it...
	In the fact that they've admitted the lawyers have messed up, that should be a...
	Mistrial.
	Yeah.
	But...
	Just let it go.
	It's only Alex Jones.
	Who cares?
	Andrew Narog.
	The justice system really needs reform.
	Activist judges need to get removed from office and may be disbarred if they're too unethical to practice law in any form.
	Take it up with George Soros.
	George Hap.
	Alex's verdict was already decided before this farce for trial started.
	They're going to convict a man for exercising his free speech with the help of a vindictive ex.
	A perfect summary of the broken justice system.
	In other respects, his free speech is definitely being removed.
	In the actual defamation, he was wrong and he's admitted that.
	But, as you said, it's not just about the Sandy Hook case.
	It's about him as a broader public figure.
	Colin P. The mask has not only slipped, it's been thrown in the bin.
	True.
	Ballen van der Platt.
	What?
	The purpose of the court is to determine what is true, or at least get close to it.
	The whole point of asking questions is so that you can hear what they believe to be true.
	Agreed.
	So much for this is my truth.
	Razzcraft was right again.
	I didn't realise that the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth, was subjected to what the judge decides it is.
	I guess you can commit purgery with the Karen, with the gavel, if she thinks she knows more than you.
	Very true.
	Sadly, yes.
	On to the DC Cancels Batgirl comments.
	So Sophie Liv Peterson says, Oh boy, the Warner Brothers Discovery merger.
	I haven't seen a massacre this graphic since Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes.
	This is basically the Purge 6 Zaslav Unleashed, and I'm loving it.
	I'm having a really good time.
	Laugh out of this.
	David M. Zaslav is just murdering everything in his path.
	And I've never heard of this man before.
	I've no idea who he is outside of the context of everything that I've been reading today.
	But if he's restructuring Warner Brothers and DC to try and eliminate a lot of the BS that's been piling up there, then more speed to him.
	Godspeed.
	Less BS, more BVS.
	There you go.
	Batgirl is dead.
	Supergirl is dead.
	Gotham Knights is dead.
	The Arrowverse is dead.
	Thank God.
	This is the best slasher movie for over a decade.
	I love it.
	Just killing all those imposters while I'm having the time of my life just re-watching Batman, the animated series, and the entire DC animated universe from the 90s and early 2000s, which is absolute peak DC content.
	Absolutely right to do so.
	Because that stuff is timeless and as golden as it was back then.
	Back when great writing took priority.
	Yes.
	Baron Von Warhawk.
	The only good thing about this Batgirl movie is that when they needed a damp, dark, crime-ridden hellhole full of corruption and creeps, they picked Glasgow, the one good decision about this woke film.
	That's also true.
	I've just seen that you've noted one.
	Yeah, I've moved it up, just because, of course, we have a lot of comments to get through, not much time, but this one, I think, is very valuable.
	George's or...
	George's Hap.
	Maybe Harry and Connor Comics Corner could be...
	That's the name I was originally going to call this segment!
	Oh my god!
	That's brilliant.
	Oh, that's serendipitous.
	Oh my god.
	They sure are not going to run out of material at any time considering the state of mainstream comics.
	Yeah, the last comic book-related movie I saw was Joker, and while it was good, the sequel looks to be pure cancer.
	Well, I can announce that I'm going to be doing, when I return from my holiday in September, a scripted comic series on the actual good politics and philosophy behind the development of comics.
	But excoriating modern comics, I would love to do more shows with you, mate.
	And when Joker does eventually come out, Joker 2, you can be sure that we'll be on front rows.
	We haven't done a Politics of Joker for this channel yet, haven't we?
	No, we haven't.
	We should do that.
	Because I do like that film and I've only watched it the one time when it came out.
	Really?
	Okay.
	I've got it on Blu-ray.
	We'll put it in the calendar.
	I just need to watch it again.
	Edward of Woodstock.
	So this appears to be an issue not just with comics but with sci-fi in general.
	There's this argument from many...
	Oh my god.
	As a conservative, you can watch Star Trek without feeling attacked.
	That has changed.
	That is true.
	You can go back and watch even the original series and just enjoy them as maybe a bit dated sci-fi stories.
	Tim Pool always references...
	What's the one that Picard originally was?
	I'm not a Star Trek fan.
	It was...
	The next generation?
	Yeah, any references?
	They did a parody of 1984, and they did questions about if data was human, etc.
	And they have some philosophical quandaries in there, and it's actually good television, apparently.
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	I'd say it's more philosophical than political, and philosophy doesn't have to fall on one side or the other.
	You can get leftists and rightists both influenced by Nietzsche, for instance, even though I know you're not a fan of his.
	I've not read it either.
	I've just seen that that can happen.
	Yeah.
	No, it was the screening audiences.
	It was the test screenings that was her greatest enemy.
	But let's be real, who seriously thought a woke Batgirl movie would be a success?
	An actual Batgirl series could be good if you went down the avenue of her learning to walk again as Oracle after the killing joke trauma.
	Batgirl showed up in the Batman animated series and she was fine in that.
	She was great in that.
	Actually, one of my favourites, not to derail it, is The Batman from 2004.
	The slightly manga-ish one with the Joker with the dreadlocks and that.
	She had a great arc in that.
	I remember watching that as a kid and I've not re-watched it since, but I've heard loads of people say that it's actually really underrated.
	It's so fantastic.
	Yeah, obviously the Joker design puts people off a little bit, but I'll give another watch.
	I'll give another watch.
	Free Will says, scandals and woke politics aside, isn't the market massively oversaturated with subpar superhero films?
	That could explain much of the audience fatigue.
	Yes, which is why it simultaneously worries me that they want to go for the Marvel approach, but at the same time is making me happy to hear them just pay lip service.
	Even just paying lip service to the idea of we want to have quality over quantity...
	That in itself is a good sign, even though, like, you're absolutely right, it is massively oversaturated, but I'd say Marvel is oversaturating the market all by itself at this point.
	So I'm just, Marvel, go away, please die.
	Anyway, that's all that we've got time for.
	Thank you so much for tuning in and checking us out.
	Be sure to check out some of the premium content that we've referenced on this, including Connor's book club that he did with Nick Dixon last night on Dostoyevsky.
	It was very, very interesting.
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