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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Good afternoon, folks.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Friday, the 11th of November 2022.
	I nearly said 2021 there.
	Welcome to this Armistice Day podcast.
	I've been joined by Mike, otherwise known as Dr.
	Miranda McCam on YouTube.
	How are you doing, Mike?
	Hello, good evening, welcome.
	What year is it?
	Who's the president?
	Actually, that is how I feel at the moment, to be honest with you.
	I'm a bit sick, so if I'm sounding a bit nasal, I apologise.
	But if you, before we begin, I think it's worth promoting your YouTube channel.
	You've been running this for a few years, I've been a fan for many years, Mike produces excellent videos, definitely go over there and give them a subscribe.
	So today we're going to be talking about how it's not actually going terribly well at Twitter, turns out.
	Just loads of leftist stuff that's come across my desk.
	I'm just compiling into sort of like miniature This Week in Stupid segments.
	And how we've reached the end of Celebrity, which honestly I think is a good thing.
	I'm not against this.
	But it's interesting to see how it's worked out.
	So anyway, let's begin.
	So, after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, it seems that things are not going tremendously well, because it turns out that Twitter was being propped up by BlackRock and other various ESG-promoting investment funds.
	And without their money and support, you may remember they held something like 15-20% shares each for Elon Musk bought all the shares.
	And without their support, it turns out that Twitter is actually, like all other Silicon Valley platforms, not profitable and is a black hole for money.
	But before we begin, because of course it's Armistice Day today, Bo and I had a discussion on Epochs about the Armistice, which honestly I knew a bit about because obviously you had to deal with it in school.
	But honestly, when I was young, I mean, this was really boring.
	I didn't really understand the gravity and magnitude of what was being told.
	So it was really useful to go over this with Beau, who takes this very seriously, hence the poppies.
	So if you want to support us, go over and watch that.
	It's really harrowing, actually.
	And it's also free for a week, John has informed me.
	Some armistices are worth it.
	Yes.
	Considering.
	Yes.
	Anyway, let's begin not with Twitter, actually, but with Facebook, because it turns out that Facebook is laying off 11,000 employees, which is about 13% of their 87,000 staff, because, of course, their shares have been in the toilet since Zuckerberg announced the Metaverse, and everyone's like, that looks awful, why would I want that?
	And will you be joining the Metaverse?
	Let me think about it.
	How about no?
	Yeah, no, I don't.
	Terrible idea, terribly executed, going down the pan.
	But anyway, moving on to Twitter.
	Twitter's losing $4 million a day, apparently, or was, before Musk took over.
	And so Musk had said, he tweeted out, look, regarding Twitter's reduction in force, there's no choice when the company is losing $4 million a day.
	Which makes you wonder, where was it getting all this money before?
	You know, it's obviously from these investment funds.
	And, you know, they were all saying, oh, we're going to sue you, but in fact, actually, Elon Musk gave them a more generous severance package than legally required, so that's probably not going to happen.
	But anyway, he then, yesterday, sent a bunch of emails to Twitter staff after having, he's only owned it for two weeks, so he's gone in, he's taken, he's created his own little doomsday book of Twitter, taken a lay of the land, but like, hang on, this is not financially viable at all.
	Are you surprised?
	Yeah, the only reason it was ever...
	I probably don't know the only reason.
	It was presumably something shady.
	I mean, a lot of whatever money was going on on these paid pets that you covered once upon a time, these ten managers for every coder.
	Yes.
	And is manager even the right word for them?
	No.
	Commissar.
	They just go in and eat sushi and drink wine on tap and then go home.
	But they also spend their time reinforcing leftist orthodoxy.
	So it is important to have them there.
	But anyway, the New York Times has published an article with some of the leaked email, and it's just remarkable, actually.
	And what I think this does, it speaks to Twitter's importance as something other than a company, that so many people would pay such a large amount of money in order to keep this thing operating and afloat, despite the obvious dead weight that it is.
	It must be providing some other necessary function.
	Anyway, so Musk said, Sorry this is my first email to the company, but there is no way to sugarcoat the message.
	The economic picture ahead is dire.
	Twitter was too heavily dependent on advertising and vulnerable to pullbacks in brand spending and would need to bolster revenue from its subscriptions.
	In another note, he wrote that the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots, trolls, spam.
	Twitter faces pressure to earn money to fund the buyout.
	Musk had to take $13 billion in debt, which requires him to pay more than a billion interest annually.
	Which, I mean, it sounds like big numbers to me, but I'm not the richest man in the world, so...
	I'm sure he can afford it.
	I'm not sure if he's going to want to afford it.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, the idea wasn't...
	I guess the idea wasn't to turn it into a profitable...
	Thing, because he likes profits, but he doesn't need them.
	Ostensibly, it's to turn it into more of a free speech haven.
	I've got to have my doubts on every side of these things.
	I don't know who to trust anymore, so I just trust no one by default.
	I suspect that he does want it to be a free speech haven, but also he is a businessman, so he needs a company that is in the black, right?
	I mean, it's surely got to be that.
	Can't operate a company that just continues losing $4 million a day.
	Well, I dread to think how much money YouTube is wasting because of all the video serving they have to do.
	It's about $4 billion a year, actually.
	Yeah, you have that.
	But it's more valuable than money to the people who spin the narratives.
	Yes.
	Google has to pay for YouTube's existence.
	Anyway, so apparently the company earns about 90% of its revenue from advertisers, some of whom have shied away from the platform in recent days because of uncertainties over Mr. Musk's commitment to removing toxic content from Twitter.
	He responded by threatening a thermonuclear name in shame of these advertisers, which used to halt their spending.
	Do you think that'll change anything?
	Mmm.
	I doubt it.
	Nobody likes being shamed.
	I doubt they like being named either.
	Good point.
	Musk has also raced to find new subscription revenue, of course, with the Twitter Blue service revamping that, making it $8 a month to receive a verification checkmark, which of course went down like a lead balloon with certain verified checkmarks.
	In one of his emails to staff on Wednesday, Musk said that subscriptions should eventually account for half of the company's revenue.
	Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance of Twitter not surviving the upcoming economic growth.
	economic downturn and therefore Twitter will become bankrupt the company will be over we will be released from the reign of terror of the blue check marks over society um Good or bad thing?
	I love it.
	It's like a soap opera at this point.
	I mean, it has been since April.
	It's like a tragicomic melodrama and a slow-motion car crash all at the same time.
	You can't watch, but you can't not watch.
	I guess we've always figured either Elon fixes Twitter or he kills it.
	Or it just dies in his arms like a dehydrated fish, which looks like might be what's happening.
	Either way, celebrate good times.
	No news is bad news, which is ironic for Twitter, because on Twitter, no conversation is valuable conversation.
	It's only ever been valuable as a place to promote other places, like you send a link out to a video you've done or a show you're doing.
	Well, interestingly, we'll get into the democratizing of the checkmarks in a second, because it did have a function for those people who are verified checkmarks and left-wingers on Twitter.
	But just before we go on, it turns out that Twitter, not officially, but whoever's organizing the checkmark system in Twitter...
	Was illicitly selling, or it seems that the accusations, they were illicitly selling verified badges on Twitter for 15 grand to get verified if you weren't someone actually important.
	Yeah.
	Which is a very interesting way of kind of buying your way into the aristocracy that used to happen.
	It's not a verification badge.
	It's a validation badge.
	Yes.
	That's all it ever was.
	And I mean validation in that patronizing way that Smug Sack is.
	It's a pat on the head.
	It's a, you're a good boy, have a biscuit.
	You're a part of the club.
	In the event that you roll over and play dead on command.
	I think I'd rather pay $8 a month.
	Then go through degrading shambles even for free.
	How did Tankiller get a checkmark?
	Can anyone explain that to me?
	How does he still have it after all the epic trolling he's done?
	What does a brother have to do to lose a checkmark these days?
	Well, actually, he did skirt quite close to losing it, I think.
	Yeah, because of the Donald Trump thing.
	Yes, which, I mean, hilarious, but, you know.
	And I actually asked him, he was like, yeah, I'm going to keep the checkmark, so I'm going to pay for it.
	So, well, there we go.
	Anyway, Elon was like, yes, investigation is needed.
	So, moving on, democratizing the checkmarks actually isn't as straightforward as you'd think, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has recently discovered, because it turns out that people have been showing up in her mentions that she wasn't quite prepared for, and this is a form of harassment.
	Yeah.
	She says, wait, so if people can pay...
	Excuse me.
	I've been ill, okay?
	She says, wait, so if people can pay $8 to get verified, does that mean strangers can just pay to get into their mentions tab?
	As in, anyone can mention me and I have to see it.
	Because that will make following public conversations with journalists, outlets, and others almost impossible track.
	Yeah, and others, but not you.
	They still have the mute button, my darling.
	But these peasants are clogging up my mentions?
	Like, I'm trying to talk to journalists, outlets, and others, and there are a bunch of voters in my mentions.
	This is disgusting.
	There are peasants in my castle.
	What's going on?
	Why are all these peasants here?
	Well, you see, it's a revolution now.
	You know, this is democracy.
	It's not supposed to be a public square.
	It's mass square.
	It's literally for the nobility.
	And AOC is furious about this.
	And she replies to her own tweet saying, if so, it definitely seems like a tool that's ripe for targeted harassment, especially of women and others on the platform.
	Oh, that takes me back.
	It's been a number of years, hasn't it?
	Oh, wow.
	But at least it's having the design effect, eh?
	So, this is the upside of the democratization of the blue check, which is AOC has to hear from people she doesn't like.
	The downside, though, is that it hasn't actually been rolled out very competently.
	Probably because Elon Musk was like, this is going to be ready by the end of the week, or you're fired.
	Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the sort of Donald Trump energy of that, but there does need to be a bit more planning that goes into revolutionary changes, otherwise you end up in, well, revolutionary France.
	As you can see here, if you can click on that image, John, just to get that up, I'm not sure that this is really George Bush and Tony Blair having an actual interaction on Twitter saying, I miss killing Iraqis, and Tony Blair's like, yeah, same, to be honest.
	I mean, it might be, actually.
	I can't confirm that it's not.
	But you can see the problem is that the actual verification process was just pay your money and then it goes through, rather than actually verifying that you are dealing with George W. Bush and Tony Blair.
	You get some other impersonations, such as for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly...
	As you can see there, someone registered and verified because they paid for it.
	We're excited to announce that insulin is free now.
	And so Eli Lilly, actually on their correct account, had to say, we apologize for those who have been served a misleading message from a fake Lilly account.
	Our official account is at LillyPad.
	Thus defeating the purpose of verification entirely.
	Yeah.
	They actually have to tweet out now, no, this isn't us.
	So if you can go to the next one, you can see.
	Okay, so the problem there is, of course, that the people who are purchasing verification through the $8 a month weren't being verified.
	That was the point.
	In anything.
	Ever.
	Exactly.
	Anyway, this also upset a bunch of leftists.
	We'll see the next one.
	So you're choosing to make a profit off life-saving insulin.
	Well, it costs money to make, unfortunately.
	Anyway, so Elon Musk had to tweet about this, and I think that his Twitter interventions are coming across a lot like Donald Trump's presidential Twitter interventions.
	They aren't actually as good an idea as they sound on paper and are slightly destabilizing, actually.
	He tweeted, going forward, accounts encased in parody must include parody in their name, not just in their bio.
	To be more precise, accounts doing parody impersonations, basically tricking people is not okay.
	Now, I can see why he's saying this, but the problem...
	Is that you were rushing to try and get the money from people paying for verification without doing the necessary work to ensure that verification has a point.
	Am I wrong?
	You're not wrong.
	He's out of line, but he's not wrong.
	Yeah, and I say this as a supporter.
	And so it seems that Twitter Blue has been stopped, basically.
	On Friday morning, as GBNews reports, the option to sign up for Twitter Blue, which gave users a blue checkmark, has been suspended.
	At the same time, new grey official badges for large organisations began reappearing on some Twitter profiles.
	So this was something they were forced to bring in, these little grey official badges, so it's the new verified checkmark.
	Sorry about this.
	I should be at home.
	It's November and he's got kids.
	Yeah, and they've got diseases.
	But yeah, so they got these new great official badges, which is like the new verified checkmark that's bestowed by Twitter after everyone else has the verified checkmark.
	It's a double checkmark.
	Yes.
	So what was the point of this?
	Like, that was ridiculous.
	And also, it looked awful, as Musk himself called it, an aesthetic nightmare.
	Yeah, it looked gross, actually.
	So, this is concerning.
	In fact, if you go to the next one, you can see how quickly this has been done.
	If you scroll up, you can see the timeline on this.
	On November the 8th, Twitter has introduced the official label, which, again, what's the point?
	The verified checkmark, you may as well have just abolished it.
	November the 9th, Elon Musk just killed the new Lords and Peasants double checkmark system.
	It's gone.
	November the 11th, it's back.
	Because it turns out that this is not being run very competently.
	Any thoughts?
	Yeah, I mean, it was never being run very competitive.
	Well, maybe back in the day, when, I don't know, before it got taken over.
	But was it always?
	No, I don't know.
	Like I said, the only thing it's ever been good for is self-promotion.
	So that's what they should do.
	They should ban any tweet.
	That contains anything but links to somewhere else.
	The minute you start expressing your thoughts and opinions on Twitter, that's when your faith in humanity takes just this spinning nose dive that crashes into hell.
	Or you cause someone else's faith in humanity to shrivel up in the fetal position and cry its brain out of its nose and like...
	I've said this before, but Twitter is proof that the ability to read minds would be worthless.
	Like, just why would I need to?
	Anyway, so there have been a number of resignations following all of this.
	Twitter's legal team just posted this message to their Slack.
	Everyone should know that our CISO, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, all resigned last night.
	News will be buried in the return to office drama.
	I believe that was intentional.
	Oh yeah, Elon's making sure that everyone works from the Twitter offices like a tyrant.
	No, it's good.
	Obviously, this should work for the officers.
	And interestingly, Joel Roth, who is the head of trust and safety, is also leaving.
	So, I mean, this is remarkable.
	This is at least, what, five, six resignations of all of the top teams that didn't get fired in the last couple of days.
	Now, it's no great loss that Yoel Roth is going because, I mean, if he's in any way representative of the people who are residing, they're all basically caricature leftists.
	I mean, if you just look at some of his past tweets, especially when Donald Trump came in, you get the next one, John, you can just see that he's just embarrassing.
	Like, I'm the man that has been...
	That little man has been my celebrity crush for as long as I've known I'm gay.
	In case anyone has any doubt, 23andMe has confirmed that I'm extremely Jewish.
	Yes, the person in the pink hat is clearly a bigger threat to your brand of feminism than actual Nazis in the White House.
	Where's the lie?
	The patriarchy is bland white dudes incorrectly mansplaining to their girlfriends what breed my dog is.
	You're right.
	The person you disagree with, President Obama, has nothing to do with his party.
	It's to do with the fact that he's black.
	This guy is the trust and safety officer, head of, and Twitter was.
	So, you know, there is something to be said for Elon clearing these people out, actually.
	Anyway, this has, of course, aroused the attention of the Nazis who are actually in power.
	Am I being sarcastic when I say that?
	If you can't tell, then I can't.
	I've yet to come to a decision.
	That was a sarcastic comment.
	But Joe Biden has been like, oh, well, things are going on at Twitter, and they're not as we want, because, of course, Twitter and Facebook and others were directly collaborating with the Biden regime to censor people, as we recently found out.
	So when asked, do you think Elon Musk is a threat to U.S. national security, and should the U.S. with the tools you have to investigate his joint acquisition of Twitter with foreign governments to include the Saudis?
	Biden replies, Musk's cooperation and or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at.
	Joe Biden of all people.
	There was a Saudi prince who was like a 10% stock owner of Twitter.
	Yeah.
	Biden's got nothing to say.
	Musk becomes 100% owner of Twitter and now it's his, you know, interactions with foreign countries that are the concern.
	I wonder if they can ban Elon from Twitter, even while he owns the company.
	He's the president.
	He's a private president.
	He can do what he likes.
	Possibly.
	Who knows?
	But anyway, he says whether or not he's doing anything inappropriate, I'm not suggesting that.
	I'm suggesting it's worth being looked at.
	That's all I'll say.
	Very interesting.
	Anyway, I noticed that Trump didn't do that.
	Like, Biden is prepared to use the executive power that Trump wasn't.
	Anyway, so there was a recent call, not yesterday, the day before.
	There was, you know, one of these sort of, like, Twitter spaces where Elon and Yoel, what's-his-face, Yoel Roth and a bunch of others were speaking about the future of Twitter.
	Now, I'm just going to give you a few quotes from this just because it was an hour long.
	But Elon points out that he's not neutral, but it's important that the platform be neutral when it comes to moderation.
	He intends to change the recommended ad and tweet systems to integrate them and improve relevance, which is all very business-savvy maneuvers here, to be honest.
	But notice, the fact that they didn't have this thought out and done before just goes to show you how little they relied on actually paying for their own platform.
	Like, why weren't they already?
	Well, yeah, we're gonna have, like, smart ads that are served directly beneath references to something that is already being talked about in order to engage user, you know, to drive traffic to these things, to engage the amount of sales the advertisers get so we can charge more revenue, blah, blah.
	They haven't thought of any of this.
	This is just like, oh, no, well, they just randomly pop up, don't they?
	Isn't that interesting?
	But when talking about the process of verification, he said that at the moment it's a phone and a credit card at $8 a month.
	So it could be anyone's phone.
	It could be anyone's credit card.
	Anyway, it's $8.
	We will actively suspend accounts engaged in deception or trickery.
	It will be less special to have a checkmark, but I think that's a good thing.
	We believe in one person, one vote, don't we?
	I think we do.
	I don't like the lords and peasants situation.
	So it seems that he is genuinely looking at this as a kind of French Revolution levelling.
	The ancient regime need to be, well, guillotined.
	I hope it works out better than the French Revolution did.
	You're going to find yourselves with the Twitter equivalent of a Napoleon any day now.
	Interestingly, yes.
	It may well be that he is the Twitter equivalent of Napoleon.
	There you go.
	So anyway, he also said, we're going to try and be more forgiving.
	If someone missteps, then we should give them the temporary suspension and allow them back on the platform, which would be nice.
	Twitter has also applied to become a payment processor because you may be aware that he's got his ex-app that he teased that he wants basically to do everything, which, I mean, not a terrible idea, but...
	I'm so sceptical about all of this these days.
	But basically, they file the paperwork so they can essentially mimic WeChat, China's social media app, so they can do payments and stuff like that, which, fine.
	So, all of this sort of chaos and confusion has led to at least one thing, which is apparently an all-time high in the users.
	Really?
	So he says...
	Even after all the rats flew the nest?
	Yes.
	I guess they didn't.
	They just said they would.
	Well, a few of them did.
	Stopped around in a tantrum.
	A few of them did, and they'll be back.
	But apparently, yeah, I mean, we haven't seen the actual numbers, and this is just Elon's word for it.
	So, you know, maybe take it for a grain of salt.
	But he says, the usage of Twitter continues to rise.
	One thing for sure, it's not boring.
	It's like, that's true.
	At least, as you said at the beginning, an exciting melodrama to spectate.
	But anyway, so the question then, I think, is how Elon should moderate Twitter.
	And I actually wrote an article about this, so if you want to go to LotusEast.com, you can go read my article on how he should moderate Twitter.
	I actually have quite a lot of experience being on the sharp edge of internet moderation, so I actually know a thing or two.
	But the first thing is stop governing by fiat.
	Stop tweeting the updates to the company.
	I know it sounds tempting, but just don't do it.
	It's just not good for the way that all of the various interests are intersecting in Twitter.
	But also, the next thing is, just simply rule that verified accounts can't be parity accounts.
	So, if you're going to have a verified account, you have to present as yourself.
	Now, I don't even know, like, how far he wants to take it, but, like, if you're being given their credit card details, automatically set their Twitter username, display name, to the name on the credit card?
	So it's like, oh, it's, you know, Carol Jones, then that's your Twitter display name with a verified checkmark.
	You know, just have it so that can't be changed and you don't get to make that up for yourself.
	Because that would solve all of those problems.
	But you have to make sure they are verified as the people they claim to be.
	It makes sense.
	I mean, some people have been demanding that everyone should use their own name on their Twitter handle so that there can be no anonymity, which is a bit much.
	But if you're going to be verified, then that should apply.
	But the rest of us get to troll with an egg and a cat meme.
	Exactly, or a pharaoh mask.
	Well, that's exactly the point, isn't it?
	Like, if you want to be someone who shows they've got skin in the game and I'm going to pay the eight dollars, okay, but you've got to be yourself, because otherwise what's the point of verifying?
	And that gets rid of the problem of parody accounts.
	You know, if someone's, like, claiming to be something and they don't have the verified checkmark, you know it's not them, hence the point of the verified checkmark.
	And another point I made in this is if Musk wishes Twitter to be like a functional town square, This is a remarkably long article.
	I had a lot of thoughts on it.
	He needs some sort of strike system, like YouTube's three-strike policy, which actually isn't a bad system.
	It's an abusable system, but if you're not abusing it, then it works.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The strikes last for like three months or something before they're lifted, and you get a week off, you know, so a week's suspension.
	And that's pretty good.
	And of course, I think that he should return the banned accounts.
	He should implement this system and say, right, I'm returning the banned accounts.
	You know, this is a sort of fresh slate.
	We'll assume that this is like, you know, whatever, warning one or whatever, put on their account.
	I don't know.
	But it would be more fair, I think, and a way to actually improve Twitter.
	Would you actually come back?
	Oh, yeah.
	If only just to give them two fingers and say, okay, now I'm leaving.
	I certainly would come back.
	I didn't leave Twitter by choice.
	I was as addicted to it as everyone else.
	But I would certainly moderate myself.
	I certainly wouldn't be quite as engaged as I was previously.
	Any further thoughts on Twitter?
	I mean, if you're a regular user, just...
	Don't.
	Never read your notifications, folks.
	Don't under any circumstances respond to them, but it's best that you don't even read them.
	It's not worth it.
	And don't hate-follow anyone.
	And don't follow anyone who hate-follows anyone, because that's just going to fill your timeline with...
	Bile that makes your blood boil.
	There are ways to enjoy Twitter, but it's very difficult.
	You never really enjoy it, but you can use it to browse news and what have you.
	It's useful for this kind of show.
	But there are countless other sites where you can do that.
	See, I hope it dies.
	I think it's for the best.
	In a way, I will miss it, in a way, in the same way a crackhead misses crack in the event that he doesn't get his government-issued pipe that week.
	And in the meantime, in the last few weeks of its existence, if all the advertisers pull out, It'll be the best time you ever have on Twitter because there won't be all those effing adverts of promoted posts.
	Yeah.
	I swear every other post is an advert for some hokey nonsense that I'll never need.
	And it's the same ones over and over.
	Same with the regular posts.
	Is anyone else getting that issue where it just repeats the same few posts over and over?
	I don't know if it's just me.
	Sort that out.
	Elon, bring it back to the good old days where it updated the feed in real time.
	Like when someone posts something, it actually appears at the top of the feed.
	That was a novel idea, wasn't it?
	He actually tweeted out a way to fix that.
	There's like some star icon in the top right-hand corner.
	You click that and it goes back to just chronological.
	Okay, well I wish you would have told me that.
	Could have been more obvious.
	I've done all my old man yelling at Cloud bit.
	Fair enough.
	Twitter, if it goes, it goes, and the world will be best for it.
	Anyway, let's move on to just some random social justice nonsense.
	So, there appears to be no end, no limit to the madness of the left, and...
	Just look at the way they've dragged the conversation and the things they have to debate now.
	It's just gross and it's just ridiculous and I'm just looking like you're a caricature of everything that you ever looked like.
	Why would anyone want to be a part of the left if these are the things that they are discussing?
	But anyway, before we go on, let's talk about something else, very briefly.
	Josh and Connor did a video on the psychology of the Silence of the Labs.
	Now, Josh's speciality's got a master's degree in psychology, so this...
	And Connor...
	Is definitely someone who I would have interjecting on this subject.
	So they did a premium video on the psychology of the silence of the lapse.
	It's really good, actually.
	Because you get to actually learn about these things in detail.
	Because I don't know anything about it.
	To me, it's just a horror movie.
	But apparently there's a lot more to it.
	So if you want to support us, go to Logistics.com, sign up, and watch that because it was really good.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Let's talk about queer Islamophobia.
	Now, do queer people have a reason to be Islamophobic, Mike?
	Well, if it means fear, then yeah, but phobia tends to mean irrational fear, and it's a pretty rational fear.
	Well, not according to Pink News, which is one of my favourite outlets that actually has me blocked on various platforms.
	Being queer doesn't excuse your Islamophobia.
	LGBTQ +, Muslims, need your allyship, not your bigotry.
	As a group of people, we often face forms of bigotry, discrimination and threats of all kinds from internal and external communities.
	The bigotry is coming from within the Muslim community.
	Keep going.
	Don't be an Islamophobic bigot, though.
	We often face homophobia within our familial and cultural environments, as well as Islamophobia perpetuated by the world around us.
	It's this week in the progressive stack, folks.
	It's a race to the top, isn't it?
	Or the bottom.
	I forget how the progressive stack works.
	Who's more oppressed?
	Tops or bottoms?
	The most oppressed people are definitely on the top, according to the progressive stack.
	According to gays, it's the bottoms.
	I'm trying to do it again.
	That's how it works in Islamic countries, right?
	It doesn't count as gay if you're a top.
	That is how it works, yeah.
	That is exactly how it works.
	It's a very ancient world that way.
	Some people within these spaces often justify their perpetuation of anti-Muslim bigotry by citing anti-LGBTQ plus legislation, an unjust treatment of LGBTQ plus people in certain Muslim majority countries around the world, which is of course completely unacceptable.
	So you've got a particular culture that, I mean, if you look at the death penalty for homosexuality, it's all in this culture.
	And yet, if you're gay and you don't want to be stoned to death, you're not allowed to be anti-Muslim, even though Islam is anti-gay.
	The progressive stack is basically a caste system, but it's not like traditional caste systems where everyone knows their place and stays there.
	Everyone's constantly jockeying for prime position in the pyramid, except straight, white, cisgendered, able-bodied, etc.
	Men, those are the only people who know their place.
	They're literally the untouchables.
	But everyone else, women are most oppressed, no blacks are most oppressed, no Muslims are, no geyser.
	Do any of you ever feel...
	Pathetic.
	Just a little bit.
	Even the proud, steadfast Muslims are resorting to victim fighting with the gays.
	I thought they had nothing to hide in that department.
	Like Connor and Callum were talking about yesterday.
	Yeah, we're Muslims.
	We do oppress the gays.
	We're proud of it.
	Come to my house and you'll be leaving off the roof.
	God literally tells me to do it.
	I do not endorse that message by the way.
	I'm just being...
	Yes, but this is your anti-Muslim bigotry that you shouldn't be perpetuating just because you don't think we should kill gay people for being gay.
	Who do you think is going to win if we leave this sort of minoritarian ideology to run roughshod and play out to its logical conclusions?
	I think the people who are going to kill their political opponents are going to win.
	Yeah, the whole world's going to end up converting to one thing, and it's not going to be the gays or the trans or the women.
	I think it'll be the Muslims.
	They can play victim to everyone, even the people they're stringing up in the street.
	Lenin famously predicted that the final war to end all wars will be fought between Muslims and Communists.
	And you can see why.
	They appear to be the two most ruthless systems out there.
	And he seems to have been correct.
	The two least ruthless ones.
	Because these people are, of course, all communists.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And communists have a habit of eating themselves, figuratively at first.
	Then, literally, because they run out of food.
	And this is all communism, but it's not communism based on the workers or the poor.
	It's communism based on race and...
	Yes.
	On gender and sexuality.
	It's intersectional communism.
	Yeah, and it's spread a lot wider and faster than the old kind, but it'll fall into a cannibal holocaust just as fast and wide.
	I think there's going to be nothing left over about Islam in the end.
	I, for one, welcome whichever overlords take over.
	I mean, to be fair, right, as straight men, we actually stand to benefit from the Islamic takeover.
	I mean, this is something I've decided to start threatening progressives with.
	It's like, listen, right?
	I was happy being like an old-fashioned English liberal, but if you're going to push me to it, I'm happy to convert to Islam, and then I'll be in charge.
	I'm going to operate the Shari enforcement squads.
	I'm going to be the most Muslim.
	Anyway...
	It's got a better track record than whatever that heck this nonsense is.
	And I won't have to listen to how I'm an oppressor, because I'll be actively oppressing.
	Anyway...
	Just a warning, that's all.
	They also say, this is hilarious, it's also problematic to generalize millions of people, and this further contributes to an Orientalist perspective that homogenizes the diversity of Muslim communities and thought.
	The problem with this is actually we asked Muslims what they thought.
	And it turns out it's not a stereotype.
	We literally just were like, do you think being gay is immoral?
	And they were like, yeah!
	Almost all of them, actually.
	You get this kind of level of agreement.
	You can generally call it quite homogenous.
	Only three countries in the Muslim world do as many as one in ten Muslims say that homosexuality is morally acceptable.
	So, Uganda, 12%, Mozambique, 11%, Bangladesh, 10%, were the most permissive Muslim countries when it comes to homosexuality.
	All of the others were 90x% where they were like, no, it's wrong, in every case.
	So yeah, that's...
	And they're probably pointing at what's going on in the West and saying, this is why.
	If you give them an inch, this is what they'll take.
	Maybe they are.
	So it's hardly a stereotype if that's literally what they think.
	But anyway, moving on to more progressive madness.
	Did you see this person?
	Well, there were lots of thoughts that, ah, this is a four-dimensional chess troll, right?
	If some guy dresses up...
	I like to tell myself he is for the sake of my own mental health.
	Turns out it wasn't.
	Turns out that this Kayla Lemieux began teaching a class while wearing a blonde wig, tight bicycle shorts, and notably obscene large prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples, and the local school board decided that, despite the backlash, this was okay.
	This was part of their human rights.
	Uh...
	It's still possible that he was trolling, he just didn't know that this would happen.
	He just took the troll so far, and they were like, we accept you.
	At this point he must be banging his head against a hangnail on a brick wall, like, what do I have to do?
	Again, he's like Mr Garrison in that reminiscent South Park episode.
	It actually is, isn't it?
	You shove a menagerie of small animals up your bum in front of the whole world and you'll get no consequence except thunderous applause.
	Especially from the school board, who said, It's important to recognize the impact that dress code policies can have on members of the transgender community.
	Most notably, it is important for employers to make allowances to ensure that these employees are able to express themselves in accordance with their lived gender.
	Because that's just your average woman.
	Like, women!
	Can we get the picture up on this, John?
	There's a picture of the person.
	I think it was at the top.
	But just average woman...
	Ladies, how represented do you feel?
	She's all woman.
	All of it.
	I mean, you can't say otherwise, actually.
	Probably legally in Canada.
	But, yeah, so, if a male's gender identity is female, and the expression of that gender identity involves wearing pornographic fetish gear in a classroom full of children, the Ontario Human Rights Code protects that individual's right to do so, and the school is powerless to protect the children in the care from such inappropriate behaviour, the postmillennial summarises...
	And that seems to be the case.
	So if you are trolling, my dude, now's the time to stop and do the big reveal.
	Because your next step is, I don't know where you go, you're going to have to molest a student.
	Violently, on the concrete steps in front of a school.
	And you'll still get a chance of, oh my god, stunning and brave.
	And at that point, there'll be no turning back.
	You'll have to live in that skin forever.
	Or they will throw the biggest book they can find at you.
	I mean, this is Canada these days.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Biological males keep winning beauty pageants, which is stunning and brave.
	I mean, this is Brian Nguyen.
	There's some forced smiles in that photo, aren't there?
	Yes.
	But this person's name is Brian.
	Uh-huh.
	Miss Greater Derry.
	Brian.
	Now, there's one girl at the bottom right who's not impressed.
	That's like the Leah Thompson situation all over again.
	Yeah, well done.
	So stunning and brave.
	Now, I'm not actually so angry that a man won a woman's beauty contest.
	I'm more concerned about the beauty of said man.
	Yeah, that's the other thing.
	Because, I mean, you can see some South American transgender beauty contests.
	Some of them are good.
	Some of them are very good work.
	Exactly.
	Mimicking a woman and a woman's aesthetic.
	Brian doesn't seem to be very beautiful to me.
	Now, that's obviously my subjective perspective on it.
	And a lot of peoples, I think.
	Fatphobic people.
	Yes, yes.
	But fatphobia is based.
	Anyway, so yeah, Brian Nugent.
	I can't pronounce this.
	It's just Wyn.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't know why it's spelled like that.
	It's just Wyn.
	Miss Greater Derry 2023 got him a crown and a scholarship.
	I mean, they literally call it him in Evie magazine.
	So, I mean, they're not even saying her.
	He was named, I think.
	Actually, scroll down a bit.
	Am I reading this right?
	Scroll down, scroll down to the text.
	I must have got this from somewhere, but like, anyway.
	He was announced, yeah, to be inspirational to young women between the ages 17 to 24.
	I'm Brian Nguyen.
	I'm 19 years old.
	I'm currently a freshman at Nausia Community College, majoring in business management, and hashtag queens are everywhere.
	It's just, okay.
	This is a media movement that helps the next generation develop self-confidence, realize their potential, and become the leaders of their destiny.
	And so one woman replied to this being like, yes, Miss America will no longer be about women.
	Men want to make us irrelevant.
	How is he an inspiration to women?
	Women can't do what he just did.
	Unless they transition to men and then transition back to women.
	Women can be just like Brian, alright?
	I have a confuse.
	My mind brain has a hurt pain.
	Yeah, well, I mean, good luck explaining it.
	But anyway, let's move on to the trans war on gays.
	Ha ha ha!
	Ha ha ha!
	I'm not the one who declared it.
	Mermaids are the one who declared it.
	They apparently attempted to shut down the LGB alliance because they were like, how dare you not include gender identity in your sexuality advocacy movement?
	Because, of course, the T's actually have nothing to do with the LG's and B's.
	Other than being progressive for its own sake.
	Well, yeah, precisely.
	The progressive, in scare quotes, is changing things for its own sake.
	Yes, so a tribunal heard that mermaids attempted to, a trans charity, attempted to have a gay charity struck off for being profoundly homophobic.
	Ugh...
	Welcome to the modern world, folks.
	The Trans Children's Charity is asking judges to strip the LGB Alliance of its charitable status, claiming that the organization is merely a front for transphobia.
	What do you mean merely?
	That's a big claim in the modern era.
	You've got to work really hard to be a front for transphobia.
	But the representatives for the LGB Alliance said that mermaids had not suggested this, and this was all bull.
	But anyway, I'm just going to move on.
	Yeah, it's the progressive stack fight again.
	Trans versus gays.
	Two men enter, one man leaves.
	Yeah.
	That came out wrong.
	Has a different ring to it now.
	That came out wrong too.
	That came out wrong and came out wrong.
	There's an accidental innuendo in every corner of this shenanigans.
	It's...
	It's fractally hysterical.
	And by hysterical, I don't mean of the womb.
	See, there's another one.
	This is all rather transphobic, I disavow.
	Moving on, though, you can't exactly turn to religion these days because, of course, the Catholic Church is producing wonderful Catholic teachers like this trans teacher, Mr.
	George White, I believe, who's teaching in UK schools at the moment in Leicester, Leicestershire.
	George is trans and he teaches religious education at St.
	Paul's Catholic School.
	He says it's really important that kids hear about LGBT issues from a young age and hopes his journey about an openness about being trans will help others struggling with their gender identity.
	This is why Islam is going to win.
	Regardless of the child or what the child or family's beliefs are, at some point in life they're going to encounter someone who's different.
	Oh, no way.
	People who are different to themselves, encountering in real life.
	I think it's pretty much impossible to follow the Christian religion and call your, the Christian call to love your neighbor if you don't know what your neighbor might be going through.
	Well, they don't have a transubstantiation, is what most Catholics understand by trans.
	I guess if you can turn wafers into the literal body of Christ, then you can see how they join those dots.
	They're really stretching.
	I suppose that you can.
	But yes, so basically, the Catholic Church is lost.
	The point of this person's argument, though, is, of course, it follows from Christian doctrine.
	What sort of people does Jesus hang out with?
	Jesus was born in the modern day.
	Would he be woke?
	Probably.
	Look forward to the comments on this.
	Anyway, so that's just things that have come across my timeline that are just like, oh, God.
	Like, I just can't imagine giving a damn about the wokest at this point and what they think and what they want, either.
	Just don't care.
	End of minoritarian civilization, please.
	In fact, on that note, let's go on to the end of celebrities.
	How do you feel about celebrities in the modern era?
	I think it's more good news that they're ending.
	The problem with celebrities...
	Well, they have lots of problems with them.
	They're degenerate kiddie fiddlers, allegedly, in Minecraft.
	But apart from anything else, there's too many of them.
	Yeah.
	Like with anything, the more of something there is, the less valuable it is.
	And there's thousands of them now, thanks to the TV. There's millions thanks to the internet, depending on what counts as a celebrity.
	You and I, arguably, are celebrities, although I certainly don't feel like one.
	It feels weird to say it, doesn't it?
	It feels like a smeggy thing to say.
	I retract that statement.
	We're not celebrities.
	There's something about the self-selective nature of the internet that I think prohibits celebrity as we previously understood it.
	Because everyone knew who Brad Pitt was or Angelina Jolie, because whether you're a fan of them or not, you saw the movie posters everywhere.
	You probably watched some of the movies they were in.
	And so even if you didn't like them, you still knew who they were, right?
	Whereas the self-selective nature of the internet means that generally, if you're not choosing to look at something, you don't know who that is.
	I always hear about this, like, oh, celebrity influencer so-and-so is in a scandal.
	And it's some 19-year-old who's got like 50 million followers.
	I've never heard of him.
	Who the hell is that?
	So to me, that's not a celebrity.
	That's an internet personality.
	Anyway, yes, before we go on, I had a discussion about conservatism with Andrew Clavin, and this is much more interesting than talking about the death of celebrities, actually.
	And this is a free interview as well on Letacies.com, so a link will be in the description.
	Go and watch it.
	It's really good.
	Andrew Clavin and Michael Knowles are my favorite Daily Wire personalities.
	Michael Knowles, generally for his enjoyment of the discussion with leftists, but Andrew Clavin because he's actually a deep thinker on these issues.
	And he approaches these things from a perspective of aesthetics.
	So he's concerned about beauty and feeling and how the Conservatives are kind of losing the culture war by failing to properly articulate their view of what a beautiful life could look like.
	Which, of course, if you look at the previous segment, we've got the left's view of what a beautiful life looks like, and it's Brian winning the Miss USA pageant or whatever it is.
	And the Conservatives could have a better one that might be more appealing.
	So anyway, great interview with Andrew Clayton.
	Go check that out.
	So let's move on to Jennifer Aniston, who I think has actually made some really good points about the fact that there are no more movie stars, and social media is cancer, and it's killed them.
	She was lamenting on Hollywood's fading glamour during a recent Allure magazine cover story.
	Now, isn't that interesting?
	Because the whole point of the glamour is that it's kind of an illusion, right?
	So the reason that celebrities, when we were young, were people of import is actually because you didn't know much about them, really.
	You saw them in the films, but they were pretending to be someone else.
	And they'd look stunning, obviously.
	They'd have very short, sort of curated interviews, you know, with whoever, in which they would be, You know, like, kind of objects of fascination, but also detached idols.
	You didn't really get to see the grimy bits of them, right?
	You didn't get to see the rough-around-the-edges parts.
	You didn't get to hear their opinions.
	And my God, wasn't the world a bad place where you didn't get to hear celebrity opinions.
	Yeah.
	In the rare event that they even had one, you know, that wasn't what we now call woke.
	Yes.
	She says no one's ever going to be famous in the way that she is, and she's probably right.
	That kind of mass fame phenomenon burning so bright for so long is just not achievable today.
	She's like a silent film star among a generation of TikTok idiots.
	She says, She
	says, I don't know why it resonates.
	There are no iPhones.
	It's just people talking to each other.
	And nobody talks to each other anymore.
	And that's what makes Friends and the 90s generally so very different.
	It's like the modern era, just minus the mobile phone.
	It's difficult to make realistic sitcoms or realistic movies because people really don't talk to each other as much.
	Just on their phones.
	There was a couple of horror movies about some killer who was online or something, but it doesn't work in the context of a movie.
	Because it's a screen within a screen.
	You can't make that scary or intriguing.
	Just close your eyes.
	Walk away.
	That's some bullying even real.
	Anyway, the problem though is we get to hear too much about celebrities.
	That's the thing.
	We get to hear about Jennifer Aniston's eggs.
	Which is like...
	So she'd been going through IVF and things like that, and she's just like, well, that ship's sailed, which is fine.
	But that's the sort of story you might have heard about a movie star 15, 20 years ago, right?
	It's like they've been trying to conceive, they can't conceive, they're too old now, okay, fair enough, that's...
	You know, terrible.
	And women reading that would be like, oh my goodness, you know.
	Fine.
	But unfortunately, the problem that we have now is actually not like these sort of curated interviews.
	The problem we have now is social media.
	And it's just non-stop social media drivel from people you used to respect because you liked their films.
	Or you liked their basketball performances or whatever.
	Such as in the case of LeBron James.
	Like, you can see the celebrities being radicalized by social media in real time.
	And it's just embarrassing.
	So, you may remember the shooting of Micaiah Bryant.
	Do you remember what happened in that?
	Yeah.
	A black girl was about to kill another black girl and the police officer saved one life by ending the other.
	Literally in the middle of the swing.
	Yeah.
	Yes, it was awful.
	Why didn't he just shoot the knife out of her hand?
	Great question, LeBron.
	But he tweeted your next hashtag accountability implying that the police officer who heroically saved a young woman's life Needs to be shot.
	Okay, good take, Laurent.
	Definitely not the product of a social media echo chamber that's currently radicalizing you to threaten the police, you lunatic, in defense of an attempted murderer.
	Did you ever like Star Wars?
	Oh yeah, the first few.
	Who doesn't like the first few?
	I was never a huge fan, actually.
	I wasn't a huge fan, but it's a good little...
	You like Luke Skywalker?
	We're talking about Mark Hamill now, aren't we?
	Yeah, we are talking about Mark Hamill.
	Again, this is the sort of scandal you'd used to get, but I don't find Mark Hamill pressuring her son's ex to get an abortion.
	Mark Hamill told me that I shouldn't bring a child into the world that nobody wants.
	He texted her, if you keep it, we won't hang out anymore.
	You'll get no money from the trust fund and no money from my parents.
	That's awful, Mark.
	But again, this is sort of old school, old world celebrity drama story that you'd get previously.
	Now, we get Mark Hamill constantly tweeting Democrat propaganda.
	Just about how, oh, MAGA is going to use the power they get in 2022 to steal the 2024 election.
	Mark Hamill being like, voting is how we save our country.
	Thanks for radicalizing people online, Mark.
	Use the forceps, Luke.
	Yep.
	That was Josh's joke, but it's too good not to steal.
	Ron Perlman?
	Oh, yes.
	Big fan of Ron Palmer, are you?
	I enjoyed Hellboy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I enjoyed Hellboy, though.
	But I love this.
	I'm quitting Twitter.
	Well, actually, I just popped back on because I couldn't let this one slide.
	No, Elon.
	It is you that has been manipulating free speech because as the quintessential narcissist you fetishize, the entire universe must think your way.
	I'll be back soon because your five minutes are ticking away.
	Ron, buddy, you actually do need to get off of Twitter.
	Right, because...
	Do you remember what he did to Harvey Weinstein?
	Oh.
	I've got all sorts of unwelcome images in my head now.
	Oh, it's worse than you think about me.
	Do you clear it up for me?
	Well, apparently he once peed on his own hand before a handshake with Harvey Weinstein, he claimed in 2018.
	That's right, Ron Perlman, I'm pissing on myself to own Harvey Weinstein.
	Cover yourself in S to own the...
	That takes me back too.
	Just...
	Like...
	Jennifer Aniston's right.
	The age of celebrity is just over.
	Because these celebrities are just...
	We get to hear from them and see them constantly.
	And they're just useless and disgusting.
	And of course...
	You know...
	Why would you tweet this out?
	I don't know.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Stephen King.
	Man, I was a huge fan of Stephen King's books.
	The Dark Tower is still easily one of the best seven books you can ever read.
	It's massive...
	It's engaging, it's deep, it's provoking, it's thoughtful, and then you go to Stephen King's Twitter timeline, and it's just crap.
	All this Republican talk about stolen elections grew from one man-baby who was psychologically incapable of admitting he lost the contest.
	Stephen, you were considered to be one of the greatest authors in the world.
	Could you write something that doesn't involve the words man-baby?
	That'll be $8 as well.
	He's another one of those...
	It's not $20, is it, Stephen?
	Millionaires who couldn't handle $8.
	Yeah, Stephen King's worth like $500 million.
	Nothing like that.
	He doesn't think he needs to pay.
	Anyway, moving on, how about George Takei?
	God, he's embarrassing.
	Oh my.
	Again, this is non-stop relentless left-wing propaganda.
	Hate GOP. Attacks on trans kids.
	On teaching about racism in schools.
	On reproductive rights.
	On democratic freedom.
	The rule of law.
	Very unpopular.
	Enough grievance.
	Time to just get back to ideas on moving America forward.
	It's like, really?
	We really need Sulu's ideas on moving America forward, do we?
	Can we have Captain Kirk's ideas?
	Because Kirk's a lot more base.
	Yeah, Shatner's.
	What's happened to Shatner?
	Didn't he go into space?
	Oh yeah, he did.
	Maybe that messed with his mind a bit.
	I haven't seen any of his Twitter takes for a while.
	Anyway, so the problem of course is that we just know too much about the celebrities.
	Like Seth Rogen interrogating everyone if they're Jewish.
	Yeah, you need to write, I am Jewish, in lamb's blood over your door.
	I guess so, for Seth Rogen.
	He did this to Count Dankula as well.
	Yeah, he did it to everyone.
	Yeah, it's weird.
	It's like tweeting, like DMing Dankula, are you Jewish?
	Oh, we had a Twitter beef, and now you need to know if I'm Jewish?
	That's weird, Seth.
	Anyway, speaking of Jewish people, Seth Rogen was recently educated on Israel.
	Uh-oh.
	Oh, dear.
	Yeah.
	Disavow whatever this is about.
	Whatever side this is on, disavow.
	Well, you're going to be surprised to hear that he's not a fan of Israel, like every left-wing progressive Jewish person, because, of course, colonialists settle a state.
	And, of course, he got radicalized by Twitter.
	And then the final thing is those celebrities who just...
	just incomprehensible gobbledygook.
	Like, again, I didn't think ill of Cher, but if you scroll up on this...
	We actually don't have the shares.
	There we go.
	What is this?
	Where the F is Britney Grinner?
	And what's America doing to free her?
	She's sent to Russian penal colony.
	It's hard labor, no meds, and people die.
	Has no idea where she is.
	What bleeds leads in America.
	We will let her die because she has no longer front page news.
	America has the attention span of a fruit.
	And this is in all caps for those people.
	In all caps.
	That always comes across as hinged.
	With lots of emojis.
	I mean, Brittany Grinner took drugs to Russia and has been punished.
	Imagine that.
	Yeah, yeah, it's shocking.
	In other countries, Cher, they have laws.
	And they make people follow them.
	Honestly, she's lucky she didn't go to Indonesia or something, where it's the death penalty, bringing drugs into the country.
	So, you know, hard labour in a Russian penal colony could be worse.
	But this is, as I said, the problem with Twitter, the problem with bloody...
	Easy access to those people who are kind of icons and legends.
	They didn't realize that the separation, the distance between you and your daily life, and then engaging with content from a celebrity, and the constant spewing feed of nonsense, totally normalizes and reduces and dispels the glamour of being a celebrity.
	And it turns out that celebrities are idiots.
	They're vapid idiots who are just as capable to internet radicalization as their next person.
	They're just as capable of being completely wrong on every subject.
	Any thoughts about celebrities before we move on?
	Yeah, once again, too many of them.
	So once upon a time, the only celebrities were kings and Jesus, basically.
	Yes.
	So people didn't even know who the king was from year to year.
	So it was all about Jesus.
	And people actually gave a damn about him.
	People would love to hear about Jesus' eggs.
	Spicy take on Orange Man or whatnot.
	Well, yeah, I mean, you think of, like, you know, Wellington and, like, Napoleon and stuff like that.
	You know, like...
	Why am I unable to...
	Nelson!
	I keep thinking Napoleon, Battle of Trauma.
	No, it's Nelson, of course, Battle of Trauma.
	Like, great war heroes, these were the famous men who accomplished something.
	Now it's people who are in movies and it's like, okay, fair enough.
	As long as you keep your mouth shut and don't basically publicly disgrace yourselves by tweeting like Cher or covering yourself in piss before shaking Harvey Weinstein's hands, you know, there was something more respectable about it.
	You know, there's something reserved.
	We are people who are in a different world to you.
	Yeah, and now there's millions of them and they're ten a penny and it's increasingly impossible to give a damn about their personal lives, let alone their worthless political catawallings.
	And I would know, no one listens to me either.
	I mean, why would you?
	I'm not even a celebrity.
	Anyway, let's go to the video comments.
	Unable to get the TV playing a hockey game, the female staff at a nearby pub were becoming frustrated.
	Eventually the barman and myself stepped in to guide them and soon the game was on.
	One girl at least had the good sense to acknowledge what fixed the issue as she said, See?
	That's what we needed.
	Some penis in this situation.
	A refreshingly based conclusion.
	That's what we need, some penis in this situation.
	That's a pick-up line to remember.
	I'll tell you what though, I have to say, from being married, there is definitely a difference between men's technical skills to women's.
	Just things like spatial awareness and things like that.
	There was one time, I was away for whatever reason.
	And my wife had got one of my sons, like this little paper dinosaur to make, and it was like a cardboard dinosaur pop-up thing, basically.
	She had made it with him.
	And I came and I looked at it, and I was like, that's wrong.
	And I had never seen this before, but I could just see how she had put this together wrong.
	And I'm just telling you, it's a mad thing.
	It is definitely true.
	Maps.
	Not those kind of maps.
	Like, when men need to ask directions, they show you a map.
	If it's a woman, you go down the road, and then third on the left.
	If you reach the bridge, you've gone too far.
	Yeah.
	Hashtag not all.
	But there is definitely a difference when it comes to, like, just conceptual skills.
	And women are way more sensitive in understanding of relational problems and issues, and if you do X, then various other relationships will be affected.
	And I was like, oh god, I hadn't even thought of that, because I'm obviously autistic.
	But I can fix this thing I've never seen before, and I can show you why you've done this wrong, because I can for some reason see that.
	Men are all autistic, women are all narcissistic.
	Again, hashtag not all.
	It's a trend.
	Broadly true.
	If you're offended by either of those words, then sorry not sorry.
	Broadly true, I would say.
	Anyway, let's move on to the next one.
	I find it very strange that there are a lot of regular people who are upset that Twitter will no longer be an exclusive club for the elites, but at least I know who would sell me out to the regime for a pat on the back or a Zagnar bar.
	Yes, you do.
	And that is exactly what it is.
	Elon is not wrong to call it the lords and ladies system.
	Twitter.
	Lords and peasants, even.
	Sorry.
	Because that's exactly what it is.
	Come on.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey everybody, Preston Poulter here with Pocket Jacks Comics.
	Just finished listening to Carl interview Helen Dale.
	Really enjoyed that.
	One of the main pieces I liked was, you know, the website and the content is so focused on positivity and Helen and you touched on the need for conservatives to be positive and to not try and tear other people down even when you're opposing them.
	And I was wondering, Carl, in hindsight, do you regret the I wouldn't even rape you tweet?
	Thanks.
	Nah.
	Nah, I don't know.
	I probably should.
	But the problem about regrets is that you wouldn't have learned the lessons you've learned if you'd gone back and undone them, you know?
	And, you know, nothing really happened from that.
	You became a household name because of that tweet.
	Yeah, exactly.
	See, now I'm a celebrity.
	But, like, you know, I didn't get suspended from Twitter.
	There was no legal action.
	Well, it's just offended a bunch of progressive women.
	I don't even care.
	This is where my wife would be like, well, look, this is what you need to think about, like, being the autistic guy that you are.
	No, not terribly, to be honest.
	I don't really think about it.
	What year was it?
	I can't remember what year was it.
	No, I'm going to say 2016.
	It must be something like that.
	It's been like a long time, so I don't really think about it.
	But anyway, let's get to the next one.
	People often speak about revolt or rebellion against a corrupt system, but we've rarely seen that manifest in a meaningful way.
	Is it because modern man is impotent?
	I highly doubt that.
	It seems to me like it just really isn't all that bad yet.
	I mean, we've still got running water, food in our stomachs, and heat.
	Why break a system that seems to be trundling along?
	But if the card ever falls off the track, watch out.
	What do you make of that?
	I mean, a lot of men are pretty impotent.
	In some cases through no fault of their own.
	It's that sort of planned obsolescence in a way.
	But I think he is right.
	While people have still got food and heating, shelter, they're probably not going to revolt.
	Yeah, bread and circuses.
	Yeah.
	What all of this is.
	Yeah, it's hunger that makes people actually revolt.
	You can be oppressed by the soft tyranny of the left.
	And as long as you're fed, then you won't do anything.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Tony D and Little Joan with the Lotus Eater White Pill.
	From Newser.com comes the story of Angela Alvarez.
	She's 95 years old and she is up for a Latin Grammy.
	As the best new artist, because she's had her debut album get all sorts of rave reviews.
	Her grandson helped her put it together, and here she is at 95 with a Grammy nomination.
	It's never too late to try.
	John, can we get some of the music up?
	Yeah, okay, okay.
	I'm really interested in hearing that.
	That's really good news, isn't it?
	I'm glad you moved on from the ghosts, Tony.
	I like the ghost stories.
	Yeah, I mean, they're fun, but they're meaningless because none of them are true.
	That's the problem.
	God, are you going to tell me Bigfoot's not real in a minute?
	We'll get into that later.
	Oh, God.
	Well, at least the big cats are real, right?
	But I liked Tony's ghost stories.
	I enjoyed them.
	Have you got the...
	I enjoy the white pill stories more because they're about real people.
	The ghosts were real people?
	I don't.
	Yeah, go on.
	Let's listen.
	I think this is just a new story, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, this is just a new story.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is bloody conflict at 95.
	Music Okay, well, I'll stop by that then.
	That was nice.
	Basic, but it'll do.
	Eh, well, I know.
	I hope I can still do that when I'm 95.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, yeah, you're the musician.
	I'm not a musician.
	Yeah.
	That's nice.
	I dabble, I suppose.
	That's nice.
	And now you find good on it.
	Let's give Craig.
	I just wanted to say thank you very much to Tony D and Little Jones for all the white bills.
	You're doing really, really good.
	Keep it up.
	Yeah, thanks, man.
	Everyone's enjoying them.
	I want the ghost stories back, but...
	I think the white pills are a good idea.
	Because we do cover a lot of depressing nonsense.
	So...
	Anyway, Maureen says...
	Stoked about this one.
	Dr.
	Random Academy and Sargon were the two YouTube tubers who saved me from going full retard.
	I'm glad I still...
	I'm still glad I mentioned to a friend who knew these two that I was a feminist and he was wise enough to make me watch a few of their videos.
	So, for me, seeing them together on the podcast is a special treat.
	Cheers.
	It's from Maureen.
	That's very nice.
	Chicken Lover, which is a strange name, says, Yeah, it's about time you had the doc.
	I love that guy.
	Well, welcome to the podcast.
	George says, happy to see Doc here!
	It's one of the rare times I'll watch live at the cost of my lunch break.
	I at least expect some talk about the good old times of Gamergate.
	That was a long time ago, wasn't it?
	It came up with the talk of harassment.
	I meant to say, you know what Cher's full name is?
	Sherilyn Sarkeesian.
	She's a Sarkeesian.
	She's Armenian as well, is she?
	I would imagine so.
	I had no idea.
	God, I tell you what though, looking back on gaming, it just seems...
	What innocent, naive times we lived in.
	Yeah.
	The scales have truly fallen at this point.
	Did you imagine in those days where you'd be eight years from then?
	Did you think you'd have a dozen people under you?
	No.
	Who knew that any of the stuff that's happened would happen, but...
	Golach says, Good to see you on Doc recently.
	I enjoyed the recent album.
	Oh, did you have a recent album?
	Did you?
	I finished an album's worth of 60s covers.
	All very heavy rock sort of style with changed lyrics.
	Ah, okay.
	Check it out.
	It's only on YouTube.
	Well, it's on every platform I'm on.
	And it's free because you can't sell covers anywhere as far as I know.
	It's almost impossible to make money from selling cover versions anymore.
	Right, okay.
	So you can all have it for free.
	Christine says, oh, Dr.
	Randall Cam is very undersubscribed on YouTube.
	Remember the second part of the response video that he took over since Carl never got around to it?
	There's the part where he gets really upset about the stupidity he grabs the camera.
	And that part is probably the thing I've laughed hardest at ever on YouTube.
	I think it was 48 female privileges confirmed by feminist part two.
	That's the one.
	Yeah.
	That was...
	Where's your head at, Frank?
	Nine years ago?
	Where's your head at, please?
	Anyway, SHSilva says, As dire as Twitter's financials are, I'd say it was because it was very stagnant and spent more resources on policing content than developing features.
	Now that it's in a private company, I would figure they would have a greater profit motive to innovate and adapt faster.
	Yeah, I mean, if there's one thing Elon is obviously doing, it is trying to make it a profitable company.
	And Elon seems to be a guy who's concerned about innovation.
	It's kind of his wheelhouse.
	As long as you're focusing on capitalism, you're not focusing on communism, and that's good enough for me.
	Yeah, yeah, honestly.
	We were talking about this a while ago.
	I would just welcome a return to the cynical capitalist who just wants to rinse money out of me.
	Enough communist smothering moralism.
	Just try and get my money.
	Produce something good that I'll give money for, and then the world will become a better place.
	Screwtape Lasers says, the blue check marks verification is going to boil down to the same gross know your customer requirements any regulated financial company requires.
	Be prepared to provide your social security number, upload an ID card and consent to a digital rectal exam.
	To be honest with you, it should.
	You should provide an ID card.
	You should provide, like, all of these things to prove that you are the person you're being verified as.
	Otherwise, there's no good as a verification mechanism, is it?
	It's still a little worrying that we don't need ID to vote in Britain.
	You just get the card and one person per address.
	Hi, I'm the person that lives at this address.
	Okay, we believe you.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's weird, isn't it?
	I don't like the American idea of having to carry an ID with you everywhere, but taking it to the polls, I think, would probably be a good idea.
	Hmm.
	Colin says, but without blue checkmarks, how can I know who to ignore?
	Great point.
	There was an article in The Independent where they said, oh, a blue checkmark is becoming like a MAGA cap.
	You know, it's becoming a symbol of who to not talk to.
	It's like, man, you are so way behind the times.
	Like, it's, I mean, we literally call you the checkmarks as internet retards.
	George says, The one good thing about social media was exposing the celebrities for the vapid AIDS pigs that they are.
	Too many people associate them with the characters they're playing while they are nothing more than degenerates with money.
	That's a fair point.
	All too true.
	Look at Zelensky.
	I tell you, it's remarkable, isn't it?
	Zelensky plays a president on TV and is now in charge of the country.
	There's something there that tells you everything you need to know about actors and the cult of celebrity generally.
	And bad actors, both senses of the phrase.
	Alexander says, hate following is the big attraction of Twitter.
	Seeing completely retarded takes is what makes it fun.
	Do you advise against it?
	I disagree.
	Anything that makes you feel the need to respond is something you shouldn't be looking at.
	The only reason I used to not respond to hate following is because I didn't want to get blocked because I was hate following someone for a reason, right?
	I want a version of Twitter where you can't block people.
	So I can actually reply in that way that I know and wind them up, and they can't just block me.
	That's what I want.
	Still never blocked anyone.
	It's like deathmatch Twitter.
	That's what I want.
	In my 12 years on Twitter, it's still never blocked anyone.
	Yeah, well...
	We've got a few people muted, because they're obvious retards.
	I've been blocked many times.
	I just want a version of Twitter where they can't do that.
	Real life Twitter.
	You know, just bare knuckle Twitter.
	That's what I want.
	Alexander says, no, sorry, Bold Eagle says, in response to the government investigating Elon, Elon should shut off Stalin in Ukraine.
	Let's see how long Ukraine lasts with the West facilitating communications in the country.
	Well, Biden would probably do something about that too, to be honest.
	Because again, they're not afraid of wielding executive power, unlike right-wingers who are terrified of it for some reason.
	What do you reckon?
	I don't know.
	I think it seems a bit punitive as well.
	Probably bad optics.
	Joe Biden's doing something right.
	I'll shut off Ukraine's Starlink.
	I mean, the Ukrainian diplomats literally telling Elon Musk to shut the F up.
	Not very diplomatic.
	Anyway, Chad Kuala says, The woke aristocracy losing their minds over the $8 verification reminds me of feudal lords in Japan stressing out over firearms that any underfed peasant with an afternoon's training could use to take out a samurai who cost a fortune in time and money to train and equip.
	Kind of, yeah.
	$8?
	That's your entire career as a celebrity I can shoot.
	Good analogy, actually, that.
	Small L Libertarian says, ooh, I definitely will see Twitter burst into flames, rise like an angry phoenix from the ashes, and conquer mainland Europe.
	The thing is, what happens if Twitter literally goes offline because it can't afford to be run?
	We've got Mines, we've got Gab, we've got Getter.
	They've got Tribal, is it called?
	There was a bunch of them saying Getter Mastodon.
	But the thing is, like, Mastodon is where the Nazis are.
	Is it?
	Yeah.
	Because it's a decentralised, federated platform, and you can't kick them off of it.
	And so I watched, like, there was a video going around of a compilation of people like Taylor Lorenz who got to Mastodon like, Hello everyone on Mastodon!
	I'm Taylor Lorenz, I'm a refugee from Twitter!
	And it's just Nazis going, you're an F, you're a K, you're an N. And it's non-stop.
	It's just ream after ream.
	And I'm like, you've gone to the one place on Earth that has more Nazis than Nazi Germany had.
	Everyone comes to Mastodon.
	Oh yeah, great idea.
	You can't even get rid of them.
	You set up instances, so you can just jump onto everyone else's server.
	As in, like, it's like a video game, basically.
	It's like, you know, I've got our own server, you can't even get rid of us.
	Quick, report this account!
	It's like, you're reporting it to the Nazi who set up the Nazi server, who's now using that to talk to you, you fucking morons.
	Anyway...
	Rad Checker was right says, ironically, a monthly payment is verification as despite what the Twits think.
	If you need to pay online, you need to use a credit debit card or put in PayPal.
	All of those methods have your name linked to them.
	It makes sense and it seems safer than sending some Twitter admin a picture of your driver's license or personal ID if they don't commit an identity theft.
	Well, that's the thing.
	I think that they should just literally say, right, we're going to use your credit card name as your display name.
	Because it's you.
	You're verified.
	I think that's totally fair.
	And, you know, keep your anonymous account and don't get verified, if you want, to commit a hate crime in the UK, for example.
	There's no limit to their manners.
	X, Y, and Z says, do you know what else is progressive and no clear direction?
	Cancer.
	Got a point.
	I mean, What do you think of progress?
	Just the concept of progress.
	Do we have enough progress?
	It's usually used as a euphemism.
	For?
	Like a phobia.
	It's fair.
	I did a very long video about this once.
	We have a whole bunch of overused euphemisms that just mean the irrational fear and hatred of the familiar.
	And that's all it is.
	We all just keep neglecting to actually describe it.
	We just keep using whatever words get thrown up to use it.
	Because they used to call themselves woke.
	They did.
	And then we started calling them woke.
	Yes, you are woke.
	Wait, how dare you call me woke?
	What does woke even mean?
	We did it with social justice warrior as well.
	You called me a social justice warrior?
	I thought that was...
	That's what you call yourself?
	Yeah.
	The same with political correctness.
	But that's the problem, isn't it?
	Because as soon as it becomes a way of identifying what they are, that becomes a stigma.
	Because what they are is awful and nobody wants it.
	Yeah.
	They don't want to be called anything because they want to be just neutral.
	What I do is not out of the ordinary at all.
	It's just ordinary human activity.
	We don't want negative sentiments attached to us.
	Yeah, but everyone hates what you do.
	You can't identify us, then.
	Anyway, Alpha of the Beta says, Regarding biological males winning beauty pageants, once again, Orwell's quotes become prophetic.
	The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
	It was their final, most essential command.
	This is ideological subversion writ large on our society, as Besbinov warned.
	The thing for me, it's not even that it's a man.
	The person isn't beautiful.
	At least have a good-looking ladyboy.
	That is supposed to be the idea of the competition.
	I can accept that more than I can accept the fat guy who wins the female beauty competition.
	But beauty is just as subjective as gender now.
	Actually, it is, technically, I suppose.
	Sure, but there are also standards of beauty, like symmetry and skin tone and things like that.
	Everyone kind of accepts.
	So whether you personally are like, oh, that person does it for me, or that person, you can accept they're in a sort of class and beauty.
	Whereas, you know, the fat dude, who's not even pretending to be a woman, really, just wearing a dress...
	No?
	Sorry?
	That's progress.
	Yeah, it's very progressive, I suppose.
	Freewell says, Yes, and they admit as much.
	I suspect that once they gain power, much of this lunacy will be reversed because it doesn't make any sense in society, as China and the Soviet Union did not tolerate it.
	China still doesn't.
	I think the extreme people are useful idiots for more rational ideological forces behind the scenes.
	What do you think?
	Sounds about right.
	The thing is, I think there's a sort of level of Believing their own BS. Like, taking their own drugs.
	I think that a lot of them actually do think that these things are real.
	And that, you know, they have to be like, trans women are women.
	And I have to believe that.
	So, I... Because what you're saying here kind of presumes a class of people who are not actually infected by woke ideology and are cynically using it in order to get power.
	But I don't think that's true.
	I think they genuinely do.
	Or at least a lot of them genuinely do believe it.
	So...
	Anyway, Andrew says, the only reason it may be communists against Islamists in the end is because we as a society have rolled over for those two groups.
	Neither group is intrinsically superior to all other ideologies.
	After all, both have been tried by history and largely found wanting.
	Well, to be honest with you, the Muslims have been quite successful.
	Really?
	1,400 years?
	Third of the globe?
	They're doing pretty well.
	Henry says, other than being clean-shaven, Brian looks like they kidnapped Baz from Greggs or Spoons and shoved him in a dress and a wig.
	Simple as.
	Yeah.
	I assumed it was some androgynous-looking manlet who look similar to a lot of the size zero supermodels who disappear when they turn the side on, but Jesus Christ on the bike.
	Was this beauty contest fortified, asked Free Will.
	Well, kind of, I think, actually, yeah.
	It's kind of like, ooh, ooh, we've got to be progressive, haven't we?
	Ooh, got to choose the man in the dress.
	He's different.
	Let him win.
	Yeah.
	He's intersectional.
	Let him win.
	Yeah.
	Freewell says they infiltrated the Church of England and now they're doing the same to the Catholic Church.
	Yep.
	So it looks like Christianity is kind of doomed to fall to wokeism, doesn't it?
	This is why we keep telling Islam to reform at some point.
	Yes.
	So that it can die like Christianity does.
	Yes.
	And the Muslims are like, good point.
	We do need ISIS. And on says, the Muslim versus communists will be close to the fight you think.
	The cultural rot that's taking place in the West is also taking place in the Western Muslim communities.
	Yeah, I have noticed that.
	And this is why I've been very much on the side of it.
	I think the progressives will actually subvert Islam.
	You reckon?
	Yeah, I reckon.
	Oh, well, you'll see as the generations go by.
	Yep, but we're already seeing it in like the Western, as you said, Western Muslim communities.
	So I do think, I think that eventually the Communists will win and they'll liquidate Islamic civilization from the inside out by expanding the definitions of words to include their antonyms and ruin the entire thing.
	But not on my watch when I become an American, I'll tell you.
	Just saying, keep important Muslims, just keep doing it.
	I'll convert.
	Binary says...
	Honestly, I make this joke, but we really do stand to gain.
	Just saying.
	More than we do from the communists.
	A lot more.
	Like, I actually...
	Maybe I want four wives.
	Maybe I want to be a patriarchal oppressor.
	And maybe Islam is the perfect vehicle for that.
	Although there's a three in four chance of any given man having no wives, if some of them have four.
	That might be why so many of them are being shoved over here.
	Yeah, but that's probably the case now.
	Yeah.
	That's probably the case of the Communist West.
	Anyway, Binary Surfer says there's going to be some very confused wanks among those poor students in those teachers' classes.
	Poor kids.
	At least when we fancy teachers as kids, it's because they're young, attractive women.
	Yeah.
	It's human rights binary.
	It's human right.
	Human rights wear giant, eroticized, nipple-protruding tits.
	It's the kind of thing that'll put you off wanking for life.
	This is the idealised representation of women, lads.
	Sorry, I've just reset my things.
	I've got to go back to it.
	But honestly, what?
	I'm just tired of the term human rights at this point.
	I just don't really believe in human rights.
	They make him up.
	If wearing this giant fake nipple titty set is human rights, then human rights is meaningless.
	Pretty much.
	No, not having it.
	Kevin says, in an Islamic country, if you're LGBTQ +, you go straight to the top.
	Not of the oppressed stack, but the local tower block.
	Ross says, you can't be both Muslim and gay.
	It's the same as Jewish and gay.
	It's prohibited in the scriptures.
	There is a possible argument for it being allowed in Christianity as you're supposed to follow the New Testament and disregard the Old Testament as rules to live by.
	Again, which is why Christianity is just dying.
	Well, the rule is thou shalt not lie with a man as thou lie with a woman.
	They don't lie with a woman that way.
	Even if you're going by the Old Testament, you can worm your way around the words.
	Lord Nerevar says, Ah yes, Mark Hamill, Stephen King, and George Takei, the trifecta of endlessly disappointing stars who are as cringe as possible.
	Good riddance to them once celebrity ceases to be a concept, I say.
	Yeah, there's something profoundly disappointing about it, though.
	As someone who remembers the internet and just the world before social media, there was a sort of layer of illusion and innocence and naivete that was overlaid on everything, that gave everything a kind of romance.
	You know, it's like there were actual heroes and stars and, you know, things were out of reach and you could not know about these things.
	And so there was a mysticism that built up around these things.
	And unfortunately now, all of that bubble has been burst and the water has just fallen to earth and now you're just covered in Ron Perlman's piss.
	They say don't meet your heroes, and this is what they're talking about.
	There's a very good chance they could turn out to be absolute wankers.
	Yes, they literally could turn out to be Stephen King.
	So there's genuine sadness about it, I think.
	So, I mean, you know, young people are going to be like, what do you mean?
	They've always been like this.
	No, no, they haven't.
	They used to not have a giant public platform, actually.
	JC says, I have to admit, once I saw Stephen King on Twitter, all the mystique I attributed to him completely evaporated.
	See?
	There you go.
	That's exactly my point.
	Like, because he's a great author.
	He's written some great books.
	Like, some of my favorite books.
	And then just watching him being, like, a shitlib on Twitter, it's like, oh, Stephen, you know, I thought you had some brain power.
	It's really disappointing, actually.
	Archibald says, If Ron felt so strongly about shaking Harvey's hand, wouldn't the honourable thing to do be refuse to shake his hand?
	Or bet still, don't be in his company?
	Needed the gives, I suppose.
	Yeah, that's the way it's like, I mean, what an ode.
	Yeah, I pissed on myself when I shook his hand.
	Checkmate Harvey Weinstein.
	Andrew says, Well, obviously.
	Kevin says, Now we get to hear and see the degenerative behaviour in real time.
	That's another great point as well, isn't it?
	It's possible that most people from history were absolute wankers.
	Yeah.
	They just didn't know about it.
	I think it's basically inevitable.
	If the news is fake, just imagine what history really is.
	It's a series of lies agreed upon.
	Was it Napoleon?
	No, it was Napoleon, yeah.
	But that's exactly right.
	But I think that's exactly the thing about the celebrities as well.
	They obviously did all this crazy stuff and rubbish stuff, but the fact that they were managed and it didn't get out to the media, and so there was this illusion that surrounded them, and now just...
	Colin says, I don't think I've ever been adherent to the cult of celebrity.
	I've genuinely never heard a lot of the celebs I keep hearing about.
	Well, that's the thing, because when I was preparing this segment, I asked the office, give me some examples of retarded celebrities.
	Everyone kept saying people I didn't know.
	It was all right.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Ron Paul, right, okay.
	Stephen King, yeah.
	So that's why I've got fairly milquetoast ones, actually.
	There are worse out there.
	Justin says, Well, that's the thing, isn't it?
	It's like, look, we're interested in you pretending to be something, and that thing that you're pretending to be is not a political commentator, so shut up.
	And JC, the old Alice springs to mind, never meet your heroes.
	As you said.
	There we go.
	Yeah.
	Charlie says, is anyone surprised by how out of touch celebrities are?
	No.
	It's because they're so in touch that we know how out of touch they are.
	Hey.
	Yeah.
	So, quick question.
	Doc, is there anything coming up in the MRA sphere?
	There isn't really an MRA sphere.
	No.
	Is it not?
	Well, no.
	Well, I mean, it kind of was, back in the day.
	I mean, yeah.
	I suppose there isn't an ICMI and there probably won't be until the travel restrictions happen.
	But it's International Men's Day next week.
	If only you should ask, I'll be doing a talk here on that subject.
	I mean, you haven't heard what I'm going to say yet.
	No, I haven't.
	I'll be quite presumptive that they might not broadcast it.
	Well, hopefully we can.
	There might be some kind of International Men's Day thing going on in your area, but probably not because no one really cares about men's rights.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that's true.
	George says, on the topic of the armistice, have you both seen the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth?
	It's one of the best pieces of television and one of the few that is capable of tearing me up.
	It's the perfect example of the merger of comedy and tragedy.
	Yeah, it's an absolute classic.
	I mean, I can't imagine who hasn't seen it, frankly, at this point.
	But yes, legendary end, frankly.
	Lots and lots of people saying, tell Doc I love him.
	Like, oh wow, it's Doc's random cam, hi!
	So you've got lots of fans in the chat.
	This is a cute and wholesome pairing.
	Glad you think so.
	Anyway, we're about to have comments and time there, so thanks for joining us, folks.
	Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
	Don't forget to go and subscribe to Dr.
	Miranda McCam on YouTube, because he's very good.
	An artist, in the truest sense, in my opinion.
	So, definitely...
	Not how I identify.
	I identify as a washed-up has-been hack who tricks people into thinking he's smart using big words.
	And my pronouns are...
	Insidious Globalist!
	Who's the guy?
	Is it...
	Robert Webb, who thought I was you.
	Do you want to tell them the story?
	It's a long story.
	I won a competition, got to meet David Mitchell, spoke to his producer.
	He said, do you want us to write some sketches?
	And I did.
	I sent him in on spec.
	Yeah.
	Never heard back.
	Robert Webb went on Twitter and started blaming me.
	Two years later, didn't hear back.
	Oh, this misogynist used to say, and I was like, Robert, what?
	I don't know who you are.
	I've never written a script or anything.
	It's more than one of us.
	But again, this is why celebrities shouldn't have access to the internet.
	Because I used to like Mitchell and Webb as a comedy duo.
	I still do like David Mitchell.
	For somebody who writes for The Guardian, he's got a lot of sense.
	Yeah, yeah, I guess.
	But like, you know, Robert Webb, his attack on masculinity.
	Oh, I've been oppressed by masculinity my whole life.
	Oh, shut up, Robert.
	Or punch you on the arm.
	And I'm not him!
	Idiot!
	Anyway, thanks for joining us, folks.
	We'll be back on Monday.
	Have a great weekend.
	Take it easy.
	Thank you.

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