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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast The Lotus Ceases for Monday the 9th of January 2023.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about the struggle for speaker, a subject I was deliberately avoiding because it looked really dull, but okay, fair enough, we'll talk about it.
	Well, I'm sorry.
	No, no, it's fine.
	How Prince Harry was radicalised into wokeism and the trans-maxing manifesto, which sounds great.
	It'd be an interesting way to end off the podcast, I think.
	Well, let's get on with it, then.
	Yes, okay, so there's been a lot of hullabaloo and talk about the House of Representatives in America over the past week as the struggle for Speaker went on and on and on much further beyond any timescale that anybody expected it to be after it came down to 15 separate goes of voting.
	15?
	15 separate goes around.
	I love that on the 14th he was like, no, no, I'm still going to try.
	Well, that's what you've got to do.
	I had to do a lot of looking into what the actual process is and other such things so that I could wrap my head around it so I could just not be talking out of my arse for this segment.
	And Americans, if you're watching it, I end up doing that anyway.
	I'm sorry, please correct me down in the comments.
	But as far as I can tell, the House Speaker was previously Nancy Pelosi.
	They end up having a lot of power to choose what's discussed within, not the Senate, but the House of Representatives, how things are structured and how discussions are structured, and a lot of power in that sense.
	And it was all because Newt Gingrich in 1994 made a lot of changes to make it so that he could just be a lot more partisan.
	In the House.
	As I understand it, if the President and Vice President both are killed in some way...
	Speaker is next in line.
	Yeah, third in line after the vice president.
	So it's got to be fairly important.
	Oh, it's a very, very important position to hold.
	And now we've got Kevin McCarthy, because as I said, after about 15 rounds of voting, they finally managed to get it so that he got the...
	The majority of the votes that they needed, which, given that it wasn't the red wave that people were expecting in the midterms, was mainly down to the fact that the Republicans just didn't have as many people on their side as they expected to.
	But it might have come down to a lot of voting anyway, because the voting process seems to be a process of a lot of negotiation.
	And the Republicans who were anti-McCarthy Republicans, that being the American first...
	The maggot.
	Yeah, the MAGA types, the anti-establishment rhinos, have managed to negotiate their way into getting quite a few concessions out of him that you wouldn't expect otherwise, to the point where it's essentially ended up that he's got a loaded gun to his head at all times if he doesn't do things that the MAGA Republicans want him to do.
	Kind of how I like my politicians.
	Yeah, that's how they should be treated, because Kevin McCarthy, as far as I can tell, metaphorically speaking, of course, not saying anything legit.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But he seemed, as far as I could tell from just looking into him, to be quite a standard, you know, business as usual, let's vote to increase military budget, let's vote for more foreign wars, that kind of Republican.
	Part of the Uniparty.
	Yeah, definitely part of the Uniparty, but he did come out back in the day for Trump, and I think a lot of the MAGA, America First types, really despise Kevin McCarthy.
	I could see that.
	Yeah, he ended up being, after Trump was ousted, after Jan 6 and all such things, he came out and was very flip-floppy on Trump, didn't have a strict opinion, and also, from his previous tenure as Speaker, a lot of people like the Pedro Gonzalez, Chronicles types...
	Don't like him, don't like how he governs, don't like how he was arranging and using his position as speaker, especially because, oh well, for reasons we'll continue to get into.
	But first, the promo that we've got for today, I wanted to point everybody once again to Dan's new excellent series, Brokernomics, where he's talking about inflation.
	I think the next episode of this is coming out tomorrow.
	I don't know exactly what he's talking about, but he's just...
	Him explaining the economic system that we live under at the moment and how it's screwing us all over.
	And if you really want a seal of approval for this, if you could scroll down for me, John, into the comments, we can see the best review possible down here.
	Here we go.
	Yes, megafauna woman says, I like this.
	It's explained simply enough for even a woman to understand.
	So, if that's not enough of a seal of approval that even a woman can understand this economic series, then go straight ahead.
	That's for premium subscribers.
	The first episode is freemium.
	So if you really enjoy that one, you can subscribe for as little as £5 a month and get access to all this excellent stuff.
	So just as a quick side, I know nothing about economics, and I've been watching this with close, rapt interest, because frankly, Dan can actually explain it in a way that literally I understand it.
	So women and cavemen can understand economics with this series.
	Therefore, you should watch it.
	It's really, really useful.
	And will continue to be useful for the foreseeable future.
	Sadly.
	As much as I wish that wasn't the case.
	But anyway, so like I said, Chronicles, those sorts of magazines, the very patriot, paleo-conservative style magazines are talking about Kevin McCarthy.
	Previously, and this was around the midterms, his war against Magda, explaining why it is that McCarthy is not exactly the sort of person that you want on your side.
	Because alongside people like Mitch McConnell, who spent a lot of money to keep America First candidates out of office, according to the Washington Post, McCarthy also directed millions to be spent against Republican candidates.
	This is in the previous article, John, if you want to stay on that.
	Thank you.
	The political machine around McCarthy directed millions to be spent against Republican candidates in GOP primaries associated with the America First movement.
	So this is McCarthy surrogates, which include Amazon lobbyists like Jeff Miller, it says, directed four political action committees to attack key candidates to McCarthy's right in primary elections around the country.
	And this is one of the big problems with just the establishment GOP. If anything is remotely actually traditionally right-wing or traditionalist or conservative, they're like, no.
	Can't be having any of that.
	What will AOC think if we go ahead with moves like this?
	That kind of attitude that we get.
	And here are a few examples listed in this article.
	I just want to note as well, this article was written by one of the people that McCarthy himself prevented from getting funding for his campaign.
	So there might be a little bit of bitterness in this article.
	Understandably so.
	Reasonably so, yeah.
	The effective people in the Republican Party and McCarthy's like, yeah, we'll fund against them.
	Yeah, we just want...
	Well, how are we going to send more money to Israel otherwise?
	That kind of attitude.
	Zelensky will miss a cheque.
	If we get some of the America first in.
	I don't want my Zelensky being homeless.
	But so, some of the examples.
	$1.7 million against Freedom Caucus member Madison Cawthorn.
	$2 million against a...
	Joe Kent, $2 million to prop up Kent's primary opponent, $1.5 million spent against Carl Palladino in New York, $1 million against Christian Collison in Texas, and there's a bunch of other examples here, just showing that these people are snakes.
	They are politicians to the core, not the sort of people that have principles or ideals that they want to hold the country through, just people who want to, in a very Machiavellian way, maintain...
	Excuse me.
	Maintain their position within the political structure.
	Because one of the ulterior motives for propping up all of these sorts of people against the Freedom Caucus types is because in this round of voting, the Freedom Caucus types were not happy with McCarthy and were the ones holding out on votes for him to get the speakership.
	This is so obviously what you call the deep state, the neoliberal establishment, trying to maintain control of the Republican Party against a very powerfully insurgent populist movement.
	Yes.
	That's what this is.
	And thankfully, despite the fact that the red wave didn't happen, or at least not to the extent that anybody was hoping it for, and because these people were blocked, there were still enough people within the Freedom Caucus MAGF movement To be able to block him getting the speakership by just voting present rather than in favour of him, to be able to negotiate some terms that they were happy with, which led to some conflicts, I will say.
	So if we move along to the next article...
	So, yeah, this was a lot of people getting very angry.
	McCarthy was confronting Matt Gaetz in a chaotic scene.
	Matt Gaetz did, as a troll, as a bit of a meme, suggest that they should nominate Donald Trump to be Speaker of the House instead.
	Sadly, there were no votes for him, but oh well.
	So McCarthy was on the verge of becoming the next Speaker of the House out of ballot before he ultimately clinched the role, but was left one vote short when old foe representative Matt Gaetz derailed his chances by voting president.
	And this was in the 14th one.
	I know, and this was after almost a week straight of doing it as well, so I can understand that tensions would be running high.
	I like Gates, because he's sticking to his guns here.
	He really is.
	Like, McCarthy isn't the guy that he wants, and he shouldn't endorse him.
	Shouldn't be forced to do it.
	You can't just all, oh, if we just get rid of the radicals and all just get on with business as usual.
	Nobody wants business as usual.
	Business as usual is impoverishing everybody.
	It's letting the immigrants across the borders in record numbers, causing the southern border crisis.
	It's causing lots of problems.
	It's building Zelensky more mansions.
	Yes.
	Excuse me, my throat's not feeling that great today, so if I'm a bit croaky, apologies.
	Yeah, so it led to a stunning scene on the house floor as McCarthy slowly walked up the gallery steps to confront the Florida lawmaker with an icy stare.
	There was a bit more going on than just an icy stare as well.
	Two people, they spoke animatedly for a minute with lawmakers huddled around them, so this is all the negotiations going on.
	McCarthy walked away in disgust, approached them again.
	Can we get the picture up, John?
	Yeah, you can see the fingers pointing here.
	Excellent.
	Very excellent.
	McCarthy flipped.
	He did manage to flip by the end of the 15th round.
	15 previous GOP holdout votes following the 13th ballot, leaving Andy Biggs of Arizona, Lauren Bober, Matt Gaetz, Eli Crane of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, and Matt Rosendale of Montana as the remaining GOP opposition to his speakership.
	So he managed to negotiate terms to the point where he just...
	Just clinched the majority to be able to get it.
	The Democrats, they were all just voting as one big block for their candidate, but they didn't have the majority to be able to get them in the first place.
	And then one of the other scenes that came out of this was this, where Representative Mike Rogers had to be restrained from going after Gates on the House floor after his present vote on the 14th round.
	And scroll down so we can see some more...
	This is how politics should be done.
	This is how politics is done in most other countries, to be honest.
	Exactly.
	This is just honest politics.
	If tempers aren't rising to the point that fists are about to fly, then you're not doing politics right.
	This is how you know the America First caucus is actually challenging the power.
	They're actually doing something that is going to affect the way things work in America.
	Unlike all of the rhinos who are like, you're going to overthrow our pensions or whatever.
	Like, no, no, no, no.
	Get held back, bitch.
	Yeah, and Dan Crenshaw was photographed with some blood on his knuckles as well.
	Potentially from punching a wall.
	This is unconfirmed, but I did see an amusing edit that I should have put in here, actually.
	They're upsetting Dan Crenshaw.
	Somebody had lovingly photoshopped a little eye patch.
	Yeah.
	Over the booze where it was on his knuckle.
	Punching walls going, how am I going to answer to Klaus Schwab now?
	Yeah, and then he also, he did appear on Fox News as well, very angry.
	I saw it.
	Quite petulant, where he was like, I can't believe that 20 radicals are just...
	Well, he looked like I was about to cry.
	Yeah, 20 rogues are holding back the system.
	This isn't what the Founding Fathers wanted.
	Yes, it is.
	That's exactly what they wanted.
	Just read the Federalist papers.
	It's right there.
	Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right.
	Precisely.
	And once again, in the process of all of this, Pedro Gonzalez, who is a very good guy, very good boy, support him and all his work he does on Substack and Chronicles and such.
	He was on his sub stack just talking about how this is sending a message.
	Just send a message.
	This is while it was all still going down.
	But he points to some other reasons why McCarthy and the establishment types aren't people you want on your side, especially if you want a unified, a whole, a wholesome America.
	Where he's talking about Bob Good argued that no one was defending McCarthy on merit because no one can.
	When McCarthy was the last majority leader, every single major spending bill he negotiated that helped pass, was done with a majority of Democrat votes and a minority of Republican votes.
	Okay, there you go.
	And despite GOP control of the state, of the House, Gonzalez goes on to confirm this, and then he just says, well, look at some of the key incoming House committee chairmen who are more aligned with Democrats than Republicans, which is another legacy of McCarthy's leadership.
	And he quotes Daniel Horowitz at the Blaze, who gave people a Liberty score, telling them, you know, how American these people are.
	How American lawmakers are.
	Genuinely a question these days.
	Yeah, he just lists some...
	So, starting with the Energy and Commerce Committee is considered one of the most powerful committees in economic and domestic policy.
	One would expect the rising chairman to be the most articulate foe of the global warming and green energy agenda.
	Instead, Cathy McMorris-Rogers, who has a 60% Liberty score, that's not very high, is the quintessential fusionist who likes to validate the global warming agenda and the need for green energy while merely opposing the most extreme measures of transitioning too quick.
	These are literally the doomed-to-lose conservatives in America.
	Yeah, well that's just a bit too far too fast right now, isn't it?
	They're the sorts who go, well we'll consider that in a year.
	You want to destroy all...
	Obviously I'm for trans and kids, but am I in favour of pedos adopting them?
	Not yet.
	Ask me five years from now, and then we can have that discussion.
	Yeah.
	So he just lists a bunch of examples of those sorts of people.
	But then, if we go to the next one, after the votes were all done, Andy Biggs, one of the people who opposed him, had some words to say about this and how they've basically positioned McCarthy in a way that could be beneficial for them in, like I say, loaded gun to the head manner.
	So he led the opposition to McCarthy, recipient of some defective votes during the 15 ballot voting series because he was positioned as a potential opponent to him.
	He just didn't have the support for doing it and he didn't...
	He didn't get the nomination back in November when they were seeing who the prime nominee would be for the Republicans.
	He said earlier this morning Kevin McCarthy was elected as Speaker of the US House of Representatives for the 180th Congress.
	It is important that he be successful and I wish him success in fighting the Democrats and advancing the Republican agenda.
	He's shown a new willingness to empower the people of the country, and I'll be watching closely to see if he stays true to his words.
	For months I led an effort to elect a House Speaker that would change the status quo and advance America first principles.
	I challenged McCarthy for House Speaker in multiple ballots, nominated several individuals who I thought could serve as viable alternative speaker candidates, and stayed true to my word that I would not vote for him.
	On the 15th ballot it became clear that he had the votes, and blah-de-blah-de-blah.
	And then he said the very first Congress bill, as a result of all the negotiations that they've gone through, to take up will be to repeal the funding for the 87,000 new IRS agents.
	That's alright.
	Something.
	And one of the first hearings will be on the crisis on the southern border.
	He also announced the reopening of the capital complex to the public, which has been closed since the beginning of COVID-19, and since then boarded up with fences and such, so now we can all go to the birthplace of democracy, the event, the magnificent, well not the magnificent event, the magnificent, well not the magnificent event, no, I'm just going to stop there.
	Anyway, like I said, I'm sorry, I was tripping up over myself then a bit.
	And in the next one, on Tucker Carlson, Representative Thomas Massey told him that a new church committee will be happening, and this church committee will be to investigate the involvement of the alphabet agencies with massive social influence...
	Social media companies and what influence they had on influencing and manipulating the public and leading up to particular events.
	Isn't it interesting how we just have a massive dump of information about all of that from Elon Musk?
	It is very interesting and it seems that that information will be very useful in these...
	In these committees and what will be looked into.
	And then I got more information on some of the other things that were decided upon.
	So this one, the new package that has been agreed to, to gain him the results, to gain him the winning result, was rules on allowing a single member, a single member of the House of Representatives, it used to be you would need a lot, then he got it down to five, and now it's down to a single member to force a motion to vacate the speakership, which could threaten McCarthy's already Okay.
	just if he does anything that even a single America first MAGA representative is like "no" he can just go "get lost" Okay, fair enough Just "you're fired" So he's being held to ransom, appropriately so Yeah And the package also includes reinstating a provision to allow lawmakers to propose amendments to appropriations bills adds a 72-hour window for members to read bills before they vote Can you believe we've only just gotten to this level Yeah, I know.
	72 hours.
	We just need three days.
	It's mental, because some of these are literally thousands of pages long.
	I know the inflation reduction bill was something like 1,500 pages long.
	Something like that.
	Because they just use it to sneak in all sorts of provisions for whatever they want.
	The only people who actually know what are in those bills are the lawyers who write them up in the first place.
	They should have those one page.
	There should be a law.
	One page.
	That's the length you've got for your bill.
	I think that was a Ron Paul provision that he wanted to get through.
	Just like, it's one page, you have to read it before you vote on it, and all of the...
	That's not unreasonable in any way, shape, or form!
	At the time, all the rest of the House of Representatives were like, read?
	Read the laws we're going to pass into motion?
	An entire page, Ron?
	I don't think so!
	You libertarian maniac!
	Exactly!
	And also, we've got a commitment to vote on legislation of term limits for members of Congress.
	And he also is said to be giving MAGA members senior positions on the powerful Rules Committee, which just determines the rules that all of the committees have to operate by, and also decides on the bills the House's debates.
	So, McCarthy is not the ideal person to have as Speaker.
	He is certainly not anybody that I would have voted for if I were American or in that situation.
	But it seems in the process...
	Of these 15 rounds of voting, they have at least got some good concessions out of him.
	What this is showing is that the MAGA Republicans are actually effective.
	I mean, this is what the squad wished they could have done with Nancy Pelosi, right?
	Yeah, the squad just got whipped straight into line.
	Exactly.
	I recall seeing clips of AOC saying, well, Pelosi shouldn't be Speaker.
	I wouldn't vote for her.
	And then the second that came to the crunch, she just completely fell into line.
	And, in fact, I think it was...
	Why can't I remember his name?
	We literally just saw the...
	What was the article by...
	What's-his-face?
	What?
	Pedro.
	That's it.
	Sorry, Pedro.
	I'm sure I saw Pedro saying how there's essentially a kind of round-robin arrangement within the squad where they'll all vote in line with whatever it is Pelosi was whipping them to do.
	Except for the one person who could say, no, no, I'm voting against this because I'm morally pure, and then the rest would just shut their mouths.
	Wasn't there footage of AOC literally crying after she signed up and voted in favour of a bill to keep sending money to Israel?
	Yeah.
	Despite her well-documented remarks against Israel.
	Yeah, but that's the thing.
	Every time a different one gets to be the person who's the conscientious objector to the imperial regime that the Democrats are running, and so it's just interesting how they're completely whipped by the Democrat machine, whereas the MAGA Republicans are just thrashing things.
	But don't worry about that, John, because we'll come to that.
	Yeah, the MAGA Republicans are literally willing to take a punch to the face if it comes to it, to stand by what they believe in.
	I respect it.
	I respect it massively.
	Good for the MAGA Republicans for actually getting some results.
	Okay, on that, I guess we'll talk about how Prince Harry was radicalized.
	So, Prince Harry is in the news.
	I don't particularly want to talk about him, but...
	But we're going to anyway.
	We're going to anyway, because my timeline is just full of people talking about Prince Harry, because he's brought out a book called Spare.
	I don't think it's actually out yet.
	I've seen lots of people talking about, like, previews or something, but maybe it's out, and I'm not going to read it either.
	I've seen many good memes about alternative titles.
	I have seen many of those memes.
	Simp, spare me, please.
	Many effective memes.
	But the point is, okay, actually something in the headlines running through my social media timeline actually started getting my attention.
	Because it was the first one where he was like, look, I want my father and my brother back.
	It's like, okay, well, who took them away from you?
	You had your father and your brother, something happened, and now they won't speak to you.
	We need to get Tom Harwood on the case.
	Something happened!
	What was that something?
	So I thought I'd look into it, and in doing so I just found, essentially, the process by which Harry was radicalised.
	It's pretty straightforward, actually, and you guys are probably going to be familiar with it, but I thought we'd go through it.
	You seem to have got a pretty comprehensive timeline going through here as well.
	Yeah, I think we do.
	It's not necessarily in time order, either.
	It's more about...
	The expression of what's happening.
	But before we begin, I thought I'd plug Gad Saad's wonderful book, The Parasitic Mind.
	You did this, didn't you?
	No, it wasn't me.
	It was Connor and Josh.
	I have read the book in the past, though, and I've got a copy.
	It's a very good book.
	Correct me if I'm wrong, but he's explaining how woke ideas are like a parasite in your mind.
	Yeah, exactly that.
	And ruin everything around you.
	Maybe you want to get a copy, Harry.
	Pretty much.
	Just saying.
	So let's begin with Harry saying, well look, before I was married to Meghan, I was a racist.
	So let's watch it.
	What Meghan had to go through was similar, in some part, to what Kate and what Commit went through.
	Very different circumstances.
	But then you add in the race element, which was what the British press jumped on straight away.
	I went into this incredibly naïve.
	I had no idea the British press was so bigoted.
	Hell, I was probably bigoted before the relationship with Meghan.
	You think you were bigoted before the relationship with Meghan?
	I don't know.
	Put it this way, I didn't see what I now see.
	That's very interesting.
	I can almost feel Megan off-screen, just with a gun to his head.
	Because that sounded so desperate to get approval.
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	And I'm not going to...
	I mean, obviously I think she is, in some way, influencing and manipulating him, but...
	He is letting it happen because of what he...
	Like he says, what I didn't see and what I now see.
	Ah, right, so...
	Well, that's the thing.
	When Dan and I covered the first part of the documentary for Netflix, there was these brilliant moments where it was explaining his life before Meghan, which honestly just sounded like a good life, and then it went wrong.
	It sounded...
	One of those inevitable coming to doom, tragic heroes type stories.
	But he spent a lot of time in Africa as a teenager and as a young man.
	Presumably being a racist.
	Yeah, I can only assume so.
	He's like friends with an African prince.
	He spent time in Zimbabwe and Botswana, like, actually helping the people on the ground.
	Typical racist.
	I know.
	And then later on, he's at the NAACP awards show where Megan's being given an award or something for her best girl boss or something like that.
	And he's just there like, oh, I never understand the implicit systems of racism that operate within the institutions we live in until I met all of these people.
	That tells you something, doesn't it?
	Real oppression, real bad situations is not everything you actually saw firsthand in Africa.
	Is all of these, the most privileged, rich black people in the entire world telling you there's racism, bro.
	Police is, Dem's racist, bro.
	I know, it's mental, isn't it?
	But I love this.
	So from his own position now, he's adopted some kind of new conceptual framework.
	That's what he means.
	What I didn't see then, and what I now see, is what's been highlighted to me.
	And it's caused me to render my previous self as a racist...
	So, I don't think you were a racist, Harry, and I don't think you really think you were a racist, but you're kind of forced into it by adopting this new framework, right?
	And this is like the opposite of They Live.
	He's taken the glasses off.
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	And so, essentially, this is him being seduced by a foreign woman.
	And in this, this is a fascinating, fascinating article by The Guardian, where they're just telling us about things that are in his book.
	He details how he got into an argument, a fight, With Prince William over this, and William kicked his ass.
	With the Chad Prince William.
	Yeah, exactly, which just makes me like William more, frankly.
	They said this, describing a confrontation at his London home in 2019, Harry says William called Meghan difficult, rude, and abrasive.
	True.
	Well, it seems true, just from the way she acts, which Harry called a parroting of the press narrative about his American wife.
	It's like, Harry, how...
	Have you never had a girlfriend before?
	Right?
	Because he seems to be genuinely like a teenage boy who's trapped up in this sort of cycle of lust and romance with this strange foreign woman.
	And it's fine.
	We've all had girlfriends that have turned us against our mates and made us be like, no, no, she's not like that.
	She's not like that.
	It's like, no, to you, she's not like that on purpose because what she's trying to do is break you away from the security of the social bonds and the relational bonds that you have With all of these other people, so she can have you all to herself.
	This is not a new trope.
	This is something that a certain kind of woman has done since time immemorial.
	And Harry, you are falling for it.
	You absolute fool, right?
	So William says in this, he says, William was like, I'm trying to help.
	And he's like, definitely.
	I believe genuinely William was trying to help.
	Because, again, I've seen friends fight over women like this.
	It's just...
	It's a tale as old as time, I swear to God, right?
	And so Harry apparently said, Are you serious?
	Help me.
	Sorry, is this what you call this?
	Helping me?
	It's like, yes.
	He says, Harry...
	This angered his brother, who swore while stepping towards him.
	Okay, good.
	Now scared, Harry writes, He went into the kitchen...
	He sounds like such a bitch.
	Exactly.
	You've adopted an incredibly womanly aspect to this, Harry.
	This is about two brothers fighting, and you're like, no, I'm the little sister?
	It's not on, Harry, right?
	He gave his brother a glass of water and says, I can't speak to you when you're like this.
	He writes, he sat down the water, called me another name, then came at me.
	It all happened so fast, so very fast.
	He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace...
	Why are you wearing a necklace?
	And knocked me to the floor.
	I landed on the dog's bowl, which cracked under my back, and the pieces cutting into me.
	I lay there for a moment, dazed, and I got to my feet and told him to get out.
	Now, doesn't that just sound womanly?
	The description.
	Like, these things all happened to me, I wasn't an agent, and then I was like, oh, get out of my house!
	Well, yeah, it just sounds like a massive L. Yeah, it is.
	William urged him to hit him back, citing the fights they had with his children, and Harry refused to do so because he'd transitioned at this point.
	Well, we know who wears the pants in the relationship.
	Sorry, Harry, I don't mean to be dunking on this, but this is really womanly behaviour.
	That has been, again, you've been convinced that this is appropriate and right.
	And actually, when it's two men dealing with their problems, actually it's not appropriate.
	It's actually inappropriate for you to approach your brother as if you're a woman.
	You know, you should have fought him, to be honest.
	Yeah, we'd stop dunking on you if it weren't just so easy.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And you don't have to win, you know, just...
	Stand up for yourself.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Stand up for yourself.
	If you genuinely believe all this, stand up for yourself like a man.
	And also, if you genuinely love Meghan in the way that men do, you should be standing up for her honour.
	Exactly.
	Defending yourself, defending her honour, and William would have respected that as well, right?
	But anyway, William apparently apologised afterwards, just because, I mean...
	You've got to.
	It must have just been pity.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what I was thinking too.
	Right, so William confirmed for Chad, and I'm rather glad about that.
	I'm looking forward to him being king.
	Glad he's first in line.
	Yeah, thank God.
	But they say when William left again, his brother writes to him, he turned and called back, you don't need to tell Meg about this.
	And he's like, well, you mean you attacked me?
	Oh, God, look at that.
	You attacked me.
	Oh, shut up.
	And he didn't come up with you with a knife?
	His two brothers having a scrap?
	What an absolute woman.
	But Harry didn't tell his wife, but he did call his therapist.
	Now, that's interesting.
	He didn't tell his wife, but he did tell the press.
	He didn't go to the pub and have a couple of beers with the lads and be like, God, I'm fighting my brother over Megan.
	What is he so angry about?
	He didn't talk it out with a few mates or something.
	No, I went to my therapist.
	What, in California?
	Actually, yes, there was a therapist in California, right?
	And this seems to be where he was brainwashed by a therapist, right?
	So he's been lured in by the seductive Californian foreign girl, and now he goes to the foreign therapist...
	Why did my brother get angry with me?
	Well, we'll see.
	He's probably gay and just repressed it or something.
	That's going to be the California therapist response.
	But anyway, the Prince of Wales feared his brother was being brainwashed by his therapist, the Duke of Sussex claims in his memoir.
	Yes, because it really looks like you're being brainwashed by a bunch of foreigners, actually, Harry.
	Prince William, who was on a royal tour of Pakistan at the time, was texting with him to express concern, noting that Harry was clearly struggling and needed help.
	And then Harry was like, I'm doing therapy.
	They said, quote, In fact, not that long ago, he had asked if he could come with me to a session because he suspected I was being brainwashed.
	That's literally Harry's words.
	William wanted to come to the therapy sessions because he thought the therapy was brainwashing his brother.
	I mean, we've all had those family gatherings where you've not seen some people for a while, and maybe, I mean, I only have an older sister, I don't have any brothers, but I've got cousins and such, and maybe the cousin comes along who you've not seen in a while, who's suddenly wearing all of the badges, hair's dyed, all funny colours, and you're just like, okay, what happened?
	Well, that's it.
	And so, William's doing the right thing here, I think.
	No, look, I think they're turning you against your family in these therapy sessions, and I think Megan's facilitating this.
	I'm a bit concerned about it.
	Anyway, he says, well, come.
	I'm sure it'll be good to the both of us.
	He never came.
	His strategy was obvious.
	I wasn't well, which meant I wasn't in my right mind, which is why I was behaving questionably.
	I've just thought of another thing as well.
	Given the sort of political attitudes that your typical Californian therapist would have, I wouldn't be surprised if this is purely intentional as a way to try and literally break up elements of a royal family.
	Because what do Californian leftists hate?
	They hate family, and they hate hierarchy.
	What is the royal family, the ultimate expression of both of those concepts?
	It's also, you know, totally not...
	It's nothing that was planned out either.
	So it's just...
	It is exactly, as you say, the absolute antithesis of everything that a Californian leftist is going to want, right?
	And so you can see here that Harry is essentially admitting, oh, I was radicalized.
	He says, I had to work hard to keep my text to my brother civil.
	Like, why?
	Why?
	Why?
	Because he doesn't agree with the new belief system that you're becoming indoctrinated into, right?
	The conversation had descended into a three-day argument, all day and all night, the likes of which they had never previously injured.
	He claims that after months of therapy, his worst nightmare was coming to fruition, that they were becoming strangers.
	So, okay, but your brother isn't going to therapy.
	He's not changing?
	You are changing.
	You are becoming indoctrinated into a new way of thinking that, for you, as you previously said, renders your previous self, when you were just normal, a racist.
	Okay?
	You're the one who's adopting this new way of looking at the world.
	And it's his words, not ours.
	Exactly.
	And this is all in your own words, right?
	He could no longer recognize me or tolerate me.
	Harry admits that he saved all of the texts and still reads them sometimes with sadness and confusion, wondering, how did we ever get here?
	Look in the mirror, mate.
	But again, it's a woman who's breaking the bonds of love that you have with your family in order to have you for herself, in order to destabilize this family for her own gain.
	And this ideology that she's using to do it is being propagated by the therapist, which is why William was like, this therapy is doing this to you.
	Yeah, I mean, the thing is, I've seen family breakups before, and it always happens over two things, which is either a death in the family that causes some trouble between rifts between relationships, or a woman.
	In this case, the royal family sadly has both, because they've had a few major deaths in the family, and then we've got a woman tearing it apart as well.
	But the death in the family didn't tear the family apart, because Diana died when he was like 12 or something.
	No, I mean the more recent ones where...
	Oh, the Queen.
	Philip and then the Queen as well, because it seems that there were some tensions rising during those meetings where the family got together as well.
	There was the quote of Prince...
	Sorry, King...
	Oh my goodness, I forgot.
	Charles?
	Charles?
	I'm so sorry.
	I'm so sorry, Your Majesty.
	I'm so sorry, Your Majesty.
	Yeah, King Charles apparently had to get up between Harry and William while they were arguing at Philip's funeral and just say, like, please, boys, don't make my last years a misery.
	But anyway, he says, you know, how do we ever get here?
	And essentially, Harry, the answer to this is that you agreed with the Californian left to The most important part about Meghan was her race.
	That's why.
	Because in other interviews, he said that, well, they were angry because she was American.
	It's like, there we go.
	That's the real reason.
	She's an American.
	That's the problem.
	No one cares that she's black.
	Americans have never worked for the royal family.
	Historically.
	Well, they're bunch of Republicans.
	How could they?
	But anyway, after the row, he reveals that Prince William wrote and told them that he loved him and would do anything necessary to help him.
	So it's not that William's like, you know, I hate you or anything.
	Harry's the one who's causing the rift with his new ideology.
	Anyway, so Harry continues to be a strong advocate of therapy and thanks more than a dozen practitioners in the acknowledgments of his memoir.
	These include John Amaral, a California-based energy practitioner who he says can help heal depression and post-traumatic stress, and Eric Goodman, the creator of Foundation Training, a yoga-like series of exercises to deal with chronic back pain.
	So the Californification of Prince Harry is what's happened here, right?
	And just to be clear, I completely agree with Lawrence Fox on the Meghan Markle question.
	She's not black.
	No one sees her as black.
	She doesn't look black.
	No one would have said she was black.
	Once again, in the documentary, she explains that she had to keep telling casting directors that she was black because they didn't believe her.
	They thought she was just some tanned Californian woman.
	Yeah, she looks Spanish.
	You know, you tell me she's black, then okay.
	Don't really believe you.
	But I suppose I have to accept it.
	Anyway, so then, Harry, after this...
	Begins framing his own family in remarkably negative ways.
	So he's framed himself as a racist, he's framed his brother as aggressive and unreasonable, and now he's framed his entire family as, quote, a death cult?
	Do you think you're the extremist here, Harry?
	There's an ancient institution that everyone's been operating within completely normally, right up until this point where you got brainwashed by a bunch of therapists and a woman you find seductively attractive for whatever reason.
	And now, oh yeah, my family is a death cult.
	I don't think your family's actually a death cult, right?
	I don't think many people's families are death cults, really.
	It sounds a bit extreme, doesn't it, Harry?
	But he says this, right?
	Reflecting on the upbringing with William in the memoir, he says their brightest days were overshadowed by death.
	Okay, that's about tragedy, Harry.
	That doesn't make you a death cult if you've experienced tragedy.
	And, you know, your mother died.
	Your grandmother died.
	Well, everyone's grandmother dies.
	But, like, you know, your mother died.
	That is a genuine tragedy, right?
	He says, even when Harry and his brother had a stronger relationship, death haunted the family.
	But now I saw that even in our finest moments and best memories somehow involved death.
	That sometimes happens, man.
	That's just life, sadly.
	That's just an aspect of life.
	Eventually people die.
	Memento mori.
	Unfortunately, we've just got to accept it.
	Our lives were built on death.
	Our brightest day is overshadowed by it.
	Looking back, I didn't see spots of time, but dances with death.
	Okay.
	Is this a healthy way of looking at anything?
	And then he goes on to complain about his own family lineage.
	Windsor Castle is a tomb, the walls filled with ancestors.
	That's an incredibly negative way of looking about it.
	It is.
	I'd be looking about proud that I could trace my family lineage back so long and in such a noble line.
	I've got pictures of my grandparents on the wall in my house.
	It's not unusual.
	Yeah, it's not doomed to my dead ancestors.
	It's a celebration of their life now that they've passed.
	It's just such a crazy negative framing.
	Imagine being a prince and being like, yeah, this is evil.
	Oh, God.
	Well, I mean, this is just the American framing of the whole thing.
	The Americans looking at it going, oh, you weird English with your strange traditions and customs.
	Yeah, go away.
	Windsor Castle is a tomb filled with the walls filled with ancestors and the Tower of London held together by the blood of animals.
	Blood of animals.
	Does that mean anything?
	Blood of executed traitors and criminals, maybe.
	What the hell does that mean?
	But then he says, maybe we were a death cult.
	That's not what a lineage is, Harry.
	A lineage is not a death cult.
	It's an honouring of the people who came before you, who provided you with the good things that you cherish or should cherish now.
	Once again, this is just the American progressive attitude bleeding through, though.
	It's this cut yourself from all ties of lineage and family.
	Be a year zero self-made man.
	If you honour your family, that's just honouring death, which is bad and evil somehow.
	Yeah, but anyway, so let's get into the accusation of racism, right?
	So, you may remember that he had an interview with Oprah Winfrey, but before we go on to this quickly, there's a little bit on the previous one I want to end on, where he says, the episode, Harry said the episode was an example of unconscious bias, when someone apparently said they were concerned about the colour of the baby, which, again, just That's just a reasonable thing to be like...
	No, I don't even think it's reasonable.
	I don't know if I believe it, but, like, so?
	Like, my mum had to have a conversation about the colour of my son with my oldest son.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Oh, fair play.
	How come?
	Because he was just curious what colour he come as.
	Fair play.
	The same colour as us, son.
	Yeah, that would make sense.
	But anyway, so he says the royal family needed to learn and grow in order to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
	Right, so the racist death cult royal family that you were once a part of and now have totally rejected needs to learn and grow as in change in order to not be a part of the problem.
	You sound like a Republican, Harry.
	You sound like you need to abolish this archaic institution, right?
	Because he's got this particular quote here.
	Otherwise, unconscious bias then moves into the category of racism.
	Right.
	So they're unconsciously biased against other races, and now that's a form of racism because they're not changing that.
	Especially when you are the monarchy, you have a responsibility, and quite rightly, people hold you to a higher standard than others.
	So you are accusing them of being racist here, right?
	That's an accusation of racism.
	Am I wrong?
	Pretty cut and dry.
	But what else are you implying if that's not...
	I mean, you literally said the unconscious bias moves into the category of racism.
	And then he was like, yeah, well, I never actually called you a racist, though, did I? It's like...
	No, that does seem to be what you're saying.
	I just said you were on the slippery slope to racism, bro.
	Don't worry about it.
	Do exactly as I say, or you're a racist tomorrow.
	So this has come about where he said he's insisted he did not believe the royal family is racist and never claimed that he suggested that they were.
	We've got Google, Harry.
	We can just look.
	Like, we can go back and see what you've said.
	And you saying, well, they're unconsciously biased, and if they don't correct themselves, that becomes racism.
	I don't know what to tell you, Burrow.
	So during the Oprah Winfrey thing, he also said, I'm not accusing them of racism, even though the family had raised concerns about the colour of their unborn son's skin.
	But he said they're not essentially racist.
	I wouldn't say that not having lived within that family.
	Right.
	So you're thinking of your brother, your mother, your father, your uncles, your aunts...
	No, they're not a bunch of racists.
	So why are you saying that they're unconsciously biased, and if they don't do what you say, they're going to be racists?
	Why are you saying that?
	You know they're not racist.
	Because the institution, the system that they operate within, is racist implicitly.
	So the only solution will be get rid of that entire system.
	So the exact quote, I could have got the clip, but...
	This would do.
	Megan was saying, you know, in those months when I was pregnant, there were concerns and conversations about how dark a skin might be when he was born.
	The conversations with Harry, who relayed them to her, both she and her, refused to say which world did it.
	The conversation I'm never going to share, said Harry.
	At the time it was awkward and I was a bit shocked.
	They refused to name the person.
	It's like, really, I mean, was that really one of the arguments, one of the conversations I had?
	It's like, well, what colour is the skin going to be?
	It's like, what difference is the colour of the skin going to be?
	I'm sorry, looking at these two, I wouldn't be worried about the colour of the skin anyway.
	No, not particularly, but even if he came out black as nice, so what?
	He's still the direct lineal descendant of the prince, isn't he?
	That's also true, but once again, well, your dad's a ginger.
	I don't think you've got much to worry about.
	So anyway, Harry doubled down on this.
	No, no, no, I didn't call them racist.
	The press called them racist.
	And it's like, well, the press did indeed call them racist.
	But it's only because, like, you know, with a feeding frenzy with sharks, someone had to throw the chum in the water, Harry.
	And you were like, over the side, and be like, no, no, no, look at the sharks.
	I didn't do that.
	So he's done a series of interviews, by the way, because obviously he's promoting his new book.
	Why he's so interested in hammering home this narrative is another question.
	It's like, what do you think you stand to gain here, Harry?
	Like, why are you constantly making these sort of narrative attacks on your former life, on your parents, on your brother, on the institution of the monarchy?
	Why are you doing these things?
	You don't even know, I think, why you're doing these things.
	And the answer is, of course, you're radicalized into a cult.
	But anyway, Harry doubled down on this in another interview.
	In the Oprah interview, you accuse your family members of racism.
	He says, no, the British press did that, right?
	Did Meghan ever mention they were racists?
	I mean, we have a clip.
	We'll watch this next clip.
	And if a member of his family will comfortably say, we've all had to deal with things that are rude, rude and racist are not the same.
	Now, just to be clear, I've slightly taken out of context, but...
	All right.
	So what she's saying there is there were people in the family who, obviously, the press had been...
	The press is quite aggressive towards members.
	And the press had been calling Kate a weighty Katie because she had to wait to marry William.
	I thought they were just making fun of her weight.
	Yeah, but what she was talking about is actually the press being racist to her.
	But, again, the implication is completely contained within the way she was saying, well, I mean, there's being rude and there's being racist.
	And that's what you mean with all of this.
	When you bring up any of this, you are talking about racism.
	So don't give me this nonsense, right?
	And the complaint was, oh, the press team isn't defending me.
	Why?
	Well, who knows?
	They must be racist too.
	The whole thing is very slimy.
	I don't know how he could try and say anything about, oh, I was never calling everybody racist, when in the documentary for Netflix, the whole thing is based around, it literally takes a massive tangent to say, oh, by the way, did you know that the British Empire was horribly racist?
	And it gets Guardian journalists like David Ulusunga to go like...
	We'll get to that in a second.
	So he, again, doubles down on this and says, no, no, no, look, all I was saying was unconscious bias.
	If you can go to the next one, you can see.
	No, no, no, no.
	It was just unconscious bias.
	But as you've already said, unconscious bias moves into the category of racism.
	So you admit that you're calling them racist, right?
	And the press understandably interpret this as you're calling them racist because they print articles like this one in Time.
	The core message of Meghan and Harry's Oprah interview, racism drove us from the royal family.
	Yeah, because that's what you're saying.
	You don't have to call them a racist to directly, implicitly say that they are being racist.
	You wouldn't say it otherwise.
	And of course this led to people saying, well, who's that racist royal that you refuse to identify?
	Who knows?
	But I thought you weren't calling them racist.
	Don't you want to be like, oh no, actually, sorry chaps, you've got the wrong end of the stick here.
	I didn't say there was a racist royal, so you can knock off that.
	And why did William have to be like, no, we're not a racist family in 2021?
	Because the press were hounding them about being racist.
	I mean, if they wanted to clear this whole thing up, they did have that long-standing Spotify podcast deal that they just didn't use for years.
	Didn't they make one episode?
	I think they made two episodes, and then it stopped, and then I looked recently, and Meghan Markle now has her own Spotify podcast where she talks to inspiring women from around the globe.
	Amazing.
	But the point is, you knew what you were drumming up when you levelled these accusations.
	You were implying that the royal family was racist, and of course the press ran with this because that's what they expect.
	And it's not just the royal family, of course, it's Britain is racist as well, isn't it, Harry?
	Of course it is.
	As you said, Britain and the Empire were horribly racist.
	Brexit is racist, obviously.
	Yeah, they do a lot of that in the documentary.
	Britain's racist.
	Brexit was racist, don't you understand?
	Britain's full of evil people who hate black people because of Brexit.
	Interposed with lots of images of little old ladies with Union Jack flags cheering on Harry and Meghan as they walk down the street, of course.
	Right, yeah.
	Because the royal family's unconscious bias is part of the problem when it comes to racism in Britain.
	The problem being Britain is British and not non-British.
	This is now racism.
	Lengthy segments are given to the academics Afua Hirsch and David Alusoga.
	Alasoga, I assume.
	He's the guy who wrote that black and British book.
	Yep.
	And Arthur Hirsch is just someone who just wants to praise every day for the destruction of Britain.
	But the point is, you know, thanks for enabling these anti-British race grifters, Harry.
	It's weird how you're not calling anyone racist.
	It's just all of this stuff calls everyone racist all the time.
	And, of course, there was a part by Kehinde Andrews, my favourite anti-racist.
	Demented lunatics, basically.
	And so...
	There we go.
	That's pretty much it.
	So when it comes to all of this, he goes through this conversion to American ideology, becomes a racial activist, breaks all of his bonds, and then eventually he's like, look, I want my father and brother back.
	And you've got to ask yourself, Harry, who took them away?
	What took them away?
	Why are you acting this way?
	Why are you in these deeply ideological battles with your own family?
	Why have you rejected them, not they rejected you?
	You're the one who left.
	They didn't tell you to go.
	You left, right?
	And so, again, this is what started this whole segment, really.
	Harry says, I would like to get my father back.
	I'd like to have my brother back.
	They've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile.
	It's like, no willingness to reconcile?
	You call them a bunch of racists internationally, and then you left with a foreign woman, and you are insisting that they have to agree with you that they are racists to reconcile.
	I mean, it seems to me as well that William starting the world's most pathetic fight, because Harry refused to fight back, was all done in the attempt to get him to address and communicate properly.
	It wasn't to try and push you away, Harry.
	It was trying to bring you back into the fold.
	Let's fight like we used to when we were children, and then we can have a proper discussion about this like men.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly right.
	And Harry's response is, well, if you won't join my woke cult, you're not reconciling with me.
	It's like, no, they shouldn't join your woke.
	But he says, I want a family, not an institution.
	And it's like, okay, that's interesting because you're a prince.
	Well, you were a prince.
	And the royal family is, of course, an institution.
	It's the institution.
	It is the fulcrum that the entire United Kingdom revolves around.
	It's the United Kingdom.
	The royal family is the institution at the center of that.
	And you know what?
	It's actually fine if you want to leave.
	It's actually totally fine.
	No one's going to be angry with you.
	If one day Prince Harry came out and said, you know, I actually don't think I really want to be a prince.
	I've thought about it.
	I've fallen in love with a foreign girl.
	Actually, this just isn't the life for me.
	I just want to leave and go about my life and live as a private citizen somewhere in America or something.
	You'd be like, Okay, totally understand, man.
	You were born into it.
	Once again, it's not like he's first in line for the throne.
	So it's not even that big a deal.
	It's not a big deal.
	And yeah, like you say, he's not first in line for the throne anyway.
	But even if he was, I think it would be understandable.
	You know, we say, look, I was born into this.
	I didn't choose this.
	It's too much for me or whatever.
	I've got my reasons.
	I just don't want to, you know, so I'm going to abdicate.
	And everyone would understand.
	But instead, writing books and going, yeah, so you're all a bunch of racists because I'm particularly woke now.
	And yeah, so in fact, Britain's racist.
	The Empire's racist.
	Everything's very racist.
	You're all evil.
	Death cult, in fact.
	I'm off.
	It's like, well, that wasn't necessary.
	All in his never-ending quest for some damn privacy as well.
	Yeah, that's another thing.
	In fact, let's go to the next one.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Yeah, like Dan pointing out, my God, Prince Harry is now lecturing Charles and William on keeping their private conversations private.
	Can you even imagine the irony of this?
	But anyway, yeah.
	So, in summary, Harry, you've been seduced by a foreign woman.
	You've been seduced into a foreign ideology.
	You've been brainwashed into it by your therapist.
	And now you're blaming everyone else for the things that you've done, even though everyone can see what you've done.
	I'm not even like, you know, or at least I wasn't a particular monarchist until you were pointing out that William was going to beat you up, which is fine.
	Okay, now I'm a monarchist.
	But...
	But the point is, you're doing this to yourself and you're not doing yourself any favours.
	Alright, and it looks like he's been written out of the King's Coronation by the sounds of it.
	Yeah, I didn't see that one at the end, John.
	What was that?
	Okay, well, you get what you deserve.
	Yeah, did this to yourself.
	You didn't have to call them a death cult, Harry.
	Yeah, your dad probably didn't take kindly to that.
	Weirdly!
	Shockingly enough!
	My dad wasn't a fan of calling our family a death cult.
	I don't know why.
	That's never been one to go over well at the dinner table, for me at least.
	Anyway, let's move on, shall we, to the Transmaxing Manifesto.
	Now, this is a slightly strange, slightly disturbing area of the internet that I found myself falling into.
	I'm not considering it.
	I've had long hair before, but I'm not going back any time soon.
	No, no, you Transmax as much as you need, mate.
	Fair play.
	Well, the thing is, I only just really learnt about what Transmaxing is through researching this segment.
	And honestly, while it is strange and not anything I would recommend, I can understand the reasons that some of these men are choosing to do such a thing.
	Are you aware of what it is?
	Because I'd only heard of it through memes in search.
	Not really, but I can guess through just...
	It's becoming as trans as possible, right?
	It's the incels adapting.
	The incels adapting to modernity, which has already tracked them.
	Improvise, adapt, overcome.
	That's exactly, yes.
	Bear Grylls in a wig.
	And as such, I thought it would be appropriate to draw everyone's attention to an article that Thomas did back in June called Insuldom is Only Going to Get Worse.
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	And he was right.
	And he was absolutely right.
	This is a very prophetic article.
	Because, yes, insultdom is only going to get worse, has already got worse, and will probably continue to get worse for as long as we're trapped in the benign reality of modernity.
	Because this is what it's driving men to.
	So, to explain what Transmaxing is, I don't think there's anything better than Mary Harrington's headline to this article.
	Why are incels turning themselves into girls?
	Well, it kind of explains itself, actually, doesn't it?
	Didn't you have a thesis about this to do with a particularly notorious incel?
	Oh, well, I mean, possibly, but let's carry on.
	Yeah, let's carry on.
	So, this is just talking about how incels are adapting to the fact that they aren't ever going to get laid, or at least feel that way, and feel completely rejected by society.
	And hate their lives and are just completely miserable and dejected, isolated, by going, well everybody seems to like trans people, and trans people seem to get lots of benefits from society, and have a lot of fun, and if I can pass well enough, because a lot of these incels are, let's be honest, twinks as it is, like, well if I pass enough, most people just seeing me will treat me like a woman anyway.
	And people generally treat women in a much nicer way than they treat men.
	This is what women who have become men have found.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is the red pill that lots of feminists don't want to take, which is by virtue of being a woman, you are treated much nicer by people in your everyday interactions than a lot of men are.
	Men are kind of just expected to just get on with whatever life throws at them.
	We're going to do that Nora Vincent book.
	Yes, I've got that book.
	I need to, because she definitely discovered...
	Sadly, it would be appropriate as well, because sadly she did go ahead with assisted suicide last year as well.
	Last year, right?
	Yeah, I think it was...
	I don't know if this is entirely accurate, but it was supposedly pushed on by mental problems that she developed from her year...
	For those without any context of what we're talking about, Nora Vincent was a journalist who decided to test the theory that men have it better than women.
	Men are just treated better and have every opportunity at life thrown at them.
	And she decided to do that by dressing as a man for an entire year and living as a man.
	For an entire year, yes, very convincingly, and found that it was horrible, and that she hated it, and that nobody was nice to her, nobody held doors open for her, not that that was the main thing.
	Just the sort of general privilege...
	The privileges that she had come to expect from being a woman and the way that she was treated by men suddenly vanished, and suddenly she discovered that men have it very difficult on the day-to-day, especially destitute men, especially men who aren't in a position of privilege already due to birth or their job or anything like that.
	It's not a nice position to be in, and these incels are people who have internalised that and taken on the trans narrative not for purely ideological reasons, but for purely practical reasons.
	They're just like, well, if I can become a woman and have a nicer life...
	Gonna do it.
	And there is also, of course, a sexual aspect to this which we'll get onto when we start to take a deeper look into the Transmaxing Manifesto itself, but there are some genuinely understandable and very lucid reasons that these men are giving, and it is horrible to me that they feel the need to have to go to such an extent,
	because they shouldn't have to, to be able to live a good life, and the only way I can see to reverse this kind of trend where men feel the need to have to do this, or at least a certain type of man, Is for modernity to just die the death it so rightfully deserves.
	But we're nowhere near close to that at the moment.
	Prince William needs to burst in and beat a few of them up.
	And he needs to shout at them to fight back while they're at it as well.
	Fight back!
	Come on, hit me!
	Don't try and hit me!
	Yeah, so this article is great.
	It talks about some of the reports that have been made.
	So some report of making up...
	Once again, this is very lucid, and they're not doing it for any ideological reasons.
	I'm not saying it's irrational.
	They're making up stories of gender dysphoria for medical professionals, while others self-induce gender dysphoria by watching Sissy Hypno.
	I've never heard of this.
	Sissy hypno.
	And this, once again, kind of proves Connor's thesis about just how damaging pornography is, especially to the male mind.
	Absolutely right, because these men are watching sissy hypno.
	But also, it's not a born-this-way argument, right?
	No, of course not.
	No, you're training yourself, you're habituating yourself into this.
	And this also lines up with other examples we've seen from posts on the male-to-female Reddit forum, where they're just like, well, I got into this sissy porn, and all of a sudden I felt that I should be a woman.
	Okay, alright.
	Never felt this way before.
	It just happened, yeah.
	I brainwashed myself into becoming a woman.
	Right, okay.
	Yes, exactly that.
	And like they say here, they're abandoning the civil rights born this way narrative.
	They're just saying many trans-maxers report that the interventions have significantly improved their lives.
	Why, such individuals might ask, does anyone need a born in the wrong body story to justify something that just works on its own terms?
	That's kind of a difficult question to respond to.
	It just tells you the way that society's rigged for it, right?
	It's loaded in the direction that actually being trans and being a woman is much more preferable to being a loser man.
	I mean, my problem with it is it still works in favour of a lot of the negative social forces going in society if men just accept it.
	Men should be the ones providing the bulwark against these kinds of ridiculous developments in societies.
	We should be setting the boundaries.
	But these men are going along with it, because they basically see themselves as having no other choice.
	And the other thing is, of course, it means you are, like so many others, just a customer for the medical profession for the rest of your life, basically.
	Yeah.
	But then, this article linked to this substack article called Transmaxing the Incel to Trans Woman Pipeline that goes into a lot more detail because, once again, this Transmaxing Manifesto, which is available for anybody to look at online, if you go into the comments down below, you can read the whole thing for yourself, is 73 pages long.
	What?
	73 pages long.
	Christ, okay.
	And not only that, they have lots of studies that they really understand deeply.
	These are not people...
	I mean, you talk about incels, these are definitely 4chan autists.
	Right.
	Because they've gone to the 4chan autist level of detail to look into all of this.
	They even refute most of the civil rights pro-trans lobby arguments.
	By just going like, well yeah, this doesn't work, this doesn't work, this is stupid, here's some pictures of some horrible failed attempts at creating a vagina.
	But now, I'm off to see my boyfriend, and I'm not an incel anymore.
	Well, yeah, basically.
	They're saying, well, if I transition, and then all of my other incel friends transition as well, then technically, we're just sissy trans lesbians, therefore we're not gay.
	And it's completely understandable.
	They've rationalized it away.
	Can't get a girlfriend?
	Become the girlfriend.
	They have memes basically saying that.
	Of course they do.
	So, yeah, I'll just read through some of this.
	For some men, the solution to the despair of living as an isolated, unhappy male is straightforward.
	Just become a woman.
	I'm not even angry.
	I'm not judging.
	That's the thing.
	It makes sense from the position we're in in society right now.
	This is just what society has driven some men to do.
	What was it?
	In an insane society, the only rational decision is to become insane.
	There you go.
	How society benefits from people transitioning.
	This is part of the document that they've listed out here.
	Incels will become less likely to develop or maintain problematic political beliefs or become violent.
	They will instead benefit from accelerated hypergamy.
	Hypergamy?
	I don't know how you're supposed to pronounce it.
	Hypergamy.
	Hypergamy.
	Yeah.
	Which is just increased female sex drive, isn't it?
	No, no, no, no.
	It's the practice of women essentially sort of marrying up.
	Oh, yeah.
	Marrying men for status and then improving their position in society by moving between men at higher statuses.
	Yeah, so it's basically saying, well, if I transition, I can become a whore and be celebrated for it.
	Yeah.
	Which is just fact-check true, sadly.
	Yeah, and gynocentrism, obviously.
	Yep.
	How to transition, the 13-step process that involves watching anime and sissy hypnoporn to induce dysphoria.
	I knew anime was a problem.
	Yeah, bank your sperm, begin hormone replacement therapy.
	Look at this...
	I'm sorry, just look at this meme here.
	We've got the virgin antidepressant user.
	Now, I'm just describing this for those listening.
	Yeah.
	Which just looks like the, you know, virgin walk meme.
	Versus Stacey Transitioner.
	So they're still using the incel Stacey language there.
	But look at some of the reasons they're given.
	Growing ever more feminine.
	Basically living a sexual fantasy 24-7.
	On the right side of history.
	You're actually special and worth remembering.
	Hmm.
	Bargain HRT from Kiev.
	Alright.
	Massive friends groups of transitioners and cis women, because some of these people are just...
	They're also saying, well, normal women will also like us more because they'll perceive us as less threatening.
	Now they have friends, now they have a social life...
	Because you see it before, like, you know, not cute, never will be, never have a girlfriend, destroyed personality, to be more useful to a system that hates him, atomized individual, literally no one cares about you, pills don't work anyway, you know, to be forgotten, seriously not happy, lighted by chemicals, kill sex, you know, like, you can see why someone would choose to get out of that position by transition.
	One of the other reasons to transition right there, one of the most oppressed minorities, women and leftists will love you.
	Yeah.
	Basically, just people will treat me nicer.
	But, I mean, but the virgin antidepressant user, I mean, if that person isn't being oppressed by society, who is?
	You know?
	Yeah.
	But no, no, once you trans, oh, now you're oppressed.
	It's like, yeah, because everyone likes me and I get everything.
	It's like, really?
	That's oppression, is it?
	Once again, though, there is definitely a fetish element to this as well, because one of the reasons given is just saying trans women have way better sex than chads.
	On estrogen, you will experience multiple full-body orgasms.
	Alright?
	If you say so, and there is a 1200 plus member Transmaxing Discord, which includes men who have transitioned, those who are merely interested, and everything in between.
	And there are Transmaxing success stories in the chapter, a full chapter of that, in the manifesto, which I presume have been gotten from interviews with these people, and also just stories that have been seen in this Discord, because there are some screenshots from the Discord.
	And it just says, four years ago, I was an edgy right-wing anti-SJW teen who was borderline MGTOW, so this is one of your former supporters.
	Yeah, someone needs to subscribe to me, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Now I'm a gay cat girl dating an anarchist trans girl.
	So they've gone from you to dev.
	Okay, it's fine.
	Is what's going on.
	I just feel bad for them, yeah.
	I know.
	Cat the Vat, a YouTuber and member of the Transmax Discord, suspects the manifesto's porn talk, and particularly fantasies about forced feminization, may serve a practical purpose for would-be Transmaxers.
	So it's basically just, like, soothe them into the idea of it by just telling them about how pornographic the whole thing will be, and how you'll just live a 24-7 sex fantasy.
	But you know what this is?
	This is an excuse for not getting fit.
	This is an excuse for not working hard.
	This is an excuse for all of these things.
	Well, it can be, but also, once again, if you are just the little twinkie boy, and you still get fit anyway, the likelihood is, okay, you're fit and you're a twink.
	Women care a lot about height.
	Yeah, they do, but I know lots of vertically challenged men who are married.
	We believe in you, Callum.
	Well, yeah, but Pete as well, you know, like, you know, they're all successful with women.
	It's just that, you know...
	There's got to be a certain confidence that you put forward.
	Yeah, but there's also, it's a certain class of woman who's obsessed by height.
	And okay, if you're a short guy, that's not your girl, right?
	You find a woman who's not excessively obsessed with height and is instead concerned about something else.
	Because, you know, there's a huge range of personality types everywhere.
	So it's not the end of the world, you know, just don't worry about those ones.
	But once again, I can understand where these men are coming from, purely from the original position of, my life sucks, everything in society around me is designed, explicitly designed, because I'm a white man, to push me down.
	I don't blame you for trying to escape that, but...
	This isn't the answer.
	You're basically just falling into the enemy's paradigm by doing this.
	Even if you are rejecting the born-this-way narrative, you are still becoming a patient for life, you're becoming a customer for life, you're still just falling into the trap, basically.
	And also, you're not getting the thing you actually wanted, which is a family, right?
	Like, you wanted a girlfriend, so you could get married and start a family.
	You're not gonna get that.
	No, no.
	That's why you gotta bank your sperm, which, good luck with that.
	Yeah, but I do like one thing about this, which is it's going to absolutely piss off your typical trans-activists.
	They are not going to like the assumption, and then the proven evidence that if you transition, life doesn't get worse, you don't suddenly become the oppressed class, you actually become somebody that society values.
	Yeah, it is a privilege.
	And then we've got more testimonies further down in the article.
	So, Tina, a 23-year-old German trans-maxer who's been living as a woman for the past year, transition has been a solution to insuldom.
	Tina came to two crucial conclusions from being rejected by a load of women over the years.
	First, that men are replaceable from a reproductive standpoint, and second, that 1 in 20 men are doomed to become incels because of the imbalance in the birth-to-sex ratio.
	On average, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls, although that ratio can vary.
	But that's not understanding that men kill themselves and die through stupidity at a much higher rate than women.
	This is true.
	Incels need to bank on the stupidity and recklessness of other men.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, that's a fair point.
	That's totally true.
	My wife sends me these videos all the time.
	Some guy is like, you know, he set up a bike ramp on the roof of his house or something to try and land on his swimming pool or something like that.
	That sounds pretty fun.
	Can I get any on this?
	Exactly.
	And she's always like, it's always men doing the stupid stuff.
	And I'm like, yeah, it is, yeah, because we're not like women.
	You don't understand.
	But if you actually look at it, the population of Britain is 49% men, 51% women.
	And it's probably the same in Germany and everywhere else, because it's one of those things you actually need to produce more men because men are stupid.
	We'll just take ourselves out completely by accident.
	Yes, we will.
	I mean, Pete, in fact, has actually saved me once or twice just because I was about to walk on the road without looking either way, just because I was like, ah, fine, my animal instinct tells me the road is fine right now.
	Exactly.
	When this Tina person learned that anti-androgens, which suppress testosterone production, are often prescribed to trans women as part of hormone replacement therapy, he decided to fake gender dysphoria in order to access the drug.
	I had never concerned myself with any kind of trans stuff before, but after going to several trans-specialised psychologists and telling the completely fake, Tina's own words, dysphoria story, the general gist of it is, I've had gender dysphoria since I was 14, I'm uncomfortable around women and I envy them for their femaleness and all that kind of S, Tina received a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and prescriptions for antiandrogens and estrogen.
	Oh, that's brutal!
	That is brutal.
	Once again, the trans activists will despise this.
	What's the scientific validity for people saying that they have gender dysphoria?
	Well, all they have to do is tell us, because there's nothing we can do to prove it, and so someone can literally just lie and say, yeah, all of the words you want to hear, and now here's the pills.
	And this is something I've seen before with, like, the female to male ones, where they go, well, I literally go on YouTube, some trans influencer basically gives me a script that I read out to a doctor, and then I immediately get prescribed testosterone.
	Exactly.
	There's no science or, you know, nothing behind it other than literally their opinion.
	Yeah, and now Tina has been living full-time as a woman for the past year and recently travelled to Spain for a concentration with a facial feminisation surgeon.
	Since she has been clinically diagnosed with dysphoria, the German government will cover all costs associated with the transition, which she estimates will total about €80,000.
	Jesus Christ!
	So not only are incels transitioning to get a better life, the taxpayer is funding it as well.
	And there's no program for, you know, the incels to go, look, doctor, I feel depressed because I'm fat and, you know, flabby and I've never lifted a weight.
	And the German government's like, hey, we'll pay for your gym membership, you know?
	That would be nice.
	Yeah, that would be good, right?
	There's no incentive in the opposite direction.
	The incentive is only, why don't you just become a woman?
	There you go.
	And interestingly, this article continues to say, Wow, why would it?
	Vintology says that he, this is one person on this Discord, says that he would ban female-to-male transition completely for the good of society, citing these five reasons.
	Okay.
	Number one, female-to-male transition is detrimental for the fertility rate in most cases, as there's no good way to preserve fertility.
	That's true.
	That's a good point.
	Female-to-male transition makes the incel problem worse.
	What, so are you suggesting that Elliot Page is now just an incel?
	I mean...
	Yes, obviously.
	Yes.
	I mean, he literally looks like the Virgin Walk meme, so I can't deny...
	Yeah, and then female-to-male transition results in less beautiful females in society.
	I mean, that's just also true.
	Female-to-male transition seems to have worse overall outcomes in studies.
	True.
	And female-to-male transition generally rely more on irreversible surgeries, such as mastectomies, which leave permanent scars.
	Also, the effects from testosterone are much harder to reverse.
	I can't believe it.
	This is all true, because what you'll find from the Transmax is if we go into the actual document now, we won't rest on the document for too long, because once again, just grab the bar at the side and just scroll through it, because there is so much detail in here, and there's multiple pages given over to just memes as well, as you would kind of expect.
	Look, here are some of the success stories.
	Look, I was this little Twinkie boy.
	Look how pretty I am now.
	Okay, so take this guy on the left, right?
	Okay, yeah.
	You are young and kind of beardless, but if you started doing things that would up your testosterone levels, so you'd actually start growing a beard, like, you know, play contact sports, you know?
	Go to the gym, work out, whatever.
	It's not that you were in a particularly hopeless position.
	It's just that you were young and Mm-hmm.
	And now you've made this big decision where you've got tits now.
	Yeah, okay, good luck.
	Fair play, good luck to you, but it's still weird, okay?
	And one of the things that you find...
	None of these men look like irredeemable cases to me.
	No, they really don't.
	But one of the things you'll find as well is they actively suggest...
	Okay, one of the questions that they ask is...
	But won't my neo-vagina be horrible?
	And they just go, well, don't get one.
	We would never recommend you get one.
	Keep your penis.
	And they say, people will find it kinkier anyway.
	Because once again, one of the goals of this is to be able to sleep with more people.
	And if you can be somebody's fetish, then you're more likely to be successful.
	I mean, look at these.
	Very strange.
	Very strange.
	But...
	But, I think that's enough of the Transmaxing Manifesto now.
	So, one of the things that I noticed as well is that I saw this, which is that people aren't just using the logic to fight back against the loneliness of being an incel.
	Some people are using this logic to fight back against the way the law is stacked against men.
	Yep, men legally change gender to gain custody of kids' trans groups' concern.
	I mean, that surely tells you everything you need to know about the state of men's rights in this society.
	Yeah.
	I mean, seriously, this Vice article is basically just saying here, legal system is so stacked against men he has to change gender to get his kids.
	Trans most affected.
	Trans most affected.
	As always, in the actual article itself, he goes into it a little bit more.
	The man, Rene Salinas Ramos, told local media the change was not related to his sexuality or identity.
	It's just that the Ecuadorian legal system gives preferable rights to mothers over fathers when it comes to the custody of children.
	There you go.
	So I became the mother.
	Literally, that's what he says.
	These laws say that one who has the right is the woman.
	As of this moment, I am female.
	Now I'm also a mom.
	That's how I consider myself.
	That's what the law says.
	There you go.
	So trans rights groups, don't hate the player.
	Hate the game.
	You set the rules up.
	This is just the logical consequence of it.
	And trans maxes, I kind of sympathize with your plight, but it's still very strange.
	Like Carl says, maybe get a gym membership instead of going ahead with all of this gender transition nonsense.
	Play contact sports.
	That's what I'd recommend.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	I noticed that Carl was posting Warhammer battle reports on Twitter, and I was wondering if he was going to do that more often, maybe on a weekly basis, because I used to keep up with battle reports when I was young, and unfortunately all the people posted them kind of died off.
	Maybe that should be a new thing for him.
	Also, is the Lotus Eaters aware of the Flash Kids channel making a series of videos about the Black Templars waging a holy crusade against the furry menace?
	It's actually pretty funny.
	I think you guys would get a kick out of watching them.
	I need to check that out.
	Oh, it's amazing.
	I'm a huge fan of Flash Gears.
	Almost all of their videos.
	I can't think of a single one of their videos that isn't genuinely hilarious.
	They've got insanely edgy humour.
	What are they called?
	Flash?
	Flash Gears.
	I'll send you a link afterwards.
	Flash Gears, okay.
	They're so good.
	But I wish I could get a game of Warhammer every week.
	Like, I don't have the time to play Warhammer every single week.
	Like, once a month is about where I'm at.
	And yeah, I've, like, since I've been on Twitter.
	Because, you know, I can just take the photos and post them whenever.
	Yeah, I'll post, like, the battles we have on Twitter.
	It's just fun.
	You know, let's go to the next one.
	Hey, Carl.
	So I just watched your podcast with Peter Boghossian.
	And it was really fascinating and eye-opening.
	So here's a guy who's an atheist, who's trying to reason himself correct in the way of God, while at the same time unwilling to accept things that reason would tell him if it conflicts with his own personal preference that he thinks should be universal.
	No wonder everybody's confused.
	Yeah, Peter is a great guy, professor of philosophy at Portland.
	I didn't know about this.
	Did you speak to him recently?
	Yeah, we recently had like a two hour long discussion about just where things are.
	And I've essentially arrived at the idea that there probably aren't universal values.
	But that's okay.
	I don't need universal values.
	My parochial values are enough.
	To satisfy my criteria.
	And I accept that that's postmodern.
	That's fine.
	So I'm happy to call myself a postmodern traditionalist.
	And Peter is like, well, maybe we can save the Enlightenment.
	Maybe we can save rational, universal values.
	And I just don't think we can.
	And so I'm happy to let them go.
	I've taken the position of trying to impose supposedly universal values on peoples and cultures that so obviously don't want them, don't fit with them, actively reject them and fight back against them.
	Is in a sense a form of cruelty on our part?
	Why should we expect them to uphold themselves to standards that they so obviously despise?
	It's definitely imperial, isn't it?
	It certainly is.
	There was the...
	What was it?
	There was an interview with some black guy the other day I saw who was literally just saying that for black people, professionalism is just anti-black.
	It's just not white.
	It's just white behavior.
	It's just anti-black.
	And obviously there are plenty of black people who that does not apply to.
	Sure.
	But this shows it's not a universal value.
	Yeah, there is a massive contingent of the black American population who feel that exact same way.
	That's why professional values get labeled white.
	Maybe they are.
	Maybe they are, historically speaking.
	Yeah, I mean, you could render it that way from a particular perspective.
	I mean, professional values weren't invented by the Islamic world or by China.
	No, they certainly weren't.
	They have a different set of, you know, what we call modern corporate...
	Behaviour, professionalism.
	It's European.
	Yeah, I mean, I can expect English people to conform to English values, for the most part.
	I mean, that's what we're used to, what we were raised with.
	It kind of runs in our blood at this point.
	But expecting Abdul, who's just gotten off the boat, to be able to become a model citizen?
	Doubt it.
	Very much doubt it.
	I'm not even saying they'd be bad.
	It's just...
	It's unfair to say he would be a model citizen.
	There's nothing to say that he wouldn't, you know, work hard, provide for his family, pay his taxes, obey the law, right?
	But the values that he holds just won't be rationalistic enlightenment values.
	They'll be Islamic values.
	And that's not to say that every Islamic value is bad.
	You know, they're not.
	There are certain aspects that I think are different, but that's not to say that every Muslim has that value or the other value or whatever.
	But it's the argument that, like, oh, well, everyone is essentially kind of forced to agree with this rationalistic universal value.
	So, okay, but there are irrational values that are still valid and they're still deeply held that contradict with your rationalistic enlightenment value, and there's no particular reason that they have to give them up.
	See, I think it's interesting that you labelled that as being post-modern, because I think that just goes to show that modernity, a lot of the ideas that came from modernity just weren't correct.
	Because that idea of modernity, it's suddenly becoming post-modern to think that each culture and each people has its own set of values that may not necessarily work for everybody else.
	It's also pre-modern.
	Yeah, that's pre-modern.
	That's a very traditional mindset that basically everybody held.
	Yeah.
	But in the 20th century, we ended up in modernity and had to accept that, you know, it's the one rule for everyone and it turns out that it's just not.
	And that's fine.
	We can go back to the pre-modern understanding that people are different and that's okay.
	Everything seemed to work better back then.
	Well, there'll be arguments about that.
	You've caused a massive discussion there.
	Let's carry on.
	I humbly ask for a segment for the podcast or a premium on what I'm about to share.
	I think it's more important now than ever.
	Fifty years ago, Richard Feynman spoke of scientific cargo cults.
	I believe that this is the key to the cult of COVID and what I call religious scientism and how unscientific it really has been.
	It explains the neuroscientific thought while doing just the opposite.
	You'll have to send me a link to this, like tweet a link of it at me or something.
	I think the link's at the top of the page.
	Yeah, but I'm never going to remember it by the time I get back to my desk.
	But yeah, I would be interested in reading it because it's probably true.
	And the COVID stuff especially has the aspect of a cargo cult.
	Like, you know what a cargo cult is.
	No.
	So Polynesian Islanders, during World War II, the Americans would fly over and drop cargo, as in supplies.
	And obviously some of this got lost.
	And so they opened up these boxes and found all of this magical stuff from the gods.
	And so they went to the extent of building Wicca planes and Wicca runways in order to try and encourage the gods to drop them the magical cargo again.
	Right, from the sky.
	Because as far as they're concerned, they're a Stone Age Polynesian tribe.
	There's a sweet innocence to that.
	There is, and it's kind of, you know, you can understand why they would do that, right?
	And it's like, yeah, no, you're trying to get them to come back.
	And so this is what he's saying is that the cargo cop with COVID is like...
	This isn't going to work, and there was nothing there really.
	We're not on YouTube now, so masks didn't work.
	God knows what about the rest of it.
	Lockdowns didn't work.
	The spread carried on.
	None of that worked.
	But the people still wearing them, like, oh, we should have another lockdown.
	Why?
	Why?
	Well, the magical cargo might arrive from the gods again.
	I have seen some random nutters bringing that whole idea up again recently.
	Oh my goodness, I saw a clip from Jimmy Kimmel, I think it was, over the weekend, where he was dancing, talking about, singing to his band about the newest strain of COVID-19.
	Oh, thank God.
	I was watching and going, I don't care.
	I just don't care.
	Sorry, let's go to the next one.
	I stayed up, washing the pots for Grandad, so they'll all be washed in the morning, and I just look at the back door to the house, and she's just staring into my soul.
	Every night!
	Do you come here every night thinking that I'm gonna feed you?
	You're not even my cat, you're next door- you're next door neighbor's cat, for goodness sake.
	Alright, I'll pet you fine.
	That is the meow feed me noise as well.
	Yes, yes it is.
	And you should.
	You should feed it.
	No, no, you shouldn't.
	Because the people who own the cat will be like, who the hell is feeding our cat?
	Why is our cat getting so fat?
	You shouldn't feed cats that aren't yours.
	That's true, but I do feel bad.
	I've noticed recently that thing that cats do where they do that eck, eck, eck, eck sort of thing.
	Do your cats do that?
	No, none of my cats do.
	That's weird.
	I need to understand why that happens.
	One of my cats is obsessed with drinking my shower water though.
	It's really gross and creepy.
	Literally, right, so the cats get locked in the kitchen in the evening, so they're in there overnight.
	And then, like, 7 o'clock in the morning, my son will go into the kitchen to get his breakfast so the cats can come out.
	And then one of them will get into our bedroom while I'm in the shower, and I'll get out of the shower, I'll open the door, and then she'll go into the shower and just lick the water that's in there.
	And I'm like, that is so weird, right?
	That's so gross.
	But no, no, the thing is, it's so bizarre, right?
	And me and my wife are just like Rosie, just knock it off, this is creepy, right?
	But this morning, I had got up a bit earlier, and so I'd gone downstairs, and I went to the toilet, came out, and the cat went into the toilet and was meowing at me, angry that there was no shower water in the toilet.
	I'm like, this isn't the shower, you stupid cat, right?
	It sounded like it for a second, come on.
	I came out of the door, oh brilliant, I'll go get my shower water today.
	It's like, oh god, you're so weird, cat.
	You're so weird.
	So I don't know what I can do about it.
	If anyone's got any suggestions on how I can get my cat to stop drinking my shower water.
	How to wean your cat off shower water.
	My wife would be very pleased and it's creepy.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	A Gentleman's Observations of Ohio, Chapter 3A, Residential Architecture.
	In the residential areas, there's no shortage of mock Tudor homes, as well as other grand housing styles that well-to-do Brits would love to get their hands on too, but there's also lots of colonial aesthetics in Ohioan housing.
	Of course, the typical American suburban big two-floor detached houses with open front yards which ended at the square paved sidewalks made their appearance too.
	There's plenty of squat, flat stores and businesses which are so indicative of small-town America, which felt small and personal, as well as an easy walking distance.
	Nice.
	Yeah, that all sounds very nice.
	Not one single giant glass steel building.
	Monstrosity.
	Oh, I went to Bath for the first time over this weekend.
	Nice, isn't it?
	It's gorgeous.
	Gorgeous city.
	Spent far too long not going there.
	Yeah, it's literally only half an hour away from us on the train as well.
	Yeah, I just drove there.
	It took less than an hour to get there, and all of a sudden it felt like I was in England again.
	It's amazing.
	It was nice.
	Let's go for the next one.
	Okay, so I know Sargon's been bouncing around the idea of coming to the United States and doing the full tour.
	If you guys do, where would you like to visit first?
	And Harry, don't say Waffle House.
	I don't know, man.
	Waffle House does seem like an adventure, at the very least.
	Like, any urban American business at this point.
	I've seen too many Walmart flights.
	Yeah, I saw one earlier before we came on Twitter.
	There's just...
	If we ended up in New York or...
	Urban people, scrapping.
	I can visit some bodegas in New York.
	See if they've got any butter in.
	JC says, Since humans can always disagree with moral framework derived from humans, is there any sort of moral framework we can draw upon from pre-human beings?
	How can we argue with a framework that has led to our continuing existence?
	Well, that's a massive question I'm not going to answer in the last five minutes of this podcast, I'm afraid.
	But it's a good question.
	Rue the Day says, unrelated, but boy am I glad I put Yas on my budget.
	I finally got around to listening to Meditations Book Club.
	Oh.
	You subscribed.
	Oh, right, right, right, right.
	Meditations Book Club, which I had bookmarked for two years and found out there's a download option.
	Never felt so validated.
	My decision to pay for media.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I'm working very hard.
	We do do great material.
	I think we do.
	Risto says, at this point I'm convinced the USA blew up the Nord Stream and the EU countries are keeping quiet if they know what's good for them.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	Putin was like, you know what, I need this to provide gas to Europe, so they give me loads of money.
	I'm going to blow that up.
	Makes sense.
	Why don't you just turn it off?
	No, you just turned it off.
	You got your control of the flow.
	No, he blew it up.
	Of course he did.
	It's nonsense.
	It's such nonsense.
	But I wouldn't be surprised if McCarthy was somehow involved.
	Question for Carl.
	What's your opinion on the deafening silence?
	I can't hear for it.
	S.H. Silver says, the war for a speaker of the House of Representatives was, funnily enough, a battle for representation.
	That's True.
	MAGA had to bring the Uniparty GOP to heel, and given the concessions, less like bloated bills and budgets, it's a big step forward.
	That's why I was saying that the squad wish they had this kind of representation in the Democrats.
	It would be nice if we had something similar over here.
	Some kind of mitigating force within the Conservative Party.
	Could you imagine?
	No!
	What?
	I can't imagine what a conservative party that actually represented Britain would look like.
	As Dead at Ready says, two acts passed in Arizona that I wish existed at the federal level.
	One subject bills with a title that reflects the content and 6% majority to pass new laws.
	Hope the new term limit act passes and hope it's eventually amended into the constitution.
	Well, that would be good too.
	But honestly, you want to be hammering for one-page bills.
	One-page bills.
	The average citizen should be able to read and understand the bill.
	That's what it should be.
	You know, otherwise, this is, uh...
	I mean, they're pretty much set up to be as impenetrable as possible so that the people can't get involved in it in the first place.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to sit down and read the inflation reduction act.
	No, it's 1,500 pages.
	No one's reading it.
	Um, Free Will says, I think Harry's wife is feeding on his paranoia.
	It's sad that it's come to this, but difficult to see a road back from this after these interviews he has given.
	Yeah, she knows exactly what she's doing.
	Every woman who's ever broken a man away from his friends and family knew exactly what she was doing.
	Okay?
	Okay.
	I will say, I do think that with family, there's always a road back.
	You've just got to be willing.
	Yes.
	But at the moment, it seems that Harry isn't willing, because he's going to have to compromise on his new woke beliefs.
	There's a parallel here between Harry and his great uncle Edward VIII, who was very popular, but his actions led to exile and a drop in popularity.
	He was never fully rehabilitated into the royal family.
	Is this Harry's fate?
	Screwtape Laser says, As an ex-Californian, I've known several families and marriages broken up at the behest of therapists.
	You are spot on.
	Yeah.
	Not shocked.
	And not shocked in any way, shape, or form.
	And the fact that the wife is the woke advocate for this makes it all...
	You can see how powerful it is.
	It's so powerful, it's overcome Harry's natural instinct to be biased towards the royal family of If you can break up one of the princes from the royal family...
	That's powerful, man.
	I know.
	I don't know what incentive this therapist would have to not continue to push Harry in directions that cause problems, because then it inevitably just keeps him crawling back again and again and again.
	Yeah.
	And this is one of the problems that I have with, like, the California therapy style anyway.
	They're obviously not fixing your problems, they're probably just causing more so you keep coming back.
	Yeah.
	Ross says, she's Jezebel, forcing him to worship different gods with the promise of sex.
	Kind of ironic for someone who could potentially be the leader of the Church of England.
	Yeah, that's essentially the archetype that is very obviously on display when it comes to Harry and Meghan, which is sad for him.
	Bald eagle, mwahaha, Meghan is carrying out Order 1776.
	The destruction of the royal family by the injection of soy into the bloodline.
	Oh no!
	Our revenge will finally be complete after our 247-year-old Cold War.
	I knew it!
	Well, that might have worked.
	Was Harry a member of the bloodline?
	Good point.
	Checkmate Americans.
	You've just screwed over a tennis player's son or something.
	Whatever he was.
	Oh, a Royal Army officer or whatever.
	Yeah, Ewan says, as he said that, you know, Megan was mouthing words off screen.
	Well, that was your thought.
	Yeah.
	Every interview with him just comes across like a hostage situation.
	In the documentary, when they're sat next to each other, he's constantly glancing over her.
	When he seems like he's about to have fun, he glances over her and stops.
	Am I allowed to say this, darling?
	You know, do tell me if I can't.
	I'll take the obvious answer and just say no.
	Yeah.
	Alexander says, Carl, really enjoyed your appearance on Malice's show last week.
	We'd love to see you guys talk more with people in the ANCAP orbit like Dave Smith and Eric July.
	Well, thank you very much.
	And George says, it's pretty sad that a father has to pretend to be a woman to have a chance to see his kids.
	If you're willing to cut off your men before them, that's proof that you love them in my book.
	I don't think he's cut his member off.
	I think he just changed his pronouns on the document.
	That's all it was.
	But they're the ones who decided to make it unbelievably easy.
	There we go.
	Don't hate the play.
	I hate the game.
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