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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eaters for today, Tuesday the 10th of January, I am joined by Dan.
	Hello.
	Hello McFly.
	And today we're discussing they want to destroy Britain.
	Wonder who they is.
	Rishi's five wishies are all lies.
	So the five promises he's gone into 2023 with are just not going to come to fruition, are they?
	And the Matrix sending its agents after Andrew Tate.
	That will be an interesting segment.
	Before we get into everything, just wanted to draw your attention at 3 o'clock today.
	Brokonomics episode 3 is coming out for our premium subscribers.
	So if you're watching live and you haven't subscribed yet, what are you doing?
	You're freeloader.
	You're missing out on all the good content.
	Stop giving your money to Netflix and give it to us instead.
	Kick the lights on and Dan breaks down all sorts of brilliant economic concepts.
	What's this one about?
	Well, the one that's coming out today is on interest rates.
	But I believe the second one is a freemium version, which you can get.
	And that's about inflation, which is, of course, one of the big issues.
	And we're going to be talking about that today.
	Fantastic.
	Without further ado, let's get into how they want to destroy Britain.
	Now, I know what you're thinking.
	Who are they?
	And Coronation Street, at the end of its explosive far-right storyline, neglects to define it for us, but we're going into who they are today.
	And no, we're not average Kanye West fans, so get your minds out the gutter, YouTube commenters.
	Before we talk about that, we're going to mention for people who subscribe to our website, and I believe this article is actually free, isn't it?
	So if you subscribe to our website, you'll be able to get audio tracks, usually for our other articles, but go over to the website and read this article that Carl wrote about his recent interaction with Peter Hitchens.
	We had our own interaction, and since we did our segment last week, which did very well on YouTube, thank you to everyone who watched, It seems that Peter's gotten a lot more cordial with interacting with at least Carl.
	I haven't said anything since, but he seems to have warmed to us and understood that we're on the same side because, much like as Coronation Street has predicted, Peter did predict the utter demise of Britain as early as the 90s and was complaining about how no one had listened to his warnings well into the 2010s and now we're living in the world that his soul would come to pass.
	Yeah, really do go and check out that article.
	It is very thoughtful.
	That is some of Carl's best work in that article.
	I genuinely learnt a couple of things reading that through, so do recommend it.
	Yeah, it actually got Peter Hitchens' seal of approval as well.
	Abolition of Britain Book Club coming soon.
	So, let's get on to an update that we're providing.
	You may have seen this, and I've linked to our Rumble account mainly because, well, Rumble's better than YouTube.
	Suck it, Susan.
	But our YouTube version took out all of the clips because Coronation Street don't like when you attack how they're indoctrinating the boomers, but this segment went through Coronation Street's Far-right storyline, and they're trying to reclaim the word groomer, because we've been using it recently,
	as has James Lindsay, as has the American Patriots, to describe how Drag Queen Story Hour and the plus part of the LGBTQ plus community, and the Q part as well, are indoctrinating children into changing their identities to create a permanent revolutionary class based on sexual orientation and gender.
	And Coronation Street, working with a bunch of government-adjacent organisations who set the agenda for things like Prevent, Have been describing far-right extremism as the real grooming problem.
	So they've taken an autistic kid, I think he's actually got ADD, I was corrected by that, called Max, who's the stepson of David, part of the Platt family, one of the longest-running characters in the Coronation Street saga, and he gets brought into a white nationalist extremist group who...
	On the night before the leader goes to the community centre to give a lecture on how the British, native Brits are being displaced in their own homeland, the NHS is underburdened, mass immigration has its issues.
	The night before that, he goes and beats up a migrant child and nearly kicks his head in in the street and says, go back to Pakistan.
	The kid goes, I'm not from Pakistan.
	And he tells his sob story, how he came over in the boat and his brother got lost.
	And it's all very, very sad.
	It's all very confected.
	And then he gets approached outside the community centre by a police officer.
	They start filming.
	And the police officer said, I want to speak to you.
	And they manipulate the video with this Max character, the young boy, posting it online to make it look like the police officer is trying to arrest him for his freedom of speech.
	It's a police state.
	So if you're for free speech and against mass immigration, you literally want to beat up migrant children in the street and you're a Nazi.
	You can go and watch all the clips from that in that segment there.
	Now, I wanted to update you because last night it really reached its apotheosis in Coronation Street, right?
	What happened was Griff, the YouTuber guy who's doing talks in the community centre, secret neo-Nazi, many of those around in England, I'm sure, builds a bomb, puts it in the back of the curry house delivery van, and tries to bomb the occupants of the curry house, house, one of whom is a migrant child, the others who are just an Indian family, or Indian-British, rather.
	And Max ends up bravely blowing the whistle.
	I believe Spider, who is an undercover police officer trying to infiltrate the group, gets injured, and Griff is on the run.
	And eventually, at the end of this episode, he gets arrested, and the town are conflicted.
	The councillor in the town decides that she doesn't want Max around because she doesn't believe he's fully come out the other side.
	He's de-radicalised.
	Whereas David is saying, give him a break.
	You know, he's been through a lot, but he did the right thing in the end and he saved lives.
	And even the owners of the Curry's house say he saved lives.
	And it gets to the final scene.
	And I want you to watch the final scene.
	If you're on YouTube, you won't be able to watch this.
	We're going to have to cut to black here, but you can go and watch the scene either from the link in the description on our website, it's also on YouTube, or it's on our Rumble or website versions of this podcast.
	And I want you to see what your takeaway is from the framing of how they put Max through a struggle session here.
	Let's play, please, John.
	Oh, did you feel better?
	Uh...
	Yeah, babe.
	Nice hot shower to wash your cares away.
	Gail's always saying.
	Actually, it might be on to something, though.
	Not that I'll ever tell her.
	Mmm.
	Bit early for tea, isn't it?
	Yeah, well, I didn't have any dinner, did you?
	Er, no.
	Yeah, so I figured we could eat this, watch a bit of telly, and let's find a pub today behind us.
	What, just like that?
	Well, yeah.
	Now that Griff's been arrested, you don't have to worry about him or any of the garbage that he spouts again.
	Not all garbage.
	What do you mean?
	Well, what Griff says.
	A lot of it makes sense.
	Max, he's just tried to blow up half the street.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	I'm not saying I agree with that.
	But just because someone makes a mistake...
	It doesn't mean that some of what he's saying isn't right.
	Like what?
	Like, the fact that our country's under attack.
	Like, the fact that people are trying to take away what it means to be British.
	Who does?
	Who are these people?
	I don't know, but...
	Well, they're everywhere.
	They're trying to take down our statues.
	They're trying to take away our children's books.
	Hang on.
	Hang on.
	So you're annoyed about the statues now?
	No, it's not the statues.
	It's the principle.
	What principle?
	You don't need to talk down to me.
	Okay?
	I am just saying what most people around here are too scared to say.
	Gail and Audrey included.
	Gail's not a racist.
	And neither am I. But she's always saying that things were better when she was little and she's right.
	There were more morals then.
	There were more opportunities for people like me.
	People like you?
	Like what?
	Like white, you mean?
	Is that what you mean?
	Max, this...
	this is wrong.
	It's rubbish.
	This is utter nonsense that Griff has filled your head with.
	And there you go again.
	Telling me my thoughts aren't my own.
	I can think for myself.
	and you can't stop me from telling my truth.
	That's an unbelievable cell phone by the writers.
	is That is a really interesting scene because you've got that young lad there.
	He's talking about a sense of disillusionment.
	He's talking about a sense of loss of opportunity.
	I mean, all of these are real concerns.
	And because he's having trouble articulating them, and because they've linked it to this terrorist attack, which is...
	Obviously wrong, everyone.
	Don't blow up, people.
	I can't believe I would need to say that.
	They're saying that these sentiments are sentiments that should not be considered or discussed or talked about.
	Whereas, of course, in the real world, people have those concerns.
	they have a sense of disillusionment from their communities.
	They have a sense of opportunity is not available, and that's an economic issue as well as an immigration issue, but there's lots of things behind that.
	And because they're linking it to this imaginary terrorist attack, they're trying to say to people, these are things that you should not be discussing.
	Some of that is actually quite well done propaganda.
	Well, they're trying to marginalise your concerns.
	So my dad, for example, doesn't watch Coronation Street routinely.
	As soon as my mum puts it on, the phone comes out.
	But he saw that scene, and he said to me, and he pointed me towards this, because I'd kept up with some of the other episodes because of what happened before, but I'd just tuned out entirely...
	He said to me it came off to him as if they were trying to say that Max is too stupid and he's still plugged into the indoctrination that Griff has fed to him and he's being stubborn and doesn't quite get yet that he's wrong.
	But not only does it look like David's massively mishandled it if that was the case because he gets angry with him and dismissive of his concerns and Max is a lot calmer and a lot more assertive.
	I think we're good to go.
	Who is causing it and the ideological and financial reasons as to why doesn't mean you're wrong.
	And so it comes off like David is gaslighting and berating Max for genuinely trying to express the sentiment that, yes, an extremist tapped into, but he was only able to tap into it because you ignored it for so long that some nutcase used his legitimate concerns to recruit him for a terrorist activity.
	Yeah, which, by the way, didn't actually happen.
	It only happened on this TV series.
	Thanks to Max as well in this TV series who said, I'm not a racist.
	And that is, as well, the fact that he said it so confidently there, he said, I'm not, but guess what?
	Your mum and grandma actually agree with me that things used to be better as they are, and they aren't racists either.
	And he made a very good comparison and appeal to David, the character's own moral framework there, because he said, if you're going to indict your mum and your grandmother as a racist, then you are the extremist.
	You are the person that is denying obvious reality.
	And it's mad that the writers come down on David's side and not Max's.
	And the fascinating thing about that propaganda clip that we just watched is you can tell that they went into it with an agenda.
	They said, what we're going to do is we're going to take this worldview and we're going to discredit it.
	And we're going to frame it against a better worldview.
	But the problem is they only actually had one articulated worldview, and that was the sense of disillusionment and the sort of things that we often talk about in here, the things that, say, Douglas Murray might have talked about in The Strange Death of Europe.
	they had actual arguments but they could put into the voice of their character to uh you know say you know i feel that there's something going wrong here there is something that i'm not happy with even if i can't articulate it clearly whereas the other character they were unable to find counter arguments to put into his mouth and that's why he had to get hissy and storm off because there are no counter arguments to these things because the left has simply screamed racist for the last 20 years without bothering to make a case for the things that they're doing
	and david himself brought up an attempted counter-argument saying what, you mean white people?
	I mean, at ITV, where Coronation Street is made, they have black and ethnic minority-only hiring opportunities.
	The same with the BBC, the same with the intelligence services, the same with the civil service.
	So, actively, under the canard of positive discrimination, which just means racism in your preferred direction, yes, white people are systemically disadvantaged in this country because the left occupies the institutions.
	And that is unfair.
	I would like colourblind hiring, because I'm not an extremist, but you guys are.
	So stop gaslighting me into thinking I am the extremist just because I have concerns about my country.
	But, it's fair to say that Max didn't articulate what people are disagreeing the country, right?
	Who are they, Max?
	What people?!
	Well, it's the media and also the Conservative Party.
	Yep, the Labour Party as well.
	They're in conjunction.
	Pretty much all the parties are on board.
	But the Conservative Party...
	We're the same party, basically.
	Uniparty.
	We're stuck with our options here, rather than possibly Reform UK. We'll see what efforts they galvanise.
	But anyway...
	The Conservative Party are the ones governing, but they're acting like they have their testicles in a purse overseas.
	And we can see this through this brilliant video from Remix from a constituency hearing in Skegness.
	And the Conservative MP is being booed, not by far-right extremists, but by everyday nans and granddads who have shown up to express their displeasure with the costs of mass immigration.
	Let's take a watch, please.
	For people saying, and I quote, for people saying, send them back, legally we can't.
	And you might...
	That is simply, that is simply a fact.
	I will get to questions, but let me finish.
	Let me finish.
	The Conservative MP for the English seaside town of Skedness is under fire for the number of migrant males.
	Most of you have also asked, why is it from an entirely male population?
	Now the short answer is that it is very, very largely men that make the journey in the sport of the world.
	And that is because for whatever reason, it is men who are more able to make that journey.
	One of the problems that we have with the nature of people still coming in the kind of numbers that they have is that I can't stand here and promise you that the Bristol Stones short-term earnings might become more long-term earnings.
	Well you need to!
	You need to!
	Now they are from Iraq, Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Egypt.
	They are the sum of the most water and trouble.
	And then it gives a breakdown there as to the vote share.
	So, just a point.
	When he says, oh, I'll tell you why they're mainly male.
	The justification is, the reason all the people putting in hotels are male is because all the ones crossing the channel are male.
	Thank you, no more questions.
	Okay, why are you accepting them?
	That's the point.
	If they're not vulnerable individuals, if they do not have a legitimate asylum claim, and merely they dump themselves on our shores and say, give me money.
	Give me money so I can spend it at JD Sports and on cigarettes.
	We're spending, as of October, and the numbers have just gone up, nearly 7 million.
	I think it's 6.8 million a day on housing these people.
	Meanwhile, I can't get a house.
	Max in Coronation Street can't get a house.
	Because a third of our paycheck is partitioned off to people, adventurers, who...
	Are safe in their own countries or in the countries they pass through, arriving on our shores and expecting to be put up in hotels that I would otherwise have to pay to stay in on holiday.
	And he's wondering why he's getting booed.
	Coronation Street are wondering why there's a large constituent of the British public who are expressing Max's views, not in the violent way that Griff is, and feeling dismissed when folks like David, who are in the Conservative Party, say, Shut up and go away, peasant.
	I'm not doing anything about this.
	This can't continue.
	There is a clear bubble mindset that he's in.
	You can tell that he spends all of his time in Westminster and he rarely engages with people back in the constituency because the clear message from all of that is, look, you don't understand it.
	Your problems are actually illegitimate.
	You need more sympathy for these people because they're from war-torn countries like France and wherever else these boats head off from.
	But the message throughout is that these concerns are illegitimate and you're wrong to raise them.
	Yeah.
	And also, again, Albania, not a war-torn country.
	It's a country where Brits go on holiday.
	Just because they are escaping the terrible countries that have been made awful by the ideologies of Islamism and socialism doesn't mean we have to pick up the bill.
	If anything, we should be totally withdrawing any business deals from these countries until they keep their people there.
	Because we don't want them.
	We do not have the space nor resources.
	We are not the world's dumping ground.
	We do not owe you people anything because I am not owed anything by my own country because I have to work for every damn thing I get as a young man.
	So does Max.
	So who are those people?
	Well, the politicians that are sitting on the sidelines and making money while we're all getting poorer.
	And such politicians like this explain, betray, exactly how it is a uniparty, as you said, because now a former Tory minister has quit the Conservative Party and now backs Keir Starmer because she's seeing the way that winds are blowing, Labour are massively ahead in the polls, mainly because Rishi Sunak is as uncharismatic as a cardboard cutout of Rishi Sunak, and he wasn't elected.
	So, Claire Perry O'Neill, who was in Theresa May's cabinet, that's how high up she was, right?
	Former Prime Minister, making policy within the government, says she has lost faith in, quote, cavalier and, quote, self-obsessed conservatives.
	As much as I like and admire the Prime Minister and the Chancellor...
	She is Myers, the man who wanted to lock us down under the Chinese model, whose wife works with the Chinese government.
	Says a lot about her character.
	They are too beholden to a party dominated now by ideology and self-obsession to deliver the big changes.
	We need a fact-based, competent way.
	Ms.
	Perry O'Neill praised Sakia, the Labour leader, expressing confidence that he would provide sober, fact-driven, competent political leadership.
	Labour's policies on the transition to green energy look exciting and can only help the UK benefit from the economic opportunity.
	Now bear in mind, they haven't gotten that much of a difference.
	But the Labour policies that do differ from the Conservative Party are as follows.
	They want a publicly owned 100% green, mainly renewable, because their base doesn't really like nuclear, even though they said they'll commit to nuclear.
	Energy by 2030, so it knocks 20 years off the target, which is so unaffordable it crossed £3 trillion and only meet 26% of energy demand, so it would cause another energy and financial crash.
	They want to criminalise misgendering, which he said at the Pink News Awards.
	They supported BLM, they've supported the second Brexit referendum, they supported nuclear disarmament under Jeremy Corbyn, and they want to du jour decriminalise all channel crossings because they've said, to end illegal migration, we need safe legal routes.
	Right, so that means everyone gets to apply, and we still pay for it.
	Yes, if you just decriminalise things, yeah, I guess you stop the criminal crossings, yeah.
	Yeah, you stop people trafficking, but you don't quite stop the cost or the housing problem.
	It's almost like they want to destroy the country.
	Oh, we can't say that.
	We'll be called racist by David from Corrie.
	So let's look at the effects here, right?
	This disaffectedness of folks like me or Max's character is having an impact on the Conservatives' electoral viability.
	And we're going to be sure to get Labour and all those horrible policies.
	How the Tories can defuse their demographic time bomb in The Spectator.
	This is the only article...
	That Joe Hackett has written in The Spectator.
	The Spectator's been going downhill recently with some poor hires.
	I hope this is the only article he writes, because this is utterly incompetent, and it's going to ensure the continued collapse of the country.
	I don't much care about the demolition of the Conservative Party.
	I have the Peter Hitchens opinion on that.
	I care whether or not I can buy a house and have a family, and all of the politicians, other than maybe one or two, like Christopher Chope and...
	Very short list.
	Yeah, maybe a handful of Desmond Swain, maybe Jacob Rees-Mogg.
	Everyone else is complicit in destroying that ability for me and plenty other people my age.
	So, historically, young voters have been left-leaning and become right-leaning as they got older.
	It's the old phrase of, uh, if you're not left when you're young, you don't have a heart.
	If you're not conservative when you're older, you don't have a head.
	I suppose I'm heartless.
	The Tories appear to have stress-tested this theory to the point where the elastic has snapped.
	What's worrying for Tories is the fact that Zoomers are like millennials, but even more so.
	In the mid-to-late 2010s, there was a fleeting hope among some on the right that the popularity of politically incorrect YouTubers Hello!
	Would translate to an anti-SJW backlash among Zoomers.
	But no, they drink even less than the already sober millennials.
	That's not necessarily woke, to be honest.
	Have even less sex than the already absent millennials.
	Zoomers vote Tory even less than the already socialist millennials.
	This is what happens when you deprive people of a future, obviously.
	If they've got no vested interest in the continuity of their country, and the party themselves don't demonstrate the ability to reform that, then lots of them just go to the government and go, give me money.
	See me through this hard time.
	They get obsessed with crises when they have no internalised, localised sense of meaning.
	When you don't have a family to care for, you start engaging in grand projects like the climate crisis.
	So here's, what are his solutions in this article, right?
	Here's a short to-do list.
	To start, cut the funding to political activist NGOs.
	Stop charity and CIC status being used by political activists.
	Now that sounds good on the surface.
	Do you know who he has in mind?
	No, go on.
	Yes, this would affect the IEA. No, I don't care.
	Now, the IEA is the Institute for Economic Affairs.
	That's the types that want tax cuts.
	Emily Carver will be on the show soon, to spoil it.
	She's one of their directors and the GB News host.
	Very lovely woman.
	She's like the Mary Poppins of the Westminster bubble.
	But they're the only people pushing for within the sphere for sensible energy policy, sensible economic policy, and some of the folks in there are wishy-washy in immigration, but I'm sure we'll be able to win them round.
	But he picks that name out of the hat.
	So, the only sensible voice in the debate...
	No, get him out of the Westminster bubble.
	That's fine.
	Meaningful planning reform, turbocharged house building, and tackling runaway state pension spending.
	Right.
	Okay.
	So pension spending needs reform.
	Obviously.
	You can't keep having it in line with inflation.
	It's just going to get out of hand forever and it's going to be a trickle-up pyramid scheme.
	Build more houses.
	Nothing about immigration.
	Nothing about demand.
	No.
	Just concrete over the entire British countryside.
	Not like that's a conservative institution that's taken generations to construct, is it?
	Well, plus, of course, whenever they actually attempt to build any houses, the local Tory MP always does everything he can to try and stop it.
	Yeah, well, Michael Gove just scrapped the house building targets as well.
	So, not only are you going to not address demand, and you're not going to address the mass immigration, both legal and illegal, 500,000 people last year, net intake?
	That's a city the size of Liverpool.
	Do you think that's not going to stress healthcare services, housing?
	Oh no, again, I'm a far-right conspiracy theorist extremist to suggest that people need a place to live!
	Abolishing tuition fees and cancelling student debt proved popular for Jeremy Corbyn.
	The latter has also helped Joe Biden achieve a less than terrible result in the American midterms.
	Why don't the Tories follow suit?
	Why not just be socialists?
	Why not just funnel them all into the universities where they're getting indoctrinated and make sure the hard-working taxpayer has to pay for gender studies degrees?
	It worked for the literal communists in the opposition and the doddery old fart running America into the ground.
	Why don't we just do it?
	Speaking of the spectator, I was listening to a very interesting podcast from them a while back when James Forsyth, who's now become Rishi Sunak's personal advisor, he let slip something very interesting on the podcast, that basically the Tory approach was to steal Labour policies that they thought were going to become popular before they became popular themselves.
	So the Conservatives, I mean, it is uniparty, they have the same policy.
	And I'm glad that you put up that policy list earlier, because up until that point I was really struggling to think of any policy differences between the two parties.
	Yeah, they're just pressing the acceleration piddle on demolishing the country, but the Tories are still a couple of years behind Labour, or occasionally they come out in front to seem like they're outpacing the Blairite paradigm, because no matter what, we still live in Blairism.
	We've just got our flavour of how quickly and how dry we are made to bite the pillow and think of England.
	The only difference between the two parties is that one is socialism at the speed limit and the other one is trying to get there a little bit faster.
	Mark 10.
	Yeah.
	And then the last one in this is British millennials and especially Zoomers are very progressive on woke social issues like race, immigration, Brexit, historical memory, free speech, fourth wave feminism, criminal justice, sexual and gender identity.
	They see the Tories as insufficiently committed to these causes at best and outright bigoted at worst and therefore could not imagine ever voting for them.
	What do you think he says?
	Did the Tories double down on having a conservative identity to provide a stalwart opposition for the disaffected Brits who don't like either party?
	Actually make a case for conservatism, perhaps?
	No, this gives the Tories the choice of two wires to snip.
	So actually cut one part out of the party, is the analogy here.
	One is that they should stop using cultural war politics and come to terms with diversity and inclusion.
	In short, the party should try to neutralise the issue by aligning itself with the woke, which is what I'll call it in lieu of a better word, views of most young voters.
	Right, so accelerate the demise of the Tory party by becoming race and gender and sexuality socialists.
	We're doomed.
	We're actually doomed.
	Because if this is meant to be in the right-wing press, the spectator, what voice do we have except us?
	And then when Labour come in, what happens?
	Oh, suddenly speech codes.
	Oh, you misgendered this trans rapist.
	Oh, guess your entire enterprise is shut down, lads.
	The lower seaters will be refugees to bloody Tennessee at this point.
	So this leaves us with this article.
	Why would anyone under 45 vote Tory?
	And the article again just says, oh, build more houses, and the young are so disaffected, we don't believe the Tory party are uniquely contemporary on social issues, like women's rights and gay activism.
	That's got us to this place.
	Why are we placating to the indoctrinated people who have come out of the universities?
	Why are we funneling more in there?
	Why are we acquiescing to the leftist framing, which will always run us aground on the rocks of reality, that will run our coffers dry, and that will create an unimpeachable identity class, the minoritarian religion, civic religion that Callum has said often has replaced our sense of national identity.
	Why would we basically create an identitarian dictatorship just quicker under the guise of conservatism if you actually wanted to win young people over or most of the British public over?
	At this point, you just have to think that there are globalists in the Conservative Party who agree on the 2030 agenda that don't care which party's in power because they're going to profit from it anyway.
	And they must be steering the ship because there are some Conservative activists, some MPs even, that might be defecting, just tearing their hair out of what their party's doing because they can't do anything else.
	And so it's hard to believe that young people or most stalwart Conservatives have a voice.
	And I'll just end it here basically by saying don't listen to the politicians and soaps.
	Don't be gaslit into thinking the demolition of your own country is a good thing.
	Show up to constituency hearings.
	Make your voice heard on social media that you don't like things like Corrie telling you you're a racist or your MP saying that we won't do any legal action to get rid of the illegals.
	Don't take it lying down, mount a defence, and hopefully we can galvanise some sort of political opposition in the near future.
	Sorry to be Hitchens on this, but it's not looking good, is it?
	Not great, Callum.
	Connor, Connor, sorry.
	I've only been on with you a couple of times.
	I was originally on with Connor, Callum.
	So, look, all of that isn't particularly good.
	However, there is some good news.
	Rishi Sunak has launched a list of five wishes of things that he's going to use to fix the country.
	So, you know, maybe our problems will be solved by that.
	Shall we get into them?
	Because...
	I'm going to put it to you that every single one of these is a great big stinking doodah of lies and misinformation.
	The unelected man promises things that don't really matter.
	So let's throw up the graphic, shall we?
	So we've got a graphic of the promises that were put up.
	So this is what he's planning to do.
	He's planning to halve inflation.
	He's looking to grow the economy.
	He's looking to get debt falling.
	He's looking to cut NHS waiting lists.
	And he's going to stop the small boats.
	So all of that sounds reasonably good, doesn't it?
	Well, they're all platitudes that every single Prime Minister for the last how many years has promised and none have delivered on.
	It's almost like it's a deliberate demolition of our prosperity and national security.
	Well, also, they're all complete lies and misdirections.
	So, look, let's get into it.
	So the first one.
	Halving inflation.
	Now, this is so disingenuous, this promise.
	When most people hear that they're going to halve inflation, what they're going to be thinking is that, okay, what the government is going to do is that half of the price rises that I've experienced over the last couple of years, they're going to do away with half of that.
	So we're going to get halfway back to the point where I could actually afford my shopping.
	I could afford to, you know, go on holiday and eat out every once in a while.
	That is not what that promise is saying.
	You have to remember that inflation is a rate of change metric.
	So what he's actually saying is that the prices are going to continue to go up, but not as fast.
	Yeah, but they're only going to go up by half the rate that they were going up the previous year.
	So that price increase is now our new normal.
	But it gets worse than that, right?
	Because you have to remember that because it's a rate of change metric, what's actually happening is the price rise could be rising by the absolute amount that it did in the previous year, this year as well.
	But because the last year comparables are so high, It is the rate that is declining, not the actual price increases.
	So let me show you an example from the Brokernomics series.
	We've got a graphics here that I put up in the Brokernomics talk, which you can find online, and this one is a freemium.
	So this goes through to show the example of this.
	So, you know, year one, you've got an energy bill of, say, £100 a month.
	Year two, that goes up by £100.
	So the inflation rate from year one to year two is 100%.
	Now, the price rises in the third year by, again, another 100%.
	So what's the inflation rate in that third year?
	Well, actually, it's 50%.
	So prices have risen by the same absolute amount, but the rate that it is rising has now halved.
	So that's the sort of promise that we're making at the moment.
	So while we're talking about this, let me just plug that particular series.
	So if you go to our premium section, you can watch Brokernomics.com.
	The first two episodes are freemium and available for you to watch.
	The second one there is on inflation, which is from the graphic that I've just pulled out, that will explain to you how politicians are able to lie while technically saying something that's true.
	So there's the, I think it's Mark Twain, it's often attributed to, there are lies, damn lies and statistics, and I don't think there's a distinction between any of the three, frankly.
	Well, funnily enough, everything in this list is going to fall into that category.
	So, you know, we've demolished that one.
	But the other thing to bear in mind, of course, is that Rishi has come out and he said that he's looking to do this and that this is something that he's going to be a focus on.
	Well, actually, this is not the concern of the Prime Minister, technically.
	This is a function of the Bank of England because Bank of England has independence.
	And actually, they're supposed to be achieving a 2% target.
	So he says that his prices are going to go up by only 5% next year because they've risen by 10% this year, which is twice what he should be achieving.
	And actually, it's not his job anyway.
	And it's going to happen anyway because the comparables are so high.
	So the Bank of England and the...
	The CBI were both expecting to get to half the rate of inflation by the following year anyway.
	So he's not actually promising anything.
	He's not promising what you think he is.
	And actually, the price rises are going to be just as bad as they were the previous year, except that the rate is going to come down.
	So it's going to be a technical win, but your life is not going to improve on any of this anyway.
	Also, the basic rate of inflation that the The amalgamated percentage hides, as we spoke about before, different levels of inflation per price of goods.
	The housing inflation is much higher than a specific item of food, for example.
	Housing, energy, very high, and then food is quite high, and then there's other things.
	So wage inflation, for example, that's quite low, so people aren't getting the pay rises.
	So yeah, that one is a big steaming pile.
	So let's go on to the second one.
	We will grow the economy, creating better paid jobs and opportunities right across the country.
	Well, you can grow the economy, as long as you keep importing people in, who technically have more gross domestic profit per person, and bar graph go up.
	Same with, and I didn't include this in the last segment, but there is the article to read linked in the description.
	A friend of mine in The Critic magazine did a review of his parental leave and childcare policy.
	And it turns out that the government are subsidising the nurseries directly that you pick rather than giving the parents the money or giving the parents the tax cut.
	So what the government's doing is they're printing money and also taking money out in taxes from the hard-working parents so that the parents can then have given back to them Indirectly to subsidize the direct nursery so they can send their kids off so they can keep going to work.
	And that keeps more people on the balance sheets, more people earning and more tax revenue flowing in rather than doing the Viktor Orban approach of, oh, we actually need families to continue our civilization.
	Let's take a hit from our spreadsheet in the short term to make sure we have the long-term continuity of civilization going on so more mothers can stay at home with their kids where they'd largely be happier, plenty of them anyway.
	Yeah, it's the con.
	The cycle is we're trying to get as much money into the system and then a certain amount is going to be fed back to you.
	So it appears from that person's point of view that they are dependent on the government.
	Well, I get so much of my money from this, from the government, and I get this much from the government to pay for my childcare and I'm getting this much for this, and I need them, therefore I need to fall in line.
	I need to do what they say.
	So you can see this emerging towards some sort of social credit system where people are utterly dependent on the amount of money that gets cycled back to them.
	In his speech, he did say, this year's priority is financial technologies, and you know that is central bank digital currencies.
	After the collapse comes, oh, well, we don't know what to do with the pound, but here, here's a sign-up bonus for you to enroll yourself into the digital currency, never mind all those terms and conditions that sync it up with the digital ID and all of your social media now.
	Yeah, so you've got the key point on this one, is that what they're going to do is they're going to grow the overall economy.
	So the economy as a whole, yes, that might increase, but the GDP per head, so what actually matters to people, that's not going to grow.
	And that's the reason why they like the high immigration numbers as well, because if you want to organically grow the economy, you need to make it more productive.
	Or you need to better educate the people so that they can, when they grow up, you give them a good schooling so they become more productive people.
	That takes years.
	It's very difficult to do.
	You need to lower the cost of energy.
	You need to do something which makes a fundamental change to the way that we work.
	Hell of a lot easier just to get people on boats and then, you know, get them doing some sort of menial work.
	So the amount of money that we're each getting, that's going to be drained.
	The amount that's going to go on public services, that's going to be drained.
	But the overall amount, the aggregate, that looks good.
	Well, I was going to say also, it looks like more economic activity on the balance sheet, even if it's not productive, because you have more money changing more hands by subsidising the Afghans to go down and spend money in JD sports.
	Another thing that he said during the speech, because I watched the press conference that went along with this as well, is he started talking about how a quarter of all workers are inactive, and that's something that he's looking to push back on.
	Now, partly, that's going to be because a lot of people on welfare, because they have decided not to work.
	But partly, it's going to be, and this is something that really happened as a result of lockdown, is a lot of people basically just said, oh, sod this, and they exited out.
	And that is especially true of the older people as well.
	I mean, I did this as well for a while.
	When lockdown came along, I just thought, well, I'm not participating in any of this nonsense.
	So I just sat back and, you know, I amused myself by going on radio and doing podcasts and things like that as well.
	I just thought, yeah, I'm not getting involved in this nonsense.
	And actually, I wouldn't have returned to work if it wasn't for doing this, because this is something that I actually enjoy and I want to do.
	Even with me around, really?
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	When I can remember your name, that's all that stuff.
	Because these days the tax is so high and the bullshit is so high that you just kind of think, well, if you have another way of making, if you've got income and investments in other ways, you're not going to get involved.
	And that's another thing that he's attacking.
	It's those older people who are retired who are saying, you know, we're opting out of this.
	Right.
	Third promise.
	And this one is an absolute mountain of poop, this one.
	Right.
	So they're going to get debt falling.
	Now, I looked at that and I thought...
	No.
	No way.
	Not a chance are they going to get debt falling.
	So at the moment, the deficit that we're running is a quarter of a trillion pounds a year.
	So, I mean, the reason why, you know, we've got all these strikes at the moment, why nurses are going on strike and saying they can watch an extra 20% and they're trying to push back as hard as they can and say, look, we can't afford them, is...
	Because they can't afford them.
	They can't even afford the salaries that they're already paying the nurses.
	We're borrowing, like I say, quarter of a trillion pounds every year just to get us to the end of the year, just to service the NHS and the pension system that we have.
	So there is no way, I thought, that they're going to get debt falling down.
	So I thought, OK, how is he going to trick us with this one?
	So I dug into the numbers behind it, the document that came with it, and started looking at the projections.
	So, right, so this is the cut that they're going to do.
	They're going to cut...
	Debt, from where it currently is, at $2.1 trillion, they're going to cut it to $2.8 trillion.
	Is it the rate at which the debt is rising?
	Yes.
	I did predict that.
	There we go.
	So what it's going to be is they're going to say, okay, well, by 2026, I think, is where the projections line up for this, is they hope to have the economy growing at a faster rate than the debt grows, and there they're going to say that the debt is falling as a percentage of GDP. And therefore, debt is falling from 2.1 to 2.8.
	Is the target actually 2026?
	Yes.
	Because the election will be 2024, and they're projected to be absolutely trounced, so this promise will never need to come to fruition, they bear no consequences for it.
	Yes, it is what they're classing as a medium-term projection, but yes, the Conservatives only have a short-term left in them.
	Colloquially known as, not our problem, deal with it.
	Well, that's the basis for so many of these promises.
	All of the things they're doing to try and get to that point, so in order to get the economy growing and to get the rate of debt falling, is they are going to be introducing some cuts.
	All of those cuts happen on the other side of the election, but they're not going to win.
	Another thing that he mentioned during the press conference on this section was that he wants an extra 20,000 police.
	Well, I mean, that's not going to happen.
	I've got a good mate of mine who's currently in the police, and he tells me all the time that they just can't get any staff.
	One of the reasons for that was because they changed the requirement for police to, they've all got to be graduates now.
	So they've all got to be indoctrinated in woke by going through a university.
	So they join up.
	Pay is apparently a bit rubbish for the first seven years.
	They realise that there's a lot of running around and anti-social hours.
	And they think to themselves, oh, well, I got a degree, so sob this.
	I'm going to go and do something else.
	So they all leave within the first couple of years.
	Or not just that.
	They then get the perverse incentive of going, OK, well, I've been doing the terrible hours.
	I've been on the beat.
	Whereas when I was sitting in my uni digs, just throwing in any of my essays right before the deadline when I couldn't be bothered, I could be doing that by trawling through tweets.
	So the people they retain are the most ideological and the most lazy.
	And so no crimes actually get solved.
	But you do get persecuted for mild offences like me standing outside the Conservative Party conference saying, well, that sounds insidious and being threatened by the Public Order Act.
	Quite.
	Yes.
	He promises an extra two billion for education.
	Well, basically, all that's going to do is basically cover the fact that they've already given the teachers a pay rise.
	And therefore, if you didn't put the extra two billion into education, all of the schools would have to close at this point.
	Well, they go to a four day week.
	So, I mean, at every level, when you dig into this, you find that there's nothing there.
	He wants to make maths compulsory up to the age of 18 to improve financial literacy.
	So you're being, not to denigrate your profession, because you're obviously a brilliant asset to how the banks and economics should be run.
	Because I left.
	Exactly.
	He wants to make everyone a national bank manager and to be the bug men who are running the ring by spreadsheets, hence why you can hide the numbers with GDP country, but not GDP per capita.
	And I'd leave it up to you, if you want to get financially literate, if you don't feel that you are, you can do that by following the national curriculum, or you can sign up to Brokonomics and see what we've got to say there.
	I can definitely attest that your stuff is far better.
	Number four, he's going to cut NHS waiting lists.
	Now, of course he bloody isn't going to do that.
	No, I know how he's going to do that.
	No, you will.
	I had some ideas, but you go.
	So, you know Canadian Maid?
	The Medically Assisted Dying Program?
	Oh.
	It's being passed through the House of Lords right now.
	Seriously?
	I'm not joking.
	Harry's already done a segment.
	Wow.
	So, we'll definitely cut those waiting lists by just offering to expedite your path to the grave.
	Huh.
	I bet that's something that you can easily get an appointment for.
	I guarantee it.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	So, look.
	Promises made, promises kept.
	Obviously, the genuine waiting lists are not going to go down.
	I think the waiting lists are something like 7 million at the moment.
	And, of course, how can they go down?
	Because, you know, there have been certain possibly medical interventions that have occurred that may be having an impact.
	We've had a long lockdown.
	We've had people scared to go to their doctors.
	You know, we've had people not being seen for cancer screenings.
	So it's quite obvious that NHS waiting lists are not going to go down.
	The Spectator did an interesting piece.
	So can we throw up the article from the Spectator's NHS model?
	So yeah, this is something I found on the Spectator.
	Now they claim to have seen modelling that is not released to the public, which is being done within the NHS. Where they talk about how the NHS themselves are expecting to see waiting lists go up significantly.
	So here we are at the moment with 7 million in, you know, this was written in October 22.
	They think that the waiting lists are going to go up to 10.7 million for all the reasons that I've just given, the lockdown harms, the dire state of the NHS at the moment, the fact that we simply can't afford it.
	And then, and this is the really interesting bit, is that they think that people are going to become so disillusioned at that point that they stop approaching the health system for help, and then the waiting list is going to go down.
	I did say the optimistic projection of 9.2 at the bottom.
	I guarantee...
	That in some dark timeline, they calculated that number because they factored in the amount of deaths they just won't be able to get round to eventually, and so the people that will drop off the waiting list because they're dead.
	The people who couldn't get the cancer screenings and so on, yeah.
	But in either way, this is another one of the cuts where actually it's going to go up massively, and then because the system becomes so broken, then it's going to turn down because it's basically reached peak collapse.
	And actually, before I even saw this, so this sort of makes sense to me, I was thinking, you know, how else could they do it?
	And another way that they can do it, of course, by cutting the waiting list, you can simply increase friction into the system.
	So what you could do is, as at the moment, as I'm sure you know, we have a system where the GP basically refers everything onto the hospital.
	So in order to get a hospital appointment, you need to go through your GP. So if you wanted to cut the NHS waiting list, you could simply increase friction by saying to the GP, right, there are now 11 forms that you need to fill out to refer somebody to the hospital.
	So there's loads of ways that you can cut the NHS waiting list, make people give up, make it more difficult to get onto it in the first place, add friction to seeing the GP and then the GP referring you onwards.
	But in no cases do we genuinely believe...
	That the health of the nation is going to improve, especially not after the last nightmarish two years and everything else that has happened as well.
	Just adding bureaucratic disincentives for you to access getting what you already paid for.
	Yeah, quite.
	So, yeah, that one is a great big pile as well.
	And then we come to the piece de resistance, which is the number five, the boating things.
	So, at first, you look at that one and it says, okay, so we will pass new laws to stop small boats.
	Making sure that you come to this country illegally, you are detained and swiftly removed.
	So, on first reading, you think, well, that's quite a bold promise, isn't it?
	They've promised to stop small boats.
	And then you read it again.
	Oh, hang on.
	We will pass new laws.
	Right, so actually all they're doing is they are promising to pass new laws, which actually anybody with a majority can do.
	So, yeah, that's not going to work.
	But you are detained and swiftly removed.
	We'll get to the detained part, because we'll have to pay for the detention.
	They're going to pass laws that will enable them to do it.
	I'm not sure why the existing law set does not enable them to do that at the moment.
	Well, I have an idea of what law they're going to pass.
	So I've heard Rishi Sinek say before about amending or even leaving the ECHR, which Liz Truss also committed to.
	And he would leave the ECHR instead to fall back on the 1952 UN definition of a refugee in the British Bill of Rights.
	And that is anyone unable or unwilling to return to their home country because of political opinions.
	It's even more nebulous than the ECHR. So if you just don't want to go back because you say, I don't agree with my government, you can stay here.
	So it's going to get worse.
	Yes, that's not good.
	Now, in the press conference, Rishi Sunak refused to answer the question as to whether this would mean no boats or simply fewer boats or if he would just get the boats down from where we are now.
	He refused to engage with that particular question.
	Now, you've got to bear in mind that in December, so the month that we've just had, there were 45,756 people who made the crossing in a small boat.
	And that was in December.
	December's quite chilly.
	So if it's at 45,000 a month at the moment, what's it going to be come July?
	This is a strongwardly upward trend.
	The exponential increase, if you do the numbers, means that by the time it gets to 2024, there will be more men arriving from Eritrea or Albania into the UK on these small boats every year than British boys stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
	Yes, sounds about right.
	One other thing that he mentioned in the press conference on this point, before we move on to our next section, which I thought was interesting, he mentioned that he was very glad of the outcome of the recent court case that decided that Rwanda was, in fact, after all, a safe country and that they could send people back there without breach of the refugee convention that they had signed up to.
	So, clearly, for Rishi Sunak, not breaching conventions that this country has signed up to, you know, like, for example, the Nuremberg Code.
	It's very important to him now, so that was really heartening.
	I did like that bit at least.
	He's the right git, isn't he?
	Right.
	All right, let's move on to the next bit.
	Then the final bit, what you're all here for.
	So we're here to provide you some updates on the Andrew Tate detainment.
	If you don't know, recently Josh and Harry covered about 10 days ago now the fact that Andrew and Tristan Tate were detained by Romanian authorities on allegations, charges, of trafficking and rape.
	I think kidnapping might have been in there but off the top of my head I can't quite remember.
	If you'd like the comprehensive at the time overview, Josh provided a really detailed and very impartial perspective on how and why Tate was detained and some of the BS stories around the Greta Thunberg interaction and the pizza boxes, which we'll mention in passing here.
	What we're going to try and do is give, again, an equally impartial update And then towards the end, there will be some opinions given on Mr.
	Tate and his enterprises, because that is half of the story that isn't really told.
	And I think it's worth knowing.
	Well, I did describe Mr.
	Tate before as like a drug dealer who is trying to sell young men rehab.
	And no matter how the case plays out, no matter whether or not these charges are legitimate or not, it has opened up the broader conversation as to whether Andrew Tate is the man of the hour to speak to young men.
	And I'm sure we'll get into that after some of the updates.
	So Andrew Tate was actually hospitalised recently.
	We'll go to some reporting from The Sun, which I don't think has the best of framing.
	It is very sensationalised, but we'll get to the facts of it.
	It was reported by Romanian news article that either Andrew Tate or his brother Tristan had been admitted to the hospital.
	It is suggested the hospital visit was triggered after a routine medical check-up that they have had and since been returned to custody.
	On January 8th, 2023, Tate posted on Twitter, obviously the person controlling his account because I don't think he's allowed Twitter in prison or the detention centre he's held in, The Matrix has attacked me, but they misunderstand.
	You cannot kill an idea.
	Hard to kill.
	Now, for those not familiar, he refers to the system of keeping you down and suppressed as a man that restrains your potential as the Matrix.
	He said before, the Matrix sent their agents when he was detained.
	So he's using the analogy of the famous film to say, don't take the blue pill, don't be subdued, open your eyes, free yourself, take control of your destiny, and be the Neo-like hero by taking the red pill.
	pill the red pill being the common moniker that's used both by people in our side of the sphere awakening yourself politically and also by the manosphere who say take the red pills and take the dating advice disconnect from the gynocentric divorce courts the the hypergamous dating scene on dating apps and and how women are screwing a lot of young men over with unfair expectations all those observations i would say are absolutely true
	it's just the prescriptions we may disagree on but they're accused of recruiting women on social media platforms and persuading them to travel to their 600 000 pound villa on the outskirts of romania's capital Both Tristan and Andrew are being held in a, quote, hellhole Romanian jail, bit sensational there again, until the end of January 2023, as prosecutors announced they were being remanded in custody for 30 days.
	Now, no matter where you stand on this, it would be nice to let the process play out.
	Not that I trust the Eastern European justice system to be all that impartial, but it would be nice to get some answers on this, and either to be...
	I've got to say, these charges, they smell a bit to me.
	I won't say anything about that.
	I don't know an awful lot about Andrew Tate.
	I'd heard of him, and until this morning I never really looked at anything he did.
	So I spent this morning doing a bit of a deep dive on his Twitter feed and some of his articles and stuff like that.
	And he's certainly a character.
	I'll save that for when we get into the latter half of this.
	But I've got to say, the idea that he is smuggling tarts into Romania just doesn't...
	That doesn't ring right to me somehow.
	I mean, that's a bit like being accused of smuggling cocaine into Colombia.
	It's...
	You may be suggesting they are not in short supply.
	Well, I mean, I've never been to Romania, so I could be wrong.
	I know there are recent European stereotypes.
	He has said, and so has Tristan on other podcasts, which we'll mention later, about the fact they did bring in girls from Russia and Ukraine who were not in brothels or were not prostitutes or strippers because they are undesirable and they bring all sorts of baggage like drug addictions and abuse, but rather that these were women who had been incentivised to join their business.
	A better class of thought.
	Yeah, the ones that are like waitresses or bath store workers were his examples, who wanted more money and to work fewer hours and didn't have to engage with the men they were working with.
	You had no johns, you had no direct pimps other than themselves, you had no risk of STDs or pregnancy because you were just doing cam work, which we'll get into shortly.
	So, Tate is now back in custody from his stint in hospital, as we can see with this photo that's been retweeted on his Twitter account, and this is Andrew Tate carrying the Quran into prison.
	Now...
	Andrew Tate has said in the past that he wants to Islamise the entire West.
	That's a direct quote.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Not a company on that one.
	Not good.
	As we're in England, and I can't say too much without getting in trouble, I disagree with Islam.
	I disagree with the Hadiths, for example, that say on Judgment Days the Jews will be killed.
	And I disagree with the fact that Muhammad married a child.
	I think that's all historical evidence, and that's fairly observable, so that shouldn't get us in too much trouble.
	I don't think the total Islamisation of the West is conducive to restoring the leftist degradation of our culture and the denigration of masculinity.
	It's not the tact I would take, isn't it?
	No, it's not the best way to go about it.
	But at least he's healthy, because the last thing we would want is for, like Jeffrey Epstein, him to be suicided, because no matter whether or not Epstein deserved to die for his crimes, and I think he absolutely did in the end, we never got the names of his clients.
	He eluded justice, let's say.
	So if Andrew and Tristan are guilty of anything...
	We don't want harm to befoul them and we want to see the things play out.
	It would be totally unfair if they were harmed before they were vindicated, or it would be totally unfair for people who were actually affected by them if what is alleged to be true happened, because we would never get to see justice on that.
	So, again, I think that's fairly impartial.
	So, what's being alleged?
	Let's first of all go and debunk a little conspiracy theory here from a crazy trans-rise activist called Alejandra Caraballo, who has been cited in congressional committees as an expert on misinformation on trans stories, and then she confected this idea that the Romanian authorities only found Andrew Tate's compound because he ordered pizza.
	No, he has a passport to enter the country.
	They know where he lives.
	I mean, it's a big house.
	It's covered in neon.
	You see plastic women walking in and out of it all day.
	I'm sure you can't miss it.
	Let's be honest.
	They didn't need your help, love, and they didn't need a pizza place either.
	So, new Pizzagate.
	Moving on from the crazies.
	What's being alleged...
	We have some developments since Josh covered it.
	Eliza Blue went on Timcast, if you can move to the next link please, John.
	And we're not going to watch this, you can watch it in your own time, particularly because it's six minutes of her reading out the two statements of two women, anonymous sources, who don't provide any further details of dates, times and locations.
	And she calls them survivors because she says she's a survivor's advocate, so she says we should trust and believe in the survivors she represents.
	Even though no more evidence is provided, so some caution is warranted here before jumping the gun and saying they're guilty.
	She, I hesitate to criticise, was not too convincing, I will say.
	You can read, if we go to the next two links, please, John, this is statement one, and then statement two here.
	In your own time, it uses the phrase lover boy.
	That's about as precise as it gets, which the press has also been floating.
	Are you familiar with that term by any chance?
	No, I'm not.
	It's the kind of where a man will pose to be a woman's boyfriend, and then slowly coerce and groom her over time into performing sex acts and him taking half the money for it.
	And that is the accusation that what Tristan and Andrew have been doing is the form of sex trafficking they've been engaged in.
	And Tristan on other interviews has said the first girl that Andrew and I built our enterprise with was Andrew's girlfriend.
	And my girlfriend, he said at the time in 2020, was the sixth highest grossing cam model in the world.
	And I don't care if she's naked in front of other men because they'll never get with her, but I'm still with her.
	So...
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	I see it as digital cuckoldry, personally, because I wouldn't put my missus naked on the internet for no matter any amount of money.
	Yeah, again, not how I would go about it myself.
	Not how I would go about reifying masculinity either, because I don't think that whoring your girlfriend out is a particularly good move.
	Hmm.
	Not fantastic.
	But that being said, we don't have any information for these two witness statements, right?
	If they are witnesses at all.
	So we actually can't buy into this.
	So this is just to provide more updates on the case as more information comes forward.
	We can't make any speculative judgments either way.
	That would be irresponsible of us.
	So, on to the next piece, please.
	There is a bit of a problem with Andrew, though, and that is that he has admitted to committing, well...
	I don't know if this would be considered fraud as a crime, but let's say moral missteps.
	And we're going to play half of this clip.
	Again, it's about four minutes.
	You can play the rest in your own time.
	But the real key point is he explains how he ran his webcamming business by preying on what he would find as beta males, of course.
	People who are hooked on the porn industry and think that paying a woman to spend time and attention on them nets them the security that a regular girlfriend who actually loves and cares about you would.
	I've obviously never done this.
	I'm sure you haven't either because you're a married family man and we're frankly normal.
	That's a bit insulting actually.
	If you are part of our audience and you are doing this, it's not healthy for you lads.
	Come on, stop it.
	You know, spend your money on improving yourself.
	You can go out and get a girlfriend.
	Spend some time really building yourself up rather than giving it to actually the man holding the camera and the keyboard, which is Tate, his brother and his team.
	Let's watch this clip.
	And here's, maybe this is a bit bad, here's where the famoose would start.
	So it'd be good, like, I had a lot of girls who worked for me, and the best was, like, the Ukrainians or the Russians.
	It was amazing.
	Because they'd get some guy, fall in love, they'd arrange the day to meet, all this shit, da-da-da-da.
	Ah!
	I need a visa.
	Okay, get a visa.
	I need money for a visa.
	Okay, how much is a visa?
	It's $900.
	No, but it's not $900 because I went to the embassy.
	They think I'm a risk and I need a return flight there and back.
	I need a hotel.
	I need to have spending money in my bank account.
	They won't let me come.
	How much do you need?
	Alright, 10 grand.
	Boom.
	10 G's.
	Thanks.
	Go to the embassy.
	Take a picture outside the embassy.
	Boom.
	Come back.
	They rejected my visa.
	They said we have to wait two weeks.
	After two weeks, they'll give it to me.
	Okay, baby.
	Boom.
	Two more weeks of tips.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom.
	Because now he thinks he's going to fuck, right?
	He thinks we get the girls.
	Now he's spending more than ever.
	Two weeks, two weeks, two weeks.
	Two weeks come.
	Some other problem.
	Whether it's Viso, whatever, whatever.
	We make up some bullshit, right?
	All these OnlyFans chicks can learn from you, man.
	No, but this is like a free...
	Free OnlyFans tutorial.
	Yeah, people would say, why did those girls work for you?
	Because the girls would work for me, and at 50%, because it was 50-50, would make millions per month.
	If they worked for themselves, they'd make fucking nothing.
	I was the best in the fucking game.
	Me and I had a whole team of staff.
	The girl would only work six or seven hours a day online.
	So how did it end?
	Bro, the story's just begun.
	Oh, fuck.
	You want me to tell you?
	I can shut up if you want.
	Boy, you could have double-dipped and started a coaching to coach these guys, too, right?
	I could have.
	But, fuck, I'll give off for free, because I'm rich already.
	But, so, the girl would be online for six or seven hours, but then when she logged off, was sleeping or whatever, on her WhatsApp, I'd have staff.
	She was online 24 hours a day, her WhatsApp, her this.
	She was famusing when she was asleep.
	We were bringing in money for the fucking sky.
	We were promising all these meetings, all these pictures outside of embassies, all this shit.
	So then he then goes on to explain, just because I didn't want to play the full clip for time, because we have constraints, but he then goes on to explain how, using one example, one man paid for a Ukrainian model to get her visa, and then there were all sorts of delays that were confected and he kept paying up.
	And eventually, at one point, he would say, we would introduce an excuse to get him unhooked from the model so we never had to deliver on the goods, but that he would feel bad enough to not badmouth our business.
	So what would happen was, she would say to him, or his staff would, pretending to be the woman, would say to the man who's addicted, oh, I can't go get the visa today, I'm going to have to cancel the flight, so we need to rebook it.
	And he goes, why?
	And she'll go, I have a headache.
	They'll go, are you for real?
	You know, I've spent all this money on you.
	How could you betray me like this?
	And she'll go, well, I just have a headache.
	There's no need to get aggressive.
	You're scaring me.
	You're intimidating.
	Maybe I don't want to come anymore.
	And what will happen is he's paid all the money up front.
	He won't ever get to see the girl he's believed he's going to get.
	And then over time, because he's still obsessed with the woman, he literally mocks the guy there saying like, oh, he'll keep watching her streams, but he won't pay to be in there.
	He'll remember her photos.
	He'll keep masturbating over her.
	Lonely.
	He is hooked on her until he'll blame himself, and then he'll either give money to the same girl months later, or he'll go on to another one, thinking that it'll work this time.
	Sort of scamming beta males into...
	It's unbelievably predatory.
	The thing is, that happens all the time.
	Women do that to guys all the time.
	The right thing to do is not get yourself in that bloody situation in the first place.
	I agree, but if you are selling yourself as a man trying to reconstitute masculinity in the present...
	Yeah.
	The average age of watching porn is like 11 or 12, as we've already covered before, right?
	Starting to, right?
	Nowadays.
	Very addictive substance.
	They may be finding, particularly because Andrew has now been banned on TikTok, they may be finding pornography and that sort of chat room far before they find Andrew's content where he doesn't mention pornography, where he says, be a man and grow up and be an alpha male, right?
	And lots of these men as well won't be Andrew's level of status.
	They won't get his Bugattis.
	They won't get his harem full of women.
	I've heard he has a wife and children off the side.
	Well, I don't think he's a wife.
	He has a girlfriend.
	But I've heard he has children off the side that he keeps out the limelight.
	But lots of these men, especially if they're spending all this money and time on porn and webcam girls, won't be having a girlfriend and they won't be propagating themselves out into the future with their own family.
	So you are creating a class of dependents who are already hooked on the substance, and then they may be funneling themselves into your side enterprise they don't even know is run by you, and engaging in this parasocial relationship rather than building themselves up as men.
	So even if you are honest about wanting to rebuild masculinity, right, to make alphas alphas again, you are allowing some to fall prey to the exact thing that is keeping them enslaved to female sexual capital and is making them servile and unable to get themselves out of the matrix.
	Yeah, I mean, I've got to say, I still find these charges that have been put against him, they seem disingenuous.
	We can't say as to the severity of the allegations.
	Yeah, but I mean, they don't ring true to me on this anyway.
	But, you know, the point that you're making that he's...
	He's basically harvesting cash from guys while telling them to be better than that.
	Cam girls will do all of those things themselves anyway.
	I agree.
	So I find the exploitation line of this a bit difficult to see.
	But yeah, this is not a convincing male role model when you factor in...
	That kind of stuff as well.
	You don't have to be running the most successful enterprise at the same time as you're telling men to be better.
	Because yes, the industry may well exist outside of your influence, but you are being hypocritical.
	And rather than adding your voice to the consensus saying, we should tear down this industry that preys on young men and weak men who didn't have a father, for example, and don't know how to have that confidence and establish a relationship with a woman, we should be going against that.
	Instead, you're selling two at once.
	You're like a drug addict selling me rehab.
	Not good.
	So, I mean, there is a genuine gap in the market for masculine values.
	Our gynocentric society is clearly hostile to a sort of positive male role model.
	Obviously, otherwise, Andrew wouldn't have been popular.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And, well, before that, I think you made the comparison to Jordan Peterson off-air.
	Well, when I went on Piers Morgan's show, for example, and we discussed about the Me Too going too far, right?
	Piers opened with the introduction to me saying, oh, Conor's a conservative commentator, and he agrees to Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate.
	And instinctively, my face, because it gives it away all the time, I just went, hmm.
	Because I definitely agree with Dr.
	Peterson.
	I find he matches more my temperament.
	And he doesn't have the same contradictions, or at least he...
	Yeah, Peterson is not running a Camgirl show on the side.
	No, obviously, yeah.
	Obviously, his benzodiazepine withdrawal coma was a very unfortunate thing that I think he feels bad that he couldn't have foreseen, for example, as a clinical psychologist.
	And actually, his absence allows Tate to rise in his stead, because he was...
	Comatose for 2019 and 2020, nearly a full two years.
	So that left a vacuum and someone less refined and more contradictory came up instead.
	And so Jordan Peterson is one of those men, definitely.
	But there is also a kind of warlord conquering spirit that is in the heart of manhood.
	And nobody can accuse Jordan Peterson of being particularly stoic.
	Or muscular.
	You know, he's an older gentleman.
	He isn't afraid of crying.
	He's more academic.
	He's not as physical.
	Andrew Tate is a kickboxer who's compared himself to Genghis Khan.
	Not the best comparison because he's an actual rapist, but there you go.
	Not Andrew Tate, Genghis Khan.
	But I think the problem is that wall of conquering spirit needs to be melded As the protector part of the provider part of being a husband and father.
	I've said this before.
	I would rather be George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life with a small family than an Andrew Tate with a...
	So that's the thing.
	What is genuine and real masculinity?
	And real alpha males do not go around telling you that they're an alpha male all the time.
	That's not what they do.
	They don't need to.
	They have a calm, confident masculine energy that doesn't feel the need to promote itself.
	Right.
	And this is why I sort of went back and forth this morning when I was looking into Andrew Tate, because I started watching his stuff, and he speaks like he's about to headbutt you over an argument in a car park.
	He's got that sort of hyper-masculine type approach of putting his message across.
	That is the perfect analogy.
	And so I was listening to this stuff, and first of all, I was quite turned off by it, because there is a gap in masculinity.
	There is an emptiness for the provision of positive and strong rail mole models, which, as we talked about, Jordan Peterson went into, and this is something that he's gone into as well.
	And because young men are so starved for positive masculine role models, they often try and figure it out for themselves without knowing what they're trying to emulate.
	And you will often see young men who try and adopt a masculine frame and they do it by being unnecessarily aggressive and cocky and loutish because they think that that is masculinity.
	I see that on trains and in restaurants.
	You see it all the time.
	There are 15-year-old boys now who are dressing as roadmen, which is a colloquialism for England for our international audience, where they'll have the big puffer jackets, the Gucci man bags, the perfectly white trainers and the fisherman's hats.
	Walking around going, hey, top G, yeah, yeah, yeah, and they're repeating lines from tape because they've just imitated what they think is going to be conducive to success.
	It's the classic guy in the nightclub who comes up to you and says, are you looking at my girlfriend?
	And then starts strutting around.
	I mean, I don't go to nightclubs anymore, but whenever blokes used to say it to me, I always used to say yes, whether I was or I wasn't, just because I just...
	These preening little wusses annoy me.
	But there is that sort of thing, that guy who wants to be masculine but doesn't know how to do it and therefore just comes off this strut and loutishness.
	So when I first started looking at Tate's stuff and I was watching his videos, I got that vibe from him.
	I thought, well, this is not a genuine masculinity.
	And then I started to go the other way because I stopped listening to him and I just started reading what he'd written.
	And actually, when I look at what he's written...
	Or what he said written down.
	I agree with basically all of it.
	I mean, I was going through pages and pages of stuff.
	I was like, yeah, that's true.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That's definitely true.
	All that kind of stuff.
	But I don't know.
	And I haven't yet kind of figured out what my view on this.
	Actually, I'm going to go into the comments of this video and really, really see what people think of this guy.
	Oh, I'm really looking forward to the engagement we have, at least.
	Because hopefully, as we're neutrally presenting the information as the case, but having this debate...
	I would rather that everyone was collaboratively engaged in the enterprise of redefining manhood than we just put it in one set of hands, right?
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, the more important thing for me is that he has been obviously very successful.
	Apparently, he's one of the most Google-searched people on Earth.
	Especially recently when he was cancelled.
	Yeah, but apparently even before that.
	So I went and looked up the stats before that, and he was well up there at sort of four and a half million searches.
	So he was head of Google...
	He was ahead of Elon Musk in terms of people searching for him.
	So clearly there is that desperate need to find a positive masculine role model.
	And I can understand why our society would want to shut him down.
	Because, you know, you look how hard they tried to shut down Jordan Peterson.
	And he was offering a very mild...
	They still are.
	Yeah, they still are.
	There's stuff this week about the Canadian Psychiatric Society is going up.
	Yeah, provoking his licence book.
	We'll cover that on Thursday.
	If they're going to go after him, after Jordan Peterson that hard, you can imagine how hard they're going to go after somebody who's trying to disrupt this gynocentric society that we have.
	And I think this is a point actually you made in a video that you've still got in production, I think, where you started talking about the rise of the state after women got the vote.
	Now, whatever's driving that, you know, the fact is that women prefer more collaborative solutions, and so state spending has gone up.
	So you can imagine the state, the last thing he wants is a rugged individualism, which is...
	Which is convinced more in masculinity.
	They can also be scaremongered far easier with a crisis if they don't have their own children to take care of and can project that maternal compassion pathologically onto large groups like refugees, for example.
	And that's why 68% of unmarried women voted Democrat in the recent election, whereas most groups swung for Republicans.
	And it happens to be, as Josh and I have covered in the Contemplations as why women like serial killers and true crime so much, The short-term psychopaths, narcissists, Machiavellians can appear very charming, very seductive, like loverboys.
	There you go.
	And so politicians like Justin Trudeau can win off the capital of being smiley and friendly and approachable and having a relatively attractive face and make all of these false promises and then govern like a tyrant and continue to get away with it because many unmarried women just don't get it.
	Actually, Trudeau is probably the best example of a loverboy.
	He's the trust in the serpent from Jungle Book.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, if he was ugly, he obviously wouldn't have got elected because, you know, the man's completely clueless.
	So, but, I mean, several things can be true at once, and this is kind of where I'm leaning to on this Andrew Tate thing at the moment.
	There is a void in masculinity.
	He's doing something to fill that void.
	Now, he might not be a robust character in terms of, you know, how he goes through life, but that doesn't necessarily make him wrong.
	It doesn't mean that he's not providing something to young men, even though I wouldn't go about it that way myself.
	And I genuinely don't know what to make of him at this point.
	I don't know if I met him for a pint, whether I'd actually like him or not.
	I know that I don't like him when he speaks, and I like him when I look past that and just look at the actual message that sits beneath it, and I don't like the stuff that you're talking about.
	I would personally, before we conclude with the rest of the updates, to give a balance from the Tate side as well, I would personally compare him to Cypher from The Matrix.
	He has a consciousness of how the Matrix operates.
	He's been able to step outside of it.
	But he is voluntarily plugging himself back in, but he just wants to be appointed the head by the agents.
	He says, I know that the meat isn't real, but it tastes this good.
	If you can make me a philanthropist, if you can make me some kind of king, I will be delighted.
	So I can rule over people using the mechanism.
	And that seems to be how Tate is.
	That's why Tristan, in his interview with Stefan Molyneux...
	Which we'll talk about just briefly before we wrap up in a second.
	He says, I'm against pornography because of what it does to women.
	But I know that all these cam girls are very resentful of men because they know that they operate in their daily lives and they will do shameful things in private.
	That contradiction there, he's profiting off of that.
	He's profiting off of the dissolution of healthy relationships between men and women and still selling masculinity.
	He's appointing himself the paragon.
	Meanwhile, he's immiserating a total class of men.
	And so I don't think he's the person we should look to as a savior.
	Totally regardless of the criminal charges that come out.
	So I just want to finish here.
	There was a tweet here, John, before this, just about it seems to have disappeared, but that's fine.
	We go to the Daily Mail article.
	So the allegations remain that Tate has been tattooing women and branding them, which again seems outlandish.
	Authorities in Romania allege the 36-year-old kept six women under house arrest 24-7 like prisoners at his compound.
	Police sources told The Times that the woman and other alleged victims were tattooed with the words owned by Tate.
	One judicial source previously told the male the abuse was physical and emotional, they were not allowed to leave the house without security, and they were watched day and night.
	They added the women were deprived of their freedom and followed everywhere.
	It is claimed that Tate forced the women to create pornographic content against their will.
	Again, all allegations.
	Now, the pornographic content thing is true, whether or not it was against their will, because we go on to this, and I urge everyone to listen to this.
	The rest of it does sound like bullshit to me, but...
	We actually can't allege, because otherwise...
	No, no, no.
	So if we go on to the next one, please, John.
	Go and listen to this in your own time.
	This was on YouTube until Stephen Mullen, you got banned, but...
	Stephen Monly a couple of years ago did an interview with Tristan Tate before they were even remotely famous, and Tristan went in-depth about how the webcamming business works.
	And Tristan says his first job was burning pornography onto discs and selling them at school, and the mum said, He then says that he and Andrew had other staff who controlled the keyboards and used their WhatsApps at all times.
	So it was actually him, Andrew Tristan and the other staff that were talking to these gullible men and entrapping them rather than the girls themselves.
	He said, it's far more artificial than you could possibly believe.
	And then he also said, yeah, some men do get themselves into debt indulging in these relationships, which from my perspective just looks ridiculous.
	I'm happy to run the business.
	It's a great business to run, but I would not advise people partake in this in any manner.
	But then he tells a story about one man who inherited a large sum of money from his dead grandmother, who was talking to, I believe it was a Ukrainian model, and then realized it was a scam midway through.
	And Tristan went, okay, hold off on him, it's fine.
	And a couple of days later, he found him talking to an English model about the fact that he recognized the Ukrainian model was a scam, and Tristan said, and this is a quote from the interview, take this sucker for all that he's got, because what's going to happen is, even if I kick him out of my bar, he'll go and drink at another bar down the street, so I might as well take all his money.
	Again, if you're trying to sell a model of normative masculinity to men, that is cold and capricious and not helping actual weakened addicts who may not have had a father in the home like they did because their dad was a chess champion.
	So, not great.
	So, on the other side of this...
	To add some skepticism, which is totally valid, this woman's come out before and has said this was the woman who featured in the video where he was slapping a woman in a lingerie, and I think this is what got kicked out of Big Brother, but she came out and said this was not abuse, this was us having a consensual roleplay, which is a little bit rough.
	Fair play, lad.
	And she's now come out and said he would never do anything to these sorts of women.
	The sex trafficking claims are total lies.
	And then as of today, if we go to this New York Post article, there was an interview.
	If we just scroll down to the screenshot of the interview thing, please, John, that's embedded in this.
	Just keep going.
	There we go.
	There were two women that came out and actually said...
	The sex trafficking case against Tate is basically built on lies, according to two women who said they're being treated as accusers, despite repeatedly stating they are not victims.
	The official Twitter handle of the still-jailed influencer was among those sharing an interview of the two women listed as victims of what Romanian investigators called violent organized gang, but they said, this is very unfair, they don't deserve it.
	They said, I don't understand.
	The prosecutor said we're victims in the case when we obviously declared we are not the victims.
	Right.
	So there's definitely some manipulation going on here, according to two of the people deposed in the case by the authorities to say that these women are victims when they're saying that they're not.
	Right.
	Andrew has before claimed that he has bribed Romanian officials.
	Far be it from me to accuse the Eastern Europeans of corruption, but...
	Yeah, I'm sure everybody gets stopped at a traffic point in Romania and has probably ended up bribing an official at some point.
	But if you are one of the most watched account on TikTok and you are saying that I've bribed Romanian politicians, rather, slip of the tongue there, and then there's an election coming up at any point, it doesn't look good to have a guy going on the internet and saying you're super corrupt, does it?
	No, that's true, yeah.
	So, I would hope that there's no malfeasance in this case treating women who are saying we are not victims as victims in order to indict an innocent man.
	Again, if he is guilty, both he and his brother deserve punishment.
	If he is not, he deserves to be off the hook.
	And so to finish, this is actually rather prophetic because a little while ago...
	Nick Dixon and I, Nick who has met Andrew and has enjoyed his content.
	Nick has stopped being MGTOW, I won't say anymore.
	And we discussed Patrice O'Neill, who was the 10 years before version of Andrew Tate, who had some of his own failings, but is hysterically funny and very wise and well worth listening to, even if he is quite crass.
	And there are some cultural disparities between me, a young white Englishman, and him, a 40-year-old black American, taken far before his time.
	There are other sources of masculine inspiration, right?
	And what I'm proposing is guilty or innocent.
	Tate should be held to account on the fact that he is selling pornography to vulnerable men and selling parasitic relationships to vulnerable men.
	And I think that diminishes his ability to serve as the progenitor for a better masculinity.
	I'm not saying I am it, but we're also not as competitive as either.
	We're not selling masculinity courses like someone like Jack Murphy did, you know, that hack.
	We're just saying, oh, £5 a month, you can come watch our fun podcast.
	And we don't have a Cam Gale studio on the other side of the building either.
	Well, I don't know what John does in his free time, but we are set up for it.
	Anyway, I've lectured the audience enough on how gross that is.
	My point is, we should hold ourselves to a higher standard.
	We should get rid of these vices.
	We should affirm the family as the victory for the everyman.
	You don't need Bugattis and a harem four of whores in order to be happy.
	And I think that's a sensible take on this situation.
	Yeah, and I'm keen to get to the comments actually to find out what people are saying because I haven't made up my mind on this one and I want to know what people think.
	On to the comments.
	I left a link to the Cargo Cult talk in yesterday's text comment section on the website.
	Back to my usual California news.
	California is officially a trans kid sanctuary state.
	This means a woke parent can essentially kidnap the child and bring them to California to get surgeries and hormone pills.
	And the state will shield them from other state law enforcement from kidnapping and child abuse or medical abuse.
	Matt Christensen did an excellent video on this and I suggest you check it out.
	Yeah, there is a case of a Texas father, which we need to cover at some point, actually.
	I may do that on Thursday.
	Set a reminder for myself.
	Where he won the Texas court case because the mother was dressing the boy up as a girl to go to school, and when the boy got to school, he was saying, I'm a boy.
	When he went to spend time with his father, because they were divorced, he was saying, I'm a boy, but the mum was enforcing this identity on him.
	So she wanted to get him on puberty blockers.
	I think he's like a five-year-old at the time, right?
	Oh, damn.
	Yeah, actually capricious, evil, Munchausen by proxy, right?
	And the dad won the Texas court case to say the mum can't do this without two parental consent, right?
	The mum then said, okay, I'll just go to California, where you can do it at any time.
	And the dad said, well, you've got a blocker.
	And they go, no, because of the federalist way of governing the United States, we can't tell what happens in another state.
	There are downsides to this.
	Same with the abortion issue, right?
	And so now this guy basically has to watch his kid be chemically castrated by an evil mother who hates him.
	And this should be a lesson, ladies and gentlemen, in, yes, the court systems and the marriage situation at the moment is very gynocentric.
	Don't marry the wrong woman.
	You make that mistake and you'll be paying for it for the rest of your life.
	You will have everything you own taken and even more than you expected.
	On to the written comments on the site then, I suppose.
	Sophie opens off with one that's going to flatter your ego.
	Sophie floats with every man here, of course.
	I just want to thank Dan for his Brokenomics series.
	It is the only video on Lotus Eaters that I've sat down to watch these videos multiple times to try and get all of this.
	You give so much good information in such a short span of time, so yeah, it could be a lot to digest, but thankfully you were also really good at explaining it, so, in Harry's words, even a woman can understand what this is about.
	Based.
	As a classic woman myself, not one of those new women with penises, I do indeed appreciate it a lot.
	I've been consuming a lot of economics videos on YouTube in recent years, but many of them contradict each other and clearly seem to have agendas to tell, so it's kind of a minefield for sure.
	This has helped me trying to make sense of it of it and with the historic context and explanations, it does indeed feel like what you are talking about are observations and information rather than just to try and sell a specific narrative.
	I appreciate it a lot.
	Oh, thank you very much, Sophie.
	I do appreciate that.
	Can I be slightly egocentric and say that I have an economics video coming out soon?
	It did get your seat of approval.
	Yes, it was a good one, that one.
	Yes.
	Chuffed.
	Because everyone's going to see, oh, economics, in the second channel, and go, oh, it's not Dan, damn.
	No, it was good.
	Yep, looking forward to your one coming out at 3 o'clock today.
	So for the first segment, Metal Face.
	I have great conversations with my mum about all the wokery and nonsense in the world, but even she brought up the young British white boys being indoctrinated by a griff type into a cult of English racism on Coronation Street and the like.
	Even the best of neutrals can't help but feel sympathetic to a victim cause.
	Can't wait to send her this video.
	Good job, lads.
	Well, yeah, I think I speak from the perspective of someone who wasn't indoctrinated but just sort of felt I needed to articulate a reason why the country is being demolished and I need to know who's behind it so that we can hold those people to account.
	Supplant them with totally legitimate means and make things better.
	Let's put it in a nice way.
	Alexander Dake.
	They want to destroy us.
	Who is they though, Connor?
	Kanye.
	No, we're not going there.
	The Conservative Party.
	Conservative Party.
	Right.
	I don't believe Jews are on the world.
	There we go.
	I'm just going to say it.
	Raz Crack was right.
	Just because you're unable to articulate your sense of injustice at the hands of the system doesn't mean your sense is incorrect.
	A system with injustice as the goal would deliberately handicap education so people couldn't articulate their own defence.
	That system needs doubt in your mind to gaslight you into complacency.
	Illiteracy in adults is 20%, by the way.
	Absolutely.
	The education system is made to purposefully dumb you down.
	Yeah, I mean, it's the classic 1984.
	You need to render the people unable to criticise the system.
	And it is what they're doing.
	I speak to young people these days, and actually you are a real standout in this.
	Quite often when I meet younger people, because they are the product of a Blairite education system, Even young conservatives, they hold a set of assumptions about how to frame these things which inherently lead you to the leftist solution.
	I naturally hated school and barely attended year 13, so I spent most of my time teaching myself.
	And it turns out that, well, out of all the drama group that I was part of, I'm the only one that ends up on camera.
	Well, hey!
	Henry Ashman, if you wanted to deradicalise someone, then I would assume one of the better ways to do it would be to acknowledge whether radicals are correct and focus on where they're wrong.
	Especially if you can say the problem is valid but the nutcase's solution was not.
	I think that's how we actually handled the Tate segment.
	Yeah, more or less, yeah.
	Well, eviscerating the young lad and saying everything he thinks is wrong is not going to win him over.
	It'll make him shut you out entirely.
	And that's why he went to the surrogate father figure of Griff in the show, because...
	Well, David himself in the show is hardly a bastion of masculinity either, is he?
	He's not going to be the one to rebuild the country, the scraggly little beta male who keeps getting cheated on.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle.
	Regarding they want to destroy Britain, I had an interesting experience with my sister-in-law from Scotland over Christmas.
	We were chatting away, the whole family, with the TV on in the background.
	The documentary came on about our two main parties.
	She asked in all sincerity which are the good guys.
	She presumed that, like Britain, it was a Tory-Labor dichotomy.
	We're to explain that an island is different, as they are all useless just by varying degrees.
	I think it shocked her a bit.
	Maybe it'll wake her up to why she thinks this way.
	Yeah, they're all in agreement, it's just that it's at your expense.
	Let's go on to the comments for your segment, shall we?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So, Lord Nevar says, Honestly, Rishi's lying out of his arse is nothing new here.
	It's always clear he was going to be a status quo warrior.
	Do the right things, do the wrong things, much like his predecessors, I suppose.
	Yeah, I mean, this is absolutely it.
	So to be perfectly clear, my constant criticism of the Conservative Party is not going back to that previous comment to say that therefore the alternative, the alternative being Labour, is better.
	No, there is no alternative.
	They are the same party.
	We've got to get out of this paradigm that the solution can come from doing a slight variation, putting a different colour rose on the same set of solutions.
	So, yeah, I agree with that one.
	Andrew Narog says, Well, thank you very much, Andrew.
	I do appreciate that.
	I actually have the desk next to Dan.
	It's a genuine pleasure.
	I'm not just kissing your arse.
	I'm really glad you joined.
	I like working with you, mate.
	Thank you.
	Henry Ashman says, even though you put aside halving inflation won't lower prices point, which is very valid, the inflation increase and the other increases those five promises are meant to solve are problems that Richie is directly involved in creating.
	Yeah, um...
	Well, yes.
	I mean, yes.
	Obviously, he's our WEF-appointed overseer at the moment.
	And yes, he was involved in creating all of those.
	But even if he wasn't, we would have got to the same place with any other person that was allowed to go through the process.
	If it wasn't him, it would have been somebody else.
	And when we get the next bunch of somebody else's, the whole system is going to roll on and do all of those things all over again.
	So, yeah, there's no breaking out of this system until it breaks.
	Colin P says, wouldn't the best way to shorten the wasting list and increase the health of the nation be to put more people on the front line?
	Oh wait, that would take away from the Diversity, Equity and Inclusions Department.
	Actually, yes, I did a segment last week on ChatGDP where I talked about I was applying for a diversity role and I've yet to hear back.
	So, I don't know, maybe they've closed the door on that one.
	We'll see if they'll give you a 70-ground salary and free yoga sessions.
	That's actually one of the job descriptions.
	Yeah, it was.
	Okay.
	XY and Z says, how about stop offering free healthcare to anyone who shows up?
	Make the NHS national again.
	I mean, I don't see it so much where I am now, but I used to live in London.
	I used to live in central London.
	And I remember one occasion when I unfortunately almost broke my leg and I had to go to hospital for a complicated story on that one.
	Yeah, there was actually a family turn up, get out of a taxi with suitcases, and basically go straight to the front desk, and they had to get a translator out because none of them spoke English.
	I remember being a kid, and this was like 10 years ago now, and fracturing my wrist, and you had to wait hours on A&E then.
	So I can only imagine.
	I remember my mum was woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from one of the elderly neighbours that we had down the street that we used to take care of.
	And she had had a nosebleed that just hadn't stopped because she was so old that her blood wasn't clotting.
	And they went in there overnight and spent nearly 24 hours in A&E just waiting for help.
	Makes sense.
	Right, so comments for The Matrix sends its agent.
	Yes.
	The Tate one.
	Right, so Bleached Demon says, The whole bro Tate-o saga is nothing more than a grift who is playing a PR game.
	He's no more victim of The Matrix than Biden is.
	A victim of bicycle attacks.
	He's preying on men being disaffected by a nation run by feminazis.
	Bro Tate is nothing more than a face man.
	Yeah, so number one comment is negative on Tate.
	I've only got weak.
	Yep.
	Andrew and Rob.
	Good job, Dan.
	Call out these pathetic creatures when they bluster and puff up in vain in an attempt to appear masculine.
	How often they'll just crumble at the slightest of pushback.
	Kevin Fox.
	Andrew Tate's form of alpha male is like drunk para on a Saturday night, whereas real alpha males are more like the nameless and faceless personnel from the 22 SAS.
	Yeah, actually, I should have said that.
	If you want a better YouTube channel for men, Jocko Willink.
	Former Navy SEAL, writes children's books that are remoralising, speaks to academics, knows what the hell he's talking about, gets up at 4am and deadlifts.
	That is a great example of massacre.
	And he's a family man, a front-facing family man.
	That is someone to respect.
	And he is alpha as hell.
	When he speaks, he doesn't speak with a tone of aggression.
	It's authority.
	I'm sure as hell that he's capable of massive levels of aggression when it is necessary and when it is appropriate.
	But the rest of the time, he comes across as this sort of calm, confident...
	Fatherly sort of energy.
	You know who else says that, actually, weirdly, is Bob Ross.
	Master of his craft, was a former, what's it called, the Air Force in America, was a former drill sergeant, so he used to scream his lungs out all the time, and that's why he spoke so softly, but still had a family, still had a legacy, successful business, took care of animals, and is remembered and beloved by plenty of people.
	There are different dimensions of masculinity, and many of them are wholesome, but they're all to do with having the ability to exert force and doing it in its appropriate context.
	Which is very rare.
	Bluster, yeah.
	But you want to be capable of it, nevertheless.
	Ignatio, I don't understand why people rush to defend Tate like he's an intellectual, boldly spearheading positive change for men.
	He's at least a broken clock, at best a broken clock, just saying based things in between of typical masculinity guru grift stuff while leading a degenerate kuma life.
	At this point, I might think he's controlled opposition to make ideas of masculine betterment seem idiotic.
	Well, there was something in Islam about, what is it called, Takiyah, where you lie to the non-believers in order to make sure the imperial ambitions of Islam come to fruition.
	Yeah, that's an interesting point of it.
	Free Will 2112 says, after all, Jordan Peterson tries to help people and he does it out of genuine concern for their well-being.
	Yep.
	Yeah, and what I saw with Tate, which I didn't know about until I did this segment, is that, yeah, I mean, he's kind of, he's offering men who want to improve themselves talking points, which actually I agree with all of the individual talking points, but all of the men who are willing to piss their money away on Camgirls, he's more than happy to take it off them.
	I can say, not to get personal, but I had quite a rough time at school.
	And I had my confidence utterly obliterated for quite a few years, went through quite a few tumultuous relationships.
	And if it weren't for fellas like Stefan Molyneux, who lived their values, who interviewed Tristan Tate, or Jordan Peterson specifically, I don't think I'd still be sitting around and I don't think Andrew Tate would have had the same impact on me because if he's just screaming at the sky about getting Bugattis and it's metaphysically devoid whereas Jordan Peterson is saying be of service to other people and be strong enough that you aren't useless when the people who Deserve your help and need it.
	I don't think the same message would have resonated if it came from Andrew.
	But that's why I like his stuff when I see it written down, because actually a lot of that stuff is true.
	So he was talking in one whole section that I was reading about you have to believe in yourself and you have to project better.
	And actually that is true.
	I mean, I've been confident for so long I kind of forget about it.
	But exactly the same.
	When I was a young lad, I was not confident.
	I don't think young men start out as automatically confident.
	The world gives you nothing.
	Yeah, you have to decide to sort of better yourself.
	And there was, I think, a point.
	I think it was, you know, probably back in early university or A-levels or something around that point.
	I basically just decided, OK, I'm going to be a better person.
	I'm going to be more confident.
	I'm going to put the right foot forward.
	And I just did it from that point on.
	It was a sort of mental projection of will.
	And that was some of the stuff that I talk about.
	And that is an important message for young men.
	So, you know, this is why I can't make my mind up on him, because when I read his stuff, I think, yeah.
	I think it's the message, not the messenger, unfortunately.
	And the message can be, not banal, but observably true, but the messenger is obviously flawed, no matter if he's guilty or not.
	So, Eric agrees with you.
	Eric Manson says, the Tate brothers, in one word, disgusting.
	So, I mean, at least the beards.
	They are horrible.
	Well, I don't know.
	You need a beard.
	You need a beard, yeah, but you need a neck as well.
	That'd be useful.
	Free will.
	If he makes his money out of other people's misery and misfortune, and he is doing it as a grifter, he is a person who enjoys the cam girls, shall we say.
	End of story.
	Ross.
	Think Dan said it.
	If someone has to say they're something all the time, they're not.
	George Happ.
	Take the philosopher pimp is taking himself way too seriously, or perhaps this isn't all an act to drum up support.
	I wish men chose better role models, but it's pretty slim pickings these days.
	My suggestions would be Henry Tucker Carlson, sure, or Henry Cavill.
	Definitely.
	Henry Cavill as well, didn't use steroids.
	Credit.
	Really?
	He turned down using steroids from Man of Steel.
	They used to call him Fat Cavill as a kid, and so that shirtless scene at the opening of Man of Steel is him.
	I will say, aspirational figure, right there.
	Definitely.
	I'm pretty sure, I mean, he keeps pretty close counsel.
	He doesn't put his opinions out there, but...
	He is obviously conservative.
	I'm pretty sure I'd like the guy if I had a pint with him.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Well, that's all the time we have for today.
	Thanks as always, Dan.
	I genuinely enjoy being on air with you.
	I feel like some of my best segments are with you, mate.
	Great fun.
	I enjoyed it too.
	Although we are quite contrasting dress.
	You're making me look too over-prepped.
	I'm feeling intimidated here.
	Anyway, catch Dan's third episode of Brokonomics at 3 o'clock.
	If you haven't subscribed already, please do so.
	Until next time, we are back tomorrow at 1 o'clock.
	Thank you and goodbye.

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