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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of Load Seeders for the 11th of January 2023.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about Vice being scared of women, anyone got a spare, and YouTube being the best place to ever.
	I love YouTube.
	Thanks, YouTube.
	Great guys.
	Susan, if you're watching.
	Wow.
	Yeah, it's about just the crappy changes they've made recently, which just screwed over a lot of people.
	I watch and I got annoyed by it, so I've got to talk.
	I hope there's some actual Susans in the audience watching right now so they can just, you know, take that one to heart for themselves.
	Okay then.
	Anyway, we shall begin with...
	I've still got a thing we were talking about before we started on my bone.
	I can't get rid of that.
	What?
	Toon genocide?
	Yeah, who framed Roger Rabbit?
	Callum watched it for the first time last night, and he has questions.
	Yeah, well, I'm sort of weirded out, but why would a toon genocide all the toons?
	I've not watched it in a while, but I don't remember, but I'm sure it's a very nuanced and well-developed answer.
	Anyway, answers in the comments.
	So Vice is very scared of women.
	Spooky women.
	Tell tales about the women.
	Around the campfire.
	Come around, lads.
	Tell us about what happened.
	Anyway, back in the dark times.
	So we'll start off just with the conservative definition of what a woman is, because I suppose we're going to talk about women.
	You probably know what a woman is.
	And this is a lot more detailed than the kind of stock answer of adult human female that's given by the Matt Walsh types nowadays.
	Carl went much more in depth.
	So this is Carl's article about it on lowseas.com.
	And it's the point, and rightfully so, that adult human female...
	A woman is a nuisance, a bother.
	No.
	It works for describing the biological thing, right?
	But it doesn't describe what the layers of women is, which is the social roles and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	The metaphysical aspects, yes.
	Yeah, and this is something that Vice decided to try and have a conversation about and completely bug it up as well, which is they decided to sit around and think about, you know those women who joined the right in the recent years?
	What's that about?
	Oh yeah.
	Traitors to the gender.
	I mean, to be fair, even a lot of people on the right kind of look at them suspiciously, going like, are you really in this?
	Because you believe in it?
	Women in our movement?
	It is, there is a little bit, I know that some people in the office have some questions about some of the...
	Apologies, there seems to be an argument going on in the document.
	Dorma!
	Argument with John.
	It's kind of hard to ignore.
	Yeah, there are some people in the office who do cast aspersions on the motivations of some of the, I think what they're calling conservative thought types, the ones who are like, ooh, look at my incredible trad lifestyle on Instagram and social media, who are potentially just doing it for likes and clicks.
	But there are some out there who are sincere in what they're doing.
	But this isn't about that anyway.
	It's about the fact that...
	Wait, what?
	No, I'm not!
	Sorry, I'm just writing Harry is a homo in big red text.
	But he has put a kiss and a little love heart next to it.
	No, that was John.
	Anyway, back on topic.
	Basically, a bunch of women have decided to do this.
	And Vice are very, very salty about it.
	So they made this video.
	I checked it out.
	It's called The Rise of Far-Right Female Influencers Decade of Hate.
	It's the decade of hate.
	It's like the Chinese calendar.
	Each decade gets its own theme.
	I don't know.
	Maybe next decade will be lust.
	We'll find out.
	Are we in the...
	No, hang on.
	That was three years ago.
	Crap.
	We're still waiting.
	Are we still in the decade of hate?
	Yeah, we've got seven more years of hate.
	And then lust, hopefully.
	A decade of ruthless aggression.
	That would be pretty cool.
	This video didn't do too well, funnily enough.
	26% like ratio, so you can see the dislikes there being 30,000.
	Didn't Vice also recently do that debate with Sydney Watson and a bunch of other people about what a woman is?
	I do kind of wonder why would you make content?
	If you kept producing content and all you got was this?
	Like the Rebecca Friday treatment?
	Well, because it gets clicks.
	Because it gets clicks, and even if everybody hates it, I mean, it's got 518,000 views in a month.
	16 million subscribers.
	Anyway.
	But the thing is, we'll start off just by mentioning who, vice aside, are the far-right female influencers?
	Who's a part of the far-right?
	Because what the hell does that mean?
	Ask anyone, you get a different answer.
	So they decide to, and I'm just going to list the groups they included as what is the far-right.
	They go with white nationalists, which I could agree on, Lauren Southern, No, no, don't agree on that one.
	Populist anti-immigration politicians.
	No, don't agree, that's part of the far right.
	Trump supporters.
	No, that's the extreme right, that's the far right there.
	No, I don't agree.
	Housewives.
	There it is.
	Well, I agree on that one, yeah.
	Farthest right people I've ever met.
	We'll start off with this, which is just to introduce you to the tone of the piece, let's say, which is clip one, in which they talk about the far right being a men's game.
	Traditionally, the far-right has been a male-dominated and often openly misogynistic space.
	Feminism is cancer.
	Thank you very much.
	But in recent years, at least on the surface, something has changed.
	At its core, feminism is ideological poison.
	Across the world, women have emerged as key figures in far-right movements, playing a central role in softening the image and broadening the appeal of extremist politics.
	They are absolutely crucial to spreading the ideology, but they are also crucial to spreading the ideology with a smile and making it seem palatable.
	It was women that got Trump elected.
	And I guess to be really edgy, it was also women that got Hitler elected.
	Across the US and Europe, a new generation of female social media personalities are emerging as figureheads of far-right movements.
	I love that this is just vices coming out just outright against women.
	Women got Hitler elected.
	Yeah, I don't think that quite...
	We need to come out against the...
	This is why we need to enter the women's spaces to teach them a lesson.
	I don't think they quite got the message they were thinking with that sequence of clips.
	But there's some underlying points in there that are just dumb as well, of course, being that they say that political activism on the right is largely a men's game.
	All political activism is largely a men's game.
	You know, look at the Labour Party Conference.
	There's a reason they have to have all those female shortlists and blah blah blah blah.
	It's because, yeah, it's just...
	Because women just aren't as good at it as men are.
	Well, it's different preferences for, like, what's interesting to you.
	Well, yeah, of course.
	Men and women aren't the same, different people aren't the same.
	We can't just imagine that everybody's always operating on this incredibly level playing field, because no matter how level you make the playing field, people will still choose to do different things, like shown in Scandinavia.
	You're not level to yourself on a different day.
	Yeah.
	So, why the hell would you try and level off humanity?
	Yeah, like I mentioned, in Scandinavia, they've made it as equal as possible in all of those countries, and found that men and women are getting more and more different, because you give these people the option to do what they want, shockingly enough, they choose not to become bin men and plumbers.
	I'll do it, I won't.
	Anyway, but they also say that women broaden the appeal.
	I was like...
	We are half the electorate.
	So, I mean, yeah.
	I think conservative women do tend to be more attractive.
	This is true.
	There's that argument of, like, you want the poster girls.
	Like, every ideological movement ever has used that.
	It's not new.
	It's not even that interesting.
	It's just like, yep, that's a thing.
	Unlike the left-arm poster girls don't have penises, thankfully.
	There is that achievement unlocked.
	We did it, boys!
	But we're getting to the next clip.
	Someone decides that they're going to tell everyone about how these evil women are using their position as a woman to trick all the other women.
	Because they'll be like, I'm a woman, so I have a right to speak on this?
	Which, you know, feminists have never done.
	They never said that no men can talk about a subject, for example.
	Feminists asking women to please shut up.
	Kind of based.
	Position themselves, or they have this posture of, as a woman, I can speak to what feminism really is.
	Women who feel threatened by it, women who don't see a place for themselves, they think that feminism has...
	Made the world a worse place.
	They think that it is ultimately an anti-woman project.
	They also describe partnership and motherhood as political action.
	Because when your whole project is about guaranteeing the future of whiteness, fulfilling all of that is a matter of politics.
	Awesome.
	Alright, that looks great.
	Now, this is complete.
	You're done.
	You've got this cute, ad-friendly makeup look.
	Figures like the Canadian alt-right star Lauren Southern operate as independent, empowered entrepreneurs and consciously use the same social media strategies as other online influencers to build their following.
	Do they realise what they're saying?
	Female influencers on the alt-right behave in the exact way that we have always said that women should act.
	Independent entrepreneurs.
	This is a bad thing now.
	Yeah, that's bad.
	I love how you use the term, independent entrepreneur.
	I mean, they also seem to forget that Lauren Southern has changed her content a lot in the past six years and also did a massive video YouTube piece last year about calling out people on the right.
	But that's not a complaint, is it?
	No, it's that there's women who have differing opinions to them.
	It's if it differs to the feminist homogeny.
	And like we were alluding to there, we kind of agree...
	Well, no, we do agree that feminism has been terrible for women, has been an anti-woman force overall.
	That's why you end up with people coming out recently, like Louise Perry, who Connor and I covered her book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, and also Mary Harrington, people who are starting to describe themselves as reactionary feminists because they don't see feminism as the ideology that it's been sold as.
	They're just like...
	Well, what's best for women?
	Yeah, I mean, the whole thing's just been a complete scam.
	I'm just going to go through the points, which is that, as a woman, they make this argument that, as a woman, I can speak for feminism, as if this is not something that has been done for the last, like, ten years for every feminist.
	It's just like, well, you can't speak on this topic because you're a man, is it?
	Alright, yeah, okay, right, okay.
	But when the right wing is doing that, it's evil, okay?
	Obvious hypocrisy.
	We're men talking to women, therefore we're going to get it in the ear, therefore it's my business.
	Feminism being anti-woman, yeah.
	I mean, literally the objective was like, how can we become better than the men at the men things?
	And it's like, why would you do that?
	What a weird goal.
	Like, if you're the group of women here, for women's advancement, you're like, yeah, what if we become men?
	Yeah, dumb ideas.
	Don't do that.
	Anyway.
	Also saying that whiteness, guaranteeing whiteness, is political.
	The thing is, because they used white nationalists, I could have taken them seriously if that's what they'd done and said that's the far right and therefore, you know, we'll make this argument on that basis.
	So defending whiteness is like defending white nationalism.
	But you know what these people think whiteness is.
	I mean, just being Protestant.
	I mean, turning up on time, that's whiteness.
	Being European.
	Well, it's not even any of that.
	It's the behavioral stuff.
	I mean, remember the graph from, what was it, the Smithsonian?
	Or whatever, where it was like, do you turn up on time?
	That's whiteness.
	You know what you should do?
	Turn up late.
	Do you consider yourself as being some form of individual?
	That's a very white thing to do.
	What were the other ones?
	It was like, working hard, that's whiteness.
	Otherwise, yeah, incredibly racist.
	But also, the king's English was whiteness?
	Who speaks the king's English?
	The king and the royal family?
	The English.
	I did notice as well, there was a video a few days ago that I saw on Twitter that was literally some black guy just parroting the...
	Oh, professional standards?
	That's anti-black.
	Yeah, that was a self-report.
	Anyway, but also the question that Lauren Southern is an empowered entrepreneur and she only got here because of feminism.
	That's the message, that's the reason they're saying entrepreneur there, is because they're trying to, and they will throughout the clip, trying, other clips, try and make the point that these women are pathetic because they're only there because of feminism, and now they're trying to tear it down, the ladder that brought them up.
	Have you ever seen Lauren Southern talk about her life?
	But you haven't, if that's what you're putting up, Vice.
	Because you can go check out her video here, Why I Hate Being a Woman in the Workforce.
	I think it's this one.
	Maybe another one I asked before.
	Where she talks about the fact that, like, one of her jobs when she was growing up was as a lift operator.
	Not because they needed.
	She didn't live in the 20s.
	I was going to say, that's just a completely unnecessary job.
	Yeah, they just needed jobs for the teenage unemployed.
	So the government hired her and a bunch of other teenagers to do non-jobs.
	So she spent eight hours a day, stood on the lift.
	Most of it in the dark, on her phone.
	Well, that must be boring and demoralizing.
	Yeah.
	Thank you, feminism.
	You really made a desirable life.
	So, yeah, funnily enough, not very happy.
	There's also them whining about trad wives because the spooky scary memes are gonna threaten their world order.
	Let's play that clip.
	Alongside the anti-feminist rhetoric from influencers has been the growth of an entire online subculture known as trad wives who actively reject pursuing their own careers or independence in favor of raising families and submitting to their husbands.
	The trad movement is this movement to celebrate women who are in traditional roles.
	You are creating content that celebrates, that, you know, highlights how good the trad life is.
	It's making traditional gender roles seem appealing, seem cool, seem a part of the future.
	But if you really spend time with it and you look at some of these, you know, Instagram accounts or TikToks, what you'll realize is it's as much about what it's against as what it's for.
	I'm feminine, not feminist.
	Right?
	And so, seeding these ideas that, you know, you want to be like me.
	You know, look how great my life is.
	Children love me.
	Men love me.
	Like, look how celebrated I am in comparison to.
	Right?
	You'll start to see the ways in which being trad is also about being anti-something.
	Not just pro-tradition, but anti-progress.
	No role could be more important in the far right than being someone who is Again, not really demonizing it very well.
	No, it's not like, you know, we can look back to actual statistics of women's reported happiness over the decades and find that it's just been massively decreasing.
	Sure, but I mean, they butcher a few things.
	I mean, for starters, they say being a trad wife or being traditional means submitting to your husband.
	That's how they view these things.
	It's just like, yeah, become a slave.
	Like, right, okay.
	That's not what it is.
	It's a division of labor within the household that works both to everybody's advantage and to the strengths of the men and the women.
	Well, the women don't even necessarily have to stay completely home or anything like that.
	I mean, one of the traditional roles of women is doing side jobs as handicrafts or some crap.
	You just butchered the interpretation entirely of what's happening there.
	Also, the idea that, well, trad wife content celebrates the trad lifestyle, and this is bad because, I mean, why?
	It's bad because they're not hamsters on the wheel.
	Whereas the propaganda that's like, women, don't you love working 40-50 hours a week?
	In my experience, they don't.
	They really don't.
	Just become a high-end lawyer.
	Everything will go well, except that, as Jordan Peterson has mentioned correctly, because of his experience, I don't know if you've ever, you've probably seen this one, where he talks about the fact that a lot of his clients were high-end female lawyers.
	And one of the things they had is they get to that position, they get really well paid, and then about their 30s, they all drop out.
	The law firms are desperate to promote those women.
	They give them extra bonuses and all kinds of things, but they just can't retain them.
	And it's not because of the patriarchy.
	It's just the women don't want to do it anymore.
	They're like, why would I want to do this?
	Why am I working 70 hours a week?
	It becomes a very meaningless life to live.
	And the answer of feminism is basically the equivalent of just be happy.
	Just be happy.
	Just do it.
	It's also the point she makes, don't you want to be like me, where children love me, men love me, unlike you?
	Oof.
	Oof.
	You say self-report.
	Anyway, also the idea that it's anti-progress.
	I've just got to ask, how is any of this, for example, progress?
	This is just an example of architecture, which you might think is sort of tangential.
	But it's just the endless, like, this is progress, isn't it?
	No, not if it's not better.
	Things become homogenous, they become more miserable, the modernisation of it just means taking away anything appealing to actual human beings.
	The world is run by data and computers now, and it's awful.
	It's not built for human beings.
	Trust me, it's progress.
	Why?
	Because I said it is.
	It doesn't make it progress.
	Did you look at the graph?
	The line was going up when we did this, therefore it's progress.
	There's no more role more important than in the far right than having children.
	Why is that not true of every movement, lady?
	If you don't have kids, you don't have a movement.
	It's over.
	That's why they try and steal other people's kids.
	That's the thing.
	I would have thought that would have been important to literally every movement ever.
	Because if there is no future, then there is no future movement.
	But the movement was for what?
	Exactly.
	Dum-dum.
	Well, if the movement is inherently anti-human and we don't want kids, we can steal the other people's kids, convince them not to have kids, and eventually we'll all just go extinct happily ever after.
	Well, if my movement is for killing all of humanity, I don't care about kids.
	Yeah, I suppose so.
	There you go.
	Doesn't make sense.
	Anyway, the next one up here is just them whining about Le Pen, saying that not wanting to be raped is a feminist goal.
	Weird.
	Weird, weird thing to do.
	They're trying to inform us that being raped is a feminist goal, which I don't agree with.
	Let's play that.
	Le Pen is even trying to co-opt feminist arguments, pitching her anti-immigrant rhetoric as a defense of women's rights.
	A day after the allegations of mass sexual assault were made public, Cologne continues to search for the perpetrators and for answers.
	On New Year's Eve 2015, large numbers of women were sexually assaulted by groups of male immigrants at celebrations in Cologne and other German cities.
	Far-right parties immediately seized on this to amplify panic about the so-called European migration crisis that year.
	An estimated 1,700 white-wing demonstrators protested Germany's liberal immigration policy after more than 20 migrants were arrested for allegedly assaulting women on New Year's Eve.
	Le Pen herself wrote an editorial claiming that immigration from Africa and the Middle East was a threat to women's rights in Europe.
	Whereas we all know women's rights are actually strongest in the Middle East and North Africa.
	Whereas Europe is lagging behind on such progress.
	Hang on.
	This is, as always, progressivism against reality.
	Yeah.
	I love the idea that he's like this so-called migrant crisis.
	I don't know where this guy's from.
	He must be from Mars.
	Oh, it's brilliant.
	And they go, hundreds of women sexually assaulted on New Year's Eve by migrants.
	How can we make this the problem of the far right?
	But the complaint is that Le Pen complained about that.
	As if the goods thing to do would have been to shut your mouth for the sake of diversity.
	I mean, I do remember that day unfolding.
	I can't remember where I was.
	I think I was staying up all night watching the news come out.
	And I remember watching the TV and just the, I think it was the mayor or something, didn't want to talk about it.
	And then eventually she gave me the statement where it's like, oh, if you've got a large group of men around you, just keep them at arm's length.
	That was her unironic advice.
	Simple as.
	Easy peasy, right?
	A bunch of women have been sexually assaulted and borderline raped, frankly, in a few other instances.
	It's just like, okay, great.
	And then they had to admit, okay, now we messed up.
	We messed up big time.
	And this has all gone to hell.
	But no, the real feminist thing to do is to be pro-rape.
	Say Vice.
	Brave stance.
	Let's see if it pays off for them.
	Well, pro a very particular type of rape.
	Oh, yeah.
	That being rape of natives by immigrants.
	That's the kind of stuff Vice apparently enjoys.
	Feminists in favour of the progressive vision of Christopher Columbus...
	I love the idea that you're not a real woman if you don't want this.
	It's just like, okay, I'm not a woman then.
	Bye-bye.
	Then in that case, when they say, oh, the British Empire went across raping and pillaging across the whole world, then all of the feminists should be just giving it a round of applause.
	Oh, very feminist of them.
	Actual madness.
	And the last thing here is just them whining.
	And this one is about...
	This whole thing has been them whining.
	Miss Mellons, of course.
	Ooh.
	Yet again.
	Because...
	Anyway, Miss Mellons is in trouble.
	Why?
	Because she's not a real woman like she says she is, save Ice, which again...
	I mean, Mellons is literally in her name.
	Yeah, but also, it's funny how they always fall back on what a woman should be, the conservative definition, as Carl laid out.
	That's what a woman really is.
	Whenever they want to take a jab at the right, it's like, huh.
	Funny how you seem to know all of a sudden, the social roles, etc., that makes up the construct of what a woman is, but whatever.
	Let's play them whining about Miss Mellons.
	Georgia Maloney doesn't use feminism in order to gain votes.
	I see the woke ideology.
	Will we surrender in front of this?
	In fact, she openly rails against modern feminism, instead championing so-called traditional family and gender roles, despite herself having faced the stigma of being an unwed mother.
	Yes, to the natural family, not to the LGBT lobbyists.
	Maloney's like virtually all far-right politicians, extremely contradictory.
	Some parts of feminism work for her as a politician.
	At the same time, absolutely interested in using anti-LGBT, anti-women's rights, anti-welfare for immigrant rights rhetoric when it suits her.
	What?
	What was that last bit?
	I think that's a professor from the United States, because of course it is, who comes out and says that Maloney is a hypocrite.
	Reason being is because she's happy to use bits of feminism that support her.
	She doesn't say what bits.
	Just as bits.
	I presume the right of women to vote, I guess.
	I mean, she's a politician, so...
	We'll take the charitable position, so that's all she means by that.
	And then she says, but she's anti.
	And again, as if all of these things I'm about to mention are what feminism is.
	LGBT rights...
	Don't know where that fits in feminism.
	Then she just says women's rights.
	She's like, okay.
	And then she says anti-welfare for refugees rights.
	This is feminism.
	What a sentence.
	Margaret Sanger approves this message.
	Welfare for refugees rights.
	I mean, we really are just sticking the word rights on anything at this point.
	She's like, what about my free Ferrari rights?
	You're infringing on my free Ferrari rights.
	Good point.
	I should get Ferraris for free.
	And what about the incels' right to sex that they constantly go on about?
	Yeah, my sex right.
	There you go.
	I just have a right to sex all the time.
	There you go.
	And feminists being sex positive should be in favour of such a thing.
	It doesn't even have to be related to sex.
	I mean, what is welfare for foreigners?
	I mean, number one, there's not a right, obviously, but ditch that.
	What does welfare for foreigners got to do with feminism?
	Except, you know, being raped by them.
	Which, you know, Cologne was the literal example.
	Well, there you go.
	It makes them happier to rape the women, therefore, that's the rights.
	For God's sakes.
	Yeah, I don't know what is the absolute state of these arguments, and the state of intersexual feminism, of course.
	Just mad.
	Anyway, throwing this off, because, you know, the argument is that if you're not a real woman, if you don't support giving all of your money to foreigners...
	Specifically foreign explorers.
	See, in my experience, the real woman takes all of your money instead of giving it away.
	Rough time.
	Maybe that's just my different experiences.
	Anyway, but I'm just mentioning the foreign explorers.
	Remember this guy?
	I thought we'd just check back in with him.
	I don't remember this guy.
	Remind me.
	So this is a guy who does his TikToks.
	He's from Sudan.
	And he TikToks the entire way through the...
	He wasn't the guy who was saying, bang, bang, we're going to kill you on the boat over, was he?
	Oh, yeah, he was.
	Oh, this gentleman.
	All right.
	So he TikToks his entire way up through North Africa into Europe and then on the dinghy into England.
	Through the dangerous realms of Greece, Italy, France, Germany, I'm sure all of those hellhole countries.
	Yeah, and he's still here.
	Forever.
	He's never going anywhere.
	He's literally using the hashtags in this one.
	Follow and like and explore.
	Because again, hashtag explorer.
	Also in this one he uses hashtag army for some reason.
	I don't know why.
	I'm sure it's perfectly peaceful reasons.
	I'm so glad that we could inaugurate these beautiful new feminists into our inclusive and inviting society.
	Yeah, because, um, ladies, this is real feminism now.
	That's what that is.
	Okay.
	Thank you, Vice.
	Doctors and lawyers all.
	Alright.
	If we're done on that one, yep, let me just take a quick sippy sip.
	Glug.
	Glug glug.
	It's not funny.
	I don't know why we're laughing.
	Okay, so, time to ask a question to everybody in the audience.
	Anybody get a spare?
	You got a spare out there?
	Because I don't.
	I don't want one.
	Do you have a spare?
	What are you talking about?
	The copy of Spare.
	Prince Harry's new memoir that came out yesterday.
	There's been a lot of coverage of it, and I thought we would look at some of it.
	I did see a pile of them in Warstones on the way in.
	I did do some quick preliminary research on lunch, just before we came on the podcast, and I went to WHSmiths and found that one, I tweeted this out on Twitter, that female romance novels will never ever change, they will always stay the same, and this is a glorious thing, and I'm very happy to see it.
	As much as it is porn for old ladies, you know, it's one solid thing in the world.
	That will never change, so I can appreciate that.
	And also, I chose my words poorly.
	And then there was just piles of spare everywhere.
	That was the case in WH Smith, that was also the case in Waterstones.
	And yet, as we will see, it is the fastest selling non-fiction book ever.
	But before we go any further, Carl...
	Promoted this on the most recent segment we had about a similar subject on Prince Harry being brainwashed by his therapists and all of the Californian people, using that term loosely, that he is surrounded by.
	So I thought I would do it the same here because it is a very appropriate thing, and plus it is a very recent book club we did.
	That is Gadsab's The Parasitic Mind, which Connor and Josh discussed.
	Where Gadsad just explains to you how woke ideas are basically like a mind parasite that will infect you and cause you to become an insufferable bellend to everybody that you know.
	Especially when you see articles from New Statesman and whatever it was talking about how you can convince your family to become socialists at the Christmas dinner table.
	So this is the kind of thing...
	This is basically Harry's version of that on a much larger scale.
	So let's move on to it.
	So Harry's autobiography, which we've been hearing a lot of previews of in the past few weeks because there have been leaks of particular stories.
	There was a Spanish version that was released five days early by accident, so lots of people got the scoop on some of the stories that he was going through there.
	But despite the fact that we already know basically everything there is to know about Harry's life...
	It's apparently the fastest-selling nonfiction book ever, recording figures of 400,000 copies so far in hardback, e-book, and audio formats.
	And from what I can see, those e-book and audio formats must be doing a lot of heavy lifting.
	Who the hell is buying this?
	Charles?
	Charles, I assume?
	It's Megan.
	Yeah, it's Megan.
	Megan, so she can keep them.
	Charles, so he can burn them.
	Pass me some more firewood, please.
	Just, like, gets a copy.
	Straight on there.
	I mean, I kind of want to buy some just so I have something to put my feet on.
	Like, just because I imagine in a month's time they're going to be 99p each.
	Just get a stack of them just so that you can, like, rest yourself.
	I'll go away.
	I bet.
	I bet within a few months they're going to be all 99p each.
	I'm just going to buy a load.
	Absolutely they are.
	I mean, once again, they're not exactly flying off the shelves, as we will see in a moment.
	So the person who...
	Well, yeah, let's just...
	It was announced by the Transworld Penguin Random House Club, but here is just the footage.
	Here's just a picture of them flying off the shelves.
	And I just want to commend whoever decided to lay out the books like this, with Prince Harry's spare, surrounded by How to Kill Your Family.
	Very appropriate.
	I think that there's Bert's books.
	More like based books.
	Am I right, fellas?
	So...
	Anyway, we do have some spare copies of Spare if you want one.
	And if I remember correctly, most of the thread is just saying no thank you.
	Please, no thank you.
	I'm alright, thanks.
	And if we carry on, there's been lots of crowds gathering around, mainly made up of journalists, photographing the one or two people who've been buying the book on the release date.
	This is really weird to look at.
	Yeah, yeah, just play the clip, because I just got it in the background, so just play the clip so we can see it.
	So here's a bunch of people, I presume the store staff, the shop staff, releasing the book.
	13 journos all with cameras staring at someone buying a book?
	No, not even staring at someone buying a book.
	Staring at the shop assistant putting buy one get one half price stickers on them.
	So, in fact, actually, if you did want to build...
	I think we're all just going on half price.
	Perhaps.
	I know that a lot of shops, the actual retail shops, were having to lower the price automatically because Amazon's underselling them on the price already.
	So, they're in an arms race to get to the bargain bin.
	Yeah, it is half price.
	You're right.
	And there's just like two or three people.
	So, if you did want to build your footrest stack of these books, you would actually be getting a decent price from W.A. Smith's.
	I'm seeing some really expensive camera equipment here.
	To film what?
	All to hatch this one woman going, oh, can I get a 10p bag as well, please?
	I mean, whoever works at the AP, you could have used your phone.
	You didn't need to carry the whole camcorder just to be like, oh, I'll buy this.
	There was more footage in the next link as well, if we just bring it up.
	So here's like three people walking into a Waterstones on a midnight release or something.
	And yeah, just 50 journalists.
	And if we go to the next one, this next picture will show you just...
	Just look at that!
	One person with one copy.
	That bookshop behind them, that Waterstones, is not exactly crammed full of people, is it?
	I don't know.
	I think Harry's book, whatever it was called, I've already forgotten.
	It's called Spare.
	Yeah, it's not a particularly memorable title is one of the problems as well, isn't it?
	Obviously, it's not a real book in that sense.
	Well, it was ghostwritten by somebody and Harry has come out in public in media interviews and said, well, it's accurate to the best of my knowledge.
	So he's basically just admitted, yeah, I made some stuff up.
	What of it?
	But the thing is, I don't even see it as a book.
	It's clearly a press release, just a very expensive one.
	They've printed a few million copies of this.
	I mean, that's a pretty expensive way of just throwing dirt at the royal family.
	Yeah, supposedly Penguin has come out and said they need to sell 1.7 million copies to just break even.
	They had that big a marketing push on the book and have printed that many copies.
	Well, I'm sure they'll do it.
	You know, God bless Penguin.
	I hope you really do it.
	Megan's gonna be absolutely surrounded by copies of this book by the time this is all over, just to hit that breaking even point.
	And also, there's just the fact that, like I say, he said it's basically, some of it's probably made up Whether he knows it or not.
	And I just want to see the references in the back.
	I want to open the back to just find source.
	I was granted this in a dream.
	I want to see that in there.
	So let's see what some of the things that he said in the book are now that it's been released.
	These are some of the stories that I don't know if this particular one came out before the book was released, but this is one that I've seen since it has yesterday, which is that Prince Harry implies that he was bred purely to offer spare organs to his brother, Prince William.
	Do you believe this?
	Well, there's one problem.
	What's a second kid for?
	Well, I mean, I think there's one problem with this whole idea that Harry's putting forward here, which is if you're going to breed a child purely for the spare organs, you're going to make sure it's Charles' first, right?
	Yeah, I mean, they do have to have a matching...
	I mean, yeah, because they're gonna...
	Otherwise, the organs might just get rejected, and he might die anyway.
	So, you know, there's poor form here, Harry, but let's read it.
	So, two years older than me, and this is a quote from the book, Willie was the heir, whereas I was the spare.
	How poetic.
	I was the shadow, the support, the plan B. I was brought into the world...
	Hang on, just whoever wrote that deserves to be taken out and just...
	Transported to Australia or something.
	We need to get them back into the colonies.
	That's what we need.
	Yeah, they need to be exiled from the Empire.
	Just no more.
	I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy.
	And later on in the book, Harry does explain how something bad happened to his Willy indeed.
	Did you hear about that story?
	The frostbitten...
	Ding-a-ling?
	I didn't know what was true or what was made up.
	Because it all just sounded dumb.
	Supposedly you said you went on a trip to the North Pole and you got a frostbitten ding-a-ling.
	So...
	I don't know what he was doing.
	I don't think he's supposed to just, like, open air go for a pee out there.
	Wearing chaps?
	You wore the chaps the wrong way.
	I don't know about you, but if I go to the North Pole, the first thing I'm making sure is alright.
	I'm stuffing so much down there just to keep it warm.
	I'll lose my arms.
	I don't care.
	I'm not losing that.
	This is the hierarchy of needs that a man has.
	Dick above all else.
	We need to keep it safe.
	It's our biological prerogative to keep that safe.
	And Harry failed.
	But Charles, at least, has done a good job at trying to keep his willy safe.
	I hate puns.
	I can't stand them.
	He understood his role was to be a diversion and distraction from his brother, or to provide, if necessary, a spare part to him.
	Kidney, perhaps.
	Blood transfusion.
	Speck of bone marrow.
	As if anything went wrong with William.
	They're just going to tie Harry down to some dungeon table below Buckingham Palace, and just start chopping bits off as necessary.
	And it'd be kind of funny if they did, but...
	That's not how it works.
	No, in fact, you'll find...
	A thousand souls a day for the God Emperor!
	I mean, whether or not you want to characterize it as, oh, they just needed a spare, at the end of the day, he still...
	Your parents still wanted you, Harry.
	At the end of the day, and the fact that you're thinking of it in such a narcissistic and nihilistic manner is just a bad sign of your mental state right now, sadly.
	I don't know, considering he didn't write this, I feel like the person who did has just kind of taken the piss.
	Well, yeah, I feel like this has been co-written primarily by whatever ghostwriter they got for it, and also Harry's therapist.
	Because in reviews and other such things, and in interviews that he's done, he mentions a lot that he speaks to his therapist about a lot of these ideas.
	And if you were the California therapist of Prince Harry, would you think to yourself, I need to fix this man, or would you think to yourself, I am going to get so rich off this guy?
	Do you like money?
	There you go!
	There you go!
	People like money, therefore don't trust California bloody therapists, Harry, for the love of God!
	He also noted how his dad, now King Charles III, could never be on a plane with his elder son, William, because there must be no chance of the first and second in line to the throne being wiped out at the same time.
	That just makes sense.
	Good policy.
	Yeah.
	But no one gave a damn about who I travelled with.
	The spare could always be spared.
	Harry, you constantly complain about how you have no freedom in your life because of your royal obligations.
	You don't understand that by being the spare, so to speak, you are actually afforded probably a lot more freedom than people like Charles or William, being the direct line, being the first in line, were given.
	It's so embarrassing.
	It is embarrassing, isn't it?
	The one thing I've learned from being around some people is just that the best person you want in charge of a political operation or something like that is the person who doesn't want it.
	The nice thing about Elizabeth is just when you go and watch the films about it, the whole family didn't want that line to come to them, didn't want it on her.
	No, they desperately didn't want to.
	And then she's kind of stuck with it and she's like, well, crap.
	I guess I gotta do it now.
	Whereas the guy moaning is just like, oh, why am I not in charge, or why am I not the important one?
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	There is a bit of a doublespeak aspect to all of this going on, where he's complaining about all the obligations and duties that being a member of the royal family has, but at the same time, he's massively...
	There's a massive contention with the fact that he wasn't first in line, it seems, because he's living in their shadow the whole time, or at least that's how he sees it.
	He sees himself as having lived in William's shadow, which...
	Might have been a trouble, but you're still an important person.
	You still have your own life that you could live.
	The fact that it was full of duties and privileges is its own thing.
	Honestly, if a note came out tomorrow from the royal household just saying we're declaring him a bastard illegitimate from the line...
	To all of those of you who are theorising you were completely right, did blood test years ago...
	Yeah, but if they just say tomorrow, I just disown from the family.
	What would actually be the response?
	I think most people would be like, yeah, fair enough.
	Yeah, I'm sure Harry would probably have something to say on it.
	He's constantly going on recently about, I want my brother and my dad back.
	Well, you're the one that pushed them away.
	It's your fault.
	Despite having named his memoir Spare and using his clear distaste for his role in life to justify the ultimate split from his family, Harry maintains he was initially accepting of it.
	I took no offence and felt nothing about it.
	Any of it.
	Every boy and girl at least once imagines themselves as a prince or princess.
	Therefore, spare or no spare, it wasn't half bad to actually be one, he conceded.
	So, it sounds a lot like you've been brainwashed, Harry.
	It sounds like these thoughts that you are speaking and the words that have been written are not your own or certainly did not originate from you.
	Could it be that you have been brainwashed by your California tart and your California feminist progressive therapist, I wonder?
	Just suggesting it, and unsurprisingly, I've seen some clips of royal experts and the like appearing on GB News casting doubt over the accuracy of some of the things that Harry talks about in the book.
	For instance, he gives stories where he says it happened at a particular place and time, and they go, well, actually...
	There's no chance in hell because we've got photographs of him in different places at that same time, etc, etc.
	And you would think that if you're one of the most documented people in the world, the press has constantly been hounding you, which is one of the big things about his book, you'd be able to get the details right because you can just Google, oh, what did I do that day?
	Yeah, where was I that day?
	Exactly.
	But looking at the reviews as well, it's amusing, because Goodreads, if you are aware of the website, is just an aggregate site where people can put reviews up of the books that they're reading.
	It's turned into a bit of a struggle session, because if you scroll down, you'll find that generally it's a bunch of five-star reviews, then a one-star review, then a bunch of one-star reviews, and then a five-star review.
	Yeah, you can just see the...
	Just scroll back up to the little bar graphs there, John, at the top.
	There we go.
	Yeah, lots of five stars, lots of one stars, very little in between.
	And a lot of this happened before the book even came out.
	So most of the reviews on here now are just people complaining about other reviews of the book.
	So that's how that's going.
	But how is the mainstream approaching it?
	Well, let's take a look at the most unbiased...
	An objective source that we could find being the Guardian and see what they have to say about it.
	They're saying a flawed attempt to reclaim the narrative.
	Did they give a star rating for this, John?
	I can't remember if they do.
	If they do, it must be at the bottom of the article.
	No, doesn't seem that they give a particular star rating to it.
	But how does this review open, I wonder?
	Well, it says,"...the monarchy relies on fiction." It is a constructed reality in which grown-up people are asked to collude in the notion that a human is more than a human, that he or she contains something approaching the ineffable essence of Britishness.
	That's just called the monarchy.
	That is something that we have had for a thousand years.
	It's also related to hierarchy.
	So this is all true.
	This is nothing that...
	If you asked general man on the street, if you asked Baz on the street, if the king is more than just a normal person, he would probably go, well, yeah, he's the king.
	Guardian cannot take it.
	The review goes on like this, and the only thing that I can really tell from this review and reviews like the next one from The Independent, which is also talking about how chaotic but stylish memoir that sets fire to the royal family, the only thing that they're talking about is not necessarily how personal the book was, how they related to the book, the quality of the writing, the narrative it reads or anything like that.
	They're only approaching it from the perspective of somebody who goes, Ha!
	Royal family bad, I agree.
	And this review in particular, The Independent, is very annoyed at the end.
	Actually, no, this one wasn't annoyed.
	The Guardian one was annoyed that he can't just outright disavow his entire family and doesn't disavow the entire concept of monarchy by the end of it.
	This one actually seems a bit confused because they're like...
	You guys wanted privacy, right?
	Why are you releasing the book if you just wanted privacy?
	I mean, thanks for giving me lots of ammunition against the monarchy, but why are you doing this, Harry?
	Even the Independent seems to have a bit of confusion about this.
	But what these journalists are doing...
	Is his wife doing this?
	I mean, what these journalists are doing, Harry constantly complains in all of his appearances, all of his books, all of his interviews that he does about how the press has hounded him his entire life.
	He doesn't...
	I don't know if he realises that all of the positive coverage that he gets is not because of any sympathy or empathy these people, these journalists, feel towards him.
	It's just because they want ammunition against the monarchy.
	That's all they want.
	He doesn't realise the positive coverage is just using his words to progress a different agenda than the one that he wanted.
	Well, one that he's actually much more in line with nowadays, which is the anti-British, anti-monarchy one.
	It's just very annoying, and you can see it the way that the press uses his testimony and his support of certain causes to try and encourage and pressure the monarchy into apologizing for colonialism and slavery, which is something that we should never do, because the British Empire was the thing that ended slavery.
	But Harry is more than happy to go along with, due to the brainwashing he's received from his wife and his therapist and all of his friends in California, he's more than happy to just go along with this idea that, yes, British Empire, bad.
	Commonwealth equals British Empire 2.0 equals bad.
	The man's a brainlet.
	He's an absolute moron, and I found the most amusing clip that I found regarding people talking about this was this one from GB News, which is just bluntly honest about what Harry is.
	Let me bring in Tom Bauer now, one of the country's top journalists, author of Revenge, Meghan, Harry and the War of the Windsors, for his long awaited verdict on spare.
	And Tom Bauer, no one is spared, not even the late Queen Elizabeth II, not even the late Princess Margaret.
	This is like a circular firing squad.
	Well, it's a nasty, vulgar book, and it is deeply dishonest, and I think the product clearly of his therapist urging him to attack everyone, to assert himself, and to somehow cure him of all his maladies.
	Dad, I think it's very important to recollect exactly who Harry is, that he could allow his name to be put on such an appalling piece of fiction in many cases.
	Harry is a very unintelligent man.
	He failed to get into Eton on his first attempt.
	The second attempt, he was allowed in, although he really failed the exam.
	At Eton, he was bottom of the class every year.
	He got only a B and a D, a D and an E in his A levels, whereas in the best school in Britain, most people got three A stars.
	When the examiners saw his application exam to get into Sandhurst, they were actually puzzled because it was a childish writing of an essay of a man of about 12 or 13 years old.
	And of course he had to leave the army because he couldn't qualify in the exams to be promoted from captain to major.
	So you're dealing really with a very, very unintelligent man.
	And I think there's something even more dramatic which now needs to be revealed about it.
	Yeah, so Harry, big dum-dum.
	I mean, that's not a shock.
	It's not a shock, but it's something that we do have to keep in mind.
	And for an example...
	Do you know what one of those A-levels was?
	What was it?
	Geography.
	He couldn't get geography right.
	No.
	I mean, I failed on my A-level geography, but that's because I missed an exam by accident, because I... But he can sort of tell you what a hill is, though.
	Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And as an example of how much of an idiot Prince Harry is, let's take a listen to an excerpt from the audio book, which he narrates himself.
	I know I'm surprised he can read too, but let's hear what he has to say about a particular journalist called Rebecca Brooks, who was one of the people who I think was the CEO of the news organisation that ran the Times.
	That was doing spying and then got shut down for spy.
	Yes, and he hates this woman, probably justifiably, but let's hear how he describes his own hatred for her.
	I asked him to remind me what was this editor's name.
	He said it, and I committed it to memory.
	But in the years since then, I've avoided speaking it, and I don't wish to repeat it here.
	Spare the reader, but also myself.
	Besides, can it possibly be a coincidence that the name of the woman who pretended I went to rehab is a perfect anagram for rehabber kooks?
	Is the universe not saying something there?
	Who am I not to listen?
	Over several weeks, who the hell is this editor?
	Loathsome Toad, I gathered.
	Everyone who knew her was in full agreement that she was an infected pustule on the arse of humanity, plus a sh** excuse for a journalist.
	But none of that mattered, because she'd managed to wriggle her way into a position of great power, and lately, she was focusing all that power upon me.
	Once again, I'm sure that's completely justified the intrusions into his life being annoyed, but...
	Rehabba Cooks?
	Really?
	I don't know.
	I think Harry the Dim is going to catch on.
	Harry the Dim.
	I would say nice but dim, but I can't even say that really at the moment.
	But people immediately jumped on this and started memeing it.
	So just let's go through two or three of these memes.
	So Rebecca Brooks.
	Rehabha Cooks.
	Well, that's very good for a first try.
	You know what?
	I have a ball.
	Perhaps you'd like to bounce it.
	Then the next one...
	laughs laughs For those listening, it's the picture of John Travolta from the Oscars from a few years ago, and it says, "Please welcome the wickedly talented rehabber crooks." And then the last one.
	No, no!
	My name is Rehaber Crooks!
	So, if you just hover over the name of this Ali Fogg person as well who posted this, you'll notice there's pronouns in the bio.
	Even the Alphabet Brigade is getting in on making fun of Prince Harry, and rightfully so, because your book looks rubbish, mate.
	Sorry to break it to you.
	I'm not getting one, and you shouldn't either.
	I wonder if he did the audio and it's still like, I don't know if it's true.
	That's a special kind of idiot.
	I mean, my book might be accurate.
	I don't know.
	Didn't you read it?
	No, I just read it.
	I only lived it, bro.
	It's only my life.
	Who knows what happened?
	I didn't read it.
	I said it.
	Once again, the man can refer back to news stories to cross-reference.
	Anyway, let's carry on.
	Biggest of brains.
	See, YouTube is just fantastic.
	Love it.
	Love the place.
	Nothing ever goes wrong.
	It's not like the system just screws itself over.
	This might seem a bit weird for a segment, but just something I want to talk about, which is fundamentally arty game, which I know you also quite like.
	Yeah, I've watched some of his videos.
	I'm pretty sure if he isn't an actual socialist, he makes jokes about being one, so disavow political takes, but he makes interesting and fun content for the most part when I've watched it.
	He's played Dark Souls in a number of stupid and illogical ways.
	But I've been watching his stuff for like a long time.
	I sort of stopped watching recently just because he's playing different games that I don't really care too much for.
	But whatever.
	And still subscribe to him.
	And this popped up in my subscription feed.
	And I've got to talk about it just because it's so dumb.
	So his video here is called YouTube is Restricting My Content.
	And the fundamental story of this is something which I'm just going to try and summarize because 20 minutes is a bit much.
	So, start off just with, he uploads the best of 2021 video that he made for his year then, and apparently at the time, this got age-restricted and demonetized immediately.
	Which is pretty weird, because it's just clips from all the videos he makes gaming.
	I was half expecting it to be that some random person had copyright claimed all of the content under somebody else's name, because that has happened a few times as well.
	Beautiful system.
	But no, this is just like a three-hour video of all the clips from YouTube.
	And I was like, okay, well, the rule on YouTube, none of them are age-restricted.
	Why is the best of age-restricted?
	Does it make sense?
	So he wrote to YouTube and they said, yeah, yeah, sorry.
	Maybe it's like the length excludes people with terrible attention spans or something?
	I don't know.
	But apparently they wrote back and were just like, yeah, sorry about that.
	Got rid of that.
	Got rid of the debilitarization.
	And he was like, okay, cool.
	Whatever.
	If you go to the next one here, just have him messaging them.
	Because, of course, the only way to actually get YouTube's attention is to just message them on Twitter and whine.
	What an awful system.
	It really is.
	I remember as well, I don't know if you're going to go into this, but there was another content creator who I watched a bit of last year called Totally Not Mark, who had like five years worth of videos going back where he was covering various anime series and such, just reviewing them and watching them and talking about his experiences, getting to know some of these stories.
	And then all of a sudden last year, I think Funimation or one of the companies that produces all of these things just copyright claimed his entire channel and left him with like 10 videos out of the original hundreds that he had posted on there.
	And he had to make a massive thing about it.
	And eventually I think they took the claim off.
	But the fact that a company can just do that when it's all under fair use and just destroy five years worth of your work is ridiculous.
	It's a mess.
	But just on this is more like direct basis because it's not some weird quirk of a copyright.
	This is YouTube directly censoring that video there.
	And I just, just as a side note, I can't get over that you have to whine at a Twitter account.
	Wait, why isn't there like an internal email system or just a chatbot for Christ's sake?
	For all things, but whatever.
	Anyway, got it back.
	Put up his best of 2022 videos.
	And that just, that got age restricted.
	Still is age restricted, apparently.
	Great.
	And demonetized.
	And so he's like, well, this happened last year.
	Back to whining on Twitter!
	Back to whining on Twitter, indeed.
	And he says that he messaged people from the Twitter account.
	They sent it to the outreach team, which apparently is a whole different thing.
	And they were just like, yeah, this is dumb.
	Doesn't make any sense.
	Sorry this happened to you last year, and sorry it's happened again.
	Don't see what the problem is.
	And so they wrote back saying, no, no, no, it should be fine.
	It always shocks me how even the people working for YouTube seem to have no idea how the whole thing works and are always confused about why it's done something.
	The best part.
	I mean, the people responsible for running, what are the policies?
	Don't understand the policies?
	As in, stuff gets randomly just age-restricted or deleted and they're just like...
	I don't know why.
	Yeah, let me fix that for you.
	I mean, if they fix it, then that's fine, but it shouldn't be happening in the first place.
	So constantly.
	There's no way this is a 1% referral rate.
	There's so many people that have to deal with this.
	And if you go to the next link here, they decided to write back from the outreach team and say, actually, everyone you've spoken to beforehand was wrong, even though they're literally paid to read the policies.
	We at the outreach team have decided that, no, your videos violate our...
	What was it?
	Violence or graphic content policies.
	Yeah.
	Which didn't make any sense, because the original video didn't.
	Okay, so they've even given him the specific timestamp that was identified as violating these policies, so I'm sure this will clear it all up.
	Well, it was actually a very nice thing of them to do, because they don't do it usually.
	Yeah, that's shocking to see, actually.
	It's just because Arty's that big, I think, and he's able to use that position there.
	Actually, they gave two timestamps.
	They said it's the scene starting here, and the content that violates it starts here, so...
	Yeah, and you'd think that would be the end of it, except that they went and just age-restricted a bunch of his other content after writing back to him.
	Sorry, this is what you get for asking questions.
	Yeah, so he was like, you've messed up.
	Can you please un-age-restrict my video?
	Well, I'm not getting any views, because the views go up and then they just flatline when you get age-restricted, because you've got to sign in with a government ID. No, no, I'm not doing that.
	Sorry, go to hell.
	And so he asked customer support here for YouTube, and customer support turned around and went...
	Not only are you wrong, but they then censored a whole bunch of his other videos and just decided they were all violating community guidelines as well.
	And he said he found this because he was just refreshing the page and just more and more of his content was suddenly locked.
	It's like, we found out posthumously that you're just very, very naughty.
	Not posthumously, but you know what I mean.
	None of this is ever a problem, but it's a problem now.
	Right.
	We'll go to the graphic content guidelines because the thing is, it doesn't even violate them.
	You're reading themself.
	They're public.
	That's the mad thing.
	That's probably why Team YouTube were like, yeah, there's nothing wrong with this.
	They say in here that they basically ban real situations.
	So if there's a real situation of violence, they're just like, well done.
	If I just post on YouTube, here's some guy getting beaten up.
	I smash in a guy's head with a hammer.
	Not clickbait.
	And then you smash in a guy's head with a hammer.
	I mean, it really wasn't clickbait, though.
	Gotta respect that.
	Unless it's given big context as to why this is taking place, such as law enforcement footage.
	Or, like, news footage or something like that.
	Yeah, it's like, this is a thing that happened, news report, right, that's allowed, but if you're just showing off, like, a head with hammer, like, yeah, that's not...
	Head with hammer, go smashy smashy!
	That's not allowed.
	And then they say fictional content is also not really allowed, unless it's given context, and it's like, okay, it's a video game.
	I think that's pretty good context, which is I'm playing a video game.
	It's not real.
	Leave me with my video.
	Yeah, so I just can't possibly apply to him playing a...
	It was a horror game he was playing.
	That was why his content is all being destroyed, apparently.
	Everybody plays horror games.
	All of the big gaming YouTubers got big through playing horror games.
	PewDiePie's big break, if I remember, was Amnesia.
	But that's the other thing, which is just like, if you want to make all content that's 18 plus video games, for example, because there's violence in them, Suddenly that's all banned on YouTube.
	I mean, as you say, like, goodbye PewDiePie, goodbye literally all of the gaming world on YouTube.
	Bye-bye.
	And if you go to the next one here, also just the fact, for people who don't know, when you upload a video, or just anything, you're actually asked by YouTube, is this for kids?
	And everyone hits no, because it's not for kids.
	Yeah, this was a change they made a few years ago when a lot of these issues were happening originally, like back in, what was it, 2014, 2015 as well?
	As you can see, they passed a new act in America, so it was a mandatory thing.
	But it's just the fact that none of this stuff is for kids, and yet you still decide that this isn't allowed.
	God, this all feels like ancient history.
	So if you go to the next link here, if you get the timestamp, as you can see, he just got screwed.
	Just absolutely screwed.
	Just loads of videos with 18 +, or everything demonetized.
	I was just like, why?
	I do like that he changed one of them to Game So Violent, YouTube Restricted This Video.
	That's quite funny.
	You know what that is as well?
	What was it?
	It's a cleaning simulator.
	Is Visser a cleaning simulator?
	I can see in this thumbnail actually, yeah.
	For people who don't know, there's no violence.
	There's zero violence.
	It's post-violence.
	There's been like some, maybe you're on a space station, there's been an alien attack and everyone's dead.
	You're just the guy cleaning up the bodies.
	But this is really like cartoony crap.
	There's blood everywhere and you've got to mop it up.
	Oh yeah, on the walls they'll be like, help me, written in blood, and you just wash it off.
	It's quite funny.
	And he says the worst part for the demonetisation thing is something I hadn't really caught on to.
	Apparently it's the new swearing policy they have, which is that you can't swear within the first 15 seconds of the video.
	Wasn't there also that you can't swear within the first, like, ten minutes of the video or something?
	No, I don't believe so.
	Oh, really?
	It's just, does this get you on the list for the naughty step?
	It's like, not only is swearing something that might get you on there, usually it was just allowed, like, yeah, you could say a few bad words or some sense of bad words, like, who cares?
	Like, no one cares.
	Come on.
	What year are you living in?
	But then now, if you swear at all in the first 15 seconds, it's just no money for you.
	He then goes off to whine about hate speech, which I like RT and all, but...
	Dude, come on.
	Like...
	He's complaining that, oh, well, you know, I'm doing this and YouTube's censoring me, but there's way worse things, like hate speech on YouTube, and I'm like, oh, shut up.
	Shut up.
	Arty, I like you, don't make it difficult to like you.
	Because I think it's probably ignorance on his part, to be fair, because if you actually go to YouTube's hate speech guidelines, for example...
	He hangs around with Jacksepticeye and all of those sorts of people who are very much in the mainstream liberal left bubble.
	I just think it's ignorance.
	I think they're just a bunch of normies.
	Which is surprising because PewDiePie has actually been recommending some relatively based books to his followers recently.
	Yeah, well PewDiePie isn't ignorant and makes an effort not to be ignorant.
	Yeah, which I respect.
	But the hate speech policy, people who don't know.
	So promoting violence is already banned.
	So when they say hate speech is not allowed on YouTube, we remove content that promotes violence or hatred.
	So the violence part doesn't matter because it's already banned, so whatever.
	You can't promote hatred towards individual groups based on any of the following attributes.
	There's just a bunch of X characteristics.
	And the argument being, of course, that, well, you're born with it, so it's unfair and wrong that you should have hatred towards you on that basis.
	Except then it obviously just includes a bunch of others that you're not born with.
	I mean, like, veteran status, for example.
	I don't...
	You're born out of the womb, like, clutching your leg, with a little helmet on.
	You don't know, man.
	You weren't there.
	Yeah, it's just like, okay.
	And we're not even going to get into a debate about all the other crap there, but just the whole concept of hate speech as well is mad.
	The idea that you would ban hate is...
	And I can't believe that people are discriminated against purely for the characteristics they were born with.
	I could never imagine anything like that happening to me.
	But then also, why not include hair colour as well?
	I mean, like gingers.
	We should discriminate against gingers.
	I think that's right.
	Yeah, you're allowed to do that still, I think, for now.
	But my point being...
	Obviously that was a joke, just in case.
	Yeah, anyway.
	But if you go back to YouTube, just for RT, because the funny thing is, his advice now is, if you get in trouble with YouTube, just don't say anything.
	Just don't tell YouTube.
	Shut up!
	Otherwise it might come for you.
	That's how bad it is now.
	Your customer support is literally just, what if we destroy your entire livelihood?
	I was like, great, great, thanks for the help.
	I'm glad I messaged.
	Complain, will you, delete channel?
	So, yeah, the advice is now from here, just don't even complain.
	It reminds me, there's a law in America about endangered species, so you find some rare frog in your backyard, and if you tell the authorities, they'll declare that your entire field is sacked or sank, and you can't do anything with the land, and now it's worthless.
	So the law is accidentally incentivize, find rare species in garden, kill rare species in garden.
	Kill it, bury it, shut up.
	I think that's the rule.
	That's become the motto.
	And that's like in China, where it's like, if you cause someone to have to go to hospital, you have to pay the bills, so most of the time if you accidentally hit someone, people will just try and run them back over to make sure they're dead.
	Perfect system.
	Such as, uh, I have a problem with my video.
	Can you please help YouTube?
	Oh, that's nice.
	How about I delete your entire channel?
	Thanks, YouTube.
	I'm so sorry, YouTube.
	It's just, it's so dumb!
	I've learned my lesson.
	YouTube, please.
	Yeah.
	The Vulgar content stuff as well, like, Soundsmith, just as a side note, just another channel I watch.
	Like, I've noticed he mentioned that for the foreseeable future, all of the first 15 seconds of his videos is just gonna be nonsense.
	Because you just can't risk swearing or, like, you know, even TF2 if there's blood.
	I thought it was just gonna be complete silence, like, eerie silence.
	Like, you don't know what's going on, and then, hello everybody!
	Yeah, I know with those, um, Fallout New Vegas creators as well, like, people who make videos about Fallout New Vegas, they've had to basically stop using VATS, because the bot is just like, well, that's, that's extreme violence.
	It's like, it's not.
	But okay, whatever.
	And it's quite, like, let's be honest, the graphics of Fallout New Vegas have not aged particularly well.
	Irrally realistic rape.
	It's very, it's very poorly rendered gore.
	The thing about video games, it never really looked realistic, frankly.
	Like, do you remember that clip of the eerily realistic rape?
	Do you know what I'm referencing?
	I know, from GTA Online.
	People who don't know, I think it was Vice or whoever.
	They ran a story about...
	No, no, it was like Fox News or something.
	They ran a story about this footage of a character in GTA bent over and another one pretending to dry hump, all with clothes on.
	And the voiceover was like this eerily realistic rape.
	Like a right-to-hell retribution-level sex scene.
	It's crap.
	I think all video games are like that.
	They're all cartoony.
	I don't know why people seem to be on this train of like, oh, it's basically real life.
	Whenever you see it, it's always embarrassing.
	I'm trying to think.
	I mean, obviously graphics have got a lot better.
	I will say, watching through Let's Plays of The Last of Us Part 2, they should have been age-restricted, because there was some bloody awful and traumatizing sex scenes in that game that I did not need to see.
	I never got around to play it.
	I didn't play it.
	I just watched Let's Plays of it because I thought I enjoyed the story of the first one, Kind of can't be arsed with the second one.
	Let's see what it's like, and it was not worth buying anyway.
	But anyway, we'll get to the vulgar language content as well, because it's just funny.
	Explicit content that violates this policy will get an age restriction.
	So this is what happens at RT. You can also get a content removal or a strike for swearing.
	Cool, thanks.
	Yeah, you swear too many times.
	Goodbye to your video and your whole channel.
	Neat!
	Okay, this makes the place better.
	They also say sexually explicit language or narratives.
	Describing sex, I presume.
	The other ones make sense, which is excessive use of profanity.
	That doesn't really make any sense, but whatever.
	Heavy profanity or sexual suggestive terms in the content's title, thumbnail, or associated media.
	Okay, then clickbait crap.
	Use of excessive sexual sounds.
	Yep.
	Alright, I agree with that one, because that's just weird.
	That would be kind of funny, though, to just end the last ten seconds of a video completely out of context.
	Just hentai noises.
	Right, okay.
	The thing in the bottom, they just said that the above list isn't complete.
	So you can just get banned for swear words that YouTube don't like one day.
	I do love when they do lists like that, where it's just like, and then guess.
	Literally.
	And then you get to find out.
	It's a surprise!
	RT game.
	Swearing is banned if you use it a lot or a little.
	Who knows?
	Find out one way.
	Which is he did.
	And then it's just all his content.
	Screwed now.
	Great.
	There's also the whole borderline content thing.
	I'm never going to get out of how stupid this is.
	I don't know if you know about this.
	No, I don't.
	What's the borderline content?
	YouTube decided to come out one day and said that...
	Okay, so we've got rules against what's allowed on the platform.
	Um...
	There's also just content I don't like.
	Stuff that our moderator just, eh.
	He thinks it's icky.
	So they made borderline content, which is content that isn't against the rules, but they've made against the unofficial rules.
	So you know the and-guess section?
	I mean, this is the and-guess section of what's not allowed.
	They don't actually ever define what it is either.
	And we've seen great progress, apparently.
	Yeah, they just decided to start reducing recommendations.
	We defined content that we won't tell you what it is as bad, and then we got rid of that content.
	This is progress.
	Then there's COVID, which we're not allowed to speak of, but just the guidelines on that, just who knows.
	They constantly change as well.
	We get the next link here.
	John, let me see that.
	We can't say anything.
	I know what's coming up next as well, because we had to mention it in the office the other day.
	And the last thing I have to mention, just the absolute state of YouTube, is just election integrity is very important to me, which is why I believe that all of American elections for president have been absolutely perfect, every single one of them, which is now the standard.
	If you scroll down on this, I don't know why they keep doing this, but of course everyone remembers the perfect election that happened with Joe Biden.
	The completely legitimate election of George Washington.
	Yeah, that one.
	Not that one.
	And Thomas Jefferson?
	Yeah, if you scroll down, John, so then we can actually see the list of elections which are perfect, which is just a little bit up, then we can see it.
	Any past US presidential election, now, it's not just 2021, which is the old standard, it's now every single presidential election in all of American history is unquestionable.
	Which, I don't know how much we're allowed to say before setting off a ball, but I just love the idea that some guy's going to set up a channel denying the Washington elections.
	John Jay, 100% legitimate.
	And then there's the other list.
	The 2021 German federal election.
	Not any of the other German elections.
	I do have to ask a question.
	Does this mean that leftists are no longer allowed to complain about Florida in 2000, the Bush-Gore thing?
	No, that does break the times of service, and you should report them for it according to YouTube.
	Alright, lads, you know what to do.
	The 2021 German federal election, that's perfect.
	None of the other German ones, though.
	Every American one is perfect, but only one German one.
	And then only very specifically, we've only found out that in the past eight to nine years that Brazil has really cracked down on election corruption.
	And then they just said, keep in mind, this is not a complete list.
	Yeah, there you go.
	And guess.
	And guess as to what else is not allowed to be said.
	What a beautiful system.
	Do you remember South Park where there's the episode where they try and find out how Family Guy jokes are made and they go and it's just a bunch of manatees picking balls with random subjects for the cutaway gags?
	That's YouTube.
	We have content guidelines and then we have the end guest guidelines.
	Which are controlled entirely by the sacred manatees.
	We cut off a chicken head, throw it into the ring.
	Yep.
	What's bans?
	The 2021 German federal election.
	Alright, make it so.
	Okay, okay.
	2014 Brazilian...
	Where's that come from?
	Like I said, 2014 is when they really cracked down on corruption.
	Finally.
	Thank God.
	All of a sudden it was all gone.
	Anyway, but we'll end this off just by mentioning, for people who don't know, you should go over to loces.com and check out the reason for this and a lot of others, which is Auntie Susan, of course.
	This is an article in which she just explains why she ruined YouTube, and she ruined it because of her fee-fees.
	I'm not even joking.
	She just decides that she wants everyone to know about a terrorist attack.
	So she starts forcing it into people's feeds.
	Oh yeah, I remember this.
	It was back in 2016, wasn't it?
	Because they felt that they had done...
	They felt that they had done wrong by allowing content that encouraged people to vote for Donald Trump to be on the website at all.
	And then she started to whine about the Paris attacks.
	She was like, everyone in Paris needs to know about these.
	Everyone in France needs to know about them.
	I'm sure everybody already knew about them.
	Well, direct quote is that the engineers came back to her and said, no one's clicking on those links.
	Like, they're forcing these videos into your recommended.
	They're artificially.
	And she said, I don't care.
	I've fallen asleep once or twice watching YouTube, and it's very rare when it happens, but I will occasionally do that watching some political content.
	And then when you wake up, if you just let it take you...
	Fox News, CNN. Always just the mainstream sources.
	That's only where the recommended will take you, if you go on the first recommended channel.
	And there's a reason for that.
	Literally her.
	She's the reason.
	And I'm going to take, like, if you just Google any current figure when they're blowing up.
	I'm using Andrew Tate just because he's the most recent one right now for Things to Mind.
	But if you scroll Sky News, The Independent, ITV News, and then they've added in this where they try and actually have some YouTube content.
	But if you keep scrolling, it'll go back to mainstream sources as well.
	I think as well as being because of her fifis, it will probably also be to do with advertisers wanting it to be a particular type of content that their content is shown on.
	The legacy media cartel.
	But I'm using Andrew Tate here, but I remember when we were running on the MEP campaign, and you looked up Carl or Sargon at the time.
	It would just completely destroy your search results, you would just get mainstream sources.
	You wouldn't get his channel.
	No, it just wouldn't turn up, and it was like, great, cool, that's not artificial at all.
	Anyway, I thought I'd just whine about the state of YouTube because it annoyed me, and frankly, a justice for RT. I don't know.
	Thanks, Susan.
	Go to the video comments.
	William, William, there's something I must tell you.
	What is it, Harry?
	William, I am a racist.
	Oh, not this again.
	It's true, William.
	I am a racist, and so are you.
	You're not racist, Harry.
	You're just a fucking idiot.
	Oh, I can't talk to you when you're like this.
	Goddammit, man.
	Snap out of it.
	You're making a goddamn fool out of yourself.
	No, William.
	What are you doing?
	Keep your hands off me, you brute.
	No, not the dog bowl.
	That's it.
	I'm going to tell everyone you abuse me and that you hate Megan because she's black.
	Oh.
	Magnus Black?
	I'm so posting that later.
	Very, very rare behind-the-scenes footage of the royal family in action.
	Very good job managing to get a hold of that base tape.
	I love the laser pig animation.
	More of that, please.
	The next one.
	A personal California story and why I despise school.
	We are the canary in the coal mine.
	As a young five-year-old, they began to make us kids race-conscious, and this was the 90s.
	My friend, who was black, suddenly felt different and said once, I'm the only black person in this car.
	My mother, thankfully, told him that he is love for who he is inside and not what he is on the outside.
	Globalists want to divide us.
	Don't let them.
	Sorry, sorry.
	Yeah, fair.
	Sorry, we'll save that.
	My sentiment.
	I watched an interview with Helen Joyce on trigonometry and a question that came up was how can an operation that is only done on women turn you into a man?
	Shouldn't that be the biggest question you could ask this ideological group Have a new year, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	Thank you very much.
	You're right.
	To be honest, though, I'm kind of...
	Something about the whole trans debate just makes me want to blow my brains out just because I'm obviously dumb at us.
	But anyway, I forgot to mention something, which was the source of an argument earlier.
	It was the source of some horrendous claims being made about me.
	For some reason.
	Despite the fact I had nothing to do with this.
	Before we started, you were joking about being a gay pirate.
	I was not joking about being a gay pirate.
	I was telling stories about being a gay pirate.
	Indeed you were.
	Anyway, if you'd like to enjoy more such tonfoolery, tomorrow we're doing a hangout, me and Carl, about I have no mouth but I must scream.
	Is that the short story or the video game adaptation of it?
	Both.
	It's the same world.
	I need to both read the short story and play the game because it's always been sold to me as one of those late 90s classic point-and-click adventure games.
	I hate point-and-click.
	Carl's brought it.
	Apparently he's playing it.
	Oh, good man.
	But just...
	What a good job we have, eh?
	Is he just over there in the corner just playing games right now?
	I don't know.
	If so, I respect it.
	I don't envy him because I hate point clicks.
	It's not fun.
	Anyway, come check us out.
	They're fun.
	They're quirky.
	They tend to have great scripts and really good humour.
	I can watch Mystery of the Dreads.
	I'm not playing Mystery of the Dreads.
	You know what I mean?
	Are you telling me that you wouldn't savour that moment at the end of the game where you just get to stab the woman for no reason?
	Melody, no!
	I love that.
	He just stabs woman, happy ending.
	Yeah, but she comes back alive.
	You wouldn't relish stealing money from a homeless person to make a call on a payphone.
	You wouldn't steal the car.
	You wouldn't steal from the homeless, actually.
	Well, it was necessary, guys.
	If you've not watched it, watch Mandalore Gaming's review of the Mystery of the Druids.
	It's great.
	Let's go to the written comments.
	So, on Vice being scared of women, so...
	I don't know what my accent was.
	Sophie says, we want women to be strong and independent, and think for themselves, but only if they think the things we say they should think.
	That's how it works.
	Perfect system.
	Omar Awad says it's hilarious that they try to portray things, a likable feminine woman, as some kind of terrorist indoctrination because it doesn't align with their girl boss have-it-all ideology.
	They can't replicate that happiness in themselves, so you shouldn't have it either.
	Yeah, actually, that's a good point.
	It's basically just envy, typical feminine envy, because these women are happy and the women complaining about it are probably miserable.
	Statistically speaking, they're more likely to be miserable and mentally ill.
	I don't know why they couldn't just go be happy as well.
	Like, even if...
	Like, whatever, you don't want to be a trad wife, that's fine.
	But then go and be happy.
	Why are you sitting here whining about trad wives?
	Yeah, I mean, this is where the whole reactionary feminists come from, because they're like, well, we care about what's good for women, and if you ask women and look at trends over time, you find what tends to be good for women is what they want to do, and that's be a housewife in some cases.
	Don't talk to her, she's a reactionary feminist.
	Oh, why?
	She wants to ask women what makes them happy.
	Oh my god!
	We just tell them.
	Okay, Justin B says, It's not just progress that is causing the brutalist architecture, it's cheaper to build.
	Apparently that architecture is also Marxist components, you can't have much of an attachment to your home if it all looks like boring blocks.
	Don't talk to her.
	That's true.
	I think John covered this on a segment with me, John Wheatley, when he was still part of the team.
	You're going to be like, my God rest his soul.
	To be fair, he did message me at New Year's and then never got back to me.
	So John, if you're watching this right now, message back, for the love of God.
	He even started the conversation.
	It's very strange.
	Back to the architecture.
	He was talking about architecture and basically went through some of the arguments that these modernist architects came out with at the beginning of the 20th century.
	And it was basically, yeah, we want to create a sense of alienation within these people's homes so they don't feel attached to it, so we can create the communist ideal man.
	Right, that's a guy I'm going to hire.
	I want to make you not like your house.
	You're hired.
	Build my house.
	LB Quirky says, Vice, peace.
	Husband and wife is in a partnership, not tug-of-war.
	Feminists and progressives just can't grasp that concept.
	Each person contributing what they can to a greater whole.
	Interesting that this is how...
	Sorry, this is how we are biologically created.
	That.
	I assume it means they can't understand sex either.
	Yeah, that's true.
	ArizonaDesertReady says, All I can think of, someone who, like, publicly was a trad wife and then regretted it, that I can think of was Brandy Love, the porn star.
	The only example I know to hand.
	I'm not aware of that story.
	Enlighten me.
	She was like, um, I think she worked with her husband, got pregnant, they had three kids, she stayed at home, raised them all, they all left home, like, they're all, like, 18 plus or whatever.
	Alright, and then she decided, you know what will work for me?
	Porn.
	Yeah.
	Very strange decision to make.
	She says apparently they were just incredibly bored and started doing swinger stuff and then they were like, you know, why don't I do porn?
	That'll be fun.
	And then she just kind of exploded and then went from there.
	I mean, that's a very strange...
	I mean, that's a very personal decision for the two of them to make.
	It's certainly not something that I think would work for...
	Almost anybody, really.
	No, I'm just saying it's the only example I've ever- She didn't even regret being a tradwife, actually.
	I take it all back.
	Because she was still like, no, that was great.
	That was a great decision, but, you know, I got bored.
	After the kids had left.
	So.
	I mean, fair play- Tradwife to porn star pipeline is real.
	I mean, there is the opposite as well.
	There's the OnlyFan girls to trad wife pipeline as well that's going on right now.
	There are a number of...
	This is what I mentioned at the beginning.
	There are a number of female influencers who are coming about presenting themselves as kind of the trad lifestyle.
	There are lots of right-wingers finding out, hey, three months ago, you were a massive thot with an OnlyFans account.
	Are you just playing us...
	You were playing the leftist soyboys, and now are you just playing us by presenting us with the things that we want to see?
	You reckon it's a play, though?
	Maybe.
	Or is it not?
	Maybe.
	They're just like, well, if you've enjoyed my trad content, you'll also enjoy!
	No, no, I think it's more of, um...
	What's that thing called the Catholics do?
	I don't know.
	No, the one where they go in church and they whine at the priest.
	What, confession?
	Yeah, confession.
	Is everything just a form of variation of whining to you?
	Well, it is.
	Well, they literally sit there and whine about, like, oh, sorry, I did this.
	Anyway, but point being, the OnlyFans girls, it's sort of their confession where they're like, you know, maybe I should not do this.
	This is a bad idea.
	Maybe I'll try the other thing.
	Although I will say, if there are some ex-OnlyFans girls who are doing it sincerely, not for social media clout, but genuinely because they regret their decisions, then there should be a road to redemption for those sorts of people.
	Or are you just going full jihad on them?
	No, I'm just wondering how that works, but whatever.
	Taffy Duck says, of course, vice is scared of women.
	They are perfectly positioned to legitimately oppose the trans agenda imposed by the elites.
	Women are at risk from trans predators.
	Women are having their spaces invaded and identities eroded.
	Women are being ridiculed and derided for not playing make-believe with the mentally ill men.
	And of course, they are afraid women are onto them.
	Mr.
	Spaniard says, I don't know...
	Nacho.
	Nacho cheese?
	This is my cheese, nacho cheese.
	You've seen that Gromit meme?
	No.
	There's a bunch of guys playing Wallace and Gromit in, like, um...
	Gmod or something.
	Okay.
	And they're just like, I'm going to say the N-word.
	You can't do that.
	But my shoes are black.
	anyway racist Wallace Yes, it's a good arc.
	Dominates the world.
	Anyway, he gets kicked.
	Oh, no!
	His shoes weren't black enough.
	Racist Wallace was just trying to make friends.
	It's the only way he knows how.
	Stop spinning.
	Stop spinning.
	I don't know how the myth of traditional wife being a slave to the husband is still perpetuated.
	They're all feminists, aren't they?
	They're just like, yeah, sex slavery.
	A housewife might have to make the meals for her working husband and do the chores, but the wives are usually the bosses of the house, even managing the entirety of the man's wage to the point of the man getting an allowance from their own wage because the woman was the one in charge of managing that money.
	Yeah, there's a funny story that Carl told me, which is, I think it was, like, his granddad or something.
	He'd go mining, as you do, and then comes home with his money, and the first thing he would do is just give it to the woman.
	Yeah.
	And then she would give him, like, a quid, and he'd go to the pub.
	There you go.
	I mean, simpler times, better times.
	Look how he was oppressing her.
	Oh, what an evil man he was.
	Isn't it, like, 70% of women make up consumer purchases as well?
	Yeah, still.
	I mean, I gotta wonder, how is that not girlboss?
	Well, you know this fantasy of, like, you're not the girlboss in reality that's just cringe and nonsense, but, like, the fantasy idea that left us half of a girlboss running things.
	Mm-hmm.
	And that's basically just the traditional household.
	Once again, I've seen it, as with all philosophical conceptions, I've seen a meme on this, which was the, women, imagine this, it's like OnlyFans, but you only have one fan, and he pays for you for the rest of your life, and you just give him children.
	Are we going to start a dating app called OnlyFan?
	OnlyFan?
	Just the one guy?
	No, but it's just like maxing people to get married.
	Like MuslimsMeet.com, but without the Islam.
	There was that right-wing dating app that I've heard about that I've completely forgotten the name of.
	I'd be interested to see how that's going right now.
	Don't remember blackpeoplemeet.com?
	No.
	No, that was a real dating app.
	Oh, okay.
	Fair play.
	It had to be black.
	Okay.
	It's just really weird.
	Because of course you can't enforce that.
	No race mixing in our community.
	I think it's still out.
	I mean, if that's what they want...
	You read your comments.
	I'm gonna look up blackpeoplemeat.com.
	Callum's just gonna pick some girls up for later.
	No, I'm gonna prove you it's real.
	Alright, so Henry Ashman says, The BBC review of Spare is wild.
	Oh, I must have missed that one.
	It describes it as feeling like the longest drunk text ever.
	You know it's bad when even the BBC are throwing shade at it.
	Like I said, the actual reviews that I read, none of them were praising the book.
	There it is.
	John had a hyperlink ready for it.
	I said it to John.
	Oh, okay.
	Big money salvia, like a guy who had a...
	I'm just going to say it outright.
	Okay, that woman, second woman on the right there, she looks like black like Meghan Markle is black, you know?
	Well, the image is in black and white, so...
	I know, but even then...
	The guy on the right looks black.
	The other guy looks black.
	Even in the black and white, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	But that's what I mean.
	That woman...
	I mean, the one on the left's obviously pale, but she just looks...
	I'm sorry, you just present me that picture.
	I'm thinking she's maybe Mediterranean.
	We do need to do a premium podcast on what is a black person.
	I mean, it'll be the most spicy thing we've ever done.
	Even black people differ in their opinions on this.
	I'm at the point where I don't even know if black Americans are black.
	I mean, Africans probably wouldn't think they are.
	But I'm on the African train.
	I don't think black Americans are black at this point.
	Yeah, they're American.
	Yeah.
	There's a difference.
	There's a difference between black and American.
	Anyway.
	So you're all just strange to us.
	Big Money Salvo used to do this thing where he would just redirect links to stuff, and it would all just send people to black people.
	This is really annoying.
	It's like...
	Good job.
	Good job.
	It's a good meme.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Ross Diggle says, Bar drinks don't allow the four people who know the recipe for Iron Brew to travel together.
	S like this is important for humanity.
	Also, has Callum been watching Idiocracy?
	I do like money.
	I've not watched Idiocracy.
	I know I need to.
	Have you watched it?
	Yeah.
	I was thinking more Seth.
	Oh, okay.
	You know, Seth's in touch and started taking sponsorships.
	No.
	Well, his reasoning was just, I do like money.
	I mean, that makes sense to me.
	I am now a libertarian.
	That classic trajectory.
	Colin P., non-fiction?
	Wait, what?
	Shouldn't it be in the paranoid fantasy section?
	Yeah, probably.
	General Hai Ping, Chinese Internet Battalion.
	I don't see what that's got to do with anything, was what Harry said to the interviewer when he was asked, why don't you give up your titles if it's all so awful?
	Good question.
	Really demonstrates his character.
	Pig-ass thick and out for the long-haul grift.
	I think it's more Megan and everybody who's surrounded themselves, all the parasites that have attached themselves to him, that are in it for the long-haul grift.
	I think he is just too stupid to really realize how he's being manipulated.
	Because he is just, like you say, he's pig-ass thick.
	Colin P... Dummy thick.
	No!
	No, Callum, no!
	Colin P. I was getting clipped.
	Colin P. So, the Guardian thinks that the Emperor of Japan, the Prince of Monaco, and all of the monarch represent Britishness.
	Yes.
	Omar Awad, boohoo, I'm the spare.
	Yes, Harry, that's how the monarchy works.
	If the firstborn dies, it's a good idea to have others within the bloodline that can take up succession.
	In fact, if I remember correctly, there was this old monarch from the 1500s, Henry VII, IX, was it, who had this big problem with the fact that he couldn't get a male heir?
	I know, it was the 8th.
	He had this big problem because he couldn't get any male heirs and ended up doing some nasty things to his wives or something, but, you know, this is just a new occurrence.
	Meghan seems to have bastardised this understanding of British monarchy as much as she did British race politics.
	True.
	Maureen beat us.
	If Harry had such a problem with being called a spare, maybe he should have been proven his worth and potential instead of living up to the joke his father made about him being a bag of substitute organs.
	And, yeah, if he did have a problem with being called a spare, maybe he could have thought of a different name for his book.
	If it really agitates him that much.
	Alright, there's money to be made.
	Martin Williams.
	Prince Harry's book next to How to Kill Your Family in the Valley of Penises and The Tale of the Scrocy McBookie Balls.
	When I did see the book, I did expect memes to be made of people sitting around and then it put a poop in a butt.
	As read by Morgan Freeman.
	A good line-up, by the way.
	A penis that went poop.
	By the way, how about Thomas Sowell's book Basic Economics for the Next Book Club?
	Or perhaps another one of his books.
	I have been meaning to do Thomas Sowell for a while now.
	Basic Economics.
	I've got a load of his.
	I've got Basic Economics.
	I've got Intellectuals in Society.
	Affirmative Action Across the World.
	The empirical study that he did about that.
	I will choose one of them and then go from there.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle, I wonder if Harry ever heard what it was like to be an Ottoman spare.
	If your brother got elevated to Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, you were automatically executed to prevent a succession crisis.
	But no, Harry's life is a lot worse.
	There is a certain sick and evil logic and sense to that, to be fair.
	What, the Ottoman?
	Yeah, just kill any potential usurpers.
	Yeah, but then you kill all the brothers and you turn around and the one you made king just gets the sniffles and dies.
	Yeah, that's the other problem as well.
	Problems, problems.
	Anyway, let's go on to yours.
	Yeah, it's just a minefield.
	It's just like purposely crap at this point.
	I mean, it's a thing when it affects all the political people, right?
	As in, you can at least follow the logic of why, you know, America Deserved 9-11 guy gets in trouble with YouTube policies because he's embarrassing the company on a political level and that's a big problem.
	But when you're running into, like...
	Gaming YouTubers who are just playing Vigigams.
	Who are just having their whole channels basically destroyed because of these damn policies.
	I don't know what you mean.
	Hapan Laika is a completely uncontroversial man.
	For God's sakes.
	It's bad.
	It's bad.
	Like, I'm hard for the fucking beauty community to be rising up.
	Just all their content gets deleted for bullying.
	I mean, all of their content is bullying as far as I can tell.
	It's just like, ooh, I'm gonna spill the tea on this person.
	Well, yeah.
	It's awful.
	It's awful.
	Someone online says, so is YouTube going to do anything about people posting animal torture videos, or are they too busy rearing gamers?
	Yeah, we watched those in the office, didn't we?
	Oh, yeah!
	Because they're still up.
	They're still on YouTube.
	They are still up.
	Here's my pet toad just eating random creatures.
	I found one the other day.
	There was a morbid fascination to it, though.
	There's worse than what we saw.
	Oh, I'm sure there is.
	There's always worse, Callan.
	There's a guy from Thailand.
	What he does...
	No, he's Vietnamese, actually.
	He's got this big-ass box, and instead of having a toad just eat a bunch of stuff, and it's kind of like, oh, that's horrible.
	It's instead, he's got the box.
	He just throws animal after animal in there.
	So he starts off by throwing...
	Yeah, so he started off with a huge snake, and then he threw in a lizard, and then he threw in the frog, and then he threw in a centipede, and then he threw in a scorpion, and then a tarantula, and then...
	Was this man 12?
	Because it's like the, and fight.
	Yeah, literally.
	But the thing is, I don't know what's wrong with him, but the snake was the only thing that was smart enough to just crawl out.
	And he films it, crawling out of his thing, and it crawls out and falls on the floor.
	There's no cuts.
	So that thing is just wandering around his house now.
	And he's just throwing more stuff in.
	Well, that seems like a problem for tomorrow.
	Mental people of Indochina.
	Anyway, George Happ says, YouTube hasn't been a viable platform for years, not just for political content, the random music copyright strikes, the community guideline nonsense, and most recently the removal of the dislike button, which big creators like PewDiePie embrace alternatives so that normies follow.
	That is a great idea.
	That would be nice.
	I mean, that's two big things Pew probably should do, which is, here's the alternatives, and also, do like an open video to YouTube.
	Just be like, come on.
	The dislike button is the simplest thing of just, you are purposely making this work.
	Also, number three, interview with us.
	Come on, Pewds.
	You know you want to.
	It'll really boost your profile.
	We can help.
	You beat T-Series once and for all.
	Yes!
	Brandon Tom says, YouTube has government directives.
	That's where they get their ideas from.
	That seems to be true.
	Same with Twitter.
	The Twitter files, the big thing that people seem to be missing is every company is doing the same thing.
	I mean, I covered it recently with TikTok.
	The fact that TikTok, shockingly, for no particular reason, had a number of ex-CIA agents...
	In, like, the content departments?
	Why'd that happen?
	It was all those dancing videos.
	Ah, yes.
	They were...
	They were transmitting covert Russian messages through TikTok dancing.
	I knew that there was something sinister about flossing.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says he's also on the island.
	Oh, okay.
	Good to see you back.
	Tell us the tales of women.
	Regarding the terms of service, if you can't criticize US elections, doesn't that mean the left can be banned for saying that Russia interfered in the election to get Trump elected?
	Yes.
	Yes, it does.
	If they caused widespread fraud, which they did, or technical issues, which according to the left they did, so that's a bannable offense, I'm so sorry.
	They won't enforce that rule, of course, but that is how it's written.
	I'm really looking forward to the next election because I reckon one or two things will happen.
	Because if Trump wins, then all of those policies just get deleted.
	All of a sudden, questioning elections will be fine for four years.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know where the wind blows.
	Ross Diggle says all four of my boys are ginger.
	Sorry.
	I tell them regularly that they smell of piss and hobnob.
	Where's this going?
	So that the blind can mock them.
	Is this hate speech?
	No, it making them not care about what other people say hate speech grew up on YouTube.
	It does sound a little bit like you're bullying your kids, but I approve either way.
	Funny.
	To be honest, I can imagine if I was a kid, I'd just find it funny and banter with your dad about it.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Anyway, we're out of time.
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