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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #582

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus years for the 3rd of February 2023.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be discussing why diversity ain't that cheap, 15-minute prisons, and also Hogwarts Legacy Revelations.
	Unnecessary sequel.
	But there we are.
	Anyway, I suppose we shall begin with diversity not being cheap.
	So diversity hires are not cheap individuals.
	They cost a lot.
	I mean, your soul, fundamentally.
	That's what it'll end up costing you.
	And as we featured in the Debate Might As Well Be Dead podcast, it kind of also features your entire civilization.
	That's the end cost of all of this, which is, what if we just promote people, not for merit, but instead because of their characteristics?
	Calvin's face in that thumbnail just sums it all up, doesn't he?
	Yeah, you end up with the opposition he faced, which was just unbridled retardation.
	But bad things have happened hundreds of years ago, so I deserve money.
	I still can't get over the Chinese lady who went, you know what I don't want to hear in this debate?
	I don't want to hear that the British Empire did good things.
	But it did.
	Okay.
	I mean, I can understand why a Chinese person might be a bit salty on that point, but...
	Well, she was like a member of the Communist Party, clearly, as well.
	Well, yeah.
	And they all are.
	But moving to the main story, being the diversity higher costings, well, the RAF have some news, which is, yes, we do discriminate against white men.
	We'll do it again.
	Watch us.
	I'll fucking do it again.
	Yeah, goofy over here.
	Just like, I don't care.
	RAF diversity drive discriminated against 160 white men.
	Problems created by push for women and ethnic minorities came to a crisis.
	Yeah, it did.
	Tobias Elwood, the chairman of the Defence Select Committee.
	For people who don't know, we've featured him before.
	I was going to say, I recognise that name, and I feel like, if I'm wrong, correct me, I feel like it's an evil name.
	I have a negative association with it in my brain.
	I don't know if he's evil, but he's got some weird obsessions, generally.
	He's very big on defence, which, you know, okay, whatever.
	He's in the 77th Brigade, which are the ones who are spying on all the right-wingers.
	Oh, alright.
	So that's cool.
	Anyway.
	Okay, well, that sounds enough to be evil to me so far.
	We'll put him to one side.
	Anyway, he was telling the...
	Why am I saying anyway so much?
	I need to stop that.
	The RAF were told by him, while he was telling the select committee about the RAF, that the former head of recruitment had identified the cases before she resigned her post.
	After the revelations...
	Damn.
	We've skipped the last segment already.
	Air Marshal Chief Sir Mike Wingston...
	Head of the force was asked if he had presided over a lack of integrity at the top of the RAF. It sounds like it to me.
	You've been discriminating against white people and men.
	Mostly white men.
	Strangely.
	Do you have any integrity?
	I'm interested, are there any statistics on the competency of the RAF since these initiatives were put into practice?
	I mean, there's some costings that can be done at least.
	Yeah, I mean, at the very least, all I'm saying is that I reckon, this is just based off of my intuition, that the RAF might not be as effective as once it was.
	Yeah.
	As it comes to armed forces' struggle to retain female personnel amid a sex harassment crisis engulfing the military.
	I think I remember why this is.
	But also, that's a really weird red arrogance.
	Like, yeah, well, you know, it's justified that we discriminate against white men because of sexual harassment.
	That's illegal.
	So what do you want?
	It's already a crime.
	I don't get it.
	Whilst working on the diversity scheme, which began in November 2020 and ran until March 2021, Mr.
	Elwood said Group Captain Nicole had identified that around 160 cases of positive discrimination had taken place.
	Positive discrimination is always a funny term to me.
	Discrimination with smile.
	Yeah, the good kind for good people.
	Quote, She ended up having to resign, not wishing to go through with this policy.
	He added...
	This is actually quite nice, because this story does show us that if you do oppose this sort of thing, everything will be fine.
	Well yeah, at least she decided to get out of there.
	Yeah, but not only was it the moral thing for her to do, and a lot of other people facing this in the industry, the right thing to do is to go, no, I'm leaving, if this is what you're about.
	She came out of this, resigned, and I believe has got her position back.
	And the whole thing was made a scandal, because thankfully, at least for now, openly discriminating illegally against white men is still a crime, and something that's worth making a fuss about for at least five MPs and their mums.
	It was the first time the scale of alleged problems caused by RAF recruitment policy had been revealed.
	Mr.
	Alwood spoke in aspiration as he told MPs that prioritising ethnic minority and female pilots over better qualified white pilots in order to improve the forces' diversity profile could materially impact the RAF operational performance.
	Just a hunch.
	Just a hunch.
	If we're getting rid of the more qualified people in favour of the less qualified people who have a different set of genitals, this might not be great.
	Can she fly a plane?
	No, but she is a woman.
	Alright.
	It's a whole other conversation.
	I just love how the most basic of obvious things...
	It's funny when this is, you know, some gaming company that's done this to themselves, and you're like, okay, idiots.
	Yeah, all that means is that you're going to get a worse quality video game.
	Whereas with this, it's the RAF. Defense of the Realm and all that.
	Plays an important role.
	But I know we're a joke.
	I mean, what was the story the other day?
	The American general who came out was just like, yeah, I don't trust the British to be able to even help us anymore.
	We can't even assemble a division in case of overseas operations.
	Right.
	Giving evidence to MPs for the first time on the matter, Sir Mike said that while he made no apologies for setting the challenging, aspirational goal for the Royal Air Force on diversity...
	It's a really weird thing to be like...
	Does the RAF need to be something like, oh, we need to set aspirational goals, or do we need to do, like, concrete things?
	Do we need to do illegal stuff?
	Yes.
	Why?
	It's aspirational.
	I've always aspired to be a criminal.
	Removing white people is an aspiration of the RAF. Yeah, well, certainly an aspiration of the elite in all areas of life.
	This is openly spoken now.
	I mean, look at this guy.
	He's just stood there like, yeah, of course I want to remove white people.
	Yeah, I mean, you first, mate.
	I mean, if you're going to ask people to volunteer, I mean, like you say, it is interesting that this has now become just the rote talking points that these organisations have, because a few years ago, if you said that a lot of the woke ideology was explicitly anti-white, you'd have had people just saying, like, oh, stop trying to stoke up identitarian politics for the right wing, or you'd have people...
	Oh, right, rabbit hole if we admit this.
	Yeah, you'd have people in the centre saying, like, oh, that's just what white nationalists want you to say.
	And then you just point to the diagrams that say, whiteness is all of these things and we need to get rid of it.
	You see this guy going, yeah, we need to get rid of white people.
	And you're like, okay.
	How is it not just anti-white?
	It is funny, again, when it's always a white man.
	Okay, then remove yourself.
	With an S-eating grin in that picture as well.
	So he says, I make no apologies, but did admit the objectives were stretching the aspirational levels of ambition.
	We're aspirational, but we might be being a little too aspirational here, folks.
	He's like, yeah, this is morally wrong, completely messed up, and we are stretching our aspirational ambition to remove white people.
	It's like my aspiration.
	My aspiration is to breathe air in space, and I'm just at the edge of the airlock about to be fired out, and I just think to myself, am I stretching my aspirations a little bit too far here?
	Could you imagine if a white nationalist spoke like this?
	We have aspirational goals to remove Jews from the media.
	What?
	The hell's wrong with you?
	You can just say this.
	You can just actively say anti-white things.
	Okay, alright.
	He still has his job somehow.
	After that statement alone, never mind the illegal activity he was involved in within the...
	He said that once the stretching target had trickled down to the individual recruiting officer, it became an unattainable target that put an intolerable stress on them.
	But I don't apologise.
	So it not only was it wrong, it not only was it illegal, it not only was it messed up, it also messed with my recruiting colleagues.
	But I don't apologise.
	What he's actually just complaining about there, the only reason they've dropped it off, is because it's like teenage girl talk.
	I was far too stressed out, I was traumatising myself from the emotional labour that I was putting myself through.
	I'm just so tired.
	That's how I read that.
	However, he denied that any discrimination had taken place.
	Well, you called it positive discrimination, so...
	We did positive discrimination, but not any discrimination.
	I don't know what to do with this.
	We're just openly laughing at your face at this point.
	And insisted that standards had not slipped because of the diversity drive.
	Yes, we did hire less capable pilots, but...
	Explicitly, we stated less qualified.
	Okay, alright.
	I can absolutely assure this committee that there was no compromise of entry standards.
	Except the entry standards.
	No impact on the standards of recruits from any background.
	Except the standards of the... whatever.
	From the front line or form operational effectiveness.
	It's so blatant.
	It's so blatant.
	I hate this, because they're just rubbing our faces in it.
	They are just rubbing our faces in it.
	They'll say everything that they did, and then the next sentence is them denying it.
	I mean, if you can keep the camera just on his face, John, because I can't get over it.
	Look at this piece of ass.
	Like, I'm sorry, I have no interest in his military career, whatever nice things he's done.
	When you are standing there openly saying, I'm not going to hire white men into the force because they are white men.
	There's something deeply wrong with you.
	And then to rub everyone's face in it is doubly disgusting.
	And then immediately deny that you're doing so afterwards.
	All three services have been tasked with improving their diversity, as they are predominantly made up of white men.
	That's a problem.
	As if that's evil.
	White men are the issue, as usual.
	Here's a fun one.
	Every time they say white men, just think competent people.
	But that's the thing.
	You can get in if you're not a white man.
	If you're just competent.
	That's the old system of merit.
	We can't be having that no more.
	No.
	Because it turns out all of the merited people are white men.
	Or too many of them, certainly.
	So in response to recent Women in the Armed Forces report, the government has pledged to ensure that 30% of all intake into the armed forces are women by 2030.
	No one has asked the women of this United Kingdom...
	If they want to join the army, if they're going to join in those numbers, or even assessed if that's physically possible without conscripting them because of diversity.
	To be honest, that would be really funny.
	They will.
	Sorry.
	I was like, I'm announcing partial mobilization of women into the army because otherwise it would be too sexist.
	I have actively seen when around this time last year when all of a sudden worries about World War III were coming in.
	All of my female friends who before then had been like, I'm a girl boss, were immediately like, I feel like being a housewife now.
	I want to settle down.
	I should probably have some kids.
	Does anybody want to impregnate me?
	They're conscripting all the men in Ukraine and the women and children can leave.
	How do you feel about this?
	I'm just a little girl.
	Anyway.
	The RAF decided that 30% wasn't good enough.
	They're going for 40% by the end of this decade.
	No one asked them to do that.
	It was because of idiots like this dude.
	Well no, I'll tell you the women who asked them to do this who are retarded social science professors at universities who would never get conscripted anyway.
	I don't know if you want to get that deep, but it's just like, the government comes out and is like, mandatory target of ethnic reasons, sorry, gender reasons, because, I don't know, we're all huffing glue or something.
	And the RAF's like, not on my watch, I'm going to huff glue even harder.
	However, the Red Arrows...
	This leads on from this story for no reason.
	However, the Red Arrows recently faced allegations of toxic culture.
	Two pilots from the aerobatic display team were dismissed after members of the squadron were investigated over allegations of misogyny, bullying, and sexual harassment, which is already a crime.
	I'm also not going to take this article's word for it.
	I'm just going to assume that bullying and misogyny and sexual harassment meant men indulging in men humour.
	There is a weird culture in the West where we describe things not accurately anymore, but I'll take them with their word for it.
	I'm going to steel man the position.
	What does this have to do with anything?
	Thank you.
	Yeah, okay, let's say these men were completely misogynistic, bullying and sexual harassing everyone they saw who was a woman.
	What has that got to do with these quotas?
	Well, some bad men exist, therefore all men must perish.
	We must have 40% of women in the army because sexual harassment exists.
	Doesn't make any sense.
	In October last year, the Royal Navy was forced to launch an investigation into allegations of rape threats and sexual assault on boards Britain's nuclear submarines, which are also illegal and have nothing to do with this.
	I just don't understand.
	The author of this is just like, yeah, well, you know, men bad, though.
	Like, some.
	And what's that got to do with the question of quotas on the basis of sex for the army?
	Nothing, but okay.
	Despite the demands on the military to improve diversity, because there's no claims about it, it's just a demand, the forces have also faced claims that female recruits are not equipped with properly fitting kit.
	Or maybe they should think about losing a few pounds, then.
	It's the opposite, actually, for a lot of it.
	Oh, really?
	They've gained a few pounds.
	But this is going to be funny, because...
	Yeah, I have seen this.
	I thought men and women were the same.
	I thought men and women were equally capable, basically the same thing, interchangeable.
	There's no reason men should have X job when women could also just equally do the same thing under the same standards.
	And according to some activists out there, you can't even tell the difference between men and women on a skeletal level.
	They're just the exact same.
	Men and women's hands, the exact same broadness of shoulders, width of hips.
	None of this matters.
	I think it's the ring finger is longer than your index finger.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Funny that.
	Anyway, it's almost like there's some biological realities.
	A report last year found that female soldiers were often subjected to ill-fitting kit across the three surfaces, such as rucksacks that were too big.
	On the rucksacks, mainly just as big as they need to be, because of all the gear you need to carry in them.
	I think they're as big as possible, because we want to carry more kit.
	There's more kit than we possibly could take, so we have as big as rucksack as possible.
	Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't many people in the military and armed forces, they have to wear rucksacks that can have equipment in them that ends up weighing them down about an extra 70 pounds or so.
	Something ridiculous.
	Yeah, just a lot.
	You're having to carry a lot of weight on your back, because all that stuff's necessary.
	Yeah, but no, it's too big, according to the female soldiers.
	It can increase the risk of injury.
	Can I fit my poodle in it?
	Well, the risk of injury is not something women signed up for in the army, so fair enough.
	In fact, if you may remember, there were a bunch of women who did sue the army and successfully won their case because, okay...
	If you go to the next one here, this is The Guardian.
	Three female RAF recruits awarded £100,000 payouts for marching injuries.
	Marching injuries?
	Yeah, they were required to march the same pace distance as the men.
	And did they realise at this point, sadly, women's legs tend to be shorter than men's legs?
	Yeah, all of a sudden...
	The idea that men and women are interchangeable got thrown out the window when they started suing.
	Oh, I bet.
	I actually can't do the same as the men because I'm not biologically the same.
	We're not as tall as the men.
	Therefore, we've got injuries from being required to commit to the same standards as men.
	Did these women pull a hamstring or something?
	Something like that.
	I can't remember.
	Because they were having to stretch too much on the steps.
	I think it was quite serious.
	They had spinal and pelvic injuries or something like that.
	But the point being that, yes, men and women are different.
	None of this was required to find that out.
	Everyone should have known this.
	But instead, we have this retarded ideological position in the West of men and women the same.
	Women do the same thing as men.
	Oh, wait.
	Men and women are different, actually.
	Source?
	Source?
	Where's your study for that?
	But if we go to the Daily Mail, there's worse on this, because this is where we get the costing.
	RAF Chief admits women are currently unable to fly the Air Force's Advance F-35 Lightning fighters because they are not heavy enough to be able to wear the pilot helmets.
	These helmets are 300 grand each.
	Wait, the women aren't heavy enough.
	No, they're not fat enough.
	So they just put the helmets...
	Yeah.
	Like that.
	Okay.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Alright.
	I mean, have you ever seen these helmets that they wear on these really advanced fighters?
	I've seen...
	I imagine so.
	I've seen people wearing helmets in fighters.
	It's crazy technology.
	I mean, there's a reason it costs 325 grand.
	Oh, I bet.
	For that.
	It's nuts stuff.
	But the story is...
	Female pilots.
	Does it go with my eyeliner, though?
	No, it's not like that.
	It's just they're not fat enough.
	Female Air Force pilots are not currently able to fly the fighter jets that we've purchased.
	Because they're not heavy enough.
	And their feet don't reach the pebbles.
	No.
	Currently, only pilots posting more than 150 pounds, 10 stone, 10 pounds, or 68 kilograms.
	I'm just going to use kilograms from now on.
	God damn it.
	I am a fan of Imperial, but I'm not doing three measurements.
	When they hit, the scales are cleared to weigh the rigged Generation 3 helmet.
	The five-pound headgear has been linked to the United States with a risk of neck injuries to lightweight pilots when ejecting in an emergency.
	That makes sense.
	So you've got to be heavier to wear it because otherwise this isn't actually safe for you to wear.
	You're going to end up getting a neck injury.
	If you eject, if it weighs your head down too much, you could give yourself whiplash or who knows what could happen.
	Freak accident, you could snap your neck.
	Minimum standard, you need to be 68 kilograms or we're not letting you fly with this thing.
	Fair enough.
	Average weight of a UK woman is 72 kilograms.
	So that leads a lot of them underneath.
	Sir Mike, he comes again, does he?
	Told the Defence Committee that the new lighter version of the helmet, the Generation 3 Lite, is also now available.
	But there were concerns about how much protection it actually gave.
	Not only is it inferior for safety reasons, it's also another 300 grand you've got to spend.
	Because you purchased the fighters, which come with the helmets, for 300 grand each, and then you realise that all the female pilots you hired, remember the reason as to why, because they're women, not because they were the best candidates available.
	That is what he explicitly stated in the previous example.
	We've now also got to spend another 300 grand each on those female pilots to ensure that they can actually fly, because most of them are under the safety weight.
	That's £300,000 to recruit.
	Great.
	Not to mention the operational failures.
	Kevin Jones, a Labour MP from North Durham, added,"...the problem there is that you're reducing your pool down straight away, aren't you?
	Because if women are lighter, which they generally are, they're not going to be able to ever fly.
	The only alternative is that you stop them flying or ask them to go put on some weight." Even a Labour MP, even a Labour MP was able to figure this out.
	Yeah.
	To be honest, I don't think it's that much to ask either.
	Just like, you know, the opposite of Fat Camp over here.
	It was just like, you're too skinny.
	Muffins.
	Just stuff them.
	Just stuff them at the recreation halls.
	You've got to gain, like, what is that?
	Like, you know, 10 kilograms or whatever.
	Sorry.
	I think it's four.
	Women come up to the canteen, they ask for just, you know, normal sandwich, they ask for some broccoli, and the people are, no, no, no, hand a full cake.
	Ten pounds?
	Four kilograms?
	Thereabouts?
	Yeah.
	Not that hard to gain.
	No, I mean, I could gain it easy enough.
	Get eating, love.
	Anyway.
	So, this isn't the only way in which we're just endlessly being rinsed for money and civilization.
	There's also prison guards here, exploited by inmates who have become their lovers.
	I wonder what that happened.
	Wouldn't it be the other way around?
	Yeah, so ministers have vowed to stamp out illicit affairs between prisoners and staff, because they keep smuggling in drugs.
	Funny that.
	The number of workers exposed for inappropriate relationships has increased 30% since 2017, to a more than 40-year high, according to data under a Freedom of Information request.
	Under the same period, the number of female prison staff rose by 27%.
	Oh wow!
	As part of a diversity drive!
	Yeah, it's now 42% as part of a diversity drive.
	There you are.
	That's almost a one-for-one increase!
	What a coincidence!
	There are at least some funny absurdities out of this cult.
	Actually, this makes sense.
	Women love prisoners and serial killers.
	Prisoners love women.
	Prisoners love women.
	More women in the prison.
	Prisoners love drugs.
	Just you and me.
	Just the two.
	Anyway.
	But there are some funny examples out of all this.
	That's just demonstrating the kind of rot.
	I mean, my point being that every institution you could think of, schooling, pensions, probably, everything you could probably think of this is going on and endlessly destroying our society at the minute level every goddamn day.
	But there are some funnies, so I thought we'd end on the funnies.
	Just for a laugh.
	Always happy.
	It's a Friday, we need to end on the funnies.
	So this Cardiff mural over here, celebrating diversity, has been painted over.
	Reason why is that the mural aimed to celebrate multiculturalism of Wales has now been painted over and turned into an advert featuring George North of Wales Rugby.
	I love the pose as well.
	He's just like, not round here, love.
	The original was of some woman.
	If you scroll down to see the original one and then they painted old Georgie boy.
	I mean, it's an improvement because that art style is horrible.
	Art aside, the real funny thing about this is that the My Wales My Shirt artwork appeared in 2020, and Yusuf Ismail, the co-founder of Unify, said that he was incredibly proud of what the mural had meant to the city.
	Yusuf said the purpose of the mural was to use football to showcase the history of multiculturalism within Wales, and the artwork was based on a photograph of Nicole Reddy from Cardiff and is a homage to George Berry, a former footballer who played for Wales in the early 80s.
	If you scroll down, John, we can take a look at...
	Wait a minute.
	I don't really think that's him.
	No!
	Mainly because the mural is a she.
	I mean, we're in very progressive times.
	Is he still around?
	Has he revealed any secrets about himself that he knew ever since he was a young boy or girl?
	You have the headline there, real people, real fans.
	It's not him.
	It's just...
	The only things they've got right is he's black and there's an afro.
	Those are the only two things.
	They gender-bended him.
	And even then, they made the afro bigger.
	They could have at least included a bearded woman.
	Come on.
	The last one here is just to check out.
	I also wanted to check in with Sinn Féin.
	I don't know.
	Just got a bit of a weird one.
	Because someone sent me this.
	Which I find really funny.
	We've got Sinn Féin here, the Irish Nationalist Party, being like, Black Lives Matter stand against racism and kneeling there.
	Long live international solidarity, Black Lives Matter.
	Finally coming out that the Irish are indeed black.
	Anyway, that's enough of that.
	I'm so glad we finally know.
	So if you want to hire an Irishman as part of a diversity drive, I'm all for it.
	And so are the Irish.
	Well, that explains the no blacks, no Irish.
	Why repeat yourself?
	Yeah, they might as well have just included the no blacks part and then they would have known...
	Alright, let's move on, shall we, to the 15 Minute Prisons.
	If you are in the UK right now, particularly if you're in Bath, and not Bath, like some people around here like to pronounce it, Bath.
	No, I'm not feeling queasy right now.
	Sorry.
	You don't even eat scones, do you?
	No.
	No, I eat scones.
	Dreadful.
	You can see the absolute malice in his eyes, can't you?
	No, if you're in Bath right now, you might have noticed a few things popping up, which are mainly restrictions to your ability to move around the city in a car, in particular areas, and that's because there is a new drive being pushed by our favourites in the World Economic Forum and all of the organisations that are operating satellites around them for 15-minute cities, which is an idea...
	That sounds really nice on paper.
	It sounds really nice on paper, and I'll get into exactly what it is as we go along.
	But before that, we do have a recent book club talking about George Orwell's Animal Farm.
	It was done between Bo and Connor.
	It was done Premium Live, so if you're a member with Bronze Tier membership or higher, you'll be able to watch that.
	And if you've not got any of those memberships, what are you doing?
	We've got so much great content on the website.
	You really would benefit from getting a membership on the...
	On here.
	But yeah, just talking about Animal Farm, which is a classic that I have not actually read.
	So, very interesting analysis to listen to.
	Did you watch the movie at least?
	No.
	Oh, you should.
	The only thing I've read of George Orwell actually is a few of his essays.
	I've got loads of George Orwell at home, but like so much else I have, it's all on my to-read pile.
	To be fair, it's not his fault either.
	He has become overrated, just because of all the hype around him.
	Yeah, I worry about that, but I mean, Animal Farm is only, what, like, 90 pages, so I should read it.
	I don't like reading.
	Watch the movie.
	I know you don't like reading.
	You can barely read.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I'm disagreeing.
	But yeah, check out that content.
	It's really good.
	Connor, I know people don't...
	Can't even say bath.
	I know some people don't like Connor, and some people really love Connor, but he does always bring some very interesting analysis, and Beau as well always has some very interesting takes on things, so give that a watch.
	Anyway, let's carry on, shall we?
	So...
	I saw this, I was tagged in it by Stan from Voice of Wales, good chap, saying 20-minute neighbourhoods popping up in Bath, 48 planned for the reason, checkpoint Charlie papers, please society.
	And here we can see the images there, and what it seems that they've done to incorporate these 15-minute cities into neighbourhoods, or 15-minute neighbourhoods, or 20-minute neighbourhoods, whatever they're calling them.
	Prison planet over here.
	At this point, yes, in the prison planet.
	Have they done anything to improve the actual neighbourhoods?
	Have they done anything to No, they've just blocked off the roads.
	They've just blocked off the roads.
	Because at the end of the day, as we'll discover, this isn't about making your life more convenient.
	This isn't about inculcating you within a community spirit or anything like that.
	Anything as wholesome as that.
	It's because the elites hate cars.
	They don't want you driving cars.
	They say it's for the environment, but realistically speaking, it's because they don't want you to be able to move about without their permission.
	You alright there?
	Yeah, just the way you say car made me laugh.
	Oh, okay.
	It's like cars, dammit.
	They're after the cars.
	They're after my goddamn car!
	Sorry.
	Complete derail.
	Anyway, if we go to the next one...
	Speaking of which, though, actually.
	Have you ever driven in Bath?
	Yes, I went there for the first time the other week, and it's an absolutely gorgeous, beautiful city.
	It is very annoying to drive around, but I did get recognised, and of all the places, I was not expecting a little crystal shop to have a very pleasant interaction where somebody recognised me in a positive way.
	In a university city full of tourists, like Bath, especially in a crystal shop, I would have expected somebody to recognise me and try and throw something at me, like a milkshake.
	Was that a woman?
	It was a woman.
	How did that go?
	Crystal shops.
	Of course it was a woman at a crystal shop.
	Where did you park?
	I parked right next to the university, actually.
	It wasn't that expensive.
	I'd drive around the goddamn place like ten times.
	I had to go to the park and ride because there's just no space.
	I did basically get lost, but I accidentally found myself at a car park that had spaces, so I was like, you know, beggars can't be choosers.
	Make what you got.
	What?
	What are you saying, John?
	What's going on?
	Woman confirmed.
	Why were you in the crystal shop?
	Why was I in the crystal shop?
	Because I have a fiancé.
	And she wanted crystal necklaces.
	And I'm a man, therefore I have to provide money for crystal necklaces.
	Get away with it this time.
	I'll catch you in the crystal shop alone next time.
	Yeah, engaged.
	Sure you are.
	Yeah, I may have met her, but still.
	Hmm.
	Yeah, that's right.
	You're walking around the women's lingerie and I'm just like, oh really, Harry?
	The woman's here, what do you want?
	Yeah, yeah, sure.
	Likely story.
	You ever get that weirdness when you're walking around lingerie and you're just like, I don't want to be here?
	I make a point of it whenever I'm out with the missus and she goes clothes shopping that whenever she needs to go to the actual part where she does the clothes shopping, I go somewhere else.
	I trust you, you won't get lost, probably, without me.
	So, you know, just like, free reign, there you go.
	Sorry.
	My general attitude.
	Massive tangent.
	And if you're watching...
	Everything we do is massive tangents.
	To be honest.
	If you're watching, person who recognised me, it was very nice to meet you.
	I hope you're having a good day.
	Shout out.
	Very lovely.
	Yes.
	Let's go back onto it, though.
	So these are a bunch of the other places that are being talked about getting these 15-minute neighbourhoods.
	So they go all over the country.
	Birmingham, Blackpool, Brent, there's Bath there as well, Canterbury, Oxford, Sheffield.
	They're going to be everywhere.
	It's going to be absolutely everywhere.
	I'm shocked that I can't see Manchester anywhere, but it might just be that the list cuts off before you see places like Manchester, but nobody should want...
	Oh wait, no, there it is, Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
	Yeah, they'll be popping up all over the country, and people are not particularly happy about it where they are being implemented, because Stan also shared this next thing, which is a video that we should watch of people not enjoying this new development.
	In the dead of night, a hooded figure removes a base plate for a bollard, then pours cement into the hole.
	The aim?
	To make it hard to install a new one.
	This footage, obtained exclusively by ITV Meridian, is one of hundreds of incidents of vandalism in Oxford's local traffic neighbourhoods.
	Those removing the barriers often don't even wait for the cover of night.
	Now, new figures show just how much this kind of activity is costing.
	Delivery drivers.
	What's this guy?
	Some filmed flouting the rules.
	Just straight over.
	Condone it.
	But I can understand it because they're not listening to us and that's where the anger's coming in.
	You know, that and people being stuck in traffic.
	There was no democracy in Oxford.
	Wanton vandalism or a form of civil disobedience.
	Yeah, I can't dispel that in the slightest.
	That's great.
	Yeah.
	I dispel crime.
	I was going to say, just to cover our backs legally, I cannot strictly endorse this behaviour because you're breaking the law.
	I also fully understand why you would do such a thing.
	I do just like the image.
	I know they've edited it, but one after the other, them just driving over the bollard.
	Because this reminds me, you know, we did a book club on the Chinese problems.
	The thing that finally ended the reign of communist terror every couple of years was just the public giving up.
	I'm not going to follow your rules anymore.
	That is how you take away power from them.
	Like suggested in the clip itself, nobody was asked.
	Nobody asked if they wanted this to happen to their neighbourhood.
	They just got told.
	You just got told, oh by the way, you're not going to be able to drive in your neighbourhood anymore.
	Unless you've got a permit.
	And also this will mean...
	Because what they say is they're going to say, oh it's going to cut down congestion, it's going to lead to a much...
	No it won't.
	We've all driven around cities.
	We've all driven around towns.
	You have a local neighbourhood, if you're watching this, that you've probably driven around.
	You know the chaos that happens when one road gets closed that can be used as a convenient way for people to get across a town.
	It creates massive congestion everywhere else.
	So this doesn't actually make it convenient, make it any more convenient for anybody.
	It'll just mean that you're probably spending an extra ten minutes in traffic driving around this road.
	If you actually want to deal with congestion, more efficient public transport.
	It's like the only thing I know that works to actually deal with that.
	Just messing with Rose never seems to work.
	Well, that's part of this agenda and this initiative as we'll move forward.
	But if this is how they expect to solve the 15-minute neighbourhood problem, then we know that these people are incompetent buffoons.
	So I don't trust them to be able to reform public transport in the slightest.
	As I mentioned, a lot of people are talking about this.
	Josh spoke about it recently, because Josh went to university in Bath and used to live there, and he says in here it's one of the last authentic and aesthetically beautiful British cities, probably one of the reasons it's one of the first places they're trying to implement it over here.
	It's a catastrophe that the World Economic Forum's 15-Minute Cities agenda is being enacted there, To the detriment of those who live there and the many tourists who visit.
	Because, like in the clips we just saw from Oxford, people in Bath aren't particularly happy about it as well and are saying that this is ridiculous.
	This is stupid.
	This will destroy the city.
	This will lead to, as they say in that headline there, commercial suicide.
	We will return to that article later.
	As it's mentioned, this is part of the climate agenda.
	Which we'll see, because people talking about it like this man, Henry Grabber, whoever this is, takes a screenshot from the New York Times where it's a climate map of the neighbourhoods in your area and how badly they affect the environment, the climate impact of your neighbourhood.
	So as we can see, all of the most impacted ones are the ones where you're allowed to drive, where you're allowed to do mean things like go where you want in your car.
	So the...
	The thing in this map is they're trying to show CO2 emissions per person or whatever, mapped, right?
	And they're like, oh, look at how good the climate is in the big cities.
	We're in those evil countrysides.
	The climate's being destroyed.
	It's ridiculous.
	Imagine having to think that.
	You have never visited the countryside.
	That's what's destroying the world.
	Top left.
	New York.
	New York City.
	Apparently.
	The air quality in New York City.
	Oh, beautiful.
	Beautiful.
	Look.
	In the countryside, it's just smog.
	And we know this because the New York City part of the map is blue and green, and all the rest of it's red, so you know it's evil.
	New York good, everything else evil.
	It's such a childish, simplistic way of thinking.
	Greenland destroying the world.
	It's so ridiculous.
	And the fact that he puts it as here, the greenest things we can do as a society is allow, allow more people to live in walkable neighbourhoods close to jobs.
	Oh, thanks!
	Thanks for the permission, Henry, whoever you are, you twat.
	You know I'm walking.
	I love walking!
	I love walking everywhere!
	The idea of a 15-minute neighbourhood is actually a very pleasant idea.
	It's just that wankers like this are going to be the ones administering it, organising it, arranging it.
	So it's going to be a complete...
	It's not going to be for the purposes they say.
	They will sell you community, brotherhood with the people living around you, convenience, more green areas.
	What you will end up getting, I have no doubt that when they get you in these 15 minute neighbourhoods, it won't just extend to you're not allowed to drive in them, or around them, or at them.
	It will extend to going to climate lockdowns in particular neighbourhoods where we've decided that there's too much CO2 emissions and you're not allowed to go outside of your house.
	Well, I've seen this kind of envy before.
	So Americans have this thing like you want to be outside the city and drive in.
	And of course, what that means is they don't end up having like a city you can just walk around in and live in because of the American way of dealing with the car.
	So it's why they get this obsession.
	I've seen the same thing in the East, like in the Soviet countries, like the city layout was the same sort of stupid thinking.
	And they're all very jealous of like an Italian city or something like that where you can just walk around and go find stuff.
	Like in Bath, one of the reasons it's such a nightmare to drive around is because it's really easy to walk around.
	Sure, but it's more the point of these guys come along and say, what if we destroy all the roads as well that connect you to the areas where you can walk?
	That doesn't help.
	Ah, but why don't you just buy a bicycle then?
	Bicycles cost money, don't always want to die.
	I've seen the bicycle videos.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And it always has to come out of your pocket at the end of the day anyway, doesn't it?
	Like, it's the let them buy Teslas mentality.
	Oh, you want a car?
	Alright, then just drop 80 grand on a Tesla.
	I don't know.
	I can see why Americans get obsessed with such things and desire such things because of their layout.
	It's just a whole case of whoreful.
	The idea of just coming in and being like, yeah, this road, no longer a road, it certainly isn't going to help anyone.
	No, because this has been part of the agenda for a long time.
	Josh and I covered it a few months ago in the next link where we talked about the war on cars.
	So we know they already want to take away petrol and diesel cars by 2030, and if you want to keep a hold of them...
	You'll get massive restrictions on how you can use them, you'll get charged for where you use them, and that's all going to be part of this.
	This is all just part of the plan.
	At the end of the day, they want to take away your car, which is a direct assault on your autonomy and freedom, so that's one of the things, this is one of the ways they're trying to do it, and like with everything else, so that they can get a nice bit of manufactured consent in there.
	They want to sell it to you in a way that sounds dead nice.
	Let's read it straight from the horse's mouth.
	What does the World Economic Forum have to say on the matter?
	Because they've got a lot of articles on this, and this is the one where they explore not just the benefits as they perceive them, but also the downsides, the potential pitfalls of a 15-minute city.
	So let's see what their issues are as well.
	So the first thing is they...
	Just state here, the 15-minute city aims to reorganize urban space around work, home, community, and amenities.
	The idea that every need is fulfilled within a 15-minute walk or short bike ride.
	And one of the things they seem to suggest is we also need to just install museums in every single one of these 15-minute areas, or at least suggest that you need to get to a museum within the 15 minutes as well, and other such things, which sounds just wildly impractical.
	But urban life is about more than access to amenities and the 15-minute model risks excluding disadvantaged communities.
	Even if there's a 15-minute baseline, great city centres with world-class experiences should remain accessible to all.
	So they recognize the issues, they know people won't like it at first, but that's not going to stop them from actually doing it anyway.
	They can say, oh yeah, there's all these downsides to it, but we don't really care.
	We don't really care.
	We'll implement it and we'll figure it out later and we'll probably mess everything up while we're at it.
	And this, remember when Trudeau...
	Was talking about how they're going to learn from the lockdown crisis, the COVID crisis, and apply the lessons they learned there to the climate crisis, as he described it.
	And everybody went, oh God, what's that going to manifest as we're going to get climate lockdowns?
	Yes.
	But they're going to be in this form.
	They're going to be in this form because they explicitly state over and over again in all of these articles every single time that this has all been accelerated by COVID and they're taking the lessons they learned from COVID and applying them to this.
	Because I think they're recognized now, after the response that they got, which is if we just say, Outside is scary.
	Stay indoors.
	A lot of people are going to be dumb enough to just agree with it and go along with it, which is annoying.
	It does eventually hit a boiling point where people aren't happy with that anymore, but at least on the short term, you can get those results.
	I don't know about you, but the only thing I learned from COVID is I trust the state even less.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, absolutely.
	But a lot of people still...
	You've got the...
	With the idea that we're learning anything from the COVID period, that's all I learned.
	Oh, yeah.
	But they say here that...
	Excuse me.
	Excuse me again.
	The pandemic has brought some lasting urban changes including the attribution of streets once used for cars and parking to bike lanes, parklets and restaurants.
	One of the biggest urban ideas to emerge from the pandemic is the idea of the 15-minute city or 15-minute neighbourhood which was developed by a French urbanist And if those two words together don't get you quaking in your boots, they should do.
	In this way, each neighbourhood becomes an isochrone.
	We have created this fancy nonsense word to make it sound more official and scientific.
	An area which can be explored within a given time, giving all residents access to their needs a convenient walk away.
	This will eliminate the commute to work.
	Well, that sounds alright.
	And anyone can walk to a small nearby park without having to hunt for parking spaces.
	We'll get better communities from all of this as well.
	It sounds almost utopian.
	For instance, we've got people already implementing it not just in Bath and Oxford, but elsewhere.
	Melbourne is proposing self-contained communities within an 800 metre radius.
	Portland, you know this is coming in Portland.
	It's part of their Climate Action Plan, which has neighbourhoods of 90% of the residents can walk or bike to fulfil their daily needs.
	The most vocal proponent of the concept has remained Paris, where the concept originated.
	And only good ideas have ever come from Paris, don't you know?
	A broader plan to promote active mobility in lieu of cars.
	Car speed in Paris has been limited to 30km per hour on many streets.
	Automobiles have been banned along the Sienne on one Sunday each month.
	And plans to include a biking lane on every street by 2024 are also in the works.
	And this is where I see that this is doomed to fail for one reason and one reason only.
	There are already cycle lanes everywhere, all over this country.
	And every cyclist still chooses to ride their bicycle in the middle of the bloody road when I've got places to be.
	You know that's the law now.
	From pure cyclist arrogance, this will fail.
	But what?
	The highway code changed, so now cyclists should be in the middle of the road?
	That's what they're instructed to do?
	Instead of the designated bicycle lanes that have been...
	I mean...
	Actual madness, I know.
	This is just formalization of what cyclists...
	This has been pro-cyclist activism.
	I'm anti-cyclist activist.
	Because cyclists are...
	If you're a cyclist watching this, please cover your ears right now.
	I used to ride my bike a lot.
	Many cyclists are scum.
	And I despise them.
	We need to get them off the streets and get them help, okay?
	I've ridden a bicycle for years.
	I love it.
	But whenever I have done, I make sure to be as courteous as possible to drivers, because I have been the driver stuck behind a cyclist, staring at their flabby arses, okay?
	And I don't want to be that guy.
	I feel like this run is a long time coming.
	I... Maybe.
	I'm not saying you're wrong.
	Okay.
	Alright, so now I've got that out of my system, let's carry on.
	So it turns out that the concept is not always a fit.
	What's going on?
	I can't read it.
	Just the chat views.
	Are they agreeing with me?
	Are they broadly agreeing with me?
	They're going further than you.
	Excellent.
	Glad to hear it.
	Radical anti-cyclist action now.
	Anyway, it turns out the concept is not always a fit for everyone.
	American cities and suburbs might only take the 15-minute cutoff if this could be done in a car.
	So, it doesn't really...
	They're just accepting, yeah, it doesn't really apply to America.
	America's its own thing.
	It's a weird country.
	We can't really do it over there.
	15-minute communities do litter to alter the harsh realities of economic and geographical inequality.
	They're mainly a fit for affluent urban neighbourhoods and far less a fit in the disadvantaged parts of our cities.
	It's almost like this is an idea come up with entirely by affluent urbanites.
	So the only solution to this will be communism.
	The only solution will be economic redistribution, as with everything, and climate lockdowns in your little neighbourhoods as well.
	I mean, I'm extrapolating.
	That's not actually stated explicitly, obviously.
	But, do you put it past them?
	The obsession is what is revealing to me, because if you wanted to deal with congestion...
	The only thing you do is increase public transport and make it more efficient.
	And it works.
	Every time.
	Every time it's been tried, it fixes the problem.
	And when you come to me and say, no, no, what I'm going to do is stop being bollards in the middle of random roads...
	I'm going to start with my new theories of how cities should work.
	It's not improving life for anybody, it's just making life more inconvenient for drivers.
	That's what this has always been planning out.
	It is already basically policy in England to start doing this, because it's not just individual cities and councils implementing it.
	What it is in the next link is it's the active proposal for Natural England to unveil a new green infrastructure framework, which...
	It says that they are going to increase the amount of green cover up to 40% in urban residential areas.
	That sounds lovely.
	I've lived in Manchester.
	Honestly, it can be quite depressing living in a big grey concrete block of a city.
	So you want more greenery in the area.
	That's always nice.
	And parks and green spaces in England deliver an estimated £6.6 billion of health, climate change and environmental benefits every year.
	Why does it have to be framed economically?
	Why can it not just be, it will be nicer for people?
	Why does it have to be, we'll save money!
	We'll save money if we do this!
	But with 80% of people now living in towns and cities, one third of people do not have access to good quality green and blue space within 15 minutes of their home.
	There it is.
	Just 15 minutes.
	That's what it is.
	They will sell you it as this.
	They will sell you it as the you will get nicer cities.
	You will get better neighborhoods.
	What you will get is the climate lockdowns in your neighborhoods.
	That's what's going to happen.
	Bath, as I said, we would return to that article.
	They were not happy about it.
	So this was the council's journey to net zero consultation where they proposed these four districts.
	The city will be split into four cells and there will be no traffic in the city centre.
	There would only be one or two access points on each of the outer boundaries for vehicles and they will be prevented from passing from one cell to another, although movement of pedestrians, cyclists and public transport would be unrestricted.
	The council will consider demand management measures such as a congestion charge, public transport discounts and workplace levy and staggered start times for business and schools.
	This all sounds...
	Very convoluted, when, as you mentioned, as always, you could just improve public transport.
	How about some buses?
	How about some buses, bro?
	There you go.
	More buses.
	This has also come to Torquay, where people have been very, very annoyed because they've had protests over there saying that you're going to restrict our freedom.
	Fair.
	The council insisted we have absolutely no plans to impose restrictions on movement, either now or in the future.
	I do not believe you.
	I mean, you might sincerely believe that now, you might sincerely mean it right now, but in the long term, I do not believe you.
	When you're putting this infrastructure in place to do such a thing, and I know the sorts of people that are going to be behind it all, I do not trust you.
	Once again, the idea on paper is nice, but it's how it's implemented in practical reality, which won't matter, and whoever is at the reins of this idea, it will be their will that determines what goes on.
	And we know.
	We know the will of the elites as it stands right now.
	And if you want more information on the background of it, I found this spiked article talking about it.
	And let's see who's at the reins of this idea, who came up with this idea, as well as that French urban planner, Carlos Moreno.
	So it started with C40, chaired today by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
	Bet that fills you with hope.
	C40 calls itself a network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to deliver urgent action needed right now to confront the climate crisis.
	Central to the birth of the project was another former London mayor, Ken Livingston.
	Central to the birth of the...
	Sorry, Livingston was often explicit in his anti-car ideology.
	In 1999, shortly before becoming mayor, he famously remarked, I hate cars.
	If I ever get any powers again, I'd ban the lot.
	I also dislike driving, but there's a utility to it, which outweighs the negatives, as far as I'm concerned.
	As mayor in 2005, he staged the first C20 Climate Change Summit.
	Within a year, his initiative was backed by former US President Bill Clinton, another very respectable, very trustworthy man.
	It was by Clinton's charitable foundation.
	In 2007, billionaire New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg hosted the second summit.
	By this point, the group had been renamed C40, as it featured 36 mayors from major global cities.
	C40's mayors would later be invited to COP21 Climate Confab in Paris in 2015, which is where Carlos Moreno, that French urban planner, decided to put forward the idea of the 15-minute city in the first place.
	So, if we've got this radical melding of minds, does it fill you with hope that all of these people were involved in coming up with the idea?
	Wait, I'm not ecstatic, no.
	No.
	Neither am I. But this might be coming to a name...
	I've heard that Ken Livingston turns up and is just like, I've got to ban all the cars.
	Hitler was right.
	But this...
	People who don't know, Ken has been kicked out the main party for anti-Semitism, so...
	Yeah, so...
	Basically...
	This will be coming to a city near you.
	This will probably be coming to a town near you.
	This will be coming to your city and your town.
	You might even start to see ballards pop up in places that they didn't used to right in the middle of the roads to make sure that nobody can come down particular roads.
	While I do not condone crime, I do condone civil disobedience if it's for a good cause.
	Am I not allowed to say that?
	No, that's getting beeped.
	Okay, alright.
	Civil disobedience in the sense of not committing crimes.
	I'm very understanding of what has happened.
	Yes, I'm understanding of civil disobedience in the face of such things, so act accordingly.
	Have some fun layer with the beeps.
	Time for Hogwarts Legacy Revelations.
	It's only a week away.
	Yeah, this is kind of an unasked for sequel, but I don't know what to do.
	It's Friday.
	Let's have some fun.
	Why not?
	I mean, everyone else does unasked for sequels, unnecessary sequels, so why not us?
	Yeah, speaking of which, if you can load up, please, John, I just wanted to mention the web dev job.
	So if you want a job, you're good at web dev, well, lowseas.com, you're a web dev.
	Yeah.
	You know how to tippy-tappy on the computer and make things happen?
	I don't know.
	Get in touch.
	My coding ability is limited to, like, Fortran, and that's about it.
	So, yeah, not going fantastic.
	I can barely operate this basic bitch laptop.
	But no, if you're actually good at being a web dev, then, you know, nurses.com.
	Go to the career section, apply, there you are.
	Simple as.
	Anyway, time for the Unasked For sequel, so just starting off with historical accounts.
	It's only a week away, lads.
	It's only a week away, and then we can finally indulge in all of our Harry Potter fantasies.
	I've got to plug something, so I thought I'd also add the Unasked For sequel of Bigfoot Part 2.
	That was Asked For, to be fair.
	Not those Harry Potter fantasies, just to hedge you off.
	Yeah, well, we'll go to the newest whining that I saw about Hogwarts Legacy.
	I don't know why they're still whining, but they are.
	I saw this.
	Harry Potter film.
	Decided to put out this tweet.
	Yes, you can pet the cat in Hogwarts Legacy.
	At youcanpetthedog.
	Youcanpetthedog is basically some software.
	Inbuilds animals and being able to pet them.
	Oh, nice.
	Pretty simple thing.
	Although you might notice that they own tag themselves.
	Yeah, because the creator does not want to be associated with such evils.
	As petting cats.
	Petting cats that are TERFs.
	Oh no, this is a transphobic cat.
	Look into its eyes, it thinks you don't pass.
	Harry there, you don't see it on screen, but after he pets this cat, turns around, clicks his heels and goes, Heil Hitler!
	And leaves the room, in which the cat then turns around and goes Zeke Heil as well.
	It throws off a little paw.
	It's just Count Dankula's cat.
	It is indeed.
	No, no it's not.
	That's all fels.
	Because if you go to the guy who got really pissed off about this, this is the guy who ran You Can Pet the Dog, whatever.
	This is a new low point for You Can Pet the Dog.
	I put so much time into something that people like, only for it to be absorbed into the marketing machine benefiting odomitable TERFs.
	Who's this guy?
	It's a petting a dog mechanic.
	Who's this person?
	The guy who helped make You Can Pet the Dog.
	Oh.
	The software.
	He's upset that Hogwarts Legacy is like, maybe we should add that plugin.
	He's screeching about that.
	If we move forward on this, there's also more screeching about all of it.
	There's this dude here saying, I'm just not playing the game.
	Sorry, just not playing the game isn't enough.
	We need anti-Hogwarts action.
	I will actively be standing outside GameStop at the middle of the release of Hogwarts Legacy throwing rocks at people.
	Stop talking about it and be about it.
	I think he's kidding, of course.
	But it's just the unironicness of the people who are screeching.
	It's like, are you going to go throwing rocks at people at the opening?
	No?
	Just don't whine about it.
	If you are there at a midnight release at a GameStop and there is a man throwing rocks, please get in touch.
	I'd be very interested to hear what happened to him.
	I don't think it would end well.
	Have you been to a game store recently in the UK?
	Most of them have moved into Sports Direct, strangely enough.
	You know Game Shop, the actual Game Shop?
	You know how they all vanished off the high street?
	They're in Sports Direct now.
	Just in America, so GameStop, and in the UK basically we have this thing called Game, well it's just called Game, and that's the store.
	I remember going in there, there was loads of games, you could buy stuff.
	I went in one recently in Reading, and there's like two shelves of games, and then in the middle it's just toys.
	Yeah, I've noticed that as well.
	So much of the industry seems to have reorientated itself around just selling plastic knickknacks to people.
	I think it's all they've got, because everyone's on Steam.
	And also, there is, sadly, a massive market for manbabies.
	The sorts of people you see on YouTube with shelves and shelves of toys behind them.
	Thing was, I was kind of whining about it out loud, then some game employee who was putting stuff away turned around and went, yeah, and it's gone for the worst.
	He just walks off.
	He knew.
	He knew.
	Anyway, moving forward, because there's another outlet, the Mary Sue, who are whining.
	It's almost like people don't want to give you money anymore, Joe.
	Joanne.
	There's a creepy thing about why they always use her first name.
	Everyone knows she's JK Rowling.
	It's supposed to just be condescending.
	It's just annoying.
	Oh my god, my name.
	Oh no.
	Be like, if somebody said to me, is that right?
	Is that what you think, Harry?
	On Twitter?
	And I would go, yes.
	Some people have been having fun with this.
	A lot more memes have been made.
	We've got the next one here.
	Don't buy Hogwarts Legacy.
	It's transphobic.
	Me after ordering Hogwarts Deluxe Edition.
	There you are.
	Good memes.
	Had by all.
	I also saw some The Menu memes, which have been turned back around.
	Harry Potter, the boy who lived, come to dine.
	Anyway, if you haven't watched The Menu, go and watch it.
	It's actually a good movie, in my opinion.
	Anyway, let's go to the forums, because the forums are still completely buggered, and I've been documenting some of these.
	Oh, wonderful.
	I thought we'd include...
	It is funny when you can just look over.
	I can just look over and see Callum just highlighting screenshots.
	Having fun.
	We've got Alonzo over here.
	Why not to buy it as a person of colour?
	LAUGHTER No black people exist in Hogwarts.
	They have a spell at the gates.
	They keep you out.
	There are very few people of colour in the books, and those that do exist are often relegated to the background and given ridiculously stereotypical names.
	For example, Cho Chang, whose major qualities are being good at school.
	And that's it.
	That is still quite funny to me.
	It is kind of funny looking back at the more and more people try and scrutinise and find things wrong with Harry Potter now, that they keep finding racial stereotypes.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	Such as Seamus Finnegan over there, who is very stupid and likes to bro things up.
	Well, once again, you can complain that these are the major character qualities, but they're still entertaining characters.
	I don't hate them for it.
	I don't think there were any Irish watching who were like, ah, that's disgusting, I'm not watching any more of this movie.
	You watch and you go, ah, just like that.
	Yeah, I would hope there were a bunch of Irish people watching, see him blow something up and go, ah!
	Just like me.
	My ancestor.
	Anyway.
	Good looks are frequently associated with the beauty, whilst the ugliness of evil characters is represented and overemphasized.
	Oh, based.
	Yeah, the old classic of I'm going to make a story.
	We'll have the evil character be disgusting to look at, because that makes him evil.
	I mean, what you tend to find is that people like to cheer on people who are not hideous.
	Yeah.
	It's a lot easier to cheer somebody on who looks good.
	It's an old fairy tale thing.
	I don't know if you noticed, but...
	I don't even think it's an old fairy tale.
	I just think it's a human thing.
	Yeah.
	I see some more gender stuff in there.
	It's just like the boys have to...
	Anyway, we'll just do that.
	Several women are constantly negatively defined by their emotions.
	This is also true.
	But they're also forgetting that the entirety of the fifth book is Harry being a whiny brat.
	Yeah.
	And everybody complaining at him for being a whiny brat.
	It's actually the most annoying book to read, because you're in Harry's The Head the whole time, and you're just like, shut up, Harry.
	I hate you.
	We'll move forward to the more whining on the forums, which I found funny.
	This one here.
	The people who pre-ordered the game.
	Why?
	The game hasn't even has enough gameplay footage, or is it a mum and dad money?
	There's no reason to pay $60 for nothing that's like that.
	Ain't no reason, ain't no thang, says Space over here.
	Verify pre-order.
	Does not care.
	Again, I'm not endorsing pre-ordering this either.
	I don't have an opinion on the game.
	Yeah, I wouldn't recommend pre-ordering, although I am very interested for when it comes out.
	Here's the next one here.
	There's just more.
	Buy game equals support women.
	By purchasing this game, you support real women like J.K. Rowling.
	Women who, even with children in their arms, earn billions and do not force others to call them what they are not.
	Buy the deluxe edition of the game.
	Support J.K. Rowling and all real women of the world.
	But someone else just goes, I just don't know what...
	Sorry, I just don't know what to support anymore.
	It's pretty simple.
	Well...
	The idea that women exist...
	I just don't know anymore.
	Support women exist, but also support women.
	Anyway, the four channels of the world.
	I mean, I understand the misogyny does make it really difficult for me to support women, but at times you've just got to put it aside.
	Just don't know what to support anymore.
	Anyway, we've got our next one here.
	There's more whining in the forums, which I found funny.
	Reset era bans all promotion and discussion of the game, which was just really funny.
	Just some outlet who's like, yeah, no more discussing this.
	And then some guy who got banned from the forums.
	He points out here, ValveMods are working overtime banning people who can't help but discuss their politics.
	And then he himself gets banned.
	As you can see there.
	Yeah, no, I can see.
	I just...
	Okay.
	Great.
	This is kind of worrying because I did see that whoever runs the forums has started to just ban people who are like, you'll never be a real woman.
	You have no...
	I can't do the whole speech.
	I'll get in trouble for that.
	Let's go to the next one.
	It's a mental skeletal structure.
	It's no longer.
	It's not changed in the past 15 minutes.
	Developers, trends characters creator.
	Someone talking about the fact that you can develop your own trends character and then they got banned for that post.
	Okay, whatever.
	We'll move to the last one here from the forums.
	I think it was funny.
	This dude also got banned.
	I don't know why anyone would pander to the hate mob.
	I'd rather keep the male-female options.
	I want my meal characters.
	Me female in me meal.
	Why can't I read?
	Anyway, that's a good question.
	Why can't you?
	I've been feeling ill for a couple days.
	Oh yeah, that's it.
	For a few years?
	Yeah.
	About 20 of them.
	Anyway, if we can't agree on these core concepts, then there's nothing we can agree on.
	Banned.
	Which makes me worried.
	I mean, that's a good point.
	I do know that, from what I'm aware of the developers, I think there was a guy who was developing it before, I forget what his name was, I'm sorry, you might be actually watching this if you're watching it on YouTube right now, who was head developer or something, who actually commented on our first video.
	About this, and he seemed really, really proud of it, but I think he got kicked off because he used to have an anti-SJW YouTube channel in the Sargon style.
	Good guy.
	Yeah, yeah, seems like a good guy.
	He got kicked off, so since then they might have tried to mitigate some of it by taking away the gendered options of the character creator, which makes no sense for me, because I assume now it's just going to work as like a Saints Row-esque slide, at which point there are still gendered options, you've just got them on a sliding scale.
	Gender isn't a spectrum, though.
	Well, yeah, but I think in Saints Row it's like you have the sexuality slider, which basically just gives you bigger boobs or bigger penis.
	That's Saints Row, though, which is good news.
	Yeah, that is Saints Row, but yeah, it'll be like it'll emphasise certain characteristics in the body types a bit more or less.
	People are saying I might be dyslexic.
	I know I'm dyslexic, actually.
	I did take a test once in college.
	It didn't go well.
	We'll move to the next one here because the green text from Hogwarts Legacy are also being put in the AI, as mentioned earlier.
	I thought we just enjoyed this.
	All right, go for it.
	I consider myself a patient man, Harry.
	I overlooked that time you kept sneaking trans students' polyjuice potion containing their own hair, making them turn back into their normal selves, despite the suicides.
	I was even willing to turn a blind eye to you casting memory charms on post-op Hufflepuffs.
	Because the look on their faces when you showed them a mirror was frankly hilarious.
	But this time you've gone too far.
	You have to understand that Sectumsempra is dangerous magic, Harry, and I can't just let you go around telling Hufflepuffs that it's an instant transition spell if they point it at their crotch.
	I hope you understand the gravity of the situation and see why I'm only awarding you 42 points.
	This is the best thing about the AI, is that all green text from now on are going to be spoken instead of just read.
	It is beautiful.
	Yeah, there's actual gold.
	So, for those who might not be familiar...
	We're actually...
	Except for Sempra's the cutting spell.
	Yeah, it causes a lot of internal wounds.
	Yeah, it does.
	Yeah, it can also be healed with Snape's magic.
	But we're going to cut to something now.
	Just speaking of AI, I wanted to show people something I found yesterday, which is just...
	We had some great fun with this.
	Yeah, this I found out about.
	It's WatchMeForever on Twitch, and it's AI-generated TV. It's like a fake Seinfeld.
	Where all the lines are generated by AI. All the movements, all the scenes are generated by AI. As you might be able to tell.
	Yeah, it's the most retarded thing I've ever seen.
	It had 15,000 live views yesterday.
	Oh, the viewership's dropped off a bit.
	Although, the chat's still as active as ever.
	It's Fred, the main character.
	I can't.
	He's a side character.
	Are we able to play any audio from this just to give everybody a real taster of the kind of comedy they're missing out on?
	Because we need to show it.
	So will Larry hear the main character?
	No, he's not there.
	It's just an empty stage with a microphone.
	I'm going to have to describe it.
	Larry's been cancelled.
	So the AI switches between the house scenes and the stand-up comedy scenes where Larry stands up, so we've missed out.
	Hey Larry, did you hear they're opening up a new hotel in town?
	Wow, that's great news.
	I guess now we'll have somewhere to take all of our dates.
	That's assuming you and I can get dates, of course.
	Oh please, Larry.
	Does a bear wear winter boots?
	I'm not sure if that's an answer to my question or a riddle.
	Let's just say, I have more confidence in us getting dates than a bear has need for winter boots.
	That should convince you.
	Alright, I'm convinced.
	Now all we need is to find some dates.
	Well, we could always ask Fred and Catherine for some advice.
	Classic analogy.
	They've got a lot of experience in the dating arena.
	Just silence.
	Usually there's a laugh track.
	I was going to say, where's my laugh track gone?
	Yeah, we were watching it yesterday.
	He'd tell, like, a joke and then there's a laugh track, so...
	We're watching this live, by the way.
	I have no idea what's coming.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, this is all...
	Hey, everyone.
	How's it going tonight?
	Well, I don't know about you, but I'm feeling great.
	So, I got some funny jokes for you.
	First one goes like...
	See what we mean!
	What did one ocean say to the other?
	Nothing.
	They just waved.
	That's a good joke.
	That was a joke.
	That might be the first actual joke we've heard.
	You caught it here live, folks.
	Get to the other slide.
	Haha.
	Alright, here's one more.
	Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
	Because he was feeling crumbly.
	Haha.
	Get it?
	Alright, I got one more.
	What did the bee say to the flower?
	I mean, he's right!
	He's right!
	He's bang on!
	What did the bees say to the flower?
	Nothing at all.
	Just go straight away.
	I think that's enough.
	I think we've caught enough of that right now.
	People get the point, but there's a distinct lack of laugh track in that one.
	Yeah, so if you have missing episodes of Seinfeld, you've watched them all.
	Didn't you say you caught a bit of it yesterday where they became sentient and started to question their existence?
	Oh yeah, they started talking about how this place is really weird and I think they don't want to be there anymore or something like that.
	And then there was a racist joke yesterday as well.
	Oh, good.
	Where Larry was talking about, oh, I went and met a gypsy fortune teller.
	Maybe we should go meet her again.
	And then the laugh track played.
	The audience knew.
	Anyway, moving forwards from the AI Seinfeld.
	Hogwarts Legacy is still the best-selling game on Steam and everywhere else, in case you're wondering.
	Is it coming?
	I'm sorry, I'm not a member of the PC Master Race.
	I still have an old and mouldy PlayStation 4.
	Is it coming out on PlayStation 4?
	Yeah, I believe so.
	It's best-selling on everything.
	So Hogwarts Legacy as the top-earning game on Steam, higher than CSGO's microtransactions, and actually released highly praised Dead Space's remake.
	To be fair, on a pure gameplay and graphical level, it looks very well done.
	However...
	Hang on.
	One game is not even out.
	And the other game is out, and no one wants to buy it.
	I know you have some thoughts on the Dead Space remake.
	For people who don't know, I certainly am not a big fan of Dead Space, so I didn't know.
	We'll go to it.
	Yeah, I've played the first Dead Space.
	I've never completed it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But they've woke-ified Dead Space massively in the remake, and they just didn't need to.
	So this is a thread, isn't it?
	I think this is just a single one, this one.
	Oh, well, if you look down in the comments as well, there'll be plenty of other examples.
	We'll start with this one.
	Let's just get the image.
	Because if we can load that up bigger so people can see it.
	You can see on the left the original powering humanity and it's a white man and a white woman pointing to the future.
	And then the remake, they've got the same thing except they change the white man for a black man.
	They also, I mentioned to you before we came on air, amusingly took a character who wasn't even really a character in the original, he was just a redshirt, essentially, who was one of the pilots of the ship, who only exists so he can be a pilot of the ship, and then when the ship that you start the game in explodes, he's in there and he just dies, and he doesn't barely even, I don't even think he has a single line.
	Now, they changed that guy, so still a red shirt, still dies in the same explosion, but he's a black woman now, and they do have a few lines of dialogue for her that make sure to characterize her as a no-nonsense boss bitch.
	Right.
	Apparently they also got rid of the boobs, Chad is saying.
	What, they got rid of the boobs?
	I don't even...
	Yeah, everyone's saying they got rid of boobs.
	They nerfed boobs.
	Were there necromorphs with boobs in the original?
	Is that what they've taken out?
	I presume there was a female character with boobs.
	Well, I mean, I assume all the female characters have boobs.
	Actually, no.
	It's a risky guess these days.
	Speaking of that, let's move to the next one here, which is just the toilets as well.
	The original male-female toilets, now all gendered ref rooms.
	And it's not even unisex.
	It's just...
	Look, we include trans as well.
	Great.
	Anyway, just wanted to mention that.
	What was it you said you can find in those bathrooms?
	Can I say that on YouTube?
	I mean, we can just put here on the video.
	So apparently if you go in, I don't know if it's a joke or if it's real, but apparently if you go in, there's a character who has hung themselves in there, which...
	Anyway, moving forward...
	Insightful social commentary.
	Anyway, that's all that, which is just Hogwarts Legacy.
	So that's the revelations.
	Next time we'll do...
	Retribution.
	Retribution.
	Resurgence.
	Hollywood names.
	What were those Resident Evil names?
	Resident Evil films?
	Because they had all of the R words at the end of it.
	Do you reckon they were just joking by the end of it?
	Hogwarts retarded.
	Yeah, I don't think we'll make that episode.
	Unless the game is an absolute trash pass.
	We're out of that.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	In 2022, California sees enough fentanyl to overdose all of North America two times over.
	California is a sanctuary state, so the cartels reign free, and West Coast cities have harm reduction policies which enable drug users by giving them drug paraphernalia and places to use drugs.
	In San Francisco, asking for a treatment program, no one ever has answers, and I don't believe there are any.
	They're too obsessed with giving drug addicts housing first over treatment.
	They're never arrested, and jail used to be a safe place to sober up and get treatment.
	Results of Biden and Newsom.
	Yeah, progressive policies destroy cities.
	That's what happens.
	Drugs are such a sad thing, though.
	It just actually destroys everything.
	Yeah, they destroy people's lives.
	I've seen it destroy people's lives firsthand.
	It's not nice.
	But on a civilizational layer as well.
	You think of the opium wars, and from a British perspective, it is good bans.
	But when you actually think of the human cost of all those Chinese people getting addicted to opium and the absolute damage that did to the civilization, not just the individual families and everything else, it's horrific.
	And then you see it in the modern day with fentanyl or whatever else, and you just think, oh, God.
	Yeah, I would never recommend anybody to start touching things like Class A's or anything like that.
	They will ruin your life, and they will probably ruin the lives of those around you as well, because you don't want to be the parent of a drug addict.
	I've seen it happen.
	It's bloody awful.
	But I think, on a more positive note, Sophie's about to teach us all how women can work out in the gym without being a thot.
	So thank you for your service here, Sophie.
	Let's see it.
	It's not only boys who need to go to the gym.
	I just spent 40 minutes on the step machine.
	I gained weight this December, so I started on a keto diet and going to the gym.
	And I gotta see, that keto diet, it sucked in the first week, but wow.
	I fall asleep so easily now.
	My sleep has been great.
	This keto thing is actually great, and it forces me to cook all of my own meals.
	So that actually helps a lot, and I can't cheat too.
	Recommend, Carl.
	Recommend.
	Oh, alright.
	There you go.
	Another convert to the keto cult.
	But yeah, for all those thoughts, those clothes that she was wearing right there, just baggy t-shirts and normal joggers or something, it's fine.
	That's all you need.
	You don't actually have to show your midriff?
	No.
	Or your ass.
	That's where most of your sweat comes from, right?
	The midriff?
	Yeah, that's where most of the exercise gets...
	Actually, to be fair, I say that.
	The core is one of the most important parts.
	But you don't have to be showing it.
	No, but there's the idea of, like, you might want to have some, I don't know, breathability around, like, your pits or something, right?
	Well, I mean...
	There's no piles of sweats coming out of your belly button.
	Well, but that's where most of the calories go.
	That's where they come out.
	You sweat the calories through your stomach, through your belly button.
	Female magazine.
	Why do you think the belly button stays there after the umbilical cord's cut off?
	That's where the calories come out.
	You know what's weird?
	Who buys those?
	You know those, like, female magazines that are just obviously full of lies?
	Which ones?
	You know, you go to the magazine store.
	I mean, I know...
	In all caps, like, you know, diet that really works or some crap, or like, my husband left me for a piece of cheese.
	What?
	Some other such bollocks.
	I just think, who buys that?
	I don't know.
	Someone must be.
	I'll have to find something.
	You know, on the weekend, I'll take some pictures.
	If your wife out there, you watching this, if your wife buys that, please let us know.
	Yeah, I just want to know why.
	I don't really care.
	Why do you read stuff that you know is not true for no goddamn reason?
	Moving on.
	Go to the written comments on the site.
	So, SheaSilver says...
	Because the institutions are inherently corrupt?
	You're eye on the money, Mr.
	Silver.
	Silver surfer.
	Miles Mitchell over here says...
	The whole of the army gets forced into OP teamwork, which is effectively getting sat down and having it beaten over the head that straight white men are bad.
	Last year, the first thing we were told to do was, don't worry, this isn't a woke thing.
	Yeah, you're not alone, mate.
	We've had so many leaks from people within various branches of the British Armed Forces just sending us crap they have to deal with.
	The RAF one, I think, was the most ridiculous.
	I think we did go through it before, where there was an inclusivity week full of events, and then there was a document sent to every officer.
	About total inclusivity?
	And total inclusivity meant that you had to learn all of these 15 pronouns by tomorrow, which included z-per, per, and pers.
	Because this will be very relevant and necessary if we're on the battlefield.
	So, just questions of communication?
	Like, even if we believe anyone actually uses this crap, unironically?
	Well, yeah.
	If you're in the military, you have to be very, very precise in your communication.
	So if you're starting to have to clog up your language that you're using with random made-up pronouns...
	Z-per has got your sex.
	What?
	What?
	Excuse me?
	Who?
	X, Y, and Z says, That's totally true as well, so I haven't even considered.
	Stefan Schuhhoff says the F-35 helmet is custom fitted to the pilots when they begin training, which means if they wash out at any point, that quarter of a million is a very fancy paperweight.
	That is only one of many anthropomorphic criteria.
	Every pilot has to be cleared for any military aircraft.
	Yeah, I do remember seeing that, actually.
	I remember watching some documentary about that specific helmet, just because it's crazy, the technology on it.
	Like, it's, um...
	You know those memes of, like, in the future, we'll be wearing battle suits and seeing, like, ten things or whatever, like holograms?
	Is it like that?
	Yeah.
	I bet it is.
	Crazy stuff.
	Anyway, limb length, height, range of motion, etc.
	Funnily enough, Tom Cruise was the only actor in Top Gun who was actually short enough to be an F-14 Tomcat pilot, so that's one for the manlets.
	I mean, short kings...
	Yeah, to be fair, when you were pointing out you've got to fit within a certain limb length and such, I was thinking, like, I'm 6'3", and I have long, lanky limbs.
	I probably wouldn't be able to do anything like that.
	I think if you're tall, you're better off being an astronaut.
	Oh, really?
	There's short requirements for astronauts.
	Like, if you're too short, we won't send you.
	The reason being that when you're on the ISS, you shrink.
	Oh, that makes sense.
	So if you shrink too much, it's a real problem.
	Well, in that case, I don't want to be an astronaut.
	I don't want to shrink.
	Well, you don't lose that much.
	You lose, I think it's after six months, you lose like an inch or something.
	Well, I think as you get older, men tend to lose about two inches of their height in the first place just through natural aging and the effects of gravity.
	So I wouldn't want an extra inch on top of whatever I'm going to lose.
	I don't want to dip below six foot.
	Hammurabi VI says every time they say white men, replace it with the Jews.
	Yeah, there was a Google plug-in that would do that once upon a time.
	I don't know if it's still available.
	Yeah, probably would.
	Probably would still be.
	Maybe.
	It was good fun, though, because you got any Vice article.
	Oh my goodness.
	Problem with Judaism.
	We need to exclude Jews from every high part of the world.
	I'm assuming that any time the term whiteness was used, it was Judaism instead.
	You get a Vox article that's just like a world without Jews.
	But that's how they talk about white men.
	I just can't understand this.
	Oh, I saw something so sad if we're talking about...
	Seeing as we mentioned the AI stuff, which was that guy whose posts I send to you sometimes, he makes them look like news announcements and such.
	He posted one where he got an AI of Rishi Sunak to just announce how the UK was going to have a complete immigration moratorium.
	We were going to start a ministry of repatriation for foreign nationals.
	We were going to have a ministry designed to try and bring people who moved to foreign countries who were UK natives, bring them back.
	And I just commented on it.
	Just don't give me hope.
	Don't give me hope, because it would just be that simple.
	Here's a bunch of new policies we're doing, lockdown on immigration, no immigration, bam.
	And then it can start to work.
	And as well as that, there was a comment that was great underneath it that said, what was it?
	Of course, Rishi, this means you'll have to go too.
	I wouldn't have it any other way, Your Majesty.
	And I almost brought a tear to my eye, the patriotic sacrifice that it would require, and the simplicity of it.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, 30% of the new recruits need to be women, and then she follows that up with just a load of ha-has.
	And Sophie Lev Peterson says, Can women do the same as men?
	I'm currently sitting at a rubbing machine.
	Looking to my left, there's a dude deadlifting a giant weight.
	Yeah, nah, I'm gonna stick with my cardio, thank you.
	Fair play.
	Understandable.
	To be fair, I'm also intimidated by those dudes deadlifting giant weight.
	I was doing some military shoulder press the other day, and there was a guy behind me deadlifting 200-300kg.
	It was a lot of plates on either side of the bar.
	He was using the trap bar, which makes it easier, but still, it was a lot of weight.
	And I just, even looking at it, sent my lower back into a tizzy.
	Because deadlifts, I am terrible at, because my lower back already has enough pain.
	I saw one of those memes recently.
	It's like girls with autism and she's doing some stuff and then guys with autism.
	It's one of the world's best heavy weightlifters.
	They're just screaming.
	Oh, I've seen that guy.
	Is he the big fat guy?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Apparently, I think the reason you do that is it releases adrenaline into your body so it allows you to lift more and without feeling as much pain when you're doing it as well.
	That's great because he will just the whole way...
	I love that guy's video.
	But then when he stops, he's got it to here.
	He's just got the most serious look on his face.
	Oh, yeah.
	I do not want to mess with you.
	And then he puts it down, and he screams even more.
	It's amazing.
	Let's go to the 15 minutes.
	Anyway, yeah.
	Geordie Swordsman says, we must seek a final solution to the cyclist problem.
	Harry, probably.
	The only solution needed is to stick to the bloody cycle lanes.
	But you refuse to.
	You refuse to.
	So if I'm driving past you, and my arm slips...
	And my door opens by accident and knocks you off the bicycle.
	It's your own fault.
	It's your own fault.
	Yeah, it is a massive tourist trap.
	The way that works is you get on the train in London because that's where you probably landed.
	And then you get the train from there to Bath, and then you get off the train and you're in the city.
	That works for that.
	But if you suddenly, I don't know, have a train strike, such as I did, then you have to go and get a car, and then you just can't park anywhere.
	Crap.
	Honestly, I didn't even know you can drive.
	But even if you're around Wiltshire or something, and then you want to drive to Bath, you don't want to get the train because there's no train station for you, because half this country don't actually have a nearby train station, well then you're screwed.
	I mean, there are some places, like up in Cheshire, there's a town called Middlewich, it's an absolute pain in the arse to get to, because all of the bus services barely touch the place, they barely go near it, there's only one or two bus services that actually go near it, and there's no train station there.
	So you need a car.
	You need a car to get there, or you're trapped there.
	Lord Nerevar says, In my personal opinion, these 15-minute cities are the number one imposition that we need to disobey and resist, and thankfully, it looks as though, at least by the Oxford situation, what, what, Harry to the cyclist, through tears.
	Why did you make me do this?
	Yes.
	I think, judging by the reaction at Oxford, they actually might be one of the easiest to disobey and resist as well, because it seems that the bollards that they put up there are not particularly strong.
	There's nothing in them.
	Yeah, there's nothing in them.
	So that guy literally just lifted it up and put it in his bin.
	And what are you going to do, council?
	What are you going to do?
	I poured cement in it.
	What are you going to do?
	If you're a bin when he turns out the next day, you should be like, put it in the trash.
	if they're allowed to be implemented on a wide scale almost all the other WEF propositions will fall neatly into place behind them yes they will make sure to be engaging in peaceful civil disobedience if they try to implement it in your area and godspeed to you all yes absolutely small Hey, how the hell does a solo tradie do their job if they're limited to a 15-minute radius?
	Actually, that's an excellent point that I hadn't thought of.
	Self-employed contractors...
	The whole point is you get the white van, you drive the white van around, but what do you do?
	Did you see David Lammy was asked that question?
	He said, well, you can get the tube.
	So then LBC paid one of their interns to get a bucket of paint and a ladder and everything that you would need that would be in the van.
	And to try and go on the tube.
	The tube police arrested him, took the paint, because you're not allowed buckets of paint on the tube, funnily enough.
	That kind of makes sense.
	And then he had to go around on the tube with this big-ass ladder, which was a huge pain.
	So, yeah, it didn't work.
	No, David Lammy's a moron.
	Which we already knew.
	Are we going to go full Calcutta and just have brickies riding a bike with 500 bricks balanced on their heads?
	That would be entertaining.
	That would be funny.
	I'm a roofer.
	They won't let me on a bus with a five-meter-long ladder.
	This is so dumb.
	Yes.
	Yes, it is.
	Henry Ashman.
	I'm not sure prisons is the best terminology for the 15-minute city.
	I prefer battery-farmed humans as the analogy between battery-farm chickens and free-range ones is a better distinction between the WEF cities and the countryside.
	My reasoning for using the term prisons is because, like I said, I will not be shocked when these get implemented, if they can practically implement them, if it turns into CO2 emissions are particularly high in your area, we're going to have to lock you down for the week.
	That's just what I see coming.
	That's how I see it developing.
	In the future, at least.
	Rick Archer.
	Why does it have to be money?
	Because they think everyone thinks like they do, and that all money is their money, and therefore saving money is a net good, hence you get the Canadian Healthcare Service.
	They're incapable of thinking outside economics.
	Yes, that's absolutely right.
	Screwtape lasers.
	This top-down traffic calming was first implemented in Berkeley, California in 1975, and I know I've heard...
	The legends of terrible California traffic.
	In 50 years, your cities too can support a flourishing community of college students, homeless junkies, and anarcho-crust punks.
	Oh no!
	Not the crust punks!
	The crust punks stink!
	They're the sorts of people who pride themselves on not showering for months at a time.
	We don't want the anarcho-crust punks.
	Ewan Baker, it will lead to boarded up shops, devalued property, and increased crime.
	And that's always the aim at the end of the day, really, isn't it?
	Andrew Narrag, in regards to the war on cars, concerning number of states that are copying California's all-new cars by 2035 must be electric or hydrogen ruling, particularly stupid of the northern states like New York and Minnesota, given how electric car batteries do when out in the cold.
	Very true.
	LeFranche says all necessities will be within 15 minutes.
	Okay.
	Does that include nature and beautiful sceneries?
	By the plans that they're putting forward, yes.
	Do I think it will be implemented in such a way in real life?
	No.
	Colin P. 15-minute prison.
	Sorry, cities.
	Minimising the amount of travel the plebs can do in 50 to 100 years, most people won't travel more than a few miles from home throughout their entire lives.
	Only the 3-6% will be able to, 3% ruling class, 3% religious class.
	The 94% peasants will do as they are told.
	The new three estates model.
	Welcome to neo-feudalism.
	Honestly, honestly, I think some kind of feudalism would be more beneficial to the average person on the street than what we're going to be getting.
	Because at least with feudalism, you probably had a personal relationship with your local liege lord on some level.
	You knew them, you spoke to them face-to-face.
	You didn't have a wall of bureaucracy between you and them.
	You probably had a wall of soldiers, but you still got a chance to talk to them every so often.
	Did I send you M&M becomes a second-century warlord?
	Is this another AI? No, no, no.
	It might be.
	Alright, yeah, send it through to me.
	Finish your comments.
	Yeah, yeah, I'll go through my comments and then we can...
	No traffic to the city centre.
	Two years later, city centre full of closed shops due to no customers.
	It doesn't have to be that way, but the actual replacements that they'll get instead are going to be rubbish.
	Henry Ashman as well says...
	Excuse me.
	Yeah, we're going to get more cyclist talk here.
	That's what I'm after.
	Nothing made me hate cyclists more than taking up cycling myself.
	I know, right?
	I know.
	Years, from my teenage years to my early 20s, I cycled everywhere because it's lovely, you get some nice exercise from it, it's invigorating, you lose a lot of weight doing it as well.
	It's really good for you.
	The only thing you need to do...
	It's be considerate.
	And most cyclists are not considerate.
	I thought the urban commuters were the worst until the e-scooter losers turned up.
	Henry Ashman is the alternative name for Peter Hitchens, it turns out, going on e-scooter action.
	I tend to ride in the countryside where it's quiet.
	I will admit, when I do go into the cities, I'll stay on the road rather than the paths, but that's because the cycle paths are crap.
	And with the 20mph speed limits creeping in, I'm keeping up with the cars anyway.
	Just please don't filter.
	Just don't filter in an inconsiderate way.
	Just be considerate to those around you.
	That's all I'm asking, because most cyclists just don't.
	They just don't.
	I feel like you should start your own little forum or something, or podcast.
	You just whine about cyclists.
	Well, I mean...
	I feel like there's an out-of-the-market for that.
	I feel like if we ever wanted an interview with Jeremy Clarkson, we'd reel him in with my anti-cyclist talking points, because he would absolutely agree with me.
	JJHW, for everything to be within 15 minutes of me, I will need a government-supplied Bugatti Chiron and be allowed to drive it as fast as humanly possible.
	When you put it like that, if that was the government's plan, then I might actually agree, but that's not.
	Did you see the clip, actually, recently of a guy on a penny farthing in London that crashes into a van?
	No, but I need to.
	Because there's a big debate between this London cyclist about why he's in the right because the highway code is that he was going and the van turned too sharply.
	So the van's in the wrong.
	But you're driving a penny farthing.
	Yeah, there are no brakes.
	You're riding a penny farthing around London.
	It was obvious if he had a normal bike he could have brakes and he'd be fine.
	It seems to me that a penny farthing is the most intentionally ridiculous vehicle that I can think of off the top of my head.
	Yeah, I mean they do deserve it.
	Just for riding the penny farthing you deserve it.
	Yeah.
	Alright, let's...
	Should we go for a...
	Should I hear a bit of this?
	This is Eminem Becomes a Second Century Warlord.
	We'll play this for, I don't know, like 30 seconds and then we'll stop because it's too long.
	But...
	First day is a second century warlord I have mom and dad branches to their horses' tails to stir up dust and make it look like there's a lot of us but I forget it just rains so there isn't any dust and the enemy can't clearly see there's like twenty of us all spread out in a line Second day is a second century warlord I bribe a bunch of kids to start singing in the nursery rhyme I carefully craft it to spread misinformation and further my strategic ends but they change the lyrics to be about poop and the enemy isn't misdirected at all Third day is a second century warlord I lure my enemy into a narrow valley We're
	laughs laughs laughs laughs Do you explain that after a battle?
	You can pause it there.
	Because it goes on for five minutes.
	That's brilliant.
	How do you explain that?
	So you turn up and you just kill the wrong army and the other army is like, huh.
	Thanks?
	I'll take you under my wing, I guess.
	Guess you're on our side?
	Aww.
	That's brilliant.
	Anyway, we'll go to the Hogwarts Legacy comments.
	Sophie Love Peterson says, I will not lie, I am really enjoying the ability to just enjoy Harry Potter.
	It was the first book I read by myself at 11 years old.
	And it is what got me into reading and writing in the first place.
	Because of Harry Potter, I spent my childhood just reading any fantasy book I could get my hands on.
	A far better childhood addiction than Twitter.
	So yeah, I had to pre-order this.
	I'm a little giddy over child over it.
	That's really sweet.
	I completely get that.
	I know a lot of people have complaints about Harry Potter, the writing and all that sort of stuff.
	I still love it.
	I grew up on it.
	It did get me into fantasy writing and opened up this whole new avenue to me.
	So, yeah, I get that entirely.
	Edward Woodstock says, I really have to feel sorry for the devs of Hogwarts Legacy.
	I have no doubt that they're hard-working fellows in the gaming industry, and that they almost certainly don't share J.K. Rowling's opinions, not saying those opinions are wrong as so much as persecutors.
	They work as hard on this game, and then they're being social priors by proxy anyway.
	Imagine they're normies, to be frank.
	Actually, no, take that back after the fact of what happened to our boy.
	Yeah, what happened to our boy?
	I reckon there's probably still a unit within there of people who are on his side, but are probably just keeping their mouths shut for job security.
	Justice for our boy.
	George Hap says, Not a huge surprise that the Dead Space remake is censored and vocalfied.
	This is EA we're talking about, and they're inviting Sarkeesian to give core talks for years.
	Did they?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Sarkeesian, after all of that went down, she started getting invited to industry meetings and started becoming a consultant to game developers.
	It's awful.
	It's like the CEO has a humiliation fetish or something.
	Why would you bring her in?
	She's just going to turn up and be like, you're sexist.
	Yeah, that's a good question.
	Why bring Sarkeesian in when you can already guess everything she'll tell you anyway?
	You can get an AI to call you sexist.
	Boys.
	Get an AI to tell you Anita Sarkeesian's opinions with a 99.9% accuracy.
	Bro, it'll work.
	Because you can get GPT. GPT will do whatever you want in terms of, like, write me an article on the theme of Anita Sarkeesian's writings and it'll do it.
	And then you take the words, shove it into the AI for the voice.
	And you've got a new Anita Sarkeesian video.
	You can make Tropes vs.
	Women.
	A million times faster than she ever did.
	We could automate it.
	Do you remember Tropes vs.
	Women?
	How long it took her to make videos?
	I never watched it back in the day, thankfully.
	Crap.
	Back in 2014, Gamergate was this far off distant thing while I was trying to get into pubs with my mates.
	She took like two years to make a whole six videos.
	Like ten minutes long just saying that these tropes exist.
	Like pieces to camera.
	They're not hard.
	Very easy shit.
	I can list video gaming tropes.
	Easy peasy.
	The AI could do it for free.
	Anyway, we're out of time, so if you'd like more from us, lightershears.com.
	Otherwise, we'll be back on Monday!
	Yeah, didn't expect that, did you?
	Oh.
	Alright, we're back.
	You messed up yesterday, so you're just redeeming yourself.
	Yeah, I mess up every day.

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