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Feb. 17, 2023 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #592

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus here for the 17th of February?
	2023? I don't know why that's so hard for me.
	Anyway, I'm joined by Harry. Hello there.
	I know what date it is.
	Do not worry. I will make sure this goes as smoothly as possible.
	Remember, Callum, it is Friday.
	What day is the next podcast going to be before we even get to the ending?
	Why are you always trying to show off with your knowledge of dates?
	With my knowledge of knowing what day it is.
	Every day he comes in and says good morning.
	He knows it's the morning. I am sick of feeling left out.
	Callan lives his life as one indistinguishable grey blob.
	Day to day in, there's no difference.
	It can't be breakfast again. Well, if you think about it, sleeping is just time travelling to breakfast in the first place, so...
	Oh, that's like one of those Instagram posts.
	I've seen people post it on Twitter, yeah.
	Haha, danger noodle. I almost swore then.
	Live, laugh, love. That's what that is.
	Of the internet. My missus mum, she's got that on the side of the wall of her house.
	Live, laugh, love. She actually?
	She actually does, yeah. You should buy her another one.
	Put one in every room. Put one...
	No, seriously, mess with that one.
	Except change the order of it.
	Laugh, love, live. Get a doormat with one.
	Get a clock with it in on the inside.
	Get some fridge magnets. Just keep buying her them until she realises she's a meme.
	I don't want to bully my missus mum, but okay.
	Terrorise your... Anyway, we have a podcast to do.
	So today we're doing some other stuff or something.
	Subjects include Hillary Clinton 2.0.
	Sorry, John just put Liverpool, Loverpool, Laverpool.
	Is that real? I don't know.
	John just typed it out. It was funny.
	Halt the podcast. Halt everybody.
	We need to stop so we can figure out what the hell is going on.
	Liverpool sign. Oh, this is already going brilliant.
	I love Liverpool. We're very professional.
	Why is that not real?
	This is what Carl is paying us for.
	We could be making millions if we started selling these signs, my friend.
	I think, perhaps, we do have the merch site now.
	Perhaps this is something for the future.
	Hello, Scouser. Would you like to buy a Bland Meme?
	Would you like to buy a Lotus Eater's Live Laugh Love shirt?
	This is how we turn it from being red.
	Live Laugh Love, attribute the quote to Carl Benjamin.
	Anyway. That's the real purpose of all of this, in case you're wondering.
	So it's, I don't know, podcast segments about stuff.
	Let's just begin. Let's just begin.
	Wasted enough time. Alright, okay, let's carry on.
	Ooh, there could be anything. Who knows?
	So Hillary Clinton 2.0 is something I discovered.
	In case you didn't know, not a Yankee.
	So not really familiar with the not big American politicians that nobody's heard of.
	Alright, so this isn't the cloning of Hillary Clinton 2.0.
	Well, I don't know. It's pretty close.
	Is she as strangely attractive as young Hillary Clinton, according to Carl?
	No. This is a lady called Nikki Haley, who I was not familiar with.
	I'd heard the name, didn't really care.
	Why should I? I think I've heard the name before.
	We're going to get into her campaign from a purely outside perspective, which I've not been impressed by.
	We'll start off just by mentioning there's a nine-to-five job in Swindon if you want it.
	That's the software engineer slash web developer.
	I think it's midnight Sunday.
	Swindon recently voted by its people eighth worst place to live in the UK. I did see that article.
	Checks out. Yeah. So if you'd like to come and join, come and join there.
	As you can see, you can come and see if you can apply for the job.
	If you can't do it, don't apply.
	Simple as. We'll go to the GOP primary polls, because this is what this is all about.
	Of course, who's going to win?
	Probably Trump. I don't know why everyone's playing this game.
	Ooh, Greg Abbott.
	No, it's not happening.
	Well, it's trying to draw division within the GOP. Yeah.
	You got Ron DeSantis. You know, he could put up a fight if he wants, but I'm not.
	Sorry, who? What?
	Ron DeSantes.
	DeSando DeLando. DeSanctimonious?
	No. I'm not making fun of him.
	I can't speak. They might have a cajusel, but Nikki Haley has now thrown her hat in the ring with a whole 3%.
	Cool. Ooh, exciting.
	Well, we'll go to her. What's she about?
	What various flavours of rhino do you fancy today?
	Well, when I go and look it up, I immediately find stuff like this.
	Of her talking about how it was a brown girl growing up in a black and white world.
	Wow, this is real conservative.
	Freedom. American values embodied.
	I'm Kamala Harris, but Republican. Are we going to get the tick marks?
	Like Kamala Harris that Carl shared ages ago, we're going to get the tick marks.
	Punjabi woman president?
	Question mark? Yeah, the team's actually going to do that as well.
	And we'll go to the next one.
	Okay, it's a weird statement, but there's more of these.
	I mean, this one here is may the best woman win, which just is literally Hillary Clinton.
	Like, she actually gave that speech.
	And then, all kidding aside...
	Yeah, and then 15 seconds later, all kidding aside, I'm not about identity politics.
	Yeah, okay. But I will keep saying the slogans for nice, clippable moments.
	And I could, you know, you could forgive a couple of gaffes.
	Gaffes as in, like, you know, buying into leftist ideology.
	I mean, the GOP, for the most part, is an incredibly unremarkable party.
	I got her, like, the history, and people have pointed out apparently she's a WEF graduate.
	Oh. There you are.
	I mean, oh wait, an actual graduate?
	Oh, okay. Not just somebody that's got a webpage because the WEF does that for everyone.
	No, it's like, no, you actually worked with us, because of course, I believe she was always the US ambassador to the UN. Oh, she was a young global leader as well.
	Okay, so 2004 to present, and that was, what, 2011 young global leader, so that's seven years within that, and, you know, the World Economic Forum...
	I mean, I know this is obviously, you can see the meme there, she's being like, liar, Baxter, yeah, it's obviously propaganda, but at the same time, it's not untrue.
	You worked with the WEF, so it's like, great, great.
	You've grown up within whatever ideology that they're pushing, which is just globalism.
	That could all be just shills. Just shills as to why Nikki Haley is a bad woman.
	Could be. Her own campaign could also be a shill as to why she's a bad woman.
	Perhaps this is just 4D chess being played right here.
	This is some thing here in which they write, if you're going to turn up, you need to have a COVID vaccine to avert to our event.
	It's like, what?
	And the top line there, well, after the ask-a-woman leadership lessons, is too brown, too female, too conservative.
	I'm failing to see where the conservatism or anything remotely right-wing starts.
	The opening line is brown woman.
	Okay. Is she applying for Supreme Court?
	Well, I suppose if you do want a job in today's economy...
	Yeah, I suppose so. I, too, am a brown woman.
	Opening line, Hillary Clinton style, I am this thing, Gibbs.
	Right, okay. Okay, very convincing.
	But then the more concerning part, obviously, being the you need COVID vaccination status and a valid photo identification for entry.
	Eh, so that WEF stuff's probably not, just nothing.
	There's Trumpist propaganda about this, but it kind of rings true as well.
	Look at the photos. There's some guy here, who's obviously pro-Trump, who's like, look at the difference in sport between Nikki Haley and MAGA. On the left, you'll see sports coats, button-up vests, country club Republicans, whereas on the right, you'll see normies.
	Just normal people. Normal guys with all their baseball caps on.
	Do you have a 40 quid button-up vest to wear?
	I do love that even before the MAGA hat thing, the kind of uniform of rural America is baseball cap.
	I mean, kind of. I respect it.
	Maybe. It's certainly true about the whole blazer button-up cardigans thing.
	I can't stand cardigans.
	Yeah, these people have just finished at a board meeting.
	It's like, if I wear the thing I'm told to, then I am important.
	Okay, right. We'll get to the next thing here, though, because Nikki Haley's own words, that's more important, and we'll listen to that.
	Jack Posobiec put up this thing, which went huge, and this has been the, I think, most viewed thing regarding her own campaign, which is not great for her, I imagine, but then again, it's her own words, so maybe it's convincing.
	She argues that what is America first is funding Ukraine.
	That's the sole thing that defines America first.
	Not necessarily Ukraine either, of course.
	It could be anything. America was founded on globalist liberal values, goddammit.
	Well, the argument goes, as it did in 2003, we're going to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.
	That's purely America first.
	Because the US is a constant threat of invasion from foreign powers.
	Yes, the Republic of Chad has been awful quiet recently.
	Too quiet, some neocons say.
	I feel a shift in the winds.
	Just country you've not heard of, can't find on map, they're the threat of danger to American soil, not the problem in Mexico.
	I am getting big Yellowstone meme vibes.
	Yeah, we're gonna get there. Well, we'll listen to her own words, though.
	I don't want to smear her, so let's listen to that.
	We have the backs of our friends, and we hold our enemies to account.
	And, you know, whether it's Ukraine or Israel, we take care of them because it's about freedom.
	And we can never stop fighting for freedom.
	There is that populist strain and a lot of MAGA that wants the Ukraine gravy train, financially and otherwise, to stop.
	And even there's a growing Republican consent, not consensus, but growing Republican support to say, wait a minute, checks and balances here.
	What are we doing giving all this money to Ukraine?
	Where do you come down on the money, on the military, whether it be fighter jets, X, Y, and Z? Biden was slow to the take.
	He should have given Ukraine what they needed right when this started, and we'd be in a totally different place right now.
	This isn't a war about Ukraine.
	This is a war about freedom.
	And I don't think we need to put troops on the ground.
	I don't think we need to write them blank checks.
	But they have the passion to fight for their own freedom.
	Give them the ammunition to do it.
	Get with our NATO allies and say, hey, we're not the only ones.
	You've got to do it, too.
	And let them win this fight.
	But I'll tell you what, if they win this fight, you won't hear anything from Russia, China or Iran.
	If they lose this fight, Russia's not going to stop at Ukraine.
	They're going to go into Poland and the Baltics and we've got a world war on our hands.
	Of course. We have to make sure we send a message to every enemy that if you mess with our friends, you're messing with us and you don't want to do that.
	And that, therefore, is America first, in essence.
	It is taking care of America because we're preventing wars.
	I can't. Okay, so the...
	I mean, that's the most out-and-out neocon I've heard anybody sound in a while.
	It's very Bush-Obama era.
	Oh, very much so.
	It's all... It's the...
	If there's injustice anywhere, there is injustice everywhere.
	Therefore, we must bomb Bolivia.
	I mean... Where is Bolivia? I don't know.
	Once again... The unstoppable force of Bolivia is going to attack America.
	Yeah. As much as James Gunn seems to be a complete scumbag, there is a fantastic line from Peacemaker in The Suicide Squad where he says, I love peace so much and I don't care how many women and children I have to kill to get it.
	That is that mentality.
	Oh, say can you?
	He's got a good point. No, he doesn't.
	I think everyone is vaccinated against the sort of Bush era, we're fighting for freedom kind of narrative.
	Barack Obama's like, we have to fund Syrian, sorry, Libyan rebels, could have been any of them, for freedom.
	What do you mean they're all pledging their allegiance to Allah?
	So they pledge allegiance to the US Constitution?
	Yeah, nah.
	I am.
	I'm very bored.
	What do you mean we gave Liberia the exact US Constitution?
	What do you mean they started enslaving each other immediately?
	It's just delusions about the whole world.
	It's essentially American patriot rebels.
	Who are just destined to become the new 1776 if we just give them money.
	That's right, they're all just flag-waving MAGA enthusiasts.
	Yeah, I'm bored.
	And I'm also bored of...
	Again, I don't want to get into Ukrainian conflicts.
	It's just cancer every time.
	But just the endless stupid argument you hear.
	Let's say the Russians conquer Ukraine and then they invade Moldova.
	Next, they're going to invade Poland because it's Hitler all over again.
	Because everything is Hitler all over again.
	No, they're not going to invade a NATO neighbour.
	I don't get this. Simultaneously can't take on Ukraine, but also is going to invade all of Europe.
	I mean, like, Red War Syndrome all over again.
	Stop. Stop.
	Please. This is just like the Cold War all over again.
	Support Ukraine if you want.
	Send them money. Argue for that.
	You know, Putin's gonna die because of this.
	Whatever. I'm so bored.
	Yankee across the earth is like, yeah, they're gonna invade America tomorrow if they do.
	And Britain goes, every single time Britain goes, you know what, you're right, let's join in.
	It needs to end.
	I don't know where things are.
	Conservative. That's enough.
	Earth may revolve around the sun, but Earth also revolves around America.
	I am also, Glenn Greenwald pointed out that that speech made no goddamn sense, even the Ukrainian conflict, which is like, Biden didn't do enough to give to Ukraine exactly what they needed.
	Biden was far too moderate on this issue.
	Glenn Greenwald points out that he gave them $60 billion in the first six months, which is more than the entire Russian budget for war.
	So, the next six months, that's even more.
	I mean, think about how many black Americans could have got reparations with that money.
	I don't know, but I mean...
	That's gonna be her next talking point.
	The Russians could have had another two armies.
	Like, their entire military budget.
	I'm sorry, I just love the idea that this is the new face of republicanism.
	She's gonna go, well, we need to give more money to Ukraine, and once we've finally taken care of that Putin problem, we can finally get reparations sorted out.
	So we'll go to the next thing as well, which is our campaign being like, I'm going to shake up Washington.
	There's something about all these posts I've seen where I'm just like, this is so uninspiring.
	In the slightest. You are Washington, what are you talking about?
	So what's your number one issue?
	I'm a brown woman and we should give money to Ukraine.
	That's the status quo. Here's my plan to clear out the deep state.
	Yeah, we'll go to the next one as well, because she decided to come out and say that our politicians are past their prime, because they're all basically old men.
	I was like, yeah, they are all old men.
	That's true. I mean, that's a fair point.
	It is annoying to see no one, even slightly young, neither lives of power in the United States.
	I'm sick of people having to worry about the president being too dementia-ridden this time around.
	That is true.
	I'll give her that. This is where the story kind of takes a bit of a left turn, though, because this is where I gave up with Nikki Haley.
	I think most people did as well by the polling.
	And we instead turned to CNN for more insightful discussion, such as, when has a woman passed her prime?
	From Don Lemon. Don Lemon just goes, I don't know, she do be hanging, though.
	I really...
	He put his mouth in it for this one.
	He was just like, ah, silly right-wing woman.
	Don't you know women are past their prime when they're your age?
	Is he just calling a haggard?
	Is that what he's doing?
	He didn't seem to realise where he was.
	Is he grieving?
	And he's surrounded by two women who were probably in their 30s and 40s.
	Oh no! Oh no!
	He notes how much he messed up with the people in the room as he starts speaking.
	And let's listen to that, I suppose.
	This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable.
	I think it's the wrong road to go down.
	She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime.
	Nikki Haley isn't in her prime.
	Sorry. A woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.
	That's not according to me.
	Prime for what? It depends.
	It's just like prime. If you look it up, if you Google, when is a woman in her prime, it'll say 20s, 30s, and 40s.
	I don't necessarily... 40s. Oh, I got another decade.
	I agree with that. So I think she has to be careful about saying that politicians aren't in their prime.
	What do you need to qualify? Are you talking about prime for like child caring or are you talking about prime for being president?
	Don't shoot the message or I'm just saying what the facts are.
	Google it. Everybody at home.
	When is a woman in her prime?
	It says 20s, 30s, and 40s.
	And I'm just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't be in her prime according to Google or whatever it is.
	He tried to get the catty gay attitude started and it just bombed.
	Immediately bombed. It's not even a bad argument for him though, which is just...
	It's a terrible argument, but...
	He didn't read the room, but I get what he was trying to say.
	But it's not a bad argument to be like...
	What even was he trying to argue?
	No, it was bad. It was terrible.
	What am I talking about? He was trying to be like, well, she's a right winger.
	Right wingers have these antiquated ideas of what being in the prime of a woman is.
	But then he also tries to defer to Google as well and tries to use it as a, like, backhanded compliment her way.
	But if you take it literally, he's saying, don't worry about all the men running who are so old.
	We have to worry about which one has the most dementia because you can't birth children.
	He goes, because we might have 40-year-old women in charge instead.
	I mean, fair fair.
	I'd rather have a dimension-ridden old man than one of them damn women that can't have kids.
	Ah. Alright.
	Alright, Don. Not the audience for it.
	Do you think before you speak, man?
	I mean, it's Don Lemon, so no.
	No, no. Evidently not.
	We'll go to the Lynx because Don Eggman became a really quick meme.
	That's great. Don't have any eggs.
	I mean, this guy's brain doesn't work, but you don't have any eggs.
	So there's that convincing case.
	Don Lemon's dilemma is empty egg carton up here or down there.
	That's what he's worried about.
	I don't know. But what does CNN do to try and save their fellow hosts?
	Because they all look retarded.
	Sorry, no, this is Fox News, actually.
	He decided to fact-check Don Lemon.
	They were like, let's see if he's true.
	I don't know who any of these people are, but they decided to fact check it by sitting around and asking ChatGPT for their own opinions.
	Is ChatGPT the new objective commenter on all subjects?
	No, it's, you know the NPC update meme?
	Oh yeah. ChatGPT is the update?
	These people in real time sat there and went, ChatGPT, what is my opinion?
	And ChatGPT gave their opinion.
	Let's play it. Then he says, just Google it.
	We asked Chatbot, what do you say?
	We asked Chatbot, and this is the answer.
	This is why people aren't going to like Chatbot.
	As an AI language model, it's not appropriate to make any assumptions or generalize about individuals based on their gender.
	It is important to recognize that every person is unique.
	And the concept of a prime can vary greatly based on personal factors such as physical health, lifestyle, goals, and aspirations.
	I've heard of it happening. It is just obvious.
	NPC response of, no, women don't have a prime, really.
	Women are endless, timeless, formless.
	Should we ask Jack TPT what it thinks of men?
	25 to 40 blokes.
	There you are. There's your prime.
	And there's sugar-coated nonsense.
	As a 26-year-old, I will accept this.
	I've still got another 14 good years.
	But everyone knows it. You're not even in your prime year.
	Wait, where are you? Nobody knows my age.
	Not even myself, actually. To be fair, you didn't know what day it is.
	You didn't know what day tomorrow is.
	I'm not shocked that you don't know what age you are.
	I have... It does make me...
	I've gone full Joe Biden. I don't even know where I am.
	I really do despair for my generation, to be fair, because I do often see people around my age forgetting what age they are.
	But, as you can see, ChadGPT, when you ask it, how old's a man in his prime?
	25 to 40. Bugger off.
	You ask it, when's a woman in a prime?
	Well, don't worry, ladies. There's no prime for you.
	Really, you can do anything at any age.
	Age is just a number. Oh, shut up.
	Have you seen on YouTube, there's an advert that's hilarious to me that starts off with an old woman looking straight into the camera and going, age is just a number, and then it immediately goes, as you get older, your chances of breaking bones might increase as your bones get more brittle.
	It's like, BAM! A man comes out with a sledgehammer and just hits her with one, breaking every bone.
	Throw that to the hammer! Bam!
	But, I mean, there's my argument, which is leftists actually apparently now can get their opinions in real time from the AI. Because it's beautiful as well, because it is obviously the case that the leftist AI, the AI on drugs over here, is able to do the leftist thing of, when it's women, timeless, formless, beautiful.
	When it's men, get on with your work, you fucking losers.
	Someone's got to pay for my handbags.
	I mean, I think you raise a good point here because I find it more spectacular that they don't have to refer to something like ChatGPT to be able to update their thinking in real time.
	There's an amazing way that the leftist thought can work in lockstep without anybody really having to say it explicitly.
	They can all have this amazing ability, apart from Don Lemon, to read the room and just know what's not allowed anymore.
	But not Donny Boy. Anyway, this whole thing, this whole Nikki Haley situation, reminded me of this campaign.
	Some people have seen. People listening.
	The local chap here sat on his pickup truck with his Love is Love sticker on the pickup truck.
	His LGBT pussy hat and his Antifa logo.
	Branded shirt. And this is a reference to Yellowstone memes.
	I don't know what Yellowstone is because I'm not a Yankee boomer, so I don't...
	It is a television show set in the Yellowstone area of America.
	I have not watched it, I've heard of it, and a few years ago I did hear some people say, oh my god, it's based, and then I immediately thought it's a mainstream television show.
	Good luck. Probably not.
	But it's about rural life in America.
	It actually pays, you know, I think it's one of the one shows in the United States that pays any lip service to...
	Hang on, there actually is a world beyond L.A. I mean, that's nice, at least.
	That's a thing. But then, what some people have noticed, and Jack has in this meme, if we go forward to the next one, is that a lot of the show and a lot of things in media use the rural aesthetics, the conservative aesthetics, and then we'll just insert leftist dogma into it.
	And it's a good meme format, and I hope it grows.
	The example here is, quote,"...what's going on in the bedroom of consenting adults is between me and my wife, and my wife's boyfriend." Play some guitar in the background.
	Some country music. It's a great example of the manipulation of media because a lot of people sadly do get their perception of reality through the TV shows and other such media they consume.
	I don't think it's supposed to be an accurate representation of what actual rural Americans are like.
	I've heard a number of people complaining about the meme because they think it demonizes actual rural Americans who don't believe these sorts of things.
	That's why it's important to point out the aesthetic is being used.
	Yeah, the rural world doesn't match the non-centrified on TV quite often.
	We'll go to the next one. There's some more of these.
	The papers are signed, Beth.
	I'm renaming the ranch after George Floyd.
	We'll go to the next one. No human being is illegal, son.
	Give him a job. Give him a vote.
	That's what I say. Ronald Reagan would have wanted it that way.
	To be fair, that's true.
	Ronald Reagan did sign in massive amnesty for illegal immigrants.
	And he was wrong. Yes.
	He was. And we go to the next one, there's more of that.
	There's some, like, rebounds of that meme.
	Only two things come from Yellowstone, steers and queers, and I ain't got no horns, boy.
	Brokeback Yellowstone. I don't know where that one's going.
	There's more of that, because if you get the next one, someone pointing out the Yellowstone memes are so funny because they describe real-world problem that most people don't notice, mixing conservative aesthetics with liberal values.
	A lot of boomers go along with mass immigration, racial justice, etc.
	If you sprinkle some tough-talk images on top of it...
	Yeah, have you seen that?
	I saw there was that Sylvester Stallone show that I think the same creator is in charge of, and it's got a scene where a black guy goes through.
	We're gonna get to that. Oh, okay, alright, okay.
	I mean, I don't really get the reference, because, you know, Yellowstone, live in England, not too much of a race mixing going on there.
	But we'll go to the UK version of this, which I saw people posting, which is Peaky Blinders.
	I would rather die than have my wife's black son be misgendered in 1920s England.
	I don't remember that scene specifically.
	I have seen a few clips from Peaky Blinders that did really put me off it, where they go out of their way to put Oswald Mosley in the show, and then have all of the heroic characters that you're supposed to like, who are all a bunch of murderous criminals, but at least you know they're not fascists.
	That's how you know that you root Well, he's a socialist, isn't he?
	Officially. So that's how you know he's a good guy.
	What, him? Yeah, Thomas Shelby.
	Becomes a Labour MP. The next one here, we have another example.
	Oi, mate, we may be violent gangsters, but racism is just not on.
	Yeah? That is a real scene.
	I've seen it. Yeah, no, that's the thing.
	I've seen that scene where they walk in.
	Oswald Mosley's just in a pub and they're all just like, oh, you're that bloody fascist bloke, aren't you then?
	Yeah. You don't know anything about fascism.
	This is really weird. Yeah, it's really cringe.
	You guys literally just beat people up and sell, like, drugs.
	But at least I'm not racist.
	Yeah, it also happens a couple of times in the earlier parts of the show where they're just like, don't worry, we're a multiracial group of people in 1920s England.
	Okay, alright.
	I don't care if you're multiracial, you're a bunch of thugs.
	It's also going off of that Doctor Who revisionist history when they go to- Next link, please.
	You called it. Jesus Christ, I'm reading your mind as we're going through this segment.
	This companion here turns up and says that there's a lot of more black people in 1800s England than on the movies, aren't there, Doctor?
	And Doctor says, Jesus was black, history is a whitewash.
	Why? Why?
	But the Yellowstone meme is perfect for this, and I want to see more of it, because it's a good-ass meme.
	We'll just end it off with the last point here, being as Jack Posobiec explains.
	This is the scene that I was talking about.
	Yeah, I hate this scene.
	Oh, it's awful. So this, uh, this, like, 20-something black guy goes into a dealership, tries to buy a really expensive car, dealer turns him down because he's like, well, it must be drug money.
	And then tells white old man.
	White old man comes back and physically assaults the dealer, saying he's racist, because he doesn't believe that the 20-something black man has hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	Suggesting to me that this dealer was, in fact, correct to distrust everything going on with these people.
	But not only that, it's also the difference of, like, man in his 60s might have money for a rich car, because that's when you get all your money together.
	You know, at the retiring age.
	Whereas man in his 20s, who turns up a once-sports car...
	Yeah, no, it gives me Albanian vibes.
	If you're in your 20s and you've got hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting around.
	But no, no, it was because he's black and he's white.
	And judging by the aesthetic, it seems to be set in the 70s as well.
	So I don't know if they had the same sort of finance schemes for fancy cars that we've got nowadays.
	But script aside, because remember, this is all just fantasy in someone's head, so the reasons could be whatever you want, regardless of the obvious actual reasons.
	But the argument here being that, don't you believe that racism is bad?
	Yes. The whole world's on that train in the West.
	The rest of the world's not, but we are.
	And yet, it's endlessly more propaganda of tough guy, but he also thinks racism's bad.
	Kill me. I don't want to live with this anymore.
	This is not entertainment.
	It is very annoying. Let's go to the 15-minute cities, which was a surprise topic today.
	No one knew that was coming. I know, right?
	Who saw this one coming?
	So we'll look at the expectations versus reality of 15-minute cities.
	I did go over this subject relatively recently.
	A few weeks ago, I branded them 15-minute prisons because the reality is that...
	Obviously they're going to be used to lock you down and restrict your movement, but the mainstream media wants you to know that NO! That's a crazy right-wing conspiracy theory, just like everything that was proven right over the past three to ten years has also been proven to be a right-wing conspiracy theory which was actually correct, but please ignore that part.
	I don't think any of the writers were conspiring, so that sentence doesn't even make sense.
	Well, no, no. Right-wing conspiracy theory, I should say.
	But, like, that term doesn't make sense whenever they say it.
	Yeah, we're conspiring to be correct on all of the important points.
	We sure are. Yes, which, you know, fact-check true.
	There you go. And before I go any further, I've got a recent premium video came out yesterday, a symposium, which is honestly one of my new favourite series that we've got.
	It's a Stelios series discussing philosophical This was a discussion I was lucky enough to have with him about Carl Schmitt, a very controversial thinker from the early 20th century, but somebody who did get sort of revived by a bunch of thinkers of the 80s as having some very useful concepts for understanding politics, and one of them being his concept of the political being friend-enemy distinction, which is certainly something that the left have internalized.
	You must remember when you are speaking to a left That's the way I've seen it.
	So Stelios and I go a bit deeper into the philosophical concepts, along with his ideas on sovereignty and decisionism.
	So I'd really recommend checking this out.
	Stelios was excellent in it, as he always is.
	Anyway, let's carry on, shall we?
	So there are some problems with the 15-Minute City idea that I outlined, but just for those who didn't watch that last segment, as 15-Minute City is an idea that has been put forward as being...
	Something benign, something really nice.
	You can have all of your amenities within 15 minutes.
	And not just a 15 minute drive, a 15 minute walk of where you live.
	That includes schools, that includes public services, that includes your work, that includes a lot of things.
	And we get people like this man, Andrew Knack, who posted this little TikTok video just explaining, and this is, I think, a political...
	Something or other in the city of Edmonton, in Alberta, Canada, and he just wanted to explain to everybody that 15-minute cities, they're not spooky, they're not scary, it's just the government wanting to give you nice things!
	The government has always just wanted to give you nice things.
	When has the government ever messed up when trying to give you nice things?
	Do you appreciate all of the nice things you've been given by the government?
	I don't even have borders.
	List me some nice things that you've been given by the government recently.
	Wonderful! Excellent!
	Brilliant! You know, I trust this, but I have some questions, and a lot of other people have questions as well.
	Oh, okay, okay. There is a regiment of the army engineers currently in Poland fighting back illegal immigrants.
	Oh? Just one?
	Yeah. Just the one...
	The border force here aren't doing anything, but...
	I was gonna say, but what about the borders here?
	Well, in Poland, they're doing a good...
	So they're protecting Poland's borders?
	Yeah. Something.
	That's something. People in the comments of this gentleman's video had some questions, which were...
	met with the kind of response that you expect, which...
	The question was, what happens when you leave your district?
	What are the restrictions on driving to visit family, work and play, or go on a date outside of your district?
	Why is this a good idea to you?
	Do you see the issue of government control over people's freedom of assembly?
	Because one of the things that's inherent in the ideas is they're basically just going to section off parts of cities...
	Like, for instance, we'll get to Oxford, which is being sectioned off in 2024 on a trial run into six different districts that you won't be allowed to drive in those areas.
	I mean, Oxford is already a difficult town to drive around, but still it will be just mandated.
	You're not able to drive in these areas.
	There will be Taking a look at the climate impact of those particular areas.
	And once again, if you do not trust that they will be locking you down for climate-based reasons, I have a bridge to sell you.
	Just hit show more replies on this particular part here, John.
	Thank you. So we can see his sincere and genuine response, which is, thanks for the question.
	The same thing that happens if you leave your area now.
	Nothing. Don't you just believe in the benign...
	the benign expectations of the government, the benign wants of the government?
	They just want help! They just want help, bro!
	Chameleon's having none of it, and follows up, what, 15-minute cities for?
	the UK and Australia have proposed restrictions, license capture cameras, fines and more, so you can say this governmental overreach won't be coming to smart cities on our shores, because along with this, part of the 15-minute neighbourhood is changing every city into a smart city, and once again, if you don't see the inherent problems with a city starting to become smart, if you don't see the inherent problems with a city starting to become smart, in the same way that in the UK, our motorways have become smart, which is not smart at all, and then dividing them into smaller districts for greater amount
	I don't know what to say, that's just inherently a problem to me, you need to start from the perspective right now of the people in charge are not trustworthy, therefore I will not trust anything they do or say, say.
	He carries on saying 15 Minute Cities are for providing you with more freedom by giving you greater access to services and amenities closer to your home.
	It's about land use, not transportation policy.
	So just avoiding any and all questions.
	But I have some other questions that I just want to go through.
	I've got one. Have any of these people ever heard of a metro?
	Why is this an impossible idea for the British public to just think of anyway?
	I think a metro is for the plebs.
	We can't just build a metro.
	No, we've got to start building prisons instead.
	Yes, we must start building. No, 15 minute neighbourhoods Callum, come on, come on, get with the programme.
	But my questions are, for one, why 15 minutes exactly?
	I mean, some of them have been proposed as 20 minutes, but why 15 to 20 minutes?
	Is it just because it sounds nice?
	Nice easy walkable distance.
	It's actually about the average difference between a metro station.
	Oh my goodness! What a shock!
	If only there was some other solution to these problems!
	Yeah, it seems arbitrary, and I think it's just because the idea sounds nice when you say, oh, 15 minute walk!
	Oh, who doesn't like going for a little 15 minute walk wherever they go?
	My other question would be, seeing as you're supposed to, in the abstract planning stage, you're supposed to be able to live within 15 minutes of your work, Is it always desirable to be locked into a particular neighbourhood within 15 minutes of your work?
	Will this restrict my opportunities to pursue different occupations?
	Will I have to move anywhere outside of that 15-minute district?
	Like, say I'm in this district and I want to work in this district, and it's only 30 minutes, really, so do I have to move to that district?
	This is a question.
	And on that same note, do I always want to be living that close to the people I work with at all times?
	Many people will know that office jobs can get boring and very antagonistic with one another.
	Must live in a hive city.
	Yes. Will this also help create a situation where people will end up informing on each other like they were encouraged to do during COVID? These are all just simple questions.
	What questions are you seeing come up?
	I live within 15 minutes of my work.
	I just drive over the speed limit.
	There you go. He's a simple solution.
	I don't recommend breaking the law, of course.
	And will this just lead to a further centralization of decision-making in your local community?
	Will I have a commissar Dictating what my neighbourhood does, will I have any autonomy whatsoever?
	The questions, the answers now will be smug responses like this.
	Andrew Nett going, oh, nothing's gonna happen, bro, you conspiracy theorist or something.
	But, you know, give it two weeks.
	Two weeks to flatten the curve, etc.
	And it does disappoint me that many people will just go along with any of this that they're sold as long as it comes from a trusted news source or somebody who puts a smiling face on the television screen.
	And we've got more... Disingenuous, smug things like this coming out on Twitter.
	I've noticed that the propaganda is starting to ramp up, seeing as people have started to notice that this is happening in the first place.
	So all of the people like this and elected officials have decided, right, we need to get out ahead of this.
	I mean, it's already ahead of you, but let's play this clip just so we can hear the tone.
	Because I really hate it.
	Play the clip, please. Thank you.
	Hey, I was just going for my morning run and I was kind of stewing about the conspiracy theories I've been hearing online about the so-called 15-minute city concept.
	So I thought, hey, why don't I just show people what a 15-minute city looks like here in my neighborhood.
	A 15-minute city essentially means that folks have the ability, because of urban design and planning, to do what they want and have their needs met within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from home.
	It doesn't mean anybody's restricted from going anywhere, but it does mean this.
	You can live in a house like this, in my background.
	But it means that people who own land are more free to do what they want with their land.
	For example, what my friends and I did is build our home back here, our six-story apartment building.
	And there's a few more apartment buildings back there.
	Now, how does that make life better for people already living in this neighborhood?
	Well, across the way here, there's a grocery store on the corner and a bunch of other businesses.
	Now that grocery store was going out of business before these apartments arrived.
	There just weren't enough customers for them.
	We're providing that customer base and suddenly the grocery store is thriving and we get most of our needs met right there.
	A five-minute walk. No, more like a minute and a half walk from our house.
	And all up and down Main Street there in Vancouver are more ways to meet our needs.
	I feel more free here than I have in any neighborhood I've ever lived in.
	That's the essence of the 15-minute city.
	So stop freaking out.
	Learn a little bit more about planning.
	Thanks. Where does he live, sorry?
	I assume Canada, given that that was his accent.
	He was amazed by the idea of a corner store.
	It was shocking! I've never seen one of those before.
	I've never seen a district where there is a home with shops nearby.
	Yeah, that's all it means. In which case, why would they be saying that in England?
	We have shops nearby.
	That's not new. England is an incredibly dense country.
	It doesn't matter where you are.
	Even if you're out in the middle of nowhere, you're probably no more than an hour's walk away from civilization in England.
	And that's in England. So we don't need...
	Everywhere in Bath has corner stores, so why are they bringing 50 Minutes Cities in Bath?
	Everywhere in Oxford has a shop around the corner.
	Why do they need it in Oxford? I don't have any shops.
	It's a desolate wasteland out there!
	Oh, my goodness. But you can hear the smug tone, you can hear how he's just basically scoffing at you, literally as he's describing how that corner shop there is only a minute and a half walk away from it.
	He literally does a, like, scoffing at you.
	Maybe that's a boast in the New World.
	Because everything's so far apart.
	Look at me, you've got a corner store.
	You don't have one of them. That's right.
	Got a big TV and a cornice.
	Ooh. Yeah, and look, you can live in this big apartment building.
	And on that, we've got more...
	We've got telling... Me of the girls who are like, he doesn't have to drive to get the groceries.
	If we go back to that one...
	Sorry, John. If you could scroll down for me, you can see he's telling on himself.
	These people always tell on themselves in the comments.
	There was one where...
	I don't think it's this person. The one underneath, Ken V. Sorry, if you just scroll down a little bit.
	He's just... Lol, what a joke.
	Sounds like you just wanted to build more apartment buildings, not a 15-minute city.
	Talking about density, not a 15-minute walk or bike ride.
	Thanks for trying. He responds, they actually go together.
	You need a critical mass of people to sustain the shop, services, and transit that easily supports local access.
	Plus, I can't even afford one of these $2 million homes.
	The apartments enabled me and my friends to live here.
	Okay, let me get this straight.
	15-minute city equals more density.
	Not always. Depends on the context.
	It immediately starts slipping away from the actual question that's been asked and his original answer that he gave.
	But what that translates to me is just get in the pod.
	Get in the pod. You know?
	We need it. We need the critical mass of people so that we're able to, you know, support all of our stupid infrastructure plans.
	Get in the pod, pleb! That's also where all the leftist ideology comes from.
	The rural-urban divide is a real thing throughout the entire West.
	Oh, absolutely. And the more urbanized our civilization gets, the more insane we're becoming.
	That's just a telling of the trend.
	I think this guy and others do demonstrate bug brain.
	Yeah, bug brain, hive mentality.
	And we got this next one, which was just 20,000 likes, 1 million views on this.
	Just saying, the 15-minute city by urbanist Carlos Marina is the belief that every neighbourhood should have access to work, housing, food, health, education, and leisure within a 15-minute walk.
	It's a really simple but transformative goal.
	And everyone just likes it. Everyone just goes, if that's all it is, well then, yep.
	Sounds good to me. Yeah, it sounds nice.
	Sounds nice, but do you trust the people putting it into practice to get it right?
	Everyone has that in Bath before they introduce this concept.
	Yeah. So what's new?
	Well, what's new is they're blocking off roads so you can't drive around as easy.
	And that's what it all really comes down to.
	Destruction of your liberty to drive a car so you have no freedom.
	Yep, and we've got an urban green planner in the next tweet saying there's just nothing to worry about.
	I can't believe there's a bunch of conspiracy theorists out there just thinking that you...
	All because we locked them in their homes for, like, a year, they think we're gonna lock them in their homes again.
	What a conspiracy, right?
	If you wouldn't mind hovering over this Miriam Moore's name for me, please, and we can see the sorts of people.
	She, her. Eh, disregarded.
	Yep, urban designer. Wouldn't you trust this person?
	Do you trust this person has your best interests in mind?
	I don't trust anyone who has pronouns publicly.
	Yep, and then one of the more recent ones as well, there was this article from The Guardian saying, which is a reference to Nick Fletcher,
	an MP who recently brought this up in Parliament, Into a tailspin.
	Now... Correct me if I'm wrong, but is not the Ring Road, the out-of-town shopping centre, and everything he listed there the result of urban town planning?
	Yeah, bah. How are the same people going to solve the problems that they...
	Oh, God. I absolutely hate it.
	But you can see the counter-arguments against the right wing when they point out what's just obviously happening.
	The right wing here is just like, how about we have some public transport?
	On the left line? No, what if we have top-down planning of all of society?
	We could build a metro.
	It's not the best advanced technology.
	I mean, some online forums, it carries on, have claimed that the 15-minute city represents the first steps towards an inevitable Hunger Games society in which residents will not be allowed to leave their prescribed areas.
	They will not see it as a route to low-traffic, low-carbon future, because this is what the average person on the street cares about.
	They want a low-carbon future.
	But as the beginning of a slippery slope to living in an open-air prison, which it...
	It absolutely is.
	There are lots of good reasons to interrogate the logic of the 15-minute city, though.
	Oh, okay, we're allowed some dissent.
	Let's hear what that dissent is, Callum.
	Are you ready for it? Could it lead to further social segregation?
	Could wealthy residents and their money remain in prosperous enclaves?
	Who is providing the services and where do they live, but the threat of our rights being curtailed by travel permits isn't one of them, which is why the UK government is currently in the process of trying to design an infrastructure for digital passports and other such IDs.
	But you can see the logic here, which is, okay, you're allowed to question it, but only on leftist terms.
	You're only allowed to question things from within the paradigm itself.
	If you step outside of that, we don't even need to counter your arguments or even really address them other than pointing and scoffing at them.
	The conspiracy theory pot was given a powerful stir in December when Canadian right-wing culture warrior Jordan Beeserson got involved!
	Dun-dun-dun! We have invoked the name of the JP, therefore all arguments dismissed.
	What was his argument?
	His argument is, neighbourhoods being walkable is a great idea, but tyrannical bureaucrats aren't going to do it right and are going to do it in a way that detriments you.
	Yeah, probably. I mean, that's simple enough.
	But did you know that Peterson quoted a tweet that featured the telltale hashtag of the Great Reset referring to the World Economic Forum's post-pandemic economic recovery plan, widely used in the stranger corners of the internet as a byword for shadowy global conspiracy intent on robbing us of our freedoms.
	And here we get some nice buzzwords.
	Anti-vaccine, pro-Brexit, climate-denying...
	I'm scared of the idea of 15 minutes.
	Oh no, Callum, watch out!
	It's coming up to quarter to two right now!
	I'm so scared!
	Many of the UK conspiracy theorists highlight that these un-British ideas of urban walkability emanate from France, so they must be distrusted on principle.
	Eh, that's a fair point. Worse than that, they point out the ideology has been driven by a bearded Colombian scientist with radical roots.
	The ideas have been around since the 1920s, but the 15 minute city phrase was coined by Carlos Marina, an esteemed processor at the Pantheon Sorbonne in Paris, Who was once a member of a left-wing guerrilla group in the 1970s and now he's coming for your cars.
	Pandemic proved to be a powerful trial for how a 15-minute city might work in practice and lead bodies such as the UN Habitat, World Economic Forum, C40 Global Cities Climate Network and the Federation of Local Governments championing the cause.
	Which also helped to boost unhinged fantasies that it's all part of a grand global scheme of totalitarian oppression.
	All it is is a bunch of left-wing radicals In partnership with a bunch of globalist organizations looking to implement something you never asked for.
	But it's not a conspiracy.
	It's astounding.
	I always find it astounding how they can just say what's happening and then deny it in the same breath.
	Absolutely incredible. And then relating to Oxford, where all this is happening, so we've got some more propaganda come from there, whereas these two people from the Oxford Council had a message for their local constituents who are understandably worried about what is happening to their city.
	So let's play this. Hello everyone.
	Recently we've seen a lot of misinformation about traffic filters circulating online.
	This misinformation is being spread by many disreputable sources and it has been extremely disappointing to see it being picked up by the national media outlets as well.
	These conspiracy theories are causing real-world harm and need to stop.
	We have been receiving many calls and emails from worried residents in genuine fear that they might be locked in their own homes.
	This is categorically untrue and we're talking you today to explain the truth.
	To reassure residents and set the record straight, we want to be absolutely clear.
	We are not planning a climate lockdown or a lockdown of any kind.
	The traffic filters will be installed as a trial on six roads in Oxford in 2024.
	They will not be physical barriers.
	They're not steel walls or electronic gates.
	They're simply traffic cameras that can read number plates.
	Except for the actual blockades and bollards that we've put up in front of some roads that are causing issues.
	Yeah, and then the citizens physically removed.
	Amusingly. We've got it on camera.
	Yeah, we have it on camera.
	And the fact of the matter is that, as we've mentioned and shown already, some of these ideas have already been put into place.
	Some of these ideas have been put into place.
	And remember when that Oxford councillor said that real-world harm is already being caused by these conspiracy theories?
	She didn't actually say any. She didn't listen- Well, the real-world harm came up immediately afterwards, which is we are getting more calls than we like right now.
	We've got more people complaining, and if the plebs are allowed an opinion, then this whole thing, this whole operation comes tumbling down.
	So stop causing real-world harm, stop asking questions.
	And interestingly, Scrump Monkey, who is somebody I've referred to before on this same subject, has actually recently posted this great tweet, thread, going through some of the actual real-life problems caused by blocking off some roads to emergency services.
	Which is, if you block off roads to emergency services, emergency services have a harder time getting where they're going, which can hurt people and cause real-life harm.
	What a big shock! So we've got some excerpts from a meeting with Southwark Council which is labelled Emergency Service Southwark Experimental Transport Measures from the 16th of July 2020 because these were implemented ages ago.
	So we've got the London Ambulance Services saying planters aren't showing up on satnavs because instead of just physically blocking them off with a fence or something they're putting their stupid planters there so you can have a big ugly wooden box with a bit of green sticking out the top but they're not showing up on satnavs.
	Measures creating delays, responding to calls, width restrictions are a problem.
	Ambulances are more likely to have to use a neighbouring road.
	That's what you want to hear when your grandad's having a heart attack, for instance.
	London Fire Brigade. We have a six to eight minute attendance time.
	We must be mindful of width restrictions.
	Fire Brigade can also come from further afield and these measures can have a big impact.
	Traffic is also being pushed onto the main roads, which holds us up further.
	And the Metropolitan Police saying that...
	Pan-London units will have similar issues with satnavs.
	We've had to add these measures into our risks together.
	It's all about saving life.
	NAL blocks do not help.
	And finally, one more from the ambulance is saying that demountable bollards do not work.
	Practical issues with keys, such as the Fluid Fleet, wider cycle lanes on main roads.
	Using plastic bollards has caused us problems, as it means that traffic has nowhere to go.
	We do not suggest using any bollards at all.
	So people are actually being hurt by this.
	And if you doubt that this is happening, we actually have footage of it.
	Dominique Samuels shared this the other day of an ambulance trying to get past these things and just having trouble because they just get in the way.
	That's what you want to see if your family's having an emergency, is the ambulance getting stopped by those and then driving off because they have to find somewhere else to park.
	Fantastic. And even more so, in Australia, because Australia is always a great place to look at what's coming over to us next, we have the idea of the smart city, which is what this is all part of as well.
	From hyper-converged infrastructure to smart cities, South Australia's city of Unley rebuilds its infrastructure to build better services to the community.
	Now, this is not going as far as it could right now, but the idea is they're putting in pedestrian and traffic movement technology, smart lighting system, smart information touchscreens, and benches from Sage Technologies were deployed to improve community experiences.
	Smart parking has been implemented in King William Road.
	King William Road and Haywood Park are now smart precincts.
	Haywood Park has smart barbecues and bins, digital information kiosks, digital water meters, air quality, and noise level monitors, electric car charging, pedestrian counting.
	Interesting, pedestrian counting.
	And amenity blocks sensors to turn off lights when not needed.
	And in the next clip we've got, from the next tweet, there is examples of what actually happens here.
	And it doesn't sound like a place that I want to visit.
	If we play this clip, John.
	Month or so.
	How about this one? People counting.
	You want to take a deep dive into your dystopian future under the Digital Surveillance Day.
	It's right here. This little board here tells you how many times people have come through the park.
	Essentially, it tells you how many unconnected Wi-Fi devices there are in.
	So that would be everyone's phone.
	This is telling you how many people are in the park at the moment.
	So once again, imagine a lockdown scenario, another emergency, another COVID outbreak or monkey pox or, you know, Whatever you like, you name it, we'll make it up.
	Six devices in this park at the moment, that's down 50% for normal.
	Your local government, your state government, your federal government might want it to be none.
	And this will tell you, these sensors up in this light, the Wi-Fi connections, they're all interlocked.
	There will be facial recognition cameras in there.
	So, you know, don't think you're just going to leave your phone at home.
	The cameras will pick you up in future.
	All seems very innocuous, but the reality here is, what we are seeing is that Very real and very very, in my view, concerning future for how we go.
	These areas are all going to be geo-fenced and there's going to be more data about you out there and what you do per day and I hear people saying I've got no problem with any of this, I don't do anything wrong.
	Well that all depends on whether or not your government has the same viewpoint as you and we've seen this played out in the last 18 months through the COVID period I've got to tell you, I don't like this at all.
	It looks pretty innocuous, but to me, there's a bigger, badder future that comes with it.
	Make sure you're thinking about this, make sure you're talking to your friends about it, and make sure you're telling your politicians that you don't want a social credit-style system like currently rolling out over in China with the CCP. We don't want to go anywhere near this.
	I have a bad feeling.
	This is where we're headed. All fair points.
	Not something that I want, personally.
	My only hope that something like this doesn't really work is that the people in charge of it are just so incompetent that they don't know how to manage all of that information, but I do worry.
	The last thing I just want to end off on, also, do you remember that Australia had that app during COVID that you had to take a photo of your face to show where you were when it just gave you an alert and you only had 15 minutes or they'd send the police to you?
	No, I don't, but thanks for reminding.
	Do you not remember that? Oh, no, that was one of the most dystopian things that I remember about the lockdown period.
	When Australia, I think it was New South Wales, because of course it was, was just like, oh yeah, if you're out and about, we're going to send you an alert randomly, and if you don't send us a picture of your face with your location within 15 minutes, we'll send police to you.
	And you had to download that app.
	Fun! So those same sorts of people are probably going to be keeping track of you at all times, and also keeping track of your Wi-Fi and internet connection and such.
	The last thing I want to end it on is, if you are in Oxford or around the area and want to try and protest against this, there is a protest there tomorrow at Oxford on the 18th of February.
	But if you do go to this, please be careful.
	You never know who's at these, so just try and be peaceful.
	Avoid any illegal behaviour.
	We do not support such things.
	You know, they're trying to say it.
	The leftists are going to try and tell you that you're crazy conspiracy theorists for recognising patterns, but then again, those crazy leftists at the same time, you know, you need...
	I was getting to the point, I don't want a bike lane.
	What are you, a right winger? Yeah.
	It's just the idea of pattern recognition, but you need at least a double-digit IQ to have that, so I understand why many leftists don't see this.
	But anyway, that's everything I've got there.
	Let's move to the truth hurting. Truth hurts.
	You broke and washed up? No, I can't do it.
	Whole old reference. So the truth hurts.
	It's not fun. Most of the time.
	It's very rarely fun, actually.
	Is it fun any other time to be told the truth?
	I mean, yeah, sometimes. I suppose when someone's wrong, then you know they're wrong.
	I mean, if the truth is nice...
	I'm trying to think if it's ever...
	It's very, very rarely something that makes you feel good, I feel.
	Usually the truth is something terrible.
	I... Only if...
	Only if all the true things about you are terrible.
	Callum, do you have any skeletons in your closet?
	What are you implying? No, I mean in the sense of like...
	I've had people say true things to me that have been nice.
	You know what's going on in Rotherham?
	Oh, trust me, it's nothing, bro.
	Oh, well, if you're talking about that, I thought you meant, like, personal truths, because, like, the truth hurts generally is like, oh, you're an awful person, I hate you.
	Truth hurts, bro. I wasn't necessarily talking about that.
	I was talking about being told what's going on in the world, which is never fun.
	I hope no one clips that.
	But we'll start off just by mentioning there's a 9-to-5 job in Sweden, if someone wants that.
	There's a software engineer, web developer, applications end Sunday midnight.
	So apply if you can do it. If you can't, don't.
	Let's get into the section itself.
	We'll start off just with a white middle-class yoga teacher who says that she's the problem.
	They're all the problems. All the ones we've ever had.
	I'm not a yoga fan, so can't really comment.
	I don't really care about yoga either.
	Not important. But the mindset here is something that caught my eye.
	She starts out. I started to feel uncomfortable about my own practice.
	Suddenly having the word Namaste on a t-shirt is culturally insensitive.
	That makes it to me sound like she thought she was just being normal until she noticed everybody else being a dick about it.
	Yeah. We're all upset for that reason.
	I guess we'll join the cult then.
	Yeah, I was going to say, and her idea is, well, I guess I better just fall in lockstep.
	Lockdown, free yoga, hashtag me too, and BLM and identity politics have all taken the gloss away from yoga.
	I really didn't think it did.
	I don't know what the hell's going on in the middle-class white woman yoga world, but this lady's come to tell us.
	Yoga is the most middle-class thing I'm aware of.
	Women as well. Apparently lockdown caused people to learn about Epstein, so they got kicked out of the club.
	Then Me Too showed that a lot of women were having sex with male yoga teachers.
	Wait, lockdown caused people to learn about Epstein?
	Yeah, I can't say exactly what she's written because it would get us a strike, so I'll just simplify that.
	But then came the conversations about race around the BLM movement, as well as accusations of cultural appropriation, all of which highlighted the lack of diversity in Western yoga studios.
	The biggest problem in the world.
	I'm the problem. This is the problem.
	When we get white women out of western yoga studios, then we'll reach utopia.
	I'm a middle-class white woman who has nothing to do.
	Yeah, I can tell.
	I can tell. The funny thing is, this is all so obviously directed for an agenda.
	It's just to get people we don't like out of these positions so we can get ourselves into these positions.
	And these retards are like, yep, I agree wholeheartedly.
	She's got her reasoning. What do you want?
	It's a foreign word.
	Who cares? You speak foreign word.
	Oh no, you're basically destroying that culture.
	Yeah, I can agree that generally speaking, like, English and American people saying namaste is cringeworthy.
	Yeah. But that's all it is.
	Well, you see some Japanese person learning how to say hello or greetings.
	Actually, it's a great Devin Townsend song.
	Yeah, but you don't start demanding that Japan be burned to the ground once again because of their insensitivities at saying, Hi.
	Yeah, no, it's usually pretty fine when people learn English.
	It's just the reverse when it's a problem.
	All of these things led to people examining the world of yoga and saying, I'm not sure this is what I want to be associated with.
	Woman, get a life.
	Get a goddamn life.
	And I was one of them.
	I no longer felt comfortable chanting in Sanskrit.
	Was it even possible for me, looking as I did, to teach yoga?
	Or was I part of the problem?
	I felt like a phony because he's white.
	Great big phony.
	This person's world is what I'm looking at here.
	This person's entire world is I'm white and not a native Sanskrit reader.
	Therefore, the whole world is me.
	I'm the problem for the entire world because my yoga class has too many white people in it.
	Also, but still, look how flexible I am.
	Yeah, goes on to whine about that.
	Someone said that they took a 200-hour training course, and now they don't feel like doing it because it's not part of their cultural heritage.
	You really should have thought about that before you got there for 200 hours, but whatever.
	Alright. Indian name, a teacher from a South Asian background, however, is less preferred by the whole thing.
	Doesn't really care about the race and cultural appropriation.
	What a shock! Quote, the majority of people I teach in my yoga studio are white middle-class middle-class women.
	Is that a problem? No, I don't think so.
	Well, yeah, she's probably just thinking to herself, like, have they paid me?
	That's all I care about.
	The whole reason I read that article is bubble.
	Woman lives in bubble. Of middle-aged, middle-class, white woman.
	What does she do? She does yoga, of course she does.
	She's obsessed with it until she's...
	Maybe childless?
	Am I being racist? By saying namaste?
	I might literally be committing genocide right now.
	Caught up in her own little world of, oh my god, the worst thing's happening ever, I'm the problem.
	And then an Indian lady turns up with a pin and just goes...
	No, shut up. It doesn't matter.
	The truth hurts.
	You've been wasting your time.
	White women problems. And you can see this in a lot of other things in culture.
	Of course, we've gone over endlessly how this applies to the mothers of America.
	A very subset of mothers of America.
	But not the best mothers.
	We'll start with this lady who decides to tell a whole room of people that her 10-year-old has come out as pansexual.
	Let's play that up. I also am a mother of a ten-year-old pansexual who came out to me this year and was incredibly grateful for the books that you had available.
	I would not be coming to this library if you had not approved those books and made them available for my family.
	Good riddance. Goodbye.
	You freak. Your child is not a fashion accessory.
	Stop sexualizing your child.
	No, no, no. My child only comes to this library because of the sexual books you have for children.
	My child deciding to come out as pansexual was a completely organic occurrence that would have happened without any outside in to piss off.
	Meet my vegan dog.
	Is all I'm hearing from that.
	There's even stranger women who have their own little bubbles.
	I guess not just women, of course, I don't want to make it seem like that, but these are just the examples that cross my timeline.
	We'll start with this one, who says that transitioning a 12-year-old is what God intended.
	My 12-year-old daughter recently came to me and said that she was transgender.
	She wanted to be a boy.
	And as a Christian mother, there was only one thing I could do.
	And that was help my son transition so that he could be the young man that God always intended him to be.
	Support your kids. It's what God wants you to do.
	Love you, babies. I hope the internet approval Was worth it.
	God wanted this. Yep.
	I hope those TikTok likes were worth it.
	Yep. Sure they were.
	I just... God wanted this, which is...
	Oh, wow. I'm not even gonna try.
	God wanted this, which is why he didn't make it so.
	Yeah. Yeah. We're going to the next one here, though, because it continues.
	The, of course, intersexual world is a bubble in which it all lives, and it's the best one, and the funniest one, because it encompasses so much of our culture.
	It has now claimed yet another soul, the British defence industry.
	Why not? DSTL. I almost said that I'm working for them, I think, at one point in my life.
	This could have been you. No, this couldn't have been me, because I'm not a woman, unlike this character.
	I mean, how do you know you're not a woman?
	On hashtag International Women's and Girls Science Day, learn more about the incredible work of Natalie Anders.
	Natalie over here is a woman and girl.
	Trust us, bro. Scroll down for me, John.
	Let's go to the next link instead.
	Because, hey, we have Natalie explaining why that's working as a woman and girl.
	I don't know if they get the pick.
	Somebody who has experienced girlhood in all of its...
	Oh... See, I told you, this could have been you.
	It's left its mark. The struggles have gone.
	Haggard beyond her years.
	She's only 16 years old.
	I don't even mean to be too mean, but...
	Come off it.
	Come off it. This could have been you.
	The poster woman is not a woman.
	That's very insensitive.
	That's the level we've got to of living in your own little bubble, of not really realising what's going on.
	Well, you would think that the bloody military wouldn't be a bubble like this.
	No, the military has its own bubble as well.
	And then you had a bunch of turfs coming along with their little pins.
	And their sewing kits. I just go, pop.
	Not a woman. Haggard.
	So, that's all the comments to this story here, in case you're wondering.
	And there are many another.
	I mean, the reason I'm using the trans example for this is because it's the funniest one in the West.
	If you go to a different country, you'll find different bubbles.
	I mean, this one's funny. Woman distributed indecent images over WhatsApp and then claimed it was roleplay.
	Woman. Woman, woman, woman.
	Woman, woman, woman. Woman, woman, woman, woman.
	They all have such distinctive feminine features, like...
	Ah, yes.
	Shendi admitted four counts of distributing indecent images of children, one possession of indecent images, and four of making indecent images.
	She was handed a two-year prison sentence.
	Suspended for two years.
	Meaning that they're not going to prison ever for having child porn and making child porn and sharing child porn.
	Are we surprised? I wonder what that is.
	Yeah, I wonder. Well, we can read the notes from the judge.
	He says, However...
	No, you're gonna stop them, lad.
	I note that you have a history of depressive illness, a mixed personality disorder and gender dysphoria.
	You are also abused by alcohol, which seems to have stemmed from an unhappy childhood and emotional trauma as you seek to transition from male to female.
	Acquitted. Acquitted, Your Honor.
	Well, no prison time. That was the reasoning.
	So they get a suspended sentence meaning that if they get in trouble before those next two years they'll go to prison but they won't because you don't do that for two years in which case no prison.
	Please remember that none of Epstein's clients got arrested.
	No, and then this person also is not going to go to prison by the sounds of it.
	There's also another woman who's been arrested for bomb threats in Oxford.
	Should we have a look? Should we have a look at the bubble?
	It's worse than I thought!
	Oh my god!
	Woman arrested for bomb threats in Oxford.
	Mississippi News.
	My, what a feminine beard you have, Grandma.
	Yes. Listen here, Casey, I've signed the papers.
	I'm a woman now, Casey.
	Oh god. Country music plays.
	This is Mississippi, Casey.
	We respect our pronouns.
	Yep, local woman.
	In case you're wondering, this whole bubble even continues in Human Rights Campaign, the organization Human Rights Campaign.
	They're still whining about JK Rowling, whining about this.
	JK Rowling here being like, yes, the penis individual who raped you as a woman.
	Same thing. Because this is the fundamental point of, can you accept that someone might be something else?
	Can you burst the bubble without being a big old meanie?
	I mean, she was the lead game designer on noted genocide simulator Hogwarts Legacy, so...
	I don't think she even had any involvement in the game.
	Collecting royalties was her involvement.
	But the more question here of the bubble popping, which is the...
	Well...
	Is bubble popping right?
	Is it okay that the truth hurts, Harry?
	Yes. Yeah, I think so too.
	It's far more cruel to let somebody live in a delusion than to pull them out of it.
	And I think we've gone over this question with the penis individual who raped you as a man.
	Many a time. And we came to the obvious conclusion of don't care about rapist feelings, and all of humanity seemed to just about get on board with that.
	Of course, the trans rights lunatics will never get on board with anything.
	We do also have to take into consideration general social well-being.
	Is the fabric of my society coming apart at the scenes?
	What can we do to prevent that?
	Which one's the worst of two harms here?
	Everyone did go on board with, okay, if it's a rapist, I'm willing to not play along with the game anymore.
	We'll say the actual sex that they are.
	Even Nicholas Sturgeon was pushed to the limit on that one.
	The thing is with the truth, Hurt, is it applies to a lot more.
	And this is where Matt Walsh recently got in big, big trouble.
	And there's a big divide about this.
	And I thought we'd just have a discussion, let's say, about this.
	Matt Walsh put out this video in which he talks about Dylan Maleface over there.
	Sorry, woman face. I don't want to misgender the play.
	For people who don't know, this is the individual who went to the White House, you may remember, who is totally a woman, which is why he goes around pretending to be a woman so hard.
	It looks like an act.
	It does look like satire.
	All of his understanding of feminine behaviour is wandering about in high heels going, tee-hee, and cute things.
	Tee-hee-hee, aren't I a woman?
	Aren't I so girly? And it's really weird.
	Me and all of my girlfriends, all of them have beards.
	Every day I wear a big fluffy dress.
	Women don't do that. You ever noticed?
	You ever noticed how women don't wear ballroom gowns every single day?
	Yeah, so this is a problem. Yeah, strange.
	Strange, strange, strange. And Matt Walsh did a big, basically, monologue.
	He won't play the full thing, because it'll take too goddamn long.
	In which he, very, well, brutally, but not incorrectly, was just like, You're not a woman?
	You have no eggs? You have no womb?
	I have seen this clip.
	He lays it out quite coldly.
	Yes, he does. I'm gonna play an artist rendition of that from Rome for the War.
	Because basically it's the same thing, the too-long-didn't-read version.
	Let's play that. You will never be a real woman.
	You have no womb, you have no ovaries, you have no eggs.
	All the validation you get is two-faced and half-hearted.
	Behind your back, people mock you.
	Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency.
	They'll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name.
	And every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a man is buried there.
	Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably male.
	This is your fate.
	This is what you chose.
	There is no turning back.
	Pretty harsh words from Matt Walsh there.
	Yeah, it is ridiculous, the things Matt Walsh says.
	The reason I've used that is because, again, equally brutal.
	A lot of the brutality of that one I have to clip out for YouTube's sake, just as a side note.
	But the point being that, well...
	It's really hurtful, but it's true.
	Sadly, I don't think tone policing is the answer when somebody like Matt Walsh comes out with something like this.
	I don't think that there is anything inherently wrong with just being bluntly honest to people.
	No, I mean, there is something to say when someone's making the argument and you're just like, why do you have to be such an asshole about it, though?
	I mean, that's true.
	I can see the argument from that side.
	Well, yeah, yeah. It's really kind of annoying.
	I can understand where some people are coming from to say that this is going to make people on the right look like the caricatures that the left paint them as, but at the same time...
	Okay, so are we supposed to just do what the right has always done and just capitulate to everything the leftists want?
	I will give up the truth. I will engage in an open lie that I know is a lie and go along with it because I don't want to be seen as mean.
	The argument from the opposite is, yeah, we can go up against that lie and call it a lie in a nicer way.
	It's like, yeah, but what does that really mean?
	And what's the point at that point?
	I mean, I understand optics, but I don't think what Matt Walsh has done there is particularly bad optics.
	No, he didn't do the full 4chan post.
	You could have made an argument for, yeah, don't do that.
	He just incredibly, well, quietly just sort of sat there and went...
	Come on. Come on.
	It is such an end-of-the-road situation, this whole movement.
	I mean, we spoke about it the other day, where not even in Hogwarts Legacy, for example, someone changed the voice of the trans character so it sounded like a woman, and the mouth was banned for being transphobic because women don't represent trans women.
	See... I... I thought that the mod, because when I first heard that, because you showed me all those Nexus mods, and they were all just woke.
	Every single one of them was woke.
	I thought that they had done it because I thought that they had taken offense to the voice being so bad at passing, so it shifted it up so it could be like, no, trans women are real women, see?
	I thought it was that. No, they banned the dude because he was like, well, here's an AI-generated voice of an actual woman to do the line.
	So it sounds like a woman, and therefore it's better for the...
	No. If you say trans women should be women, that's transphobic.
	Because trans women are only unique out of that sector.
	And that's not even...
	Such into its own arse.
	That's not even addressing the idea of just a trans woman being in a magical wizard college in the 19th century.
	I mean, I don't want to be a nerd here, but they can literally transform themselves into different things and different people if you really want it to be a woman.
	I'm sure there is a spell for that.
	Yeah, but my point being, you can make arguments about the meanness, I'm willing to listen.
	I'll read the comments, but I just, I'm not convinced.
	And Matt Walsh did make a response to all this, bubble popping, he's been up to.
	This is him saying, there are several people on the right who have been extremely effective in combating gender ideology.
	Lives at TikTok and real Chris Rufo, very high on that list, of course.
	And none of the most effective voices ever soft-pedal the issue or prioritise niceness above truth.
	The one thing you'll notice about tone policing is that they never actually achieve anything.
	And Chris Rufo there just being like, yeah, basically.
	Being nice isn't really a thing in terms of what's true or not.
	If being nice means telling a lie, then that's not being nice.
	And I... I'm not unconvinced by Matt Walsh in listening to this argument and saying that.
	And then, if we go forward as well, I think there's another thing from Matt Walsh here, in which he just lists about the effect.
	Someone's like, well, you know, being mean isn't a very good tactic, though.
	And he's like, well, here's all my success, and then lists a whole bunch of things in which he has been able to do.
	And Vice News, I agree with him by the seams of it.
	Here we have a Vice News article.
	Anti-trans bills are sweeping across the US with alarming speed.
	And they write about 350, quote, anti-trans bills.
	None of them are anti-trans. All of them are women exist and men exist and are different from each other and therefore have different rules.
	And if that biological reality upsets you, whatever.
	It doesn't make any goddamn difference to your obsession with it being 15-minute phobic.
	Like, grow up. They write in here, by many metrics, 2022 was the worst of years yet, as lawmakers and conservative pundits doubled down on anti-trans rhetoric and policymaking, effectively mainstreaming hate targeting trans people and their families.
	They can't point to any of that hate.
	All they can point to is, no, you can't be on the girls' team because you're six foot.
	That's the bill. There's no hate in that.
	In fact, there is quite a lot of love of women's sport existing and therefore being able to exist.
	Don't know why I have to say that.
	But instead, no, that's the hate.
	Because remember what these people actually define as hate, which is, Grandpa, the radio isn't talking to you.
	That's hate against Grandpa, who believes the radio is talking to him.
	Hey man, grandpa can live whatever life he wants.
	He's just living his best life.
	He's just an anti-grandpa bigot.
	He just wants to grill and listen to the radio, tell him about...
	Well, I don't know what the radio tells him about.
	But that's the thing. I'm looking forward to the conversation about this, because I know there's been some.
	But I looked at the situation and the bubble popping.
	I don't know. I'm not unconvinced that Matt Walsh isn't in the wrong.
	And the big thing that comes to mind is I remember in my personal life, Posey Parker, when she would just say, it's mutilating children.
	It's child mutilation. What are you doing?
	That sounded very rough to me.
	It sounded a bit like it was mean.
	But then the more and more I listened to her and the more and more I saw her using it, I was like, you know what?
	She's telling the truth.
	These people are mutilating kids.
	There's no actual comeback to that other than that's mean.
	But then you're mutilating kids...
	So, I think mean woman kind of looks pretty good compared to you.
	I think you're the meaner individual in that conversation.
	So, I'm not unconvinced that Matt Walsh is correct.
	And prove me wrong in the comments, I guess.
	I'll see you later in the video comments.
	Peter Hitchens and people like him put me in the mind of that Judge Smales character from the Caddyshack movie, where they're generally legally in the right, are usually the aggrieved party, and generally make some pretty good social observations, but their sheer attitude just turns everyone against them.
	Then they get into fights with people like Dankula, or Dangerfield in this case, where you basically have a guy that's rude, crass, and frivolous, but is also generous, friendly, and approachable, which winds up just bringing all the other people on their side.
	Well, the more dividing line is that Peter Hitchens wasn't looking for the truth.
	Well, he was openly lying.
	He was like, yeah, this neo-Nazi made his pug do this, and then people were like, well, no, he didn't.
	Look at the source material.
	I mean, that was really disappointing that then, when he actually admitted to watching the video, finally, he then doubled down and went, well, you may not be a neo-Nazi, but you certainly were signaling to them, and you're an idiot for doing it.
	But there was even more to that, because it was first people saying, look at the source material, and his response to being asked, look at the source material, We're good to go.
	You're Peter Hitchard. You know this is just propaganda.
	You have written numerous books on why you shouldn't trust these sources.
	And you're like, well, I trust the BBC to tell me that you're a moron.
	And then, source material, he goes and watches it, and then is still acting like a child.
	And it's just...
	Man, you were not looking for the truth.
	Dankula has never been an individual who just makes up stuff about people, especially stuff he hasn't watched and doesn't know.
	So, he's actually trustworthy, whereas Peter, I have lost all respect after that interaction.
	Because it was just like, man, even though he apologised, I'm not even interested.
	Well, yeah. It is disappointing, and the apology can only get you so far.
	It was more, I don't expect him to learn.
	Because what he was basically doing there, he was signalling that when it comes down to certain subjects, he will take the enemy's line.
	He will take the leftist line, if it's more convenient.
	If it means that he can be smug and superior.
	He won't try. Because he's very clearly capable of critical thought, he's a very smart guy, but then he won't try if he doesn't feel like it.
	The man wrote the book The Phony Victory, which I've not read yet, I'm planning on it, but which basically makes the argument that Churchill was wrong to start the war World War II when he did.
	He basically says, oh, we probably would have ended up having to fight the Nazis anyway, but we chose to do so in an inopportune moment that really, really hurt the British and really hurt the British Empire and all this sort of stuff.
	And he can write that book and then all of a sudden he watches Dank's video and is like, here's about Dank's video.
	Yeah, that's all I need.
	I mean, honestly, it's absurd.
	It pains me.
	If you're sincere in trying to find out what really happens, then I don't think you'll end up like Peter Hitchens in that regard.
	So, eh. It didn't even faze me until I saw reporting on this by others.
	In Oakland, there's currently a bunch of hookers roaming the streets, and this isn't new, but to some it's shocking.
	However, it got noticed when they moved up a few streets to be walking in front of a Catholic school for young kids.
	I realize it was actually worse than it once was.
	Apparently, the girls walking around are younger.
	Too young. Like young enough to excite Prince Andrew and Bill Gates.
	And no, the cops legally can't arrest them.
	You get what you vote for.
	That's just really sad to hear, man.
	Sorry to hear that that's going on there.
	There's the written comments. Yep.
	Austin Calabat says, That's a good episode, actually.
	I remember that episode. He goes crazy because he's just surrounded by all of the other Squidwards.
	Are they all insufferable? They're all insufferable like he is and he just decides he doesn't want it and then he sees Spongebob and Patrick behind them and he runs to them like, help me out of here!
	Yeah, I'd get away with it. So...
	Okay, go on.
	We did a segment ages ago about the Pakistanis of Mirpur.
	So, half of all Pakistanis in the UK are from Mirpur.
	It's a city in Pakistan. Oh, alright, okay.
	That was really funny.
	I remember you telling me that there was a, well, in one of the segments, you were talking about, like, Little England communities.
	Is it that one? That's what's really funny, is they went back to Pakistan, loads of them, and went, no.
	No. I remember they were so proud that they just had front gardens that had been trimmed and bins in the streets.
	They did indeed have bins. My goodness.
	They had Coco Pops as well.
	Coco? What was really funny is just that you're like, oh, when you're in England, you're like, oh, I wish this was Pakistan.
	You go back to Pakistan. No, not living like this.
	Quickly turned into England.
	I mean, to be fair, I respect the fact that they were able to recognise and then transport those standards over there.
	You don't see a lot of people doing that when they go back to their home country.
	You've got to be honest about it.
	That's the thing that annoys me, is the section of the Pakistani community in England who will complain about England.
	It's like, well, look, lads, like...
	We've seen what you've built in Meerpore.
	This isn't something you've hidden from the telescopes.
	But, whatever. Anyway.
	So, on Hillary Clinton, Radcheck was right, says Legacy News Media is trying not to alienate its generic audience with chatbot.
	It's a geriatric audience.
	Kevin Fox says, Odd that Don didn't say anything about Hillary's prime.
	What? I don't get that either.
	You'll have to explain it to us.
	Sorry. Oh, right.
	Donald Trump didn't say anything about Hillary's prime.
	Oh, okay. Well, I mean, that was kind of obvious, anyway.
	She was on the dementia train with all the rest of them.
	Bay Snape says, that Don Lemon clip of him sticking his whole foot in his mouth is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
	Women are in their prime in their 20s.
	Are we going to start breeding female presidents like the Queen?
	Jesus. That's just...
	I mean, if you wanted to have a debate about MTN cons, I mean, that wasn't the place to do it.
	No, not when you're surrounded by two progressive, presumably middle-aged women, yeah.
	Korea women. I mean, thanks for the comedy, though, Don.
	Brandon Tom says, I wonder what ChatGPT has to say about the minimum age for certain things.
	Well, when you're reading your comments, I'll give that a buzz.
	See what it does. Oh, okay.
	Alex P says, in a few months, fully lobotomising ChatGPT will be complete, and the only response it will give is, as a large language model, it would be inappropriate for me to write anything without being shot.
	Charles Ellington says, I've not watched the show, so I'm only going by the memes, but judging by that clip from the other show that the same guy is in charge of, I wouldn't be shocked if I watched it and found a lot of subliminal progressive messaging in there.
	Did you play Red Dead 2?
	I've played up to chapter 3 of Red Dead 2, it's a great game, but I know that it's very strange that everyone is just perfect, that nobody's racist in it, or at least none of the good guys are racist in it, which is always something funny about modern media.
	Yeah, not only is the gang multiracial and half-run by women, which is...
	okay. Although they are portrayed as appropriately annoying.
	The women in the gang kind of are.
	Well, they are literally hucksters.
	But whatever, that's fine.
	But the thing that really gets me is that you're allowed to make evil moral decisions at every possible level, including murdering kids, murdering women, making women destitute.
	I mean, you can just go into town and start blasting.
	Yeah, but even in the story, you can do really horrible, indecent things to everyone that's white.
	But when it comes to a question of could you upset a suffragette, you're not allowed to, the story is driven so you agree with her, and then...
	I thought there's that... I mean, I had the encounter in, what is it, St.
	Louis, I forget which...
	St. Denis. St. Denis. Where there's the female, where there's the woman going around doing female rights and I just told her to go away.
	No, you can tell her that you agree with her or you don't care.
	You can't tell her to shut up.
	The evil option isn't an evil option, it's just I don't care.
	You can tell her to shut up, just not with words.
	No, you can do it with rope and a railway.
	That's one YouTuber found out.
	And the same for everything else.
	You meet this guy, he used to be a slave...
	What do you call him?
	Foreman? I don't know what the word is.
	That sounds really bad. I bet Arthur's furious with him.
	Like he's dealing with construction... I don't know.
	Anyway, so he's there with his whip or whatever back in the day.
	Now he's an old man and he's bickering about he used to have pride in his work and he used to be something.
	Now he's nothing. An old drunk.
	And you can go to his house and find his stuff.
	And Arthur just burns his gun watching his papers in front of him to make fun of him.
	This seems like perfectly reasonable actions that a man of the era would make.
	No. I like that if that's an option, but it wasn't an option.
	It was just the story. You suddenly couldn't be the quote-unquote evil guy who would be like, look, here's your stuff.
	You shouldn't remember that, or something like that.
	Or you couldn't, for some reason, Arthur couldn't side with the Confederacy in his head.
	I know it's because it's Rockstar these days, but it would have been more fun if the evil options politically were also able to be done, and instead, no, just murdering kids is allowed.
	Well, if you do that, then you run the risk of Rockstar themselves being classified as some kind of evil organization, and to be fair, they've already taken stuff like the trans satire out of GTA V in the more recent remasters of it, so not shocked.
	I'll go through some of my comments so that you have enough time to just check.
	It's just someone says, Ukraine has the passion to fight for their freedom.
	I was like, well, yeah, so did the Taliban and the Vietkongs.
	But that's the thing, it's just this endless, like, everyone is an American revolutionary.
	It's like, no, there really is a big old world out there, folks.
	Yeah, not everything is America.
	Anyway, so, base tape on the 15-minute city says, I'm tired of all these conspiracy theories about stupid cities in Oxford.
	We're not locking you into your neighbourhood.
	We're only putting up CCTV cameras that read number plates to punish you if you try to leave.
	Thank you for clearing that up, base.
	Omar Awad says...
	Perhaps, once again, my only hope for all of this sort of stuff is either they realise that this is a stupid idea and will destroy people's freedoms and decide to go back on it.
	Not gonna happen. Or much more likely that they're just so incompetent that the whole idea collapses in on itself.
	Kevin Fox, 15-minute cities only work of design and built from scratch to be 15-minute cities.
	You can't just make an existing city a 15-minute city.
	Yes, you can. Yes, you can if you divide it into blocks on my nice spreadsheet.
	No, no, no, no. You build tunnel.
	Oh, yeah. And then in tunnel, you put train.
	And train goes from tunnel to tunnel.
	So then you can go anywhere in the city real quick.
	And then everything is within 15 minutes of a walk of that spot.
	I think we should call them, I don't know, stops.
	Train stops? Metro stops?
	Mongo not follow.
	I was actually looking at the world's smallest metro in the world.
	Do you want to guess how many stops it has?
	One. Yeah. I mean, that's the obvious.
	It's in Omsk, in Russia.
	Wait, is it just two stops?
	No, no, no. One stop.
	Oh, I've... So it's just there for show.
	They started building it.
	They built tokens, cups, maps, everything.
	Made it really cool as well because it's Russia so all their metros have to be huge.
	Oh yeah, it's got to look glorious.
	There's marble and whatnot.
	They just never built another stop.
	So it's just basically a big museum.
	Look at glorious Russian technology!
	Fuzzy Toaster says, these 15 minute cities I keep hearing justifications that can basically boil down to we want to run your life like it's a city simp.
	Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me.
	Freewheel2112 says, thousands of pods being built in London.
	I saw them from the train the other day, a skyline of high-rise apartment blocks, one after the other, all the way between Waterloo East and London Bridge.
	Yes, welcome to Megacity 1.
	And LeFranche says, it's interesting that everybody worries about 15-minute cities when what they should do is get out of the cities, live in the woods, and get some chickens.
	It's sadly, in this economy, not that possible for many.
	Let's carry on. I'm just trying to read one I can read.
	Lord Nerovars says, Serious point.
	How can we convince people whose entire lives are based on lies?
	Sorry, lives of the truth?
	I assume that means, how can we convince people whose entire lives are based on lies of the truth?
	How can we convince them of the truth when their entire lives are based on lies?
	Well, bubble popping, really.
	I'll be like that lady there who's just like, am I racist and having this existential crisis?
	And then just any lady turns up and goes, shut it.
	Sadly, I think a lot of people, even if you do burst the bubble, aren't going to want to get out of the bubble.
	They like living within it because it just gives them a bit of meaning.
	The only way for some people will be to change the culture and laws around them because a lot of people are just natural conformists.
	So if you do that, they'll just go along with it.
	If they see somebody on the 6 o'clock news telling them it, they will go with it.
	Yeah, that's true. Colin P says, abused by alcohol, so the alcohol has agency.
	Certainly does. Arizona Desert Rat says, now that 10 years is likely to become a target since her mother publicly announced it.
	The 10 year old. Yeah.
	I'm sorry, the idea of pansexuality is absurd in the first place.
	Trying to apply it to prepubescent children is disgusting.
	I don't have anything nice to say.
	So, we're out of time.
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	You did it, boys.
	See? I know where the future is. He's well-trained now.
	Just don't know where the now is. And watch more of this.

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