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	Hello, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eders for the 22nd of February 2023.
	It's been driven by Harry, who is giggling for some reason.
	Who knows? Anyway, today we're going to be talking about AI voices being art.
	E2, Project Veritas, and South Park, and the phonies.
	Which, just a bunch of big phonies.
	We'll start actually mentioning something on the website, being that there's a Gaultier Zoom call this Friday.
	So, there you are, for Gaultier members.
	If you're not one, then... You can become one to join that.
	And if you are, you already are.
	So you can come and join that. There you are.
	Good. Alright, check it out.
	I think people are used to the schedule at this point.
	You can come and chat to Carl and Callum.
	There you go. That's the draw.
	We shall begin. So AI voices are...
	Art. They are the highest of art, in my opinion.
	I mean, maybe not the examples I'm about to show, but...
	I mean, you can create many types of art with AI voices.
	I do feel bad if it does end up putting voice actors out of business, though.
	I will just say that. I don't think it will.
	And we'll go through the deets, because I thought something terrible would have happened a lot sooner with AI voices, and now that I've seen the fallout from it, I'm a bit like...
	Wait, something terrible has happened with them?
	No. I was gonna say. Instead, the terrible things that are happening to the voice actors of the world are not coming from the AI voices.
	It's coming from the companies they work for.
	Oh, that's no shock. I'll start just by mentioning if you like Cyberpunk dystopias, which is why everyone's predicting, you can go and check one out there with Am.
	From I Have No Mouth and I'm a Scream.
	We did a whole, technically a book club on that.
	It was very wholesome, so go and check that out.
	And then we shall begin with President Gaming, which is now my new favorite form of YouTube channel.
	We're going to play this one. This is the President's play Modern Warfare 2.
	Now this is a good game.
	I remember popping this in the PS3, putting on some early Drake, and just blasting fools.
	Barack, this game was the best part of your presidency.
	I'm actually 10th prestige on my old gamertag, XX, I spread democracy, XX. George, be sure to not break the spawn trap by rushing in.
	I guess old habits die hard, huh?
	Guys, I got the AC-130 already!
	Of course you did. Yeah, yeah, of course.
	Either that or the predator drone.
	But no, that all works.
	It's good fun. Yeah, it is good fun.
	Having a good romp about how Biden has dementia and all the other presidents can probably- He doesn't know the difference between Call of Duty and Halo.
	What a scrub, am I right?
	Yeah, and the other ones are all at least cognizant.
	The funny thing in all of these as well is I noticed Donald Trump is just a huge troll.
	That's the best thing about it.
	I mean, it makes sense.
	I feel like Donald Trump would be that guy on the Modern Warfare 2 server.
	Yeah, and Barack Obama and George Bush just get along.
	Because there's no real goddamn difference.
	And we'll go to some more of these.
	I mean, there's Trump playing Minecraft with the presidents, in which he finds a spider's nest, and all the other presidents are like, we'll be with you shortly.
	And he's like, you guys suck. Why won't you help me?
	All of you guys are losers.
	Anyway, I think Joe Biden is too busy playing Terraria or something.
	We'll go to the next one, in which we have Trump-Biden gaming, which is way more fun.
	I think he swears in this one, we'd play.
	But essentially, it's Biden being crap at games, and Trump telling him it's a skill issue.
	And to be fair, if you look at the footage, Trump is doing an amazing job right there.
	Look at him. The best geometry player of all time.
	That's a pretty high skill level.
	He beat 50 demons last week, he says.
	Are we surprised? He's the most tremendous geometry player.
	His skills are fantastic.
	The best in the world. There's also more Trump-Biden gaming.
	I think this...
	Well, no, this isn't gaming. This is child stealing.
	I forgot about that one. Oh, yeah, I remember that one.
	You've shown me this. For those wondering, yes, Callum has been sharing all of these with me in his spare time, and it's quite fun.
	They're nice. This is one where they find out that they're out of money.
	So they ask, where is the $2 trillion that we hid when we did 9-11?
	And they spent it all in Afghanistan.
	And then there's no money in the Epstein ring because Bill took all the kids.
	He took all the kids and set up his own thing.
	Yeah, Biden was very upset about not being able to sniff them.
	And of course, you get these, which are just great, and they all work.
	Big public figures. No one's ever going to believe that.
	None of those things are ever going to cause anyone a problem, ever.
	However... Well, no, however.
	It just continues getting better.
	Oh, alright, okay. This is all I've seen.
	You have the Joe Rogan podcast, which are all fake now.
	And the fake ones are the best ones.
	I mean, this is him arguing with Ben Shapiro about, do you want to get ratatoued?
	Is this going to be to the level of Jordan Peterson versus Peter Jordanson?
	No, not quite. It's more just Ben being irritating.
	He's like, well, what do you mean ratatoued?
	What does that mean? Define it specifically, Joe.
	He's like, just get ratatoued. Say hypothetically, underneath your little hat there, Ben, you had a little mouse controlling all of your actions.
	Yeah, and he can't imagine that.
	We're going to the other Joe Rogan podcast, which I want to play the full one because it's my favorite one that someone made, which is Joe Rogan enjoys the holidays.
	Let's play. I'd like to welcome back to the pod...
	We got...
	Jordan Peterson.
	I haven't had lunch yet. You have him?
	Pull him up. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the pod.
	What's up, guys? I just went to the store all by myself, without even my wife.
	You don't have to shout. Ben, you scrungly son of a bitch, you owe me 25 bucks.
	Come get it, bitch. Guys, for f**k's sake, it's Christmas Eve.
	All I wanted was to have a classy podcast with my two best friends in the whole world and to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
	So, can we do that, please?
	Hey, I'm sorry, man. I had no idea the holidays meant that much to you.
	Can you guys still hear me? Oh, they do, Mr.
	Peterson. The first drop of frost that strikes a young man's cheek.
	Deep hails of ice-cold air as winter blankets the earth.
	Hot exhales on foggy windows, peering over cups of hot cocoa.
	One wonders how a man could not be a fan of such a season.
	It's cold, for one. Am I on mute?
	We lost Ben. Jesus f***ing Christ.
	Jamie, can you get him back?
	Dude, I don't think you're allowed to call them that anymore.
	Screw him, man. We don't need him on our stinking pod.
	Jordan, you sourpuss.
	Why are you always such a piece of s***?
	You want to know, man? I'll tell you.
	Every year, I act as good as I possibly can online and in real life.
	Yet every year, nobody gets me anything for Christmas.
	Oh, if just one person would give me a present.
	Oh, how it would heal my cold, cruel heart.
	What's going on? Did I miss anything?
	Oh man, that edible's kicking in, alright.
	That's cool. I love it.
	I mean, Daily Wire Sphere is really falling apart.
	But the whole thing there for me is people endlessly talk about, oh, the AI art.
	It's going to draw things and then the artists will be out of business.
	Nah, I don't think that's having a real effect in any meaningful way that the AI voice world is.
	This is real, tangible entertainment right here.
	Now listen, I can understand those arguments because as the AI technology improves, it is possible that it could get to such a level that instead of having to hire and commission an artist to draw a particular landscape or whatever image that you want for you, you can have an AI do it within minutes in any style that you're after.
	So I can understand the fears that come there because I personally don't want...
	One of these days. Well...
	It could happen. That's the whole point.
	I know, and that is interesting.
	I'm not discounting that it's possible.
	What I'm saying is that the AI voices are here right now.
	There's no one day about it.
	We're already here at peak comedy, from my view, which is that we'll just write whatever you want now.
	They could still improve the technology, because it's still definitely an uncanny valley listening to them, just in the way that they intone things.
	I know, but I don't think it's ever going to get truly perfect.
	So even that fear, I just don't count.
	But I am more excited about the fact that whatever you want to see now, you can just make.
	Like, if you want to see a podcast between two people, you can just make it.
	You don't have to wait for it. You just make anything you want in the world, and that's a future I want to live in.
	And there's more of this.
	There's just one other from the Joey Rogan scene that I've seen made.
	This one is Jordan Peterson has to catch a train, which I just liked.
	So let's play that. I gotta go pretty soon, by the way.
	I gotta catch a train in seven minutes.
	It leaves in seven minutes?
	Did you watch the Super Bowl?
	That shit fucking stinks, man.
	Man, don't you gotta go?
	laughter I don't know, I just like it.
	I was able to make some of my own with Mr.
	House's voice as well.
	Yeah, I've seen the ones that you've made yourself.
	Yeah, Mr. House libertarians.
	But we'll enjoy some other stuff, some outside of the, let's say, political sphere.
	But not really, we can't really escape politics ever.
	Because we're going to talk about reparations from Arby's.
	Oh, okay, alright. Not from KFC? I have some ideas, but we'll play this clip first.
	Here at Arby's, we believe Black Lives Matter.
	So for this Black History Month, we pledge to not pay any of our white employees and allow African-American customers to just start whipping them whenever they want, like that one scene from Django Unchained.
	Arby's. We have the reparations.
	Now, see, the thing is...
	That's not entirely outside the realm of possibility at this point.
	Exactly right, but remember when Black Lives Matter happened and all the riots and all the companies started making stupid stuff?
	Yeah, sadly, I do remember when Black Lives Matter happened.
	We don't currently live in that moment right now, but next election...
	Not right now, no. They'll be the same thing, because there always is.
	Well, yeah, I mean, Democrats got a score vote somehow, right?
	And in which case, we are now perfectly prepared to sow complete chaos around these companies' reputations...
	Oh, okay. I see why you're so enthusiastic about this new technology.
	Disney. There are entirely new horizons for trolling.
	All of these companies, next election season, because this is like clockwork, we can predict it, will want to produce some woke BS when Black Lives Matter comes around once again asking for money.
	And we are perfectly placed to make very, very convincing...
	PR for them. To help them in their quest to be seen as a truly diverse and progressive company.
	We can strip back the layers of rhetoric and metaphor and just give them the true message of what they're really saying.
	They certainly can. You get to whip your white employees.
	I'm doubly excited about that. There's just one more.
	We'll end on this for the fake memes, which I enjoyed.
	Let's play this one.
	This is fake politics. Well, if I am Jack, then you are Wojak.
	The most is Soy Wojak, possibly in the world.
	Listen, you are the Soy Wojak.
	I am the Chad Wojak.
	No, no. You are the Soy Jojak.
	And I am the Chad Gamer Wojak.
	You know who you are? You are the 80-year-old unfit ruler.
	That's who you are. You know you're not the Chad Wojak.
	I am the Nordic gamer, Chad, the GigaChad, Wojak.
	You're the virgin, and I'm the Chad.
	I'm actually not a virgin.
	Your mom can attest to that.
	Well, look, all I'm saying is that we are in two separate leagues.
	You are the globalism fan, and I am the patriotism enjoyer.
	I'm a patriotic globalist.
	I support slavery worldwide.
	A better analogy would be that I'm the rare Pepe and you're the small crying people?
	You're Apustaya. You're a small crying Apustaya.
	I am the based and red-pilled Groypa.
	That is not true. It is true.
	No, no, you're not based. You are actually cringe.
	No, I am based. Based and red-pilled.
	Oh, I just know that when it gets to the point where Zoomer politics is a real thing and they're old enough to run for office, these are the levels of political debate we can come to expect.
	I'm all in. I'm all in at this point.
	Why not? I don't know.
	I feel more that people should just start influencing Donald Trump to start calling him the Joe Jack over there.
	Because, I mean, he is the Joe Jack.
	The cringe-crying Joe Jack.
	You're a small-crying Apple style, which...
	I don't know, just wouldn't be a good debate.
	But that's not the big thing, because I expected the voice actors to be crushed by this.
	No, they're not. They're not being crushed by Eleven Labs' tyranny of make memes if you want.
	Yeah, that's like this hasn't destroyed anyone yet.
	Instead, it's the companies they work for that are destroying them.
	So you can see here from Vice. It's just talking about the fact that they're being screwed.
	Artificial intelligence-generated voices are already being used to harass ordinary people, they say, with online trolls creating the voices and then having them read out the victims' home addresses and posting the results online.
	According to Motherboard, four victims I spoke to.
	All the victims are part of the particular campaign of voice actors, and they have all been targeted in this way.
	They list off, essentially, some fake voice Says, you know, I am such and such, I live here, blah blah blah.
	But that doesn't obviously change anything.
	Like these voice actors, if I said it in my own voice, or a robot voice, it would still be harassment.
	Nothing's changed on that front.
	There is actually quite a funny one.
	Well, not funny, but there's a horrible one to read, which is, Hello, this is Abby, blank, speaking.
	I live in homophobic slur city that is Los Angeles.
	Yes, I do mean that I live in California, the most racist slur state...
	Personally speaking, killing...
	I should probably try and laugh a bit less evilly.
	But it's so ridiculous. It's like voice actors are being destroyed by this.
	And the example they give is someone harassing voice actors with their own voice.
	But that doesn't...
	It's not an advancement.
	There's not a technological advancement in the slightest.
	Because you get to do that already with a robot voice.
	So that's just boring.
	But when it comes to actually being oppressed...
	Well, they're being oppressed by their own companies.
	So if you go to the next link here, we can see that Gizmodo actually managed to list that their voices are being stolen by AI in the headline, but it has nothing to do with Eleven Labs.
	Instead, it's entirely to do with the companies they work for putting in their contract now that your voice can be used for AI voice generation.
	Oh, yeah. Oh, wait, wait.
	So they're going to get all the recordings they need, all of the inflections, and then they're going to screw you over.
	Yeah, so if you're a voice actor, companies have started putting in the contracts that you sign in small print.
	Once they've got the audio samples they pay you for, those audio samples are now theirs, which is normal.
	They can do what they want with that. But also, we can now use those audio samples to train AI, and also any generations of that AI from your voice samples belong to us.
	So we can literally just recreate your voice for all time.
	So you're a voice actor working for a video game?
	You get all of the lines recorded.
	You get your job done. Great job.
	Next job. Job's done. No, there is no next job.
	Go home. No, there is no...
	Oh, I hear you guys are making some DLC packs.
	Are you going to need me for that? No. No, we've already got your voice.
	There is only one way that this might not work, which is that the more modern games development seems to be incorporating a lot of motion capture acting along with the voice acting, like with the more recent God of War games.
	Just deepfake it. Well, if you're going to be motion capturing whilst also recording the performances and using that for the games, that won't be as easy to do with purely AI generated.
	Not until you get to the point where you can animate as well as you can with motion capture without motion capture.
	Maybe. I mean, I look forward to ways of trying to stop this, because, I mean, yeah, this is gross.
	If nothing else, you're just getting screwed out of your work.
	Companies like this will take every opportunity they can to screw you over.
	Yeah. You get the next one here, there are a bunch of mad voice actors about this, and probably rightfully mad, there's some Filipino lady who's just like, yeah, no, I'm not signing any contract that allows them to use my voice to train AI and then, you know, take me out of the game.
	I think that's fair. Which is true.
	There's a lot more mad voice actors.
	You get the next one here, there's this weird campaign I saw.
	I imagine that there's a union of voice actors out there.
	There's probably, like, the way that there's Film Actors, no, Film Actors Guild was Team America, no, it's the Screen Actors Guild.
	Organisations like that, surely they're probably going to come to some bargaining terms where they say, okay, if you want us to keep working for you, you're going to have to take these clauses out of the contract, but I suppose...
	I just love how the industry that's destroying voice actors is not what everyone predicted when Eleven Labs came out, being Eleven Labs that would do it.
	It said it is the companies that these people work for are just like, how do I screw over my employees even more?
	Well, that makes sense. Wonderful people.
	I don't know necessarily that the worry was that Eleven Labs as a company were going to be actively screwing the people up.
	The worry is you've created the technology that allows your bosses to screw you out of it.
	But the thing is, the technology isn't from Eleven Labs, so in these contracts they're using all technology they already had.
	Oh, okay. So it's just like, okay.
	Screw you guys. Just in here they mention the fact that companies are running AI voice generators when signing on with projects, and some actors don't even know that they've got it built into their contracts.
	So go and check for them, otherwise you're going to be screwed.
	You don't know you've got that on your contract, get a better lawyer.
	That's true, for sure. But the media is still whiting about the original prospect of Eleven Labs destroying the world.
	Here we have AP warning that AI voice cloning tools add fuel to the misinformation fire.
	Oh no. Not things that look fake.
	Joe Biden said the N-word for realsies this time, guys.
	Not quite. In a video from January 25th News Report, Joe Biden talks about tanks.
	But a doctored version of this video has amassed hundreds of thousands of views this week on social media, making it appear that he gave a hate speech against transgender people, in which he said, quote, You are not a real woman.
	You have no womb. You have no eggs.
	You're a homestead. No. This is where he reads a 4chan green text.
	While the Biden clip on social media may have fooled most users, Most users.
	I... I doubt it.
	No, your mum is like, oh god.
	I can't believe we would tell the... no.
	The clip shows how easy it is for people to make hateful, disinformation-filled, deepfake videos that could cause real-world harm.
	We are all yet to identify any harm.
	We are yet to figure out how this is any different from any of the fake crap that comes out of the White House right now.
	This is not real-world harm in the way that you and I understand it.
	This is real-world harm in the way that if we talk about transgenderism in a particular way, YouTube will take our videos down because apparently it is real-world harm, to point out the obvious.
	They have some professor, Farid, over here who says some bad actors could move the stock market with fake audio of top CEOs saying profits are down.
	Those bad actors are going to be the CEOs themselves trying to make money.
	Let's be real right now.
	Time to short our own business.
	And already there's a clip on YouTube that used the tool to alter a video that makes it look like Joe Biden was launching nuclear attacks against Russia.
	That kind of shows that this whole thing's worthless, isn't it?
	Because if we can make up stuff...
	And no one believes it. Even if you're trying your best.
	Because now we know that anything could be faked.
	That means we suddenly have a lot less trust than anything that's produced.
	Which, to be honest, especially when it comes to politics, is a good thing.
	Well, yeah, I mean, I didn't have much trust in our elected officials as it is anyway.
	But I think there are two main barriers, which is, one, there's just the smell test, you could call it, where you can just look at something and you can hear and tell that it's fake.
	So far. Do I really believe Joe Biden would talk about lollies?
	Exactly. You know, there's that aspect of it.
	And then, if you are going to put forward videos that are trying to be a bit more plausible, like Joe Biden announcing that he's declaring nuclear war on Russia or something, Russia themselves are probably going to already have technology that can detect if there's, like, AI trickery going on.
	You just sit around and just detect for nukes.
	There's no nukes. Sorry. Yeah, you can do that, but if there are more convincing and more plausible ones, they will probably have technology that can sniff out AI meddling.
	Probably not. Right, Russia doesn't have that...
	I don't know. But my more interesting thing is like, oh no, what if people don't trust clips of the president?
	Oh no. Oh, I'll have to...
	It's a day ending, and why?
	What will happen? Hollywood studios have long been able to distort reality in this way, but access to that technology has been democratized without considering the implications.
	I thought democracy good though.
	I also love the idea that the alternative is where a powerful elite are able to create fake audio that can convince the masses who have no idea how it's made.
	That would be a more suitable world to live in.
	No, it's great that the public can now look at whatever the hell you people are saying and just go, eh, probably fake, what do I even care?
	It's better than what is being proposed there.
	We'll go to the clip in case you're wondering about Joe Biden.
	This is him talking about why you're not a real woman, why you will be buried and known as a man when they find your skeleton, etc, etc.
	You're not very convincing, but whatever.
	And my point here is backed up, I think, by Joe Biden.
	We will go to Joe Biden, who is in Kiev.
	I think he's left now, but he was there.
	And you may have noticed that he turned up, and immediately as the cameras turned on for this specific shot, the air raid sirens in Kiev started blaring.
	Oh, what a coincidence.
	Yeah, let's play that.
	Warning, Joe Biden is here.
	Behind your daughters. All children remain in North.
	And the thing is, obviously it's fake.
	Like, the air raid is purposely put on just because he's arrived.
	And you don't have to take my word for it.
	CNN said it. You go to CNN. They were just like, there's been no air raid sirens for weeks.
	There is no threat of an air raid.
	No missiles were launched to Kiev during his visit.
	This was just put on because he was there.
	And that's my point, is I don't know, what if people think words from the president are fake?
	Everything they already do is fake.
	This whole thing's fake. There's an example right here that's just completely made up nonsense of, look at Joe Biden living in a war-torn city where the sirens are going off even while he visits.
	No, they literally put that on for him.
	And we can go to the Guardian, who also have the deets, in which they say in here that the entire trip was meticulously planned over several months by a tight circle of key advisors to Joe Biden.
	The entire trip. And that siren there, I think, was probably part of it.
	Again, the headline there, Biden's Zelensky walking Kiev as air raid sirens blare.
	Video! As they tell you in the article, it's fake.
	Callum, we keep telling you, stop hanging out with Joe Biden.
	It's not good optics, man.
	I need to stop wearing that shirt.
	They also say... Gotta get changed.
	The smell alone. They also say in here, we did notify the Russians that President Biden was traveling to Kiev.
	So, just to dispel any myths that he turned up and nobody knew.
	Even the Russians were told, just to be sure.
	And that's suitable, and whatever else.
	But the idea that, oh my god, a clip of the president saying thing might be false.
	Yeah, it doesn't change anything in the slightest in my regards to actual politics.
	And the concerns over that seem to be, I don't know, not really true.
	And the idea that any future audio we can't trust...
	Honestly, probably for the better.
	My opinion. But we'll see how it plays out, I suppose.
	This video you're watching right now, don't trust a word we say.
	No, I was actually Joe Biden the whole time.
	He wasn't Zelensky, he was Joe Biden.
	Ultimate twist, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
	Go to Veritas. Alright then.
	So, Project Veritas has decided to take the nuclear option on itself and has destroyed its credibility, its followers, and let's be honest, probably also its finances in its ongoing and very out of nowhere war that it has declared against James O'Keefe.
	Now, Before I get any further into the story, I'll just give full disclosure that we have been very supportive of the work that Project Veritas has done in the past.
	We have actually spoken, or at least Carl has spoken, to James O'Keefe directly in this video from last year when James O'Keefe released his book American Muckraker, which as far as I'm aware is a...
	Part autobiography, part talking about the work that he's done with Project Veritas.
	So we will just inherently have a biased outlook through here, because James, as far as I'm concerned, seems like a good guy who's done good work.
	I don't know your feelings on him, but...
	I've never spoken to him.
	I have spoken to people who are on the board of directors of Project Veritas who kicked him out.
	Oh really? Well that'll be very interesting then, so you might be able to give some insight here.
	But if you want to check out that video, it's on the website.
	I don't even think it is premium, so if you've not got a membership, you can check that video out.
	And let's move on then. So, what has happened is that Project Veritas, this all sort of came out on the 9th of February, when we got these initial reports of what was going on that James O'Keefe had been suspended by the Project Veritas board of directors, and this came along with a whole ream of accusations of malfeasance, Financial impropriety and just not treating his staff members very well.
	So I'll read through that and the allegations and then we'll go through what James himself has said and how this has developed as we go on.
	So, James O'Keefe was reportedly taking paid leave from the company with his future in doubt.
	According to an internal message to Project Veritas employees sent by the organization's executive director Daniel Strack, O'Keefe was taking a few weeks of well-deserved paid time off.
	And it came as a leaked memo revealed that Project Veritas employees had raised concerns about his behaviour to the board.
	The memos, which was obtained by the Daily Beast, because they are the most trustworthy organization, alleged that workers were troubled and frustrated by O'Keefe's management style, and that he was outright cruel to staff members.
	He supposedly was berating them, gave public crucifixions, metaphorically speaking, to staff.
	He was alleged to have forced workers to take lie detector tests to prove that they were not leaking information and spatter them.
	And it seems that if that's really the case, he should have used a better test because this information all got leaked anyway.
	Well, lie detectors also don't work.
	Yeah, they don't work very well, so that's all fair, but I can understand how, if some of these allegations of his behaviour are true, and it seems that he admits later on that he can be somewhat coarse to work with, to paraphrase Peter Hitchens, he has been trying to apologise for it,
	but at the same time I can understand you're in undercover journalism, you've constantly got journalists out there in undercover positions trying to work on people so that you can get undercover footage to release to the public, very high stress, Very, very difficult job to do, and you're going to be in a position where you've got to be paranoid, because people don't like the work that you do, you're actively going against the interests of a lot of our elites, so they are going to try and infiltrate your organisation.
	So I think it's understandable that he would be on edge in this circumstance, and also you want to run a tight ship.
	So, if it was abusive, I'm not going to be condoning any of those actions, but I will say I can understand why he would possibly be, like I say, on edge.
	When you say leaked, who's this from?
	This was just, the information was obtained by the Daily Beast through a leak.
	I've looked at the original Daily Beast article and they don't seem to give a definitive answer of who leaked this in the first place, so it's uncertain.
	This is all he has said then. This is all hearsay.
	But, I mean, the Project Veritas have afterwards come out and said that all of the allegations were true and the document was from them.
	So... But again, do they have any evidence, or are they just saying it?
	What, as in Project Veritas, are they just saying that this is the allegations, or do they have proof for the allegations?
	Yeah. Well, we'll get into that as we get further on.
	So, there were also some allegations that some donors weren't happy with how he was interacting with them, and this included allegedly making one female donor cry after refusing a photograph with her, and we will get back to that story in just a moment.
	Project Veritas had made big news recently with a particular video that they put out and we did a premium hangout on it which you can see here has been censored for broadcast on YouTube because sadly the title includes some terminology that we're not allowed to use on YouTube for fear of taking the video down.
	But, we have covered it, and it is very interesting, and I would recommend getting a premium membership, at least bronze, it's only £5 a month, just so you can watch this video, because it is worth it.
	They basically corner a Pfizer guy, they get undercover footage of a Pfizer guy admitting to some dodgy things, they corner him in a restaurant, it is worth it, just for the footage of this guy freaking out in the restaurant as he realises how much trouble that he is in.
	Very, very fun, very interesting, so check that out.
	But this had got them in a bit of trouble recently, and some people think that this leaked allegations and this becoming very public and James O'Keefe being pushed out of the organisation might be off of the back of that because they had been in trouble with Twitter, in trouble with YouTube, in trouble with all of the social media companies that you expect for broadcasting this footage.
	Now, the original Project Veritas statement that they released about it on the 9th of February said this, Project Veritas achieved immense growth and impact during the last three years.
	Like all newsrooms at this stage, Project Veritas board of directors and management are constantly evaluating what the best path forward is for the organisation.
	The board and management are continuing this internal evaluation to assure our long-term success.
	Project Veritas will never stop and we will never let our supporters down.
	There are 65 plus employees at Project Veritas dedicated to continuing the mission to expose corruption, dishonesty, waste, fraud and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to our supporters.
	We hear you, we care about you and we will never give up.
	Now, that's a very corporate response.
	That's a very corporate response, but it's nothing less than you would expect from an organisation embroiled in something like this right now where they don't want to let everything come out immediately.
	But then it started to turn out that some of the leaked allegations were either exaggerated or just made up.
	For instance, that story I told about him upsetting one of the donors by refusing to take a photo with her and her crying was BS. Just nonsense.
	She came out. So the donor herself was a woman called Diana Remmers, and she came forward to refute claims made an elite employee memo that said the news organization's founder, James O'Keefe, was exhibiting cruel behavior.
	I've been made aware of allegations...
	You didn't take a photo with me. The cruel and evil man.
	I know, what a terrible person.
	Don't listen to anything he says.
	I've been made aware of allegations for Project Veritas through the news, a little bit on social media and whatnot, and I realise that actually one of the allegations and grievances towards James is about a situation that involves me with James.
	On November 2021, in Florida, at a David Horowitz event where the allegations are that he was extremely rude to one of his donors, which happens to be me.
	And that's completely blown out of proportion.
	I asked him to take a picture and he, you know, had a lot of people running at him asking for different things and he wasn't thrilled about getting a picture at the moment, but he did.
	So he did give her the photo. After that, we had a great conversation and became great friends.
	So that initial allegation, not really holding up to scrutiny when the actual woman that's based around it is like, nah, we're cool, bro.
	Okay. Well, they also just got the basic facts wrong.
	Yes. Yes, they did.
	He didn't even refuse to photograph with her in the first place.
	So it's very interesting. And after this, and a lot of people started to get some pushback, and a lot of people even tried to suggest Project Veritas brought to you by Pfizer, in the same way that we had NBC and such organizations like that sponsored by Pfizer, Project Veritas put out a much bigger statement, saying that they believe in radical transparency, coupled with respect, empathy and honesty, and they start to give a bit more information, You alright there?
	I just hate it when you have statements like empathy.
	Oh, it's corporate speak. Just get to the thing we're arguing about.
	We believe in truth.
	Unlike those other...
	Yeah, nobody else believes in truth but me.
	We are the truth sayers. We look into our magical orbs and we can know the truth.
	Yeah, I just don't like that wording. Project Veritas pondering their orbs.
	Let's look at the other statement they put out, the one that's a bit more easy to read because it's not a terrible text document on a tweet.
	So this is the one that's officially on the website.
	So they say, James O'Keefe, and this is from the 20th of February, this most recent one, James O'Keefe decided to remove his belongings from Project Veritas headquarters.
	Board and management made numerous attempts in the last 14 days to have a conversation with James, but he ignored our outreach and decided to instead leak private information from others.
	We had a board meeting scheduled for tomorrow where James was invited, and there was also a board meeting on Friday, February 10th, where James was invited but did not attend.
	Although Project Veritas leadership has not concluded, looking into the full scale of financial issues over the years, Preliminary review at this time indicates that James has spent an excessive amount of donor funds in the last three years on personal luxuries, and they include this list.
	$14,000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the guise of meeting with a donor.
	I'm just going to be honest, I've got the same reaction to this that Tim Pool did, which is that just doesn't sound true.
	That sounds like a very silly thing for anybody to do and not something he would do.
	Even if we take it as true, I just don't really give a crap.
	Yeah. $60,000 in losses by putting together dance events such as the Project Veritas Experience.
	Now, from what I'm aware, this did happen, but it was basically for employee morale.
	He just put together a bit of a musical for everybody to get involved in and enjoy.
	And as a company that makes a lot of money, you are allowed to spend money on things for company morale, even if it doesn't make you money as well.
	This is a really funny idea.
	I know, it's silly.
	I'd love to see the Lotus Eaters experience with Carl getting up on stage and singing songs in a dance in an old-fashioned song and dance kind of way.
	That'd be hilarious. Don't you want to see that?
	No. I want to see you do that.
	No. Why not?
	It's not happening. You're not fun? You're not a fan of fun?
	You're not a fun-enjoyer? I don't like plays or sing songs or high school musical.
	You don't like fun? I'm not saying the High School Musical.
	That's what I'm imagining.
	I'm not saying you and Carl get up on stage holding hands singing, we're all in this together.
	I bet they did that at Project Veritas experience.
	Oh, I bet they did. You know, James is starting to lose me now, guys.
	Over $150,000 in black cars in the last 18 months.
	Thousands of dollars spent on DJ. That's just cabs.
	That's posh cabs. No, it's thousands of dollars spent on DJ and other equipment for personal use.
	Once again, I would love to see the Lotus Eater's experience.
	Callum DJ-ing with his little baseball cap with a do-rag underneath it, sunglasses.
	Well, no, actually, reflector shades.
	Oh, it'd be so great. You'd be such a great DJ. Hang on.
	So, essentially, the complaint is he spent money on himself and then claimed it was a business expense.
	That's the accusations.
	Yes, they're doing that. Hundreds of other acts of personal enurement.
	That's improper. I don't really care.
	I don't think the donors give a crap either.
	This comes across, honestly, to me like a smear job.
	I don't know. Even if we take it as true, like he did spend money improperly on himself or whatever, I think if you did a survey of the donors, they would be like, we're paying for him to do these hit jobs on evil organizations like the guys at Pfizer.
	If you just have to spend $150,000 on black cabs, I don't give a crap.
	And also, if we go to the next one, so James O'Keefe has put forward a response to this.
	I think it was initially supposed to be just purely internal, but it did get leaked, and Tim Pool posted the video of it on his channel, and you can get access to the Google document of the speech that he read out in the video.
	So the video is the next link, but I'll read through this article, because...
	The video's 45 minutes long.
	We've not got enough time to do it. So I'll go over the basics.
	So he said in this letter, he said, I haven't always been the most ostensibly compassionate leader.
	That's admittedly a fault and something I need to work on.
	so that you have him just saying yeah i can be a bit um uh antagonistic and cold i can be a bit aggressive you know he's the he's the leader of an incredibly intense and private and paranoid newsroom you kind of have to do that so you can get stuff done i don't have answers to why they've been doing what they've been doing or why board members were going directly to employees to collect a list of grievances on the week of our biggest story ever because i do believe that fiser one that we covered was their biggest story ever got the most views most clicks all over online
	whatever side they're on.
	Yeah, something ridiculous.
	It was a huge news story for them, so all the more surprising that off the back of that, the board of directors would be like, no, we don't want anything to do with them anymore.
	Like, that story, the money you probably raked in, in donations, for, that was an amazing piece of good work, keep doing it.
	Mm-hmm. Was probably a huge amount as well.
	He could have as many expenses to get as many boats fixed up as he wants.
	I don't care. You did great work there, buddy.
	You keep doing stuff like that.
	Buy yourself a new yacht if you want.
	There you go. All YR board members were going to employees directly to discuss removing me from Project Veritas on the same week of our biggest story of all time.
	O'Keefe's letter also includes a screenshot of an alleged text message conversation between an unnamed board member and a Project Veritas staffer discussing getting a raise if O'Keefe is removed.
	That's very interesting. So, in the letter that he released that's included in the article, if you just scroll down, that's the letter there.
	I don't know. It's all blacked out.
	But you can read through that in your own time if you want.
	It's six pages. I'm not going to go over the full thing.
	I'll go over the main points that I took from it.
	So O'Keeffe claimed there had been disagreements with officers in the approach to fundraising, which led to O'Keeffe firing a particular officer because of the disagreement that they were having that was untenable that led to them arguing publicly.
	And that led to the board having an emergency vote, rehiring that officer and then claiming that they were going to restructure the company without O'Keeffe's permission.
	All very interesting given that O'Keeffe is the guy who literally started it from his dad's basement, I think.
	He's still on the... If you go to the about page, I think it just probably started.
	Is he still on there? He's still listed as the founder.
	Well, yeah, he is the founder.
	There's just big pictures of him looking happy.
	Yeah, I mean, he says himself, he asked, did they care more about the fundraising money or the impact their journalism had?
	He cared about the journalism.
	They cared about the money. Now, this might be a very self-serving response from him, but I don't see any evidence in any of his actions of otherwise, let's be perfectly honest.
	He also claimed that the board were going to try and keep his removal quiet to avoid controversy, as if you can just...
	Where's James O'Keefe gone, Project Veritas?
	Oh, he's just taking a big long vacation.
	Oh, he needed a well-earned rest.
	Yeah, there's evidence for that, that they tried.
	Yeah, they did try and do that.
	Some members were also downplaying his influence in the company to everybody else to make him sound expendable.
	And he also claimed that many of the accusations of financial misconduct were just BS, just completely false, including a claim that he had paid for a down payment for his wedding using company money despite the fact that he has never been married and is not engaged.
	At the moment. That's a very strange accusation to make.
	He states that it was a payment for an office Christmas party, which was held at a wedding venue.
	So, just once again, team morale boosting things.
	Typical things that a company does.
	We're throwing a Christmas party.
	How could you, you monster?
	And he also says that using a company jet is actually very normal if you're going to try and raise money from donors.
	Because if you try and raise money from a donor over a Zoom meeting, it doesn't work.
	It doesn't work. You need to wine and dine people if you're trying to raise money from fundraisers.
	So he has answers for all of it.
	It's up to you whether you decide if you want to believe Project Varitas or James O'Keefe.
	But I think, as we'll see in a moment, once again, if you go to the next one, if you want to see all of this in video form rather than reading it, you can do it here.
	But I think most people have made up their mind they're not taking Project Veritas' side on this.
	What were you going to say? Well, just that it doesn't really matter what we think unless Project Veritas are about to release a shitload of evidence of he did this, his video footage of him doing it, here's the expense claims, here's why it's wrong.
	Here's him wearing black and white overalls with a little swag bag stealing our company money.
	Yeah, unless you've got that to then be released in the next 24 hours, the effects are the effects, and moving forwards, I think we're about to see that, which is...
	Yeah, people don't want Project Veritas without James O'Keefe.
	So, go to the next one. You can see the Social Blade.
	They had been making some big...
	Big gains recently which all seem to be going down the toilet.
	Scroll down so we can see the nice daily and on the 20th when most of this information came out they lost almost 200,000 Twitter followers in a single day and it is continually just going down since then.
	Now over 300,000 lost.
	That's not looking good. And honestly, I think we've all lost as a result of this, because Project Veritas were a great company that were doing very, very important work, and it seems that James O'Keefe was integral as part of the management, as part of the leadership structure, to be able to achieve all of that work.
	And now they're splitting up.
	James O'Keefe might be able to take some of the staff with him, He might not be able to.
	We don't know what contracts have been signed, if he's got a contract that says he can't start another similar organization.
	Who knows, but hopefully he does start another organization, or is able to basically commit a coup within Project Veritas and take his company back, because this isn't great.
	But, James O'Keefe is looking good off of the back of it, at least his socials are, because on social media right now, he has gained almost 400,000 in the past 30 days.
	And if you just refresh it, just so we get the nice, most up-to-date one, Yeah, still almost 400,000.
	It's looking good for James, even though he sadly has been pushed out of the organization that he founded.
	I don't know what to make of this because it's very weird.
	It is. It's completely out of nowhere.
	Nobody saw it coming. It's a period in which your founding guy, he's now delivered the best story ever.
	Your company's doing better than ever. And your response is that the guy who founded this place has done really hard, doing all the day-to-day work, has been here doing all that.
	Yeah, he's basically replaceable.
	We don't need him. Just replace him with another drone manager.
	Yeah, one of the funniest allegations was that he stole the pregnant woman's sandwich.
	At a fundraising meeting.
	Are you joking or not? No, that's one of the allegations.
	It was a fundraiser where he stole a pregnant woman's sandwich.
	Therefore, we must remove him from the board.
	I have a... I do really have images in my head of...
	Norman Osborn in Spider-Man.
	Don't you understand what I did for this company?
	That's the vibe I'm getting from this whole thing, except he's not a secret evil villain.
	I have one more thing to add, though, which is a conspiracy theory.
	Oh, all right. It's time for that.
	Oh, okay. So, one of the things I've noticed, and some other people...
	Don't get too anti-Semitic here now, Callum.
	I know they're conspiracy theories.
	Well... I've noticed that a lot of people have got the board members, and we've met some of them, or at least I have.
	I've never spoken to James. There's a divide within American politics between DeSantis and Trump, because obviously Republican primary is coming up.
	I've seen these two different circles, just from an outside perspective.
	I'm not in either of them, being some English guy who can't even vote.
	We don't know how to.
	These two groups have been getting more and more at each other because of, you could say, legitimate grievances on either side.
	Who cares? It's not important.
	And one of the things I did know is that the Project Veritas guys were once given $10,000 by the Trump Foundation under James O'Keefe.
	And the people who seem to be most not caring about this, or at least one of them who's even, you know, part of this, is on the side of DeSantis.
	And a lot of people have been conspirizing that maybe this is deeper.
	This is just another Trump-DeSantis split going on.
	Maybe the reason as to why this came out of nowhere is because it's more of a Republican infighting situation who happens to coincide with their best story ever.
	I don't know. That could all be BS. But I have noticed that and a lot of other people have noticed the individuals involved.
	I'm like... I hope it's not, because that's dumb.
	I mean, that's not a bad theory, and it is sadly very dumb if that is the case, but until more information comes out about it, and like you say, unless we get footage of James O'Keefe with his swag bag and his little burglar mask on, stealing money from the tills...
	The effect is already that. Yeah, the effect is the same, which is that, sadly, one of the most effective organizations for discovering what's actually going on, or at least the ideas of the people in these big organizations like Pfizer, what they're planning on doing and what they are doing, is falling apart.
	So, sucks. Yeah.
	And with that, I suppose we'll move on to South Park.
	Let's move on to our Pravasair.
	Respect my privacy has become the scream of every right, god-fearing royal.
	I thought we'd enjoy some of it, because South Park did a damn good job recently.
	Just to mention first that the premium stuff on lollicies.com is worth checking out, the Debate My Eyes Will Be Dead podcast, the thing I'm featuring right now, because, well, there's a lot of phonies, isn't there?
	And in this debate, there's a lot of phonies on the left there who are like, don't you know that the British Empire killed a billion gazillion people?
	You just kind of look at them and like, are you high?
	British Empire wasn't even really playing that piano.
	He's a big, big phony!
	British Empire didn't believe in privacy.
	And we'll go to the South Park stuff, because South Park has been hitting back up Twitter.
	I saw a lot of people reposting South Park stuff recently.
	This happens to coincide with the Respect My Privacy, which we'll get into.
	This clip, I'm just going to enjoy, because it's from 2005, and Seth Dillon points out, oh god, it's a different world.
	I remember watching this episode back in the day, and I can't help but feel it did Inform my current beliefs.
	Well, 18 years and suddenly the truth is...
	I don't know, on the edge.
	Let's play it and enjoy that.
	You here for an abortion too?
	Yeah, I discovered a few days ago I wasn't bleeding out my coos, so I guess I'm knocked up.
	Is this doctor any good? Mrs.
	Garrison? Oh, that's me!
	Hello, Doctor. Looks like I need an abortion.
	An abortion? Yeah, I've got one growing inside me.
	Now, you're gonna scramble its brains or just vacuum it out?
	If you want, you can just scramble it and I'll queef it out myself.
	Mr. Garrison.
	Mrs. Garrison.
	Mrs. Garrison, you can't have an abortion.
	Don't you tell me what I can and can't do with my body!
	A woman has a right to choose!
	No, I mean you're physically unable to have an abortion because you can't get pregnant.
	But I missed my period.
	You can't have periods either.
	You had a sex change, Mr.
	Garrison, but you don't have ovaries or a womb.
	You don't produce eggs.
	You mean, I'll never know what it feels like to have a baby growing inside me and then scramble its brains and vacuum it out?
	That's right. But I paid $5,000 to be a woman.
	This would mean I'm not really a woman.
	I'm just a guy with a mutilated penis.
	Basically, yes.
	Oh boy, do I feel like a jackass.
	18 years ago, folks.
	That led to the glorious eco-penis episode as well.
	Do you remember the end of that? If you can't have a baby, you're not a woman.
	But my wife had ovarian cancer and can't have a baby.
	Well, I'm sorry, you're married to a man.
	But the... I saw Ian Miles Chung posting this, that they nailed the transgender bathroom issue.
	This is actually quite an old episode as well.
	But it's obviously Cartman just saying, well, I'm a woman now.
	I'm going to go have an S in the women's toilets.
	And a lot of retards didn't get the point because if you go to the next one here, a lot of the pronoun people turned up and were like, you do understand that Eric Cartman is the explicitly evil character and the whole point of the show is pretending to be trans is wrong.
	No. No, the point of the show is that people could take advantage.
	of a new rule set that you make up, because you haven't thought this through in the slightest.
	You didn't get that, because you people can't- you don't get anything.
	Could the answer be that evil characters might take advantage of this loophole?
	It's just completely brain-dead individuals, but I had to mention that because I can't get over how stupid- there was like a huge response to Ian posting that as well, of people being like, ha ha ha, what a retard, doesn't he know that this is about the fact that those obsessed with trans bathrooms are wrong?
	No, it's that you can take advantage of whatever.
	You get the point. We'll move forward because now we get to the privacy.
	And the privacy we won't be able to play because I think I'll get instantly taken by YouTube because of things.
	So we'll instead just go through some of that.
	So if you can go forward on this.
	I know there should have been one before. I put the wrong link, damn it.
	There was a different link that I messed up in which Harry and Meghan start off the newest episode of South Park where they go on a Canadian TV show and talk about how their privacy has been stolen from them.
	Which is why they've been on TV. Talk about it.
	And had a Spotify podcast.
	A Netflix documentary. And the host pulls out his book and goes, well, you've written about it all in your new book.
	Where? Great joke.
	I like that Harry is portrayed as Canadian.
	Yeah. Because he's not English.
	Always been Canadian in South Park.
	Oh yeah, that's fair. Not just because of Harry.
	But the host then mentions that, well, maybe this is all because your bitch of a wife is insufferable.
	And Harry goes, look, my bitch wife is not insufferable.
	And then they decide to leave because they're so offended by their privacy and go on the Worldwide Privacy Tour in which they go around the world protesting for their privacy in Paris and India and then eventually in South Park which is the last place they ever go and then decide that, well... Actually, South Park's pretty nice.
	Maybe we should settle down in South Park and show people what's serious about our privacy.
	Oh no, this isn't the same as the Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls episode, is it, where they ruin South Park?
	Well, they try, because you can just get here, they decide to host a Respect Our Privacy party.
	So everyone knows they're super serious about all this.
	Cole tells them to shut up, which they take as an attack on their privacy.
	Rightfully. And then they decide, if you go to the next one, plaster his house with cover of Vanity Fair and Vogue of Megan over here so that he knows to respect her privacy.
	How else would he know? Kyle refuses to react to any of that, so Harry does the honourable thing of rubbing his penis on his window to ensure that Kyle will respect his privacy in the future.
	I've not watched the whole episode.
	I had no idea it gets so deep.
	There's a really funny reference...
	Well, not a reference, but Baystate did call it, which is that...
	Harry and Meghan are arguing about how Carl doesn't respect their privacy and Meghan goes, it's because I'm an ethnic woman!
	And Harry goes, yeah, because you're an ethnic woman.
	Wait, you're an ethnic woman? Just like all those casting directors.
	Yeah. And then they go to this brand manager over here who decides to help them obtain their privacy.
	And he does this by looking through the brand's website.com.
	He finds out that Meghan already had an actress account.
	She's a sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim.
	And then they add Harry, who is put down as royal prince, millionaire, world traveler, victim.
	Because, of course, Carl then turns up and tells them that maybe being a brand is not an authentic way to live your life, and you end up spouting falsehoods because, well, of course you do.
	And Harry realises that, yes, being a brand is cancer.
	Stop it. Be yourself instead.
	And he tries to get a response from Meghan.
	Megan doesn't respond at all because she's just a brand.
	That's all she is. She's literally empty.
	A completely blank individual.
	Actually having privacy is just part of the brand.
	That's it. And if you go to the next one here, it turns out apparently Megan and Harry were looking at suing for a while, South Park, for this.
	They released a statement eventually saying, we haven't seen it, but we're very upset.
	How are you, if you haven't...
	We just know to be upset.
	South Park made an episode...
	If South Park made an episode making fun of me, I'd be thrilled.
	Personally. Also, South Park just succeeded, you absolute brainlets.
	You people are stupid and will keep doing public statements to protect your privacy.
	Well, we're issuing a public statement about why our privacy is...
	It does remind me of how in the Harry and Meghan documentary, Harry's like, I can't believe being in the public eye the whole time.
	It ruined my childhood.
	I could never do that. Anyway, let me just put all my kids in front of the camera for everybody to see.
	Well, so South Park succeeds yet again.
	In the polling as well, South Park continues to succeed.
	Meghan continues to be the, well, least favourite royal except from the paedophile.
	So she's got that.
	Not as bad as the nuns.
	Put that on a gravestone. Net popularity of minus 20.
	Also in the United States, apparently, very recently, she took a massive nosedive in the polls because, of course, I've been hating in Britain for ages and America for some reason.
	I don't know who. I've never met a Yankee who likes her.
	Los Angeles. Maybe.
	Apparently, even they are sick of it now, especially after the book release because they can't be bothered.
	But the thing is... There's another person who's gone through exactly the same circumstance that South Park has been through, in the sense of, once upon a time, in the olden days...
	Don Lemon used to say things which were true and would get him in trouble if he ever dared do it now.
	Oh, really? Oh, okay.
	I'm interested in this.
	The phonies. This is the second part.
	See what I did with the episode title?
	Uncle Dom. Well, Don Lemon did a segment back in 2013, which he titled it Five Things the Black Community Must Fix, which was before woke era politics, so he never mentions racism.
	Instead, let's listen to his spiel.
	Because black people, if you really want to fix the problem, here's just five things that you should think about doing.
	Here's number five. And if this doesn't apply to you, if you're not doing this, then it doesn't apply to you.
	I'm not talking about you. Here's number five.
	Pull up your pants. Walking around with your ass and your underwear showing is not okay.
	In fact, it comes from prison when they take away belts from the prisoner so that they can't make a weapon.
	And then it evolved into which role a prisoner would have during male-on-male prison sex.
	The one with the really low pants is a submissive one.
	You get my point? Number four now is the N-word.
	Well, he is. By promoting the use of that word when it's not germane to the conversation, have you ever considered that you may just be perpetuating the stereotype the master intended?
	Acting like a.
	Now number three.
	Respect where you live.
	Start small by not dropping trash, littering in your own communities.
	I've lived in several predominantly white neighborhoods in my life.
	I rarely, if ever, witness people littering.
	I live in Harlem now. It's an historically black neighborhood.
	Every single day I see adults and children dropping their trash on the ground when a garbage can is just feet away.
	Just being honest here.
	Number two, finish school.
	You want to break the cycle of poverty?
	Stop telling kids are acting white because they go to school or they speak proper English.
	A high school dropout makes on average $19,000 a year.
	A high school graduate makes $28,000 a year.
	A college graduate makes $51,000 a year.
	Over the course of a career, a college grad will make nearly a million dollars more than a high school graduate.
	That's a lot of money.
	And number one, and probably the most important, just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should.
	Especially without planning for one or getting married first.
	More than 72% of children in the African American community are born out of wedlock.
	That means absent fathers.
	And the studies show that lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison.
	And the cycle continues.
	Been ten short years.
	Sounding awfully white.
	Don Lemon over there.
	Uncle Don. Three years before the Trump era, when CNN actually attempted to help people.
	Apparently Don Lemon had been reading Thomas Sowell around this period of his life.
	Those are actual Thomas Sowell talking.
	We had to censor him saying the N-word there, in case you're wondering, because YouTube and the modern era in which we live.
	But back then, Don Lemon was just on CNN being like, stop saying and saying.
	He was just throwing the N-word left, right and center.
	And the point being, uh, clean your room.
	Don Lemon, clean your room, 2013.
	Don Lemon laying out the Chris Rock blacks versus mmm dichotomy.
	Yeah, and, um, well, are any of those bad advice?
	Uh, don't show your ass in public, or you look like, uh...
	You look like you're literally asking for it, according to prison logic.
	Prison rules. Don't have a kid outside wedlock, you loser.
	There's the next one which is the maybe you should graduate.
	Also don't throw trash on the ground if you can help it.
	I've lived among the whites, I know their ways.
	It's a real different world in every aspect and obviously in the modern age if Don Lemon was to come out and give that exact speech on the same network ten years later, correctly this person notes he would be called a white supremacist by himself.
	Because how dare you? How dare you say that an individual might be responsible for their individual actions?
	Shocking, shocking ideas.
	And, well, Don Lemon, it used to be very, very interesting.
	And it's very recent that he became what he is.
	And the N-word stuff is probably the most interesting...
	It's just Trump, isn't it? It's just... Ever since around 2015, 2016, all of these people who...
	Used to apparently be relatively sensible.
	I've no doubt that at the time he would still be a bit of a leftist maniac, but he wasn't as much as he was.
	Don LeMond would have sat and watched that South Park segment about Mrs Garrison over there and be like, well, obviously.
	Well, this is just what we knew back then.
	Yeah. Don, you changed.
	Everyone else in your sphere has changed.
	But the rest of the country, those people who have gone to the right, haven't changed.
	In fact, most of them have gone slightly to the left of the old culture.
	And you'll still see them.
	I mean, remember 2008 Barack Obama campaign saying, I'm not doing gay marriage.
	It's not for him. But we'll go to the N-word stuff, because Don Lemon was very passionate about the N-word.
	I think he's got an interesting argument.
	So this is an interview in which they're talking about some case.
	I can't remember the year on this, but Obama used the N-word in a speech seven years ago, 2015.
	And he didn't bleep it, of course.
	He didn't say N-word. He said the word.
	And Don LeMond is like, why are we censoring the word?
	Like, if we want to actually understand the text, you need to use the word itself, otherwise you're censoring reality and not being able to feel the full force of the speech.
	It's a very interesting conversation.
	Obviously, it's kind of pointless, because you're on cable TV, which is regulated by the FCC, so you can't use profanity, even if it's racial.
	So, waste of time for the American cable sphere.
	But I get the principle that he's talking about.
	As for everyone who doesn't have to live under FCC tyranny, such as everyone else, Yeah, you're right.
	I agree with Don Limon, which is just censoring words, censoring profanity, is kind of dumb.
	What are you doing with your life?
	A whole other conversation, but we'll go to the next one here, in which we can see Don Limon holding up a copy of, I think there's the New York Times there, what is it?
	Oh no, sorry, Westview News over there, with the N-word on the screen.
	He just did it. And then he went a bit too far.
	Let's go to the next one here.
	This was a bit weird.
	This does look like a 4chan edit.
	Yeah, I always thought it was fake.
	No, it's real. You can go and check it out.
	It's on SecularTalk's channel seven years ago.
	SecularTalk famously used to tweet things like this as well, but never mind.
	Let's not call leftists out on their old edgy tweets, shall we?
	Yeah, but the point here, I mean, like, this is making fun of him.
	The young Turk made fun of him as well.
	They're like, oh, God, this is so stupid.
	Until you consider the point he was making, which is that, no, if you censor words, well, if you censor profanity, you don't get the edge of the profanity, which means you don't get the feeling of the circumstance in which it was said.
	Which is demonstrably true. Like, this is the problem with censored spaces.
	This is why YouTube's terms of service in regards to swearing, which is why apparently we're not allowed to because it would hurt the monetization, is just a big problem.
	It's gay. It's a pain in the ass.
	Advertisers don't want their content associated with particular other types of content.
	That's what it is. I hate this argument.
	It's like, oh, the advertisers have insisted on this.
	Yeah, but if YouTube just turned around and said no, where else are they going to go?
	Do you want to advertise to a billion people on planet Earth or not?
	Yeah. Who's got the power in that relationship?
	It is the guys at YouTube who are deciding to be scoochy about it.
	But anyway, this is not what brought him down, amazingly.
	This was fine. No, this is...
	He's done it before as well.
	He carries his N-word card with him.
	Literally. Everywhere he goes.
	People listening, this is him back in the day.
	I love how Wolf Blitzer is sounding like, oh, God.
	Was this... This is what Don Lemon was saying in his Five Ways to Improve Your Community, don't say the N-word.
	He says, a useful alternative, you can just carry your card around.
	This is again him arguing about Barack Obama's speech and the censoring of it and blah blah blah.
	This is him on live TV holding up a card with it written on, as he says it as well, and then the white host next to him just looking distastefully like, goddammit.
	He does look like someone's just trying to jam something up his rear end there.
	Yeah, and this isn't what brought him down.
	None of that. No, no. The thing that finally brings him down is culture changes so much that he makes statement not in her prime around Nikki Haley and his career is over.
	Wait, is this actually really affected him?
	Because I know we had a laugh about it, but I just thought, oh, it's going to be one of those things.
	He'll just apologize and who cares?
	Well, it took a little bit further than that because the two women next to him were upset that he said that women sometimes got in their prime.
	I always thought that Don Lemon was way too entrenched in the mainstream media sphere to be able to be touched by this kind of controversy.
	Well, Mr. Lemon is, but Mr.
	Lemon... Uncle Darmon, on the other hand.
	He was sent on a day off.
	So if you go here, the next one, we can see Tucker Carlson noted there was a tweet put out saying that, sorry, not a tweet, there was a next episode of the show in which Mr.
	Lemon was not present.
	He's laughing his face.
	I want the Project Veritas style video of Tucker Carlson going around the CNN offices looking for where they've locked up Don Lemon.
	Well, Mr. Lemon was said to be on holiday.
	Immediately after he made the statement that Nikki Haley wasn't in her prime, he decided, well, I'm going to the Caribbean for two weeks.
	I'm getting some flashbacks to last segment.
	My god, he's gone on a well-earned vacation.
	Yeah, apparently no.
	The vacation was into the CEO's office where he got a bollocking for daring to say something such as maybe Nikki Haley's not in her prime, which again is not relevant to whether or not she can be president, but whatever.
	It's on Lemon just there. Can she have children?
	If not, she ain't a woman.
	But imagine if he had said instead those five things the black community can do to improve itself.
	He'd be on his ass right now.
	Instead, he was sent for a bollocking and the leader of the news organization said we take this situation very seriously.
	He said that sometimes women aren't in their prime.
	Don't you know women are always in their prime?
	Which is what the prime means.
	Prime means all the time.
	What do you think Logan Paul's new drink was about?
	It was about celebrating women, goddammit!
	No, his punishment is he's being sent on training.
	Re-education. He's going to be re-educated to know that women are always in their prime.
	Your eight-year-old grandmother in a prime.
	You know how those curves work with a top?
	That's where it's the prime and then the rest of it.
	The rest of that curve. The rest of a bell curve is also the prime.
	Okay. So whether you're here or here, there's no difference.
	When a woman is born and when she is dead, she's still in her prime.
	We just have it curve up that way for fun.
	Yeah, you can see here, they're here reporting he's undergoing formal training to learn that the prime is at all times.
	Cue clockwork orange montage.
	I love how it is like it's a dog start pissing on the carpet situation.
	Although we send him for training.
	If we can't do that, we're going to have to send him to the farm.
	He's going to have to go. Uncle Don being the house newsreader that they have there, obviously.
	I mean, that was how they refer to him now, if he dared to give those five points ever again.
	And I did find it funny how his old friend, of course, got the same treatment.
	Oh, yeah. It's just an Italian thing to harass with.
	All around me are familiar faces.
	Yeah, the groiper and the man.
	The groiper and the race trait.
	It's going to be described today by their own side.
	But the thing is, for all their faking it, none of these people have made it.
	And that goes back to the South Park episode as well, and Harry and Megan over there, because their existence is life or death, depending on their brand, and their brand just casts them as millionaire victims.
	I mean, like, Don Limon, I looked up, do you know why he's getting paid?
	Five million a year.
	Rachel Maddow's getting paid right now to do her show.
	Like 5 million a year?
	30 million a year. How much?
	30 million. 30 million?
	Yeah, for the Rachel Maddow show, in which she says Russia did it.
	In which she says nothing that she thought up herself.
	I have been handed this leaflet from the Clinton campaign that says, Donald Trump, Russia...
	And now for $30 million.
	We could have so much more of a lucrative existence if we just gave him our dignity and morals.
	But then you can see what happened to Don Limon.
	Why is he this shell of a human being at this point?
	A brand to be used instead of the authentic Mr.
	Lemon who came out and said, yeah, here's how you improve the black community.
	Here's some tangible things you can do.
	The reason for that is, well, now he's just a brand.
	He's a phony. He's a big fat phony.
	He's a manufactured talking head.
	He's not in charge of his own destiny.
	He's not in charge of his own thoughts.
	The only victim in all of this is actually sincerely these people.
	Megan, Limon, Harry, who just instead have to live their meaningless brands so they can go past Go and collect $200.
	I almost feel sorry for them if it wasn't so much goddamn money.
	And they chose that life. But there you are!
	There's a South Park episode, which hit on something more closer than I thought.
	The recent explosion of old South Park content, which is very, very taboo.
	And also CNN, which used to be very, very taboo.
	In the same vein, as in, well, they said things that could actually help you.
	That's that. In the video comments.
	Good afternoon to everyone at the Lotus Eaters crew.
	This is an open invitation for any and all of you, especially you, Harry.
	If you ever find yourself in America, I'd love to have you over for shooting guns and to show you some good southern cooking.
	Let's get to it. How do you want your steak done?
	You don't see any people do that?
	I haven't seen it in America unless there's a few people doing that.
	Oh no, this just looked like great.
	That was some fun mag dumping.
	Thank you.
	Now, if I ever do my way to America, which I hope to at some point, I am more than happy to take up that invitation because that looks like great fun.
	Get the grill out, get the guns out.
	Good time. I want to get 50 cal, wrap it with bacon, shoot it for ages, and then take the bacon off and eat it.
	That's what I was talking about. That's a genius idea.
	Bacon sandwich down the range. That's amazing.
	You should patent that. You've got to think about this.
	If you want to live like an American, you've got to think like an American.
	It's going to be American bacon, so it'll be crap.
	I'll take it. I've not had American bacon.
	There's going to be a huge debate in the comments now, but American bacon, I am not down.
	Canadian bacon, crap as well.
	What's the difference? Because I know obviously in the UK we have our thin strips of crispy bacon.
	You fry it up for a minute or two and it's really lovely.
	You want loads of fat in your bacon is essentially the difference.
	Yeah, I'll take a load of fat.
	I actually want some meat in the bacon, personally.
	Nice and juicy. You get this side of fat, and then there's the big circle of it that's meat, right?
	Yeah, yeah. That's the English ration.
	Well, the American ration is like half fat, half bacon.
	Well, I mean, I used to not be a big fan of the grisly, fatty parts of steak and such, but now I've learned to love them, so I can get over it.
	I'm bringing my own bacon to the range.
	But other than that, let's shoot the 50 cals.
	Let's go to the next one. Haven't commented in a while.
	Life's been a bit of a whirlwind the last couple months, but with reenactment season starting up and my first event of the year having happened this past weekend, I got this nicer helmet that actually comes with a crest, but as you can see it's just a little untidy.
	So I'm going through, I'm bundling each of these with some thread, and we'll see how it looks when it's done.
	Alright, so this is as far as we've got.
	It's a pretty time-consuming process, so obviously there's more that I'm still gonna have to do later, but what I have done I think looks a lot nicer.
	Yeah, nicely tidied up there.
	I can agree. I think that was it.
	I thought Barack Obama had sent us a video comment.
	Can you guys beat my gamer score?
	I am enjoying those president ones.
	It's a shame we couldn't play more of them, but those presidents, it turns out, are pretty pothy-mouthed.
	I love how in all of them, whoever's making them has got the dynamic right as well.
	Where Bush, Obama all get along.
	Bill Clinton as well.
	I mean, there's been so many photos of the three of them all together, isn't there?
	And then Trump is like, I hate you all, why am I in the server?
	You little pussy bitches, why don't you come over here and help me with these spiders?
	Where the hell are you guys?
	Oh, by the way, Hillary, I stole your bow.
	I lost your bow. Joe Shimon says, I will upgrade my membership from Platinum if Callum gets a top hat and starts singing North Korean propaganda and dancing on stage.
	I want to make it happen. Listen, there's only one person stopping this from happening, and that's you.
	How much for a private show, big boy?
	Oh my goodness! AngelBrain says, I think Callum should do a video of these AI creations alone.
	The ones you've shown us are gold.
	We've gone to go for about two weeks until 4chan managed to start running all of Disney.
	Yeah, that's the thing. I'm just saying, folks, get ready for the Black Lives Matter season next election, because...
	Oh, yeah. Not we.
	Some chaos will be sown.
	I wonder what else MLK said at the March for Washington.
	Hmm. MLK and Fortnite adverts, except...
	I remember watching your coverage when that happened, and they made it stupid when everyone's whipping at the screen.
	Yeah, but everyone's now old enough who made S-posts for a living, like, to understand how video editing works and be able to do it at a professional enough standard that the companies do it.
	So you can just make, like, lifelike adverts from the cells.
	I can't, but if you can, fair play for you.
	So Captain Charlie the Beagle says, The interesting thing about AI voices is that because Trump has been smeared so much, any audio to make him look bad would be automatically dismissed or make him look more based.
	If there were actually secretly filmed Modern Warfare 2 lobbies of the bunch of them, and that's how it actually worked, I would be well back on the Trump train.
	That'd be the most based he's been in months.
	If the audio comes out of him calling Joe Biden a paedophile child sniffer who loves Epstein, for example, and they're like, this is slander, how could you say this?
	And try and bring it to him. The best response would not be to confirm or deny it.
	They'd be like, I don't know if I said that. Maybe I did.
	Maybe I didn't. I don't even know.
	Who can keep track of these things?
	So a lot of things about that child sniffer.
	Anyway. Kevin Fox says one of those expenses for personal use was supposedly his...
	Wedding? Oh, this is for the Project Veritas one.
	We've already covered that, but yes, that's a good point, and it's obvious nonsense anyway.
	So, um, Bass Tape says, See, this is what I'm worried about.
	What's Bass Tape gonna make us say?
	I don't care.
	Anyway.
	Xiaomi says, VoiceAxes, welcome to the reality of software localizers.
	If you used to work as a translator localizer for, say, Microsoft, you'll know that part of the contract was that Microsoft got full ownership of your work.
	Fair enough.
	And got to use it to build a database to be used automated translation down the line.
	Perhaps not so fair.
	I suspect this is what will eventually happen to all kinds of translation services, including voiceover, dubbing, and eventually simultaneous translation as well.
	Maybe.
	What's interesting about the translation world is that we've come so far...
	It is now... Accurate to say that it's good enough for menial purposes.
	You want to talk to some guy in a bar, you crack out Google Translate and start using that.
	But when it comes to actually professionally making sure that something's done properly, I find this.
	I still need to talk to someone who's a translator or works in that and be like, can you please do this for me?
	Because I'm not confident.
	Even with all the Google Translate and stuff, other services as well, it's never good enough.
	It really isn't. Especially outside.
	I mean, for European languages, it's usually good enough, but apart from that...
	Slavic? Speak English, that's my solution.
	Well, you can do it for romance stuff.
	That's simple, because that's basically Latin.
	I mean, even your own brain, you can sort of translate most of it.
	There's a song by a band called Stormtroopers of Death, I think is what they're called, that sums up my feelings, but I think the title is a bit too mean.
	I do share. Oh, it's called Speak English or Die.
	Okay, that is the Northern approach.
	Omar Awad says, I think AI will be like a font.
	The style might be infinitely replaceable, but the content will be still yours.
	Any artist afraid of being replaced is looking at small time gains, but if your font becomes popular, economy of scale would see you earning millions from royalties instead of paying a few dollars for a few hours of work.
	Yeah, I mean, I remember when there was this huge fear that the internet economy would essentially destroy all creators' ability to make money, and it's done the exact opposite.
	Creators now make more money than ever off their creations through the internet, because not only have you got a larger customer base, but also this argument about copyright is...
	It's annoying, but it's true.
	There was this libertarian argument for copyright, like before copyright, for example.
	So in the United States, there wasn't any copyright law.
	So Charles Dickens' books were just being freely printed for free.
	I'm aware that as a response to that, to make sure that he could make money on the American market, he would go and do tours and read his books aloud to audiences.
	Yeah, and he would be hugely popular.
	Like, way more popular than he would be in England.
	Because way more people have been able to read the book.
	Because it was just mass produced everywhere.
	The idea that the copyright...
	I mean, we've seen this with the memes before.
	Where it's like, I download Hogwarts Legacy.
	I steal $60, so I download 10 million more copies.
	I've stolen $60 billion from Hogwarts Legacy.
	Company goes bankrupt because they can't afford the loss.
	No, that's not really what happens.
	But a whole other company should run out of time.
	Bleach Demon says, Yeah, and courts will just have to no longer accept audio as legitimate.
	That's why I'm a bit suspicious of the whole thing.
	Being Northern, I'm about 90% Luddite, so there's a deep feeling in the pit of my stomach that says, something will go wrong here.
	Yeah, but the thing is, all audio is no longer legitimate.
	That's just a fact of life. That is now a fact of life.
	Great. You feel about how you want, but it's here.
	So, get used to it. Kevin Fox says, maybe, just maybe, the board's in the wrong place again.
	Lord Nerevar says AI voices are pretty bad in my opinion.
	They'll put VAs out of a job and lower the quality of voice acting across the board, not to mention never being able to trust anything you ever hear ever again.
	However, I do think they have one big advantage, modding.
	Yeah, so you can use the voices to...
	This is a point we've made before, but yeah.
	That's also illegal and stealing, though, by the voice actor's point of view, because that's his repeat work, even if you could hire him.
	I don't think that's true, though, because when it comes...
	He has pointed out here the benefit of potentially being able to create a gigantic, expensive quest mod for The Witcher 3, which might, despite all of the downfall of society, industrial society and its consequences, all yadda yadda yadda, that might make it worth it.
	Industrial Revolution destroyed the world, but I do like Witcher.
	But I do get my extra expansion pack for The Witcher.
	Finally. What was I going to say?
	Oh yeah, no, I think it's similar to the translation stuff.
	Like I mentioned, I still find myself having to hire translators, or asking people to help, because it just isn't good enough.
	And if you're a video game company who wants actually good game, you're not going to use the subpar service, you are going to pay for the voice actor, who's good.
	You might then use their voice for the rest of eternity, and that's going to screw them over in the long term, but if you want to make high quality product, There are many companies that don't want to make high quality product, I'll grant you, but then they won't make high quality product.
	But enough about EA. Yeah. Et tu, Project Veritas.
	Alright, so that one that we just missed there.
	So Kevin Fox says, maybe just maybe the board members were worried that with the success of the Pfizer article, that they might be considered unnecessary.
	You alright there? Just studios collapsing around us.
	My bottle! My bottle, no!
	What are you doing? You short stubby arms can't even reach, you little toddler.
	Ha ha ha ha! How's your head?
	My head's fine. Thank you.
	How's yours? The cabinet will sit later.
	Or that with James there.
	They might not be able to vote themselves a bigger share of the ensuing increase in donations as wages.
	That might be the case. It does seem like a very internal, subterfused process.
	Callum's theory has some merit, but...
	This is the South Park one, so I'll leave that for you.
	Otherwise, we're as bad as the left.
	Veritas has been amazing, but if they're caving to those who are supposed to be taking down, they're not trustworthy anymore.
	I agree, and once again we need a bit more information before we can truly make our minds up, but from the optics of all of this and from what I've seen so far, I'm very much on James O'Keefe's side.
	Project Veritas has a lot of accusations that seem very vague and have already started to be debunked, whereas James seems very explicit and specific with what he's saying and even has screenshots and other such things of emails and text messages to back up what he's saying, so I'm very much more on James O'Keefe's side here.
	Kevin Fox says, one of the expenses for personal use was supposedly for his wedding.
	Oh yeah, we already read that one already.
	Sophie Liv Peterson, that's the South Park one.
	Shaker Silver. Something interesting about the backers of Veritas board pushing this decision is that they are also the same sort of shady corporate backers trying to get DeSantis into the presidential race.
	This is your point as well.
	Someone is looking to play divide and conquer with the right, just as George Soros encouraged.
	I wouldn't be surprised. And the thing is, as far as I'm concerned, the whole DeSantis jumping into the presidential race thing Are we aware of any explicit statements that he's made suggesting that he might?
	I know that they've started to do polling over who would people vote for in the primaries, but I've never heard DeSantis say anything about it himself, or even coming from anybody else.
	So it does seem very much like a manufactured thing to try and divide the right between DeSantis and Trump, because...
	It would be understandable. And sadly, Trump seems to have played into that, which is one of the things I'm not a huge fan of with Trump recently, as he's completely played into it just off the back of his own ego.
	Those two sides are sincere in their disagreements.
	One of the things I find, I don't know much about it, but I'd be interested to see what people say, because one of the major complaints is that Trump's truth social posts are increasingly kind of sporadic in the sense of going after DeSantis, right?
	Or promoting NFTs for some reason.
	Well, less that, but more the complaints about, like, he'll just make a tweet being like, Ron DeSantis was actually not that different for Florida, or blah blah blah.
	I mean, the NFT card things that he was promoting were just a massive smack to his credibility, as far as I'm concerned.
	It was so, so cringe.
	Pretty much everyone's forgotten about it.
	Yeah, but still. Like, the fighting with the Santas, though, I don't know if I'm wrong, but I sort of see this just in the vein of, do you remember when he ran in the primaries the first time?
	Do you not remember those debates?
	There was like 11 candidates in him, and it just turned into an S-posting match, in which he would just be shouting at each other about, like, you do nothing for the world, or, you know, the, what was it, Jeb over there?
	Not Jeb Bush. What happened to Jeb?
	Begging for people to clap him, please, please clap.
	Yeah, like, Trump's strategy in the original primary was to just be a mud monster, as Ben Shapiro points out.
	It worked, it was a good strategy, and I don't see it very different to what he's doing with DeSantis.
	I don't know, I just kind of see that...
	Well, I think it's because...
	Maybe he has lost his mind, but I see the sporadicness as just like, well, whatever.
	People see DeSantis as much more legitimate than a lot of those people.
	Like, who really cares about the sincerity of somebody like Jeb Bush, whereas DeSantis has actually been making useful moves in Florida.
	Now, I don't want him to move out of Florida.
	I don't think it would be a good idea for him to do a presidential run at the moment, just because it would split the American right, and also he is most effective where he is right now, and I think a lot of people in Florida would hate to see him go.
	So I just, I see it as very manufactured, as far as I'm concerned, and I don't like that Trump is...
	Jumped into it. What's going on?
	Someone's like, I still feel for Jeb.
	I vote Jeb every election now.
	Oh, really? Do you fill in your own little...
	That's why he keeps winning on every election.
	It's a Jeb nation.
	Kevin Fox says: "The board's comment about future funding would tend to make me look at connections between Project Veritas board members and Pfizer execs." And I'm sure that there are plenty of people looking into that as we speak.
	Omar Awad: "James O'Keefe is Project Veritas." That's how I see it.
	"Anybody trying to get rid of him is acting in direct opposition to the board's interests of keeping Project Veritas profitable." But what if it's the board doing it themselves?
	The only sensible conclusion is that destroying Project Veritas is the goal.
	Perhaps. Or perhaps it is just terrible business decisions, but it does seem very calculated.
	Well, certainly with the FBI currently, I think they're still investigating at least O'Keefe, if not Project Veritas themselves, just for the possession of, what was it, Biden's daughter's diary, or was it his granddaughter's? Who cares?
	Yeah, but well, they're still investigating them, so it's a...
	Showered my dad simulator was in there, that's all that everyone cared about.
	Yeah... God. Did you ever play that game?
	What? Do you not know that's an actual game, Show With My Dad Simulator?
	Is it? Are you having a shower with Joe Biden?
	Is that the game? No, there's probably a mod that does that.
	Oh, okay. But go on.
	You want to let me know, explain.
	No, it's fine. You just have a shower with your dad?
	Well, you're a young boy and you're in the, like, I don't know, like, swimming pool showers?
	And you've got to go find your dad.
	And if you run into someone else's dad, you lose.
	Because no one wants to run into someone else's dad.
	Showers. That's true.
	That's all true. James is partially to blame for giving control of his organization to randos with agendas.
	It's kind of racist, though. What?
	I just realized the way you match who you're with is based on the skin tone.
	Okay. I'm going to write an angry letter to the deaths.
	That makes sense to me. I thought you were going to say you can't play as black children.
	No, you can, but you can only find...
	But how do you find your dad? You've only...
	There's one black... I mean, we listened to Uncle Don earlier.
	I... You go and find your black dad, which is the only person...
	So you have to leave the swimming pool and go out on an adventure.
	You... You... You spawn... That's the expansion...
	Let me go. Is it age-restricted?
	Yeah, that's probably sensible, actually.
	Yeah, that makes sense to me. The money and expansion are not worth the risk of something like this happening.
	Okay, yeah, that all makes sense.
	Sorry, I was a bit distracted by my discussion there.
	Kevin Fox, here's a thought.
	Let's set up a business dinner. James O'Keefe and Elon Musk can then sit back with a beer and Doritos and watch the Veritas board come crawling around the corner with their hands held out.
	Also, Kevin Fox says one of the expenses for...
	Why does this- who keeps putting that in the document?
	Rick Archer: "The whole Project Veritas situation is what it looks like when someone like O'Keeffe does something powerful people do not like, and the power people squeeze everything around them to make the problem go away.
	Which probably speaking means O'Keeffe could have dirty laundry to air on the people on the board.
	All this to say, it's gonna be interesting to see how many bridges he's willing to burn going forward." Once again, it'll be interesting to see any more information that comes out about this.
	And Sophie says, Sorry, the document jumped for me.
	It wouldn't even be possible for James to do any of this if he didn't have a very assertive personality.
	That's my point. You've got to be assertive, you've got to be aggressive in a way that some people aren't going to like if you want to run a business like he was.
	And in a modern culture, many would find that offensive, but you know, that's how everything ever gets done.
	You need that tough assertive personality that pushes people.
	It's called pushing to get excellent, which is a big no-no in the world of equity.
	Yeah. Anyway, let's go on to the South Park comments.
	Did you find what you were looking for?
	Yeah, I sent it to you, John. If you want to load up a show with your dad simulator.
	Here we go. Not sponsored, sadly.
	Bleach Demon says, clearly Don Lemon, party, is just AI-generated deepfake clips.
	He would never spew such vile right-wing racist things.
	Clearly this is all programmed by black-white supremacists.
	Don Lemon, 2023, waiting command prompt.
	Yeah, that's probably his defense.
	Someone online says, I love how Don Limon said his, Women are in their primes in their twenties comments, while sitting between two single old bitter liberal raisins of women.
	That's a bit. He didn't read the room.
	He really didn't read the room.
	He should have known his audience.
	There we are. There's Dadathlon.
	The Dadathlon. Is that if you've got multiple dads?
	No, no, no. If you're in a very progressive family, you have to jump from dad to dad.
	You have to keep matching with your dad.
	Richard and Lefty.
	There we are. See? You spawn, and then, you know, scrub, and then you go find your dad.
	And then you spawn as a new kid, find his dad.
	There we are. Okay.
	It's about the importance of not going home with someone else's dad.
	I mean, that makes perfect sense to me.
	And how do you know who your dad is?
	You match up the skin color.
	Wrong dad! Racism, apparently.
	I think your characterization of it as racism is a little bit harsh.
	I could write a Vice article.
	No one would go and play the game.
	They'd just believe my BS if I was a Vice journo.
	True. You know, I bet someone has written that.
	Someone look that up. Yeah, John, look that up for us.
	VICE SHOWERS WITH YOUR DAD SIMULAR 2015 RACIST. Kayman Claire says if Harry and Megan think that they can sue South Park, they have genuinely lost the plot, they will have to get in line on a very sizable queue of people who have had their feelings hurt by the show.
	Yeah, if the Mormons, not the Mormons, what was it?
	The Scientologists couldn't do that.
	I mean, their own voice actor for Chef was a Scientologist who hated them for that episode, and they were like, bye, we're going to make an episode about how your characters are nonce.
	Scientology. It's effective.
	Works. Kevin Fox says, yep.
	There is no way you can say go away that will ever be effective as saying F off.
	Not quite sure what that was a reference to.
	Kevin Fox also says, Harry and Megan should be glad it was only South Park.
	Imagine splitting image with the original crew untouched by leftism if it was still running.
	I'd love to see the little puppets.
	I never liked spitting. I even went back and looked at the old spitting image.
	I'm not impressed. Maybe it's just my zoomer brain.
	I never really watched it, but I liked the little puppets that they did.
	They did the puppets, right?
	I'm thinking of the right thing.
	The only thing I can think of that they did that I quite liked is I've never met a nice South African.
	Have you seen that? No, I've not seen that.
	Can we find that?
	I don't know. No, it's not the original.
	Basically, there's this character who is like a traveller, and he's telling everyone about his amazing travels, and he's seen this and that, and he says, I've never met a nice South African, though.
	Literally impossible. You'll find the fanny youth before you find one of them.
	It's about apartheid. It's the cause of this.
	Yeah. Did they?
	I wasn't aware of that.
	I think they're like libertarian.
	I was going to say, I thought they were kind of centre-left libertarian types.
	But that is the only people that can have fun.
	Yeah, they did this whole couple of seasons where it just kind of...
	Nothing was really happening on the comedy front, which was pretty weird.
	I mean, still, I don't think the episode before this one was that funny, but this one, I think, did a pretty good job.
	Because they rely so much on topical news subjects for the episodes, they can be really hit and miss.
	Sometimes it can just be like, here's what's going on, isn't it silly?
	Well, it was a real change as well.
	Like, five seasons ago, they decided to start doing that.
	It was not what they did before.
	I don't know, they'd always, as far as I was aware, or at least as far as I remember, they'd always done a lot of weekly, on-the-nose topic-based...
	Never that fast. I mean, this is where...
	I mean, the presidential stuff is where that changed, because they even had to rewrite the episode where Donald Trump becomes president of Canada and builds a wall.
	Because it was meant to be an episode about Hillary Clinton and taking the piss out of her, and then she lost.
	They'd already done the episode.
	I mean, I remember, the one that I remember, the only one that I've, I've not watched that one, I remember the episode where it was, what was it, McCain versus Obama, and everybody thought the world was gonna end if either one won, and they all just started, like, partying in the streets, and then murdering each other, and then all of the- Obama's president, no more racism! Yeah, all of the McCain voters all decide to hide in bunkers.
	Yeah. We're basically out of time, so let's go for the South Africans.
	I don't know if we can play this.
	I don't even know if this one's good.
	I'm not even listening to this.
	Sorry, I took my ear. Muppet, you have to always be on the watch for stupid memes.
	All right. Go!
	I've traveled this whole world of Oz and Bazi to Peru.
	I've had sunstroke in the Arctic and a swimming Timbuktu.
	I've seen unicorns in Burma and a yeti in Nepal.
	And I've danced with temporal pygmies in a Monty Zuma hall.
	I've met the king of China and I work in Yorkshire minor, but I've never met a nice South...
	I didn't know that was an earwrecked version.
	Oh my god. It's deep fried.
	But either way, you get the point.
	I don't know, I just... All of the headphone users watching this podcast right now, I deeply and sincerely apologise for Callum's gross error of judgement.
	My point was just, every Gen Xer I ever meet is like, oh, do you remember spitting image?
	I don't know, I'm not impressed.
	But maybe there was less on back then.
	Yes, there was less on back then.
	I don't know. Back in my day, we only had four channels.
	Three of them were static.
	That's all. Come back tomorrow.

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