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April 10, 2023 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for...
	It's a Monday?
	So today we're going to be talking about... I'm joined by Dan.
	Hello.
	Today we're going to be talking about how corporations really are people, my friend.
	Zoomers are absolutely screwed and some universal truths.
	I think it's the 10th.
	Is it?
	Yeah.
	Sounds about right.
	Send in your letters.
	Otherwise, today, do I have anything to shill?
	I don't think I do for the beginning, so we can just get right into it.
	So corporations really are people, my friend.
	I don't know if you remember this quote from Mitt Romney.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, I sort of see the logic.
	I mean, the ownership structure and, you know, all the profits and, you know, the wages, it all passes through to people.
	So there is an argument.
	Well, it was more this, there was a Supreme Court decision about, you know, should companies be able to give out money as contributions?
	Right.
	Donations.
	Is that free speech?
	And if so, then corporations are basically people because they have the same First Amendment rights as Gotcha.
	Which is kind of mad.
	I'm very much on the not-pro-corporations-having-rights position.
	They're definitely psychopaths.
	But I think I can prove everyone else to be on my side.
	Not necessarily with legal arguments and such.
	But instead, corporations are cringe.
	Get them the hell out of here.
	Why should they have the right to... It's also just a whole thing of like...
	I own the company, so I'm going to spend all this money on speech instead of giving it to my employees.
	And it's like, right, that's just the owner's money then.
	But he's saying it's his corporation money that's spending it, so he can write it off.
	Whole other conversation.
	Yes, that makes perfect sense.
	Not going to bother with the legal side of it.
	Instead, going to bother with what do they spend their money on?
	We'll start off by promoting something, being the Ethicals Companies podcast.
	The collectivist ends without collectivist means.
	Crap, which is the reason stakeholder capitalism gets talked about so much.
	It's just justification for this sort of thing.
	But anyway, Main story.
	You probably saw it.
	Bud Light did the thing.
	Yes.
	The guy who says he's a girl.
	They gave him the sponsorship.
	I can't help but think they've slightly misunderstood their audience here.
	Yeah, and Dylan isn't very interesting.
	We've gone over his story in the past.
	If you go to the next link, you can see some more of that, which is that his past online activity was very clearly hashtag gay.
	Oh my god, I'm camp.
	Oh my god, I'm gay.
	Please pay attention to me.
	And then that, you know, post 2008 world died because no one cared that you were gay.
	Yeah.
	And in which case, all of a sudden he's like, hmm, I'm non-binary.
	Actually, I'm trans.
	I'm a girl, blah, blah, blah.
	Thing is, at least when I was a young man, you didn't have to worry about this sort of stuff unless you were taking a week into Bangkok.
	Sure.
	Whereas these days, it's just bloody everywhere.
	But like, the story of him, I'm not talking about, because he's clearly a narcissist who will literally just do anything for attention, and that's why he does what he does.
	You can prove that by just going back and scrolling through his TikTok account as we have previously.
	Don't want that mental image.
	But there you have that.
	Now, the real thing that's of interest to me is, um, well, Bud.
	Bud Light.
	Yes.
	Because you have to wonder, why?
	Why would you do this?
	And a lot of right-wingers have had some stares in the dark, where they've been like, well, you know, they're captured, or, um, well, they're trying to find a new audience, or something else.
	There's all these interesting stabs in the dark, but we can actually... Hang on, they're the market leader, and they sell to basically middle America white men.
	I mean, they must have some stats on their own consumption.
	Well, they know this, and we'll be able to prove they know it, because the person responsible for this campaign shift, and it's not just Dylan, there's always a whole bunch of other stuff they've been doing, well, is a real person.
	It's a human being, my friend.
	And you could just go and ask.
	Hello lady, why'd you do it?
	And she'll tell you.
	My inclusivity.
	And so, I thought we'd go and enjoy it.
	Just to start off, didn't actually win over any woke retards, in case you were wondering.
	Because their response was to just look at all the other donations that Bud make.
	And they went, hang on a minute, you donate to the fascists.
	Otherwise known as, um... Centrists and Republicans.
	There you are.
	There's just a list of campaign donations, which, um, makes... Yeah, they're all pretty captured as well, I think.
	Yeah.
	But we'll go to the next one, because, of course, the response was pretty normal, which is a lot of people.
	So this is the parent company.
	I can never pronounce that right.
	Can we explain for the audience, just in case there's anybody who doesn't follow Twitter, that Bud basically decided to have a tranny in a bath advertising their beer.
	We should probably mention that as well.
	I'm going to have to censor the T word there.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah, but the point being that they they sponsored Dylan to be like, this is the beer of Bud Light.
	Why drinking Bud Light will make you transgender?
	And it's like, OK, that's not really the selling point.
	And this guy can prove that because he's some affiliate for the parent company is like, yeah, no one's buying any of our beers anymore.
	They're buying all the other beers.
	Yes.
	Because obviously the affiliate company owns more than Bud Light, but literally all of them, people are boycotting, at least in his circumstance.
	Yes.
	So, good job.
	If you go to the next one, of course, there's a social media version, which is, well, them not posting, for one, because they've realised, oh, this is bad.
	That's a bit of a ratio, that is.
	But this is Bud Light not posting ever since this got announced, which has been like a couple weeks now.
	And they're just like, uh, sure.
	It's open month actually.
	Just don't say anything.
	And then the last thing here being on the social media front, people just shooting your product, which is what you want to see.
	Well, at least they bought some.
	I don't know.
	Might be the old stuff in the fridge.
	Yes.
	But there are a lot of these.
	This is just one.
	Point being, let's say you're the guy who owns shares.
	Yes.
	And then the marketing team come out with something, and the response is the public starts shooting your product.
	So I did the same thing with all my cans of Gillette, and I can't remember why now.
	I don't know.
	- Cans of Gillette.
	- No, well, the shaving foams.
	- Oh, right, right, I think we should use cans of razors.
	- Yeah, about a year ago.
	I can't remember what they did, but it made me, well, I don't have a shotgun, but it made me get out the old crossbow and blow up all my shaving cream, yeah.
	- Yeah, it had to go for some reason.
	I don't know, I just think it's a pretty bad day in marketing when the consumer base is destroying your product with their rifles, but who knows?
	What do I know?
	Well, you're not in marketing.
	Yeah, so we'll go to the frog memes that people were posting in response as well, which is, yeah, they're going to turn the frogs gay.
	That's all good fun, and I've enjoyed the social media game, and I think you'd have to be a moron to think this was a W for Bud Light.
	This is a big L. To be fair, I didn't have any Bud Light to destroy because it tastes like piss, and I don't know why Americans like it so much.
	Honestly, I'm thinking it's Prohibition.
	They destroyed their own beer-making culture, and then it had to come back.
	There is another version of Bud, which is the Czech version.
	That's quite good.
	Is it?
	Yeah.
	It's better than that one, anyway.
	I haven't tried, but I don't think it's hard.
	Anyway, Bud Light, poison.
	Don't drink it anyway.
	Who cares if it's turning the frogs gay?
	But we'll move to the next one, because, well, it turns out we can explain some things, because we found the woman.
	Go and ask the woman.
	Why'd you do it?
	Here you are.
	Right.
	So Elisa Gordon... something.
	She her, of course.
	Yes.
	VP Bud Light, first female to lead the largest beer brand in the industry.
	I mean, and obviously she's got her pronouns in her LinkedIn profile.
	Why would you not?
	In fact, that is a job for a rainy afternoon someday, to go through my LinkedIn profile and unlink everybody who's got pronouns.
	Yeah, not a bad move.
	We'll go to her LinkedIn, because there's a little bit more.
	You can see it's there, still there.
	I think she got rid of a photo, which is a bit weird, but whatever.
	Her past is that she's not done much.
	She's done like three things at universities, and then started working in marketing, and this is it.
	Well, she's now the chief marketer for BUD, so she'd be on like 140k.
	Yeah, Phoebe Budlight.
	I mean, she must be making a ridiculous amount, because we're going to go into her life in a minute, because she publishes all, which is a bit weird.
	But they say at the bottom of there, there's seven recent senior management hires at Budlight.
	So if we go to the next link, I think we can... Yeah, that's the parent company.
	And I just happened to notice that you have to have LinkedIn Premium, in case you want to stalk people who live their lives on LinkedIn.
	Not very worth the money, I would have thought, but okay.
	But one thing I mentioned here is that, so they have like one name and then six others, and you have to pay the money to go see the six others.
	The one name that did come up was Daniel Preston He Him.
	So okay, right, um...
	Yeah, I think I can guess as to why Bud Light did this, which is the people running the asylum are all he, him, she, hers, to say the least.
	This guy here, he's the VP Financial Planning and Analysis and Treasury for Bud, so good job.
	He attended Wilford Laurier University.
	Okay, so he's done lots of exams.
	Now, does that university remind you of anything?
	Wilfrid Laurier?
	Yes, I can't remember why now.
	We've failed, haven't we?
	Yes.
	Here's the next one, we can see why.
	It's that university that tried to destroy a woman's life because she dared to show three minutes of Jordan Peterson to her students.
	Oh yes, that one!
	Cool, that's a blast from the past, isn't it?
	Was that 2019?
	It's just funny how, like, you remember when we used to have the SJW compilations and then, oh, it was the professors getting kicked out and it was all going a bit mad.
	And everyone was like, oh, it's staying in the universities.
	Nah, man.
	It was only 2019.
	These people go work for Bud Light.
	They burst out like an orc horde, didn't they?
	And yeah, so that's that.
	These things really do progress.
	Right.
	And the lady in question, the VP, she does her life on LinkedIn as these weird, like, corpo people.
	I don't know if you want to call them reptiles, honestly.
	They're so weird.
	I don't know who uses LinkedIn, honestly.
	I have a LinkedIn profile.
	But it's one thing to have a profile, but these people who make updates all the time on their LinkedIn profile... Yeah, I must say, I haven't looked at it for a long time.
	They're commenting underneath posts and responding to comments in that fake corporate impersonation that they have to do for work.
	And you just think, Well, I did get out of this world for a reason because it's completely mad.
	It makes my skin crawl that people are faking being nice to each other on corporate posts because they want to do business in the future.
	Yeah, I can't even fake it.
	But we'll go to the next one here because we can see that.
	So this is her post from like a week ago.
	She said, looking back on the Super Bowl, we're so damn proud of how the campaign came together.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Not very interesting, right?
	But this is her most recent post.
	And the post is literally just underneath now, completely full of hate.
	Every single comment is like, what is wrong with you?
	Are you a groomer?
	Leave kids alone.
	Women are women.
	Grow up.
	She is an actual woman, isn't she?
	Because that's a hell of a set of gnashes on her.
	Oh, a real woman indeed.
	Right, okay.
	She could open a can the old-fashioned way, couldn't she?
	Oh man, she's got more like horse face than British politicians.
	It's another level.
	And if you want to scroll down, I don't know what things are going to turn up there, but we'll just look at some of the posts.
	There's just that one where he's like, oh, you're doing great.
	And then the next one is like, our brands have been used by the LGBT community.
	Oh god yeah and then you got people underneath she's been like groomer anyway yeah but you also have the occasional person who seems to work for her who's like oh the incredible team i love you've got the order how can you be so out of touch and stupid it's just like huh yeah um not a good day not a good day for her But it turns out there's a bit more to this lady's life than just, you know, local she-her-ruins-company-from-the-inside.
	Which, uh... I mean, yeah, there's a lot.
	But I found there was a New Yorker article about this woman's life.
	Right.
	And... Oh dear.
	I think this is a bit more of an interesting conversation, because it's not just local she-her-messes-around-finds-out, but more a massive cultural change that's going to happen in America, and is already happening, in the sense of where these people are as well.
	Because, remember... Right, in positions of influence and power.
	Not just that, but remember McCovid?
	Yeah.
	And then no one wanted to live in Manhattan anymore, because it turns out rats are quite bad.
	So people didn't want to live amongst the sewer rats anymore.
	Yeah, you've got to get out of Democrat cities, which is, well, all of them.
	So this is an article from like, what is it, 2021 there?
	Right.
	The Rise of the Covid Midlife Crisis by some woman, who cares.
	But she writes about Alicia over here, and her life, and it's fascinating, to say the least, at least for me.
	So I don't know what the article is I'm getting here.
	But I bet this is going to be something like, because they were home, they were out of the office for a short period, they suddenly realise what the rest of their life is going to be like when they're not in a corporate environment.
	Is that vaguely close?
	Yeah.
	Basically childless and alone, and they're thinking to themselves, if I ever get fired, I've got another 40 to 50 years of this.
	Yeah, I mean it's this weird thing, it seems to happen more in career women than career men, but you suddenly have a moment and you go, what am I doing with my life?
	And instead of realising she actually has everything, she's got kids, wonderful husband, God knows how much money in the bank from what they seem to do.
	She didn't then go, huh, I'm retiring, see ya.
	She instead went, how can I change the world?
	Maybe.
	Maybe she was retiring.
	You know in the way that these school shooters, it's all basically just suicide, but you know, they're gonna take some other people out with them.
	This is the corporate version of that.
	She wants to quit her job, but she wants to get a redundancy package and take the company down with her while she goes.
	Well, let's read through her life.
	I don't want to psychoanalyse random people too much, but she definitely seems to be representing a big thing that's happening in the United States.
	So the writer writes, I have a friend, Alicia Weirdname, who works in marketing in unpronounceable company, parent company of Bud Light.
	This has always been slightly hilarious, because Alicia is one of the last people I picture when I think beer.
	Yeah.
	Pretty weird to put her in charge of marketing, wouldn't it?
	She's a former teen harpist.
	In college, she was known for planning her schedule in every 20-minute increment.
	Oh god, one of them.
	Not shotgunning cold ones.
	Which immediately makes me think, this is like when you find out the new guy in charge of Game Company used to sell, like, Coke bottles.
	Knows nothing about video games.
	If you asked him, he'd be like, Candy Crush and Call of Duty?
	Yes.
	And you're like, no.
	No, we make RPGs.
	Because whenever I've gone for a job interview, they always ask something along the lines of, what do you think about the company?
	What do you know about the company?
	Something like that.
	It kind of feels that Bud maybe should have done this, because when she answered, I hate you and everything you stand for and your entire customer base, that could have been a clue.
	It's just, I don't know, it's this long-standing thing in my opinion that I don't know why you would put someone who doesn't understand the product in charge of the company, no matter how much you're like, oh, but that's the financial side of this.
	I don't really believe A bit like they do with basically everything in America these days.
	Any like engineering or gaming position I've ever looked at?
	Disney or Star Wars, yep.
	When they end up just parachuting in some weirdo to be the CEO who knows nothing about the industry.
	Always ruins, always fails.
	So in 2020, rolled around, Alicia was living her Manhattan dream life.
	Oh yes, who doesn't want to live in Manhattan?
	She'd been promoted to head of direct-to-consumer marketing, a position she designed herself.
	She wanted this life.
	And had hired a team of employees to work under her.
	She and her husband, Henry, had three kids, a newborn and three-year-old twins.
	They lived within walking distance of the parent company's Chelsea office in Manhattan.
	That's pretty bougie.
	She was on a bit more than 140 then.
	Yeah, I looked up, just like the apartments nearby, just on some website.
	And if you go to the next link, the closest I could find was about seven grand a month.
	Yes.
	For what I presume she would need?
	I was out by a factory with at least two.
	Yeah, I mean, that's the sort of cheapest in that area.
	There are a lot worse, like 10 grand, 25 grand a month for the bougier ones.
	Unless she brought something.
	I don't think she brought something.
	Who buys something in San Bernardino?
	Are you mad?
	Anyway, getting back to her life.
	But point being, she was on, who knows?
	And then her hubby doing God knows what.
	But we'll go back to the story.
	Then the coronavirus pandemic happened.
	Right.
	The family packed up their belongings and headed to an Airbnb in San Diego.
	They're just buying a house, but whatever.
	I'm gonna move to an Airbnb, sorry.
	So she's one of those people who, I bet she would have been absolutely hysterical about COVID and about how everybody needs to stay locked up inside, and then she clears off to somewhere with some space.
	Like they all did.
	How could you make such guesses, Dan?
	Okay, she moved though where her brother also lives in San Diego.
	She didn't move in with him, she moved into an Airbnb, which is okay.
	Her mother moved in to help childcare.
	17 months later, the family is still there.
	They decide not to move back to the damn city of hell.
	Before COVID-19, she said, I'd go to visit for five days and be like, get me back to the East Coast.
	Everything moves too slow.
	But then the place grew on her.
	The kids were riding bikes and visiting the neighbor's pet rabbit, and the air was full of bird songs.
	They went outside.
	I don't live in Mega City.
	My child isn't pale and pass it anymore.
	What's going on?
	There's no guy on the subway trying to kill me because I'm the wrong race.
	This is weird.
	Anyway, her husband had taken to tooling around the neighborhood in a golf cart.
	I feel like I just slipped into someone else's life, she told me.
	It's kind of wonderful.
	And this is really interesting to me, because you've got all these people who, if the pandemic lockdowns hadn't happened, right?
	These people would still be living in the office, running the rat race, blah blah, weird dem life in the city.
	And instead, they've moved all across the country.
	She moved to San Diego, but there's plenty of others we've seen moving all over the place.
	And we've seen the data, which is that California and New York are leaking people like mad, and they're all going to Texas and Florida.
	Yeah, I was reading a thing today about the sheer amount of office space that's going to have to get bulldozed soon.
	Yeah, and there's that financial crisis coming, but on a human level, I'm looking at that and thinking, huh, that explains a lot of the refugees who are all leaving those two places, but are still, like Elisa over here, got big ideas about to change the world, as we'll see.
	She wondered what Else might deserve a re-examination.
	Like, for example, her job.
	She had lobbied for this position.
	Getting it had been a triumph.
	But she felt depleted at the end of each day, like something was missing.
	She thought about an earlier chapter in her life, more than a decade ago.
	When she was 25, she'd gotten stage 3 melanoma.
	And then it goes through, like, you know, dealing with cancer.
	Which, bad.
	It had been a lonely excruciating process.
	She'd developed an informal sideline counselling women who were considering surrogacy or in vitro fertilisation who were also dealing with cancer, or a combination of the two.
	Was there some female-orientated group that she could start at the beer company?
	Or a side gig?
	She wanted to help people in her own cohort, professional achievement-orientated women in their late to mid-30s.
	That's how 100 Women in 100 Days began, starting this past May.
	Alicia capped off each day with a phone call to a woman.
	I mean, she could have just, y'know, tried to get a job at Haagen-Dazs or something.
	Or whatever the American version is.
	This is the chef.
	Like, she's no longer money.
	And instead, how can I do good?
	How can I inject cancer into any remaining aspect of American virtue?
	She instead, the 100 women 100 days thing, I went and gave it a look-see.
	It's mostly just her talking to high, let's say, achieving women in business, and then talking about how crap life is.
	How desperately unfulfilled we are.
	Yeah, I don't want to get into that, but it was a bit weird how everyone was just like, yeah, I'm not very happy.
	Yeah, I wonder why that is.
	I'm not getting into that.
	So, COVID-19 hit women especially hard.
	Their participation in the workforce has dropped to the lowest level since 1988.
	Many of them had moved across the country.
	A good number of them had left their jobs, scaled back their work, or found another employer, typically to spend more time with their families.
	But the women were also pursuing a wide variety of creative goals.
	Studying herbal medicine.
	Right, okay.
	It's again, it's another one of those articles, Meteor Destroys Earth, Women Most Affected.
	What did women do once they started herbal medicine?
	Not any women I know, but okay.
	Founding anti-hate groups.
	I don't know any women who did that either.
	Starting zero waste beverage companies.
	Right, okay, I mean, this tells us something.
	This author knows the lady in question.
	They seem to be friends.
	The circles of friends these people have are probably insufferable as hell.
	Who the hell starts an anti-hate group?
	I mean, he has to be a proper weirdo.
	Because, I mean, we just can't find enough hate in the West for it to be serviced.
	There are so many anti-hate groups and so little hate to find, they're fighting each other over who can get the story.
	If anyone started just a hate group, I mean, they could get really rich because they would just capture the market at this point because there's such demand for it.
	I have a basic fee.
	This is the Ku Klux Klan model.
	If you want the Nazi model, that'll be... You know, someone will actually end up offering that as, like, a gold service.
	Well, a Democrat senator, presumably.
	Well, that did happen in Florida, actually.
	Oh, really?
	Do you remember there was a Ron DeSantis... I was thinking of Robert Byrd, but you're thinking of...
	No, no, there was this Ron DeSantis thing, I can't remember what was going on, and some people turned up with, like, tiki torches, um, doing white supremacist shit, and then... Oh, okay.
	Good business model.
	People were like, who are these guys?
	Like, because Ron DeSantis people don't look like this.
	They looked them up, they found every one of their names.
	They actually all worked for the local Democrat campaign.
	Right, okay.
	They just turned up and pretended.
	Oh, I remember that one now, yes.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, at least it wasn't the Feds this time, it was just Democrats, or whatever difference that makes.
	So the question's asked, why is this happening?
	What we see over seven years of research is that any way you slice up the data, women have it less favorable work experience than men, Loretta Yee said.
	Even pre-COVID, working women were far more likely to have reports of feeling isolated and exhaustion.
	And it was especially true for women of color.
	Actually writes itself, doesn't it?
	Is it possible that maybe corporate life isn't a woman's natural environment?
	I don't know.
	There are some women that obviously suit it, and that's their goal, and that's what they want to do.
	The idea that the number of women who want to do that is equal to the number of men who want to do that, and will be fulfilled doing it.
	I mean, the number of men who are fulfilled doing that is tiny.
	So the idea that, yeah, women would want to do that is mad.
	But the point being, she's moved across the country, as so many refugees have, and then has done this, and is now responsible for Dylan Mulvaney over there.
	The final straw, an outside world that seemed to be falling apart.
	I spoke to one of Alicia's subjects, a marketing executive named Jessie, who described the thoughts that kept running through her head as she attended Zoom meetings last summer.
	Quote, the world is literally on fire.
	Income inequality is out of control.
	Racial injustice is horrifying and crying out for a resolution.
	And I'm here writing pitches for big box retailers about how they can sell more products that people don't need.
	I'm getting more and more convinced about my theory that this is, this is sort of corporate suicide.
	This is, this is the massive resignation type thing going on.
	Death of corporate America right there.
	Yes.
	When the people you've hired in your high paying jobs, I mean, yeah, the whole thing's a bit of a house of cards and got some problems, but here, you've now helped them out of the, out of the office, halfway across the country, and they're all having this mental crisis breakdown.
	Suddenly realizing how hollow their life is.
	But because they're like American left-wingers, they don't turn around and say, hang on a minute, maybe what matters is my family.
	Maybe what matters is this time I've got on Earth, I can try and enjoy things maybe, or build something.
	No, instead it is, what matters is racial justice.
	Because they've got this cognitive dissonance going on where they can clearly see the world around them does not conform to their existing mental models, so they just try and force it through the hole with even more violence.
	So let's check in.
	This clip went viral, of course, in response.
	But I think that going through that was important to lay out to you as to why this person ends up like they are.
	And this is Elisa over here explaining in her own words why she is doing the corporate school shooting.
	I'm going to start using that, that's perfect.
	Of what she did in the marketing world.
	Let's play.
	I'm a businesswoman.
	I had a really clear job to do when I took over Bud Light.
	And it was, this brand is in decline.
	It's been in decline for a really long time.
	And if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand, there will be no future for Bud Light.
	So I had this super clear mandate.
	It's like, we need to evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brand.
	And my, what I brought to that was a belief in Okay, what does evolve and elevate mean?
	It means inclusivity.
	It means shifting the tone.
	It means having a campaign that's truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter and different and appeals to women and to men.
	And representation is at sort of the heart of evolution.
	You've got to see people who reflect you in the work.
	And we had this hangover.
	I mean, Bud Light had been kind of a brand of Okay, so her mandate is to increase the market share, and she does that by dropping white men and replacing them with trannies.
	Of which there is like- Stop saying that word, I've got a sensor out.
	But yeah, basically, that's um- That make up like 0.2% of the population, or 20% of a Californian school, I suppose, I don't know.
	But this is the weird thing about the polling.
	I mean, there's some truth in that, as the people who are showing the amount of indoctrination Gen Z have, American Gen Z. Like, sure, that's true.
	I don't think she's Gen Z, though.
	No, no, no.
	The point being that she's going to advertise Bud Light to Gen Z, which is, how are you going to do that?
	How?
	By being a retarded leftist.
	And it's like, okay, that's a great idea.
	Jon's put down here, men don't drink beer, women drink.
	That's a marketing expert.
	Yeah, there's also the whole, you ever seen a beer advert ever?
	You haven't noticed the big theme?
	I don't watch TV.
	You don't have to.
	Every beer advert ever is, hot women, fast cars, you in a suit.
	That's the pitch.
	Like the old Gillette adverts.
	I'm starting to remember why I blew up my Gillette now.
	This is why beer marketing has always been a bit of a meme.
	It's a good, stable, cool audience.
	Half the planet.
	But nah, throw that out, I guess.
	Because, you know, New World Order or something.
	Love, just quit your job.
	You don't need it.
	They don't need you.
	Have they fired her yet?
	Apparently not.
	Oh, really?
	I don't know why they haven't.
	But she doesn't even need them.
	She's got plenty of money.
	She's got a family.
	She's got a nice settled area in San Diego.
	You know, just stay out of Texas and Florida and the rest of the world will be somewhat happy with you.
	And yeah, you could spend the rest of your days munching hay with your teeth.
	And that would be the end of it, but instead, no, you have to go do this, do you?
	Anyway, there's the full podcast, in case you're wondering, if you want to go and see more of her insight, but it's not unusual, in my point.
	I don't think I do.
	Weirdly common, and an increasing trend in American life.
	We'll go with the last article here, just because I think the New York Post summated the position here quite well.
	Elite white woman push idea that there's no such thing as gender.
	Another day in America.
	I'm so itching to use that word that you have to censor again.
	That's a good thing I'm cutting this off here.
	Let's go to the Zoomers.
	Yes, well, Lotus Eater's office has quite a few Zoomers, and they're not wildly optimistic about the way things are going.
	Indeed, this weekend a premium hangout dropped, which is this one here, which was Harry and Rory getting into the Zoomer question.
	So, I thought, look, I don't have a dog in this particular fight, I'm an Xeniel, actually, which is the micro-generation just between Gen X and Millennials.
	And I have a house, I even remember what CFAX is, so I thought I'd lend my own considerable gravitas to this particular topic, and I would decide if Zoomers are screwed or not.
	So, the way that I decided to go about this was empirically, I thought I'd treat this as an analyst would, and I picked an employer, a big employer, which is Tesco's, which is our version of Walmart if you are An American or a shop if you're from anywhere else.
	And I decided that I would pick this because it is representative of a sort of job that everyone could go into.
	So it's a sort of fairly mainstream job, retail job, you know, fair enough.
	And it's got different bands in it and you can find the salaries on this website, Glassdoor, fairly easily.
	So I thought this would be a good start.
	I started my analysis by looking at a retail assistant, which is, you know, noble work, but sort of general dog's body in a store, you know, you stack the shelves and so on, but perfectly honourable work, so I don't mean to knock it down, but it is... I don't know who hasn't done it.
	Yeah, it is an entry-level sort of position, and they pay, well, you know, these are slightly different numbers than what I got, but basically 21 grand a year is what you get for doing that.
	So then I thought, okay, right, Let's assume you've got a couple of kids, your wife or possibly husband, depending on which way round the main breadwinner works.
	Let's assume you work 36 hours a week, the sort of standard full-time job, and the other one works, say, 16 hours a week.
	And just for the purposes of this analysis, let's say the second one earns the same as the first one.
	So what does that get you?
	Feed that into a mortgage calculator, and what it says is you can borrow 92 grand a year.
	Right, and let's assume that you've saved up half your salary so you can afford to spend £100,000 on a property.
	What does that get you?
	Where does that sort of put you onto the property ladder?
	So I had a bit of a look on Rightmove for a random town, picked one, Swindon, in the UK.
	And I found this.
	So this is a house in Swindon that you can buy for £100,000.
	Let's have a look at the pictures on that.
	Beautiful outside?
	Yeah, so for those of you who are just listening to this, I think... Oh, beautiful outside.
	Click through, rumble through, yeah.
	So I think an estate agent might call this a... A project?
	Yeah.
	Something like that.
	So, I mean, yes, it's sort of weeds growing throughout it and there's no wallpaper and not much in the way of carpets and... Yes.
	Hopefully someone died in it to leave it in this state.
	Um, possibly several years before they were discovered.
	So it's not in prime condition, but you know, at least you can buy a house.
	Well, at least that was my thinking until you spotted something, didn't you?
	Yeah, I've been looking for a house, so I've picked up on all these things.
	You want to scroll down a little bit, John.
	You may have noticed, not only are they already sold, but they say in here that this is an auction property.
	Right, okay.
	So 100 grand was the baseline price for the auction, and then whoever bought it would have bought it for a lot more, because it would have gone, you know, 110, 120, 130, blah blah blah.
	And they just don't tell you what price it was sold for.
	But at least in theory, you could have bought it, because it is possible... You can see there, like, guide price 100k to 150k.
	And that's not where it stopped.
	Yeah, but I mean... This is the only house I could find that these people could buy.
	Yeah, well, I happen to know they could buy a one-bedroom apartment in Swindon.
	Okay.
	For them and their two kids.
	Yeah, I ruled that out.
	I just wanted to go with houses, because nobody says I want to buy an apartment, do they?
	Also, I want to buy a house.
	A one-bedroom one.
	So anyway, in theory, you can get a mortgage that covers you at auction.
	It is possible to get them.
	They're hard to find, but you can get them.
	I think at auction you have to pay cash as well.
	No, it is possible to get a mortgage for auction.
	It's just that very few people offer them.
	And I don't know if people still do.
	But anyway, it has been a thing, and you could have potentially bought that at auction for 100k.
	So if you save all your money and work very hard, this is what you could get.
	Yes.
	So then I thought, okay, well, Tesco's retail assistant is the sort of entry-level position.
	So let's say that you apply yourself diligently and you turn up on time and you don't steal anything and you do all the right sort of behaviours that sort of work you up the tree and you get to assistant manager level.
	Well, where does that get you?
	Assistant manager is about £27,500 a year.
	So again, went to the mortgage calculators and I fed it in and I said, you know, what does this give us?
	Again, assuming two kids and assuming a wife who owns the same but part-time instead of full-time.
	And again, half your salary as a deposit.
	Where does that get you?
	Well, they're prepared to lend you 162,000 pounds a year for your mortgage, add on the deposit of 15k and you're looking at a sort of 175.
	So what can you get with that?
	So I went to the next property, John.
	There you go, 170 grand property in Swindon.
	Let's have a scroll through this one to see what you get.
	It's better.
	Well, you say that on the first picture, yeah.
	So, again, if you're listening, this I might also describe as a project, because, again, there's no carpets.
	I mean, there is wallpaper, but it's from the 1960s.
	Bits of the roof are missing.
	Yeah, bits of the roof are missing.
	No fungal growth in this one, I note, so it is worth more than the other one.
	Yeah, so definitely, in fact, I was starting to worry, maybe this is just how people in Swindon live.
	Yeah, I had that worry too.
	Yeah.
	So, I don't know if this is normal.
	Maybe people are watching this segment thinking, what's the fuss about?
	Yeah, I won't ruin it until you finish selling this property.
	I don't have a property to tell you about.
	I love that.
	So, how are you going to ruin this one for me?
	Well, this one's up for £170, you say?
	Except it's cash buyers only.
	So you've got to have £170,000 in cash.
	Okay, that's because the kitchen's ripped out and you can't get a mortgage on something that doesn't have a kitchen or a bathroom.
	I don't know.
	You can get around the auction thing, you can't get around the kitchen and the bathroom thing.
	So if you're Zuma, what are you going to save?
	How many years?
	So you've got £170,000 in cash?
	It's going to be a while.
	Right.
	The thing I wanted to tell you about, there was actually another property I saw, I don't know, it must have been about a month back, I was circling around, £200,000 in Swindon Centre, on Manchester Road, which for anyone who knows Swindon is where a local man tried to, very local man, tried to behead his ex-girlfriend not too long ago.
	Oh, is that the bit of town that I have to drive through in order to get here, the area that, how do I describe it, it's enriched?
	Very enriched.
	Anyway, so this property, I found it there.
	I looked at it.
	It was covered in mould, everywhere.
	The weirdest thing, though, was that there's the toilet, okay?
	And then in front of where your feet would be, when you're on the toilet, all of the... It was just missing.
	You could look straight down into the front room!
	I was just like...
	When did that break?
	And when did they just leave it?
	Whoever lived there just thought, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I'll just, you know, say hi to my mum while I'm doing my business.
	Right, okay.
	200 grand.
	Right, anyway.
	So, back to Tesco's.
	Let's assume that you climb the greasy pole all the way to the top and you become a store manager.
	You're now on 40 grand... How old are you by this point?
	I don't know, maybe you could make a store manager by your early thirties, maybe?
	Yeah, maybe.
	Yeah, if you keep your nose clean, you know, you could do that.
	So you're on £40,000 a year, seems reasonable.
	So again, I did the whole thing, you know, wife who works same salary, you know, half the number of hours, two kids, £20,000 deposit this time, because you can save a bit more, and you've got this thing.
	So, I mean, that is finally reasonable.
	I mean, that's just a normal sort of semi-detached house and, you know, it has carpets and walls and... Well, it's considered highly luxurious.
	Yeah, that seems, you know, that is perfectly reasonable.
	So congratulations if you're the person trying to sell this house and we're plugging it to 300,000 people, you know, you're bound to get a taker because I think that's a nice house.
	So you're doing perfectly well.
	Right, so then basically I started thinking to myself, okay, so It is just about possible, if you're a Zoomer, to get a house.
	It can happen.
	It's just a bit difficult.
	So let's compare this to past generations.
	And I found this website, Love Property, UK house prices from the year you were born to today.
	And if you scroll through, it's just a whole load of, you know, different years and the house prices at the time and what it is in today's money.
	So anyway, so I thought, let's pick a number of case studies.
	So I decided to pick people born in 1956.
	If you were born in 1956, by the way, you basically won the demographic lottery, because you got the maximum amount of wage growth over your lifetime, plus you get the maximum amount of benefits from the pension system and all that kind of stuff.
	So 1956, you're doing well.
	So let's say you wanted to buy a house when you turned 21.
	Which was not unreasonable back then.
	You would have been turning 21 in 1977.
	In 1977, that was the year that this website tells us that the king of rock and roll died on the toilet.
	Presumably not speaking to his mum at the time.
	And, you know, the average house price then was £13,000, right?
	Which is £81,000 in today's money.
	So there has been, and that would mean for an average house as well, which would probably be a bit like the last one that we saw there, a three bed semi, something along those lines with a garden.
	Yeah, not covered in mould or anything.
	So £81,000 in today's money.
	Then I thought, okay, what if you're Gen X, what if you're born in 1974, you know, you might be trying to buy your house in 1995.
	That was the year that OJ Simpson, um went to trial um of course we now know that he was innocent um and uh and the average house price then was 51 grand um which is apparently 100 grand in today's money so um uh yep that that seems and again you know not too bad you can get around that okay what about if you're a millennial what if you were born in 1988 and so you would have turned 21 in 2009
	Well, according to this website, that was the year that Barack Obama came into the White House.
	And back then, house prices were $156, which is $214 in today's money.
	that Barack Obama came into the White House.
	And back then, house prices were 156, which is 214 in today's money.
	So a considerable jump up from Gen X to millennials.
	And then my final case study, before I start trying to make this interesting, which was Zoomers.
	Let's say you're born in 2001, so you're turning 21 now.
	And the house prices are...
	Um, 294,000 for an average house, or in today's money, 294.
	But that's the whole country?
	Yes.
	Because remember, of course, if you live in the south...
	Yeah, it includes the north, where nobody lives.
	Yeah, and Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and Wales, and God forbid, Cornwall.
	But if you live in the South, it gets even worse.
	It goes into the drain or something.
	Oh yes, much worse.
	I'm going to let you in on a thing I know.
	This is my escape plan.
	So there's a place in England called Copeland.
	Sounds like a meme, right?
	Really?
	Yeah, it's next to the Lake District.
	Right.
	Houses there, okay?
	You can get like a three-bedroom, two-bedroom house.
	Eighty grand.
	Oh.
	Like it's the fifties still.
	Just because nobody bloody lives there.
	Nobody wants to live there.
	There's a big asbestos mine at the top of the hill blowing all over the...
	Every, I don't know, but every graph of like every province in England, how's the house prices changed.
	Copeland just like ignored the economy and it just stayed like it's the 1950s.
	Oh brilliant.
	So I don't know what's there.
	Presumably Mordor.
	I don't know, at least you could buy some.
	So that's my escape plan.
	I just find it funny that your example of what you could buy in the 50s, sorry, or 60s, is exactly what is available only in Copeland.
	Now you've just blagged it on a sort of major podcast.
	All right, no one else buy on.
	Come around your house.
	So anyway, so then I had a theory.
	I thought, okay, well, let's look at population in relation to house prices.
	So I found this website, Macro Trends.
	And so, again, my case studies.
	In 1977, the population was 56 million.
	And then for our Gen Xers, when they came of age, it was 58 million.
	When the Millennials came of age, it was 63 million.
	And current day, it's apparently 68 million.
	Okay, that's interesting.
	Right, then I looked at the amount of migration to try and explain what's going on here.
	Now, net migration over those times, again, for the Boomers, when they came of age, net migration was, for every 1,000 people, the net migration in that particular year was 0.2 of a person.
	And actually it fluctuates either side of the line.
	So some years it was below, some, you know, there's net people leaving, and some people it was above.
	For the X generation, when they came of age, it was one person per thousand.
	For the Millennials, when house prices significantly shot up, net migration per person was seven.
	A significant increase, and apparently officially today it's at 2.5.
	So that might explain that big spike up, right?
	Then I looked at population density.
	I won't bore you with the numbers, but anyway, I got a whole list of the population densities.
	And then I thought to myself, well actually...
	I seem to remember when I was working in a finance role, it was a bit of an open secret actually.
	The population of the country was significantly higher than the official numbers.
	I'm going to steer you towards this article from City AM.
	This is something that went up once.
	Oh no, this is The Independent, sorry.
	So this is an article that went up once and then never saw the light of day again.
	It got sort of suitably crushed.
	And this is basically a financial journalist who's been speaking to a whole bunch of food corporations.
	I'll explain what I mean by this, but he basically thinks that the population, in fact, well, he doesn't think this, he's been told by multiple sources, the population of Britain back in 2007 was at least 77 million, if more like 80,000.
	Let me read from the article.
	So, my source for the above statements are good, but scared of admitting the truth for fear of incurring the wrath of Whitehall.
	It's like the best way of monitoring illegal drug consumption.
	Forget the pious statements from ministers.
	The foolproof method is to sample our water and effluents in it.
	That's easily the best way of monitoring what the nation has been consuming.
	And he also looks at the consumption side.
	Based on what we eat, one big supermarket chain reckons there are at least 80 million people living in the UK.
	The demand for food is a reliable indicator.
	As Sir Richard Branson says, you can have all the money in the world, but you can only eat one lunch and one dinner.
	The supermarket in question was privately lobbying the competition commission to let it grow its market share.
	The argument went, reasonably enough, that if the market was far bigger than the regulator realised, so expanding the network was fair.
	I have a second respectable source, well, third if you count the effluent processor.
	A major non-commercial agricultural institution reckons there are 77 million of us in the UK.
	Again, its reckoning is based on what we eat.
	David Bolk, a money manager and broker with BCG Partners.
	He was talking of one million Eastern Europeans unaccounted for in London last week on television.
	I suspect he's right, although he's got conservative estimates.
	So anyway, so he's basically describing how he's getting multiple sources from companies whose job it is to know how many total people there are in the UK from feeding them and saying that the population is significantly higher.
	So if I did that, and then I rework those density assumptions, then I think that it starts to become a little bit more explainable how we got here.
	But then I thought, OK, what I can then do is, what if I expressed house prices as a function of population density?
	So I plugged in these new numbers, and the ratio between population density and house prices suddenly smooths out a lot, because you get the boomers, then you get the Gen X, and then you get the millennials.
	Suddenly that all smooths out.
	And if I apply the same numbers today, it strongly suggests that there are 91 million people living in the UK today.
	Wouldn't be surprised.
	Against an official population of 68 million.
	Shall I give you a fourth indicator of that as well?
	Go on then.
	The one used in UKIP all the time was toilet paper sales.
	Ah, yes.
	Because again... Again, you've only got one arse to wipe.
	You know, maybe the occasional house gets teepeed, but that's about all you're really doing.
	So, it was a pretty good indicator of, yeah, things are bad.
	Yes, that makes perfect sense.
	So, I mean, I will just, if there are any olds watching this, I would ask you this question.
	Does it really feel like, and these are the official numbers, that there are 20% more people living in the UK today than in 1977?
	Now, I don't remember 1977 because I wasn't born then, but I do remember the 80s, and it does not feel like there was 20% more people.
	It feels, like my numbers that I've just sort of computed above, it feels like 50% is closer to the number.
	But if you are an old person watching this, do comment down below and let me know if you think that 20% or 50% is more likely.
	Now, what does this mean for us?
	I'm going to throw you up what a U.S.
	demographer has been talking about in relation, so this is in relation to the U.S., but it's the same logic.
	Let's listen to this.
	I talked about the new misery in the United States, and things like the deaths of despair.
	It took our health sciences economy a decade and a half to realize that the poor whites were killing themselves in these tragic new ways.
	This problem of slower improvements in educational attainment has been in our face for almost 40 years and so far as I can tell not more than a handful of economists and educators have even noticed it.
	I do not have the answer for why it has happened.
	I can tell you where it is happening.
	The epicenters are Native-born Americans, native-born American men, native-born American Anglo man.
	There's a big overlap with the deaths of despair problem.
	So he's basically, that whole interview is him going into the massive rise, death of despair of natively born white men in America.
	I don't think we've got quite the same sort of level of suicide and despair in this country.
	We haven't had the same opioid crisis here, but I certainly suspect there's a lot of the despair.
	He then goes on later in the interview to talk about how basically the social insurance programs I've basically simply gone far too high.
	It's something that I talk about on Broeconomics all the time about how it's a Ponzi scheme, how you can't possibly support the number of people that are retiring today because basically the boomers were a very large population and the Zoomers are a small generation and the Zoomers trying to support the boomers in retirement is basically not going to function.
	Let's have a look at his second clip where he goes into that aspect a bit more.
	We've got a kind of a Ponzi scheme problem on our hands.
	And as you indicated, Peter, as long as you've got a growing base to the pyramid in relation to the recipient peak, you can be pretty generous.
	When things flip around, you get whipsawed really fast.
	We haven't We do not seem to have any appetite in either political party for balancing our budget and controlling our national finances the way we would with our household budgets.
	And we have gotten into the very dangerous habit of borrowing to pay for current consumption.
	So the sums don't add up anymore, it's causing despair, it's not going to work.
	Let's now turn to this article, which I think was quite apropos.
	It's basically saying that the overtaxed young really might as well flee.
	Now there's a couple of interesting points on here which chimes very clearly with me and this whole thesis of Zoomer's.
	The UK is continuing its miserable drift towards becoming statist and interventionist.
	As of this summer, a staggering 3.5 million Brits won out-of-work benefits.
	Far from doing anything to end this scandal.
	Hunt has sent a clear message.
	You'll be better off relying on the contribution of taxpayers than working for themselves.
	Now despite empty promises of fiscal conservative this government spending as a percentage of GDP is now 30% higher than it was 22 years ago under Tony Blair.
	Hunt is throwing yet more billions at our NHS despite there being record 7 million people waiting on it and it's gone up considerably since then.
	Then there's homeownerships.
	Our home of- owning a home are being dashed by NIMBYs, reluctant local councils and governments too cowardly to do anything about them.
	This is the rise of the anti-grove coalition that Liz Trust warned us about.
	Now I've often said that Liz Trust, she wasn't particularly bright, but she was basically right directionally about all of this stuff.
	The article finishes off by saying Hunt is committed to intergenerational theft.
	There's no other way of looking at it.
	We're being plunged into an economic decline as a result of this government's reckless borrowing and spending as well as its addiction to failed brownite economic model.
	Yes, it's not great.
	I wanted to sort of have a look at when this might turn around for the Zoomers, again going by the lens of demographics.
	Now, the thing with the Boomers is there was basically two peaks in population.
	The second, much greater peak, was in 1963.
	Now, I don't want to be too dark about this, but you combine that with average life expectancy in this country for 60 year olds, which is 84 for men and 87 for women, And what it basically means is that by the year 2047 there's going to be a lot of very reasonably priced four bedroom detached houses with nice gardens coming on the market.
	It's nice to have a date.
	Yes.
	It's nice to finally know.
	Yes.
	Now that's quite good for me because my kids will be in their early 30s then and you know how it goes a bank of mum and dad so it's not going to be so cumbersome for me but if you were Zuma born in say 2001 you're going to be 46.
	By the time that rolls around.
	So there is going to be a bit of a wait.
	And it's not like you can vote your way out of this because boomers still utterly dominate politics.
	And they're not going to vote away their gives.
	They're not going to vote away their pension entitlements and all the rest of it.
	There's no reason they should either.
	Yeah, and you know, you can leave the country, at least until Vax Passports are made a thing and that is stopped.
	So anyway, so yes, I'm going to come down on the same side as the weekend segment, that in fact, yes, Zoomers are utterly screwed.
	I do want to give a somewhat more positive note.
	I mean, living standards are higher than they've ever been.
	So there is that, there's something.
	Access to information is higher than it's ever been.
	It feels kind of desperate where you're just like, well, you know... Importantly, bike brakes, pretty good.
	Entertainment is better than it's ever been.
	No, and that genuinely does matter, because if you are a Zoomer, you have no idea how boring Sundays used to be.
	Right, and also winter.
	And also basically every part of the week that wasn't Friday or Saturday night.
	You had to own VHSes.
	Yes.
	You must have noticed, every time you walk into town with Carl, we get to the bottom of town and he'd be like, oh this used to be buzzing this area on a Friday and Saturday night 20 years ago, and he gets all misty-eyed and reminiscent of it.
	You know, there were people who used to live for the weekend, and Zoomers don't have to have to worry about that.
	Yeah, so entertainment.
	Oh, life expectancy.
	Yes, you've got the highest life expectancy of any generation.
	And so, you know, chin up.
	Don't be sad.
	It's good on many fronts.
	You're just not going to have a house.
	Alrighty.
	With that, we'll move to some universal truths.
	Oh good, that will cheer us up a bit.
	Yeah.
	So I found another universal truth.
	I know they're hard to come by.
	Most of them are bollocks.
	Continually we get told that isn't everyone just a human being after all?
	You know, imagine.
	Shut up.
	Yeah, waste of time.
	But I have found one universal truth, which is... Piss takers.
	Everyone's got a piss taker.
	At least when it comes to our quote-unquote asylum seekers.
	Okay.
	Sure.
	And I can prove it because this is happening on both sides of the pond and well in real time.
	I thought we'd just have some fun.
	We'll start off just by mentioning immigration is the reason you can't get a house podcast which I did.
	I'm gonna skip over that basically because the last segment was same thing in regards.
	But let's go to it.
	So the Daily Mail ran this article and it's called Afghan refugees rescued and brought to the United States were racist and sexist towards those tasked with helping them.
	And turned their noses up at accommodation they were offered.
	State Department reports.
	So the whole Noble Savage thing is not a... No, it turns out exactly the same thing we've been experiencing in little old Airstrip One.
	The Yanks.
	Right.
	It seems that science works the same across the pond as it does here.
	I don't know, do you know about that?
	The Americans and the British met after the British gave up on the bomb.
	It's a really funny story.
	I always assumed that the British got the nuclear bomb from the Americans.
	I just assumed they were nice to us.
	No, of course not.
	Instead they were bastards about it.
	So we had to develop our nuclear bombs ourselves.
	So we did, made our own bombs, joined the club, and then we were trying to build hydrogen bombs, which is the next level basically, and you have to reach one megaton, and we hit like 0.9 of a megaton.
	Okay, didn't hit the target.
	That was the minimum target.
	So we went to the Americans, we're like right okay we'll agree to a nuclear cooperation treaty where we give each other technology and blah blah blah in exchange for all this money.
	For that little extra point one.
	Yeah and the Americans and the British both sat at their table because like they sent the scientists to talk to each other because diplomats don't know what any of this is and the scientists just kind of looked at each other and went...
	So what do I tell them?
	Nobody's told me what I can and can't say.
	So then they both sort of like drank tea and spoke about the plane.
	And they went, all right, one moment, chaps.
	British one in the room went, okay, they've got more than us, so bugger it, let's just give them everything.
	For free.
	So they sat back at the table, were just like, yeah, so here's everything.
	Gave them literally all of our research.
	And the Americans went, yeah, it seems physics is the same across the pond as here.
	And then gave us everything.
	Oh, that was nice of them.
	They were like, wow, that paid off.
	Right.
	It was literally just because they were talking to scientists and they didn't know what to do either.
	There's just autism around the world.
	At least of nuclear physicists.
	Anyway, whole other story.
	But here's another situation we found out we're both on the same snow.
	Right.
	So the claims emerged in the State Department report that looked at the resettlement of around 73,000 Afghan evacuees brought into the United States last year in 2021.
	The agencies also identified inappropriate behavior from some, which they attributed to Lack of cultural awareness.
	Right.
	It seems, and I'm personally deeply shocked to find out, Afghanistan, a bit different.
	Yes.
	Than the West.
	They don't have the girl boss role model out there then?
	No, weirdly.
	Also, I remember getting told a story from... I don't know if I can have Arthur sense this or not.
	So there was this guy who told me about, he was serving in Afghanistan and one of the cohort in his unit, he was American, was coming down and he was doing like training or something, was transgender.
	So, they're there, with their squad, and they're trying to help the local army guys train them up, and they're like, right, so this post- So the Afghan was transgender?
	No, no, no, the American supervisor is coming to come and check- What, in the army?
	Yeah.
	So they speak to the Afghan army- What, in the army?
	So the Americans are training the Afghan army, the men, and they're like, right, we've got our supervisor coming, Bit of a different person.
	Blah blah blah, like trying to prepare them for it, and the Afghan army guys are like, yeah, alright.
	Yeah, but in the army!
	It's just an army guy.
	A transgender individual turns up, male to female, apparently not a particularly stunning transition.
	He told me this story that the Afghan men who were in the Afghan army, who were fighting, you know, for freedom in the West, looked at this and went, what is that?
	I just stared for like three hours while the person was there.
	And then eventually they left, and the Afghan army were just like, are you serious?
	I was like, uh, okay.
	Yeah, um, cultural awareness.
	To be fair, I have struggled.
	I struggle to believe that we're serious about this stuff.
	Yeah, I mean, most of the West struggles to believe the crap the government tries to teach us.
	Yes.
	If you're an Afghan, you've got a lot of learning to do.
	I don't understand.
	Yeah, but the thing I can't get over is, in the army, why don't they have better bullying?
	I don't know.
	I think they tried and then they've decided the opposite is true, which is that anyone who raises the point that maybe, this is a bit weird, you're the bully and need to go.
	Okay.
	Anyway, so they're saying here they've got the inappropriate behaviour from some Afghans.
	Don't know what that is.
	You can speculate in your own time.
	For example, some RA staff reported experiencing... Probably going to be a lot of pedestry, isn't it?
	There's that whole problem as well, which I warned about, no one listened.
	They've also experienced racism and sexism from Afghan clients, unaccustomed to the norms of US society, the report explained.
	This is really funny.
	This is the Afghans.
	Don't laugh.
	They refuse to work with case managers if they were women or from minority groups, says the report.
	Now, I'm a bit laughing because I'm really imagining the Afghans are actually a bit more aware than the State Department wants to admit, and they're just sat there like, I don't want a diversity hire on my case.
	Sorry.
	But I'm from the State Department, I don't care.
	I know how you got this job, my lady.
	So, maybe that's going to take place.
	Maybe it's traditional Islamic things, but we'll find out.
	Quote, a few local officers had issues of verbal abuse from Afghans, mostly those who were upset or frustrated that the process one agency reported.
	Which I found really funny to have to add that on.
	It's like, well, they were calling me a leap, but they're just frustrated.
	It's like, oh, come on.
	Quote, many parolees had very high expectations and did not understand the role of local affiliates and would become frustrated with services and housing, the report detailed.
	Some of them also appeared to have unrealistic expectations over how the resettlement process might work.
	For example, some groups were told they would receive welcome money when they arrived on US soil.
	It's not like they're coming to England.
	No, what do you think?
	Here's 10 grand.
	Terribly sorry for the water.
	Others also had unrealistic expectations over housing and would reject offers of homes that they deemed insufficient or inferior quality than what they wanted.
	Probably worked out for them though, didn't it?
	Yeah, it does in the end.
	I just can't get over it.
	It always stuns me that you go to foreign country and go, I don't want this house.
	This isn't good enough.
	I mean, for all the problems we spoke of, you know, Western youth dealing with houses, these people get free house and go, not for me.
	Don't you know who I am?
	I was part of the Herat female football team.
	Yeah, that's a real shame.
	That's gone.
	Some have had good jobs working in professional positions in Afghanistan or had advanced degrees from the country.
	Well, they always say they do, don't they?
	I mean, every time I get an Uber, they're always telling me that they got seven degrees or something.
	This does happen.
	Yes.
	People can get actual... Well, people have actually worked hard to get a degree sometimes in countries like that.
	Yes.
	Now, call me old-fashioned, but I suspect the University of Kabul wasn't the most academically rigorous place on earth?
	Yeah, having said that, it could be more vigorous than, say, Wilfrid Laurier.
	Yeah, but I mean, in my university, for example, that's considered a British university of high standing, or at least internationally it's seen that way.
	I'm cheating all the time everywhere.
	I actually had a conversation with one professor about one exam I took where I was sat there doing my work and then he came over to do it for me in the middle of the exam because everyone else had left and he wanted me to go home.
	I said to him, no, I'm not submitting this, that's cheating.
	And then he went all bright faced and go, oh crap, I might lose my job over this.
	So I'm kind of strung on to having a conversation with me, where I was like, so how often does cheating take place?
	And he's like, oh, every exam ever.
	I said, and you know this, all the buts, yeah, everyone's, and I was like, oh.
	And that was before we had ChatGPG.
	That's Western education.
	Yes.
	Where that's the level of academic rigor.
	And then, I think to Kabul, um, don't mean to throw shade, but I feel like the old government might not have been the most strict in making sure that everyone had their marks.
	So, hmm, anyway, whole other conversation.
	So, they say here they often believe they would be given positions in their chosen field in the United States, because don't you know I was a doctor?
	I was like, I... I'm not being... To be fair, maybe they've just been watching Western News, where, you know, every time a boat turns up, you know, somebody from BBC, they were saying, oh, look, some more architects and surgeons.
	Yeah, maybe.
	Maybe so.
	So they say here, the agencies have recommended various measures including standardised minimum requirements for cultural orientation that emphasise self-sufficiency, manage expectations and convey United States societal expectations for behaviour regarding gender, race and sexual issues.
	They really ought to add not groping people to that list.
	Yeah, I don't know where that comes into it.
	Presumably down the line.
	Maybe that's in the former category.
	Yeah.
	God, I'll tell you a story afterward.
	I can't tell a story like this.
	Ridiculous one.
	I gotta tell you about that.
	Can you do it after we're off YouTube and with the members only section?
	No, I gotta do it.
	Oh, right, okay.
	So anyway, I found those files of the gender sensitivity training in the trash over there.
	It's just like, yeah, it's never getting read.
	But they say in here the latest reports is more positive than the previous reports though even though it turns out that you know all those Afghans we took might have some different opinions than we were expecting.
	The previous reports were worse than this one though because in those reports we found loads of quote bad actors or national security threats who came into the United States under the scheme.
	Yes.
	Hmm, who would have thought if you, um... Didn't I hear on the podcast just a couple of days ago about something like the Afghan women's soccer team or something?
	We flew them all over.
	Yeah, this is to Britain.
	Yeah, and then we sort of checked later and we found out that actually none of them were on the Afghan women's soccer team.
	So it was the, I think it was the Herat women's football team and they went and found the manager in Afghanistan and were like, so here's the list of players.
	Recognise any of them?
	No.
	Recognise any of the names of their families?
	No.
	Yes.
	Ah.
	Who have we taken?
	It was a bit awkward.
	But the full report is actually available.
	It took me a little tracking down, but I'm sure you can go read in your own time if you have some interest.
	Sounds fun.
	They actually mention some things in here that don't get mentioned in the Daily Mail, which is weird.
	Remember that whole welcome money?
	Actually, this could be quite funny, now that I've read the title.
	Yeah, but they are the challengers.
	Just some challengers.
	The welcome money thing from earlier, they were upset about, turns out you do get welcome money.
	Oh, okay.
	It just depends, the amount varies depending on the cost of living where you're based.
	Right.
	So there were Afghans complaining they weren't getting as much as their friends who had been sent to New York City.
	I was like, oh, okay, so that's great.
	Do we know how much they got?
	It doesn't give us a dollar figure, it just says it varies.
	They also say in here, normally, what happens whenever they bring someone like this to the United States, there's three months of cultural orientation before an applicant even steps foot on American soil.
	That's the written procedure.
	Three months!
	It's going to be three months of rape?
	No.
	I don't even think it's that.
	I think it's, um, so, hello class, um, this is Jason.
	His pronouns are?
	He, him, uh, blah blah blah.
	I don't think it's going to be what we would actually want these things to be, which is... Right.
	Okay.
	Crime.
	Bad.
	Don't do crime.
	Yes.
	Uh, you will actually get punished for crime here.
	Hopefully.
	If the police don't actually do their job.
	Instead, it's not that.
	To be fair, I think you do get punished for crime even in Afghanistan.
	It's just their definition of crime is... Well, I think you get more punished for crime in Afghanistan.
	Yes.
	My experience was that less crime there than here.
	Yes.
	It's just that certain things such as rape is just a bit of banter out there.
	Depends on the circumstances.
	I mean, if she's your wife... What do you mean she can't say no?
	Yes.
	Legally.
	Or a white woman.
	Well, you know, they're white women, what are they doing there?
	So anyway, that's... Point being, Turks and Afghans, Americans have figured out, hang on a minute, they're not the most thankful.
	Because this housing's not good enough.
	Also, what's that?
	Also, where's me money?
	And it turns out the UK, similar circumstances.
	And I thought I'd read this story of a local man, highly local, the most local of local men, is in the news today, Dan.
	This is Ryan, not his real name, the BBC, right?
	I'm sure it's Dave Smith or something.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Should we use Dave from now on?
	Let's go with Dave.
	I'm going to use Ryan instead, because Ryan is just silly.
	But you can see the headline there, Asylum Seekers Five Nation Trek to Sanctuary.
	He did a bit more than five nations, so I don't know why they're lying, but this guy is my new favourite human being, because the levels to which his story twists and turns Almost make me kind of proud of him.
	Sort of the hero's journey, is it?
	Yeah, in taking the piss.
	He is my chief piss taker.
	I was going to get clamped.
	Anyway, right over here.
	He's one of the 45,000 people who crossed the English Channel to the UK last year seeking asylum.
	It was the last leg in his journey to safety, which has taken him through five countries, including Ukraine.
	Hmm.
	Huh.
	So, presumably he's from Kazakhstan or something, right?
	Sounds about right, just thinking through the geography, yeah.
	Kazakhstan, get to Russia, get to Moscow, then get to Ukraine.
	Yeah, okay, that can make sense.
	It's got to be from that sort of route, or it would be really weird that you ended up there.
	Born in Saudi Arabia.
	Okay, great.
	To a Somali family.
	All right, we're going south.
	Maybe he's just not very good at directions?
	How?
	So he's 18, he's living in Saudi.
	Right.
	It's no crime as well, for similar reasons to Afghanistan.
	Okay.
	Which is, they actually are serious about the law.
	Yes.
	Which I commend.
	The ones that they like, yeah.
	Actual no problems with them implementing their laws in that regard.
	To say, oh, you stole a phone.
	Oh, that's a real shame.
	I bet you liked wanking.
	Not anymore.
	Anyway, so he's 18 years old in Saudi Arabia.
	He's bored, I presume.
	Right.
	Because they say he decides to escape.
	He's Saudi, Somali Muslim.
	He's not a Jew.
	He needs to escape.
	The reason he says he needs to escape is because of the kafala system, the migrant sponsorship system, which is if you're a migrant, you know, you're not a Saudi, then you actually have to have a visa.
	Right.
	Which is brutal and oppressive, I know.
	So, if he wants a job, he has to get a sponsor, which is basically a death sentence.
	What do you do?
	Talk to someone?
	What are you, mad?
	No.
	So instead, he decides the easier thing to do is to go back to Somalia.
	Oh, so he's originally from Somalia.
	Yeah.
	Right, okay.
	But he's only Somali through ethnic group.
	He's raised in Saudi.
	Oh, right, okay, I got you.
	So he's living in Saudi all his life, you know, enjoying McDonald's and the Saudi people.
	So he gets the culture then.
	And then goes, you know what?
	This is awful.
	I'm leaving.
	To Somalia I go!
	Yahaar!
	So he jots on his way, presumably on a raft, to Somalia.
	Quote, he arrived in Somalia hoping it would be his long-term home.
	But he soon realized he couldn't stay there.
	Oh really?
	Do you want to guess what might have been a bit troubling for a young man in Somalia?
	Do tell.
	Quote, I grew up in a peaceful country.
	Heh.
	Saudi.
	Heh.
	I never saw a gun in my life.
	On the third day in Somalia, my true love gave to me a gang who put a gun in my head because my hair was too long.
	That's actually what happened.
	They took my phone, smashed it on the ground, and gave me a tool to shave my head, he said.
	This is day number three.
	Of, um, Heaven on Earth.
	Because he could not live in Saudi.
	Different cultural norms.
	You just gotta go with it.
	Saudi?
	Hell on Earth.
	Couldn't deal with it.
	Go to Somalia.
	Day three.
	Your hair's too long, you gay word.
	And the only thing that was different is there was more of, uh... Guns.
	Somalis.
	Yeah.
	Uh, quote.
	The guns were like water.
	They were everywhere.
	I felt scared.
	I didn't leave my hotel room for days.
	You got a hotel room?
	How you got a... what?
	Okay.
	People who don't know, there's two parts to Somalia.
	There's the northern part, that used to be under the control of the British, and for some reason, who knows, still has law and order, and is a functioning society.
	And then there's the southern part, which was owned by the Italians, and then for some reason... The difference between these two places is literally just that, but for some reason, the southern part is, um, law of the flies.
	Right.
	God bless Italy.
	And, uh, I think he's down there.
	You can go to hotels, they're pretty well guarded, and you've got to pay a lot of money for it.
	Yes, I can imagine.
	Which is, if you've got family in Saudi, ain't too big a problem.
	But I imagine the conversation he had with his family, because it's just him that goes, the rest of the family are like, nah, we're staying here.
	You want some money?
	What a ridiculous idea you've come up with here.
	Yeah, so 18-year-old retard Fs around and finds out, is what I'm hearing so far.
	So, he goes there.
	He doesn't have the best times.
	I'm still confused as to how the next step is Ukraine.
	Yeah, I didn't get that for a while.
	So he's sitting around in his hotel in Mogadishu.
	Without a phone.
	Hang on a minute, this diversity isn't all I was told it was.
	After having a few free online visa applications for Russia approved... Okay.
	What?
	There's no such thing as a free visa to Russia, but okay.
	Ryan over here, he then books a flight to Moscow.
	Which, again, is not the cheapest.
	Average Somali man can't really afford a flight to Moscow.
	I would have thought you'd get a flight back to Riyadh and just continue your life, you know, with the war guns.
	Well, now you've figured out that your entire mental model is complete rubbish.
	Yeah.
	No, he goes to Moscow, because... I don't know.
	I don't know why he picked Moscow.
	Through a data map, I presume.
	Flies there, not knowing where he was going to sleep.
	Great.
	This guy sounds like a real high IQ planner.
	There, he soon felt welcome and made friends.
	Oh, that's a good sign.
	Maybe he'll settle down and get a wife.
	Oh, good.
	But then his visa expired after two and a half months, with no option to renew.
	And it was time to move again.
	It was like... I mean, you knew that was coming.
	Yes.
	When you apply for a visa, they give you the term.
	Right, it's written on the piece of paper, yes.
	Yeah, and you just did nothing, and then, oh, it ran out, what do I do?
	Oh, I guess I'll break into Ukraine!
	That's actually what he decides to do.
	I don't know what he was thinking he was going to do.
	Ryan says his group's passports had been taken by the police, so there's no legal way for him to leave the country.
	This is after he's got into Ukraine?
	This is after he's got to Moscow.
	Oh, I see.
	Which, um...
	Not really sure how that worked.
	I'm pretty sure they were taken because he applied for asylum.
	Presumably that's why he got the visa.
	And in which case, the proper thing to do, mate, is to wait for the asylum application, but... You would think.
	I don't know.
	Or just go back to Riyadh, you freaking lunatic.
	No, instead, he decides, well, enough of the do.
	Let's just go see Donbass.
	So he decided to meet a man... So he's still in Russia, then.
	Working with the government, who smuggled people into Ukraine.
	I mean, he couldn't go to Azerbaijan or Georgia or Kazakhstan or Estonia or Finland.
	No, Ukraine is the one he goes with.
	So what year did he do this?
	He's doing this, I think, in the period the Donbass War is going on.
	Right, okay.
	So you've got to go through some front lines, which is always the smart thing to do.
	His friends went ahead without him while he waited for his uncle in Saudi Arabia to transfer him 1,400 British pounds for the smuggling fee.
	I'm just thinking, if he didn't like guns being put in his face, what's he gonna make of artillery fire?
	Yeah, but also your uncle's given you one and a half grand from Saudi.
	Yeah.
	Why not just buy a plane ticket and go back to Saudi?
	Yes.
	Why did you do any of this?
	You actual moron.
	I'm quite intrigued by this story now, though.
	I mean, I kind of love him in a weird way that it's just like, are you...
	You don't plan anything ever.
	You go on, like, these really weird solutions to your problems, which is, what if I go...
	I go to other random place across the world that'll totally be better than, I don't know, heaven on earth in the kingdom over there, but whatever.
	I just, why not go back, but whatever.
	It was a journey he wasn't sure he'd survive.
	Oh, that's why you go on it, don't you?
	He describes being deceived by the people smugglers from Russia to Ukraine, physically abused by the people smugglers, and left naked without any possessions.
	Well, and you would think people smugglers would be, you know, lovely chaps who you could trust.
	Yeah, they certainly wouldn't leave you in freezing conditions in the forest to die.
	I happen to know they do that a lot because a friend of a friend runs the Slovakian border.
	He's one of the border guards.
	And one of the things he showed my friend around is like, oh, you just go into the woods during the winter months and you will just find dead Africans with like shorts and sandals on.
	Because the people smugglers will just drive them to the Slovakian border, throw them out, and then they'll die in like, you know, half an hour.
	Not their problem.
	And that's been going on for like 20 years.
	That's not new.
	He could have possibly used some of that one and a half grand to buy a jumper as well.
	Yeah, or just fly home.
	Because why would you do this?
	So anyway, shortly after arriving in Ukraine, he's actually arrested by the police.
	Thankfully, instead of freezing to death in the forest.
	Lucky him.
	I bet you didn't see it that way.
	He says this is terrible news for him.
	Who could have predicted this?
	That perhaps, breaking into Ukraine wasn't the best idea.
	He says, I understood Russian at the time, but I couldn't speak it.
	I had a translator from Egypt.
	One policeman would ask me a question and the other one would beat me.
	Typical Ukrainian good cop, bad cop.
	Been watching a lot of TV.
	I told them to bring me back to Somalia.
	Okay.
	They told me how many people die in Somalia every day.
	He said the officers said no one in Somalia would care about him.
	Now I'm not sure how much we can take his word for this.
	I'm pretty sure the Ukrainians wouldn't have been going to toss, throw him back to Russia or throw him back to Somalia, but whatever.
	Ryan said he was racially abused by the Ukrainian police and had a tooth knocked out.
	The officers wanted to know the name of the smuggler, but he didn't know the name.
	That time haunts him to this day.
	I don't have a huge amount of sympathy.
	It's like, yeah, you paid for people smugglers.
	I don't think the Ukrainian police are going to be too happy with you.
	And he didn't even get a business card off the guy.
	Damn.
	After the fourth month prison stay in Ukraine, he was speaking Ukrainian and vowed never to go with the smugglers again.
	Which is why he's still into Ukraine to this day, which is... No, he didn't.
	No, no.
	Things improved when he started a relationship with a Ukrainian woman and lived with her family for a year and a half, although the relationship ultimately ended.
	As Russia's invasion of Ukraine approached, policemen asked Ryan and his friends to join the army, promising citizenship.
	Service guarantees citizenship.
	But they didn't want to fight, for some reason.
	This country had given them sanctuary.
	The only one in the world, apparently.
	And we're now offering them citizenship in exchange for service.
	And he's got a woman as well, so he's got roots.
	I mean, he's got everything that he wanted at this point.
	Quote, I had two choices, he says.
	Go to the Ukrainian army or back to Somalia.
	A Ukrainian friend tried to hide him in the village on the border.
	He's leaving.
	Can't be bothered.
	Why do I actually defend the people who gave you safety?
	No, no, don't bother.
	They were moved to Hungary and then Slovakia before a stranger offered them a free lift to Vienna.
	Lucky you didn't end up in those forests, so there's that.
	But the police in Austria took all their savings, phones, belongings and took them to jail because, well, broke it illegally.
	You're a criminal, mate.
	God bless the Austrian police.
	That is how you deal with illegals.
	The British don't.
	Quote, I had a panic attack because of the Ukrainian jail, said Ryan.
	When I was there, I remembered everything that had happened to me.
	I was afraid the same would happen to me again in Austria.
	And jail for four months, no phone, no one to talk to.
	Oh God, if only there was something you could have done, such as not any of this.
	So, he was taken from the refugee camp.
	Okay.
	In the mountains, where he was able to earn money translating Arabic and Ukrainian.
	And he said he would have chosen to stay in the country, were it not for the months or years it would have taken to receive refugee status documents in Austria.
	Oh my goodness, having to wait a few months for... Are you mad?
	Don't you know this is a worse fate than death?
	I might as well risk my life again, for what reason?
	Well, I'd have to wait a year here, that's gotta... Are you mental?
	He's not even at any threat of being sent back to Somalia.
	But you could argue, oh, you know, that's basically a death sentence or something.
	It's not.
	He's not gay.
	So that's... It's not like that.
	Instead, he literally just can't be bothered.
	This is like one of those game shows where you get offered a prize and then you can gamble it for what's in the other box.
	Yeah, so he... He's got the prize and goes... Yes.
	Swap.
	So he's being offered... He's being offered asylum in Austria, which is a developed First World country.
	Many people want to move there.
	Yes.
	and uh that's from the rich countries but still no and goes um no what's in the other box he refuses to call from the banker and together with a yemeni refugee and his ukrainian wife ryan decides the wife's still with him apparently uh they decide to travel to france yeah because that's better than austria yeah the the other box yeah you didn't want to take that when he gets to france he says he was welcomed as refugees from the ukrainian war which is okay very astute people the french No!
	Average Somali man and Yemeni man from Somalia.
	Okay, okay, whatever.
	But anyway, you arrive in France.
	Finally, you're safe.
	You've made it to a Western European country, unlike that dirty asshole that is Austria.
	Yes.
	Or Slovakia, or Ukraine, or... Okay, right.
	Yes.
	Finally, we can settle down in Le France.
	Be romantic, have some kids.
	Nah.
	Ryan said he was left with no option but to take the dangerous journey crossing the channel.
	I'm not missing any data there.
	You can read the article.
	They go straight from I'm being welcomed as a hero of the Ukrainian war into France to, well, I've got no option left but to cross the channel.
	Does the BBC make any attempt to explain this?
	No, there's nothing.
	This is what I mean.
	Like, every twist and turn, the guy is just like... Just obviously got to get out of France.
	No option left.
	Yes.
	literally nothing he could do anymore.
	I mean, once you've gone to France, could your uncle not give you a grand to get the flight back to Riyadh still?
	Is that not on the table still?
	Could you not go back and be like, yeah, lads, I was an idiot.
	I'll just get a job here and pay the Saudi tax for being a migrant. - Yep, no dingy it is. - No.
	He said he feared he would be sent back to Austria. - My God, how awful.
	A literal fate worse than death!
	You might become a failed painter, who knows?
	He says if he had stayed in the European Union land, that's the reason he might have been sent back to Austria.
	Oh no.
	So he had no option but to leave for Britain, as he had already learned some English from movies and video games.
	I'm guessing that the BBC article doesn't explain why Austria was bad either.
	No.
	Literally nothing.
	I don't know why.
	Well, we know why.
	He was bored.
	I mean, I'm sorry, this guy is literally just a traveller.
	He's just like, well... If somebody just pointed out TikTok to him or something halfway through this journey, he could be fine right now.
	He could be living with his, you know, hot Ukrainian wife in Austria.
	No, that's... Working in a Pret-a-Manger or something.
	Give it up.
	Anyway, comparing his experiences in Europe, Ryan says he was shocked by how well he was treated by the British police and immigration officers.
	Oh, why am I not surprised?
	I never felt like that before.
	They treated me nicely and polite.
	I felt like someone who lives here, he said.
	I felt thankful.
	The point we should understand is not everyone has the luck of crossing the channel.
	You are gambling with your life, which is why you did it, I don't know, what about 12 times in your life when you were safe?
	Now I'm thankful that I didn't sink.
	He ends this off by saying he misses his family more than anyone can imagine and said he would not have left home if it had been safe.
	Has he still got the Ukrainian wife with him?
	Yeah.
	Right, okay.
	If only it had been safe in Saudi Arabia.
	He would have never left her- Or Austria.
	Or France.
	Or Slovakia.
	I'd swear I'd be back.
	I'd never come back to Europe.
	Why would I take all those risks if I had a good country?
	Like Saudi Arabia, you- My life in Saudi Arabia, he ends us off with, was 100 times better than it was in the UK.
	I'm not joking.
	You can read that right there.
	My life was 100 times better than in the UK.
	They think we'd come for money, but no, we came because of the risk to our lives that doesn't exist.
	Bro, unless you were gay, Jewish, or a Christian, there was no reason- Even if you're Jewish or Christian, I think you can get along fine and soundly these days.
	Um, there was no threat to your life.
	Looking at your sort of fairly observant of the social norms which he grew up in, so he knows- The thing I can't get my head around, right, is somebody at the BBC tapped out this whole article I just sat there at the end and thought, yeah, that's it.
	Submit.
	Yeah, he ended off with, I don't care about money, I only care about living a safe life.
	Yeah, whatever, Matt.
	I don't believe any of this.
	Point being, the science is the same across the pond.
	We'll end this off with something funny.
	Just to cheer us up after, you know, the madness that is how the system works.
	What are the British police up to?
	Because apparently we're the only police service, so we're not serious.
	The Austrians were like, give us all your phones.
	The Ukrainians were like, give us some names.
	And the Russians were like, I'll have your passport, thank you very much.
	The British, there's far more important things to do than deal with illegal immigration.
	Deal with goggy wogs.
	The dollies.
	Criminal dollies.
	You want to give us a scroll?
	I imagine a lot of the foreigners won't know what we're talking about.
	There are these dollies that people don't like because they used to be used to represent black people, of course, have, you know, therefore literal black skin and a big mouth.
	But I mean, it's not a racist thing.
	It's just that that was just a thing in the 50s.
	And in fact, even when I was a kid, there was like a marmalade you could buy with one of those on the front.
	It was just...
	But either way, it's not the 50s.
	You know, it's 23 years since the year 2000.
	For Christ's sake, these dollies... It's actually current year.
	They're kind of a meme.
	I mean, you ask any Gen Z person, they'll just say, yeah, the funny old dolls.
	Like, no one is buying these because, like, yeah, I want to keep a brother down.
	But no, this pub decided to pull up some dollies, and then I don't know if we can play the clip.
	It's the funniest thing in the world.
	There's no audio, so we're not gonna bother.
	And instead, you can see the British Constabulary turning up to threaten arrest the pub owners for having the dollies.
	And then they get some bags out and start throwing the dollies in their bag so they can go home and play with them in the station.
	Presumably.
	You know when they arrest some kid for having weed and then they go back and smoke it?
	That's what I imagine they did with these.
	There's quite a lot of them, isn't there?
	Yeah.
	They've, um... Well, you know, it's an important crime.
	Well, they're still coming.
	I mean, there's a big clown car in the back of the pub.
	So, all of these guys, they're turning up to seize dollies.
	Yes.
	These are our dollies.
	You cannot play with these dollies.
	These are for the station.
	And they're gonna sit back in the station and play mummy and daddy with them, I presume.
	This is sort of example, you know, 4761 of why British people no longer respect the police.
	Yeah.
	At the same time, we've got to deal with Ryan over there, who is the hero of our times.
	Our state media will write a big old, you know, star piece about how he's the best man in the world.
	At the same time, the police spend their time, instead of dealing with illegal immigrants, arresting dollies for being the wrong kind of dollies.
	Yeah, okay.
	Look how many there are as well.
	She's laughing.
	You can see the pub owner just pissing herself.
	It's like, yeah.
	Yeah, this is what you do with your life, is it?
	You want to go play mummy and daddy with these, are you?
	Which one's going to have the gruff voice officer?
	Is that going to be you?
	Who's going to be mummy later?
	There's not going to be soy face there, is it?
	No, I think, um, I think he might have been the one that made the call.
	We've got to do the raid, boys.
	Why?
	My fifis.
	Anyway, that's, that's the news.
	That's, um, the state of the West.
	And, um, if you have any criminal dollies, um, be sure to keep them in your underground dolly vault with your other banned books and such things, because, um, mummy and daddy is, is not a, is not a game to be played lightly.
	Remarkable.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	One thing that should be done when discussing issues with leftoids and blue pillars and normies is frame the discussion as why, not why not.
	Like, why do drag queens want access to children like that?
	Why should mass immigration be the default?
	And it doesn't take long before they start resorting to arguments like the availability of authentic tacos and paradigms that are straight out of the 1890s when there was a big hinterland to fill and factories that needed workers.
	Was that from China or something?
	Yeah, I didn't follow any of that because I was too distracted.
	Are you listening to Serbian war music?
	While driving a Humvee through rural China?
	Yeah.
	I swear I can hear like Rocky or something in the background.
	Alright, well, let's go to the next one.
	Eastern Czechia is full of folk traditions.
	Most of them predate the Christian arrival.
	And it all culminates on Easter Monday, where we have this fashion called pomanaska, which is also the name of the instrument that you see on the screen, which is made out of willow twigs, which is very flexible, like a whip.
	They usually buy nice colorful ribbons.
	Of course, they have a lot of symbolism in that.
	And the idea is that you go visit your neighbors and other family relatives to give the girls a whipping while reciting, say, a carol or a chant.
	And that is in order for them to be youthful, healthy, and rejuvenated for the entire year.
	And as a thank you for that, you'll get these decorated colorful eggs.
	Of course there's a lot more, but that's for a longer video.
	That man talks very fast.
	Cool.
	We have to speed it up otherwise... Ah, right.
	Much.
	Go to the next one.
	Do you hate the political philosophies that have taken hold of the Western world?
	Do you wish there were modern philosophical treaties based on liberty?
	Well now there is!
	Utopia 2.0.
	Take back the vision of the world they've stolen by giving me your money.
	Utopia 2.0.
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	In part one, I give an overview of how laws in a nation should be structured.
	Utopia 2.0.
	Help a brother out.
	There we go.
	All right, you got me with the last book there.
	So go to Amazon and buy that book.
	Just need that as well.
	No, I can't.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Stop!
	You violated the law!
	It's been too long since I've seen a good brawl!
	I'm just warming up, you pathetic worm!
	Remember the Emperor!
	You dare attack me?
	I'm warning you!
	Show me what you've got!
	That's the best you can do?
	These are our sponsorships, by the way.
	They can upload anything they want.
	And Jonathan sat down and thought that.
	Thanks, man.
	Let's go to the next one.
	This little space used to be the floor of a theater, so you can see how it slopes down and the stage was off that way.
	However, the space that I'm working in is a rather tight fit and it's quite uncomfortable.
	Okay, so I've got to get under here to pull some slack.
	And that way I can run the wire down there. .
	Alright, well, good luck.
	No flower videos this Monday.
	Sadly, I just wasn't feeling very good on the weekend.
	But I wanted to ask about a Part 3 potential for Sasquatch.
	It was something that I really enjoyed.
	And I wanted to see if that was going to come back this October.
	We can absolve Callum of that responsibility if it's just too torturous for him.
	And I just really like it because of sentimental reasons and also because of the region I live in.
	It's kind of where Sasquatch lives.
	So can we squash it up this year?
	I don't know, I feel like Carl's moved on to your thing of the moon didn't happen.
	That's not my position, my position is it did, it's just my confidence level has decreased.
	He started arguing with me about how the Loch Ness Monster was real the other day, I was just like... I'm not a fan.
	Bit of a stretch, that one.
	I know he's having fun, but it's... I don't know, sometimes you just look at him and you're like, you're kind of serious, aren't you?
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hello Lotus Eaters!
	I'm joined here by my neighbour's cat as I'm looking after him currently.
	And I'm going to conclude with my discussion about Australian currency.
	Now, here we have our traditional coins.
	We've got the 5 cents, the 10 cents, the 20 cents, 50 cents, 1 dollar and 2 dollar.
	Hey kangaroos!
	I've already showed you the 2 dollar.
	But at the back of all of them is the former head of state, the late Queen Elizabeth.
	Now these coins at the back, which has the heads on them, will be replaced with King Charles.
	But the notes?
	Notes are a different story, I suppose.
	He mentioned to us apparently one of the ten or something.
	I haven't seen any currency so far with Charlie on.
	No, me neither.
	I don't know, are you going to save some of Elizabeth?
	Probably should, shouldn't I?
	What do you do with it, though?
	Because, I mean, you just sort of get, like, a picture frame, shove it in there, and then, what, you show your kids and be like, look, there was a woman on this once.
	Yeah, it's like old toys.
	Like, apparently Power Rangers are going for ridiculous money these days.
	Yeah.
	As long as the police don't seize them in the future, because, you know, the Power Rangers are... I think there was a black one.
	Yeah, but he shouts Black Power and then, like, kills... Not that I remember, but... It's a spinoff episode.
	Yeah.
	Oh, have we got time for comments, or...?
	Let's do one from each, just cos... Right, OK.
	Sorry I went on so long talking about dollies.
	SirBasedApe says, That woman said Bud Light needs change to survive, as the company was failing.
	I just googled, and for the last several years Bud Light has had the number one best-selling beer in America.
	What she is doing is the corporate version of Wokespeak, just jamming in as many vague bub words as a sentence, without actually saying anything, to disguise the lefty impulse of intentionally sinking the boat you're currently standing on.
	Yeah, I didn't know that fact, and that's a great point, I'd say.
	Right, one from my session, An American Isolation.
	It says, Zoomers are screwed.
	They've been screwed by their parents and their grandparents, not thinking laws and regulations through.
	The worst part is, Zoomers know they're screwed.
	That's why their birth rates are lower.
	They don't want to have children or bringing them into the shithole world right now.
	That's why they're going full-blown communists instead of nothing.
	They want to make sure the people responsible lose everything.
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	Because Zoomers aren't going to be able to have houses, they're not going to start families either.
	So that's going to cause a massive population decline in the 20-30 years after that.
	So Zoomers better really hope that robots can wipe bums by the time they hit 80, because otherwise there's going to be no care provision for them.
	Yes, all that, yes, or you buy a Japanese toilet, yes.
	Drew Doomhan says, the Afghans are expecting welcome money.
	My dear sweet summer child, let me tell you about income tax.
	Welcome to America for our patriots.
	Now, I read that, and the reason I'm picking that one is because, sorry to burst your bubble, but they arrived, and in the report I didn't mention it because it was kind of long tangent.
	They needed, as it was written, immediate and extensive medical care for many of those who arrived, because either they had experienced trauma, or they had been pregnant just before they arrived, or were still pregnant.
	In which case, all of their medical bills, which are American medical bills, were all paid for by the taxpayer as well.
	Oh, thank goodness.
	Thanks for that.
	Yes.
	Sure you pay your taxes for exactly the Harat female football team.
	Because somebody needs it more than you do.
	God, what a waste that whole project was in Afghanistan.
	Hey, we're out of time.
	Bye.

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