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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #647

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	Music Music Music Music Tonight!
	That's actually pretty good!
	Music Turns out there's a lot of non-binary shit happening between the binaries.
	Music you Well, hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Friday My Dudes.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello!
	And today, on the show, local man eats beans, a leaflet is stolen, and Jon Stewart huffglue.
	So.
	Only the important stuff on the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	Hard-hitting facts.
	That's the news here tonight.
	Now fact me till I fart.
	Anyway, that's been... What?
	You've not watched the day-to-day, have you?
	Not that one, no.
	No, that's one of the good segues.
	All right, then carry on.
	All right.
	So Americans say the funniest things.
	They are the most adorable of the Anglosphere, I think.
	I mean, you know, Aussies, pretty racist, kind of funny.
	Canadians, kind of soy jack, kind of funny.
	But, New Zealand, I don't know, the less said the better these days.
	But the Americans, I think, are probably the funniest of the Anglo sphere.
	I mean... Is this just your average on-the-ground American we're talking about here?
	I think so.
	So, we're gonna get into the depths of Yankee land and see how they think.
	We're gonna get a big one.
	Anyway... To understand the Yankee, you must begin to think like the Yankee.
	You must observe all of his behaviours.
	Every morning, he goes for his bulgur.
	So we'll start off with something on the list here, being Robert Conquest's reflections on a ravaged century, because I think that's something America avoided, the ravaged century of hell, which, um, good.
	Some would argue that they were the ones helping to ravage the century.
	Or at least their government might have been.
	Yeah, at times, yeah.
	But, you know, good fun.
	Anyway, time for a news marathon, because of course, facts times importance equals news.
	So the news today is that I found this on the internet.
	It's a shopping aisle.
	Not just any shopping aisle.
	It is an American supermarket that has a British section.
	So we're gonna give this a look.
	Okay.
	I mean, this does look like your local Asda compressed.
	Yeah, I will admit, there's some, you know, good boy points to be earned.
	They've got McVitie's.
	Yeah.
	An array of Indian curries.
	Iron brew, that's pretty important, actually.
	I'm just, I'm hyper-focused on the digestives and the... Yeah, that's pretty much it.
	Just the digestives.
	I really fancy some digestives now.
	One thing that did really annoy me though is somehow the baked beans are more expensive than England.
	Which you might think a bit weird.
	Why would they not be?
	Baked beans can already be kind of expensive.
	Well, beans are grown in America.
	Heinz Kraft owns Heinz Beans, so they're cans, the sauce is put on them, and the beans are grown in America, and yeah, they cost more in America than here.
	Good.
	The Yankee tax.
	Yeah, this is like two buckaroos.
	Tax for being Yankee.
	Look at that, what is it?
	Two thirty-five?
	For a can of beans?
	Wait, for a single can?
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, is that adjust... I mean, can we adjust that on the fly for dollar to pound ratio?
	It's more than one-sixty.
	Oh, alright, okay.
	I don't remember what exactly it was.
	I'm glad we've cleared that up.
	Anyway, I thought that was interesting.
	We're really doing the news today, folks.
	Time for news number two, which is Spain also has a British section.
	Just wanted to quickly compare that, which I just find funny.
	They put British flags on everything, which I don't know.
	Isn't that supposed to be like a toxicity label for them?
	It's those rock stealers and their beans.
	Their beans are cheaper than here as well.
	Damn.
	That's annoying.
	I've been to Spain a few times and I've never once thought to myself, but what if I could just go to the British section?
	You should.
	Maybe I should.
	It's called Gibraltar.
	Mainly what I notice when I go to Spain.
	Have you been to Spain?
	Uh, yeah.
	Have you been in a Spanish supermarket?
	I try not to.
	Why not?
	I always go to Gibraltar.
	It's bang.
	Oh, well, Spain.
	Without the bollocks.
	You should go to Spain and you should step into a supermarket and just marvel at the enormous alcohol sections that they have.
	Half of the supermarkets are just dedicated to alcohol of all varieties.
	You can just get like 80% absinthe as well from just run of the mills corner shop.
	Which is weird, because they're not Slavs.
	Like, they're not downing it every night, so... Well, I don't know.
	They're always so sleepy all the time.
	I don't know.
	Maybe that's why.
	Anyway, to the actual news, some bigger news, which is a local man has eaten some beans, I have discovered.
	A local Yankee man has done so.
	And I wanted to just talk about how weird Americans are.
	This is the weird way I decided to introduce you still.
	And let's check out American man eats beans, because I am in awe.
	My name's Joey.
	Today we are going to be trying out a regular UK breakfast.
	We have ourselves some toast.
	Okay, she forgot what toast was.
	Beans.
	Not hind beans.
	And butter as well.
	I was told they put butter on it as well.
	I didn't realize that, but that's what I was told.
	And yeah, let's just get right into it.
	I'm expecting the worst.
	Hopefully I don't throw up on camera.
	That'd be weird.
	This is what they do.
	They're not joking when they say they do this.
	It's lovely!
	Y'all seen it.
	Oh my god, it spilled a little bit.
	Y'all seen this.
	This is why Yanks can't do it.
	They just spill the beans.
	I got the beans on there.
	I don't know if this is like a normal amount.
	I'll put a little bit more on there.
	Shit.
	Yeah, knife and fork.
	I don't know how they do this.
	Let's find out.
	The beans on the toast.
	Oh Christ, okay.
	He's thinking about it.
	Thank you.
	You can say it.
	It's okay.
	It's not illegal to say it.
	Come on, you love it.
	You slag.
	That's actually pretty good.
	What the fuck?
	That's insane.
	Did not expect that.
	Wow.
	I'm actually like shocked.
	I thought it'd be 10 times worse than that.
	It was actually pretty su- Why do Americans think beans on toast must be horrible?
	Because this is obviously coming off the back of all those images you see of, like, British, and it just shows the various foods we have.
	Just a Nike sneakers full of beans.
	Yep.
	Sounds pretty tasty to be fair.
	Beans on everything.
	Beans on Callum.
	That's gonna be my lunch.
	Yum yum.
	I understand mushy peas look absolutely disgusting, and I wouldn't touch mushy peas to save my life.
	I don't like peas in normal pea form.
	I hate those.
	Mushy peas.
	Mushy peas looks disgusting.
	But literally, it's just like, why would anybody enjoy toast, which is nice by itself, butter on toast, which is also nice by itself, with beans, which are nice by themselves?
	Why would anyone put all of these foods that's nice together?
	I mean, partly I've played that, just so we could ask you.
	Am I finally going to understand why we're doing this segment?
	I don't know why it's considered so weird.
	But anyway, this whole thing is more of a question of, I have been noticing recently, there's quite a lot of Yankees, at least Yankee leftists.
	Am I finally going to understand why we're doing this segment?
	Yes.
	Thank God.
	I just kept seeing stuff in my time when I've been like, "I have discovered the crisp sandwich." Wait, they've only just discovered this?
	This is the New York Times over here, who are making a sandwich, put chips in it, that's crisps, you uncultured swine, and given all their reasons, they make terrible crisps sandwiches as well.
	What is that?
	It's over-complex.
	Why have you got all of that green nonsense?
	Why is there mayonnaise dripping out of the sides of the sandwich?
	Just get- Why does the bread look so weird?
	Yeah, get bread, butter it up, put crisps in it.
	Simple.
	Simple as.
	No, but anyway, the Americans have been discovering a lot of these things, and you can see this cat here, he's pretty upset.
	Sorry, this cannot be a new concept to the Yanks.
	Which is a good question.
	I thought this was fake.
	And then when I checked out New York- I think America is fake.
	But then when I checked out New York Times cooking, it's real.
	And New York Times cooking is a wonderful place.
	At least all of the comments are making fun.
	Yeah.
	Been doing this since I was born.
	Thousand like-a-roonies for that chap.
	Chips and sandwiches.
	Groundbreaking.
	I wonder if we can give that a scroll.
	What's everyone else saying?
	Yeah, yeah.
	What are people saying here?
	Are there anybody shocked by this?
	Can we go back to the top real quick of those comments?
	Because I just want to read out New York Times cooking tweet.
	Trust... What's his name?
	On this one.
	Non-American sounding name.
	Yeah.
	His recipe for tuna crunch sandwiches.
	He's not even calling it a chip sandwich.
	And he's putting tuna in it as well.
	Disgusting.
	Yeah, scroll down.
	Let's read more of those hot takes from ze public.
	Good to know that 13-year-old me was way ahead of the trend.
	Well, anyway, yeah, I think the whole island is ahead of the yanks in culinary excellence.
	Looks like every single person commenting on this is saying this is not a new thing.
	Yeah, but it's not the only thing that annoyed me.
	There's something else that I think is the best thing I've ever seen.
	From an American outlet.
	Here you are.
	The New York Times.
	A swift and easy way to heat water.
	Without using a stove.
	Oh yeah, this is really weird.
	I heard that lots of Americans don't know what a kettle is.
	No.
	Neither does the person writing this article, presumably.
	Because they do it really weird.
	I thought we'd just go through it.
	Because it's fun.
	I like fun.
	It's Friday.
	It's fun Friday.
	It's fun Friday.
	That's a new rule.
	Friday has to be fun.
	No, but let's go check this out because this is real.
	It's a real thing.
	They ended up changing the name of the headline because they got mocked so relentlessly to the best electric kettle.
	Because everyone's like, you know what it's called, right?
	The water heating device.
	This is the magic hot water pot.
	I suppose it's not as bad.
	I'd rather if a Yankee made me tea, they do it on the stove than in the microwave.
	I mean, that is still something that haunts my dreams.
	I mean, you must have seen that.
	What?
	You see, like, here's how you make a traditional British cup of tea.
	And you put in the bag, then you put in the water, and then you put it in the microwave.
	And they microwave the tea to heat up the water.
	They don't just boil the water first?
	No.
	No, because I love cow.
	Apparently a stew... stove is too complex.
	No wonder one of the cornerstones of American culture is just blowing things up.
	This is all they can understand.
	Have you tried nuking it?
	Work for Japan, it'll work for the tea.
	Then you add the plutonium!
	Anyway, there's, um...
	Some bad things in here that I wanted to read.
	Oh no.
	Some things that haunt me.
	So back to the article.
	They say in here that their top kettle of choice, because of course, they say it has six preset temperature choices, each with a dedicated button.
	Because that's, you know, you can't just boil water.
	Can't just get a bottle of water over there.
	I just boil it.
	No, you've got six buttons.
	Boiler of water.
	There you go.
	Pick your button.
	And then you've also got a keep warm function, where you can hold the water at that temperature for 30 minutes.
	This kind of could be useful.
	I don't know in what situation.
	It sounds fancy.
	I mean, if I'm spending 10 quid, that would be pretty useful.
	But you're not spending 10 quid.
	This is like $170.
	Not quite.
	It's $100.
	$100.
	Go to the next link.
	We can see it on Amazon there.
	This is the kettle I recommend.
	$100 reduce.
	It's down to, I think, $78 on sale.
	What a saving.
	To boil water.
	they recommend.
	$100-y dues.
	It's down to, I think, $78 on sale.
	What a saving.
	To boil water.
	Do you like boiling water?
	Give me all your money.
	God, we can see that most of them are actually 100 bucks.
	The American, presumably, is replacing their stove that they already have in their house, seeing as that's how they normally boil water, with this.
	I mean, to be honest, if kettles are this expensive in the United States, I mean, frankly, that's also part of the reason why I wrote this.
	I just wanna know.
	There must be a reason why you guys aren't buying kettles.
	And is it because they're all just rich fancy people kettles that are sold over there?
	You can't get the cheap crappy ones.
	Is this segment just Callum asks Americans questions?
	Yeah.
	Oh, alright, okay.
	Carry on.
	So let's go to the next one here, because they decided to have a second recommendation here.
	140 bucks for this kettle.
	That's their number two.
	It sure do look shiny, though.
	It's a luxury rich people item of what if water was hot?
	I know.
	Groundbreaking.
	Anyway, I'm not just kidding about the luxury items.
	Their third recommended kettle is this, which I want to look at.
	Which, look at it.
	Look at how rich person I think that is.
	I have seen one of those.
	You can get those from Asda for like 15 quid.
	Can you?
	Yeah.
	Even with the little gooseneck there?
	Yeah, with the little water spout that makes it look fancier than it actually is.
	It's just a kettle, but this one looks a bit fancy.
	For people listening, we're looking at a normal kettle, except they've chopped off the outlet and instead put some, like, water can out part on it instead.
	What did you call it?
	Spout.
	There we are.
	Yeah, it's a water spout.
	I know my nursery rhymes.
	I remembered what that word is.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Where does the handle go, Callum?
	On the front.
	Anyway, they even included actually a video of this goose kettle.
	We can go and see.
	There's an unlisted link.
	The New York Times are sat around making sure you know what a kettle is in case you forgot.
	Shall we play this?
	Nothing happens.
	There's literally just some water.
	This is an eight second video.
	It's for their customer base to be like, so this is how you use it.
	What you do is you pour the pot of water.
	So the water pours into your cup.
	Wow.
	Amazing.
	I'm not joking, that's real.
	Americans, I'm sure you're honestly insulted by this kind of content.
	I don't want it to seem like we're just thinking all Americans are complete retards, because I think it's just the people in charge of your media class.
	But rich left-wing Americans!
	I think we can agree are all retards, and I wouldn't be shocked if this is made specifically for them.
	There's also the last one here, this is the only cow that's not ridiculous, 40 buckaroos, which is still kind of ridiculous.
	But how many options for various temperatures do I have on it?
	Well they have one, which is the button.
	So it just boils.
	Yeah, you press the button, it boils the water.
	Madness.
	Why doesn't it suck my... No.
	That's not what I want from my kettles.
	You want... What, do you want it to boil it as well?
	No!
	Jesus Christ!
	My point was, like, how much functionality do you want from a kettle?
	Like, you want it to, I don't know, feed your dogs?
	Like, I just want the button.
	That'd be useful.
	Anyway, getting back to it, because this is the last thing out here that I thought was just amazing, because it's not just, you know, funny, fancy kettles that are all a billion dollars, but they decided to add a description of Zed Kettle, where they write here, to begin boiling water in the Hamilton Beach Kettle, you need to flick the tab at the base of the handle.
	Ooh, because you flick tab, and then water go boil.
	I think at one point they also call it, what is it, the water boiler?
	Yeah, let's go back.
	I think it's on the previous tab, where they don't refer to it as a kettle, all you have, an inexpensive water boiler.
	The new name.
	You know when you translate things from like Japanese and it's like the most literal phrasing of it possible?
	This is like that.
	It's a kettle.
	No, water boiler.
	Were we talking about that yesterday?
	It was like go go eat duck or something?
	Yeah, like the sort of ridiculous English t-shirts that you can get.
	Go go duck eat.
	Make world positive.
	HIV positive.
	But we're going to the lady who wrote this article, because I want to prove my point, which is I think it is just rich left-wing Americans.
	She, her.
	Works for the New York Times.
	And, uh, insufferable Instagram.
	So, um... How insufferable?
	I mean, there's a puppy in the first picture.
	It's probably that bad.
	Traditional, boring stuff.
	Where it's like, I have a dog.
	I don't know.
	I've got friends.
	This could be a much worse Instagram.
	Oh, it could be.
	Let's be perfectly honest here.
	I see no rainbow flags.
	I see no attendance of protests.
	There's no puppy costumes.
	I'll give you that.
	I wasn't really setting the bar that low, though.
	I was just... Are there?
	We'll find out.
	Anyway, but we'll get forward because the last thing I wanted to mention is just about the weird world of the American... Wait, what?
	How have we got here?
	So this is a video called Tribal People Discovering Cheesecake.
	Which very much reminded me of just the whole kettle thing.
	Is this why you were trying to invite me around for cheesecake?
	And why you came back with a mysteriously bloodied hand?
	I filmed the whole thing.
	And it'll be up on my YouTube channel tonight at 9?
	Oh my god.
	Was this guy waiting for you?
	No, but I wonder if we could play this without the audio.
	But you can see it's a bunch of tribal people from Pakistan.
	And they're all talking about, I've never eaten cheesecake.
	Why would you put cheese in a cake?
	That sounds horrible.
	They're just confused by the concept.
	And then they eat it.
	Cheesecake's lovely.
	They love it, obviously.
	Obviously, cheesecake's delicious.
	One of the really nice things is they actually respond by not saying, oh, this is great, give me more.
	He looks so scared of it.
	Yeah, what do I do?
	It's cold.
	I'm lactose intolerant, I'm not white.
	Giving me cheese?
	Look at the face!
	It's a special kind of cheese, though.
	I made it myself.
	Anyway, but the guys here, the really nice thing is that they don't just say, give me more.
	They actually keep saying that the person who made this, I'd love to kiss his hands because he's brought such joy into the world.
	It's really wholesome.
	That's really sweet.
	Because it's not just appreciation for the item you have in front of you.
	It's the appreciation for whoever created this.
	It's like some kind of God amongst men.
	That's right.
	Yeah, that's what the British art here, crisp sandwiches.
	Yeah, Yankee Doodle.
	Anyway.
	That's right, America.
	Kiss my feet.
	Oh, God.
	I'm trying not... This whole thing was meant to be an appreciation for the Yanks, and it's turned into local Brit.
	Brit posts.
	Callum, you posted... You got a video of some random American... I didn't even know that YouTube videos still had people like that just in their room on a fuzzy web camera, eating beans on toast for the enjoyment of his three subscribers.
	Well, now for the whole world.
	Well, I hope you've sent traffic his way.
	He deserves it.
	Go and subscribe to Bean Man.
	Anyway.
	But tribal people eating cake here is interesting, because speaking of rich Americans, I want to just feature the last thing, which I think is brilliant.
	I do quite like how happy their faces are.
	Yeah, honestly.
	Now that they're eating it, they look really chuffed.
	I'm turning this into a reaction channel at this point, with this tribal people tribe.
	I envy that man's moustache.
	Anyway, let's pause that, let's move forward, because the last thing I want to mention is dog restaurants.
	Oh, we have those in England.
	Do we?
	We've got cat restaurants.
	I don't know about dog restaurants.
	I don't think we have it like this.
	But I bet we've got dog restaurants.
	Wait.
	Because rich Californian Americans have got money.
	And dogs.
	And no kids.
	Well.
	And you know what I like?
	Money.
	So let's go.
	He came up with dog restaurants.
	As you can see, New York Times cooking again, at it again, with the madness.
	They're talking about their $75 fine dining tasting option at the Doggy Cafe.
	Wait, so is this... So, what I was thinking was it's like a cafe or a restaurant where you go and there's just animals about, so that while you're enjoying your meal or your tea, you can just, like, give a little fuss as it goes past.
	You'll have a cat walk up to you and try and paw at you or something.
	Now, is this for the dogs?
	It's not even like you go to the ice cream shop and they serve dog ice creams as well.
	I don't know if you've ever seen that.
	Yes, actually over the weekend I saw it in an ice cream van.
	Shove it down for the dog, it cools them down, they love it.
	You know, nice hot day.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, no, instead this is, would you like to give me all of your money and what I will do is make something that looks fantastic and then your dog will schlep it up.
	That is actually what we're talking about.
	Because we've got the next one here.
	Do you know what I'm reminded of?
	I'm reminded of that 4chan meme where it's just the picture of the dog slurping up the water.
	It just goes, schlup, schlup, schlup, schlup, schlup.
	Actually, go back real quick, because there's one more thing the New York Times cooking mentions.
	Because it's not just a joke about the kids thing.
	They're right in here.
	At some restaurants, specialty dog menus have become the new version of children's menus.
	Because rich laughing Americans with no kids.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	You don't have any eggs.
	Empty egg carton.
	You don't have any eggs.
	It's now a breeding dog restaurant.
	Anyway, go to the Instagram and check out the artistry on show.
	Unironically, this guy, super talented.
	Hype capitalist.
	Much appreciate.
	But he's doing it for dogs.
	I don't know.
	It makes me think about... Scroll down for me, please, John.
	There are some Americans who just... Imagine spending... Doosh!
	You see that cake there at the top left?
	That's a hundred bucks.
	Just for my dog to go, shlip, shlip, shlip, shlip, shlip.
	I mean, I do enjoy the shlip, shlip, shlip, but that's, that's, I don't know what the three dots of red is costing you.
	I mean, you could, look at that, he's got liquid nitrogen on the dog food.
	Because of course.
	Anyway, just something amazing.
	Something amazing.
	I do like the crafted woodwork there, doog.
	Oh, look how happy that dog is, though.
	That's a satisfied customer.
	It's not worth a million dollars, though.
	About a hundred dollars.
	A hundred bucks a visit.
	Yeah.
	Hey, you can also take reservations.
	If we go forward, you can see that they have extra large cakes and whatnot, which you can order.
	We need to get a reservation at Dorsey.
	But if you go to the last link, the last link here is just their website.
	And they mention at the bottom somewhere, it's just about like, if you want to reserve, we prefer that you reserve on Saturdays.
	So very busy on Saturdays with all our fine customers.
	But look at the artistry.
	Look at that.
	Anyway, that's that.
	I just want to talk about beans and dogs and Yankee Doodle Doo.
	Answer my question, dammit, in the comments, because I want to know.
	I guess that was news.
	Yeah.
	News times importance.
	That was certainly a series of images flashed up with you talking over them.
	Alright, let's go to the one serious thing we might be talking about today, and even then, I can't bring myself to bloody care, if I'm perfectly honest.
	The elections, the local elections have been going on in England at the moment, and for anybody who was voting Conservative, or anybody in the Conservative party, or anybody hoping that it was going to be anything other than a Labour landslide, seems to be very disappointed, because it's not going well.
	It's not going out.
	It was still early.
	Thing everyone expected happened.
	Yes, exactly that.
	What if we were gay race communists when in government?
	Oh no, it's unpopular.
	What if we're more gay race communists?
	It still doesn't work.
	Damn.
	Yes, a lot of things are happening where Labour are taking over a lot of local seats at local councils.
	For American viewers, the local councils are the people who look after the constituencies and decide what tax money is going to be spent on in those local constituencies, so it is actually very important for where you are living, and it seems that Labour are taking over a lot.
	They've already won, as we can see from this of one of the most recent Updates that they've got 164 seats from where they were before.
	Conservatives down 286.
	Liberal Democrats are up 74.
	And it's still just looking terrible because if I'm perfectly honest, none of these people represent me in the first place, and I hate everybody involved in all of this.
	They can all go to hell for all I care.
	Yes.
	The problem is, I would want to care more, but I hate everybody involved, and they all probably hate me and the things that I believe.
	So not a single major party that's worth anything is advocating for the sorts of policies that I would want, like deporting illegal immigrants, actually doing something to stop the boat migrants, shutting down the borders for a little bit... Lowering taxes, please.
	Lowering my taxes, even though Conservative local councillors were running on, we'll be lowering the taxes right after we've raised those a little bit.
	So they'll probably be like, oh, we'll lower them 3% after we've raised them 14%.
	Thanks fellas.
	That's what we've got to work with in this country, and this is just what we've got to look forward to.
	And before I go further, John, if you could bring up the symposium?
	No?
	John?
	Have you got them?
	I didn't know we were going to Claudia Webb, my favourite MP.
	Oh yeah, everybody's favourite MP, except for that one woman.
	She's not a big fan of it.
	No, she might do actually.
	I mean, wouldn't it be funny?
	I mean, even if an MP came to your house and threatened you with a gun or something, right?
	What, threatened me with a cup of acid?
	You gonna vote for me?
	Well, if that happened, but you ruin their career, I mean, I still think I'd kind of like them because, you know, you don't get to do many things in life.
	Ruin a politician is one of the things that's on my bucket list.
	So, are you willing to take a cup of acid to the face?
	Well, she didn't take a cup of acid to the face in the end, so that's what I mean.
	Not in the end, no.
	I think it's still a W. I mean, if you take the acid, then it's an L.
	So we know the win-lose scenario that's going on here.
	Oh, just saying, just saying.
	Yeah, cheers.
	Thank you, Jon.
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	Let's carry on.
	So I got up the Guardian's rundown of all of this because they actually had some of the most useful and clear-ish-to-read infographics.
	Last time I looked at this, Labour were up 666 seats, or at least had won 666 seats, so I saw this as a sign of the end times.
	But the problem is that Conservative had a vast majority and broke the Red Wall a few years ago.
	Was it two years ago or was it in 2019 when the Red Wall was broken?
	ELD 2019.
	Yes, that was it.
	We broke down the red wall, but it is being rebuilt because the Conservatives came in saying, don't worry lads, we'll fix this whole thing up for you.
	And then didn't.
	And then everybody went, oh, so that's what we're going to get from you.
	We'll go back to the same old, same old that we were before.
	Except the same old, same old is the exact same as Conservatives, just plus about two, three years.
	There's always the problem is that all of these parties believe the same things.
	If you really think there is much of a qualitative difference between what the Conservatives believe, what Labour believes, what Liberal Democrats believe, what Green believes, then you're out of your absolute gourd, lad.
	Because they all believe the same things, just in a difference of degrees.
	They all believe that we should have these Green initiatives.
	Yes, green initiatives, they all believe that we should have mass immigration, all of these things that concern... We should expand rights to things that don't even make sense.
	Yes, exactly that.
	They all believe that only 99.9% of women don't have penises, and there's that 0.01% that do definitely have penises, apart from Rishi Sunak, who as a result of saying as such, was branded by the Guardian as the most right-wing politician that we've had since the 1950s, and possibly Enoch Powell.
	Yeah, Margaret Thatcher thought women had penises.
	Rishi Sunak was the second coming of Thomas Carlyle.
	He was that bad.
	Disraeli himself would have gone, hold up there Rishi, we need to calm these things down a little bit here.
	Come on, 99.99% maybe, but that 0.01% we've got to take them into account.
	Good God.
	If we could scroll through it a little bit here, we can see that's not a good graph if you're a conservative supporter.
	I don't think it's a good graph for humanity.
	No, I don't either, because as much as I do despise the Conservative Party... I just want to see UKIP reform rise.
	Oh yeah, that would be beautiful, but it's not happening.
	As much as I, you know, despise the Conservative Party, they at least aren't going to be, for the time being, as crazy as Labour, but Labour are completely insane.
	And this is also indicating for a lot of people that this is probably going to be ...predictive of the next general election, so we're almost guaranteed at this point a big Labour majority for the next government, which will mean that if you are voting Labour because you hate what the Conservatives have done, I've got some bad news for you.
	Labour will do all of those things that you hated the Conservatives doing, but more.
	Does this make sense?
	This is why I don't really even bother with British politics anymore.
	I don't know if you noticed.
	Because it just feels so unrepresentative.
	In the sense that none of it is even slightly aligned.
	I mean, you've got reform.
	They're doing a good job.
	Don't get me wrong.
	I don't want to say, like, oh, they don't exist or, you know, there are other parties out there as well.
	But in a significant sense, I mean, we'll try and help them where we can, obviously, but there's only so much some people in Swindon can do.
	This is true.
	For instance, if I came out with a party of the deport party, I'm going to tentatively name them, and just came out with the, we will privatise a decent chunk of the NHS to make it actually efficient and cost effective, we will deport the illegal migrants, we will send them to Rwanda and then not accept Rwandan refugees for some reason, that was part of it, and do a few other things.
	I can guarantee that probably about 70% of the country would be on my side, but I would need some big, big, big, big, big money to actually be able to support me, but most people would want me.
	Well, when I was working with Gerald Bannon, the quoted figure for if you basically want to start a party that'll go anywhere, 10 million quid is the starting budget you need.
	That's the starting.
	That's to get the flyers printed, presumably.
	Well, that's to get everything set up.
	And then you have to actually, you know, have momentum and keep that money coming in.
	Maintenance running costs and such.
	So you've got to expect to have someone like Rupert Murdoch on your back, except Rupert Murdoch would not support us.
	No, he's too busy supporting gay race communism because he's an evil right-winger who runs Fox.
	I mean, I do always find that rhetoric amazing.
	The evil right-wing tabloid newspaper man.
	What is he doing?
	It's Uniparty talk.
	He's on the right end of the Overton window.
	You know, we probably don't exist in the Overton window anymore.
	Let's be perfectly honest.
	Yeah, apart from women don't have penises.
	Yeah, except for, you know, when we're talking about Americans eating beans, which might exist in there.
	Who knows?
	Maybe that's verboten now.
	But he exists on the right of the Overton window, therefore he is to be held up as the evil spooky boogeyman because the whole point of the Overton window is so that it continually shifts left.
	So he will shift left with it so that he can keep his media sphere going.
	But his whole point is for people to go, oh no, we don't want that, do we?
	Quick, mutilate your children!
	Thanks.
	You need to mutilate your children to prevent Rupert Murdoch winning, I suppose.
	Everywhere has been falling.
	If we go to that first Daily Mail link for me, please, John.
	Tories have just lost lots of seats which were pretty guaranteed for them for the past 20 years.
	So, Labour ended 23 years of blue rule to take charge in Medway.
	Mr Sunak's grip... I love how polite they're being here.
	Mr Sunak's grip was prized loose in Brentwood, Tamworth, North West Leicestershire, Hertzmere, East Lindsay, South Kestaven, East Hertfordshire and South Gloucestershire.
	In another body blow, the Lib Dems have seized Windsor and Maidenhead, Theresa May's constituency.
	Also, just...
	Can we go back?
	Yeah, can we go back?
	No, no, just stay on this headline here.
	Do you like the framing of this right here?
	Fears worse to come with voters angry about NHS and housing.
	There's some root causes to those which voters might be more angry about.
	No, don't mention it.
	Might it be... You might get a shot if you mention it.
	Are you going to shoot me?
	No, I don't know.
	Someone will come down and shoot us, presumably.
	Well, nothing will happen.
	No, of course, that's the problem.
	In the UK, they just avoid mentioning it, and it's just like, why?
	Nothing's actually going to happen to you.
	If, you know, you're a Conservative councillor or a Conservative MP, I'd just be like, hang on a minute.
	You know 500,000 net people a year, that's a bit much.
	Didn't we promise getting it down to tens of thousands 13 years ago?
	And even then, you know, tens of thousands.
	You've had 13 years.
	Still a bit much for me.
	But, you know, I know that people want to argue over it.
	Can we at least agree to under 100,000 net a year?
	No.
	500 grand.
	Apparently someone will come and take me out if I were to say something like that.
	But they won't.
	And the losses have been so embarrassing.
	If you go to that BBC article.
	Like, look at this.
	Local Elections 2023.
	Leader, Tory leader, ousted by a 22-year-old Lib Dem councillor.
	Look at him!
	Look at his little baby face!
	He's so happy!
	He's such a nice guy!
	I'm sure this isn't to make fun of this particular person, George Blundell.
	The problem is that we complain a lot about the age of politicians, especially when you look over in America and see that the entire thing is made up of decrepit corpses wandering about, rattling their bones, not understanding what's going on.
	The entire country is figure-headed.
	I won't say run-by because there's no chance Joe Biden's in charge, but it's figure-headed by a man who clearly has dementia.
	There probably is a barber in Congress and it looks like he's shearing sheep every single day.
	Almost certainly.
	But that doesn't mean I think that 22-year-olds...
	I feel like you probably need a little bit more life experience than four years away from the legal drinking age.
	If this man was in America, he's only been allowed to drink for a year.
	I don't know, I'm up for it, as long as he's not a Lib Dem.
	That's the thing that makes me worried.
	Like, I've met some guys in the UK who were young, who were smart, but I've never met someone from, like, the Lib Dems who I've ever, of any age, where I've gone, yep, you can think.
	Yeah, maybe.
	I mean, I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he ousted the Tory leader who's in that particular area, so you've got a 22-year-old councillor there now, I hope.
	For every council I'm talking about, by the way, I do not wish anything bad on your local constituents or your town.
	I honestly hope for the best, I just have no hope for the future.
	That's my problem at the moment, I'm a little bit blackpilled.
	Cheery boy.
	This is why I think your segment's sandwiching mine.
	We've got the classic S-sandwich set up here.
	We've got fun segment, depressing segment, fun segment.
	So, if you get a bit depressed by this, stick around for Callum, while we can give a little laugh at Jon Stewart.
	Or Jon Liebowitz, whatever his real name is.
	And the funny thing about all of this, though, is despite the fact that they are making some massive gains, you still had people, MPs like our favorite, Claudia Webb, complaining about the new rule that was implemented recently for these local elections about having to have voter ID.
	Because, shockingly enough, there are probably millions more people in this country that are officially registered because of illegal migration, people overstaying their visas, etc, etc, etc.
	But the problem is that that means that we're suppressing voters.
	We're suppressing voters.
	We're still winning, but we're suppressing voters.
	Yeah, I don't know if you know this, like all of their MPs were tweeting just before this election that it was rigged.
	And it was rigged because the Tories had insisted you have your ID.
	Not so much anymore.
	Free and fair, my friend.
	Free and fair.
	I love that though, where you sit down and you go, the whole system's rigged and then we won.
	Say Labour!
	That's right, we did it!
	You might want to work on that messaging, friends.
	I love this here as well.
	The requirement for voter ID is voter suppression.
	Like others, I've walked with my passport as a form of ID whilst hoping I don't loose it.
	I hate that people can't spell lose.
	But I don't loose it en route or leave it behind.
	Oh come on, she can't even say Beaus.
	I'm sorry, do you not have a driver's license that you carry around in your passport, in your purse, or wallet, or whatever it is that you carry, Claudia?
	Well, you can't drive with a conviction she's got.
	Oh yeah, true, but you can still hold a driver's license.
	But like, you could do this amazing thing which is use pockets, and generally if you use your pockets, pockets, this is an amazing bit of design that you may have never heard of, are designed not to have things fall out of them.
	Are you aware of this?
	To be fair, women's pockets.
	Yeah, well, you might have me there.
	You might have me there.
	That's why I have purses though, so... But still, the whole idea that if I just go out with a form of ID, it'll just get blown away in the wind.
	So this is voter suppression.
	Is ridiculous and stupid.
	I had this one come up next, which just appears to me like possibly... I don't want to be too mean, but this does have... Should we all point and laugh at the mask wearer?
	Yes.
	What are you doing?
	This does have 15,000 likes and it's either a lie or you are stupid because not allowed to vote once inside despite bringing the idea in video of me putting on mask as no options for reasonable distance for those are hashtag immunosuppressed recorded is turned away with reason no guidance for those so she refused to pull her mask down
	for less than five seconds to go this picture of me bam it's me bam back on no because in those five seconds a stray particle of covid might have entered her mouth and killed her on the spot 15 000 likes this is voter suppression the guardian had an article giving a few stories about it as well which i found funny uh whether of course They say, uh, wrong documents and requirements to remove masks leave some unable to vote in local elections.
	Like, some people have just welded these masks to their faces.
	It's a part of me.
	People who never wore them before, no matter what issues they had, but for some reason, since COVID, are incensed with still wearing them.
	They don't want to get the sniffles.
	They're desperately, desperately afraid of getting the sniffles, Callum.
	I mean, I saw some people saying that you shouldn't make fun of people who are still wearing masks because, like that lady there, you could say, oh, well, you know, they've got a weak immune system or something.
	But they never did it before!
	They always had a weak immune system.
	There was still... It's only since all the propaganda that people like that are like, I need to be covered up at all times!
	I must wear the GIMP mask!
	The GIMP mask chose me!
	These people are just... ugh.
	They're just cracked in their head, to put it politely.
	Tor Udal, a writer in Oxford, nice British name there, said she'd been left in tears, left in tears, after watching it all.
	I had to go home and get my idea and then come back.
	No, no, no, this was on somebody else's behalf.
	What?
	Hang on.
	She started crying on someone else's behalf.
	She was going to vote on someone else's behalf?
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	She wasn't voting on someone else's behalf.
	She was standing around and saw an older woman with mobility problems refuse to vote because her document was not the correct one.
	Lady, you had months to get the correct document.
	I gotta be honest, she's probably not doing much else today.
	I think she can nip home and get it.
	She might be able to nip home and get it, or... got phone on you, probably.
	Ring up your cousin, uncle, brother, son, granddaughter... Oi, Bellend!
	Can you go and pick this up for me, please?
	Simple.
	It's very simple.
	Those saying that this was a voter ID suppression was a suppression of voters who would be too stupid to know how to fill in the ballot in the first place.
	And of course, let's not forget that some voters who are transgender or have transgender partners reported not being able to vote because they don't exist within reality.
	No, because their documents did not match their new name, having had difficulty applying for the government-issued voter ID.
	I'm sorry, if you desperately want to vote, you're going to have to put down your real name.
	As much as it might break your heart and scar your poor brain, you will have to just put down your birth name if you desperately want to vote like that.
	Sorry.
	And the only reason the left and any of the left are promoting these stories or talking about them in the first place is because they mainly thought that this was going to affect Labour voters.
	And guess what?
	Turns out it didn't because they're winning anyway.
	It never even made any sense, because the one group of people who are going to be not informed enough to get this sorted in time is going to be really old people who aren't bothering to pay attention.
	So that rhetoric of like, oh no, it'll be all the young people and the minorities who don't have IDs.
	I mean, it's just false on the face for anyway.
	Yep.
	What young person doesn't have an ID?
	How do you go drinking?
	It's one of the first things that you do when you hit 18 is you make sure you get an ID that shows that you are 18 so that you can go to the pub on your 18th birthday.
	Literally can't go to the pub without it.
	I'm honoured tradition.
	I mean, I'm not dobbing myself in too much here, but I might not have always had to show ID before I was 18 because I've always been a very big man.
	and they've never always and not always been questioned and when i had very very long hair i looked about 10 years older than i actually was but i have occasionally been id'd and i always have it on me anyway just in case because it's stupid not to have it on you um but one of the reasons they might be winning is because uh labor all they had to really do is point out that later the conservatives have been in charge for 13 years and everything's been Rubbish since then.
	I don't believe that Labour are going to do anything in line with the messaging that they've been giving, but at the same time, this messaging is relatively effective for your average nobody on the street who doesn't really pay attention to things.
	The normies.
	Yeah, the normies.
	The normies on the street will look at this and go, oh, Labour, bring back neighbourhood policing.
	Yeah, 13 years.
	I don't feel safe anymore under the Conservatives.
	I best vote Labour.
	They've actually been going for the throat with some of this messaging.
	Keir Starmer, I pointed out a few weeks ago, actually wrote an article for the Daily Mail, of all places, where he said that Tories have let criminals get away with it for too long, I'm going to be tough on crime.
	I don't believe you, but the normies will believe you, because the Conservatives are so demonstrably Rubbish at everything.
	And at the same time as making statements like this, he was also making other statements like the classic 99.9% of women haven't got a penis.
	Once again, that 0.1% we've got to take them into account.
	So even then, when Kistama is trying to go fire and fury, he's still being just a progressive moron.
	And in the next one, I just saw this one going around, which I found funny.
	Just a little clip here.
	Oh no, a Labour candidate.
	A Labour canvasser stole a leaflet from a thing.
	Oh, this is an outrage.
	We've got to take back all of the Labour results.
	This is how they stole those votes.
	No.
	Yeah, I mean, it is a crime.
	Don't get me wrong.
	But... I'm sorry, everybody probably does it.
	I would imagine that if you're a canvasser going out, this is not just going to be something that is unique to Labour.
	Probably.
	When I used to do it, like, never would I do that.
	If someone else had done it, I would have been like, what the hell's wrong with you?
	You're an honourable person though, Callum.
	Do you think most people who decide to get involved in politics are honourable people?
	If so, I have a cheesecake to sell you.
	There was one guy who came to the Conservative meetings I used to be at and boasts about how he was an immigration lawyer and helped get illegal Albanians off, even though they were clearly guilty.
	Did he get a discount afterwards?
	No, I don't think so.
	He's too old for that.
	But I just... Like, I'm looking at him and he's like, yeah, that's what I do.
	It's great.
	You know, I help people out.
	I'm like...
	Oh yeah, just helping people out.
	Just want to help some buddies out.
	How are you helping people out?
	You're literally making the community worse every day.
	Like, oh yeah, this drug dealer, he needs to be here.
	Let me help him out.
	Better call Saul over here.
	You might think, do you have rights?
	Constitution says you do!
	I do love this clip as well, because he looks gormlessly straight into the camera as well.
	It's so great.
	I love it.
	And what did the Conservatives do to combat all of this?
	Of course, they let out some compelling messages like the charisma vacuum that is Jeremy Hunt saying, oh, we'll lower taxes.
	Ignore that all that we've done in 13 years is raise taxes, but we will lower taxes.
	We'll lower your council tax.
	Keep council tax low.
	Well, you've already failed at that, so nobody's going to believe a word that you have to say.
	And if you want proof of that, go to the next link.
	A few weeks ago, I did this segment where we were talking about, me and Joshua, we were talking about the Swindon Money Pit, that being the new plan for the next tax year in Swindon that we got through the town council, and found it was...
	20 million plus, as you can see just from the thumbnail, 11.8 million pounds was being spent on 42 children for their care services and such.
	Over a hundred grand a kid.
	Over a hundred grand a kid.
	Just give him the hundred grand.
	Give me the hundred grand!
	I need care!
	I'll take care of a little retarded kid for a hundred grand, no problem.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I've got some space in the corner of my spare room.
	There you go, Søren.
	You can stay there.
	Make him dinner.
	Face the corner.
	You know, I'd probably hire a carer for 40 grand and then I'm up.
	There are so many more efficient ways to do this.
	And this happened in Swindon under a majority conservative council that has been majority conservative since at least 2004.
	So why anybody would believe them when they say, don't worry, we'll keep your council tax low when they're raising council tax and then send us letters through that might as well just spit in our faces the moment you open the letter?
	I don't know.
	But then, once again, Don't confuse this for me saying that Labour are going to be any better, because Labour are just going to do all of this and worse.
	In fact, in the next one, Scrump did a little tweet where he just took a photo of the materials that Labour were sending through, where he just points out, Labour will declare a climate emergency, ensuring that we all play our part in tackling climate change and secure a better future for your children and grandchildren.
	So this is what people are voting for in the local councils, and then from the Conservative side, what's the narrative that they're playing now that they're so obviously losing?
	As I pointed out in the Daily Mail, the next one, Farrow, who's great and you should follow him on Twitter, he does some great stuff, he pointed out, note the narrative defeat is still a win for the regime, we just weren't pushing the NHS hard enough.
	Ignore immigration, ignore things that people actually care about, obviously GP appointments and the NHS, It's almost like they're all tied to something.
	But yes, they might all be tied to something.
	No mention of the economy, immigration, social changes, net zero, or general Tory backstabbery and failure to carry out basic manifesto policies.
	No, it's just the NHS.
	We need more NHS.
	So as far as I can tell, and apologies if I'm despairing somewhat here, but I do despair for my country.
	I don't think there is any representative politics in the UK.
	No, of course there isn't.
	I mean, a whole side note, just, I did a video once looking at it because I didn't realise just how bad a level of democracy we even have.
	People think it's, you know, parliament.
	Do you mean DOMOCRACY?
	Well, you get two votes if you live here.
	Yeah, you get a vote for your councillors, which can't really do anything, they just distribute money.
	It's like, okay, well, that's cool.
	To retarded children.
	Yeah, this is not great.
	And then you get to vote for an MP and that MP may or may not, if you write to them, take up your issue as in they'll ask about it and then nothing more.
	That is your only ability to influence anything in a legal sense as a citizen in this country.
	I mean, at least the Americans get a congressman and a senator.
	We didn't even get that!
	But for the future, I'm sure, judging by the response right now, all the Tories will learn from this is not that we should give the people what they want, but more, well, Labour won, guess we should be more like Labour!
	So that's something to look forward to.
	An American's messaged me boasting that they own a kettle.
	Oh my god.
	Ooh la la.
	Oh, you own a kettle in your large mansion, do you?
	So we thought we'd just talk about why Jon Stewart is like this.
	Because I've been watching a lot of Jon Stewart.
	You know, he made his little podcast called The Problem With Jon Stewart.
	There's too many to count.
	I think we covered it when it launched because it was horrific, is the right term.
	I mean, one episode was The Problem With White People.
	I mean, I covered one a few months ago, was the big one, where he was defending Drag Queen Story Hour by pointing out, don't you understand that more children are killed by guns in the US than anywhere else?
	What does that have to do with Drag Queen Story Hour?
	I just scare.
	Look over here!
	What if I just throw a talking point at you, hmm?
	Yeah, it's pathetic.
	But the problem with white people, I think, was the most egregious, because he's not made any sequels on that.
	No other groups have gotten the magnifying glass looked at them.
	Only white people.
	It seems.
	Because Jon Stewart doesn't... The problem with the chosen pi- Oh no.
	He's just not sincere in his ability to actually deal with stuff.
	He just parrots left with nonsense.
	Although I do want to see Jon Stewart the problem with those damn Japs.
	They bomb Pearl Harbor, I'll never forgive them!
	But he recently did some stuff about inflation and I've been enjoying it, which has made me feel dirty.
	So I thought we'd go over why I confess my sins.
	I need a smile put back on my face after that last segment, so let's go for it.
	We'll start just by promoting something else, which is someone rickety wrecking themselves, which is the Cyberpunk Dystopia stream we did on I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, because humanity rickety wrecked itself there.
	Sorry, I just- Rickety-roo.
	I think I had a mini heart attack when you said that.
	Did you just say rickety wreck itself?
	I said rickety wreck themselves.
	Alright, okay.
	Moving forward, let's go to the inflation statistics, because inflation is bloody miserable.
	Yes.
	I don't need Jon Stewart to tell me about this.
	- I don't need Jon Stewart to tell me about this.
	- No, but he did this segment where he's talking about inflation and the format- - Gives a lot of misinformation, I'm assuming.
	- No, he actually did- - Is it because of greedy capitalists?
	- He did a fairly good job of being like, you know what, inflation bad.
	You know what's worse about inflation?
	Is when the cost of inflation is entirely put on the workers.
	It's like, yeah, that's pretty bad.
	That's certainly one of the things that happens with inflation.
	When there's high inflation and there's no increase in wages.
	It's like, yeah, all the burden's put on the workers.
	That's probably the worst thing you could do.
	And there's even a term for it.
	Macroeconomic scale.
	Anybody who's familiar with economics might have heard of the Cantillon effect, which is something that's been known about for about 250 or so years now.
	Aye-aye.
	Tell us about it.
	Oh, do you not know?
	Nope.
	Oh, Cantillon effect.
	Richard Cantillon, I think he was Irish, was living in France and realised that the government was printing an F tonne of money and then realised that the money doesn't just all go out into the economy in the same places all at once, it doesn't just get distributed equally.
	It goes to certain people.
	It goes to certain people and then they get the main benefits and then the people that they are spending the money on, they get the benefits and then it all goes downstream until... The plebs are completely screwed.
	Until you and grandma, when you finally get the money, everything else has already gone up in price.
	Yeah.
	That's a great example, actually, of how the distribution has been miserable.
	He wrote a book partially explaining it, so he's known this for like 200 years.
	So John does this thing that he usually does, there's a compilation of people talking about inflation exists, and they're all talking about the 6% this year.
	I kind of hate this.
	Um, because I don't like doing it per year because it always distorts how bad it really is.
	So we're going to compare it to 2020 in a minute.
	But the solution from all of the talking heads on American media is, you know, how do we solve inflation?
	We need wages to go down and for people to be unemployed, to lower the pain that Americans are feeling.
	Which John correctly points out is kind of retarded.
	So you know those American people who are working hard but now really struggling to pay their bills?
	What if we make them pay them less and made them unemployed?
	Is this going to be what if we outsource all of our industry to other countries so that we can get things cheaper?
	But the problem with that logic that I've always thought is I don't care if things are cheaper if it means I have no job to make no money so that I can't buy these now cheaper products.
	I mean the joke he picks is to solve your headache we're going to give you medicine through your dickhole.
	That's the only way of getting rid of pain.
	Does this look quite good?
	Yeah.
	It's like, okay, yeah, fair enough.
	Are we becoming Jon Stewart appreciators in this segment?
	Because it will make me feel dirty.
	This is what I meant, I felt dirty.
	For about 10 minutes, I was like, okay, Jon Stewart's talking sense.
	This is worrying me.
	Because we'll go to the next one here.
	Just to point out that per year, hate that.
	Instead, let's compare it to 2020, because that's the best place to put it.
	For the UK, pretty miserable.
	It's 25.5% inflation since 2020.
	It's a quarter of your savings gone, and a quarter of your income gone.
	If you haven't had a pay raise.
	Brilliant.
	That's great.
	Fantastic.
	We've got two UK doctors.
	You remember all the NHS doctors campaigning.
	I thought they might have been over-exaggerating.
	Turns out, holy crap is it bad for them.
	Because here's a graph who this guy put together where he's got, you know, different sectors, doctors and training, nurses, especially registrars here.
	And he's showing you their pay over time.
	And as you can see, inflation and pay changes have kind of ground them into the dirt compared to their 2010 counterparts.
	I mean, if you click on that to make it bigger for folks, we can see, from doctors and training, 2010, earned about 60 grand.
	Okay?
	A little over.
	And then their pay just gets, you know, butchered.
	Which is pretty bad.
	It's not fun.
	But okay, it'll go up someday.
	Someday that sun has got to shine.
	All it does, just briefly, and then suck it, loser.
	So, it's a 25% pay cut.
	So they're now down to about, I think it's 38, was what we were being told from the junior doctors, if you're starting out there.
	Yeah, a bit of a downfall from 60.
	Notice how all three of these graphs are basically the same as well.
	They've all gone down in unison with one another in the same way.
	It's almost like when the government prints all the money, it kind of screws everyone.
	I know, right?
	But the worst part here is when you figure out the conversion.
	So if a 2010 doctor was getting paid, you know, if their wages hadn't been destroyed, a junior doctor would be getting paid 100 grand.
	Which is a lot of money.
	And I thought, that's hella lot of money.
	Okay.
	I'd be happy with 100 grand a year.
	Maybe they did need to come down a little bit, because that's a huge amount, isn't it?
	And then I looked up.
	No, it's not.
	Turns out.
	So if you go to the United States, for example, if you're an NHS doctor, and you think, thank you for all that training.
	Thank you for paying for that.
	See ya, buddy.
	I'm going to the States.
	113 grand.
	Median there.
	Starting off at 95 at the bottom, going up to 137 for junior doctor.
	All right.
	They're offering jobs right now.
	I saw a bunch of adverts the junior doctors were all retweeting.
	They're all getting offered jobs of 100 grand to go to Australia and be junior doctors.
	Is it too late to change careers?
	I don't think so, but it's... if you're someone who's trained to be a doctor in the UK and you find out these statistics, Why the hell would you stay here?
	No, of course, why would you stay here?
	And all of a sudden... Why are all of my doctors Indian?
	It's confusing as to how this might have happened.
	The socialist healthcare system we have might not be paying off for literally everyone involved, never mind just the patients.
	But moving on, I mean, continued mass immigration, not helping, of course.
	Some changes here I thought I'd just update everyone on, which are great.
	So you might have noticed that immigration number went up hugely.
	There's been a bit of a change, which is we got rid of all the middle-class immigrants and exchanged them for Indian-Pakistani-Bangladeshis and Nigerians, as you can see the graph there shooting up.
	Fantastic.
	So I really wish they'd break up the Indian-Pakistani-Bangladeshi sections because those people are very different from each other, but there we have it.
	See, that's another fun thing about inflation, when you talk about more money in the economy, Means more money, more actual individual tokens of exchange for the same amount of products, but then also you've got to factor in more people come in, therefore increasing yet again the demand for those products, therefore increasing the price of them because... But bro, the pyramid scheme works.
	Oh yeah, sure, okay.
	But I got this graph and I managed to make the line go up if I use super wizard magic.
	So it's all okay.
	Worship the line graph.
	Yeah.
	We're going back to the US.
	The US, they've got 16.6% inflation since 2020.
	So if you haven't had your pay rise since 2020, that's 16% of your money gone.
	Thanks.
	You know who did that?
	It wasn't ze greedy corporations or ze greedy workers asking for a pay rise.
	This is the government.
	They're the ones who can print the money.
	They're the ones who can hand out debt en masse through bonds.
	And this is where John pissed me off.
	Because getting back to John's show.
	Oh no.
	So he did an interview with the former secretary of the treasury.
	And this dude, Larry Summers, interesting fella.
	He's done a lot of things.
	I think he used to be, what was it?
	An Obama and Clinton advisor under those administrations.
	That's not a good sign to me.
	But it means he's still connected to the Biden admin, of course, helping that out where he can.
	He also was a US Federal Reserve candidate, and after he lost that he was offered the Bank of Israel, which came out of nowhere, which is weird.
	Anyway, but then after that he decided to go on and work for what was like the World Bank or something.
	Can't remember.
	I was reading his Wikipedia page.
	Interesting guy.
	Did a lot of things.
	If there's anyone I can point to and be like, This guy can be a representative of the central bankers for an interview.
	It would be him.
	And, well, John sits there and points out some very accurate stuff and then is like, you know who's really to blame?
	Corporate profit.
	Yeah, I knew it was going to get there eventually.
	Not the banker sat in front of you who printed all the money.
	No, instead it's those damn corporations.
	But quickly, just because the banker argument is that he blames inflation on workers demanding pay increases to deal with their increasing costs.
	You may have noticed that sentence doesn't make any logical sense, because how would the increase in costs happen if the workers were causing the inflation after the increase in costs happened?
	Car before the horse.
	But we'll listen to that in a minute.
	Quickly, I thought we'd just have a word from Tick History, who I noticed actually subscribed to the channel.
	So, um... Oh, nice.
	Thank you, fella.
	Hello.
	You ever want to meet up?
	Love your work.
	Anyway, but he did this... He will offer you cheesecake in very suspicious ways.
	And there's this video here about MIFO bills back in the day, and he does a very good explanation of inflation that is not the one that the central bankers will tell you, which is, oh, it's the increase in costs.
	It's like, no, it's not the increase in the costs.
	doesn't make any logical sense.
	And here's why.
	Let's play tick, being awesome.
	The word inflation used to mean the expansion of the currency supply.
	Why?
	Because the word inflate means to expand.
	The word inflate does not mean rise.
	If you walk upstairs, you do not inflate.
	If you go up in an elevator, you do not inflate.
	If you take off in a plane, you do not inflate.
	That's because a rise in something is not an inflation.
	An expansion of something is an inflation.
	A balloon that rises does not inflate.
	But an expanding balloon does inflate, and, assuming it's filled with helium, What is the effect of an inflating balloon?
	The rise of the balloon.
	Inflation causes the rise.
	A rise is not an inflation.
	So, the rise in price is not an inflation.
	The expansion or inflation of the currency supply causes a rise in prices.
	But the central bankers don't want you to know this, so they changed the definition to say that a rise in prices was inflation.
	In other words, they're trying to trick you.
	Inflation results in bubbles and the destruction of the currency supply and your savings.
	Thus, they claim that inflation is rising prices, to hide the inflation that's happening, allowing them to steal your currency and reduce your living standards.
	That's a good little explanation there.
	It sounds like you got it straight out of an Austrian textbook.
	Yeah, it's perfect, and it's a great way of showing it.
	Interestingly, that fun part is that because there is always a gap due to the Cantillon effect between the money being put into the system and then the prices rising, is always why they're able to get away with just blaming it on random other s. Ah, trust me, it's the rise in prices that just happened out of the ether.
	It's not because I printed all the money.
	but we'll see this central banker who completely denies it instead in this interview with John and we'll play that a bit long but I think you'll get my point.
	Let's play that clip.
	I don't think it's a tenable view that all of a sudden corporations became greedy.
	Of course there's monopolies in the economy, John, and we should be for much more aggressive.
	They've been bragging about us on.
	They've been bragging about it on their earnings calls.
	On their earnings calls, they're saying our profits have never been higher.
	We're killing it.
	The markups during the pandemic are sometimes, they're saying, 70% of what they were.
	There was a huge increase in the demand for shrewd television commentary.
	I imagine the demand for what you do would go way up, and I imagine you'd convert that into higher wages and getting paid better.
	You're saying it's the market at work.
	I don't think you'd call yourself a gouger when you... I would absolutely call myself a gouger.
	When you did that.
	And by the way, the effect of the talk show business is very different than the effect of ExxonMobil.
	Right?
	I mean, let's be fair.
	Isn't this show going to be on Apple TV?
	Correct.
	And I think Apple TV is worth about five times as much as Exxon.
	I think Apple's price, since the stimulus began, Apple's value has gone up by about $1.2 trillion.
	Right.
	$2 trillion.
	That's $4,000 for every American, just an increase in the value of apps.
	You just made my point for me.
	Do you feel that Apple is somehow gouging or doing something wrong?
	Yes!
	Of course!
	And Exxon is, and Mobil is.
	Let's talk about Apple.
	Let's talk about Apple.
	Do you think Apple should just sell phones for less and not have enough phones?
	What would you have Apple do?
	You're saying to me, John, market forces are market forces.
	And if demand goes up, are you suggesting, young man, that Apple should charge less than they could charge?
	Let me flip that on you.
	When there's a tightness in the labor market, what you're saying is the workers shouldn't do the same.
	That the workers, just following the same capitalistic principles that allow Apple to charge more for their phones, shouldn't charge more because wage inflation is driving inflation.
	That's not at all what I'm saying, John.
	That's exactly what you're saying!
	I just find this whole conversation insufferable.
	It's so performative on both ends.
	You've got the central banker there just being like, well, you've got John sitting there being like, oh, it's the business owners raising their prices.
	That's causing the inflation.
	It's like, that doesn't make any sense.
	And then you've got the central banker who's like, no, no, it's their contracted employees who are demanding wage increases to deal with the costs in their lives, who are causing inflation.
	He's just like, both of you must be brain dead or something.
	No, they're not brain dead, they both just know where the money comes from.
	Even if that guy was defending Apple, Apple will still take massive subsidies from the US government.
	Apple is still very useful as using Apple TV as a means, through shows like Jon Stewart, to transmit the preferred ideas that they want going to the public.
	Keep fighting about whether or not it's the greedy business owners or the greedy employees Keep your eyes off of somebody like us or Tick History or anybody else who might be online who knows more about this or is at least incentivized to be more honest about it, who might tell you about where all of these effects really come from and keep watching this.
	Yeah, I mean, there's one of the things that obviously neither of these groups are responsible for the inflation of the currency.
	It's people who control the inflation of the currency who are responsible for the goddamn thing.
	And we can see this, I mean, even USA Today has it here, where they're just like, look, here's 5.2 trillion dollars that's printed, uh, by the government here.
	I believe that was... This is by Trump here.
	Wasn't, wasn't, but it's like 80%, uh, this might be a false figure, I don't know, but I did hear people saying it was about 80% of all of the dollars that had ever been printed.
	Uh, printed in the last, like, three years or something?
	Yeah.
	It's, yep, it's great.
	It's fantastic.
	So you've got the Trump admin printing over 2 trillion dollars for COVID payments, and, uh, corruption also getting fitted in there, you know, pork barrel stuff.
	Why must you remind me of all this?
	We've got the next one here.
	I mean, here's from Marketology, just listing that in 2020, US Fed printed $3 trillion.
	Pretty bad.
	2021.
	Why must you remind me of all this?
	I was hoping for another fun segment after my miserable segment.
	The Joe Biden era.
	$13 trillion were printed.
	But, you know, it's those damn greedy workers asking for pay increases or those damn greedy business owners increasing the price of their goods.
	I will say that when it comes to the business owners, obviously not the small business owners, but a lot of the giant conglomerate businesses like Apple and other such things, the people at the top of those, they will probably be voting Democrat, and they will probably be voting on behalf of all of these measures going ahead in the first place.
	So I can blame them, but not just for the reasons that Jon Stewart is putting forward.
	Yeah, it is just comical.
	I mean, one of the things that he mentions, like, they put their prices and their profits are great.
	It's like, yeah, because they haven't increased the wages in line with the price increases at their companies, so they're saving cash.
	I mean, Jon Stewart should be happy if these places are making record profits, because a lot of that money is going to be going for super PACs and political coalitions that he supports anyway.
	But we'll just go through the data here real quick because the idea that I know it's the greedy workers asking for a pay increase or the greedy business owner putting up the price of his kick hat so it's like no no no no no it's the people inflating currency that cause the inflation.
	The Care Act here under Trump two trillion dollars because you know pandemic okay the next one being 2.3 trillion dollars on the Trump for more covid relief and then a bunch of rando stuff that was thrown in because Gibbs, you may remember the $2,000 check debate.
	Remember that?
	I think it should be $3,000 for every American.
	$5,000 for every American.
	I mean, that was the point at which you knew that American politics... I think it should be a million dollars for every American.
	Every American should get a million dollars.
	Are there any downsides to us printing all this money?
	It really should have just been Randy from South Park just bursting in, shouldn't it?
	Yeah, and then you got Biden time.
	What, you're not saying $4 billion for every American?
	I thought this was America.
	Because then, you know, the pandemic's over, but printing doesn't stop, because now we're in a new way of politics, which is, what if we just pay ourselves money and vote for more money?
	So you have the American Rescue Plan, that's two trillion dollars, and then forever, America was rescued.
	Two trillion dollar?
	Two trillion dollar!
	And then you've got the infrastructure bill, 1.2 trillion dollar.
	We live in a cartoon!
	Yeah, so that's a good job.
	And then you've got the Inflation Reduction Act, which stopped inflation by inflating the currency supply another 0.7 trillion dollar, You know there's the old debate over whether this is, everything that's going on in the world right now, is it malice or is it stupidity and incompetence?
	Why not both?
	Why can't they hate everybody and want to keep themselves in power for as long as possible while also being horribly incompetent at doing that?
	The thing about this Inflation Reduction Act was doubly funny for people who don't know.
	Obviously it had nothing to do with inflation, because that's not how you reduce inflation, by printing money.
	What?
	No!
	Yeah, it was literally just for actual brainlets who vote Dem, I guess, to be like we're doing something.
	In here is just loads of green stuff, like a green bank they set up for like 50 billion.
	What does the green bank do?
	All banks should print green, surely!
	Yeah, I would have thought, but it turns out it wasn't even costing 0.7 trillion.
	Goldman Sachs has it cost 1.2 trillion, because all the green stuff is just, you know, not accounted for properly.
	So that's great.
	So, you know, you've got Biden there spending over four trillion, not because there's a pandemic, but instead because that's how you stimulate the economy, friendo.
	By causing mass inflation.
	You ever heard of a guy called John Maynard Keynes, dumbass?
	You know what would happen if everyone had their wages cut?
	The economy would be better off.
	That's real big brain thinking, my friend.
	And then we're not going to talk about the M1 money supply.
	I don't know if you can hit max on that for the chart, just because it doesn't really represent how bad things are.
	Actually, look at that.
	So this is what I mean why I think a lot of people were saying, you know, 80% of all dollars ever printed, because it kind of looks that way.
	You may have noticed that they started destroying them because they were like, hang on a minute.
	Yeah.
	That would have been pretty foolish.
	They're printing them straight into the flames.
	Yeah.
	Straight into the ovens.
	Point is, going to Venezuela for a moment, it's not greedy Venezuelan workers who are demanding a pay increase because, you know, there's 100% inflation going on that caused the 100% inflation.
	That doesn't make any sense.
	Literally can't make any sense.
	So yeah, I was simping for Jon Stewart, sitting there being like, that's retarded.
	For all of ten minutes, until Jon turns around and is like, you know who it is?
	Do you know what else?
	I'm retarded.
	Me too, said Johnny Boy.
	You know that corner shop that's put the prices of Kit Kats and sodas up?
	That greedy corner shop business owner over there?
	No, I think that man might have put up his prices because, again, inflation and the currency split affects him too.
	And neither of these people, the business owner there or the employee contractor, are the ones ruining the country.
	Neither of them can print money.
	It is the man who can print the money who is ruining the country by printing money.
	Shock horror, I know.
	I love how when it comes to Venezuela, everyone can be like, yeah, it probably was the Venezuelan government that ruined everything.
	Or Weimar Germany.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it was probably those Weimars printing all that money.
	But then we get back to the West and we're like, ah, you know, it's the employees.
	No, it's the business owners who are ruining it.
	It's like, no man, it's really not.
	When you have images of people with wheelbarrows of money in Weimar Germany walking so that they can afford their morning coffee, Damn employees demanding those pay raises of a billion Reichsmarks.
	The coffee shop owner and the coffee shop barista didn't click their fingers and magic up all of that money that appeared in the wheelbarrow.
	I mean, it's kind of hilarious.
	I love the idea that you've got a bunch of employees who are like, well, I want a pay raise of a billion jillion Reichsmarks.
	That's what caused Weimar Germany to crash.
	And there we have it, folks.
	No, it wasn't the dude with the money printing machine instead, but just to end this off for some people, I don't know, local Dem might have tuned in, it's not Russia either.
	I'm bored of this.
	No, of course it isn't.
	It's like, here's the inflation graph and then Russia happens.
	And why was there an entire year before that where people were complaining about Bidenflation?
	Yeah, why was it already going that way?
	I mean, if we go to the next one here, even The Economist notes this.
	It's like, you can say that it may have made it worse, but it wasn't the cause, nor is the trendline any different afterwards.
	It's like, no.
	It has an incredibly momentary spike, then returns back to the trendline it would have been on before.
	It's just mad to be like, yeah, Russia, Russia, Russia.
	That's clearly a smokescreen.
	In fact, I don't know if you saw, there was a conservative politician on this morning who was like, well, why have you become really unpopular?
	The interviewer asked.
	And he said, well, it was because of Russia and their invasion of the Ukraine, which caused us to become unpopular.
	Why our approval rates were so sky high right before then.
	Damn Putin, making people vote like...
	You ruined the economy, that's why you're unpopular.
	Even at the end of 2020, the people who did vote for Biden were saying like, well, I mean, I don't like him that much, but he's not Trump.
	Yeah, well in the soft, just the last link here being, you have John concluding, it's the greedy business owner who's charging more for Kit Kats who's done this.
	Not, you know, the guy with the money printing machine.
	Look at his face.
	What a smug bellend.
	Yeah, I hate it.
	I hate it.
	This is where I'm...
	John, why?
	You couldn't be good at times, and then you ruin everything, such as this.
	I just...
	I mean, to be fair, there is another aspect to wages that makes me annoyed, which is the whole idea that, you know, when I'm making profits as a business owner, that's my right, because, you know, I take the risk.
	I'm the business owner.
	Therefore, okay, okay.
	But then when the contractors come to me and are like, hey, you know, I got 25% inflation too, up my wages, those guys working at Apple, say John, who go to Apple and be like, you know, you increased your prices at Apple, maybe we could have that as well?
	No, because power dynamics.
	But then it's off with the fact that John is also just not normal any other day of the week, Even his own audience hate him.
	You can see here, gender affirming care.
	I don't have to tell you.
	I don't have to play you a clip from this.
	You know what's in this.
	It is John and his friends sitting around going, there are three genders actually, and I don't know why cutting a child's dick off is so controversial.
	We had the Top Gear intro at the beginning of this podcast.
	We know what he said.
	It's stock crap, because he's, I don't know, a stock propagandist most of the time, of course.
	I would call him an NPC, but he is the person disseminating the new code for the NPC.
	Yeah, all I've got to say about this is nice dislikes, bro.
	Even your own audience in the comments is just like, you're full of crap.
	And then we can end it off with the last one here, where it's just the problem with the gender binary.
	Nice dislikes, bro.
	Suck it.
	Suck it.
	Obviously you're being retarded.
	You do it in a very feminine spirit, to be fair.
	You know what the worst part about this?
	I'm not going to play it just in case YouTube strikes in.
	If they strike the previous clip I played, go to the website, I guess.
	But in this clip, like at the start of it, he spends the start of his segment about, you know, transgenderism now is true, trust me bro, 2 plus 2 equals 5, S-ing on his own career.
	Like, he has pictures of him on screen when he used to make funny jokes, which were obviously true, and he says, oh yeah, those insensitive and untrue jokes I used to make.
	You know, he's prostrating himself in front of the crowd, isn't he?
	He might as well have just got the whip out and gone, don't burn me!
	I'm a witch, but don't burn me!
	It's just sad.
	Just actually sad.
	But anyway, I think the Jon Stewart used to be good meme is, um, kind of wrong.
	Yes.
	I think the crowd is right about that.
	My point being that it's annoying when I'm watching this dude and sometimes he can be like, yeah, what you're saying makes no sense.
	And he's right.
	And then he has to ruin it all with the next thing out of his mouth.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Been a while, guys.
	I haven't posted anything for a long time because I've been busy with the Easter show and busy selling my books and moving into a new house.
	I've got a koi pond in this new place and a veggie garden and a very, very, very overgrown pumpkin patch.
	And pretty soon, Alex Ogle, you're gonna have some more books to read.
	Hey, that looks good, doesn't it?
	Alright.
	I was waiting for it.
	I'm not gonna say it.
	Let's move to the next one before I say it.
	What, you weren't going to say- Shut up!
	Drawing from both Tarski and Carroll, Nicholas Shackle writes a humorous and perspicacious analysis of the methods postmodernists employ to try and lend credence to their malformed ideas.
	He breaks the methods down to five tactics.
	Troll's truisms, a statement like anything that can be made can be made differently.
	Mott & Bailey doctrines, building from Troll's truisms to a phenomenon Shackle calls Humpty Dumptyism.
	equivocating fulcra where Humpty Dumptyism is used to establish lies as truths, postmodernist foxtrot denying that a point is important when it is critical, and rankly relativising fields where all the above techniques are used to deny rationalism.
	I'll be honest, I was kind of overwhelmed with the number of um, what's it called?
	You know when you talk about engineering and you mention like a billion things no one knows what you just said?
	I'm not an engineer.
	I know the- I know the name of- Jargon.
	Oh yeah, jargon.
	There you go.
	Can I feel like there's too much jargon in the political world?
	Oh, I mean certainly in political philosophy, and all philosophy, to be perfectly honest.
	I'm not trying to be rude.
	I might just be too stupid.
	I'm going to take the Ron Paul approach, except translate it.
	If your philosophy book isn't just one page long, no.
	That's the only way you'll get Callum to start.
	Yeah, I'm taking your position.
	You say ooga booga and me no like reading.
	That's your belief.
	That's just you.
	Did you come to the railway yesterday?
	We were talking about English again and I stumbled across apparently Winston Churchill made a speech talking about speech writing and he mentioned that when he writes speeches he tries to delete anything that's Latin and instead use Anglo-Saxon words because they're far more punchy.
	Yeah they are.
	And there's some theory on this I didn't know about either which is the first words you learn in English, the simple words, are all Anglo-Saxon So the theory goes that essentially the reason they're more punchy is because they hit you at a more fundamental level, because it's the first things you actually learn.
	I think English is better.
	Yeah, but I think that's probably true as to why.
	I don't care why, it's just better.
	You know what's funny as well, is we realise, you know when you're trying to sound smart, like you're at some conference and you really don't have any place being there, so you just try and baboozle someone with some words and hope they'll go away and you can get out of there without anyone noticing.
	When you do that, you always end up saying a bunch of Latin words, You know when you're trying to impress someone with a bunch of fancy words and they'll leave you alone?
	When you're trying to sound smart, the big words, the big fancy words... Big fancy Latin words.
	Never anything Anglo-Saxon comes out of your mouth.
	No, is vicissitude, is that Anglo?
	I don't think it is.
	Some crap like that will come out.
	I still can't believe, do you remember, did you watch Jordan Peterson's Manifesto for Conservatives?
	Because a lot of it was just word salad nonsense like that.
	And I, you know, I like... He speaks French!
	I like Jordan, but when he's like... But he speaks French!
	I like Jordan, but when he's going like...
	You need younger people to think of the vicissitude!
	And he's like shouting it, and it's like, what does that mean, Jordan?
	I am too... Calm down!
	I have too many bones in my brain to not follow you, my friend.
	So... Go to the next one.
	Alright, so we're going to look at the salvia columbariae.
	This is a plant that was commonly used by Native Americans in California for medicinal purposes, but especially in food in different various ways.
	And this one's kind of cool.
	You can sort of see what it looks like.
	It's got this beautiful color to it.
	So there you go.
	Yeah, pretty cool.
	I like his send off there.
	So there you go.
	Like he just proved you wrong on something.
	Yeah.
	Look at this flower.
	There you go.
	I don't know about the flowers, so he's got me.
	All right, let's go.
	Over the weekend, I have been adding some stories to Literary Universe from the public domain, and one of the authors I have been exploring and adding is A.G.
	Wells, who is known for stories like War of the World, The Invisible Man, and The Time Machine.
	But I also found that he has been very active, I could say, politically, writing a lot of political texts.
	Especially after the First World War, he wrote The Salvaging of Civilization, which has some interesting chapters like The Project of a World State, The Enlargement of Patriotism to a World State.
	Have you heard about this?
	And any thoughts?
	Have you only just found out that HG Wells was a massive socialist?
	He was a member of the Fabians!
	I just never really followed him.
	Oh, well, HG Wells was along with people like George Bernard Shaw back in the day, who was primarily known, George Bernard Shaw was known for his plays that he would write, HG Wells for his science fiction tales, but they were all like a literary group of socialists, really.
	Although, I don't know if HG Wells did, but I'm pretty sure George Bernard Shaw also spent time personally with people like GK Chesterton.
	So it was quite, it was like back in the day when all of these people could hold Hello from the Rock.
	In about a month's time, all of this is coming off.
	kind of upper crust of the classes, they would still spend time with each other and just politely disagree with one another while they're writing all of their, you know, famous fiction that they're known for.
	Yeah, pretty cool.
	But yeah, HG Wells is not somebody I would want to listen to politically.
	HG, love it. - Hello from the rock.
	In about a month's time, all of this is coming off.
	So I want your money.
	The hair's gonna get donated to be made into wigs for cancer treatment patients.
	And all the money that I make is gonna go to our local hospice, which my family's had a lot of use out of over the past years.
	So, just giving.
	Search for Shave the Viking's Head.
	I'll also add a link.
	There we are.
	There you go, check that out!
	Can't believe you're getting rid of all of your hair.
	I'm growing my hair out a little bit again right now, so... What are you planning?
	Maybe down to about there.
	I want it to be a bit of a lion's mane so I can swoosh it back, have the gel in it so it kind of goes back off of my face but still has a bit of the lion's mane to it.
	I used to have it down to about there and I'm not doing that again because that's just a hassle.
	I've seen the image.
	Yeah, I've shown you the pictures.
	Everybody who sees those old pictures of me just says I look like a completely different person.
	And to be fair, I do.
	You don't look northern.
	What?
	When you have long hair.
	What do I look?
	I don't know.
	You look more Danish.
	I do look like a Viking when I had really long hair.
	Speaking of Danes.
	Bad things happening all over the world.
	I think we need a white pill.
	Puppies!
	You're so cute!
	You are so cute!
	You're so cute!
	You like your puppies?
	You're proud of your puppies?
	No, hate him.
	Thank you very much for that.
	For everything that goes wrong in the world, at least there's still puppies and dogs.
	There's a dog to be hugged.
	That's true.
	I like the little freeze frame there at the end, the dog was kind of pulling a kawaii face.
	I'm going to tell you a cute story.
	Alright.
	You may have noticed I brought a heater today.
	Yeah, that was a bit weird, but carry on.
	So I was talking to my mum, so she got a little rescue from Romania.
	A little tripod, it's got three legs.
	And it sits next to the bed, but it gets really cold at night.
	And I'll wake him up, and it's like shaking cold, so it's got to be heated up.
	Or I'll run around the house trying to keep warm.
	So I'm going to shove the heater, we're going to see if we can put it next to her bed.
	If she'll stop being a little B-word about it.
	Did it work?
	I don't know.
	I've only got to hear here.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I guess we'll find out.
	Yeah.
	News on Monday.
	Progress report on Monday.
	More news about beans.
	And my mum's dog.
	More?
	Jon Stewart tries beans on toast next Monday while voting for Labour.
	My God.
	Speaking of which, let's go to the comments.
	The worlds collide.
	So, the letter M says... That was probably one of the best intros.
	No, no, no.
	The letter M is for Martyr, apparently.
	One of the best intros, um, thank you.
	Yeah, I made that for a laugh and then we were like, hang on, we should, we should use it.
	That was fun.
	So, uh, an American isolationist says, I love how the Labour NPCs are saying this is a huge victory when Labour is doing exactly what the Tories were doing, allowing massive flood immigration into the country, cementing over the entire countryside, making the working man even poorer, and taxes are going to skyrocket.
	Yet all this happened despite the racist and intolerant voter ID laws.
	I love that.
	Their system is rigged.
	Were you one?
	Damn.
	laughter I'm sorry.
	We have decided that system rigging is now fine.
	Base tape says, guys, what did we tell you?
	You can't feed Callum after midnight.
	Listen, he goes and he just finds cheesecake.
	And we can't stop him.
	They liked it.
	It was good cheesecake.
	Then why did you come back with a bloody hand?
	None of your business.
	All right, Bleach Demon says, As a yank, I was shocked as Callum was about Americans eating beans on toast to discover that most barbecue sauces in the UK and Europe have a tomato ketchup base.
	I did not know that.
	I didn't know that either.
	How can you call yourself civilized when you monstrously use ketchup in barbecue?
	That's microwaving tea on levels of effort.
	I did not know either.
	I'm sorry.
	I can't speak for the rest of England right now, but I'm sorry.
	I didn't know that.
	One of the big excitements I've got about visiting the United States is I really want to eat Texan barbecue.
	I've never had it.
	It's been cemented as, like, a mythical food.
	Like, you know, the lavender bread or whatever that Frodo ate.
	Oh, I know what you're on about, yeah.
	Yeah, you imagine it tastes great, but it tastes like crap.
	Lamba spread.
	Lamba spread.
	That's what Texas barbecue is to me.
	One of those days.
	When I eventually do get to go to America, I do want to just test if the portions are as big as they say.
	I've been told that they are, but I want to see in my hand how big they are.
	Question about etiquette.
	If you get a big portion, you leave half of it, because it's America, it's too much.
	What happens?
	Do they think you hate them?
	They eat you.
	Do they spit in your dessert?
	The KKK shows up, burns a cross on your lawn.
	Questions on the postcard, please.
	Ignacio, Mr. Spaniard, says, At my job, we have a crappy, cheap IKEA kettle that has been there forever, and I love that piece of plastic junk.
	How do you not know what a kettle is?
	To be fair, there is one downside to a plastic kettle, which is you get a bit of a plasticky taste over the years.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, I do heat up water in a microwave.
	I'm not reading the rest of your comment, then.
	Go to hell.
	No, she says, however, I will always heat up my water before putting it in the teabag.
	I almost always do it with herbal and honey.
	That's weird.
	Ew.
	Ewan Baker says, I know someone whose stepmum made a cheesecake.
	She used cheddar.
	Hangar Viking says, Anglos still eat like the Germans are performing air raids.
	How bad was the rationing in your country that culinary sensibilities in the UK have changed forever?
	If it isn't broke, then don't fix it.
	That's all I'm gonna say.
	Yeah, I know the meme he's talking about.
	There's a family who's like, gonna chuck into my meal and it's white bread, like a stack of it, and then some like minced beef in gravy, and then boiled potatoes that have been peeled on the side, like cut into quarters, and some bare peas, not even butter on the peas.
	I mean, he's bland as hell.
	You'll probably sit in there thinking that sounds great.
	I wouldn't touch the peas, but that does sound acceptable.
	But it's a meme meal, right?
	If somebody put that meal in front of me, I probably would eat most of it.
	But my tweet to Slayer, I've seen the meme, I've seen the meal.
	Maybe this is just me being Northern.
	And I'm pretty sure the guy who did it, like did the post, was taking the piss.
	But then I went on Facebook the other day, and a friend of mine had made exactly the same meal.
	There you go!
	See?
	He's great.
	He comes to RoVentura, he's a huge beard.
	If you're watching, man, it was funny.
	Because he's gotta be like, yeah, it's time to take it.
	And I'm like, oh, God.
	He's done the meme.
	Although I will say, the boiled potato, I'd prefer some roasties though.
	Or maybe roasties might be a bit too luxurious.
	Oh, the Danish have got something to say.
	She says, well guys, beans on toast is weird.
	Oh, who cares what you think, you bloody murderers.
	I don't care what you say, it's weird.
	And you put crisps in toast too, carbs on carbs, what the F?
	Yeah, carbs on carbs makes the carbs taste better.
	Sausage roll is also the most boring breakfast food on the planet.
	Whatever, go make some blood pancakes and throw axes at Germans.
	Greg won't be visiting your house this Christmas.
	Greg?
	From Greg's.
	Oh, right, alright.
	She insulted sausage roll!
	I don't think Greg's a real man.
	Have you seen people wearing- Are you a Greg denier?
	Have you seen people wearing Greg uniforms?
	Are you telling me- Who's delivering my presents at Christmas if it's not Greg?
	Did Mummy and Daddy never tell you?
	Oh no!
	Or is that just how the myth works up north?
	It's not Santa, it's Mr Greg!
	His name is Greg Greggs, alright?
	Jimmy Savoy used to get into houses and be like, don't worry, I'm just Greg.
	Oh no!
	Let's move on to some of my comments.
	Oh yeah, that'll make you feel better.
	Actually, no.
	Ron Swanzy.
	Beans on toast for breakfast.
	You'll have an arse like a brass band all day.
	Beans on toast, cup of tea, grated cheddar and Worcester sauce on top.
	S tier evenings.
	That does sound alright.
	I think I told you about that.
	There was a guy from Catalonia in my hall.
	Every morning at university there was English breakfast.
	We'd pile on the beans.
	You pick six things.
	Of course you do.
	He'd come to the table with like six sausages or six pieces of toast or something and he was like, I can't understand why you eat the beans every day.
	Every morning you eat the beans.
	That was a Spanish accent, yes.
	That's how he spoke.
	I'm Nickelodeon, he's not Spanish.
	Honestly, I respect just getting all of the meat possible.
	I respect that.
	There's an Indian guy called Dhruv.
	He ordered scrambled eggs, right?
	And the guy puts a load on it and goes, again.
	Six times!
	Because you get a huge portion.
	He just sits next to us one day and there's five mountains of scrambled eggs.
	And look at him, he's like, I'm bulking.
	Oh yeah, I respect it.
	Ate the whole thing and then the next day he does it.
	And for the next few days we're just sort of staring at him like, you are... Something's wrong with you.
	Did he bulk though?
	Yeah.
	There you go!
	He was hench as hell by the end of the year.
	I bet he was.
	I bet he was by the end of the year eating all those scrambled eggs.
	Brilliant.
	Miserable though.
	Alright, so Joan of Arc says, The Tories and the GOP need to learn that if they don't deliver for voters, they get voted out, only left to get away with making your life worse than it was the last election.
	This is true, but the Tories and the GOP are both, in their respective countries, part of the uniparty.
	They all have the same privileges and all of the same benefits that all of the politicians do, so as long as they are still in the political class, They don't really care all that much.
	They have no incentive to do anything that we ask them to do or vote them in to do in the first place.
	Hence why they just don't do any of it.
	So that's the sad truth there.
	America's in hospice care.
	It appears that the establishment Tories are doing the same thing the establishment Republicans do.
	have membership in one party while pushing the policies of the largest opposition party as they think it's how to hold onto power while being severely and purposefully disconnected from and oftentimes trashing the taurian republican base members who are just everyday men and women trying to get its own representative government in government in a conservative manner yes very true rjl says there were so many utter melts who didn't realize they needed id i would Oh, were you there and saw this?
	Interesting.
	Not only have I heard about this rubbish on the radio, but it's been on social media, newspapers, bus shelters, TV news, and probably a ton of other areas.
	Honestly, if your first word in the voting booth... Sorry, pal, I left it back in the house.
	You probably shouldn't be voting.
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	If you're not switched on enough to know that you need to bring the voter ID with you, You have not looked into any of the policies that you are voting on behalf of.
	I feel like we should... That's a good argument for having a random rule every election, actually.
	Yeah, that's an excellent... There's a password for each election.
	The password is published online.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Everybody can see it for free.
	Maybe you've got to come in and you've got to, like, rub your head and pat your belly one day.
	And if, you know, password, and if they do it wrong, you don't know what's going on.
	Get out.
	Yeah, obviously.
	You've not done anywhere near enough looking into this to know what you're voting for.
	Piss off.
	Man, we should really do that.
	We should.
	Justin B, for my local election... What's the password?
	Vote rigging.
	Yeah, you're in.
	I only had the option of Tories, Labour, Lib Dem, Green and the Yorkshire Independence Party.
	I just spoiled a ballot, and rightfully so.
	And we've still got a few minutes... Well, a few seconds.
	Let's see why is Jon Stewart like this?
	Why, Callum?
	Most people are just like, how is he still alive?
	I'll end this off with what I just read.
	Funny.
	Just Arizona Desert Rat comes in with, I have to admit, I love the word bellend.
	How do you spell that?
	I mean, you spelt it.
	Yeah, is that how you spell it?
	You spelt it right in the comments, so nice job.
	There you are.
	Anyway, if you like this... Why?
	Otherwise... Go watch something else then, I don't care!
	We'll be back on Monday, folks, before Callum forgets what day it is.
	No, no, no, we'll be back tomorrow with, um, nothing.
	We'll just sit here in silence.

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