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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 18th of September, There we are.
	Perfect.
	Anyway, I'm joined by Connor and Carl today.
	Hello.
	In unison.
	And today, in unison, we shall be talking about the lynching of Russell Brand.
	The fact that Horrible Histories has fallen.
	Fs.
	Anyway, but also the Eternal European, which is a whole other question to be spoke of.
	But we shall begin with Russell Brand, I suppose.
	I guess we will.
	There's been a cancellation attempt, shall we say, on Russell Brand.
	Not my favorite martyr, I have to say.
	Is it you jumping out in front of the bullets?
	No.
	I think it's too late for that.
	Jesus Christ.
	But it's really what this tells us about the current state of affairs.
	But it's not all bad news, actually.
	It might be for Russell Brand.
	Just to get this straight though, what's he been accused of?
	So they come out and say he's a rapist.
	Because that's what I've got from looking at the news.
	Something like rape, but some of them have been saying sexual assault or indecent acts and things like this.
	It's actually a little bit blurry.
	But there's no criminal case, it's just women said something.
	Well, one woman has accused him of rape, took a rape kit, but then those, even the medical records were provided to the investigators.
	She chose not to press charges at the time, and the exact details of that medical record, because she took the rape kit, were not disclosed, it just said she took one.
	So, this is the thing, it's kind of implied that he's a rapist, but no one's expressly stating he is a rapist, or at least I haven't seen him.
	But it's just the newspapers.
	Well, no, no, no, they're not.
	They they they're prefixing everything with alleged and they'll describe what he's alleged to have done, but they don't characterize him expressly.
	And so before we begin, the reason that this matters, because I think this is really just Against the very principles of the rule of law that were established in this country as elucidated by Tom Bingham in his book, The Rule of Law.
	I really, really like this.
	Tom Bingham was a judge, a very well known and austere one in his day.
	And this was just totally, it's not even a thick book, but it's just a really good read about how the rule of law came about in England and why the principles that underpinned it made England the country that it is and not a country that say goes on mass lynchings on the allegation of unknown purported victims.
	Well, this is a flashpoint case.
	The laws in the books matter only insofar as the people who believe in the legitimacy of the law are willing to apply them.
	And so we still have the same laws on the books, but because of things like Me Too and the fervor of freedom feminism, there's whipped up an accusation into The presumption of guilt, that means that even though he's meant to be entitled to the protection of things like libel and slander laws and the presumption of innocence, he's not getting that at the moment.
	Yeah, and one thing that's interesting is the kickback against it actually is surprisingly good.
	Even for someone like Russell Brandt, right?
	Who, I guess, spoiler alert, he hasn't exactly got the least sordid history in entertainment, He's got two lives.
	That's part of the issue.
	So after about 2013 when he involved himself in politics with the Trues where he was interviewing Ed Miliband, I think, on the campaign trail.
	I think he even spoke to Farage at one point.
	He was typical low-information, commie-leaning, and then he went on a ascetic, well-being-style recovery journey because he got married and had kids and thought, well actually my past looks a bit dodgy.
	And then coinciding with that, that made him very sceptical of corporate power and media manipulation and the likes of that.
	Now he's falling into the left-wing populist circle.
	Yeah, there's a bit of overlap with, I guess you could just say, the conspiracy sphere.
	Or Joe Rogan, really.
	Yeah, similar sort of thing.
	And to be honest with you, I've been entirely supportive of that journey into questioning, maybe the media's not telling me the truth about the Pfizer vaccine, blah blah blah, that sort of, you know, area of questioning.
	I'm entirely supportive of that, but like, I've never been a fan of Russell Brand.
	I actually really viscerally disliked him.
	His rhetorical style is like if Jordan Peterson's Conservative Manifesto was personified, and I know that's coming from me, but he's a human thesaurus.
	It's not even that.
	I think there's a time and place for woolly thinking, but Brand is not even addressing... I don't know.
	Let's just go through this and then I'll show you what I mean.
	This is part of the whole thing.
	And this is really my issue with this is the way that it's being done.
	Right.
	Because as you can see, I mean, if you can hear the sound is, you know, foreboding music.
	Russell Brown did all this.
	And like he's hanging around in dark alleys, pouncing on unsuspecting women.
	I did listen to this.
	Yeah, me too.
	What they say that he did is that he'd get runners to ask pretty women in the audience to meet him in his hotel room.
	Yeah.
	Who were of age and he'd have sex with them.
	And then they'd moan that they wouldn't get a call back from him the next day.
	Yeah.
	Amazing.
	I mean, that is so expected.
	That wasn't only it, but that was a large composite of it.
	If you're including that, I always just completely lose sympathy for the producers of the piece of media that's alleging so-and-so is a bad man.
	It's like, oh my god, he didn't call girls back after having sex with them in the media industry?
	Wow, that's never happened.
	I'm so surprised.
	I thought he was going to marry all three of those girls that he took home that night.
	Yeah, there's also one instance where one of the runners on Big Brother accused him of, like, joking about having a quickie and flashing her, and she goes... And so, I went back to his apartment, I slept with him.
	I've got the exact quote there, right?
	Rachel, who was 24 at the time, so, of age, says she once walked into Brown's dressing room and he flashed his penis at her.
	She was shocked and refused.
	And then she went back to his house.
	She said Brian continued to pursue her and after some time he asked her to visit his flat.
	When she arrived they kissed and had sex.
	They began a relationship and he alleged he told her to keep it a complete secret because apparently in his contract he was not supposed to have any sexual contact with anyone working on Big Brother but that wasn't in the contract.
	I have thoughts about the broader cultural implications of this, but under the current cultural rubric of consent is all that matters, and there are no other sexual safeguards that prohibit that kind of activity, he's done nothing wrong in that instance.
	Obviously, the other allegations are more severe and a little bit dubious, I will say, so I'm waiting on more evidence to come out, whether or not to condemn him or not, but in that, all I can say is he's got a personal vice and a personal failing, but that's not abusive.
	Yeah.
	I mean, a lot of these, again, are quite This is just the media.
	I just can't stand when they're like, you know, he also did this thing.
	So that's got nothing to do with what anyone cares about.
	Why didn't you say anything about it at the time?
	And also your Channel 4, like, sorry, you have people with their cocks out on primetime TV.
	Do you not know what they say in the naked shows they keep doing?
	Oh, Naked Attraction and Naked Education, where they expose themselves to school kids.
	Yeah, but they've always done this.
	Russell Brown had his cock out.
	I was like, yeah, you're both.
	They have always done this.
	You're probably too young to remember Eurotrash.
	No.
	It's the Channel 4 show that was basically just nude and debauched.
	Luden De Borch Media Company has Luden De Borch people working for it.
	Yeah.
	And suddenly they're like, oh, hang on a second.
	Don't we need to return to Victorian moral standards regarding women?
	No, you don't.
	You don't think that, you know, this is the thing.
	And this is another aspect of this that really pisses me off.
	All of these people who are just like, yeah, so what we need is naked drag queens reading stories to kids.
	Except for now, because suddenly Russell Brand has like, I don't know, done something wrong a decade ago.
	That's the thing.
	Crime is obviously something that's respected.
	It's the crime industry of the law.
	So, has he done something wrong?
	Find something else.
	I think the natural pushback everyone instantly feels on this is just because we all hate the media.
	We are just scum.
	That's actually been one of the heartening things.
	The thing is, he seems to have been accused by women that he was having relationships with, right?
	That's the thing.
	And so it's like, right, okay.
	Now, I don't think that Russell Brand is someone who shows like a great deal of personal self-restraint.
	But I also think that if you're involved in a relationship with him, you knew who you were going out with.
	You knew the kind of man Russell Brand was when you start with.
	And hey, I'm not saying that you're not allowed to, you know, make poor judgments or anything like that, you know.
	I'm sure lots of women have thrown themselves at Russell Brand and lived to regret it.
	So two angles on this.
	Go on.
	One, there are, and I've spoken to friends with much higher profiles as well, there are women who will be unsolicitedly forward to any man they think has some kind of public profile.
	Has happened before, has happened to lots of people that you and I would both know, and so if you're Russell Brand who's been voted top shagger of the year, multiple years running by The Sun, you can only imagine that he may be a magnet for some of those things.
	And also, to Callum's point, it's not just the media that misrepresents these things and uses manipulative editing, like they did with, frankly, the Andrew Tate BBC documentary, which, I am against Andrew Tate, and even I thought, wow, you're making me less convinced by the case, actually, just by how manipulative you're presenting the framing.
	But everyone here, remember, Channel 4 hosted Big Brother, they kept giving him gigs, everyone here knew about this, if it is true, And I can say for a fact that on the lead up to the Philip Schofield scandal, the Hugh Edwards scandal and that, I have spoken to people before and behind the scenes stuff on other networks that weren't even those networks and said, yeah, cause we worked on other networks.
	We always heard stories and we knew people that it happened to, but just nobody says anything.
	There are.
	Creeps and narcissists and perverts that work in this industry on some networks more than others and nobody speaks up because money or because they're equally as creepy.
	Fame, access, they've got all of their reasons and again all of these are historic allegations so there's going to be zero evidence physical evidence for any of this right?
	Presumably this is one of the Like in a normal country, what would happen now is the law would investigate, and then if he's found guilty, then his career is destroyed.
	Yes.
	We wait for that.
	But the West doesn't work like this.
	We all just... Well, it works like that sometimes, doesn't it?
	Like you said with Philip Schofield or whoever else that they support, suddenly everyone has to wait.
	But I think it's important to remember Russell Brown's career trajectory in this.
	Because he went from in the tent to out the tent.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly it.
	And he is also successful.
	We'll get into that a little further in, right?
	So this is like a major summary of the thing.
	And like this, again, It really just feels like a sort of he said, she said situation.
	There's only one thing in this that's convincing that I'll get out in a second.
	But like the major allegation that I thought was like the most aggressively he raped me one was from a woman called Nadia, not her real name again.
	They exchanged phone numbers, they got in touch, they began texting and phoning.
	They met up in 2012 in this house in LA and then went on to have consensual sex.
	But she was unsettled by his glazed overload.
	There were multiple women in this in the documentary that described his eyes turning black like jaws as if he's got demonic possession or something.
	Yeah.
	And it's, again, another manipulative framing device trying to depict him as a monster.
	Yeah, well, and... Glazed overlook?
	Like, have these people never had sex before?
	Sorry, he wasn't... He might have just been really bad, love.
	I thought sex was just kissing.
	I thought I was just going through my groceries when I was having sex, you know, but Russell Brown seemed to be into it.
	Like, okay?
	Like, every woman I've had sex with gets a close look in the eyes when they're having sex.
	But the question is, was it consensual or not?
	She just said yes, so then... Yeah, exactly.
	But later one is that she alleged it wasn't.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And so there's this particular, this is essentially the smoking gun.
	Now you'll notice that there's a weird, uh, if you look at the blue line, the blue block and you go along the line on the side, you'll notice there's a weird sort of mismatch there, uh, where it looks like it's been stitched together, but I'm actually, but I'm, I'm not saying that this is fake because I don't think this is fake.
	I think it would be too stupid for them to fake this.
	I think they've just had where it's on a phone screen and screenshot it and then stitched it together.
	Afterwards to make someone in Photoshop's not done a great job.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	You'd think they would have done a better job, but okay, but I'm not, I'm not saying this is fake or Photoshop because I don't think it is to be honest.
	Um, can we zoom out on that again?
	Uh, just so we're missing the whole thing.
	So yeah, as you can see, right, she's complaining that basically what she thinks is what she says is that, um, she went to his house and then he grabbed her, had sex with her when she didn't want to without using a condom.
	And this is the second time?
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't know if it's the second time.
	It's a consequent time.
	It's not the first time she went.
	I think this is the time that she accuses where she came over, he answered the door naked, said there was another girl in the house.
	Yeah, she didn't want to have a threesome.
	But then the actual text is vague enough that it reads like he could have just taken the condom off during it, which she also alleges it happening.
	So it could, it reads like it could be connecting to separate incidents.
	This is, I'm not alleging she's making it up and I'm not alleging that he hasn't done it.
	I'm just saying the fact that the lack of evidence raises questions here means that it's basically impossible to believe.
	Possibly, to be honest with you, I'm more inclined to believe that this is probably as she describes it, because he apologizes afterwards.
	As you can see there, I'm very sorry, you know, I'll make this up to you, blah, blah, blah.
	And it's like, okay, yeah, this, I think, could be considered to be a strong allegation against him, right?
	Sure.
	Yep.
	And lock him up.
	Strong allegation.
	Sure.
	There's any evidence for it as well, as Callum said, lock him up.
	But also it was over a decade ago and you obviously didn't want to go further with it.
	Also, this is the only thing that's been provided.
	It is out of context and he could have just been conciliatory for some unrelated thing.
	Possibly, but I'm not, I'm not prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt on this.
	You know, I think that she went over there with the intention of having sex.
	He had sex with her, but in a way that she wasn't happy with.
	And so, yes, you could call that rape, right?
	You could call that rape.
	And.
	She... what?
	Did you?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Legally?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Um, technically now, yes, because they've changed the legal definition of rape, um, basically from a non-consensual penetrative activity to any sexual activity which does not have affirmative enthusiastic consent before the stage.
	Yeah, it's mental, I know.
	What the hell does that mean?
	So, you know when you... I was worried there, wait a minute, what?
	So, you know the mood killing... Have they got an Oscar in the middle of just keep asking us?
	At each stage, yes.
	Genuinely, that's the feminist proposal and it has been contested as Californian law.
	And it's happened in LA as well, so... But, I don't, you know, it's not...
	It's not, you know, the predator hanging around Dark Alley, ambushing unsuspecting women.
	It's a woman who's in a relationship with him, and they had sex in a way that she didn't want.
	And he apologized.
	I assume she continued seeing him afterwards, and she let it go.
	As you said, she didn't press charges or anything like that.
	So, okay.
	What's happening?
	Well, these women who, I mean, whoever they are, know that Russell Brand is Russell Brand.
	The really red flag thing that came up for me was the 16 year old girl who alleged it.
	So obviously she came forward, it wasn't her name and her face and identity were withheld but she actually sat through it and gave it.
	My concern is that towards the end of the documentary for the Channel 4 thing they then said, so they'd met when she was meeting a friend in Leicester Square in the building where MTV was housed and she said okay well he offered me a date there and he took me out and that.
	One, who are the people around this girl if she is 16 failing her to such an extent which goes on repeat dates with 30 year old men that pick her up and there is no building security, there's no logs, why are we not providing this evidence?
	But at the end of the documentary they say Alice, they dubbed her, who now works for Channel 4.
	So the girl making the smoking gun allegation now works for the exact same TV station that's running this that used to employ Russell Brand.
	That seemed like a conflict of interest?
	Also, what legal action could have been taken?
	Because 16 is in the age majority, right?
	Yes.
	So even if everyone was like, I think that's wrong, which it would have been, but there's nothing legally anyone could have done.
	It's a matter for the law to change if you want that to change.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	And I think, I think there was a bit of a legal gray area between 16 and 18.
	I think that sometimes that has been seen as like a grooming case before, but also she didn't go to the police with that years later.
	She went to his publishing agent when he was putting the book out.
	Yeah.
	So that's just the wrong way to go about it, if it did happen.
	Again, this is just why it seems straining credulity.
	Yeah.
	And so, okay, fine.
	You know, Russell Brand has a gross history.
	Yes.
	I'm happy to concede that.
	You know, maybe... Is he a rapist?
	Maybe he went too far or acted in a way that the women he was seeing at the time didn't want.
	Yeah, I can concede that.
	Yeah.
	It's entirely possible.
	If he's a provable rapist, give him the death penalty.
	But we haven't been proven yet.
	I don't know.
	That's the thing, even if this can be categorized as a case of rape, I don't think it's like, you know, it's not him hanging around a street corner and raping an unsuspecting old woman, right?
	That's not the most raped work anyway.
	Oh yeah, sure, I'm sure it's not.
	But like, there were allegations where he'd, so in the allegations it was like, a girl would, his girlfriend would come over, she wouldn't want to have sex, he'd hold her against a wall or against the bed and do that.
	So that would be that.
	But again, there is no evidence of that.
	It's just the allegation.
	So if you provide us evidence... There is going to be no evidence.
	That's the thing.
	There's going to be no evidence.
	So, okay, fine.
	But anyway, so obviously it's on all of the front papers.
	Just look at every single thing.
	This had no consequences when they did this in the 90s to a bunch of celebrities that ended up dead.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, they're trying to sell papers, to be honest.
	Yeah.
	There's a reason we're talking about it, which is it's the way the media works in this country, which is in other countries.
	Well, in some countries, you don't do this.
	You wait for the courts to decide whether or not the person is guilty and then the press are allowed to talk about it.
	There isn't even a legal case against him yet.
	I know, and that's what I mean.
	This is, in my opinion, almost slander.
	Yeah, I agree.
	We were only talking about it because they're talking about it.
	And they're here like, man, rapist.
	Accused.
	It's like, well, that kind of...
	Yeah, in the big font.
	Russell Brand raped me across the entire front cover.
	But the thing is, right, I'm not prepared to give the media the benefit of the doubt here because they know exactly what they're doing when they do this.
	They know that most people, literally not by their paper, but at least walk past, see the headline and go, Russell Brand rapist.
	That's new.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	They know.
	And they also know that if they put this on the front page, it's not necessarily going to sell more papers.
	It is definitely going to destroy Russell Brand's reputation with the average person who's not politically engaged.
	That's true.
	They know what they're doing and they're all doing it all at once.
	Why?
	Now, I would suggest that actually the Times has told us, which I'll get into in a minute.
	But before we do, there has been a few updates that the Times give us.
	Metropolitan Police has begun inquiries into Brown's alleged mistreatment of women and called on any victims to speak to officers.
	Yeah, you'd think that victims of Russell Brand would go to the police at some point.
	Well, and this is part of the broader point about the consent framework being weak.
	The police, we've not heard from any victims.
	Every front paper, every page, it's like, you are all scum.
	Again, I don't even particularly like Russell Brand, I definitely don't respect his history, but you're all scum.
	So, obviously one of the ways that you can safeguard against this is not have the sexual history of Russell Brand.
	However, if we look at Brett Kavanaugh, who is a married family man and had never, ever been accused of sexual impropriety before, just because he is a prominent figure who is being appointed to the Supreme Court and threatening Roe v Wade.
	Or Clarence Thomas.
	Well, yeah, but Brett Kavanaugh was even more egregious, because Brett Kavanaugh, they had one accuser come out and totally fabricate a story.
	But Biden did exactly the same with Thomas.
	I know, but the worst thing, and I'm connecting it to this, is because as soon as one accuser came out and was televised, lots more accusers came out to be represented by McAlvin Artie with escalating ridiculousness of their claims.
	Those people were never charged for making false accusations.
	Christine Blasey Ford just got a book deal.
	At least you know their names, right?
	Yes.
	At least you know their names.
	The anonymous accusers of Russell Brown.
	Going back to Tom Bingham's rule of law, one of the most concrete, fundamental principles of having the rule of law is to be able to face your own accusers.
	But of course, there's no criminal case!
	The police haven't even heard from any victims!
	So what is this?
	This is not actually, Russell Brown did something wrong.
	This is, we hate Russell Brown and want to destroy him.
	Until there's a criminal case, what else could it be?
	Exactly.
	What else could it be until there's a criminal case?
	Channel 4 have begun an investigation.
	Their former presenter and a TV production company stated, uh, started an urgent internal investigation.
	Urgent?
	This happened over a decade ago.
	He used to work for you all the time.
	Like you would know what kind of person he is.
	Many of you were having sex with him?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Some of the people there have had sex with him.
	Okay.
	A leading domestic abuse charity ended its ties with the comedian.
	It's saddened to learn about the allegations and that's really what this was.
	Right.
	Russell Brand needs to be excoriated, excised from public life.
	We want him gone.
	He has been frankly, a big mouth and a big mouth in the wrong direction.
	As you said, he went from inside the tent to outside.
	That's what this is.
	And we know that's what this is literally.
	This is from the times, their original article, this, this particular investigation, right?
	They all said they felt ready to speak only after being approached by reporters.
	Several said they felt compelled to do so given Brand's newfound prominence as an online wellness influencer with millions of followers on YouTube and other sites.
	So the investigation went and sought out...
	People that they already knew may have been connected to Brand and then were referred to others who might have an axe to grind against them politically.
	And this mask of government was betrayed as well when a bunch of op-eds in, of all places, because they've been decent recently, the Telegraph came out saying, Russell Brand's an alt-right figure.
	It's like, sorry, what?
	Oh, so his politics does have something to do with his accusations then.
	Why are you all moving in lockstep?
	Explicit from this Times article.
	He's got millions of followers online.
	He has newfound prominence.
	We need to come forward because he is speaking against the hegemonic narrative of what's happened in the last three years.
	Isn't that really funny though?
	Because he's not our guy.
	No, not at all.
	He's never going to be.
	But the only thing that makes him outside the tent is like, I'm not purposely going to be retarded anymore.
	I'm not sponsored by Pfizer.
	Yes.
	Yeah, but on a whole bunch of things.
	He's like, I'm just not going to believe what you guys say uncritically.
	You've got to go.
	You're outside the tent just for that.
	About the money complex that is going on regarding the government, the media, and the drug companies, and what that's done to society, says one concerned local man, and suddenly, oh that rapist, oh yeah, okay.
	Same thing happened with Trump, though.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	This is an ancient playbook that they use every single time.
	At least in Donald Trump's case, like, he joined the opposition party and reformers are actually in opposition.
	Like, he does a big thing there.
	Whereas in British society, all you have to do is be like, yeah, I'm not just going to believe it uncritically anymore.
	That's all the smallest crime.
	I mean, I was listening.
	I had to get a taxi in today because there's a massive storm yesterday.
	It flooded the river I have to ride over on a bridge, completely flooded.
	It wasn't that deep, I didn't think.
	And so I thought, I can get through there.
	No, it went up to my knees and I was like, I think I'd just better get a taxi in.
	And so I'm in the taxi on the way and it's literally just, you know, like BBC Two or something.
	The guy's listening to talking about Russell Brown and every time like, yeah.
	So Russell Brown raped someone allegedly.
	And then, and Russell Brown, the rapist allegedly.
	And it's like, this is not breaking news.
	Actually.
	This isn't like, you know, there are more important things going on in the world than the things that might be true.
	Yeah.
	And also things that might matter.
	Like these women were like, yeah, okay.
	I had a bad experience with Russell Brown, but I mean, But it does matter to the people bankrolling the media institutions who are sponsored.
	I mean, the BBC takes tons of money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, various American outlets take sponsorships from Pfizer directly, we've all seen the compilations, and so if Brandon's critiquing Big Pharma and the military-industrial complex, no matter how much his solutions might be off in commie airy-fairy land, he is still, with multiple millions of subscribers, an effective tool for critiquing the hegemony that reaches normal people.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And that's why they've singled them out and gone, right, well, we can just pull the trigger on this pretty much anytime.
	I mean, this was years in the making.
	They started this in early 2019.
	They were made aware of it.
	But four years later, they decided to pull the trigger.
	I wonder why?
	What happened between 2019 and 2023?
	Let's ask Tom Harwood.
	Yeah.
	That made them hate Russell Brand.
	Really weird.
	I mean, they've obviously known about this, you know, Channel 4 have been sat on this for over a decade.
	You know, they've all known this, like this other woman, she's been sat on this for years, dismissed it, didn't press charges, didn't care.
	Who knows, you know, whatever.
	But then, the thing I like about this has been the pushback against the meme.
	That's the thing that really matters to me.
	Sanjita Misga, an LBC host, says, quote, the investigation into Russell Brand is not a coordinated attack by the MSM.
	It's a joint piece of work by credible journalists working with credible news organizations.
	That does translate to Coordinated Attack.
	Yeah, exactly, that's what that means!
	I don't trust The Times as far as I can throw them after they tried to ambush journalism me once on Channel 4.
	No.
	But this isn't a coordinated attack by the MSM.
	Yes, it is.
	That's exactly what that means.
	It just happens every month.
	Yeah, it just happens all the time.
	Some new thing every month.
	That's why we've got that little phrase, a coordinated attack by the MSM.
	We have that phrase to summarize a piece of journalism, quote unquote, done by credible news organizations.
	I mean, what's a credible journalist in 2023?
	Mariana Spring?
	Exactly!
	You lied about me!
	You're such liars!
	I can fix her.
	And so I'm just like, look, if you hadn't cried wolf so many times and borne such false witness, maybe people would believe you when you claim to be credible because no one believes you.
	And that's the thing.
	If Mariana, uh, Sanjita Misga has to come out and be like, well, we're credible journalists.
	I think you're losing.
	And I think we're doing really well because I think the dialectic is going in the other direction, isn't it?
	It's just assumed you're not credible and you have to come out and go, no, no, we are credible.
	Trust me, please.
	Bollocks.
	But of course, Kathy Newman, I'm in awe of these five women.
	Name them, Kathy.
	Who?
	Who are those women?
	You don't know.
	You have no idea who they are.
	How can you be in awe of them?
	So what you're saying is you don't believe women?
	I am saying that.
	She doesn't know who these people are, and yet she's like, oh well.
	Forensic work.
	They got some text messages.
	Forensic work.
	I mean, again, if you had concrete evidence, then no one would be like, we don't trust the media.
	We'd be presenting evidence in court.
	Of course, that doesn't matter to Kathy Newman.
	We're lynching a dissident.
	That's what we are doing.
	This is a public lynching of Russell Brand.
	Now, you know, who knows whether he's guilty or not.
	Again, reminder, Kathy Newman went straight from Channel 4 to The Times.
	That's a good point.
	This is one woman who says that she was asked to I don't know.
	Tell on Russell Brand?
	Again, what do we call this?
	You know, there's no criminal evidence, so she wasn't asked to testify against Russell Brand, you know, because there's no court case or anything, but they contacted her and she was like, but I had a good relationship with him, I had a good time with him, I don't have anything to say, and they were like, okay, we're leaving that out of the documentary, which is the same thing that happened with Andrew Tate.
	Again, all of these people who I personally, in fact, if I had to be asked, I'd be like, yeah, he probably does have skeletons in his closet.
	That's the problem for the court.
	Exactly!
	Exactly, that's exactly what I said.
	You know, this trial by media is nothing more than a lynching.
	Why should they have the power to do this?
	Franz committed a crime, go to the police until he's convicted.
	I don't want to hear about it.
	That's my opinion.
	I think what's happened as well, not just that these accusations are politically expedient for the forces that profit off of the exact kind of people Russell Brown critiques, so he's become inconvenient, but also, and you see this with me too, the sort of revolutionary terror of the sexual revolution, is that the consent framework is insufficient for how women think about sex so if women are going through hookups then that's how you get to the regret is rape situation and where if you have enough
	if you're Russell Brown if you have hundreds possibly thousands of hookups with women some of them are going to regret that because they feel bad about themselves and possibly pull that card on you later so you've just got to beware it's not right But it's the world we live in.
	And again, like you say, it's it's not it.
	There are so many people who would have a stake in doing this, like the Me Too as Aiden Paladin.
	There's so many bogus Me Too cases.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there is.
	I'm sorry.
	Yeah, like loads, just like loads.
	And so it's not like this power hasn't been abused in the past by the very same kinds of people who are now promoting the abuse of this power in the future.
	Do you remember when I'm on Piers Morgan and the woman sat next to you said, actually, I like that terror, men should be afraid.
	So there are people out there like that, that want the ability to make false accusations against their political enemies.
	Exactly.
	And so we've got various sort of columns holding this allegation up and every single one of them is totally suspect.
	Again, it's not like I think Russell Brand has never done anything wrong.
	He's not Donald Trump.
	Weird that he's the guy I can use as the example of someone who did nothing wrong, but he's, he's, I don't doubt that he's got a long sordid history of Either going too close to the line or going over the line at least a few feet.
	And then, you know, cause this is, this is the thing it's all about degree.
	And these women knew what they were getting into when getting involved with Russell Brand.
	Why did they wait?
	Because it wasn't expedient.
	There was nothing to gain.
	They'd let it go.
	Okay.
	That was a mistake I made.
	I shouldn't have done that.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	And then suddenly, Oh, we're from the times we're from channel four.
	Would you like to, you know, and yes, it all comes together.
	And so they're trying to cancel him.
	And again, I've got no personal love of Russell Brand.
	I actually, for the longest time, I found him insanely annoying, but I did kind of like his sort of skeptic art because I can agree with it.
	Anyway, so yeah, Russell Brand being lynched.
	The only good thing about this is the amount of remarkable pushback that I've seen.
	Like, Elon Musk has been tweeting about this.
	Tucker Carlson tweeted about it.
	Jordan Peterson.
	Jordan Peterson.
	Like, everyone is like, look, no, we're not having this.
	And so far, on the scale of cancellation, it's just been the charity that's dropped him.
	So, okay, that's good.
	I think his agent has as well.
	What does he do?
	That's a good point, actually.
	He doesn't.
	Well, you might need one when you work in TV, but in the modern age... He literally streams to YouTube and Rumble.
	You didn't need an agent.
	No, but if someone wants to get in contact as well, he's got social media.
	Booking live gigs might be a pain in the back, so it's probably someone going to pick him up again.
	He's not going to have trouble getting an agent.
	The cancellation has been incredibly minor, and that's probably much to their disappointment.
	But it has been nice to see just... And this is why everyone's saying, oh, the right wing's leaping to defend Russell Brand.
	It's like, well, no, we just really hate cancellations.
	We're defending the principle.
	Yeah, he's not our guy.
	No, at all.
	He's not a right wing hero.
	I mean, I'm sure Bernie Sanders was skeptical of the vaccine industrial complex, you know, but either way, this kind of behavior just can't be allowed to stand.
	Alright with that, we shall move to something that is the truth instead.
	I'm here to tell you guys the truth, which is that we with Kang's is actually true, 100%.
	I have been taught this by the state media, so we're just going to buy into it now.
	All right, we're all on board?
	Good, all right.
	I watch Wakanda forever.
	That was easier than I was expecting for dumbness.
	But anyway, we shall begin.
	We're promoting something on lotussears.com, this being the Cultural Revolution book club, because the same situation is, of course, happening in the West on a day-to-day instance.
	And this thing went viral recently, and that thing is this, a BBC... Can we play a bit of it?
	We shall.
	But just to explain, this is not just BBC for adults, this is BBC for children here.
	It's CBBC, and this is a song from Horrible Histories.
	I remember when that was good.
	I used to love Horrible Histories.
	I'm too old for this.
	Oh, so their song parodies used to be top class.
	They did a Dick Turpin one that was a parody of Adam and the Ants.
	It's genuinely quite a tune.
	They did a Michael Jackson parody for all of the Roman emperors that were the worst, like Caligula and Nero and all that.
	So they were quite fun, and now this is trash.
	Even education, like the King and Queen song actually did well.
	I remember that to this day, yeah.
	And instead they've decided, I don't know, just on a side note.
	I just love this video.
	The quality of this thing is crap anyway, but the history is obviously true, and I shall prove it.
	Let's play a bit and listen.
	Please let me your knees for this news I shall impart.
	May not have been told, we have been here from the start.
	We've worked in the Stone Age to war with all your parts.
	For these isles of British, black people played their part.
	Chester was this Olympic, 10,000 years old now, when the air was destroyed.
	You should see his giant cow.
	The Romans are marching, we'll let the breeze roll.
	We'll just be with several who walk upon these shores.
	Listen to the tales of...
	That's enough.
	That is just amazing.
	If I may be allowed to make an insensitive comment, I thought black people were famed for their great music.
	This was terrible.
	On a purely technical level, this was the laziest... The mixing's awful, the lyrics are terrible, the background music is so cheap.
	Everything about it is just crap.
	Oh look, it's Anne Boleyn!
	Look, we'll get on to the truth later.
	I love the idea that literally at the end of The Younger Dryas, the ice sheet is receding and it just recedes over a bunch of sub-Saharan African men.
	I would have been frozen here in time.
	Or the terracotta army.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What are the odds that it happened to be someone from around the Congo region, who happened to be the first people in Britain?
	People listening.
	He claims that the cavemen was black, and then the Romans who came here was black, then the medievals was black, and then the First World War, there was blacks.
	No, no, no.
	You notice he skips the medievals.
	Oh no, he mentions the trumpeter.
	Yeah, Henry the one.
	The one black man in all of medieval history.
	But that's not even medieval, it's like 16th century.
	That proves that they were here the whole time.
	Yeah.
	And then he moves on to Windrush because for some reason he ran out of stuff and that's literally it.
	Yeah, but that's the second founding of the UK.
	Of course.
	The real UK.
	It's our Mayflower.
	The U and then K-A-Y.
	Just before we go on, right, I just want to make it clear, right, because they bring up Cheddar Man at one point.
	That's not true.
	There's no evidence that Cheddar Man had dark skin.
	There's no reason.
	Uh, and believe me, even if he did, okay, that doesn't make him African.
	There are actually lots of people around the world who have dark skin who aren't from Africa.
	So that's shocking.
	Yeah.
	So I watched his video on this.
	His best point is just like, okay, so what is a black person?
	Well, in the English language, that means sub-Saharan.
	Yes.
	So no, like even definitionally, if you put all the melanin in the world into him, he's still not a sub-Saharan man.
	Yes.
	So that doesn't make any sense.
	But this was my initial response.
	And just, you know, it's got to go.
	But just a quick few others, right?
	Uh, The Roman Emperor, not black.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	I know it's going to shock you.
	Yeah, bloody obvious.
	North Africans in general, not black.
	The one trumpeter, yes, I think he was black because he came from Spain.
	He was a slave.
	I want to talk about the Cheddar Man real quick.
	I suppose we'll go through some of the examples.
	As you mentioned, the Cheddar Man, every media outlet in this country, for some reason was ecstatically happy to claim that he was a black man.
	Even though, as SurviveTheJive has pointed out, that wouldn't really make any sense even if his skin was dark, but the problem... He's still not African.
	Even he doesn't look like he believes it.
	Well, there's also the other problem of... Does anyone really trust these human beings who did this, and in the media, to accurately report if this man's skin tone was X or Y?
	I don't trust any of the human beings involved in this process, so... I have been reliably informed that we have trans Vikings, so at this point I can believe anything.
	That's why.
	Did you see they found an Islamic ring in Sweden a little while back?
	And they were like, wow, this shows that Islam has always been in Sweden.
	Spoils of war by any chance?
	Clearly someone killed a Muslim!
	That's what happened there!
	And they went home.
	What else do you think happened?
	It shows that the Vikings went raiding very far south.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, but the Cheddar Man thing.
	Turns out they actually found the Cheddar Man's ancestor.
	Yeah.
	Guess how far away he was?
	Oh, like two miles away.
	Yeah.
	And there he is.
	And I just, you know, I had this weird thing we were talking about.
	I think it might have been with Michael, which is just, you know, you find it funny that if you go to the famous Black Britons of today, you know, here's Black Pound Day, some article being like, yes, black people, yummy.
	Because that's really all it says.
	It's really weird.
	It's like fetishistic.
	I've got a different piece on this.
	Anyway, but they list a whole bunch of people here and I'm just gonna admit, you know, we got Naomi Campbell, Jamaican parents.
	Floella Benjamin, she's from Trinidad and Tobago.
	Idris Elba, whose parents are from Ghana and Sierra Leone.
	Trevor McDonald, Trinidad and Tobago again, and then... Not one of these is from the area around Cheddar Gorge, that's really weird.
	Yeah, none of them have their ancestry from Cheddar Man.
	Interesting.
	It's funny how literally every single person you meet who can accurately be described as a black man or any other group adjacent.
	They come from Africa.
	They never claim to be from Cheddar.
	So, whatever.
	Just a whole side point about how mad of a definition that is.
	Survival of the jive is correct.
	Well, there's the medieval England part as well.
	Yep.
	You can look up paintings of medieval England.
	I mean, we literally, like, the Anne Boleyn one was the best one, I think.
	Because, like, you've got the Netflix, like, literally, like, they're trying to, like, That was Channel 4 as well, wasn't it?
	Was it Channel 4?
	It was Channel 4, yeah.
	Because we have existent paintings of her from her in her life.
	And so we know exactly what she looked like because they painted her while she was alive.
	We have those paintings.
	Well, it's also, um, if she was executed for the accusation of being a witch, it was because she had polydactylism, so she had an extra, like, weird little finger.
	Yeah, she had six fingers, yeah.
	If she really was black and she was beheaded, you could bet historians would have jumped on that for systemic racism narratives a long time ago.
	I think so.
	Why haven't they?
	Why would they have painted her as being as pale as milk?
	Well, clearly the paintings are far-right propaganda.
	Because, I mean, we're not, we're not going to disbelieve horrible histories now, are we?
	So there we are.
	I mean, I have seen Bridgerton.
	I agree that there's some kind of propaganda.
	There is some more propaganda.
	Anti-black propaganda, as we can see.
	The Bayeux Tapestry.
	It's quite long, so I suppose we'll give it a scroll.
	Tell me when you see an African gentleman, chaps.
	And I'll shut up, I suppose.
	We're going to be here all year, aren't we?
	Yeah, because there isn't one.
	Yeah, there isn't one.
	It's funny that it's funny how all the historical records are what they are and uh you know you mentioned yeah the truth though you can find it on channel four and that's it not in the Bay of Tapestry not in any of the paintings not in any eyewitness accounts no the tv trust me is telling you the truth so there you are but i did want to go through one more thing here which is the the black trumpeter i think this is the funniest thing in this whole conversation i love the way his name is john white
	That's always the case.
	I bet he wore white clothes a lot as well.
	I don't know, maybe he was a good person.
	No, but it's just like the family guy joke of how do you know a black guy in America is doing well when he's got a white car and white clothes and a white suit.
	Anyway, but, you know, he's literally just here.
	And so this chap, in case you're wondering... I love this.
	One of the earliest recorded black people in the United Kingdom.
	No, this was before the United Kingdom existed.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, carry on.
	But he is here.
	He joins the Royal Court.
	And the only reason he's there is... He spent a decade in England.
	He's a diversity hire.
	The king was literally like, ooh, a black man.
	Yeah.
	And then hired him to blow trumpets.
	So the king could go, look, I've got one of them.
	Look at my moor.
	Look how worldly I am, huh?
	Elizabethan drama, one of the most prominent plays coming out of it was Othello.
	If black people were common in England, it wouldn't have been written because the impact wouldn't have landed.
	And they had to set it in Italy in order to make it historically accurate.
	But also, if black people were common, why would the king collect them?
	That's going in low seas out of context.
	It would be a weird thing to do, wouldn't it?
	It's like, you know, he's showing off that he's got a black man, but why?
	It certainly wouldn't be a novelty, would it?
	It doesn't make any sense, so even his own examples make the minimum number of sense.
	I happen to do the data once upon a time, just looking at this with the foreign-born population, going back to the first census of, what was that, 1802 or something like that?
	So, I mean, yeah.
	But I'm not just gonna sit here and tell you about how Yeah, obviously it's historically wrong.
	I find the whole thing more funny because, of course, it turns out this guy here sent us a link and cut out the correct paragraphs, where the people who made Horrible Histories, I never realized this, are awful human beings.
	Really?
	I can't believe it.
	Yeah, they weren't here to help anyone with historical knowledge.
	No way.
	In their own words.
	I don't know if you want to read this, Carl, out loud.
	Well, the camera's blocking part of it, so I'll let you.
	Fine.
	The rest for the publisher and Derry's bank balance is not so much horrible history.
	For the following 15 years or so, the last horrible history, Derry swears, has now been written a small army of researchers furnished with truckloads of facts, anecdotes, and stories, and the author having established his overarching narrative for the period.
	Picked those that told its best according, sorry, including the hardest-hitting facts.
	He then goes on to say, because that sounds pretty good, he's got army researches.
	I'd love to see a fact.
	Sounds good.
	He says, take the balmy British army, he says, I basically concluded it was one of the worst things to happen to the planet.
	British Empire.
	Yes.
	Right, okay.
	So I deployed the facts that illustrate that, such as the fate of the Tasmanian people.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Of all the 10,000 people that were there when the British arrived, 30 years later they were pretty much gone.
	They wiped out a whole people.
	Well, that's the worst thing to ever happen to the planet.
	All those bright burnings that didn't happen.
	Could you think of a single other civilization that may have done something... I mean, I think he's probably wrong here.
	I know nothing about this subject, but I know not to trust him that we turned up and shot them all.
	Could you think of any other civilization ever that might have done something a bit worse?
	In a day, yes.
	Not even a year.
	Not 30 years.
	What was it about us always thinking about the Roman Empire?
	Yeah, I mean, they're like this... If this was the worst they could charge the British Empire with, I mean... I'm just saying, we didn't create any pyramids of skulls.
	We saved a lot more slaves than that.
	Yeah, but there were lots and lots of civilizations through history, none of them European, that created pillars of skulls.
	Well, not even that.
	There's no baby trees in Tasmania.
	That's true.
	Where the Tasmanian babies were thrown against the woods to be killed.
	Well, it was just common practice in the pre-modern era that if you had to break into a city, everyone in there was going to die.
	Yeah.
	It was just something normal.
	Women were going to be raped, all the children were going to be killed or stolen.
	Enslaved, yeah.
	You know, whenever you read about a historical figure, they did that a lot.
	Alexander the Great did that, Timur the Lame did that, Saladin did that.
	Everyone will have done that.
	When you're reading Wikipedia saying he captured this city, that's actually two or three days of rape, murder, enslavement, and looting.
	Not just that, all of pre-Christian Rome, they can find where the brothels were, because if you dig under the tiles, it's the bodies of the children that were just killed and discarded.
	So that was the culture that was going on every day, not just one imperial invasion.
	Yeah, obviously.
	But like, every empire in history is built on a mountain of corpses, is what an empire is, and that's a really low death toll.
	That's what I love.
	None of us have ever written a history book or even tried.
	And this guy over here that does it for a living came to the conclusion that that was the worst thing to ever happen to the planet over here.
	That's his worst example.
	And you should read about the Sack of Baghdad.
	No, but how ignorant does this human being have to be to say such a thing?
	And the thing is the Sack of Baghdad by the Mongols was probably like the 30th or 40th city they'd destroyed.
	Like Genghis Khan had to be persuaded not to just eradicate the Chinese race because he was like, No, no, no, no.
	He sat up an Oxford Union debate, did he?
	Almost.
	He was like, right, OK, we're just going to use all of China's pasture land for our horses.
	And his Chinese advisors were like, or you could tax them and they'll give you free money.
	He was like, oh, that is a good idea.
	It's human beings.
	Yeah, you know what they'll do.
	No, they don't care.
	They don't care.
	Yeah.
	They literally don't care.
	Don't get me started about like Attila the Hun or any of the... I mean, it goes on forever because that is the history of the human race.
	He goes on here, he says, I don't want to write history, he says.
	Thank you for giving me production over horrible histories.
	I'm not a historian and I wouldn't want to be.
	I want to change the world.
	Attack the elite.
	Oh yeah, the elite.
	Overturn the hierarchy.
	Same, but not in the cringe way that you want.
	I just love it whether you work, certainly not doing that.
	Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always those in power and the heroes are always the little people.
	I hate the establishment, always have, always will.
	And he just goes on to whine a bit there.
	But he literally... Which Roman emperor was it he claimed was black?
	Well this isn't exactly... The little person, who's the emperor of Rome, who just happens to be black.
	So that's the guy who wrote the books, and this over here, this cancer, is by the film production.
	I presume he didn't write this particular part, but this is the culmination of his work, which as he put himself, was not based on history.
	It was based on my feelings, which is that I don't know anything, so the British Empire was the worst thing to happen to the planet.
	And presumably, these human beings are exactly the same.
	Why is it a Calzareno?
	Timmy is Severus.
	Yeah, no, he wasn't black.
	Are you sure?
	Very.
	But this man is very smug and arrogant, so he might know more than you.
	That's my strategy.
	Sincerely though, look at how happy he gets about all this.
	I'm shocked that they haven't, for LGBT LMP History Month, brought up the Trans Emperor yet without realising what happened.
	That's because he was a disgusting degenerate.
	Well yeah, but that hasn't stopped them yet.
	Yeah, but I mean like... If you want to put the best foot forward for the LGBT community, don't begin with Elagabalus.
	You absolutely don't.
	They have Peter Tatchel on television.
	That's very true.
	So the thing about this, right, the whole framing of this thing that really annoys me is it's so obviously not true.
	Again, if you have to be saying, oh, black people have been in Britain since the very beginning of Britain, then it makes me obviously think, well, why do you need to say that?
	What is being done here?
	Can you imagine the song?
	It's like, Anglers have always been here.
	We've been here from the start.
	Exactly.
	And the Indians would be like, No, we haven't.
	And Rudyard Kipling's like, well, I'm just as Indian as anyone.
	What are you talking about?
	You know, this is obviously not the case.
	And it's weird and cringe that you are trying to promote that.
	But the thing is, there's a genuinely sinister aspect of this, because what it's to say is, well, actually, you're not really from anywhere.
	And actually, Africans are at least as legitimate in Britain as the British.
	It's gaslighting you into accepting the precepts of universal man, but it also speaks of a deep insecurity on the part of people that are putting it forward.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And I had a conversation with Aaron Bastani about this on Twitter, and he was saying, oh, this is funny, isn't it?
	I'm like, don't you think it's weird that they're lying to children about the racial history of Britain?
	Don't you think that's weird, Aaron?
	The Japanese were founded by Ethiopians, Karl.
	What do you...?
	Exactly, but isn't it not weird that they are literally lying to children?
	The BBC is lying to children about who inhabits Britain and has inhabited Britain.
	And of course, the whole point is to retcon.
	So nobody in the future thinks it's strange that actually mass immigration has completely changed the demographic makeup of the country.
	That's what this is in favor of.
	That's what I was saying to my granddad.
	It's like, in 30 years' time, people will think Bridgerton is history.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They will not even know that they should be questioning this.
	And that's the point of this.
	That's why they're morally permitted to lie to children about the history of this country.
	I had this exact thought yesterday just to end this off.
	I was playing Rome Total War.
	I'm playing as the House of Julii, exterminating the Gauls as you do.
	And I just thought through my head, because this came back into my head, imagine if the Romans had mass media and started making videos for Gaulic children about how, you know, the Romans have always been here from the start.
	We've always been in Elysia.
	Elysia is actually a Roman word, I tell you.
	Look, Vercingetorix had a Roman slave, so we've always You're basically a Roman!
	It's insane!
	But it's so creepy and weird and as you correctly point out that creepy and disgusting aspect is completely permitted in modern quote-unquote Britain because what Britain will become is exactly as you guys foresee which is that it will become the case that all the children are raised on this crap and the hope and expectation and demand of the state is that that will become what people talk about when they speak of history of England They will talk to each other about how this is totally true.
	And you'll have normie conversations when you're sitting around drinking tea with normies about how, oh, well, there was a there was a black guy on Hadrian's Wall.
	He was the emperor, I was told.
	And you just kind of look at them funny and think, how did you end up this ignorant?
	And this is the project to do that.
	Also remember the Old Horrible History song that reminds you that tea isn't even English as well.
	Yep.
	With that, we'll move on to the Eternal European question that's got to be solved.
	Because I've got some thoughts.
	Dovetailing nicely with the previous segment.
	Yeah.
	So the Eternal European is a good meme.
	The Eternal Brit, a whole other time.
	But the Europeans have been doing something.
	Oh, really?
	They have taken notice that... Hang on a minute.
	You know we're kind of being invaded, aren't we?
	Maybe we should do something about that.
	You only think that because it really looks that way.
	Yeah, I mean, we've had our own problems with illegal invasions in the United Kingdom, and that's a story for another time, but today we're going to talk about the Europeans who have discovered something, and half of them are divided on what to do, and I think that's the really funny part.
	Before we go on, you know when you walk past the hotel where the illegal invaders are housed at our expense, you notice there are all these bikes?
	Yeah.
	Notice that the bikes have all got rust on them?
	Yeah.
	How long have these people been here?
	Yeah.
	So you've got an old rusty bike with tires that are worn out.
	Where did you, where did you get that from?
	Um, Josh was in Bristol yesterday and told me he saw one of them, like, cause we walk past so often, we recognize them by face now.
	He saw one of them in an upscale cafe and he's just like, what?
	Just, just saying.
	There was, there was an epidemic of, uh, bike parts thefts all around Reading.
	You just see them, the actual frame just chained up to the thing where they've nicked the handlebars and the wheels and.
	No, we've always been told that illegal immigration, especially when it's forcefully made against us, is a good thing because Mama Merkel said so.
	And you can see here, you can go and learn more about that by going and checking out Contemplations, understanding Europeans and their politics.
	This is something Americans definitely need.
	You don't understand.
	They went a bit nuts, especially in the 2010s.
	And thankfully, that seems to be fixing itself, at least in Germany.
	And good luck to the AFD for all room for you.
	But anyway, the news is that something was taken notice of.
	This is the island of Lampedusa.
	I've never heard of Lampedusa.
	It's the most southern Italian island in the world.
	I think it's closer to Libya than it is actually to Sicily.
	I might be wrong about that, but it's very, very off the shore is my point.
	And it is the first point of contact for anyone who wants to break into Europe from North Africa.
	And the great part is you don't even have to build your crappy vessel to go the whole journey.
	If you take it about halfway, the Europeans will come and pick you up.
	Oh, just like we do with the Channel migrants.
	So the same situation, but this time on the borders of Europe, the EU, and of course... I like that it's a German accent, not an Italian accent.
	The Italians don't run anything.
	Well, we'll see that first hand in a minute.
	Well, I like that this man is so desperate to flee war that he took time to dye himself into a Zuma haircut.
	Well, he wants to integrate, doesn't he?
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	Thanks for your service, sir.
	We're good to begin there.
	Anyway, so this chap here.
	They're breaking in, and this has been going on since, I think, what, 2010 at least?
	I mean, Douglas Murray, he went to Lampedusa during the migrant crisis of 2016, and just talked about how horrific it is.
	And people have woken up, this blew up on Twitter for some reason.
	They're like, oh my god, have you seen what's happening?
	And it's like, yeah, 10 years.
	Yeah, it's not new.
	Going on.
	So, there's a grounder writing here, you know, these thousands of migrants have decided they're going to break out of their temporary asylum center, and are now building roadblocks to process the authorities, and demand that they be sent to the mainland of Europe immediately.
	which, okay, you have been.
	If you literally just wait five minutes.
	Aren't we running an evil empire?
	Why can't we ever see that?
	We can see more of this.
	This is the other place that went viral, which is just lawlessness.
	You can see them punching.
	Mostly peaceful migrant rights.
	Punching the police, generally being doctors and engineers.
	I can't help but notice that every single migrant we've seen so far is an adult male.
	Yeah, that's another feature of Lampedusa's friends.
	You can see them fighting each other there.
	Anyway, there's some... There is a woman there.
	There's one woman.
	That might be a local Lampedusian.
	Yeah.
	Because there is a population there of a few thousand who have to deal with this every day for the last 10 years.
	They're a bit miffed.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	You can see more here.
	So David says here, adopted engineers and lawyers are desperate to visit library.
	I'm sure.
	Broke out the compound there.
	There's some more footage, fighting with the riot police, because... Why would an island, a tiny Italian island, that has a population of around 6,000 natives, need riot police?
	The very nature that they have riot police there is just mad.
	Because literally thousands of people turn up every day.
	I think it's like 7,000 a day turn up on Lampedusa now.
	So that's more than the island's population every single day.
	And that's been going on for a decade.
	So this is their mayor, who gave a pretty good speech.
	And he says in here... I can read the Italian.
	...are not welcome.
	Lampedusa must be free.
	That's great framing, because that's correct.
	We want to live from tourism and fishing, nothing more.
	That's really not a big ask.
	Italian dream.
	Yeah.
	How long has he been in?
	Do we know?
	Because why haven't you done anything about it before until they reach the boiling point?
	The thing is, what can he do?
	He's a city mayor.
	He's not able to change the EU's... I'm the mayor of the tiniest island in all of Italy.
	What are my options?
	So I think that Ireland is probably voting about 100% neo-fascism for the last 10 years for some reason.
	This is something that we discussed in our contemplations on organised crime.
	Not only is the UK number one in Europe for crimes committed by foreigners, but as lawlessness increases, what's the likelihood you're going to see I just love how stereotypically Italian this guy is.
	and turking people out, like the Yakuza due to Nigerian drug gangs in Japan.
	If it's ever going to happen somewhere, probably be Italy.
	I wouldn't be shocked if you see the mafia step in.
	I just love how stereotypically Italian this guy is.
	Literally, I don't need to know what he's saying to understand what he's saying.
	Baba the Bupi, send her the boats back.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Literally, yeah.
	I want the British tourists.
	I want to have a British fishing.
	I want to lie to the EU about my quotas.
	That's all we want to do.
	Every Italian man is student of Campo.
	But it's, you know, So that is really what he's saying, isn't it?
	What does an Italian small place want to be?
	It wants to be a place where rich Western Europeans come and spend their money.
	Yeah.
	Because we're the best kind of tourists.
	Yeah, and they can abuse their fishing quotas and then lie about it to the central government.
	That's what they want to do.
	But then for no reason at all, the Mafia are going to turn back up by the looks of it.
	And this is a story in and of itself.
	This has been going on, as I said, for a decade.
	It just was a weird blip that for some reason A lot of American accounts.
	It was very obvious because literally you could see like 10,000 Africans and you knew that was more than the island's entire population and they're all standing in one place being like give us money.
	It's like the Costa Concordia crashing every day.
	Yeah.
	And you've now got an unbelievable new population to deal with.
	Anyway, but that's not the big thing that was interesting for me.
	The best thing for me, and the thing that brought around the eternal European thing into my mind, was this dude.
	As you can see here, pronouns in the bio.
	Don't need to read anything else, but there are obviously red flags, literally.
	in this chap's case.
	And he's reviewing the European subreddit.
	I love it.
	Even the most progressive European subreddit is filled with Hitlerites.
	Immigrants are mentioned.
	Should we mention, so we see how these Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber, Alice, Europeans are being Hitlerites.
	People listening, someone in the Europe subreddit, so to post a meme where they say, this is insane, 7,000 people is the population of a small town and that's arriving every 24 hours.
	7,000 people is literally the native population of the island.
	Smaller than that.
	With a man pointing at a board with, we are effed, and a little Italian flag.
	And this guy was like, well, friggin' Hitler writes at it again, am I right?
	7,000 people in boats off your coast invading your island, that's akin to an armada.
	That's like ancient battle numbers.
	It shouldn't be understated.
	There is a funny duality to the pro-EU types.
	Now, in the United Kingdom, we've had the EU debate, and I think, in our case, it's been pretty easy to categorize people, because there's such a large crossover between weird, middle-class, creepy progressives who are all pro-EU and unbearable.
	Give it a minute, give it a minute.
	I wanted to read those extra ones!
	Oh, don't worry, we will.
	They're good fun.
	So, stay tuned.
	But, you know, in the UK we've had the sort of patriotic side and then the weird, like, internationalist types, and they're very, like, you know, sandal-wearing vegans.
	But for the European continent, especially Deutschland, there's this much bigger divide where you obviously get the people who are pro-EU for a different reason, and their reason is, of course, to be, well, I want the European super state now.
	Germany by any other means, as the Asians once said, yeah.
	Yeah, and they're not.
	They're not Hitlerites, obviously.
	They just are a new kind of European, which naturally is the English we distrust and want nothing to do with.
	But this is what comes out in the European subreddit, because of course you get the Mama Merkel type EU Europeans who are like, ah, wir schaffen das, yes, takes the whole world and nothing will go wrong.
	And then you get the other types, which are like this, you know.
	And there is the point to close the borders.
	Now, that was long past.
	Plus, it's literally all men of military age.
	Those need to get deported back to their own countries because this isn't sustainable.
	Very reasonable.
	Yeah.
	Fair points.
	We need the European fortress, says the German.
	Okay, maybe not.
	I love the German takes it way too far.
	Yeah, these are the users.
	There's no flag to their name.
	Just a normal kind of English names.
	I don't know.
	Man the castles, German.
	Deutschland joins the chat.
	They need the European fortress.
	The situation is already beyond buggered over here.
	Over 3.5 million in Germany alone.
	Most unemployed.
	Sucking our welfare system dry.
	You know what he's saying?
	Look what he's saying.
	International socialism has failed.
	We need a different kind of socialism.
	But the thing is, of course, I don't find myself disagreeing.
	But he's not wrong.
	You would never get this sort of talk from the UK, English, European types.
	No matter what happens, no matter how bad it gets, they're still voting Green Party being like, yes, more.
	More!
	Destroy the place!
	Für Schaffendass!
	There's one more here.
	Deport them all.
	To where?
	Oh, nowhere else exists!
	Back to where they came from.
	No person should be allowed to illegally come into our borders.
	To where?
	To where?
	As if we're the only place on Earth that even exists.
	Everything else outside of Europe is a barren hell.
	But they do think of these people... Where human life is not possible.
	They do think of these people as if they materialize out of an ether.
	Yeah, they do.
	But they do deport them, as I mentioned, every single day for the last 10 years.
	From Lampedusa.
	To Germany?
	No wonder the Germans are like, international socialism doesn't work.
	I thought they just phoned up the Clockwork Elves and said take it back.
	So this whole concept of where we deport them to, well obviously Berlin, where else?
	Nowhere else to live.
	I can't get over how bad Berlin is as well.
	Oh yeah.
	A whole other conversation.
	And that was years ago that we went there.
	But it got worse, like I've been there before, me and Carl went, I think, what year did we go?
	2020?
	It was after the COVID pandemic had died for a month, and then we were allowed to move in.
	Oh yeah, it probably was 2020.
	You could see the damage that the 2016 thing had done, but I had some context of before, and trust me, like every year that is going as bad as Swindon is going every year at this point.
	We'll check some more Hitlerites, shall we?
	Because this guy, I just love that this guy is sincere.
	And, you know, leftists are leftists, but this is funny.
	They say here, then send them back where the boat came from, most likely Libya.
	Really, I had no idea.
	What happens after that is simply not our responsibility.
	I love that he's replaced this as I am Adolf Hitler.
	Grab Battles of History as well, which shows you all his understanding of history.
	That's not the thesis of Hitler.
	So this guy goes, so just push them back.
	What?
	So murder them?
	You just want to be murdered?
	And he's just going, yes.
	Human life is just not possible outside of Europe.
	You've got to understand.
	They set one foot on Libya and just burst into flames.
	I mean, this guy's correct here.
	He says it's not our responsibility.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You call it murder if you want, but if they sink in the water, that's, that's them being stupid.
	Don't, don't go on a shifty raft.
	Yeah, but this is what Victoria Derbyshire found out when she interviewed one.
	He was like from Ghana or something.
	And she was like, Oh, why did you risk your life going crossways?
	I have money.
	I want to make my dream come true.
	And she's like, yeah, but isn't that dangerous?
	She's like, nah.
	And it's like, you're not a 25-year-old African man.
	You don't understand.
	You, as a 55-year-old woman, don't understand men's propensity for risk-taking.
	I'm sorry, but it is a real thing.
	They don't understand.
	A little while ago, you did a segment on the France 24 guy that I spoke to, this random Afghan who was sitting in a Calais migrant camp, and he was complaining that he was not granted a visa to come over to COP26 to photograph a little Amal, you know, the big papier-mâché Syrian refugee thing.
	Yeah.
	You're not entitled to it.
	He was like, they're racist.
	They don't give me the visa.
	It's like, yeah.
	Okay.
	Why should they give the visa?
	Because I want it.
	That was his real argument.
	It was just like, okay, I want to be a millionaire.
	Yeah.
	Give.
	I'd like your shoes actually.
	You're a racist.
	It's just, it's just something else.
	One thing I did want to mention though, where this goes like what?
	Send them back to Libya.
	Hmm.
	Any of those men were Libyan?
	Did anyone notice that any of them were Libyan?
	Because I didn't.
	No.
	They might have escaped the open-air slave markets that were set up after Hillary Clinton ruined the place.
	Yeah, they've certainly been through Libya.
	Yeah.
	Thanks, NATO, for this.
	I mean, that is a whole other conversation, but I do love, in living memory, we can all just say, as Dan correctly, I think, said on Twitter, which is just, yes, NATO did this.
	And the thing is as well, like again, I'm watching Aaron Bastani argue with people on Twitter about Gaddafi, just being like, well, they weren't opening slave markets in Libya when Gaddafi was in charge.
	I realize that this is pro-Gaddafi propaganda.
	This is reaching like Zimbabwean levels of like, uh, we didn't realize and everyone went, no, we did.
	Yeah.
	We knew it was going to happen.
	Exactly.
	You know, it's, but it's so mad how the left is like, look, you've got to accept The Libyan Open Air Slave Market's a completely failed country, or else you're a Gaddafi sympathizer.
	Okay.
	You know, okay.
	You've got to accept Zimbabwe starving to death, or you're racist.
	It's mental.
	You want the right white race to win.
	It's like... You go and interview the Zimbabweans and that's what they want, so I don't know what to say.
	I'll give you a hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollars to f*** off, you know?
	Like, just shut up.
	Well, we've been over this, and I think we went through it with one of the other ones there with South Africans, where it's like, when you go and ask them, like the black guys, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, go and ask the Libyans what do they want Gaddafi back.
	They preferred the oppressive state, and when you go and ask the Zimbabweans... I love that, wasn't there a meme once we read, where there was an article, there was two guys being interviewed, and it was one white guy who had been to Zimbabwe who was like, oh it's a paradise of new anti-colonialist thinking and blah blah blah, and then they interviewed a local black man and his headline was, get me out of this hellhole.
	Anyway, let's enjoy some more European talk, shall we?
	Well, before we go on, this is Grad 24.
	I saw a thing.
	I didn't realize you were going to cover this, because I would have sent it to you.
	Apparently, a bunch of journalists went down and interviewed these refugees.
	They're like, why are you here?
	And they're like, well, in Burkina Faso, they were broadcasting how much money France gives you in benefits.
	That is correct.
	I saw that.
	And so we got on a boat and we came over.
	And Victoria Darbyshire is just like, what the hell does this mean?
	It's funny you bring up the climate change BS, where it's like, yeah, climate change did this.
	The numbers, Mason.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Right.
	So, but that's the point.
	They're just, someone is telling them.
	And of course this, you know, the journalists are like, "Is this Russian propaganda?" Maybe.
	Who knows?
	Maybe it is.
	It's funny you bring up the climate change BS, where it's like, "Yeah, climate change did this." Because they did go and check out the thread.
	And the top comment, "And with climate change, it's going to get worse." Not the number of refugees who are getting money and then that's being broadcast on Burkina Faso TV.
	No.
	No, the trees of Africa are getting too hot.
	I mean, that's the double-edged sword of the eternal European.
	There are, of course, two types.
	Why aren't we getting loads of refugees from Greece?
	Who knows?
	Who knows?
	Weird, that.
	Anyway, Stelios.
	No, but we'll go through some more of this real quick.
	Someone says, send them back.
	I don't effing care anymore.
	Again, you wouldn't get this from the pro-U types in the UK.
	Like most of us, send them back or sink them.
	Make an example.
	If they come If they come back, they will come back or be dead.
	See how long it takes for them to understand.
	This would solve the problem.
	I'm not actually opposed to this policy, personally.
	I'm just saying.
	Occupy land and build cities for them to live in, in their own countries.
	Bring back colonialism.
	This is the best one.
	From the pro-EU subreddit.
	So someone said, like, what are they going to do?
	Start sinking the boats.
	And this chap says, occupy the land, build cities for them to live in, in their own countries.
	Introduce industry so they can be self-sufficient.
	If their government can't take control of them, Then Europe has to!
	They will be living under a European rule either way!
	Whether they immigrate here or we build the cities for them there!
	That's very interesting, because I've been reliably told that the black people invented everything, we stole it all.
	So why don't they have those really well built... To be fair, they'll just be having black rulership from Europe, won't they?
	I mean, we're all black, really.
	I don't know who says that.
	Cheddar Man ruling over Kinafaso.
	It's the descendants of Cheddar Man who I'm reliably informed was a sub-Saharan African.
	What's your complaint?
	A progressive unions of peace, home, healthcare, it's the finest food, liberalist ideas, and it's also immigrants will live.
	That's like, that's not Hitler, right?
	That's what actually used to be the socialist position.
	Yeah.
	And it's the old times, I'm told.
	But yeah.
	Again, just international socialism has failed.
	We need another solution.
	Yeah, I mean everyone's just roasting this dude, obviously.
	But the thing is real, where you get the two-sided European and Europe, which is you get the green-type weirdos that we have, and then you get the ones that are like, you know, sink the boats, because they'll learn the lesson.
	Yeah, but what this is, is the people who are still embroiled in their kind of high-flying liberal ideals, and have not yet been touched by what those ideals bring about.
	And then the other side who are like, no, no, no, this is real, these are real problems.
	Like, we're all leftists, and it's like, yes, now you've discovered the problem.
	Yeah.
	You've caused.
	You've seen one too many cats barbecued in the open street.
	It's been going on for ten years!
	How are you surprised?
	These people!
	Callum, what you failed to account for, it's Reddit.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But also, it's just people who are too divorced from the problem.
	Those people who feel the problem encroaching upon them physically, you end up like the bloody mayor of the island.
	I can't remember the name of the island.
	But it's like, no, every single one of them has to go, you know?
	I love just all three of these.
	That's the trifecta bingo for progressives thinking why this is happening.
	Yeah, literally, they're broadcasting on TV and radio that you're giving away free money.
	That's why they're coming.
	This is why the far-right's reaction is so stupid.
	No, sorry.
	Immigration is the symptom of humanity's diseases.
	Oh my god.
	Oh no, we're getting a bit too close to the Hitlerite stuff again.
	I'm leaving.
	Anyway.
	Okay, if that's the case, why don't they go to the East?
	Yeah.
	Why don't they go to Arabia, to China, Serbia, Russia?
	None of them stay there.
	No, they only go to Western Europe.
	Because give me the money.
	But I mean, this is the Europeans natural habitat.
	I just have this meme here just to make that point.
	We have a beaver here who has never met another beaver, but still builds dams.
	And the Europeans will do the European thing.
	But I do love just that other point.
	That is adorable.
	I think his name's Justin.
	I've seen this on the Dodo.
	Oh, look at him.
	He's so cute.
	I'm sleep deprived.
	Is this what you want me to do in the future?
	Yeah, this is a much more appealing thing to watch.
	Well, anyway, we have that on screen as I give you some black notes, which is... No, I want this to be our border policy.
	Yeah.
	Thank you, European beaver, you are saving the world!
	One stuffed toy at a time to damn the Mediterranean.
	Anyway, but there's a YouTube channel, I forget the name of the guy now, which is bad form on me, but it's like Monsieur Zed or something, something Zed.
	And he's an American and I love him so much because he's got such an accurate mindset about how migration works, how immigrants work.
	I just love this beaver so much, it's so cute.
	I've got to take this off screen, have I?
	Maybe, because it's really adorable!
	Look at it!
	To the audio listeners, this sounds like an innuendo.
	No, it's like... The segment's just beaver cam now.
	Yeah, look, he's piling stuff up because he doesn't want... he wants to stop the water from brushing all the way.
	It's so cute.
	He's doing something.
	That's all I can.
	No, I'm ending the segment there.
	I think it's adorable.
	I don't know.
	I kind of just want to watch it now.
	Yeah, but anyway, yeah.
	Migrants.
	Coming here for money.
	Stupid Europeans.
	Won't deport them.
	Oh wait, don't turn it off.
	John's like, yeah, move on.
	We've got video comments.
	All right, fine.
	Let's go to the video comments.
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	Nope.
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	Before we go any further, we have to address this.
	Mince and tatties.
	Potatoes.
	It looks like he's making mashed potatoes.
	Butter.
	Milk.
	Ground beef.
	Chop some onion.
	Chop some carrot.
	Add the onion.
	Add the carrot.
	Beef stock and gravy.
	Next, take some seasoning.
	Just kidding!
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	Dirty foreigner seasoning your food.
	Creamy mash.
	Add the mince.
	And there you have the British classic.
	Mince and tatties.
	Alternatively, put the mince in a tray.
	Add the potatoes on top.
	there you have a shit on the top as well that is egregious man that looks great what are you talking about cheese on top of shepherd's pie i agree with this that's odd very because he put didn't he put fried eggs on top of his beans on toast as well that's good as well that's that's that's that's that's a conflict of interest again conflict of interest my ass i heard that connor was going on a trip to japan next month ideally to recreate the plot of shogun
	but the more relevant question is will he return with a japanese war bride will This is the fate of all far-right figures.
	They must always be married to an Asian wife.
	When he returns, he should be dressed as a Yukio Mishima, who is like a Japanese trad larper, who was like an activist, author, philosopher, and kind of cult leader.
	Mr. D actually likes it, but I think that Kanaka pulls look up.
	Okay, because I'm not a terminally online weeb, and my preferences for women are... I'm not terminally online, I'm just going to Japan for a month, guys.
	No, I actually like all the old samurai architecture and things like that.
	Because my preferences in women are exceptionally racist and I only date white, angular blondes.
	No, I'm not going wife-hunting, I'm afraid.
	Sorry.
	We'll see if you're convinced though when you're there.
	It's been a while.
	Doing a lot better since we last spoke.
	Can't say the same about Canada.
	This here just came out, which might be of interest.
	It has to do with the Convocation of the Emergencies Act and its justification.
	It all stems from an internet joke pertaining to an evil goat who travels through time, is addicted to narcotics, and has a jetpack.
	That's why we have political prisoners in this country.
	And my buddy Jeremy McKenzie will be on with you for Friday, talking about the whole thing, and the link is above.
	I'll share more later.
	I really am interested in the concept of a hate industry actually.
	I'd like to know what metrics they measure success by.
	How many pounds of hate or gallons of hate?
	What are the numbers they're using?
	Well, slurs.
	Do you remember they did that?
	What, the number of slurs posted on Twitter?
	Yeah.
	Do you remember they actually did do that graph?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And then Twitter shot back with its own graph that was much lower.
	Well, obviously.
	But like, I don't know.
	I just, this is your factory somewhere where, you know, 17 barrels of hate are produced an hour or something.
	Shipped out worldwide.
	My n-word stocks are up really high this morning.
	No, it's stupid.
	It's such a pathetic thing to say.
	Oh, it's a hate industry.
	Yeah, you're a hate industry.
	What now?
	All right, next one.
	Flower Friday time.
	So this California native is called Datora reidei.
	I found out the hard way from this one in my garden that it blooms for a single day.
	But Datora reidei was used by Native Americans to do some spiritual stuff.
	It makes you really high in a very unpleasant way.
	It makes you kind of see hell and demons.
	It's also been used medicinally, and members of the Datora genus have been used all over the world, and it's deeply tied with human history in a way that's actually changed and affected our culture deeply.
	I've got a medicinal use for this actually, right?
	So going back to Canada, they're like, should you kill yourself?
	It's like, maybe, but sniff this flower for a minute.
	This is where you're going.
	It's like, oh God, no, I don't want to live, you know?
	So actually it does have a medicinal purpose.
	If it makes you do that, why don't Christians walk around with a load of them to convince people the hell's real?
	I don't know, I'd probably be bloomed for a day.
	You're asking too much of us.
	It just seems like a good idea to be like, oh, you know, this atheist, this gaytheist over here, put a flower under his nose.
	Yeah, that's where you're going.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one.
	Wouldn't this have been a nice place to grow up?
	Out in the country.
	Quiet.
	This is your backyard.
	I see a Yowie over there.
	Pakistani food, though.
	How are you going to live?
	Look at it.
	Absolutely incredible.
	Yeah, but half a mile down the road, there is an Addo sleeping in it.
	That is lovely, though.
	Is that your house?
	Australia.
	They have absolute cracks of land.
	It's ridiculous.
	Yeah, it's unbelievable how big Australia is.
	In the 80s they used to just buy the land and then have to build the house on it themselves.
	Hey guys, I'm doing another book sale at Brisbane Oz Comic Con.
	It's probably going to be one of my last for a few years so I can focus on my next book.
	But one thing I'm going to say, it's not an anime suggestion, but you've got to watch the Netflix One Piece series.
	It is really, really good.
	Highly recommend.
	So this is where I'm from and where I live, a city called Silkeborg in Denmark, which is kind of special because this is the place where the Germans have their base of operations during Second World War.
	egregiously long running anime series ever and then now they've made a live action version of it so okay so this is where i'm from and where i live a city called silkeborg in denmark which is kind of special because this is the place where the germans have their base of operations during second world war and as you can see left a lot of bunkers behind and these days we have some bunker days where people are putting on uniforms of different kinds and doing some reenactment and
	And I thought it would be kind of fun to just show you guys what is going on.
	History, this is 15 minutes away from my apartment.
	History in my backyard.
	It looks like where they filmed the end scene from Inglourious Bastards.
	Looking back to Littest Drinkers.
	Let's get into the booze.
	This is fresh as a glacial facial.
	It's a 12-year-old's space life, an ex-morbid test.
	Reasonable 57.8%.
	Just 157 bottles ever made.
	Yeah, that's great whiskey.
	And I think I speak for us all when I say we like to see basic spotted dick.
	Okay.
	I don't know.
	I too drink alone in my apartment as a hobby, I guess.
	Anyway, on to the website comments.
	Justa Schmuck says, love watching you gents, I've watched you live virtually every day since you started the site and longer.
	Unfortunately, I have a new job, which means I can't watch you live anymore, though I'll happily be catching recordings from now on.
	Cheers lads, keep up the good work.
	Derek says, there are too many C's on this panel, eliminate one of them, I'm not a crackpot.
	Wow.
	Wolf Grillington, that's a cool golf I know, yeah.
	Why do you think so many people are moving out to Australia?
	What?
	Gen Z over here is house hunting, brother.
	Oh, yeah.
	Loads of Gen Zers have moved out to Australia.
	About a three bedroom, it's 150 grand.
	And it comes with a quarter of an acre of land on it as well.
	Jesus.
	Yep.
	Wolf says, I never liked man, told my Russell Brand, but if he committed any crimes, it is for the police and courts to determine his guilt, not a public circus.
	Other than that, why are they slut-shaming Russell Brand?
	I thought we were cool with that.
	Well, it's until it's useful to slut-shaming.
	Suddenly they're hyper-conservative Victorian nannies who are just like, oh, you can't do that.
	Yeah, but it's not about hypocrisy.
	It's about hierarchy.
	It's trying to make it so that women aren't slut-shamed because that destroys the family.
	But obviously men can get away with it a lot more, even though they're polluting the well.
	It's even, it's also just about eliminating a threat to the narrative, whatever that narrative is.
	Again, if Russell Brand was like, you know what?
	I think we need to get vaccinated.
	And I think Black Lives Matter.
	And I think that we should give Pfizer all this money to propagandize us and to take their products and force us.
	They'd be like, Russell Brand is top shagger.
	Justin says, modern journalists at papers are no longer truth seekers.
	They are marketing agents.
	Trying to sell their papers.
	The more censorious the headline, the more papers they sell.
	And if they are somehow forced to retract a small update on page 900, or they spin it in a way that sells more papers, independent journalists are more likely to be trustworthy.
	Yeah, but the thing is, I think there's also like money backing a lot of these places like Bill and Melinda Gates pay the Guardian, God knows how much they pay.
	And the BBC, yep.
	Probably the Observer and stuff like that.
	Oh, did you know the BBC are the leading buyer of the Guardian and the Observer?
	Yeah, yeah, like half funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates.
	Half of their entire circulation goes to the BBC.
	Yeah, and even the right-wing papers have like OnlyFans tags where they mysteriously decide to run a puff piece on some random girl's OnlyFans.
	It's like, oh, I wonder who's paying for that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And it's like, so I'm not even sure they're that bothered about sales, to be honest.
	I think that's funded elsewhere.
	Ethelstan says, I think the Russell Brown story is complicated.
	It's telling that he used to be a vocal establishment leftist who worked for the mainstream at the time of these alleged incidents occurred that is now being raised by those same organizations 10 years later as an anti-establishment figure.
	However, he clearly was a deviant hedonist all those years ago and I would not be surprised if allegations of this sort listed are true.
	He seems like an egotistical narcissist no matter how much he preaches Buddhism and was a heroin-taking sex addict.
	I don't like trial by media but I wish conservative thinkers would stop picking individuals to celebrate and raise up as false prophets because it makes the movement itself so easy to tarnish whether it's Tate, Kanye or Trump.
	Look, Trump's not done anything wrong So I'm actually happy to be like, yeah, Trump.
	But like, I mean, I agree with the rest of it.
	You also don't have to say he's a spotless character to say that he's being an effective instrument for smacking down the narratives.
	As I've said time and time again, I think Tate is utterly reprehensible.
	But the reason his message resonates is because he turns around and says, well, young men aren't granted anything they don't earn.
	It's like young men are like, yeah.
	I feel worthless.
	Okay, I'm gonna go out and earn it.
	doesn't it?
	It makes sense.
	And his characterization of it as the Matrix as well is pretty good, actually.
	Yeah, there is what Malberg called the Cathedral, Tate calls the Matrix.
	There is an organized structure of power that is acting against isolated dissidents.
	And so that's why it was good.
	Like I said, I don't think Russell Brown's a good guy or anything.
	But it is good to see a kind of locking of shields on this one.
	Just be like, no, we're not having it.
	We're not having it.
	This is what I was saying a little while ago, like cancellations is just going to stop working.
	Yeah, it's only in the same way as the sort of soft liberal precepts allowed woke to arise.
	Only if you share their concerns and operate in their paradigm did their charges stick.
	But it's not just that, it's about fear as well.
	People feel that they have to toe the line or else they too will be cancelled and damaged and have their careers ruined, blah, blah, blah.
	And the more people who are on the other side of it, then the stronger the argument is to not One of the really interesting things, just quickly, did you see the BBC try and, the Guardian and all that, try and run hit pieces against the woman running for the Conservative Mayor of London seat?
	Yeah, she liked an Enoch Powell tweet.
	Oh, she liked loads!
	Back since 2017!
	I've spoken to her, she's just doubling down.
	Good.
	Party hasn't kicked her out.
	So, interesting wind change there.
	She liked the tweet that referred to a statement by a Conservative MP.
	Get that woman out of the Conservative Party!
	How could you?
	You're on, mate.
	I'm very jealous of the Australian housing market right now.
	Yeah, but do you want lethal spiders in your bathroom?
	That's the one big downside.
	No, no, there are others.
	Okay, so snakes, right?
	I don't mind snakes.
	No, no.
	The most lethal snakes in the world live in Australia.
	Yeah, but it's the bugs that have got to go.
	Also, the insufferable anywhere people that moved from Britain over there.
	I have 30 grand for a three bedroom house, and it cost me my rent to keep it.
	Massive saltwater crocodiles.
	You just don't want me to leave Australia.
	This is why I'm not going to Australia, right?
	Do you know what trapdoor spiders are?
	Trapdoor spiders have a particular kind of venom that's particularly good against simians, which is weird, since there are no monkeys in Australia.
	They have a song, there's a redback on my toilet seat, and it's all about how it crawls up the pipework and bites you in the arse and kills you.
	When you're making shit.
	It comes with a golf course.
	Oh, that's fun.
	I'm just saying.
	It's a dying luxury.
	Yeah.
	You've got to check your shoes every time you put them on.
	I don't know.
	They're Australians.
	They're alive.
	They're not dead, are they?
	So, how bad could it be?
	Just saying.
	Enjoy.
	Derek says, we are living in a time where the court of public opinion seems to take precedence, even overruling the court of law.
	How French revolutionary is this?
	Yeah, it's pretty bloody awful.
	I think we're going to enter the troubadour period though of the sort of backlash against sexual revolution.
	I do think the Dylan Dannis thing with Nia Agdal, I think that's a sign of that.
	Of where now the sexual revolution is a stain against your character.
	I mean, yes.
	But it wasn't like a few years ago.
	True.
	I mean, it's literally what they're hanging Russell Brand on now.
	Yeah.
	Well, look, Me Too was a revolutionary terror.
	So you're going to get a restitution period, a sort of corning off period afterwards.
	Colin says, I really, really liked the first five seasons of Horrible Histories with the original troupe.
	I think they had in that entire run one factual inaccuracy, which they went out of their way to correct as soon as they could.
	It was great, the shouty man bits, cutaway gags, little puppeteer rat that I think they would love.
	It's the kind of thing that you could actually show kids.
	There was some like occasional problems, like their version of the Crusades didn't happen to mention the Muslims invaded.
	and then the Christians invaded to defend themselves but that's you know it's it's not that bad but this I mean that was just Tariq Rashid quite sincere he's been like yeah the emperor was black uh the king was black I literally had an interaction with uh one of these people who believes that and the I was like okay so where do where do white people come from is that you literally made by aliens I was like yeah you snow devils we're not indigenous to Europe we we were made by aliens and dropped here it's like
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Where are the aliens now?
	How do we talk to them?
	Imagine having that discussion.
	They're in Mexico!
	Imagine going to the BBC though, the children's department, and that's what you find?
	Running a production team?
	Yeah, that's what I mean.
	Black people and the indigenous people of Europe.
	Okay, where did the Europeans come from?
	It's like aliens.
	Says your children's TV program to your kid.
	Andrew says, man, the production on that video is terrible.
	I could barely make out whatever the man was trying to sing.
	Well, that's the thing is it's literally just.
	No competence.
	Yeah, but but it's also just the transparency of it.
	It's like, look, you don't question it.
	Black people are just a natural part of the British Isles and always have been.
	So you're weird for thinking that it could have been any other way.
	The blackwashing of British history smacks of that goodness gracious me Indian dad sketch.
	No, I feel like I should have done.
	That thing isn't reloading.
	It's annoying.
	You want to read some?
	Yeah, go on.
	All right, now we'll go for the last segment, I suppose.
	From the Eternal European, Brian Tomlinson says, we need beavers in the English Channel.
	Women, do your work.
	Harry Starving Berber says, in a thousand years time, they may unearth Warwick Davis leading historians to assume that Britain was populated entirely by dwarfs.
	Yeah.
	And why not?
	That does so often happen though, I do wonder.
	Like I said about the Islamic Ring, they were like, Muslims must have lived here.
	Like, anyone who's been traveling just proves that the ethnic group that they met lived in their native land.
	Like, are they just going to conclude that England in a thousand years are going to come back?
	Well, obviously, you know, 60% of it in London was pure foreigners.
	I mean, it is.
	But I mean, like, for all time, it's been that way, we presume.
	Well, Doctor Who told us that it was that case of the frostbite, didn't they?
	That's what I mean.
	Like, are they just going to pull that and be like, well, in 2020 it was this, so it must have always been like that.
	Alright, do you want to read again or do you want me to?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Anonymous says, Lotus Eaters beaver merch is when?
	Merchandise when?
	Funny story about merchandise.
	Apparently Aristotle is verboten.
	Tried to put some up and it got flagged by some auto-read thing.
	Talked to you about merchant at the time because I had some really good ideas and were not allowed.
	The French Charles Martel says, Remember when Maloney was the savior that would end immigration?
	Every single anti-immigration politician that doesn't want to leave the EU is the same.
	Immigration will keep getting worse until the EU falls apart.
	I bet that what happens with Maloney, she's campaigning, she's like, yeah, well, obviously we're going to get rid of the immigrants.
	And then literally like the finance minister sits her down and goes, look, this is the graph of Italian births.
	This is the graph of your pensions.
	There is a massive disconnect.
	Someone has to pay for that.
	Well, it's also probably, this is the graph of the money we get as subsidies from the EU when we Italians aren't working all day.
	And the moment we go against the immigration policy, they just take all of the subsidies.
	Maybe.
	And so Malloy's just like, huh, I guess we need the immigrants, guys.
	And it's just like... Reclaim national sovereignty or become a cuck and betray everyone.
	Which way?
	Which way?
	Well, it's either that or pensions don't get paid.
	Yeah, national sovereignty.
	You're going to have to have a national revolution to restore your sovereignty.
	And that means, well, you don't have any more of your money.
	Yep.
	Ross says, every time I hear Victoria Darbyshire's name, I feel like one of the Germans apologizing for their country's actions during the war.
	Sorry, John.
	I didn't hear that.
	Yeah, I didn't get that.
	Sorry, there's some breaking news from BusinessRad.
	Oh, okay.
	Von der Leyen presents the EU's 10-point plan for Lampedusa.
	No EU naval blockade.
	Italy will have to go at it alone.
	One, reinforce support to Italy by Frontex to manage the high number of migrants to ensure registration of arrivals, fingerprinting... Right, so we're taking them in.
	Oh, safe legal routes.
	Safe legal routes, boys.
	Support the transfer of people out of Lampedusa, presumably to Berlin.
	Yep.
	Literally, we're gonna deport them to Berlin.
	Set up returns by undertaking a renewed concerted outreach to the main country.
	Please, will you take your citizens back?
	Sorry, we're going to call up the two parties in the Libyan civil war.
	They're going to be on the phone to, you know, the African revolutionary governments in West Africa.
	They're like, would you like to take these people?
	That guy in Niger is just like...
	So, uh... Yeah, no!
	Support the prevention of departures by establishing operational partnerships on anti-smuggling with countries of origin and transit.
	So, more bureaucracies and more money is not solved.
	But this is where the handshake between the Libyan government and the EU will take place.
	Oh, no, wait.
	There's no Libyan government.
	We bombed them out of existence.
	So, can't do that.
	Step up border surveillance at sea and aerial surveillance through Frontex and explore options to expand naval missions in the Mediterranean.
	So we can watch them come in?
	Yeah, no, so we can bring them in.
	We see them come across, we're going to bring them in.
	Take measures to limit the use of unseaworthy vessels, well, we're going to give them boats.
	So they're more effective at crossing the ocean.
	Jesus Christ.
	Libyans don't have safe boats, please donate £5 a day to save the Libyan people smugglers.
	Increase support to the EUAA to apply swift border and accelerating procedures.
	Brilliant.
	Make them faster.
	Yep.
	Increase awareness and communication campaigns to disincentivize Mediterranean crossings.
	We'll continue working to offer alternatives such as humanitarian... So we'll just fly them in!
	We're just going to fly them in.
	Look, too many of them are dying in the Mediterranean.
	We can't have that.
	Is this... Did this come out of the meeting that Keir Starmer just went to at The Hague as well?
	Because he would probably sign on to the exact same thing.
	No, no, no.
	Keir Starmer was like, look, we need to classify them as terrorists.
	It's like, John, can you pull that up quickly?
	I'm not, I'm not making this up.
	Keir Starmer was on the radio the other day.
	See, he said, he keeps saying safe legal routes as well.
	So I am skeptical.
	So Keir Starmer.
	Keir Starmer.
	Keir Starmer.
	Illegal immigrants.
	Terrorists.
	Stamina.
	Stamina.
	It's a better name actually.
	But that's annoying.
	It says here.
	Five days ago.
	There we are.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I agree.
	No, no, no, no, the people smugglers, not the people in the box.
	Sure, sure, but that's very different.
	That's a good start, right?
	Someone's getting treated like a terrorist here.
	Can you imagine a single conservative saying that?
	Because all that means, all that means is he'll shut down those avenues to people that are smuggling, and then use that as the pretext to say the safe and legal routes to encompass everyone else.
	I'm sure he will.
	He won't shut them down.
	It's literally impossible for him to do it.
	At least someone's calling these people terrorists.
	Advance the dialectic.
	The people smugglers are terrorists.
	Now the customers are also terrorists.
	Yeah, exactly.
	There are lots of terrorists.
	Exactly.
	It's got to keep moving in that direction.
	So that's actually a good start from Keir Starmer.
	Oh, gosh.
	I'm sorry.
	Every time.
	Every single time.
	Have you thought about climate change has done this?
	Triggers me.
	But you can't imagine a single conservative even mentioning the word.
	Yeah.
	We are out of time, though.
	Yeah, of course.
	So more from us here on the website.

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