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	Hello and welcome to a podcast.
	I'm here with Charlie and Dan.
	Hello.
	There's a name somewhere and a date, but don't care.
	Anyway, today we're going to be talking about the fact that, well, we're going to discover actually the best country for black people and white people.
	I don't know how we're going to do that.
	This segment's probably going to be a mess.
	I feel the need to actually give a proper warning about, I have no idea what the hell I'm doing.
	But anyway, so that one.
	A reassuring start.
	We're also going to be talking about old narratives and ladies in gaming.
	Yes.
	Yes, ladies.
	They are ladies.
	You know what's funny, though, is I felt like my segment was going to get slightly in trouble.
	And then you saw the other one.
	I'm like, yeah, yours is actually... No, mine's fine.
	Mine's fine.
	Yes.
	And we've got this special announcement.
	It is my birthday on Friday, and therefore I'm inviting all of our Gold Tier members to send in a special video congratulations at this weekend, and then I'll see them when I come in.
	So there you go.
	Special birthday competition.
	Please come to my birthday party.
	Yes.
	We'll go down to McDonald's and get a happy meal together.
	Dan actually has no friends, so please do.
	Please do that.
	What I need, yes.
	No, do you want to actually... When is your birthday again?
	Sorry, I wasn't... Friday.
	Friday?
	But I won't be in on Friday, so if they send you the videos on the weekend, then I'll see them when I come in.
	When's the last day you were in?
	You on Thursday?
	Uh, tomorrow.
	Wednesday.
	Yeah.
	Should we have a substitute birthday party at McDonald's?
	No.
	No, it's alright.
	That would actually be a bit tragic.
	All right, whatever.
	Anyway, shall begin with the news.
	So... What's this?
	News?
	What are we talking about?
	Well, today we're going to do something that's kind of dumb.
	Don't really know where we're going with this.
	If it's a complete tragedy, well, you know, it's going to happen at some point.
	So we're going to go and check through the best country to be black and the best country to be white.
	We're going to figure it out, boys.
	Oh, good.
	Cutting research.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This is no longer a news program.
	This is a research program.
	Real time.
	But hopefully, if this isn't a complete catastrophe.
	Anyway, let's begin with promoting something on the website.
	As you can see here, this is a book that we did about the Cultural Revolution.
	And the reason I bring this up is not for no reason, which is, first and foremost, I think the best country to be black is clearly China.
	As we can see from this Brother Hau over here, who is telling us about how there would be no China without the Communist Party.
	Very real, I'm sure.
	Anyway, the whole thing that sparked why I'm doing this, and potentially getting us all shot, is that Kenny Badenoch said a thing.
	She's at that conference where there's no power, so no one cares.
	That, like, government thing.
	Lots of lobbyists, no real power.
	Yeah.
	Lots of empty seats as well.
	Because there's no real power.
	This is a point Dan made excellently, I hadn't thought of before.
	But the reason no one cares about Conservative Party Conference ever is because there's no power there.
	Decisions aren't made at Conservative Party Conference, or even the people in the room.
	It's made above national politicians.
	But there are speeches.
	So Kelly Vade-Knock came out and gave a speech where she says here, as Mr. Pestineau tells us, I tell my children this is the best country in the world to be black because people see people, not labels.
	Pretty stock standard sort of rhetoric you can get in this sphere.
	And it might well be true, actually.
	Might well be true, that statement.
	Not a bad thing.
	I think it's pretty good that people can be seen for themselves.
	He did go on to say something a bit weird, this guy, which some will see as a statement that multiculturalism has been a triumph, not a failure, asserted by Suella Braveman.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	The word multiculturalism obviously being multi-cultures, not race.
	Well I was going to say, yeah, it's sort of, I don't know, it's a little bit sort of race essentialist almost, suggesting that culture and race are one and the same.
	You can only be a certain culture for a certain race.
	That's right, I work for ITV.
	That's basically a caste system, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't know if he's got an Indian wife, but we'll find out.
	But I love that it's just like a local man doesn't even know his own words that he uses.
	I mean, like replacing a whole neighborhood of one culture with many cultures.
	That's what multiculturalism is.
	You take a place that's got one culture and then we replace it with loads of others that are all different and they're all side by side.
	Not, there's a black person.
	That's just different things.
	But whatever.
	I thought I'd just check in real quick because, I mean, even if this segment's a mess, can't be any worse than this guy.
	And this dude gets paid a lot.
	I mean, this is just him talking about his new payment.
	Used to work for BBC, now works for ITV.
	And I believe he says in here, somewhere in one of these blocko texts, where he mentions that he got paid, what is it, 300 grand?
	Must be nice.
	To do his job now?
	346,666 pounds.
	Don't know why.
	666.
	Yeah, he probably insisted on that bit.
	Who in the right mind is like, yeah, I'm desperate for that.
	Whatever.
	Anyway, but there's some speculation here they're talking about.
	And so we'll guess he's on 200K at the BBC, 300K now.
	And doesn't even know what multiculturalism is.
	Bro, great.
	Anyway, earns his wage with such insights.
	Anyway, but this statement from Kemi sort of blew up and became an instant debate on Normie Radio here, which was a complete waste of time because it's Normie Radio.
	As you can see, she's talking about how she's wrong.
	Why is she wrong?
	That Britain is one of the best places to be black?
	Because she's black.
	Not the best argument I've ever heard.
	This just reads like that thing that came out about Calvin Robinson the other day.
	You see that?
	I'm not going to repeat what title he was awarded.
	Oh, the Black Lawyers?
	Yeah, that one.
	I think you might need to hint to it, at least, because people might not have seen it.
	I didn't see that one.
	He was awarded a certain accolade of being, um, something of the year.
	By, uh, by people who think that because he's not white, he's not allowed to... Oh, they didn't use... They didn't start with the letter N, did they?
	Oh dear.
	That's not good.
	That's how you know, you know, they're the good guys.
	Yeah.
	So, this sparked this pointless debate.
	I mean, this one here.
	I'm not kidding as well.
	Like, this caller just calls up and insists that because of critical race theory...
	But he just says, because of critical race theory, she's playing the white man, so the reason she's wrong is because she's black, which is just not an argument.
	It's just, whenever this sort of thing comes around, because it always seems to come around every couple of weeks or months, it's just crazy because it's like, okay, let's assume for the sake of argument that the UK is the best country to be black in.
	Why do these people think that's a bad thing?
	Or that that's, like, instinctively that that's wrong?
	They have to.
	They just have to.
	Instinctively.
	And I'm just kind of mulling it over in my mind.
	I mean, it probably is, isn't it?
	I mean, surely it's got to be up there.
	I mean, it's one of the best countries in the world, full stop.
	So, you know.
	Come on.
	Even in the midst of everything that's happening, it still is.
	Anyway, I got some thoughts about racism.
	I mean, data.
	I saved it.
	Anyway, this is a bunch of data, so I thought we'd go and check out the question of where is it best to be black and white.
	Now, this is a bit broad.
	This isn't necessarily about being black or white, this particular one.
	This is from the Washington Post, where some place did some research, and here's the map.
	A fascinating map of the most and least racially tolerant countries.
	Yes, so red, not very tolerant.
	So India is the least racially tolerant place on earth.
	So the way this is done is they interviewed people from various countries and asked them the question of Well, who would you not like as a neighbor?
	I remember saying that.
	Right.
	And 40 plus percent of Indians said someone of a different race.
	The French, it was about 30 percent, said not someone of a different race.
	For the British, Americans, South Americans... What do Indians count as another race?
	Do they count people from Pakistan as a different... Does that trigger it?
	I mean, again, before we even get into this, the world's massive.
	Yeah, like nobody knows everything about it.
	So we're going to be hugely ignorant.
	And so the comments from people in various countries are correcting us or helping us learn things.
	Much appreciated going forwards.
	Let's begin with my limited knowledge of the world and trying to put it on here.
	I'm going to imagine the Indians also consider like people of a different caste.
	There's something unusual.
	I suppose if you ask them about race, I don't know.
	Whether that was foremost in their mind when they answered this particular question, I don't know.
	Either way, I do love that you've got all of, well, Western Europe just being like, yeah, it's fine.
	I don't care.
	And then France is like, no, not on my watch.
	It's like, okay.
	All right, brother.
	But anyway, a bit of a global perspective, which is obviously pointed out usually, which is there's the West and then everyone else who is very different.
	And actually, you say Western Europe is pro-e.
	I mean, the UK is a glowing beacon of diversity tolerance compared to... Sweden.
	Even Germany.
	Yeah, of course.
	I say even Germany.
	I mean, I know they have history on this, but I mean... I don't know if you guys are history buffs or not, but in the middle of the 20th century.
	Yes.
	More lately, they've bigged up the whole diversity thing.
	Obviously, Sweden is Sweden-ing, and then North America is...
	Well, I mean, they've got blackface Trudeau over there, haven't they?
	South America, very tolerant.
	That's kind of interesting.
	It's quite a mixed area anyway.
	Do you know about the forced race mixing in Bolivia?
	Yes, yes.
	That was the, who was that, the Portuguese or the Spanish?
	I forget which dictator was in charge, but he decided to solve the racial problems.
	I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, I think it was Bolivia.
	Well, he decided that, okay, we've got the Indians, and we've got us, the European Spaniards, and there's not enough mixing, and therefore there's lots of conflict.
	Everyone is going to be assigned a little native mistress.
	Literally.
	He made marrying someone of your own race illegal, so you had to marry someone of a different race, and there's only two to pick from.
	So every Spanish man had to marry an Indian lady and every Indian man had to marry a white Spaniard.
	And this lasted for like 10 years and it was enough.
	To be fair, that does put it in perspective, doesn't it?
	Because we often criticise the Conservative parties for betraying us at every possible opportunity.
	They haven't gone that far yet.
	Not yet.
	Not progressive enough.
	That's an old map.
	This is the more modern one I just managed to find online.
	Same question asked and then a bit more detail as well.
	More countries filled in there.
	So there you have it.
	Czechoslovakia seems to have, in the modern age, gotten a bit more upset-y spaghetti about such things.
	And as you can see, the Middle East, the Islamic world, doing its thing.
	Turkey says no, and what is it?
	Is that Vietnam?
	Yeah.
	Apparently France has come around.
	Whatever.
	Anyway, that's one version of the data.
	There was an EU questionnaire a while back that was quite funny as well.
	So this here is just some links showing it, and it's various like, would you be okay if your daughter married an ex?
	And then ex is filled in with various different types of people, Jewish, Muslims, Asians, black people, and there's various results.
	I've got to say, as a dad of two daughters, the correct answer to this is, would you be comfortable if your daughter married, at that point you should just stop and say, no, I'm suspicious of absolutely bloody all of them.
	Under all circumstances.
	I'm not just talking about races, I'm just talking about- A Catholic!
	No, just, you know, men in general.
	You just don't want your daughter marrying you, that kind of thing.
	No, well, I do, but he's going to have to jump a very high bar for me to be happy.
	Standards.
	Yes.
	I do find it particularly funny, I mean, no matter what you ask, I mean, apparently Savakia is on your team there, but they're just like, my daughter doesn't marry anyone, that's what's going on there.
	Anyway, but you can go check that in your own time.
	And there's the argument again, I'll bring it up here.
	I mean, specifically, we're looking at black people today, but I mean, you can make it without the art group.
	I mean, as I've seen here, like the UK being most accepting of such things.
	We are wonderfully, wonderfully tolerant here, aren't we?
	That is the data on that.
	And also, there's some other perks about being black in the UK or in the various black movements.
	I mean, we've gone over this, but Black Lives Matter in the UK.
	Comical on the face of it, before you even get into a debate, because it's like, not America.
	So stupid, right?
	I mean, if you want to take American racial politics, they're dumb in America.
	They make no sense and just make a mockery of the American system and are just based on lies.
	And then when you get to England, it's like, this has gone through so many layers of translation.
	This has nothing to do with us in any way.
	But okay.
	But you still get that phenomenon where people are arrested, they still start chanting, I can't breathe.
	Yeah.
	Or, you know, you're able to steal lots of money on the basis of race politics.
	To be fair, that was actually valid last week when it was that Pakistani shopkeeper actually strangled me.
	In that case, I can't breathe.
	You probably worked.
	Yeah, but she couldn't breathe because she shoplifted and attacked me.
	I mean, one of the funniest examples of that was when the UK and the USA went against each other in football and the UK kneeled, but the USA didn't.
	Yeah.
	I was reading about that earlier today.
	It's just absurd.
	It's so comical.
	You ever see what I think was the Polish team?
	They decided so they were playing I think England and England knelt and then as they did that the Poles decided to wrap out their flags as they do and bring out a big flag because all the Polish players were just standing there like what are you doing?
	And the big flag came out and it unfurled and it was a banner that just said kneel to your masters and then there was a picture of the Polish president.
	Okay, yeah.
	Well played.
	Get messed.
	Anyway, but there's obviously some other points as well, which is, you know, immigration.
	So, I mean, if the UK is some, like, horrible place that can't stand seeing a black person for all of five seconds, then it would be kind of weird that they keep moving here.
	And it's not just that, of course.
	The vast majority of immigration is from Asian countries and the EU and so forth.
	But, anyway.
	But I suppose, uh, I don't know if we can do it.
	I don't know if we have the technology, but can we go to the MS Paint edition, please, John?
	So then I can use my, uh, there we are.
	We've never done this before.
	The show is truly interactive now, boys.
	Are you gonna live?
	Yes.
	Graphic this.
	Yes.
	This is going to be a disaster.
	So I, uh, I'm going to say yes for the UK.
	I think we're all in agreement.
	Sure.
	Yeah.
	Pretty good.
	But yes to what specifically?
	If you're a black guy, I would want to.
	Oh, right.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right.
	And the way I'm going to do this is I'm thinking if you're black in America, I think you're probably going to be okay.
	Uh, Canada, Alaska.
	Yeah.
	Easy peasy.
	Let's do some Northern Ireland.
	I don't know.
	This is actually working, okay.
	Yeah, I also just wanted to test out MS Paint, because I like MS Paint.
	I'm just going to fill in the islands, because I don't know.
	Right.
	Whatever.
	Welcome to the 4-hour pod stream.
	Yep.
	197 countries.
	We are literally just Twitch streamers at this point, playing with maps.
	So there we are.
	So I think from the data, I can definitely say that.
	I think the country where it was, I would not visit, based on that data.
	I'm just saying.
	Yeah, rule out Southeast Asia as well, and China.
	So I've travelled around India, Southeast Asia and China.
	It is quite common to have restaurants where they simply put a sign up listing the races that they don't want crossing their threshold.
	Do you remember the one in China that was literally no black people allowed in the McDonald's?
	Yeah, but that's my point.
	You will commonly see that around that part of the world.
	Again, correct us for our ignorance as we go forward, but I can definitely say, I mean, we did do the story about China, so that was a thing.
	And that's grim.
	I think the rest of South America, I don't know if I can be even more lazy.
	I've got no idea when it comes to South America.
	Well, I just remember seeing that data from earlier, so I'm just going to do that.
	There we are.
	Big tick.
	Right.
	How about Africa?
	I feel like if you're black in Africa, there's no disadvantage.
	Yeah, but who goes?
	People come from there.
	They don't go to there.
	And the thing is, there's large areas of Africa where it's not good to be anyone.
	Well, this is my thing.
	I mean, I thought about this question for long and hard and I thought, okay, well, if If I'm a black guy, I think the way you could rate whether it's a country that's the best to live in or not, depends on just, do you get an advantage or disadvantage for being black?
	I think probably, let's draw a line here, like this.
	You've got no disadvantage, because, well, you're the majority.
	And then the various Caribbeans, let's just tick those, I guess.
	It started out so much more professional.
	Well, I could fill it in, but we'd be here all year!
	And I kind of like the way that every African nation... I know the way you've opted out of putting the cape in South Africa, which is actually quite accurate.
	I don't know if you did that on purpose.
	That's a whole other question, I suppose.
	Yes.
	And also, canaries, rightful Spanish territory.
	What do you want?
	Anyway... Oh, he's done the C!
	There we are.
	Oh, there we go.
	Everyone, try not to make a swimming joke.
	West, I don't think you have a disadvantage.
	That's my point.
	I think Kenny's probably right.
	Yes.
	I mean, maybe the UK is the ultimate, like... Well, if she's wrong, she's wrong by a small degree.
	Because it's either going to be that or one of these other green bits that you put in.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I think it's probably, you know, most of the countries, most of this, it's neutral.
	It's not really a major benefit.
	Well, maybe some of the Arabs have got different opinions.
	No, I don't think so.
	whole other conversation to be had.
	Israel, I don't know, never been. - I don't think so. - I don't want to get into an argument about Israel, 'cause apparently when you bring up the word Israel, that just everything explodes.
	- So does it?
	- I'm just gonna leave that alone.
	- Okay.
	- You're never interactive with the Israeli debate.
	- So you just say the word Israel and it gets flagged up in an algorithm, does it?
	- No, I'm not saying that.
	I'm saying that, you know, if you don't have an opinion on it, oh boy, a lot of people are gonna try and make you have an opinion on it.
	- Right, I just don't care.
	Maybe in another pod we address that then.
	Anyway, but my point being, um, Kemi, um, yeah, right, obviously.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it doesn't... I should have actually colored in Africa yellow, because my point was that it's, uh... Yeah, I was thinking that.
	It doesn't really matter.
	Yes.
	Because you're the majority.
	Also, it's not going to be Japan, is it?
	Oh, and Korea.
	Japan and Korea are definitely out as well.
	Yeah, I don't wanna... So, Koreans are wonderfully racist, they really are.
	No, seriously, seriously, if you are traveling in Korea and you even look like you're going to talk to a Korean girl, a bunch of Korean lads will form a human chain.
	They will literally do that.
	They're just like, no.
	Is that not just because of how you hit on women?
	I mean, no, no, no, no, no.
	I haven't personally actually been to Korea.
	I've spoken to guys who have traveled around there and they are just like, no, you are not coming anywhere near our women.
	We are staying pure.
	All right.
	Yeah, there's a proper thing in North and South Korean society.
	thick concept over there.
	Anyway, but my point being that if you actually step back for a minute and don't just get obsessed with, oh, I'm in England, so I'm obsessed with England.
	I don't know.
	I don't keep doing that.
	But the point being, yeah, she's right.
	I mean, if you wanted someone where you could get not only no negative aspect, but then some privileges.
	I mean, the West is the place to be.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course.
	Yeah.
	And anyway, that was my So, uh, we'll get back to another question that comes out of that, though.
	Okay.
	Which is, I thought to myself, that conversation happens, as you rightly say, about every year.
	Someone says, oh, it's the best country to be a black or some American politician or something.
	And then a white liberal comes out and says, no, it's not.
	Yeah.
	What's the reverse?
	This is where things get more edgy, I think.
	Oh, you're not going to go there.
	You're not going to ask.
	Yes, I am.
	You're not allowed to do that, Callum.
	So this is the American University over here just writing about, you know, white privilege and how it's so good to be white in America because, oh my God, don't you have so many privileges?
	Unless you get a job in a Fortune 500 company, in which case you're basically not.
	Yeah, but this is the point.
	It's like, here's actually the modern West, which is this.
	Now, this article is talking about the fact that corporate America decided to promise to hire a lot of people of color.
	Yeah.
	I still can't get over how they actually use that word.
	It's the graphics in this article that made me laugh.
	We talked about this the other day.
	It's insane.
	It's wonderful graphically.
	So for people listening, there's a series of stick men that are all colored in white at the start here.
	And then they go on to show us, or at least I don't think... Oh, yeah, no, keep going.
	There we go.
	And then segregate.
	So there we are.
	So 6% of all of the jobs in the S&P 100s that are significant jobs, so senior roles, management, professionals, went to whites in 2021 to 2022, the year after George Floyd, in which all those companies... 6% of the jobs went to whites despite America being at least, I don't know whatever it is, 70% white?
	Something like that.
	Something like that, yeah.
	I've got Brokeronomics coming out next week with Scott Adams, who started his career in the corporate world, and on both occasions he rose as high as he could and then got called into his boss's office and said, you're a white man, you're not going any higher up this organisation.
	I have personal friends who have had exactly this experience in the UK, multiple times, from multiple different industries as well.
	It is extremely frustrating, to say the least.
	I know we try and make light of the news, and we do, but It is actually quite bad that we live in a society... Yeah, we get beaten over the head every bloody day.
	We don't be racist, don't be racist, don't be racist.
	Oh, except it's okay to be racist against white people.
	That's perfectly fine.
	We can do that.
	So, I mean, here we have a further breakdown as they make it here.
	And the disproportionality, of course, blacks make up 13% of the American population.
	Uh, 23% of the senior roles went to them in 2021.
	Now this at least could make, uh, it's still again, obvious case of systemic discrimination.
	But what's interesting is you can make the argument because they do at the start of this, that the reason for all of this in that period was of course, holy George Floyd.
	And therefore we must, I don't know, hire black people, not because they have the right qualifications.
	In fact, I literally don't care.
	I just want a black woman.
	As you know, Joe Biden did.
	So you know what this is going to give?
	And I'm, and I'm not being racist.
	It is going to give us a crisis of competency because, and I'm not making a race-based point.
	It is simply the moment you start hiring on any other criteria and competence, you will, by definition, have a competency crisis.
	It's only a, it's only a question of how bad this competency crisis gets.
	So these fortune 500 companies or whatever it is.
	I would say it's a good time to be an up-and-coming disruptor in these markets.
	For sure.
	Jordan Peterson has made this point many a time about sex-based discrimination.
	So hiring women just because you want women, well then you're going to have a crisis of competence in the same way as he points out.
	Well, there's only a pool of competent people and if you then decide to exclude competent people because they're white or men, Well then you end up with... Selecting on any other criteria than competence.
	Yeah.
	And this article just goes on to explain it and you can see like the percentages here for the executives, managers, professionals and uh... This is so racist.
	What's weird about this like I mean this is sort of the norm for the West at this point which is if you are white you are going to lose out on professional manager or executive jobs because of your skin tone.
	The lower points Are interesting though.
	Less senior roles.
	Sales, laborers, service workers, and others.
	The number of jobs in the S&P 100 companies, it was minus 18.8 thousand white people.
	So there, they were actually shown out the door?
	At the end of the year, 18,000 white people were no longer working there, as an accurate number, and instead were replaced with other people.
	And at every other level, they were disproportionately discriminated against.
	And all four other categories, other than white, all of them saw more increase in the number of white guys who were booted?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	So that's American life for you, being white.
	And not to mention just the general hell world that is America at this point.
	I mean, Amy Callaghan pointed this out and it's just so true.
	People listening, it's the intersectional pride flag with McDonald's logos.
	And as I always point out, pride flags are basically advertising how people come.
	So it's like, would you like a burger?
	And here's some come advertising.
	Hmm, come burger.
	Cheers.
	Yeah, I'm not shopping here again.
	Cheers.
	Anyway, so back to the maps.
	Anyway, What do I keep saying anyway?
	I need to stop doing that.
	Here's a map.
	Yep.
	Is it an advantage to be white in America?
	I'm going to go no.
	No.
	I mean by that they are alone.
	Definitely not.
	The stories we've covered endlessly, no.
	No.
	Greenland?
	I don't know.
	There's an advantage in any of these countries.
	Definitely not Germany.
	They discriminate against whites, as far as I'm aware.
	Probably Sweden, Norway, maybe Denmark's normal now.
	I can't tell.
	And again, correct our ignorance about the world, as we do.
	But I'm going to say...
	I can't answer this one.
	Because you go to Eastern Europe, and I'm... Oh, yeah.
	Again, correct my ignorance, but I'm pretty sure I can do this.
	Like, neutral for basically all of, uh... I don't know, I hate me calling these countries Eastern Europe, but whatever.
	Yeah, maybe some of those countries are green.
	But I don't think it's a positive, because it's just the norm.
	Yeah, green suggests that it's like, yeah, pages instead of just neutral.
	I think neutral is right.
	I don't think you can highlight a single country as green, though.
	I'm trying to name it.
	Where?
	I'm going to say Austria is yellow, but I don't know.
	Italians, I mean, they're not white, but still, I mean, you're fine to be there and be white.
	I'm going to go Portugal.
	I mean, again, I'm kind of showing my ignorance at some point where I'm just like, I don't know, yellow.
	There must be a country somewhere where...
	They're just quickly colouring Crimea before people see me.
	And for what it's worth, I don't even necessarily want it to be an advantage to be white.
	I just want neutral.
	Yeah, but I'd like the bit that I live in to be neutral, at least.
	Now if we're talking about, like, okay, so that's race.
	If we're talking about ethnicity, like in England, it should be, you know, to a certain extent, an advantage to be English.
	I don't think that's that unreasonable.
	It should, at a minimum, be an advantage to be subsumed in the culture and having grown up in the culture.
	Um, but, but no, it should also be, yeah, it, but it should, like I say, it should be at least neutral racially.
	So there's also a weird aspect.
	I mean, as we start to get away from Europe, I mean, I don't really know what to do with these ones, so I'm just going to leave them for now.
	But as we start to get away from Europe, I mean, one of the weird things I've had personally when traveling in the, you know, Afghanistan, for example, is the, do you think you've got this privilege in the sense of
	Um you'll the way people portray it is that like if you're a white man in a poor brown country like you will have some kind of privilege people treat you better because they think you've got money now that's true but at the same time it's a mixed bag they might kidnap you because you're white therefore you're worth money yeah so i i kind of think the um special treatment i got in afghanistan to being looked as a foreigner was not as good as the threat of kidnap so i'm going to go with um No.
	For the various nations, which that's a possibility.
	So there we are.
	That's them done.
	I think Libya, definitely.
	So all of the Middle East.
	I mean, there's lots of white guys who go out there and earn well.
	But there's no real privilege.
	You're better off being Arab in the Middle East.
	Yeah.
	But the moment you get into like a traffic accident or something like that, it's all downstream for you.
	It's the other guy's fault.
	And then about Africa, I mean, I don't really know what to say.
	I hear South Africa's pretty bad.
	Yeah, I mean, it's definitely not an advantage, like, anywhere here.
	I'll see if I can make the size bigger.
	Do you want to make the argument there's an advantage anywhere on the continent?
	I heard good things about Malawi sometimes.
	So maybe Malawi is the little green dot.
	So that's a possible.
	That's literally just a guy I met once.
	If you're watching, very cool guy.
	He just told me some stories about, because of course they have Zimbabwe next to them, who did the exact opposite of, you know, the white man's the devil, when they had their revolution.
	Oh, they should come in.
	Well, Malawi just got a guy in charge who was educated in London.
	He's a black guy who became the dictator.
	And then immediately he built a Eaton of Africa, is what he called it, and then made a promise to the black parents and black students who were going to attend the Eaton of Africa, that none of the teachers would be black.
	Which was pretty weird!
	I'm curious as to whether the lights stay on in that country.
	I don't know.
	I don't know enough about Malawi, but I just found it.
	I remember him telling me this story, and I was just like, okay, so maybe there's an advantage to being white there, because you're probably going to get better treatment by the state, because they're just institutionally racist, at least at that point back in the day.
	Don't know about now.
	No idea.
	That's just a story I've been told.
	As for any of this, I don't really see any positive.
	I mean, more likely to just get in trouble.
	I mean, Miles had problems, so there's that.
	Have you spoken to him?
	I can't talk about it.
	No, I don't think you can either.
	I'm trying to think, where can we just colour in green?
	Because, I mean, China?
	What do we think about China?
	No.
	No?
	It's negative?
	It's a hand supremacy.
	Okay.
	Alright.
	John, got anything to say?
	He was giving me advice earlier about, there is some privileges.
	Yeah.
	So he's telling me, if you go to Thailand and whatnot and you've got money, I mean there are... Well, yeah, all the time you've got money, Not if you get into, like I say, I know people who, you know, lived and worked out there, and the moment you get into a traffic accident or there's any sort of dispute or anything like that, you go straight to the bottom of the pile again.
	Just because you're not local?
	John's just whispering to us, being like, no, just bribe them.
	John, John, they can't hear you!
	So our producer is shouting in the ear, no, it's all right, you just bribe them.
	Yes, but...
	You've got to get used to it.
	I know it's the culture, John.
	I know.
	I know.
	But anyway, my point being, I mean, this was just a bit of fun and also I just wanted to test out if Microsoft Paint worked.
	I don't know what I'm going to do with this in future, but we'll figure it out, I suppose.
	There we go.
	Anyway, let's get off screen.
	My point being...
	Are you sure you don't want to save it?
	My point being, which is, you see that come up every couple of years or every year, as you rightly say.
	This is the best country in the world to be black or brown or whatever else.
	No one has ever actually sat down and thought about that question publicly of, well, where's the best country to be white?
	And I really don't think...
	There is one in Europe.
	I'm hard-pressed to know anywhere in the world where it is.
	Maybe somebody in the comments will figure it out.
	But it's certainly not a currency you can use in the West.
	It's not obvious to me.
	Yeah, and we've done that Zoom out before for looking at it from a black perspective, but I've never done one from a white perspective and actually thought for a minute, and I can't think of one.
	So let us know in the comments and let us know what we got wrong.
	Ah, I heard that one well.
	Sorry it went on for so long.
	No, that's fine.
	Alright, so, gentlemen.
	Do you support the current thing?
	Of course!
	I support the current government and all the things that it's doing and don't put me on a list.
	Good.
	Doesn't that include the SS now?
	Well, if you're in Canada, yes, apparently so.
	Well, I'm very glad to hear.
	I'm glad to hear that you support the current thing.
	I'm glad to hear you support the current thing because I didn't want to think you guys were bigots or evil.
	No, no.
	The current thing does change it.
	Callum, the SS is not that funny!
	Stop laughing!
	There should be like an SS logo added to the background of this.
	just to keep it up to date.
	And the board going, it's a big...
	Sorry, I'll try not to derail things.
	We are definitely getting on a list.
	Don't worry, I'm an NPC!
	Alright, I'll shut up.
	I'm just going to shut up.
	I do apologise to our guest, Charlie, who's come in and... No, no, it's fine.
	No, well, it's a point well made because, you know, if the news is to be believed, the SS is now part of the current thing.
	So, you know, well done, Canada.
	Good job, boys.
	Stop mentioning the SS!
	Don't mention the war.
	I mentioned it once.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the segment was going on right until Charlie mentioned the SS.
	So anyway...
	Can we cut his mic and we just carry on?
	Do go ahead, Charlie.
	Dan, the current thing.
	Yes.
	So, viewers will be aware of this meme because it's quite sort of ubiquitous and it conveys a kind of truth that is, I think, quite important to talk about and quite interesting.
	Jesus Christ.
	Look at this.
	Look at the state of this.
	Right, back on track.
	So, the current thing.
	Interesting meme, funny meme, and something worth talking about because there's a kind of life cycle to the current thing that I think is worth kind of examining because I think it can tell us something about, you know, the regime and the way they operate and the way that they... the way that they communicate their narratives.
	So, I thought it would be interesting to look back at a few ex-current things and do a bit of a where are they now sort of thing.
	I'm looking mainly at kind of high level current things.
	So Dan, you mentioned before we started that there were one or two sort of more minor current things that would be worth mentioning.
	Well, I picked up a couple of weeks ago on that spy balloon that travelled across America.
	There was big news at the time, then it turned out it wasn't a spy balloon after all, it was just off-the-shelf components.
	So that was one example.
	But again, that was a prime example of, you know, that just flooded the airwaves, that story, at the time.
	And then it went, disappeared.
	And nobody talks about it now.
	Why would you?
	It was gone.
	Callum, anything to add?
	Um, anyway, before we begin, um, you should go and watch.
	Oh, my stream deck is not working.
	I think we clicked on the wrong thing.
	That'll be why.
	Might be my fault.
	I'll let John fix it.
	Cause otherwise I'll bugger it up.
	There we go.
	Um, the economics of organized crime, Josh's contemplations.
	Uh, no particular reason that we're talking about that I'm mentioning organized crime.
	Um, but yeah, you should go watch that.
	That one's a good one.
	I'm on it.
	There we go.
	So to begin, I would like you to cast your mind back into the mists of history to the year 2016.
	And Brexit.
	The grand, current thing of that time.
	And you know, in the UK, mainstream.
	Am I using this?
	Is this the mouse that I'm using?
	I think it will work now.
	Okay, lovely.
	So, here we are.
	BBC News, they have this whole page dedicated to the EU referendum.
	And you can see, I mean, again, like the spy balloon, this completely flooded the airwaves and there was nothing, literally no other discussion happening in politics at the time.
	And especially, you know, the other thing with the current thing is that it's not just restricted to those of us who are interested in politics, it bleeds out into the culture at large.
	You know, you couldn't move for people talking about Brexit, who ordinarily would have no interest in politics.
	Yeah, they turn up the volume to a point where the normies start noticing, and the problem is if you pay attention to politics, that means you basically, it's like that meme of the girl with a trumpet in her face.
	Yeah.
	But the interesting thing about this kind of current thing where it is completely ubiquitous and you can't escape it, is I think that that's probably quite an ahistorical phenomenon.
	Just because of the, for one thing because of the technology that we have access to today, the way that news News can be, you know, just disseminated and inescapable.
	Because if you imagine a system that didn't have this and a system where politics was kind of confined just to, you know, for example, if a country has an absolute monarchy, for example, politics is kind of confined to the palace, if you want.
	Whereas in the kind of democratic system that we have, politics is everywhere because everyone is politicized.
	I think an absolute monarchy would be an upgrade of where we currently are.
	I agree.
	But so I think that it is kind of, I don't know if it's entirely healthy that we have this kind of state of affairs where everyone is politicized and everyone has to have an opinion on the current thing.
	Because, I don't know, I think that makes people kind of weird.
	And, you know, I don't think everyone is built to be just literally constantly flooded with political information and demanded that they have a view on it.
	Well, that too, yeah.
	But anyway, Brexit was the current thing of the kind of 2016 to 2019 era, I would say, in British politics.
	You couldn't move for Brexit.
	And obviously the interesting thing about it was it was a referendum where the will of the people was expressed.
	But the regime were very much opposed to Brexit.
	I mean, I know I don't even need to say it.
	I remember, yes.
	But you remember the kind of the fear-mongering in the media around Brexit, you know, riots, food shortages, rolling blackouts and all the rest of it, you know.
	Oh, economic collapse, snakes coming out, taps, that sort of thing.
	All that.
	But where is Brexit now?
	You know, it's still mentioned in sort of political discourse from time to time.
	For example, this article came out yesterday, Robert Jenrick talking about immigration policies after Brexit.
	But it is kind of a It feels like it's in the past.
	Well, the elite figured out that they couldn't win overtly, but they would just end up co-opting everything that the EU does and keep us in by stealth.
	Well, that's the thing.
	And I was going to get onto this.
	I think part of the reason that Brexit is no longer the kind of mainstream current thing issue that it was, is because it has essentially been contained.
	Because the style of politics, in my opinion, what was being voted against in the EU referendum was the style of politics that the EU represented.
	You alright there, Calum?
	I had a thought.
	That's dangerous.
	But it was the sign of politics.
	It was the kind of managerial, bureaucratic, top-down system, imposition of arbitrary bureaucracy and all the rest of it.
	And the kind of universalism, the anti-culturalism that the EU represents.
	That was what people were voting against.
	And sure, we nominally left the EU, but the elite sort of class in this country, as you say, just adopted those values, or well, I say adopted, had those values already, so no meaningful change actually occurred.
	Because if you look at someone like Rishi Sunak, he wouldn't be out of place, you know, working in some EU bureaucracy, right?
	And he will be in 18 months as well.
	No doubt.
	But, with that being said, you know, we've even had Tony Blair admitting that Brexit is, like, it's a dead issue.
	It's in the rearview mirror.
	Stop thinking about it.
	Stop talking about it.
	It's done.
	Yeah, but Blair is clever.
	Well, he is.
	No, but that's why I think he's highlighting to his friends, guys, right, drop it.
	Okay, it's done.
	It's a dead issue.
	It's not the current thing anymore.
	We need to move on.
	Yeah, but I think what he means by that is, stop talking about it, and then we will just do it by proxy by adopting everything that they want us to do.
	Well, exactly.
	Yes.
	But anyway, as I say, the style of politics hasn't actually changed, so it was contained successfully.
	Anyway, the next current thing that I thought we would take a look at is, oh, I'm sorry, no, I've missed a part.
	You have people like Steve Bray, um, who was the, you know, the stop Brexit guy who was standing outside of Parliament.
	Was he the tit who stood outside Parliament waving a flag in a silly hat?
	Yeah, so he actually was in the news just yesterday, uh, because he, uh, gatecrashed a Tory party conference event and started having a, having a screech.
	So we'll, uh, watch this.
	Yeah.
	This is assault!
	Where is your Brexit benefits?
	Where is your Brexit benefits?
	Bye bye!
	What a poor unfortunate man.
	What a poor unfortunate man.
	There is so much s*** in all my life.
	Brexit is a disaster.
	We're all worse off.
	I'm overwhelmed with a sense of pity for this living creature.
	This is a job.
	He gets paid for this.
	You look at his mental state.
	Yeah.
	If that was your dad, you'd be worried.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's the thing.
	There was a time where...
	Thank you.
	There we go.
	You know, Steve Bray was getting interviewed by The Guardian and he was kind of this mainstream figure.
	I mean, I knew a lot of people who liked him and who sort of viewed him as being this kind of anti-establishment, fight the power type figure.
	Yet now, I mean, that video has the air of like a kook, crazy, you know, screeching, you know, in some way he's not supposed to be and just embarrassing himself.
	I think most people who watch that video will agree with that take.
	Yeah, to be fair, pretty much all of Westminster politics comes across that way to me.
	Well, that's fair.
	Yeah.
	But I think it's interesting how the issue has been dropped, and so those people who are still banging on about it, rather than having this air of legitimacy... Like the last Japanese soldier in the jungle, kind of.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They just come across as unfortunate quacks, which is how this guy comes across.
	Um, but anyway, on to the next one.
	Now, I don't need to remind viewers of the fact that COVID-19 pandemic was the current thing.
	Right, I'm not letting this one go.
	So I'm, I'm the, I'm the Japanese man in the jungle when it comes to lockdowns.
	I am never going to let this drop.
	I'm going to keep bloody bringing this.
	It's, it's why I'm here because it irritated me so much, but mildly.
	Absolutely.
	And, um, you know, even more so than Brexit, this was a, this was a current thing that you couldn't escape, you know, literally full spectrum.
	You would, you would be arrested.
	Yeah.
	Flooded airwaves.
	Yes.
	And the thing you have to ask is, in the absence of the coverage and in the absence of the measures, would you have known COVID was a thing?
	No.
	Which is a point I made from the start to everybody I knew, and they looked at me like I was mad.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think that Covid is one of the prime examples.
	I think, as in your case, it was the time when a lot of people actually woke up to the reality of the current thing being something that exists, where there is an issue that's picked up by the elites and then broadcasted on literally full spectrum, flood the airwaves so that you can't escape it, and you're thinking about Well, for me it was the not being able to escape it bit.
	I mean, I sort of made my peace with the fact that politicians talked absolute wank all the time, but they were kind of free to do that over there and I didn't have to worry about it.
	But when it imposes on me, well, that Yes, that's not on.
	That's kind of what I was getting at with the fact that this is a kind of a historical period that we're living through.
	That's pretty unusual where there are messages and stories and narratives that wherever you live in the country, wherever you are, whoever you're friends with, you will have some contact with it.
	And I think that is kind of fascinating that we live in a time where that's possible.
	But I mean, as you said, if you had dissented against Anything to do with COVID.
	Lockdowns, masks or the medical treatment that shall not be named.
	I mean you could literally have been fined or arrested and outside of that ostracized from your social circles by those who were completely bought into the narrative.
	And that was something that I think a lot of us experienced.
	I think it was a real wake-up call for a lot of people.
	A couple of times in shops I got verbally abused for not wearing a mask.
	One chap after he did that, I then followed him around making bad noises at him because he was wearing his and that was a bit feisty.
	Yet now you can quite fairly openly criticise these things and a lot of people will agree with you because the narrative has kind of shifted.
	And also because, as this says, there was a government report that suggests no good evidence that lockdown worked.
	None at the time, yeah.
	You wouldn't have dreamed of reading something like this, publishing something like this and then reading it during COVID.
	This would have been labelled a conspiracy theory and evil.
	I don't care what anyone says, Adolf Hitler was a bad man!
	Wow, truly a dissident.
	A year from now I'm a journalist.
	You've jumped back a couple of more narratives, haven't you?
	But we've, I mean, even fairly recently we've had Rishi Sunak distancing himself from lockdowns and the other measures, which suggests that there is this shift taking place among the elite about the kind of acceptable position to hold on COVID, which is now the position that a lot of us held at the time.
	And it's just kind of interesting how that's happened and how all of this will be brushed under the rug and, you know, memory hold.
	Reality will impose on all of this madness eventually.
	It's just how much societal damage it does in the meantime.
	Even things that we're not allowed to talk about, it's going to have to be confronted sooner or later.
	Yeah.
	And interestingly enough, on that note, there is a COVID inquiry happening.
	It was restarted today.
	Yeah, well, looking into the effects of the lockdowns and all the rest of it.
	And to me, this very much has the vibe of the Mafia has investigated itself and found itself completely innocent.
	Because if you look at the kinds of characters who were involved in this inquiry, they are people that, for one thing, likely supported the measures at the time, and for another, have a vested interest in not rocking the boat, let's say.
	Yeah.
	Who owe all their advantages, their positions, their power, their network to a system which supported this in the first place.
	Yes.
	And that's the funny thing about whenever this kind of thing comes up, this is called an independent inquiry.
	But it's literally, it's independent in name only, because again, the types of people involved in it These people talk to each other.
	You know, these people are in WhatsApp groups together, right?
	With the politicians and with the people who, you know, supported these measures.
	And so I think to imagine that this is going to be a totally impartial and unbiased inquiry that's going to, you know, locate, discover the facts and, you know, provide justice.
	I just think that this, what this is, is just the, it's the closing of a narrative arc that the people, that will placate a lot of people, unfortunately, because people won't recognize it for what it is.
	It's the plastic cap on the containment.
	Yes, exactly.
	Um, now to kind of illustrate the point that it is possible, you know, it's no longer sort of completely, uh, unthinkable to criticize the COVID, um, response.
	You've got Elon Musk here posting this, uh, spicy meme.
	Um, now Elon Musk is obviously, he's always been a bit of a bit of a memer and a bit of a, you know, edgy figure.
	So he was, he was against vaccine mandates at the time, I remember, but he was, He was very subtle in the way he communicated it.
	I mean, he would communicate it in, like, you know, line six of an interview or something like that.
	Like, in the eyes of the regime, this meme is still a very spicy thing to post.
	If he'd posted this two years ago, it would be like, right, Elon Musk needs to be arrested and fined and censored and all the rest of it.
	And also a large number of people would have supported those measures.
	Yeah, to be fair, he was pretty good at stopping the lockdowns in California because he basically said at one point, I'm opening my factory tomorrow and I know this is illegal and if you want to arrest anyone, arrest me, I'll be on the shop floor.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	He basically called their bluff and they didn't do it in the end.
	Yeah, it was very impressive.
	But anyway, on COVID, I think COVID is quite an interesting one because it has more or less gone away in the mainstream dialogue.
	But you did have this article come out of the BBC literally yesterday, which I mean, it's almost like a mask off self-report.
	It will continue to surprise us, which I think I read as basically being, we're going to keep this narrative on the back burner.
	We're going to keep this current thing in our back pocket to kind of deploy it if and when we need it.
	You understand what I'm saying?
	I think it's when your neighbor and your son and your best friend all drop dead of a heart attack or myocarditis.
	Just bear in the back of your mind that it was probably COVID that did it, not anything else that might have happened.
	Yeah.
	But that's the interesting thing about COVID is I'm not convinced it has entirely gone away as a current thing.
	I think it could be brought back.
	They can't afford to let it go because they need to explain the significantly higher than average excess deaths.
	Yes.
	I think the, not to sound too cynical about this, but they could do it and I think it could work, because I think that the first round showed us that there are a fairly significant portion of people who will just be taken in by current media.
	Yeah, most people are complete, bloody, non-self-aware, brain-lit, non-sentience, yeah.
	And the thing about that is, because I've thought this for a long time, I thought it's not actually a bad thing to have... I don't want everyone in society to be politicized.
	I don't want everyone to have an opinion on the current thing.
	Because most people don't have the time for that.
	They have other problems to be dealing with.
	Oh, I've come to accept that the human species is a herd-like species.
	Um, but that makes me then think, okay, well, how is a democracy going to work given the realities of what the human species actually is?
	I think about the, um, in 1984, actually, where there's the, I don't remember the exact percentages, but it's something like there's 80% of the public who are not part of the party.
	And then there's like 15% who are like the outer party.
	And then the 5% who are the inner party.
	I think that breakdown is more or less accurate for the number of people who are actually engaged in politics.
	And I think that 80%, when you force that 80% to become politicized and to have an opinion on every single current thing, it does make them kind of weird.
	And it's not healthy.
	Well, that was how the 1984 society worked, is they just left proles to it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But in our society, the proles can't be left to it.
	They have to be current things shoved down their throat at all times.
	And then argue about it with their friends and family and potentially destroy relationships with people that they love.
	Which is the saddest part about the kind of current thingism is that it does tear relationships apart in a really unnecessary way just because someone might buy into this line they've been fed by people who don't have their best interests at heart.
	We're in a cultural revolution.
	Yes.
	So, as I say, I think COVID is going to be kept on the back burner as a potential geo to be redeployed as a current thing at some point.
	But, you know, I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
	The next one.
	Another 2020 bit of fun for us.
	Now, BLM was similar to COVID in that you literally could not escape it.
	It was everywhere, at all times, being broadcast on all airwaves.
	And everyone had to have an opinion on it.
	Everyone.
	And I think that COVID and BLM, they were a lot of people's first experience of actually understanding what it is to be a dissident, and actually understanding what it's like to dissent from a kind of mainstream narrative, and the kind of response that will give you, not just by sense of power, but also from people in the personal life.
	It wasn't dissent from a mainstream narrative, it was the mainstream narrative, it was just dressed up as an anti-establishment narrative.
	Yes, well, absolutely.
	I mean, anyone who still believes that BLM were some sort of organic grassroots revolutionary movement hasn't been paying attention.
	Yeah, because they've disappeared.
	The funding taps have been turned off and the energy pipeline has been shut down.
	Well, yeah, like Brexit, like COVID, they were dropped.
	They were picked up by the elite and used and then dropped again.
	And I think that that's been illustrated recently.
	But we'll get on to that.
	Because just to illustrate the point, literally, you could not escape BLM.
	It was in football.
	It was in politics.
	I mean, look at this.
	Look at the status.
	By the way, I don't watch football.
	Are footballers still doing that kneeling thing?
	I couldn't tell you because I don't watch football as well, but I remember they did do it for a long time, because as I said in the first segment, literally after the USA had stopped doing it in their soccer games, the UK, the English team, were still doing it, which was hilarious, you know.
	I noticed we love George Floyd more than they do.
	We must, yeah, which means we're more virtuous, you know.
	But I mean, an enormous number of people were taken in, as with the COVID narrative, by the BLM narrative.
	And I think that a lot of that, in both cases actually, I think a lot of it was fear because they didn't want to be branded a racist or a conspiracy theorist, respectively.
	Because those are powerful labels in our societies.
	People don't want to be tarred with those brushes because it's like the worst thing you can be, those two things.
	I mean, I experienced it in my personal life with people who, you know, it wasn't even really sort of hardcore opposition.
	It was like, it's kind of weird that, like, American cities being allowed to burn and nothing's being done about it in the midst of a pandemic that we're being told is deadly.
	Does that not strike you as a little bit strange?
	And it's interesting when you get into which bits of the city were burning as well.
	Yeah, but again, my sense was always it was never just happening, it was being allowed to happen.
	Oh yeah, it was boosted by the regime signal booster, definitely.
	Yet, now, as with COVID and as with Brexit, we see this kind of turnaround in the mainstream narrative.
	Now, this is the Telegraph, a nominally conservative paper, although we obviously recognise it as being just another regime mouthpiece.
	Very, very nominally, yes.
	So this guy, Michael Deacon, it's time to admit it, Black Lives Matter, Syria made fools of us all.
	Now, speak for yourself, Michael, for one thing.
	I think this shows you the kind of shift that has taken place in BLM as a current thing It's being retroactively viewed as, oh, not so sure about that anymore.
	It was all a bit silly.
	And actually, I'm distancing myself from it.
	It wasn't me.
	I wasn't part of it.
	There's a version of this article written about the Ukraine war.
	Yes.
	Probably being typed up at the moment.
	Yes.
	Well, that's the thing.
	And I mean, that's a great point because you could literally replace Black Lives Matter with any current thing.
	And it would still be pretty accurate.
	Covid hysteria made fools of us all.
	Brexit hysteria made fools of us all.
	Chinese spy balloon hysteria made fools of us all.
	Ukraine war and a certain thing that went in people's arms.
	Yes.
	Um, but I think that phrase, it made fools of us all.
	That's kind of, it's suggesting like, oh, we were all taken in by this.
	And, uh, you know, maybe everyone, you know, Michael.
	Yeah.
	And as such, we're all, you know, it was, it wasn't our fault, but not the people who watch this.
	So yeah, actually, no, there were, there was a huge contingent of people who were not taken in by these narratives and who did, you know, see them for what they were, which was elite driven.
	Um, It's sort of like a bunch of Soviets at the end of One Great Purge where they killed another million innocent people.
	They're like, I can't believe we all fell for this.
	Except the guys you killed.
	But they didn't fall for it.
	And then you even have outlets like USA Today having the audacity to ask, has the BLM moment passed?
	You know, again, these are people that are not, like, these do represent arms of the regime.
	These are not, like, independent, you know, independent broadcasters or independent outlets.
	These people talk to each other.
	And our organisation like USA Today saying, has the BLM moment passed?
	That is quite significant.
	You know, because if you'd said that, if you'd in any way criticised BLM two years ago, again, you were racist, you were Nazi, fascist and all the rest of it.
	As soon as Trump wins, I mean, it will all get turned back on again.
	Well, indeed.
	And that's the interesting thing about BLM is it has been the current thing multiple times, you know, over the years.
	Oh, every time the Democrats need a distraction or a poll rating boost, it will, you know, because a certain community will do things in the presence of police.
	And sometimes that will end badly.
	So yeah, it's just waiting to get turned back on again.
	And as I say, like COVID, it's kind of being kept on the back burner to be reactivated, picked back up by the elite to be used for whatever purpose.
	But me and Josh actually talked about the end of BLM at the weekend with this, in fact, as you said in your segment, this BLM grifter who defrauded about 30 grand In donations.
	Only 30 grand?
	I know, yeah.
	But those are rookie numbers.
	Yeah, but again, you know, people like this at the time when BLM was the current thing, a lot of people were given basically carte blanche to do what they want and not face any repercussions.
	So it's interesting that people like this are now actually, nominally, being punished.
	Having news stories written about them, about their, you know, evil deeds, right?
	But anyway, we'll move on to the next... Oh, sorry.
	Sorry, that's just the story about this lady.
	And finally, the other current thing that has come up a couple of times already is Ukraine, obviously.
	And now, for my money, Ukraine still is the current thing.
	It's still very much in the mainstream and it's still very much the issue that you cannot voice any dissent on.
	Otherwise you're a Putin simp, you're a Nazi.
	You're starting to turn down the volume and giving out the signals to the opinion formers that you may want to step aside because this one is about to get treatment.
	This is kind of annoying though because obviously the previous examples are all correct and one of the aspects of being a current thing is endorsed by the state and the protection of criticism and all that.
	Yeah.
	But then none of them made any sense either.
	Like at least with the Ukrainian situation, like there is a coherent and understandable argument from the Ukrainian side.
	Yes.
	And the thing I've had a problem with this debate with is people not understanding that Russians have their own version that is also coherent and the reason they believe it.
	But even you saying that is enough to drive some people nuts.
	Yeah, but normies just haven't heard that version.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I'm not trying to make that point.
	But it's annoying that with the Ukrainian thing becoming the current thing, there is obviously a very easy and understandable argument for them and a lot of support from people that makes a lot of sense.
	And the thing that doesn't make a lot of sense is the folks that brought on to COVID, Black Lives Matter.
	Not because they cared about the evidence, and in this case also don't care about the evidence, still don't know where the country is, they don't actually know where Ukraine is, they don't really know anything about any part of Europe, but they know they support it because.
	Yes, and that's exactly it, they just support it because, because they've been told that it's virtuous to do so by the BBC, for example.
	And you can find these human beings, like these human beings on Twitter have all those flags and everything, and you know damn well you have nothing in common with this person.
	Yeah, and that, I mean, that is where That is the exact person that we're talking about right now.
	Because these people do exist.
	As you say, you can find them on Twitter and you can speak to them in real life.
	I remember when I was at university, actually, it was, I mean, you couldn't move for these NPC type characters who literally just supported the current thing and yet thought they were some kind of dissident for doing so.
	And that's the most interesting thing, is when the current thing is framed as being kind of counterculture and edgy.
	As things like BLM were, for example.
	come and join some counterculture yeah yeah i mean i i literally i literally said to people oh no calen you've taken yourself off again i can't believe i love how that they're just so fell down so fast was like how about we have the ss come and speak at the canadian parliament what you want mate and we're back on the ss yeah and we're It's like this in the office every day.
	Oh god.
	But I had conversations with people where I said like... Test lives matter.
	For god's sake.
	Says the Biden government.
	Trudeau 2023.
	Well you know he does like cosplaying.
	So they say, yeah yeah.
	Lots of pictures of that.
	But you know, I had conversations with people where I said, does it not strike you as strange that your sort of so-called rebellious counterculture views are endorsed by every government, every NGO, the civil service, the universities, and you know, all of the other sort of major, the mainstream media, and the other major centres of power?
	Like does that, does that not suggest to you that maybe you're not the subversive rebel you thought you were?
	At that point did you hear the Windows crash music and a blue screen come out of their eyes?
	Yeah, more or less.
	I don't know, I think that it's actually a very clever thing for the regime, the elite, to present their guys as being the revolutionaries, you know, as being the kind of rebels, the counterculture.
	It's just a powerful thing because I think young people in particular are drawn to that kind of thing.
	And so they will have young people in their droves supporting their movements.
	Very good.
	But anyway, sorry, I thought you were going to say something.
	No, no.
	As long as it's not about the SS.
	But anyway, back to the Ukraine war, I just wanted to highlight that that is the current, current thing.
	And I think it's interesting, because as you say, I think there is a kind of shift coming on that, because I actually forgot to put the link in, but Rishi Sunak said recently that he's not going to be sending British troops there, which is not that controversial a claim to make, but it's interesting that he's actually coming out actively saying that.
	After you floated the idea through a minister, yeah.
	Yes, yes.
	Do you see what the Polish leader said?
	Oh no, what did he say?
	We won't let Ukraine drag us down and drown with them.
	That's the Poles saying that.
	But I think Ukraine, as with BLM and all the rest of it, it will be dropped.
	It's inevitable.
	It's in the process of being dropped.
	They are actively sending the signals to the opinion formers now to exit stage left.
	Yes, and I think that's basically inevitable, because as the other examples of the current thing have demonstrated, that's kind of the life cycle of a current thing.
	It's always how it works.
	And so to conclude, I did have a bit about Russell Brandon here, but we're getting on, you know, with all of the front pages of the newspaper all showing him, you know, his face.
	Like, again, just another example of all the airways being flooded with this one story, everyone has to know about it, and everyone has to have an opinion on it, and then gone again.
	But I think the point that we should take from this, from examining the kind of life cycle of the current thing, is that for one thing, what we call the Overton Window is an entirely elite-driven thing.
	It's not like the Overton window is shifted by people power.
	It's entirely decided and allowed by the elite, I think.
	People get their opinions assigned to them.
	Yeah.
	And I think that this is a really good demonstration of that kind of the juvenile high-low-middle mechanism, where the high picks up a low sort of organization or cause or whatever it is.
	Ukraine and BLM being very good examples of that, being examples of the low, The high picks them up and uses them, gives them legitimacy, gives them coverage, gives them money.
	And then eventually, when they have exhausted their usefulness, just drops them again.
	And I think we're seeing that happen.
	We saw that happen with BLM.
	We're seeing it happen with Ukraine.
	And so I think that the support for the current thing is a really good heuristic for whether or not you are a pro-regime or anti-regime, which is the only meaningful distinction in politics today, as I think we've talked about before.
	But if it needs to be said, if all but a sense of power are saying the exact same thing, you should probably be a little bit sceptical.
	Absolutely right.
	Shall we talk about ladies in gaming?
	Many such cases are here.
	Yes, because if you follow any sort of sport, swimming or whatever it is, you may have noticed that there are more and more ladies who are excelling and smashing all records, despite the earlier part of that individual's career perhaps being somewhat lacklustre.
	They don't know what they're feeding these ladies.
	Well, it's having some sort of effect, whatever it is.
	So we're going to talk about Riot Games, who do League of Legends, which is an online clicky computer game type thing, where they have a professional league in it.
	And apparently they put out a... Well, they'd noticed that their professional... We all become 90-year-old men!
	They noticed that their professional league was dominated by chaps.
	So what they did is they said, okay, we're going to have a game-changers event.
	And what that is going to do is we are going to find the best female talent and we are going to bring them in.
	However, it was noticed that five out of the six of these ladies were...
	Well, I'll let you figure it out when we get to that bit.
	But before I do get to that bit, I just want to talk about... I'm going to refer you to the fact that we do have free speech in this country.
	Well, yes, I found... I had to go to a legal website, and I've got a section to read to you here.
	The right to free speech is protected under common law in the UK.
	It is also guaranteed under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, blah blah blah.
	None of this predicts you, right?
	My piece of paper.
	Well, yes.
	The right to hold opinions and receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority.
	This also means that the public and the press are able to share what they think, feel and believe without censorship.
	We're saved, lads.
	Three speeches back, baby.
	That is the legal view.
	I'm just going to mention... Now read section two.
	Yes, but... I'm just going to mention that everything I've just read is complete bollocks, and if we do not tread very, very carefully in this particular segment, we're going to get our channel yeeted.
	So we're going to have to be extremely careful about when... We'll talk about ladies.
	We'll talk about ladies, yes.
	Ladies and women.
	Yes, yes.
	We good?
	That's a very good distinction.
	So, here we are.
	Riot Games, here's the announcement.
	Scroll down.
	League of Legends introduced a change program for women.
	Now there's a whole load of bump in there about, what does it say?
	Riot Games announces its week-long game-changer event which will feature the best female players in League of Legends.
	The best female players in League of Legends scenes will be scouted by professional and amateur teams in a bid to create a professional eco-sports system which is diverse and inclusive.
	And then, in order to enter this competition, they have certain criteria.
	Let's read them out, shall we?
	Players must be 13 years of age or older.
	Fair enough.
	Must be a resident of the United States or Canada.
	Fine.
	They must be able to attend a two-week course for the event.
	Again, seems reasonable.
	Players must have the ability to submit in-game footage and recordings.
	Okay, fine, good so far.
	Ah, and here comes the important eligibility criteria.
	It's, players must be a woman.
	Or, of a marginalised gender.
	Or a lady.
	You're a lady?
	Yes, that's absolutely right.
	So, what I've got now is a bit of a game for you.
	Before I jump to the article, which talks about how five out of the six raised eyebrows.
	And I'll tell you, here's the interesting thing, right?
	People are a bit confused as to which five of the six are ladies.
	Are ladies, yes.
	That is a bit ambiguous because this article says, OK, this one is the woman and Twitter says another thing.
	So it's slightly ambiguous.
	So I'm going to see if you guys can get it right.
	So I've got my play button here.
	This is the promotional video.
	Let's start, for those of you listening, with a lovely looking lass called Shapeshifter.
	Pronouns she, her.
	Let's see what this lovely lady has to say.
	LCS Game Changers is a really important event to me, and it's very close to my heart.
	I've been in every iteration of the program since 2021, and the 2021 program was actually my first ever comp experience.
	And so that was really, really exciting and really sparked my drive for the game in a really big way.
	Right, so what do we think of the first one?
	Lady?
	Lady?
	What do you think, Charlie?
	Well, I support the UK government and everything.
	No, no, play seriously, Charlie.
	What do you think?
	Definitely a lady.
	A lady, right, okay.
	So next up is Riley, whose pronouns are she, her.
	Try not to laugh with this one.
	I think it's just an opportunity.
	I think it's a really good opportunity.
	Something especially that I've struggled with is like getting the chance to prove myself, like actually getting the opportunity to go to tryouts, to like play in Yeah, mate.
	I'm a proper geezer, me.
	I love the gaming.
	All of these people could do with some sun.
	Funny lady accent.
	This lovely lady is really working that Adam's apple with those baritone octaves.
	On mine is something I've been denied several times, especially even in times where I really should have been given the opportunity.
	And so it's really just a wonderful opportunity to show myself off and show off what I have.
	And I'm sure a lot of the other players feel the same way.
	Please don't show yourself.
	Yeah, I think a lot of it is showing off.
	Lady?
	You're going with lady, are you?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Lady, right, okay.
	So, I think we agree so far.
	It's more about... Ah, right, now we're starting to... So, now we're starting to get into the bit where it gets controversial because the article I'm about to show you says that this is the woman, whereas the Twitter article actually gives a different one.
	So, you guys have to decide whether this is a lady or a woman.
	So, this is chi-sept, she-her.
	To show everyone what we are capable of.
	Instead of punching each other, we lift each other up.
	That's how we show everyone that we are good.
	So, where are you guys coming down on this one?
	I think lady.
	You think lady?
	I was really hoping that there would just be one player who just wouldn't have pronouns.
	And it would be nice and easy.
	I don't know what to do now.
	Do you want me to show you the other one that's a little bit questionable?
	Yeah.
	And then you make the decision afterwards.
	Okay, so this one is... This one's a lady.
	It has they.
	So it's lady.
	So this lady goes by the name of Billy.
	And pronouns are she, they.
	We'll listen anyway because we've queued up below.
	To me, LCS Game Changers means uplifting women and people of marginalized gender.
	She, they, isn't bothering the voice either.
	Despite what people may think, we're actually very talented.
	LCS Game Changers.
	All right, now this is the other one, which is, so the Twitter article says that she, her, Averill, is the woman and the other one was the shy step.
	So watch this one and then tell me which of the two you think it is.
	LCS Game Changers to me is much more than like having this competition and going to LA and like, um, Meeting new people it's it's for me.
	It's like this light at the end of the tunnel because um especially women and especially like I I've dealt with a lot of like Bad things in this community that like has really pushed me and shied me away from committing all my time into this but Game Changers is like literally
	The biggest reason why I haven't left yet, and the biggest reason why I still have that drive, I still have the passion, and I still am open with any new experiences because they just remind me of the kindness of people and the humanity that there is.
	It's definitely her.
	You think it's that one?
	Yes.
	What do you think, Callum, having seen the two?
	Can I get a hint?
	Can I ask a question?
	Go on then.
	Is she her from Thailand?
	Well, okay, so for those of you listening, Avril there was Asian.
	Now, I forgot, I don't want to get any blowback for this statement, but if you're Asian you sort of get a plus one for femininity to start off with, which is why... They're much better at pulling it off.
	Yes.
	What choice of words can I use?
	There is a reason why the um... Have you seen that video with Geoffrey?
	The lady boy bars are as successful as they are in Southeast Asia.
	You've seen the Geoffrey video, haven't you?
	The Geoffrey video?
	Yeah.
	No, I missed that one.
	Geoffrey, get your... No?
	I've got something to show you boys.
	Maybe show me after the pod.
	Anyway, so we might as well finish off with Hello Sir, She, They.
	Yeah, I mean really working the Adam's apple.
	With a neck which is at least as long as the rest of her hair.
	Right, right.
	Yeah, I mean, really working the Adam's apple.
	It's not really something that's on the forefront of a lot of people's minds, but it's something that's really growing and increasingly important in the field.
	There is so much of a population of women gamers, and I know that some of them might not feel like they can do it, but I hope that this program shows them what the capabilities are.
	Hang on a minute, sorry.
	There are five or six players, did you say?
	Was that six?
	There's six in total.
	So there's six.
	Sorry, but either way, of a women's sporting event in e-gaming, of all things, of the six players, five are ladies.
	We just shouldn't let that pass by without... Well, yes.
	I mean, yes, I mean, exactly.
	It's okay.
	I'm going with the Asian because she rambled like a woman.
	We're going to support women by boosting them up and then instantly replace them with a bunch of chaps.
	No, with a bunch of ladies!
	Sorry.
	Stay compliant with the UK law.
	Right, we've got the next... I've got a link.
	No, I've got a link.
	John, can we have my next link up?
	Excellent.
	So let's go to next.
	Next.
	There we go.
	So, only one girl gamer featured in esports game changer program for marginalized genders.
	Did we win?
	Did we win a prize?
	Did we get the right answer?
	So this article made the same selection as you, which was the Asian Avril put that in.
	Although Twitter put something else up.
	However, My, um, my radar was tingling on this one.
	You see, because, um, but on this, on this, I, I, I, I got the, uh, the T vibe from, from all of them personally.
	And I think the articles that I've read are wrong, actually.
	I think there's a double bluff going on.
	I think it's six for six.
	Interesting.
	I think literally all of them are ladies.
	Literally every single one.
	Can you see an Adam's apple on this?
	Well, okay.
	So, so, so this is, this is the thing, right?
	I'm going to give some advice.
	If you ever go traveling in Asia, um, there are certain criteria that you might want to be on the lookout for.
	And I'm, and I'm, and I'm getting, I'm going to give this as practical as possible.
	The first one.
	Life, life tips with Dan.
	Yes.
	The first one is if they're tall.
	Right.
	It's probably lady, right?
	Because women are short and men are tall and ladies are also tall.
	Now, the tall is an important one because it doesn't matter how drunk you are, you can still see how tall somebody is, right?
	The one that people always talk about, right, is the Adam's apple.
	OK, but surgeons are getting quite good at whittling that down at this point.
	So people put a lot of stock in it.
	What I actually put stock in more than anything is wrists and knees.
	Yeah, right.
	Because there's the hands.
	Well, yes.
	Yes.
	I mean, you can sort of conceal hands.
	It's very difficult to conceal wrists.
	And if you're wearing a dress, of course, your knees are going to be on display.
	So, I thought to myself, Detective Dan is going to see if he can scan their social media profiles to find any needs.
	Oh, here we go.
	So, I've got to scroll down.
	Yes, there we go.
	So, there is the lovely Avril.
	Um, wearing a lovely frock, um, with her knees out.
	Do we need to... What, what, what, how do those knees... Welcome to Knee Review!
	Today's episode... I am giving you golden advice!
	If you want to know if it's a lady, look at the knees.
	And what's your take?
	Oh, those are men's knees.
	No, no, sorry, sorry.
	Sorry, UK government.
	Ladies' knees.
	Ladies' knees.
	Knees for ladies.
	Look at that top comment there.
	Uh... Yeah, we're not reading that one out.
	So I think no to that one.
	Don't click on it, don't click on it, scroll down and read more of the comments.
	I don't know, we might discover more things about the knees or something.
	Goats, goats.
	I don't think most people... Most people aren't knee fetishists like you?
	No, it's not a knee fetish, it is...
	I think that's a good way of hiding it, though.
	It's good to check you.
	Hello, dear, I have a knee fetish.
	So if you'll just inspect your knees real quick, then we'll head back to the room.
	I mean, if you're getting on really well, I mean, there are more direct ways to check.
	Anyway, let's go on to the next one.
	Right, here we go.
	So I found another knee shot for Shy Sept.
	We are going to click into that second picture so I can get that.
	There we go.
	Look at those knees.
	Who's that comedian that this person really looks like?
	I can't think of his name.
	Joe Brand?
	No.
	You mean her name?
	No, no, the comedian's a male.
	Oh.
	Never mind.
	Viewers will know who I'm on about.
	Anyway, so I think that the articles I've been reading this, I mean, I hope I'm not going to get sued, but I think that the articles I've been reading, they all failed my T-radar.
	Noel Fielding, by the way.
	Yes.
	Oh, Noel Fielding, right, okay.
	So, anyway, so that brings me on to... I'm going to have to do a quick plug while we're here, so the next thing is... there we go.
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	Well he has a beard, so I would generally stop there, to be honest.
	I've never actually looked at his knees, I don't think.
	But manly wrists, I'll give him that.
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	So then I sort of think, okay, so why is it that ladies are doing so, because presumably at some point we're going to have a lady chess grandmaster, which has currently eluded women so far.
	And as we were sort of talking about earlier, you know, there was this, this is an IQ distribution.
	Now, I could be wrong on this, but my understanding is that men and women actually have the same average IQ, but the bell curve is distributed a bit differently, so in women it's a bit pulled in, it's a bit tighter.
	Greater male variability.
	Yeah, so they have less extremes, they have less idiots, and they have less geniuses as well.
	That's my understanding.
	And the ratio is staggering as well.
	Like when you get to under 60, which is clinically retarded, and up to the like 140 there where you get the geniuses, it becomes like a thousand to one.
	Yes.
	So for every one woman who is going to become a homeless drug addict, there's a thousand men, and for every man who's going to conquer that reality.
	But I mean, the thing that strikes me about this curve, if you're listening, is the two curves are actually very, very close.
	But it does flare out that little bit, right, at the extremes, either end.
	Of course, if you want to be a chess grandmaster or you want to do very well in any sort of cognitive sport where speed of synaptic response is key, as I imagine League of Legends is, You really do only want the one or two individuals right at the cusp of that curve.
	And there, the men do have a clear advantage.
	I found this article.
	So this is from Dr. Paul Irvin.
	There are twice as many men as women with an IQ of 120+.
	Let me read a bit.
	All the research I've done points to gender differences in general cognitive ability.
	There was a mean difference of about five IQ points.
	The further up the distribution, the more skewed it becomes.
	This is your point, Callum.
	There are twice as many men with an IQ of 120 as there are women.
	There are 30 times the number of men with an IQ of 170 as there are women.
	So women do have examples of very high IQs, but there are 30 times as many men.
	Likewise at the bottom end of the distribution as well, obviously.
	And I really don't think that's that surprising.
	I mean, greater male variability is desirable because men are more expendable than women in reproductive terms.
	Yes.
	Well, if you look at the sort of genetic data that most women end up reproducing over history, whereas most men don't.
	Yes.
	So if you want to, if you're going to play it safe, you want to play it safe with the females and you want to experiment with the men and see what they do.
	And if they manage to not throw themselves off a rock or something, or whatever stupid shit men do, then they get to procreate.
	Dr. Irvin says, My findings don't fit my worldview at all.
	Historically, women have been discriminated against.
	They've made tremendous progress.
	And now some people feel like this is a kick in the teeth.
	Look, how could reality do this to us?
	I take issue with that.
	Historically, women have been discriminated against.
	It's like, okay, so if you're a bloke in the medieval era, oh, it was all brilliant for you, was it?
	No, it's like life was crap for absolutely everybody apart from a really small nobility class.
	And in that life of crapness, we would privilege women in most circumstances because, as you said, not replaceable, then replaceable.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If you've got a village of 50 of each gender and some disaster comes along that wipes out half of one of the genders, you would pick men every single time.
	If you're left with two women, you're screwed.
	If you're left with two men, you can make it work.
	Yeah, good for them.
	Dr. Irving says, historically women have been... Oh no, I read that bit.
	Women who know... No, not just women.
	People who know virtually nothing about IQ tests claim they have a cultural bias.
	All IQ tests are thoroughly tested and adjusted for bias, so if anything IQ tests favour women and not men.
	Okay, didn't know that.
	That's interesting.
	People should have equal opportunities, but if you want a society where everyone feels satisfied, you're not going to find men and women doing the same thing in the same proportions.
	It would be helpful if we recognize that.
	Yes.
	Wouldn't it just?
	It's just insane to me that that take is still controversial to certain people.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	All for equal opportunities but not equal outcomes.
	And you know, I just think, you know, why can't we just celebrate women for their femininity?
	For the things that they actually excel at, rather than constantly trying to shoehorn women into being basically rubbish versions of men?
	Yeah.
	Using maleness as the standard.
	Yes.
	And every so often... How about we make men better than women at being women, then what?
	Yeah, but we don't, do we?
	We just take a bunch of confused young men and turn them into ugly, unfeminine men.
	How could you say that?
	Yes.
	Don't you mean ladies?
	Ladies?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	Yes.
	They've always been ladies.
	Yes.
	But yeah, could we just celebrate gender differences for their advantages and not do this?
	Crap all the time.
	That'd be nice.
	I suppose on that note, we'll go to the video comments.
	California News.
	Governor Newsom signed illegal gun-phobic laws.
	Guns in California will now be taxed at 11%, which doubles the federal 10% gun tax to now be 20%.
	The left loves to punish poor people, especially poor blacks.
	Guns in the state must now be sold with a micro-stamp to identify it when shot, and a law banning carrying a gun in any publicly accessible place, stores, and even public parks.
	So you can only carry a gun on the sidewalk.
	Do you know, treating American politics as pure kayfabe, I actually really like Gavin Newsom.
	I think he's really like, he's just such a perfect like villain character.
	He's such a psycho, he's so dead behind the eyes.
	Yeah, but he's got the look, he's got the voice, he's got that sort of Richter's grin.
	He is like from those early 90s sci-fi movies where they hadn't quite developed CGI and they had to use sort of wax dummies and you just had this eerie uncally valley thing with dead behind the eyes psycho thing and he just gives me that every time.
	Nice one.
	Find yourself in the UK.
	What I want now is Kitchen of the Lotus Eaters so that he and Stelios can have a competition.
	Okay, Harry, I'm doing a USA book tour this month.
	I couldn't add Swindon to the list.
	I wanted to, but there were no conventions around there at the time.
	If you really want me to come over and do Kitchen of the Lotus Eaters, tell everyone to go and buy my books at cscooper.com.au.
	There's also a feature on my website.
	If you don't want the book signed, just say so, and it will funnel the order to a print house in the UK, and you won't have to pay international shipping.
	Remind me, what was... Something Lewis Con... Con... What?
	Well, thank you for your work, Master Chef.
	Craig Cooper Books.
	Okay, I want to go and have a look at those.
	Go to craigcooperbooks.us.
	Anyway, let's go to the written comments.
	Can you chaps cook?
	Hmm?
	Can you cook?
	Oh, yeah.
	God, yes, I can cook.
	Master Chef, me.
	Yeah?
	Callum?
	I got like three dishes I like.
	Solid.
	Nice.
	Yeah?
	Yeah, I love cooking.
	Spiritually female.
	Right.
	Oh, there's one more.
	There's one more.
	So it appears that Doritos made some black supremacist Doritos.
	It's spicy pineapple and jalapeno flavor.
	And the art was made by a pro-Native person.
	And I guess there's some sort of a PepsiCo foundation that is also black supremacist.
	So that's kind of weird.
	Anyway, you know, black power to make black people fatter and unhealthier, I guess.
	It would be funny if you opened the packet and there's just a note.
	Sorry, the contents have been stolen already.
	Tariq Nasheed Doritos.
	That's not something I was expecting.
	My God, look at the comments!
	Top comment, look at that!
	Blood for the Blood God.
	$300 donation.
	Have some money for Dan's birthday.
	Oh, thank you, sir!
	Right, I'm going to have a word with Carl.
	That's not disappearing into the bloody business account.
	We're having a piss up with that.
	Thank you, sir.
	Well done.
	Top work.
	Think of all the knees you could buy with that money.
	I was thinking of going for a night out in Sweden.
	I wasn't going to put us all on a plane.
	Oh, we've got some in the rumble.
	Face tape.
	Dan, what is your favourite British food?
	I'll cook it for your birthday to prove British food is the best in the world.
	Favourite British food.
	Christmas dinner.
	That's our best dish.
	Yeah, you're probably right.
	I was going to go with roast, just a good proper roast.
	That's the thing, like the roast is the weekly, and then the Christmas dinner is the king of the weeklies there.
	Like it's the king of the roast dinners.
	Yes.
	But I don't know if he's going to do a full... Mind you, whenever I go to a restaurant, it's always just steak.
	Biggest steak they've got.
	I find steak so boring.
	Because it's the same thing everywhere, it's just a pile of meat.
	Which is, you know, fine and all.
	Yeah, or fish, because it's a right pain getting the bloody thing out.
	Yeah, I can't be bothered with it.
	But if I want to properly enjoy myself, like Christmas dinner or roast dinner, there's no fussing with nonsense.
	There is just shove it in.
	And it all is flavourful as well.
	FaceSaper's got a good YouTube channel as well.
	BongdoonTheFirst says, Oh yes, I took Dan's wonderful advice and got myself a gold tier subscription.
	Good man.
	I will upload a video comment as soon as I get my head around the video creation software.
	Very good.
	Another Sargon alumni.
	Right.
	And John Lewis says, It's worth the price of membership to watch Callum desperately trying to keep it together.
	Yes.
	Note to self, do not bring up the SS while on this show.
	Literally don't mention the war.
	We've got some comments from BestCountryToBeBlack.
	Sorry.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I was going to find you guys a raunchy video to show you later.
	Oh, I'll carry on.
	The French Adams Apple says, I doubt the polls on the neighbors race are accurate because the U.S.
	has the phenomena of white flight.
	Yeah.
	Reveal preference worth is worth the stated preference.
	Well documented.
	It should be seen in the poll results.
	I believe the answers show the fear of being called racist more than deeply held beliefs.
	Yeah, that's actually a good way of looking at it is actually Who has freedom of speech?
	Yeah.
	India.
	Okay.
	Sophie Livesay says, and eventually Callum is just going to visit all the country he's currently painting red.
	That's how you know they're good.
	Sophie says, yeah, there are no countries in Africa where it's best to be black, for a very simple reason, too.
	You don't get any special privileges in Africa for being black, so why would any Western black people go there?
	Yes, exactly.
	Nobody goes there.
	Kevin says, there's no privilege for being white in Thailand.
	In fact, even where I work, the black employees get away with much more than I do.
	I've been there for four years, and looking at it, the illegals arriving on British beaches get treated better than white people here in Thailand.
	Yeah, I can believe that from people I know who've lived there.
	Oh, we better move on because we're running out of time.
	So, the ex-current thing.
	Thomas Howell says, Britain, we make the worst racists.
	I think it's sick that Andrew Bridgen loses the whip and cannot, until recently, get Parliament to discuss the vaccine harm.
	Meanwhile, the pair of mass murderers who developed it get the Nobel Prize.
	Yeah, well, again, Andrew Bridgen went against the current thing, marked as an enemy.
	Pirate Tomski says Callum is obviously a deep state actor trying to derail Charlie's segment about the current thing.
	That's not my fault.
	What say you?
	That's not my fault that the elite decided the SS were now something everyone had to support.
	It is not my fault you mentioned the SS!
	Did anyone else?
	Come on, like, who saw that coming?
	I mean, it's insane.
	Like, I knew the whole Nazis in Ukraine thing was something they wanted to keep hush-hush, but... God praise the SS, or use love poems.
	Just standing ovations is giving it away a bit.
	When we covered it, though, it's the fact that the Speaker of the House literally says, this guy fought the Russians in World War II.
	Yeah.
	So do you not think, oh, who was fighting the Russians in World War II?
	It was hilarious.
	Anyway, Bay State.
	Strange, I haven't seen any teenage... Do you reckon these people are so ignorant of history, you could just get a portrait of Adolf Hitler?
	Yeah.
	And be like, yes, also, anti-Russian hero!
	I was so hoping that that Waffen-SS guy was going to throw up a Roman salute, and you could see... And you could see, right, that he almost did, and then he went like that, and then he was like, oh yeah, bad luck.
	And then all the MPs go, yes, yes!
	Oh, that must be some sort of anti-Russian salute.
	Yes, yes.
	Well done, Canada.
	Are we distracting ourselves again?
	Uh, so Baystips says, strange I haven't seen any teenage athletes suddenly dropping dead for no reason for a while.
	I thought this was a totally normal thing to happen.
	That's what you said, Dan.
	Yes, quite.
	Le French Adam Zapple says, anti-Brexit propaganda still exists in the EU, the media says Brexit ruined the UK, when the reality is that you guys are doing better than EU countries and that much of the problems we all face is due to the US nuking Nord Stream and getting us to do sanctions against Russia.
	Yes.
	That seems to be very much true.
	Shall I do a quick couple of moments of mine before we go on?
	So MC says, this last segment is going to be a banger for those listening to the audio with those lovely lady voices.
	Soap, who is a woman, not a lady, says, honestly, I am laughing at this.
	Trying to make it, well... Actually, I should do this.
	Trying to make the gaming more inclusive is so stupid anyway.
	Nothing is preventing women from jumping in.
	I've never been excluded from anything.
	I'm just really bad at these sort of games.
	I prefer single games anyway.
	I'm just so laughing at this.
	You know she's Danish, right?
	Well, that's the best I can do at short notice for a woman's voice.
	You've got to do a potato in the throat, and then you end the potato.
	Man or woman.
	All of this is said with full respect, um, Soph.
	Um, and, and finally, um, Alex Stakes says, They're all trannies.
	That's what I'm going with.
	No, we're not allowed to say trannies.
	If we say trannies, he has to edit it out.
	So every time you say trannies, it creates extra work for Calum.
	This doesn't go on YouTube though, this.
	Oh, right.
	Very good.
	Are we, are we, are we out of time?
	We're two minutes over in fact.
	But, uh, yeah.
	Are we, are we still on?
	I don't know.
	Do we, Oh, okay, right.
	We're out of time.
	Oh, right, okay.
	Bye!
	Bye!

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