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Oct. 5, 2023 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #756

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast for a day.
	Anyway, I'm joined by Carl and Lewis.
	Hello.
	Is it really that hard to figure out that it's Tuesday the 5th of October?
	I've just always been confused as to who needs that.
	I'm not saying anyone needs it.
	I'm not saying they set their calendars by, oh, what day?
	Oh, thank goodness, it's the 5th.
	Oh, I don't know what day it is.
	Do I have work?
	It feels more professional, that's all.
	Crack over the lowest years.
	Oh, God, I'm missing from work!
	I don't want to give people heart attacks.
	I want them to have another hour in bed, maybe.
	So, anyway.
	Or they lose their job.
	Yeah, well, you know.
	Live a better life.
	Well, not really, you can't pay your rent.
	Well, you had a better nightlife, that's all.
	Anyway, today we're going to be talking about Lawrence Fox getting raided, AI memetic warfare being here, and why do women go for bad boys?
	Which is an interesting one.
	I feel like you're bragging or something.
	Me?
	I've got a new girlfriend!
	You know how I got on?
	All I'm saying is, has Ava been in Lawrence Fox's DMs?
	Oh, for fuck.
	I didn't really realize we were going to say something.
	I don't know.
	I'm not saying she has, I'm saying I want answers.
	I'm not going to say what I'm thinking.
	Alright, so I got a couple of announcements, apparently.
	So first announcement is, here's a picture of Dan, not photoshopped, completely legit.
	Anyway, same as always, which is... well, not always, the last few days.
	It's Dan's birthday on Friday, and he is inviting Gold Team members to share with him, and us, favourite things about Dan.
	Dan, and certain things about Dan.
	Maybe his knees.
	Maybe you want to talk about his knees?
	I don't know.
	You can put a submission in if you're a gold tier, and then he'll look at it, and yeah, there we go.
	Let's do that.
	Anyway, don't worry about...
	I don't know how to end things sometimes, all right?
	Anyway, so, another announcement.
	You don't have to introduce them either.
	No, that's also true.
	God, I don't have to do segments now.
	Anyway, the next announcement is Lads Hour, which we will be having fun on, so you can check out, which is 48 hours.
	You get to be somebody.
	Who would you be?
	Well, we're going to ask that question, I suppose.
	Yeah, and we were chatting beforehand.
	I didn't realize, apparently it has to be someone alive.
	Yes, we'll probably do a historical one of us.
	Bit of a dampener.
	It's a two-parter, come and hang out.
	Anyway, that's where we just sit around and have fun.
	So if you like sitting around having fun, where we will talk about... There's also going to be cheese, apparently, John says.
	But I love the idea that some people are like, you know, no, I don't like having fun.
	I'm not signing up to that!
	Well, I want to make sure they get what they want.
	So if you like fun, sign up.
	If you don't, then I guess...
	Watch the wall?
	I don't know.
	Watch Sky News?
	No, you could give us the money anyway and just not watch.
	I mean, that's also an option on the table.
	Do your part.
	Yeah, do the part for being unfun.
	Anyway, we shall begin with Lawrence Foxing getting raided.
	Right.
	So, arguably, one of the most talked about stories this week is, of course, Lawrence Fox.
	It's been arguable.
	It's been wall-to-wall coverage.
	It's literally been, yeah.
	Lawrence Fox has made quite a few headlines over the past week, to say the least, where he was arrested under the charge of, quote, conspiracy to commit criminal damage in regards to the ultra low emission zone cameras that have been actively taken down by a group known as Blade Runners.
	Cool name and my favorite film, I say.
	So that is not an endorsement, though, obviously.
	It's an endorsement of the film.
	It's the endorsement of the film.
	Activity against the government.
	Exactly.
	But before we get started, I wanted to say... Sorry.
	Before we get started, I wanted to say I thought it would be appropriate as people feel that Britain is falling into a dystopian nightmare at the minute.
	Stelios and Conor done a fantastic symposium of the novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
	I think I've said that right.
	I never heard of it until I watched the symposium and I ended up like spending 50 quid on a load of dystopian books including this one.
	Apparently it set the ground for modern dystopian novels so I'm really interested so I'm looking forward to reading it but yeah they've done a fantastic segment so please go and check that out.
	I thought that was great.
	But right, so the official charge is yes, on Wednesday the 4th of October, officers arrested Lawrence Fox, 48-year-old man, on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to ULS cameras and encouraging or assisting offences to be committed.
	Initially, he put out a tweet before the live stream, which we'll go through first and see what you guys make of.
	I'm sure you guys have already seen it.
	In fact, no, we'll watch the video of Lawrence Fox announcing whilst the police was actually in his house.
	Morning, guys.
	In London's knife-ridden capital city, where a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death with a sword.
	We've got one, two... You can show them.
	One, two... Another three upstairs.
	Stealing, going through my house to intimidate me.
	Because this is what the police are.
	They don't police with consent anymore.
	They police with fear and intimidation.
	That is the Stasi police force that we've got nowadays.
	Instead of being on the streets, solving crimes like the murder of the poor 15 year old girl, they're all over social media.
	I'd take it.
	The Uless scam cameras outside of London are a complete scam.
	There's no scientific evidence.
	Sadiq Khan rubbished the evidence and had it rewritten to serve his own needs.
	No one voted it.
	It's the beginning and bringing in of a surveillance state.
	And he's trying to make noises so that I can't say that.
	It's the beginning of a So have a lovely day.
	day, I'm going to spend my day in the clink, innit?
	Has he shaved his head as well?
	He has.
	Yeah.
	He has.
	What was your initial thoughts to this?
	My initial thoughts is that there is absolutely no way Lawrence Fox has ever seen an angle grinder.
	Like there's just no way.
	I love Lawrence, but he isn't like they're searching for what, you know, tools that he may have destroyed you less cameras with as if, as if Lawrence, I get like, love Lawrence.
	He's just not the sort of guy who has some sort of hacksaw around.
	Yeah.
	No shade Lawrence, you know, I don't either.
	I'm just saying we're not those guys, you know.
	What do you think, Callum?
	I assumed, actually, they were looking for a contact because I believe he said he was in contact with someone who was going to, well, who was in the pluses doing this.
	So the police want whoever that person is.
	So that's why they seized his electronics, I thought.
	Yeah, I would have thought the same because he put this tweet out, obviously, I believe, the day before.
	Or no, not the day before, on the 26th of September 1st.
	And then, obviously, the live stream of Majid Nawaz, which he mentioned it.
	He said, just had a great chat with someone who wants to be a Blade funder.
	They will put 10K behind the bar in a London hardware shop so that people can pick up angle grinders and other ULES skis.
	scammer dismantling tools for free and he said do get in touch if you want to be a blade runner uh in more sense to me now let's work together to tear down chairman sadiq khan's surveillance state right well i'm not surprised the cops came up yeah um so he tweeted that and then have you guys seen the the comments on majid noaz's live stream
	i mean i saw that he did do very large sort of thing. - Yeah. - So magic supports.
	I think I did put the clip in for Magic Stream.
	There it is.
	And I was thinking maybe we could go through it and just give thoughts.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Sure.
	So I suppose do we need to play that in the Twitter thing?
	Yes, please.
	So we need to go back to Twitter and click on it.
	You're aware of the Blade Runners.
	Is there any particular message that you'd like to give about the ULS cameras, about the Blade Runners, about what's being done?
	They're cutting down on the cameras.
	It's in the press every day.
	The police are now looking for them.
	They've arrested a couple.
	What is your, as Reclaim, what is your stance on the Blade Runners?
	Well, again, this is where Andrew gets a bit annoyed with me, because he says you can't encourage criminality.
	but I say it's digital fly tipping sticking up these cameras and stuff like that, it's just digital fly tipping it wasn't there five minutes ago why should it be there now, I encourage them to tear down every single camera there is and I will be joining them to tear down cameras as well because I have to I'm one of those people that puts my money where my mouth is so I'm pretty close with several and I will be I'll be out there with my angle grinder
	I had a guy the other day phone me up and say, he's a very wealthy guy and he said I want to put, I'll put 10 grand behind the counter several wixes in London and anyone who wants to go and do some removal of this digital flytipping, wants to go and clean up their community, can go and get an angle grinder for free.
	They can get all the gear that they need for free and it's all on me.
	So I would encourage mass, mass removal of the surveillance state because once it's there, you cannot remove it.
	Are you interested in testing the law around this if some people get arrested?
	I would be happy to be arrested myself.
	So, you know, I would, I would, I would, I would When I go out and take their cameras down, which I will be doing, I will be taking my phone with me so they know exactly where I am.
	Because the Bay Brothers are clever.
	They know what they're doing.
	I would happily sit there and go, sit in court and go, who voted for this?
	What's your evidence for the Outer London Clean Air Zone?
	What's your evidence for that?
	Why are you doing this?
	I'd sit there and do it, but I do that.
	I've got Yes, several court cases going on, as you know.
	But yeah, I would.
	If I'm going down, I'm going down big.
	Yeah, I don't really have much to say, really.
	Well, I mean, obviously, don't break the law.
	That's our official position.
	The official position of the Lord Cedars, yeah.
	But I can understand why someone would, and why he did say he's going to.
	Of course, we're not disavowing this.
	No.
	Well, I'm just glad I don't live in London.
	Yeah.
	Oh, London's, yeah.
	I'd so well be coming here, though, right?
	Oh, yeah, probably.
	Like, there's no way the EULA's just, oh, it's in London.
	Yeah.
	Obviously, we're all mates with Fox.
	You know, I've spent some time with Lawrence.
	Great guy.
	He let me stay at his after a GB News segment once.
	Definitely doesn't have to use an angle grinder.
	Definitely doesn't.
	No, definitely does not.
	Um, but he was, um, he was obviously arrested and then, uh, he's now been, obviously, he was released last night, I believe, and Sky News, of course, reported on that, uh, briefly, which he asked him a few questions.
	Um, so Majid then after this, What I find fascinating about this entire ordeal, six police officers turning up.
	Lawrence Fox is innocent.
	Mr. Fox said he would be broadcasting his location.
	This shows he intended a political protest and arrest on site before committing any crime.
	So the Met Police has no basis for suspicion of crime.
	What I find fascinating about this entire ordeal, six police officers turning up.
	I mean, you couldn't even get that for a burglary these days anyway.
	And I believe it's, is it 90 90% of crimes and 5% of burglars.
	Yeah.
	So I understand the case for it to be politically almost murder.
	I understand Majid Nawaz's finesse here.
	This is quite clever.
	But to be honest with you, it's hard to say that the police don't have any reasonable suspicion.
	Lawrence Fox is like, look, I'm going to commit a bunch of crimes.
	It's just kind of hard.
	For me to say that they're being unreasonable.
	I do think it is tied to the political whirlwind around Fox at the moment.
	Send six boys over there.
	No doubt that's the case.
	He hasn't held himself.
	No.
	And I agree.
	I don't like the idea though.
	They're going to search his house.
	They're not going to find anything.
	Maybe they'll search his electronic devices.
	Hopefully he's done the smart thing and there's no contacts on there that would disrupt what those people are doing.
	And then he could just keep doing it.
	He could just keep going on live streams and be like, I'm going to commit some crimes.
	Come on around.
	But like the sixth time, you're the boy who cried wolf.
	Eventually they'll stop.
	That's a great point actually.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	Now I'm free.
	Just sit there wasting police time by just announcing...
	You can't be charged with wasting police time because at no point did you call the police.
	You didn't contact them.
	Because you're politically relevant and Sadiq Khan hates you.
	Yeah.
	Well, after this, Nigel Farage spoke up saying this is so wrong and very frightening.
	Why so many police officers?
	Great question.
	And Farage has been quite quiet with everything that's been going on, especially at GB News.
	So I was surprised to see him come out and say something about this, which was interesting.
	Neil Oliver came out and said the criminals are in charge.
	Fair play.
	Indeed, it is very criminal.
	I noticed something.
	Chris Packham.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I noticed this.
	So I put this video out, which we'll listen to in a sec.
	I put, interesting how Chris Packham hasn't had five police officers turn up on his doorstep for, quote, conspiracy to commit a crime after releasing a Channel 4 documentary called, quote, is it time to break the law?
	Question mark.
	I'm pretty sure doesn't this guy call for bombings as well?
	Have we got the clip?
	Sorry, literally, Chris Packham, I'm going to break the law.
	Lawrence Fox, I'm going to break the law.
	And only one of these people.
	Oh, yeah.
	I'm pretty sure, doesn't this guy call for bombings as well?
	He does.
	Have we got the clip?
	We have.
	What about the bombings?
	Chris Packham, a very sensible person.
	Well, Richard read out his quote, so we'll take a listen.
	We just quote to you what you say at the very end of the documentary, because this summarizes really what your journey of discovery takes you on.
	You say, It's time for me to make up my own mind and decide if I should break the law.
	For me, myself, I'm not asking for anyone to break the law.
	So long as no one's hurt, I give my support to people who break the law for climate change.
	I have to raise my voice.
	I have reached a point where I now consider it, ethically, the reasonable thing to do.
	Now, for Chris Packham, mainstream environmentalist, mainstream television presenter in our living rooms most Sundays, if he says that law-breaking in this context It's ethical, and you support it.
	That is a big step.
	That's going out on Channel 4 tonight, not some obscure YouTube channel.
	That's going out on Channel 4.
	Are you sure you've done the right thing?
	Well look, um, has Rishi Sunak done the right thing today?
	We're reigning in on our net zero commitments.
	Yeah.
	Um, so he, he openly said, uh, I'm prepared to commit... Yeah.
	Commit crimes.
	Commit crimes and endorse anyone who does.
	Yeah.
	I mean, he's literally one step away from being the Unabomber.
	Okay, yeah, so he says, um, sorry, just to correct, because I remember reading something about bombs.
	He said, uh, don't worry, um, Just Stop Oil are not exploding bombs like the IRA, insists Chris Packham.
	That's the only distinction between him and the Unibot.
	Sorry, we're not quite there.
	Not quite there.
	It's only a small step.
	Look at Chris Packham's smug face.
	I know, yeah.
	I'm prepared to break the law because I'm a good person.
	The Fox is breaking the law because he's a bad person.
	Big distinction here.
	And he didn't even address it, he just went on and started saying Rishi Sunak and Net Zero.
	And things, I mean I just look at him as a good person.
	Of course.
	Well, most of these eco-fanatics.
	Well, I say all of them pretty much are in a cult.
	Of course, The Guardian endorsed it.
	Oh, of course!
	Is it time to break the law?
	Five stars!
	Five star review as well from The Guardian.
	Remember that this is the same rag who said why Genghis Khan was good for the planet did say that once.
	Sorry, what?
	Okay, the argument here is related to the old one.
	Genghis Khan killed so many people that it was good for the environment because it reduced carbon output.
	Doesn't that say a lot about the climate movement?
	By the way, it's now time to break the law to save the climate!
	But this is actually kind of the groundwork of them preparing a kind of semi-genocidal regime, actually.
	Yeah.
	Well, it gives you license.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what the groundwork is.
	And so now it's just... And as the Guardian said, who's brave enough to do it?
	Chris Packham's brave enough to take the steps of mainstreaming genocide in order to save the planet.
	As the quote says, you are the carbon that they want to reduce.
	I mean, they're pretty open about it.
	Pretty open.
	But what I love about this is a bunch of white middle class Guardian readers who are like, yeah, we just need to genocide to save the planet.
	It's like, really?
	That's fascinating.
	Try it.
	Go on, go on.
	I want to see an action.
	Live by your beliefs and your words.
	Let's see where you go with it.
	You know, just stop oil militias marching down the streets.
	Gosh.
	I want to see it.
	I'm going to play this tape when it happens.
	I'll be like, Trump, run for office!
	And I'll be like, yeah, well, now I get to see it.
	This is exactly what I wanted.
	I'll double down.
	But yes, why people even read The Rag anyway, or take it seriously.
	Because they work for the BBC and the BBC buys half their circulation.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	But during the time that Lawrence was in, well, Genghis Khan is probably one of the most prolific rapists in all of history.
	It's very unlikely that anyone raped as many people individually as Genghis Khan, just FYI.
	Ignoring all the murders, right?
	Like literally every year, the Mongols would eradicate a city, right?
	So a Chinese city, an Iranian city, European city, wherever.
	Just wherever they went, they would just level these cities.
	They'd spend a couple of days just erasing a city from existence.
	Then they move on to the next one.
	And of course, Genghis Khan literally, most prolific murderers, something like 6% of Asia is descended from Genghis Khan because of the sheer number of rapes.
	But he did help the environment.
	He did help it.
	Is this, would you argue this is an endorsement by the Guardian to Genghis Khan?
	How could it not be?
	Genghis Khan was good.
	Like, that's literally... You want to know a weird fact about just how bad that situation is as well?
	So, there's a list on Wikipedia of people who've had the most children.
	For women, the top is like 70, which is, you know, ridiculous for a woman.
	And for a man, obviously, Genghis Khan is number one, still to this day.
	And like, number two... Still to this day!
	A more prolific rapist than Genghis Khan.
	Well, no, because obviously you don't have the rape of the modern day.
	What you do is, so there's a guy who has spent his entire life donating sperm.
	So he spends every day, presumably, getting sperm into ladies the way he can, which is through the medical process.
	And even he hasn't beat Genghis Khan.
	No, he's just literally the worst man in all of history.
	The Guardian's like, how Genghis Khan was good.
	An intriguing notion, certainly.
	Literally, that's what he writes.
	Maybe not a vote winner for the next Green Party's next manifesto.
	But I love that it's for them on the ballot.
	It's like, look, how can we mainstream Genghis Khan?
	We're not there yet.
	Step one, you should break the law.
	Step two.
	The Guardian will call you brave.
	Step three, Chris Packham will come out on TV and endorse it.
	Step four, Genghis Khan-style Mongol genocide.
	I mean, look, the 40 million people and that's in a time when the world population was like 10 times lower.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's a lot.
	Insane.
	Like this time, if there was a billion people on earth, that's a high estimate.
	And I love this little bit as well.
	But boy, was Genghis green.
	I can't take it seriously.
	But they are, they are going to use this as a justification for atrocities.
	Are they going to run a piece for Hitler as well, or just Genghis?
	Sincerely, I bet you could make the argument.
	It wouldn't be as funny, because obviously... In 700 years time, there's going to be a Guardian leftist being like, well, listen.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Just hear me out.
	Not on Vote Winnie yet!
	Well, I thought I'd remind people of this article because they are just... Bonkers.
	Bonkers, yeah.
	I was looking for the correct term.
	That's called crackers, mate.
	No.
	Crackers.
	But, um, during the time... They've lost their marbles, mate.
	Okay, Mike Gramble.
	I know, right?
	Mike Gramble.
	During the time that Lawrence was arrested... Sorry.
	It's alright.
	Lawrence is absolutely lunatic, right?
	Like... I mean, I just... How do we get to the point where we can endorse Genghis Khan?
	I don't know.
	I genuinely don't know.
	Such a good meme.
	I know.
	It's just that they've lost their mind.
	They're endorsing Matt Hale.
	Oh dear.
	Luckily I've got notes so I haven't lost track.
	But whilst Lawrence was arrested and banged up for a bit, he was unfortunately sacked by GB News along with Calvin Robinson, where the BBC obviously was quick to make the where the BBC obviously was quick to make the article.
	But it wasn't to do with the ULES comments.
	It was actually to do with, of course, the other headlines that have been going around.
	As they say, asking what self-respecting man would climb into bed with Ava Evans.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if the foreigners are aware, because I only seem to blow up in British Twitter, which is that our entire political system for the last, what, 48 hours has been gripped by the deep question of, would you have sex with this woman?
	Are you allowed to say that you wouldn't have sex with this woman?
	Oh, yeah.
	Sorry.
	That's the... Do you have the right to deny having sex?
	Yeah.
	No.
	Do you have the right to say that Ava Evans is not your cup of tea?
	And the answer's been no, you'll get two people fired, possibly a third.
	Did you see Gordon Brown came out and said that you must?
	Yeah!
	Former Prime Minister turns up on TV!
	This can't be allowed!
	It's just so gay!
	Yes, Lawrence Fox had been sacked by GB News after an outcry about comments he made on-air about a female journalist.
	The former actor and political activist sparked controversy last week when he asked what self-respecting man would climb into bed with Ava Evans.
	Fox hosted a weekly show on the channel and made some comments while appearing as a contributor on Dan Wharton's show.
	I think he's still under investigation.
	I love the investigation.
	Dan Witton smirked at Lawrence's joke and they're like, wow, we've got a four day investigation ahead of us.
	It's like, what's the investigation?
	Anyway, Dan, you're guilty of smirking at a joke.
	How do you plead?
	Yes.
	And of course, Calvin, which I believe you have on very soon, tomorrow, which is great.
	So I'm sure he'll go through everything that's going on in great greater detail.
	He said, how can a station keep calling itself the home of free speech when it continues to engage in cancel culture?
	I supported my friends slash colleagues and will continue to do so.
	That should not be a fireable offence.
	GB News is controlled opposition.
	I think they really set the precedent with Mark Stein and the way they treated him with him just talking about things related to mRNA.
	Calvin literally just came out and said, I don't think you should fire Lawrence Fox.
	Thanks.
	Yeah.
	Is that actually all he did?
	I think, I think he, I think he did.
	Um, correct me if I'm wrong.
	Um, I think he did.
	I think, did he say that they're idiots or something?
	Possibly.
	I mean, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it literally is just like, I, I stand in solidarity with my friend who I don't think is getting just desserts.
	They're like, well, you're gone.
	It's like, but what did he do?
	You can't even, like, oppose the executive decisions of the management of GBDs.
	It's not even that.
	He just questioned it.
	It was just like, well, that's stupid.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	I think you should have a right to say no.
	No means no.
	Absolutely.
	Well, you can... Gordon Brown's on our ass!
	We've got to do something!
	Oh dear.
	Well, you can support Calvin.
	He's set up a GiveSendGo, because obviously he has bills to pay.
	Yep.
	He's doing very well.
	Very, very well, which is great.
	On GiveSendGo.com forward slash home of cancel culture, which you can send a prayer.
	And if you wanted to give, then you can.
	It's up to you.
	But that's me, the second.
	Fair enough.
	That was good fun.
	Thank you.
	I knew the Genghis Khan thing would lighten things up in a funny way.
	Well, let's try and have some more fun, I suppose.
	Hopefully it's fun, but not fun.
	Yeah, yeah, I can do this.
	All right.
	So, AI memetic warfare is now here.
	Now, we were very excited about AI art, I suppose.
	I think excited is one way of describing it.
	Yeah, I mean, you were... I've never been a fan.
	...deafly afraid.
	It's not necessarily afraid.
	It's more... Look, it's like being with dinosaurs who are watching the asteroid approaching, where you're just like, okay, I can't stop this.
	It's going to kill us all.
	Well, maybe, but you know, you might have a laugh.
	So that's what I've come to tell you.
	So what's happened is that, of course, AI stuff, we've gone through a little bit.
	There was some AI music that was pretty interesting.
	I actually started to get good enough where I was listening to it and then being like, huh, I like this.
	This isn't just for a joke.
	I'm being manipulated by algorithms, super sophisticated algorithms that have worked out the patterns of my brain and now they control you.
	Yeah, welcome to the future.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I hate it.
	So, some other people have decided, what if we just made memes?
	And Dali 3 has been released, is my understanding.
	And Dali 3 is the newest AI iteration of Dali.
	And so, people have been having fun with it.
	And the added technology now in this new iteration is so good that you can make things reliably and certain aspects that you couldn't in previous versions.
	So, I suppose we're going to go through it and do...
	Meme review.
	Anyway, cool.
	We shall begin with just promoting something on Lotuses.com, this being Lads R. This is, uh, what animals could you take in a fight?
	I'm so gutted I missed this one.
	Yeah, that was annoying.
	I wanted to talk about the dogs as well.
	Yeah, but why is there a chimp?
	No one's taking a chimp in a fight.
	Maybe a kangaroo.
	You seen the guy who did punch a kangaroo?
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's why I think maybe you could take a kangaroo, but there's no way you're taking a chimp.
	Look at that.
	I think a ribbit.
	It's a monster.
	I still, I'm confident I could take a mountain lion.
	They're not that big.
	Maybe you should go hunt one first with a gun.
	They're like 120 pounds.
	I'm twice as heavy as them.
	It's happened.
	There have been guys who have killed mountain lions with their bare hands.
	Okay, take the rat first and then move up.
	I could take them.
	I think everyone could take a rat.
	I could take whatever that stoat is or whatever it is.
	The badger?
	Weasel?
	I don't know, but I could take that because that's like a tenth of my weight.
	I'll fall on it.
	No, I'll fall on it.
	Body slam it.
	Anyway, to the memes.
	So, meme review!
	We shall begin with something I mentioned previously.
	This is the chirp meme we ran over the other day.
	So, some people used some AI to make some memes here for people listening.
	Columbus introducing the ceiling bird to the natives.
	And explaining it's not the devil that makes the noise, it's the low battery.
	It's just the hallway.
	It just makes that noise.
	Oh yeah, I saw that in the comment.
	So, there's been a whole bunch more.
	And firstly, we're going to start off with the more wholesome things that people have been using.
	I'm just going to call it that.
	Oh, that's great.
	Norman Rockwell playing Todd Howard.
	So Norman Rockwell is the star here from The Artist and Todd Howard's with the Fallout background, the planes.
	To be fair, it doesn't look that Todd Howard-ish.
	No, I mean, this particular example, I think, is a bit inferior to the things we're going to go through.
	Also, the lettering is a bit alien.
	I don't know what's going on there.
	For some reason, it can do logos.
	That's pretty neat.
	Anyway, but, you know, that's pretty fun.
	The style, I really like.
	We'll come back to that.
	That's cool.
	For anyone who's not aware, Norman Rockwell is famous for painting scenes from American life.
	Very wholesome and positive and unsubversive.
	And as a result, this style has become quintessentially American, especially for the fallout.
	That is cool.
	It works really well in the setting, doesn't it?
	But now, other people had more fun and went a bit too far in a few regards, and there are going to be quite a few we're going to go through that are a bit too far, of course, which I don't endorse, but we're going to mention that they exist because that's a thing, starting off with ISIS, who are now having pride parades.
	I mean, this is haram.
	But you can see the use, right?
	Next time you see LGBT against Islamophobia marches, I am just going to post this image underneath.
	This is what you're expecting, isn't it?
	Do you seriously believe this is what the future holds?
	And I think creating such memes and using them can be severely effective.
	There's some other ones.
	We'll start off with Leonardo DiCaprio.
	People came up with some movie ideas for him.
	Oh, there should be another one in there.
	We'll skip, I suppose, to the World Health Organization instead.
	Oh, poor Indians.
	Yeah, I don't know if you can load up the Leonardo DiCaprio one, John, real quick.
	But we're talking here about the Indian meme as well.
	For people who don't know, India has a severe problem with Toilet usage.
	Yes.
	Is that they don't have them.
	So the, uh, well, current, I believe what Prime Minister Modi actually made a campaign promise that every house will have a toilet by 2020.
	And they have like UN songs, poo in the loo and stuff like this.
	No way.
	No, I'm not even joking.
	It's genuine.
	Literal, no.
	Genuinely like propaganda songs trying to get Indians to poo in toilets.
	I wonder, John, if you can load that up in the background.
	At the tab at the end.
	Yeah.
	But I'll do this for now.
	Don't worry.
	I can switch these.
	No, no, no.
	I mean at the point of the loose song at the end.
	That's all I mean.
	Sorry.
	But anyway, we'll begin with Leonardo DiCaprio here.
	So this is Leonardo DiCaprio in a new movie where Hamas are the good guys, which is a whole other thing.
	I see the AI isn't perfect though.
	I mean, a couple of the faces on the left and the right are a bit... He's got anime eyes as well.
	Sure, but like, look at these guys at the end.
	Censored.
	They've got elephantitis.
	Sure, sure.
	I understand, I'm not... So at the end of this, John's just telling me, the ratio didn't perfectly fit, so we went into Photoshop and just added some AI edges, so the very edges to ignore.
	Oh, right, okay, okay.
	Because we're not using the DALI 3 for that.
	We had to use Photoshop data.
	But the next one, as I mentioned, the World Health Organization.
	I do love the lettering as well.
	I don't know what you have to type to get this perfect as well.
	You will poo in Zulu and you will be happy.
	And then the crying Indian who's being forced against his will by the United Nations at gunpoint to stop using Indian squat toilets and use the pristine... I mean, this is literally colonization, isn't it?
	Modern day colonisation.
	I love the gas masks as well.
	You can see like the guys who are doing it as well, presumably the Indian higher-ups.
	I used to dare go.
	UN, I mean, Jesus.
	I have noticed something though.
	No toilet paper.
	Ah, well, the water, presumably.
	Like the Japanese.
	It's not the Japanese, is it?
	I think it's the rest of the world.
	I think it's just the Anglos that don't do it.
	Yeah.
	Which I'm proud of, because that's weird.
	The whole bidet thing.
	But I used to date a girl who was Indian and she lived in like a gated community.
	And what was funny is that she had no idea this was even a meme or a problem in India and had been to India for multiple years of her life.
	And I had to explain it to her and show her the Pooh and the Loo song from the United Nations before she even got it.
	And that's just how divided India is as a country.
	So presumably these are the higher-ups finding out and then insisting that you use it.
	Force the Indians at gunpoint.
	There's a few more of these.
	I mean, this is just funny.
	Reg Nationalist here posting this.
	The UN logo on the toilet.
	You will be dragged into the Star Trek future whether you like it or not.
	Use the toilet.
	There's not a UN version of this.
	There is an American Manifest Destiny version of this.
	Right.
	Because of course, being the global hegemon, they have to do their duty to the world.
	Sorry, there's one more UN one I forgot about.
	Again, you will do it in Zulu and you will be happy.
	Thank you, Klaus Schwab, for that one.
	Blended off with the Manifest Destiny, as you can see here.
	Liberty bringing toilets to the world.
	The Americans have arrived in the Bengal and have brought news.
	Anyway, so my point with this is not just to show funny, because it is funny.
	You can use this AI meme technology for pretty much any subject, which is good fun.
	So, pit bullies and pit bull mummies over here.
	God, I hope the baby wins.
	I'm sure he will.
	He tried his hardest, that's for sure.
	So, for people listening, we're looking at an American XL, I presume, or just a big pitbull, fighting off a baby that he just wants to nom nom nom on.
	Thank god the baby has a sword.
	Yeah, good luck.
	He's not the only one.
	There are a lot of the pitbull memes for some reason.
	People are really enjoying these.
	This is a pitbull playing an arcade machine.
	It's so true though, you can't trust these things at all.
	Like, I'm actively racist against pitbulls.
	Yeah.
	Similarly.
	We had a lot of comments, especially from America.
	I have kids as well.
	OK.
	I just don't want to get bit.
	But there's a lot of Americans, especially because different culture who are just like, you guys are overreacting.
	I love my pitbulls.
	And it's always, you know, some woman petting the pitbull there.
	And I'm like, that's great.
	Love you.
	Enjoy.
	I'm going to not pet that one.
	Wasn't there a protest that's been staged recently where they said, bring all your pitbulls and American XLs to this.
	And it's just going to be apparently a sea of people with lots and lots of dogs.
	It's going to be a massacre that rivals Genghis Khan.
	That's what it's going to be.
	Well, there was actually, as you mentioned, a pitbull protest to stop the banning of the American XL in the UK.
	And I noticed that none of the owners brought their dogs.
	Yeah, we all left our dogs at home.
	Why?
	Because, you know, they're dangerous.
	We wanted to come back with all our fingers.
	I don't want to rehash that whole debate, though.
	Apparently there was an announcement not to bring them from the organisers, John's saying, which is... Don't bring your kids, but these dogs are totally safe, bro.
	They do the same at the Golden Retriever and Labrador shows, you know, don't bring your kids.
	All dogs are the same, man.
	I do love the idea that there's an American Second Amendment protest where everyone says, don't bring your guns, they're dangerous.
	Yeah, they all bring guns.
	Of course they bring their guns.
	And no one gets shot.
	Amazing.
	In fact, it's the safest place to be in America on that day.
	Yeah.
	Certainly not Detroit.
	Anyway.
	Moving on, because it's not the only one.
	There is another form of meme here.
	Movie ideas.
	Now, a lot of people had a lot of movie ideas.
	We'll start off with the Bill Clinton movie.
	They'll be coming out.
	This, this person here.
	Pixar's Epstein Island.
	This doesn't get less spicy as I go.
	You probably can't put this on YouTube.
	We can definitely put this, but just saying that someone's saying that we're a decade away from Disney or Pixar making a Clinton Epstein-esque film about how wonderful it is for old men to fly to a secret island with kids.
	Now, this is doubly funny, of course, because, well, Disney, they keep getting caught engaging in groomer activities.
	So the idea that they wouldn't make the Western version of cuties I've just said I don't really put it past them to produce not exactly this movie.
	I mean it doesn't look exactly like a Pixar movie.
	But in two years, I think there will be some Pixar movie that is like cuties and everyone will be like... No, no.
	What's going to happen is that AI, art, and technology will continue to advance.
	So literally someone can type in, chat GPT, write me an Epstein Island Pixar movie, and then go to Dali, animate me this Epstein Island Pixar movie.
	Go to 11 labs, add the voice.
	Exactly.
	And so they will literally just be able to AI generate the Epstein Island Disney Pixar movie.
	That's what's coming, man.
	You know what's coming before that is 4chan making trailers for the movies.
	Oh no.
	You're just giving them ideas.
	In the future, anything will be possible and it will be awful.
	I'm telling you, it will be absolutely awful.
	See, you know like the difference between people who are, let's say, always online and those who aren't, and you go to your grandma sometimes with like some stupid memes, and they're horrified by what you consider a pretty normal meme.
	That difference is going to get really exponential.
	At some point in the future this will get so advanced you'll literally just go to the computer and just be like look I want to watch a movie about whatever and it'll generate it for you like on the fly like that and it'll just be you'll just watch whatever it is there'll be no limit to anything no point to any of it.
	That would be a cool dystopian novel or something suddenly you're in the movie.
	Yeah, why not?
	So there's some other despicable movie ideas.
	I've only included the most despicable movie ideas for this to make the point that, I mean, apparently literally anything can be brought to life, no matter how horrible.
	So your point about it being dystopia is somewhat true, if not entirely.
	We can see the George Floyd movie, the Pixar version.
	There's also a mid-century German movie that was planned, which I'm not going to show any other shots of.
	I'm just going to show this one to make the point that it existed.
	Someone made that up, so that's a thing.
	Uh, but then we're going to get back to the political side of things, I suppose, because someone started making socialist realism Donald Trump paintings, which... That's, I mean, this guy goes on to mention, like, he's been making loads of them, uh, just talking about AI, uh, being banned from the the Riders Strike dissolution.
	Yeah, lots of anti-union coke.
	Yeah, I mean, good luck trying to stop it by the looks of it.
	Yeah.
	And the big thing I wanted to show was the most one that catch my eye was not all the other nonsense, which, you know, people would make.
	It's that Norman Rockwell stuff, because some guy decided to... Oh, wow.
	Oh, right.
	Someone decided to take that Norman Rockwell picturesque American style of painting and then added in modern American ideas to make, I think, the most effective kind of propaganda I have ever seen.
	This is really powerful.
	What we're currently looking at is, I don't know, a rendition of the George Floyd riots.
	It's not even George Floyd riots, they're still doing it all day every day, but it happens really regularly in America where on social media a gang of urban youths will decide they need to loot something in order to feed their family and a bunch of left-wingers will applaud them on and here's the Norman Rockwell rendition of it.
	And that's exactly what we're looking at for people listening in this example.
	And it goes on and on.
	I mean, these are really strange.
	I mean, we have one here of people just burning down a house.
	We have one here of the cat ladies.
	I love the idea of a 50s cat lady there.
	So there's that.
	The last one here, this is Anon living in his basement.
	There's trash everywhere.
	Somehow looks more cool than the modern Anons.
	Way cooler.
	There's also the average fat American.
	Going to his diner.
	So happy.
	That's a thing.
	In the 50s you didn't get people of that kind of weight.
	No.
	And it doesn't really hit you that hard until you see it in this kind of propaganda style where it's like, oh yeah, I mean the American obesity crisis really is kind of horrific.
	Yeah.
	Truly horrific, to say the least.
	And we have some others here I'm just gonna go through.
	We have the secret police.
	It's the FBI over here in their trolleys with their he-him badges because what else are they gonna wear exactly?
	We have San Francisco visualized.
	Oh yeah, accurate.
	Tent cities, which yeah, that's true as well.
	You can't even deny that.
	We have also the FBI over here listening on you as you take a dump.
	Don't worry UN, I'm using the toilet.
	Please don't call the police.
	We have an American high school visualized.
	It's really punchy isn't it?
	In this style.
	It's really impactful.
	Quite striking.
	We also have women's sport.
	I mean, I do love the South Park version of that.
	That was funny.
	That's a good meme.
	That's something I can share that is funny.
	But this, this strikes me on another level of like, that really... She's so brave, Kelly.
	So brave.
	Really does hit it home.
	Anyway, I have some more, just the last ones here, with yoga, as you can see, the community all getting together to watch.
	Yeah.
	There's also drag queen story hour getting married here.
	The average American church with you know love is love etc.
	which that's a thing.
	Again the edges here that's how I try and fix the resolution.
	You can see the faces in the middle there.
	Dolly 3 is really getting rid of the faces.
	Except that little girl there.
	She got the short straw.
	She's just a bigot man.
	She doesn't like that.
	We have the last one here as well, it's the average Democrat, so I mean... He's running for office, how do you know?
	Well, he's got Stephen with him, who is... Supported by his husband.
	Well, it's not even necessarily his husband, it's a local community leader who just wants privacy in his own bedroom.
	Yes, right.
	Which, I don't know if people saw, there was actually a local community leader in, I think it was Philadelphia, who won a Pride March, Who tweeted in exactly this uniform, in case you're wondering.
	I mean, almost garment for garment.
	And with the quote, I'm going to get fisted today.
	I did see this.
	And then everyone thought he was joking because, you know, you know, the extreme, you know, some people in the like, sort of.
	And then there was a picture of him doing it in public.
	Later that day at the same march, and a lot of people were just commenting in the privacy of my own bedroom, huh?
	I was like, yeah, there's a real difference here.
	I mean, we've hit on that many a time, the difference between the gay community and the LGBT community.
	Yeah.
	And it's quite funny.
	Whenever I meet a gay guy who knows the show, he always comes up to me and says, man, I love what you're doing.
	God, we have nothing in common with those people.
	I'm like, don't worry, I know.
	Completely different sex of society.
	If you're watching us, I'm guessing you're not getting fisted in public.
	Keep it in your bedroom.
	Anyway, but that's my point, which is AI memes are really advanced.
	They have become to the point in which they can do literally anything you want.
	And my more base point is that it doesn't have to do with anything.
	I mean, you could apply this to any ideology.
	So I think the worst dystopian aspect of this is not necessarily anything we just mentioned.
	The left might be able to meme.
	You never know.
	I think how scary that is.
	The left can't meme.
	They just need to get a computer to do the memes for them.
	That's what I mean.
	They might actually make something for once.
	I mean, I'm not saying it'll be anytime soon.
	They're still going to have to work that funny out.
	I'm not, I'm not terribly perturbed by even the evil AI creating memes.
	I'm not worried about it.
	I don't know.
	I got, I got some fears under my bed about that, but anyway, that's, that's AI memes.
	So if you want to make some, um, Dali 3 is a thing.
	So, I thought we'd talk about why women go for bad boys.
	But, interestingly, I came across an old article.
	It's from 2015, right?
	And it just felt weird how times have changed, right?
	Especially in the light of what's happened with Laurence Fox.
	And, uh... I have to bring it up again!
	And Genghis Khan.
	It's just a thing of perennial.
	Yeah, and Genghis Khan.
	No!
	We've got some bad boys and they, they are well approved of in 2015 by women.
	Now you wouldn't find an article like this now, which I found interesting.
	So I just thought we'd go through it.
	But before we do go and sign up for the website, go and watch Josh's contemplations on why women love serial killers.
	Women do have weird thoughts.
	Yeah, so we've also got a pay for an individual episode feature on the website.
	Also, if you just want to watch this particular one or anything else, you can buy the full video for £1.89 or $2.30, something like that.
	So go and watch that because this will inform much of what we talk about now.
	So, uh, the real reason women, is this the right one?
	No, it's the right one.
	Right.
	So yeah, from 2015 by Stephanie Heyman.
	Right.
	So, why do women go for a-holes?
	Is a question that many women frequently ask themselves, usually after a man has wronged them in some way.
	It's a phrase that's echoed way too often, one that's shown up repeatedly in group text messages.
	It's choked out through teary conversations and usually a catalyst into indulging into a bag of peanut M&Ms, pizza, vodka, or three.
	Where are all the nice guys?
	It's a question many women ponder as habitually as the verb.
	It is, at times, an incomprehensible thought that reverberates in our minds and the answer to which seems to be virtually unknown.
	Females crave to be treated with respect and kindness and claim to want the quintessential nice guy.
	A man with good morals is a superb tank.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Does anyone believe any of this?
	I think there might be an actual generational divide here as well because I thought we were going to be going a bit deeper because we've covered it previously, that beauty account.
	Yes.
	There's a lot of research on female interests in pornography.
	Right.
	The whole fetish world for women is a whole other concept.
	Right.
	There's a book called My Secret Garden.
	It's a book literally just of women's fantasies as related by women.
	Read it if you want to end up with my opinions on them.
	But that beauty account did do the legwork and actually got the data, and one of the things they found that was really weird was there's a massive difference in the modern women, so Gen Z women, so anyone from like the late 90s to now, basically.
	massively new interests in in sex to say the least that's a youtube friendly way i put it i suppose and i do wonder if this woman is somewhat different from that but is she just talking about dating or is she talking about sex um well both okay right so as you can see they carry on with the the idea the idealized way that they might be interested in men as in they want them to be respectable they want to be uh you know the treatment kindness open car doors uh
	instead of text we'll send your mother's flowers on her birthday you'll talk sports with your brother take your younger sister out for ice cream and receive your father's approval it's like okay utopian thought yeah you know not not not much But instead, we collectively go for the consummate a-hole, a cocky man who has bad boy tendencies, his fluent and flirtatious manner keeps us hanging with mysterious text messages, and usually leaves us up at night questioning whether he is truly interested or just playing us.
	I mean, that is the... John, I can hear myself reverberating.
	That is a lot more realistic.
	A description of what's happening in life to men.
	And so I just thought we'd go through some of her reasons.
	It turns out that they don't want the idealized fantasy.
	And they're quite clear about it.
	The first one is, of course, pure charisma.
	It is charismatic.
	To be the bad boy, which I guess Russell Brand is learning has a sort of pendulum effect.
	At some point, you're very popular and you're very charismatic.
	And another point, you're basically a rapist.
	And you cancel.
	But they say, she says, guys with a-hole tendencies always seem to know how and when to say the right things to get under your skin.
	Be a playful attempt at an insult or a really nice compliment.
	Either way, it's appealing and leaves you wanting more.
	So, okay, women want men with charisma.
	Men with charisma tend to be a little more narcissistic and less concerned about her, actually, because this is what the entire theme really is.
	Stop essentially genuflecting your entire life around the woman.
	That's what she's saying.
	Because you're like, oh, I want a guy who's going to open the door for me and be attentive and stuff like that.
	It's like, you don't, actually.
	You want a guy who's self-possessed and is going to be the leader in his own life and is going to go forward and do things, right?
	You look... You look disgusted.
	Do you want a guy whose only interest is you?
	Well, that's a stalker.
	That's... I mean, Twilight exists.
	No, but it makes such obvious sense, like maybe the guy doesn't have a job but a family.
	Yeah, be doing things and be interesting and mysterious.
	But this, you know, they want charismatic guys.
	And the next one is the same, the I'm busy, right?
	As much as we want guys to clear their schedules and for us to be completely available when we want them to be, knowing someone's busy is a turn on.
	Well, I think women like the ambitious male, don't they?
	They like the ambitious type.
	I think it's more than that, because when you get everything you want all the time, that's just boring.
	Yes, that's very true.
	That's just really boring.
	You can't have too much of a good thing.
	But if someone sets a boundary and says, no, you've got to wait.
	And then when I'm ready, that heightens anticipation.
	Yeah.
	And so, you know, it makes them, they've kept something back for themselves.
	And so they become an interesting sort of challenge.
	That's probably why long distance relationships are very popular.
	Are they?
	I don't know if they are.
	People love being in long distance relationships.
	It's the anticipation.
	Right, okay.
	I don't know if that's true.
	Please fact check.
	90% of... Yeah, 90%.
	But this, I think, is actually something that young men need to take away, right?
	And this is particularly important in the era of instant messaging and social media, right?
	As she says there, it shows he's busy with school or work, which improves your sort of like status in her eyes.
	He has a lot of friends who spend time with his family.
	He's clearly not accessible, which leaves us wondering what he's doing in the midst of his budding social status.
	You are just literally sat at home in your underwear, drinking beer and playing Call of Duty.
	She is creating a James Bond-esque narrative of what you're doing in your spare time.
	You have to do so little work and all you have to do is just not text her back.
	Right.
	Text her back like tomorrow.
	Right.
	That's all you need to do.
	This is just advice for your men.
	This is right.
	Be fun and charismatic, obviously, you know, so she's enjoying being in company, but also just sit at home one or two days and not contact her.
	Focus on your dungeon raids.
	Exactly, man.
	You know, grind a bit.
	Yeah.
	Have a few beers, you know, get a pizza in.
	Sweet.
	And just don't talk to her.
	And she thinks you're doing something magical.
	And in a way you are, you know, you're making me time.
	You earned this time.
	Come on Callum, this is a winning strategy.
	I'm not disagreeing.
	This is a total winning strategy.
	I was just taking it too far in my head.
	Don't take it too far.
	Don't take it too far.
	I just love the idea that she sat there being like, you know, her dirty talk is him texting back, I can't make it.
	No, no, no.
	Again, it's the sort of build up.
	The anticipation's building.
	But obviously don't take it too far because then she'll think you're not interested.
	Anyway, number three is flirtatious banter, which of course everyone should engage in with women when They are interested in you, don't engage with women when they're not interested in you.
	I realize that for autistic Gen Z men, this is going to be a very difficult thing, but women do like this and you have to do it if you want to be interesting to a woman, right?
	So she says, most a-holes, at least the ones I know, would have earned A pluses in Floating 101.
	The banter is infectious and the things they say keep you on your toes, like friendly competition within a conversational setting.
	It becomes part of a daily routine you can look forward to, similar to that giddy feeling of eager anticipation you used to get when you saw your crush sign into AOL Instant Messenger.
	How old is this woman?
	Oh, she's 30.
	You sure?
	Yeah, I looked her up.
	Oh, right.
	Was she 33?
	AOL Instant Messenger.
	I would have half expected MSN but not AOL.
	But the point being?
	At the time of writing she was 22.
	Really?
	How old was she on AOL Instant Messenger?
	Because that was in 2015.
	Hang on, yeah.
	Don't do a calculator.
	No, that's the wrong one, John.
	Stephanie, that's it.
	Anyway, right.
	So the point being, right, you can see that what is the appeal here behind the bad boys is that they end up probably by accident creating a kind of mystique around themselves.
	They're kind of casting the spell.
	So when they're around them, they're charismatic and they banter.
	So they're fun, but they don't give it too much of it because I know I'm busy.
	I'm busy being James Bond or whatever you think I'm doing when I'm sat at home.
	Hung over, right?
	And so, but there's a kind of spell that is cast.
	So it's like you're an appealing thing, but not too much.
	And there's boundaries and there's restrictions.
	Keep them at arm's length.
	You don't, again, this is not bad boy, really.
	I mean, you don't have to be a bad boy to do this.
	But what she's telling us here is just what women want to be enchanted into a romance with you, which is very easy for any man to do.
	You don't have to be mean, you don't have to be cruel, you know, or anything like this.
	You don't have to, you know, be Andrew Tate or anything.
	Exactly.
	You just have to know your own value and what she's trying to get from you and then just lean into it.
	Yeah.
	So the next one is challenging.
	Don't be a walkover.
	Stand up for yourself.
	This is, is this really such a hard thing?
	You know, and this is a woman who's like, yeah, no, I love, you know, bad boys.
	Why do I love them?
	Because of these really basic things that any man can do without in any way being offensive or, you know, Running into the danger zone or anything.
	But she says, some guys are so nice, they'll do whatever you want to make you happy.
	Now, I've seen this so often, man.
	I used to work at a call center, and the guy who sat next to me used to drive around one of the girls who worked there all the time.
	He wasn't gay, right?
	And he would just drive around like Fridays and Saturday nights.
	I thought you were about to say he wasn't gay or anything.
	My point is, you hear that, you just go, yeah, they're not.
	Exactly.
	And it's like, no, you should have said no.
	Just full stop.
	You know, you should not have done this.
	Do not do things for women.
	You are not hating, you know, because this is what she's actually complaining about here.
	Some guys are so nice.
	They'll do anything to make you happy.
	They cater to your needs and put themselves last.
	Actually, women don't want that.
	That's not enchanting.
	You know, you're not very interesting if you don't stand up as a thing in and of yourself that she can look up to and try and get some of at some point.
	That's a good point, actually, because.
	I think women, I think, cater a lot of when it comes to relationships and things all around social status a lot.
	Everything is almost governed unconsciously on social status.
	If they see a man that's very popular or is very ambitious and very busy, then usually, yeah, that's kind of the gravitation.
	Exactly, because there's a kind of narrative that ends up getting woven around you.
	Not only you're fun, you're fun to talk to, you're charismatic, but you're also slightly unavailable.
	And when she's with you, you're not just a pushover.
	You've actually, you've got, you show some steel within yourself.
	Because that's what she's complaining about.
	You know, they're so consumed with the thought of thrilling you, they completely put their personalities and needs to the wayside.
	and things become dry and boring.
	This is not how things go with A-hole guys.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Don't do this, right?
	You know, if you don't want to do something, you say, no, I want to do this, and this is what we're going to do.
	And she'll probably go along with it, unless there's some massive rejection.
	Like, you know, I don't know.
	Don't go through a bullfight or something, maybe with a vegan.
	Yeah.
	I don't know, maybe she'll be impressed by it.
	But the point is, just make sure you are essentially setting your own boundaries and making sure that you don't just fawn over her all the time.
	That's not what women want, actually.
	Although my wife's probably watching this being like, I'd love a bit of fawning.
	I may buy some flowers.
	So the next one is communication overload isn't cool, right?
	Nice guys think girls love adequate daily communication over the phone.
	They go above and beyond to make that happen.
	For example, I met one guy who's way too enthusiastic about texting.
	Again, they, they want you to be something mysterious that is impressive in it.
	So in the narrative, they spin about you in their head.
	That's what it all comes down to.
	I don't see this as being a bad boy.
	No, it's not.
	That's the thing.
	That's weird.
	That's the thing.
	Like, none of this is like, you know, sleep with other women or get drunk and yell at me.
	You know, yeah.
	You know, go on GB News and tell people about how you wouldn't, you know, love you lots.
	I'm just teasing.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You know, like, none of this is actually bad boy.
	This is just how a man should actually carry himself to impress women.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Any thoughts, Callum?
	I just thought about the flower thing.
	I haven't really got much to say on this to be honest.
	One of the things I noticed in Russia is everyone seemed to have flowers like every couple and I'm talking like 15 year old boys with their girlfriends at that age walk around and the girl would always have one flower.
	That's nice.
	That's actually nice.
	I don't know if it's because like the old women are all selling flowers and that's the reason why, but in this country flowers feel kind of crap as a gift.
	Flowers feel almost like you've done something wrong.
	Yeah, because it's from a garage or something and it's wrapped in plastic.
	Oh right, that.
	That whole, even the plastic itself annoys me because it makes me look at it and think product.
	You're doing it wrong.
	What you need to do, you go on interflora.com and you order the flowers and they deliver the flowers.
	Not sponsored, but if you want to get in touch.
	We do use your services fairly often when I haven't communicated properly with my wife.
	But anyway, right.
	So she, she carries on, uh, but he texts every 30 seconds.
	And of course this is, this gives her some sort of fatigue.
	She's, she doesn't want to hear from a guy who's constantly available because again, you're not manifesting a kind of mythos about yourself.
	Like you're a heroic man on a journey doing something and you, you do like her, but you know, she can't take all of your time and she can't feel like actually she's the only thing you have going in your life.
	It's almost like she wants to interject and be that time and you're not allowing that.
	So it's like you've created that barrier.
	So she wants to break through it.
	But it also kind of devalues her in a way, because saying like, Oh, but you're the only interesting thing in my life.
	And it's like, okay, but you seem really boring.
	You know, you've got nothing going on.
	So I mean, how boring am I if I'm the most exciting man?
	And because the average woman is probably looking at her life going, yeah, but all I do is watch soaps.
	You know, the average woman is not the most exciting person in the world either.
	And you're giving her no romance to buy into.
	You know, this is the thing you've got to understand that you're supposed to be creating a romance for her as well as yourself.
	Like social media.
	Yes.
	And she says these are a-hole guys, but like, again, you do not have to be a bad boy to do these things.
	No.
	And of course, number six, stop being a nice guy.
	Has anyone, have you guys ever called yourself a nice guy?
	No.
	Really counting?
	No, I'm joking.
	I think I'm nice.
	No.
	I was joking.
	One of the words no one ever calls me, but.
	You've never done it?
	No comment.
	Well, listen to this woman, because she's like, nope.
	I'm sure guys hate hearing this as much as girls hate saying it, but it's true.
	If a guy completely plays by the rules, doesn't carry a torch for flotation, and fails to get under our skin, our inner voices just tell us he's just too nice.
	Just don't.
	It's almost like a rejection, that line.
	Oh, you're just too nice.
	Oh yeah, it is.
	It's totally a rejection.
	And so this, and I see, I've seen loads of young men who have fallen into this trap thinking, Oh, if I'm nice to her, she'll be interested in me.
	It's like, why would she be interested?
	You know, she wants something strange and mysterious and exciting to make her boring life seem less boring.
	That's why she's into you, you know?
	And I mean, it's like, and you don't write my wife the other day, like last year, but like came out of Facebook messages, um, posted something.
	She'd obviously seen someone, which was, um, you know, my husband's so boring that if he murdered me, he wouldn't be registered as a person of interest.
	I'm like me.
	Do you know who you're marrying?
	We've got another husband!
	I wish that was the case, to be honest.
	There are way too many articles written about me.
	I love the idea you're in bed with your wife one day and you're just like, honey, if I killed you, I would be such the interested person.
	Well, that's what I'll say tonight.
	You brag.
	The thing is, I don't need to.
	I mean, she's obviously posting it ironically.
	Um, but anyway, so, uh, she carries on because this is a lot of the problem that I think sometimes they lack confidence.
	Sometimes they're too shy, quiet, and most likely they will be the ones to adore and love and respect you at the end of each and every day.
	Yeah.
	They like that X factor, which allows them to be thrown into the too nice category as in predictability, right?
	You have to be slightly unpredictable because it shows that you have an active in a life and you are trying to achieve something in the world.
	You are not just literally like her pet.
	Cause that's what she's complaining about here.
	Like you are, you are giving the same kind of love and adoration that a dog would give.
	You have to be the leader in the relationship.
	And that means holding something back for yourself.
	That means being interesting and doing unexpected things.
	Now this all about judgment calls, you know, I can't give you, there's no particular rule that means on this day, you have to do this.
	You have to just play it by ear, but you have to bear these things in mind because this is literally a woman saying, look, this is what we like about bad boys.
	It's like, but.
	No, these are just decent guys can be like this.
	And so she ends up with, we're conditioned to be attracted to a-hole tendencies because of what society tells us.
	Well, are we sorry?
	Are we wary of nice guys because the media portrays successful hot guys as ones who carry the attitude of mystery?
	I mean, probably, but I think either way this would have been the case.
	Um, and so not much else that she says in this, but basically I think you can take, there are loads of articles like this as well, right?
	And you should take them at face value when these women are saying, look, you know, I want to be surprised by you.
	I want to find you interesting.
	Take these things at face value and just make sure that you don't fall into the trap of being basically the nice guy, simple acts like a poodle.
	It's like, hold some respect for yourself.
	That's all she's asking for.
	Be a bit funny.
	You know, be a bit mysterious.
	Don't be doting on me all the time.
	You know, don't be like a child, you know, be like an adult man who's doing something in the world.
	And it's literally just that simple.
	You don't have to be mean.
	You don't have to be cruel.
	You do have to just not text her while you're playing Call of Duty.
	There you go.
	Now apply.
	Yeah.
	But there are so many young men who are like totally lost, man.
	And it really bothers me because it's like, but all of the women are telling you what they want.
	You know, they, I honestly, I could have picked dozens of these.
	But, um, but you'll notice that like, this is the total opposite of the sort of feminist narrative predominates.
	I mean, this is why Russell Brand was attracted to women 20 years ago.
	Sure.
	Wouldn't get written today.
	No.
	I just think you've hit on a point there though with the whole, Feminist narrative about what men should be.
	Yeah.
	Because I mean, and this is the total opposite.
	Yeah.
	But even just look at like the schooling system and how they would want you to turn out at the end of it or take like some crappy kids orientated television from Britain.
	I don't know about America where it's always like, yeah, the guy should be a nice guy and always nice to women and blah, blah, blah, blah.
	But this is all bollocks.
	Women don't do that.
	I mean, one, don't talk to a woman about your feelings and don't cry in front of her.
	End of story.
	Talk to your dad, talk to your mates, talk to your brother, whoever.
	Don't talk to your wife or any woman about it.
	And trust me, as a married man, I'm telling you.
	Okay?
	Just take my word for it.
	And they will all say, Oh no, I want no feelings.
	But this is, this is again, part of the sort of, this is a test, right?
	It is a test to see if you have the spine to hold something back for yourself and draw a boundary and say no under any circumstance.
	You know, cause that's what women respect.
	That's what they want to see from you.
	And that's literally what she's saying.
	You know, don't text me all the time and say, yeah, why not?
	Because you're holding something back for yourself.
	That's what she wants to know.
	You've got that inner strength.
	And so don't talk about your feelings with the girl.
	Don't cry in front of her.
	End of story.
	All right.
	Should we go to the video comments?
	Yep.
	I'm sorry.
	Did you think that the Black Power Doritos were the only thing out there?
	Look at this.
	Guess where this is?
	Target, of course.
	So they've got a literal Black Power section at Target now.
	So that's great.
	It's just great.
	Yeah.
	More junk food too, by the way.
	Black flour.
	Anyway, we did play that yesterday, so apologies for that, but people who missed it, yeah, Black Flower is now playing.
	What?
	Oh, sorry, I might have been... Is that complex?
	Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah.
	You don't buy on to the idea that there's food for blacks only?
	What cracks me up, though, is that there's one way of saying... We've got water fountains, too, if you... But there's one way, like, yeah, we're promoting black businesses.
	Also, we're helping out the racists to avoid the people they hate.
	With Charlie's segment yesterday, I think current thing is a means of turning the NPCs against the dissenters.
	Yes.
	It's a way of, like, corralling them to know who's in and who's out.
	To the next one.
	With Charlie's segment yesterday, I think current thing is a means of turning the NPCs against the dissenters.
	Yes.
	It's a way of corralling them to know who's in and who's out.
	Yeah.
	Rightly correct.
	It's time to get radical.
	The album you've all been waiting for!
	It's Rad Trad!
	Absolutely the raddest album ever released!
	12 speaker shakin' tunes!
	like you know i would actually listen to that as well unironically Watching Zoomers talk about the 80s and 90s is so bizarre.
	Because it doesn't fit or something?
	It's not that it doesn't fit, it's just there's something kind of bizarro world about it.
	I mean it was kind of cringe at the time but you didn't really think about it being cringe because you were living through it.
	It's just normal.
	So as soon as they sort of like take all of that out, take all of the aesthetic out of its context and promote it, like, there's just something really weird about it.
	I need to, I haven't got a proper way of describing what I'm trying to say, but it's, it's slightly creepy.
	Have you seen the Eastern European recreation of nineties, uh, or like Well, like dance rock, whatever it is, dance pop.
	I'll have to get it.
	It's like the English is all broken.
	They're talking about how we're going to party so hard.
	And then it's just, it kind of feels like it's robots doing right.
	Like, yeah, but foreigners, but zoomers feel like foreigners from the time.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	And so it's, it's, it's weird and kind of sad, you know, like there's this kind of like, Oh, we wish we lived in a time when we didn't hate ourselves and everyone was having fun, you know?
	And it's, I don't know how to describe it.
	It's just kind of weird and sad.
	And so anyway.
	I think the chirping in the hallway is soothing.
	Now, here's my everything's okay alarm.
	Once it's just part of the background radiation of your life.
	This will sound every three seconds!
	If it's not there, then perhaps you feel like there's something wrong with the world.
	Unless something isn't okay!
	Telling me that everything's fine.
	Turn it off, Homer!
	It can't be turned off!
	That's like every conversation with a leftist.
	That's right!
	I like the pitch at the end.
	Simpsons did it before you, Carl.
	Sorry.
	Oh yeah, way before.
	So you guys haven't heard from me in forever, but I am not dead.
	I've just been really busy.
	All good things, though.
	Additional job responsibilities at work, projects upgrading and improving my house, a lot of new reenactment activities.
	But since it's October, I wanted to ask, with Halloween coming up, What are the odds we could get Carl as Sargon of Akkad for Halloween?
	I feel like Carl could pull it off and it would be really fun for the people who've been here a long time.
	What do you say?
	Halloween is weird America.
	I was literally about to say unpopular opinion, but I can't stand Halloween.
	Yeah, it's not that I can't stand it, but it's for kids, right?
	I take my kids out trick-or-treating.
	You go around the little neighborhood, you knock on doors, and they put little things.
	Adults in England don't engage in Halloween.
	Or if they do, they're like students.
	But I saw... Lots do.
	Yeah, women, you know.
	I saw the commercialism for Halloween in America and I'm just like, this is, this is gross.
	The amount of money you people are spending on this.
	I don't, I mean, you know, it's fun for kids, right?
	That's, that's the way I look at Halloween.
	Uh, so no, I don't dress up for Halloween.
	Yeah.
	It's not a thing here at all.
	The three years I've lived here, I've not had a single kid come and knock on my door asking for sweets or something.
	But we don't have a housing estate where I live.
	Yeah.
	But then you should have a higher chance, right?
	Like, do you take your kids out trick-or-treating?
	Yeah.
	And you actually get people who are doing stuff or what?
	Well it's kids wandering around in little Halloween costumes which are adorable.
	Yeah yeah but like the adults aren't going out and the houses aren't covered in stuff.
	You'll put like decorations out in the house because that indicates that you're playing into the game of it and the kids will come and knock on your house.
	But like the difference between the British house and the American house in that instance.
	Some people go quite all out.
	Really?
	I've never seen it.
	Well yeah you don't live in a sort of family area.
	I grew up in one.
	I'm not saying it hasn't.
	Once upon a time I lived in a British area.
	It's been almost a decade now, but yeah.
	You don't tend to get adults going around dressed up.
	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.
	Callum, I thought we were friends.
	by the way dan all my books are already in the lotus eaters library so enjoy mate yeah there we are uh cscooper.us.com there we are well you messed that up well i'm trying to now because i'm trying to get out of my brain it's still in there even when he wasn't sending his video comments about his books i'm still getting really mimetic hey lotus eaters we're
	Regarding the Dilbert Curse segment, I do feel really bad for the leftists who died, and make no mistake, they are our enemies, and they do want us dead.
	But we are commanded by God to love our enemy, if you're Christian.
	Now, part of loving someone is carrying their pain with you.
	And although I think it's God's will that they do suffer these consequences, we are commanded not to give in to celebration.
	And I mean, the one fella protected his girlfriend, died protecting his girlfriend.
	So no matter how he lived, let it be remembered he died as a man.
	Yeah, even though he voted for this.
	But no, I'm not sympathetic to him, but I think we shouldn't be dancing on the brakes because that's what the left did.
	Did you see what the girlfriend did?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	So, for people who don't know, the girlfriend has decided to not talk to the police and then put up a GoFundMe in which people have given her 50 grand already because she did not talk to the police.
	Yes.
	And it turns out, when you go look at her history, all cops are B-words.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Leftist.
	Like I said, it's not that we should be celebrating, but we should just sit there and go, yep, well, you get what you voted for.
	Imagine dying for her though, and then she does that.
	If you could look down from heaven, what did your girlfriend do after you sacrificed your life?
	Okay, but if you're in the weird cult, you'd be like, okay, at least she wasn't reinforcing the systemic racism that caused the black guys to come and stab me.
	His friends were like, oh yeah, he'd say that this guy was a victim of society or something.
	I know, but I mean, this is a level of insanity where it's really, really, really hard to have any sympathy.
	I don't have any sympathy.
	I'm just not laughing at you, right?
	I've got nothing.
	You've got to stand on that fence.
	Nothing I'm going to say.
	De-urbanize, that's my only solution.
	Sam says, firstly, I would like to wish Dan a very happy birthday for tomorrow.
	Birthday is always a good way to start the weekend, especially if you're not in the office.
	And I've also donated £200 in honour of him.
	Thanks, man.
	Um, in honor of his birthday.
	Um, secondly, I have a book club suggestion, which is Gotcha!
	The Subordination of Free Will by Eldon Taylor.
	Uh, the following is the third paragraph of Amazon's description.
	Gotcha!
	Exposes the arrival of the Orwellian age in full-blown technicolor.
	In laying bare the current uses of the many sophisticated techniques, Eldon reveals what it is we need to do in order to avoid following others, uh, allowing others to puppet our thoughts.
	What was your last original thought?
	Take back your power, take back your hearts and minds and learn what it means to be truly free.
	If you think it sounds like a potential book club material, I'd love to send it to you.
	What was your last original thought?
	What was my last original thought?
	Oh gosh.
	I don't know.
	That's great.
	No.
	Probably the one I was telling you.
	But the housing, how do we solve the left?
	Destroy the cities.
	Remote work as many people as you can, and then they don't have to live in cities.
	Like the whole, because of the factories, we have to move into the cities, like that needs reversing, because that's what killed the West.
	Interesting, because every thought I have reminded me of an original thought.
	JC says, I really like the dynamic between Callum and Karl, and Callum's unruly attitude.
	Yeah, do as you're told, Callum.
	Hey!
	Nonsense!
	I'm patiently waiting for all those arrests for those who advocated for damage during BLM.
	No, it only goes one way.
	Yeah, that's the point.
	It only goes one way, and everyone should be aware of that.
	Colin's like, are they going to be arresting Chris Packham?
	No, of course they're not.
	You know they're not.
	You know they're never going to do that.
	The Real Bigfoot, and you were skeptical, honestly.
	The use of the legal... What?
	The Bigfoot thing?
	Look, there's a guy called the Real Bigfoot, so I mean, I'm going to take that place, darling.
	Purple Ackie.
	Is that his name?
	That's what someone said.
	No, no, no.
	That's a meme.
	That's a serial rapist in Scotland.
	Bigfoot lives in North America.
	Oh, he's not a serial rapist.
	No, there's no accounts of being raped by Bigfoot.
	I've seen it.
	That was me being purely ignorant then because someone mentioned something last night of a meme and I didn't know the full thing.
	So, for context... I think you're besmirching Bigfoot.
	British Bigfoot, ah.
	Yeah, the British Bigfoot.
	But Bigfoot says, the use of the legal system against Trump and his political opponents has been so clear and obvious with Trump in America and now Lawrence Fox here.
	This is one of the main reasons trust in institutions such as the police is so low.
	It's quite terrifying for anyone who can notice basic patterns of these things if you're Yeah, I mean, Lawrence Fox didn't help himself, like I said, by saying, I'm going to commit some crimes.
	But then Chris Packham said the same thing.
	Yeah, the law is never equally distributed unless you're political.
	Yep.
	Baron Von Warhawk.
	Soon there will be printing articles saying why Hitler was a net positive for the environment.
	I'm going to Google it and see if I can find it.
	The Royal Bigfoot again.
	Genghis Khan wasn't so bad.
	He didn't have a negative opinion of the ULAs.
	I mean, that's true.
	That's true.
	True.
	Roman Observer says, next on the Guardian, how Attila the Hun did his best against climate change.
	Justin B says, the number of police officers and the speed of the response just suggests this is a clear attempt to intimidate anyone thinking of going against the regime.
	Yeah, I think there's a kind of Line that connects Laurence Fox being offensive to women as well to this.
	I think it's just that they were in his thoughts.
	He was in their thoughts.
	They were just like, Oh, right.
	Oh, right.
	Look, we can use this and we'll, we'll, you know, go and scatter the S out there and stuff like that.
	Like, I think if he had just gone on Magic Noir's podcast and he wasn't involved in the controversy, probably nothing would have happened.
	No, no, I agree.
	I agree.
	George says Sadiq sending his Janissaries to intimidate Fox is chilling.
	It's obviously to send a message to the people destroying his tax machines, but I doubt many of those responsible for the heroism watch Fox.
	They're just normies who can't afford the blood carbon tax.
	Um, I don't know.
	Maybe, you know, maybe.
	JJHW says there is no legal basis for the EULAs under the Greater London Authority Act of 1999.
	Every payment made by drivers to the GLA for EULAs is criminal fraud.
	Police are co-conspirators in that fraud.
	Well, someone should make a legal challenge to it then.
	Like an actual legal challenge.
	Um, because that's the only way it's going to get established in law.
	If it isn't legal, um, you know, just going around hacking down the things, uh, is not going to establish that.
	Um, whether I agree with it or not.
	X, Y, and Z says, Carl, all I'm asking for is common sense dog control.
	Who needs anything bigger than a Yorkie?
	Carl and Callum, the David Hogg and shaved head chick of the English dog control.
	You against that comparison?
	I don't want to be David Hogg.
	I don't want to be the shaven head chick either.
	They're both horrible.
	Yeah.
	Do you want to hear about the Green SS?
	Yeah, go on.
	So there's an article here from Canadian Free Press talking about how green Hitler and the Nazis were.
	And the headline is, the SS, the greenest faction of National Socialism.
	It was the Green Praetorian Guard.
	The greenest faction of National Socialism.
	Yeah.
	Important stuff.
	They basically just go through to be like, well, you know, they were good for the land.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Hitler wanted to build windmills all over Ukraine to supply its needs of electricity.
	Oh, there we are.
	You can make a case for anyone these days.
	Apparently so, especially if you're in Canada.
	Yeah, Ewan Baker says there was a defender of the American XLs that ended up mauled by one recently.
	I imagine that's hardly a unique case.
	Void Tempest says, I just want to use AI art for mood setting in my D&D games, man.
	Is that really too much to ask for?
	Actually, no, that's a pretty reasonable request.
	Very, very reasonable.
	Like that's, that's a good.
	Do you have a game as well?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You know, um, and to be honest with you for memes is pretty good.
	Like the normal rock one's really good.
	I like political memes.
	It's a good use for AI art.
	Uh, shame about political artists.
	Um, uh, the French good.
	Sorry.
	March of Technology.
	I know, man.
	Like, you know, where are all the farriers now?
	People who shoe horses and stuff like that.
	Like, we're losing our jobs.
	It's like the car.
	It happens.
	But the chariot makers were like, you're riding horses, you're losing our jobs.
	March of Progress.
	They did!
	It doesn't quite work.
	You still need a horse for a chariot.
	Yeah, but the riding of the horse means the chariot itself is obsolete.
	Because people used horses before they could ride.
	Wait, really?
	I thought they'd always ride horses?
	No, because horses used to be a lot smaller than they are now, right?
	So, like... What?
	They did?
	I didn't know that!
	Because only humans were smaller, so if you go to the past, everyone's a midget, but now the horse is smaller.
	Not necessarily, it depends where you were.
	Like, grain diet makes humans smaller, but if your diet was mostly meat or nuts and berries and stuff, you'd be normal height, right?
	So it's about a lack of nutrition, really, that makes humans smaller.
	When horses were first domesticated, they were really small.
	They were waist high.
	They were not very big.
	So they were used to pull carts and chariots.
	You couldn't ride one because you were just too big and heavy.
	But they bred bigger and bigger horses.
	And even in the Middle Ages, the horses they used were not very big.
	Like, you know the giant Shire horses?
	They're only like 200 years old.
	Yeah, they're not very old.
	You didn't have massive horses back in the day.
	So it's just interesting.
	I don't know any of that.
	Anyway, Callum deserves a rave for spending all day gathering AI memes off 4chan.
	Really, that's why he deserves a pay cut.
	Sophie says, there's something funny I noticed about myself, I've got to say.
	In the past when looking for men, I was looking for an artist or a unitype.
	Right now, I'm honestly just looking for a handyman.
	Somebody who works as a farmer or bricklayer or something.
	My own wishes have changed in a way I didn't see coming, but the essential point is the same.
	She wants someone who is doing something she's an art of, not someone who is obsessed with her.
	This is just the essential critique of what you should think of when you're dating.
	Stop going for art students and bloody artists.
	Well, no, even then, like an artist is doing something that's not her, you know, it's fine.
	Just don't be a simp.
	It's just all it takes just to actually have a life.
	Yeah.
	Be a normal person and women will be attracted to that.
	uh dragonhawk red says non-neurotic women don't want bad boys it's not well i mean bad boy is very much in quotes here right it's not rocket science self self-respect and respect towards his partner not simping that's not asking a lot some of us are rational actors believe enough yeah and that's totally true sophie again says trust me you do not want a man whose whole world is you uh once you are there that behavior from the man is repellent it's It's pathetic and desperate from his side.
	You're not going to be attracted to it.
	For the love of God, guys, have a hobby and strong social circle.
	It makes you much, much more attractive.
	Totally true.
	Totally true.
	Transportation Wombat, great name, says, Women test men's self-agency, as they want a man who goes for what he wants, but will make them feel special enough to be part of what he wants.
	That's absolutely true.
	As Desert Rat says, a bouquet is either a celebration or an apology.
	One to three flowers are a thinking of you gift.
	That's how I interpret it.
	Yeah.
	And like any more than that is a kind of, I'm sorry.
	And the number of flowers depends on how sorry you are.
	Yeah.
	Trust me.
	That's how it works.
	There's a discount at the funeral home.
	I brought you this.
	Discount at the funeral home?
	Robbing funeral homes flowers.
	I'm cheap.
	Kevin says, I once got dumped by a girl because, for a surprise, I took her out one Sunday.
	I didn't tell her where we were going, and I took her back to my parents' place for Sunday lunch to celebrate my younger brother's birthday.
	On the train back, she dumped me because I was too nice.
	My family sat at the dinner table to eat a home-cooked Sunday roast, not a takeaway in front of the TV.
	My family was too rich because they had a four-bed detached house and wine on the table for dinner.
	Next time I saw her, she was spread-eagled on a pool table with a pint glass next to her.
	Okay, well, she sounds like the kind of bullet you've dodged there, Kevin.
	Nicholas says, all the times I'm perceived as being busy at work and can't reply to my missus, unknown to her, I'm most likely spinning in the spot on my chair.
	Yeah, I mean, you don't have to be busy.
	You just have to show that she has to perceive you.
	Yes.
	Christian says, last year I went to a staff meeting.
	My employer gave me flowers because of my 10th year in the job.
	When I got home, my girlfriend saw the flowers and instantly became kind of pissed and said, what did you do?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	This is another thing.
	Don't give flowers to men.
	Men do not want flowers under any circumstances.
	I've seen articles saying like, men deserve flowers.
	We're going to start giving them.
	I'm like, what are we going to do with them?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Am I going to have a vase?
	What are vases for?
	What?
	Seriously?
	Do you guys have vases next to your bedside table?
	No, you have a laptop or something?
	Well, yeah, but I mean, I have vases in my house because my wife is there.
	She likes to put the flowers in when I've done something wrong.
	Can you imagine at Christmas giving your son a vase as a gift?
	Can you imagine someone giving you flowers and you'd be like, This is just weird.
	Yeah, I'd literally freeze and be like, he's back?
	Yeah, well, at least my mum?
	What am I doing with these, right?
	Everyone would think you're a choreographer instead of actually, like, it's for you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It'd just be really weird.
	Anyway, Rose says, where are all the nice guys in the friend zone where you left them?
	To be honest with you, right?
	Okay.
	Here's an unpopular opinion.
	Controversial.
	I actually think the guys in the friend zone absolutely deserve to be in the friend zone.
	Ooh, call me out.
	Gone.
	Do it.
	I dare you.
	I will destroy you on this.
	Right.
	You get put in the friend zone because you didn't follow this woman's advice on bad boys.
	And therefore you deserve to be exactly where you are.
	Right.
	To be, to not be in the friend zone.
	Don't be a simp.
	Don't be a doormat and just be normal.
	That's it.
	I've never been in the friend zone because I'm a dick.
	Right.
	And easy as that.
	Just be a little more self-centered.
	Excuse me.
	We'll see if you do get friendzoned.
	I've never been in the friendzone!
	Well, if you do get friendzoned, just move on then.
	Exactly.
	If the girl's not interested in you, then fine.
	You just say, okay, fair enough.
	Just move on.
	Right?
	You don't sit there and simp after her for decades, hoping that she'll change her mind.
	No.
	You know, if she says no, that's cool.
	You're not interested.
	Fair enough.
	I'll come to you.
	Yeah.
	I'll go for a beer or something, you know, with the lads.
	You know, it's like not a big deal.
	There is no reason to be in the friendzone.
	I've got no sympathy for men in the friendzone either.
	You did this to yourself.
	Change.
	Right?
	It's within your power.
	It's completely within your power to not be in the friend zone.
	In fact, it requires effort from you to arrive in the friend zone.
	You know, the constant simping and attention and being available all the time and texting, I'll drive you around.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Um, Derek says, in fact, this probably, uh, probably feels maybe it's mild autism.
	Yeah, maybe it is mild autism, but I've never been in the friend zone.
	So, you know, No, but Derek says, maybe it's mild autism or having a bad social understanding, but I'm tired of the relationship game, no matter how it's set up.
	The thing is, this is actually what makes being a dick all the easier.
	Just don't.
	Just be yourself and do the things you like.
	And a woman who finds that interesting will be interested in you, and you don't actually have to play the game.
	You just don't text back and she plays it herself.
	Brian says, I'm guessing...
	His face throughout the entire... That's such like a min-maxing way of dating.
	It's like the best... I'm thinking too much about it.
	No, but it's, it's, it's a great way of putting it, which is just like, you know, the best way to get a girl is don't bother and she'll turn up.
	Just be better than everyone else.
	It's not even be better, just be interested in something that you're doing and a girl will turn up.
	That's what I mean.
	It's totally true.
	It is true.
	It's how I got my wife.
	I was hanging out with my mate and she saw me cause he was, I was like 25 or something.
	And he was living in this like shared accommodation thing.
	And so I, I turned up in the foyer to go hang out and smoke weed with him.
	And, uh, my wife was living there as well.
	Cause she'd left home and she saw me and just like gave me the big smile.
	I was like, Oh, she's cute.
	And just, I went off to my mates.
	I bet he's going in there to solve.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Play video games, smoke weed.
	Right.
	And then she sent a friend down with a, with her number and then, you know, the rest is history sort of thing.
	Right.
	So it's just like, literally I wasn't doing anything.
	It's just, I was hanging out with a friend and doing something fun.
	And we look, I look, you know, and she obviously is like, look at me.
	So I was like, okay, great.
	Problem solved.
	It's just literally that easy.
	Don't give me that look.
	Date privilege.
	I do wonder how much technology has changed.
	I'm joking.
	It's not date privilege.
	Just go and do fun things.
	Just be interesting.
	Hang out with your mates.
	Women will come to you eventually.
	Make sure you're doing something.
	Build something.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Chat's like she said, that guy looks like an Akkadian emperor.
	Probably, yeah.
	Did you?
	No, not at the time, but I think we're out of time there, aren't we?
	Yeah, we are actually.
	Just a quick thing though.
	Grant says, FYI, AOL was more popular in America than in other Anglo countries.
	Right, that explains it.
	Okay, that makes sense.
	Even then, she must have been about 12 when she was on this.
	Roughly 18 is what I calculated.
	Apparently the decline happened in 2015.
	JJHW says, when's the next Cyberpunk Dystopia episode?
	Hopefully next week.
	I actually have two prepared.
	I've just been busy.
	There we are.
	If you'd like more from us, website.
	If you'd like more about Carl's dating life, write in.
	It's BBC... I get that out for free.
	Listen, young men, all I'm saying is I've conquered this, you haven't, so I've got the wisdom.
	Well, I'll see you tomorrow.
	Bye-bye.
	Oh yeah, it's Lads Hour in like a half an hour?
	Yeah.
	We do it three?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, because it takes a long time for us to explain.
	All right, 29 minutes.
	We'll be back in a minute.
	Well, 29 of them.

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