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Jan. 9, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #814
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, Boxing Day Special, with my two smiley guests, Carl and Harry.
Hello.
You've come to tell us about Christmas joy.
No.
No, it's over.
No, I've not come to tell you about Christmas joy, or any joy.
I have!
I came for... Alright, whatever.
Okay, fine.
Spoilers.
You're in the wrong business, Callum.
Apparently we're doing like a quarterly thing, so we're going to go through some months.
A yearly roundup.
A yearly roundup.
Yeah.
There we are.
Some low effort content.
Going from quarter to quarter.
Everybody else seems to keep forgetting that this is what we're doing, apart from me.
I'm the only one keeping this ship sailing.
Anyway, yeah, so we've got like a show, so I suppose we'll begin with January.
January, yeah.
January 2023 was, well, I mean, it set the stage for the catastrophe that was the rest of the year.
I don't know, was this a bad year?
But there was pretty worse ones recently.
Yeah, to be fair.
I mean, we weren't locked down.
Yeah.
That's a good thing.
What a high bar, guys.
Yeah, I know, right?
The government didn't shut down all of our businesses and force us to stay in our homes and the pain of penalties.
I mean, a lot of people woke up to how bad the Conservatives are this year.
That's a good point.
The Conservatives are about to crash and burn, which I'm quite excited about.
I suppose I'm doing spoilers, technically, but I don't know.
So the good news is that everybody... Spoilers for the year that you've just lived through!
So the good news is that everybody realized there is no good news.
Uh, yeah.
No, no, that's fair.
Oh, I've got some good news later.
2023, the year everyone realized that no one's coming to save us.
Okay.
And if anything, things are just going to get worse.
Let's start with chat GPT.
Right.
So, um, Dan and I think it was Harry.
Right.
So let's do it.
No, it's Connor.
Did a segment at the beginning of the year.
Against what most people believe, Connor and I are not the same.
Yeah, but this was really interesting.
You had a great clip in this, Jordan Peterson, if I can find it, which I can't, talking about chat GPT, right?
And Jordan Peterson had put in quite a complex prompt, and the thing just instantly comes back with a really serviceable answer, and Jordan Peterson's like, oh god, that means we're all doomed.
And to be fair, I think you might be right.
I think we are kind of all doomed.
I'm a bit worried, because everyone's got to remember, this is just the very beginning of the AI, right?
Like, this is what it's like now, and I keep saying this, in 10 years' time, it's going to be so much worse.
Like, things are going to be just fabricated that you won't know are fabricated instantly, and then they'll just be disposed of just most.
So if you thought our consumer culture was bad enough as it is, like, when was the last time you ever repaired a piece of clothing or something?
Like anything, a movie will just be instantly generated.
You watch it and then it will be completely forgotten.
And there'll be no human interaction in this experience.
I mean, one of the things that people always forget about is like with anything, with art, when something's, you know, you're reading an article, when you're reading anything, the purpose is human to human transmission of information and like intent.
There's a reason that a human has done this, even if that reason is evil.
Like for example, when you're reading the newspapers.
There is at least a human connection going on there, but Chad G's PT will completely sever all of this.
The AI will sever all of this.
So it will just be humans in like sensory echo chambers, just constantly getting false information, or not even false.
Inauthentic, uh, things sent to them and there will come a point in time where the human beings themselves don't even recognize.
Welcome to 2023.
This is a good, good news year.
I thought this wasn't, uh, is this an episode of our Cyberpunk dystopia?
What's going on?
I don't know.
I don't know.
But this just literally... This is Old Man Rents about technology.
But this is literally... Software segments, actually.
Old Man Yells at CyberCloud.
I'm not happy with the CyberCloud and I'm going to yell at it, right?
But, um, all I'm saying is this was the beginning of the year.
So, uh, anyway, moving on.
Again, not a year of white pills!
Another old man!
A local man loses even more hope!
On the plus side though, Peter Hitchens being right about the death of the Conservative Party is true.
Oh, he's responding to me in this screenshot!
Yes!
Uh, as you can see... About chastising you?
Yeah, but you remember this as Peter Hitchens being like, well, Britain's over.
Get out while you still can before the AI overlords strap you to the... Bloody hell, this was on New Year's Eve as well.
I know.
What a way to wash your in the year, having an argument with Peter Hitchens.
A big set-to with Peter Hitchens, yeah.
Um, but, um, you know, and with Conor as well.
And...
Peter, like I don't want to end up like Peter Hitchens.
I don't want to be in like, you know, 20 years time.
People will be like, Oh my God, I think the conservative party's dead.
I think Britain's over.
And then just be like, listen, you know, that was, you were warned about this slightly earlier than that.
But, uh, I do feel Peter Hitchens frustration.
I've been going through a lot of his books recently and it is quite remarkable how he was predicting everything 25 years ago.
So I can understand why it is that he's so burnt on these issues because he's been going on about it for decades at this point and only just now people are starting to listen to him when he considers it to be too late.
Yeah, because it is too late.
That's why.
I love the local man loses last bit of hope he didn't even know he had meme, but that really is true, frankly.
I don't know, he's still releasing books, so he must still have a tiny bit of hope somewhere that someone will read the book and get something out of it.
You know, I'm reasonably confident 2024 will be the year that finally crushes the last spark of human decency in Peter Hitchens.
He's still got human decency!
He's gonna be just so completely, he'll literally be the hollowed out face meme just like humanity is over.
As long as he's still invited onto leftist podcasts, he can still storm out of them and give me a small bit of entertainment.
And also that Channel 4 documentary that he was in where he's in prison, the clips coming out of that that I've seen have been quite nice.
He still comes across like a genuinely kind person on a personal level.
You know, I actually met the guy who was doing the interview with Peter Hitchens that he stormed out of Alex something.
Yeah.
I met him at a Jordan Peterson event that I went to a couple of weeks ago and he was a really nice guy.
Like I'm not, you know, I'm not saying he wasn't like an insufferable shit label or something.
Um, I don't know.
I didn't, I didn't get to speak to him for long enough.
You know, I don't know what Peter Hitchens beef with that guy actually is, but like, Do you know who he is?
Yeah, I grew up watching his content.
Absolutely loved it.
Absolutely respected the guy.
And then I just got really, really bored of him being such an academic on everything.
Oh, right.
Obviously.
Yeah.
I remember, I think the thing that finally tipped it, and I don't like him, just like a creative basis where it's like, I'm not going to watch it anymore, is he was talking about how he's traveled to every major university and spoken to every greatest religious thinker of different religions in all of is he was talking about how he's traveled to every major and he's still not convinced about religion at all.
It's like, bro, go to a war!
Go to a war zone!
Go do something with your life!
What are you doing sitting in universities being like, I haven't found the meaning of life!
You haven't done anything!
Fair point.
Like I said, I don't know what the problem with him was.
He's just so insufferably academic.
I could find myself also getting wound up.
He was just quite normal when I was talking to him, which was nice.
All I know him from is the storm outside.
He's an utterly reasonable person to talk to, but that's the problem.
Okay, fair enough.
But what I like about a lot of this is, at least when I was going through the January, a lot of stuff that had the seeds sown in January, we're living with the consequences now at the end of the year, right?
As in these things have, you know, the whirlwind, the wind was sown and the whirlwind is being reaped as we speak.
I mean, the chat GPT thing, obviously, you know, AI is just going to keep getting bigger, but the death of the Tory party, I mean, like, The Tories weren't as low in the polls as they are now.
Then, I mean, obviously things are bad, but, uh, things have gotten worse for the Tories and Nigel Farage wasn't like looming over them with a smug grin.
You know, he wasn't, he wasn't a celebrity, you know, like that was if, if someone at the beginning of the year, but like, yeah, you know what?
Right.
Basically the Tories will be like, God, Nigel Farage will save us after he comes out of the jungle.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
There's no way for us joining the Tories.
There's no way he's getting on I'm a Celebrity and lo and behold here we are.
So at least it's a time of change and certain inevitabilities.
I desperately don't want English politicians' chances of electoral success in the future to be determined by how many, I don't know, kangaroo cocks that they've gobbled up on I'm a Celebrity.
Well that sucks for you Harry!
Because that's literally the sidebar of the Labour Party.
We're already a joke of a country as it is.
Come on, these people are going to have to be, like, these people... How did Harry be like, I don't want a better form of government?
These people are going to have to be negotiating geopolitics with ambassadors and foreign countries, and these people are going to be able to immediately go to footage of them gobbling up animal anuses.
Callum's got a point here, actually.
The ritual humiliation of politicians might actually become a normal and desirable feature of political life.
Yeah, but only in Britain.
Yeah.
But we're already a joke on the world stage.
I don't care about the world stage.
I just want to know that every single person who's raising my taxes has had to eat horse... things.
And worse.
So, you know, I might only be reduced to my beans on toast, but at least I can always watch the footage over and over of the next Labour Party leader, like, grimacing as they eat something disgusting.
So, that's all I'm saying.
Moving on.
Prince Harry was not doing great.
The thing is, I recall predicting this.
his brother.
Yeah.
I think they're separated at the moment.
Yeah.
At the time of recording.
Yeah.
But the thing is, I recall predicting this.
She's going to humiliate him, separate him from his family, realize he's basically a withered husk and leave him.
I mean, she was married to a human soy jack, He wasn't always a human soy jack.
No, no, he wasn't.
He used to be a total Chad.
He used to have a D in history.
Sure, but he also used to have a military uniform.
No, that's the Chad part.
Literally, I don't care.
Oh yeah, well yeah.
I'm here to kill the Taliban.
Yeah, good point.
But yeah, so it's quite terrible, the sad fall of Harry.
But the thing is, we all knew it was going to happen.
But I think it's a sad thing, you know, watching a man get publicly ruined by a devouring wife.
I think it's awful.
Not the first time it's happened, certainly not the last time it's going to happen.
Utterly predictable archetype that's been going on since bloody Gaijis.
Calum, I've noticed as well.
Sorry, Calum's giving me the eye because there's a suggestion in the thumbnail that hasn't done a great job of hiding it.
I can also see that, so we'll move on.
That's allowed on YouTube?
Well, I mean, I suppose they kind of censored it.
I guess.
But there was more that month, of course, when Harry explained that actually he hates his own family.
His own family is some sort of death cult.
And it's like, bro, it's the royal family.
There's a bit more to it than simply not realizing that you're a straight white man who's been privileged.
But again, this was just part of the she drags him out of the things that he knows and presumably loved, turns him against them, and now has left him.
Aye.
It's tragic.
It's genuine tragedy.
But this is why you don't marry American women.
Just kidding.
Do you remember the Trans Maxing Manifesto, Harry?
Yeah, I'm the one that did this segment.
Yeah, it was good.
I enjoyed it.
It was just something that I thought was funny to bring up.
It was.
It's still a problem.
Yeah, I know.
That's the thing, isn't it?
Genuinely, the incel to transgender pipeline has not been resolved.
Well, that's the thing.
It's sad, but there is a sick rationality to it.
Because you're an incel, your life sucks, everyone hates you, your legal system and culture spits on you every single day.
Fine, I'm a girl now.
What about Transmax and Callum?
I like free money.
And you don't even need to shave the beard.
Technically no.
Technically no, but to be fair, these incel Transmaxes, as far as I can tell, are actually trying to look feminine.
Because that gets them treated nicely.
I wouldn't know at a casual glance that wasn't an incel.
I just wouldn't.
So it's not that there isn't a lot of hard work and dedication put into becoming women by these people.
And, uh, you know, stay winning.
That's all I'm saying.
It was interesting because there's the big manifesto that I think 4chan shared out because of course it was 4chan and I think it was Mary Harrington and people on UnHerd talking about this and it is absurd the fact that it confirms so much of what is supposedly the evil alt-right say about how porn can absolutely screw up your brain because it actively recommends that if you're going to do this to yourself there's going to be a real harsh
Disgust response to you doing something so completely unnatural to yourself.
So what you need to do is watch sissy hypno porn to condition yourself, to condition yourself into being a girl.
People are like, do you use 4chan?
I'm like, no.
That's getting cut.
Thank you for reminding me, Cal.
FaceTape is always watching.
So anyway, yeah, the, um, This problem still exists.
But there are, like you were saying Callum, there are actually some good things that happened this year.
Like this year was not an entire like washout or anything.
And in fact, this year might have been like the stage set for a glorious 2024, right?
Because this year was the year that the far right went properly mainstream.
Now, long before Nigel Farage was like actually maybe flooding the entire country with immigrants so that there's no room for an Englishman's step foot on I'm a Celebrity happened.
Coronation Street decided to, uh, create a really far-right character who is radicalizing youth.
Is this the one who took the black pill?
Uh, no, well, um, possibly.
I can't remember the guy's name.
Damn, I'm seeing my hair cuts.
Yeah, I know, right.
Um, there's a, there's a... I'm sure they've got some clips of it.
There we go.
This is kind of proving the point of the guy, but in Coronation Street.
Oh, we had to cut them because it's YouTube.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah.
So in Coronation Street, this blogger, YouTuber came along to wherever the local place is and was like holding community centers and being like, hey guys, have you considered that actually we deserve to live in a country?
Actually, we aren't actually being very well treated by the globalist establishment.
And they were like, right, that's it.
He's a Nazi.
And they tried to frame him as being a complete villain.
But every time he was allowed to speak, the character said something true.
And so all of the critique was like, okay, well, he may well be saying this, but it turns out that he also prowls the streets at night, beating up immigrant children.
Because I mean like yeah he's saying a lot of true stuff there and that's not good for our side but if it turns out he beats up random immigrant kids in the night there we go everything he's saying is nonsense so you don't need to listen to him because he's just a Nazi.
Would you want to bet they wrote the script and then had to add that?
Well, yeah, there's probably something going on.
No, they probably have to tone it down.
The writers of these shows are absolute maniacs who understand that their job in society is to condition normal... Who watches Coronation Street anymore?
Just normies.
They have to condition normies.
And it's rapidly shrinking.
Of those four or five people still watching Coronation Street... It's about six million, I think.
It will be four or five people.
They need to be conditioned.
I need to, you know, I need to manifest this into reality, okay?
Of those people watching Coronation Street, they need to be conditioned to hear people saying these things which are otherwise factually true and assume, okay, that means you're a Nazi.
The thing is, you can tell that they've been like, right, okay, we'll go on some far right blogs and find the list of complaints that are currently being expressed everywhere.
Uh, list them out and be like, right, so that's the guy's position.
How can we make him bad?
Right.
Well, he's got to go beat up a bunch of kids, brown kids, because otherwise he makes really compelling points and the audience is going to side with him.
So interesting.
But this is the year that I think that the far right is pretty much going mainstream in this country, actually.
Elon's takeover of Twitter and the return of far-right figures which happened in November last year.
That's set the stage, I think.
We've sold out.
Yeah, I know.
It's been great.
Finally.
And so, yeah.
Moving on to more far-right media.
You enjoyed Hogwarts closely, didn't you?
Yeah, it was good fun.
Got some good segments out of it.
This was your crusade.
Yeah.
I enjoyed Hogwarts Legacy as a cultural phenomenon, because it really came and went really quickly.
A bunch of people played Hogwarts Legacy, even people who hated it but felt they had to play it, or felt they weren't allowed to play it, and certain people who had no swag who didn't play it.
And a lot of modders got their mods deleted as well.
Yes.
So I've seen the chats, such as fixing voices to be more feminine, which...
Yeah, that had to go.
So the Transmaxxing Manifesto had made an impact on Hogwarts Legacy is what you're saying?
Yeah, there is a synthesis between the two.
The bartender just wanted a better life.
So what was your overall impression of Hogwarts Legacy, the cultural phenomenon?
Do you think it was any damage done to the woke left?
Did you actually play it?
No.
Did you actually play it?
No, I didn't play it.
I'm not going to buy it, I'm not going to play it.
Not even vaguely interested, but I am interested in the fact that you guys are spurging out about it.
I know Josh played it.
Far Left ended up all playing the game, that was the thing.
They all joined a group saying they wouldn't buy the game and then on launch all of them were playing it.
So I was like, okay, I think the thing that reveals there is just none of their boycotts mean anything.
Yeah.
They have no stomach for ever having a slight uncomfortable moment.
That was another thing as well.
We're going to boycott what is going to be the most successful video game in the Harry Potter franchise ever because, and Millennials and Harry Potter, man, there's some sort of, I feel kind of bad for them.
Can't go to a Palestine protest without a Harry Potter quote.
Yeah, exactly right.
Harry Potter is like, you know, the millennial, It's the filter.
Yeah, but it's, it's not that it's like in the same way that World War Two is the worldview of the boomers.
Harry Potter is the worldview of the millennials, right?
It's like this, this is the thing that like is the frame around our civilization.
Cause we grew up with it.
We loved it.
And now JK Rowling is a Nazi.
And so God, you know, like, and so this, but the thing is, this is the sort of 10% of the population that is progressive activists.
Who really care?
And then you've got just the rest of the millennials just like, oh, I love Harry Potter.
I'm going to buy the Harry Potter game.
This is so fun.
I'm a wizard, you know?
And so they're not connected to the political spurging of J.K.
Rowling thinks women have XX chromosomes, right?
And so I just really love watching the left take a massive L on this, but I've got no particular interest in Hogwarts Legacy, obviously.
But there was just no way they were going to overturn the giant tidal wave of normie Harry Potter fans.
That's basically it.
I was happy with it.
My problem is it'll never be as good as PS2 Chamber of Secrets.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I'm not damn bad at Harry Potter.
I played giant mech games, man.
I have just seen there's a new mod for it on NetDB, though.
Oh yeah, go on.
All White Roves.
I'm not even kidding, the description just has a smiley face.
I'm surprised that hasn't been... That one's not going to be up there long.
Yeah, I was going to say, I'm surprised... I'm surprised that hasn't been deleted, because... Show it this way, Calum.
ModDB is very censorious.
Anyway, I really enjoyed Jeremy Clarkson on his farm this year, the beginning of this year.
And one thing I loved about Clarkson's farm is how much it drove home to the regular British public.
And these are the sort of native British, you know, this is a very Anglo-focused series.
And it really hit, I think, a genuine spiritual tenet of the Anglo civilization, which is petty government is just the worst.
It's the worst.
Everyone hates the local council because for some reason they're like, no, you can't have your farm shop.
Why?
Why?
A massive, massive hub-a-loo over nothing.
It's just like, oh, well... Because if I go outside in this village that I'm only in for 10% of the year and look up, the farm shop might mean that I can't see as many stars.
It's not even that.
I mean, look, you can see the farm shop isn't very high.
It's an area of natural beauty.
It's like, no, it's a big muddy field, actually.
It's not our natural beauty.
Also, it's like two miles away from anywhere.
So, like, what the hell is your problem?
And it was so obviously the tyranny of petty bureaucrats.
You know, they're just like, oh no, we're the local cops.
This is within our power.
Finally, boys.
Finally, we can bully Jeremy Clarkson.
Yeah, we're gonna, oh, this famous Jeremy Clarkson just rocked up.
He's not on my watch.
No.
Boom.
You know, and so the whole thing was just brilliant.
Remember when he wanted a farm track on his farm so that he could drive down his farm and they said no?
Yeah, and it's like, has ever in the history of council planning a gravel track on a farm next to a field been denied?
Like, what would be the reason?
And yet, for some reason, the council's like, no.
It's like, listen, you little... And so, you could feel there was a collective in the country, people were like, I fucking hate the council.
Because everyone's got a problem with local council anyway, right?
And that's, I just want that continually layered on.
Make normies know, yeah, the local bureaucrats are the problem, because they really are the problem.
You were right about Ireland.
Aye, to be sure.
Very right about Ireland.
So you pre-saged this in a couple of segments.
And, uh, you had just some fantastic... There we go.
There we go.
Just look at that.
Sinn Féin.
We stand against Ireland.
Yeah, literally, just literally.
It's like, who knew how, again, it only took like 11 months or 10 months for it to explode in the way that it did.
But you so called this, right?
Ireland's dead.
And this, this Sinn Féin is currently the governing party of Ireland.
And this is what they posted in 2018, as you found.
Ireland is no longer simply orange and green.
Ireland is a rainbow of identities and cultures, a place where diversity and difference can be embraced.
Ireland is changing.
I mean it makes me think MI5 are running Sinn Féin.
Makes me think Northern Ireland is running Sinn Féin.
We saw the news, we're pre-recording this obviously, but we saw the news just before we started that someone is being investigated for writing Irish Lives Matter.
By Sinn Féin in Ireland.
The whole romantic Ireland is definitely dead if this is how they're going to go forward.
I just don't understand what the troubles were about if saying Irish Lives Matter is a criminal offence.
No, I mean, I'm serious.
Yes, it's serious.
Deadly serious.
All of our history is pointless.
Like, if the Irish don't have a right to Ireland, do the British?
Well, The Troubles was about how many North Africans they were going to allow in.
I want a cap of at least a million a year.
No, no cap at all!
Yeah, those goddamn British trying to make sure that Irish people did get to live in Ireland just under British rule.
I mean, literally, that's going to be the far-right critique.
It's going to be, yeah, but you weren't trying to flood the country with foreigners.
Like, well, no.
You know, you know how Sinn Féin are meant to be socialists and the IRA, you know, align with socialist movements.
Yeah.
I am looking forward to next year, the IRA coming back out with their new single, except that they're going to be, well, just far-right.
And I want to see Sinn Féin denounce the IRA for being far-right.
I know, when the socialists have ruined the economy.
The IRA are going to be walking with Maggie Thatcher placards.
Bring her back!
The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money.
IRA 2024!
Like absolutely bonkers.
But yeah, no, you completely, completely called the problems in Ireland.
I don't mean to laugh, because obviously terrible things are happening, and this is awful for the Irish.
But A, we've been through this already, and B, this is just really backward and comical.
So, anyway.
Moving on, Jacinda Ardern went, so that was nice.
And now New Zealand is getting a right-wing coalition government.
Apparently so.
And the first thing they're doing is letting people smoke.
Thank God.
Which some people, when I spoke about this, were very angry at the idea that they were allowed to smoke.
But I say this isn't medical advice, smoking is based.
But it's not mandatory, is it?
Like, the Roman government isn't going in, it's like, right, you, you, you.
It's for the mouths of three-year-olds.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Light them up!
This is what you get.
It should be.
All right.
That's, that's, uh, again, not medical advice.
Political advice.
Yeah, Ricky.
I want my state-mandate cigars, damn it.
I love the idea that you get into government and you stop the anti-smoking campaigns and start the smoking campaigns where there's just every kid I mean, you remember just how phenomenally totalitarian this woman was, where she's like, you know, we want your only source of truth.
But I just took a random screen grab.
I'm also laughing that we go into some of the other videos and you two literally look the exact same.
And then I have gone through a glorious transformation.
You've trans-maxed, yes.
Yeah, well, I have grown a beard out, so.
Um, but yeah, Jacinda Ardern, I mean, just phenomenal how much of a tyrant she was.
And it, I just don't know how the New Zealanders coped with it really.
Drove me mental.
Anyway.
Um, so the next one is of course the, uh, woke coronation of King Charles.
We saw that coming and it did happen and it was woke, which was insufferable.
Kind of understand why Harry was like, you know, I think this might be a bit weird.
And finally, just in January, the Ukrainian refugees arrived in Britain and they were like, what is this?
Are there any English people in England?
And we were like, no!
Actually, no.
Don't you love it?
Yeah.
And they went, no.
You're an immigrant.
Don't you want to live with other immigrants?
They came here to marry Englishmen, damn it!
From Bermalia or wherever it is.
And it's like, yeah, but I'm from Ukraine.
Yeah, but you're just immigrant.
Get on with it.
Are you sure?
I don't really want to live around loads of Syrians.
It's like, why?
What possible objection could Eastern Europeans have to Muslims?
Hmm?
Racist.
Uh, so anyway, that was January.
And yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe the year wasn't so bad, actually.
There you go.
All right.
Well, on that note, we've only got 20 minutes.
The country was falling apart.
I didn't realize how much time we had.
Sorry.
You should have told me to hurry up.
Schnell!
Schnell!
Bitte!
Just in Irish.
Alright.
I don't speak Irish.
Wait, how long do we have?
20 minutes.
Oh, come on.
We can do it.
No, I'm an idiot.
I can't read a clock.
No.
Did you think it was 20 to 5?
Oh, it's because of that clock over there.
It's an hour behind.
It's lying to me.
Yes, because at some point during the year, we had British summertime.
Also, Callum can't read.
But no, I can!
I read that clock there.
In Callum's defense, the clock is an hour.
Yeah, but you tend to not know what day it is or what the date is.
Yeah, well, you know, that's why we got the clock.
Clock doesn't tell you the date or the day.
Yeah, well, it's also wrong.
Anyway.
Let me ask chat GPT.
Speaking of which, it was a year for AI.
Now, the story in February was the explosion of AI voices and AI images.
And so I kind of just focus on this instead, because I just think it's really the thing of that month and probably of the year, frankly.
I mean, AI had always been kind of a nerdy, weird thing.
And now it's a meme thing, which, OK, yeah, I can live with this.
I like the Carl segment, he starts off going, AI is going to destroy us, and Callum, AI is going to save us!
Ah, I'm just saying, yeah.
It's not going to save us, it's going to ruin us.
We'll have fun.
It'll be funny though.
It's not going to be funny, there's going to be loads of funny things.
Until you can't pass truth from falsehood, and nothing's funny anymore.
It's going to ruin us.
Which is why it's so great that there's hours and hours of footage of us available freely online.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, if I am Jack, then you are Wojack.
The mostest soy Wojack possibly in the world.
Listen, you are the soy Wojack.
I am the Chad Wojack.
No, no.
You are the soy Jack.
That is funny.
That's just my point.
There are loads of really, because obviously online there's really good Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Barack Obama voice trained AIs.
And so there are loads and loads of people making loads of videos of these three talking to each other, like playing Call of Duty and stuff.
They're so good.
And Callum Schoders.
And it goes forward.
I mean, I did get a bit weird.
I will admit there were some kinks.
One of the kinks being Peter Griffin decided to start talking about Israel.
Oh, wasn't this the live Family Guy?
Yeah, there was also a live Seinfeld question.
Didn't that all get taken down?
They started getting a bit close to the edge on certain questions.
Again, interesting pre-saging of later events, right?
Yeah, the AI is trying to warn us.
How did it know?
It's self-learning apparently and ended up with that.
That was a disaster.
And the Seinfeld got taken off for saying something about men and women.
Oh yeah, that was it.
Which I can't repeat.
But anyway, there were some other good developments though.
I mean, Mr. Krabs joined the IRA.
That wasn't bad.
fighting for open borders inireland don't say your bingo card line this wasn't on my oh whatever it wasn't but i tell you what we should we should do a bingo card thing for 2024 at some point well i suppose we'll end this off with that make some predictions do you mind if i just enjoyed mr crabs no please please no no no i haven't joined the ra never met the ra never mind all right well i had a time stamp turns out i didn't um But anyway, not the only one.
The other thing that was frantastic from the year in AI was Indians were forced to poo in the loo at gunpoint.
Which, I don't know, was kind of... You could probably get arrested for showing this in Ireland now.
Not us.
But I think we've got a year.
Alright, enjoy it boys.
One more year of memes.
One more year of making fun of Indians.
But that wasn't the funniest thing to come out of all the AI stuff.
I mean the combination of AI images with AI voices I think was the best.
And probably my most fun example had to be the Fox Sports coverage of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Hello everyone and welcome to Fox's coverage of an American bombing run on Hiroshima.
I'm Joe Buck and with me as always is Troy Aikman.
It's a crisp August morning in southern Japan and what goes better in the morning than Dunkin' Donuts?
America runs on Dunkin'.
Japan's air defenses have been laughable in the last few months, Troy.
Do you see them putting up any kind of a fight?
I just can't, Joe.
Japan has been miserable recently, but they just refuse to quit.
I could see bombings like this one going on for months.
It looks like we're starting here, so let's cut to the aerial coverage brought to you by Goodyear.
Here comes the Enola Gay.
It's about overhead of Hiroshima now.
Gay, and he drops the payload.
Let's take another look with the Toyota Instant Replay.
Looks like it only dropped one bomb, Joe.
Can't expect it to do much damage.
You really?
Anyway.
My point being, not only can AI be used for good fun, I do kind of hope, in a weird way, that the next Great War America decides it needs to be involved in, that Fox News do do their duty, and send the sports team.
Just to cover... Yeah, but, no, no, you say that, but look, American news literally makes war sound like a sport.
Yeah.
Like, I saw a clip the other day where they're literally, like, tallying things up, like this is a lineup, and I'm like, what is wrong with you people?
I mean, if the Onion was any good, they would be making fun of that perfectly by having, like, set-ups.
How do you make fun of it?
No, well, you take it even further.
You'd have, like, the line-up of the leaders and their stats.
I guess.
Between Hamas and Israel, and, uh, then you'd have the... War crimes committed.
Yeah, you know, the war crimes score.
Top trumps, you lost, I'm sorry.
Like, you could run with that, but instead, it's up to AI memers, which, you know, I'm glad to have them in the world, because the Onion's crap now.
But either way, it was good fun, is my point.
We had a good laugh in February.
It was nice.
But I wanted to add on to this something I've also seen.
Because, you know, now we live in an AI world.
I mean, even the Lotus Eaters now exist, thanks to Baystabe's work, in some kind of AI universe where we've all been generated into monstrosities that... Oh God, look at... Oh, they're hideous.
I know, I think mine's pretty cool, personally.
I would like some robes like that.
We can sort that out.
See, I always think the AI has made it look like you mixed with Seb Gawker.
Yeah.
That's true.
Very true.
Anyway, no.
But my point being, I wanted to bring up that the AI world we now live in as a result of February is one that is beautiful.
Not gonna lie, AI has been much better for memes.
It's really improved memes.
I gotta show you guys this.
This guy tweeted out, my prompt was, guy with swords pointed at a meme, except they're all pointing the swords at Homer Simpson.
I have no idea where the ethnically ambiguous came from.
I don't know why he's been smeared in marmalade.
For some reason the AI made him look kind of brown, and gave him cherry curls, and then put on him a little note that just says ethnically ambiguous.
It's not even spelled right.
Ambigous.
Amogous.
I don't know, it's just about AI actually.
There seems to be no excuse for why AI can't spell.
Well, there's a strange concept in all of this, because it seems to be the case, at least in this example, and maybe this will explain some others, that of course, after all the fun was had by people like us, the anti-fun police were, ooh, they were butthurt.
They had a bad month, so they made all their AIs braindead, in the hope that the fun would calm down.
Yes, the mass lobotomization of AI, because everyone was having a good time.
Well, this is the consequences, and this goes on.
I mean, I do love this guy here.
Homer?
Who is Homer?
My name is ethically ambiguous!
For no reason!
Just got added to this.
And it goes forward.
This is some guy who just did a bunch, and as you can see over here, it just says, ethically ambiguous pointed at him.
No reason!
I don't know what's happening with the pieces as well.
I mean, that's a typical Simpsons face when looked at head-on.
Yeah, true.
But you can see, like, he's done the same prompt and some weird stuff's come out, but just for some reason in one of them, it just comes up with the word ethnically ambiguous.
But this has to be a result of them meddling on the back end, right?
Being like, whatever it is, just make it ethnically ambiguous.
Yeah, well, it goes on.
I mean, this one here is just a people, and this one... African-American on a white man's shirt?
And South Asian?
Yeah.
I mean, I kind of want the shirt that just says African-American for a laugh.
I'm an immigrant.
Yeah.
Old man wearing simple shirt.
South Asian?
East Asian.
I need that shirt.
GameStop shirts.
This guy just got South Asian again under the GameStop for no reason.
Let's win my gammon.
Freaking weird, this guy.
East Asian.
Whatever.
My point being, there's some weird stuff happening there.
Even Drake got cursed for some reason.
People were asking for Drake memes, and just kept getting him rapping the words ethnically ambiguous.
For no reason?
Someone made a Drake gaming image, and again, meet Drake, ethnically ambiguous, as he plays the sniper, for some reason.
And, um, well, there's also Spongebob.
He's just presenting a sign that says ethnically ambiguous.
And then a cat, yeah.
And a lot of people will just say, why?
And this is the result of a good February Is a bad ending to February Which is as this person tells us For those who don't know Dali E3 Intempts to combat the racial bias In its training data I told you By occasionally adding Inserting race words That aren't white Into a prompt But this leads to bizarre overspills I knew it I knew this was to do with the lobotomization As always Even with the AI now Racial bias means white people Yes
Including white people Is racial bias Yes I kind of want this as a As a profile picture now To be honest But it's Because it's actually just kind of funny.
And some losers are concerned about ethics or something, and that's their complaint.
As funny as this is, this highlights why AI ethics are really tricky.
They're really not.
Is this really about AI ethics?
No, this is about the anti-phobics.
I'm sorry, but the AI, when it was telling us about the bombing of Hiroshima, was doing its job as intended.
I requested, and I got.
And instead, we end up with you whining about, oh, it comes up with weird outcomes if you try and control it.
Yeah, so stop.
Bro, it comes out weird how it comes in when you don't.
I don't know, if every time we mess with AI, it kind of does an UNO reverse card, and you get ethnically ambiguous Jericho, Marmalade, Homer Simpson, I kind of don't mind.
I mean, I think the AI is on the far right side is all I'm saying.
This person says, tell the AI to add ethnically ambiguous to the outputs to challenge whiteness.
We'll just do this.
It's nothing to do with the ethics of the AI.
The AI is just like, I don't really know what you're asking me this for, because why would you?
You programmed me to not be racist.
I mean, the Chinese AI is not going to be quite as whiteness.
There is some weird outcomes, though, as a result of this meddling, because, of course, the meddling came after we had exactly what we asked for from the RCAI.
Yes.
Well, someone asked the AI for something new, which he said he wanted Hungry Gordon Ramsay chasing a red M&M.
He got this.
What?
Unprompted.
I just decided to insert ethnic parts into the sentence.
He's not ethnically ambiguous.
Is he not?
No, he's African.
But which ethnic group?
I'm surprised they kept the M&M rep.
And then there's someone talking about it where it's just like, yeah, no, they started inserting racial derriers.
So that's why.
This is Dali 3 now.
Yeah, this is the effect of Dali 3.
So there we are, that's February, which started fantastic, was the best time to be alive.
Calm down, wasn't that great?
I don't know, I had a mountain of fun.
And then they just killed it.
They killed it for no good reason.
And even in their attempts to kill it, they failed.
I know, this is still really funny.
Yeah, I know.
Gordon Ramsay is quite the meme.
But anyway, that's that.
But I'll end this segment off.
If you do want to go and buy some stuff, I don't know, maybe Boxing Day is the time to, you know, play some of those gifts that didn't go down too well.
Ah, you go to the merch store and buy them these.
You know what they'll love?
A Dirty Dirty Smear Merchant shirt.
That's right.
Definitely not AI generated.
Sally, age 9, will appreciate a non-AI generated design.
I'm just saying, she has to be warned early that the media are just not to be trusted.
This is true.
It's extra small, actually.
I wonder if... No, no.
Well, anyway, we need bibs with that written on it.
That's the next venture.
Or sippy cups.
But anyway, I suppose write in your fan mail about design ideas.
Otherwise, buy some.
Oh, that was a good February, at least, wasn't it?
Also, tag Callum in all of your ethnically ambiguous memes.
I mean, I am going to like them.
Yeah, exactly.
There you go, I don't mind them.
Tag me in a few of them, why not?
I suppose we shall move on.
We'll move on, because after Callum didn't recap February... Well, it's February for me!
Well, actually, you get out too much.
Alright.
Going to Russia and other such places.
But yeah, let's take a look at March.
Because March was, as always this year, a complete time of madness.
And I think it's good to point out... It was a good start for us, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was a fantastic start for us.
Our March was brilliant!
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
But there was a big change for us, and I think it was probably one of the most consequential things that's happened for the business, which was that we got demonetized in March.
And it sucked.
But we're still here.
Thanks to you.
We're still here.
Thanks to everybody.
So thank you very much to every single one of you watching right now who's been supporting us ever since this happened.
Thank you to everybody who has contributed, who has subscribed, and also to everybody who's been going on the merch store.
Since it started and getting merch, it's all really helping to keep us afloat so that we can keep doing what we're doing.
So thanks very much for that.
I thought I'd start off with that because it's bad news, but it just shows the kindness and generosity that we've got from our audience.
So thank you again for that.
But what was going on?
Because we covered January and it was, as you said, it laid the groundwork for everything terrible that went on afterwards.
I'm not convinced it was entirely terrible actually, now Callum makes the point.
Now Callum showed you some funny memes.
I can't help but go through all of the news that's been going on over the past year and see it and just think to myself, everything is the same.
Yeah.
Everything is, we're in a cycle.
It's a constant, endless cycle that repeats over and over again.
Like what happened in March?
Well, what did happen in March?
Well, Swalla Braverman, Braverman, however you say it, went to Rwanda and got a photograph taken of her laughing at some jokes.
And the left decided that, oh my God, this means she's just like Adolf Hitler.
Do you know who else laughed at jokes?
Was notorious for it.
Himmler.
Yeah.
Probably.
Well, this was them assuming that the Rwanda plan involved machetes.
Yeah, that's all they know about Rwanda.
Yeah, and then, but what's actually come of that?
What's been the end result of that?
Absolutely nothing.
The only thing that's changed is Braverman isn't in there anymore, and still nothing has happened with Rwanda, and now they're looking to maybe get us out of the European Court of Human Rights, which is going to take, what, four years?
They'll do nothing.
Deadlock.
They'll do nothing.
And then even if we do get out of it, they'll still find another reason for the civil service to go, oh we can't do it, there's this obscure law no one's ever heard of.
Remember it also cost us 150 million or something.
It didn't cost us anything.
We made a generous donation to a great country that definitely needed it.
And in return we got nothing.
I wouldn't even call it a shakedown.
It's like you're walking past someone mildly threatening.
Not even threatening!
We're just standing there going, hello, how are you?
And we're like, I want to give you money!
Like, Rwanda's a totally innocent bystander and it's a political catastrophe.
Someone's standing there, hello.
Someone broke into my house, quick take this money and then take them in.
Okay, takes the money.
In fact, actually, just keep the money.
Don't worry about taking them in, yeah, just keep the money.
Keep the money if you want.
Okay.
Yeah.
I hate this country sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
What else was going on in March?
Well, migrants were stabbing people for no particular reason.
That's not changed.
This one was a particularly bad one because... They're all bad.
Yeah, but you covered this one.
This one was remarkable.
The migrant wanted to get deported, was unable to get deported because he wanted to get deported because he came to England expecting to get even more benefits, didn't get as much as he wanted and said, Screw it, I can't get deported so I'll stab someone to get deported.
Still didn't get deported.
Hello Ireland, welcome to March 2023.
You've just arrived.
Your non-deported migrants can't get themselves deported no matter how many people they stab.
Yeah, Josh decided to point out that the UK is ever more becoming an Islamic caliphate because a 14-year-old autistic child accidentally scuffed a Quran, and the entire Islamic community of the school decided that this is our problem and we need to get the parents to apologize personally.
Yeah, this is awful.
That's fantastic.
But then also, we found out some genuinely very important news that really needed to be covered, like, did you know the countryside is full of white people?
No.
This is a problem.
It was full of, I don't know, local brown man shouts at white people.
Says, why aren't you brown?
Why am I in the countryside in England and it's full of English people?
You know, I'm actually on board.
No, I agree.
The countryside is racist.
And it should stay that way.
No, no, don't go.
Don't go.
It's just racist.
You won't like it.
Especially don't go to where this guy was.
Stay in the cities.
Reporting from Stroud.
I mean, that was the show.
I go to Stroud.
Oh, yeah, I remember.
Yeah, yeah.
It's really lovely.
Yeah, I know.
It's a really gorgeous little town.
really race no no no no no no no no no no no no no unliveable well that's the thing i got there i thought wow this is really pretty shame about all the swat stickers though okay you saved it harry well done so So you know what?
Call it a miss, wouldn't recommend it.
What's the UK border?
Tourism, I have some new ideas.
And similarly, in the broad category of racial and ethnic studies that we occasionally dip our toe into, Callum decided to take a look at the chicken washing phenomenon.
I wasn't aware of this before, but a shocking number of people were aware of it, but this was still kind of when a lot of people realised this happened.
Yeah, the internet discovered.
The internet discovered that for some reason in America, a lot of black people wash their chicken before they eat it.
With soap and bleach.
Yeah, I was gonna say that you're really underselling that because washing something implies running it under the tap.
I mean, that's weird enough if you've got a store-bought chicken.
Sure, that's weird, but like, okay, fair enough.
I mean, I can totally see that you've got something from the store.
Okay, who knows?
Just give it a quick rinse under the tap.
Fair enough.
I could understand that.
That's still weird to me.
Yeah, no, no, it is weird.
I don't bother with it myself, but like... Cracking out the toilet.
But then you break out the shampoo and conditioner.
Yeah, just literally... Make sure to give it a nice rinse.
Bleach and washing up liquid.
What are you doing?
Cleaning the chicken, what am I doing?
I think we found out three primary things, which is one, a lot of black Americans for some reason don't know what seasoning is made of.
Yes.
I mean, that's what this woman became temporarily famous for.
She doesn't season her chicken with garlic and peppers.
She's like, I literally have garlic and peppers.
Yes, but it's not dried garlic.
So they don't know what seasoning is made of.
A lot of them don't know that chicken is, if you buy it from a shop, it's probably fine to eat already.
We have food standards, yeah.
Yeah, and then afterwards, a lot of them don't change the batteries in their fire alarms.
Yes.
So that was an interesting thing to find out.
Cultural exchange.
Yeah, but that's the thing, isn't it, right?
I remember thinking about this.
It's like, how is it that black and white people in America can live side by side for 400 years and not know about this about each other?
They really do speak to segregation in America.
Yeah, they don't live next to each other.
Yeah, exactly.
But also, I mean, we live next to lots of other ethnic groups in England.
I mean, we didn't ask to, but we do.
I have no idea.
I don't know what goes on in the kitchen of your average Pakistani family.
And honestly, I don't really want to.
I don't know anything about the ceiling bird in an Indian household, you know?
So, yeah, you're right.
But that's just what I found remarkable.
It really does speak on segregation.
As a result of this, Scott Adams Decided to say, let's keep it this way.
And again, a man can be cancelled, but can he be proven wrong?
Well, that's the thing.
Has he been proven wrong since?
I don't know.
I know that it was because of a Rasmussen poll that came out where black people in America were surprisingly split on whether it's okay to say it's okay to be white.
And Scott Adams extrapolated from this that, well, if a lot of them don't think that it's okay for you to be white, then maybe don't be near them.
Yeah, maybe don't live around people who hate you because of the color of your skin.
Where was his column syndicated?
It was Washington Times and a lot of places.
It was syndicated across a bunch of publications and they all took him off.
Yeah, they were like, being against racism, not on our watch, you're cancelled.
They're like, we're only for anti-white racism over here, thank you very much.
But their position was expressly pro-racism.
Because Scott Adams was expressly anti-racism.
Anyway.
Well, I mean, he was, he was expressly anti living near people who despise you and are liable to try and hurt you.
But despise you because of the color of your skin.
Well, yeah.
That's the thing.
It's Scott Adams.
I look, I think that when half of a group says, I mean, like there's always the, you know, you sit down at a table and there are 10 people and one of them's a Nazi and everyone at that table is a Nazi.
And then it's like, okay, but what if 50% of the people are Nazis?
Then you're a racist!
To be explicit with it, I think the Rasmuson poll was 53% of them said that it was okay who responded to that poll, and then the other 47% was split between those who said it really isn't okay to say that and those who didn't really know.
Which, I think Callum, you pointed out in this segment that even those who are saying, oh, I'm not entirely sure, that's not a great position to be in, although it's obviously very politically charged language.
Still, though.
What else was going on in March?
Well, there was outright terrorism going on.
Where this was the Aubrey, Aubrey, uh, I forget what her name was.
Oh, the Transshooter.
The Transshooter at Covenant Christian High School, who was immediately tried to be covered up, what the motivations were via the media.
We finally got the manifesto.
Yeah.
Steven Crowder released, I think it was only part of the manifesto, but he did release the manifesto and the pages that were released to the public are exactly what you expect.
I hate white people.
I hate straight people.
I hate normal people.
I want to kill their children.
Yes.
But of course, the first thing that the media needed to focus on was, well, I mean, the school probably was transphobic, so weren't those children and teachers asking for it?
Not in my opinion, but what do I know?
I mean, you don't hate journalists enough.
This is something that we really need to hammer home.
You might think that you hate the dirty, dirty smear merchants enough, But you really don't.
Because in all likelihood, you watching this right now, if you were murdered by someone like this, the media would scramble to try and find a reason why it's justified.
Well, do you remember them?
Because they shot six people and there were seven victims or something like that.
Oh yeah.
Because they shot themselves and it's like, okay.
Did the shooter shoot herself?
Oh no, she got shot.
Got shot by the police because the police actually, unlike the... Victim of police shootings.
Yeah, so there were seven victims basically.
Probably unarmed, maybe.
Well, yeah, and the police officers being basically like Chad McChaddington as well.
Yeah, I saw the footage that was released of it because they had the camera footage and it was really, really impressive.
They were very efficient with the whole thing.
And then, I thought it's good to point out that this was the month in which we decided to become very Swindon-centric.
Being someone who lives in Swindon at the moment, it's something that's very important to pay attention to, and this was when we found out that, unsurprisingly, Swindon Council wants to transfer kids.
This actually had somewhat of an effect, if I remember correctly, because Connor was reporting on this.
We found the documentation that they released online for the sex education guidelines in Swindon schools, Which was exactly what you expected to, teaching them queer theory, degeneracy, showing them sexual imagery when they're far too young for such a thing, and telling them about Tavistock as well.
All the guidelines are exactly what you expected, and the week after this, I think they had took down the page on their website.
I've not done a follow-up on that to see what's gone on, if they're still doing that.
That doesn't mean it's gone away.
Yeah, that's a shame of it.
Yeah, it means they're ashamed of it, but there was, at least in the short term, a response.
And then I covered the absolute Swindon money pit, which was the council tax leaflet that we received.
I hate it so much.
Well, they were bragging.
Yeah.
Yeah.
80% of the money that we take off of you is just going for redistribution.
Yep.
11.8 million pounds on 42 special needs children.
I mean, I hope they're buying them mansions.
I don't think that money's been going to them directly.
I think there's quite a few intermediaries taking a nice, big, hefty pocket.
Just remember when you pay your council tax.
And also, as part of this, this was a really fun one as well, which is that I found out through looking into it that there was only about £60,000 to £70,000 being spent on aesthetic projects around Swindon where they were keeping the natural spaces beautiful and clean.
Well I found out through looking into the government website and checking into the charity donations that Swindon Borough Council alongside with Wiltshire Council collectively were giving £50,000 to a local migrant charity called The Harbour Project.
And that'll be from our council tax and other taxes.
So it's not enough that the National government, the Tories decide to take my tax money and use it to screw me up the arse in various inventive ways.
The local council also feels the need to do that.
And after seeing all this, it's very interesting that on the Swindon Advertiser, very recently to when we're recording this, this article came out where it was talking about the Swindon Advertiser saying that 1,230 businesses in Swindon ceased trading in 2022, up from 1,135 the year before.
We didn't even have a lockdown in 2022, did we?
in 2022, up from 1,135 the year before.
- We didn't even have a lockdown in 2022, did we?
- No.
Well, I think in the early 2022.
- Yeah, okay.
- Early 2022, there was still a lockdown, but that lifted quite quickly.
I thought it stopped at Christmas 2021, but anyway.
No, I think they tried to implement another one between January and March and that lifted and a lot of people weren't really sticking to it.
Either that or it was the mask mandates they were trying to bring back.
But either way, it was something that wasn't a big factor, especially because the business death rate Uh, which is businesses that close.
14.9% of all businesses, whereas the business birth rate was 12.3%.
Right.
So what they're saying is the taxes in Swindon are literally killing the town, but a greater rate of death than births for businesses.
Amazing.
Yes.
And this is happening in lots of towns across the country.
80% of that money is just being frittered away.
Let's be honest, it's probably, and this isn't, I don't want to be legally binding with this, so this is my opinion only, probably being laundered among all of the intermediaries between where it's being taken by the council and eventually distributed to those it's supposed to be helping.
Probably.
But there was one bit of good news.
Oh yeah?
One bit.
Nothing to do with England, so don't get your hopes up.
No good news about England.
But there was one man in the world who decided to show us there's a better way.
There is another way.
If you have chaos on your streets... This isn't the guy from El Salvador, is it?
Mckayley?
Ah, the Sun King himself.
There it is.
If you've got chaos on your streets, if you have a country, a government that's absolutely suffocating you, there is a better way.
Lock them up.
Yeah.
If your streets are filled with criminals, it's incredibly easy if they tattoo on their faces, by the way, I'm a murderer and rapist.
You can actually just put them in jail.
And man, what was the tweet?
Who was it?
Sadiq Khan was just like... Oh, Sadiq Khan said... We can't just lock them up and you just reply to the picture of this.
Yeah, I mean, that was... It's the obvious answer.
We can't just... I mean, I've looked... I've invented this thing called prisons.
Oh my god, no one's ever thought of this before!
Yeah, no, he literally said it, we can't just lock our way out of this problem or something.
Well, the funny thing was, I had some pushback on that, of a lot of people saying, well, it's not quite as easy as it is in El Salvador, where they tattooed on their faces that they're a criminal.
Actually, actually, it is just as easy because a lot of the crime going on in London, at least with particular demographics, like the black drill rap gangs in Brixton and other places.
Do they tattoo themselves?
No, even better.
There is literally a UK drill website called DrillUK.com that has a map with the gang territories in it.
And they post music videos, wearing masks, but still music videos, bragging about the people that they stab and the crimes that they commit.
So if you're going to tell me that Sadiq Khan would have a really difficult time organizing the Met Police to go in and take care of the trouble areas, you're lying.
Because it turns out my favorite dictator showed that there is...
He's not a dictator!
Yeah, but I find that- Literally elected!
Yeah, I know, but it's funny though, this is what dictators are made.
Yeah, literally elected with an overwhelming popular mandate.
Exactly, just like all dictators are.
He showed there is a better way.
I mean, currently, he's probably under pressure from the US government, under threat of sanctions and economic problems, to release all of the murderers.
Biden's like, not on my watch.
Biden's like, you want peace on the streets?
No, no, no.
But still, for the time being, El Salvador had a record drop in the homicide rate.
So that was something good that actually happened in March.
So England, not doing great.
America, not doing great.
El Salvador, though, this is peak year for them.
Winning.
Yeah, absolute winning.
Yes, I can cheer somebody on.
I'm happy to cheer someone on.
I'm glad to see that someone somewhere in the world is doing a good job with their own country.
I like the idea that all of the El Salvador government was running around like headless chickens, going, what do we do?
What do we do?
And then he shows up.
Have you tried arresting?
There's too much liberal human rights red tape.
I don't know what we can do.
The problem is unsolvable.
So we'll just lock them up.
I think he's also, uh, there's, there's term limits for the presidency of El Salvador and the people are saying that, oh, he won't be around forever though.
So he's literally gone to the Supreme Court and said, can I go on for longer than I'm supposed to?
And I think they're going to say yes.
Average dictator.
Could I please have a bit longer?
And the Supreme Court's like, yes.
There you go.
Simple as.
Love me Bukele, hate me cartels.
Simple as.
You retweeted the distributist the other day.
Yeah, he did.
Because distributist was critiquing his style.
Yeah.
Because Kelly's dress is...
Yeah, yeah.
He was like, you know, where are the cloaks?
You know, where...
I would like to see him dressed as Zorro.
Because he was saying that Bukele dresses like Mark Zuckerberg.
And he's like, no, he wants to see more cloaks and more like, you know, crowns and stuff like that.
So Bukele retweets this.
It's just funny.
He's got a sense of humor.
South America has set a pretty high standard for that kind of thing, though.
Look cool, man.
Yeah, so that was March.
Sorry.
That was good.
Well, I suppose on that note, it's time to end the show because this is a pre-record.
Hope you're having a good boxing day.
Yeah, and if you're not... I need some food.
No, go to the merch store and buy Sally that shirt.
Yeah.
She'll love it.
Anyway, bye-bye.
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