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	Hello, and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	I'm joined by Dan and Stelios.
	Hello, I'm glad to be joined with you on The Lotus Eaters on the 13th of February, Callum.
	Right.
	Well, today we'll be talking about the Suicide Pact and the fact that it's been cancelled, boys.
	So, put your knives down.
	It's all okay.
	A trollish week in the West, and totally safe and effective.
	So, guess which one of those three isn't going on YouTube?
	Yeah, exclusives.
	That's why you're here.
	Yeah.
	Because you go over there, and what's there?
	Well, not this.
	Is that good advertising, Dan?
	If you are watching this live, you are part of the master race.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, I don't have any announcements to make, so we'll just jump to the news, I guess.
	Because there's lots to say.
	Right.
	Suicide Pact.
	It's over, boys.
	You can calm down.
	Everything's good.
	The whole world's been solved.
	It was a good weekend, turns out.
	Not quite, but I'm trying to gin up that maybe we should all calm down a bit.
	You've lost me.
	Has there been a development?
	I mean, not much of one, but I think that there is a mindset shift that took place.
	And it's thanks to Tucker Carlson, irritatingly, which is... I had to be in America that does this, but... Oh, I quite like Tucker.
	He's alright.
	Oh, no, I'm not saying that because I don't like Tucker.
	I'm saying it because it seems to have been a lot of Europeans picked up on this mindset.
	And of course, the Americans as well, because they've been infected with the European disease, which the Europeans have had ever since World War Two, which is maybe we should just kill ourselves.
	That's not a good idea.
	Oh.
	You don't know what I'm talking about.
	I just want to mention it real quick.
	I saw this pop up.
	And, uh, former Dutch Prime Minister and wife will die hand in hand in legal duo euthanasia.
	And some guy responded saying, perfect metaphor for Western European civilization.
	And the man is correct!
	Local man is right.
	This is a long-running problem with Europeans and Europe, which is that, well, that was fun, and now they just want to die on a civilizational level for some stupid reason.
	Well, you can't base an identity purely on guilt, and that's what a lot of Europeans are trying to do right now.
	That's entirely correct.
	And before we go forward, though, I must do some shilling.
	And I shall do the shilling now.
	Here we are.
	It's the Calvin Robinson Show.
	He's on, uh, what is it?
	Thursdays afternoons on lotuseaters.com.
	And it's a premium show, so you have to subscribe to get access to it.
	So if you want to see it, subscribe and get access to it.
	One of them's already out, so you can go back and check that out if you'd like to not wait for Thursday.
	But if you'd like to take part, you can also sign up to Gold Tier and then send in video comments to Calvin.
	And there's a 50% off deal if you use code CRUSADE to get 50% off Gold Tier for the first three months.
	So there we are.
	That's more news.
	Good news.
	See?
	Told you suicide was over.
	Anyway, back to the problem in question.
	Because, of course, this thing...
	Joke about Europe isn't new.
	I mean, Douglas Murray actually commented on it on the last pages of The Strange Death of Europe, if you've read that, where he likens Europe to Icarus deciding he's going to make some wings and fly to the sun.
	Of course, you know, it goes pretty well.
	Guy takes over the whole world, at least the Europeans did.
	And not only did we conquer the Earth in terms of, you know, other foreign countries, but in science, I mean, we literally conquered the ability to even go to the moon and whatnot, as the Americans take that.
	But everything goes well for Europe, is my point, you know?
	And then, like, liberalism, and then communism, and fascism, and it's all Let me just say something about this book.
	all came crashing down but essentially we won the game yeah and then having won it it was like oh what do we do now but it's that crash as well so the the second world war is the crash in douglas murray's worldview is how europeans see themselves and then it's just eternal guilt and like what's the point stelios absolutely right that we should just kill ourselves is the mindset of europeans post-world war ii but let me just say something about this book i think that um there is a sort of a message that you know europe is sick
	europe now is tired and we're just going down into the night i I don't believe this personally.
	I think it is just an issue of the policies nations follow.
	It's a choice.
	Policies are entirely ruling class, every institution, the moral values.
	I mean, I think it's fairly root and branch.
	The only thing I'd query slightly from your point is I think that basically Europe committed suicide in the First World War.
	And the Second World War was really when the Americans conquered the world.
	To be fair, I don't think there's a specific claim about times.
	It's a general overview.
	Yes.
	Well, I'll give you that.
	They took over the world and then went, what if we just lose instead?
	I mean, wasn't it later than that?
	Wasn't it in 1956 that the shift went towards the US as opposed to England?
	No, they were scheming during the Second World War.
	I don't bring this up to argue about dates.
	This is a thing.
	This is your way of saying let's move forward.
	There's a lot of it.
	A lot of people point to this, for example, mass migration projections.
	What if we just breed ourselves out of existence?
	That's mad.
	That's not a plan.
	That's just euthanasia.
	And my point again is that this has been around for a long time.
	So this is Brain for Breakfast, which is an old YouTube channel.
	Doesn't upload no more.
	I don't know if he died.
	But you got mad views just making videos about geopolitics.
	And in this one, this is back in those early days, six years ago.
	Good lord.
	Where he's still on that boat where he's like, oh yeah, you know the Germans?
	Here's their history.
	And now everything will be fine because they're going to get old and retire and have immigrants come and do the jobs for them so they can pay their pensions.
	It was still in that mad worldview that that would all be fine.
	I mean, look at the choice of immigrants, he thinks.
	And ironically, he was saying this.
	Yes.
	Oh dear.
	So the Turks and the Italians and the Greeks will come and pay German pensions and everyone will live happily ever after because they're all kind of Europeans and it's like... I mean at this point it is very questionable that the German boomers' children are going to pay their pensions let alone some Turkish guy.
	Yeah, and this was stupid.
	I mean, this is that narrative of like, well Europe's kind of spent, so what they're going to do is they're all going to get old and die and foreigners will take their place and everything will be fine.
	Yes.
	And that, my point is just to say this is a theory, this is a round, this is a thing.
	It's obviously stupid.
	It's been played out now for a decade or so, and that end point of like, what's the end of killing yourself but getting old and having foreigners pay for you, that didn't work.
	I think we're at that point.
	Let me just say, because you're mentioning Greece and Italy, there was a different setting back there.
	So I think it's wrong to read what is happening now and what happened there in terms of what is happening right now in England.
	I'm sure.
	I'm saying it's a civilizational viewpoint.
	Yes.
	The northern... And just bear in mind that one of the main ideas post-World War II that the international order had, obviously not Germans, was how to prevent World War III.
	So this is... And this is something that they had several policies there.
	Some harmed Germany, some possibly didn't.
	Well, I think we're past that point.
	They went on to the, well, the idea that's in common culture is that the Europeans were just like, oh, we'll have people replace us.
	So that's the end of the European experiment.
	And then something new will come out of it.
	I was like, okay.
	But then that just hasn't worked.
	And I'm just laying out that that's a, that's a theory that's around that.
	And the reason I bring it all up is to get to this.
	Now, Tuck Carlson did his interview with Putin.
	Everyone knows.
	He then came back and has done a short thing where he's just talking about why he did it.
	About 30 minutes, not gonna play at all.
	But I'm going to play the start of this just to get a point real quick, which is why he did it.
	I'll start in reverse order.
	Why now?
	Well, I've been trying for three years to do this interview.
	The US government prevented me from doing it by spying on my text messages and leaking them to the New York Times.
	And that spooked the Russian government into cancelling the interview.
	So I've been trying to do this, but my country's intel services were working against me illegally, and that enraged me because I'm an American citizen, I'm 54, I pay my taxes, I obey the law.
	And there was no expectation in the America that I grew up in that my government and its intel services, NSA and CIA, which were always outwardly focused on our foreign enemies, would be turned inward against American citizens.
	And I'm shocked by that, and I'm infuriated by that.
	And so once I discovered that that was happening and I confirmed it was happening and they admitted that they did it, then I was totally determined, monomaniacally dedicated to doing this interview, not simply because I want to know what Vladimir Putin is like and what he thinks about a war that is resetting the world and really gravely damaging my country's economy.
	But also because they told me I couldn't on the basis of illegitimate means and for no really clearly stated justification and I thought that can't stand.
	That's his justification.
	And the point about he wants to hear what Putin says... Actually, it's a very interesting idea that his whole reason for this is... That's not that interesting.
	You can find that online.
	But because the government tried to oppress me in his circumstance, the rebellion is what I want to focus on there.
	The personal rebellion from him.
	Where he's like, ah, screw you guys.
	I'm just going to go do the thing you're trying to make me not do.
	And I find a lot of this very similar to what's happening with the European disease of, uh, I'm done, la mal, dead.
	Like, that's not a plan.
	And I think there's a very big difference between the older generations of Europe who seemingly believed in this, or at least enacted it, in the elites, and then the younger ones which are rebelling against this as their end point of civilization, because that's mad.
	Can I just say something else about this interview as well because I watched it.
	There was a fascinating bit a bit later on where he describes because he spent a little bit of time either side of the interview in Moscow and he's looking around and he's describing how oh my god it's clean and it's what and it works and I can get service at restaurants and there's no crime.
	And it's just an ordered functional city.
	And that reminded me so much of when Khrushchev came to America and started having a look around and going into supermarkets and coming to the realization, oh my god, this place is functional.
	It works.
	And now that's kind of flipped in reverse.
	This is exactly where I wish to go, because you're right, about 20 minutes in or something, Huh.
	Moscow is something that used to be a joke because his dad used to work on the diplomatic service or something and was stationed in Moscow.
	And now he goes there and he's like, yeah, American cities were all better than Moscow back when I was a kid.
	And now Moscow is better than every single American city.
	I wouldn't want to live in an American city.
	And this is him as an American saying this.
	And someone who repeatedly says in this interview where he says, I'm not going to move to Russia.
	I'm never going to be a Russian subject.
	I have no interest in that.
	It is someone not complimenting Russia because he thinks, oh, this is great.
	It's him complimenting it saying, what the hell happened back home?
	Because it's not that Moscow leapfrogged over Western civilization, or American cities specifically, it's that the American cities got worse, in Parker's view.
	Yes, well I mean it's the exact same thing about when people have called me a Putin shill for talking about that interview.
	It's not that I'm a Putin shill, it's just that I think that a country should be able to have a president who isn't demented.
	who can remember significant events in his life or speaks for his people or something like that.
	It's not being pro-Russian.
	It's just basic hygiene level of competency and governance.
	And this is where I see a parallel between the American world that seems to have caught a similar disease to the Europeans, as described in previous pieces of media.
	In Joe Biden, not only do you have a senile old man who doesn't know what he's doing and all the rest of it, but there seems to be this narrative of the Anglo-Saxon America, because that time is over.
	That's had its time.
	And now it's time for that to die.
	And this is what seems to be behind the large push for mass immigration, not just for the boat rigging and everything else, but that Anglo-Saxon America needs to be destroyed at every level.
	And by pure coincidence, I'm sure, in that time period, Tucker's noticed that American cities now look worse than Moscow.
	Just for visual reasons, I'm just going to mention one of my own videos where I went to St.
	Petersburg.
	This is a little compilation and of course it's a...
	It's hard to say exactly, because you're looking at Moscow and St.
	Petersburg, they're the best cities in Russia.
	The worst of Russia is much, much worse, because it's a huge country with unbelievable countryside.
	But it's perfectly fair to compare the capital of this to, you know, either D.C.
	Washington, D.C.
	Or New York.
	That seems fine to me.
	Or London.
	Like, we're looking at the subway here.
	And this is notably miles and miles ahead of, you know, a London underground station.
	And some of those metros are new, some of them are old.
	Of course, the old ones had special attention because communist era needed to impress foreigners, and also Stalin just liked metros for some reason.
	But you look around the city, and it's much cleaner than what I see in European cities.
	And then what Tucker says about American cities, I have to take his word for it, it's very similar.
	Yeah, I mean, the guy's right.
	He just is right, which is that Russian cities are weirdly nice, at least in the centers, which American ones don't seem to be.
	I mean, their metros are a great point of comparison that Tarkin brings up.
	He says that on the New York metro, people don't feel safe to even take them.
	And in Moscow, no, not a problem.
	Well, that's what I wanted to say before because I do have some points of concern and criticism about Packer, but I really like this point that he raised where he said that, you know, in New York City, for instance, you don't feel safe to use the tube.
	Now, personally, I don't know.
	I think the better thing would be to compare capital cities.
	And not just the entire country, because Russia is a vast country.
	Russia is the biggest country in the world.
	Same with the US.
	It's hard to comprehend.
	Way, way bigger.
	And you just can't speak for all cities.
	I'm sure there are cities there with problems.
	Yeah, but they're also way poorer.
	Because that's the other thing here.
	So in my mind, as someone posted earlier, a picture of the DC subway versus the one in Pyongyang of all places.
	And of course, like again, communist country, metro, it's a weird circumstance.
	But if you, if I was an alien and I was told that America was a really rich country and North Korea was a joke, and these are two metro stations, who do you think has which?
	I would have assumed the really nice one would be in America.
	And it's just not.
	It just looks like crap.
	I think Tucker makes that point in that interview as well.
	He says we got too rich.
	It's weird.
	It's really weird.
	And his fundamental point is that he says, filth is a choice.
	Crime is a choice.
	And of course, open borders is a choice.
	And therefore also just civilizational suicide.
	It's a decision.
	It's a decision you make or don't make.
	And like you say, it's really weird to see him going there, seeing that and being like, Oh.
	Oh dear.
	Yes.
	Why is my homeland, the best places in my homeland, the best cities, not as good as this?
	What the hell?
	Just on the terms of health, etc.
	Not everything, because if I go into everything, you'd be here all year.
	Yes, go on.
	And I bring this all up to set up the fact that Boris Johnson made a response to Tucker's interview where he called him a traitor to journalism.
	You can see from this British media outlet here.
	They quote Boris as saying, around the world, people are watching that ludicrous interview with Vladimir Putin conducted by Tucker Carlson.
	And we must not fall for this tissue of lies, above all for the notion that Putin is somehow fated to succeed in Ukraine.
	On the contrary, he is doomed to failure.
	Does this enlighten you at all?
	Do you learn anything?
	He's basically saying, please, please don't watch it.
	It doesn't, and it actually harms even the message he wants to spread, because some people should stop talking at some point in their career.
	You're entirely right.
	I mean, you could take a view on the Ukrainian war either way.
	That would be great.
	You could find various media to support or go against your viewpoint.
	That would be information.
	This is not information.
	This is propaganda.
	And propaganda isn't just something that disagrees with your worldview.
	I'm kind of sick of how that's been mixed up recently.
	Propaganda is something that makes you not think.
	The purpose of it is to make you stop thinking.
	Not to assess whether or not something's true or false, or it just goes against what you believe.
	It's stop thinking.
	But may I add something here?
	Sure.
	Because I'm a bit apprehensive these days.
	I think that there are some people who are entirely justified in being pissed off with the legacy media of their country.
	But just thinking that everything I heard in that interview is true.
	It's also another piece of propaganda.
	So I'm saying that people should have critical thinking.
	Of course.
	Because there are some people now who are saying, OK, look, we have been lied to and we have actually been lied to.
	And these people have been lied to.
	So let's not just go to recreate the whoever disagrees with the person who has lied to me is absolutely infallible and correct.
	That's fine.
	That's what I'm trying to get at.
	I'm just saying that there is propaganda on both sides.
	Of course.
	And this is what I'm getting at, which is that if you're just really going to sit yourself in a position where you say the West is fantastic, everything's fine, and never engage with anything else, You're not going to find truth.
	That's you not engaging with thinking.
	Whereas if you go and engage and then you find out, no, I was right, this place is an asshole, oh, I was wrong, this place is actually pretty good in these regards, then that's thinking.
	You can get to an educated conclusion.
	But instead, we get him.
	And he's a perfect counterpoint to all of this, I think.
	Particularly, Boris Johnson.
	Because people started responding to these comments where he called Tucker Carlson a traitor.
	By just pointing out that, dude, you were the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and there are people in Great Britain being arrested for flying British flags.
	Why?
	Because they're near people who support Palestine.
	And the police go up and arrest the British patriot.
	Multiple times!
	This is the second time here, I could find, just with a quick Google search.
	See this chap.
	And I remember this one.
	These are the Palestinian guys, he had a British flag, so they took him away.
	Is that a Palestinian guy there?
	Oh no, sorry, that's a British police officer.
	Of course.
	And this just goes on.
	I mean, this is what Britain is.
	It's got some serious problems.
	And Boris Johnson's obsession is not his own homeland.
	It is not with... It's not just flying an English flag or British flag that gets you arrested in England.
	It's, quoting Churchill, people have been arrested for that.
	Yep.
	Praying silently in their own head has got them arrested.
	This is why I'm so not interested in this man, because as soon as he was in power, he did basically bugger all for his own homeland, and then once he got out of it, he was just obsessed with a foreign place.
	I mean, this recent example where conscription was discussed, and he put out, of course I jolly well would join if we were to fight Russia.
	You can go now, you sack of shit.
	He will be 60 in June.
	What is he doing?
	As a human being, a 59-year-old man who's about to be 60, why is he making videos saying that, oh yes, of course I would sign up to fight Russia.
	No, he won't.
	And he could get on a plane and go now if he actually wanted to.
	Well, he couldn't.
	They wouldn't accept him.
	He's too old.
	It's just such nothing.
	He's probably average age for the Ukrainian army at this point.
	Maybe.
	But the point being, he posts these BS videos where he's talking about Lance Cpl.
	Johnson.
	This is someone who made a choice, and a series of choices that didn't better where I live.
	This is like Madonna level of cringe.
	It's so cringe.
	And these choices not only have made this place worse and not better and are very similar to the same problems the Americans are facing as the Europeans, but they also just killed his own party.
	I don't know if you've seen this.
	This is a prediction based on one of the most recent polls.
	That will be coming up in my segment most definitely.
	Yeah, for people listening, basically we will become a one-party state under the Labour Party because the Conservatives are so exterminated in every seat you can find.
	So that's his level of euthanasia, which is he euthanizes his own party with his own, well, choices.
	Yes.
	He had an 80-seat majority, everything was laid out at his feet, and he had the political skill necessary to destroy his own party in one parliament.
	Yeah.
	And he wants to sit there and talk about foreign affairs constantly, and he's utterly failed on his domestic front.
	I mean, maybe that's why.
	Maybe you would if you failed this badly.
	But that is a choice, and one we don't need to make.
	And I got the feeling after watching that Tucker interview, where he's talking about why he went there, and his concern is that his homeland is getting worse, and he wants to improve it.
	But that dichotomy, that old thinking or that meme that existed in culture of the Europe's had its time and must die now, I think it's dead.
	And I think it's because it's just the march of time has moved it.
	1990 was 34 years ago now.
	And here's a graph here of our home ownership in young adults.
	And as you can see, something happened in the 1990s and then it fell off a cliff.
	I was born then.
	Yeah.
	I think there's a big, big difference between people who experience something like this, which is the inability to buy a house or levels of masturbation.
	Don't you feel silly now, Stelios?
	Rather than being in nappies, you should have bought yourself a house.
	A wonderful investment.
	You missed your moment.
	And the UK is just the worst out of the Western nations here.
	As you can see, the US is going through a similar problem, Germany, France, slightly, but the UK is on another level of just crisis on that front.
	And at the same time, since the 1990s, people experience this.
	And I'm using Swindon just because it's such a perfect example of basically nothing happening for decades in terms of mass immigration, and then just suddenly it hits.
	And it's a straight line up.
	What's that?
	20% of Swindon being foreign-born.
	I really think there's a big difference there.
	In my head, I just did the necessary calculations to run that forward.
	It will get to 100% foreign.
	Yes.
	Very quickly.
	And as much as I love the memes around the Putin interview, you know, stuff like this.
	Putin, let me give you some context about Ukraine.
	You mean Maidan?
	No, no, no.
	Let me give you... When the Earth was cooling 4 billion years ago.
	Like, that is all good fun.
	I think the bigger thing out of all of this, because that interview wasn't really that interesting, no one really learned something that Putin had already said publicly, is that the willingness on Tucker's part to go and speak to him and the hatred from Biden's administration is not just something that's unconstitutional and is a crime, as Tucker lays out there.
	Why are they spying on American citizens in that way?
	It's instead a choice that the United States has done to itself to get it into a position where it hates you even going and seeing the other side.
	So the thing I found remarkable about the Putin interview, regardless of pulling apart the historical accuracies and the conflation of various things and all that kind of stuff... You know, Poland sided with Hitler?
	Yeah, I mean, which is a bit rich given the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, so there is that.
	But anyway, the point that I thought was so interesting was he was talking about an ethos of people and a culture, right?
	And our politicians are basically trying to outlaw any discussion of ethnos.
	It's mad, the level of suppression.
	And I mean, if anything else, I mean, some news that shows you how bad it's gotten for the people who are on the West.
	They pulled Jon Stewart out of retirement.
	They pulled him out to make videos because none of their stuff works anymore.
	I mean, I kind of feel bad for the Democrats in the way that you think the late night TV show hosts are some kind of backbone of your propaganda apparatus.
	And they've all sucked.
	I mean, to be fair to Jon Stewart, he did actually do an interesting job in being entertaining, and then the rest of them just utterly failed.
	But my point being, yeah, civilizational suicide, it's a choice.
	Tucker found that out firsthand in just terms of filth and crime in your local city, and realizing that, once you realize that, that's a big step.
	That's not something small.
	That's understanding that the people doing this to you are doing it to you, and it doesn't have to be that way.
	That's awesome.
	Sorry, I've gone on a bit.
	Let's move on to some good trolling.
	I always love good trolling.
	Okay, so before, in the segment, you said something that it was a quiet weekend.
	I think it wasn't so quiet, and it had rich, trolling value.
	Now, before we say more about this, you can visit our website, and Calvin Robinson has joined us for his Common Sense Crusade, and you can have 50% off gold here with the code CRUSADE.
	Be sure to give it a watch.
	The first episode was really good.
	Just come and watch Calvin.
	Now, there was Superbowl, okay?
	And a lot of people in the US... It was just the grammar, there was Superbowl.
	Yeah, it happened!
	And I'm just fascinated by the video.
	I knew there was a Black National Anthem.
	I hadn't actually seen that it was this much cringe.
	I didn't know there was a Black National Anthem, what?
	Oh yeah, there's a new Black National Anthem now.
	Well, I'll tell you all about it, but I want to invite you to just enjoy and indulge into what I'm going to show you.
	So basically, what happened is that, from my understanding, that every Super Bowl, which is a big event in the US, the singers sing the national anthem.
	I remember... It's all a bit Witch Doctor-y in the background, isn't it?
	It's like the Ooga Booga thing, isn't it?
	I don't want to cause anyone offense, but... Many years ago, I remember Steven Tyler was singing the national anthem of the US from Aerosmith and he was doing his characteristic screeching.
	It didn't go down very well.
	But anyway, they are singing songs like the Star Spangled Banner, America the Beautiful, and they have added Ever since 2019, the song Lift, I think 2020, Lift Every Voice and Sing, which many people say is the Black National Anthem.
	And I mean, I find this weird for one reason.
	Is this real?
	Yeah.
	This is real life?
	What do you mean?
	They actually decided to bring up a black national anthem for the Super Bowl.
	Yeah, because... I have no idea.
	That's a real thing.
	What is weird is because... That's so dumb!
	I'll say this from an outsider's perspective, okay?
	I don't see any reason to do this because there's plenty of reason for people from the black community to say that, for instance, the American National Anthem involves us.
	So in singing it, we're not left outside.
	The entire purpose of a national anthem is to bring people together under a single banner.
	So by having two national anthems, by definition, you're two nations.
	Also, a more fundamental point.
	Does anyone know what NFL is?
	Black is not a nation.
	They say the Black National Anthem.
	Not yet, no.
	But does anyone know what NFL is?
	The National Football League.
	Is that the rugby where they wear body armour?
	I think rugby differs from football.
	Let me just say, what's the Black National Anthem and why is it sang before the Super Bowl?
	Just say here, lift every voice.
	That's a good question.
	Left every voice insane.
	What the fuck are you talking about?
	It's just stupid on the face of it.
	So it was sung for the fourth year in a row on Sunday.
	Really?
	It's the fourth year?
	Yeah.
	That's a very long nation.
	I suppose it goes back to the birth of St.
	George or the death of St.
	George, whatever.
	Well, allow me to contextualize.
	In the beginning there was the word.
	In the beginning there was a fentanyl hit.
	Oh come on!
	Come on!
	So you see here, it's the inclusion of the Black National Anthem along with the Star Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful has been met with both praise and criticism.
	I thought America was over this.
	The tradition continues nonetheless.
	Anyway, they said that they did it in 2020 in the wake of racial and social justice protests following the death of George Floyd.
	I was joking!
	They actually did it because of the fentanyl.
	I mean, it was kind of, do the math, it's four years, three years ago, because now it's the fourth in a row.
	I didn't realize it was literally that.
	All right.
	But the thing is the NFL, which Dan, you should know what it is.
	It's the National Football League.
	Yeah, but it's just it's just rugby with body armor because they're soft, isn't it?
	I don't I don't know if it's rugby.
	I think it isn't.
	I think it differs from from rugby.
	Maybe they have more breaks or something.
	Isn't rugby with more with less armor?
	Yeah, rugby is no armor, no brakes.
	No, I think this does happen.
	So the NFL also announced it would commit $250 million over 10 years for social justice initiatives during this 2020 movement, targeting what it calls systemic racism and supporting the battle against the ongoing and historical injustices faced by African Americans.
	Right, let's move on.
	So, Carl asks something.
	Who paid for the Christians washing feet ad?
	Do you know this?
	I haven't seen this ad either.
	Yeah, I'll just let it play here.
	It has some music, but just look at what's going on.
	There's a series of people washing other people's feet.
	Yeah.
	And I don't think it's going to be a theme.
	Yeah.
	It's not the music.
	Is that because so many American cities now have human excrement all over the floor?
	That's just San Francisco.
	Come on.
	How does this work?
	She washes their feet, her feet, and then she steps on the on the on tarmac.
	Yeah, I don't.
	And as Callum says, if that was in San Francisco, she's immediately going to... What's going on there?
	Just bros having a bath.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Jesus didn't teach hate.
	Yeah, he did.
	He washed feet.
	I think that's a little bit reductive.
	I mean, you'd expect something like, I don't know if Quentin Tarantino is behind this cause he loves feet, but he's not.
	I was trying to answer to Carl, but apparently we do have an answer.
	The He Gets Us Foundation.
	Director Christian, you should just... what?
	They say several things that we reflected on our TV spot, Love Your Enemies.
	That commercial was all about hate and division.
	Ultimately, it was about pride.
	Pride says, I'm right and you're wrong.
	Every image depicted people in a state of prideful contention, whether it be politicians yelling in a debate or parents fighting at a youthful club.
	So anyway, they just mentioned this about love and unity.
	They say, as we explore creative ideas, we recall the story of Jesus washing his disciples' feet and realize this was the perfect example of how we should treat one another, even those people with whom we don't see eye to eye.
	What are you talking about?
	His disciples are presumably his best friends and his followers.
	So that means you need to start washing the feet of people who hate you?
	Well, I have a couple of good mates and I would not wash their feet.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, I wouldn't even do it to my own family.
	Just why would I wash your feet?
	You can wash your feet.
	I don't know.
	But I mean, Calum, I think you're looking at it from a very weird perspective.
	The whole idea is to love your enemies.
	OK, Justin Trudeau, if you kill your enemies, they win.
	OK, kill them with kindness.
	Kill them with kindness.
	Anyway, they're talking about the story of Jesus washing feet, and I have a passage here.
	It says, "...foot washing requires one to lower themselves, even kneel before another person.
	While the posture seems subservient at first, it truly represents an act of kindness.
	This was always the way of Jesus, but others first and himself last." I'm going to say an entirely philosophical point about here.
	When you have a morality like that, not everyone can preach it.
	It's like they say with St.
	Francis of Assisi, the last person to eat, the last person to have a pillow, the last person to have a bed.
	You cannot literally have a whole society of people who are going to eat last.
	Okay.
	It is mathematically impossible.
	It's mathematically impossible.
	It's just like people sitting in front of a table with food.
	It's shameful if I had one first or something.
	It just doesn't work like that.
	So I think that this is a weird thing.
	Now, one thing, there were several people who mentioned something about Taylor Swift after Super Bowl, and we have some resident vibe checkers and orb ponderers whose expectations about Taylor Swift were completely frustrated.
	Let me give you Conor's tweet.
	Have we now got to the point where Conor is talking about Taylor Swift, even when he's not in the room?
	Yes, in a segment when I was with Carlin and they were talking, Conor was practicing divination, but apparently, Conor, you need some work on divination, because they were saying something that Taylor Swift was going to become a sort of conservative icon if people look at her hugging Travis Kelce, and anyway, I'm not gonna say it, but
	Connor says, this radioactive cringe may have just cost white America its second baby boom.
	Travis Kelce could have proposed at the victory podium and set the marital aspirations of a million millennial cat ladies in waiting a flutter.
	He failed to embody... Sorry, I'm laughing.
	This has trolling value.
	He failed to embody the captain of the high school football team vibe.
	Look at Swift's face.
	It's so...
	Is that what Taylor Swift looks like?
	She's going to make a new song, but sorry, guys, I'm laughing because I listened to that in a segment and I couldn't.
	I didn't know that that's what Taylor Swift looked like, because she's not exactly a wood.
	I mean, come on, she's attractive, but the point is not that.
	The point is that... What's this got to do with anything?
	I'm confused.
	The point is that her dude is playing with Her friend, her boyfriend, is the captain of the team that won the Super Bowl.
	Some people who practice divination thought that if you apply the mechanics, that was the best moment for this person, Travis Kelsey.
	Proposed, but he didn't propose.
	So all the maths, you know, the Bene Gesserit maths to create the moiré d'une, completely being destroyed.
	But she's having fun after the Super Bowl and some fans are saying, Is that her man?
	The ginger one?
	No, I don't think this one, but he's somewhere there.
	She said the fact that Taylor Swift can be in a club in Vegas and be authentically herself without being nudged or center of attention.
	Like, y'all don't understand how huge this is for her.
	No one cares.
	Anyway, Britney was gone.
	Is this a series of things no one cares about?
	Britain is weakened, you know that?
	Some other shit no one cares about.
	Local woman is mental.
	Yeah, she had the Christian message.
	Hopefully he gets us.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Stay on.
	Slow down.
	Slow down.
	Yeah.
	What the hell is this?
	Is that AI generated?
	Are you drunk?
	What is this segment?
	No, I'm just showing you.
	I'm just showing you what happened.
	It's going to tie together at the end.
	I'm just showing you what happens during the weekend.
	So for those that are listening, we're watching Britney Spears embarrass herself.
	It's probably the best way that I can describe it.
	Yeah, I hope people don't make a cringe comment about how she can turn into a conservative icon.
	One of these days!
	Sorry, I just don't see it.
	Okay, anyway, she should be tying this up together.
	Anyway, another thing no one gives a shit about.
	Let's go.
	Let's go to Biden now, because I think he had the moment of epiphany.
	I think he has said something profoundly sensible.
	You'll understand why I say this.
	Anything like me, you like to be surrounded by a snack or two while watching the big game.
	You know, when buying snacks for the kid, you might have noticed one thing.
	Sports drinks bottles are smaller.
	Bag of chips has fewer chips, but they're still charging you just as much.
	And as an ice cream lover, what makes me the most angry is that ice cream cartons have actually shrunk in size, but not in price.
	I've had enough of what they call shrinkflation.
	It's a ripoff.
	Some companies are trying to pull a fast one by shrinking the products little by little and hoping you won't notice.
	Give me a break.
	The American public is tired of being played for suckers.
	I'm calling on companies to stop to this.
	Let's make sure businesses do the right thing now.
	Okay, is that AI generated?
	I have no idea, but companies are shrinking the product sizes and hoping we won't notice.
	What, like you printed $3 trillion and then hoped we wouldn't notice?
	Yeah, but let me just say, he really strikes a chord with me.
	I really hate it when they give me small portions.
	So every time I go out to have a burger and this portion size shrinks, I absolutely hate it.
	I want to take the plate and literally smash it on the wall.
	Why did they do that?
	Because I agree.
	I am so sick of the Mars duo.
	I just want a really big Mars bar.
	And just don't tell me one now and later.
	Two right now.
	But it's not the fault of the Mars Corporation.
	It's the fault of pricks like this who printed all the money so the money was worthless.
	So the corporation is trying to find ways to trick you.
	Because they don't know how else to keep the sales up.
	But the epiphany did not last long and Biden made some crucial mistakes.
	He said he's a president for red states and green states.
	He forgot the name.
	Wait, does he mean the green zone in Iraq?
	I don't, I don't know.
	Let us play this here.
	When I said, when I pushed all these programs, I said, I'm going to be a president for everybody.
	When I said, when I pushed all these programs, I said I'm going to be a president for everybody whether they live in a red state or a green state.
	When I said, when I... Red state or green state.
	All right, yeah.
	Not blue states.
	Also... Literally, he's got his own bloody states.
	And as far as, you know, politics is concerned, he makes the president of Egypt with the president of Mexico.
	Easy mistake.
	Easy to think that Mexico has a border with Israel.
	And something really weird happened.
	So his lawyer went out to dispel doubts about Biden and he says that he doesn't have memory problems.
	That's not weird that a lawyer would go out and say it.
	My client has never eaten his own feces, your honor.
	People accuse you of having a bad memory.
	Well, I need to talk to my lawyer.
	Everything I say will be used against me in the court of law.
	Any accusations.
	Of course, his lawyer is also 80 years old.
	Yeah, and as you said, the Democrats are in a really rough state right now, and Hillary Clinton is yet another high-profile Democrat who has raised concerns over Biden's age.
	Now, let us move a bit forward to the other side of the U.S.
	politics camp and to the Trump and Packer campaign.
	No, because here is where we had the interview.
	The interview was one of the most fascinating things that took place lately.
	It has rich things we can extract from it.
	One of the ideas is that we need to think a bit about how the world works.
	The first step to gain good understanding of how the world works is a Lotus Eaters subscription.
	With just £5 a month, you can gain access to all our premium content and watch our marathon discussion with Carlin Bow about Machiavelli.
	And we're discussing here his discourses on Livy.
	And his principles about how to found and structure a lasting society.
	Now what is interesting and why I say this is because I think that if you read Discourses on Livy, you will see.
	That there's a remarkable resemblance to how the US has built itself and continues.
	And there are several really interesting things that Machiavelli says about war and about externalizing internal conflict and things like that.
	I remember his key lesson was don't have too many foreigners.
	That was a bit of it.
	So I think you're referring to the prince who says basically that you shouldn't rely on mercenaries, so on foreign troops.
	Yes.
	You need to instill upon your population... I mean, presumably, if Machiavelli was around today, he would say don't rely on foreign Starbucks workers as well.
	Anyway.
	Yeah.
	So... Not much of an army, is it?
	No.
	I think Machiavelli would definitely be against Starbucks.
	He would like Nero.
	He would definitely like Nero and he would say that basically all cafeterias should become Nero and that Pratt and all the other chain shops, they need to bow down to Nero.
	Yes.
	Okay, so one interesting stuff that happened was that I think that there is immense trollish value coming from the interview.
	Right.
	And it's fun because, you know, a lot of people were saying that, you know, We just expose ourselves to completely different logic.
	And they were saying that Tucker made, he didn't challenge Putin as much.
	Some others have said that he made some interesting points.
	It wasn't a Western style, you know, just hardball level conversation, but Tucker was asking some questions.
	It was, for instance, I think Konstantin Kissin in Trigonometry said something that some people didn't mention was that Tucker is being given sort of a rough deal by some.
	For instance, he asked Putin something about why don't you use this rhetoric that you use right now about Ukraine some time ago, and they say that, interestingly enough, Putin never went back to that question.
	So it's a really interesting... Well, there is a superb two-hour breakdown of the Tucker Carlson-Putin interview, which is going up at 3 p.m.
	on Brokenomics.
	And brokenomics is something that you need to subscribe to watch.
	So also again with five pounds a month, you can gain access to all our premium content and watch Dan's breakdown of it.
	But what was interesting is that, you know, a lot of people hang from what Putin was saying about The justification for why Ukraine should stop fighting, let's say, and approach Russia.
	And the idea was that, you know, the lands used to be ours.
	Common ethnos, common people, common culture, that kind of thing.
	That was his core message.
	Yes, yes.
	But it was fun because, you know, you had all sorts of people Uploading stuff.
	We here we have the president of Mongolia alluding to the Mongolian Empire and he just said after putting stock.
	Yeah, it didn't last very long.
	Mongolian historic map.
	Don't worry.
	We're a peaceful and free nation.
	That's a but there's one thing which I'm sure people from the UK will love especially from England.
	What is this?
	It's a map of how the world should be.
	It's a good start.
	That's what it is.
	Okay, so, you know, What happened there in the 13 colonies?
	Anyway, I just... The even better map is the one which is countries that Britain has never invaded.
	Well... Because you have to look really closely to see them.
	Anyway, so I just wanted to say that this rhetoric leads us back to this.
	Also here we have an image of the French Empire at some point in its biggest peak.
	We have also people like Michael Shermer saying an analogy for pudding.
	Would Mexico be justified in invading California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas because it used to be theirs?
	Quite frankly, at this point, everybody is justified in invading California.
	Think about it.
	I don't particularly care who does this.
	As long as somebody does it.
	People's Republic of Laos.
	I mean, there's an argument there because, I mean, Texas is flipping, what is it, purple because of the mass Mexican immigration.
	What happens when it becomes majority?
	Well, that's what I want to say is because, you know, there's a clash of perspectives from this, from that interview.
	And at the end of the day, I think it's not particularly helpful to view this because at the end of the day, it's Machiavellian stuff.
	It's power and your borders are exactly where you are able to defend them.
	We've only got two links left.
	I'm fascinated to see how you tie this back to Taylor Swift and Britney Spears.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	So what I wanted to say is that what is fun is that a lot of people have reacted in a sort of, you would say it's a bit meme-y.
	I mean, we have to say it.
	There are some people who said, OK, this is very reasonable.
	Putin just implies that if we follow his rationale, the Americans shouldn't be necessarily a nation.
	He's sensible.
	That's a reaction.
	But Putin's rationale implies that a significant chunk of the U.S.
	was owned by Mexico and Mexico has entitlements to it.
	Seems reasonable.
	So that's what I want to say.
	And that's why I said it before, because I said that a lot of people, they have just rushed from one extreme to the next.
	And let me just say here, there was another trolley-ish value here with Trump talking about NATO allies.
	I think that's interesting to watch because... Yes, this is annoying.
	This is the one where he says that if you don't pay your 2% of GDP into defence spending, then you shouldn't expect the US to come and rescue you.
	It's not exactly that he says you shouldn't expect that.
	Let's hear him.
	One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, well sir, if we don't pay and we're attacked by Russia, will you protect us?
	I said, you didn't pay?
	You're delinquent?
	He said, yes, let's say that happened.
	No, I would not protect you.
	In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
	You got to pay of the presidents of big countries.
	Yeah, so that's the let me just say, because, again, there was lots of outrage about this statement.
	And I think some of it was justified that he is referring to an old state statement he made in during a NATO meeting.
	It's perfectly justifiable today, I'd say.
	Well, basically, I think that in the context of a meeting, this is what, for instance, you would expect him to say, because NATO is not an altruistic organization.
	To a very large extent, it is a military defense organization, and you would expect it.
	But what I want to say is that I think that it is a mistake to say this publicly for one reason.
	I know some people may not like this, but Do you hear this but the point is that when you are.
	I'm a big believer into the peace through strength narrative and you need to show strength everywhere not just to your enemies but also.
	I'll tell you what this is this is this is like when you go on a date right and you order chips.
	She doesn't order chips and you say to her if you want chips order chips because if you don't order chips you're not having any of my chips.
	And then she doesn't order chips.
	And then she wants chips, doesn't she?
	That's what this is.
	Yeah, but one thing to say here is that 2% here is also just to say the 2% of military spending in GDP is the target.
	It's not the idea of an obligation.
	And at the end of the day, because I need to contextualize what I'm saying, because I understand that it may be a bit unpopular to say.
	What I want to say is that when you're leading an alliance, you need to avoid a second, let's say, Biden-style withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	You need to show that you're able to hold this alliance, because at the end of the day, your alliance is a significant part of your power.
	I think that to a very large extent he's just saying what he was saying all the time.
	It's not particularly weird.
	So I think that this ends up my statement for the troll-ish week.
	Right, let's talk about something which is completely and utterly and totally safe and effective.
	In fact, entirely, in all ways, safe and effective.
	So, I'm glad I've got a philosopher on the show with me, because I understand there are different forms of absolute certainty.
	So there's something called a priori knowledge.
	Yes.
	And then above that, there is metaphysical certainty.
	Well, I think that... let me be very brief.
	They are linked, but metaphysical certainty is a bit of a misnomer because... The definition I've got is knowledge that is considered absolutely indelutable and immune to any form of skepticism.
	The concept is closely associated with the foundation of philosophical inquiry into the nature of reality in existence and knowledge itself.
	Yeah, you can say certainty.
	Certainty is a psychological category.
	Okay, so let's talk about a couple of absolute metaphysical certainties, shall we?
	One of which of course is going to be, and we all know this one, diversity is our strength.
	I mean, we all know that.
	That is undeniably true.
	So, look, if your daughter experiences an enrichment event and you have to counsel her through it afterwards, if your son is kicked to death in the streets, as happened to that poor German lad over the weekend, if acid is thrown in your children's face while they're going for a walk with their mum, or your kids are stabbed to death in the street, Um, or, or perhaps somebody climbs through their dawn window at university and murders them.
	We can say at the funeral, with absolute certainty, that diversity is a strength.
	So, so this is, this is, this is Tenet One.
	Um, of course, another thing that we know, with absolute certainty, is that taxis can change the weather.
	Don't laugh, don't laugh, that is absolutely true.
	I was coughing, I swear.
	Yes, yes.
	If we allow the politicians to tax us more, and to regulate the farming industry into non-existence, then the weather will get better in the future.
	So that's another good example.
	Sorry, Dan, how can you not be metaphysically certain about it?
	No, I'm saying that these are all metaphysical certainties.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	And another one, and you're like this one, Callum.
	I hope you're not a heretic by the end.
	No, no, no.
	Because there are some pitchforks and some fire ready to burn.
	All of these are absolute certainties.
	And you're like this one, Callum.
	Another absolute certainty is that with technology that we somehow lost 50 years ago, men landed on the moon.
	And then using, um, four 18-volt acid batteries about that big, then sent a live TV broadcast back to Earth.
	And then after they came back, um, all the footage, um, was taped over because, and I quote, and this is the official explanation, magnetic tape is expensive.
	So anyway, there's a whole bunch of things that we know for certain are absolutely true, but the one thing we are certain of more than anything else in the world is that a certain thing is safe and effective for everybody.
	Before I talk about that, let's quickly mention Calvin, he was too based for GB News, so he's come and joined us on the Lotus Eaters, and he is doing a crusade.
	Not a crusade is in the form of when you drive the Muslims out of your territory.
	It's not that kind of crusade, but he will be sitting down and taking your video questions.
	Any subscriber can watch that, but if you would like to submit a question, you need a Goaltear account and we're giving you 50% off for three months, so you can sign up with the code crusade.
	So that's important.
	Right.
	Now, so why am I talking about a thing that is completely and utterly safe and effective?
	Well, it all sort of stems from this, you see.
	So, here is some of the latest polling on the Tories.
	You mentioned this in your segment, Callum.
	It's not positive, is it?
	Not wildly, no.
	In fact, it's...
	Well.
	A bloodbath?
	It's more than a wipeout, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's at the level of bad for the Tories.
	Well, I wouldn't be surprised if in 30 years' time the Germans are making weird abstract memorials to the Tories.
	It is broadly, it is broadly of that level when it comes to wipeout.
	I haven't crossed a line, have I?
	No.
	Okay, fine.
	I enjoy jokes.
	So anyway, so it looks like the Tories are facing a monumental, atrocious wipeout, and in a desperate attempt to save the sinking ship, our unelected Indian Midget Prime Minister has had a think to himself, right?
	And he's thought, I saw Vivek doing a load of those town hall meetings.
	I'm also Indian!
	And it wasn't just Vivek, because four years before that, Trump, he did a whole load of those town hall meetings, didn't he?
	People like Trump, people like Vivek, so I'll tell you what, why don't I turn this picture around by doing my own town hall meeting No, Wall Street Bets, where he's just like taking the graph telling us that this will be the future.
	So, you know, what could possibly go wrong?
	So, anyway, so he did a town hall meeting and a certain subject came up.
	Now, I'm afraid we're going to have to say goodbye to the YouTube viewers in a moment because... It's not for YouTube.
	Well, yes, because you see... They're a loss.
	Let me frame it like this.
	Some things are true, and then some things are so true that if you say anything against them, then you'll be banned off YouTube.
	They are that true.
	In fact, I'm reminded of that Tywin Tyrion Lannister quote, you know, where Joffrey cuts out that guy's tongue.
	And then afterwards, Tyrion says to him, if you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar.
	You are only telling the world that you fear what he says.
	Anyway, but those are the censorship rules on YouTube.
	So anyway, if you want to finish the segment, come join us on lotuseaters.com, you lovely, lovely YouTube people.
	You're fantastic, but you're going to have to catch us there.
	Okay, cheerio.
	Right, now we've got rid of the Utards, we can carry on with some sensible comments.
	God, it smells better in here already.
	I'm gonna play this, actually, and, um, and, um, you know, let you, let your take your own view, because, because he thought that he, oh, where's a bloody mouse thing?
	Oh, here we go, right.
	So, he, he thought he was gonna get away with this.
	Sorry, can you pause it please?
	It's really fun if you just look at the non-verbal communication, you know, where he's moving.
	It's just really weird.
	Yes, he's getting ready to fight.
	He's taking a fighting stance.
	It's like no swag.
	Quite reasonable.
	Anyway, so the unelected Indian midget stood up and faced this guy who had this to say.
	I don't want to click.
	We have been left with no help at all.
	Not only am I in here that's vaccine injured, there's another man over there whose life's been ruined by that Covid-19 vaccine.
	I know people who have lost legs, amputations.
	I know people with heart conditions like myself, Rishi Sunak.
	Why have I had to set up a support group in Scotland to look after the people that have been affected by that Covid-19 vaccine?
	Why are the people who are in charge, who told us all to do the right thing, have left us all to rot?
	And left me, and the thousands, and the tens of thousands in this country to rot?
	When are you going to start to do the right thing?
	The Vaccine Damages Payment Scheme is not fit for purpose.
	So he's just mentioned the Vaccine Damages Payment Scheme.
	So that scheme, just so you know, if you die, your relatives get up to £100,000.
	So yeah, so basically you could, and there are people in this situation, you know, this guy who's quite prominent on Twitter talking about this.
	His wife was actually a BBC journalist.
	She was killed by the vaccine and he got a hundred grand.
	So, you know, sorry, the mother of your children is dead.
	However, you now have enough money to put down a deposit on a house.
	So that's okay then, is it?
	Right, excellent.
	Anyway, so I'm feeling this man's anger.
	Let's carry on with what he had to say.
	Right now, according to the yellow card system, there are over 30,000 people who have had an adverse reaction to that vaccine and 200 deaths.
	John, thank you very much indeed for your question.
	You've made a really strong point John.
	Prime Minister.
	John Bullock, I'm very sorry to hear about your personal circumstances.
	No, you're not, you piece of shit.
	You're not sorry at all, are you?
	Someone over here also seems to have suffered by a similar thing.
	Now, obviously, I don't know about the individual situation that you're in.
	We're silenced, Russia.
	We're silenced by social media and everything.
	We are silenced.
	Classic deflection.
	I don't know about your individual circumstance, therefore I can't talk about the broad point.
	Forgive me.
	Forgive me both.
	I know I'm happy.
	I'm interested in that.
	No one.
	No one is saying.
	Oh, yeah, OK.
	I've lost my house.
	My wife has been successful career.
	And, sir, you raised some very valid points, I'm sure.
	What I've got to say is though, we haven't got you on microphone and as you know we've got to get through this.
	I'm sure we can raise your points with the Prime Minister at a later date.
	I mean, just picking up what that guy was saying there, I mean, this guy had a successful career, and he's lost it all.
	He can't work, he can't do anything, all because he was dragooned into taking a vaccine that he didn't need.
	But in the meantime, Prime Minister, if you could cover the issue... Yeah, no, I'm very happy to.
	So there is a...
	I'm very happy to go and look at the cases and I'm sure you'll get them to the team here.
	I'm very saddened and shocked to hear that you've been silenced by anybody.
	It's difficult for me to comment on anyone's individual case.
	I'm sure you'll appreciate that.
	I'm very happy to go and look at the cases, and I'm sure you'll get them to the team here.
	I'm very saddened and shocked to hear that you've been silenced by anybody.
	That is surprising to me.
	So please do get your details to Stephen and the team, and I will happily take that away.
	Of course, you should be able to speak about your experience, what's happened to you.
	And as I said, we have a compensation scheme.
	Note what he's saying on this.
	Thank you.
	Did you catch that?
	When he's challenged on this point about the safety of the vaccine, he comes back and he wants to appear diplomatic.
	So he says, I'm sorry that you think you've been silenced.
	He doesn't say sorry that you've been injured.
	Also that you think you've been silenced.
	I'm very shocked to hear that.
	Shut up.
	You know what I also don't like about these cases, about how politicians react, because I've seen the equivalent things in Greece, is like, you have someone who says, I'm personally aggrieved by a policy that you have, which has affected thousands of people, and the response is, well, contact me and I'll see what, personally, what I can do for you.
	Yeah, let's stop talking about it now.
	Let's stop talking about the policy.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But, yeah, I just thought that was... I mean, it goes to show that he's got some skill as a politician, actually.
	The weasley way that he didn't say, I'm sorry that you've been hurt by the vaccine.
	He picked up on the silenced bit, so that he didn't have to have any soundbite of him saying that, sorry, you were injured by the vaccine.
	in place for that and I'll make sure that we're working through that.
	Obviously I think you'll appreciate it's hard for me to comment on your specific circumstances just not knowing them and those things.
	Our viewers and listeners won't be able to hear what you say.
	The last thing I'd say is, you know, we went through a pandemic, like everyone else, at the points when it came to the vaccine, those decisions were always taken on the basis of medical advice from... So here we go, we're getting into the excuse now, we're getting into the distancing.
	So, as he just said there, it was taken purely on medical advice.
	This is important, this bit.
	Our medical experts to tell us, as politicians who are obviously not doctors, about how best to roll out the vaccine, what was in the public health interest, the priority order, how that should be done, who should be eligible.
	That was something that the doctors recommended on and that's something that we followed.
	Now, obviously, if there are individual circumstances which haven't worked out, then that's why we have the compensation scheme in place and I'll make sure that we follow up on your cases.
	Provably a lie.
	I'm sorry, but I recall when the evidence came up of who should get the vaccine, and it started with the most at risk, you have comorbidity and are you 60 something.
	They were the ones who got it first.
	And then the calculation went down the ages, down the decades, and it got to like 40 and 30, and people were like, do we really need to go further?
	And then it got to, what, two years old?
	It was already medically decided that it wasn't worth it for sure for those under the age of 16.
	And the government went, nope, we will still vaccinate everyone.
	You may be referring to this.
	Yeah.
	It's a lie.
	It's a lie that this was based on the medical knowledge.
	Yep.
	And we have your own website showing it.
	Let's go to it.
	So JCVI issued updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccines.
	However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year olds at this time.
	And then they went all the way down to two years old at a later date.
	Yes.
	Here we go.
	So Professor Wu Shi Lim Said children aged 12 to 15 year olds with underlying health conditions that put them at higher risk should be offered it.
	Otherwise healthy 12 to 15 year old children, their risk of severe COVID-19 disease is so small, and therefore the potential benefit of a 19 vaccine is also small.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So we got Rishi and I found that exchange fascinating because... But if you've got millions of vaccines and I've already paid for them... Yes, and you happen to own a large amount of Moderna stock.
	Uh, as it was the case.
	I mean, he, he, he was the, um, he was the chancellor then, uh, of course, but it's, it's still part of the same regime.
	But yeah, first of all, apologies for being silenced, not for, not for the, not for the actually in harms.
	And as soon as it's onto this, he immediately froze the doctors under the bus and tries to make it sound like they were basically just following orders.
	They were not, they were making the decisions and they were told what was a good idea.
	And they went, that's stupid.
	Not listening to that.
	Yeah, I mean, I well, I'll go further than that.
	I mean, I remember very clearly and and for somehow in this baffled me back during the pandemic.
	Do you remember we had that first press conference?
	The first press conference was.
	Yeah, lockdown is stupid.
	I know Piers Morgan is talking about it but it would be a stupid thing to do and we're not going to do that and actually you do want it to spread through the population because that's the only way you're going to get immunity to everything.
	First press conference was entirely sensible and they laid out all of the reasoning why and then Piers Morgan went absolutely berserk the following day after hearing that and then another day later they did a second press conference when they said oh yeah everything we said at the first press conference is now invalid and we are going to lockdown after all.
	Because the evidence has changed.
	Yes.
	Nothing changed in 24 hours.
	Except Piers Morgan.
	Yes.
	Who gives a shit about me.
	Yes.
	It was really weird that he was the centre point for media at that time as well.
	Some disgraced former journalist.
	There is a place in a certain other place for Piers Morgan.
	For what he did over that period.
	So anyway.
	We are told that, first of all, that it was done purely on doctor's advice and nothing can be said otherwise to that point, even though it's quite provably true on at least two separate occasions, such as the first and second press conference and then the JCVI advice that that is a complete load of bollocks.
	But next I will show you... I'll show you this.
	...untold harm and damage and misery to innocent people.
	Can the current Prime Minister think of anything he has promoted, in partnership with huge businesses, as safe and effective, which has ultimately harmed the British people?
	And will he use this opportunity to correct that safe and effective statement?
	Or will he choose the same line as Tony Blair?
	Sit back, do nothing, and let the misery just continue to pile up?
	Prime Minister.
	Mr Speaker, as we've been clear, the Horizon scandal is a terrible miscarriage of justice and we're doing everything that we can to make it right.
	To what he was more broadly insinuating, let me be unequivocal from this dispatch box that Covid vaccines are safe.
	Mr Speaker.
	Covid vaccines are safe.
	Right.
	I clipped that out of a John Campbell video.
	John Campbell is very good.
	I mean, he was pro-vaccine during the pandemic itself, but he started to come to terms with that basically he made a terrible mistake and that, you know, these things are not safe.
	He highlights some very interesting evidence actually, which I'll come to, which are these sort of OECD stats.
	The problem you got is that Yeah, basically, you cannot trust the government numbers on COVID deaths in the slightest.
	I mean, we never could.
	No.
	I mean, flu deaths went to zero.
	Yes.
	During the pandemic.
	I mean, that was the first example of how, okay, none of the data is going to be useful for the next several years.
	Yes.
	Yes, remarkable that.
	Flu deaths went to zero and COVID deaths went up to, conveniently, exactly what flu deaths were.
	Well, I don't know off the top of my head what the numbers were.
	Yeah, it was basically that.
	I do remember flu went to zero and everyone died with COVID.
	I mean, George Floyd died with COVID.
	Yes.
	Oh yeah, because the definition was changed, wasn't it?
	So that if you die for any reason within 28 days of a positive COVID test, then that's a COVID death.
	Yeah.
	A particularly absurd example was a chap in, I think it was Florida, who received a positive COVID test and then about a week later he was out on his motorbike, came off his bike, hit the central barrier and was decapitated.
	By COVID?
	And went down as a COVID death.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	So, I mean, it was very obvious, you know, as soon as we got into this and the way they started manipulating things, is that you cannot trust any of the data The only thing that you can find useful is basically total mortality.
	Because the total number... I mean, you're either dead or alive.
	We still have that metric!
	At least they can't fudge that, but you're at least either dead or alive.
	So, you know, total mortality is the only useful thing that you can turn to.
	And then what you can do is you can compare it against a benchmark.
	You know, how many people die in a normal year?
	Because it is normal for people to die.
	We haven't quite outlawed you out there.
	So you can then look at excess mortality.
	It's not normal.
	I have a product.
	What?
	Yeah, I have a product that cures disease forever.
	What is it?
	They're not letting me sell it.
	I'm joking.
	Alright, what are we doing?
	That was the weirdest deadpan joke ever.
	I'm cultivating a poker face.
	OK.
	We must play poker.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	So, you know, people did die over COVID.
	I mean, there were some very old people who, I mean, basically, when you get old enough, it doesn't take a lot to tip you over that edge.
	So I'm not disputing that some people died during COVID.
	And also, I mean, COVID, I'm inclined to believe that it probably was some sort of new disease because it did seem to hit fat so's really, really hard.
	You had I'm trying to remember off the top of my head now, because this is the thing.
	It gets fuzzy because it's old.
	But I remember the NHS came out and were asked to prove an immigration request.
	Of the people who died, how many had pre-existing conditions?
	And this was, do you have asthma?
	Are you really sick?
	So forth.
	The kind of things that would kill you if you got COVID.
	And it was basically almost everyone who died.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	A lot of people were put on ventilators, which is a really damaging and harmful thing to do.
	You only do that as a last resort, and they were doing it as a first resort, so that tipped people over the edge.
	Yes.
	A lot of people were put on ventilators, which is a really damaging and harmful thing to do.
	You only do that as a last resort and they were doing it as a first resort.
	So that tipped people over the edge.
	And then, of course, I think most of the people who died over the excess deaths over the COVID period, and there's only a very small period when there was excess deaths during COVID, I think most of it was end of life care protocols.
	Dazzolam, basically.
	I don't know what that is.
	I think we're basically bumped off the old people Thank God we're not on YouTube when I say this.
	Anyway, so on these OECD stats, you can see how much excess death there was after COVID had ended.
	Right?
	So after, was it the Omicron variant?
	The really, really mild one.
	Nobody was dying of COVID at that point.
	What has the excess deaths been since then?
	Well, you can go through it as much as you want, but I'll just pull out a couple.
	Canada, 90,000 people.
	Denmark, 9,000 people.
	Small nation, but 9,000 deaths.
	UK, 100,000 people.
	Unexplained excess deaths.
	Alrighty then.
	US.
	Do you want to hear the US?
	A bit million, isn't it?
	651,000 unexplained extra deaths above the baseline that are after COVID, but these excess deaths didn't start manifesting, and they manifest very quickly after but these excess deaths didn't start manifesting, and they manifest very quickly after the rollout And yet we're not allowed to talk about it on YouTube for some reason.
	Ed Dowd, he's done some study on this by looking at looking at how insurance companies from their published data And he's been doing it all over the world.
	He thinks 17 million people have been killed by the COVID vax.
	And that's why we're talking about it on the website and we can't talk about that one on YouTube.
	So anyway, a bit morbid, but, um, let's go to the YouTube comments.
	All right.
	Hello, children.
	I'm going to teach you about anal sex today.
	Not by the hairs of my chinny-chin chainsaw.
	Oh, vegan Christ!
	No, don't do it!
	Don't do it!
	All right, that was awesome.
	snake.
	Of course, the video commenters are basically our sponsors.
	That was a local chap who was sponsoring the death penalty should be applied to pedophiles.
	Which seems reasonable, to be honest.
	There we are.
	That's a policy point I could get behind.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So yeah, I'm just out here in the snowstorm late in the evening.
	They told me it was never ever going to snow in Denmark again.
	Climate change is a report.
	Global warming doesn't work.
	Good luck, guys!
	Alright, enjoy the snow.
	It does seem a bit fresh.
	What does that mean?
	I kind of hate it though when people are like, oh man, it's hot, so climate change is real, or there's snow, therefore climate change isn't real.
	It annoys me, it's one of my pet peeves.
	Biden sent us a video comment there.
	Next up is President Biden.
	Got something to say?
	It's getting very late to replace Biden for the next election.
	I thought of six reasons.
	1.
	Newsom is unpalatable without much more remedial action.
	2.
	The Dems are rallying their voters to help Nikki Haley unseat Trump, but it isn't working so far.
	3.
	Accept a Trump win and then assassinate.
	Trump would become even more popular.
	4.
	Accept a Trump win because the US Civil Service is completely controlled by the Democrats.
	Trump might have to dismantle government.
	5.
	Cheat like mad to get a Biden win.
	Too obvious this time around.
	Or 6.
	Cheat like mad to get a Trump win and then discredit his victory.
	Hmm, interesting.
	Do you think we ought to replace him?
	Because it did seem over the weekend there was an awful lot of talk of, oh yeah he is like old and retarded.
	Who are they going to put?
	There are some rumors about Michelle Obama, but Newsom is just wrecked.
	How can they get away with their own base of not making Kamala Harris?
	No idea, but she isn't popular at all.
	No.
	Obviously not Hillary Clinton.
	Yeah.
	So who is there?
	Because if you know you're going to lose, why not have the white man lose?
	Because if you have the brown woman lose again.
	Second woman president.
	There's another side to it, because they could say that if a non-white person lost, they could amp the narrative, but you see the others are racist.
	Racist America is back on the menu!
	Yeah, I can see that.
	All right, we'll see you.
	Let's go to the next one.
	What's all this then?
	Heard something about a crusade, lads.
	Gonna scale the walls of Jerusalem with the boys.
	Get some practice in.
	It's a holy war.
	Show the Mohammedans what for.
	They'll never see it coming.
	50% off for the next three months.
	It's a bargain.
	Spend the rest on a pint and some chips for afters.
	Lads, lads, lads, lads, lads, lads.
	Well, thank you, local peasant.
	So I see Mr. Ward has joined us on the right side of the Gold Tier subscription.
	So thank you for signing up, sir.
	I bet that did happen in the Crusades as well.
	All the Crusaders are marching along and Omar Al-Wad is on their side.
	They're like, what's he doing here?
	He's one of us.
	Yeah, that's brilliant.
	I like it.
	The next one.
	So this is a question for Stelios.
	I have been reading many articles that they say that Greece is in a good way, economically at least.
	And you also said in a podcast that you believe that it's also going in a good way.
	But I don't see that.
	Can you explain your thing about how it's going in a better place?
	Because I really don't see it.
	Okay, so I've sort of changed my mind and I'm closer to your view now.
	I think that basically Greece has lots of economic problems and lots of other problems as well.
	So I thought initially that... Why are you laughing?
	I thought initially that, you know, there are some steps to the right direction.
	They seem very slow, but I think you have a point.
	The chat is just all like, Stelios, please translate.
	That's all.
	It just made me laugh.
	No, the question was about me saying in a previous podcast that Greece's economy is improving significantly and that it moves to the right direction.
	And Adonios is from Greece and he said basically, yeah, he doesn't see it.
	Right.
	And yeah.
	Critical, but stable, like they say after the horrific road accident.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Let's do the next one.
	Something I've been seeing with a lot of supposedly modern Christians is how they seem to think that like they're the only Christians that have ever existed.
	They'll like maintain like, oh, the Crusaders, they weren't real Christians or any other church in the past was never really Christian until like this very modern point.
	And I've noticed like no other religion does it.
	You know, Islam is unapologetic about its past for the most part.
	And I think this is a very unhealthy mindset, all things considered.
	Probably one of the reasons why the Christians are losing so many of their congregations.
	I don't know.
	I feel very disconnected from Christianity recently.
	I don't know why.
	Were you a crusader before?
	No, but there was a feeling of sort of like, well, you know, they're good guys and everything, but I'm not saying they're not.
	It's just I I don't see them as effective.
	I want Pope Gregory the Bull back, you know, the guy who launched the first crusade.
	Bring him back.
	Yeah.
	Put him in charge.
	Then I'm all for signing up.
	I'll tell a lie.
	I mean, when I was in Russia, when I went to the Orthodox cathedrals there, I could feel something there, but I just don't feel it anymore with Western Christianity.
	Yeah.
	Maybe that's a phase.
	Yeah.
	You need to maybe embrace the Orthodox Church.
	Maybe they're really weird, but I kind of like it.
	At least they're being true to themselves.
	We've got one more.
	We've got one more.
	Let's watch this.
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	Long-time listener, first-time caller.
	Broadcasting live from the Democratic Republic of Trudeau-stan, formerly known as the Commonwealth of Canada, and this is my horrible little shop where I keep all my hot rods and my restoration projects.
	There we go.
	I figure everything's on sale and you've done a lot of You give me a lot of free shit, Laurie, that I've enjoyed quite a bit, and even more high-level philosophical takes, so I just thought I'd kick back a little.
	I'm running out of time here.
	More to come in the coming days.
	There.
	Yeah.
	There we go.
	The Tesla bot is coming on leaps and bounds, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Not bad.
	Alright.
	Couldn't understand a bloody word because you're wearing a mask.
	You look cool and I like your brick for a car.
	Yes.
	And I like your words, funny man.
	Anyway, let's go to the, uh, well... Oh look, somebody on, is it Odyssey or Rumble or whatever it is, has said, uh, when will we be seeing more street interviews?
	The last one was lovely.
	We are doing more, aren't we?
	I think so.
	I believe so.
	We, um, have contracted her for the rest of her life to go out and ask people, good, why are you stupid?
	And they will respond, I'm stupid.
	All right.
	You know what's annoying?
	Why are you stupid?
	Can we get her to do that?
	Yes.
	Could she do the whole, how many people are gay and they say 50% and then she could just go, why are you dumb?
	The thing that got me about that is when the last question, are they underrepresented?
	Yeah.
	Did you not listen to yourselves?
	No, certainly not.
	Painful.
	No representation is enough.
	On suicide, Arizona Deserat says, hmm, Carlson gathered information, reported on it, and then gave commentary on said informer.
	Sounds like what most journalists do.
	Just saying.
	No, that's not what most journalists do.
	It's what most journalists are supposed to do.
	Not what they actually do.
	I think she agrees.
	Sophie says, it's the faulty assumption that you don't have to maintain anything our countries really suffer from.
	Oh, we have the best countries?
	Job done!
	Now we just need to take of them or maintain them, and we have the normal people know that's not true.
	It's also why just giving homeless people houses doesn't work.
	They'll assume that it's just always there, and they don't have to maintain it, and the house falls apart.
	Yeah, something given has no value.
	And if you think, oh, it just exists, it's good to know.
	No, you actually have to kill the wolves and clear out the homeless.
	It's endless maintaining.
	Did you watch that Jon Stewart clip?
	It's not out.
	No.
	He's not changed.
	Right.
	He's somewhat entertaining, but time has moved on.
	And then we'll say something sensible, and then say something... He'll be like, here's a sensible thing, and that's why we're voting for the Democrats.
	Don't follow at all.
	Yes.
	So, there we are.
	But he made that point at the end there, which is, yeah, stuff goes forever, but good luck.
	I mean, good news is that some will run out of hydrogen, is his line.
	There we are.
	The Crusader says that comment on Ukraine from Boris is rich, coming from the man who went over there and scuppered the peace deal so the war can continue.
	I don't know if there's been much confirmation on that, other than Putin saying that's what happened.
	I seem to recall that Ukraine reported it as well, but I might be wrong.
	So, I don't know.
	Someone send me a link, because I'd like to know for sure.
	Because on the history stuff, that's pretty easy to fact check.
	But on the Ukrainian deal stuff, I'm far less forgiving of believing what Putin says, because he's in it.
	He's one of the combatants.
	If anything, I was the other way around.
	I was questioning more the history stuff, but actually was inclined to take a more favorable view on the other stuff on the basis that he could very easily be disproved on that.
	How would he be disproved?
	Well, for example... Well, it depends which bit you're talking about, but for example... The trade deal.
	Not the trade deal, the peace deal.
	Well, the peace deal.
	Well, wasn't he saying that the guarantors that that was Germany and France and so on and... Yeah, but they'll just lie.
	Yeah.
	Like, if it was Switzerland, I'd believe them.
	Yes.
	Why the hell do they care?
	I mean, the thing is, it does broadly fit, doesn't it?
	So...
	Maybe.
	I get the feeling, because the rest of the front also retreated, it wasn't just Kiev, that... I don't know.
	We could go on.
	Actually, there was a German in France who was guaranteeing that.
	It was some minor nation.
	Turkey?
	No, much more minor than that.
	I can't remember now.
	Transnistria?
	I can't remember now.
	How small do you want to go?
	Yes.
	But no, there was a guarantor to it who was hosting it.
	Maybe they come out and say one way or the other.
	I'll say something on the history stuff, because I'm pretty much out of comments on mine, which is I saw Trigonometry go over that interview as well, and good, interesting, to get Konstantin's perspective.
	But there's one bit they just missed out, which is Sir Putin's comment about Poland working with Hitler.
	Of course, it sounds mad on the face of it because you're like, well, they got invaded.
	If you listen to it, it wasn't actually talking about the Second World War.
	He was saying before 1939, they worked with the Germans and it was over the Munich Conference because the Germans got the Sudetenland and the Poles got, I don't know how you say it, Zillert.
	It's a piece of Czechoslovakia that had Poles in it.
	The Poles had fought a war with the Czechoslovaks over after the First World War.
	And what's kind of weird is they weren't even part of the discussion.
	They weren't invited to the Munich conference.
	They were just told, oh, you're getting this.
	And of course they were like, cool, and took it.
	So yeah, Putin's argument was that, well, the Poles were happy to take land from Czechoslovakia on the base of ethnic and historical claims.
	And then when the Germans came to them and demanded that back, they got all pissy about it.
	That's what Putin was saying.
	So, of course, on the face of it, it's just like Poland sided with Hitler.
	What the fuck are you talking about, man?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	So, that's all.
	And no one I saw really addressed that.
	There we are.
	Let's move on.
	Okay, so this week in trolling, Animos.
	Kudos to Stelios on his segment.
	This is expert level trolling, analysis and a rare white pill.
	More of this, please.
	Thank you very much.
	Tech heresy.
	Stelios, I have to say, your segment was fantastic.
	Understated commentary and simply letting the insanity of others shine.
	Carry on.
	Thank you very much again.
	Kevin Fox, I see leftie DEI intersectionalist trying to dampen Carrie Lake because she didn't stand for the Black National Anthem but did stand for the US National Anthem.
	Deep mid wicket.
	I'm waiting for Connor to burst through the wall to attack Dan for calling Taylor Swift mid.
	I mean, she's not a mid, but I have also taken issue with him saying Anne Hathaway is a mid.
	She ain't a mid either.
	But for me, it's not a binary tier system.
	It's just a would or would not.
	Okay, okay.
	It's much simpler.
	Arizona desert rat Britney Spears.
	Needs help, that's all I'm gonna say.
	Yeah, she's following the footsteps of other celebrities.
	Great, we can charge him for the documents he stole.
	No, you can't do that.
	He's a senile old man.
	Yes, quite.
	That's the buying they sort of put themselves on in this one, isn't it?
	Let me just say once more, Furious Dan, in the Department of Justice report on Biden's mishandling of classified material, they cited his age and mental faculties as reasons not to charge him.
	It's a literal matter of public record that Biden is old and stupid.
	Yes, Ashton Brunette says, um, say what you will of your PM, at least you have a head of state that is able to speak English.
	Um... Bloody bloody!
	You're a bloody bloody bastard.
	I love those jokes so much.
	I don't know whether he's having a dig at Biden or Putin.
	Can Putin speak English?
	He can, yeah.
	It's actually kind of a weird thing.
	He does English interviews and refuses to speak English on camera.
	Off camera he'll speak English.
	Oh, okay.
	That sort of makes sense.
	I would have thought if you were a KGB spy you would have had to have learnt it.
	It's an issue of prestige.
	It's like they were saying to To someone who was preparing Reagan's speech for Mr. Gorbachev on Tear Down This Wall in German, they said that, no, no, the U.S.
	President speaks English.
	Because I did notice during the interview that I couldn't tell whether it had been edited that way, but Putin didn't wait for a translation of Tucker's question before answering.
	And I just wondered if that had been cleverly edited, but no, he just understood.
	German and English, because obviously he's a German KGB spy.
	Yes, yes.
	Kevin Fox says, I love that clip of the Sunnock Town Hall guy speaking.
	Oh yeah, so that guy was classed as an anti-vaxxer by some UK news stations.
	So?
	What do I care?
	I mean, I care about whether or not the thing's killing people and are they getting payouts for it.
	Yeah, he's anti-vaxxed because he took it and it screwed him up.
	Yeah.
	In that circumstance, is it not okay to be anti-vax?
	I mean, if you have peanuts and it causes a massive reaction and your arm blows off... He's anti-peanut!
	Presumably it's fine to be anti-peanut at that point, you would have thought.
	Grant Gibson says, I've never seen that the Covid vaccine's side effect is to make you talk like a Scot.
	Thank God that didn't happen to me.
	JJHW says, excess death, government murder.
	Yes, I think that's about right.
	Omar Award makes a great point here, and this is the thing that really got me early on.
	Pregnant women can't have things like aspirin, or orange juice, or cheese, they can't have blue cheese either, but the vax is fine, nay mandatory.
	Yeah, yeah, quite.
	Any last ones?
	Anyway, the Wigan Survivalist says, I seem to recall I asked my parents during the pandemic if flu no longer existed when BBC kept talking about COVID deaths and I pointed out what happened to people dying from flu.
	They believed flu had disappeared.
	Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
	Yes, it was a very strange time if you had a functional brain.
	Can I tell you something about the origin of the bloody bloody meme?
	India?
	It's not.
	It's from Britain.
	Is it?
	Yeah.
	So it's two Indians who are in Britain and one of them is trying to help the other one park properly for his own safety.
	So they start talking and then they just start screaming at each other swear words, but they're trying to help each other as well.
	They're trying to be polite, but they're like, bloody you leave me bloody!
	It's weird.
	Yeah.
	It's somewhere in London, I think.
	Oh, okay.
	I'll dig that out on YouTube then.
	All right.
	We're out of time.
	So if you'd like more website, if you don't, don't.
	Bye.
	Oh, is that it?

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