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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 882 for today, Friday the 29th of March 2024.
It's Good Friday.
Have a good Friday, everyone.
I'm your host, Connor, joined by Harry and by Bo.
Hello.
Today we're discussing what are you exactly paying for in regards to supposedly deterring migration.
Spoiler alert, we're not.
Sam Bankman-Fried, going to jail, and how it's been a hell of a week for PDD and The Daily Wire.
That should be a fun discussion.
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But without further ado, let's get into today's stories.
So a record number of migrants has crossed the channel in the first three months of 2024.
So you remember Fishy Rishi saying that he's going to stop the boats in his five pledges, and it was the last one.
And it's admittedly because it's absolutely the lowest, if not not at all, a priority for the Conservative government that just want infinity foreigners to keep the GDP ticking up.
Turns out they've done even worse than nothing on the illegal immigration issue because they've spent lots of money not stopping the boats at all.
We're going to show exactly what we've been paying for, for the last how long here, and if you're not already annoyed at the Conservative government, well, you're going to wish them zero seats by the end of this segment.
So, the record number of foreigners, as according to the Home Office, this is now 4,644 small boat insurgents have crossed the Channel in the first three months of 2024.
That's 338 crossing on Tuesday, there were about upwards of 500 to nearly 600 crossing in the Wednesday of last week, I think, which was a record day.
So that means the cumulative number of arrivals so far is 23% higher than the total at this point last year, which was only 3,770.
And 12% higher than the total at this stage in 2022, which is 4,162.
and 12% higher than the total at this stage in 2022, which is 4,162.
So it's not a year-on-year increase, but it is an increase skipping a year.
Definitely stopping the boats.
So they reversed the trend from last year, where the total 29,437 arrivals were down 36%, on the annual record of 45,774.
And this was cause for the Conservative government to say, oh, our plan is working, the returns deal with Albania is working, the deal with the French is working, it certainly just isn't the weather.
Turns out, it was the weather.
So the first three months of this year, that's the English Channel in January and February, Tumultuous.
Yeah, not the best stretch of water in the world.
No, quite.
So I'll be praying to Neptune to make it even more tumultuous because it's more likely that that's going to do something like a dispensation to Poseidon at this point in the Conservative government.
So the surge comes despite a three-year, 480 million Anglo-French deal, that's your first mistake, agreed by Rishi last year to pay for a doubling in officers patrolling the French beaches to 800, a joint command centre and a detention centre to prevent migrants from leaving France.
But where has all that money been going?
Curious, that.
We'll get into that in a second.
Now, the Home Office decided to launch a response, and we had to get an archive to this because they took it down in the space of a day.
Because they realized, ooh, this messaging probably isn't the best because it's not quite accurate.
But the Home Office said, we continue to work closely with the French police who are facing increasing violence and disruption on their beaches as they work tirelessly to prevent these dangerous, illegal, and unnecessary journeys.
So what are the French doing?
Turns out, they're spending our money on football stadiums.
So this is Dame Andrea Jenkins, former head of the European Research Group who helped deliver Brexit.
She's one of the only two MPs who's put her name to a letter to say we need to get rid of Rishi because he's absolutely abysmal.
And GB News and her have decided to do a sort of joint venture here, because GB News decided to disclose that local politicians in Sangat, near Calais, have spent 74,000 euros, so 63,000 quid, on a fence for a football stadium, an amateur football stadium, to stop migrants from breaking into it.
Because migrants were breaking into Le Port de Tucum, I don't speak French, sorry, football stadium to sort of sleep in there and leave their litter there.
So they've decided to just stop them breaking into the football stadium with the English money that's to stop the migrants meant to arrive here in the first place.
So they're just pushing them away from the Calais migrant encampments to where?
Oh right, the shore, where they'll bugger off over to us.
Really glad you spent 63 grand of my money on that.
Didn't you say it was 400 and something million?
The total deal, I think it's 480 million.
These numbers, they don't make any sense.
I think I've referenced Brewster's millions the other day.
Again, it's like that, how can you spend that much money?
You're like trying very, very hard to spend the maximum amount of money, an absurdly large amount of money on fences.
How does a fence cost tens of thousands of pounds even?
It just doesn't, does it?
Well, when you're siphoning money to all of your buddies, allegedly, probably, maybe, then I can find a way to make it make sense, yes.
You've got to pay ten blokes to stand around with clipboards while one bloke digs the hole and it takes about three years to put up.
You're right, yeah, that's definitely correct.
I mean, I would be happy for that £480 million.
I mean, I'd rather it not be spent in the first place because we're wasting loads of money.
But if you had to spend it, I'd rather it be spent on, I don't know, the Defence Department and stick the Navy in the channels so that the gunboats will deter them from crossing in the first place.
But that would be doing something about the issue.
And as former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick once said, the whole point of Rwanda is that it's not meant to work.
Thanks, appreciate that.
We shouldn't give a penny to France.
Not a penny.
Yeah, no, just deploy the Royal Navy, have a couple of SBS small boats, tow whatever's coming across the channel straight back, dump them on a French beach.
End of story.
The French don't get a penny.
Well, if they don't have documents, we can only presume that they're French, right?
Right.
So they've been invading from France.
So I guess they just have to be returned to France.
That's their country of origin, right?
Yeah, as far as we know.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
So the French should be getting their citizens back any day now.
Anyway, so what are we spending the money on at home in regards to migration?
Because I'm sure that they're doing it well there.
Well, it turns out, do you remember that 8 million figure given in 2022 of what they were spending on the hotels every day for all the asylum seekers?
Turns out the Labour Party of all people have done an inquiry into how much money the government is spending.
It's 15 million.
£15 million a day are now going on hotels and the asylum system.
Yeah.
Completely unsustainable.
So they're overspending according to this by 4.3 billion and they haven't disclosed that.
So the Home Office has been estimated to spend 5.4 billion total on asylum accommodation support.
The figures brought forward by the Labour Party suggested the top cost of the taxpayer is much higher than claimed in the Treasury budget last year.
Labour said the government's failure to clear the backlog of asylum cases, because Labour obviously just want to rubber stamp them and we'll get them in, is much higher than claimed which Sorry.
Has led to additional claims for the Treasury, which last year reached 4.3 billion.
And this is Yvette Cooper.
She's now accusing, she's the Shadow Home Secretary for anyone who doesn't know, Rishi Sunak of spending billions on hotel rooms and exceeding his budget because of the soaring backlog cases.
This lays bare the complete chaos the Tories have created in the asylum system.
The same Yvette Cooper who decided to do this.
What's the problem, Yvette?
I thought you just wanted infinity immigrants.
I thought the money didn't matter.
Refugees are all just welcome.
I'm sure Yvette thinks it would save a lot of money if instead of putting them in hotels, they just put them in your living room instead.
Oh, I'm sure she'd welcome the diversity in her constituency, just like Lisa Nandy, who said, oh, actually, I don't want them around here because they started harassing schoolgirls.
Bit inconvenient for the narrative there, isn't it?
Nice the Labour Party finally cares about English schoolgirls.
Isn't she married to Ed Balls?
Yes.
Yeah.
Good morning Britain presenter, Ed Balls.
It's alright, Ofcom has ensured that they're impartial.
Don't worry about that!
How could you suggest anything untoward though?
How terrible.
So what else money are they spending on the migrants?
It turns out they're getting 70 million in legal aid as well, to deliberately frustrate the deportation progress.
So we're paying for the human rights lawyers, air quotes, to stop foreign criminals from getting deported.
We're paying for their bed and board here.
Are we just the world's dumping ground just to infinitely give out random money to criminal illegals?
Is that what's happening?
It's a bit right wing of you to even ask that question.
Oh yeah, sorry, sorry.
A bit far right, sorry.
Far right.
I forgot, the only point of a nation is to give handouts to people who do not live in that nation.
That's the only legitimating factor.
I'm sorry, I totally forgot.
Diversity is in fact our strength.
So legal costs totaled 71 million between 2019 and 2023, averaging around 38 grand a day.
18 million was forked out in 2020, with the total cost coming in at 13 million pounds last year.
Now, this is despite, of course, we've already had the data from Denmark saying that migrants from this part of the world, mainly North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey, are never net tax contributors, they're always net tax drains.
More data has come out from Denmark!
This is something that's been shared.
These are violent crime conviction rates by nation of origin for immigrants in Denmark.
So we've got the top, we've got Kuwait.
Kuwait's tiny!
Kuwait's like a city-state almost, it's tiny.
But they're over-represented in rape.
Great, diversity is our strength.
Tunisia, Lebanon, Somalia, Jordan, Uganda, Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia.
I'm seeing a sort of pattern here.
And these are conviction rates as well, so this isn't even arrest rates like what we have to use.
I don't even know if the ONS and the Metropolitan are even Continuing to take the ethnic data on who they arrest.
But on the ONS, all they give is arrest rates.
I don't think you can find conviction rates.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
No.
But whenever you say arrest, you can say, oh, well, there's some kind of disparity going on in the policing there.
They're obviously arresting them because they're racist.
Well, no, this is you have to go through a lot to get a conviction.
So, the native Danes are below pretty much every single Middle Eastern and North African country there, and UK immigrants to Denmark are even lower.
Interesting.
So, it's funny you bring up the UK.
This was brought up by GB News, Patrick Christus, who does a lot of good work.
He's my second favourite.
He's a fan of the show.
We'll have to bring him on at some point.
He has already said yes, it's just logistics.
Patrick and his team decided to say to the ONS, the Home Office, the Ministry for Justice, can we get a Freedom of Information request on this for the UK?
Because that'd be great.
Yeah, yeah, it'd be great.
Obviously, we're not recording tax contributions by ethnicity anymore, because that looks bad.
We're not recording arrest rates or criminal convictions by ethnicity, because that would be racist, yeah.
So can we at least get, you know, if asylum seekers are committing sexual assaults, like, you know, Abdulaziz, that'd be great to know.
And they said it would be too expensive.
Those figures that you could already be collecting and were collecting for an incredibly long time, some of which you just weren't releasing to the public.
Yeah, 63 grand on offence.
Fine.
Just releasing the figures you've already got.
Too expensive.
Do you understand how much infographics cost these days, Connor?
Inflation has gone absolutely mad.
Do you know what GB News does, right?
So GB News offered to pay for it.
And they said no.
They said no.
So they wouldn't even have to foot the cost for it, but the cost to their narrative would be far too great.
Far too great.
Nigel Farage also notes that he, quote, retweeted this saying, what's it like for the UK?
And not a single member from the media beyond GB News have picked him up on this and decided to fact check it because, of course, it's a hate fact.
Yeah.
Just to quote, as we've said, the whole point of this is that we are now a redistribution zone for the criminals of the third world.
I like to quote a man named Renaud Camus.
Either of you familiar with this fellow?
You've got his book.
I do, yes.
I believe he coined a particular term which the ADL would probably tell me off for using.
Yes, the Great Replacement, yes.
Albert Camus?
What, the outsider, the French?
No, no, Renaud Camus.
Oh, Camus.
He's a very different fellow, yeah.
Oh, okay, I don't know the one you were saying then.
So Camus coined the phrase the Great Replacement, which, if you look up, is called an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
Now, this is a smear for Camus because he at never once attributed this to be a deliberate plan of demographic replacement for voters by a globalist cabal of Jews, as a bunch of people in Charlottesville were chanting.
Camus never said that.
He was persecuted by the French state at one point for saying that certain Muslim migrants from Algeria are barbarians.
He was fined €4,000 for that.
But he said, in his original essay on the Greek replacement back in 2010, very far-right thing, very unreasonable, I was saying that one factor contributing to the Great Replacement is the permanent influx of newcomers, immigrants and non-citizens and their massive presence across the country.
Massive and often illegal, quite an odd combination, but no more so than the strange status of the aforementioned undocumented migrants who have broken the law since they officially have no right to be here but are nonetheless, and who, and this is the most extraordinary part of it, may lay claim to rights by virtue of the very fact that they have broken the law from a logical and legal point of view alike it is an astonishing situation that has given the criminal act his here the source of rights
so by virtue of these people breaking the law they are entitled to bed board and legal aid to frustrate the system of justice which would turn them to their homeland so our country now sees breaking the law as your entitlement to get my money We basically give them squatters' rights.
Yes.
Everywhere.
We pay for them to stay in the kinds of places that I would have to work and save to go on holiday to.
Well remember that asylum seekers, they get all of the benefits and they get social housing in places like London and in, what was it, Knightsbridge?
One of the, I think Juice or someone on Twitter found out the government document showing how much money that they got taken off of monthly rent and in Knightsbridge it was something like £2,500 on average for a monthly rent because it's a ridiculously expensive place to live.
Yeah, for anyone who doesn't know, it's one of the most exclusive places you could possibly live in London.
There were Somalians living there for £500 a month.
So, literally, they could afford it off an Uber Eats.
Yeah, cash in hand, not getting taxed as well.
Yeah, quite.
And again, this is not an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, this is just a commentary on the fact that our government seem to be incentivising criminal behaviour.
I mean, Camus himself used the examples of Jews in the 1700s coming over to France and not causing any trouble as an example of how immigration can actually work if they don't hate the country.
And another great example of this is that The ECHR and the 1952 Refugee Convention from the UN, which is what's hamstringing us to not be able to deal with this problem, as well as a lack of political will, was created because they thought that all asylum seekers would basically be European Jews.
Turns out, these guys from North Africa who are raping people are not the European Jews fleeing the Holocaust.
But the boomer mind cannot differentiate that, because they just see it as a legal category, asylum seeker.
And we just have to give them money, ad infinitum, without ever asking where they came from and what they're doing.
Or what their values are.
Exactly.
Spot on.
Yeah.
And so, without extra insult or injury, I'll just finish off with this one.
Remember I mentioned Abdulaziz?
Remember the devout Christian who decided to be a sex offender and then throw an alkaline substance on a woman and her two toddlers before killing himself by jumping in the Thames?
I think you forgot some quotes there.
What?
Killing himself.
Oh, did he just fall in?
Oh, no, I don't know what happened, but I genuinely don't know.
Well, we can't say that but what we can say is he has now been buried at our expense.
seen the body so we don't know not to speculate but i think that would be rather fortunate for security services if you just managed to well we can't we can't say that but um what we can say is he has now been buried at our expense he received a muslim burial from um i think it was an east london mosque and then was was buried in a south london uh by by a south london mosque who paid for that because he was a an asylum seeker with no income of his own
he was a criminal converted christianity but got muslim burial so was it a local mosque which means they're more than happy to Give a dignified burial to a notorious sex offender and man he throws acid on children?
Or was it the local council which our taxes have gone to pay?
Remember as well that the attack was committed... We don't know.
The attack was committed outside of a hotel that was also housing asylum seekers and the woman that he attacked was also, I assume because of her foreign name, an asylum seeker.
So literally every part of this criminal interaction was imported into the country.
Yeah, and we paid for this whole process, and we'll continue to pay for this whole process, because the government don't want to deal with it.
So, I suppose just keep praying to Poseidon.
And if you say, or make the argument that there's something wrong with that, or that it's deliberate in any way, then you're the bad guy.
Yeah, you're the far right.
Right, because that's one of the things I've said and argued for a while, that it's not sort of accidentally done, it's not just sort of, oh, simple-minded, absent-minded, boomer mindset.
No, it's very, very deliberate.
You don't, as a government say, the Home Secretary, you don't accidentally fail to send the Royal Navy into the Channel every single day.
You don't accidentally keep spending tens of thousands of pounds a day on hotels for asylum seekers.
It's not incompetence, it's actively, deliberately done.
Or give 3.4 million legal visas as well, which isn't even in this conversation, so it's not Fraser Nelson, just an accident.
Or just accidentally rubber-stamping asylum claims as fast as it's physically possible to do.
Oops, sorry, sorry, oops, sorry, sorry, excellent, sorry, sorry.
Perhaps it is that these people who are in those positions would love to do something, but they're afraid that if they did, then their chances of standing with reform would vanish.
Perhaps that would be it.
That would be terrible.
Absolutely.
And with that, here's the mouse boat.
Oh, okay.
Alright, well, originally I was going to do a piece all about the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight.
But there was rumours circulating on the internet pipes yesterday that maybe Jake Paul's got injured in sparring.
So I'll leave that segment for another time.
It wasn't going to happen until July anyway.
So I'm not going to talk about that.
Instead I thought I'd talk about the conviction of Sam Bankman-Freed.
Scam.
Wankman.
Greed.
This is a story of unbelievable hubris.
A defrauded investors.
sort of unbelievable this is the intro to Fresh Prince Blair a defrauded investors oh yeah I mean talk about a fall from grace a rollercoaster ride I mean, this kid goes from nothing, well from just a normal middle class, to having something like 20 billion dollars, to owing 11 billion dollars and being sentenced to 25 years in prison.
I mean, that's a rollercoaster of a thing, right?
And so yeah, he was convicted, I think just yesterday or possibly the day before, I think yesterday, to 25 years.
He'll probably only serve something like 11 or 12.
He could have got as much as 115 years in jail.
The judge was never really actually going to sentence him to that.
But anyway, got 25 years.
The Manhattan Courts, Southern District of New York, decided he was guilty of all the charges, I think seven charges or more.
Um, and they were things like, um, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, or wire fraud, um, I've got a list of them somewhere.
Yeah, wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering.
They were potentially going to get him on other things as well.
Uh, he was going to have a second trial, but it looks like that's probably not going to happen, but that was, that was really serious stuff as well.
Like, um, foreign...
Foreign bribery, yeah.
Foreign bribery and bank fraud and all sorts of things.
An acceptably ugly girlfriend.
Yeah, yeah.
I'd charge him for that.
Female human beings I've ever seen in my life.
Caroline Ellison, we'll get on to her.
I'd rather not, thank you.
She could go down for as much as 50 years, but probably will get a small custodial sentence and might not serve any time at all because she had a cooperation agreement, a deal with the Fed.
She began naming names, I think.
Well, yeah, they turned on each other in court.
Absolutely turned on each other in court.
But we'll get to that.
So, you know, he will go down in history as one of the all time greatest financial criminals.
Now there's a couple of different angles or narratives you could have on this guy.
One is that he's sort of a frustrated genius that no one really understood and he didn't mean to do anything wrong, didn't know that was a big part of his fence.
He didn't really know what was happening, what was going on within his company.
That kind of contradicts the genius claim though, doesn't it a bit?
Yeah, it's on you.
The buck's up with you if you're the CEO or the owner.
Found him and things.
So there's that angle that he's just like, you know, he's got weird crazy hair.
So probably a genius, right?
Doesn't make eye contact with people and constantly fidgets and got crazy hair.
So he's a genius, right?
You're describing half of the lotus eaters off this.
So it must be true, clearly.
Or that he is a complete shyster, a complete fraud, a liar, a sort of an endlessly lying Weirdo.
Freak.
Stealing.
Theft.
Man with an outside sense of chutzpah, you could say.
So isn't the theory essentially that he's a patsy for the gigantic grift engine of impact investment and ethical capital to keep ticking over so they can throw this guy under the bus while deflecting from the fact that everyone else involved in this sphere of basically squirreling away money on things like ESG and that are equally as corrupt but They want to deflect to just, oh it's just this guy, it's just fine, the rest of it's alright.
Oh yeah, the industry is definitely all as corrupt as this guy.
So sometimes you do need to throw the old sacrificial lamb out.
I mean maybe, when they looked into it, when it all started to collapse in 2022, People started looking at it closely.
Well, the United States Attorney Office, the SEC, the Securities Exchange Commission, as well as the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, three different federal entities were just sort of like, oh, let's see what's going on here.
Yes, you're clearly doing criminal things, obviously.
Like I say, he was convicted on it all.
Out of those two narratives, the magistrates in Manhattan decided he was, you know, sort of a slam dunk.
I'm not saying he didn't do it, I'm just saying all of them are also doing it and they're kind of happy that he can be put away so it deflects from them probably doing something similar.
Maybe, I mean there's this idea that sort of all, not all banks, but sort of large swathes of the banking industry is built in, it's hard-baked into it that it's corrupt or whatever or something like the Federal Reserve itself If I were to go back to a libertarian argument, I would argue that fractional reserve banking is basically a form of fraud.
In the first place, really, isn't it?
Well, you know, for a lot of human history, the very concept of charging interest...
Usury is sort of not on.
No.
And that's what a lot of everything is based around.
But anyway, so let's talk a tiny bit about him and his life and what actually happened and the court case and everything.
So he's not stupid.
I mean, he is stupid.
At the end, I'm going to round out this piece by saying he must be very, very stupid.
But on another level, he's not stupid at all.
Like he went to MIT.
Um, he got a job on Wall Street, uh, Jane Street Capital.
Um, so, you know, and, and didn't, wasn't fired for incompetence there.
So, so, you know, he's got a mind.
There is a type of stupidity unique to the high IQ.
Right?
Well, not just that.
It's like, okay, this is going to be a contentious comparison.
Jeffrey Epstein.
Anytime you hear people... One of the Weinstein brothers, Eric, is the mathematician, not the biologist.
I think so, yeah.
He's been in interviews before saying, oh, I met with Jeffrey Epstein, and even though he was meant to be a physics professor, he was at MIT, wasn't he?
Or was it Harvard?
Can't remember which one.
He just said he didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
Yeah, so who put him there, who helped set him up, etc.
So he might well be very smart, but his actions seem to have contradicted that.
Do you know what I mean?
It doesn't just mean by virtue of you having these positions that you necessarily earned your way there.
On very smart people involved with Jeffrey Epstein, do you remember when Steven Pinker consulted with him for his original court case and then when questioned about it on Joe Rogan?
The super smart Steven Pinker turned around and said, well, you know, I hadn't really looked into it.
I didn't know who he was.
I didn't know what it was that I was dealing with.
So I can't really be... Steven, you're supposed to be very smart and also he was consulting with you for the case.
How could you not know anything about this person that you're supposed to be helping anyway?
So, um, Wankman Greed was supposed to be the king of crypto, right?
He was supposed to be this, this wunderkind, this genius.
In court, there's actually a bit, a line I saw in the transcripts where he says, I know, I knew nothing about crypto.
Right.
So it's just, it's just, uh, it's the Emperor's New Clothes thing.
He was hyped beyond belief.
Um, can we play this thing?
Yeah, just click on it.
Where's the mouse?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
I'll do it, Jack.
Oh, go on, you do it then.
Oh, no, back to that one.
Back to the other one, please.
I'm Sam Bankman-Fried.
I'm the CEO and co-founder of FTX.
The FTX founder is now worth an estimated $11 billion.
Sam Bankman-Fried was the golden boy of crypto.
The tech-savvy whiz kid who promised to transform the murky world of online currencies.
Like I was saying, it's FTX.
It's a safe and easy way to get into crypto.
Investors flocked to his FTX platform and he became an overnight billionaire.
But when his company spectacularly collapsed, prosecutors discovered an entrepreneur with no clothes.
An empire built on financial fraud that today landed him 25 years in prison.
Not a small potatoes enterprise here.
This is one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.
Backman Freed is now up there with some of the world's most notorious financial criminals, like Bernie Madoff, whose infamous Ponzi scheme in the noughties cheated investors out of billions.
So too Bankman Freed who was ordered to pay more than 11 billion dollars as part of his sentencing during which the 32 year old stood in a brown prison jumpsuit and declared he was sorry for a series of bad decisions.
Anyway Jack you can stop playing that now you get the idea it's just a it's just a bit of news saying this has happened.
He looks like Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor.
That is not a flattering drawing.
I must comment as well, terrible vocal physiognomy.
I don't understand how Americans end up with these voices that are really high-pitched on the register.
I don't get it.
I don't know how they do that.
Michael Lewis, the great author, said that he's like the king of nerds.
Even nerds don't want to share a lunch table with this nerd.
So yeah, the physiognomy is very rarely lies, isn't it?
But yeah, he'll go down with someone like Bernie Madoff or Nick Gleeson at Barings Bank or like the Enron thing, Kenneth Ley.
He's just one of the all-time fraudsters.
He deserves to, in my opinion anyway.
If we could play that next clip with Jim Cramer from CNBC.
Bar, I will say this, that guy is a clueless idiot.
Intent means nothing.
Saying sorry means nothing.
If you co-mingled, if you had no record keeping, those are against the law.
It's not like they're like, you know what, I was sloppy and I feel bad and I'm sorry.
No, you were sloppy, you didn't keep records.
Illegal.
All right?
So if you're admitting to illegality, even though you think that you had no intent, the U.S.
Attorney does not care one whit about intent.
Okay, that guy's Jim Cramer.
He's usually wrong on everything.
Like, you don't go to the US and say, man, I'm really sorry.
I didn't mean it.
I didn't even hurt anybody.
No, it's against the law.
Now, being an ice guy, which he clearly is.
Okay, that guy's Jim Cramer.
He's usually wrong and everything.
Yeah.
That's very rich that he's going on TV caning Scam Wankman because he was one of the people who absolutely sung his praises for ages He called him, the same guy called him the new J.P.
Morgan.
Oh really?
Is that where that quote came from?
J.P.
Morgan's one of the all-time greatest tycoons, if you didn't know.
So he would say things like, or people like him would say that FTX and Sam Bankman might be the first trillionaire and stuff, and they're the future.
If you've got any money, invest it with him.
him.
I think Zimbabwe produced the first trillionaires, surely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I thought I had another clip, but I guess I don't.
I think there's another... It was showing that.
No, we'll save that for next.
But anyway, I did have another clip where it was showing that Jim Cramner saying all these things.
There used to be, you used to be able to find whole compilations of all different sort of TV financial analysts just singing the praises of FTX and Sam Bankman Freed.
And of course, they all changed their tune now.
It is like an Emperor's New Clothes thing.
They all kept jumping on the bandwagon.
And he became, if you remember, I don't remember if you remember at the time, but he became sort of the darling of the beautiful people, you know, like celebrities.
Do you remember this?
He was giving money out left, right and centre.
I know, wasn't he the biggest Democrat donor?
Or was he the second biggest?
Yeah, yeah.
So he gave loads and loads and loads of money to the Biden campaign.
Tons of money.
It was him and Soros, wasn't it, I think, donating all that money.
And then he also met with Mitch McConnell to give the Republicans tons of money in order to flood the Republican Party with Never Trumpers.
Right.
He had a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
So he's a rhino conservationist?
Yeah.
Most of the money he spent was on pandemic prevention initiatives.
Oh, him and Zuckerberg doing all that sort of stuff.
Yes, I remember that.
And loads and loads of Never Trump stuff.
But also just loads of philanthropy all over the place.
Just giving money to football stars, American football stars, all sorts of celebrities.
He did that advert with Larry David, paid Larry David $10 million just for that.
All these sorts of things.
Throwing around tens of millions of dollars all the time.
Everywhere.
He sold himself as a philanthropist.
He was going to save the world, going to change the world for the best in all sorts of ways.
That was his shtick.
But now he's in prison?
Yeah, now he owes 11 billion dollars that he could never dream of paying back, and got a quarter of a century in the clink.
So yeah.
I think it's fitting with Larry Davis, you know, dum-bum-bum.
Yeah, that's where we get that, really actually.
Someone's already thought of that.
So let's talk about what actually happened, what went down.
So he made a company called Alameda Research.
Which was just sort of a trading company, a fund, not really strictly a hedge fund in any way, although I have seen it described that way, but a fund that traded crypto.
Right?
So that's the first thing.
That did okay for a while and got lots of investors and they traded.
He made his girlfriend at the time, what's her name?
Caroline Ellison, the CEO of that.
And so they're just trading crypto.
But then he decides he's going to make his own trade crypto trading platform, which is FTX.
So you go from being sort of a high roller in a casino to owning your own casino.
That's sort of an analogy I've seen, which is quite a good one actually.
So there you take a tiny amount of, it's not really brokerage, but a tiny fee, trading fee.
Of every transaction.
Of every transaction.
So at that point you don't care if crypto is going up or down, whether people are shorting it or not.
You're getting a tiny cut of all the trades that are going on.
And there was billions of dollars a day being traded on FTX at one point.
So you're just, in theory anyway, making printing money, almost.
Making so much money.
If he had sort of floated the company, he would have had 20, maybe 30 billion personal fortunes at one point.
It's just sort of insane money, right?
Just absolutely insane money.
I think he was worth, at least in theory, something like 20 billion before he was 30 years old.
And so it goes from just being sort of, and he wasn't born into massive wealth or anything, just sort of a normal middle class family to being worth 20 billion.
Not exactly overnight, but very, very quickly.
An incredible success story, if it wasn't all based on a house of cards.
Well, where it got dodgy is that he would, where his actual trading company, Alameda, Alameda was trading on FTX.
Already a little bit weird, a little bit suspect, not really a good idea for all sorts of reasons.
But anyway, when Alameda started losing loads of money, or when crypto started going down, it's just got an endless bubble.
Actually, a bit ironic to say that because Bitcoin's at an all-time high right now, I believe.
Anyway.
There are loads of shitcoins that... Oh yeah, yeah, all sorts of things, yeah.
Alameda started losing tons of money, so they just took money from FTX and put it into Alameda bank accounts.
You can't do that.
That's not allowed.
Jim Cramer called it co-mingling.
You just can't do that.
If you don't tell anyone you're doing it and you don't keep proper records, and if anyone does ask for records, you give them fake balance sheets.
All this is massively criminal.
You're just not allowed to do it.
And the reason why I say you're stupid is because that sort of thing will not work for very long.
You get away with that sort of thing for a few months, maybe a couple of years, like Enron, like Baring Banks, you get away with it for a little bit maybe, but when people that know what they're doing and looking at start poking around, it'll all come crashing down.
Don't know how you can sleep at night when you're doing these sorts of crimes.
It's like it's not going to work for very long.
They transferred something in the end, something like eight billion of people's money, normal people's money that have put it on the FTX platform and put it in their own bank account.
Well, also imagine if there's a great big run on a coin that spikes and starts to dip and you've got to pay out loads of money to your investors.
What was his plan when suddenly the bill came due?
Just to go, sorry, lads, moths in my pocket.
Yeah.
And it's gone!
He was basically running his own fractional reserve scheme with his investors' money that could have created what you've described there as some form of digital bank run.
Yeah.
I mean, even that is likened to the Federal Reserve.
Even that is generous.
It's just misappropriation or embezzlement or theft, whatever you want to call it.
That's stealing people's money.
OK, that's what that is.
Let's call it what it is.
Right.
You just you can't do that.
And so in the end, what happened was there was exactly that.
There was a run on FTX.
Well, they put out some financial health records and it didn't look great.
And then the guy that ran Binance, what was his name, Chengpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, sort of went on Twitter and said, uh-huh, FTX look, don't look all that healthy, that looks crap.
And there was a bit of a run on it.
People just want their money back.
And FTX are like, all this happens over about a space of five days.
In other words, an absolutely precipitous destruction, implosion.
And FTX are like, uh, we haven't got all your money.
It's like the scene in It's A Wonderful Life where Jimmy Stewart's trying to convince people not to just take it out all at once and collapse the whole place.
Yeah, but on an unbelievable scale.
And that's how we end up with a massive drop like that?
Yeah, where people like actual equities markets, i.e.
there's markets just trading in the stock of FTX, they're like, oh, the whole thing's a nonsense.
Yeah, sell.
Yeah, get rid of it.
Boom.
It's suddenly worth nothing.
You go from worth 20 billion to you're not worth anything really.
Just buy the dip, boys.
Just buy the dip.
Yeah.
It's still good.
It's going to come back.
I've still got faith in Sam.
Buy it.
Buy it.
25 years from now, when he's out, we're going to be so to the moon.
Yeah.
Buy a loan.
It's going to go to the moon.
Yeah, no.
So, I mean, I've worked for asset management companies for the best part of 20 years.
I worked in commodities trading.
I was never a trader, never got close to trading because, apart from anything else, my mental arithmetic was nowhere near up to it.
You need a few very, very specific qualities to be a trader, whether it's forex, foreign exchange, or whether it's commodities, whether it's equities.
To be a trader, you cannot fake it, or you will be exposed very quickly.
There's a few things in life that you can't fake.
Being a fast race car driver or something.
The stopwatch doesn't lie.
Your returns, if you're a trader, don't lie.
You can either do it or you can't do it.
So I wanted to be a foreign exchange forex trader for years, but my mental arithmetic wasn't up to it.
You have to be able to do something like Work out 32 times 2 minus 1.5 percent.
Make a risk analysis.
Is it worth it or not?
And do that instantly.
The market's moving.
The market's moving.
Too late.
Too late.
You're not going to be a forex trader.
You're not quick enough.
There's a very small number of people that can do that sort of thing.
You need to be extremely quick.
And you can't be a cheat.
You can't be a liar.
Everything's recorded, especially with foreign exchange or anything like that.
Currency trading.
So, this Caroline Ellison, one of the ugliest humans ever to have lived, she was in charge of, she was CEO of Alameda Research, the trading wing of Sam's empire.
And if we could play a clip here of her.
Yeah, absolutely could pull it off without my math degree.
I use very little math.
I use a lot of, like, elementary school math.
OK, all right.
Well, she said that's sort of true.
OK, the maths you need to be a good trader is not very, very difficult maths.
You don't need calculus.
It is essentially what she said, sort of high school or elementary school maths.
But it's very difficult elementary maths, if that makes sense.
And you have to be able to do it very, very quickly.
So that's true.
But the next thing she says here, - Comfortable with risk is very important.
We tend not to have things like stop losses.
I think those aren't necessarily great risk management tool.
Trying to think of a good example. - That, what she just said there, I don't know if you caught it, is completely insane.
She said, "We don't really believe in stop losses." It's not a great risk management tool.
That's mental.
She's a child playing, pretending, lapping at being a trader.
That's beyond, there's no argument to be made.
A stop loss is, you make a trade, you put a trade in, you're in the market.
And if you want to, you can put a stop loss on it.
Whereas if it falls below a certain point, it will automatically get you out of the market and you've lost some money, but you don't have endless loss.
Right?
She said she didn't think we don't really use those.
It's not a good risk management tool.
Nonsense.
Wrong, madam.
Wrong.
When I saw that, I instantly knew the whole thing was complete nonsense.
Well, if you mitigate the risk of losses in the minds of your buyers, you're going to get more people who are more temperamentally risk aversive buying in.
So you're going to get more people trading on your platform if you have them, right?
Well, it's up to each person that's trading if they want to use a stop loss or not.
But if you have them there, then more people who might be more risk averse are more likely to buy in and trade if they have that as a fallback.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, she's talking about, she's not talking about FTX, she's talking about Alameda, her trading firm.
So, trading is a type of gamble, it's a type of risk.
In fact, being a trader is one long, endless exercise in risk management.
I've worked very closely with commodities traders in the job I did directly before I worked here and all they're doing all day essentially is playing a game of risk management.
You get sort of relatively small wins and you lock them in and get out of the market and move on to the next thing.
There's sort of, there's the idea of value investing, you know, where you find a company, say if it's an equity, you find a company that isn't, you think's undervalued, and you buy it and you golden hands it, you hold onto it for ages, years and years and years, until it's grown and worth loads more, and then you sell it and you've made loads of profit.
Okay, that's a bit different sort of day trading, or certainly currency trading.
To not put a stop, to think that stop losses are not a good risk management tool.
Again, it's like a MotoGP rider saying that I don't think crash helmets are a good idea.
It doesn't protect your head.
I don't think it protects your head very well.
I'd rather not wear one.
It's mental.
It's absolutely mental.
It's like, I don't know, it's like maybe being a professional poker player and saying I don't need to understand the rules of poker.
I don't need to know which hand beats the other hand.
I don't think that's an important part of it.
I just play and endlessly win.
That's just how good I am.
It's just, anyone that sees that, that knows anything about it, knows that that's sort of an unbelievable thing to hear from a currency trading or crypto trading company, that we don't use stop losses, we don't think it's a good risk management tool.
I mean, if you kick, carry on playing, see what this idiot says.
...example of a trade where I've lost a ton of money.
Liar.
Well, I don't know.
I probably don't want to go into specifics too much with that.
Yeah, so she was saying, I can't think of an example of a trade where I lost loads of money.
You absolute liar!
Absolute liar.
I bet you can now.
Right, yeah.
So Alameda was just losing loads of money, FTX illegally gave them tons of money, the whole thing collapses, and they turn on each other.
So also, Sam Bankman-Freed decided to use loads of the money to just buy properties in the Bahamas.
Didn't do loads of drugs.
I don't know actually the drug thing.
I thought that she said she did meth.
Oh, I don't know that.
While using the money.
Well, I don't know that.
Really trustworthy person to a point as a CEO.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, just, it's just crazy.
Um, so yeah, they, they came out with, they tried to sort of cover it up for a while, sort of come out with fake balance sheets.
Burning Madhoff style.
Just pretend that everything's still okay.
But of course it's not.
So when it came to trial, they turned on each other.
He said, one, I was just above it all.
It should be for my minions to figure out what went wrong, if anything.
You know, just innocence.
I just don't know.
I was making so much money.
I don't know what happened to that eight billion.
Nonsense!
OK, the courts in Lower New York didn't buy that, nor would anyone in their right mind.
He said she made lots of... it was all her fault.
She did lots of things that were illegal.
I didn't do it.
But she was the prosecution's star witness.
She gave sort of 13 hours worth of testimony.
She cut a deal.
There's a couple other people involved.
Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, also may see the inside of a prison, but they also cut deals, so probably won't.
So, yeah, they basically turned on each other.
But the whole thing was, as I say, a bit of a joke.
They had no CFO, Chief Financial Officer.
What?
They had no compliance wing.
Madness.
So, OK, crypto, there's very little regulation anyway.
But, you know, I've worked for a few big companies, massive companies, Bank of New York, Mellon, JP Morgan, State Street, Northern Trust.
They all have giant legal departments, giant compliance departments.
No matter how lowly you are, if there's anything, there's even a suggestion that the law or compliance is involved, you kick it to a compliance team.
They have giant, giant compliance departments to make sure you're not breaking any rules.
sort of a big, big chunk of what they do all day, every day.
Well, I imagine the problem there is that there are so many rules in the first place.
That's why they need to be so outsized.
So even if comparatively crypto is not as regulated, there's still going to be so many tripwires that you can hit without even realizing it, that that's a stupid thing to do on the face of it.
To have no CFO and no compliance department is, again, it's like saying, oh, we don't Don't think it's... Don't need to.
I just understand risk so well that we don't need... It's just... Sorry, what?
You haven't got a CFO.
You're playing around with billions of dollars.
And, uh... Imagine the example like the ones you get.
Yeah, we don't have wings on our plane actually.
We don't need... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We just get a slingshot and it flies into the sky and we land where we land.
It works every time.
Only boomers use wings.
We're young and up and coming.
We're the Wunderkind.
We don't need engines and wings on our aeroplanes.
He did a couple of slightly dodgy things on top of everything else.
Apparently he tried to, or did, try and contact his prosecutors and say let's cut a deal.
Can't do that, that's ridiculous.
He leaked some of her diary Which doesn't sound like much, but it could be construed as intimidation, and just stuff outside of court, doing stuff you're not really supposed to do.
Didn't show, apparently, any remorse.
Because loads of normal people lost money.
Loads of just completely normal people put their money on the FTX platform, and suddenly one day it's literally like, it's gone!
Sort of a thing.
So, it's quite a bad crime, it really is.
So yeah, I mean, that's the fall of Sam Bankman Freed.
I would say that he is, it was a combination of sort of insane hype, marriage to a complete fraud of a person, a swindler, a liar.
I've got no real empathy for him.
He's this poor genius that's misunderstood and accidentally didn't know what was going on, didn't have enough oversight over his various companies.
No, no, no, I don't buy any of that.
As did the courts.
So no, you deserve actually to go to prison for quite a long time.
So there you go, the riots and fall of Sam Bankman Freed.
Alright, let's finish this off then, shall we?
By examining what a hell of a week it has been.
Allow me to move my mouse and such so that I'll be able to control this optimally.
But yeah, it has been an absolute hell of a week.
There's been a lot of drama going on, some of which was supposed to be covered on Monday, but sadly we were having too much fun, and so I didn't get a chance to talk about that.
And then Callum brushed over a little bit of it on Wednesday when he spoke about Drama Wars.
But I'm going to focus in and follow up on a few of the things that I've covered over recent weeks.
First of all, that being the P Diddy Puff Daddy Sean Combs P Diddler situation that's ongoing right now.
Because as I explained in this, there have been a number of lawsuits filed against him over the past few months.
One by his previous, a former girlfriend of his, who alleged
All manner of horrible things, freak-outs, freak-offs, whatever they're called, with prostitutes where she was forced to have sex with prostitutes, some of whom were underage, take drugs against her will, all filmed on camera, seemingly as a way from the inside of the music industry to keep a hold, keep an iron grip on these young up-and-coming stars so that they don't get any feeling that they can go off and make their own way in their life, make their own career for themselves.
They have to be under the Do we know if J-Lo has broken her silence?
Can I ask you a quick question?
Oh, can I just say first?
Oh, sorry.
That was not taken to court.
That was not proved.
So all of that is still allegations technically in the public eye right now.
But he did settle that the day after it was filed.
Speaks volumes.
Go on.
Do we know if J-Lo has broken her silence?
Because Puffy and J-Lo were an item for many a year back in the 90s.
I don't know.
You're far more of a Puff Daddy aficionado than I am.
Am I?
Well yes, yes you are.
From the discussions of the office the other day, you seem to know a bit more about all of this, about his history I should say, than I do.
Well I know a fair bit about the slaying of... Tupac and Biggie.
Biggie, yeah.
The story of Biggie, because they were best buds, weren't they?
He's saying I'll be missing you in the cover of The Police with Biggie's Widow.
Yeah, but one of the other most recent ones, I think it was filed in February, was by a producer called Rodney Jones, codename Lil Rod, rather unfortunate name to be festooned with right there, but he put in a lawsuit alleging all manner of things.
It was over 70 pages long, it had images, it had text messages all included in it.
that alleged very similar things that P Diddy has been running essentially a sexual blackmail ring within Hollywood and within the music industry for a very, very long time.
This guy, Lil Rod, he had worked with P Diddy on his most recent album as the producer and alleged that as part of that, he was living with P Diddy, found that P Diddy's house was wired with cameras in every single room, including his- Prince style.
I didn't know that Prince had cameras in his house.
Oh, fair play.
But in Including his bedroom, as I'm sure Prince probably did as well, if that's what was going on.
So did Michael Jackson.
Hmm.
And Epstein.
Yeah, but obviously there was lots of dodgy stuff going on.
He says that he was also forced essentially to take loads of drugs and have sex with underage prostitutes and well, or at least film people having sex with underage prostitutes.
There's quite a few people named, including Cuba Gooding Jr.
Uh, as part of this, that he's involved in these allegations.
Prince Harry was named in these documents as well.
So it's all very, very interesting.
And there has been a bit of a follow-up on that, which is that Diddy had a drug mule who was arrested at Miami Airport.
At the same time, both of his sons were being put in cuffs because two of his mansions were raided by the FBI.
So I'll say, I'll go through some of the information here.
Adopted sons, Leon.
Oh, that's Brendan Paul, that'll be his drug mule.
Yeah, that was his drug mule.
Diddy was spotted at about 3pm at Opa Locker Airport, not long before Paul was arrested there, hours after the raid started, after his jet flew in from LA.
The Department of Homeland Security are involved in this, as well as other local law enforcement.
They were contacted by the Daily Mail as part of this, but they said that they couldn't comment on his location.
It seems that he's gone underground.
Right now, he is off grid.
People don't know where he is.
Literally on the lam.
Yeah.
He was scheduled to fly to the Caribbean and blocked the public tracking of his jet after it arrived in Miami.
Police seized his phones, but he wasn't arrested.
So they actually had him, by the sounds of it, took his phones and didn't arrest him.
And then the Love Air LLC Gulfstream 5 jet was later tracked to the Caribbean island of Antigua, but he wasn't on board.
So people don't know where he is.
His spokesman have come out and said, all of these allegations are horrible.
I can't believe we're doing this.
This is a persecution of the most horrible kind from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
How could you do this?
But he's gone.
And Paul, who was arrested, was referred to as Diddy's drug mule in the Lil' Rod lawsuit.
So it's mental right now.
And if this all turns out to be true, it'll say a lot about why the music industry and Hollywood works as it does.
I would say if it does turn out to be true, there will be some explosive Explosive revelations from it, unless it gets the Epstein treatment, because of course, Lil Rod has said that he has hundreds of hours of video footage of all of these people whose names he's alleging in the documents, doing terrible, terrible things with young people who shouldn't have been put in those situations.
Of course, this could all get swept under the rug and get Epsteined if it's all true, and if it's not true then Then, you know, this can all be dismissed, but it sounds pretty explosive.
So that's just the first update that I wanted to go over with what was going on with P. Diddy, but one of the things that I was covering as part of the whole P. Diddy thing was one of the people who was covering it in quite a lot of detail was Candace Owens.
And as part of this, Candace Owens was not, because obviously she worked for the Daily Wire, she was not at all reticent in talking about the fact that a lot of these industries are run by people of a particular background and particular faith.
And that she was alleging that Michael Jackson had been persecuted by these same people because he was trying to protect children.
I know, obviously, there's a lot of different conflicting ideas of what Michael Jackson was up to, but she says that he came out in the mid-90s with a lot of claims that people said were anti-Semitic.
He ended up getting assigned a rabbi for a short time, and she was talking about a lot of that sort of stuff in a way that wasn't Wasn't improving her relationship with the Daily Wire?
I think we need to be a bit more specific here, just because if the audience have absolutely no frame of reference, that's quite hard to follow.
Okay.
So, with the Michael Jackson allegations... Yeah, you know more about this than I do anyway.
Or at least you've got it on the top of your head.
Yeah, so in the Michael Jackson allegations, and particularly the first case, lots of the people involved, including the lawyer, the father who was trying to take him to court, they were Jewish.
It prejudiced Michael Jackson against many Jews, and that's why in his song, They Don't Really Care About Us, he used the Jewish slur and used Spike Lee to film the music video over in Brazil, where it looked like he was dressing up in a Nazi uniform and giving a Roman salute.
Yes.
He then retracted that, changed the lyrics, refilmed the music video in a jail to be about black racism, when originally it seemed to be that he had animosity against the Jews for what he thought was a coordinated attack on his character to try and tie him up in legal disputes that Sony could get the Beatles, Elvis, and his music catalogue, which he was owning at the time.
And that's why, towards the end of his life, he met up with Louis Farrakhan and had a phone call leaked Where he had blamed the Jews and called them leeches and said that they were taking his money.
This is all very similar to what happened with Kanye a few years ago where he was alleging that the music industry as a whole was being run in a mob-like fashion by Jewish people.
That's exactly what Spike Lee's anti-Semitism controversy was right before Michael Jackson filmed a music video with him.
There seems to be a long-standing contention here that black artists feel that their record labels are exploiting them and because lots of the record labels are run by successful Jewish people, usually secular, not religious.
Therefore, there's antisemitism coming from the black music crowd, which is why lots of them coordinate with Farrakhan, like Snoop Dogg, for example, and all that.
Is even Snoop Dogg met with Farrakhan?
Farrakhan got banned on Facebook and Snoop Dogg made a video saying free Minister Farrakhan.
Oh, fair play.
So Candace Owen seems to have been commenting on a long-running tension between the American black community and the American Jewish community in the music industry.
And someone at the center of this, the rabbi that Michael Jackson was assigned to make his PR look better, was Rabbi Shmuley, who worked at Oxford University and was called America's Rabbi.
And as we carry on, if his behavior recently is anything to go by, I can understand why Rabbi Shmuley's attempts were not exactly successful.
We need to be careful, slightly, because Rabbi Shmuley is very litigious.
I will just say that as an ambassador for the American Jewish community, and the Jewish community writ large, because I know his daughter lives in Israel, he doesn't seem to be a very credible or well-adjusted person.
And I will leave my critiques at that.
No, yeah, he does like to throw out threats of legal action, but they seem to mainly be threats, but I will be careful when I discuss him.
It does seem like a bit of an embarrassment.
He's very theatrical.
Yeah.
Well, I'll get on to the fact that there are quite a few well-adjusted Jewish people who are saying, "Please stop.
Just please, for the love of God, Rabbi Shmuley, shut up.
Stop it right now." This guy's a schmuck.
This guy's a shlemiel already.
Before we get on to that though, I just want to ask about, so no one knows where Puffy is?
As far as I can tell, most of the updated news that I've seen from the past day or so haven't been saying that he's been found or arrested.
They just say that his plane, his jet, arrived in the Caribbean.
He wasn't on it.
They picked him up, took his phone.
How does that make sense then?
Do you know there's like a famous host From, I think, the 70s, where a guy jumped out of an aeroplane mid-flight with all the money and then just disappeared.
Do you know this one?
I can't remember the guy's name.
Was it Bill something?
It was a fake name?
Yeah, it's a fake name.
And the FBI never found him.
There'll be so many people in the comments just putting his name.
I can't remember the guy's name.
It's one of the most famous unsolved heists of all time.
Yeah, there's some speculation he either did just get away with it or he maybe died in the wilderness because he jumped into the wilderness, right?
Maybe his parachute didn't open and he died or yes, he starved or even he maybe fell onto DB Cooper.
DB Cooper!
So Puff Daddy's done a DB Cooper.
He jumped out of his own aeroplane over the Caribbean Sea.
Where is he?
What's going on?
I don't know!
We don't know.
Because famously, Sean Combs has got a giant yacht, right?
That was always the thing, I'd get invited on P. Diddy's yacht.
So maybe he jumped out of his aeroplane mid-flight.
Like James Bond and parachutes in.
No, no, I'm sure this is a San Andreas mission that I played on GTA like 20 years ago.
Member of Saints Row, yeah.
I mean, maybe, maybe, but people don't know where he's gone.
But where's Wally?
Where's Diddy?
You know, this is surprising to me.
Yeah, well, the whole thing is mental, but on the Candace Owen things, it seems that tensions escalated within the Daily Wire, especially because she was also very critical of Israel and the Palestinian-Israel conflict recently.
And then this came out.
Just a week ago now, Jeremy Boring says Daily Wire and Candice Owens have ended their relationship and this led to a lot of speculation as to why.
Candice Owens confirmed it herself, said that she would be going ahead with her own website and you can support her wherever you are.
I would say it does start seemingly with the fact that Candace was very openly critical of Israel to the point where it was quite a story back in November that Ben Shapiro was not happy with how critical she had been and some of the talking points that she had because she'd already had the controversy when Kanye came out and had his literal public mental breakdown last year or the end of 2022 and she had come out and defended him because Candace Owens seems to
Genuinely, in a sincere way, she seems to want what is best for the black community and she saw defending Kanye as a form of defending the black community.
And Kyrie Irving after he watched a very strange Amazon Prime documentary that said that black people were the original Jews.
She's had quite a few controversies behind her.
If she's a free agent, couldn't we get a Zoom with her?
You or Cole might have some connections.
She did respond to my tweet in relation to this whole... Yeah, I'm accidentally involved in this.
I don't have a particular line on her, but I would be happy to chat to her.
I know she comes over to you, Quay, quite a lot, because her husband's George Farmer, who's son of a British Lord, I believe.
I don't know anything about that.
But Cole knows people.
You know people.
Maybe we could get a... But yeah, she's definitely a free agent right now.
But like I say, this is seemingly where it starts.
This was a closed door university event.
So if you didn't catch that, that was Ben Shapiro when asked by an audience at a closed door university event, he said that Candace Irwin's behaviour has been disgraceful to a round of applause and the video then got leaked.
Yes, and Candice Owens was asked about this on Tucker, so she was on a separate show responding to her boss basically, saying he's just throwing ad-homs at me, I can't respond to anything.
So already there were some tensions boiling right there, there was some animosity.
But I think what probably pushed it over the edge, now Jeremy Boring was on a Twitter space with Lauren Chen and other people.
I was there as well.
Were you in the audience?
I didn't get the chance to talk because Lauren had invited me because of the tweet, but it was like one in the morning, I didn't want to wake people up.
The Sovereign Brar accidentally called me Jewish.
Lauren just went, Connor's very Catholic.
Yeah, and Nick Fuentes was on that call.
He was on quite a bit later, yeah.
And he ended up having an exchange with Jeremy Boring.
I dipped out by then, but I have listened to some of it.
But I think this is what pushed it over the edge, the fact that Nick Fuentes and people like that have become involved.
Obviously, he is a very, very controversial figure and he does not Shy away often from putting his foot in directly into his mouth on his own livestream.
Sometimes you'll just be scrolling through Twitter.
You'll see someone post something from him where he'll be talking about a situation and he'll be like saying things that are, you know, halfway reasonable and then saying something like, oh, and also I love him.
Yeah.
And also, yeah.
He's made multiple jokes about questioning the Holocaust, and it's like as soon as he's been pressed on it, he gets quite evasive as to whether or not he actually thinks this.
So my thing is with Nick, I don't know him, just like I don't know Candace personally.
I don't particularly like his content, I don't really watch it.
I just have a gut reaction when I can tell that someone's not being quite transparent with me, and so in this situation, He hasn't come out too clean either.
People also think he's a gay cat boy.
I don't know the accuracy of that but I just see people ban that one about every time.
One of the main things that drew Candice into controversy with Ben is after this clip she put out a Matthew verse that said you cannot worship God or money that was towards the end and then Ben took that as a personal slight saying well if your views lead you to conflict with your paymaster's daily wire then you can just leave which Isn't really a very professional way to conduct business because Ben was a co-founder but he's not currently the CEO of course and then Candace Owens responded to him with Christ is King and that's where this controversy has come from.
Yeah I think as well like I say what seems to have pushed it over the edge was that the ADL was sharing a Media Matters piece talking about how Nick Fuentes who they characterized not entirely unfairly as white supremacist holocaust denier praising Candace Owens's vitriolic anti-semitism Now, Jeremy Boring said that he couldn't care less what the ADL has to say, etc, etc, but you can't say that all of this media attention in this direction didn't affect their decision.
I've seen also some people saying that they'd spoken to some Daily Y insiders, and it was because of the fact that she had said Christ is King, which is something that Nick Fuentes also says.
was possibly what pushed Jeremy Boring over the edge.
Also, as part of the Twitter space, he did explicitly say that he fired her.
I don't think he meant to, but he said, I can't share details about why I fired someone.
Andrew Claven came out and said that the Christ is King thing is explicitly why she was gone.
He was the only one that's directly addressed this before the Twitter space, which is how I accidentally got involved, because I took the clip of Claven saying that to say Christ is King to Jewish people is anti-Semitic.
Which is not the case.
Andrew Clavin is an ethnic Jew but he's a Christian convert.
He also said that to tell Ben Shapiro that he should convert to Christianity is anti-Semitism because God has put Ben Shapiro in the place that he wants him to be and to tell him to no longer be Jewish but to become Christian will dislocate him from his family and that will ruin his career.
Isn't a very Christian thing to say.
And then he went on to say, as a Jew, I'm proud of my race.
And why do you think that Europe has dwindled into nothing and is insignificant since they killed two thirds of their Jews?
Which makes it sound like he said that Jews were the only thing that made Europe great, which rubbed me up the wrong way a little bit.
Now, I've only seen clips of that, so I can't grasp what it was in context.
I'll take your word on it.
I'll just say, sir, I've not really ever watched any of Nick Fuentes.
Every now and again, there'll be sort of a clip or make it on Twitter.
Some sort of funny thing.
But I've never really watched any of his content.
The only thing I ever saw was a bunch of black women goading him into saying the N-word.
Oh, that was quite funny.
But I'm aware of the guy.
But what's the argument again?
Because I'm not a Christian.
But what's wrong with saying Christ is King, if that's what you think?
The association with Nick Fuentes and his groupers, as they're known, is that they will throw that phrase at Jewish people as a way of saying synagogue of Satan and stuff like that.
That's as a way of mocking them, as a way of goading them, and therefore anyone saying it is anti-Semitic.
A lot of people have contentions with that, a lot of people have a problem with the idea that it's anti-Semitic, but there is a kind of push-pull going right now of people saying it is, people saying that it isn't.
But surely it's a cornerstone of Christianity though, if you don't accept that, you're You're not Christian.
You would be Jewish, because unless you're a Messianic Jew, you don't acknowledge the divinity of Christ.
This is something that Clavin, or MacIntyre, has done a great summer of his theology, but I'll just do it really quickly.
He's the King of Kings.
Quite.
Based.
Happy Good Friday.
Oh yeah, Good Friday!
So Clavin is following a sort of dispensational style theology, which is quite common after the Second World War, particularly among the boomers, which Clavin is, which says that Because the Jews now exist in their Holy Land, they don't need to acknowledge Christ as the Son of God in order to be saved.
So you can be Jewish and not Christian, but also achieve salvation.
Whereas pretty much every other Christian sect will turn around and say, no, covenants are a continuity.
So first it was made with Adam, then Noah, then Abraham and his descendants.
And then when Israel fell and the Jewish authorities became scornful of Christ, the new covenant comes with Christ.
And now it's not just consigned to the Jews as a race, as Clavin unfortunately said.
It is, as Paul wrote, neither man nor woman, nor Jew nor Gentile, nor slave nor free man.
You just sign up to Christianity and acknowledge the kingship of Christ and then you are saved.
And so that's why you're called to evangelize.
And so if you're evangelizing Jews who haven't recognized the divinity of Christ yet, you're not being anti-Semitic.
You're just saying, oh, I'd quite like to save your soul, please, if I actually believe in this.
Therefore, please acknowledge this.
It's not that you're saying you hate Jews and want another Holocaust.
That's totally absurd.
It seems to me that if you claim on any level, in any real context, that saying Christ is King is anti-Semitic, then you're very, very close to saying that all of Christianity is anti-Semitic.
Yes.
In every sense.
You can't be a Christian and not be not antisemitic.
It's getting dangerously close to that, isn't it?
Yeah, I don't think Claven intends to do that.
And I say this as a Claven fan, I actually own his books.
I've never watched any Claven ever, so I don't know.
It's been really disappointing for me because I really like the guy, but inadvertently he's made that line of logic, even though he's meant to be a Christian.
But anyway, moving on, this wasn't the only thing as well.
Candace had been attacked recently on an article on PJ Media by Rabbi Michael Barclay called, Let's Be Honest, Candace Owens is a Jew Hating Picket.
Now I'm going to read some excerpts from this because some Libelous, actually libelous claims were made in this article which she said that she might take action about and we'll see the result of that in a moment.
So he says, this is a woman who is such an anti-Semite and so ignorant of history that in 2018 she publicly said that Hitler was okay.
Her hatred is vitriolic and her hubris has let her make comments that are especially outrageous in the aftermath of the tragedies of October 7th.
Her repeated comments show her hatred of Jews, her absolute ignorance of history or geopolitics, and betray the reality that she is an uneducated airhead who has successfully capitalized on her brand of a young black female conservative.
A mere month after the horrors of babies being beheaded, women being raped in the slew of horrors from Hamas, Owens went on Tucker Carlson's show to speak about how it really wasn't that bad, and why should she even care?
After all, she seems to think Hitler was okay, so what's the problem?
When we look at her life and words from her victim lawsuit at 17 to now, one thing is clear.
Candace Owens hates Jews.
All her words and actions demonstrate this.
Her approval of Hitler, her support of Kanye West's comments, her apathy towards October 7th, her tacit approval of Hamas and vocal condemnation of Israel, her labeling Jews who point out her anti-Semitism as thugs and gangs, her promotion of the libelous Jew-hating trope of Hollywood being run by Jews, and her most recent attacks on a respected rabbi and his family, that respected rabbi, Being Shmuley, who as far as I can tell was the one who started it a few years ago when he started to criticize her.
So obviously, a lot of very bad things said in that article.
Let's see what happens to that article if you go to it now.
They've retracted it.
Yeah.
Upon further review, we have determined that the following article does not meet PJ Meader's editorial standards.
We apologize to our readers for the oversight because they don't want to get dragged into a lawsuit.
So it's actually libelous then?
Yes.
Yes.
And we'll see why, because as a result of that, before taking legal action, Candice decided to actually have Rabbi Barclay on her show.
In a good faith discussion.
actually.
Which was still the Daily Wire at the time.
And it was a very interesting discussion.
I've listened to most of it.
And as far as I can tell, Rabbi Barkley, he calls himself a conservative, but he argues in a way that is very familiar if you've ever argued with a leftist.
So I'm not going to go over all the clips.
There is one clip that I'll play, but his arguments center around this idea that antisemitism is whatever Jews say it is, which is an incredible, incredible tool, because then literally you can just be malleable and do whatever you want.
Because if you do anything that I don't like, therefore it's antisemitic.
And And there are some states like South Dakota at the moment, which despite their tiny Jewish population, are instigating hate speech laws that criminalize anything that could be considered anti-semitism.
Texas has just done that as well.
Texas, yep.
So increasingly, if that's the standard that's being applied, anybody who gets on the bad side of somebody like Rabbi Barclay or Rabbi Ashmole might have some kind of criminal action taken against them.
Like accepting Christ as your king?
He said that to contest the state of Israel is anti-semitism because anti-semitism has mutated from the Middle Ages from a hatred of Jews for their religion to a hatred of Jews for their race.
So now because Jews have a nation that exists there, a hatred of the Jewish nation means you're anti-semitic.
So Candace Owens is anti-semitic because she's criticised Israel for the Hamas war.
But also, once again, this is literally the critical race theory, leftist idea of what prejudice is.
If you're racist against black people, how do you know?
Well, because a black person has told you that you are racist against them.
How do you know if you are sexist?
Well, if you said hello to a woman in a way that a woman doesn't like, she can say that you're being sexist.
And now that you've got, obviously, the same way that we have over here, we have hate speech laws.
If you're having hate speech laws specifically for antisemitism in the US, where you're applying that standard, anybody can get in trouble for literally anything.
If you go, maybe Israel should let up before they go to Rafa.
They've herded all of these refugees down into a city on the border of Egypt, and now Netanyahu, I think he's stopped that now, but he was going to have a ground invasion or some kind of bombing of Rafa.
Maybe don't do that, I don't like that, well then Rabbit Barkley or anybody shmooly can say you're an anti-Semite and get you potentially arrested or at least fined, taken out your job.
I don't know how America could have any sort of hate speech laws though because isn't it, well it's in their constitution right, the freedom of But it's reliant on someone challenging that at the Supreme Court.
That constitution doesn't amount to much these days, sadly.
But anyway, his other contentions are that October 7th was literally the worst day in human history ever.
He did actually say that.
You would think that even from a Jewish perspective, 70 AD, when the fall of the Second Temple, you would think that obviously what happened on October 7th was awful.
It was a tragedy.
People were murdered.
Innocent people were murdered and raped.
That's a terrible thing to happen.
But if you don't agree with him that it's the worst thing to ever happen in human history, surely he would even say that what was happening in Auschwitz...
If you're going by pure numerical figures.
Yeah, there were just more dead, yeah.
Would be worse.
For that's the day of the Battle of the Somme, springs to mind.
But perhaps, if you're going by numbers, pure numbers.
Specifically to a Jewish person, you would think these events in Jewish history were worse than October 7th.
Even though October 7th is still evil.
Candace refused to agree with him that crimes against Jews are uniquely evil and put above all other crimes committed to any other people other than Jews.
And that antisemitism is a unique hatred which can morph throughout history.
That was one of his other things.
You're right to say Titus' sack of the temple in 70 AD.
Surely, surely that's worse.
If you're going to, not the first day of the song, but specifically against Jewish people, surely that's worse then.
I've never heard of Rabbi Barclay before.
Is he a known entity?
Is he someone you're just supposed to have always known?
He was a conservative contributor to websites like PJ News.
I wasn't that aware of him beforehand but this kind of was my first big exposure to him and I've got to say he did not impress me.
First, I listened to Dave Smith, the Libertarian guy.
His show, Part of the Problem.
I listened to him and he was talking about a lot of this and saying, mate, you're literally a leftist.
If you call yourself a conservative, but these are all of the arguments that you're making, then you can't really claim to be a conservative in any way.
She also cleared up, uncategorically, that she condemned the October 7th attack and is not some kind of Hamas sympathizer or supporter, because why would she be?
She just doesn't like it, as a mother, when she sees videos on social media of children and babies being killed in bombing runs.
She doesn't think that that's a nice thing.
I was going to say, if you criticise Israel and things, it doesn't... You know, the go-to thing is to say, oh, what are you, PLO?
Are you, like, Alexa Marta Brigade or something?
You're, like, really pro-Palestinian or something.
Which is obviously not that, right?
No, of course not.
It's not coming from that angle.
I imagine.
I imagine.
The thing that I wanted to highlight was the clip where, obviously in that article, Barclay kept highlighting that she said Hitler was okay.
She said Hitler was okay.
Is that true?
No.
No, it's not.
And listen to the lies, the way he justifies himself after this.
Because at first she's going to play the clip of what she actually said in 2018, because what he was referring to was filmed and caught on camera and recorded.
And then he gives his take afterwards.
About gossip.
And this goes back to the antisemitism canvas.
Thank you.
What happened October 7th is unique.
It is- This is not the clip that I wanted, Jack.
Apologies.
Let me- No, Jack, let me mess with it.
Jack, give me the mouse.
Thank you very much.
Let me get it to the right timestamp.
Right, 22.
Here we go.
Around here.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I agree.
I actually don't have any problems at all with the word nationalism.
I think that it gets, the definition gets poisoned by leaders that actually want globalism.
Globalism is what I don't want.
So when you think about, whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler.
You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine.
The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany.
He wanted to globalize, he wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German, everybody to look a different way.
That's not, to me, that's not nationalism.
So again, we're trying there to define nationalism.
Does your statement, she publicly said that Hitler was okay, is that an honest statement?
Yeah, so let's talk about this for a moment, is that okay?
Yeah.
You were asked a question about nationalism.
You responded with an example of Adolf Hitler.
Yes, I said because Americans associate, the reason why I think it's a dirty word is because of Adolf Hitler.
And you have subsequently, and I've seen you, subsequently, and I think you even said it in the congressional hearing, you have obviously condemned him for What?
But you brought Hitler's name into the discussion.
Correct.
And you justify that this is how America feels or how people feel.
And that's your take on it.
It's not necessarily accurate.
In fact, it probably isn't from an actual sociological standpoint.
But that's your opinion.
Fine.
But Candace, you You put in the same sentence what he did if it just had stayed in Germany was okay.
But more importantly, and here's a piece of the anti-Semitism, why bring one of the most evil men of history into the discussion?
You could just as easily have given any negative examples of nationalism.
You chose to bring Hitler on.
I did and I have no, if I could go backwards in the context of trying to understand why Americans think that nationalism is a bad word, it was appropriate for me to bring off Adolf Hitler.
It is totally appropriate in any capacity when you are talking about history and historical sentiments to bring up any relevant character that has created those sentiments.
So I just want to, again, I just want to yes or no.
After watching that in context, do you think it is fair that you wrote, she publicly said that Hitler was okay?
Hitler was okay.
Yes, by bringing me even into the conversation.
Yes, I do.
Okay, great.
There you go.
Like literally presented evidence to his face.
You are lying.
And then he comes up with an argument that I can only really describe as completely flailing, literally throwing anything against the wall to see what stays...
Because obviously when you're talking about the modern context, why people think the word nationalism is bad, obviously that goes back to the fact that anybody who is remotely nationalist is always equated with Hitler.
So that's obviously the example you bring up.
But to him, just saying the word, saying his name, invoking his name like it's bloody Harry Potter or something.
It's like saying it three times in a mirror and it'll materialise like Candyman or something, yeah.
Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous.
So that article was taken down.
This man is a fool.
This man is an absolute hack.
That was very shameless.
Yeah, that was some of the most bold lying I've ever seen.
Ever.
But one of the other figures that's come out of it, like we've already mentioned him, I don't think anybody was expecting the resurgence of Rabbi Shmuley to be one of the biggest characters to come out of all of this and some of the things that he does and says now.
Going to be very careful.
I'm going to play some clips from a recent interview or debate he did with Alex Jones, which I listened to this morning before I came into work, which was remarkable.
Not to cast judgment on these arguments, but for instance, Alex Jones was once again like...
Candace Owens, criticizing some of the actions that Israel has taken since October 7th.
Rabbi Shmuley responded to him by saying that this was a form of Holocaust denial.
Very interesting argument to throw out there.
But before that, Shmuley posted this.
Yeah, he posted this, which was a picture of himself dressed up in a costume for Purim as what he referred to as the Candace Owens Jew.
I think that speaks for itself.
It's a Jewish Halloween.
It's a Jewish holiday.
So apparently the tradition is according to this guy and even I think Ben spoke about this, criticizing this, is saying that they have often dressed up as their enemies to mock them because they've been persecuted people.
So now he's dressed up as the most anti-semitic caricature you'd ever see drinking Christian blood out of a sippy cup.
Yeah, this is not the behaviour of a well-adjusted man, but that's my personal opinion.
He also posts this massive wallow text at the Daily Wire saying that they are a cesspit of anti-Semitism, misogyny and anti-black racism.
Saying that Jeremy Boring had called all Jews whores, despite the fact that in the interview that he's referring to, Jeremy Boring called Shmuley a whore, so Shmuley is taking on himself as the representative and character for all of Jewish peoples and behavior across the whole world, I suppose.
And then you get these interview clips, these debate clips, where he just comes across like a sensible and intelligent man.
Also, can I just say, if you want people to win over, if you want to win people over to your side when you're in debates with them, make it so that your microphone is not clipping and you're yelling into it the entire time because it almost burst my eardrums.
Alex Jones came across as sensible and positively sensible and centered in this interview and came across like a sane man, down-to-earth kind of guy.
He came across like a lunatic.
You lie about the people of Jesus and you say that you wrote yesterday in a tweet that Israel going into Rafah is going to make them unpopular?
We've been unpopular for 2,000 years because we keep the covenant of God that everyone else has broken.
We live by the Ten Commandments.
We don't go crusading against people and drowning them in the Mayan River.
We don't gas people.
We don't We believe that adultery is wrong.
We fight things like pornography.
We establish communities and families.
The Jewish communities and families are revered, revered by the worst enemies around the world.
So we're hated for it and we're prepared to be hated for it.
Are you telling me that I should pursue your popularity?
That I should go and lie about whether children died in Sandy Hill because I might get more viewers and sell more supplements?
Don't give me this popularity stuff because I don't give a damn if I'm popular or not.
I care if I'm right with God.
Now this is prompted by the fact that Alex Jones said that it was rather strange that he as a rabbi would be involved in his daughter's sex toy business.
He's written books called Kosher Sex and the Kosher Sutra, I think?
So when he says he's fighting against pornography, I mean, it's not an unreasonable interpretation to say that those are pornographic topics.
Again, someone I've never heard of before, a few days ago.
He appeared on Piers Morgan to debate Mohammed Hijab a few months ago.
Yeah, both have done some questionable statements.
It did all end quite...
In a really funny way.
So this is the clip that I saw going around at first where Alex Jones decided, after an hour of being yelled at by this absolute madman, decided that he was just going to end it with like this.
The left wants to arrest conservatives.
They want to put Trump in prison.
All right, Rabbi, thank you so much.
I don't want to keep our guest host too long.
I appreciate it.
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It seems that your skills in that area may be a little lacking.
You're right.
I'm not as good as doing lap dances with my grandchildren.
There was a clip of him at a party, grinding against what looked like one of his grandchildren.
It was very strange.
What the hell is 2024?
I know, this whole thing is completely insane.
Once again, to the point where more sensible people like Gad Saad, in response to more Rabbi Shmuley's schizo posting, is saying, please stop.
Fled Lebanon as a Jew because he was going to be killed, so Gad Saad, notorious... Anti-Zionist, anti-Jew, anti-Semite.
Yeah, saying, please stop.
Everybody, you're making everybody haters.
Please, please stop.
And Avi Yamani just saying, like, we can't, we can't control this man.
Like, why is he posting this?
We're saying, please stop.
Now, there are a few, there are a few theories I have, and this is going to take all of this with a pinch of salt because this is conspiratorial thinking and we don't have too much time left.
So, There is one theory that I saw banded about by Bronze Age pervert earlier and yesterday, which is that a lot of these organizations, Nick Fuentes has ties, Bailey Wire has ties, are all funded by or have received funding in the past by Texas oil billionaires, the Wilkes Brothers, and that this is some kind of cross-promotional controversy that's been generated artificially to try to get more eyes on them.
I don't necessarily know how much I fall into that because it seems like it would be a hell of a way to generate controversy by making your flagship brand look bad.
And lose money compared to Nick Fuentes who doesn't have nearly the audience size or reach.
And destroy the very fabric of society.
Yeah, I mean it's a tough strategy.
That's how it works for them.
There's one theory of what Rabbi Shmuley is which is where you could say that he's being funded by perhaps pro-Palestinian forces to make people hate pro-israel types by just presenting them as this is all conspiratorial I'm not suggesting this is what's actually going on.
I don't think you should have suggested that I'm going to be honest if you wanted to avoid a lawsuit.
I'm not saying that's what's actually going on this is my fun conspiratorial thinking.
That seems mad but like you say 2024 seems to have gone mad.
You could also say that he's doing this so that he can make people like Avi Yemeni and Gadsad, who's received a lot of criticism in recent months, look better by being able to announce him.
Or, more likely, this is just who this guy is.
And he's just a bit mad.
Yeah.
With that, onto the video comments then.
Yeah, we've not got much time left.
Sorry about that, lads.
That's alright.
We'll play these and then... And there it is!
That took you... About 30 seconds.
Dirty fingernails.
Cricked back.
That's gardening, that's what you do!
Okay, now let me show you how I would remove it, okay?
See these three here?
Ready?
Yeah, but what about... Look at all the branches.
No, I can deal with those.
It's tall, but that is ambitious.
You can't prune a tree with a shotgun.
Yes you can.
This is going well.
Build the shed!
Is this your tape measure?
Might be.
I've never seen that clip.
Yeah, me neither.
But, yeah, watch Clarkson's Farm if you haven't as well, because it's fantastic.
You know there's people that don't like Clarkson, and there's people that absolutely despise him, you know, like Never Trumpers, they're like Never Clarkson's type people.
Like Nicola Sturgeon.
Is she?
Well, he said he hates Nicola Sturgeon on a cellular level.
Alright, yeah.
It's just, get a sense of humour.
Like, it's a character mostly, right?
It's funny.
Yeah, he's a great British eccentric.
Anyway, on to the next one.
Flower Friday!
I'm going to start to share native plants from California outside of my home range.
So, let's start with Sarcodes sanguinea, the snow plant.
A myocarpic plant, meaning a parasite on fungi.
With no need of photosynthetic leaves, its all-scarlet flowers are loved by pollinators in the pine forests in early summer.
They may actually act as a nutrient battery that gives back energy to the pine trees and fungi in winter, acting symbiotically, storing energy for the life around it.
That's really wholesome.
There's a little hummingbird there.
I've got hummingbirds on my tie today.
So, lovely.
Nice synchronicity there.
Thanks for that one.
On to the next one.
On to the next one.
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Yesterday, Scrooge McDuck was brought up, who is a purposely misunderstood character.
Everyone thinks he inherited his money, and his money bin contains all his wealth.
In reality, his money bin only contains mementos of the 20 years of adventuring it took for him to earn his fortune.
His true wealth is in banks and assets.
Truly a representation of the successful capitalist resented for his success.
Yeah, I haven't read any of the original Life and Chimes of Screwsment Dark Comics.
I didn't grow up on the cartoon either.
So, can't comment.
I thought it was based on Carnegie.
James Carnegie?
Again, late 19th century.
Andrew Carnegie.
Andrew Carnegie, yeah, of Carnegie Hall fame.
Wasn't he just a ridiculous, rich Scotsman?
Yeah, he was an incredibly rich Scotsman, but he was also a massive philanthropist and he started lots and lots of trust funds and things like that, built libraries, museums.
He seemed like an old school philanthropist.
I don't know where I got it from, but I always thought Scrooge McDuck was some sort of tip of the cap to Andrew Cargill.
Is that him with Teddy Roosevelt?
Yeah, it looks like it.
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