Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

June 4, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

01:25:10

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #929

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	Hey guys, sorry about that.
	Don't know what happened.
	We had a power cut all of a sudden.
	It's the deep state trying to take us down like Alex Jones.
	Yeah, now we know how he feels.
	We're basically being besieged by the... No, we're not.
	It was just a power cut.
	Worst possible timing.
	So we'll just start again.
	Hello, welcome to the podcast The Low Seaters for the 4th of June, 2022.
	No, 2024.
	God, time is just... When you get to our age, Leo, time just has this weird elastic quality.
	Yeah.
	Am I wrong?
	Yeah, and it goes too fast.
	Yeah, way too fast.
	Anyway, I'm joined by Josh and Leo, and we're going to talk about media bias.
	Yeah, so I'm going to cover media bias.
	I was just going to talk about the media bias with regards to the stabbing in Germany, but then there's also the Tommy protest and also Farage fact-checking in the Guardian, which was hilarious.
	But yeah, I'll kick off with the Tommy Robinson protest, because it was described in the Socialist Worker, which I admit is a bit of a biased publication.
	I've sort of cherry-picked this, but they're calling it a Nazi rally, because the Nazis were really big on Union Jacks But this is really funny because they've got a picture of what is basically the Winston Churchill fan club.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And there are also a lot of Israel flags at the march as well.
	And, you know, if I remember correctly, you know, Hitler wasn't the biggest fan of the Jewish people.
	My friend Andy was on the march.
	He's gay and he's an ethnic minority.
	Andy Ngo is a journalist.
	And he said he was very welcome.
	And it was a great atmosphere on the march.
	This is a socialist worker.
	It's not a real paper.
	It's just far-left propaganda for socialists who are stupid.
	And if they weren't stupid, they wouldn't be socialists.
	So let's see how real papers covered it.
	We've got the Telegraph here, which is ostensibly a conservative newspaper.
	And I saw this, I saw this headline, it said Tommy Robinson supporters shout out hate chant at far right London demo.
	So I thought, I've got to, I've got to see what this is, if you know, the Telegraph are so outraged.
	You know what the hate chant was?
	It's people singing Allah, Allah, who the F is Allah, like to the tune of Living Next Door to Alice, the old Smokey song.
	So it's just a, it's just a fun, it's a funny, it's an irreverent thing.
	It's very British humour to, to, you know, chant something like that.
	We do the same thing with other religions.
	We've got the Book of Mormon making fun of Mormonism.
	We've got Life of Brian making fun of Christianity.
	We've got songs about the Pope.
	and all that kind of stuff so they never get described as hate chants they just get described as uh you know um uh sort of progressive and modern and part of being in a modern democracy but for some reason oh my god you do how is it even hateful though like it's surely a bit at worst it's a statement of ignorance yeah i was i was about to say that yeah that there's not really anything hateful about saying oh we don't know who allah is yeah yeah
	Yeah, there's nothing hateful about it at all, and it's revealing that this is now being classed as a potential hate crime, because it reveals, just blatantly reveals that hate crime laws are blasphemy laws, and they're protecting Islam from being mocked.
	So, and even the Telegraph, which is, you know, as I say, supposedly a conservative newspaper, is pushing this idea.
	And if we look at the excuses made for the other side, because we have seen, on the pro-Palestine marches, we've seen some horrific chance for the destruction of Israel.
	Worldwide Intifada?
	Yeah, Worldwide Intifada, murder of Jews, global jihad.
	The Met Police, if we move on to the next tab, we can see this is how the Met Police responded to concerns that the Hizbut Tahrir, which is like an Islamist group, They were chanting for jihad.
	But I love this first line, this is so good.
	The word jihad has a number of meanings.
	It's like, oh, we're going to equivocate on that, are we?
	Of all the things, you know, it's that we're equivocating on.
	I like the irony of this situation, that that Tommy protest was to protest two-tier policing.
	Yeah, and here we go.
	Yeah, no, you know, your criticism of Islam, hate preaching.
	Them calling for jihad is something we need to enjoy the nuance.
	There's a specific context to jihad.
	Yeah, it's a very contextual thing.
	People say it can be an inner struggle, like, you know, I don't think these men were shouting it as some sort of, you know, they say it's a path to self-improvement and stuff?
	Yeah, that was it, yeah.
	Are they going to the gym and they're saying Allahu Akbar and hitting the treadmill?
	I just want to get through this yoga session.
	In Islam, there is actually a distinction here, though.
	The lesser jihad is violent war, and the greater jihad is apparently the internal struggle.
	But the thing is, I don't think anyone's arguing the internal struggle against Israel.
	Sorry, contextually, it's just obviously not the case.
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	And also calling for jihad or holy war is genuinely sectarian and racist because you're calling for the death or conversion of infidels.
	So, yeah, I mean, it's ridiculous to say it's OK, depending on context.
	This is, you know, obvious.
	Two-tier policing, as you say.
	And instead, apparently, the racism at the march at the weekend came from the other side.
	So if we move on to the next tab, I haven't verified this, but this Twitter account that monitors left-wing activity records a police tweet that says that, A stand-up to racism supporter was arrested for racially aggravated public disorder.
	So...
	I mean, that's interesting.
	They've actually had to arrest somebody from the other side for racially aggravated disorder.
	I don't know if they're chanting anti-Semitic stuff or what.
	And the people chanting Nazi scum off the streets, so the counter-protesters, the supposed good guys who are against Tommy Robinson and against nationalism and all that sort of stuff, they were chanting Nazi scum off the streets.
	And that's an actual hate chant because you're dehumanizing people who obviously aren't actual Nazis.
	I don't know much about Tommy Robinson.
	All I really know is, like, Everybody on Facebook was really angry at him because he stood outside a court where a trial for a grooming gang was going on inside.
	And everybody was like, oh my god, this man, he's standing outside a court and he could disrupt the trial.
	Nobody seemed to be upset about what actually happened because of the trial and stuff.
	For some reason, Tommy Robinson standing on a pavement was the focus for everything.
	I never really understood that.
	But the march clearly wasn't Nazis.
	But dehumanising them as Nazis is encouraging violence against them.
	They might call it stochastic terrorism.
	Stochastic terrorism, to use the terminology of the left.
	And we've also seen the stabbing in Germany.
	There's a police officer who got stabbed in Mannheim in Germany.
	There were some assumptions made about him tackling a bystander instead of the attacker.
	But apparently...
	Look at that headline.
	Apparently, yeah.
	That is just...
	Yeah, apparently it wasn't...
	Attack.
	It wasn't because he'd been on diversity training and, you know, didn't want to look racist by attacking an Islamic extremist.
	It was because the bystander punched somebody who's tackling the attacker.
	Yeah.
	And then so it was just a big sort of chaotic mess and stuff.
	There's also a video showing female police officers running away.
	But the headlines, if you look, if you look at the headlines, you would get completely the wrong impression.
	So police officer dies after attack at anti-Islam rally in Germany.
	The natural inference from this is that someone attending the anti-Islam rally attacked a police officer.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And it's been reported like that.
	Repeatedly stabbed.
	So one of the anti-Islam people turned up with a knife and stabbed the police officer for reasons unknown.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And on Sky News as well.
	Unbelievable.
	It's right across Europe and all the media.
	They're reporting it as, you know, police officers stabbed during attack at far-right rally.
	And it wasn't even a far-right rally.
	It's like the guy's resisting political Islam.
	He's resisting Islamism, which is, you know, in Iran, you've got all the women in the streets protesting after the death of Masa Amini, the woman who was killed for not wearing a hijab.
	So they're, you know, what are they, far-right?
	Because they're protesting against Islamism in Iran?
	You know, it's ridiculous.
	The same people that would call this far right are the same people that would say, oh, it's so brave.
	It's stunning and brave.
	These people are heroes in Iran.
	Yeah.
	And they're not applying their principles evenly, are they?
	God bless community notes, though.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Headline is misleading.
	Yes, it absolutely is.
	And the stabbing kind of demonstrates that, you know, anyone rejecting Islamic extremism might have a point.
	There are some downsides to Islamic extremism.
	And this guy, we move on to the next tab, the guy wasn't, it wasn't a far-right guy stabbing the police officer, it was Suleiman Atai.
	He was an Afghan Islamist who killed the police officer in Mannheim and he lived in the country illegally for at least eight years.
	So according to his asylum file, he came to Germany in March 2013 and applied for asylum.
	His claim was rejected in 2014 and he's been living illegally in Germany ever since then.
	And after 9 years of living in the country, he received a residence permit from German authorities apparently after he fathered a child with a German citizen.
	And he grew a full beard and developed an identity around radical Amish, no, radical Islam.
	And on a YouTube channel, he featured the Taliban flag in his profile photo and uploaded videos of the terror preacher Ahmad Zar, Islamiyar.
	If you're like this, why did you leave Afghanistan?
	Yeah it's to bring the Afghan societal structure to the rest of the world.
	But I mean surely he'd be thrilled that the Taliban have taken over Afghanistan because that's exactly the kind of order they're going to implement in that country.
	Yeah.
	Why would you be like I know this is brilliant I'm going to live there.
	Yeah yeah.
	Apparently Afghanistan used to be Buddhist.
	Oh yeah, centuries ago.
	And then it was colonized and taken over and pushed out.
	Lebanon being Christian, Africa being Christian.
	Iran being Zoroastrian.
	Yeah, Pakistan was Buddhist.
	Yeah, yeah, it's nuts.
	Giant statues of Buddha in Pakistan.
	It's nuts, but if anybody... It's Israel that's the coloniser, of course, we've got to remember that.
	And we've had various other attacks on European critics of radical Islam.
	There was Pim Fortuyn who was killed, Theo van Gogh also killed, but, you know, apparently it's the far right who are the problem.
	And the media treatment of the stabbings is interesting.
	Across Europe, the media blurred the face of the attacker.
	If we look at the next tab, we've got a screenshot of the I think it's in, it's in, oh yeah, is that Danish or something?
	Wherever it is, they blurred the face of the attacker.
	They said that because they, you know, they wanted it to, they didn't want it to be exploited or anything like that.
	But recently videos of young people singing Auslander Raus, which is German for foreigners out, to the beat of this club song L'amour toujours by Gigi D'Agostino.
	It's prompted a frenzy of media outrage.
	Top politicians have condemned the young people and called for the maximum sentence.
	Maximum sentence for what?
	What?
	What's the crime?
	I love that they're reflexively like something I don't like.
	Maximum sentence, I'm afraid that's not illegal.
	Well the maximum sentence I think was two to five years and there was a case... For singing House Under House?
	And there was a case in Germany where a Muslim raped a 15 year old girl and they got a suspended, they didn't even get a prison sentence for it.
	Yeah, and in cases like that, sometimes they argue in court that it's cultural differences.
	Well, that's what happened.
	There was someone saying, oh, it's the refugees way of expressing discontent.
	Something along those lines is unbelievable.
	I can't remember exactly what it was.
	And anyone who doesn't like that is far right.
	That's where we're at now.
	That's absolutely mental.
	And so the young people's faces who are singing this song, Ouslander Rouse, they weren't blurred, despite, you know, not really committing a crime, like stabbing someone to death.
	They were identified, fired from their jobs and subject to gruelling character assassinations on social media.
	What I love about this though, this isn't them just expressing themselves.
	That's the thing, when he's raping a kid or whatever, that's him just expressing himself, it's just their culture.
	But this, they should know better.
	Oh this is organised, Nazi, goose-stepping down the street.
	Singing a song at a party, I've seen the video.
	They're just having fun.
	To criminalise someone like that you've got to think, are we really good people here?
	And I really can't understand why the right is on the rise across Europe when the authorities are treating people like that.
	If it helps, there are a few times in history when the German authorities are the good people.
	This is not one of those times.
	Yeah, and we're seeing young people in particular support right-wing parties across Europe.
	I think Marine Le Pen's party in France's biggest chunk of support comes from young people, which is the opposite of what you traditionally expect.
	It's the same with AFD in Germany as well.
	Yeah, it's interesting.
	So moving on to my final media bias thing.
	This is a fact check in the Guardian.
	So this is one of the funniest fact checks I've seen.
	It's been shared by the usual dodgily funded far left groups to say it proves Faraj's claims are 100% false.
	If you read the article, it actually pretty much admits that Faraj's claims are correct, even though it says they're all false.
	It's a chap called Peter Walker.
	He's famous for being a goony beard man on Twitter who posts these things where he has to say, well effectively you're true but I also think you're a Nazi.
	So you're not true, it's not correct.
	Oh thanks Peter.
	Whenever I see a fact check in the media it's always like you know so there'll be somebody will claim like you know a dozen guys in blue t-shirts massacred civilians or whatever and it'll be oh this is false the t-shirts were actually aquamarine and they had a button collar shirt so this is completely false I mean, you know how I know that Farage's claims are obviously correct here?
	It's because they don't say they're not.
	How do Farage's claims on immigration and economy and crime hold up?
	He's made some eye-catching claims.
	Okay, but were they wrong?
	I think there's a bit more dignity in the people who hacked people's phones than doing a fact check.
	It's quite the insult, yeah.
	So, yeah, let's look at some of the claims.
	Farage claimed 2.4 million people settled in the UK over the last two years.
	True.
	This is... Yeah.
	They say, essentially, no, this is false.
	It's not essentially false.
	Official statistics showed that 1.2 million people arrived in the UK in the year ending December 2023, which projected over two years makes 2.4 million.
	So, true.
	Yeah, but it was the same number last year.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But he says, Peter Walker says, it's incorrect to say that they've settled.
	Many will have arrived on temporary visas, for example, students and workers on contracts.
	Oh, that's so different.
	They're here.
	They're just going to be here for five years, you see.
	They're just here, like, a lot of people stay on, you know, after their visas expire or, you know, extend their visas or get residency or whatever.
	But yeah, no, these because, you know, it's a different box in the form.
	It means even though these people are here, you can't see that they're actually here.
	They're just a hologram.
	So, yeah, it's ridiculous.
	The next claim by Farage, we need to build a new house every two minutes to accommodate legal migrants.
	So Peter says it's not entirely clear what the statistic relates to.
	I think it relates to houses and how people need to live in them.
	And also when people come to the country, they don't bring a house with them.
	You know what I mean?
	If you bring a brick semi-detached on your rubber dinghy, it tends to weigh the dinghy down a bit and make the crossing less successful.
	I just love the assumption that migrants don't need to live in houses like people.
	What are you talking about?
	They can just live on the streets.
	I think the Guardian would be more likely to say, British people don't need to live in houses.
	Absolutely.
	So he breaks down the maths.
	He says the rate of building a new house every two minutes would be slightly more than 260,000 homes a year, equating to about 2.6 people per house based on current net migration, which is slightly higher than the average UK household occupancy.
	So yeah, if anything, it's an undercount.
	Yeah, so he's understating it.
	OK, thanks Peter.
	You need a house every minute.
	Oh, it's way worse than Nigel Farage's making out.
	So he says, "It's not quite as misleading as the 2.4 million claim, although it doesn't take into account that the UK's housing crisis is a question of distribution as well as supply, with an estimated 700,000 homes empty at any one time." That's amazing.
	The solution to The Guardian is to end the concept of private property and bring in communism If there's an empty house anywhere, because somebody's renovating it, waiting to sell it, or whatever it is, or converting it into HMOs or whatever, the solution is for the state to seize it and put... Exactly.
	The important thing here, there are not 700,000 derelict Yeah.
	at any time.
	Nobody has a claim on and they're just left to rot.
	No, no, no, no.
	These are people who move house and sell their old one and buy a new one.
	For a period of time, a window of time, like six months or whatever, yeah, that house is empty.
	That doesn't mean we can just steal it and do some bloody fun, isn't it?
	Between that person moving out and this person moving in.
	That's ridiculous.
	And of course, markets are always slightly inefficient.
	Of course.
	There'll be things waiting on the market for longer.
	Sometimes you go to Sainsbury's and they've got too many avocados, and sometimes they don't have enough.
	This is just how markets sometimes work.
	The solution is never communism.
	The next claim, Faraj told the audience that local election candidates yelled, ala Akbar, He didn't actually say that.
	I watched the whole thing live and he actually stumbled and said Aloha Akbar.
	So a bunch of Hawaiian extremists.
	Fact check false.
	In your face Nigel Farage.
	There were no Hawaiians there at all.
	Yeah, a policeman was hit with a pineapple at a far-right rally.
	So yeah, that's hilarious, isn't it?
	You know, he says this is false.
	Man, I've seen a video!
	I've seen a video of what's-his-name.
	They mention it there, one of the candidates in Leeds.
	No, no, this is a proper Snopes fact check.
	No, it was the Green candidate in Leeds and not Bradford, I'll have you know.
	Duh!
	Gotcha, Nigel Farage!
	It's ridiculous and also they point out that Al-Akbar is commonly used by Muslims as a celebratory term.
	Jihad has got nuance.
	Yeah, I've seen a lot of people celebrating some pretty nasty things using that.
	Yeah, it's weird isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Also, Farage claimed that the UK is doing better economically than EU members.
	So, then Peter Coatson.
	The UK's quarter-on-quarter GDP growth was 0.6% for the first three months of 2024, compared with 0.3% for the Eurozone.
	So, we're good!
	The UK's economy is doing better than the EU!
	Then he says, oh, but you've selectively... If you compare different periods and stuff... Yeah, but he's comparing this period!
	He's comparing the most recent period, obviously.
	So, yeah, that's absolute bollocks.
	Farage was right.
	The next one, can you shoplift £200 of goods without being prosecuted?
	Farage said that crime was so bad now that people generally don't even bother to report it.
	I've reported crime.
	Nothing happens.
	You give me a crime number, and it's like, I don't want a crime number.
	I want you to come round, do the fingerprint bullshit I see in Columbo, and then find them, track them down, and beat them up with big nightsticks.
	They admitted a few years ago that 95% of burglaries just go uninvestigated.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's just basically not illegal then, if that's the case.
	And shoplifting has essentially been decriminalised in a lot of places.
	Some of us in the office have actually had to stop shoplifters because no one does anything about it.
	I thought you meant to say we've had to stop shoplifting.
	Yeah, Cole's told us not to.
	I don't want you to know.
	But no, yeah, there was a guy who had a bunch of tracksuit bottoms under his arm.
	Right, to feed his kids.
	Yeah, he may well have been a channel migrant actually, he kind of looked like one, but I hit him with my umbrella.
	Which is the most English way to...
	Way to stop a shoplifter.
	It didn't work though, he carried on.
	Son of my watch ruffian!
	And I think waitrose now have, in some stores, they've got their own private police force who are, who have a 100% conviction rate because they, you know, they go after them.
	So the police don't want, I used to be a criminal intelligence analyst and to be honest we did kind of tell shops, like don't, don't come, because now everything's like available.
	It's like, it's not like the old days where you had to go up the counter and like ask somebody, you know, to walk around the shelf and like grab it off the, off the thing or whatever.
	So, They're kind of generating crime because it's all there and you can just grab it and stuff it in a pram or whatever.
	So I can understand why the police do it, but it's wrong to say that shoplifting is not essentially now decriminalised and if it's less than £200, you know, a lot of police forces genuinely do say, like, don't bother hassling us with it.
	Sorry for inconveniencing you, Mr Police Officer.
	I didn't realise it wasn't your job.
	And the final one is Farage said that Keir Starmer fought very, very hard for those that arrive on the back of lorries to get benefits.
	Once they get here, he says this is misleading.
	I bet it's not misleading at all.
	So it's an apparent reference to a 2003 legal case in which Starmer, then a leading barrister, represented five asylum seekers denied financial support and won the case.
	Right, so he did do that.
	Yeah, and however, this was not a generalised case for all asylum seekers, and nor was it about benefits in the usual sense of the word.
	It was about a group of people denied the very basic support, including accommodation still given to asylum seekers.
	They don't get very basic support.
	They get pretty nice support.
	You know what I mean?
	And if anybody tries to put them in basic accommodation, all the leftists cry about it and have protests and stuff.
	It's ridiculous.
	Well, they got put in an RAF barracks, which is good enough for our armed forces, and they ban it down.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And everybody complains, like, why are we putting this?
	This is only good enough for British people.
	So, Starmer did do exactly what Farage accused him of?
	Starmer did it, and also, you know, the Guardians say, well this isn't a generalised case for all asylum seekers, but legal cases set precedent.
	And did he say that it was a generalised case?
	No, he didn't say it was a generalised case.
	He said, you know, asylum seekers...
	Like literally Farage is correct in what he said but also in the sort of generalised sense he's correct as well because Starmer, although it's a case that set precedent, so whatever happened to Starmer's asylum seekers then sets the rules for dealing with future asylum seekers because the government knows that if they don't they'll be taken to court and look what happened here and that'll be, you know, the same thing will happen.
	He also had a choice to represent them or not.
	I mean, it's similar to Sadiq Khan, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Where he went out of his way to represent some pretty horrendous people.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And obviously everybody's, you know, entitled to representation in court, but it is interesting when people, you know, just specifically, you know, deal with the Guantanamo Bay terrorists.
	And those people, all the people who deal with, like, represent terrorists or asylum seekers or whatever, all seem to end up in the Labour Party and they're going to be making the rules for the next five years.
	They also end up very rich, mysteriously.
	I don't know how that happens.
	Well, it is in money.
	Anyway, so let's move on because I think that what the previous segment has shown is that the winds of change are actually blowing for once.
	Now this is a remarkable thing because British politics is usually insanely stultified and for decades nothing ever happens.
	And so actually there's sort of a sweet scent in the air, something is actually happening.
	And I guess we'll begin with our interview with Liz Truss.
	So, Conor Tomlinson decided to invite Liz Truss on for an interview and she came.
	And this is a fascinating interview because she basically describes the Westminster political system as being totally captured by Tony Blair.
	The Labour Party set up the system so that the government isn't really in control of certain things and she essentially described her removal as a banker's coup because the Governor of the Bank of England can't be removed by the Prime Minister because it's been made independent by Tony Blair.
	And this means that the Prime Minister actually has a lot less power than you would think.
	And so the Prime Minister is essentially not sovereign in the Parliament.
	And so Parliament is not actually the seat of power in this country.
	That's concerning.
	That's something you'd think the average man and woman in Britain would want to know, since they're voters and they're voting for these people, who are actually underneath a sort of quango industrial complex.
	Well, he who holds the purse strings holds the real power, really, don't they?
	Exactly.
	So you'd think the Bank of England should be held accountable to Parliament and not the other way around.
	But no, Tony Blair has reversed the dynamic.
	And this is what Liz Truss explains to Connor.
	I mean, I'm not going to play it.
	You can go watch it in your own time.
	It's a very good interview and sign up and support us, et cetera, et cetera.
	And then for some reason, You'd think, okay, that's interesting.
	I mean, maybe people on all sides of politics would be like, hang on a second.
	Why would I bother getting elected if the Quango Industrial Complex is the thing that's in charge?
	But for some reason, out of nowhere, Jess Phillips came screaming in, no!
	Don't attack the bankers, this is all about me!
	I was like, what?
	So I had to put out... She puts a statement talking about me!
	I was like, Jess, what have I got to do with this?
	Let's trust as in being interviewed by Conor talking about the Quango industrial complex keeping control of this country and how the Prime Minister isn't really the person in the cockpit of power and you're like, you know, I just really hate Carl Benjamin.
	It's like, okay.
	Oh, this is because of that joke.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Eight years ago, Carl Benjamin insulted me.
	I may have done.
	So, what's it got to do with now, in the year of our Lord, 2024?
	Also, does it justify calling you an extreme far-right commentator?
	I mean, I'd say you're conservative.
	I mean, I think there are people who are way more extreme than I am, you know what I mean?
	I'm not saying I'm not a conservative or anything.
	I definitely am.
	But like, maybe that's just... Whenever they give you these sort of labels though, I always view it as a reflection of the person themselves.
	It's like, okay, I'm pretty normal and centrist, I think, in a lot of my opinions.
	And if that's extreme far-right, maybe she's just really far to the left.
	So she's just looking through a telescope and, good God, look how far away he is.
	Didn't she admit to being a socialist?
	Oh yeah, she's called a socialist.
	She's proud of it as well.
	Yeah, she's a socialist.
	Notice how there's no Labour branding on this, apart from a very small rosette next to her.
	It doesn't say Jess Phillips.
	You know, for Birmingham Yardley or anything, it's just Jess Phillips, Jess Phillips, Jess Phillips.
	So yes, you are good at making this all about you, Jess.
	But actually, our interview with Liz Truss wasn't about you.
	You didn't come up in it and it had nothing to do with you.
	And so she has been banging on about this for nearly a week now.
	Non-stop.
	She has gone on and on and on.
	There's probably about a dozen tweets or so of her complaining that the Conservative Party allowed their Conservative ex-Prime Minister to talk to Conservatives.
	It's like, okay socialist, why would you think it's your business to get involved with who Conservatives speak to other Conservative media?
	Why is that your problem?
	I guess it is quite unusual for, you know, Conservatives to be involved in the Conservative Party.
	To be Conservative, actually.
	Genuinely is the case.
	Yeah, and so Jess is like, what?
	You can't have a Conservative MP and former Prime Minister talking to other Conservatives.
	They have to talk to the Guardian.
	And this is what she's been doing.
	She's been trying to get Liz Truss deselected because she told the British public what they need to know to some other Conservatives.
	Well, that's what it's all about, isn't it?
	It's not actually about us.
	Yes, it's not actually about us.
	Although it starts becoming about us when she says stuff like, I have abused her?
	Sorry, Jess, but we've never met.
	I told a joke about you 8 years ago and you're the one who keeps bringing it up.
	I don't think that actually meets the threshold for any kind of abuse.
	But she made the same amount of fuss over jokes by people on the left.
	Frankie Boyle maybe?
	Or Joe Brand or anyone.
	That was the throwing acid in Farage's face wasn't it?
	No.
	That's surely far worse.
	Because it's plausible.
	It's plausible.
	I mean, things like that happen.
	We see attacks on politicians on the right after they've been demonized by socialists and after they've been demonized in the media.
	I mean, you'd think that the claim of abuse would have a standard of evidence.
	So there would be some kind of objective proof that you could show.
	So perhaps I would have a criminal record or something.
	Maybe I'd have been arrested.
	Maybe there'd be a mugshot of me or something like that.
	But I don't have a criminal record.
	record i've never been arrested and i've never been charged with it i've never seen the inside of a courtroom so i don't know exactly what standards she would be using in fact it seems that she is being hysterical uh but anyway lots of slightly defamatory well yeah yeah so anyway we uh we we got the usual round of media monstering um Oh no, we're evil and far right and Liz Truss has been radicalised.
	We didn't radicalise Liz Truss.
	Her time in office radicalised her because she's like, alright, I can't do anything because the banks are going to take me out.
	I like the idea that she's an avid listener.
	So if you are watching, Liz, hello.
	Yeah, good job.
	Keep going.
	You know, and it kept going everywhere.
	Now, Sky News, as you can see, Kay Burley here.
	Wow.
	Liz Truss appeared on the Lotus East podcast founded by Carl Benjamin.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah.
	She should be deselected.
	But then she had to retract that because there was a bunch of falsehoods in her tweet, which I appreciate, you know, because she made it sound like I made the statement about Jess Phillips on that podcast.
	It wasn't me.
	It wasn't on that podcast.
	It was eight years ago.
	This has got nothing to do with Jess Phillips.
	Don't know why you're talking about her.
	Don't know why she has to try and insert herself.
	And so Kay Bailey had to retract that because that was probably libelous and defamatory.
	It's amazing, really.
	I knew that the mainstream media was rubbish, but it's like a really terrible game of Chinese whispers.
	And they're probably going to say that's offensive now for some reason.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they can't even copy each other's homework, can they?
	But the reason I say all of this is because the response to this has been interesting.
	So Liz Truss has not asked us to take Parkhurst down, she has not made a statement disavowing us or anything like that.
	Rishi Sinhak was asked about it and he sort of pivoted and prevaricated on it.
	She's asking Jeremy Hunt here and Jeremy Hunt doesn't even disavow us.
	We're hitting that point that Douglas Murray was talking about where there's more harm that comes to you from disavowing you.
	It would cost you nothing.
	We're hitting that point that Douglas Murray was talking about, where there's more harm that comes to you from disavowing you.
	So more people, because I think a lot of people, platforms like this have got more of a following now, and with what I'd describe as regular people.
	I mean, I don't think any of us are extremists.
	I'm just like a 90s leftist who sort of stayed in the same place and the world went absolutely bonkers, communist, trying to transition kids, critical race theory, social justice, all this nonsense.
	And so, you know, while it's gone mad, I've just sort of stayed the same.
	No, I completely agree.
	I mean, you know, I just consider myself to be a conservative.
	It's crazy.
	But anyway, so lots of, uh, lots of people came to our defense.
	I mean, one of the people, and this was again, another fascinating one.
	Um, Kemi Badenoch, that wasn't in defense of us, but didn't engage with their narrative.
	So she was being grilled on BBC four.
	Cause again, like, okay, what is this really such a big issue?
	And Kemi Badenoch just told them, look, I think you're being trivial and unserious.
	It's like, wow.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	That's kind of a worse put down in a way, it's just like you're wasting my time.
	Exactly, I agree.
	Again, the conversation we had with Liz Truss was nothing to do with Jess Phillips, and this is clearly an obvious part of an attack.
	And then we just had lots of people who were very kind to us come out.
	I mean, Narendra Kaur.
	You know Narendra, right?
	Oh yeah!
	Very left wing.
	First thing she did, and she did this really quickly, because in Jess Phillips' letter She was making, not just complaining about the jokes, she was suggesting that I may in some way have been like dangerous to women or something and Nirendra just came out and said, no, he was a wonderful gentleman.
	Couldn't have felt safer.
	Good guy.
	And it's like, thanks Nirendra, you didn't have to do that.
	And she took a lot of flack for this, but she was, you know, stood on the point.
	That's good of her.
	It's good to see people sticking by principles.
	Yeah, it is.
	Graham Lyndon, who like five years ago was calling me a Nazi.
	Sargon of Akkad was gracious and polite when we met, and certainly understood the gender debate better than Jess Phillips ever did.
	And, uh, just, you know, obviously Dan came out into, like, stupid joke tweets.
	She's still got a hate voter for it.
	Uh, Constantine kissing.
	And loads of others.
	Emma Webb.
	Like, just loads of others.
	Like, look, you guys are just being really unreasonable because I have not said anything about Jess Phillips for years because why would I want to?
	Yeah, yeah.
	This was an unprovoked attack because they saw us interviewing someone they don't want us to interview.
	Well, too bad.
	And it's on the website.
	Go and watch it.
	It's a really good interview.
	And it's very revealing about Westminster.
	And, uh, what's interesting though is that things are getting pushed in the other way.
	So I put up a video saying, look, I'm, you know, it's a cruel thing to get monstered by the media and politicians.
	And Graham London replies going, well, I'm ashamed that I once fell for the chicanery.
	Think of what you know about someone who has a bad smell about them and ask yourself, what exactly did this person do wrong?
	Often you'll find the answer is F all, or they should in fact be commended for arriving first on the scene of a scandal like Rotherham.
	Who's that about?
	That's about Tommy.
	Oh, right.
	Because he was the first, you know, in 2011 going on about it.
	And that's how far the dialogue is shifting.
	Yeah.
	So even someone like Graham Lennon who, like, you know, like five years ago, was like, no, they're all Nazis and hate them all.
	Is now like, well, actually, what did he actually do wrong?
	Actually, he was blowing the whistle before the atmosphere was ready for it.
	That was really the issue.
	And he's completely right about this, and this is utterly commendable in my opinion.
	Yeah.
	And so anyway, other people like Lee Harris, a GB News contributor here, was like, well, hang on a second.
	OK, you told an inappropriate joke eight years ago, but it's not like the rest of you haven't.
	Let's talk about Frankie Boyle, shall we?
	I'm sure Jimmy Carr's got a few.
	You know, we're really hanging people for telling inappropriate jokes now.
	Good point.
	And so then let's move on to the, that was all just from Wednesday onwards last week, this is all really recently, and so then let's talk about the big event on Saturday, which I went to and I was speaking at, and as you can see on the stage here, I'll But you can see the size of the crowd.
	It just goes right the way back to the buildings.
	That's probably 25 to 30,000 people in Parliament.
	Utterly packed out on every side.
	Massive crowd.
	It was like, okay, this is amazing.
	Lots of people are bothered by all this.
	A big, big event is happening.
	I mean, there was, uh, when it was going on live, uh, as you can see down there, you know, this is like 800,000 people tuned in.
	You know, this is massive.
	Yeah.
	I watched it for a little bit because I wasn't able to go and I added up the numbers of multiple streams and it was well over a million.
	Undoubtedly.
	And that's on top of the people who actually attended as well.
	Exactly.
	And that's just on Tommy's own one live stream.
	So the idea that this sort of media narrative is impervious or is even taking hold in people's minds these days.
	Seems to be very, very, it's wearing thin.
	Yeah.
	Wearing very, very thin.
	This is the first election that isn't going to be sort of steered by mainstream media.
	Yeah.
	Everybody's getting their news from the internet.
	Yeah, and weirdly enough, it's starting to actually bleed into the news.
	So you covered this one earlier, and yeah, this is obviously, this is one of the first ones that they published.
	And it was, you know, okay, a very left wing, very left wing frame.
	But then you get the Sky News one, it's actually quite fair.
	Tommy Robinson, thousands gather for far-right demonstration in central London.
	Okay, that's, I mean, far-right from your perspective, fair enough.
	But that's not inaccurate.
	Far-right activist Tommy Robinson organised a demonstration in central London to call out a two-tiered policing system and demand the resignation of Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley.
	Yeah, that's true.
	That's what the purpose of it was, because we have a two-tiered police system and the Met Commissioner should resign because we shouldn't be operating a two-tiered police system.
	That's actually really fair.
	Yeah.
	And so there were other ones.
	I mean, obviously The Independent is a gay publication, apparently, according to their flag.
	And it's now an anti-Muslim chant.
	Okay, fair enough.
	Whatever.
	But yeah, so the media was doing what the media does, but There was very little strength behind it.
	There was no teeth in the bite.
	No one was like, oh no, look what they've written about us.
	Everyone knew what they were going to write.
	And everyone just kind of laughed it off.
	It's the boy who craved wolf.
	Exactly.
	Especially as nothing bad happened.
	That's the thing.
	Like, absolutely nothing bad happened.
	My R was there until late in the day, obviously.
	A big group of police officers mobilizing at Trafalgar Square asked if they were dealing with the people from the British rally earlier.
	Police confirmed it was Real Madrid fans and then said, "To be honest, we were told to expect trouble at the rally, but didn't get any." No, everyone acted absolutely impeccably at the rally, and it was just a real festival sort of atmosphere.
	It was really good fun.
	I saw a picture of the the green outside of Parliament, well it is Parliament Square isn't it?
	It is Parliament Square.
	Am I pre-staging what you've got here?
	No no no no but I didn't get that actually but it was clean wasn't it?
	It was left clean it was like the Japanese in the changing rooms.
	It really was!
	And it's shocking because it's like, okay, you know, I expect high standards, but I can understand if people are throwing the rubbish away.
	Well, it wasn't a climate protest.
	It's almost like there were people who are integral to civilization there, you know, that wherever they go, it's actually left nice.
	People put the trolley back.
	But you can tell that it went really well because look at, these were the counter-protesters, look at their sour faces.
	Look at how miserable they look.
	Oh god, they're having a really good day and then they don't care that we're calling them Nazis.
	That sucks for you, stand-up for racism.
	Anyway, so there was a pro-Palestine march, as you said, and it got violent.
	Apparently, very intense atmosphere there, and they ended up getting arrested, and there were nine people arrested from this pro-Palestine march.
	Yeah, and they were fighting with the cops.
	I won't play the video because... It's interesting to see the cops, like, finally actually, you know... Well, I'm surprised.
	If Tommy's rally was about two-tier policing, it would have been a bad time to go and start, like, swinging bats around and cracking heads.
	Did you see the Met Police's statement they released on it?
	Because it's directly criticising them, and they were really biased in how they presented it.
	I didn't actually, was I?
	It's just like they're a known football hooligans and stuff like that.
	They're just trying to portray it as something it wasn't because it is insulting them.
	I mean, there were so many women there, you know, like, you know, just normal British-English women who were just like, yeah, I really don't like the way the country's going, you know.
	And yeah, the result is like, oh, we're worried about this rally.
	It's like, well, they ended up having to peel police away from it to go and deal with the Palestinian protest.
	So just saying, you know, if you need to pay attention in the future.
	And so, one thing that people noticed, especially a lot of GBNews commentators, were like, hang on a second.
	This didn't go as we thought it would, and these people don't seem to be the sort of people that we've been told they are.
	I mean, you had Leilani Downing here, who was like, well, look at this.
	If this is far right, I want to be far right.
	Beautiful, peaceful, no masked faces, everything.
	You know, people just having a very good time.
	And it's like, OK, yeah, that's totally reasonable, frankly.
	I think that's exactly a correct representation of what happened.
	And then you had Alex Phillips come out and say, well, I've seen for myself the terrifying scenes of the far-right football hooligans.
	And obviously she's being sarcastic because they were just normal people.
	They were just normal people, just chilling.
	And they were singing Sweet Caroline.
	Right.
	You know, and so that's why they're waving their arms and won't play it.
	That's probably a hate crime.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's just people.
	And you can see just like the regular, look, there are women and kids at the front there, just women, like about half the crowd's bloody women.
	And the people defending it is women.
	Here's another one.
	Michelle Giabrey is like, oh, well, beware the far right hooligans who are just hanging out.
	It just looks like the football's been on, doesn't it?
	Not even.
	Like, there'd be more men at the football.
	Well, if it's like the World Cup, women come out.
	Well, yeah, I guess.
	Israel flag?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Oh, yeah, in the distance.
	Yeah.
	And I think that's another flag of Wales there, that black and yellow one.
	I'm not very familiar with it, though.
	But anyway, yeah, so Michelle did a really good segment on some GB News.
	She's been like, okay, they're just not telling the truth about these guys.
	You know, it's like, yep, welcome to the world in which we inhabit.
	This is what they're like.
	Uh, and, uh, and yeah, and so just a quick thing, of course, Farage standing in Clacton, the energy is different this time.
	Like you can feel like, okay, no, all of the old incantations that used to keep people in their place are falling away.
	They're fraying.
	And Clacton's a very UKIP-y sort of constituency as well, so Farage probably will get it because I think it's being done on the back of this poll that showed reform at 37%.
	So finally, thank God, we're going to see Nigel Farage in Parliament.
	That's superb.
	He's actually going to, from the right, This way.
	Break the two-party paradigm.
	George Galloway has managed to do it by just weaponizing Gaza in Rotterdam or Rochdale or wherever it was.
	But Farage is actually going to be able to do it from the right, from the Patriot side, which is superb.
	And so, yeah, just things are changing.
	It's becoming apparent that the Blairite paradigm and media dominance with it are coming to an end.
	This is superb news for those people who just want some common sense politics in the country.
	It's been a lot of work to get here, hasn't it?
	Yeah, because the way our voting system, our political system works, we're still going to have a massive, it looks like a massive Labour majority.
	I think that could actually, if anything, precipitate more of a change, especially in people's thinking, because it's going to be, as much as Starmer's tried to tidy up the party and purge it of the far left cranks and everything, and he's tried to put a lid on the gender ideology stuff, all that progressive nonsense is going to come in, there's going to be a big surge of power that could possibly impose Starmer, even putting somebody far left.
	I actually spoke to someone selling the Socialist Worker on the streets and I asked him about the Labour Party and he was saying, oh they're not going to last, they're not even going to survive the five years.
	Really?
	Yeah, he was saying that there's no chance, they're too reliant on capitalism he said.
	The problem is that Stan was a 100% dyed-in-the-wool Blairite.
	There's just been more Blairism until the end of time.
	And that's the thing that I think people are really getting tired of.
	Is this, you know, the 2000s consensus.
	No, it's run out now.
	We need something new.
	But we'll leave it there.
	Okay.
	Some good news.
	Mine is not good news.
	But thankfully it's far away.
	It is.
	Well, at least for us.
	For once.
	Okay.
	I'm not tied up in cables now.
	Got all the links loaded?
	Lovely.
	So there was an election in Mexico recently and there was lots of violence and obviously violence in Mexico is like rain in British summertime.
	It's nothing really of note.
	It's expected at this point but it was a particularly violent one.
	I just wanted to have a little look at it because I find it interesting.
	There are lots of lessons to be learnt.
	About the effect of a breakdown in civil society and the effect it has on politics.
	And also when criminal gangs reign supreme, which we're increasingly seeing in the West a lot of the time.
	So this is going to be a pro-Bukele segment then?
	Unintentionally, yes.
	But yes, believe it or not, if you crack down on criminal gangs and cartels, your country gets safer and things get better.
	And how many assassinations will there be in the next El Salvadorian?
	Hopefully a big fat zero.
	Here are the results, and I'm going to explain that there was a presidency race, this is also for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, but there were 20,700 federal and local positions being elected, so it was a big election, and I'm going to explain some of the parties, just the main ones really.
	They're all communists, aren't they?
	Not all of them, but some of them are very left-wing.
	Not all of them?
	Oh good.
	So Morena, the top one here that did fairly well, they're sort of described by the mainstream media as centre-left, therefore they're probably socialist, and they've been the ruling party since 2018 and they're also the party with the largest amount of membership as well.
	And there was a coalition, a sort of right and right centre coalition, between PAN there, which stands for the National Action Party, which is conservative, supposedly, and PRI, or the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which is the party of the Mexican Revolution, and they held power between 1929 to 2000.
	Right.
	Obviously not democratically.
	But together they can't even get half the seats of the commies.
	Yes, and there are some interesting questions about how this has come to be.
	Right.
	So, first of all, here is Los Angeles on the day of Mexico's general election, and you might notice a very long line, and you're just like, hang on a minute, surely it's not going all the way to Mexico?
	Well it's election day, is it?
	Yeah, for Mexicans.
	This doesn't go all the way across the border, all the way to Mexico.
	This is the first election, I think, in Mexico, if I read it correctly, where citizens living abroad could vote.
	And as you can see... A lot of them in Los Angeles decided.
	Yes, and also Chicago as well.
	That's interesting because the SNP in the referendum, the Scots who don't live in Scotland weren't allowed to vote, even if we live in England.
	I live in England, it's the same country, but we weren't allowed to vote in the referendum, even though we're the ones who've left Scotland and know what the rest of the UK is like and are probably a bit less xenophobic and anti-English because... Well that's what they've done when you voted.
	Well they knew that you would vote against it, right?
	Like, my grandad was Scottish.
	Well, he's not alive anymore, but he still was.
	And I asked him why he left Scotland and he was just like, well, England's like Scotland except everything's better.
	That's exactly what he said to me.
	It's like a staple on the way to Australia or America.
	I asked Ang about this and the SNP is still wildly anti-English.
	They just say, well obviously.
	It's the pillar of their politics.
	We hate the English.
	Thanks Scott.
	Nationalism.
	Wait until they find out we're not that bad.
	There was also this, there have been lots of attacks on voting stations and this was obviously done by the cartels.
	I don't think we need to look for a culprit.
	It's pretty obvious in Mexico if something bad happens the cartels have something to do with it.
	And this raised lots of questions because of course they're targeting specific voting stations, perhaps with election data.
	But they're just trying to influence the election to their favour, right?
	That's what they're doing.
	It seems pretty uncontroversial.
	Are they targeting Conservatives, the Conservative coalition here, then?
	Well, we'll be getting on to that.
	Oh, sorry.
	There is a long list that we're going to go through.
	And that's being indiscriminate.
	It seems like it.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	They just hate democracy.
	Well, maybe.
	People who pay them, I think, is the way it works.
	Here is another article.
	Mexico's drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday's election than before, and they seem to take a much stronger line, all of the cartels, in trying to target the democratic process, which obviously is a legitimate problem because violent gangs using violence to influence democracy is not a good thing.
	The idea that this is in any way controversial to say is mad.
	I'm making sure to outline it very clearly because I know there are certain censors on certain platforms, like YouTube, that will tell me off for saying these sorts of things.
	Well no, we're against the interference of elections.
	We don't think people should be murdered when they're trying to vote.
	And speaking of murders...
	Here we go.
	Just before the actual election day, I think it was 37, I've also seen 38 banded around, but 37 is the one I could confirm.
	37 candidates were assassinated.
	These are assassinations of candidates.
	not yeah correct because i mean you think okay well you know tens of thousands of people going to the polls okay right enough cartels kill some people these are assassinations of candidates yes and uh that beats out the 2021 midterms by one assassination so that was 36 candidates assassinated but this that was a previous record so they broke their record uh well Well done cartels, you've been very evil this year.
	Is there a coordinated reason?
	Are they all being killed because they're part of a bloc that wants to clamp down on the cartels?
	Well it's not clearly targeting a specific political party so what I'm imagining they're doing is they don't really care about the actual politics side of it.
	What they want is people who are in their pocket who are going to Treat them favorably.
	It doesn't really matter what party they're in.
	If you threaten their family, if they're corrupt and want money, you can have any political ideology.
	That's a sort of human condition.
	And so in many ways if they target people indiscriminately it's actually harder to find out what they want as well because they're not aligning themselves with a specific political party and therefore you can't say that's the party of the cartel and vote them out.
	So they seem to know what they're doing and it has been argued here on Al Jazeera of all places that the election results are a victory for organised crime.
	It looks like it too.
	Yeah, it's this left-wing party that has succeeded, the one that's been in power since 2018 and if you know anything... You'll definitely be hard on crime!
	Yes, and the fact that they've been in power for so long seems to indicate that certain forces in Mexico are pretty content to operate under their authority.
	Here we have a list of all of the people who have been assassinated.
	Obviously the political party, there are people from Morena and PRI as well.
	So these are the main three parties and in fact this goes through chronologically.
	There's quite a few Morena ones.
	So things like armed assailants kidnapped and killed, former mayor, member of Citizens Movement, ambushed and shot after dropping off his son near a school I presume, had previously been kidnapped while his sister was mayor, killed while walking near his residence at 9 in the morning, driving Down a highway, fatally shot.
	And you've got every kind of assassination here.
	So the risk of running for office in Mexico, like fatally shot in a gym there.
	I mean, this really does just validate everything Bukedi did in El Salvador.
	The liberal media was just whining, how can you just arrest all of these gang members?
	Because otherwise you'll end up in a condition like this.
	This one was surprising to me.
	A trans woman and activist who was candidate for Regidora, she was shot by armed assailants while working at a clothing store.
	So it has been confirmed that the cartels are transphobic, so maybe the US is actually going to do something about them now.
	Yeah, there's another one directly below.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	A trans woman who was shot by armed assailants.
	Oh, well there.
	There we go.
	It seems like the Biden administration is actually going to target the drug cartels now.
	Yeah, because Trump was talking about actually sending the army in to deal with the cartels.
	Is it not validated?
	Isn't that a good idea?
	The problem is... How many candidates have to be assassinated before they're like, okay, we have to do something about this?
	Some of the cartels have like special forces grade equipment.
	I've seen, was it CJNG or NGA, something like that.
	They are kitted out with, you know, silenced machine guns and they have the full works, all the kit, sort of armoured APCs.
	They've got it all.
	They've got mounted machine guns.
	It looks like an army.
	In fact, they look better equipped than the Mexican army, to be honest.
	Probably are.
	That's probably why the Mexican army hasn't dealt with them.
	And it really puts Scottish drug dealers to shame.
	They're trundling round some grey estate with an ice cream van.
	Got a shotgun and an ice cream van.
	Getting all these dirty £10 notes.
	I think at worst you could hope for a knife in Scotland, perhaps.
	My dad tells me, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	So the list carries on here and it does seem to be people from every party, so it does just seem to be trying to get dirt on people.
	There's no clear trend here.
	Yeah, it seems to be an attack on the very concept of governance in Mexico, doesn't it?
	Exactly.
	Well, the cartels want to be the sort of de facto rulers, don't they?
	Obviously.
	They want the government, the formal government, to be the public face.
	I don't know much about them, but they seem to just be essentially warlords.
	It does work that way.
	You know, they have a territory, they have trade, you upset the trade and you have consequences, yeah.
	And it's very hierarchical.
	Basically, it all gets funneled to one person or a couple of people.
	So it is that sort of model, yeah.
	So I wanted to have a look at what all of this bloodshed was in favour of.
	And what it was in favour of was, the cartels clearly are really devout feminists because what it resulted in is the first female president of Mexico.
	Right.
	And she was, what's her name again?
	I can't remember it.
	That's not good, is it?
	But she was...
	Claudia Steinbaum.
	The Bulgarian, descended from Bulgarian Jews who fled the Holocaust, I believe.
	Really?
	Went to Mexico, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's even worse, isn't it?
	Going to Mexico, you're even less safe.
	But she was the head of government at Mexico City, which is normally what Mexican presidents have done prior to becoming a president.
	So that's pretty standard stuff.
	It seems like she was a favourite and also she took over from the incumbent president who wasn't allowed to run again because of constitutional laws.
	Are both those pictures her?
	That looks like a sort of before and after at the... No, it's opposition.
	Ah, right.
	So it's going to be a woman either way.
	Either the before or the after.
	That's what we're going for.
	Yes, she has a PhD in energy engineering, so you'd think, OK, well, she might be a raging lefty, but at least she'd be competent on energy policy.
	But no, she won a Nobel Peace Prize co-authoring a report on how to mitigate climate change.
	I think she's planted her flag there a little bit.
	And was that, I take it, the solution to climate change was lots of communism?
	It was, yeah.
	It always is!
	It was also being funded by the cartels.
	If I end up dead tomorrow, by the way, you know what happens.
	Communism and cocaine.
	The solution to climate change.
	She also identifies as a feminist and supports LGBT rights.
	Sure, the cartels really care about that.
	And of course, as Leo pointed out, she is Jewish, which is interesting because it might change Mexico's position on Israel, because of course...
	Previously, Mexico joined the ICJ's genocide case, which was launched by South Africa, and the incumbent president refused to define Israel's actions as genocide, but he supported South Africa in pursuing the claim, which is a little bit confusing, because it's got it in the title.
	They seem to be very much aligning with Palestine, and she's not really said anything about that.
	And because Mexico is one of the major backers of this prosecution, it might actually change the way things are going in that realm, if she chooses to change the approach.
	To be fair, Mexico seems to have more pressing problems.
	It does, yeah.
	It happens in Gaza.
	I don't really know why they have a whole country releasing statements on Gaza.
	But people in Mexico seem to care quite a lot about it for some reason because they set fire to Israel's embassy a few days ago at the end of May.
	There it is, just a flaming mess.
	One piece!
	But why do people in Mexico care about Palestine?
	I don't know.
	I don't know why people care about it here or anywhere in Europe really.
	It's also worth mentioning as well that there have been accusations of corruption and I'm not alleging this, I'm not alleging this, this is other people alleging it, but there is a province in Mexico, I think it's on the border with Guatemala called Chiapas or something like that, it's in the name there.
	And 515 candidates dropped out of the race and there were five attacks in four days against the candidates.
	So very dangerous area.
	And then I spotted this in this article here.
	So it's talking about the electoral violence and then it mentions the now president going in this province and it says even Claudia Scheinbaum, the presidential frontrunner, this was written before she was Which is very different than shooting her in the head.
	in the state when a convoy was stopped at a checkpoint in a municipality that i can't pronounce in april by men who delivered a strong message remember these mountains the poor people when you're in power which is very different than shooting her in the head yeah it's kind of saying remember your loyalties one if if you were inclined to believe that she was in the pocket of the cartels and uh it's not just uh you know random people speculating uh
	Yeah.
	Vicente Fox, who is a former president of Mexico, decided to jam his caps lock in writing about this and he's basically arguing, and this is what this says here, That she is starting a dictatorship by electoral fraud since she would never win a landslide victory above all other elections.
	It's interesting, this is a former president, obviously he's ideologically opposed to her, but it's interesting that he's so forcefully putting it forward.
	I don't know too much about what he believes, I don't know whether he's right, but But 37 people were killed trying to stand for office.
	Yes, and one would imagine that just by the fact that so many people have been pressured either to step down or been killed, that the people who do get into office
	I'm not saying they are definitely, but they're more likely to be in the pocket of the cartels and it's interesting to me that politics functions in this way because my main point is that when civil society breaks down and gangs start to govern how politics operates, This is what we're going to get.
	We're going to get potentially rigged elections and lots of murders and pressure.
	Certainly not free and fair.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You couldn't describe this as a free and fair secure election, could you?
	No.
	Christ.
	One candidate dying would make it, throw it into doubt.
	37?
	New record?
	That's mad.
	But I think that in Western countries we're going to see things increasingly become more like this.
	Obviously we've got We're gonna see sectarian, like people are already voting, you know, people are voting.
	You see the billboards in Birmingham, like, vote for me, I'll sort out Gaza.
	It's like, well, Birmingham's in Gaza now.
	I know Gaza's a terrible place with terrible infrastructure but it's nowhere near as bad as Birmingham.
	And it was the Mayor of Birmingham as well.
	It's not even an MP.
	He's not going to become Prime Minister one day.
	He's the Mayor of Birmingham.
	What are you going to do for Gaza?
	Interestingly, Russia has a huge influence over South Africa.
	So it pretty much controls the ANC through this manganese mine.
	I think more than half of the ANC's funding comes via Russia, via this manganese mine.
	And Russia is obviously trying to sow division and discord.
	The Russians have been trying to get influence in Africa for a very long time.
	They had the Wagner Group in North Africa for a little while.
	Yeah, well, the Russians have been trying to get influence in Africa for a very long time.
	They had the Wagner Group in North Africa for a little while.
	The whole Sahel is pretty much Russian controlled now.
	Yeah, well, they pushed out the French, didn't they, in Niger, because they were doing anti-terror activities, which you think the Russians would be in favor of, because they get targeted by terrorists as well.
	It's about influence.
	It is about influence, yeah.
	And so I think that that's all tied in together.
	But I don't think that there's necessarily any foreign influence here.
	I think it's all domestic.
	I think that it's the cartels shaping things.
	Yeah, this is sort of a cautionary tale that if you don't deal with these problems, if you allow civil society to break down, then you're going to have lots of assassinations, you're going to have a sort of banana republic, one might say.
	Don't let gangs run riot in your country.
	They've got to be stamped out.
	And also with climate change, coca plants are going to be grown in Devon.
	Oh nice, so getting back home then, I'm going to make some money.
	We're going to get Devon cartels!
	God, they are going to shoot you!
	On that note, let's go to the video comments.
	I'm struggling to find a full video and I don't especially want to see it, so I'm going off the info that I've seen and heard.
	In relation to what was said in yesterday's podcast about the German policeman who was stabbed, he acted professionally and rationally, all things considered.
	He learned there was a serious obligation, saw one guy punching another guy that was pinning a third guy down, and immediately rushed in to separate them.
	In police training, that's what you're taught to do.
	Hesitation is trained out of you.
	If German police training is anything like English police training, his death was not because he made a bad call, but because the German politicians and his colleagues failed him.
	As a former police constable myself, all I can say is I hope he's in a better place.
	Yeah, with that, it's probably not that it was political correctness, it's probably that he didn't realise who was stabbing who, and unfortunately the diversity was on the other side.
	Yeah, well the full video shows that it was a very quick thing, he like sprints in, doesn't he, and like slaloms around some people, so it's difficult to tell what's going on, particularly when, you know, it was quite a quiet event, there weren't many people, it seemed like they were setting up more than anything.
	thing for them yeah let's go to the next one Carl Benjamin has saved us Yay!
	Go, baby!
	It's just not fair.
	Holy inferiority complex, Batman!
	How low is my self-esteem that I'm the sidekick in my own fantasy?
	It could be worse, Robin.
	You could be Alfred the Butler.
	Damn you, sir.
	Why do I even bother?
	Man, how did he do that?
	AI.
	I don't know if we need more of those.
	That's amazing.
	This gets creepy.
	That was the real Connor.
	Hmm.
	Reaching out.
	Touching me.
	Touching you.
	With our life.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	Because I've never seen so good.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I'm feeling quiet.
	Oh, oh, oh.
	How awful.
	people.
	That was from the protest.
	That's the thing that's supposed to be a far-right Nazi rally.
	That's more diverse than the Guardian staff lineup.
	You know what I mean?
	This is mental.
	Everyone's just having fun.
	Give us a break.
	Shall we go to the next one?
	Since you mentioned COVID yesterday, I figure a little rundown would be appropriate.
	The most common vaccine is for the spike protein, which is these little pom-poms here the virus uses to latch onto the host cell and inject the genetic information necessary to reproduce.
	It doesn't actually teach your body to recognize COVID, only its hands, which are the most rapidly mutating part of the virus, but also the easiest to snip off and work with.
	Built-in, planned obsolescence.
	Very true.
	Interesting.
	And let's go to the last one.
	So the tax man has come knocking and decided I owe him some money.
	Also, because some idiot can't tell the difference between gross pay and net pay, my tax liability for the last two months has been 70%.
	I am not a happy boy.
	Unfortunately, this means until I'm able to recover from this, I'm going to have to say goodbye for a little while.
	Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere.
	I'll be back in a few months.
	That is, of course, unless they arrest me for arson.
	I'll see you on the other side, boss.
	Man, that's a lot to you mate.
	Honestly, every time I hear anything about tax it just makes me more and more like ANCAP.
	I'm arriving at that point.
	I'm just going to say the word tax to you a hundred times a day until you get to my politics.
	I despise taxes.
	Well I'm wondering if, because also people talk about austerity, we've never had austerity in this country.
	Oh the Tories, the austerity, they've cut all these people off.
	Then you read in the papers that a non-binary, genderqueer play has been given like £600,000 or whatever.
	72% of Somalians in Britain are on social housing.
	Yeah, apparently we need to bring people in to sustain this Ponzi scheme.
	We're bringing them in at the top!
	We're getting them in where they need to be sustained!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah!
	We're literally their dependents and we're like, yeah, come and live in Britain.
	It's like, why are we doing this?
	Yeah, but the success of Malay, because he's like, everybody's like, it's going to be terrible, it's going to collapse and stuff.
	And instead, oh, it turns out that, you know, if you greatly sort of liberalise the economy and don't have, you know, all this basically block Reduce government spending?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Then people's lives get better.
	This was the mistake that Trust made.
	It's not like tax cuts that are vital as much as cutting public sector spending.
	Because also, all those people are... I worked in the public sector.
	I worked in management consultancy, going around public sector places as well, at the Skills Funding Agency and places like that, trying to improve the efficiency.
	And the amount of people just sitting about doing absolutely nothing.
	It's scary.
	I mean, I was one of them for a while.
	It was a great gig.
	But, you know, those people could be repurposed in the proper economy where they're contributing to society.
	Yeah, they wouldn't know austerity until I took charge of the government.
	There'd be no welfare.
	There'd be about five people in government.
	It'd be lovely.
	There'd be no taxes.
	Yeah, no Arts Council.
	Absolutely not.
	I tell you, there are just so many things.
	There's a Twitter account, but I can't remember the name of it now, but basically it's just going through and pulling out all of the government funded studies that are happening and like £900,000 to find out whether the water's making people too spirit and queer or something like that.
	It's just like, what is going on?
	This is a conservative government, you would think.
	Yeah, how to decolonialise using porcelain.
	Exactly.
	And it's just like, God, I just hate the way this country is run sometimes.
	So we've got some Super Chats.
	Baldy Yule says, good to see Leo back at it.
	Leo, you should run for Parliament.
	You don't actually have a reason to be funny in there, since you're a comedian.
	The rest are just so pathetic you can only laugh at them.
	I did run for Parliament four years ago, I think it was.
	I ran against Hamza Yusuf in his seat, so obviously it's a safe seat for the SNP.
	I didn't get very many votes.
	I don't really want to.
	First past the post system.
	Charles says, all right, lads, just a quick comment.
	Say thanks guys for fighting the good fight.
	And thank you for setting up load seats as well.
	Thank you.
	Matt says, great to see Leo again.
	Enjoyed listening to his rounds on YouTube on the way, on the car on the way home and to and from work.
	George says, congrats on the speech in the time of that.
	Kyle got one of the biggest cheers of the day.
	And that saying something.
	Yeah, it was great.
	It was really nice.
	It was great meeting you and Dan there when a chap asked for your autographs.
	I figured I wanted to sell copies of The Islander.
	Some people might like that.
	And we should think about doing that.
	And thanks again, Mike.
	So, Thomas says, to reiterate what I stated yesterday, you think you hate the corporate press enough, but you don't.
	Totally true.
	Lord Nerevar says, how hilarious is it that the media is getting an absolute drubbing though?
	Like, it's so egregious this time.
	They're getting universally panned by basically everyone, at least in response to the Germany thing.
	The replies on the Sky News tweet was something to behold.
	Yeah, to be honest with you, it's because of Twitter, frankly.
	It's because Elon has just made it like, no, no, it's a free speech platform now.
	So it's like, great, we're going after you.
	You know, you think your replies are safe.
	Community notes are such a great thing.
	I saw a survey the other day that was done.
	Apparently people trust community notes more than the reporting itself.
	That was bipartisan as well, wasn't it?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we should have done a segment on it.
	I'll probably do a segment at some point, God bless Community Notes, because it's just so good.
	It's such a good idea.
	Henry says, I can't remember if it was Germany or Austria, but there's definitely a criminal case around the time of New Year's Eve mass assaults that was in Cologne.
	Right, yeah.
	Oh no, sorry, this is a different one, where a migrant sexually assaulted a child at a swimming pool and then the defence of the trial claimed that it was a sexual emergency.
	There's no such thing as sexual emergencies.
	Yeah.
	Omar says, the fact checkers are accidentally doing, if only you knew how bad things really were, and that's a good thing.
	Tomcat says, the myth jihad simply means struggle, refers to the peaceful striving against sin rather than the holy war spread in Islam.
	The truth in Arabic jihad means struggle.
	In Islam, it means holy war.
	Again, it does technically have the two connotations, but they're usually distinguished.
	And of course, if you're attacking someone, definitionally, that would make it the lesser jihad, which is the armed struggle.
	So, you know, don't need to be that nuanced about it.
	Samson says, why is the solution always Stalinism with the Guardian?
	Yeah, it's a good question.
	Bald Eagle again with the soup chat says, keep up the good work Carl, thank you.
	It's taken some time but the Englishmen are waking up to the insanity that's occurring, unlike here in the States when the Muppets think we can vote our way out.
	Well to be honest with you, we have to vote our way out.
	We are going to vote our way out.
	The problem is, when people say you can't vote yourself out, with the current paradigm, correct.
	You know, when every party is a Blairite party, that's correct.
	But if we can get a party that's not a Blairite party, then actually, that's how we do it.
	Yeah, at the moment, politics seems to be like pro-wrestling.
	It's like, whoever you vote for, it's all coordinated and Vince McMahon is the real person pulling the strings.
	I mean, one of the things in the Let's Trust interview is she says that Tony Blair was advising her in her time at the Foreign Office.
	So why would the Conservatives want to hear from Tony Blair?
	Unless they were a Blairite party, which of course Cameron was, blah blah blah.
	The Tony Blair Institute operates in, what, 50 countries?
	Well, they were at the Conservative Party Conference last year.
	Yeah, well, that says it all, doesn't it?
	It says it all, yeah, exactly!
	If I had a party, the Tony Blair Institute would not be welcome there, weirdly enough.
	I'd probably arrest him.
	Neil says Farage and Tommy need to get together.
	Well, that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
	Thane Scotty says, I don't know why Jess has to try and insert herself.
	You said you wouldn't, Carl, and she took that as an insult, and now she's not taking no for an answer.
	I didn't say that.
	That's what he said.
	Kevin says, how odd all these human rights lawyers who leap to the defense of illegal immigrants and the like have been uncannily quiet in the Sam Milia case.
	Well that's because he's not an illegal immigrant.
	And I read somewhere he's not going to be allowed to see his children?
	Yeah.
	His wife posted that on Telegram.
	That seems to be a like cruel and unusual punishment.
	Yes, it's evil.
	Absolutely evil.
	Disgusting.
	Apparently they're not even allowed to discuss their children when she visits him as well.
	So what the hell is going on, man?
	That's really weird.
	It's mental.
	Absolutely mental.
	All for some stickers as well.
	I don't care how racist they damn well were, they were a bunch of stickers, man.
	They weren't that controversial from what I remember.
	In the court case they admitted that they were factually accurate.
	Because one of them was something like, oh Britons will be a minority in their own homeland by 2066.
	Yeah, yeah.
	If trends continue, that's going to happen, yeah.
	Some of them were, you know, anti-semitic and stuff.
	But, you know, even so, I think it's, you know, it's still, it's a thought crime.
	He's being, you know, this is a real, and it's sort of making a showcase of him to say to anybody else, like, if you have these opinions or express these opinions, That's what he did with Navalny's mum, wasn't it?
	something that would happen under under putin like denying somebody you know to see or even discuss their children but i can imagine it's like god that's a bit rough yeah that's what he did with navalny's mum wasn't it yeah it genuinely is like russian dictator levels things Bald Eagle again with a super chat says, the cartels aren't trying to affect the election to go in their favor, they're pushing the election in favor of what the liberal world order wants.
	The cartels are armed and funded by the US.
	I don't know, it seems that they're looking to just delegitimize the question of government in Mexico, but I mean I'm not an expert, I don't know.
	I think the cartels are kind of defined by By not embodying higher ideals.
	I don't think they're going to be serving a world order.
	It's about serving themselves.
	You know what guys, we need globalists.
	The Shadow Ban for $2 says, one possible reason there's so many trans women in Mexican politics is the Congress needs to be about 50-50 men or women.
	I completely forgot about that.
	There was like a spate of men identifying as women to get on the ballot.
	Really?
	Somebody told me that the reason there's so many transgender people in computer gaming and, you know, making the games is because the software developers, you know, to hit their diversity quotas, they realized it was easier to get men and make them transition than to find women who can code.
	That's not true.
	I'm sure that's not true.
	The Red Nose says, for $5 Super Chat, poor Colin, nobody's taking him seriously and he's become something of a boogeyman.
	And Bald Eagle for another Soup Chat says, I make my prior statement off the Obama administration losing weapons.
	They were supposed to get tracked and the FBI seems unable to do anything despite getting more power and funding for decades.
	Yeah, they have been funneling weapons to them, apparently.
	Well, who haven't the Americans been funneling weapons to?
	It's pretty much everyone, right?
	Andrew says, idly, it seems that the two trans women were the only non-male identifying candidates who were assassinated.
	Hmm.
	I wish we'd done a breakdown or a graph or something, see the percentage for each party.
	But you are right, it didn't look like there was any kind of trend there at all.
	No, it was... Arbitrary violence.
	Yeah.
	I imagine it was just people that wouldn't budge and wouldn't step down, and therefore they had to be killed.
	And I imagine that that would be disproportionately men.
	There's another good point made here, actually.
	You know who else has military special forces grade equipment?
	The US military.
	I don't know.
	They left it all in Afghanistan, didn't they?
	Sure, but how did the cartels end up with all these amazing pieces of equipment?
	Yeah, Russia's recognised the Taliban now, I think, as a government, so they're going to be getting all that military-grade equipment that was left behind.
	So the US taxpayer is going to be paying for the weapons on both sides again.
	Well, they don't even know how to... Did you see the video in Afghanistan of them trying to fly the Apache helicopter all over the place?
	It's just like they're useless to them.
	Kevin says, uh, someone was tweeting an image of men at the rally on Sunday, standing shoulder to shoulder, peeing in a hedge.
	Okay, not good, but at least they weren't barbecuing someone's pet cat.
	That happened in Italy.
	Yeah, I know.
	It was mad.
	And the thing is, the police have closed all the pubs.
	So on one hand, that's a good thing.
	But on the other hand, that means where the hell else can people get a pee?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Tommy actually got like four portaloos, but that was a grand and a half or something.
	There's only four of them with 30,000 people.
	Four toilets for 30,000.
	Yeah, I know.
	What are you going to do?
	I don't think people expected quite that many people to turn up.
	Right, yeah.
	Because that's actually a massive crowd.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, Charlie says, taking moral or economic lessons from the leftist is akin to taking dieting advice from Lizzo.
	Not good about it in the short term, but it'll destroy you in the long term.
	Well, I mean, undoubtedly.
	Undoubtedly.
	Also, another thing that annoys me, the media always say, they call people on the right populists.
	As if, number one, as if appealing to what people want is a bad thing or anti-democratic in some way.
	Also, it's the people on the left who are populists.
	Like, Millais says, you know, listen, this is going to be tough and you're not going to enjoy it, but it's what has to be done.
	So it's not a nice thing to hear.
	It's the people on the left who are like, Oh no, we're going to look after you, we're going to keep you safe, we're going to give you all this free money and free stuff and I'm going to put my armour on your shoulders and yeah, we'll just borrow it and then the country will go bankrupt in five years.
	That's a real dangerous populist stance.
	It's weird that they're turning populist into a slur.
	It's almost like they've realised that far right, hard right, extreme right, all of those have been used, none of them are really sticking.
	Yeah.
	So they're just like, oh, let's give populists a go, shall we?
	Here's an interesting comment by Thane Scotty.
	I saw a video on YouTube, BBC or Telegraph or something like that, stating that Mexico had elected their first female president.
	There was no mention of the bloody nature of the election.
	That's interesting, isn't it?
	Like, 37 candidates murdered, and the BBC said, well, people don't need to know about that.
	It's almost to be expected, though.
	Lots of people are being jaded.
	You still have to mention it.
	Of course, yeah.
	Even if it was just like, only 37 people were killed in this election.
	Whatever it is, you know.
	But, uh, mad.
	Kevin says, uh, yep, the cartels have all the latest equipment.
	Unfortunately, judging by a recent tweet, the Navy SEALs have all the gear and no idea because they have now embraced diversity and equity and LGBTQ blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Uh, good point.
	Um, there's a question in the chat from Ram Shackalotto.
	Why are the super chats prioritized over the site comments?
	I'm reading all the comments.
	In fact, I think we've run out of comments.
	So, uh, what we'll do then, um, I'm just scanning through to see if there are any other comments.
	I like that comment from somebody about Clacton saying, I can't find it now, but basically saying that people have moved from, like Clacton is full of Cockneys, people pushed out their historic homeland of London by successive governments' love of diversity.
	So, you know, it means the barrage is going to win.
	That's interesting because like, yeah, if Like the Dagenham River Basin was recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and Cockneys were recognised as authentic indigenous people who need to have their culture preserved.
	Why isn't that?
	Is it just because they're European?
	Because they're British?
	They're white?
	That's exactly it.
	I mean, Cockneys go back to the Norman Conquest.
	They were the first mentioned in the 12th century or something.
	It's a genuinely ancient ethnic subgroup of the English.
	And now they don't exist in London.
	I wish they'd stop moving down to Devon and Cornwall.
	Why?
	Loads of them, yeah.
	London is like a slur.
	Well, they're kind of refugees, so you've got to give them a break.
	Yeah, but then they buy up really expensive houses and then try and change everything to become like London.
	Gonna have a Pret in a nice quaint village.
	Like Californians.
	Cockney aren't like the sort of people who Shop at Pratt, aren't they?
	Huh?
	Surely they don't sort of, you know, buy things from Pratt.
	Cockneys are posh, though.
	Oh yeah, apparently.
	There's more of an analogy.
	Everyone's posh when you're from the West Country.
	Unbelievable house prices in Devon, don't give me that.
	Arizona Deserat says, I'm discontented with the economy.
	Does that mean I get sucker punched by a random person in the street?
	No.
	For legal reasons, no.
	And also moral ones.
	Charlie says, I honestly think we need to accelerate and promote the media bias.
	This is just wearing down demoralized news.
	Pure accelerationism.
	And there's a part of me that hopes they just get worse under Starmer.
	I hope they become full regime shill media.
	And it's entirely possible they will.
	Because they're just very, again, pro-Blairite.
	And so, you know, they'll be like, Starmer's our guy.
	And so they'll just tell the most incredible lies.
	Jeremy Corbyn wedged a Jewish child, I don't know.
	Yeah, yeah, probably, yeah.
	Let's make it up.
	At some point there'll be like a Millie Dowler moment for wokeism.
	So, you know, phone hacking had gone on for years and everybody knew about it, nobody really bothered, but then it was the Millie Dowler case that made everybody go like, wait a minute, this is totally wrong, and it like, you know, destroyed newspapers and, you know, brought down careers and stuff.
	So something like that is going to happen.
	Because of wokeism.
	I don't know what it's going to be like.
	Maybe some, you know, celebrity's child is going to regret their transition.
	But, you know, something is going to happen.
	Because, man, all the celebrities, like, you look at the thing, Charlize Theron, all the kids.
	Weird number of trans kids, isn't it?
	Yeah, and it's like, man, how can all three kids be trans?
	And it's also, like, they're all, like, nicked from Africa as well.
	Imagine, you're starving in Sierra Leone, you know, you're like a child soldier or something, the helicopter lands and Charlize Theron gets out and you're like, Yes, Charlie's the Rod, and then like six months later, she's cutting your dick off.
	Yeah, there's one condition to your dinner tonight.
	Chop it off.
	Yeah, I'd rather stay and stay real alone.
	Yeah, I'd rather take my chances with General Buck Nathan.
	Anyway, on that note, thank you for joining us, folks.
	I hope you have a great evening, afternoon.
	We'll say lads hour.
	There's not going to be live, though.
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	So thanks for spotting that.
	We're going to be pre-recording lads hour this week because...
	We have something to do on Friday basically, that means we can't broadcast it live then.
	So anyway, thanks for joining us folks, have a great evening, we'll see you tomorrow.
	Bye.
	That wasn't my smartest moment, was it?
	Nope, not really, but that's alright.
	It's not a big deal.
	I'm not used to it, alright?
	I'm used to it being live.
	Oh yeah, we can't do the comments, can we?
	Oh well.
	Don't make my cocktail.
	Fuck off!
	You're not on the show!
	I know.
	I don't want one anyway.
	Get one after, if you want.
	No, no, no.
	No drinking time spent.
	Alright, it's literally two days from now.
	So you're going to be one of those British people that are going to be like, red like a lobster, stoned out of your mind.
	Maybe not stoned, but I will be pissed.
	That's the only fun reason to go to Amsterdam.
	I'll just go and get it up for you.
	Don't they have those psychedelic truffles that make you trip balls?
	I might try that.
	Yeah, but mind the canals.
	It's like the worst place.
	It's just like, we're going to make a place where drugs are illegal.

▲