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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #990

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	intro music We're getting... No, no, no, 990!
	990.
	We're getting ever so close to the fabled 1000 episode, and that's a few weeks from now, isn't it?
	Two weeks.
	But not today!
	9-11.
	Not tomorrow either.
	But yeah, it's on 9-11, so we're celebrating in style.
	But not today.
	What?
	It's on Friday the 13th.
	Sorry, it was going to be 9-11, wasn't it?
	Josh is throwing me off.
	Because we did the election stream, it's 9-13 now, so Friday the 13th instead.
	Yeah, so even more fun.
	What disasters will befall us, I wonder?
	But not today, because today is the 30th of August 2024.
	I'm joined by Stelios.
	Hello everyone.
	And Josh.
	I'm Harry and today we're going to be talking about the Turkish dog genocide, a segment in which Stelios plans to say absolutely nothing for legal reasons.
	For no particular reason.
	How Venezuelan gangs are taking over Colorado and I'm going to be talking about woke shows taking a beating because I don't want it to all be black bills today.
	Anything we'd like to say before we get started and remind everybody that we've got the Gold Tier Zoom call after this as well?
	Which we do, we've got a Gold Tier Zoom call.
	You do indeed.
	Anything else you want to say, lads?
	I'm very itchy because I had a spider on my head this morning.
	So sorry if I'm itching a lot.
	Alright.
	I'm just a bit tired, but... Have you been assaulted by any animals, bugs?
	No, no, no, no.
	But apparently some other people have.
	And they have been frustrated by dogs.
	That's true.
	I also had a jumping spider above my desk today and it's dropping bits of ceiling on my head.
	Yeah, he was shrieking like a woman.
	It was embarrassing to be near.
	I wasn't.
	I got it in a glass and released it outside perfectly civilly.
	Yeah, yeah, of course.
	Anyway, let's get on with it then.
	If I must.
	So, everyone knows of the country Turkey, right?
	You know how they sort of changed their name and added some dots over things?
	Well, they've been having some problems with dogs.
	There are roving gangs of wild-ish dogs.
	They're basically former pets.
	For some reason my mouse is not working.
	That's not good.
	But if Samson you could play that video...
	Dog haters don't want you to do the segment.
	Fuckers Yeah, very loud.
	You don't need to hear it, you know what dogs sound like.
	But, yes, there is a problem with dogs.
	Apparently there are 4 million total stray dogs in Turkey, and apparently there are only 322 animal shelters with a capacity to host a total of 105,000 dogs.
	So, they do not have the capacity to shelter them all, and so something has to be done, supposedly.
	This is going to be a sad segment, isn't it?
	It is, yes.
	None of my technology is working.
	I can't do anything.
	So here's the next link and here's another pack of dogs.
	They're smaller dogs this time.
	These are potentially less dangerous but you'll see them all just sort of mobbing and I don't know whether if you were going for a walk and you come around the corner and all of these dogs running at you would perhaps alarm you.
	I think the bigger dogs certainly, the smaller ones less so.
	I mean you say that they're Ex-domestic house pets for most of them, right?
	I believe so, but many of them have become sort of feral again.
	Okay.
	So, let's have a look at a chart of dog ownership in Europe because this is interesting.
	So, Turkey wants to be like other European countries and it's kind of not.
	For example, look at the dog ownership compared to the rest of Europe.
	It is the lowest of all European countries.
	Are we really counting Turkey as European?
	They're trying to be.
	And they're not doing a great job, are they?
	No, because they're very different, aren't they?
	And you can look at somewhere like Great Britain, 33%.
	You've got the Czech Republic there, I think, at 42%.
	Portugal.
	Poland, 43.
	Yeah, 39.
	Portugal.
	Yeah, doing pretty well.
	I think that's Romania, 45%.
	Almost half of all people in Romania have dogs.
	The most dog-friendly country.
	But yes, I think liking animals, liking dogs, is a pretty European thing.
	I like the poor border to Asia.
	That's where they get eaten.
	So if we move on to the next one.
	Here we have cats versus dogs.
	You can see dogs of course Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, some of Eastern Europe, France and Germany and certainly Turkey are more on the cat side.
	Is that Romania again?
	Somehow a cat nation but with overwhelming dog ownership.
	Oh, blimey, nothing is working.
	Is the mic on his left?
	It's on my right.
	Is anything working?
	Okay.
	Even the stand's not working!
	The stand's broke as well!
	We're a professional outlet here.
	Nothing works.
	Except apparently the staff.
	Right, okay.
	Back in business, I think.
	We all good?
	Yeah, that's not going on YouTube, folks.
	Yeah, hopefully none of this is.
	But anyway, yeah, Turks like cats.
	You get the idea.
	If we look at the next link...
	Here is, if you scroll up, this is Tombili, the cat.
	He's a street cat in Turkey that everyone liked so much for sitting like this on a bench that they, when he died, they made a statue of him.
	Which is quite flattering actually, compared to the actual cat who's very fat.
	I don't know if it looks fat, but they've also made him look deformed.
	This is not the best, is it?
	No.
	So yes, I think it's safe to say that Turkey much prefer cats over dogs.
	I'm a diplomat.
	I like both cats and dogs.
	So do I. I have both.
	I grew up with both.
	They can be friends.
	Yeah.
	Cats, difficult.
	But they can be.
	My cat used to, like, nudge the head of our dog and they'd get along and, like, my dog would chase my cat in the garden and the cat would enjoy it.
	It was a bit weird.
	That's really cute.
	But anyway, there's also this.
	The moment in history when Muslims began to see dogs as dirty and pure and evil.
	And of course Turkey is an Islamic country and Islam is not fond of dogs and this is in the business what we call foreshadowing.
	They don't like dogs but they see cats as clean.
	The distinction being dogs do not clean themselves and cats do therefore Cats are ritually pure and dogs are ritually impure and this is also a debated thing within Islam because there are Muslims that do own dogs and not all Muslims see it this way but the majority seem to and this thing actually comes from the hadiths as well.
	So let's have a look at some examples of Attacks.
	So this is a post about peacocks in someone's garden in Turkey.
	Four of them were attacked and two of them were incubating eggs apparently and there were some street dogs dug through a flower bed in the garden and tore through a wire fence to get to them and they basically tore them apart when they did.
	And so this is one of the on the least severe end of the attacks.
	The other animals are being impacted by the dogs and therefore it's not just, hey, you know, we don't want these dogs hanging around.
	There is a cost and benefit.
	Here's an example of, this is someone complaining about their uncle being bitten by a dog, showing the wound here.
	That could be propaganda because you never saw the dog biting his dog.
	This is anti-dog propaganda.
	Anti-dog propaganda.
	There is a cat calling the shots somewhere there.
	And there's also been articles about it as well.
	Here's a guy who's talking about, I think, moving to Ankara and he said that he took his dog on a journey through Europe to get to Turkey, which I don't know why you did that and didn't fly, but anyway.
	He said, it took less than 24 hours, in the country being Turkey, to dispel my fantastical image of the Turkish street dogs as gentle giants, walking through a small town Bodrum's outskirts to try some rice dish stuffed with mussels.
	Three or four huge dogs appeared on the sidewalk and charged at us, barking and snarling.
	My wife Victoria and I chalked it up to a freak incident in a remote location, but we were wrong.
	Stray dogs haunted our trip through Turkey's Anatolian heartland.
	Every petrol stop involved being chased by a pack of dogs.
	Some of whom escorted our car out as we drove from the forecourt.
	There was a little reprieve when we eventually reached Turkey's capital of Ankara.
	Our hotel was right next to a park that was home to a particularly aggressive pack.
	It was heartwarming to see the residents feed them each day, but it was less heartwarming when they gave chase to us when we took Ricardo, which is his greyhound mix, out for his daily walks.
	So, I think it is safe to say that these stray dogs are causing problems.
	And if we go on to this next one, it's particularly grainy footage, but it's someone that just seems to be waiting around and they're just flapping their arms trying to scare the dogs away.
	It seems like an unusual strategy to be honest.
	And then they take him down anyway.
	I mean it is horrible.
	Stelios just enjoying the casual violence as usual.
	He is Greek after all, he's allowed.
	But yes, and also there are incidents like this.
	This I believe was a 40 year old disabled man got killed by an attack by street dogs.
	They basically tore him apart a bit and then he died in hospital of his wounds.
	And so this terror has led to this.
	Turkey passing a law to basically round up stray dogs and while they were debating this there were lots of protests.
	If we cut to one of the articles, if you go back, they actually detained some of the protesters and we can see here a picture of some of them.
	So it is a controversial thing even in Turkey, in the rest of Europe.
	Let me clear this up.
	So, dogs.
	I know we all love dogs.
	I know that they're cute.
	I know that they're fluffy.
	I know that they're tame over here.
	But we know even over here, we've had problems with particular breeds in America.
	You've got pit bulls over here.
	We had the bully XL.
	XL bullies doing the, you know, despite being a minority, doing the majority.
	We can go through per capita all we like, but they are a wild animal.
	Uh, in Turkey, and actively go out of their way to hurt other animals and can hurt and have, in fact, killed people.
	Unless, as Stelios suggests, there's some kind of cat-spiracy going on behind all of this.
	It's the Egyptians.
	Yeah, it's the Egyptians, yes, clearly.
	Um, so that all happens, and what does the news media do, but if you go back to the last one for us, Samson, posts the cutest picture they could find of a presumably stray dog, it's got no collar on, and then the leftists come out in force in the next one, going, oh look at this cute dog, he was going to be an architect, he just got through university, he was a good boy who didn't do nothing.
	Harry, are you a member of the catspiracy?
	I am a member of the rational human race who cares about the dangers that wild animals pose to people and other more tame animals.
	Yeah, but I'm sure as the segment progresses, I will have my response.
	So my perspective on it is that Erdogan originally said, OK, they're going to be rounded up and kept, maybe neutered.
	They're not going to all be killed en masse.
	And I think if they were either neutering them Or, you know, rounding them up and putting them in kennels or something like that.
	I could sympathise, but there are four million dogs, aren't there?
	And they, as we addressed at the start, they just don't have the capacity to do that.
	And so, rather than doing what he said he would do, it seems like people are just going out and murdering dogs.
	Indiscriminately and we're gonna see some of the consequences of that.
	So definitely don't scroll down on this one Samson, but yes that people are just taking it upon themselves to kill dogs and on their own for example, they've There was a case here where 17 dogs were thrown into an old basically slimy swimming pool and they were left to drown there which is evil in my opinion and there are apparently claw marks on the side of the swimming pool where they tried to climb out which
	As someone who likes dogs was very difficult to read about and I have seen like the footage and lots of other things I'm not going to show you I'm not going to show you You know horrible things.
	Okay, definitely don't scroll down on this one as well Samson, but um, I Thank you for translating it though.
	No no no, scroll back up, up!
	But I've seen lots and lots of horrible things of basically what amounts to animal abuse of you know dead dogs in bags and things and there's nothing that really infuriates me more than abusing animals and you know I understand what Harry was saying is that perhaps do so humanely if you're going to address the
	If they are a legitimate problem and causing actual harm to people and other animals, then yeah, you have to solve that problem eventually, right?
	You can't just have roving packs of street dogs attacking people constantly.
	What I am not saying is that you should therefore solve the problem in the most brutal and inhumane way possible.
	Of course.
	So, I think I'm of the opinion that To get it to this point in the first place there has been a failure in Turkish society in the first place because stray dogs are a zero problem in Northern Europe.
	I don't know of a single country I've been in Northern Europe where there are strays anywhere.
	You know, a stray dog is something to be concerned about and people will call up the authorities immediately and address it.
	Generally speaking, they're treated, you know, they're taken to a kennel and potentially adopted but sometimes sadly euthanized.
	But at least, you know, we've got a process in place that keeps it sustainable even though we own more dogs.
	You know per household than in Turkey and I think that that is the way to go about it is a failure in Turkey to deal with this sort of thing and this is quite common in sort of around the Mediterranean isn't it?
	Well we have stray dogs as well but I don't think that they cause much problem and generally speaking people treat them well and we also have stray cats.
	Cats in taverns have the highest standard of living In the whole world.
	You know, there isn't much problem.
	So I will agree with you about the policy because four million dogs don't just start to go ape.
	No, you know, go bonkers.
	Okay, you don't, don't just wake up one day and decide to attack everyone they see.
	So what is absolutely appalling here is that they didn't think in terms of long term consequences, Because what you do if you have a problem with stray dogs is you try to control the population.
	You could sterilize them in advance.
	You don't wait for them to be a dog apocalypse to do something about it and then go And act in such a violent manner, because the latter part, the way that they have reacted, seems that for a lot of people it's like a ritual.
	Violence is the point.
	Yeah, well, they're sort of resentful towards dogs in a way, but I think that just... Oh, actually, you go ahead.
	I'm curious, because you mentioned, well, yeah, policy problems, these dogs don't materialise out of nowhere.
	Do we know why there are four million stray dogs on the streets of Turkey?
	Because they've not dealt with the problem, and I think there are two things here.
	Not only is there the inhumane attitudes of some people in Turkey, not all people, towards dogs in the first place, that makes them very distinct from the rest of Europe, But also this policy that is more common in Mediterranean countries and completely unheard of in Northern Europe of dealing with these sorts of things.
	We don't have a problem with stray animals in Britain, pretty much at all.
	As far as I'm aware.
	You know, maybe you have some parakeets in London that have formed a colony, but that's just because they can't be caught.
	But that's about it.
	But, you know, at least when there is a problem in, say, Mediterranean countries like, say, Italy or Greece, they're treated well.
	And sort of as community... I don't know what to call it.
	A community responsibility to look after them.
	I have to be honest here, because maybe some people will expect me to be very critical and stuff, but I don't know to what extent this is an issue of the whole Turkish culture or not, because I know people from Turkey who love both cats and dogs.
	No, that's why I've been trying to emphasise that it's a sort of cross-section of Turkey, right?
	The more Islamic side of Turkey, one would say.
	So there are cases here where they're illegally injecting dogs with drugs to kill them and this is also going on in beaches and things where people are, which could potentially kill people.
	And so people are going at this in a bit of an overzealous way it seems and if we move on to the next one here this one's a bit sad this is a still image I watched the video of a man who is holding a dog that had been poisoned that had puppies and he's basically brought it into the town square and making a spectacle of it like this is what you're doing you're killing dogs don't do this so it's an ongoing debate in Turkey and We can move on to this.
	Of course it's caused backlash because it would.
	Backlash grows against Turkey's stray dog massacre which has left millions of poochers dead despite President Erdogan claiming they're meant to be placed in shelters to keep the streets safe.
	So yes, people have been waking up to the fact that...
	They're being killed and in fact there have been images emerging of things like this of it going on in an industrial style scale and move on from that quite quickly if we can and there are people in Turkey basically pointing out this sort of thing it's not you know it's not something we should do they're treating the dogs as if they're terrorists and using that sort of language and she's directly quoting here stray dog terrorism she's encouraging people not to visit Turkey and so if we move on
	Yes, tourists should boycott Turkey over its plans to slaughter stray dogs and lots of places are now not going there on holiday because of this and then this has also caused concern in Turkey itself because they rely a lot on tourism and we'll be looking at some of the figures for that and
	If we have a look at this next one, this is sort of epitomising the difference in attitude between some Turks and Greeks in that This is a picture from, I think it's a Greek police officer saving a dog from a fire on the right-hand side.
	And we won't look at the other picture of people being mean to dogs because I don't really want to see that.
	But, you know, different sides of the Aegean, very different attitudes, I think.
	So it's also worth mentioning, here's something to cheer you up.
	Here's Armenia.
	They share the Greek attitude towards dogs.
	Here's a dog in a fountain.
	Here's a dog.
	You know, it's a bit.
	Celine Dion, I don't know. - Yeah.
	And someone helps the dog out of the fountain, I think it got stuck in there, and you see the dog being excited and grateful and happy for it while he's holding a cigarette in his mouth.
	I've also done something of the sort, and a poet You've got to do that though, haven't you?
	And you start seeing the dog run around very excited and happy that he's out of the fountain.
	So how anyone could do this sort of thing to, you know, willingly throw them into water?
	When they're so wholesome like this, I do not know.
	But anyway, to sort of round things off, let's have a look at the GDP share of the tourist sector.
	So if you scroll down a little bit, Samson, you can have a look at that there are projections into the future here.
	So 20... not that far, just for the graph.
	um 2024 is um we still can't see it the graph The graph.
	Further up.
	The graph.
	There we go.
	Thank you.
	For 2024, it's over 10% of their economy is tourism.
	10 and a half percent, right?
	And so if people are not going there on holiday, this is going to be very severe because also they're having A bit of an economic crisis at the minute as well.
	So if we move on to this next article, it's pointing out they've had lots of really bad policies in terms of economics and fiscal policies.
	They've got really, really high inflation.
	I think you've talked about this before, Stelios.
	And that seems to be cooling according to this next article.
	But they're still not out of the woods yet.
	There it is.
	And one final thing I wanted to end on is that some political enemies of Turkey have been trolling them.
	Here is a Kurd insulting the Turks for a single Turkish man having fun with a donkey.
	But of course, Turks in the comments have pointed out that it is a Turkish man intervening and telling him off.
	What did he try to do to the donkey?
	Well his belt's undone so make your own mind up.
	But the point being that this whole escapade has damaged Turkey's international reputation and given ammunition to their enemies to ridicule them because of course the Kurds and the Turks do not get on and I for one want to see these dogs treated humanely.
	They're obviously a problem as Harry has pointed out but it would be nice to approach it with a bit more humanity than is currently being shown by some of the population.
	Alright, Samson, while we're sorting out the segment, going to the next segment, can we try and figure out how to fix this technology, please?
	Right, is this working now?
	We do have two Rumble Rants, the first one was sent before the podcast began.
	We have tried to unplug them and plug them back in.
	One thing to say to people, because I saw this in the chat, on the chat, that I don't think of cats as left-wing.
	I think they're the most right-wing animal.
	Dogs are more left-wing because they're more loyal to authority, aren't they?
	We need to say...
	We need to speak the truth.
	Alright, I'm going to read through these two rumble rants, okay?
	So, uh, first one that was sent before the podcast began is Blood for the Blood God for $20.
	Says, Who are you, the proud king in Wrath said, so I must bow so low.
	I wasn't sure what that was to begin with, but instead it turned out that it was a reference to the Reign of Castamere.
	Uh, from the, uh, Song of Ice and Fire series.
	Is that true?
	Are you, are you involved in this, Stelios?
	there is a Greek conspiracy to breed feral dogs and smuggle them into Turkey as a step one of the liberation of Constantinople and Hagia Sophia.
	Is that true?
	Are you involved in this, Stelios?
	No idea.
	Does this work?
	I don't think this works.
	I think we're just going to have to have Samson control everything from the control centre for the rest of the podcast, which he's more than capable of doing as long as he can figure out what a graph is next time.
	Shots fired!
	Also, we've just got one coming from BaldEagle1787 for $2 saying, funny how these NGOs that have so much money to help barbarians invade the West but have zero funds to help save actual innocent animals that deserve to be in the West.
	This is This is a good point.
	At the very least, if the NGOs are going to have any use, why not from the few dog shelters in Turkey?
	And with that, shall we get on to your segment, Stelio?
	Let's have a second, please.
	Right, okay.
	Turns out, blue states are getting out of control.
	We are going to talk about Colorado and about how it is terrorized by a Venezuelan gang.
	And, uh, just Look at the governor that they have, because in times of crisis, it's good to look towards your political leadership, because good leaders are making us sometimes feel that they have things under control.
	Let us watch here.
	Jared Polis.
	Feliz Navidad.
	Prospero año y felicidad.
	Uh...
	Does he make you feel safe?
	Does he make you want to go to live to Colorado?
	He makes me feel sick.
	Right, so what could possibly go wrong when you have politicians of that sort?
	We are gonna look at the Aurora apartment complex in ...in Colorado, and we are gonna see that we have some very interesting videos that are very harrowing.
	Let's watch the first one, please, here.
	We could just put it here.
	We have a gang of people.
	We don't want sound.
	We have a gang of people.
	They carry weapons, and they just enter into the building, and they're opening doors, storming into apartments, and basically terrorizing people who live to the Aurora Complex.
	And this is why you own firearms to defend yourself, right?
	Because could you imagine this whole group of men armed to the teeth, supposedly, with weapons, just breaking into your house?
	Who are also a Venezuelan prison gang.
	Yeah.
	So I wonder if this has anything to do with the Democrats' tough-on-crime policies.
	They're not tough on the MS-13 apparently.
	Well, we will see that the Aurora Police Department acknowledge that it is aware that components of that Tren de Aragua prison gang are operating in Aurora.
	They are trying to have evidence and they're trying to, let's say, cooperate with federal and also state actors in order to try to help the people.
	Now we should go to the previous link please and we can scroll down a bit.
	Scroll down a bit please, thank you.
	Yes, scroll down a bit.
	We have here essentially stories that people are telling us.
	This is a New York Post about a couple that, for instance, they describe their plight and their experience.
	They have to have five locks that they open and close every time they walk in and out of their apartment.
	And there are many other people who are terrorized and essentially they feel that they have to leave their place because they think that it's gone completely out of control and that they do not have the kind of help that they need.
	We could also go to the next link, please.
	And also we should bear in mind that Denver is called by some a sanctuary city.
	I did a fact check and I saw that some people are saying that it isn't a sanctuary city, but it is a blue state.
	And blue states right now do have a sort of...
	Very relaxed approach on issues of, you know, mass migration and illegal migration.
	So they're saying that Denver has received the largest number of migrants per capita across the US nation, with more than 40,000 new arrivals since December 2022.
	So this is important to bear in mind because it shows how sometimes things disintegrate when People pursue multiculturalist policies that have never worked, and frankly, almost no one wants.
	Right, so we have directly east of Denver, Aurora, which is the place we're talking about.
	It has been flooded by illegal migrants as well, and places where a lot of illegal migrants, especially come from Venezuela, are particularly prone to be sort of raided or controlled by that prison gang and also other related prison gangs because Trendy Aragua isn't the only Venezuelan gang that operates, sadly.
	We could play this without audio and we could see that basically they are wreaking havoc, they are completely, they are throwing waves.
	You have to click to bring it up full screen and then you say.
	Police officers arrived.
	Thank you.
	Yes, we have Essentially people wreaking havoc there and everyone just thinks that this is unlivable and that they want to leave.
	Well I don't blame them.
	It is unlivable.
	You shouldn't have to worry about armed gangs taking over where you live and trashing the place and stealing and who knows what else.
	Exactly and maybe you also don't want to be called a far-right racist if you express concerns about that.
	Thank God the Rainbow Flag Brigade have showed up.
	You should be expressing them in lead, shouldn't you?
	Yes, we see clips here of the disintegration of that apartment building and that apartment complex.
	And, you know, people want to leave their place and they don't know what to do.
	It's just as simple as that.
	It's just collapse and lack of a sentiment of public safety.
	Something that sometimes, you know, we can feel also in Europe.
	Yeah, well, if they're not careful, they'll end up like Swindon, won't they?
	Right.
	Now, let's go to the next link, please.
	Swindon's the next one.
	And scroll down to the second part of the thread.
	We also have here a clip by Andy Ngo.
	He says the Aurora... Oh, and it's Swindon.
	The Aurora Colorado apartment building is turning into a slum after Venezuelan migrants moved in.
	Migrants walk around brandishing guns and there was a shooting at the complex.
	You see here that basically there is a row full of trash and when you have basically anarchy, basic social etiquette isn't upheld.
	That goes without saying.
	I'm trying to put it in a polite manner.
	There's a lot of Venezuelan trash around is what you're saying.
	Yes.
	Now, if we go to the next link, please, we see here that there's a statement by the Aurora Police Department.
	They're saying that they are aware that components of Tren de Aragua are operating in Aurora and they are cooperating and collaborating with other agencies to see how to best address the crisis.
	And they urge people and all community members, including members of migrant communities, to report crimes.
	And just notify their local law enforcement communities.
	Now, let's go to the next link, please.
	It's also worth mentioning as well that they're a foreign gang that are armed.
	You know, if it were, say, a terror group, they wouldn't be saying, oh, well, we're trying to figure out a way of dealing with it.
	They'll just go in and shoot them.
	That's what they should do here.
	They've taken over an apartment block.
	Why aren't they dead already?
	Why aren't they decorating the walls?
	There's a question that many people have raised is why does the police don't storm in to just enforce the law?
	And I don't know to what extent maybe we could save to give a charitable interpretation that you don't know How many people are in there terrorised by these groups and maybe there is a calculation of collateral damage?
	Well, if they were right-wing or Christian, you know, like Waco or Ruby Ridge, there'll be hundreds if not thousands of Feds with helicopters and APCs and tanks.
	Well, remember that at Ruby Ridge a woman was shot through the head whilst cradling her baby?
	Yeah, well, Feds are more than happy to shoot children, unarmed women and dogs.
	Also, Ruby Ridge began with the agent showing up, killing a dog and then killing a child who'd seen it happen, right?
	Yeah.
	We have here a video that we want to play without sound and, you know, we have footage of people walking around and telling... telling... telling that... showing stuff.
	They're using a lot of gaming words is what they're doing as well.
	Yes, showing chaos and you can see that there are cars that are about to run them over so things are completely out of control.
	This is a complete breakdown of Law & Order.
	It looks like, you know, before Hurricane Katrina when everyone was looting all the shops and it looked sort of almost post-apocalyptic.
	Yeah.
	It's to that level.
	It is post-apocalyptic.
	It's like these movies where there's, you know, the alien attack or something and people want to rush to go close to the sea or something.
	Illegal alien attack.
	Yes!
	Venezuelans are coming.
	Yeah, and then they saw how's the city before and after the attack, and virtually there isn't much difference.
	Well, but here there is difference apparently, because Colorado, I think Colorado had a good fame, had a good name, a good reputation for it.
	It was a nice place at one point, yeah.
	I've heard that it's a bit of a stone estate, but other than that I've heard no good things, generally speaking.
	Beautiful nature up there, yeah.
	Beautiful nature, yeah.
	But these aren't pictures that want me, for instance, to go there as a tourist.
	Well I would like to go there as a journalist.
	It makes me want to document the breakdown of law and order.
	It's horrifying though because this is America, supposedly one of the most advanced countries if not the most advanced in the world and basic things like law and order and justice are just not going on.
	But the terrifying thing is that there seems to be an allergy on behalf of the political establishment towards the very concept of law and order, especially when it comes to some, you could say, protected groups.
	Because they really don't have a problem with enforcing the law when it comes to the native population in the West.
	Anyway, I'm not saying that they are not going to enforce the law, but I'm just saying that perhaps they shouldn't have happened in the first place.
	It should have happened in the first place, and people should worry much more about enforcing the law, and the police should worry about enforcing the law, not being called racist or something.
	Come on, why are we having to ask these questions in the first place?
	Unfortunately, we live in 2024.
	Why is it the government is not only so illegitimate, but so incompetent in doing the very most basic functions that it's supposed to do in the first place, that this kind of situation can happen?
	And like you two are both saying, there isn't an immediate crackdown of the most brutal kind against these people.
	Instead, you can get Southern American gangs taking over apartment complexes.
	It's because your leaders hate you.
	Your leaders hate you and they don't care about you.
	They don't care about your safety.
	They don't care about protecting you.
	If anything, they care more about the rights of these freaks because it keeps them safer.
	We have here the mayor of Aurora, Colorado, making some good statements, if you ask me.
	I think that he said, we can scroll down a bit.
	He was interviewed in Fox.
	We don't have to play it.
	I'll mention it.
	Thank you.
	So essentially, he said that someone put them there.
	Someone put them there.
	George Soros.
	That this is a failure of border policy.
	He directly says this.
	And he also says that these gangs are attracted to areas where there are Venezuelan migrants.
	They feel somehow that they can control them more easily.
	They feel that they can recruit Well, they all speak the same language.
	They speak the same language.
	They feel that they can recruit members from them more easily and that they are trying to cooperate with local, state and federal law enforcement partners to make the required arrests.
	Now, he isn't particularly certain that This is Trendy Aragua, Trendy Araguan, but he says that whether it is or not is dangerous and something should be done about it.
	Now, I don't know about this mayor, Mike Coffman, but I think that this sounds a plausible statement to me.
	I don't know his past or other stuff that he has said, but this sounds plausible.
	I mean, on the ground level, as a mayor of a city, I'm very certain that you don't want foreign, potential cartel groups taking over entire sections of your city.
	So, on a more ground level, like a mayor, or a sheriff, or someone like that, I'm almost certain that, yeah, he probably means it.
	And you also have the Democrat mayor of New York saying that there is too much of mass migration in New York.
	So sometimes maybe...
	You know, he's an idiot and he did say that they're all welcome right until they showed up and realized what a problem there was.
	Yeah, but I hear this a lot and I see a lot of people commenting about this, that, you know, you voted for them, now deal with it.
	I understand this, but I think that there needs also to be an element of solidarity here and fraternity because, you know, there are people who are terrorized by that, you know, they didn't even vote for these policies.
	Also, you know, you could say, I mean, there are a lot of people who vote Republican, but also have lots of members of their families who vote Democrats, and they don't think of them necessarily as people who would like something like that.
	Of course, I'm not saying that the people who are being terrorized by these people deserve sympathy.
	I'm speaking specifically of Mayor Eric Adams of New York, saying that the city was a sanctuary city, saying, bring them in.
	And then he goes out and complains and says, oh, we're being overwhelmed by them when they actually do show up.
	Exactly.
	So let's go to the next link, please.
	And the next one.
	We have here these signs, people have stickers upon these signs that say caution Kamala's illegals.
	They're essentially trolling Kamala's... I'll get you two years in prison in Britain.
	Borders are status.
	I've heard the name Border Czar so many times now.
	Or the Border Zareen or something.
	Zareen.
	Border Czarino, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Essentially, that was a question because a lot of people asked yesterday, what is her claim to fame?
	What has she done?
	What has she accomplished?
	I don't think, I just can't think anything.
	Even the Border Czar... She put a lot of black guys in jail.
	Well, I don't know about that, but the borders are stateless.
	Josh, all we know from that statement is that you would vote for her.
	I was just saying, she used to be in the justice system, right?
	That was her career.
	And she was criticised from the left of her own party in the Black Lives Matter time for incarcerating a lot of black men for drug offences.
	But still, I think that there are people who have done more than her, even in the democratic side.
	Easily.
	Easily, yeah.
	She's a diversity candidate.
	Yeah.
	Let's move to the next one.
	Here we have Jared Polis, who is the governor of Colorado.
	He is the jolly gentleman I showed you in the beginning, singing Feliz Navidad and not exactly inspiring confidence.
	He's a gamer.
	If we scroll down his account... He said it, not me.
	Isn't this the guy who at the DNC said that he was also on Reddit?
	As a gamer, as a Redditor.
	I think that could be it, yeah.
	Yeah, this is that guy.
	Yeah, if we scroll down on his account, we'll see that he doesn't make statements about this.
	Well, of course not.
	He's too busy looking for updates on Reddit.
	Colorado is the official Reddit state, and this is what's going to happen to you.
	Well, unfortunately it's also a blue state, and if we go to the next link... Same thing.
	We will see that not only is he not commenting about what is to be done, but he also denies what is happening.
	He says all that are figments of people's imagination.
	I forgot, he's a Swifty as well.
	A self-described Redditor, gamer, and Swifty.
	Yeah, what a list.
	Yeah, so there are videos showing that he is lying, and even if he's too much on Reddit and he doesn't do it intentionally, that what he says is not true.
	That there are problems with this.
	Stop moderating Reddit, Freds, and actually look at the videos coming from your own state.
	Stop trying to crack eggs on Reddit, you freak.
	Yeah, so I would say that this is concerning also.
	I mean, there is an element of irony and, you know, we can laugh, but it's also very harrowing and concerning because you would expect from a governor of your state to react to your city and your town and your apartment complexes being terrorized by gangs to react to this.
	Could you imagine when 9-11 happened, the mayor of New York just saying, no it didn't, He's making it up.
	Euphorite racists.
	Yeah.
	You're just making it up to fuel Islamic hatred.
	That's the new playbook and you apply it to the past it sounds absurd.
	Yeah and presumably he would follow the AOC tactic and say all of that is a problem of the US sanctions to Venezuela.
	That's the whole...
	Rhetoric when it comes to Venezuela.
	For anything that happens, blame US sanctions to Venezuela.
	That's their modus operandi.
	Let's go to the next link, please.
	Yeah, here we have here the citizen caller.
	They're saying call and email Mayor of Aurora and Governor of Colorado to demand action.
	If you live in Colorado, you could just click on the link and just See where it takes you.
	Next link, please.
	Next link.
	Yeah, we have here people who are essentially talking about it for a long time now.
	It's not just something that happened the last two, three days.
	We have here from August 14, people on the ground talking and they're saying more news about the Venezuelan takeover in Colorado.
	And they're essentially talking about and they say that they are armed, they're trained, they're recruiting kids.
	People don't feel safe.
	So when it comes to blue states and people who are just empty, engaging in empty virtue signaling and talking about things that they consider to be ideals, but I think they're a bit moronic.
	They should constantly think that public safety is number one.
	The first and foremost priority of states is to ensure public safety as it has been traditionally conceived of.
	Not in the crazy sense that, you know, if you somehow offend someone's feelings that this is a problem, a national security problem.
	So, people are talking about it for a long time.
	It's not something that just happened two or three days ago.
	Let's move to the next link, please.
	We have here rumors about the same gang operating in New York, the Trendy Aragua Venezuelan gang.
	You would expect that wherever there are illegal migrants from Venezuela, you could say that they would be particularly vulnerable to the operation of that gang.
	And people can look here at Viral News NYC.
	Gang data related by NYPD reveals the most dangerous Trendy Aragua members terrorizing New York City as well.
	New York City is a sanctuary city.
	Mayor Eric Adams has announced it as such, and also... Eric Adams shaking his fist at the sky, saying, why has this happened?
	Who could have allowed this?
	So, what we're looking at here is the distinction between propaganda and reality.
	In propaganda, on woke paper, When you just open your borders, everything just works fine.
	If you just hug people, they will hug you back.
	If you try to understand them, they will try to understand you.
	The problem is that this doesn't work with antisocial elements.
	That applies not only to foreigners, illegal or not, it also applies to people domestically.
	There are some people that you cannot reason with.
	And we see the devastating results that these policies have.
	And we also see people who did vote for Democrats saying that our communities are being destroyed.
	In Chicago, in New York City, in Colorado, they're saying this.
	Multiculturalism does no work.
	Let's go to the next link, please.
	We have here a very interesting twist and angle into the conversation with which I will end my segment.
	Because if we link the mass migration with calls for voter ID laws and the repeal of voter ID laws, we will see essentially that There is a very high risk that Democrats are essentially wanting to have illegal migrants in order to make them vote.
	Yeah, well, they very reliably vote in one direction and so there's a very strong incentive for them to import more.
	Exactly.
	And we see here by Elon Musk saying, reminding us, if we scroll down a bit, If we scroll down a bit, the link please.
	He reminds us a tweet by Kamala Harris who said an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.
	And if we scroll up yet again.
	Yes, they are by definition.
	Well, I mean, that's the problem with the Borders are philosophy of Kamala Harris that, you know, if you break legally into the country, you haven't broken the law.
	That's essentially the... Well, if it's illegal, then... Yeah, that's the contradiction and the confusion, which I think is deliberate.
	I think that a lot of people in positions of power, they're not stupid, as, you know, many people would like to say, but I think that this is deliberate.
	So, they have a massive incentive, as Elon Musk says, to bring in and legalize illegal immigrants and for them to vote Democrat.
	And if we go to the next link, We'll see that California now voted to ban and prohibit voter ID requirements in local elections.
	They have an allergy to voter ID laws, which personally I think, given the massive influx of people who aren't US citizens into the US, personally I think that they would be a very good idea.
	Britain's actually gone in a different direction.
	We now require ID to vote and also we only have paper ballots, we don't have digital voting.
	Yes.
	If we can do it, so can the US.
	You spend a lot more money per capita on your elections than we do.
	And also, Democrats are supposed to care about legitimacy.
	One of the main reasons for people feeling that a government is illegitimate is if they think that the processes in terms of which they're elected are illegitimate or unfair.
	So if Democrats care about legitimacy, presumably they could do this as a gesture of goodwill.
	Now let's go to the last link.
	The previous one?
	You've gone back to the first one, there we go.
	There is a clip, a video that we won't play, but by all means watch it, that has gone viral.
	This is just one account sharing it, it's not the first one, where we have a lot of people who are basically saying that voter ID laws are racist.
	Go figure.
	So, Democrat states, blue states, do seem to not be particularly governed well and people in them will feel progressively less safe because Democrats and Democrat governors have an allergy to law enforcement when it comes to some local communities.
	When it comes to some communities, sorry, I want to reverse this, I don't mean local, I don't mean native, I mean when it comes to some communities, they consider to be their protected communities, they seem to be very resistant and very hesitant in enforcing the law.
	Alright, Samson, what's going on with this then?
	So it's not actually showing up any of the things that it should, and it's plugged in, but it is just showing the Stream Deck logo, is there any way that you can fix that?
	That's gonna require an entire PC restart.
	Okay, alright.
	Same with the mouse?
	Todd Howard.
	Okay.
	It just works.
	It should just work, apparently.
	supposedly I'm guessing yeah yeah I've unplugged one and plugged it back in and now I'm unplugging the other one oh Okay, wonderful.
	Absolutely fantastic.
	Let me try and plug that one back in just to make sure.
	Nope, still absolutely nothing.
	Sorry folks, it turns out in between each of my segment, uh, each of my links I'm gonna have to say next, please, which, uh, it annoys me, so I hope it didn't get on your nerves so much.
	Alright then, so let's talk about woke television shows.
	Have you been watching any woke television shows?
	You shouldn't have.
	No.
	If you have, don't.
	No hate watching.
	Woke abstinence.
	No hate watching.
	You're not allowed.
	I wanted to find something on Netflix that didn't involve lesbians and I hit upon Orange is the New Black.
	And how long did you watch that before you switched it off into scooch?
	Full season.
	I'm joking, I'm joking.
	You're like, you know what, actually, some of this lesbian stuff, I can get into this.
	I support it.
	No, I think, you know, it's... My missus has watched a lot of Orange is the New Black and my biggest problem with it is that there is just so many ugly women in it.
	Yeah.
	There are so many ugly women in here!
	If you're going to make a show about lesbians, come on!
	I've been watching House of the Dragon, other than the random black Valyrian family, which is a bit weird, just like, all these people with very blonde, whitey hair.
	Yeah, who are supposed to also have purple eyes in the books as well.
	Yeah.
	Just all of a sudden, Sub-Saharan.
	That's a bit weird.
	For only one very specific branch of the family.
	That's true.
	It is very strange.
	By the end of the first season, it's not so much of a problem.
	Not gonna spoil anything.
	kind of a spoiler in itself.
	Well done.
	So, yeah, I don't really watch any TV anymore except for stuff that I already know is going to be good or stuff that I'm aware of that's old.
	But what I definitely didn't watch was The Acolyte, except for what I was subject to.
	Bo watched some of this and he said it was actually painful.
	He watched all of it.
	Mr. H Reviews and all the other parts of The Fandom Menace really wanted to do a review of the full series, so Bo decided to tag along for it and I'd rather him than me.
	If you love rants, it makes sense.
	Yeah, but also, you shouldn't give- If you love ranting, it makes sense to watch something like that.
	You shouldn't give any of your free personal time to these television shows, because you should just look at them, immediately go, well that's obviously shit, and wait for them to be cancelled, as a lot of them have been recently, including the Acolytes, and there's this Forbes article explaining exactly how it was, why it was cancelled.
	Because it was crap.
	No, no, no, no.
	It comes down to three reasons.
	Some of them, you know, have something to do with it being utterly rubbish.
	One being low viewership, probably because nobody wanted to watch it.
	Only the people who wanted to rant.
	And the interesting thing was that the viewership itself absolutely fell off a cliff after episode two.
	So people watched... That one where they have the lesbian force baby.
	Or is that episode 3?
	Yeah, with the power of one and the power of many.
	Oh, is that that scene?
	That was a lesbian force baby.
	I thought that they were doing some kind of, like, chakra cheating.
	The term force baby sounds really cursed as well, doesn't it?
	Yeah, let's move on.
	And also, here's a shocking statistic.
	statistic, it cost about $630,000 for every minute of screen time.
	You can pay me $650,000 and I can produce something better than that.
	Just in my house.
	It had a budget over, I think, eight episodes of something like $180 million.
	The money laundering exercise, surely.
	I don't know what you could be talking about.
	If we go to the next one, we'll see what the star, the Amandla Stenberg... I really don't like her.
	I don't... You're not supposed to like her, Stelios.
	You're supposed to... It's not an issue of what... Listen to the stupid things that she has to say and you're supposed to be angry for engagement.
	Her name alone is annoying in that it's... Amandla.
	Yeah.
	Why have you shoved an L in there?
	It's like a Zulu word for power or something or other, but it just sounds like you're dyslexic and can't spell Amanda.
	No, this is the black American thing where they have to put La in every name, like LaBeyonce, LaQuanda, except there, these people, the Stenbergs, they decided to, you know, innovate a little bit and put it at the end instead.
	Amandla.
	Amandla, there you go.
	Now we're breaking new ground.
	If we just listen to what she's got to say here about why the show failed.
	What does she have to say on it?
	A rampage of vitriol that we have faced since the show was even announced when it was still just a concept and no one had even seen it.
	That's when we started experiencing a rampage of I would say hyper-conservative, bigotry, and vitriol, prejudice, hatred, and hateful language towards us.
	You know it's because the show sucked.
	It's because the show was awful.
	Trust me.
	And also you're not a good actress.
	Yeah also you suck.
	You're bad and you should feel bad basically.
	There you go.
	No excuses.
	There is this that's going on at the moment.
	Which is, I thought this was fake.
	It's a petition on Change.org to renew the acolyte.
	Scroll down for me.
	No, no, no.
	Everyone should sign this.
	No, no, no, no.
	Wait, let me get to it.
	Because at the time it had 50,000.
	In the next one, on the actual live page, you can see it's got 60,000 signatures.
	It is real.
	And I see what you're doing.
	I know what's going on here, gentlemen.
	These are bots.
	No, no, no.
	I think what we're looking at is Morbin Time.
	It's the Morbin, isn't it?
	Do you remember Morbin Time?
	I remember Morbin Time.
	In the next one, let's remember Morbius, the cinematic masterpiece that was Jared Leto as Morbius, a film that came out
	In the middle of last year and earned 17.3 million dollars on its first day it flopped obviously it underperformed it did not hit expectations so they pulled it out of the cinemas oh wait no it's 2022 sorry they pulled it out of the cinemas and then all of the fans came up with a very organic media social media support for it saying things like it's Morbin time which it was it was the summer of Morb We had the Summer of Love in 2020.
	It's the Summer of Morb something that's celebrated in the Church of Scientology.
	Sounds like it.
	Probably.
	Is Jared Leto in the Church of Scientology?
	I don't know, probably.
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	Is that slander?
	Go on, Stelios.
	No, no, I have to say this because I can't hold myself.
	I have to say this because I really dislike what she said, because, you know, she's blaming the audience, not herself.
	That's all these people know how to do.
	Yeah, but it really takes a really good artist to say this in a sensible manner, like Oscar Wilde, who was saying sometimes, you know, I didn't fail, it's the audience that was wrong.
	You can accept that from an Oscar Wilde, but she's no Oscar Wilde.
	That seems kind of wild just being a bit prissy, to be honest.
	It is, it is, but he gave things.
	He has produced art.
	I'm sure he gave a lot.
	He has produced art.
	She has done nothing.
	If I do a bad segment, it's not that my segment is bad, it's that you have failed to understand it in the correct way.
	Yeah, and if I write academic papers that nobody can understand, that's not my fault, you're just too stupid.
	I thought for six years I was always intelligible.
	Yeah, I had 99% approval rating.
	All of those students had no idea what you were talking about.
	Everyone had an idea what I was talking about.
	Yeah.
	But back to Morb, which is what all of this is about, really.
	At the center of the universe, there is Jared Leto.
	Yeah, there was the organic grassroots movement, get Morbius back in the cinemas, we need it to make money, and Sony listened to that and said, alright, alright, we see what you want, we'll give you exactly what you want.
	So they re-released it into the cinemas, and it made $85,000.
	Um, $300,000 overall, which was $289 per theater average, which cost them quite a lot of money for re-releasing it in the cinema, and then Sony pulled it entirely.
	So if this is what we're going for, folks, if this is what we're doing with the Acolyte, I say go for it.
	Don't aim for 75,000 signatures, get 200,000, get 500,000, get a million signatures.
	We need We need to send the acolyte back, gentlemen.
	We need to send it into morbid.
	I mean, it cost them, let's not forget, $630,000 for every minute of screen time.
	Is that another hit that Disney can take?
	I say let's give it a try.
	We need to bring it back with the power of many.
	Yes, exactly.
	Not the power of one, not the power of two.
	We need the power of many to sign the petition.
	I will watch it purely to bankrupt Disney.
	If- If- If- Watching that show- You don't watch it!
	You just sign the signature and then let them make it and then just forget it exists.
	I'm a man of my word, though.
	How do I keep my word, Harry?
	You don't have to be honourable about the acolyte, alright?
	I- I- I don't have to be honourable?
	Not about the acolyte.
	Oh, okay.
	About other things you should maintain a sense of dignity and honour.
	But not about Disney throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into a big pit of fire.
	I was gonna go out and steal a child's ice cream after this.
	Alright, Mr Burns.
	Okay.
	Anyway, moving on to other television shows that are underperforming and didn't get the viewership they were after.
	An amazing report was done earlier last year Looking at the Lord of the Rings Rings of Power Amazon television series, which also was ridiculously expensive.
	I think the budget for it overall for, what, eight episodes was $1 billion?
	And it was terrible as well.
	I think it was financed and produced by Dr. Evil.
	It's the only thing that makes it make sense.
	It turns out only 37% of viewers actually finished the show.
	I didn't finish it.
	You did or didn't?
	I didn't.
	You didn't?
	Well then, there you go, you're not one of- you're part of the 63%.
	I didn't even finish watching the trailer, because I was just like, this is already awful.
	Neither did I. How dare you?
	And in the same vein as a Mandler, was this the show's fault, or was this your fault as the audience?
	No, that was the show's fault.
	I was a member of the audience.
	Correct!
	Correct!
	But what did Amazon Studios Chief Jennifer Salk have to say about it?
	Well, the desire to paint the show as anything less than a success is just not reflective of any conversation I'm having internally.
	So the show sucked, nobody watched it, and those who did, didn't watch it all the way through.
	But all the conversations you're having in the office are high-fives saying, good job folks, we did it.
	You're delusional.
	You're absolutely delusional.
	And she says, well, you know, the second series is a huge opportunity.
	That first series, it required a lot of setting up.
	It's because we're just a slow burn show.
	But you can do set-up well.
	It doesn't have to be boring.
	It wanted to be Amazon's Game of Thrones, right?
	Yeah, but Game of Thrones was interesting in the first episode.
	The first and second series of Game of Thrones are incredible.
	I think the first three series of that show are the best.
	And most of those are set-up.
	Especially series one.
	Especially Tyrion in series two.
	His entire plot is set-up for the Blackwater fight.
	And it's awesome.
	It's great and it pays off.
	But if it's all set up with no payoff, then... Yeah, what did the audience who did watch it have to say?
	Let's check Rotten Tomatoes.
	Well, the... Obviously, the critics said 87%.
	Incredible.
	Amazing.
	No, the audience says 53%.
	Probably... That's generous.
	Still too high.
	Would you say too high, Stelios?
	That's way too high.
	Yeah.
	And, uh, there's the other problems that came with Rings of Power, which is modern audience problems, that being the race swapping and bounding into comics in the next one.
	One of the stars, a man called Ishmael Cordova, if we scroll down we can see you might recognize him.
	You probably didn't watch the show, um, so you'll probably recognize him from the trailer that you might have skipped through.
	Is he an elf?
	Yes.
	Yes, he... You call him what?
	Don Lemonless.
	Very clever, Samson, very clever.
	He said at a convention that there was a big controversy of me being the first elf that wasn't white.
	I loved that nerve that I pinched.
	Nobody watched the show, so was it really worth it?
	I really do.
	I was so excited to create something new.
	A lot of people speaking on behalf of Tolkien, I don't know if they understand the spirit of Tolkien, says Ishmael Cordova, who totally understands everything Tolkien was going for.
	He was writing from an English perspective, and Ishmael Cordova doesn't understand an English perspective.
	Now, listen, Tolkien was writing a new mythology for the Anglo-Saxon peoples, as he made clear.
	We, as Anglo-Saxons, and Stelios, I know you're not included in that, but spiritually I'm going to give you the Saxon Pass.
	I don't worry.
	You're part of our shield wall now.
	It's the G Pass.
	You can say Gammon.
	It's alright.
	I'm proud of my origins.
	That's absolutely fine.
	I'm not like one of those stupid ecophobic people.
	There you go, and that's very respectful of you.
	But he said that his work speaks of the times.
	Again, Tolkien was writing a mythology for the English people, based often on Anglo-Saxon stories and legends.
	As far as I'm aware, the Anglo-Saxons didn't look like Ishmael.
	No.
	They probably looked more like me.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	But he said, it's necessary to revise things and represent and exist.
	I think a lot of people look at us to affirm their own existence.
	Talk about saying the loud part, the quiet part out loud.
	Good God!
	He just said, if we don't look like modern audiences on screen, these people stop existing.
	They are so bereft of their own individuality and character that they need to get their identity from a television show.
	If you're that pathetic, you don't deserve any stake in society at all.
	I agree, but these people can vote.
	These people who, unless they see Black Elf on screen, don't think that they exist, which I don't even think is accurate because, of course, within the urban communities of America, they're huge Dragon Ball fans.
	Unless they're identifying with Mr. Popo, they're identifying with Goku, who when he goes super, Get green eyes and blonde hair, so what are they identifying with there?
	But yeah, this is slop.
	These people snap out of existence like in Avengers or something if they don't get their slop, which is another reason to stop making it.
	The other thing with the series 2 is that one of the best things that they can say about the main character, Galadriel, young Galadriel, is that she takes up space.
	What do you mean?
	She takes up space!
	What should she be?
	A waste of space?
	I mean... I mean, if that's all that they can say that she does, then yeah, she might be.
	Because she takes up space.
	I don't understand this woke obsession with the idea of, I take up space.
	All it basically sounds to me like is that you want to justify being a nuisance to the people around you and say that it's something, some grand political statement that you are loud, obnoxious and annoying.
	She takes up space should be a good slogan for the fat positivity movement.
	That's who I want to see adopting that slogan.
	I was also thinking, it does make her sound like she needs to lose a couple pounds, doesn't it?
	Yeah, lay off all the Lambert spread.
	Yeah, and what are the mainstream critics' reviews coming in about the second series now?
	Well, they're not looking good.
	Forbes already was not too popular, too enthusiastic about it, but they say his dreadful jumbled mockery of Tolkien, saying Season 2 is, if anything, Excuse me, sorry, I'm bringing up Biles speaking about it.
	Worse than season one, I've read some reviewers complain that this is all too dense.
	They're missing out on the story they opine because they're not familiar enough with Tolkien's lore.
	I'll tell you what, it's dense.
	The people who wrote the thing.
	But nothing here is even remotely based on Tolkien's lore beyond the vaguely Middle-Earth setting and some familiar characters.
	Yes, because it's a mockery.
	I first read Lord of the Rings when I was nine.
	1999 and it was just a holy experience and I see I think that this is sacrilege.
	It is, it's a mockery, it's a subversion, it's a humiliation of the source material, which again is why you shouldn't watch it, even for hate views.
	In the next one as well, The Guardian, even The Guardian are saying, I know we're woke, I know we're an awful lefty rag, but even we can only give it three stars.
	So I think we should view this, you know, It being sort of Anglo-Saxon mythology, something that the Anglosphere loves, this should be like drawing the Prophet Muhammad to Muslims for us.
	That's how we should approach this.
	I'm not... I don't know how to continue from that, so I'm just going to leave that hanging.
	That's it, yeah.
	Leave that hanging and move on.
	Of those who have decided to torture themselves watching this, The Critical Drinker is one.
	He came up with a handy-dandy little index of some of the worst lines that he's seen in the show, heard so far in the show, including things like, He played me like a harp!
	But the melody was not one of my choosing.
	They're plagiarising gay porn, aren't they?
	This doesn't sound particularly consensual, does it?
	I think that's the point.
	One does not need the eyes of an eagle to see that your thoughts have strayed far from this place.
	Oof!
	Slam dunk!
	And like an ember that has been too long removed from a fire, our people must return to their home.
	Do these people know what embers are?
	That's a very long-winded analogy.
	Next line, you're tearing me apart, Lisa.
	Is Tommy Wiseau a consultant writer on this?
	I know how to write medieval dialogue!
	I mean, isn't that Tom Wiseau in real life?
	Good God, this is like somebody who's vaguely heard about the medieval period and maybe heard that a guy like Shakespeare once wrote a few plays and got a vague idea of what it's supposed to sound like.
	It's like Chinese posters of the medieval period, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's embarrassing.
	Leave your faux poetry on the cubicle wall if you're going to write it anywhere.
	Well, certainly that first line will go down well.
	And, um, also, there was some very strange developments in it, which is there are Ork families!
	Ork-ugees?
	Look at this!
	There's Ork families who are refugees!
	Look at the little baby Ork!
	She's even got a burka on!
	Look at the little baby Ork!
	I mean, good God!
	This is again against the spirit of Tolkien, because after the battle at the fields of Pelennor and Gondor, they basically deported orcs to the far east of Eorlodur.
	As you should.
	Yeah.
	George RR Martin's wondering what Aragorn's policies are.
	There you go.
	Deport them.
	They all have to go back.
	Did they get to Middle-earth by a small boat, maybe?
	You know, aren't the orcs born of the earth?
	They sort of emerge out of it.
	Well, perhaps, but the most I'm going to subject anybody to actual footage of the show, beyond the few stills, is in this next link here, which is... Should have had more.
	No, no.
	You should, because I would laugh.
	No, no.
	I would laugh with people.
	You will laugh.
	You will laugh, because this is... Let's take a look at the Ork refugees, their conversations.
	We have a home.
	Must we go to war again?
	Trust me, my son, when I tell you that we will never truly be safe until we've made certain Sauron is no more.
	As you will it, Lord Father.
	Look at this now.
	They're trying to make you feel sympathy for the orcs.
	They're just like you and me.
	They're literally doing the thing where they see brown people and go OMG they're just like my orcs from my favorite fantasy show.
	But then they have them go up and they go over the little orc baby and they go And the audience is supposed to be there, crying.
	They're gonna have a storyline where the Orc is sort of just like a perfectly normal person, and then as soon as he gets into his job role, he's doing all of the Orc stuff.
	You know, eating people, burning and pillaging.
	And then he comes back and he's just like, oh.
	He's also gonna have a presidential dog.
	Yeah, he's swirling a thing of whiskey, just like, oh, I hate my job.
	Oh, it was a rough one at work today, honey.
	Oh, don't you want to come and look at little baby orcs?
	Yeah, of course.
	And they spit their tongues out at you.
	Orcs just want a safe place to raise their kids, be evil, and practice their... Orc lives matter.
	I mean, what can you say other than don't hatewatch it.
	Don't watch it for any reason other than to laugh at it.
	And with that, let's get into the video comments.
	I shouldn't have smacked the table.
	I wouldn't even hate watch you.
	The UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs, including heroin and cocaine, will open in Glasgow.
	The space has booths for up to eight people to safely inject heroin and other drugs at any one time.
	This has worked so well in San Francisco.
	Really, really well in San Francisco.
	There's even books on it.
	But don't worry, not all is lost.
	A proposal for a room where they can smoke illegal substances was removed due to legal issues posed by Scottish anti-smoking legislation.
	Smoking is unknown.
	Do they also supply it?
	This is around the same time that the government is almost certainly going to be going a bit softer on things like marijuana.
	With the smoking bans?
	So you're gonna get it so that you can... Yeah, you can smoke weed, but if we catch you smoking tobacco, then no, no, you only get to smoke blunts in Britain.
	Keir Starmer's actually ruled that out entirely.
	He said explicitly, I'm not gonna legalise cannabis.
	So the Lib Dems are not gonna be happy with him, are they?
	They're gonna have to go over to Europe, which they love anyway.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, that's awesome, I love it.
	I kinda want the documentary version of that comment.
	Yeah, we should put all of these together.
	I'm glad you enjoyed watching the series as much as I enjoyed making it.
	The only difficulty was compacting everything into 30-second segments and having no actual microphone to record on.
	If given the opportunity, however, I could do a much more thorough and professional production for everyone's viewing pleasure.
	On an entirely unrelated note, I live in Swindon and I'm free every Monday and Tuesday.
	I believe something is in the works, actually.
	Apparently, according to Samson, you can expect a contact from us very soon.
	Exciting!
	Keir Starmer, given current leftist boogeymen, could you come up with a new policy idea that will break a million households in the UK?
	Um, how about this?
	We let foreigners do what they want and jail the natives if they get upset or something.
	Oh, that's perfect!
	We'll call it Empathy and Love!
	Could we have another policy idea?
	Okay, how about this?
	We tax the shit out of the native population so there's no incentive to succeed, then all the rich people flee or something?
	Flawless!
	We'll call it paying your fair share!
	It was good of you to get Keir Starmer to actually voice himself in this video comment.
	A really good touch.
	That was very impressive.
	I think this was an insider footage from the Labour headquarters as well.
	There's too many white men for it to be the Labour headquarters.
	That's a good point.
	Also, Australia does have a very annoying progressive capital gains tax system, but if you've held the asset for longer than 12 months, you get a 50% capital gains tax discount.
	The idea is to force people or incentivise people to hold their assets for longer than 12 months and it discourages short sales, which has a stabilising effect on the market.
	What are your thoughts?
	We'll have to push that one to Dan.
	Well, my thoughts are that having any rules on what you can do with your own property is kind of an abomination.
	It is your stuff if you own it, so the fact that the government can micromanage stuff, certainly on the better end of managing stuff, the Australian approach, but still, it seems unnecessary to me.
	In engines, there's something called a compression ratio, which is the difference in volume of a cylinder between the bottom of the stroke and the top.
	Long and short of it is, the more you squeeze your air and fuel, the more power you get, and the cleaner it burns.
	But this is contingent upon refined fuel.
	Between 1950 and 1970, the average octane rating went from about 55 to 87, thanks to ever more modern refineries.
	However, in 71, Nixon established the EPA, which tightly regulated refineries.
	And despite many attempts since then to build new refineries, none have survived the bureaucracy.
	Theoretically, we should all be rolling around in 20 to 1 compression ratio motors, making 700 horsepower and getting 40 miles to the gallon.
	But we're not there, are we?
	Thank you, federal government.
	That's really interesting.
	Also really appreciate the moving stuff around and making stuff as a background for a video comment.
	As a person I don't really mind Nixon that much but in 71 he seemed to make a few stupid decisions which have some very bad long term effects.
	Having just returned from a fortnight in England, I would advise that you don't take too many black pills from the medicine cabinet.
	I still found the country to be beautiful and populated with friendly and warm people.
	I've learnt the value of a warm smile when greeting anyone, a lesson which I'd learnt earlier from my great-uncle Keith.
	Here I am with my grandmother who will turn 100 next year, so my return date is fixed.
	Oh fantastic, well I'm glad you had a lovely time and you know happy birthday to your grandmother when she gets there.
	Many of those places I've been to in Devon and I went back to Plymouth recently and I've also been to North Devon where my mum's family are from and North Devon is still very nice, very English.
	There's a creeping bit of diversity in Plymouth that wasn't there before I left in 2020.
	But Devon Cornwall, still lovely.
	You know, it is sort of like a haven for the Anglo.
	Ironically.
	Yeah, I know, yeah.
	Since several of you have expressed your appreciation of my dog, here's a little video just to kind of lighten the mood.
	A brief dog video.
	Aw, look at him.
	This is so wholesome.
	Sakura is unimpressed.
	Don't visit Turkey.
	Now I didn't think I'd miss Ireland when I left, but let me tell you what.
	It's pretty hard to do your spooky girl summer when it's 30 degrees and the rivers are too deep to wade through.
	And you're having to wear yellow dresses all the time because it's not windy enough.
	Nice pictures.
	Yeah.
	I didn't know Spooky Girl Summer was a thing.
	So we've got White Boy Summer and Spooky Girl Summer.
	This is how the Europeans retake the West.
	Can it be Spooky Girl Autumn so White Boy Summer doesn't overlap?
	They're two separate things.
	I suppose.
	A good vagus nerve exercise to engage your rest and digest and disengage your fight or flight is simply to simulate yawning.
	I don't need to pretend to yawn a lot of the time.
	thinking it's time to eat again, and your brain into thinking it's safe to sleep again, to rest again.
	That might just reduce your cortisol a little.
	I don't need to pretend to yawn a lot of the time.
	I just do it because I don't get enough sleep but I'll happily pretend to yawn just for you.
	I feel so much better.
	Performative yawning now.
	Disgraceful.
	Anyway, that's all of the video comments.
	So, shall we read through some of the written comments?
	Actually, first we've got the Rumble Rants from that segment.
	So, first off, Keith Kaiser for $10, thank you, says, It just works!
	Josh Judgment.
	That's one of the, uh, it's the same one that's in the Discord.
	Oh, is it?
	Judgmental, yeah.
	Yes.
	Jubbs McGee for $2 says, only good thing about the series are the critique videos.
	Highly recommend people check out Disparu.
	I've not heard of them, so... Disparu!
	Yeah, I'll check them out.
	BaldEagle1787, $2, says, you once a good Lord of the Rings TV show.
	Follow Aragorn when he was in the Gondor army or the Struggle of the Rangers in the North or follow the true heroes here of the series Boromir.
	Not aware of what he's referring to there, in fact, as regards a TV show.
	Yeah, do tell.
	Yeah, do you tell?
	Yeah, DarkNinja33 for $1 says Disney would probably make more money if they put some old TV shows on Disney+, and that they have the rights to because of the Fox Purpose purchase MASH comes to mind.
	That's probably true, but also I don't want people to have a reason to sign up for Disney+.
	Yes, they're terrible.
	Yeah, so written comments.
	First of all, George Ford says, "What actually happens in a gold-tier Zoom call?
	I have had a gold membership for years but usually can't make it.
	Is it worth going along?" Well, I think it's going to be us three on it.
	I think it's Beau rather than me.
	Oh, is it Beau?
	That's rare.
	Beau rarely makes appearances on the Zoom calls.
	So that's a lucky one.
	We go in a Zoom call and we take questions from the audience members.
	Just have a chat, really.
	For five minutes.
	Everyone's got five minutes to speak to us.
	And yeah, it's quite relaxed.
	So if you feel like showing up and you can show up, then give it a try.
	It'd be nice to speak to any of our audience members.
	Didn't you also do Waco?
	Or was it just Ruby Ridge?
	We did, yeah.
	I think Bo did one on Waco, didn't he?
	dive on Ruby Ridge worth a fiver to watch at Contemplations 170 didn't you also do Waco or was it just Ruby Ridge?
	We did yeah I think Bo did one on Waco didn't he I was on it - Mm.
	Both very important events in the recent American history.
	Fuzzy Toaster.
	I'm just loving Harry's Lovecraftian mug.
	Tara from Beyond Time.
	Time for a cuppa.
	Yeah, I love it too, and thank you again to the anonymous person who sent it in.
	I really appreciate it.
	I'm gonna read through your comment.
	Sure.
	James Hoffman says, maybe the solution for these dogs is them to come on boats to Britain.
	I would take dogs over migrants every time.
	Less feral, yes.
	Eyepatch wearing Stelios smokes while saving dogs says, uh, what I want to say about the dog topic I can't.
	Thanks Starm Troopers.
	I'll tell you one thing I'll say about it.
	Maga.
	Make Anatolia Greek again.
	There you go.
	Les Roast Beefs.
	Frenchman apparently.
	Mixed views on the stray dog issue.
	Would I go to Turkey with my young child where they could be attacked and killed by a pack of 20 stray dogs?
	Absolutely not.
	A pack of feral dog packs should not be treated like pets.
	They are a danger to us as wolves would be.
	That's true, although it's a problem that humans have created and I think we have a certain responsibility to deal with it in a more humane way than perhaps wilderness.
	Adrian Webb says, Australia lost the Emu War, hopefully the dogs will defeat the Turks.
	It doesn't take much to be honest.
	I'll do one more.
	A guy from Hungary says, Romania has stray dogs in both towns and cities.
	Most of these stray dogs are civilised and abide by the road rules, mostly.
	Many townsfolk have uncoloured dogs which roam freely around the town.
	However, stray bears are a big problem.
	I can imagine a bear being in your village a bit more of a problem than a single dog.
	It happens.
	Even pets, they can go for a walk by themselves.
	People know them.
	My dog's like a mayor or something.
	Your dog's the mayor.
	He's the mayor of the town.
	Does he manage the finances as well?
	No, he has other people doing that for him.
	He's a good delegator.
	He's got people under him, yeah.
	He's got cats doing that for him.
	He's got people's legs under him.
	Right, Baron Von Warcock.
	You said that so...
	I think it was Warhawk but maybe he mispronounced it one time and he's changed it.
	The Baron writes.
	You gave that some Leslie Nielsen delivery there.
	Those are really great movies.
	I've only seen clips from them but they're all amazing.
	They're amazing.
	They voted for this.
	Colorado is a color-blue state, so they won't get any sympathy from me.
	They voted for people who promised open borders and more immigrants so they can complain when their community gets more immigrants.
	I mean, I can get this, but I mean, they're your people.
	I know.
	Some of them.
	What I want to say is that not all Democrats, not all people who vote Democrats are just hopeless cases.
	They're not all voting for open borders.
	Some of them are voting to trans your kids.
	That's not what I'm saying.
	I'm saying that there are people who are wokeists, who are deliberately calling for these policies, and others who don't want these policies but they don't know well, but for some reason, you know, they support this.
	Anyway, it's just... No, I get what you're saying.
	That's just me.
	I'm just saying that if you want to unite a nation, you cannot just say anyone who doesn't vote as they like just deserves to be terrorized by foreign gangs.
	That's what I want to say.
	Arizona Desert Rat.
	These gangs are soon going to be trying to take over neighborhoods instead of just a building.
	I think they already do so.
	If the police don't step up, this is going to be a horrendous mess.
	Colorado once had one of the highest gun ownership.
	Then the laws changed.
	Roman Observer.
	Are we actually living in the Captain America Winter Soldier premise?
	Are the governments trying to create such a chaotic world that we agree to give them even more powers in the hope To receiving some scraps of security.
	And eyepatch-wearing Stelios smokes while saving dogs.
	It's like Snake Plays Convergence.
	What is happening in Colorado is yet another example of the cultural change that many on the right side of history, many of those on the right side of history, want.
	A culture that is comfortable with bribery and corruption in parallel with an authoritarian state.
	Essentially enforcers of unwritten state policy who can be discarded for the optics game.
	Shall we go to your comments?
	Yes, Roman Observer, remember to leftist orcs are a representation of black people, this says a lot about leftists.
	Or, like with the Starship Troopers thing, it might be that they see orcs, you know, hideous, deformed, uncivilised, and go, it's just like me.
	The same way they did with the bugs in Starship Troopers, so maybe that's why they identify so much with them and care about their representation.
	Sophie Liv, don't forget the Clarkson's Farm series 3 had more viewers per episode than that premiere of Rings of Power.
	So that's 37% of viewership that's less than Clarkson's Farm.
	Yeah, people love Clarkson's Farm, rightfully so.
	Arizona Desert Rat, who I know is a woman now.
	If it hadn't even been filmed or released, how could racist bigots express an opinion?
	Well, because I think what she's referring to there is the fact that we saw the casting and went, ugh, everybody knew.
	Grant Gibson.
	It's almost like we can look at the producer and creative team in the history of Disney, Star Wars, and predict exactly the turd about to be delivered.
	Yes.
	Every single time.
	100% prediction rate.
	Arizona Desert Rat.
	Again, ugh, even the previews of that show are beyond cringe.
	I don't know which one you're referring to that I spoke about, but yes.
	Yes.
	No matter what, these shows have such massive discrepancy between budget versus production quality, the Pentagon must have a better traceability of funding.
	Yeah, I noticed in all of the articles that I was looking at regarding Rings of Power, they all said, oh, it's costing a billion dollars, and you can see it in every frame of the show.
	And I've seen Some clips from the show, some sequences, and if you think Bloom costs that much to apply as a filter, then you've not made a film in the past.
	I think they may well have spent some of the budget in a similar way to the US intelligence agencies on large mounds of cocaine.
	Omar finishes off by saying, if cosplay, porn, parodies and YouTube fan projects put out better costumes, choreography and set designs, people need to start asking questions.
	Absolutely they do, but I think we know the answers to it already.
	And with that, we're out of time.
	Join us again, our Gold tier viewers, in about half an hour so that you can speak to myself, Stelios, Maybe, Beau?
	I'm unsure now.
	I thought it was Josh.
	If you're unlucky, it could be me.
	If you're unlucky, you might end up speaking to Josh.
	Don't want to talk to me.
	Terrible.
	For everybody else, we'll be back again at the beginning of next week, so thank you very much for watching.

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