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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1049

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 25th of November 2024.
	I am joined by Carl and Dan.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be discussing will the Labour Party government collapse soon?
	We're going to be discussing the Labour Party and Keir Starmer's links to BlackRock.
	Oh, everyone's links to BlackRock.
	Everyone loves BlackRock.
	It's funny that, isn't it?
	It's almost like having lots of money makes you popular.
	I'm sure it's that.
	And Dan's going to be talking about why you don't want to drink tap water in America.
	Yes.
	It'll make you stupid.
	Or eat the food.
	Or eat the food.
	Yes.
	Or brush your teeth.
	No, I think brushing your teeth is fine.
	I think.
	As long as it's the right kind of toothpaste.
	Yes.
	Maybe.
	Yes.
	But I don't think we have any announcements, so I suppose I may as well just go straight into it for once.
	So, there is a petition to call a general election, and this petition's only been going for a short while, and it's already...
	Yesterday.
	It was yesterday, yes.
	And at the time of recording, it's over two million, and it's been ticking up quite a bit.
	When I looked at it this morning, at 22 minutes past 10, it was at 1,965,780.
	So it's gone up a considerable amount since then because at the time of the recording it's one minute past one.
	That is quite a few signatures, and I think that this is going to tick up.
	I don't think it's going to necessarily break records.
	Well, I don't know.
	I mean, who knows?
	It's entirely possible.
	But nobody really wants any kind of petition with two million signatures against their name under any circumstance.
	It's just never a good sign.
	If two million people feel motivated enough to sign a petition, which isn't a great amount of effort, but it is some effort, well, then you're doing something wrong.
	And actually, you did a video recently, Carl, on our new channel.
	If my stream deck will allow me to have a look at it.
	Here we are.
	Nice portrait of Keir Starmer there.
	Well, I mean, it's just an accurate photo that I generated.
	He's pretty much at war, Keir Starmer, with everyone, isn't he?
	As you've rightfully said here.
	And since he's been in office, he's picked fights with lots of people.
	Pensioners, farmers...
	Who hasn't picked fights with?
	VAT runners against the middle class, calling the working class far right because of their approach.
	There are opposition to the Southport stabbings.
	Then you've got, like, Jeremy Clarkson, Donald Trump, Elon Musk.
	Like, the list just keeps going on and on and on.
	And so it's like, okay, Keir, that's...
	I mean, he's going to be picking a fight with local councils next.
	He wants to centralise councils into essentially vast mega conglomerates.
	So it's one every 500,000 people.
	Well, it makes it easier to cram more foreigners in.
	Which is the one group that he hasn't attacked, which is...
	Well, they're one of the few client groups that he actually is keeping.
	But, like, that's...
	So, the local council will become more remote from the average person, so it's a direct attack on the shires themselves.
	And so it's like, okay, what are you not at war with?
	You know, the farmers?
	He even said he would raise university fees.
	Yeah.
	Which is hilarious because the one people he could have relied on were university students.
	Yes.
	And he may have alienated his base a little bit further soon enough as well.
	He doesn't seem to think he needs a base.
	No.
	There's no one on Starmer's side at this point.
	But also he just doesn't think.
	I mean, remember that he admits that he never dreams.
	Yes.
	You know, he's just come out and said he doesn't have a favourite Christmas movie.
	What?
	Yeah, the man just simply has no personality, thoughts or feelings whatsoever.
	I mean, he did say he didn't have a favourite movie, book or poem.
	Oh, right.
	I mean, that was ages ago.
	But say, oh yeah, I also don't have a favourite Christmas movie.
	Yes.
	The answer's obviously Home Alone.
	No, it's Gremlins.
	Yes, I agree.
	Gremlins is my favourite.
	A lot of people will say Die Hard as well.
	Close second.
	But the point is, everyone's got a favourite Christmas movie, apart from a literal NPC who happens to find himself in charge of the country.
	So, one thing I did find interesting is where the signatories have come from, and a lot of these are...
	So the more pink it is, the more people denser the signatures.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And so it's a lot up north here and in the countryside.
	Basically the areas that haven't signed it very much are London, Birmingham, maybe Manchester.
	But pretty much everywhere else.
	It's the diverse areas where the client groups are that aren't signing it.
	This is literally a communist revolution that we're living through.
	And I bet if you were to overlay this on a Brexit map, it'd look basically identical, because what Brexit was is essentially an English revolution against globalism, and this appears to also be an English protest against globalism.
	And if you look at places around Essex here, places that vote reform a fair amount, these are some of the highest percentage of supporters.
	But, surprisingly...
	Brexit areas are signing this petition.
	But most places are between 4 and 5, some at 3% of the entire electorate signing this petition.
	But I think it might well average out at around 4%, which, for a petition started yesterday, is pretty good.
	Yeah.
	If that was in six months' time, you'd be like, well, that was significant.
	No, it was yesterday.
	Four percent of the electorate.
	Yeah.
	In one day.
	Apparently, you only...
	No, I'm not going to carry on saying what I was going to say.
	I mean, broadly, if two million people are willing to drop whatever they're doing to tell you that they hate you, it probably means something.
	Because this isn't like a pollster coming up and saying, do you like Keir Starmer?
	No, and then carry on with your day.
	No, no, no, hang on, I'm going to sort this position out.
	I hate Keir Starmer.
	Dear car, Starmer, FU. He's got to fill out a form, and everyone in Britain hates that.
	I mean, you've got to give your address.
	That's true, yeah.
	And it's also worth mentioning as well that Sky News had some opinion polling, which actually put Nigel Farage above Keir Starmer at the minute.
	I'm not surprised.
	Nigel Farage is hated by about half the country because woke propaganda.
	But he's loved by about a third of the country, or 28% of the country.
	But they're his hardcore fanbase.
	Keir Starmer doesn't have a hardcore fanbase.
	It's difficult to be enthusiastic for what is the equivalent of a legalistic process.
	That's all he is, in a sense, isn't he?
	No thoughts or feelings, just...
	The regional manager for Globalism, Inc.
	Exactly.
	He did get a shout-out from all those violent prisoners that were released.
	That's true, yeah.
	They thanked him by name.
	Prisoners love him.
	Prisoners and foreigners love this guy.
	Criminals.
	So that's 23% of the country, right.
	Also, he picked a fight with Elon Musk, and now Elon Musk is more popular than Keir Starmer in Britain.
	Doesn't take much.
	I think five points lower than Elon Musk now.
	And think of all the leftists that must hate Elon Musk in Britain as well, so he must be doing something wrong there.
	And it's also worth mentioning as well, the person that started the petition, if he wanted to dismiss this as political point scoring, this was started by the owner of a pub who would obviously have a good reason to be angry at him.
	And I'm going to read from this article directly.
	It says, he said his fury was sparked in particular by Rachel Reeves' budget, which, despite promising one pence off of a pint, will actually hike booze costs for pub punters thanks to the rise minimum wage and hikes to national insurance, which everyone knew.
	You know, the one penny...
	You know, the one penny off of the pint was just insulting.
	Total smokescreen.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Because the prices would go up anyway.
	And this also has the backdrop of some of the farming tax scandals.
	So, there was this story.
	BBC Verify used Labour activists to back government's claim on farm inheritance tax...
	And it keeps getting worse, this farmer's story.
	I saw the other day that we're raising whatever it is, 500 million from it, and they've just pledged most of that money to Ukrainian farmers.
	Yep.
	Yeah, British farmers forget about it.
	Foreign farmers are great.
	There's a 22 billion budget black hole.
	Okay, what are you going to do?
	We're going to assign 22 billion for carbon capture?
	What's happening, man?
	Yeah, they're spending more of our money abroad than ever.
	So it's worth mentioning that the claim he backed particularly was that only about 500 estates a year would be affected, and then the Country Land and Business Association claimed that actually it would be around 70,000 farms.
	Which is a bit of a disparity.
	I'm not sure if any of you are good at maths there.
	Well, even if it isn't 100% right now, I mean, remember when income tax was brought in, it affected like 2% of the population.
	Now it affects everybody.
	So inflation will get you to the point where everybody is paying it.
	But also, this is just a lie.
	I mean, I saw...
	Have I got news for you?
	Ian Hislop was just blatantly lying.
	He said, oh, it's only going to be 3 million or more.
	No, it's 1 million, it says in the budget, and the average farm in the UK is worth about 3 million.
	So about two-thirds of farms are going to be affected by this, according to their own numbers.
	And there may be some sort of arcane, legalistic way of navigating through it, but I'm sure the average farmer doesn't know what that is.
	And I'm sure they know that the average farmer doesn't.
	Well, the farm's only worth that much because the price of the land has shot up, which they never asked for.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, but it would also be like, you know, the Labour Party puts you in the middle of the Coliseum filled with lions and they say, well, you know, you've got a chance of getting out of it.
	Yeah, technically.
	It's still immoral to put people in that situation in the first place.
	And it's worth mentioning as well that the BBC, their verify unit, which, you know, is a questionably...
	They keep lying.
	Morally questionable thing in the first place.
	They just keep lying.
	They lied about me, they lied about this, they lied about a bunch of other stuff.
	So they silently deleted the statement from this guy because they realised that...
	It's not true.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I wonder if the BBC's truth department has a higher percentage of lies than the BBC as a whole.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	That would be a very interesting thing to calculate.
	Yeah.
	It's almost like the incentive structure in the organisation itself isn't necessarily perfect for trying to be truthful.
	Yes.
	Perhaps it's propaganda, not...
	Well, they also just put a known liar in charge of it.
	And the funny thing is...
	The woman in charge of it lied on her CV to get her job.
	So, like, it's just...
	I'm not even joking.
	It's just crazy.
	The funny thing is, as well, the BBC went out of their way to carry water for Starmer, and then he threw them under the bus, unintentionally, by agreeing with Jeremy Clarkson.
	Oh!
	So, you know Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers' protest said the BBC are basically just repeating...
	Government's own line, yeah.
	Exactly.
	Well, Starmer then said that the BBC was backing him over the inheritance tax raid on the farmers, which is the one thing you wouldn't want to say if the impartial BBC... What you want to do is have this mask of, well, they're a neutral organisation.
	They're holding us to account.
	Exactly.
	So, yes.
	I mean, Victoria Derbyshire was literally just parroting the government's line back at Clarkson.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's just embarrassing.
	No wonder people like us are growing and they're losing, whatever it is, 100,000 TV licence payers every quarter.
	But I think that this isn't going to win him any favours with the people who are going out of their way to carry water for him because...
	Lots of journalists will be paying attention to the fact that the BBC went out of their way to basically promote propaganda for him and then he unintentionally went out of his way to expose them by just openly saying they're supporting me, which he shouldn't have done because it was stupid.
	But now the guy who originally made the claim to support Labour has U-turned as well.
	He has posted this and he said, actually I was wrong.
	I've changed my mind and I've discovered that I can do maths now.
	And he says, new data on farms and inheritance tax.
	A third of farm estates over 1.5 million aren't farmers but wealthy people avoiding inheritance tax.
	But he also says the budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly it needs to change.
	So he's still attacking them from a left-wing paradigm there.
	He's attacking them from the left.
	But still, it's not looking good for them when this guy who was supposedly a cheerleader for them has now turned on them as well.
	And we're going to see probably a lot more of this going forward because things you would want to see if a government were to step down because of their unpopularity, you would want to see institutions like the civil service or perhaps the intelligence agencies telling against them, journalists like this guy.
	And perhaps, I'm thinking of people like Liz Truss, the money men, people in say the Bank of England, but economic pressures.
	So you want to see all of these sorts of people turning against them and that's when a...
	The position becomes untenable.
	Yes, when there's a coup.
	But he posted this in the Tax Policy Association, a very long thing, basically breaking down how their plan isn't very good.
	And it's also worth mentioning as well, there is another petition ticking ahead as well, specific to farming, which is at 86,000 so far.
	Almost at the 100,000 where it has to be debated in Parliament.
	And so, moving on to the economy, it's not looking good for them either.
	There seems to be movements towards the money men stabbing Labour in the back.
	The Liverpool economy is going to be roaring though.
	I know, yes.
	So tax rises will make it harder to hire, says the Confederation of British Industry, which, you know, you would want to be on your side.
	And what they've said is also being confirmed by many company bosses, saying that it's putting them off hiring, which is obviously not good for the economy, obviously.
	It's not good for workers, is it?
	No, it's not good for the population either.
	Yeah.
	And also they're saying it's going to hit growth as well, which is going to prevent businesses from growing.
	Ah, it just sounds like far-right propaganda from the CBI boss.
	Look at that.
	Typical far-righter.
	But do you know what Keir Starmer's doing?
	He's throwing out a little bit of red meat for the Gammons.
	He's pledged to crack down on people who are gaming the system for benefits.
	Which does make him popular with his own base as well, because they're going to see that for what it is, is you're throwing out red meat for the gammons, and...
	That's just...
	I just...
	It's so...
	Like...
	The thing is, he's not doing it because it's the right thing to do, right?
	People shouldn't be gaming the benefit system.
	He's doing it because, look, no, we need to ship that money overseas.
	Ukraine needs that money.
	Foreign farmers need that money.
	I mean, the NHS needs to pay for foreign people to come and use the NHS. That's why we're doing it.
	He's not doing it because it's the right thing to do.
	It's...
	I mean, people on benefits was his core heartland.
	He's going after them as well.
	Yeah, he's just out to alienate everyone.
	We need to pay for foreigners to live in hotels, so therefore, you know, you're going to have to go without your benefits.
	Mm-hmm.
	I mean, I don't support either.
	I'd like to throw it out there.
	Sure, but still, if we're going to have benefits, I'd rather it be for British people rather than non-British people.
	Yeah, fair enough.
	Those are the days.
	Begrudgingly.
	And you know I mentioned the intelligence agencies.
	So, obviously, current intelligence agency people cannot comment, and so normally former staff are sort of bellwether for people's attitudes within the intel sphere.
	And normally these people are a lot more important than people give them credit for.
	And...
	I think that what Keir Starmer would not want would be someone of prominence coming out, say someone who was formerly a head of one of their organisations coming out and basically calling out their entire means of governing.
	And I think that a lot of this goes on because past a certain point the Labour Party becomes a liability to the pursuit of the organisation's self-interest and therefore they turn on it.
	Sure.
	And that's normally what happens if they feel like, you know, better cut our losses.
	Well, that's what's happened.
	So this is the former head of MI6, Richard Dearlove.
	He said of Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, instead of using our own resources, we're following a crazy plan under Ed Miliband.
	We need independence, which I actually agree with.
	Yeah, obviously, but like, yeah, Ed Miliband's bonkers.
	He's gone mad, and he's convinced that if we can get to net zero by 2030, the world will be saved.
	Like, you are insane.
	Yes.
	And then he says of David Lammy, the foreign secretary, Lammy has too much baggage.
	He'll be involved in the special relationship, but not in any meaningful way.
	Well, he called Trump a Nazi for...
	Exactly.
	And then on cuts to defence, he said defence should be at the very top of the government's agenda, even above the NHS, but it isn't.
	In the midst of Keir Starmer stoking a war with Russia.
	Exactly.
	Incredible.
	And then finally, he says that Keir Starmer is not taking domestic issues seriously.
	Might be something to do with the fact he's shipping all of this money abroad instead of, you know, dealing with things at home.
	And he says directly here, Starmer is jumping on and off planes when there are serious issues at home.
	It's ridiculous.
	Those are some pretty strong words from the former head of MI6. Yeah, but, you know, Starmer's not really a national politician, is he?
	No, that is very true.
	So, this poses the question, then, will a general election happen anytime soon?
	And I think that all of Starmer's actions have indicated that he will ignore this, and we'll play a clip of him pretty much saying so.
	However, these sorts of things are not useless.
	And I'd like to play a short clip of Ben Habib on GB News.
	Speaking about what happens, because I think he's taking the view of the petition is important, but putting economic pressure on the Labour Party will be the sort of straw that breaks the camel's back.
	And I think that all of these sorts of things will add up slowly.
	Lots of people will turn on them and they'll find that they have no friends left.
	And then there'll be a comparable thing to that of...
	Liz Truss, where the institutions just turn on them and then they can't do anything and they're forced to...
	Yeah, just before you do, because this was the most irritating midwit response to this petition that I saw all of last night.
	It was loads of people coming out and saying, oh, he's not going to call an election just because you put up a petition.
	I'm no kidding!
	He's like, yeah, obviously.
	So it's not going to have the first order effect, but there were secondary and tertiary effects that will flow from this.
	Delegitimisation...
	It makes him have to focus more on the response that his policies are having against simply rolling them out.
	So yeah, it is a very important petition, but yes, to all the midwits out there, and even worse, if you're in the comments, no, it's not going to call a bloody general election on the basis of it.
	No, but the point is to put pressure on him.
	So when he's in the Starmer bunker, all he's seeing, all of the inputs that they get are negative, negative, negative, negative.
	Oh, there's a protest here.
	Oh, there's a petition here.
	Oh, the finances are going down the tube.
	Negative, negative, negative.
	Put pressure on them.
	So they're in their little Fuhrer bunker and hopefully it collapses.
	Yes.
	That's what we're asking for.
	That's what the point is.
	So here's what Habib said, which I thought was quite good.
	He calls it stability.
	Ben Habib?
	Well, I don't think this petition will result in a general election, even if it got, I mean, if it got to 9.7 million people voting in favour of another election, that's the same number of votes that Labour got, so that would be interesting.
	People say to me, Ben, there's no chance of this government giving up its huge majority no matter what happens between now and 2029. And I don't agree.
	I think that there are pressures that can come to bear that could force this government back to the electorate.
	And the most obvious one is a collapse in the economy.
	And I think some of the measures taken by Rachel Reeves already are not playing out the way she expected them to play out.
	Sterling, I don't know if people are watching, but Sterling is down 7% against the dollar in the last three months.
	That's a very significant move in sterling, and that's not a general strengthening of the dollar.
	That is sterling weakening on its own.
	That is basically people saying they don't want to buy British products, they don't want to buy British debt, British investments.
	And a crucial component of this government being able to finance itself Is foreigners buying British bonds.
	And they don't need to buy British bonds.
	You know, most people as investors have to have some exposure to US Treasuries because the dollar is the currency of the world.
	But sterling isn't.
	It's not the reserve currency of the world.
	So people don't have to buy our bonds.
	And there's a very, very real possibility that she's got her numbers wrong.
	That she will need to borrow more money than she says she's going to have to borrow.
	That growth will go through the floor.
	It will be in a recession.
	In fact, all the indicators are that we're heading into a recession.
	Unemployment will rise.
	And even if they put up interest rates, they won't be able to get people to buy British government bonds.
	Then you have the United Kingdom going off to the IMF, cap in hand, saying, please, can we have a bailout?
	And that would be a disaster for any government.
	And I think that you can then force a general election on a government if they absolutely collapse the economy.
	What do we think about that?
	Because I think it's a pretty compelling argument by that point, isn't it?
	And I think that that's the direction that the economy is going in.
	Every metric I've seen has suggested...
	But it was already the case after the budget, bond yields went up.
	So effectively the price of the underlying bond went down, meaning that they need to issue more of them, meaning that their debt costs have gone up.
	So that process was already playing out.
	Mm-hmm.
	So it's just a matter of time, really.
	It is definitely possible that the political position in the Labour Party becomes so untenable, like I said, the institutions don't want to or can't respond, there's absolutely no public support, that Keir Starmer will end up essentially being isolated, again, in his little Fuhrerbunker with his little inner circle, as the world around them has just changed so significantly that they can't maintain their position.
	So, Keir Starmer can be block-headed about it all he wants, but things happen whether he likes it or not.
	That is very true.
	And I think that, to sort of summarise what I think, I don't think the petition is going to be directly the thing that might...
	No, it's just a straw on the camel's back.
	It is, yeah.
	And it's adding more and more pressure.
	And lots of these institutions now are seemingly turning on him in significant ways.
	You know, you're seeing intelligence agencies, you're seeing economic measures, you're seeing some journalists that have had their noses put out.
	But moreover, he's got to think of the future of his own party, because, okay, let's assume that somehow he manages to ride this out for five years.
	What does the Labour Party's prospects look like after five years of just revulsive governance?
	Where the economy's been destroyed.
	People have just not been listened to.
	And there have been multiple gargantuan protests, multiple gargantuan petitions.
	People are just, no, I'm done with the Labour Party.
	I hate Keir Starmer.
	I'm done with them.
	What do they look like?
	Well, they look like worse than the Conservative Party.
	Annihilation of the Labour Party is on the cards.
	Yes.
	Because at the end of the day, he will eventually have to come back to the electorate.
	It will look what...
	Well, and things like this are good because it erodes political capital, and there will be things that they can do.
	They can easily twiddle the dials they've got in front of them.
	There are other things they want to do, but they require buy-in from other parties in order to get the more radical elements of the agenda across.
	And if they lack the political capital being eroded by something like this, they are unable to get that buy-in, and therefore the set of options in front of them are constrained.
	So it's good.
	Of course, they do have a sizable majority as well, so there is potential for...
	Yeah, but if you need to reach out to other groups, you know, who knows who they might be.
	It might be the bond market, it might be the lords, I mean, it could be a huge number of organisations they need to reach out to.
	International business investors?
	Exactly.
	Yeah, and they can't get the buy-in because they lack that political capital.
	Mm-hmm.
	And other members of reform are basically pointing this out, that signing the petition may not force an election, but it will definitely send a message, which I think is the most reasonable point out of all of this.
	I can hear a message.
	Maybe I should listen to it.
	And let's hear what he had to say, shall we?
	Are you now feeling the pressure?
	Because I think there's a petition that's currently on the line of 1.9 people who want the election to go again.
	Do you feel the pressure?
	Look, I remind myself that very many people didn't vote Labour at the last election.
	I'm not surprised that many of them want a rerun.
	That isn't how our system works.
	There would be plenty of people who didn't want us in in the first place.
	So what I focus on is the decisions that I have to make every day.
	But surely you want us, the public, to trust you, to like you, to think he's the man for the job, he's doing what he needs to do.
	Your approval rating is lower than Nigel Farage's right now.
	Which, even saying it to the Prime Minister of the country I live in, that I pay tax in, to say your approval rate is lower than Nigel Farrow's, that's disappointing whoever I support.
	The thing is, if you make your mind up, as I have done, that we're going to do the difficult things first, then I think it's inevitable that people do feel they're difficult decisions.
	I mean, I understand that.
	God, he's so soulless.
	Yeah, but the expression on his face is so weird.
	Like, he was having genuine trouble computing that he had intransigent opposition of his own making after only five months in government.
	He just didn't seem to understand.
	His unwillingness to be pragmatic, I think, will be one of the things that sows the seeds of his destruction.
	And he doesn't seem to understand that he doesn't have a mandate for the radical changes that he's imposing on us.
	He doesn't have a mandate for this.
	He got fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn did.
	And that was a resounding defeat.
	It's just that everyone else was just more unpopular.
	Yeah.
	And, like, he got 20% of the potential electorate.
	He wasn't the most loved.
	He was the least hated at the time.
	I don't even know if he was the least hated.
	I think it was the conflict between Farage and the Conservatives that screwed him.
	That's true.
	Because they basically took a third of the Conservatives.
	Split the vote, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, plus they probably got half of that vote just because people voted Labour last time and they voted Labour the time before that.
	It's just ingrained behaviour for a lot of people.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So yes, I don't think that there's going to be an end to it, but it seems like there is some sort of something in the works here to remove the Labour Party.
	It does seem to be possible, and it seems that it's becoming more and more likely.
	However, how long they'll cling on to power, we don't know yet.
	Who knows what we'll be in a year's time.
	Binary Surf says, Yeah, but I really do think there comes a time where literally everyone around them is like, here, you've just got to go.
	You know, this is what happened to Truss.
	You've just got to go.
	And eventually they have to kind of just suck it up and resign.
	Anyway, everyone loves Blackrock, don't they?
	Blackrock, that mom and pop business.
	They did good, made big, and are now making the world a better place.
	That's what everyone thinks about Blackrock, isn't it?
	I know because I went and watched Dan's Brokonomics on Blackrock, and that's a fair summary of how you characterise them, isn't it?
	I think so.
	Very short version.
	They're an institutional pension fund manager.
	The firm's own assets are relatively small, but they directly control 10 trillion and they indirectly control another 20 trillion through their Aladdin software, which basically helps other financial firms pick stocks.
	So they're massively influential.
	And one quick more thing I would note on these is basically every time something goes materially wrong in the economy, such as in 2008, The US government calling these guys to say how can they fix it and they go away and have a think and come up with a way that fixes it, in inverted commas, but also makes them richer and then the government just does that.
	So they are powerful and influential as a firm.
	So it's not exactly great news if they start taking over your country then.
	Oh no, that would be bad.
	That would be bad, would it?
	Yes.
	That's interesting.
	Well, I've got some bad news for everyone then.
	Right.
	Go and sign up, support us, watch Dan's Blackrock Deep Dive for better and more detailed information that I'm going to give you, because I'm going to talk about just simply Blackrock's relationships.
	Because everyone loves everyone in this, and this is lovely.
	So, I mean, you remember that Starmer loves Zelensky, right?
	I mean, he looks like literally he's about to kiss in there.
	For the first time ever, Starmer's grimmest cracked face It looks sinister to see him smiling.
	I'm sort of unnerved.
	It does look sinister to see him smiling.
	And look how tightly he's pulling in Zelensky's hand.
	It's like, no, touch me, Zelensky.
	My support for you is ironclad.
	Nothing will break us apart.
	And Zelensky kind of looks like he's backing away, doesn't he?
	Oh, God.
	It looks like he's pulling him in so he can rub his hand over his belly.
	But Zelensky looks like this guy likes me a bit too much, actually.
	But Zelensky has turned into an avatar of, quote, our freedom, our democracy, and our values.
	What?
	This guy was a comedian on Ukrainian TV, somehow became a billionaire himself, and then got elected on the back of playing a president of Ukraine on TV. I mean, he kind of still is doing that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's completely true.
	But I don't really see Ukraine as a bastion of our freedom, our democracy, and our values.
	But Keir Starmer does, which makes me wonder what the our in that actually refers to.
	Well, before the war, people pointed out that Ukraine was the most corrupt country in Europe, even more so than Russia, which was second.
	The BBC would point that out.
	They would write articles about it.
	The Guardian would point that out.
	Now, of course, they don't.
	And so, Keir Starmer, because he loves Zelensky so much, and he's so overwhelmed with him, he's like, yeah, we'll give £3 billion a year to Zelensky for his life.
	He really likes touching him, doesn't he?
	He loves touching Zelensky.
	It's really...
	Like, again, one of the few people...
	Like, Zelensky looks uncomfortable with how much Starmer likes him.
	But the point is, there's no amount of money that Starmer won't give to Zelensky.
	No, three billion a year for as long as it takes, and I don't care.
	So, so far, we've given them 12 billion, according to The Guardian.
	It's like, okay, great.
	Great.
	Since February 2022. And Starmer then went to NATO and was like, NATO allies, we need to give them more money.
	God, do you just love Zelensky that much?
	And that's actually a genuine smile as well, because you can always tell when somebody's faking a smile, because the face just doesn't respond in the same way to a fake smile as a real one.
	Yeah, the eyes don't crinkle.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's the first real smile I've ever seen from this man.
	It's unbelievably creepy.
	Anyway, so Zielinski loves Blackrock.
	This is from, as you can see, the Ukrainian official website from the presidency.
	They tell us that the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, again, Volodymyr, Vladimir is so weird, held a video conference meeting with Larry Fink, one of the world's leading investment managers at BlackRock, and in accordance with preliminary agreements struck earlier this year between the head of state and Larry Fink, the BlackRock team has been working for several months on a project to advise the Ukrainian government on how to structure the country's reconstruction funds.
	They smell money.
	They do.
	During the conversation, it was emphasized that certain BlackRock leaders plan to visit Ukraine in the new year.
	We've got to see what your new province looks like, right?
	And the president thanked Larry Fink for the work of the professional team that BlackRock has allocated to advise on the restructuring and construction projects.
	So Starmer loves Zelensky, Zelensky loves BlackRock, and BlackRock just love Ukraine.
	Again, this is from BlackRock's own website.
	This is amazing.
	I would argue that this is the real reason that lots of Western countries are supporting Ukraine.
	Oh, you think?
	Well, money.
	That's too cynical.
	I think they just really like each other.
	I think they're just best buddies.
	They're all pals.
	BlackRock, as they tell us, and the Ministry of Ukraine have signed a memorandum of understanding whereby BlackRock will provide advisory support for designing investment framework and this will create opportunities for both public and private investors to participate in the future reconstruction and recovery of the Ukrainian economy.
	So we're going to start buying things and we're going to slowly but surely own your country.
	So there's also a very perverse incentive being set up here.
	Oh really?
	And a precedent in that there's an incentive to start wars and then profit off of the destruction, isn't there?
	No kidding!
	If only there were like, I don't know, a left-wing movement in the West that cared about that.
	Something like that.
	It's funny, isn't it?
	It's almost you remember those those charts that show around the time of Occupy Wall Street 2010.
	Yeah, you know, it's racism.
	And I also remember how the left used to complain about Well, the the West and our companies doing that with Iraq and Afghanistan, but never mind anyway So what's interesting is that Ukraine actually has a law that You can't read this because it's in Ukrainian, but I use Google Translate.
	And in this, it says, The following may acquire ownership of agricultural land plots.
	A. Citizens of Ukraine.
	B. Legal entities of Ukraine.
	C. Territorial communities.
	So that, you'd think, would put BlackRock out of business there.
	They've got no options.
	But D. Is the state.
	Oh, okay.
	Right.
	So...
	That went so well for them in the 30s.
	Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, brilliant.
	But the point is, BlackRock can give Zelensky as much money as they want, and as the president, Zelensky can buy all of these things and just have it flow through him.
	So people are saying, well, no, BlackRock can't just directly buy the agricultural land.
	It's like, do they need to, is the question.
	But anyway, do you know who else loves BlackRock?
	Go on.
	Starmer, obviously.
	For some reason, he tweeted this out the other day.
	Now, this didn't have to happen.
	He could have had a meeting with BlackRock, like, on the down low, right?
	He could have just had the meeting with BlackRock.
	Only a few journos would have known, and the regime journos wouldn't have made a big fuss about it.
	But for some reason, Kit Starmer tweeted out, quote,"...I'm determined to deliver growth, create wealth, and put more money in people's pockets." So what's that got to do with BlackRock?
	Larry thinks pockets.
	He doesn't specify which people.
	Exactly.
	The people he sat around the table with.
	This can only be achieved by working in partnership with leading businesses like BlackRock.
	Is BlackRock just a business?
	Does BlackRock have a business?
	I don't know.
	It's certainly not a charitable organisation that turned up to this dinner because they weren't getting paid.
	But BlackRock is going to help them capitalise on the UK's position as a world-leading hub for investment.
	I mean...
	OK. That's like describing...
	We're going to have a lot of farmland that's freshly on the market, aren't we?
	We don't have laws like Ukraine that prevents foreigners from owning them.
	Well, one interesting theory that I've seen put forward by Blackhorse, one of the guys I follow on Twitter, is he's saying, well, maybe the reason Starmer is doing this is because...
	Blackrock was promised all that Ukrainian land, and because the war isn't going the way they want it to go, Blackrock is now in the negative column for the promises.
	And so Starmer's like, okay, well I'll engineer it so that you can end up with British farmland instead, so you're made good.
	Well, I've got no reason to think that's the case, although I wouldn't rule it.
	Well, it's the most psychopathic outcome, so therefore it's possible.
	Yeah, but I think the issue is BlackRock can't directly own land in Ukraine because of the laws.
	But why not just go through Zelensky and the reconstruction projects?
	Okay, we don't own it, but we're liable for a contract that says, okay, now BlackRock gets like 20% of the profits or something like that, or whatever it is.
	So they don't need to own it to be able to extract tons of wealth from it.
	Well, and also, I mean, it may be that the states want black rock involved in farming, because farming is very diverse.
	It's got, well, diverse as in lots of different people doing it, not as in, you know, the modern...
	A normal definition of the word diverse.
	But if you've got...
	Big firms going up and buying all the little firms, then it's a lot easier to deal with BlackRock than it is to deal with 10,000 individual farms.
	And also, BlackRock have a history of going in and putting in, like, the DEI policies and all the rest of it.
	Although apparently they're rolling that back.
	Think himself apparently did say...
	They have somewhat, they've realised some pushback, but the fact is that was their mindset to put it in in the first place, so they will happily wheel in whatever the next thing is.
	Well, I mean, I guess it's just convenient for Blackrock that there'll be tens of thousands of new farms on the market.
	Indeed.
	But anyway, so Kirstarmer loves Blackrock.
	So who does Blackrock love?
	Well, the answer is Kirstarmer.
	They think he's great.
	Larry Fink last year came over to Britain, met with Keir Starmer, and was like, oh, I love Keir Starmer.
	He's brilliant.
	Which I just, again, how can you have a conversation with Keir Starmer and come away with that opinion?
	Larry Fink said, I was in the UK and I spent time with both parties, the Conservatives and the Labour Party, It's literally a duopoly here.
	I mean, it's just so open.
	I love it.
	At least we get to know what exactly is happening.
	And I'm extremely pleased to see how the Labour Party in the UK went from being the extremist party with a Marxist leader to Keir Starmer.
	That didn't age well, did it?
	So little automatons.
	Yeah, but the idea that Keir Starmer isn't a Marxist extremist is hilarious as well.
	That's literally what his student life was.
	You need to look at his case history, yeah.
	Yeah, he doesn't appear to have changed in any way, shape or form.
	So it's just, you know, they're a very moderate party.
	It's like, yeah, that's why everyone hates them, because they're so moderate.
	That's why people think Keir Starmer is literally the worst politician in Britain, because he's just so moderate.
	Well, and of course, Starmer is Trilateral Commission, which is one of these organisations that believes in One World Government.
	Yes.
	Starmer loves Davos and hates Westminster.
	Yes, and I don't know if Larry Fink is a member of the Trilateral Commission, but I'd be very surprised if he wasn't.
	I'm sure he's got nothing to do with it.
	So it seems possible that going to all of these dinners, which we are told, oh no, they're not into the One World Government stuff anymore, they're just going for dinner because they like the food...
	It seems that actually Starmer did get something out of going to these dinners and hobnobbing with the Blackrock types.
	Yeah.
	Well, again, they all love him.
	He loves them.
	Again, it's just a big circle of friends, you see.
	They're just buddies.
	So he hopes that Keir Starmer gets elected in 2023. And there is no question in my mind that I've never seen more fear and more distrust.
	Fear is pervasive now.
	And the question is, who do I listen to?
	So he's complaining about the institutional discreditation, the fact that people don't believe in our democracy anymore.
	And he thinks that with Keir Starmer in charge, people have firm confidence in the way that the country's being run.
	Again, things that age really badly.
	But the point is they're longtime friends, right?
	So Open Democracy had some emails from BlackRock and the Labour Party leaked to them.
	Which is fascinating.
	So at 5pm on Monday the 8th of July, a managing director investment called Jonathan Reynolds from BlackRock emailed Rachel Reeves.
	Was it Rachel Reeves?
	Who's Secretary of State?
	Oh, sorry, Sandra Boss, right?
	So they said, it's a pleasure to address you like this after all these years.
	It's just fascinating.
	And I'll explain the details.
	This goes on for a little while, actually.
	But it's a very, very pally, friendly, oh, thank God, finally I get to call you, you know, secretary of whatever.
	And it's like, great.
	And so, okay, great.
	So the Labour Party loved BlackRock.
	BlackRock loved the Labour Party.
	Keir Starmer loves Zelensky, Zelensky loves BlackRock, and who did BlackRock also love?
	That's right, Ukraine.
	Because BlackRock are part of the 15 billion finance to rebuild Ukraine.
	BlackRock themselves are putting in, not 15 billion, but a percentage of that.
	And what is hoping to be raised, the World Bank and various others are hoping to raise 500 billion in total for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
	BlackRock will be directly involved in advising how this is all done.
	Well, just a quick point on basic finance, but let's say you've got X amount of billions to invest in a country to rebuild it.
	Well, if you're going to rebuild it, you're first going to have to acquire it in the state it's in.
	If it is a bombed out wreck, it's a lot cheaper than if that particular area of the city wasn't touched.
	So if you're looking to make a financial investment, you would actually want to see as much of it demolished as possible so that your 15 billion goes a hell of a lot further with bombed out wrecks than it would intact buildings.
	Well that is entirely true.
	But the priority areas for the fund will be the key sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure and energy.
	So the things that make Ukraine run as a country will be bought and paid for by this fund of which BlackRock is going to be a significant chunk.
	And so that's just a total coincidence.
	That they're all buddy-buddy.
	They've got this lovely little circle jerk, and they're all investing in one another, and everyone's just happy, and they're just trying to make the world a better place.
	I don't know about you, but I feel reassured.
	DragonLadyChris says, Kiv showed up on my GeoGuessr game last night.
	Considering what it looks like, I'm like, nah, go ahead and nuke it.
	I actually haven't seen what the street of it looks like, so I couldn't tell you.
	But anyway, we'll leave that there.
	Right.
	Yes, let's talk about how the left is freaking out yet again, this time over fluoride, because that's being taken away from them like seed oil and all the other things that are upsetting them.
	Let's start off with upset libs, shall we?
	The bug men are freaking out.
	Definitely did not expect to be asking you about fluoride and water two days before the election.
	I was a little shocked that one of their closing arguments for Donald Trump was take the fluoride out of water.
	He's going to have a big role in healthcare, very big role.
	He knows it better than anybody.
	We haven't talked about this at all in the last 700 days, but suddenly the thing that's been normal in this country for 80 years, it's like, we're gonna get rid of that on day one.
	In the tweet last night, on January 20, the Trump White House will advise all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water.
	He also linked to a site that features outlandish health claims, conspiracy theories like HIV-like viruses are in vaccines, and widely debunked medical claims.
	This is a tweet from you.
	Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.
	Of course, fluoride in water has been known to keep your teeth healthy, prevent cavities.
	It is safe.
	It's not toxic.
	There are some rocks to be thrown, frankly, at RFK Jr. because some of it actually is just straight up dangerous.
	23.5 million people thought it was pretty great.
	The news media hated it.
	Yes, so as you can gather, they're not too happy.
	There's loads more clips like that I could have played.
	I've actually found videos of people chugging down entire glasses of seed oils.
	Yes.
	Because the right is trying to take it away from them.
	Amazing.
	I found numerous accounts saying, oh my god, how are we going to add fluoride back into our water once they take it out?
	I'm happy for the left to continue drinking fluoridated water and seed oils, for that matter, if they want to.
	I believe in freedom, so please continue doing that.
	I love the trade-off.
	They say, well, you know, it's going to give you bone density problems and it's going to lower your IQ, but your teeth will be fine.
	So, oh, great.
	Yes.
	Well, actually, I think Josh is on the right track.
	I like the idea of individualised democracy, whereas if you want to vote for zero taxes, then you get, personally, zero taxes.
	And if you want to vote for massive amounts of chlorine and boosters and all the rest of it, then you should get that.
	I quite like that idea.
	Right.
	Oh, and now we've got...
	I tell you what, to balance that, why don't I give you what the man actually is?
	We won't play all of this, but we play a bit of it so you get the idea.
	And it was put in water to stop tooth decay.
	But now it's recognized that most of our mouthwashes and toothaches have fluoride in them and you don't need fluoride in the water.
	It's a very inefficient way of preventing tooth decay because you're getting it in people's blood.
	And that's how it's exposing the teeth.
	And as it turns out, fluoride is very, very dangerous.
	It causes IQ loss.
	We know they haven't done a lot of studies that they should have done.
	But there are extensive studies that show if you put fluoride in water at double the rate that EPA now allows, that is in all of our water systems that use it in this country, and it causes dramatic IQ loss in children, and particularly in unborn fetuses.
	It also causes bone cancer, and we had an explosion of bone cancer beginning in the 1940s.
	It causes arthritis, and it causes the deterioration of bones, of bone fractures, and it causes thyroid injuries.
	It also calcifies the pineal gland of the human brain.
	Which is the part of our brain that actually creates our spiritual feelings.
	Oh, I can't stop it, but there we go.
	So, you know, that is basically what has got people, well, the left, particularly upset by this.
	But my calcified pineal gland.
	Yes.
	I don't want to have spiritual feelings.
	I might start thinking that my life has been sinful.
	Apparently now, if you stop drinking tap water, you will now start believing in God.
	So...
	2024 is a wild time.
	So I don't know about that bit, but maybe it's true.
	Spiritual feelings have been prevalent in the human race for a long time, so it must come from some part of brain physiology, or perhaps God.
	I'm not going to pick a side on that one.
	Surely our feeling towards God is within us, and God is real.
	But if that is the pineal gland, I don't know, and we're essentially switching that off using technological means...
	I'm already sold on this.
	I only drink filtered water and I only use toothpaste that doesn't have fluoride in it.
	Do you believe in God?
	Not yet.
	Using too much.
	I've had too much tap water, yeah.
	That's what it was.
	To still man the other side of this, the argument for putting it in the water is because, like RFK says, it gets into your blood and that's how it gets into your teeth, as while they're growing, it's kind of inlaid in the teeth rather than being brushed over the top of them.
	And therefore, it's just a much denser saturation of fluoride in your teeth, especially as you're growing.
	That would be the argument.
	Can't I just brush my teeth though?
	Well, the counter-argument would be brush your teeth and stop shoving sugar down your throat on a constant basis.
	Yes.
	Which is the other way to go.
	So, anyway, this all resulted in...
	Oh, hang on.
	This all resulted in...
	No, I've gone too far.
	Yes, this article from AP, which I will give you the cliff notes of it, but basically it's fluoride is going to make you stupid.
	According to the US CDC, additional levels of fluoride to drinking water has long been considered the greatest public health achievement of the last century.
	Well, I suppose there was also another one about four years ago that we can't really talk about on YouTube that was considered to be the greatest achievement ever in medicine.
	So it's either that or putting fluoride in the tap water.
	The long-awaited report summarises studies conducted in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Mexico, concluding that drinking water containing more than 1.5 mg of fluoride per litre is consistently associated with lower IQs in kids.
	Two to five, I think, is the range, isn't it?
	Drop in IQ? Yes.
	The report did not try to quantify exactly how many IQs might be lost at different levels of fluid exposure, but some of the studies reviewed in the report suggest the IQ was two to five points lower in children who had had higher exposure.
	Exactly right.
	Isn't any amount of loss on IQ a bad thing?
	Especially if we've got many to begin with, which is the case for lots of people.
	I feel like one thing that many people in the United States could benefit from is more IQ points, to be honest.
	It would make everything in the world better.
	It would, yeah.
	If you look at IQ and map it against anything, it's like a way of tracking civilisation, right?
	There is one map of the world, and every map of the world, no matter what subject you are looking at, follows this map.
	Green, red.
	Well, funny you mention that map, because...
	There we go, the map of the world!
	I wanted to put this into context, people, because, you know, what is actually a 5% IQ drop?
	So, let's start with...
	Oh, God, this is fiddly.
	Right, here we go.
	So, United Kingdom, average IQ, 99, apparently.
	So...
	On the Lynn Becker one.
	Yes.
	Yes, so we need to find something which is five points lower.
	That Italy feels...
	Yeah, there we go.
	Italy is five points lower.
	So this is serious, ladies and gentlemen.
	It is the equivalent of exchanging the IQ of an Englishman for the IQ of an Italian.
	You might end up with slightly firmer pasta, but you end up wildly waving your arms around when you talk and honking your car horn unnecessarily all the time.
	That's the sort of level of seriousness that we're talking about on this stuff.
	All right.
	Oh, back to the article.
	Separately, the EPA has maintained a long-standing requirement that water systems cannot have more than four milligrams of fluoride per litre to prevent skeletal fluorosis, a potentially crippling disorder which causes weakened bones, stiffness and pain.
	I'll just brush my teeth twice a day.
	That's all I'll do.
	I don't need the rest of it.
	Don't eat the tube.
	Just brush your teeth.
	Spit it out afterwards.
	You don't even need to do that.
	Don't you?
	No, I've not done it for years and my teeth are fine.
	Well, you don't use toothpaste?
	Well, I use non-fluoridated toothpaste and I don't drink tap water fluoride in.
	You don't need to do either and believe it or not, your teeth don't fall out.
	See, real teeth.
	Hmm.
	But more and more studies have increasingly pointed to a different problem, suggesting a link between higher level of fluoride and brain development.
	Researchers wondered about the impact on developing foetuses and very young children who might ingest water with baby formula.
	Studies in animals show fluoride could impact neurochemical cell function in the brain regions responsible for learning, memory, executive function and behaviour.
	Which, most of those things encompass the majority of the aspects of consciousness we suspect are implicated in the conscious experience.
	Being self-aware?
	A significant part of it, yeah.
	Right.
	Well, and also, the US has significant problems with its new arrivals on the matters of learning, memory, executive function and behaviour, so you don't really want to make it any worse than it already is.
	That's very true.
	And it's a very damaging thing to damage.
	It depends what your plan is, doesn't it?
	Well, yes.
	How much tap water does Nancy Pelosi drink?
	Probably none.
	Well, considering how sloshed she is the entire time, I would say a very low amount.
	Probably very little.
	Yes.
	She doesn't have much space for it after the amount of child's blood she drinks to stay forever young.
	That's an allegation.
	It's not true.
	It is fake news, but it feels spiritually correct.
	So, who is going to save the US? It's going to be a Florida man, obviously.
	So, I quite like this guy, actually.
	He was very sensible during the thing that happened four years ago.
	Oh, I remember him, yeah.
	Yes.
	He was good on that.
	So, he's basically sort of come out and said, RFK's right.
	Yeah, well, basically, yes.
	You can strengthen teeth without consuming a neurotoxin.
	Yeah, maybe there is a way.
	Well, that's a good point, really.
	Science can find a way.
	Yes.
	Health advice, do not consume a neurotoxin.
	There are these things called cows, and they produce milk, and if you drink lots of that when you're growing up, you have strong teeth.
	Brilliant.
	I had a glass of milk with my dinner every day until I was a grown man, and I've never had any problems with my teeth, ever.
	Bill Gates hates cows because they're destroying the earth.
	Well, how can cows do that?
	I've never seen them starting wars.
	It's a scientific expert, Greta Thunberg.
	I do like milk.
	Milk is good.
	I normally blend a couple of bananas and a handful of strawberries into it these days, but yes, otherwise good.
	Right, so anyway, so Florida Man, Surgeon General.
	I've always wondered, is it?
	I think it's supposed to be Surgeon's General.
	Correct me in the comments if you know, but I think it's supposed to be Surgeon's General.
	Anyway, so he is coming out and issuing that guidance in the link there, which you can find here, which I shall summarise for you thusly.
	Basically, it starts off by saying that you do find fluoride naturally in groundwater, rainwater, soil, plants and foods, blah blah blah.
	Historically used in drinking water to prevent tooth decay, but alternative sources like toothpaste and dental treatments are widely available.
	Also, possibly...
	You can stop cramming sugar down your throat.
	It is also worth mentioning as well, finding trace amounts of something is very different.
	There's always a background amount of radiation, but you wouldn't then go to the elephant's foot in Chernobyl and think, oh, I'll be fine.
	Yes, fair point.
	He points out that several countries, including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, have discontinued fluoride use.
	He lists a whole bunch of studies, one in Mexico City, 2017, one in Canada, 2019. Canadians are guinea pigs for this.
	Well, apparently they don't do it as much.
	I've got a map coming up.
	Canada in 23 again, Los Angeles 24, and an NTP report in 24. He also highlights there are other issues with fluoride, as well as the ones we've already talked about, sleep apnea, thyroid problems, penile gland accumulation, or we mentioned that one, premature periods in young women, and skeletal fluorosis, which I have no idea what it is, but it does sound bad.
	Alternative dental health measures he proposes.
	Eat better.
	That's a good one.
	Yes.
	Lay off the slop.
	Americans do have a lot of sugar.
	Oh yeah.
	You saw RFK's video the other day.
	It was like, you know, the things we put into our body innocently are bad.
	And it's like, it's just the most disgusting looking processed food you've ever seen.
	I understand Americans put sugar in their bread.
	Yes.
	Like all of their bread is basically just low-key brioche.
	But it's also like, you know, just a weird collection of other chemicals.
	And he's like, look, all these chemicals, and what do the Canadians have?
	They have, like, blueberry extract or something.
	So it's literally just like, you know, they literally take something out of blueberries rather than a bunch of synthetically created chemicals and all that.
	It's like...
	American food is just total poison.
	To be very clear, Americans watching this, we are pro half of you anyway.
	We're pro the Red Americans anyway.
	We like you guys.
	The Native Americans.
	I want you to stop poisoning yourselves.
	Yes.
	You're just fat and you eat bad, so don't do that.
	Like, every time I go to America, I have to essentially go on to a starvation diet, or else I start ballooning.
	I don't know what is going on with the food, but it's definitely the food.
	Oh, there is something up with American food.
	And by the way, we're not exactly entirely innocent here, just to be clear.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's why we know the dangers.
	Yes.
	Yes, it has been getting worse.
	This is a typical sort of response under the Surgeon General's thing.
	It's like, oh, provide your bloody evidence then.
	The evidence is there?
	Well, yes.
	There are studies that show this.
	Loads of people have come back.
	I've read them, yeah.
	And every time somebody comes back for a study, he just posts this.
	Correlation is not causation.
	It's like...
	This isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card, right?
	So what they're saying here is there is the potential for a logical disconnect between something and something else, even if they appear to happen at the same time.
	But that doesn't mean that there is a disconnect.
	There's the potential for a disconnect.
	So it's entirely possible that if you have a neurotoxin And you are putting it in your drinking water.
	You drink the neurotoxin that there will be a causal effect on your brain.
	If it was something completely harmless like, you know, hummus or something, and there was a correlation, you'd be like, hey, there's no causal link because it's not a neurotoxin.
	But a neurotoxin may well affect you.
	Yes, and the nub of his argument, I could have picked many here, but each person making a claim adopts a burden.
	I'm asking for an evidence of the claim.
	Adding fluoride to water increases the risk of neuropsychiatric diseases in children, reduces their IQ. Pointing to another claim could be a fallacious.
	I've got a couple of things to add here, actually.
	First and foremost...
	Not all of the research is looking at correlations, for a start, and so that sort of debunks that side of things.
	And also, surely the people proposing the intervention, the burden is on them, right?
	Yes.
	So if I came up with this thing and I said, it cures cancer, and then everyone's just like, well, where's your evidence?
	I say, well, you need to give me evidence that it doesn't cure cancer.
	Prove it doesn't!
	Then everyone would laugh at me, and rightfully so, because it would be a silly thing to propose, but that's what's going on here.
	But what he's asking for is like, okay, well, show me the exact mechanism of how it does it.
	It's like, I don't need to.
	I don't need to show you the exact mechanism.
	If putting fluoride in reliably reduces IQ out, and we can show this on repeated testing, which appears to be the case, even if I don't know the mechanism, and so therefore, like, you can set a bar and say, show me the exact mechanism of how, like, you know, light insects with the brain or something...
	And even if I can't do that, that doesn't mean I don't see through my eyes.
	I still know that I see through my eyes.
	So if you're consistently getting the same thing out, okay, I don't know the exact mechanism, but that's definitely happening.
	So stop arguing this way, because it's not a rebuttal.
	So for me, this points to a big breakdown in difference between how left-wingers and right-wingers tend to see the world.
	So the right-wingers are more likely to look at the world as it is today and say, we are doing all of these things.
	How can we justify doing each of these things from first principles?
	Take me back and why should we do this?
	Whereas left-wingers start from the position of this is what we are already doing and in order to deviate from what we are currently doing you need to provide ironclad evidence that moving in a different direction.
	Because they assume that everything that their ilk have done over the last 30 years has been a good thing.
	Yes.
	Well, they're almost innately conservative with a small c, because it's their world order that they're preserving, aren't they?
	And so they want you to provide the evidence to change it, because they're defending the thing that's putting the fluoride in the water in the first place.
	The problem with this as well is this kind of scientism thinking where it's like, look, I need a level of certainty that it's just an unreasonable thing to request.
	If I can't be 100% certain about something, 99% certainty is not good enough.
	And it's like, well, sorry, that's good enough for me.
	Especially when it comes to putting a neuro...
	Well, that thinking is very evidence in the thing that happened four years ago.
	Well, the funny thing is that most of, say, medicine operates to a 99% degree of certainty, so whether they like it or not, that's the world they live in.
	And, you know, I've done an inordinate amount of philosophy of science and all of this sort of stuff to death, and I think that it's a good idea to remove fluoride, so...
	But this guy's trading on the 1% uncertainty.
	Saying, see, I can't be certain about that.
	I don't care if you're certain about that.
	I agree with RFK. Yes, if I can't justify it from first principles and we're not doing it.
	You asked for a map.
	There you go.
	There's a map.
	Grey is where it's done.
	So apparently in the UK it's like less than 20% of our water is fluorinated.
	I think the average is 30% but it's mostly up north and you know we don't get it here and lots of other places don't get it as well.
	Right, okay.
	So I've actually got the list of places it's been banned.
	Israel, Japan, China, Russia, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Neverland, Luxembourg, Ireland, Norway, Scotland...
	Far-right countries, throwback countries.
	India, Hungary, Germany, France, Finland, Belgium and Czech Republic.
	Yeah, absolute throwbacks.
	They don't know anything.
	Yes.
	They don't care about progress.
	But I'm a human right to have a fluoridated pineal gland.
	Yes.
	Now, a lot of you are thinking, what would Dan do?
	Which is the right thing to be thinking.
	What Dan does is water disters.
	These things are bloody brilliant.
	So basically what it is, is like a little kettle thing at the bottom and a little fridge thing at the top.
	And it evaporates the water up.
	The water gets to the top, gets chilled, and then turns back into water and dribbles into a pot.
	This isn't a sponsored segment.
	No, it's not.
	I just picked this one at random.
	But honestly, get yourself a water distiller.
	These things are absolutely...
	Once you have used one of these, you will never, ever go back to tap water.
	You realise how much tap water tastes of stuff once you start drinking filtered water, don't you?
	I'm trying to take calcium out of my tap water.
	LAUGHTER This will get rid of everything and just leave your water.
	What about the light scale?
	I'd pay good money for that.
	You get your daily dose of heavy metals from just running the tap for a little bit.
	One of the things you'll realise when you start using a water distiller, and they're fairly cheap, it's well worth doing, is you realise that water that comes out of the tap is purified just enough to look pure.
	Yeah, to not kill you.
	And what you can do with this is you can sort of run it halfway until half of the pure water is extracted.
	So the amount of pollutants in the water is doubled per volume.
	And then just stop it and take a look at the water.
	And it looks revolting.
	And if you do that again, halve it again, it looks like slurry.
	It looks brown.
	And all of that you would have been drinking.
	You just would have had it diluted enough that you wouldn't have noticed that you were drinking it.
	Apparently the biggest pollutant in tap water is toilet paper and period pads that get filtered into the water, survive the filtration process that the tap water companies use, and then it supplies back to you.
	So in theory that could be used toilet paper.
	Well, it's got to be.
	Well, unless your neighbour's in the habit of stuffing unused toilet paper down the...
	Down the sewers, where it's then filtered and turned back to...
	Glad I'm already doing this, then.
	You might get one of those.
	Yes.
	Highly...
	Do you want to drink toilet paper?
	Highly recommend it.
	They are well worth getting.
	And we'll just recap on some sort of American health gems throughout the years.
	See where you stand on each of these.
	They told Americans to avoid steak.
	Do the opposite.
	Well, hang on, hang on, okay.
	In America, maybe because of all the growth hormones or something like that?
	Wow.
	You get to eat tasty meat and get free steroids.
	Yeah, and become avoided.
	They said avoid the sun.
	They said eat seed oils.
	Hang on, why would we avoid the sun?
	In cancer, I guess.
	Yes.
	Vampirism.
	Eat seed oils, avoid eggs, limit salt, avoid butter, drink fluoride, lower your cholesterol.
	Now, on all of those, I would suggest if you do the opposite, you'll be better off.
	I found this, which was fantastic.
	This is very interesting.
	We don't get this here.
	I think this is an EU thing.
	Oh, it's Germany.
	There we go.
	It's got a German web address on it.
	But they've started putting health scores on food.
	Wagyu gets a D. Fruit Loops get a B. Something tells me that, it is worth mentioning as well, that if you're to eat one food group, meat is the one that you can eat where you don't get nutrient deficiencies, all of the other ones.
	Oh, we've always told I could only eat one thing forever for the rest of my life.
	It would be steak, instantly.
	It wouldn't even be difficult, would it?
	No.
	No.
	So, tis a bit silly, all that sort of stuff.
	Right, final link.
	Because I do think there is something going on with American food that desperately needs to be looked at, and hopefully RFK will.
	This guy's pointing out that there are 10,000 chemicals that are added to American food, less than 5% of which are legal in other countries.
	I mean, I would have questions, at the very least.
	Yes.
	I mean, I have questions not as an American.
	Why are you doing this?
	Well, the thing I've seen many times is if you get an American breakfast cereal and then you get the counterpart from another country and look at the ingredients.
	Yeah, and their ingredients is about three times longer and it's all full of weird chemical stuff.
	So, anyway, I hope RFK can sort that out and make America healthy again.
	Okay, we've got some rumble rants there.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Sayoran says, it seems the left is just unhappy that RFK Jr. wants to turn the frogs straight again.
	Bald Eagle says, I'd be careful about making fun of Italians.
	They elected a leader who isn't destroying their country.
	The Englishman did.
	Maybe the IQ droppers need in the UK to correct course.
	Honestly, right, there's a fair point to be made there.
	We might be on the wrong side, in the middle of the bell curve here.
	Well, I think our IQ is, our average is literally 100, which is, like, optimal mid-wit territory, because it is, by definition, 100 is the mid-wit standard.
	Well, yeah, I mean, we designed it so the average person would be 100, but, like, you know, like, the 95 IQ grug Italian's just, like, you know, far and a bad.
	Oh, I don't take that point too seriously.
	It was just too funny not to make fun of all the Italians.
	Connor Smug Mug says, oh no, the food that gives me tooth rot will no longer be supplemented by fluoride that dumbs me down.
	How can RFK Jr. do this to me?
	Like, that's genuinely the bug manager's like, no, I have to be able to consume my slop.
	And be literally made into a retard ward of the state.
	Yes.
	Dragon Lady Chris says, quote, Skeletal fluorosis is a serious condition resulting from the chronic ingestion of large amounts of fluoride over many years during periods of bone modelling growth.
	The x-ray pics are creepy.
	God, that sounds terrible.
	Bobo Dan says, for Carl and Josh's segments, the labour lion will consume the farmers and use that to feed black rock.
	Ukraine land will be turned into solar farms, cause energy and food scarcity for profit.
	Have you seen the Fallout TV series?
	Yeah.
	This is literally the premise that the capitalists were like, yeah, we'll blow up the world because we'll make us loads of money.
	Right.
	That's literally where we...
	It's not the first thing I'd go to as an investment opportunity.
	It's ridiculous, but it was made under the premise that Fallout was an anti-capitalist game, and it's not true.
	The creator of Fallout was like, no.
	Well, they made the game to make money, so I don't think it was that anti-capitalist.
	The critique of Fallout is not of capitalism.
	Matt says, distilled water will leach minerals out of your body.
	You should add minerals back after filtering via distillation.
	So you're trying to steal the precious slop that I get in my tap water.
	I'm not happy about that.
	Lead is good for you.
	Not just the strain says fact check.
	True, I use a distiller and a remainder from tap water at the end goes brown.
	Don't forget, your skin absorbs soluble in water quite quickly too.
	Perfect.
	Right, go to the video comments.
	Building a strawberry bed.
	Here it is before.
	Junkie!
	Spread your spent grain right out on the grass.
	Lay down your cardboard.
	Build your bed of old boards and sticks.
	Fill that sucker up with straw.
	Add your spent grain.
	Put on some dirt and compost.
	And add your strawberries.
	There it is.
	Your bed is ready.
	Spread some chips all over the orchard, and here it is after.
	I've just figured out why they're called strawberries now.
	I tried growing strawberries in the garden, and they didn't come out anywhere as good as hers, but then I didn't do all of those extra steps.
	Did you add the straw?
	Yeah, that is actually quite helpful.
	There's newfound knowledge that strawberries are called strawberries because you grow them with straw.
	Good God!
	I don't know if we can call that knowledge.
	I think that's an assumption.
	You don't know.
	Correlation does not...
	Where's the 1% proof?
	Yeah, correlation.
	That is quite clever, though, isn't it?
	So here's a thought experiment.
	Keir Starmer ran for office being a dreamless socialist cyborg, then released foreign criminals to make room in the jails for domestic Brits who complained about the foreign criminals.
	Now he's liquidating the Kulaks through a plan of government grave robbing That also sells the land off to foreign banking interests.
	As the thought experiment, what could he do now to become even less popular?
	Shoot puppies?
	Drown children?
	No, no, something like mandatory euthanisation of puppies or something like that.
	You know, like dog shelters or something like that.
	It's like, we're just going to euthanise all the pets in the animal shelters.
	Basically what the Turks are doing, where they're having that dog genocide, where they're killing those dogs.
	But I mean, they're at least getting rid of pests, right?
	Feral dogs, yeah.
	But, like, you know, if Kirsten was like, we're shutting down all the pet shelters and we're going to euthanise all the puppies or something, like, maybe that would be...
	Sorry, your kitten is eating too much food.
	It's bad for the environment.
	We're going to come around and kill it.
	And it genuinely wouldn't surprise me if you did that.
	Yeah.
	We're going to get to that position.
	I own a Jaguar and had resigned myself to never buying another.
	Not because I'm angry at their brand, but because they're going electric only.
	What?
	However, I've witnessed some poor takes about the rebranding this weekend, particularly by Paul Chato and Dr. Parvini.
	Companies do not mess around with their brands.
	This was never going to be a joke.
	I work at a company that committed brand suicide in 2013. The advert is bad enough, but what will kill Jaguar is the messaging and the good but unsuitable products they will release.
	Yeah, I agree.
	I actually just recorded another video on the Jaguar thing for the new channel.
	And they're totally doubling down on it.
	They think this is the future.
	And it's because they had their advertising director receiving an award earlier this year.
	And he begins with the...
	I can't even do the sort of like...
	I can't...
	You know the high-pitched, squeaky Californian voice that gay Californian men have?
	Where it's not, you know, the Adam's apples haven't descended away, right?
	So they've got a very constrained, like, feminine voice box, which begins in that tone of voice, and then he starts going on about diversity and inclusion and stuff like this.
	Right, okay.
	There we go.
	Toastly captured, institutionally captured by wokeism.
	And I completely agree with the chap there.
	This isn't a joke or a flip.
	This is a sincere, true belief.
	And the...
	Raw Donglover or whatever the guy's name is.
	Literally, that's his name.
	Dr. Pavini's problem is that he seems to think that the other side is smart and they do stupid things for smart reasons, but they're not.
	A lot of them are genuinely captured by a true belief.
	And he just came out and goes, no, you're all bigots.
	And it's like, okay, brilliant, I know, but I'm still buying your car.
	There he is.
	Message for Carl and Josh.
	I wondered if you guys had a reading list on some of your favourite books in philosophy and psychology we could look at?
	Yes, Aristotle.
	So, I've read a lot in decision-making, particularly.
	I think one of the best sort of entry points is thinking fast and slow, because it's also written for a lay audience, and you go from there, really.
	And I think it's also important, although I don't agree with the authors, to read the book Nudge as well, because that's the book that kick-started the nudge theory revolution that is being used by governments to influence people, and I think both of those are very important ones.
	First of which for understanding your own mind, the second of which understanding how the government is using behavioural psychology to manipulate you.
	Basically just go for Aristotle's ethics and just read it and read it again, read it again, internalise it and realise you are at best an incontinent man.
	No, probably a continent man at best, but you need to become a virtuous man.
	I'm not a virtuous man by Aristotle's standards.
	I enjoy eating slop and doing no work.
	Aristotle's like, no, but I don't eat the slop and I do the work.
	I just don't like it.
	And Aristotle's like, no, that's not virtuous.
	A virtuous man likes doing the virtuous things.
	So he gets up to do the virtuous things.
	And I force myself to do the virtuous things.
	He said, so the vicious man does bad and likes doing bad.
	The incontinent man does bad but doesn't want to do bad.
	The continent man does good but doesn't really want to.
	He likes to do the vicious things.
	And the virtuous man is the man who does good and likes to do it.
	So he will do good no matter what.
	And I'm not quite there.
	But anyway, but the point is, Aristotle had...
	How popular this petition has been, people are saying that the signatures are coming in from abroad.
	Let's test that in real time, shall we?
	We'll just grab the data and take a little look at it.
	Call for general election.
	Lots of foreign countries.
	Must be scary.
	Let's do some sums.
	We'll add up all the ones that aren't in GB and the ones that are.
	Ooh, big number.
	Must be scary.
	We'll just plot that in a pie chart, shall we?
	Ah, yeah.
	Doesn't look too bad, really, does it?
	Oh, right.
	Shockingly, 99% of the people who need to sign a signature that places them in the UK are from the UK. Cheers for doing the maths.
	It's not inconceivable that less than 1% of the population might be abroad and see it and respond to it.
	Exactly.
	There's absolutely no reason they can't be expats.
	I mean, one of those...
	I think I saw Afghanistan there, so that could be Miles.
	It could literally be Callum.
	It could be, yeah.
	It could be Callum as well.
	I can hate the slave government.
	So, I hear there's a bunch of English farmers who are very upset about a tyrannical government imposing superfluous taxes on them.
	I'm just saying, the playbook for this already exists.
	You gotta throw the tea in the harbor.
	I mean, they do have a point.
	I'm getting this a lot from Americans at the moment, being like, well, come on, tick-tock, tick-tock.
	I'm like, yeah, I know.
	I know that it is morally correct.
	I also like tea.
	I don't want to throw it in the harbour.
	Yeah, but it's symbolic.
	Although I do agree with the point, yes.
	I just want to presage a bunch of...
	Completely contradictory and controversial tie takes in the chat and from the comments.
	I was hoping we were going to get to those.
	Yeah, well we are.
	So Alex says, seeing you in a tie is weird and I can't match my tie colour.
	And he says I should ask my wife.
	So I picked my tie colour to annoy my wife.
	And he thinks it's weird that you're in a tie.
	Well, I'll tell you how that happened.
	The last time I was on with you, Carl, I received a berating for not wearing a tie.
	So I thought, right, it's on.
	Yes.
	If you want to bet me a tie, I will match your tie and I will raise you a double Windsor knot, a silk blend pinstripe suit, handmade on German street with my initials DJT embroidered on the inside.
	Where is it?
	I'm going to break it out.
	Oh, I've lost it now.
	Here we go.
	Just finish it off as well.
	There we go.
	Right.
	That's definitely one-upped me.
	That's the standard we're going to now.
	I shall let you up it on the next appearance.
	I'll see what I can do.
	I do actually have a new suit.
	Right, very good.
	But Chad Moss says, Dan, why did you let Carl dress you like Nick Clegg?
	As if I had anything to do with the way he dressed.
	Anne says, I'm most impressed with your sartorial choices today, Dan.
	You look sharp.
	Kudos to your stylist, Carl.
	Well, my wife probably doesn't like the colour combination, but that's why I chose it.
	Notice how no one mentioned what I'm wearing today, which is the ultimate show of etiquette.
	Have you got a double Windsor as well?
	No, I don't, because I'm wearing a v-neck jumper anyway.
	But the problem with a double Windsor is you end up with hardly anything left on the other side, so it takes up a lot more tie to tie.
	The key to appropriate dress is that no one feels the need to mention it.
	That is true.
	That is true.
	Economic Zone 17 says two-tier care out this year.
	Yeah, I don't think he's going to be out by Christmas, but, like, I was thinking, in a year's time, if things are this bad for him now, I mean, they've got to be pretty bad.
	I also don't want them to leave too quickly.
	I want them to be loathed to a degree that is sufficient to destroy them.
	Yeah.
	One of my main concerns about the Conservative Party is that they can slink back in and somewhat redeem themselves, whereas I want them utterly...
	So this is like 1906 or something like that, where basically the Liberal Party, what does it know, the Tories were hated and so were the Liberals, but the Liberals got in, they were even more hated, and then they were destroyed at the following election and the Liberals were placed with Labour.
	So unfortunately the Tories might survive, but Labour might destroy themselves through this process.
	Especially if they do the thing that Carl was suggesting earlier, which is just drag it out for the full five years and being utterly hated every single day of it.
	That is the most likely thing that leads to them being annihilated.
	I have a funny feeling that one of the parties is going to be destroyed and not both.
	And obviously I want both, but I don't personally see it happening.
	No, no.
	I think that the Conservative parties took a massive whack at the last election.
	Maybe they're going to be like, okay, maybe we need to start doing something Conservative.
	But I think the Labour Party are just far too ideological and full of absolute midwits to understand how hated they are.
	I think they're the most likely.
	And they're going to go with it.
	And I think that Keir Starmer could be the ruination of their party.
	Fingers crossed.
	I think the Conservatives are a bit more pragmatic.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, no, that's exactly it.
	Henry points out that the petition currently has more signatures than the Green Party got votes, which is hilarious.
	Once it's past 3.5 million, it's cleared the Lib Dems.
	4 million to go past reform.
	Yeah, no, that's true, but as he points out, Starmer doesn't give a monkey's about public opinion.
	Well, the thing is, Starmer, as he said in that thing, well, we're just doing the hard things...
	Starmer views himself as fixing the Blairite project for the international order.
	So that can continue indefinitely into the future.
	And so Starmer is prepared to take the flack.
	Yeah, okay, you all hate me, but how is globalism going to survive without me?
	It's basically his pitch.
	Yes.
	Which is interesting, because I hate...
	But it will slow him down.
	Like, for example, he could go to the Open Society George Soros' thing and say, look, I want to put in place a 20-year plan with you, and they'll look at him and say, well, yeah, but you don't have 20 years.
	So it does have virtue, showing that he has this shelf life to him.
	Yeah, I'm sure he's going to fail upwards to some advisory position or whatever.
	North FC Zuma says, Well, that's really a failure of Farage, right?
	Farage should have been stamping on the beaten corpse of the Conservative Party, repeatedly.
	He's flanking them to the left at the minute and it's insufferable.
	So bizarre.
	Yeah, it'd be quite bad, actually, for them to have a general election soon.
	So, funnily enough, if Keir Starmer did listen to the petition, it'd actually probably be better for them in the long run, maybe.
	But Farage, for some reason, has wasted this flight five months doing nothing.
	And he should be viciously campaigning against the Tories.
	Just everywhere.
	These guys are awful.
	There are so many open goals.
	They've elected an African to now lead them.
	Are you really on board with this?
	Yes.
	I mean, the Tories just can't help themselves.
	I mean, where do they go from here?
	I mean, do they just pick somebody who's never been to the UK but is open to relocating if they win the general election?
	Yeah, maybe a transgender Eskimo or something.
	Yes.
	Like, never even seen an electric light or something.
	And it's like, yeah, now we've made them.
	Look how progressive we are.
	I feel like the Eskimos would be alright, wouldn't they?
	Better than what we've got now.
	We're willing to try it.
	Basically Hunter and Gaviris.
	Maybe.
	I mean, they're not going to be...
	They're not going to be vegan, are they?
	That's true, yeah.
	So, it could be worse.
	John the Trumpeter was a DEI hire.
	Do you know who John the Trumpeter was?
	Wasn't he a king's...
	Henry VIII in his court, he had one trumpeter who was a moor who had been captured and brought over and was put in his court as a kind of strange oddity.
	It's like, oh look, there's an African trumpeter in Henry VIII's court, isn't that interesting?
	Well, he's been called a DEI hire, which...
	It basically is true, but he's kind of like the novelty, right?
	Because royal courts, you want novelty, so people had a reason to come and visit your court, and John the Trumpeter is one of those things.
	Anyway, he says, Yeah, no, I agree.
	I agree.
	He's definitely a zealot for the globalist cause, and he's not going to give this up willingly.
	Yeah.
	So...
	But like we said, that actually might end up being a really good thing.
	He's also Blackrock's top guy, and let's be honest, do you need the British electorate if you've got Blackrock?
	The answer is no.
	Well, I mean, if you want to not destroy your own political party, yes...
	But I feel like BlackRock, in many ways, are more important in Keir Starmer's mind than Britain.
	Well, for him personally, they will be.
	Because there's only so far you can go with a British electorate, but if you get in their good books, you're set for life.
	Exactly.
	They've got a higher value than most countries, don't they?
	He'll probably end up being the regional manager of all of Europe at this point.
	Furious Dan says, I'd be willing to bet that even Donald Trump is more popular in Britain than Keir Starmer is.
	Possibly, much like how he's more popular than Justin Trudeau in Canada.
	Entirely possible.
	Carl's underground cache of irradiated fray bentos.
	Just a quick pause here, right?
	So on Friday, on Thursday, the fray bentos has arrived.
	On Friday, I get back, and my wife brings the kids back from school.
	I tell my older son, oh, do you know what we've got for dinner tonight?
	He's like, what?
	I'm like, pies.
	He's like, yes!
	I was like, okay, that was a better response than I was expecting.
	So I put the pies in, cooked them.
	They came out really nice, right?
	Put it on his plate.
	He is, they're scoffing it.
	He's absolutely loving it.
	Are they particularly good, the fray bentos?
	Yeah, they're good.
	They're really good.
	They're just full of fat, basically.
	But fat and pastry, with meat in, can't go wrong, right?
	It does sound good, yes.
	They really are pretty good, because they're like three quid of pie, right?
	I want a pie now.
	Yeah, well, this is what we've got for dinner tonight, because literally...
	No, no, he's going through it and he's like...
	You ordered a crate.
	No, no, well, I got like nine of them.
	But my son's just like, oh, these are really good.
	Can we have it again tomorrow?
	I was like, no, next week.
	He's like, what, Monday?
	I'm like, I guess we can have it Monday.
	That's technically next week.
	You got me there, son.
	So we've got pies again for today.
	Oh, very good.
	I want RFK to put out a statement about Freybentos pies.
	Freybentos is probably all right.
	There's probably not that much seed oil in them.
	I don't know.
	I suppose because they're canned.
	Yeah, they're just fat.
	Yeah, there's probably not that much in there.
	I think the canning process means you don't have to put as many preservatives in off the top of my head.
	Yeah, look it up, Dan.
	But he says, remember how in 2010, James Biden, Joe's brother, mysteriously got a 1.5 billion contract to rebuild housing in Iraq?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't remember that, actually, but that's weird.
	So weird.
	George says, No, no, no.
	The thing is, I think the normies are aware of these.
	Like, you know, J.P. Morgan.
	BlackRock, you know, various, these sort of ethereal investment funds, they've been radicalised by boomer slot posts on Facebook, right?
	Where they say, oh, that's in the bad category.
	So they don't know anything about BlackRock, they don't know anything about, like, you know, what they do, but they know negative, bad.
	Would Nigel Farage like them?
	No, probably not.
	Would a Bond villain's company have the name BlackRock?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	So I have found the ingredients for a fray bent or steak and kidney pie.
	I won't read all the ingredients, but there's quite a lot, but I'll pick some out.
	Palm oil, rapeseed oil, flavoured yeast extract, xanthian gum, sugar, colour, emulsifier, mono, diggy, dylee, ciderate.
	Yes, but he's got two seed oils in there.
	Great, now RFK's going to kick my door door.
	Yes.
	To be fair, the yeast is why the pie rises.
	Yeah, you've got to have yeast in it.
	So that's not too bad.
	Well, fair enough.
	Right, okay, fine.
	You can have the yeast.
	I can have the yeast, but I'm not allowed the seed oil.
	Yes.
	Just Say No to Bug says, I did see someone flip the idea that BlackRock won't be getting the volume of land they were hoping for with Ukraine and Trump in play, so they've turned to an equally decrepit nation in the hope they can steal their land instead.
	That's us.
	Hmm.
	Possibly.
	Again, I don't think they'll need to steal the land in Ukraine.
	What they'll do, the state will use the money that BlackRock gives them to essentially buy it, and then they will pay BlackRock whatever interest they have to pay on their repayments, whatever.
	The thing that's been normal in this country for 80 years.
	Amazing that they suddenly make an appeal to tradition.
	Also, listen to what they've just said.
	If we make something normal or legal, all it takes is time for it to be permanently cemented.
	That's why they're so determined to normalize everything.
	Yeah, I mean, you could have just flipped back with, yeah, just like Roe versus Wade, right?
	You know, it's like, yeah, it was normal that everywhere had to allow people to kill babies.
	Okay?
	Well, just because we've been doing it for a long time doesn't mean it's a good thing.
	George says, Even if we assume fluoride is harmless, I still prefer for people to have personal responsibility of brushing their teeth than the nanny state applying some bulk solution.
	Yeah, that's a great point.
	Even if this was something totally, totally innocent and that did exactly what they expected it to do, Does it mean that they ought to do it?
	And the answer is no, you should be taking care of yourself.
	Will Campbell makes a good point there.
	Talking about the American versus international food, he says that he's experienced the same thing.
	He spent some time abroad in Germany and ended up losing, what was it, 13 and a half kilos?
	That's a lot.
	That can't be right.
	Over 13 and a half kilos in 30 days?
	No.
	That's a lot.
	He must be thinking of pounds, not kilos.
	Possibly, but the point is, whenever I go to America, man, I just balloon.
	It's awful.
	Yeah.
	Anne says, in the US there are many options for food.
	While a lot of it is garbage, it is possible to buy good bread, sand sugar, and eat butter.
	You won't be buying food from Big Food when you do so.
	Big Food is more scared of RFK Jr. than Big Pharma.
	Yeah, I know.
	I love the fact that RFK is going to be put in charge of this.
	This is so good.
	He's the perfect person for it, isn't he?
	He's amazing for it.
	He's got a real aura of credibility when he's talking about these things as well.
	So they're just like, oh no, he's a crazy conspiracy theorist.
	I mean, he is, but he doesn't sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist.
	And I think that he's actually the biggest department in the US as well.
	Probably.
	Because he's got so many agencies under it.
	When you add them all up, it's bigger than the intelligence services.
	Kieran says, we're over time, but Kieran says, you guys just don't understand the chemicals or where all the flavour is.
	I'd expect no less from those who eat non-seasoned boiled beef.
	We roast our beef and put salt on it, and that's literally all you need for the beef to taste good.
	And then spoon the fat back over the top of the beef while we're cooking it.
	Or put the fat directly into the gravy.
	Make me hungry.
	The point is, your taste buds are run through if you can't enjoy your beef.
	Yes.
	On that culinary note, it's time to end the show.
	Thank you very much for watching, and make sure to tune in same time tomorrow, 1 o'clock, and goodbye.

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