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Hello and welcome everybody to the podcast of the Lotus Eats episode 1081.
I'm your host Harry, joined today by Carl and Stelios.
And we're going to be talking about why certain people are even here.
We're going to be talking about a Brad Pitt scam where he desperately needs my money, which I'm very interested to learn about.
He doesn't have enough money of his own.
Well, you never know.
And Keanu Reeves need your money.
And Keanu Reeves as well.
I mean, Keanu Reeves at least looks destitute half the time.
Dignity to look destiny.
Yeah, and I will be paying personal tribute to the recently departed David Lynch, my favourite filmmaker.
But before we get into any of that, we have a live stream coming up on Monday at 4 o'clock.
What will this be?
Running from 4 till 8?
Something like that.
Something like that.
Talking about the Donald Trump 47th presidential inauguration.
Well, we'll just be observing it.
Yeah, and talking about the reaction.
It'll be a chill one.
It'll be fun.
I think it'd be fun.
Yeah, and unless we've got anything else to say, chaps, I think we should get to the news.
So, one of the questions that I frequently have to ask myself about just the people in England is why are they here?
Most of the people in England probably belong here, but there are loads of people who obviously don't.
And you say, okay, but what was the reason for bringing them here?
Why did they come?
Like, you know, Stelios has a job.
He contributes to the country.
Stelios is fine to be here.
I flew here as well.
And you flew there.
You didn't come here on a boat.
And he's a nice guy.
Yeah.
And he's a well-wisher of Britain.
There are lots of people here who aren't that way.
And you've just got to myself, so why are they here?
Why have they been brought here?
Against our wishes.
But before we go on, we have brought back the Trump merch in the merch store because people are asking for it.
And because, of course, Trump's inauguration is on Monday, that we're going to be live streaming to come and join us for that and go and get some Trump merch in the meantime.
So let's begin with Reform's position on immigration, which apparently for the Welsh Reform spokesman has been very positive.
Wales has had really very limited levels of immigration.
And the immigration we have had arguably has been very positive for our economy.
So immigration is much less of a factor in politics in Wales than it is, say, in England.
Well, that's a very...
Yeah.
Notice how he has to phrase this.
Well, we've had a lot less immigration in Wales.
As in, there are far fewer immigrants in Wales and therefore we can...
You know, the ones we have are better...
and higher quality than the ones that England has taken in their millions for some reason.
Because of course not all immigrants are the same.
We use the category of immigrant but actually what we're describing is a multiplicity of different peoples from all over the world of all different skill levels and we have been completely undiscerning in the kind of people that we have brought to this country.
I mean there are definite individuals who have not been.
Beneficial towards Wales, as you can see pictured here, the average Welshman.
Just a quick thing on this.
The Attorney General has issued a warning to media, so that's us and everyone else, about covering the...
That's interesting.
I assume this is a warning against things like speculation of motives and such.
Yeah, anything...
I mean, literally, you may be at risk of being in contempt of court if you publish material or comment online that is inaccurate, unfair, or involves discussion or commentary which could influence the jury's decisions.
It's like, well, isn't that anything?
Aren't the jury not going to be sequestered away?
No, that's American.
Oh, do we not do that over here?
We sequestered the entire country.
Ah, okay, that makes far more sense.
Yeah, it's so much more sensible not to sequester the jury.
It's one of those things that the Americans actually do do way better than we do.
But anyway, the point being, I can't talk about the average Welshman here, so let's move on to England.
How about a rapist who is too dangerous...
Whose country of origin is too dangerous so he can't be deported back there.
The question I would ask is, why are we importing anyone from there?
If this country is too dangerous to send people to, why are we importing people from this area?
He's a rapist.
Why do we care about his well-being in the first place?
That's the first and most obvious question.
But the reason is, quote-unquote, human rights, Harry?
Oh, yeah.
Those things.
Yes, those things that...
This guy definitely cares about so very much.
So this is a Jamaica man who raped a sleeping woman, and it's been decided by a high court that he can't be sent back because he's bisexual, apparently.
And Jamaica is a homophobic country.
Is this like how in my generation there are lots of guys who say that they're bisexual but have only ever been with women?
No, actually, you don't actually have to prove it.
This person claims to have a history with men, but again, what are they going to do to prove it?
I mean, they would find an excuse regardless, even if it wasn't about sexuality.
They have found worse excuses.
I mean, he's a rapist, so who knows if he goes back to Jamaica, he might be persecuted for that as well.
Maybe.
And we're Britain, goddammit.
We stand against the persecution of rapists.
As a country, not me particularly.
Unironically what has happened here.
Weirdly enough, the Home Office is on the right-wing side of this, whereas the Home Office is like, look, we make no apology for trying to get rid of this guy, and it's like, oh wow, I can't believe the Home Office did something right for once, right?
But an upper tribunal judge has rejected arguments by Home Office lawyers that the man remains a danger to the community.
He's just a convicted rapist, bro.
How's he a danger to the community?
Rapists don't go on to rape.
Anybody else afterwards?
Civism in the rapist community?
I doubt it.
Once it's out of their system, it's fine.
It gets worse, actually.
I know I'm laughing, but this is just generally insufferable, right?
So the judge who ruled against deporting this guy was a woman named Melissa Canavan, and noted that the man, known only as AA... They did that on purpose.
I'm sure they did that on purpose.
I don't think he's from Wales.
This particular person is not actually a Welshman, unlike the previous one.
Or even Persian.
Or Persian, yeah.
He's Jamaican, so coincidence, I'm sure.
Is he ethnically Jamaican, though?
Yes.
Or does he just come from Jamaica, having citizenship?
I think he's ethnically Jamaican.
But...
He, in 2018, he was convicted of raping a woman who was asleep and drunk at a party.
And he said at the time that he claimed he did not know that having sex with someone who was sleeping was rape or she was passed out from alcohol.
And he just didn't know.
Just didn't know.
It's a mistake anyway.
Yeah, the lawyer told him to say this.
Well, obviously, yeah.
But, you know, the preposterousness of the defence is just like, come on.
Come on.
Like, no one believes this, right?
And he had apparently, quote, learnt from attending a victim awareness course and now has a greater understanding of issues surrounding consent and vulnerability.
Oh, so we did teach someone not to rape, apparently.
He apparently did, and he's promised that he won't do it again.
I'm not even joking.
I mean, after sitting for a microaggression session, that raises one's credibility, doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, did he give the judge a pinky promise or something?
Well, I mean, it was a pinky promise.
He gave his word.
Yeah, the upper court ruling said that it accepted that the offender understood the life-changing nature of the offence he'd committed to the victim, and he had learnt a greater understanding of issues surrounding consent and vulnerability.
But the ruling did also say that while the offender, quote, had expressed a great deal of remorse for the offence, Most of his regret appeared to be for the fact that it led to him being imprisoned.
That he was caught.
That's literally it, of course.
Why is he still in our country?
Well, the answer is because he had been involved in an LGBTQI plus relationship in Jamaica with a man.
And anti-gay attitudes in Jamaica made it, quote, reasonably likely that the offender, quote, would face similar treatment to the behavior he had suffered in the past where he returned.
I mean, this is...
He's a gay refugee.
This is nightmarish because usually, you know, you want a society that creates as many obstacles to crime as possible.
You would think, yeah.
So you would think that if people from areas like that...
Were it to commit a crime, they would think twice.
Now, for some reason, they don't think twice.
I mean, personally, I'm for flogging and deporting, but, you know...
I mean, at the end of the day, he did say that he understood that this was bad for the victim and he's sorry because he doesn't want to go to jail again.
He got the certificate from the macroaggression class.
Yeah, and this was good enough for Judge Melissa Canavan, so it's good enough for the rest of us, obviously, because obviously we trust our judges.
And like we said, there's hardly a likelihood of recidivism, for example.
I mean, there is the fact that...
Foreign criminals are really likely to recommit a crime.
Over the past four years, 537 foreign criminals have committed 10 or more offences, and 1,260 have committed between 6 and 9 offences.
So they're already criminals, and they're still committing offences.
Another 10,000 have committed between 1 and 5 offences, bringing the total number of foreign re-offenders to 11,890.
In four years.
When you deal with ideologues, it's never about individual responsibility.
The left will always make it an issue of the prison system not working well.
Yeah, of course.
They expand it into the systemic issue with society, which is somehow the reason.
And separate figures show that foreign offenders who had avoided deportation committed 10,000 offences in a single year, and that a quarter of them had re-offended after being released from jail and remaining in the UK. So...
I'm sure there's nothing to worry about with that Jamaican rapist.
I'm sure everything's going to be fine.
But I mean, things aren't exactly any better in other countries.
Don't think that it's just our country.
For example, in the Netherlands, there was a woman, a homeless woman, sat on a bench and four unaccompanied child migrants decided to drag her off into the bushes and gang rape her and beat her mercilessly, which is awful.
And again, I'm personally for just...
Corporal punishment in these circumstances But the attackers Between the age of 16 and 18 Allegedly And they were found guilty of the assault that took place last year And the court ruled that the perpetrators Quote Described as unaccompanied foreign minors Needed guidance on how to function in Dutch society Which resulted in lighter sentences Than the two years demanded by prosecutors So the prosecutors were like, can we at least put them in jail for two years?
And they were like, no, they don't know how to function in society.
It's like, look, they, as predators, saw a woman alone on a bench, beat her, dragged her into the bushes, and raped her.
It's like, sorry, this isn't about, like, oh, they just don't need guidance on how to integrate the Dutch society.
When you have a background that gives you an upbringing that suggests that this isn't a thing that you never do, you have a problem.
And society has a problem.
It's not even that.
Well, I mean, it is that.
Imagine what kind of influence they have been exposed to, culturally speaking.
But it's also, there's a kind of...
Dismissive, predatory attitude.
Where it's just like, okay, there are four of us.
Why don't we just rape this woman who can't stop us?
And so they beat this woman, dragged her into the bus, raped her, stole her mobile phone, and the verdict took into account what the court described as, quote, a lack of supervision and guidance offered to the perpetrators.
It's like, um, no, I don't think it's actually the society's problem for providing women with insufficient guidance.
I think the problem is a lack of pain, right?
I think these young men...
I'm not afraid of having pain inflicted on them.
And I think that's why they're doing what they're doing.
I think if the looming threat of unbelievable amounts of pain were looming over the head, they wouldn't do these things.
Yeah, you can persuade some people, but only some people, not everyone.
Only people who care about your rational arguments as to why we shouldn't hurt one another.
Or can you understand them?
Or can you understand them?
My segment yesterday was the case in...
In the Netherlands where somebody murdered somebody and they got less time than they otherwise would have because they were low IQ. Yes, I saw that.
Because that's apparently a mitigating circus.
Well, they were too stupid to understand that murdering people is bad, so we give them less time in prison.
They need some sort of corrective to make them understand that that's wrong.
And if you can't understand an argument, well, it has to be then something physical, frankly.
That's how I feel about it.
They got very, very light sentences.
15 months.
Three months of which being conditional.
Which the judge indicated were intended to deter the teenagers from re-offending.
I'm sure they won't.
I'm sure they've changed their ways.
I'm sure this has been a complete rehabilitation.
They also collectively have to pay 15,000 euros, which I'm sure completely makes up for it.
Anyway, so moving on back to Britain, let's talk about the administratively British people.
Madi Zaydan here posted, Yesterday I became British.
I thought the ceremony would be nationalistic and a bit cringe.
Get out.
Until the Lord Mayor of Brighton started his speech with Alas Samu Leikum.
Very British.
Totally naturalised, bro.
How integrated.
Also very ungrammatical.
Sure, but it's just, come on.
We are a joke.
And we are such a joke that going back to the reform guys, yeah, immigration's been great.
Well, Nigel thinks not.
You know, even Nigel's like, look, everything British is being trashed.
And that's true.
This is not British.
This is in the sort of foreign occupation of our country, and I'm absolutely tired of it.
So the world's greatest roving reporter, Cunny Drogba, went to Luton recently.
And I thought we would just have a quick look at...
Yeah, I saw a bit of this.
Yeah, the fruits of this.
So, I mean, just...
I like that.
Islam travels.
Yep.
We wish it didn't.
Yeah, exactly.
Much to everyone's chagrin.
City Queen's Cosmetics.
It's just a beautiful place.
Because Luton, in the 2021 census, was 33% English.
And this, of course, was not located in the town centre.
So you've got just horrific, horrific scenes, frankly.
Just an incredibly run-down, essentially occupied town.
It's just like, what is going on?
If I was in charge, these kinds of, even more so than the fact that it's obviously a foreign shop flying foreign flags, just these kinds of aesthetics will be banned.
Yeah.
Because they look hideous, and it's really upsetting me to see in market towns across the country now, this sort of thing start to pop up, where, for instance, you'll get a Chinese nail salon down this lovely, say, Tudor Road, where they've just stuck on a load of bright flashing neon lights on the outside.
It's disgusting.
Yeah, I absolutely hate it.
Our towns and cities should be beautiful, or they could look like this.
I mean, I guess it's the choice we've made.
Pound shops will have to go.
Next to the Centre War Memorial.
Here's the English dead of Luton who fought in the wars.
And surrounding them are people who were not here at that time.
And don't have any connection to the past of this country and don't care.
Do you think these monuments will stay up if we become an absolute minority in our own country?
Thank God they've got the pride barrier.
The pride handrail there though.
Amazing.
Remittance shops.
They're always fun.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you've got to send money home, obviously.
You can't keep money in this country.
But the UK aesthetics is just...
Ah, it's just foul.
It's a lot of depressing...
I like the point that he made in that one, if you scroll back up again.
All of these dessert shops and bars that are starting to pop up all over the place.
Like, the most ubiquitous one is...
What is it?
Ah, I've forgotten what it is.
Casper's.
Yeah.
They pop up all over the place.
One, their desserts tend to be terrible.
They're not very...
I've never actually been in one.
I've been dragged into one or two by some friends of mine.
They tend to not actually be very nice, and they are always just filled with foreigners.
Yeah, because they don't go to pubs.
And we know they don't go to pubs, because, I mean, there's the old red lion there.
That's closed.
Don't worry about that.
Fantastic.
Yeah, just wonderful.
Just the bleakness of modern Luton.
It's just like, why are we doing this?
Why are we bringing...
And again, it's not any one group of people.
It's people from literally everywhere.
Like David Atherton here.
It's like, oh, we've got an iconic image of Romanians grilling a sheep.
Well, just sat around having a sheep barbecue.
Why are these people here?
Why are you filming this?
Yeah, why are you streaming this?
Like, just these disgusting, gross Romanians.
Look, there's a nine-year-old kid with a bottle of beer.
Sorry, what are we doing?
Like, why are these people in our country?
Are you sure they're Romanians?
Yes, I am sure they're Romanians.
Because V messaged me going, ah, these are my people, ha ha ha!
Romanians have some interesting phenotypes that don't all match up with one another.
That is true.
Because V does not look like the same kind of Romanian as these ones.
No, he doesn't.
But, like, these are, yeah, no, these are Romanian peasants.
Right, so these are Romanians, rural Romanian peasants, and what they're doing is a Romanian tradition.
Because what they normally have are houses, separate detached houses in the countryside.
There are fences around them.
So normally, when they're roasting these sheep, they're not roasting them in public, they're actually doing it as sort of a backyard barbecue.
But this is a tradition in Christmas.
But they could have done this in their back garden, unless their back garden was too small, but that's a tiny front garden.
Exactly, they probably didn't have a back garden, right?
And so they're just doing it in the street.
And this was reported on by Romanian News.
Again, it's not the same one, but there's something that Romanians keep doing, because everyone's just like, what?
And so they're just like, yeah, well, I mean, you know, this is an ancient tradition.
That they have at Christmas.
The pig slaughtering ceremony, blah blah blah, and then whatever, you know, not just pigs.
But it's like, okay, but why?
I mean, they literally say, this is a custom from our ancestors, and it's preserved today, especially in rural areas.
So, why did we import a bunch of Romanian peasants?
What's that doing for the GDP? Is Romanian peasants growing the British GDP? Because that's the argument we are constantly...
That is constantly made to us.
It's like, oh, these people are here to grow the economy.
Well, that's obviously not true.
Like, Romanian peasants fail to grow the Romanian bloody economy.
I'm not even being judgmental.
Go be a Romanian peasant in Romania.
That's great.
I'm glad you're happy.
I don't doubt that a hog roast at Christmas is actually a really nice thing.
Over there!
You know, why are you here?
Why are you occupying our streets?
And just in case anyone's wondering, the Dutch also did a study on whether...
Migrants are net contributors.
And it's going to shock you to learn that basically, if they're not from Western Europe, there's just no point.
North America, UK, France, Italy and Spain, Germany, surprisingly low down on their Germany.
We're getting the lazy Germans.
But Germany, sort of Westerns, they are technically, you know, not very much, but they are...
An overall net benefit.
And then you get to Romania, Lithuania, China, Poland, where it's kind of, no, not really.
And then it just goes really downhill after that.
There's no point importing a single person from the Middle East.
Or from Africa.
At least economically.
And that's not to speak anything of the bloody cultural vandalism that we're doing to our own country.
Why have we got Romanians cooking...
Why do we have meat on the streets?
Why do we have Luton filled with Middle Easter's?
Why do we have subcontinentals in the Peak District grilling lamb?
These people are not doing what we thought they were going to do, and they are just coming here.
They're like, yeah, I'm going to bring my old peasant traditions from the old country.
Of course they are.
I think some people knew they'd do this.
But the point being, there's no need for them to be here.
They're not actually contributing to British society or British life or the British economy.
They're just occupying space until we send them home.
So maybe we should repatriate some of these people.
Alright, do you want to read through some of the rumble rants that we've got?
Because we've got quite a few for those already.
Yeah, well, a lot of people agree, I think.
DragonLadyChris says, Hey lads, last week I mentioned I'd received the under you sent to replace the one I didn't get.
The distributor...
Guess what?
It finally came yesterday.
Yep, the one from the distributor.
Sorry about that.
It's fine.
You don't need to apologize for that.
It's our fault that we chose that distributor.
I mean, they were fine the first time.
I don't know.
And a lot of people have been saying that they're just getting the Islanders now.
Because it's not...
Like I said, we sent them.
The distributor screwed us around.
And I guess they must have found a box or something in the warehouse that they hadn't sent maybe.
I don't know.
They've been very opaque.
But I'm glad you're getting them.
It's fine.
Keep the second one, obviously.
Don't worry.
It's on us.
Thank you for ordering it.
The new one will be ready in a couple of weeks, actually.
It's looking great.
It is looking gorgeous.
I will do a little promo for it to explain what's in it, because we've worked really hard on this one, and there's something very special in it, and I'm not going to spoil it.
Bobobad says, The judge ironically did the, but how does it personally affect you meme?
Well, I do find it funny to call all these migrants gay and homo, to live in a country too dangerous for a rapist.
Can't Britain be a place that's too dangerous for rapists?
You'd think feminists would be signing up for this.
I mean...
Like, continental feminists seem to be.
Yeah, they do.
But British feminists, as with so much, are uniquely immune to common sense.
They are.
They are.
At least they're transphobic.
That's the only good thing about British feminists.
Well, to be fair, I say that, but then I see also that even J.K. Rowling recently has been taking up the arms against the grooming gangs, so that's some kind of progress, I suppose.
Yeah, yeah.
I think a lot of this is Posey.
Are we not speaking about this, actually?
Yeah.
Because she's actually quite based on a lot of things, which is great.
Nia Amrila says, Carla, so many opportunities to ask why are they here.
It may as well be on his tombstone or memorial one day as an epitaph.
Well, the thing is, the point of asking the question repeatedly is to make people be critical about why we have Romanians barbecuing a sheep in the middle of the street.
Why is this happening?
This doesn't have to be happening.
Why do we have this rapist in the country?
This doesn't have to be happening.
It's actually normal to get rid of these people.
They're not helpful.
They're not making Britain any better.
Get rid of them.
Send them home.
They've got homes to go to.
You know, that's the thing.
They come from somewhere.
That's a random name, says, we need to keep track of every single person who facilitated these crimes, judges, civil servants, politicians, in order to bring them to trial for their actions.
Well, I'm afraid that's not going to happen.
And he says, these are Romanian gypsies, non-gypsy Romanians, look more like Slavic, like V. In Bulgaria, our gypsies sell their doorkeepers and parking lots for like $300.
There's a reason everyone hates them.
I thought they looked kind of like gypsies, to be honest.
I'm not paying $300 for a gypsy.
I'm just going to steal my stuff.
But, right, okay.
Anyway, let's move on.
Right, so Hollywood is in crisis and a lot of celebrities need our support and help.
Right, but before we say more about this...
Take a half stone not to laugh, wouldn't it?
Yeah, I mean, we do have a presidential inauguration on the 20th of January, so a lot of celebrities will need help.
That's true.
Yeah, and also we have merch to help them.
And you.
Right, so we have here the beautiful Trump mag.
I'd like to drink coffee from it.
But I'm thinking, moreover, wouldn't Brad Pitt be just thrilled to have someone come and donate money to him wearing the Trump shirt?
Yes, exactly.
The Trump 24 shirt?
That's exactly what he's looking for when he wants his donations.
Would he also like to wear the Islander medal shirt?
That would be a cool one.
It is an awesome shirt.
It is an amazing shirt.
But these are also going off sale when the new one comes out.
So if you want them, grab them now.
Exactly.
Last chance.
Right, so Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have had a tumultuous relationship and they have a divorce that has been ongoing for about eight years.
How are they going to split the African children?
I think they end the winery in France.
That's the main issue, I think.
Is that why they got the Africans?
What was going on?
Harry, please.
Don't be mean.
It's a complex issue.
Don't be mean.
Don't be mean.
So this is an ongoing issue for about eight years.
I think they reached a settlement on the 30th of December last year, 2024. Don't ask me about details because I'm not that braindead.
You mean you've not been keeping really close to the story?
Google Alerts for Angelina.
Right, so they have been in an ongoing fight and it's about...
At some point they hit the beginning of the end, then they have the vitriolic hatred stage, custody battle, and here they say something about a custody about a French winery.
Right, okay.
And as we all know, generally speaking, when there are several divorce settlements, they usually are very harsh on men.
Yes.
Again, I don't know and I'm not passing anything on this.
There has been a scam that a...
Let me see those images.
I mean, that one in the top and the middle, right, that's the face that I pull when I'm about to go through some pretty intense surgery.
AI has been used, has it?
That's incredible.
Yeah, so what I just told you about the divorce settlement between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt formed the background of a scam that is tragic, but also, I mean, it's...
At some point you laugh, not sadistically, but it's just weird.
No, I am laughing.
Look at that one on the top right.
He's got a shaved head.
Let me guess.
Some boomer on Facebook was scammed by AI Slop.
Would a 53-year-old be considered a boomer?
No, that's Gen X. Spiritually, though.
I don't know.
Gen X is like the audience for Brad Pitt.
Sure, I know.
We are, but...
The mentality of the boomer on Facebook.
Where it's like, how many likes can I get for this child refugee or something?
You can just Google Brad Pitt's name and find out what he was up to yesterday if he really wanted to.
They're very trusting of Facebook.
So what happened is that...
A woman will send these images.
A woman in France called Anne, an interior designer.
And I hope she's doing well at the moment.
So she will send these images.
Let us just look at the images first.
I like the idea.
This is my personal favorite.
Top right.
He looks like the boy in the striped pajamas there.
I just like the idea that anytime Brad Pitt's in the hospital, he has to take publicity shoots where he pulls blue steel for the camera every time.
Also here he says, Anne, I love you.
That looks more like Colin Farrell.
I just love all the different haircuts he's got.
Like, he's got a barber who comes in and does his hair.
Like, come on, Anne.
Come on.
Also, they don't seem convincing.
She divorced her husband.
Wait, no, she was about...
She would have done so regardless.
Oh, okay.
All right, all right.
And this one here is just showing grace under pressure.
I can just imagine that having a little...
Right, so let me tell you what happened.
What's that image just of an arm with a syringe in it?
Yeah, this is me, Brad Pitt, and my arm.
Here you go.
Right, so let me tell you what happened.
Is that a French interior designer called Anne, around 53-year-old, started being active on social media.
Right?
We need the timeline of events.
The more I look at them, I'm sorry.
Yeah, that's why I have them on.
I want them to distract you.
He looks like he's about to be in tears.
Anne, please, please.
Anne, I need them.
Angelina took everything.
And Anne, I just happen to have chosen you out of all the women in the world.
You're a 53-year-old woman.
I just happen to be in love with you.
Anne, I love you.
Send me money!
He was never available for a call, which, as a lot of people say, is one of the key characteristics of scammers.
Oh, come on, Stelios.
He's clearly getting...
He's in hospital getting treatment.
How has he got time for a call?
Yeah.
And look at bottom right again.
Come on.
He's so doped up.
This is mean.
I feel mean laughing.
It does feel mean, but the more these images, they're staring at me.
Yeah, if you just look at them.
I'm the abyss's staring bag.
Yeah, you feel like they're piercing through your soul.
Something.
Brad Pitt has that effect.
All your secrets.
Harry will come to the fore.
Can you imagine?
She goes, oh, look.
Brad Pitt's emailed me.
He's in hospital.
He has my email.
Yeah, he's got my email somehow.
He's in hospital.
He's got cancer.
He needs 800 grand from me.
There was a matchmaker, because Brad Pitt was shy.
She started being active on social media, she made a profile, I think it was on Instagram, and she was contacted by Brad Pitt's mother.
Oh, what are the odds?
I mean, can't she lend him some money?
I never liked that wife of his!
It should have been you!
How did this woman not have friends around going, look, I don't think Brad Pitt's actually emailing her.
To be fair, to be fair, alright, my missus watches a lot of catfish.
And all of these people tend to have friends around them going, this is insane.
This is insane.
But they get themselves really into the fantasy.
Maybe they're not friends.
Maybe they're not a picture of friends.
Yeah, a real picture of Brad Pitt.
Obviously Brad Pitt, what are you talking about?
A lot of people around them, they will say obviously this is fake, but they may have the sort of crisis and say maybe my friends don't want me to be happy.
My friends don't want me to marry Brad Pitt themselves.
They want to share it.
Come on.
Again, I do feel bad for her.
I mean, Carl, you've got to consider as well.
She is a woman.
So what happened was that a fake account contacted her.
Allegedly the matter of Brad Pitt.
Obviously not.
And then Brad Pitt started, the fake Brad Pitt started talking to her.
And he was promising her future gifts.
But there was a custom issue.
Oh, was there?
And he asked for money to pay for the custom issue.
Anyway, initially...
800 grand later.
Initially, she felt a bit skeptical, but, and here is the key, the word habitation.
There's a great super chat that's just coming in.
Whoa, Brad Pitt chose me to be his top guy?
No way.
I'll do it for you, Brad Pitt.
I'll go to bat for you, Brad Pitt.
I love that meme so much.
Don't try to convince me that the Victoria's Secret angels who are contacting me.
I said no because I'm married.
How much is the custom duty?
It's a lot!
But they're worth it, damn it!
You can't convince me otherwise!
Right, so soon afterwards they started texting on a daily basis and as Anne said that her suspicions died down a bit because he really knew how to talk to women and Brad Pitt also knows how to talk to women so he must be Brad Pitt.
He got Angelina Jolius.
Stelius, cut to the chip.
Was he Indian?
No.
Really?
Okay.
We don't know, but he has been found in Nigeria.
So it was that Nigerian prince.
Right.
So at some point, when she told him on the accounts, on the fake account, that was allegedly Brad Pitt.
Brad Pitt literally messaging her in pidgin English.
Yeah.
Jesus.
She told him that she is about to...
Get a divorce from a very rich French millionaire.
Oh!
And sharks smell blood and they just instantly go get psyched up.
And he started saying he has kidney cancer and he needs treatment.
Good point.
And Angelina took everything and he can't pay for it because he has issues with accessing his accounts.
No one could lend him that money.
Yeah, right.
So she fell for it.
She sent him lots of money and at some point...
She was a bit...
She understood that she...
It was at this moment.
It was at this moment, wasn't it?
So at some point, she asked to talk to him.
He was never able to contact her.
And at some point, she saw Brad Pitt with his new...
I think Brad Pitt went out.
And it was at this moment that she realized...
That he was cheating on her?
Yes.
How could you do this, Brad?
Anyway, so she contacted the police and she also contacted the...
What's that?
I don't know what that was.
What on earth is this?
Have you got something to tell us, Stelian?
No, it's just that this wasn't a link of mine.
Samson.
This isn't working.
But anyway, I'll just tell you what happened.
She contacted the founder of the Find My Scammer website.
Mr. Warab trapped the fake Brad Pitt.
He sent him a link.
The link opened it.
He opened the link and then they could find his phone and they found out that he is operating in Nigeria and that there is...
Also, another ongoing scam at the moment where he is pretending to be Keanu Reeves.
So, John Wick needs also your money.
Don't fall for it.
Listen, John Wick 6, the funding is not going great right now.
We need your help to fund John Wick 6. Just to be clear, right?
If she got, what, £600,000 out of it?
Like, he got £600,000 out of it, right?
Close to £700,000.
The average house price in Nigeria is £10,000.
That's a lot of houses.
This guy must have bought himself an entire city.
He's king now.
He's literally the king of Nigeria.
But if he did it, he's a rookie.
Really?
Because if you spend it instantly, you'll get found out.
Yeah, assuming there was a functioning government in the country, maybe.
Exactly.
And that's the issue with Mr. Warab.
Mr. Warab added, it's a small group of three or four fairly young people who are causing damage.
On the fake Brad Pitt's device alone, we counted 34 victims.
He told the...
34 different women!
It's much more than 34...
Carl, it's a huge rabbit hole.
I have stuff afterwards.
Oh, okay, sorry.
Actually, these scams are quite common.
Oh, right, okay.
Right, so he told the news outlet he had contacted the Nigerian authorities.
Yeah, just silence for no reason.
I'm sure he didn't bribe them.
And has promised to hand over all the information he had on the scammer.
Oh, yeah.
See here, Brad Pitt and I love you.
They're operating.
Again, they got the barber in to do his hair.
This is just so fake.
They call it deep fake AI. It's not even that.
It's so bad.
Yeah, it's very bad.
Facebook boomers.
Oh.
Let's go.
What happened to his neck?
I thought it was kidney surgery.
Did they just beat him up while he was under?
At least they get sent through customs just out of interest.
Anyway.
We have a very, very happy...
The surgery went great.
The only person who is happy being in a hospital.
Apparently she fell for that.
Oh, God.
Yeah, let's cold down a bit.
Anyway.
Right, so...
Brad Pitt responded through someone who responded from me through a representative.
He said thanks, that surgery wouldn't have gone the way it did without you.
I love you, Anne.
Sorry, Anne.
It's awful that scammers take advantage of the strong bond between fans and celebrities.
Yeah, this is a really dark side of the whole parasocial relationship that people form.
And to me, it's even weirder, because at least with social media like YouTube, at least you've got the person looking into the camera saying, I really appreciate you.
Thank you for everything you do.
And you get the Twitch thoughts saying, oh, thanks for ten grand, and then ignoring you.
Also, Dragon Lady Chris, I do need surgery soon.
So, you know, I love you.
With Hollywood celebrities, they're just playing characters on.
On the screen, right?
So it's even weirder to form that parasocial bond.
See, this is an important reminder not to respond to unsolicited online messages, especially from actors who are not present on social networks.
Trust me, if I message you, it'll be from my real account.
Yes!
And Brad Pitt's like, they're getting a lot of money out of this.
I would show you some real pictures from the hospital.
I did lose a lot in the divorce.
Yeah.
I like how...
Okay, here we have...
This is AI Brad Pitt needs some cash to get out of jail.
I like that the jail behind him seems to be open as well.
So, this is something that is ongoing for a long time now.
There are a lot of scammers who...
What is this?
She thought Brad Pitt wanted her.
Yeah, but woman catfished by fake Brad Pitt sued real Brad Pitt?
Yeah.
What?
For not taking steps to protect his online presence?
Sorry, someone lied to you.
And you were like, I love Brad Pitt.
And then you're like, yeah, that wasn't the real Brad Pitt.
He broke my heart.
I'm going to sue Brad Pitt.
Yeah, she sued him because what happened was that she says that she was contacted by an account that pretended to represent his foundation.
She started organizing fundraisers for his foundation.
For his surgery.
Anyway, she sued him.
But he won the...
Oh, good.
I'm glad.
But even then, that must have been stressful.
She looks quite intense.
Yeah, she does.
I'll tell you what, man.
I'm so glad I'm ugly.
You don't want these weird stalkers stalking you everywhere and doing weird things.
But you messaged me on Instagram saying, no, I didn't, obviously.
If you're Brad Pitt, it's like, obviously, I didn't message you on Instagram.
You're like 60 years old.
I don't know who you are.
Obviously, you've been taken advantage of.
It's like, oh, no, I'm getting sued.
Oh, God.
I've been cursed by fate, and it happens all the time.
Yeah, I bet.
I constantly have to say that it's not me.
Thank God.
Like I said, thank God I'm ugly.
That's all I'm saying.
Anyway, so he won this.
But there are also other fake Brad Pitt scams in Spain.
It's throughout the world.
Brad Pitt is the most fake scammed guy in the world.
Yeah, it's incredibly common.
They say that there have been two women in Spain that were scammed and they paid 325,000 euros.
Lots of gullible European women.
I kind of feel that English women would be a bit cynical about this.
Well, I don't know, but the kind of function is sort of the same.
300 grand.
I don't know.
Do you guys think that the Victoria's Secret model are real?
Contacted me.
They all seem to...
They say that they were in California, they've been stranded by a tsunami.
A tsunami, not the fires?
And the fires, yeah.
And the fires, okay.
It's both.
All right, all right.
Well, you know, if you believe they're real Stelios...
Yeah, I mean, what does real even mean, Stelios?
Do they make you happy?
I decline, because I'm not that kind of person.
They make you happy, at least.
Declining, yeah.
Turning away women always makes me happy.
It's just kind of revenge for school.
I've just learned that Jessica Alba has separated from her husband, so that's good news.
Okay, expect a call from Jessica.
Jessica will see you soon.
Thank God, all that money I've been giving her is not going to go to waste.
Messendery and anti-feminism is going to actually be against her in court.
She's going to need money.
Yeah, definitely.
Right, okay, so...
Should we go to the comments?
There you go, yeah.
Right.
So, Stellis, check out...
Oh, sorry.
Oh, yeah, here we go.
Okay.
Bobo Bad.
Whoa.
Brad Pitt.
We read that one, yeah.
That's a random name.
Breaking news.
You need the siren.
Angelina Jolie has been...
I mean, I don't know if that's true.
It's a joke.
It's generally been stabbed by a crazy woman who claims she put her love of Brad Pitt's life in danger by taking over.
Is that actually real?
No, no.
That's just related to the joke story that we've got here.
In Axio, I don't mean to be rude, but how can anyone be so stupid to fall for this garbage?
Well, again, Facebook boomers, man.
I guess if your life's not going very well, you're going through a divorce, Brad Pitt messages you on Instagram, whatever.
Now's the time.
Yeah, exactly.
Now's the time.
You're in this perfect nexus of needing help and help reaching out a helping hand.
Johnny Logo, no need to read out.
Sadiq Khan under investigation by City Hall Watchdog.
Oh, good luck.
Is that true?
Bully Saka.
Stelios, check out 419 Eaters, a movement of professional trolls who counter Nigerian scammers and waste their time convicting them to copy entire books by hand and even get tattoos.
Funny stuff.
That's great.
Glad you do something.
Okay, and Garvin, Ambrose, Carl, why did you DM my space account?
Telling me I'm your true love.
Also, did you get my 20k?
No, it is actually 40k the customers are asking for.
I thought it was 20k, so you need to send another 20. Sorry.
Bobo Bad looks like I can sue Graceland since that wasn't Elvis that married my wife.
I've been scammed.
He's been dead since the 70s.
No!
Didn't he die in the toilet?
Yes.
Very notorious.
Lasty way to go.
Some say he was eating a burger.
Although I don't think that's entirely true.
It would be the most American way to go out.
It would be a highly American way to go out.
Some say that he's currently being played by Bruce Campbell.
That's true.
Anyway, so this is going to be an unusual segment for our podcast, because obviously we normally deal with politics, but I am a very...
Into culture, pop culture, and films, and yesterday I learnt that my favourite filmmaker, an absolute master director, artist, painter, musician, practitioner of transcendental meditation, David Lynch passed away at the age of 78. It was a big part of his identity.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, he started promoting it and everything.
What does that mean?
The way he describes it sounds very peaceful.
Oh, okay.
Very, very peaceful.
But yeah, he sadly passed away.
We're not entirely sure as to why yet.
It seems that he probably had...
Well, he did have emphysema.
He was 78 years old.
He'd been smoking since he was 8 years old.
Had to give it up a few years ago and had to carry an oxygen tank around with him because of that.
So given that he was living in LA, the wildfires and everything.
Probably a contributing factor to all of that.
Which, if anything, for a man whose work was so dedicated to Hollywood and looked a lot at Hollywood and California in particular, is quite fitting.
Almost Lynchian in a way.
But I thought I would pay tribute to him because, of course, he is one of my favorite artists.
I believe that art is how we reach transcendence and an expression of the deepest forms of humanity.
and I feel like he was an incredible artist that not all of you may appreciate you don't have to appreciate him but he was controversial he was daring he was uncompromising and created some art that no matter who you were got a reaction out of you it had some kind of effect on you I know you've not seen I've never seen any of his films I'm not saying he's good or bad.
No, I would highly recommend them.
I know Stelios, you've watched a bit of his stuff.
Yes, yes I have.
But I've watched quite a bit.
Before I go any further...
Get the merch on the website for the inauguration.
We've got the Trump merch back, so you can get that while it's still there.
And also, regarding Lynch himself, I have covered quite a bit of his work on the website already.
Back in 2022, I got Conor to watch Mulholland Drive, one of his most famous films, which a lot of people have seen.
It's kind of considered a classic.
Conor did not really appreciate it very much.
But it was a very good discussion.
It's my favourite of his, so Connor's wrong.
Connor is wrong about a lot of things.
But I also did a...
That in particular.
I did a very big video with Josh talking about Twin Peaks, which is probably his most influential work that many of you will be familiar with, even if you've not actually watched it, just because it's been paid tribute and homage to and parodied so many times, because especially in the early 1990s, it was a...
Big pop cultural force and basically changed television, influenced loads of video games, Japanese video games in particular, and changed how some people saw horror.
And used horror in their works.
So very, very influential.
That was a discussion that Josh and I had, and I think it's well worth checking those videos out if you have a membership to the website.
Before we go on, Neo and Relis is like, for fuck's sake, Carl, go watch Twin Peaks on Mulholland Drive.
There's so much slop today, you should see those.
Yes.
He, again, not to be too hyperbolic, he was like a real author, an artist, and his films occupy a strange space where they're not fully art films.
I mean, he made art films, but his big feature productions were not fully art films.
There are characters that you can get invested in, there are linear narratives that you can follow, but they're also not really mainstream.
The most mainstream he ever got was Elephant Man and Dune.
Dune?
Dune?
Dune.
Oh, Dune.
Yeah.
Oh, what, the 70s Dune?
The 80s one.
Oh, the 80s one.
Yeah, no, okay, I have seen.
I love that film.
Yeah, I think it's great.
I mean, he hated it.
He disavowed it.
Really?
The one film of his I've actually seen and liked, he's like, no, I hate that.
Well, it's because there was a lot of studio meddling.
They didn't want him to get his full vision out, and there was like a four-hour cut that was going to be his cut, and then they said, no, you need to cut an hour and a half out of it, which is why the last third of the film feels so truncated compared to the first parts of it.
His tune was great because it's like...
It's a fever dream.
Yeah, it's a total fever dream.
It's really wacky, and it feels like a strange and unusual place, which is what you want Arrakis to feel like.
Well, I mean, that was the thing that appealed to me most about the films when I first started watching them, was that he had a vision and was able to craft an atmosphere.
Unlike any other filmmaker that I've seen, there have been a lot of imitators, but nobody's really been able to capture that same feeling, which is why it was...
It's deemed Lynchian, which is the term that you hear a lot.
And interestingly enough, do you know what he turned down to do Dune instead?
He was originally offered by George Lucas himself Return of the Jedi.
Probably a good thing.
Supposedly he heard about the Ewoks and said, nope.
Really?
Nope, I'm not going to do that.
But yes, sadly, I learned that he died.
And there has been an outpouring of tributes, which in a way has been quite heartwarming to see.
A lot of people paying tribute to his life and his work, the man himself, his attitudes towards life.
And it's kind of bridged the divide in politics, because there have been people that I've seen on the left and on the right...
Both paying tribute to his works because he was a truly American artist, one of the last of his kinds, kind of a throwback to an older age where he was a full-on Montana-born, Midwestern, golly gee whiz type.
He would say things like, that's swell, and he had a very, very chipper attitude.
But one of the things that made his work so endearing and enigmatic was that he was able to marry the beauty of life and the positive things in life.
With that dark and disturbing atmosphere that you find underneath everything.
Because the kind of films that he made are not the kind of films that you would expect a guy like him to make if you'd just seen an interview with him, where he comes across really chipper and friendly and upbeat all of the time.
But he was in touch with the darker...
He just produces really bizarre and otherworldly.
Otherworldly and psychological.
There's a kind of psychological menace.
Underneath.
And it became his calling card, especially in some of his later films, like...
When Twin Peaks, when that progressed further, and when you get to Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire in particular, is a very, very challenging film.
Not one that I would recommend anybody to watch as their first introduction, but then at the same time was able to make a Disney film called The Straight Story, which is really heartwarming about a man who finds out his brother is dying, who he's lost contact with for years, so takes a lawnmower and rides it all the way across America just so he can see his brother for the last time.
It's not a bad way of getting across America.
The character's very, very poor, so it's the best that he can do.
Again, it's this interesting dynamic that is expressed throughout his films, which I think expressed some of the depth of character of the man himself and also allowed his films to speak to people of many different walks of life.
Although, one of the best reactions that I saw so far was just, why can it never be Woody Allen?
Or Roman Polanski?
I'm sure it will eventually be there.
It will eventually, but why does it have to be The Good Ones first?
So is this one of those rare Hollywood directors who is not a nonce then?
It seems so.
In fact, he was quite the ladies' man.
Oh, okay.
Every single actor you see talk about him talks about what a positive experience they have with him, and all of the women who talk about him, who work with him, seem to have basically just fallen in love with him as well, which is quite sweet, because he seemed to have a sort of aura that made the women feel like they were the only woman in the world, and the most special woman in the world.
There was an interesting thing, I didn't include it in this, but there's a very famous scene from Mulholland Drive.
You'll remember it.
The Denny's scene, I think it is, where he goes to the back of the Denny's, and there's the hobo monster that pops out from behind.
And there was an interview conducted with the woman who played it, and they asked her, what was the direction you were given for being scary like that?
And she goes, well, you know...
We were trying to figure out what kind of face that I should pull, and it just wasn't working.
We did all these different takes, and eventually I was talking with David, and you know, like, he was really hot, so I was giving him googly eyes, and he looked at me and said, that's the face!
That right there!
And they asked him, wait, so you were pulling sex eyes in that take?
And she's like, yep.
It's very, very strange to see a guy like that have such positive attention from women, but hey, some guys have game.
But there is some sadness that comes with this, and I don't want to dwell on the sadness, because he seemed like such a positive person, and I don't think he would want people to weep over him or anything, but there is some sadness that after he did the third series of Twin Peaks in 2017, he mainly dedicated himself to...
Producing music and paintings.
But he did have other ideas for films and television series, which he was trying to work with Netflix to produce.
And last year, he was giving interviews where he said that Netflix had just rejected most of them.
Rejected all of them, in fact.
he was going to try and make a film called um called snoot world which was going to be an animated family friendly project but they just rejected it he'd also been working on a television series called unrecorded night that they also rejected as well
so while netflix is green lighting who knows how much absolute shit that goes on the platform they have access to one of the last great unique american artists and directors and they say no just no because he's not gay enough He didn't tick the boxes.
It's just sad to see that had people been more in line with his vision, that we could have gotten more from the man.
But what we did get was fantastic.
And again, to go through the tributes now, it was remarkable the range of people who came out.
Paying tribute to the man all day yesterday, going into today as well.
So, you know, you expect somebody who's, like, considered artsy, unusual, eccentric, and strange to get leftist attention because they like being film buffs and they like projecting themselves as, like, ooh, I'm the media literate person.
They like auteurs.
Right?
So you get people like ContraPoints coming out with this, which is a still from Mulholland Drive.
You know, very sad.
But then...
Oh, go on, go on.
No, this is one of my favorite scenes from the movie, where they're at the Silencio.
Yeah, Club Silencio.
Naomi Watts here, I think, is just excellent.
I think that was the movie that changed her career.
Yes, she attributes all of her success to the fact that he cast her in there.
And, I mean, I don't know how difficult that is in her case, but the way David Lynch portrays her in that movie is like she oozes femininity.
Oh, yeah.
Very distinct.
There's vulnerability, there's bitterness, there's spitefulness, all of the female attributes.
Also, I guess, niceness.
Innocence, I suppose.
I meant in a good way, but I'll get the wrong way.
But again, it's all about...
She's the damsel in distress here.
I mean, yes, I did have an argument with my wife this morning, thank you.
You could make an argument that all of his work is about what he described Inland Empire as, which is a woman in trouble.
That's what he describes that film as, and I think it explains most of his work, although he was particularly enigmatic whenever anybody tried to pin him down on what his films were about and their meanings, especially the more unusual ones, which I think is a sign of good integrity, where he had a vision, and he didn't want to explain that vision, because the vision was the film.
You want the vision, you watch the film, and then people try and get him to put it into words, and he says, Film is the words.
And it makes it so that those films have this beautiful abstract ambiguity to them that I saw someone describe as no matter who you were, who you were with at the time, you would watch the film and feel like it was made for you in mind.
Which is really, really interesting.
Just a quick thing on that.
I've been...
I was on a stream with Arch yesterday.
I was trying to emphasize that.
There was a game developer who was like, what do gamers want?
It's like, we...
You know, like with any art, you can't do it by committee or by mechanic, right?
As in, we're not asking for, like, you know, more numbers.
What we're asking for is for you to have an idea in your head of a human experience that you want to transmit to us via the medium of the art.
And this game developer's like, I don't know what gamers want.
It's like, well, yeah, I agree.
Exactly, what do you want?
You know, what do you want to tell us?
And the answer is nothing, of course.
He doesn't have anything to tell us.
For him, this is a mechanical industrial process, not...
A work of art.
Then you shouldn't even be in the industry.
Get out.
This is the very antonym of what that person is.
It was after Dune that he decided he wasn't going to work within the studio system anymore.
So the film he made after that was Blue Velvet, which is, again, a strange, unusual, difficult film for some.
But of his more complicated films, it has a linear narrative that you can follow easily, so it makes it one of the more accessible ones.
Then he kind of worked in the studio system again for Twin Peaks, because that was a television show.
He got screwed over for that, so didn't ever go back to it.
And it's kind of beautiful that, you know, decades later...
later he managed to finish the show with its third series and make it in a really uncompromising way because he managed to do it entirely directed and co-written by himself 18 hour long episodes so it's just like an entire magnum opus of a of a television program and it's fantastic but again you've got george alexopolis friend of the show doing a portrait of the man and You get people posting clips from Twin Peaks.
And this is a really beautiful one.
I would play some of the clips, but I don't want to get copyrighted, sadly.
But this is great because Lynch himself cast himself in Twin Peaks as a man called Gordon Cole who has hearing issues.
And he's speaking to this woman, Shelley, who's completely beautiful, obviously.
And because she is so beautiful and he falls so in love with her immediately, all of a sudden he's just able, unlike anybody else, he can just hear her.
Oh, that's useful.
It's very sweet as well.
And then the immediate scene after, he got to kiss her, jammy bastard.
It's a lot less creepy than Tarantino.
Yeah, I was going to say, I wrote it so I got the thing I like.
Yeah, exactly.
So it's Quentin Tarantino sucking what's-her-face's toes.
It's not as bad as that, thankfully.
Some heck.
Yeah, and then you get to all of a sudden...
Tom Rousel, friend of the show as well, Survive the Jive, paying tribute, saying Twin Peaks is the best television series ever made.
Lomes saying that he's heartbroken about this, pointing out what I mentioned earlier, that his films were not art films and they weren't commercial films, they were something more unique than either of those.
Lomes posting, now this is a beautiful scene, and you should watch it just for the scenes like this, because there's so much darkness and so much horror in the show, but this...
This scene is beautiful, so again, I would play it, but copyright the...
The scene is this man, Major Briggs, and his son Bobby, and in the first series, Briggs comes across like this very no-nonsense military man, very cold, very detached, and Bobby is this rebellious teenager who's going down the wrong route in life.
Then all of a sudden in the second series you get very early on, directed by Lynch himself, the scene of the two of them coming together where Briggs gives this monologue, it's beautiful, where he explains he had this vision where he was in the family home that he grew up in that had extended a little bit but all of the rooms perfectly fit to where he explains he had this vision where he was in the family home that he grew
And then he gets a knock at the door and he finds that it's his son, Bobby, and he sees that his son is living his most fulfilling and joyous life and they embrace and in that moment become one.
And he puts it a lot nicer than I did there.
but it's one of those scenes that never fails to bring a tear out of me because of how beautifully put it is.
The language used in it is fantastic.
And again, it's wonderful to see people posting these kinds of things because it's different.
It's a break from the horror and misery that is normally my Twitter timeline.
You get people as different as Bronze Age Pervert paying tribute, saying, oh no, at this awesome image of the guy lighting a cigarette.
Richard Spencer...
Posted saying, one of the greats.
So you can go from somebody like ContraPoints all the way to Richard Spencer, Semiogog, Geo's content-minded corner.
Now, this is one of my favorite little interview excerpts from him, where he talks about his debut film, Eraserhead.
And he says, believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.
The interviewer, elaborate on that.
No.
No.
Figure it out yourself.
I like that response.
Was Anthony Hopkins playing on...
He's an elephant man.
Elephant man.
As far as I know, it was his only big...
Like, film role before Silence of the Lambs.
And it's a really good role, so you've expected him to make it big after that, but Hollywood works funny like that.
Then you get The Prudentialist, and then you get Nerdrotic come out, and you get John Dee, who's a huge Lynch fan, posting some of the images from his films.
And you can just see from here the eye that the man had for very, very striking imagery.
There's a kind of liminalness.
To everything that I'm seeing here, right?
Everything feels like it's the threshold of something different and terrible.
Well, it's very purposefully dreamlike.
And again, something like Blue Velvet.
Some people think that he indulged in this love of Americana, ironically.
He really didn't.
He was, again, a Midwestern boy who grew up with the white picket fences.
He just had an intuitive understanding that life is not all sunshine and rainbows.
And understood that to have one, you cannot have one without the other, the light and the dark.
And so presented that beautifully in his films.
Also, Lost Highway is a great film.
Yeah, it's awesome.
A Wild at Heart is one that people don't talk about as much, but they should because it's the only film so bizarre that Nicolas Cage's performance actually fits.
Oh, really?
Yeah, there's Willem Dafoe, by the way.
Yep, that's great.
It's the most strange stealth retelling of The Wizard of Oz I've ever seen.
Or at least it pays a lot of tribute to that.
Kunli Drukpa posted this, which is one of my favourite things.
I say, you know, he was this nice, kindly man.
He was a very upbeat and chipper.
On set, he could have a bit of a temper, and it was all in service of the vision.
This is just a little behind-the-scenes thing from Twin Peaks Series 3, where somebody's saying, can we cut the scene down?
Scene's going on a little bit long, so he just does this.
"You gonna try to do a close-up on Candy still?" "Or do you want to cut the time down?" "What is this with everybody?" "What is it?
Really?" "I'm serious!" "Fuckin' A man, it drives me nuts!" "Who gives a fucking shit how long a scene is?" Anti-longhouse energy right there.
Yeah, but good point.
If it's necessary for this thing that I'm trying to do, who cares?
Yep.
Morgoth came out.
I wasn't expecting Morgoth to do a little Rest in Peace tribute.
And then you get to the people who actually worked with him.
Kyle MacLachlan, whose career he made with Blue Velvet in June.
Saying about how he's going to miss his friend and how he made his career and how they were kind of kindred spirits in a way.
Naomi Watts.
I've seen loads of people come out and give tributes to him.
I've not seen Laura Dern come out with one yet, but I can imagine a period of mourning because they were so close.
I did my own tribute, which was that the man had incredible taste in women, which got quite a lot of likes.
My biggest post in quite a while.
Because of simps.
Every single one of you.
Although...
Oh yeah, we're going to put The Sims in the stock.
I can't blame them.
I can't blame them this time.
Everyone who bookmarked this tweet is going in the stock.
And then there's also the point that some people have said that, you know, the games that he inspired as well, particularly for me, Silent Hill is one of the big ones.
Silent Hill 2, very, very influenced by Lost Highway.
And then, you know, I also included some other things about his...
The man himself, in his own words, some excerpts of interviews and little things that he wrote in books.
Like, this one's a good one where he's talking about therapy.
I went to a psychiatrist once.
I was doing something that had become a pattern in my life, and I thought, well, I should talk to a psychiatrist.
I got to the room, I asked him, do you think that this process could, in any way, damage my creativity?
And he said, well, David, I have to be honest, it could.
So I shook his hand and left.
Yeah.
There was this funny thing that he did back in 2006, where he was advertising Laura Dern's performance for Inland Empire, where, to try and get attention, he just sat on the corner of a Hollywood boulevard or something with a cow to draw people's attention.
David Luce sat here with a cow?
Yeah.
How are you?
People in the nest?
Let's meet you.
Let's meet you.
Let's have a listen to everybody.
This is apparently just for Laura Dern.
I don't get the cheese thing.
Did he explain it to you?
*Made milk* And they're all like "I do not understand what's going on" but memorable, quirky, and importantly, entirely sincere.
Yes.
He wasn't just trying to be weird for the sake of it or be ironic.
He was just like this.
This was where his mind took him.
During the COVID era, during those years, he took to doing daily weather reports on what the weather was like in Los Angeles.
Oh, yeah.
And this was the last one that he did in 2022. Good morning.
It's December 16, 2022. And if you...
Has the audio gone?
Believe it!
What?
It's a Friday once again!
The audio just cut.
I don't know why the audio cut, but he basically said, if you can believe it, it's a Friday once again!
It was a very, very charming little thing.
And again, there's this idea that he was just ironic in what he was doing, which is completely wrong, because he did one of those Masterworks courses or whatever it was a few years ago, and there's just so much footage from that where he's talking about the films that inspired him and looking back at something as simple as It's a Wonderful Life.
And as he's watching it and talking about it, he wells up a little bit.
This is not the spirit of a man who's sneering Americana and the idea of the American dream.
This is a man that...
He feels it deeply in his soul.
Oh, this was a good one as well.
When Lost Highway came out, Siskel and Ebert said it's a horrible film, don't watch it.
He used that as two more great reasons to see.
Yeah, that's one of my criteria for choosing a movie.
If establishment critics are all, don't watch it, I do.
There's got to be something to it.
And there are other wonderful interviews talking about the creative process, never really explaining himself or the meaning of his films.
but I just thought if you are a creative person the best way to pay tribute to somebody like this who's uncompromising, creative, sincere to a fault is to go out and do something yourself and try to express yourself in any way you can even if you get false starts that's all part of the creative process even if you have trouble accessing that creativity try and put yourself in a state of mind where the ideas will come to you and here's his advice to close this off
And so you just stay alert.
Do your work.
Don't worry about the world going by.
It doesn't mean that you can sit around and not do anything.
You've got to get your butt in gear and do it.
And don't take no for an answer.
Translate those ideas to cinema or to a painting or to whatever.
And figure out a way to get it done.
Yeah.
So, this was a bit of an indulgent segment for me, but thank you for sitting through it.
And David, thank you very much for all the art that you have left for us.
Hewitt says, Razorhead and Blue Velvet should be required viewing for everyone.
And Matt says, We also lost a professional baseball player, Milwaukee Brewers announcer and actor Bob Ucker.
Bob starred in Mr. Belvedere sitcom for six seasons, making new movies, and Miller Lite adverts.
I've never heard of him, I'm afraid.
But, anyway.
Let's carry on with the video comments then.
Here is my economic model.
If you can just...
I can't buy it.
What on earth is this?
Together.
Let's go.
That they get lowered sentences.
Reduced sentences, not lowered.
You got me there.
You got me there.
We got any more, Samson?
That's it.
I was a bit impatient at that point because I knew, Dan, in the economy, it's always about boomers.
I said, okay, just say it.
Don't give me things.
Old Roy says, Good morning, lads.
5am here in California.
I love the lads hour.
Can't wait for the next one.
Well, interestingly, today's lads hour will be a very history-focused one because Bo and I and everyone else will be discussing who the greatest general is, but not in the traditional way.
Because normally the greatest general is like, oh, well, if they had their army at the peak of their powers, who could...
No, no, no.
This is going to be about fistfights.
Which historical leader was the...
Chadist, who is going to be the biggest brawler, the best brawler.
And you know what?
What's interesting is a lot of historical leaders have actually been pretty tough guys.
What a shock.
Yeah, I know, right?
So I'm quite looking forward to it.
Lads out today is going to be great.
It's going to be one of my personal favorites.
Dan says, the right, we should send criminals home.
The left.
But what about the gay rights of the rapist?
It's an interesting priority to take.
Yeah.
Omar says, Well, what's interesting is that Keir Starmer would be right over in Jamaica being like, wait a minute, you're not going to punish this guy for...
Being a rapist, aren't you?
Have you considered his human rights?
Yeah, well, I mean, Keir Starmer literally went to Jamaica and got the death penalty abolished because a bunch of child murderers.
Yeah, you don't have to tell me.
Yeah, I know.
And it's just...
I'm so glad this guy's in charge.
How is that a priority?
Anyway.
Like, you know, you've got things to do in your day.
You're like, yeah, but today I need to go and save the child murderers in Jamaica.
Sorry, what?
Anyway.
Thomas says the Jamaican gay rapist story reminds me of the Charlie Brooker series A Touch of Cloth in which Chief Inspector, despite being a serial killer in the first series, comes back to his role as a CI with the point made by one of the characters, don't worry, he's been on a course.
which is... Maureen says, Dutch person here.
I don't know if this was mentioned, but I'm listening while working and can't multitask.
In the case of those charming youngsters and the 33-year-old woman, directly led to Faber, our Minister of Refugee-Related Business, introducing a new law.
Underage refugees can now lose their residence permit and be thrown out of the country.
The new law will be introduced in the next two weeks or so and will have a retroactive effect.
So a bunch of laws will also be enforced.
Personally, I hope we use their heads as decorations near the border.
Well, I mean, at least something changed.
I didn't even hear about that, but at least something is being done.
Sweden is also looking to overturn parts of its constitution to make it easier to kick out foreign criminals.
Just get rid of them.
Arizona...
Deprive them of citizenship.
Yeah, yeah.
Arizona Desert Rat says, were these children actually minors?
Well, that's the question, isn't it?
Who knows?
I guess it's too racist to x-ray their teeth.
Colin says, as Heinlein again put it, pain is nature's way of saying something is wrong.
And I really mean this.
I've got to the point now where it's like, look, we've tried to persuade these people.
Sending them on courses doesn't work.
They just need to be flogged.
They just need to be flogged.
I'm just at that point.
Sorry, I don't care at all.
I want them flogged.
Federal agent says, at least when they displace us with literal peasants, they're being transparent about their neo-feudal agenda.
So, yeah.
I mean, it's just literal Romanian peasants.
I'm sure they're nice enough people and stuff, but they don't need to be here.
And this was in an AA video recently where he was talking about...
I think it was a follow-up to a video that he'd done on anti-capitalism and nationalism, where he said that, yeah, basically just thinks the ruling class just wanted slave labor without calling it slave labor.
So they tried it with the Soviet Union, and then Stalin went rogue, so they went, all right, China instead then.
I don't know if that's an accurate description of what happened with the Soviet Union.
Well, I mean, we got into a Cold War with them.
I know, but that's not Stalin going rogue.
That's a natural response to capitalism and communism as well as ideologies.
It meant that the economies couldn't cooperate as once they might have been able to.
Whereas China's more than happy to use slave labour to build tap for us.
Sure, but China's learned from the Soviet experience.
But that's not going rote.
They were just trying to commit to communism.
Anyway, Jimbo says, Surely it's getting to the point where we should be locking up politicians for criminal negligence.
Yeah, but who's going to do the locking up?
The politicians would have to rule against themselves, which is obviously not going to happen.
NorthFC Zuma says, Look at Albania's GDP post-2020.
When they started shipping the criminals to us, it literally skyrocketed.
Samson, pull that up.
Can we get the Albanian GDP? I am curious about that.
That's a good question, actually.
Does deporting your criminals actually improve?
Does it raise living standards in a country?
Oh my god.
Good point.
What?
Post-2020, it does just jump up, doesn't it?
And this was during lockdowns.
Right.
So clearly those people are having a negative economic effect on Albania.
George says, imagine that woman's ego to think she'd have a chance with somebody like Brad Pitt.
She destroyed her marriage with women.
It's a mentality that they can always find something better.
What's believable is that even a star like Pitt could be divorce raped.
Wasn't she already getting divorced?
I think she was.
People in a vulnerable state of mind.
There were issues with her marriage.
Someone online says, Are you implying that my Nigerian prince's third cousin isn't actually a prince or related to me and won't store my half million in a bank account?
Yes.
I hate to break this to you, mate.
Yeah, got some bad news.
Anne says, What's amazing for the Cringelord Commander Stelios story is the fact that we know about it.
People get ripped off all the time, but the story of the French woman in the Brad Pitt is the fact that we know about.
That's a great point.
Humanity makes the same mistakes over and over again.
Anne, don't send it.
Brad Pitt, he doesn't love you like I do.
This is why the Beekeeper movie made money.
The story of people getting scammed is entertaining.
We need Jason Statham to blow these perps up.
But I just...
Come on, man.
Really, Brad Pitt needs another $100,000, does he?
Come on, just listen to that sentence.
You know, just...
Isn't The Beekeeper the one...
It's not an issue of need, it's an issue of proving her loyalty to him.
Yeah, no doubt.
And I'm not sure if you love me, that you love me if you don't send me loads of money.
I thought I'd heard of this.
The Beekeeper is the film where Jason Statham kills a load of scammers, but interestingly, can you believe that they chose to cast all of the scammers as rich, entitled white guys?
I can.
I can completely believe that.
And not the actual...
Nigerians.
And not Nigerians or Indians.
Dr. David says, what I'm getting from this is that only an AI truly understands women.
And how to communicate with them.
Can we download that algorithm into my brain, please?
See, you were all like, oh, I'm not getting brain chipped by Elon.
But...
But if I could understand women...
Exactly, right?
Suddenly, now you get what your wife is nagging.
Sorry, no chip.
No chip.
Just saying.
No, no, perhaps GPT will be able to get a woman to decide what she actually wants for dinner.
No, what she's doing is she wants what you're having for dinner.
She's just going, tell me what I want for dinner, dear.
But she's having to phrase it as a question.
Because they're always...
Delivery needs customers.
Because they're always freaking difficult.
The federal agent that's been assigned to watch our podcast says, what is a 53-year-old woman even doing with Instagram?
Instagram is really popular with women.
Yeah, of all ages.
Yeah, like with Pinterest and stuff like that.
Because obviously they're like, whatever things 53-year-old women like on Instagram.
What do they look at?
I know, images.
I stopped looking at Instagram because it kept flooding my feed with dancing women.
I was, I hate watching women dance.
I don't know.
Don't like belly dancers with a diamond.
Yeah, just aggressively dancing the camera.
It's like, what are you asking from me?
Like, why are you on my screen?
And then, so I managed to finally sanitize my Instagram algorithm to just Warhammer content, but then it started making me depressed because these guys painting this Warhammer content was so much better than me.
It was making me feel...
Bring the women back.
Yeah, so I was just like, I'm just going to stop using Instagram entirely.
Probably for the best.
Yeah.
Derek says, does Nigeria now have fight clubs?
Dude, it's Nigeria, you know.
They don't need you to set one up.
I actually was doing a bit of Google Maps sleuthing about Nigeria the other day.
I was just looking at it and it's like...
I mean, it looks like a nice enough place because, you know, it's hot country and stuff like that.
And it looks okay, but, like, I don't know.
I'm not going to go into it.
It's probably...
Better go any further.
Grant says, this is a cheap fake.
Man, it's the cheapest of cheap fakes.
That's the kind of...
The return on investment, though, is incredible.
Amazing.
This is the kind of Photoshop I could do with cutting out Brad Pitt's face and putting it on the face.
The best one was still him in the head.
I know!
My kidney problems really work.
They let me stick my face out, which is perfectly fine, and I'm flashing through the winning smile.
The hair, man.
In every one, the hair was different as hell, yeah.
Get the barbers in.
Hey, maybe that's what he was in for.
It was a hair transplant.
That's why he was so happy afterwards.
It went great, dear.
Kevin says, 40 of her friends did tell her it was a scam.
Unfortunately, she doesn't speak cat.
Rough.
Bleach Demon says, the level of scam effectiveness seems to explain why women keep letting all these Nigerian princes flood Europe.
Possibly.
Omar says, I'm not sure if you showed a picture of Anne, as I don't usually have time to watch, but I bet the scammed by lazy AI Bradslop has a phenotype.
Yeah, probably does.
It's certainly got an age bracket, right?
Like, you know, 50-something-year-old woman.
Oh, Brad Pitt finally noticed me.
Yeah, I mean, I... I could never put myself in the mind of somebody who would fall for that personally, but maybe that's just me.
And now I have to reply to Jessica Alba.
Finally started watching the podcast.
Brad Pitt's Instagram.
First question on the feed.
What do you notice?
And 53-year-old from France.
Interior designer.
You just popped up on my feed one day.
Come on.
Anyway, Anne says, as soon as I heard David Lynch pass away, I was hoping you'd do something on Harry.
Thank you for this.
Well, thank you very much for watching.
Oh, we did get two more Rumble rants, by the way.
Oh, sorry.
A. Miller112 said, Lynch's Dune was better than the modern one.
I've not seen the modern one, so I can't give a comparison, but I do...
I think the first one is really underrated.
The modern ones are actually pretty good.
They're more serious than Lynch's one.
Yeah, but if they're less batshit insane, then I'm not interested.
The batshit insanity, especially Baron Harkonnen, where he pulls the key out of the slave boy's chest and just lets him bleed out.
That's a horrible scene, but it's also kind of awesome.
It's very amusing.
But no, the new ones are different.
I really like the new ones.
I've not watched them.
Garvin Ambrose said, Okay, Carl, I just sent you another 20k in Concorde gift cards.
Now come join me.
Tomorrow's high in Minnesota is 19 Fahrenheit.
Bring a jacket.
Dude, it's winter here.
I've got to wear a jacket.
Don't worry.
I can afford one.
Now that you sent me that 20 grand.
Derek says, There can never be another David Lynch again.
We're all grateful for what he's given us and are saddened that he is no longer around, but let us now do what we can to be our best selves.
It's definitely what David did to the end.
Enjoy the coffee and keep your eye on the donut, not the hole.
That was a saying of his.
Oh, right, okay.
Sophie says, Eraserhead is honestly the closest I've gotten to experiencing a fever dream without having a fever.
Elephant Man just makes me bawl my eyes out every single time, and it's not fair.
Rest in peace, Lynch.
These movies were just memorable.
You never forget watching a Stephen Lynch...
A David Lynch.
I think Sophie mistyped there.
A David Lynch movie, which has to be the mark of a master.
Charles says Blue Velvet and Lost Highway were kind of coherent and very good.
Blue Velvet's actually a very straightforward linear narrative.
It's just that there's a lot of abstractions added to it.
You forgot to say the story about Roy Orbison and David Lynch in Dreams.
Oh, yeah.
There's a very famous scene from it where...
A character I think is...
It's Bill, I think, is the character where he just randomly sings the song In Dreams by Roy Orbison into a mic...
Not into a microphone, into a lamp.
Yeah.
But also, Roy Orbison wasn't particularly a fan of...
He didn't particularly like that when I think David Lynch...
I didn't know this.
Yes, I think he asked him at some point and Roy Orbison wasn't particularly fond of it.
But...
Still, it's memorable.
It's a very good scene.
Lost Highway is quite difficult, although it is a bit more straightforward, and David Lynch once did an interview with Alex Jones, where he basically explained part of the plot.
So it's a bit easier to follow for people.
So is David Lynch based, or what?
It's very...
He obviously wasn't a woke leftist, though, right?
Oh, no!
He's all over the place.
All over the place.
And I don't think that he was a particularly political person.
The most of anything that I've seen about his political views is that he was like a Reagan libertarian in the 1980s.
And he said some positive things about Donald Trump around the time of the 2015-2016 stuff.
But then there's also...
His films and...
Twin Peaks aren't political, but there is a trans character in Twin Peaks at one point who's not really treated as somebody you should be special about.
He's just a guy in a dress who at one point even takes off the dress so that he can do his job because he's a fucking FBI agent.
I'm just a trans fed in a dress, bro.
Nothing special about me.
You're a federal agent who watches, is that correct?
Is that normal?
It probably is.
Based Ape says, David Lynch was great.
He's my favorite filmmaker, so I hate him.
Justin says, why does it have to be the good ones first?
Because you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
Listen, man, Roman Polanski has been a villain for decades now.
A lot of these people began as villains.
Joshua says, I'd never heard of David Lynch before he died, and having looked through his work, I've never seen anything he's made.
Guy's more famous in England than in Ohio.
If it helps, I didn't know that Doom was his.
I watched Doom.
I'm surprised.
Maybe it's just because I'm a media guy and a film guy, but I'd always heard of him even before I'd even watched any of his films.
Also, my dad was a huge Twin Peaks fan back in the day.
I'm shocked that you'd never even...
Have you even heard of Twin Peaks?
Because that was a cultural phenomenon back in the day.
Yeah.
Benedict, by the way, says, I hope you'll have Jan Ziska on the Lads Hour of Consideration.
Well, you can come and join us.
I'm happy to consider Jan Ziska.
Actually, I don't know how...
Wasn't he the religious revolutionary in the sort of 16th century or something?
I don't know how physically intimidating he is.
Because the thing is, you've got problems with people like Genghis Khan, because, you know, Mongols are just physically very tough, and so it's going to be difficult thinking of who is actually going to be able to beat up Genghis Khan.
But there are a few contenders, but we'll get to that on the lads hour.
Devin says, "Blue Velvet by David Lynch was quite remarkable.
He also seemed to have a favourite actors, working with Karl McLaughlin and Laura Dern more than once, for example." Yeah, he made a lot of these people's career, and...
The final series of Twin Peaks being the last thing he ever did in a big film way was quite fitting because it brought together a lot of the ensemble that he'd gathered over the years, like Naomi Watts, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern.
Everybody was in it, and it was a masterpiece.
I like this comment that's just been added here, Carl.
Lars Peter Simonson says, Carl is like Mr. Smithers in the lift, surrounded by strippers.
Yeah, it's insufferable.
I can't stand you for exactly that reason.
Oh, hot women!
Oh, no!
Yeah, no, I don't...
I don't want to look at hot women.
I want to look at what I'm a miniature.
You're a simple man and I respect that.
I am!
I'm just bored on the toilet or something.
I just want to look at some women dancing.
What is this?
I don't want this.
And federal agent has confirmed that he is currently.
We hope you're comfortable.
Good to know.
Yeah, and with that, I think we'll finish up for the day, and if you want to join us in about half an hour for Lads Hour, make sure you've got a membership.
We're going to be talking about the toughest military leaders, which should be good fun.
Until then, thank you for joining us.
We'll see you again next week.
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