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Feb. 18, 2025 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1103

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	Music Hello again!
	It is the Josh and Beau show once more.
	And yes, Stelios was meant to be on and he's unfortunately very unwell.
	He's quite sick with the flu apparently.
	So best wishes to Stelios.
	Make sure to let him know you want him to be better.
	We all do.
	He's telling me about how he was suffering with it.
	It sounds awful.
	Yeah, I've only had the real flu, proper influenza, like once.
	And it was terrible.
	It was honestly terrible.
	I thought I was dying.
	I thought my body was shutting down.
	And they were like, yeah, it's just the flu.
	I was bedridden for like a week with it.
	It was really nasty.
	Yeah, it was days and days and days and days.
	It's horrible.
	Anyway.
	So yes, we are going to be talking about how Europe has become a war zone.
	Beau's going to tell us about London's Roman discovery.
	I'm looking forward to this one.
	I don't know much about it.
	I just saw the headline and said, Bo, please, please talk about this.
	So I'm just as excited for that one as all of you.
	When anything comes up in the office where I can talk about history, I sort of perk up like a meerkat.
	Like, what?
	I can talk about the Romans?
	Brilliant.
	I need to do that more with psychology, don't I? I hardly ever do that.
	I actually forgot yesterday.
	I was like, wait a minute.
	I'm a psychologist, aren't I? I had to remind myself.
	And also how the left's attempt to stop Trump are futile.
	This is going to be a nice positive one.
	Again, we're going to go to America for all of our positive news.
	But first we're going to get out the way the negative news, and that is Europe.
	So over the past week or so, there have been a number of atrocities committed against the natives of Europe.
	And that has been, you know...
	One of the main ones is this one.
	Teen dead and five injured in Austrian knife attack.
	And this is just the most recent one.
	This is the BBC talking about it a few days ago.
	This happened on Saturday.
	Not too long ago.
	And the fact that all of these terror attacks are sort of blending together and that it's actually difficult to discern.
	You know, which one is which, because they're so frequent, they're in the same places a lot of the time.
	It's the never-ending slew of atrocity.
	And one of the most frustrating things is, this is the person that did it, and there he is, while he's being detained, smiling and pointing.
	It's all funny, isn't it?
	It's funny.
	Yeah, murdering a 14-year-old boy.
	That's hilarious, mate.
	A great one.
	Apparently, according to Visegrad here, Austria's Interior Minister, Gerard Karner, probably butchering the pronunciation there, confirmed that it was a Syrian asylum seeker who stabbed five people and actually killed a 14-year-old boy.
	And he was Islamic.
	He did it for Islamic reasons.
	And it was religiously motivated and an act of terrorism.
	And that's how it's been classified by the authorities.
	For once.
	Yeah, for once.
	I know.
	Well, the Austrians are...
	They're suffering quite badly with this sort of thing, and I think that they're at their wit's end.
	They're voting very much in favour of parties that are pushing to sending them all back, and it's certainly going in that direction.
	So if we're going to see things change in Europe, I think Austria and perhaps Sweden are the places to keep an eye out for, because they're having a particularly hard time.
	Truly traumatised and terrorised on a daily basis almost, certainly in Sweden.
	One of the things about modern politics that most upsets me is thinking about how all of these innocent people in Europe in particular, that's not to say I don't care about other parts of the world or, you know, North America or Australia.
	You know, I obviously care about those places as well.
	But I think people in Europe particularly, we had a lot to be proud of and we had a lot of dignity.
	And what has happened to that is almost vanished.
	We're having our noses rubbed in the fact that we're being invaded and we're being arrested for pointing it out.
	And we're being terrorised, even if, you know, it's not these acts of terrorism.
	Austria, again, I said it about Sweden.
	Of all places, like Sweden, one of the most homogenous, lovely places in the world, not just Europe.
	Austria, the same.
	It's like an idol.
	It's like a beautiful, beautiful place, Austria.
	Wonderful place, both sort of just to look at and in terms of homogeneity and culture and stuff.
	Well, Vienna at one point in Europe's history was the sort of point of cultural high watermark, wasn't it?
	Yeah, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, right, yeah.
	When, during the liberation of Europe at the end of World War II, a lot of the soldiers that liberated parts of Austria sort of couldn't believe how beautiful it was.
	It's sort of of that level.
	They see the wonderful places in France and Holland and parts of Germany and then when they go to Austria it's like wow, it's dialed up even further.
	It's like something from a fairy tale.
	That's what much of Europe is like.
	Now to have this done to it.
	Well, I might be quite miserable and quite cynical about the world but I do think that what makes Europe great It's still there.
	We've still got it, you know, latent in the population.
	It's just a matter of time, I think.
	People will have to warm up to remigration, but I think it is a very clear and obvious way to solve these sorts of things, right?
	And I want to sort of put forward that people shouldn't necessarily despair.
	It's a very unfortunate situation at the minute, to put it lightly.
	But I do think that there is the strength and resilience to push back against this onslaught on us, still within us.
	I haven't given up on it.
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	I've got complete faith in it, actually.
	I think that it's important for us to say that sort of thing, because when we talk about these sorts of depressing stories, sometimes the tendency is to revel in the misery of it a little bit, isn't it?
	And I don't think that that's actually healthy.
	And actually, the healthiest thing is to see how to solve the problem.
	And there is a way of solving the problem.
	It's not an unsolvable problem, in which case, you know, I could understand a bit of despair, but I don't think that that's warranted.
	Well, I don't revel in it.
	I've been quite vocal about being optimistic in that doomers and defeatists and nihilists can all go to hell.
	Nothing's over.
	I've said that a great number of times.
	I'm quite vocal about that.
	I mean, someone, Northern Variant said on Twitter the other day, which I retweeted, this can all be reversed.
	Don't let anyone tell you it can't be.
	That's a superb message.
	It is, yeah.
	Because, you know, it's politicians that brought them here and unfortunately there have to be politicians that send them back.
	But it's not impossible, is it?
	And one person, a private security firm owner in Austria, has actually announced the formation of a vigilante force to patrol the streets of Villach.
	I don't know where that is.
	But following the terror attack by that Syrian asylum seeker.
	So people are taking it upon themselves.
	And this is what normally happens, isn't it?
	When there's a crisis, men of the hour, people who care about their country and the state of the nation, will step up and fill the void.
	And that's clearly what's happening here.
	Safety of their own children and womenfolk, yeah.
	And yeah, I very much commend this person for going out of his way, because I imagine he's not doing it purely for profit.
	He might run a security company, but he's doing it for...
	The right reasons, I would imagine.
	Manfred Berger, a veteran of the security industry with 25 years of experience, runs a security firm in nearby Weldon, said he felt compelled to act after the ongoing terror attacks across Europe came a little too close to home.
	And he says, I followed with horror how almost every month a major attack occurs in Germany due to the colossal failure of politics, but the tragic events in Villach, where my own children live, were the final straw.
	I had to do something.
	I think that we're going to see more and more of this sort of thing.
	And this is good.
	I think that people should step up and do tangible things.
	And I almost wish I could do more as well in this sort of vein.
	But it's easier said than done, isn't it?
	It's the same sentiment of why we work here.
	That's true, yeah.
	Sentiment, at least.
	We're trying to be a canary in the coal mine for everyone else, right?
	We're looking at these obscure stories that...
	People aren't necessarily hearing about and letting people know about it.
	And it frustrates me, actually, that people say that informing other people about the nature of reality is somehow not helping.
	You've got to be sticking leaflets indoors or something.
	Well, you've got more reach online normally.
	People are more inclined to listen than a leaflet through the door.
	It's not to say that that's not helpful, by the way.
	And he says, That's great.
	The fact that it's had to come to private citizens having to defend themselves, I mean, ultimately that's what governments result in, in my opinion.
	But it is a failure of governance as well, isn't it?
	And a very deliberate one, in my opinion.
	Yes, I agree.
	By accident.
	So there was also one in Germany recently as well.
	This was last week, where 30 people were injured after a car drove into a crowd in Munich.
	It's pesky cars.
	I know.
	Like Herbie, just completely independent of anything else.
	It's the car that did it.
	Yeah, it was obviously another Muslim.
	And unfortunately, a mother and her, I presume a two-year-old girl, I don't know whether this was her daughter or a separate girl, but either way, it's a horrific tragedy and something that...
	You know, should weigh heavily on the people that helped enable this, that facilitated the policies that have allowed these people to be here.
	I think that there should be tribunals and people held legally accountable for this, because at the very least they facilitated manslaughter, right?
	They haven't, you know, drove the car themselves, but they've created the conditions to allow these people to get away with this.
	It's a real betrayal of the people of Europe.
	It's a crime, yeah.
	Just two more victims on the altar of multiculturalism.
	I know.
	Sickening.
	Maddening.
	And the person who did it was an Afghan bodybuilder.
	He had a large social media following as well, over 100,000 people on, I think it was Instagram.
	And he posted fitness videos.
	And you wouldn't have guessed that he would have carried out this sort of attack because he seemed pretty westernised.
	He'd integrated, had he?
	Yeah, well, that's...
	Well, the crime data seems to indicate that actually it's the second generations and the third generations that cause more problems than the first.
	And so, as far as the integration argument goes, it doesn't hold water.
	It's the actual opposite of that.
	People get worse, not better.
	And we are living to see the consequences of this.
	And then, while this was going on, the one party...
	Oh, there should be a link there.
	But never mind, I think I... Put it in wrong.
	That was my fault, Samson, sorry.
	But basically there was a quarter of a million, 250,000 people in Munich protesting against the AFD and the far right.
	One party that seems to be actually proposing a solution to a lot of the problems, which one has to wonder how artificial that is.
	Don't worry, Samson, it was me pasting the link in wrong.
	Sorry, in Munich at the same time?
	Or that same weekend or whatever?
	I think it was before.
	It'd be very distasteful if they did it afterwards, wouldn't it?
	A quarter of a million.
	That's loads, isn't it?
	I've seen that figure banded around by people on our side of things.
	I don't know whether it was actually that many.
	An impromptly car attack in the same city.
	Yes.
	Lesson learnt there, hopefully.
	I don't think so.
	As it's been pointed out, there have been five terror attacks in Germany in the past 12 months.
	All were committed by asylum seekers.
	Three of them were Afghans.
	One was a Syrian and one was a Saudi Arabian.
	There's a bit of a pattern here, isn't there?
	And I expect us not to notice.
	Just don't notice it.
	And if you do, keep your mouth shut.
	If you've got absolutely zero ability to notice patterns, then you're the ideal citizen for people like this, you know, that want to cover this up.
	Even a moron can see the pattern here, can't they?
	It's not hard.
	And then you have people like Bushra Sheikh, who gets mainstream, I know, yeah, I feel the same.
	You get mainstream media, sort of.
	talking about these sorts of things and she said upsetting details emerging in the 28 injured in Munich attacked by a 24 Afghan asylum seeker at least she's not hiding the details there my thoughts are with those affected and seriously injured in this awful incident and then she follows on and says but harming people was never acceptable however Germany really needs to get a grip with its increasing demonisation of Muslims, ethnic minorities and migrants with the racist AFD party on the rise.
	Unfortunately, a symptom of such hate often results in hate.
	You think that it's happening because of the AFD, do you?
	Also making excuses for the terrorist.
	I wonder why you're doing that, Bushra Sheikh.
	I wonder.
	What a disgusting thing to say.
	Or morally repugnant.
	It's one thing to think it, and it's another thing to also say it publicly.
	People like that should not have the confidence, you know, if we lived in a just society, if someone said that, it'd just be like immediate deportation.
	Why are you in this country?
	Why are you allowed to make excuses for terrorists?
	And she's not the only one.
	Apparently, a German woman blamed Afghan's actions on a vitamin D deficiency and toxic masculinity.
	Sure, why not?
	Praise diversity.
	Do that, yeah, that makes sense.
	Sure, sure, sure.
	This is a mentally ill person.
	It's obvious why he did it.
	It's not because, you know, he's a bit sad because the sunshine isn't here in the winter.
	Also, if you're in a country where you need lots of sunshine.
	Because of your complexion, you're in the wrong place.
	Here's the reason we have this complexion, by the way.
	Vitamin D deficiency.
	So if he took some multivitamins, he wouldn't have carried out the attack.
	It's madness, isn't it?
	That's a disgusting nonsense, isn't it?
	Mm-hmm.
	Disgusting.
	And then, speaking of disgusting nonsense, while all of this is going on, 60 Minutes joined the German state police to raid a home and they seized the suspect's laptop and phone and the crime was posting what was described by the authorities as a racist cartoon online.
	And obviously the Germans and also that Swiss green that looks like she is close to starving.
	Have you seen those pictures of her?
	Was that Swiss green?
	As in a Swiss woman who's a member of the Green Party.
	She's trying to ban X. And she looks like she hasn't had a square meal in years.
	She looks visibly sick from her imbalanced vegan diet.
	But anyway, I'm not talking about that today.
	And there's also Brussels in Belgium.
	So there was another shooting.
	I don't know what's going on here.
	Why are you doing that?
	Is the button stuck?
	The button on the thing is stuck.
	Thank you, technology.
	It just doesn't want you to know, alright, that there's another shooting in Brussels.
	Okay, it's stopped doing it now.
	But this is only a few days after this.
	This picture here.
	There's a guy just walking around with an AK in the train station.
	There's another guy there with a gun in Belgium.
	And, yeah, there was a person shot and killed, and then that's the third shooting in front of that station in ten days.
	Which is insane, isn't it?
	Again, we've invited this into our countries.
	Not the population, but politicians have.
	I thought diversity was a strength, though.
	Well, AK-47s are a strength, though, aren't they?
	They make you strong.
	That's what they didn't tell you.
	7.62 ammo is a strength.
	If you're firing it.
	It's awful, isn't it?
	There's also this as well.
	This was in Athens.
	I think there were two Israelis on holiday or something.
	I don't know.
	But they were stabbed in Athens by a Garzan when they heard that they were speaking Hebrew.
	Just an entirely imported conflict into Greece.
	The Greeks wouldn't, you know, care that much about this sort of thing, would they?
	If they were Turks, maybe it'd be different.
	But, yeah, it's entirely important.
	The Greek authorities shouldn't have to deal with this.
	The Greek people shouldn't have to deal with this.
	These are just foreign people causing foreign problems in Greek soil.
	That's my little shout-out for Stelios.
	Get well soon.
	Covering your politics there.
	And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Sweden, who seems to be suffering the worst.
	And I saw this post recently from a Swede.
	When I grew up in Stockholm, we didn't even lock our doors when we left the house because we lived in such a high-trust society.
	Today we have bombings every day, terror attacks and humiliating robberies.
	It didn't exist when I grew up.
	It breaks my heart.
	And that's a key thing here, is that within living memory, for most people, we lived in a much nicer time.
	Even for me, I'm 29, I can remember when there was no multiculturalism, when everyone in my local area was white British.
	There weren't even that many other Europeans, let alone people from the Middle East and Africa.
	And yeah, we didn't lock our doors.
	People had honesty boxes outside their houses.
	People said hello to each other on the street.
	This is the kind of society you want, where everyone...
	Is working together to have a better life.
	A homogenous higher trust society.
	Exactly.
	Yes, certainly within living memory.
	I mean, I'm in my mid-40s and I was an adult when it happened.
	It wasn't even when I was a little kid.
	So, like now, if you go to Westminster, there's all these crash barriers around.
	Parliament around the Palace of Westminster, so people can't drive a truck, a car bomb.
	And in the British Museum, you used to be able to just walk up the steps, walk straight in.
	And now there's like this whole rigmarole of checking everyone's bag.
	And they're just two tiny examples.
	The whole of London is sort of, it's got all of that.
	It was partially militarised in a way now, isn't it?
	And all of that happened when I was already in my 20s.
	So I absolutely remember a world before this insanity.
	And I'm only in my mid-40s, so it hasn't happened very long ago.
	And it's only going to get worse, unfortunately.
	Still.
	It does mean it can get better again, but I'm going to refresh people's memory, because I have covered some of the Sweden stuff, but just to emphasise the point, there were more than one explosion a day in Sweden.
	Because they have problems with gang violence.
	Really, really bad.
	People just hear the explosions in their houses now and know what it is before it's reported in the news.
	Hand grenade attacks have more than doubled in 2024. And this isn't, obviously, the native Swedes.
	Because three out of four murders in Sweden are committed by migrants.
	So the majority of them.
	Which is a preventable problem, obviously.
	Here's one I didn't mention recently.
	A Muslim migrant that was hailed as an integration success.
	Oh, go ahead, Samson.
	I can't click it for whatever reason.
	Never mind.
	But he shot his classmate in the head.
	That's what happened.
	That's what's hidden by that box on the screen.
	It's always the case, isn't it?
	You remember I covered that guy, Congolese man, who was hailed as a baker and a boxer.
	And then he went on to brutally sexually assault his own mother at knife point.
	Yeah.
	But he had a puff piece in a German newspaper.
	So how could he be bad?
	He smiled in a picture.
	How can he do bad things?
	Oh, how terrible.
	And then there was also this man who burned the Koran, was shot dead in his flat in Sweden.
	So just Islamic retributive attacks are just entirely possible.
	They're on the cards now.
	And there was a case in London.
	I think this was actually on Valentine's Day last Friday, of a guy, I don't think he's a British guy, but he was burning a Koran outside of, I think it was the Turkish embassy, and a guy comes out, he doesn't actually hit him, Samson, but he comes out, well, don't play the sound though, but I think he just kicks him and punches him a little bit.
	He doesn't actually stab him, but he's doing it, obviously.
	Because he was burning the Quran, and this sort of behaviour wouldn't happen if it were a native British person.
	It's also worth mentioning as well, the Deliveroo driver, as he goes past, gives him a little cheeky kick.
	So, the guy burns a Quran, and it's a bit further along, Samson.
	And, yeah, it just so happens across two people that will be violent towards him for doing that.
	I don't think any British people would necessarily do that, would they?
	I think it's that guy there with a balaclava, which should be illegal.
	Burning a book, any book, shouldn't have any sort of violent retribution or prosecution brought against you.
	I agree.
	But there we go.
	He'll probably be arrested now for that.
	I mean, there was a man in Manchester, I think, who was arrested for it, and the police published his address.
	Which says all you need to know about where their alliances are.
	And I think that this map is eight years old, but it highlights a very key point.
	Where are all the dots where the terror attacks are?
	Countries, largely, are involved in migration, right?
	Obviously Northern Ireland is the troubles and things like that, right?
	Oh, how far back does this go?
	I think it's quite far back.
	So, obviously, you've got things here.
	That's the separatism there.
	Basque separatism.
	Basque separatism.
	Okay, so this is all types of terrorism.
	It is, yes.
	Not just Islamic terrorism.
	But you can see some key patterns here.
	Look at here.
	Lots and lots of...
	It's basically red.
	Look at here.
	It's basically red.
	And here, you can see the areas where all of these isolated dots are normally centred around major cities.
	Look.
	Are coming from.
	They're coming from these areas, aren't they?
	That's obvious.
	Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, the Levent, Egypt, North Africa.
	Also, it's worth mentioning, I was talking to Samson about this before we started, that Corsica here is bright red because it's because it's a migration route to continental Europe.
	They avoid Italy and go through the islands here, mainly Corsica, because they can get to southern France, like Marseille and places like that.
	Leaving the shores of North Africa and you go to Corsica and just immediately do something terroristic?
	I guess so.
	As soon as you land on Corsica?
	Apparently.
	Okay.
	But yeah, you can see the pattern here.
	Also, look at which country is unaffected here.
	Wow.
	Wow!
	I hadn't actually noticed that.
	It's obviously Poland, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	And what, at the time that this map was made anyway, what had Poland not done had mass migration?
	I was going to say, because the Sweden isn't all red, which it would be now then, I suppose.
	Yeah, obviously this is an older map.
	There hasn't been an updated one.
	I didn't have the time to map every terror attack.
	It's interesting that there's a few countries there, like the Czechoslovak region, like Romania.
	Some of the Baltic states are pretty alright.
	Poland's got it sorted there.
	You have to go to the French Wikipedia, the French language version, to even have a list of Islamic terror attacks in Europe.
	You can't find this in the English version, but you can see here all of the terror attacks.
	Here are all the flags.
	You can see lots of German flags, lots of Belgian flags, lots of French flags.
	The odd British flag.
	The UK flag even.
	So this won't be all of them.
	They're just the ones that have been documented on Wikipedia.
	That's right.
	So it won't be anywhere near all of them.
	And there's a few Spanish ones as well.
	Obviously Turkey.
	But it gives you an idea.
	These are all the countries that have had mass migration.
	It's not controversial anymore.
	Not one bit.
	And what I wanted to end on, Was this, that it's even getting to the point where South Africa isn't safe from Islamic terrorism, which you would think, well, how on earth does it get there?
	And they carried out a targeted hit against the first openly gay imam.
	Islam on Islam.
	It was, yeah.
	In South Africa?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	So it sort of indicates that wherever Islam seems to go, there seems to be trouble.
	And I don't think that's a controversial thing to say, considering that and that, right?
	This is a choice.
	We didn't vote for this.
	We were never asked to have this imposed on us.
	And we can reverse it.
	We were well within our rights.
	The politicians imposed this on us.
	It was never the democratic will of the people to have this.
	So let's reverse it.
	Let's send them all back.
	Okay.
	Do we have any chats?
	I can't actually see them.
	Just wanted to say, Scanline says, that I enjoyed yesterday's segment revealing that Jack the Ripper was an immigrant with mental health issues, stabbing people while the police failed to do anything.
	Yes.
	Well, that is exactly the case.
	It is, yeah.
	Hedgehog's Dilemma says the delivery driver kicking the guy on the ground is just a chef's kiss.
	Pure UK vibes with a Y and two O's.
	Glad to see that you're using that term.
	Cunley Druckbert is right about everything.
	He is one of my favourite accounts on X, easily.
	Okay, take it away, Bo.
	Okay, so Rome has been, or ancient Britain, Roman-era Britain has been in the news a bit.
	So I've got to do a piece on it, haven't I? Just to mention, you are in safe hands.
	I did formally study Roman Britain at undergrad.
	And since those many moons ago, I've read a great deal more since then.
	So it's one of my things.
	This is truly sort of in my wheelhouse.
	Haven't you done like about, was it about 25 episodes now on Roman history on the website?
	All in all, way more than that.
	Really?
	I did a series that was 21 episodes long, just about the career of Caesar and Pompey, which finished a few weeks ago.
	I've done loads.
	So going back to Epochs 16, anyone who's watching this free on YouTube, if you go on lotusseaters.com and subscribe for as little as £5 a month, you'll be able to see loads of paywalled content, hundreds of hours of paywalled content there.
	You had your own show, Contemplations, many, many, many episodes of that.
	171, I think.
	Right.
	And my own one, my history-themed one, Epochs.
	I'm up to episode 198 now.
	But even going back to the beginning, near the beginning...
	Loads of them are about Rome.
	I mean, episode 16 was actually with you.
	It was, yeah.
	Where we talked about Rome and Britain, or Caesar's first expedition to Britain.
	Yeah, I really enjoyed it.
	55 BC. Real callback.
	When was this recorded?
	Just out of my...
	Oh, August of 2021. There we go.
	Vintage Lotus Eaters there.
	We'll look visibly younger, or I will.
	I probably will as well.
	I didn't have these crow's feet back then.
	And then, who's doing the links?
	I can do some of these.
	So also, the very next one, because we didn't talk about it all the first time, Epochs number 17, keep talking about Britain, when Caligula, sorry, well, Caligula didn't invade, he nearly did, but then Claudius, when Uncle Claudius did finally invade, and then we hear about some of the details in Tacitus' Agricola, the book we're talking about.
	About the Roman occupation of Britain.
	So, and next few links.
	Oh, I got it.
	Yep.
	So, recently, that's part of my aforementioned 21-part series about Caesar when he's in Britain.
	So, I'll talk about the same thing again, but in even more detail this time.
	Correct use of Roman numerals there.
	I like it.
	Yep.
	Next one.
	More.
	Even more detail.
	Oh.
	There you go.
	Because in Caesar's account of his invasion of Gaul, which is a whole book long, there's a chapter or so in there where he just talks about, oh, and this summer and this summer I bounced across the channel to England and did X, Y, Z. So, okay.
	But it wasn't until Claudius, many, many, many years later, decades later, truly invaded and sort of conquered the main tribes at Cameludonum.
	Which was later called Colchester.
	Okay, so that's sort of the first story.
	So, what's been in the news?
	What has been in the news recently?
	If you keep going with the links.
	So, what is that?
	CBS says that there's been...
	Basically, under a building in the square mile in London, or anyone who doesn't know, I'll quickly say, you've got this big, massive metropolis of London.
	Massive, one of the biggest cities in the world.
	But within it is a small area that's formerly the City of London.
	There's even a smaller bit, the City of Westminster, and they're both subsumed within the wider, greater London metropolitan area.
	But there's the little bit, the City of London.
	It's a tiny bit confusing, but anyway.
	And even within that, there's an area that's...
	Quite often called, just colloquially called, the square mile, where there's lots and lots of, it's one of the financial districts, there's more than one sort of financial district in London, sort of Canary Wolfe is one now as well, but anyway.
	But there you've got sort of like the Bank of England and Lloyds and Stock Exchange and various things.
	It just so happens that underneath that, the archaeology underneath that area is sort of the heart of Roman era London.
	That's where we know that there was a forum, basilica, amphitheatre, parts of the wall, all sorts of stuff.
	That's really the heart of it all.
	And, of course, now it's a really, really important part of modern London.
	Every now and again, for whatever reason, we get to sort of dig it up if they're knocking a building down and rebuilding one or something like that, or if they're doing a bit of the...
	Rebuilding or a bit of the underground system or something or other.
	So every now and again it comes up that archaeologists are able to actually dig it up.
	And so that's what's happened recently.
	I mean, it's a few days old now, but still.
	It's pretty fresh as far as ancient history goes, isn't it?
	A few days.
	Yeah.
	So the next few, we can just whip through the next few links.
	Where was that?
	What news is that talking about?
	The New York Times.
	The New York Slimes even mentions it.
	And the next one, BBC, I think it was.
	Yeah.
	So, actually, can I read a bit of this?
	The first few paragraphs I can read.
	We're told, A discovery underneath the basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history unearthed in the city of London.
	Certainly.
	In recent times.
	Archaeologists have found a substantial piece of the ancient city's first basilica, a 2,000-year-old public building where major political, economic and administrative decisions were made.
	The excavation has so far revealed sections of stone wall that formed the base of the basilica, which would have been two and a half stories high.
	The site, which would eventually be open to the public, sheds light on the city's beginnings.
	You can see there, it's just in the basement of a building, it's like cabinets.
	Habinets there.
	Yeah.
	Could you imagine just walking, you know, over that unwittingly and then finally having it unearthed?
	Well, that's the great thing because I'm a sort of London boy or at least an Essex boy, born and bred and went to uni in London and then worked in London until I started working here nearly four years ago.
	So I'm very much a London person and a history nerd.
	So I'm fascinated by London.
	I've read multiple books about the history of London all through the Middle Ages.
	Now, when you walk around London, it's very, very easy for your imagination to capture and link onto medieval London in all sorts of ways.
	When you see Westminster Abbey or something.
	Because there are lots of remnants of that in the city.
	Not lots, but...
	No, it's filled with it.
	It's filled with it.
	London is like an onion and there's so many layers to it.
	You know, like, so the Abbey is very old, but, you know, something like St Paul's Cathedral.
	Or you just walk past, you walk past a building and it's clearly sort of, sort of Gothic.
	Or then you walk down the next street and it's all Georgian era.
	Right?
	And on and on and on.
	But of course, the city itself goes back to...
	Even before the Romans.
	So there was a settlement there on the Thames before the Romans turned up.
	It wasn't just a complete wilderness and the Romans started it from absolute scratch.
	But nonetheless, it was the Romans that really turned Londinium from just a settlement on the Thames into the most important town or settlement or city, you might say, in the whole of that Roman province of Britannia.
	As I say, in the ancient world you wouldn't really say that...
	Colchester or Cameludonum was the capital.
	It didn't really work like that.
	But still, the Romans considered that once they'd captured Cameludonum, at least the southeast of the island was pacified.
	But they moved the center, if you like, from Colchester to London.
	Because apart from anything else, just the Thames is a great way for trade.
	Well, if you're running it from the continent, right, you want something that has easy access to one of the easier crossing points.
	Exactly.
	No, exactly.
	And there's a reason why the bit of the City of London and Westminster, why the furthest bridges are there across the Thames, because the area was very marshy, but there's all sorts of reasons why London grew up where it did.
	So I've always been fascinated by it.
	Every era of London history I'm fascinated by, but particularly, of course, the ancient world, the Roman era bit.
	So when the new bit of archaeology turns up...
	Of course, my ears prick up and I have to read about it and hear about what it is.
	In fact, it's part of the basilica.
	It's probably the earliest basilica as well.
	There was almost certainly a second, bigger one built a few decades after the first one.
	Seems like this is the earlier one.
	The archaeologists will confirm all of this one way or another.
	So if we click through a few more of the images.
	Okay, so that's a part of the original...
	Roman Wall, which is right by Tower Hill Station.
	I've never seen that before.
	And one of the places my elder brother used to live just south of Tower Bridge for years.
	So in the 90s, whenever I visited him, which was pretty often, I'd get off at Tower Hill and walk across the bridge.
	And that's right there.
	I mean, that's a statue of Trajan that's obviously later and been put there deliberately in the 20th century.
	But still, that wall is original.
	Best part of 2,000-year-old Roman Wall.
	And it's still standing.
	Remarkable, isn't it?
	It is, yeah.
	It's quite a tall wall as well to be still standing.
	Yeah.
	If we go, keep going.
	It's just an aerial view.
	But there's lots of bits of that wall all around, just dotted through London, if you know where to look.
	Keep going.
	It's just another image.
	Yeah, it's just things like that.
	Crop up.
	You can see this, like, modern building sort of right next to it.
	And again, it just looks like a bit of a broken-down old bit of crap, really.
	But when you...
	You told me it was like a Victorian furnace.
	Yeah.
	If I didn't know what it was already, I might believe you.
	When you're able to sort of use your imagination of what those walls have seen, what they've lived through, right, it's sort of beggar's belief, really, when you really try and grasp the antiquity of it.
	What it represents.
	So just keep going.
	Just got loads of pictures to talk about.
	There's a bit in London near a Moorgate.
	There's a road in London called London Wall.
	That's the name of it.
	And there's a bit of the wall there.
	Again, just if you know where to look, there's all sorts of archaeology.
	All sorts of relics and things.
	So by London Wall, there is the Museum of London.
	Now, if anyone visits London and doesn't know any better...
	The people, the curators at the Museum of London won't like me saying this, but the best museum is the British Museum, not the Museum of London.
	Not that the Museum of London is crap.
	It's great.
	I love it.
	I've been there a number of times.
	But don't think that that's the best pre-eminent main museum in London, the Museum of London.
	It's not.
	Go to the British Museum in Bloomsbury.
	It's a whole day out there, isn't it?
	Oh, God.
	Endless.
	Endless.
	It's a cathedral to history in all sorts of ways.
	I love going there.
	It's my spiritual home, the British Museum.
	But at the Museum of London, completely different to the British Museum, it's on London Wall.
	Oh, there's another bit of the Roman Wall.
	That's actually in the Tower of London.
	Oh, okay.
	So that's sort of the inner courtyard.
	It's more than a courtyard, but the inner area, inner sanctum inside the Tower of London.
	There's a bit of the Roman Wall there.
	Just another example of...
	Roman-era stuff right there to see, again, if you know where to look.
	So if we keep going.
	Just stuff like that, just around.
	So that's inside the Museum of London, where they've got a nice big...
	That is one thing we do well, is we do treat our archaeology quite well compared to other places in the world.
	If you go to Greece or Italy, often, or Turkey or something, quite often...
	It's just left there, completely open to the elements, and no one's done anything to preserve it or protect it or anything.
	It's funny you say that, because I've spoken to lots of people from various European countries, and they say the one thing about the English or the British that makes us more unique than any other trait amongst Europe, not only is our binge drinking, but also our respect and preservation of history.
	You know, there's no mistake that many of the first antiquarians and archaeologists and academics of that stripe were British.
	The very concept of sort of modern archaeology, sort of 19th century into the 20th century archaeology, that you treat historical artifacts increasingly with kid gloves.
	Yeah, that comes from the British and a bit the French and a bit the Germans.
	But yeah, us, really.
	Okay, so again, that's just inside the Museum of London.
	There's a bit more to show what lengths we've gone to to try and preserve things where we can.
	You know, how we treat Stonehenge, for example.
	There's things with as great antiquity or more throughout the world, all over the world.
	And it's just sort of left there open to the elements.
	Whereas we, yeah, try and do what we can to preserve these things.
	If you just keep going now.
	Oh, there's just a Roman, a mock-up of a Roman room from sort of the second or third century.
	Fancier than my flat.
	Yeah, it's quite nice, isn't it?
	It is, yeah, I'd live there.
	Yeah, it's got a better floor than my sort of...
	Uniformly beige carpet.
	I've got a bit of lino.
	My laminate flooring isn't quite the same as that mosaic there.
	It's beautiful.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is just a model of what they think the Forum and Basilica might have looked like.
	It's quite impressive though, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, by the third or fourth century AD... Britain was relatively important to the Roman Empire and economy and things.
	Also a drain on them.
	But anyway, it's another story.
	If you're interested in that stuff, as I mentioned at the beginning, I've got a few hours worth of content of me talking about it and reading quotes from proper historians and all sorts of stuff.
	Okay, that's Guildhall.
	That is, again, not a million miles from London Wall.
	It's sort of around the Moorgate.
	Just next to sort of Moorgate, not quite near Liverpool Street, anyway.
	And you can see on the floor there that sort of black line going around there.
	Can you see that?
	Oh yeah, yeah, I see it.
	And right in the middle there, right in the very middle, there's a little plaque.
	And it says, this is where the Roman amphitheatre once stood.
	Ah, that makes sense.
	We'll keep going with the images.
	Again, it's just sort of Guildhall and the courthouse there.
	Anyone can walk around there.
	There's a good view of it.
	You can really see it there, can't you?
	Yeah.
	If you keep going, there's an artist's idea of what it might have looked like.
	Keep going.
	And there's, underground, there is a little museum thing they've made.
	Spent quite a lot of money and time and energy on that.
	And they're sort of the real ruins of it.
	So, yeah, as we started this piece with the stuff that's in the new cycle at the moment.
	You know, we found a new bit of Roman archaeology in London.
	There's actually loads.
	It's peppered with it.
	It's peppered with it.
	You can go down there and see it and it's really cool.
	Go through the next few images.
	Yeah, they've sort of mocked up what it might have looked like.
	Now, to some people, this is not their cup of tea.
	They're like, oh, it's just a bit of old stone.
	And to other people like myself, it's sort of remarkable.
	It's still here.
	It's like a link to ancient times, isn't it?
	And you've got to have a bit of respect for it, if not a great deal.
	There's this idea that Dan Carlin's talked about it before, where at the end of the original Charlton Heston Planet of the Apes, where he sees the ruined Statue of Liberty, that in fact eons have passed.
	And you're just seeing this remnant of a once lost world.
	Some would say, I'm going over the top, it's like too romantic and it's just a bit of stone, get over it.
	But for me and a lot of people, it is like the remnant of a lost, forgotten world.
	Well, the Anglo-Saxons thought all of the Roman structures were built by giants, didn't they?
	Yeah.
	And it's part of our, it's part of, you know, Northwestern European or just European history and heritage.
	Because it's all very well when you read, say, Tacitus' Agricola or something like that.
	And it just mentions that the Romans were once here.
	And it's effectively almost...
	It could be fiction.
	It's just a story.
	It has no meaning.
	But then, ah, no.
	The physical, real-world archaeology shows that they really were.
	It makes it tangible, doesn't it?
	They're not just stories anymore.
	Yeah, it really happened.
	There really was an amphitheatre in sort of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th century AD in the middle of London where Guildhall now is, where there would have been gladiatorial games and beast fights and all sorts of stuff.
	I know what this is.
	Isn't this underfloor heating?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They have the same thing in the Roman baths in Bath.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You see it all over the place, even in a relatively small villa, quite often they would have...
	Well, I think we've got an image or two of that later.
	Yeah, but there's another...
	So there's even more underneath that.
	There's even more.
	So one of the big things, going back to...
	This is from the 50s, the 1950s.
	They found...
	Because a lot of London was sort of bombed out by...
	By Mr. Hitler and Mr. Goering.
	The evil Nazis bombed good old London town.
	They helped archaeology, weren't they?
	Right, yeah.
	So again, this is in the middle of London and archaeologists have decided, historians have not decided, have discovered that it was a temple to Mithras.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I haven't got time now, but there's a lot that could be said about the cult of Mithras, one of the mystery cults.
	Almost certainly from sort of the third century, the 200s AD. So, no, I haven't got time to talk about Mithras.
	Okay, let's go on.
	There's a few pictures.
	And now they, they, there's some of its...
	That's Queen Victoria Street, I think.
	Again, right in the middle of the financial district of London today, if you keep going.
	A good reminder to the bankers that, you know, all of their endeavours are going to crumble into dust eventually.
	All right, yeah.
	Yeah, Mr. Bloomberg, look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
	Yeah, so Bloomberg is the Bloomberg space, it's called.
	They sort of relocated some of it and they've made this, again, built this thing, this whole thing around it.
	For touring.
	I mean, you know, what a remarkable space.
	And obviously they've recreated that image of Mithras, which would have stood there, almost certainly.
	I mean, well, go back one.
	I just think that's a remarkable...
	Be able to see it from the sort of perspective that it was intended as well.
	Yeah.
	It's great that they've done that.
	Yeah.
	I also like the ambience.
	That's sort of...
	It feels bright, doesn't it?
	Because it was a mystery religion, a mystery cult.
	You have to be initiated into the mysteries and all that sort of thing.
	Yeah, the ambience they've created there I think is quite apt.
	Probably.
	I mean, probably.
	We don't know for sure exactly.
	It feels right.
	Yeah.
	Even if it isn't.
	I might have put an image or two in of like an artist's impression.
	Oh, there's just a statue of...
	The classic depiction of Mithras and the bull.
	Sacrificing a bull, yeah.
	It's just another image of Mithras.
	Maybe it would have looked something like that.
	Perhaps.
	All sorts of riots going on.
	Yeah, keep going.
	Okay, so there's just a...
	Now, moving on from London, if someone gives me the opportunity to talk all about Roman-era London or Roman-era Britain, I may as well do just a quick whip-round of other things that are there.
	So that's the so-called Colchester Castle, again, in what was ancient Camerodonum.
	Still quite impressive.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Almost certainly Claudius himself visited there.
	Well, he definitely went to Britain and Cameron Dolan, but he was almost certainly built at that time.
	It's been built on since, and there was even like, I've been there a number of times.
	I've been there like 10 times in my life or something silly.
	It's a great place to visit.
	But again, like the onion of history, there's so much more to it than just the Roman bit.
	So even in the Civil War, like the 17th century, events went down there.
	But if I'm going to talk about Roman Britain, you have to mention Colchester.
	So keep going.
	Again, Colchester has just got all sorts of just random, you'll randomly walk around, turn a corner, and oh, there's a bit of...
	It's sort of known for it.
	2,000-year-old bit of Roman Wall, original thing there.
	When I think of Colchester, I think of, oh, Roman history.
	That's sort of synonymous with it these days, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	In the British Museum, if you come to London, the best repository for all things Roman is the British Museum, which is just near Holborn.
	Between Russell Square, Holborn and Tottenham Court Road, you'll find it.
	Like the tourists normally.
	The Greek and Roman collection there is among the best in the world.
	I love that section of the museum.
	It's great, isn't it?
	You'd probably have to go to Italy before you find a better one.
	It is extremely, extremely good.
	And in fact, me and Carl once visited the...
	British Museum a couple years ago now, in order to talk about the Assyrian collection there.
	But while we were there, we recorded a few other bits and bobs, just about various other bits.
	There's a famous, go back one, there's a famous head of Augustus.
	Keep going forward.
	There's just sort of endless, brilliant artefacts.
	I was surprised at how curved that shield was, actually.
	That was one of the main takeaways of actually seeing it in person.
	Deflect arrow to deflect arrow.
	Interesting symbols in the corner there.
	Yep, yep.
	There's a few shorts.
	We shouldn't play any, but there's a bit of a sort of crocodile skin parade armour, almost certainly a centurion or senior officer's parade armour.
	It's one of my favourite pieces.
	I remember being bowled over by that when I was a kid.
	And the next few links are just from the channel Shorts of the Lotus Eaters.
	Where, obviously, shorts, but just a few moments of me and Carl looking at some of the best busts that are there.
	There's some Roman dice.
	They love dice games.
	Carl was very interested that they had a D20. They're playing D&D. Yeah, Romans played D&D, confirmed.
	There you go.
	Ancient Roman D20. Okay, so, but the whole of England, or the whole of Britain, really, but specifically more...
	Particularly England, is littered, in a good way, with Roman ruins.
	And this is just the wiki page that tells you where there's loads and loads of Roman villains all over the place.
	All over the place.
	It's a great, great history and heritage that we've got.
	And so some of the most best ones, some of the most famous ones, if we keep going...
	Sorry, I'm just going through the whole list to show the scale of it, really.
	Not even halfway down the page, yeah.
	I didn't realise it's quite this extensive, to be honest, because obviously where I grew up, there's hardly any.
	Certain places, particularly the South East, if any old person could go out with a metal detector, and you might find some Roman coins.
	You might.
	I know people who found Roman coins metal detecting, actually.
	Right, right, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, okay, keep going forward with the links.
	One of the most famous is Fishbourne.
	I think it was probably more than a villa.
	It might be fair to call it a palace at Fishbourne, which is in Sussex.
	Yeah, the workmanship at Fishbourne is off the charts.
	It's absolutely wonderful, really.
	Yeah, that's what they think it may well have looked like.
	I would happily live there.
	Even with Roman technology.
	It is getting to the level of palatial, isn't it?
	I would call that a palace, I think.
	More than merely a villa.
	Again, probably a better rendering of what it might have looked like.
	Probably would have looked like.
	Incredibly impressive, isn't it?
	Chedworth, this place called Chedworth, which is in Gloucestershire, in Cotswolds.
	And you can see there they've got a version of, if you go back one, those little mushroom things there, that's because there would have been a floor there.
	That's the supports, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	It's the underground heating system once again.
	And Chedworth is on a much smaller scale than Fishbourne, but nonetheless it's just sort of plonked there, sitting in the countryside.
	And I've seen much more modern building there, but in the foreground, sort of Roman...
	Call that modern, you know.
	Americans in the audience can't comprehend calling that modern.
	It's merely 500 years old, it's modern.
	That's what Chedworth may well have looked like.
	Very impressive.
	That's Lulling...
	I've been there.
	I went to Lullingston in Kent.
	I went there not too long ago.
	I went there about a couple years ago.
	And again, it's just a footprint, really, of something that was once there.
	But still quite extensive.
	You feel for the structure of the place, don't you?
	And all indoors, you're not going to get rained on, at least.
	Right, yeah.
	That's true.
	And even there, they've got some mosaics on the floor, which are quite remarkable.
	If you keep going, you might think of it again.
	There you go.
	Oh, yeah.
	You notice there's some swastika?
	Naughty symbols, yeah.
	German windmills.
	But they're square ones.
	They're not the diamond-shaped ones.
	That's true.
	It makes all the difference.
	It makes all the difference.
	That's what maybe Lullingstone might have looked like in its heyday.
	And Bath, of course.
	Classic one, brilliant one.
	Again, can't mention Roman Britain without mentioning Bath.
	I remember when I moved to Bath, the very first day I went and brought a book about Roman history, paid my entry, which is not cheap, and sat on a really sunny day next to the Baths for hours reading about Roman history, just on the edge.
	Lovely.
	Great.
	Very much recommend it.
	The ticket lasts for 24 hours, so you can also go back that following day.
	Lovely.
	I can't think of much better way to spend an afternoon.
	Nearby Bath Abbey's very nice as well.
	Yeah.
	Not Roman.
	No.
	And the fact that, you know, in this instance, it's something more than just a footprint, something more than just a ruined echo of something that once was.
	It's still sort of, it's all still there, right?
	And, yeah, just to say that.
	Again, could talk about...
	The Roman baths at Bath for quite a while.
	There was lots that could be said.
	So this looks like Hadrian's Wall, and I imagine you can probably tell us all about why the Romans left.
	Right, yeah, I suppose.
	Yeah, I mean, there's the Wall of the Antonines as well, but Hadrian's Wall, again, another fantastic, although not very tall anymore, but a fantastic sort of stamp on the countryside.
	If you go through, I think I've got two or three images of...
	I imagine that's a form of tower or gatehouse or something.
	Yeah, some sort of garrisoned area of it.
	And it stretches from coast to coast across the borders.
	That's what it may have looked like in its heyday.
	So yeah, I mean, by the end of the Roman era, in the very early 5th century, probably the year 410, or Bede.
	The venerable monk of Jaro says it's 409, and Zosimus Byzantine Chronica says it was in the year 410. But anyway, in that area is the age of Honorius and Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Goths, Visigoths, invading Italy.
	They originally went on to settle Spain, didn't they, the Visigoths?
	Yeah, the Visigoths were all over the place, yeah.
	They also went to North Africa, didn't they?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Blimey.
	Get about.
	So, yeah, at that time, just the empire was, the Western Empire anyway, was just being assailed from sort of all directions, some sort of massive coalition of Goths and Visigoths.
	Germanic migrations, wasn't it?
	Yeah, the Vandals, the Allens, the Swaby, the Macromani, the Alemani, even Franks, Lombards, early Burgundians, all sorts of people all clubbing together, realising that our Rome...
	And the Roman legions are at a particularly low ebb and in fact we've caught them off guard because Alaric tried to invade Italy once and was repulsed by the great Stilicho but the Stilicho himself had been, the last great Roman general had been ousted and executed and so when Alaric for the second time tried to invade Italy down through the Po Valley was uncontested, marched straight up to Rome.
	And so anyway, the emperor around that time, or just before that anyway, Honorius, had sent a letter to the cities in Britannia and said, send back the legions.
	And they're like, what legions?
	And he's like, all the legions!
	All of them!
	Every man-jack of them!
	We need in Italy now!
	And so there's like a letter that was sent.
	Zosimus says that they sent a letter saying, you must look to your own defences.
	We need all the manpower back in Italy.
	Yes, we need it yesterday.
	Do it.
	Go.
	So the Roman legions pulled out of Britain, whether it was in 409 or 410. And so quite literally the end of an era.
	Obviously historians are going to look back on that and that's a line in the sand sort of moment.
	And so ended Roman Britain.
	But now we're still left with these...
	These footprints, these echoes, to my mind, these sort of wonderful pieces of archaeology are still left and we're still digging them up to this day.
	And I think as time goes on and we keep rebuilding, because London, not just London, but particularly London, it's like this onion that will keep being built upon.
	That's not ever going to stop.
	Hopefully we'll keep finding more and more very interesting bits of archaeology.
	Anyway, that's been in the news cycle recently, so it was an opportunity for me to just bang on about the Romans again.
	Well, I very much enjoyed it.
	Alright, thank you.
	We've got a few comments here.
	We've got...
	London was mostly built by one-legged black trans-queer lesbians from Wakanda Bow.
	True historical fact.
	Unassailable historical fact.
	Hedgehog Dilemma says, with London demographics going the way they are, I feel a strange sense of pathos listening to Beau.
	A real Londoner speak about the history of the city.
	It's like that photo of the last Barbary lion.
	I don't think there's going to be any shortage of Londoners.
	Ever, really.
	Call blimey governor an authentic Londoner, so are you.
	They're all in...
	Bloody Devon and Cornwall these days.
	Pushing up our house prices.
	Hedgehog's Dilemma.
	I re-watched From Hell, thanks to Bo, Jack the Ripper segment.
	Not the best film, but there's an eerily prescient scene where the Met Police destroy evidence in order to protect ethnic minorities.
	I didn't know that.
	I quite like that.
	I don't know who she is.
	Oh, just an actress.
	But yeah, in that film, they have it that it's like that theory that it's one of the royal doctors, one of the royal, a really eminent surgeon of the day is Jack the Ripper.
	And that was always fanciful.
	It's good for a screenwriter.
	It's fine.
	Make a movie like that if you want to.
	It's fine, but it's just not.
	Makes it an interesting story.
	Yeah, right.
	Anyway.
	Today we're going to be talking about how the left can't stop Trump because none of their rhetoric, none of their methods are really going to do anything and I wanted to start with this because it was interesting and I think it was interesting to lots of people because it's got a quarter of a billion views almost and it is Trump saying he who saves his country does not violate any law which is attributed to Napoleon but he may or may not have said this.
	It's still quite a statement though, isn't it?
	It is.
	It's sort of saying, I can and will do anything it takes.
	It's great, I'm here for it.
	I mean, on the one hand, it's sort of good to hear that he's willing to go above and beyond, but also, it does seem like ammunition to his detractors, a little bit.
	It's slightly worrying, because what if in four or eight years' time, Gavin Newsom's saying the same thing, but the other way round?
	That's a precedent.
	The thing is, though, I think that what he's actually responding to is the fact that since he's assumed office, they've been saying, Trump can't do this, Trump can't do that, and they're trying to limit his power in a sort of soft way because, obviously, I think there's an eight senator majority in the Senate for the Republicans.
	I think there is a three majority in the House.
	They have a majority in the Supreme Court, as in Republican appointees.
	And so this has given Trump unprecedented power for a US president.
	Normally, at least one branch of government is interfering, and they're not anymore.
	And of course, it's worth mentioning, and I always like to make this point, that even a tyrannical US president still has, you know, about as much power as your average UK Prime Minister.
	Make of that what you will, but it's just a little bit of perspective.
	I'm not saying one is right or wrong.
	It's sort of chalk and cheese, but I know exactly what you're saying.
	I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying, but yeah, they're different beasts.
	But you certainly can have more or less powerful presidents, right?
	You can have a lame duck president, you can have a president who's...
	Jimmy Carter is a good example.
	Yeah, if you've got Congress and the Senate and the Supreme Court against you, yeah, your wings are massively clipped.
	Yeah, and Trump, at least in this first period before we get to the midterms, is enjoying a very eminent position.
	So he's got until November of 2026. So at least two years.
	But then it is also possible, and I think also likely, that the Republicans could actually increase their majority.
	Who knows?
	If he's doing a good job and people like what he's doing.
	Fingers crossed.
	Yeah, I mean...
	It's not usually the case, but who knows?
	It's possible.
	Yeah, usually the incumbent...
	Usually gets a few losses in the midterms, don't they?
	Usually, yeah.
	But if he is as genuinely popular as it seems, then, yeah.
	Well, the thing is also, lots of people on the left are very careful now about how they're assailing him.
	They're obviously throwing a lot of mud, and that's what we're going to be looking at today, is they're throwing mud and seeing what sticks.
	But I think actually they sort of understand that...
	Yeah, actually, he won the popular vote, and what he's doing is what he promised, so it's a little bit awkward.
	But this is the mud that is being slung at the minute.
	Trump hates the Constitution.
	Obviously, this is the end of January, and it's now halfway through February, but this line has carried on throughout all of the month, and this was just the nicest and clearest way of it being stated.
	Just that all of a sudden...
	Yeah, I know, the Rolling Stone.
	All of a sudden, the left, the Democrats, just...
	Darlings of the Constitution.
	They're diehard constitutionalists.
	And let's, of course...
	Rolling Stone, where I'll just quickly say, goddamn burnt-out hippie commies.
	I won't let it go.
	I know.
	Damn them.
	Let's remind ourselves.
	Is it time to torch the Constitution?
	This is, of course, opinion.
	We're living under a flawed Constitution.
	Let's start fresh and rewrite it.
	Is it time to scrap the Constitution?
	The Constitution is sacred.
	Is it also dangerous?
	Ooh.
	Spoken like a true commie.
	So yeah, obviously we know they don't care one lick about the Constitution.
	They care about enacting their agenda.
	I mean, shall not be infringed.
	I'm gonna, you know, draw a line under that.
	You know, all of the attempts of Democrats to limit gun rights, as far as I'm concerned, Americans should be able to own whatever they want.
	You know, from F-15s to handguns.
	An F-15?
	Yeah, why not?
	A howitzer?
	Why not?
	Sure.
	The land of the free, though.
	What are you, a commie?
	A small nuclear device.
	No, I'm playing the South Africa.
	I don't want to be on a watch, so I can't agree with that one.
	But no, I mean, the Democrats, God, the hypocrisy.
	I remember it was, I can't remember if it was in Obama.
	No, it must have been the early...
	The Biden administration.
	They wanted to try and increase, they kept making noises about trying to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court in order so that they obviously could pack it.
	Massively unconstitutional.
	They wanted to make new states, like make DC its own state.
	Would have been completely riding roughshod over the Constitution.
	A number of things like this.
	A great number of things.
	They don't care about the Constitution.
	Of course not.
	And to call forth another recent example, all of the attempts to censor free speech as well.
	First Amendment.
	Literally the First Amendment in the Constitution.
	Has been one of the things that they have been running roughshod over for years.
	You know, they've been getting the intelligence agencies to, you know, knock on the door of the social media companies to censor on their behalf.
	All the Twitter files that Elon Musk released exposed this very clearly.
	That even small accounts parodying Anthony Fauci and things like that, you know, with only a few hundred followers, were getting removed by basically the White House.
	I don't know how that's...
	Free speech.
	People like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe and John Adams, they must be spinning in their graves.
	Perhaps not so much John Adams, but just because of the Alien and Sedition Act.
	But people like Jefferson will be spinning in their graves to know someone like George Washington who didn't even want parties.
	He didn't think there should be political factions or parties at all.
	And now we're where we are.
	I think there's something to that, you know, these days.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's a simpler world, but yeah, in theory, the concept of it is sound.
	It just makes for discord.
	It just makes for bad government.
	Anyway, go on.
	And where was I? I've completely lost track.
	I was too busy thinking about the Roman Senate now and how they sort of had factions.
	So, yes.
	This is one from the Financial Times.
	US judges are the last line of resistance against Donald Trump, and this is what's been touted by lots of outlets.
	It's also The Guardian repeating a similar line here.
	The courts are a crucial bastion against Trump.
	What if he ignores their orders?
	Well...
	They need their last line of activist commie judges.
	Exactly.
	And as J.D. Vance here points out earlier in the month, if a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.
	If a judge tried to command the Attorney General in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.
	Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
	Pretty unassailable argument, really, there, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	They're supposed to be, of course, completely separate arms of government.
	Yeah, they're meant to...
	Provide checks on each other to a certain extent, but not limit the constitutional powers of certain branches of government.
	The executive should have primacy over the judiciary.
	Well, because Trump appoints, well, the president appoints people to the Supreme Court, which is the highest court in the land, and so if they have the power to appoint the judges, it seems like...
	They have a higher level of authority, don't they?
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, it is actually more of an interplay.
	It is.
	There'll be Fedora Tippers in the comments saying, oh, you don't understand.
	But I do.
	Obviously, the president can elect or nominate the Supreme Justices.
	But then there's a famous quote.
	I can't remember who it was.
	Maybe Oliver Wendell Holmes or somebody like that said he was a Supreme Court.
	Justice said, the Constitution is whatever the judges say it is.
	So in those terms, the buck stops with the Supreme Court, not the President.
	Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Justices stay for life, right?
	You've got sort of life tenure.
	But yet it's the executive that gets to appoint them.
	So it's an interesting relationship.
	It's not clearly one or the other, but there seems to be a bit of a dynamic there, doesn't there?
	Yeah.
	Which is fair to say.
	And it is the...
	Anyway, there's so much that could be said about it.
	But yeah, it's the Supreme Court that says...
	For example, they can say...
	They can literally just say, no, the Constitution means this.
	We think it means this.
	And therefore, it effectively does now.
	So the classic example is when they said, like, slavery is legal.
	And a few decades later said, actually, no, it wasn't legal.
	We were wrong.
	Or they could say, child labour is okay.
	And then decades later say, no, it's definitely not okay.
	So it's whatever they say it is.
	Damn it, spoiled good.
	But the funny thing is, after saying this very reasonable thing, the media comes out again, alarm as J.D. Vance says federal judges aren't allowed to control the president.
	Which is the most absurd headline I've ever.
	It's like, yes, you remember all of those federal judges you elected to oversee the role of the president?
	Said no or never.
	Yeah.
	It's such a transparently silly headline.
	I don't know whether the journalist...
	Well, he lives in San Francisco, so actually maybe he is a bit stupid.
	But you get the idea.
	But I saw Cernovich have a pretty good and well-structured explanation of how the judges can't compel Trump to do anything.
	I do know about all of this.
	I've actually studied the US political system.
	I did a politics A-level, if that means anything.
	In Britain, it might.
	But within that, we compared the British and American system, and I spent a whole year studying the American system.
	So I know all of this, but I know Americans don't like it when I explain their political system.
	So I've defaulted to another American.
	Judges can't compel Trump to do anything.
	The judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, yes.
	It is not...
	Supreme under the text, history or structure of the constitution.
	Judges are not above the law.
	If judges issue an unlawful enforcement order, Trump may direct US marshals, the executive branch, to ignore the judiciary.
	Some might not like it, but that's what the constitution provides.
	Those who are disaffected have democratic remedies and rights.
	The legislative branch may move to impeach or not, which is what the text of the constitution allows for.
	If voters disagree with Congress members' decisions regarding whether to impeach, voters may remove them in the next election or vote to re-elect them.
	Our system was set up this way to keep power within the people.
	Voters, not random activist judges, to say otherwise would require one to ignore the United States Constitution's structure, the debates surrounding it, such as the Federalist Papers, and lead the country to a system where judges may act as if they are above the law.
	Which I think is said perfectly, and I can't see anything wrong with this personally.
	Nice reference to the Federalist papers there.
	I did a long-form bit of content with Benjamin Boyce, the great Benjamin Boyce, talking about the life and career of Alexander Hamilton.
	Check that out.
	It's on his channel and mine.
	So, yeah, absolutely right.
	I don't think he's got anything wrong there.
	And some of the more astute...
	Outlets, here's a Harvard school centre sort of regretfully admitting that actually they're unlikely to save democracy from Trump and Musk's attacks because they don't have the power to.
	I know they're framing it as protecting democracy, which is obviously BS, but they can also recognise that the Constitution does actually provide Trump the ability to do these things.
	And even Vox...
	Here we are, Vox.
	Yes, they're still going.
	Don't expect the courts to save us from Donald Trump.
	They know that even the courts...
	I've got my tiny violin somewhere playing just for Vox.
	I'm sure I've got a handkerchief somewhere.
	Try those leftist tears.
	Oh no!
	And another thing as well is that they're talking about, can President Trump ignore Congress's spending laws?
	The debate over impoundment.
	So this, I'm going to read a little bit from this because this is from NPR. And I found this interesting because it's trying to couch...
	The power of the president to, you know, they have their budget set by Congress, right?
	They're trying to couch it in a different way than it's intended.
	It says, So the problem isn't that Trump is spending too much, it's that he's not spending enough, which I think is well within his right.
	He can run the executive however he wishes, and if he wants to spend less money, the power of the purse is to close the purse to the president, not to...
	That's the intention of it, is to make sure the president doesn't spend too much of the American people's money.
	And if Trump is saving the money, this is...
	What a weird dynamic, the idea that you've got a budget and you must spend it all.
	No, that's not written in the stars, is it?
	If he doesn't want to do it, then he's just going to...
	Be forced to waste the American people's money, which is obviously not in the spirit of the law whatsoever.
	The idea of this cheque is that you prevent reckless spending, which obviously hasn't worked very well over the years, but nevertheless, that's its intention.
	Not to mention that it's money that Congress hasn't even got.
	It's all sort of made-up money anyway.
	It is, yeah.
	Almost nonsensical numbers on a bit of paper.
	Well, basically what this is, it's not about Of course, USAID was set up by JFK, by executive order.
	Trump is dismantling it.
	By executive order.
	And somehow this is unconstitutional.
	It was created with the same powers that it's being dismantled from the same office.
	And somehow the constitution has changed in that time, has it?
	It's funny.
	Again, it wasn't Franklin, Jefferson, Madison and Adams that decreed that USAID must exist.
	Right?
	So, yeah.
	It started in the 60s and now we're stopping it.
	The reason they threw the tea in Boston Harbour is because they wanted US aid.
	That's what it was.
	It's a little known fact.
	It's actually covered up.
	It's been around 60 years.
	It's fine.
	You can get rid of it.
	That can happen.
	It's okay.
	And loads of outlets have been reporting this.
	NBC News.
	Trump's efforts to withhold federal funding triggers constitutional showdown.
	I'm not calling it a crisis, just a showdown.
	At least that's a little bit more honest in that...
	It's just a showdown between two sides, rather than saying it's an actual problem.
	And here's another one.
	Trump's disregard for US Constitution, a blitzkrieg on the law, legal experts say.
	I wonder how these legal experts vote.
	I imagine they're probably Democrats.
	President's lawlessness in actions such as federal funding freezes and birthright citizenship order is worth mentioning.
	Isn't that the 14th Amendment?
	Or whatever.
	That's what they're trying to argue.
	And I know I've mentioned it before, and people said, actually, no, it's perfectly legitimate to get rid of it.
	I did say it was baked into the Constitution, but it's not.
	And I was wrong.
	And it's good, because I think they should get rid of it.
	This is just leftoid screeching into the void, isn't it?
	Blitzkrieg.
	They're throwing money.
	A lot of this stuff isn't sticking, because what he's doing is popular.
	He's saving people money.
	Here's another one.
	I think this one...
	When was that?
	Oh, that's 2025. One of these, I think.
	Trump's illegitimate power grab brings US closer to dictatorship, apparently.
	This is another one that Trump's acting like a dictator.
	But of course, all of the checks and balances still apply to Trump much the same as they do any other president.
	It's just that there aren't going to be many checks and balances because the branches support him.
	Didn't he win the popular vote?
	He did.
	So doesn't that mean by definition he cannot be a dictator then?
	Yes.
	Okay, good.
	And here's another one.
	Trump's dictatorial theory of presidential power.
	What the executive orders in the aggregate tell us.
	Of course, actually, Biden opened the door for this one because Biden issued 17 executive orders.
	I think it was either in his first week or first two weeks, which was the equivalent of the first two months of Trump's first presidency.
	And so Trump thought, well, that's a good idea.
	Let's do even more of that.
	So, you know, your guy did this first.
	You know, the window was broken already when he found it.
	I've never thought that there's ever been anything close to a dictatorial president.
	You'll find people say that Abraham Lincoln was a dictator.
	I mean, he did suspend habeas corpus for a while, but it was during war.
	But he wasn't a dictator.
	He won elections, open, free elections.
	Some said FDR was a dictator.
	Well, no, he won the elections fair and square, or more or less fair and square.
	So they're not a dictator.
	You can criticise that they're more authoritarian than you might have liked.
	They're not a dictator by definition.
	They won open and free elections.
	So they're not a dictator.
	Yeah, it's one of those things where it's similar to the word fascism where it's used so liberally and inappropriately that it just weakens the term.
	And here's one from CNN. Trump 2.0 versus the US Constitution, annotated.
	All of a sudden, CNN cares about the US Constitution, which is difficult to believe.
	Here's Politico.
	This was from 2016, when Trump didn't do nearly as much, but they were trying the same thing then as well.
	It's worth pointing out.
	Trump versus the Constitution, a guide.
	It may be true that Donald Trump has read the Constitution, but it's unclear if he understands it.
	Most...
	Condescending byline I've ever read.
	It's the most classic thing.
	It's almost sort of the last refuge often, is it?
	They're just stupid.
	Do you remember a few weeks ago when people at AOC were just trying to make out that Musk isn't intelligent?
	Yeah.
	It's just pure lies.
	Do you remember at the beginning of the Ukraine war they were trying to make out that Putin's about to die?
	He's very ill and he's about to die.
	Or that Trump doesn't understand the constitution.
	Who are you trying to fool?
	Who are you trying to kid?
	It's not that complicated.
	It's not very complicated at all, no.
	And here's another one from the New York Slimes, as you called it.
	Trump's actions have created a constitutional crisis, scholars say.
	Who are these scholars?
	Yeah, who are the scholars?
	Urban scholars, perhaps.
	Here's the BBC. Legal showdown looms as Trump tests limits of presidential power, which isn't as egregious as some of the other ones.
	He sort of is doing that.
	He is a little bit, yeah.
	It's not that unreasonable.
	That's reasonable to say that.
	But I think, I was about to say all presidents, probably not all presidents, but most presidents will be doing that.
	And prime ministers and chancellors, heads of state all over the world, all the time, on and off, will be testing the limits of their power.
	It's expected, yeah.
	The idea is, are you going to do more of what you want to do or less?
	Generally speaking, people like to do more of what they want to do.
	I'm no psychologist.
	Oh wait, I am.
	Donald Trump keeps teasing a third term.
	Here's what to know.
	Has he?
	I haven't heard him say a single word about that.
	I would be very surprised about this.
	This is what they're trying to say.
	This is trying to sell the dictator line.
	I don't think actually he'll want to at that age, to be honest.
	He's quite old as is.
	He's doing quite well for his age, to give him credit.
	But I think part of the reason that he's appointed J.D. Vance as his vice president is that he's sort of appointed the person who he feels is a good successor to him, right?
	Whereas in his first presidency, he went for someone who sort of, in Mike Pence, the original justification for that is he's someone who's very different to Trump.
	Whereas J.D. Vance, in terms of his views and the policies he supports, is quite similar to Trump.
	And so I think that's the thinking there.
	And there's no way for him to have a third term unless they were to repeal...
	There's something in the Constitution now, whether it was amendment or something, it's set in stone.
	Because it wasn't until FDR that it was actually written into law, into statute, that you can't have more than two terms.
	It was always just done by...
	Yeah, it wasn't written in law, but now it is.
	So he can't have a third term unless he were to repeal that.
	But yeah, I just don't see it.
	It's just clear.
	It seems to be complete nonsense from Time magazine.
	I think it's trying to sell the dictatorial angle, isn't it?
	Time magazine, just to mention, if anyone doesn't know, is about deep state as it gets.
	Absolutely.
	Go down that rabbit hole, if you dare.
	And CBS. CBS. And CBS. Has gone a bit off the rails because they're talking about how...
	Free speech caused the Holocaust somehow.
	Germans were just shouting people to death, apparently.
	I don't know.
	The German accent sometimes can be a bit intimidating, but it does not actually kill people.
	At the bottom of the swamp, you will find Time magazine and CBS with their loudspeakers screaming up from the bottom of the swamp.
	So this is just...
	Desperation, trying to throw anything in that direction.
	And then NBC were even trying to blame Trump for the Toronto plane crash.
	And that's a Canadian plane crash, by the way.
	Toronto, Canada.
	They're trying to blame that on Trump for some reason.
	This happened very recently.
	Is there any rationale or reason to say that?
	Well, they're trying to say that because he did those things with the...
	He did stuff to do with air travel, didn't he?
	Oh, alright.
	And they're saying, oh, it's causing problems in America, and now they're even saying it for Canada.
	I don't think so.
	If you make cuts to funding and things like that, and the planes start falling out of the sky, I don't think...
	You haven't got enough cash in the bank to fly the planes, is it?
	They're not run out of fuel and just dropped.
	That's not how it works.
	It's a silly argument.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Completely silly.
	And so I just wanted to illustrate how no matter what they're trying here, it doesn't seem to be working.
	This isn't sticking.
	And they sort of are aware of it as well, and it's getting increasingly desperate.
	But I'll leave it there.
	So we've got a bunch of comments here.
	Oh, blimey.
	So...
	Sayoran says they have a free senator majority in the Senate and many are still inclined to stab him in the back.
	That being said, viva le emperor, I guess.
	Good new, Josh.
	Federal judges, is that meant to be news?
	Federal judges and SCOTUS are peeling back bans and restrictions on firearms.
	A federal judge just ruled that Americans can legally own a machine gun.
	Hooray!
	What, a belt-fed M60? I hope so.
	If you can't own...
	A grenade launcher.
	You're not free.
	Of course.
	Dragon Lady Chris says, packing the court is not unconstitutional.
	I can't even say the word.
	It's a horrible idea, but perfectly legal, apparently.
	Maybe we're talking at cross-purposes.
	It's one thing.
	No.
	There's one thing to...
	What the Dems try to do is just make it more than nine Supreme Court judges.
	So if they made it 20...
	And appointed 11 new ones.
	That's unconstitutional.
	I think maybe this person's talking about packing it in a legal sense.
	As in working within the current framework.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Just have like an all-Democrat nine justices.
	You can't just like...
	I'm pretty sure it's unconstitutional or illegal to just fire the four or five judges you don't like and appoint new ones.
	That would be illegal.
	Yes.
	It would be unconstitutional to just...
	Say you can have 20 of them now.
	So I suppose in a limited sense she's right, but what I was saying was correct, though.
	Anyway, anyway.
	Thank you for the donation.
	Thanks for the comment and the money, though.
	In the Constitution, the judicial branch has zero powers, as in there are none stated.
	The courts have taken power and given it to themselves over time, so ignoring them is constitutionally sound.
	Well, there we go.
	That's a good argument.
	Beau, still think Trump isn't a somewhat Sulla figure?
	Yeah, no, Sulla.
	No, yeah, he's not.
	Yeah.
	I mean...
	I've got some Epochs episodes on Sulla.
	Sulla marched on the Capitol.
	And then purged his political opponents.
	Rounded up thousands of these political enemies and their families and things and murdered them.
	So no Trump...
	Any advisors to Trump watching?
	No, anyway.
	No public executions because that's not really done anymore, but he's purging the state and trying to put the US on course.
	It should have been on all along, all with the weapons they created to beat him with.
	Fair justification there.
	And Bold Eagle says there is no stated limit on Scottish justices.
	A president can appoint as many as they want.
	Nine has become the accepted number.
	There we go.
	Okay, well, I'll stand corrected if that's the case.
	I wonder...
	Okay, well, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
	Are we all right to overrun a little bit, Samson?
	Okay, cool.
	Aristophanes sets out a satirical farce in which wives in their husbands' cloaks illegally attend a city meeting and vote to pass all powers to the women.
	The play explores them celebrating their success and then setting out their plans before enacting what is described in the play as communism.
	Despite what people say about the play, it's not an exploration of how women would fail in such an endeavour, but how they would merely end up imposing what the weakest men would.
	I would argue it's compulsory reading in our feminised age.
	Thank you, Alex.
	Always interesting.
	I'll add it to the massive list of books I need to read.
	There are lots of examples of sort of matriarchal societies throughout history.
	I'll observe judgments.
	I don't want to come across as a woman.
	I love women.
	I've got nothing against them.
	Many of my family are women.
	Really?
	Yeah, it's funny how that works.
	Remarkable.
	It's almost like I want to restrict immigration to protect them or something.
	But anyway.
	Golly, I went to the bookstore and I got a new book.
	It's Heinlein time.
	Also, I got Dune.
	Some good finds there.
	The first Dune novel is my favourite sci-fi novel of all time, easily.
	I got bought the first three books as a trilogy for Christmas.
	This Christmas, just go on.
	Yeah, it's massive.
	The first one is the best one.
	Okay.
	I've really enjoyed the films.
	We watched the latest one together, didn't we?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It was great.
	I've re-read the first Jude novel about five or six times.
	Again, I've got a long-form bit of content all about it on my channel, History Bro, and it's also, I think, on Nate's channel, MrHReviews.
	An hour or two hours worth of me talking all about June with Nate.
	And Starship Troopers, the original one, I listened to that on audiobook about 18 months ago, two years ago, not that long ago.
	And it is also excellent.
	It's very different to the film.
	The films of June are pretty, the modern films of June are pretty close, fairly close to the book.
	But the film of Starship Troopers is nothing really like the book.
	And because the film is a bit of a throwaway cartoonish.
	Rump, fun, action thing.
	The actual book is quite deep and very interesting.
	It explores elements of the human condition and all about political philosophy and all sorts of stuff.
	Sounds really interesting.
	It's good.
	It's a good read.
	I still need to watch the David Lynch version of Dune with Agent Cooper.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's good and bad.
	If you've not read the book, it would be weird and wouldn't make sense.
	If you have read the book, it's quite good.
	It's weird to see Sting in it.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's the Beast Redman, I think.
	Okay, some written comments then.
	Adrian Webb says, wishing the Stelios a swift recovery.
	Get well soon.
	Oh, we've got five more.
	Never mind.
	Sorry, Samson.
	So, I've been seeing a lot of third world...
	Well, like, you'll usually see any third world country kill half that in a 10 year period.
	Let's not even ignore the fact that, you know, Europeans are probably the only people I think positively of witchcraft these days.
	It's also worth mentioning that Africans still kill people for witchcraft today.
	Yeah, there's all sorts of weird abominations.
	And if you have the misfortune to be African and be born albino, then you're basically doomed.
	I was just going to say that, yeah.
	Some parts of Africa, you don't want to be an albino.
	They will eat you.
	Devilry.
	You know, with all the funding games around USAID presently, the one thing I'm surprised we haven't seen come up is university funding.
	I think the source of this modern malady is after they whacked Kennedy and wanted to go to a fiat currency, they'd won as many debtors in the economy as possible.
	Thus, President Johnson's fascination with getting as many people into universities as possible so they could be quickly exported to the workforce and take on debt.
	Now, presumably, this is all being funded through the Department of Education and not USAID, which would make that the next most viable target were either Great Orange One.
	While the federal government may be the rapacious mind of this beast, the universities are as many beating hearts.
	that must be ripped out if this thing is ever to be truly killed.
	It's going to be good.
	Hear, hear.
	Yeah, some interesting points there.
	I'm sure it's on Trump's list of things to address because I think he's well aware of all of his problems stemming from universities fundamentally.
	The academy is just a force for subversion in all sorts of ways, isn't it?
	That was a chunky, cool-looking V8, by the way.
	It was, yeah.
	I think that was a V8. So an embarrassingly long time ago, I saw a list online of 100 books everyone should read before they die, and I decided to take a crack at it.
	So far this is my collection, the top two rows being the books on the list I've collected so far, and the rest being personal choices.
	They define extreme right-wing as reading Douglas Murray, Peter Hitchens, Melanie Phillips, J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf, Enhance, and George Orwell of 1984. Enhance.
	I enjoyed that very much.
	1984 absolutely should be on everyone's reading list.
	Beowulf is a bit more esoteric.
	It's great, but you'd need some notes to fully...
	Like The Iliad or The Odyssey or Paradise Lost or something.
	You need to know what you're reading a bit before you just...
	Like 1984 is just sort of a modern novel.
	You just pick it up and you read it and it is what it is.
	But anyway, Babel's a bit different.
	But I noticed quite a few really cool books on that list.
	I noticed The Road on there, which I read.
	Or Mac McCarthy.
	Yeah, which I read.
	It's so depressing, isn't it?
	I read for the first time like one month ago.
	And it's one of the bleakest things I've ever read in my whole life.
	I've had to keep you away from rope ever since.
	Yeah.
	I remember watching the film with Viggo Mortensen and just being like, wow.
	I've never been more depressed.
	Unremittingly, remorselessly bleak and dark, isn't it?
	Not a glimmer of hope.
	Well, I mean, the film has hope.
	I'm not going to spoil the end.
	Maybe at the very, very, very end, the tiniest glimmer.
	And that's it, though.
	That's it.
	The good thing about the film, the bit that has the positivity about it, is that you go away and appreciate your life for what it is far more.
	That's the one takeaway I got from it, is I need to be grateful for what I have.
	They define extreme right-wing.
	Does owning a top hat put you on the list as well?
	I want to read Margaret Atwood's loosely camouflaged fetish material.
	Enhance.
	I'm not looking forward to it either, but at least I didn't spend money on it.
	I just have to keep reminding myself of this meme.
	Besides, if anything was going to get me put on a watch list, it'd be these bad boys.
	Yeah, great French line is just, je ne compends pas, je ne sais pas.
	I don't know, I don't know.
	Oh, just non.
	Non, if they try to speak to you in French.
	The problem is, I know a little bit, but not quite enough where the French won't sort of look down their nose at how I'm not speaking perfect French to them.
	Oh, well.
	I'd like to just say to anyone who tries to speak French for me, just be like, you what, mate?
	Speak English, mate.
	Ah, you Angleterre.
	You're terrible.
	Anyway, that's all the video comments, is it not, Samson?
	Yes?
	Okay, we'll read some more comments.
	Hi Josh, just wanted to say thanks for the UK segment yesterday.
	Most blackpilling thing I've ever seen in my life.
	You're welcome.
	Wendy Gold says, excellent podcast with two of my favourite load-seaters especially enjoyed Bo's history segment.
	So did I. I enjoyed it more than my own, which isn't saying much.
	For Europe is a war zone, Derek Power says, It's understandable why you're upset, Josh, the influx of unsolicited people and then your nation state vilifying the natives whilst propping up the invaders.
	It's an abusive relationship all around.
	Very true.
	Someone online says, Someone really needs to do something about those European assault cars.
	I know they're very dangerous.
	Someone needs to put a stop to them.
	Maybe make cars go only five miles an hour.
	That's what they've been trying to do anyway.
	Make cars safe again.
	For the Roman London segment, AZ Desert Rat says, can we get an epox on Mifras?
	That would be cool.
	Yeah, could do, should do.
	That might be in the pipeline at some point.
	Yeah, it's reasonably important.
	I've mentioned it here or there.
	I'm pretty sure.
	But yeah, a whole epox on it.
	Yeah, maybe.
	The People's Front of Judea.
	Personally, a Judean people's frontman myself.
	You lads should go to Sirencester and do videos on the Roman stuff they have there.
	There's a bus that goes from Swindon and I highly recommend going.
	That's a good day out for me, actually.
	I might not do a video, but I might take some pictures and post a little Twitter thread or something.
	I don't have a proper camera, so it's a bit difficult for me.
	Sirencester once or twice in my life, it's not been nice, yeah.
	And Lord Nerova says, hell yeah, Roman history on the main podcast.
	Christmas has come early.
	So there we go.
	And then the left can't stop Trump.
	George Hap says, even though there was the initial jubilation of Trump's executive orders, the bureaucratic fight against the deep state has only just begun.
	People should be aware of the names of the woke judges trying to block him.
	That's very true.
	They have names, they have positions, and they should be fired.
	Yeah, we've only just begun, what is it, four or five weeks or something?
	Is that all?
	He's off to a very good start, to give him credit.
	Hector Rex says, I haven't seen the leftist mad since we took away their slaves.
	You'd think they'd want corrupt money out of politics.
	It's funny that, isn't it?
	And on that wonderful note, I think it's time to end the show.

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