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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Load Seaters for the 20th of March 2025.
I am Josh and I am joined by Harry.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi Harry, how are you doing?
Are you ready for the slop cast?
Are you ready to fill your mouths at the trough?
Your bellies will never have been so full.
My belly's already full.
I ate loads and loads of pasta before coming on air.
Which is always a good idea before going on camera.
It's going to be an aromatic podcast for me.
It's not quite to that point yet.
Oh, okay.
Give it an hour or two.
You've just been carb-loading, so when we get to comments, that's when I need to duck and cover.
Apparently so.
So today we are discussing Jeremy Boring stepping down as CEO of The Daily Wire and all the speculation around that.
I'm going to be talking about why you shouldn't buy the new Assassin's Creed game, and then we're going to be talking about the misadventures of Harry Sisson.
I'm Harry Sisson's top guy.
Yeah, we used to think he was one of them gays.
A bundle of sticks.
What, a Farsis?
Yes, exactly.
We thought he was a Farsis.
Or something else beginning with F. Yeah, something.
He still absolutely is, by the way.
But a lot less so than we thought.
Apparently, if the rumours are to be, well, if all of the controversy is to be believed, again, complete slop.
Not real news, but fun.
It is fun, and we didn't want to blackpool you.
Or ourselves.
Yeah, because it's miserable enough doing this podcast sometimes.
Here we are, folks.
Hope you're having a lovely day, though.
We're in good spirits, so it should be fun.
It's actually quite nice outside.
The weather's alright.
It's sunny.
I slept well.
I'm feeling good.
Ish.
You're full of pasta.
It's the natural state of being.
Is that the ish?
It is the ish, yeah.
Alright, then I guess we should probably get into it.
Yeah, go ahead.
And by getting into it, I mean you should be buying Islander, which if you haven't done yet, what are you doing?
Are you just sitting around doing nothing with your life?
What are you doing?
Reading books?
Reading...
Books?
Like Tolkien or something?
What are you, a nerd?
Read Islander, it'll make you cool.
It will make you cool.
Some say it comes with experience points that boost your cool ratings and your stats.
I don't say this, but some have said that it will automatically graft a pair of sunglasses onto you at all times, especially when you're indoors, so you're extra cool.
I don't think that's true, but...
Who knows?
But I do know that it's got great artwork, great articles.
You've heard all of this before.
Chill out your 15 quid, you stingy bastards.
Alright.
That's right.
Or Harry will get you.
Alright, I don't actually have a mouse.
There we go.
We're a professional outlet here.
We're a very professional outlet.
Alright, okay.
So, the news broke the other day that Jeremy Booring, the co-CEO of The Daily Wire, has decided to step down.
There were some people reporting that he was leaving the company altogether.
That was incorrect, because what he's actually doing is he's stepping down from the role as co-CEO purely to focus on creative projects for the company.
And he told this to his staff in a memo that Axios obtained.
They were the first ones to report on this.
Jeremy Boring himself reposted this on his Twitter account, and as far as I'm aware, as of yet, the other presenters of Daily Wire, because Jeremy Boring counts as a presenter.
He's a very, very up-and-front CEO, because he hosts one of the backstage shows where he interviews, I think, Matt Walsh, Andrew Clavin, and Ben Shapiro.
Similar to how Carl is the CEO of Lotus Eaters, and he's on camera all the time.
Yeah, but Carl was like a content producer, first and foremost, before Lotus Eaters, whereas Jeremy Boring, as far as I'm aware, was attempting to start a career in Hollywood previously, and then started financing the Daily Wire.
And some...
Information I got from another article was that last year, Boring said that the Daily Wire was on track to hit $200 million in annual revenue, which, to be clear, is separate from profits.
Revenue is the gross intake.
Profits is what you have after expenses.
They've been...
They've taken on a lot of expenses, from what it sounds like, haven't they?
With the film companies.
Yeah, I was very surprised when I started seeing films coming out of the Daily Wire, because I was thinking to myself, how on earth are they able to finance this sort of thing?
Like, they have their own channel with their own programs.
Yeah, they've got their Daily Wire Plus, and they've also got, I think, a children's.
...network called Bent Key, which is apparently named after some old theatre company that he used to be part of.
Interesting name, though.
Yeah, it's a very strange name.
It's not the one that I would have gone to, but clearly very sentimental for him.
And apparently last year as well, the company was valued at more than $1 billion in its most recent round of funding.
I have nothing against The Daily Wire, personally.
I don't really watch any of their stuff, if I'm honest.
We've watched a few of the things that they've produced in the past, like the Matt Walsh, What is a Woman documentary.
But with their films and the things they've been producing, like in this picture here, you can see that he's got the lady, I think, what was it?
Ladyballers?
I saw the trailer for that pop up all over the place.
I would like to add as well that...
We can object to the things that the presenters say and not hold a grudge against the outlet, right?
Absolutely.
I quite like Matt Walsh sometimes, and then he'll make a completely stupid statement about video games and how grown men shouldn't play video games, and I just think to myself, man, you need to chill out, Matt.
Yeah, I don't think people should necessarily police people's hobbies in a way where it seems to be quite harmless.
If you're just relaxing and you're just like, you're not working.
Well, I think that actually life should have a bit of a balance.
We've engaged in that discussion before.
Video games are fine, just don't overindulge in them, the same as you can do with anything else.
But the thing is that this...
Has begun a lot of rumours and a lot of speculation because it comes quite fast after last year they lost Candace Owens.
They decided to split with Candace Owens due to the fact that she was courting a lot of controversy with Rabbi Shmuley.
I covered a lot of that at the time.
She had other interviews with other rabbis that got her in a lot of trouble.
She was dubbed Candace Ovens at one point, which is one of my favourite nicknames for a presenter.
Not because...
Because, you know, I necessarily agree with the characterization.
It's just a funny name.
Yeah, Rabbi Shmuley needs to have a Greatest Hits compilation out there because that man is a one-man meme machine.
I don't know what his politics are, but he's funny.
I think he's Republican.
Do you really?
I think he might be Donald Trump's anti-Semitism international envoy.
Yes.
The man who dressed up as the Candace Owens Jew.
I hope you all remember that one or this is going to sound like complete nonsense to you.
And to be fair, even if you do know what I'm talking about, it's still complete nonsense because the man is a cartoon character ripped straight from a Goebbels propaganda film.
But he owns it.
He owns it.
He's got a sense of humor.
Yeah, he does have a sense of humor.
Also a sex toy company with his daughter.
That's very strange.
That is very strange.
It's kosher sex toys.
Anyway, so she got in a lot of trouble talking about that sort of stuff, and so the company and Candace Owens decided to split ways.
I think it was less than amicable, because Jeremy Boring himself was quite unhappy with Candace Owens.
And then...
Just a few months ago, Brett Cooper, who, as far as I'm aware, outside of, like, the big names, was the company's fastest-rising new star.
Her videos on YouTube, on the comments section, were getting, like, almost a million views, between half a million and a million views each.
She announces that she's leaving the company as well.
That seemed to be a different situation.
I didn't really follow it because I try to keep...
Well, there was a lot of drama.
A lot of this always ends up just being he said, she said, whispering behind-the-scenes drama that goes on.
But it does have larger implications for the company and where the company is going.
Because at the same time as around that, December 10th, I believe, Brett Cooper announced that she was leaving on December 11th, there was sudden speculation that Fox News were eyeing up potential acquisitions of...
Conservative podcast companies, including The Daily Wire.
Boring addressed this himself and said the company isn't actively looking for a buyer, but were not closed off to an offer.
So that was...
Some strange news to come out at the same time as all of this, and again, it has all led to a lot of speculation.
Now, Ian Carroll is a somewhat divisive figure.
He was actually a really good source of information for all of the Diddy stuff that was coming out last year, and I liked some of the stuff that he's put out.
The ADL did do a little warning on Joe Rogan after Joe Rogan had Ian Carroll on.
Because everyone knows that the ADL...
The ultimate arbiters of what is allowed to be said.
The most trustworthy organisation, and there's nothing suspicious at all about the circumstances in which they were set up in the 1910s.
I go to the ADL for all of my information, and they're so impartial.
Oh, absolutely.
It was so great how they strong-armed Iceland into not banning circumcision.
That's still an absurd story to me that they managed to do that.
But either way, so just full disclosure, Ian Carroll, I don't watch all of his stuff.
I see him pop up every so often.
A lot of the stuff that he gets is basically like allegations, rumours, hearsay, and he is also a supporter of Candace Owens.
So he does have his own perspective.
What he says is interesting, and I can tell that he's...
Trying to be impartial, whether he is or not, obviously.
It's not up to me to say, but he at least has things to contribute.
But the information that he gives in here is interesting because he's stating that he has sources from inside the Daily Wire itself who are...
Dissatisfied with how the company is being run.
And in this video, Candace Owens did, just two days ago, where she was addressing the news that Jeremy Boring was stepping down.
She said that she had learned from Ian Carroll himself information about the inner workings of the Daily Wire and why she was let go that even she wasn't made aware of.
So it does seem that he has insider contacts on this kind of thing.
So what he has said, and these are all allegations, Allegations, speculation.
Again, I don't really watch the Daily Wire.
I have no personal investment in whether they succeed or fail.
We also live in the political commentary sphere, so I find I don't watch any other political content because I just go directly to the source and figure it out for myself.
Because also, as a content creator, if I dare call myself that, you sort of don't want to listen to what other people are saying.
You don't want opinion coloured by other people, right?
Yeah, I feel like it's almost a...
Bit of bad form.
It's like reading the room and then trying to say the thing that is the most socially acceptable.
I try and avoid that if possible.
Yeah, I have that same impulse.
You want to be original and you also want to have integrity.
So I don't really watch The Daily Wire.
I don't watch many.
I don't watch Steven Crowder.
I don't watch any of these American shows.
I will occasionally watch Oron McIntyre or Dave Smith if they have a particularly interesting guest on.
But that's about as much as I do.
Most of my content that I watch is like wrestling.
Wrestling audiobooks.
It's a very interesting experience.
It's very niche.
Yeah, it is.
It really gets your imagination going.
I didn't know you listened to those, Harry.
No, and I also watch a lot of history stuff and read books, which is very nice, but you should be reading Islander, not reading books.
Islander's much better for you.
But anyway, Ian's information that he gives is that he is saying that there is potentially...
Outside finance and investment companies, particularly a company called Silver Lake, who are going to be coming in, investing in the Daily Wire.
He's heard rumours that they're interested.
These are all rumours, this is all stuff that he's heard from his sources from within the Daily Wire.
People as well, in the replies, have been saying things like, you say allegedly a lot in this, bro.
He's saying that he trusts his sources.
I think that's important to say allegedly, because if you know something for certain...
And it's been proved to you by a source and you know...
You know, without a doubt that it's true, you can afford to not say allegedly.
But I think it is important, if you're hearing things as accounts of other people that might have an interest in feeding you false stories, potentially, it is important to ring-fence this and say, listen, this is what I've been told, so take it with a pinch of salt.
I don't think that's a criticism.
The other thing is that he did in December last year, December 2nd, manage to break the news.
He said that there was a scoop coming, which was that Brett Cooper would be leaving the company.
her out and replacing her with her best friend.
Now, of course, since that has happened, she was replaced by her best friend who she doesn't seem to be friends with anymore for the same show which now its views are nowhere near as high as they used to be.
Again, they've gone from like half a million to a million per video to like 20,000 to 50,000 per video, which, you know, is still not awful but nowhere near the figures that they were getting before.
They don't seem to be friends anymore but...
People who are involved have denied that they forced her out or that they were intentionally replacing her with her best friend.
She was just offered a contract because she was friends with Brett, etc, etc.
But he did manage to say that it looks like she's leaving about a week before she announced it herself.
A week and a half, even.
So, you know, he does seem to be on the money with some of this stuff, and if it is coming from his inside sources, then he does seem to be able to get some accurate information from it, even if some of it can be a little bit, not necessarily tainted, but not always accurate.
Or at least not always completely accurate.
But then again, as well, we don't actually know what was going on behind the scenes.
I imagine that...
With a lot of these things, there's a lot of complicated things that were you to know the full picture, it'd be very different than what goes on in the outside.
I've sort of...
Yeah, there's two sides to every story.
There always is, isn't there?
And it's interesting because I think the suggestion that maybe The Daily Wire is not doing too well...
That I've heard Ian Carroll talk about.
That is going to change the political landscape of the so-called online rights in America and the world, isn't it?
It's not...
I know it sounds very...
...company with huge names attached to them.
Not to say that people like Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Clavin, Michael Knowles wouldn't be able to survive outside of it.
They would do great.
But having that one company that it's all focused around disappear, if what he's saying is true, or at least fundamentally change its organizational structure, would be a big change.
Yeah, and I might say something a little bit controversial here.
I think the Daily Wire going away might be a good thing, if it does happen.
How so?
I think a lot of the time, it seems like it's almost...
This is just my opinion.
It seems like...
They've become very commercial.
And they're sort of becoming the mainstream media in a lot of ways.
And it's not to criticise everyone blanketly.
I'm just talking about my overall vibe, which isn't worth much, let's be honest.
No, that's fair.
I mean, from what is being alleged here, the company has been incredibly centred around Jeremy Boring himself and his own aspirations of becoming a Hollywood star, Hollywood insider film company.
Which is expensive.
Yeah, and he has said in different interviews...
He's given character profiles of himself that he's always been very passionate about film, wanting to start things.
They started their own film company.
They've done a few films here and there.
They announced a Snow White adaptation with Brett Cooper, which was discussed recently on the Tim Pool show where they were saying, I don't think it's happening anymore.
The last update on it was back in 2023 when it was announced.
Nothing's come of that as yet.
Completely worthless speculation is with him stepping down, then moving away from the film side of things, which is very expensive and very risky, as are all films, not just Daily Wire films, just filmmaking in general, as we well know.
Yes.
You are taking a big risk with a film.
It could be a great film.
It could be, you know, well-received and just not make money.
And so it's one of those things where if you're being fiscally conservative and trying to build a political commentary...
You wouldn't necessarily look at it because it is a way of potentially throwing everything you built into a fire.
Well, yeah, because as we've mentioned many times when covering films before, the budget is not the only thing that you're spending on the television show.
You're also spending about the same amount as the budget, typically, for the marketing as well.
Yeah, the rule of thumb, whatever the budget is, double it for the marketing costs as well.
So for a...
Television series, like they were trying to produce with the Pendragon cycle, which was supposed to be produced and released on their platform last year and is still nowhere to be seen, that's a huge investment.
That's a huge cost.
Television is ridiculously expensive to produce, especially if you're talking about high fantasy television.
And then you've got to go into all of the marketing as well.
And so you can say we've got a revenue...
$200 million, that's fantastic, but where is that revenue going?
I imagine the contracts for people like Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro are expensive enough by themselves, and then if you decide that you're going to go on and produce television with all the expenses there as well, $200 million is not even the budget of a single high-budget Hollywood film these days.
What was it?
That bloody, um...
Red One, The Rock.
Wasn't the budget for that $250 million by itself with The Rock taking $50 million for his own paycheck for that?
It's also worth mentioning, again, a bit more speculation, but I could see something happening where a lot of money is going towards these long-term, multi-year commitments to make films, and say someone in The Daily Wire suddenly has a sort of meteoric rise,
and they don't have any wiggle room to renegotiate a contract that's more appropriate with their newfound acclaim and viewership because the Daily Wire has
I could see it causing a lot of problems with people feeling like they're being undervalued and perhaps being ripped off in a stronger sense because the Daily Wire, even with the best intentions, might not be able to give them It can't be malicious,
it can just be trying to overextend yourself as a company.
And from what I've heard, it seems to be the case that there have been lots of people that are sour on contracts and things like that.
I mean, Stephen Crowder made his whole feelings known about the contract that was offered to him two years ago, even though it was, what, a $50 million contract?
Yeah, when I heard that, I was like, wow, okay, that...
I think it was spread out over five or ten years, I believe.
But I think his main complaint was the fact that he didn't want to have to stick so rigidly to the terms of YouTube and platforms like that that are going to censor him.
Yeah, I mean, fair enough.
It's annoying to have to deal with YouTube terms.
Yeah, don't I know it, yeah.
But basically, Ian Carroll is alleging that what he has been told is that things like the film company, the Pendragon cycle in particular, might be moved away from Daily Wire because boring is not permitted inside the company.
I don't know how true that is.
But he does say that the series is apparently over-budget by about $50 million.
It often happens.
I could believe that.
Very, very easy thing to have.
Especially when its production cycle has gone well beyond what they were originally planning for, if they were originally planning on releasing it last year.
Apparently as a result of this, loads of the producers...
Company credit cards got frozen, and he does say that the company is bankrupt.
We'll see in the future if any of this comes out to be true, but it is very, very interesting, and he said that the Fox News deal mentioning that was a way of Jeremy Boring and other people trying to drum up interest in outside investment to the company to try and recoup some of those funds,
because whether or not they're in a great financial situation right now, we'll see if that's true or not, that it is still a huge platform.
Big brand recognition.
So if you've got outside investors to come in, they might be able to reformat things, fix things up.
You never know.
It happens a lot with companies, doesn't it?
Yeah.
It remains to be seen whether that actually happens or not, or if any of this is true.
The other thing I wanted to mention was just, of course, Candice Owens talking about this.
She, fair play to her, was very, very down the line.
With all of this, she was not gloating, she did not go into any petty backstage rumour mill stuff, but she did say that Jeremy Boring was a very, again, front and centre CEO, which for a person who, as far as I'm aware, was not a content creator like Carl was before he got involved in the company,
was very, very unusual.
We know that he wanted a career in Hollywood, and he wanted to try to turn The Daily Wire into his pet project for...
A big Hollywood film-style production company.
And she also said it was always funny that whenever there was a product that they were about to release, like the Razors after the Gillette controversy, and the chocolate bars after Hershey's and everything, it was always somebody else's idea, according to Candace, and then he would just name it after himself.
Lovely.
Also, he refers to himself as the God King.
Also.
Very modest.
So it does seem that him stepping back as the co-CEO might be a PR move.
It might also be to quell some of the issues that are developing within the Daily Wire.
Again, all we know is rumors and things that are coming from second-hand sources.
But with everything that's been said, the personnel changes that have been happening over the past year, I wouldn't be surprised if some of this turns out to be true.
He's obviously got a big personality.
He obviously is a very, very ambitious person, and that, in a company like this, can grind against people and grind against the overall ambitions of the company as it was originally started.
You start off as, we're going to be a conservative commentary channel where we do all of this cultural stuff, and then he goes, I want to make movies.
That's a big shift.
It is.
That's a huge shift, especially when you're trying to stand up to, I think, the Snow White announcement.
It was in response to Disney's announcement.
You've also, as a political company, you've already disaffected, what, 50% of the American population by being a political company?
Yes.
So you've got a much harder job with a much narrower budget.
You've really got to thread a needle to make it work there.
Yeah, but to be fair to her, she said that whatever is happening behind the scenes, she thinks it's a good move.
Perhaps, again, also, there's also the fact that over the past ten days or so, he has been very aggressive towards people on Twitter, and I don't know if having the co-CEO of the company, who's got such a public profile, getting into feuds with people constantly was maybe the look that the Daily Wire were going for.
It's not a good idea even if you're...
It's not a good idea even if you're...
On your own, you're a solo act.
Not that I would know about drumming up controversy on Twitter.
I'm a good boy.
Tell us about it, Harry.
I'm a little angel.
Just check my feed.
I'm a good boy.
Most of the time, it's just people being annoyed at me.
I don't tend to have a go at people that much.
Although in my segment yesterday, I was having a go at someone.
I did manage to get into some trouble yesterday by just pointing out that most white Americans are of English.
And British ancestry.
That's not an insult.
They didn't like that.
We are British.
Is that such an insult?
Robert E. Lee's ancestors were from Shropshire.
And that's a good thing.
It's a good thing.
We mean it as a compliment.
Yeah, exactly.
At least you're not, I don't know, French.
Like those Canadians.
Anyway, so everyone was being very even-handed.
We'll see what comes of this.
I don't want the Daily Wire to fail.
I don't want them to have anything bad go on.
I don't want people's careers to be destroyed if they do go under, because there will be certainly a lot of really good people working in the company.
But we'll see.
It remains to be seen if the rumors that are going around right now are true.
Do you have any Rumble Chats?
No, we do not.
Nobody wanted to give me money for that one.
Oh dear.
Just like my birthday again.
Oh, there you go.
The Habsification for $1.
Harry, what is your opinion on John Cena's heel turn?
That's an excellent question, actually.
Thank you for asking.
I think it's really exciting.
John Cena is kind of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pull a heel turn like this, because he's been a good guy, a very divisive good guy, for over 20 years.
It's not even like Hogan in the NWO in 96, where Hogan had been a heel before.
John Cena was last a heel in 2003-2004, and it's his last year as a performer.
Even part-time in it.
So I think it presents a lot of really interesting opportunities for storytelling, especially with him lining up with The Rock against Cody Rhodes.
I think it'd be really cool.
So I'm excited to see what they do with it, especially at WrestleMania.
He asked a question.
I gave his answer.
Very thorough.
Our WWE correspondent over there.
I'll happily do it.
Send me to WrestleMania, Carl.
I'll get Lotus Eaters coverage.
Oh, we've got another one coming.
$5 in XCO.
The Lotus Eaters should enter the movie business and bring Conor back as Baldwin of Jerusalem.
I think that would be an incredibly risky investment and a complete waste of money.
It sounds like a great way for me to be unemployed.
Yeah, it sounds like a great way for me to be even poorer.
Keep those rumble rants coming in, please.
They help us keep the lights on.
We don't mean in the office, we mean at home.
Yeah, they help me fend the rats.
Fend them away.
They get very big where we live.
Anyway.
I'm going to talk about Assassin's Creed Shadows because it comes out today and I don't think you should buy it.
Boo!
Don't buy it!
Boo!
But what you should buy that there's no controversy around is Island Magazine because it's almost about to sell out so it's actually not got long left until you can buy it and the issues are limited.
Once they're off of sale you can't buy them again and it is a beautiful work of art.
I mean, look at how gorgeous it is.
And there are lots of interesting articles from lots of prominent and interesting people.
And I feel like it's very reasonably priced.
And it also is getting to you very quickly, I hear.
I think even in the States, it's taking about a week.
Yeah, they've been getting it really quickly.
It's very speedy, it's reasonably priced, and you can support us because we're all very poor.
And it would be nice.
You get something in return, you help us, everyone's a winner.
And it's very limited.
That's true.
So you get to be cool and exclusive as well.
We also have some t-shirts and mugs as well on there if you're not into reading, like me.
Josh's secret is he can't read.
I can't.
That's why I struggle when I'm reading the comments all the time.
But anyway, here they are.
Look at them.
Lovely.
Lovely stuff.
But yes, it all starts with...
My box is not working.
A tragic tale.
Ah, there we go.
Thank you.
It all started with this.
Assassin's Creed Shadows.
This was the premiere.
This came out in May of 2024.
I can't believe it's only been 10 months.
I know.
It feels like it's been going on for years.
And then you look at the comments.
The most heroic thing about this trailer is that they left the comments open.
Always remember the best part about a Ubisoft game is usually the trailers.
If you want Assassin's Creed in Japan, play Ghost of Tsushima.
Rip!
Ubisoft, thank you for my happy childhood.
Remember, never pre-order.
These are all the top comments.
I mean, fair play to them for not deleting them.
I know.
I mean, that takes some balls.
This is a new kind of guerrilla marketing.
And of course, the main controversy at first is that the assassins are a black man and a woman, which is not historically accurate, really.
Not as far as I'm aware.
Neither being a samurai nor an assassin, and maybe there's historic precedent for women, but it's unusual, and it seems to be that they're just pandering.
Does your box work over there?
I think it does.
Okay.
I steal yours.
Thank you.
Foundational black Japanese.
There you go.
Recreation of a...
A sacred image there.
The passing of the mouse.
It's the second time we've done that.
I know, it always happens, doesn't it?
Thank you.
So yes, it created a multitude of memes.
This is, of course, Tariq Nasheed turned into a samurai.
No, this is just not turned into.
He is a samurai.
I forgot, yeah.
His conversion to a samurai was relatively recent.
And it reminds me of things like this.
Real history.
So this is African Hub, which posts loads of revisionist history.
One of my favourite accounts.
Because there is no notion that this is AI generated.
Obviously, the community understands.
But they're just like, the media will never tell you about this.
And that's because...
Also...
In the office yesterday, we had a genius idea, which is once we're in charge, we're going to set up an enormous fund that will auto-generate this kind of propaganda and disseminate it to black TikTok.
And we just have fun with it and see what happens.
Do you know that the first people on the moon were actually black?
Neil Armstrong.
What else are they keeping from us, Josh?
I know.
The real Neil Armstrong.
It's actually kept secret.
His real name was Neil High Jump.
High Jump?
What?
White men can't jump.
Oh, right.
Why do you think he was able to take those big jumps on the moon, Josh?
That's true, yeah.
Reddit defended this sort of thing, saying, this guy was a samurai.
If you disagree, you can do that somewhere else.
This was the Assassin's Creed moderators posting this.
Of course, the actual historic evidence is that he was a page boy.
Or something like that?
Basically a retainer.
You can find all of the written evidence that we have of his existence on his Wikipedia page.
And it's about five lines from people's diaries.
From what I was able to gather, Oda Nobunaga kept him as a curiosity.
Similar to how Henry VIII had a black trumpeter.
How it's just like, look at me, I've got this interesting far-flung person.
Anti-exotic and cosmopolitan.
Yes, it's been going on that long.
Yep.
But yes, this all seems to originate from this sort of thing, a book by Thomas Lockley, where he writes the true story of the legendary African samurai, which is a fiction book.
Let me just scroll down, because I just want to see.
480 pages!
Out of, again, historical documents, maybe five lines proving his existence, managed to get 480 pages.
Did he mix this up with the anime Afro Samurai and thought he was watching a documentary?
But he actually denied that he was a consultant for Ubisoft, but actually this wasn't true.
And he had helped.
And you can see why.
Not only would they probably pay him, but his book will do a lot better if lots of people are all of a sudden interested in the protagonist.
Yeah, I think he was also caught writing the Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica page.
It was Wikipedia.
He was re-editing the page.
He was re-editing Wikipedia as well.
And he got caught out.
There's a very long...
And he was very clearly doing it.
Just in time for his book to come out, so that if people went, this sounds like absolute rubbish, I'm not going to buy that.
They would look at the Wikipedia page and go, oh, I want to learn more if this is all true.
Buy his book.
But the lie citing his own book that hadn't even been published yet for the sources.
I know, but the lie travelled, companies like IGN that are known for being insufferable and pandering to wokeness said, in Assassin's Creed Shadows, you'll play as two protagonists.
Yasuke, a real historical figure known as the legendary African samurai.
He was real, but he wasn't the legendary African samurai.
That part is not true.
I think what people get mixed up on is Japan knows that there was basically a...
Black guy who was a retainer to...
Existed at some point.
Who existed at some point.
And they have incorporated the idea of a black samurai into a lot of their fiction.
Like in Sekiro, you can come across a black samurai.
There is the anime Afro Samurai.
In games like...
I forget what it's called.
The one that wasn't Sekiro.
You know what I'm on about.
Anyway, the one that was about a Welshman.
An actual...
An actual Brit who did actually end up becoming a samurai in Japan, and he's fighting monsters.
There's black samurai in that.
So they incorporate it into that, and then people go, oh, I guess he really must have been real then.
I guess he must have really been a samurai then.
But there were not black samurai.
That is not true.
I don't know why I said it in a weird voice, but it's still not true.
And yes, there's things like this.
Senior writer for Assassin's Creed Shadows declared, there's more than enough games out there.
With white men as the only playable character, let's do better.
Well, why don't you make him Japanese?
That is a perfectly possible thing.
Are you looking up the name of the...
It's really bugging me now.
Go ahead.
Pretty sure Team Ninja are the ones who made it.
Team Ninja, what games did they make?
Please carry it.
Nioh!
Nioh!
Oh, I was going to say that, but I've never played them, so I didn't get it wrong.
I've heard it's very good.
I need to play it at some point.
Speaking of which, I think Ubisoft might have panicked because there was a paid shill here.
This guy had worked for Sweet Baby Inc., one of the wokest consultancy companies going, and he's also a former Ubisoft...
And he writes Polygon and IGN, which says it all.
He went and spoke to the New York Times saying that actually this was well received in Japan and that criticism in Japanese was translated from English.
He was basically trying to say that it's all made up, which is not true.
He was pulling cover for them.
He was, yeah, which was another one of the scandals.
And then there was this scandal.
Where one of the promotional toys they made for the game is a destroyed Tori Gate, which is only seen at Nagasaki as a war memorial for the atomic bomb being dropped.
So having them climbing over it and making light of it is a bit disrespectful.
And also one of them isn't even Japanese.
That's true.
It'd be a lot worse if it were an American company, but it's French, so they got away a little bit with that one.
Also, some of the...
I think it's...
One of the promotional books, an art book, has Qing Dynasty patterns, which, if you're not an Eastern historian, the Qing Dynasty was a Chinese dynasty, and the female protagonist is meant to be written to be from Iga.
Gotta be careful how you say that.
And they have their own famous style of pottery, so they could have just included that, and they could have built upon the world in an interesting way, but instead they covered their art book with non-Japanese patterns.
It's not just the Black Samurai thing then, so Assassin's Creed, which used to be like, obviously there's sci-fi elements and everything, but we try and make the historical setting as accurate as possible to the point where in the first one they took out the crossbow because it wasn't accurate to the time period in the Middle East at the time.
They just don't care at all anymore.
Also, they have anachronistic things.
Now don't laugh at this, Harry.
They added watermelons to the game, okay?
Now don't laugh.
Because it's not funny, okay.
But watermelons had not reached Japan yet.
So you play a black man killing lots of Japanese people while consuming copious amounts of watermelon.
If they made it Assassin's Creed New York, it would be very believable, wouldn't it?
Are we sure that Ubisoft aren't playing the biggest prank ever on all of us right now?
It's entirely possible.
So...
There's also this fact, that they delayed the game to work on it more, and they delayed it to release today, which is the anniversary of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack.
They can't get anything right!
They literally can't get anything right!
And then whilst all of this controversy was going on, Ubisoft declared that their leading advisors have been hired to look at transformational strategies and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders.
Scramble.
Scramble for cash because this is going to be a disaster.
Yes.
Also, they're obviously going to integrate horrendous monetization into it because that's what they always do.
I'm sorry, but Ubisoft just make empty games that are lifeless but look good.
To someone who doesn't play video games very much.
The actual gameplay is for someone who's never played video games or is close to being a vegetable.
I think the last Ubisoft game that I played that I really enjoyed was Far Cry 3. And that was the game that really set the template for all of the open worlds going forward with the towers.
At the time, the game was good.
It was novel at the time, and yet it is of a much higher quality than a lot of the games that came out afterwards.
Although I heard some people say Far Cry 5 was alright.
I tried to play Assassin's Creed Black Flag, but there was just so much...
Boring stuff before you even get to the ships.
Pirate ship stuff was a lot of fun, but the game was easy.
I remember one of my housemates reminiscing about a moment when I'd just got Assassin's Creed Black Flag, and I drank a bottle of rum, and I was sat there taking on...
A full bottle in one swig.
Good man, living a life.
Not in one swig.
I was trying to immerse myself, and even though I drank a full bottle of rum, I was taking on an entire pirate ship.
A pretty big ship with about 30 crew members with my bare hands and not taking any hits because the combat is just that easy.
Yeah, they've always been pretty easy combat.
It's not saying I'm good.
I'm saying it's too easy, by the way, just to be clear.
I know there'll be people like, I don't believe you.
He's still not finished Elden Ring.
That's true.
I've got 350 hours on it and everything.
I don't know how you managed that.
What have you been doing?
Making lots and lots of new characters.
Oh, okay.
Okay, that makes sense, yeah.
Not that I'm bad at the game, it's just that I'm taking my time and enjoying it.
Ah, okay, alright.
He's trying out his play styles until he gets just the right one.
I pre-ordered Dark Souls 1 and have played every game on release since, so I am not some sort of noob to FromSoftware's games.
No, he's just a scrub.
This is needless.
But yes, they released a big long thing saying we're not actually about...
Historical accuracy.
We just want to make a fun game that makes people interested in the time period.
And what actually happened is the Japanese language version got community noted and it linked to all of the examples of them trying to claim that they're creating a historically accurate game.
Basically saying, you're lying.
You're trying to cover for yourself.
Which is true.
Let's have a look at some of the comparisons.
Here's the first game in 2007.
Here's the 2025 version.
I'm not going to linger on this too long because this is a lesbian romance scene and this is not appropriate.
But yes, you can see that things in terms of the cutscenes, the actual facial animations and things like that, haven't got that much better.
The thing is...
I would say, in the comparison there, the first game, all the way back from 18 years ago now, looked better.
I remember being shocked when the first game came out, how good it looked.
I remember wanting to save up money to be able to get a console to be able to run Assassin's Creed, and being kind of distraught, just like, I'd love to play that game.
Yeah, I still read the video game magazines back then, because I was 10, 11 years old.
And so I saw this game and I was like, oh my god, that looks awesome.
I get to murder people as an assassin in the Middle East back in history.
That's awesome.
Exactly so.
And now you can romance supposedly non-binary people?
I don't know.
But there's weird romances that are added into all modern games for some reason and I'm kind of sick of it.
I just don't care.
I don't play video games to mitigate my failing love life, alright?
This is that dragon...
what was it?
Dragon's Age Inquisition, not Inquisition, Veil Guard, the most recent one.
We'll mention them soon.
Oh, where she sits down.
By the way, I'm non-binary, and everyone's just like, what the hell?
You don't start a conversation like that.
This is fantasy.
Why are you bringing this up?
When I first met you, Harry, I said, hello, Harry, I'm straight.
As I did as well, just to make sure that we weren't both gay, because otherwise wires might get crossed.
And a little bit more than just wires as well.
It's important to establish your sexuality immediately upon meeting people.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's how normal people talk, right?
And yes, Pink News loved the idea that, oh, the protagonists can be alphabet people.
Hooray!
They didn't need to hint it's in the game.
This is the same thing that they were celebrating with Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, where it's like, hooray!
You can now be gay with the guy who was your best friend in the first game.
Is this a good thing?
It was a bit needless.
Was this an improvement in some way?
Why did it happen?
Supposedly, from people whose opinions I trust, the new Kingdom Come Deliverance game is really good up until towards the end where there's a little bit of woke stuff inserted.
Which is a shame, because I really like the first one.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of discussion of that as well, but I'm currently partway through a four-hour review of it, which is going to give...
Why are you doing that to yourself?
Because it's better to listen to something like that while walking sometimes.
Fair enough, I can't question it.
It's better than those WWE audiobooks you listen to.
And yeah, just to put the final nail in the coffin, here is their diversity, inclusion and accessibility.
It's not even DEI.
But what I found the most interesting about this is if you scroll all the way down, our employee resource group...
Bo works for them?
Bo!
I knew it!
There's a reason he's not in today.
He's actually the black employees at Ubisoft.
All of them, simultaneously.
Bo has just been a series of midgets stacked on top of one another.
Tiny black midgets on top of one another.
He didn't tell us.
That's what he's been hiding in his beard.
I knew it.
They've got an Asian and Pacific Islander group.
They've got a Latin American and Hispanic.
No, not Ubisoft,
not anymore.
So it got to the point where the Japanese Parliament actually discussed this, and to be accurate about what was discussed, they looked at some of the early gameplay footage and raised concerns, particularly about the shrines.
One of them was destroyed in the game, and then a shrine from the guy who was talking, his home district, appeared without permission to use its name.
Because they have to ask for permission.
And also, in response, the Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry stated that unauthorised use of real-world locations is unacceptable.
And he got to the point where the Prime Minister himself responded, saying graffiti on shrines is absolutely unacceptable because they'd seen some vandalism on some shrines and tourists had been climbing them, which is incredibly disrespectful, by the way.
Don't do that.
They're saying they're not going to remain silent on such issues, and people have to show respect for local cultures, and that should be common sense.
Which I agree with.
Yeah, that's perfectly fine.
And they're right to be annoyed about this.
And I do wonder whether them taking action to prevent these sorts of things is going to target this game.
Are they going to potentially...
I don't know.
Ban the game in Japan somehow?
Or find Ubisoft?
I don't know what the options are available to them.
The country of Japan declares war on Ubisoft.
They invade France.
It'd be a different place than they normally try to invade, so it might be a bit of variety, you know?
We can join in, why not?
Settle old scores.
Exactly.
Two island nations joining together to bully France.
Beautiful.
It's nothing...
Better to bring nations together, is there?
And I will give them credit.
The game does look very good graphically, and that's always been one of the Assassin's Creed game's strong suits.
So I'm not going to be entirely unreasonable.
The game does look beautiful.
I definitely can't deny it.
It's a shame, really, because if the gameplay and the writing and everything else was good, I would have played it.
I'm not a graphics kuma, so I don't care.
It helps.
I think it helps.
I still miss the days of the old, really hyper-stylized PS2 graphics on things, where it was limited enough that you had to have a really distinctive art style.
That's true.
It did encourage a bit of innovation, and I think sometimes people are a little bit lazy these days, which is true.
I found this review, because I'm going to go through some of the reviews, because of course the media lapped it up.
So they gave it 100 or 10 out of 10, whatever.
There are problems with Assassin's Creed Shadows for sure, but it's perfect.
It gets a perfect score.
That's how it opens.
That's not how numerical scoring should work.
If something's perfect, it doesn't have problems.
IGN gave it 8 out of 10. And then they also gave Dragon Age of the Veil Guard 9 out of 10. But IGN knows this game.
They know how to play the game.
They had a trans person to cover Dragon Age Veil Guard because there's lots of gender ideology in there.
And then for Assassin's Creed Shadows, they had a black guy review it.
So they know how to avoid controversy.
Remember, IGN, a games company that in 2007 gave God Hand one of the best beat-em-up games ever made, a 3 out of 10. Because they couldn't understand how to play it properly.
Yeah, they're not really worth listening to most of the time.
Go to IGN expecting anything other than the most surface level observations.
You're not going to get a breakdown of game mechanics.
You're not going to get a proper breakdown of the narrative and whether it's of any high quality.
They're just going to go, wow, this looks expensive and didn't break the second I switched it on.
Therefore, 9 out of 10. Have a political agenda to push.
I think the best people are the independent YouTubers out there that actually speak their mind.
There are quite a few of them that have got a lot of backlash for just saying, I don't like this game.
I know lots of you like it, but I personally don't.
So it shows integrity, and they're not pandering in the same way that a lot of the big companies are.
But there are lots of other companies that gave lots of good reviews.
You can just see here, they're all very positive.
It's almost like they've recognised the political...
I don't know.
Landscape.
Not so much the landscape, but the...
Context?
The political character that the game has now taken on.
And it's basically like, you either defend this game, or the left loses.
And so they want the left to win, so they've defended it.
It would look coordinated if it weren't obvious that these are all just people who are all part of the same agenda anyway.
Yeah, as far as I can see, they've not fixed any of the fundamental mechanics of the game being easy and boring.
The gameplay itself will be boring.
The world will be empty.
You'll press X to interact and there'll be an animation and then that'll be it.
These are benefits for gaming journalists, though.
They tend to be very, very unskilled at the games that they're playing.
They don't have as much time to invest in them.
They are looking for something that they can breeze through the main story in a few hours, do one or two side quests, and they will make their entire impressions from that alone.
They love a game that's on rails because it makes their job easier.
Remember IGN?
Remember IGN failing the Cuphead tutorial?
Because he couldn't figure out how to jump and dash at the same time?
Genius.
Gaming masterminds.
So, I have two suggestions for you if you wanted to buy this game and are now disappointed that it's very woke.
There are already games that are out now and cheaper.
Sekiro.
Obviously one of our favourites, Harry.
Amazing game.
Fantastic game.
If you like the more fantasy, jumping around, From Software, Dark Souls-y.
Fire, fire at people.
If you want to go more sort of ahistoric, but have a lot of fun, have a difficult game with rewarding and interesting mechanics, here's your one.
And if you prefer something that's closer to a more historic perspective, also a very beautiful game, Ghost of Tsushima.
I've played it a little bit.
I initially found it very frustrating because it goes against my Dark Souls programming.
Is it more like along the lines of Assassin's Creed?
It is very much more like Assassin's Creed than Sekiro.
And so if you like those games, you'll probably like this, but it will be better.
Yeah, and you can also check out something like Nioh, like I mentioned earlier, which I do need to play, but I've been told is excellent.
So there you go.
I've given you the reasons not to buy the game.
I've given you some alternatives.
Hopefully that's a complete picture as to why you shouldn't buy it.
I have followed this since its inception and scoured the internet for every scandal I could find.
And yes, voting with your wallet is far more effective than voting at the ballot box.
And so you can punish these companies.
Ubisoft's not doing very well.
The past five years, stock right down.
You could kill Ubisoft if you don't buy this game.
And if that's not a good enough reason, I don't know what is.
There you go.
Got quite a few rumble rants on that one.
Blimey!
Okay.
Oh, blimey!
Crikey, mate.
Oh, wrong thing.
Can't use a mouse.
My laptop...
Can't talk, can't read, can't use a mouse.
I am just a walking, talking packet of problems, me.
I don't know what that means.
I've never heard anyone say that before.
I made it up, that's why.
Ray Earth says, Hey, long time silent watcher.
I once looked up how many people in America are a part of the British diaspora.
Turns out 33%, which is the largest of any group in America.
It's almost like we settled the continent or something.
Yeah, it's strange that, isn't it?
And it's sad to me because, again, I got very hostile reactions from Americans for pointing this out.
And it's like, mate, we share the same ancestors.
Go back far enough and we're probably descended from the same people.
It's like you're trying to shake hands with them and they're slapping it away.
Yeah.
No.
I know some people think I don't like America.
I really like America.
I like Americans and I don't want them to be just so touchy about when you point out they're English.
If I could live anywhere else, I'd live in the United States.
One of the more English areas of it, absolutely.
Jotun, for $10, thank you.
Here you are, gents.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much.
The rats are going to be kept away for one more night.
That's a random name, too.
Oh, the second random name.
Here in Montreal, Ubisoft is practically worshipped, with even our radio hosts running cover for Ass Creed Shadows.
Also, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is incredibly subversive.
Harry, a man of culture watching Synthetic Man.
Yes, that is correct.
I said four-hour review, and you immediately picked up who's the only person who's done a four-hour review of it.
So, thank you.
From yesterday's culture section, DXTN64 says, How dare you say that that marble foot has more culture than the whole of South America?
My copy of Islander is arriving to Peru, says otherwise.
I wasn't really thinking about South America, the continent, to be honest.
I quite like South American architecture in particular.
And also, I really want to go to Peru, so I am sorry.
It is a very interesting continent.
I was being facetious.
I was being rude.
But I didn't actually mean it.
That's a random name too.
Also, while on the topic of vidget games, would either of you be interested in ever reviewing games?
I'm hoping to have my game ready for early release sometime this summer.
I mean, we've never really reviewed a game, have we?
I mean, we did Skyrim.
That's true, but it was more of a lads-hour-y thing, wasn't it?
Yeah, we've done analysis of games and reported news on it before.
I don't know if reviewing games, like a first-day review, would be what people are looking for from the platform.
But I did complete Silent Hill 2 in December, and I am still planning on making a video on it.
Finally!
How many years has it been?
Almost three.
I just need to actually, because I want you to do the video with me, and you refuse to play it, and you say, I'm just going to watch a playthrough.
You didn't tell me you were done.
I did tell you I was done.
I told you in December, and you're like, I'll just watch a playthrough.
I'm like, no, you need to play the game to experience it.
You're like, I'll be fine, because you're lazy.
Yeah, but that's like a lot of hours of my time outside of work.
You can complete the game in six hours.
It's a really short game.
But I don't like being scared, Harry.
I knew it.
I knew that that's what it was.
He's a scary cat.
I've played horror games before.
Connor Smug Mug.
Ten minutes of them.
Switch them off.
They get too scary.
Connor Smug Mug says, but remember IGN never told AAA gets automatic seven and above.
Okay.
That's right.
I can't read.
There's a lot of glare on the screen here at the minute.
We've got some new lights and I can't read.
That's what I'm blaming, anyway.
Unlike those indie pleb games, that's true.
They probably want to stay cosy, don't they?
Do you remember back in the day when it was GamesRadar, one of their reviewers gave Canaan Lynch, the first one, a 6 out of 10, and he got fired for it?
What?
Because they'd had an advertising agreement with the company.
Oh, that's so scummy, isn't it?
Yeah.
You can't trust these people.
People saying that if Assassin's Creed Shadow isn't financially successful, it might make Ubisoft go bankrupt.
One can only hope.
Also, apparently, Yakube, I don't think that's his name, acts Nobunaga because Japan is only big enough for one...
I can't say that.
You can infer it.
I think by Ack, he means the Ack meme.
Rick Ollie says, watching Simps 4-hour compilation...
I can't read today, I'm so sorry.
I'll read it.
Rick Ollie says...
I need to waterboard myself.
says watching since for our complain keynote to it shows kingdom come deliverance to has more issues than just politics also Vavra lied and was just a
Yeah, that's the thing that's been very disappointing for me, is that how much Lavra has basically tried to gaslight his own fans.
And, uh, I know he's not up everybody's, uh, not everybody's...
Cup of tea, but I really like Synthetic Man's videos, and I think he's got some very interesting takes on things, and he's certainly willing to be negative about games where other people will just glaze the hell out of them.
Like, he was very negative to God of War Ragnarok, and presented a perspective I didn't see anywhere else that got him in trouble with some of the other anti-woke YouTubers, who were like, no, bro, it's just amazing, don't worry about it, even though it was...
Woke as all hell and presented black vikings and such.
Oh, blimey.
Yeah, but apparently that's fine.
Apparently that's fine, because who are you to say what the demographic makeup of the middle-aged vikings were?
I just know about genetics, not me.
Ah, no, I know, right?
Anyway, so last segment, and it's Right Slop.
You're going to really enjoy this one.
Just to warn you, anybody who watches this show for news, that is not what you are going to be getting right now.
You are going to be getting a teenage girl pylon of an F-boy.
Excuse me?
I'm too old to know what those words mean.
What an F-boy is.
Oh, right.
I thought you were one at one point, surely.
A what?
Anyway, before we get into that, buy Islander.
You know the deal by now.
It's very, very limited.
So actually buy it this time.
Buy it this time, and maybe I won't come for you.
Anyway, so everybody remembers...
Wait, who just messed with the mouse?
I didn't touch it.
There we go.
There we go.
So everybody remembers this lineup of chaps, right?
The TikTok Democrat influencers who are trying to convince everybody Kamala Harris wasn't a horrible, horrible candidate for the United States of America and trying to prove to people as well, look, we're young white kids, except for this guy.
We're young white kids.
You can vote for Kamala Harris too because we care about women's issues.
We care about women's rights.
Look into the face of this man.
He's not doing it just to get laid.
Neither is he.
They're true believers.
Because they're probably gay.
Oh, right.
Because they're probably gay.
Everybody remembers that Robert J. O 'Neill, who helped take out Osama bin Laden, said to these people that he was going to make them his concubines.
Very interesting approach to take.
That is...
I think this is up there.
It's one of the most hilarious posts on this platform I've ever seen.
I don't know what concubine meant.
I don't think he did.
But he leant into it, thankfully, so he had a bit of fun with it.
But, of course, now that this one in particular, Harry Sisson, has escaped captivity in Robert O 'Neill's basement...
And found himself starved of female attention.
He decided to speak to a load of women on TikTok, not TikTok, on Snapchat, who got in touch with him through TikTok and decided that he was going to become a little bit of a player.
Now, what's the one thing that we know that leftist men are not allowed to do?
Be straight.
Yes.
I knew it.
First try.
Yes.
They're not allowed to be straight because he's been promoting this whole idea that I'm an ally, I love women, I love women's rights, I'll stand up for women's rights no matter what.
And it turns out that he was leading on about 11 different women at the same time on his Snapchat and...
And convince them that we're exclusive, or at least, I don't have anybody else.
Don't worry about it, bro.
Anyway, send tits.
And they did.
And they did.
And then they found out about it, and now they're very, very upset about it.
So there's a couple of things to say about this.
First of all, very slimy from Sisson.
We didn't think he had it in him.
Literally, there is a...
It's always sunny episode where Dennis is pretending to be woke so that he can get laid with college girls.
That's literally what's going on.
He Dennis'd them.
He Dennis'd them.
I didn't think he had it in him either.
I also find it interesting that the women themselves only got upset about it when they found out about the others.
So up until that point...
And that's not that surprising, is it?
What do you mean?
It's not surprising that they thought that they, oh, I'm his only girl.
He only has eyes for me, and then he has eyes for, like, ten other women at the same time.
So it's not that surprising.
Carry on.
Carry on.
They only made it a big problem when they found out there were other women.
So they were okay with it up until that point, and then it became a problem.
Now, obviously, I think the main problem is him doing this in the film.
It is slimy.
He's like a, what, 22-year-old boy?
So this is not, sadly, unusual behaviour for a young man.
I have known my own friends to do things like this, which is, I've always been like, more than anything, I've gone...
11 women at the same time just sounds like so much work.
One is too many.
It's far too many.
You can tell we're in our late 20s.
Yeah, I'm just sick of it by now.
Bring on 30. Having to juggle that many women at the same time just sounds like a pain in the arse.
But, you know, the energy that comes with youth, right?
But, yeah, it is very slimy of him to lie to them.
But it's important to point out no crimes have been committed.
He's not actually had...
Sex with any of these women, he's not coerced these women into having sex with him, and it's not like he is a Harvey Weinstein type figure, right?
Despite this, they're all describing themselves as victims and saying about how traumatic the experience is for him, which just makes it seem like this is basically teenage high school drama.
Of course it is.
The one kid at high school turns out all the girls he was talking to on the side found out about each other at the same time.
And just in time for prom as well!
You know, it seems like a stupid sitcom scenario that you see.
But, you're not victims.
You all messaged him first.
You got led on by him.
And a lot of them were already TikTokers.
A lot of them would not have messaged him if he didn't have a big platform.
You know what you're getting into with a guy like this.
There's a reason that right-wingers have been warning women about the male feminist for so long.
It's because this is what they do.
And this is nowhere near the worst thing I've ever heard a male feminist do.
We'll get onto that in a few minutes.
But also, look at how we...
Look at how he led them on.
Look at the chat-up lines here.
I'd F you raw after wine tasting.
But that's just me.
That's almost too middle class for me.
Niagara Falls.
After that one.
After wine tasting.
Apparently.
And these girls are going on saying, like, oh, I'm such a victim.
Oh, I'm such a victim.
I can't believe I was taking advantage of this guy.
They all look very similar.
He has a type.
He does have a type.
They really do.
But it's led to some pretty amazing screencaps here of him in the shower.
I think that's a great...
I didn't need to see that.
God damn it.
Well, I certainly desire you.
My favourite ones are ones like this.
This is how you chat up liberal Gen Z women, apparently.
LMAO, see?
Your opinion's the only one that mattered.
I'm gonna save this and start sending it to my friends at random intervals.
Can you just repost this in response to my tweets?
Give me, like, hype.
Be like a hype man.
I'll be your hype man, bro.
Don't worry, we've got the Sisson hype man coming up right now.
This is my favourite one.
So if you're just listening right now...
This one made me just unironically laugh.
Not even laugh at him.
I'm just like, fair enough.
That's so good.
But it's just so funny.
If you're just listening right, it's him with a big smug smile on his face with a text in the middle of the Snapchat saying, God, that ass is fat.
So please feel free to look at your phones right now, screenshot this, and send it to a loved one.
Because that's going to get some good responses from them.
So typically it seems that these girls are saying that they're fighting for accountability.
Oh, it's so terrible.
Look, we all found out at the same time.
How can we make him pay for this?
We weren't able to get...
Internet TikTok fame through sending him nudes, so now we all have to gang up and we'll get internet famous through this instead, okay?
They claim that that's not what they're doing.
I'm sure that some of them are being sincere with it.
But, I mean, again, this is all like girly high school drama that's going on.
So apparently after about six months of commitment, he would just be like, six months of behavior, he'd be like, "Ah, I'm not feeling it.
I don't want to commit anymore."
You know, typical kind of behavior.
But really, really, he's just flirting with a bunch of girls.
He's not doing it in the most constructive or socially responsible way.
Or honest way.
I wouldn't be approving of my friends behaving like this, but it's not, like, cancel-worthy behaviour outside of the fact that he's always such a male feminist.
The only serious accusation of something that really does seem scummy...
Is that supposedly, according to this girl who he's been friends with, well, who had been friends with him for years, she is saying that he had a discord that was set up where weird stuff was discussed and he had a guy called Camille in it who was coaching and potentially grooming a 14-year-old boy.
And Sisson apparently stuck up for this Camille guy and said that he was going to report the issue to the FBI and then immediately asked her for nudes straight after.
Guy's got a one-track mind.
Very, very strange.
But the thing is, if you watch the video, she explains all of this, and she says she has receipts, and she keeps flashing up these sheets of paper.
I thought you were going to say something else, then.
No, she keeps flashing up these sheets of paper with screenshots of text message exchanges, which are reversed, so you can't actually read them, because she didn't get the image right.
And then you can look here.
And see the receipts, okay?
Blimey, those are...
Yeah, difficult.
Difficult to actually...
I'm gonna call back in a second.
May have alcohol liaising.
Yeah, call me back ASAP in my non-medical opinion.
I don't think this is based on your speech or responsiveness.
You're concerning me.
I'm okay, blah, blah, blah.
Harry, are you back inside of your apartment?
And it doesn't seem to actually prove anything.
No, I mean...
That Harry in the contacts could be a very different Harry.
I mean, a Harry that could be in this room right now.
That's throwing cover.
Blaming another Harry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We Harry's, we've got an agreement, alright?
But, again, like, look at these.
Do they know?
Why is Harry not answering me?
I'm losing a business partner employee.
Okay, none of this seems to actually confirm that there is grooming going on, as far as I can tell.
And none of it is necessarily evidence of just, oh, here's a few messages.
Okay, so, I mean, that could be true.
It could be true.
It might not, obviously.
Either way, the guy is a scumbag.
Realistically speaking, he is the sneaky effer, as Gadsad would say.
He is the guy saying, I'm an ally.
I'm such a good guy.
Anyway, send nudes, bro.
It's so inclusive.
I'd say body positive.
The most surprising thing for people on the right was, of course, oops, don't know how I managed that, was that he's straight.
This was Patrick Casey's response.
What?
Harry Sisson is straight?
Oh my god.
Some people say, I can't believe he's straight.
Here's how he rizzes up girls in the gayest way imaginable.
Scott Greer said, your strategy, you, beta, watching this right now, five days a week in the gym, daily looks-maxing rituals, read red pill content on how to improve your game, and try your hardest to be alpha, Harry Sisson's successful strategy with dozens of libtard eagles.
The verdict is, you look sexy as F. Court adjourned.
It's really just that easy.
It's really just that easy.
Even if I were 12 years old, that would be cringe.
Apparently it works on somebody.
But it works!
It worked well enough that she saved it.
She was like, that's the nicest compliment anyone's ever given me.
I guess if I looked like him, these would have worked more, apparently.
Apparently so.
If you looked like a complete twink...
Why, thank you.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Instead, you're just haggard.
That's true.
Some people, like Aidan, friend of the show, who's been a guest on it once or twice in the past, is speculating that this might actually not prove that he's straight.
And she wrote a dissertation on this.
What?
Basically, she wrote an essay on this.
So to summarize it, she says, over time...
He became upset with people making fun of him for being effeminate and gay, so he decided to try and pull this off as proof that he's not gay, and it just backfired.
I mean, there's also another possible angle to this, that by people constantly calling him gay, he is overcompensated massively.
Or, or, this is DNC agitprop.
That is possible.
To get the right to respect him.
But I want to take a look at his own response to this, which is that there really hasn't been a response to this that he's posted on his Twitter account.
Here's his pinned tweet, which is still up.
America failed women tonight.
Harry Sisson has not failed women, apparently.
In fact, he's been doing great work with women for years.
He's got the numbers.
And then his most recent, when I was looking this morning, was just this.
Oh, feeling good today.
Let's continue to fight for democracy and stay focused on stopping Trump.
He's still on that DNC grind set.
It's quite sigma.
You can't stop this, man.
He has dealt with it the proper way of just, yeah, just ignore it.
Carry on.
Life goes on.
It's nothing.
He was hitting on a load of girls at the same time.
I mean, yeah, that's dishonest.
It's scummy.
It's nowhere near the scummiest thing that anybody's ever done.
Especially in politics.
Call me in 20 years when he has an actual sex scandal where he's like...
No, don't call me.
Yeah, then there might be a story here.
You want to see something that's actually terrible?
I just wanted to remind everybody of this.
Again.
Again.
I needed to just pop it up again, because that is my favourite image to come from this whole thing.
It's amazing.
So something that's actually terrible, that actually does seem to be a crime, that is going to be litigated soon, which is destiny.
That's putting it lightly.
Scumbag.
Actual awful person.
Not that I'm a big fan of Harry Sisson at all.
I'm not a fan of him.
Not a fan of anybody in this story, actually.
All of these people are awful.
But still, Destiny has had a number of allegations.
Starting earlier on this year, that he had been, as we all know, he was in that open relationship with his ex-wife.
He's known for...
Fishing for a green card.
Yeah, he's known to have slept about a lot with girls who were basically trying to sleep with him to see if they could get a hold of his audience.
Well, it's not for his body or his physique or intelligence.
Or his personality.
Or his personality.
It's for his audience.
And women have actually been screenshot on Discord talking about this, saying that that's the exact reason that they did sleep with him.
I remember seeing a picture of Destiny at the beach.
Now, I didn't look this up.
It came up on Twitter.
It does get popped up every now and again, yeah.
And it actually led me to Google whether he had any sort of heritable diseases or something.
Because I was just like...
It looks emaciated.
It's a very strange body type.
It's like the body type of if you'd been locked in a basement.
Change to a desk on a computer.
That is the sort of peak body type you would get.
Well, it makes sense given his streaming career.
It also looks like you've taken a normal-sized baby and blown it up to maybe 5 '3", however tall he is.
It's very, very strange.
Very narrow shoulders, skinny arms, disgusting abdomen.
Anyway, so turns out that the allegations that have been coming out are that he, a number of times, Filmed himself having sex with these women without telling them, and then had been sharing them about with other people on Discord, who have then gone on to share these videos on pornography websites.
So the first thing on its own is awful.
The second thing on top of that just makes it...
I don't know if there's words strong enough to condemn this, really.
It's like one of the most malevolent...
And horrible things you can ever do to a woman.
And he's now claiming that he is the victim of this.
So, I'll just go through some of these details very quickly.
So, one...
About 25-year-old woman who goes by Pixie Love Online has sued Destiny the other week for $2.15 million, claiming that he leaked videos of himself having sex with her when she was about 21 that ended up being viewed on porn sites over 70,000
times, which has left her suicidal.
Another, whose online name is Cheery, the woman we saw in the tweet before, says she's filed a police report against him for sharing an intimate audio recording of her taken without her consent.
So he's apparently just recording But she has shared post online about the complaint identifying herself as the plaintiff.
She claims that Bonnell met her, Bonnell being his real name, online in 2018 when she was 19 and that she had sexual relations with him two years later in September 2020.
She alleges he made a sex tape then sent it to another 19 year old called Rose who he met on the platform Discord and then she just started sharing it.
His response to this has been...
Well, listen.
Listen.
I didn't want these videos ending up on porn sites either.
So I'm equally the victim as you are.
But by sending them to people...
You've already published them online, in the lore's eyes.
You've already done it.
You're inviting it.
So, obviously, Harry Sisson, what he's done, not good, pretty dishonest.
This is actually something worth losing your career over, as far as I'm concerned.
Not that I'm a Sisson fan, he's a DNC shill.
Couldn't wish the worst for him.
I do wish the worst for him, actually.
I was very confused.
That's very...
You have infected me with your inability to speak English, you Scottish swine.
Well, the problem is that I eat a lot of pasta, and I've realised that when I eat a lot of pasta, it makes me illiterate.
I don't know why.
It just seems to happen.
It's the carbs, maybe.
I don't know.
That's a hell of an excuse, but I accept it.
Thank you.
Anyway, so, Destiny, I'm very interested to see what comes of these lawsuits, because it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Anyway, on to the last Rumble rant.
That's a random name again.
Niagara Falls is a really apt comparison.
If you've ever been there, you'll know how much it reeks of fear.
Also, the two in my name is because Rumble keeps censoring my main account's comments about Islam.
Oh, okay.
That's weird.
Yeah, that's very strange.
Matt G. Hammond, does anyone think Harry Sisson is actually straight?
Listen, I know that he's a twink, but all young men like that in DNC operatives are going to be twinks, okay?
So I do genuinely believe that he is probably just an F-boy who got caught.
It wouldn't shock me.
You see them all the time in this country.
The F-boy is that...
Four-letter word?
Yes.
Okay, I thought it was.
Yeah, one that Carl wouldn't want me saying on the podcast.
Of course.
No, no.
Swearing is bad.
We've all encountered them.
DXTN64.
Oh, please come to Peru.
When speed came over, they made a major of the capital for one day.
Total clown show socially, but beautiful country nonetheless.
And the Habsification says, this is the opposite of Nick Fuentes trying to be straight, while Harry Sisson, known Democrat Paige Schill, is a straight lefty F-boy, but he comes across very gay.
Yeah, sounds about right.
That is about right.
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California refugee has disproved the Big Bang.
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Answer that, science man.
I don't have all the answers.
I'm a psychologist.
I can tell you how it makes me feel.
I thought you didn't.
Rory's vindicated.
It makes me feel confused.
That's my professional opinion.
Me too.
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I was able to finally attain Islander issue 3 and it made it to Louisiana.
It is breathtaking and very well written.
Thank you.
Been growing with Carl since before Lotus Eaters.
Love all the growth and all you can learn now with Lotus Eaters.
I even use it with my homeschooling.
Thank you all for your hard work.
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Would you like me to read the rest of them?
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I was just going to say that it's always very heartwarming that people feel like our content is good enough on certain subjects to educate their children.
I feel like a tremendous amount of responsibility is now on my shoulders.
I suppose that's only going to work in my favour to make better stuff.
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TMK, out of context, says a rare combination of hosts, but some might say tremendous.
The best combination.
I agree with that.
Although I'd say we're not that rare a combination of hosts.
We've had quite a few Thursdays recently where it just does two.
Yeah, I think next Thursday we're doing the same thing again.
Yeah, exactly.
It's a good thing.
It's a good combination.
The Monkey, Josh and Harry are the new dream team of the Lotus Eaters.
There you go.
I'm Spartacus, loving the new lighting on you both, or is it new cameras as well?
Just new lighting.
Yeah, just the new lighting.
They've done a great job with it, although if you were in the room with us right now, you'd be a little bit worried about your head.
There's a lot of zip ties involved, let's just say that.
Hello, Lotus Eaters out of context.
Oh, that sounds terrible out of context, doesn't it?
Biggie Bigfoot says, "Shadows just feels gross to me, considering how prevalent black-on-Asian violence is.
They would never even consider making a game where a white protagonist slaughters countless black lives."
That's true.
Yep, pretty much.
Assassin's Creed Zulu.
I'd play that.
Yeah, I can understand Candace Owens likes to court controversy, and then, obviously, she had her Jew arc, and then she also had some kind of arc to do with, like...
Secret French Freemasons or something, where she's like, actually, it wasn't the Jews, it was the French Freemasons controlling the Jews behind their backs.
Something like that.
I remember seeing people post about it, she can be very schizo.
Brett Cooper I'm not particularly familiar with, but again, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a big clash of egos that goes on in a business like the Daily Wire, because there are a lot of egos behind the scenes.
Especially Jeremy Boring being a very unique CEO.
Also, good morning.
Yeah, good morning to you too.
A somewhere person, I find the Daily Wire largely irrelevant these days.
A lot of their offerings are effectively left-wing pettiness, but on the right and the public attitude for this, appetite for that is low to non-existent these days compared to just make something good.
Whenever it's the modern badly animated TV shows copying the woke shows, oh, don't remind me of those, don't remind me of those.
Oh dear, yes.
The Razor brand to dunk on Harry's Razors.
I think you meant Gillette's razors.
Or the chocolate bars because Hershey's went woke.
I'm surprised they didn't try and get into beer after Bud Light.
There were already a load of different companies doing that.
I think Hulk Hogan made a, like, true American beer, brother.
There's no shortage of beer.
It's not like Bud Light's the only beer and you've got to come out with another...
Kind.
There are lots.
Also, you don't have to, this is the secret, you don't have to drink light beer at all.
That's true.
Good beer.
Instead, a hearty ale, perhaps.
If you have a room temperature ale, I know that might, um...
Be very offensive to the other side of the Atlantic, but it's very nice, actually.
They can be quite nice, yeah.
Sophie Liv, I will say I did admire Daily Wire's wish to make movies and show how it can be done right.
The issue is they didn't do it right.
Their movies just weren't that good.
If you're going to do this, you have to make sure the movies are really good and you have skilled and efficient people working on it.
Yeah, I think the problem is with the clips that I saw, especially of that terrible, terrible cartoon show that they did, was that...
You need to, first and foremost, before any political agitprop or ideology that you want to put in there, make sure it's good.
Make sure you've got a good script to work with, and if you're just trying to set your mind on making something good, inevitably your own views will become part of it because, well, you can't separate your views from yourself and when you're writing.
So if you write it well, people will like it, they will appreciate it, and you'll get all of that in it anyway.
If you're going, first and foremost, I want to push a message with this, I hate to sound like...
Constantine Kissin' right now, but that is the same thing the woke people do.
There can be parallels, Harry.
Yeah, that is the same thing the wokes do, just from a right-wing perspective, and it just ultimately leads to bad culture.
I did a two-part contemplation talking about that.
I just wasn't lame and annoying like Kissin' was.
Constantine Kissin' is like, woke right is people who are to the right of me, whereas I'm like, woke right is Daily Wire making terrible television programs.
That's what James Limsey doesn't know.
It's actually the Daily Wire this whole time.
Do you want to read some of yours?
Go on then.
So Lord Nerovar says, it's genuinely hilarious how many F-ups UBSlop have made with Shadows.
Yasuke is the obvious biggest blunder, but they seem to have done everything in their power to insult Japan and Japanese culture, degrade the audience and put themselves in the S financially.
We can only hope that the sales numbers will reflect the quality of the experience.
Now, I don't actually think that it's going to do bad commercially.
That's my unfortunate black pill of the day.
I think it's going to do relatively well.
Because people will lap it up because it's Assassin's Creed and it's got name recognition and some normie on the street is going to be like, why is there a black guy on the cover?
But they'll still buy it.
And they'll still play it and they'll still think it's good because they won't question it.
That's crazy, bro.
Watched the game last night?
NPCs, yeah.
Sophie Liv says, putting all this cultural stuff aside and just looking at the gameplay that's now been released, the game actually has some of the worst voice acting I've ever heard.
It's horrific and you should look it up.
The colours are bright and saturated, giving it that cartoonish Disney-fied look that also happened to Dragon Age Veilguard, making it impossible to take it seriously.
It doesn't even look like an Assassin's Creed game.
Yasuke plays like he's a tank.
That isn't how you're supposed to play Assassin's Creed.
That's God of War territory, and if you want to do a God of War rip-off, that's fine, but don't call it Assassin's Creed.
So even without the huge cultural backlash, it just looks like a really bad game, and you can tell that no one who worked on the classic Assassin's Creed games works at Ubisoft anymore.
That is true.
And yeah, there are lots of good alternatives out there.
You don't have to play any Hollow, Ubi-slop game.
If you want a good game, you mentioned them there.
Don't play the newer God of War games, because yeah, you're right, they ruined it by turning Kratos onto a tank.
In the original three games, he's smooth as butter.
It was much more Devil May Cry back in those games as well.
It's a shame that they had to go with, let's have it over the shoulder, one continuous shot, just like a really badly made film where you go over budget and nothing makes sense.
Not that I didn't like the first...
Well, God of War 4, but I much prefer the original three.
They're fantastic games.
That God of War reminded me a bit of the Uncharted games, like the over-the-shoulder camera.
It wanted to be The Last of Us.
Yeah, it had that sort of vibe about it, and I don't think it really suited it.
It was a fun game, but I never completed it.
I agree with that one video on YouTube that said, God of War was always deep, you fools.
There's always a really good story and people really don't appreciate that.
That's true.
TheBonsalBomber says, is anyone else loving playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 or is it just me?
I've heard a few of my friends talk about how it's good, so I think you would have to see the extent of the wokeness in the game and make your own mind up, but I imagine the gameplay, the story, the world will be really good.
Annie E. Moss says Ubisoft has actually done something I'll read one more done something pretty amazing with the release of Assassin's Creed they've single-handedly insulted the entire nation of Japan to the degree that Ubisoft is being investigated for violations of Japanese
culture the game is so awful they insulted not only gamers but a country next level hideous
That's very true.
Kevin M. Sisson might be the first person ever to be exposed as straight.
You know, Robert J. O 'Neill, he just gave him too much of a good thing, flipped him right back around in more ways than one.
Michael Drybelbus says, in order for Harry Sisson to have a sex scandal, he'd actually have to have sex with something other than his hand.
True.
Chase Ball.
Yeah.
Destiny looks like one of those smaller class titans in Attack on Titan.
Actually does.
He does.
Paul Newbar.
Sisson did nothing wrong other than being a moron.
Yeah, again.
I don't know why you would want to do the thing that he did in the first place.
Maybe it gave him a great feeling of power, but again, maybe I'm too lazy for the f-boy life.
I'm way too lazy for that.
It's way too much bother.
Derek Power.
Remember, Harry Sissy voted for cackling commie Karen.
Use Melanie Mack's theorem.
Well, I remember her theorem, yes.
North Blood.
I hate these pricks can pull women.
Also, these girls are just mad that they sent nudes to an f-boy and that makes them look like whores.
The shoe fits.
The monkey, why is some young girl printing out web content like she's Alex Jones?
Just show the digital version, Boomer.
That was my thing as well.
I was like, okay, I can't see any of these.
You're flashing up these sheets of paper for one second.
They're reversed so you can't read them.
And then you actually read some of the message exchanges that are online where people have flipped it so you can actually read it.
And you go, this isn't...
This doesn't prove anything.
This doesn't prove anything.
So it's just pure allegations.
Obviously, if it turns out that they're true, then that really is something bad that he'll have done, which has been defending a groomer.
But we don't know.
Okay, well, on that note, it's time to end the show.
Thank you very much for watching.
I've had a lot of fun.
I think I've digested most of my pasta.
Thank you very much for watching.
Spell it.
I don't think it's quite ready yet.
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