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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1151

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1151.
	I'm your host Harry, joined today by Dan and returning guest Charlie Downs.
	Thank you for making it to the studio today.
	Oh, it's great to be here as ever.
	Is it great to be in Swindon?
	Well, it's great to be in this particular office, but no, I was saying before we came on that every time I drive through Swindon, it becomes more and more bleak and dystopian, and that makes me really sad, especially when I hear Carl talk about what it used to be like here.
	I still don't know if I believe him, but then again, the decline hits very fast.
	If it's gotten even worse since the...
	First time you came in, it wasn't that great to begin with.
	But today, Dan is going to be showing us pictures of men while we sit uncomfortably in silence.
	Charlie is going to be asking what Zoomers want, and I'm going to talk about what needs to be done to the judiciary in America.
	Other than that, we've got the Gold Zoom call at 3 o 'clock, so I believe Dan and Stelios will be attending that one, so if you want to come and say hello to them...
	For whatever reason, ask them any questions.
	Unload your personal troubles to them.
	We put our A-team on it today.
	Yeah, yeah, clearly, clearly.
	I had to sit this one out because, well, frankly, I'm not good enough.
	And with that, let's get into it.
	Right, so what on earth is going on with men?
	Because I did a daily video on this tweet.
	A couple of days ago.
	I don't think it's out yet, but it'll come out soon.
	But I'm still thinking about it.
	It's still bothering me.
	And basically what it is, is this woman here, she was looking for her grandfather's yearbook photo of him in 1955, and then she started flicking through all the other pages.
	And, I mean, she makes the point there that she's looking at these chaps and she's finding about 60% of them attractive, whereas she reckons she finds about 10% of guys attractive today.
	And at first I thought, well, what do you know, woman?
	But then I started thinking about it, and I started looking at the point that she's making.
	And let's just drill into it.
	Let's take a look at these chaps here.
	And she goes on to offer explanations of them being clean-shaven and well-groomed and all that kind of stuff.
	But that seems a little bit unsatisfying to me.
	It's definitely part of it.
	Yes, it's a part of it, but I don't know if the facial physiognomy has changed that much, to be honest.
	Well, I mean, this guy here, he's a bit...
	I could see him today.
	Yes.
	I could see all of these people today.
	It's just in the differing how much you see of each of them.
	I mean, there is definitely something in dress and grooming.
	I get that.
	Actually, since I started really noticing this, it's bothered me because I've been looking at, you know, men on the high street, young men, and frankly, they dress like babies.
	They wear these soft, baggy clothes.
	Yes.
	I was having this conversation with someone recently about the fact that all of the kind of high fashion brands now, the look that they peddle is basically to dress like a three-year-old.
	It's to dress in oversized t-shirt, shorts and trainers.
	It's almost hobo chic.
	In a lot of the way.
	It's like when that man who's always in the news for uncontroversial reasons, Kanye West, when he released a t-shirt for, what, $400, something ridiculous price-wise, and it was a shirt that had been purposefully cut up and made to look torn.
	Yeah.
	Like, a lot of fashion brands, the...
	High end of them look terrible.
	Well, it's just an expression of that culture-wide phenomenon of the inversion of standards, isn't it?
	It's the championing of the low and the low quality.
	And it's also, at the same time, part of that weird kind of ironic meta thing.
	It seems like a scam to me.
	Charging $400 for it.
	That too.
	Baggy, brightly coloured...
	Cotton clothing.
	And there's one guy in particular I saw this morning, I kind of wanted to shout at him, you're dressed like a baby, because he was.
	Well, there's nothing wrong with wearing comfortable cotton clothing.
	It's just that if you're wearing...
	Outside?
	Yes.
	If you're wearing a comfortable, say, white cotton shirt...
	For instance, you can look classy in something like that.
	These men were not wearing shirts.
	You're talking about people wearing children's clothing.
	Yes, essentially.
	It could be that, but again, I don't think it's just that.
	The other thing I started thinking about when I looked at this is these men, they are radiating a certain sense of...
	Confidence.
	Yeah.
	I'm interested actually reading those interests that are listed there.
	Classical music, autos, card playing, writing, jazz, religion, political organisations.
	Doing things off and outside.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's very interesting, that.
	I mean, I was just looking at these faces, and I don't know if I'm reading into it too much, but there's a look behind the eyes that you don't really tend to get anymore.
	There is a confidence.
	And there's also probably dietary considerations, if we go with raw egg nationalists, they're probably eating a balanced diet that doesn't leave them with any nutrient deficiencies as well.
	Well, yes.
	I mean, picking up those points in turn, I mean, the first one, I mean, consider who these men are surrounded by.
	So for a start, these are young men in 1955, so their teachers have basically all just been through the war.
	Now, obviously that was a bad thing, but nevertheless, it does produce manly men.
	If your geography teacher basically parachuted into Normandy, hiked for a couple of hundred miles and then threw a grenade into a tank, that's a different type of geography teacher to the soy millennial that you're going to get teaching Zoomers today.
	So the men that these young men are surrounded by...
	Are actually men.
	And they probably had male teachers as well.
	They had male role models.
	They probably had fathers in the household.
	You can tell from the sort of look of these guys, this does not look like a modern classroom today.
	I don't know what you mean there, Dan.
	Yes.
	So there's that.
	But also, the life expectations of these...
	Because these young men, right, they're looking at...
	Exiting education.
	And what have they got in front of them?
	Well, they're probably going to go and get a job that's going to pay them something like two, two and a half grand a year.
	And they're going to go and buy a house that costs about four grand.
	So they know that they know within a couple of years of this being taken, if not almost immediately, they're going to be in their own family home.
	And then they're going to get a wife who, and believe this or not, in those days, women actually respected men.
	They actually liked them.
	So they're going to get a wife who's probably going to stay at home and raise their children in a house that they own, probably outright within a few years.
	They're going to be a provider.
	They're walking into a society that respects and values men and appreciates them for what they are and they know it.
	Whereas if you've got a young man taking his yearbook photo just leaving school, he's probably just had to sit there and been forced to watch adolescence.
	Indeed.
	His female teachers hate him.
	Or at least consider him to be a defective girl.
	So the whole outlook in life that these men have is completely different to modern men.
	Thoughts?
	I mean...
	It's pretty reasonable so far from what you're describing.
	Yeah, I mean, it's a tricky one because I think it's easy to read too far into these things, but it can't be denied that, I mean, when I was at school...
	In fact, when I was at university...
	Dan, what you were just saying about the way that young men dress now, it blew my mind the number of young guys who'd come into lectures and seminars and that kind of thing, literally having just rolled out of bed in trackies and a t-shirt and flip-flops.
	And that speaks to...
	Oh, those were the days.
	Well, indeed.
	But it speaks to an attitude, not just towards themselves, but towards the institution that they're in and towards their peers.
	You know, that what I'm doing here doesn't really matter.
	It's not worth the effort.
	There was a complaint when I was going to university that people were only going to university because they were being told by their parents and their friends and the older generation that that's what you do to get a job.
	Where the circumstances had changed to the point where they actually go to university, the degree that they're taking is not guaranteed to get them a career in the field that they want to get into, and they're going to be left saddled with tens of thousands of pounds of debt that they're never going to be able to afford to pay.
	back as well.
	So with that kind of knowledge you are going to become quite apathetic when you go into your lectures and you are being lectured
	As has been pointed out, by people who hate you, who want to see you fail.
	But you contrast that with these chaps here, and perhaps it was the case that there was a dress code that was enforced by the authorities at the school.
	But you see what they're wearing and the way that they're presenting themselves?
	They're suggesting in that that the place they are matters to them, that the people around them matter to them, and the enterprise that they're pursuing, whether that's their education or whatever else, matters to them.
	It matters to them enough that they're going to take care of how they look and present themselves in that way.
	It's not just that, it's that they know that they matter to you.
	Yes.
	They know that they've got a place to go into.
	And you see modern men, and they're just sort of hunched and cowled and sort of drawn in.
	There is also the general problem of dysgenics, which is that these gentlemen would not have been baby boomers if they were graduating Harvard in 55. They were silent generation.
	So it's after these...
	After these people's teachers have got back from the war, you get the population explosion, and with a larger population, you're going to get more dysgenics emerging from it, just as a result of there being more people.
	So the selection pressures since then, as we've mentioned, the fact that they would have been going outside a lot more, getting a lot more physical activity, being a lot more physical in everything they do, the jobs that they would be going to, and diet as well.
	So there are a lot of positive selection pressures on these men that future generations...
	Yeah, and if I could just add one thing as well, just again looking at this picture.
	I've been thinking recently about what it actually means to be right-wing in 2025, and, you know, building an actual sort of positive vision for right-wing politics that's not just reactionary.
	And I think that actually there's something to the idea that if the left's mantra is diversity, equality, and inclusion, well perhaps the right's mantra should be uniformity, hierarchy, and exclusivity.
	And if you look at these men here, the one word that comes to mind to me is uniformity.
	Not just in the way they're dressed, but even in their position in the camera.
	And there's a beauty in that uniformity, because you can tell that this is a cohesive society that these men are a part of.
	Because if you look at yearbooks today, even yearbooks when I was going through school, there was not that same level of uniformity, because diversity and difference were so championed.
	It just looked more chaotic.
	And to a certain eye, there is a kind of beauty to that, but it's very superficial.
	and I think it speaks to actually a more disorganized
	So on your last point of exclusivity, I'm...
	I might actually go for belonging, because that kind of covers both camps there.
	I mean, you can belong to something, but you have to belong to it.
	So, therefore, it is naturally exclusive of something which, well, if you don't belong.
	Also, somebody in the chat is saying, well, look, you appreciate these guys are dressed up for their yearbook photo.
	Yes, but people who dress up for their yearbook photos, they don't dress up.
	They just rock up in whatever they're in.
	So, I mean, even if that is the case, even if they made a bit of a special effort for that day, they've still decided to take the effort because they recognise the value in it.
	I'll give you another example.
	I mean, this one is a more...
	Oh, yes.
	I should have...
	I fluffed that.
	I fluffed that.
	If you are going to dress like a baby, at least dress well in a Lotus Eaters t-shirt.
	So there we go.
	You can get yourself a nice big baggy t-shirt, but at least you'll be giving us money in the process.
	So do that.
	Expertly done.
	It would have been, wouldn't it?
	That's an even worse sales pitch than I normally give.
	Yes, you're not actually very good at that, are you?
	I'm excellent at shaming them.
	If I remembered that I put that in there at the last minute, that would have been smooth.
	I have conviction when I shame them.
	I let them know that they're poor and worthless and this is the only thing that's going to make them feel better.
	You just gave them no hope.
	It's a great sales strategy, though.
	Yeah, it works, honestly.
	So buy a t-shirt.
	Anyway, right.
	So this is a more sort of direct comparison.
	Two photos, 85 years apart.
	A grandfather and grandson at the same age.
	And you can see the difference, can't you?
	I mean, one, he just feels a bit downtrodden.
	You know, not dressed sharp.
	The other one is, he's looking at you with a clear sense of purpose.
	With this again, though, I can see this family resemblance is striking.
	Clearly, they look...
	Almost the same as one another, and I think one of the things that's making it so the younger chap on the left looks so different to his grandfather is probably due to the factors that we've discussed, like diet, exercise, exposure to the sun.
	There are ways that him on the left could look more like his grandfather, which is just being more physically active, because his grandfather is clearly, what, in the navy there?
	Yes.
	Yes, well, I mean, but also, the grandfather, yeah, I mean, just the way he looks at you, I mean, he has a steely-eyed sense of purpose.
	Yeah, he's got predator eyes, whereas his grandson has prey eyes.
	Yes!
	You know what I mean?
	His grandson also, for his age, has what looks to be crow's feet, almost.
	Yeah.
	Which, I mean, just goes to show the stress.
	Probably bad sleep, because he spends all his time on a screen and doesn't get enough sleep.
	But I don't know how to define that difference between prey eyes and predator eyes.
	But now you say it, I see it.
	That's what I'm talking about, yeah.
	I can't explain why it is, but I see it when you say it.
	It's a very common thing.
	If you think about that kind of distinction in your day-to-day life and look at people, you'll see it everywhere.
	Very interesting.
	I'm going to start looking for that now.
	Him on the left as well also seems to have somewhat of a narrower jaw than his grandfather did.
	Yep, well, so that makes him look a bit more round-faced and childish.
	So his grandfather has spent his whole life basically chewing food.
	Bits of steak, bits of vegetable, stuff that you actually need.
	So he's actually worked his jaw, whereas this guy's probably been, you know, basically swallowing soft burgers.
	In the mall that he's in, in that photo.
	Yes.
	So, I mean, it's a fascinating example.
	Let's go for a more extreme example, shall we?
	My great-grandfather, 16 versus me.
	And, okay, the one on the left, the grandfather, that's a man, even if he is 16. And the one on the right is a baby.
	I think there's also something to do with this outside of pure testosterone, but I won't say.
	Is there any other distinctive differences that you can notice?
	Possibly.
	Possibly.
	They could just be dark Italians.
	You can't really see in that first photo.
	I don't really know.
	But somebody's made the comment that testosterone has left the chat.
	I think there's something in that.
	I want to drill down into this testosterone level bit, because what if it isn't just the men and the male role models they're surrounded by and the sense of purpose in life?
	What if it is actually something a lot more innate than that?
	Can we hear what RFK says, Samson?
	We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world.
	When my uncle was president, 3% of Americans had chronic disease.
	Today, it's 60%.
	74% of our kids cannot qualify for military service.
	I'm just going to pause that.
	74% of men cannot qualify for military service.
	That's a lot.
	I will say, I mean, obviously this is in the US context, but another variable in that, I know certainly in the UK context, speaking from experience, is the red tape that's in place now to join the military is insane and it's ridiculous.
	I was denied entry despite being a physically fit young man.
	I was denied entry because I very occasionally get migraines, which are very mild.
	But that, you know, tick the box.
	Tick the box and you're not allowed in.
	And I've heard that story, anecdotes like that, from many, many people.
	Actually, that happened to me.
	I got excluded because I had a perforated eardrum from a...
	For a martial arts accident.
	And so that was enough to say no.
	So I never went into that career.
	I'm going to have to suggest what I, of course, am going to suggest as well, which is that since RFK was a young man, the demographics of America have shifted wildly.
	And the introduction of populations who are typically, shall we say, genetically predisposed to diseases and less genetically healthy might happen.
	You're right to bring this back to demographics for the 13th time, this segment.
	You're right to do so.
	It's the most pressing issue.
	Anyway, let's listen all.
	We have fertility rates that are just spiraling.
	A teenager today, an American teenager, has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man.
	Firm counts are down 50%.
	An American teenager has less testosterone than a 60-year-old man?
	That's right.
	Testosterone levels have dropped 50% from historic levels.
	And, you know, and that is a problem.
	And it's an existential problem.
	But it's only, that is only when we have obesity.
	That is off the charts.
	Yeah, I mean, I mean, that's pretty powerful.
	Obesity definitely has a lot to do with that.
	It produces estrogen, more body fat you have.
	I mean, that is genuinely quite worrying.
	Here's a little chart that sort of, you know, gives examples of this.
	It's tracking testosterone levels.
	So testosterone levels in the 1960s, as you can see, it's fallen markedly.
	It's off well over a third.
	I mean, I think he said 50% in that bit, so I don't know which...
	Yeah, it's dropped by over 200 nanogram per deciliter.
	Yes, and there's only 400 left.
	And actually, I've seen some anecdote examples of whenever they've tested leftists, leftists are below 200.
	That makes sense.
	You notice the peak around the September 11th attacks.
	That's interesting, yeah.
	But it doesn't go through that.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	All of a sudden, Americans became patriotic again for a few months, and their testosterone spiked.
	Perhaps that's what it is.
	Perhaps the presence of an external threat is a driver of testosterone.
	Or maybe they turned off whatever they were putting in the food for a couple of months.
	You are right, because it seems to maintain somewhat similar levels throughout the Cold War.
	And then, through the mid-80s, when all of a sudden the threat is diminishing, and then when you get to the 1990s is when you hit that first...
	That first valley.
	Think about America in the mid-90s.
	It's what most people today want to go back to.
	It's viewed as a utopia.
	No wonder James Lindsay's so eager to get back there.
	He'll finally fit in again.
	But look at sperm count.
	1970s, 340 million.
	Today, 140 million.
	That is just crashing.
	Global fertility has dropped from 5 to 2.4.
	And that's global fertility.
	It's got to be worse in the West.
	Well, it does seem this is something that's been remarked on by, say, Imperium Press in some of the Substack articles that they've written, that it seems that the more liberalised your economy gets, the lower the fertility rate seems to drop.
	Yes.
	Access to easy abundance seems to make people have less children in general.
	Again, with this as well, I think the diet and the fatness, your general fatness in America and other countries, Oh yeah,
	do a video of people at the beach in the 70s.
	Yeah, not many.
	Nowadays, like, I think with men...
	Best testosterone production is going to be between, what, 10 and 15% body fat?
	I wouldn't be shocked if the majority of American men are at least 25 to 30% body fat.
	Well, I'll tell you something else as well.
	A friend of mine is travelling Asia at the moment.
	He's been out there since November.
	And one of the things he said is there's no fat people out here.
	No obese people.
	Very interesting.
	Let's pull on that thread of the sperm count.
	So, apparently, on current projections, sperm count hits zero by 2045.
	That's slightly concerning.
	Which would mean that half of men would be azuspermic, apparently, which is having no sperm.
	Which is also bad.
	Which brings me to this.
	The tiny little dutton that I have in my brain is telling me that's not entirely bad.
	It brings me to this, right?
	We've all seen this chart of how women rape men.
	And women rate 80% of men as being below average.
	Now, you know, obviously our first reaction is to think, silly woman.
	But I've got a heretical idea for you.
	And try not to laugh.
	What if women are right?
	Well...
	You laughed, you laughed, you failed it, but...
	The question, of course, is compared to what?
	Because if it is compared to their imagined ideal of a man, which is probably something like those initial pictures from the yearbook that you were showing us.
	Or Prince Charming from their fantasy romance novel.
	Well, no, not even necessarily fantasy.
	What if women are actually right?
	Because when they consider men, they're not just considering the men that immediately surround them.
	They're considering the corpus of men in media, which we've got a good stock of media going back 30 years.
	So they're including in their head 80s movies and 90s movies.
	And, you know, 90s TV series and stuff.
	So they've got a corpus of men that they remember from when they were children and stuff like that.
	And they're taking it all into account.
	And what if women are actually right?
	Yeah, I mean, I can totally see that.
	I don't think that's an unreasonable kind of assessment by women.
	Because, like, you know...
	Being real, the prospects are not great.
	I've never looked at this before and considered the possibility that they could be right, but I'm now starting to consider the possibility that maybe they actually are right.
	You're just stunned by that proposition, Harry.
	I don't really care all that much.
	I've got kids, so, you know.
	Yes.
	I'm alright.
	You've made it.
	Made it through.
	I've never had to worry all that much about how women rate me, if I'm honest.
	Well, yeah, okay.
	That is probably the correct response.
	What does high T do?
	Well, here's a study.
	Testosterone eliminates strategic pro-social behaviour through impacting choice consistency in healthy males.
	So basically, it's saying that high T men don't pretend to go along with bullshit.
	You know, they're just like, no, that isn't right.
	Which at the moment is very much a right-wing high-T thing.
	Only right-wing high-T men do that.
	Men in general do not do this at all these days.
	Yeah, I think conformity is so widespread now that you are viewed as some kind of...
	It's not just like you have a difference of opinion with somebody.
	Certainly, I mean, obviously in my segment I'm going to talk about Zoomers, but among Zoomers you're not viewed as just somebody with a difference of opinion, but in a lot of cases you're viewed as an alien.
	Well, I mean, here's a second one.
	If you have high testosterone, you're more receptive to minority opinions.
	If you're low T, you basically just go along with the consensus.
	So it's similar to the last paper.
	Well, what I was going to say is that men these days will try to performatively disagree to virtue signal as long as the person they're disagreeing with has the minority position.
	So they're willing to say no as long as they know the consensus is already backing them up.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	So you can absolutely see why Western governments would be very much okay with the idea of testosterone dropping.
	Oh, absolutely.
	The question, I suppose, then becomes, are they actually doing anything to facilitate it, or is it something that they've noticed along with the rest of us, and is like, oh, well, that's fine.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	This is also interesting.
	Countries where testosterone is high.
	Now, I'm looking at this and thinking, what?
	Surely, white countries should be at the top of the list.
	I've had a look at history.
	I don't know.
	Ethiopia, for example, that's a...
	Well, it's not somewhere I'd like to live, let's just put it that way.
	It's not a particularly stable country, and I think that adds to my thesis from earlier on, that the presence of threat drives up testosterone levels.
	I mean, those countries, a lot of them is where you'll spend a lot of time outside rather than inside.
	Russia, I thought, was interesting.
	Going back to Harry's point about the stuff that they're putting in the food...
	Well, maybe the best thing that ever happened to Russia was when the EU and the rest of the collective West said, aha, we're going to put sanctions on you and you're no longer going to get our pre-packaged goyslop.
	Which might actually be the best thing that ever happened to Russia.
	Also, Russia's huge, and if you include the regions of Siberia and such, they have some still quite nomadic populations within them, because a lot of it's a wasteland.
	I wonder how much of it, too, is also almost like a historical carryover, because the Russian people have been through some pretty tough periods.
	I mean, the entirety of the 20th century, for example.
	And I wonder how much of that.
	Yeah, and I don't know when these figures are from, but I wonder whether there's any sort of...
	Historical layover.
	And I also wonder if...
	Poland's quite an outlier there as well.
	That's quite impressive.
	Perhaps the same goes for Poland.
	I mean, in terms of their very difficult 20th century.
	True.
	A lot of these countries overlap with the countries where we're expected to take mass amounts of immigration from.
	And I wonder if that's the feminist mind trying to correct...
	Revealed preference.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it could be there.
	I still think it's suicidal empathy.
	I think Northern European countries looking at history should be at the top of this list, but maybe they're being suppressed.
	Maybe it is, as you say, stuff being put in the food and the environmental factors and all the rest of it, which is dragging men now.
	Now, of course, there are still manly men in the West, you know, chaps like myself and Charlie here.
	Well, I mean, there are still manly men in the West.
	I was waiting for that, Dan.
	So, anyway, moving swiftly on.
	What's your diet like at the moment, Dan?
	Tip top, tip top.
	Oh, yeah.
	I just bought a huge bag of steaks from in town.
	So, yes.
	That's my go-to.
	What's this one?
	Testosterone administration enhances the expectation of perceived and painful non-painful stimulatory stimuli or whatever.
	Basically, if you've got high T, you actually understand what a threat is.
	So, you're less likely to go along with...
	Importing men from high-tea countries where they, you know, are more violent.
	Yes, yes, it is exactly right.
	And what it sort of all brings me to, you know, the whole classic, weak men make hard times, hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, and good times make weak men cycle repeats.
	It's amazing how much actually does just come back to this, you know, in general.
	I mean, this is the thing, right, on topics like this, because...
	These chemicals like testosterone and indeed dopamine and serotonin that people always talk about in modern culture.
	You know, people talk about sort of depression, anxiety among young people and how it's a serotonin deficiency or a dopamine deficiency and all the rest of it.
	I tend to think that it's a very reductionist attitude to human experience.
	And I tend to think that whilst it's more like testosterone...
	The decrease in testosterone is a symptom rather than a cause of these problems.
	Because I think that the actual root of the problem is basically spiritual in nature.
	Because if you are a society that does not have anything...
	well, if there's no threat, ultimately, to your way of life, there's no need to defend it.
	And if there's no need to defend it, then there's no, you know--Well, that was going to be my next point.
	I love this particular meme.
	that does the rounds every sort.
	And it's, you know, your daily reminder that 100 billion people have lived and died before you and 99.99% of them were right-wing extremists by today's standards.
	If they were alive today, they'd be more pissed off than you are and they would be unbelievably violent.
	Yes,
	Governments in the West could not get away what they're doing if they had a cohort of historic men to deal with.
	So you can absolutely see why they're like this.
	And this is common thought that the way that men are the way they are today is because they've given up on life.
	Because life's too hard.
	But if you've got a lack of testosterone, when you're faced with hardship, you give up rather than fight back.
	Men with high T would fight back.
	I don't know.
	I'm not sure I can pin it down on a reason.
	I think there's a multitude of reasons.
	So, I mean, there's a dizzying number of poisons in our food, in our water, in our medications, in our soaps, in the things that go in your arm, and we're not allowed to talk about on YouTube.
	Microplastics.
	Microplastics, yes.
	Microplastics in your balls.
	Microplastics in your balls, yes.
	All of that.
	But again, just very quickly, to take it at a level higher than that, I think there is also, and I'm going to get into this in my segment, so stick around, folks.
	But I think there is just the prevalence of relativism among certainly young men, where...
	Life is treated as, you know, it's just something that you make yourself.
	The meaning of life is to be found, you know, in things like the pursuits of individual self-expression and a career and that sort of thing, and material possessions.
	And things like morality and beauty and truth are regarded as kind of a bit wishy-washy.
	They don't really exist in reality.
	There's not an objective quality to them.
	It could be a perfect storm of a multitude of factors that come together to cause an absolute testosterone, sperm count and fertility crisis.
	Yeah.
	Seems that way.
	There are many potential causes.
	Let's just play this one.
	It's a short video.
	Let's play this for us, Samson.
	No, I'm cooking this one.
	This is artichoke noodles.
	It doesn't have any wheat in it, and I don't eat any wheat products right now before the show.
	Because wheat has...
	It's called gluten, and a lot of times gluten can make you hold estrogen, and that can make you retain water.
	What is estrogen?
	Estrogen is a female hormone.
	I don't want any of that in my body right now.
	So look, I've seen arguments for this testosterone dropper.
	The points you just made, arguments for the amount of light, microplastics, lack of sleep, medication, it's in the food.
	Maybe it's all of these.
	Maybe it's a whole combination of other factors.
	The only thing I can say is that whatever is happening to men obviously suits governments.
	So nobody is coming to help you.
	It's up to men to fix this themselves.
	I don't know what the solution necessarily is, but men, we need to fix this, and we need to sort it out ourselves.
	I will say, just in regards to that video, I doubt that the testosterone in that particular man's body was entirely naturally produced by him.
	There might have been a little bit of ball testosterone injected into the buttocks on that one.
	Yeah, just a little bit.
	Yep.
	Alright.
	We've got some...
	Rumble rants here, and then we can move on to the next segment.
	Would you like to read them, Dan, or shall I?
	I would like you to.
	All right, then.
	J.M. Denton.
	So, Civil War would help the testosterone.
	What's the hold-up?
	That's a good point.
	We get right on that.
	All right, yeah.
	Dan's going to start working towards Civil War as we speak.
	That's a joke.
	GCHQ.
	Scanline says, petition for Big Mike, Big Mike, question mark, to produce raw milk to all men and boost our testosterone levels.
	That would be good.
	I've not been buying raw milk for a little while from my local market.
	I should go back to buying it.
	Yeah, my local one's closed, which is very upsetting.
	Very, very nice.
	It's very, very good stuff.
	It also tastes better than normal milk.
	That's a random name.
	Just ask Grok how a high-tea man behaves.
	Can we all stop asking Grok for things?
	You can, like, just Google it, look at an encyclopedia.
	Oh, no, no, no, no, don't do that.
	Don't go with, let's not Grok.
	Google instead, because that is just, that is the same thing.
	Or look at an encyclopedia or any sort of other definition.
	I'm just annoyed.
	You think I've got the attention span to look at an encyclopedia?
	Yeah, yeah, I'm annoyed that everybody just keeps going to grok.
	Higher confidence, assertiveness, energy and drive, elevated libido, aggressiveness, competitiveness, more muscles and less fat.
	LOL.
	Yeah, I mean, that's true.
	Don't need the LOL.
	That's all true.
	Indeed.
	Right, well, I wanted to talk today about the Zoomers.
	And I am a Zoomer myself.
	I am a child of the early 2000s.
	I didn't know.
	You've never mentioned it before.
	No, I know, right?
	Yeah.
	A child of...
	The Blairite and then Cameronite education system and the culture that emerged around that kind of political order.
	You would have been going through school when Blair was in full swing.
	Indeed.
	Yes.
	Great years.
	Great times.
	There were actually decent times, to be honest.
	He still had edgy TV.
	The energy and the optimism in the air at that time was very good.
	But obviously we're seeing what's come of that now.
	And I feel like the mainstream kind of talks a lot about Gen Z. Gen Z, rather.
	And it doesn't often talk to them.
	When they do talk to them, it's often we're treated as like, you know, mythical creatures that are really difficult to understand and pin down and all the rest of it.
	But I really don't think that it's that complicated.
	There is also a narrative that comes out of some places that on the one side, Gen Z are super liberal and progressive and woke and snowflakes and all the rest of it.
	Well, the ones I talk to.
	Well, and then on the other side, there are those who are like, you know, all Gen Z are super based and they're, you know, becoming super right wing and all the rest of it.
	And I don't think that either of those things are true.
	I think that both of those narratives are serving essentially different political ends.
	And that the truth of the matter is actually a lot more straightforward.
	But we'll get into that in a minute.
	So who are Gen Z?
	Gen Z. I keep doing that.
	It's the Americanism of my upbringing that's just infected my mind.
	So Gen Z are born between 1997 and 2012, and as of the 2021 census, Gen Z is the most ethnically diverse generation in English and British history.
	And according to it, 75% are white, 12% Asian, 6% are black, 5% are mixed, and 3% belong to a kind of miscellaneous ethnic group.
	But what's interesting is the breakdown of those different groups, because 60.5% of individuals identifying with mixed ethnic backgrounds are under 25, 37.4% of Asians are under 25, yet 25% 25.7% of whites were under 25. So the age profile of the different groups in this country,
	well, it speaks to the ageing population of the indigenous population, which I think is kind of interesting.
	You're just making the point how radically different this country is going to look.
	In a couple of generations.
	Well, that's the point, because remember, those statistics that I just read were from the 2021 census.
	This was before the Boris wave, before the millions of new people that came since then, to say nothing of the illegal migration, which of course is primarily young men.
	So I wonder what the reality will actually be, I mean, certainly at the 2031 census.
	I mean, God only knows.
	But if you're walking the street...
	Then you do tend to see, anecdotally, I would say that the majority of migrants tend to be quite young.
	So you might know this, Harry.
	As I drive into Swindon in the morning, I come in through the South bit and I go past a college, and I genuinely don't know if it's a college for South Asians only.
	Is there a college in Swindon that's just for South Asians?
	Or is it just that there are so many South Asians that it just looks like it is?
	I think the formal would literally be illegal under the Equality Act.
	So maybe it's just a normal school.
	All I see every morning is hordes of South Asians.
	I mean, in my town that I live in, I've noticed that the profile of the students who hang around the town is still mostly British.
	So I would imagine it's more to do with the general demographics.
	Because you got out of Swindon.
	Yes, I got out of Swindon as soon as I could.
	You made it out.
	Yes, I made it out.
	So on politics...
	That was also one of the reasons as well.
	At the 2024 election, the...
	The majority of young people, those aged 18 to 24, they did vote for Labour.
	So roughly half, 40% of men, 40% of women.
	Well, that just goes to prove they're looking for the most right-wing party they can find.
	Perhaps, yeah.
	But they voted for Labour, and thereafter, about a third voted either Lib Dem or Green, with a small minority, about one in five, voting broadly right-wing, let's say, if you can call the Conservative Party right-wing.
	But I think this speaks to a number of things.
	First of all, it speaks to the natural liberalness of young people, which is a thing.
	It does exist.
	And I think that that's just because of the culture that we've grown up in.
	I said before that I, for example, am a child of the Blairite education system, which was shot through with liberal ideology.
	I was taught that Britain, for example, is to be understood as being a nation of values rather than a nation of people.
	I went to a friend's house who had a kid doing his GCSEs histories and idly picked up the textbook to have a look and see what...
	What they were teaching.
	And there was a section, what caused the Second World War?
	And there was a one sentence answer underneath.
	It was caused by racism.
	Which, how old are the students who are supposed to be reading this textbook?
	13, 14, something like that.
	I mean, where do you start with that?
	I mean, because that feels like a five-year-old's explanation of it.
	It was put by a way for them.
	Yeah, no, but that's basically...
	You are right, the liberal ideology also goes into the history that we were taught, and in fact, it hinges entirely on the history that we were taught, where, with my understanding that I got from school of what English history was, was there was a civil war...
	Before that, there was a mean man called Henry VIII who didn't like his women.
	And then all of a sudden you shoot forward to the Second World War and the Holocaust and then civil rights.
	And the two main things that you were learning about that was that both of those were caused by white people being mean.
	So you've got to be very, very tolerant of people who are different.
	It's funny that you've said this, because I was actually going to bring this up, because my recollection of my historical education in primary and secondary school was literally just learning about the Tudors and then the Second World War.
	And I think that I have a pet theory on this.
	I was lucky to get the Civil War, it seems.
	Well, yes, indeed.
	But I've got a pet theory, which is that the centering of the Tudors, and specifically Henry VIII, was done to...
	We present monarchy and that time as being one of tyranny and madness and, oh my goodness, he was killing everybody and all the rest of it.
	This is what happens when you get the bad king, is that they're very, very mean.
	But we were never taught about the good kings.
	We were never taught about the Alfreds and so on.
	We never had any major modules that were centred around the height of the empire.
	Well, exactly.
	And then we were taught that the modern world begins in 1945 and everything that's come since then has been positive and progressive.
	Maybe 1948.
	Yeah, well, indeed.
	But, I think the vast majority...
	of young people are not particularly political.
	And this is something that I think those of us in the bubble tend to forget.
	Because I can tell you anecdotally in my own friend group that most young people don't care about politics.
	Most young people don't waste their time thinking about politics because they've got more important things to worry about.
	Like, oh my goodness, I can't afford a house.
	Or, oh my goodness, I'm being excessively taxed to the point where I can't afford to move out of my parents' house until my early 30s if I'm lucky, right?
	And so they don't have the time or the capacity or the bandwidth to be thinking about politics.
	But insofar as young people do think about politics...
	In my experience, and as is bare out by the figures, the most important issue tends to be environment.
	Which I find quite interesting, and I think that speaks to the success.
	So these are the issues that young people care about?
	That's right, yeah.
	So it speaks to how successful that particular part of the state propaganda has been.
	The fact that if you talk to your average young person who's not that interested in politics, they'll say, well, the main thing I care about is just the environment and preserving the environment.
	I possibly see it a different way, because why is the environment only up to that level, considering that's the only thing that ever gets pushed to them?
	That housing, education, crime, Immigration, the economy, well maybe Brexit.
	Nobody cares about Brexit anymore.
	Yeah, but none of those things get pushed relentlessly on them every time they turn on a screen or go to school.
	So if anything, that line should be much higher.
	Perhaps, but I think that economy there is the highest priority.
	That's not surprising because that's the lived reality of young people.
	Housing and health also being very important.
	Again, that's just because those are the basic things you need to live.
	Again, you have to remember, we grew up on a diet of David Attenborough documentaries and that kind of thing.
	And certainly in my own life, I spent a lot of time in the countryside when I was a lad.
	So it doesn't surprise me that a lot of young people really care about the environment.
	I think that that impulse has been co-opted, however, by power to serve this agenda that actually seeks to immiserate ordinary people on the altar of net zero and these sorts of things.
	But I think that it is interesting, this graph here, because if you see right at the end there, April 2025, immigration and...
	Crime just about overtake environment.
	And I think that's very interesting because like housing, economy and healthcare, it's becoming more salient in their own lives.
	Because I think environmentalism is kind of a luxury belief.
	It's something that you can commit time to mentally and maybe even in your own life.
	If you're not fearing for your own life and the lives of your loved ones.
	And if you're not fearing that you're not going to be able to ever afford a house and ever be able to start a family or anything else like that.
	And I think that as things continue to deteriorate in terms of crime and migration, we're only going to see that...
	As these luxury beliefs fall away in the face of what's actually happening out on the street on a day-to-day basis.
	The fact that a lot of young men fear for the safety of their mothers and their sisters and their cousins and eventually their daughters.
	And worry about having their phone snatched out of their hand when they're walking the streets.
	I suppose that jump at the end would have lined up with the Southport murders, wouldn't it?
	Well, it did, yeah.
	And that's, I think, definitely noteworthy.
	But I think, broadly speaking, and I think as this graph...
	To an extent, bears out.
	The desires of the majority of young people are not...
	And they're not particularly different to previous generations, because there is a small contingent of young people who are politically engaged, and within that contingent there is a percentage who are radically left-wing, who I would describe as essentially being the foot soldiers of power, because they have bought hook, line, and sinker into the narratives that they've been fed from authority for their entire lives,
	whether that's things like climate, as we've seen here, whether it's things on identity politics, race, gender, sexuality, and all the rest of it, or even economy.
	You know, they are communists in a lot of cases, these people.
	And I view those people...
	It's interesting what's happened to those people.
	And this is something that I've tried to explain to people who are that way inclined in my own life.
	That does it ever...
	Do you ever stop to consider the fact that all of your opinions line up with JPMorgan Chase, or Amazon, or Google, or the UK government, or the civil service, or the Tony Blair Foundation?
	You know, you are the foot soldier of power without actually realising it, and you've bought into these ideas that have been sold to you as being radical, and sold to you as being rebellious, and that natural rebellious young spirit is attracted to that kind of thing.
	But they don't realise that they're actually just being...
	Well, sold a lie, ultimately.
	Yeah, they're being sold a bill of goods that doesn't have their best interests at heart.
	Then, within the contingent, you have the emerging, more radical, sort of right-wing section of young people, which is primarily men.
	Men, has to be said.
	Which is obviously terrifying them, and so they feel the need to create a series of adolescents that make everybody watch it.
	Yes, and I do think that the power structure that governs this country is certainly aware of that fact.
	But I think the narrative that that's hugely widespread is overplayed.
	And I think that it's actually maybe a bit indulgent on our side of things to think that all young people are super-based.
	It's a very online narrative.
	It's just not true, right?
	It's just not true.
	Because what most ordinary young people want is not some kind of revolution.
	It's not some kind of huge shake-up.
	There is an appetite for radicalism.
	But actually, it's all in service of...
	Being able to start a family and being able to afford a house, being able to work a job that pays them fairly and for which they're not excessively taxed, and maybe at the end of the day have a bit of money left over to go on holiday.
	I mean, seriously, I think that's what it comes down to.
	And I think we indulge, it's easy to indulge in these ideas that there's going to be some kind of massive uprising of super-based young people, but I just don't think that's going to happen.
	I don't think, frankly, things are bad enough for that to happen yet.
	And I think that it's a good thing that the desires of most young people are pretty ordinary and pretty similar.
	To those of their grandparents.
	Because I'm not going to sit here and say that all young people are super traditional.
	But insofar as tradition is a source of comfort and safety and identity, things like family and community and nationhood even, I think that...
	We are going to see trends in that direction.
	So recently, I've written a series of articles for the Daily Mail on these topics.
	So the first one was on the figures that came out of Channel 4, which suggests that 52% of under-30s would be quite happy to do away with democracy and have a strong leader who does not have to bother with Parliament and elections.
	I bloody well would.
	Yeah, well, there's a number of reasons for this, because I think this caused some real shockwaves when it dropped, this data.
	Because...
	Democracy is one of these things.
	First of all, it was sold as a crucial British value in the education system.
	It's still enshrined in law.
	It's a complete sham, though.
	Yeah, since 2015, as being a fundamental part of our identity as a nation.
	But actually, I think that young people, again, people my age and younger, are coming to realise that, well, what kind of people is this system that we have right now that is called liberal democracy?
	What kind of people are they selecting for?
	It's selecting for people...
	One, who are good at winning elections, which is the type of people who are prepared to say things in order to be popular, who are prepared to take money in order to run their campaigns, because running for office is expensive.
	And so these are people who are completely devoid of authenticity.
	Well, I've said yesterday that the only thing that matters within the democracy is who is selecting the people that you can vote for.
	Well, exactly, yes.
	And I'll tell you this.
	Those people are going to be...
	Globalists, if you want to use that word.
	They're going to be people with their own interests who are going to select people who will only work for their interests.
	Well, just as a quick aside, I can tell you, like, from personal experience, that in the Conservative Party, for example, the selection process for candidates is split into three different types of seats.
	There are those which are completely unwinnable, those which are swing, and those which are safe.
	And, generally speaking, candidates will advance through those three seats.
	So they'll go through three elections.
	First one, they're in an unwinnable.
	Second one, they're in a maybe.
	And the third one...
	They're in a safe one if they tow the party line and if they're loyal.
	So this is not selecting for...
	It's certainly not selecting for merit.
	Certainly not selecting for competence.
	It's selecting for...
	It's selecting for toadies.
	Yeah.
	And not loyalty to the country, but loyalty to a party.
	And as far as I'm aware, the same is true in the Labour Party.
	I won't name any names, but I know people who have become Tory MPs and...
	When I look at Ben, these are some of the most toady people that I know.
	They're yes-men.
	Yes.
	So that's the actual government side of democracy.
	But once again, I say that most young people don't care about any of that.
	They don't watch the news.
	They don't care about any of this.
	And so once again, it comes back to the lived reality.
	And so we're told we live in a democracy.
	We're told that democracy is the greatest form of government conceivable and that we've found the final answer to how we run our societies.
	But actually, what is that delivering for young people?
	Well, it's everything I've said already.
	Can't open a house.
	Excessive tax.
	Jobs where you are working for a corporation that doesn't care about you, to which you are just a number on a spreadsheet for a boss that doesn't care about you and who you probably hate in a brightly lit air-conditioned environment that's completely against your natural kind of desires of biology.
	That's bad enough for men, but they co-op women into this.
	Yes.
	They've convinced them you're better off working for a boss who is completely indifferent to you rather than having children.
	Yes.
	Women are more natural conformists.
	Yeah, and that's also true.
	No offence to the anti-conformist ladies watching right now.
	Indeed.
	And that's then to say nothing of the crime, to say nothing of the demographic reality and the migration, to say nothing of the price of energy, once again on the altar of Net Zero, to say nothing of the de-industrialisation that's taken place in this country since the 80s, where young men, for example, who would probably be happier and more productive working with their hands,
	are forced into these environments where they feel alien.
	They're forced to work in an office environment where they have to go to eight to ten meetings a day.
	Yeah, and for what?
	Organised for women.
	Well, it's basically adult daycare to stop women having children.
	Well, indeed.
	And so that's what democracy is delivering for young people.
	In other words, it's delivering nothing.
	It's delivering nothing of substance.
	And I think that in reaction to that, it's not surprising that young people are saying, well, why are we even bothering with any of this in the first place?
	And I will say that in terms of this particular story, I do think that the demographic data that I cited at the start is actually relevant because I think there's a foreign appetite for the strongman that is becoming more prevalent in British culture because of the demographic shifts that we...
	But actually, I don't think that it's just that.
	I think that there is a genuine appetite among young people on the left and the right, those who are politically engaged, who are done with democracy.
	And that's a controversial thing to say.
	But what it speaks to is the breakdown of the sacred narratives that have been, well, essentially had a stranglehold on our culture for the better part of the last 50 years.
	Things like democracy, liberalism and progress and all this sort of thing.
	I get why the oligarchy that controls the democratic system at the moment and gatekeeps it, I understand why they like it.
	Yeah, but again, if you actually then contrast the promises of democracy with the lived reality on the ground, where the high streets are boarded up, or full of shops that are very obvious fronts for money laundering, or there's graffiti everywhere, or litter, naming no names, Swindon, and all the rest of it,
	the lived reality is not progress, the lived reality is decline.
	And so it's no surprise that people are turning, young people are turning to the system that's presided over this decline, and say, well, what's the point of any of this?
	The next article I wrote was on the topic of conscription and military service, because this was citing data that found that only 11% of Gen Z would fight for Britain, with 41% saying that there are no circumstances at all in which they would pick up arms.
	Well, Charlie, when I first met you, it was probably only a couple of years ago you were trying to join the army at the time.
	That's right.
	Yeah, viewers may remember from that time that I was going through the application process, and as I've said on the show already, I was denied entry to the army.
	So I was a young man, a patriotic young man.
	Patriotic.
	I'm full of these Americanisms today.
	It's very bad.
	Patriotic young man who I was prepared to put my politics to one side to pursue a career in the army because I liked the lifestyle, the physical demands, the strategy, the organizational skills.
	Camaraderie.
	In fact, you get to make stuff up every now and again.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Because, you know, sure, people say that the army is all woke and all the rest of it.
	But actually, when push comes to shove, an army is an army.
	It doesn't really matter about the superficial part of it.
	I saw an ad for the army on social media.
	Basically, everyone was represented with one omission.
	No white men on it, anywhere.
	Well, that suggests that we're not going to be going to war at any time soon.
	That's a change from even earlier this year.
	Well, they've obviously changed their mind.
	Okay, actually, the threat of war is off.
	We can go back to...
	Actually, going on a ground war against Russia would be really stupid of us.
	Actually, if we are going to have a ground war in Russia, I kind of like the ad.
	It's like, yeah, go on, fill your boots.
	But once again, this, I think, comes back to just the lived reality of young people in this country, because why would you fight for a regime that has presided over just pure decline, that's told you that you're evil and racist for belonging to this country?
	Yes.
	And another study that I cited in this article was the fact that 48% of Gen Z do believe that this country is racist.
	Now, I'm forgetting off the top of my head where that data was from, but I remember seeing it and the people who were interviewed as part of the coverage for it were...
	Let's just say their parents and grandparents probably weren't born here, right?
	So I think that there is a certain bias in that figure.
	But at the same time, again, anecdotally, I can tell you that it is quite a widespread opinion that Britain's history, at the very least, is racist, and that institutional racism is a problem.
	Because, once again, this is a narrative that figures of authority have told young people that narrative, and why wouldn't we believe it if figures of authority, if teachers and people on the news are saying that?
	Why would you challenge it?
	Because I think there is a narrative that young people are all super radical.
	I think there is a contingent for whom that's true.
	But actually, for the most part, young people are the most conformist element of any society, because it's all they've ever known, these narratives.
	But actually, I think that the fundamental reason for this particular story about young people not being prepared to fight for the country, it does come back to what I've said already.
	It comes back to the fact that there are more pressing concerns right now.
	Because if you think of those lads who went off in the First and Second World War to fight, quote, for Britain.
	There was at least a degree of material prosperity and cohesiveness and a sense of belonging, which you've already brought up today, in the country for which they were fighting.
	But young people today feel like they are just completely adrift and without roots in Britain because this country has been so deculturised or deculturated.
	If they tried to do conscription now, I'm probably too old at this point, but I'd just say, I'll just put me in prison.
	I'm not doing it.
	I don't care about it.
	Well, I said in this article that I would sooner be a conscientious objector than be sent to Ukraine.
	What amount to the foreign policy interests of the American State Department and indeed the British government?
	Because once again, if I at least had the sense that they were in my corner, if I at least had the sense that the British government was on my side and had my best interests at heart, I'd be more open to it, right?
	But they don't.
	And it's a tangible reality that they don't.
	And so the next story that I wrote was here, came out on Wednesday, St. George's Day, about English identity.
	And this was...
	Well, I think this is the crucial part of all of this, is that young people, Gen Z, under 30s, we are a generation without identity, because we've been taught that identity is to be found in, you know, some form of individual self-expression, whether that's the pursuit of a career, or the pursuit of consumerism,
	or the pursuit of credentials in the forms of, you know, university, education, all the rest of it, or indeed the pursuit of identity in things like sexuality and race and gender and all that sort of thing.
	And I think we're finding that on the other end of that is nothing.
	It's just emptiness, depression, and anxiety.
	A quarter of Gen Z are depressed, and half say that they are anxious all the time.
	And it's no surprise, because without a sense of rootedness and belonging, you are just, you know, you're out in the wilderness, and that's quite a stressful place to be.
	And it's obviously not a physical wilderness.
	I mean, you know, the shops are still full of food, the lights still turn on, the car still starts, and all the rest of it.
	But it's a spiritual wilderness.
	It's a metaphysical wilderness.
	I guess the other 25% must be watching Lotus Eason.
	Well, maybe.
	Yes, indeed.
	But I, in this story...
	Spoke about my own lived experience, which is one of these concepts that, you know, it's owned by the left, but actually I think the right should be co-opting it, because the lived experience of the English Zoomer, for example, is very relevant, I think, to the formation of our worldview and our opinions.
	And I contrasted, first of all, the...
	The culture in which I was growing up, in which Britain was described as being a nation of values, in which Britain didn't really have a sense of identity, certainly from all the major mainstream mouthpieces of power.
	But at the same time, I had the most English childhood imaginable, right?
	I went to a Church of England primary school that sat next to a Saxon church over a thousand years old.
	My weekends were spent going to castles and manor houses and gardens and ruins and exploring them or going to...
	There was a small local theatre we used to go to and watch renditions of Shakespeare.
	And on holiday, we'd go to Cornwall and Dorset and Sussex and, you know, eat roast dinners in pubs and have scones and tea in tea rooms and have picnics on the beach and all the rest of it.
	These very...
	Stereotypical English pursuits.
	We would watch Fawlty Towers and Alan Partridge and listen to The Beatles and Oasis and read The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and all this sort of thing.
	I think it was a revealed preference because my parents didn't know what they were doing, but they were just giving me what they thought was a good upbringing.
	It was a phenomenal, fantastic upbringing.
	I wouldn't have had it any other way.
	And I want to give my own children that same gift, right?
	The gift of an English childhood.
	But I fear that that is going away.
	And so I think that...
	The right, in general, needs to understand that the question, the fundamental question, when it comes to we Zoomers, is one of identity.
	Because we wonder why kind of left-wing identity politics has been so big over the last ten years.
	And it's partly because it's been propped up by power.
	It's partly because it's been centred and funded by, you know, large, powerful organisations.
	But it's also because we're looking.
	For identity.
	And so the first thing that comes our way, whether that is, you know, the climate stuff or the race stuff or the gender stuff or whatever, or the LGBT or the rest of it, you know, we're going to jump at that.
	At that chance.
	But actually, I say that the right should be embracing identity.
	And we should be saying, look, these nouveau sources of identity that you're being offered by the power structure that currently governs us, it doesn't have your best interests at heart.
	And ultimately, on the other end of them, you're not going to find a sense of belonging.
	Actually, where you will find a sense of belonging is in those traditional sources of identity that the power structure has told us to avoid and to ignore and to regard as being oppressive and backwards and old-fashioned.
	Things like the family.
	And so that's why, as much as I say the majority of young people are not political, and as much as I say that there is still a liberal outlook for the majority of them, whether they realise it or not, there is a revealed preference coming through now for these traditional sources of identity as things continue to,
	frankly, decline.
	Because we need a refuge from the kind of chaos of the modern world.
	And I think that refuge will be, inevitably, in tradition.
	And so I think that it is, as much as things, as much as the Zoomers are decried and derided as being kind of a bit pathetic and a bit weak and all the rest of it, I really do believe that it is going to be our generation that finds and rekindles these things that are actually foundational to civilization.
	And so I suppose I'll leave it there.
	my point here is that i think that we too often are prepared to come down on young people as being you know stupid and out of touch and clueless about the world and maybe that's true and maybe part of that is because of the education that we've been through but actually our desires
	are not particularly different to any other generation we just want to belong and well i think we're finding where belonging actually is and it's in things like family and nation and tradition
	Yes.
	To some...
	Go to the pub with your mates.
	That's where you'll find community and values and friendship and all sorts of great things.
	And you can have fun while you're at it.
	And that's what you should be doing if you're a young person, spending time with your friends and having fun.
	DragonLadyChris says, Congratulations, Charlie.
	I think you've taken Ben Shapiro's speed-talking crown from...
	I was trying to squeeze it all in in half an hour.
	Glad you're here.
	You're my second favorite Lotus Eaters guest.
	Only second?
	Oh my goodness.
	What a heartwarming praise.
	Logan17pine says...
	In me is two voices.
	One says to burn it all down and the other one says we must return to the 1600s.
	Bit of a modernist, are you?
	Jester says, how does English history sound so similar to American history, bad king, civil war, World War II, civil rights?
	Because we are a vassal state of America and therefore have an Americanized education system.
	A. Miller says, lived reality, you mean experience, you stop using leftist news.
	I disagree.
	We need to co-opt these phrases from them.
	I'll tell you another one we need to co-opt is the word progress because the left do not offer progress anymore They've owned that concept for 50 years But actually this idea of going back this kind of conservatism needs to be dispensed with on the right because the only way is forward The question is one of direction
	I don't want to conserve a set of Blair White institutions.
	which is a very Italian perspective you're putting forward I'll leave it at that and Hedonism says the media pundits and everyone really all said the exact same things about millennials 10 years ago and they now say about Gen Z they're woke they're lazy they're becoming more right wing etc there's
	a priest
	Set selection of stock phrases that...
	Older generations used to describe the younger generations, whereas I think there's a lot more similarity between these generations than people would like.
	The biggest difference between, say, millennials or old millennials and Zoomers is the technological access, really.
	The access to phones 24-7.
	Logan again says, I'll be happy with the return of the 1950s.
	Not going to happen, sadly.
	There's no return.
	The only way out is through.
	But we can bring the best of that time with us forward.
	We can't return to it, but actually...
	Some of the things from that time.
	We might get something like the 50s if you go through something like some of the earlier decades.
	Well, perhaps.
	Skittenhunt says, you can join the US military pretty easily as a foreigner and get citizenship.
	My husband served with several Brits and other immigrants.
	Our military will take anyone.
	They even ask me.
	So there's an option for you.
	Are you willing to die for a certain ally?
	No.
	Oh, never mind then.
	Are you willing to blow up brown people in the Middle East is a better question.
	I'm a Christian.
	I don't think that's very good.
	Okay, all right, okay.
	All right, keep your secrets.
	J.M. Denton, anecdotally, the most friendly and base people I meet in public in Texas are Zoomers.
	Well, that's good to hear, because politeness, amicability, being able to be friendly with people are underappreciated virtue.
	And if I could just say very quickly on that, the friendly point.
	This, I think, is another aspect of Zoomer identity that people don't talk about enough, is we have grown up in this extremely ironic, you know, irreverent culture that doesn't take anything seriously.
	Anything taken seriously is viewed...
	Just something to be kind of made fun of.
	But actually, that's giving us an appetite for authenticity.
	And so I think you're finding an increasing cohort of Zoomers, again, a minority, who are just kind of unashamedly nice.
	And I know that sounds almost really trite, but actually, it's true.
	Most of my friends are people that I would consider nice, but then again, I am...
	That's good.
	That's positive.
	To be fair, the sort of people I grew up with did all embrace kind of a...
	Post-irony, trying to be as edgy as possible, whilst being very, very, very, very cynical, and now have flipped from their old edgy ways, the trolls regret i-dubs thing, where now they're all raging leftists.
	And that...
	Inbuilt cynicism to all of them.
	The way that they all just had a lot of hate in their hearts has really come through and it makes them very unpleasant to be around so I've abandoned a lot of them.
	I don't blame you.
	And a lot of the people I hang out with now are people I just unironically get along with.
	It's nice.
	You should try it too.
	Yes.
	Anyway, let's see if I can speed through this last segment now, talking about the judicial block aid that has erected itself against all of Donald Trump's executive orders.
	Of course, at the beginning of his administration this year, Donald Trump put forward a load of executive orders that were supposed to pull back a lot of the woke DEI kind of things that were going through American institutions at the time.
	And still are in many cases.
	And what we have found is that there is, unsurprisingly, as many people predicted at the time, a large cohort of activist Democrat judges who are putting through federal blocks.
	Now, I looked into this just to make sure that I wouldn't misrepresent it.
	I'm not American.
	I'm not entirely up to date with how the system works over there.
	But from my understanding, the executive orders can be challenged in court if groups put lawsuits against them.
	And what can happen is that the lawsuits and the lawyers who are administering them can shop out for particular judges who will go along with them.
	And if they find a judge who agrees with the lawsuit, they can put forward a temporary injunction, which blocks that executive order.
	I'm completely mystified by this, because an executive order is an order of the executive.
	Yes, but given the separation of powers from the judiciary and the executive, one can override the other.
	The judiciary, in the form, in many cases, of a single federal judge upon receiving a lawsuit, if they agree with the lawsuit and don't dismiss it, they can put that temporary injunction.
	That's the way it's being interpreted.
	But, I mean, really, there are three branches of government in the US, and you really need two of them to gang up on one of the other ones in order to force a decision.
	Whereas the executive seems to be acquiescing to these insane judges rather than taking the Andrew Draxon route, which is to say, OK, well, thanks for your judgment, but how are you going to enforce it?
	Have you got an army?
	No, you haven't.
	You and his army.
	Well, there is the institutional aspect of it, which is that the institution is the presidency to maintain legitimacy is always trying to work.
	within the rules.
	Donald Trump, through the executive order, was trying to change the rules and bend some of the rules, and they still are to get around some of these temporary injunctions.
	But realistically, the conservative side in America and...
	Britain and everywhere else has been too addicted to the rules for a very very long time when the rules have been purposefully established to subvert anything that the right would actually want.
	The purpose of a system is what it is.
	And if we take that mantra and apply it to this, well, the American judicial system appears to want to make sure that your kids are brainwashed, that illegals have more rights than you, and that they can vote in your elections.
	Because, as we can see here, in the last 24 hours, judges, federal judges through temporary injunctions, have ordered the Trump admin to bring back illegal aliens from El Salvador, restore funds to schools practicing DEI, restore funds to sanctuary cities,
	None of those are questions for the judiciary.
	All of those are questions for the executive.
	Well, this is how the system works, though.
	This is sadly how it works.
	So let's look at what this is.
	And I would say, again, if that's how the system works, the whole system appears to be broken on purpose.
	Just change the system.
	Well, that's what people are trying to do.
	Do they have the willpower and backbone to actually do what needs to be done to change the system?
	We'll find out.
	What I would say is the system is broken either on purpose or it was, more likely, built for a nation where there is a broad consensus between what everybody agrees to and the rules that everybody abides by and much less division.
	So America, as it stands right now, is not a country that fits the system that was put in place for it 250 years ago.
	That's the sad fact of it.
	You can't have a nation like America right now under the rules that America was set up with because it's just a very very different country.
	Is the box working?
	The box is not working.
	The mouse is working.
	So here we go.
	Oh, bloody hell.
	I'm boomering it, Dan.
	You've infected me.
	You've infected me with your blasted boomerisms.
	You're a boomer, really, aren't you?
	Spiritually.
	Yeah, spiritual boomer.
	Anyway, so what's happened is that since the executive orders came out, there have been 170 lawsuits filed against them, and certain judges have gone ahead and blocked some of the executive orders, like federal judge in New Hampshire.
	blocked a series of directives from the education department, including a memo, ordering an end to any practice that differentiates people based on their race and another asking for assurances that schools don't use DEI practices deemed discriminatory.
	So, is this what colourblind meritocracy looks like?
	No.
	No, it's not.
	So even the 90s ideal is being blocked by the judiciary at the moment.
	In another case out of Maryland, the admin was ordered to facilitate the return of a man who was deported to El Salvador last month, despite having a
	Pending asylum application.
	Because asylum, like everything else, is set up to make sure that you have foreign aliens in your country and can't get them out of your country.
	That's the whole point of it.
	U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallinger in Maryland said the government violated a 2019 settlement agreement when it deported a 20-year-old Venezuelan native only identified as...
	In Texas, a court document from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official was unsealed, revealing that migrants subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act are only getting about 12 hours to decide if they want to contest their planned deportation to a prison in El Salvador.
	The government attorneys said that they were being given 24 hours to make the decision, and the ACLU, that organization that cares so deeply about the historical American people and the well-being of the nation, says the time period violates a Supreme Court order that allows Now,
	what that includes is being given a pro bono lawyer.
	30 days to make your case, and then afterwards all of the legal fiasco that goes along with that.
	And given how many illegals there are in the country in America, the whole point of forcing the government to have to provide them with all of these privileges, not rights, because all of these people are illegal in the country in the first place, so in my...
	opinion, my esteemed opinion, should not be granted rights in the first place because you're not a citizen you broke into the country
	The whole point of giving them these privileges is to make sure that the entire system stays clogged.
	If you've got millions of people you're trying to get out of the country and every single one of them needs a lawyer, every one of them needs a certain amount of time to be able to have their due process, then the whole point is to rig the system so nothing gets done.
	Well, and again, I just want to stress this point.
	U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland does not have an army.
	And he does.
	So I'm really going to need an American to explain it to me in the comments.
	Why the hell is he going along with this?
	Just say no.
	Well, that would be a solution.
	But will he do it?
	Does he have it in him?
	People have been complaining about Trump for a while now, that he's been backing down on quite a few things, such as the tariffs and such as some of these peace talks with Putin and Zelensky.
	So it's a misinterpretation to say he's backing down on the tariffs.
	Well, some people are claiming that that's what he's doing.
	And so the question is, does he have the backbone to back up his bark with a bite?
	So, I mean, if he just defies the judges, then, like I say, it takes the other two branches of government, the judiciary and the legislative, to act against him.
	But if they lose the House and the Senate, they're going to impeach him anyway.
	So they might as well be impeached for defying the...
	Defying the judges.
	So you're saying that he might as well get what needs to be done, done, and then face the consequences afterwards?
	Yes.
	Well, let's see some of the judges themselves who are putting this through.
	Can you guess?
	It is Obama-appointed judge making sure that your schools still have DEI in them.
	Obama-appointed judge making sure that you've got sanctuary cities still.
	Clinton-appointed judge saying that you need to make sure that they have due process if you're illegally in the country.
	So, yeah, again.
	Yeah, a pro bono lawyer, 30 days notice, and a hearing before removing them.
	So, again, with the amount of illegals that there are in the country, that's going to make sure that the entire system is completely clogged up.
	Of course, the ACLU didn't really care all that much when it was Obama doing this, because they are...
	Biased.
	These are not neutral actions, because the whole point of the separation of powers was this idea that each of the institutions within them would be broadly neutral.
	But the system is so...
	How'd that work out?
	Yeah, exactly.
	That was a fantasy.
	In the words of Adam Curtis.
	Which means that what you actually get is a load of activists on one side or the other and lawyers shopping out for the activist judges that will give them what they want.
	So the entire system is broken and rigged to make sure that nothing productive ever gets done, but allows for the gradual shift of things ever leftwards to make sure that the country is unrecognisable.
	Because as far as I'm aware, I've never been to America, but from what I can tell, even people in America America who've been there say that it's unrecognizable from what it was 50, 60 years ago.
	As is the case with most Western nations.
	And another Clinton-appointed district judge blocking the citizenship one.
	If we look at the article talking about this, I keep pressing the box, but it's not working.
	So, after Trump issued an executive order last month preserving and protecting the integrity of American elections, three separate lawsuits were filed in the D.C. Federal Court to challenge the policy, including lawsuits filed by the Democratic National Committee with the help of...
	Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the League of United Latin American Citizens, and the NAACP.
	So all of these are self-interested parties.
	There's nothing neutral or constitutional about this.
	The Latin American citizens want to make sure that, hey, my cousin SA, he needs to get in to vote, eh?
	The NAACP want to make sure that their constituents, who may not have...
	ID, for some reason, can vote, and the Democrat, the DNC, want to make sure that their natural constituents, illegals, can vote.
	That's all this is.
	That's all this is, and they just shop out to judges who will say, yep, sounds good to me.
	And do we think that these judges are just useful idiots?
	Because I don't think that, I mean, I think that these people are just true believers.
	No, no, I don't think they're useful idiots.
	I think that they know what they're doing to the country, and that's why they're in the positions that they're in.
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	I don't know if I always buy that it is pure malice that drives these people, because I think that a lot of them genuinely believe they're doing the right thing.
	I think they are true believers.
	They're quite possibly spiteful mutants, as well as sopping from the cup of tea.
	And then, the Trump admin is still trying to get it done using some...
	Technical haggling to make sure that they can still try and get people out, because one of the things that they were doing with the Illegal Aliens Act of, what was it, 1798, was that they were trying to get rid of the Trendy Aragua gang that had infiltrated the country and was causing so much trouble last year.
	And so they're still deporting these people, and the way that they're wrangling it is that they said, well, actually, it was not the Department of Defence...
	That was able to- that kicked them out.
	Oh, sorry.
	It was not the Department of Homeland Security that deported them.
	We got the Department of Defense to do it instead because the lawsuit was only against the DHS.
	So they're still trying to find some wiggle room to make it work.
	But all that means is that the next lawsuit will make sure to include it.
	All of these departments that could potentially carry out the deportations.
	I would say, you know, we had the same problem in Britain of an overly powerful and politicised judiciary.
	And people wonder why the story that I cited in my segment about young people losing faith in democracy, why that's such a prevalent opinion.
	Because we see things like this, where the nominal executive in America can't actually do anything that are in the interests of ordinary people.
	He's trying to implement the policies that got him voted in.
	Yeah.
	Domestic policies that got him voted in where we're going to deport all of the illegals, make everything cheaper for you, and we're going to get a golden age.
	And all of the institutions, which is what whenever you see the mainstream commenters talk about what democracy is, they don't say anything about the will of the people.
	If anything, they're more likely to talk about the tyranny of the majority.
	What they'll talk about is the democratic institutions which are in place to...
	Protect against the tyranny of the majority, which means that the democratic system in itself is a complete contradiction.
	I've thought this before, actually, that when you see that clip of all the news hosts saying this is extremely dangerous for our democracy, you have to think of that in terms of, like, capital D democracy.
	They are referring to the structure itself.
	They're not referring to the system.
	Yeah, and in the same way that when we would say monarchy, we're talking about, you know, the royal family and their, you know, the kind of structure that exists around them.
	In the same way, when we say the democracy, we're talking about, well, these people.
	Yeah, I mean, because these institutions, they're staffed by people who have been...
	by politically interested actors.
	In the same way that Tony Blair started all of those NGOs that would be staffed with Blairites to make sure that they could clog up the system and make sure only Blairite things happened.
	That's what these people are trying to protect when they say the institutions, because nobody believes anymore that the institutions are just there to make sure that everybody sticks to the rules in a neutral way.
	That's not what they're there for.
	You've got a photo of an El Salvadorian prison up there.
	Bekele had this same problem with judges, is that judges were trying to wreck everything he did and he dealt with them.
	I don't know how he dealt with them.
	Didn't he just get the army to go in, arrest all of MS-13 anyway?
	No, I'm talking about the judges.
	Oh, the judges.
	Oh, okay.
	So he had the same problem with judges, and he sorted out.
	Maybe he used the army on the judges as well.
	I don't know.
	But whatever he did, do that.
	But Harry, like you said, it just comes back to will.
	It comes back to the kind of person who's going to stare down the barrel and not blink when they're challenged.
	If it comes to a state of crisis, and I think there is a national emergency...
	In America, I think there's a national emergency in many countries in the West.
	It comes to the point of who's willing to actually exercise executive power to get done what needs to be done.
	Well, that's...
	I mean, in Britain, certainly, I'm of the belief that a state of emergency is necessary to get past all the nonsense.
	People point out the state of emergency has been used in America for something like the Patriot Act.
	We've had states of emergency declared to make sure that we can get lots of really bad stuff done.
	The point is, well, yes, if our enemies are going to do that to hurt us...
	Then we should be firing back with...
	Well, it's a tool in the toolbox, right?
	And for so long, the right have been so scared of exercising any kind of political tool, whether that's the state or using, for example...
	Well, that would make us just as bad as then.
	Oh, you're so right.
	I hadn't considered that.
	No, we need to be worse.
	No, I'm serious.
	We need to be much worse.
	We just need to be prepared to play the same game as them.
	You're alright, because listen to these people who have been deported against the wishes of the courts and what it was that they did.
	So this was four men who were all members of Trenderagua, so immediately...
	Some South American, Central American gang you don't want in the country in the first place because they are criminals.
	So, each of the four men were identified as members.
	According to the declaration of Tracy Huttle, a unit chief of field operations with ICE, one man admitted he was a member of the gang and that he recruited prostitutes for the organization, and another was charged with multiple crimes, including a discharge of firearm and theft.
	Another man is allegedly a sex offender who is charged with human...
	So they're all...
	Violent sex offender, criminal, drug trafficking, human trafficking gang members, and the system, the due process system, would have you believe that it's only fair to waste the American taxpayers' time and money by making sure they get their day in court.
	Some, I assume, are good people.
	Yeah, so, because, remember, deporting criminals is literally...
	The Holocaust, according to places like The Forward.
	Now, this article is exactly what you expect it to be.
	Yom HaShoah has taught us that we need to be kind to criminals.
	I don't want to read anything in the article.
	I want you to pay attention to this photo.
	Christy Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, looks at men deported under President Donald Trump's administration during a tour of the Seacot prison in El Salvador online.
	Now, they say you can't identify members of MS-13 based on their tattoos.
	There's no signifiers that men with tattoos happen to be a member of MS-13.
	Could they be making that argument?
	Because if you look at the tattoos...
	There's a big MS. Well, maybe all of those guys with their shirt off in the front row.
	Maybe they just shop at Marks& Spencers.
	Maybe.
	Perhaps they're big Michael Sheen fans.
	Could be, yeah.
	Yeah, we've got MS. MS. MS. MS. Back here.
	MS. Could it be that, very similar to MS-13 in El Salvador itself, they tattoo all over their own bodies, saying...
	I am a violent rapist and criminal who is a member of the gang MS-13.
	Might that have something to do with why it's so easy to identify them and why the liberal media is so eager to convince everybody that tattoos have nothing to do with it?
	Because it's kind of a hole-in-one, isn't it, when you look at a guy who's got MS tattooed on him?
	Well, maybe they're right.
	I mean, my great-aunt Nora had a massive...
	MS tattoo all across her back.
	Maybe it's got nothing to do with being in the gang.
	It's just something that people do.
	Maybe.
	Maybe it's just shits and giggles.
	After all, remember, because a lot of these kinds of opinion piece articles by Michelle Goldberg in the New York Times is trying to convince everybody that all of these tattoos, they're just related to families.
	Like, one of these people, this gay tattoo artist from Venezuela, he just happened to be covered in tattoos that seem to be familiar with Trend Eragua members, because it's all about family.
	All of the tattoos are supposed to be sentimental family tattoos, and they point out in here, around 90% of the migrants sent to Seacott have no criminal records, aside from immigration or traffic violation.
	That's because they killed the police every time they went near them.
	That just means they've not been caught yet.
	But again, I don't care.
	You've got tattooed on your body that you are a gang member.
	Get the hell out of America.
	And, yeah, so hopefully Donald Trump can stay the course and exert strength, power, willpower to be able to carry on deporting these people, because I think it's still in the numbers of between 200 to 300 who have been deported right now.
	When you have violent criminals like this in your country, it needs to be in the realm of...
	20,000 to 30,000.
	I like this bit of the judge stuff, because once they've gone to El Salvador, there is literally nothing the US judge can do about it.
	Apart from possibly convince the US to invade El Salvador in order to get them back.
	Because El Salvador doesn't give these people back once they've come in.
	No, there have been reports of Seacott, to be fair to what the Liberals are saying.
	It does seem to be a pretty brutal prison, but you need to be brutal to violent gang members who were terrorising your country.
	They don't deserve your sympathy.
	It's not justice.
	You say it's brutal.
	A couple of hundred years ago, these men would have been hung or shot or...
	One step at a time, Dan.
	One step at a time.
	This is not brutal.
	This is...
	This is lenient.
	Yes.
	This is far too lenient for the likely crimes that these men have committed, they are getting off easy.
	Yeah, so that's why the judicial system in America is broken.
	I will read through the rumble rants and then we can go through the video comments if we have any.
	So A. Miller says, let's beat the left by using their words.
	By using their words, you are more easily influenced by them as you won't automatically recognize it as leftist wokery.
	I think that's related to you.
	Yeah, I mean...
	I just don't agree.
	I mean, I think that we need to be owning these concepts that are actually quite useful for us to use.
	Like, you know, lived reality was the one that you cited before.
	And that's actually an extremely useful tool, rhetorically, to throw at people, because it's quite convincing.
	And, you know, that's why the left have used it.
	And this is the point.
	Like, we need to be learning from those who have been effective in the political arena.
	And the left have been supremely effective over the last 50 years.
	And whilst I agree that we need to have our own kind of political lexicon...
	At the same time, what's lost for using terms that are effective?
	And actually, I think they have stolen so much rhetorical ground from us.
	They've taken so many ideas and words and all the rest of it.
	I mean, even the concept of Britain and Britishness, that's now a left-wing concept because it is defined as values and all the rest of it.
	Why should we surrender these things to them?
	I think it speaks to a weakness, not wanting to take back what's ours.
	Josie Angels says, Fed judges are funded by Congress, so that's on Johnson.
	Remember Trump is stress-testing systems, and now Jay Roberts has shown his true colours.
	Interesting. And hedonism, when every action the executive takes can be stopped and even altered by the judiciary, there is no longer a co-equal executive.
	Rather, the unelected judiciary has usurped the legislative and executive.
	I think that's correct, and it's to the point that Dan was making.
	Logan, is it too much to ask for that the much-needed reforms be allowed?
	We don't want to become the Balkans in my lifetime.
	Better get used to the Balkans, you're living in it.
	Yeah, Sigilstone has sent two in, so I'll read both out.
	American judges have decided to become a nightmarish combination of Brazilian judicial tyrants and British local councils, and a former judge and his wife just got arrested for harbouring illegals.
	Well, imagine my shock.
	In a world where we need Judge Dredd, instead we got a Justice Department full of Judge Doom, the little evil cartoon from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
	Yeah.
	Josie again says, also his latest executive order has ended a policy that precludes institutions from having standards if those standards cause harm.
	This hobble had a huge impact under the surface.
	Well, hopefully something good comes from that.
	And hedonism replaced democracy with bureaucracy and all the leftist statements suddenly become perpetrators
	Yes, do we have any video comments, Samson?
	Drumroll, please.
	I have no idea what he just said.
	Did he say something?
	I think he mumbled into the microphone.
	Right, okay.
	That's what I got from it.
	I'm going to presume that there were no video comments, so...
	Oh, there are, there are.
	Okay.
	Ever the professionals.
	Didn't we get this yesterday, or is it a new one?
	Hello again.
	I hope the podcast wasn't too blackpilled today.
	When I am complete, the mechnomancer is gonna try to sell kits of me and send lotus eaters a fully assembled one as a gift.
	Wouldn't an AI co-host be fun?
	Visit Nimechworks on YouTube for redneck cyberpunk fun.
	That is very clever.
	Yeah.
	We look forward to when you're done.
	So I just wanted to share my art journey because it's Friday and it's wholesome and I made my first light study in digital painting and look at this!
	This is amazing.
	I can't believe I actually made this.
	This is great.
	I am really proud of myself.
	This is the second one I'm working on at the moment, and it's not coming together at all, but I think I'll finish it, and then I'll try to redo it in a year and see how much better I have become.
	It's from a good game.
	It's an excellent game.
	Keep at it.
	It's all about practice.
	Yeah. I didn't.
	Salutes.
	For those who were just listening, there was a moment of silence for Anzac Day.
	Why? Are you crazy?
	You're fucking-Fine, man.
	You're fucking-You're fucking-You're fucking-You're fucking you, bloody!
	You're fucking-You're fucking you, bloody!
	Bastard, bitch!
	You're fucking-Bloody fuck you, bloody!
	Fucking mother, bloody fuck bitch!
	Bloody fuck you, you're-Fucking bloody bastard!
	You-Benchur, bloody!
	Benchur, you-You're bloody-Leave me out to fuck the video!
	Why is it-BLOODY NO!
	Bloody fuck me!
	Why you fuck me?
	I fuck you bloody!
	Bloody bastard!
	I was waiting for somebody to make that.
	I was saying this to you this morning, Harry, wasn't I?
	When it was, you know, the US going to nuclear war with Russia, I was like, I felt deeply that that is something that must not happen.
	But now we've got India and Pakistan on the verge of going into nuclear war, I'm just thinking, well, you know, you guys have got to do what you've got to do.
	But the thing is, I mean, the serious points we made on that is that it would lead to bloodshed on the streets of Britain because we have large communities of those people here.
	Where and who?
	I don't know.
	Also, just to say, Just Cause 2, awesome game.
	I remember playing that back in the day.
	Fantastic time.
	And it's about two Indian guys.
	No, but in that context it was.
	It's mainly about grapple hooking onto exploding things and then destroying explosions.
	With some of the most accidentally racist Asian accents you'll ever hear in a game.
	It's fantastic.
	Let's hear this one.
	This is from the Falagam area, and as you can see, it is gorgeous.
	Little knowing that high in the snow-capped mountains to the north, the spark was soon to be lit that would set Calabar ablaze.
	Here was the famous Khyber Pass, the gateway to India.
	This was a vital keypoint, guarded night and day by a detachment of the celebrated Highland Regiment, the 3rd Footenmuff.
	Fearless fighting men, aptly referred to by the natives as the Devils in Skirts.
	There are those high tea men you were talking about, Dan.
	Him in particular.
	Yeah, proper.
	And yeah, sorry, just carrying on from the last video.
	We want people to be pro-social.
	We want them to come forward if there's a crime for the worst kind of offences and drug offences or something like that.
	I think they do, and they try to, but then you do get some people that kind of take it to the extremes, and that is also resources and money.
	There's just no real easy way, I think, to handle crime.
	Well, I think the loss of faith in the police is a big reason people don't intend to go forward.
	Also just the complete uselessness of the police.
	Exactly, yeah, that's what I mean, yeah.
	And somebody online says, why would you have to buy a whole business to launder the money?
	Just say that you've been doing freelance work as a furry fetish artist.
	Those guys are loaded.
	What are you talking about?
	Hey Dan, don't be pretending like you don't know.
	It's your generation that started all this.
	I don't remember this part of Fantasia.
	What do I?
	I like it though.
	I've heard about this online.
	Here, Dan.
	laughter laughter laughter
	Have we got any more?
	Is that it, Samson?
	Oh, we've got more.
	Sorry, what do you mean?
	My generation in 1940s cartoon.
	What are you talking about?
	Well, you're old, aren't you?
	You're not that old.
	I am 40, not 1940s.
	You've got grey in your hair.
	You're pretty old to me.
	Continuous one-shot camera work in adolescence.
	A is hardly immersive.
	And B feels more like a means of justifying extra filler and padding in what is a generally highly contrived, poorly written,
	and rather rushed story.
	Yeah, those criticisms actually line up with ER, who put out a video on adolescence, I think, last week that I watched, where he was complaining that the camera work is kind of trying to show off just for the sake of showing off and be technically impressive, when in fact it means that most of the shots are very poorly composed,
	and half of the show is you following behind people as they travel from one location to the other so they can maintain the one shot.
	So it's completely filler and makes the camera work very unsatisfying.
	I'm not surprised to hear that even if people were going on about how, ooh, it's all done in one shot, isn't that impressive?
	No, not if it doesn't actually add anything.
	I haven't watched it.
	Skitterhund in the chat.
	No, I am a Gen X, not a Millennial.
	Don't sully me with that.
	Anyway, that's all we've got time for.
	No comments?
	We've got Zoom call in half an hour, mate, so we need to get going.
	I like the comments.
	Well, you'll have to like them next week.
	Thanks very much for watching.
	Thank you very much for joining us, Charlie.
	Always a pleasure.
	You can find me at cfdowns underscore on all social media platforms, and you can also read my work at the mail and also on my website, cfdowns.uk.
	Wonderful.
	Well, check Charlie out where you can find him, and we'll be back in, well, Dan and Selye will still be back in half an hour for the Gold Tier Zoom call, so Gold members, tune in for that.
	Thank you very much for watching.

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