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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast The Loot Seaters for Monday.
	It's Monday, but this is a good Monday.
	It's the 21st of July, and I'm joined by Bo and Luca.
	And today, we are talking about how things are escalating in Epping, how the Japanese have decided, yeah, we are actually hard right as well, and how the late night comedians are getting cancelled because they suck.
	So basically, right, this is a really good news episode of the podcast.
	So, you know, it might be Monday, but we're setting up for what's looking like a good week, hopefully.
	Anyway, right, well, let's get into Epping.
	Yeah, alright, then.
	So, I covered at the end of last week the first episode in this whole Epping saga, which is really the point now, that this is becoming a consistent thing, right?
	There's actually, it wasn't just a once and done, oh, we've been there, we've shown our rage and our ire, and now we're all going to go away.
	No, people, it goes on saying one of the articles, this is the fourth protest in less than two weeks now, right?
	Fourth protest in less than two weeks.
	And so what we're seeing is the community really coming together and snapping, basically.
	They're saying we're not leaving until they leave, until those in the hotels are packed up and sent off, essentially.
	I mean, well, the thing is about the people of Epping is where else do they have to go?
	Right.
	Like, as I understand, there are a lot of them who are from London.
	They're kind of refugees from London.
	Yes.
	They've already had to flee once because of the diversification of their towns.
	So what are they going to do?
	Keep retreating?
	No.
	Good that they're out.
	It's actually kind of my neck of the woods, Essex, Deepest Essex.
	I've been to Ethne Forest loads of time, Debden, Thaden, Bois, all around there.
	I know that place really quite well.
	It's actually, there's a parallel with the men of Essex rising up in the Peasants' Revolt.
	That was where the epicentral thought that was around Brentwood and Bocking and places like that.
	So it's like the Northern Irish are like the most hardcore, the first to really snap.
	And then it's the Essex boys.
	Something in the water in those streams.
	Something in the South End estuary, no doubt.
	But you can see here from this article that the Labour reopened this particular hotel.
	So the Tories closed it towards the end of their very, you know, traitorous term in office.
	And then Labour reopened it again, right?
	Which is even more ridiculous.
	That you've given the people this illusion that they've actually won and that the streets are going to return to peace and normality.
	And then psych, here they come again.
	Here they come again.
	Just as a reminder, this all began because one of the migrants from wherever was accused of sexually assaulting three times, three children, right?
	Yes.
	And hadn't been in the country for, had only been here for a few weeks.
	I needed to laugh, but that is a weird commitment.
	I saw you wait a month.
	I saw somewhere it was eight days.
	Yeah.
	So that suggests.
	That was why he came here.
	Yeah.
	He had that in mind when he came here.
	Yeah.
	And but also on top of all of this, like obviously we know all about the hotels.
	We've been covering them for years and years.
	But even now, as the Telegraph talks about, questions about migrant hotels prevented under council's privacy rules.
	So you don't actually have to announce to your community or the local neighbourhood that this is about to just spring up and cause untold anxiety and worry for your children just in the middle of your neighborhood overnight.
	It just springs up.
	It's like the Tories sneaking in how many thousands of Afghans.
	They're hoping they can just dump these in your community and you won't notice.
	Like, sorry.
	I mean, eight days and he's touching kids.
	We're going to notice.
	You know, these people are visible.
	And also from the same article, it points out that there are now thought to be more than 200 similar hotels across the UK housing about 32,000 people at a projected cost of 15 billion by 2029, which is five times the annual cost of Britain's nuclear deterrent.
	Just to put that into perspective.
	Right.
	I mean, you talk about how they dump it in the middle of your community without asking.
	Yeah, I remember when there's one not a stone's throw from here that was used.
	There was, and it got closed down.
	And yeah, I remember when it first happened, like literally one day, you turn up and there was, I think they must have been doing a fire drill or something because they were all standing, hundreds of all young men standing outside waiting.
	And so I went to the police station.
	There was a police community building in the middle of Swindon, which is also now closed.
	And I said, I went in there and I said, like, you know, there's like this migrant hotel thing going on.
	Like, are they vetted?
	Or asked questions like that.
	And they were immediately completely defensive, saying, well, how do you know?
	How do you know they're not here legally and stuff?
	And basically shut up and go away.
	So that was the police's attitude.
	And the council, of course, never consulted anyone.
	Of course.
	How do you know they're not here legally?
	Everybody knows.
	Everybody knows.
	Obviously.
	It's ridiculous.
	So as regards to the recent protests that we had yesterday on Sunday, so another day in Epping, another protest.
	And as you can see here, it was five arrested as more than 1,000 protesters gathered.
	So it's picking up.
	More people are coming out now.
	More and more people showing solidarity, showing strength, showing how they're just done with this.
	Absolutely done with this in their community.
	Just a quick thing on that.
	I very much appreciate that this is local community action.
	I agree.
	There are lots of people online who, big right-wing names.
	I actually do agree that we shouldn't be going and getting involved.
	These guys seem to have this.
	Do.
	And it's more powerful when it's the local community.
	If we were to go and get involved, this would make it about us and not them and not the issue.
	And I mean, look at what they're saying.
	You know, send them home, save our kids.
	Yeah, I completely sign off on this message.
	Completely agree with them.
	Completely support Them.
	I don't need to get involved.
	They're handling it.
	They are.
	They are handling it.
	And the police are certainly not handling it, right?
	Every day that these wonderful local people come out and protest this, the police just look worse and worse every time, which is also good.
	What's the argument on the other side?
	Well, you need to keep the rapey noncy migrants near your schools.
	The police just act as some sort of private army on behalf of sex criminals.
	Yeah.
	A concise but obviously accurate summary.
	Like, what else would you describe as?
	Well, it's when he says, in an apparent response to allegations that the police had taken a two-tier approach that favoured the counter-demonstration, that.
	Sorry, did any of the counter-demonstration get run over?
	Or get their teeth knocked out.
	And let's not forget that the counter-demonstration were literally getting bussed in in a way by the police themselves.
	The allegations are two-tier.
	Oh, shut up.
	Because they were locals who needed bus rides to get to the site.
	No, no, not at all.
	And so it says that, let's say, Chief Superintendent Simon Onslow said, unfortunately, across social media, we are seeing inflammatory comments which suggest that we are supporting and enabling certain protesters.
	Well, only because you were caught on camera doing that, Simon.
	Getting in your vans there.
	This is categorically not true.
	We police without fear or favour, remaining impartial at all times and have legal responsibilities.
	Yes, we know you have those responsibilities.
	We're pointing out you're failing at them terribly.
	We know the rhetoric, but we don't believe you.
	No.
	It's that simple.
	No, not at all.
	And, of course, this, no matter how peaceful they are, and we'll come to that.
	They really want to hammer down on the sheer thuggery of the Essex man.
	Far-right thuggery.
	Far-right man.
	There's no other kind of thuggery, really, though.
	Let's bear in mind.
	That's a good point.
	And what I love, though, we've arrived at the now we need to smear these people stage of the events, right?
	Yeah, no, people don't want their children being molested by foreigners.
	And they, I mean, you know, above all other things.
	And it's like, right, yeah, well, they're far right.
	It's like, you know what?
	I think you do think they're far right.
	I think that you actually think that the sort of people who don't want their children molested by Ahmed or whatever are far right.
	Yeah, maybe that maybe that's true, but that says a lot about you rather than them.
	What an unbelievably perverse paradigm it is.
	Yes.
	That if you're against sex crime, then you're the problem.
	If you're against supporting sex criminals.
	Right, yeah.
	Even when you're forcing people to pay for the pleasure of having them near their local schools and molesting their kids, they're the problem.
	Yeah.
	Again, like, I put out a video the other day.
	So, look, the British state is just the enemy of England and the English people.
	Right.
	And I couldn't think of a better example to show.
	It's like, yeah, no, they're going to tax you, use this money to bring in foreign criminals who are going to assault your children.
	And then they're going to call you the problem when you complain.
	You know, yeah, you are the enemy of the people.
	100%.
	Like, Rupert Lowe is completely correct to identify the state as the enemy at this point.
	It's great that it shifted to the point where the slurs, the slings and arrows, don't really have much effect anymore.
	That if you're in favor of protecting children, then you get called a bigger, a Nazi, a little Hitler, whatever.
	You're like, yeah, sure, fine, yeah.
	Okay, whatever.
	Well, is there really any higher good than just protecting children?
	No.
	Right?
	No.
	Like, it's transparently not.
	But what I love is that they literally are saying, you're in the way of us molesting children.
	Like, we bring these people in to molest children.
	You're a bigot for not like.
	Well, I'm sorry that that's your goal.
	And I'm sorry that that makes me a bigot, but I'm not going to back down from my position on this just because you think that makes me a bigot.
	I mean, maybe, I don't know, but I'm not moving from this position.
	And that's just where it is.
	Sorry.
	No, not at all.
	How's this for a threat, though?
	From Onslow, where he says, our cells, which have been filling up throughout the evening, are ready for you.
	Oh, wow.
	They're not ready for the sex criminals.
	No, well, he goes on to say, it says, I think I speak for all of us, including the people of Epping, when I say we've had enough of your criminality.
	The criminals are in the hotels.
	What?
	They are the criminals.
	What are you talking about?
	Right.
	Just fantasy land.
	Total fantasy land.
	Notice the threat.
	The state sees you as the enemy.
	They're like, no, it's just like with Southport.
	We are going to come for you.
	It's going to be 24-hour courts.
	We are going to make sure no resources are left unallocated to persecute you, to stamp you down.
	You are the danger to the current paradigm.
	Not the imported sex criminals.
	They're part of the current paradigm.
	These people, though, they're the problem.
	No.
	And well, even just a practical government, a pragmatic government would have looked at what happened in Southport and, you know, the riots and everything that happened after and gone, okay, really need to get on top of this now.
	But no, it's just been allowed to continue.
	And we're still here, years and years down the road, Tory and Labour.
	Well, a practical government wouldn't come across any of these problems.
	I'd be like, no, we're not importing a bunch of sex criminals.
	Why are we doing this?
	Well, I agree with you, of course, but I just simply mean for the state's own self-preservation.
	But you are right to emphasise a practical government doesn't do this, right?
	This is an ideological government.
	This is a government that's like, no, we are protecting the human rights of sex criminals.
	That's more important than the innocence of your children.
	And that's what we're going to threaten you with.
	We are going to threaten you with jail, so you won't even be around to protect your children.
	What I think to say, that quote you read out from that policeman, it's the inverse of justice, isn't it?
	Yes, it is.
	Again, the word perverse comes to mind.
	They've perverted what justice means.
	So you have here the police arriving yesterday, and it's just the numbers that they're bringing in to protect this hotel.
	It's not a huge town.
	No expense will be spared to protect the clients of the regime.
	And so you have this, the mounting, but then when you look at just the people who were turning up yesterday...
	Save our kids!
	Very powerful message.
	Very powerful message.
	I see John Wong there.
	John Wong writes here.
	Yeah, yeah, he's obviously recording.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But yeah, no, it's concerned mums and dads.
	Right.
	And actually, I'm very hopeful by just how many women there are out there, by how many mothers as well.
	It's not just the fathers coming out now.
	It's, you know, the women as well.
	Normal folk of the area who don't want this happening to them.
	A true grassroots movement of people.
	So you can see why the left hates it.
	Like, Jesus Christ.
	Kind of that.
	Would you say it's a populist?
	It's like actual.
	I mean, I wouldn't even say, I wouldn't call it ideological.
	You don't really seem to have many leaders or any leader.
	It's actually just a true grassroots.
	I mean, it seems to be based in sort of pre-politics, right?
	It's like, look, this is our community.
	We are all related to one another in some way.
	We're friends, neighbours, family members.
	And a bunch of strangers have been allowed to come here and predate on our children.
	And we don't want that.
	We're not going to have it.
	And we're going to stand up for our kids.
	So it doesn't seem to be like an ideological or political movement.
	It seems to be a natural reaction that a normal community holds.
	Funny, because some people have argued that such things don't ever happen, that that's a delusion.
	Well, the question of it doing anything in the long run is the question, I think.
	I agree with that point, but this is, let's face it, a smaller scale project, right?
	This is all informed by just one objective that everyone in the community can get behind, close this hotel.
	Yes.
	Right.
	And protect the kids.
	It's basic, it's simple, it's pure.
	And so I think that that will give it legs because it's not a complicated issue.
	There's not really any minutiae or having to quander on the morals of it.
	Yeah, there's no moral argument on the other side.
	Right.
	That's the thing.
	It's like, look, we don't want a bunch of strangers who want to touch our kids.
	I mean, the hotel is right next to the school as well.
	Around the corner.
	What the hell do you think you're doing?
	And so there's just no moral argument in favor of what the government and the police are doing here.
	And the moral calculus, the weight of the argument is entirely on the protester side.
	So I completely agree with you.
	We don't need to think about big picture things here.
	This is just the battle for rapping here.
	And the locals should win.
	They should.
	And they're doing very well.
	Although I do have, I agree with Morgoth's point.
	For some reason, this clip isn't playing.
	But you see a bunch of the chaps out there with flares.
	And I agree with Morgoth on this, that they need to stop using these smoke flare things because it codes as a conflict zone, which is precisely why the press is leading with these sorts of images.
	Yeah.
	And it makes the protesters look less wholesome and homely, right?
	You know, just the mums out with the signs is perfect.
	It is.
	It's more than enough.
	They can't win against that kind of optics.
	And then I saw you earlier, Carl, quote-tweeting this.
	And I actually wanted to bring attention to it because I thought it was a really important point that you see here.
	I won't play it.
	It's just a guy.
	Just so people can see, you know, screwing around.
	Come on, boys!
	Peace.
	I'm a no-brainer.
	Carl, you had a point on this.
	I think so.
	Yeah.
	About the fact that, look, this is serious, right?
	This isn't a lark.
	This isn't a jolly.
	This is not a serious person who is in harmony with the actual messaging of what's going on here.
	Right?
	This guy doesn't come across as trustworthy.
	Responsible.
	No.
	Like he actually cares about the issue.
	Right.
	So he shouldn't be there.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Especially when things are going really, really strongly, as I say.
	You know, every time.
	I mean, just look at this from Sky News.
	This is remarkable.
	I read this entire article in utter bewilderment because it talks about, even though the headline talks about it being a flashpoint of frustration, you go through this article and this is Sky News and saying that this is a fourth protest.
	There are no signs of far right or left that have travelled.
	Instead, it was locals, families sat on the grass, multi-generations of them, kids playing in the sunshine, tradesmen brought their lorries, allowed to protect our kids.
	That is just the sort of thing.
	This reporting is just unthinkable five years ago.
	Like everything that we ever did, they were just like, far right, far right, far right.
	And now there was no sign of far left, far right.
	Instead, it was locals.
	You couldn't ask for better headlines.
	Give them nothing.
	Exactly.
	It's perfect.
	You couldn't ask for better reporting.
	Like, shocked that it's come from Sky, frankly.
	Even Sky, like, God, are we really defending the foreign pedos?
	Are we really standing up with that?
	Are we?
	Well, you have been, Skye.
	Well, yeah, they have been.
	Yeah.
	You wrote this article out of interest.
	Yeah.
	Dan Whitehead.
	Okay.
	Whitehead.
	Okay.
	Never heard of him.
	Dan the man.
	Yeah, well done, Dan.
	It goes on to say that, yes, talking to one of the locals, she says, I've got a 16-year-old daughter.
	I worry about her in my local area.
	It's right on your doorstep.
	We've got people here and we don't know who they are.
	And that these protests are obviously just the latest flashpoint.
	So perhaps revealing, revealed within this, the article itself, actually, within its title, is that sense now that the legacy media are actually becoming more aware of this genuine anger and their complicity in it.
	And that perhaps, I'm speculating here, but they are afraid of, well, what this might mean for them in the future.
	Right?
	I mean, look at this.
	Overall, this event on Sunday was peaceful.
	Residents are simply angry about events that have unfolded here in recent weeks.
	Again, you just couldn't imagine, like, every time we ever did something just for COVID stuff, every little thing, like, you know, some prat peeing on a wall or something, so, oh, look at this.
	Terrible people.
	Look at the far right.
	It's like, we were just not capable of getting this kind of coverage.
	So whatever the good people in Epping are doing, keep doing it.
	Don't mess around.
	Just keep doing what you're doing because it's working.
	Yes.
	And this, but you can see here, I just wanted to, apparently my links are Apologies.
	But the police, well, some of the police escorting some of the illegal migrants back to the hotel.
	And you can hear the anger and venom from the crowds just watching them go by.
	What do these men think they're doing here?
	What's their plan?
	Like what you know where's he come from like Syria, fucking Morocco or wherever?
	Like what was your plan?
	Like what was the goal?
	I'm gonna break into England and suck up loads of money and the government for some reason is gonna give me all this money and then they're gonna dump me in a local community where I might touch some kids and what I don't think they're gonna come after me?
	Of course they're gonna come after you.
	What did you think was gonna happen mate?
	What I always think is remarkable is that it's like, so in this case anyway, it's rural Essex.
	Yeah.
	Like I get it if you go to somewhere in London or somewhere in Birmingham, a big city, where there's a big enclave of your type of people.
	But no, you go to some, like Epping.
	I don't want them in the show.
	It's rural Essex.
	It's a small, as you say, it's quite a small place out of the way.
	There won't be massive employment opportunities with the best will in the world.
	Yeah.
	All sorts of things.
	Why are you in rural Essex?
	Yeah.
	Why are these people, like, why are they in Cumbria?
	Why are they in, like, rural Scotland or anywhere, really?
	Even in Wiltshire here, like, Swindon.
	You came from Central Asia or something or sub-Saharan Africa and you end up in Swindon, you end up in Wiltshire.
	Syria?
	Syria to Scunthorpe.
	Yeah.
	What's going on?
	So I actually, this woman, Jack Hadfield, was down there reporting as well.
	And I think it was just really worth listening to this local mother speaking.
	My children went to Epinston John's school and I was parent governor for four years.
	Epin is a wonderful place.
	The families of the children that attend Epinston school are wonderful and wonderful.
	we're here to support the family and we're here to support our town.
	What's happening, how we're being portrayed is not correct and we're here to make a difference.
	A strong message from strong women.
	So what's the pro the Pac-R that you have here?
	We felt a lot of the press were incorrectly reporting us on Friday morning after our protest on Thursday and so we just wanted to make it really clear that we're strong women, we're mums, we're sisters, we're aunties, we're parents of the area so we're just here to support.
	No, it's the homemade signs, right?
	Unlike the stand-up to races brothers with the rent-a-mob, mass-produced signs.
	These people have got a cardboard box, because obviously they don't have the equipment to...
	We'll just paint it on this because what else have we got?
	No NGOs backing them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	No NGOs backing them.
	But yeah, just pure perfect messaging.
	Yeah.
	Perfect messaging.
	Giving them absolutely nothing.
	Just British people before boat people.
	Yeah, another homemade sign on a piece of cardboard.
	Piece of cardboard.
	And so, but obviously it's...
	All over the country.
	Take this example of Fury as 90 criminal charges are brought against 41 migrants.
	So two crimes for each of them in this taxpayer-funded hotel in London.
	And how many people can possibly be living in the hotel?
	Like two or three hundred maybe?
	When 41 of them out of like 200 have double criminal charges against them?
	You've got to ask, well, there's a problem with the people themselves, right?
	I mean, like, what proportion of people have to show this sort of level of endemic criminality?
	But we go, no, I think it's the group.
	I think it's the people we've decided to put up in these hotels.
	Endemic criminality, absolutely.
	Again, it's difficult not to come to the conclusion that that's why they're here.
	The calculation was in their homeland, oh, if I can get to Britain, then I will commit all sorts of crimes and sex crimes and take the free stuff.
	And that's why I'm doing it.
	And the human rights lawyers will protect me.
	And we've seen by their TikToks that is what they think.
	Right, and they explicitly say it often as well.
	So brazen.
	So brazen.
	And so, yeah, obviously we know that it's not just epping.
	This is obviously felt the country over in all sorts of hotels.
	As I said before, they didn't even tell them that they were going to be put up in the first place.
	These just hypes that have sprung out and all of a sudden you're going to bed every day thinking about, oh my God, is my kid going to be safe on the school walk tomorrow?
	Things that you just shouldn't have to contemplate living in the United Kingdom.
	And it's such an evil that the British state has brought them all here.
	And so obviously you get Rachel Reeves saying that, oh, we'll end the asylum hotels by 2029.
	Well, only because a different government will be in charge and we'll have to claw it away from your hands.
	Right.
	But you're not going to stop on your own.
	You've shown that many times.
	The thing is, okay, well, you need to end the use of asylum hotels.
	What's the plan then, Rachel?
	It's not deport all of these men.
	So what's the plan?
	It's going to be renting houses and putting them up in your local community still.
	Or billet them on normal people or something.
	Well, that's basically what it is.
	If they rent a house in a local community, that is basically billeting them on the normal people.
	It's like, okay, great.
	That's not what I want.
	Which is why, of course, the correct opinion comes from Rupert once again, which is people in Epping and elsewhere have every right to hold serious concerns about unvetted foreign men being placed into their communities.
	The hotel in Epping should be closed along with every other in the country and the occupants should be sent back to where they came from.
	Simple.
	Bosh.
	Lovely jubbly.
	Right.
	And so I, but I would just say, as I actually pointed out in the last segment that I did covering Epping as well, there is a petition by the local council district council leader and I would strongly encourage people to sign it because this is something that you can do to support the good work that the local people of Epping are currently doing.
	And so it's a great way to keep up the pressure.
	And I just have to commend the people of Epping for their really impressive example and their conduct.
	And it may well not be a waste of time or energy if you look at the Northern Ireland, was it not Balamori, what is it, Balamina?
	Balamina.
	Balamina.
	So there it sort of largely worked.
	Loads of the immigrant Community moved out off the back of their that they actually stood up and made their voices heard.
	So, if epping is shown to be a success as well, sure, it just kicks the can down the road a bit, but nonetheless, it's right and it's emblematic.
	It makes a statement when the community is worth doing.
	When the community says we don't want them here, they have to go.
	That's how it has to be.
	Come together as a community, and you can achieve a lot more than you thought.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Can I borrow the mouse plan?
	Of course.
	Any dissent will not be tolerated.
	Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, 61 AD.
	What would that be then?
	61 AD?
	Like the Jewish revolt or something?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's going to be around that sort of time, isn't it?
	A bit before.
	It's Claudius slightly after that, isn't he?
	Sorry?
	Yeah, it's tight.
	Claudius is slightly after that, isn't he?
	I thought Claudius was about 61.
	Yeah, I think...
	If Bo doesn't kill it, then that's his shame.
	You should know this.
	Yeah, I mean, 61, it would be...
	see let me let me okay Oh, it's the Boudican Revolt.
	Right.
	Ah, perfect.
	Okay.
	Yeah, that's a little closer to home.
	Yeah.
	You should have guessed, actually.
	But yeah, it would have been Drink All of this.
	Or slightly after.
	Anyway.
	Nero.
	Nero, right.
	Ryan says, yeah, see, you're the historian.
	Yes, Nero.
	It would be good if you guys had a movie review segment to talk about the latest films on the website.
	Maybe we can get Drink Ron.
	Well, the Spider-Man video came out recently.
	Well, we will do the third Spider-Man film at some point.
	Oh, yes.
	Although the next Lad's Hour I've got a plan for, so we won't do it yet.
	But Habsification says, I'm from Essex as well, Bo.
	South End, though South End is a stabbing capital of Essex, along with drug use is quite a rough area.
	And let's not forget that.
	South End only was David Amos' constituency.
	And the Engage View says, people get the Third Amendment to the US Constitution forbade the quartering of soldiers in private homes.
	This situation reminds us of why the founders thought it was important enough to ban.
	Yeah, because this is basically what this is.
	I mean, for some reason, the current government wants children to be raped across the country.
	And it seems that the migrants are the soldiers that they're using to accomplish that goal.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Okay, let me just get my document in place here before we begin.
	Okay.
	So let's talk a little bit about Japan.
	Because they had an election just the other day.
	It's in the news cycle now.
	And they've decided to turn right a bit.
	A little bit.
	It has to be a little bit in Japan because they are already naturally quite right.
	Well, their recent government for the last couple of years since Abe was assassinated has been really weak.
	It's been lefty and global.
	Kind of globalist, isn't it?
	So I've seen videos of Kurdish festivals.
	In Japan, it's like, sorry, Japan, what are you doing?
	Like, have we not been a bad enough example to you?
	There's only 3,000 Kurds in the country.
	Right?
	And already they're doing Kurdish festivals.
	Like, no, you can't permit that.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so the ruling party there, although it's coalition government, the LDP, literally Liberal Democrats, right?
	They've had basically a status quo in Japan more or less since the end of the war.
	Once the Americans won, they introduced a constitution, which they sort of printed onto Japan.
	And they've, well, like the rest of us, they've stayed with the post-war consensus ever since and in slightly different forms.
	It's been the same ever since.
	Now, Abe was, people said, he was quite nationalistic.
	He was LDP, he was Lib Dem, but he was actually quite a nationalistic version of it.
	And then after he went, they've had two prime ministers since then, and they've both been much, much more to the left, like really pro-LGBTQ, really pro-bringing in loads of immigrants, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the whole nine yards.
	The whole nine yards.
	Well, when I covered Japan last month, one of the things that the ambassador to Pakistan was doing was trying to create exchange worker programs for loads of Pakistanis to come over and work in Japan.
	You know, those videos you see of like the three-year-old going, getting on the train and going, four-year-old going, getting on the train, going to school, that's over, right?
	If you allow this to happen, because I remember when I was a kid, I remember being about six years old and walking to school on my own.
	Like, it was just normal, right?
	Because, you know, you have a high trust, homogenous country, that's over, right?
	That's what immigration takes away things you didn't even realize you had.
	Don't do this.
	Yeah.
	Just a quick thing.
	Everyone's, I'm famously not a lover of Japan, but I am also a Japanese nationalist.
	Like, just don't, don't let them.
	Don't let them.
	You are still in a good position that we're not in now.
	Don't allow it to happen.
	I don't have to like your culture for me to want you to continue to exist.
	Yeah.
	Like at all.
	I'm for nationalists all around the world.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Have Indian nationalism in India?
	Fine, good.
	And stay in there.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Have Polish nationalism, whatever it is, in your own country.
	Absolutely.
	Because that's what we want for our country.
	The thing is, I can see in Japan something that we used to have that they still have.
	It's that kind of settledness of the, you know, the ancient island nation where it's like, no, we've been ourselves for a long time and we've been happy to be ourselves for a long time.
	And we've had that ripped away from us.
	There's been a real loss of innocence in England of late.
	In fact, the previous segment is exactly what we're talking about there.
	And I don't want to see that happen to the Japanese.
	I really don't.
	And you don't understand.
	It's not like being conquered in war.
	This is something completely different.
	And it's something that's like a poison that's put into a cup.
	And suddenly everyone's drinking from it and wondering why they're getting sick.
	And it's just dire.
	I mean, Japan, of all places, historically speaking, you know, for the most exclusionary.
	All I want is an 18th or 19th century Japanese immigration policy.
	Well, it's literally illegal for any foreign person to step foot on their island.
	Yes.
	So basically.
	The Dutch got a little carve out for a tiny, tiny island or whatever off the coast.
	And that was too much.
	With one bridge, one causeway, which is constantly guarded.
	Yeah, that's all I want for my border force.
	It's not too much to ask, is it?
	so yeah, Japan of all places.
	And although, compared to a lot of places in Europe or the Anglosphere, whether it's America or Australia, they've got much less immigration, but nonetheless, it's spiked in the last few years.
	It's absolutely spiked in the last few years.
	The government there got the memo, got the globalist memo.
	And yeah.
	When I was there last year, one thing I noticed around Osaka was the number of Indians working in the shops, just working in the local corner shops.
	And you're like, well, that's how it always starts.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	That's always the first symptom.
	I just wonder over the British president, what are you doing here?
	Are you lost?
	Get out.
	Shouldn't you be in Birmingham?
	Well, as you might imagine.
	A family nesta ran, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	What are you doing here?
	How dare you?
	As you might imagine, their immigration issues are where the Americans suffer from sort of lots of Mexican immigration.
	We suffer from lots of subcontinent stuff or Albanians or whatever.
	Their problems are quite often, other than a very vocal Kurdish community, it's the Chinese.
	It's the Vietnamese.
	It's Koreans and stuff like that.
	Now, where I was researching for this, watch a whole bunch of people.
	Just a quick thing, though.
	Probably not as bad as the immigration we get, right?
	It's like we've got a bunch of Chinese that's like, okay, yeah, they're not Japanese, but how dangerous are they?
	If I could swap out all our Pakistani and Bangladeshi or Albanian immigrants for Chinese ones, I would.
	Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, big.
	I'm worried about the CCP a lot more now, but like, yeah, I'm not worried about walking back from the pub or something, right?
	Right.
	Yeah, yeah, right.
	But no, crime is an issue.
	It's absolutely an issue.
	Now, where I watched a bunch of, obviously, English language videos for this, a lot of them from where it's sort of the lefty perspective.
	It's remarkable, really is remarkable, I find it absolutely striking.
	The parallels, the exact same paradigm and dynamics that are going on with questions around immigration in Europe or in the West, in the Anglosphere, whatever you want to say.
	The exact same ones are playing out in Japan.
	Exactly the same.
	So they've got sort of this globalist lefty government which is betraying them in every way possible from sort of the sort of the economic side with the cost of a cost of living crisis.
	They've got inflation going through the roof.
	Their president's Ishiba, Mr. Ishiba, and the people consider them to have betrayed the party, betrayed the base, betrayed the principles, that they're turning away from conservative ideals, that they're weak on China.
	The exact same things.
	And they're not serving the Japanese people.
	Right.
	Right.
	Completely that.
	Completely that.
	So, the government, the LDP, have had three losses recently.
	Back in October last year, there was elections for their lower house, which they lost control of.
	But it didn't collapse the government.
	They're just now ruling in as a minority government.
	And then just about a week or two ago, they had what was effectively local elections or municipal elections, which they also did terribly in.
	And now this recent one is for the upper house, they call the upper house, which they've now also lost.
	They're no longer the majority in that, even though loads of the seats were uncontested.
	Anyway.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Because the LDP in Japan have had such a lock for so long and that the Japanese people are conservative with a small C to the extreme.
	The better the devil you know sort of thing.
	But to a much higher degree than in the United States or Britain or France or whatever.
	So, okay, where I'd say sort of any party to the right of the LDP or to the right faction of the LDP, there's sort of people said there's a vacuum there, just like there is in Britain or in America.
	There is no truly right-wing populist nativist option.
	Until recently, a couple of different parties have popped up.
	There's the Sancito party, which is meant to say the do-it-yourself translation.
	I hear they're fringe and far right.
	Oh, right.
	I mean, just from the reporting.
	So, again, the parallels are remarkable with someone.
	Sorry, quick though.
	It's the do-it-yourself party.
	Yeah, sort of that's the translation.
	Yeah.
	I quite like that.
	And it's really new, bit like before.
	It only cropped up in 2020 as a response to COVID stuff.
	Right.
	And as you can see, the sort of legacy type mainstream media or the lefty leaning voices are trying to slur them with the exact same stuff, that they're just far right and that they're conspiracy theorists.
	I kind of slurs.
	Yeah, I love them.
	I've already done anything about them.
	And they're just xenophobes.
	They're just making up the fact that people are scared about immigration crime and that the idea that you shouldn't be able to just sell Japanese property and land to foreign people and all that sort of thing.
	To the Chinese government.
	That all of that is mad and wrong-headed.
	It's like, well, nope.
	At the ballot box, they did reasonably well, considering they got, well, it's not entirely clear.
	Different sources are saying different things, whether they got 14 seats or 20.
	But anyway, they're expected to maybe get six.
	So they outperformed themselves.
	They actually outperformed themselves, which is really good.
	And their leader, Kamiya, he talks about Japan first.
	It's a sensible policy.
	Right, there's nothing wrong with it.
	The nativist interest.
	I can't believe this Japanese man is saying Japan first.
	Outrageous, right?
	Barking.
	Outrageous.
	Xenophobe.
	That thing we always believed and had 300 years of isolation over and fought two Mongol invasions for.
	That thing.
	Yeah.
	The thing that everyone always believed until really recently.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But now he's beyond the pale.
	Now he's the bad guy.
	But no, so the Japanese electorate, at least in part, have spoken.
	So it looks like the Japanese government as is won't fall.
	They should just continue to rule as a minority government.
	I've heard it described as a big blow to them, but not fatal.
	But yet, it says, doesn't it, that the winds have changed?
	Because a lot of commentators are also saying that they're not going anywhere.
	This doesn't seem to be a flash in the pan.
	So, apparently, in Japan, over the last few decades, there's been all sorts of little right-wing parties attempt to spring up, and they either get subsumed within the LDP or just fail.
	They're not popular enough for whatever reason, and they fail.
	Whereas these seem to have broken through.
	There's another party, actually, the Conservative Party.
	There's about eight different parties in Japan.
	And there's another one that started quite recently in 2023 that haven't quite made the breakthrough that Sensito have, but still are sort of, they're quite based.
	They're saying really, really similar things.
	You know, like Japan first, let's put our agriculture first, things like that.
	Let's not just import endless numbers of foreign people who don't respect our culture.
	I would respect them entirely if they deported my friend from Japan.
	And to be honest, he'd understand too.
	He'd be like, yeah, fair enough.
	Yeah, they need to do what they need to do for the Japanese people.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, good on them.
	That's what I say about the Spanish when they were always like, oh, well, what about the British expats in Spain?
	It's like, I don't care.
	Send them back if you don't want them.
	Yeah, send them back if anything.
	If you don't want their money either.
	We'll have a few more Brits back in Britain.
	It's just, you know, what did you think was that?
	I was going to move to Spain and I was going to set up a British pub and speak English all the time.
	And now the Spanish are angry.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	It's your fault, mate.
	Anyway, sorry.
	Yeah.
	No, if that's the way it's got to be, either our country is completely invaded or we accept back the Spanish expats.
	Yeah, they can see the price of the match.
	Yeah.
	Something, you know.
	We'll send them to Gibraltar.
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, good luck affording that.
	So yeah, they're being slurred as far.
	But again, the parallels are interesting that this guy and this new party do a lot of what they're doing sort of through YouTube and social media.
	They're just sort of ignoring the mainstream media of Japan.
	Again, a bit like the MAGA movement in various ways, or a bit like maybe what Rupert Lowe's trying to do or will try to do.
	It's just interesting the way you sometimes think that Japan is so unbelievably alien and foreign that the dynamics of everything going on there domestically and in their politics will be drastically different to what's going on in England or America or Germany or France.
	No, no, it's exactly the same.
	Broadly speaking.
	You know why it's exactly the same, don't you?
	Because it's liberalism.
	Trying to erode another nation.
	And it's got the same tools, the same rhetoric, the same goal, and the same enemy is always the actual national people of the country.
	Those people who feel that collectively they have a claim to the country.
	And it's like, oh, well, you're xenophobic.
	And it's like, I mean, if I'm Japanese, I'm like, yeah, I'm Japanese.
	Of course I'm xenophobic.
	Like, what?
	You know, duh.
	Yeah, I apologise for nothing.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I apologise for nothing.
	And Japan belongs to the Japanese people.
	Any further questions?
	You know, like, it's pretty straightforward.
	So the BBC wrote, these are Kamiya's words.
	Under globalism, multinational companies have changed Japan's policies for their own purposes.
	Familiar?
	Absolutely true.
	If we fail to resist this foreign pressure, Japan will become a colony.
	Correct.
	Right, yeah.
	Earlier this year, he faced backlash after calling gender equality policies a mistake, saying they would encourage women to work and prevent them from having more children.
	Yeah.
	Objectively true.
	And we can see that in Japan's birth rate.
	Yeah.
	And again, the mainstream media, the English language ones anyway, the sort of Western or British commentary people, just try and smear them as they do with everything else.
	We were told that they pretend not to understand the issues with mass immigration.
	They pretend that anyone that's got any issues with it are just simply Nazi or whatever.
	It's ridiculous.
	They wrote in the BBC, the number of foreign residents in Japan hit a record 3.8 million at the beginning of 2024.
	That figure marks an increase up by 10.5% from the previous year.
	So a massive spike, a Boris Wave spike.
	So 3.8 million.
	God, we wish in Britain we only had 3.8 million foreign nationals, invaders in this country.
	It's still lower than in a lot of other countries, but as a percentage...
	Yeah, they've got way more people than that.
	It's quite a large population, but still, it's the drip, drip, drip wearing down the rock, isn't it?
	Well, they've experienced a drip, drip, drip, full-blown tap-on, a Boris Wave-type spike.
	And they noticed.
	Lo and behold, the people noticed.
	Yeah, but that still is only 3% of the country's population.
	It was like that in the 90s here.
	Like in 1991, where it was like 5% or something.
	And it's like, well, you could walk around forever and never see a foreigner.
	And 30 years later, look where we are now.
	Well, I say that.
	I was being ironic.
	Saying, oh, it's only 3%.
	Yeah, that's loads.
	That's still loads.
	It's not that many, actually.
	Well, compared to what we're going through.
	Yeah, yeah, no, no, no.
	It actually is a lot.
	Well, no, like, again, you think back to the sort of like 1991 sort of thing where it was like 95% native.
	It wasn't something that was a problem.
	And I'm not saying that we want loads or anything like that, but like that, like it's good that the Japanese antibodies are reacting at 3%.
	Because for us, it was like, well, it's not really a problem.
	So I'm not really bothered about it, right?
	Because you wander around.
	You might have like, you know, one Caribbean guy on your street or something, very, you know, in rare instances.
	Or there'd be an Indian or Pakistani family running a corner shop.
	But like, there was, you know, it wasn't a big deal.
	And we didn't think about it.
	Right.
	But then 3% being like, yeah, no, we're not having this.
	Excellent.
	Well, it probably helps the Japanese as well that they, I mean, begrudgingly, that they have such a good example in Europe of what not to do.
	And I mean, we have to say it, don't we, that Japan have got their history with nationalism.
	Very much like Germany, where it's used as a guilt trip.
	The left or liberals will Try and use it as a guilt trip forever.
	You were once extremely nationalistic, so you're not allowed a country anymore now in the 2020s.
	So, open borders forever.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, so infinite immigration into your country because you were once nationalist.
	So, anyway, I thought Matt, perhaps we could listen to someone, so you don't have to take my word for all of this.
	If we could listen to, I think, maybe a couple of minutes of this guy sort of just lay out exactly what's happened.
	All right.
	Well, can you walk us through what caused this shift among Japanese voters?
	Well, the shift was, as your report said a little bit earlier, caused a lot by economic conditions in the country.
	In the last year, a lot of prices have gone up.
	The price of rice has doubled.
	And there have been, over the past 10 years, a significant increase in immigrants.
	The LDP didn't really call it immigration, but there was 1 million new immigrants who came into the country, and the far right has used this.
	So it flooded them.
	That's a flood.
	Only a million in a year, mate.
	I mean, we know that's an incredible number because that's literally the Boris wave.
	And you must, by definition, be far right if you notice that there's any issues, if crime's going up or anything at all.
	If you notice any negativity, or just that it's happened even.
	You must be far right.
	Let's assume there's no negativity.
	Still, why would I want that?
	Why would I want this?
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Calling it a stealth immigration policy to attack the mainstream conservatives and hit them from the right on immigration.
	And they are making major gains now.
	And we're going to see a far right that has almost 20, maybe even more than 20 seats in the upper house.
	And they will be unrestrained in the kind of language that they could use referring.
	Oh, no.
	They'll actually say things.
	Good.
	They'll actually express any sort of dissent.
	No.
	If you respond to people's concerns, you make major gains.
	I'll have to remember that.
	Nigel, pay attention, mate.
	To immigrants, before the LDP was a big tent party, and it did have some far-right people, but they were moderated.
	But now these people are outside of the LDP and they will be saying some rather extreme things, I think.
	All right.
	And how has all this been?
	What's the reaction to this, we'll say, from within Japan?
	I think the mainstream media is shocked because they spent the last two weeks trying to debunk a lot of the misinformation being spread by this.
	It's misinformation.
	They're shocked by it.
	It's a classic thing like the Guardian will send reporters to Bradford to try and find out what's happened, what's gone wrong, where has this come from?
	Why is this happening?
	Man, the best example was LBC's Tom Swarbrick during the Birmingham Bin Man strike.
	He goes, he can't find an English person to talk to.
	And none of them will either speak English or just will even talk to him.
	And he's just like, so all the bins are right.
	And they just don't want to know.
	It's like, no interest in talking to you, mate.
	And he's just, you could see that this is radicalising him.
	It's just like, right, so there are a bunch of foreigners here and they're piling up bins and they're rubbish outside and they don't care and no one is interested in even countenancing that this is an issue.
	I'm not sort of an idiot.
	It's like, yeah, well, you know.
	Again, how remarkable is it, the parallels where in Japan, their media is obviously and their lefty-leaning political class have done exactly the same thing.
	There's a pressure cooker and they're just putting more and more weight on the lid of the pressure cooker so it doesn't blow off and then ignoring anyone that's got anything to say about it.
	And then when eventually it does break through, or eventually there is some sort of crack in the pressure cooker and some steam's now coming out, they're shocked by it or feign shock, perhaps.
	But they use the globalist language because they're taking the globalist money, right?
	The government, the NPR, the national broadcaster, they're just taking money from all of these international NGOs that have done to us what they're now doing to Japan.
	I'm just glad for Japan that they're sort of nipping it in the bud to some extent.
	Not for them.
	I mean, a lot of damage is already done, but they're not letting it go as far as somewhere like Germany, France, Britain, or whatever.
	We'll just let this guy speak for a tiny bit more.
	It's a far-right party, but it seems to have failed spectacularly.
	Maybe it even gave them more attention.
	But a lot of the people who support the far-right get their news on the internet, so they don't trust what newspapers and television say anyway.
	And so we're beginning to see right-wing populism in Japan, something that people said wasn't really happening in Japan, but has been happening in Europe and North America.
	It is now here to stay in Japan.
	These people have been elected.
	So again, isn't it interesting that it's the exact same thing as somewhere like America, or it would say Germany, the AFD, just pretending it doesn't exist and there isn't a problem.
	And then in the end, the people and the politicians on the right just speak directly to the people and just cut out the mainstream media and stuff.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, 800,000 foreign workers.
	Like Maloney.
	Exactly the same, yeah.
	Like Maloney or like Boris or whatever.
	Just, oh, there is a problem.
	We see the people don't like it.
	So let's quickly dial it up as quickly as we can before we get voted.
	Crazy.
	There are a lot of links here that I had lined up just to show examples of actual examples of issues in their society.
	But perhaps we won't show that.
	For time's sake, yeah.
	Okay.
	So anyway, we'll leave it there.
	Japanese liberals chant inshallah while flying the Turkish flag and solar.
	Oh my god.
	Yeah, like the Kurds there.
	They genuinely despise liberals everywhere.
	And they're all the same.
	They're all cut from the same bloody cloth.
	The takeaway, the headline is that liberals in Japan are doing exactly the same thing as liberals wherever they are.
	They're subversive country destroyers.
	I could explain at length why that is, but I'm not going to now.
	Anyway, let's carry on.
	AI is Going to take all our jobs and leave us destitute, but we need to import the entire third world to fill all these labor shortages caused by jobs moving to China so we compete with China.
	Yeah, I know it's mad, isn't it?
	I mean, like, even China is going to be having massive uh labor shortages in the next couple of generations.
	So, like, there's there's no end to it.
	Uh, Ryan says, I don't want to ruin this good news segment, but did you see that uh Serbia is issuing 100,000 work permits to Guardians?
	Guardians, I'm not sure.
	Ghanaians, yeah, yeah, so in the okay, well, youth unemployment sits at 23%, approximately 151,000 young people.
	I did not see that Poland's doing the same.
	Poland brought in a load of Bangladeshis, apparently.
	It's like 200,000 Bangladeshis.
	We've got a bunch here.
	You could take ourselves.
	Yeah, you could take ours.
	Yeah, you want, yeah.
	Let's just force all middle-class left-wing people to house migrants.
	I want their noses rubbed in diversity and foreign toxic masculinity.
	Well, to be honest with you, I think that's going to be the only solution.
	The average Liberal Democrat has to have some Somalian sat on his sofa and be like, what am I doing again?
	What's this guy here for?
	And Davey's just trying to watch BBC and he's just got them on speakerphone around his house playing loud music.
	Davey begins to hate.
	The shadow band says, why is it every country massively spiked immigration after 2020?
	Well, I think it was just part of the plan.
	The only problem with nationalism is whenever some smooth-brained demagogue comes along and tethers it to imperialism.
	Otherwise, it's just enlightened self-interest and the basis of a free society.
	Yeah, basically.
	What do you Brits expect?
	Remember, this is the same government that made your queen sit alone and uncomforted at the funeral of her husband.
	Yeah, I know.
	Reminded that when PewDiePie was ready to settle down and have a kid, he decided to move from Brighton to Japan a year or so ago.
	He even made a video complaining about the usual suspects invading Japan.
	Yeah, PewDiePie's always been based.
	No regrets supporting that guy, I tell you.
	Japan will go full Auslander Rouse once the foreigner starts trying to cancel the giant penis festival.
	See, look, man, I don't like Japan.
	I'm all in favor of Japan being for the Japanese over there and not over here, and nothing to do with me.
	I don't understand them, and I'm not trying to understand them.
	It's fine.
	Anyway, so I want to talk about the fall of the late night comedians.
	So you're probably too young to remember, but you'll remember the late night American comedians that got syndicated over here.
	And you see the clips everywhere.
	Everyone loved them.
	And to be honest with you, I used to like them too.
	Well, they didn't used to be in Suffrag, not too in Suffrague anyway, like Jay Leno.
	Yeah.
	Or Letterman.
	Letterman.
	Letterman was all right, wasn't he?
	It's quite funny.
	More or less.
	A lot less political.
	But we'll talk about it in a minute.
	But the niche of late-night comedy became far more political as the years went on.
	And that has crippled it, frankly, and is killing it.
	And so I'm glad to see that.
	But anyway, before we begin, go and sign up to the website.
	I haven't asked anyone to sign up for the website for ages.
	Come and support us because obviously we don't have big backers like Colbert has, certainly, had.
	And so if you don't want us being cancelled, go and sign up.
	Go and watch The Death of Man.
	I haven't chilled this for a while because I just hadn't thought to, but I'm really proud of this, put a lot of work into it.
	It's not really very applicable to what we're talking about now, but it's just great and it's worthwhile going and signing up for.
	Anyway.
	And behind the paywall is quite literally hundreds and hundreds of hours of premium content, which if I do say so myself is very, very good.
	It's quality.
	So I thought we'd talk about the sort of the ratings that these things have had over the years, right?
	And they used to be really big news.
	You know, people like Letterman, Leno, Conan O'Brien, you know, really big.
	There's, where are we?
	Back in the day, everyone would talk about it, wouldn't it?
	Oh, yeah.
	Did you see Letterman's monologue the other day?
	And most people would be like, yeah, of course.
	Yeah.
	I mean, like in the 90s, there we go.
	Letterman was getting like seven and a half million viewers an episode.
	You know, Jay Leno, 11 million viewers, the 10th anniversary.
	So these were pretty massive, right?
	And, you know, Conan O'Brien, three and a half million viewers from 2009, so you see this a lot less.
	And then 2014, Jimmy Fallon, 6.6 million viewers.
	So these used to be big, big numbers.
	Big deal.
	You know, you used to get a lot of people.
	But then from the sort of 2010s onwards, they became pretty bloody insufferable.
	And this is just a rogue's gallery of absolute pricks you just never want to see again.
	And it's one of those things where you can start knocking off and like, all right, so where are these chaps?
	Where's James Corden these days?
	Where's Trevor Noah these days?
	You know, I can't name a few of these.
	A bunch of them are called Jimmy.
	There's a few chaps.
	Yeah, I couldn't tell you which one was which, to be honest.
	Unfortunately, John Oliver still seems to be standing, which is unfortunate, but he's surely not long for this world.
	Full time.
	Yeah.
	You know, he's surely not long for primetime TV.
	But we'll take Stephen Colbert on the far left there as the sort of example, because he's basically the leading light of this little group you've got here.
	He always got the best ratings.
	And he was a big deal, man.
	Big deal.
	His late show debuted with 8.26 million viewers.
	That was big.
	I remember when he first came out, so to speak.
	Yeah.
	Wasn't that long ago.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Was it?
	No, no, it was not that long ago.
	Although, during the Bush era, he was particularly effective and really made his name because he had...
	And it was quite easy for both sides to once criticize the Iraq war.
	Right.
	Well, he used to have a different angle, a different persona, wasn't it?
	He used to be like this.
	A Republican pretty much.
	Yeah.
	Like a parodying an extreme Republican.
	Because he looked like a Republican.
	And it was obviously a lefty jabbing at Republicans.
	But he did the shtick of being a Republican.
	And obviously, you can't do that forever.
	Play that character forever.
	No.
	So he then just transitioned into just being a lib.
	I particularly detest Colbert because he never shuts up about being a Tolkien fan.
	Oh, does he?
	Oh, yeah.
	He's like, oh, he can name all the valor and everything.
	It's like, okay, so you know all these names, but you don't embody any of the virtues that the story actually is trying to explain to you.
	Of course he doesn't.
	But Stephen Colbert, he is a funny guy, right?
	He is a naturally talented comedian.
	And he is very successful, or had been previously very successful.
	So, yeah, his opening show got 8.26 million viewers.
	The largest they ever got was after the Super Bowl in 2016, with 21 million viewers.
	And then the show began to really shift into politics.
	And in 2017, it was the highest-rated late-night talk show, averaging more than 3.2 million nightly viewers.
	So, how's it going?
	Well, there's a face there that you might recognize that isn't like the others.
	Greg Gutfeld.
	He's the guy.
	The Republican, the Fox News guy.
	Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of Greg Gutfeld.
	It's very American comedy for me, and so it doesn't wash down on my palate very well.
	But it's fine.
	You know, I'm not here to judge.
	If people like to watch Greg Gutfeld, that's totally fine.
	But he's trouncing them, the rest of them.
	So Steve Colbert is still doing fairly well, though.
	He gets 2.4 million viewers across on average across 41 episodes.
	It's pretty good, all things considered.
	It's not bad.
	It's not embarrassingly bad, but compare it to the height of what he did.
	That is falling off a cliff, though.
	Well, yeah, he's lost three-quarters of his audience.
	say on Gutfeld, yeah, he's based on some stuff and really not on other stuff.
	But you still take that over someone like I mean, Greg Goatfeld's a pretty stock Republican, right?
	But that's way better than any of his shit libs.
	And I'd take them a million times over any lib.
	But the thing is, Stephen Colbert is the best of the libs, right?
	He's the biggest of the libs.
	And so he's lost a third of his audience on average.
	But obviously from the potential start, he's lost huge.
	But then you've got the next biggest, which is Jimmy Kimmel.
	Again, I can't tell you which Jimmy this is because they're all look the same to me.
	But he's only got 1.77 million on average.
	And then you've got Jimmy Fallon.
	Again, couldn't tell you which one that was, 1.19 million.
	But the thing is, these numbers seem big and impressive to us, but they're actually not as impressive as you think because the numbers become granular when you are, say, an advertiser.
	Now, the advertisers in America are interested in what is called the key demo, which is 1849-year-olds.
	And 18, 49-year-olds, they're interested in these people because they view these people as having disposable income, but also they are young enough not to have extreme levels of brand loyalty.
	So old people tend to just buy the same thing they've always bought over and over and over, and no amount of advertising to them actually gets them to buy the other brand, right?
	Because they're like, no, I just know this one, I'm familiar with this one, and so I'm going to, and I might not have that much spare money or whatever.
	But the key demo is where the advertisers want to go.
	And when you start looking at their key demo numbers, you realize, hang on, there's something weird about these audiences.
	Because, for example, Colbert has 219,000 people out of the 2.42 million watching in the key demo between 18 and 49.
	So how old is Colbert's audience?
	They're boomers.
	Yeah.
	They're basically lib boomers.
	Well, Generation X's, right?
	50 and up.
	So basically, his audience has aged out of the key demo now.
	But it's the key demo that the advertisers pay for.
	And so actually, Jimmy Kimmel actually has a larger key demo, which is 220,000 viewers, with Fallon being 157,000 and this and third.
	And these are what the advertisers actually pay for.
	They don't pay for just general numbers because they think that there's, I mean, I'm sure they've done their research, you know.
	That is small potatoes then, isn't it?
	Because if these people are syndicated, they're shown from coast to coast across America, potentially tens of millions of people and you're actually only getting the people you really want is 150, 200,000, 220,000.
	That's a tiny slice of the cake.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Tiny then.
	And that's the proportion the advertisers are willing to pay for.
	It's like, right.
	So, you know, sort of like, I mean, you know, we, we, every week will have videos that hit those numbers.
	So it's just like, you know, these guys are not actually as famous or important as their numbers actually make them seem.
	And the advertisers are the ones who are aware of this.
	The advertisers are like, no, I'm advertising on that demo.
	So I'm paying for that.
	I don't want like your 2 million boomers who are watching.
	I don't care about those, actually.
	Isn't it funny that even someone like us can sort of compete, basically?
	How often do you go on YouTube and there's some channel you've never heard of?
	You look down, oh, 8 million subs or something or other.
	I've never even heard of them.
	And they're outperforming these guys by orders of magnitude.
	I mean, to be fair, these guys do like Colbert in particular does fairly well on YouTube, actually.
	Same with Jon Stewart.
	They do fairly well on YouTube.
	A lot of people are moving away from television to online.
	But most of them aren't doing that well, actually.
	Gutfeld was the only one to grow their audience across all of the metrics.
	And so good for them.
	And one person that we shouldn't forget, of course, is Mr. Leibowitz.
	Your favourite person of all time.
	a congenital liar, a persistent framer in a kind of way I mean, who was it?
	It was Gavin...
	Beard.
	Gavin McKinney?
	That's it.
	Gavin McKinneys.
	He did an interview with him, didn't he?
	Was it Gavin McKinnis where they stitched him up completely by falsely editing the video to make him say something?
	I think it was Gavin McInnes.
	But this is not the only time that they've done this, obviously.
	And so it's just like, you know, everyone's favorite liar.
	But the thing is, Jon Stewart, whether you like him or not, he's charismatic and he's funny and he's clever.
	And so Jon Stewart actually has, he demolishes all of the rest of these second-rate minor things.
	His average viewership in the key demographics is 393,000.
	So he has a younger and more engaged audience.
	So he's the true king.
	But he only does Monday nights now on the daily show after Trevor Noah left because they were like, we've got no one.
	It's funny that someone like The Quartering or Tim Paul does better than that though, even.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Steven Crowder.
	Absolutely dunking.
	Like it's crazy.
	But, you know, fair enough, you know, he's the biggest of the sort of aging libs.
	And he was also the most clever and most funny.
	And I personally used to like watching Jon Stewart until he became really political.
	And I realized I wasn't left wing and I didn't support any of this.
	So did I back in the day, like 20 years ago plus now, I would say I would have been a Jon Stewart fan like before I'd woken up.
	Exactly.
	You remember the crossfire clip where it's Tucker Carlson or some other guy and Jon Stewart's like, you're hurting America.
	Yeah, stop.
	Yeah, and everyone's on Jon Stewart's side and it's like, well, who's where now?
	Yeah.
	Tucker Carlson has got like 16 million followers on Twitter and gets God knows how many hundreds of millions of views on Twitter.
	Jon Stewart's like, well, I've got my 393,000 in the key demo.
	That's important.
	Back when Tucker used to wear a bow tie.
	Exactly.
	And now Tucker can ask for and get an exclusive with Putin or whatever.
	It's like, sorry, you know, there have been career trajectories here.
	But yeah, so Jon Stewart is the best of them.
	And the things they've had to bring him back because, of course, who watches the daily show?
	Like, who wants to watch Trevor Noah?
	And he's not even there now, but like, who wanted to watch Trevor Noah complaining about Trump, right?
	Who wants to watch like some other lib just complaining about Trump?
	They've had to bring him back.
	And he's only doing one day a week.
	And this is the thing, right?
	They realize that the format is dying, right?
	And this is a fascinating article because they're still getting nominated for Emmy Awards.
	I don't know what an Emmy Award is, right?
	But they say this in this article.
	By now, you've most likely heard the narrative about the impending demise of late night television.
	It's lost its ratings.
	It's lost its relevance.
	It's lost its luster.
	The ratings are never coming back.
	But how's this for luster?
	No other genre of television came anywhere close to late night in racking up Emmy nominations for 2025.
	Oh, wow.
	Wow, that's incredible.
	It's like a failing military handing out medals to the generals who are losing battles.
	You know, it's like, yeah, okay, you've lost on that front.
	You've lost on that front.
	But have a bunch of medals.
	Look at all these medals.
	You know, like, sorry, that's such cope.
	I suppose as well, when you've got the fatigue of just Hollywood celebrities on panels all the time, do people really want to turn in to watch the latest, you know, ridiculous Hollywood celebrities?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, great.
	Talking about agreeing with the exact politics of whoever the host is as well and all just patting each other on the back.
	People are just so tired of it.
	It's an extra fact and exercising, patting each other on the back.
	Yeah, it's disgusting.
	What was that documentary recently that was the British one about the boy that did that crime?
	You know what I'm talking about?
	The thing that was in the news circle loads a few months back.
	No, the boy that did a crime in the drama.
	Oh, adolescence.
	Adolescence.
	Like, that's been nominated for like 13, I don't know what it is, BAFTAs or something.
	Yeah, that doesn't mean shit to me.
	They don't care.
	It doesn't make it good suddenly that you've nominated it for a bunch of fake awards.
	If it helps, I actually thought Adolescence was quite good, but not for the reason.
	From an ironic perspective.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, no, not even ironic.
	Well, not ironic.
	From a right-wing perspective.
	It's like, okay, what's it showing us?
	It's showing us that they've got nothing and they don't know what they're doing.
	And that's what this is all about, right?
	They're like, well, I mean, yeah, we concede that we've got failing relevance.
	We've lost our ratings and no one is interested in watching.
	But look at the awards we're giving ourselves.
	Okay.
	Did it stop Stephen Colbert from getting cancelled?
	No, it didn't.
	Suck it.
	Wob, wobb, wop.
	And that's the thing.
	After 33 years, he's the last host.
	So it's like the fall of bloody Constantinople for the Liberals.
	Yeah, it's what it's Constant the Knight dying on the walls, isn't it?
	Yeah, I guess it is.
	They're not even handing it over to another host.
	No, that's it.
	This is done.
	Next year is they're letting the contract play out.
	But next year, that's the end of it.
	In May 2026, CBS were just like, yeah, he's gone.
	They say that, quote, the move is a purely financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late-night television.
	And it's not in any way related to the show's performance, content, or other matters.
	Well, hang on.
	Well, that doesn't really be.
	But if the show's performance is causing you to make financial decisions, then that's a direct correlation, isn't it?
	Must be.
	Yeah, it has to be.
	The advertisers are just not happy to pay.
	Emmy Award for Cope, right?
	Yeah, exactly, right?
	So yeah, Colbert took over in 2015, and they say that he's become one of Trump's staunchest critics on late-night TV.
	Yeah, it's an expressly political show, and therefore you've narrowed down your constituency from the start because right-wingers who otherwise might have watched don't watch now.
	But then you've got the same drum that you're beating every night.
	Oh, have I told you that Donald Trump's bad, guys?
	Have you got vaxed yet?
	You know, it's like, okay, great.
	You know, over and over.
	Because that was the thing that Jay Leno or Letterman were quite good at.
	They would jab at both sides fairly equally.
	Criticize the current government.
	Yeah, right.
	Whoever the current government was, they would have a dig at.
	Yeah.
	But then you put yourself in the sort of traditional position of the fourth estate, being the defenders of the people against the power.
	And that's where the liberals really ought to have stayed, frankly.
	It's when the liberals are like, hey, we know how the world should be run.
	It's like, no, you don't.
	You're idiots.
	And you're full of nonsense.
	But you could defend people from power.
	But they don't do that.
	Anyway, so this came after Trump sued CBS last year, alleging the network had deceptively edited an interview that they'd had on their 60 Minutes program.
	And so they decided to pay $16 million to Trump.
	And then they're like, yeah, also we're getting rid of Cobra.
	Get rid of Cobra.
	Now, there are questions about whether this political Adam shif is like a shifty shift is like, well, hang on a second.
	If this is being ended for political reasons, the public deserve to know.
	It's like, it's a political show, mate.
	Its entire revenue model is built on politically criticizing the president, and that has become non-profitable, according to CBS, who are closing it for purely economic reasons or financial reasons.
	So yeah, this is political, and it's that your politics doesn't sell.
	CBS is a deep state cutout anyway.
	Well, yeah, sure.
	Absolutely.
	No doubt.
	And of course, Elizabeth Warren was like, America deserves to know if this show was cancelled for political reasons.
	There's no non-political reasons surrounding Colbert.
	Sorry, Warren, you're not in the demographic they care about.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's it.
	neither is Colbert himself.
	No.
	And so the audience isn't with them.
	And so what are they going to do?
	And the thing is, this is a real issue because, I mean, we have to be profitable or we go offline.
	Apparently, Colbert's late show was reportedly losing $40 million a year.
	Oh, how's that possible?
	Is the set that expensive?
	Yeah.
	How is that possible?
	How?
	I imagine he gets paid quite a lot.
	That's right.
	Staff because it's quite a large production.
	Okay, fair enough.
	Think about it.
	Yeah.
	Looking on these shows.
	Hemorrhaging millions.
	If it was 4 million, it would be like, oof.
	I'd be like, well, that's unsustainable.
	Yeah, yeah, completely unsustainable.
	But yeah, so apparently it had a budget of more than $100 million per season and was only recouping $60 million in advertising revenue.
	So sorry, you haven't got that key demo, bro.
	I didn't know what to tell you.
	One reporter called Matt Bologna, who is apparently a sort of inside reporter for the sort of entertainment industry, has said that it's been losing $40 million a year.
	Whereas other networks, the network's other daytime and primetime programming is still profitable.
	So the advertisers will still pay money and they can make money out of it.
	And he says, I've sensed that the networks have all been reluctant to be the first to pull the trigger on the cancellation in the historic time slot, the late night time slots.
	CBS has now fired the opening shot, and it's reasonable to suspect that ABC and NBC will follow.
	Oh, chain reaction.
	Yes.
	Because Colbert, remember, he's their top guy.
	You know, Jon Stewart side, but Jon Stewart kind of retired, but he's been dragged back because it's a failing model.
	But now their top guy has been fired because he's losing 40 million a year.
	Purely financial decision.
	I mean, I believe it.
	If that's accurate, why wouldn't I believe that?
	And so the thing is, Jon Stewart's like, yeah, I don't know what's happening.
	I don't know what's happening.
	Because there's a production company called Skydance that's merging with CBS.
	Is it CBS?
	Yeah, I think it is.
	And as part of this merger, Jon Stewart's like, I don't know if we're going to survive it.
	So even Jon Stewart can end up getting taken off the air.
	He was asked, do you think this Skydance will get rid of the daily shelf and the merger goes through?
	He says, I haven't heard anything from them.
	They haven't said anything to us.
	I'd like to think we bring enough value to the property, like if they're looking at it as a purely real estate transaction, but that may not be their consideration.
	It's like, well, you can say, oh, it might be ideological, but aren't you losing $40 million a year?
	That's the question.
	And apparently, Skydance Media CEO has been praised by Trump.
	So he's already setting up the narratives.
	Like, see, we were fired because we hated Trump.
	But the good thing about this is they're seething, right?
	They're absolutely seething.
	Can't they get Fink to bail him out?
	You know what?
	This is interesting.
	But maybe even Larry Fink's like, look, man, you have 40 million a year.
	And that's just for Colbert.
	Like, can you imagine how much Jimmy Kimmel and the rest of them are, you know, the no-names that no one cares about?
	How much are they losing every year, right?
	Who knows?
	But The Guardian, as you can see, just absolutely seething and coping.
	And the thing is, they have to admit that, well, as excuses go, the purely financial reason, it's not entirely unconvincing.
	Well, yeah, to the tune of 40 million, of course it's not unconvincing.
	But I love this paragraph, right?
	Colbert took a somewhat less cutesy approach than his competitor Fallon, which marked him out as a troublemaker.
	The thing is, Trump might ultimately have consumed him either way.
	By providing a ready-made caricature of himself, intentionally or not, the president has beaten the system again.
	I love that the system is designed to destroy Republican presidents.
	That's good admission.
	It may not be worth mourning the hacky presidential-themed jokes that we might miss in the future with fewer talk shows than ever, but it does feel like the enforcement of one of Trump's minor cruelties, the ability to see himself as the only real star in the world.
	As in, we thought we were going to take down Lonal Trump by mocking him relentlessly.
	As Jon Stewart managed to do with previous Republicans over and over and over, this is how we beat them previously, but Trump couldn't do it.
	And now it's us that's on the chopping block.
	Trump's the president.
	We're getting wrecked.
	And Trump's like, yeah, Jimmy Kimmel's next.
	I'm delighted President Trump said, I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.
	So yeah, he posted this in truth social.
	It's like, Jimmy Kimmel's next, even less talent than Colbert.
	It's like, that's so good.
	Again, you get what you deserve.
	You turned yourselves into just a monomaniacal anti-Trump machine, whined about Trump all day, every day to a diminishing audience of shitlibs, and now you're getting cancelled because you're hemorrhaging money.
	You haven't kept up with the times.
	You've not fulfilled your function as the media, and you're getting cancelled.
	That is simultaneously the best and worst thing about Trump is that just like any New York loudmouth just will name drop people and like talk trash about them.
	It's really unstatesmanlike.
	Yes.
	But it's brilliant, but it's funny.
	It's great.
	I would rather that than some party robot, right?
	And you know that Jimmy Kimmel, I mean, Colbert's obviously seething over that.
	Yeah, it's got a bit.
	Kimmel's sweating bullets, right?
	He's just like, look, can we cut down the expenses?
	But anyway, so yeah, good news all around, frankly.
	let's go to the video comments.
	I have no idea what the original video that is from, but that's.
	Oh, that was the original.
	Oh, yeah.
	Big Mike.
	We all know Big Mike hangs thong.
	We all know.
	News from the colonies.
	It was reported earlier this year that in the first four months of 2025, the Government of Canada granted 817,000 work visas.
	That's more than 2% of our entire population in one quarter of a single year.
	This is to meet the Government of Canada's immigration and employment targets, of more than 25% of the workforce being recent immigrants.
	It's also worthy of noting that Mark Carney, former head of the Bank of England, by the way, has more than 95% of his stock portfolios and investments in companies outside of Canada.
	This is a man actively betting against the success of his own project, yet he continues To turn the wick ever higher.
	Thing is, he's going to profit either way.
	Like you say, if his portfolio is outside of Canada, if Canada fails, but I've spent all this time, like, you know, every remittance back to India where he's obviously got investments or whatever, that's profit for him.
	So I find it remarkable that someone like the governor of the Bank of England or the head of government anywhere should have any sort of portfolio.
	Obviously, there's going to be conflicts of interest.
	Even if you don't actively seek them, they'll be there.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one.
	Apparently, this video has an audio, but it is adorable kittens.
	Giant ears.
	Look at those big ears.
	I do like it.
	I'm so relaxed all of a sudden.
	Look at those little faces.
	Not really much to say.
	I am more than a kid.
	Both cat and the dog person.
	Yeah, I like them.
	I like both.
	We've got cats just because dogs are more energy intensive.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Once again, another segment about how the publication industry sucks.
	That's why you have me.
	So if you've got a book you want to publish, please reach out to me and I will help you get it published.
	And Bo, a little piece of advice.
	Not even Tolkien thought his work was perfect.
	It doesn't need to be.
	Reach out, man.
	Get it done, bro.
	I will do.
	I did a decent chunk of writing at the weekend, actually.
	Oh, God.
	But still, not a fantastic amount.
	A couple thousand words.
	But, Coop, my man, when it's done, and it will still be months, I mean, in all, to be realistic, months and months and months yet.
	But when it's done, and I will get there, assuming I don't get hit by a bus or something, I will be in contact.
	But don't expect it next week.
	If you don't get out before George R.R. Martin, it'll be very disappointing.
	Zesty King says, it came out recently that a migrant hotel in Blackpool had migrants making OnlyFans content using expensive equipment inside its rooms.
	Yes, I saw that.
	I didn't see that.
	Needless to say, the people of Blackpool aren't happy paying for migrants to make sex videos.
	Shocking.
	Shocking xenophobia from the people of Blackpool.
	Like, this is mental.
	Roman Observer says, notice the different quality and science between the far-right thugs and the totally spontaneous anti-racist counter-protest.
	The first is handmade and improvised, and the latter is printed and mass-produced.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Was there a couple of super chats we had?
	Oh, sorry.
	Okay, go.
	Sorry, I didn't see them.
	Migration exploded after 2020 because COVID was supposed to kill way more people just by the importing of immigrants.
	I don't know if that's true.
	I don't think that's the case.
	I think that they always...
	And so they're like, no, we need people to fulfill roles in these systems.
	And COVID, I think, was just a really convenient cover.
	All the news was talking about was COVID constantly, constantly.
	So it's like, look, we can just import hundreds of thousands and no one's going to talk about it because they're constantly being bombarded with this.
	And you won't notice it visibly immediately because everyone's locked at home.
	Everyone's at home.
	So you won't see it on the streets until it's too late.
	Lock absolutely everything down apart from the airports and thepart from the airports.
	And this is exactly what happened in Swindon, man.
	Like, it did not used to be like this.
	Just literally before COVID.
	Right.
	It was basically a normal English town.
	And then the Boris Wave hit.
	Sigil Stone says, David Letterman promised the late show to Craig Ferguson, a far superior comedian to Colbert.
	And we had a late show with gay robot skeletons.
	Didn't have to live this way.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's the thing.
	They made their own bed.
	Now I'm glad they're getting fucked in it.
	Wesley says, Stuart occasionally has a base take until the next day when he reverses course looking like a beaten dog.
	Well, that's the thing.
	Like, Stuart is smarter than your average leftist, and he is aware that on the sort of strategic level, the left has been making blunder after blunder after blunder.
	And so what he will do is use his platform to try and rein in the excess of the left.
	And then he'll get harassed by everyone around him.
	And he'll be like, okay, all right, whatever.
	And he'll just have to capitulate on it.
	I mean, I consider him, you know, a complete fifth colonist, a complete subversive.
	Obviously.
	An insufferable shitlib.
	Although, but then he will actually take a pop at Bernie or something once in a blue moon.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	He will actually make a joke about Hillary every now and then.
	I mean, not that that's much of a saving grace, but.
	You are right.
	His entire point was to basically undermine the United States.
	But the issue is that he knew when the left was going too far.
	And he would try and rein it in.
	And that's where the base takes come from.
	It's not because he agrees with them.
	The Engage View says, I've often wondered if the regime gave those generals so many medals because it would be bad optics for the generals show up to parades wearing body armor.
	Well, good question.
	Good point.
	Sorry, I'm afraid I am going to have to skip because we're running out of time and I want to get some of the written comments on the website.
	Sorry, champs.
	Based Ape says, wasn't it Sky News that got a bit of a wake-up call during the Southport riots?
	Well, they turned up, spin the story as poor defenseless minorities attacked by even white racists.
	But all they could find was minorities running around with weapons, stabbing their tyres, etc.
	Maybe it was even starting to break out of their brainwashing.
	That was Sky, yeah.
	Yeah, that was the counter-riots where the Sky News woman was attacked and the intimidated and the tyres slashed.
	So yeah, maybe Sky News and something.
	Jesus Christ, guys.
	Are we actually on board from this?
	Looks like they're...
	Yeah, yeah, maybe Sky News Australia got it right, yeah.
	All these evil white supremacists while a brown person stabs your tyres.
	Yeah.
	Alex says, I'm still positive that the Scousers will have an eping moment.
	It'll be huge.
	Well, they did during the Southport riots.
	The Scousers was rioting right up late into the evening.
	Everyone else had gone to bed and the Scousers were still rioting.
	The Scousers might be insufferable communists, but they are also really racist.
	So they have some.
	Just like Karl Marx.
	The football bloody things, they have the banner of Karl Marx, don't they?
	It's like, what are you doing?
	Liverpool is famously a red city, isn't it?
	I don't just mean Liverpool football club.
	Yeah.
	But not an intersectional red city.
	Well, Lars says bingo, the government really is the enemy of the people.
	Yeah, it really is.
	Jack Boot, policing by consent, except when the victims can't consent.
	Yeah, that's a great point.
	Baron von Mohawk says, I once talked to a leftist at college and the topic of Japan came up.
	The lefty was visibly angry that Japan was a homogenous society and really wanted them to get diversity.
	Well, the Japanese aren't white.
	Aren't they 100% diverse?
	You know, sorry.
	They are.
	By that metric.
	Yeah, but anyway, when I suggested that this was something for the Japanese to decide for themselves, but he couldn't seem to understand why the West wouldn't just force them to adopt diversity, instead just got more frustrated.
	They give this information as you will.
	Well.
	So is that like we volunteered to become diverse?
	Yeah.
	Like what sort of diversity would that person have wanted, for example?
	To see the Japanese demographically diluted with Chinese or Vietnamese or is he going to insist on Somalis?
	Sub-Saharan Africans.
	That's a Somali.
	It's that, right?
	Just like America's game.
	America's really got a Somali problem at the moment.
	You know, it's this.
	I was going to cover the Minnesota guy tomorrow.
	It's not even like, you know, other Africans.
	It's just the Somalians who have realized they've got like a hook in America and they're like, oh, we can just go back and forth and just extract as much as we can.
	Ilhan Omar is their person.
	And literally, she's like, you know, I miss my homeland.
	It's like, okay.
	Silas says, the problem of immigration hit close to home when I began to realize I could scarcely remember the last time I saw a construction site with white men working on it, which combined with the feminization of public schools and abandonment of non-academically inclined students in school, has led to the total destruction of the young male underbelly of our rural areas of the US.
	It's devastating to see the outcomes of so many of my friends at school.
	Japan will surely suffer.
	Yeah, this is going to be the case.
	Matt says, I moved to Japan in 2018, and I would literally do a double take if I saw another foreigner in my town.
	I remember it was like that in England, mate.
	It used to be like that here.
	In my secondary school, my whole year, there was one black boy and one Indian boy.
	One.
	And I bet they didn't cause trouble, right?
	No, no.
	Because they were just normal because they had no choice.
	What were they going to do?
	Hang out with the other kids?
	No.
	You have to be normal.
	The black boy went on to be a solicitor.
	He was well alright.
	Yeah, good thing.
	It was well alright.
	They can't speak Japanese, which makes me angry because I learned to speak fluent Japanese and properly integrated.
	Most of my friends are Japanese.
	Having witnessed what's happening in the UK, I realise this is a slippery slope.
	I'm so worried for the future of the country.
	By the way, Luca, if you find yourself in Japan again, you're welcome to stay on his sofa.
	Just say the word.
	That's very kind.
	Thank you very much.
	I was talking to my uncle the other day and he said, have you seen the new Lotus Eater?
	He's like, Basil Faulty.
	Thanks, Boombas.
	Don't mention the mustache.
	Michael says, my wife and I traveled to Japan quite a bit.
	She's Japanese.
	Glad to hear Japan plans to maintain its Japanese heritage and nature.
	Well, I mean, it's not that Japan plans.
	It's whether the right wing can win and actually overthrow the globalist libs.
	In time.
	Yeah, who have in time, yeah.
	No, you don't need to import a million Bamalians so you aren't racist.
	No, the Japanese, I think everyone already thinks the Japanese are racist, right?
	Everyone thinks the Japanese are a racist country.
	Yeah, that's why I like them.
	Exactly.
	There's nothing to do with why I don't like them, but like, you know, that's one of their few redeeming features.
	The definition of racism now is simply like a country.
	Yes.
	So, yeah, by that definition, then, yeah, they are.
	Yeah, I'm here for it.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Sam says, to Luca's point about Colbert and Tolkien, when lefties and liberals claim to be fans of particular IPs, Lord of the Rings, for example, they only seem to be fans on a very superficial level and miss the more in-depth moral values, narrative, and storytelling.
	Yeah, they do have a kind of way of compartmentalizing this sort of stuff.
	It's like, yeah, I love Lord of the Rings.
	Also, Loblaws shit libs and I side with real-life Sauron.
	I remember back when I was at uni, there was this comie girl and she was like, I love Chronicles of Narnia.
	I'm like, you can't.
	You can't do that.
	You don't understand.
	You can't do that.
	Have you never spent a second reflecting on what C.S. Lewis was trying to tell you?
	And obviously they haven't.
	Lerner says, I'd probably rather watch The Latest Eaters than The Daily Show, even if I become a leftist.
	It's actually almost happened to me at some point.
	I didn't even know that the Daily Show was supposed to be funny.
	Well, I mean, honestly, honestly, in his prime, Jon Stewart was funny.
	You know, he was funny.
	But he was also a massive liar and manipulator.
	And I don't like it.
	Even from the beginning.
	Yeah, yeah, even from the beginning.
	He always, always was like this.
	Lancelot says, David Letterman was basically comfort food back in the day.
	The opening monologue, funny moments with guests who are not insufferable, finish off with an awesome, edgy band.
	Everything afterwards, a pale imitation, lacking nutrition, feeling nothing.
	Yeah, I remember watching Letterman when I was a teenager.
	I mean, a lot of it was a bit above my head, to be honest, because there was some boomer jokes in there, right?
	But it was all right, and it wasn't like...
	No, right, absolutely not.
	Jesus Christ.
	No, absolutely not.
	Yeah.
	It was fun.
	It was almost apolitical, really.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Almost, not quite, but.
	In fact, Arizona Desert Rats got a great point here.
	I think what made the late-night comedian so popular in the 90s and early 2000s was the fact that everyone was a target in their jokes and it wasn't a political agenda.
	Now it's so obvious that everything is political that none of the jokes are funny.
	Yeah, it's just embarrassing watching Colbert and the rest of them whine about Trump again and again and again.
	Like, you can't tell a joke under those conditions.
	George says, I've hated the late-night comedian format ever since John Leibowitz.
	They spread leftist propaganda and then when challenged go the I'm just a comedian defense, now that Colbert is cancelled, the rest should follow.
	I think the rest will follow because I think that it's just not profitable.
	But yeah, I've always hated that defense from Jon Stewart and I'm just a comedian.
	So then stop talking about politics.
	Stop making jokes about politics.
	And if you do make jokes about politics, then you are not just a comedian.
	You are someone who is morally legislating for what you think the future of the country should be like.
	I'm very tired of that defense.
	I don't respect it.
	Ris asks, how was the holiday to Norway, Carl?
	Would you say you're panning for the fjords?
	I don't know what this reference is.
	It's Monty Python, right?
	Right, okay.
	I hate Monty Python.
	I've always hated Monty Python.
	Never thought it was funny.
	I'm probably the only person on earth who thinks this.
	I think it's a bit hit and miss, but it's largely funny.
	Yeah, a lot of us.
	I hate it.
	That's interesting.
	I never knew that about you.
	You think you know a guy?
	I view Monty Python as kind of anti-comedy.
	I get what you mean that it is early subversion stuff.
	No, it's not even about that.
	It's just not funny.
	Oh.
	Just not funny.
	Oh, here's two guys slapping each other with fish.
	Oh, yeah, ha ha ha.
	Oh, that's funny, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	What's funny about that?
	That's not funny.
	Some sketches aren't funny.
	I'll give you two.
	Sure, sure.
	Some are.
	Plenty of sketches I don't like.
	We should do a ladder about it.
	Yeah, okay.
	We should be a ladder, actually.
	Because I've yet to see.
	See if you can.
	If I can dig out an actual funny one.
	No, no, dig out a bunch of the funny sketches and we'll see if they can make me laugh.
	We'll do that.
	Because I hate Monty Python.
	I've never thought it was funny.
	And I remember even when I was a kid, wondering why my dad was laughing at this.
	In particular, the fish one.
	I was just like, this isn't funny.
	Like, it's just not funny.
	And I never liked it at all.
	And I watched, literally, everyone I knew thought Monty Python was like the height of comedy.
	And I was just like.
	I never bought into that that it's the funniest thing ever.
	I never bought into that.
	But some sketches I do think are funny.
	Well, this has been the legacy that Python's left, and I hate it.
	Anyway, thanks for joining us, folks.
	We'll see you tomorrow.

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