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	Who are the men that pick for scraps amongst the ruins at the end of history?
	You should know because you encounter them every day.
	Between the towering buildings of a fallen empire, we find the Felahen, the historyless men, who know nothing of the turning of the cosmic wheel and find themselves outside of civilization itself.
	Cut loose from the great chain of being, they represent the loam into which our dying culture will return.
	That is, unless we choose to take up the burden once again.
	This fellaheen condition is the subject we explore in issue four of Islander magazine, on sale while stocks last and available worldwide at shop.loadseaters.com.
	Hello and welcome to the podcast of Loadseaters episode 1225.
	I'm your host Harry, joined today by Beau and brand new special guest Kim Il Mao.
	It's very great to have you.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking about maybe Hillary might go to jail this time for real zs bro, we really mean it.
	But Tulsi Gabbard's in charge of this, so maybe actually something will be done.
	Britain's tyranny again.
	A fun one.
	And I'm going to be talking to us about pointless scientific studies that tell you the obvious.
	Also by Islander.
	I feel like I'm going to be called out in this segment because a lot of psychology is sort of pointing out things that people already knew, but it's like, now we know it's true.
	Now my favorite one is the first study that I'll go over in this that's reported by the New York Times.
	No, no, no.
	Honestly, it's like the most obvious thing in the world, but scientists seem baffled by its conclusions.
	Anything else we need to talk about?
	Do we have anything on in the afternoons anymore, Samson?
	Calvin's not with us anymore at the moment.
	Peace be upon him.
	Praise be unto his name.
	I can't hear you, Samson.
	I'll just assume the...
	Hear him.
	thing is on so let's just get on with the news all right so have you seen that it has now been shown pretty much beyond a doubt that the russia russia russia hoax was indeed that a hoax something fabricated fabricated from start to finish something many people knew pretty much straight away and it has been shown a while ago now but tulsi gabbard has added more information so i just thought we could talk a little bit about how hillary rodden kinton
	might be in a bit of trouble because it does uh it does all end or start rather with her ultimately what year was the the mueller report published because i i thought it was the mueller report that came to the conclusion that yes this was all nonsense yeah basically yeah i can't remember what years ago i can't remember what year that was published but yeah yeah at that point that's the point at which you had no credibility if you still tried to claim it was true yeah after the mueller report after the durham investigation
	and the mueller report um well like yeah there's this dossier the steel dossier christopher steel uh it's just not true uh but let's get into it so oh well actually first of all uh i That sounded really insincere, didn't it?
	Is Bodeid in this one?
	I'm not in this one, but snubbed.
	It should be in the next one, I would have thought probably.
	But by it, it's out now.
	There are limited.
	I think there's only, I think in the order of 15 or 1000 we print and they always sell out reasonably quickly.
	So if you do want one, go to our website and get one.
	Because they, well, it will almost certainly sell out.
	You will, Laurence, it's sexier reading it as well.
	Yeah, there's no doubt.
	So it was funny actually, you on the on the promo thing looking deadly serious reading it.
	Very seriously.
	It is deadly serious.
	If you're not reading lit by a chimney fire, then are you even reading seriously?
	You're reading children's books.
	You're reading Peppa Pig at that point.
	Don't knock Peppa Pig.
	It should be read in a library or the drawing room of a country house.
	If you're not reading it in the library or the drawing room of a giant country house, then, you know.
	Islander is a key step to getting that country estate.
	Yes, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	OK, so let's have a first look.
	OK, so what happened is, why it's in the news cycle at the moment, is Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence for the Trump White House, has come out and said,
	the liars really, the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 started off and then Obama was in on it.
	It was pedaled all the way through Trump's first administration by the intelligence services and the mainstream media.
	You know, you've got like the likes of Clapper, who was the National Intelligence Director, Director of National Intelligence at the time, the CIA, John Brennan.
	the FBI, James Comey, it was pedaled by all of them and many more and the mainstream media, the particular type Democrat Shield type mainstream media, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, people like Rachel Madow, how hard they pushed it.
	But no one ever, even after the Mueller report, no one ever got in any trouble for that, right?
	I mean, Comey lost his job, but that was sort of a wider thing.
	No one really got in trouble.
	Certainly Hillary herself never got in any trouble for it.
	There was no real question that she was going to be prosecuted or anything.
	So what I want to do is just run through the story a bit for anyone who doesn't remember it or perhaps if you're quite young, you weren't old enough.
	Because this goes back, it starts in about 2016.
	So like nine, knocking 10 years ago now, this story has been going on.
	So there will be younger people that won't.
	remember how the events and how they all played out.
	So I want to go through it and it will be, I won't go into everyone's names.
	It's actually quite a complicated story.
	At its essence, it's very straightforward, but all the details, it does get a bit cloudy, a bit complicated.
	There'll be all sorts of people that I won't go into much detail about, but are important to the story, like Bill Barr, for example.
	But okay, so at the moment, the mainstream media, the SHIELD Democrat legacy media, they're trying to spin it that it's just a nothing burger and that there is no evidence.
	That's a liar.
	There is evidence.
	There absolutely is evidence.
	Wasting the public's time time, energy, and who knows how much money on these bogus claims.
	Just doesn't matter.
	It's not of public interest.
	Well, they tried to overturn the result of an election, didn't they?
	By saying that he's illegitimate and was funded by a foreign power and therefore the results should be, you know, either overturned or, you know, they should have another election or a rerun.
	That was the whole aim of it, which is quite insidious, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	The ultimate, ultimate liar.
	Like Rachel Maddow, for example, would be saying things like, this is war.
	Russia is at war with us over this.
	Trump is a hand-picked Kremlin stooge.
	He is Putin's puppet.
	And this is basically a Russian coup d'etat against America.
	It's like crazy, crazy nonsense.
	It's also just frankly not great for foreign relations.
	Yeah.
	America was not at that time prior to February 2022 officially at war with Russia when the entirety of the media was screeching as though they were.
	Also, the way...
	The way many American commentators talk about their political system is as if the president holds ultimate power when actually they don't.
	And if the Russians were to try and influence, you know, US politics...
	And in fact, as we've seen throughout American history, the presidency can be quite an ineffective office if you've got a hostile Congress.
	Also, if you really wanted to have ultimate...
	legislative power you'd want to fit the entire Supreme Court with Kremlin agents and then just get a load of insider agents to fire off lawsuit after lawsuit until one gets
	So it's one of the political systems in the world that's probably the most difficult to have foreign influence, although to be fair, there are lots of pressure points for foreign capital to affect things so that's another avenue yeah Russia and Israel and a number of countries Britain in fact have got like fair bit of influence in various ways So it's not the case that, well anyway, that's another, that's a whole nother angle.
	I wasn't going to go into that sort of thing.
	But let's just watch what the main street, this is NBC, their angle on this.
	One sec.
	The Attorney General is ordering a grand jury investigation into claims by the White House President Obama ordered an investigation into the then candidate Trump's 2016 campaign connections to Russia allegedly to try to hurt his chances of becoming president.
	By the way, allegations that are not substantiated, a justice well, they are.
	They are.
	So that's wrong.
	The justice department's spokesperson declined to comment when asked about the letter.
	Just a couple of weeks ago, the office for the former president said, in part, these claims are outrageous enough to merit a comment.
	The bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
	I want to bring in Monica.
	So that's one of the angles they're going for as well that this is all distraction to move the news cycle away from the Epstein thing.
	And I'll talk about that a bit later, but one, okay, maybe it is.
	Two, I actually don't care.
	I'm more interested in the truth.
	Three, no one's actually going to take their eye off the board, forget about Epstein.
	That's not happening.
	So that's a weak argument that it's just distraction.
	Well, Trump's yes and no.
	We've learned about this before all of the Epstein stuff anyway.
	And this is a progression of a many year long effort to get some degree of justice for this.
	And also the Democrats are treating this like this idea just sprung up out of the ground.
	It has to have its origins somewhere, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	And we know where we've got the receipts.
	Gabbard has got the receipts.
	Also, frankly, if it is a kind of distraction tactic, I don't see why somebody like the Clintons wouldn't also welcome it given that they are just as, if not more heavily implicated in the Epstein affair as Trump.
	I'll end with that as well.
	Micah Alba, who was at the White House plain English at here.
	Why does this matter?
	What does this mean?
	Remember a couple of weeks ago, Halley, when really the headlines were dominated by the Jeffrey Epstein controversy and then the president was sort of trying to change the topic very obviously and in many different venues was trying to bring up these unsubstantiated claims about the role he argues former President Obama had.
	Okay, you get it.
	They're not unsubstantiated.
	They're just not.
	So, you're liars.
	Okay.
	Let's just let people, again, who might not remember, sort of eight, nine years ago, I won't play all this, but we'll play a bit, how hard it was pushed.
	Donald Trump's done.
	He's done.
	There's no question about that.
	He's done.
	Russia.
	Russia, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, sort of collusion, Russia, Russia, sort of collusion, Russia, possible collusion.
	Breaking news, a bomb shell.
	Today is a turning point.
	Today was historically bad for President Trump today was a turning point.
	We're at a turning point here.
	Russia hates Russia Russia Trump Russian metal collusion Trump Russia impossible collusion It's a big change.
	Because all of a sudden, Trump, the possible collusion with Russia.
	Did they expect to be Russia, possible collusion?
	Trump, Russia, possible collusion with Trump.
	It just goes on and on.
	The beginning of the end.
	Slam also.
	They would always come out with the same thing.
	It's the beginning of the end.
	The walls are closing in on Trump.
	New bombshell.
	just day after day after day, just an endless tsunami of, Where does all this come from?
	So, well, actually, let's just let Matt Tabey talk a little bit here.
	And the thing is, now you have this guy, Leonardo Bernardo, a name with the Open, with George Soros' Open Society, Jeff Goldstein dealing with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, back and forth and finding a way to change the narrative from Hillary's emails and the John Podesta have kacking to Donald Trump in bed with Vladimir Putin to hopefully win the election and later to destroy his first term when he won.
	Yeah, I mean, it's it's unbelievable Because the real story here is that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server opened up the United States to an unprecedented security risk.
	And the Russian government actually came into possession of a huge cache of material correspondence all the way up to the president's office.
	And yet, in order to deflect from that, they had to create some kind of story that was similarly explosive.
	So they came up with this idea of linking and vilifying Trump and Putin together.
	They talked about it being a long term project to demonize them both.
	And that's what they did.
	And what's so remarkable is that every single major media reporter in America went along with this.
	Okay, that's it in its essence.
	So where this all started was that back in the Obama years, Hillary Clinton for a period was at the State Department, the head of the State Department, the American equivalent of the Foreign Secretary, right?
	So one of the absolutely most senior people in the whole government.
	below the president.
	So she did that for a few years.
	And while she was there, she was involved in all sorts of shenanigans and dodgy stuff, one of which was that she had a server, State Department server put in her house.
	Completely not allowed to do that.
	Completely not allowed to do that.
	Again, if anyone's not clear, the State Department deals with all sorts of secrets and foreign policy and diplomacy and actual sensitive stuff.
	So even if you're the head of the State Department, you can't just have a server put in your home or in your bathroom.
	I was about to ask, wasn't it in the bathroom?
	I think so, yeah, yeah.
	And it wasn't secure, certainly wasn't secure enough, and it seems like the Russians hacked into it, got into it.
	So right there, that's a bad enough error to be raised to a level of being prosecutable, but she never was.
	She never was.
	She did have to answer a few questions about it one time, but then other times just didn't turn up to the hearings and stuff like that.
	She's too important for that.
	Another thing she did was sell off something in the order of 20% of America's uranium sector, all different things to do with mining and I think enriching uranium that the United States do.
	that got donated to the Clinton Foundation.
	Also, Bill would go on speaking trips to Russia around that time and make like half a million dollars straight into his own pocket around that time.
	What a strange coincidence.
	Very inconvenient coincidence for both of them.
	It's good work if you can get it.
	Yeah, right.
	So after that, Hillary then stopped being at the State Department so that she could have a year or two in order to gear up for her 2016 presidential run.
	Right.
	Happy birthday to this future president.
	Yeah.
	She's the future president.
	And so certainly after Trump got his, won his primary, but even before that, the Hillary campaign had done some polling, sort of internal polling, and it had shown that the things that she'd done during her time at the State Department were really bad.
	People had noticed and remembered.
	that she'd sold off all sorts of the uranium sector and Benghazi.
	Benghazi, yeah, yeah, and the server thing.
	People hadn't forgot, it was only a couple of years previous that all that had gone down so they realized that it would probably be a close run thing whoever she ran against and she may well lose so so they decided she decided to sort of green light an idea from one of her team apparently someone called Julie Julie as yet undetermined and and people like John Podesta and Christopher Steele and
	various other people.
	Someone came up with the idea that we'll smear Trump with this Russian collusion idea.
	So they got a dossier...
	It's very murky, actually, to do with a British company and a British intelligence officer.
	But anyway, they got some dirt, what they thought was dirt, from a British intelligence asset actually but anyway through Russia saying have you got any like dirt on Trump and anyway the point is it was all and this is what get later has been called the steal dossier And it was that stuff like Trump's compromising stuff in hotel rooms, to prostitutes and peeing and this sort of embarrassing kind of stuff.
	I remember that actually being in the news and stuff like that.
	It's like, really?
	It's like schoolyard stuff, this is.
	Yeah, one, it's a complete fabrication, wholesale, whole cloth fabrication.
	Two, if you're going to make something up, you're going with that.
	You're not going with anything really politically juicy.
	You're just going with...
	He's a weirdo.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, that was the approach that they took in 2024 as well.
	But there was a bit of a scattershot approach, but I imagine that they felt it was necessary because because around the time of that campaign was that not also at the same time that all of the pizza gate allegation and conspiracies were coming out so they needed anything at all to try to draw the mainstream discussion or online discussion away from any connection that the Clintons may have had to do with that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	whole thing and then Q comes about as well and then starts promoting that to really push it into the realm of The whole Russia, Russia, Russia hoax was one big long exercise in distracting people from talking about Hillary's email server and Hillary's, the Clintons' connection to Russia.
	Yeah.
	Because of course you accuse people of doing what you yourself are doing, don't you?
	Right.
	Classic, right?
	It's a classic tactic.
	Yeah.
	And people were saying this, some people were saying this sort of quite quickly or at the time, but they were dismissed by the mainstream media, by the intelligence services, by the FBI or whatever, saying, no, you're a conspiracy theorist.
	You're the crazy one.
	Just the levels of gaslighting on it were crazy.
	But let's let this guy, he's on Fox News, I think he's on Hannah T. But he's, I think this guy is a Jarrod, an ex-FBI fella.
	It's just about a minute, but he just says it exactly, exactly as it is.
	Maggie Haberman became obsessed with Donald Trump.
	Never an apology.
	Look, the New York Times and Maggie Haberman became obsessed with Donald Trump, driven by their hatred, their arrogance, their liberal bias.
	They were blinded to the fundamental standards of fairness and accuracy and the truth.
	And then they're rewarded, as you pointed out, Sean, with a Pulitzer Prize for getting a story wrong.
	I mean, when you reward bad behavior, all you get is more bad behavior, more lies, more smears.
	So the New York Times is very much like a religious cult.
	when it comes to Trump.
	They are maniacal and they hire mindless scoffants like Ben Smith, who published the dossier without ever bothering to investigate or verify or corroborate anything of it.
	If he had, he would have learned that it was a collection of lies conjured up by two classic phonies, Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele, and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democrats.
	They were played for the fools that they are useful idiots.
	if the New York Times had any integrity, it would fire those individuals who got that story wrong for so long and apologize sincerely to their readers.
	Okay, yeah.
	So now all of this, although a lot of this has been known for a while, again, there was there's no question that anyone, like you said, no one's going to get fired.
	Certainly Hillary herself is not facing any sort of repercussions.
	But now it looks like it is whether it's a distraction technique from the Trump White House because of Epstein.
	don't I don't particularly care because no one's going to forget about Epstein so if it's coming out it's good I wrote an article like any decent lecturer, you have to pedal your own stuff, don't you?
	I wrote an article a while ago.
	At least there are not overpriced books on it.
	Right, yeah.
	I'm not going to force you to buy a book from a reading list.
	Just to mention that this is on our website where just talking about how the deep state, as Trump would call it, you know, people like Brennan, a number of people, I name them here, all sorts of people, were just prepared to liar endlessly for the DEMs.
	Just brazenly, just go in front of like the American people and just say just complete liars endlessly.
	I mean this article actually concentrates a bit more on the laptop from doom, the laptop from hell, Hunter Biden's laptop.
	But the same thing applies with the steel dossier and the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax.
	Let's play a little bit of this.
	Samson, did you have it lined up where I said?
	No.
	Okay.
	Anyway, let's play a little bit of it.
	Why is that not playing?
	Let's see, it's...
	It's just a bit of Glenn Greenwald.
	fraud which i'll remind you again was driven by the core conspiracy claim that the trump administration that the trump campaign officials collaborated and colluded and conspired with the Kremlin to hack into the DNC email server as well as John Podesta's email and disseminate those emails to WikiLeaks and by the broader conspiracy theory that Trump was being blackmailed by Vladimir Putin was sexual material compromising financial information,
	personal blackmail as well, and that therefore the Kremlin was basically, once Trump was elected, running the country.
	It was a completely unhinged and deranged conspiracy theory from the start, for which there was no evidence.
	I'm not just saying that retroactively.
	Like some people, not very many, but some, I was saying it quite vocally at the time.
	And it was clear not just that this was a scam or a fraud, but that it was one deliberately cooked up from the bowels of the intelligence community and law enforcement agencies where so many of these lies get disseminated, mainly from the CIA, then led by John Brennan, who we now know is a vehement, devoted hater of Donald Trump.
	Okay.
	We've had this ethos for so long in Washington.
	It actually goes back to Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon.
	If you go and watch the speech, Gerald.
	We're running a little bit short of time, but Greenwald makes the point there where there's this thing not prosecute people that used to be at the top of government or used to be at the top of the Federal Reserve or top of Wall Street let's not do that because that's what banana republics do this endless back and forth lawfare thing that it's unseemly it's even un-American let's not do that but people are saying now it looks like Trump and
	and the Bondi Department of Justice and lots of other people and including myself are saying no Sold all that.
	No, no, no, no.
	If they've done something criminal, particularly really badly criminal, and there's no statute of limitations on their crimes, then no, let's prosecute them i don't care that it's hilary clinton yeah it doesn't matter if your country is a banana republic if everyone is getting away with massive corruption and lying that's what makes you a banana republic it seems very strange to me to try to associate holding your leaders responsible for their actions with corrupt banana republics awfully convenient isn't it yeah that is yeah um and i i chose a bit of glenn greenwald there because although
	glenn greenwald is at heart ultimately a left-oid He's not an NPC, right?
	He does care about what's really true.
	At least I think he does.
	Mostly.
	No, no, he's one of the good gu guys, really, even if he is a bit of a lefty.
	But I thought I'd put him there because it's not just Fox News.
	It's not just people like Hannity that are banging this drum.
	It is anyone that can see what is true, what really happened.
	And I also have a couple of quick clips here from Jimmy Dore, who also is a complete left-oid.
	But he's not, he's, he's.
	There's a certain type of leftist like the Jimmy Dore type who hate what they perceive as the betrayal of the Democratic Party more than they do the other side at this point.
	He's still, I mean, he hates both parties.
	I believe Dore is, you know, recognises that it's a uniparty, but he particularly hates all of the people in the Democrats who've made it that way.
	Dore is one of the very few lefties that I actually don't mind at all watching.
	Because he will have a pop at The View or Rachel Maddow or CNN.
	He will totally just have a dig at them if what they're saying is insane nonsense.
	He does care a bit about the truth.
	So I've got respect for people like that, even if I don't necessarily agree with their entire worldview or anything.
	But so let's.
	A bombshell coming out, but a bigger bombshell.
	is that I'll be in Oxnard, California Sunday and then I'll do the exact thing that they've been saying Donald Trump did for the last ten years straight.
	And we it's in their own book, new bombshell information that just concludes what we reported over eight years ago.
	What?
	Yeah.
	So that's a Clinton campaign and the FBI were in on smearing Donald Trump as a Russian colluder or in conspiracy with the Russians.
	And so the latest thing is.
	on Thursday newly declassified documents revealed that not only did the CIA believe a Russian intelligence assessment that the twenty sixteen Hillary Clinton campaign planned to smear Donald Trump by linking him to the Kremlin, it's clear that the FBI helped the Clinton campaign orchestrate the Russia hoax to distract from its investigation into her emails, which she should have gone to prison for.
	Because she had a private server of the Democratic Party turning their backs to their own blue, their base, the blue collar workers, and they lost the election.
	That's why all this happened.
	And if you want to know who was really meddling in the election, it was the Clinton campaign, the FBI, the CIA, the media, and it was people in our own government.
	This is from the primary.
	Do you remember how they screwed Bernie Sanders?
	Daily News, New York City's Board of Elections will admit it purged more than two hundred thousand voters from the city rules.
	After many Brooklyn residents arrived at the polls during last year's presidential primary to learn they were deemed ineligible to vote, the Good Government group, Common Cause New York filed a lawsuit.
	State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office.
	It was actually at the early awning.
	Because Hillary Clinton couldn't beat Donald Trump.
	And why couldn't she beat Donald Trump?
	Because the Democratic Party completely turned their backs to their base, meaning working people.
	How do I know this?
	Because here's Chuck Schumer telling you, just before Hillary Clinton is about to lose to Donald Trump in 2016, what their campaign strategy is.
	Their campaign strategy was to turn their backs to workers and blue collar people and go after Republicans.
	What, you think I'm joking?
	Listen.
	For every blue collar Democrat we will lose in Western PA, we will pick up two, three moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
	And you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.
	How'd that work out for you, Chuck?
	Yeah, how'd that work out for you, Chucky boy?
	Okay, so I think you get the point.
	Unfortunately, I'm running really out of time.
	But there's just...
	You can find all sorts of compilations of just Rachel Maddow, for example, mad cow, just endlessly going mad about Russia.
	Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin despises.
	Get it?
	It was all just...
	Yeah, it was all just a massive, massive, and then all of a day, I remember it just dropped.
	Right.
	It was just done because I assume it was the Mueller report coming out and they go, oh, we don't actually have a leg to stand on at all here.
	So they just pretend it never happened.
	So with Tulsi Gabbard bringing this back up now, it looks like the Department of Justice will do some sort of grand jury-style thing, a task force to actually properly look into its subpoena power.
	So maybe, just maybe, it'll still be a long time from now, but maybe...
	We shall see.
	A full investigation.
	I'm not holding my breath, to be perfectly honest, but hopefully some cogs are in motion.
	And one last final thing just to mention, also in breaking in the news in the last sort of three, four days or so, is that both the clintons have been subpoenaed to give evidence about their involvement in in epstein related affairs um in in congress and so rather amusing thumbnail there she looks very angry at him yeah still not forgiving him so they have been subpoenaed to uh actually have to answer for
	themselves whether they will or not whether they'll just say oh i don't recall endlessly we shall see but um yeah looks like hillary people are gunning for hillary at the moment so that's nice to see Okay then, we'll go through the three Rumble rants that we have received.
	That's a random name starting off.
	Glad to see you brought back that homeless man.
	He looks a lot like one of your old employees.
	Must be a coincidence.
	All gypsies look the same.
	How dare you call me a gypsy?
	I've never heard you accused of being a gypsy before.
	Rory, I'll pick your pockets if you're not careful.
	I thought that was a reference to me and my beard.
	I've had a little bit of a trim, actually, for people that are very interested in your beard.
	You look very neat.
	Thanks, yeah.
	Yesterday it was a bit I'm shooting for sort of George the Fifth and I was looking more like Uncle Albert.
	So I had a bit of a trim the chops up a little bit.
	But anyway, Rory is the office gypsy.
	He was the diversity higher.
	Pat J. Reid.
	She would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those damn notices.
	There are incredible powers out there.
	And that's a random name for finishing us off with banana podcasts do awful stuff like holding their hosts accountable for skipping super chats.
	Thank God this isn't such a podcast.
	Just kidding.
	I know that none of us can read.
	And I approved your point there as I was reading it.
	But don't worry.
	I understand the annoyance from some of the Rumble viewers that the Rumble rants don't always get read out.
	In my opinion, you've paid your money.
	We will read it out as long as you're not actively getting us to the Fed posts or say, uh, say the naughty words or anything like that.
	I will.
	As the dictator of today's podcast, we will not be skipping super chats unless I arbitrarily decide to do so.
	I would like to point out that I never did that once in my time at Low Citers.
	We are honourable men.
	Can't speak for this chat though.
	He's throwing you under the bus.
	First opportunity he gets.
	How many times has someone gone to start reading a super chat and then realized halfway through that he says something far too spicy?
	That it's a Fed most of the time.
	Yeah, we'll have to.
	He was fed up a few weeks ago.
	It was just like, I'll just read them anyway whatever.
	Here you go.
	That's a random name.
	Harry a man of the people, a real noir.
	Is that some reference that I don't get?
	Is this more of a zoomer brain than I have?
	Anyway, talk about how awful everything is and how we should all jump off a bridge together.
	So obviously a lot of people know about the tyranny in the UK.
	It's pretty widely publicized.
	You had, you know, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the likes, as well as obviously lots of people in our own country talking about it.
	And a lot of the time this is focused on critics of the state, people with a public profile, a large degree of the.
	time, although it's not impossible that everyday people get caught up in this.
	But I wanted to talk about things that will affect everyday people fairly frequently and increasingly frequently in my opinion.
	And these are the kind of things that make living in Britain just insufferable.
	These are sort of petty tyrannies, bureaucrats with too much power and that sort of thing.
	I wanted to start with this story.
	So man given no choice over trowel arrest caution.
	And this is the dangerous man.
	He looks like a fret, doesn't he?
	He looks like he's going to hurt someone.
	I make up a fret.
	He doesn't.
	take him near my kids.
	But surely a trowel is it because a trowel has a point to it and is made of steel, therefore it counts as a knife.
	I don't think you've got to throw this man in prison.
	I think it was because he had his gardening stuff around his waist here and it was a little sheath the wild west.
	Sheath here for a trowel here and someone must have thought it was a knife.
	But I'm going to read what happened to a certain extent.
	It says knife.
	This is a knife.
	That's a trowel.
	Yeah, that's a trowel mate.
	Crocodile Dundee would be very different if that happened.
	A man who was cautioned for carrying a bladed trowel in public has said he was given no choice but to accept the reprimand because police were unable to contact a solicitor for him, another layer of nonsense there as well.
	Not only were they bringing him in for gardening tools, but also he wasn't able to get his own legal representation.
	Armed on an allotment which they're trying to shut down.
	Who's on an allotment?
	Well, he was originally at an allotment.
	I'll read the story first.
	Armed police were sent to challenge Samuel Rowe as he walked home from his allotment in Charlton, Manchester, carrying the tool, a peeling knife, and a sickle, so you know, gardening tools really.
	Greater Manchester Police said Mr Rowe had admitted possessing a dagger and was given a conditional caution which entailed advice about the law on carrying bladed weapons in public.
	The King Gardener said he was terrified when armed officers who did not draw their weapons arrived outside his home on the third of July.
	He said the officers were shouting at him, drop the knife, and this is a quote from him, I said I didn't have a knife and they told me to drop the knife again.
	So I dropped my Japanese hand gardening sickle and a handful of private I had just cut off the hedge.
	They turned me around, pushed me up against my house, cuffed me, and put me in the back of a van.
	Sorry, so he was subject to petty tyranny standing outside of his home.
	Gardening.
	Gardening.
	And he had been seen with gardening tools walking back from an allotment.
	And there has been some discussion because they're talking about a trowel and also a sickle.
	I was able to find a picture of him with his sickle there.
	Ever so scary.
	I'm absolutely terrified.
	This is his serious face.
	Yeah, obviously this guy was not a threat to anyone.
	He was minding his own business, doing his own thing, gardening, which I believe.
	I believe is still legal for the time being.
	I'm going to have to let my dad know that he might be in trouble because he loves gardening.
	You've got those green fingers.
	That's actually a criminal offence, that is.
	I've actually got a very quick anecdote that happened to me in real life.
	When I was about 15 or 16, one of my friend's houses backs onto a park and we saw someone shooting at ducks with an air rifle.
	Some piece of shit was doing that, right?
	And so we was only like 15 or whatever.
	We went in and told his mum.
	His mum called the police.
	And then a van of armed police turned up...
	to her house because she had to give her address they asked where what's your address and so armed police turned up to the front of her house Saying, we've had reports there's a gun, someone's using a gun.
	What's going on with guns?
	It's like, no, it wasn't us.
	We're saying somebody else and it was only an air rifle and you've completely got the wrong end of the stick.
	They didn't point their guns at anyone, but the point is the armed police turned up.
	And all like, what's going on sort of thing.
	They take doctors very seriously.
	It's like, no, we're the people reporting the problem.
	We're not...
	We didn't...
	The point is that I think armed cops are like really twitchy, like super crazily twitchy.
	You can understand why, right?
	But also, petty tyranny is bad enough.
	That's one thing.
	But also, the people we are being tyrannised by are completely useless and get everything wrong constantly all of the time.
	It makes it very frustrating, doesn't it?
	I'm trying to put it nicely because my actual feelings are much stronger than that.
	But one thing I do have strong feelings for is the wonderful Islander magazine.
	There you go.
	I've got a very handsome model here holding a copy.
	You too could be a handsome model if you bought Islander magazine.
	And it's only £15, which is pretty good these days.
	You might also soy face once you've purchased it.
	If you do, please photograph yourselves and tag us on Twitter.
	It is a known side effect.
	I'm sorry if that does happen to you.
	So here's another thing, and in many ways this one is even more ridiculous than the last.
	Is teenage waitress convicted in fast-track courts over mix-up with surprise 18th birthday gift.
	So, this sounds quite confusing, doesn't it?
	So, a teenage girl has received a criminal conviction for failing to get insurance on a surprise 18th birthday gift of a car before it had actually been given to her which is ridiculous the waitress from pool in Dorset said her family bought the Fiat as a present to celebrate her landmark birthday but mistakenly did not insure it immediately.
	Last month the DVLA charged her with keeping an uninsured vehicle and bought a criminal prosecution over the unpaid bill.
	She explained the mix up in a letter to Ipswich Magistrates Court saying she never driven the vehicle as she does not yet have a license and at the time of the offence she did not even know the car was hers but apparently it was not enough to spare her from a criminal conviction.
	So an 18-year-old girl who was bought a car for her birthday that she didn't even know about now has a criminal conviction that will potentially follow her for life.
	Yeah, well, it will, yeah.
	For something that was completely unavoidable from her perspective.
	That seems to me that someone at the magistrates court or at the DVLA, someone there was just a job's worth or has got a quota of prosecutions they need to make every month or something.
	So just ruin this girl's life.
	At the expense of her life, yeah.
	But these are the people.
	Yeah, right.
	And of course, the people that run these institutions are actually meant to be serving in our interest, not prosecuting.
	I don't think there's a single person in the country that's going to say, yeah, she did something wrong.
	Yeah, oh, she deserves to have her life ruined for this.
	And if there is someone like that, I'd like to meet them.
	In the car park.
	Yeah, it's going to be like Cludo.
	There's going to be a tyre iron involved.
	There's going to be all sorts of things.
	Josh in the car park with a tyre iron.
	Josh in the shipping container with a toolbox.
	What?
	I'm joking, by the way.
	Being hyperbolic.
	Get a knock on the door for that one.
	It's already coming.
	It's fine.
	I've got a protective ring of junkies around my house, so the police just stay away.
	It's wonderful.
	It's one of the perks of living in Swindon, is that you don't get bothered.
	Here's another one.
	It's a similar sort of vein here.
	Pensioner 82, convicted of not paying car tax while in hospital having toe amputated.
	You'd think that this would be a situation where there was would be some degree of understanding because they're having obviously a serious operation.
	They're 82 years old.
	They have other things on their mind.
	They're not thinking about their car tax.
	They sent in their medical records to explain the mistake and express that they're willing to sort it out.
	And instead, they still received a criminal conviction.
	Right.
	When I was working complaints for insurance, if anything like this happened, if we had a problem.
	like this with a customer we had this term that we used very common term called extenuating circumstances meaning that circumstances outside of the control of the person that we're speaking to that they can't account for that will lead to change in behavior outside of the norm.
	And in something like this, you shrug your shoulders and say, well, you couldn't have seen that coming.
	Clearly, your mind was on something else, so we won't punish you for this.
	please pay your next bill, something like that.
	How we could do that as just some random insurance company with internal processes and the judicial system of It certainly is.
	And in fact, you know, the private company there acting more morally than the state that's meant to serve us is just a testament to how far things have degraded.
	Because it never used to be this way, did it?
	Because sometimes the reason that it would come to the complaints is sometimes you would get a job's worth on the first line of communication to the person who would just go, No, we can't do that.
	No, the rules say this, the rules say that.
	Whereas we had a little bit more wiggle room to actually make decisions and have autonomy to say, Well, that's perfectly reasonable.
	So we'll make the exception for you.
	We had that, like the, like the, the, like the entire judicial system should have the right and authority to be able to say given the circumstances we'll make this exception and that's how it should be done as well that's the moral thing to do that's obviously the right thing to do and if you ask anyone with a functioning brain that is how they want society to work and yet here we are just prosecuting innocent people who have done nothing wrong but you know make a mistake in the eyes of a bad law i bet it will
	be somewhere along the line they've just got targets they've got blair era targets and they they have to meet them i bet that's what all the things like this are it could even just be that the bureaucracy is so poisoned against the population, you know, maybe even the people are resentful that they have to deal with the public, many public sector workers have delusions of grandeur, of course, that they're just hostile to other people.
	I wouldn't put it past that as well, obviously targets would be the strongest incentive, but there are lots of other reasons that people could be doing this that are less than wholesome.
	One of the best measures of a man or a woman, one of the best measures of a person's character given a little bit of power or authority, if they immediately sort of become a little Napoleon, a little Hitler type person, that speaks volumes.
	That's who they really are.
	And yeah, I hate those people.
	I wholeheartedly agree, yeah.
	I think we've all worked in offices under those types of people.
	They get a free visit to my shipping container.
	Yeah, with these people, I can only hope that maybe appeals will...
	Some sort of ombudsman, some sort of appeal process.
	And then they can punish the people that put them through this in the first.
	You're 82 years old, you've just had an amputation, this is the last thing you want.
	Of course, I've gone through ombudsmen with energy companies before and they're pretty useless.
	They basically facilitated, yeah, well, you know, the company will pay you about £200 in damages.
	It'd been two years and they'd taken a couple of thousand of my money.
	So it's like, oh great, that's all I'm getting in compensation.
	That's not even covering the interest of the money they took from me.
	Ridiculous.
	Anyway, I'm not going to winge about myself.
	Something that annoyed me was this, that the advertising agency is just so ideological, I suppose, that apparently this lady is too thin for an advert.
	This advert has been banned because apparently this is unhealthy.
	And to my mind, that's fine.
	I don't really see a problem here.
	There's another advert here.
	Apparently too skinny.
	Is this some weird delayed backlash to the old 90s supermodels where they...
	well, I don't particularly want to be like that.
	You know, people aren't just, you know, receptacles for rhetoric and ideas.
	They they can look at things critically.
	No, I see nothing I do agree.
	But with these sorts of things, I think most people these days are too fat already.
	That's true.
	That's just a very lean, skinny person.
	That's not I've seen much skinnier.
	I've dated women this skinny and they were perfectly healthy.
	They were fine.
	There's no harm in it.
	It's silly.
	And there was another one as well which annoyed me.
	A brew dog ad was banned for implying alcohol can cure boredom which can't it my life experience seems to suggest it does a lot of my time as a student seems to suggest actually yes why do you think people are going to the pub on the weekends and even if it is or it isn't what's that got to do with what's that got to do with anything what's that got to do with a state-run organ Yeah.
	That's to do with essentially ultimately at the bottom line to do with censorship.
	Whether alcohol induces boredom or not.
	What's that got to do with them?
	Well, the Advertising Standards Authority says that it implied that alcohol was a remedy for disappointment, suffering and isolation.
	I'll Just ignore my personal experience.
	Even if it is, let's say it definitely is.
	So, what's that got to do with a regulator?
	I know, it's silly.
	Like, if it were something lewd, where there was, like, nudity or something, or there's swear words, you know, I can understand that degree of regulation for public decency, right?
	But people are well aware of the dangers of alcohol.
	You know, it's not going to be up to this one advert will change everything.
	So I'm sorry, but you think you've got way more power and significance than you actually do.
	It doesn't actually matter.
	This obviously doesn't affect the everyday lives of people that much but it's just a really good demonstration of how these bureaucrats have ridiculous amounts of power and they're willing to to bring it down on nothing Here's another one as well.
	Christian preacher threatened with arrest after being assaulted by Muslim men on street.
	And I don't like street preachers.
	It's nothing against Christianity.
	I just don't, you know, even if they're preaching, you know, drink water.
	It's really good for you.
	I'd be like, shut up.
	Don't tell me what to do.
	It's just my nature.
	I just don't, I want peace and quiet when I'm walking down the street.
	I don't want to be shouted at by people.
	I find Muslim and Christian street preachers equally obnoxious, I must admit.
	That's the fairest, most even-handed thing I've ever heard you say, Bo.
	But no, obviously this is an injustice.
	I do think he has a right to speak his mind and I don't think he should be assaulted by especially Muslim men.
	And I don't think the police should be siding with the Muslim men.
	And this is, you know, because it's an out-of-favour response He was the one that got in trouble for some reason.
	I?
	What could they possibly have arrested him for?
	Yeah, it's not entirely clear.
	Apparently he's taking legal action against the Somerset police, because I think this happened in Bristol, which of course everyone in Britain knows is very lefty, so it's entirely possible that the police were that way inclined as well.
	He was saying it's an example of two-tier policing.
	Who knows?
	There's not really much explanation.
	It's kind of like one.
	It certainly does, doesn't it?
	And then there's also this, of course,
	Look at the bottom there.
	White other, for example, gypsy, Scottish or Irish travellers.
	So I could sell myself as a Scottish traveller.
	I'm such a good traveller.
	Just a very well-spoken one.
	I'm such a good traveller that I've actually adopted the English way, you see.
	Amazing.
	Or you could put on a really thick Brad Pitt snatch accent and go for Irish traveller.
	I like intelligence, I do.
	I'm sorry.
	Why would you want gypsies in the intelligence services?
	They're very good at stealing secrets.
	I'm sorry, why would I want any of these people inside?
	of the intelligence it's not like people of other races outside of europe have proven to have immense and insane in- group preference for their own.
	Presaged where I was going with.
	Instead of, you know, trying to apply rules fairly to everybody on the basis of objectivity.
	It's not like they're not known for being the exact opposite of that.
	Like literally dozens upon dozens upon dozens of studies showing it time and time and time again.
	And whole societies, which act as enormous studies showing as it happens time and time and time again.
	Remember what happened to the farmers in Zimbabwe who were making all the food for everybody?
	Did they go, well, they're providing a service to society, therefore we'll keep them around because we're all benefiting from this and it would be fair.
	Was that what happened and then Zimbabwe became No, it was the opposite.
	It was the exact opposite.
	It was petty hatred and jealousy and that's what I want in my intelligence service.
	It's particularly insane for the intelligence service because what you really need is like an unshakeable loyalty to the crown.
	That's what you need.
	So everything you just said is even more egregious.
	Well, they're going to have dual loyalty, aren't they?
	What happens if they get a Pakistani and he's got to spy on Pakistan or something?
	I don't think he'd be doing it in a summer internship.
	The point being here that the state, both intelligence agencies and the government are deliberately going out of their way to hire people from ethnic minority backgrounds, which increases the chance that it's someone that will have a chip on their shoulder about the native British people and will be willing to do the kinds of things we've seen persecuting us.
	And there'll be security breaches.
	Exactly.
	I mean, a martyr made had a podcast and when he was on Tucker Carlson recently spoke about how when he was in the Department of Defense, they would be shown these big presentations about how you're supposed to spot the tell tale signs if somebody was going to leak information to a foreign government.
	And they went through all of these different things.
	things but they never addressed the glaringly obvious thing that Martha May had noticed and everybody else noticed but nobody said anything which was that of the ten cases they were shown nine were Jews spying for Israel Chinese spying for China Russian spying for Russia Dual citizenship one might say Yeah,
	and it's like well and he put his hand up and said well this is the obvious thing what do we do about that and they just said don't do anything about it Don't pay any attention to it.
	It's just ignoring reality for the sake of feelings and social recognition, isn't it?
	And speaking of recognition, facial recognition tech can now mistake you for a criminal and you will be arrested for it.
	So the technology is imperfect that's being used.
	And obviously I'm in favour of catching actual criminals.
	But the idea is that we're in a stage now where we've got a tyrannical system whereby ordinary people are persecuted, more or less.
	And it could be the case that your persecution starts just because the technology that's being used is imperfect.
	As well as the people enforcing the laws, interpreting the laws, and the entirety of society is very much imperfect.
	And so your chance of getting swept up in something that in no way is your fault is much higher than it would be in the past.
	Because, you know, if you have a person that witnesses a crime and you're, you know, brought...
	At least there's some degree of addressing the thing as uncertain, whereas people tend to look at this technology as if it's infallible.
	And so it's much harder to say the technology is wrong.
	And how you've also got to understand it to be able to argue against it, which is a sort of another degree of tyranny, because you've got to have that baseline understanding of the technology being used against you, which is just unreasonable.
	It would be terrifying if you didn't have an alibi.
	The police come to you and say, "We think, well, we've got footage of someone "that looks exactly like you doing this crime "and you don't have an alibi." Well, it scares me because I- You'd be like, well, how can I disprove?
	Yeah, I spend a lot of my time in my flat, like on my own, working in silence.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you can add an extra letter there if you want.
	Build a bit of column A, a little bit of column A. And there's also this as well.
	This was a Labour plot to silence migrant hotel critics.
	and it emerged that people from Whitehall, of course that is the civil service, their spy unit, complaining to tech firms about content mentioning asylum seekers and two-tier policing.
	So this has obviously come out because a lot of the tech companies are empowered because they're US-based and they're cozy with Trump now, so they've got protection.
	And so they feel comfortable in not doing this and saying, you know, screw you, I'm not doing that.
	And so it's emerged that the government was trying to silence critics online.
	And these are, of course, asylum seekers and two-tier policing, a perfectly legitimate political criticisms.
	There's actually no good reason here.
	You know, I'm not saying that just because I'm partisan as in even many left-wingers would admit okay You know, I might not agree with you, but it's okay to talk about this sort of stuff, maybe less so the asylum seeker stuff, but policing.
	So this is just flagrant abuse.
	This is flagrant tyranny.
	This is silencing your critics on issues that are of clear importance and are obviously of clear importance because Kirstama himself addresses the issue of asylum seekers and has talked about two-tier policing.
	If these are non-issues, if these are fringe extreme issues, why are they being addressed by the person occupying the highest office in the land?
	It doesn't make any sense, does it?
	And as well as that...
	You know, thieves, drug dealers are dangerous people that you don't want out on the street.
	They're doing that sort of thing because they're bad people.
	There's no ifs or buts about it.
	And so why on earth are they being treated like this?
	These are the kinds of people that you actually want in prison, along with violent offenders, right?
	You know, there's a lot of.
	nonsense that people get imprisoned for, but this is one of the one roles.
	If the government has a role, it's keeping its citizens safe.
	That's probably the main role it should have above all else.
	If they can't do that, then why do they exist?
	What's the point of them?
	There isn't really one, is there?
	They exist to make sure that this happens.
	I guess.
	Because if the government didn't exist in its current form, then the public would be forced to deal with criminals on the streets.
	And we'd have a lot more peace and quiet, wouldn't we?
	Yeah, and we wouldn't be quite so touchy fearful.
	Giving, yeah.
	Thieves and drug dealers avoid court and rapists and murderers get minimal sentences.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's my opinion that people like sex offenders and the like, especially if they target children, there's unequivocal death penalty.
	It's like if the death penalty applies to anything, it's like murderers and sex criminals.
	It's so obvious to me.
	And of course, 0% re-offence rate.
	you guarantee society is safe.
	It's why...
	We took those people out of the gene pool.
	I mean, what's the recidivism rate of the graveyard.
	Well, let's hope it doesn't go up, shall we?
	I would also give out very draconian sentences for thievery, particularly repeat offenders.
	Not a 13-year-old stealing sweets from a corner shop, but an adult that's repeatedly stolen cars.
	I would put them away for years and years and years, that type of person.
	They're also like the homeless that have got like 50 or 60 convictions for petty theft.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They need to be taken out of the general population until they're old.
	Yeah.
	In my opinion.
	And finally, if you want to give it all up and go and feed the birds and get some peace of mind.
	Here's an article from last year in The Guardian of All Places.
	I was fined £150 for feeding a pigeon a chip.
	Is this really how councils raise funds now?
	Which is a perfectly reasonable article from The Guardian here, actually.
	Yeah, of course it's all about raising money.
	It's not actually about.
	It's about fining people to get some more money out of them a lot of the time.
	So it's a fixed penalty notice.
	Was this like littering or littering?
	Yeah, it was littering.
	But the pigeon ate it.
	Yeah.
	It's like if you drop something accidentally, is that littering if you pick it up?
	Yeah.
	So it's ridiculous.
	And there's also another case of this.
	Elderly residents, this was in East London, I think, it was Newham.
	Some elderly people were slapped with a £150 fine for feeding the birds in a London park.
	And although I don't agree with feeding all kinds of different vermin, human included, there's no need for this.
	You know, a verbal caution of, I'm sorry, but, you know, we're trying to reduce the number of birds around because they're no go to the toilet on everything it makes it unpleasant is it okay if you don't feed them here that would be fine right you don't have to resort immediately to a fine because they they've shown nothing but goodwill so far really have they that you don't think, Oh, those elderly people they're spiteing the law by feeding the birds.
	They're doing it laughing and running away.
	Well, they're not running.
	that's why they target these kinds of people typically is because of the fact that they are elderly they do still have some kind of residual faith in the law and the institutions that uphold it so they are more likely to go along with it even if it's unjust or at least that's how they perceive it and also just by being elderly they've not really got as much energy to defend themselves they're less likely to kick up a stink about it all yeah potentially I mean I'd kick up a stink but yeah well God I would yeah I'm kicking up a stink on their behalf.
	I think they did kick up a stink because it's in the national news.
	So I imagine that something's been done about it.
	bet it was a case that um you ever imposed the fine has got some sort of targets you have to maybe try and generate some degree of commission even maybe who knows You have to generate as much as possible, but certainly this target.
	And we don't care how you do it.
	We don't care if it's just or reasonable.
	Just get it done.
	And you end up with this crap.
	So yes, obviously a lot of the largely political stuff gets a lot of publicity, but it's not just that., and actually a lot of this sort of stuff affects normal people's everyday lives, and this is the kind of thing that when I talk to my non-political friends and family, they bring up is this sort of stuff that they're scared of.
	Just that you can have a good-natured approach to the world and still be caught afoul by what I see as a tyrannical and unjust government.
	All right, may I have the mouse please?
	I annoyed you.
	Just to say, because this won't go on YouTube now, if I was in a park and someone like a community support officer came up to me and said, and I was breaking up a bit of bread and throwing it on the ground for ducks or whatever and the community support officer or someone or other came up to me and said that's littering what's your name and i just went no no just a coffee yeah yeah please please they don't have the power to physically restrain you so you can just leave yeah yeah
	yeah yeah i mean having it probably chew them out as well a little bit before i leave yeah go now what's your name and number well they probably will tell you then well i think they've got to yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i think i think support workers of those kinds who are in my local area aren't so bad uh so it will really depend on what kind of job's worth if you've got a bell end working in your local area.
	That's a random name because he said a real noir says it's how zoomies say a naughty word.
	Thank you.
	You put tehee as well.
	You put tehee at the end, yes.
	So I've learned something new today.
	The engaged few, he who swishes behind the rose, that's in relation to the man with his sickle and trowel.
	Logan Pine says I saw a petition for a general election with three million signatures, any PM from the 1800s to the 1930s would have resigned the second they saw that.
	That's because they suffered from something called shame, which has been eliminated from the political class for that long time.
	That petition is going to do nothing.
	Yeah, the engaged few in Bow's Britain, this sort of petty overreach will be punished with 10 lashes and forfeiture of one month's pay from the victim.
	200 licks of the cat.
	Yeah, that's a bit much.
	10 seems a bit lenient in Bow's Britain.
	10 for first offence, 200 for second.
	Third offence, the gibbet.
	That's a random name.
	Working in Quebec's NHS, the place is full of petty tyrant retards who care more about the process than the results.
	I was reprimanded for helping patients before my shift started.
	Yes, how dare you go out of your way to be kind to other people and that really does just promote antisocial behavior from people doesn't it because I think it's good to help people in need shocking take I know not very not very radical right wing of me but if somebody is deserving of your help help them Simple.
	Habsification.
	At some point we need to replace these bureaucrats with AI.
	Let's remember the current version of AI is always the worst version and the future version is always more advanced.
	Disagree.
	Obviously there is a progress of technology.
	However, I do not trust AI.
	I don't want to take the human element out of these things.
	We need to replace these bureaucrats who aren't human to begin with., with our friends, people that we can trust, and most of the positions need to be cold in the first place.
	About 80 to 90 percent of it needs to be just not replaced with anything.
	I mean, look at what I was talking about last week that got you in a rage where it was something like 75 percent of the civil service in England is management.
	If you looked at a private company like that, you'd be like, hang on a minute.
	Well, they'd go under.
	Their finances wouldn't make any sense.
	And surprise, surprise, Britain's finances make no sense.
	I wonder if there's any connection.
	Or an army, 70 percent of the army are like captains.
	How does that make any sense?
	It wouldn't make work.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, there needs to be a hierarchy, not everyone can just be leveled out to a middle manager.
	Because guess what?
	Nothing happens.
	I also must say I disagree with herpsification.
	I'd like to live in a world where there is no AI.
	Yes, I would agree.
	A world before AI was better.
	I want I want a I don't trust you.
	I want a world filled with trustworthy people.
	Ideally.
	But have you considered that black people are fooled by those historic pictures that are made by AI?
	That alone is hilarious in redeeming.
	But we have our own artists who can make equally convincing artists, Sarah.
	Yes, sorry.
	The engaged few clearly UK organs of state need to cut back on the Viagra.
	Skittonhund, I'm thinking about visiting the UK for my birthday, but what are the odds I'd be stabbed in Swindon?
	There are much nicer places to go to.
	I wouldn't advise coming here, yeah.
	Well, the middle of Swindon is crap.
	But the rest of like rural Wiltshire is lovely.
	Oh, Wiltshire.
	Yeah, Wiltshire's nice.
	The county it is in, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Go to Avebury.
	Bath is nice.
	Bath is nice.
	Bath is nice, which is very close to Swindon.
	Go to like Bath, Oxford, Cambridge.
	Yeah.
	You know, if you're in like middle England.
	Go down to Dorset and Somerset.
	Good evening there.
	Good evening there.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	A nice soyda.
	Any truck?
	Any luck dealing with those swans?, eh?
	It's just the one swan, actually.
	That's a random name.
	Josh spent the last months of unemployment chasing spells in his flat as seen by the ectoplasm left overall.
	How did you know about my ghost properly?
	Windy Hill House, The Beard Looks Great, Beau took you from Church Brother to and I refuse to read that.
	Beau can read the last word if he wants, the yellow one.
	From Church Brother to Daddy?
	Yes.
	There you go.
	And that's a random name as well.
	For the record, I still helped patients perform my shifts despite the reprimands.
	I was also told I acted inappropriately with patients for being nice to them whilst they were in labour.
	You've got to be mean to get the baby out.
	Meanness.
	You've got to teach them a lesson from the moment they come out into the world.
	Set their expectations.
	Slap a newborn baby.
	You're supposed to berate the mother during labour, is that?
	This is the worst pregnancy I've ever seen, like a drill sergeant.
	Yeah, slow, we've got many to get through here, love.
	Come on, hurry up, hurry up.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, uh all right, let's talk about science.
	Science has brought us a great many innovations and a great many good things in the world, but there is an interesting sphere of science which seems to be the sphere of pointless and useless studies that only exist, I assume, to one,
	reaffirm the immensely obvious, and two, gain consistent funding for the people who are conducting these studies and surveys again and again and again so that they can, you know, make a living and tell their friends that they have a career as a scientist.
	Does this equate with your experience somewhat, Josh?
	Well, allow me to play Devil's Advocate a little bit here because in psychology, there were lots of things that we were studying that were sort of common knowledge, but we had to not only study them to be able to quantify them and make sure that the sort of colloquial knowledge, you know, the anecdote is true, but also some of the data you get is useful in having a deeper understanding than you would have just by, you know, being a person in the world.
	And so, you know, you can identify patterns with those numbers and there's basically more utility in carrying out a study and it's also a jumping off point for more depth.
	And you've got to have this sort of this initial study which then lots of others branch out of.
	And so sometimes a study may appear pointless that isn't, although I don't doubt there will be some ridiculous.
	ones and what I tend to find the most pointless studies are the ones that some postgraduate has cooked up to give them a nice leapfrog into having some degree of public facing acknowledgement.
	So they've used lots of buzzwords and they've made it very trendy.
	They've tried to make sexy science as we scientists call it, which is frowned upon.
	Scientists have to be unsexy, which, you know, I'm keeping it real.
	Yep, you were really holding up your end of the bargain there.
	A broader point though that's definitely true, and it's not just in science.
	because I've worked in sort of, you know, like private, private enterprises before.
	Anywhere where there's a budget, there's the tendency to,
	makes sense from a very utilitarian point of view if you just wanted to get the money.
	Either way though, so I do agree that gathering statistics and such and quantifying and And when it reaffirms things that we already know, it can kind of wrap around to being retroactively pointless, even though it's actually more guarantee of the things that we were already certain of, right?
	But some of the ones that I'm going through are not necessarily bad because of that.
	It's more that they are operating off of faulty premises that they do not want to acknowledge because of political correctness, which is mainly going to be affecting the first study that I will be looking at.
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	So this first study that I wanted to look at was one of those ones that you look at the results that have been generated so far and you go, this is blindingly obvious.
	because it turns out that if you just hand cash to poor families it doesn't make the children any smarter.
	Just injecting a direct flow of money into the brain of an idiot child does not actually Yeah, it just increases their parents' drug habit.
	Injections of liquid cash directly into the brain.
	You pull it down and then you inject it straight into their brain.
	It turns out does not improve their chances of doing well at school.
	Now this is rigorous new research that was done under the name Babies First Years.
	And they actually did control for the spending habits of the parents themselves.
	So they were making sure that the extra money, they split them into a few groups.
	One was being given $333 a month and another was being given $20 a month.
	And they were expecting that this of these two groups, the ones that were being given $333, the higher amount, would form better in terms of child development that having access to greater funds would allow the children to say do better with well-being with language skills with cognitive function etc etc.
	Could I guess why this has happened?
	Because of course the same reason that their families are poor are the same reason that their children might not be doing too well at school and that these two things correlate pretty strongly I imagine because the same skills that make you successful in life tend to make you successful as a parent.
	Well, yes, they completely ignore any question of hereditary traits, which is the glaring flaw of this study, which makes the results, one, blindingly obvious if you had taken hereditary traits into account in the first place.
	And it also compounds as well in that your hereditary traits will also shape the environment.
	So if you've got a parent who's very stupid, well, their environment also is going to reinforce their own stupidity and and therefore they're going to be like doubly stupid raising the child yes and so the results from this again they were expecting that the people being given more money their children would do better instead they found that they were no more likely to develop language skills,
	avoid behavioural problems or developmental delays, demonstrate executive function or exhibit brain activity associated with cognitive development.
	Because what they did, they went all the way with this.
	They used a let me see here, children in both groups showed similar patterns of brain activity on the study's main neurological yardstick, an index of high frequency brain activity as measured by a, and you'll have to forgive me if I pronounce this wrong, electroenophelogram, a high, which measured high frequency brain activity.
	Where are you reading that from?
	That was so wrong, I can't tell what you're trying to say.
	I am very sorry.
	I didn't mean it in a.
	I've highlighted it in the document.
	If you scroll down and find my highlight.
	The high frequency brain activity is often associated.
	Oh, in electrocephalogram.
	Oh, cephalogram.
	Ah, yes, I missed the C. Thank you very much.
	So they were me, they were actually measuring the children's higher function brain activities as well as as they were going through this.
	And again, found that more money, no equal more brain.
	No money, more money, no equal more brain.
	Me confused.
	more money yes sure no help wow no help at all it's only like 300 dollars or whatever that's not that much really not that much money and what what you're gonna take from more books maybe i mean so like i grew up pretty dirt poor right and went to a comprehensive school where everyone was like working class basically and um the reason why i did all right i suppose You could be the judge of that out there.
	The reason why I did all right, you know, went to a decent union, all that sort of thing, is simply because my household was sort of a reading household same here it's pretty much it was pretty much that right i was brought up semi strict so i was not really naughty particularly i was quite a well-behaved child and read a bit that's it that was the difference between me who went on to do a levels and go to uni and do a post grad and someone that just left school at 16 with hardly any gccs we read a bit in my
	household that's it there's nothing to do with money the books were dirt cheap like 99 penguin paperback second hand or whatever from Oxfam or something.
	It doesn't cost all that money to buy a few books.
	Or there's a thing called a library where you get the books for free.
	Yeah.
	And again, the environment.
	does play a role in it, but the question becomes, was the environment the entirety of the role played or was the hereditary traits, the behaviour of your parents that they passed on on to you and their own behaviour themselves, what created that environment and gave you the traits that made you more likely to be inquisitive and curious and pick up a book?
	I would argue it's those traits that came first that created the environment that you grew up in.
	You're right, you're absolutely right.
	And it wasn't about money.
	Yeah.
	We didn't have any money.
	We had a few hundred books, but no, it wasn't about money.
	But the fact that this completely ignores any question of these traits which are passed down generationally, it leads to the people who then see these results and say as Greg J. Duncan did, an economist at the University of California, I was very surprised.
	We were all very surprised that the money didn't make a difference.
	And the thing was they tried to hide this because it says here if I scroll down that they initially lots of other studies had been done on very short scale on short time scales that seem to suggest that if you have more money, the families get better results.
	But again, it says, long been clear, children from affluent families exhibit stronger cognitive developments and fewer behavioral problems.
	But of course, they get the causative elements there completely mixed up.
	It's because they're already likely to behave well and be more intelligent that they become more successful and earn more money.
	So they're completely mixing that up and just think, well, more money, more brain.
	money more brain and this study here's just look one shot many of them and so it says look at Africa look at all the aid that they've received in Africa or or look at Haiti, the GDP of their country is equivalent to the amount of foreign aid they've received.
	It's not improved Haiti, it's still, you know, scarcely habitable as a land.
	And shockingly enough, they recruited the 1,000 poor mothers with newborns from New York, New Orleans, Greater Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Paul.
	More than 80% were black or Latino, and most were unmarried.
	So what a surprise that we received these, that we got these results.
	So they were saying here, though, an earlier.
	paper showed promising activity related to neurological measure in the high cash influence, the trend did not endure.
	The new study detected some evidence of other differences, but the significance was unclear, and while researchers published the earlier, more promising results and publicized them, the follow up study was released very quietly and received little attention.
	So they were trying to hide it.
	They're only trying to hide it.
	exact way that you would expect, many people have reacted to this particular study saying, clearly I've figured out the problem.
	They need more money.
	$333.
	That's nowhere near enough.
	A month as well.
	Was it a month?
	I can't remember.
	That's what he said.
	If that is the case, that's actually quite a lot to spend on your child's education, isn't it?
	That's pretty considerable.
	It can improve the quality of the food that you're buying.
	That should be the kids'food for the whole month, surely.
	If not more.
	If you go to a car boot sale, a second-hand bookstore, you can buy quite a few books for that every month quite a few I mean you just have to force the kids sit down and actually read them that's going to be difficult in some of these family situations with only one parent but you know Probably.
	And Arloc Sherman of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who supports income guarantees, of course, says that I don't think these results undermine the conclusion from a large volume of studies that income is important for a children's health, education, and development.
	And that's such a broad way of describing it.
	Obviously, having money is important for their health and education and parts of their development.
	If you can't feed them, they'll starve..
	But that doesn't necessarily, again, that doesn't mean that you can add on an extra 15 IQ points by giving them stacks of cash.
	It's a very simple rhetorical thing.
	Or else Lil Wayne would have really skyrocketed from album to album.
	He'd have been more intelligent each go-around.
	Same with Dr. Dre.
	Jay-Z, he should be a scientific genius by now.
	What he's saying isn't actually untrue, but in the context of what he's saying is misleading.
	So he's saying that money is important.
	Well, no one's disputing that.
	A certain threshold, sure.
	But I think everyone in the United States has a quality of living whereby poverty isn't really a proper concern unless it's self-inflicted from behaviour.
	And so the financial aspect isn't really a problem even though what he's saying factually is correct.
	Like you look at somewhere else where there is a problem with actually getting what you need, then that's perfectly true.
	But it makes people think that actually you do need money to make children successful, which isn't true.
	It's like they have this strange mystical idea that if you have a stupid child and simply put a stack of cash near them, the magical transitive properties of the cash will make them more intelligent.
	Almost certainly not.
	No, that's not how it works.
	I don't think forced feeding them cash might help?
	Well, we've not tried that study yet, Bo.
	So if you'd like to try and get funding for it and willing participants.
	If we could do some sort of study to see if making children ingest gold coins makes them cleverer.
	You know, money, more money, more cleverer.
	It's a promising realm of scientific research.
	I think someone might be willing to fund that for you.
	Josh, you've got the connections.
	Get on it.
	Yeah.
	And some electrodes involved.
	And who else?
	Jane Wildfogel, a professor at Columbia University who wrote a book on child benefits said that it was just not enough money.
	It was just not enough money and exactly actually, well, the Democrats want to offer about two or three times more than that.
	It's also worth mentioning that even if it was too small an amount of money, they still would have observed an effect, right?
	It's scalable if it's just the amount of money, and so they're not even looking at the right explanation for the outcome there.
	It's just not money.
	It's about being diligent, being raised right, being inquisitive.
	You could be dirt poor and still be inquisitive.
	It reminds me of a bit in an old South Park episode where Magic Johnson, who's lived with HIV AIDS for many, many years, he was just injecting liquid cash.
	How has Magic Johnson stayed alive?
	Yeah, he didn't trust the bank, so he just kept all of his cash in his bedroom, like stuffed into his mattress.
	So him being surrounded by cash and sleeping on it every night stopped him from having AIDS.
	And so Cartman, if I remember, he goes around Africa going, don't worry guys, just have money, have money and you'll be fine.
	And all the Africans are staring at him.
	Yeah, it doesn't work that way, sadly.
	It's a classic leftist thing, though, isn't it, to justify why we need to be socialists.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We need to steal money from any, certainly all rich people, they need to be eaten, if anything, but even middle-class people or kulaks, even they are an issue.
	And their money needs to be redistributed to poor people.
	All of that is to justify that, isn't it?
	Yes.
	It just doesn't make any sense.
	It's not how real world and real people work.
	So they'll take these results and say, well, we didn't go far enough.
	It's the same with any sort of like government budgetary overreach.
	Well, if we have all of these social programs and affirmative action and they don't work at first, do it more.
	and that will somehow lead to greater conclusions.
	And so that's an example.
	We're almost running out of time now, so I'll speed up.
	That's an example of science that made pointless by the fact that it didn't consider the actual cause or one of the actual most important factors that should be considered in what it is testing, which is if you're talking about cognitive development, what are the hereditary traits, what are the behaviors of the family from generation to generation, what would that suggest for the development of the child?
	The most obvious thing in the world they ignored it because to do so would be politically incorrect and not in favor of the results that they were looking for already.
	Here's some other fun ones.
	This one's actually quite useful here, which is avoiding ultra-processed foods might double weight loss.
	I know, right?
	Breaking.
	What this is suggesting.
	Breaking news.
	full of additives, then it's healthier for you.
	But the interesting thing is this one as well, was that even when the people involved in the studies, who are all American, so their diet was presumably absolute trash before they started this study anyway, turns out even if you are eating ultra-processed foods that just aren't complete shit, that actually have all the nutrients that you need in them, you will probably still lose weight if you're trying to.
	So just don't stuff your mouth with ultra-processed garbage and you might lose some weight.
	Thank you very very much for that what science Wow.
	I know.
	Here's another one.
	This might shock you.
	You might be shocked out of your chair right now.
	A healthy lifestyle can help your brain.
	No worries.
	And keep it healthier as you get older but this wow there's already research just like learning the piano or an instrument or a second language helps you with dementia they're even able to quantify it like i think learning a second language reduces your chance of dementia this is off the top of my head so i could be misremembering by around six percent I might be conflating that with a different study.
	That sounds pretty reasonable.
	So what you're suggesting is that if you exercise, you eat well, and you keep your mind active, it reduces your chance of dementia yes and weight gain and that my god my god and i'm sure there weren't already dozens of scientific papers confirming this already we really needed this one to be funded and this so that we could really just put the cherry on top of that cake that big delicious cake here's another one walking is
	healthy for you No, I don't believe that.
	Moving.
	I don't.
	Moving is healthy.
	Surely not.
	We work in an office, Poe, and we don't do much moving.
	But it turns out that moving more is more good for you, but you don't have to move quite as much as we once thought for it to still be good for you.
	They used to recommend ten thousand steps.
	Now it turns out seven thousand steps can be just as good.
	Oh move more more good.
	Thank you science.
	But not all of those seven thousand steps will be equal.
	I mean walking uphill is more personal.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	More move more good.
	Okay.
	Don't complicate it with any of that subjective nonsense.
	But, you know, that's all mostly harmless, right?
	There are studies that will go out of their way to suggest things that I would be a little bit skeptical of as well, like this one.
	The new contraceptive pill, according to a study, the contraceptive pill for men, perfectly safe.
	Perfectly safe.
	It's perfectly fine.
	It doesn't reduce your testosterone, your sex drive or hormonal imbalance.
	All it does is stop your body from producing or, like, limit your body from producing a particular protein which helps with sperm production.
	All it does is lower your sperm count so that it's less likely for women to get pregnant when they have sex with you unprotected.
	And I'm sure that this will have no long-term negative side effects.
	Just the unnatural reduction of your body's ability to produce sperm.
	The second you stop taking it, you go exactly back to where you were before.
	guess so because we've never heard of a contraceptive pill for men this is something that feminists have been really angry about for a long time that men don't have one yeah the idea that they have to but the thing is i've seen i've seen what the contraceptive pill does to women like do i want to do that to myself would i take something no No.
	No, that's just my subjective opinion.
	Josh, you're the office contrarian.
	So would you take this?
	No.
	I agree with you.
	Such a contrarian, I've gone full circle.
	No, I'm very suspicious of this.
	And also, one initial trial, sure.
	And I mean, medical trials tend to be a lot stricter than a lot of others.
	And generally speaking, it's easier to take the research at face value.
	But of course, we know from recent events that that's not always true, is it?
	And so with technologies that have a political element, particularly medical ones.
	And this is a very politically driven push for a male contraceptive pill in the first place?
	I would have my suspicions.
	I think looking at the evidence and making up your own mind is the best you can do.
	I wouldn't advise anyone to mess with their hormones at all unless you you had to if you've got a problem a medical problem and doctors say you sort of it's in your best interest to do this because you've got an issue okay that's something different if you're essentially a healthy person don't mess with your hormone balance if it's in balance count your lucky stars and long may it last don't mess about with it that's my advice.
	Very true.
	Yeah.
	Why would you?
	And that's a scientifically guaranteed statement right there.
	Don't mess about with it.
	Yeah, just don't mess about with it.
	Just don't mess about with it.
	That is probably more useful than science like this and much science which is just confirming the obvious.
	But always be careful of the political reasons for why particular science is undertaken.
	And be careful when stuff like this, the first study that we looked at, is confirming the obvious.
	Examine why that is and what factors that the people undertaking the research have left out, which might be the actual causal factors that they're just ignoring.
	And if you take the male contraceptive pill, you're a cuck.
	All right, we've got some...
	Yeah, we can overrun as much as we want.
	I would never do any sort of roids because, well, for a start, effective, at some point you've got to stop taking them, right?
	So it's only ever going to be temporary.
	No, I didn't think you needed them.
	I don't.
	It's a good point.
	It's a good point.
	No, I wouldn't because, again, you're messing with, you're playing with fire.
	I would never do that.
	If you get old and you want some sort of tea replacement thing, I think Joe Rogan and other people talk about that.
	Okay, that's something different.
	And women, when they get older, like hormone replaccement therapy and stuff like that.
	Okay, that's something different.
	That's reasonable.
	But you're a young, healthy person and you just want to be super jacked.
	So you start taking stuff like that.
	It's like, oh, you should.
	All I needed to hear was that it shrinks your testicles.
	I was like, yep, never do that.
	No chance.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, the natural of testosterone, sorry, the natural testosterone in healthy levels, and they do shift this about sometimes, and I think it's kind of sneaky.
	used to say between 300 nanograms per deciliter in your blood and 1000.
	Recently, I've noticed that they've started to shift that to between 200 and 800, which seems a little bit suspicious to me.
	But if your range, if for whatever reason you get it tested, and so you've got 600 nanograms per deciliter of testosterone, yeah, it's not the highest it can be, but that's healthy levels, perfectly reasonable.
	If you take testosterone as a steroid, which, you know, it always raises testosterone levels, it's been known to go up to like 10,000 nanograms per deciliter, completely unhealthy level, which does cause cognitive problems.
	It literally makes you dumber, and it also causes memory issues, emotional issues.
	And then when you come off it, because your body has got used to receiving it from outside the body, stops producing it naturally.
	So you come off of testosterone, you come off of it, and all of a sudden there have been stories, I've seen it happen to these YouTubers, where they come off of the steroids, and their levels of T levels literally
	drop to zero yeah their body has stopped making it it's stopped making it and doesn't know how to produce it anymore so they have to go on to trt so you basically become a permanent uh patient for these clinics and can you imagine going from being so over masculinized that the slightest thing can make you furious.
	Like you can hear a bird song and you'll want to fight the bird to all of a sudden having literally no testosterone in your body at all.
	The mood swing and depression that that would onset you.
	It's just not worth it.
	I saw a documentary once about this called The Man Whose Arms Exploded.
	It was this guy's this massive, massive royal head, ridiculous.
	Oh yeah.
	Like a, you know, like a.
	It wasn't rich piano, was it?
	No, no, but it was that sort of level of jacked.
	It was ridiculous.
	And he ended up going to prison for dealing steroids.
	And in prison, he had to sort of go cold turkey.
	And yeah, apparently his balls shrunk to the size of raisins and he had the T level of an eight year old girl, i.e.
	none, effectively none.
	And so that's what happened to him.
	I said, same Because he abused Test.
	Yeah, I mean, same Don't do that.
	Same thing happened to, um, ah, you might know there was that metalcore band whose roided out singer tried to hire a hitman to murder his wife.
	Oh yeah.
	And and and it turned out the guy he was put in touch with was a undercover cop.
	So he just got arrested and went to prison.
	So he he was on loads of roids and had massive roid rage.
	It's one of the reasons that, you know, he's having a messy breakup with his wife anyway.
	He wanted the kids.
	So he just thought, ah, I'm so roided out and angry.
	I'm gonna get someone to kill her..
	He gets arrested, convicted, goes to jail for it, doesn't have access to any steroids.
	And then, like, a year later, all you see in the news of metal reporting is like, Tim Lambesis was the name of the singer.
	I forget the name of the band that he was in.
	But it's like, Tim has started to grow mantits because his body is not producing testosterone anymore and his body is overcompensated with estrogen, which meant they gave him gyno.
	As a, as a, as a dying.
	As a dying.
	That's it.
	Yeah.
	There are certain things I would just never, ever mess with.
	Like, I consider like, fucking around with your hormones is the same as fucking around with, like, strong opiates or something.
	It's just not in a million years.
	I'd rather do opiates.
	Just take testosterone.
	It's got to be out of your mind to Yeah.
	In my opinion, like, it can't be worth it.
	It can't be.
	At least when you stop taking opiates, you get stronger and start to look better.
	If you stop that's one of the psychological problems.
	If you stop taking testosterone, your body's got so you've got so used to seeing yourself as a huge, incredibly strong guy in the mirror.
	Like, your muscles deflated within a month and you go to be half as strong as you were.
	That's just incentive for a lot of people to get right back on it.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, we'll go through the Rumble rants and then do some of the video comments and then some written oneses.
	We are running over, but we have no reason not to.
	We've got money's worth out there.
	Yeah, we've got Josh here right now, so we might as well keep him around as long as possible.
	The Dream Team.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's a random name.
	We are the classics at this point, to be fair.
	Other than Carl, we're like the Old Troons.
	The longest serving The What?
	The Old Troons.
	Troons?
	Yeah, that's, have you not encountered that term online?
	It means transsexual.
	Yeah, you are a bit of an Old Troon, yeah.
	Coming out of nowhere.
	Anyway, that's a random name.
	You're trying to say, the all damn Obama found didn't help the urban youth?
	Shit.
	Very fascinating.
	David sent it for that dollar, didn't you?
	Yeah.
	Base Ape.
	News flash.
	You can't untard a moron with money.
	No kidding.
	Didn't we already run this experiment with the Kardashians?
	Excellent point.
	They were a fantastic control group.
	That's a random name.
	Totally unrelated, but at some point in the coming months, I might have a playable build of my game.
	How would I be able to send you all some Steam keys?
	Yes, that includes you too, Josh.
	Suppose if you contact a Lotus Eaters for the website, once it's ready, you can send them to us that way.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, cheers.
	Dragon Lady Chris.
	We weren't rich, but my mum started taking me to the library when I was five.
	These days the only reason I have about I have only about 400 books is I don't have room for more.
	Very, very based.
	I can certainly one thing similar to what you spoke about that I've I really like at the moment that I've I find really promising is that my daughter who's still only a little toddler sees me and my misses like about the house reading constantly.
	We don't really watch TV in our house anymore since we had her and because she sees us reading constantly she just goes around and picks up little books and pretends that she can read them.
	Because she can't read yet but she'll open them up and she'll look at the pictures and she'll go like blah blah blah to herself.
	And one, it's really cute, but two, it's also really good to see like the children mimic the parents.
	See that by mimicking us, she's already starting to develop some really positive habits like that.
	So as soon as she's able to read properly, then, you know, we'll get a get started on the little kiddies books.
	And then, similar vein, when I have kids, I'm going to take them out when I'm heckling the homeless, and I hope that they follow in my footsteps.
	The way it worked in my household is, make sure the kid can read, got a level of reading ability.
	I was actually when I was at the older end of primary school, I was actually a year or two behind my reading age but by the time you're 12 13 14 are you old enough to engage with an adult novel um at that point make your kid a reader um so it's a habit by the time i was 13 or 14 or certainly by the time i was 15 my mum was like you you i sort of insist you read to kill a mocking bird catching the
	riah catch 22 you know some classics a bit of steinbeck uh that you can you're just about old enough to get it what's actually being said and and um and then once you learn some new words once you get um once you get like the the thread of the it's not crazy to sit down and spend most of an evening reading.
	It's quite lovely and relaxing, actually.
	Yeah, once you once that's you've got that, that will stay with you for all of your life almost certainly and make you a much, much, much, much richer person.
	It's got nothing to do with money.
	Other than a little bit of money to buy some books, but again, they're cheap in the end, ultimately, second-hand books anyway.
	Okay, Glee 777, they fed them chocolate coins instead, Bo.
	Oh, right.
	No, we mean the actual gold coins, doubloons even.
	Feed them them.
	You need to ingest 24-carat gold.
	I identify as an illiterate child.
	Now give me doubloons.
	Logan Pine, I have a hormone imbalance that makes me always hungry.
	I have to take pills to feel human.
	That sounds horrible.
	I'm sorry to hear that, man.
	Babo Pin two says, With Clinton, don't forget it started as RNC OP Research, the server was shared with the foundation and she helped fund Russia's Silicon Valley, i.e.
	why Russia can build drones.
	Her brother got a job.
	Interesting stuff.
	That's a random name.
	The worst for me were all those female coaches at the gym I go to, all on roids with weird voices because of all the excess tests, gnarly stuff.
	Yeah, I go to my local bodybuilding gym and there is one or two female coaches like that and it is really it's really it's so over masculinized it's it's unnatural for women to look and sound that way and babo pin two again oh also peda weiner her assistant's hubby had copies of the lost emails all right let's do the video comments Nothing beats
	an illegal working holiday.
	We pick you up in the channel and take you right to your four-star hotel, where you can work illegally, claim benefits, and never be deported.
	Watch how the British struggle paying the highest taxes since the 1940s.
	Yeah, beautiful.
	For anyone wanting absolute proof of the fallacy of the statement...
	Oh, oh.
	For anyone wanting absolute proof of the fallacy of the statement, "Diversity is our Strength," I point you to this video by Henry Stewart History.
	Recently, I decided to revisit stories and history of the breakdown of Europe leading to the First World War.
	The Austro Hungarian army performed so badly in the field precisely because of the Empire's forced diversity however rather than ethnicity or nationalism causing the collapse of the Empire such diversity encouraged central government control of the economy, which precipitated the end.
	Modern leaders, it seems, resolutely refused to learn from history.
	Yeah, and the important part there as well, it was like an ethnic diversity of European peoples.
	So people who were closer to each other than the diversity that we get these days as well.
	still collapsed the empire.
	There's loads of writings and memoirs that you can read from people from around the time of this collapse, who were just like, yeah, this place is...
	Yeah, yeah.
	But yeah, the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was long overdue really.
	I just finished recently reading a book called Attrition, all about World War I. And also last weekend I rewatched nearly all of Fall of Eagles, a 1970s dramatisation where Patrick Stewart plays Lenin actually.
	Oh it's that one.
	Yeah yeah and there's a couple episodes in that which look at the Austro-Hungarian Empire and yeah it was yeah the div it's diversity absolutely hard baked into it it's it's implosion 100% as someone who graduated with an art degree over a decade ago I can tell you art academy of you anything with morality, virtue, or ability with disdain.
	For the postmodern artist, their primary goal is to send an edgy message rather than demonstrate technical or philosophical competence.
	As you can imagine, all the art profs hated me, except for one guy who used to film commercials.
	Those without ability resent those who have ability.
	But often, yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
	See, there can be good postmodern art.
	It's just that most of it is worthless shit.
	Some of my favorite filmmakers, like Kubrick, could be argued to be postmodern in many of his films and the structure of them.
	But it's great.
	Tarantino is a great example of a postmodern director, right?
	Yeah, Tarantino makes good films, but most of it is awful.
	Most of it is not anything that you want to watch.
	People can go back on the website and find old contemplations or two with me and Josh talking about art and modern art.
	That's true.
	Postmodern art.
	where we dunk quite heavily on it, don't we?
	Well, I deliberately brought up some rubbish art so you could get annoyed at it for the audience's amusement.
	I think Picasso's abstract stuff and Rothko's abstract stuff, it's it's a practical joke on the person that takes it seriously, is what it is.
	And I'm quite It's not good art.
	It's just not.
	I'm quite a fan of, like, some post rock and post metal stuff.
	Like, Josh, have you ever heard Neurosis?
	I haven't, no.
	They're single guests a lot on, like, Mastodon albums.
	But they've got some really good stuff, but the whole point of the, like, post label is that it's, like, a twelve minute long metal song with one riff that just goes on for the twelve minutes.
	And it's the same as post rock as well, isn't it?
	It's just Yeah.
	It's like the opposite of, you know, prog rock.
	It's the same thing spread out for a long time rather than lots of different things crammed in together.
	I personally don't like either that much.
	I I love it.
	Because after a certain point it becomes almost meditative and prognostic, especially because Neurosis uses lots of very interesting drum patterns.
	It's quite psychedelic and sort of slow paced, then it does have that meditative quality.
	And I quite like it actually.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's read through a couple of the website comments and then bring it to a close.
	And I tell you what, we've given you such a good value for all the money that you didn't spend watching this one we're already 20 minutes over when we normally end you better bloody buy islander for this all right all right and next time we're cutting it short at two hours sorry at two o'clock just just do it what just want to buy it just buy it just he's gone with he's gone from the sex appeal to just pleading at this point i was gonna get aggressive but it's just pleading please for
	Rory.
	Setting bow, all right.
	Do it for Rory, if nothing else.
	Yeah, do you want to read through some of the comments?
	Yeah, what's wrong with my screen here?
	I can move it through.
	There you go.
	Okay.
	Someone online says, something that's always bothered me is how apparently Nixon is some kind of giant criminal for spying on his competitors, but when Obama and Clinton do the same thing more egregiously, it's a nothing burger.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, absolutely.
	They carry on to say Nixon's actual giant criminal act is allowing trade with China.
	Gold standard?
	Yeah, I was going to say gold standard too, arguably.
	Nixon didn't start the taping thing that had been done by previous presidents.
	Of course it has.
	No other president has done the plumber thing.
	But anyway, let's see what else here.
	Roman Observer says, the left have no care about ruining their own country's reputation to get a win.
	Yeah, but then they would be happy if countries didn't exist at all.
	Yeah, two good points.
	One last one here.
	Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex, cool name, says, If Hilary is found guilty, the punishment should be jail time.
	Hilary should be forced to issue a formal apology to Putin.
	That would destroy her more than any jail sentence could.
	Yeah, that would be funny.
	That would be great.
	That would be funny.
	I would love to see her go to jail me too i'd pop a bottle of champagne it's right up there with when um carmelo anthony gets shanked in prison by the neo-nazis it will it will probably happen you've got a bottle of mum on ice for that waiting for that one it's dark isn't it i'm not being serious Do you want to go through your?
	I thought you were carrying on.
	Furious Dan says, first Ninja Swords, now Ninja Sickles.
	The British oppression of Shinobi must end here.
	It's terrible.
	Very good.
	Terrible.
	Tom Harris says gardening, how dare you attempt to create something we don't do that in this country anymore.
	Good point.
	The thing is There's loads of things like a chisel or a screwdriver.
	Pretty dangerous weapon if you want it.
	A hammer.
	You could do a decent bit of damage with a sickle if you wanted to, but that's not the point.
	It's a gardening tool.
	Yeah.
	And DIY.
	Or a carving knife.
	A bread knife.
	Yeah, it could be a pretty bad weapon, yeah.
	But what are you going to do?
	Anyway.
	You get it.
	If I'm a strand of wheat, I'm going to be quaking in my boots at a sickle.
	So Nick Taylor says, Devil's Advocate, but I hope the cops take down a guy and wipe pajamas.
	shouting Allah Akbar with a sickle.
	That's true.
	I don't think he's there to wish people well.
	Finally, Alfred the Beta says, was the Christian Puricha arrested for bleeding on the pavement without a license?
	I wouldn't surprise me if it gets to that point.
	Probably.
	Okay, Kevin Fox, in the military, when you're doing your chef exam, you were given a budget for a mess dinner.
	My mate did the test exactly on budget and scored lower than the guy who exceeded the budget by 20% because it meant the next budget for a mess dinner would be 20% bigger.
	I suspect the person who came up with the idea may have been the parent of Rachel from Accounts.
	Classic example of what we're talking about.
	That's terrible.
	Arizona Desert Rat.
	As a speech-language therapist, the biggest influence I've seen in children's language development is parent involvement and expectations.
	Was somebody knocking at the door then?
	I don't think so.
	I don't know if our mic's picked that up, but it sounded to me like someone upstairs.
	Yeah.
	Jack, go sort them out.
	A guy from Hungary, I learned the hard way books bought at car boot sales sometimes contain bed bugs.
	Always check the spine.
	I recommend libraries.
	Libraries are great.
	Thomas Vanio, Harry, the more money, no brainstorming is actually brilliant because now you can use it to argue for fewer benefits and hence lower taxes.
	I wish that would be the case, but you can already see from the article that people are going, well, we just need more money then.
	And Kevin Fox again, if the rule is more money, more brain, please explain.
	And he lists James O'Brien, Rachel from accounts, Hillary Clinton, Kentanji Brown, the list goes on.
	And with that, I think we've given you more than your money's worth, more Josh than you could handle for the rest of the month for a month.
	Too much.
	But I'll be back next week again.
	I'm doing this weekly now, so...
	We just felt like going over today.
	Because we enjoy each other's company so much.
	And we enjoy your company, dear viewer, which is why you should buy a copy of Islander to pay us back for our own grant.
	I missed you so much, I've been coming back every week.
	Yes.
	And we're going to go sort whoever they are out.
	Thanks very much for watching.

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