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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Load Seaters for Friday, the 7th of November, 2025.
	I'm joined by Harry and Dan, and today we're going to be talking about how Sidney Sweeney is just the most based celebrity in the world at the moment.
	How X is probably the thing that radicalized her, and what happens if you just press the fix everything button?
	Because we could just fix everything really easily.
	But yeah, no, good.
	Friday, thank God.
	Hey, wasn't that a long week?
	I've had a good week.
	I'm glad you guys have had a good week.
	Every week feels like a drag to me.
	It's not even the same thing.
	It's just life.
	I think it's my age.
	I think I'm just getting too old.
	Did you not do anything nice on Bonfire Night?
	No.
	Oh.
	No, I didn't do anything.
	I tried to...
	I'm not getting enough sleep.
	That's my problem.
	But anyway, you told me about it yesterday.
	I've got some good news, though, right?
	Because this year is the year of the Chudette.
	It's the year when hot women in Hollywood have decided we're not for equality, actually.
	We're actually kind of against equality.
	Equality is a contemptible idea that doesn't apply to us.
	And this has been brilliantly exemplified, but not only by Sidney Sweeney.
	Now, you'll remember the Sidney Sweeney has great genes advert from American Eagle back in July.
	And they are still seething about it.
	It is amazing.
	They are, they are, I mean, it's not even coping.
	It's just open crying and just, are you sure you're not the equals of us?
	And it's like, sorry, dumpy girls.
	Sidney Sweeney is not your equal.
	That's basically what is being said.
	So this came out in an interview with GQ the other day.
	There's a write-up here in GQ, Sidney Sweeney at life at the center of the conversation, etc., etc.
	But this didn't really get a lot of attention.
	As you can see, it's by Catherine Stofell there.
	It was the interview that got a lot of attention.
	And the interview, it was clips from it.
	Notice how it's only had something like 65,000 views.
	Where's the views?
	Yeah, yeah, 65,000.
	That's surprisingly low because, like, honestly, 98% of my Twitter feed has been this.
	Yes.
	Yeah, on Twitter, one particular part of it has got millions of views.
	Yes.
	Because people took clips out of this because there are some really interesting clips in it.
	But I watched the whole thing.
	And actually, the interview is just gold from start to finish.
	For example, in the beginning, Sidney tells us about her background in martial arts.
	I didn't know she heard about grinding martial arts.
	Let's have a listen.
	Fight and film at the same time because I'd come home with bruises.
	So I put it to the side, but I always wanted to find a story that would be able to bring that side of myself out.
	But you're 13-year-old girl, like, what does fighting give you at that time in your life?
	The element of surprise.
	I was the only girl there.
	So it was a lot of talk of, oh, what is she doing here?
	The dads are kind of a little upset that their sons would be fighting a girl.
	And then I would sometimes win.
	Okay, so there's a genuine joy that comes out here.
	I like to fight people.
	So Sidney Sweeney's like, okay, I can understand that.
	And so it carries on.
	And the whole interview is permeated with Sidney Sweeney just not caring about the emotional condition of the woman interviewing her, but the woman interviewing her basically begging her, please recognize me as an equal.
	So is the one that should have blue hair and probably did have blue hair in July?
	Is she trying to longhow Sidney Sweeney the whole way through?
	Yes.
	Right.
	And so it's like, oh, why did you as a girl want to do martial arts?
	Because I could win sometimes.
	Well, the funny thing is, isn't that like what Hollywood's been looking for from its female stars for 15, 20 years?
	Like Furiosa in that Mad Max film, they want like their bad bitches who can fight and stand up to the guys.
	They want their Charlize Theron starring as a woman overpowering men three times bigger than her.
	That comes up in the interview.
	She says, Yeah, I'm a strong, independent woman.
	I can do what I like.
	And suddenly the woman interviewing is like, no, you can't do that because that makes me feel inferior.
	It's basically the essence of the whole thing.
	That's been one of the big contradictions of modern feminism for a long time.
	They're trying to simultaneously pull the women up while keeping them all equal, which is not possible.
	Exactly.
	And it's been just genuinely funny.
	Like, there was one bit about seven minutes in where she asked her, look, you're becoming like the center of the conversation.
	You can see her body language.
	Look at the way she sat.
	Look at the generally sort of like frumpy expression that she's got on.
	She is not happy to be doing this interview.
	But because it's between like two like valley girls, I guess, you know, the sort of like American cool woman or like, you know, in-group sort of theme, like you can tell that she's pretending to like Sidney Sweeney.
	Yeah, I've seen this body language plenty of times before when my missus has been around women and they both hate each other.
	So obviously, but they put up the front in person.
	I was thinking, I mean, every guy, if you just freeze frame this at any point, every guy knows these facial expressions and they've had it from their primary school teachers onwards to their HR woman to female managers, the whole lot.
	That sort of, oh, I don't know how to describe it, but that toxic look that they have and what so presumably bitch face.
	Yeah.
	It's the attempt at longhousing.
	Yes.
	She is trying to longhouse Sidney Sweeney.
	But presumably hot girls get this treatment from these type of women as well as guys do.
	I imagine they do.
	But anyway, like she's she's interested in talking about power and fame.
	Push notifications about it.
	And we all sort of looked up and we're like, oh, Sidney Sweeney isn't just a talented actress and an up-and-coming producer.
	She's someone that people are really obsessed with and really fascinated by.
	Oh man.
	I know.
	And I just, I wondered, did your sense of your own fame change this year?
	No.
	I surround myself with a really, really strong group of people who have been in my life since I was little.
	And they take me out of Hollywood, take me out of this bubble, and remind me what the real world is and that that's where I exist.
	So just, I mean, A, that's a great answer, isn't it?
	You know, no, I have a group of like strong, reliable people who I care about and who care about me, and I'm connected to real people in the real world and I'm not just in your.
	But essentially the question there was, I can't help but noticing you're a lot hotter and more successful than me.
	Yes.
	Would you like to self-deprecate yourself back down to my level?
	And she just goes, no.
	Yeah, no, you can see it in the body.
	Like, Sidney Sweeney is facing her.
	She's sort of facing away from Sydney, right?
	Look at her shoulders kind of hunched.
	Her chest is sunken.
	And Sidney Sweeney has just sat there just like a goddess.
	Just like, yeah, I'm amazing.
	And everything about me is amazing.
	And everything about my life is amazing.
	And I'm not in any way going to lower myself to your position.
	It's so good.
	Anyway, like 820, there's another just a couple of banger moments, really.
	Out there now as a person who has low power, I would say.
	Person who people are obsessed with.
	And someone who I gather is like really, really focused on their work.
	So I wonder, how does that change what you're looking for?
	I don't think I'm looking for a man right now.
	What I've learned this year is that I have a really, really amazing group of girlfriends and I am strong and independent and that I'm going to be okay.
	If love finds me, love finds me.
	I'm hopeless.
	So romantic, so I hope love.
	But look at the look at the contempt.
	Look at the absolute expression.
	That's what I was going to pick up.
	And you can tell eight minutes into this interview, Sydney knows exactly what she's dealing with.
	And the Homelander face is kicking in.
	And that's the thing.
	There's this genuine just look of superiority.
	That says, I see what you are, bitch.
	It's so Homelander.
	I can't get over it.
	But look, you have a lot of power, you know, all this sort of stuff.
	And it's like, yeah.
	Yeah, I know.
	I'm better than you.
	Yes.
	Way better than you.
	Any thoughts?
	I mean, you guys are the women experts here.
	Clearly.
	You're reading all of this like it's just a big textbook, whereas I'm completely oblivious.
	But I can definitely sense everything that you're saying.
	When you get older, you'll learn to understand how women deal with one another.
	It's so funny.
	Anyway, let's go on to where they start talking about the advert because that's obviously absolute gold.
	And the thing is, it's gold for the whole thing as well.
	We'll go for a bit before just to make sure we got the right bit.
	And I know that I'm just excited to see what happens next.
	And so I don't really let other people define who I am.
	I'm happy to hear that.
	I love secondhand concern for you, Dave.
	We're sort of talking around this American Eagle ad right now, and maybe we should just talk about it.
	So were you surprised by the reaction?
	I did a gene ad.
	I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise.
	So just a quick positive.
	I love it.
	For her, it was just a Tuesday.
	Yeah.
	You know, like the M Bison thing for, you know, I thought about you on my love, yeah, but for me, it was a Tuesday.
	Every clip you've shown so far, it's the lib is setting up the frame.
	Yeah.
	And she's just like, no.
	Yeah.
	It's every single thing.
	And also, one thing that I've noticed, everybody's been pointing out the facial expressions that this interviewer has been pulling.
	The like upturned eyebrows, the like really forced smile.
	But like behind the eyes, all I'm detecting is that it's taking every fiber of her being to not burst out crying.
	Yes.
	Like at the beginning of that, where she was like, oh, I felt some second-hand concern for you.
	And hearing how just naturally confident Sydney is, she's like holding herself down.
	She's pulling herself down.
	Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right.
	It's the forced grimace that's hiding utter contempt for herself.
	Yes.
	Like, I wish I could be as confident as you, but I'm not.
	I'm an insecure person and I feel like dying right now.
	And Sidney's answer: no, I'm really confident for the future.
	I think it's going to go great.
	It's like, I'm not worried about it.
	Why wouldn't she?
	Why wouldn't she?
	Anyway, let's carry on.
	It was, I love jeans.
	All I wear are jeans.
	I'm literally in jeans on a t-shirt, like every day of my life.
	Jeans are uncontroversial.
	Jeans are awesome.
	You look great in your jeans.
	I think I know how you're doing.
	But I'm going to ask anyway.
	I mean, the president tweeted about the jeans ad or Trace Doeschald about the jeans ad.
	And that just seems to me like a very crazy moment for anyone.
	And I wondered what that was like.
	It was surreal.
	It was surreal.
	And it would be totally sorry to jump in, but you can see this bit the smile fading.
	But I'm going to ask anyway.
	I mean, so you've got the smile.
	And then it starts.
	About the jeans ad or Trace Dochald about the jeans.
	Look at that.
	You can see the tea.
	Oh, right.
	Now you're trying to lay a trap for her.
	Because she already knows who this woman is, absolutely.
	The moment she mentions the president, that's when the smile fades.
	It's like, oh, you're going to try and get me to say something anti-Trump, aren't you?
	And smile vanishes.
	Also, her eyes, there's a subtle shift in her eyes where she goes from friendly to predator eyes.
	Yes.
	I know what I'm dealing with now.
	Right.
	It's exactly it.
	And notice that when she gives her answer, look at that.
	Look at that.
	She knows, I know what you're doing.
	Yes.
	And I know what the answer to this is.
	Oh, it was surreal.
	It's not politically charged at all.
	It was just weird.
	Who can make a comment on that?
	She's handled this incredibly well.
	And this is a lesson to basically any right-winger.
	If you don't want to answer their questions, you don't have to.
	You can just take this kind of attitude and be secure in yourself and just say, yeah, that was weird, wasn't it?
	And move on.
	But anyway, we'll get to the good bit.
	And it would be totally human.
	I would probably feel like thankful that somebody had my back in public, you know, and conveniently some very powerful people had my back in public.
	I wondered if you felt that way.
	I don't think, I don't think that it's not that that feeling didn't I have that feeling, but I wasn't thinking of it like that or like of any of it.
	I kind of just put my phone away.
	I was filming every day.
	I'm filming euphoria.
	So I'm working like 16-hour days and I don't really bring my phone on set.
	So I work and then I go home and I go to sleep.
	So I don't really see a lot of it.
	So funny.
	No, that is a you problem.
	Yeah.
	That is.
	Bro, I have a life.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I'm busy.
	I'm doing things.
	I'm not like you, constantly worrying about the people around me.
	Constantly obsessing about social media.
	Yeah.
	There's also just like the contempt of it all as like she's clearly like, dude, it was a genes advert.
	Yeah.
	Who cares?
	Why do you care so much about this?
	Why have you got so much like personal emotional investment in the fact that a hot girl was in a jeans advert?
	And that's what this all boils down to because she doesn't recognize the principle of equality.
	I'm busy.
	I'm working.
	I'm hot.
	I'm confident.
	Look at you, though.
	Sidney Sweeney knows why she gets cast in.
	Of course she does.
	Of course she does.
	Obviously, we all saw that dress she was wearing the other day on the red.
	I did like that.
	The variety thing.
	I mean, one, it was a see-through.
	And second, I'm fairly confident I could have swallowed it without needing a glass of water.
	Just in case my wife was watching this, I didn't appreciate the dress.
	What dress?
	Exactly.
	I didn't even see it.
	That's what I thought, but I'm actually blind.
	You mentally filtered out the dress together.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Right.
	Hang on.
	I only ever look women in the face.
	Oh, I see.
	Particularly in the eyes.
	Right.
	So there was a parody video of that going around.
	Apparently, Sidney Sweeney getting into the elevator with the see-through dress, and the guy's looking ahead with his girlfriend looking at him.
	It's, oh my God, what a horrible position to be in.
	But she knows what she's doing.
	But the point is that she's not interested in this kind of moral equality.
	And everything about the woman who's interviewing her is essentially begging her, look, give me something.
	Give me an agreement that, yeah, we're all a bit insecure.
	Well, this is a struggle session.
	Well, yeah, she wants it to be a struggle session.
	And if this had been done, say, four years ago at the height of it.
	It would have broke craziness.
	Yeah, it would have been.
	Yeah.
	But she's just not playing at all.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Case for keeping your thoughts and your life separate from that work.
	But the risk is that, you know, there's a chance that somebody will get some idea about what you think about certain issues and feel like, I don't want to see Christie because of that.
	Like, do you worry about that?
	Yeah.
	If somebody if somebody is closed off because of something they read online to a powerful story like Christy, then I hope that I hope something else can open their eyes to being open to art and being open to learning.
	And I'm not gonna be affected by that.
	Yeah.
	You've come here like really willing.
	I love this impervious shield of contempt that Sidney Sweeney has for all of this woman's points.
	Just absolute contempt.
	I don't care about any of these stupid things that you're bringing up.
	I'm too successful and beautiful and rich and important to give a damn about what you're complaining about.
	And you'd love to see it because you've seen those charts where females are just becoming radically left and men are going right, gently right, but females are going radically left.
	And I've heard so many commentaries online from females who are saying something along the lines of, oh, men are going to have to come to our side if they want to get laid.
	And men are like, nope.
	And what this is doing is this is setting a role model where girls like Sweeney are going to get the top guys.
	And then more and more girls are going to go, oh, hang on a minute.
	It's a bit lonely out here.
	And all I've got is skinny, fat, pencil-necked lib guys to pick from actually over there.
	And they'll be surrounded by the kind of women who are going to encourage them to do things to make themselves uglier too.
	That's what all those kinds of women do.
	No, you look great without the eyebrows.
	Cut your weird hair.
	Yeah.
	You've got the side shape.
	Put your hair all weird.
	You know, you don't look bad with a few extra pounds.
	You know, you wear it, Queen.
	You own it.
	It's all just self-sabotage.
	Whereas Sydney's like, she is every single one of the old-fashioned beauty standards, right?
	She's blonde, she's blue-eyed, she's white, she's got big tits.
	And she's totally proud of it.
	Yeah.
	And what was it?
	They call it like traditional beauty standards.
	Whatever they are.
	Who cares?
	But what I love about it is that Sydney Sweeney, as you were saying, is basically like an alpha woman.
	She knows that she's like, you know, the most desired woman on the planet at the moment.
	And so like her being like, oh, but in fact, we'll get to the jeans bit right now because this is just gold.
	To talk about this whole discourse that doesn't have that much to do with you.
	And I'm grateful for that.
	Is there something that you want to say about the ad itself?
	The Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.
	Do you have the ad spoke for itself?
	You think the ad spoke for itself.
	and the criticism I love it just Is there something you want to say about the ad?
	No.
	Nope.
	Also, like, what's the end goal here?
	Do you want to just shit on the people who paid you to star in an advert?
	Do you want to become unemployable to future advertising articles?
	That Harry Potter girl who's always shitting on J.K. Rowling.
	Emma Watson.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	And she recently came crawling back.
	Yes.
	Because J.K. Rowling.
	Yeah, yeah, she did.
	Because J.K. Rowling is an alpha woman as well.
	And it's just like, I don't care.
	I'm literally a billionaire.
	And literally, I've got like 15 million followers on Twitter.
	And recently, Emma Watson was like, yeah, I do still really care about her.
	And I do still really, really?
	Oh, really?
	Like now, though.
	Interesting how the alpha women are currently crushing the coalition of like beta women who are like, yeah, actually, we'll go gay race communism.
	And that's what she's asking.
	Are you going to give us anything?
	Because we've had a lot of critiques of you being like, oh, you know, that genes advert is kind of implying racial superiority.
	Are you going to give us anything?
	And Sidney Sweeney's like, no.
	And it's lovely watching the body language and this.
	The lib started off so confident at the beginning of this because she just thought I'll offer her the opportunity to abase herself, to disavow Trump, to, you know, all of the things.
	And every time she just says no, and Sydney knows what she's dealing with, and the lib is getting more and more uncomfortable.
	She's got these pre-prepared questions, and she asked that question, and you could see her dying inside.
	I know that Sydney is not going to take this opportunity, she's just going to shut me down and make me look stupid.
	Look at that expression, in fact.
	That is the expression of a predator.
	That is someone who wins.
	That is someone who is in the middle of a fight at the moment and is way better than their opponent.
	And they know it.
	She is absolutely unfazed by all of this.
	And honestly, I love to see this.
	It's so fun.
	Of the content, which was basically that maybe specifically in this political climate, like white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority.
	Like that was kind of like the criticism, broadly speaking.
	And since you are talking about this, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about that specifically.
	I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear.
	Oh, that's so funny.
	Yeah.
	And you were talking about Predator Face.
	Yeah.
	As soon as she clocked where that question was going, it became, you know, laser eye super predator face.
	Yeah, I'll pause it on the bit where I want to get to because there's a particular issue.
	And I'm grateful for that.
	Is there something that you want to say about the Sidney Sweeney has great genes?
	Do you have the ad spoke for itself?
	You think the ad spoke for itself.
	Okay.
	And the criticism of the content, which was basically that maybe specific.
	So it's that bit right there where, you know, her mouth is set.
	Yes.
	And she's just, again, this is the...
	She's waiting for it, because...
	Because as well, we've had 10 years of this.
	Sidney's seen this to other actors for 10 years.
	She's starred in loads of stuff where I assume other actors that she's worked with have been through this same thing.
	And she clearly just doesn't want to deal with it.
	Total disdain.
	It's the Homelander face.
	It's pure Homelander energy.
	Just like, no, no, I am better than you.
	And I don't care.
	I mean, because as well, she's probably spoken with these other stars behind the scenes who've said, oh, God, I feel so humiliated doing that.
	I don't care about these things, but you know, we've got to do it to get on.
	And Sydney's decided, no, I've got my army of Twitter chuds behind me.
	They're going to buy anything I put my face to.
	So I'll just check.
	She's 28, so she's never not known peak culture war.
	Yeah.
	Bullshit.
	Yeah.
	It's always been a part of their life.
	And what I really like and what no one else is really paying attention to is the quality of Sydney's answer.
	It's not just that she's been like, no, I'm not going to denounce white supremacy or whatever you bullshit you're pulling up.
	I'm notice the one's like, I want to give you the opportunity.
	And Sweeney addresses the opportunity.
	She's like, no, I have all the opportunity I need.
	You don't give me opportunities.
	I have plenty of opportunities.
	And so when I want people to know something, they'll know.
	You know, she doesn't even address the question, the substance of the question.
	She addresses the framing.
	Why would I get opportunities from you?
	And look at through the Homelander face.
	It's just like, you can't give me anything.
	My power comes from me, not from your permission.
	Exactly.
	And it is just so good.
	There's a bit at the end as well that was just a complete mogging, which is really, really funny that I guess we'll watch very quickly.
	But yeah, total mogging here.
	Looked at it that way.
	I've always looked at it as my body is another tool to tell this story.
	How does using that tool change when you are more in the driver's seat as a producer?
	I mean, I'm thinking about the housemaid.
	Like, there's a scene in that where you're in this home theater and you're wearing like a push-up bra.
	And she's like, okay, this is not a push-up bra.
	This is just my boob.
	it's her face while she's doing it Look at the goblin.
	Yeah.
	Like, no, you cannot even comprehend my boobs.
	Exactly.
	The thing is, among female status hierarchy, right?
	Yeah.
	Boobs is one of the top things that they fight for status over.
	So that out of everything else, that was the true mog right there.
	It's so good.
	I don't need push at Brazil, actually.
	You might have thought it was.
	But look at, I mean, that expression, just the smug, oh no, all of this is just a giant win for me.
	You are a fucking loser.
	Like I said, this whole thing, I didn't think the whole thing was going to be so funny, but the whole thing was just so good and such a brutal mogging of the kind of mousy, dumpy, plain, pro-social justice type of woman.
	It was complete mogging, and she knows it as well.
	Even if it's not conscious, she can feel it.
	But anyway, the internet noticed, and of course, everyone was like, you know, do you want to disavow white Spanish?
	She's like, no.
	How dare you have good genes and not apologize?
	It's like, just, I mean, it's so brutal.
	This has become the new soy versus the Chad for women.
	It 100% is.
	It 100% is.
	Like the little, the woman who's formed by consensus on the left, and then the woman who is just powerful in her own right on the right.
	Well, because the interviewer as well just has the most stereotypical HR lady, physiologist.
	Everybody, like you say, who has worked in an office job and is familiar with their HR leader knows that woman.
	Everybody who has gone to a, who's been to school knows that woman.
	Yes.
	And they have grown to hate her because it is her social standards that have been used to guide society for the past few decades.
	Who knows how long this is going on for?
	And they are sick of it.
	Yeah, you're completely right.
	And of course, some of them were like, oh, right, she's actually a racist.
	And it's like, I don't even think that's what's happening here.
	I think she's just confident in herself and powerful.
	This is about, as you said, female status rather than like, you know, ideological contraption.
	Whether or not people want to say that she is racist, though, there is something important here because ultimately, like people are saying, it's not necessarily that they wanted to get her to denounce white supremacy or anything.
	It's they wanted her to prostrate to the idea that she should be ashamed to be white.
	And she's not.
	Yeah.
	Whether or not she's proud or would say something like the it's okay to be white or whatever.
	No, it doesn't matter.
	She's just not ashamed.
	Yes.
	And that's pretty big as far as somebody as famous as her coming out and not saying that, oh, I need to be ashamed of myself.
	I need to be ashamed of my ancestors or anything like that.
	She's just like, no, no, I'm just.
	I don't even know if it goes that far with it.
	It's like, you know, how can you say that you have great genes?
	Aren't we all equal?
	It's the violation of the principle of equality that this woman on the left is so het up about.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, all of that does follow from it, obviously.
	But I don't think that's what's happening in her mind at the moment.
	I think it's just literally like, no, I mean, you know, it was a gene advert.
	What do I care?
	You know, the whole thing's great.
	Anyway, they're going to call her a racist either way, so it doesn't.
	I mean, literally, this is what they take from her being confident in herself.
	There you go, again.
	Literally, I'm not going to say I'm ashamed to be white.
	Therefore, Evan, middle-aged, typical mamdanny voter says, oh, you're Adolf Hitler then.
	You're not ashamed of yourself?
	Yeah.
	Well, in that case, you must hate me.
	You think you have good genes?
	It's like, bro, it's demonstrable that she has good genes.
	No one's questioning it.
	And she's just confident about herself because of it.
	And it's like, right, well, you're Adolf Hitler.
	It's like, okay.
	However, this is admittedly a very funny post.
	It is funny.
	I'm not going to lie.
	It's funny.
	But it's funny for many reasons.
	Like I said, she's just the best example of this in recent days.
	But actually, very recently, a lot of sort of alpha women have come out and said, you know what, I don't care about your equality.
	You had, of course, Kira Knightley the other day literally laughing about the idea that transgenders are upset by something about one of her films.
	And she literally just said, I hadn't heard.
	She's voicing one of the characters in an audiobook or stage over something of Harry Potter or something.
	Yeah, of Harry Potter.
	And she was said, Oh, don't you know that there's some trans boycott going on over it?
	She's like, I don't care.
	Yeah, she literally's very sorry to hear that.
	And laughs in there.
	You can see she could barely control her laughter through this.
	So again, obviously, you know, very beautiful woman, has a very successful life, doesn't care about their opinion.
	And even Jennifer Lawrence was like, look, I don't really want to talk about politics.
	I don't need to.
	I'm successful in my own right.
	This is not my problem.
	This is your problem.
	Jennifer Lawrence, as far as I'm aware, has been a shitlib publicly her whole life.
	But this does suggest the shift where she's noticing, well, Kieran Knightley, Sidney Sweeney, these people are now pushing people in the other direction, pulling things in their direction.
	Maybe me just having constant TDS isn't where people want me to be anymore.
	That Snow White girl must have sent a signal out because I can't remember what her name is, but whoever the girl in the Snow White was, she attacked Ziegler Zegler.
	Yeah, so she attacked half her audience and was saying, look, if you like Trump, don't come and watch the movie.
	And the movie absolutely tanked, and her career is finished now.
	So that must have flagged up for these other actresses that actually, yeah, attacking half the audience is a bad thing at minimum.
	But also, I do think you're right, Harry.
	I think there's a general vibe shift going on where actually the attractive women say, no, I don't care about that at all.
	I'm just hot, and that's really popular.
	And so, why Jennifer Lawrence is remembering back to 10 years ago when she was the hottest girl in Hollywood and she wants to recapture that, but now the hottest girl in Hollywood is literally Adolf Hitler.
	But I think they're understanding that at no point are they actually chained by the dumpy HR women because they're not.
	They can do whatever they like.
	Anyway, let's Pat says they're real and they're spectacular.
	Oh man, I love that mogging.
	I love the absolute mogging.
	And the general delight in Sweeney's face to be able to say, no, it wasn't a push-up.
	Aaron Clark says £100 on YouTube.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Keep up the great work, lad, says Strange History.
	Save the UK.
	What would Sir Frank Crisp do?
	Should be everyone's standard.
	Why don't I know who Sir Frank Crisp is?
	I don't either.
	Sydney Speak.
	Is he the inventor of the Crisp?
	No.
	The Sidney Sweeney Clip is a nature documentary.
	It is.
	It genuinely is.
	And it's like a lion talking to a hyena.
	Right?
	That's genuinely what this was like: a lion talking to a hyena.
	Like, you know, the hyena's like, don't you need a pack around you?
	No, I don't need a pack around me.
	Why would I?
	G'day says Luke.
	Hope you guys are doing well.
	Thank you for having a look at the video, Gen Z from Liberal to Far Right that I recommended.
	I haven't had a look at it yet, but I will do.
	Upper Norwood says, The John Lewis Christmas ad depicts an all-white British family with a normal father who isn't the butt of the joke, and the guardian is seething.
	I will have to check that out.
	That sounds very entertaining.
	Bassette says, I'm sorry, but ever since I noticed Sidney Sweeney has a face, I can't get over the dead eyes, the cold, lifeless eyes.
	Well, that's the Homelander expression.
	I disagree.
	You can see plenty of times in that interview where she seems to just have like perfectly normal, lively eyes.
	Her face is lit up, you know.
	Yeah, it's the points where she goes predator mode, where they shut down a little bit and she loses that friendly shine from them.
	She realizes she's dealing with an enemy.
	You know, it's like, oh, right, okay, then, fine.
	You know, we're in a conference.
	And actually, for young men who's got choice, you really should be trading at least one point of hotness for one point of baseness anyway.
	True.
	You're going to be happy in the long run.
	Nevermo says Harry is opposer.
	That's obviously true.
	Zerg says, hey, Carl Sitch is calling you a white.
	Oh, okay.
	I guess I am.
	White.
	I mean, he's got me there.
	Questionable.
	Just so you know, and you ever want a weak point in his arguments, ask if he becomes a Japanese citizen.
	He's Japanese.
	All right, well, yeah, but Sitch is a liberal, so obviously I'm not a liberal, so he doesn't agree with the things I think.
	Why is he saying that you're white?
	I think he's calling me a white nationalist.
	Oh, all right, okay.
	I'm not any kind of nationalist.
	Perhaps a British or English patriot.
	Yes, that's exactly what I think of myself as.
	Abdullah says, Do you think Tom Artyom Alexandrovich will face justice?
	I've never heard of that person.
	I don't know who that is.
	So I'm afraid I can't answer that.
	B-Chain says, Hail, Sydney, best girl over here in CT.
	My town voted for a Sikh mayor, Democrat.
	He has said he doesn't care how much he has to raise taxes.
	He's going to do everything to protect the illegals.
	Well, I mean, the thing is, everyone's like freaking out about the Mandani thing, but I'm actually completely in favour of the Democratic Socialists having their day in the sun.
	You know, no, go nuts.
	I want to see exactly how badly things get so we can hold it up as an example and say, this is what you do.
	We can't do that in the future.
	Well, it's going to be Escape from New York.
	Yeah, literally.
	It's going to be Escape from New York.
	And I volunteer as Snake Pliskin.
	Arcadia says, I'm a woman.
	I admire Sydney's attitude.
	She rocks.
	I grew up with women like Farah Fawcett, women unashamedly aware of their power.
	I hate these HR Karens.
	They've ruined everyone's fun.
	Totally true.
	Yeah, the HR Karens, they are individually pathetic people.
	Yeah.
	But they use the power of group and consensus to promote their own values.
	And their shit values.
	Yeah, that's what they are.
	Anyway, you shouldn't be swearing so much on the podcast.
	Because we've all done it.
	Sorry, yeah.
	Anyway.
	All right, then.
	So after we've spoken about the radicalization of Sydney Sweeney, let's speak about what probably did it to her.
	Because she's probably got a very based alt out there.
	That's what I assume.
	When I saw all of those clips, I felt like tweeting out, saying, all right, which one of you is it?
	Which one of you is Sydney?
	And there's a reason for that that Sky News has exposed for everybody, which is that according to their very scientific and rigorous nine-month study, the X Elon Musk's Twitter is pushing you to be very based.
	Great.
	It's pushing right-wing views on people.
	Supposedly, according to this, the X algorithm prioritised sending new users right-wing leaning content.
	So let's just take a look a little bit at the teaser that they've got here.
	Somebody needs to start and fight for it.
	We just want to protect tax community in our country.
	A September heat wave in central London, English flags everywhere.
	The huge crowds in Westminster didn't turn out just for the United Kingdom rally organized by Tommy Robinson, the anti-Islam activist.
	They're also chanting someone else's name.
	Elon Musk joining in from America, one of the most influential and controversial figures in global tech, business, and politics.
	Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you.
	You either fight back or you die.
	Musk's speech at the rally was live-streamed on X, his social media platform, an alternative universe of posts and identities.
	A platform he's been using to attack British politicians and to pass judgment on issues affecting the UK, especially immigration and grooming or rape gangs.
	Sky News will not address the validity of any of this claims or any of the reasons why he would want to attack British politicians for those things.
	It's just throwing it out there and expecting that the docile, idiotic Sky News viewer, their lowest common denominator, will go, well, this is foreign interference in politics, recalling Ed Miliband at the Labour Conference.
	We want you out of our politics and out of our country.
	Their whole framing up to this point was this is self-evidently bad until we get to this bit where it's supposed to be self-evidently this is not something you're supposed to worry about.
	Yes.
	But anybody else would look at this whole video and go like, yep.
	Well, it'd be far more persuasive if we didn't have two horrific acts of violence happen this week.
	Yes.
	If the stabbing of the, what was the chap's name?
	Wayne Broadhurst as well.
	Wayne Broadhurst in Uxbridge.
	Literally the video of it just stabbing him to death on the street for no reason.
	And then the Huntingdon train attack where 10 people got stabbed and one was killed.
	Well, the narrative that they're trying to spin with the Huntington train attack was that, oh, well, don't you understand it was an immigrant who helped to stop it once it had started happening.
	So thankfully, in that situation, one, they're ignoring the Englishman who got stabbed in the head to protect people.
	But the argument there is, well, see, the violent immigrants cancel each other out.
	That's literally their argument.
	But that's lefty maths.
	Immigration caused 10 stabbings, but stopped the 11th.
	Therefore, immigration is good.
	Yes.
	That's literally what they're arguing.
	And so, like I said, this would be far more persuasive.
	You know, when Elon Musk is like, violence is coming to you.
	And they're like, see, look at that bad thing.
	It's like, but it is demonstrably true.
	And we've had two terrible examples this week.
	Again, they're hoping that the audience has been primed enough to know that Elon Musk interfering in British politics is an automatic bad thing.
	We hate foreign influence in our politics, unless it's George Soros.
	Unless we're doing it.
	Or unless it's the European courts, for instance, unless it's anybody who supports labor.
	When it's right-wing interference, that's when it's.
	Yeah, when it's against us.
	And they go on to say something pretty telling here.
	Those posts have earned hundreds of thousands of likes and interactions.
	Musk bought Twitter in 2022 in order to wipe out what he described as the word mind virus influencing Western politics.
	He renamed it X, he got rid of the content moderation teams and he promised to turn it into a free speech platform.
	So you'd probably expect to see a lot more right-leaning content as a result of all of that.
	Sorry, you would expect to see it.
	So they're just outright saying and admitting, listen, we know Twitter was silencing these people.
	We were censoring these people.
	So you would expect to see a lot more of it.
	But now we are seeing a lot more of it.
	That's a problem.
	Again, I can't help but feel kind of Sydney Sweeneyish about this.
	Do you want to denounce it?
	No?
	No?
	No, that's good.
	It reminds me of how the other day these people were still so locked into their little echo chambers that they'd made for themselves in the old left-wing Twitter that there was the Dara O'Brien incident where somebody had pointed out to him that there had been the abuse of girls going on when he was arguing about how evil the right wing was for demonizing refugees and such.
	And it was even in a particular place that he was talking about that he responded saying, look, I was talking about this one town, but even there it had been happening, apparently.
	Yeah.
	Because he was saying, really?
	Abuse of girls, when did that happen?
	And he was absolutely dogpiled.
	Educated.
	Yes, educated.
	Everybody came together.
	It was like the torches were lit.
	The fires of Gondor have been lit.
	And everybody came out of the woodwork to provide him with countless examples.
	And the easy thing is, as well, these examples come from mainstream news sources, sources that Dara would appreciate as being unbiased and neutral.
	But didn't he spend a decade doing a comedy show about the news?
	Yeah, it's called Mock the Week.
	Did a post about that, about how you know the whole mock the week, the whole purpose of it was to tell the viewers that people who read the Daily Mail are irrational and racist for no reason, and that if you listen to the things that the Daily Mail say or say anything that sounds like something the Daily Mail might report on, then you should laugh and dismiss it.
	Yes.
	Despite the fact that the Daily Mail were just reporting on things that were actually happening.
	I've got to say, right?
	Like the Daily Mail, they are terrible.
	But like with The Guardian, when they just do a here are the facts of what's happened, they're generally okay.
	Yes.
	They're generally all right.
	It's when they get political.
	It was just demonizing people.
	That was his job, right?
	So they were so used to their little echo chamber that they're still getting used to the fact that now, oh, I can't just BS anymore.
	People will dogpile me for being willfully stupid and ignorant.
	There's that millennial woes thing that goes around everywhere, which is just, you know, their entire thing is just pretending not to understand the argument.
	He deleted that.
	He deleted that.
	That's why most of them moved over to Blue Sky.
	That's why Otto English and other people, because they just got so sick of being corrected.
	We're not allowed to have the people that we're demonizing speak back us, Harry.
	Because if we do, we lose those arguments.
	And we look like morons.
	Yes.
	And not just morons, purposeful and malicious morons.
	Just out of interest, did Sky News do a piece on the bias of Blue Sky?
	No.
	Right.
	Weird how that didn't come up.
	And notice they didn't do a piece on the bias of Twitter before Elon Musk bought.
	No, they certainly did not mention anything about, say, the FBI literally having backdoors into Twitter to tell the algorithm to censor and silence people.
	Perfectly fine.
	That's all perfectly fine because it was being run in a left-wing fashion.
	They did their study here saying that, you know, when he promised to turn Twitter into a haven for free speech, renamed it X, fired roughly 80% of the staff based and made the algorithm open source.
	Anyone can view the code.
	So the methodology was this.
	They made nine new X accounts, each one a British person with different political leanings.
	Three were left-wing, three right-wing, and three had no interest in politics.
	And they looked at this over the course of about nine months, but they say here over a two-week period, we pulled around 90,000 posts from our users for you pages.
	Then we used an LLM, an AI tool, to categorize most of that content by political leaning.
	This, of course, ignores that over the course of the time they were doing it, the algorithms changed like five times anyway.
	But also, LLMs are not exactly the most reliable source of categorization because all they're drawing upon is an existing body of reporting and commentary on the subject.
	So if the existing body of reporting and commentary is actually maybe deporting illegal immigrants is a good idea, despite the fact that that's a really normal centrist, that was a Democrat position literally until like 10 minutes ago, that something like 75% of people agree with.
	That's categorized as right-wing.
	Well, they not only LLMs not only have a left-wing bias built into them, except for Grok most of the time, and I doubt they used Grog.
	I doubt they used Grok.
	They have an anti-white bias that I was reporting on on the show a few weeks ago, right?
	And so they will see, as you say, what 20 years ago would have been moderate to centrist positions and go, this is not only right-wing, this is extreme right-wing rhetoric.
	And they will categorize it as such.
	They say, oh, right-wing voices dominated the political content.
	Our new users saw the algorithm push posts that didn't align with their interests.
	And here you have the breakdown of the political content.
	32% left, 62% right, only 6% non-partisan.
	Sorry, can we go back up to that second?
	So actually, if you look at the political leanings of the general public, well, I mean, I don't think it is actually 62% that's coming out there.
	I think that this is going to be miscategorizing things that are fairly centrist.
	But that's roughly what you'd expect.
	About a third of the population is probably left-wing, yeah.
	So I'd expect about a third of discourse to be left-wing.
	And then I'd expect the rest of it not to be left-wing.
	That's not unrepresentative of the amount of people who vote for Labour.
	That's actually really quite representative.
	You would expect the most engagement to go to the posts that have the most to do with the problems that people experience in their everyday lives.
	And especially within Britain, with the country changing in the ways now that even leafy little rural towns are not escaping the second order and direct consequences of mass immigration into this country, this right-wing rhetoric, the right-wing talking points, those discussions, are going to be the things that get the most engagement because they are most relevant to people's lives.
	Exactly.
	For how many people their main problem is a lack of DEI?
	And then how many people are going to see that post and go, well, that's interesting.
	I'll share that.
	How many people are going to see the adverts that are posted and see what that reform woman was saying versus the counters to it?
	And which one are they going to agree with when they look at how the country's changing around?
	By this standard, I bet that Keir Starmer's Twitter feed is basically a right-wing Twitter feed.
	Because he's going on constantly about smashing the gangs, stopping the boats, cutting spending, balancing the budget.
	These are all considered to be right-wing canards from the left-wing position.
	But they're not.
	They're completely normal centrist everyday politics.
	But this would make Keir Starmer a right-wing account by this standard.
	That's true.
	And they've got more information in the article itself.
	As you would expect, it's not an amazing article because, well, the methodology is not great, but here's some of the things that they endorse as being far-right extremist posts that Musk himself has come out with, which is that, you know, a Tolkien reference...
	When Tolkien wrote about the Hobbits, he was referring to the gentle folk of the English Shires who don't realize the horrors that take place far away, able to live their lives in peace and tranquility because they were protected by the hard men of Gondor.
	So true.
	This compares illegal immigrants to monstrous fictional characters.
	I mean, it wouldn't be so apt if the illegal immigrants didn't keep coming over here and committing atrocities every single day.
	Every single day.
	It is becoming a daily occurrence.
	It's so weird that in my lifetime, Lord of the Rings has gone from something that you read at school to being on the prevent watch list for books that indicate that you're far right.
	And 1984 as well.
	In 2001, it was Britain's favourite book.
	Right.
	It was literally the first.
	It probably is.
	They just haven't done it.
	Exactly.
	They haven't done it for a long time.
	But it was literally voted Britain's favourite book.
	And now it's the sort of thing that radicalizes you into the far right.
	Yeah, so it goes through more of the information.
	Here are the dots that represent right-wing accounts.
	Here's the ones that represent left-wing accounts.
	Bloody blah, blah, the non-partisan.
	And then they go through a few graphs.
	Only 14% of the political content sent to our right-leaning users was left-wing.
	That's because we don't engage with it.
	My feed is full of bibs at the moment.
	I was going to say, the thing is, actually, we do engage with it.
	Because we see it and we go, well, that's wrong.
	Let me correct you.
	That's a quick joke, that is.
	Yeah, I can get some good engagement off of that.
	And you are right that 4U tends to be stuffed with very mainstream leftists.
	Lewis Goodall shows all the time.
	When he was still on the platform, before I think he blocked me.
	Yes, he did block me.
	Before Otto English blocked me, his popped up constantly.
	And I do think because it's trying to prioritize engagement, it will prioritize rage baiting.
	And you know, I'm not even against it.
	I actually like the interactions, right?
	Because it's in the interactions that funny things happen.
	Well, it is fun.
	Yeah, exactly, right?
	It's fun.
	And it's also interesting getting them to respond to something.
	Because, I mean, like, the other day, Mike Galsworthy was like, well, if being British isn't a passport, then what is it?
	And it's like, that's great.
	He wouldn't have come out and said that on his own if he wasn't responding to other people on the platform, right?
	And so it shows you where their mindset is.
	And so actually, it's really useful for the dialectic itself.
	No, I agree.
	But they're coming to the conclusion right-wing content was shown most prominently, regardless of users' political thinking.
	There's algorithmic bias.
	This is one of my favorite graphs in the whole thing because it shows over versus underrepresentation, how much people tweet versus what kind of engagement they get.
	And you can see Rupert Lowe sits right in the middle of how much you tweet and he gets the most engagement of anybody.
	He does get boosted a lot, but also he's got a great social media team who know how to play the game to get engagement.
	I feel bad for George Galloway because he is there tweeting like his life.
	He's really hammering that keyboard, isn't he?
	Like it's more going nowhere.
	Like more than double, almost.
	Everybody else.
	The next person is Richard Tice.
	I just want to be clear.
	Richard Tice and George Galloway both have me blocked.
	Good on you.
	Good on you.
	So I have no idea that they were tweeting into the void.
	They're underrepresented, but George Galloway tweets almost twice as much as Tice's and gets slightly less engagement than Richard.
	Who are these other green dots just then?
	Some of these ones, let's see, Nigel Farage, Keir Starmer.
	I mean, you would expect the Prime Minister of the country to get the most engagement, or at least Diane Abbott is overrepresented.
	Who else have we?
	Who's this right at the bottom?
	How is Rishi Sunak overrepresented?
	Why is Rich.
	Yeah.
	Come on.
	I mean, it does look like he tweets more than he gets engagement, but that's just my way of reading the graph there.
	But again, I think what they're missing out here is that, like, you don't have to tweet a lot to get the most engagement.
	If people want to engage with the content, they will.
	Rupert Lowe is speaking to points that are very popular at this particular time because he is hammering home mass deportations and he is hammering home how to actually realize mass deportations.
	George Galloway, who knows what he's talking about?
	Communism?
	Evidently, nobody really cares.
	Nobody really cares.
	One of my favorite things of this was that they brought up a few people.
	Obviously, this is a threat.
	It's a threat to democracy.
	Yeah, Ed Miliband, I agree.
	Ed Miliband wants you to know that it's a threat to democracy.
	Ed Davies, they have a little clip of him here speaking about this.
	If it plays, will it play?
	It's alright, I saw his tweet where he was saying, basically, if our opponents get to speak, then democracy is in danger.
	Oh, that's very liberal, Ed.
	Oh, yeah.
	Very liberal.
	Ed, very, very serious person, wants you to know how serious a threat this is because the Liberal Democrats, very serious party, and he has shown himself to be serious.
	The whole point is if my opponents are allowed to speak, then democracy is over.
	It's like, no, what are you talking about?
	It's just people won't vote for you.
	That's the end of the world.
	So here's some examples.
	This is what they claim to be extreme left-wing content on here.
	Voting for Nigel Farage because you want things to get better for the working classes, like voting for Jimmy Savile because you want to help kids.
	I mean, I'd say that's left-wing, yeah.
	Yeah, that's left-wing, but it's not really extreme.
	No, there are.
	I mean, it's basic, it's unfunny, but it's not like extremist.
	I would say if they'd got a load of examples of leftist Brits like celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, which they could have done, that would have been extreme.
	I mean that that's the take of somebody who has 247 followers.
	Yes, and this was extreme right-wing content, which says the Labour Party are complicit in the grooming and rape of young white girls.
	That's why they deny a national inquiry.
	Where's the lie?
	Where's the lie?
	I guess it's just extreme right-wing content, Harry.
	But there you go.
	That shows that sort of bias that we were talking about of the LLM that they must have used.
	Amusingly, they say here that they spoke to a number of ex-Twitter employees who definitely were not seething about this, saying that, oh, many think Musk's decision to fire 80% of the Twitter staff when he bought the company reduced the quality of content on the platform.
	Of course they were going to say the platform the platform got worse when they fired me, says ex-Twitter employee.
	What a shock.
	Amazing reporting there from you, Sky News.
	Pronounce he him.
	And it goes on to talk about Rupert Lowe and how much traction he's getting.
	They did actually speak to Ben Habib, so fair play that he was saying that was a good thing.
	And they go on to say, like, oh, well, at least we've got the Online Safety Act and we may be able to regulate this out of existence now.
	So it's just saying that, oh, people are only becoming more right-wing in the country because of Twitter.
	Elon Musk has gerrymandered the algorithm to make sure it is that way, to make sure that they are more right-wing.
	And it's nothing else.
	Nothing else at all.
	That's a big critique of the thing.
	It's nothing else.
	It's not to do with the daily stabbings.
	No.
	Not to do with the daily stabbings that are going on.
	It's maybe because we know about the daily stabbings.
	Yes.
	Well, that might be it, because as we'll see in a moment, the BBC certainly don't like to push or report this sort of stuff in a way that many people see at least.
	One of my favourite things, obviously, here's a big critique of the actual methodology that they undertook.
	So that he says that they were using, they were in collaboration with the Center for Countering Digital Hate for this study.
	So this was less than unbiased.
	This was very biased.
	And that's enough to discredit it in the first place.
	Although at the same time, again, I wouldn't be shocked if it is that the X algorithm is pushing more people to right-wing accounts if only because they are what are getting more traction.
	They're speaking more to the issues that people care about each day, rather than leftists who bot likes on their posts so that they can say, billionaires want you to hate migrants.
	Vote for socialism.
	So you can love migrants who are going to be able to do it.
	And I bet the Centre for Digital Hate is funded by the US government, a bit of it that hasn't been defunded yet.
	Probably.
	Funded by the British government.
	One of my favourite responses to it, though, was this SNP MP for Dundee Central saying, I'm just at the end of my patience of X.
	It's neither neutral or it's Grok app factual, whatever that means.
	Largely a tool for raw, far-right opinions.
	What a sad day, sad end to the intelligent world that Twitter wants inhabiting when it was just me and my friends.
	And he went on to say, it looks like he's deleted it because he said, he said underneath this, it was a free speech platform, not anymore.
	I mean, that literally summarizes this entire thing.
	Elon Musk is not like, I'm going to allow both wings of politics to come onto Twitter.
	And suddenly it's like, oh, this is a far-right app.
	And actually, we'd artificially jury-rigged the, actually rigged the political discourse.
	And once you take your foot off of the neck of the right on this, then they become dominant.
	It's like, okay, well, then there we go.
	That's what you get.
	That's what political discourse is.
	Yeah, and in the absence of a platform like this where people are getting exposed to people who are talking about what's actually going on in the country, the actual concerns that people have, what were they getting from, say, the BBC?
	Well, there was this big Telegraph article exposing this memo that supposedly plunged the BBC into crisis.
	I'll go over this quickly because I've taken up enough time already.
	But basically, the Telegraph published an internal dossier written by former journalist Michael Prescott, who sent it to the BBC board that exposed a string of incidents that demonstrate serious bias in the corporation's reporting.
	And this includes them doctoring for a BBC Panorama documentary, a speech by Donald Trump to make it wrongly appear as though he was directly calling for violence on the 6th of January.
	And who until Andy also points out things like this was not the end of Panorama's distortion of the day's events on January the 6th, 2021.
	So-called Proud Boys, Trump supporters, marched to Capitol Hill before Trump had started speaking.
	David's report to the EGSC, the Editorial Guidelines Board, highlighted that Trump's speech clip was followed by video footage of the Proud Boys marching towards Congress to create the impression that Trump supporters had taken up his call to arms.
	That's the BBC, a supposedly neutral institution.
	One of the most interesting things that I noticed here, though, was that in the big memo, if you scroll down far enough, there's a part where he talks about the selection bias of push notifications for people using the BBC app.
	And he says that it favoured certain stories being sent out to the BBC's push notifications to more than 7 million users on the app.
	An internal review of all notifications in September 2023 considered the selection of stories sent out as push notifications compared to stories on other ways that the BBC sends out information.
	The review concluded that it was significant that of 219 notifications, just four were about the issues of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.
	Of those, three centered on the poor conditions or mistreatment of migrants.
	Of course they did.
	So it's not that the BBC likes to be able to shroud themselves in the cover of neutrality.
	Well, we do report on these issues.
	Yes, but you don't push them to your audience in the same way that you do with positive stories about migrants, about how they're so mistreated, about how you need to be doing more for them.
	Because again, it's not necessarily what you report, it's how you report it and how you push it on people.
	So the BBC has been shown time and time again to have major bias when it's reporting on these things, whereas Twitter might have the opposite bias.
	But again, these are real concerns that people have and are very right to have.
	If this is what people can expect to be landing in their neighborhood very, very soon, the people have the right to know.
	The BBC were trying to hide that from you.
	So Sky News' entire investigation is not only methodologically unsound, it's also just another attempt for the establishment to try to rein in people's concerns about the things that could get them hurt, that could hurt their family and destroy our country.
	That's good.
	Some comments.
	Sorry, I'll pinch that.
	Do a proper salute, Carl.
	Well, I'm not going to do any kind of salutes at the moment.
	Jesus is King says Friday Dream Team.
	Uh rah.
	Frank Crisp was the most famous lawyer in 19th century London.
	He built Friar Park on Henley on Thames and later owned by musician George Harrison.
	I did not know that.
	I had not heard of him.
	Moriarty sends us £20.
	Thank you very much.
	And they just need to keep the receipts for the New York stuff when it comes to Mandani.
	I agree.
	Right, let's carry on.
	Okay, so can we get the tabby tab things up?
	There we go.
	You might be missing a few, actually.
	Can you have an emergency look at the document and load it up?
	Because there's a lot more than that.
	Technical difficulties, ladies and gentlemen, he'll be with us in a minute.
	While he's doing that, let's stick us with the first one at least, because I can put that on.
	That's a bit of video.
	Yeah, right.
	There you go.
	Any second, here we go.
	Here we go.
	Load the rest in the background.
	There's almost the first one.
	Never mind.
	Right.
	I'll work around it.
	So it's fairly obvious.
	Sorry, Harry, I think he means the everything is worse link.
	Yes, number one.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	Just so that we can set up the second.
	I can waffle on with that while you're loading the rest of the background.
	There we go.
	There we go.
	So it's fairly obvious to everybody that things are getting worse.
	And politics is basically geared up to stop you from trying to improve it or even to notice that there's anything wrong in the first place.
	This is what inspired me to take a look at this topic.
	This was a sort of heartbreaking, heartfelt interview with a World War II soldier as we come up to Remembrance Sunday.
	And it's worth just playing the first sort of whatever it is.
	I know where we get to.
	The first minute or so of this.
	What does Remembrance Sunday mean for you?
	What is your message?
	My message is I can see in my mind's eye rows and rows of white stones of all the hundreds of my friends and everybody else that gave their lives for what?
	The country of today.
	No, I'm sorry.
	The sacrifice wasn't worth the result that it is now.
	Oh, well, I'm sorry.
	What do you mean by that, though?
	There we go.
	Straight in there.
	Adil Ray.
	There's an interesting story that Constantine Kissing tells about Adil Ray.
	Because a few years ago, he was the only sort of non-leftist on a panel on Good Morning Britain talking about English identity.
	And Adil Ray, apparently, after they finished the panel, came off the stage and said to him, Wasn't it great that we didn't have any white British people on?
	And Constantine was just like, why would you say that?
	And I mean, he didn't say that to him, but he was just shocked.
	And so Adil Ray seems to be just knowingly subversive.
	Yes.
	But I mean, when everybody knows what that old boy is talking about.
	Oh, yeah.
	Everybody knows.
	And straight away, what do you mean by that?
	Yeah.
	But notice the woman next to him just like, oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
	You don't care.
	You know, this guy's heartbroken over this.
	Like, his friends died for the integrity of the country.
	And look at the state of it.
	Yeah.
	And look, it's perfectly obvious what is going on.
	And, you know, as Fras says here, we literally have a fix everything button that nobody wants to use.
	Now, this is a meme that I'm sure everybody has probably seen at this point, or you will be seeing more.
	A lot of people are mentioning the fix everything button.
	And the idea is basically this.
	There is a button.
	And if you press it, you fix everything.
	But the entire narrative is don't press the button.
	You know, you can't press the switch.
	There is no switch.
	Yeah, people say you shouldn't press the switch and maybe don't.
	It isn't as easy.
	But you know the thing I'm talking about.
	I read all of this in Michael Gove's voice.
	It's simply not possible to press the switch.
	But what happens if you actually did?
	I mean, we might fix everything.
	Well, yes, but what does the switch do?
	And can you just press it?
	There are going to be screeches about human rights.
	Global South isn't going to be happy.
	Yeah.
	Adil Ray across the world.
	Yeah, but now you're doing the bit around the edge.
	You can do it.
	A lot of foreign nationals who are nationalists for their own country who are going to be very upset and they're going to be sent back to their own countries.
	Yes.
	But what does the button actually do?
	So, and I've and I'll try and keep an eye on the comments scrolling past and chaps chip in as well.
	But there's a number of things that it could actually do.
	And I've got a little list, and please do everybody add on to it.
	Well, it's going to raise people's wages, it's going to make the streets safer, it's going to make houses cheaper, it's going to make politics centered back on the white British population of the country.
	It's going to make schools easier to access for your children.
	It's going to roads are going to be less busy.
	NHS appointments are going to be actually possible now.
	You're not going to be sat dying of cancer on a waiting list.
	They're just, I mean, it's almost infinite.
	You're a load of people.
	You're saying that it does remigrate throw themselves out of windows, though.
	Yes, that's true.
	But the thing is, I reckon it'd improve the GDP.
	I'm not even sure.
	And it will at least improve GDP per capita.
	Yes.
	So you're saying it does remigration?
	There's a lot of things that pressing the switch does.
	Yes.
	That is one of them.
	That's one of them.
	I mean, I've actually got the very first thing on my list is the most obvious one for me is you just execute violent criminals.
	Yep.
	You just do it.
	Yep.
	The streets become safer.
	The prison's population goes down.
	Like the money we spend on all of this goes down.
	Yeah, I mean, I quite like El Salvador.
	I mean, they didn't literally execute everybody, but they did the next best thing.
	They just put them in a cell forever.
	Well, they found everybody that had the I am a criminal tattoos on.
	I am literally a rapist murderer tattooed on them.
	And then they put them in prison.
	To which the rate plummeted for some reason.
	Yeah.
	To which, for some reason, all of the left started weeping.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I thought it was quite soft too.
	I would have gone further, but you know, fair enough, as long as the problem's solved.
	And oh, there we go.
	Yeah.
	Oh, look at that.
	They pressed the fix everything button and it fixed everything.
	El Salvador went from the most obscenely sort of crime-ridden environment to one of the safest.
	Over 100 homicides per 100,000 people in what's that, 2015.
	Yeah.
	That's mad, isn't it?
	It's just mad.
	You don't have a country.
	You don't have a country when that's happened.
	You have an open Fortnite server.
	And that's what you have.
	Yeah, literally.
	It's a PvP server.
	Because, I mean, there were stories of them just kicking around heads in the street and stuff like that.
	You're like, oh my God.
	Oh, it's terrifying stuff.
	It's like if one of the gang members decided they like the look of your daughter or girlfriend, they just take them.
	And then what are you going to do?
	I mean, I suppose the correct answer is try and get her back.
	But then you will be killed and then your family won't have a provider.
	And Naib Bukay was the one maverick, the only man with the vision to say, let's not do that.
	I'm going to press the switch, guys.
	Yep.
	He pressed it.
	And I remember beforehand, there was these, you get these sort of documentaries and these NGOs and stuff who were basically doing the meme.
	They were like, you know, it's impossible to fix.
	Sociologists don't understand why crime is so bad in El Salvador.
	But we know it's complicated and we know there's no easy fix.
	Well, that's something else the fix everything switch would actually do as well, which would make a lot of NGO employees unemployed and probably put them in prison as well, to be honest, for facilitating all of this.
	All the lefty lawyers and the judges, they'd be out of work.
	They're literally, their jobs would evaporate if you just press the fix everything switch.
	They would.
	You get rid of all the legislation that allows them to keep murderers and rapists in the country, and then the whole thing just evaporates.
	One easy button.
	The next thing I've got is I've decided to go for energy on this one.
	So for me, the next thing it does is we just start building nuclear power stations.
	Yep.
	Or use coal until the nuclear is online.
	And gas.
	Yeah.
	The shale.
	So, yeah, that's another great point.
	The energy prices go down by a lot.
	So that's prosperity for Britain.
	So if you're a business, you need cheap energy costs.
	There's no prosperity without cheap energy.
	So suddenly the British economy starts rocketing up.
	And I imagine you could get rid of a bunch of regulations with it as well.
	So it's just like, okay, well, we could all get richer.
	Like I said, the GDP will go up.
	Any other suggestions?
	Or you're doing my third one?
	Well, my third was actually the way you started, which would remigration.
	Yeah, and then the world just gets a lot better and more pleasant.
	The weather probably gets better.
	The weather probably gets better.
	If we start pumping more and more coal into the sky and we actually cause climate change, the weather will get warmer.
	We've got to be against that on YouTube.
	And just following the logic crew.
	Oh, you've just given a YouTube warning.
	I was going to say, okay, how can I say it without adopt the Saudi Arabian approach to border security?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I think that's a respectable way of doing things.
	Because actually, you can just.
	You can fix it.
	Yes.
	You can just make things happen.
	Why can't we just have the Navy in the English Channel who sort of awry with their foghorns?
	Defending the coastline.
	Get out the loud hailer and say, turn around and go back again, fire a warning shot.
	And then if they don't, well, sink them then.
	Yeah, just or else.
	Yes.
	How many boats do you think you'd actually need to sink?
	Not many.
	Yes.
	I mean, it's literally going to be like with the Somali pirates.
	You sink one or two of their boats and that's it.
	They never come again.
	Yes.
	It's done.
	Done.
	High bar on people coming in.
	So basically get rid of the low-skill stuff.
	Yeah.
	Do all of that.
	All the dependents.
	Nope.
	You can stay in your own countries and be dependents there.
	Button is firmly pressed.
	Imagine how much money the taxpayer is going to save on the benefit culture alone when we just don't allow foreigners to claim benefits.
	Again, just this one button that fixes everything about this country.
	Your taxes plummet.
	We were having this conversation in the office yesterday.
	I mean, my thinking would be: you know, if you don't have at least one British grandparent, native British grandparent, you're not getting welfare.
	Yeah.
	And that, I think, is actually genuinely a sensible, middle-of-the-road type policy.
	And I even know, you know, a handful of immigrants and they wouldn't have a problem with that because they're like, well, I've got a job.
	Yeah.
	And you could even make it, if you rack up 25 years of national insurance contributions, okay, you can get a pension then, but you need to have done something.
	But it would cut out basically millions of them.
	Yep.
	And so millions of people just go home on their own accord.
	I can't just suckle at the teeth of the British taxpayer anymore.
	I'm not going to stay here then.
	And so we have to pay out hardly any money.
	Everything gets cheaper.
	You get paid more.
	Suddenly it looks like the country has a future.
	Number four, I thought, scrap welfare, restore workhouses.
	I think that goes a bit turn to Dickens.
	I think that goes a bit beyond just pressing the button there, though.
	Really?
	Yeah, yeah, because you've got to innovate a whole slew of new things now.
	I suppose if you're going to say that we can't just innovate things, there needs to be an anti-progressive education curriculum.
	Sure.
	Would that be part of the fix everything button?
	Just remove all of the...
	No, that's a long-term thing, right?
	Yeah.
	These are long-term solutions.
	But if you just press the fix everything button, then instantly stuff would just change.
	I mean, don't get wrong, we'd want to go further and do a lot of other things.
	But I think just what we've listed so far would be just such a massive improvement to the country.
	Yes.
	You wouldn't notice the country wouldn't be falling away.
	It would obviously scrap any and all subsidies towards foreigners starting businesses.
	And the BBC did that report on the mini marts, the foreign mini marts all being fronts for illegal activity, which we already knew.
	So where do they get the money for that?
	Well, part of it is council subsidies.
	That just gets thrown out immediately.
	And deported the people who are committing the crimes because they've committed a crime, therefore they get deported.
	Everything's fixed easily.
	I don't think building a few work houses is that difficult.
	I'm not saying it's that difficult.
	What I'm saying is it's a bit outside of the scope of just pressing the button.
	Well, okay, okay, so fine.
	So this is a purely negative, we get rid of things.
	Yeah, we just stop doing things that we're doing.
	You can just press that button.
	It takes effort to do everything that's destroying.
	Yeah, it takes a lot of work.
	You can turn the welfare button off, surely.
	Yeah, but that's exactly my point.
	That's the thing.
	We can just turn that off, turn that off, don't allow new people, don't allow dependents in.
	Don't allow this, don't allow that.
	And suddenly everything gets better.
	You might push back on my fifth one then, which was flat taxes.
	I mean, I'm happy to have conversations about it.
	I just want taxes reduced, generally.
	Yes, I mean, to be fair, as part of this, when we already said get rid of net zero, we did say like use coal and nuclear power.
	So that is also thinking into the future.
	Sure, sure.
	I'll give you an example.
	When I was working in finance, we had one of our lawyers, he did the tax.
	And I went into his office, which is a fair-sized office, and he's got these bookshelves.
	And I noticed that they were all in the same format.
	And I said to him, you know, what are all these books?
	He said, oh, it's one book.
	It's just multiple different.
	That's the tax law.
	Jesus.
	And I was like, really?
	All of that?
	And he says, oh, no, it's worse than that.
	And he pointed over there.
	And there were these stacks of cardboard boxes.
	Also full of tax law.
	Yes.
	And he wasn't duplicating.
	And just those ones in the boxes are the ones that he didn't use often enough to take them out the box.
	That is the current tax law situation.
	I've got a new tax law that could help all of our problems, or at least many of the problems, which is no tax for English, 100% tax for foreigners.
	Seriously, though, like, I hate paying tax, and it's obviously Byzantine in its application.
	So just streamlining it would be way easier.
	We need a single-page tax law.
	Yeah.
	The Ron Paul tax law.
	And if we didn't have to pay unbelievable amounts of money to foreigners and all these other things, then we could afford it.
	Yeah, pick a number, whatever it is, 20%.
	That's how much you pay, and then scrap all the rest of it.
	So scrap VAT.
	Yeah, on everything.
	I mean, you could say, okay, we're going to have a VAT rate of 20% and income and a capital gains rate of 20% or whatever.
	But just keep it nice and simple.
	As long as it fits on one page, you scrap all of the subsidies.
	Nobody needs an accountant anymore.
	So for example, I mean, I've got a small business which I invoice this place for.
	I need an accountant.
	I can't function without it.
	Everybody does.
	Imagine a world where you didn't need all of this.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And the thing is, if it was just a predictable 20%, at least, okay, well, at least I know what's happening.
	I might not be happy with it, but at least I know.
	It's still far too high for me.
	I agree, but you know.
	What was it the Americans were revolting over?
	Slightly 3% on T. All right.
	2.5% tax.
	There you go.
	Yes.
	Yes, that's fair enough.
	Number six, I did a brokenomics on this just the other week.
	It's the last one that came out.
	This whole democracy thing, I'm going a bit sour on it.
	So I looked at some options and ultimately what I came to was actually probably democracy can work, but the franchise needs to get considerably restricted.
	On net taxpayers.
	Well, I was thinking I quite like the, was it the Starship Troopers, the distinction between a citizen and a civilian?
	And you earn your citizen status and then you can vote.
	So I quite like that.
	I think the.
	Does this immediately mean like conscription or you could adapt it to a modern environment?
	So you'd say, look, if you've had, I don't know, 10 years' net tax contributions, you get the franchise.
	You get to vote.
	And so anyone is just sat there going, well, yeah, I've paid taxes, net taxes for 10 years.
	Great, I get to vote.
	And those people are like, oh, I don't, because I'm a fucking parasite.
	Oh, boo-hoo.
	Well, too bad.
	Parasite.
	Yeah, I mean, I was thinking something like a few years' service.
	It doesn't necessarily have to be military.
	I mean, it could be a whole bunch of different functions.
	You could look at it just through tax contributions, and then you've got all the information you need.
	It's all there, and you could just do it tomorrow.
	Yes.
	The other one I should raise and might get a mild.
	Just on this one as well.
	Keir Starmer.
	Remember, he's like, oh, I'm going to lower the voting age to 16.
	It's like, right, so we're allowed to mess around.
	Yes.
	With who has the franchise?
	We're allowed to do that.
	So we can't just take it away from women who want to.
	So we can just, you know, when we get the base right in government, it's like, oh, right, no, if you've ever claimed benefits, you're never voting.
	Yes.
	We could do that if we wanted, because Kier Starmer could just lower it to 16-year-olds arbitrarily, right?
	So this is totally fine.
	Should women vote?
	Is that on the button?
	I mean, to be fair, I think it's more palatable to people if it's on actual service.
	As in, if a woman has worked for 50 years and paid lots of tax, okay, I think she should, you know, because she's worked and paid next tax.
	But, you know.
	English women, I don't mind voting.
	I think the whole idea of the evil white woman voting for everything progressive is a bit overblown.
	It is a bit.
	Government.
	There is another point.
	And it's basically just a way to demonize white women, which I don't like.
	But government employees shouldn't be able to vote.
	I mean, if you work for the government, if you are employed by the state, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
	Well, that was my seventh idea, and I think possibly the best one, which is sort of reinvigorate a culture of national service.
	So rather than having a huge state, you know, we've got that flat tax.
	What if we said, okay, well, it's 30% if you contribute and it's 20% if you give a day a week to the state in some way or other.
	And that could be military reserves.
	It could be as a deputy for the police.
	It could be as a teacher.
	So for example, you know, we got Bo here.
	He could have a lower tax rate if he spent a day a week teaching at the local school.
	You know, you could be teaching philosophy.
	You know, the amount of low-grade public sector volume that could be removed and simply replaced with, you know, people doing a contribution and having a positive feedback to the system that they're in.
	I mean, this is the problem.
	What you're also suggesting is contributing back to your local community as well.
	That builds relationships.
	Have a community back.
	Yeah, this is a great idea, but I think it's a bit beyond the scope of the fix it, everything easily switched.
	Okay.
	Well, I was padding it out because the first three were so strong that I don't.
	There wasn't really much discussion to be had on them.
	Well, obviously, obviously, obviously.
	Yes.
	Right.
	So we agreed we should actually just press the button.
	I mean, you know, there's going to be a lot of objections.
	It's quite terrifying that you'd even think about it.
	But I am thinking about it.
	As with everything, my biggest question with this is what does the CIA think?
	Yes.
	It is quite possibly.
	Because sadly, they're going to be the ones who have a big disagreement with the fix everything button because the CIA likes breaking things.
	Well, that was wildly uncontroversial.
	We're going to press the button.
	Let's have a look at the video comments then.
	Dreadnought Logan, by the way, says, I've been watching the rest of his politics.
	I've never seen such a group of people more delusional with the worst advice.
	Yeah, I mean, this is a perennial thing.
	Rory Stewart, what's the Kramer, the financial analyst, where every...
	Jim Kramer?
	Jim Kramer, yeah.
	Rory Stewart has become a kind of political Jim Kramer where it's just whatever the opposite of what he predicted was is coming to pass.
	Oh, yes.
	I thought I'd heard that Kramer name.
	They've got the anti-rama.
	Inverse Kramer, which does better than Pelosi.
	Yes.
	Incredible.
	And honestly, if you look at Rory Stewart's predictions for the last like three years, everything was the opposite of what he predicted.
	So if you just had been, no, Trump's going to win, this is going to happen, blah, blah, you know, there'll be a peace settlement in the Middle East.
	Gaza will sign up to this thing.
	Like, Roy Stewart said, no, none of that's going to happen.
	All of it happened.
	It's like, that's incredible.
	It's genuinely incredible how one man can be so wrong.
	But it's because of the echo chamber that they find themselves in.
	But anyway, let's go to the video comments.
	There are loads today.
	Christian's pilgrimage is successful despite significant challenges, missteps, and battles.
	In the second part of Bunyan's tale, Christian's wife, Christiana, and their four children set out to follow in his footsteps.
	The tale magnifies the first part and describes more fully the pitfalls and brutes besetting the pilgrims, slaying the villains and erecting signs to follow the right path, should travelers accept the righteous advice.
	A stand-in for worldly pleasures, Madame Bubble is an interesting analogy for feminism in our modern age.
	The tale also provides hope to those who are not completely virtuous but would still follow the pilgrim's path.
	I think this is out of order, but let's go for number three.
	Well, that was three of four, sir.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, you played as two first, Harry.
	Yeah.
	And now you're about to play as three, maybe two.
	The American Wizard of Oz Tale is a tawdry and somewhat shocking corruption of the pilgrim's progress.
	What's clear from his book is that Bunyan was keen to promote the Protestant idea of salvation through faith alone.
	Unfortunately, this is a concept that Catholics cannot comprehend.
	It's not that faith is the only way to achieve salvation, but that one can only turn to the path of salvation through faith alone.
	If you embark on the path without certain prerequisites, or thinking you can do it from first principles by yourself, then you are likely to go horribly wrong.
	Can we go for McLeod's one next, please?
	Quite aside from the point that he's making, I do like his voice.
	It's very soothing.
	If ever I'm on a ship or a plane that's going to crash, I want the captain to have that voice because I think I'd be kind of okay with it.
	I tell you, when me and my wife went to Italy, we got on one of the planes and a woman's voice came through the intercom saying, This is your captain.
	And my wife was like, oh my god.
	I was like, yeah, well.
	This is Shaniquus.
	She wasn't.
	Can't we need to get off the plane?
	Let's go to the next one.
	So here's a bit of history.
	So ISOS took a lot of influence from the Mexican cartel execution videos because there was a lot of internet traffic that was coming from the Middle East towards the various narco blogs that were all there.
	Most infamous was a father and son that were executed by a chainsaw.
	So I wouldn't look that up if I were you.
	Also, Mexico was also like the big influence on how Modern Warfare was basically done today with drones because they were using it in various assassinations.
	So Mexico's a wild place.
	Yeah, it's mental.
	Honestly, it's genuinely horrific.
	So whenever anyone's like, oh, we shouldn't do anything about the cartels, like, no, they really should.
	Yeah, I know people who've gone on holiday to Mexico before, and I just got why.
	Well, there are tourist areas that obviously are left alone, right?
	Still, Cancun is lovely.
	Still.
	Yeah, there are areas in Mexico that are just not under the control of the government.
	So when they're like, oh, what our sovereignty, you don't have sovereignty.
	Anyway, let's go to the next one.
	Well, well, well, well.
	This comes as no surprise to anyone that lives in New York.
	New York City has once again proven that not only has it completely forgotten 9-11, but it has at this point buried it and built a mosque over it.
	Yes, they elected the communist.
	Luckily, now we'll see cyberpunk in real life.
	No, that's way too optimistic.
	What you're going to see is a modern version of the Soviet Union.
	The rich are going to flee.
	The people who can't flee are going to be stuck there.
	And everything's going to get really worse.
	But honestly, like I said, I'm kind of for it.
	You know, I want them to have this terrible example to have to nail their colours to.
	Because at the moment, they're currently like, oh, yeah, Mam Danny is amazing.
	You know, Zach Polanski's like, yes, this is it.
	Everyone's like, yeah, this is our guy.
	It's like superb.
	I think if New York turns into a giant favela, which it will, which it will, all of the people who are going to stay there are going to be perfectly happy with it, because it's their like.
	When you say that they're they forgot 9-11 well no, maybe it's the fact that the people who moved to new york over since 9-11 were all not so upset about it, so like is that it's their natural way of life to cram themselves into tiny dirty, disgusting ass holes.
	You remember the videos of them cooking rats on the street and stuff like that?
	Yeah, that's like.
	That was a joke in like demolition man or whatever, but it's, it's really happened.
	Anyway, let's.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Basically, yes.
	Let's go to Sam's one.
	i thought i have an idea who this is
	Oh, so
	our producer samson, is currently on holiday because he's traveled to japan for i don't know.
	I am very, very jealous.
	I hope you have a very nice time.
	Yeah, i hope he has a great time.
	At least he got his visa.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I appreciate the sentiment, but it wasn't particularly blackfilling today, I think.
	No, today was quite great.
	I'll set up, take some cats.
	Yeah oh, you can.
	You can understand why people be like, oh god, it might be bad news on the podcast, you know, because he's when he's recorded this well, to be fair, 90 of the time it is.
	So yeah exactly, that's it.
	Hey again, load seaters.
	I'm at binchester roman fort now.
	This in front of you is the best preserved roman bathhouse in all of britain.
	So this is the warm room specifically, and this in front of you is all original roman concrete, and what we have here is the hypercore system, the way in which the entire structure would have been heated up, and just through here you can see how it'll work.
	Yep, this is uh well known, because there are loads and loads of Roman ruins.
	Like, I went to Sicily to see some Roman ruins.
	You see the ruins of a hypercourse there, where it's literally like, you know, a floor that's stacked up, and then what they do is pump hot air into the under the floor, and so the floor's nice and hot.
	Obviously, they get slaves to do this, and then they have, you know, basically a sauna that's all really beautifully heated.
	It would have been fun to be there.
	Yeah, it would have been great.
	Lancelot says, two out of three lotus eaters are afraid of their wives.
	Probably true.
	I respect my wife.
	Thank you very much.
	Sophie says, let me spill the beans about us women.
	We will mentally compare ourselves to other women all the time and become both petty and insecure when another woman in the room is clearly more desirable than us.
	Feminists say this is because of patriarchy, but I'm telling you, we are biologically engineered like this and have to deal with it as individuals.
	When a woman says, we need more women in Hollywood, what she actually means is, I need to be in Hollywood.
	I demand you hire me.
	It's a very sneaky way to play the victim and trying to get a job that can also give you extra prestige.
	So yes, insecure women hate secure women and hate women who are more successful than them.
	There's no sisterhood.
	It's a lie.
	You know, that's really interesting because I find that men tend to like secure men.
	I actually, you know, like the insecure men aren't generally tend to kind of like gravitate around the secure men.
	I'll tell you what it is.
	It's the skinny guy going to the gym for the first time and being insecure and then discovering that the big buff Chad is actually more than happy to help him.
	Yeah, I think there's loads of those.
	I think the insecure guy wants to bring the other guys up because it is the brotherhood.
	It's the war band.
	You want to be surrounded by equals.
	This guy's lagging.
	Let's help him.
	We're not going to leave him behind.
	Well, because the hunting group wants the worst hunter to come up.
	Yeah.
	And there is a genuine brotherhood as well.
	And this is what Nora Vincent found in her book, isn't it?
	Where she was like, oh, right, actually, men actually feel like they're on their own all the time.
	men treat each other quite well uh unlike women who are feeling that well and also she found out how women treat men oh exactly Exactly.
	Yeah.
	And obviously.
	She had to check herself into a mental asylum.
	As a woman, she knew how women treated women.
	And yeah, it was like a look into a love crafty and horror for her.
	so it's just yeah jimbo says uh isn't it amazing just how many people are being radicalized And isn't it amazing just how radicalization seems to be just saying no to middle-class women?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Russian says, the Sydney interviewer is doing the same facial expressions as the adolescent psychologist.
	God, I'm tired of seeing this in real life media.
	Yeah, it's incredible.
	It's actually incredible.
	Someone online says, from the way the interviewer talked to Sydney, it was so disgusting.
	I can't stand that wheedling attempt to drag something from her.
	And if a Sperg picked up on it, you know, Sydney, who is normal, definitely did.
	Well, Sydney seemed to be in genuine combat mode.
	Like, it's the sort of face you'd expect of someone who knows they're in a fight.
	So it was great.
	Roman Observer, are you upset about the billionaires?
	No, I have great tits.
	It's so good.
	Genuinely, it's such a great way to end the week.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, the interviewer is asking close questions, but Sydney is giving open answers.
	This lady doesn't know what she's trying to go up against.
	Yeah, it's so, so good.
	Unfortunately, we're running out of time, so I'm going to have to move on.
	Kevin says, the latest stats released about prevent right-wing extreme savored right-wing extremism than Islamic extremism.
	Maybe that's because to be reported to prevent as an Islamic extremist, you have to be seen as suicide vest.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Omar says, if the leftist talking points weren't interesting, they wouldn't have to come crawl back to blue sky.
	Leftist knows no leftist talking points and they hate it.
	I think it's more about being in the Thunderdome.
	I think everyone likes to be engaging with the opposition.
	The idea that the opposition is going to be provoked by what you've said or something, that's the thing.
	They like the humiliation of getting ratioed.
	But they think they're owning the chuds as well.
	So, you know.
	Ben says, if you sign up as a volunteer member of the British Defence League and rack up 100 deportations, can you get an extra vote?
	Well, that's a great question, Dan.
	We're going to need an answer to that one, to be honest.
	Yes, service brings whatever it is, citizenship is something like that.
	That's correct.
	And Henry says, something I think definitely needs to be addressed is the something I think definitely needs to be added to the fix everything button is simplifying planning laws for infrastructure projects.
	My God, that's so true.
	And that's literally just almost.
	Repeal almost all of it, just so we can build some stuff, because it is genuinely absurd how laden we are with.
	Well, quite possibly, to keep on the theme, it's you just delete all laws since 1997.
	Yeah, and there's that.
	That was what harrison was talking about, not only the great repeal.
	It's not like the country was a hellscape before 1997, is it?
	There was also.
	There was also that, that whole great clarification bill yeah saying, but that's only to make sure they can't maliciously interpret the great repeal bill.
	Yeah, i like that.
	If we just go back to the laws we had in 1996, how would the country be worse?
	Right, parliamentary sovereignty: theoretically, you could literally repeal every law since 1688, that's true.
	Return to the glorious revolution and then spend half a morning sorry catholic viewers, and then spend half a morning putting back all the stuff you need.
	Yeah yeah, sorry catholic, there might be something about the internet or something like that that you actually do want, but Anyway,.
	on that note, we're out of time.
	So, half an hour, lads hour.
	We're going to be doing who would you choose between, what is it, something like 5,000 cavemen and every time there's a step up in military tech, the number of units goes down.
	So, you start with 5,000 cavemen and you end up with seven Delta Force.
	Could seven Delta Force take out 5,000 cavemen?
	I don't think so.

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