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Reasons for Cultural Erasure 00:15:25
	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lode Seaters episode 1339 for Friday the 23rd of January 2026.
	I'm your host Luco joined today by Brother Stelios and Brother Nick.
	Hello.
	Thank you for joining us brother.
	No worries.
	And today we're going to be talking all about how our replacement can no longer be ignored.
	We're then going to be talking about the mission to restore the arts and then we're going to be finishing off your Friday ushering in the weekend with the beauty of Euromaxing, which I'm really looking forward to.
	So I suppose with all that said, shall we make a start?
	We have to do Islander first or just.
	All right, well, well, all right, then I'll just because it was on the screen.
	I was like, when I say have to, I mean we want to because it's so brilliant.
	Well, it is brilliant.
	That's what I meant.
	And it was an exclusive interview with Rupert Lowe.
	Yeah, there is, well, you've already, I'll tell you what, one thing, you're doing the shit, aren't you?
	You're doing such a great job.
	Islander.
	Which number is it?
	Number five.
	Islander five.
	Yes.
	Exclusive interview with Rupert Lowe.
	It's got.
	What else has it got?
	Any of you guys in it?
	AA, Margoth, Nima.
	Oh, wow.
	Neima's in it.
	So we've got the left represented.
	Wild stocks last guys.
	Lotuseaters.com.
	Slick.
	Magnificent.
	All right.
	Carl makes that look easy.
	It's not.
	It's quite hard.
	Okay, do you want to start my bit?
	Yeah, sure.
	Go on.
	So I've just informed everyone that I can't say any of the words in my bit because they're all banned on YouTube.
	So it's going to be interesting.
	But luckily, I'm trained, Ofcom trained, so I'm used to not saying words.
	So I'm going to try and go through this whole.
	I can't even say the title of it, but let's just call it demographic change is a pressing issue that can no longer be ignored.
	And it's gone mainstream.
	I know you all know this stuff here at Lotus Eaters, but we've got the richest man in the world and one of the most popular broadcasters in the world constantly talking about this every day now.
	So it's like the only choices you have are to lie and say that it's not happening when it so clearly is.
	Yeah, when people are living in towns and cities across the United Kingdom where it's visibly the case that it is.
	Yeah, and these massive broadcasters are covering it.
	Or you can say it's a good thing or an indifferent thing.
	Those are basically your choices.
	Or the choice that I'm going for, which is to say, hmm, not sure about this.
	Maybe it's not great for people to sort of gradually be a word that sounds like begins with R.
	This is impossible.
	This rendered absolutely impossible to say.
	But anyway, maybe it's not a great thing when, you know, because you generally don't want people to die out, do you?
	Anyway, so look at these from someone has quoted Tucker here, this video, and they've got the figures from the video, so we don't need to watch it, but it's truly astonishing figures.
	This should be a big warning for Europe.
	USA in 1950 versus now.
	New York, 90% white, now 30%.
	LA, 94%, now 37%.
	Detroit, 84%, now 10%.
	Chicago, 86, now 29.
	Philadelphia, 80%, now 36.
	Baltimore, 76, now 27.
	So that's comparing to 1950.
	Very stark figures, hard to deny.
	You just see all those old footage, don't you, of New York, you know, and the grand skyscrapers going up towards the beginning of the 20th century.
	And, you know, those white working class laborers who are there sitting on the scaffolding and everything, just risking that to obviously, you know, help build their civilization.
	And then fast forward 100 years later, you've got this random like Indian, African, like Muslim guy saying, oh, it was all built by immigrants, actually.
	The whites had very little to do with it.
	It's just the deepest insult.
	It's a little rude, isn't it?
	It's a little rude.
	It's just bad manners, ladies and gentlemen.
	And so we've got Tucker talking about it here.
	Now, he says, armed enforcers of the thing we can't say swarm ice officers in Minneapolis.
	So he was saying that the ICE officers are just trying to sort immigration and you're stopping them.
	So therefore, you're part of the enforcement of this trend that's happening in demographic change.
	And he does a whole 90-minute piece on it, which I've watched.
	And we obviously can't go through much of it, but the gist is this has happened throughout history.
	Certain peoples have diminished at the hands of other peoples in an effort to control and control them more easily, basically.
	He cites, he goes back to Genghis Khan, he cites the English and the Irish.
	He even cites Israel, I suppose, infra penny, and for a pound with Tekker, I guess.
	Yeah, and he goes towards examples.
	It says it's never really a great thing.
	It's done usually for power and control.
	And he just calls it what it is.
	And also, what's more, it's usually done under a state of war as well.
	It's always done with antagonistic intentions.
	It's never done for the betterment or, dare I say, enrichment of the host population that is suffering the change.
	Right.
	And let's just get a flavor of what he says then.
	But also to control.
	Once again, this is not a conspiracy theory.
	This is the story of recorded history, and it's a story of the present day.
	Obviously.
	And only a country completely divorced from history, from human nature, from reality itself, could ever fall for, ooh, it's a debunked far-right white nationalist conspiracy theory.
	Really?
	No, it's not.
	It's just the opposite.
	It's the realest thing that ever happened.
	And that's not even a judgment.
	It's just a fact.
	When you want to control a place, you change the demographics.
	In 1947, Mandate Palestine, what's now Israel, was about 80% Arab.
	The next year was what, like 32% Arab.
	The next year, after the War of Independence in 1948, I'm not attacking anyone at all.
	But the point is, Israel.
	I think I meant to stop it earlier when he's because he now just goes on about his phrase, which is his whole thing is how it changes.
	Yeah, word we can't say does stuff.
	You know, it'd be really funny if we actually could just say it.
	Yeah, yeah, mess me up immediately before.
	We're playing it safe.
	Just a test for Nick.
	It's an initiation test.
	So Tucker's done a whole documentary on this just to give you an idea of how sort of mainstream this has gone in a way, though, of course, he's not completely the mainstream.
	And he says the West isn't just tolerating mass migration.
	Our governments are funding it.
	In our new documentary, Something Europe, following the world's deadliest migration route, our cameras uncover what no one wants you to see.
	So he's done a whole documentary on it.
	And Paul Weston comes in and says there are fewer than 3 million white males aged 20 to 30 living in England and Wales.
	More than 3 million Afro-Islamic males, I don't know exactly what that means, aged 20 to 30 entered Britain over the last decade.
	So it gives you an idea of some stats.
	And Wilfred Riley quotes this and says the levels of contemporary migration to the West really are completely nuts.
	And male, in a way, no real wave of refugees has ever been for the 2,000 or so years we've studied.
	So as we've heard a lot, fighting age males, this phrase we've heard quite a lot.
	And look who picks up on this.
	It's old Elon.
	If this continues, entire cultures will be erased.
	And makes a good point.
	Well, yeah, and it's quite extraordinary to have Elon talking about this.
	I mean, I'm sure we've talked about this before, but, you know, someone the richest man in the world, and he's talking about this almost daily.
	Quite extraordinary.
	The thing is, as well, there is always a manufactured reason.
	Whatever they need to do, and it's not even convincing, of course, but they just try their best to tailor it to whatever country it is that they're inflicting it upon.
	If it's all, it's because of slavery and empire.
	If it's Ireland, it's literally for staying neutral during World War II.
	If it's, I mean, you know, I mean, for example.
	I've never heard that one.
	Is that the well, or Sweden or something like that?
	You know, they just always come up with something to justify.
	Take Greece for an example, Stellis, because that's had quite a rapid demographic shift, hasn't it, recently?
	But obviously, Greece for centuries and centuries was obviously under the Turks.
	So what guilt could there possibly see?
	Something that was really good in Greece in the 20th century was that there was population exchange.
	So Turks and Greeks in Greece were swapped for Greeks in Turkey.
	Right.
	That was really good.
	But now lately, yes, there has been an issue with this as well.
	I think this is a very interesting discussion because where exactly the line between controversy of fact is very hard.
	No, because one thing to say is that you always have to check the rhetoric of those in power.
	And those in power say one thing, that right now in the West, indigenous people in the Western world are not having a replacement rate in birth.
	Their birth rates are below replacement level.
	And they say that because they take this as inevitable and they say that, well, because it's a trend right now, we are going to treat it as inevitable.
	That is what they are doing.
	And we are going to say, we are going to draft policy as if this is going to be the tendency of the future.
	So they're saying if current trends continue and they are taking it as a given that they're going to continue, you need access an X amount of population in order to come in and help with the economy, try to lower the debt per capita ratio or number or whatever.
	But the point is, and the question there is, that when they do this, they tacitly admit that they are engaged in population demographic change.
	The reasons why they do it are maybe different, or the reasons why they say they do it are maybe different to what to the reasons that Tucker says they may be doing it for.
	But the important thing is that this is policy, the policy of bringing foreign populations into the Western world in order to address the population collapse.
	But the major question that people are going to be should be asking here is whether these policies are actually harming the attempt to reverse that trend.
	Because you could say right now in the Western world, this is a trend.
	If it continues, yes, there is going to be a problem.
	The question is whether the proposed remedy of the establishment is actually harming this.
	It could be even unintentionally.
	It doesn't have to be a closed conspiracy behind closed doors.
	But it is harming.
	Yeah, well, one obvious way it might harm that is competition for housing.
	And people think, oh, we can't afford a house.
	Why have children?
	That's one obvious one.
	Another one is a far more subjective feeling of, do I want to bring my kids up here or feeling of being less safe?
	Another thing, they vary between it's not happening or it's happening.
	And it's a good thing, of course.
	Chuck Schumer basically admitted it in a famous quote about a year ago.
	Yeah.
	So they will say it sometimes.
	But another argument, though, is what does it matter if the birth rate goes down?
	If you don't bring in people, you just have a slightly lower birth rate.
	I know people like Elon Musk actually think that that will mean you can't maintain your structures and systems.
	But I don't know.
	Some people say that's not even true.
	I think it's an empirical issue.
	And that's why I think personally I'm a realist when it comes to policy.
	I think that someone has to move in piecemeal fashion rather than just come and tear the whole system down.
	But I think that to a very large extent there is a pessimism that infuses the spirit of those who draft policy when it comes to this matter.
	And they're taking it as a given, as if the birth rate will never continue.
	And what is the problem?
	And as if that's necessarily a disaster.
	They went from kind of malthusianism to thinking, oh, hang on, it's a disaster that's too low.
	Yes.
	But when did that happen?
	Yeah.
	And what is interesting here is the angles from which people are approaching the subject because you very rarely No, actually, not rarely, you very frequently listen to people using arguments against whites that they wouldn't use when it comes to other groups.
	So for instance, if you want to make a culturally preservationist argument or a group preservationist, you're immediately branded as a far-right extremist.
	But there's not a case.
	Why should you say, for instance, that it's a bad thing, it's a good thing to say, here's a tribe in Africa or in a place in Indonesia or somewhere.
	Let's not destroy their culture for cultural preservationist reasons.
	But why is the same rhetoric bad when it comes to talking about white people?
	And that's another change I've noticed, which maybe might come up here.
	But it's people are becoming more and more aware that white people and white Europeans are a tiny minority globally and that therefore your argument becomes more and more pertinent.
	It's hard not to say, hang on, we're just talking about survival.
	It's not about domination or supremacy.
	It's actually become about survival.
	Why lose a culture?
	Why lose a culture?
	Why is it a problem if you lose another culture, but not a problem if you lose this culture over here?
	There are certain islands you can't put a coke can on them or you're in your you break the law because you brought an outside influence and they can shoot you with arrows if you arrive and they're allowed to.
	And you know, there are these cultures, it's like, don't mess with this culture.
	We're trying to preserve it.
	They're going to die out.
	They're not in touch with the modern world and all that sort of thing.
	Yes, when it comes to this particular culture, it's like, oh, it should definitely die out.
	It's disgusting.
	That's basically what they're forced into saying because there's no rationale for it, as you say.
	Well, also, it's like this culture needs to die out.
	It's disgusting.
	They say in English on technology created by Western minds.
	Yes, unless they were totally consistent and they were happy about all other Indigenous peoples dying out and they said something like that's just progress.
	Then I could live with it as consistency at least, but it's never.
	It's always this particular group.
	It's always who's the enemy?
	Yeah.
	Let's make them max, let's inflict maximum damage upon them.
	Right.
	Hard to argue.
	And so on that thing about whether we actually need to bring in people or, you know, the replacement birth rate, Western replies to Musk and says, if it doesn't continue, entire cultures will still be erased.
	White British babies will fall below 50% of birth this year and below 25% within 15 years.
	White women cannot be forced to replicate Muslim women's 3.5 birth rate unless re-migration happens, the English have gone.
	So it's this argument about, is it just about the birth rate or is it the birth rate combined with the immigration that's the problem?
	And also, do incentives even work?
	You know, they try them in Hungary and things like that.
	It's my understanding, they don't necessarily work that well.
	These economic incentives to have more kids and stuff.
	The issue with the demographic is that no one knows exactly what it is, what it boils down to, the causes.
	It's an incredibly complex issue.
	And it affects almost the entire planet.
	You have only, for instance, Chad, Nigeria, India, and some other places.
	Israel is above replacement rates.
	Mainly, yeah, you're right.
	Japan, very low, Korea, catastrophically low.
Dialectic Disagreements 00:12:10
	So yes, not just Western.
	Sometimes it gets, it's like, you know, Andrew Tate will say something like white people don't have babies.
	Like, well, neither do Koreans and the Japanese and so on.
	Yeah.
	Did you ever hear Paul Morland's trilemma on this, actually?
	I think so.
	You know, the trilemma.
	He said you can have two of these, but not all three.
	Oh, yes.
	And it was egotism, by which he just meant not having children because you're selfish.
	Economic growth and ethnic continuity, I think he called it, something like that.
	And he points out China's chosen two.
	Sorry, Japan has chosen ethnic continuity and what he calls egotism.
	So they sacrificed economic growth and we've gone for growth and egotism and we've sacrificed ethnic control.
	We've gone for those, but we haven't even Got the growth.
	So, yeah.
	That comes up as well, the economic argument later.
	So, for some reason, I've put Elon Musk here just saying whites are rapidly dying minority.
	I think just the fact that Musk is saying things like this is just so extraordinary to me.
	And then I put a reply about it saying we should get funding or stuff.
	He actually liked that reply.
	Oh, cool.
	Which is just the madness of Musk liking it.
	My replies are being liked by Zuma historian and Elon Musk.
	I'm like, what timeline is this?
	It's getting spicy.
	Yeah, it's a strange world.
	So then someone else counters this and says, you know, really dislike the rapidly dying language.
	The global white population is only shrinking slightly.
	The real danger is from them being, are we allowed to say that, in their own countries?
	So this place.
	So he's saying it's recoverable.
	So again, it's the question, is it the birth rate?
	Is it the immigration?
	Is it the combination?
	So this was, I just put, Elon Musk liked this as well.
	He's like an obscure Amelia tweet.
	And he actually reposted this.
	So just, this is just sort of Amelia breaking down some facts.
	People love saying English immigrants in England, the English have lived in England over 1,400 years.
	That's far longer than the Maori have lived in New Zealand.
	But that comparison is apparently off-limits.
	The English didn't arrive in England.
	became England over more than a millennium.
	Smart vassat, Amelia.
	Yeah, she's smart.
	And that's sort of Stellis' argument, 23,000 likes.
	That's his argument about, you know, Indigenous peoples, one rule for them.
	Oh, and this is just, you know, definitely can't say that on YouTube.
	But this is just people talking about it more and more.
	I don't know.
	I'm too scared to play it now after what we said.
	But more and more people are talking about it.
	From the richest man in the world to various TikTok girls and things.
	This is another one.
	And what's more as well, the establishment's unwillingness to pivot, right?
	Because when you think about so many of the things that the technocrats and those in the EU actually want to do, like climate justice and social justice and all these sorts of things, right?
	They just have entirely progressive political aims.
	They could achieve so much more of them and actually maintain their hold on power if they were just willing to meet us on this one particular issue, which is a sense of demographic security on our own continent, in our own homeland, right?
	But they won't do it.
	They can't do it.
	You're begging them to put the knife down and stop shanking the neck of our continent.
	And they're like, no!
	Well, it's so often the case with our current managerial elite.
	The idea is, oh, they're just pragmatic and sort of non-idological.
	But actually, it's extremely ideological because so often what they do is not logical even.
	No.
	It's not even just utilitarian.
	It's like actively destructive.
	So yeah.
	And there's another person here.
	But it isn't just the EU.
	Oh, no, it's not.
	It's also America and Canada and New Zealand and everywhere else.
	Most Western governments, with Trump as a kind of outlier, sort of semi-resisting it, but this Avery, again, we don't need to watch the whole thing, but in case he says something dodgy, but only 10% of children in Brussels are of Belgian origin.
	British residents are a minority in London and Temboroughs have a non-sorry, majority, non-white population.
	Mohammed is the number one baby name in England.
	Sweden has 65 no-go zones and 900 uncontrolled areas across Europe.
	And sometimes people dispute these no-go zones, but I think it's pretty clear Sweden is a bleepstorm at the moment.
	Now you've got one argument.
	You can just say, why is it a problem though?
	Which is Brian Krassenstein's response when Musk said whites are a rapidly dying minority.
	That's one response.
	You can just sort of mask off most of it.
	It is a response, but then it just comes down to the thing, doesn't it?
	And this applies to any minority who takes that particular line, which is that, okay, but then don't be surprised when I show absolutely no consideration for you or your ethnic troubles or, you know, the things that you care about.
	You see, people like Krassenstein, they say whenever they, for instance, criticize capitalism or not, and I think they're way more communistic people than Krasenstein.
	But it is an argument that they're putting forward.
	Say, for instance, the advent of capitalism is harming, for instance, this particular species in that particular environment is going extinct, therefore, capitalism bad.
	He wouldn't, he would definitely not ask this question if it were another group.
	Correct.
	He would definitely not be asking this question.
	Which is why Carl says, and that's the issue with wokeness.
	Because I want to say, because there is a particular form of dialectic that this discussion takes, especially the left purposefully tries to put it this way.
	So we have to bear in mind that for 12 years now, the dominant leftist paradigm in the West is the woke paradigm.
	We don't hear so much about syndicalism and communism.
	We hear much more about the Gramscian element of it.
	And in their framework, white people, especially straight white males, are the oppressor.
	And all they have to do through this framework, according to their rhetoric, is just say that you have to do reverse discrimination and how do they call it?
	Discrimination?
	No, it's affirmative action in any discrimination in order to harm straight white males.
	This rhetoric is part and parcel of that worldview.
	And that's the issue is that they are constantly trying to say that if you disagree with this, with what they're doing, you are on the other hand a white supremacist.
	As if there is no room in the middle, which was the basic 90s, like, let's just not look at it.
	Yeah, that's another argument.
	Let's not make it about race.
	Yeah.
	No, they're the ones that particularly have a problem with a particular group, as you say, and for some reason want to.
	Carl's question is actually.
	Well, that's what I'm saying.
	He says what you're saying.
	Why would it be a problem if blacks were a dying minority?
	So just calls it out.
	So, yeah, exactly.
	So there you go.
	Musker quote, just leaving this here.
	And then he's like, oh, you still haven't answered it.
	It's like loads of people have picked up on this.
	And this is, yeah, again, this is the same point.
	It's a little bit of a imagined roles were reversed, which we know is a bit of a cliche.
	But Adam says, if you were to say that black people are being eliminated off the planet, Democrats would call it a g-word, we probably can't say.
	But if you say white people are being ethnically cleansed, Democrats applaud it.
	Absolutely shameful.
	So, yeah.
	Or, and with the idea that it is just hatred, they celebrate the elimination of white people.
	It isn't a mistake.
	It isn't Marxism.
	It's a bloodthirsty desire to see you and your children dead.
	So, Orin definitely evicts that day.
	I want to say, though, that I think that you can't separate neo-Marxism from this much, because it's that neo-Marxist framework that tries to say that instead of going about it in terms of rich industrial capitalists versus proletariats, it's straight white males against everyone else.
	But I think what people Orange really say is, although there is that flimsy ideological justification, you scratch the surface beneath it, it's just often just a matter of fact.
	You can definitely say that this applies for classical Marxism.
	They would feel this sense of this innate sense of resentment with or without Marxism.
	Is that what you're saying?
	Yeah, I'm saying a lot of times it's a mask and a convenient.
	Look, as many people have said, I think, as Andrew Doris said, woke has been a great boon for bullies, basically.
	You know, there's a lot of nasty people and nasty sentiments that you can dress up in clever ideological language.
	In fact, that is the whole of the left.
	Discuss.
	And some got about as close to saying it as you can if you're a Trump.
	I'm just going to say it.
	This was in another segment, I think, with Josh, but may as well just play it.
	Situation in Minnesota reminds us that the West cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own.
	I mean, we're taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a failed, it's not a nation, got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing.
	It sounds like a Nina Simone song for a minute there.
	Ain't got no police.
	It's all the time.
	It's not even a country.
	They're walking around killing each other.
	It's not even a nation.
	But when it's put so starkly, I mean, that is well put.
	The West cannot mass import foreign cultures, which have failed to ever build a successful society on their own.
	I mean, that's a compelling case in one sense.
	Well, I want more of that sort of stuff coming from the WEF if we've got to have it.
	That's changed this year.
	Didn't see that on the agenda.
	Where's the bug-eating stuff?
	And just to end on then, Tucker sort of summarizes it.
	As I say, he goes through all the examples in history.
	Then he says, no one's even making the economic case anymore.
	He says it's not a conspiracy.
	That's ridiculous.
	I'm just observing facts.
	And then he says, and by the way, no one's even making the case economically.
	So what is the reason?
	Behind what you're watching.
	No one is making an economic case for mass migration.
	Nobody is making an economic case for keeping tens of millions of illegals in this country because there isn't an economic case for it.
	There is no case that begins with, let me tell you how this will make our country better.
	No one even makes that case.
	The case they're making is we are replacing the people who founded this country, who built the system for themselves, by the way, with a brand new people who have very little in common with those people.
	And why are we doing that?
	Because we hate those people.
	That's tough to say.
	You disagree because you say it's policy, but we certainly don't hear that.
	No, you definitely hear, for instance, some of the American libertarians, many of them, make that very argument.
	Yeah, but not that much.
	I mean, you don't.
	He may be using it.
	Libertarians really push that line.
	Yeah, but with respect, does anyone care what libertarians say?
	When do you hear the mainstream you heard Chuck Schumann say it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, you don't hear it very often.
	If you want to go a late theory on it, there could definitely be people with libertarian leanings within the administration and within the whole purview of the White House.
	But do we often hear the case made on very logical, the terms you're outlining, which is a logical case.
	Tuck is saying it's hatred.
	Do you ever hear people come out and say, I mean, they couldn't, if you've got a vacuum where Tuck is coming out and saying that, if they wanted to get on top of it, wouldn't they come out and say, it's not about hatred.
	It is happening and here's why it's happening.
	That's what they don't dare do.
	Let me just qualify a bit what I'm saying because I frequently disagree with Carlson because I think he is in favor of very low resolution explanations.
	He tries to make it much less complex than it actually is.
	And in this case, there are people making economic arguments.
	Whether they're good or bad, it's another point.
	Well, even, sorry, even Starmer came out, didn't he?
	In one of his famous speeches where he was suddenly based and said...
	Schrodinger's Enoch power.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He said the one thing, Starma, U-turned.
	he said the island of strangers he said this is an experiment a reckless experiment and when Peston asked him at a press conference about the economic benefits he said side And there are no economic benefits.
Why This Has to Happen 00:05:46
	But we're still doing it.
	So no one's caught up and stopped.
	What I'm noticing here is no one's actually.
	It's almost become this accepted idea that just has to happen.
	But when people are saying, hang on, why does this have to happen?
	Why does this one group have to be replaced in their own countries?
	That's certainly a part.
	And what's the rationale?
	Because you've just admitted it's not economic.
	It's just happening.
	And also updated the software.
	Yeah, it's one thing to go through with this madness, right?
	It's another thing entirely to expect no resistance to come from it.
	To actually just expect the people to, oh, yeah, all right, we'll just extinguish 2,000 years of history.
	Yeah, it's fine.
	Yeah, okay.
	That is it.
	It's like, oh, if you say so, if we need to do that, then it's like, no, obviously that's not going to happen.
	You put people in a state where they feel this existential dread, you know, this sense of doom of their entire continuum.
	Yeah, that is going to really irritate people.
	And that's something that I don't think they appreciate.
	That's an anxiety that most people of our age have just had to live with for our entire lives.
	So that uncertainty for the future and whether or not England and all the other countries in the West will even exist in any meaningful sense by the end of this very century.
	Yeah, and it taps into the most fundamental aspects of human nature.
	Reproducing yourself, worry about your offspring, what will my son grow up in?
	Of course, I know people who are sort of where I live and my football team and things who are the sort of blob type people who are so complacent about it.
	They just say, oh, well, places change over time, blah, blah.
	I'm thinking your children, they're going to grow up in a much worse country where they are probably hated.
	And it's like, you're very glib about it.
	But if you're not, if you're someone who feels it, then it's quite hard to unfeel it, isn't it?
	So yeah, it's very naive to think they could get away with it.
	But then they've done so much.
	COVID, they're just so used to getting in a room, deciding what's going to happen, and the plebs will just put up with it.
	But this one is very hard for them to get across the line.
	Anyway, I don't want to go too far over my time.
	So that is my.
	I did my best without saying any of the words.
	It was mainly mine.
	Well, reduce Lucas so you can have full-time.
	Is that all right?
	All right.
	I'll just quickly go through these rumble rants.
	Apologies if it's not anything I can actually say.
	Crank Texan for $10, thank you, says there is a huge number of NGOs that exist only to move massive numbers of people into the West.
	These NGOs are funded with many billions of dollars of government grants.
	We pay for this.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Well said, Texan.
	And obviously, it becomes even steeper because the more foreigners that you bring in, the more foreigners there are incentivized to bring more foreigners in as well.
	And so it constantly escalates.
	Okygdor says population decline is not bad in and of itself, but if you fill that void with imports instead of letting the generations refill, then you don't have room for population to heal.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, you know, you think about the fact that the whole of Europe managed to recover from the Black Death.
	And actually, and I don't mean this to sound as sick as it does, but the Black Death probably had brought more benefits to Europe than what our current elites are bringing to it.
	So That's a Random Name says, once again, it all boils down to women.
	Everything they do is about safety and status.
	They've been propagandized to feel unsafe around men and think motherhood is low status.
	So they call babies parasites.
	Well, there is absolutely a problem with that thinking.
	They also want to bring people in because they feel it's kind and it's unkind to have a border.
	Yeah.
	But I'm not of this.
	Kill the 19th, but call me a white knight, but I'm not entirely sold on the idea that, oh, it's just the women.
	If we could just, you know.
	It's not just the women.
	It's also people under 30, people without property.
	That's all right.
	Now you're making far more sense to me.
	I'd take the vote off almost everyone.
	Yeah.
	That's a random name.
	Only Stelios can vote.
	God, wouldn't that be a better world?
	I'd love to see your foreign policy towards Turkey.
	I'm too low resolution.
	I'm just rabble roused by people like Tucker, so I can't be trusted.
	I want a Fainos gauntlet.
	That's my policy.
	That's a random name also says, taxes were meant to last until the end of World War I. Mass migration was supposed to not be massive, but an economic boon and not disrupt the ethnic makeup of the West.
	For me once.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And Sigil Stone says, so when is Brother Dankula joining the Lotus Eaters for a new showing after joining a monastery?
	Yeah, it's all been good fun, that, hasn't it?
	All right, then.
	So, I've got a new cut.
	All right, anyway, well, we'll pick that up later.
	So, ladies and gentlemen, there is some good news that I have here for you.
	Now, I want to do a segment.
	You may remember a few months back, I hosted a segment talking all about the Pendragon Foundation and the revival of British castles, reintegrating them into our sense of society, and trying to restore something which is being lost to us.
	And this is a segment of a similar kind.
	But on this time, on this occasion, it's not castles, but rather literature and art that I want to focus on.
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	Because ultimately, people are culture is one of the great things that gives us entertainment and meaning, right?
	It allows us to meditate on the finer, higher aspects of life.
	And I think that there is a dissatisfaction, actually, amongst many people.
	I'm not saying the masses, but many people for higher forms of art, good writing that really speaks to their moment.
	And really, they only have the classics to fall back on because these are the things that have survived, tried, and tested through the ages and are uncorrupted, or certainly they were uncorrupted by intersectionality and all of the very aggressive ideologies that basically seek to take those great achievements from our own heritage, from our own canon,
	away from us and basically give them to foreigners who didn't create them and say they're just as much yours as they are anyone else's.
	And on the one hand, yes, it is wonderful when you find a piece of art that, you know, when people come from all over the world to Paris to look at Da Vinci's paintings, right?
	There is a certain nobility to that.
	But also, it's always important to realize the time and place that those things came from and the genius of the actual people behind them.
	Now, speaking of art and culture, I wanted to just say as well, we have issue five of Islander Magazine out now.
	And this is one of the things that I'm talking about.
	It's an attempt by Rory, and a very successful one, I might add, to make a magazine full with highly philosophical, really engaging essays.
	You can tell from the aesthetics that Rory has put a great deal of work.
	There's a comic, there's work with an interview with Rupert Lowe, and many great articles in it.
	So if you're interested, you can go and buy that on the website for $14.99 and whatever postage and packaging you have to bear in your country.
	So let's just talk, shall we, a little bit about the absolute state of the British arts industry right now.
	Nick, as a man who was a comedian, I mean, not to, you're still funny, but you're a retired comedian.
	Was it easy for you navigating those social circles?
	Did you feel like you got a fair hearing in that world?
	Well, no, I mean, it got to the point where they literally would tell you there's no way you can have an agent if you're a straight white man.
	And I was famously, I say famously because it wasn't famous, but I was cancelled for raising this.
	After about a decade in comedy, I just had enough.
	And someone told me I couldn't get a gig because I was a straight white man.
	And I just shared the message with all the identifying.
	What do you have to sleep with to get a gig?
	Well, you had to just be the right hue.
	Yeah, well, maybe I didn't find out the answer to your question, but I certainly didn't manage it.
	Yeah, I was told I couldn't have a gig because I was a straight white man.
	I just shared it with the identifying information taken out.
	And everyone shouted at me saying you're not allowed to even say this, but everyone knows it.
	And that's just one of many problems with it.
	But we don't get...
	Are you talking about funding and things like that?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	That doesn't even really come into it in comedy.
	At least it didn't for me.
	I don't know how you would get it.
	But yeah, you certainly wouldn't get it if you were the wrong type.
	Yeah.
	But you can see here, I just want to draw your attention to £116.8 million of national lottery funding per year in Arts Council National Lottery Project grants, our open access funding program, right?
	So that's a hell of a lot of money that can go to young, aspiring creatives who are obviously wanting to create something that speaks to the zeitgeist, to the moment, and also as well.
	We can't underestimate art in terms of theatre that just exists to give pure entertainment, to just bring some sense of joy.
	An actual, oh, I had a really nice evening tonight.
	But no, everything now has to have some progressive message to it.
	And the theatre...
	But it's this joy of which you speak.
	I have no memory of it.
	And it's so in your face.
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	Yeah, especially with Netflix.
	You're watching at something that otherwise seems to be just fine, perfect, funny.
	And then out of nowhere, you just have, you know, Dionysus getting effed in the bathroom.
	By strangers.
	Yeah, someone's saying that.
	Was it Matt Walsh saying you used to be able to watch Out of nowhere he goes to the bathroom Someone does him and then he goes back Again, just who wants to watch this?
	Yeah, I know.
	And Matt Walsh was saying, you can't watch it with your kids anymore because they'll be like, suddenly, you'll be watching it and it's a vanilla scene.
	It's a complete filler.
	It's just general degeneracy to just constantly get Satan in your face.
	Yeah, and also, it's a Japanese Mozart.
	It's an Asian hammer getting beaten up by white people.
	It's just like, oh, constantly.
	See, because of this, as you see here on their website, again, this constant, insatiable need for diversity at all costs.
	The other thing as well is that it takes money away from young, aspiring native voices and pushes them towards minority groups who are obviously entirely, you know, invested in their own struggle, their own sense of place in the world.
	Just used to start a company called Native Voices, which is like funding young men who want to write something.
	Yeah.
	And then let's just have a look, for example, on some of the things that have been on the national theatre recently, shall we?
	So let's start with Nye.
	You can see Martin Sheen, is it?
	No.
	Can't remember his name.
	Michael Sheen, sorry, there we are.
	Is Nye Bevin in an epic Welsh Fantasia about one man's dream of the NHS?
	And so you have at the National Theatre a play where people can go, progressives can go and have a religious experience, right, and talk about the foundation of the welfare state and the NHS.
	And they can all sit there and clap and cheer as they, you know, cheer for a system that doesn't work, right?
	It's absolutely mental.
	And what's more as well, they are opposed to the very solutions that could actually make it work.
	Several of them die in the audience while watching the play because they've been waiting three years for their surgery.
	As they're clapping, they just, sorry, this would be ironic.
	You're absolutely right.
	Most ironic deaths you can have, clapping the NHS while dying because of it.
	Sorry, Kara.
	Something a little more recent.
	What's on now?
	Well, we have Pride, a new musical based on the hit film.
	Let's have a see what it's all about.
	Is this the hit for what hit film?
	Summer 1984 only.
	Not that, 1984, I guess.
	With miners on strike across the country, 24-year-old activist Mark Ashton tries to rally a disparate group of gay men and lesbians in supporting the beleaguered miners.
	Lesbians and gay support for support the miners, LGSM, quickly find itself intertwined with a small pit village in South Wales.
	Anyone, you want to go see this, Stelios?
	None of this.
	God gets two tickets for this weekend.
	Remember the only gay in the village?
	That was set in Wales.
	Like, this doesn't happen in Wales.
	The Welsh mining strikes, there were no gay people anywhere.
	They didn't exist.
	And maybe they were heavily closeted if they did.
	Yeah, I think the fathers might have something to say about it.
	But the point is, it's always pandering to some sort of woke cause, you know, for want of a better way to put it.
	And it's part of this suffocating nature of the arts in Britain right now that everywhere you go, you know, you try and look for something authentic that speaks to your own history.
	You can't because the BBC on Netflix have bastardised it, right?
	Just the Netflixification of our entire of all European history.
	You also have, of course, the fact that if you are a young upstart with a creative idea and you perhaps don't have the actual money to front it and bring your vision to life, you can apply to the Arts Council, but you're not going to get a fair hearing if you're not radically progressive.
	And, you know, I just think back to my own days at drama school when I was at uni there.
	And I mean this sincerely.
	None of it is to disparage the people that I met there and that I, you know, just spent my day-to-day goings on with in the classes because they were really nice people, you know, and I respect them immensely.
	But what I am saying is that you know exactly the type of theatre and politics that they were inevitably going to create.
	And it's certainly not something that speaks to reform voters, disgruntled working class Englishmen, or just actually any of the key demographics in the country that we should actually be caring about and trying to elevate and, you know, help.
	Do you know, I don't watch films beyond 2012, but there's some in 2014 that I'll allow that are quite good.
	But 2012 is when you had like Margin Call, Warrior, I think you had Moneyball.
	2014 you had the drop.
	After that, I just don't.
	That's because of the woke cut off, where it just becomes unbearable.
	Yeah.
	I mean, theatre, I don't, I mean, I don't even go anyway, but must be just the same.
	Andrew Dawes told me it's almost worse in theatre than anywhere.
	Oh, definitely.
	Definitely.
	And so, but this is...
	Oh, hello there.
	I'll try and refresh that one.
	This is why.
	Oh, there we go.
	This is why I, part of the reason why I pitched Chronicles as a series when I first joined the Lotseat is in the first place.
	Not only so that people could learn about all of these great texts from the Western canon.
	And you can see here, we've got all sorts of stuff.
	I go back to the beginning.
	We've got Beowulf, we've got Dickens.
	Stellios and I recently did one talking all about a play by Niccolò Machiavelli himself, where we talked about that.
	And you see as well in the way that Machiavelli writes that play, he is looking back at the ancient, at antiquity and, you know, the Roman Republic.
	And he's trying to craft in the Renaissance period a play that adheres to the form and themes of antiquity.
	He's trying to write comedy based on Terence and Plautus, right?
	And so there's this sense of inheritance and continuity there.
	And that is what part of the reason why art is so bad these days is because we've severed that continuity and said, no, all that matters now is like my particular narcissistic interest.
	Yeah, and the other reason, of course, is because the left don't believe in objective beauty.
	So you look at the contrast between Roger Scruton's documentary, Why Beauty Matters, and the series on modern art, The Shock of the New, you see that the idea that beauty is something to be aspired to and it's quite hard to get to in art.
	You have to become a master like Titian or Caravaggio versus making a Urinal and just saying that's art now like Duchamp did.
	You see that that's a complete splitting.
	It's quite ironic.
	Acting like a rap music video is up there with a red print or something.
	And it's quite ironic you've got The Wasteland because, of course, to people like C.S. Lewis, that was decadent and sort of tied with the decline in values and he didn't buy into all that modernism.
	So I'm hoping you'll have some C.S. Lewis in here as well.
	I've definitely said the ransom trilogy, so I'd recommend that.
	But there's an let's just talk about something from The Wasteland actually, just for a second, because it is relevant as well.
	Because you just mentioned the fact that there was a lot of people at the time didn't like Elliot's The Wasteland, right?
	They saw this modernist style as a bastardization and they saw it as, you know, not adhering to the old forms.
	And so Elliot is trying to create something new to speak to modernity, right?
	He's trying to write a modernist poem because ultimately a lot of the romanticist poets of the Victorian era and you know those just before as well with people like Shelley and Byron, you know, society had changed so much that that old literature wasn't able to speak to the present moment anymore in a way that people could see it reflected in their own lives.
	And so I fully accept that the wasteland is very much a question of taste and it's not to everyone's.
	But as an example, art needs to simultaneously move forward and push boundaries, but it also has to show a reverence for what's going on.
	It needs to.
	That's one type of art.
	And of course, Lewis and Tolkien were rebelling against that and saying, no, no, we want to go back to the old myths and the old stories with Lord of the Rings and all of Lewis's work.
	Partly in rebellion to people like Elliot.
	But I know what you mean.
	Even now, of course, Elliot would seem like high art and high culture.
	To them, it seemed like decline and something we didn't want.
	But now, yeah, we'd be desperate for an Elliot because relatively, of course, it still seems very high level.
	And the final thing I'd just say about Chronicles as well is that one of the things that I really wanted to do with it was not just to educate people on these particular plays and bits of literature.
	One of my hopes was that people would take those and actually be inspired by something in them.
	You know, whether or not you read this one on a medieval German epic on the Niebelungenlied or Shakespeare or ghost stories, right?
	Gothic ghost stories, and think to yourself, oh, that's really interesting.
	I might try my hand on that.
	That in some way, this series would push people to actually find some creativity to put their own work out there.
	Because it isn't the case that all of the great works of art have already been made or written or painted.
	You know, we still have the possibility of making them.
	And I think that this is why it's so important that we support people within our own spheres, right, when we see them doing good things.
	And so rather than buying your books and your classic novels from places like Amazon, right, who don't have your best interests at heart, you can put your money in places like Old Speak Bookshop, which is actually, she's very patriotic.
	She's had very good, some very wonderful one-star reviews from woke customers who've been in there, which is amusing to me.
	Brilliant.
	And they also have a whole room of Roger Scruton work that was left.
	Scruton, Starkey, yeah, lots and lots of.
	I think the Scruton stuff is like unique because I think it was left to that bookshop.
	And some of it you can't get anywhere else.
	That's my understanding.
	Right.
	And so, you know, but because I get reminded by stuff like this.
	I was in London one time, God help me, and around the corner from King's Cross Station, there was a bookshop there.
	And you know me, I'm always one to go in the bookshop.
	And I went in there, and all of the literature, all of it, you know, the fiction and non-fiction, it was all left-wing.
	All of the literature was left-wing.
	And so, if they're going to play that game, you need to set up an alternative.
	And again, that's one reason why it'd be great to support Old Speak Bookshop, for example.
	Yeah, I used to work in London's oldest bookshop, which is Foils, which was great.
	But then, as you say, if you're going like a waterstone in North London, you'll just be hit with Antifa, this, Black Lives Matter, that, everything by women only in the fiction section.
	That's another thing.
	People are like, oh, men don't read fiction.
	It's like, because it can be completely hijacked by women.
	Men are the, most of the great fiction writers are men.
	Very lately, it's been hijacked by women, but this idea that men don't read fiction.
	Anyway, sorry to hijack you.
	That's right.
	And so really what all of this is building to, friends, is that you have an opportunity to use your own creativity and write something that can come to the fore.
	So we have here by the great Old Sovereign Publishing House, the great Panathenea, the event of 2026.
	So what they're asking for is to write an act for a play based on the work of Plutarch and draft a simple scene for the rest.
	There is $2,500 prize money for the winner, along with a publishing contract with them.
	And the two finalists will have their act performed on an actual London stage.
	And the winner will be announced by popular acclamation.
	I'm sure there'll be boisterous clapping all around in the theatre on the floor.
	And this you will have until the spring to complete the play for publication.
	And all details about the event are on their website.
	So if you reach out, then submissions need to be in by the 3rd of August.
	And I think that stuff like this is a magnificent initiative because it's something where you're not immediately prone to censorship.
	It's something that's actually, as I say, drawing on something from classical antiquity as well.
	And not in a bastardized way as they do it today, which we'll come to just now, actually, because the old Sovereign Publishing had an interview with The Telegraph, which is also not loading.
	Oh, great.
	While you're loading that, I'll just say it is crucial we do these things because the left completely controls culture.
	It's really important to have art that isn't necessarily just making an overt political point, but is sort of broadly, you know, but is not leftist.
	Yeah.
	You'll be able to try and refresh that for me, Harry, mate.
	I'll be able to read from here in the meantime.
	It says, a publishing house is hoping to dislodge overtly political plays from London's theatre scene.
	Playwrights have been, as I've said, everything that I've just done previously.
	Ah, thank you.
	Old Sovereign Publishing, a company specialising in classic literature, has put up the money for a writing competition.
	George Carter, the company's director, told The Telegraph, we are hoping to take back the stage from the aguprop and overtly political nature of most modern theatre and stage to a more serious form that is focused on the stage as a place to perform art.
	He added that much of British theatre was navel gazing, sometimes supported with state funding distributed by the Arts Council of England, as I spoke about earlier.
	And it goes on to give examples of the types of theatre that we are up against, right, in our modern times.
	So it says, the Royal Court Theatre, which receives some taxpayer funding, has recently staged for black boys who have considered suicide when the hue gets too heavy, a play basically about black men and therapy.
	And I'm not suggesting for a second that obviously black men shouldn't have therapy.
	But what I am saying is this type of play would get put on and would get Arts Council backing.
	But if you were to put on something, say, called, and again, I hate to do it, Nick, but for white boys who have considered suicide, right, you know that that play would never get put on the stage.
	Even though they have much higher rates, by the way.
	Indeed.
	And a play, yes, and also another play, which is about the experience of Israeli Arabs as well.
	And so, as I said, there's the NHS play, and this might, you might find this interesting, Stelios.
	There was recently a rap version of Euripides The Barcai.
	I don't want to listen to it.
	No, me neither.
	And you'll never have to, my friend.
	The Almedia Theatre, which is partially subsidised, has staged The New Otherland, a play about a man who initiates a breakup after coming out as a transgender woman.
	Obviously, you've got At The Globe, plays where they make Joan of Arc non-binary, which I find...
	Sorry, that will tend to initiate a breakup.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Yeah, that'll do it.
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	That'll do it.
	Sorry, Joan of Arc.
	I don't know.
	And also just say the Globe caused, it says in 2022 when they put on iJoan, where they interpreted Joan of Arc as non-binary.
	And I will just say as well, if you tried to go back in time and explain the concept of non-binary to Joan of Arc, she would burn you as a heretic.
	So there's not really much of a kindred spirit in there, is there either?
	But on a more sensible note, Mr. Carter said, whatever their merits might be, I doubt anyone will remember them next year, let alone in 10, 15, or 100 years.
	And he hopes that the format will encourage the creation of work in the tradition of literary great, saying the main impetus is to create something era-defining and worthwhile.
	The concept takes a cue from Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Goethe, who take their historical at the basis of those from for so much of their greatest work.
	Sorry.
	So I think that people should really be encouraged to apply for this, right?
	I think that you should, if you've always been an aspiring writer, if you want to write something and have the opportunity to get it shown, this is a fantastic way to do it.
	And what's more as well, you're being supported and fronted by very, very good people.
	And if you are perhaps unsure about doing it, I would just say as well that in my experience, trite though it is, it is always harder to go from zero to one than it is to go from one to ten, right?
	Making a start on something like this is always the hardest but most important step.
	And even if you're not interested in writing in this particular competition, I would still encourage you greatly to support it as well, because this is how we win back the culture, right?
	They have the Arts Council, they have the funding, they don't need any more help.
	They've got more than enough as it is, right?
	It's on each and every one of us to build and support one another so that we can put on good theatre, you know, good art.
	And I think that this is a really, really commendable effort from the old sovereign publishing house.
	And I hope that you all follow it just as I will.
	I have wokeness fatigue, man.
	Right, okay.
	Well, you were saying all this stuff, and I felt my soul being crushed.
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	It's just, I can't stand in it.
	That was his aim.
	This didn't make me hopeful for the future.
	No, no, it did.
	I'm talking about the woke stuff.
	Right.
	Just one rumble rant from mine from Yuki Waltworth says, the gays certainly have an interest in something I can't read, actually.
	I'll leave it there.
	You started strong.
	I started with such conviction.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Stellios, tell me all about your Romaxing.
	There we go.
	Right.
	Okay.
	So I'm exhausted because of hustle culture.
	Are you exhausted?
	I'm very fatigued.
	Are you exhausted?
	When I find out what it means, I'll decide.
	The answer is yes.
	And we have the antidote to hustle culture.
	Now, a few words about what this is, and then we're going to talk about the Euromaxing, which is exactly what you need in your life and what will improve your life.
	And you will actually enjoy it way more.
	Right.
	So hustle culture is a problem.
	It's not just about working hard.
	It's about the mindset that you are only as good as you work.
	That there is nothing outside of work good in your life.
	And there's a sort of performative productivity there.
	Like people go out of the wake 4 a.m. and they say, no, I go to the gym and I'm pumping iron and stuff.
	Sigma grindset.
	I know what you're talking about now.
	Yeah.
	And also there's the idea of having no free time and no boundaries between work and free time.
	It's the side hassle also that your main job isn't the only thing.
	You need also to monetize your free time, which makes it kind of not free time.
	Yeah, this became very popular with people like Gary Vee and all these type of people.
	It's also not disconnecting from social media.
	It's being there 24-7, scrolling down all the time, replying all the time, working all the time.
	That's what it is.
	And it has several negative effects.
	It has chronic, it leads to chronic workplace stress that leads to exhaustion and reduced professional efficacy.
	And also it has diminutive diminishing returns.
	Because research shows that if you, after 50 hours per week, your productivity drops down massively.
	And if you don't take regular breaks, again, your productivity drops down massively.
	It's much better to work, let's say, in an eight-hour period.
	If you take two breaks in the middle, let's say, two and a half hours and then again the other two and a half hours, it's much better than if you work eight hours straight due to the brain fog.
	And if you take a break just between the hours of nine and five, just for the whole time.
	Exactly.
	That's even better.
	Right.
	When I've listened to these entrepreneurial people, sorry, I didn't know where you were going with it at first because I didn't see the link with Euromaxing, but I'm sure we'll get there.
	But when I've heard these entrepreneurial people, they always say they do like four hours just solid in the morning, no distractions, no window open, and they do four hours, but that's when their brain is most awake.
	And then that's it.
	They're just focusing on their main thing.
	Apparently, that's where you're doing.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But it's also, yeah, it's another way of looking at life, which is a very unsatisfying life.
	It's the kind of, have you watched the movies where they said that there are two days a billionaire enjoys their yacht when they buy it and when they sell it?
	they don't enjoy having it and using it it's this kind of mentality funny morning routines as well don't you where Wake up at 4.30, have my electrolytes, get slapped in the face by a woman I employ.
	You know what I mean?
	All that sort of thing.
	The kind of Chris Williamson stuff.
	Someone should tell Carl, by the way, because all he does is work, he'll work here, do two shows.
	I get home, he's already uploaded several videos.
	I'm like, how is he doing it?
	Someone else said this to me the other day.
	No one knows how he's doing it.
	He needs Euromaxing.
	And it's another way of viewing life, which links success with wealth and status.
	Also, it messes up with your coffee habits because you don't sit down to enjoy coffee.
	You go and get a cup of coffee just to drink it while you're working.
	So it's just an accompaniment to working.
	Everything becomes an accompanying coffee to go.
	You're not just sitting there with resources.
	Exactly.
	It's not very Greek or zero free time.
	All of it is time for the side hustle and monetizing your stuff.
	And it's always, it's about working all the time.
	What do you do if you have nothing else in your life asking for a friend?
	I'll tell you.
	Actually, there's quite a lot to be doing.
	Okay, brilliant.
	And this segment is about that.
	Right.
	So Gen Z has cut down on their effort at work because they do not think it is worth it if they cannot afford long-term financial goals.
	So it isn't just that people say that it's not a rewarding lifestyle on its own.
	It also doesn't tend to lead to the success it promises.
	And it also tends to create a very, let's say, a feeling of guilt.
	Like anything that if you don't have success and if you're not a billionaire, it's 100% your fault.
	And it was 100% up to you.
	And you're just someone who isn't a worthy person.
	So Gen Z has a much more different approach to work.
	Or at least the tendency within it is different.
	They can't afford a house anyway, whatever they do.
	Yes, if you could please have the mouse, please.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, sure.
	They say also that it isn't just that.
	It's an issue that you remember some years ago, the promise about the ease with which we could strike a work and free time balance, work-life balance, it's just complete nonsense.
	Now, almost no one has work-life balance.
	And tell us in the comments if you do, and if you don't, just tell us.
	And they've talked about, I don't know if they brought it in, but they've talked about these rules where your boss isn't allowed to contact you.
	It's kind of like they probably brought it in in France.
	Have you heard these rules where your boss is not allowed to contact you between certain hours?
	I don't really.
	No, this is something being proposed.
	I can't remember if it came in or not, that they would actually bring a ban on it because, yeah, obviously now you can just be messaged at any time.
	Anyway.
	And we have rising depression rates, especially, for instance, in the whole world.
	But here is just in Europe.
	You see, for instance, in France, they say it's very depressed.
	They say young individuals, one out of ten are depressed, and older individuals, 15.6%.
	It tends to be high.
	In Germany, 9.1% young individuals are depressed, 7.4% of older individuals depressed.
	It seems like we've lost it.
	We've lost balance.
	And there is a kind of feeling here.
	Like you see this clip from Mads who says, driving to my 9 to 5 job while drag dealers and 8-year-olds, 8-year-old YouTubers are buying their third property.
	And there is also the other bit is that there is no 9-to-5 work.
	9-to-5 is 7.30 to 6.30.
	At best, at best.
	It's just there's no 9-to-5 work.
	And if you also want to go to the gym or something, your whole days is off.
	Yeah, those.
Euromaxing Aesthetic 00:15:15
	Sorry to interrupt.
	I always feel like I'm in something.
	Those physical jobs start to look more appealing, like construction, where you can...
	This is like the film Office Space, where he ends up doing construction instead of an office job.
	You can't really take that home with you when you're on a building site.
	It just sort of ends.
	Anyway, Cole.
	So now we have the antidote to hustle culture.
	And this antidote is Euromaxing, also known in some circles as soft living.
	Now, we are going to have lots of fun with this because it's actually a very fun way of viewing life.
	And we are also going to talk about perhaps my favorite account on X, Mads.
	Towards the end, we're going to have lots of fun with it because it's just genius.
	Mads, thank you for your service, sir.
	And it's one of the fastest growing accounts on X.
	So I think he went from 60K to 120 in no time.
	Look, it's just this.
	This is from about 10 days ago.
	It has 375K.
	Let's help him a bit.
	Maybe he needs an extra like.
	Right.
	Okay, so the cue is Euromaxing, and we are going to show you first the aesthetics of Euromaxing.
	Here is just enjoying the sunshine while being effortlessly stylish in a European aficionado of high culture sense of being a natural aristocrat where you can just enjoy the sunshine, enjoy a drink, just be there.
	Also, enjoy reading a good book or a good magazine.
	And speaking of good magazines, you could Euromax with Islander number five.
	It's only $14.99.
	It's the fifth issue of our magazine.
	Rory has made an excellent job here.
	He has even a comic inside this magazine.
	It has an interview with Rupert Lowe and also articles by Carl, by Luca here, Mars Trulli, Morgos Review, academic agent.
	So if you want to, you can Euromax with Islander number five as well.
	Only $14.99.
	Now, let's watch more about the aesthetics.
	You can also Euromax against digital ID.
	You can just effortlessly be in nature and just love it.
	Not being there, not try to think of anything other than just enjoying it.
	Look at this.
	This is like...
	Turn your phone off.
	This is like the picture, turn your phone off.
	It's a bit ironic because I took the picture and I posted it that I wanted to do.
	I just wanted to show you.
	You can go out and you can actually enjoy the view.
	Why?
	Because if you're in hustle culture, you don't enjoy beauty around you.
	Because as Schopenhauer said, the beauty of a bridge is completely not present to the person who is in a haste.
	So if you're not in a haste and you're in a different frame of mind where you don't always think about job, maybe your job, maybe you're going to open your eyes and look at the beauty around you.
	Look at this also.
	The only problem with this is I went back to the lakes where I'm from.
	I put up a photo, hundreds of people just saying, where's the mosque, mate?
	Or it just needs a mosque, including Carl.
	I was like, how blackpilled are you?
	Remember that?
	I can't collect a single picture of the lakes without like hundreds of like where's the mosque?
	I'm like, you guys have you've lost in your own mind.
	Stop being terminally online.
	Go out and enjoy the lovely English countryside.
	We've done a segment with it together.
	Yeah, we did.
	Yeah, talking all about that.
	Our favorite.
	We showed you the beauty of the country.
	Right.
	So let's, it also has a nice aesthetic here.
	You can just, it's romanticizing the mundane.
	Sit down, have a coffee, enjoy the sunshine, have a nice walk.
	Don't constantly think about working.
	Right here, we have just look at this aesthetics.
	It's also about an aesthetic revolution.
	It is.
	It is.
	Right?
	It's a revolution of the soul.
	It is.
	Also, here, look at this.
	Euromaxing.
	Look at these waters here.
	Ah, yes.
	Yeah.
	Just like Cleethorpe's.
	Yeah, it reminds me of some places here.
	You can just have some nice pasta here.
	Look at this.
	Just enjoy things around you.
	Right.
	Now, there's actually lots of work behind this because I initially thought it was just an issue having to do with mads and that account.
	But it turns out there's an enormous philosophical literature.
	Actually, there is.
	Yeah, right.
	And it links in some respects to Epicurus, the Hellenistic philosopher.
	But we aren't going to talk about the Epicurus that much here.
	We are going to talk about Guy Bourdain, who was an American who was very famous and he traveled the world and he had a message to give us.
	And you see him here sitting and enjoying the sunshine, a coffee and a baguette.
	And some cigarettes.
	Some cigarettes.
	A bit of loose change.
	And they make fun of him a bit here.
	They say, woke up, walked to the cafe, sat there with friends for two hours, went to have lunch with them, having coffee again with no intention to work today.
	I'm Euromaxing.
	Aspirational.
	Right.
	And there is a sort of message that was here in Bourdain's philosophy.
	And they say that it has been forgotten.
	Let me just say it's that he had a threefold message.
	It is: don't just consume food, enjoy food.
	The same with life.
	Don't follow the herd.
	Get off the tour bus and go your own way.
	And three, don't give your money to the corporate change.
	Give it to someone who puts their heart and soul into the food they create.
	You don't have to be a commie to enjoy this message because, in some respects, yes, it's absolutely the case that the corporatization of our lives and the environment is fueling this hassle culture.
	Yes.
	And the point is, it's not gaining money in order to buy free time and freedom.
	It's not gaining money in order to feel bad about not having enough money.
	So money has to be a means to an end.
	It's not the end.
	And it looks like lots of people are treating it as the end.
	Here we have just, you know, the Macron memes.
	We're making fun of Macron now.
	They put him in the Bourdain meme here.
	Just ridiculous.
	Sorry.
	Right.
	So let's have a look at also the people who are making fun of it a bit.
	They're saying Euromaxing is wake up without an alarm, meet with friends for coffee, have lunch with the same friends, start day drinking, do nothing else.
	It's a sort of backlash against the idea of constantly working, but you can find the middle, the balance.
	Sounds like Euromaxing is just my 20s.
	That's what it sounds like when you're in your 20s.
	That's how you're in your 40s.
	I'm your 50s.
	You can't live like that now.
	Do you miss your 20s, though?
	I do miss that aspect of like these formless days that they can have a sense of adventure rather than just grinding out work, which is all I do now.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so I do miss it.
	But I am going to make a counter segment called Protestant Guilt Maxing, which is just about work ethic and guilt.
	Because you see, you need that.
	The reason we're great as Anglos is because we have that guilt and we have to get stuff done.
	We couldn't just sit around all day like the Spanish or something.
	I went with the Spanish because he's here.
	But anyway, carry on.
	I guess what I say about this, because I actually have a response to you.
	So there was this book by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
	He was trying to link the Protestant ethic with the rise of capitalism.
	And it has to some extent been a bit superseded.
	And people have said that he has a point, but it's not the ultimate thing.
	But also, one thing is that in the Protestant ethic, you could say, for instance, especially in the Calvinist one, you could say that it's fundamentally a...
	Now, I know that this won't appeal to the Calvinist, but it's fundamentally a very anxious mindset because you work all the time because you think that if it works, it's a sign that you're not going to burn in hell forever.
	It's a sign that you have been chosen by God to do this.
	So isn't it a sort of mentality that, at least in the here and now, let's say, insofar as life on earth is concerned, doesn't it make you a bit less relaxed?
	Euromax in heaven.
	Work now, so devils with tridents are going to poke your ass for eternity.
	Yeah, I don't think even it comes from that.
	In my case, I mean, in the Calvinist case, maybe, but you say there is a general guilt all the time if you're not working.
	And annoyingly, it's really bad if you're that and you're lazy like me.
	So at least someone like Carl is actually working and being really productive.
	The worst is a constant guilt and you're still not doing it.
	But anyway, so yeah, maybe you're on to something.
	Right.
	And so I want to show you now some of the posts by Mads because I think now it's time to just have some fun.
	And I want to show you it's Friday afternoon.
	We want to do your segment.
	Also, this is going to go on YouTube on Sunday evening.
	Let's have some relaxed stuff.
	I want to show you how, in some respects, there's this difference between there's the backlash against this whole hassle culture.
	So in hassle culture, you constantly have to show how productive you are, how you go to the gym, how you're a gym shark.
	You say, now, I did, I know, look at this full Mamdani, he can't bench press.
	Actually, that's actually true.
	But there's this.
	And we're going to show you some of the posts by Mads.
	Just says, just did several sets of some bullshit at the gym.
	Got no idea which muscles have been targeted.
	This for me.
	Here, also.
	As we said, in Hustle Culture, there's the idea that you're 24-7 available.
	Says here, sorry, I didn't reply.
	Me for the last five hours.
	Just listening to music again.
	75k likes.
	It has an appeal.
	People like it.
	There isn't a law.
	Yeah.
	Let's look at this one.
	It says also now my phone is always on do not disturb because I am disturbed enough already.
	Do you like that message, Nick?
	Yeah, I agree with that message.
	My phone's nearly always on do not disturb.
	No one even wants to message me, but if they did, they couldn't.
	Are you 24-7 available?
	No.
	Depends.
	I'm not available.
	He's not available.
	He's not one, one.
	I don't, I never...
	Access to you must be scarce.
	I never have.
	That's a sign of status.
	Thank you.
	I never have notifications on my phone.
	Who these people want things to constantly blip at them?
	I want nothing to attack me ever, to just leave me alone.
	Elon, like my tweet, do not disturb.
	Yeah, yeah.
	These are not my office hours, Elon.
	Right.
	Okay.
	Now it says, there is, again, the other difference here between free time in Hustle culture becomes zero free time because you have to find ways to monetize it.
	Here is just the exact opposite.
	Saying staying up late because I don't want my free time to end and tomorrow's start.
	I do this all the time.
	It's a big problem I've got.
	You're a Euromaxer at heart.
	I want to max out the night.
	I'm like, brilliant.
	I can watch.
	I can fit in another film here, stuff like that.
	But it destroys the next day.
	But it's like, this is my time.
	Yeah, it's like, you know how they say you have the angel and the demon?
	Yeah.
	You have the Euromaxer and the Calvinist.
	The Euromaxer tells you, Nick, Nick, enjoy your free time.
	The other say, you're going to burn in hell.
	I used to get home from GBEs very late at like 1 a.m. whatever.
	I'm like, right now, this is the only time I can enjoy because I'm finished.
	Then I'll be up until 5, whatever.
	Cyberlaws had a great bit about this.
	You ever hear that cyber bit about night guy doesn't know about morning guy?
	And he's like, they just don't have any communication.
	Right.
	Night guy's like, this will be fine.
	And morning's like, guys, like, what were you thinking?
	Sorry.
	Euromaxing.
	Now.
	And there's a very fun thing because now he takes it to the other extreme and he just constantly tells us how he hates work and says here it's not even procrastination at this point.
	I'm just not doing it.
	Now, this account says that it's not run by Mads Mickelson, but I like to think that it is.
	Well, I'm just so pleased, though, that when it came out that you're able to actually just look at the location for all the accounts online, this account actually is in Denmark as well.
	So it is.
	Oh, thank God.
	Yeah, because at least it's a Dane.
	Imagine Euromaxing coming from Southeast Asia or something.
	Right.
	Cambodians.
	Pakistan is Euromaxing.
	But what is interesting is that they have constantly photos with Mads Michelson.
	And we've said with Harry.
	Harry's theory is that Mats Michelson has this effortlessly cool look and it's easy to look.
	It's somehow contradictory because you simultaneously look very polished, but also don't try about it, but also no working.
	So here it's, and it says here, they call me 007 at work, zero motivation, zero skills, seven smoke breaks here.
	Stop caring.
	That's literally all you have to do.
	Just imagine this mads every time you get mad, sad, anxious, jealous, etc.
	I want to say I like this and I aspire to this aesthetic because I think there's something deep ingrained into the European mindset to want to actually be an aristocrat, to not do no work that much, to have all your benefits provided by serfs or something, and just sit there, enjoy your drink or something.
	It's kind of like why some people are gravitating towards, I think, the aristocratic temperament.
	You really miss maids as well.
	You know, just having a maid.
	Even someone like C.S. Lewis just had a maid.
	That was normal for so long.
	Return to maids.
	Return to maids.
	Just sit there, enjoy the sunshine with your drink or something.
	And then everything, somehow magically, someone else does yours.
	Why do we get rid of servants and maids?
	That was the decline.
	Yeah.
	It was like, oh, do you sell appointments?
	Right.
	People knew their place.
	I would have probably, I would have been in the underclass as a northerner because that's the only problem.
	Couldn't you be an earl or something?
	No, I'd be in the underclass.
	So Earl of Dixon.
	That's the only problem.
	I'd probably be like the one doing the grunt labor.
	That's the only slight problem with my theory.
	Probably for Stelios.
	I don't know.
	I don't know how it would work.
	Right.
	This is just his working from home routine, just smoking and drinking.
	Here he says, me calculating how much time I can waste at work without being fired.
	The thing about this is, like, if you do work, you like, a lot of this doesn't come up.
	But when you have like normal jobs, you need all these things.
	Also, I really love this.
	It says, living my eight-hour shift after taking 32 smoke breaks and doing absolutely nothing for back to all day.
	This is what we should aspire to.
Striking a Balance 00:12:21
	Don't let...
	Don't show that to Carl.
	Don't show this to Carl.
	It's so effortlessly filmy, though.
	Yeah, and I'll say being weird here is the price of being authentic.
	And I will say this because I hate winter.
	I like puns about ice.
	I like puns about ice, but this really speaks to my heart where they say how life is going to feel when we finally make it to the April, July phase.
	That's just it.
	Just take a stroll or something.
	Dress up to be a soratorial person.
	Just let time pass.
	Let time pass.
	But also, it's good.
	Actually, you may think that this is going to make you a deadbeat or something, but actually, it's the key to longevity.
	Would you expect this?
	I would actually.
	You always hear the Mediterranean diet.
	You always hear that they're living the longest and just chilling.
	and we're living and they get away with smoking because they have all the other in Scotland you can't smoke you'll You'll have a heart attack.
	But in Italy, for some reason, you can smoke.
	And it's because you're outside drinking little coffees and eating a good diet.
	Yeah, it's because of Euromaxing.
	Exactly.
	Euromaxing saves lives.
	It does.
	Preferably, you shouldn't have a mafia around you.
	Yeah, that might take years off.
	Yeah, okay.
	Right.
	It says here, scientists find key to longevity this from 10 years ago.
	An Italian village where one in 10 people live beyond 100 years.
	Fresh food, sex, or is it the rosemary?
	Research team spends six months investigating the health and habits of the elderly residents of Acharoli.
	And if you read, basically they're Euromaxing.
	So it's all there.
	The evidence is before your eyes.
	Exactly.
	So here I want to end up with this tablet, this table, and show you the distinct worldviews here and compare hustle culture and Euromaxing.
	So in hustle culture, success is measured in terms of output, output, wealth, and status.
	In Euromaxing, in terms of peace, quality of life, and health.
	You'll constantly hear people telling you, if you're not a billionaire, you can't have a good life.
	You can't have quality of living or you're nothing or whatever if they take it out or if they panic max.
	But it's far simpler than this.
	It's far simpler than this, according to the Euromaxing perspective.
	When it comes to the coffee habits, also tea habits, you could T-Max, obviously.
	I will.
	So you could take a cup of tea while working or a cup of coffee to a company you're working, or you could just sit at a cafe.
	Andrew Tate is furious at this segment.
	This is the anti-Andrew Tate segment.
	But you know who would have liked it is Scott Adams.
	I did a piece on Scott Adams for my YouTube.
	Actually, this one bit I had to cut off YouTube because of copyright.
	We had some music.
	But he did this great video where he said, you know, the thing that I remember, and he was known for success tips and being incredibly successful and being rich.
	But he said, the one thing I'll, the thing I remember most at the end is watching Disney movies with my stepkids.
	Yeah.
	Absolutely.
	And time doesn't go back and it goes forward really fast.
	Sadly.
	Yeah.
	It's a relationship to remember, which is a pity I don't have any, but I'm living the work life while secretly, like you say, secretly wanting to Europe.
	Those are Europe max in all of us.
	In all of us.
	Free time in hustle culture is used for a side hustle.
	In Euromaxing, it's used for leisure or community.
	And work ethic is first in, last out.
	The other Euromaxing is work to live, don't live to work.
	You have to strike a work-life balance.
	I want to say that this is an aspirational goal for me, primarily because I'm exhausted with all sorts of projects, because I also have a Calvinist inside me or something.
	Because I have all sorts of projects apart from work.
	And I find it very hard to have a work-life balance.
	Because, again, free time for me is usually taken to work on a different project.
	Yeah, if you have any kind of self-employment aspect, like I do YouTube and Substack, and yeah, it's a nightmare.
	When you're in a normal job, of course, the incentive is to do as little as possible.
	If you're doing anything for yourself, you can always be doing something.
	You could always be working on your series about the ancient.
	But also, apart from working or something, it's just sometimes sit down and enjoy the view.
	And I think we're missing it.
	Or go out with friends.
	I mean, I'm here for three years.
	I constantly listen to people talking about social bonds and community.
	I've started watching them being dissolved.
	Yeah, I've started reading fiction again for this reason.
	And I do end up making videos about it, but read what you actually want to read sometimes rather than I've got to read this dense political book.
	Read fiction or something like that.
	Yeah, just enjoy, yeah.
	So that's it.
	Maybe consider this as a New Year's resolution.
	Try to find some time to Euromax and just enjoy life a bit more and perhaps live longer, have less stress.
	And maybe even your productivity could rise because there are diminishing returns in constantly burning yourself out.
	And at the end of the day, work to live, don't live to work.
	And as we said before, time doesn't move backwards.
	And at the end, usually people remember things that aren't that work related.
	All right.
	Well, back to Calvinism for me.
	Get tie back up.
	I'll just go through the rumble rants.
	Says, Engaged Fewers from my segment says, This wholesale degradation of theatre was predicted in an article called What Shall We Ask of Writers by Howard Moltz, a member of America's Hollywood Communist Cabal.
	Ironically, Moltz was absolutely destroyed by the Hollywood communists for even broaching the subject.
	It was explained very well in a YouTube video called Hollywood Was Always Read by Razivist.
	I'll check it out.
	Thank you.
	Chick Fagius says, I wrote my first horror feature script.
	Got purchased, and we're now looking for investors.
	No modern-day nonsense or politics, just a straight-up story with a potential new horror icon I created.
	Well, congratulations on getting that written, Tegius.
	Send it into me if you want, and I'll take a look at it myself.
	Sigilstone says, My daily prayer as I drive to work, Lord, please give me patience because if you give me strength, I'm going to need bail money.
	Funny comment.
	Kasadwen says, I know this is a meme segment, but I truly think the core of Zelenial Zuma workplace despair is the lack of purpose behind it.
	If we're working to support a family, men can endure any suffering.
	I think that's really true.
	And that's Random Name says the timing for this segment couldn't have been better as I decided last week to quit my job, sell my condo, return to live with my parents, and fully focus on my game, Euromaxing for the win.
	I mean, I hope it works out for you, Random Name.
	It fully works.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Video comments, Harry?
	Do we have any?
	No.
	All right, great.
	Well, that saves us a lot of time.
	All right.
	Do you want to read some from your section, Nick?
	So, Omar, there's deliberate focus on replacement rates like it's a stock investment that must either stay the same or increase.
	But the country was much better off when the population was magnitude smaller.
	It's a baseless assumption that quality of life will decrease proportional to the population size because they've tried their narrative and incentives to multiple pyramid schemes like pensions, GDP, etc.
	Yeah, good point.
	Hector Rex, they're trying to replace Europeans, but you know what can't be replaced?
	Island of Five, selling like hotcakes and the irreplaceable once it's gone.
	I like this one as well from Rex.
	Nick's segment, challenge rating impossible.
	Yeah, I found out just minutes before I couldn't say any of the words in it.
	It would have been much better.
	I don't want to take up too much time on mine, but we've got five minutes.
	We have Nick Euromax.
	Just as well.
	Chill.
	So First Keeper Orland says PJW did a short clip yesterday or the day before covering a chat with an imam and a rabbi at the WEF.
	Oh yeah.
	I saw that the old Europeans thing.
	Yeah, that was bad.
	Elon.
	I saw Elon quote tweeting that and all.
	Someone online, population shrinkage wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't Social Security, a Ponzi scheme that requires infinite population growth.
	Good point.
	Russian garbage humor says, yes, I'm a misogynist, but I hate weak men even more.
	Fair.
	He sort of made me joke about what we said.
	Furious Dan, I believe the approved alternative term is the big swap, but it's ironic that even the term must be replaced.
	Oh yeah, good point.
	Funny.
	Yeah, good point.
	All right, from my segment, Sophia Dibbs says, apparently they're making a new version of Hamlet that will be about a migrant's fight against colonialism, thus to be or not to be.
	Taking a play that is about something so universal and dark as the futility of life and the inevitability of death to make it into another I'm an oppressed brown person story is just yeah.
	When the animated lion movie got it more right, it's just so sad.
	Yeah, I agree with that, Sophie.
	Also, it's like, you know, oh, rebellion against colonialism for the country of checks notes, Denmark.
	You know, ah, yes, that great world spanning empire.
	Michael Drabelbis says, Luca, your chronicles on Lovecraft and Lord of the Rings have inspired me to reread Lovecraft and actually sit down and read Tolkien, especially his Beowulf.
	Oh, well, thanks very much, Michael.
	I'm glad that you're getting so much out of it.
	Kulane Sloan says, radical progressivism has destroyed popular art.
	As with films, games, books, etc.
	You have to go entirely indie or else just go corpo slop.
	Yeah, and it also contributes to people's perception that art has to have, is innately left-wing, right?
	People are just like, oh, well, it's always rebelling against the establishment of the time, so it's always progressive.
	It's like, well, not necessarily.
	Like, take, for example, the play that I covered a few weeks ago, Fuente Over Juna, by Lopez de Vega.
	It's a play from the Spanish Golden Age, and that is a very reactionary play.
	It's talking about the corruption of the feudal order by men who are unworthy of it.
	And it ends with literally Ferdinand and Isabella, you know, of Aragon and Castile coming in and reasserting their rightful place in the order of the great chain of being.
	So it's an entirely reactionary play.
	But the left will just look at the rebellion that takes place in it and appropriate it for communist messaging.
	Yeah, and there are lots of conservative writers, obviously, Tolkien and Lewis, Knut Hampson, more on the right.
	You've got Pound, of course, Elliot, as you covered.
	You do have quite a few.
	And even Dostoevsky, it's Christian.
	It's not lefty stuff.
	Yeah.
	It's interesting talking as well.
	People are very uncomfortable with the fact that he supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
	That was largely because of the Catholicism.
	Well, they can be uncomfortable with it, but they shouldn't be surprised at it.
	Because he was a staunch Catholic, and that was the only way to defend Catholicism.
	Yes.
	And he actually argued with Lewis about that.
	But anyway, we don't have time for all that.
	That's all right.
	I'll just, last one from me.
	Check out Angel Studios, says AZ Desert Rat.
	They've become the alternative for movies, TV, and streaming.
	All right, I will.
	Thank you.
	Right.
	Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex, Stellius looking absolutely maxed today.
	Thank you.
	Michael Drabelbis, the only people with 24-7 access to me are family.
	Fair point.
	Michael Brooks, value peace and enjoy simple things like books, music and Islander.
	Stop watching TV.
	I work 42 hours.
	I left a career as a chef where work follows you and becomes you.
	I now work nights in factory.
	I earn more than ever.
	And when I leave, it's done.
	I don't carry it around.
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	Have good balance as I garden walk and have been working on my house.
	Also living in tiny Cornish villages.
	Helps.
	I have sheep as neighbors.
	That's nice.
	Well, that sounds wonderful.
	My dad was a chef and we lived above the restaurant.
	Talk about no work-life balance.
	Anyway, Jim Farrey says, work 35 to 55 hours most weeks as a drama teacher.
	Take home about 35k after costs.
	Working till 9 p.m. four nights a week.
	Plus, gigging nationally definitely contributed to me checking out and the destruction of my relationship with ex and stepkids.
	Do not hassle.
	Do not hustle.
	Indeed.
	All right then.
	And diagony is nuts.
	I'm all against hustle culture, but I feel the idea of Euromaxing is being co-opted by communist anti-work types with the intent of trying to whistle out of self-responsibility for their economic well-being.
	You don't want ER nurses Euromaxing taking midday naps.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	I think communists, first of all, try to infiltrate everything, number one.
	And number two, I think that there is a fun, edgy part, let's say an extreme backlash against hassle culture that takes the form of, I don't want to work.
	I don't want to do anything at work.
	But at the end of the day, there is the golden mean between those two points, which is that thing is work to live, don't live to work.
	It's not no working.
	It would have been better if Stalin had Euromaxed more.
	It would have been less destructive if it had done more Euro-Maxing and chilling.
	Yeah, definitely.
	All right.
	Well, I hope you've enjoyed that, ladies and gentlemen.
	You can join us in half an hour for Ladzar if you'd like to see more of us.
	We're going to be playing a game of Time Guesser with the three of us and Dan.
	It should be a lot of fun where, you know, we have to guess locations and time periods as well.
	So, oh yeah, yeah, look at that.
	I'm worried I'm going to look stupid again.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Anyway, and if not, then we hope you have a very pleasant Euro-maxing weekend.

Chapters

00:00:00 Reasons for Cultural Erasure
00:15:10 Dialectic Disagreements
00:27:05 Why This Has to Happen
00:32:37 Dissatisfaction In Arts Industry
00:36:58 Anywhere But Not Everywhere
00:52:32 Encourage Fronted Good Effort
00:55:06 Individuals Depressed: Four Hours, Allowed Contact
01:02:15 Euromaxing Aesthetic
01:17:15 Striking a Balance
01:29:22 Euro Maxing Dilemma