The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1412
Aired: 2026-05-06
Duration: 01:30:19


=== Mike Chronicles Update (02:10) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello and welcome to the podcast Lotus Eaters, episode 1412.
[00:00:05]  I'm joined today by Luca.
[00:00:08]  Hello.
[00:00:09]  And the singing sensation, Stelios.
[00:00:13]  Thank you very much, my brothers.
[00:00:15]  I'm going to be talking about cannons.
[00:00:17]  So it was a good idea for me to sing about Baywatch.
[00:00:21]  All right.
[00:00:21]  Okay.
[00:00:22]  So that's what it was.
[00:00:23]  Because I had no clue what was going on, if I'm honest.
[00:00:27]  I believe you even attempted to find a connection to justify it.
[00:00:31]  I mean, you just wanted to sing.
[00:00:33]  Let's have some fun.
[00:00:34]  Yes, definitely.
[00:00:35]  Let's have some fun.
[00:00:36]  I want to do more fun.
[00:00:37]  I thought if we were all just going to break out into songs, like something we would listen to, I was going to start breaking out into In the End by Linkin Park.
[00:00:44]  But, you know, I don't know.
[00:00:45]  We are going to collaborate.
[00:00:48]  Oh, you're going to do the rapping parts of that song.
[00:00:51]  Maybe.
[00:00:51]  I'll be Chester, you be Mike.
[00:00:53]  There we go.
[00:00:54]  That all makes sense.
[00:00:56]  So, yeah, today we are actually going to talk about the news or some of the news.
[00:01:01]  There's not really all that much happening, frankly, except for one or two stories here and there.
[00:01:06]  So, Luke is going to tell us about Reform's amazing plan for the illegals.
[00:01:12]  I'm going to talk to us about Gamergate still never being over.
[00:01:15]  It never will be over as long as the menace known as women are around.
[00:01:20]  They will always be trying to nag us and harangue us over our pastimes and hobbies.
[00:01:27]  So, that's an interesting one.
[00:01:29]  And Stelios is going to be talking to us about cannons and his love of cannons, his revisiting of these particular cannons.
[00:01:35]  They become something of a fixation for you.
[00:01:37]  One thing to say to the audience last week, We had a very good segment here.
[00:01:41]  It was really funny.
[00:01:43]  I've heard by many people that they really liked it, but YouTube wasn't the best platform to upload it for several reasons.
[00:01:52]  So today we are going to give you an update on what happened here.
[00:01:55]  And we have many memes, and fortunately, it will be uploaded.
[00:01:59]  But yeah, I can't promise you anything.
[00:02:02]  That's all right.
[00:02:03]  Only that we are going to have fun.
[00:02:05]  So a lot to look forward to.
[00:02:06]  Also, I see in the document it says we have a new Chronicles out.

=== Political Landscape Shifts (14:56) ===

[00:02:10]  King Charles III.
[00:02:11]  Oh, yeah.
[00:02:11]  Yeah.
[00:02:12]  It's the first time after over 40 episodes of Chronicles where I've actually talked about something that was written in the modern day.
[00:02:19]  So this actually came out in 2014.
[00:02:21]  Mike Bartlett tried to give it a very Shakespearean history style.
[00:02:25]  It's the royal speak in a Shakespearean verse.
[00:02:28]  It's all in iambic pentameter.
[00:02:30]  And it's just a, even though it has a lot of liberal priors baked into it, it's asking very interesting questions about what does a modern monarchy mean in a liberal Western democracy?
[00:02:41]  And whether or not that settlement is destined to endure.
[00:02:46]  And you also told me that it imagines a much more based King Charles than the one that we actually got, which we can dream.
[00:02:53]  We can dream.
[00:02:54]  But with that, tell us all about.
[00:02:56]  What's this doing here?
[00:03:00]  Tell us all about Reform's new policy on illegals.
[00:03:03]  Yeah, okay then.
[00:03:04]  So, right, a few days ago, Reform announced this new policy on the question of where to put all of the illegals.
[00:03:15]  And this is a question, obviously, that both Restore and Reform are going to have to answer, given that they're the only parties that actually seem to at least be providing some sort of policy outline for the fact that actually these people shouldn't be in our country and do need to be removed.
[00:03:32]  I would be remiss not to mention the fact that Reform themselves seem to have been begrudgingly dragged to this position, both by the Trump administration, from what it sounds like, because Donald Trump and many of his inner circle were very confused.
[00:03:47]  About Nigel Farage's reluctance to just grapple with this question.
[00:03:51]  But obviously, because of the current state of Britain and just the sheer number of illegals that have been allowed in at this point, it's a question that any serious person does need to have an answer to.
[00:04:03]  And so, though I personally don't agree with the policy as outlined here by Reform, you know what?
[00:04:10]  In fairness, I'm at least glad that we're having the conversation about it because at least it's forcing us all to have that conversation and try and come to some sense of practical consensus.
[00:04:21]  On what the best way to do this is.
[00:04:24]  Now, to go through it, so Zia Youssef a few days ago outlined, and I'll just read from it says, Today we announced a new policy.
[00:04:30]  In order to deport all illegal immigrants in Britain, reform will need to detain tens of thousands at a time.
[00:04:37]  True.
[00:04:38]  Migrants will not be able to leave these detention centres, and each will be held there a couple of weeks before being deported.
[00:04:45]  So here's our promise a reform government will not put any migration detention facilities in any constituency with a reform MP.
[00:04:54]  Nor will it put them where reform controls a council.
[00:04:58]  And of the remaining areas, we will prioritise green controlled parliamentary constituencies and green controlled councils to locate the detention centres.
[00:05:09]  Put simply, if you vote in a reform council or a reform MP, we guarantee that you will not have these detention centres near to you.
[00:05:18]  If you vote green, there's a good chance that you will.
[00:05:21]  And basically, they're saying that this is an important exercise in democratic consent.
[00:05:24]  Basically, those who majoritatively within their constituencies.
[00:05:29]  Vote for the ideology of open borders, they are going to get what, in theory, they are voting for.
[00:05:37]  And those that don't will be keeping them as far away as possible.
[00:05:40]  Now, I had some tweets about this a few days ago, and I actually got, I openly admit, a fair bit of pushback, not just from people who are.
[00:05:51]  Welcome to the club.
[00:05:52]  Yeah, not just people who are reformed stans, but also people who are on our position as well and who obviously report Restore.
[00:06:00]  And so I want to.
[00:06:01]  Tackle this in good faith because it is something that is clearly dividing people.
[00:06:06]  I hope that I can explain some of the reasons why I think that this is not cohesive, it doesn't advance our interests in any way.
[00:06:16]  And I think that actually, when we look at it, it would be very disruptive and make the job of deporting the illegals harder, not easier.
[00:06:26]  Well, just to add my own thoughts before you explain yours I mean, just from a surface level read of this, looking at it, obviously, I've heard that this was the thing that.
[00:06:36]  Form had announced, but I'm just looking at this statement.
[00:06:39]  I mean, more than anything, it just comes across like a stunt policy.
[00:06:41]  This is something to generate headlines.
[00:06:43]  We're going to do something shocking and divisive and something that will be red meat for our voters because we're going to throw this out because, oh, won't it be funny?
[00:06:54]  This sounds like something that you're at your pub with your mates and you're drinking and you're coming up with like joke policy ideas.
[00:07:00]  What if we put all the migrants in the green councils?
[00:07:03]  When really, what you should be thinking about is what is going to be most cost effective, what is going to be most practical.
[00:07:08]  Where is it going to be best to put these places for like centralizing purposes to make sure that they're as close to exit routes as possible and to make it as convenient?
[00:07:18]  Where's what are the transport links?
[00:07:20]  These are the things that you need to be thinking about, not necessarily just like let's come across as really childish, vindictive, and spiteful against our political enemies.
[00:07:31]  I can understand the temptation, but if you're trying to come across like a mature political party, this is not the way to do it.
[00:07:38]  It might have been a tit for tat retaliation to someone like Zach Polanski coming out and saying, if we're in power, we need to create a politics that has no room for the right wing.
[00:07:48]  So perhaps it was that.
[00:07:49]  Well, you've threatened us, we've threatened you.
[00:07:52]  I don't think tit for tat is always a good thing.
[00:07:55]  And when people say that, well, this is about friend enemy, people misunderstand Carl Schmitt.
[00:08:01]  I feel that people have not actually read Carl Schmitt and have instead read a mangled interpretation on some Twitter thread that they read three years ago and are misremembering right now.
[00:08:11]  What Carl Schmitt speaks about the friend enemy distinction of politics is that if everything comes down purely to the friend enemy distinction within a state, that is when the state authority has broken down and that politics and society itself have reached a boiling point.
[00:08:31]  It's the bad outcome if everything just becomes friend enemy.
[00:08:35]  It's the fundamental distinction, but if everything just comes down to that fundamental distinction, is viewed through that fundamental distinction, then the state has lost all of its authority to unite people.
[00:08:46]  So this is kind of like the bad end point of political discourse that we've reached right now.
[00:08:52]  Perhaps some would say it's inevitable.
[00:08:54]  I'm not going to celebrate it.
[00:08:55]  But even if it was inevitable, I still don't think that escalation is the way to go forward.
[00:09:01]  But there is an interesting point here as well, that just in terms of the General change of the political landscape.
[00:09:08]  So, in this recent poll here, we can see that Reform UK are on 25% of the vote share as it currently stands, you know, roughly.
[00:09:16]  And you can see the Greens down there as the fourth largest party on 15%.
[00:09:21]  Now, one of the things that I find interesting about this is the fact that Reform have gone straight for just having the dialectic and having the dialogue, right?
[00:09:29]  They're not talking to Labour anymore, they're not talking to the Conservatives.
[00:09:33]  What this has become is a conversation between the two ascendant parties.
[00:09:37]  And it's going to be very sort of amusing and frustrating, I suppose, when we do get closer to the general election.
[00:09:45]  And because the current Labour Party and the Tories are, as it stands right now, even though they're about to enter an extinction event, they're going to be, as the two major parties, put on the pedestal to have the leaders' debate and everything, even when it's obvious that very little of the country actually cares what they have to say.
[00:10:05]  And they are free falling in real time.
[00:10:07]  Well, if Gordon and Denton is anything to go by, it will be in the next election.
[00:10:11]  Greens versus reform, Labour hanging on by a thread, but a lot of its native constituents kind of splitting off between green and reform.
[00:10:21]  Obviously, the Islamic vote within Labour that's been a dead set for years is splitting off to the Greens.
[00:10:27]  The more white working class vote within Labour seem to be edging towards reform rather than the Greens themselves, although that is obviously dependent on age, demographics.
[00:10:37]  Conservatives, not even really in the conversation.
[00:10:40]  No, not at all.
[00:10:41]  And so.
[00:10:42]  Another just point to add is that we can see here that Restore Britain are currently on 4%, according to this poll, though I will just say that this is once again them being unprompted.
[00:10:53]  And so it's not.
[00:10:54]  And we've seen that when they are actually prompted, they can rise as high as eight or nine.
[00:10:58]  So there is an argument going around that actually reform have played a very, very clever hand here.
[00:11:04]  Because actually, what they have done by putting forward this policy is they have exposed the hypocrisy of the left.
[00:11:10]  Now, as you can see here, Jeremy Corbyn is one such leftist who took this bait when he says, Reform want to round up immigrants and detain them indefinitely, which again is not what they said.
[00:11:22]  They said for a few weeks.
[00:11:23]  And even I'm going to be charitable with them on that.
[00:11:26]  The thing is, they don't want them to vote.
[00:11:28]  It's like, no, the point is that they do, Jeremy.
[00:11:30]  Like, I appreciate the framing that reform are going for here.
[00:11:35]  And again, so yes, absolutely, all of the leftists have taken this and just gone, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on, you know, not in our neighborhoods and everything.
[00:11:43]  It's like, yeah, but it's not revealing anything new, really.
[00:11:47]  Like, all the left are hypocrites.
[00:11:49]  Yeah, we know that.
[00:11:50]  We understand that.
[00:11:51]  There have been videos of those people going around refugees' welcome marches for years saying, how many are you taking into your living room?
[00:11:57]  Where they all go, oh, no, I've not got any room.
[00:11:59]  I've seen this for years.
[00:12:00]  Mm hmm.
[00:12:01]  I don't think it's about the cell phone.
[00:12:03]  It's about owning the left and say, hey, you're hypocrites.
[00:12:07]  So let me just say what I think about this.
[00:12:10]  I think that that's just a particular policy.
[00:12:15]  What remains to be seen is how this policy is going to be integrated into a larger plan.
[00:12:19]  Because we have spoken about this before.
[00:12:23]  It's just this is happening instead of deportation.
[00:12:27]  That's one of the things.
[00:12:29]  And there's a question of is this going to happen indefinitely?
[00:12:33]  Is this just going to be like that?
[00:12:35]  And they aren't going to move forward with deportations.
[00:12:39]  He doesn't specify.
[00:12:42]  I'd imagine the detention centers are to hold them prior to their immediate deportation.
[00:12:47]  Yes, but you also don't know if they're actually going to do it.
[00:12:51]  But if that is.
[00:12:52]  For some reason, they may last minute.
[00:12:55]  I mean, it's one thing to say this and to suggest that they are going to do it heavily.
[00:13:00]  And it's quite another thing for them to do it.
[00:13:02]  There's a gap there.
[00:13:03]  And the other bit is that.
[00:13:05]  There could be another bit, there could be another way to integrate this policy into a larger plan.
[00:13:10]  And it could be just if they're going to do this, just like you said.
[00:13:14]  This is the immediate policy to be undertaken right before illegals get deported.
[00:13:24]  Which I must say on this, I don't think it's that senseless.
[00:13:27]  Why?
[00:13:28]  Because it isn't about sticking it to the left.
[00:13:31]  It's about saying, well, listen, this can't happen in a second, it can't happen with a Thanos snap.
[00:13:37]  Until it happens, This is the necessary step that has to be taken for that to happen.
[00:13:45]  And this necessary step will cause disruption to people's lives.
[00:13:52]  So, if it is to cause disruption to people's lives, do we choose to cause more disruption as a party from their perspective?
[00:14:01]  To cause more disruption to people who voted for us or to people who express that they want this to happen?
[00:14:10]  Yeah.
[00:14:11]  There absolutely are issues to be taken into account, just like you mentioned before efficiency, cost efficiency.
[00:14:18]  Also, when you have the councils against you, it's definitely going to be more disruptive of it.
[00:14:23]  But what I want to say is here I think that we have to see how this is going to be integrated in a larger plan of action.
[00:14:32]  Again, a lot of what you brought up there is perfectly right.
[00:14:35]  And the point of them being detention centers is that they are supposed to be detained, kept within the facilities, and then in an orderly way.
[00:14:44]  Shipped off, we assume, given what we know about the policy as stated right now.
[00:14:50]  At which point, again, it brings it back to this just feels like a weird stunt policy to me because it comes across like it's trying to be a threat.
[00:15:03]  Like, you voted for this Greens, so now you get what's coming to you.
[00:15:07]  But all it actually ends up being is just a facility is used where you don't actually see any of the people.
[00:15:12]  It's just kind of in your council area and then they're shipped off.
[00:15:17]  If it works as intended, these people won't even notice in the first place, which raises the question why bring it up?
[00:15:24]  But the problem is, as well, actually, what you're doing is you're because even though we're more sensible than this, you know, and whether you're in favor of voting for reform or you're in favor of voting restored, the fact of the matter is that there are going to be some very, very impassioned leftists, you know, and many of them from the Green Party who think that whether or not Nigel Farage becomes prime minister or Rupert Lowe,
[00:15:49]  it is basically going to be as if Oswald Mosley just became prime minister, right?
[00:15:55]  They are going to behave like that.
[00:15:57]  They are going to do that.
[00:15:58]  And so I actually think that it actually makes less sense to put them into the green constituencies.
[00:16:05]  Because let's not forget as well, most of those, like Bristol, Brighton, it'll be parts of London as well, Bradford, you know, could turn, many of the cities could go green.
[00:16:16]  And if you're putting all of these detention centres in the middle of the cities, then there is a lot of avenues for the Greens to do what they see as, you know, taking the fight, you know, being the revolution, taking it to them.
[00:16:29]  And saving these poor, helpless, defenseless migrants who never did anything wrong and are all just asylum seekers.
[00:16:35]  So you could potentially see moronic vigilante action.
[00:16:37]  You're going to see them blocking roads.
[00:16:39]  You're going to see them trying to break them out of the centers.
[00:16:42]  There's no knowing how far these people will go when they're actually put into this corner.
[00:16:49]  And so even though it would, as reform themselves say, ideally only be a few weeks, it's like, yeah, but it wouldn't if the left organize and consolidate.
[00:17:01]  Consolidate together and actually try and hamstring the entire process.

=== Deportation and Vigilante Action (12:30) ===

[00:17:06]  But from the perspective of a statesman, you don't succumb to blackmail.
[00:17:11]  So, from the perspective of a statesman, the way you should think is well, they will threat, they will make the threat of retaliation and organization.
[00:17:20]  Well, yeah, but you're the state.
[00:17:23]  You have the police.
[00:17:24]  You're going to use the police in order to do your job.
[00:17:29]  And if they're going to disrupt and be unlawful, You are going to enforce the law.
[00:17:36]  But this comes down to it.
[00:17:38]  No, all I want to say is, pardon me, is just that many people are too excessively afraid of, well, what if the left isn't going to retaliate?
[00:17:48]  Well, by saying because the left is going to retaliate, therefore we do nothing, it's like succumbing to the blackmail.
[00:17:55]  But my larger point when it comes to the left in all of this as well is that actually, as this post points out here, it's like, oh, well, it's democracy.
[00:18:04]  You're going to give the Greens what they want and then they're going to give reform what they want.
[00:18:08]  It's like, I don't want to give the Greens what they want.
[00:18:11]  What I want is for the Greens to have to live in a safe, homogenous, prosperous nation.
[00:18:18]  That's what I want.
[00:18:19]  I want them to get the thing that they actually dread and that all of us are working towards.
[00:18:25]  You want that thing where they step outside and the countryside's not being paved over, ironically for the Greens, and everybody is English and getting along with one another, and you just see them wailing in agony at the horror of it all.
[00:18:37]  Just like all the horror.
[00:18:40]  It's safe and everyone's like merry.
[00:18:42]  I went to my local Indian and it was run by Englishmen.
[00:18:46]  For the sake of time, I will just say as well that.
[00:18:49]  I have seen that before.
[00:18:50]  It's an interesting sight.
[00:18:53]  So, with Ben Leo here, he says, well, it's amazing how the word detention is being lost on so many people, i.e., they will be detained and not able to leave.
[00:19:02]  Like I say, for reasons of my own, I think that the left will try and break these people out.
[00:19:07]  And also, if they're in the cities, it means that they're going to find it much easier to hide than if they're just.
[00:19:12]  Running around some Scottish island, trying to look for a dock.
[00:19:17]  But the other point as well is that when you get people like Matt Goodwin coming out and saying, Well, vote green, get illegal migration detention centers in your area.
[00:19:25]  If you want open borders, you can now live with the consequences.
[00:19:28]  What consequences?
[00:19:29]  Yeah, but that's where Ben Leo should talk about the detention.
[00:19:33]  If they are going to be detained, they aren't going to cause what they are causing in other non green areas because they are going to be detained.
[00:19:43]  Yeah, that's the thing.
[00:19:43]  It comes across like a threat.
[00:19:45]  Yes.
[00:19:46]  But at the same time, if Like in Matt Goodwin, yeah, Matt Goodwin even says you could live with the consequences, and the consequence, if everything goes right, will just be that, um, presumably a large facility in your area will be used temporarily to hold migrants before they're deported, and then nothing bad will happen.
[00:20:05]  As a so, again, the whole thing to me just comes across like it's trying to grab headlines for the sake of it.
[00:20:12]  I mean, there's a bit of a the old Dennis Norway Sonny aspect to it to me, it's like that you know, they're not really in any danger, they're a bit the cost of being deported.
[00:20:22]  You could also see it though as not necessarily a message to Greens, but a message to prospective reform voters is vote for us in order for this, whatever, to whatever extent it is a disruption, doesn't happen in your county.
[00:20:39]  And so just to wrap up, because I'm sensitive of time.
[00:20:42]  Now, obviously, I'm not going to put a great deal of stock in YouGov polls, but given that it's some of the what little data that we actually have on the subject so far, it is interesting to see that.
[00:20:54]  When it says, do you think it's acceptable or unacceptable for a government to base decisions that affect individual constituencies on which party people in those constituencies voted for at the general election?
[00:21:07]  Now, aside from the fact that actually more seem to be, you know, fewer people seem to be disposed to it than indisposed, the fact that don't know is the highest part of all of this really speaks to something here.
[00:21:21]  And I think that this is, I do disagree.
[00:21:26]  Stelios, I think that there is a large part of this which is baked into the idea of wanting to see the left get something that people innately feel that they deserve, right?
[00:21:37]  And that is the underlying set of you have these people in your communities.
[00:21:41]  But the thing is, we know what these men are like.
[00:21:43]  We are truthful about the character of the men that come across our shores, and we don't want them here.
[00:21:50]  And I worry that if we put them into these constituencies where people are naive to the danger that's possessed, Then it's going to result in far more harm than good.
[00:22:00]  And another thing as well is that I had one of the things that I was trying to communicate when I posted about it at the beginning of this week was I was saying the fact that I don't want to fight the less hatred with my own hatred because I actually don't hate the Green Party, the British Green Party members.
[00:22:20]  I don't hate them.
[00:22:21]  I pity them, right?
[00:22:22]  I pity what they've become.
[00:22:25]  I pity the fact that they will never.
[00:22:28]  The idea of a sense of purpose, of common, common people, common place, all of this, that just has given people, tribes, nations meaning for time immemorial, you know, has just eluded them, that they cannot understand that sense of settledness.
[00:22:46]  And the other point as well is that we still have to live with these people, right?
[00:22:50]  Even though all of the illegals will go.
[00:22:52]  Once you deport the illegals, as I hope that either party would do, a large that really weakens the Green Party.
[00:23:01]  Because a large part of their platform is built on like a ridiculous, unreasonable amount of charity towards foreigners.
[00:23:10]  And once you break up those client groups that the Greens are trying to target around, and once you basically take that off the table as a political weapon, then you don't need to worry about the Greens anymore.
[00:23:22]  Well, similarly, it wouldn't just be the illegals.
[00:23:25]  I forget who made the point, it might have been Morgoth or something.
[00:23:28]  Somebody has been consistently making the point that when people say, Do you want to deport the illegals? and they say yes, and that's what they're voting for reform for, a lot of people are not thinking that illegals are responsible.
[00:23:42]  Small number as they are of the overall migration coming to the UK.
[00:23:46]  A lot of people think that everybody in their neighbourhood who is foreign is illegal in one way or another, whereas it's actually under a based regime they would be.
[00:23:59]  It's actually legal migration that, as we've been talking about for ages, has been the prime mover of demographic change in this country.
[00:24:07]  So they actually think that when you say, I'm going to deport all the illegals, they'll go back to being like a 95% English country overnight from doing that.
[00:24:16]  But it wouldn't.
[00:24:17]  It would actually also require a large scale process of targeted remigration against people who would otherwise be about to get, say, for instance, indefinite leave to remain.
[00:24:29]  And so that's something that needs to be addressed as well.
[00:24:32]  And that's where I'm a bit sketchy with whether reform would actually conduct such a policy or not.
[00:24:38]  But the other part, and it's the last thing I'll just say, is that I don't.
[00:24:43]  Look, it may be misplaced, it may be optimistic.
[00:24:46]  But I actually don't want to just abandon these green, you know, actual native British green voters to their worst impulses and excesses.
[00:24:56]  I don't want them to get what they want.
[00:24:58]  As I say, I want them to see that we were right, right?
[00:25:02]  I want them to actually see the country that we make realize that it's more peaceful, more prosperous, everyone's getting along better.
[00:25:09]  More green, right?
[00:25:10]  More green.
[00:25:12]  You know, there's fewer cars on the road, all the rest of it, just the whole package, right?
[00:25:17]  And a part of it as well is baked into the fact that a part of what we stand for on this side of the aisle is against the sort of Blairite vision of British values, right?
[00:25:27]  We actually know that you are British irrespective of what you believe.
[00:25:32]  And so even though these Green Party voters are insane, they are still British.
[00:25:39]  I think you're correct on this because it's one thing when we're talking about the Green Party, it's one thing to talk about Polanski and Molfin Ali and all those idiots dancing at. Trafalgar Square with the strippers.
[00:25:54]  But also, it's lots of young people who just vote green just to stick it to the system because they think.
[00:26:01]  So it's important to keep a door open, I think, as you say.
[00:26:06]  But that said, there is definitely a percentage there that will just not be convinced.
[00:26:13]  I know.
[00:26:13]  And you can show them all the sort of wealth, all the wealth of the world.
[00:26:19]  They're going to tell you, well, yeah, but you are not sharing it with those.
[00:26:25]  Who you should be sharing it with, because British Empire.
[00:26:30]  They can do that.
[00:26:30]  Because there is such a level of ecophobia and cultural self hatred in many of these people that anything good you show them, they will instantly classify as something bad because you are the bad guy.
[00:26:45]  Well, a lot of those people have, I mean, a lot of those sorts of people, one, are sadly not entirely well in their head.
[00:26:53]  Some of them do genuinely suffer from personality problems, which they throw into the rest of the world.
[00:26:59]  But that's actually a very small minority of them.
[00:27:03]  Most of them will just be projecting the ideology that they've grown up around.
[00:27:09]  That this is something that they have been programmed to believe from a very young age.
[00:27:13]  And we all were.
[00:27:14]  Or completely the opposite, rebel against their parents.
[00:27:17]  Yeah, which we all grew up within this ideology to one extent or another.
[00:27:23]  So I'm not going to fault anybody or blame anybody for believing the thing, like the dominant thing that society told them to as they were growing up.
[00:27:31]  I will end up.
[00:27:32]  Well, you can because people can break out of it, but I'm not going to go overboard with it.
[00:27:37]  Like, Ultimately, if we were still to get rid of all of the illegals and there were to be some big repatriation of all of the Boris wave and people like that, and people began to take cash offers to go back to their homelands and such, all those people who were Englishmen who were going to vote Green and going to vote Labour, they're still going to be here and we have to live alongside them.
[00:28:00]  And so, if you want there to be some kind of national renewal, there does need to be a larger national reconciliation to go with that.
[00:28:08]  Coming across as a little bit childish and a little bit vindictive is not going to help with that.
[00:28:13]  We do really need to start bringing people together in a positive way.
[00:28:16]  No, I don't disagree, but I think that there is a sort of, and I don't mean that in a bad sense.
[00:28:22]  I mean, that's from a practical perspective.
[00:28:25]  I think this is what you should be thinking.
[00:28:27]  Let me get this straight.
[00:28:28]  Theoretically speaking, though, I think there is a level of naivety here because many Greens, many Green voters are necessarily poor or society's rejects.
[00:28:40]  Some may be.
[00:28:41]  But not everyone.
[00:28:42]  Some of them may think already that they have a good standing on British society.
[00:28:48]  It's just that they hate British society.
[00:28:51]  And they may want to say that, well, I'm completely a third worldist now.
[00:28:56]  I think that the main engine of progress is the third world.
[00:29:02]  And I want to reshape.
[00:29:04]  That's what they say, not what I say.
[00:29:06]  They want to reshape British society and Western society for this.
[00:29:13]  And frequently, this is again, I think this is basically champagne socialism manifesting in a green way.
[00:29:21]  There are always these people, and individually, they may be really well off.
[00:29:25]  Yes.
[00:29:26]  But I would just conclude for the sake of time with the fact that by having a restore Britain government, we would actually be able to just break the power of the Greens anyway.

=== Reshaping British Society (14:40) ===

[00:29:37]  They wouldn't be able to play apologetics for the Pakistani rape gangs anymore and deflect because we'd have deported them.
[00:29:44]  They wouldn't be able to argue on the platform of amnesty for all the illegals because there wouldn't be any.
[00:29:49]  And on and on it goes, right?
[00:29:50]  Until, you know, the people who, as Rupert himself has said, those who don't speak English, who don't share our language, who don't want to integrate, right?
[00:29:58]  Those are people who are eligible to have their British citizenship revoked and then they will be deported, right?
[00:30:04]  And so all of this just naturally weakens the Greens anyway.
[00:30:09]  And so, anyway, we've spoken more than enough on it for now.
[00:30:12]  There's a whole other segment there.
[00:30:14]  But we'll leave it at that, folks.
[00:30:15]  We've got quite a few rumble rants for that one.
[00:30:17]  Thank you all for donating.
[00:30:20]  JDK.
[00:30:22]  Sorry, folks, I've not had that much sleep last night.
[00:30:25]  Being a father is the most wonderful thing in the world, but it's not always relaxing.
[00:30:31]  JDK Moody, 2029.
[00:30:35]  Thoughts from the panel on Euphoria Season 3 and March 2026, seeing more Russian casualties than both Chechen wars combined.
[00:30:46]  I have no thoughts on Euphoria Season 3.
[00:30:49]  Sorry, Mootley.
[00:30:50]  I will make Harry watch it.
[00:30:51]  When it comes to Euphoria Season 3, I can only say.
[00:30:55]  I don't even have thoughts on Season 1.
[00:30:56]  Head Empty, No One Home.
[00:30:58]  Season 2, Head Empty, No One Home.
[00:31:01]  Season one, head empty, no one home.
[00:31:04]  When it comes to Russia, again, Russia, their prevailing war tactic for every war they've ever been involved in is just meat grinder.
[00:31:12]  Just throw as many men into the meat grinder as possible, and maybe the kill bots will reach their kill limit by the end of it.
[00:31:19]  Honestly, I don't think not many people here, as far as I'm aware, have been paying as much attention to the Ukraine war recently just because it seems to have been spinning its wheels for a long time.
[00:31:31]  If there are any important updates, please feel free to let us know so that we can report.
[00:31:35]  Before we start your segment, I want to address a comment by Dreadnought Logan on our website.
[00:31:41]  He says, How are you going to say that Sweden has banned the term Islamophobia last week?
[00:31:48]  I am planning on doing a segment on it this week.
[00:31:52]  Yeah.
[00:31:52]  Okay.
[00:31:52]  Great.
[00:31:53]  Thank you.
[00:31:53]  Sigilstone, Harry Stemnis.
[00:31:55]  I'm monitoring the situation.
[00:31:58]  Who's the vampire movie actor joining you today?
[00:32:00]  He's terribly unmustachioed.
[00:32:02]  I believe he.
[00:32:03]  Played one of the generals in The Death of Stalin and Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.
[00:32:10]  It's great to have you here today.
[00:32:11]  Thank you.
[00:32:12]  Just do the zoo conference.
[00:32:14]  Yeah.
[00:32:14]  Instead of shaking the medals.
[00:32:17]  Tomrat247, the solution, as I continue to say, is Heinleinianism.
[00:32:23]  I don't want to own the Greens, but nor do I think they are worthy of a vote.
[00:32:27]  One thing is, I do think it kind of takes you on the wrong path if you approach politics from a vindictive perspective.
[00:32:35]  Approach, um, because it takes your mind off of just the practical matters.
[00:32:40]  If you're just going, How can I mess with the other guys?
[00:32:43]  You're not figuring out it's MAGA, the MAGA, the worst kind of MAGA politics, isn't it?
[00:32:48]  Where it's like, Do this to own the libs, it's like, Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
[00:32:55]  It's very different.
[00:32:56]  No, it sounds cool when you go Conan about it.
[00:32:58]  When you go Conan, the thing is, we're not meeting the greens in a field and like, smack, like, killing them to death.
[00:33:08]  Yes, that's what killing means.
[00:33:10]  We're engaging in a lot of war.
[00:33:12]  But that's the best in life, Eric Conan.
[00:33:14]  What is best in life?
[00:33:16]  This is true.
[00:33:17]  This is true.
[00:33:18]  Quite right, Mr. White says this idea is bad, namely, if you crap on one side, when, and I think we should say if they were to get into power, they can crap on you.
[00:33:27]  Reform do not seem to be thinking chess moves afterwards.
[00:33:29]  Again, I'm wondering was this some kind of tit for tat with Polanski saying that he would like to basically gulag the right wing in British politics?
[00:33:39]  Which I don't think he would have much luck with that if he were able to implement his policies because, I mean, they wouldn't be able to keep the lights on, let alone round us all up and eliminate us.
[00:33:49]  But yeah, I wonder if it was tit for tat for that.
[00:33:51]  And again, as much as the uniparty of Labour and the Conservatives suck and have made this country worse year on year on year for decades now, there's a greater level of certainty with those two parties knowing that whichever one you vote, you're going to get the uniparty.
[00:34:11]  Right?
[00:34:12]  Versus the potential of a reform and green escalating political war where they're just like, we're going to gulag all of you.
[00:34:22]  Yeah, well, we're going to unleash rape gangs in your areas.
[00:34:26]  Yeah, well, we're literally going to shoot you.
[00:34:28]  Yeah, and if it just goes up and up and up and up like that, that's a different kind of politics that we've not seen in this country for a long time.
[00:34:36]  So it might not be something to celebrate exactly.
[00:34:38]  Let's keep them seething and safe.
[00:34:41]  Anyway, on to something much more important.
[00:34:45]  Ha ha ha.
[00:34:46]  Onto the war that will never end that of the war of gamers versus non gamers.
[00:34:54]  In this instance, the enemy, my friends at home, is women.
[00:34:59]  Now, I'm going to start this off with a short disclaimer that being, not all women.
[00:35:05]  There are plenty of women out there who enjoy playing video games themselves or have no problem whatsoever with their men playing video games.
[00:35:14]  Also, women who watch us.
[00:35:16]  Yeah, also plenty of women watch us.
[00:35:19]  What we're talking about here is possibly one of the greatest enemies that mankind has ever faced.
[00:35:25]  Certainly, mankind in the most literal sense, man at home, trying to relax, trying to enjoy himself.
[00:35:31]  And that, my friends, is.
[00:35:33]  The nag.
[00:35:35]  Have we all faced the nag at one point?
[00:35:37]  I have watched many years.
[00:35:40]  Just one point.
[00:35:41]  Oh, my brother, brother Stelios.
[00:35:43]  Yeah, go on.
[00:35:44]  Well, no, the nagging is just not nice.
[00:35:47]  It's also counterproductive because many, many lasses tend to think that if they nag, they're actually going to get us motivated.
[00:35:56]  It's the exact opposite.
[00:35:57]  It's the exact opposite.
[00:35:59]  If you're going to nag, then there's just nothing.
[00:36:03]  That's going to satisfy you.
[00:36:05]  If you want us to do something for you, there needs to be some sense that we're going to at least get.
[00:36:11]  Stop nagging.
[00:36:12]  You're going to be nice to us afterwards, if you understand me.
[00:36:15]  You're going to treat me with some respect and polite.
[00:36:18]  And politeness.
[00:36:19]  Nagging just comes across like the only thing at the other end of the nagging, once I have fulfilled the nagging tasks, is more nagging.
[00:36:27]  It's OG shifting goalposts.
[00:36:31]  Well, as you and I know well from doing the ancient Greek plays together, you know, even Zeus.
[00:36:37]  Almighty Zeus could have his days ruined by nagging.
[00:36:40]  It's so true.
[00:36:41]  It's so true.
[00:36:42]  Zeus, literally me.
[00:36:44]  Yes.
[00:36:44]  Played by Ryan Gosling.
[00:36:45]  Literally me.
[00:36:47]  So this story begins with possibly the most woman coded post of all time.
[00:36:53]  I know this is unpopular, but it will always be unattractive for a grown man to play video games.
[00:36:58]  Now, I don't want to go like this woman, Lizzie Marbach, I've never heard of her before.
[00:37:04]  It says here Christian wife, mother, and abortion abolitionist.
[00:37:08]  So, obviously, she has a lot of positive things going on in her own life.
[00:37:12]  I'm very supportive of all of those things.
[00:37:14]  But this is where she crosses a line.
[00:37:18]  And as you can see from the 10.9 million views that this tweet has garnered, this has somewhat started a storm.
[00:37:27]  And you're not going to win, ladies.
[00:37:30]  You're never going to win.
[00:37:31]  You're never going to be able to beat Halo.
[00:37:32]  I'm sorry.
[00:37:33]  Sorry.
[00:37:34]  If I just want to sit down and get an hour or two in at the end of the day, I've been productive.
[00:37:38]  You and the chief.
[00:37:39]  I've done all.
[00:37:39]  Yeah, exactly, right?
[00:37:40]  You're never going to be able to stand up to Master Chief, right?
[00:37:43]  The elites, you ain't got nothing on them.
[00:37:46]  Some women might be understanding or pretend like they don't care that you spend hours playing, but they do.
[00:37:51]  Again, I have to ask the question what about all the women who actually play video games?
[00:37:55]  There are women who do that.
[00:37:56]  I mean, most of the time it's going to be like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing, but they do play video games.
[00:38:01]  I mean, to be fair, just to be devil's advocate on this, and I disagree with her completely.
[00:38:06]  You devil, Stelios, go on.
[00:38:10]  No, but she's saying.
[00:38:12]  It will, you know, actually, it says, actually, it will always be unattractive for a grown man to play video games.
[00:38:20]  So she may be saying it's okay when they do it.
[00:38:24]  Oh my God.
[00:38:25]  I think you're right.
[00:38:26]  I think you're right.
[00:38:26]  She says, it's extremely unattractive to women and will never not be.
[00:38:31]  Just massive broad strokes there, gents, right?
[00:38:34]  This is completely.
[00:38:35]  Actually, I think she wants to keep men down because men.
[00:38:39]  She does want to keep others down.
[00:38:41]  Yeah, no.
[00:38:43]  Bros need to be authentic.
[00:38:44]  If they want to play video games, they'll play video games.
[00:38:47]  Well, what this is an expression of is the law of stellios.
[00:38:50]  Many people have pointed out, including Howling Mutant here, which is I know this might be a little difficult to hear, but we're not doing it for you.
[00:38:58]  The world doesn't revolve around your intimate parts.
[00:39:03]  Count Dankula saying that it's never just video games.
[00:39:06]  They have a problem with you having literally any hobby that you spend time on.
[00:39:10]  And the real reason they hate this is simple it's just because you don't have time that isn't dedicated to them.
[00:39:14]  And again, this isn't all women, but this is a significant enough subsection of a type of woman who I've described before stops existing when you're not paying attention to her.
[00:39:26]  This is like the consensus machine type woman.
[00:39:29]  Who, like, just needs to know that she exists in a social setting and has the approval of that social setting, or else she doesn't feel like she's there anymore.
[00:39:40]  And this can exist in the household as well, which is that the social setting is you.
[00:39:46]  And if you're not sat next to her, paying full attention to her boring true crime documentaries, well, then she might not even exist at all.
[00:39:54]  She doesn't know.
[00:39:55]  How is she supposed to know without something to feed back her own existence at her?
[00:39:59]  This is a conundrum that.
[00:40:01]  Many have tried to solve.
[00:40:03]  The ancient Greeks tried to solve.
[00:40:05]  They did.
[00:40:05]  No one ever will.
[00:40:06]  They failed.
[00:40:07]  No one ever will.
[00:40:08]  But the brothers.
[00:40:09]  So, not even Germans have been allowed to do this, to make it work.
[00:40:15]  The Germans are efficiency machines, you know?
[00:40:18]  They can be playing video games, they can be solving astrophysics and equations and such, but at the same time, you know, they're not giving her enough attention.
[00:40:28]  And this isn't to say you should play video games in excess, everything in moderation, my friends.
[00:40:32]  If you are playing too many video games, And you are completely abandoning social life or even not spending any time with your woman at all, you know, put the controller down for a moment, get some flowers.
[00:40:42]  Up the difficulty.
[00:40:43]  You've gone this far.
[00:40:44]  Be the greatest gamer of all time.
[00:40:46]  Give no ground, Chad.
[00:40:48]  No quarterman, you hear me?
[00:40:50]  Yeah.
[00:40:51]  This is where, of course, the Simps came out to make sure that, I don't know, mate, she's married.
[00:41:00]  I don't know why you're posting this enormous essay to try and get her attention.
[00:41:06]  Bro, she's married.
[00:41:08]  You're not getting any from this, all right.
[00:41:10]  She's not gonna.
[00:41:13]  I tried, I tried, but I got very bored.
[00:41:16]  Right, basically, he's trying to over intellectualize this and turn it into a philosophical question and a theological question over whether it's sinful to play video games like in an abstract manner.
[00:41:30]  No, how sinful is it to engage in any kind of hobby which is not necessarily productive in terms of producing a material product at the end of it?
[00:41:42]  Or even some abstraction, or even something that's untouchable, like music.
[00:41:48]  Like, one of my hobbies is playing guitar and writing music, obviously.
[00:41:51]  How more or less productive is it to play video games than practice guitar?
[00:41:56]  Well, if I'm in a bad mood and don't have the attention span at the moment to play guitar, when I play a video game and it puts me in a better mood, and then I can actually play guitar and have a much more productive time with that, would you say that the time playing video games was wasted?
[00:42:11]  Because ultimately, it's not about creating things, it's not about.
[00:42:15]  It's not about producing something.
[00:42:17]  It's about me.
[00:42:17]  It's just about having some me time, for God's sake.
[00:42:20]  You're absolutely correct, Brother Harry.
[00:42:22]  And we need to address this.
[00:42:24]  I take this very seriously because I don't like people who nag.
[00:42:28]  I don't like nagging.
[00:42:29]  I hate nagging.
[00:42:31]  And the point is, not everything has to be productive.
[00:42:34]  Not every second of the day has to be productive.
[00:42:38]  Sometimes you just, you may work hard and you go back and you watch a stupid movie.
[00:42:43]  It doesn't even have to be, you know, Giving you something or anything.
[00:42:48]  You've been looking forward to the scary movie.
[00:42:51]  I grew up playing Diablo Lord of Destruction.
[00:42:54]  That's how ancient I am.
[00:42:55]  That's how much of a giant.
[00:42:57]  It's freaking right now.
[00:42:58]  It's how much of a dinosaur I am.
[00:42:59]  I was getting Necromancer.
[00:43:01]  I was destroying everyone.
[00:43:03]  What were my thoughts?
[00:43:05]  It doesn't matter.
[00:43:06]  It doesn't matter.
[00:43:07]  I needed to chill.
[00:43:08]  Playing stuff like, what was it?
[00:43:10]  I was playing the OG Crash Bandicoot games on PlayStation 1.
[00:43:15]  Crash Bandicoot 2 in particular, I thought was fantastic.
[00:43:18]  Then the OG Jack and Daxter.
[00:43:21]  That was an amazing game.
[00:43:23]  Lots of Dragon Ball Budokai games.
[00:43:26]  All that sort of stuff.
[00:43:28]  It helped me to relax, yeah, but also.
[00:43:30]  Why does it help?
[00:43:31]  What do we have to justify every second of our existence?
[00:43:34]  Yeah, but it does also actually help with like reaction time, critical thinking, thinking on your feet.
[00:43:39]  Our existence is an act of defiance.
[00:43:42]  That's right.
[00:43:44]  That's right.
[00:43:45]  Fellow men, brothers of the world, unite.
[00:43:50]  You know, then the sisterhood decided that they were going to start forming ranks and, you know, getting into defensive positions.
[00:43:57]  Literally just had this conversation with a friend yesterday.
[00:43:59]  Sorry, but gaming is always going to be juvenile.
[00:44:02]  Unmasculine, lame as a hobby or activity.
[00:44:05]  All it says is that you have no problem wasting your life.
[00:44:08]  Are you a teenager or a man?
[00:44:10]  You know, you know what?
[00:44:13]  I don't know about Meghan Murphy and I don't want to.
[00:44:16]  Again, I don't know.

=== Gaming Without Shame (11:00) ===

[00:44:17]  Yeah, I don't know about her, but this kind of mentality, it's definitely the mentality of the woman who doesn't know how to have fun.
[00:44:24]  Sometimes we have to be childish.
[00:44:27]  Not everyone has to be a very rich and retired businessman who just never has any sort of.
[00:44:36]  Any sort of humor, billionaire, hybrid, horse, werewolf, just all constantly eating lobsters and spaghetti and never making a joke or something.
[00:44:45]  Not every man has to be like that, exactly.
[00:44:48]  And really, it's just the mentality of the woman who desperately doesn't want you to have fun.
[00:44:55]  There is something really profound, I'm gonna say.
[00:44:57]  I've heard other people saying, by the way, it's just they say that when you meet a good match, they have to wake up on you three phases and personality.
[00:45:09]  The child.
[00:45:10]  The teenager and the grown and the adult.
[00:45:13]  You need all three to be woken up by someone for them to be a good match.
[00:45:18]  You have to be able to be childish with your partner, to be a bit idealistic in a teenage way, but also to be an adult.
[00:45:25]  Yeah, I'd say that's actually absolutely spot on.
[00:45:29]  I told you, it's going to be profound.
[00:45:30]  That's quite sweet as well.
[00:45:32]  And, you know, if you found somebody like that, then you're not going to have this problem because she's going to be absolutely fine with you spending an hour or two here and there playing video games.
[00:45:44]  You've been working so hard this week.
[00:45:46]  Why don't you go and play Battlefront 2 for a while?
[00:45:48]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:45:50]  She's going to be like, I don't mind.
[00:45:51]  Do what you want for a little bit.
[00:45:53]  That's absolutely fine.
[00:45:55]  And you do get plenty of women like that.
[00:45:57]  But it's interesting that it does occasionally tend to be some of these more conservative minded ones who are supposed to be like, I'm a trad wife.
[00:46:04]  I let the man lead the house.
[00:46:06]  But if the man wants to do what he wants for a few hours by himself, well, that's a big problem.
[00:46:13]  And you need to get that.
[00:46:14]  Through me right now, it's like the weird contradiction where it's like I'm simultaneously, oh, I'm the submissive trad wife, but also I'm the most horrendous nag you've ever met in your life.
[00:46:25]  It's like, figure yourself out, get your priorities straight there.
[00:46:29]  And she carried this Megan girl saying that.
[00:46:32]  Oh, she carries on, doesn't she?
[00:46:33]  Of course she does.
[00:46:34]  She doubled.
[00:46:38]  But, you know, she addressed the like, oh, is it okay if we do it thing?
[00:46:42]  She says, because people said, like, loads of these people who are criticizing this watch reality TV all day.
[00:46:49]  It's like, oh, I don't think any woman pretends that watching reality TV is a valuable hobby.
[00:46:53]  Meanwhile, gamers insist it is a valuable hobby that teaches importance.
[00:46:57]  Wait, so is it just that we're trying to justify it to you?
[00:47:01]  We should just do the GTA thing where it's like I'm playing my video games, the girl's in the door, and I'm just flipping you off like that.
[00:47:09]  Should we just do that?
[00:47:10]  Would you respect it?
[00:47:10]  Imagine she goes afterwards to bidwatch Jersey Shore and Too Hot to Handle or Temptation Island.
[00:47:17]  These days, it's YouTube true crime podcasts, man.
[00:47:21]  That's what it is.
[00:47:22]  It's true crime podcasts.
[00:47:24]  And you know what, ladies?
[00:47:25]  If you want to watch that, as much as I find it to be a waste of time myself, you waste your time if you enjoy it.
[00:47:31]  That's okay.
[00:47:31]  Like we've said, you don't have to be productive 24 hours a day.
[00:47:35]  This is some like weird expression of like the ultimate Protestant work ethic.
[00:47:40]  If you're not working 24 7, then you're dishonoring your duty to God.
[00:47:47]  No, no, I don't agree.
[00:47:49]  I don't agree with that.
[00:47:51]  And then she just carries on saying, like, here's some better hobbies.
[00:47:56]  Play an instrument, take up jujitsu, go hunting, go to the gym, play a sport, learn to fish, go hiking, build a shed, fix a car, build something, make something.
[00:48:03]  Bloody, bloody, bloody.
[00:48:04]  Do that and still play video games.
[00:48:07]  Yeah, you can.
[00:48:08]  You can do all of that and play video games.
[00:48:10]  There's no reason it can be one or the other.
[00:48:12]  But also, I'm sorry to say, this type of woman, no matter how productive your hobby, if it's taking attention away from her, she will communicate her displeasure to you in one way or another.
[00:48:27]  And that is just.
[00:48:29]  She looks like she's attracted to gamers.
[00:48:33]  Maybe she is.
[00:48:34]  Maybe this is all just.
[00:48:35]  She doth protest too much.
[00:48:37]  Unsurprisingly, as ever, this might all just be a shit test.
[00:48:43]  And she's going, like, oh no, I hope no productive, amazing gamers get in touch with my replies over this.
[00:48:51]  That'd just be, oh, the worst thing.
[00:48:54]  The worst thing ever.
[00:48:58]  But one of the best people to fight back.
[00:49:00]  Against all of this, I found was that I found academic agent, good old friend of the show, AA, has been quite good on this because he's been talking about how he recently cleansed his timeline of everything political, didn't want to talk about it, didn't want to pay attention to it, and just made it a nostalgia refuge for video games.
[00:49:18]  And then as soon as he does that, the video game discourse, Gamergate, slams back into his life.
[00:49:25]  And so he's been quite good on this, saying just sensible, common sense things.
[00:49:29]  You can be successful in every area of life and still play video games.
[00:49:32]  This is nonsense when it's talked about.
[00:49:35]  Why doesn't men watching sport get the same level of vitriolic attack that video games do?
[00:49:41]  That's a good question.
[00:49:42]  I was about to say maybe it's to do with the fact that they are like games that you play, but also sitting on the sofa watching somebody else play a physical game is way less productive and less active as something to do to play video games.
[00:50:01]  So it makes no real sense to me saying that respect.
[00:50:06]  Is perhaps the most telling word, but I'm troubled by someone with such an instrumentalist view of life whereby productivity must be the center of all things.
[00:50:14]  Sometimes a man just wants to stare into the fire.
[00:50:17]  That's right.
[00:50:17]  Sometimes we have to use some of my favorite passports.
[00:50:20]  That's right.
[00:50:21]  Sometimes we can just relax, folks.
[00:50:24]  Just everybody right now, just take a moment, just goosefrauber.
[00:50:31]  Around yourself, find your center and your inner peace and a wave of calm.
[00:50:37]  And your favorite show from you.
[00:50:39]  And then, yes, pick up your favorite game and start blasting.
[00:50:45]  And he says, in response to people saying that it's unproductive, you know, it can teach you things.
[00:50:51]  This is actually kind of true.
[00:50:52]  We don't need to justify it in this way, but it is also true, saying some games are packed with history, like civilization.
[00:50:58]  Some games require puzzle solving, logistics, planning, knowledge of different material types.
[00:51:03]  And he brings up Dwarf Fortress and can help to promote goal psychology, but also it's just checking out for a bit.
[00:51:12]  So you can chill.
[00:51:12]  And my friend of the show, Aiden Paladin, showed up in the reply saying that there are actually scientific studies to back this up that actually women typically massively underscore in tests of spatial cognition.
[00:51:26]  They have lower spatial intelligence than men.
[00:51:29]  But playing video games for them actually improves their spatial cognition and can reduce the male to female gap.
[00:51:36]  So there's some empirical evidence for you there of the benefits.
[00:51:40]  The argument is play video games, ladies, to improve your parking.
[00:51:44]  Yes, please.
[00:51:46]  Please, for the love of God.
[00:51:48]  And also, actually, harking back quite a while ago now, over three years, in 2023, March of 2023, Josh and I did a contemplations podcast.
[00:51:59]  Rest in peace, contemplations.
[00:52:02]  Asking the question, are video games bad for you?
[00:52:04]  Now, in this, we were addressing not only the productivity question, the cognitive question, but also the moral question, where people say, going back to like the Jack Thompson type, saying that video games will make you violent.
[00:52:19]  They will make you want to go out and murder people, rape, rampage, murder, killing.
[00:52:26]  And there's no evidence for that whatsoever.
[00:52:28]  In fact, it seems that video games form a very productive outlet.
[00:52:32]  For negative and violent emotions that people may face.
[00:52:36]  So, they actually do solve a societal purpose there, you could argue.
[00:52:41]  I think there are two scenarios.
[00:52:44]  And I'll tell you at the end what I think is the most.
[00:52:47]  Well, this is the last link I was starting to wind down.
[00:52:50]  So, when you're not into something, you're just not into it.
[00:52:54]  You sort of don't get why other people are into it.
[00:52:57]  The same thing applies when, you know, some people are in love and you're not in love with others.
[00:53:03]  Why are you just so attracted into them?
[00:53:05]  It makes no sense.
[00:53:06]  Also, with football, you could say, Why should I watch 22 retards chasing a ball?
[00:53:11]  It's if you're not into it.
[00:53:16]  That's how I was going to say, Is that your feelings on football?
[00:53:19]  No, I like football.
[00:53:21]  But I'm saying that people who don't like football think like this.
[00:53:26]  The same happens with that.
[00:53:28]  Yeah, that's exactly how they think.
[00:53:30]  But she either isn't into gaming or she really is attracted by gamers.
[00:53:38]  Which I think is the most probable because it explains the extent to which she goes.
[00:53:43]  There is a third option, which is that she has gone out with somebody before who she really ended up not liking by the end of the relationship who played too much video games, who indulged too much and has then projected that negative experience out.
[00:54:00]  Or she could just be a massive nag.
[00:54:02]  There are a number of solutions here, but one solution is not to stop playing video games, my friends.
[00:54:08]  If you want to game, if it's something that you enjoy, if you find it to be a valuable use of your time or just a great way to pass the time and relax, then you should feel no shame in that.
[00:54:20]  These days, men aren't allowed to have anything.
[00:54:22]  We can't have fun.
[00:54:24]  We can't have careers.
[00:54:26]  We can't have futures.
[00:54:27]  We can't have families.
[00:54:28]  We can't have children.
[00:54:29]  We can't do anything because people keep trying to smash us down.
[00:54:35]  I say no.
[00:54:37]  They are trying to keep the brothers down, Stelios.
[00:54:40]  And so we need to.
[00:54:41]  Take a moment, group together, and lift ourselves up.
[00:54:46]  And if doing so requires that we take a few hours out of the day to sit back, relax, and play some Forge Couch Co op with our buddies, then God damn it, that's what we need to do.
[00:54:59]  So there you go, folks.
[00:55:01]  Let's get on to the rumble rants for that one.
[00:55:03]  We had quite a few.
[00:55:03]  Samson is doing the thumbs up symbol.
[00:55:06]  Samson approves.
[00:55:08]  Yeah, Tom Ratt says, and here we go.
[00:55:10]  I hope your wife isn't listening to this right now.
[00:55:13]  I hear you, Harry.
[00:55:14]  Wife was moaning about the washing I did yesterday.

=== Serious Allegations Against Lorna (15:15) ===

[00:55:17]  I'd not done a specific child's basket.
[00:55:19]  I turned up the sea shantying coming from my crew on Windrose.
[00:55:25]  Base.
[00:55:25]  It's credible.
[00:55:26]  Flavius Magnus with a very generous $20 donation.
[00:55:30]  Thank you.
[00:55:30]  Gamers, still, still the most oppressed people in all of mankind's history.
[00:55:36]  This is true.
[00:55:37]  Just fact check, true.
[00:55:39]  Reuters have looked into it.
[00:55:40]  They've found that it's actually even more true than we previously thought.
[00:55:44]  Sigilstone 17, you're not a real gamer until you have a favorite flavor of Paradox Interactive Map 1.
[00:55:51]  I guess I'm not a real gamer.
[00:55:53]  I'm more into character action games personally.
[00:55:56]  But, you know, respect to you, brother.
[00:55:59]  Respect to you.
[00:56:00]  You play your paradox interactive.
[00:56:02]  Ochigdor, Stelios and the Greek philosophy earn that pain check.
[00:56:07]  Habsification, Harry explaining how women failed Descartes' assertion I think, therefore I am.
[00:56:12]  Again, hashtag not all women, but a significant enough subset of nagging women.
[00:56:18]  Yes.
[00:56:19]  Garvin Ambrose, in Minnesota, I fish and play a video game of fishing.
[00:56:24]  At the same time, ice fishing.
[00:56:28]  How is that not the most productive use of your time imaginable?
[00:56:32]  There you go.
[00:56:32]  I respect it.
[00:56:34]  Let's get on to the canons.
[00:56:38]  Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about a very tragic story.
[00:56:41]  We're going to talk about the glamorous JP Morgan executive who's accused of turning married male broker into her office sex slave.
[00:56:49]  Viagra spiking in a litany of obscene forced acts that made him cry.
[00:56:54]  So there are very important allegations here.
[00:56:57]  And this is a story that will literally haunt you.
[00:57:03]  It's just bad.
[00:57:05]  I can't say much.
[00:57:05]  When we have updates, we did a segment last week.
[00:57:08]  Check it on our website.
[00:57:10]  And this is a very deep rabbit hole.
[00:57:14]  It's a very deep rabbit hole.
[00:57:16]  And there have been new developments in this story that we are going to talk about.
[00:57:22]  Right.
[00:57:22]  So let me refresh your memory or notify you of this story in case you aren't aware of it.
[00:57:30]  So it says here, this article is from the 29th of April.
[00:57:37]  JP Morgan executive allegedly used her power to sexually harass and abuse a junior male employee, dragging him, subjecting him to racial abuse, and threatening his career when he refused her advances, according to a lawsuit.
[00:57:52]  Again, allegedly.
[00:57:54]  This is an ongoing investigation, and we have to be very careful with respect to how we are relaying to you these facts.
[00:58:02]  And allegations.
[00:58:04]  Lorna Hajdini, 37, an executive director in JP Morgan's division, is accused in the filing of coercing a married banker into non consensual and humiliating sex acts over months, despite his pleas for her to stop.
[00:58:22]  And this is just very serious.
[00:58:25]  Terrible.
[00:58:25]  Terrible.
[00:58:26]  And as I said last week, it is absolutely the case that men can be the victims of abuse.
[00:58:34]  And this is an issue.
[00:58:37]  And we should keep an open mind, including about this case, because you never know.
[00:58:42]  These are allegations, and both sides can be guilty, or either side can be guilty, or you never know.
[00:58:51]  It's just a very deep rabbit hole.
[00:58:52]  But let me just refresh your memory.
[00:58:55]  According to this lawsuit, filed at that time by an anonymous John Doe, alleged that she told him, Do you want to get promoted at year end or not?
[00:59:12]  If you do, if you don't do as I say, You're not going to get promoted.
[00:59:17]  And there was a particular line there that shows the extent of the abuse.
[00:59:23]  He is described as Asian in this case.
[00:59:29]  And she said, Where is it?
[00:59:31]  Because she talked about his wife.
[00:59:34]  Yes, so allegedly she removed her shirt, began fondling her breasts, and racially insulted John Doe's wife, remarking, As she said, allegedly, I bet your little Asian fish head wife doesn't have these cannons.
[00:59:50]  That's what the complaint reads.
[00:59:52]  And he was afraid that she was going to act upon her threats, and he succumbed to the sexual demands.
[01:00:02]  It was obviously a very vulnerable angle of attack.
[01:00:06]  So we have new elements of the story.
[01:00:10]  Technology is failing us yet again.
[01:00:13]  Does mine work?
[01:00:15]  Oh.
[01:00:16]  Okay.
[01:00:16]  So they found John Doe.
[01:00:20]  He is John Doe.
[01:00:20]  In fact, his name is not called.
[01:00:23]  John Doe, he is Chirayu Rana.
[01:00:26]  And several people have described an uncanny resemblance to Woody from Toy Story.
[01:00:32]  Yeah, I also think he looks kind of like an Indian HP Lovecraft.
[01:00:36]  Yeah, he looks like both, to be fair.
[01:00:39]  I don't know how horrified Lovecraft would be if even Lovecraft couldn't have comprehended.
[01:00:45]  That's a horror beyond his imagination.
[01:00:48]  Yes, this is Lorna Hajdini.
[01:00:51]  This is Chirayu Rana.
[01:00:52]  He made the allegations.
[01:00:55]  But, and last week, some people have described it as the best week on X. Many are saying this.
[01:01:06]  Many are saying this.
[01:01:07]  Is he in the room with us right now?
[01:01:09]  Yes.
[01:01:11]  Right.
[01:01:12]  We will show you this.
[01:01:13]  We will talk about the memes that resulted in the meme aftermath.
[01:01:19]  But, yes, so this is a terrible story.
[01:01:22]  So he was found and he.
[01:01:26]  Retracted the lawsuit for corrections.
[01:01:30]  Oh, okay.
[01:01:32]  He was tenacious and he corrected the lawsuit and doubled down.
[01:01:41]  Yeah, so he retracted.
[01:01:43]  This is the man and this is the woman.
[01:01:45]  And this is after he refused to cooperate with internal investigations.
[01:01:51]  Well, here is something that we have to mention.
[01:01:54]  People from JP Morgan said instantly that.
[01:01:59]  All these allegations are unfounded.
[01:02:00]  But the question is part of the allegations were that she refused him.
[01:02:06]  Did they do blood tests?
[01:02:09]  How could they have known?
[01:02:10]  How thorough an investigation did they order there in JP Morgan headquarters?
[01:02:17]  So this could be conspiracy.
[01:02:19]  Maybe the higher ups were in on it.
[01:02:20]  Could they try to keep the brother down?
[01:02:23]  Could they try to keep the brother down?
[01:02:26]  Right.
[01:02:27]  So the lawsuit was refiled.
[01:02:31]  And he's doubling down.
[01:02:33]  The new lawsuit includes more signed affirmations and several witnesses who allegedly saw things.
[01:02:42]  And they say here that one witness says he saw Lorna Hajdini kissing Rana's neck on the street.
[01:02:51]  Okay.
[01:02:51]  Okay.
[01:02:52]  All right.
[01:02:55]  So, another female witness saw them entering her building.
[01:03:00]  With Lorna saying that she described him as a brownie and that she owns him.
[01:03:09]  Which, you know, I mean, just for those of you who aren't history buffs, we don't really do that anymore.
[01:03:15]  Yes.
[01:03:17]  That's what she said there.
[01:03:20]  And now there are new allegations about a threesome invitation.
[01:03:26]  So, this is one of the new allegations that has come from the corrections.
[01:03:32]  Yes.
[01:03:33]  Okay.
[01:03:34]  Days after.
[01:03:34]  How did he miss this out the first time?
[01:03:36]  You'd think this would all be really important, especially finding these witnesses to like verify it all.
[01:03:41]  Like, this is a very important case, Stelios.
[01:03:47]  Where was this the first time?
[01:03:49]  Did he forget?
[01:03:50]  He had witnesses there.
[01:03:53]  Well, the other person in the three.
[01:03:56]  And maybe he was thinking that as witnesses, they were going to be.
[01:04:01]  They were going to.
[01:04:03]  Not be comfortable with them having to testify.
[01:04:08]  And there's an obvious reply to this.
[01:04:10]  Well, why did you just not mention that she tried to do this irrespectively?
[01:04:16]  He does have very graphic details that I can't mention because of platform reasons, but they are all described here in media in the articles on Daily Mail and New York Posts.
[01:04:31]  And here there are several allegations about.
[01:04:34]  The threesome, they're saying that she was definitely inviting him to a threesome.
[01:04:39]  He was saying, no, she was inviting other people to the threesome.
[01:04:44]  I mean, not so much, more than three.
[01:04:46]  Technically, if it's more than three, it's, yeah, yeah.
[01:04:49]  But so this is the man who alleges that this happened.
[01:04:54]  Right.
[01:04:55]  So the officers there at JP Morgan are saying all these are made up.
[01:05:01]  Lorna Hajdini replies that all these are made up and that he has a history of being a liar.
[01:05:09]  And they found that he basically defrauded JP Morgan.
[01:05:15]  He said that his father was dead to get bereavement leave, that he is alive and kicking.
[01:05:21]  And spoke to the Post this weekend.
[01:05:24]  Yes.
[01:05:26]  So here is his father.
[01:05:28]  He's alive and good thing.
[01:05:29]  Here is Ron DeSantis.
[01:05:32]  Unrelated to the story.
[01:05:35]  Yes.
[01:05:35]  Thank you for your post.
[01:05:37]  Yeah, here.
[01:05:38]  Yeah.
[01:05:39]  Here is this man, Chirai Urana.
[01:05:42]  I presume this is his mother.
[01:05:43]  Yeah.
[01:05:44]  And this is his father.
[01:05:45]  So he must be very proud of the son.
[01:05:47]  He pretended that his father was dead in order to take some time off to do his lawsuit.
[01:05:56]  Do you think there was maybe a conversation beforehand there as well?
[01:06:00]  It wasn't like a springing, like just, oh, I'm waking up.
[01:06:03]  I've got to get some time off.
[01:06:04]  I'll say my dad's dead.
[01:06:06]  Do you think it was like, dad, can you pretend?
[01:06:09]  Can you go along?
[01:06:10]  Can you stage a funeral?
[01:06:12]  Father, could you fake your own death for me?
[01:06:14]  You know?
[01:06:17]  This needs to look real.
[01:06:19]  Yes.
[01:06:20]  Right.
[01:06:21]  So, what happened here was that when his face appeared, even before this article and discourse about him pretending that his father was dead to get the bereavement leave, his face circulated on the internet and everyone immediately went, Right, he's lying.
[01:06:43]  But we don't know this.
[01:06:44]  We don't know this.
[01:06:45]  It's an ongoing investigation.
[01:06:46]  Presumptuous.
[01:06:47]  This is an ongoing investigation and it's not unheard of.
[01:06:52]  That women have tried to sexually abuse men, not in the sense of physical abuse, but in the sense of threats, saying, I'm going to destroy your career unless you succumb to my charms.
[01:07:06]  Of course.
[01:07:07]  Yes.
[01:07:07]  It's not unheard of.
[01:07:08]  It's not unheard of.
[01:07:09]  And especially, I mean, I wouldn't say that necessarily about him.
[01:07:14]  I wouldn't say that.
[01:07:14]  But especially when you're an attractive man, you do have women who really want to go after you.
[01:07:22]  And, you know, they dislike if you're married or.
[01:07:27]  Or if you're in a religion, it has happened.
[01:07:29]  Yeah.
[01:07:31]  Right.
[01:07:31]  But so now let's talk about the meme aftermath because that was the fun part.
[01:07:37]  Unrelated to the story, irrespective of what has happened or not, let us look at a new bunch of memes because this made internet history.
[01:07:48]  A lot of people seem very eager to sign up for JP Morgan after this story broke.
[01:07:54]  Yes.
[01:07:55]  So we did the previous round of memes in the previous segment of last.
[01:08:01]  Of last week.
[01:08:04]  Now I'm going to show you new ones, except for this one, which I saw last time.
[01:08:09]  I really like it.
[01:08:10]  It's Pepe with a suit says, I'm ready for my JP Morgan performance review from a manager with great cannons.
[01:08:19]  Here we have the 50 Shades of JP Morgan teaser looking wild.
[01:08:25]  Because it does read like a very low effort fantasy.
[01:08:31]  It really does, doesn't it?
[01:08:33]  It just does.
[01:08:35]  Do you think there's anything to that?
[01:08:37]  What do you mean?
[01:08:38]  The fact that it sounds like a completely made up fantasy.
[01:08:41]  I think it definitely does.
[01:08:43]  I don't know about it, but I'd say.
[01:08:45]  Not that we're making any inferences or conclusions from it.
[01:08:48]  No, no inference or conclusion.
[01:08:50]  But I think, right, from my perspective.
[01:08:53]  Clearly, she was watching far too much internet pornography, which put all of these ideas in her head.
[01:08:59]  Yeah, but from my perspective, this looks like a very lazy script of a steamy show.
[01:09:07]  From a man, I mean, the irony would be you know, the story itself sounds like a lazy script.
[01:09:12]  A man gets fired for potentially defrauding his company and then immediately fires off a bunch of incredible, impossible to believe allegations about the boss who fired him.
[01:09:23]  And fakes his own father's death for good measure.
[01:09:25]  Yeah, not that I would ever say that that's what's actually happened here.
[01:09:30]  Mrs. Business Executive, she'll see you now.
[01:09:33]  They have the JP Morgan contract now.
[01:09:38]  She's going to fly him with a helicopter singing, Love Me Like You Do.
[01:09:42]  Love, Love, Love Me Like You Do.
[01:09:44]  It'd be like the scenes in Austin Powers where he's trying to woo the women, but flipped.
[01:09:51]  Like with a femme bot.
[01:09:52]  She's going to come for the business review, you know, and just do the.
[01:09:57]  Somebody's firing.
[01:09:58]  Somebody needs to do that meme if they haven't already.
[01:10:01]  Me showing up to my job interview at JP Morgan.
[01:10:04]  Yeah.
[01:10:05]  They have this here again.
[01:10:07]  It's obviously, I like when memes intersect.
[01:10:09]  Oh, this is your favorite.
[01:10:11]  This is my absolute favorite.
[01:10:13]  You hear from Vince, the Vince McMahon meme, obviously.
[01:10:18]  I mean, just mute it.
[01:10:20]  That is what I say.
[01:10:21]  Six minutes long.
[01:10:22]  Yeah, my first day working at JP Morgan.
[01:10:25]  Let's just say that I'm going to be like, Leila, this just makes history.

=== The Fifty Shades Case (08:59) ===

[01:10:33]  Just one of the funniest memes.
[01:10:35]  And when he looks.
[01:10:39]  We can show it to him.
[01:10:39]  Can we just say what a madman Vince McMahon is?
[01:10:42]  Yeah, I know.
[01:10:43]  He was the guy running this show.
[01:10:45]  Yes.
[01:10:45]  Right.
[01:10:49]  Oh, God.
[01:10:50]  He's just an artilleryman having to figure out the cameras.
[01:10:54]  And having to explain it to his wife constantly as well.
[01:10:57]  Listen, it's for the story.
[01:10:59]  It needs to happen.
[01:11:00]  It's for the story.
[01:11:02]  There's another meme by Lucas Gage.
[01:11:04]  It says, You work at JP Morgan, get called into Lorna Hajdini's office and notice something is very odd.
[01:11:15]  I can't stop laughing when I.
[01:11:16]  No, I know.
[01:11:18]  He sent this to me.
[01:11:19]  It was like, Best Lucas Gage post ever.
[01:11:23]  But it is hilarious because it's the best one on purpose, right?
[01:11:27]  The best one by accident was the Jews know your weakness and they'll give it to you.
[01:11:31]  And everybody was like, My weakness is women and money.
[01:11:34]  Netanyahu, I hear you right now, brother.
[01:11:37]  It's on its way.
[01:11:40]  Shalom, BB.
[01:11:41]  My weakness is women.
[01:11:45]  Right.
[01:11:46]  My weakness is cannons.
[01:11:47]  Right.
[01:11:48]  So, see how it feels to work at JP Morgan lately.
[01:11:51]  Oh, Jesus.
[01:11:51]  By the way, to tell people who.
[01:11:55]  Who don't understand this meme?
[01:11:57]  If you read the Daily Mail article, you will understand the allegations he made and see how this ties into it.
[01:12:04]  Hear how it feels lately.
[01:12:06]  I mean, this sort of environment would definitely not contribute to being concentrated.
[01:12:12]  You wouldn't get a lot of work done.
[01:12:14]  Yeah, you wouldn't get a lot of work done because you'd be like Vince McMahon.
[01:12:22]  Bob Roman.
[01:12:24]  Okay, Marco Rubio realizing he's in junior.
[01:12:27]  Oh my God.
[01:12:29]  At JP Morgan.
[01:12:31]  It's like, you know, there was also the other meme where they were saying that they're turning interns like the GIMP from Pulp Fiction.
[01:12:39]  Because allegedly, the allegation was that she tried to make.
[01:12:42]  Oh my God.
[01:12:44]  This is by Luca.
[01:12:47]  Geiger Capital says just got accepted for a junior position on the leverage finance team at JP Morgan.
[01:12:53]  And this is an excellent journey.
[01:12:57]  Yeah.
[01:12:58]  Brother Luca says here, this might be the funniest day you've ever had on this app.
[01:13:03]  It was really funny.
[01:13:04]  And we really had time.
[01:13:07]  I spent an above average amount of time on X that day.
[01:13:10]  I really did.
[01:13:11]  It wasn't that.
[01:13:12]  It was just for two days, honestly.
[01:13:14]  I felt completely transcending politics.
[01:13:18]  I just wasn't into it.
[01:13:20]  All there is is canons.
[01:13:23]  All there are are canons.
[01:13:26]  Canon Maxine, right.
[01:13:28]  I hear canons.
[01:13:32]  This is the Fifty Shades of JP Morgan.
[01:13:37]  Because allegedly he is married and the business executive allegedly wanted to get him.
[01:13:45]  She really liked to be the other in the relationship.
[01:13:49]  I really can't stress enough just how allegedly she did this.
[01:13:53]  Yes.
[01:13:54]  Not that it's unheard of that such a thing could happen.
[01:13:58]  Yes.
[01:13:59]  As it says here, Your Honor, I was just showing him my big natural cannons.
[01:14:05]  Can you imagine if she turned up to call a drummer?
[01:14:10]  I was going to say, could you imagine, like, if the lawsuit keeps going and the allegations start to mount up and mount up and they get more and more outlandish and then he doesn't back down.
[01:14:21]  So this ends up having to go to, and it doesn't get settled.
[01:14:23]  So it goes to court.
[01:14:24]  But I will say though, if the allegations are proven true in, in court, I think the internet will flip on a second and this guy will be instantly turned into a legend.
[01:14:36]  Well, do you know if it happens?
[01:14:39]  If it happens.
[01:14:40]  So here's the thing, right?
[01:14:41]  Like, on every level, he seems to just be a guy who, uh, Likes to make stuff up and is not short of a scam, you know, in his life.
[01:14:50]  However, allegedly, not that that's necessarily what happened.
[01:14:53]  Yes.
[01:14:54]  However, there seems to have been, I mean, it's just created such comedy that in a really strange way, both people involved in this story have kind of come out the other side of it, just kind of being like, just fair play, everyone involved in this, just kind of.
[01:15:10]  It says also here, removes her shirt and starts fondling her breasts, allegedly, stop crying, Pepe.
[01:15:17]  He's crying here.
[01:15:20]  Here we have this.
[01:15:21]  Oh, shit.
[01:15:21]  This is from American Psycho.
[01:15:26]  Meanwhile, J.V. Morgan.
[01:15:28]  Let's see, Paul Allen's in Allegations.
[01:15:30]  Yeah.
[01:15:30]  And here, people will know this.
[01:15:32]  It's fish head and no cannons.
[01:15:34]  Fish head and no cannons.
[01:15:36]  I've never heard fish head before.
[01:15:39]  Is that like some kind of like.
[01:15:42]  That's what she allegedly said.
[01:15:44]  No, no, I know.
[01:15:45]  I don't have a problem with fish.
[01:15:47]  But the.
[01:15:48]  Where does that even come from?
[01:15:49]  I've never heard anybody use that idea before.
[01:15:54]  You see, for me, this was just like, you know, the cherry on top.
[01:15:56]  It's the fact that I'm going to nuke my entire career if it proves to be false.
[01:16:02]  But just for good measure, I'm going to let it known that I made up this thing about what my wife was called as well.
[01:16:09]  Well, it could be the case.
[01:16:10]  It could be the case that this, it could be, could be.
[01:16:15]  Not saying it is, it could be the case that he's basically trying to create an excuse.
[01:16:24]  For his wife's years.
[01:16:26]  It's like, oh, she made me do this.
[01:16:28]  Maybe.
[01:16:29]  Oh, yeah.
[01:16:30]  Maybe.
[01:16:31]  Also, I tell you what, though.
[01:16:36]  Fish head, it does.
[01:16:37]  What it sounds like to me, it sounds like an inter Asian ethnic slur.
[01:16:45]  Maybe it was.
[01:16:47]  Obviously, I don't condone this.
[01:16:49]  Well, Hajdini knows all of them.
[01:16:50]  I was going to say, I was going to say, she has a very.
[01:16:53]  It's a knowledge model.
[01:16:54]  It's a know, you know?
[01:16:56]  Yeah.
[01:16:57]  There's another meme here.
[01:16:58]  Here, allegedly, she is the hot woman that attracts the people's attention.
[01:17:07]  Another here, best dressed at the Met Gala.
[01:17:14]  Oh, my goodness.
[01:17:15]  And that's it.
[01:17:17]  I think basically this story has already made internet history.
[01:17:21]  Oh, yeah.
[01:17:21]  Yeah.
[01:17:22]  No matter which way it ends.
[01:17:24]  No matter which way it ends, and I'm sure we will know relatively soonish.
[01:17:30]  We will find out the truth.
[01:17:32]  Yeah, the truth has to be revealed.
[01:17:35]  Yeah, it has to be revealed.
[01:17:36]  People deserve to know.
[01:17:38]  People want answers.
[01:17:42]  And more people who want answers are those in our Rumble rants.
[01:17:46]  Shall we go through those?
[01:17:47]  Do you want to read them or shall I?
[01:17:51]  Yeah, do you want to read them?
[01:17:52]  Yep, Sigil Stone.
[01:17:54]  I smell.
[01:17:54]  We're off YouTube now, right?
[01:17:56]  So I can give my opinion.
[01:17:57]  Sounds great.
[01:17:59]  I smell fake news.
[01:18:00]  Yeah, it's obvious bollocks.
[01:18:02]  An office full of men, and she goes for a guy that looks like Rocky Dennis wearing an Indian mask.
[01:18:07]  I don't believe you.
[01:18:07]  You don't even need to know what he looks like.
[01:18:09]  You just need to hear the allegations and hear her using weirdly specific racial slurs and calling him Brownie and her little brown boy.
[01:18:18]  And you go, this is porn brain fantasy, man.
[01:18:23]  That's all this is.
[01:18:24]  Just before she enticed him, just grok, bring me up slurs for Asians.
[01:18:29]  Yeah, right.
[01:18:31]  Tom Rat.
[01:18:32]  The outcome from this JP Morgan exec story has probably broken Beau's heart.
[01:18:36]  You could tell the picture the accuser has painted of her was the butter to Beau's muffin when he first heard.
[01:18:42]  Oh, I don't know if that's complimenting or bullying, Bo.
[01:18:47]  Fictagious.
[01:18:48]  Can't wait for the Netflix adaptation and if they'll race or gender swap anyone.
[01:18:52]  What'll happen is when the truth of all this story comes out, whoever turns out to be in the right will be the one who is Indian.
[01:19:00]  And whoever turns out to be in the wrong will be white.
[01:19:04]  That's how it'll turn out if Netflix were to make an adaptation of such a thing.
[01:19:08]  The Hapsification.
[01:19:10]  You know, if that guy could have just written a novel and the women of TikTok.
[01:19:14]  Would have eaten it up and spread this to other women.
[01:19:16]  Women love salacious and scandalous stories, especially in a novel.
[01:19:21]  That's right, women, right?
[01:19:22]  Getting back to the important matters of video gaming, right?
[01:19:25]  How productive is it to read weird, softcore pornography erotica all day, right?

=== Rouen France Cat Firm (05:13) ===

[01:19:33]  Okay?
[01:19:34]  Answer me that, why don't you?
[01:19:36]  Think about it while watching the video comments.
[01:19:40]  You know, it's often wondered how those who claim to be the most warm hearted, enlightened, and kindly people in our society so regularly circle the wagons around the most.
[01:19:47]  Extreme dregs of humanity like the MS 13 crowd.
[01:19:50]  And while some, of course, are going to be malicious, I think most of these people are simply so sheltered that the most extreme wickedness they've ever encountered would be someone being slightly rude in an office party.
[01:19:59]  Thus, when presented with genuine malevolence, their scale of reference simply blows out, and they can't distinguish between someone engaging in faux pas and an actual murderer.
[01:20:07]  But ah, human rights, the rule of law.
[01:20:09]  At the end of the day, these are effectively just bourgeois etiquettes, and that they have reference for, and that they guard jealously.
[01:20:17]  Problem is, their interpretation, their really Bad interpretation of human rights has an enormous legal and NGO industry behind it that enforces it, and it has Soros money and all sorts behind it.
[01:20:31]  So that needs to be dismantled for us to be able to actually get the right and desirable outcomes.
[01:20:40]  Next one, please.
[01:20:41]  So here we are, sunset over the wrong France.
[01:20:48]  Yep, I'm still on the cruise, boys, but.
[01:20:52]  Figured I'd show you guys.
[01:20:53]  No one seems where I am.
[01:20:56]  Unfortunately, I couldn't give you the video from the visit to the American cemetery.
[01:21:05]  That is a glorious sunset.
[01:21:07]  Yeah, I like those videos where Michael is Euromaxing and sending us.
[01:21:12]  I hope you're having plenty of naps.
[01:21:16]  So here I am, still in Rouen, and I've noticed a lot of shops here in France.
[01:21:22]  Have Josh's name on them.
[01:21:24]  I see all these signs that say firm, firm.
[01:21:27]  But every time I try to go in, they're all closed.
[01:21:32]  I'm wondering, what are you up to, Josh?
[01:21:36]  Well, clearly, you're not working there either.
[01:21:39]  I think firm in French is exit.
[01:21:41]  Let me check.
[01:21:42]  Right.
[01:21:43]  Also, I was in Rouen last year when I visited France with my family.
[01:21:48]  The city center is beautiful, but we were staying for some.
[01:21:53]  Stupid reason to save money and the outskirts of Ruan in one of the really cheap Formula One hotels that they have.
[01:22:02]  And my God, the area that we were staying in was so heavily Islamized.
[01:22:07]  It was untrue.
[01:22:08]  We got there and I looked around and I didn't see a single French person for the entirety of the stay at that hotel.
[01:22:16]  Thankfully, it was only one night and then we moved on.
[01:22:18]  And then on the way back, we actually went to the center of Rouen and it was really, really nice.
[01:22:23]  But like that part was just beyond the pale.
[01:22:27]  Good morning, motorcyclers.
[01:22:30]  Here I am passing through one of the walks, heading off to Geliard Castle, one of the castles of Richard the Lionhearted.
[01:22:41]  As in Google Locks here on the set.
[01:22:45]  Have a good one.
[01:22:48]  Oh, that's awesome.
[01:22:50]  Really awesome.
[01:22:51]  Hope you have a great time out there.
[01:22:52]  Yeah.
[01:22:54]  So he says, I'm here in an ancient copper mine.
[01:22:57]  Mining began here 3,500 years ago.
[01:23:02]  In all, there's over 8 kilometers of these underground tunnels.
[01:23:06]  Copper was, of course, very important into the creation of bronze.
[01:23:11]  So having a mine as large as this was very important.
[01:23:19]  And they call it a mine.
[01:23:22]  A mine.
[01:23:22]  It's no mine, it's a tomb.
[01:23:27]  Mining is badass.
[01:23:28]  Yeah, it is.
[01:23:29]  That is incredible.
[01:23:31]  We've got banana caps.
[01:23:32]  Dan, you have to tell me your new schedule or something.
[01:23:35]  I'm trying to get you the Peter Purrer and all as Lib Dem.
[01:23:41]  I'm trying to give you his economic plans.
[01:23:44]  If I can't give you easy and become a plans, how am I supposed to get your reactions?
[01:23:50]  Come on, just watching my economists here.
[01:23:54]  Well, that was something.
[01:23:55]  At least there was a cat on the screen.
[01:23:56]  I love the cat.
[01:23:57]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:23:58]  Let's go on with the written comments on the website now.
[01:24:02]  So, from my segment, TPPT makes a great point, which is Reform's position is that collective punishment for natives based on constituency lines is a good thing, but collective punishment for foreign communities.
[01:24:16]  That support and cover up the rape gangs is evil.
[01:24:18]  Yeah, seems to be the case.
[01:24:19]  He also says on the reform policy, what if they start building the detention centre, then there's a by election and they vote reforming?
[01:24:27]  Do they stop building it?
[01:24:28]  If the Greens say that they'll do every legal action to delay and frustrate building it, what would be the motivation to then vote for reform after they decide to build there?
[01:24:39]  Yeah, I think the part of it is there are just too many unpredictable variables.
[01:24:45]  When it comes to.

=== Household Chores and Space (05:14) ===

[01:24:47]  Sorry, the meme's back on.
[01:24:48]  Oh, right, there it was.
[01:24:50]  I was like, variable's not a funny word.
[01:24:55]  Canis Familiaris says I think the don't know category is so high because the question is too abstract.
[01:25:02]  Sure, it applies to punitive actions such as putting immigration centres there, but it could also apply to positive things like opening a nuclear power plant or coal mining in a small town that votes for industrial expansion.
[01:25:15]  Yeah, I can see the sense of that.
[01:25:17]  And then that's a random name says, This policy feels very boomer coded.
[01:25:22]  Vote for us, I'll unleash the brown hordes on you.
[01:25:25]  Yeah, I just, like I say, I don't think it's been thoroughly thought through.
[01:25:30]  I think it's more based on getting a reaction out of them and making them panic and feel, as you say, under attack than it is about the actual pragmatic side of the policy.
[01:25:43]  All right, Jen Havy, I always thought men playing video games was attractive if she.
[01:25:48]  Had said only playing video games for hours without any job, for example, I would understand.
[01:25:53]  Exactly.
[01:25:53]  Golden mean everything in moderation.
[01:25:56]  But otherwise, let the man enjoy his video games.
[01:25:58]  Thank you.
[01:25:58]  Preach.
[01:26:00]  Dirty belter, wife, you should take the bins out.
[01:26:02]  Me, were it so easy.
[01:26:06]  This is true, actually, right?
[01:26:07]  I won't, I won't dob myself in too much recently, but there was a recent experience that turned into a minor, minor kerfuffle over me being asked to do things around the house and me doing all of those things that I was asked to do around the house.
[01:26:30]  And yet, unbeknownst to me, alongside the checklist that she had given me was a secret.
[01:26:38]  Unspoken checklist, which I was also expected to fulfill in the short amount of time that I had to myself that day.
[01:26:47]  And upon my non completion of the things that I had not been asked to do, oh boy, I was in trouble.
[01:26:54]  Tell me if you've ever experienced that before, gents in the chat.
[01:26:58]  Jokes aside, just look for a woman who has a hobby.
[01:27:01]  If she exists when you're not there, then she can comprehend you needing time to relax or be alone.
[01:27:06]  My wife is very happy knitting me another word I probably can't say jumper.
[01:27:12]  While I play Dark Souls, excellent.
[01:27:15]  Can I invoke Sean Connery just for a second?
[01:27:19]  In what way?
[01:27:20]  What are we going to do here?
[01:27:22]  Well, there's just this moment in this interview where he was saying about the fact that it's actually good for people in relationships that she has her hobbies sometimes and you have yours to have your own space as well.
[01:27:32]  So you're not doing the same things together all the time, right?
[01:27:36]  It actually helps to strengthen the relationship and not harm it.
[01:27:39]  Sometimes I'll take my daughter on a walk just to give the missus some time to.
[01:27:46]  Relax in the bath for an hour or two, which she really likes doing.
[01:27:49]  Just get to read a book for a little bit.
[01:27:51]  I don't begrudge her.
[01:27:53]  And to be fair, I joke, but my missus doesn't begrudge me playing video games at all.
[01:27:57]  She's got no problem with it.
[01:27:59]  Annie Moss, Swindon Grievance Factory Worker.
[01:28:03]  Woman's perspective on video games here any hobbies you do in exclusion to being responsible are bad.
[01:28:11]  Video games make some people forget there is a clock, something I've not seen with other hobbies.
[01:28:15]  I don't know people who've missed work because they have spent all night playing guitar.
[01:28:19]  Or forgot to pick their kids up from school because they were fixing up an old car.
[01:28:22]  That's not the same for video games as these things happen when people are immersed in gaming.
[01:28:27]  Again, not excusing people wasting their lives doing it, but everything in moderation.
[01:28:33]  Whereas the woman we were addressing there was applying it as a blanket statement towards all video game playing.
[01:28:40]  I will say, in my experience, it does kind of feel like time never goes faster than when I am playing a video game, though.
[01:28:48]  It's like you feel like you've got it on, you've started playing, and then before you know it, an hour's gone by.
[01:28:53]  Yeah, like it's like half an hour.
[01:28:55]  You've got to keep track of the time.
[01:28:56]  Yes, but still, yeah.
[01:28:58]  Alex Colomy says, I don't understand how anyone felt for the J.P. Morgan guy.
[01:29:04]  The second I read it, I knew it was written by an Indian man.
[01:29:09]  White people don't even use the insult fish head, and the entire storyline is clearly a perverted sexual fantasy.
[01:29:17]  Henry Ashman, once it came out that this guy lied about his father's death to get three months paid leave, my mind was made up about this case and the bloke feeling it.
[01:29:28]  Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex says, Is that a fish head in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
[01:29:38]  Jordi Swordsman says, To tie the last two segments together, I bet Miss Hajdini doesn't have any problems getting men to pay attention to her over the video games.
[01:29:50]  Candles like these.
[01:29:51]  And honorable mentions, Chango98, lovely intro from Stelios.
[01:29:55]  I went to uni in Nottingham and every club would play Baywatch at some point in the night.

=== Henry Ashman Lie Exposed (00:18) ===

[01:30:01]  And everyone would get their tops off and walk around for the whole duration.
[01:30:05]  Good times.
[01:30:06]  That's fantastic.
[01:30:08]  And on that note, I think it's time we end.
[01:30:11]  Thank you very much for joining us today, folks.
[01:30:13]  I hope you've had fun.
[01:30:14]  This has been a good one.
[01:30:17]  And we'll see you again tomorrow.
[01:30:19]  Take care.