The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1415
Aired: 2026-05-11
Duration: 01:33:07


=== Labour's Inauthentic Leader (14:17) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello, and welcome to the podcast of the Loadseaters, episode 1415, the year of Agincourt.
[00:00:06]  How great.
[00:00:07]  For Monday, the 11th of May, 2026.
[00:00:10]  I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Carl and Stelios.
[00:00:13]  Hello, everyone.
[00:00:14]  On this Monday, and today we're going to be talking all about the Iron Fist of Keir Starmer, trying to keep those rebels in line.
[00:00:23]  We're then going to be talking about how the councillors across Britain seem to be getting spicier.
[00:00:29]  And then we're going to be talking about how the Odyssey film seems to just be a disaster.
[00:00:34]  That some people are going to hate watch it, some people are actually going to think go in there thinking it's a good film, and we're going to give you our take on that as well.
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[00:01:13]  With all of that said, Carl, take us away.
[00:01:16]  Yeah.
[00:01:17]  So it's been a bit of a rough weekend for Keir Starmer.
[00:01:20]  Yes.
[00:01:21]  The election results came out on Friday and they weren't great for Labour.
[00:01:26]  They weren't as bad as they could have been.
[00:01:28]  I'm actually doing this in preparation for my talk with Dan tomorrow about the current state of play from the local elections.
[00:01:35]  We'll be doing an autopsy on the local election.
[00:01:37]  Elections.
[00:01:38]  But this is the first and most immediate consequence of it, which is Keir Starmer.
[00:01:43]  I mean, look at his face there.
[00:01:45]  He knows he's in trouble.
[00:01:47]  He's got a lot riding on this.
[00:01:50]  But the thing is, a lot was expected from this, as in everyone knew this was going to be a walloping for Labour.
[00:01:57]  And so Keir Starmer has clearly had this planned for a while that he would have to be like, right, okay, I'm going to face an insurrection directly after the locals.
[00:02:06]  But I, Keir Starmer, am prepared to fight them.
[00:02:09]  Because he seems to hold the entire rest of his party in contempt.
[00:02:13]  It's so great.
[00:02:15]  Just want to be really, really clear, right?
[00:02:18]  I'm a hardline Keir Starmer supporter in this particular conflict.
[00:02:23]  I want Keir Starmer to crush these rebels mercilessly, rout them, just get them driven before him.
[00:02:29]  Like he did with the Corbyn Easter left.
[00:02:31]  I mean, Corbyn is no longer a member of the Labour Party from being the leader that Keir Starmer supported because Starmer kicked him out brutally once he won.
[00:02:41]  So, it's not like we don't know.
[00:02:43]  I mean, there's a really reason people call him like queer Stalin, it's because he tends to have this kind of bureaucratic coldness in him.
[00:02:51]  Where he's like, no, I've made a decision, you're all out.
[00:02:53]  And people had to beg him not to kick out Diane Abbott.
[00:02:57]  And it's like, you want to kick out Diane Abbott?
[00:02:59]  That's like kicking a puppy.
[00:03:00]  Don't kick out Diane Abbott.
[00:03:02]  She's the only person giving reasonable explanations for what's happening out here.
[00:03:07]  Basically, yes.
[00:03:08]  And also, there's something like.
[00:03:11]  Grandmotherly about her at this point, that is kind of like, oh, come on, okay, yeah, she's a lunatic.
[00:03:16]  She often wears two left shoes or can't find her way out of a gate or whatever it is, she can't count.
[00:03:22]  But there's still a kind of familiarity about Dan Abbott that I, you know, Starmer's managerial bureaucratic coldness doesn't seem to recognize.
[00:03:31]  And so he's like, anyway, the point being, he's been rough with all of his opponents.
[00:03:37]  And so now the soft left of the Labour Party, who are the people who.
[00:03:42]  Thought Keir Starmer was their guy, beginning to realize no, Keir Starmer is the man of the system.
[00:03:49]  He is the system's man.
[00:03:50]  He doesn't know anything but it, and he will broach no challenge to it.
[00:03:56]  He is like the last avatar of Blairism.
[00:03:59]  And you can see this in the fact that, well, who did he bring in to come and help him?
[00:04:03]  Well, he brought in Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown.
[00:04:07]  It's like, why?
[00:04:08]  Ah, yes, those beloved figures of the British landscape of politics.
[00:04:13]  Yeah, it's just, it's so weird.
[00:04:15]  I mean, Brown's going to advise on global finance.
[00:04:18]  Ah, yes.
[00:04:19]  Couldn't have picked anyone more apt for that.
[00:04:21]  And Harriet Harman will focus on social and economic improvements for women and girls.
[00:04:25]  It's like, what?
[00:04:26]  Why would you want them?
[00:04:28]  Like, nobody wants them.
[00:04:30]  This was really unexpected.
[00:04:31]  And everyone was like, Ricky, that's weird.
[00:04:33]  And it's got to the point where Dan Hodges is a Daily Mail columnist, and he speaks to a lot of the MPs.
[00:04:40]  And apparently, one solidly loyal cabinet minister has said everything he does just makes it worse.
[00:04:45]  And it's so totally true.
[00:04:48]  So we'll look at the current state of play, shall we?
[00:04:50]  So Labour are just on the road to destruction, right?
[00:04:55]  These are just the predictions for the next election.
[00:04:58]  Labour, and these are roughly in line with the polling as it stands at the moment.
[00:05:03]  Reform on about 26%.
[00:05:05]  Labour on about 18%, Conservatives on about 18%, and then the rest on whatever.
[00:05:10]  But as you can see, the predicted seats, you've got highs and lows of predicted seats here.
[00:05:15]  The Labour average is 78, Conservatives 112.
[00:05:18]  To be honest with you, I think these are optimistic, frankly.
[00:05:21]  Reform 248.
[00:05:22]  So, hung parliament, no government in waiting, basically.
[00:05:25]  But the potential Labour lows, I mean, I've seen polling that puts Labour on potentially like 14 seats, you know, on the average of sort of 18 seats.
[00:05:33]  I mean, we can only pray.
[00:05:37]  But as we'll talk about tomorrow, in fact, it doesn't look like this is going to happen.
[00:05:41]  It looks like the managed decline is going to continue declining.
[00:05:46]  And as Dan put it last week in our political chat, Keir Starmer doesn't want to give up because there's so much more decline to manage, including his own party and the entire political system.
[00:05:55]  And also, it's going to have to be overseen by a decline of manager as well.
[00:06:01]  The managers who have to manage the decline just keep getting worse as well.
[00:06:05]  And that is a point we'll come back to very shortly, actually.
[00:06:08]  So.
[00:06:10]  This isn't unprecedented, right?
[00:06:12]  Starmer's loss was bad.
[00:06:14]  They lost 1,100 seats, which is bad, but Thatcher had lost 1,000 seats.
[00:06:19]  Major lost 2,000 seats.
[00:06:20]  Blair lost 800 seats.
[00:06:22]  Like, May lost 1,134, all without resignations.
[00:06:26]  So he's not even like some sort of radical outlier in how badly they did.
[00:06:32]  They did badly, but it wasn't that badly.
[00:06:34]  And actually, Starmer can make this argument and start perhaps clawing it back.
[00:06:39]  Because, I mean, not even half of Labour voters think he should resign.
[00:06:44]  So, if his own party, he's actually got a majority of people who are not saying he should resign, well, he can leverage this.
[00:06:50]  I wonder what it would take for those particular people to actually just break their loyalty from the Labour Party, not the Mandelsons.
[00:06:59]  I get that they don't care about Southport and kids dying, right?
[00:07:02]  And the rape gangs and all that.
[00:07:03]  But from their own perspective, what would it take?
[00:07:08]  I mean, that's a great question, but I assume that these are all basically people employed by the government at this point.
[00:07:14]  That's the only.
[00:07:16]  I can only assume a Labour voter at this point is someone who's directly employed by the state.
[00:07:20]  And so, Keir Starmer, as the avatar of the state, they're seeing themselves represented in him.
[00:07:25]  And of course, they understand the decline has to be managed.
[00:07:28]  And Keir Starmer is committed to the managing of the decline.
[00:07:31]  So, I assume they're just like, no, no, he's the guy.
[00:07:34]  There's literally no one better around him.
[00:07:37]  But it's not going to stop the insurrection.
[00:07:39]  So, 29 MPs have just announced that they would like Keir Starmer to resign.
[00:07:44]  They haven't done anything formally.
[00:07:46]  100 councillors and former candidates.
[00:07:48]  This person has mislabeled these as MPs, but it wasn't.
[00:07:51]  100 councillors and former candidates have called for his resignation.
[00:07:54]  And so the question is okay, well, who's in the lineup?
[00:07:58]  You know, if you're going to get, you know, the price of an effective attack is a constructive alternative.
[00:08:03]  So who would you have in the wings?
[00:08:06]  I don't think anyone wants to step on his shoes.
[00:08:09]  I just, I really don't think.
[00:08:10]  I think they want him to lose the next elections so they can just start anew.
[00:08:15]  That's just my hunch.
[00:08:17]  I mean, maybe.
[00:08:18]  The thing is, it's not really indicative that's the case.
[00:08:22]  So Angela Rayner has been one of those people that's been spoken about, the Red Queen.
[00:08:27]  Big Ange.
[00:08:27]  Queen of the CV.
[00:08:28]  Yeah, she's a stalking horse in the background.
[00:08:31]  It's like, kind of, but actually, she's come out and endorsed Andy Burnham.
[00:08:35]  So, Andy Burnham is the mayor of Manchester and relatively popular within Manchester.
[00:08:42]  And Keir Starmer prevented him from getting into the House of Commons.
[00:08:45]  For anyone who doesn't remember, he wanted to resign his seat as the mayor of Greater Manchester and run in the Gortland and Denton by election, where polling suggests he probably would have been very competitive and won it because he is.
[00:08:57]  Like I said, well liked in Manchester.
[00:08:59]  He's a local and he's Labour, so he would have had every opportunity.
[00:09:06]  Keir Starmer, using his executive control of the NEC, the Labour's internal body, prevented this.
[00:09:13]  And so Andy Burnham is currently on the outside.
[00:09:16]  And this is one of the reasons that the sort of soft left types that Rayner and Burnham represent don't want to have an open challenge to Starmer at the moment.
[00:09:26]  Because if they do, well, their candidate just isn't in place.
[00:09:29]  The Labour internal rules.
[00:09:30]  Say that anyone who does an internal leadership challenge has to be an MP.
[00:09:34]  Well, Burnham isn't, so he can't.
[00:09:36]  So, if it were to all kick off now, their guy, who's literally the best chance that they have, it seems, of actually being recovering anything with the Labour Party, can't even fulfill the role.
[00:09:51]  So, not great for them, but they are well aware that Andy Burnham is their best bet.
[00:09:56]  I mean, the allies say, oh, we've got a seat for him lined up, 100% private polling has been conducted.
[00:10:02]  It reassures them he's going to win the by elections.
[00:10:05]  Well, is there a Labour safe seat anywhere?
[00:10:12]  Well, fewer and fewer.
[00:10:13]  But even if he did win as well, OK, you might find a particular seat for him in Manchester or somewhere where he has reasonable support, but not the support of the country.
[00:10:23]  There's nothing unique or dazzling about Andy Burnham that is going to allow him to save the Labour Party single handedly.
[00:10:32]  He is going to be more of the same, but he's probably going to be less like.
[00:10:36]  Personally repulsive than Keir Starmer, which is one of the things he has a more human side to him that Keir Starmer clearly doesn't.
[00:10:46]  I mean, you've got people on the sort of left of the Labour soft left, like Clive Lewis, saying, Oh, yeah, I'm backing Andy Burnham.
[00:10:54]  And this got parlayed into a series of rumours like, Oh, he's preparing to resign his seat in Norwich South to give to Andy Burnham.
[00:11:06]  Clive Lewis has said, Well, no, I'm not going to do that.
[00:11:12]  You want Annie Vernon, but you're not going to resign your seat, which theoretically in any other era would be a Labour safe seat, but not at the moment.
[00:11:21]  At the moment, it looks like the Greens are going to win it because Norwich South is, though like 86% white British, full of students because the University of East Anglia there.
[00:11:31]  And the students are like, yeah, no, the Labour Party isn't fulfilling their promises.
[00:11:35]  We're flipping to the Greens.
[00:11:37]  And so it looks like he won't even have that seat come the next election.
[00:11:41]  Anyway, interesting.
[00:11:42]  So, I mean, I just can't see anywhere that would be actually a safe seat at the moment.
[00:11:48]  The challenge from the Greens from the left is really strong, and they've got the wind in their sails.
[00:11:54]  Everyone's sick of the I mean, Keir Storm is viewed as being the soft left, but I don't think he is.
[00:11:58]  That's the thing.
[00:12:00]  He isn't, and I think that was evident in Southport.
[00:12:03]  He had a perfect opportunity to appear as if he's the diplomat that's going to mediate between the two communities, and he just didn't.
[00:12:12]  And one thing about this, I don't know whether the Greens are going to lose momentum.
[00:12:16]  I think they will, because every time Polanski is being interviewed, He's losing momentum.
[00:12:23]  Yes.
[00:12:23]  So I really think that in the next three years, there are going to be more interviews of him.
[00:12:30]  Agreed.
[00:12:31]  I mean, Polanski can only gather the faithful, in my opinion.
[00:12:34]  If you're not already an insane radical student communist or part of the Muslim bloc who's looking for handouts, why would you flip to Polanski?
[00:12:44]  He's just going to ruin things.
[00:12:45]  So I think there's an actual cap on the Greens.
[00:12:47]  And so I'm not at all worried about them, because I'm not a labor sport.
[00:12:52]  And I think you're right.
[00:12:53]  Basically, public exposure to Polanski.
[00:12:55]  Is negative to Polanski.
[00:12:57]  Once you go beyond the immediate constituency that already support him, you realize wait a minute, this guy seems inauthentic and he's basically just telling me through a sort of a cloud of pleasant words that he wants to take my money and give it to foreigners.
[00:13:12]  Why would I want more of that?
[00:13:14]  He wants open borders, he wants unlimited immigration, he wants unlimited government spending.
[00:13:18]  No, this is nonsense.
[00:13:20]  This is just the extremity of the Labour left finding a new packaging for its own outlet.
[00:13:27]  And as we know from the lads' hour we did last week as well, the quality control of their councillors on the doorstep is not particularly high or endearing.
[00:13:36]  Yeah.
[00:13:36]  So, like I said, I'm a supporter of the Greens too.
[00:13:40]  So, anyway, the current business secretary, Peter Kyle, has just been like, look, Andy Burnham just needs to stay in Manchester and shut up.
[00:13:49]  But this isn't going to keep the rumblings down because everyone is aware that in the next election, Labour are going to get creamed.
[00:13:59]  The entire Labour front bench looks like they're going to lose their seats.
[00:14:03]  The Labour leader in Wales recently lost their seat, which was the first example of a sitting party leader losing their seat in British history.
[00:14:15]  Although I'm pretty sure Jo Swenson lost her seat as well.

=== Threatening Timetables and Speeches (15:53) ===

[00:14:18]  Yeah, I thought she did.
[00:14:19]  Yeah, as the leader of the Lib Dems.
[00:14:20]  So I'm not sure that's correct.
[00:14:20]  I've seen other people saying that that's the case.
[00:14:24]  Maybe it's because she was actually holding the office rather than just being a party leader, the actual leader.
[00:14:29]  But the point is, this was bad, and it looks like it'll be bad for Labour because, frankly, none of them look like they're going to hold their seats.
[00:14:37]  I mean, David Lammy will say, Oh, yeah, no, I'm definitely going to, but it's like, it's still on a knife edge.
[00:14:43]  It's all bad for all of them.
[00:14:44]  And so, a relatively unknown former MP and ex minister is pushing forward called Catherine West.
[00:14:53]  Now, you've probably never heard of her.
[00:14:55]  She became an MP in 2015 and then she resigned, but she became some sort of.
[00:15:02]  Someone working in the machinations of the party.
[00:15:04]  Right, okay.
[00:15:05]  And she's just come through and decided, no, I'm going to bulldoze my way through this.
[00:15:10]  By, I don't know, she must still be an MP.
[00:15:13]  She's a former minister.
[00:15:15]  But she says, if there are no leadership hopefuls who come forward tomorrow, then Monday morning, I will put my name forward to stand as the leader of the Labour Party and begin a leadership election.
[00:15:23]  Now, this is great.
[00:15:24]  You're not going to take that, are you, Kia?
[00:15:26]  You're not going to let that stand, are you, Kia?
[00:15:29]  Catherine, are you going to just let him grind your party into the dust?
[00:15:33]  Come on, you've got to stand up for it.
[00:15:35]  You've got to push this now.
[00:15:37]  Now, now, now.
[00:15:38]  We can't possibly wait until Andy Burnham has a seat lined up.
[00:15:41]  We've got to do it right now while you've got the wonderful pick of talent around you to use.
[00:15:48]  This is brilliant, right?
[00:15:50]  For both, no matter where you stand on the issue, I mean, I assume you're with me on the pro Keir Starmer side.
[00:15:56]  Of course.
[00:15:57]  But if you're with, say, Navarra.
[00:15:58]  Unwaveringly.
[00:15:59]  Yeah, if you're with the Navarra media and you're on the anti Keir Starmer side, you're on the soft left in charge, well, this is bad for you.
[00:16:07]  Because Starmer's likely going to see off a kind of incompetently put together and spurious leadership challenge.
[00:16:13]  Some hasty, like, oh, we've just got to do something now.
[00:16:16]  Exactly, yeah.
[00:16:18]  For the people here who can't.
[00:16:21]  Withstand the pressure of the environment and haven't laid good plans, she'll probably screw it up for them, which would be great.
[00:16:28]  You know, people will be, you know, the labor soft left are kind of flighty.
[00:16:32]  They're like a herd of deer, basically.
[00:16:34]  You know, and if one of them jumps and it scares the lot of them, they'll all go.
[00:16:39]  But then they are still flighty when someone else jumps on the other side and they'll flood back.
[00:16:45]  And so if Keir Starmer just, you know, juts out his Giga Chad chin and says, no, I don't care.
[00:16:51]  I think they'll fail.
[00:16:52]  I think this will not work.
[00:16:55]  Burnham and his allies are desperately trying to convince her to shut up and stop.
[00:17:00]  For the love of God, don't screw this up for me, please.
[00:17:04]  And she's just come out and been like, well, I guess if he gives a banger of a speech, I'll let it go.
[00:17:13]  I'll let it go.
[00:17:14]  Because Keir Starmer's plan was to give a speech this morning, which he has given.
[00:17:16]  We'll go through in a minute.
[00:17:17]  He just gives an amazing speech, which he's never given before.
[00:17:20]  But if he can just do this now.
[00:17:22]  And then it tips it.
[00:17:23]  Did she flip flop?
[00:17:25]  There, after Andy Burnham's.
[00:17:29]  She's kind of wavering, yes.
[00:17:31]  Winding a neck in.
[00:17:32]  Yeah, because Burnham has just said, look, this just isn't the time.
[00:17:37]  I'm not ready.
[00:17:38]  We are not ready.
[00:17:40]  And so she has given herself a kind of out here.
[00:17:43]  It's like, well, if it's an amazing speech.
[00:17:44]  And you say he's never given it.
[00:17:45]  He has given a few to the faithful in the Labour Party.
[00:17:49]  Sure.
[00:17:50]  Okay, fair.
[00:17:51]  Kiss Armour can't give a banger speech that wins over the country.
[00:17:53]  No.
[00:17:54]  But he can win over the kind of managerial left in the Labour Party who.
[00:17:58]  Oh, well, I suppose they call them the right of the Labour Party, who are entirely dependent on him and his fortunes for their seats, right?
[00:18:06]  He can win those people over.
[00:18:07]  The NHS spending must go up at all costs, type.
[00:18:10]  Absolutely.
[00:18:11]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:18:13]  In fact, that's precisely what he's promising.
[00:18:16]  But yeah, so she's like, okay, okay, maybe.
[00:18:19]  And Wet Streeting has told Starmer that he's preparing his case to be the next PM.
[00:18:23]  Should a leadership contest be triggered by someone else, as in if Catherine West is going to trigger it, I'm going to put my hat in the ring.
[00:18:30]  And it's like, well, I mean, great.
[00:18:33]  If you look at Ilford North, which is yours, you won that by 500 seats in 2024.
[00:18:39]  500 votes.
[00:18:41]  A local party nearly unseated you.
[00:18:43]  And of course, it's predicted that they will unseat you come the next general election.
[00:18:48]  I remember getting lost in Ilford one time and I didn't see a single English person there.
[00:18:52]  No, no, it's 33% white British.
[00:18:56]  There we go.
[00:18:58]  And that's not even white British, actually.
[00:18:59]  That's just people who have white skin.
[00:19:03]  At the last election, The last census, and it's probably worse now.
[00:19:07]  So, I mean, the idea that we're streeting who's going to take this is just preposterous, frankly.
[00:19:13]  He looks really scared.
[00:19:14]  Yeah, he does.
[00:19:15]  He has this whole expression of his just, I'm scared.
[00:19:18]  Yeah, the flighty deer syndrome.
[00:19:21]  Because these people have never really had any interaction with reality and have lived entirely within the confines of the sort of labor machine, which has protected them from actually having to get a job.
[00:19:32]  Anyway, Ed Miliband is expected to be.
[00:19:36]  Urged to go forward to become the leader.
[00:19:39]  But the thing is, he's already been the party leader and he didn't do a good job.
[00:19:42]  I mean, you might remember his heck yes, I'm tough enough to take on Putin speech.
[00:19:47]  I do remember that.
[00:19:48]  Embarrassing.
[00:19:50]  You're not tough enough to take on a bacon sandwich.
[00:19:53]  And as you were saying, Diane Abbott's actually given quite salient political analysis on all this at the moment.
[00:19:59]  So is John MacDonald, who's another Corbyn ally.
[00:20:02]  He was the shadow chancellor under Corbyn, close with Diane Abbott.
[00:20:07]  And the good thing about the sort of like radical left in the Labour Party is that they're actually quite unchained.
[00:20:13]  To give a real assessment of what's happening from the inside.
[00:20:17]  And so John McDonald just says, What's happening in the Labour Party?
[00:20:20]  One, Keir Starmer is desperately trying to cling on.
[00:20:22]  Obvious.
[00:20:23]  Two, many MPs in shock and realising there's no chance of an election if he stays, which again is obvious.
[00:20:27]  But what's interesting is this has become like a latent sort of something they've only just realised.
[00:20:34]  So, oh, wait, are we all about to get creamed if we go into a general election?
[00:20:37]  It's like, Yeah, have you just noticed?
[00:20:40]  Three, I told you that after you won the last one.
[00:20:43]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:20:43]  You accidentally won the last one.
[00:20:45]  The three leaf stability and so calls for real discussion and a smooth transfer to a new leader as possible.
[00:20:51]  And this is the chaos we were going to talk about in a minute.
[00:20:55]  Factions are also considering a coup.
[00:20:56]  If factions around Wednesday Streeting or Angela Rayner bounce the party into an individual leadership election under the existing undemocratic rules, and whilst individual candidates remain blocked, it will just sow the seeds of increasing division and disillusionment playing into the hands of reform.
[00:21:09]  So Keir Starmer is actually in a stronger position than it looks.
[00:21:14]  As in, he has the Core infrastructure of the party behind him, and the timing is bad for the soft left.
[00:21:22]  They don't have their ideal candidate in place, and the only name really being floated that is currently in place is in an insanely precarious position because, come any contact with the electorate, he's probably going to lose his seat.
[00:21:37]  So it's actually kind of great, it's actually kind of brilliant for the people who want another decade of Kiers.
[00:21:45]  And then there is just always the nuclear option as well, which is just challenge me and you all lose your seats.
[00:21:51]  There is also that.
[00:21:52]  Now, Starmer hasn't said this, at least publicly.
[00:21:55]  I don't know whether he's thinking it.
[00:21:57]  He's not a long time Labour politician.
[00:22:01]  So it could be that he eventually gets to the point where he's like, okay, well, beep, I don't care.
[00:22:06]  Boom, you know.
[00:22:07]  But he hasn't said that.
[00:22:08]  And that's, I've not seen anyone talking about the threat of that either.
[00:22:11]  But that is definitely a sort of Damocles he hangs over their heads.
[00:22:14]  But anyway, Keir Starmer has said, no, I'm going to get 10 more years in number 10, and I'm going to fight my challengers.
[00:22:20]  They are going to get the Iron Fist of Starmer.
[00:22:23]  And, you know, I'm for it.
[00:22:25]  Look, I like my prime minister's as optimistic as an X-Man, but like, what?
[00:22:31]  I just like the idea that he's like, no, I'm just going to bully the hell out of my own MPs.
[00:22:35]  I'm just going to crush them, grind them into dust.
[00:22:39]  Kind of like a Conan the Barbarian figure.
[00:22:41]  Yeah, he has to do this from within this framework.
[00:22:44]  I know, it's amazing, isn't it?
[00:22:45]  It's a genuine will to power in Keir Starmer.
[00:22:49]  Over Nietzsche and over man.
[00:22:50]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:22:53]  But honestly, I mean, that's literally what we're saying.
[00:22:55]  Like, all of the signs are terrible.
[00:22:57]  Everything's going horribly.
[00:22:58]  And he's like, no, I'm having another 10 years.
[00:23:00]  And I will destroy.
[00:23:02]  Yes, in my way.
[00:23:04]  And it's like, okay.
[00:23:05]  And, you know, when asked, are you definitely going to lead your party in the next election?
[00:23:09]  He's like, yes, I will.
[00:23:12]  Well, not quite in such a dramatic voice.
[00:23:14]  Yes, I will.
[00:23:18]  Okay, Kia.
[00:23:19]  I mean, the chatter around this now is, oh, he's delusional.
[00:23:25]  And it's like, yes, he is.
[00:23:27]  Which is great.
[00:23:29]  Nigel Farage did call him the best recruiter for the right, which I think is correct.
[00:23:33]  But yeah, he's threatening to flatten a lot of them.
[00:23:35]  And so he comes out and gives this speech.
[00:23:37]  Now, this speech was very interesting because it begins, it's surprisingly high energy.
[00:23:42]  Like, he's got a crowd around him.
[00:23:43]  Let me just get the image up so you can see.
[00:23:46]  He's got a crowd of people watching him, and they're applauding hard.
[00:23:52]  So, these are the closest apparatchiks he has.
[00:23:55]  And, you know, it's quite high energy.
[00:23:56]  And he comes out and he's, you know, giving the fairly standard Kissed Armour speech, but it's quite aggressive.
[00:24:02]  He's like, no, we're going to go down a dark path if we don't allow me in charge, and I won't plunge the country into chaos by having a leadership election.
[00:24:10]  And that's An amazing commentary about his own subordinates and colleagues, isn't it?
[00:24:14]  Yeah.
[00:24:14]  If we change leader now, chaos.
[00:24:16]  Why?
[00:24:16]  Because they're crap.
[00:24:18]  They're all crap.
[00:24:19]  Everyone around me.
[00:24:20]  Can you blame him on this?
[00:24:21]  No.
[00:24:22]  He's correct on this.
[00:24:23]  I know.
[00:24:25]  I'm holding back the chaos of my own party.
[00:24:27]  Except for him taking over.
[00:24:29]  That's literally what he's telling the public.
[00:24:32]  By the way, you don't want these guys.
[00:24:34]  These guys are mental.
[00:24:35]  I know these guys.
[00:24:36]  Yeah.
[00:24:37]  Exactly.
[00:24:38]  I'm the last bastion of sanity.
[00:24:41]  Yeah.
[00:24:42]  Genuinely, that's his bitch, right?
[00:24:44]  Everyone around me is a lunatic.
[00:24:47]  I'm the only thing holding them back.
[00:24:49]  And he literally says, Look, you know, I didn't get into the war with Iran, did I?
[00:24:52]  You know, I made sure that we got more funding for the NHS and blah, He was very, very spirited and was basically threatening to flatten the lot of them.
[00:25:00]  He doesn't say it explicitly, but the implicit is, No, I'm going to fight it and I'm going to crush you because I've crushed everyone up until this point.
[00:25:07]  Because I am a, as Nick Dixon describes him, he's like a shark, right?
[00:25:10]  He's got black, beady eyes and he just bites forward, doesn't matter what's in his way.
[00:25:14]  And this is essentially what he's threatening.
[00:25:17]  And so he's like, look, we're going to have strength through fairness.
[00:25:19]  So I'm bloody always talking about strength now.
[00:25:21]  He's like, he sounds like, what's the guy from V for Vendetta?
[00:25:25]  Just V?
[00:25:26]  No, no, the Prospero, is it?
[00:25:28]  The guy who, Prothero.
[00:25:30]  Oh, yes.
[00:25:31]  Yeah, where he's like, you know, Labour prevails is essentially like the energy that comes out of it.
[00:25:36]  But, I mean, he throws out some serious red meat for the sort of soft left.
[00:25:40]  He's like, look, we're going to nationalise British Steel.
[00:25:42]  We're going to swing back to the EU.
[00:25:44]  We're going to do all of these things and we're finally going to get it done.
[00:25:47]  And.
[00:25:48]  Then the letters for resignation started coming in.
[00:25:51]  People have just been like, no, no, we want you to go.
[00:25:54]  But the question is, how many people can actually muster a challenge?
[00:26:00]  Yeah, that's the point because people can individually say, Stormer, leave.
[00:26:05]  But if no one wants to jump to get the top position, why would he leave?
[00:26:11]  He needs 81 signatures on the letter.
[00:26:14]  So what he can tell them instead is, you will feel the full force of the law.
[00:26:21]  Yeah.
[00:26:22]  That's basically what he's going to do.
[00:26:23]  So, anyway, apparently Catherine West is going ahead with her letter to the Labour MPs today, but she stopped short of stating her own candidacy.
[00:26:31]  She will instead canvas support for a timetable for the PM to stand out.
[00:26:34]  So, notice how it's entirely managerial.
[00:26:37]  So, okay, we're going to set our calendar.
[00:26:39]  We're going to get a timetable together.
[00:26:41]  We're going to make sure this is done through process because that's how they do everything.
[00:26:44]  This is literally the way their mind works.
[00:26:46]  People's Front of Judea just sat around talking about it all.
[00:26:49]  It is incredible.
[00:26:51]  Proper, like, high level student politics.
[00:26:54]  Mm hmm.
[00:26:54]  And then, like I said, you've got her.
[00:26:56]  Here's the email she sent out looking around, canvassing for names.
[00:27:00]  But what does this tell us?
[00:27:01]  This tells us there isn't a proper insurrection in the Labour Party, actually, because they knew for a long time the local elections were going to be rough.
[00:27:10]  They knew it was coming and they're not prepared.
[00:27:14]  But what is interesting here is that they're trying to apply pressure on him and he just tells them, I just don't recognize you.
[00:27:21]  Unless you step up, I don't care what you're doing.
[00:27:24]  Yeah.
[00:27:25]  And if you step up, I'll crush you.
[00:27:26]  And you are chaos, yes.
[00:27:27]  Yeah, yeah, you're chaos incarnate.
[00:27:29]  I've just got the meme, you know, the old Stalin would be loving this, you know, sort of in my head.
[00:27:34]  You know, whether you like Starmer or not, he's done a good job of shoring up his own position.
[00:27:38]  He has, I mean, blocking Andy Burnham was genius in hindsight because this has just left them essentially without the ability to properly form a coalition against him on their own terms.
[00:27:52]  If they were going to do it now, okay, go for it.
[00:27:54]  But you can already tell they're all like, look, please don't do this.
[00:27:57]  So in the faction itself of the soft left, led by Rainer and Burnham, who are trying to overthrow Starmer, there's already divisions.
[00:28:04]  They're like, no, no, not now.
[00:28:05]  We're not ready.
[00:28:05]  You can't do this.
[00:28:06]  And yet she's pushing ahead anyway.
[00:28:08]  Starmer will probably defeat this based on the fact that this will cause chaos and might end up triggering a general or something.
[00:28:14]  Who knows, right?
[00:28:15]  We don't want that.
[00:28:15]  And so you have to stick with me.
[00:28:18]  I'm the only person.
[00:28:18]  It's going to be 10 more years.
[00:28:20]  We're going to carry on.
[00:28:22]  And so it looks like, I think, I'm loathe to make predictions, but unless they have a plan that they pull out of nowhere that just isn't, you can't see from the public position, I don't think Starmer's going for this.
[00:28:35]  It would be very poetic for the Labour Party to begin with a Kia and Kia Hardy and end with a Kia.
[00:28:41]  Yeah.
[00:28:41]  Well, it will have a nice poetry to it.
[00:28:44]  So, I think what's going to happen is you're going to see a lot of moulding of Labour MPs on Twitter and publicly, but I don't think they're actually going to make the moves needed.
[00:28:53]  Now, I could be wrong, and tomorrow, you know, we could see, boom, that's it, Wes Streeting's going for it.
[00:28:57]  Oh, good luck, Wes.
[00:28:59]  I could be completely wrong.
[00:29:00]  So, of course, who knows, right?
[00:29:02]  We're in very.
[00:29:02]  We've all got you back in Ilford, Wes.
[00:29:04]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:29:05]  We're in very disorderly times, and things are very difficult to predict.
[00:29:09]  But I've got this hunch that Starmer's just going to ride it out.
[00:29:13]  I think he's the man.
[00:29:14]  I think Giga Chad Starmer is the key.
[00:29:17]  I support my Prime Minister.
[00:29:18]  Yeah, it makes sense.
[00:29:20]  Oh, can we have the rumble rants on the.
[00:29:24]  Thanks, Harry.
[00:29:29]  All right, okay.
[00:29:30]  Well, I'll just head over to my segment then.
[00:29:35]  Thank you.
[00:29:37]  All right, ladies and gentlemen, as you all know, we had many council elections towards the end of last week, and what a success they were.
[00:29:45]  For the party that we're obviously enthusiastic about and the hope on the horizon that is, of course, Restore Britain, who won unanimously across Great Yarmouth 10 seats, 10 victories, right?
[00:29:58]  And it was really something.
[00:30:00]  And not just a victory, but conclusive, seismic, you know, 50%, 45%, just over and over, over double what reform could muster.

=== Restore Britain Wins Seats (15:35) ===

[00:30:11]  In every seat.
[00:30:11]  Yeah.
[00:30:12]  In every seat.
[00:30:13]  Yes.
[00:30:14]  So a lot to be.
[00:30:15]  Very, very optimistic about that.
[00:30:17]  However, this was obviously tactically the correct thing to do for Restore Britain to focus on an area where the constituents have got to know Rupert and where he can field candidates who are also known in the local communities as well and who have obviously been endorsed by the majority of the public.
[00:30:35]  And so we can see now that this is a formula that has legs and it can certainly be carried out throughout the rest of the country.
[00:30:44]  And I look forward to seeing what these fine patriotic Englishmen do.
[00:30:49]  With their council seats.
[00:30:51]  But of course, you know, that's still in its infancy so far.
[00:30:55]  And really, a lot of the eyes were on how far were Labour going to fall, how hard were Restore going to rise, and whether or not anyone would even notice what was happening to the Conservative Party.
[00:31:07]  And so all of these things were very much on people's minds.
[00:31:11]  And obviously, as we can see here, reform, you know, won the night, really, in terms of, you know, the candidates that were field and the councils.
[00:31:20]  That were won over with a huge upshift in votes.
[00:31:24]  Bear in mind, the last time there were Louise council elections, they only had two councillors, and they've come forward with nearly 1.5k more, which is, yeah, great.
[00:31:33]  You know, good for them because ultimately, unlike the higher ups in the party who are, you know, Nigel, Tice, Zia Youssef, and everyone that they've let in from Boris's cabinet and the quasi, sorry, Nadim Zahawi and Nadim Doris and Robert Jennerick, right?
[00:31:50]  These are the people, these are the creatures of the establishment who have just have a history of backstabbing, of climbing the greasy pole, of trying to preserve their own positions, hang on to power, and time and time again have proven.
[00:32:04]  That really they're only looking out for their own self preservation.
[00:32:08]  Or they themselves are the people responsible for the Boris wave.
[00:32:11]  Exactly that.
[00:32:12]  That is directly factually true in the case of Sweller and Jemric.
[00:32:16]  Yes, and exactly.
[00:32:17]  And who are complicit in so many of the terrible things that have been forced on our nation.
[00:32:24]  But obviously, when it comes to the councillors, they're not so much like that.
[00:32:28]  These are just people from the local communities stepping up, seeing, just like the men from Restore Britain were doing, you know, in Great Yarmouth, who were just going, my gosh, my country's falling apart.
[00:32:38]  Right now, the momentum seems to be with reform, so I'm going to stand as a candidate for them.
[00:32:42]  I'm going to, you know, and that's all very, you know, service to your community, trying to cut away at the corruption.
[00:32:49]  All very, very commendable.
[00:32:51]  However, it does come with, let's just say, less consideration, especially when these are people who have not been in politics before, for political correctness and the sacred cows of Westminster and the establishment.
[00:33:08]  Now, I want to make it absolutely clear.
[00:33:11]  I am not personally ever going to be in a position where I'm going to vote for Reform UK.
[00:33:18]  However, the Observer has had a jolly good go at trying to make me.
[00:33:23]  And so, and so I thought we'd just hear out, hear their case, right, and hear what they have to say about it all.
[00:33:30]  Because it is when you actually see some of the things that.
[00:33:34]  And this is, I want to make it clear.
[00:33:37]  My point here is not to.
[00:33:40]  Sort of like cheer on or disavow any of the opinions that are voiced in here.
[00:33:45]  My only point in reading you all of this is just to say that look, the country is falling apart and it is radicalising the British public at a rate that we are just simply not used to in society thus far.
[00:34:01]  And so with that, you end up getting, as the observers say here, so it says, among them was Stuart Pryor, who won two seats.
[00:34:12]  One on Rochford District Council and one on Essex County Council.
[00:34:16]  He won despite media coverage exposing his extremist activity on a social media account that posted pictures from his home.
[00:34:26]  Pryor allegedly described white people as the master race.
[00:34:32]  And he also went on to, when he was pressed about this by the Daily Mail, he turned around and just said, I don't recall that at all.
[00:34:39]  Blimey.
[00:34:42]  I have no memory of this.
[00:34:43]  In Bolton, they say Derek Bullock was elected for the seat in Halton.
[00:34:48]  Bullock was twice expelled from the Conservative Party for his anti Muslim hatred, including a reaction to the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 with the words, and I want to be clear, I'm quoting here shoot the Pakis on the spot, which last week he said he believed was actually a screenshot and entirely fake.
[00:35:12]  However, he's not the only one as well, as it seems that Trevor Jones of Reform.
[00:35:18]  One in the ward of Tongue with the whole Jim Bolton from the Labour Council leader, Nick Peel.
[00:35:26]  And Jones once posted that if Labour won it, it'd just be Sharia law in Britain as well.
[00:35:32]  And disagree with that.
[00:35:33]  Right.
[00:35:33]  So you can see all of these things.
[00:35:36]  It's like, look, but these are just like when you don't have an entire campaigning arm around you telling you this is what the message is, this is what to say.
[00:35:44]  This is just people's undistilled private thoughts coming through at times when they're just not having to make considerations of political career, even in the most humble sense of a county council.
[00:35:56]  It goes to show you how as more and more people step in to the fray and decide to volunteer into politics, It is going to get harder and harder to gatekeep them for the sheer quantity of people who are now radicalized.
[00:36:13]  Can we go through a few more of these?
[00:36:14]  Because they're just so funny.
[00:36:15]  Oh, sure.
[00:36:17]  As you can see here, Andrew Mahan said Oswald Mosley was 100% right, calling for educational correction and described Enoch Powell as correct.
[00:36:25]  Kaylee Ashman once referred to Goyslop in a post.
[00:36:31]  Ben Rao was elected in Plymouth and said that Kirsten was under the control of a globalist Zion cult.
[00:36:38]  I mean, Jesus Christ.
[00:36:40]  I mean, it's kind of unreal when you actually see them doing this write up, and I'm like, wow, if only there was somewhere where I could compile the undistilled psyche of Reform's councillors, and the observer just turned around and went, here you go, mate, and just gave me this massive list.
[00:37:00]  The Reform membership is way more radical than the leadership.
[00:37:03]  Exactly.
[00:37:05]  I think so too.
[00:37:07]  And there's, again, just great work here from.
[00:37:10]  Obviously, this is a snivelling, like, leftist account that's going around.
[00:37:14]  But again, Tracy Clayton is Reform UK new councillor for Colne Valley West in Kirklees.
[00:37:22]  She's been a huge supporter of Tommy Robinson, promotes Britain First, and supports the AFD.
[00:37:29]  She's transphobic.
[00:37:31]  She regularly posts anti Muslim content.
[00:37:33]  She doesn't support our police, and she thinks the climate change is a hoax.
[00:37:38]  And just for good measure, unless you weren't convinced on her, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:37:42]  She also said that she wanted Sadiq Khan deported.
[00:37:47]  She's a saint.
[00:37:48]  What are you talking about?
[00:37:50]  Oh, no, my lobster's too buttery.
[00:37:55]  Jamie Pullen here for rugby in Warwickshire goes on to basically for words that I don't believe I'm actually allowed to say on YouTube.
[00:38:04]  But basically, he just says that, yeah, that thing that the left are continually gloating about that's actually happening in towns and cities across the United Kingdom, and that's a good thing.
[00:38:14]  Well, he's being charged guilty of.
[00:38:17]  Just believing them when they say it.
[00:38:19]  Oh.
[00:38:20]  You know, which, you know, given the red and gray squirrel analogy there as well.
[00:38:24]  Yeah.
[00:38:25]  So he's a big fan of Sunday Cutwalla.
[00:38:29]  And then, of course, the man of the hour.
[00:38:32]  The man whose name is now known up and down the country.
[00:38:36]  We have the great and powerful Glenn Gibbons, who went on to provide just some outside thinking, really, to the pothole problem.
[00:38:48]  I don't know about you, but there are a lot of problems around.
[00:38:51]  There are.
[00:38:51]  And a lot of Nigerians too.
[00:38:53]  Yeah.
[00:38:53]  And take this from someone who doesn't even drive and barely spends any time on the roads as well.
[00:38:59]  I know how bad the potholes are because every concerned citizen up and down the land always goes on about them in idle small talk.
[00:39:06]  So I'm very much aware of this.
[00:39:09]  Anyway, and so, you know, he basically thought that he could solve the potholes with the ingredient of diversity, I suppose, we'll just say.
[00:39:19]  And then obviously, this put Richard Tice in a position.
[00:39:23]  Where he's having to just answer questions about it on the BBC.
[00:39:28]  And so we'll just play a bit of this.
[00:39:31]  But many voters do still have concerns about reform.
[00:39:34]  And just as you and I have talked about many times, you have had problems on lots of occasions when some of your candidates' views have been revealed to be offensive.
[00:39:46]  Now, as Bridget Phillipson mentioned, but we were going to ask you about this anyway one of your new councillors who's just been elected in Sunderland previously suggested online that people should melt Nigerians to fill potholes.
[00:40:00]  We have an internal party process.
[00:40:02]  But here's the point.
[00:40:03]  Do you know what?
[00:40:04]  Let me tell you what.
[00:40:05]  We've heard all the smearing and the sneering.
[00:40:07]  Let me tell you what people are really concerned about.
[00:40:09]  Forgive me.
[00:40:09]  Laura, Laura, I'm going later to a campaign against the scourge of anti Semitism, which is the greatest threat.
[00:40:18]  It's like, yes, some of our councillors do want to melt Nigerians down to cover the potholes.
[00:40:25]  But on the other hand.
[00:40:27]  Do you know how much I love Jews?
[00:40:28]  Yeah.
[00:40:28]  Have you considered that, Laura?
[00:40:31]  And so I just found this, and oh my gosh, just see the way that these two bits of messaging coincide together just had me in stitches this morning from Hope Not Hate, where it says Reform candidates this cycle include racists, anti Semites, Islamophobes, and conspiracy theorists.
[00:40:48]  Zia Youssef called it the best vetting in the country.
[00:40:58]  Again, I can feel myself torn on my allegiance in this particular segment.
[00:41:04]  Mission accomplished, I guess.
[00:41:06]  I mean, this one as well, just it's like the first newly elected councillor to resign following the elections in from Daniel Devaney, elected in Bradford, resigned saying he doesn't want to be a councillor and has decided to go on holiday.
[00:41:18]  He has made a multitude of offensive posts about Muslims.
[00:41:22]  Well, in Little Bradford, so yeah.
[00:41:24]  I love that I've accidentally been elected as a councillor.
[00:41:27]  Oh no, yeah, exactly.
[00:41:30]  How did this happen to me?
[00:41:32]  I just love the idea.
[00:41:33]  It's like the entire campaign, it's like, yeah, these Muslims are a bit of a problem, innit?
[00:41:37]  You've won.
[00:41:38]  Oh, I didn't want to go that far.
[00:41:39]  I just want to take you.
[00:41:42]  He also wants to go on a holiday, so temper has died down.
[00:41:45]  Going on holiday to Tunisia or something.
[00:41:47]  Now he's just going to go do some medmaxing.
[00:41:50]  Yeah.
[00:41:51]  And the other thing, as well, as Connor points out here, when it came to the Boris wave candidates that reform put in, as you can see here, so the Bangladeshi national candidate who came over, Adi Mo, lost his bid to become the local councillor in Central South Sea Ward of Portsmouth, but all of his British colleagues.
[00:42:11]  Won the five seats.
[00:42:13]  Maybe a lesson here for reform, and certainly something that.
[00:42:17]  Well, what was his solution to solve the pothole problem?
[00:42:21]  Oh, the Boris wave for that.
[00:42:22]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:42:23]  Yeah.
[00:42:25]  But it comes down to the thing, doesn't it?
[00:42:27]  It's like, look, you can put these types of candidates in front of the British electorate.
[00:42:34]  You can say to them, it would be really good to help us save the system and manage multiculturalism better if you would just put in what reform would just see as the good ones, like the helpful ones.
[00:42:45]  But You cannot force the public to actually vote for them, right?
[00:42:49]  You just can't.
[00:42:51]  Once you're in there at the ballot, there is also a lot of I don't really care what he said about Muslims or Nigerians or whatever.
[00:42:59]  You know, there's a lot of this, like the sensitivities around politically correct statements are a luxury belief.
[00:43:08]  Yes.
[00:43:09]  And when your country is going down the tubes as fast as our country is, suddenly it's just like, yeah, I don't care about that.
[00:43:15]  And most people don't care.
[00:43:16]  Yeah.
[00:43:16]  No.
[00:43:16]  It's not in any way, you know, like go vote Labour if you're.
[00:43:19]  Because it isn't just that people don't care about it on its own.
[00:43:25]  It's that they look also at what the Westminster Circle does care about.
[00:43:31]  They say, yeah, it's a completely different value system.
[00:43:34]  Yeah, not once have they solved my pothole problem.
[00:43:36]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:43:38]  And they have no suggestion, no proposal.
[00:43:42]  I mean, you know, if it was Laura Kusenberg, it was like, look, Richard, Nigerians don't melt, they burn like all humans.
[00:43:50]  It's just not a plan that actually works.
[00:43:52]  Yet again.
[00:43:53]  Richard.
[00:43:54]  Dummy.
[00:43:54]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:43:56]  Yet again, reform put forward a proposal that just can't work on the merits.
[00:44:00]  Then she would have actually got him and it wouldn't have been a smear.
[00:44:02]  But on the other hand, people who were just watching the BBC that morning are now aware of some of the policies.
[00:44:10]  They're going to try and melt down the Nigerians.
[00:44:12]  The polls.
[00:44:12]  It's like, well, I do hate the polls.
[00:44:13]  Some of the policies.
[00:44:14]  But it's just that thing that, right.
[00:44:18]  It becomes.
[00:44:18]  Because just think back to the last time.
[00:44:22]  That Reform UK were running the councillors.
[00:44:26]  And there was just so much apologia.
[00:44:28]  It's, oh, we're sorry that we put this person through.
[00:44:30]  And oh, this person got through and it is a mistake.
[00:44:32]  And Tice does go on to concede some of that as well.
[00:44:36]  What I'm saying here is, yeah, but like the raw numbers at this point are just suggesting that you're going to be harder pressed to find someone who is squeaky clean and actually a good candidate than someone who's, you know, a bit spicy online.
[00:44:52]  And who actually cares about the issue and is willing to dedicate their time to solving it, thinking outside the box as they do.
[00:45:01]  And all of this is, of course, juxtaposed by the fact that.
[00:45:04]  So, for this, we're just looking at people who are obviously very, very reactionary to the state that Britain has been put into, but it's obviously also on the left as well.
[00:45:15]  And when you look at the collapse of the uniparty, you look at the Labour Party hemorrhaging councillors, hemorrhaging support, you look at the Tories just being basically non existent at this.
[00:45:26]  Point and my god, I would love to have a single conversation with someone who still votes conservative just to try and get into their head to see what they're still fighting for.
[00:45:37]  But the other thing as well is that it's not just the sacred cows on the right about multiculturalism and all these sorts of things that we're just sick to death of.

=== Visa Applications and Escalation (07:50) ===

[00:45:46]  Obviously, from the left as well, you're just getting like this total just mask off moment from the Greens now.
[00:45:53]  It's just lunacy, isn't it?
[00:45:54]  Yeah, where they're not even just pretending, there's no Pretense of like that they don't have utter contempt for social standards, for just anything.
[00:46:04]  And obviously for the fact that their pet issue of Palestine is just very underrepresented in Parliament as well.
[00:46:11]  And that is very much like, you know, we have an issue with diversity on this side of the aisle.
[00:46:16]  They're just looking at something they feel unrepresented in and are trying to make something of it.
[00:46:22]  And so you're getting from both sides are just chipping away at it until there's absolutely nothing in the centre.
[00:46:27]  And actually, Where, in the grand scheme of things, the political landscape has become so out of sorts from what the establishment, the careerists are used to, that actually we're arriving at the point where no provocation and the edginess is becoming a bit of a boon at the ballot box.
[00:46:48]  They all won their seats.
[00:46:49]  Right, they all won.
[00:46:52]  Can we explain this one very quickly?
[00:46:54]  Yes, I was going to.
[00:46:55]  Sorry, sorry.
[00:46:55]  No, it's all right.
[00:46:56]  So, allow me to introduce to you one, Q. Manivanan.
[00:47:03]  Who identifies as non binary and was elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament on the Edinburgh and Lothian East list for the pro independence Scottish Greens.
[00:47:14]  So that's another thing, as well, right?
[00:47:16]  This guy has been in the country since 2021, right?
[00:47:21]  He came over during the Boris wave from that period of time.
[00:47:27]  And not only that, so not only have you been in the country, literally less years.
[00:47:31]  I mean, bear in mind, he's not even been in Scotland for five years, so Nigel Farage would not consider this man a Scot.
[00:47:37]  But the other thing as well is that imagine turning up to a country as a total foreigner, unaccustomed to its way of life, just totally uncaring of its traditions, who it is, its own sense of identity in place, and just going.
[00:47:51]  Oh, yeah, you know that political union that you guys have had for about 200 years now and forged like the most successful civilization of all time?
[00:47:59]  Yeah, 300 years.
[00:48:00]  I'm just going to break that.
[00:48:01]  Yeah, I'm here to destroy it.
[00:48:03]  Yeah.
[00:48:04]  Isn't he on like a visa that doesn't extend to the length of the elected office that he's in?
[00:48:10]  So, what happened was it said, it was reported earlier this week that the former PhD student has appealed to colleagues for just over £2,000 of funding for a temporary graduate visa.
[00:48:23]  This would give the anthropologist and poet, and we'll get to that in a minute, a further three years to work and live in the United Kingdom, picking up the taxpayer funded SNP salary of nearly £80,000 a year.
[00:48:37]  Jesus.
[00:48:39]  Manavinan is said to have told colleagues that this would help buy time to save up the cost of applying for a global talent visa, and the self described queer Tamil immigrant.
[00:48:53]  Was only able to stand in the election after the SNP ministers loosened the rules over who could be a Holyrood candidate.
[00:49:03]  Literal foreigners.
[00:49:04]  Yes.
[00:49:05]  People who literally don't have citizenship and don't even have their visa can be candidates for the SNP.
[00:49:10]  Sorry, for the Greens.
[00:49:11]  Sorry.
[00:49:12]  Scottish Parliament.
[00:49:13]  Manavinan was told.
[00:49:16]  Sorry, so he was born in the Tamil Nadu region of southern India and has basically declared a strong connection, would you believe, to the region's significant history.
[00:49:28]  Of resistance, of social justice, of ecological justice, being inexorable from social justice and all the rest of that garbage.
[00:49:39]  I mean, I like the sound of bagpipe.
[00:49:41]  Could I have an honorary Scotsman lordship position or something?
[00:49:45]  There's literally nothing stopping it.
[00:49:48]  Literally.
[00:49:51]  The Scottish Parliament rightly and explicitly chose to permit everyone with the right to live here.
[00:49:59]  To stand in elections, including new Scots on visas.
[00:50:03]  Q is on a valid visa with the right to work and live in Scotland and is a Commonwealth citizen.
[00:50:10]  So what?
[00:50:11]  Oh, God.
[00:50:12]  It's absolutely insane.
[00:50:15]  It's Dr. Q, actually.
[00:50:17]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:50:18]  Well, I think it's in James Bond or something.
[00:50:21]  Anyway, I mean, it gets even worse.
[00:50:22]  He does slam poetry, which, from my point of view, is just literally a crime against humanity.
[00:50:29]  It's the worst.
[00:50:30]  Worst form of art.
[00:50:32]  I hate it.
[00:50:32]  Anyway, and not only that, as soon as he arrives, he's like, Yeah, I'm just going to help all of your Scottish women just become prostitutes.
[00:50:41]  It's like, Okay.
[00:50:42]  This guy may be the biggest stroller out there.
[00:50:44]  I mean, it's just insane.
[00:50:47]  I mean, he immediately arrives, tries to destroy your union, and is like, Yeah, and now let me help your women into sex work.
[00:50:57]  Yeah, so we're going to shoot Pakistanis and melt down the Nigerians on one side, and we're going to turn Scottish women into whores on the other side.
[00:51:03]  Right.
[00:51:04]  You can see how the dialectic here is and why it might be escalating.
[00:51:10]  Incredible work.
[00:51:12]  So he went on to issue a statement about this because a lot of people, because obviously, as we've seen here, there is nothing to possibly criticize about this man.
[00:51:23]  He is a man beyond reproach.
[00:51:25]  Everything, every concern about his character must possibly be the most bad faith interpretation of him known to man.
[00:51:34]  And basically, he just says, Oh, if my mere existence causes this much trouble, I'm excited to see how much my words will.
[00:51:42]  And it's like, okay, so just total childishness.
[00:51:44]  But the larger point.
[00:51:46]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:51:47]  But, and I mean, there is a chance that perhaps this visa application might all fall apart.
[00:51:54]  And obviously, let's.
[00:51:55]  Come on, Kia.
[00:51:56]  Come on, Shabana Mahmood.
[00:51:58]  Are you going to tolerate this?
[00:51:59]  Yeah.
[00:52:01]  But the larger point with all of this is that though this gentleman is obviously pathetic and obviously has no right to be participating, Within our political system, I would just say that he is taking advantage of a system at the very tail end of its lifespan now, right?
[00:52:22]  And so, actually, when you see things like this happen, and they will continue to happen, don't get yourself too animated about it.
[00:52:31]  Just remember the fact that actually we're in control, our movement is on the way, it's ours that are winning, you know, first in Great Yarmouth, and as well as I think the evidence I put forward to you today suggests, the reform councillors as well.
[00:52:47]  Are very much against the Green Party's style of politics and, frankly, have had enough of the niceties and the political correctness.
[00:52:58]  And they just obviously see that the system does not support them and is taking advantage of them in ways that they couldn't even conceive of before.
[00:53:08]  And so this will all continue.
[00:53:10]  And so long as it does, well, I tell you, these council elections are going to be far more entertaining.
[00:53:19]  Right, I shall check which ones of these I can actually read, given that.
[00:53:25]  So, 14 Barber says, Brother Luca, Brother Stelius, Brother Carl, the restoration will be glorious.
[00:53:32]  The political class' faith in polling is a weakness.

=== Defying Gods in Ancient Wisdom (04:10) ===

[00:53:36]  Climbing the greasy pole sounds like a slang word for sleeping with an Italian.
[00:53:42]  That's very funny.
[00:53:45]  For $5, too.
[00:53:46]  Thank you, Malice.
[00:53:47]  Sigilstone says, Fun fact.
[00:53:50]  When the writer of Jingle Bells recorded said song in Thomas Edison's studio, in the same session, he also recorded another song he wrote that holds something I cannot say.
[00:54:02]  What interesting trivia.
[00:54:04]  And he also says, yes, he also makes another good point there as well.
[00:54:11]  So well done, the Cigarette Stone.
[00:54:14]  All right, so Stelios, over to you, sir.
[00:54:18]  Harry, can we move it along?
[00:54:19]  Thank you.
[00:54:21]  You will probably have heard that Chris Fenolan is directing a movie about Homer's Odyssey, which is going to be released this July.
[00:54:31]  And normally I would be very excited.
[00:54:34]  When it comes to movies, I'm very easy to please.
[00:54:38]  I tend to just want to watch explosions and battles and stuff, and that's it.
[00:54:42]  I'm not particularly hard to please.
[00:54:44]  But in this case, I don't know, guys.
[00:54:47]  You look like you've taken it very personally.
[00:54:49]  Yes, I have.
[00:54:50]  I have.
[00:54:51]  In this case, I'm.
[00:54:53]  I'm very against Christopher Nolan, who I must say, I feel kind of betrayed by him in a way.
[00:55:00]  It's personal because I really like him as a director.
[00:55:03]  Oh, okay.
[00:55:04]  Almost everything he has done except for Tenet, I think was really good.
[00:55:09]  I get the argument that the Batman adaptations were much darker than the comics and stuff, but I think that as movies, they were really good.
[00:55:19]  Right.
[00:55:19]  That's.
[00:55:20]  Sorry.
[00:55:20]  Yeah, just the thing here.
[00:55:22]  Look at the framing.
[00:55:23]  The Odyssey, Defy the Gods.
[00:55:24]  No, wasn't it Defying the Gods that got you sent on the Odyssey in the first place?
[00:55:27]  Not only is Defying the Gods not the moral lesson of the Odyssey, it's not the moral lesson of any Greek mythological story.
[00:55:35]  It's the opposite of that.
[00:55:37]  Yeah.
[00:55:37]  Defy the Gods and you get.
[00:55:38]  Punished a lot.
[00:55:40]  In fact, you might end up finding yourself on an odyssey or something.
[00:55:44]  Yeah, so they have this slogan here: say, defy the gods.
[00:55:50]  And that shows me that they arguably don't know anything about the epic and about the culture within which the epic was written and then circulated.
[00:56:05]  So it's not about defying the gods.
[00:56:07]  Hollywood does try to portray.
[00:56:10]  The Homeric heroes, even in the 2004 film, as being very anti-god, and it's just not the case.
[00:56:18]  There is no scene in the Iliad where Achilles is decapitating a statue of Apollo.
[00:56:23]  No, but a huge amount of Greek wisdom literature is just don't get on the bad side of the gods because they'll punish you and you'll wish they hadn't.
[00:56:31]  It's don't FA, so you don't FO.
[00:56:34]  Yeah.
[00:56:35]  That's exactly it.
[00:56:36]  Yeah, if I was going to summarize what the Greek view of the world was, it's just don't mess around.
[00:56:40]  Just get on with it and do the proper thing, you know.
[00:56:43]  And also, that's not it.
[00:56:44]  The Odyssey begins with Zeus saying that Odysseus is the wisest of all men.
[00:56:49]  Athena is helping him along the way to get back.
[00:56:53]  The only god who had a beef with him was Poseidon because Odysseus and his crew blinded his son, Polyphemus.
[00:57:01]  And that was again an instance where they were the instruments of divine justice because it was Poseidon's son that had defied the gods.
[00:57:12]  Right, let's move forward.
[00:57:15]  Apart from the whole way of framing it, because let's say I'll just say the last thing Defy the God is like that's not what Odysseus did.
[00:57:24]  No, that's massively wrong.
[00:57:25]  But also, it's what the suitors did.
[00:57:27]  But why make a pseudo centric film?
[00:57:31]  I don't care about it.
[00:57:32]  You're missing the entire wisdom of it if it's just about the suitors.
[00:57:36]  But also, it's such an insufferable imposition of the modern conceit that, oh, we've mastered nature, we've mastered the universe, we've mastered everything.
[00:57:44]  We don't need to be religious.
[00:57:45]  We can just We are in control of everything.

=== Bronze Armor and Dark Ages (05:10) ===

[00:57:47]  It's like, yeah, but are we though?
[00:57:49]  And the answer is, of course, no, you are not.
[00:57:52]  This is the point of this sort of ancient wisdom literature to be humble, to know your place in the universe.
[00:57:58]  Don't push at certain boundaries because you'll get raked in the face at best and you'll get cursed and horribly, horribly dealt with at worst.
[00:58:06]  So be sensible is just the message.
[00:58:10]  And Hollywood's just like, yeah, no, defy the gods, be an idiot.
[00:58:13]  It's like, okay, but you're just going to end up like some Indian jumping off a fucking house.
[00:58:18]  Who's standing in front of a train, being hit by it or something?
[00:58:23]  Exactly.
[00:58:23]  You'll get that train just hit you.
[00:58:25]  And it's like, is that what you want?
[00:58:27]  No.
[00:58:27]  And the other bit here is that we are supposed to be in the late Bronze Age.
[00:58:33]  Yes.
[00:58:34]  And just look at that.
[00:58:37]  Just to be clear, for anyone who doesn't know anything about the Bronze Age, they didn't use metals like iron.
[00:58:42]  Yes.
[00:58:43]  So people are saying that it's too dark for the era.
[00:58:49]  It has to somehow have a med maxing feel.
[00:58:53]  Colors should be a bit brighter.
[00:58:56]  People during that age tended to have all sorts of shields that Carl is going to talk about here.
[00:59:02]  Yeah.
[00:59:03]  So, we actually know a lot about the kind of armor that they wore.
[00:59:07]  There are lots of sort of reliefs that show, like, for example, in Egypt, they've got reliefs of the sea people, so we can see exactly what the warriors look like.
[00:59:15]  And we've found what is replicated here is called the Dendra Panoply.
[00:59:18]  So, it's a full suit of armor that's found at Dendra.
[00:59:22]  And it's basically bronze plate armor, which is great.
[00:59:25]  I mean, bronze is a perfectly good material.
[00:59:27]  It's brittle if it's not made entirely correctly.
[00:59:32]  But it's actually not.
[00:59:34]  Particularly weaker than iron or anything like that.
[00:59:36]  The issue is that bronze is harder to make.
[00:59:39]  So, bronze comes from copper and tin.
[00:59:40]  The Mediterranean world itself has lots of bronze, but tin is actually quite hard to come by.
[00:59:45]  The tin supplies that the Mediterranean world used came from Afghanistan and Cornwall.
[00:59:52]  So, like a thousand miles either way, eventually.
[00:59:55]  And they had, you know, huge infrastructure.
[00:59:57]  And part of the Bronze Age collapse is the collapse of these trade routes and chaos going on.
[01:00:01]  And it's, you know, still archaeologists are up in the air about it.
[01:00:05]  And it's like, is it, you know, Droughts and whatnot.
[01:00:08]  Who knows?
[01:00:08]  Barbarian invasions.
[01:00:10]  But the point is, we know they dress like this because we found the clothes.
[01:00:13]  And so, having them in like iron or steel plate armor, it's like, no, this is not correct.
[01:00:21]  And the reason that we didn't use iron in the Bronze Age is because iron is actually quite difficult to smelt.
[01:00:29]  So, bronze is actually really, really easy, right?
[01:00:32]  It's the mixture of bronze that is important.
[01:00:35]  So, like, 10% tin.
[01:00:38]  A very small amount of arsenic and then copper, and you.
[01:00:42]  I've made a bronze sword, right?
[01:00:43]  I've actually made a bronze sword, and then you just pour it into a mould and then it sets.
[01:00:47]  But that's not what's done with iron.
[01:00:49]  With iron, what you need is a consistent heat, and you have to continually work the metal in order to make sure it doesn't become very fragile and brittle or very soft.
[01:00:57]  I mean, one of the issues that the Celts had actually fighting the Romans is that because they used quite long swords, they would find their swords bent.
[01:01:05]  And so the Romans have given us reports of the Celts literally straightening out the Gauls, straightening out their swords.
[01:01:11]  In the middle of a battle, which is one of the reasons why the Romans used a short sword, because then it didn't bend and it was actually quite rigid and could be used as effectively.
[01:01:18]  So the point being is this is kind of like, and I'm not even overstating this, it's kind of like watching a film about, oh, I don't know, William the Conqueror and William the Conqueror rocking up in an Abrams tank, right?
[01:01:36]  And he.
[01:01:39]  I'm not.
[01:01:39]  And then, yeah, you know, like shelling the Saxons.
[01:01:42]  This is a thousand years at least out of date.
[01:01:46]  But even then, the kind of armor, like to have the full plate armor, I mean, not only is this an ugly and ridiculous version like Age of Ultron.
[01:01:55]  Yeah, but William the Conqueror himself didn't use full plate armor.
[01:01:58]  He was wearing mail that was layered with leather underneath because actually it's difficult to make effective full plate armor in iron.
[01:02:06]  So this was sort of like high middle ages standard.
[01:02:08]  So, you know, 1400s, 1500s is when we actually had armor like this.
[01:02:14]  Yes.
[01:02:15]  And the Odyssey is set somewhere around 1300 BC.
[01:02:19]  So you're literally thousands of years out of that.
[01:02:21]  So it's just, from a historical perspective, it's just like, what are they doing?
[01:02:24]  But then from a narrative perspective, okay, who's this guy with this armor?
[01:02:28]  He's meant to be a giant cannibal stone age barbarian.
[01:02:32]  Yep.
[01:02:32]  Like the Lastragonians were literally, you know, giant cannibals in Sicily who didn't have any technology, they were primitives.
[01:02:39]  It's like, why have you got them like this?
[01:02:41]  Has anyone even read the Odyssey?
[01:02:42]  They were ahead of their time, they're ahead of the Greeks.
[01:02:45]  By thousands of years in technology.
[01:02:47]  And it's like, what are we doing?
[01:02:48]  Have you even read The Odyssey?
[01:02:50]  What is happening here?
[01:02:52]  Why are you doing this?
[01:02:53]  Why are you making these choices?
[01:02:55]  Right.
[01:02:55]  Can I give another example as well?

=== Adapting Homer for Modern Audiences (15:32) ===

[01:02:57]  Because one of my favourite films is Excalibur from 1980.
[01:03:03]  And you obviously see in that, it's just post Roman, dark ages and everything.
[01:03:08]  But in the film, they're all wearing full plate armour and everything.
[01:03:12]  But it's obviously a stylistic choice.
[01:03:14]  It's trying to fuse the origins and inspirations for the Arthurian mythos with the actual medieval world in which the stories were spoken around.
[01:03:22]  So it's wielding together that pagan and Christian medieval sense of it to kind of not be able to really pin any of it down in a time and place, make it some sort of like.
[01:03:32]  Fantasyland.
[01:03:33]  So it's all a stylistic choice.
[01:03:35]  And you can see in this style, it's just hideous.
[01:03:39]  It's just hideous to look at.
[01:03:41]  By the way, Excalibur is a wonderful film.
[01:03:44]  You know, I absolutely love it.
[01:03:45]  I haven't watched it since I was a teenager and I can't really remember it.
[01:03:48]  Right.
[01:03:48]  So let's talk about the race swapping in roles.
[01:03:52]  And we are at a stage where, sorry, I've had enough.
[01:03:56]  And I've had completely.
[01:03:58]  When the Greek began to hate.
[01:03:59]  No, no, no.
[01:04:00]  For one major reason, is that they're doing it on purpose.
[01:04:03]  Yes.
[01:04:04]  Yes, of course.
[01:04:04]  Right.
[01:04:05]  That's what.
[01:04:06]  That's what angers me most.
[01:04:07]  And I'll give you one example, Khucha always gives.
[01:04:10]  Yeah.
[01:04:10]  Is when it came to Bruce Almighty with, who was it?
[01:04:15]  Jim Carrey.
[01:04:16]  With Jim Carrey, yes.
[01:04:17]  They cast Morgan Freeman as God.
[01:04:19]  Yes.
[01:04:20]  And he was wonderful for the role.
[01:04:23]  And you could actually see why they would do it because he has a very deep voice.
[01:04:27]  He has a sense of gravity.
[01:04:29]  He can sort of support the role.
[01:04:31]  And also, it wasn't marketed as we have to make greater representation of.
[01:04:38]  One group just because for activist reasons is.
[01:04:41]  But also, the figure of God could be literally anyone.
[01:04:44]  It could be any human who could betray God because we're meant to be made in the likeness of God.
[01:04:49]  And therefore, God could obviously just look like whatever he wanted.
[01:04:52]  So it's not like a tremendously offensive thing.
[01:04:55]  Yeah, but you could see how, for instance, you could say Europeans have portrayed God in a particular way, like in the Sistine Chapel or something.
[01:05:03]  But even there, there wasn't any sort of outcry or massive anger, right?
[01:05:09]  I wasn't angry.
[01:05:11]  Um, at all, in fact, he did a pretty good job, he did a great job there.
[01:05:16]  But it's the way that it is packaged is that they are doing this not because they think that it has artistic value, they're doing this on purpose, they're doing this for wokeness.
[01:05:26]  So, nothing against the people who are going to be cast there themselves, but it's the whole packaging of wokeness that completely tries to subordinate artistic value to political expediency and political goals.
[01:05:42]  I don't want to watch.
[01:05:43]  Is this Helen of Troy?
[01:05:44]  Uh, no.
[01:05:45]  Sure.
[01:05:46]  Well, I mean, it's meant to be the actor who's Helen of Troy.
[01:05:50]  Actress, right?
[01:05:51]  Is that a face that launched a thousand ships?
[01:05:54]  Jesus Christ.
[01:05:54]  In the opposite direction.
[01:05:56]  At least get an attractive woman doing it.
[01:05:58]  One thing, as well, I'll just say, Stelios, is that when you look at Christopher Nolan's film before this one, Oppenheimer, he was actually able to basically have an entire cast that was racially sensitive to the time period in which the film was being set.
[01:06:15]  And that, actually, Nolan being one of those directors who has the.
[01:06:19]  Power and that much control over the project that he's actually able to leapfrog a lot of the DEI practices going on in Hollywood goes to show that he could actually, if he'd have wanted to, have the bargaining power to actually cast us more authentically.
[01:06:36]  I'm sure the director could not have done it if he'd wanted to anyway.
[01:06:40]  He's the director.
[01:06:43]  Is there a single Greek even in the film?
[01:06:45]  No.
[01:06:46]  And I'll say this because people ask me, you know, are any offended that Greeks are in the movie or something?
[01:06:51]  I mean, that's not the issue.
[01:06:53]  The issue is, do you want to portray something that you respect the material?
[01:06:59]  Do you want to make something that has artistic value?
[01:07:02]  Or do you want to do propaganda?
[01:07:04]  And here it seems to me that it's just propaganda.
[01:07:07]  And here we have.
[01:07:07]  Sorry, before we go on to that, that's a great point because this is why, like, if you look at the 2004 Troy movie, okay, there probably aren't any Greeks in that either, but you can look at, like, Eric Banner and Brad Pitt.
[01:07:19]  Yeah, they have a really good representation of Achilles and.
[01:07:21]  Yeah, it's do you respect the material?
[01:07:23]  That's my question.
[01:07:24]  Like they've actually, yeah, Achilles is described as having golden hair like a lion.
[01:07:28]  Okay, Brad Pitt's a great choice for it.
[01:07:29]  You know, Eric Banner looks like what you would think an Anatolian man in, you know, 1000 BC would actually look like.
[01:07:36]  And they're both great.
[01:07:37]  And I mean, the fight scene, I was literally watching it earlier because it's just such a good fight scene.
[01:07:41]  And it's literally, as you say, it's about what am I trying to do here?
[01:07:46]  And what they seem to be trying to do, I mean, especially with this, it looks like it's just an attempt to essentially humiliate Westerners for even liking the story.
[01:07:55]  Like, we're going to make this as crap as possible, and we're going to make it so it's weird and vulgar to you, and now we want you to go and pay money to watch it.
[01:08:03]  It's like, this is going to end like you think.
[01:08:06]  We will talk a lot about this because it has to do with the kind of translation that Christopher Nolan has found inspiring.
[01:08:12]  Oh, no, he's not using that woman, is he?
[01:08:14]  He absolutely is.
[01:08:15]  Oh, no.
[01:08:17]  Right, so.
[01:08:18]  Oh, tell me of a complicated man who meets.
[01:08:20]  Right, so Homer Pavlos again says here, oh, the Greek goddess Athena, whom the Greeks call her Glafkopis.
[01:08:29]  The one with bright and piercing eyes like an owl, and Nikephoros, victory bringer, because as a spear armed, shield bearing general, she brought victory.
[01:08:37]  And he says, Nolan read about Athena and imagines and dies.
[01:08:42]  Just a quick thing here, right?
[01:08:43]  This is a great description.
[01:08:43]  Because I went to, a couple of years ago, I went to Rome, and in one of the museums in Rome, they had a statue, a Greek statue of Athena from like the third century or something.
[01:08:55]  And the eyes are cut sapphires.
[01:08:59]  And so, and I've got a video of it, but I don't know what I did with the video, because the eyes.
[01:09:03]  Flash and glint because they're so well crafted.
[01:09:08]  The rest of the eye is obviously marble, but the actual iris is blue sapphire.
[01:09:12]  It's extraordinary.
[01:09:13]  Oh, it's incredible.
[01:09:14]  And I wish I could find that bloody video because it's such a worthwhile little thing where you just move around and the eye is glinting like piercing bright eyes of an owl.
[01:09:24]  It's like it's beautiful.
[01:09:26]  It's not Zendaya.
[01:09:26]  Sorry.
[01:09:27]  Yeah, it's not Zendaya.
[01:09:29]  And here we go and talk about the Achilles Page controversy.
[01:09:33]  It's can't be.
[01:09:34]  One thing, I don't know.
[01:09:36]  I think it is true.
[01:09:37]  We don't know yet.
[01:09:39]  We have seen rumors, but it seems to me that there are two options here.
[01:09:46]  One is Paige is playing Odysseus' mother in the underworld, or Paige is playing Achilles.
[01:09:57]  Everyone on the internet is saying that Paige is playing Achilles.
[01:10:02]  I know.
[01:10:02]  And I don't think that Nolan's career would.
[01:10:07]  Nolan would walk the streets of Hollywood if Page was playing Odysseus as.
[01:10:15]  In Hollywood, they're all going to be like, oh, well, that's so stunning and brave to put Elliot Page as Achilles.
[01:10:20]  That's such a good idea.
[01:10:21]  The white supremacist chuds own that.
[01:10:24]  It's like, yeah, I'm sure it'd be really popular in Hollywood.
[01:10:27]  But the thing is, as well, because I expect this film to actually do very, very well at the box office, just because it's a Christopher Nolan film.
[01:10:35]  And I think he is one that still has, like.
[01:10:40]  People, like normies, do respect him.
[01:10:42]  They do like his films.
[01:10:44]  They kind of expect it to bring in a crowd.
[01:10:47]  And so, actually, you can put in Page as Achilles.
[01:10:50]  You can make Helen of Troy black, and they'll just be like, oh, see, it didn't matter.
[01:10:54]  We want it, right?
[01:10:54]  That's obviously what they're hoping for to happen.
[01:10:58]  I'm hoping that.
[01:10:58]  I hope it crashes.
[01:10:59]  Yeah, but I mean, I don't want to watch Netflix.
[01:11:03]  Yeah, no.
[01:11:03]  I want to watch a good adaptation that respects the material.
[01:11:07]  Yeah, I love it.
[01:11:08]  Right, so.
[01:11:10]  This can't be real.
[01:11:12]  According to rumors, Paige is going to play Achilles.
[01:11:15]  And they say here, name a big downgrade or something.
[01:11:19]  I just can't even imagine.
[01:11:20]  Right.
[01:11:21]  And John Del Arroz says here that is about subverting Western culture entirely.
[01:11:27]  None of this is an accident.
[01:11:28]  And it absolutely is not.
[01:11:30]  It's because we are, most people don't know it.
[01:11:34]  The people you mentioned who are going to watch the movie and are enthusiastic about it don't know it.
[01:11:38]  But we know it because we know how the woke think.
[01:11:42]  We know that the woke karate constantly say, well, the West has a very bad idea of masculinity.
[01:11:47]  It's toxic masculinity and we need to subvert it.
[01:11:49]  And Achilles, for instance, is going to be.
[01:11:53]  One of the major heroes in the Western canon.
[01:11:56]  So we need to subvert that.
[01:11:57]  It's about taking something away from you.
[01:12:00]  That's what this boils down to.
[01:12:01]  And it was the same with like the 2016 Ghostbusters.
[01:12:04]  Ghostbusters was always like a sort of fond memory.
[01:12:07]  You know, when you were a kid, you'd watch Ghostbusters.
[01:12:09]  Yeah, everyone loves it, right?
[01:12:10]  So it was something you watch on a Sunday afternoon or whatever.
[01:12:13]  It was fun.
[01:12:14]  You enjoyed the characters.
[01:12:15]  And they're like, yeah, no, we're going to take that away from you and spoil it.
[01:12:18]  That's what they're doing with this.
[01:12:19]  It's not about creation.
[01:12:21]  It's a power.
[01:12:22]  It's not about creation.
[01:12:23]  It's about swapping the already existing material.
[01:12:26]  Because I will say one thing is that I don't like constant remakes.
[01:12:31]  I do think that there is a gap for new movies and new epics and new.
[01:12:36]  That would be a good point.
[01:12:37]  In a way, a new era of cinema.
[01:12:39]  Why don't you create your own movies?
[01:12:42]  Because they don't want to.
[01:12:43]  Why don't you create your own epics?
[01:12:45]  Because they're not interested in doing that.
[01:12:47]  The only reason that there would be to do this is to destroy something you love.
[01:12:52]  It is a psychic attack, a spiritual attack on you.
[01:12:56]  It's on purpose.
[01:12:56]  And the thing is.
[01:12:57]  All of their, like, I'm going to do a big video about this because the theory behind it is quite straightforward.
[01:13:04]  And they just tell you, you know, no, it's about time that we stop putting straight white men in heroic roles in order to make sure they don't feel like they're the protagonist of Western civilization.
[01:13:15]  They tell us this.
[01:13:16]  And that's what this is.
[01:13:18]  That's the whole point of this.
[01:13:20]  Yeah, exactly what he said.
[01:13:22]  You anticipated the next link.
[01:13:25]  Says Emily Wilson.
[01:13:25]  Shut up, Emily.
[01:13:26]  I don't want to hear about the complicated one.
[01:13:28]  I want to hear about the chat.
[01:13:30]  So, the Odyssey Ancient Epic has been translated many times.
[01:13:34]  Not every translation is the same.
[01:13:37]  There was a kind of divine inspiration that every poet was claiming and asking for when they were narrating these events.
[01:13:47]  And the texts and the translations get progressively more dry because it seems they aren't communicating something really important about the poet's perspective.
[01:14:00]  One thing Emily Wilson has I've seen interviews with her and read interviews in magazines and stuff where she's, I suppose, bragged about it, where she said, No, what I'm giving is kind of like the most literal translation.
[01:14:10]  And it's like, Okay, but actually, if you think about modernity and the sort of Latinization of our language compared to like in Tolkien's day, where he's spoken like 80% Anglo Saxon words, and now George R.R. Martin is writing with 50% Latin words, you've got this sort of thinning out of the richness of the language and culture.
[01:14:30]  And what the old, like, you get Victorian translations of the Odyssey that you can just find on the internet.
[01:14:35]  And they're very rich because they're trying to give you the spirit of the text rather than the literal words.
[01:14:40]  Because actually, the literal words don't necessarily encompass what is actually being communicated by the poet like it was in ancient Greece.
[01:14:48]  And so, this sort of reductionism, this sort of reductive.
[01:14:52]  You're not reading a manual when you're divinely inspired.
[01:14:55]  Exactly.
[01:14:56]  This kind of reductive translation fad is actually reducing and removing something that's core to the text from you having access to it.
[01:15:05]  They're removing something away from you, just like they're doing with the film itself.
[01:15:09]  No, I'm trying to take something away from you.
[01:15:11]  And it's this constant attempt at immiserating the Western canon because they believe that in representation, you find.
[01:15:21]  Motivation and moralizing.
[01:15:24]  And so, what they're trying to do is take that away.
[01:15:25]  They're trying to demoralize you, take this away, so they can have positions of power and authority and you can't.
[01:15:31]  It's explicit.
[01:15:32]  Yeah, and that's why I'm saying that they're not respecting the material.
[01:15:35]  Absolutely.
[01:15:35]  She says here, and I'm talking about the translator of the Odyssey that Christopher Nolan says is very much inspired from.
[01:15:46]  They say here, historically, men translated the Odyssey.
[01:15:49]  Here's what happened when a woman took the job.
[01:15:51]  So, the way they're framing it.
[01:15:53]  Isn't like she made a better translation because she's a linguist, she has studied this.
[01:15:59]  They say she's a woman and listen to her because she's a woman and the others were men.
[01:16:07]  But not only that, that's how they're packaging it.
[01:16:09]  So I don't see what Christopher Nolan finds interesting in this.
[01:16:14]  But not only that, because she is a woman and because she's doing it for the sisterhood, it basically means it's predetermined that it's good as well.
[01:16:22]  Oh, yeah.
[01:16:23]  Interesting.
[01:16:25]  What I want to do now for the rest of the segment is to actually destroy one myth the myth that modern academia is completely against ancient Greece and ancient Greek epics.
[01:16:40]  Some of them are, not all of them are.
[01:16:42]  And I will start with the bad ones, let's say, the bad ones are this, and also show you some really good work about the Homeric epics of academia that is modern.
[01:16:57]  It's far better to draw inspiration from when you want to adapt a Homeric epic.
[01:17:04]  Right, so let's look at here.
[01:17:06]  We have, unfortunately, a very woke presentation of the Homeric epic and Achilles and Odysseus.
[01:17:15]  And we have here Alexander Thatcher saying here Achilles isn't the embodiment of Greek and Roman male perfection.
[01:17:21]  He's a pain in the ass emo kid who kills the most clearly heroic and sympathetic character in the story.
[01:17:27]  Because his male lover wasn't as good a fighter as either of them.
[01:17:31]  His name brings bringer of woe to the people, and he brings woe to both Greeks and Trojans.
[01:17:39]  So it's a bane, it's deeply shameful that we can only look at the past and just constantly see gay people.
[01:17:49]  It's like the meme from The Sixth Sense where I see dead people.
[01:17:52]  It's like the modern academic is like that, but also happy.
[01:17:55]  It's like I see gay people.
[01:17:58]  They do it everywhere.
[01:17:59]  They even do it, Carl in the Epic of Gilgamesh, when Gilgamesh is crying for Enkidu.
[01:18:04]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:18:05]  When he died, they are trying to predict.
[01:18:08]  Yeah, he was gay for crying for his friends.
[01:18:10]  No.
[01:18:10]  Ooh, straight people don't have emotions.
[01:18:13]  He had emotions, therefore he's gay.
[01:18:15]  That's the way he.
[01:18:17]  What a trite description of Achilles, where he's an emo kid.
[01:18:23]  No, no, I mean, don't get me wrong.
[01:18:26]  It's like watching everyone rubbing tips in antiquity, just out of.

=== Status, Briseis, and Achilles (09:45) ===

[01:18:30]  But it's not just that, though.
[01:18:31]  It's like, look.
[01:18:33]  Again, you don't understand the kind of framework that the people that Achilles is representing had.
[01:18:43]  And to emphasize the shame that Agamemnon has brought on Achilles by giving him a slave girl that he's in love with as his prize, Briseis, and then taking her away because you feel like you haven't got enough of a treasure hoard yourself, and you've humiliated him publicly in front of the entire host, and like front and reputation is the most important thing for these people.
[01:19:07]  And then you're like, right, okay, now I want you to go and fight for me to take Troy.
[01:19:10]  And Achilles' like, no.
[01:19:12]  Me and my myrmidons are going to stay in the camp because you have wronged me.
[01:19:17]  And until you make restitution, I will not fight for you.
[01:19:21]  And then when he's losing, the Trojans are losing, and Patroclus dies, he gives Briseis back.
[01:19:28]  And so Achilles has actually been correct the whole time.
[01:19:32]  Agamemnon admits with the restoration of Briseis that no, no, actually, I was wrong.
[01:19:36]  I needed you.
[01:19:37]  And then he goes out and wins it for the Trojans, for the Achaeans.
[01:19:40]  Right.
[01:19:41]  So I can't recommend enough this speech here by Dr. Irwin Cook.
[01:19:47]  Who is talking about the contemporary relevance of the Iliad?
[01:19:50]  I will play some parts of it, but I will say two things briefly.
[01:19:55]  Definitely watch it if you want an antidote to all this madness.
[01:19:59]  I'm going to go watch that.
[01:20:00]  Sounds good.
[01:20:01]  He says he does two really interesting things here.
[01:20:05]  He says that if you read the Homeric epics and you check out the psychology of inner city gangs and gang members and also combat veterans, You will have a much better idea of what it is that Homer was talking about.
[01:20:22]  And there is obviously the metaphysical and the ethical aspect of the Homeric epics, i.e., homecoming as finding meaning, finding your rightful place in the universe, and being an instrument of divine justice.
[01:20:39]  But there is also another element on why they feel the way they feel.
[01:20:43]  They don't feel the way they feel because they're gay and only gay people feel.
[01:20:47]  They feel the way they feel because they lived in a particular Their lived experience was a very peculiar one.
[01:20:54]  And he mentions here an article and a book by Elijah Anderson.
[01:20:59]  And this is a compressed article that was published in The Atlantic 32 years ago.
[01:21:05]  Imagine the cultural change in these 32 years now.
[01:21:09]  Talking about the code of the streets, where he's talking about the psychology of the inner city gang members.
[01:21:15]  And he's saying that essentially the Iliad is a war epic and it describes really well.
[01:21:23]  How people in this world experience life.
[01:21:27]  Because status for them is everything.
[01:21:30]  Not only because, and the main reason is because status for them is a psychological device that intimidates other people.
[01:21:39]  And in a world where there is, in a sense, a war of all against all, people who don't command respect are in an immediate physical danger.
[01:21:49]  And there are also other elements of feeling left behind the society.
[01:21:53]  And that, check out the video.
[01:21:54]  But their status is.
[01:21:57]  Essentially, constantly under negotiation.
[01:22:00]  And when, for instance, you mentioned Agamemnon and Briseis and how they are trying to distribute the spoils of war, it's not about the truth.
[01:22:11]  It's about insulting one another because they can.
[01:22:15]  It's a constant fighting for status.
[01:22:19]  Just a quick thing it's the bonds of loyalty as well, and obligation and reciprocity.
[01:22:25]  These are all just.
[01:22:26]  The Code of the Streets is exactly the right way of framing it.
[01:22:28]  Because what they're living in.
[01:22:30]  Is the same kind of warrior society that doesn't have like a code of laws or something.
[01:22:36]  No, it's all about personal relationships and, as you say, status negotiations.
[01:22:41]  This is why what Agamemnon did to Achilles is so obviously frames Agamemnon as the villain.
[01:22:47]  It might be strange looking from the outside, but it's unquestionable in its own moral framework.
[01:22:52]  There's just no doubt that Achilles is the wronged party, and he didn't deserve it.
[01:22:55]  He's been a loyal soldier for Agamemnon the whole time, and Agamemnon still completely relies on him, or the entire war is lost.
[01:23:04]  Exactly.
[01:23:05]  And in this world where status is.
[01:23:08]  They perceive status as everything, and status must constantly be negotiated.
[01:23:12]  It's a sort of like.
[01:23:14]  Immaterial capital or an immaterial shield.
[01:23:18]  People who live this way, they're notoriously thin skinned and ready to really trigger happy.
[01:23:25]  Like the same thing we see with the movies with the gangs and the Italian.
[01:23:30]  You come into my house.
[01:23:33]  That's exactly the same morality.
[01:23:35]  That's it.
[01:23:36]  So it's not because they're gay, it's because they live in a particular reality where this is the thing.
[01:23:41]  It's not like Alexander Thatcher said before.
[01:23:44]  He's a spoiled emo brat.
[01:23:46]  That's not it.
[01:23:48]  This isn't an epic about people sitting in their sofas watching Netflix and being occasionally edgy with their friends.
[01:23:58]  This is a war epic.
[01:24:01]  It's because he's not a spoiled brat that he's on such a knife edge.
[01:24:05]  Everything could be taken away from him in a moment, as Agamemnon is showing.
[01:24:10]  And no surprise, he's a bit bothered by it.
[01:24:13]  I'm a bit conscious of time.
[01:24:15]  I'll have to wrap it up a bit.
[01:24:16]  Speaking of Agamemnon, check out.
[01:24:18]  The Chronicles episode Luca and I did on Agamemnon.
[01:24:23]  Really great stuff.
[01:24:24]  Yeah, we talked about the whole trilogy, didn't we?
[01:24:27]  The Theorist's diary through Agamemnon's murder, returning home from Troy to.
[01:24:31]  Also, with as little as five pounds a month, you can subscribe and watch all our premium content.
[01:24:37]  Right.
[01:24:38]  And the other bits I want to show from here have to do with the combat veteran aspect of it.
[01:24:43]  I'll say this.
[01:24:44]  But you've got six minutes.
[01:24:45]  Yeah, we do have six minutes.
[01:24:47]  I will say this.
[01:24:47]  But Dr. Cook is talking about a.
[01:24:51]  Clinical psychologist.
[01:24:53]  I'll just describe what he says and people can go watch it afterwards.
[01:24:57]  He says that there are two books by Dr. Jonathan Shea, a friend of his, who's a doctor of clinical psychology who was working with war veterans, especially in Vietnam.
[01:25:08]  And he has written two books Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America.
[01:25:13]  And he's saying essentially you can look at the Odyssey also from the perspective of a war veteran coming home.
[01:25:21]  And how difficult it is to reintegrate in society.
[01:25:24]  But when it comes to Achilles, it's again not about being gay or emo or something.
[01:25:29]  He says that when you fight, what they saw in the veterans that they were talking to was that when you fight for a long time and you have the people back at the headquarters giving you orders that are frequently completely wrong from your perspective, you frequently get the sense of a betrayal.
[01:25:49]  And there is a complete shrinkage of your moral and social horizon.
[01:25:54]  And this.
[01:25:54]  Boils down to two or three people.
[01:25:57]  You're really close friends.
[01:25:58]  And when these people die, frequently these soldiers go completely berserk and on a rampage.
[01:26:04]  That's literally what's happening with Achilles and Patroclus and Hector.
[01:26:08]  Absolutely.
[01:26:08]  That's literally what's happening.
[01:26:10]  Yeah.
[01:26:10]  So it's not that the entire culture and the entire modern academia has turned its back on it, it's a few activists who are doing this on purpose.
[01:26:20]  So let's find and highlight the good ones.
[01:26:24]  All right, wonderful.
[01:26:25]  I'll just quickly race through Rumble Rants.
[01:26:28]  We've got, if you can bring the mouse across.
[01:26:33]  Yeah, the face that launched a thousand dinghies.
[01:26:35]  That's a random name.
[01:26:37]  Absolute banger of a comment.
[01:26:40]  The Achaeans were clearly ethnic Bantus that wore medieval plate armor.
[01:26:45]  Yeah, everyone's having a good pop of it.
[01:26:47]  O Punk says Achilles was one like a trout.
[01:26:49]  Yeah, there are many, many candidates here.
[01:26:51]  For the sake of time, gentlemen, I have.
[01:26:55]  Alexander the Great looks at his dead cousin and weeps.
[01:26:58]  Surprisingly, based leftist Ponce Singh is like, ha, gay.
[01:27:01]  Yeah, it does seem to be.
[01:27:02]  The absent occasion where he says Late Bronze Age is at.
[01:27:05]  Very much so.
[01:27:06]  Very much so.
[01:27:07]  And he also says there were literally only two black people in.
[01:27:11]  Homer's epic, and they were in the Iliad from the kingdom of Kush.
[01:27:14]  Yes.
[01:27:14]  And they were killed in the war.
[01:27:15]  They weren't in the Odyssey.
[01:27:17]  All right.
[01:27:18]  Do we have any video comments, Harry?
[01:27:21]  Okay, let's have a look.
[01:27:24]  In the meantime, Zesty King says, Keir Starmer is the guy, gets the guy, crashed the economy, sold the gold to advise him on the economy, while getting the woman who supported the paedophile information exchange to advise on helping young girls.
[01:27:35]  What's happening here?
[01:27:36]  Yeah, it's really, really peculiar.
[01:27:39]  Can't explain it.
[01:27:40]  No.
[01:27:43]  Here, Peter Parr is fiercely defending the house against the fearsome enemy of mosquitoes, always a deadly enemy in southern Southern California.
[01:27:55]  He knows the danger of the danger flies, so he fiercely defends the screen door whenever it opens.
[01:28:04]  He also defends the house against the dangers of the neighbor's cat, always an enemy that steals his treats.
[01:28:12]  Patriot, you look well defended.

=== Defending Culture Against Enemies (03:00) ===

[01:28:16]  So that's just, alright, another go on then.
[01:28:21]  Well, good morning, gentlemen, and a good morning it is.
[01:28:25]  It is 8 o'clock Paris time.
[01:28:31]  And we have a bit of a sunrise.
[01:28:33]  Okay, it's a little after sunrise.
[01:28:35]  Sunrise was a bit earlier this morning.
[01:28:38]  So, yes, my final day in Paris.
[01:28:41]  My father and I fly home today.
[01:28:44]  Have a better one.
[01:28:47]  Oh, excellent.
[01:28:47]  I hope you had a really good time out there, Michael.
[01:28:49]  Have a good flight back.
[01:28:51]  Yes.
[01:28:57]  Well, isn't this interesting?
[01:28:58]  I guess we can see what Josh is doing with his spare time.
[01:29:04]  He's making wine.
[01:29:08]  Excellent.
[01:29:09]  Any more, Harry?
[01:29:15]  It's also the full frame.
[01:29:17]  A little travel documentary here.
[01:29:18]  A video from the City of Lights before my father and I head home to the United States.
[01:29:23]  Welcome to Paris.
[01:29:27]  What?
[01:29:31]  Wonderful.
[01:29:32]  All right then.
[01:29:33]  From.
[01:29:35]  Is there more?
[01:29:37]  Okay, go on then.
[01:29:39]  You know, with all the hubbub around the SLPC manufacturing its own oppression to solidify a cultural narrative, it really highlights the question as to how much of culture is even legitimate.
[01:29:48]  Going back to the 1930s, what we now understand to be modern art was actually kind of a CIA campaign to counter the rise of fascism.
[01:29:54]  They laundered this idea into high culture by paying off.
[01:29:57]  Patrons to commission the art.
[01:29:58]  Then, during the Second World War, every state on earth suddenly realized society itself was its purview to curate.
[01:30:03]  This is something we've never really turned off.
[01:30:05]  The inescapable conclusion is that we haven't actually had a legitimate culture since the 1930s.
[01:30:10]  How do you even begin to calculate the damage, or worse yet, ever falsify that it isn't happening in the future?
[01:30:16]  Just a quick thing on this this is so completely true.
[01:30:19]  Billy Corgan was actually talking about the rise of rap, and it was completely artificial.
[01:30:23]  I think Harry did something on it not so long ago.
[01:30:26]  But basically, in the 80s and 90s, rock became really popular with white.
[01:30:30]  Kids, and for some reason, the establishment was like, Right, okay, we're just gonna literally uh emphasize rap and uh sort of essentially kill off rock.
[01:30:39]  And okay, that lasted for a while, but now with the diffusion of cultural choices and personal choices from the internet, well, if you look at like the top 40s now, there's like one rap in there and it's all back to like white kid rock.
[01:30:51]  Oh, thank god, I know, but the point is, he's right that how you know, we when was the last time we have an authentic culture?
[01:30:57]  Well, on the cusp of a change before it becomes centralized and controlled, so the agenda can be enforced, but when that Don't happen, then we can have an authentic culture.
[01:31:08]  A culture beyond Banksy would be great.
[01:31:11]  Can I get through some of the comments here?
[01:31:12]  Because just as a last minute, because there's some great ones.

=== The Starmer Doomslayer Pitch (01:51) ===

[01:31:16]  Nicholas says, I didn't realize what a hero Starmer is.
[01:31:19]  He's the wall keeping everyone safe from the rest of Labour.
[01:31:22]  What a true hero.
[01:31:23]  And it's like, no, that's literally Keir Starmer's message.
[01:31:25]  He is the firewall.
[01:31:27]  Yes.
[01:31:28]  Starmer is like the doomslayer, except instead of fighting hordes of demons, he's holding back the endless tides of retarded communists in the Labour Party.
[01:31:36]  Yeah, that's exactly what he's doing.
[01:31:38]  It's exactly the pitch to the country.
[01:31:40]  It's like, trust me, after me, you're going to regret it.
[01:31:43]  So you better hope I can hold the line.
[01:31:45]  You're going to miss me when I'm gone.
[01:31:49]  And Lord Hector X says, So are the potholes not getting filled in?
[01:31:52]  Another campaign promise broken.
[01:31:54]  Gutting, really.
[01:31:55]  Got to think outside the pothole, he says on mine.
[01:31:59]  And then do you want to just read one from yours, and we'll wrap it up?
[01:32:03]  Well, it says, Lancelot says, Hollywood butches history.
[01:32:08]  Imagine my shock.
[01:32:09]  And AZ Desert Route says Hollywood needs to write and produce diverse stories instead of recasting stories that have already been told.
[01:32:16]  Dude, I just wish all I wanted was my Odyssey film with Sean Bean playing Odysseus again.
[01:32:23]  But that's not the point.
[01:32:25]  They don't create new films.
[01:32:26]  Because I'd love a film about Shaka Zulu, for example.
[01:32:29]  He had an epic life.
[01:32:30]  And then eventually he becomes like a mad tyrant and gets murdered by his brother.
[01:32:34]  Yeah, you don't want Ryan Gosling playing Shaka Zulu.
[01:32:37]  Well, yeah, obviously I don't.
[01:32:38]  But that's an epic story.
[01:32:40]  Yeah.
[01:32:40]  Why aren't you telling it?
[01:32:41]  And the reason they're not telling it is because they don't care about your epic stories.
[01:32:44]  What they want is to take something away from you and make sure you're unhappy.
[01:32:47]  Omar says it started as a meme, but given enough time, they will unironically put the 2021 BMW 5 Series 503i with optional heated seating in your medieval fantasy setting.
[01:32:57]  And that's exactly what's happening.
[01:32:59]  Yeah, could be the case.
[01:33:00]  Could be the case.
[01:33:01]  Well, we hope that you've enjoyed the show, ladies and gentlemen, and we look forward to seeing you at 1 p.m. tomorrow for the next one.
[01:33:07]  Take care.