00:01:20.240If there's any particular thing you're interested in, whatever it is, you know, like Daniel Boone, the Hiroshima thing, the Nixon tapes, whatever you want.
00:01:38.920I think that what we're experiencing being dismantled right now was put in motion by the progressive era.
00:01:46.520Like what Trump is breaking apart was solidified by FDR, but it was put in motion by the progressive era, by the academics, the experts, the rule of the experts kind of thing in government, in the U.S. government.
00:02:00.300And I don't know what's going to happen in the future, but with America withdrawing its soft power from Europe, I'm wondering how, if Europe's going to be able to correct itself from certain aspects of the progressive era that you guys are experiencing with massive immigration, multiculturalism, left-wing media that apparently is mostly funded by us.
00:02:22.760With Trump 2.0, it's now pretty apparent that we, Europe and Britain, particularly Britain, are just way behind the curve now.
00:02:32.940Well, you guys have a direction to go in, I guess.
00:19:24.380We see what you're doing and we're not going to have it.
00:19:26.460But yeah, if you talk about just the thousand years, if you want to just start at the normal conquest.
00:19:31.860Well, isn't that a history of incursions and people coming over, like the Romans came over
00:19:35.580and found a bunch of swamp people, I think, Caesar, somebody, somebody was talking about that.
00:19:39.940I think Carl Benjamin was memeing about that.
00:19:43.840So I might be wrong about that one of those.
00:19:45.720Well, I've done a fair bit of content about Caesar's conquest and Caesar's incursions into Britain in 55 and 54 BC.
00:19:52.500But I'm just saying part of the story is being incurred upon, is, is being overwhelmed by some foreign force and then a reintegration happens.
00:20:01.500So I'm wondering if this is not just the latest Roman conquest, it's just oddly done by like this invading force that is, that somehow your, your rulers are supplanting.
00:20:12.220Of course, there's always been waves and movements of people.
00:20:15.740And that's true of, again, everywhere in the world.
00:20:18.140But so, but what's happening to us at the moment, or what's the trend that has started in 1997, i.e. just mass immigration into this country, that is entirely unprecedented.
00:20:29.880So if you look at the Roman invasion, for example, a tiny number of Romans compared to the 700,000, 900,000 million odd people we import year on year here.
00:20:42.920So what happened, what the Romans did was a tiny amount.
00:20:53.520If you look at the, the Anglo-Saxon and Jewish invasions, they only, it was only really on the east coast of Britain and it was, it was limited.
00:21:04.420And once again, tiny numbers compared to what's happening today.
00:21:08.100If you look at the Viking incursions, once again, it's not that they didn't leave an imprint on the land or on the language in all sorts of ways on the architecture.
00:21:16.360But the numbers were tiny and it was over a very, quite a long period.
00:22:00.940Go back to the era of Stonehenge, when there were sort of original Neolithic farmer people seem to have been invaded by European Bell Beaker culture people.
00:22:13.700So there's always been movements of people to and from these islands.
00:22:17.280But nothing ever on the scale of what's happened since 1997 or has been ramped up in the last few years.
00:22:25.100The Boris wave, people are calling it now and all those things.
01:09:00.440You know, we need to have somebody who's the standard bearer of why, how we got here and why we belong here, why we deserve this, whether ill or good.
01:09:11.480And so I wonder, and maybe, maybe people don't need a figure like Washington or like any of these great historical figures.
01:09:19.960Maybe, maybe, maybe we don't necessarily need those great men to, to define our history, but it's a very politically valuable tool to have somebody that stated or that embodied the spirit of the country for a period of time and set the standard.
01:09:36.320And I think that's one of the beloved aspects of monarchy and one of the sad things about monarchy, you know, being here is that you had somebody who aspired to and was, was expected to be the embodiment of, and the soul of, of the, of the people on some level.
01:09:56.820And we lost, I think we lose a little bit of direction without having that, you know, and that's why somebody like Elon Musk is very galvanizing because that, that man runs all these companies and they're all, he's a responsible for all of them and they're responsible to him.
01:10:12.160There's this really direct Elon-ness that he's, that he's fulfilling.
01:10:16.000That's why Trump is actually so scary to people.
01:10:18.920And I think that's why he's flirting with autocracy and the trappings of Kingsmanship because that there's, he's tapping into something that we long for, which is a leader, which is somebody that's great.
01:10:30.740That's going to push us forward that we can still say, well, he's flawed, but he's, he's put, he's driving us somewhere.
01:10:37.360And so I wonder, I wonder again, if that's not what is going to be necessary for all these different European countries to have a rallying point, to have, have a strong man to lead us forward.
01:11:18.880Um, yeah, I think, uh, I think you're absolutely right about the sort of the, the need for a strong leader.
01:11:26.040I mean, again, when you look back at history, look back at the pre-modern world, at least, um, or the ancient world, um, it was sort of a, a, a, a, a struggle for survival.
01:11:37.060Until you get a surplus of food, and then you can have artisans, teachers, doctors, and leaders.
01:11:48.020Any sort of large collective does need leadership.
01:11:53.480There's this idea of the left, which is odd because there's so many examples like Stalin or Mao, but the left think that the idea of having a strong man, of having a leader is somehow intrinsically wrongheaded and evil and a slippery slope to, I don't know what, the Holocaust again or something.
01:12:26.620So you're going to need, you're going to need a leadership.
01:12:29.200Isn't it a particular quality of British history that, um, well, one aspect of British history is, is not only the kings, but the developments, the political innovations of accountability around the king?
01:13:45.120We don't have a female pilot, so we don't have to worry about the landing.
01:13:49.020One thing I did really want to ask you about, and I was a bit worried that it might be somewhere between annoying for you or outright, can we just not, uh, was about Evergreen.
01:14:05.080But I'm still, because on your channel, there's so much content there, but, um, you've got sort of pinged towards the top, sort of that 12 part.
01:14:34.800Because there it was, I mean, there's a, God, there's so much to say, but just, if I give you a really, really, my understanding, a really, really brief, super brief overview of it, and if you can sort of build that out a little bit, pad that out a little bit.
01:14:50.340It seems to me that there was one or two members of the faculty, particular members of the faculty, who were, I am happy to judge them as sort of, insane is too strong, but just an arch, arch, sort of got a massive, the racial resentment.
01:15:11.780And they used the, some of the students as foot soldiers, and then the president and the sort of very, very senior leadership allowed it to play out.
01:15:25.000And, uh, it, it, it all, it all, in the end, imploded into some sort of mass hysteria, or that's not quite right, but some sort of, uh, nightmarish, bouldering on nightmarish scenario, and got a tiny bit violent, but it didn't, it didn't end up with, like, any giant riots and loads and loads of people getting killed or anything like that.
01:15:46.760That nearly got there, and the police had to get involved, and the whole thing was like a microcosm of all the nonsense we've had during the Biden administration or so.
01:15:59.780Is that a fair reading of basically how it went down?
01:16:02.920Uh, yeah, well, that's a, this is another way that history is complex, and you can look at it, and some people, so one of the people that emerged from it, and has been very successful in life,
01:16:16.760post-Evergreen, was not any, uh, not, not, not the institution itself.
01:16:28.500Um, and he went on to be part of that IDW thing, and then he's tackled other controversial issues, like the response to COVID, and, uh, certain novel medical, um, interventions.
01:16:42.340Well, he's got a big podcast of his own, hasn't he?
01:16:43.620He's got a very big podcast called, uh, Dark Horse.
01:17:21.260It was that he became the venue by way, or the, the modus, or the, the way in which the events went viral to a certain audience.
01:17:33.300So, this was 2017, at that time, it was post-Gamergate, uh, Gamergate, which is a part of this, this building right here, part of your project right here, is really, uh, part of what's going on now, in a way.
01:17:48.940Gamergate led the way to a bunch of content creators, your boss among them, making these SJW cringe videos.
01:17:56.080You know, where, where the social justice warriors, usually on a college campus, were just acting badly, behaving badly.
01:18:02.520Uh, fatties acting badly, or something like that.
01:18:04.920You know, the blue-haired freakazoids, or whatever like that.
01:18:07.320So, when Evergreen happened, the students recorded the whole thing and put it on the internet, because they thought they were doing the righteous, just thing.
01:18:14.600Because they had been taught that they are on the right side of history, no matter what, because of their skin color, because they're fighting this oppression.
01:18:21.180Um, that, so that would have gone really viral, because it was so cringe.
01:18:26.860But, because you had Brett Weinstein deciding to speak to Tucker, deciding to go on Rogan, go on Dave Rubin, and giving it a more intellectual, uh, answer to that.
01:18:39.660It led the, it led the people who were not just, not what, what AA would call, like, people who just love slop, you know?
01:18:49.860That SJJW cringe compilation, it was just slop.
01:18:53.060But Brett, Brett gave it to an audience that was a little bit more, what the heck is going on?
01:18:59.660And he kind of legitimized it in a way, or legitimized the critique by leading it to another audience.
01:19:06.820And I don't think he understood that that's what he was doing.
01:19:09.660I was there when it happened, and I was listening to professors trying to figure out how to respond to Brett, because Brett went on Tucker, and they thought that was totally wrong.
01:19:29.620Who had to have done or said anything racist?
01:19:30.940Yeah, he should have never let it out there.
01:19:32.820And they, they had, they were formulating a public response, this open letter public response, where they basically said that the students didn't do anything wrong.
01:19:42.480We need to rewrite the student code of conduct to make sure that they don't get in trouble.
01:19:47.440And we need to rewrite our faculty handbook so that we can get him in trouble.
01:19:52.640And, and I remember being in the room while they were composing this document, because I was talking to one of the, one of the professors and his wife was, was, uh, composing this document.
01:20:16.340In 2017, the teachers and the administration had no idea the media frenzy they were about to be involved in.
01:20:24.920They thought it was just some viral videos and some stupid people on Fox calling it in.
01:20:30.060They had no idea that there's this huge network.
01:20:31.960And so what happened at Evergreen was a very, it was a particular beat in our story that, that involves Trump, that involves gamer gear.
01:20:38.980It was a particular beat where people are still not aware of the power of social media and still not aware that recording all this stuff and opening up to not just the slop hounds that are eating it as slop, but to the intellectual class who are worried about what is going on.
01:20:58.040And then also witnessing, and then my job, when it was time for me to step up, because I was really pissed off, I went there to get a degree.
01:21:05.780I went there and I thought that education meant something.
01:21:08.720And when I got there, I realized that, no, it's just high school plus.
01:21:11.600And this is a bunch of, this is a fairy land of racial resentment.
01:21:15.320And they turned my entire degree into a racial justice degree where I went in there.
01:21:20.240Were you just finishing your undergrad?
01:21:46.540Little did I know that the entire school system, somebody criticized me very recently for going to Evergreen College and not realizing that it was woke.
01:21:53.560But I'm like, every single college is woke.
01:21:56.360So no matter where you go, it's going to be woke.
01:21:58.820I mean, just a little bit less woke than Evergreen.
01:22:01.220But Harvard is, since George Floyd, it's all just as woke, if not more so.
01:22:07.200Plus on paper, Evergreen looked, would have looked lovely.
01:22:38.740And so, so Brett, Brett had a particular role and you can call him a hero or a villain based on his response to that.
01:22:46.240But I think he, he served a particular function for the story.
01:22:49.220There's other things that he did for himself, but for the story, for the historical moment, he served it in a particular way.
01:22:55.600Um, and my job was to take all of, I, I worked in the media department while I was there and I was on camera recording all of these workshops, seminars, and lectures of just basic Maoist revolutionaryism.
01:23:29.900And so it's not just a bunch of students behaving badly.
01:23:33.360It's this entire institution implementing a particular ideology, intersectionality, uh, critical theory, whatever you want to call it, which is a whole story that we've probably, everybody's covered ad nauseum now, but to tie the students behavior to the professors.
01:23:49.080And one key part of the documentary, one of the protesters, they, they go in and they take over this faculty meeting and they start eating the cake, uh, that was for somebody who was retiring.
01:23:59.940And they say, you know, aren't you all, isn't, aren't we doing what you taught us?
01:24:05.240You taught us to change the, on the, on the evergreen website, it says, it says to change the world.
01:24:12.640So why are you not going along with this?
01:24:15.260Why are you not storming the best deal as well?
01:24:18.240Not that she knew what that would mean, but why are you not like rallying against us?
01:24:23.160And the thing is that nobody really knows, like the really frustrating part of the documentary, the students are really upset about something and you never find out what they're actually upset about or what they actually want.
01:24:34.920They want free grades and gumbo basically.
01:24:40.060And there are professors to get back to your point.
01:24:42.460There were professors who were aching that on, but what happened was that when George Bridges, the president at the time came in at 2015, he empowered.
01:24:50.740He said, he said his first opening statement was that the history of racial justice is, is, is really great, but racism still controls everything in America right now.
01:25:01.980And why we're here at this college is to solve racism.
01:25:05.760And so he said that the purpose of the college was to end racism and he empowered these hyper anti-racist, racist teachers to, to take over the college.
01:25:17.020And, and, and so when the students saw that, well, we can Machiavelli and they were all intuitively seeing that they could get infinite power by following these steps, the steps were already put in place by the doofus at the top.
01:25:31.920And so when he's agreeing with them during the struggle sessions, he's not just allowing it to go forward.
01:25:39.040He set it in motion and he wants it to go forward because this is how racism is solved.
01:25:44.420These struggle sessions, this white guilt in, in, in a vice documentary.
01:25:48.600And then I'll stop going on, but in the vice documentary, uh, the interviewer says, the students say that you're a white supremacist.
01:25:58.760And George Bridges, the president says, no, well, well, depends on how you define that, you know?
01:26:04.780So they were so indoctrinated in this all the way up and down.
01:26:10.460And I remember after that thing happened where they took over the campus and they had that struggle session and I go back on campus to do my little thing.
01:26:20.780And I saw a black man walking across campus and I physically got scared and it was the most racist thing I've ever felt.
01:26:29.700Like that man is a threat to me based purely on his skin.
01:26:33.820And I, after feeling that that's what got me really angry because I, I don't think, I mean, everybody's a little racist.
01:26:39.540I'm pretty sure, but they put me in that position to be viscerally hyper aware of racial tension.
01:26:46.120And, and it was like, that was just totally inexcusable.