Blood Satellite - January 19, 2024


Graduating MIT for Goonering and Teacher Pitting [“Ye was on some frikken myelin”]


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00:00:00.000 As a new father, there's a lot of waves of relief that you get, but I think one of the
00:00:25.160 greatest ones that i had felt was the moment i put the christmas tree away and i'm just like
00:00:32.000 that it's over the whole christmas season is done and we can move on because i don't know about you
00:00:39.580 but you know it's it's a whole to do what kind of stuff what is it that bugs is it the cooking or
00:00:45.220 like planning events it's it's seeing it's seeing the family it's the cooking it's the planning it's
00:00:50.280 the buying the presents the wrapping the presents it's taking taking the kid out to see oh let's go
00:00:55.680 drive around and look at some lights let's drive around and look at this big tree let's look at 0.72
00:01:00.460 that big tree let's go look at here's some care some carolers fucking popped out of the ground
00:01:05.720 let's go hang out with them it's a lot of stuff it's a busy time especially if you're a dad 0.98
00:01:11.820 parents generally but if your dad's a lot of lifting i gotta drag all this shit out 0.80
00:01:16.580 and then it's gone it's done for a year well yeah like i learned from my dad at a pretty young age
00:01:22.400 like we my uh my dad's side of the family is huge right like i have all kinds of cousins and uncles
00:01:26.600 and we never even in our own family but then with that family we never did like fancy christmas we
00:01:32.420 didn't do like gift exchanges we didn't have like holiday weird like uh habits or rituals that we
00:01:37.840 did we pretty much would just meet for dinner and any of the young kids in the family would get like
00:01:42.260 one simple thing usually a book um from each of the older parents so like there were maybe within 0.99
00:01:47.500 30 people there were maybe 40 gifts that got exchanged this sounds like some mennonite shit 0.97
00:01:52.120 no but you know what and then the whole thing was it wasn't like a passive thing like we talked 0.96
00:01:56.860 about it openly that these are these are hardcore baptists right so to these people my people
00:02:04.400 christmas is extremely over commercialized santa is anathema it's about the birth of jesus christ
00:02:10.480 and we give gifts to appreciate each other but it's really just an opportunity to have dinner and
00:02:14.820 because a lot of us live by family in manitoba and new brunswick and they all come down so like
00:02:19.440 that's really what christmas is about and we've adopted that and i love it like my dad didn't
00:02:22.920 even come over on christmas day he came over a few days later we had lunch we hung out with the kids
00:02:26.680 they gave the kids some presents we gave them like i think we gave them like a jar of jam or
00:02:30.660 something i can't remember just something that we thought that they would like like nothing right i
00:02:34.240 don't think they gave us anything which again it's like i i don't care right um it's really
00:02:38.980 just an opportunity to get together with family and we've been doing that even with my mom's side
00:02:43.600 and then with bob's side so i like it it's not that stressful we still have the tree up just
00:02:48.540 because the girls love it so is it possible that the baptists are the jews of christians 1.00
00:02:53.520 and just don't want to buy stuff holy shit that is so offensive but no it's not you asshole 1.00
00:03:02.340 can i just say i'm not i've never seen you get this angry on the show and i've said some 0.99
00:03:09.320 reprehensible things to you you know what they are is they're the poors in my experience they're 1.00
00:03:14.300 the they're the poors they're actually the opposite of jews yeah they're technically they're the 1.00
00:03:17.940 opposite they're the opposite of having money so they're poor no they just they're not poor they 1.00
00:03:24.540 just don't want it i this is a tangent i don't remember if i mentioned this but i maybe have
00:03:29.380 mentioned before but my grandfather who lived in the town nearby had had that house since around
00:03:34.820 the around the war just after the war and um when he died he gave it to my aunt and then when my
00:03:43.300 aunt died she gave it to her eldest son so we actually do have a family or a house there that
00:03:49.540 is now three generations and my cousin who's only like three years older than me owns the house and
00:03:54.420 i just thought i didn't even i just saw him for the first time in 10 years recently and i didn't
00:03:58.680 realize he's living there i'm like that's so fucking cool i want to go back and visit because
00:04:01.740 it's like his granddad's house it's been in the family for like almost 100 years so 0.56
00:04:04.760 and it's like that's unheard of now not not that you're thinking of the other one i know the one
00:04:10.680 you're thinking of the one that you and i used to hang out with when we were kids this is a
00:04:13.920 different one that's in in farther away it was my dad's side of the family okay i just remember
00:04:18.780 there was a house where we went out and there was like an old burned out school bus and we would
00:04:23.060 yeah the one the one the one in our in our town yeah no that place see that's the total opposite
00:04:29.160 that place they bought it and then they reverse mortgaged it so they can spend money on useless 0.84
00:04:34.360 shit and then by the time they sold it after uh my grandfather died they actually ended up like 1.00
00:04:40.180 paying money into it out of their savings like it was just the dumbest the dumbest thing they 1.00
00:04:45.060 were horrible with money so that were they boomers would you call them boomers no my grandfather in 0.99
00:04:53.960 that side was too young to go to war that's how he made his money when the war broke out he was 0.79
00:04:59.080 like 11 and then by the time he was 15 he was running a construction company because there
00:05:05.240 was nobody else around there who like all of the able-bodied men were at war right it's just him
00:05:10.680 and everybody's wives it was literally him and a bunch of old broken men and a bunch of wives yeah
00:05:16.000 so he wound up being becoming like a construction kingpin in that region um and then he was a
00:05:22.360 millionaire and then he and then he was a millionaire but because he was literally
00:05:26.200 a a podunk fisherman's illiterate fisherman's son millionaire he also spent all of the money 1.00
00:05:33.380 immediately on the dumbest shit and then made it all back again through his network and then 1.00
00:05:37.760 wasted it all on dumb shit again so and then died penniless so i mean it's great what a hilarious 1.00
00:05:44.000 life he's just this like retarded richie rich yeah a millionaire seven 16 year old he was great 1.00
00:05:52.320 he's a character but yeah alcoholic chain smoking giant yeah you can't be that type of guy anymore 0.97
00:05:59.460 can you like a guy who loses and makes all of his money back that seemed like a thing you can't be
00:06:04.840 in this generation they really to me it like it is peak canadian like uh like what do you call
00:06:11.980 like an archetype of like this this tall grizzled podunk kid you know smoking and fishing and 0.98
00:06:19.980 building a bunch of shit and making a million dollars and then spending it all on moose hunting 0.92
00:06:24.400 trips and you know marlin fishing in the keys and then has to go and build it all back up again for 1.00
00:06:30.960 a huge retarded east coast guy with a mouth full of like carpenters nails and cigarettes yes making 0.98
00:06:39.760 a million dollars without saying a word and then just getting scammed for the rest of his life 0.99
00:06:46.320 making it back just falling for every every scam he's he's spending fifty thousand dollars on a 0.94
00:06:52.780 truck of meat he's fucking buying uh they used to do things back in the day you know how we have 0.94
00:06:58.560 storage wars and these auctions of storage containers they used to do that with graves 0.99
00:07:03.560 yeah get a bunch of like sad like weird women and very very tall or very very short guys
00:07:12.140 just around and you're auctioning off graves hope what are you gonna find in there almost always a
00:07:17.500 corpse it's been and that's right and then he would he just had a thing he had a taste
00:07:23.840 for the the casket lotteries you know you know what it's thinking about though about i got just
00:07:31.340 talking about wealth because i never thought about it in that context but like they're not
00:07:35.220 boomers like that was like my grandparents on my dad's side were uh what do you call the greatest
00:07:39.980 generation they're they went they were in war like they they both they both fought uh my grandmother
00:07:45.240 and my grandfather and then on my mom's side they were almost old enough so they were the generation
00:07:49.420 before the boomers but like on my mom's side they made all kinds of money in the 50s and 60s in this
00:07:54.800 really easy money period they blew it all multiple times over and on my dad's side they never had that
00:07:59.880 much money but as baptists they every time they had a dollar they had to go and give it to somebody
00:08:05.800 so they were like the the heart of the community bringing all these people and now i have all of
00:08:11.300 these second and third relations who aren't blood relations but they're so married like not married
00:08:16.500 but like so connected to my family that we still see them at christmas all the time even now my
00:08:19.900 grandparents grandparents have been dead for 15 years but we're still connected so like they built
00:08:23.680 that but they only ever had they only ever had the one house that my cousin has now and there
00:08:28.660 was no wealth because all the wealth just went back into the town and then the only thing that
00:08:33.040 bothers me about that is like the little community that you built up was completely destroyed by
00:08:38.140 liberal governments and immigration and regulation so anything that you thought you were building in
00:08:42.360 terms of a community the government actively broke it all apart so that was in retrospect
00:08:46.200 that was actually a bad investment although i i appreciate what they were trying to do
00:08:50.220 so whatever yeah they had no way to know what was coming no exactly in the 50s and 60s it was a
00:08:55.480 white community it was growing like those those were like you know people coming back from war
00:09:00.140 and they needed help and like all right that's great so yeah and also like if you were to utilize
00:09:05.880 that that would that could equal real wealth you know but at the same time it's like is that
00:09:12.680 network itself aging out like what are their kids doing what's that is that entire community just
00:09:17.480 to the wind right now right right well that was and that's part of that story i always tell about
00:09:22.240 when my when my dad was growing up after the war they had that whole community down by the beach
00:09:26.780 and it's this wonderful growing place and they the community to got together and built the church
00:09:30.800 like this classic story right and then the government came through and said that's going 0.92
00:09:34.160 to be part of the fucking green belt project it's gonna be part of the new swamp and they 0.86
00:09:37.380 knocked it all over and like you said those people were scattered to the wind all of these neighbors 0.98
00:09:41.020 and people who had built this community over 30 years
00:09:43.320 all went off to the different corners of the province,
00:09:46.320 some to other provinces, and that was the end of it.
00:09:49.000 And now it's a condo. 1.00
00:09:51.160 That blows my fucking mind. 1.00
00:09:53.840 Community builds a church. 1.00
00:09:54.840 The government says, we're going to have another place for the geese, 1.00
00:09:58.800 another place for our fucking ducks. 1.00
00:10:01.580 Blow it up. 1.00
00:10:02.460 Flood it. 1.00
00:10:03.380 And then a bunch of Indians show up and say, 0.99
00:10:06.260 this is where we used to hunt.
00:10:07.780 No, it wasn't.
00:10:09.000 No, it wasn't.
00:10:09.780 There was nothing.
00:10:10.500 This has already been conquered three times since you never were here.
00:10:15.820 Yeah, yeah.
00:10:20.220 I've got a question for you.
00:10:21.620 I need your help on this, and I'm going to need the listeners' help.
00:10:24.680 And this will be one of the great conversations that inspires a multi-day debate, I'm sure.
00:10:31.220 But this is a conversation, not a debate, not even an argument, but a situation that I'm in with my wife.
00:10:39.000 regarding our son nickels who is going to be 10 months very shortly now um for those who don't
00:10:48.340 have children even especially those who are planning on it uh one interesting thing about
00:10:52.740 kids is very very young they start to mirror the parents and the one thing one big thing is like
00:10:58.860 chores around the house kids get really interested in doing chores vacuums for some reason kids are
00:11:05.280 into vacuum yep um now my wife is interested in nurturing this as she should it's a great idea
00:11:12.200 and getting him mini versions of stuff that he can like do it along with us now she proposed
00:11:20.200 uh getting him a mini kitchen now oh hear me out so you know my i was somewhat trepidation
00:11:30.020 and she shows it to me it's a whole little mini kitchen set pots and pans and ovens and everything
00:11:34.600 but not the most expensive thing in the world and she says she knows going in what i might say
00:11:41.720 and she said look there's boys on the box she's pointing and i'm like there are and she's got
00:11:48.600 her arguments already cocked and loaded and they're sensible arguments she's not wrong
00:11:53.900 she'll say for example you went to culinary school dimes i did you worked dimes in restaurants for
00:12:01.620 many years true a great many of the people in our community or chat they love cooking maybe they
00:12:08.200 worked in restaurants but we're very active we're making stew we're making barbecue and everything
00:12:11.960 we're a cooking crew i get it however you can probably imagine what's going through my head
00:12:18.620 right getting a young boy a kitchen set now i'm trying to figure this out she's got all the logic
00:12:25.460 all the reasoning behind her um is my concern and trepidation justified where do you stand on this
00:12:34.100 put yourself in my shoes what do you think i think at that age you get him everything because
00:12:41.080 what you're really doing is you're just allowing him to mimic everything that you're doing you know
00:12:47.960 what i mean like my girls have they have the kitchen set and they have a little ice cream
00:12:52.220 stand and all of that stuff but they also have tools because i want them to yeah i don't i don't
00:12:57.300 want them to be like tool heads but i want them to know what a screwdriver is right so i to me
00:13:03.760 up to maybe four i kind of want to expose them to everything but i don't want to emphasize anything 0.89
00:13:09.280 i do want to emphasize the gender shit but it needs probably a little bit older um when they 0.55
00:13:14.960 start to you'll notice they do like serious role play once they're three or four like they'll come 0.98
00:13:19.460 up with like names and rules to things and that's when it's like okay now get out of the kitchen
00:13:24.080 you're not a you're not a girl but i mean if he doesn't even know how to say pizza or frying pan
00:13:29.000 this is how he learns to do that so i'm okay with it but the other thing is i gotta tell you 0.92
00:13:33.040 i mean my wife you gotta get the ladies together my wife went through that every time we're in a 0.99
00:13:39.000 toy store but we actually have girls so i never came up but then you realize oh no she just wants
00:13:43.460 this for her she always wanted one of those and now she has a kid so she can get it and it's funny 0.96
00:13:49.620 because my wife even when the girls were like my oldest was like a year a year and a half and she's
00:13:54.640 looking at the tiny the tiny little high detailed japanese dioramas of like cafes and stuff like we
00:14:00.500 could get this for her and i'm like she will swallow that and choke in an instance like yeah
00:14:04.620 but it's so pretty i'm like and the truth comes out that's why it's so pretty and then she's trying
00:14:11.440 to sell you on look it comes with all these pieces no that's a great thing and that's only
00:14:17.580 going to get worse as we get older because i'm going to do it too i'm doing it with no for sure
00:14:21.740 you should we got him one of these standing walkers because you know for people at home
00:14:26.620 when you want to teach them to walk a good thing to do is get them sort of this like walker it's
00:14:30.000 got wheels and they hoist themselves up they can walk with this like a trolley uh but ours is all
00:14:34.800 tool related you know again something i didn't really have but it's like here's like a little
00:14:39.420 it's made of wood the whole thing's wood it's here's a wrench here's a hammer here's a
00:14:42.940 screwdriver and all that stuff you know he's he's with dad we made our first doodad we made our
00:14:48.820 first thingamabob together it was a really nice moment but also i wish i had that and my wife
00:14:55.860 being very bougie my wife didn't grow up really with any anything grew very very poor so she's
00:15:01.280 got a lot of stuff that she wants to correct with our children one of them is you know i don't know 0.98
00:15:10.180 how else to describe this other than what it is you know those fucking motorized vehicles that 0.93
00:15:15.360 you can put kids in and remote control them around oh those are awesome yeah yeah they're 0.98
00:15:20.300 like 250 so she wants to get one or several of those we're in fucking toys r us look like 0.78
00:15:29.640 Obviously, she's not going to be able to even sit in this for a while, 0.81
00:15:31.680 but she's like, they got a Mercedes?
00:15:33.560 They got a Porsche? 1.00
00:15:35.280 And then here's me, like, bullshit. 1.00
00:15:37.640 Fuck you. 1.00
00:15:38.860 Fuck you, bitch. 1.00
00:15:40.140 And then she's like, well, there's a John Deere tractor. 1.00
00:15:42.540 And I said, hey.
00:15:44.840 Now, hold on a second. 0.99
00:15:46.480 Hello, nurse. 0.56
00:15:48.140 My favorite thing about those in Hong Kong, they were cheaper.
00:15:50.960 And not everybody, but like every third family had one.
00:15:53.600 And in the plaza, when we take the girls down,
00:15:56.480 there were lots of other toddlers there.
00:15:57.880 And always somebody would have one.
00:15:59.640 And the great thing about a two-year-old is they can't really focus on anything for more than like two minutes, but every kid is interested.
00:16:05.780 So they actually kind of naturally take turns.
00:16:08.260 And it's honestly, the other thing is those are kind of for the parents, right?
00:16:10.640 Because it's essentially a giant remote control car, which is fun.
00:16:13.560 And you put your kid in it and buzz them around.
00:16:15.280 So it's fun for the parents.
00:16:16.760 You get a bunch of kids together in like the cul-de-sac or in a plaza or on a parking lot or something, and it's fun for everybody.
00:16:22.580 So it's great.
00:16:23.480 It's also great for them to make friends with other kids because, again, you put it down and every kid in the park runs over to it.
00:16:28.860 So it's great.
00:16:30.040 All right.
00:16:30.320 You know, you got to get together with her.
00:16:32.660 You're both making a good case that we have to do this.
00:16:34.920 I thought it was a bit much because I remember being a kid.
00:16:38.120 And when I was a kid, you know, we didn't have a lot of money either.
00:16:41.200 But the next step up from those cars is the one the kids can drive themselves.
00:16:45.600 Remember those?
00:16:46.200 That's for like a toddler.
00:16:47.740 And even when I was a kid, I wanted one. 0.97
00:16:51.500 But I said, this is a bit fucking extra. 0.98
00:16:54.880 Even as a child who wants every fucking thing, I'm like, I don't need this. 0.99
00:16:58.800 this is we this is my parents are never going to get this what the fuck am i going to do with this 0.99
00:17:03.940 because no one i knew had one either you you were a very austere child yeah well you know though 0.87
00:17:09.700 there were certain things that i was really into like earthworm jim so when one kid came back with 0.91
00:17:14.260 earthworm jim action figure and he's the only kid on the block who had it i lost my shit 0.99
00:17:18.640 being a fucking boy it's like retarded sometimes i was trying to tell my wife that because she 0.99
00:17:26.360 didn't have any brothers didn't really grow up with boys and she's she likes clean she likes 1.00
00:17:31.640 having a clean house and i'm like he's gonna bring you pond stuff he's gonna bring you like
00:17:37.020 a frog he found yeah she's like why would he do that i'm like these are the questions you get to
00:17:43.400 ask yeah yeah i hope you like sticks well even the kids just generally right it's not even a
00:17:49.220 gender thing like the girls are always getting rocks and sticks and bugs and like they only they
00:17:54.140 only learn stuff is gross if you tell 1.00
00:17:56.220 them that it's gross, I guess.
00:17:58.460 But yeah, she has little collections of 1.00
00:18:00.120 rocks. I'm going to say this. This
00:18:02.120 episode, it's the dawn of egalitarian 0.70
00:18:04.480 Judas. 0.62
00:18:07.980 Well, we're talking about 0.67
00:18:10.360 toddlers miming
00:18:12.140 and learning broadly about the
00:18:14.120 world they live in. I think there's a limit on that.
00:18:17.120 All little girls 1.00
00:18:18.280 should be learning is how to pray the rosary 1.00
00:18:20.100 and how to be
00:18:22.060 silent. 0.96
00:18:24.140 All girls, they have one game and it's sitting at the back of the bus.
00:18:29.400 Wow. 0.91
00:18:31.720 Sorry.
00:18:34.000 Okay.
00:18:34.260 So there's just a piece of news that I wanted to get to, and we don't need to spend too long on this.
00:18:41.720 But this is just in relation to a story we would have talked about months ago.
00:18:48.420 Remember during those wildfires that were raging and even polluting the air where we live?
00:18:55.180 Yeah, yeah.
00:18:55.620 It was horrible.
00:18:57.160 If you'll recall at the time, there was talk of arson and people lighting the fires in some way.
00:19:03.000 If you'll recall, and correct me if I'm wrong, but all we kept getting called was crazy for even implying that it was anything other than climate change.
00:19:12.240 Do you remember that?
00:19:14.000 Yes.
00:19:14.520 so i'm looking at a story here on global news published january 15th 2024 quebec man pleads
00:19:23.740 guilty to setting 14 forest fires let's hear a quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online
00:19:31.820 that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a 0.71
00:19:35.420 series of fires himself and force hundreds of people from what a twist what a twist because
00:19:40.700 like we were saying it's not climate change the government is setting the fires it's like well
00:19:44.040 somebody's setting the fires who is it it's the anti-government conspiracy that's awesome but but
00:19:50.400 also it's like the guy who's so committed to the conspiracy is well i have to do it now i have to 0.98
00:19:56.580 what an idiot the guy who's really upset that comet pizza wasn't for like demonic 0.99
00:20:02.380 child sacrifices well well someone's got to do it otherwise we're going to look foolish 1.00
00:20:08.380 um damn on may 31st at 8 3 p.m the town of chappé issued a mandatory evacuation order 0.98
00:20:17.260 due to the raging fires um yeah he set two of the 14 fires set by paris forced the evacuation 0.97
00:20:25.900 of these towns um yeah anyway so that's just the wrap up so i don't know like is that
00:20:31.140 do we count that as a win because we were right but it was probably a listener of this show that
00:20:38.360 might have done it i want to i want to take it as a win because my specific argument although
00:20:44.540 i personally believed that it was the government setting it because if it's their agenda it's kind
00:20:49.360 of more of a of a qui bono thing it's not really like i had proof of it the proof that i was
00:20:54.600 trotting out was the statistical data that we've had for decades for generations that the vast
00:21:00.800 majority of forest fires are started by people usually accidentally actually but like the idea
00:21:06.960 that there's climate change causing forest fires is ridiculous it's almost always people so arson
00:21:14.360 both left and right plus accidents makes up like 90 of forest fires so that was my whole thing and
00:21:20.760 so this is just proving that that ironically in this case it was i suppose a right winger who
00:21:25.740 hates the trudeau government who was burning down forests but either way we were right so
00:21:30.820 you know what i'm gonna take it yeah same i'm not gonna look a gift arsonist in the mouth
00:21:43.160 also uh this is completely unrelated to that but this just flashed across my screen
00:21:49.380 um we're in the chat right now and uh what a esteemed member of our community named ike
00:21:56.840 hugh um apparently he lives in atlanta did you read this gross what was yeah but he was saying
00:22:04.840 that um interestingly enough that atlanta had a pretty heavy alt-right presence back in the day
00:22:11.740 um but uh he was saying that living in atlanta you have to be on the ground there to understand 0.86
00:22:18.260 how gay it is really not only is it the gay mecca for blacks uh he had made a point that
00:22:25.280 it's like it rivals san francisco for like the gay community really that's fascinating no idea 0.72
00:22:32.680 i always imagine atlanta as like warm chicago well yeah maybe because it it is the black mecca
00:22:39.840 in the sense if you know anything about like hip-hop culture or anything like it is within
00:22:43.860 the black minds the like your city chicago is a black city but i think atlanta is closer to 0.89
00:22:51.600 something like wakanda where like this this is us we control everything here and this is where you 0.99
00:22:56.740 go if you want to be among your people right we could have predicted this because blacks on average 0.81
00:23:01.640 are gayer than whites so a black city you would expect it to be gayer on average than a white 0.99
00:23:06.160 city really so i mean of course it's of course it's gay i bet i bet you know new orleans is 0.98
00:23:12.120 pretty gay too he says it rivals san francisco for gayness in terms of numbers and also the hiv rate 0.88
00:23:18.580 if anyone is wondering. Because gay blacks have the highest per capita incidence rate of HIV and 0.99
00:23:24.460 AIDS. Today is National Black HIV and AIDS Awareness Day, which started as a grassroots 0.99
00:23:30.140 movement to raise awareness of prevention, care, and treatment options in communities of color.
00:23:36.500 While anyone can get HIV, black Americans are disproportionately affected. The CDC reports
00:23:42.440 that while black people account for 13 percent of the U.S. population, they made up 40 percent
00:23:47.940 of people with hiv in 2019 on average 1 in 16 black men and 1 in 30 black women will be diagnosed
00:23:54.580 with hiv hiv at some point the latest data from the cdc shows metro atlanta ranks second among
00:24:01.540 major metropolitan areas for new hiv diagnoses now emory university hopes it can help lower
00:24:08.020 those numbers emory will be part of a new hiv vaccine trial that's being tested for the first
00:24:13.380 time and humans moderna manufactured this potential vaccine and they used the same
00:24:18.580 approach that went into making the successful covet 19 vaccination 1.00
00:24:25.700 it's endlessly funny to me that there is just like a gay black city yeah you better win your 1.00
00:24:30.980 fight because i'm coming on your ass way i'm coming for that ass you know what i mean like 1.00
00:24:35.460 and it seems like the more black you make it because it wasn't set up as a a gay black city 1.00
00:24:40.100 it was set up as just a black city 0.98
00:24:42.280 and the gayness just happened. 1.00
00:24:44.420 If you have a 100% white city, 0.75
00:24:46.200 it's not a given that homosexuality will follow.
00:24:49.720 You know what I mean? 0.93
00:24:50.660 Like San Francisco is like a gay progressive city.
00:24:53.880 It's a coastal urban city. 0.81
00:24:55.760 But similarly, like Vermont is a super white town, 0.82
00:24:59.280 not known to be a gay Mecca. 0.97
00:25:01.460 You get more white people, 1.00
00:25:03.240 you'll get homosexuality. 0.99
00:25:04.140 You might get... 1.00
00:25:05.720 Vermont is such a white town, 0.88
00:25:08.720 they turned it into a state. 1.00
00:25:10.640 It is.
00:25:13.540 Look at this.
00:25:16.660 They can do that.
00:25:18.160 They can do that.
00:25:19.000 Just so you know.
00:25:19.960 Just so you know.
00:25:21.000 I don't know what I'm talking about.
00:25:26.000 There is a new king. 0.98
00:25:28.760 But, I mean, you get enough white people in one place. 0.97
00:25:31.660 It doesn't follow that they get homosexual. 0.99
00:25:32.940 You would get orgies, which is, you know, if you think about it, 0.95
00:25:37.700 the most business form of sex that is just networking in a sense well also even san francisco 0.98
00:25:46.000 calling san francisco white i mean look it's whiter than like it's whiter than south america
00:25:51.400 but it's not and it's not much whiter than most east coast cities it's very chinese and very uh
00:25:57.260 hispanic going back a long time i think so maybe i mean you can just say it's just as easily it's
00:26:03.840 the component of chinese and hispanics there that make it get so gay i don't know i saw a headline
00:26:10.740 here i'm just going to read a tweet from the daily mail the headline is rice university unveils
00:26:17.580 afrochemistry class that will explore the intersection of racial justice and chemistry
00:26:23.080 telling it the study of black life matter and i said they finally made academia black and chinese 0.61
00:26:30.180 that's from rice university from rice they should call it jerk chicken and rice university
00:26:36.560 we're on the same wave like we're cresting the same wave right now
00:26:41.560 you see rice and it's just a starter pistol what what do we got what do we got what do we got
00:26:49.020 here we go rice jokes all right man i want to go to atlanta one day i have i have this idea this
00:26:56.420 cockamamie scheme where we do a tour of america and we film it yeah as i don't know i don't know
00:27:03.540 how i don't know how we fund it i don't know how we schedule i don't know any details but i'm like
00:27:08.200 i want to take the show to new orleans i want to take it to like dallas texas i want to take it to
00:27:15.560 atlanta yeah and by taking there i don't mean do like a live show i just mean like bring cameras
00:27:19.840 and go around and like i thought we'd said like we wanted to go like you me and a couple of guys
00:27:24.560 get a bunch of different cameras and boom mics and then we pick up turnip and sandbatch and t777
00:27:29.880 and we get them we just get them going to like a cafe and harassing people and yes live yeah for
00:27:35.980 those just to reiterate that for people it's us with christopher sandbatch been on the show
00:27:40.580 guest the show thomas 777 another friend of the show you can look up his interview and ryan turn 0.91
00:27:46.140 ryan turnip seed and then that's it we get a bus a mystery machine i don't know what the fuck 0.95
00:27:52.880 and we just tour around and we see what happens we we go to fucking compton we go i want i think 0.98
00:28:01.340 thomas 777 needs to go to like he would fit in there he could yeah he could be running that 0.91
00:28:06.580 place in a week i bet yeah you do it do it like uh just do stuff like give them each 30 bucks and 0.70
00:28:13.420 say buy the nicest watch you can on bleaker street you just videotape it just general interest shit
00:28:18.660 you could do that beloved characters that people know from the blood satellite extended universe 1.00
00:28:24.100 if you're not excited about this i don't know what the fuck to tell you kill yourself 0.97
00:28:28.500 this sounds like a winner to me yeah just find me an investor we don't even need that good 0.99
00:28:36.020 cameras you could do this shit on iphones exactly exactly the only look this is this is not a 0.84
00:28:42.600 difficult idea the only thing preventing this from happening is how difficult it would be to 0.98
00:28:45.760 organize all these fucking characters so yeah um this is a piece of news that i just i'm not 0.81
00:28:55.120 sold on where i found it it's from biz.crast.net bizcrast bizcrast and the top it just says 0.98
00:29:07.460 business news um but you know what let's run with it uh this is dated from january of this year
00:29:15.660 at 2024, says Ottawa confirms that one third of Accenture employees working on SEBA are based in
00:29:24.640 Brazil. Now we learn that one third of the workers handling a major $49 billion small business loan
00:29:30.960 program were actually based in Brazil, contracted through global consulting giant Accenture.
00:29:36.240 This shocking outsourcing deal, one of the largest in Canadian history, was never publicly
00:29:40.600 disclosed. With hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds flowing overseas, serious questions remain
00:29:46.160 about who exactly is managing these programs and why so much crucial work was handed to a foreign
00:29:50.640 subsidiary. The Globe and Mail first revealed last year that international consulting firm
00:29:56.900 Accenture Incorporated was awarded a series of sole source contracts to help the EDC,
00:30:03.320 Crown Corporation, manage the Canada Emergency Business Account. CBA was the most widely used
00:30:09.860 pandemic aid program blah blah blah um anyway long story short is that uh they've outsourced 0.51
00:30:16.100 so much of this white collar work to brazil in in the middle the the great irony being the whole
00:30:23.300 point of the program is to put money in the hands of laid off white collar canadian workers so rather 0.96
00:30:28.940 than just giving the money to the fucking canadians you give the money to brazilians so that they can 0.97
00:30:33.480 give it to canadians exactly doesn't it it's so ridiculous by the way i did look it up on globe 0.99
00:30:38.740 and Mail. It is a real article. I don't know why it's on BizCraft, but the Globe and Mail article
00:30:43.020 corroborates everything that you just said. And Accenture is going for the hills right now.
00:30:48.540 They're not responding to comment. They're lawyering up. So it's funny. And you know what?
00:30:53.820 This is not an unfamiliar thing to happen. People will try and hold Accenture's feet to the fire.
00:30:59.360 This is happening everywhere. Of course. Which is people talk about, you know,
00:31:04.340 offshoring manufacturing but they've been offshoring white collar jobs for a while now
00:31:10.920 um even in my industry you know i would find myself competing with you know developers website 0.99
00:31:18.820 creators uh anyone in anyone in marketing like you're competing with fucking ukrainians you're 0.95
00:31:25.680 competing with eastern europeans you're competing with bangladeshies um and and south america 0.91
00:31:32.320 especially south america is a massive hub um especially in marketing in the marketing industry
00:31:39.340 a lot of people from south america are flooding into canada i like most of the people i've known
00:31:44.820 not most that's a stupid thing to say let's say 20 percent of the people i've known in the industry
00:31:50.120 have been from like brazil or argentina um there's just some kind of deal going on where they 0.83
00:31:55.860 they seem to prefer canada i don't know what it is but they just come up here or we're outsourcing
00:32:01.500 our work uh to freelancers down there it's it's not going east it's going south um and i think
00:32:09.560 those relationships are becoming stronger and stronger um and so it's it really does feel like
00:32:17.700 the entire nation is being hollowed out it's like what what work is there really that people talk
00:32:23.460 about fake white collar jobs like even the fake jobs aren't here anymore well like or your job
00:32:30.220 your your fake job is to manage five of those people even related without even going outside
00:32:36.480 the pandemic you did you recall recently the whole scandal about the arrive can app with the federal
00:32:40.640 government with the arrive can 54 million dollar scandal we see the government saying things that
00:32:47.000 contradict the facts they released a document of the house of commons saying that think on
00:32:51.000 inc had received a 1.2 million dollar contract for experimentation of mobile qr scanning yet
00:32:59.520 the CEO said yesterday he never got any money in fact they don't even work in
00:33:05.100 the field so if his company didn't get the money who did that they paid like
00:33:10.860 50 or 100 million dollars or whatever to this consulting firm to get the software
00:33:14.780 made and the major like more than half of that money went to two like Swiss
00:33:18.480 guys that now are are now dodging and trying to get out of the country because
00:33:23.200 they just pocketed it all or like did you hear their their new green fund for
00:33:26.900 rebuilding industry after covid is supposed to make batteries for evs in like where windsor or
00:33:32.660 somewhere and then when they started the plant they're like oh by the way the company that we
00:33:36.760 gave it to to build it is a korean company and they're hired they're bringing south korean
00:33:40.220 employees over to run the place so they're literally bringing south koreans in to run the
00:33:44.120 plant in windsor and it's a south korean company and they're like don't worry don't worry three 0.99
00:33:47.980 years from now we'll have trained local canadians but canadians just don't have the skills for this 0.85
00:33:52.040 it's like well if we don't have the skills for the where the fuck are we like what is going this 0.99
00:33:56.620 isn't none of this money is going to canadians like what the fuck it's insane and like i think 0.97
00:34:01.760 you're right though like sorry like not to get off what you were saying you're totally correct 0.94
00:34:05.320 if you look at all these federal programs canada is essentially like this little grab bag for the
00:34:10.380 international elite we have as a population as a nation we don't have any control over our own 0.99
00:34:15.560 tax dollars our government are so underpaid and so incompetent and so corrupt that anybody from
00:34:21.800 a wealthier smarter foreign country can come in offer some mp 30 grand in kickbacks and suddenly
00:34:29.020 that company or that country has got a 10 million dollar deal that came right out of the canadians 0.98
00:34:34.780 fucking hide so i mean it's just we need a new government and i don't care what it takes at this 0.93
00:34:39.420 yeah it could be because and this is irrespective of any ideology unless the ideology unless the 0.98
00:34:45.200 technology involves sweeping them into a giant oven yeah let me let me just in government let
00:34:50.600 me say this as much as trudeau is has probably the most corrupt one lately the conservatives
00:34:55.860 are going to do the exact same thing when pauliev gets elected which he will shortly 0.98
00:34:59.340 it's going to be the same shit because this is what canada has been doing for i mean i don't 0.97
00:35:04.020 know the whole history but i know for sure at least 30 years this is what's been going on in 0.99
00:35:07.340 every fucking government it's just the way our country's built so like something it's not about 0.95
00:35:11.860 who gets elected it's about the actual mode of government we have here needs to be knocked the 0.99
00:35:16.420 fuck down and rebuilt because a lot of people who are outside of canada might be startled by 0.93
00:35:21.880 just how much the canadian system is allied against you us everyone oh yeah like you know 0.99
00:35:28.940 for a long time everyone loved canadian universal basic health care except those who lived here 0.93
00:35:34.940 understood that it's a fucking sham right that is how you get to where the government is trying 0.97
00:35:40.160 to recommend that you commit suicide now those two things are directly related the government 0.99
00:35:45.100 you know i always say to people like americans who might be well-meaning and naive and say like
00:35:50.700 why can't health care be free i'm like it can be it's just going to be made worse and a lot of the
00:35:56.800 traditional conservative arguments against it as lame as they might be are completely valid when
00:36:03.600 they talk about wait times they talk you know one argument that conservatives would make is 0.89
00:36:07.800 when have you ever been to a government office and not been treated like a subhuman yeah you
00:36:14.080 know i mean like have you been to the dmv have like in mass so imagine the government in charge
00:36:19.080 of another thing they don't treat you better as a citizen they look for ways to treat you worse
00:36:24.440 so in can't like in america i would say yeah you could have universal health care it's going to be
00:36:29.280 made worse right and then eventually the government says well there's too many people we can't afford
00:36:34.740 this maybe we should recommend that a few of them end their lives a bit early let's start
00:36:39.200 liquidating some of these books we have that's crazy and that's what happens in america so
00:36:44.640 you know i'm looking at an article right now on vice but this is a new story that's been many
00:36:50.640 other places it's not for sure yet but canada more strongly than ever in my life is considering
00:36:59.040 a universal basic income, a UBI.
00:37:02.380 So that would be everyone in the nation
00:37:04.620 gets like two grand a month.
00:37:07.400 Universal basic income pilot projects
00:37:10.200 have taken root across the country,
00:37:12.380 with plans still in the works in British Columbia
00:37:14.480 and Prince Edward Island.
00:37:16.360 The concept of providing Canadians
00:37:18.240 with a universal basic income
00:37:20.120 has sparked significant debate on if UBI
00:37:23.680 is a viable solution for ensuring financial security.
00:37:27.240 On one hand, advocates are saying
00:37:28.940 that UBI provides a consistent safety net, while on the other hand, critics have argued that UBI
00:37:34.520 discourages work. And the conservatives, some of them like this because they said, oh, that'll
00:37:40.460 clean some of the clutter out of the system. We got a whole nest, a messy nest of, you know,
00:37:47.380 EI, employment insurance and welfare. And, you know, if we just sweep that away and give everyone
00:37:52.000 a clean two grand a month, that'll solve all those problems. And I'm just, I look at the
00:37:57.680 healthcare system and i say i don't know exactly how i can't paint you the precise map on how to
00:38:05.440 get there but i'm convinced that ubi is going to be used against us somehow if universal healthcare
00:38:12.200 can be used to coerce you into suicide then ubi somehow using that corrupt government system you
00:38:21.080 just outlined it's going to be used against us the wrong people are going to get the money
00:38:24.600 the people who should get free money aren't going to get it we'll end up paying more it is just 0.51
00:38:30.160 there's going to be some fucking reveal where all the wrong people got all this money as as a lull 0.99
00:38:36.880 bird i of course agree that anything the government touches turns to shit and you can never trust them 0.99
00:38:42.080 ever however even if you did trust the government like if you could imagine a hypothetical government 0.98
00:38:47.260 that you controlled that was good you have to understand what what these people are doing
00:38:51.840 the ubi is the label on the box but what's in the box is a central bank digital currency
00:38:58.120 it's total control over the banking system and the ability to prevent you from making payments
00:39:04.800 to things that you want that's this is actually what they want they want to transition because 0.95
00:39:08.540 when they when they change this they're going to change the whole fucking banking system 0.75
00:39:11.040 and you look at what's going in the global economy right now this is it's not just in canada i think 0.68
00:39:16.240 it's going to happen everywhere i think canada might be some kind of a pilot program again because 0.97
00:39:21.360 we're not even really a country we're kind of just a company store for a bunch of fucking resource
00:39:24.820 companies um i feel like they're gonna try it with us and with a few other places first and 0.92
00:39:30.200 then attempt to roll it out over the whole planet as the petrodollar because what better way to test
00:39:35.940 it out on bricks countries than canada it's like we'll test it out on white people but also chinese 1.00
00:39:43.020 people and indians those are the big black boxes they can't test it on so the chinese the chinese 0.99
00:39:47.900 has already got it in my view this is a competitive thing like you have the the two hemispheres 1.00
00:39:52.940 fighting against each other china already has essentially cbdc and they have the the surveillance 0.53
00:39:57.580 and all of the social credit system and this is we've been ragging on this for years but like i 0.92
00:40:02.060 think the west is looking at that and saying oh my god look at the delicious control they have
00:40:06.700 over their population we need that so so that's just what i say when people get excited about ubi 0.57
00:40:13.580 I just, again, I don't have the map, but like, I'm sure that this, cause they're saying, well, at least our guys get paid.
00:40:20.040 No, we won't.
00:40:21.140 They'll find a way to.
00:40:22.800 It's, I don't want to get into the whole thing, but it is the one thing I'll say, which is so frustrating to me, the people that support UBI, it's just, it's myopic is the main thing. 0.97
00:40:31.920 You're looking at that, you're narrowing down and zooming in under a microscope, like an, like an idiot and looking at this one benefit. 0.92
00:40:39.620 And you're not taking the moment to step back and say, how did we get in this position? The people who are offering you this one little scrap, right, are the ones who created the problem. They're the ones who brought the immigrants in. They're the ones who overregulated for 50 years so that Canada's productivity fell behind Americans. I mean, while in a previous generation, it was ahead of them. 0.99
00:41:02.640 um like are you still there yeah yeah absolutely okay sorry i have my monitor cut it i wasn't sure
00:41:08.560 if that anyways um yeah it's like there's there's so many reasons that if you rather than creating
00:41:15.540 a new government program for free money there's so many things you could just get rid of like the
00:41:20.760 government generally and i mean you don't have to be a libertarian to believe this just look at all 0.94
00:41:25.040 the like the health care system look at the shit they throw money at like things we just talked 0.93
00:41:28.580 about hundreds of millions billions of dollars to foreign countries to israel to yemen give to 0.99
00:41:34.260 fucking ukraine like you don't need ubi man you just need your money back you need to and anyways 0.98
00:41:40.920 i'm becoming a no no but no that's a larger that's a larger point that's true i was more speaking to 1.00
00:41:46.440 people who were like yes we're corrupt but at least you know the system's collapsing at least
00:41:51.000 we can get some money out of it my message to them was you won't even get that like they'll find a
00:41:56.300 way where it's like yeah everything's corrupt let's accelerate let's accelerate and at least
00:42:01.040 get our guys paid but don't even count on that it's one of those one of those nuanced things
00:42:05.180 like look i get the federal child benefit and the provincial child benefit and i'm thrilled that i
00:42:09.360 do i'm glad that i get it i'm not going to say no to it you know i'm not going to burn the check
00:42:13.080 but if they were offering it to me like if i was going to vote on it i'd vote against it
00:42:17.100 you know what i mean so there's a there's a difference between trying to like supporting
00:42:21.580 something before it happens making decision and acting in a way that allows it to happen
00:42:25.660 and then once it's already happened you may as well take advantage of it yeah well the ubi 0.87
00:42:30.520 the reason it bugs me is ubi hasn't fucking happened yet you know it's still it's not too 0.80
00:42:35.600 late to stop it from happening so you should be actively trying to stop ubi what if they do 0.90
00:42:41.040 implement it fuck yeah you should use it for everything it's worth but for now it hasn't
00:42:45.480 been implemented do not let it happen please every penny that goes into ubi you know it's coming out 0.99
00:42:51.160 of out of white skin you know it's a fucking works program for browns you know that it will 0.99
00:42:56.040 it will continue to come out of white labor who are the only ones really propping this up 0.99
00:43:00.920 that's the thing the whole thing about canadian productivity there's almost no productivity in 0.99
00:43:04.240 canada like on a general level that's because canadians as white canadians work so fucking 0.96
00:43:09.380 hard extreme hours with shitty equipment and no technology because there's been no investment here 1.00
00:43:13.680 in decades and we're essentially getting our asses taxed off so that we can pay for these browns 1.00
00:43:18.720 Like we are, we are the whites are the economic engine of this whole fucking country. So what do you want us to have more, more to cover for now? 0.99
00:43:28.620 So if anyone takes a look at a lot of the grants or investment in, let's just take Ontario, for example, if you look into it, you will find a fair amount of investment for manufacturing because the government of Ontario and many other government, provincial governments, they will talk a big talk about wanting to bring manufacturing back.
00:43:47.840 And so they'll have a portfolio of maybe a couple of companies, some sheet metal company that they help get going. Right. Or like a doorknob factory in northern Ontario, which are good. But then you realize all of those are hiring immigrants anyway. Yes. And you were telling me not to dox yourself, but you were saying that you're one of the few white guys who works at your organization, which is also run by like an older white guy.
00:44:13.480 i it's funny the sad thing is is you can't dox me i can give you all this information and it's
00:44:18.520 not dox worthy because it's the entire area but i work in the gta i work at a medium-sized company
00:44:24.780 that has a lot of money moving through it and i'm the only white person employed there at at any
00:44:30.480 level there's nobody it's a factory so there's no white guys on the factory floor there's i should
00:44:35.180 say there are two italians and a greek but these are actual italians like almost not speaking 0.97
00:44:39.540 english fucking italians and and then up in the upper management it's exclusively muslims muslim 0.94
00:44:46.300 arabs because the ceo is a muslim arab and i'm certain the only reason he hired me is because 0.98
00:44:50.680 he couldn't find a muslim arab who had the same qualifications as me it's because they're all 1.00
00:44:54.540 fucking goat fuckers so i mean that that sucks for him i guess he had to hire a white christian 1.00
00:44:59.200 guy but fuck yeah and so you know you'll say like oh they're trying to bring work back for canadians 1.00
00:45:05.640 but all of these older guys like these are older white guys too they're you know i don't want to 0.99
00:45:11.680 get off on boomers you know i really don't because i'm sure this is evident in every generation but
00:45:17.260 i do detect something very pronounced with boomers where many of them seem to prefer immigrants
00:45:25.200 because they say they work harder right they say like i need hard workers and no no it's it's 0.52
00:45:31.040 almost like a vendetta against their own kids it's also insanely false like i don't know how
00:45:37.080 anybody can say this with a straight face i think the people that say that are people who have heard
00:45:40.800 it third hand and haven't seen it because i've never seen this and i've worked in many factories
00:45:45.340 yeah exactly and but and once you talk to these people they're taking something out on their kids
00:45:50.800 they say this generation they didn't want to work they saw a commercial or some kind of news program
00:45:55.620 about how kids played too much video games these days something like that it's like yeah kids are
00:46:00.180 these it's like this generational gripe that they have every generation has it i guess but 0.99
00:46:05.640 them it seems like the entire reason they're bringing immigrants in is because they got 0.99
00:46:10.620 beef with their lazy kids and so they're like oh i'm gonna bring in guatemalens because they 0.99
00:46:15.760 work without sleeping it's like but it i don't know it's shit work and they have to know that 0.99
00:46:21.140 anyway i don't know if your boss knows that but do you get the sense that your boss knows how 0.97
00:46:25.160 shitty his employees are well i mean in fairness the guys that are down on the floor my biggest 0.98
00:46:33.160 problem with them is that they shouldn't be there because they're foreigners they shouldn't even be 1.00
00:46:36.940 in my country but in fairness most of them are actually they they're good at their jobs but 1.00
00:46:42.940 they're all in their 50s like they're experienced guys they've been with the company for decades
00:46:46.220 some of them so my critique of these guys isn't so much that they're lazy but again the industry 0.92
00:46:51.160 that i work in this is high skill shit like even our even our guys on the floor are making good 0.87
00:46:55.560 money because it's it's an artisan craft essentially so there's that um but yeah i mean 0.88
00:47:00.700 the places that the places like the previous company i'd worked at which was the total opposite
00:47:05.200 it was just like scrub scab labor the number of times they hired indian guys and they just 1.00
00:47:10.440 couldn't keep them because they kept like nearly cutting their fingers off and they had to get rid 0.98
00:47:13.900 of them because they really are dumb and lazy like i would i only worked there for like nine 0.98
00:47:18.740 months and while i was there three or four times they hired an indian guy and he was gone within 0.99
00:47:22.220 a week over like literally safety concerns or just cannot fulfill the role so yeah speaking of which
00:47:29.740 uh this is just to add on to the last point um i'm looking at a 4chan thread here it's called
00:47:36.940 the jeet shaker i don't know if you saw this but i love it i'm just gonna read it it's a green text 0.79
00:47:42.740 right so i'm gonna read it line by line he says be me fucking jeet's next door he lives in a 0.92
00:47:49.920 townhouse with a shared wall jeet's doing jeet things like having fucking fires on their living 0.99
00:47:55.040 room floor jeetery setting off smoke detector city refuses to do anything three times a day 0.95
00:48:02.580 the jeet has fires or incense going once a day the jeet will ring bells for 30 minutes at a time
00:48:09.440 um so solution here's what it does go on amazon purchase a 40 watt concrete shaker
00:48:17.380 uh has a picture here it's like a concrete shaker on a board with a couple of 25 pound
00:48:24.060 weights holding it down uh connect a jeet shaker to smart plug research noise laws in city
00:48:31.440 noise can't be more frequent than every 60 minutes can't last longer than 10 minutes
00:48:36.960 create a home assistant 1.00
00:48:38.960 smart home rule to turn on concrete 1.00
00:48:41.160 shaker every 61 minutes
00:48:43.220 for 9 minutes, rule has
00:48:44.980 exception when houses occupied, anyway
00:48:46.740 so he has this automatic system
00:48:49.080 to just shake the house
00:48:51.000 once every hour, to basically
00:48:53.000 chase them out
00:48:54.020 and this just seemed like
00:48:57.120 the destiny
00:48:59.340 of Canada
00:49:00.260 all we're doing is, there's no jobs
00:49:03.360 here, we've outsourced all the jobs 1.00
00:49:05.000 and all the jobs that remain here are fake and it's just a testing ground for the davos culture 0.80
00:49:12.280 people to try out their latest scheme the government's a sham whatever literally all 0.98
00:49:17.180 canada is in the future is importing the third world just to fuck with them that's going to be 1.00
00:49:22.580 what we do in the future yeah there's no jobs all we can do you me anyone all we could do 1.00
00:49:28.320 is they're they're bringing in the third world to the biggest trolls on earth and we're going to 0.97
00:49:33.980 keep devising new and exciting ways to fuck with them the entire country is home alone 0.99
00:49:41.800 the entire all canada is going to be is top shelf racism soon 0.99
00:49:47.280 i really i mean i know we're kidding around but i really can't get over especially the
00:49:52.940 announcement lately that the economic oh what are they are like one of the boards in canada
00:49:58.800 has admitted that we're in the population trap that we have so many people now that it's decreasing
00:50:03.440 productivity and there's no way out without removing people which they're not going to do
00:50:06.740 and i know i know that the only place this goes is just something so wonderful and like extreme
00:50:15.640 and violent and it's just going to be so funny like there's no way out like i'm to me at this
00:50:21.200 point it's so obvious and inevitable that i'm looking at these suburbs full of like jeets 15
00:50:28.280 to a house nattering and not really sure what they can do because they don't have jobs either now
00:50:32.900 and it's and they're afraid of the cold and they want to go back to india but they can't afford 0.93
00:50:37.300 the ticket and i'm just fucking laughing like dude three years from now you're not going to 0.87
00:50:41.820 be having a good time you're going to be having a worse time than me oh man i'm very interested in 0.86
00:50:47.200 2024 yeah i felt better about 2024 than a lot of years because the tail end of 2023 and the
00:50:56.180 beginning of this year it's all the liberals and progressives finally admitting that they
00:51:01.080 fucked up migration all of the mayors all the everything and we're gonna see this with olivia 0.97
00:51:06.480 chow in toronto raising fucking interest rates raising raising the um uh tax rate on houses up 1.00
00:51:14.140 to like 23 whatever insane idea she's got toronto had been only barely held afloat by its conservative 0.98
00:51:21.140 government for like four or five years and now that olivia chow is olivia chow is literally a 0.55
00:51:25.360 fucking communist what they're doing and are focusing on city hall right now this proposed
00:51:29.120 budget is wild potentially a 16.5 percent property hacks type property tax hike in english so now 0.97
00:51:37.840 the 6.5 percent on top of the 10.5 according to the city is for new uh people to the city of
00:51:44.720 toronto who need a place to live and they're saying to the federal government you got to come
00:51:48.360 in and help us by the way i hammer my in-laws with that whenever they bring it up because again 0.99
00:51:54.380 And the libs and progressives, which they are, they're like, wow, it's really fucked up. 0.98
00:51:59.020 You know, it's really messed up. 0.98
00:52:00.100 They won't curse, right? 1.00
00:52:01.200 But I cut them off and I say, that's what happens when you elect a lady Chinese communist to the mayor. 1.00
00:52:07.740 Yeah. 1.00
00:52:08.360 And I hammer every time they bring it up, like, that's what you get.
00:52:11.100 Just like with Trudeau.
00:52:12.020 I'm like, you voted for him.
00:52:12.940 I didn't vote for him.
00:52:14.280 I hope you like this. 0.99
00:52:15.360 Olivia Chow's perfect because it's like she's a childless woman. 1.00
00:52:18.820 She's a communist and she's a foreigner. 1.00
00:52:21.800 She's a foreigner. 0.95
00:52:22.540 a foreigner a communist and a woman is who runs the biggest city in the country and though again 0.99
00:52:29.380 the city was already on its last legs and now it's so overcrowded with jeets and the productivity is 0.99
00:52:34.160 so low and the garbage picked up is fucked and they don't have enough electricity the water 0.93
00:52:38.060 system is collapsing the ttc half the stations are closed and they got flooding like it's almost 0.99
00:52:42.640 apocalyptic in toronto right now and this is only the beginning i've got another three and a half
00:52:46.960 years again still where we're like i said the tail end of last year and this year it's all the
00:52:51.420 liberals and progressives just admitting they did all this stuff the entire time and they said wow 0.51
00:52:56.900 yeah things really fucked up and now we're just staring at each other both sides are just like
00:53:01.720 staring silently at each other they're at the stage like san francisco got a few years ago 0.84
00:53:06.620 where it's essentially saying you know we admit that we're wrong but it's too late to change
00:53:11.120 we know that it's it's too late to do anything all we can do is watch it burn they stand back
00:53:15.580 and watch it burn that's where we're at with toronto yeah and it's like this is the end game
00:53:19.860 of that sort of dysgenic
00:53:21.700 biomass, ponderologic
00:53:23.760 virus you get. The end of this
00:53:25.880 sort of thing is the destruction of the system
00:53:27.740 and saying, well, that's what
00:53:29.820 happens, and wanting you to be okay
00:53:31.700 with it.
00:53:33.540 They're just done. They're fucking done. 0.99
00:53:35.620 Just like feminism. Women got everything 1.00
00:53:37.680 they wanted. I am okay with it. 0.98
00:53:39.600 Women got everything they wanted, and now 1.00
00:53:41.440 they're dying. So, okay. 1.00
00:53:43.160 I was going to say, I am happy with it.
00:53:45.740 I feel like the position that we're in,
00:53:47.960 like you and I, we've already lost
00:53:49.720 our jobs repeatedly we already have adapted to much shittier living situations than our parents
00:53:54.640 ever had um and like we've already been kicked essentially and we've made ourselves anti-fragile
00:54:01.480 and we've made ourselves more independent from the supply chain and from these systems so to me
00:54:06.560 even though it will hurt when this falls apart it's not going to hurt me nearly as much as it's
00:54:12.420 going to hurt those people in toronto who are so fucking plugged in that i mean if they some of
00:54:16.820 these people they're going to wake up one morning and the power is out and they're going to get a 0.99
00:54:20.360 message on their phone that the power won't be back on for another four days and they're just
00:54:23.540 going to throw themselves out the window and die and i'm going to laugh like it's it's so it's so
00:54:28.800 wonderful it's so wonderful you know i mentioned this on a recent interview that's going to air 0.71
00:54:34.340 soon uh with meta prime um and i mentioned an individual and i got the name wrong i said ian
00:54:40.480 miles chong but i really meant arthur chu uh the two asian guys who actually kind of look similar
00:54:47.220 you know they're different types of asian um but uh arthur chu if anyone does know him look him up
00:54:52.700 he is sort of like this twitter progressive influencer he was famous for being on jeopardy 0.88
00:54:58.160 and when you know being on jeopardy for a long enough time that people give a shit but anyway 0.93
00:55:02.860 he's a total train wreck but he is so progressive he made a tweet once where he was advocating on 0.96
00:55:08.940 the side of weakness basically on the side of dysgenics by saying that there's more of me than 0.99
00:55:13.720 there are of you we are the rising tide of just weak so dumb sad people and he was quoting that 0.90
00:55:21.580 movie 300 where xerxes is like you know uh leonidas wants you to stand i only request that 0.98
00:55:28.360 you kneel he's like yeah that but unironically and i'm looking at that i'm like that's the guy
00:55:33.940 who's gonna be throwing himself from the roof because there's a lot of people that literally
00:55:38.360 don't know how to live without all this stuff and and likewise in like in 300 if you're using that
00:55:45.940 as the example what happened that that film win or lose every one of those spartans took 300 of
00:55:51.140 those guys down with him you know what i mean so like i don't know how you're like oh we're gonna
00:55:55.620 beat you it's like not before one of us gets a thousand of you again like we're the ones that
00:56:02.380 are fit and skilled and educated and armed and have families and communities and vehicles and 1.00
00:56:08.880 like you don't even you don't even have a fucking car you faggot you know who that reminds you what 1.00
00:56:14.120 that reminds me of uh reminds me of a film i saw recently oh reminds me a film that you saw recently 1.00
00:56:22.220 as well yes because we only review films that we've both seen well i had to mention it because
00:56:27.420 there's some other movies i want to talk about but i really want to talk about this one because
00:56:30.040 we both saw it.
00:56:30.820 We both saw it around the same time.
00:56:32.940 And I didn't get your take on it,
00:56:34.600 but I think maybe you can talk about it now.
00:56:37.640 We both saw the movie Zardoz.
00:56:40.480 It's movie corner! 1.00
00:56:45.960 Shut up! Shut up! 1.00
00:56:47.580 Shut up! Shut up! 1.00
00:56:48.400 Shut up! 1.00
00:56:48.900 Shut up! 1.00
00:56:51.060 So Zardoz, 1970s, 1.00
00:56:54.360 young Sean Connery,
00:56:56.200 a bit of a meme movie, 0.99
00:56:57.480 because I've heard about Zardoz for a long time
00:56:59.700 and had never seen it a lot of people might have seen the image of young sean connery wearing an
00:57:05.200 absurd looking what would you call that like it's like what do you call that what what do you call
00:57:09.480 that it's like red underwear with with straps it's not a loincloth there's a word for it it's
00:57:13.460 like the type of like wrapped underwear that like a sumo wrestler wears but i forget what you call
00:57:17.140 that but he's got that he says you got a loincloth and like leather jack boots and a bandolier
00:57:22.680 yeah it's such a great costume of like shotgun shells like draped around him and it's young
00:57:27.580 sean connery and you look at that image and that image is passed around and a lot of people like
00:57:31.540 oh look at this absurd low budget 70s sci-fi flick um and i wasn't prepared for how impressive
00:57:40.940 the movie was i was actually i was really slapped in the face like i went into it thinking that okay
00:57:47.240 it's not going to be as bad because nerds love this movie nerds and you know the mystery science
00:57:51.840 theater 3000 people they passed around like you gotta see this it's oh it's so ridiculous but i 0.64
00:57:56.860 didn't think it was ridiculous i didn't think it was not silly i thought it was a really serious 0.95
00:58:03.720 now look it's on like top level it is silly it's a very silly movie but it's not stupid 0.99
00:58:11.040 i mean and okay fine it's a little bit stupid but like how do you say that like it's not that 0.97
00:58:15.980 there isn't anything there there's a lot you can get out of this movie there's a lot to talk about 0.96
00:58:20.320 and they're you know what they're not fucking wrong i don't disagree with this film i think 0.51
00:58:24.480 it's a good film i think everybody should watch this i was gonna say i tried to watch this like 0.92
00:58:29.160 three four years ago i got through the first 10 minutes just with like the head and they're
00:58:32.360 spitting the guns out and i'm like i'm not this is gay i'm not watching this and i only watched
00:58:36.300 it again recently i think because john talley had put it in the chat he reminded me of it and then
00:58:41.820 you saw it and then i think some people like a lot of people in the chat said this is a good movie
00:58:46.140 um and you should watch it i'm like you know i'll give it a shot and i'd never seen anything from it
00:58:51.300 And like you had said, I watched the first few minutes, and it's like a giant stone head flying through the clouds, and it's belching out guns, shotguns and machine guns, to a bunch of these, like, destitute tribesmen gathered around it worshipping, saying, 0.97
00:59:09.880 the penis is evil 0.99
00:59:12.260 you have been raised up 1.00
00:59:16.480 from brutality 1.00
00:59:17.780 to kill the 1.00
00:59:20.180 brutals who multiply 1.00
00:59:21.880 and our legion 0.95
00:59:24.480 this
00:59:25.940 and Zadar's your god
00:59:28.680 gave you
00:59:30.720 the gift of
00:59:32.500 the gun
00:59:33.300 the gun is good
00:59:36.860 the gun is good 1.00
00:59:38.940 the penis is evil the penis shoots seeds and makes new life to poison the earth with a plague of men 1.00
00:59:50.200 as once it was but the gun shoots death and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals 1.00
01:00:00.000 and i'm like i love this whatever this is i'm in i'm so invested i'm edge in my seat i don't 0.87
01:00:07.420 know what happens next and every act like people like if you watch this movie if you're a film
01:00:13.100 lover and watch this movie you'll notice a few things that even the pacing is really good it's
01:00:17.820 not an obvious movie it kind of throws you into it and then explains it as you go and you have
01:00:22.780 this character you don't know his backstory and it kind of jumps ahead and back in time
01:00:27.200 and like once i saw that i'm like oh this is competent because i watched another older movie
01:00:33.140 that's sort of a meme movie as well called threads recently um and threads was like a
01:00:40.300 post-apocalyptic nuclear war movie made i think the 80s or something and that was a movie that
01:00:46.160 looks cheap it looked amateurish like that the camera work it just it looked low budget
01:00:52.420 and this very well might have been a low budget movie but it didn't look low budget
01:00:56.500 and another example i can give is this movie i saw recently that everyone's going to know again
01:01:01.200 called stalker stalker i believe was late 70s and that's a movie again where classic where
01:01:08.180 it doesn't look very expensive like if you actually look at where's the money on screen
01:01:12.440 there's not a lot of special effects but it looks so good there's something about the director who
01:01:18.240 had an eye for framing and an eye for like just every you're enraptured in that movie just because
01:01:25.380 of how well it's made absolutely and you get lost in it even though not if you were describing to
01:01:32.300 people it wouldn't make sense if you describe it you have to be in it and sardoz i was in it
01:01:36.760 and i was impressed by you know he's sean connery's character zed is he's dressed kind of weird but
01:01:43.920 most of the sets are pretty restrained i mean it's got a quirkiness that you get from the 70s
01:01:51.180 like there's you know obviously this was like a medieval set of some kind you know they found
01:01:56.440 like a cool castle so i can see where they might have cut some corners but it's not noticeable i
01:02:01.740 mean there's it only drags a little bit um and i remember there's like one scene anyway so like how
01:02:08.840 would you describe this movie so like zed he's like a tribesman living in as a barbarian in the 0.65
01:02:14.320 a gay liberal technocratic elite think that they represent the end of history and the last man 0.89
01:02:22.340 and the way they preserve themselves is by neutering themselves becoming immortal and 1.00
01:02:28.440 depopulating the rest of the earth from which is outside their protected bubble by giving guns to
01:02:35.660 a bunch of men knowing that the men will go out and rape and pillage so they keep giving guns to 0.98
01:02:42.200 the men and telling them to worship the head so they'll go and kill humanity because they don't 0.97
01:02:46.580 want the humans they're the technocratic elite and there's what there's maybe 200 of them or 300 of
01:02:51.240 them in this bubble and they're all immortal but then of course first of all by the way let me 0.99
01:02:55.040 just say they're all decadent they're all they're decadent and gay and androgynous like they're all 1.00
01:02:59.820 fags and they never have sex they don't even know what sex is they're just they're just awful 1.00
01:03:03.580 faggots um they're really like they're they're laughably comically reprehensible awful people 1.00
01:03:09.640 and it's a it's a riot it's very it's a very funny movie except for a couple of them like 1.00
01:03:13.580 there's some characters that he meets there that are kind of working with him um because
01:03:18.420 just to mention this zed our main character our hero sneaks onto this floating stone head
01:03:26.600 that's returning to this area he's never been in there before and he uh shoots the man behind
01:03:32.420 the curtain the man who's piloting the head because it's not the head itself there's a
01:03:35.720 little man inside of it and then it kind of autopilots back to there and then he this is
01:03:40.980 kind of a common sci-fi trope where like here's the barbarian in utopia now they're studying him
01:03:47.100 now they're fascinated with him and so sorry continue yeah it's a little bit of like brave
01:03:52.500 new world there but so the thing that i liked about it is the the general plot once he gets
01:03:57.480 back into their bubble is that the technocratic elite the gays have been there for so long that
01:04:02.820 they are infighting and they have these problem with catatonics and they have the problem with 0.93
01:04:06.440 them going insane over time and and they're essentially collapsing but they can't progress
01:04:10.940 they can't move forward they're at a they're at a genetic dead end meanwhile zed and apparently a
01:04:16.180 number of other men on the outside who have been there for a thousand years have evolved through
01:04:21.220 hardship and violence and rape they have evolved into more intelligent although savage more 1.00
01:04:28.960 intelligent creatures than the than the degenerate faggots on the inside of the bubble and that's 1.00
01:04:34.980 what and even the guy who had it was kind of the twist at the end is that apparently one of the 1.00
01:04:39.280 guys had actually intentionally brought zed in because he hates them all and he wanted them to
01:04:43.280 die but he thought he would live and then it's revealed like no this is essentially evolution 0.88
01:04:47.960 and or mother nature taking revenge on you degenerates because the and the i love the thing 0.99
01:04:53.360 even the thing like the penis is evil reproduction is evil masculinity violence are evil and then 0.98
01:04:58.260 it's like no all of those things are associated with nature and nature always wins and so you 0.98
01:05:01.880 and then they all die and man man nature and violence wins it's like yes they're surprised
01:05:07.380 that sean connery's character zed is so intelligent because he stumbled across a library and just
01:05:12.300 started reading all these books um but it turns out that that into that individual
01:05:17.560 is some kind of almost demigod this almost trickster god well i thought the the the implication
01:05:25.060 was that they've been out there for a thousand years and it's just it's just evolution right
01:05:29.640 like they've been living in that savagery where only the strongest and tallest and smartest and
01:05:35.000 fastest survive for a thousand years he's the great great grandchild of the greatest raider
01:05:39.880 right so that was the idea that he was this genetically now he's more powerful and the seed
01:05:45.960 was one day he came across an ancient library started reading and then i mean he couldn't he 0.97
01:05:51.740 couldn't read but he was taught to read by the fag from the thing who wanted to destroy the city 0.92
01:05:55.120 so that was the mistake as he taught this this superhuman to read and of course it leads to 0.98
01:06:00.680 their own destruction then he becomes the culture thug he becomes cultured see and this is as we're
01:06:06.420 discussing this as we're like the idea of not the guy but like who we know but like the idea
01:06:11.260 that he was paying tribute to the sort of fascist idea of the enlightened savage uh that that's him
01:06:18.020 that's zed and you know as we're talking about this you realize that this movie would have been
01:06:22.540 released around the time of star wars would i be mistaken saying that uh ish yeah probably around
01:06:29.360 the same time so zardo's a 74 74 holy shit there you go so zardo's before star wars but to me this
01:06:37.400 is almost the anti-star wars yeah absolutely because star wars takes a very surface level
01:06:44.440 and loose concept of mythology you know the the hero's journey and it does that just straight up
01:06:50.620 front to back you know paint by numbers but zardoz it's way more subversive it's way like it takes
01:06:57.300 the idea of mythology it drills down into it and it's almost a mythology critiquing itself like by
01:07:04.360 the end as this society is devouring itself as like the man they elected like they elected an
01:07:11.180 enlightened savage to come kill them and it's this orgy of happy violence but they're also scared 0.92
01:07:17.740 but they're also excited to finally die and zardoz is talking to this like demigod who brought him 0.92
01:07:23.040 there and the demigods and men like i brought you here i did all this and then zardoz who's new
01:07:28.940 says like oh yeah but you were puppeted by someone yourself we're all puppets here and it's such like
01:07:34.480 a twisted up critique of the mythology itself with nature coming through and it ends with almost
01:07:41.660 like this adam and eve epilogue of zardoz and this like woman from there who have like the first
01:07:48.000 organic child again um like it becomes like a new mythology and it's these very deep complex ideas
01:07:56.600 expressed in kind of a kooky sci-fi way with like you know the every bandoliers and everything
01:08:03.500 solved with guns like the gun is treated as this like divine weapon yeah it's not like it's not a 0.97
01:08:09.020 a magical sword or a mystical dagger it's just a fucking shotgun and a horse yeah and it's so 0.59
01:08:17.100 fucking cool and even the special effects of the flying head i thought that was kind of cool like 0.98
01:08:20.980 i was i was surprised at how like i was never taken out of it and it took itself seriously 0.97
01:08:28.680 and like i don't know i think people if people watch this and they're laughing at how silly it
01:08:33.840 is like they're not watching it there's only a couple silly scenes where like like one scene
01:08:40.360 where there's like a council in a circular table and they're trying to like i guess kill one of 0.75
01:08:47.720 them with their minds because their mind powers but they just like stick their hands out and their
01:08:51.640 hands are trembling and they're going like oh and he's like ah ah like like an old william shatner
01:08:58.540 from the original star trek like ah you're killing me you know one of those scenes but
01:09:02.940 that was about it you know yeah there's there's another just a little thing kind of a side note
01:09:07.720 that i thought was interesting about this because thematically it's about it's about masculinity and
01:09:12.920 and savagery paired with paired with erudition and education overcoming a degenerate technocratic
01:09:21.460 elite and this was filmed it was released in 84 right so we're presuming it was filmed in the
01:09:26.520 years the couple of years leading up to 84 it was filmed in the republic of ireland and all of the
01:09:31.280 extras were irish like irish citizens real irish yeah and um they had problems with the set because
01:09:37.600 they have catholic irish women who don't want to bear their breasts on film even though it's early
01:09:41.500 80s and that's a thing and even getting guns for the set was difficult because it's the middle of 0.97
01:09:45.860 the fucking troubles and the republican irish army doesn't want them importing guns from england
01:09:51.180 So like you, it's this, this whole thing was, was being filmed and set against the backdrop 0.99
01:09:57.740 of the troubles in Ireland.
01:09:59.900 So like that, I thought that was kind of, it almost, it almost turned out.
01:10:04.000 I love that dimension because it does look, you see the, like the highlands there, like
01:10:09.160 the, the way it's, the, the area takes place and there's a lot of like these beautiful
01:10:13.020 rolling hills and stuff.
01:10:14.520 So it looks very much of that territory.
01:10:17.460 i'm just reading here that uh when the film was released it was immediately met with terrible
01:10:22.060 reviews along with scathing reviews the public reacted very poorly to the confusing world
01:10:27.160 um and i i guess like if you don't know what you're getting into because they released the
01:10:33.380 version i saw had like an intro like dark city had they thought it's too confusing so we need
01:10:39.220 a narrator we need a narrator to just address the audience directly and say here's what's going to
01:10:45.200 happened and i'm like i don't know like i didn't think people were that dumb back then but like
01:10:50.300 it's not that hard to follow because the movie you know if there's one thing you can say about
01:10:55.340 zardoz it explains itself pretty oh yeah oh right like they're you're not really confused what's
01:11:01.340 happening they're saying because zardoz is like or the z rather is like an audience surrogate he 0.73
01:11:07.000 doesn't know anything so everyone's telling him everything yeah yeah it's quite on the nose in
01:11:11.700 it's not hard to follow it's like a david lynch movie i i can't recommend it enough and i think
01:11:17.340 a lot of people who are interested in mythology and interested in vitalism because that's what
01:11:22.820 i keep oh yeah like it's an affirmation of violence and masculinity in a in a more serious
01:11:30.260 and metaphysical way than i've ever seen treated in movie to the point where like something like
01:11:34.740 john wick it's violence but it's dumb violence this is not dumb violence this is one of the
01:11:41.580 rare instances where i think it's it's it's aware and intelligent violence and even john wick is 0.95
01:11:47.980 like comparatively a little bit gay like it's like oh i'm so masculine because i have a very 0.79
01:11:53.540 nice expensive fitted italian suit wouldn't it be more masculine to just be covered in dirt and 0.89
01:11:58.660 smashing a skull with a stick wouldn't that be i mean i'm just comparing a to b right like wouldn't 0.99
01:12:03.880 it be more masculine to just go into the old the monastery and just rape a hundred catatonic women 0.99
01:12:09.340 that's zardoz he does that in the film would john wick rape a woman on a beach after chasing her 0.99
01:12:14.980 down a horse chase her down a cover with a fishnet and just rape her and then everyone 0.98
01:12:19.600 watches and say wow that's powerful like yeah in a room full of women in the movie in the context 0.98
01:12:25.980 movie the women going wow that's awesome that is a scene that is a scene in the film yeah 1.00
01:12:33.140 base a bunch of terrified irish women going nice
01:12:38.800 but yeah like i'm glad you liked it i'm glad um and again like if you kind of get past it or if
01:12:48.860 you don't go into the wrong idea that this is like the room by tommy wazzo where it's like oh
01:12:54.280 it's this artifact like there's every movie i've seen from the 70s so far i've liked and it just
01:13:00.300 seems and people say this all the time but it just seems like a movie you wouldn't really see
01:13:05.480 now for a few reasons but it just like the audaciousness of it i don't see a lot of audacious
01:13:12.100 movies as much or maybe i'm wrong maybe i'm talking shit but i don't know it just seemed
01:13:18.300 to have an energy and a character i don't really see much anymore yeah yeah absolutely anyway
01:13:25.000 Moving along, there's a couple of things I want to get to.
01:13:28.540 One, just a quick bit of show news.
01:13:31.860 I'm launching a new segment on the show called Crimes Chat.
01:13:37.980 Nice.
01:13:38.400 This was an idea that we had had for a while.
01:13:42.360 Members of our community would oftentimes have live chats within the Telegram group.
01:13:47.860 and a couple of times i tried to record them and they hated this idea and incorrectly chastised me
01:13:55.080 so those never see the live day but there's a lot of really creative funny interesting people
01:13:59.760 who listen to the show who have a lot of things to say and i opened it up the floodgates and i
01:14:05.820 open it up to anyone any listener who wants to send us a voice message um you can do this a
01:14:12.860 couple ways one through our telegram chat you can send us a voice message send me a voice message
01:14:18.220 easy to do on telegram or you can email me uh bloodsatellite at protonmail.com that's blood
01:14:25.460 satellite at protonmail.com an mp3 a wave file whatever audio file of just whatever you think
01:14:32.020 is interesting could be a funny story it could be a joke could be a bit just anything it's like
01:14:37.100 our speaker's corner um any if you want to be a part of the show if you've got a segment that
01:14:42.920 you'd like to do send it i'm not promising that we'll air all of them but i'm gonna try and air
01:14:47.080 most of them so i'm gonna play one right now and uh let's see how this goes
01:14:52.920 Hey, what's going on, b-b-boys? 0.93
01:15:05.920 Okay, I wanted to talk about the Jewish question in Canada, 1.00
01:15:08.840 and this stemmed from an argument that I had with a Telegram admin on a chat that I ended up getting banned from.
01:15:15.080 so basically this guy started off this post by um just uh he just linked to the wikipedia page for
01:15:23.520 like list of canadian jews and he was doing gang weed style stuff it's like now you see and i
01:15:30.040 pointed out to the guys like well what's the narrative that you're trying to push here because
01:15:33.580 if you look at the majority of the people on this list um they're just like doctors or like
01:15:39.720 journalists like you don't see a lot of politicians you see some media guys but like
01:15:43.660 you know izzy asper no longer runs can west i don't think god godfrey is involved with post
01:15:49.660 media anymore so it's just like you don't see the level of representation in the media and the banks
01:15:57.500 and in political circles and other centers of power that you're going to see in the united states
01:16:02.240 and that's something that kind of troubled me when i was doing my own research like a few years ago
01:16:05.740 like i think a lot of us are kind of primed into dissident right politics by american podcasts and
01:16:11.720 american commentators and then you go and try to transpose the same narratives onto canada and it
01:16:16.380 doesn't really work and i mean it makes sense right because if you look at canada um one percent
01:16:22.220 of our population is jewish um whereas two percent of the u.s population is jewish and being that
01:16:27.660 we're like what like a tenth of the population of the u.s in totality that means jews are like
01:16:32.920 20 times overrepresented in canada or like you know or in the u.s versus in canada so it only
01:16:39.820 stands to reason um you know that being said when i pointed out to this guy he got really pissed off
01:16:46.200 and he was like you know america's base canada's gay and canada is a center of all this stuff and
01:16:51.880 i mean that doesn't really make sense so i guess the first point is like we should probably be
01:16:55.720 intelligent with our narratives and have something to back it up with even if we like america um you
01:17:00.920 know maybe you should think about where the center of jewish power is it's certainly not in canada i
01:17:05.020 mean and this ties into george grant right like lament for a nation all that like canada has no
01:17:11.680 identity canada is a branch plant of the united states and it's like okay i accept that but when
01:17:16.500 you think of the united states so what do you think of well zog so canada is a branch plant
01:17:20.880 of zog and i think that that stands up um and i don't mean just in the sense that you know the
01:17:27.320 banks um don't have jews at the top of them in in canada um but of course everything's owned by
01:17:34.140 black rock like you can go deeper than that um so for example like let's just talk about social
01:17:39.480 conservative um narrative so henry morgenthaler who was a polish jew immigrated to canada and he
01:17:45.580 was like the guy who started the abortion industry in canada i was listening to an interview with his
01:17:50.320 daughter who worked in his clinic and she was saying that yeah my dad absolutely was primed
01:17:54.460 to start the abortion racket here in canada but he needed um some impetus to do so and that
01:17:59.220 impetus was the roe v wade decision um you can talk about the jewish civil rights phase in canada
01:18:05.820 and i haven't named it that that's something that academics call it and it's not like a disparaging
01:18:10.920 moniker um you can look at the major players there like for example kamil koplansky like all these
01:18:16.560 guys used um jewish money from america to set up their organizations like kamil koplansky
01:18:24.600 specifically had his subordinates go and train in the united states at the american um jlc i think
01:18:32.520 it's the jewish labor committee here um you can talk about uh native rights right like boazian
01:18:38.360 anthropology i'm sure a lot of us are familiar with culture of critique and what kevin mcdonald
01:18:42.360 wrote there okay well if you look at the disciples of boaz that came to canada start the native
01:18:47.960 rights thing i mean obviously boaz was a jew but they were jews as well so um probably prime among
01:18:53.800 them you have frank speck and um ed sapier um what else do i have here oh yeah i guess just one
01:19:03.320 other example here and again i mean i have others but i don't want to overrun my time here talk
01:19:08.680 about uh pierre trudeau right like he graduated high school he was an anti-semitic quebecois
01:19:13.640 nationalist he had written a play in school called le jupe which made fun of quebecois
01:19:18.360 um like you know francophones who would buy things from jewish businesses in uh instead of
01:19:23.700 supporting their other uh frenchmen in quebec and then this guy went to harvard and suddenly he
01:19:29.540 cared a lot about world war ii hitler was the worst guy in the world and this isn't stuff i'm 0.54
01:19:33.020 making up like this is found in numerous biographies like jews love to brag about that um
01:19:38.120 i think that john english wrote a biography about him uh it's the first part's called citizen of the
01:19:44.500 world and so you see how things happen here so i guess that's my main point it's like um george
01:19:52.620 grant was right and also it's the jews you know that's my narrative what do you guys
01:19:56.800 wow that was really something
01:20:06.940 thanks for springing this on me i don't even know how to react to that i was
01:20:15.600 i'm speechless i'm similarly speechless
01:20:18.520 i haven't listened to it yet either so i don't know what i'm gonna put in there
01:20:24.140 um also just a reminder that people can go to good suffer.com to uh buy uh the book the
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01:21:12.480 we're discussing a countercurrents article that was uh on the epstein files basically making the
01:21:19.720 case that the epstein files were not blackmail so that'll be a fun one anyway uh that covers that
01:21:27.960 Now, moving on, there is one, before we move on to the book, there's one article that we kind of touched on previously, but you have some thoughts on this.
01:21:37.660 And we were discussing this all day in our community.
01:21:41.320 There was recently released a study that shows that people with big families are having bigger families despite the birth rate dropping.
01:21:52.400 So everyone's heard that the birth rate decline.
01:21:54.720 And I'm looking at a video right now from Truthstream Media on YouTube titled, We Are No Longer Replacing Ourselves.
01:22:02.980 And this is just one of many videos that's ringing the alarm bells that the birth rates are down, replacement levels are down.
01:22:10.240 That's one of the reasons they talk about replacement migration, because we've got to get those numbers up, because no one's having kids.
01:22:15.100 But this was an interesting study that says only certain people aren't having kids.
01:22:20.200 but the ones who are having kids and having a lot of kids are having more kids now you had some
01:22:27.380 opinions on this i just wanted to maybe pass it to you about i did your thoughts on this so i've
01:22:32.320 had i've hashed this out with a couple of the guys some of the guys don't like this or disagree
01:22:36.260 with it and by the way see if you can get closer to the mic just to be sure hello here i am um
01:22:41.920 the the for me the takeaway the reason that i really latched onto this and look i haven't
01:22:46.680 memorized all the data but i really this really sunk into my head and it changed my understanding
01:22:52.440 previously i'd heard about this tfr problem the fertility collapse we've been talking about it
01:22:58.720 for years right and i'd always thought of it in the context of total fertility is the statistic
01:23:04.520 which is represented evenly across the whole nation and as it falls you could generally expect
01:23:09.660 to see it fall in your community anecdotally roughly to the same level as it's falling
01:23:14.320 nationwide, which is an assumption. And in retrospect, it's a silly assumption. What this 0.84
01:23:20.040 study is saying, essentially, there's types of people. There's the type of people who their
01:23:26.620 decision-making process leads them to have one or two kids. And there's types of people who their
01:23:32.680 decision-making process leads them to have three or four kids. By which I mean, say, 30 years ago
01:23:38.060 or 50 years ago when times were better, right? So just for the sake of argument, I'm going to say
01:23:43.320 the people that have one or two kids are a little more focused on, you know, the stability and of
01:23:48.180 their wealth and maybe their household and their job. Maybe they're a little more urban. This is
01:23:53.160 all just assumptions. And maybe the people who have more kids are the ones who are a little bit
01:23:57.620 more about family, maybe a little more about faith. They might be Catholic. Look, they might
01:24:01.680 be Muslim. They might be brown, right? But the point is, is the way that they organize their 1.00
01:24:05.720 priorities as a family is more about children and less about wealth. When you have stress and people
01:24:12.800 have to choose there is actually an impetus not a very big one and it's only in a narrow class of
01:24:18.840 people but there is an impetus for people to have more kids when under stress whereas most people
01:24:25.060 have less kids when they're under stress and it seems to be that's the case that's what's happening 0.99
01:24:29.600 right now you have like and again i'm just i'm shitting numbers out of my ass but let's say 0.98
01:24:34.320 three percent of the population who are the type of person that in a normal society would have four 0.99
01:24:39.880 kids. They're now having seven. And then everybody else who normally has one or two, they're having
01:24:46.380 none. So yes, total fertility is dropping, but there's a tiny subset of narrow specific people
01:24:54.380 who are actually having more kids as a result of the same stimuli that's causing everybody else to
01:25:00.180 have less kids. And that was so like it, when you, again, when you think about it, it makes sense.
01:25:04.740 We talk about, about corporate families, you're returning to the tradition of the clan. And that the reason that our ancestors had huge families, or at least tried to was infant mortality was extremely hard times. And in hard times, you have as many kids as you can, in order for your bloodline to survive. And the the the takeaway there is those people were thinking more about their bloodline than they were about how much money is in their TFSA. Right?
01:25:31.020 so we do still have people like that alive today who don't give a fuck about the tfsa they care 0.97
01:25:35.900 about their blood i was talking at the very beginning of the show about my dad's side of 0.94
01:25:38.840 the family i have like 25 cousins i have five aunts and uncles and they died penniless my
01:25:45.940 grandparents why because everything for them was the clan and even building the clan larger they're
01:25:51.200 too old to have more kids so they're pulling other people's kids into the family they're
01:25:54.580 moving them in for free like this that's the way that those people look at it my dad's side of the
01:26:00.660 family were those people so like they they do exist and i know a lot of guys look at this and
01:26:05.960 they're like no this can't be true it is true if you haven't seen it that's not weird necessarily
01:26:11.360 especially if you live in a city because these people are very rare and they tend to not really
01:26:15.080 live in cities mostly because the economic argument against having kids is true especially 0.93
01:26:20.740 if you live in a city you can't even do this you can't have six kids in fucking toronto right now
01:26:25.300 so yeah it's interesting to look at it this way because when people hear about 0.96
01:26:29.740 families and birth rates dropping i think the prejudice a lot of people have is they imagine
01:26:36.580 everyone having the same family or they would imagine the nuclear family like people were
01:26:40.440 having 2.5 kids and now they're not but if you really think about it or even look at the numbers
01:26:45.200 that was never the case there was always some families have tons of kids some and then there's
01:26:50.060 this substrata that has one or two and you had mentioned them before and i was speculating and
01:26:55.520 this isn't outlined in the article uh the the study that we're actually referring to is in d status
01:27:01.860 um the rates of childish childlessness um there's a whole archive of data here but you know there is
01:27:10.180 this strata of people who would only ever have one kid now these could be single mothers these could
01:27:15.520 be accidental births a lot of these are just like accidents right people not interested in having
01:27:20.940 kids and they just happen to have one and they're doing their best with it but they're not trying
01:27:26.720 or they're taking every effort not to have more kids those people are very easy to go down to zero
01:27:31.380 so it's easy to go from one or two down to zero whereas it's easy for three or four what we're
01:27:39.380 seeing is that they're having more five six seven eight um and i think you had said that it's like
01:27:43.940 three and up is the dividing line there is that correct i mean i i don't remember the numbers
01:27:51.220 anecdotally in my life it's more like four like three is kind of the middle like i still see
01:27:57.540 families with three and they to me it's families with three that i know are like the stable ones
01:28:02.760 and families with four and more as much as we want to be on the side of like big clans and families
01:28:08.560 all the families that i personally know who have four or more kids have serious serious issues
01:28:13.640 either their extreme poverty alcoholism problems with the kids but regardless you have to look at 0.99
01:28:20.040 that and say here's somebody who given all of their problems still decided to have nine fucking 0.96
01:28:24.980 kids like the point is is you can't deny don't deny that these people exist just because you 0.99
01:28:30.480 personally have a strong argument against having kids because you're poor right there's poor poors 0.99
01:28:35.700 out there that are having nine kids and they're not even collecting the federal money it's just 1.00
01:28:39.280 like maybe they're catholic it's just a thing that they do so yeah and consider that there is
01:28:43.820 another strat of people who are having many many kids and they're doing it because they are rich
01:28:49.380 and i'm thinking of like elon musk's yeah you know they're just and it seems that at that level
01:28:54.940 you aren't doing it because it's accidental you are on some technocratic wavelength where you
01:29:01.280 you believe and like like if you're that rich and that educated you're probably having nine kids
01:29:07.100 because you're building an army yeah like i just don't think it's because you like 0.99
01:29:11.340 hey why not why not and especially like el musk it's like with different types of women too like
01:29:16.660 he's min maxing his kids and trying to like figure out the genetic weighted and pitting them against
01:29:22.700 each other i would say he's diversifying because if i have a kid with a woman in every country on
01:29:28.160 earth then we're good which is a very in my opinion white guy way of thinking about it
01:29:34.220 because everyone talks about you know race mixing i'm not going to stand on the side of race mixing
01:29:38.760 but i'm like traditionally if you were like a wealthy white man you'd have a kid in every type
01:29:45.120 of country you went to like it wasn't uncommon to like rape your way across the world and here's why 0.54
01:29:51.700 that's a good thing uh the the old the british man the british man with the big mustache and the
01:30:01.920 explorer had if you gave him the power of supersonic flight and amphetamines that is the
01:30:10.560 the soul of the anglo back back in the day when the biggest sexpats were officers in the east
01:30:16.960 india trading company you know the monocle guys the monocle guys yeah that sort of thinking
01:30:23.440 tied into a book that i had read recently um it's a book that i found deeply fascinating i wasn't
01:30:30.780 completely sold on it when i went into it it was recommended to me by some people we know i think
01:30:35.540 it might have been theron a friend of mine i recommended it and a lot of people were bringing
01:30:39.780 it up and um so the book is titled the structural transformation of the public sphere by jorgen
01:30:49.420 habermas and i've mentioned this before i think on a live stream where i mentioned it very much
01:30:53.820 in passing but it sat very top of mind to me and it might have been a bit more comfortably
01:31:00.600 placed when we were discussing our secret societies and decentralized networks and things
01:31:06.280 like that. But, you know, the book, it's a bit of a tough read, but I found my way of thinking
01:31:14.560 changing more than I anticipated as I was reading it. Now, what the book is really about, in short,
01:31:20.940 if I could summarize it best, it's the story of the creation of the bourgeoisie. Now, that's a
01:31:26.940 marxist term but when we talk about bourgeoisie even in like old literature like this it's not
01:31:32.520 like the cartoon version of communists we hear now and as we've said in the past there's a lot
01:31:37.780 of interesting concepts that are found within you know marxist investigations that i think are
01:31:43.960 worthwhile and one of them is a bourgeoisie and that's a scary word to a lot of people but
01:31:48.600 i do think this thing called the bourgeoisie exists but i don't think it exists the same way
01:31:55.480 that it's what do you mean i'm just i'm just being a dick i get dinged all the time for using the 0.97
01:32:00.160 word class but i think class is a real distinction i really do i don't give a fuck whether the 0.97
01:32:05.320 marxists invented it or not i think class is actually a thing the bourgeoisie are real you
01:32:11.540 don't have to hate them they can be cool but like don't act like there's no no subcultural
01:32:16.100 distinctions within our society come on yeah and what's interesting is he traces the history of
01:32:21.340 the bourgeoisie and he defines it very specifically and i think this is where some people get lost
01:32:25.520 is they hear bourgeoisie and they think of sort of the modern conservative definition of it's like
01:32:30.200 oh you just hate rich people bourgeoisie just means the rich the people who have money it's
01:32:35.460 not really not the way habermas defines it the bourgeoisie are a very specific class
01:32:41.280 because you would say the bourgeoisie is that the aristocratic class it's like no because he goes
01:32:46.380 back to middle ages he goes back to feudal societies and tracks the emergence of this
01:32:52.740 bourgeois class within that society and it wasn't the aristocratic class it wasn't the nobles
01:32:58.020 and it wasn't just people with money it was this very distinct sort of intelligentsia and i'm kind
01:33:04.960 of jumping ahead here but the bourgeoisie as he defines it if i could explain it it's like
01:33:08.800 the regular people as we you wouldn't have known them as citizens back then like we know them now
01:33:14.840 but they would be like sort of the underclass rising up to the level of the aristocrats and
01:33:21.860 kind of existing between them. It was sort of an educated, more well-moneyed, you know,
01:33:27.480 regular feudal class, but they could exist in closer proximity to the aristocratic class and
01:33:33.780 kind of interface with them. The burgeoning network of intellectuals, men of letters,
01:33:39.320 newspaper proprietors, pamphleteers that debated and decided, gave birth to what JĂĽrgen Habermas
01:33:45.800 called the public sphere. Before polling and mass communication, what the public wanted was largely
01:33:52.120 defined by this network with reference to history, philosophy and the politics of the time.
01:33:58.200 Rather than this oppressive force that people would see the bourgeoisie had, it's like they
01:34:02.040 were of the people and as you track their evolution and development across time you
01:34:08.600 You kind of see them become separated from the people.
01:34:10.580 But the story of the bourgeois class was originally just like educated money people, but were
01:34:15.320 operating within the interests of the lower classes who couldn't actually advocate for 0.99
01:34:20.440 themselves because many of them weren't even fucking literate. 0.97
01:34:23.500 Like, how would you do that? 0.98
01:34:24.480 We're used to that now, like advocating for your own self-interest.
01:34:26.660 They can't.
01:34:27.560 So they created this entire world, this entire world, as you see across time, of a world
01:34:33.760 of letters a world of writing a world of salons and education where they kind of met and came up
01:34:40.080 with these ideas in their own spaces and it was almost this a public space existing away from the
01:34:46.060 public anyway we'll talk about that in a second but that is what you see the bourgeois class
01:34:50.980 evolving in time and it wasn't this oppressive evil manipulative thing and once you understand
01:34:57.660 the history of it like we were just talking about with the birth rates you start seeing it
01:35:02.980 like the bourgeois was mainly about kinship networks and families you would have bourgeois
01:35:08.140 families and then they would interface with other families and these sort of bourgeois kinship
01:35:12.580 networks but these are the people who are having more kids and trying to educate their kids and
01:35:16.920 educating their kids together you see what i'm saying so they had a higher consciousness of what
01:35:22.400 the family meant maybe even more than the lower classes because the lower classes you might have 0.99
01:35:28.880 the people who are just sucking and fucking and having big families but they don't know why but 0.99
01:35:33.640 with the bourgeois class they had a purpose behind having kids these almost saw their kids as as 1.00
01:35:40.200 capital in that sense and their families were fundamentally different than these other families
01:35:46.140 and by degrees they became separated but you know sorry continue no i just wanted to because it is
01:35:52.320 something that we just touched on a minute ago but i was thinking the idea that like in previous
01:35:56.600 generations if you were very poor if you were a peasant or a serf you you had very strong family
01:36:02.320 values because you had such a struggle to overcome just in terms of cold and starvation and disease
01:36:08.760 and war and if you ever got out of that if you found a way to through wealth or through societal
01:36:15.660 organization to get away from deprivation and war you are left with all of those values that made
01:36:22.560 you strong so i to me that's kind of maybe what the bourgeoisie was originally was people who
01:36:29.260 they above all else they valued the safety of their children and their kinship network
01:36:33.940 because for 300 years that's all that kept them alive and suddenly they have all this money what
01:36:39.420 do they do with it i don't know i guess take care of my kids and buy lunch for my neighbors because
01:36:43.220 that's all i know how to do that's them versus the aristocrats who are already for that they
01:36:48.500 spent the last 300 years degenerate. So actually it's Zardoz. Exactly. I'm going to read parts from
01:36:56.440 the book here and it's written in somewhat of a confusing way. I'm going to pull quotes from the
01:37:02.360 book. So if I lose you, I apologize, but I try to edit this down and summarize it as much as
01:37:09.020 possible. I want to give as much credit I can to the source material because it talks about like
01:37:14.260 really at the heart of the book is the development of this idea of the public sphere away from the
01:37:21.520 private sphere and that sounds interesting and it starts with i know hans herman hoppe talked about
01:37:27.660 this and some other uh natural law guys where it's like you know you had the the government you
01:37:33.180 had the monarchy but then you had the household and a lot of traditionalists will point to this
01:37:37.700 too and say the household was anarchic by anarchic i don't mean that there was no rules but
01:37:42.380 the the household effectively was apart from the state the state never intruded in the household
01:37:48.660 this was where you had the family unit was it held dominion over the house the state had no role in
01:37:55.100 there it was family it was faith it was your kinship networks and then there was all that
01:37:59.520 stuff outside of the house that was the public sphere and the private sphere was here in this
01:38:04.800 house and what he was talking about was as time went on those almost became inverted that the
01:38:11.140 public sphere became private and became something you're concerned with and the private sphere
01:38:16.220 became something that the government intruded in so it's like this inversion of the traditional way
01:38:23.160 where like the public means you and your interest that's that's the public interest right that means
01:38:28.240 you right but that's completely antithetical to what it used to be and it actually doesn't make
01:38:32.820 sense democracy which is so corrupt comes from that yeah yeah so i'm just going to read some
01:38:37.900 parts here he says the bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all else as the sphere of
01:38:44.540 private people come together as a public they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above
01:38:50.500 against the public authorities themselves to engage them in a debate over the general rules
01:38:55.820 governing relations the ancient meaning of the private which means an inevitability imposed by
01:39:02.660 the necessities of life was banned from the inner region of the private sphere from the home so he
01:39:07.880 mentioned something there that you know the bourgeois as they kind of became this thing their
01:39:13.400 entire purpose was to criticize power you had this like you could almost conceive them as a critic
01:39:18.680 class in fact he mentions later that the idea entirety of like an art critic and a cultural
01:39:23.680 critic or a culture conf was a bourgeois invention this idea that i'm going to analyze the society
01:39:29.900 and deliver to you in a magazine or newspaper because this is also the class he mentions later
01:39:35.760 on that the bourgeois intellectual intelligentsia class they're all the ones who made all these
01:39:40.320 newspapers and magazines and usually they made them to communicate with each other but then they
01:39:45.120 started communicating with everyone else too the growth in long distance trading required news
01:39:51.680 about those new places of trade and a need for public relationships between people that had a
01:39:58.240 stake in that growth of trade. The relationships were horizontal, between people of roughly
01:40:05.300 the same social status, rather than vertical, between noblemen and commoners or kings and
01:40:12.300 his subjects. So initially the public sphere was a thriving and positive place. Habermas
01:40:19.240 believes though that in the 1830s a shift started to take place, guided by the industrial
01:40:25.040 revolution and the rise of consumerism and he makes a point early on it's like uh one of the
01:40:31.940 ways this um class defined itself was originally with couriers with letters like they were they
01:40:39.000 were a very highly literate class they loved writing things down whereas other people especially
01:40:43.540 if you're illiterate you had no use of that so they became like the world of letters itself
01:40:48.080 and so they became dominant in that world of letters and that's kind of how you
01:40:52.840 ended up with publishing and this ties into harold innis's book empire and communications
01:40:59.000 which we talked about better uh before which is how you know the margins and the fringes and the
01:41:04.380 periphery of society tend to generate these new uh communication forms so that was one of them
01:41:09.300 that existed outside of the center of power but it was this sort of educated class that ended up
01:41:14.860 doing it so they're the ones who do it he said the line between state and society divided the
01:41:21.560 public sphere from the private realm the public sphere was co-extensive with public authority
01:41:27.560 and we consider the court part of it the private sphere comprised civil society in the narrower
01:41:33.120 sense the realm of commodity exchange and social labor and the family in its most interior domain
01:41:39.060 the public sphere and the political realm evolved from the public sphere of the world of letters
01:41:44.120 to the vehicle of public opinion it put the state in touch with the needs of society
01:41:49.460 he said the bourgeois public sphere evolved in the tension charge field between state and society
01:41:56.500 but it did so in such a way that it remained itself a part of the private realm the fundamental
01:42:02.400 separation of these two spheres initially referred merely to the disengagement of elements of social
01:42:08.580 reproduction and political power with the growth of the market economy arose a sphere of the social
01:42:14.260 which necessitated forms of administration
01:42:16.960 invested with state authority
01:42:18.500 he says the public
01:42:20.760 becomes privatized in the society
01:42:23.060 that emerged from feudal ownership
01:42:25.000 in comparison to secular
01:42:26.980 festivities in the middle ages and even
01:42:29.020 the renaissance the baroque
01:42:30.940 festival had already lost its public
01:42:32.880 character in the literal sense
01:42:34.360 joust dance and theater retreated from
01:42:36.840 public places into the enclosures of
01:42:38.880 the park from the streets into the rooms
01:42:40.740 of the palace
01:42:42.120 So you started seeing a more pronounced separation between public and private in the Middle Ages.
01:42:48.960 However, with the emergence of early finance and trade capitalism around this time, the elements of a new social order were taking shape.
01:42:56.740 On the one hand, this capitalism stabilized the power structure of a society organized into estates.
01:43:03.040 And on the other hand, it unleashed the very elements within which this power structure would one day dissolve.
01:43:09.200 and this is what i'm talking about about how with with sort of the emergence of early capitalism you
01:43:15.600 start seeing the empowerment of this merchant class of this educated intelligentsia class
01:43:19.920 which is totally apart from the aristocracy or the central power administration and he says
01:43:26.160 the traffic in news that developed alongside the traffic in commodities showed a similar pattern
01:43:31.860 from the 14th century on the traditional letter carrying by merchants was for this reason organized
01:43:37.520 into a kind of guild-based system
01:43:39.580 of correspondence for their purposes.
01:43:42.080 These elements of early capitalist commercial relations
01:43:45.120 manifested their revolutionary power
01:43:47.200 in the mercantilist phase.
01:43:51.220 He says here, this is interesting,
01:43:53.040 he says, from the very beginning,
01:43:54.240 the political journals had reported
01:43:56.000 on the journeys and returns of the princes,
01:43:58.340 on the arrival of foreign dignitaries
01:44:00.280 and balls and special events,
01:44:01.780 things like that, political appointments.
01:44:04.360 In the context of this news from the court,
01:44:06.600 which can be thought of as a kind of transposition of the publicity of representation and the new
01:44:12.180 form of looks here. Very soon, the press was systematically made to serve the interests of
01:44:16.960 the state administration. The authorities addressed the promulgations to the public,
01:44:21.800 that is in principle to everyone, but usually never reached the common man, but at best it
01:44:27.980 reached the educated classes. In this stratum, which more than any other was affected and called
01:44:33.420 upon by the mercantile's policies. So it says, public authority was consolidated into a palpable
01:44:40.400 object confronting those who were merely subject to it and who at first were only negatively
01:44:45.560 defined by it. For they were the private people who, because they held no office, were excluded
01:44:51.040 from any share of public authority. Public, in this narrow sense, was synonymous with state
01:44:56.600 related so you start to see the evolution of this this communication between the administrative news
01:45:04.680 and then just this separate educated class which was still kind of communicating and interfacing
01:45:10.840 with the common man however you start to see the these educated classes start to take on a form of
01:45:16.920 their own he mentions here uh in the emergence of salons he says in france the salons formed a
01:45:23.320 a particular a peculiar enclave while the bourgeoisie for all practical purposes excluded
01:45:29.480 from all leadership in state and church because they weren't part of that they weren't employed
01:45:33.880 by the government in time they completely took over all the key positions of the economy
01:45:39.640 and while the aristocracy compensated for its material inferiority with royal privileges
01:45:45.260 in the salons the nobility leaders of finance and administration assimilating itself in the
01:45:51.120 nobility met with the intellectuals on equal footing. There was scarcely a great writer in
01:45:56.880 the 18th century who would not have first submitted his essential ideas for discussion in the discourse
01:46:02.320 and lectures before the academies, especially in the salons. I thought that was interesting because
01:46:07.180 I never heard the salons discussed that way. I always knew salons were like, oh, a place where
01:46:11.660 people discuss ideas. He was describing the salons as literally just the living rooms where this
01:46:17.640 intelligentsia class and occasionally the administrative class would meet um it couldn't
01:46:22.460 be in a court it couldn't be in a church it couldn't be anywhere official it's just in people's
01:46:25.900 houses and i think that's something that took away from this book that a lot of this stuff was
01:46:30.940 informal and if you remember when we were talking about um at the square in the tower by niall
01:46:36.840 ferguson and these intellectual movements that emerge and these intellectual revolutions that
01:46:42.780 occur throughout time um we have this idea from the outside like when you study philosophy
01:46:47.580 you kind of like oh these great thinkers emerge and things just happen but you never see them
01:46:54.000 sort of testing their ideas in people's living rooms like you know philosophers discussing
01:46:59.380 their thesis to like seven guys who are just shitting on them or saying it's wrong and these
01:47:04.900 rivalries emerge and they're again they're not in schools they're just in these like places where 0.65
01:47:09.540 people congregate you know in politics people are used to doing it in bars or beer halls or whatever
01:47:15.540 but in the intellectual space it was always just like living rooms or parlors back then and
01:47:21.860 oftentimes these were the parlors of the bourgeoisie they would set up these spaces where
01:47:26.380 people could like discuss these ideas and bring in a crowd of not only intellectuals but maybe
01:47:32.220 the nobility as well and that's how the nobility got to interface with this class this class that
01:47:37.900 already interfacing with the public because they emerged from the public and without them there
01:47:42.620 would be almost no communication between the centralized power and the common man as it was
01:47:49.500 known and he gives some examples here of some of the publications he says in the tatler the
01:47:55.340 spectator and the guardian the public held up a mirror to itself it did not yet come to a
01:48:00.620 self-understanding through the detour of a reflection on works of philosophy and literature
01:48:05.900 art and science but through entering itself into literature as an object in the institution of art
01:48:12.360 criticism including literary theater and music criticism the lay judgment of a public that had
01:48:18.520 come of age or at least through thought it had became organized correspondingly there arose a
01:48:23.540 new occupation that in the jargon of the time was called uh kunst creator which is art critic you
01:48:30.580 know so you start seeing like the idea of the culture holding up a mirror to itself the culture
01:48:35.800 discussing itself was a completely alien idea like you know all throughout history was was it
01:48:42.140 ever people talking about in almost like a meta way what the culture means or trying to judge the
01:48:48.880 value of culture against previous culture it never did that and so some people could say that's bad
01:48:55.140 too maybe that was the beginning of the end of this this class that became so inward facing that
01:49:02.040 it kind of spiraled but you know that was one of the ways that it could explain big ideas to
01:49:08.740 commoners you can take these big ideas and kind of analyze them and and commodify that and sell
01:49:14.760 that whereas so in a way that that's what's so cool like these magazines these journals like
01:49:20.420 they were trying to market the discussion itself you know we're so used to monetizing discourse
01:49:26.460 these days we're so used to like selling subscriptions to us talking about the culture
01:49:31.960 but there was a time when no one did that there was a time when no one was used to the idea of
01:49:37.340 analyzing yourself that way and i think uh for better or worse that's become almost all we do
01:49:43.740 now but interestingly we don't we do that in the public we don't do that in the private salons and
01:49:51.100 there are certainly still salons and you know a lot of us you know who were not born into this
01:49:56.500 world like you or i you know we didn't go to fancy universities for example we use words like fancy
01:50:02.380 the people we're talking about probably never use the word fancy but um you know there are rooms
01:50:08.420 where these discussions are still being held there's still dinner parties there's still salons
01:50:12.140 in one form or another um it's just that a lot of the you know 18th and 19th century stuff we're all 0.92
01:50:18.680 is doing now almost like a drug in a sense and that has that like the lower classes are behaving
01:50:26.360 like the intelligentsia of centuries past which is interesting um so here's where he gets in the
01:50:34.320 family because the family of the bourgeoisie was so crucial to this so he says i'm going to you
01:50:41.600 know if if this sounds great i'm just quoting it verbatim but in the intimate sphere of the
01:50:47.180 conjugal family privatized individuals viewed themselves as independent even from the private
01:50:52.860 sphere of economic activity as persons capable of entering into purely human relations with one
01:50:59.280 another it is no accident that the 18th century became the century of the letter they formed the
01:51:05.200 public sphere of a rational critical debate in the world of letters within which the subjectivity
01:51:10.800 originating in the inferiority of conjugal family by communicating with itself attain clarity about
01:51:16.040 itself so he's making a case that and i think it was even in um empire communications oh no it was
01:51:23.140 mcclellan who said this he said that uh literacy and writing is a profoundly solitary task you read
01:51:32.600 things alone you write alone it's not oral it's not communal and so if you think about it a an
01:51:40.720 educated literary class would have to be atomized it has a more pronounced understanding of the
01:51:47.440 individual so what you saw with bourgeois families is that they started seeing themselves more as a
01:51:52.960 collection of individuals so almost the entire concept of the family started to shift you see
01:51:59.280 you seem more atomized there's the father and the mother you reach just like individuals engaged in
01:52:04.480 human relations so the family dynamic itself changed with the education and i think that's
01:52:10.700 like we were talking before about how different types of families have kids for different reasons
01:52:16.040 so with the educated class like how why are they having kids the reason they're having kids might
01:52:22.500 be very different from the reason the commoners would be having kids and you know you don't think
01:52:28.920 about that until you read something like this it says here a public consciousness developed in the
01:52:34.460 public sphere of civil society which in opposition to absolute monarchy articulated the concept of
01:52:41.020 and demand for general and abstract laws and which ultimately came to assert itself as public opinion
01:52:47.460 as the only legitimate source of this law the public's rational critical debate of political
01:52:53.800 matters took place predominantly in the private gatherings of the bourgeoisie so he's talking
01:52:58.960 about and he gets in this book how the very ideas of common law emerge in the bourgeoisie so the
01:53:05.560 entire elevation of the individual as a sovereign citizen or the common man or like law itself
01:53:12.180 generating from the people instead of from the sovereign emerged in the bourgeoisie class so
01:53:18.760 which sounds ironic and if you said that to you know a conservative nowadays that would be
01:53:23.400 completely antithetical to how they understand the bourgeoisie but he's saying that like a lot
01:53:28.380 of the more individualist policies would have come from the rich educated the east coast elitist
01:53:36.840 he says here as a privatized individual the bourgeois was two things in one owner of goods
01:53:45.060 and persons and one human being among others the circles of persons who made up two forms of public
01:53:52.180 were not even completely congruent women and dependents were factually and legally excluded 0.99
01:53:57.380 from the political public sphere whereas female readers as well as apprentices and servants 0.84
01:54:03.080 often took a more active part in the literary public sphere than the owners of private property 0.96
01:54:08.200 and family heads themselves yet in the educated classes the one form of public sphere was
01:54:13.420 considered to be identical to the other a public sphere that's functioned in the political realm
01:54:19.360 arose first in great britain at the turn of the 18th century forces endeavoring to influence the
01:54:25.780 decisions of state authority appealed to the critical public in order to uh legitimate demands
01:54:31.560 before the new form so basically like you're starting to see the john locke stuff you're
01:54:36.300 starting to see like civic nationalism start to emerge from this class first in great britain and
01:54:41.680 then in france and almost only there this this was not an organic mind revolution that occurred
01:54:47.660 around the globe it was only in these distinct places with these this distinct class guiding it
01:54:53.740 and there's a bit of criticism here he says the fully developed bourgeois public sphere was based
01:55:00.820 on the fictitious identity of the two roles assumed by private individuals the role of
01:55:06.740 property owners and the role of human beings pure and simple the identification of the public of
01:55:12.380 property owners without the common human beings could be accomplished all the more easily so he's
01:55:17.800 almost saying that the the problem with this was the bourgeoisie envisioned the common man as
01:55:22.740 themselves as both property owner and sort of the atomized individual that we were talking about
01:55:27.720 right but the common man probably didn't see themselves like that they saw themselves as part
01:55:31.520 of a more a dynamic kinship network and they probably didn't own anything but it was kind of
01:55:36.920 ironic that the bourgeois in trying to define the everyman they kind of define themselves
01:55:43.660 which is why in a lot of uh civic nationalists being a property owner was the best thing you
01:55:50.060 could be i never heard it kind of phrase like that i'm like yeah that that sounds like something a
01:55:55.500 property owner would come up with right like you're not a real guy unless you're a landlord
01:56:01.820 so he's got he kind of summarizes it here he says the bourgeois public sphere arose historically in
01:56:12.260 conjunction with a society separated from the state the social quote-unquote social could be
01:56:18.280 constituted as its own sphere to agree that on the one hand, the reproduction of life
01:56:23.900 took on private forms, while on the other hand, the private realm as a whole assumed
01:56:28.440 public relevance. The general rules that governed interaction among private people now became
01:56:34.060 a public concern, whereas before they weren't. In the conflict over this concern, in which
01:56:39.400 the private people soon enough became engaged in public authority, the bourgeois public
01:56:44.340 sphere attained its political function. The private people gathered to constitute the public
01:56:50.680 turned the political sanctioning of society as a private sphere into a public topic. Yet by about
01:56:57.780 the middle of the 19th century, it was possible to foresee how this public sphere would come under
01:57:03.320 the control of groups that, because they lacked control of property and therefore a basis of
01:57:08.560 public autonomy could have no interest in maintaining society as a public sphere so that
01:57:14.300 that sounds kind of confusing and again we're talking about the inversion of the private and
01:57:17.740 the public and about how this group of the the private individuals come to represent the public
01:57:25.620 and then the public the people who discuss the public become their own thing and he's kind of
01:57:32.300 he's writing this in the early 20th century but he's kind of noticing how have you noticed how
01:57:36.960 the public sector means just government stuff you know that's probably the best way to explain it
01:57:43.600 to listeners like now in the world you live in north america or europe when you say the public
01:57:49.060 sector you know it doesn't mean you you mean it it means administrators it means the managerial
01:57:55.560 class right well my feeling of it was always like it's common ownership like it belongs to the state
01:58:00.660 or at least belongs to the people yeah well he's more saying that like this the the stewardship of
01:58:07.220 the public yes did you know that's what they're supposed to do but obviously they don't they
01:58:12.280 become this sort of managerial class that don't act within your interests at all and yet they're
01:58:17.460 how is it that they've become to be known as the stewards of the public well this is kind of how
01:58:22.480 it started it started off as maybe they once did but as they became separated it became more
01:58:27.540 privatized and now to even enter in the managerial class you have to pass a number of tests you need
01:58:33.160 to go to the right schools sometimes need to go know the right families this is how politicians
01:58:38.280 end up in a higher strata of society that doesn't make any fucking sense right but it's almost a
01:58:44.340 given in our society now that to be in the public sector you can't really be from the public
01:58:50.900 they'll pretend that they are they'll pretend that they're every man but they're not
01:58:54.760 the Bushes aren't. The Clintons aren't. These are all like Harvard graduates. These are all
01:59:00.060 from a completely different world than the actual public. And yet they're so far from the public,
01:59:06.260 yet they are tasked with representing the public. That's a crazy inversion that happened.
01:59:13.900 It is. And now the private individual is not really private. The private individual is
01:59:19.540 the concern of everyone and now that's how we live in a society where there's no such thing
01:59:24.800 as privacy at all like it seems inevitable that it would become this because we completely
01:59:29.540 destroyed that entire sphere of society he kind of talks about that here he says opinion did not
01:59:37.320 evolve straightforwardly into public opinion uh or opinion public that the late 18th uh the late
01:59:43.980 18th century coinage that would refer to the critical reflections of a public competent to
01:59:49.060 form its own judgments both of the original meetings uh both of those being the mere opinion
01:59:54.780 of the and repeat the reputation that emerged in the mirror of opinions were antithetical to the
02:00:00.180 kind of rationality claimed by public opinion because locke's law of opinion became sovereign
02:00:07.460 by way of rousseau's social contract or contract social the physiocrats spoke out in favor of an
02:00:14.120 absolutism complemented by a public sphere that was a place of critical activity rousseau wanted
02:00:20.180 democracy without public debate both sides lay claim to the same title public opinion so basically
02:00:26.460 this is like public opinion also becomes its own thing separate from the public um and and marx
02:00:32.980 denounced public opinion as false consciousness it hid before itself its own true character as a
02:00:38.500 mask of bourgeois class interests. According to this critique, the capitalist system, if left to
02:00:44.140 itself, could not without crisis reproduce itself as a natural order. This critique demolished all
02:00:50.740 fictions to which the idea of the public sphere of civil society appealed. The public sphere with
02:00:56.120 which Marx saw himself confronted contradicted its own principle of universal accessibility.
02:01:02.240 the public could no longer claim to be identical with the nation
02:01:06.560 civil society with all society similarly the equation
02:01:10.500 of property owners with human beings was untenable this is the
02:01:14.260 core of what he sees as the Marxist critique
02:01:16.760 he says here the public sphere in the world of letters
02:01:22.300 was replaced by the pseudo public or sham private world of culture
02:01:26.520 consumption at that time when public when private people were
02:01:30.400 conscious of their double role as bourgeois and simultaneously asserted the essential identity
02:01:36.000 of property owner with human being bourgeois culture was not mere ideology the rational
02:01:40.780 critical debate of private people in the salons clubs and reading societies was not directly
02:01:46.900 subject to the cycle of production and consumption um he says here when the family lost its link with
02:01:54.560 the world of letters the bourgeois salon that had complemented the and partly also replaced the
02:02:00.140 reading societies of the 18th century also went out of fashion in this development the
02:02:04.900 the disappearance of alcohol often played the opposite role to the introduction of coffee
02:02:09.940 in the 17th century europe which stimulated sociability gentlemen societies and associations
02:02:15.520 died out drinking groups were dissolved and clubs went into eclipse the notion of social
02:02:21.320 obligations that had played such a great role became hollow um he says professional dialogues
02:02:29.100 from the podium, panel discussions,
02:02:31.280 and roundtable shows. The rational
02:02:33.200 debate of private people becomes one
02:02:35.280 of the production numbers of the stars
02:02:37.320 in radio and television. A
02:02:39.100 saleable package ready for the
02:02:41.120 box office. It assumes commodity
02:02:43.380 form, even at conferences
02:02:45.040 where anyone can quote-unquote participate.
02:02:47.940 Discussion, now a
02:02:49.200 business, becomes formalized.
02:02:51.380 The presentation of positions and
02:02:53.100 counterpositions is bound to certain
02:02:55.240 prearranged rules of the game.
02:02:57.280 consensus about the subject matter is made largely superfluous by that concerning form so you know
02:03:03.640 he's saying the the debate itself has been commoditized which is what we're all you know
02:03:07.740 everyone talks about like we're seeing these debates and not really debates no ideas being
02:03:11.500 discussed well that's kind of what happens it's been absorbed as like a commodity into the
02:03:16.580 centralized power um can i can i just say it's it's almost interesting because you and i at this
02:03:21.560 moment are recording a podcast and the to me the engaging part of doing this has nothing to do with
02:03:28.300 the podcast it's the telegram chat where we discuss things with people in that chat who know
02:03:33.700 more about this than we do so it's funny like we are we're mimicking this pattern the the way that
02:03:39.900 this this process of the salon of the private discussion has been made public we're mimicking
02:03:44.440 it as because this is where we are in the 21st century and yet even to us the the engaging part
02:03:50.920 of this is actually the pride the truly private discussions that we have with our cohort after
02:03:56.040 the show is over so yeah and that's why i try and bring it to the forefront as much as possible
02:04:01.340 and filter it and i think that is what you know a lot of the media and entertainment forms
02:04:08.500 are dead or they seem dead or ossified and people will you know i was never a big fan of streaming
02:04:16.040 growing up i didn't get it but then once i understood that it is that the full engagement
02:04:22.600 of the community in the discourse it is the streamer producing the content but having the
02:04:28.060 live chat having the community that is criticizing them in real time and that becomes a part of the
02:04:33.840 content like it's a much more dynamic form than just the broadcaster and recipient it is the full
02:04:41.040 convergence of the producer and the audience into some new form that's constantly feeding back and
02:04:49.200 you know the the content creator submits himself like you know there's often times where we'll get
02:04:54.120 checked by our audience and then we'll bring it to the show you know we're kind of laying ourselves
02:04:58.660 out there like here's my opinion and we'll get shit on because you know we we didn't consider
02:05:03.340 something but that's all part of it you know that's part of the entertainment then they make
02:05:07.280 on the show or it's a live stream like that is a much more interesting form and that's why you
02:05:12.760 need to lean into it and some people hate that some people they heavily moderate they police
02:05:17.360 their community and i'm i'm an advocate of you get the community you deserve
02:05:22.000 sorry continue the other thing is it's funny because you just i feel like we are working
02:05:26.660 backwards not us but like as a society because you just said that the process by which we lay
02:05:32.060 ourselves out take criticism and then reincorporate it into the next broadcast is like adding to the
02:05:38.200 entertainment but what's actually happened is they've taken something that's much more valuable
02:05:43.040 and is it's almost like the underpinning of our social fabric and you've they've commodified that
02:05:48.880 100 years ago and sold it as entertainment that's just what it says on the tin right but what it is
02:05:54.500 it's entertainment as a surrogate for real community interaction and social growth and so
02:06:00.700 what we're saying is is the it's this isn't entertainment the entertainment is just what
02:06:04.940 we trick you into coming here for you're not here to be entertained half the time you're mad at us
02:06:09.640 you're here to grow socially to to find a community to learn something and to and to allow our society
02:06:17.220 to move forward that's actually what this is about it's just hilarious like i don't know why i'd
02:06:22.120 never thought of this before they've they fucking commodified the whole thing didn't they yeah 0.76
02:06:26.440 right as i'm reading this like oh shit a hundred years ago and it's coming it's emerging from 0.98
02:06:34.360 this marxist thinker like that's why i tell people i'm like within this stuff i don't see a lot of 0.86
02:06:40.960 these criticisms expressed like this elsewhere and people are just allergic to the idea of class
02:06:46.220 generally or the bourgeois but like really once you look into the history of it it makes a lot
02:06:52.600 more sense um and you don't need to like communism you don't need to even like marx to notice that
02:06:59.460 you know he had a couple good ideas and he talks about what happened to the family like how did
02:07:04.820 the family become this private dominant force like a lot of the traditionalists a lot of you
02:07:11.760 know when we just discussed the ancient city and the formation of the ancient roman families
02:07:16.200 and and the folk ways that produce that like how do we get from that to this and he says
02:07:20.520 uh for long with its uh formation functions and capital formation the family increasingly lost
02:07:27.380 also the function of upbringing and education protection care guidance indeed of the transmission
02:07:34.700 of elementary tradition and frameworks of orientation in general the family lost its
02:07:39.560 power to shape conduct in areas considered the innermost provinces of privacy by the bourgeois
02:07:45.380 a family the shrinking of the private sphere into the inner areas of the conjugal family
02:07:50.260 largely relieved of its function and weakened the authority so that's how you end up with the family
02:07:55.340 as just like a house where individuals live and you have some things but you know you've lost all
02:08:01.800 authority of that household yeah you know which is an interesting way like it's just a place where
02:08:08.120 you kind of meet before going back out in the world to have your real life whereas previously
02:08:13.600 that was completely inverted he says here interrelations of the sort may explain how a
02:08:20.520 stratum of quote-unquote intellectuals split off from the highly educated bourgeois strata
02:08:26.300 the sounding board of an educated stratum tutored in the public use of reason had been shattered
02:08:32.460 the public is split apart into minorities of specialists who put their reason to use non-publicly
02:08:39.940 and the great mass of consumers whose receptiveness is public and uncritical.
02:08:45.700 So it's almost like here is where the mind-bending part is.
02:08:49.500 It's like you as an individual aren't even really critical.
02:08:52.900 You're just consuming critical people.
02:08:56.940 And I think maybe we're seeing the reversal of that,
02:08:59.340 maybe the empowerment of more citizenry.
02:09:02.080 But historically, in this framework, you would see like you don't criticize yourself.
02:09:08.040 you just buy you just tune in to like the rush limbaugh he's the critical guy and i support him
02:09:14.380 but you don't engage in any criticism yourself amongst your friends even or maybe you did but
02:09:19.180 not that much nothing intensely critical you just discussed sort of the avatars of criticism that you
02:09:25.720 light yes and maybe some people that's tucker carlson for them now and it's interesting because
02:09:30.980 that process of self-criticism is important for your growth and strength as a community
02:09:36.180 and they i i would posit that they originally did this commodified it in order to take that
02:09:43.020 away from us and have a better you know a tighter grip on society and now that we're getting out of
02:09:48.120 hand for a number of reasons they've siloed all of us and it seems like they forgot what the
02:09:53.320 original game plan was because now that they've siloed us they've put us in a position where we
02:09:57.840 no longer are like we no longer trust those broadcasters and so we're doing it we're we're
02:10:04.760 relearning almost accidentally these processes of self-criticism like and we always joke about 0.89
02:10:10.280 brother wars and like no no punching to the right and you know purdy spiraling and all this shit but
02:10:15.240 like that that's what this is we're we're honing the knife on this side right now so yeah and you
02:10:21.260 know the book ends in modern times it starts during you know feudal europe but it leads right
02:10:26.740 into the electric age right into television and radio and it didn't address the internet obviously
02:10:33.720 but just assume it got worse
02:10:35.760 just assume it's television and radio times 10
02:10:37.880 like
02:10:39.480 if only Marshall McLuhan could see all this 1.00
02:10:41.560 horse shit 1.00
02:10:42.040 he'd be Marshall 1.00
02:10:45.440 McLuzin' it
02:10:46.440 he'd be Marshall McLuzin' it
02:10:49.080 I'll end with this one
02:10:53.380 little line here
02:10:54.520 he said at one time publicity
02:10:57.520 had to be gained in opposition
02:10:59.760 to secret politics
02:11:01.220 of the monarchs. It sought to subject a person or issue to rational, critical public debate
02:11:06.920 and to render political decisions subject to review before the court of public opinion.
02:11:12.620 Today, on the contrary, publicity is achieved with the help of secret politics of interest groups.
02:11:18.460 It earns public prestige for a person or issue and thereby renders it ready for
02:11:23.540 assent into a climate of non-public opinion. The institutions of social convival interchange,
02:11:30.380 which secured the coherence of the public making use of its reason lost their power or utterly
02:11:35.500 collapse so basically he's just saying in the modern time there is no mechanism for public
02:11:40.680 debate or public like public opinion actually doesn't exist at all no one cares what public
02:11:45.880 opinion they they might care about data points about things not to talk about but there is no
02:11:51.660 general concern with the public debate um it's just the public is seen as an obstacle
02:11:57.800 for those in power to get what they want there's almost a meta like anybody who's involved in it
02:12:03.920 still is a psychopath trying to pull these levers in a mechanistic way to get what they need it's
02:12:09.420 not it's no longer about a concern for this society like that i don't think anybody even 0.74
02:12:13.620 has a concept anymore of a society we're so fucking fractured so yeah oh you know i i think 0.50
02:12:20.540 i misspoke so this was published in 1962 um and in 2022 he actually published a brief sequel
02:12:28.100 so i think i want to have a look at that and maybe we'll cover that it's held a new structural
02:12:33.020 transformation of the public sphere and deliberative politics so i guess there's a
02:12:38.000 sequel that uh let me just have a look at him you can look from us uh yeah he's still he's still 0.99
02:12:43.560 kicking he has got a fucked up looking face my god his mouth looks upside down he's old 0.97
02:12:52.040 i gotta i gotta send you this here damn i just searched jĂĽrgen habermas on google images to 0.99
02:12:58.760 see his face and like five pictures of hitler came up oh really yeah i don't know why just 0.99
02:13:04.860 because he's german damn oh yeah don't do my man like that he does have a fucked up face 0.99
02:13:10.700 he's got an upside down mouth right well he looks like he's had a surgery or polio or a cleft lip 1.00
02:13:16.420 or something yeah i'm not trying to say that he deserves i'm just trying to let people know 0.98
02:13:21.140 he's got an upside down just so everybody knows he's a he's a fucking weird looking dude 0.83
02:13:25.700 you know what though he's got care he's got charisma if that it's a face you could set 0.95
02:13:31.940 your watch to yeah like a funhouse mirror watch
02:13:35.180 a big a big mcdonald's mickey mouse watch mickey mouse watch you can say your watch
02:13:42.460 and you press a button and a cuckoo bird springs out i love we love it's such an engaging book
02:13:47.920 and it's so great and we immediately just start making fun of the author's face
02:13:51.520 and then the cuckoo bird shoots acid from its mouth like a joker watch
02:13:55.980 it melts your face you're clawing you do that thing in the movie where your face is melting
02:14:01.960 and then you claw the flesh off your own face we have reduced it once more to the lowest common
02:14:08.160 denominator you're welcome this guy listenership yeah this guy i don't like the the copy of the
02:14:14.540 book i got was like a scanned copy and it just looked like an old book it looked like the uh
02:14:19.140 othmar spahn book that uh the true state so i'm like oh yeah this was written in 1920
02:14:23.500 this was obviously written in
02:14:26.720 so it says his education here
02:14:30.500 was the University of Vaughn
02:14:32.280 and it says
02:14:34.660 Doctor of Philosophy
02:14:35.900 but it abbreviates philosophy so it says
02:14:38.300 Doctor Phil
02:14:39.200 and I just thought
02:14:41.480 I just thought he went to the University
02:14:44.620 of Marburg to be Doctor
02:14:46.440 Phil
02:14:46.900 it's very late
02:14:50.400 oh he's got
02:14:52.020 it got a speech disability a cleft palate that's what it is there you go cleft palate it doesn't
02:14:57.420 explain the nose though anyway anywho does we're not here to get on a juki we're trying to get him
02:15:02.120 on the show this is a great book i had a lot of fun with this book um it was i i wasn't i didn't
02:15:08.300 go in with any expectations and i was very rewarded and i think there's a lot for people to
02:15:13.340 like i think there's a lot of great ideas i only really scratched the surface um he goes into more
02:15:19.140 history more details on it but i think we got the broad strokes there i you know what i know because
02:15:24.240 i i just want to say that again because you said it but i'm looking at the bibliography now it's
02:15:27.760 his first major public work was the structural transformation of the public sphere in 1962
02:15:32.920 and he just less than a year ago re-released a new structural transformation of the public
02:15:39.120 sphere in deliberative politics so like that's this is perfect this perfect timing and this is 0.97
02:15:43.600 a great book and it's so this is so relevant too holy shit damn magic man 2024 is gonna be great 0.97
02:15:50.400 this is gonna be such a good year for us and a bad year for some other people 0.77
02:15:55.360 all right i'll take this is great i'll talk to you later yeah man i'll see you
02:15:59.980 i'm very very pleased to have this guest a name that will sound very very familiar to
02:16:21.360 anyone listening i'm here with frody midyard um and if you're aware of that name you'll know that
02:16:28.700 He is the creator of Guide to Culture, available at guidingthestorm.com.
02:16:36.720 He's also the founder of the Scanza Forum, which we'll be talking about a lot today.
02:16:44.760 And similarly, the Decameron Film Festival, which recently wrapped up its 2023 year, and
02:16:51.280 also host of the Weekly Roundup with Mark Webber, which I typically watch on Odyssey.
02:16:56.920 i think it might be on rumble as well would that be correct yeah we're also on rumble uh i sort of
02:17:04.180 have that as a backup or something um we don't have a lot of views on rumble so it's not our
02:17:10.100 primary channel it's sort of uh just the yeah i just want to be there because other people are
02:17:15.280 there but odyssey is probably the primary with me yeah like i was a huge fan of odyssey for a long
02:17:22.220 time i'm not sure odyssey will last much longer everyone's been predicting it'll fall so i've
02:17:27.520 got a rumble as well again i haven't been pitching it to people for the longest time so there's
02:17:32.400 nothing on there but uh i know a good uh friend of mine um tyler hamilton who runs the rupture
02:17:40.020 network he um him and a bunch of other guys um jefferson lee and josh neal and them they're part
02:17:46.600 the same network and they just lost their youtube um something north of 7 000 subscribers and so
02:17:53.400 you have to start all over again on rumble and it's not easy for people and uh so i recommend
02:17:58.880 people start now because it just sucks it's just a slow build and i don't know if it'll ever replace
02:18:05.060 youtube for ease of access but you know i i just want to find one platform that i can stay at where
02:18:11.600 i don't need to leave every year and a half but i don't know if that exists yeah i guess we'll see
02:18:18.400 i don't know either what's going to happen with odyssey um it seems that their parent company or
02:18:26.300 the library that owned used to owned odyssey uh had a trial or a court case uh so they sort of
02:18:36.160 disappeared but it seems that odyssey split away from them and maybe odyssey has a new owner now
02:18:41.720 and we don't really know who that is so we don't really know what's going to happen with it but i
02:18:45.320 think it's a great platform i've enjoyed it i think it works well uh typically and uh so i hope it's
02:18:51.820 gonna last yeah me too i'm putting a lot of eggs in this basket of i don't know who owns it i don't
02:18:58.320 know what's going on with it i get people who send me donations that money is still there um and if
02:19:04.660 it goes down that money is just gone so i don't know i hope it stays up because i actually don't
02:19:09.400 know how to withdraw those funds so just hanging out on odyssey um one thing i wanted to mention
02:19:16.080 before we get uh to do it was you uh this year celebrated i believe it was the 10th conference
02:19:23.180 of the scanza forum um in talin and i was i really wanted to talk about that because i am deeply
02:19:29.760 fascinated with the live events that are occurring in our broad political space there's a few people
02:19:36.760 who are doing a lot of events in north america but i think when i think of live events i think
02:19:41.580 of the scans of forum because these go back to 2015 i believe and so you're the one that i believe
02:19:47.500 has been doing the longest among the ones that are still doing it and i was curious with that
02:19:53.380 experience under your belt like how is in your opinion has it changed much since you started
02:19:58.300 have you learned anything and also i noticed that you um held it in a smaller town whereas most
02:20:05.840 people would have events in big metropolitan areas and i was just curious what you thought
02:20:10.360 but was there a reason behind that and would you recommend that to other events
02:20:14.800 yeah um i guess uh we've been going for a long time of course in america things like amren have
02:20:25.400 been going on since the 1990s uh but uh yeah we've been going since 2015 it wasn't called the
02:20:34.020 skanza forum in 2015 but that was the first time i organized the conference i think uh this is the
02:20:41.600 10th or 11th event that i had which took place in may earlier this year like you said it was in
02:20:49.260 Tallinn, Estonia. And I guess there are several reasons for that. Eastern Europe is not as
02:20:58.700 damaged by the civilizational collapse. They're sort of moving in the opposite direction. The
02:21:05.620 first time I went to the Baltic states more than 20 years ago, and I was still, you know,
02:21:11.820 suffering from a hangover from the sort of Soviet occupation
02:21:16.400 was still very much hit by poverty,
02:21:20.200 and you could see all of those effects,
02:21:22.800 whereas now it is, you know, at or above Scandinavian standards.
02:21:30.860 So it's a beautiful place for, especially, you know,
02:21:36.060 if people travel all the way from America and so on,
02:21:38.460 I wanted to show Europe from its best side.
02:21:41.080 But I guess there were several reasons for choosing that.
02:21:44.200 Also, yeah, I like, you know, small.
02:21:46.920 It's a capital city, so it's not a, you know, tiny little town,
02:21:49.840 but it's still, it's a capital city of a small country.
02:21:52.680 So it has everything you need, but I just thought it was a nice location.
02:21:58.420 We were very lucky with the weather and everything, you know.
02:22:01.020 So it was just like a very nice weekend.
02:22:04.020 And those events are not just about the speeches and the intellectual content,
02:22:09.780 although that is of course important but it's also about socializing and networking and people
02:22:16.600 just having a chance to hang out I mean we are living in a sort of a very globalized time where
02:22:25.440 we talk to people on different continents in different countries and so on and so I think
02:22:30.380 it's important to have these opportunities to meet IRL face-to-face, and I think that is perhaps
02:22:40.200 the central or the major purpose of these international conferences. Well, what's
02:22:47.400 interesting is that I think I've heard Edward Dutton say something similar about Eastern Europe
02:22:52.320 broadly, that it's a good place to go for the dissident-minded Westerner. I've heard something
02:22:58.220 similar from um i guess we had on recently named liquid swan and he's taking the north american
02:23:03.180 perspective and he said uh and i'm in canada so he was talking about oh uh again if you had to
02:23:08.820 commit an exodus where would you go to leave the system regroup and maybe reenter it and so a lot
02:23:14.280 of north americans are even looking at south america areas of south america where they could
02:23:18.740 maybe breathe a bit easier have less of um a foot over their throat to discuss things and i was
02:23:24.740 curious um about the location you picked um and some of the others i think people have talked
02:23:30.160 about bulgaria as one option um do you see it staying this way for long if it is a place where
02:23:37.880 you know you can host these sorts of events and you can access perhaps a higher standard of living
02:23:43.680 and a more untouched or unmolested form of you know european living do you see that being targeted
02:23:51.180 at some point in the future?
02:23:52.300 I know that's a speculative question,
02:23:54.340 but I'm curious what you think.
02:23:56.960 Well, that's a good question.
02:23:59.240 That's an interesting question.
02:24:00.760 And, you know, both yes and no,
02:24:03.540 there are efforts to multiculturalize Eastern Europe.
02:24:09.940 Of course, Hungary is a well-known example
02:24:13.480 from the mass media is often talking about Hungary
02:24:17.220 because Hungary is resisting globalization
02:24:20.000 or resisting mass immigration, EU mass immigration policies and so on.
02:24:26.220 The EU is withholding money from Hungary because Hungary does not comply
02:24:33.820 with all the directives, the orders from the EU and other sort of international bodies
02:24:39.320 to accept mass immigration the same way that Western Europe has.
02:24:44.040 So in a sense, there is an effort through international organizations and institutions like the EU and so on to push for westernization of Eastern European countries.
02:24:59.960 And some of them have made serious steps in that direction.
02:25:05.160 But at the same time, the silver lining, I guess, of the civilizational clash that we're seeing now between the West and NATO and Russia is that the border countries sort of, they see the reality of this struggle.
02:25:27.180 Because, of course, the Baltic states and the other countries in Eastern Europe, they were occupied by the Soviet Union and by Russia only 30 years ago.
02:25:36.580 So they are very conscious of their national identity and the fact that you actually have to fight for your national identity, that nothing is given to you for free and so on.
02:25:50.440 So they're very much aware of that. And also, there have been, you know, in the Cold War and so on, there were and afterwards, there have been efforts also by the West to sort of look the other way or somewhat encourage a national feeling in those Eastern European countries, because they are sort of a buffer zone between the West and Russia.
02:26:19.260 And so there's this bizarre inversion of rhetoric between the West and Russia when talking about Eastern Europe, because, you know, Russia with Russia today and so on, they will criticize the West and saying that your leaders have abandoned you, they have opened up the doors for mass immigration, replacing you and so on, criticizing that.
02:26:42.840 Well, at the same time, when they talk about Eastern Europe, they will say, you're Nazi, you don't accept immigration, you don't accept these sort of international values and so on.
02:26:56.200 And the West does exactly the same thing in reverse, of course, saying that the Western countries should accept mass immigration, for example, whereas Eastern European countries, it's very important that they remain what they are, that they defend their national sovereignty and so on.
02:27:17.180 So there's my point here is that with regard to Eastern Europe, there's great hypocrisy, both on the part of on the Russian side and on the Western side. 0.52
02:27:27.800 So I think they have sort of indirectly been given a free pass, at least for now.
02:27:35.880 But at the same time, there are efforts as well to make them sort of westernized in that respect with mass immigration and so on.
02:27:43.520 So I guess we'll see.
02:27:44.820 It seems like Poland is now being liberalized.
02:27:49.540 There's a lot of pressure on Hungary to comply with EU mass immigration.
02:27:56.440 The Baltic states are still very good, but they're very small countries.
02:28:01.480 And of course, with very small countries, it doesn't take so much to change them dramatically.
02:28:08.240 A country like America, for example, with 350 million people, it takes a lot of effort, takes a lot of time to change it completely, whereas a country with one and a half million people, like a small Baltic country, it doesn't take all that much to transform it drastically.
02:28:27.900 So they're vulnerable at the same time.
02:28:30.060 that's a very comprehensive answer and um i was going to get to this a bit later but i guess we'll
02:28:36.600 get into it now because it's very interesting that um i'll start by saying that within our
02:28:41.840 space within our political milieu you've taken a bit of a i wouldn't call it an anti-russian stance
02:28:47.940 but at the very least a rash a skeptic stance which for a time especially last year was not
02:28:52.860 popular in this space and i was i remember i saw you on millennial last year and i was looking
02:28:58.060 through the comment section there was like this guy's so wrong about russia this guy's so got the
02:29:02.580 wrong idea because there's a lot of people in the space uh when looking at the russia ukraine war
02:29:09.100 were vehemently pro-russia because to them russia represented anti-imperialism or anti-zog there's a
02:29:18.580 bunch of different names but they were electing russia as sort of the some almost like a populist
02:29:24.420 hero against Western imperialism. But we on the show have always taken a pretty,
02:29:32.240 when I say amoral, I just mean non-sensationalist, sort of neorealist stance. And over the course of
02:29:38.480 the past year, we covered a lot of neorealist books like The Heartland Theory by Halford
02:29:44.200 Mackinder and Hans Morgenthau, and kind of looking at the geopolitical realities of that region.
02:29:51.920 And in fact, I'm publishing an article in the Vanguardist Journal soon that really summarizes a lot of this, point being that Eastern Europe presents a very fascinating sort of tract of land on the globe that even though it's been hotly contested for centuries, people don't really look at it like that.
02:30:10.840 They just keep wondering why Ukraine keeps getting invaded.
02:30:13.080 In fact, we had covered the rise of Ukrainian nationalism. This would have been last year. We covered this book called Gates of Europe. It's pretty interesting about the history of Ukraine going back to the Rus and then right up until the present day and following that intellectual movement.
02:30:28.260 Because a lot of people think like Ukrainian nationalism is like a spook by the American government.
02:30:34.080 And it's not right. But and but that's why I find that that stuff interesting.
02:30:39.460 And I look at it when we talk about what's going on in Eastern Europe.
02:30:44.200 You know, I always try and tell people, like, don't view Russia as your friend.
02:30:49.220 Like you kind of gave a good example there where Russia will say one thing like, oh, these are the good guys here.
02:30:55.100 It's like, no, they're they're calling everyone Nazis, too.
02:30:57.400 they're advocating for mass migration too they're doing like they're not they're not that different
02:31:03.500 than america in their geopolitical goals and this entire um pivot area is always kind of being
02:31:11.620 pulled in the into the gravitational pulls of east versus west and that's what i find interesting
02:31:17.800 it's been happening for like i said centuries and watching the nationalist movement some of them
02:31:23.700 are organic some of them are surely funded from the outside like all nationalist movements are
02:31:29.360 at one point or another but um that's i'm just kind of expressing where we come from where we're
02:31:34.200 not the you know vehemently pro-russian people and i think people ought to treat uh russia with
02:31:40.800 skepticism at the very least and i was wondering if you wanted to um go into that a bit more
02:31:45.640 specifically because i know from where you hail from i think a lot of people look at russia
02:31:51.260 from a north american perspective and they don't look at russia from the perspective of its neighbor
02:31:56.420 of someone that might be geographically closer to russia and have a far different history with that
02:32:04.400 you know eurasian land mass i was wondering if you'd like to maybe dive into what it's been like
02:32:09.880 taking that perception within the broad distant right and maybe just explain your uh thoughts on
02:32:16.000 I know I just gave you a lot of stuff there, but I'm just curious.
02:32:20.320 Yeah, I know that that is a good question. And it's been, you know, an important, the central
02:32:26.720 topic over the last two years, almost since Russia invaded Ukraine on a full-scale invasion on
02:32:34.400 February 24th, 2022. Of course, by that time, it had already been going on, the conflict or the
02:32:43.120 war in Eastern Ukraine for eight years. So we're now talking about 10 years. And so it didn't
02:32:51.080 really start two years ago. I think that's important to keep in mind as well. But it did
02:32:59.140 dramatically change two years ago. I think the reactions are understandable, although it's been
02:33:06.780 frustrating to deal with some of the reactions because a lot of right-wing thought and sort of
02:33:16.640 the remnants or the heirs of the alt-right and sort of the online, the e-right or whatever you
02:33:26.900 want to call it, is sort of grievance politics or grievance talking points. It's sort of people
02:33:33.200 are angry and it's not very constructive usually a lot of the talk is kind of destructive really
02:33:40.440 they they want to criticize things and uh the american point of view uh from my perspective
02:33:49.340 has been a lot of naval gazing they've they've been talking about the war in ukraine but they
02:33:55.620 haven't been talking about ukraine they've been talking about america but the war is in ukraine
02:34:00.600 and so you know when people talk about a war in ukraine on the other side of the planet
02:34:06.720 and then they just talk about sort of american politics it's sort of like they just want to say
02:34:14.080 screw you dad to their own government and they don't really care about the actual war so you
02:34:19.880 have to sort of take this seriously as as a war as a real this is not a theoretical discussion
02:34:27.180 This is an actual war with hundreds of thousands of casualties.
02:34:31.400 So that is an important thing.
02:34:33.300 Of course, there is a difference in perspective between Europe and America when it comes to this war.
02:34:42.880 Because from a European perspective, it's very immediate.
02:34:48.900 The threat of this war is very immediate.
02:34:51.740 it. 30 years ago, Russia occupied half of Europe during the Cold War. And all those countries that
02:35:01.840 were occupied, more or less all those countries that were occupied by Russia, they wanted some
02:35:06.920 sort of security against, you know, aggression from Russia or against future occupation or
02:35:15.120 something like that. And so they wanted to join NATO. So they have, they've been, you know,
02:35:19.440 banging on NATO's door because they wanted to escape that sphere.
02:35:25.720 And, of course, so now when Russia attacked and invaded two years ago
02:35:34.180 the biggest country in Europe and the biggest of those countries
02:35:38.420 that were previously occupied by Russia, that is a very dramatic thing.
02:35:43.880 It's the biggest war since the end of the Second World War.
02:35:46.800 as the most dramatic event in our time.
02:35:51.200 And so for Americans on the other side of the Atlantic,
02:35:54.660 it can seem like a not very important issue,
02:35:58.320 whereas in Europe, it's very immediate,
02:36:01.060 especially in Eastern Europe,
02:36:02.320 because those countries were just recently,
02:36:04.920 and I mean, 30 years in geopolitical terms
02:36:08.440 is a very short period of time.
02:36:10.980 And so when that war started,
02:36:13.500 it was a very dramatic event.
02:36:16.180 And, of course, it motivated both Sweden and Finland to join NATO.
02:36:23.440 And, of course, Russia is now alienated from Europe more than it was before.
02:36:29.600 And it's had many effects.
02:36:35.280 But what I want to say is that for Americans, it might seem like this is nothing to do with us. 0.89
02:36:41.480 And that might be true because, of course, Ukraine is not a part of America.
02:36:48.860 It's not a neighboring country to America, but America is part of NATO.
02:36:53.900 And so it is very much affected by a war that is right on NATO's border, especially when it's a big war like this.
02:37:02.560 It can't be compared to some smaller little conflict somewhere.
02:37:06.340 This is a major, major event.
02:37:08.080 and what it really is is it's about prestige for the Russian Empire and the Western Empire
02:37:19.440 America NATO and so on of course for Russia it is very important to not show weakness or they
02:37:28.500 have to sort of save face because these other countries that used to be under their umbrella
02:37:34.760 have walked the other way they're pretty hostile to russia and they are doing better than russia
02:37:41.120 financially speaking they're better off ukraine sees this that all well these countries the the
02:37:47.420 baltic states poland and so on uh they're doing better and ukraine is still very much poor very
02:37:53.780 much part of this sort of very uh kind of authoritarian or corrupt culture that is part of
02:38:00.540 the Russian tradition. I don't want to be too critical of that culture because it has an 1.00
02:38:05.100 explanation in the fact that Russia is a huge country. Russia can never be sort of a democratic 0.89
02:38:11.000 state in the type of sort of Western Europe. It can never be that. But the point is that the 0.62
02:38:16.560 Ukrainians, so they want to travel along the same path as many of these other countries that used
02:38:23.100 to be part of the Soviet Union and are now part of NATO, and they're actually doing better. 0.66
02:38:30.540 And that's a threat to Russia because for Russia it is humiliating.
02:38:38.020 It's humiliating when your former partners want to go the other way
02:38:42.380 and sort of leave you behind, and it's not a good look.
02:38:45.700 So they have to step in, and so they attack.
02:38:49.640 From a Western European perspective, of course,
02:38:52.740 this is not something that you can just dismiss
02:38:56.880 or you can just look the other way
02:38:58.580 because this is the biggest country in Europe that is being invaded and attacked by Russia.
02:39:05.640 And for America, it's about NATO, of course,
02:39:10.920 because in the global civilizational struggle between empires,
02:39:17.800 strength is important and weakness is extremely dangerous.
02:39:21.800 So if you see something like this happen and you don't respond forcefully,
02:39:26.500 then that's a sign of weakness and other countries are going to see that as a sign of weakness
02:39:32.220 and they are not going to be reluctant about exploiting that weakness so it's of course very
02:39:38.880 dangerous so for america it is mostly about you know uh getting russia to spend a lot of resources
02:39:46.580 in Ukraine, weakening Russia as a rival power, but also defending or living up to its obligations
02:39:56.600 as a NATO country. Because if America and NATO and the West fail to show its teeth when something
02:40:07.740 like this happens, then that's going to be seen as a clear sign of weakness by the rest of the
02:40:13.240 world, and that's going to be a very dangerous situation. So for both sides, really, this is
02:40:20.880 about saving face from, you know, the global geopolitical point of view. And of course,
02:40:28.340 for Europeans, there's a lot of frustration and grievance in Eastern Europe because of the
02:40:36.700 previous relationship with Russia. So I can understand that it is a different thing for
02:40:46.360 Europeans and Americans, but it's an issue that shouldn't be likely dismissed.
02:40:52.960 Yeah, I was always interested in whether or not the Russian interest in Eastern Europe was more
02:40:58.760 of a perennial issue, because there's this great book by John Ladon called The Russian Empire in
02:41:06.120 the world that was tracking the era of russian imperialism from 1700 right up until the first
02:41:11.960 world war and this ties into heartland theory and the geopolitical aspect we were talking about
02:41:17.080 before which is again amoral it's just it's not trying to assign a bad guy or a good guy it's not
02:41:23.160 trying to address who started what it's saying here are the territorial realities and that you
02:41:29.960 know, Russia might have a consistent interest in having, and this is where Finland would come in,
02:41:36.200 having better access to the Baltic Sea. Or in the case of Ukraine, not so much anymore because of,
02:41:42.520 I think Russia extends there, but having better access to the Black Sea and therefore Turkey.
02:41:47.220 And they said that was what inspired a lot of Russian expansion in the past. And you had
02:41:52.640 mentioned a good point there about the Russian mind or the Russian civilization, which is
02:41:59.040 very distinct from the Western or European civilization. I think a lot of people recognize
02:42:03.960 that. But in this book specifically, I think you trace the history of the Russian mind as sort of
02:42:09.860 the synthesis of, on one hand, the Byzantine Empire, on the other hand, the golden horde of
02:42:17.820 Genghis Khan, which isn't an insult in any way. It's just a very distinct sort of background,
02:42:24.040 which is not shared by France or Spain.
02:42:28.020 But that's why, you know, Finland might be more concerned about this than France.
02:42:33.940 And why, you know, Latvia, Lithuania, all these other Eastern European countries,
02:42:38.840 I was always wondering, like, how much of a danger do they see Russia?
02:42:43.920 Not even as, because, you know, the story that they tell in the West is that Putin,
02:42:47.880 I was reading an article just the other day, and I was covering,
02:42:51.220 I'm going to cover it for the paywall show that I do.
02:42:54.040 But it was an article written in the tablet magazine, and it was like against John Mearsheimer, who is who's also been out there saying, like, look, there's a straight geopolitical calculus you could run for why Russia is interested in Ukraine and why Russia would try and push back against NATO, whatever it might be.
02:43:13.500 but um he was saying that um that the narrative is that putin's just insane he's just an insane
02:43:23.200 hitler like everyone has to come back to hitler there's just a whole row of hitlers throughout 1.00
02:43:27.720 history and then sometimes there's just a crazy asshole who takes charge we have to take control 1.00
02:43:32.440 we have to get that crazy asshole whereas everyone else is like okay maybe there's a more complicated 0.99
02:43:37.860 reason why this might be happening which i think you accurately just outlined there 0.99
02:43:43.500 But you always have to tiptoe around this stuff very fast because people get very invested and passionate about this topic.
02:43:50.880 Although, and I'm wondering what you think about this, it's kind of interesting how the Ukraine war has been shuffled off of the headlines recently.
02:43:59.720 Like no one's, no one over here in Canada or the US, as far as I know, is really talking about the war anymore.
02:44:06.340 It's still going on, but we just found other stuff to talk about.
02:44:10.920 And that's just an interesting world to live in.
02:44:13.380 What do you think about that?
02:44:16.200 Yeah, I mean, you said a lot of important stuff there.
02:44:19.500 And one of the things is that, you know, just about the nature of Russian politics.
02:44:26.880 Russia, Putin is not some crazy guy.
02:44:29.860 He's not insane.
02:44:31.260 That's not why he's doing this.
02:44:32.540 This is the nature of imperial politics.
02:44:39.220 It's the nature of global politics.
02:44:40.880 it's sort of like uh you know bullies in the schoolyard they have to kind of face off against
02:44:48.880 each other every now and then to prove their strength and it's sort of like you know we we are
02:44:55.160 uh we we are primitive creatures uh beneath the surface right and and power sort of has
02:45:04.440 a life of its own. And if you have an empire, you are going to be challenged by the countries
02:45:12.940 around your border. Russia is an enormous country. I think it used to have 11 time zones. I think
02:45:21.560 they've sort of rationalized it down to eight time zones now. It just gives you a little hint
02:45:28.020 of how enormous it is. It's a huge country. Of course, it's not as densely populated as
02:45:34.160 Western Europe or as America is. Of course, many places in North America is also not very densely
02:45:42.200 populated, but Russia is a thing in itself. It's a civilization in itself, and it's huge.
02:45:47.620 You cannot rule a large country like that with the same kind of political mentality that you
02:45:56.540 rule Denmark or Finland you know with this kind of social democratic liberal democracy
02:46:03.900 you have to have a sort of an authoritarian mindset because otherwise it falls apart
02:46:10.840 and also you have to show your muscles sometimes because if you have it's sort of like if you have
02:46:17.520 all the resources you know I read a you know Daniel Defoe he wrote a book under a pseudonym
02:46:26.020 about pirates forget what it's called he i think he he wrote it under the name uh captain johnson
02:46:31.580 or something he wrote about this captain who every once in a while he just shot a member
02:46:37.080 of the crew just to show that he could you know just to show his muscles and put the fear of god
02:46:44.120 into the the crew members so that they wouldn't rebel and if you have an empire you sort of have
02:46:50.140 to flex your muscles you cannot take any crap from anyone because then it's dangerous then the rest 0.85
02:46:55.280 they, you know, the vultures will pounce on you immediately. But the problem is that that goes 0.95
02:47:00.100 for Russia and it goes for the West. It goes for the Western countries and America. And of course,
02:47:06.500 America isn't secure in its position either because Russia is a growing power. China is a 0.79
02:47:13.020 growing power. Russia is now more or less playing second fiddle to China's empire. So the point is
02:47:21.760 that this is not some sort of irrational crazy idea that sometimes these wars happen it is simply
02:47:29.280 the nature of power that's how these empires work and uh there will be conflict conflict is a part
02:47:37.180 of um of human societies it's a part of human history it's a part of human nature and it's
02:47:44.160 sort of interesting to see that these sort of right-wing thinkers, supposedly, in the West
02:47:52.460 have taken this really extremely liberal view on this war. It's sort of like war is not a reality
02:48:00.360 we have to deal with. It's just something that the evil neocons do or something, or on the other
02:48:07.120 side of the fence is just crazy Hitler-Putin. No, it's not. War and global conflict is a part 0.76
02:48:15.920 of human society, and it is what it is. Carl Schmitt, the political scientist or political
02:48:24.340 theorist, he sort of defined or he talked about liberalism as this idea that you can transcend
02:48:31.620 politics. You can transcend the friend-enemy distinction and you can just, you know, do
02:48:38.620 business, have polite bourgeois conversations and sort of politics and conflict and war. That's a
02:48:45.920 thing of the past. That's what primitive people do. And we civilized modern people, we are just
02:48:51.120 individuals and we can, you know, participate in business enterprises and free trade and these
02:49:00.500 things. And it's very interesting that that is sort of how the Tucker Carlson's and the sort of
02:49:07.860 American conservatives have seen this as, well, this is just a situation that I can opt out of
02:49:13.080 because Putin is not a bad guy. And, you know, it's like this good guy, bad guy narrative.
02:49:19.920 And so they've become sort of this sort of true believer in that liberal idea that you can just
02:49:27.560 opt out of politics. No, this is a global conflict where, you know, it doesn't matter if you want to
02:49:33.940 see yourself as part of a group, your enemy is going to see you as part of a group. And so if
02:49:39.260 Russia wages war on the West, that means you, if you are in the West. It doesn't matter what you
02:49:45.780 think, if you want to or not. It's sort of like, you know, Tucker Carlson says he doesn't want to
02:49:50.960 be considered white. He just wants to be an individual. It doesn't matter. Other people are
02:49:55.700 going to see you as white you're going to be white it doesn't matter what you think and so it's sort
02:50:01.340 of yeah yeah and so i i've just seen a lot of those same tendencies with with respect to the
02:50:07.220 response to this war that i've seen to you know how liberals react to racial issues and so on they
02:50:13.980 just want to close their eyes or they want to look the other way and pretend it doesn't happen
02:50:18.900 doesn't exist no this this is a real situation and it's a very serious situation it's the most
02:50:23.940 dangerous situation since the end of the second world war it's more dangerous than the cold war
02:50:28.480 and we have to take it seriously and i think more and more people are waking up to the the actual
02:50:34.380 fact that well it's not just a war in eastern ukraine there are there there's also a war
02:50:40.520 between the west and russia sweden just uncovered the biggest uh spy affair espionage affair in in
02:50:48.820 all of Sweden's history on behalf of the GRU, the Russian military intelligence, two Iranians
02:50:56.980 had infiltrated the Swedish security service and leaked the list of employees of the military
02:51:03.520 intelligence and the Swedish police security service. And it's just all these things are
02:51:09.140 intensifying in a time of war. And of course, America is infiltrating Russia. Russia is
02:51:15.700 infiltrating the West with paid agents or with propaganda. Propaganda is a big part of warfare.
02:51:24.300 I just want to say one more thing before I hand over the microphone back to you. But, you know,
02:51:30.320 it's sort of like I've seen these people who say that we're looking at a nuclear war. It's going
02:51:38.740 to be a nuclear war that's coming. But they dismiss the possibility of a propaganda war.
02:51:44.520 They say that, no, Russia is not engaging in any propaganda war.
02:51:51.660 They're not infiltrating anything.
02:51:53.320 They're not spreading propaganda through media and social media and so on.
02:51:57.600 They dismiss that as paranoid delusions, but they think that a nuclear war is likely.
02:52:03.280 So, I mean, a propaganda war surely comes a few steps before there is a nuclear war.
02:52:08.640 So I think people have just been pretty irrational about this whole situation.
02:52:12.680 Yeah, you said a couple of really important things there. And I want to just add on to that when you'd mentioned the infiltration by Russia and Iran. In Canada, we're dealing with that right now, too. And a lot of those nations, the BRICS nations are in various concerts and leagues.
02:52:31.820 within Canada, we're dealing with China. We cover this on our show through a series of articles and
02:52:38.440 books that paint a very grim picture of how the Canadian government, the Canadian business sector
02:52:44.440 has been infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party in a couple of different forms. One is
02:52:49.820 through organized crime and one is through the Communist Party itself. And the story of that is
02:52:55.000 long, and I won't get into it right now, but basically, long story short, with Justin Trudeau's
02:53:01.980 father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who's a former prime minister, he actually brokered, very
02:53:07.400 aggressively brokered a deal with Maoist China when Mao was still alive, because Canada just
02:53:12.520 wanted its own trade deal with China to kind of like stick it to the Americans. And that started
02:53:18.020 a relationship with China that continues to this day. And the entire Canadian apparatus has been
02:53:23.660 infiltrated by Chinese student groups, which are very popular in communist societies for 0.81
02:53:30.440 infiltration, actual just paid agents, but most importantly, is the triads. And to start, 0.88
02:53:38.800 you have to understand that the Hong Kong triads work hand in glove with the Chinese
02:53:43.360 Communist Party. There is no real separation between these international cartels and the
02:53:48.880 communist party oftentimes they meet together and um the big story is that the the chinese triads
02:53:56.040 from the 90s up until now were responsible for something like 95 percent of fentanyl production
02:54:02.260 in north america so if anyone knows about someone who's got a problem with fentanyl that's because 0.98
02:54:07.140 the fucking chinese communist party was directly involved how do we know this because the triads 0.97
02:54:12.120 would have to synthetically make it in factories that were owned by the chinese government so 0.99
02:54:17.740 they're you know once again working hand in glove with their so point being that um the infiltration
02:54:23.640 in canada can occur through money laundering underground banks and also this will lead to
02:54:29.540 the point you had just talked about novel forms of warfare and this is something we're once again
02:54:34.940 talk about in my article but uh when people think about warfare they think of a hot war troops on
02:54:39.900 the ground and whatnot and of course that's still in play but uh when we talk about fourth
02:54:44.420 generational warfare, fifth generational warfare. We talk about, you know, inspiring convenient
02:54:49.760 color revolutions and subversions in societies. One of them is neurological warfare. One of them
02:54:57.320 is think how much easier it is to subvert a nation if like 10, 15% of them are hooked on drugs.
02:55:05.340 And they're not only causing confusion within that country, but they're also a giant financial
02:55:11.460 burden. That would be advantageous for any country if you could get half of your target
02:55:16.920 country hooked on something. And there's this very fascinating book that we covered on the show.
02:55:23.140 It was a collection of essays written by various academics. The book's titled
02:55:29.140 Neurotechnology and National Security and Defense, Advances in Neurotechnology, Ethical,
02:55:35.740 Legal, and Social Issues. This is just a book written by a bunch of academics for a military
02:55:40.500 audience. And what they're saying is, look, the new frontier in warfare is neurotechnology. It's
02:55:46.880 using microchips and whatnot to boost cognitive abilities, or introducing new types of weapons
02:55:53.140 that can slow down or inhibit target countries' function capacity. So one interesting way to look
02:56:00.820 at that would be something like Dune, if anyone knows Dune, the Mentats, because in the Dune
02:56:04.920 universe, there's no AI and there's no advanced technology like that. So what they do is they
02:56:11.740 make human operators function like computers. And so that is one. And this entire book was then
02:56:18.400 these various philosophers and analysts and like, look, this is coming. We need to get ahead of it
02:56:24.500 because the military doesn't have a grasp on this anymore. It used to be that the military
02:56:29.800 would develop technology, then maybe roll it out to civilian use. It's like now it's being developed
02:56:34.300 by the government at the exact same time
02:56:36.280 as the private sector, just like drones.
02:56:38.940 Drones were developed by the military
02:56:41.280 and just regular companies at about the exact same time.
02:56:43.860 They're like, we need to get a handle on this 0.99
02:56:45.540 because we're starting to fuck around 0.99
02:56:47.000 with people's mental faculties 0.99
02:56:49.220 and boosting their awareness.
02:56:51.020 Anyway, roundabout way to say that
02:56:52.940 the book is essentially saying
02:56:55.200 that within this new theater of warfare,
02:56:58.200 every single civilian is in play.
02:57:01.380 Every single civilian of whatever the nation is,
02:57:04.300 They are a target for not only just propaganda, but maybe you want to roll out synthetic drugs.
02:57:10.920 Maybe you want to introduce a neurotoxin into the water.
02:57:13.640 You can do that.
02:57:14.440 And anything short of like burning bodies or shooting people is seen as morally superior.
02:57:21.740 And just to, you know, I'm giving you a lot here, but this, it sounds conspiratorial, but it's not really.
02:57:27.760 There is, you know, everyone knows the American government has interest in this.
02:57:31.360 There was this great book called Lab 257 that was tracking throughout the 40s, 50s and 60s the American government's interest in developing new types of, you know, diseases and things like that.
02:57:43.940 Because think of it from their perspective.
02:57:47.180 Wouldn't it be great to win a war if no one had to get shot?
02:57:50.360 Wouldn't it be great to win a war if no bodies had to be burned?
02:57:53.380 Well, how do you do that?
02:57:54.280 well a great way to do it would be to make everyone real sick for a little bit
02:57:58.440 or making them real confused with some kind of gas that doesn't you know cause their brains to
02:58:03.880 melt out of their head so whether or not they succeeded you could understand from a liberal
02:58:10.300 humanist perspective why scientists would want to do this because in their minds they're solving
02:58:16.540 war however it opens the gate to what we have here which is the development of novel neurotoxins
02:58:22.580 are like, well, anything's better than being shot in the face, even if it's debilitating an entire
02:58:27.960 nation. And there's rumors that that's what COVID was. I don't even want to get into that. But
02:58:32.180 you could understand very realistically why this new theater of war would be, you know,
02:58:39.340 everyone's involved. You're involved. I'm involved. It's all propaganda. It's all,
02:58:43.340 you got to think very three-dimensionally about how war could be conducted in the future.
02:58:49.620 Now, I gave you a lot to chew on there.
02:58:51.880 What do you think of all that?
02:58:54.640 No, I think those are important points. 0.78
02:58:58.280 You know, one of the problems in the West is the mass psychosis after the Second World War,
02:59:04.860 which made people think that things like eugenics is an evil thing, something that we should not engage in.
02:59:12.400 But the Chinese, for example, they're not as squeamish about those topics, right?
02:59:18.860 And if you engage in eugenic practices for your population for a couple of generations while the other population engages in dysgenics, it's going to give you a pretty good head start if there's a conflict and if there's a competition, resource competition or weapons race or whatever, right?
02:59:47.040 So things like that, that Europeans don't take seriously, because for whatever reason, they think that things like eugenics is not something we should deal with, which I think is sort of a remnant of, you know, Christian thought that it's evil, you shouldn't play God or whatever.
03:00:06.380 But the point is, this is a practice that exists in nature. 0.59
03:00:10.240 We should try to direct it to make the most use of it.
03:00:14.880 other civilizations like china for example they take it very seriously and when it comes to to
03:00:22.780 war uh and propaganda war you know one of the things now is uh social media and social media
03:00:31.220 this is something that i've been commenting on a little bit i probably should be talking more about
03:00:35.420 it is that social media is even more dangerous uh for the purposes of disinformation and so on
03:00:42.940 the social media is even more dangerous and more powerful than old media. It's sort of like the
03:00:48.640 difference between watching a movie and playing a video game. If you are interactive, if you are
03:00:54.620 doing the things that the character is doing, then you are a part of the story and you believe in it
03:01:00.380 more. It goes deeper. And the same way, if you believe that this is just an organic conversation
03:01:07.400 rather than, you know, the big corporation speaking down to you, you think that this is
03:01:12.440 just an organic conversation that's going going on between normal citizens, and everyone thinks this
03:01:18.100 or everyone thinks that, then it is going to be much more powerful for brainwashing. Because
03:01:25.080 like I talked about recently, on one of my shows, that the way propaganda works is through
03:01:31.800 artificial peer pressure. It's not through arguments, it's not through logic, it's through
03:01:37.320 artificial peer pressure. You create an artificial environment and there you create the impression
03:01:44.460 that everyone thinks this and then everyone will go along with that. All the high status people
03:01:50.960 think this and everyone will go along with that because, you know, 99.99% of all people, they will
03:01:57.420 not start to look at all the facts, read up on all the books and analyze the logical arguments and
03:02:04.380 infer through deduction and so on to reach a conclusion, they will look at what is everyone
03:02:10.500 else doing. And so that's exactly what was happening also with the propaganda war that
03:02:18.820 started on social media and everywhere else when this war broke out two years ago, is that all of
03:02:26.420 a sudden all these new accounts started flooding social media with the exact same talking points
03:02:33.040 and people started copying the talking points.
03:02:36.080 It's sort of like people were swept up by the hive mind
03:02:39.320 and they were, well, this is what you're supposed to think now.
03:02:42.500 And so they started saying those things.
03:02:44.820 So, you know, a lot of people are sort of conspiratorial,
03:02:48.080 think that this person has been bought
03:02:49.740 or that person has been bought.
03:02:51.160 I don't think so.
03:02:52.040 I think it's more group psychology.
03:02:54.260 If you create the impression
03:02:55.400 that this is what your group is thinking,
03:02:58.760 then that's going to work.
03:03:00.860 then most people are just going to go along with that because most people don't have the time or
03:03:05.140 the ability to actually look at the facts themselves. And of course, America is hijacking
03:03:12.040 or influencing the internal dissidents in Russia, just as Russia is trying to hijack or influence
03:03:23.100 the internal dissidents or the internal political opposition in the West. And of course, we are the
03:03:30.020 political opposition. And the point that I've been trying to make in so many words is that, well,
03:03:36.340 if we are the political opposition in the West, and we want to make a credible case that we should
03:03:43.140 look out for our countries, then perhaps we shouldn't be hijacked to spread disinformation
03:03:49.740 on behalf of a hostile enemy nation in a wartime. You know, maybe that's not the most credible,
03:03:56.260 That's the most brilliant thing to do.
03:03:59.140 And that's something that I've advocated for on the show pretty regularly, where it's like, even if our interests momentarily align with another group, another nation, you know, don't make the mistake of thinking that you're allies.
03:04:12.760 And one issue that I come back to, and this will lead into the next point I wanted to talk about, which is, but on our side, in our political milieu, let's just say Westerners, let's just say those of European descent.
03:04:24.280 uh i'll say white canadians in my my case we're not actually very good for advocating for our
03:04:30.000 own self-interest or identifying what our self-interests actually are so we play this
03:04:36.700 sort of fandom game by thinking like well i'm a dissident i'm a nationalist so i'm going to side
03:04:41.080 with every other dissident force or i'm just going to be open to whoever is open to me which means
03:04:46.640 that we can just be wielded however but we actually we don't have a lock of what our actual
03:04:50.920 interests are. And so we can always just be used and abused by whatever sovereign force is trying
03:04:57.180 to use us against, oftentimes against our own self-interest. And I think you had presented
03:05:02.700 an interesting solution to this, and you had written quite a bit about this. And there's
03:05:06.940 several videos on your odyssey that I'd watched in the past about this, about the concept of
03:05:13.980 re-tribalization and i think that's one way for people to start building what what are your actual
03:05:20.960 self-interest who is your what's your group what's good for you and your survival instead of getting
03:05:26.760 too lost in these very heady abstract sort of geopolitical wars that you think you know like
03:05:33.540 for example if if you know i'm not trying to take a stand here but like if palace on the issue of
03:05:39.400 Israel versus Palestine, people have their, the horse they want to win, but either horse that
03:05:45.680 wins seems to shake out poorly for Westerners. Like they're like, oh, if Israel wins, then they're 0.57
03:05:52.900 going to push all of the Palestinians out and resettle them in the West. And if Palestinian 1.00
03:05:58.240 wins, then all the Israelis will be pushed out and everyone's going to have to resettle in the 1.00
03:06:02.340 West. Like at no point in this conversation are our interests being looked after by anyone in this 0.90
03:06:08.320 conflict, but we're placing bets on it because we think, well, hold on a second. Let's ask
03:06:13.920 ourselves, what do we actually want for our survival, for our identity? And you had talked
03:06:19.660 about retribalization in the broader interest of, I think you might describe it as creating
03:06:26.880 a functional ethnostate. I was wondering if you'd like to talk a bit about that. I know it's a big
03:06:31.960 topic, but a few videos you talk about retribalization. Would you like to speak to that a
03:06:36.960 it? Sure, absolutely. The concept of retribalization is really, in a way, a non-political
03:06:49.780 concept, because the idea is that the more things fall apart, the less people will be engaged in
03:07:00.640 sort of trying to influence the wider politics
03:07:05.400 of what's going to happen with foreign policy and so on,
03:07:11.480 people will start looking after themselves
03:07:13.760 and they will sort of group into these cultural units.
03:07:17.500 And I've sort of compared it with free churches
03:07:23.340 or these kinds of smaller religious communities that exist.
03:07:28.460 I know it's different between America and Europe.
03:07:33.180 In Europe, in Scandinavia, for example, you have the state church, which is where most people go,
03:07:40.240 and then you have the free churches.
03:07:42.120 You have the Jehovah's Witnesses, you have the Mormons, you have the Baptists,
03:07:47.620 you have all kinds of other kinds of groups, and they celebrate their holidays together.
03:07:53.120 All Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate holidays, but these different communities, they work together as a living community, but they are non-political in the sense that they do not pose a threat to the state.
03:08:10.140 They do not challenge the state's power in any way.
03:08:13.520 The religious community is more of a, you know, day-to-day community for the individuals, and it doesn't look to change the outside world in any way.
03:08:26.220 And so I think that rather than trying to change what's going on in, you know, overall society, more and more people will see that that is going to be pretty difficult for the foreseeable future.
03:08:39.240 I think that perhaps on a, you know, on a larger scale, and I've often talked about this in terms of, you know, when the Roman Empire converted to Christianity, it took, you know, three, four centuries for that to happen.
03:08:54.820 And it's something like that that we're looking at.
03:08:58.360 Maybe not, you know, several centuries, but definitely several generations.
03:09:02.200 This is not a quick fix situation that we're in because we're in a very deep civilizational and cultural crisis in the West.
03:09:11.660 And it's going to take, you know, at least a couple of generations to turn things around in any, you know, in any big way for all of society.
03:09:21.820 And during that time, I think that people will start more and more to just group into these perhaps religious communities, perhaps other kinds of communities, and just sort of looking out for themselves.
03:09:34.400 And I think it's important to emphasize that I'm not talking about any kind of weird sectarian things like Waco or anything like that, where you just isolate yourself on a compound.
03:09:47.480 I'm talking about a very natural way of living in, for example, a religious community.
03:09:53.920 I mean, if you are a Mormon, for example, well, you live your life in a normal way.
03:10:00.100 You don't, you know, it's not all that sectarian, maybe, or Jehovah's Witnesses or whatever.
03:10:05.960 I'm just using those reference points to sort of make the, to clarify what I'm talking about here.
03:10:13.200 I'm not talking about, you know, some sort of doomsday cult or something like that.
03:10:18.240 I'm talking about normal living social religious communities that people will automatically gravitate towards because they realize that, well, there's very little we can do about the overall situation in the short term.
03:10:34.800 So we're just going to have to, you know, network with each other and help each other out.
03:10:40.780 And I think also in terms of how, you know, when society is collapsing, you know, social functions in terms of, you know, the state taking care of problems for you and so on, it's not going to work because it's already collapsing.
03:10:54.820 The economy is collapsing. The law enforcement is collapsing more and more. So I think people are going to become more and more self-reliant in a very organic way, and they're going to sort of bond together in, you know, either tight communities or loosely connected communities.
03:11:14.300 And what I said in the speech I gave about retribalization is that that's probably going to be, you know, there's going to be different levels of intensity for these kinds of communities.
03:11:27.580 You know, you see today Jews, for example, Jews, some Jews are, they dress in normal clothes and they are sort of liberal Jews, but they still are still part of the Jewish community.
03:11:39.120 Other Jews are Orthodox Jews or they wear these hats and the black clothes and you can see very clearly that they are distinguished by clothing. 0.58
03:11:50.400 Other groups like the Amish, they dress in a very different way and they live in a completely isolated area. 0.63
03:11:57.580 That's probably also going to happen for some people.
03:12:00.000 My point is that there are different degrees of separation from overall society where probably most people will just, you know, not be separated from society, but they will still have their community for finding a spouse, for finding work, for celebrating holidays together, and for doing other things together like that, social functions.
03:12:23.160 But they will still, you know, live very much and be a part of, and that's what, you know, that's what I would prefer, live and be a part of the overall society and abandon the sort of pipe dream of changing, you know, in a dramatic way, changing how society works.
03:12:41.660 that's a very interesting model um i i would say that jews are probably the most advanced form of 0.84
03:12:50.100 that sort of uh trialization process i think a lower resolution but still highly effective model
03:12:56.680 would be the caste system and when i was reading about uh the dynamics of china infiltrating canada
03:13:03.280 one thing they'd mentioned was uh in a lot of these in china you know your extended kinship
03:13:09.860 network is based on your familial connections um and their family networks are would seem very
03:13:15.760 alien to a western individualized mind but uh they said it was to the point where for a lot of these
03:13:22.380 new immigrants sometimes criminals sometimes not uh they they could expect to step off of the plane
03:13:29.140 in vancouver uh look around find a bar literally a bar with their last name on it and go in and
03:13:36.520 immediately have connections there because like their kinship network operated their own sort of
03:13:41.840 bars and safe houses and whatnot and you can just look for your name on a building walk in there
03:13:47.100 it'll be like a little kind of dive but it's like here here's here's your base of operations in a 0.59
03:13:52.340 new land which could never be experienced by any white westerner like going to china and expecting
03:13:59.520 to find like a little base of operations for you there or what you might see in india and that sort
03:14:04.740 of uh network is very strange to us and i think what what's interesting moving forward is going
03:14:10.880 to be as we retribalize which i think is inevitable and it's something that we're doing in our
03:14:17.120 political milieu uh it's how that can take on a distinctly european uh character and not just
03:14:25.480 because some people on our side um especially you know on the dissident right the far right
03:14:29.200 we have a tendency to look to other cultures islam would be an example and saying i like what
03:14:34.520 they're doing let's be like them um and oftentimes a lot of the more um you know collectivist people
03:14:41.300 on our side the ones who are more friendly to like marxism whatnot to look to china and say
03:14:46.080 wouldn't it be great if we could be a hive mind like them but in europe and i just don't think
03:14:50.840 that like the eastern mind you can just take their infrastructure and drop it over us just like we
03:14:57.680 can't take our models and drop it over there and expect it to work so i'm interested to see
03:15:03.060 what uh what we can do that will be unique to us and one uh example might be you know we discussed
03:15:10.240 this on the show a couple weeks ago there's this book called the network state it was written by
03:15:15.700 a indian guy oddly enough uh so as a result his name escapes me but it's a very complicated
03:15:21.380 indian name anyway it's an interesting book it's kind of a technocratic book sort of like a
03:15:27.120 neo-reactionary type book but um it's it's saying like look okay and it's very sort of liberal in
03:15:34.200 its mindset at the same time because it's like okay but if you want to create a parallel society
03:15:38.420 step away from society you can use technology to do that okay how does that make sense and he's
03:15:42.940 using the model like social networks and blockchain technology to but step by step saying that look
03:15:49.100 you build a community online you use that to crowdfund actual land purchases you buy some land
03:15:55.620 So that your community, which could be decentralized geographically, can still become real in some way. And as you gain members, you kind of create this sort of constitution. It's basically about forming an affinity network. Now, he would do it in more of an ideological sense or an anti-woke sense, because a lot of them are just like, oh, I'm anti-woke.
03:16:17.900 But you could easily layer an ethnic dimension to that easily. But while that might not be the perfect model, that represented one. I'm like, OK, I'm looking at that and I'm seeing something that could be workable in Europe and the West. It's not just a rigid caste system. It's encouraging people to start now. How do you start with something? How do you start retribalizing, retribalizing per se?
03:16:46.260 and there's a model.
03:16:48.560 And now what do you think about that?
03:16:49.720 Do you think that our retribalization process
03:16:53.180 will need to look like something new
03:16:54.980 or do you look more towards the past
03:16:57.900 and say we should just reach back into history
03:17:00.760 and use that model?
03:17:04.700 Yeah, I definitely recognize what you're saying there
03:17:07.720 that a lot of people who are,
03:17:10.520 they're just fed up with what's going on in society.
03:17:13.280 So they just want something dramatically different
03:17:15.460 And so they go into these kind of this dramatic rhetoric or unrealistic rhetoric about white Sharia and like all these kinds of bizarre things, which I don't think works because it doesn't appeal to our kind of people.
03:17:32.140 I mean, people are different ethnic groups or different races, different peoples have different mentalities, and there is a certain type of society and a certain type of community that appeals to our mentality. 0.97
03:17:46.440 And so I definitely think that we can't just copy something that works for Muslims, for example, because they're completely different. 1.00
03:17:55.520 They have a different mentality. 1.00
03:17:57.260 so we would have to build it along the lines of something that actually typically works and
03:18:06.020 you know western societies and you're in canada i'm scandinavian i think we have a very similar
03:18:12.700 culture in many respects and so i think probably you also have these kinds of religious communities
03:18:18.420 of completely average normal white liberal people and so on right and and so i think those kinds of
03:18:26.140 communities uh that already work for white people uh for our our group that already appeal to and
03:18:33.940 work for um our kind of people i think that's the natural thing to be take inspiration from
03:18:41.120 rather than you know trying to copy something exotic just because it looks cool on a picture
03:18:46.680 or something like that i i just don't think that works i mean i'm i'm i'm a very uh liberal-minded
03:18:53.520 kind of person myself i mean i i don't i don't want to impose myself on others and tell others
03:19:00.120 what to do and so on i'm very you know free-spirited in that sense so i think just a normal
03:19:07.580 european style of community building is what works and one thing that is has been a game changer in
03:19:15.520 many ways is of course social media and the metaverse or sort of the online world because
03:19:22.240 while there's a lot to be critical of with regard to the internet and, you know, people spending
03:19:28.800 more and more time on the internet more than is healthy, and I'm definitely perhaps more critical
03:19:34.760 of that than anyone else is, it's important to acknowledge that there's also an upside to it,
03:19:40.440 because already we are living in communities. I mean, just by spending a lot of time in
03:19:47.020 communities online and social media and talking to our friends, I mean, I'm talking to you right
03:19:51.860 now most of our people probably spend most of their waking hours communicating uh mostly with
03:20:00.080 like-minded people even if they don't live with you know have them as neighbor uh they talk to
03:20:05.960 them online and so they've already built a community of course the challenges or the next
03:20:11.080 step is to to live close enough so that it actually becomes a real community as well so that
03:20:16.520 you can help each other out with finding work or finding a spouse or, you know, help each other out
03:20:23.180 in everyday situations. You know, I'm one of the things that I'm very fond of and, you know, my
03:20:29.860 own intellectual background is sociobiology. You know, E.O. Wilson and people like that who talked
03:20:36.880 a lot about how we are hardwired to be social creatures. This kind of extreme individualism,
03:20:43.300 ideological individualism is a little bit contrived i think we have we we depend on other
03:20:49.140 people and we have to have a real physical community around us just to help us with
03:20:55.020 everyday functions especially when uh the sort of overall society is i'm not gonna you know
03:21:03.660 exaggerate and say that it's collapsing but it's definitely not working well anymore i mean if you
03:21:08.980 compare today with 20 or 30 years ago, law enforcement, you know, just the economic
03:21:14.640 situation and how things work in your everyday, your everyday experience of just living in this
03:21:21.540 society, I think has deteriorated significantly. And a lot of people just don't trust that,
03:21:28.420 you know, society can take care of their problems and their needs anymore. So they're going to have
03:21:32.500 to, it's going to be automatic that they're going to sort of bond together in these communities.
03:21:37.120 But like I said, I think it's important to emphasize that I'm not talking about any sort of weird sort of cult environment like Charles Manson or, you know, suicide cult or anything.
03:21:47.640 I'm talking about a very organic, normal, laid back community.
03:21:51.520 But it's just, you know, something that where we can feel at home.
03:21:55.900 And I just think that that's going to happen automatically.
03:21:57.920 It's not something that you even have to push.
03:22:00.400 It's more a prediction than a prescription almost.
03:22:04.260 But I do advocate it.
03:22:06.180 I do think it's a good thing.
03:22:08.220 No, I agree.
03:22:09.680 And you can always tell when things are starting to go wrong in society, when even the liberals are starting to complain about it.
03:22:16.180 And you see that in America, if you read the news, and especially in Canada, where they're beginning to admit that their policies have gone horribly wrong.
03:22:25.600 Now, they will assess it incorrectly and blame the wrong thing. 0.91
03:22:29.880 But even in Canada, they're starting to say, like, there's a lot of Indians here. 0.99
03:22:34.260 And they all came here over the past three years. 1.00
03:22:37.220 And this is unsustainable.
03:22:40.100 And you're hearing this from the liberals, which by global standards are far more progressive than, you know, the Democrats in the U.S. even.
03:22:48.900 So but, you know, we also say that if a liberal is complaining about something, it's almost too late to correct the ship.
03:22:55.260 That's why, you know, I think not only are, you know, can they not correct the ship, they can't address what the real problem is.
03:23:02.240 And so they'll never come up with a solution. And I was actually thinking about this earlier today, how amusing it is that, you know, if you confront a lot of them with the problems, they will, A, first of all, straight up deny that there's a problem. And once they acknowledge there's a problem, they'll find a way to blame the West or blame white people.
03:23:21.640 you know like why why are there so many indians here that driving up the house prices well you 0.65
03:23:27.140 know it's that's not happening well it is well it's it's in a way it's our our fault that that's 1.00
03:23:32.320 happening it's like just you're never going to come up with a solution with that but on our side
03:23:37.880 and the distant side we seem to be the only ones who are at least trying to craft some kind of
03:23:43.140 solution and this would be one of them however one interesting aspect that i i encourage people
03:23:49.020 to think about is, you had mentioned not turning into a personality cult of any kind. I would
03:23:53.980 agree, but I think that's something we need to watch out for as we do this. As you start
03:23:59.060 retribalizing online, locally, wherever it might be, finding your people, building these affinity
03:24:05.600 networks, be aware that there's a lot of kooky characters out there. There's a lot of anti-social
03:24:11.640 personalities that find their way into these spaces that might be trying to seek refuge in
03:24:18.160 these communities and they might not have the best interest in mind and anti-social and insane
03:24:24.220 people have a tendency to rise up through the ranks even though you don't think they would
03:24:28.480 um and uh there's one thing i know we gotta get we actually have to get going soon but
03:24:33.400 on one of your videos um it was on the topic of retribalization you had mentioned that
03:24:39.300 the importance of a founding myth and i think we sort of got into that with the religion and
03:24:44.400 the spirituality. But I'm curious, because you've thought quite a bit about this, and I think this
03:24:49.400 is something you're trying to live as close as you can to. What would your founding myth be in
03:24:57.300 your ideal retribalized little society? I know that's a big question, but what do you think
03:25:04.200 about that yeah that is a big uh big issue i think that all organic founding myths are uh
03:25:16.500 is a narrative a story about uh common ancestry i think that is why um that is why you know
03:25:26.900 ethnic communities and so on that's why i mean our religions used to be ethnic communities uh
03:25:33.700 People, different peoples worshipped different gods.
03:25:37.680 Those gods might, you know, if you agree with, for example, the perennialist school, the capital T traditionalist school, those gods would, you know, behind the scenes would represent the same thing.
03:25:50.360 But different tribes would talk about them in different ways because it was their tribal god.
03:25:55.520 and and and very often they would trace their origin to a sort of a mythological beginning
03:26:04.640 they would trace their their kings or their leaders their chieftains or whatever to a
03:26:10.460 mythological beginning they would trace their own tribe to a common ancestry i think that is
03:26:16.860 um that is one of the things that that is central and myth is it's important to emphasize here that
03:26:24.500 myth is not i mean in everyday uh conversation myth is often used uh used to mean something
03:26:31.820 that is false that that's just a myth that means it's a lie it's not true but in this context a
03:26:38.920 myth is simply a story which uh has a sort of a moral point or create a story that creates
03:26:48.040 a moral framework or a story that gives meaning to your existence or I mean a religious myth
03:26:55.960 isn't necessarily true or false in the sort of scientific philosophical sense but it can provide
03:27:05.200 a framework of meaning around our lives our lives are very chaotic so you know in that sense I think
03:27:12.040 founding myths uh will go back to traditional european roots of uh our our philosophy our
03:27:19.820 mythology i i don't think that you can really uh create them i mean i don't i don't think that
03:27:27.420 this is something that you can sit down like you sort of write a film or like l1 hubbard you know
03:27:33.140 he tried to create his own religion i guess he succeeded you know to some extent at least
03:27:38.980 he's a fiction writer and they sort of
03:27:41.160 I'm going to create this religion
03:27:42.740 usually that doesn't work all that well
03:27:45.220 so I don't think this is
03:27:47.160 something that we can sort of dream up
03:27:49.280 or cook up here together
03:27:51.060 but I think that is
03:27:53.300 sort of a general description is
03:27:55.160 that it will
03:27:56.640 because you know people care
03:27:59.100 about who they are, people care about
03:28:01.280 where they come from and
03:28:03.040 especially when people get older they want
03:28:05.160 to go and sort of research
03:28:06.920 their family tree and so on they were going to research relatives well who who were my relatives
03:28:12.820 10 generations 15 generations back and so on and in a general way people becoming more aware of
03:28:22.100 you know their roots of their ancestry of their common ancestry of the struggle i mean common
03:28:29.500 struggle is extremely powerful if you have uh if you're if you have a friend and you and your
03:28:37.740 friend you ended up in a fight somewhere uh you know if you were growing up when you were a
03:28:42.540 teenager or something and someone else attacked you and you ended up in a fight maybe younger
03:28:47.000 people don't do that anymore but that used to happen in normal society in the past that people
03:28:52.580 ended up in fights but you know when you go through that situation together that sort of
03:28:57.100 strengthens the bond between you um and i think in a general way uh you know when when when
03:29:03.160 countries have gone through war together that really uh creates a sort of a glue that keeps
03:29:09.860 them together because they have gone through a very difficult experience and that uh a lot of
03:29:15.960 people who share that experience feel that it defines them and so common ancestry common
03:29:22.020 religious roots and so you know i mean religious sensibilities are very often hardwired in sort of
03:29:30.100 what appeals to us as people it's it depends i mean different things appeal to uh a scandinavian
03:29:37.260 versus uh someone from sub-saharan africa because we're just different and so just a different
03:29:45.280 expression of the religious spiritual truths common ancestry common struggles those would be
03:29:52.180 sort of big elements in uh founding myths of our community now when i was watching your video i
03:29:59.840 thought it occurred to me because it got me thinking about the mythologization process
03:30:04.380 um and i'd actually been thinking about it in terms of christianity i know you're not a big
03:30:10.700 fan of christianity as far as i know but uh one interesting aspect of christianity was that
03:30:16.560 its mythologization process wasn't really locked into the distant past um it was very it's very
03:30:25.240 tied temporally to like the one figure of christ that existed in like a history right so it doesn't
03:30:31.840 exist in sort of this a lot of not all uh civilizations but some civilizations their
03:30:36.920 founding myth or mythology goes so far into the past it might as well be in the ether um and i
03:30:42.360 was thinking about the jews as well that you know a lot of the founding myths of the jews have to do
03:30:48.620 with their own persecution again locked in history with uh various empires and even right up into the
03:30:57.180 the holocaust as they see it so i started to think of the process of mythologization just you just
03:31:03.180 mentioned there even scientology i'm like you know scientology is kind of a wild example but
03:31:08.240 you know to us because oh look at all the the history of scientology but like you know give
03:31:12.420 it another century you know what scientology turns into might be approaching something like a more
03:31:18.720 dignified form and it could have its own myth its own founding mythology in a sense sort of
03:31:25.800 locked in the past as well but i started thinking that you know could we as we start to retribalize
03:31:31.700 as we start to build up these communities and we have we will obviously center our ethnic religious
03:31:38.800 past but i wonder if there's a way to incorporate the current historical trends into that mythology
03:31:46.740 like for example like you would have as the part of history that we always call back to
03:31:51.600 let's just call like the woke process you know but the what we know as woke is really just
03:31:57.840 the latest iteration of this sort of dysgenic force that is just always rising up as a cancer 0.62
03:32:05.260 to destroy society because that's really what woke is it's just like anti-social dysgenic 0.84
03:32:10.000 destructive behavior uh you know what edward dunn might call the the spiteful mutants just
03:32:15.760 manifested with a different name so i always think that you know during our process of
03:32:21.400 retribalization we would almost need to put a pin in that and always call back to this like once we
03:32:27.280 make it out of this wilderness we always got to remember what the wilderness was we got to 0.99
03:32:33.400 remember what happened when we actually let the dysgenic forces really accumulate their power and 0.99
03:32:40.700 all the insane shit that they did all the the wretchedness that they brought to bear because 0.99
03:32:46.600 i would be horrified if we just forgot about this phase in history the thing that drove us 0.99
03:32:51.740 to do what we're doing now you know i always like to think of what will happen when we win
03:32:57.220 which seems to be inevitable i do think we'll win but like when we win remember what drove us to
03:33:02.660 this place and let's let's really lock that in kind of like the jews do like don't forget what 0.99
03:33:08.340 happened when we we released our hand off the wheel for five minutes you know we almost lost 0.96
03:33:13.940 everything we let the droves of rapists in and everyone thought it was cool that's the craziest
03:33:20.680 thing how did that happen but i think that's just the mythologization process that i find interesting
03:33:25.520 And before we leave, did you have any thoughts on that and that thing I just said?
03:33:31.740 No, absolutely. You made many, many important and great points. I mean, with Christianity,
03:33:38.520 Christianity today is often seen as, well, Christianity is the conservative movement.
03:33:44.400 It's the old fashioned movement and it's the sort of the traditional movement. That's not how it
03:33:50.200 started it started as a very revolutionary movement a new truth that was spread around the
03:33:56.160 world with a messiah that was here and uh you know started counting time from scratch again that's
03:34:03.600 how revolutionary it was uh and with you know uh of course the character of christianity changed
03:34:10.240 over time but it was very much focused on the end of the world is here in our generation it's
03:34:16.260 going to come soon you better uh you know pull yourself together so you end up on the right side
03:34:20.960 and so on struggle between good and evil is a very dramatic movement back then a very revolutionary
03:34:27.080 movement like you said with the mythological event very close in time and so it's kind of
03:34:33.860 changed character now with the jews absolutely there's a reason why the holocaust story is so
03:34:40.720 important to the jews because it creates and defines their identity and you know a few few
03:34:48.180 years ago it was popular for the jews to kind of um with the survivors now that they're getting old
03:34:54.820 and sort of dying off that they're gonna uh educate and raise new a new generation of quote 0.68
03:35:01.800 unquote survivors to carry on the torch it's sort of like a new priesthood almost that's gonna carry
03:35:07.840 on the founding myth of who they are
03:35:10.000 and what defines them and the difficulties
03:35:12.160 and the challenges they went
03:35:14.080 through together. Jews are extremely good
03:35:16.180 at telling these stories and
03:35:17.980 creating this narrative. I mean, there's a reason
03:35:19.800 why they're very influential in Hollywood
03:35:21.740 because they're very good at telling
03:35:23.860 moral stories that people
03:35:25.720 are
03:35:27.320 captured by.
03:35:30.000 They capture people's emotions.
03:35:33.000 In Hungary,
03:35:33.900 for example, Hungary in 1956
03:35:36.140 the hungarians trying to rebel against the soviet union against soviet occupation and
03:35:45.360 there were battles and you know if you go to hungary today you'll see in the buildings around
03:35:51.600 the parliament you'll see the bullet holes are sort of highlighted so that everyone can go and
03:35:56.900 look at the bullet holes from that battle in 1956 and it's sort of commemorated in there
03:36:02.180 as a national holiday today
03:36:04.860 because it is sort of a part of their founding myth
03:36:07.920 in who they are today,
03:36:13.280 their fight against the communist oppression.
03:36:15.340 And finally, finally, they threw off that yoke.
03:36:18.460 And I think that is often also why Hungarians 0.99
03:36:21.840 are so reluctant to accept any new type
03:36:24.740 of quote-unquote communism,
03:36:26.540 a new type of this kind of totalitarian,
03:36:29.460 totalitarian, utopian society that's going to oppress them, because they went through that
03:36:34.320 founding myth. They went through that experience. On a far more negative note, for example, in Norway,
03:36:43.120 Norway is a pretty new state as such, as a separate state, separate from Sweden and Denmark.
03:36:50.860 So it's a young, independent state, and one of the founding myths of Norway today
03:36:56.040 is the experience of the the german uh occupation during the second world war and you know people
03:37:05.600 sort of lie to themselves about it and sort of exaggerate its importance in a sense in the sense
03:37:11.820 that uh they they sort of portray it as this horrific thing that everything everyone was
03:37:19.580 against, whereas it was probably, you know, a third was very much against, a third of the
03:37:26.480 population was very much in favor, and a third was maybe neutral. But my point is that they kind of
03:37:31.800 exaggerated the importance of this event. And I think that is also, you know, the Second World
03:37:37.300 War is the founding myth of the world we live in today, which is also why we accept the degradation 0.73
03:37:44.220 of our countries and so on because the story of the second world war is the founding myth of the 0.81
03:37:50.380 society we live in today and so absolutely these you know and it goes without saying that the
03:37:56.980 second world war was was a trauma that everyone experienced and you know if you're our age now
03:38:05.020 then maybe your grandparents lived through it so it's not all that long ago 60 million people died
03:38:11.780 60 million uh it's it's it's a number that it can't even be grasped by the human mind that's
03:38:18.400 how many people died so of course it's a global trauma and so it served as a very effective
03:38:24.220 founding myth to be sort of propagandized by the entertainment industry and so on and exploited so
03:38:30.740 i mean yeah all of what you said is is true and i think that going forward in the future this era
03:38:38.160 of extreme oppression and this these trials that we're going through now with society collapsing
03:38:45.560 around us with all the insanity even covid i mean covid has sort of become almost as a founding myth
03:38:52.180 of well you know people that people can relate to each other by experiencing this these sort of two
03:39:00.220 years of complete insanity when society was shut down so these kinds of difficult periods and
03:39:06.420 difficult experiences that we share i think they're going to be elements of our founding myth
03:39:11.580 going forward now mr midior i think that is the best place to end it because i think that covers
03:39:18.160 everything i wanted to cover and um if there's nothing else you wanted to get down i wanted to
03:39:23.240 just remind everyone to check out guide to culture at guiding the storm.com and be sure to check out
03:39:31.180 one of my favorite attractions that the cameron film festival where he meets with a whole cavalcade
03:39:36.400 of people that you're probably familiar with
03:39:38.500 to discuss movies, one of my favorite
03:39:40.400 past times. And there you can find
03:39:42.380 recordings of all of his
03:39:44.380 events, the most recent one
03:39:46.300 from 2023, a lot of great speakers
03:39:48.200 speaking on a lot of the issues that we discussed
03:39:50.560 during this episode.
03:39:52.380 And be sure to check out the weekly roundup
03:39:54.280 with Mark Weber, another individual that I'm
03:39:56.360 deeply interested in.
03:39:59.020 Every week,
03:40:00.220 discussing geopolitical events, much like
03:40:02.320 we discussed today.
03:40:04.140 And with that in mind, if there's anything
03:40:05.820 I missed, let me know. But I also want to just thank you for taking the time to sit down with
03:40:10.740 me today. Well, thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me on. It's been a great pleasure
03:40:16.480 to talk to you. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas when we're recording this. It's two
03:40:21.520 days before Christmas. Christmas Eve, I'm going to be on Millennial. So if you want to hear more
03:40:25.640 from me, you can listen then. And yeah, just have a nice new year. And thank you so much for this
03:40:32.280 conversation fantastic i hope to talk to you soon
03:40:35.760 hey baby i hear the blues are calling tall salads and scrambled eggs
03:40:42.040 and maybe i seem a bit confused yeah maybe but i got you