The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Load Seaters for the 4th of November 2024. We've

00:00:15.540 only got one day to go until the election, at least, well, in American time. So we're

00:00:22.080 going to be, well, I should probably announce who I'm with first, shouldn't I? You know

00:00:25.360 by now, but it's Stelios and Beau. Hello everyone. And I'm going to be talking about the predictions

00:00:30.540 for the US election. Stelios is going to be talking about the most egregious murder to

00:00:35.060 happen in the United States ever. Murders, plural, that's true. And Beau's going to be talking

00:00:41.020 about a glorious victory for Africa in the form of the Tory party leadership, of course. 0.92

00:00:48.640 And I've got a bunch of announcements. So it's the last day of merch for all the sort of election

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00:01:02.420 to be gone forever. And also, it's worth mentioning, we're not going to be live streaming tomorrow

00:01:07.800 or Wednesday because we've got the election stream going on. And what I have on screen

00:01:13.400 right now is the time zones. So we're going to be starting midnight, our own time, GMT.

00:01:20.780 And here we have a diagram. So, you know, we won't get a million messages like last time.

00:01:25.980 Like, what time are you starting in my time zone? Well, here it is. You can look if you

00:01:31.760 have a functioning pair of eyes. If you don't, I'm sorry. But Eastern time at 7 o'clock, that

00:01:37.880 should be enough for you to figure it out right. So it's also worth mentioning as well, we're

00:01:42.400 doing it slightly differently than the live stream for the UK election because we learned

00:01:47.360 a few bits and pieces from that. So we're going to be doing gold tier comments, largely,

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00:02:48.760 And we're not going to do any video comments on the night, just to be 100% clear. I know

00:02:54.580 we've been feeding things out in dribs and drabs, but this is your sort of final update

00:02:59.380 for how we're operating things. If that's a bit confusing, I'm sorry. I've done my best

00:03:05.380 to explain it. But anyway, with all of that out of the way, let's talk about the US election.

00:03:11.840 So I'm going to be discussing predictions for what's going to happen in the US election.

00:03:18.520 And of course, we do have the election coverage that we're going for pretty much all night,

00:03:24.840 aren't we? We're going from midnight hour time all the way until eight in the morning.

00:03:30.060 And so we've got a full eight hours of coverage on election night that's going to be live.

00:03:34.140 We've got some big guests in. And so I'm going to save a lot of our commentary for that. If you

00:03:39.000 want to see what we're making of the election, we'll be talking about it as it happens. However,

00:03:44.160 I'm going to be looking at polling and how it's being discussed in the media. And of course,

00:03:50.700 it's worth mentioning as well, massive pinch of salt here. I feel like I wouldn't be doing my job

00:03:55.820 properly if I didn't say polling has been off significantly in the past. And there are a few

00:04:00.700 problems with polls that I wanted to put out first before we actually look at them. But it's not to

00:04:05.940 say that they are saying nothing. I think there is still something interesting to see from polls,

00:04:11.180 even if it's just what people are talking about, how it's being presented. Because polls,

00:04:18.060 unfortunately, rather than being just an objective measure of people's voting intentions,

00:04:23.340 they can also be used as a tool to shape people's voting behaviour as well. And this is something that

00:04:28.560 gets discussed relatively often, isn't it? And it's one of those things that seems to be coming

00:04:34.300 more and more the case when you see these polls that are wildly off. One of the explanations to

00:04:39.540 that could be that they're presenting certain candidates that they might well favour as being

00:04:45.440 more likely to win because that affects how people vote. And so that is something. It's also worth

00:04:50.920 mentioning as well that polling is one of those things that's fraught with

00:04:55.080 things like non-response bias, whereby some demographics are just less likely to respond

00:05:00.840 to polls. Certain political camps are less likely to respond to polls. You know, some are done online,

00:05:07.940 whereas some use landlines, which biases certain age groups. So obviously the online would be biased

00:05:13.140 towards younger people, landlines older people. I don't even have a landline, so I wouldn't be able

00:05:19.100 to do that. It's also more likely that Harris voters would be more open to discussing their

00:05:25.160 preference with pollsters. I think that Trump voters are going to be less trusting of pollsters

00:05:30.600 more generally. I feel like that's a pretty fair thing to say. I don't know whether you guys agree.

00:05:36.260 One of the big ones is that people say something different to a pollster than what they actually

00:05:40.600 tick in the ballot. That was my next point, yeah. That's the big one, really.

00:05:43.560 In Britain, we call them shy Tories, but, you know, the shy conservative vote, where actual votes tend

00:05:49.280 to be more conservative than people's stated preferences beforehand. And the political

00:05:54.920 psychology of this, actually, because I looked at this when I was at university, is that people are,

00:06:01.180 when they're talking to a pollster, they're sort of looking for gratification, which is a bad thing,

00:06:07.220 really, for accurate data. But they're trying to present themselves as socially favourable,

00:06:11.220 and therefore they're more inclined, as in like a couple of percentages more,

00:06:16.900 to say the thing that they think will be more socially acceptable. Whereas when it actually

00:06:21.880 comes to the ballot box, they're more likely to vote for something that they see as more in their

00:06:25.560 own self-interest, which is interesting that it goes rightwards as well.

00:06:29.860 But also what is really important is for the population sample to be representative,

00:06:34.480 and that's always an issue. It's always an issue.

00:06:36.660 Well, it's one of those things where how do you get a representative sample of one of the,

00:06:41.220 dare I say, one of the most diverse populations?

00:06:45.380 Yeah, but also of those who don't turn up to vote. Do you count those who don't

00:06:50.800 respond to you on the phone as people who don't show up to vote?

00:06:54.860 Well, people also don't know whether they're going to turn up to vote

00:06:57.300 when they're talking on the phone to a pollster. They might get to the day and they forget about it,

00:07:01.940 or they just can't be bothered. That happens. And, you know, that is disproportionately weighted

00:07:07.320 to certain people with certain characteristics. And so that does affect election results,

00:07:12.060 as well as the fact that sometimes polls are just dishonest. It does happen.

00:07:16.300 And depending on where you are, I mean, if you know your state or your county

00:07:20.840 is definitely, almost certainly going to go one way or another, that does increase the amount of apathy.

00:07:28.040 It does, yeah. Particularly if it's sort of a very, very safe seat and you want to either vote

00:07:35.920 against them or in favour of that safe seat. It just generally depresses town out, doesn't it?

00:07:41.420 So this is important, that Trump was actually leading in a lot of polls recently.

00:07:46.320 Oh, my poppy's just fallen off. That's not good. I don't mean any disrespect by it. It just fell off.

00:07:53.140 There we go. Okay, there we go. That never happened, by the way.

00:07:56.380 Okay. So, yeah, Trump was leading, and then a lot of polls all of a sudden have,

00:08:03.320 there's no meta-commentary here, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, but lots of polls closer to the deadline

00:08:10.440 have shifted more towards Kamala. And it seems to me that there's not necessarily any particular reason

00:08:18.540 for this. I've not been able to figure out a reason from any of the pollsters,

00:08:22.480 but that seems to be what's happening. And we can see here, this is Polymarket.

00:08:29.700 They still have quite a significant margin for Trump here. 60% roughly, well, it's 58.1% at the minute

00:08:39.620 in favour of Trump and 42.1% for Kamala, which would be a massive win for Trump, wouldn't it?

00:08:45.640 Yeah, that's not even close. If that's what actually happens on the night, that's not particularly

00:08:49.200 close. It's a bit of a sweep.

00:08:53.000 Yeah.

00:08:54.360 Bouldering on a landslide.

00:08:57.020 Yeah, but this sort of trend here, where they were neck and neck, and then Trump got out ahead,

00:09:03.740 and now it's narrowed again, and now it looks like it's going back to being a bit wider again,

00:09:09.460 that seems to be reflected in a lot of polls, particularly this first part where they were

00:09:14.560 neck and neck, and then Trump breaks out ahead, and then it narrowed again. That point is where

00:09:20.200 a lot of polls stop, this little part where they're spreading apart again, less so, but

00:09:25.600 this is quite up to date, as is.

00:09:28.420 When was the second debate held? Because I remember a lot of people said that the performance

00:09:34.280 of Trump in the second debate wasn't that good, and a lot of people said that that was

00:09:40.020 a win for the Democrats, but after a while, yet the Kamala Harris campaign lost momentum.

00:09:46.780 So, it should be there, wasn't it?

00:09:52.260 Yeah, I'm trying to look up the date. It was about three weeks ago, a month ago, something

00:09:56.180 like that. So, we have a look at things like this as well. So, there are other websites

00:10:03.220 trying to say that Polymarket is rife with fake wash trading, apparently, because they're

00:10:09.740 saying he has a 67% chance of winning, and they're trying to denigrate this. But, you

00:10:16.120 know, this is one of those things, as with politics more generally, there's a lot of

00:10:20.620 partisanship with these sorts of things. And so, as with the polling, it sort of reflects

00:10:28.400 the partisanship elsewhere as well. And here's another one, we're seeing that similar effect

00:10:33.780 of, they were narrow, it spreads out, and then it narrows again, and then it's moving

00:10:38.100 apart. This one is called Kalshi, another measure, and it's putting Trump 10% points above Kamala

00:10:48.000 at 55% to her 45%. So, this is interesting, isn't it?

00:10:52.740 Yes, I just saw that it was on the 10th of September. So, for some time, maybe some weeks,

00:10:59.120 the Kamala Harris campaign had some momentum, but they lost it afterwards, yeah.

00:11:03.400 Still is a big discrepancy.

00:11:05.660 When was the shooting, the ear shooting incident?

00:11:09.000 Oh, on Butler, PA.

00:11:10.140 Yeah.

00:11:11.360 I've got my man on the research here.

00:11:13.440 Butler, PA shooting.

00:11:15.120 Like, that would have been...

00:11:16.640 Wasn't that in the 13th of July?

00:11:20.420 Around that sort of time, when it was relatively close, and if you're looking at these results...

00:11:25.420 Remember, it was a day after my wedding.

00:11:27.680 Right.

00:11:28.040 I remember.

00:11:29.280 Ah, well, there we go.

00:11:30.360 I wonder what happened right there, where they start to diverge, bigly.

00:11:34.700 Well, I think that if these numbers are to be believed, it would probably reflect the number

00:11:40.160 of gaffes that have come from Biden and Harris, because, of course, Trump's also been doing

00:11:45.160 lots of good optical things. You know, he went to McDonald's, he had the assassination

00:11:49.120 attempt. They've been doing the media rounds and doing quite well. You know, Trump and

00:11:54.560 J.D. Vance seem to be able to talk to people in a much more coherent way than Kamala can,

00:12:00.660 and then you've got Joe deliberately undermining Kamala Harris, seemingly out of spite. He's

00:12:05.560 done it on multiple occasions now, to the point where he's obviously a bit resentful at

00:12:09.200 what she's done to him. So, here's another one. These two pollsters have a bit of a rivalry,

00:12:15.960 and each of them have made a bit of a name for themselves. So, they've each got two different

00:12:22.500 methods. One is siding on Harris, and he's guessed the past nine out of ten, and this

00:12:29.220 other guy is guessing for Trump. I'm just going to read how they've calculated it, because

00:12:35.000 it gives you a bit of a window into how pollsters actually look at things. So, it says,

00:12:39.380 Lichman and Silver employ different methods to predict election outcomes. Lichman uses

00:12:43.880 13 keys to the White House, a system based on 13 true or false statements about the state

00:12:49.220 of the country, the parties and the candidates. This method does not account for the campaign

00:12:53.200 messaging or major events influencing voter sentiment close to the election. Lichman claims

00:12:58.500 that at least eight of the keys favour Harris in 2024. Silver, on the other hand, builds

00:13:03.640 probabilistic statistical models using national and state polling, economic data, and likely

00:13:08.780 voter turnout. His model adjusts for discrepancies in polls and weights more reliably, pollsters

00:13:15.180 more heavily. Silver's approach suggests a close race, but leans towards a Trump victory

00:13:20.020 based on his gut feeling." So, yes, we've got guts versus a regime stooge, basically. I'm

00:13:27.060 going with the guts, personally. So, one thing that's interesting is AI has also been weighing

00:13:32.680 in, and ChatGPT has been asked, and they, they, it, suggests that neither Trump nor Harris will

00:13:41.800 be deemed the ultimate victor of the election. And that's what ChatGPT seems to think will

00:13:48.420 happen. I don't know whether someone just gave it a message, the regular ChatGPT, or they

00:13:54.560 fed it lots of data to get that. It doesn't necessarily clear it up in the article. But if that

00:14:00.500 is the case, that's going to be the sort of most unfortunate case scenario for most people,

00:14:06.560 isn't it? Because, of course, the instability is going to cause lots of speculation about

00:14:10.900 things going awry, and probably not the best. And, go ahead.

00:14:16.320 No, I think that there will be some kind of instability, because I think that whatever the result is going

00:14:23.020 to be, each side, every side is going to contest if they are losing.

00:14:27.260 This is a good point, actually. While you've brought it up, we might not necessarily be able to know the

00:14:32.340 result for certain, but we can have a better idea of how much people will freak out if their candidate

00:14:39.320 loses. So, what are our guesses as to how that's going to go? Because I am sort of hesitant to imagine

00:14:48.760 that people are just going to sit down and accept it, no matter who wins.

00:14:55.880 Do you want me to go first?

00:14:57.200 Yeah, well, I would say one of my predictions for tomorrow night, or the night after tomorrow,

00:15:02.920 it will be that, yeah, it won't be clear by 8am at our time. It won't be clear. Lots and lots of

00:15:09.360 things will be contested. Yeah, and as for how both sides react, well, if we just look at the past,

00:15:15.160 when Republicans lose or Republicans side, I mean, there is the January 6th thing, which in the scheme,

00:15:23.780 if you're going to call it an insurrection, which I think is absurd to describe it with that word,

00:15:27.940 but if you are going to do that, it's a very, very civilised form of insurrection, right? A guy walking

00:15:34.700 around the Capitol building, not really, not breaking anything or not really hurting anyone. In fact,

00:15:41.920 there was that one woman that was shot a point-blank range by a guard, wasn't it? So that's how they

00:15:47.680 react. That was their sort of knee-jerk reaction. On the other side, whole city's getting burnt down

00:15:53.700 for like years on end and massive unrest for months and months and months or years. So based on that,

00:16:02.380 I would have thought that the Democratic reaction to losing would be far worse.

00:16:10.000 But I think that my guess would be that if Trump loses, things will be more severe than the Jan 6th

00:16:18.280 thing, because as you say, the most armed population in the world turned up unarmed and they did

00:16:25.120 basically trespass in the building.

00:16:28.060 It was a mass trespass event.

00:16:29.940 It was, yeah.

00:16:30.520 It was that.

00:16:31.400 That's undeniable. Crimes were done, but they're not quite insurrectionary. Whereas the Democrats,

00:16:38.340 I think, it's sort of difficult to tell in my mind. They could be so demoralised that they don't

00:16:45.320 really do very much because their candidate isn't very good in the first place. She doesn't have

00:16:50.340 much enthusiasm, so there's less to fool. But on the other hand, it could be that, you know, Trump

00:16:55.140 is even more scary than before and therefore it's the fate of American democracy. I think I'm erring

00:17:00.360 more on that side of things, that they're going to be even more hysterical and irrational and

00:17:05.040 destructive, were that to be the case.

00:17:08.440 I think I'm inclined to agree with you and I'll add some bits. So first of all, I think also that the

00:17:15.100 Trump side is going to react worse if Kamala Harris wins. They're going to react in a more severe way.

00:17:25.500 I don't think that Democrats will react in the same way in the short run because it seems to me

00:17:32.160 that they want to appear as if they're more institutionally respectful. But it seems to me

00:17:39.460 that for some time now, they are preparing the supporters to just constantly go on strikes and

00:17:49.620 say he's not my president and constantly create trouble. Because that's, in a sense, the leftist

00:17:55.700 mentality is just, if I lose, I constantly try to create conditions that are trying to delegitimise

00:18:03.140 the person who won me in an election.

00:18:06.100 So they're just going to make his timing off. It's very, very difficult. They're sort of going to

00:18:09.220 cut their nose to spite their face and make America suffer just because they want him to look bad.

00:18:13.860 Yes, but I don't think they're going to do something like January 6th. But I think that

00:18:18.260 they're going to do more of a, you could say, protest of attrition for a long time event. That's what I

00:18:25.540 was going to say my suspicions are.

00:18:27.380 I mean, me saying that just look at the past and that will happen again. I mean, that's not really what I'm

00:18:32.260 saying. Of course, I'm a historian. Yeah, yeah. History may rhyme, but it never plays out exactly

00:18:38.340 the same. Again, it just never does. But yeah, I think everything you've said, right, I think the

00:18:42.820 key thing will be if it's close or not. If Trump does win by 10 points or more, and it's just clear,

00:18:49.780 you know, he gets 350 electoral seats, whatever, and it's just not close and it's just kind of a slam dunk.

00:18:55.060 It will be a completely different reaction to if it's close and it's contested for weeks and weeks

00:19:00.980 and weeks. That's when it was bad. I mean, I use the example of the decline and fall of the Roman, 0.98

00:19:06.740 Roman, ancient Roman Republic quite a lot. But there you can see, and there's other examples of when

00:19:12.340 republics started to crumble throughout history, the Athenian Republic, for example, is that when they

00:19:19.460 realise that their politics are completely corrupt and it's all done by bribery and criminal means of

00:19:28.500 vote rigging and all that sort of thing, it takes quite a few election cycles before it ends with,

00:19:35.940 in the Roman example, the actual forum and the Senate House being burnt down. They still had

00:19:41.140 generations and generations before it ended up like that. So if the modern day United States Republic is

00:19:48.500 anything to go by, they're still quite early on in that process. It was, you know, there's been

00:19:54.020 shenanigans going back for a long time, going back to the 19th century. The 1960 election was iffy,

00:19:59.460 the 2000 election was iffy. But it's only really in the last two, or the last one really, where it was,

00:20:08.100 where big cracks were starting to appear, at least in people's perceptions of how fair it was.

00:20:15.300 So I still don't think we're anywhere close to something like Clodius and Milo and street mobs and

00:20:24.260 the full breakdown of law and the capital building becoming a bastion and buildings getting burnt down.

00:20:31.540 I think we're still a long way from that in the example of the modern United States. But we'll see. I think

00:20:38.260 it really, really depends if Trump is sort of undisputedly wins or Kamala undisputedly wins. I think that's the key thing.

00:20:46.820 Of course, these things, we never know what's going to happen. You know, lots of people make and break their careers on this.

00:20:52.580 But I've got to fly through my links because I've hardly gone through any of them yet. So Betfair here is erring

00:21:00.500 sort of too close to cool as well. It's more towards the side of Trump though. And then we have here,

00:21:10.180 this is that professor we were talking about who had a bit of a grudge match with another predictor.

00:21:15.460 CNN obviously picked up on this, predicted 9 of 10 and he's predicting Harris. And then here we have

00:21:22.180 predicted saying that Harris has sort of, here are just the past few days. She's gone up

00:21:29.060 relatively consistently. You can have a look at the past 30 days here.

00:21:34.820 For example, she's going down, down, down and then she's going up and then back down again, which is reflected in some of the other polls actually.

00:21:41.540 But we can still see their polling is suggesting that she is outpacing Trump. That's actually gone

00:21:48.500 up a little bit more in her favour since I was able to have a look at it. And so

00:21:55.940 this one I think is a bit dodgy. So it's saying Trump no longer leads in a state that he carried twice.

00:22:01.140 And this is Iowa. And he's won it twice, as they're saying. And Trump explicitly said that this poll

00:22:07.380 seemed a bit dodgy to me. And I think he might be onto something there because I don't think

00:22:13.780 that he's going to lose Iowa to Harris. That seems unlikely to me. It could happen. You know,

00:22:19.780 stranger things have happened. But I think it's unlikely. And another metric actually is Chinese 0.97

00:22:26.740 bootleg merch. That's another way of measuring who's going to win. And I'm going to read a little

00:22:33.220 bit from this. It says the so-called Yiwu index was able to better predict the 2016 outcome than polls.

00:22:40.740 It's basically a city, Yiwu, I think, and an international trade centre. It has like 70,000

00:22:47.060 different stalls spread across 12 different floors, selling all of these things, you know,

00:22:52.020 cheap Chinese knockoff hats and stuff. And apparently, the camouflage Harris Waltz campaign

00:22:57.700 hats were gone after just 30 minutes after going on sale. So this indicator that is obviously not

00:23:04.180 in the domain of the United States, it's Chinese hats. Sold in China to presumably Chinese people? 0.85

00:23:12.660 No, it's to Americans. Oh, I see. Okay. I don't think the Chinese are following, you know, 0.99

00:23:17.700 I was gonna say this doesn't. Okay, right. Okay, I get it. I get it now. They're just manufactured in

00:23:22.660 China. And they keep tabs on how many are selling. So they seem to be doing quite well.

00:23:26.580 Deep fakes, deep fake hats. So here, Kamala Harris is leading ever so slightly. But it's very,

00:23:37.860 very close. This is The Economist. This morning, actually, when I had a look, Trump was leading

00:23:43.860 ever so slightly. So it's changed. He's gone down a little bit since yesterday and Kamala's gained,

00:23:51.220 which would have been determined the entire election, if The Economist were correct. And

00:23:58.580 here's another poll. So this is suggesting, this is the Atlas Intel poll. They were suggesting that

00:24:06.980 Trump is leading in six of seven key swing states. He's ahead in Arizona by 3.5 percent, Georgia 3.4 percent,

00:24:14.500 2.7 percent in Pennsylvania, 1.2 percent in Michigan and 0.9 percent in Nevada and 0.5 percent in

00:24:21.380 Wisconsin. And then Harris leads North Carolina by 0.5 percent, which are very narrow margins,

00:24:27.540 aren't they? And so that that is all to play for really, if they're correct.

00:24:31.700 So here's a, oh, is that the same link again? There we go. Here's another one. This is S Markets,

00:24:41.860 which is suggesting that Trump is leading by 20 percent over Kamala Harris, which is massive.

00:24:51.700 So that's in the popular vote or is it? In the popular vote, yes. Yeah. Okay.

00:24:55.540 Mm-hmm. And here's another one, which has been quite a, made a big deal of, 538 polling.

00:25:04.020 They're suggesting Trump wins 53 times out of 100 and Harris wins 46 times out of 100. And what they've

00:25:10.500 done is they've looked at all of the other polls and they've sort of mapped them on a map here. And

00:25:16.660 they've, they've done like a meta poll. And so you can, you can go here and you can have a look at

00:25:22.100 the polls and how much they, they put weight on it. See, they've weighted that Atlas Intel poll is

00:25:27.620 quite reliable and that gives Trump a, a 2 percent lead over Harris as opposed to other ones. They've

00:25:35.140 even got a YouGov one there, which of course is the UK, which puts them tied, which is interesting.

00:25:42.100 But there are loads and loads. There's even more that they've taken into consideration. So that one

00:25:46.420 might be one to look at and might be a bit more reliable. It's sort of like a meta analysis,

00:25:51.060 which if I were putting my scientist sort of cap on, I might be willing to take it more at face value.

00:25:58.180 And finally, I wanted to end on a lighter note. What do psychics predict in the election? Because

00:26:06.100 of course, at the end of the day, a lot of this is reading tea leaves. It's sort of dressed up as

00:26:10.500 being scientific and political science, but it's not really. So Beck Lawrence, who runs Serpent's

00:26:18.100 Key, which is a witchery and apothecary in Pennsylvania, says it's too close to cool.

00:26:26.100 Miss Margo, a Native American seer from Michigan, sees Kamala Harris as the victor. That's what she 1.00

00:26:32.100 sees in her Native American visions.

00:26:35.220 The way birds were flying.

00:26:37.220 Yeah. They seem Democrat.

00:26:39.380 Saw it in the entrails. And Michael West, who's an astronumerologist from Georgia, says there's

00:26:44.980 definitely going to be a recount, but Kamala will win. Which is the most bold claim of all, 0.99

00:26:50.260 really. I mean, really. But okay.

00:26:53.780 They got that World Cup octopus. Do you remember?

00:26:56.900 Yeah, of course. Yeah.

00:26:57.940 If anyone doesn't remember, I think two World Cups ago now, they had an octopus and they got him to

00:27:02.820 pick one side of his tank on the other. I think he picked wrong last time, didn't he? I think he

00:27:06.260 got fed to a Japanese person or something. I don't actually know whether that happened. I'm making

00:27:09.620 that up. But what I wanted to end on, really, is no one really knows. There's lots of stuff to look

00:27:17.060 into. It's going to be a very important thing, but the polls are pretty divided, as are America more

00:27:22.580 generally. There are some that are favouring Trump quite strongly. There are some that are favouring

00:27:27.460 Harris in a sort of weaker sense. No one's saying Harris is going to win resoundingly. And so what

00:27:33.540 everyone seems to be saying is that it's going to be close. Maybe Trump will win. We'll have to

00:27:37.700 find out. You'll have to watch our election stream to see what we have to say about it.

00:27:44.820 Okay. Ramble rents.

00:27:48.420 Ow! That's my knee. There we go. Knee in the desk.

00:27:51.700 Okay. Let's have a look at what we got here. So Johnny Logo says,

00:27:55.700 despite whether the polls are right or wrong, it is important that everyone is going out to vote.

00:27:59.460 That is very true. I would have said that, but as I'm not a US citizen, I feel a little bit like

00:28:05.540 a poser saying that. That's a random name. Says, I live in Montreal. Should I cross the border to one 0.83

00:28:10.660 of those swing states so I can totally vote for Kamala the hag tomorrow? Well, don't commit election 0.61

00:28:16.980 fraud. That's a Lotus Eater's position that we can all get behind.

00:28:21.620 Sia Oran 505 says, good morning, afternoon, lads. Alan Lichman and his keys are a total joke.

00:28:30.260 The goalposts and criteria change all the time, and he only cherry picks the polls he likes as

00:28:35.300 justification for his keys. I'm not surprised. I mean, if he's a dem, you know, a dem darling 0.92

00:28:40.500 that's cited on CNN. He's obviously not going to be a reliable source, is he?

00:28:47.460 Right. So we have news about a squirrel and a raccoon trending on X. If you have any connection

00:28:54.420 to the platform during the weekend, you will have seen by now that it was full of posts and memes

00:29:00.260 about a squirrel and a raccoon that were essentially euthanized by the New York government,

00:29:08.740 state government. So this is an emotional roller coaster because I have pets.

00:29:16.020 And if anyone did any funny thing with my pets, I would be I would completely lose it. And I agree.

00:29:23.620 Yeah, I think that if pets are like members of the family, aren't they? And if someone wishes harm

00:29:29.220 upon them, then you treat it like they're trying to murder, you know, a member of your family, which

00:29:35.300 they are. The only thing I would disagree with your statement is the like they are members of the

00:29:40.260 family. I mean, it's just yeah, there's a case of people kidnapping dogs and making them do dog

00:29:46.820 fighting in the UK. And it'd be like people's household pets, obviously not fit for fighting,

00:29:53.140 just like nice fluffy things. And just the evilness of that. Just you're you're kidnapping people's

00:29:58.740 household pet for your own sick entertainment. It's disgusting. It's not the way to be. 1.00

00:30:06.180 So it has received the sort of political dimension. The event has received political

00:30:11.300 dimension. Elon Musk has been constantly retweeting about it because this squirrel

00:30:17.060 what a peanut was his name was essentially someone who had more followers than all of us combined.

00:30:27.300 We had millions of followers. All right.

00:30:30.500 Even though I've been on Twitter most of the weekend, I haven't paid any attention really to this. I have

00:30:34.820 seen squirrel related things, but I didn't really read any of it. And well, I don't actually know what's

00:30:40.180 happened. I was getting people asking my comment on the peanut situation.

00:30:43.140 Really? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we need you to, I think peanut has become a libertarian symbol

00:30:50.340 and it's important. So he had around 3 million followers across social media.

00:30:54.820 Has Kathy Griffin weighed in on this yet? I need to know. Has the rock weighed in?

00:31:00.740 No, no, no. Dwayne Johnson's a coward. He won't dare comment on the peanut situation. 1.00

00:31:05.460 Here we have peanut and Fred in heaven. Right. So we have several other posts. We have fight,

00:31:12.180 fight, fight, fight from coming from the squirrel there. And what is really interesting here, which I

00:31:18.900 found really telling that this is something that the government doesn't want people to talk about.

00:31:26.180 So I prepared this segment today and just a few minutes before we started talking, before we started

00:31:33.860 the podcast, one of the main accounts stopped existing was shut down. This is the main account

00:31:42.660 where they were uploading stuff and memes about peanut and Fred. And it literally stopped, stopped

00:31:49.860 existing a few minutes before we started the podcast. That account didn't stop existing itself.

00:31:55.300 I'm throwing that out there. The account didn't kill itself. Let's put it this way.

00:32:02.020 Right. So we are going to talk about both because Fred also was the raccoon that died and people are

00:32:09.300 reminding that he was also the victim of this police brutality, not police brutality, but state brutality.

00:32:17.060 So what actually happened? We'll, we'll get, okay. Okay. Okay. So we have here a very, um,

00:32:25.380 heartbreaking video of Fred the raccoon and you'll also see peanut the squirrel. You'll see them here.

00:32:34.180 It's just, what can be more wholesome than that?

00:32:37.780 Raccoons are quite cute. I know they're sort of pests and they go through people's rubbish,

00:32:43.060 but they're tiny little hands. There's something a little bit human about them, isn't there?

00:32:48.020 Yeah. And here's peanut, the influencer. He's literally showing who's the boss.

00:32:54.740 Right. Millions of followers. Yeah. Millions of followers. Okay. On Instagram, TikTok.

00:33:01.860 Yeah. He was a big deal. It was a big deal.

00:33:06.980 So they say here, make sure everyone, you know, here's the story of peanut,

00:33:10.420 the squirrel and Fred the raccoon. The Democrats went too far this time. They raided this man

00:33:15.220 because a hater reported them for having these pets. New York stole the animals and killed them.

00:33:20.580 This is the Democrat party. And we can just literally, we can just, 0.96

00:33:26.980 Marco Longo. Talk about it. And the raccoon as well.

00:33:30.980 I am so sorry. I, I, this is, this must be really difficult for you.

00:33:38.660 It not only tears my family apart, but peanut was the cornerstone of our nonprofit animal rescue.

00:33:45.140 And 10 to 12 DEC officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer. I was sat outside my house for

00:33:53.220 five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom. I wasn't even allowed to feed my rescue

00:34:00.260 horses breakfast or lunch. I was sitting, sat there like a criminal after they interrogated my wife to

00:34:08.820 check out her immigration status, then proceeded to ask me if I had cameras in my house, then proceeded to

00:34:14.900 go through every cabinet, nook and cranny of my house for a squirrel and a raccoon.

00:34:19.220 They got a search warrant? They got a search warrant.

00:34:23.540 Four departments and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a squirrel and a raccoon.

00:34:30.340 And then they took them and killed them. Why did they go through all that to get

00:34:34.260 a search warrant for an animal that had been with you very safely? And the world witnessed this for

00:34:40.660 seven years. Why now suddenly did they show up with a search warrant and, and take these animals?

00:34:47.460 We haven't a clue. We don't know who made the comp, the complaints.

00:34:53.780 So what happened is that this, this couple Marco Longo and his wife, they've started Peanuts

00:35:00.580 Freedom Farm, which is an animal rescue haven. And they have around 300 animals,

00:35:07.780 stray animals, and they are essentially caring for them. And Peanut was someone who was a social media

00:35:16.900 star, let's say. And he was getting people to find out about the farm with that account. And they were

00:35:28.900 making donations and they were contributing. That's how a lot of animal rescues actually

00:35:32.820 make their money. Because I actually follow a few online and, you know, I think it's a very good

00:35:37.540 thing for people to do. They just, it's a lot of hard work and it, you know, they don't exactly get

00:35:42.260 well compensated for it. And so they turn to social media. It's a source of revenue to, to bring in,

00:35:47.940 to actually fund the venture. And so that they sort of rely on this to be able to feed these animals

00:35:54.100 because it's expensive to look after lots of animals, isn't it? But it's, it's a very moral

00:35:58.260 thing to do, I think. Yes. So what happened here in a nutshell is that someone made a complaint

00:36:04.980 or some people, some, it could be more than one. I mean, we've watched Hot Fuzz. It could always be

00:36:10.500 more than one. They made a complaint to several agencies and the agencies came up with a warrant and

00:36:16.100 they knocked this person's door. They went, went into his house in Pine City in New York state. And as he

00:36:23.140 says, they took him out for five hours, they wouldn't even allow him to go to the bathroom

00:36:29.300 with unescorted. They first had to go and check the bathroom. And what happened is that they are

00:36:35.780 saying something that he disagrees with. So we have conflicting narratives about what happened,

00:36:40.900 was that what they are saying, the department officials are saying is that while they were searching

00:36:46.900 the house, peanut bit one of them. So they took peanut and Fred and they, when they said that

00:36:55.540 they have to euthanize them to check whether they have rabies who can cause encephalitis and human and

00:37:01.540 other animals and they euthanize them. Marco Longo says that, I mean, he obviously didn't have

00:37:08.900 rabies if he had rabies. If he had it, he would have died himself. So we have conflicting narratives

00:37:19.860 about what happened, but it shows in a way what goes on when there is excessive use of police,

00:37:27.620 of, you know, state force brutality. And also the arbitrariness of, you know, focusing on having a

00:37:34.260 search war and searching a farm without saying any, without saying why, and also just taking revenge

00:37:42.420 upon an animal. Right. So we have here the Animal Farm Sanctuary website. We can go down and you can

00:37:52.100 get an idea. They say, welcome to Peanuts Freedom Farm, where a second chance of thrive. Seven years ago,

00:37:57.860 a tiny fluffy baby squirrel entered our lives and changed everything. Peanuts the squirrel quickly

00:38:02.820 captured hearts and became a household name. Despite being reintroduced into the wild,

00:38:07.540 Peanuts faced adversity, losing half of his tail in a severe attack. Without developing essential

00:38:12.980 wildlife instincts, Peanuts became an indoor, non-releaseable squirrel. Remarkably, Peanuts

00:38:18.260 went on to become the first squirrel to mass over a million and then 2 million followers on TikTok

00:38:23.300 with a combined social media following of over 3 million.

00:38:27.220 It's nice to be outdone by a squirrel, isn't it? Several times over.

00:38:30.340 Yeah, by orders of magnitude. Yeah. One thing I'd say is, it seems like what these people are doing,

00:38:37.220 is it Longo? Yeah, Marco Longo. It's just, just obviously completely wholesome,

00:38:42.580 even altruistic, just a great thing. Yeah. So it seems terrible. One thing I would say is,

00:38:49.300 if there's anything to the rabies, I mean, rabies is no joke. I don't know. I'm not saying there was.

00:38:53.620 It's no joke. I mean, if you ever see people dying of rabies, it's, it's honestly hellacious.

00:38:58.100 It seems almost certain, Peanuts didn't, Peanuts didn't have rabies. Yeah, it's a state,

00:39:04.740 you know, they won't investigate other actual homicides and things, but this, they go crazy on.

00:39:09.860 Yeah. And he says also that there were 10 officials that raided his house. He treated

00:39:16.340 him and his wife like terrorists, as he says. And they were from New York State Department

00:39:21.860 of Environmental Conservation, which is a bit counterintuitive. When you think of these agencies,

00:39:28.660 a lot of people think that they are going to be people who have a relevant degree of

00:39:33.860 sensitivity towards protecting wildlife and nature. And it seems that they acted in the,

00:39:39.380 in the exact opposite way than people would expect here. Right. So we need to talk a bit about

00:39:46.500 the story of it because there have been, there have been people who are trying to,

00:39:53.540 to water it down and say that, and try to attack the character of Marco Longo and his wife,

00:40:00.020 because they said that they opened this, they opened in a sense, this peanut farm from money from,

00:40:07.780 from posting their OnlyFans porn.

00:40:13.380 Yeah. It takes a left-hand turn here a little bit.

00:40:16.500 Yeah. But what I want to say just from the very beginning, whatever they have done,

00:40:21.940 whether people find it morally questionable or not, I think we can agree that this is state brutality.

00:40:28.740 And that's wrong, irrespective of what a lot of people trying to point out about the past of

00:40:34.820 Marco Longo and his wife. I think that we, we, we shouldn't just say, well, if we don't like

00:40:41.060 what they did, therefore they don't have rights. I, I'm not in favor of that approach.

00:40:46.100 It doesn't seem like there's any connection between what they got up to in their bedroom

00:40:49.460 and whether or not peanut had rabies. Yes.

00:40:52.980 They don't seem connected to me. I don't know though. I don't know.

00:40:55.700 They don't seem connected, but there, there have been several complications that I want to make

00:41:00.420 both of you aware of, but also make the audience aware of. Now there was a lot of fake news

00:41:06.100 regarding the story of peanut in the, in, uh, on Twitter. There was this article.

00:41:14.420 There was this article that says how a squirrel became a rallying cry of the far right after the

00:41:19.300 lawful removal of an illegal pet in New York, right-wing activists called to arms by Ellen Lewis.

00:41:25.220 This, this, this seems to be fake news. The, the, the person who is writing for the Atlantic is

00:41:31.540 Helen Lewis. And this seems to be the article she was writing, the animal cruelty election.

00:41:37.380 And she says that this is essentially a theme that plays out a lot in this election campaign,

00:41:44.260 because we also had Trump talking about, uh, Haitians eating cats and dogs in, uh,

00:41:50.340 and they're actually eating geese. Yeah. Also geese. So it seems that animal cruel cruelty is a feature

00:41:56.660 of the, of these elections. Now, speaking of us elections, we have Lotus Seaters merch about the

00:42:01.940 elections. I think this is one of the last opportunities for people to buy them. They're

00:42:07.060 going off tomorrow. Yeah. So check them out. We have the brilliant mug with a fight symbol with

00:42:14.660 Trump. We have also Trump, the art of the grill t-shirt. We have several other products.

00:42:20.660 Trump fans cap. Definitely check them out. Right. So what's going on is that they are trying to

00:42:28.340 create a controversy by saying here, if you focus down on the controversy bit, a longer run and only

00:42:35.620 fans account under the name squirrel daddy, where he called himself peanuts, dad, and produce pornography.

00:42:45.300 Oh, she's serious. Come on. Yes. Just why that name though? It's just, 0.58

00:42:54.660 I don't know. So there's a question now, whether he was using peanuts account to take people into his

00:43:04.420 only fans account or the opposite. It seems likely that he was using the opposite. He was using money from

00:43:12.420 only fans to open the, the animal rescue. And they say that at some point they made around a hundred,

00:43:19.220 eight hundred K a month. Oh, I hate the 21st century. And that's how they built the farm.

00:43:26.660 So I want to say this, that it seems that they, they used money from only fans.

00:43:32.820 I want to say, please don't, don't, don't do this to me. That's big bucks though. Anyway, you cut it,

00:43:38.580 right? That's, that's yeah. I'm depressed. Not only the name, but also the amount of money they're

00:43:44.420 making. Oh, but they, you, they put it for a good purpose. They put it for a good purpose.

00:43:49.460 Squirrels probably living a better life. Well, yeah. So we have here the, they said that there

00:43:54.100 are several things and this caused the backlash. Some say they have squirrel daddy, peanuts dot,

00:44:00.900 very kinky player. And they have a stuff here and there are memes now calling for the exact opposite.

00:44:07.620 Okay. It's just, this is something that, you know, we have to tell you what happened,

00:44:12.180 but what I want to say here is that irrespective of what they're trying to say about the couple

00:44:19.140 who did this, this yet again, I want to repeat this is state brutality. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

00:44:26.020 it doesn't detract from the fact that the state came in and killed their pet squirrel. Yeah. I would

00:44:30.100 like to echo your opinion that I hate the 21st century. What I keep thinking while you're going

00:44:36.740 through this is the amount of injustices the state has done or New York state to people, but this,

00:44:44.180 yeah, this goes viral. So for example, letting out multiple felons who then go on to commit

00:44:49.140 terrible crimes against people. Yeah. Um, that's just sort of a common fair and it doesn't, it

00:44:55.780 doesn't dominate Twitter for a whole weekend, but this, but peanut, I mean, it does seem bad and

00:45:01.060 peanut seemed very cute and it's a travesty that he was euthanized unnecessarily, but it speaks volumes,

00:45:06.900 doesn't it, about our society that peanut gets the, the injustice of that is something people are up in

00:45:13.380 arms and annoyed about it on mass. It seems, but a multiple felon being let out and then just going

00:45:18.580 on a killing spree in New York city or something, not so much. To be fair, I want to be a bit

00:45:24.980 charitable to, to people because it seems to me that this isn't the only story that has caused the

00:45:30.180 backlash. We regularly see people talk about protest against how a lot of, you know, state actors are

00:45:38.340 present and their supporters are presenting in a positive light murderers. It's just, I think that

00:45:43.860 people get so much desensitized from constantly hearing news about it. And when you hear something

00:45:49.780 like that, which, you know, obviously the squirrel heard no one, it's, it seems to be evil for evil's

00:45:55.860 sake, which seems pretty evil to me. Yeah, sure. Anything the state does really, but particularly in

00:46:03.300 the us for whatever reason, um, various governments do like to murder people's pets, dogs normally

00:46:09.780 actually. Yeah. Sorry, do carry on. No, I'm just saying now there is a question now in a, there are

00:46:15.540 multiple theories as to who ratted the squirrel. Uh, and, uh, Mark Longo says that most probably someone

00:46:23.620 who was envious from, uh, the account from the squirrel's popularity. I don't know if we know,

00:46:30.340 we have here Josh firm, who's that guy, but he has a good meme there. He says, hate the state. It's

00:46:37.220 what peanut would have wanted. They made peanut into a libertarian symbol. I didn't actually make

00:46:42.820 this. Someone tagged me in the picture and I shared it, but yeah. Okay. But thank you to whoever did

00:46:47.700 that. Yes. You know, it's a big fan of Mary Rothbard or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:46:52.020 Yeah. Peanut the Hoppian. Oh, squirrels don't like sharing their nuts, do they? They don't say,

00:46:57.060 oh yeah, I'm going to pay a 20%. Um, I nearly said peanut tax. Um, I don't know, nut tax. That

00:47:03.460 sounds horrendous. Let them have their nuts. Yeah. Let me have my nuts. They gathered their nuts 0.95

00:47:08.500 themselves. You don't then get to take some just like, well, we're going to give you some amorphous,

00:47:13.220 you know, we're going to give you squirrel healthcare now. Nuts are not held in common 1.00

00:47:17.620 in the squirrel community. No, they understand private property, do they? They have territories,

00:47:22.420 you know, they, they're for property rights first and foremost, squirrels. And there have been,

00:47:27.300 you know, hundreds of memes about it. Pets for Trump here. We have an army of squirrels.

00:47:32.340 We have justice for peanut. We have to the polls, lads, peanut leading, leading the way. And here we have

00:47:41.700 a wholesome heavenly meme saying they're together again, Fred and peanut. Oh, let's not forget Fred. Yeah.

00:47:53.140 Sad news there, Stelios. Pick a, oh, we've got a bunch of, uh, comments there. Do you want to

00:47:59.380 read them all, Stelios? Yeah. So we have a lot. Raccoon Lives Matter, Keith Kaiser. We have Sean487

00:48:10.340 says, death to all MAGA pets. I don't know whether they were Trump supporters.

00:48:17.460 The owner had the audacity to mention he might vote the, the, uh, yeah. I mean, it's just,

00:48:22.420 yes, it's just Trump voting. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's ironic. Sorry. I didn't immediately

00:48:27.620 see it as ironic. Um, in XEO, this election is going to be stolen more than my English heritage.

00:48:36.580 I think that was for the, it was, yeah. Yeah. Bold Eagle, 1787. Squirrels can get rabies.

00:48:45.380 Rabies. Rabies. Okay. Yeah, they can certainly.

00:48:47.540 Yeah, they can. Due to them being rodents. Oh, they can't get rabies due to them being rodents.

00:48:51.060 No. Oh, they're saying they can't get them. I thought they could.

00:48:54.020 Not to mention, peanut lived inside for seven years. Same as Fred. This was intentional murder.

00:48:59.300 Try to remind the people who is in charge. Sean487, they sent 10 cops with guns and they could

00:49:05.620 not feed the rest of the animals and even try to remove the wife for immigration status. 0.80

00:49:11.060 They asked her and she's of German descent. That's what they won't remove a Haitian though, 1.00

00:49:16.580 will they? Well, to be fair, they do act as animal control on their behalf.

00:49:21.060 Right. Lion says at this rate, I will be teaching my dog a new command. When I say fed,

00:49:25.620 it means run for your life. That is a random name. Peanut daddy giving a whole new meaning

00:49:33.940 to these nuts. I knew one of those comments. I feel bad for laughing, but it isn't a twist plot

00:49:43.780 that you cannot not react to it. I mean, it's just, it comes out of nowhere. It's a nut infusion.

00:49:48.820 Yeah. N-O-P-H-U-K, scariest word in the American language. I'm from the government and I'm here

00:49:54.820 about your pets. I saw one clip just to YouTube short randomly a couple of weeks ago and it was

00:50:01.540 some sort of pest control people had gone into a pet shop and euthanized some snake against the

00:50:08.100 owner's knowledge. And then when he came back, they had like body cams on. When he came back,

00:50:13.380 they said, Oh, look, we've made a mistake. We've euthanized the wrong snake. And he said,

00:50:18.580 and it was a pregnant python or something. And he was losing his mind. He said that snake and its eggs

00:50:22.660 were going to be worth like $10,000 or something or thousands and thousands of dollars. Let alone

00:50:27.460 just the injustice of them coming in and euthanizing things without being jealous of

00:50:31.380 the snake's wisdom. And the people said, you know, we've made a mistake, but the state will pay for

00:50:36.180 it. Don't worry. The state will pay for it. Oh, right. Oh, well, it's all right then. Some taxpayers'

00:50:40.420 money will go to reimburse your mistake. It really annoys me that the state makes a mistake and then the

00:50:46.260 taxpayer has to pay for it. Like in the UK, for example, an NHS surgeon makes a mistake and then

00:50:52.500 then I have to pay for it. Oh, right. That seems fair. Not even the surgeon himself. He's fine.

00:51:00.500 Yeah, unfair. Take us away, Bo. Okay. So over the weekend,

00:51:05.940 the Conservative Party in Britain got a new leader.

00:51:08.580 Olukemi Olufanto Adegoke Badonyok. Bless you. Gesundheit. Yeah. He's the new leader of the

00:51:18.740 Conservative Party and His Majesty's opposition and could potentially be the Prime Minister.

00:51:25.380 Maybe. In a few years' time. I say potentially, potentially. Certainly the leader of the opposition

00:51:30.580 now is this quote-unquote first-generation Nigerian immigrant. I say quote-unquote because 0.95

00:51:39.380 I think there's some confusion. Jimmy Carr did this. He talked about how he was a first-generation

00:51:42.980 immigrant because his parents came over from Ireland. Well, that would make you a second 1.00

00:51:46.500 generation. I mean, Kimmy was born here. Wikipedia says she was born in Wimbledon, but nonetheless

00:51:51.540 she refers to herself, which we'll see later, she refers to herself as a first generation during

00:51:57.460 immigrants. So whether it's first or second generation, either way. Okay. So, let's play this clip. 0.69

00:52:04.180 Therefore, I give notice that Kimmy Badonyok is elected as leader of the Conservative and Unionist

00:52:10.900 Party. I welcome her to the stage and it's great. Isn't it great that we've got another female leader? 0.99

00:52:16.740 It's great that we're the first great party, the first party to have a black leader.

00:52:26.420 The time has come to tell the truth, to stand up. Shut up. Yeah, so it's literally the first thing 0.99

00:52:33.540 the boomers say. Oh, no, it's a woman, a black woman. That's what matters more than policy. 1.00

00:52:39.540 All clap for the black woman. That's what happens more than tradition and anything else. What matters

00:52:44.900 more than anything else is that she's a woman in black. So, and that is about the size of it,

00:52:50.420 isn't it? It speaks volumes about the Conservative Party membership, the rank and file membership,

00:52:56.020 because they had a choice between Robert Jenrick. He was coming out with some base things,

00:53:01.300 whether you believe whether it was all real or not. He was the first elected politician to mention the

00:53:07.060 word remigration, wasn't he? Yeah, he said some base things. He said that the civil service should

00:53:11.540 have a bit of a clean out and stuff. And yeah, he did say quite...

00:53:16.260 Not that we should necessarily take a politician looking to become party leader at face value,

00:53:21.860 of course. And I know you agree with me on that one. Just saying that to preface it, you know,

00:53:25.860 like we don't necessarily believe anything that comes out of a Conservative politician's mouth,

00:53:30.260 right? As I say, I don't think Jenrick, I've said before already, I was on record,

00:53:34.580 it's already saying I don't trust him, don't believe really what he was doing there.

00:53:41.140 But Trump in 2016, just saying crazy, it's kind of crazy out there, right wing things,

00:53:46.340 because that's the angle you would have needed to differentiate yourself from the,

00:53:50.180 from his opponents in a leadership race. It's sort of what you do. It didn't quite work for

00:53:57.300 Jenrick, because Badenock won. But you know, that's what the Tory membership

00:54:03.300 decided they wanted, seem happy with it. The question is how well that will play at the

00:54:08.660 next general election, whether the general public want their, the head of government to be

00:54:16.100 a Nigerian woman. Now, the question is, is she Nigerian or British? That's the big,

00:54:20.260 that's the big debate, isn't it? A lot of people say, of course, she's British, she's as British as

00:54:24.820 you or I as, or maybe not, maybe not Stelios, proudly Greek. No, she says she's as British as Churchill.

00:54:33.540 Um, well, we'll see later that she herself doesn't say that, but she's as British as Boris Johnson,

00:54:39.140 perhaps, who's not. I think a good way to talk about this issue is to

00:54:47.220 talk about the different categories in which these terms are used. Because for instance,

00:54:52.260 we could, we could have the ethnic category, the cultural category, we could have all sorts of

00:54:57.540 categories. So when people are saying I'm English, or I'm not English, or I'm British,

00:55:02.420 what kind of identity is it? Is it ethnic? Is it civic? Is it cultural? I think people are

00:55:08.900 throwing ways without qualifying, throwing words without qualifying what they mean.

00:55:13.940 That's why this discussion is just bound to lead to confusion and just, you know.

00:55:20.500 I think people's concern from the writer Badnock is that it seems to be that in politics,

00:55:26.820 just as much as in ordinary life, people's ethnic in-group informs how they treat other people.

00:55:34.180 And so having someone who is not, would not identify, you know, she says as much, right,

00:55:42.580 she describes herself as Nigerian with the native British population makes people concerned that

00:55:47.540 she's not going to have the interests of the native British population at heart.

00:55:51.380 And, you know, it is possible for someone to do that, but I think it makes the likelihood greater

00:55:58.020 if they are of the same people. And this is, of course, something that if you go outside of the

00:56:04.420 Anglosphere is commonly understood and is really uncontroversial and is supported by a wealth of

00:56:13.140 psychological literature that shows that people treat people who are genetically proximate to them

00:56:17.780 better than those who are more distant to them. That's uncontroversial. And people are worried

00:56:24.020 because, of course, in Britain, in the UK, the native population are second-class citizens to the new 0.97

00:56:31.540 client population that's been imported in.

00:56:33.540 Yeah, no, absolutely. As Stelio says, there's lots of different layers to the onion, right?

00:56:40.500 Yeah. The old onion comes up again.

00:56:42.980 And so it's just the ethnicity. I mean, she's Yoruba. Both her parents were Yoruba.

00:56:48.980 So ethnically, that's what she is. But some people, left-wingers usually, multiculturalists, 0.99

00:56:57.060 just sort of refuse to accept that. No, that doesn't matter. That makes no difference whatsoever.

00:57:02.260 She's just British. She was born in Wimbledon. She's got a British passport. That's it.

00:57:05.940 That's all there is to it. And other people saying, oh, no way. Actually, maybe that's not necessarily

00:57:11.940 the best way or the only way to look at it.

00:57:14.900 Because, of course, identity is not just a culture and values. There's an ethnic component to that.

00:57:21.380 And part of the reason that I wanted Kemi to win the Tory leadership is that I think people are well

00:57:26.420 aware of this now. This has gone on. The genie's out the bottle. You can't put colour blindness away

00:57:31.380 now. And so having Kemi as the leader is a step in the right direction for destroying the Tory party.

00:57:37.700 Because, with any luck, fewer and fewer British people, ethnic British people are going to vote 0.98

00:57:44.100 for someone who is from an out-group. It sounds a bit harsh, but that seems to be what's going on.

00:57:51.220 And people are fed up about it. Also, she's, of course, I don't mean to steal your thunder here,

00:57:55.620 very much pro-mass migration. And you saw with Rishi Sunak, who is Indian,

00:58:02.260 the major group that came into Britain were Indians. And they wanted more Indians, in fact.

00:58:07.140 Celebrating Indian holidays in number 10, sort of immediately, and all that sort of thing.

00:58:13.780 Can I ask something about this?

00:58:16.020 How can she be, on the one hand, pro-mass migration, and on the other,

00:58:21.620 go out and say, not all cultures are equal? Which is something I agree with. The latter part. 1.00

00:58:26.260 How can she go out and say this?

00:58:27.540 Well, it's just not consistent, is it?

00:58:29.780 It's just saying whatever you need to in any given interview to try and win.

00:58:35.220 And the Tories seem, want to communicate the idea that they want her in order to diffuse criticism

00:58:42.340 from the left.

00:58:43.620 Yeah.

00:58:44.180 Right, yeah, yeah. That's the major thing.

00:58:46.260 Tory party members are, you know, just terrified of ever being called a racist.

00:58:53.380 And they can say, look, our leader's a black woman, so I can't be racist, right?

00:58:56.340 They're judging themselves through the paradigm of the left, and that's how you lose.

00:59:00.180 If you accept the left's rhetoric and judge yourself by their standards,

00:59:03.780 then you've already accepted them and lost. But you've conceded ground to them by doing so.

00:59:08.500 So to make it clear that we're not just being complete, unnecessary, paranoid bigots,

00:59:14.580 we look at some of the evidence from Kemi herself. She considers herself African and

00:59:21.380 a Nigerian and all those sorts of things. So first of all, just a few headlines from

00:59:24.980 the mainstream media. The Guardian there just saying, you know, revelling in her win.

00:59:31.460 Sky News. Who is Kemi Badenok? It's a bit late to be asking that now, isn't it?

00:59:35.860 Who is the Tory leader from the BBC?

00:59:40.660 I like how it says, what does she stand for? Shows a picture of her sitting down.

00:59:45.060 Yeah.

00:59:45.380 I don't know. Yeah.

00:59:46.740 Just tickled me.

00:59:48.820 The Telegraph.

00:59:50.980 Childhood in Nigeria to leader of the Conservative Party.

00:59:54.580 It's a story of the average Brit in that.

00:59:56.180 Yeah. Great British story.

00:59:58.580 Yeah.

01:00:00.180 I was living in my African commune.

01:00:02.180 Writers. It's the first black woman to lead the UK Conservatives. That's the main thing, 1.00

01:00:07.620 right? That's what they're, that's what they're so happy about. Doesn't matter what,

01:00:13.140 where her mind is or what policies she's going to push or anything like that. Don't worry about

01:00:17.940 any of that. Again, Politico, it goes on and on. But so here's, here's one tweet from her,

01:00:26.420 where Chaka Amuna. This was 2016, by the way.

01:00:30.340 Yeah, this is really old. But she says, sorry to spoil your fun, Chaka, but the first Nigerian 0.96

01:00:36.180 is already on the London Assembly and she's conservative. 0.80

01:00:39.700 Oh, stunning and brave.

01:00:40.900 So referring to herself there, when people say, if someone on the right describes her

01:00:45.620 as a Nigerian and they say, that's beyond the pale, you can't say that she's as British as 0.78

01:00:52.180 Churchill or whatever. Well, there you go, in her own words.

01:00:57.540 I mean, right there, it's just a slam dunk. When, to win an argument, to say that she'll do that,

01:01:02.340 but then go on when she's speaking to Laura Kunisberg or something. Now she would say,

01:01:07.460 good knows what she would say. Politicians say what they think people want to hear,

01:01:12.500 my goodness. Pinch me. But there you go, that's just a slam dunk right there, isn't it?

01:01:17.540 So here's a clip. I think we've played it before, but we'll play it again.

01:01:20.980 Everyone needs to hear it. Thank you, Mr Speaker. As a first generation

01:01:24.420 immigrant, can I welcome the Home Secretary statement, which I feel this immigration white 1.00

01:01:29.220 paper is a move from the 20th century to a much better future immigration system. In particular,

01:01:34.500 I'd like to thank the Home Secretary for removing the annual limits on work visas and also on

01:01:38.900 international students, both of which I lobbied for on behalf of the Wellcome Sanger Institute and

01:01:43.220 Anglia Ruskin University, which served my... Oh, well done. Oh, well done. Removing the caps on

01:01:48.180 immigration from a first generation, in her own words, first generation immigrant. So brilliant.

01:01:53.700 Not just supporting it as well, she actively lobbied for it. So she seems to have an ideological

01:01:58.820 position in support of mass migration. So again, it's not just pure paranoia, racist paranoia from

01:02:07.620 people that have got concerns. It's right there in, you know, it's a matter of record.

01:02:12.260 Is she said it herself? Yeah. She said it herself in black and white, in an old tweet there.

01:02:19.220 Just Nigerian. Okay. 0.99

01:02:22.420 Here pointed out that she's, as her time in government has made sure that business and trade 0.98

01:02:29.460 with Nigeria goes ahead, just specifically. So again, the idea that she wouldn't have any bias towards

01:02:38.100 her, at least her parents' country of origin. Again, it's just not up for debate. It's just,

01:02:45.380 again, it's just there as a matter of record.

01:02:46.900 It's not that I'm necessarily against, you know, trading with people, but it does seem

01:02:50.900 that the fact she took an active role in this, I know she was business and trade secretary at the

01:02:56.500 time, but is it not a conflict of interest there to do these sorts of things? You know, if Stelios was,

01:03:05.460 you know, the dictator of Britain for whatever reason, and then all of a sudden, all we're

01:03:09.940 allowed to serve is Giros. I mean, I'd be pretty happy. It's nice. But we would be asking questions 0.99

01:03:15.220 about... You know I love fish and chips.

01:03:17.140 Yeah. Stelios, you're all right. Don't worry. I got you. But we'd be asking questions like,

01:03:22.100 well, hang on a minute. What's going on here? Why, why are you erring on this side? Oh,

01:03:26.660 wait, hang on. We know why. And it's silly that people are just blind. It's okay to be from these

01:03:34.180 various cultures, but don't pretend to be something you're not. It's silly. 0.83

01:03:40.260 Yeah. And so all sorts of people jumping on the bandwagon. Ex-Home Secretary James Cleverley is 0.61

01:03:46.260 obviously looking for a place in the Shadow Cabinet. He's loving her win, saying that male,

01:03:52.420 pale and stale, that Labour are male, pale and stale. Just an outright sort of racist and misandrist 0.97

01:03:59.540 thing. Just hating on white men, isn't it, really? Yeah. Yeah. And so that Josh Firm off Lotus Eaters 0.98

01:04:08.740 said clowns, browns and pronouns. It's not bad, is it? Whoever said that, they've got a good sense 0.99

01:04:14.420 of humour. The Firminator off that Lotus Eaters channel. Okay. So the big question is,

01:04:23.940 is, you know, will people really vote? Will the main majority of people vote for the toys at the

01:04:31.220 next general election? Oh, there's one other from The Independent that she made a rape joke on social 1.00

01:04:35.300 media ages ago. That's terrible. Anyone who makes jokes about that sort of thing, that's awful.

01:04:42.500 Never, never again. No, I'm joking, of course. She said something about the drum and beer rape

01:04:47.860 incident. I don't even really know what that is, nor care. So the big question is, how will the Tories

01:04:55.540 do at the next general election? I'm hoping for sort of truly zero seats next time. I don't think

01:05:01.140 it's going to help them, is it? Because migration was the key issue of the last election and this is

01:05:08.020 completely tone deaf to the views of the electorate, isn't it? Yeah. Electing a mass migration candidate. 1.00

01:05:13.140 So it's going to, it's basically just, do you want red, yellow or blue progressivism?

01:05:21.620 You know, you've got all these different flavours, yeah. Teal, there's the teal option.

01:05:25.860 I think they're centrist at this point.

01:05:29.860 Yeah. Well, yeah. So, I mean, Rishi was sort of roundly rejected really, wasn't he?

01:05:34.820 Essentially. Well, it was the worst defeat ever, is it? In centuries? At least.

01:05:41.780 Or one of them, certainly. At least since the 19th century.

01:05:45.380 And people say, sort of the Tory boy contingent, that the always Tory people say,

01:05:50.100 oh, we're just going to keep giving government back to Labour, unless you let the Tories back

01:05:54.260 into power. Well, I'm of the mind of, so be it, because there's no real difference.

01:05:59.140 Don't see any real difference between somebody like Starmer or if Starmer is removed for somebody like

01:06:04.900 Lisa Nandy or Angela Rayner or something. I don't really see any real difference between them

01:06:10.100 and a bad or not government. They're going to be doing essentially the same things.

01:06:14.900 So, no, I would see zero seats expanded to include both Labour and Tory.

01:06:20.420 Hear, hear.

01:06:21.860 You know, I'm not up for, I'm not up for getting Kimmy in, in order simply to remove Starmer.

01:06:30.180 I don't, I don't see that dynamic as a win in any real way.

01:06:33.300 It's like replacing a scorpion with a deadly spider, you know, both just as dangerous. Sorry.

01:06:39.220 No, what I was going to say is that she seems to be giving entirely mixed signals about where she

01:06:45.380 stands on issues about multiculturalism. You can't be pro-open borders and against multiculturalism.

01:06:53.460 It doesn't work.

01:06:54.020 Yeah, yeah, sure.

01:06:55.780 This is the main contradiction. Now, I mean, it's too early to tell how this is going to happen.

01:07:01.540 I think most probably if that was close to elections, it would probably backfire.

01:07:09.940 But I don't know now because it's, we have four and a half years at least.

01:07:15.220 Yeah, still a long way to go.

01:07:16.580 We really don't know.

01:07:17.220 We really don't know.

01:07:18.260 I did see Zahra Sultana calling her far right. 0.87

01:07:22.340 I actually replied to that by saying, if Kemi Badenoch, who's pro-open borders, is far right,

01:07:29.460 what does that make me? Because I'm against that.

01:07:33.620 Ultra mega giga far right.

01:07:35.620 Yeah, she said Kemi Badenoch is one of the most nasty and divisive figures in British politics. 1.00

01:07:40.500 That's me.

01:07:41.140 Downplaying racism to Islamophobia. 0.96

01:07:43.380 I don't see how she can be those things because she's black and a woman. 1.00

01:07:49.620 Yeah, you can't be nasty and divisive if you have those two demographic criteria. 0.97

01:07:54.020 Didn't Zahra Sultana get the memo? 0.99

01:07:57.060 I don't know. But I mean, anyone who plays into multiculturalism is divisive the way I see it.

01:08:03.060 Oh yeah, definitely.

01:08:03.620 Anyone who even hints that they are positive towards multiculturalism, you know, in the abstract,

01:08:11.780 without ever talking about which cultures we're talking about, yeah, they are divisive.

01:08:17.780 I mean, I'm pretty sure hopefully our opinion and views and take an angle are quite clear,

01:08:23.220 but to give Badenoch some credit, some small credit where it's due.

01:08:27.540 When they were in government, she was quite strong on sort of the trans kids

01:08:33.220 thing and women's toilets, unisex toilets and stuff like that. 1.00

01:08:36.420 She was anti-woke, wasn't she?

01:08:38.900 Give her credit where it's due, right?

01:08:40.500 In that small corner of baseness.

01:08:43.700 She was strong on that.

01:08:45.460 But I think most people certainly, I care almost nothing for that and I care about the borders 0.72

01:08:50.900 and our actual demographic replacement on the broadest stage.

01:08:56.020 And on that, I just don't trust her. I don't trust her to do the right to keep us safe

01:09:02.420 or to re-migrate the few million people that are here that shouldn't be.

01:09:05.380 I've just got no faith that she would do that.

01:09:10.500 So, well, neither Labour nor Tory will be getting my vote, and obviously not the Lib Dems.

01:09:17.620 Agreed, yeah.

01:09:18.340 So, we'll see what happens.

01:09:22.900 All right, there's that.

01:09:24.500 All right, we've got a couple of comments. Would you like me to read them for you, Bo?

01:09:27.540 Yeah, if you would, if you wouldn't mind.

01:09:29.460 Of course.

01:09:30.500 Keith Kaiser says,

01:09:31.560 I don't know why I keep on calling him Yenrik.

01:09:35.380 Calling him, it's because his name looks Scandinavian or something, with the jade, isn't it?

01:09:42.100 Yenrik was the lie the Tories pushed to pretend to be more right-wing to claw back voters, we saw for it, 0.79

01:09:48.000 and they bailed and chose the black woman. 1.00

01:09:50.200 Expect Reform UK to win the next election.

01:09:53.420 Well, it'd be nice to see, wouldn't it?

01:09:55.340 I mean, it would be a rightward shift in the Overton window,

01:09:59.360 which is entirely occupied by the far left at the minute, including the Tories.

01:10:05.380 Inexio says,

01:10:08.300 The magic Wimbledon soil must have made her ethnically British, according to leftists.

01:10:11.880 She's already shown she doesn't have the British at heart, 0.94

01:10:14.620 given her voting history in Parliament on immigration.

01:10:17.840 Hear, hear.

01:10:19.460 Right, take us away with the video comments, Samson.

01:10:22.080 Regarding the longboats I brought up at Ladsour,

01:10:25.520 yes, that is a real thing.

01:10:27.520 In the city of Roskilde, here in Denmark,

01:10:29.880 they build longboats like the Vikings did, meaning no technology is allowed.

01:10:34.840 Then every spring, they sell one of the longboats,

01:10:37.720 again the old-fashioned work, to Dublin,

01:10:39.920 and it is then an exhibition at Dublin Museum all summer,

01:10:43.420 before making the voyage to Denmark at fall again.

01:10:46.000 And they actually have been doing this in the 70s.

01:10:48.620 It's pretty cool.

01:10:50.420 That is cool.

01:10:51.280 That is very cool.

01:10:52.600 Really good.

01:10:52.980 They do it every year, did you say?

01:10:54.260 Mm-hmm.

01:10:54.820 New boat every year.

01:10:55.980 That's incredible.

01:10:56.780 And to go from Denmark to Dublin,

01:10:59.980 I assume around the top,

01:11:01.220 they might go down through the Channel,

01:11:02.460 but I imagine...

01:11:02.920 Going through the North Seas.

01:11:03.480 ...over the top by the Shetlands and the Orkneys.

01:11:05.340 Yeah, that's some serious seas.

01:11:08.000 It's scary.

01:11:08.740 Yeah.

01:11:09.280 Yeah, I wouldn't want to do that.

01:11:10.800 ...ocean.

01:11:11.360 Yeah.

01:11:11.740 Bloody hell, the North Sea is no joke.

01:11:13.400 But that's really cool.

01:11:16.140 They look very, very similar to the boat,

01:11:20.640 or the outline, really, of the boat

01:11:22.420 that was found at Sutton Hoo.

01:11:25.480 It does.

01:11:26.280 It's very, very similar to the Sutton Hoo thing,

01:11:28.260 which is incredible.

01:11:29.820 They're very impressive boats as well,

01:11:31.300 particularly when they were sort of contemporary,

01:11:34.460 when they had...

01:11:35.320 Was it a really long plank in the middle

01:11:37.300 that bent so the ship didn't destroy in rough waves?

01:11:41.120 It's all very clever.

01:11:43.400 So if you've navigated the North Sea

01:11:44.780 in a really shallow draft thing like that,

01:11:48.840 that's ballsy.

01:11:50.280 Mm-hmm.

01:11:50.600 It's really ballsy.

01:11:51.480 In completely fine weather, okay, fine.

01:11:54.380 But in any sort of chop,

01:11:56.100 I wouldn't want to be...

01:11:57.280 I wouldn't want to do it.

01:11:58.660 I've gone sailing in clement weather,

01:12:00.860 and even with small waves,

01:12:03.500 you know, it can throw you off a little bit.

01:12:05.760 I mean, I'm not the best sailor going,

01:12:07.920 but still.

01:12:09.120 Yeah.

01:12:09.540 That's really cool.

01:12:10.140 Well, I've been hearing a lot about

01:12:13.720 how we shouldn't bring up voter fraud

01:12:15.460 because it'll suppress conservative turnout,

01:12:17.900 but I'm not sure that's the case

01:12:19.460 because I've talked to a lot of normie cons,

01:12:21.820 and they're not really that concerned

01:12:23.500 about the fraud side of things.

01:12:25.240 Like, they seem to just think

01:12:26.940 taking part in any form of local politics

01:12:29.640 is like a deeply sinful interest,

01:12:31.880 and this is weird

01:12:33.460 because they're, like, really big on democracy

01:12:35.520 and think that it's the greatest thing ever.

01:12:37.200 So it's kind of odd

01:12:38.420 that they refuse to participate in any way.

01:12:40.760 I'm kind of curious

01:12:41.420 where this whole worldview has even come from.

01:12:45.020 I've not even heard that, to be honest.

01:12:47.420 Everyone I've heard from

01:12:48.580 has just been saying,

01:12:49.580 yeah, you should go out and vote.

01:12:52.160 I believe that.

01:12:52.920 I haven't completely given up on the process,

01:12:54.500 even if it is fractured

01:12:55.640 and, well, broken.

01:12:58.000 I think it's throwing the baby out

01:12:59.740 with the bathwater at this stage.

01:13:02.140 Again, to go to the Roman Republic 1.00

01:13:03.900 to completely abandon it,

01:13:06.040 and it's just street gangs.

01:13:08.940 Like, government by mob.

01:13:12.020 I think we're still a long way from that.

01:13:15.540 And so I wouldn't...

01:13:16.420 But there is a contingent of people,

01:13:18.460 you must know them,

01:13:19.620 that just say,

01:13:20.160 there's no political way out of this.

01:13:22.600 People say that on Twitter, don't they?

01:13:23.780 Well, yeah, they're basically throwing it

01:13:26.200 before they've even had a chance.

01:13:28.660 And I also think that voting

01:13:30.100 purely on the basis of

01:13:31.700 sticking your middle finger up

01:13:32.900 to the regime is good.

01:13:35.580 You know, I like to signal

01:13:36.780 that I don't comply

01:13:38.060 and vote for, you know,

01:13:41.240 the party that is most out-grouped to them.

01:13:44.500 I mean, I think that,

01:13:46.540 especially when we're talking about republics,

01:13:49.540 for a republic to go on,

01:13:51.460 it must seem to people

01:13:52.940 as if it's about to be destroyed.

01:13:55.360 Because you want people to be vigilant.

01:13:59.380 It's easier to have a vigilant cabinet

01:14:02.240 when you have a monarchy, let's say.

01:14:03.800 But if you want a republic

01:14:04.740 which, you know, has its pros and cons,

01:14:07.720 you need a vigilant population.

01:14:10.340 And most people need to think

01:14:12.040 that it's about to be destroyed

01:14:13.420 for it to carry on.

01:14:14.920 Otherwise, they're not acting

01:14:16.080 as if they have to be acting

01:14:18.040 for the republic to continue.

01:14:19.680 And I think that's also that...

01:14:21.760 Machiavelli says something like that.

01:14:23.300 He says that if you look

01:14:24.300 at the fuss of the Roman Republic,

01:14:29.400 you may have thought

01:14:30.180 that it was going to be destroyed any minute.

01:14:32.460 But that's actually what kept it going.

01:14:35.740 Didn't Cicero say something

01:14:36.820 along those lines as well?

01:14:38.160 I think so as well.

01:14:39.040 Yeah, I think so.

01:14:40.140 Yeah.

01:14:41.220 The thing is,

01:14:42.700 I feel like it is true

01:14:44.960 that democracy belongs

01:14:48.480 to those who turn up.

01:14:50.080 Yeah.

01:14:50.500 And if you just opt out,

01:14:52.900 if you just don't turn up,

01:14:54.560 well, then you've done

01:14:55.660 your enemy's work for them

01:14:56.980 because they don't care.

01:14:58.340 Like someone like Starmer,

01:15:00.020 for example,

01:15:00.440 will form a government

01:15:01.060 on 17% of the vote or something.

01:15:03.340 He doesn't care.

01:15:04.440 It doesn't matter.

01:15:05.140 He's got a mandate in his mind

01:15:06.760 or has technically.

01:15:07.880 Well, the best thing.

01:15:08.300 He's got a mandate.

01:15:08.740 He doesn't care that you didn't turn up,

01:15:10.440 that your protest

01:15:11.160 was to just disengage from it all.

01:15:12.700 He doesn't care.

01:15:13.340 He's going to form a government anyway.

01:15:15.240 Yeah.

01:15:15.920 And also, I mean,

01:15:16.620 if you don't show up

01:15:17.660 to vote for your candidate

01:15:19.800 and against the one you think

01:15:21.280 is going to be destructive,

01:15:23.940 you sort of lose

01:15:25.260 the right to complain

01:15:28.500 much about it afterwards.

01:15:29.940 I mean, everyone has a right to complain.

01:15:31.580 Yeah, that's not exactly what I meant.

01:15:33.140 I know what you're saying.

01:15:33.880 It's just, okay, yeah,

01:15:34.920 you are complaining,

01:15:35.840 but what did you do?

01:15:36.640 Yeah.

01:15:37.640 It's like all bark

01:15:38.740 and no biting.

01:15:40.400 Yeah.

01:15:40.780 All talk and no action.

01:15:41.900 Also, boomers tend to turn out and vote

01:15:44.760 and the one thing in the UK

01:15:46.840 that seems to get protected

01:15:49.340 from getting cuts to it

01:15:52.500 is pensions.

01:15:53.640 You know, pensions are sort of

01:15:54.820 the golden goose

01:15:55.940 because all the people

01:15:58.200 that receive it

01:15:58.880 go out and vote

01:15:59.600 because they've got nothing better to do.

01:16:01.260 I think Bo and I

01:16:02.180 have an analogy to doomerism,

01:16:04.300 which I think you also have.

01:16:05.680 Yeah, so I mean,

01:16:06.600 we're the anti-doomers. 0.97

01:16:07.900 I try to be.

01:16:08.900 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:16:09.440 I'm very cynical about the future,

01:16:12.220 but I just don't think

01:16:12.920 we should give up

01:16:13.700 because I think 0.87

01:16:14.640 Yeah, I think cowards give up 0.84

01:16:16.880 and that if you 0.96

01:16:18.700 if you surrender your own homeland

01:16:20.940 because, oh, you don't feel like it

01:16:22.360 or I don't want to turn out

01:16:23.160 election day.

01:16:24.220 Or it's already lost. 0.99

01:16:25.760 It's pathetic, yeah. 1.00

01:16:27.180 Beyond contempt. 0.99

01:16:27.940 We've got some messages quickly

01:16:29.320 that I'm going to do

01:16:29.820 before I forget them

01:16:30.600 before we go on to the video comment.

01:16:33.340 So,

01:16:33.960 Tories won't have anywhere to go now.

01:16:36.760 No more first black woman's secretary 0.99

01:16:38.360 of submarine basket weaving 0.98

01:16:39.920 or first immigrant witch smeller 0.89

01:16:42.620 per suv...

01:16:45.560 per suvent?

01:16:47.640 They'll have to find

01:16:48.780 someone else to keep them busy.

01:16:51.140 That's true.

01:16:51.940 They're going to be...

01:16:52.560 They're going to have

01:16:53.360 the first Sri Lankan

01:16:56.600 to hop on one leg

01:16:57.540 or something eventually.

01:16:59.520 Bold Eagle 1787

01:17:00.820 says,

01:17:02.780 The new boss

01:17:03.380 is like the old boss.

01:17:04.400 Same thing, different day.

01:17:05.360 Remember, no choices.

01:17:06.540 The only choice for the uni party

01:17:07.980 and the controlled opposition

01:17:09.560 is much the same.

01:17:10.700 Cough, reform, cough.

01:17:12.320 Yeah, I've got that same cough,

01:17:13.900 I think.

01:17:14.400 It's going around at the minute,

01:17:15.500 I think.

01:17:16.940 Ref K says,

01:17:18.000 I know it's a small donation

01:17:19.960 but please,

01:17:21.080 friends,

01:17:21.780 sign this petition.

01:17:24.200 I can't see the petition.

01:17:26.060 Samson,

01:17:26.440 would you be able to pull up

01:17:27.420 the petition for us?

01:17:29.400 Just so we can have a look

01:17:30.220 at what it is.

01:17:36.780 Oh, it's the

01:17:37.780 British farming one.

01:17:39.740 Yeah, that's a good one

01:17:40.680 to show actually.

01:17:41.820 So, if we could pull that up

01:17:42.780 on screen, Samson,

01:17:44.020 and just show it to people.

01:17:46.200 Oh, it's showing that thing.

01:17:48.600 So, it's back British farming.

01:17:50.160 So, yes,

01:17:51.260 I think that that's a good idea.

01:17:52.820 The new budget actually

01:17:53.860 introduced lots of

01:17:55.320 harsh measures,

01:17:56.460 particularly on inheritance

01:17:57.280 tax for farmers

01:17:58.280 and they're having a harsh time.

01:18:00.640 So, I think that

01:18:01.340 that sort of thing

01:18:01.980 is very important.

01:18:03.500 Away from Eve says,

01:18:04.440 Australia voting over 18

01:18:06.160 is compulsory.

01:18:07.280 Yeah, I don't believe

01:18:07.820 in compulsory voting.

01:18:08.860 I think it's

01:18:09.460 it's very symbolic

01:18:11.920 of the prison island

01:18:13.140 that they once were.

01:18:16.600 But, thank you

01:18:17.620 for the comment.

01:18:19.420 But, anyway. 1.00

01:18:21.060 Russian garbage human. 1.00

01:18:21.900 None of your heroes 1.00

01:18:30.440 are gone

01:18:31.340 Someone's got to

01:18:33.540 No one left to

01:18:34.440 Break out the light

01:18:36.580 And I know

01:18:40.700 We've got to

01:18:41.680 A darkness

01:18:42.640 We're back at the sun

01:18:44.500 For another hero

01:18:46.800 Come

01:18:47.800 How was it possible

01:18:52.920 that you got

01:18:53.520 that footage

01:18:54.800 from the future?

01:18:56.940 That real footage?

01:18:58.220 Yeah, that was definitely

01:18:59.020 a real video, wasn't it?

01:19:00.800 I do find it funny

01:19:01.660 how it must be

01:19:02.560 if you've got 0.82

01:19:03.520 Trump derangement syndrome 0.73

01:19:04.600 it must be so

01:19:05.960 and things like that

01:19:06.620 must be so frustrating

01:19:08.040 and annoying.

01:19:08.720 It must be so annoying

01:19:10.060 because the left

01:19:11.160 don't really do that

01:19:11.720 There's no real equivalent

01:19:12.500 of stuff like that

01:19:13.160 with Biden

01:19:14.300 or Gavin Newsom

01:19:15.140 or Kamala, are there?

01:19:15.940 But if there were

01:19:16.580 I would find it

01:19:18.020 quite annoying

01:19:18.440 Actually, I find it

01:19:19.040 quite funny

01:19:19.460 It wouldn't sort of

01:19:20.980 derange

01:19:21.300 You're really cringy, yeah

01:19:22.460 Yeah, but I can see

01:19:25.040 how people on the left

01:19:28.280 find that maddening

01:19:29.960 That's true, yeah

01:19:32.460 Samson has pointed out

01:19:33.760 that the Skibbity Biden

01:19:34.880 thing on Colbert

01:19:35.680 was similar

01:19:36.240 and that was really cringe

01:19:37.780 Do you remember

01:19:38.880 when James Corden

01:19:40.300 did a thing

01:19:40.840 about how great

01:19:41.680 taking the vax was

01:19:43.580 and he was the Dr. Fauci

01:19:46.300 That song about Fauci

01:19:47.720 I do support

01:19:48.420 James Corden

01:19:49.160 taking the vaccine

01:19:50.040 There was that song

01:19:52.460 all about Dr. Fauci

01:19:53.560 how great he was

01:19:54.140 and stuff

01:19:54.420 but I didn't find that

01:19:55.360 like, it didn't derange me

01:19:56.460 I was just

01:19:57.240 sort of like a

01:19:57.940 you know, it was like

01:19:59.940 the reaction was more like

01:20:01.700 almost scoffing

01:20:03.600 laughing

01:20:03.920 like, really?

01:20:04.900 Is this real?

01:20:05.720 Really?

01:20:06.880 Doesn't really make you angry

01:20:08.080 I feel condescended

01:20:10.060 a little bit

01:20:10.640 but that's it

01:20:11.280 Yeah

01:20:11.680 Okay

01:20:12.320 Happy High Trust Society

01:20:16.060 Halloween

01:20:16.520 My town is tiny

01:20:18.280 It's only about

01:20:19.100 five blocks

01:20:19.840 from start to end

01:20:20.760 and every Halloween

01:20:21.880 the volunteer fire department

01:20:23.540 shuts down Main Street

01:20:24.760 Everyone dresses up

01:20:26.560 everyone

01:20:27.020 and the kids

01:20:29.240 get jacked up on sugar

01:20:30.340 and run around

01:20:31.340 and have free reign

01:20:32.640 of town

01:20:33.360 for about three hours

01:20:34.580 It's actually

01:20:36.160 my favourite time of year

01:20:37.420 It's actually really nice

01:20:41.040 Yeah

01:20:41.580 Very cool

01:20:42.160 that you can have

01:20:42.880 a community like that

01:20:44.060 I did notice

01:20:45.640 it wasn't all that diverse

01:20:47.080 I noticed

01:20:47.800 Yeah

01:20:48.280 Strange that

01:20:49.780 I want to thank

01:20:50.660 Texas Gal

01:20:51.280 for checking out

01:20:52.220 how I was

01:20:52.940 when I saw

01:20:53.480 the Arnie post

01:20:54.520 supporting Kamala Harris

01:20:56.560 Yeah

01:20:57.300 Stelios was

01:20:58.360 in despair

01:20:59.620 I saw him rocking

01:21:00.820 in the other room

01:21:01.620 back and forth

01:21:02.380 It's okay

01:21:03.680 You'll get better

01:21:05.340 It'll be fine

01:21:06.460 That Texas gal 0.99

01:21:07.260 is great

01:21:07.720 and I'm really jealous

01:21:08.880 that she gets to live

01:21:10.460 somewhere like that

01:21:11.400 Yeah

01:21:11.800 If you look at where

01:21:13.680 we live

01:21:14.240 My goodness

01:21:15.220 That's the joker there

01:21:17.780 Yeah

01:21:18.280 I was thinking of you

01:21:19.220 the whole time

01:21:19.900 Oh no

01:21:20.980 Why aren't you embarrassed

01:21:22.780 for saying that

01:21:23.740 I'm not ashamed

01:21:24.480 Okay

01:21:25.240 Alright

01:21:26.260 Josh comes out as gay

01:21:27.560 and in love with Harry

01:21:28.680 on this episode

01:21:29.560 of the Lotus Eater

01:21:30.320 She's got your scoops here

01:21:31.680 I'm really happy for you

01:21:33.340 I guess it helps

01:21:35.220 to have something

01:21:35.960 to come back to

01:21:37.040 What do you mean

01:21:38.120 to come back to

01:21:39.080 This is just a fling

01:21:40.680 Bacarian 0.99

01:21:41.080 I'm using you

01:21:42.540 for your body 0.97

01:21:43.400 You're so mean

01:21:45.380 And I'm okay with that

01:21:47.920 What's that from

01:21:52.180 I don't know

01:21:52.500 I'm not sure

01:21:53.180 what the reference is

01:21:54.280 but it's funny

01:21:54.880 and well put together

01:21:56.860 so thank you

01:21:57.560 Many are frustrated

01:22:00.520 by the madness

01:22:01.140 of the modern condition

01:22:02.020 and I sometimes hear

01:22:02.960 people asking

01:22:03.540 how to rise above it

01:22:04.680 Education is a good start

01:22:06.320 but exposing oneself

01:22:07.320 to culture

01:22:07.880 is far more important

01:22:08.980 particularly eschewing

01:22:10.100 the excuse of being

01:22:10.940 an atheist

01:22:11.460 to instead engage

01:22:12.540 with the foundational stories

01:22:13.660 from the Bible

01:22:14.260 that underpin our culture

01:22:15.580 However most important

01:22:17.100 of all

01:22:17.480 particularly for young men

01:22:18.640 is to learn manners

01:22:19.820 Although written in 1897

01:22:21.720 and covering topics

01:22:22.600 as out of date

01:22:23.280 as attending balls

01:22:24.200 nevertheless

01:22:24.800 there are pointers

01:22:25.660 in this book

01:22:26.280 that show how manners

01:22:27.180 improve men's temper

01:22:28.300 and sociability

01:22:29.320 Yeah I mean

01:22:31.700 I'm very big on this thing

01:22:33.480 we've had quite a few

01:22:34.880 conversations about it

01:22:35.800 haven't we

01:22:36.160 Some early contemplations

01:22:37.260 about exactly that

01:22:38.740 manners

01:22:39.160 Yeah I think it's very important

01:22:41.020 I think that it's one of those

01:22:42.160 things that is dying

01:22:43.080 in our society

01:22:44.080 and it's a shame

01:22:45.180 because you do still

01:22:46.640 come across people

01:22:47.360 who are very well managed

01:22:48.420 and sometimes it takes you

01:22:49.300 by surprise

01:22:49.800 particularly when I'm in Swindon

01:22:51.140 and I hold a door

01:22:52.240 for someone

01:22:52.520 and they'll say

01:22:53.220 oh thank you very much

01:22:54.200 I'm just like

01:22:54.760 oh that was nice

01:22:55.520 that was pleasant

01:22:56.200 you've made my day

01:22:56.800 a little bit better

01:22:57.480 it costs nothing

01:22:58.640 just to be a good person

01:22:59.840 and I think more people

01:23:01.060 should do it

01:23:01.580 yeah I agree

01:23:02.080 Holding doors open for people

01:23:03.140 seems that

01:23:03.940 first generation immigrants

01:23:05.180 from the subcontinent

01:23:06.000 don't do that

01:23:06.620 I've got no concept of that

01:23:07.580 Oh Indians look at you 1.00

01:23:08.580 suspiciously

01:23:09.320 it's like

01:23:09.960 hang on a minute

01:23:11.000 Indian

01:23:11.520 you're in my country

01:23:12.860 you're following my laws

01:23:13.900 you know

01:23:14.480 don't you have an ancestral memory

01:23:16.040 when my ancestors governed yours

01:23:17.640 surely you should know

01:23:18.380 to respect your betters

01:23:19.400 sorry

01:23:19.980 I've lived amongst Indians

01:23:22.080 for four years

01:23:22.800 I am beyond Stockholm Syndrome

01:23:24.980 and I'm just outright hostile

01:23:26.860 yeah

01:23:27.900 like there were some Indians

01:23:29.400 stood in the way

01:23:30.100 of a supermarket entrance

01:23:31.620 and they were just stood there

01:23:33.360 blocking anyone from entering

01:23:34.820 and I had to just barge through them

01:23:36.220 I'm just like

01:23:36.540 I'm not going to treat you

01:23:37.360 like a normal person anymore 0.98

01:23:38.620 you're incapable

01:23:39.860 of being considerate 0.54

01:23:41.500 so I'm going to treat you 0.99

01:23:42.240 like the dirt you are 0.93

01:23:43.240 sorry

01:23:44.780 angry

01:23:45.460 on the last lads hour

01:23:47.880 when I talked about

01:23:48.680 sort of an Anglo-futurism

01:23:51.100 I mentioned

01:23:51.920 two of the important traits

01:23:54.080 would be

01:23:54.740 hard working

01:23:55.940 and polite

01:23:56.580 and if I could add

01:23:58.400 honesty to that

01:23:59.360 I mean that's what would make

01:24:01.100 a decent society

01:24:02.180 how Britain used to be

01:24:03.600 hard working

01:24:04.300 polite and honest

01:24:05.580 you know

01:24:06.460 the idea of the shopping cart

01:24:07.700 whether you take

01:24:08.180 the shopping cart back

01:24:09.200 whether you're just

01:24:10.260 honest

01:24:10.980 when there's no

01:24:11.680 there's no need to be

01:24:13.060 there's no sort of

01:24:14.420 Damocles hanging over your head

01:24:15.660 no one's

01:24:16.580 you're not going to

01:24:17.540 you're not going to

01:24:19.160 lose anything in any way

01:24:20.640 if you're not just honest

01:24:21.620 no one's looking

01:24:22.260 but you are anyway

01:24:23.020 that

01:24:23.480 manners

01:24:24.720 being polite

01:24:25.580 and not being lazy

01:24:27.420 and indolent

01:24:27.920 working hard

01:24:28.520 then

01:24:29.280 most problems are over

01:24:31.380 in that you can have

01:24:32.160 a high trust

01:24:32.800 civil society

01:24:33.680 well when I was taught

01:24:34.700 as a child

01:24:35.240 it was just

01:24:36.040 you do these things

01:24:37.460 or your civilisation

01:24:38.740 does not survive

01:24:39.680 you put the shopping cart back

01:24:41.620 because that is how

01:24:42.900 you maintain

01:24:43.500 Western civilisation

01:24:44.400 it's a sort of

01:24:45.580 meta-commentary

01:24:46.460 on all of the things

01:24:47.680 that need to be done

01:24:48.360 to preserve civilisation

01:24:49.400 it was explicitly taught to me

01:24:50.800 it was

01:24:51.280 you know

01:24:52.000 why you do it

01:24:54.140 why it's important

01:24:55.120 why it matters

01:24:56.080 how it benefits people

01:24:57.600 all of it was communicated

01:24:59.100 explicitly

01:24:59.720 it's not like it's a mystery

01:25:01.080 it's just something

01:25:01.640 that we stop doing

01:25:02.600 sorry Stelio

01:25:04.280 I just wanted to say

01:25:05.680 that I think manners

01:25:06.840 are just

01:25:07.720 of paramount importance

01:25:09.320 and

01:25:10.220 it infuriates me

01:25:12.080 when I see people

01:25:12.960 just

01:25:13.400 act

01:25:14.560 in a way

01:25:15.580 that I consider

01:25:16.320 completely uncivilised

01:25:17.560 for instance

01:25:18.140 I'll just

01:25:18.700 just give you

01:25:19.740 a very quick

01:25:20.500 example

01:25:21.100 I was in a very

01:25:22.440 beautiful island

01:25:23.320 in Greece

01:25:24.320 in summer

01:25:25.320 we went

01:25:26.220 it was just

01:25:27.380 beautiful

01:25:27.820 and it was

01:25:29.000 a magnificent scenery

01:25:30.480 there was

01:25:31.200 there a lady 1.00

01:25:31.860 with

01:25:32.660 I mean

01:25:32.980 obviously

01:25:33.460 she wasn't a lady 1.00

01:25:34.600 but she was there

01:25:35.580 and she

01:25:36.500 her

01:25:37.280 son was drinking

01:25:39.060 coffee

01:25:39.420 and said

01:25:39.720 mum where

01:25:40.520 should I throw it

01:25:41.340 and she took

01:25:42.140 the coffee

01:25:42.520 and she threw 1.00

01:25:42.980 it in the sea

01:25:44.420 are you mad

01:25:47.640 yeah

01:25:48.100 are you mad

01:25:48.760 yeah

01:25:50.240 I mean

01:25:50.500 she's lucky

01:25:51.920 I wasn't in charge

01:25:52.880 is there a

01:25:54.680 manners culture

01:25:55.300 in Greece

01:25:55.820 I've obviously

01:25:56.640 been to Greece

01:25:57.320 a fair few times

01:25:58.340 and

01:25:59.420 it's quite different

01:26:00.880 from England

01:26:01.620 but

01:26:02.320 it's difficult

01:26:03.600 to pick up on it

01:26:04.360 because I'm sort of an outsider

01:26:05.720 is there a comparable

01:26:07.940 sort of thing there

01:26:08.640 yeah

01:26:08.780 there are

01:26:09.480 there are codes of etiquette

01:26:11.220 and

01:26:12.900 what is also

01:26:14.420 very similar

01:26:16.620 to what

01:26:17.360 you said

01:26:18.060 and echoes

01:26:18.840 the same sentiment

01:26:19.560 is that

01:26:20.080 since 2010

01:26:21.220 that we have

01:26:21.780 had the economic crisis

01:26:23.280 a lot of

01:26:24.500 a significant amount

01:26:25.600 of the population

01:26:26.340 has sort of

01:26:27.200 turned their back to it

01:26:28.280 it's a shame

01:26:30.560 the thing about being raised

01:26:31.640 to say please and thank you

01:26:32.540 even a toddler

01:26:33.240 who's just beginning

01:26:35.020 to master

01:26:35.580 any sort of speech

01:26:36.600 you make sure

01:26:37.540 they say please

01:26:38.320 and thank you

01:26:38.920 they're just grabbing

01:26:39.700 for something

01:26:40.300 you say

01:26:40.580 what do you say

01:26:41.180 you know

01:26:41.860 indoctrinating the child

01:26:44.020 to say please

01:26:44.560 and thank you

01:26:45.000 for things

01:26:45.540 from the earliest

01:26:47.440 possible moment

01:26:48.460 like you say

01:26:50.300 some people

01:26:50.720 don't hold a door

01:26:51.640 open for you

01:26:52.220 or if you do

01:26:52.760 hold a door open

01:26:53.400 for them

01:26:53.900 they don't say anything

01:26:55.020 they don't acknowledge

01:26:56.460 that you've done it

01:26:57.240 they don't say thank you

01:26:58.040 it's like

01:26:58.220 come on

01:26:59.680 what is going

01:27:00.240 I want also

01:27:01.660 to be fair to

01:27:02.780 the other side

01:27:03.980 not the uncivilized

01:27:05.620 but I want to say

01:27:06.460 especially for holding doors

01:27:07.800 I always did this

01:27:08.880 until I went to the university

01:27:11.480 here in England

01:27:12.940 and I had

01:27:14.260 a lot of feminists 1.00

01:27:16.020 telling me

01:27:16.640 that this was

01:27:17.380 personally

01:27:18.180 a sort of

01:27:19.340 very

01:27:20.320 incredibly patronizing

01:27:24.240 act of mine

01:27:25.360 so I just

01:27:26.360 okay just

01:27:27.000 what I always

01:27:28.700 like to say

01:27:29.140 they're just freaks

01:27:29.800 with the chip

01:27:30.180 on the shoulder

01:27:30.580 go do something

01:27:31.140 with yourself

01:27:31.700 I'm not opening

01:27:32.740 the door for you

01:27:33.500 what you need to say

01:27:34.240 is I hold the door

01:27:35.080 for everyone

01:27:35.660 but if I knew

01:27:36.500 you were a feminist 1.00

01:27:37.100 I would have 0.95

01:27:37.560 shut it on you

01:27:38.080 don't worry

01:27:38.540 that's what you say

01:27:39.960 yeah they're just

01:27:41.160 freaks away

01:27:41.640 yeah they need

01:27:42.320 to earn it

01:27:43.040 they lose it

01:27:44.420 so civilization

01:27:45.340 means that you

01:27:46.160 respect us

01:27:46.800 by default

01:27:47.420 serving

01:27:48.240 at a

01:27:48.920 several

01:27:49.460 certain level

01:27:50.820 if they

01:27:51.820 you know

01:27:52.800 do something

01:27:53.680 to not meriting it

01:27:54.720 you don't

01:27:55.660 right

01:27:55.840 we've got to get

01:27:56.400 through some

01:27:57.040 of the comments

01:27:57.380 anyway

01:27:57.640 we're getting

01:27:58.800 hung up on matters

01:27:59.520 here

01:27:59.660 so I recently

01:27:59.820 started a new

01:28:00.600 business venture

01:28:01.280 I'm working

01:28:02.060 with the

01:28:02.480 Dickens fruit

01:28:03.240 company

01:28:03.640 I want to

01:28:04.760 bring a new

01:28:05.520 apple beverage

01:28:06.360 to the market

01:28:07.000 so last week

01:28:08.800 I had a very

01:28:09.460 productive meeting

01:28:10.560 with the company's

01:28:11.520 president

01:28:11.920 Anita Dickens

01:28:13.260 so I'm proud

01:28:14.700 to announce

01:28:15.320 I finally got

01:28:16.920 my Dickens cider

01:28:18.020 oh

01:28:20.800 good

01:28:22.160 I'm missing

01:28:23.880 something

01:28:24.300 it's a joke

01:28:24.840 oh Dickens

01:28:25.240 bow

01:28:26.980 that's

01:28:28.600 Dickens

01:28:28.900 I didn't

01:28:29.660 get it

01:28:30.260 he's laughing

01:28:31.840 bow is just

01:28:32.520 too pure

01:28:33.160 for the world

01:28:33.620 yeah

01:28:33.900 yeah

01:28:34.460 fair enough

01:28:37.540 Michael

01:28:37.960 and now

01:28:39.900 some more

01:28:40.360 wholesome

01:28:40.640 content

01:28:41.300 as

01:28:42.840 we show

01:28:44.140 Sakura

01:28:45.200 the queen

01:28:46.360 of the house

01:28:46.960 on her

01:28:49.100 throne

01:28:50.340 of glory

01:28:51.600 or the couch

01:28:54.020 that's a very

01:28:55.280 still dog

01:28:55.900 that is a cute

01:28:56.800 dog

01:28:57.060 I think he's

01:28:57.720 shown it

01:28:57.960 before

01:28:58.280 very cute

01:28:59.660 dog

01:28:59.920 okay I think

01:29:01.660 that's all of

01:29:02.080 them

01:29:02.260 I have to

01:29:03.380 we got another

01:29:04.120 five for some

01:29:05.180 written comments

01:29:05.820 I don't want to

01:29:06.400 go over

01:29:07.500 do a couple

01:29:08.700 okay no worries

01:29:10.080 alright so we've

01:29:12.460 got a lot of

01:29:13.680 election prep I

01:29:14.940 think we've got to

01:29:15.420 sort out

01:29:15.740 are there any more

01:29:16.340 super chats

01:29:17.000 or was there

01:29:17.560 oh yes there is

01:29:19.020 one

01:29:19.280 no one taught me

01:29:20.300 these manners I've

01:29:20.940 always had them and

01:29:21.600 I've always been

01:29:22.120 berated for being

01:29:22.760 honest and having

01:29:23.340 manners by my

01:29:24.000 peers

01:29:24.340 society is broken

01:29:25.540 yes I think part of

01:29:27.800 being well managed is

01:29:28.660 also knowing how to

01:29:29.500 put them across

01:29:29.960 tactfully and

01:29:30.660 sometimes you can be

01:29:32.460 very very honest

01:29:33.260 about things but

01:29:34.180 not necessarily

01:29:35.080 present it in the

01:29:37.360 kindest way and

01:29:38.140 sometimes that's seen

01:29:39.440 as a virtue by some

01:29:40.480 people I mean it's a

01:29:41.720 matter of debate isn't

01:29:42.460 it how you do it and

01:29:43.300 no one really has the

01:29:44.320 answers but anyway

01:29:45.640 Beggar Hero says

01:29:46.560 did early voting

01:29:47.500 yesterday I did it

01:29:48.280 for God for Trump

01:29:49.200 and for Peanut

01:29:49.880 hear hear

01:29:51.000 so the proletariat 0.86

01:29:52.800 says I think Trump

01:29:53.920 will win although it

01:29:54.720 may take some time for

01:29:55.580 that to be recognised

01:29:56.540 the 2020 riots

01:29:58.180 required significant

01:29:59.520 logistical preparation

01:30:00.600 which is not occurring

01:30:01.480 right now when Trump

01:30:02.720 wins the leftist

01:30:03.400 response will be

01:30:03.940 surprisingly quiet

01:30:04.900 it will take at least

01:30:06.200 six months before the

01:30:07.260 colour revolution gets

01:30:08.180 organised and launched

01:30:09.060 I think that is entirely

01:30:10.360 possible and I have

01:30:11.260 considered that

01:30:12.580 Josep Yenikomishian

01:30:17.100 the Lichman model

01:30:18.360 actually shows a

01:30:19.060 Trump victory

01:30:19.620 Lichman just answered

01:30:21.380 some of his true

01:30:22.240 false questions

01:30:22.960 incorrectly to get a

01:30:23.940 Camilla victory

01:30:24.660 he answered true to

01:30:25.880 both good short term

01:30:27.080 and long term economy

01:30:28.240 yeah I don't know

01:30:30.300 what rock he is

01:30:31.460 bashing his head

01:30:32.060 against

01:30:32.480 there's also someone

01:30:34.520 with the name

01:30:34.960 Josh is not secretly

01:30:36.120 gay 0.99

01:30:36.500 that's because I'm 0.64

01:30:37.300 openly straight

01:30:38.080 but I'm not going to

01:30:41.120 insist on that too much

01:30:42.200 because otherwise you

01:30:43.040 know

01:30:43.240 Josh doff protest of

01:30:44.720 too much

01:30:45.200 anyway

01:30:45.600 George Hap

01:30:47.240 the story of peanut

01:30:48.120 is a perfect example

01:30:49.240 of the uncaring

01:30:49.880 government machine

01:30:50.700 remember when they

01:30:51.580 killed dogs during

01:30:52.500 covid

01:30:52.820 what comes next

01:30:54.120 are child licenses

01:30:55.280 you know what

01:30:55.960 happens when you

01:30:56.660 don't have one

01:30:57.360 ominous

01:30:59.280 alex ogle

01:31:01.020 please don't become

01:31:01.840 like leftists

01:31:02.620 please don't call

01:31:03.320 the euthanizing

01:31:04.100 of peanut

01:31:04.780 and the raccoon

01:31:05.600 as murders

01:31:06.160 murder happens

01:31:06.980 to humans only

01:31:07.800 we can be outraged

01:31:09.200 at the cruelty

01:31:09.800 and pettiness

01:31:10.360 involved

01:31:10.880 without giving way

01:31:11.980 to leftist

01:31:12.540 language games

01:31:13.240 I mean

01:31:13.920 I think that's

01:31:15.000 everyone understands

01:31:16.320 it's a hyperbole

01:31:17.200 I don't

01:31:17.860 I think

01:31:18.200 more than that

01:31:19.160 requires for us

01:31:20.040 to be called

01:31:20.560 leftists

01:31:21.120 and

01:31:22.060 Byron Vaughn

01:31:23.120 Warhawk

01:31:23.620 the guy who

01:31:24.280 owned peanut

01:31:24.860 and Fred

01:31:25.260 was investigated

01:31:26.160 more than any

01:31:27.340 single Epstein

01:31:28.280 client

01:31:28.820 yeah that's

01:31:31.140 true

01:31:31.360 it's funny

01:31:33.480 because

01:31:33.900 didn't Epstein

01:31:34.840 die in a New York

01:31:36.460 prison

01:31:37.060 and there was less

01:31:38.120 of an investigation

01:31:38.700 into that

01:31:39.300 but hey

01:31:39.940 anyway

01:31:41.960 do you want to

01:31:42.660 read some comments

01:31:43.240 Bo

01:31:43.480 where are we

01:31:45.300 there's a problem

01:31:46.640 with glare on this

01:31:47.640 but

01:31:47.940 it's like a

01:31:49.040 J.J. Abrams

01:31:49.880 movie

01:31:50.460 get you some

01:31:52.240 sunglasses for the

01:31:53.100 comments

01:31:53.480 Josh is not

01:31:54.000 secretly gay again 0.90

01:31:55.000 so it's a deeply 1.00

01:31:56.020 closeted gay man 0.96

01:31:57.080 just very very 0.99

01:31:58.140 deeply deeply

01:31:58.860 closeted

01:31:59.240 that's true

01:31:59.720 very deeply

01:32:00.260 closeted

01:32:00.680 says

01:32:02.680 the election

01:32:03.760 of Kemi

01:32:04.080 Badenoch

01:32:04.520 as Tory leader

01:32:05.200 just shows

01:32:06.040 that they are

01:32:06.420 not just

01:32:06.780 playing the

01:32:07.340 leftist game

01:32:07.980 but they are

01:32:08.580 trying to win

01:32:09.100 it all

01:32:09.580 while failing

01:32:10.280 to learn

01:32:10.640 anything from

01:32:11.200 the success

01:32:11.720 of Reform

01:32:12.220 UK

01:32:12.480 their party

01:32:14.500 will die

01:32:14.940 with the 1.00

01:32:15.420 boomer

01:32:15.660 generation

01:32:16.140 yeah

01:32:16.920 with any

01:32:17.360 luck

01:32:17.700 yeah

01:32:18.600 the Frey

01:32:20.420 Bentos

01:32:20.780 for every

01:32:21.160 Haitian

01:32:22.640 says

01:32:24.220 when the

01:32:26.000 conservatives

01:32:26.460 lose their

01:32:27.140 next election

01:32:27.700 their conclusion

01:32:28.320 will be

01:32:28.860 that they

01:32:29.500 lost

01:32:29.820 because

01:32:30.360 Kemi

01:32:30.620 was

01:32:31.040 heterosexual 0.84

01:32:31.840 and able

01:32:32.520 bodied

01:32:32.900 right

01:32:33.300 yeah

01:32:33.580 yeah

01:32:34.460 it would be

01:32:34.860 ideal if she 0.98

01:32:35.520 was disabled 0.98

01:32:36.140 and a lesbian 0.99

01:32:36.700 wouldn't it 0.99

01:32:37.180 need a disabled 1.00

01:32:38.320 lesbian cripple 1.00

01:32:39.300 who's also 1.00

01:32:39.720 Muslim

01:32:40.080 oh yeah

01:32:41.080 she's not

01:32:42.200 Muslim either 1.00

01:32:42.740 someone whose 0.52

01:32:43.980 very existence

01:32:44.800 is an act

01:32:45.520 of defiance

01:32:46.320 we need someone

01:32:48.200 clinging on to

01:32:49.160 life

01:32:49.640 they're so

01:32:51.260 so oppressed

01:32:52.380 and on that

01:32:54.680 note

01:32:54.920 I think it's

01:32:55.540 time to end

01:32:56.020 the show

01:32:56.400 so we're not

01:32:57.660 going to be on

01:32:58.060 tomorrow

01:32:58.340 because of course

01:32:58.940 we've got the

01:32:59.340 election stream

01:32:59.900 but it's going

01:33:00.260 to be

01:33:00.620 midnight

01:33:01.640 UK time

01:33:03.440 we've obviously

01:33:05.260 shown the chart

01:33:06.040 of the time

01:33:07.160 make sure to

01:33:08.440 tune in

01:33:08.800 it's going to

01:33:09.100 be great

01:33:09.420 we've got lots

01:33:09.820 of good guests

01:33:10.460 it's going to

01:33:11.520 be a lot of

01:33:11.880 fun

01:33:12.120 here's the chart

01:33:13.040 again

01:33:13.360 there it is

01:33:14.380 memorize it

01:33:15.300 be there

01:33:15.900 I don't want to

01:33:16.800 see excuses

01:33:17.360 I want to

01:33:17.880 see results

01:33:18.480 all right

01:33:19.020 I want to

01:33:19.600 see people

01:33:20.020 having fun

01:33:20.720 whether you

01:33:21.260 like it or

01:33:21.720 not

01:33:21.980 all right

01:33:23.960 well I'm

01:33:24.780 looking forward

01:33:25.160 to this anyway

01:33:25.600 it's going to

01:33:25.860 be great

01:33:26.180 I've got a

01:33:26.620 little surprise

01:33:27.140 for people

01:33:27.540 as well

01:33:27.960 it's going

01:33:28.340 to be huge

01:33:28.900 there we go

01:33:30.280 some say the

01:33:31.420 best stream

01:33:32.040 that's quite

01:33:33.160 good

01:33:33.440 better than I

01:33:34.680 could do

01:33:35.020 but yeah

01:33:36.060 I hope you

01:33:37.120 enjoy it

01:33:37.580 and goodbye

01:33:38.200 you

01:33:40.260 you

01:33:41.260 you

01:33:43.320 you

01:33:44.320 you

01:33:46.320 you

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