The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1012
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1 hour and 30 minutes
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Summary
Beau and Carl talk about the hurricane that has hit the United States, and the Tories outflanking the right in the upcoming election. They also discuss the fact that the Tories have discovered their set of testicles, and how that will affect the future of British politics.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 1st of October 2024.
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And today we're going to be talking about the hurricane that has struck the United States.
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Beau's going to be talking about something that's going to get us all blown up.
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And Carl's going to be talking about something that's going to get us demonetised.
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But no, Carl's talking about the election coming up in the United States.
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I think it's going to be a new method this time though.
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Also, there is a roundtable at three o'clock today.
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So after this podcast, a half an hour afterwards, we're talking about the Conservatives outflanking reform to the right.
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Because they've realised that reform are a threat.
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And all of a sudden they've discovered their set of testicles.
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And yeah, I don't hold out any hopes for any of them.
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I think it'll be an interesting conversation for the future of British politics at the very least.
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The Conservatives are far to the right of Nigel Farage at this point.
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Which shows us just how duplicitous the Conservatives are and how disappointing reform are.
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So, as probably most Americans are aware now, there was a hurricane in the United States.
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And it hit late on Thursday night with a maximum sustained wind of 140 miles per hour.
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And it pretty much weakened to a tropical storm once it hit land.
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As you can see in this sort of diagram of the storm itself.
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You can see there, by the time it got to sort of northern Georgia, it had become a tropical storm rather than a hurricane.
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But for a decent portion of land, it was a hurricane.
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Apparently, there was up to 20 feet of storm surge in some places.
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Which is completely unsurvivable if you're, you know, staying in your house.
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So, when there is a storm, you get surging waves from the sea.
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You see video clips of it and it just looks like the sea is just moving into the land.
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So, and there's also up to 20 inches of rainfall in some areas, which obviously caused flash floods and also landslides in more mountainous areas.
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So far, I was able to find 132 deaths across multiple states.
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But the states affected are Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
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So, I'm hearing a lot of Republican voting states there.
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But what I do need is that copy of Islander right there.
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So, if you're hiding away from extreme weather events, extreme migrant events, extreme extremities of any kind and you need some reading material, what you want...
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There's lots of interesting things to read about in here that will fascinate you and distract you from your impending doom.
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It's only going to be there for a little while.
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And then it's going to be out of print and then you won't be able to buy it.
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But anyway, on to some of the destruction caused by this hurricane.
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So, here is aerial footage of Asheville, North Carolina.
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I would dread to think what it was like to actually be there.
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Because in Britain, it's a particularly clement place, right?
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We don't get, other than once a generation, if that, a hurricane.
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So, to Brits, this is just sort of crazy, this sort of stuff,
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when it happens fairly regularly, it seems to me, in America, right?
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It does amaze me that people take it in their stride.
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I'm just like, does that not worry you a bit more?
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I think this is some drone footage, just of the extent of the flooding.
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It seems to be almost centralised around the town itself as well there,
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And quite often, settlements, towns are built on by rivers, right?
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You'd think that this would warrant a full-scale mobilisation
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Why would they talk about anything else other than this?
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Here we have a Tesla catching fire when the garage floods.
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And supposedly, this is something that can happen.
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So I wanted to include this because it's not particularly intuitive
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that electric cars catch fire when you put water on them.
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Well, there's a reason that you don't put water on electrics.
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But I wanted to include this just so people are aware
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they seem to be a bit more adapted to dealing with it
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because people are going for a jog drinking beer
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I do feel like one of the best ways to deal with it
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You can see the foundations where houses once were
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and also the people who are probably in them horrified.
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It's surprising so few have died when you look at that.
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At least that's the number that I've been able to get.
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And I'm going to show just a couple more things.
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It says East Tennessee, Western North Carolina.
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If you're watching us and you're in these regions,
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I've always said it's a very, very glib thing to say.
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I would think about maybe living somewhere else.
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this sort of thing happened in Katrina as well.
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people would come in and loot the empty properties.
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Yeah, loads of people down in the air raid shelters
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It's just some people have got no scruples, right?
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the yellow is the path of the hurricane and tropical storm.
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And you can see red, obviously, Republican, blue, Democrat.
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And it is largely, but not entirely, Republican areas,
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you know, they're largely centred around these sorts of areas,
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and these areas expect hurricanes and tropical storms,
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But the response is the thing I want to highlight,
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oh, it was the government controlling hurricanes.
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Just like, do you really think that that's something that's tangible
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I don't want to turn a hurricane political butt,
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But I think that there is an aspect of the hurricane
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that they ran on the George Bush hates black people
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And you think that'd be one of the primary things
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it's just quite relaxing really one thing that i have noticed whenever you have an open fire
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sit and watch the fire and just enjoy the experience of being there
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and it's one of those things where it sounds like you're sort of over egging it a little bit but it is really quite excellent and even the embers are mesmerizing quite often yeah and it's quite a low goal but i would like a home one day that has got a full chimney and an open fire so i can again spend the evening sort of staring into the fire yeah it's great it's truly mesmerizing
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why you need to stay signed up to lotus heaters so beau can afford his fire
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one of my favourite things to do is take one of the rocks that you surround the fire with that's been warmed by the fire and put it in like my tent and it warms up the tent on a sort of cold autumn or winter's night and it's almost like you've got heating in there
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does it not melt through the bottom of the tin how do you do that
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do they not have alligators in texas i don't think so right some people are worried about alligators
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every every video comment you upload just reminds me of how miserable i am in swindon
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yeah yeah there are some nice open places in britain there are some
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there are loads you just have to like go into the countryside
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there's something grand about texas though isn't there
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the wide open spaces sort of the endless skies and stuff
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i can certainly see you all seem interested i thought i'd give you a quick guide on how to restore a car
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step one break into small convenient easy to adjust jobs like this paint bubbling because of the brake fluid
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step three very carefully use your angle grinder to cut out small chunks of metal where the rust stops
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step four uncover unearthly horrors beyond your comprehension
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step four step five fix it and it's just that easy
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if you just follow these simple steps you too can waste all of your time and mind
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you're restoring worthless garbage that nobody but you cares about
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yeah no i i i yeah i can't really do things that i can't weld
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i've never welded anything in my life i wouldn't know where to start if you gave me all the
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uh so i mean all of people can do stuff like that
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i've done it once and they said it looked like it had been done by a chimpanzee
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in terms of immigration consider that britain would be similar to hawaii because of its
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its status as an island nation it isn't like you're going to grow more space for these people to move into
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meanwhile in the u.s we have so much land mass that we can absorb a lot of additional people
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and the u.s did have a very robust legal immigration system that didn't just allow for people to enter
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and then become wards of the state aka parasites
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unfortunately decades of globalist non-sery and leftist policies have led us to where we are now
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desperately hoping the right grows some fucking balls
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yeah no it's just nothing to disagree with there is it
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was that the guy that has got makes the the bow release things or was that actual brass knucks
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he had at the bottom of that video i think those were brass knuckles yeah
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he's completely correct like we are the way we handle immigration is just crazy
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yeah and irresponsible and i just despair it's a crime without precedent yeah absolutely without precedent
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cannibal corpse is a bit on the nose isn't it just a friendly reminder go watch your favorite
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band music is meant to be enjoyed live make the effort go to shows
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good point um i still see a lot of live music i'll pass i hate going to gigs
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they're crap i've been to one gig ever where it was where it wasn't terrible the music itself
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wasn't so i went to see the manic street preachers once and it sounded like the album every other
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live gig i've ever seen it was like they're not playing it right did they even play it originally
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like the singer's not singing it properly or whatever i think with some bands the the actual
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sound system you get in a live gig is the best you can possibly get some live gigs in my experience
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at least cannot be captured on a studio album they're just that good so those are the experiences
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you want like some of my most fond memories in in my life i go into gigs where that happens and
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it's wonderful i think maybe it's just because i'm sort of actually middle-aged now where the
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idea of going to a gig spending a bit of money on going standing there for ages with loads of
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smelly strangers it's like yeah no thanks i went to a music festival last summer and i was just like
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am i a bit too old for this i sort of had like a mid mid-life crisis it's like but but lots of
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people are older than me here but also i'm not enjoying this nearly as much as i used to last time i
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went to reading festival in my early 30s it was like this is horrible i'm hating this i went to
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the reading festival a bunch of times when i was in it yeah in my early 20s i had a great time last
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time i went to a gig was probably a decade ago and it just hurt my ears and i was just like i've really
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i was only 35 i was just like i'm not enjoying this i think you've got to be able to drink every day
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to be able to enjoy it oh yeah to its fullest but then my body can't take that anymore i did when i went
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into reading but uh i i've got no it just doesn't appeal anymore you know i'm just too old uh anyway
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jimbo says uh good news lads i started a new job in december congratulations new job in december
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oh right last summer and it's got promoted already oh well done uh rewarded myself with islander volume
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two and three shirts from remote store thank you very much i can't pronounce that name says i can
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pronounce that uh questions carl do you actually own five cats like you said in the interview with ed
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dutton yes yes i didn't know that i know you had cats didn't know it's five yeah that's like
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egyptian level yeah they're not it's not my choice i i didn't want a single one of them right and i
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would have the same argument with my wife i'd be like look we're not getting another cat i'm not
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getting a cat we're not getting cat and then she'd just bring home a tiny kit right i'm like and then
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she'd put it on my lap and it'd be like cold and afraid and it'd be like purring on your lap and i'm
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like what what am i gonna do throw it out you know so obviously it got to stay fetch the burlap
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bag yeah exactly yeah exactly what was i gonna do you know and and so i would just be in a bad mood
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with her for about a week and she was just like yeah it's an acceptable price to pay and then another
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one and another one and now we've got five cats and one of them got pregnant uh because it wasn't
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done and so she had a couple of babies we gave one away but we kept one and so now we've just got five
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cats and i couldn't i didn't consent to any of them i can't get rid of them and they're they're
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adorable so it's fine but it's just like for god's sake you know i didn't want five cats on the plus
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side though if you're gonna get a pet a cat is one of the least impactful to get you know most of the
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time they take care of themselves you just have to put food down and clear up bird guts um so yes i
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own five cats um fuzzy toaster says i think the office should stop shaving and see how amazing the
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beards and mustaches can get by 2025 you should look like a council of wise men not bad idea but
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my wife really hates it when i don't trim my beard because you know like she's got to deal with like
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this face of fur i'd look like fu manchu anyway like it all grows here big dangling
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i'd start talking about the three kingdoms period of chinese history a lot more if i did that like
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that we'll do an epoch series someone online says they'll only care about the states that got hit as
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far as they can use them for climate change initiatives that's true uh baron von war kiwi
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says uh beau in case you're wondering why these people don't move away from hurricane and tornado
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regions remember that these are some of the poorest states in the union and they can't afford to leave
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plus i know it's easier said than done it's the most glib thing in the world just move from where your
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forefathers have always lived just move bro i get a lot of americans saying i know i don't want to
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even yeah yeah sucks yeah no i know it's a it's a it's a kind of it's kind of a crappy thing to say
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actually just move um but yeah if you live at the bottom of a volcano though if you live in the
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middle of tornado alley that every three four five years is going to get hit by a force four tornado
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or whatever uh you know bear it in mind as a possibility but yeah if you can't afford it what
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are you going to do i can see why some native american tribes thought america was a cursed land because
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you've got hurricanes tornadoes floods earthquakes just no matter where you go there's like a i
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figured it out there's a narrow window where uh no natural disasters occur i'm not going to tell
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anyone where somewhere like vermont would probably quite be quite clement quite nice don't know why
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i've got that in my mind it's a paradise yeah but it's it's bernie sanders is their senator isn't
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he oh is it yeah so good past that's a hard pass on the chat here yeah uh how am i not covered in
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cat hair i don't know actually i actually don't know um i don't seem to be though i know i've never
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noticed when my cat was still alive i was still finding cat hairs on my clothes even after washing
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them everything possible just ginger hairs anyway the the palest son of yakub says uh georgia and north
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carolina swing states biden is either that incompetent or is secretly trying to screw over
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harris um i think it's incompetence and indifference yeah does not care what happens to those people or
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what their plight is yeah i think that's another part he just doesn't see him as part of his own
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constituency right you know if it was happening in like you know detroit or something he'd be oh we're
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saving the black community blah blah blah blah but you know it's a bunch of poor white people
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in the rural areas of america i mean i saw i saw leftists on twitter being like oh thank god
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some racists have died much it's always one of those isn't there whenever someone dies someone's
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glad about it these days uh charlie says to be fair to israel the fact they took out almost the
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entirety of the hezbollah leadership so quickly and comprehensively is something that will be studied
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for years to come as how to effectively take out a terrorist organization yeah i mean you know whether
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you like israel or not you can't you can't deny that it was skillful what they did a few people said
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when i was watching stuff and reading stuff about it that um that would have taken years
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of planning oh yeah they were sort of sitting on information for years and years um yeah it's
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quite remarkable it is remarkable yeah genuinely mr flibble says for as long as i've been aware of
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the world in general various terrorist groups have been lobbing rockets into israel in the name of
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peace actually doing something about it is overdue to be honest lancelot says if i wasn't upset with
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my hometown of melbourne enough they've had rallies mourning the death of a hezbollah terrorist leader
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there's no talking to these people i'm going to take my guinevere and find a tintagel up north far
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away from the grim this grim frostbitten madhouse uh melbourne can't be that cold
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what melbourne australia yeah blimey surely not would be but it can't be that cold well i mean if he's
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going north where it's warm must be in australia um you know that's why um the argument or the angle
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of uh shouldn't celebrate any sort of israeli winds on principle so no no no no if they're taking out
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monsters yeah i'm not against then um yeah good yeah good could also be melbourne derbyshire
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potentially unlikely to go north to find warmer weather yeah um derek says uh not gonna lie the
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exploding pages are hilarious only because that one time that looney tunes antics become reality
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they've done that sort of thing loads of times like they will put an explosive in someone's
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telephone back in the 70s there was one guy i can't remember exactly who it was but they'd
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broken into his house and uh put a load of explosive under his telephone and then rang him
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up and when he picked up hello they detonate it's like they've done they've got they've got past in
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it reminds me of if 4chan had like a terror cell division like they would just troll people with
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it's like oh you've got these old-fashioned pages what if they were to blow up oh you're gonna you're
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gonna accept a phone call what is a bit mimetic is it is yeah mason says uh so it turns out iran was
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a complete paper tiger i wonder if the same will be said of china um i i don't know and uh big ed says
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it should also be noted that port worker strike starts there in the us i'm not sure if the dems
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will be able to fortify their way out of skyrocketed prices if it goes long uh right i didn't realize
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that a port strike was uh happening might be doing a segment steleos is making some noise about doing
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a segment about that tomorrow so maybe nothing not promising anything but maybe maybe something then
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yeah but um but yeah just the point is they're going to steal it they're going to try and steal it
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uh omar says one main difference is the shift in attitude as reaction to rhetoric they call
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people racist for so many years that many are unironically embracing it they spent so long
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calling concerned patriots insurrectionists they better be more careful this time around besides
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if the punishment for an unarmed tour is the same as a violent insurrection what do people have to
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lose as a fair point to be honest monkey smoke says representative democracy they think they're too
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clever um thing scotty says never forget the last time when there was one of the audits of the
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ballots more ballots arrived during the audit all biden all perfectly printed not a crease among them
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i tell you that was the the 4am ballot dumps just like come on come on you're gonna look us in the
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eyes and be like yeah oh they're all biden by the way 100 biden it's 130 of them 30 000 of them
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they're perfectly pristine on i think they were freshly printed it was just like a handful that were trump
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just so they had the deniability aspect just well no there were there was somewhere it was 100 biden
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it was just like come on you know oh it's just woo convenient um anyway he says uh i know this
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because leftists online boasted about it and claimed it as cell phone they didn't realize uh that it was
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an audit uh it's not the same as a recount and this is evidence for not a refutation of trump's claims
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about the lack of election integrity i mean they seem to just be openly at this point being like yeah we
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want election uh insecure elections it's just what i think if america does get over this though it will
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be good for america to get all of this so out in the forefront and flagrantly obvious because
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the result will be you'll be able to mitigate against all of this hopefully i'm trying to be
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optimistic yeah once i'm not used to it it's not i tell you i am i am worried though i am worried
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that if it's not a trump landslide then kamala wins i mean god
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another five years of democrat control would be a disaster for the world but it's like if it was
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someone like gavin newsom probably not too bad because newsom seems competent even if he is evil
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but kamala harris is not competent that's the thing she's evil and incompetent you know so
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anyway mason says i don't believe the fortification boxes uh was was of illegal fake ballots i believe the
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dems loosen the laws around voting then use the democratic machine to ballot harvest a bunch of
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low propensity voters ballots it was technically legal i'm sure there was some of that i'm sure
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there was a bunch of that but i think they also just printed a bunch of fake ones because there
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were loads that were just um that had one vote on it for biden but nothing down ballot and that's
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really unusual because of course you can take them all right and so to have nothing on the down
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ballot is very peculiar and you i mean why didn't you fix it i mean i think there was a full spectrum
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of cheating right yeah i do yeah yeah yeah i think i i really think so why put all your eggs into one
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basket exactly yeah there's full spectrum dominance and cheating in elections kevin says the department
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of justice also trying to sue states for trying to remove dead votes from the voter list well yeah we
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got to it and the thing is as well right like i've had conversations with friends of mine and it's
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like oh well do you really think they're cheating it's like do you think they're the kind of people
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who wouldn't cheat do i mean just ask yourself do you think they wouldn't cheat of course they'd cheat
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so how naive yeah got to be to course they would cheat some people are still so naive yeah i remember
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speaking to someone not too long ago about the idea well anyway i won't bother going into it but some
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people just like as if they would start a war over oil and claim they're not doing that yeah of course
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they would as if they would cheat at a general election like oh you're so cynical no you're
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naive yeah yeah you're naive yeah no i'm sure california is just really deep blue bro yeah
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i'm sure they just love democrat rule in california bro you know come on anyway
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is that everything that is okay so thank you very much for watching um make sure to tune into our round
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table that is about the tories outflanking reform in the uk and what that means for our politics
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that's going to be in half an hour and make sure to tune in same time tomorrow thank you for watching