The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1026

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 21st of October 2024. I am joined

00:00:14.700 by Carl and Stelios. Hello. And today we're going to be talking about Trump's shift at McDonald's,

00:00:20.360 how the world has become very dystopian. And also Stelios is going to talk about how King Arthur

00:00:26.900 has become a gay icon. We need to talk about King Arthur. And so there is also an announcement

00:00:32.660 and that is that it's been 219 years today since the Battle of Trafalgar. And so here is an epox.

00:00:39.580 What a great announcement. We've got to recognise it. Yeah, no, I think so. I agree. I agree.

00:00:44.940 And so if you wanted to learn a bit more about it, Beau's got an epox about it. And I thought

00:00:50.540 I'd include this just because I think it's important to venerate these dates, actually.

00:00:55.140 I think that I'm going to try more to look at what historic events have gone on and try and

00:01:00.460 recommend things related to them so people can actually learn a bit more and not just be

00:01:04.880 blackpilled by the horrendous things that I've been talking about. But something that's definitely

00:01:10.300 not horrendous is Trump working at McDonald's. This looks like magic to me.

00:01:15.180 So Trump is Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin all rolled into one, according to leading Democrats.

00:01:21.720 Agency Speaker Mike Johnson here. It's been like, you guys have gone off the reservation.

00:01:26.320 You've really arrived at a point of such ridiculous rhetoric that it's not too surprising that now

00:01:32.980 Trump's on like his second or third assassination attempt. I can't even keep track of how many it is.

00:01:37.860 And what I found really funny about this is that juxtaposed with this, we have what Trump is

00:01:42.580 actually doing. And it turns out that what Trump is actually doing is working in McDonald's.

00:01:47.300 So for anyone who's wondering, this was a 15 minute shift he did in McDonald's,

00:01:52.340 which proves that he's worked more time in McDonald's than Kamala Harris, which we'll get

00:01:56.600 to in a minute. And this is just really funny. He posted this on his TikTok and it's just hilarious.

00:02:01.420 I'm looking for a job and I've always wanted to work at McDonald's. I never did. I'm running

00:02:05.900 against somebody that said she did, but it turned out to be a totally phony story.

00:02:10.000 So, I mean, there's a lot more to it than that. This was just the TikTok. But yeah, so Trump

00:02:25.240 had a campaign rally at a place called Feasterville Travots in Pennsylvania, which is of course

00:02:31.080 swing state. Now you've never heard of Feasterville Travots. And I imagine most Americans hadn't

00:02:35.060 heard of it because it's a small sort of dual town of about six and a half thousand people.

00:02:41.640 It's a really tiny little place.

00:02:43.600 It must have really surprised people. They go to McDonald's in their small town in America.

00:02:48.720 And then Donald Trump, the former president, is there in the drive-through window.

00:02:52.620 Well, we'll get to that because this is, of course, a campaign event. So it wasn't just

00:02:57.200 he was there and it was open to the public. But it was just really funny and wholesome.

00:03:01.560 And there's loads of footage on Twitter. I'm going to play a bit of it. But there's loads

00:03:06.080 of footage of him just basically having a good time with this.

00:03:09.620 I could do this all day. I wouldn't mind this job. I like this job. I think I might come

00:03:14.180 back and do it again. Thank you.

00:03:16.920 Look at that. Look at that. How are you?

00:03:19.360 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:03:20.480 You made it possible for ordinary people like us to meet you.

00:03:25.740 You're not ordinary.

00:03:26.580 I mean, thank you so much.

00:03:28.180 I can see.

00:03:29.900 We pray for you.

00:03:30.880 And you are the type of person who wants to be the president.

00:03:34.120 Thank you so much.

00:03:35.540 Thank you for taking the bullet.

00:03:36.940 Thank you very much.

00:03:38.020 Yeah, I took a bullet. That's right.

00:03:39.300 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:03:40.060 When you think about it, I guess that's right.

00:03:41.740 Thank you.

00:03:42.120 Thank you very much.

00:03:42.800 So, Trump, these are Trump supporters.

00:03:45.860 I can do this all day.

00:03:47.000 These are Trump supporters.

00:03:48.500 But you can see the general atmosphere of the thing.

00:03:51.620 It's just really fun, really quite wholesome.

00:03:54.600 Not very Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin rolled into one.

00:03:57.920 Just kind of what a normal, like, just an American experience.

00:04:02.600 I think that's what the campaign is all about.

00:04:04.740 We're American. That's our culture.

00:04:06.420 We're having fun rather than just being screaming leftists who hate our culture.

00:04:11.460 Yeah, very much so.

00:04:12.100 And you can see outside there's a, you know, big rally of people who come to see him.

00:04:15.740 So, it was all, of course, very stage managed.

00:04:18.160 The people around him, you know, I think they were McDonald's employees, but they're obviously Secret Service there.

00:04:24.500 This was all, you know, the McDonald's was closed for the event and stuff like this.

00:04:28.000 So, it wasn't like Trump just rocked up one day and actually just started working at McDonald's.

00:04:31.960 But that's not really what anyone thought, is it?

00:04:33.940 Of course.

00:04:34.220 So, why would you, uh, why would you even say that?

00:04:37.520 But, um, but yeah, so people just filming Trump working through the drive-thru, which is just great.

00:04:42.620 But it's a great franchise, it's a great company, and they've been very, very nice.

00:04:47.460 And, uh, and come on, you know, if you look at really what's happening, look at the crowd over there.

00:04:51.900 Look how happy everybody is.

00:04:54.000 They're happy because they want hope.

00:04:55.980 They need hope.

00:04:57.640 And that's what we're doing.

00:04:58.680 That's what we're going to give.

00:05:00.180 Much more of this hope.

00:05:00.940 What does work in the fryer tell you about the people of Pennsylvania?

00:05:04.600 Mr. President, you actually have worked at McDonald's now versus, uh...

00:05:07.440 Now I have worked at McDonald's.

00:05:08.660 I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kabbalah.

00:05:12.480 Right, so that picture itself, just, this is American normalcy, right?

00:05:18.380 This is the normal experience that Americans have.

00:05:21.200 They go to McDonald's, they get their food from the drive-thru, and it's just something they do on their day with their families.

00:05:26.360 You know, it's just completely normal, and that's why this resonates.

00:05:29.420 This is just a totally normal thing.

00:05:30.780 It's funny.

00:05:31.540 Oh my god, Donald Trump working at McDonald's.

00:05:33.200 Ha ha ha.

00:05:33.960 Right, hilarious.

00:05:35.140 And the photos are just amazing.

00:05:37.940 Like, I don't know how it's possible that you get these kind of...

00:05:42.580 I mean, this could be a painting, right?

00:05:44.980 But it's Trump at the fryer making some chips, as we would call them in bread.

00:05:50.500 If I saw this without the context of...

00:05:52.940 You would think the AI generation.

00:05:53.980 Exactly, yeah.

00:05:54.880 Because the lighting is surprisingly good.

00:05:57.100 I don't understand why it looks so good.

00:05:59.480 But they really do.

00:06:00.920 And I was like, oh my god, okay.

00:06:02.380 They look like staged, but it's...

00:06:04.940 I mean, literally, there's an account...

00:06:06.860 This is the account Trump History, in fact, that does Trump in AI poses throughout history.

00:06:12.540 All true, obviously.

00:06:13.640 I believe these ones are not AI generated.

00:06:16.860 And so it's just, like, incredible.

00:06:19.880 Absolutely incredible stuff.

00:06:23.320 I mean, you know, everyone's having a great time with it, as Ben Shapiro has actually managed to make a good joke here.

00:06:29.420 But again, it's such a classic-looking image that it feels nostalgic to look at it, because it looks like a time that no longer exists in the modern world.

00:06:42.540 And yet, here we are.

00:06:43.420 I think the genius of this sort of photo op is that it captures that he knows the essence of America, right?

00:06:50.840 And it's not that he's just thought, oh, America, go to McDonald's.

00:06:54.060 It's that he's also embodied what people want to look at.

00:06:58.340 Trump loves McDonald's.

00:06:59.420 Yeah, he does.

00:07:00.080 He loves...

00:07:00.860 We'll get to that, yeah.

00:07:03.120 But I like the fact that he's also quite good at the job.

00:07:06.180 Like, he's got a very pleasant manner with the people going through the drive-thru.

00:07:09.280 He's obviously quite good at it, in a way.

00:07:12.060 McDonald's is an American icon, right?

00:07:14.260 This is the thing that a lot of people, maybe younger people, don't remember.

00:07:18.020 I remember when the first McDonald's opened in Russia.

00:07:21.220 After the fall of the Berlin Wall in the 90s, the first McDonald's opened in Russia.

00:07:24.360 And you saw pictures of the queue that was miles long.

00:07:28.080 And apparently it cost something like a month's wages for the post-Soviet Russians to buy a Big Mac.

00:07:34.960 And they even used the Big Mac index to calculate the sort of relative purchasing power of people around the world.

00:07:41.840 It's still used today.

00:07:42.800 It's still used today, yeah.

00:07:44.080 And so it's one of those things where it's like, look, that image of the first McDonald's opening in Russia was really when the Cold War was over.

00:07:52.340 That was really when it was like, no, America has won this.

00:07:55.860 The capitalistic West has won this.

00:07:58.660 The communist world has got to take the giant L on that one.

00:08:02.980 And so this, like you say, Trump didn't have a rational thought being like, right, I'm going to puppeteer some.

00:08:09.120 No, Trump was just like, that sounds like a good idea.

00:08:11.220 I like McDonald's.

00:08:12.500 I'm an American.

00:08:13.340 This is an American franchise.

00:08:14.400 It's a classic Americana.

00:08:15.840 In fact, it's almost, you could see it as almost a statement of like American imperialism.

00:08:21.080 The very, the appearance of McDonald's franchise in a place.

00:08:27.260 And so you just get photos like this.

00:08:29.120 And this, this photo just is the photo from it, right?

00:08:33.200 It's.

00:08:33.400 The important thing is it's good fun.

00:08:35.960 It's not only good fun.

00:08:37.320 Yeah.

00:08:37.700 But there's something, there's a sort of spiritual essence to this that is so classically American.

00:08:42.860 You know, this, it's, and I and many other people were pointing out this is very much like Norman Rockwell photos, right?

00:08:49.040 And these are the sort of pictures he'd paint where it's just people doing things throughout the 20th century.

00:08:54.700 Just classic, you know, the lineman there is a great example.

00:08:57.300 It's just people doing things.

00:08:59.100 And this fits very much into this.

00:09:01.120 So it's a very positive vibe.

00:09:02.980 You know, it's a very positive way of looking at the United States and the kind of people and the culture and the general sort of happiness of the place.

00:09:11.120 And Trump himself, I don't think, would, would be able to cynically do this.

00:09:16.140 Like, whenever the Democrats try and do anything like this, it comes off as sort of, you know, weird and fake.

00:09:21.420 Well, there was the, the sort of photo op where Kamala and Tim Waltz went to a store and bought Doritos or something.

00:09:28.740 And they, they closed off the shop and all their goons went in.

00:09:32.420 Sure.

00:09:32.920 And it, it felt, it made it look very artificial.

00:09:35.940 Yeah.

00:09:36.200 I mean, this was closed off.

00:09:37.340 Trump had his goons in there.

00:09:38.700 But this wasn't artificial.

00:09:41.020 This is genuinely, this, this is the kind of America that Donald Trump actually loves.

00:09:46.380 This is the kind of America that he wants to make sure continues in its existence.

00:09:50.720 And so this is why it just, it just really looks like one of those sort of nostalgic Norman Rockwell photos.

00:09:58.340 And incredibly, it lined up perfectly with the merch we'd made.

00:10:02.220 Now, I don't know how Rory knew that this was going to be the case.

00:10:05.860 I don't know how he knew, but Rory had, Rory had made this amazing, uh, Trump 2024, the art of the grill shirt for the, uh, the Trump campaign, uh, because we want to support it, of course.

00:10:19.420 And just come on, man.

00:10:22.720 Like, how is this possible?

00:10:24.000 Like, the memes are just lining up.

00:10:26.920 Like, there's some sort of convergence in the heavens.

00:10:29.940 The cosmos has aligned to make this real.

00:10:32.920 And so, go and, if you want to support us, go, go get the shirt.

00:10:35.900 It's only going to be there until the election itself, which I'm, at this point, convinced that Trump will win.

00:10:41.100 I mean, there's, he's got such a great mandate of heaven.

00:10:43.300 I don't think any amount of fortification is going to, it's going to win them over this time.

00:10:47.180 And so, I think, um, I think Trump has got, has definitely got this.

00:10:52.040 I really want one of these t-shirts.

00:10:53.320 Yeah, I know.

00:10:53.680 I really, I'm going to, I'm going to order one of these myself.

00:10:55.760 That looks great.

00:10:57.260 Anyway, so, this has been just a remarkable ride as a bad hombre here has summarized in pictures, which is just so good.

00:11:06.940 We're watching a genuine epic being played out in front of us.

00:11:09.960 And, of course, the, the first picture is of Trump on trial and then the mug shot.

00:11:15.380 And then, who did that?

00:11:16.160 Picasso?

00:11:16.520 Yeah, exactly, right?

00:11:18.440 But I love how, uh, Chad, Trump looks in the picture, they've drawn.

00:11:22.120 But then, of course, we go down to Trump being shot by an attempted assassin, getting RFK on, as well as Tulsi, getting Elon on, which is, again, an adorable picture of Elon's being autistic in public, to Trump now, like, serving McDonald's french fries.

00:11:38.440 And I just want to point out, as well, Trump's a massive germaphobe.

00:11:40.800 When he was, uh, in the video of him, so, you know, getting the french fries, none of the fries touch his fingers at all.

00:11:45.580 It's all perfectly into the box.

00:11:47.140 That's what you want out of such a french fries.

00:11:49.580 I know.

00:11:49.820 I know.

00:11:50.000 The small attention to detail like that, which shows that he's actually, uh, concerned.

00:11:54.480 But, and then you've got the sort of Trump essentially symbolically handing America back, right?

00:11:59.200 Because, again, McDonald's is genuinely a cipher for just Americanism.

00:12:03.380 And so, an actual, like, Homeric epic is being written in front of our eyes, I swear to God.

00:12:10.140 And absolutely, this was such a good way of, uh, summarizing it.

00:12:15.020 And McDonald's then put out, they didn't actually put this out, this was internal.

00:12:18.560 This is an internal statement, apparently.

00:12:20.020 Um, but, uh, this was a very, they obviously knew that this was going to get out.

00:12:24.660 And so, it was a very tactically, sorry, no, tactfully worded message, um, that kind of implies that Trump is right and Kamala's wrong.

00:12:35.500 Which I really like, so I'm just going to read it in full, basically.

00:12:37.920 Uh, they said, uh, earlier today, former President Trump visited a McDonald's restaurant in Pennsylvania following a request made to our local franchisee.

00:12:44.820 As we've seen, our brand has been a fixture of conversation this election cycle.

00:12:49.100 While we've not sought this, it's a testament to how much McDonald's resonates with so many Americans.

00:12:53.660 And this is obviously true.

00:12:55.080 It's, it's, it is what people think of when they think of American capitalism.

00:13:00.300 Right, it's McDonald's.

00:13:01.080 Everyone knows this.

00:13:02.260 Um, McDonald's does not endorse candidates for elected office.

00:13:05.720 And that remains true in this race for the next president.

00:13:07.920 We are not red or blue.

00:13:09.040 We are golden.

00:13:09.960 Very smooth.

00:13:10.960 Very.

00:13:11.280 They're libertarian then, aren't they?

00:13:12.800 We are not a political brand.

00:13:14.500 We've been proud to hear former President Trump love, of his love for McDonald's and Vice President Harris's fond memories working under the arches.

00:13:21.860 While we and our franchisees don't have records for all positions dating back to the early 80s, what makes 1 in 8 so powerful is the shared experience so many Americans had.

00:13:31.340 That's very interesting.

00:13:32.080 What they're saying is, well, we've got no record of her working for us.

00:13:35.580 So, we'll take her word for it.

00:13:40.280 But again, very, very tactful way of saying, like, she's probably lying about that.

00:13:44.260 Also, I imagine Donald Trump doing this photo op with McDonald's is going to massively boost their sales.

00:13:49.440 I saw loads of people.

00:13:50.060 No doubt.

00:13:50.820 Loads of people on Twitter this morning saying that they went to McDonald's.

00:13:53.980 I went to McDonald's today.

00:13:55.300 I'm not ashamed to admit it.

00:13:56.860 I didn't.

00:13:57.640 Free advertisement.

00:13:58.520 That's the point.

00:14:00.300 Like, how can they go wrong?

00:14:01.700 And this goes to show the kind of normalization of Trump as well.

00:14:04.520 Like, the other day, Maxim magazine just came out and said, now we're for Trump.

00:14:07.500 You get loads of, you know, Elons for Trump.

00:14:09.020 Loads of people for Trump.

00:14:09.980 Loads of, like, rappers.

00:14:11.100 Loads of brands are coming out for Trump.

00:14:14.180 And this is unthinkable in 2016 or 2020.

00:14:17.040 This could never have happened.

00:14:17.800 So Trump has successfully managed to completely normalize himself at the same time that the Democrats have managed to toxify themselves.

00:14:25.400 It's like, no, we're offering more of the same, which is just the continual destruction of your nation.

00:14:29.800 And Trump's there with a McDonald's prize being like George the Price.

00:14:33.760 It's very interesting how, you know, in 2016 they were trying to argue that he was, you know, America's Austrian painter.

00:14:40.960 And now he's all the more endorsed, even though their rhetoric has become more and more extreme, that he's an enemy of democracy.

00:14:48.080 And more and more people are supposedly on board with that.

00:14:51.180 He's Mecca Hitler Mussolini Stalin.

00:14:53.840 And he's going to win.

00:14:56.840 And he's got endorsements of lots and lots of famous people.

00:14:59.480 He's just, you know, at McDonald's, just doing the fries.

00:15:02.380 Don't know what the problem is, man.

00:15:03.580 Maybe you'll do a Big Mac next time.

00:15:04.780 So, yeah, it carries on.

00:15:07.720 And basically they say, look, our core values are our doors are open to everyone.

00:15:12.340 So we're not partisan.

00:15:14.140 This seems to have been quite a cute thing that everyone's enjoyed.

00:15:18.080 And it seems to be that only rabid left-wing partisans are like, I hate this so much.

00:15:22.580 And they hate it because, let's be fair, it makes Trump look good.

00:15:25.940 It makes him look relatable, but also normal.

00:15:31.420 Trump is just a normal fixture of American life.

00:15:33.800 And he has been for decades.

00:15:35.500 So it's, honestly, this is just such a huge win.

00:15:39.200 And the New York Times did a write-up about this, obviously.

00:15:42.700 But what's interesting is in there, they had to admit, yeah, she probably didn't work at McDonald's.

00:15:46.640 So McDonald's has got no record of her being there.

00:15:48.940 And they say, according to a copy of her resume from 1987,

00:15:52.260 when she was applying for summer jobs at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office,

00:15:57.280 she lists all of her work experience on there, but working at McDonald's is not on there.

00:16:01.300 Yeah, that's not necessarily the smoking gun.

00:16:04.040 Not necessarily.

00:16:05.180 Because, you know, when I've applied for jobs, I've not put on, like, I worked as a cleaner when I was 16 or something.

00:16:12.520 Yeah, but why not? That makes you look good.

00:16:15.040 If you were 16, you had a job.

00:16:16.780 Doing something humble shows, it speaks to your character.

00:16:19.700 But you are right.

00:16:20.180 Especially in the 80s, it may have been considered too low-brow, but I guess Trump's changing that.

00:16:26.860 But, again, there's just no evidence to suggest that she did work at McDonald's.

00:16:30.920 There's no paper trail.

00:16:32.280 I'm not surprised.

00:16:33.300 Yeah.

00:16:33.680 Like, I mean, I don't think she worked at McDonald's either, but, you know, who cares, right?

00:16:37.480 She shouldn't make up lies about it.

00:16:40.560 And, anyway, so it's interesting how they had to kind of admit, yeah, okay, we can't prove that she worked at McDonald's.

00:16:46.680 But the only angle of attack has been not even ridicule.

00:16:55.100 It's so weird.

00:16:56.020 Like, Trump seems to have crafted a kind of really robust edifice for himself here.

00:17:01.000 And so all they can do as a while is a bizarre photo op.

00:17:04.400 Is it bizarre, though?

00:17:05.380 Because everyone seems to really enjoy it.

00:17:07.540 Or for Brian Stel to go, well, I mean, it's carefully staged.

00:17:10.920 He wasn't actually working there.

00:17:12.360 It's like, really?

00:17:13.380 No kidding.

00:17:13.860 It was carefully staged in a campaign event.

00:17:15.840 Do you think all the assassination attempts had something to do with them carefully staging it, Brian?

00:17:20.320 Yeah.

00:17:20.780 This is unusual for politicians.

00:17:22.020 This exists in a vacuum where no other things have happened.

00:17:25.380 Yeah, exactly.

00:17:26.680 The customers were selected and screened by the Secret Service.

00:17:29.600 No kidding.

00:17:30.400 No kidding.

00:17:31.480 I wonder why.

00:17:33.360 Again, well, they could be like, oh, it was stage managed.

00:17:35.740 It was stage managed.

00:17:36.600 So, yes, he's a former president, presidential candidate.

00:17:39.420 Everything they do is stage managed, no matter who you are, no matter what side of the aisle you are on.

00:17:44.780 That's what a political campaign does.

00:17:47.560 They all do it.

00:17:48.740 And this is the one that Trump chose to do.

00:17:51.640 He could have gone some very high-end store.

00:17:54.520 He could have gone some very fancy gala or something like that.

00:17:57.560 And in fact, he did the other day.

00:17:58.700 But Trump is quite happy to go around a McDonald's like a regular person and doesn't pour scorn on them for liking this.

00:18:06.160 He personally clearly likes it.

00:18:07.900 And that's the difference between them.

00:18:10.480 The connection that he has with normal Americans is genuine, whereas they could never fictionalize it.

00:18:17.500 And then they were like, oh, well, Trump is politicizing McDonald's.

00:18:20.980 Didn't Kamala do that when she said she worked at McDonald's?

00:18:23.740 It's not like, you know, McDonald's, again, it's just such a perennial American institution.

00:18:28.280 Well, the thing is that Kamala mentioned it to sort of suggest she had humble beginnings, whereas Trump is elevating working at McDonald's.

00:18:36.080 And it's two very different things.

00:18:37.820 Trump's deifying it in a way.

00:18:39.540 Trump is making McDonald's more elite.

00:18:42.000 And also he didn't change his accent.

00:18:44.040 Yeah, that's true.

00:18:44.820 He didn't fictionalize an accent.

00:18:46.560 During the event.

00:18:47.460 Yeah, he was just, I mean, you can imagine, go and watch the full footage for yourself.

00:18:50.260 He was just Trump wandering around being like, oh, everything's brilliant.

00:18:53.600 This is great.

00:18:54.220 I really like this.

00:18:55.020 And it's like, yeah, you probably do.

00:18:56.140 But I mean, oh, it's a disturbing message about whether he'll accept the election result.

00:19:01.480 What was the message?

00:19:02.220 Should we just go down?

00:19:03.680 The message is, will you accept the results of the election?

00:19:06.180 Trump's like, if it's a fair election, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to say.

00:19:10.640 That's not unreasonable at all.

00:19:13.280 And so on MSNBC, they're like, well, there's no logic to his appearance.

00:19:16.900 It's like, okay, well, let's just assume there isn't.

00:19:19.380 You can't say there's nothing to it.

00:19:20.900 No, it's sentimental.

00:19:21.940 This is why Trump is doing this on vibes, show the kind of guy he is.

00:19:27.220 He's the kind of guy who appreciates the genuine heart of America.

00:19:31.300 He loves what it is, and he's in its favor.

00:19:33.980 Kamala can't do this.

00:19:34.960 None of the Democrats can do this.

00:19:36.700 They're all completely off on a different tangent as to what is actually being offered here.

00:19:43.500 Yeah, but there's the obvious question, where does he see any logic in the Democrats' campaign?

00:19:50.380 It doesn't even matter.

00:19:50.820 It seems to me to be just ultra-irrational.

00:19:54.020 Well, I don't know.

00:19:54.620 I mean, they're just going to be like, yeah, we're going to promote this minority group and that minority group and LGBT and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:20:00.940 It's like, okay, but why don't you speak to the majority of the country and the people who actually make everything work?

00:20:07.280 And Trump does that in a completely unashamed way, but he's not in any way, like, he's not too good for it by any stretch.

00:20:15.800 And it's like, okay, he's got giant gold towers, for Christ's sake, you know, but he's not, he's very much sure he's not above it.

00:20:23.700 And then this, again, has been a thing that they've done for a long time.

00:20:27.460 Now, I don't know whether you remember this in 2019, I remember this very clearly because of the result.

00:20:34.820 The response from the liberal elite was, oh my God, he is essentially sullying those silver trays with this plebeian fast food.

00:20:45.620 Now, as you can see, Trump there, he's thrilled.

00:20:47.920 And this was for various athletic teams who were coming to the White House to meet him.

00:20:53.000 It's a basketball team.

00:20:53.940 That was, yeah, I can't remember which teams it were.

00:20:55.640 But you can see the players themselves, obviously from humble backgrounds, they came in like, oh, brilliant, and just started grabbing all the burgers and pizza and stuff like that.

00:21:03.580 They were all happy with it too, and they were just cheering down.

00:21:06.460 And it just goes to show that Trump actually does understand his people a lot better than the disconnected liberal elites do.

00:21:12.540 He's not above them.

00:21:13.620 He embraces this kind of what it is to be an American.

00:21:16.800 And McDonald's is very much a part of that.

00:21:19.640 Honestly, such a, such a tremendous win for Trump this.

00:21:23.120 And, yeah, just, I'm seriously hoping that he just storms it come November.

00:21:31.020 Just the optics are so, it's like a gulf, isn't it, between cameras and Trump's.

00:21:38.340 We've got a load of chats here.

00:21:39.420 Yeah, yeah, I'm going to have to go through loads of chats quickly.

00:21:41.160 Give me a second, because there's so many that have gone down off the bottom of my screen.

00:21:48.040 Jamal says, small donation for a great job.

00:21:50.020 Well, thanks, man.

00:21:51.260 Orange Dumbung says, Trump seems to be enjoying the entire campaign compared to the last two.

00:21:55.200 Yeah, he's definitely taking it in a much more relaxed manner, isn't he?

00:21:58.500 But there's a kind of inevitability that seems to underpin it.

00:22:01.640 It's like, no, I've got this.

00:22:03.860 And that's a random name.

00:22:05.040 It says, it's not former president.

00:22:06.380 When mum becomes the president of the USA, it's for life.

00:22:08.540 That's why Obama is still referred to as President Obama.

00:22:11.520 They keep saying former to discredit him.

00:22:13.760 Well, okay, that might be like an American thing.

00:22:17.360 That's just generally how we do it over here, isn't it?

00:22:19.960 Like we say former prime minister or something like that.

00:22:21.900 Yeah, it's not, for us, it's not a way of like...

00:22:24.900 It's a Britism.

00:22:26.100 Yeah.

00:22:26.720 That's a word.

00:22:27.860 Dragon Lady Chris is now a monthly supporter.

00:22:29.840 Thanks very much.

00:22:30.380 I can't pronounce your name, says...

00:22:33.460 This story has made me really happy.

00:22:34.740 Thank you for sharing this.

00:22:35.720 Well, it's just great, isn't it?

00:22:40.280 Boss Neeson says...

00:22:41.640 Milo said it best yesterday.

00:22:42.900 He saw our suffering and took the lion's share of it on himself.

00:22:45.140 It's forever synonymous with our last stand, our last hope.

00:22:47.500 Anointed by God, has transcended morality, even presidency.

00:22:51.040 America's fate is linked with his.

00:22:52.500 He is America.

00:22:53.340 Donald Trump has become mythological.

00:22:54.780 I've been saying this for ages, that Donald Trump is an avatar of America.

00:22:58.180 And I think he'll win on that alone.

00:23:01.380 An Orange Dumpling again says,

00:23:02.860 If Kamala wants to win the black vote, she has to serve chicken at KFC.

00:23:06.260 God, imagine.

00:23:07.420 That would be so funny.

00:23:08.920 She'll put on the accent again as well.

00:23:10.380 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:23:10.840 She'll put on a Southern Plantation accent as well.

00:23:14.800 Yeah, well.

00:23:16.360 OPH UK says,

00:23:17.100 Trump's stage-managed appearance is more genuine than Kamala has ever been.

00:23:20.140 And Dragon Lady Chris says,

00:23:21.360 I loved it when he said,

00:23:23.080 You're not ordering, you're not ordinary.

00:23:24.320 That was a great line.

00:23:25.080 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:25.920 Exactly.

00:23:26.260 Again, Trump, like I've said this before, he genuinely takes a kind of homeric approach

00:23:31.560 to everything.

00:23:32.360 Everything in Trump world is just the best.

00:23:34.340 It's the best.

00:23:35.060 And these enemies are, they're the worst.

00:23:36.400 And, you know, everything is just magnificent and dialed up and hyped up.

00:23:41.260 And it makes Trump's campaign so much more entertaining than anything a British politician

00:23:46.200 could ever achieve.

00:23:47.500 Anyway, we'll leave that there.

00:23:48.820 Got a bit of a thematic link here, actually.

00:23:51.100 Oh, really?

00:23:51.540 Okay.

00:23:52.080 Oh, yeah.

00:23:53.360 But anyway.

00:23:54.980 So, recently, Carl did a video, which I really enjoyed, actually.

00:23:58.940 I know.

00:23:59.360 Sucking up to the boss.

00:24:00.520 Yeah.

00:24:00.920 I know.

00:24:01.620 I know.

00:24:02.280 But you were talking about how we're already in a dystopia.

00:24:06.020 Yeah.

00:24:06.380 And I've noticed...

00:24:07.980 Yeah, I recognize this.

00:24:10.300 But there are so many good examples of this recently that it is undeniable.

00:24:16.460 And I wanted to basically build upon what you were talking about, because I agreed with

00:24:19.720 a lot of what you were saying in this video.

00:24:21.960 And the first thing that I saw, I just couldn't believe what I was reading.

00:24:27.500 So, here it is.

00:24:29.060 Ford files patent to eavesdrop on drivers' conversations.

00:24:32.040 So, I'm going to summarize, basically, what this article says.

00:24:35.440 There's technology in these new Ford cars that allows it to listen to conversations between

00:24:40.620 the occupants of the cars, and the software filters for specific keywords and phrases from

00:24:45.640 conversations.

00:24:47.280 And so, the system learns which adverts annoy or irritate individual people in the car, because

00:24:52.500 it also recognizes their faces, based on the user's comments when the ads are presented.

00:24:57.840 And, of course, there are in-car cameras, as well as microphones, which can sort of harvest

00:25:03.580 data on individuals in the car.

00:25:06.100 And this has now been patented by Ford.

00:25:09.060 I don't know whether they're actually going to implement it in their products, because,

00:25:13.900 of course...

00:25:14.100 Spend the time and effort to patent it.

00:25:16.460 However, companies do sometimes patent these things to block rivals from developing similar

00:25:21.040 technologies, which, in itself, is scary, because it means that Ford think this is significant

00:25:26.520 enough that someone else might choose to do it.

00:25:28.980 And so, if this is on the table, this is possible, this is horrifying, just like, yes, you're going

00:25:35.320 to buy a product, a car, not necessarily that cheap.

00:25:39.460 And it's going to harvest ad data from you to try and target ads and make you spend more

00:25:44.160 money that you wouldn't have otherwise spent.

00:25:46.040 I mean, this is something that the company should be paying you for.

00:25:48.900 Exactly.

00:25:49.540 If they want this information.

00:25:51.320 Your car is a snitch and a spy.

00:25:53.960 It is.

00:25:54.460 Well, it's going to get to the point where you kind of want one to break in and steal

00:25:57.580 your radio, isn't it?

00:25:58.960 Yeah.

00:25:59.160 And this is the most charitable reading of what we're looking at here.

00:26:05.640 Yeah, okay, sure.

00:26:06.980 For most people, it'll just be harvesting data.

00:26:08.980 But for some people, maybe it'll be spying on political conversations or something like that.

00:26:13.580 It could very much go that way, couldn't it?

00:26:15.500 Yeah.

00:26:15.760 There's absolutely nothing stopping it.

00:26:16.860 Imagine cops being in their car and this device listening to the conversations and everyone

00:26:26.560 racking.

00:26:26.840 Yeah, they could just tap in.

00:26:27.880 It would be like that scene in Batman.

00:26:29.520 Yeah.

00:26:29.860 He's got a big screen listening to every phone conversation.

00:26:32.920 You made a joke.

00:26:34.020 There's gallows humor.

00:26:35.080 No, let's go and report you to them.

00:26:38.420 So another dystopian thing that's happened is that the Labour government has said it's

00:26:43.820 going to inject fat people if they're unemployed.

00:26:50.580 I don't think they're just going to hold them.

00:26:52.440 I don't think they're necessarily going to hold them down and say, we're going to do this

00:26:55.160 for your own good.

00:26:55.920 We're going to reduce your stomach.

00:26:57.380 I think it's...

00:26:58.180 The size of your stomach.

00:26:59.420 I support that aspect of it.

00:27:01.360 You know, I...

00:27:01.980 But why are they doing this?

00:27:03.060 Well, the rationale is it's cheaper for the NHS to offer fat people who are unemployed

00:27:11.040 and supposedly this is if they're so obese they can't actually work, which is ridiculous

00:27:16.680 in and of itself.

00:27:17.580 I don't think that's a legitimate reason.

00:27:19.920 But it's to save the holy NHS.

00:27:22.580 I know.

00:27:23.080 It's funny how we have to reorient our entire society to save something that is a public

00:27:27.880 service.

00:27:28.480 Civil liberties?

00:27:29.400 No.

00:27:29.940 Fat jab.

00:27:31.680 The NHS needs it.

00:27:33.060 You're costing it too much.

00:27:34.300 You know, if there is ever a sort of collapse worldwide, Britain is going to be sort of

00:27:39.680 the cult of the NHS.

00:27:40.940 There are going to be altars where there are collapsed NHS signs that are going to be

00:27:44.560 worshipped.

00:27:44.980 Post-apocalyptic NHS gods.

00:27:48.040 But also, do they have any track record of success?

00:27:51.040 Because I think these pills are notorious.

00:27:53.180 All this stuff for weight loss are notorious for not working because most people are getting

00:27:58.500 them with the idea that I'm going to take this and I'm just keep, I will keep eating

00:28:03.220 the same amount as I do.

00:28:04.760 It's got to facilitate lifestyle.

00:28:06.000 25 burgers per day.

00:28:07.620 I thought the Zenpig one just made you less hungry or something.

00:28:12.020 So you don't eat 25 burgers?

00:28:13.680 It seems like cheating though.

00:28:15.700 Yeah, it is cheating.

00:28:16.260 I like being able to make a value judgment on someone based on their waistband.

00:28:20.780 I think that that's fair enough.

00:28:22.100 Just like, okay, well, I'm not going to a buffet with you, I'm afraid.

00:28:25.780 So the funny thing is as well that Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said the one thing that

00:28:30.960 he shouldn't have said, which is weight loss jabs for jobless, not dystopian.

00:28:35.400 If you have to come out and say your policy is not dystopian, it's dystopian.

00:28:41.020 Don't worry, guys.

00:28:43.100 No, it's not dystopian.

00:28:44.220 No, hold still.

00:28:45.280 Kim Jong-un says, you know, his suppression is not dystopian.

00:28:48.760 It's for your own good.

00:28:49.380 And so say you're fat and your compulsory weight loss to get your benefits goes wrong

00:28:57.360 and you go to a hospital, you might come across something like this.

00:29:01.660 So this was posted by a Guardian and Washington Post journalist, by the way.

00:29:06.020 Stop.

00:29:06.420 Please do not enter our hospital if you're feeling unwell.

00:29:10.280 I see.

00:29:12.700 Yeah.

00:29:12.960 Very interesting thing to have in a hospital.

00:29:15.060 The nurse is doing TikTok dances or something.

00:29:17.600 Yeah.

00:29:17.860 Don't disturb their TikTok.

00:29:19.400 That's the main thing that they do these days.

00:29:22.140 And yes, if you wanted to know a little bit about dystopian technology, my series, I talked

00:29:27.840 about just how dystopian China is.

00:29:30.080 So if you're interested in that, they've got their sort of canary in the coal mine for

00:29:34.860 how these sorts of technology is going to be implemented in the West.

00:29:38.280 I don't know.

00:29:38.580 They're fat jabbing poor people.

00:29:40.720 No, they're not quite on our level yet.

00:29:42.280 We're sort of outdoing them, really.

00:29:44.100 Yeah, we are.

00:29:45.040 Absolutely.

00:29:45.400 I mean, that's one of the sort of dystopian things I approve the most of.

00:29:50.200 It's kind of amusing in a weird sort of twisted way.

00:29:54.000 Amazing that it's come to this, though, right?

00:29:56.940 Like, imagine 10 years ago, but like, right, so the government's going to forcibly jab fat

00:30:00.740 people.

00:30:01.100 I think it is voluntary, but it would be funnier if it were, possibly.

00:30:05.120 Well, OK, it's voluntary, but we are going to withhold your benefits.

00:30:07.620 Don't take the fat jab.

00:30:08.800 So, yeah, voluntary.

00:30:10.880 Well, it's a lot cheaper than having, you know, people at the job centre with a burger

00:30:15.320 on a stick just coaxing them to lose weight.

00:30:17.480 But there's also, you know, if you're finally back into the job market, you've lost a bit

00:30:24.220 of weight.

00:30:24.800 You've been turned away from the hospital because you're sick.

00:30:28.180 And you think, well, I'm going to sit on my fat backside and do something that isn't

00:30:33.760 that intensive, like voice acting, for example.

00:30:37.140 Well, you know, any sort of translation job can't be done anymore because AI can now do

00:30:42.940 this.

00:30:43.160 This was crazy to me, by the way.

00:30:44.840 Hi, everyone, Kevin here.

00:30:46.800 Today, we're going to look at the ultimate PDF editing app, Wondershare's PDF Element

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00:31:02.880 I mean, that was amazing.

00:31:04.280 So, it clones his voice.

00:31:07.100 Moves his lips.

00:31:08.100 Moves it, yeah.

00:31:09.760 Moves his lips for it and also translates it.

00:31:13.020 So, it's basically as good as getting a translator.

00:31:18.260 And that's just another industry that's going to disappear.

00:31:21.640 And here's another dystopian thing I've seen.

00:31:25.080 So, I'm just going to scroll to the text.

00:31:27.680 For anyone who's wondering what an Apple intelligence summary of a breakup text looks like, no longer

00:31:32.400 in relationship, wants belongings from the apartment.

00:31:34.740 Which is just wonderfully dark, isn't it?

00:31:38.820 Yeah.

00:31:39.560 So, this is, of course...

00:31:42.020 That's a summary.

00:31:43.300 Apple phones now use artificial intelligence to summarize the sort of widget of your text

00:31:48.480 so it doesn't come up as partial.

00:31:50.060 You get a gist of what someone's saying to you.

00:31:52.600 Oh, right.

00:31:53.400 I was looking at this and I don't really understand.

00:31:55.100 Okay, yeah, that's horrible.

00:31:56.060 It's so cold.

00:32:01.600 Yeah.

00:32:02.100 It's void of any humanness.

00:32:04.580 Yeah.

00:32:04.760 Just imagine one day you're happily going about your life, no longer in relationship, wants

00:32:09.060 belongings from the apartment.

00:32:10.500 That text, that just makes it so much worse than it would have otherwise been.

00:32:14.760 Yeah.

00:32:15.020 They could have even put a lot of thought and effort into making it nicely worded so you

00:32:19.340 don't, you know, the other person's feelings aren't hurt.

00:32:22.560 You lose all of that.

00:32:23.500 It's a cool word of text.

00:32:23.780 It is, yes.

00:32:25.240 Good bit of a reference there.

00:32:27.580 So, if that doesn't work, of course, you could get replaced by one of Elon Musk's robot

00:32:33.820 army, basically.

00:32:35.520 So, they're only $30,000 as well, which means that that could be someone's salary for a year.

00:32:43.700 And if you're replaced by a robot, then...

00:32:46.260 Why do I need to replace them doing household chores?

00:32:48.340 Why can't I replace them being podcast hosts?

00:32:51.560 Uh-oh.

00:32:51.880 Listen, Carl, the AI isn't quite there yet, all right.

00:32:58.100 Also, I need to start sponsoring all of these people that are giving AI woke lobotomies so

00:33:04.320 you won't be able to use them.

00:33:05.440 Oh, yeah, that's a good point.

00:33:06.660 I mean, I would like a robot for house chores because they're boring.

00:33:10.720 You've got a wife, right, haven't you?

00:33:12.380 Yeah, but...

00:33:13.880 You're not sleeping on the sofa tonight.

00:33:17.880 Well done.

00:33:18.400 You passed the test.

00:33:19.300 I see, Josh.

00:33:20.160 My wife would definitely want me to get a robot to do the household chores, though.

00:33:24.360 She would definitely want that.

00:33:25.900 I don't blame her, to be honest.

00:33:27.160 No, I don't either.

00:33:27.900 They're tedious, aren't they?

00:33:28.800 So, obviously, you've been replaced by robots, and for whatever reason, McDonald's has resisted

00:33:36.600 as a bastion of Trumpism, perhaps, sort of regarding human beings as, you know, worthwhile.

00:33:44.320 Well, you might be enslaved.

00:33:49.260 That's something that could happen.

00:33:51.320 There's a remarkable amount of slavery that goes on in the modern world.

00:33:54.100 I know.

00:33:54.680 I wonder where that's come from.

00:33:56.180 I wonder if it has anything to do with our new visitors.

00:34:00.420 It's in Leicester East, anyway.

00:34:01.900 That's true.

00:34:02.860 Another thing that's happened is this.

00:34:05.140 And this story I found hilarious, and hardly anyone's talked about it.

00:34:09.080 So, this is the single most Italian story I've ever heard.

00:34:12.800 And so, an Italian minister was having an affair with a lady who had some designer, of course,

00:34:22.740 she had some Ray-Bans with a secret camera in, which she used to film inside Parliament,

00:34:30.240 which is against the law in Italy.

00:34:31.980 And then she also used this to try and seemingly blackmail the Italian minister, and he had to

00:34:38.320 resign because of it.

00:34:39.800 He was the tourism minister.

00:34:41.840 And also, this is her, a bit of an aside, and this is him.

00:34:50.040 Love is blind.

00:34:51.260 Yeah.

00:34:52.220 I feel like he should have known better, but, you know.

00:34:55.820 He's an Italian man.

00:34:56.740 That's true.

00:34:57.620 Yeah, we're expecting too much.

00:34:59.660 So, it's also worth mentioning as well, Lewis Brackpool tweeted about this, that two Harvard

00:35:05.480 undergraduates have combined facial recognition software with Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses,

00:35:11.800 because I think that must be the ones that she used as well.

00:35:15.380 And within minutes of meeting strangers, they had obtained their addresses, parents' names,

00:35:19.920 and pictures of them, which is just horrifying, isn't it?

00:35:23.500 Yeah.

00:35:23.680 If someone could just look at me and know who I am immediately, know where I live, that,

00:35:29.720 to me, is terrifying.

00:35:31.000 Well, there's always an assumption of a kind of personal sense of control over your own

00:35:35.340 identity, and that removes this from you completely.

00:35:38.820 There's an outsourced AI-established identity now, so good luck with that.

00:35:44.480 So, obviously, you know, you can't find a job because robots have replaced you.

00:35:49.500 You know, you've lost all your weight now.

00:35:51.340 No one wants to hang out with you.

00:35:52.340 Yeah, no one wants to hang out with you.

00:35:53.620 Obviously, all the politicians that you can put your grievances to have been taken down

00:35:57.960 in affairs, and you just think, well, I want some entertainment.

00:36:03.340 Well, there's a new thing on the block, and that is using drones to torment homeless people.

00:36:10.460 And it's called Bums and Drones.

00:36:14.060 They're just flying over homeless people and annoying them, and they're trying to get them

00:36:18.060 to throw things at them.

00:36:19.260 And this is a whole phenomenon now.

00:36:20.860 Like, there's this one.

00:36:22.500 I'm not going to stay on this one because they get their backside out, but...

00:36:25.940 No, definitely don't look at that one.

00:36:29.780 But yeah, just annoying people on the street for their own entertainment, and this wasn't...

00:36:35.940 It doesn't seem like you had the fad job, yes.

00:36:38.740 But this was on TikTok, and TikTok and YouTube have removed it, but it's still on X, unfortunately.

00:36:45.360 I don't approve of tormenting people minding their own business, even if they are homeless.

00:36:49.560 Even if they are a burden on the NHS.

00:36:52.060 Yeah, that's true, yes.

00:36:53.980 And yes, this form of entertainment is going to become all the more easy.

00:36:59.140 The more homeless people there are, and the more drones there are, you know, you could

00:37:02.360 potentially tie a hot dog to a drone and fly it over a homeless encampment, or maybe

00:37:06.200 just a little white bag, and watch all of the people in Philadelphia move like zombies.

00:37:12.720 Endless entertainment, but it's bad, and don't do that.

00:37:15.280 And say he wants Josh promoting it.

00:37:20.720 Imagine the possibilities.

00:37:21.660 Yeah, just imagine how funny this would be, but don't do it.

00:37:24.260 You could do this also, obviously not do this, but obviously.

00:37:28.160 But you know, with screaming leftists and activists, they're screaming, and you have

00:37:33.080 the drone, you know, moving around, and they scream at the drone.

00:37:36.900 It's like those videos you see in the Amazon when they see, like, a helicopter fly over,

00:37:42.620 and they're throwing, like, spears and arrows, and, like, shooting arrows at them.

00:37:46.220 Well, you could do a sort of drone light display with a picture of Trump or something.

00:37:49.600 That's true.

00:37:50.220 That's a bit more creative and wholesome, yeah.

00:37:51.840 And say you don't want this sort of unsavory entertainment, you may perhaps want to watch

00:37:58.060 a film.

00:37:59.360 Well, Lily Wachowski, of course, of the Wachowski sisters, known for The Matrix, is adapting

00:38:08.740 a dystopian horror about trans people hunting feral men for survival.

00:38:15.200 What do you reckon, Stelios?

00:38:16.380 I don't exactly understand what this means, but it sounds bad.

00:38:19.940 Yeah, it's a terrible premise for a film.

00:38:23.560 So, this is based on...

00:38:25.340 I mean, I'm definitely going to watch it.

00:38:27.500 Yeah.

00:38:28.060 Hate watch it, perhaps.

00:38:29.280 But this is based on the book Manhunt from 2022 by the author Gretchen Felker Martin,

00:38:35.760 and who can guess what this author looks like?

00:38:39.220 Something like a Wachowski sister.

00:38:41.820 Someone like a...

00:38:42.800 How did I know?

00:38:46.820 Hunting feral men...

00:38:48.140 Oh, they're going to be MAGA supporters, obviously, so they're going to...

00:38:50.220 Well, do you know the premise of it?

00:38:53.040 So, it's a post-apocalyptic world where testosterone turns people into feral zombie-like creatures.

00:38:59.600 Thanks.

00:39:00.660 Okay.

00:39:01.640 I'm with the feral zombie-like creatures.

00:39:03.300 Yeah, me too.

00:39:04.120 I always root for the zombies.

00:39:05.380 Yeah, but why would these trans people be hunting them?

00:39:08.840 They're not hunting them for the testosterone, are they?

00:39:10.680 They're hunting them to survive, as in the feral men are evil and...

00:39:15.420 They're not hunting them to eat them or something, are they?

00:39:17.100 I don't think so.

00:39:18.760 Harvest their...

00:39:19.600 Harvest their livers or something.

00:39:20.800 Mm.

00:39:21.820 So...

00:39:22.300 No, no, no, mind me.

00:39:23.580 No, you can't say that.

00:39:24.800 No, no.

00:39:25.740 I don't know.

00:39:26.240 I don't know.

00:39:26.560 I don't know.

00:39:26.800 I don't know.

00:39:27.080 I don't know.

00:39:27.680 So, say you sort of have read the Industrial Society, and you've given up on technology and...

00:39:34.240 Which I have at this point.

00:39:35.220 Yeah.

00:39:35.360 Um, and you just want to move to the country and raise some chickens.

00:39:39.800 Well...

00:39:40.320 Not on Starmer's watch.

00:39:42.240 Yes.

00:39:42.980 Um, actually, the UK government, as of the 1st of October, um, it will be a criminal offence

00:39:48.820 to own an unregistered chicken without the authorities knowing about it.

00:39:52.940 I have not got my chicken license.

00:39:56.200 Has Tim Paul commented on this?

00:39:58.100 I don't know.

00:39:59.520 But it's just ridiculous.

00:40:01.640 And, um, there was an excellent meme about it.

00:40:04.640 UK citizens, uh, stop illegal immigration.

00:40:07.620 The UK government, best I can do is monitor your chickens.

00:40:12.720 However, people have fought back.

00:40:15.500 And, as, uh, Royal Rwag Nationalist has pointed out, um, people have been registering, um, roast

00:40:21.600 chickens that they bought at the supermarkets, and it's crashed the government website.

00:40:26.280 Yeah, it's not big, it's not clever, and you should stop sniggering, sorry, I can't help.

00:40:29.140 Yeah, this is terrible.

00:40:30.900 Wasting government time is really bad, people.

00:40:33.220 And don't do it, because you'll get in trouble.

00:40:35.660 Um, I can't believe you've got registered chickens.

00:40:39.360 It's ridiculous, isn't it?

00:40:40.860 What's wrong with these people?

00:40:41.880 How many chickens are there?

00:40:42.480 Do you have a photo ID for each one as well?

00:40:44.360 Yeah, exactly.

00:40:44.700 But there must be like, well, how many chickens are there in the country?

00:40:46.640 Well, we don't know.

00:40:47.600 Well, why don't we know?

00:40:48.640 We're the government.

00:40:49.160 We should know all of this.

00:40:50.200 Get everyone to register their chickens.

00:40:51.960 It's like, oh, fuck off.

00:40:53.420 What if you have a chicken that gives birth to several other chickens?

00:40:57.340 Do you have to instantly...

00:40:59.340 Yeah, do you have to instantly register them?

00:41:01.640 Yeah, these are unlicensed chickens.

00:41:04.840 You take picture of each egg, and you can apply for chicken welfare, perhaps.

00:41:08.300 That's like one of the gay version of VFM death.

00:41:11.060 It is, isn't it?

00:41:12.140 And as you can't escape anything, the final thing you can resort to, and Stelius will

00:41:17.880 like this one, so a South Korean professor has invented a toilet that turns excrement

00:41:24.160 into energy and pays people in cryptocurrency.

00:41:30.340 And, listen, right?

00:41:33.140 What does this even mean?

00:41:34.540 I really like this comment.

00:41:35.940 I don't have diarrhea.

00:41:36.980 I have a revenue stream.

00:41:38.280 Everyone's mocking this, but I currently do this for free.

00:41:42.580 If I can get paid in crypto for it.

00:41:44.680 Yeah, exactly.

00:41:46.420 So, um...

00:41:47.460 I think it's a genius idea.

00:41:48.720 It is, yeah.

00:41:49.660 Worst comes to worst, at least you can harvest some revenue going to the toilet.

00:41:54.280 So, you know, those fat surgeries might not actually be as useful as you first thought.

00:41:59.420 A brave new world.

00:42:01.720 But, yes, this is a rather horrifying look at the future of the world.

00:42:06.620 I think this is actually a really good idea.

00:42:08.440 It is a good idea.

00:42:09.340 I found it kind of weirdly wholesome.

00:42:12.000 Also, look at how happy he is.

00:42:13.020 Look at this smug self-satisfaction.

00:42:16.820 Do you get 5% of every point?

00:42:19.800 I don't know.

00:42:20.520 You became a billionaire somehow.

00:42:23.220 I've never thought, though.

00:42:24.860 You know what's wrong with toilets?

00:42:26.280 They don't generate me any money.

00:42:28.300 Maybe yours is not.

00:42:29.800 I've got to respect...

00:42:30.620 That's smart thinking.

00:42:31.280 I've got to respect the innovation.

00:42:33.020 You've got to respect the hustle, man.

00:42:35.060 But, yes.

00:42:35.540 So, imagine the kind of food he needs to eat every day to maintain a stable revenue stream.

00:42:42.380 Thanks for that thought, Steli.

00:42:43.620 This is going to open up new avenues of leftists going, yeah, but there's poo inequality.

00:42:48.600 Because some people only go once a day and some people go twice a day or something like that.

00:42:52.040 And, oh, Jesus Christ.

00:42:53.000 Surely it's not about the frequency.

00:42:54.540 It's about the...

00:42:55.840 I don't know.

00:42:57.840 Because it's turning it...

00:42:58.860 Isn't it turning it into biomass or something?

00:43:02.720 Yeah, it turns it into energy.

00:43:04.460 Right, okay.

00:43:05.600 Then small people are going to be like, but I don't...

00:43:08.040 Yes, tall people make more money.

00:43:10.520 Finally, I can monetize eating more food.

00:43:13.120 This has been a long time coming.

00:43:15.540 But anyway, I wanted to point out how ridiculous the world is getting and how dystopias need

00:43:20.820 not necessarily be, you know, as they're portrayed in films.

00:43:24.640 They can be a bit ridiculous.

00:43:25.880 That's a random name says, as a free speech terrorist, such a car would lead me straight

00:43:31.000 into jail here in Canada with all the slurs I say while having road rage.

00:43:35.940 Peter says, the problem with the Zempick is that you are effectively starving yourself

00:43:40.580 so you lose fat and muscle.

00:43:42.400 A Zempick face has become the way to describe people using it now.

00:43:45.660 Yeah, I've noticed that.

00:43:46.440 People who have taken it seem gaunt.

00:43:49.600 I don't even know how to notice it.

00:43:51.000 Is it where they go like that?

00:43:53.260 Probably, yeah.

00:43:53.520 Yeah.

00:43:53.720 LadyDragonChris says, we have Tomlinson talks, we need Josh Jabbers.

00:43:59.680 And The Last Russian says, you should also look up Drones vs. Hookers and totally show

00:44:03.660 that on stream.

00:44:04.360 David Attenborough 8.

00:44:05.700 I don't think we will.

00:44:06.480 Thank you.

00:44:07.260 Appreciate that though.

00:44:11.700 Right.

00:44:12.100 We need to talk about King Arthur.

00:44:14.360 And I come from afar.

00:44:16.500 I want to ask here, the two of you, to enlighten me about King Arthur because I've read some

00:44:22.200 rumours lately about him being a gay icon.

00:44:27.720 Obviously you have, yeah.

00:44:28.820 And I want them to be addressed because I heard some things that, first of all, look

00:44:34.300 at this.

00:44:34.700 Why is this statue full of holes?

00:44:36.480 Well, so the reason for this is that King Arthur is a kind of semi-legendary king of

00:44:41.820 the Britons who is resisting the Saxon invasion of Britain in the 5th century AD, so like 1,500

00:44:48.540 years ago.

00:44:49.200 And because it's during the fall of the Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire, and the

00:44:53.980 retreat, the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain, and then the mystery of the events

00:45:00.680 because they're not properly chronicled, we don't really know much factually about King

00:45:05.620 Arthur.

00:45:05.840 We've just got the legends.

00:45:06.840 And a lot of the legends are from the Middle Ages, like 500 years afterwards.

00:45:09.380 So they're not really very factually accurate.

00:45:13.000 I mean, the part where King Arthur creates his own empire by conquering the European continent,

00:45:17.940 for example, doesn't seem to have actually happened.

00:45:21.320 No.

00:45:21.420 It's a good story.

00:45:22.580 And so...

00:45:23.160 Oh, sorry.

00:45:23.960 Go ahead.

00:45:24.060 Well, this is the thesis behind the statue.

00:45:26.620 There probably was a guy who fills the denotation of what King Arthur is supposed to have been,

00:45:33.920 and, you know, won the Battle of, what was it, Baden Hill.

00:45:38.500 I think it's the one.

00:45:39.380 Sounds about right.

00:45:40.020 Yeah.

00:45:40.280 Battle of Baden.

00:45:41.140 But this statue I've actually been to before, and the castle on the rock in Tintagel itself

00:45:46.260 is amazing.

00:45:47.280 I can see why people look at it and think that's mythical, because you see the ruins of a castle

00:45:51.640 on a high-up rock far away from anything.

00:45:54.360 You have to take a wooden bridge just to get to it.

00:45:57.940 You can see why there's this mystical, mythical aspect to his character.

00:46:05.000 But I imagine when people say he engaged in lots of sword fighting, it wasn't quite what

00:46:11.100 the woke people had in mind.

00:46:13.120 And there's nothing sexual about the story and his history?

00:46:17.860 No.

00:46:18.400 Well, nothing, like, unorthodox.

00:46:21.700 Okay.

00:46:22.200 I mean, the alliterative death of Arthur is probably the most sort of widely understood

00:46:29.580 version of the King Arthur mythos, in which he basically goes on this conquering crusade

00:46:34.520 across the European continent, and back home, Mordred steals his wife, I think it is, Guinevere,

00:46:41.440 and then he has to come back, fight him.

00:46:43.380 He defeats him, but gets wounded in the battle, then is taken to Avalon, where he passes away.

00:46:49.140 Are you sure that he steals his wife, rather than...

00:46:52.720 His boyfriend.

00:46:53.920 Yeah, no, I mean, it's not necessarily clear.

00:46:57.460 I mean, it just calls her a woman all the way through.

00:46:59.120 Stole his Nintendo Switch, yeah.

00:47:00.860 Right, so there was an article here by the Daily Mail saying that King Arthur may have

00:47:06.220 been LGBT because he once wore women's clothing, says Welsh Council.

00:47:12.480 I agree.

00:47:13.660 What was the context?

00:47:14.680 The context says that the Welsh ruler, that there has been a recent LGBTQ plus timeline

00:47:21.660 as part of a work to celebrate local stories of sexual orientation and gender identity.

00:47:28.720 So the myth wasn't about gender identity?

00:47:32.700 No.

00:47:33.280 Generally, no.

00:47:33.960 Not generally.

00:47:34.960 Okay, I'll take that box.

00:47:36.960 Patriarchal presuppositions of sex and gender.

00:47:39.600 That came from Denbighshire County Council that included the folk hero in it because he wore

00:47:47.260 women's clothing.

00:47:48.400 So what happened with it?

00:47:50.620 Was he doing it for fun?

00:47:51.880 Was he doing it at night?

00:47:52.940 I have no idea.

00:47:53.480 Alone?

00:47:54.260 Wasn't it a disguise?

00:47:56.320 It's most likely to have been disguised.

00:47:58.340 But the thing is, the King Arthur sort of canon is quite large and over a long period

00:48:02.580 of time.

00:48:03.660 So there are, you know, like with the Robin Hood one, there are lots of different stories

00:48:07.120 from lots of different people.

00:48:08.960 I haven't...

00:48:09.600 I don't remember an example of wearing King Arthur wore women's clothing, but it's probably

00:48:14.320 to sneak into someone else's castle.

00:48:16.200 So it definitely wasn't that he was wearing these clothes, wearing high heels, dancing

00:48:22.120 at night.

00:48:23.440 Well, whenever he's been depicted, and all of the mythology has suggested he is a man

00:48:30.040 wearing man's clothes, a knight perhaps.

00:48:32.480 Doing man things.

00:48:33.540 Yes, exactly.

00:48:34.240 But to, not to other men.

00:48:40.620 Referencing the legend, the timeline's first entry said that Arthur had dressed in women's

00:48:45.280 clothes in order to visit a woman in the market town of Ruthen.

00:48:48.560 So he was sneaking into somewhere, so he disguised himself, therefore he's queer.

00:48:55.120 Yeah, that's exactly, that's the rationale.

00:48:57.700 Okay.

00:48:58.080 That's the rationale.

00:48:59.180 Okay.

00:48:59.560 Right, so, and they say, but...

00:49:01.000 Clearly, King Arthur was a fetishist.

00:49:03.360 The ruler was recognized by his rival, I believe that's pronounced Hwaylapkor, Josh?

00:49:10.460 Where are you looking?

00:49:11.720 The first line.

00:49:12.920 How do you pronounce a Welsh name?

00:49:15.640 Hwaylapkor?

00:49:16.500 I don't know.

00:49:17.060 You pronounce it better than I, than myself.

00:49:19.440 Who mocked Arthur's injured knee as he danced in women's attire in a bid to get close to

00:49:25.100 a love interest.

00:49:26.860 Following his lack of tact, Arthur summoned him to court where he bitterly sentenced him

00:49:31.160 to death.

00:49:32.320 Right, and all this comes from a...

00:49:34.360 That makes him gay.

00:49:35.200 There's nothing.

00:49:36.260 Are you sure there's nothing?

00:49:37.600 Yeah, I'm pretty sure, yeah.

00:49:38.600 There's nothing about it.

00:49:39.740 Yeah, no.

00:49:41.280 Right, so...

00:49:41.920 It says that despite no definitive mention of Arthur's sexual persuasion, he's still been

00:49:45.740 included.

00:49:46.040 Well, I mean, he is married to Guinevere, so...

00:49:50.040 I mean...

00:49:50.960 Yeah, but...

00:49:52.760 She was a woman, right?

00:49:56.340 Okay.

00:49:56.800 He was a man.

00:49:57.900 Allegedly.

00:49:58.460 Usually called heterosexuality.

00:50:00.480 The timeline was created as a result of Welsh Government Commission training in LGBTQ

00:50:05.600 plus language and history for local libraries, museums and archives.

00:50:09.220 Wales is just the worst for wokeness now.

00:50:11.520 It's worse than Scotland at this point.

00:50:13.220 It is.

00:50:13.760 It genuinely is.

00:50:14.500 It's bonkers how woke the Welsh have gone.

00:50:16.720 The thing is, the Welsh aren't woke people.

00:50:18.740 Like, you speak to an average Welshman.

00:50:20.020 He's not like some raging SJW.

00:50:22.440 So how are they allowing this to happen to themselves?

00:50:24.940 I think it's just their councils, isn't it?

00:50:26.460 Sorry, Stenius.

00:50:27.060 No, no, please.

00:50:27.820 That was all...

00:50:28.600 Yeah, they say that they have a training and they say that this was done to raise awareness

00:50:33.500 and understanding on Wales' diverse population.

00:50:37.560 They're talking about...

00:50:38.540 Sorry, just pause.

00:50:40.860 Okay.

00:50:42.960 Imagine you're at the Welsh Council meeting.

00:50:44.940 I'm going to speak in English for simplicity's sake.

00:50:47.460 All right.

00:50:47.700 We need to raise awareness for Wales' diversity.

00:50:51.080 It's like, oh, okay, Griff, how are we going to do that?

00:50:54.420 Well, we could say King Arthur was a homo.

00:50:58.100 He wore women's clothes once.

00:51:00.060 Doesn't that make him...

00:51:00.880 Yeah, it's like, jeez.

00:51:01.780 Good enough for me.

00:51:04.620 That's all it takes.

00:51:05.500 They have the action plan created by the Welsh government that hopes to tackle inequalities

00:51:10.800 experienced by LGBTQ plus peoples and challenges discrimination.

00:51:15.340 Ah, that's good.

00:51:16.000 And I have...

00:51:16.620 You know what's really going to make them change their minds?

00:51:18.440 Yeah, what?

00:51:18.780 King Arthur being gay.

00:51:20.000 Yeah, he was gay.

00:51:20.760 No, that's going to...

00:51:21.520 Oh, come on.

00:51:22.360 And I have two documents here, two action plans from the Welsh government.

00:51:27.940 It says that they want to build an anti-racist Wales.

00:51:31.260 Oh, good, yeah.

00:51:31.960 And let me just show you...

00:51:33.020 Wales not for the Welsh people.

00:51:34.880 Yeah.

00:51:35.020 Let me just show you what the saying varies.

00:51:37.660 Did they suggest that he only hung around the Lady of the Lake to get the sword?

00:51:41.400 And then that was it.

00:51:42.540 He wasn't interested.

00:51:43.780 He wasn't interested in the Lady of the Lake in any way.

00:51:46.680 Yeah.

00:51:47.060 So, I don't know.

00:51:48.940 This is amazing, right?

00:51:49.880 So, the overarching purple theme,

00:51:52.920 our purpose is to collectively make a significant change to the lives of black, Asian, and minority

00:51:57.580 ethnic people.

00:51:59.480 It isn't your job to, like, look after the Welsh people.

00:52:01.640 So, we're going to present Arthur as an LGBTQ icon.

00:52:04.680 So, obviously, Arthur took it up the bum.

00:52:07.800 So, that's the anti-racist bit, because that's the...

00:52:12.400 I was just going to say, everything that is presented in, like, an infographic wheel like that

00:52:16.920 is 100% nonsense, by the way.

00:52:19.420 Yeah, it's woke nonsense.

00:52:20.320 They love their wheels.

00:52:22.120 And they're saying that focus areas of desired actions, your experience of racism as a refugee

00:52:27.040 or asylum seeker, your experience of racism in every day of life, your experience of racism

00:52:32.200 when experiencing service delivery.

00:52:35.140 So, if the Amazon delivery driver throws slurs at you...

00:52:40.040 Yeah.

00:52:40.500 It's the council's business.

00:52:42.600 Exactly.

00:52:43.760 It's the government.

00:52:44.960 They make everything their business.

00:52:47.180 Your experience in being part of the workplace, your experience in gaining jobs and opportunities,

00:52:51.300 your experience when you lack visible role models in positions of power.

00:52:54.800 What happens when all my role models are terrible?

00:53:00.700 I don't know, Carl.

00:53:02.520 I mean, it's not racism, but it is bad.

00:53:05.080 We have yet another action plan, the Advancing LGBTQ Plus for Wales.

00:53:11.500 And let's scroll down to page 9 out of 21.

00:53:15.580 I'll show you what they're saying.

00:53:17.400 The overarching aims are a strategic and common thread which runs throughout the specific actions

00:53:23.120 that they help to identify the commonality shared by the actions.

00:53:26.800 And what they're saying here is that we will strengthen equality and human rights for LGBTQ

00:53:32.060 plus people.

00:53:33.660 We will seek to influence the UK government to do the same.

00:53:38.000 We will ensure that the rights of LGBTQ plus people are recognized and mainstream across

00:53:43.000 the public sector in Wales.

00:53:44.700 And they are saying we will help to challenge heteronormative and cis-normative assumptions

00:53:50.200 and will require public bodies to appropriately identify and record these identities at the

00:53:56.320 point of access.

00:53:57.100 They're going to create gay lists.

00:53:59.000 I'm very disappointed.

00:53:59.880 They're literally going to come to you and say, look, I need a list of all the gays you

00:54:02.860 have working for you.

00:54:03.960 No, this isn't Nazism.

00:54:05.180 This is the opposite of Nazism.

00:54:06.560 You know, it's like, I'm sort of disappointed that in all this woolly language, they've missed

00:54:13.500 out a very important thing to the Welsh people.

00:54:16.120 That's all I'm going to say.

00:54:19.560 Right.

00:54:20.180 So before we move on, because I found a tendency that some people don't know, I discovered it.

00:54:27.920 But before we say this, I have a question to ask you.

00:54:30.980 Go on.

00:54:31.360 It's a slight tangent, but an important one.

00:54:34.940 So there lived a certain man in Russia long ago.

00:54:38.020 He was big and strong in his eyes are flaming glow.

00:54:41.640 Was he also gay?

00:54:42.580 Who do I have in mind?

00:54:43.640 Is that Rasputin?

00:54:45.200 Yes.

00:54:45.560 So if you want to learn more about the man who led the revolution that topped the regime

00:54:51.020 that Rasputin was affiliated with, check out Lotus Cedars and get a subscription with

00:54:57.480 £5 a month to our website and watch beautiful epochs number 107 on the life of Lenin.

00:55:05.000 We've been informed by the Welsh Council he was also gay.

00:55:07.140 Lenin, gay.

00:55:10.060 Stalin, gay.

00:55:11.000 Consider this.

00:55:11.800 King Arthur, gay.

00:55:13.220 Robert, gay.

00:55:13.800 My political commentary as a 12-year-old must have been off the charts.

00:55:17.360 Yes, literally.

00:55:18.180 So just as little as £5 a month, you can gain a subscription.

00:55:21.720 On the side there, Caesar, gay.

00:55:23.500 Thank you.

00:55:24.220 Pompey, gay.

00:55:25.200 I mean, just...

00:55:25.840 But you're saying about Caesar, but you have anticipated something.

00:55:29.600 Okay, Caesar actually had a...

00:55:30.320 Because, you know, some people called him the Queen of Bithynia.

00:55:33.180 Yeah, he actually had, apparently had a gay experience with the King of Bithynia.

00:55:36.920 Right, so there has been, for some reason, there are some people who are particularly

00:55:41.860 interested with King Arthur and they want to present him as gay.

00:55:45.500 I don't know what it is about King Arthur.

00:55:48.320 So I just put King Arthur gay here on YouTube and I found several videos.

00:55:53.260 I'm not going to scroll down because they're really going for it.

00:55:56.220 Right, okay.

00:55:56.980 Because that series there, the Merlin TV series, I actually watched that one and quite enjoyed it.

00:56:01.640 And other than them having...

00:56:03.280 Watched all of it.

00:56:03.900 Yeah, other than having a rather swarthy Guinevere, they sort of kept to the spirit of the myths

00:56:10.100 with some creative licences.

00:56:11.400 The 2004 King Arthur film actually isn't bad either.

00:56:15.820 No one in it's gay, though.

00:56:17.940 But if I scroll down, I see them doing several stuff and he's turning him...

00:56:23.960 No, Samson, no.

00:56:26.940 No, no, no.

00:56:29.420 But it's on YouTube.

00:56:30.560 It is YouTube.

00:56:32.100 Anyway, so apparently, you know what's gay Arthuriana?

00:56:37.020 No.

00:56:37.580 Excuse me?

00:56:38.460 You know what's gay Arthuriana?

00:56:40.400 It's a genre of fiction.

00:56:42.960 Oh, of gay King Arthur.

00:56:44.440 Oh, okay.

00:56:46.540 So I have here, Goodreads, a list of gay Arthuriana, which is a retelling of Arthurian legend,

00:56:53.280 but in LGBT.

00:56:54.880 I didn't know this was ever a thing.

00:56:56.860 Arthurian legend was gay.

00:56:57.120 It's just...

00:56:58.340 There are more than seven books.

00:57:01.080 Hang on.

00:57:01.520 How long is this list, Stelios?

00:57:03.000 How many books are there?

00:57:03.720 It's a huge list.

00:57:05.220 Really?

00:57:05.500 This is like someone who's in South Park.

00:57:08.180 Yeah, it has tens of books.

00:57:11.460 It's...

00:57:11.820 King Arthur, but it's all gay.

00:57:13.460 There's something about...

00:57:14.720 That's why I'm saying this.

00:57:15.960 I'm getting some serious reservations about how people are spending their time here.

00:57:20.660 If there are almost a hundred books about King Arthur being gay.

00:57:23.960 Yeah, suddenly I'm against capitalism.

00:57:25.860 Yeah, so there are several...

00:57:27.160 That's all it took, was it?

00:57:28.260 What is it...

00:57:28.840 Did Lenin allow this to be produced?

00:57:30.580 What is it about King Arthur that ignites people's imagination and sets them on fire?

00:57:37.740 They just want to pull their sword from the stone, you know?

00:57:40.500 I mean, there's lots of masculine concerns in King Arthur about loyalty and heroism, empire.

00:57:48.500 Maybe that?

00:57:49.760 He had a round table with a bunch of hunks around him.

00:57:52.360 Yeah, basically.

00:57:53.760 So, you see, I have some summaries here, because there's something about it that people get excited with.

00:57:58.960 We have Gwen and Art are not in love.

00:58:04.140 I had no idea this existed.

00:58:06.960 Heartstopper meets a knight's tale in this queer medieval rom-com that knew about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history.

00:58:16.240 This is just fan fiction becoming books, isn't it?

00:58:19.260 Yeah, this is a...

00:58:20.020 And you have here Guinevere touching a lady and Arthur touching a man, who I don't know who that is.

00:58:27.580 It says it's a hundred years after, so it's their descendants, but gay.

00:58:31.360 We have Tristan and Lancelot, A Tale of Two Nights, which is the queer reimagining of an Arthurian legend.

00:58:39.740 Yeah.

00:58:40.600 Those don't look like English names, either.

00:58:43.440 Piracetti and Beeler.

00:58:45.460 That sounds Italian and sort of Germanic.

00:58:48.740 Some gay foreigners are like, I'm going to make this look gay.

00:58:51.720 Oi.

00:58:52.240 Before they can sort through their complicated feelings, an unexpected dark force appears, bringing what just might be the end of Camelot.

00:59:01.200 Recommended on the Welsh Council.

00:59:02.540 Yeah, we have here gay knights and horny heroes, tales from the court of King Arthur.

00:59:07.120 I can't believe I'm just getting three stars.

00:59:09.960 Yeah, and they say, we really know it's all about the men.

00:59:14.720 It says, come gentle readers and venture into the world of yore.

00:59:19.360 You know this is going to be a cheesy read, because if you scroll up, you can see his name's literally Goda, as in the cheese.

00:59:24.820 And we have here, is that King Arthur holding someone?

00:59:28.920 It's like King Arthur out of a P.D.D. party.

00:59:32.700 It says, come gentle readers, and every warrior loves a good joust.

00:59:36.540 Welcome to the world of gay knights and horny heroes.

00:59:39.200 God save the king.

00:59:40.560 Yeah, another thing they've debauched.

00:59:43.160 They've probably subverted the meaning of slaying as well, to the Gen Z definition.

00:59:48.240 And we have our last one here to show you, Mordred and the King.

00:59:51.860 This is the worst axe I have ever seen.

00:59:54.820 And they're saying something like, on a hunting trip to the border of Wales, Arthur and his party lose their way and end up in Morgan's realm.

01:00:02.300 Visiting her castle, Arthur is glimpsed by young Mordred, who falls instantly, hopelessly in love with you.

01:00:07.700 I think Arthur's son.

01:00:11.120 Before he can...

01:00:13.200 It says, newly empowered by his experience.

01:00:17.200 It's all about male empowerment.

01:00:19.200 But this is the scope of the betrayal, is that he's betrayed by his own son, and he kills his own son in battle.

01:00:26.960 And he's slain by him.

01:00:28.000 I mean, it's meant to be a massive tragedy.

01:00:30.860 They're not even bothered to learn the basic premise of the legend.

01:00:35.740 Yeah, it's the forbidden love, because it says, Arthur welcomes him warmly to Camelot, and a tender, loving relationship soon blossoms between them, but there's opposition to their love.

01:00:47.460 Stuff like that.

01:00:48.540 Yeah, amazing.

01:00:49.360 Anyway, so there are several historical figures who are portrayed as LGBTQ.

01:00:54.140 So Caesar, they say bisexual, some called him the Queen of Bithynia.

01:00:59.580 Probably not, though.

01:01:01.000 Yeah.

01:01:01.400 Alejandro Magno, they say queer, we've all watched Netflix, or not.

01:01:06.180 He was Greek, therefore gay.

01:01:08.520 Sorry, Stella.

01:01:09.820 Sorry, Stella.

01:01:10.920 There's something, there's yet another thing, source pink news, we have gay and bisexual royals, and they have a list here.

01:01:19.580 Queen Anne of Great Britain, King William II of England.

01:01:23.580 Yeah, he was.

01:01:24.780 William Lufus.

01:01:25.860 He was killed with a red-hot poker up his bum.

01:01:27.860 King Richard the Lionheart?

01:01:29.260 No reason to think that.

01:01:30.900 Are you sure?

01:01:31.580 Oh yeah, he had a wife.

01:01:32.700 He was a bad pink news.

01:01:34.500 King Richard the Lionheart was a famous womanizer.

01:01:39.760 Yeah, definitely not.

01:01:41.220 I wonder how many of these people actually have children and wives.

01:01:44.560 I know that doesn't necessarily stop someone from dabbling, but it's sort of evidence to the counter, isn't it?

01:01:50.680 What's the thing there?

01:01:51.920 Yeah, because for the sake of diplomacy, he allied with Philip II of France, and ate every day at the same table, Carl.

01:01:59.280 They ate at the same table.

01:02:00.480 And they slept at the same bed at night.

01:02:02.160 It's like, yeah, but, I mean, there was no central heating.

01:02:05.240 And at night, the beds did not separate them.

01:02:07.900 Sharing beds was completely normal.

01:02:09.640 This doesn't make them gay.

01:02:12.040 King William III of England?

01:02:15.140 King Edward II?

01:02:17.500 So it's been a sort of dictatorship of homosexuality, then?

01:02:21.440 Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland?

01:02:24.140 They say King Richard II?

01:02:26.200 No, why would Richard II?

01:02:29.840 Why James I?

01:02:32.060 Fourth.

01:02:32.880 Sixth, I'm sorry.

01:02:34.560 Oh, no, it's James I.

01:02:35.300 Sixth of Scotland, first.

01:02:36.660 Yeah, I don't...

01:02:38.200 Not a common historical interpretation.

01:02:40.700 Did he think he had a divine right to the bodies of other people?

01:02:46.660 You've got me.

01:02:47.480 He had a very different interpretation to the divine right of kings.

01:02:51.320 Divine right to kings, I think it was.

01:02:53.560 Sorry.

01:02:54.640 Henry VIII?

01:02:56.360 Sorry.

01:02:57.540 Henry VIII?

01:02:58.920 He was such a misogynist that he must have been gay.

01:03:03.100 I just...

01:03:04.180 Of all the people to come up on the list...

01:03:06.760 Amos for his wives, yeah.

01:03:08.040 Henry VIII.

01:03:09.340 Again, massive womaniser.

01:03:11.080 Massive womaniser.

01:03:12.440 Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived, isn't it?

01:03:15.980 Yeah, that's it.

01:03:16.460 Yeah, yeah.

01:03:16.840 To be fair to them, even Pete News realises that this is...

01:03:19.820 Despite his obvious love of women, yeah.

01:03:22.620 It's a little proof to...

01:03:25.320 Okay, so we have several other figures here.

01:03:28.400 To be fair, that last one was French, though.

01:03:31.280 We have also the Frederick of Prussia.

01:03:34.580 Anyway, they make several...

01:03:36.460 They list several people.

01:03:39.760 If it lists also Marquis de Lafayette, I don't know.

01:03:43.940 Come back, come back.

01:03:44.880 Here's...

01:03:45.120 From the hero of the American and French revolutions.

01:03:49.020 Bisexual.

01:03:51.060 That's the important part.

01:03:52.040 Yeah.

01:03:52.240 Also, I've heard several people say that King Arthur didn't exist.

01:03:56.280 Several historians...

01:03:56.600 They might not have done that.

01:03:58.500 Yeah.

01:03:58.940 Yeah, so why would they do this?

01:04:01.580 Because Pennywise is a gay ally.

01:04:04.340 That's why.

01:04:05.300 So...

01:04:05.620 They need everything to just be pro-gay.

01:04:07.540 I think at this point, we know that when we're dealing with governments who are just

01:04:12.340 having all these plans, and when they're saying that they weren't going to play identity politics,

01:04:18.500 and they want to boost and empower people by just having people in positions of power, whether

01:04:25.620 in history or in positions of power and institutions, we're most probably talking nonsense.

01:04:32.160 Quite probably.

01:04:32.880 Morgan Le Fay is a man because let is used in French to refer to masculine things.

01:04:43.060 Checkmate, right-oys.

01:04:45.440 I'd rather pay to read some fan fiction about Arthur being wooed by the Lady of the Lake than

01:04:49.260 try to be convinced that he's gay.

01:04:51.540 There's no reason to...

01:04:53.320 He dressed up someone to sneak into something to talk to a woman.

01:04:57.260 It's like, yeah, okay, that seems like a heterosexual thing to do.

01:05:00.880 To be fair, most of the matter of Britain, including the Arthur cycle, is written in French,

01:05:05.420 therefore it's gay by definition.

01:05:07.060 Good point.

01:05:08.460 And nothing screams thousand-year-old dynasty like every royal being secretly gay.

01:05:12.100 This is what a porn brain does to you.

01:05:13.820 Yeah, this is just total porn brain.

01:05:15.580 This is nothing, but...

01:05:17.200 It's true.

01:05:18.320 Right, do we have any video comments, Samson?

01:05:20.960 We do.

01:05:23.360 Right, I'm going to get to the written comments when we're at it.

01:05:26.160 I'll read a written comment while we're waiting, if you want.

01:05:28.860 Oh, no, here we are.

01:05:31.660 I think.

01:05:33.420 Nemesis is a fascinating tale of man breaking out from the solar system to the nearest accessible

01:05:38.080 star, and what ramifications that would have for those left behind.

01:05:41.820 Asimov teases apart the problem and analyses it from several angles.

01:05:45.380 What problems face those setting out, and what opportunities may reward them?

01:05:48.880 Will they want to make a clean break from Earth?

01:05:51.400 How will they deal with setting up a fresh civilization and giving it the strongest chance of survival?

01:05:55.840 It's a compelling story that provides interesting insight into exploration and colonization.

01:05:59.980 Thanks, Alex.

01:06:02.900 I've heard so many good things about Asimov's writing.

01:06:05.320 Oh, yeah.

01:06:05.720 I've never actually read any myself.

01:06:08.320 There's no reason not to.

01:06:09.360 Have either of you read any?

01:06:10.580 Yeah, I've read some.

01:06:11.780 I've read some of the Foundation series when I was like 14, 15.

01:06:15.560 Good stuff?

01:06:16.100 Yeah, to be honest with you, it was a bit big in scope for me.

01:06:22.120 I read Dune when I was like 13 or 14 as well, and I didn't understand it really.

01:06:25.480 It was the same with Asimov.

01:06:26.440 I should really go back to it.

01:06:28.020 I've read Dune, and I like science fiction, especially in movies, but when it comes to

01:06:33.040 literature, I'm more of a medievalist, and I like fantasy fiction and Lord of the Rings.

01:06:39.960 That's what Tolkien does to you, isn't it?

01:06:41.560 There are a number of various memes that I could share of it.

01:06:47.660 There are some much worse ones.

01:07:11.560 I enjoyed that.

01:07:19.140 The final boss.

01:07:20.180 Yeah, yeah, it was just mad.

01:07:21.580 Imagine that guy's day.

01:07:22.900 It made me laugh how many of the edits were of that Concord game.

01:07:26.940 So basically, Sony put 400 million into a game and took it down after like a week, and

01:07:32.580 she does look surprisingly like one of the characters in it.

01:07:35.800 Yeah.

01:07:36.320 Just get yourself the remastered version.

01:07:47.340 The geometry is identical to the original game, so you can do the cool switching feature.

01:07:51.640 It comes with customisable costumes once you've finished the game.

01:07:55.640 Silk Bathrobe.

01:07:57.620 My favourite.

01:07:59.100 And who remembers this sound?

01:08:06.320 I do like how you can switch on the fly between the graphics.

01:08:12.140 That's a really good addition for a remaster.

01:08:15.200 I wish they had that in the Dark Souls 1 remaster.

01:08:17.840 I actually got the Diablo 2 remastered the other day, and you can switch between the graphics.

01:08:21.740 It's actually great.

01:08:22.400 I love it.

01:08:22.800 I think Lord of Destruction, the expansion to Diablo 2 is, for me, one of the peak games.

01:08:29.460 Oh yeah, it's super.

01:08:30.100 It's just, was Halo the first to do that, where you could switch on the fly?

01:08:34.120 So I think they remastered Halo 1 and 2.

01:08:36.540 I can't remember.

01:08:37.280 It's stretching my memory back.

01:08:48.480 This is the Japanese McDonald's adverts.

01:08:50.680 I saw a lot of these sorts of memes coming around.

01:09:01.960 That's the thing, it's just wholesome.

01:09:07.340 Okay, that looks like all of it.

01:09:08.640 Yeah, thanks Scotty says, I saw the Trump McDonald's thing on Twitter this morning,

01:09:13.100 and I assumed it was AI generated.

01:09:15.020 A lot of it did look AI generated.

01:09:16.800 That's the thing, like the light and the poses look AI generated.

01:09:21.420 But I appreciate it either way.

01:09:22.400 I think it's perfect for the entire undertone of this election.

01:09:24.980 The Dems have to fake everything to look good, whereas Trump can look good,

01:09:27.700 so it raises questions as to whether or not it was fake.

01:09:30.340 Yeah.

01:09:32.060 Donald Trump says, Trump may know how to make a burger,

01:09:35.980 but Kamala knows how to handle a footlong.

01:09:37.920 You missed their name.

01:09:39.440 Donald Trump, a.k.a. the commander in beef.

01:09:41.860 Sorry, sorry.

01:09:42.940 I was trying to save a bit of time.

01:09:45.120 I'm doing a good pun, sorry.

01:09:46.100 Bleach Demon says, Trump at McDonald's shows many Americans

01:09:49.700 that he's not mocking them, unlike Kamala and the Dems.

01:09:52.840 There is something rustically American about working in a drive-thru.

01:09:56.560 Yeah, it's the fact that he does it without any kind of pretensions.

01:10:00.700 He's just completely like, because I mean,

01:10:02.180 Donald Trump just doesn't have it in him to be pretentious.

01:10:04.640 I think he just owns it, doesn't he?

01:10:06.080 Oh, totally.

01:10:06.620 Wherever he goes, he's sort of perfectly at ease with his situation,

01:10:10.420 even getting shot at, apparently.

01:10:12.100 Yeah, apparently.

01:10:13.060 Oh, Christ.

01:10:13.460 Kenneth says,

01:10:15.060 My favourite complaint from the left was that Trump's McDonald's shift

01:10:17.680 was a political stunt.

01:10:18.960 Sure.

01:10:19.620 So?

01:10:20.580 At least Trump does his own stunts.

01:10:23.280 Fair point.

01:10:24.000 And yeah, obviously it's a political stunt,

01:10:25.980 because Trump keeps getting shot at.

01:10:28.060 Something has to be done about that.

01:10:30.200 The proletariat says,

01:10:31.540 I read a news report today that says,

01:10:34.400 Trump managed to fix the McDonald's ice cream machine.

01:10:37.100 Literally miraculous.

01:10:38.320 The mandate of heaven is with him.

01:10:39.800 Yeah, I know.

01:10:40.600 They definitely should have had him pour an ice cream.

01:10:42.820 Yeah.

01:10:43.200 It's such an unusual thing.

01:10:45.420 That's got to be like a Babylon Bee.

01:10:47.320 There's no way it was working.

01:10:48.860 I don't believe them.

01:10:50.160 Well, I remember as a kid,

01:10:51.520 I loved McDonald's milkshakes.

01:10:53.340 They're still good.

01:10:54.200 Yeah, I bet they're still good.

01:10:54.960 I haven't had one in years.

01:10:56.440 I might go and get one.

01:10:59.020 I was literally,

01:10:59.920 as soon as I said,

01:11:00.560 I might go and get one.

01:11:01.820 After the podcast,

01:11:02.800 Sam's was like,

01:11:03.560 no, the Swindon one's currently broken.

01:11:04.760 Of course it is.

01:11:08.380 Henry says,

01:11:09.500 Trump not only elevated McDonald's,

01:11:11.200 he brought back the degree of genuine joy and happiness

01:11:13.600 that's been lost in recent years.

01:11:15.100 I know he's wearing the new corporate branded apron

01:11:16.840 and it's a new style restaurant,

01:11:18.020 but I can almost see the 80s and 90s

01:11:19.720 and a basherly gaudy and kiddo-oriented decor

01:11:22.180 coming back around him.

01:11:23.460 Yeah, that's the thing.

01:11:24.000 It was deeply nostalgic to have him like that.

01:11:27.140 It's very weird,

01:11:28.300 because obviously it never happened back in the 80s.

01:11:30.120 But there's definitely some sort of blood memory coming back.

01:11:35.060 It reminded me of 1950s advertisements,

01:11:38.180 sort of American advertisements,

01:11:39.760 whereby it's sort of a friendly person

01:11:41.720 behind a counter waving or something like that.

01:11:43.500 That's exactly what they would have used.

01:11:45.940 Yeah, it was really good.

01:11:48.340 I just can't believe how he keeps pulling off

01:11:50.220 these incredible scenes.

01:11:52.920 Well, I think one of the things

01:11:54.260 that you can definitely say Trump is a master at

01:11:56.260 is optics

01:11:57.940 and being able to manipulate the media

01:11:59.660 in a way that is favourable to him.

01:12:01.820 Yeah, I know.

01:12:02.300 Now they're all talking about

01:12:03.160 how Trump's at McDonald's

01:12:04.820 and everyone's like,

01:12:05.280 oh, that's cool.

01:12:06.620 I go to McDonald's too.

01:12:08.020 It's impossible to make it look bad as well.

01:12:09.960 Yeah.

01:12:11.480 Like the most cynical thing they can say

01:12:13.860 is, well, it was a stunt.

01:12:14.940 Duh.

01:12:15.800 He's a politician.

01:12:17.460 Chad Kuala says,

01:12:18.360 Trump's giving off Gaius Marius energy,

01:12:21.480 a leader not afraid to join in

01:12:22.560 with the menial work of his followers.

01:12:24.440 Well, I saw other people posting,

01:12:26.340 oh, this is going to be his Diocletian arc

01:12:28.100 where he's like,

01:12:29.080 you know, I've had enough of being president.

01:12:30.840 I'm just going to go serve my French fries

01:12:32.820 and my cabbages.

01:12:34.680 Yeah, he's going to have trouble with Christians.

01:12:37.820 Yeah.

01:12:37.860 Yeah, we need you to save the Republic.

01:12:40.440 Yes, but look at my French fries.

01:12:42.740 George says,

01:12:43.700 if Keir Starmer worked at McDonald's,

01:12:45.180 how would you differentiate him

01:12:46.100 from a self-checkout?

01:12:47.780 Because

01:12:48.100 I haven't got a good answer to that.

01:12:52.680 Henry says,

01:12:53.500 that Trump picture with the trays of fast food

01:12:55.120 is just the perfect example

01:12:56.080 of the good way some new money people are

01:12:58.480 where they are without pretense

01:13:00.280 and are genuine.

01:13:01.220 Whereas a lot of the Democrat labor

01:13:02.700 and new money people

01:13:04.580 are the living embodiment

01:13:05.740 of Hyacinth Bucket,

01:13:07.200 unbelievably snooty and pretentious

01:13:08.740 and pulling up the ladder behind them

01:13:10.120 after either they or their parents

01:13:11.940 have left the working class

01:13:12.760 to become wealthy.

01:13:13.700 That's a good point.

01:13:14.900 Like, the distinction between new and old money

01:13:16.740 is always really important.

01:13:18.760 I think

01:13:19.160 people are aware of it in Europe

01:13:21.660 and not so much in America

01:13:23.300 because it's not as enculturated.

01:13:25.520 I think there's a view of social class

01:13:28.340 whereby

01:13:28.700 it's determined by how much money you have

01:13:31.680 rather than how recent you've inherited it

01:13:34.000 because, of course,

01:13:35.560 the older money view

01:13:37.460 is that you've been enculturated

01:13:39.260 in the aristocracy

01:13:40.640 for many generations

01:13:42.100 and therefore you're more likely

01:13:43.340 to have the refined sensibilities

01:13:45.720 of an aristocrat.

01:13:46.800 You know, I've noticed that

01:13:48.740 most people who are old money

01:13:51.160 that I've met

01:13:51.840 have been really, really nice.

01:13:53.120 They are.

01:13:53.560 Every old money person I've met

01:13:55.400 has been

01:13:56.560 incredibly considerate

01:13:59.560 of other people

01:14:00.160 to the point whereby

01:14:01.060 it's surprising

01:14:04.020 that they're that considerate.

01:14:05.800 It's the new money types

01:14:07.040 like Carlos Maza,

01:14:08.500 those sort of types

01:14:09.360 that are just like

01:14:10.100 horrific, dysgenic, spiteful mutants.

01:14:12.580 I feel like

01:14:13.300 the most new money thing

01:14:15.160 is like going to a nice restaurant

01:14:16.640 and like snapping your fingers

01:14:17.820 and being rude to the staff

01:14:18.920 whereas the old money,

01:14:20.840 I've actually worked in

01:14:22.160 some quite expensive restaurants,

01:14:24.160 old money would like

01:14:24.960 stack the plates

01:14:25.600 at the end of the table

01:14:26.360 and leave you a nice tip

01:14:27.360 and say,

01:14:27.700 oh, that was lovely,

01:14:28.300 thank you very much.

01:14:29.240 Yeah, absolutely.

01:14:30.240 There's an insecurity

01:14:31.000 in the new money

01:14:31.760 that shows in the way

01:14:32.760 they deal with people

01:14:34.720 who used to be their peers.

01:14:36.420 Yeah, well,

01:14:36.940 they feel like they have

01:14:37.800 to lord their status

01:14:40.020 over people

01:14:40.700 when it's completely unnecessary

01:14:42.060 and actually

01:14:42.580 it's counterproductive

01:14:44.900 to being perceived well.

01:14:47.180 Yeah, absolutely.

01:14:48.180 Yeah, it's,

01:14:49.500 I mean,

01:14:49.920 extravagance and luxury

01:14:51.220 that they want to show.

01:14:53.140 Mm-hmm.

01:14:53.560 It comes out

01:14:54.640 across as very tacky.

01:14:55.800 Well, a lot of old money people

01:14:57.140 don't wear

01:14:57.920 extravagant things.

01:14:59.180 Like,

01:14:59.840 I've seen people

01:15:00.600 who are

01:15:01.020 fantastically wealthy

01:15:02.460 wearing cheaper clothes

01:15:03.960 than I was wearing

01:15:04.620 at the time

01:15:05.180 and I was quite surprised

01:15:06.660 but then, of course,

01:15:07.240 it made sense.

01:15:07.900 The palest son of Yacoub

01:15:10.540 says he put the Donald

01:15:11.580 in McDonald's.

01:15:12.680 I can't believe

01:15:13.340 I didn't think of that myself.

01:15:14.120 That's a good one, yeah.

01:15:14.980 Yeah.

01:15:15.540 Afray Bentos for every Haitian

01:15:17.000 says Trump is nailing

01:15:18.760 the burger punk aesthetic.

01:15:20.660 Remarkably photogenic man.

01:15:22.180 Yeah, the picture of him

01:15:23.060 waving out the window

01:15:23.680 is just amazing.

01:15:25.320 But there's something,

01:15:26.060 again,

01:15:26.360 so Norman Rockwell about it.

01:15:27.920 So, like,

01:15:29.460 genuine nostalgia

01:15:31.000 being the longing for home,

01:15:32.880 that's a great summary of it.

01:15:35.720 The sort of longing

01:15:36.300 for an America

01:15:37.140 that doesn't exist anymore.

01:15:39.960 Jimbo says

01:15:40.660 Trump just 40 fried

01:15:42.280 the election.

01:15:43.180 Well done, Jimbo.

01:15:44.180 Oh, damn.

01:15:44.760 Thomas says

01:15:45.620 Mecca Hitler Mussolini Stalin

01:15:47.400 needs to be your next T-shirt.

01:15:50.660 How do you even design that?

01:15:52.280 Yeah.

01:15:52.820 I don't even know

01:15:53.620 what it's going to look like.

01:15:56.300 Hitler's moustache.

01:15:57.400 I don't know.

01:15:57.780 What would you have?

01:16:00.140 They're all recognisable

01:16:01.360 from, like, here.

01:16:02.680 Yeah, yeah.

01:16:03.620 The Stalin and Hitler moustaches

01:16:05.140 conflict as well.

01:16:06.040 They do, yeah.

01:16:06.960 It would be impossible.

01:16:09.500 So, Fane Scottie says,

01:16:11.400 As an author,

01:16:11.960 I'm trying to create

01:16:12.460 a dark comedy

01:16:13.180 cyberpunk short story,

01:16:14.780 but I can't keep

01:16:15.880 the satire ahead

01:16:16.880 enough of the curve

01:16:17.700 in order to make it

01:16:18.460 a cautionary tale.

01:16:19.640 My warning arrives

01:16:20.560 at the same time

01:16:21.260 as the actual social change.

01:16:22.440 Just write a documentary.

01:16:24.400 Yeah, just make it

01:16:27.280 marginally more absurd

01:16:28.800 than the reality.

01:16:29.640 That's actually how

01:16:30.280 most satire happens.

01:16:31.200 By the time it's printed.

01:16:32.200 Yeah.

01:16:32.520 It'll be just normal.

01:16:33.500 It'll just be

01:16:34.020 cultural criticism.

01:16:34.860 Yeah.

01:16:35.640 There you go.

01:16:36.600 Chase Ball says,

01:16:37.420 The year is 2077.

01:16:39.180 I survive on ethnic

01:16:40.180 bug meat, slop,

01:16:41.240 and Uber Eats Taco Bell

01:16:42.340 to purposefully make me

01:16:43.640 S myself

01:16:44.780 so I can afford to pay

01:16:45.840 my bachelor apartment

01:16:47.240 rent entirely

01:16:47.980 with poop coin

01:16:49.080 because I cancelled

01:16:50.600 my office job

01:16:51.460 for using the wrong

01:16:52.260 neo-pronouns

01:16:53.260 for our office Roomba.

01:16:55.540 I own nothing

01:16:56.360 and I am happy.

01:16:57.320 I'm going to post that

01:16:58.140 on Twitter.

01:16:58.860 So good.

01:16:59.840 That's so good.

01:17:00.660 I enjoyed that as well.

01:17:02.580 Yeah.

01:17:02.920 So for the mics and

01:17:03.760 cars part,

01:17:04.880 the proletariat says

01:17:05.700 I own an F-150

01:17:08.420 from,

01:17:08.940 150 I should say,

01:17:10.760 from 2006.

01:17:11.800 No cameras or

01:17:12.420 microphones.

01:17:13.440 If I ever have to

01:17:14.100 buy a newer vehicle,

01:17:14.880 the first thing I'll do

01:17:15.700 is attack those devices

01:17:17.380 with a power drill.

01:17:18.620 My brother and sister

01:17:19.440 embrace the butler...

01:17:21.640 The butlerian jihad.

01:17:23.140 What does that mean?

01:17:24.320 It's from June

01:17:24.840 where they attack the robots,

01:17:26.300 attack the machines,

01:17:27.440 attack AI.

01:17:28.320 I've only watched the film.

01:17:29.260 Basically Mormonism.

01:17:31.420 Mormon crusade.

01:17:33.720 Amish.

01:17:34.940 Amish, yeah.

01:17:35.600 Amish crusade.

01:17:36.180 I was going to say.

01:17:37.080 I'm kind of for it.

01:17:38.480 I'm totally in favour.

01:17:39.900 I think you've just got

01:17:40.960 to be very selective

01:17:41.720 with which technology

01:17:42.860 you choose to engage with.

01:17:44.900 You sort of have to have

01:17:46.280 technological etiquette.

01:17:48.920 Sounds like fancy

01:17:49.780 city folk talk.

01:17:50.700 City folk.

01:17:53.040 That's the most insulting

01:17:54.380 thing you've ever said to me.

01:17:55.160 That's what the Amish

01:17:55.660 would say.

01:17:56.220 Okay, fair enough.

01:17:57.480 I'll give them that.

01:17:58.820 Omar Awad says,

01:17:59.640 people are already

01:18:00.260 far too comfortable

01:18:00.960 with listening devices

01:18:01.900 like Alexa.

01:18:03.040 What is really concerning

01:18:04.040 is if they start implementing

01:18:05.300 such technology

01:18:06.160 in public transport

01:18:07.000 if they aren't already.

01:18:08.280 Something tells me

01:18:08.860 the government

01:18:09.260 will have no such concerns

01:18:11.180 over privacy.

01:18:12.200 That is true.

01:18:13.280 It's funny how

01:18:13.840 privacy concerns

01:18:14.820 basically disappear

01:18:15.860 when the government

01:18:16.360 wants to do something.

01:18:18.740 Not sure which is...

01:18:19.820 People play along

01:18:20.460 with it.

01:18:20.800 That's the very

01:18:21.860 disconcerting...

01:18:22.900 I'll tell you what

01:18:23.220 I really hate is

01:18:24.020 I've got nothing to hide.

01:18:26.260 It's just like,

01:18:26.700 yeah, well,

01:18:27.620 okay then.

01:18:28.520 I could say,

01:18:29.460 you know,

01:18:29.780 if I were naked

01:18:30.500 I have nothing to hide

01:18:31.580 but it doesn't mean

01:18:32.120 I'm going to walk around

01:18:32.800 naked, does it?

01:18:33.800 Yeah, but if I've got

01:18:34.340 nothing to hide

01:18:34.860 you've got no reason

01:18:35.460 to look in the first place

01:18:36.420 then.

01:18:36.680 That's true, yeah.

01:18:37.340 Why are you even looking?

01:18:39.620 Not sure which is worse,

01:18:40.840 Ford's ability to spy on you

01:18:42.220 or BMW's microtransactions

01:18:44.200 to use features in your car.

01:18:46.020 Yeah, that...

01:18:46.560 Really?

01:18:47.000 I need that.

01:18:47.540 Yeah, yeah.

01:18:48.660 You like pay to unlock

01:18:50.120 stuff.

01:18:51.780 Which is ridiculous.

01:18:53.460 I hate the modern world

01:18:54.200 so much.

01:18:55.260 The thing is,

01:18:55.720 there's probably

01:18:56.220 a rational reason for it

01:18:57.820 in that it's cheaper

01:18:58.880 for them to manufacture

01:18:59.780 everything the same

01:19:00.780 and not add the options

01:19:02.680 afterwards

01:19:03.360 and you pay

01:19:04.620 to unlock the options

01:19:05.720 but it's...

01:19:06.360 Not my problem,

01:19:06.580 I'm not having microtransactions

01:19:07.960 in my car.

01:19:08.300 No, I agree,

01:19:09.040 I'm not justifying it

01:19:10.120 but it's just frustrating,

01:19:11.880 isn't it?

01:19:12.040 I know, yeah.

01:19:12.840 So, Justin B says

01:19:14.180 I'm glad to be sticking

01:19:14.960 with my 17-year-old car

01:19:16.200 I don't have all these

01:19:16.960 modern conveniences.

01:19:18.860 Fair enough.

01:19:20.260 And Chad Kuala says

01:19:21.160 as soon as your car

01:19:21.920 will have a small printer

01:19:23.580 installed that will

01:19:24.240 print you a fine

01:19:25.040 every time you violate

01:19:25.960 a verbal morality statute.

01:19:28.180 That's very Orwellian.

01:19:30.000 And on the fat stuff

01:19:30.920 Henry Ashman says

01:19:32.440 jabbing fat people

01:19:33.280 to get healthier

01:19:33.860 is just ridiculous

01:19:34.640 because this change

01:19:35.820 is forced upon them

01:19:36.660 rather than a choice

01:19:37.540 they've made.

01:19:38.100 None of the self-control

01:19:38.840 and discipline

01:19:39.280 is built up

01:19:39.960 so the second they

01:19:40.960 come off the jabs

01:19:41.640 they'll balloon up again.

01:19:42.620 That is true.

01:19:43.560 You've just got to...

01:19:44.580 You can't really cut corners

01:19:46.120 with that sort of thing.

01:19:46.920 You've got to change

01:19:47.640 your behaviour.

01:19:49.100 And also, as well,

01:19:51.560 it's not just your physical weight

01:19:53.040 that's unhealthy.

01:19:53.760 There are so many

01:19:54.200 other parts of you

01:19:55.040 that will continue

01:19:55.740 to be unhealthy.

01:19:57.240 Like your gut biome

01:19:58.420 will still be unhealthy.

01:20:00.240 Your organs

01:20:01.120 will still have strain.

01:20:02.440 You can't

01:20:03.120 just undo that

01:20:05.360 by becoming thinner.

01:20:06.660 I'll tell you,

01:20:06.920 one of the things

01:20:07.400 I noticed

01:20:07.700 when I was doing

01:20:08.120 the keto diet

01:20:08.820 I'm not on it

01:20:09.440 by the way

01:20:10.060 is how much more

01:20:12.400 energy I found myself

01:20:13.440 having

01:20:13.780 by just cutting out

01:20:15.080 sugar from my diet.

01:20:16.100 I was bouncing everywhere.

01:20:18.120 I didn't even think

01:20:18.700 about it.

01:20:19.680 Yeah, sugar's

01:20:20.440 incredibly bad for you.

01:20:22.100 I have a really

01:20:22.760 low sugar diet

01:20:23.620 and when I have sugar

01:20:24.600 it actually brings me

01:20:25.660 out in cold sweats.

01:20:26.580 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:20:27.060 Like I'm a junkie

01:20:28.180 or something.

01:20:28.700 Yeah, no,

01:20:29.040 I accidentally drank.

01:20:31.560 It was during

01:20:32.220 the COVID lockdown

01:20:32.960 about three months

01:20:33.780 into my diet.

01:20:34.820 I've been really,

01:20:35.540 really firm on it.

01:20:36.420 I went to the local shop

01:20:37.440 and thought I got myself

01:20:38.300 a Coke Zero

01:20:38.800 but I got the wrong one

01:20:39.840 and so walking

01:20:40.820 I like glugged half of it

01:20:42.220 because it was a really hot day

01:20:43.120 and then I was literally

01:20:44.080 sweating and feeling dizzy

01:20:45.840 because I'd consumed

01:20:46.920 like half a bottle of Coke

01:20:48.300 and I was like

01:20:49.300 Christ, this is a drug.

01:20:50.320 People don't realise

01:20:51.280 it's sort of

01:20:52.180 almost psychoactive

01:20:53.380 in a way, isn't it?

01:20:54.760 But also a lot of the stuff

01:20:56.100 we're eating outside

01:20:57.720 even if they're not desserts

01:20:59.560 they have sugar

01:21:01.000 or artificial sweeteners.

01:21:03.280 Even bread has sugar

01:21:04.440 in which I don't understand.

01:21:05.540 I don't want sweet bread.

01:21:06.680 I want savoury bread.

01:21:07.840 I want it to have salt

01:21:08.660 and not sugar.

01:21:10.000 Thomas Howell says

01:21:10.800 just put all job centres

01:21:13.020 on the highest floor

01:21:13.900 of all buildings

01:21:14.580 and remove the lifts.

01:21:16.300 I like that idea.

01:21:17.660 Yeah, but then they'll be like

01:21:18.400 what about the disabled people?

01:21:19.760 I suppose it is

01:21:23.240 technically for people

01:21:24.140 who are so fat

01:21:25.020 that they can't work as well.

01:21:27.440 Lockdown for fatties

01:21:28.400 two weeks to flatten the curve.

01:21:31.480 I like that.

01:21:33.960 So for the robot part

01:21:35.880 Screwtape Laser says

01:21:37.620 using robots for domestic labour

01:21:38.920 is a trap

01:21:39.600 pride in the physical outcome

01:21:41.300 of her homemaking labour.

01:21:43.540 It's one of the few things

01:21:44.300 that can claw a modern woman's

01:21:45.840 sense of worth away

01:21:46.920 from external applications

01:21:48.280 back towards her inner circle.

01:21:49.760 Okay, okay.

01:21:50.480 Hang on a second.

01:21:51.180 Just pause there, right?

01:21:52.340 Now, it's not that

01:21:54.400 in the abstract

01:21:54.920 I don't agree with you.

01:21:56.500 Yes.

01:21:57.480 But it's just going to be

01:21:58.080 a really hard sell

01:21:58.860 for my wife

01:21:59.440 when she's looking

01:21:59.980 at the state of the house

01:22:00.700 that the kids have trashed.

01:22:02.340 And she'll be like,

01:22:02.740 look, can we get

01:22:03.140 a domestic cleaner robot?

01:22:04.040 I'm like, no darling.

01:22:04.640 This is what gives you

01:22:05.240 a sense of self-worth.

01:22:06.240 Kill me.

01:22:06.960 Yeah, I don't think

01:22:08.920 although I sort of

01:22:10.560 understand where you're

01:22:11.300 coming from

01:22:11.760 it is a very tough sell

01:22:13.040 isn't it?

01:22:13.420 Yeah, yeah.

01:22:14.460 Actually, no,

01:22:15.200 it's good that you do

01:22:16.000 these chores

01:22:16.480 because it gives you

01:22:17.020 a sense of self-worth.

01:22:18.220 Yeah, no, she'll kill me.

01:22:19.260 If you like sleeping

01:22:20.020 on the sofa

01:22:20.500 that's a great way

01:22:21.200 of doing it.

01:22:22.540 For the chickens

01:22:23.400 Furious Dan says

01:22:25.240 which do you have

01:22:27.120 to license first

01:22:28.160 the chicken or the egg?

01:22:29.520 Well, it's actually

01:22:30.260 the chicken.

01:22:30.900 They've answered

01:22:31.320 the question for us.

01:22:32.520 Yeah, good point.

01:22:33.200 Good point.

01:22:33.900 And finally,

01:22:34.680 on the crypto toilet

01:22:36.280 the proletariat says

01:22:38.340 the crypto toilet

01:22:39.560 sounds like the right

01:22:40.320 sort of incentive

01:22:41.020 to get India

01:22:41.760 to adopt indoor plumbing.

01:22:44.220 It's all coming together.

01:22:45.780 That's all I'm saying.

01:22:46.540 I think the crypto toilet

01:22:47.360 is a great idea.

01:22:47.900 Indian scammers

01:22:48.780 can finally monetize

01:22:49.940 their diarrhea.

01:22:52.140 Right, Stelios,

01:22:52.900 take us away.

01:22:53.600 So, some honorable mentions

01:22:55.820 before I say

01:22:56.680 by the comments

01:22:57.280 of my segment.

01:22:58.560 Carl, loving the fade haircut.

01:23:00.900 Oh, thanks.

01:23:01.500 I just got a haircut.

01:23:02.420 What was it like

01:23:03.280 in the Turkish barber

01:23:04.280 not being to one myself?

01:23:06.000 Well, actually

01:23:06.820 the guy was Kurdish

01:23:08.400 and for some reason

01:23:11.000 we started talking

01:23:11.540 about his around Palestine.

01:23:13.340 Does he have

01:23:14.920 strong views about that?

01:23:16.500 Well, he doesn't like

01:23:17.400 watching Palestinian children

01:23:18.820 getting blown up

01:23:19.460 which is fair enough.

01:23:20.760 If he's a Kurd

01:23:21.680 does that mean

01:23:22.600 that he might have

01:23:25.240 done a lot more

01:23:26.220 than a short back insides

01:23:27.260 in his home country?

01:23:28.880 I don't know anything

01:23:29.500 about the guy.

01:23:30.920 Not maybe that specific

01:23:32.340 guy but a lot

01:23:33.040 of the people

01:23:34.380 from that area

01:23:35.460 tend to be

01:23:35.980 I mean, it's not

01:23:36.120 beyond the realms

01:23:36.620 of possibility

01:23:37.240 that the Iraqi guy

01:23:38.700 has done that

01:23:40.060 but I don't know

01:23:40.560 anything about the guy.

01:23:41.320 Russian garbage human

01:23:42.640 I've been in office today

01:23:43.980 and was struggling

01:23:44.620 to hold it together

01:23:45.560 earlier.

01:23:46.580 Thank you guys.

01:23:47.340 Last,

01:23:48.100 the second

01:23:48.920 and third segment

01:23:50.040 were fantastic.

01:23:51.420 Amazing.

01:23:52.160 Thank you very much.

01:23:53.560 Wagon survivalist

01:23:54.500 just want to thank

01:23:55.340 Stelios for all the

01:23:56.300 cool Mr. Freeze

01:23:57.600 quotes and fun

01:23:58.480 Ladsour segment.

01:23:59.260 Please do more

01:24:00.060 bad movies

01:24:00.720 Ladsour.

01:24:01.840 It wasn't a bad movie.

01:24:03.760 It was a good movie.

01:24:04.880 I don't know.

01:24:05.580 It was bad

01:24:06.860 but then it does

01:24:07.600 kind of bring

01:24:08.440 that arc back

01:24:09.100 to being very watchable.

01:24:10.360 It was so bad.

01:24:11.260 It's actually good.

01:24:12.420 Very few movies

01:24:13.600 actually make me

01:24:14.260 genuinely belly laugh

01:24:15.280 multiple times

01:24:16.100 whereas this got me

01:24:17.520 over and over.

01:24:18.360 I was just

01:24:18.780 in the back crack.

01:24:20.280 I don't think

01:24:20.940 the Mr. Freeze

01:24:21.880 tear turning into

01:24:23.280 a very poor CGI

01:24:24.420 thing and then

01:24:25.880 turning into pixels

01:24:27.040 into the wind

01:24:27.860 with the fake

01:24:28.460 that will never

01:24:30.220 not make me laugh.

01:24:31.300 Exactly.

01:24:31.760 It's so cheesy.

01:24:32.620 Right.

01:24:33.000 Andrew Narog.

01:24:34.100 Once again

01:24:34.700 the left shows

01:24:35.320 that it cannot

01:24:35.880 create anything new

01:24:37.040 but must pervert

01:24:37.960 things to their ends.

01:24:39.160 Everything is about

01:24:40.020 perversion and

01:24:40.740 subversion for the left.

01:24:42.820 George Happ.

01:24:43.640 Arthur was not

01:24:44.340 gay but Guinevere

01:24:46.280 was definitely a thought

01:24:47.700 who led to the

01:24:48.900 downfall of the

01:24:49.740 round table.

01:24:50.880 A woman being

01:24:51.600 the cause of

01:24:52.260 the destruction

01:24:52.840 of the kingdom.

01:24:54.040 A classic tale

01:24:54.880 from antiquity

01:24:55.660 until now.

01:24:57.900 Don't look at me.

01:24:59.220 Did she have an

01:25:00.040 affair with Lancelot?

01:25:01.180 Surely it's more

01:25:02.140 Yes in some

01:25:02.740 interpretations of

01:25:04.000 the story.

01:25:04.340 In others she is

01:25:05.700 seduced by Mordred.

01:25:06.960 Yeah it's either

01:25:07.420 Mordred or Morgana

01:25:08.820 surely that are

01:25:09.640 the antagonists.

01:25:11.280 Was she responsible

01:25:12.220 for it or did

01:25:13.580 they do some

01:25:14.440 weird magic?

01:25:15.200 Well she played

01:25:15.320 a part in it.

01:25:16.380 Yeah I mean she's

01:25:17.080 responsible for her

01:25:17.740 own actions but

01:25:18.440 like Arthur pisses

01:25:19.820 off for like a year

01:25:20.740 campaigning on the

01:25:22.600 continent and so it's

01:25:23.880 like look it's kind

01:25:24.780 of a warning like if

01:25:25.680 you neglect your

01:25:26.800 home life then it

01:25:28.240 won't be the same

01:25:28.920 when you return.

01:25:30.020 He left her alone

01:25:30.980 for many cold nights.

01:25:32.960 Yeah basically.

01:25:34.060 We've got a chat

01:25:35.740 here quickly.

01:25:36.780 Okay so it says

01:25:38.540 it was so sweet how

01:25:40.860 he told those people

01:25:42.000 in the car that they

01:25:42.700 were not just

01:25:43.240 ordinary which is

01:25:44.300 true.

01:25:44.900 He was trying to

01:25:45.440 you know big them

01:25:46.120 up make them feel

01:25:46.620 good about themselves

01:25:47.260 which.

01:25:48.120 I don't think Trump

01:25:48.760 has this kind of

01:25:49.940 hierarchical view that

01:25:51.960 many of the sort of

01:25:53.160 like new money sort of

01:25:54.220 aristocrat types do

01:25:55.340 like Trump just views

01:25:57.220 quote you know

01:25:57.820 Americans and so he

01:25:59.620 just sees them all as

01:26:00.580 basically being

01:26:01.120 important and this

01:26:01.960 comes through loads in

01:26:03.200 the way he deals with

01:26:03.900 people.

01:26:04.340 Well he's a populist

01:26:05.080 fundamentally so he's

01:26:07.320 he chose to run on

01:26:09.080 that platform ultimately

01:26:10.600 it wasn't he didn't

01:26:11.940 necessarily know that

01:26:12.820 it would be the

01:26:13.460 winning formula when he

01:26:14.460 first started and so

01:26:15.820 it seems to be organic

01:26:17.900 to his personality.

01:26:18.960 Yeah yeah I agree.

01:26:19.860 Sophie Liv oh boy guys

01:26:22.240 let me tell you about

01:26:23.240 fan fiction at that

01:26:24.300 place everything is gay

01:26:25.880 every character is gay

01:26:27.560 you talked about the

01:26:28.580 Merlin TV show of

01:26:29.820 course there are

01:26:30.820 thousands of fan fics

01:26:32.100 where Merlin and

01:26:33.700 Arthur from that show

01:26:35.240 are gay for each

01:26:36.140 other so this has an

01:26:37.880 audience and it's

01:26:38.840 mostly teen girls why

01:26:40.240 would teen girls like

01:26:41.320 to view King Arthur

01:26:42.540 and Merlin getting it

01:26:43.880 on I don't know

01:26:45.440 why are you gay

01:26:46.860 Donald Trump aka the

01:26:48.740 commander in the

01:26:49.420 teenage girl that's

01:26:50.180 why don't treat me

01:26:51.280 sorry god.

01:26:53.460 Okay the commander in

01:26:55.260 beef I went to

01:26:56.780 Tintagel castle a few

01:26:58.680 weeks ago and I'm

01:26:59.960 pretty sure I read a

01:27:01.060 sign marking the spot

01:27:02.100 where Sir Lancelot

01:27:03.200 pegged King up.

01:27:07.980 Yeah it's it's it's

01:27:09.800 front and center in

01:27:11.740 Tintagel you know the

01:27:12.800 Cornish they love that

01:27:13.740 sort of thing I'm

01:27:14.840 joking of course.

01:27:16.060 Captain Charlie the

01:27:16.920 Beagle ah yes the

01:27:18.120 pink washing of

01:27:19.140 history continues

01:27:20.340 though here's a point

01:27:21.420 which is higher up on

01:27:22.740 the hierarchy which is

01:27:24.360 higher higher up on the

01:27:25.560 hierarchy pink washing

01:27:26.520 history or black

01:27:27.380 washing it black

01:27:28.280 washing black washing

01:27:29.280 easily yeah jokes aside

01:27:32.280 again the commander in

01:27:33.860 beef jokes aside I

01:27:35.800 actually volunteered at

01:27:37.740 Tintagel castle a few

01:27:38.920 weeks ago and I learned

01:27:39.860 that the statue Stelius

01:27:41.700 showed was modeled off of

01:27:43.920 a worker on the island

01:27:45.000 called Dave statue of

01:27:47.240 Dave there you go well

01:27:49.460 there aren't exactly any

01:27:50.320 good pictures of King

01:27:51.200 Arthur that have been

01:27:51.840 sent down to us from

01:27:52.660 history to be fair I can

01:27:54.420 imagine there are some

01:27:55.320 people I've been to

01:27:56.780 Cornwall many many times

01:27:57.840 you know growing up in

01:27:58.720 South Devon it's very

01:28:00.420 easy to get there and you

01:28:01.620 do see some people where

01:28:02.700 I'm just like which

01:28:03.780 peat bog have you been

01:28:05.280 dug out of I lived in

01:28:07.800 Cornwall for a few years

01:28:08.640 it's not that bad I've

01:28:10.060 seen some strange things

01:28:11.400 in Cornwall I went to

01:28:11.860 college in Cornwall yeah

01:28:13.580 I remember seeing I was

01:28:15.500 driving for a village in

01:28:16.660 rural Cornwall to go

01:28:17.800 camping and there was a

01:28:19.220 man who had hair

01:28:20.640 covering his face he

01:28:21.720 looked like a werewolf

01:28:22.560 really and I also going

01:28:24.700 through Cornwall I've

01:28:26.200 seen a man who looked

01:28:27.000 like a rodent like an

01:28:28.120 actual rat man and also

01:28:29.700 a man that looked like a

01:28:30.440 tree which I haven't

01:28:32.500 seen those people I

01:28:33.820 don't I wasn't on any

01:28:35.500 substances when I did

01:28:36.460 that by the way I was

01:28:37.960 perfectly sober right

01:28:39.180 almost just a strange

01:28:40.080 place right Al

01:28:41.640 half of the betters if

01:28:43.200 a king wearing women's

01:28:45.060 clothes to sneak into a

01:28:46.420 castle is queer then a

01:28:48.020 commando blocking up his

01:28:49.280 face to go on a night

01:28:50.360 mission is blackface

01:28:52.080 that's true it's just

01:28:53.940 transracialism

01:28:55.040 chase ball question marks

01:28:57.380 pornography has been a

01:28:59.000 disaster for the human

01:29:00.140 race I'd put large sums of

01:29:02.860 money on the idea that

01:29:04.100 we'd be dealing with

01:29:05.440 precisely none of this

01:29:06.660 LGBT nonsense if

01:29:08.460 pornography wasn't widely

01:29:09.900 available at every turn

01:29:11.240 and Apache sideburns says

01:29:13.280 my local library is

01:29:14.820 closing because of lack

01:29:15.900 of funds but the

01:29:17.340 Welsh government has

01:29:18.260 money for studies into

01:29:19.960 King Arthur being gay

01:29:21.280 yeah Wales is lost

01:29:22.840 please reconquer and

01:29:24.500 build some lovely new

01:29:25.660 castles there's no reason

01:29:27.580 that Wales has to be like

01:29:28.560 this no and on that

01:29:30.440 note it's time to end the

01:29:32.860 show yes hopefully you're

01:29:35.140 not going to be dressing in

01:29:35.960 women's clothing unless you

01:29:36.900 are a woman in which case

01:29:37.780 I actually support it

01:29:38.800 same time tomorrow

01:29:41.700 one o'clock hope you

01:29:44.420 enjoyed goodbye

01:29:45.440 you

01:29:52.900 you

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - October 21, 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1026

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