The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 16th of December 2024.

00:00:05.380 I'm joined by Carl and Stelios.

00:00:07.680 Hello.

00:00:08.080 And today we're talking about Britain's injustice system.

00:00:11.560 And Stelios is telling us about some tomfoolery in the Germanosphere. 1.00

00:00:18.040 Yes.

00:00:18.300 Isn't it like a conspiracy?

00:00:20.400 Yes.

00:00:21.520 Oh, okay.

00:00:23.220 I'm not in the mood for chat today.

00:00:26.120 Actually.

00:00:27.080 Details.

00:00:27.800 Who needs them, mate? 0.71

00:00:28.620 How some German conservative media outlets got debunked.

00:00:32.620 Oh, really?

00:00:33.060 Jeez.

00:00:34.140 And bringing the fun, I'm going to be rounding up all of the weirdest news of 2024.

00:00:40.020 And I'm very much looking forward to showing it all to you because there's some great stuff in there.

00:00:45.440 But...

00:00:45.620 Just have something that's not just depressing.

00:00:47.400 I've been trying not to depress people for the entire month of December.

00:00:51.040 So I've sort of forfeited doing newsworthy segments for nonsense.

00:00:55.260 I would like to do that.

00:00:57.660 But unfortunately, we leave in Britain.

00:01:00.940 Speaking of which...

00:01:02.820 The British justice system is demented.

00:01:05.360 I realise I'm smiling.

00:01:06.380 You might be thinking, well, it's not quite as serious as you think.

00:01:08.460 But no, this is going to get a bit dark.

00:01:10.720 And I'm just so tired of...

00:01:15.540 It's not even two-tier anymore.

00:01:17.680 It's worse than two-tier.

00:01:19.480 It's an active attempt to create injustices and cover up, conceal things on the other side of the scales.

00:01:30.180 There would be no rhyme or reason to it if there wasn't just an ill intention behind it.

00:01:38.960 And that's the only conclusion I can come to.

00:01:43.060 The people who operate the system are pathologically politically correct.

00:01:48.440 And this informs everything that they do.

00:01:50.980 So if a foreign man does something terrible, they give him the minimum possible punishment. 1.00

00:01:56.840 And if a native man does something that's not really that bad, they give him the maximal possible punishment. 0.99

00:02:03.480 And it's like, okay, well, again, you can describe it as two-tier, but you're not fully encapsulating the weight of what is happening in this country.

00:02:12.980 And I just hate to see it.

00:02:14.800 Well, it's entirely political to the point whereby you have these examples of cases where a paedophile can walk free, whereas someone who posted something online gets three or four years in prison.

00:02:31.600 We'll come to that, in fact.

00:02:32.740 Okay.

00:02:33.200 We'll come to that.

00:02:33.820 So you may remember back in August, an officer was, two officers, in fact, were suspended and put under investigation for kicking a poor, innocent Muslim lad in the face in Manchester Airport.

00:02:48.480 Well, it turns out that the video was released and that Muslim lad was slugging female police officers in the face. 0.99

00:02:55.440 Yeah.

00:02:55.880 So this story, I don't know whether you're going to go into the details, but they took exception to the fact that at airport security, we searched both men and women, and they didn't want their women to be touched because it's against Islam, which it is. 0.96

00:03:10.900 However, this is just another example of their values being incompatible with the West.

00:03:16.040 And it's, of course, thanks to Islam that we have to have these searches in the first place. 1.00

00:03:20.940 That is true.

00:03:21.560 So, but anyway, yeah, so the sort of 19-year-old, I think 18, 19-year-old lad started punching police, female police officers in the face.

00:03:30.540 And the male police officers were like, okay, spend a bit of time fighting with him, eventually get him to the floor, and he moves, and the guy kicks him in the face, because it looks like he's about to get up and start fighting again.

00:03:39.740 I assume that's what they were thinking.

00:03:41.320 He also has his taser in his hand, doesn't he?

00:03:43.700 And so his hands are occupied, and so only his feet are free.

00:03:46.340 Yeah, yeah.

00:03:46.880 But anyway, so the police officers were, of course, in trouble for apprehending the violent criminal.

00:03:54.040 And as far as I can tell, no one has been charged in this.

00:03:58.380 So still, three months later, this man has just gotten away with just punching a couple of female police officers in the face.

00:04:07.600 Why?

00:04:08.340 Well, what am I supposed to assume?

00:04:10.420 Well, the police have been punished for this, as in the officers that responded to it, more so than the actual perpetrators of the crime.

00:04:18.420 That is correct.

00:04:18.900 And they attacked a bunch of people at an airport, breaking a woman's nose.

00:04:23.960 Yeah.

00:04:24.240 It's a proper brawl, broke a woman's nose, and no charges. 1.00

00:04:29.160 It's like, right.

00:04:29.900 What is supposed, what am I supposed to assume the reason for that is?

00:04:34.760 And the only thing I can think of is, well, the police officers were English, and this person was not.

00:04:41.900 And, because, I mean, if this was like, you know, Barry John, you know, 26 from Humberside or something.

00:04:49.120 No one would care.

00:04:49.740 If he'd punched a bloody female police officer in the nose, broke her nose, and then he'd be straight to jail. 0.98

00:04:58.240 Straight to jail. 0.96

00:04:59.060 And rightly so, don't get me wrong, right?

00:05:01.520 And then conversely, you've got, like, people like this chap.

00:05:04.040 So, ex-soldier, jailed for anti-Islam post.

00:05:06.780 Do you want to see the anti-Islam post that he went to jail for?

00:05:10.360 They're pretty tepid, aren't they?

00:05:11.120 It's unbelievably tepid, right?

00:05:13.100 So, this guy from Wales said,

00:05:15.600 Civil war is here.

00:05:16.880 The only thing missing is bullets.

00:05:18.200 That's the next step.

00:05:20.320 That's in response to the Southport riots.

00:05:23.640 And he ended up pleading guilty to stirring up racial hatred.

00:05:27.540 Is that stirring up racial hatred, or is that an observation on the political precipice Britain is standing on?

00:05:35.220 He wasn't saying it was a good thing, was he?

00:05:36.580 No, he wasn't.

00:05:37.280 I'm particularly annoyed when people are not distinguishing between threats and warnings.

00:05:43.300 And this definitely looks like a warning.

00:05:45.560 It also reminds me of Elon Musk's claims about the situation in the UK after Southport.

00:05:51.600 And it seems to me that it's very, you could say, almost sadistic.

00:05:55.340 It's like whenever we have people who are natives, or in some respect pro-Western, 0.93

00:06:01.580 the most ridiculously uncharitable interpretations of their claim is made.

00:06:07.020 And when it comes to people who are of other persuasions, let's say, and they do something,

00:06:12.540 it is always the case that the most charitable interpretation of what they did is presented as the main narrative.

00:06:19.820 Assuming they even get charged.

00:06:21.220 I imagine that he probably didn't lawyer up in the same way that these Muslims did, 1.00

00:06:26.700 because they had their lawyers paid for, and so they got really expensive good lawyers,

00:06:31.620 because loads of Muslims raised money for them, whereas this guy was sort of left on his own, I imagine.

00:06:37.140 State lawyer, who obviously advised him, look, just plead guilty.

00:06:40.220 And you'll get two years in jail, but only one of those will be spent in prison.

00:06:44.440 So he's spending a year in prison for this.

00:06:46.140 I think it's very, yeah, it's very obvious.

00:06:49.340 It's just we are at a stage of multiculturalism where the British establishment thinks that it has to virtue signal that it's anti-British.

00:06:57.080 Sure, and it thinks its job is to protect minorities from the majority. 0.98

00:07:01.960 That's what the British state believes it's almost this entire job is at this point.

00:07:06.380 But again, why did he plead guilty?

00:07:08.720 Well, it must have been that the court-appointed lawyer was just like, do this and it'll be the quickest thing.

00:07:14.340 It's like, no, no, you should have said non-guilty.

00:07:17.080 I'm going to contest this.

00:07:18.300 This isn't a crime.

00:07:19.680 I'm not advocating for anything.

00:07:21.560 I'm observing.

00:07:22.600 And that's obvious by the statement.

00:07:24.760 And the only thing they'd be able to say is, well, what about implication by context?

00:07:27.560 You can just argue the case and hopefully it comes out on your side.

00:07:30.680 I think that you could have easily argued this.

00:07:32.820 But anyway, so, guy who says something about things, goes to jail.

00:07:38.240 Guy who punches woman in face, breaks her nose, doesn't even get charged.

00:07:42.480 Woman who assaults politician on the campaign trail, no jail. 0.59

00:07:48.640 So physically assaulting someone, no jail time.

00:07:52.280 Saying something about the current political environment, you're in jail.

00:07:56.240 Did you see that she had a Palestine pin on as she came out of the court as well?

00:08:00.760 Of course she did.

00:08:01.440 The irony of someone who makes their money via OnlyFans having a pro-Palestine pin.

00:08:08.420 Yeah, it's rather ironic.

00:08:09.920 You can probably see it in one of the other pictures.

00:08:11.400 But anyway, she basically had to pay Farage about £600 to cover the costs.

00:08:16.880 She had to pay a £154 victim surcharge to Mr. Farage on 415 costs.

00:08:23.200 Instead of going to jail for assaulting a politician on the campaign trail, which again, anyone would be able to frame this as an attack on the integrity of democracy.

00:08:32.260 That's a deliberate attempt to intimidate a political figure in this country who is now an MP with five MPs.

00:08:40.320 This should have been beyond the pale.

00:08:42.060 She should have gone to jail for this. 0.96

00:08:43.660 And four million votes.

00:08:45.280 Yeah, and four million votes.

00:08:46.140 Yeah, this is an attack on the political process in this country.

00:08:49.780 And if it was a reform supporter milkshaking Keir Starmer or something, do not do that obviously, you know they would have gone to jail.

00:08:59.360 You know they would have come down as hard as possible.

00:09:01.260 No, she gets 12 rehabilitation activity requirement days, whatever they are.

00:09:06.460 Well, it sounds like she's going to be in a bloody daycare or something. 0.97

00:09:08.560 And 120 hours of unpaid work.

00:09:10.420 Oh my goodness.

00:09:11.160 She's going to be practicing drinking milkshake rather than throwing it. 1.00

00:09:13.820 I'm sure she's going to be, you know, really working hard.

00:09:17.260 And contrast that to this rioter.

00:09:20.100 Now, okay, rioting's bad, yeah.

00:09:22.300 Nine years for helping fuel a fire, right?

00:09:24.620 So he didn't start a fire.

00:09:25.980 He fueled a fire.

00:09:27.100 But okay, fair enough.

00:09:28.340 Let's give him some jail time for that.

00:09:30.100 I can understand this.

00:09:32.080 So he was, this is Levi Fishlock, who was involved in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham.

00:09:39.640 Um, and so he was jailed for nine years for, for helping that and trying to burn down a hotel housing asylum seekers. 0.76

00:09:47.600 Yeah, okay, fair enough.

00:09:48.840 Fair enough.

00:09:49.260 Nine years.

00:09:49.900 That's a long time. 0.99

00:09:52.000 Then you've got a guy who raped a woman to death. 0.89

00:09:54.620 And he gets ten years. 0.95

00:09:57.180 Ten years?

00:09:59.120 So are we saying these are roughly equivalent?

00:10:01.160 It's slightly worse.

00:10:02.660 I mean, no one died.

00:10:04.360 Like, this guy didn't kill anyone.

00:10:06.520 You know, he was trying to set fire to the hotel.

00:10:07.820 So you could say, well, he's trying to.

00:10:09.400 Okay, yeah, fair enough.

00:10:10.760 But he actually did kill someone.

00:10:13.180 Like, this is, this is a harrowing case, man. 0.77

00:10:15.420 This should be the death penalty, surely.

00:10:17.380 Well, you would think so, yeah.

00:10:18.800 I mean, if we had it.

00:10:20.580 Yeah, this, this would be a good argument to bring back the death penalty.

00:10:24.200 So this, this one was, um, Natalie Schotter, right?

00:10:27.580 She was 37 years old.

00:10:28.900 Mother of three.

00:10:29.980 Had a 21, 21 month old daughter.

00:10:32.320 She'd recently given birth, right?

00:10:34.300 Her and her boyfriend, I think it's a boyfriend, like, partner.

00:10:37.200 You know, you know, not husband, but, you know, she's in a relationship. 0.99

00:10:41.980 She's an NHS clinical, or was an NHS clinical admin worker who lived a couple of miles from South Hall.

00:10:48.460 And she was suffering from postnatal depression because she couldn't see her baby during COVID because she was a frontline COVID worker.

00:10:55.100 So someone else was looking after the baby.

00:10:57.880 And so that's a sad thing.

00:10:59.880 I can't even imagine how difficult that would be, actually.

00:11:01.980 I mean, it's terrible, right?

00:11:04.800 And, uh, so she has a night out, which, as a parent, I'm telling you, is a rarity, right?

00:11:10.340 So she, she goes out, she, the CCTV footage of her, you know, having fun, you know, hanging out with people.

00:11:18.300 Um, she, uh, apparently, according to one guy who did not give evidence of the trial before I provided a statement,

00:11:24.520 he met some guy and they were sat on a bench in South Hall Park.

00:11:27.620 They did some amyl nitrate poppers, uh, and she had been quite drunk.

00:11:32.940 And so she laid down in there, she wasn't feeling well.

00:11:35.600 Okay?

00:11:36.000 She falls asleep.

00:11:37.040 Okay.

00:11:38.240 Nothing life-threatening about this, right?

00:11:40.420 The, um, uh, coroner points out that none of this is lethal.

00:11:45.400 She would have just fallen asleep on the bench, woken up cold the next morning and gone home, right?

00:11:50.620 Um, the person that she was with at 5 to 12, or, sorry, 11.56pm, uh, was like, oh no, she's passed out.

00:11:58.700 I better go find some help.

00:11:59.700 So he goes to find some police officers, finds two police officers outside the park,

00:12:03.480 but they're like, no, we're busy dealing with something else.

00:12:05.340 Uh, you're advised to call for additional support, but I guess he doesn't, or they don't arrive, or whatever, right?

00:12:11.560 And then 20 minutes later, Mohamed, uh, Idal, or how you pronounce it, uh, approaches Natalie.

00:12:20.180 He appears to have been stalking her before he approached her.

00:12:23.800 So he appears to have been watching him, like, oh look, vulnerable woman, right?

00:12:26.920 Goes, like, wanders around her to make sure that she's not going to respond, 1.00

00:12:32.640 and then begins orally raping her, and she ends up dying from this. 0.93

00:12:37.320 And he goes at 12.32, comes back at 12.48, then leaves again at 12.51, driving away from the park, 0.98

00:12:44.320 back to his wife and children.

00:12:46.580 He stops off at a shell garage to pick up some mouthwash and cat food. 1.00

00:12:50.400 After orally raping a woman to death on a bench. 0.93

00:12:52.540 And so her mother's just like, well, I think what he did was premeditated, he was stalking her, 0.98

00:12:57.960 he wasn't dithering, he didn't just come across her by chance. 0.73

00:13:01.360 She thinks that he was out that night purposefully looking for someone to rape.

00:13:05.020 Yeah, it just seems to be the case.

00:13:07.620 Why was this person in our country?

00:13:09.280 Well, if our crime statistics are anything to go by, the name Mohamed seems to mean something here, doesn't it?

00:13:14.340 Well, yeah, but, I mean, you know, during the trial, his father was there from the public gallery,

00:13:26.820 and when they were playing footage, he just got up and left the court.

00:13:29.480 So, yeah, no kidding. This is your son you've raised, man.

00:13:32.720 So, anyway, Mohamed, again, notice how the pictures, you're not getting pictures of him, you're getting pictures of her.

00:13:39.500 Whenever the victim is a sort of native Brit, they'll always show the victim if the person is foreign.

00:13:50.160 And if it's the other way around, of course, they'll always show the perpetrator.

00:13:54.360 Yeah, this independent article doesn't have a single picture of Mohamed Idal in it, right?

00:14:00.960 But, anyway, so he was apparently jailed for life, which means ten years and eight months minimum term.

00:14:07.560 Ten years.

00:14:08.000 It's a short life, isn't it?

00:14:10.160 He's going to be out in ten years.

00:14:12.160 But that's just, that's the minimum, and so, you know, assuming he behaves well in jail.

00:14:16.520 And here is where what I said before about the interpretation given by the media and the narrative comes in,

00:14:22.960 because whenever you have people who are from one side doing something or saying anything,

00:14:29.840 again, it's the projection of the pardon of the far right.

00:14:32.820 But when you have people from, let's say, that community doing crime, and it's a lot of crime,

00:14:40.120 it's always an isolated incident of someone who had mental illness.

00:14:43.540 Yeah, and this guy was a husband and father and was just out on this night as a predator,

00:14:50.640 just looking for someone to attack, and he found someone vulnerable and attacked them.

00:14:54.740 So, you know, ladies, it's not really safe for you to go out and get drunk in Britain anymore.

00:14:59.880 It's just not safe.

00:15:00.780 And also this behavior suggests that there is zero fear of there being consequences.

00:15:05.020 Well, you know what, that's exactly what his mother, her mother said.

00:15:08.300 She said, quote, he seemed to think he was untouchable.

00:15:11.400 So, yeah, that seems to be something that's in their minds for some reason.

00:15:16.640 Anyway, again, BBC, like, do we have a picture of him in here?

00:15:20.260 Oh, we do finally have a picture of him.

00:15:22.700 Like, just...

00:15:23.260 Dear Lord.

00:15:24.100 Yeah, exactly, the state, right?

00:15:26.140 But anyway, they point out that he was actually a dangerous offender who had previous charges brought against him.

00:15:33.560 In 2022, he did engage in an explicit sexual chat online with a 13-year-old that he knew was 13 while he was under investigation for rape.

00:15:42.900 So, I mean, I just... 0.71

00:15:45.060 Can we not just assume this guy's a perennial predator?

00:15:47.140 Why is he in our country?

00:15:48.720 Why have we brought him here?

00:15:49.960 Yeah, why have we brought him here?

00:15:51.900 We also need to make an example of these people.

00:15:54.620 Yeah.

00:15:54.940 So people like him don't come here. 1.00

00:15:56.820 And the way you do that is you kill them. 1.00

00:15:58.900 All right, calm down. 1.00

00:15:59.860 As in capital punishment.

00:16:01.500 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:16:01.960 Um, but the...

00:16:03.900 I mean, I am totally for bringing back the death penalty. 0.99

00:16:06.640 And if you kill someone after raping them to death, yeah, I think that's a perfectly good... 1.00

00:16:13.300 Perfectly good use of the punishment. 1.00

00:16:15.580 But anyway, so, um...

00:16:16.860 And again, there's no question that it was him either, you know.

00:16:18.900 His DNA was found in her mouth and things like that.

00:16:21.440 The CCTV footage of him doing it. 1.00

00:16:23.780 Again, you'd have to be such a moron to think that people aren't going to know. 0.99

00:16:27.520 Like, there's no doubt that it's him. 1.00

00:16:29.480 There's just no one else it could be.

00:16:31.160 So we can't get this wrong in this case.

00:16:33.300 We know it's him.

00:16:34.460 He would be a great candidate for it.

00:16:36.020 Anyway, there's weird things that come out of this as well.

00:16:38.760 So this is a police officer called Adam Aspinel de Incarnatio, which is a Portuguese surname.

00:16:48.260 But apparently he's been suspended and has been charged with sharing images of her being

00:16:54.720 raped from the CCTV footage, as well as other images of women being raped from police cases. 0.98

00:17:02.100 So he seems to be a weird perv who has been sharing these... 0.98

00:17:06.640 Like, I don't know. 0.74

00:17:07.460 I don't think it could get any worse.

00:17:08.580 Yeah, I know.

00:17:09.020 I know.

00:17:09.360 It's just so weird.

00:17:10.240 It's like, I just... 0.99

00:17:11.860 Okay, so the police are just full of weird foreign perverts, aren't they? 1.00

00:17:15.700 Oh, great. 0.98

00:17:16.680 You know, again, I don't know what I'm supposed to say about it or take from it.

00:17:20.680 But it's just like, okay, why?

00:17:22.720 Why are we here?

00:17:24.620 Anyway, moving on.

00:17:25.500 There are a bunch of trials that are set for January the 20th.

00:17:29.420 Any interesting trials coming up?

00:17:30.980 Well, there's the trial of Anthony Essen.

00:17:33.720 I wonder if we've got a picture of him in here.

00:17:35.780 No?

00:17:36.500 No, really, BBC.

00:17:37.660 You haven't got a picture of him.

00:17:39.540 Not a...

00:17:40.240 Again, again, why?

00:17:42.760 Why don't we have a picture of the criminal, right?

00:17:45.440 So this chap, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teton, was stabbed by Anthony Essen.

00:17:52.100 You know, I'm going to just get Anthony Essen's picture up, see if we can actually find a picture of it.

00:17:58.140 We did a segment about Anthony Essen in late July.

00:18:04.120 Oh, there we go.

00:18:07.860 I wonder why the BBC didn't put his picture in the thing.

00:18:11.400 I wonder why.

00:18:12.500 So anyway, yeah.

00:18:13.820 Anthony's trial is on January the 20th.

00:18:16.620 Interesting date, January the 20th.

00:18:18.320 Then we have the trial of Ricky Jones, who we actually have a picture of.

00:18:23.480 The Labour councillor who, after the Southport riots and then the sort of counter-riots and protests that the media ginned up,

00:18:30.780 and the politicians, the Labour Party in particular, ginned up to get their sort of foreign client groups on the streets. 0.73

00:18:36.420 This Labour councillor was like, we're going to have to go out and slit their throats.

00:18:40.240 And he got suspended, and his trial will be on January the 20th.

00:18:44.580 Weird.

00:18:45.520 Weird that they're loading all of these.

00:18:47.100 It just happened to be the same day.

00:18:48.240 They just threw it at a calendar.

00:18:50.080 Oh, January the 20th.

00:18:51.180 What were the odds?

00:18:52.260 And that just happens to be the same day as the trial of Axel Rudakabana.

00:18:56.860 January the 20th.

00:18:57.720 Again, just...

00:18:57.900 Wow, January the 20th again.

00:19:01.040 What are the odds?

00:19:02.240 Or, they're deliberately loading them all on the same day in order to essentially sort of flood news reports.

00:19:08.280 And so when people start January the 20th trial, they get other results or whatever.

00:19:12.380 Who knows?

00:19:12.960 Who knows why they're doing it?

00:19:13.740 It just happens to be a massive coincidence.

00:19:16.020 But honestly, you can't help but notice that it cuts in one direction and against another. 0.98

00:19:20.940 And it's every single goddamn time. 0.97

00:19:22.600 And the media is, again, totally complicit in this. 0.99

00:19:25.580 Because, like, it's...

00:19:27.580 I'm so sick of seeing it.

00:19:29.800 I'm just so sick of seeing it.

00:19:31.180 I guess I'll leave that.

00:19:31.880 It's just really annoying me.

00:19:35.520 Oh, yeah.

00:19:36.160 That's a good point.

00:19:36.920 Thanks, Samson.

00:19:37.560 I completely forgot about that.

00:19:38.780 Yeah, guess who's being inaugurated on January the 20th?

00:19:41.420 That's right.

00:19:42.120 The God Emperor, Trump.

00:19:43.940 So, it's just really weird how this is all...

00:19:47.280 The stars have aligned.

00:19:48.160 This is all converged.

00:19:49.060 And I can't help but think that it's intentional.

00:19:50.940 There is a stage that is going to happen afterwards in the pattern.

00:19:57.160 When people are exiting jail, they won't get deported because ECHR.

00:20:05.320 Because it's going to be the human rights of the family that is going to be negatively impacted as far as well-being is concerned.

00:20:14.400 And foreign convicted criminals just wandering around in Britain and nothing will be done about it. 1.00

00:20:20.520 It's just mad.

00:20:21.980 Anyway, Matt says,

00:20:23.500 When will Britain make exiles great again? 1.00

00:20:25.840 Non-historically British people. 0.94

00:20:27.600 Well, when indeed.

00:20:29.420 OPSUK says,

00:20:30.520 The rapist is going to be out in three years because incarceration is causing family undue stress.

00:20:35.060 And he didn't really understand our laws anyway, so you can't blame him.

00:20:37.500 Well, no.

00:20:37.740 The judge has given a minimum of ten years and eight months.

00:20:40.520 So, apparently, he can't come out any sooner than that.

00:20:44.640 But even then, only a decade.

00:20:46.100 Only ten years for murdering someone. 0.99

00:20:48.040 For raping someone to death. 0.97

00:20:50.320 Like, I just want to be clear, right? 0.97

00:20:51.720 Before, like, well, now, I'd never heard of anyone in Britain ever being raped to death before.

00:20:57.320 Maybe he felt bad?

00:20:58.760 Yeah, maybe he just felt like, you know, the racist system was, you know, putting him out of joint or something.

00:21:05.620 But it just never happened before as far as I can.

00:21:07.580 Like, he's just never heard of it.

00:21:08.900 Anyway.

00:21:09.540 We've got another one through as well.

00:21:11.060 Oh, Dragon Lady says, 1.00

00:21:12.200 So sad this is happening in such a beautiful, culturally rich country like the UK.

00:21:15.320 Well, Sam, we don't have any culture in Britain, Chris.

00:21:18.360 We needed to import all this culture, and now we're being enriched.

00:21:23.220 Right.

00:21:23.720 So, we have a conservative, a German conservative publication called Freilich

00:21:28.940 that has been debunked by its Austrian bank.

00:21:32.760 What do you mean debunked?

00:21:33.740 Debunked.

00:21:34.420 Debunked, yeah.

00:21:35.360 You said debunked.

00:21:36.720 No, debunked.

00:21:38.120 Debunked, for I guess.

00:21:39.040 It's just checking.

00:21:40.220 D-E-B-A-N-K-E-D. 1.00

00:21:43.600 Right.

00:21:43.920 So, if I could have control of the...

00:21:47.380 Is the mouse on?

00:21:49.620 Yeah.

00:21:49.820 So, it says one of the major banks in Austria, Sparkasse, has cancelled the bank account of

00:21:56.500 the media outlet Freilich just weeks after the outlet published an investigative report

00:22:00.960 on a meeting involving the German Green Party and its efforts to ban the AFD.

00:22:06.340 Right.

00:22:06.520 So, what is going on is that there are a lot of people who want to ban the AFD for a long

00:22:10.480 time now because they say that it is unconstitutional.

00:22:13.860 And they try to...

00:22:14.800 Can we just pause on that?

00:22:16.660 It's not really because they think the AFD is unconstitutional.

00:22:20.280 No, it's not.

00:22:20.620 It's because the AFD is shooting up in the polls.

00:22:22.740 Yeah.

00:22:22.920 And they're worried about them winning the elections.

00:22:24.520 It's okay to be undemocratic if the party is of the wrong persuasion.

00:22:29.140 That's my segment.

00:22:30.100 Oh, sorry.

00:22:31.080 Thank you.

00:22:32.400 Right.

00:22:32.720 So, what is going on is that the rhetoric is that the AFD is unconstitutional and they're

00:22:39.360 trying to ban it.

00:22:40.240 They're trying to do so for, I would say, for years now.

00:22:43.820 Yeah, yeah.

00:22:44.360 And essentially, it is because its popularity is rising.

00:22:49.520 But what happened is that there are several people who are competing each other as to

00:22:55.320 who is going to have the best motion to ban the AFD.

00:22:59.000 So, what happened is that the Green Party organized a video conference talking about their criticism

00:23:08.840 of the current popular motion against the AFD.

00:23:14.080 And they got together a constitutional law expert.

00:23:17.980 They put it with other MPs and they had several discussions about what's the problems with

00:23:25.100 the main motion and how to do it themselves, how to do a better one.

00:23:31.800 And people from the Freilich publication went undercover into that meeting.

00:23:38.520 So, they sort of crushed the meeting.

00:23:41.360 They did some journalism.

00:23:42.560 They did some actual journalism and reported what was said there.

00:23:48.280 And somehow, no journalistic deeds go unpunished.

00:23:53.660 Of course.

00:23:54.360 And the Austrian bank decided to wage economic war against them.

00:24:00.220 Right.

00:24:00.720 Right.

00:24:01.020 We have the Austrian party speaking against it, saying that this is unacceptable.

00:24:06.000 We also have the AFD saying that also this is unacceptable.

00:24:11.640 And we need to bear in mind why this is happening.

00:24:15.200 And this suggests a pattern across the West, not only just in Europe.

00:24:19.700 We all know how Trump was being persecuted and how the whole establishment was trying to

00:24:25.000 put him in jail and weaponize the legal system against him.

00:24:28.180 Have you considered that elections are dangerous to our democracy?

00:24:30.760 Absolutely.

00:24:32.080 Yes.

00:24:32.940 But the question is, who does our represent?

00:24:37.460 Exactly.

00:24:38.100 That's the major question.

00:24:39.720 Right.

00:24:39.980 So, let us bear in mind what is going on and a bit why the AFD is being targeted.

00:24:46.140 So, Germany is going to have federal elections on the 23rd of February.

00:24:52.800 So, in about two and a half months, they're going to have federal elections.

00:24:56.080 And the AFD has a very good and upward trajectory.

00:25:00.940 And it has also won one state election in Thuringia.

00:25:08.120 But also, it has become a close second in Brandenburg and also in Saxony.

00:25:13.380 Yeah.

00:25:13.580 I was going to say, wasn't there something funny about the Saxony one?

00:25:16.600 Yes.

00:25:17.640 Also, just needless to say, the Green Party has been completely destroyed and demolished.

00:25:22.660 And they're just losing seats.

00:25:24.300 And also, the same happened in the EU elections.

00:25:27.740 I think they went from 20% to 12.5%, whereas the AFD went from 11% to 16%.

00:25:35.860 There's also been a bit of a split in the vote of the left, hasn't there?

00:25:39.400 Because Link and the other new one.

00:25:44.940 Yeah.

00:25:45.460 Is it BSW?

00:25:46.800 Is that the one?

00:25:47.540 I think so, yeah.

00:25:47.900 So, they're basically splitting the left vote.

00:25:50.300 Of course, it's a preferential system, but it's still significant because it means that they're going to be focused on taking each other out rather than the AFD, potentially.

00:25:59.000 Yes.

00:25:59.160 So, bear that in mind, because the rhetoric of its anti-constitutionality should always be examined in the context of what is going on.

00:26:08.960 Right.

00:26:09.260 Come on, base Saxons. 1.00

00:26:10.120 Get on with it.

00:26:10.660 Right.

00:26:11.400 So, there has been a move.

00:26:13.880 This is from November 13.

00:26:15.800 And there are around 113 MPs of the German Bundestag who have signed the application, submitted it to the president, Barbara Bass.

00:26:26.720 And they want to...

00:26:28.600 I just can't stand it.

00:26:29.740 It's like, look, we're getting thrashed by opponents.

00:26:31.860 Well, why don't we just ban them? 0.52

00:26:32.880 Yeah, but here is where there is constant criticism and everyone is criticizing the criticism and the motion.

00:26:41.180 And everyone is getting sucked into this, let's say, eternal discussion about what is going on.

00:26:48.900 And we have Greens and other MPs who disagree with the motion, not because they don't want to ban the AFD, but because they want to ban it their way.

00:26:59.580 You're not banning them hard enough.

00:27:01.040 Right.

00:27:01.720 Exactly.

00:27:02.360 Yeah.

00:27:02.880 No, because it's going to seem unconstitutional.

00:27:05.660 Oh, wow.

00:27:06.220 That's essentially where it comes.

00:27:07.880 So, what they want is they want the facade of constitutionality.

00:27:12.180 Yeah, it's weirdly unconstitutional to ban the second most popular party in the country from being able to be a party.

00:27:17.220 And you even had journalists saying that it is an authoritarian measure, that it is an authoritarian measure that is for the purpose of...

00:27:24.580 Protecting our democracy.

00:27:25.520 It comes from a constitutional order.

00:27:27.900 Unbelievable.

00:27:28.640 Yeah.

00:27:28.820 And they are going to wage these authoritarian measures to combat authoritarianism.

00:27:34.820 Right.

00:27:35.820 We have here the Greens and other parties are plotting the best way to ban the AFD.

00:27:39.880 And we have lots of good footage, not footage, reports from what happened within that conference.

00:27:46.620 So, there is someone called Marco Vandervich, who is a member of the CDU, which is the Christian Democratic Union.

00:27:55.420 And he wants to go forward with a motion of an outright ban.

00:28:01.160 And they say that the problem with this is that there is no sufficient evidence.

00:28:06.900 So, that's...

00:28:07.420 So, I don't mean to laugh, because this is like a crisis in German democracy.

00:28:13.780 I mean, the government just collapsed recently, didn't it?

00:28:15.580 Well, there's an interesting conversation here to be had from a pure power politics perspective.

00:28:22.200 I think they're right when it comes to...

00:28:24.800 The Greens' criticism is right when it comes to, you know, the morality of the issue.

00:28:29.720 Yeah.

00:28:29.880 But the other one is more likely to work from a purely Machiavellian perspective.

00:28:35.260 Right, right, right.

00:28:35.740 I don't think it should happen. 0.85

00:28:37.800 But it just really is just a clown show, isn't it?

00:28:42.700 Everywhere. 0.76

00:28:43.460 Yeah, but you remember...

00:28:44.440 I don't know if you remember Machiavelli who says,

00:28:46.200 when you want to do something that people are going to think unpopular, just better do it at one go.

00:28:50.520 Yeah.

00:28:51.000 And people will get on with their lives, they'll forget it, and they're going to move on.

00:28:54.540 Yeah.

00:28:54.900 The Greens haven't absorbed this lesson.

00:28:56.680 And basically they say that among these skeptics of the original motion to ban it

00:29:02.420 is Green MP Renate Kunast, who is working on her own motion to ban the AFD,

00:29:07.740 and two weeks ago invited Berlin constitutional law expert Christoph Müller to a video conference

00:29:13.120 to present his views on a possible AFD ban.

00:29:16.980 German publication Freilich, which attended the conference undercover,

00:29:20.980 learned exactly what was discussed between several MPs from the Green Party,

00:29:26.680 from also the SPD and also the FDP.

00:29:30.640 And they're saying that there is a risk of the Vandervich motion.

00:29:34.560 It has no evidence.

00:29:35.940 When you present something with no evidence, it's going to backfire,

00:29:39.580 and it's going to have the exact opposite result.

00:29:42.920 Yeah.

00:29:43.460 I see the point.

00:29:45.080 I see the point.

00:29:45.880 Yeah.

00:29:46.040 But also they are saying that what happens is that they need to have a first stage

00:29:52.560 where they're going to create a committee of experts who is going to connect the dots,

00:30:00.500 is going to bring forward evidence of its anti-constitutionality,

00:30:05.800 and that has more risks of working.

00:30:09.340 What is interesting is that the constitutional law expert told them that it's quite crazy

00:30:15.020 to try to ban a political party with two-digit percentage.

00:30:19.260 He said, I'm not that crazy yet,

00:30:22.060 but if you wanted to do it, here's how you do it.

00:30:26.460 You have the committee of experts.

00:30:27.840 Well, we need to ban them.

00:30:30.140 What have they done wrong?

00:30:30.920 Oh, nothing.

00:30:32.540 You don't have any evidence of wrongdoing?

00:30:34.020 No, of course not.

00:30:35.100 But we just really disagree with them, and they're thrashing us.

00:30:38.840 Would the final decision go through a judiciary?

00:30:41.540 Because I imagine if you can get a judge that's on side,

00:30:46.640 which shouldn't be too difficult,

00:30:48.700 once they get to that point, they're basically on the home stretch, aren't they?

00:30:52.480 Well, the body that would be responsible for judging

00:30:56.560 is a body that, as he says,

00:31:00.760 shouldn't have members that are loyal to the AFD,

00:31:03.680 and if they don't have members loyal to the AFD, it's going to work.

00:31:07.840 Well, this is like purely Schmittian politics, then.

00:31:10.560 Yes.

00:31:10.840 It's just, you know, enemy, and we control,

00:31:14.360 our friends control the judiciary,

00:31:15.780 so we can just get this done regardless of what the legality of it is.

00:31:20.020 They want to create the facade of legality.

00:31:22.420 That's what the Greens are saying here.

00:31:24.620 Yeah, yeah, but that's not what this board is.

00:31:26.480 Yeah, and also this expert told them that the problem with the AFD 0.99

00:31:31.660 is that they're not as stupid as previous parties. 0.99

00:31:37.180 They are not going to write it on their manifesto, 1.00

00:31:40.360 that, you know, we're going to do things that,

00:31:43.260 you know, they're going to be the terrors of the earth, you know.

00:31:45.380 Yeah, we're not here to do anything terrible in a German fashion. 0.96

00:31:49.560 Yes.

00:31:50.120 And the funny thing is, as well, that the AFD's manifesto seemed pretty liberal.

00:31:55.540 They're hardly this spooky, scary...

00:31:57.960 Yeah, no, I've spoken at the German parliament a couple of years ago,

00:32:03.020 and I was talking to all the AFD guys, and they were just like,

00:32:05.280 yeah, we're not, like, you know, crazy.

00:32:08.160 We just don't really want to give up our country.

00:32:10.880 And it's like, wow, this is radical.

00:32:12.420 Yes, but they're the enemies of our democracy.

00:32:14.840 And here is where it all goes down to,

00:32:16.720 because, you know, we have lots of people saying that this is anti-democratic.

00:32:21.340 Naomi Saib is also raising a lot of consciousness and awareness about the issue.

00:32:26.220 And we have lots of people who are talking about our democracy,

00:32:31.940 but it's not at all obvious what they mean by our democracy,

00:32:35.280 because you can't talk about our democracy

00:32:37.300 when you are essentially demonizing patriotism.

00:32:40.660 Yes.

00:32:41.080 And that's exactly what is going on,

00:32:42.600 because we could constantly describe political movements

00:32:46.260 as, you know, swaying from left to right.

00:32:48.960 But right now, what is going on is, I think, a push towards globalism,

00:32:53.560 because if we see all the parties that are getting the wrong end of the stick,

00:32:57.700 let's say, or are being the targets of political warfare in the domestic,

00:33:05.060 all of them just seem to have one common thing.

00:33:07.720 They're saying that our country is our country first.

00:33:10.860 Yes.

00:33:11.220 That's what they seem to be saying.

00:33:12.520 One thing that we've not necessarily talked about

00:33:15.160 is the fact that they use our democracy,

00:33:17.680 because democracy basically functions as a sort of smokescreen

00:33:21.540 for politicians to create blank checks to do what they want. 0.90

00:33:26.680 There's not really any limitation on that,

00:33:28.980 because, of course, most politicians in Germany and the UK

00:33:33.140 do many unpopular things that are against the wishes of their electorate,

00:33:37.260 and they're able to because there's not enough accountability for elected officials.

00:33:42.000 In many ways, they have far too much power over ordinary people's lives,

00:33:47.160 and why would they not refer to it as our democracy

00:33:50.060 when it's basically their means of having unchecked power?

00:33:53.940 That's a great point, because it's kind of crazy that they can just be like,

00:33:56.300 right, we're just going to let in a million or two million people a year

00:33:58.760 for a net 900,000, however much it was.

00:34:01.340 It's like, hang on, what do you mean?

00:34:02.840 You're just going to...

00:34:03.540 Why are you allowed to do that?

00:34:05.720 Without also asking your people...

00:34:07.580 Well, yeah, I mean, no one's...

00:34:08.380 But even if you ask, why are you allowed to do that anyway?

00:34:11.960 But there's never been a democratic mandate in this country for immigration, ever.

00:34:16.020 So just why have we come to the place now

00:34:19.040 where we've got hundreds of thousands of dependents of foreign people moving in

00:34:23.300 and being put up in social housing?

00:34:24.880 What are we doing?

00:34:26.260 And like you said, there's just no accountability,

00:34:28.420 no one's going to get in trouble for any of this,

00:34:31.500 and it's ruining us.

00:34:32.640 Well, there's a sort of broken window effect whereby progressively

00:34:36.740 the need to get a democratic mandate to do something,

00:34:40.380 the threshold has increased so high to the point

00:34:42.840 where you need significant constitutional changes to put it to the electorate,

00:34:47.420 and you would think that something like mass migration

00:34:49.680 would be significant enough.

00:34:51.440 And to add to your point,

00:34:52.960 which I think that this is what it all comes down to.

00:34:55.480 A lot of people are saying that in 20 years,

00:34:57.720 people are going to have a problem.

00:34:58.800 I think that's wrong in a way because the problem already exists.

00:35:03.720 Because it's obviously true that there are lobbies that are foreign

00:35:08.560 in all Western countries and whose power is rising,

00:35:12.940 and also their numbers are rising.

00:35:14.520 But we forget the problem that people vote one time every four or five years.

00:35:21.140 Then they vote for overall agendas.

00:35:23.560 They don't vote on specific topics.

00:35:25.020 And this leads to the tyranny of the minority 0.99

00:35:28.360 because they are doing all sorts of calculations

00:35:31.580 in order to get votes,

00:35:33.680 and they're placating lots of minorities

00:35:35.880 in order to give them extra rights and preferential treatment.

00:35:39.920 But moving on from here,

00:35:42.280 I want to say that precisely it seems to me that

00:35:46.480 if we just focus on the difference between rhetoric and action,

00:35:49.740 it seems to me that the EU and also the politics of persecuting your enemy

00:35:56.040 is pretty authoritarian if we just look at their actions.

00:36:00.760 Well, it's fundamentally anti-democratic.

00:36:02.640 It doesn't recognize the legitimacy of the opposition.

00:36:05.140 Yes, and the videos and footage I've seen from members of the AFD

00:36:11.620 seem to me far more democratic than the EU.

00:36:14.740 But again, they have this problem.

00:36:16.900 They're talking about patriotism.

00:36:18.080 The problem is they're against the entrenched globalist order.

00:36:23.020 And so, of course, they're just going to be like,

00:36:24.300 well, we'll tolerate you until you become a genuine threat,

00:36:27.000 and then we're going to try and shut you down.

00:36:29.040 And here is where I'm going to wrap it up

00:36:30.980 and to finish the segment

00:36:32.080 because there seem to me to be several issues

00:36:34.940 that the AFD is constantly talking about and criticizing.

00:36:39.140 And a lot of people don't feel particularly comfortable

00:36:42.480 when people like the AFD are criticizing.

00:36:45.080 For instance, free speech.

00:36:46.100 Oh, yeah.

00:36:46.640 We have here Alice Weidel in the German Bundestag.

00:36:50.080 That's the most anti-democratic.

00:36:52.160 Emphasizing how the Green Party plans a ban on X like in Brazil. 0.98

00:36:57.060 Also, just look at the complete insanity of it.

00:37:02.920 A lot of the leftists and a lot of EU fanatics,

00:37:07.520 they're constantly saying,

00:37:08.860 well, parties like the AFD or Marine Le Pen's or Meloni's parties,

00:37:12.640 they're just driven by Russian interest.

00:37:16.160 Right.

00:37:16.360 So, what's the point?

00:37:17.700 First of all, I don't believe it.

00:37:19.080 But second, what's the point of accusing a party

00:37:22.960 for promoting the interests of another nation

00:37:26.220 if you are demonizing patriotism?

00:37:29.660 Yeah.

00:37:29.800 You're just screaming, I'm not promoting my interests.

00:37:33.440 But then you're accusing your opponents

00:37:34.900 for promoting interests of other countries.

00:37:36.440 Are you suggesting that, like, half your country is pro-Russian?

00:37:39.980 They're just like, you know what?

00:37:40.960 I'm going to vote for the Russian interest over Italy, 1.00

00:37:43.420 which is why Meloni's in charge of Italy.

00:37:45.320 I think...

00:37:46.120 And Hungary.

00:37:46.640 Oh, yeah, we need Russians. 1.00

00:37:48.040 What are you doing? 0.96

00:37:49.080 It's nonsense.

00:37:50.420 The sort of fundamental problem with German politics is...

00:37:53.700 I'm going to address the elephant in the room here.

00:37:56.140 They're living in the shadow of their past,

00:37:58.580 and they're mistakenly identifying patriotism

00:38:01.760 as the root cause of it,

00:38:03.840 when actually it's clearly not.

00:38:06.240 And I think that that's actually something

00:38:07.800 that's very deliberate to target the right.

00:38:10.980 It's a deliberate misunderstanding of history.

00:38:13.020 They're essentially like globalist commies.

00:38:14.560 So, obviously, they're like,

00:38:16.560 okay, we've got to get past the patriotism thing,

00:38:18.340 or else we don't get the wonderful,

00:38:20.480 perfect, liberal, international order

00:38:22.020 that we've been looking for.

00:38:23.540 Here we have the manifesto for the AFD.

00:38:26.740 Anyone who wants to read about it, just...

00:38:29.560 How many mentions of concentration camps?

00:38:33.180 I saw some really dangerous...

00:38:34.420 Not one, actually.

00:38:35.540 Not one, right.

00:38:36.560 Not even one, I know.

00:38:38.860 I can scroll down for you if you want.

00:38:40.380 Yes.

00:38:41.240 If we scroll down page eight...

00:38:43.500 Okay, I can do that.

00:38:45.280 A lot of scrolling.

00:38:47.040 There you go.

00:38:47.980 Yeah, democracy and core values.

00:38:49.920 We want to reform Germany 0.96

00:38:51.620 and return to the roots and principles

00:38:53.280 which were fundamental to its economic recovery

00:38:56.540 in subsequent decades

00:38:58.000 of economic and social progress.

00:39:00.620 And if we scroll down to the next page...

00:39:03.220 Oh, sorry.

00:39:04.820 Too far.

00:39:05.740 Next one.

00:39:06.520 Next one.

00:39:07.220 Yep.

00:39:08.100 Anyway, I've lost...

00:39:09.140 Okay, it's just...

00:39:10.020 I don't have...

00:39:11.240 Do you want me to have a look at that?

00:39:12.920 Yeah.

00:39:13.620 Stuff is not working.

00:39:15.040 They're talking about how they're, in a sense,

00:39:17.240 conservative liberals

00:39:18.180 and they are in favor of democracy

00:39:20.540 and the separation of powers.

00:39:22.060 Right.

00:39:22.660 These are dangerous things.

00:39:24.220 So they're basically an American party.

00:39:26.360 Yeah.

00:39:27.580 But what is going on here

00:39:30.580 is that they have...

00:39:31.820 Thank you very much, Josh.

00:39:33.180 Is that if we look at the parties

00:39:34.800 who are going against them,

00:39:36.140 they are for something that the AFD is against,

00:39:40.220 at least in rhetoric,

00:39:41.360 because always the rhetoric differs from actions.

00:39:43.980 They're against...

00:39:44.640 Therefore, the parties that go against the AFD

00:39:47.260 are for micromanaging social decline.

00:39:50.400 So they aren't talking about the core problem,

00:39:55.980 what generates an issue.

00:39:58.840 They're focusing on the symptoms.

00:40:00.880 And I just have here...

00:40:01.940 They are the issue that's causing the symptoms.

00:40:04.340 Yes.

00:40:04.480 So, of course, they've got to manage the symptoms

00:40:05.980 to make sure that people...

00:40:06.760 But Carl, have you considered

00:40:08.260 that some people change course

00:40:10.300 when they suffer the consequences

00:40:12.540 of their own policies?

00:40:14.080 I have, actually.

00:40:15.160 Yeah?

00:40:15.600 I watch the Young Turks occasionally.

00:40:17.700 Okay.

00:40:17.940 Speaking of Young Turks,

00:40:20.800 we have Cem Özdemir,

00:40:22.880 Germany's agricultural minister,

00:40:24.760 who claims that his daughter

00:40:26.480 has been sexually harassed by a migrant.

00:40:28.620 He is the leader of the Green Party

00:40:32.320 who was advocating open borders.

00:40:35.600 And that's a good thing part?

00:40:36.960 No, no, no.

00:40:37.500 He says now that there needs to be a halt

00:40:39.940 to open borders.

00:40:41.180 Now that's happening to your family.

00:40:43.400 What about all the other families?

00:40:45.780 Well, but...

00:40:46.660 Not his problem.

00:40:47.260 But what is the suggestion?

00:40:49.520 The suggestion is having women-only trains. 0.93

00:40:53.420 The response...

00:40:54.940 The suggested response of the Greens

00:40:57.000 to increasingly more...

00:40:59.820 Increasing crime in Germany is... 0.79

00:41:02.920 And especially to train stations

00:41:04.540 and sexual abuse within train stations

00:41:07.400 and train is...

00:41:08.360 Let's have women-only carriages. 1.00

00:41:09.960 So they're resorting to segregation.

00:41:11.520 That's interesting.

00:41:12.420 It's even worse, though.

00:41:13.240 It's like, right, okay, what's happening? 0.99

00:41:14.220 Well, the Islamic migrants are harassing women 1.00

00:41:15.960 because they would like segregated spaces 0.99

00:41:18.840 between men and women.

00:41:19.660 Well, you know what we should do then?

00:41:20.840 Give them exactly what they want.

00:41:24.300 That's micromanaging social decline.

00:41:26.760 Also...

00:41:27.280 It's also doing what they want.

00:41:28.640 Yeah, the women's-only carriages, 1.00

00:41:30.640 that's going to be like a buffet. 1.00

00:41:32.180 You think the Muslim sexual assaulter 1.00

00:41:34.640 is going to go in there and be like, 1.00

00:41:35.860 hang on a minute, I'm not allowed in here.

00:41:37.180 This is a women-only space. 1.00

00:41:38.760 Also, if I go in and say I'm a woman

00:41:40.700 and someone comes in and tells me,

00:41:43.260 you know, just leave.

00:41:44.240 I'll say, you're misgendering me.

00:41:45.820 Yeah, politically correct gender authority. 1.00

00:41:46.980 I'm going to destroy you. 0.98

00:41:48.980 Yeah, yeah. 1.00

00:41:49.500 And you probably could.

00:41:50.260 You probably could literally go to the courts

00:41:51.680 and be like, I identified as a woman that day

00:41:54.240 and he told me I wasn't a woman

00:41:56.640 and kicked me out

00:41:57.440 and that was my human rights violated

00:41:58.960 and I want to see them.

00:42:00.020 So all this is micromanaging social decline.

00:42:06.220 You know, this isn't paying enough these days.

00:42:09.020 You know what else these parties have given to Germany?

00:42:14.200 Really disastrous net zero policies.

00:42:16.360 Oh, what a shock.

00:42:17.100 The destruction of their domestic agricultural sector.

00:42:21.620 But it's true, it's virtuous.

00:42:24.400 It's virtuous.

00:42:25.380 It's good.

00:42:26.040 And also we have incredibly rising crime that arises.

00:42:31.320 And, you know, I think he's called Michael Sturzenberger.

00:42:36.820 He was talking about the Islamization of Germany and Europe. 0.74

00:42:42.920 Someone tried to stab him.

00:42:45.080 Yeah.

00:42:45.580 And the cop attacked him thinking he was attacking the migrant.

00:42:49.940 Yes. 0.97

00:42:50.220 The migrant stabbed the cop in the neck. 0.98

00:42:51.760 Yeah. 0.99

00:42:52.040 Because the cop was wrestling with the German. 0.99

00:42:53.960 And Michael Sturzenberger has been sentenced for 3,600 euros

00:43:02.580 for Islamophobia and inciting violence.

00:43:05.360 Yeah.

00:43:06.160 And a suspended prison sentence.

00:43:08.280 So you get punished for being stabbed.

00:43:11.120 You mean...

00:43:11.560 Someone trying to stab you. 0.89

00:43:12.460 Look what you made me do, Josh. 0.96

00:43:13.920 I mean, that evidence keeps on stabbing me for his argument.

00:43:18.980 Look what you made me do, Josh.

00:43:20.820 I know.

00:43:21.540 Speaking about honking.

00:43:22.640 Yeah.

00:43:25.240 So it seems to me that throughout Europe, we have a pattern of politicians who don't want

00:43:31.200 to solve any problem.

00:43:32.720 They want to micromanage decline.

00:43:34.480 And when we have the occasional voice that speaks of, no, we don't want to micromanage

00:43:39.020 decline.

00:43:39.460 We actually want to solve the problem.

00:43:41.400 You have a whole establishment going against them.

00:43:44.680 And this isn't just to parties.

00:43:46.800 This is also to magazines.

00:43:49.180 And we should also remind people that it's not the only publication that has been the

00:43:55.260 target of defamation.

00:43:56.860 It's also a compact magazine that was persecuted.

00:44:00.440 And the judge said, well, there isn't particular ground to prosecute them.

00:44:08.140 But in some cases, the punishment is the process, especially when there are federal elections on the 23rd of February.

00:44:14.580 Well, we've got some fun news.

00:44:18.700 Can I have the mouse back, please?

00:44:20.200 Of course.

00:44:20.460 I hope it's working.

00:44:21.080 And the mat.

00:44:22.760 I can't go mat-less.

00:44:24.940 It's one of my pet hates is to use a mouse without a mouse mat.

00:44:28.200 But it's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

00:44:30.560 I don't know what it is.

00:44:32.740 Just particularly autistic about it, apparently. 0.63

00:44:37.140 So my crusade to only give you positive news over December is continuing.

00:44:42.200 And today I'm going to be talking about the weirdest news stories from 2024.

00:44:47.580 And I had a great amount of fun putting this together.

00:44:50.300 So I'm sure it's going to be a good one.

00:44:52.080 And I'm going to go through the months.

00:44:53.420 Some of them don't have weird news stories.

00:44:55.060 Some of them have an excess.

00:44:56.540 And I'm going to start with this one.

00:44:59.380 Could you, say, imagine working in a fishing shop, and then all of a sudden a 42-year-old

00:45:05.420 man strips naked and plunges into your aquarium?

00:45:08.940 Why?

00:45:09.160 Because that happened.

00:45:11.560 So I'm going to read a little bit from this.

00:45:14.060 It says, a 42-year-old Alabama man did a cannonball leap into the aquarium and then stood under

00:45:19.760 a waterfall.

00:45:21.340 And he left the water to yell at two police officers and then dove back into the aquarium.

00:45:26.540 Again.

00:45:27.500 And eventually he climbed over the side of the aquarium and fell to the concrete floor

00:45:31.080 below.

00:45:31.780 And then the police apprehended him.

00:45:33.440 I remember seeing the video of this.

00:45:34.760 You can't show it because he's...

00:45:36.300 Naked, yeah.

00:45:38.660 But yes, I did some digging because I wanted a bit more visual of this.

00:45:43.380 Context?

00:45:43.700 So I found out it's here.

00:45:46.380 It's between Birmingham and Leeds.

00:45:48.380 And that's confusing because that makes it sound like it's in Britain.

00:45:51.680 But Birmingham, Alabama, and then this is Leeds.

00:45:56.040 And I found the specific place and the tank.

00:46:03.000 And it does look nice in his defense.

00:46:05.760 I do need to cannonball into that. 0.97

00:46:07.400 It does look fun to cannonball.

00:46:09.000 Look at that waterfall.

00:46:10.140 There's the nice fish.

00:46:11.300 I mean, you've got the deer on the sides.

00:46:12.740 It looks good.

00:46:14.280 And this obviously became a bit of a meme.

00:46:18.420 Obviously, you can see a very blurred photo, thankfully, of his antics.

00:46:23.800 And it did get turned into memes.

00:46:28.240 Reports of a shrinkage at the Bass Pro Shop, I imagine it would be.

00:46:33.460 And people have pointed out that, yes, this is a very un-American thing to persecute him

00:46:38.260 for exercising his right to swim with fishes.

00:46:41.000 No, no, no.

00:46:41.620 There are definitely going to be arguments for property.

00:46:43.280 Oh, don't want to see that.

00:46:43.860 I did find this one funny comparing him to the statue of David.

00:46:48.640 But I don't want to look at the pictures of a naked 42-year-old man too much, thanks.

00:46:54.140 There's also this.

00:46:55.500 This was from February.

00:46:57.540 And bearing in mind, an acorn fell on a police car.

00:47:02.340 And then what ensued was this.

00:47:05.040 So that's all the context you need.

00:47:07.900 And pay attention to how much this man rolls around on the ground.

00:47:13.040 In the middle of the road, not behind cover.

00:47:17.300 The warning is needless.

00:47:18.380 Nothing really happens.

00:47:19.300 Imagine if someone was shooting and he'd be roly-poly-ing away like that. 0.83

00:47:31.060 Who's he shooting at?

00:47:32.880 The acorn.

00:47:34.100 He shot his own car.

00:47:35.320 He did, yeah. 0.99

00:47:37.400 What the hell are you shooting at?

00:47:41.940 And he's just lying in the road saying, I'm hit, I'm hit. 0.91

00:47:45.320 I don't think he was hit.

00:47:47.320 He wasn't hit.

00:47:48.640 An acorn landed on the car.

00:47:50.680 Do you know your tag number? 1.00

00:47:51.520 I'll stop your ass. 1.00

00:47:51.800 And this is a different perspective from the other officer who's just talking to people. 1.00

00:47:57.340 And they see this guy freaking out.

00:47:59.840 Where, right there?

00:48:00.500 And they're not shooting at their own car.

00:48:05.800 Jesse!

00:48:06.540 Jesse, are you okay?

00:48:07.300 So apparently there was a person in that car.

00:48:09.960 Oh, Jesus.

00:48:10.880 And they were fine.

00:48:12.000 They weren't even wounded.

00:48:13.180 They were just very scared.

00:48:14.460 Yeah, yeah.

00:48:14.820 Understandably so.

00:48:15.660 But they searched that person and made sure they were unarmed before putting them in the car.

00:48:20.560 And the police officer was suspended for this, I think.

00:48:23.440 Oh, good.

00:48:24.240 Because he seems a bit highly strung.

00:48:25.480 Yeah, I think shooting acorns, you know, I know there's been a lot of, you know, law enforcement.

00:48:32.200 Exactly.

00:48:33.340 There's been a lot of anti-squirrel action in America over the past year.

00:48:38.120 But this really takes the cake.

00:48:40.600 And there's also this.

00:48:43.880 A couple got married in Kentucky in a convenience store bathroom for some reason.

00:48:50.700 I don't know.

00:48:51.640 So apparently there's a button that says do not press in the bathroom and a disco ball comes down. 1.00

00:48:58.300 And that's the only reason.

00:49:00.080 So we need to get married.

00:49:01.240 You see that in the corner, yeah.

00:49:02.120 You see that?

00:49:03.000 The little red button just in that corner there.

00:49:06.060 So could you imagine inviting people to that, showing the wedding pictures?

00:49:09.960 And you've got a toilet in the background.

00:49:11.960 I can't even imagine my wife agreeing to such a thing.

00:49:14.580 I know.

00:49:14.960 So, and a bit of a trigger warning for this.

00:49:19.040 There is mention of Vorsch in this next one.

00:49:23.760 Oh, yeah, right, yeah.

00:49:24.980 There was this.

00:49:26.600 So Vorsch, left-wing streamer, I suppose, accidentally opened a folder full of pornography on his live on stream.

00:49:35.480 And apparently it confirms the long-suspected notion that he has an interest in horses, which is...

00:49:45.180 He likes listening to wild horses by wild stones while he watches this.

00:49:50.000 Only without innocence, Daniels.

00:49:51.880 And he has confirmed this publicly.

00:49:54.420 Oh, good.

00:49:55.120 And also claims he's not interested in actual horses, but women as a horse.

00:50:00.380 I'll leave that to the imagination.

00:50:02.320 I don't want to think about that.

00:50:03.340 Just with a weird face, we know the horse physiognomy.

00:50:07.120 So British aristocracy.

00:50:08.920 I just hate the internet.

00:50:11.260 What it's done to people's minds.

00:50:12.000 Just now.

00:50:14.980 And one of my personal favourite stories is the Glasgow Willy Wonka experience.

00:50:19.760 So obviously Willy Wonka, you think a Willy Wonka experience will look something like this, right?

00:50:24.080 So you think, wow, that would be amazing, right?

00:50:25.760 Something out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

00:50:27.120 Yeah, well, it's more like Charlie and the Heroin dispensary here.

00:50:32.100 And because here we are.

00:50:36.440 Here is the experience.

00:50:39.860 Would you take your kids there, Carl?

00:50:41.700 This is brutalist.

00:50:43.100 Yeah, this is a brutalist interpretation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

00:50:46.180 It just looks so, you know, dreamlike.

00:50:50.600 This was my favourite picture of all.

00:50:52.620 Look at the life leave that woman's eyes. 1.00

00:50:54.580 But they haven't put in any bloody effort at all in this.

00:50:59.480 And yeah, this was the highlight.

00:51:02.580 You can see there's not even chocolate in the...

00:51:04.800 They made some effort, but obviously this isn't enough.

00:51:09.200 And they were charging £35 a ticket for this.

00:51:13.500 I don't know what experience it is.

00:51:15.060 Disappointment, I suppose, is an experience.

00:51:16.580 They want to put more in it next time and they want to scam people.

00:51:21.920 Well, it closed after the first day.

00:51:24.720 So maybe not.

00:51:26.620 But it did get turned into a meme, as many things are.

00:51:31.540 Here people are talking about it, pointing out the Oompa Loompa lady.

00:51:36.540 They're comparing it to Dashcon.

00:51:38.280 Oompa Loompa.

00:51:38.800 But the thing is, as well, people were pretending to be really excited about it.

00:51:47.360 I also saw people visiting the site of it.

00:51:50.980 Here's a video of supposedly people trying to run through the doors to get to it.

00:51:57.900 I don't actually know what that's meant to be.

00:52:00.380 But they actually recreated it in LA because it was so popular the first time.

00:52:06.180 Oh, yeah.

00:52:06.940 Well, it's become a meme.

00:52:08.040 It got memed into sort of sainthood, didn't it?

00:52:12.560 But you think, okay, this couldn't have gone any worse.

00:52:15.940 It became an international laughingstock, I suppose.

00:52:20.360 They had to refund people the money.

00:52:23.100 So the guy who was running it must have had a really bad time.

00:52:26.720 Well, it could get worse because it turns out he's also, as of recently, placed on the

00:52:31.780 Sex Offenders Register, which is probably the last thing you want to do if you're running

00:52:36.260 a Willy Wonka experience.

00:52:38.480 It's just the last thing you want to do generally, isn't it?

00:52:40.680 Yeah.

00:52:41.540 Yeah, I think that's safe to say.

00:52:43.480 Yeah, not just for Willy Wonka.

00:52:46.680 Excuse me?

00:52:48.060 What?

00:52:48.900 Never mind.

00:52:50.620 It must be a Greek thing still. 0.94

00:52:52.340 So, I don't know whether either of you have heard about the Chicago rat hole. 0.67

00:52:59.560 Yes?

00:53:00.420 I haven't, but I want to find out.

00:53:02.460 So, it's got its own Wikipedia page.

00:53:04.840 Here it is.

00:53:07.340 There it is.

00:53:07.760 The hole's shaped like a rat.

00:53:08.960 It is, yeah.

00:53:09.520 Yeah, obviously when they were doing the pavement.

00:53:11.320 Was it agreed by a rat?

00:53:12.800 I don't know whether the city of Chicago employs rats. 0.85

00:53:15.960 No, no, no.

00:53:16.420 As in, did they just like concrete over a rat?

00:53:17.220 Oh, yeah.

00:53:17.820 It's clearly concreted over.

00:53:22.100 I don't know whether it was dead before or after, but it was certainly dead after, I

00:53:25.520 imagine.

00:53:26.120 But there's a lot of detail about it, and you can see that it became a site of pilgrimage.

00:53:31.980 Because people were, you know, putting coins.

00:53:34.160 Some pills, for some reason.

00:53:36.160 It's actually got the little fingerprints and everything.

00:53:38.560 It does, yeah.

00:53:39.820 I love the sort of not-my-job attitude.

00:53:42.500 So, they have peels?

00:53:43.440 Stuff like that.

00:53:44.140 You can see.

00:53:44.820 Put peels on it?

00:53:45.640 They did, yeah.

00:53:46.800 I don't know whether it was Viagra.

00:53:48.880 It looked blue and sort of that way, didn't it?

00:53:51.300 But people put a plaque down and offerings.

00:53:54.420 You can see it even fills up in the winter.

00:53:56.720 It becomes a little tiny rat paddling pool.

00:53:59.500 I love the idea that there's just some Chicago worker who's been told, right, go concrete

00:54:03.320 over that bit of the sidewalk.

00:54:05.140 It needs to be done.

00:54:06.060 He's like, well, he didn't tell me to move the rat, did he?

00:54:08.140 So, what do you think happened to this rat hole?

00:54:11.760 Because, of course, this is a nice bit of local colour.

00:54:14.160 It became a site of pilgrimage.

00:54:16.880 Come and see the Chicago Row.

00:54:18.520 Yeah.

00:54:18.760 I mean, what else are you going to go to Chicago for, really? 0.99

00:54:21.960 Get shot. 1.00

00:54:22.220 Get shot, yeah. 1.00

00:54:23.420 You beat me to it. 0.94

00:54:25.380 So, yeah, the authorities, of course, removed it.

00:54:27.980 Oh, oh.

00:54:29.100 Killjoys that they are. 0.99

00:54:30.420 It's like, go back to shooting.

00:54:30.960 Is there nothing bureaucrats won't ruin? 0.95

00:54:32.980 Go back to shooting each other, residents of Chicago. 0.97

00:54:36.560 So, yeah, they've removed the rat hole. 0.99

00:54:38.320 I love the mourners for the rat hole.

00:54:40.220 I know. 0.88

00:54:40.680 So, it's devastating news.

00:54:45.580 You're up all night.

00:54:46.440 So, it's been put into storage.

00:54:48.160 So, if you're a rich millionaire or billionaire, Elon, if you're watching, you can purchase

00:54:54.180 the rat hole and put it on display somewhere if you so wish.

00:54:57.780 But it's worth mentioning it was removed.

00:55:00.860 So, that...

00:55:01.680 They ruined it.

00:55:03.380 It was one nice thing in Chicago.

00:55:05.740 But never mind.

00:55:06.520 And there's also, in June, the story that lots of people were going to poo in the Sienne

00:55:12.640 River in Paris.

00:55:14.560 And why were they doing this?

00:55:15.960 Well, it was the Olympics.

00:55:17.780 And the Parisian mayor, as well as Emmanuel Macron, said they would swim in the river to

00:55:23.020 prove it was safe.

00:55:24.020 Except shortly before they were due to do so, a report showed that, and this is a direct

00:55:29.860 quote, water sample showed high rates of two kinds of fecal bacteria, including E. coli

00:55:35.040 and these did not meet the standards set for the games.

00:55:39.780 I thought they did actually swim in it, though.

00:55:41.700 I don't know.

00:55:42.440 I thought they swum in it and a bunch of them got sick.

00:55:44.800 People did get sick.

00:55:46.020 Although, I think it's just the fact they did a triathlon rather than that.

00:55:49.760 Because lots of people usually do get sick after they do enough cardio.

00:55:53.220 Why would you want to swim there?

00:55:54.320 I know, but...

00:55:55.280 The Thames or something like that.

00:55:56.340 It's like so inconsiderate.

00:55:58.760 If people want to swim there, you don't do that.

00:56:00.800 But the thing is that a form of French political protest was to poo in a river.

00:56:08.240 I'm just going to throw that out there.

00:56:10.340 I think that goes back centuries.

00:56:12.920 It's a form of social protest.

00:56:14.960 No, there are actual papers talking about it.

00:56:17.300 Really?

00:56:17.720 In France?

00:56:19.020 They're translated in English.

00:56:20.720 So, in July, a bear got trapped in a car, inside a car.

00:56:27.800 Here it is.

00:56:29.520 Apparently, someone came back to their car after going for a hike and just found a bear sat in the front seat.

00:56:36.100 So, what?

00:56:36.460 Did it open the door?

00:56:37.780 It opened the door because now bears can open doors.

00:56:40.760 You didn't lock your car?

00:56:42.180 Apparently not.

00:56:42.940 You just left the car unlocked and a bear broke in.

00:56:45.400 But look at the damage it did. 1.00

00:56:46.820 God damn it. 0.99

00:56:47.640 That's why you lock your car. 1.00

00:56:48.940 Let me out.

00:56:49.800 Let me out.

00:56:50.720 They had to then open the door to let the bear out, which was a whole operation.

00:56:55.920 They were probably just thankful to get out.

00:56:57.180 And you think, this must be a fluke, right?

00:56:59.900 Okay.

00:57:00.620 This is a very strange thing to happen.

00:57:02.920 Well, actually, it happened two years prior in 2022 in the same place, I believe.

00:57:09.260 And there it is.

00:57:10.460 It might be the same bear.

00:57:12.300 He can't keep on getting away with it.

00:57:14.940 Velociraptor levels of intelligence.

00:57:16.200 I also like how he's got his hand on the wheel.

00:57:18.800 It's like, uh...

00:57:20.200 I've done this before.

00:57:22.160 I haven't been drinking.

00:57:23.260 It's for his Instagram account.

00:57:25.920 Unbearable.

00:57:26.860 Sorry.

00:57:27.660 I couldn't resist.

00:57:29.200 In August, we had my favourite piece of dystopian news.

00:57:32.680 Disney sought to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit because the widower had signed up to Disney Plus's free trial a few years prior.

00:57:44.140 And this gave the street, you know, within the terms and conditions, it allowed them the clause to get out of any wrongful things.

00:57:53.660 Well, better call Saul, right?

00:57:56.020 That's what I'm picturing, where it's like Saul Goodman said, yeah, your honour, we may have killed that person, but they did sign up to our free trial.

00:58:03.280 So, yeah, supposedly there were conditions in the terms and conditions of signing up to that free trial. 0.98

00:58:10.200 We're allowed to murder you! 0.99

00:58:12.020 Apparently so. 0.82

00:58:13.580 So, before you sign up to Disney Plus, bear that in mind. 0.97

00:58:17.660 Because Mickey Mouse can come and kill you.

00:58:21.840 And probably my favourite video of the year was this one.

00:58:28.940 So, in America, in September, they started using robot crime fighters.

00:58:35.320 They've probably been using them for some time, but this is the first example of it.

00:58:38.820 And a criminal thought they were clever and could deceive the robot.

00:58:43.640 And what happened was what I can only refer to as a school bully effect, in that it may or may not do something that is notorious of school bullies.

00:58:55.820 So, he puts a blanket over it to block its camera.

00:58:58.500 Good thinking.

00:58:59.080 Which is quite clever, actually.

00:59:01.020 And it starts breaking through the window, and then he sort of slivers out.

00:59:07.200 And while he's on the ground, it starts pulling down its trousers.

00:59:14.540 And it resulted in him getting caught, just by running him over, which I thought was great.

00:59:19.900 God, this is the future.

00:59:21.620 This is the future.

00:59:22.140 The next update, the robots are going to wedge you people. 0.98

00:59:26.040 School bullies are going to be automated soon.

00:59:28.360 It's going to be great.

00:59:29.000 Skynet.

00:59:29.880 The robot's going to come up to you, wedge you, and ask for your lunch money.

00:59:32.960 Oh, God, yeah.

00:59:33.960 Like, we're worried about the robots, like, wiping out humanity.

00:59:37.680 No, there's going to be bullying humanity. 0.66

00:59:39.960 It's going to make your life miserable.

00:59:43.520 So, in November, there was the case of a mystery emu spotted in Cambridgeshire.

00:59:49.280 And the funny thing is, this was in a rural Cambridgeshire village, and it was spotted at the start line of a 10k race.

00:59:56.620 I don't know whether it participated in the race.

00:59:58.180 Did it win?

00:59:58.960 I don't know.

00:59:59.840 My money would be on the emu if it didn't participate.

01:00:01.980 No, no, no, 10km is quite a long time.

01:00:03.600 I mean, an emu probably can't run 10km straight, right?

01:00:06.480 But I reckon it's basically just legs and a body, isn't it?

01:00:09.500 It doesn't even have arms.

01:00:10.420 Yeah, I know, but most animals aren't, like, endurance runners.

01:00:12.580 That's true.

01:00:13.300 Humans are, apparently.

01:00:14.800 It could be the emu and the human, like the rabbit and the hare.

01:00:17.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:00:18.700 Maybe it can have a little break.

01:00:19.960 Yeah, but that's how early humans caught their prey.

01:00:23.020 They're like wolves.

01:00:24.000 Just continually chase them until it collapses of exhaustion.

01:00:26.560 But they tried to catch it, however, people...

01:00:29.880 Turns out they are endurance runners.

01:00:31.100 People chasing them on 4x4, or chasing it in 4x4s to try and get a view of it, kept on

01:00:38.780 scaring it away and hampered the rescue effort, I suppose.

01:00:44.320 I don't know.

01:00:45.680 The capture effort.

01:00:46.660 But in some positive news, the time the emu spent in the community may have done some

01:00:52.120 good, because recently the BBC ran a news story saying that a boy with autism was taught

01:00:57.960 to love by an emu, so maybe the emu was going around spreading love, and that's a nice positive thing.

01:01:04.640 I think maybe we could do with some more emus in certain areas of the country to...

01:01:09.720 I prefer that to big cats.

01:01:11.440 That's true.

01:01:12.740 I mean, at least you won't get eaten by the emu, will you?

01:01:15.480 But eventually it did get captured, and it got a nice little jacket, which I thought was

01:01:21.040 nice.

01:01:22.800 I was hoping you'd still be on the run, like a sort of urban legend or something.

01:01:28.000 Go out into the countryside, you might meet the emu.

01:01:30.120 Eventually we're just going to have loads of wildlife.

01:01:32.380 We'll have the big cats, there'll be an emu, there'll probably be a Bigfoot somewhere.

01:01:36.380 Just various things that have escaped over the years.

01:01:38.440 And of course this reminds me of something that I covered the other day, in great detail,

01:01:44.660 about the 43 monkeys that were on the loose in South Carolina.

01:01:47.960 Four are still on the loose to this day, and the funniest thing is that at one point they

01:01:52.560 captured two of them, they caught eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and they were

01:01:56.840 worried that these monkeys weren't going to survive, they were going to be malnourished

01:01:59.360 after a month, and they actually were eating probably better than they did in the lab itself.

01:02:05.480 Why would they think the monkeys wouldn't be able to survive?

01:02:07.540 I don't know, I suppose it's South Carolina, isn't it?

01:02:10.640 Yeah, but there's got to be fruit around them.

01:02:12.440 That's probably true, yeah.

01:02:14.040 Stuff to steal.

01:02:15.340 Yeah, it was November, to be fair.

01:02:17.140 Sandwiches.

01:02:17.700 But the funny thing is, when they caught these two sandwich-eating monkeys, the other ones

01:02:21.960 that were still on the loose were heckling the people that were capturing them.

01:02:27.620 So they could hear them hooting and hollering from the woods as they captured them, which

01:02:33.980 I think is great.

01:02:35.200 Well played.

01:02:36.180 Yeah.

01:02:36.420 And finally for December, the United Healthcare CEO, apparently the guy who shot him, when

01:02:46.700 he was captured in McDonald's, his bag was full of Monopoly money, which is interesting.

01:02:52.520 I don't know why that was.

01:02:55.600 Probably for a bit of a joke, I would imagine.

01:02:58.060 But what is not a joke is the fact that AI chats are now encouraging people to kill their

01:03:07.660 parents.

01:03:08.060 So apparently a teenager had their screen time limited, and so the AI suggested it was a

01:03:16.020 reasonable response to then kill their parents, to allow them to use the AI more.

01:03:23.340 And this was character AI, which I believe has multiple different characters you can talk

01:03:29.340 to.

01:03:29.560 Was that also powering the police robot?

01:03:33.320 Maybe.

01:03:35.200 Yeah.

01:03:35.660 If you just bully the criminal, pull down their trousers, maybe you catch them.

01:03:39.840 I mean, to be fair, the bully robot was far less aggressive than this AI.

01:03:44.940 That's true.

01:03:45.740 It didn't actually try and kill anyone.

01:03:48.100 Yeah.

01:03:48.280 The same cannot be said for the 100 elite goats that have been sent to North Korea by Russia. 0.97

01:03:56.420 Well, you don't want to say crappy goats. 0.95

01:03:57.840 I know. 0.93

01:03:58.360 I don't know what qualifies as an elite goat.

01:04:01.700 But I find this interesting.

01:04:03.060 This is, of course, in return for the North Koreans helping out in Ukraine. 0.81

01:04:07.440 Right.

01:04:07.880 And this would be a very different news story if they sent them to Pakistan, wouldn't it? 0.97

01:04:12.340 The golden age of Russia-Korean diplomacy.

01:04:15.700 Yeah.

01:04:15.760 And I also found it funny as well that there was a poll recently asking about virginity

01:04:24.620 entering college in America.

01:04:28.440 And it came up with a very funny number here.

01:04:31.980 69% of people entered college as virgins, which is an increase.

01:04:37.160 Can I say a male-female breakdown of that?

01:04:40.280 There you go.

01:04:40.720 So far fewer men.

01:04:43.180 Well, not far fewer, but fewer men than women there.

01:04:46.080 Well, no.

01:04:46.540 I also found it interesting as well that genderqueer and non-binary, the greatest incels of them all there,

01:04:52.620 85% of them have never had any intercourse.

01:04:56.120 Yeah, but I mean, 75% of women say they've never had intercourse and 61% of men.

01:05:01.420 Abstinence is so back.

01:05:02.920 Someone's probably lying.

01:05:04.480 That's true.

01:05:05.880 Or some women are just really carrying the numbers for the men. 1.00

01:05:10.280 Or maybe it's the men amongst themselves, you know?

01:05:12.240 I think the men are probably just lying.

01:05:16.060 That's probably true.

01:05:16.860 I think it's generation incel.

01:05:18.320 I think they're all incels.

01:05:19.540 And the final thing I wanted to end on, on the topic of incels, is that a whale is recorded

01:05:26.720 as making the longest migration ever recorded, and scientists think that it's probably trying

01:05:31.480 to get laid.

01:05:32.200 That's why it did it.

01:05:33.440 It went 8,000 miles, which is massive, and it broke the record for the same reason any man 0.99

01:05:39.640 breaks a record looking for a lady.

01:05:42.440 8,000 miles for a 4 out of 10.

01:05:46.020 Literal whale.

01:05:47.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:05:47.700 The greatest simp of all time.

01:05:49.600 The animal kingdom.

01:05:51.520 People didn't know it was the humpback whale the whole time.

01:05:54.420 Clues in the name.

01:05:55.540 But anyway, these are the stories that I was able to find, some of the weirdest news stories.

01:06:00.000 I quite like this sort of stuff.

01:06:02.140 I only do it once a year, so I hope it cheered you up a little bit.

01:06:07.320 Okay.

01:06:08.340 We don't have any video comments, so we're...

01:06:10.180 We do have some other comments, though.

01:06:11.620 Okay.

01:06:12.220 Oh, loads of comments.

01:06:13.560 You can have a mouse.

01:06:14.320 Of course.

01:06:14.720 You can see them.

01:06:15.500 I don't need the...

01:06:16.780 I'm actually not autistic.

01:06:18.060 Wow.

01:06:20.420 Dragon Lady Chris says, next time you visit the US, I strongly suggest visiting a base

01:06:24.020 pro shop.

01:06:24.580 They're amazing.

01:06:25.480 The picture doesn't do it justice.

01:06:26.700 Oh my god, I didn't realise they were such an incredible thing.

01:06:29.640 Oh, they're huge.

01:06:31.480 Yeah, I was looking at the pictures, and it's like a cathedral of fishing.

01:06:36.520 Okay, well, I mean, I'm not a fisherman.

01:06:39.400 But Baldi will say, they held many swimming events there, and the athletes got sick.

01:06:43.400 They're suing Paris and France.

01:06:44.400 Yeah, I thought they did.

01:06:45.160 I knew they actually did swim in the river.

01:06:47.760 And it's like, yeah, but that's disgusting.

01:06:49.360 Like, why would you...

01:06:50.840 I mean, the river of any capital city, I would never recommend swimming in, no matter what

01:06:55.380 the capital city is.

01:06:55.600 Go down the Thames.

01:06:56.720 They found, like, decapitated bodies in the Thames, and things like that. 0.99

01:07:00.000 Yeah, but it's going to be just full of crap. 0.97

01:07:01.440 Like, regardless of what city it is, any capital city is... 0.99

01:07:05.060 And pollution.

01:07:05.880 Yeah.

01:07:05.940 Why would you do that?

01:07:06.840 Yeah, I know.

01:07:07.300 It's weird.

01:07:08.000 So the French are like, yeah, we'll get them to... 1.00

01:07:09.200 No, idiots. 1.00

01:07:10.860 Not Just String says, after Trump winning, my favourite will be the allegedly Jewish tunnels 1.00

01:07:15.080 with mattresses.

01:07:17.000 I can't believe I forgot about that.

01:07:18.440 I can't believe I forgot about that.

01:07:19.940 We did cover it extensively at the Times.

01:07:22.080 What a way to kick off the year.

01:07:24.540 It's just like...

01:07:26.080 The anti-Semites are just like, well, that's our year sorted.

01:07:30.780 Front loaded.

01:07:31.780 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:07:32.860 Other favourite news is Bitcoin hitting 100k.

01:07:35.120 Isn't it 109k now?

01:07:37.040 Really?

01:07:37.720 Yeah, it's crazy.

01:07:38.700 Oh, that's annoying.

01:07:40.140 Yeah.

01:07:40.440 I was going to chuck some money in.

01:07:42.040 Yeah, well...

01:07:43.340 Yeah.

01:07:43.800 But Merry Christmas to you.

01:07:45.120 And Fleet Lord Atfar says, came across Moscow area, decorated for Christmas, melted my mind,

01:07:50.180 never seen anything like it, except in the movies.

01:07:53.400 Samson, can you pull that up?

01:07:56.860 Moscow Christmas decorations.

01:07:58.340 So, well, we'll...

01:08:09.040 Oh.

01:08:10.700 Let's have a look.

01:08:12.480 It looks lovely, yeah.

01:08:13.680 Yeah, it does look good.

01:08:15.800 We used to live in a nice country, you know.

01:08:18.980 But if you're a Zoomer watching this, our country used to be nice. 0.66

01:08:21.800 Now the Russians are outdoing us. 1.00

01:08:24.500 Everyone's outdoing us.

01:08:24.840 What happened?

01:08:28.060 Okay, well, that...

01:08:29.800 Very nice.

01:08:33.020 Ryan says, he tried shooting the robot and started pumping the motel room with tear gas,

01:08:37.760 and it pinned him with its weight while he was recovering. 0.55

01:08:41.360 I had to get outsmarted by, like, the slowest, most useless-looking robot ever.

01:08:45.480 We need to bring back Robot Wars, don't we?

01:08:49.220 I love that TV show.

01:08:50.800 I know what an elite goat is.

01:08:52.160 They're my 11 and 13-year-old sons.

01:08:54.280 Wow, yeah, there's that.

01:08:57.700 Theo says, jailed for life, but it's a minimum 10 years.

01:09:01.720 Yeah.

01:09:02.520 I know.

01:09:03.400 I know.

01:09:04.300 I think life sentences are simply there to trick the public into thinking that justice is being served,

01:09:08.580 while he'll be locked away with the key disposed of.

01:09:10.420 In reality, he'll be out as soon as a Stamright lawyer comes along to argue his case.

01:09:14.360 Yeah, no, that's exactly the point.

01:09:15.240 I just kind of hate the, okay, life sentence.

01:09:17.960 It's not a life sentence.

01:09:18.880 Change the name, right?

01:09:20.040 I don't care if you change anything else.

01:09:21.740 Well, I mean, I do, but, like, at the very minimum, change the name.

01:09:24.820 It's not a life sentence.

01:09:25.760 Stop saying it.

01:09:27.400 It's a lie.

01:09:28.900 Tired of being lied to. 0.98

01:09:30.920 And Frodo Bater says, there are many criminals that deserve death penalty,

01:09:33.900 but can you imagine the current British regime with that power?

01:09:36.640 Yeah, I mean, they've got police with guns and an army.

01:09:40.380 They already have the ability to deal out death.

01:09:43.720 British intelligence services can kill British citizens with legal impunity now.

01:09:48.680 Yeah.

01:09:48.900 They pass that quite quietly, and no one's ever talking about it. 1.00

01:09:51.640 Yeah, and if they could just kill those people who deserved it for once, 0.99

01:09:54.900 then maybe things wouldn't be so bad. 0.98

01:09:57.360 But the point being, it'll be the legal system that does it, not the government.

01:10:05.120 North FC Zoomer says, the problem is, Carl, the guy posted comments online.

01:10:09.080 We'll have been told this court date won't be for months,

01:10:10.840 and he'll be remanded in custody for all that time to protect the public.

01:10:13.220 We heard other examples from Southport.

01:10:15.180 Yeah, I know, but the thing is, you should have just waited out.

01:10:17.920 Like, yeah, okay, fine.

01:10:19.300 That sucks, but it's either that or a year in jail, so...

01:10:23.140 The thing is, you can also fight it, and it'll become a big public case. 0.90

01:10:26.580 Yeah, make a big spectacle.

01:10:27.940 Probably, yeah.

01:10:29.040 But, like, North FC Zoomer, you are right that he would have just been advised,

01:10:32.960 oh, you know, just get it over with, get a light sentence, slap on the wrist.

01:10:37.100 Yeah, right.

01:10:37.680 Justin says, would not be shocked to find Tutti Akir adding the rapist to an early release list in a couple of years.

01:10:44.900 Honestly, I'm going to be shocked if he doesn't just give him a nuttie hood, all right? 0.98

01:10:49.340 Like, God, I hate the people in this country.

01:10:53.340 My perfectly adequately sized tub of Nolnoil. 0.54

01:10:56.440 Look, you don't need much Nolnoil. 1.00

01:10:58.860 Scum like this should be deported back to their country of origin in an urn. 1.00

01:11:02.660 Mercy for the criminal is cruelty to the victim. 1.00

01:11:05.120 Greed.

01:11:05.780 That's absolutely the case.

01:11:06.840 Like, they're just not suffering enough.

01:11:08.940 I've genuinely come to the point where there needs to be more suffering for criminals.

01:11:13.500 I'm toasting on the Victorian side of it now.

01:11:15.780 Yeah, no, the prison is a bionist. 1.00

01:11:16.920 Finally, yes.

01:11:18.260 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

01:11:19.440 I mean, the Victorian period, you're going to get me going on one of my rants here,

01:11:24.680 but it is just the cultural high watermark of Britain.

01:11:28.120 Like, about 1850, 1860, it's sort of, you know, by the late Victorian period,

01:11:33.540 it's already getting decadent and degenerate.

01:11:35.080 But that sort of window, yes.

01:11:37.360 Massive empire.

01:11:39.440 Workhouses.

01:11:40.660 Lovely.

01:11:41.720 Children working.

01:11:43.080 Yeah.

01:11:43.440 Not whinging and playing Minecraft.

01:11:45.580 My kids are probably running around the house at the moment causing trouble,

01:11:47.980 because it's like Christmas holiday.

01:11:48.860 They could be operating heavy machinery.

01:11:50.460 Exactly.

01:11:50.980 They could be down a mine or up a chimney or something.

01:11:53.780 Think of the lost economic efficiency.

01:11:56.020 Yeah, you know what?

01:11:56.720 I mean, really, we should propose that to Star Wars.

01:11:58.680 It's like, look, we've got this whole constituency of people in the country

01:12:01.120 who are not economically productive, and they're called children here.

01:12:05.520 I mean, also, we can bring back a British industry of the mines.

01:12:09.360 Look at all the children playing Minecraft.

01:12:10.920 They love it.

01:12:11.580 Just say, you want to play this in real life, right?

01:12:13.480 I'm not even joking.

01:12:14.640 I did the meme with my son.

01:12:16.380 He sat there a couple of years ago just staring at YouTube, watching TV,

01:12:20.240 you know, big TV, watching someone playing Minecraft.

01:12:22.640 And I was like, do you yearn for the mines?

01:12:24.440 And so he was like, yeah.

01:12:25.480 I was like, what did you bring back?

01:12:26.420 He was like, iron.

01:12:28.780 I like how he was jaded.

01:12:31.340 Like, he's been thinking a lot about mining iron.

01:12:34.980 I mean, I guess there is a natural drive for productivity.

01:12:39.200 Yeah, I remember when I was quite young, I went on a,

01:12:42.500 I think it was a school trip, I can't remember,

01:12:44.820 to an old Victorian mine.

01:12:46.820 We went on like a mine cart through the mine, and it was amazing.

01:12:49.880 I was just like, I want to...

01:12:50.960 You were like, get me a pick.

01:12:52.160 I want to explore this.

01:12:53.320 Give me a pick and, you know, a mine cart. 0.96

01:12:56.440 How many tons do you need?

01:12:58.600 Omar says, I think this is midwit tyranny.

01:13:01.780 It's not that we haven't been subjected to these injustices

01:13:03.820 over the past couple of decades,

01:13:05.340 but they'll be used to be smarter about engineering the decline.

01:13:08.320 Don't look back in anger.

01:13:09.620 It became being angry is illegal, and they don't realise the difference.

01:13:13.760 Yeah, no, it's genuinely, it's got to the point where it's like,

01:13:16.000 look, we tried to nudge you into it.

01:13:18.840 We tried to, oh, no, you know, look at the victims' parents

01:13:21.520 who have come out and said, no, don't be angry.

01:13:22.960 Don't be racist.

01:13:24.240 No, no, we're just going to make being angry illegal at this point.

01:13:27.520 When it comes to some people, not all,

01:13:31.340 because wokeness is all about justifying the anger.

01:13:35.440 Obviously from a native.

01:13:36.540 On Westerners. 0.57

01:13:38.080 When the diversity does something to the native population, 0.99

01:13:41.580 it was nudge, nudge, nudge.

01:13:43.260 Now it's just, okay, no, you're getting, you know,

01:13:45.080 the velvet gloves come off, and you're just getting the iron fist now.

01:13:48.100 But there is also the stunning hypocrisy there,

01:13:51.620 because there is the idea or the claim that they are somehow going to be integrated

01:13:57.240 and love the country that they go to and live in.

01:14:01.500 And how can you love a country that everyone screams,

01:14:05.560 that tells you and incentivizes you to say how destructive it is

01:14:09.720 and how it's the worst thing ever?

01:14:11.380 What can you integrate into if there's literally one British person in a class?

01:14:15.820 I see Angela Rayner the other day.

01:14:17.360 He goes to some London school, I think it was.

01:14:19.460 And it's just literally one English kid in the class,

01:14:22.000 and it's like, okay, so integration is just gone.

01:14:23.980 We're not having that conversation anymore,

01:14:26.000 because what would they integrate into?

01:14:27.620 Yeah, there are no natives left.

01:14:29.400 Exactly.

01:14:30.460 It's just so mad.

01:14:32.820 Thomas says,

01:14:33.480 justice delayed is justice denied.

01:14:35.220 At this point,

01:14:36.240 they are amongst the victims of our criminal justice system.

01:14:38.820 Yeah, they are.

01:14:42.920 Henry says,

01:14:43.680 the justice system segment hasn't even included a Labour MP

01:14:46.260 who punched a constituent to the floor,

01:14:47.620 then proceeded to beat.

01:14:48.240 Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

01:14:49.860 Completely forgot about the MP who punched the guy.

01:14:53.580 Did you see the video of it?

01:14:54.640 Yeah, I covered it.

01:14:55.700 The guy had his hands in his pockets,

01:14:57.620 nothing's going on,

01:14:58.360 and then bam, bam, bam.

01:14:59.720 Yeah, I know.

01:15:00.340 It was Liverpool, wasn't it?

01:15:01.220 Yeah, it was.

01:15:01.760 It was Liverpool.

01:15:02.820 Yeah, good point.

01:15:03.660 I completely forgot.

01:15:04.740 Completely forgot.

01:15:06.900 Yeah, Labour, 1.00

01:15:07.980 but we fucking hate you. 1.00

01:15:09.620 We hate everything about you. 1.00

01:15:10.700 We're literally going to lock you up, 0.99

01:15:11.940 we're going to steal all your money, 0.57

01:15:12.780 and when it comes to it, 1.00

01:15:13.740 we're just going to start physically punching you in the face. 0.66

01:15:16.240 That's not what a surgery with your electorate means. 0.97

01:15:18.880 Yeah, just...

01:15:20.280 I mean,

01:15:20.760 at least it's nice to have it in the open, right?

01:15:23.960 That's true.

01:15:24.500 It's not subversive like the Conservatives.

01:15:26.260 No, the Labour Party is literally just going to lamp you. 0.70

01:15:28.300 Knock your teeth out. 0.99

01:15:30.020 If my local MP could just deliver a few pummels to the face, 0.99

01:15:33.220 and then I can avoid all the political tyranny, 0.67

01:15:34.940 I'd take it.

01:15:35.180 I can avoid all the tax.

01:15:36.440 It's like, get taxed or get punched once a month by the Labour MP.

01:15:39.400 I'm like,

01:15:39.880 I'll take the punches.

01:15:41.080 Yeah, easily.

01:15:41.800 Yeah, I mean, you know.

01:15:42.780 The punch heals.

01:15:43.880 Yeah, exactly.

01:15:44.320 The financial damage doesn't.

01:15:46.760 Exactly.

01:15:47.420 I'll take a beating from a Labour MP every couple of months, I guess. 0.78

01:15:51.660 Or even once a year.

01:15:52.900 You know, I pay taxes once a year.

01:15:54.200 Okay, great.

01:15:54.720 Well, you would definitely get far more women elected in Parliament as well 1.00

01:15:59.440 with that policy, wouldn't you?

01:16:00.460 Because you'd get a less hard punch.

01:16:02.480 Yeah, yeah, good point.

01:16:03.140 So, diversity quota is fulfilled.

01:16:04.940 No, that's right.

01:16:05.520 I want to get the most, you know, disabled, dwarfish woman in Parliament possible. 1.00

01:16:13.620 Representation would be through the roof.

01:16:14.760 Why? 0.87

01:16:14.840 Because she's going to hit me in the thighs or something. 1.00

01:16:19.120 Harry says, I don't know, I can't have done one.

01:16:22.160 Lord Nereval says,

01:16:23.100 The terrifying thing is the justice system is not demented.

01:16:25.360 It's working exactly as intended.

01:16:26.700 Well, I'm describing it as demented.

01:16:29.840 But I am in agreement this is exactly intended.

01:16:35.120 Lucas says,

01:16:36.140 What's your recent live stream?

01:16:37.160 You need to watch your blood pressure.

01:16:38.960 Yeah, well, I think my blood pressure's fine.

01:16:42.540 I'm just...

01:16:44.020 You know the sort of meme videos of a guy, like, screaming into his phone,

01:16:48.400 Wake up, live in the show, live in Britain.

01:16:50.660 I'm getting to that point.

01:16:51.820 I mean, there's no reason that our country has to be this way.

01:16:54.820 It doesn't have to be this way.

01:16:55.820 It wasn't always this way.

01:16:56.560 This is a policy choice.

01:16:58.100 This is genuinely a choice.

01:16:59.940 And it's the one they're making for us.

01:17:03.780 Anyway, we better go on to the next segment.

01:17:07.120 Right.

01:17:07.620 So, our Freybentos for every Haitian.

01:17:09.640 If anything, what's happening in...

01:17:11.600 I love that name.

01:17:12.640 Same.

01:17:12.980 But it's such a good opportunity for Freybentos to do a bit of community outreach.

01:17:17.640 Raise their profile.

01:17:19.420 The Haitian community.

01:17:21.000 Yeah, well, like, literally, we're going to feed Haiti, Freybentos.

01:17:24.220 It's exporting British culture.

01:17:25.780 Kia Starmer can get behind it.

01:17:27.080 I'd like to see that sales pitch.

01:17:28.740 Let's export pies to people who eat literal mud and have no money. 0.97

01:17:33.880 Diversify the cuisine.

01:17:34.840 Yeah, and it's, you know, helping diversity overseas, spreading British culture, doing good deed, and British cultural imperialism.

01:17:44.520 I think a barbecue sauce should sponsor General Barbecue.

01:17:48.880 Possibly.

01:17:49.640 Wear, like, a sponsorship, like a football shirt.

01:17:52.640 And Freybentos says, if anything, what's happening in Germany is refreshingly honest.

01:17:58.060 The real question is, if this ban passes, will the AFD take it lying down or push back?

01:18:04.020 Well, that's the point, isn't it?

01:18:05.320 I mean, what are their options going to be?

01:18:07.260 Like, counter-sue or something.

01:18:09.040 But, like, do they get arrested if they refuse to disband the party or what?

01:18:13.580 I mean, which I assume they would have to be, right?

01:18:15.960 So suddenly Germany's just locking up the opposition politicians.

01:18:18.820 It's like, yes, this is democracy.

01:18:20.500 They'll mysteriously find their Reichstag is very flammable again.

01:18:24.840 Calm Rob.

01:18:25.540 We're fortunate in the UK to have the Payment Accounts Regulations 2015, which states in 18.1 clause, I suspect,

01:18:32.820 that you can't discriminate against consumers legally resident in the UK based on protected characteristics, including political belief.

01:18:40.540 I work as a consultant in FC, and the Farage situation had a huge impact in terms of AML functions, reassessing their exit procedures.

01:18:49.180 Yeah.

01:18:50.260 Because Farage was also debanked.

01:18:52.880 Well, they debanked.

01:18:57.200 But anyway, yeah, no, they tried to, but he won that one.

01:19:01.100 So he managed to keep his bank account.

01:19:02.420 Okay.

01:19:02.780 How should they pronounce it?

01:19:04.580 Ah.

01:19:05.220 Ah.

01:19:06.600 Debanked.

01:19:07.180 Okay, now we're going to do all that.

01:19:08.320 Rather than debunked.

01:19:09.060 Because it makes it sound like people were fact-checking him or something.

01:19:13.700 His accountant called him up and said, your facts are all wrong.

01:19:16.240 Kevin Fox, Carl, have you considered that elections are dangerous to a democracy?

01:19:24.420 Well, apparently Tuti Akhir has since, has since he's looking at whether local elections should go ahead next year.

01:19:31.260 You see it in Romania as well.

01:19:32.960 Yeah.

01:19:33.600 Well, this, you know, nativist was winning and so they're like, you know, cancel your elections.

01:19:40.000 It's like, what?

01:19:41.300 How can they?

01:19:41.700 They are unconstitutional.

01:19:42.760 Someone in Germany cancels a Romanian election.

01:19:45.520 We don't like them.

01:19:46.700 Yeah, well, no, I agree.

01:19:47.520 But like, what are you going to do?

01:19:50.560 Well, it's good in a way because it eliminates all of the smokescreen around the so-called democratic process.

01:19:57.740 Of course, it's rigged in the favor of the people pulling the levers.

01:20:01.760 Well, but the also narrative will just swing to saying that, well, we are in a situation of emergency and in a situation of emergency, we need to get extra powers to actually solve it.

01:20:14.000 Emergency powers, you say?

01:20:15.580 These aren't, yeah, order 66 or something.

01:20:18.500 Right, so, Kevin Fox also says, the AFD thing smacks of Biden-ishery or Starmer-ishery work.

01:20:27.200 Make sure you control the judiciary and anyone you disagree with, particularly when they're right or popular, is going to lose.

01:20:33.580 It blows my mind that the word populist is now being used in the mainstream as a pejorative term.

01:20:40.920 Like, that is a total confession that you've entirely given up on appealing to the public.

01:20:46.120 On democracy itself.

01:20:47.800 Yeah.

01:20:48.080 You know, we would rather just literally have a bunch of managers.

01:20:52.080 That's it, yeah.

01:20:53.220 Alpha of the beaters in Germany. 1.00

01:20:56.140 Islamophobia is when you violently attack a Muslim's knife with your face. 1.00

01:21:00.420 Yeah. 1.00

01:21:01.000 Yeah, you shouldn't have dirtied that Muslim's knife with his blood. 1.00

01:21:03.580 Josh Führer, laughing at a disabled person. 0.99

01:21:06.720 That is true.

01:21:09.820 I really like the names.

01:21:12.240 There was once another political party in Germany that was banned.

01:21:15.580 Within five years, they were in power.

01:21:17.380 Just saying.

01:21:18.040 That's a good point.

01:21:19.120 It's not like there isn't a historical precedent here.

01:21:21.500 Just don't replicate the mistakes of history.

01:21:25.780 Stockpile oil and rubber.

01:21:27.640 Justin B.

01:21:28.520 The women-only segregation also plays into the isolation agenda, reducing the chances of men and women meeting.

01:21:39.140 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:21:40.080 And just, it's so anti-German.

01:21:43.680 But it won't be enforced.

01:21:45.200 That's the issue.

01:21:45.860 This is just the pretense that we are doing something.

01:21:48.820 But the thing, like, you know, when essentially you're being held hostage, you're like, yeah, we're going to show the terrorists.

01:21:54.580 Why?

01:21:54.820 How?

01:21:55.320 Well, we're going to do exactly what he's asking for.

01:21:57.300 That'll show him.

01:21:57.840 Checkmate terrorists. 0.99

01:21:58.220 Isolate women. 1.00

01:21:59.200 Yeah, exactly.

01:21:59.840 And no, this is awful.

01:22:01.680 Stop doing it.

01:22:02.380 Jimbo G.

01:22:05.200 But have you considered that Hitler would not like modern Germany and therefore everything that is happening must be good? 0.93

01:22:12.700 Well, that's what the Green Party think.

01:22:14.900 It's literally nothing.

01:22:16.140 Right.

01:22:16.460 We have weirdest news from 2024.

01:22:19.700 So, Lord Nerevar says,

01:22:21.220 The last few years have been weird.

01:22:22.520 It feels like if time was moving extremely quickly and it should still be, like, 2022, but then I could have sworn the Glasgow Willy Wonka debacle was from years ago.

01:22:31.240 Clearly Blackrock is messing with my brain.

01:22:33.420 No, I'm getting this.

01:22:34.440 Where, like, time feels really weird and elastic.

01:22:36.840 Like, things that happened ages ago feel like they happened very recently.

01:22:40.060 Things that happened recently feel like they happened ages ago.

01:22:42.260 And what I assume is there's some sort of, the way, at least my memory, I think works, is it kind of, I don't know, puts things on a pattern of events.

01:22:53.240 And so if an event was unusual, that event stands out in my mind, even though it gets further back in time.

01:22:58.760 But if event, like, is, oh, yeah, there's another step, yeah, okay, well, this has happened recently, even if that wasn't, right?

01:23:04.340 Well, your long-term memory, like the memories that you can recall indefinitely, encode semantically.

01:23:09.480 So you encode meaning, so it makes sense that you remember things in a narrative because that creates meaning out of the events.

01:23:16.000 It's not just a piece of, like, a node of information.

01:23:19.980 So, yeah, that is how it works.

01:23:22.620 So Dr. David Ferugia says, I can't believe Josh missed destiny sucking the fascism out of Nick Fuentes.

01:23:29.760 Well, people are talking about his jaw now.

01:23:33.180 I don't want to have to verify the authenticity of the video by watching it.

01:23:38.180 And so I deliberately didn't watch it because I had to do the Hunter Biden laptop stuff.

01:23:43.820 And I've never been the same since.

01:23:46.660 You know, when I close my eyes, I see a shadow of, never mind.

01:23:52.640 Of the pardoned.

01:23:53.920 Of the pardoned, yes.

01:23:56.120 The proletariat says, now I want to buy an old ball-based mouse and send it in so Josh doesn't need a mouse pad.

01:24:03.260 That's not what it's about.

01:24:05.140 No?

01:24:06.140 Isn't it?

01:24:06.740 No, it's about having the pad that's the thing, right?

01:24:10.300 It's more of the texture of it.

01:24:11.680 Yeah, it's not about the thing on the bottom of the mouse.

01:24:14.800 Because it's like plastic on plastic as well.

01:24:16.840 So, I mean, I appreciate the offer.

01:24:23.220 But also, those old ball-based mice, even, were really annoying.

01:24:28.540 Because eventually, after overuse, the ball would get dirty and you'd have to take it out. 0.96

01:24:33.060 It's a real pain in the arse boiling so many eggs as well. 0.96

01:24:37.200 What? 0.98

01:24:37.560 Someone got it.

01:24:43.740 I'm not explaining myself.

01:24:45.100 I want Zoomers to be like, what the hell does that mean? 1.00

01:24:47.460 Is that how...

01:24:48.340 I got it, chat.

01:24:49.600 I got it.

01:24:50.280 ...to get the dirt off or something?

01:24:52.340 I'm not...

01:24:53.320 I don't know.

01:24:54.620 Samson's laughing.

01:24:55.740 Who's boiling the bowls? 0.97

01:24:57.240 No, I'm not explaining it.

01:24:59.000 Let's move on.

01:24:59.940 But I want to know now.

01:25:01.360 I know.

01:25:02.440 This is just mean.

01:25:04.560 Michael Brooks says,

01:25:05.300 Stelios showing his maniacal side is so funny, laughing at the world, burning such a good, evil life.

01:25:12.360 Thank you.

01:25:12.700 Yeah, some people talk about riding tigers.

01:25:15.340 Others...

01:25:15.980 Good point.

01:25:16.620 Yeah.

01:25:17.520 Based Ape says, yes, it's a Josh Whitepill segment.

01:25:20.060 Show us more monkeys.

01:25:21.740 Feeling there's a bias involved there, Based Ape. 0.99

01:25:24.360 Yeah, I mean, he had a whole segment of monkeys.

01:25:26.920 The monkey news.

01:25:28.580 I suppose...

01:25:29.540 Monkey business.

01:25:30.440 I could cover at least one monkey story this week.

01:25:32.980 That's going to be my sort of throwing a bone to you there.

01:25:37.620 The proletariat says,

01:25:38.740 The acorn cop thought the sound of the acorn impacting the roof of his car was gunfire from a suppressed weapon,

01:25:44.980 so he dumped two magazines into his car at the handcuffed suspect.

01:25:49.380 I think he was permanently fired rather than just suspended.

01:25:51.980 If he had actually done harm to a person, he would certainly have faced charges.

01:25:55.260 Yeah, of course.

01:25:56.100 I mean, it's mental, isn't it?

01:25:56.780 So you rest as you're powered down, you're sat in the cop car,

01:25:59.060 and suddenly the cop's just firing his own car,

01:26:01.580 like, what the hell's going on?

01:26:03.320 Well, the idea that this already handcuffed person in your car that you have searched 0.98

01:26:08.060 can pull a silenced weapon out and shoot at you while handcuffed.

01:26:13.380 Why do you have a handcuffed person in your car?

01:26:16.640 Because they're the police.

01:26:17.440 Well, you're a police officer.

01:26:18.060 You're arresting, right?

01:26:19.060 So if you're the guy, you're just like handcuffed in the car.

01:26:21.340 He's like, okay, I don't know what's going on.

01:26:22.960 It's such...

01:26:24.120 Jesus Christ.

01:26:25.680 I'd understand if it were me, Stelios.

01:26:27.460 There'd be some questions to answer.

01:26:30.680 Arranged cop.

01:26:31.420 AZ Desert Rat says,

01:26:32.560 that officer needs more than a suspension.

01:26:34.420 I think they were actually fired.

01:26:37.280 I can't pronounce that name.

01:26:39.160 That's their actual name.

01:26:40.160 I can pronounce that.

01:26:41.640 The Disney Terms of Service was about

01:26:43.220 they would need to use arbitration rather than going to court,

01:26:47.080 and Disney tried to argue that this applied,

01:26:49.020 even though it was the widower who signed up,

01:26:51.980 not his wife who died.

01:26:53.140 And, I mean, you do often enter a legal agreement

01:26:58.440 as a couple, don't you?

01:27:00.580 Possibly.

01:27:01.120 I only saw the memes of Disney then

01:27:03.500 just shooting people randomly. 0.98

01:27:05.080 Disney death squads. 0.99

01:27:05.960 Well, they signed up for it.

01:27:08.440 Grant Gibson says,

01:27:09.900 the Canadian open water long-distance swimmer got...

01:27:12.340 The limits of consent morality.

01:27:16.460 You agreed to sign this contract,

01:27:18.120 so now Disney turns up.

01:27:19.320 It's like, well, you know.

01:27:20.280 Time to go hunting again.

01:27:21.480 Should have read the fine print, shouldn't you?

01:27:23.140 Just, you sign a contract,

01:27:25.440 and all of a sudden you start being followed

01:27:27.180 by all of the Disney characters.

01:27:28.840 Yeah.

01:27:29.060 That's consent.

01:27:30.540 Sorry, God. 0.96

01:27:31.040 I'm going to hunt you for sport.

01:27:32.720 The Canadian open water long-distance swimmer

01:27:34.880 got a silver medal in the Games.

01:27:36.260 He was one of the athletes who was physically ill

01:27:38.280 because of how disgusting the water was.

01:27:40.360 He said it had nothing at all to do with the event,

01:27:42.340 but was 100% due to the revolting water in the CN.

01:27:44.900 Okay, fair enough.

01:27:45.960 I knew it.

01:27:47.320 I'm willing to, you know, 0.99

01:27:49.140 concede that the French are gross. 1.00

01:27:51.980 So, Robert Longshaw says, 0.99

01:27:53.700 I always thought Chicago was a rat-infested hellhole. 0.93

01:27:56.360 I guess I was wrong. 0.99

01:27:57.280 Turns out it's a hell-infested rat hole. 0.90

01:28:01.320 Clever play on words there. 0.99

01:28:03.920 Josh the Jew says,

01:28:04.920 surely the tunnels was the weirdest news of 2024.

01:28:08.180 Yeah, I did forget the tunnels.

01:28:09.700 However, I mean,

01:28:10.980 I'm going to make a cope argument and say

01:28:13.000 it's not that weird.

01:28:14.080 I expected it.

01:28:15.100 I knew it all along.

01:28:17.500 Nobody expected it.

01:28:19.300 No.

01:28:19.560 Most virulent anti-Semites on the internet expected it.

01:28:24.040 The people have been saying for years

01:28:25.900 there's Jewish tunnels under New York or whatever.

01:28:29.400 Didn't expect it.

01:28:30.740 There are a lot of people in padded rooms

01:28:32.620 that deserve to be released now.

01:28:35.280 Josh Firm laughing at a disabled person.

01:28:37.260 Just there wrapped up,

01:28:38.060 so ha! 0.94

01:28:38.400 I knew it.

01:28:40.580 Speaking of weird news,

01:28:41.660 seven people are currently in hospital

01:28:42.960 after drinking poisoned pina coladas in Fiji.

01:28:47.000 Well, apparently they don't like pina coladas.

01:28:50.420 Sorry.

01:28:51.780 Dad jokes are off the chain today.

01:28:53.860 Kevin Fox says,

01:28:54.600 in North Africa they have goats

01:28:56.040 that like to climb in trees.

01:28:57.760 The South African government

01:28:58.760 are now trying to crossbreed them

01:29:00.180 with elephants to deal with

01:29:01.380 white farmers' orchards.

01:29:04.380 Have you ever seen footage of mountain goats

01:29:07.100 climbing mountains?

01:29:07.940 It's insane, isn't it?

01:29:09.300 Mental.

01:29:09.900 Have you seen them fighting on like that?

01:29:11.500 They'll be like that.

01:29:12.800 Yeah.

01:29:13.220 And they'll be fighting

01:29:14.080 and they're not falling over.

01:29:15.300 Yeah.

01:29:15.800 It's just like how is this possible

01:29:18.740 that these goats can live for years

01:29:20.420 on the side of these mountains?

01:29:21.540 And it's literally sheer.

01:29:22.780 The apex.

01:29:24.080 Yeah.

01:29:24.640 Yeah.

01:29:24.960 This is just so inspiring.

01:29:26.660 It's just mad.

01:29:27.620 But then you look a goat in the eye

01:29:29.080 and you're just like

01:29:29.900 there's nothing going on up there

01:29:31.180 and yet they can do

01:29:32.200 these great feats of acrobatics.

01:29:35.480 Yeah.

01:29:35.980 Well, but the thing is

01:29:37.560 I'm just like

01:29:38.020 it always reminds me

01:29:39.080 of like people living in the Arctic.

01:29:41.100 So really,

01:29:41.520 is that where you're going to live?

01:29:42.380 Is it?

01:29:43.180 Like, is there nowhere better

01:29:44.300 to live than that?

01:29:44.860 No.

01:29:45.340 Southern mountain is fine.

01:29:46.420 No.

01:29:46.660 You know.

01:29:47.500 Literally a massive frozen ice sheet

01:29:49.880 in the North Pole.

01:29:51.340 Yeah.

01:29:51.500 No, that's fine.

01:29:52.220 It's totally fine.

01:29:53.200 It's like mental.

01:29:54.360 So you've got it.

01:29:55.140 If any mountain goats are watching

01:29:56.740 try moving.

01:30:00.160 What have you seen, Stelios?

01:30:01.480 You really need to read

01:30:03.580 Carl's perfectly adequately.

01:30:07.440 There is a specter haunting Josh.

01:30:09.980 The specter of Hunter Biden's dong.

01:30:11.980 That is true.

01:30:14.140 I still have the image

01:30:16.060 seared into my mind.

01:30:17.400 All the great powers of Europe

01:30:18.820 treat it as if it's a power in itself.

01:30:22.240 The annoying thing is

01:30:23.560 his justification

01:30:24.240 for taking so many pictures of it

01:30:25.900 is I've got body dysmorphia 1.00

01:30:27.440 because I've got a nine inch penis. 1.00

01:30:29.100 I'm just like 0.99

01:30:29.480 that's not dysphoria.

01:30:31.540 Who among us can't say the same?

01:30:34.800 I wish.

01:30:36.860 And on that wonderful note

01:30:38.460 it is time to watch the show.

01:30:41.200 If you want to hear more

01:30:42.300 about Hunter Biden's

01:30:43.360 well endowed

01:30:44.060 No.

01:30:44.780 No, I'm not.

01:30:45.660 I'm joking.

01:30:46.460 If you want to catch the podcast

01:30:47.260 same time tomorrow

01:30:48.460 as always.

01:30:49.840 Thank you for watching

01:30:50.560 and goodbye.

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