The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1092

00:00:00.060 Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters. Today is Monday the 3rd of February, this is episode 1092. I'm your host Stelios and I'm joined by Josh.

00:00:12.200 Hello, we didn't plan this by the way, we're not dressed very similarly on purpose. We just sort of turned up this way.

00:00:19.100 Next time our ties should be black, to remind people of Pulp Fiction. 0.98

00:00:25.680 Maybe even Reservoir Dogs as well.

00:00:29.260 Yeah, Ezekiel 2517. Right, so we are going to talk about the plans to shut down USAID, a very large problem in Michigan.

00:00:38.280 I think in fact it will break Michigan and how 2025 is off to a weird start.

00:00:45.320 We have no announcements to make, so whenever you want, let us start.

00:00:49.920 I'll have a think about it, you know, I'll put my feet up.

00:00:52.780 Take your time, take your time.

00:00:54.080 Yeah, we're in no rush, time's no issue is it? No, of course.

00:00:57.580 So, one of my favourite developments of the Trump presidency is the discussion around the US Agency for International Development, or USAID.

00:01:08.500 And in Trump's very first day, he had this executive order, re-evaluating and realigning United States foreign aid.

00:01:16.560 And in it, he had a 90-day pause on all of the things that come under this sort of purview, I suppose.

00:01:24.400 And I liked how they framed it, and I can actually scroll down and show you it, rather than just read it myself, but I'll do that anyway.

00:01:32.680 The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests, and in many cases antithetical to American values, true.

00:01:39.440 They serve to destabilise world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly in verse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and amongst countries. 0.86

00:01:51.160 Which I like the sound of.

00:01:52.700 And basically is saying that they're going to pause these organisations, because of course it's not only the USAID, but it also comes into other things as well.

00:02:02.220 And they're going to review them, and figure out what they're going to do with them.

00:02:07.380 And what that is, is this.

00:02:11.300 Because of course, Elon Musk being in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, I don't know why I couldn't say that, or DODGE,

00:02:20.260 said he's actually going to be shutting down the Beyond Repair USAID department, which...

00:02:26.940 A flera. 0.97

00:02:27.720 Yes, wonderful.

00:02:28.800 Just get rid of whole departments.

00:02:30.340 This is what I want to see.

00:02:31.320 This is how you make America great, is you get rid of all of the federal government, because you don't need it.

00:02:37.740 Yeah, most of it is needless.

00:02:39.820 As, you know, technology and infrastructure has got better and more efficient, the government has grown, when actually it should do the opposite.

00:02:47.840 Because, of course, communication...

00:02:50.060 There's no reason why, when people are using letters and fax, why in the world of email and mobile phones, you need more people to do the same job.

00:03:00.900 It doesn't make any sense.

00:03:02.360 Sure, there are more people in America, but I think you can have a lean estate, can't you?

00:03:06.960 And just to illustrate that, let's have a look at some of the facts and figures here.

00:03:12.540 So, the budget for 2025 would be $22.58 billion.

00:03:20.900 That's a lot of money.

00:03:22.480 It represents 0.2% of the US federal budget, which is horrifying.

00:03:27.360 But it's worth mentioning, in 2023, although the camera's in the way, it was nearly $51 billion.

00:03:37.100 So, that's, you know...

00:03:38.760 50.1%.

00:03:40.540 Yeah.

00:03:41.760 That's a lot.

00:03:43.000 That's quite a lot.

00:03:44.080 It's a waste of money, basically, is what it is.

00:03:46.560 Because once we see what the money is spent on you, you'll be very, very glad, but probably very, very angry that it happened in the first place.

00:03:54.640 So, if you're a US taxpayer, I'm sorry, I'm going to make you very angry.

00:03:58.840 However, I'm also going to make you very happy that it's stopped.

00:04:01.260 There's some silver lining.

00:04:02.340 So, quick question before we say more about this.

00:04:07.300 It sounds like the executive order that Trump signed is more like a statement of intent that says for three months, foreign aid is going to pause until it's re-evaluated.

00:04:19.700 So, yeah, we need also to see what's going to happen after three months.

00:04:23.100 I think what they were looking at was potentially folding the USAID, some of the things that were under its purview, into the State Department and getting rid of this.

00:04:32.480 And basically trimming a lot of the fat, because, as we will see, there is a lot of fat.

00:04:39.620 And there's also this.

00:04:42.580 This was very interesting.

00:04:44.300 So, apparently, Elon Musk's team tried to enter the offices of USAID.

00:04:50.160 And I'm going to read from The Guardian here, because, of course, they're going to talk about this.

00:04:56.300 The demands of wanting to have to see the files, which they're allowed to see, led to a tense standoff during which a senior deputy to Musk threatened to call the US Marshals in to grant access to the building.

00:05:09.460 The officials said John Voorhees, no, it's not that kind of, it's not Jason.

00:05:16.060 Not that person, okay.

00:05:17.240 He doesn't have a hockey mask.

00:05:19.300 No, I thought the same, to be fair.

00:05:22.520 USAID's Director of Security and Deputy blocked efforts by DOJ's members to physically access restricted areas.

00:05:29.520 So, I don't know what he did.

00:05:30.800 Did he just sort of stand in the way?

00:05:32.500 Like, you know, how eco-protesters chained themselves to trees?

00:05:38.360 Similar thing, maybe.

00:05:39.280 I don't know.

00:05:40.280 But they were put on leave after that show, which is, you know, if you're directly resisting the will of the president, which they are, because he signed that executive order and Elon Musk is acting on his authority, then you don't deserve to work for the executive branch of government.

00:05:58.980 That's pretty obvious, right?

00:06:00.520 So, let's also point out this.

00:06:03.460 So, the head is Samantha Power.

00:06:07.140 That's a good surname.

00:06:09.560 You have to give it to her.

00:06:10.640 Yeah, if you're in politics and your surname is Power, I feel like you're destined to succeed.

00:06:15.420 Or maybe you're destined to have people forever suspicious of you.

00:06:18.860 I don't know.

00:06:19.240 But she served as the administrator for USAID between 2021 and 2025.

00:06:24.600 And she'd previously served as an ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 under Obama.

00:06:31.740 So, in her time as an ambassador to the UN, she pushed loads of woke stuff and was pretty hawkish when it came to possible armed interventions abroad.

00:06:42.020 It's like the worst of both worlds, really, isn't it?

00:06:44.180 It's like, we want to bomb you with rainbow bombs. 0.99

00:06:47.240 And I see something really interesting there.

00:06:49.780 She began her career as a war correspondent covering the Yugoslav wars before entering academic administration.

00:06:56.660 And she was a member of the Democratic Party and actually very vocally in favor of Obama's policies.

00:07:02.980 Yes.

00:07:03.920 Which is kind of weird because Yugoslavia was a very failed multicultural or multi-ethnic. 0.98

00:07:11.400 Maybe, Stelios, this is, you know, a strange thought.

00:07:16.240 Maybe she didn't pay attention to the actual lessons of the Yugoslav wars.

00:07:20.600 But yes, she was also involved in the Russiagate conspiracy or hoax or whatever you want to call it.

00:07:27.060 The failed attempt to say that Trump was a Russian agent.

00:07:30.820 She used her authority to reveal the identities of hundreds of names of those involved in intelligence.

00:07:36.880 And it was a big scandal.

00:07:37.680 And, yeah, so obviously she's very critical of Trump.

00:07:41.940 And so going after a department in which she's been in charge of for four years and has been shaped around her, presumably,

00:07:48.840 is probably a good idea, right?

00:07:51.000 And seeing this from this senator here.

00:07:55.800 A president is not a king.

00:07:57.180 Trump cannot eliminate USAID with the stroke of a pen.

00:07:59.980 And not only is it illegal, it is a gift to our adversaries.

00:08:04.880 It's worth mentioning, JFK, not RFK, as in JFK, shot in the head, created the department by executive order.

00:08:15.960 And so it makes perfect sense to my mind that it can also be dismantled in the same way, right?

00:08:20.900 If you can create a department in one way, you can dismantle a department in one way.

00:08:25.480 It doesn't mean that if a department is created, it should forever be in existence.

00:08:31.620 Yeah, the powers of the presidency have not changed in the Constitution since that has happened.

00:08:38.040 Well, at least in theory. 0.99

00:08:40.040 But Elon on Twitter, of course, said it is a criminal organization and it's time for it to die.

00:08:47.860 So it seems like the whole thing is just going to be wiped.

00:08:51.020 And apparently, Elon Musk has said that Trump agrees with him, which is good because he's beneath Trump.

00:08:57.920 So he shouldn't be framing it that way around.

00:08:59.700 But still, it seems like Trump does agree.

00:09:05.620 And in fact, this is what he had to say.

00:09:08.660 Disciplining him, yeah. 0.97

00:09:13.860 Well, it's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics and we're getting them out. 0.97

00:09:19.800 USAID, run by radical lunatics and we're getting them out and then we'll make a decision. 0.94

00:09:29.880 I love how he repeats everything twice, giving the media their soundbite there. 0.96

00:09:34.680 But it's true.

00:09:35.400 I mean, it's not even hyperbolic. 0.98

00:09:37.660 It is run by radical left-wing lunatics and we will see this. 0.96

00:09:41.240 I'll show you some of the things they're funding. 0.99

00:09:42.860 We need it also here in Europe because we have all these crazy NGOs funding our destruction.

00:09:48.940 Even more so than the US, yeah.

00:09:52.980 So this was interesting.

00:09:54.720 In this same, presumably, press conference here, he mentioned South Africa and their cutting aid to South Africa.

00:10:04.000 And this was really important because, remember, I covered recently the land expropriation bill?

00:10:08.720 Yes.

00:10:08.960 He basically said that the government can take white farmers' land without even compensating them.

00:10:13.800 Trump said this about that.

00:10:15.000 No, it's only South Africa.

00:10:16.680 Terrible things are happening in South Africa.

00:10:19.780 The leadership is doing some terrible things.

00:10:24.480 It's horrible things.

00:10:25.760 So that's under investigation right now.

00:10:28.380 We'll make a determination.

00:10:29.360 And until such time as we find out what South Africa is doing, they're taking away land, they're confiscating land, and actually they're doing things that are perhaps far worse than that.

00:10:41.180 That's really, really promising that the US is now using its influence to push back against what I would call the genocide of white people in South Africa.

00:10:53.080 They're going full communists there.

00:10:55.500 Of course they are.

00:10:56.140 They're de-coolakizing the country because they want to completely disrespect the property rights of the farmers.

00:11:04.800 Well, they don't even recognize them.

00:11:06.340 And here's a post from Donald Trump about that to sort of expand upon it.

00:11:12.580 South Africa is confiscating land and treating certain classes of people very badly.

00:11:16.560 It is a bad situation that the radical left media doesn't want to so much as mention.

00:11:20.860 A massive human rights violation at a minimum is happening for all to see.

00:11:25.040 The United States won't stand for it.

00:11:26.420 We will act.

00:11:27.060 Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed.

00:11:34.540 And I think they are quite serious about this because they have deleted the account, the Twitter account, for USAID.

00:11:44.040 And the Financial Times is reporting that the website has gone dark as well.

00:11:49.160 So it does seem like the whole thing is going, which is great.

00:11:55.100 And why does it exist?

00:11:57.100 Why does this government exist in the first place?

00:11:58.880 Governmental department, should I say.

00:12:00.140 Well, Akele, the president of El Salvador, has a thing or two to say about it.

00:12:06.660 And I think he's bang on the money here.

00:12:08.480 Most governments don't want USAID funds flowing through their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up.

00:12:15.260 While marketed as support for development, democracy and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas and destabilizing movements, which is very true.

00:12:25.000 At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects.

00:12:28.240 That 10% number has been repeated by Elon Musk and lots of other people that have said that actually most of the money disappears before it reaches its intended target.

00:12:37.460 Funny that, isn't it, that free handouts have a habit of disappearing.

00:12:40.540 Cough, cough, Ukraine. 1.00

00:12:41.200 But it carries on to say, before the money reaches real projects to help people in need, and there are many such cases, but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, undermine administrations that refuse to align with globalists' agendas.

00:12:58.640 And cutting this so-called aid isn't just beneficial for the United States, it's also a big win for the rest of the world, which I agree with.

00:13:05.000 Yeah, I mean, the whole thing, funding corrupt governments in order to just somehow become non-corrupt, is ridiculous.

00:13:15.080 You pay them to not become corrupt.

00:13:17.460 This is known for decades.

00:13:19.180 Most of the economic aid given, for instance, to Africa doesn't actually help people there.

00:13:24.120 No, of course not.

00:13:24.800 It actually harms them by funding the people who oppress them.

00:13:29.560 So, Mike Benz has done a lot of work on this, and he had been on Joe Rogan, saying,

00:13:36.360 There is no aid in USAID.

00:13:38.320 It's not an aid organisation.

00:13:39.960 USAID stands for U.S. Agency of International Development.

00:13:42.780 What it's developing is all these activist organisations in foreign countries that the State Department is building to gain influence, which is true.

00:13:50.380 USAID was created to be a central hub that organises all different foreign clandestine operations.

00:13:55.580 It has a £50 billion budget. The entire intelligence community is only £72 billion.

00:14:00.740 So this is an important comparison here, because I think that there's a pretty good argument to suggest that it's a sort of more public-facing arm of the U.S. intelligence agencies.

00:14:14.220 And you can look at the fact that the funding's almost comparable there.

00:14:16.900 And it carries on to say, it's more than the CIA and State Department, it's a switch player to assist the Pentagon, the State Department, and the intelligence community.

00:14:26.940 Which, to be fair, it is.

00:14:29.020 And, of course, we know these people in charge of these departments are very resistant to Trump and the right more generally.

00:14:36.680 They back the Democrats, and they have done lots of things to interfere in political processes domestically and certainly abroad.

00:14:44.440 So, there's another example here, that the USAID programme set up a fake AIDS prevention workshop to topple a foreign government here.

00:14:55.200 So this says,

00:14:56.440 Yeah, and that is going to be a company.

00:15:26.440 It's accompanied by famous people talking in famous platforms, I'm not naming any of them for known reasons, who are going to say, we need to solve this issue, it's social justice.

00:15:36.800 So, Howard, are you going to do it? Fund us. Fund this organisation over there.

00:15:42.080 Yeah, I don't see how this is in the interest of the American people, how this money is being spent.

00:15:45.960 And then, RFK has talked about how the CIA have used USAID as a front that used $5 billion in 2014 to ignite a colour revolution in Ukraine.

00:15:58.220 And Victoria Nuland, that's not her real surname, picked the new government a month before the old government was overthrown. 0.95

00:16:04.780 Which, looking at some of the leaks from Biden when he was vice president of Obama, and how he's talking as if he's choosing people, and saying, listen, we're going to hold this money back, unless you get rid of this prosecutor, who happens to be involved in prosecuting a company that his son worked for.

00:16:25.220 Funny that, isn't it? Yeah, Burisma.

00:16:29.580 So, where is a lot of this money going? So, apparently some of it's going to the production of heroin in Afghanistan.

00:16:37.520 I'm sure they're very upset about this, because the Taliban have clamped down on it.

00:16:41.060 But apparently, they're helping irrigate, fertilise Afghan opium fields. 0.63

00:16:45.940 And here we go here.

00:16:47.140 American taxpayer money has funded irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertiliser used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production.

00:16:55.220 In Afghanistan, I don't know why they're saying it mainly benefits the Taliban.

00:16:59.980 Actually, they've shut it down.

00:17:01.500 They don't like heroin, it turns out.

00:17:03.980 But there we go.

00:17:06.040 It's also worth mentioning, on the topic of Afghanistan, this person here, you might recognise him, Callum.

00:17:12.040 He used to work here.

00:17:14.480 When Callum went to Afghanistan, he went rummaging around in the rubbish, as you often do, behind a hotel, and found this.

00:17:25.220 So, I found this big trash pile. 0.93

00:17:29.700 All trash. 0.99

00:17:30.740 Things that Afghanis don't need. 1.00

00:17:33.240 Loads of chairs. 1.00

00:17:35.520 Other crap. 0.99

00:17:36.400 More chairs. 0.99

00:17:37.200 Some rugs they don't want.

00:17:38.960 What else don't they want in Afghanistan? 1.00

00:17:42.980 Gender sensitivity training.

00:17:44.800 You can see the USAID logo there.

00:17:49.120 Yeah, Callum's got a channel.

00:17:50.880 You should go check it out.

00:17:52.480 I'm doing his travel videos.

00:17:54.640 Another thing that USAID may have helped fund is they funnelled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance,

00:18:03.820 who were supporting the gain-of-function research of coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab.

00:18:10.040 So, yes, here we are.

00:18:16.160 USAID, one of the main funders of this organisation, which, depending on how you look at the COVID origins,

00:18:26.680 I think that the Wuhan lab is the most likely origin point of the virus.

00:18:32.720 And so, yes, you have USAID to blame for COVID.

00:18:37.420 There you go.

00:18:37.920 Also, they gave them a further $13.2 million grant after it was found that the National Institute of Health

00:18:50.180 admitted that the EcoHealth Alliance had violated the terms of the Wuhan lab grant.

00:18:56.120 And they gave them more money.

00:18:58.100 And this was in 2021.

00:19:00.040 And they're also the third largest donor to the BBC.

00:19:03.600 Here's the BBC talking about it.

00:19:05.340 USAID was our third largest donor, providing nearly $1.9 million.

00:19:10.140 So, the US taxpayer is funding our state broadcaster for some reason, which even I don't fund.

00:19:15.800 I don't pay for the BBC.

00:19:18.420 So, why are you?

00:19:20.240 Why would they do this, Josh?

00:19:21.640 By the way, I want it abolished.

00:19:22.780 That's not me gloating.

00:19:24.040 Why would they do this, though?

00:19:26.060 You don't?

00:19:26.680 Well, it's left-wing propaganda, isn't it?

00:19:28.380 That's why they're funding it.

00:19:29.820 And also, they've given millions of dollars to Bill Kristol as well.

00:19:35.380 He was complaining, saying the deep state is far preferable to the Trump state.

00:19:39.740 And then someone pointed out, the deep state is preferable because you are listed as the

00:19:44.100 president of Defending Democracy, which is an indirect beneficiary of USAID through the

00:19:48.860 Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

00:19:51.020 So, there you go.

00:19:54.800 Lots of money involved, by the looks of it.

00:19:58.340 So, yes.

00:19:59.180 Obviously, a lot of the people coming out and defending it are also the beneficiaries of it.

00:20:04.000 So, that's worth mentioning.

00:20:05.580 That's always a question.

00:20:06.840 Who benefits?

00:20:10.340 They've also provided $2.1 billion to Gaza, which is confusing because I thought the US

00:20:17.280 government worked on behalf of Israel.

00:20:19.880 But there we go.

00:20:21.800 And then also, they've spent an inordinate amount of money countering disinfo.

00:20:28.520 So, this is like a video.

00:20:33.440 And you can see that you've got the USAID thing there.

00:20:36.200 People are taxed in order to fund their own censorship.

00:20:39.940 Their own censorship.

00:20:40.660 And, of course, here's another document funded by USAID.

00:20:45.660 USAID.

00:20:46.160 And it's asking for social media companies to agree to policies on strategic silence.

00:20:53.500 So, on certain topics, you can strategically silence people.

00:20:58.420 Why would the average American taxpayer want to be strategically silenced when they have the constitutional right to free speech and they're paying to have that right deprived?

00:21:11.700 Seems a bit strange, doesn't it?

00:21:13.240 It's of strategic importance, Josh.

00:21:15.460 Strategy is all that matters.

00:21:16.880 Yes.

00:21:17.480 Strategy of left-wingers, unfortunately.

00:21:21.420 So, here is Mike Benz again, who's been very good on this stuff, saying that the military under Joe Biden and Mark Milley openly plotted to incite race riots in Africa,

00:21:33.240 and then used USAID to swoop in and give striking protesters no-show jobs on U.S. taxpayers' dime so they could keep getting paid while striking and protesting in the streets.

00:21:43.540 And he was saying that they're paying to destabilize these countries to then get something in return.

00:21:49.940 They say, we can make this go away if you do what we want.

00:21:53.000 This makes sense because in the previous segment you did about South Africa, if we bear in mind the kind of language that Ramaphosa and his supporters used,

00:22:05.060 it is language that is just tailored to a first-year undergraduate audience in Ivy Leagues universities.

00:22:14.220 It reads as if he's speaking to Americans.

00:22:17.380 Exactly.

00:22:18.060 And it's very easy to pick up on that as well, isn't it?

00:22:21.100 Particularly from outside.

00:22:22.320 And so, that may explain why that's going on in the first place.

00:22:26.720 And then, here's another example.

00:22:29.680 They paid $20 million to hit-piece journalists trying to dig up dirt on Rudy Giuliani, of course Trump's lawyer,

00:22:36.560 and then used that as the basis to impeach the president then, 2019, which was Donald Trump, funnily enough.

00:22:44.680 Strange that.

00:22:45.220 So, it's almost like the department was explicitly working to, you know, remove someone from their office that is now in charge of them.

00:22:55.780 Kind of makes sense that Trump's removing them then, doesn't it?

00:22:58.900 And if you don't have enough reason to be bitter against them, AOC, apparently her career in politics was kick-started by their college program. 0.99

00:23:10.100 Which, yes, they brought AOC into politics, USAID.

00:23:15.400 And another thing as well, this might be important for you, they played a key role in censoring the internet in Brazil.

00:23:24.320 I'm pretty sure you've covered this before, haven't you?

00:23:26.160 Yes, with Alexander de Moraes.

00:23:29.240 That's right, yeah.

00:23:30.020 And finally, they've given $15 million to George Soros' Open Society Foundation, which may as well be, you know, the Kick Puppies Foundation or something like that.

00:23:41.780 That was only in Obama's, over Obama's last four years, which most probably they'll have given more before.

00:23:50.160 That is true, yeah.

00:23:51.140 And, of course, anyone who's familiar with George Soros and his Open Society Foundation knows that it is a force for great evil in the world.

00:23:59.200 Yeah, and especially the last sentence gets me.

00:24:05.560 However, the funding was primarily for Soros' operations in Albania and Macedonia, which probably means that he's basically people trafficking.

00:24:12.580 Like, there is proof out there of George Soros funding illegals flying into Mexico to break into the southern border.

00:24:21.940 But also it's an issue of how this foundation is used in order to destroy identity in the Balkans, for instance, when he's talking about Skopje.

00:24:34.440 Yeah, well, obviously USAID is a massive waste of money and is actually counterproductive to the American people's interests, I think.

00:24:46.060 What it has been used as is a means of getting political leverage for people who don't have the American people's interests at heart.

00:24:54.900 They only have themselves at heart.

00:24:57.700 And the fact that lots of the money has gone to left-wing figures and also the fact that it's been used to destabilise foreign countries,

00:25:05.560 which has actually brought plenty of refugees to Europe and America, is quite telling, isn't it?

00:25:13.440 And I think it's a very good thing and it's nice to hear that something is actually being done about it.

00:25:19.240 Right, we have several comments. Do you want to read?

00:25:22.460 Sure, blimey, look at all these.

00:25:23.840 We have time.

00:25:25.320 Matt G. Hammond says,

00:25:26.500 Did you know that the USAID funded the campaigns of Soros' prosecutors who prosecuted Trump?

00:25:33.140 Mike Bet...

00:25:34.060 You knew what I was going to say before I said it.

00:25:38.200 Thank you for the $2.

00:25:40.720 Neil Unrealis said,

00:25:41.580 Elon dismantled an entire multi-billion US agency of 9,000 employees in his spare time over a weekend,

00:25:46.980 with nothing but six autists ranging from the age of 19 to 24 years old and his four-year-old child underfoot. 0.54

00:25:53.840 That is true.

00:25:54.760 He has a team of six autistic people.

00:25:56.960 I don't know if they're autistic, but I'm just going to guess they are. 0.99

00:26:01.380 Matt G. Hammond says,

00:26:02.820 FJP, Fair and Just Prosecution, a non-profit that supports and influences progressive prosecutors in the US,

00:26:08.500 was given $27 million by USAID.

00:26:11.920 Excuse me.

00:26:12.340 That's awful.

00:26:14.260 That's one of the ones I didn't see, but I would have included.

00:26:17.640 There's so much, obviously, that it's impossible to know.

00:26:22.460 Update from Pennsylvania.

00:26:23.900 Punk's tawny Phil seizes shadow and declares martial law and suspension of all human rights.

00:26:28.680 Blimey.

00:26:29.340 That groundhog's dangerous.

00:26:32.540 I mean, just keep Bill Murray away.

00:26:34.460 Neil Unrealist says,

00:26:36.920 USAID is the vehicle through which the migrant NGOs are funded through South America, Central America and Mexico.

00:26:43.240 Trump and Elon are smashing the permanent infrastructure the left took years to build.

00:26:47.900 Good.

00:26:48.860 Yeah.

00:26:49.160 Why should taxpayers pay for their own replacement? 0.98

00:26:53.460 It's ridiculous. 0.56

00:26:54.900 Binary Surfer says,

00:26:55.860 Prediction, most of these dodge targets organizations will survive.

00:26:59.240 If I see an attempt to recapture the rival castles, not dismantle them, the real test will be where there is real tax and spend drop.

00:27:08.700 Well, I imagine they're getting rid of most of this stuff, right?

00:27:12.480 Old Eagle says,

00:27:13.440 USAID is a money laundering organization.

00:27:16.080 Everyone and organization that GoFunds from them should be thoroughly looked at.

00:27:22.120 Bet we'll find government officials have their pockets lined with donations.

00:27:26.660 We're pretty much already finding that out.

00:27:28.520 But yes, I agree with what you're saying.

00:27:31.500 Right now, we are going to talk about a very important story that happens in Michigan.

00:27:36.520 And it actually hits right at the heart of law fair.

00:27:42.080 And talks about weight being a protected characteristic.

00:27:47.420 And there has been an issue now with lift and the jour blending.

00:27:52.600 Do you know the jour blending?

00:27:57.100 The what?

00:27:57.720 Yeah.

00:27:58.520 Are you aware of the jour blending?

00:28:00.520 The jour blending?

00:28:01.900 Yes.

00:28:02.440 That's a name.

00:28:03.420 Oh, is that a person?

00:28:04.260 She's also known as Dank de Moss.

00:28:06.640 I thought the jour landing sounded like some sort of legal principle.

00:28:10.760 Yeah, that's a good one.

00:28:13.220 Anyway, maybe my pronunciation isn't that good. 0.96

00:28:17.020 It's a silly name. 0.73

00:28:19.140 It's what it is. 0.92

00:28:20.220 Well, I mean, not necessarily.

00:28:22.980 It's a different name.

00:28:24.680 Okay.

00:28:25.480 Right.

00:28:25.860 Very diplomatic today.

00:28:26.960 We are talking about her suing Lyft.

00:28:30.180 Lyft is a taxi platform, I think.

00:28:32.800 Something like that.

00:28:33.760 Sounds like it.

00:28:34.380 Something like Uber.

00:28:37.180 I've never used their service before.

00:28:39.300 Yes, exactly.

00:28:40.240 And what happened was that Miss Blonding ordered a vehicle. 1.00

00:28:45.500 She wanted to enter the vehicle and the driver told her that you can't fit into that vehicle because it's going to be very harmful for that vehicle.

00:28:57.740 Is there a picture of her anywhere?

00:29:00.280 Yes, yes, there is.

00:29:01.160 Don't look at the top stories, by the way.

00:29:04.060 Right.

00:29:04.720 So we have here Miss De Moss. 0.98

00:29:10.100 Goodness me.

00:29:11.920 And her lawyers.

00:29:13.140 She got any acting credits for playing the boulder in Indiana Jones that chases him?

00:29:19.440 She's a rap artist. 1.00

00:29:24.020 A hip hop artist, by the way.

00:29:25.420 So, I mean, how is she able to spit bars when she's so busy filling her mouth? 1.00

00:29:35.980 But there's a video here of her trying to enter the vehicle and I want to play it because this is like, you know, in football.

00:29:48.000 The VAR. 0.99

00:29:51.080 Where's this going?

00:29:52.140 Yeah, where there is a kind of incident where the referee hasn't decided yet.

00:29:58.720 So people are going to look at the video because she says that the driver hurt her feelings and denied her entrance to the car.

00:30:08.640 And the driver says that he was extremely polite.

00:30:14.300 And this is a very contested case.

00:30:16.560 And her lawyers are using this footage in order to say that she was actively discriminated against because of weight.

00:30:27.040 And weight is a protected characteristic in Michigan ever since 1976, the Elliot Larson Civil Rights Act.

00:30:35.900 It's a human rights case since the 70s that if you're overweight, it's a discriminatory category.

00:30:45.960 People shouldn't discriminate according to weight.

00:30:49.760 Let us play this because she actually filmed it.

00:30:54.320 There's a lot into this rabbit hole.

00:30:56.080 She's like a feeding frenzy for lawyers is what she is. 1.00

00:30:58.660 Yeah, I'm sorry.

00:31:00.200 What?

00:31:00.580 What you saying?

00:31:02.100 Yeah, I got no space.

00:31:03.520 Well, my car is small.

00:31:05.520 I can fit in this car?

00:31:07.000 Well, believe me, you can.

00:31:08.500 Yes, I can.

00:31:09.540 Believe me.

00:31:10.480 So, I'm sorry.

00:31:12.160 What I'm going to do about my money?

00:31:14.240 Well, I'm going to cancel you.

00:31:15.860 You're not going to be car.

00:31:17.220 So, you're telling me I can't get in a lift because I can't fit in your car?

00:31:22.520 Yeah, you need to order a vehicle car.

00:31:24.240 What makes you think I can't fit in a car?

00:31:27.020 Yeah, I'm sorry.

00:31:28.200 What makes you think I can't fit in this car?

00:31:30.280 Because the car is small in the back.

00:31:32.060 My best friend has a biz that's newer than this that I can fit in.

00:31:35.500 That's the same size.

00:31:37.680 You're going to need a bigger boat.

00:31:38.880 Yeah, I'm sorry.

00:31:39.280 I can.

00:31:41.200 So, you're really telling me I'm too busy in your car, so I got to order another lift.

00:31:47.700 Sam's only having a heart attack.

00:31:49.380 She's obviously fishing.

00:31:50.500 I'm not sure.

00:31:51.100 I'm not sure.

00:31:52.380 I'm not sure.

00:31:53.140 I'm not sure if she gets the hands out.

00:31:55.760 What?

00:31:56.060 I got to do with your tires. 0.90

00:31:58.320 Yeah, and you have no space.

00:32:00.280 How do you know I don't have no space?

00:32:01.860 Yeah, I got no space in the back.

00:32:03.560 Someone check on Sam's and he's dying.

00:32:04.040 How do you know I don't have no space?

00:32:07.480 Because I've tried before.

00:32:09.800 Huh?

00:32:10.200 It's his car.

00:32:10.960 He can do what he wants.

00:32:12.140 I think that that's...

00:32:12.820 So, every big person you turned on because they can't fit in your car?

00:32:16.420 Yeah, because they need to order the Uber XL.

00:32:19.960 No, I don't ever have to order an Uber XL.

00:32:24.100 I don't want to hear this annoying.

00:32:25.520 What's your name?

00:32:26.840 Abraham.

00:32:27.380 Abraham.

00:32:27.960 He was very polite as well, wasn't he?

00:32:30.300 Right.

00:32:30.560 So, first of all, I think he came across as polite.

00:32:33.380 Yeah.

00:32:33.660 And how should I say it?

00:32:39.320 He told her that you should have taken the XL lift because there was a separate...

00:32:45.500 Is there another category, is there?

00:32:46.900 There was another category, which is a vehicle that fills up to six people because the standard

00:32:53.960 one is up to 40.

00:32:54.660 Does it come with a really long...

00:32:56.780 Oh, I shouldn't do that.

00:32:58.560 A really tall arm that, you know, is used in the construction and destruction of tall buildings?

00:33:07.720 I can't believe I just did that.

00:33:08.600 It's an issue of comfort.

00:33:12.300 Right?

00:33:12.840 It's an issue of comfort.

00:33:13.660 So, he tells her, I'm going to reimburse you, I'm going to cancel the fare, but he didn't

00:33:19.220 actually help her take order an XL on the spot. 0.81

00:33:24.100 So, he gave her the money back and just declined the fare.

00:33:27.720 We should say also that it is his vehicle because it's like the Uber thing, like the Uber platform.

00:33:33.640 Lyft is like that.

00:33:35.200 You're...

00:33:36.120 If you want to be a...

00:33:37.660 If you want to be a driver...

00:33:40.000 What did you say?

00:33:42.140 You're just trying to maintain...

00:33:43.060 You want to be a driver.

00:33:44.300 If you want to be a driver, Josh, with Lyft, you take your own car and you become a Lyft driver.

00:33:50.400 Right.

00:33:51.200 So, she is suing this and this is a multi-million dollar suit. 0.94

00:33:56.460 And she says that this is segregation and it is the exact thing like discriminating against

00:34:04.720 people's color.

00:34:05.860 Let's play this.

00:34:06.540 Georgia Blanding tells us she was just trying to get to a Detroit Lions watch party this

00:34:11.940 month when her Lyft rolled up.

00:34:13.660 As I'm walking, I see him, like, making faces or whatever.

00:34:16.220 I'm like, oh, man.

00:34:17.200 She already knew.

00:34:18.580 I can fit in this car.

00:34:20.020 No, believe me, you can.

00:34:21.500 Yes, I can.

00:34:22.580 Believe me.

00:34:23.360 He told her there's not enough room in his car.

00:34:26.560 It looks like a Lyft might be hurting pretty soon, too.

00:34:29.560 I knew it was illegal and I knew that it was wrong.

00:34:31.640 Her attorneys, John Marco and Zach Runyon, say weight is a protected characteristic in

00:34:36.600 Michigan by law.

00:34:37.940 It would be no different than a driver pulling up and saying, you know, I don't want to have 0.97

00:34:42.080 black people in my car or I don't want to have Christians in my car or Muslims in my 1.00

00:34:46.240 car. 0.99

00:34:46.580 It's the same under the law.

00:34:48.020 It's the same.

00:34:48.740 The lawsuit is filed.

00:34:50.360 Since she posted the encounter on social media, other full-figured folks have reached out saying

00:34:55.240 the same thing happened to them.

00:34:56.920 Full-figured.

00:34:57.920 Five-figured folks.

00:35:00.060 So, I'm no legal expert.

00:35:02.080 I'm no law expert.

00:35:03.140 So, it's very conceivable that something has eluded my attention.

00:35:08.020 But I checked the Elliot Larson Civil Rights Act of 1976, Josh, and it's mostly, at least

00:35:16.100 from a first glance, it's mostly about employees and employees.

00:35:20.060 I didn't see that saying anything about customers because there's a distinction between

00:35:27.240 discriminating against employees and or potential employees and discriminating against customers.

00:35:33.800 Furthermore, there's also the case of the basis of discrimination.

00:35:37.840 So, these are separate matters.

00:35:39.380 Matters, but something may have eluded me.

00:35:41.560 So, don't take that as very indicative.

00:35:48.020 But she said that her feelings were hurt and that she can't come out of the house.

00:35:54.920 And that's not nice.

00:35:55.920 That's not nice.

00:35:56.700 Is that the reason?

00:35:57.800 That's not nice.

00:35:58.360 It's the feelings that prevent her from leaving her house.

00:36:01.700 Let's hear this.

00:36:02.700 Experience has scarred her.

00:36:04.380 I haven't really, like, left my house since that.

00:36:07.680 She hopes this lawsuit will change how people treat others of all sizes.

00:36:12.280 Didn't have to...

00:36:13.200 So, how does this sound?

00:36:15.800 It sounds like she's really missing out on her really long daily walks that she would have

00:36:20.660 definitely done regularly had she not had her feelings hurt.

00:36:24.580 So, do you believe...

00:36:26.060 Does this sound as credible when she says that she doesn't...

00:36:30.660 That she doesn't...

00:36:32.320 She can't get out of the house? 1.00

00:36:36.780 I don't...

00:36:38.300 I believe that she doesn't leave her house much, yeah.

00:36:41.120 Right.

00:36:41.500 So, I have here something...

00:36:44.660 Where is it?

00:36:45.380 I found out that she's actually a known rapper from Detroit who has thousands of followers 0.97

00:36:53.680 and I...

00:36:56.060 Orbiters, some might say.

00:36:58.000 Don't be mean.

00:36:59.360 It's just another term for follower.

00:37:01.820 I don't know what you mean.

00:37:02.860 Yeah, actually.

00:37:03.420 Yeah, you're correct.

00:37:04.380 I know.

00:37:04.920 You're correct.

00:37:05.960 You see how evil I was.

00:37:08.780 I rushed to interpret what you said in the worst possible way.

00:37:12.320 I definitely meant that in a well-mannered and polite way, didn't I?

00:37:15.660 Right.

00:37:15.960 So, we see here De Jour Blanding, a.k.a. Dank DeMoss, is a rapper from Detroit, Michigan,

00:37:22.320 known for penning tracks including So What?, Just Talking and Rounds.

00:37:27.320 The star is proudly class-sized and has been vocal about the importance of body positivity.

00:37:33.920 Plus-sized?

00:37:35.180 According to her Instagram account, she's the CEO of Detroit-based record company for Show Doe Records.

00:37:42.320 Of course, it's got the word Doe in it.

00:37:44.100 She also describes herself as a writer, ghostwriter, rapper, and a sanger.

00:37:53.380 So, I want to say something.

00:37:56.000 If you are a body positivity activist, you actually want...

00:38:01.360 You're kind of used to being discriminated and you want to highlight it.

00:38:05.940 So, it's very unlikely that something like that, an incident like the Uber, the left driver,

00:38:12.100 declining her fare, would actually impact her.

00:38:15.360 I've always thought that the problem with the body positivity movement is visibility.

00:38:21.720 Yes.

00:38:22.040 They're just not visible enough, are they?

00:38:24.340 Yes.

00:38:24.820 And by the way, Lady Gaga said some things about some other groups about visibility,

00:38:28.560 but I'm not going to touch on it because it's a separate issue.

00:38:31.540 Basically, yeah.

00:38:33.560 Right.

00:38:34.020 So, what are the odds she may be doing this for publicity?

00:38:39.640 100%.

00:38:40.040 No.

00:38:41.060 Actually, money.

00:38:43.240 Right.

00:38:43.560 So, DeJour has over 170,000 followers on Instagram as of January 2025,

00:38:49.720 where she nicknames herself Paid Fat Queen. 1.00

00:38:54.440 Well...

00:38:54.960 P-A-H-A-T. 1.00

00:38:56.420 If she willingly calls herself that, is she really that hurt?

00:39:00.800 Yeah, but what about the tyres?

00:39:02.780 Because the argument of the driver was about the tyres,

00:39:05.200 that the added weight on the car would actually impact her tyres

00:39:09.220 and would destroy the vehicle.

00:39:11.240 Isn't that too much?

00:39:13.260 Um, not really.

00:39:15.940 Right.

00:39:16.220 So, on her social media account, she shares insight into her life,

00:39:20.000 including her love of fashion.

00:39:22.440 In one video, she transformed the skirt into a shirt,

00:39:25.560 which she paired with her Prada bag.

00:39:27.840 So...

00:39:28.160 I'm surprised it wasn't a pair of curtains.

00:39:30.260 DeJour said that she thinks that it is okay to re-wear clothes

00:39:33.540 and urged fans to ignore people who say otherwise.

00:39:38.260 Old parachutes, maybe bedsheets.

00:39:40.320 I don't understand this, but what was the issue with re-wearing clothes?

00:39:44.440 I mean, you wear some clothes, you wash them again, and you re-wear them.

00:39:48.240 But if it is about this celebrity culture that you only wear a dress once,

00:39:53.120 I think I'm actually with her.

00:39:55.060 No, I think, yeah.

00:39:56.420 And if she's on about second-hand clothes, that's also okay,

00:39:59.660 as long as they're not, like, you know, wearing someone else's underpants or something.

00:40:02.700 And I will say about her music,

00:40:04.620 I can't play it because it has lots of explicit language.

00:40:08.020 We're a family-friendly podcast here.

00:40:10.800 Exactly, yeah.

00:40:11.400 She's talking...

00:40:12.300 She's using words that start with N and B.

00:40:16.120 Okay.

00:40:16.920 All the time, and I don't think it's...

00:40:19.040 We should maintain a level of quality.

00:40:22.080 But I will say that music-wise, it's kind of catchy.

00:40:25.940 It has a tune or something.

00:40:27.420 And I will play this without sound.

00:40:30.400 I want to show you because there's something I really like about her.

00:40:34.720 We'll...

00:40:35.840 I want to...

00:40:36.620 She's got a real gravity about her, isn't she?

00:40:38.600 Here in the God-blessed cameras, we can see her here.

00:40:41.560 But the point is, she's really famous.

00:40:44.500 If you play here, her part is the most replayed one.

00:40:48.340 So she's coming up and she's going to shame all them...

00:40:51.680 You know, all them bees.

00:40:54.780 She doesn't like insects.

00:40:55.960 Yeah, but, you know, she's going to take the stage here and she's actually going to... 1.00

00:41:00.980 She actually pulled it off well.

00:41:03.720 And I think there's a kind of, you know...

00:41:07.380 How should I put it in intellectual fashion?

00:41:09.700 There's a kind of shaming in this bit.

00:41:12.480 Because she's shaming lots of people from the hood for not upholding standards. 0.99

00:41:19.560 No one can say she bit off more than she can chew.

00:41:22.960 She's a titan of the hip-hop game.

00:41:25.240 Yeah.

00:41:25.960 So...

00:41:26.960 He or she fell on stage.

00:41:32.460 This thing happened.

00:41:33.340 I know people in Australia are okay.

00:41:40.420 Yeah, and that's an issue.

00:41:44.700 So there's a question here with elevators, planes, stages.

00:41:49.080 Because the point is, if you constantly make it about having a product, like a stage that someone is going to buy for concerts, for gigs.

00:42:04.360 If you constantly need to thank almost everyone, it's not unconditional.

00:42:11.440 Like if you go on, I think the weight is close to 498 pounds.

00:42:16.780 I think Samson might be dying.

00:42:21.220 Do we need a medic or something?

00:42:25.400 I've never seen someone turn so red.

00:42:27.340 Okay.

00:42:27.780 Right, okay.

00:42:28.500 So...

00:42:28.780 This is a very serious issue, Samson.

00:42:32.040 Yeah, please let us maintain a standard of quality.

00:42:36.120 I, for one, will not see discrimination and bigotry.

00:42:40.720 Yes.

00:42:41.540 Fat phobia on this podcast.

00:42:42.700 Can you breathe?

00:42:44.000 Just do a thumbs up if you can breathe.

00:42:46.580 Okay, that's a thumbs up.

00:42:48.240 Samson's alive.

00:42:49.000 So the issue is, you walk, you walk into a building and you see the lift says tops, you know, the elevator can only take, can only withstand the weight of X kilograms.

00:43:04.700 If you are more than X, you can't sue them for racism.

00:43:09.880 You can try.

00:43:11.440 You can try and maybe...

00:43:12.640 It wouldn't work.

00:43:12.960 I mean, to be fair, I'm quite a tall person.

00:43:16.260 When I've been on an airplane, my knees have been digging into the back of the seat in front of me quite often.

00:43:22.640 I don't think, you know what, airlines, they hate that I'm tall.

00:43:27.340 I think most people are shorter than me.

00:43:29.600 The world is designed around the average person.

00:43:32.600 And, you know, at least I don't have to get a footstool to reach tall things.

00:43:37.120 I'm not going to do the same thing twice in one segment, by the way.

00:43:39.940 Yeah, but I want to say people have been exceptionally mean and I do not condone this.

00:43:44.640 And they put out memes about forklifts and they draw comparisons about airplanes.

00:43:51.620 And they say that, you know, this is an issue, how much the way, you know, how much everything needs to be catered into just essentially covering the needs of each and every person.

00:44:07.140 I think that they need to look at certain industries because, you know, with lots of competition, it breeds innovation.

00:44:13.960 And I feel like the market for them is, you know, shipping and sea travel rather than air and land.

00:44:21.600 I think they're best suited by the way in which they have been made to travel by those means rather than other ones.

00:44:31.280 Exactly. So I think that this is a this is a very interesting debate in lawfare.

00:44:36.440 And actually, I think that Trump has a lot of work to do because wokeness doesn't end and all this, you know, silliness doesn't end.

00:44:46.640 It's also an issue in the States. And this is going to continue.

00:44:50.620 The ever devouring issue of wokeness.

00:44:52.680 Ever devouring. And let's say ever it's a wokeness is something whose hunger can be satiated.

00:45:00.260 It does have an insatiable appetite for the consumption of all in its view.

00:45:05.620 Exactly. And I will say this because a lot of people are saying this.

00:45:09.360 I've started being pessimistic about the about wokeness being going away, especially in the US.

00:45:15.680 I think it is it is here to stay. It will come back with a vengeance.

00:45:19.380 And the argument is, on the one hand, that they're embarrassing and they're the Democrats need the Bernie bros who are going to highlight the economic issues and go back to a kind of social democracy or a bit more heavy on the traditional working class.

00:45:38.480 But I think that nothing stops them from doing both.

00:45:42.680 That's true. They can make the same mistake again.

00:45:45.440 Yeah. So I think that cases like that, they are going to magnify and amplify.

00:45:50.840 They're going to get bigger.

00:45:52.320 Exactly. They're going to be bigger in the same way that Michigan can be destroyed and Detroit can be destroyed. 0.83

00:45:59.380 It will happen to other US states.

00:46:03.700 So what I get the did she personally get the auto manufacturing out of Detroit?

00:46:08.080 Was that her?

00:46:09.480 Yeah. So I think that people need to be very vigilant and see silly cases of the sort. 0.73

00:46:15.140 And bear in mind that it's never over.

00:46:18.880 People need to people need to remember that what wokeness is just a way of creating artificial divisions and trying to give arbitrary power to those who are entrusted to enforce those divisions.

00:46:32.780 And it's kind of it's kind of silly, but I don't think it's going to go away.

00:46:38.260 But also people shouldn't be mean.

00:46:39.980 I think people should take a short stand for their gentle rights to exercise, their ability to be fat.

00:46:50.660 Right. So Dragon Lady Chris. Hello. 0.98

00:46:53.580 She says lift, XL lift, forklift.

00:46:58.840 Neon Realist, all jokes aside, the driver wasn't being mean.

00:47:02.440 He had a small car.

00:47:03.900 She clearly didn't fit in and even empty. 0.95

00:47:06.360 The car was a few inches off the ground.

00:47:08.440 Had she gotten in, I suspect the car would bottom out. 0.88

00:47:13.060 Yeah, but she said she could fit. 0.99

00:47:15.680 Neon Realist, she said she could fit. 0.86

00:47:18.660 Right.

00:47:19.040 Wesley, 1924.

00:47:20.640 The lift driver would have had an easier time parking his car up her backside rather than have her squeeze into the back seat. 1.00

00:47:30.120 That's mean. That's mean.

00:47:31.520 Sigil Stone, 17.

00:47:33.160 Obi-Wan Kenobi quoted as saying, 1.00

00:47:36.000 That's no moon, it's a fat ass. 1.00

00:47:38.440 Right. 1.00

00:47:40.260 And that's a random name.

00:47:41.600 Pay attention during the entire video.

00:47:43.860 She's standing still and panting.

00:47:45.900 Also, her speaking in ebonics makes her fit the Jabba the Hat aesthetic even more.

00:47:51.600 LMAO.

00:47:52.640 She just wants to find Han Solo.

00:47:54.540 I had some memes, but I ended up not putting the meme in.

00:47:58.680 Not putting the meme.

00:47:59.760 It's YouTube's rules for us, eh?

00:48:01.600 Yes.

00:48:02.040 And one of them was Jabba the Hat calling a taxi.

00:48:06.480 Hear me out.

00:48:07.520 I can fit in.

00:48:08.680 You know, right.

00:48:10.040 Bobobad, Dejour Landing, was landing Di Gournos at her record rise.

00:48:16.400 I wonder how long it takes to make a rap song when she's winded after one sentence. 0.83

00:48:24.240 Yeah.

00:48:25.060 Yeah.

00:48:26.120 And GLE777.

00:48:28.360 If she took the lift, the cables would snap.

00:48:34.300 Binary Surfer. 1.00

00:48:35.260 You know you're screwed when you're so fat you start panting. 1.00

00:48:40.220 G. 1.00

00:48:42.260 Still talking with a driver.

00:48:45.360 Also, that multi-million dollar suit will only keep her in KFC for a week. 1.00

00:48:50.520 That's true.

00:48:51.380 How many KFC buckets is she going to buy with that? 1.00

00:48:54.240 Neon Realist.

00:48:55.460 Wade could be a protected class in Michigan, but the laws of physics don't cease to exist

00:49:00.080 because leftist laws are passed.

00:49:02.480 Her mask would bottom out the car to the ground, even if she could fit.

00:49:07.180 Bill Murray, Dana Croyd, and Emmy Hudson are on their way to stop her

00:49:11.180 after she stepped on a church in their town.

00:49:14.960 Bobobad, the real friends were really unliftable all along.

00:49:18.680 And of course, she was going to a Detroit Lions watch party.

00:49:22.820 In Gold Eagle 1787, Wade is not a protected class.

00:49:27.140 There are several cases in the U.S. that deem Wade as a public safety risk

00:49:31.040 when it comes to methods of transportation, which can deny service because of weight.

00:49:37.500 Bobobad, I can't believe USAID used DeJour to cause food shortages in Africa and South America.

00:49:44.700 And Conor's Smug Mug, I roll with Fat Kelly.

00:49:48.000 That's how we roll.

00:49:52.080 Right.

00:49:54.380 You might say, how do I follow that last segment?

00:49:56.920 But I'm gonna.

00:49:59.400 Music to my ears.

00:50:01.420 So I've noticed since the turn of 2025 that some of the news has been strange,

00:50:06.480 stranger than usual.

00:50:07.400 And I'm gonna go through some of it as a, you know, a nice light-hearted start to February of 2025.

00:50:14.220 So I'm starting off with this.

00:50:16.800 The Belgian government advised Belgians not to eat their Christmas trees.

00:50:21.100 This is tyranny.

00:50:22.100 The tyranny of Brussels.

00:50:24.560 Brexit, you know, rescued us from this oppression.

00:50:27.600 But apparently, the city of Ghent in Belgium urged its citizens to make spruce-needle butter.

00:50:34.520 However, Christmas trees are often treated with pesticides and, don't laugh at this word, Stelios,

00:50:40.520 fire retardants. 1.00

00:50:44.540 That means that it prevents fire, okay?

00:50:47.100 Which, if you consume them, are cancer-causing and hormone-disrupting.

00:50:53.460 So yes, they're actually saying, despite what the city said, you should not eat your Christmas tree.

00:51:01.040 No.

00:51:01.560 This makes me ultra-libertarian once again.

00:51:04.660 Because a man's liberty is a man's right to eat one's tree. 0.99

00:51:07.880 If I want to consume pesticides and fire retardants. 1.00

00:51:10.980 I want to eat my tree.

00:51:13.760 Is that what happens in Greece?

00:51:15.520 No.

00:51:15.760 Well, I want to...

00:51:17.560 You want to be the man to start it.

00:51:19.160 Yeah.

00:51:20.360 It's a better principle.

00:51:22.300 But if you're feeling hungry and, say, you go on holiday from Belgium to North Korea for some reason,

00:51:29.140 well, I've got some bad news for you.

00:51:31.360 Because apparently, it is now treasonous to serve hot dogs.

00:51:37.200 Apparently, if you're caught cooking or selling hot dogs,

00:51:41.000 you can be arrested and sentenced to hard labour in North Korea.

00:51:44.180 Because, of course, it's unrevolutionary to eat hot dogs.

00:51:48.980 This makes no sense.

00:51:50.040 Why?

00:51:50.980 Because they're American.

00:51:52.420 Yeah.

00:51:53.260 Also wearing blue jeans is also considered to be counter-revolutionary.

00:51:59.380 That's economic protectionism to a whole new level.

00:52:02.100 So, yes, if you wanted some Resprite, you can't eat your tree.

00:52:07.140 Well, you can't eat hot dogs anymore either.

00:52:09.100 I know, it's political correctness gone mad.

00:52:11.940 And say you want to go to somewhere to buy some furniture.

00:52:16.600 Take your mind off of the fact that you can't eat these, you know, your Christmas tree or a hot dog.

00:52:21.360 Well, you need to watch out.

00:52:23.880 You can't roll up with your tank because, apparently, a dozen or so anti-tank mines ended up in Ikea.

00:52:32.480 Which, you wonder, how does this happen?

00:52:35.240 That would be cool, though, to have a tank and just drive around.

00:52:39.600 Do you know that tanks in Britain are actually road legal?

00:52:42.140 You can take a tank on the roads in Britain fine.

00:52:44.460 In fact, tank ownership is just as legal as a regular road car.

00:52:50.100 Okay.

00:52:50.400 So, yeah, you know, they may have taken our firearms, but we can still have our tanks.

00:52:55.360 The Greens have anti-tank mines because they say they pollute too much.

00:53:00.900 Yeah, it's in there to appeal to the eco-audience that are just tired of all of these British tank owners.

00:53:06.820 So, apparently, they were in Poland.

00:53:12.340 There was a cargo shipping of mines that was, I think, destined for Ukraine.

00:53:16.560 And they were being transported by rail near to the border of Belarus.

00:53:22.260 And then they were in an ammunition depot.

00:53:25.860 Ammunition, even.

00:53:27.520 I don't know why I said it like that.

00:53:28.560 I'm saying it like I'm foreign now. 0.62

00:53:30.360 And they were offloaded and then they went to the wrong warehouse, which happened to come under the control of Ikea.

00:53:38.460 And so, Ikea apparently contacted the people who shipped them and asked them,

00:53:43.860 when are you going to collect all of your mines?

00:53:46.240 And so, for a few days, Ikea was in possession of lots and lots of anti-tank mines.

00:53:53.780 So, there you go.

00:53:55.140 If you use the bomb yourself.

00:53:56.540 But you might be concerned, okay, well, you know, these anti-tank mines could have, you know,

00:54:03.380 been taken up by terrorists and caused an act of terror.

00:54:06.600 Well, you might take some solace cowering in your bedroom, but be wary.

00:54:12.120 Because, apparently, the UK government has issued a cyber-attack warning

00:54:17.800 as, apparently, sex toys could be weaponized by hackers, which I didn't know was even possible.

00:54:23.740 Apparently, and I'm going to read directly from this.

00:54:27.020 A report commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology,

00:54:30.080 so a government report.

00:54:31.140 This is obviously very important stuff to the British people.

00:54:34.340 Well-spent taxes.

00:54:35.780 Has raised fears over the potential for cybercriminals to bypass security on app-controlled vibrators

00:54:41.540 and alter their intensity.

00:54:44.060 Take them to epic mode.

00:54:45.680 So, what are these cyber attackers going to do, exactly?

00:54:52.120 No, that setting's too high.

00:54:54.000 I'm slightly uncomfortable now.

00:54:56.680 The report found the connection between sex toys and smartphones are often not encrypted,

00:55:00.580 making them vulnerable to cyberattacks.

00:55:02.560 It also found apps used to control sex toys often store sensitive information on third-party servers,

00:55:08.080 which are also vulnerable to hacking,

00:55:10.060 which is just another reason not to be a degenerate, isn't it?

00:55:12.580 Yeah, you need the Republican congressman who will appear out of nowhere and say...

00:55:19.320 Slap it out of your hand and say,

00:55:20.860 the Chinese are going to get your data if you use... 0.99

00:55:23.580 Stop using that vibrator. 0.97

00:55:25.580 Protect the Republic.

00:55:27.060 That's both immoral and insecure.

00:55:30.180 Shut them down.

00:55:31.640 So, you think, okay, so maybe I should go outside.

00:55:36.040 My home is not safe.

00:55:37.380 Ikea's not safe. 0.99

00:55:39.320 Maybe I should just go for a walk.

00:55:41.280 And if you're in Florida, this might not be a good idea,

00:55:44.340 because around this time of year, apparently, when things start freezing,

00:55:49.540 you have to watch out for falling iguanas,

00:55:53.560 as apparently, and this is a direct quote from the article,

00:55:57.320 cold-blooded animals live in high trees throughout Florida,

00:56:00.160 but aren't used to cold temperatures, meaning they just drop from the trees.

00:56:04.480 And here is a sort of screenshot of one falling.

00:56:09.160 I don't really want to show it, because I hope it doesn't get hurt.

00:56:12.480 But yes, yeah.

00:56:13.940 That's an iguana-fail compilation.

00:56:16.460 I don't know if it's a full compilation.

00:56:18.680 I hope they're out there somewhere.

00:56:20.540 But yeah, apparently, if you're walking underneath trees in Florida when it's cold,

00:56:24.120 you could be hit by a rogue reptile.

00:56:26.660 It's a cold town.

00:56:28.220 I knew you'd like that one.

00:56:29.120 I put that in there just for you.

00:56:32.760 And in animal-related news, apparently, Colorado has ruled that elephants at a zoo

00:56:39.000 cannot pursue their release because they're not human.

00:56:41.600 Yeah, but elephant rights are human rights. 0.67

00:56:43.960 I know, we just covered that in your last segment, didn't we?

00:56:48.220 So apparently, the case...

00:56:49.360 That was whale rights. 0.92

00:56:50.380 That's true.

00:56:51.120 The case was brought by animal rights groups, and apparently, the Colorado Supreme Court

00:56:57.360 ruled on Tuesday that they can't have the legal right to pursue their release because

00:57:01.400 they are not human.

00:57:02.580 The court said the decision does not turn on our regard for these majestic animals.

00:57:07.360 Instead, the legal question here boils down to whether an elephant is a person, the court

00:57:11.500 said, and because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have the standing

00:57:16.520 to bring a habeas corpus claim.

00:57:21.120 No, I want to go for elephant visibility.

00:57:26.080 Yeah, you want more elephants just to roundabout?

00:57:28.500 Yeah.

00:57:29.800 Do you know in Zimbabwe...

00:57:31.220 They can destroy things.

00:57:32.080 Zimbabwe, they're killing them to eat them because they're running out of food.

00:57:35.540 I wonder why that happened.

00:57:38.700 Also, a new kind of fungus has been discovered, named after David Attenborough, which turns cave

00:57:45.800 spiders into zombies and makes them climb up to the top of a cave roof. 0.75

00:57:53.280 A zombie climbs on the top of the roof.

00:57:55.580 Yeah, the fungus controlling it directs the spider, and then it infects other spiders through

00:58:01.840 that.

00:58:02.220 And apparently, the first one was actually found in a castle.

00:58:05.340 The first specimen named to science.

00:58:07.180 And it was discovered when the BBC was making a documentary.

00:58:10.060 So, there you go.

00:58:11.860 A zombie spider.

00:58:13.180 Yes.

00:58:15.360 The parallels between David Attenborough's sort of eco-activism making lots of just-up-oil

00:58:21.980 zombies and the zombie spiders.

00:58:24.860 There's a certain palpability to that.

00:58:28.100 And the final bit of animal news is a new bug was discovered.

00:58:32.620 Where do you think this bug was discovered, Stelios?

00:58:35.780 I don't know.

00:58:36.100 First of all, it just looks like a weird arthropod.

00:58:40.280 It does look like one of those.

00:58:41.540 It doesn't look like Darth Vader at all.

00:58:43.820 Yeah, I find them unbelievably cringe.

00:58:45.900 But what does it have to do with Darth Vader?

00:58:49.780 Well, it's been named after Darth Vader.

00:58:53.080 It's called Bethonomous Vader-y, after Darth Vader, because of the shape of its head.

00:58:58.220 Apparently, it looks like Darth Vader's helmet.

00:58:59.920 Actually, I don't know.

00:59:01.260 It reminds me of the other people in the room where Darth Vader entered in order to seek

00:59:08.280 counsel to Darth Sidious in A New Hope.

00:59:11.220 They had some huge helmets.

00:59:13.440 Oh, like the clones?

00:59:14.380 Yeah.

00:59:15.580 Yeah, well.

00:59:16.360 The clones.

00:59:16.740 It doesn't matter.

00:59:17.720 But anyway, it was found in a Vietnamese wet market.

00:59:22.800 I'm going to look the other way.

00:59:24.700 People were eating these.

00:59:26.060 That's how they found them.

00:59:27.060 And people were just like, yeah, what is this strange creature unknown to science?

00:59:31.000 Let's just eat that thing.

00:59:33.100 And apparently, it tastes like lobster.

00:59:35.620 So that actually sounds quite nice.

00:59:37.260 Actually, lobster tastes good.

00:59:38.580 I really like lobster, yeah.

00:59:40.280 And so they look like giant sea lice, don't they?

00:59:43.980 That's what they look like to me.

00:59:45.340 But yeah, the fact that they found a new species in a food market, well, of course it's going

00:59:52.420 to be in Asia, let's be honest.

00:59:54.000 They eat anything over there.

00:59:55.780 And okay, I lied.

00:59:57.980 There is one more bit of animal news.

00:59:59.860 So apparently, the British Navy here, and it's been an embarrassing month for Britain more

01:00:05.360 generally.

01:00:05.720 One would have to wonder how accurate our detection systems are if you can mistake a whale for

01:00:25.100 a drone.

01:00:26.120 Well, Josh, I think you're a bit too, you're a bit unfair because you don't know if something

01:00:34.460 has changed in the whale's diet and people aren't that knowledgeable of it yet.

01:00:40.900 It just makes sense.

01:00:43.920 Maybe something in the diet of whales changed.

01:00:47.060 We need to look into that.

01:00:49.400 We only learn it now.

01:00:50.620 That's true.

01:00:51.220 They could be eating something else.

01:00:52.760 Who knows?

01:00:54.060 But one other thing that I thought was amusing was this.

01:00:58.100 Apparently, the UK has sentenced the first person ever for cyber farting.

01:01:05.900 Apparently, a lady was harassing, I think it was the ex of our current boyfriend or something. 1.00

01:01:15.460 I don't know.

01:01:16.060 Some sort of lover's dispute.

01:01:18.520 And this 25-year-old woman sent four videos of her farting, which is deemed cyber harassment

01:01:24.200 by magistrates.

01:01:25.140 And she had to go through a 12-month community order, which required her to pay £100 in compensation,

01:01:32.400 £199 in costs, along with a two-year restraining order, which is a very expensive fart.

01:01:38.300 Right.

01:01:38.640 So he had some outputs.

01:01:41.100 It was a woman. 0.60

01:01:41.820 So she had outputs, and someone filmed her video to creators.

01:01:48.760 She filmed herself and sent it as like a taunt to this person.

01:01:54.340 Imagine that.

01:01:55.220 You're trying to get back at someone.

01:01:56.480 Like a bully or something.

01:01:58.080 You know, this is what's going to happen to you unless you comply in your face.

01:02:03.140 I don't know if it was a threat.

01:02:05.980 She just sent...

01:02:06.780 I don't know what possesses someone to do this, but yes, Britain's been very embarrassed

01:02:11.760 this month.

01:02:12.340 Everything that's coming out of Britain is very shameful.

01:02:16.620 But it's a lot better than living in Paris, because Callum points out this.

01:02:21.600 This is from the Pakistani embassy.

01:02:23.920 This is Paris.

01:02:24.620 We're coming today.

01:02:26.580 Which, this was to do with resuming flights between Islamabad and Paris on the 10th of January.

01:02:33.440 However, it takes on a bit of a different look, doesn't it?

01:02:37.320 But Americans in the audience, I'm sure, can point out how this looks, particularly around

01:02:44.240 September.

01:02:45.880 So it looks like Pakistan's threatening to blow up the Eiffel Tower, if you didn't get it, 1.00

01:02:51.960 if you're stupid. 1.00

01:02:54.720 There's also this. 1.00

01:02:56.000 Apparently, astronomers were worried about there being a newly discovered asteroid that

01:03:02.520 was in Earth's orbit, and they thought, oh no, this could cause some potential damage.

01:03:06.760 Well, it turns out it's actually Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster that he launched into space.

01:03:13.820 Yeah.

01:03:14.220 So Elon is trolling people, even after the fact.

01:03:19.560 And speaking of, oh, that's not a meteorite strike.

01:03:26.060 There should be a video here of a meteor striking a Canadian home, and it lands right on their

01:03:33.580 doorstep.

01:03:34.160 Hang on.

01:03:35.080 Let's see if I can refresh it, and it'll come up, because it's worth seeing.

01:03:39.020 How small a meteor was this?

01:03:41.860 This is not a meteor.

01:03:42.940 You've got mail.

01:03:44.460 I was an advocate for...

01:03:45.920 No, that...

01:03:46.560 This looks like Australian news to me.

01:03:49.540 West Sydney Road.

01:03:51.040 Well, I'm sorry, but apparently this news outlet has changed their video, so you can't see it.

01:03:58.400 But there would have been a fun video here of a meteor hitting a Canadian doorstep, but...

01:04:04.000 What happened to the door?

01:04:06.220 Nothing.

01:04:07.220 It started fizzing.

01:04:08.620 There was lots of smoke.

01:04:10.440 But imagine that you walk home, and there's just a meteor on your doorstep.

01:04:13.940 But anyway...

01:04:14.560 I'd like to see if there's any kind of message.

01:04:16.360 Crack it open.

01:04:18.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:04:20.040 Message in an egg.

01:04:22.440 Okay, well, that's disappointing.

01:04:24.880 Well, another thing that's disappointing is this.

01:04:27.080 Apparently, New York had their first five days in a row of no shootings, and then five minutes

01:04:36.320 after it was announced, there were two shootings.

01:04:40.440 So that was the longest streak of no shootings in 30 years, and it only took five minutes for

01:04:47.040 it to end after it was announced, which is a shame.

01:04:49.240 But on a similar note, law enforcement...

01:04:54.300 Are they happy now that they caused this with their...

01:04:57.160 Shooting ways.

01:04:58.320 ...segment?

01:05:00.160 If they said nothing about it, these shots wouldn't have been fired.

01:05:04.660 Exactly.

01:05:05.560 The police are a direct cause of it.

01:05:08.780 Here we have another one.

01:05:10.600 So Police Officers Union says,

01:05:12.360 Man who posted a video of HMPD, I think that's Houston, so it's in Texas, unit, doing donuts

01:05:19.100 was snitching.

01:05:21.340 And I think the video is somewhere.

01:05:24.600 Ah, here we go.

01:05:26.800 Cops eating donuts.

01:05:28.800 I mean, I can't blame them.

01:05:30.960 Well, cops...

01:05:31.960 Oh, for goodness sake, they've got announcers.

01:05:33.940 Just play the video.

01:05:35.420 But basically, they were just doing donuts in the snow, and then someone snitched on them,

01:05:39.640 and the police called them out for it, saying you're a snitch.

01:05:42.100 And, you know, there's a phrase that I had, and many others, actually, not just me,

01:05:47.040 it was pretty well known, that if you snitched when I was in school,

01:05:50.820 people would say snitches get stitches, you know. 1.00

01:05:53.980 And rightfully so.

01:05:55.180 No one likes to snitch.

01:05:55.880 Let them enjoy their donut.

01:05:57.940 Exactly.

01:05:59.580 So, Chinese are also having problems with their police force.

01:06:04.680 Their first police corgi lost their end-of-year bonus.

01:06:09.380 Apparently, they were sleeping on the job.

01:06:12.100 And they also peed in their food bowl.

01:06:14.240 And having donuts.

01:06:15.620 They didn't.

01:06:16.360 They shouldn't.

01:06:17.240 There were no donuts involved.

01:06:18.760 Okay.

01:06:19.540 But apparently, some of their toys were confiscated after bad behavior.

01:06:25.640 But look at that little guy.

01:06:27.160 Look at him.

01:06:28.560 That police corgi.

01:06:29.980 Yeah.

01:06:30.220 I think they're a bomb dog.

01:06:32.060 It's an issue of inflation.

01:06:33.900 That's why he didn't get the bonus.

01:06:36.800 Yeah.

01:06:36.900 The Chinese have printed too much money. 0.87

01:06:38.400 That's it.

01:06:40.100 But yes.

01:06:40.940 People in food bowl.

01:06:41.800 No.

01:06:42.140 No.

01:06:42.620 Actually, they should discipline this dog.

01:06:44.880 That's a dirty habit, isn't it?

01:06:46.140 Yeah.

01:06:46.520 You don't pee where you eat.

01:06:47.760 Mm-hmm.

01:06:48.500 Just don't do this.

01:06:49.800 Speaking of dogs in China, who wants to see... 0.90

01:06:54.800 This is a Chinese zoo that unveiled its new tiger exhibit.

01:07:01.840 And of course, these tigers look a little bit old on the small side.

01:07:05.860 Like a tiger zebra.

01:07:08.780 And also, those fences, I don't know.

01:07:11.100 These dangerous animals need to be kept in specialist facilities, really.

01:07:14.440 Look at them.

01:07:15.720 Bloodthirsty animals, both.

01:07:17.780 And of course, this is the same zoo that is known for...

01:07:22.040 There should be a video somewhere.

01:07:24.520 Oh.

01:07:25.840 What is going on?

01:07:26.900 All of the videos are disappearing.

01:07:28.300 Is that the video with Steve Irwin?

01:07:29.640 No.

01:07:30.040 It was meant to be a video because they had the pandas that were just dogs.

01:07:35.000 I hate these websites.

01:07:36.640 The dog pandas. 0.92

01:07:38.120 Yeah.

01:07:38.460 What's actually doing...

01:07:39.300 Is there a cross...

01:07:40.060 They're painting...

01:07:40.620 They're painting...

01:07:41.540 They're painting the dogs.

01:07:44.520 They're painting the dogs.

01:07:46.220 I know.

01:07:46.660 It's better than eating them.

01:07:47.880 It's true.

01:07:48.500 They're not Haitians. 1.00

01:07:50.400 Actually.

01:07:52.340 Stalios, it's China. 1.00

01:07:53.860 They are eating the dogs.

01:07:55.540 Oh, dear.

01:07:57.280 Took it on a low note there.

01:08:00.040 But we're not done with China yet because obviously lots of weirdness goes on.

01:08:03.560 And apparently, if you like going on your phone when you go to the toilet, in China, that is not allowed.

01:08:09.580 Apparently, they've been taking too long.

01:08:11.460 So what's been going on?

01:08:13.160 A Chinese company has been taking pictures of people on the toilet and shaming them by leaving their pictures up in the bathroom.

01:08:18.940 Apparently, a Chinese company in Shenzhen has received massive criticism after it took extreme measures to punish employees for spending too long in the restroom.

01:08:27.920 Li Zheng Daisheng in southern China's Guangdong province resorted to photographing employees using the toilet and subsequently posting the pictures on the restroom wall.

01:08:38.200 So...

01:08:38.500 That's not nice.

01:08:39.560 That's horrible, isn't it?

01:08:40.460 Yeah.

01:08:40.820 Just zero privacy.

01:08:42.620 Look at these people.

01:08:43.620 They look as if they're sitting on...

01:08:46.380 A hole.

01:08:47.240 Yeah.

01:08:47.540 They don't have proper toilets, do they, a lot of the time?

01:08:49.440 Apparently, they were smoking and playing mobile games.

01:08:52.220 Also, if it's just a hole in the ground, it's not like you're sat on something.

01:08:55.660 So you're just squatting there.

01:08:57.180 So you shouldn't be doing that anyway.

01:08:58.500 But it's still gross that the company was doing that.

01:09:01.880 And then, what do you think my final story is, Stelios?

01:09:06.320 Something about New Zealand.

01:09:08.100 That's true.

01:09:08.740 You can see the tab, yes.

01:09:10.080 Yeah.

01:09:10.300 So that's the only thing.

01:09:12.440 Say, you're a fan of mountains, right?

01:09:15.200 Yeah, of course.

01:09:16.260 Of course I'm a fan of mountains.

01:09:17.920 I know.

01:09:18.320 You're Greek.

01:09:18.940 You love a mountain.

01:09:19.860 Yeah.

01:09:20.440 So mountains, you think that maybe they add a bit of character to a place?

01:09:25.620 Maybe they...

01:09:27.140 Depends.

01:09:27.360 They can.

01:09:27.920 Yeah.

01:09:28.240 They have a feeling, an essence, a sort of...

01:09:31.080 Character about them.

01:09:32.440 They need to be well behaved, though.

01:09:34.360 That's true.

01:09:35.040 You don't want misbehaving mountains.

01:09:36.340 Yeah.

01:09:36.720 Because actually, they give a bad name to countries if they're not nice.

01:09:43.040 They start erupting, maybe.

01:09:44.840 Yeah.

01:09:45.360 So the final thing I wanted to touch on, the weird stories of the month, is that this sacred

01:09:51.200 mountain, Mount Taranaki, was granted personhood in a new law.

01:09:57.280 So this mountain is now legally a person in New Zealand.

01:10:02.560 Does it look like a person to you?

01:10:04.660 I think so, yeah.

01:10:05.940 Okay.

01:10:06.880 I think I could communicate with it.

01:10:13.380 Do you speak mountain, do you?

01:10:15.040 Yeah, I do speak mountain.

01:10:15.860 What does it sound like?

01:10:16.600 Give us a rough idea.

01:10:17.680 It actually sounds a lot like Dutch.

01:10:25.120 Lots of kh. 0.92

01:10:26.320 Yeah.

01:10:27.000 Okay.

01:10:27.420 I never would have guessed that.

01:10:28.640 But apparently, because it's viewed as an ancestor in the Maori language, even though...

01:10:35.680 Didn't they only get there in the 14th century?

01:10:38.560 So they...

01:10:39.000 I think so.

01:10:40.020 They've got provable evidence that they're not born of a mountain.

01:10:42.540 So, yes, because it's part of their indigenous view that they are born of this mountain, it's

01:10:51.320 been legally recognized as a person and holds the same rights as a person.

01:10:58.680 So apparently, you can't climb...

01:11:00.600 If you climb the mountain, you've got to ask it for consent first now, which is strange.

01:11:06.160 But apparently, they've ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before

01:11:11.440 as well.

01:11:11.880 So...

01:11:12.400 Taranaki manga rights are human rights.

01:11:16.640 We need to hear more about this, don't we?

01:11:18.500 Mountain rights.

01:11:19.800 But that's it.

01:11:20.740 That is the start of the news for the year.

01:11:24.440 It's been very weird.

01:11:25.500 I don't know what people have been doing.

01:11:28.120 But yes, there's probably a lot more to come.

01:11:30.680 I'm keeping my eye out on the monkey news, personally.

01:11:33.100 That's my favorite kind of news.

01:11:34.720 But yes, you're welcome, I suppose.

01:11:38.440 Got a bunch of rumble rants before we go to the video comments.

01:11:41.880 In XO says, Eddie the Beast Hall, former world's strongest man, has a tank and frequently

01:11:47.200 uses it to go shopping.

01:11:48.840 Eddie Hall's a bit of a legend, isn't he?

01:11:50.220 OPH UK, I went to IKEA, came home with an intercontinental ballistic missile, again.

01:11:58.940 I know, it's easily done, isn't it?

01:12:01.080 It's the naming conventions.

01:12:02.700 You know, it'll be a table and it'll be called, like, Plop or something.

01:12:05.940 Because it's all Swedish.

01:12:07.320 Connor Smug Mug says, there is a Chinese Otomi game that tracks women's menstrual cycles.

01:12:14.020 Xi Jinping wants to know your period.

01:12:16.920 Yeah, well, to be fair, knowing when to avoid women when it's that time of the month, that's 1.00

01:12:22.820 quite the power.

01:12:25.700 Bobabad says, I don't want the Chinese threatening me with Nancy Pelosi's or her husband's toy 0.96

01:12:30.460 settings, and I really don't want to get a cryptic message from Beijing saying, offshore

01:12:34.580 drilling.

01:12:37.100 Dragon Lady Chris says, speaking of weird news of the UK Navy, is it true that King ordered

01:12:42.080 the renaming of HMS Agincourt to avoid offending the French?

01:12:45.820 Does he actually have authority to do that?

01:12:49.980 Yeah, I think it was, what was it called instead?

01:12:52.720 It was called something else.

01:12:53.620 I didn't know it was the King that did it, but I know that it has been renamed.

01:12:57.700 It was also renamed to something else that was equally as offensive.

01:13:07.200 Oh yeah, King involved in Woke Name Change.

01:13:11.080 It's now the HMS Achilles.

01:13:13.240 Okay.

01:13:14.480 So, apparently it's just got one weakness that if you hit it, will kill it instantly.

01:13:21.400 So, what you want out of your nuclear submarine, or whatever it is, is name it after something

01:13:31.220 that's famous for having a weakness.

01:13:33.760 Yeah, that was one.

01:13:34.520 Just one, though.

01:13:35.560 Just one?

01:13:36.120 Because everyone else had weaknesses.

01:13:37.840 They were full of them.

01:13:39.560 Yeah.

01:13:39.920 Achilles is a good one.

01:13:41.520 I mean, he's weak to swords, arrows.

01:13:44.180 Yeah, only on his foot.

01:13:46.040 The submarine doesn't have a foot, so it doesn't have a weakness.

01:13:49.060 I like your thinking, Stelios.

01:13:52.020 It's immune to damage now.

01:13:53.680 It's name change.

01:13:56.840 Right, let's have a look at the video comments.

01:13:58.600 Reveal its true essence.

01:14:01.960 Remove safety clip.

01:14:04.380 It's a bit quiet.

01:14:05.520 Don't look at my feet!

01:14:07.020 Fire?

01:14:08.400 Fire?

01:14:10.200 No?

01:14:10.640 Aim nozzle at base of fire.

01:14:20.740 That is typical.

01:14:24.320 Why has it done that?

01:14:31.680 Yeah, I mean, Labour just does everything that we know is wrong.

01:14:35.760 Everything.

01:14:36.340 Just as if they have a playbook.

01:14:37.660 It's almost like their entire ideology is just an inversion of our actual belief systems.

01:14:44.540 Yeah.

01:14:44.880 Almost like some sort of weird psychological operation.

01:14:48.020 It'd be terrible if that were true, wouldn't it?

01:14:50.280 Right, let's go to the next one by Steve H.

01:14:53.220 Carl, I'm actually a AAA and film 3D artist, and I'm actually pretty optimistic around Astartes.

01:14:57.400 What I think is going on here is since the moment they poached him,

01:14:59.660 Pedersen and his corporate sponsors have been trying to get Astartes 2 greenlit,

01:15:02.740 and they sort of gave him the secret level project as a test.

01:15:05.000 I think that the whole secret level short was just dripping with those influences.

01:15:08.160 I think after its tremendous success,

01:15:09.900 they were finally able to win over upstairs and get the project greenlit,

01:15:12.780 which is why the trailer for Astartes 2 dropped immediately afterwards,

01:15:15.900 which is actually really good.

01:15:17.320 They're willing to put Pedersen's old work as the face of the brand and trust it.

01:15:21.280 That's huge, man.

01:15:22.160 For once, I actually have faith.

01:15:23.460 The Emperor protects.

01:15:24.400 I didn't understand, but I always enjoy watching you work on cars.

01:15:33.100 I'm sure Carl will find out about this, though.

01:15:35.600 We do have a quick comment here.

01:15:38.120 Keel sounds like heel.

01:15:39.300 The ship has a weakness.

01:15:40.920 There we go.

01:15:42.140 Sigil Stone, thank you.

01:15:44.220 All right, let's go to the next one.

01:15:45.180 I've recently seen a lot of memes about the French Revolution popping up in leftist spaces,

01:15:48.620 and it's made me wonder why they venerate the persecution of women and minorities.

01:15:51.620 Then I realised, they claim it's working class praxis,

01:15:54.000 and that made me realise how they fetishise the working class as a human shield for evil. 0.69

01:15:57.700 After all, no matter how you feel about gays and black people, 0.95

01:16:00.240 or how many children you execute, 0.97

01:16:01.920 or how much violence you instigate,

01:16:03.500 it's justified because consequentialism in pursuit of utopian ideals.

01:16:06.860 It's why they get so very angry when the working class and minorities 1.00

01:16:09.840 are shown to disagree with them in aggregate.

01:16:11.320 Their human shield has abandoned them,

01:16:13.060 and all that's left is the undeniable reality that they are evil.

01:16:18.220 Hear, hear.

01:16:19.180 Yep.

01:16:20.760 Let's go to the next one.

01:16:22.420 So one feature about my game I particularly like

01:16:24.840 is that I've tried to make it as realistic as possible.

01:16:27.380 Apologies, Samson, we can't hear.

01:16:29.120 Could you?

01:16:30.040 There we go.

01:16:30.340 Could you restart it, please?

01:16:31.260 It means you can actually work backwards to determine what some of your stats would be.

01:16:34.540 So one feature about my game I particularly like

01:16:37.020 is that I've tried to make it as realistic as possible.

01:16:39.380 I've actually based the stats on real-world metrics,

01:16:42.420 which means you can actually work backwards to determine what some of your stats would be.

01:16:46.480 For example, in episode 1084, Ogopogo776 said they achieved an IQ score of 120.

01:16:53.340 Assuming they're male, that would mean he has a wisdom score of 20,

01:16:56.480 and would be at minimum level 5.

01:16:58.700 I'd love to know what the stats of the Lotus Eaters would be.

01:17:00.960 I don't know my IQ, and I kind of want to keep it that way.

01:17:06.620 But I do like a game that respects its stats.

01:17:09.600 I think that having organic stats and also basing it off of something.

01:17:14.320 Like, I always like it when you're playing like an RPG or something,

01:17:18.380 and rather than you just picking what you want to play as,

01:17:22.880 you just answer questions, and it figures out what you're like,

01:17:26.680 and then it sort of says, here's the character that suits you,

01:17:29.980 but it has to be done well.

01:17:31.320 I think it shouldn't be overdone.

01:17:34.140 Because, for instance, I was a very big Diablo Lord of Destruction fan,

01:17:38.900 and when they put forward Diablo 3,

01:17:43.480 and you went to buy items and stuff,

01:17:45.860 it always told you how each item is going to affect your dexterity,

01:17:49.940 your agility, your strength, and how it's going to affect...

01:17:52.580 And actually, it ended up killing the magic of the previous games,

01:17:58.420 because you were comparing all the...

01:18:00.700 You tried to infer the stats yourself,

01:18:04.100 whereas it actually gave you automatically.

01:18:06.520 It was a bit weird.

01:18:07.700 What I would really like is for games' weapons to all have pros and cons,

01:18:14.260 because they spend all this time making them,

01:18:17.760 and then the idea is you just get rid of most of the weapons

01:18:22.120 until you have the best ones.

01:18:23.680 Whereas I think that it'd be much more interesting to...

01:18:26.600 I'm thinking of games like either Skyrim,

01:18:29.460 where the different kinds of weapon

01:18:31.320 should have different specialisations,

01:18:34.480 but not necessarily just be blanketly better than other things,

01:18:38.680 or like Dark Souls or Elden Ring,

01:18:42.020 whereby you don't upgrade them,

01:18:43.680 you just have things that are better, more all-round,

01:18:47.620 and you get more specialist things.

01:18:48.900 Maybe, I don't know.

01:18:49.820 There are lots of more interesting ways

01:18:51.380 where you can have a variety of gameplay that aren't being done.

01:18:55.060 Let's go to the next one.

01:18:56.580 About a year ago, I was in Taiwan on business

01:18:58.740 and met a former girlfriend who was reading

01:19:00.580 Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel.

01:19:03.180 I commented that I'd heard good things about the book

01:19:05.320 and asked if she was enjoying it.

01:19:07.080 Indeed, she was, and recommended it.

01:19:09.300 Upon returning home, I looked it up,

01:19:11.000 and Amazon had promoted it as part of a trilogy

01:19:13.100 with collapse and upheaval.

01:19:15.340 In the following 30-second book clubs,

01:19:16.980 I'm going to explain why you should read the first two.

01:19:19.720 Unfortunately, the last one reveals Diamond

01:19:21.540 as a confused leftist.

01:19:24.500 Oh, that's so bad.

01:19:28.220 When you start reading someone

01:19:29.660 and then you find out that they are

01:19:32.060 packaging everything in a foreign ideology

01:19:35.760 or in a different ideology, just, yeah.

01:19:37.920 I actually picked up Guns, Germs, and Steel recently

01:19:40.900 along with another book

01:19:42.040 that was endorsed by Henry Kissinger

01:19:44.280 and it had the line that

01:19:45.700 mass migration and multiculturalism

01:19:48.820 are policies that

01:19:50.340 are perfectly designed to invert Western culture

01:19:55.040 and basically entirely orchestrated

01:19:58.700 to erode the foundations of our values,

01:20:02.720 which I thought was very insightful

01:20:04.700 as it was written in the early 2000s.

01:20:07.020 Should we go to read the comments?

01:20:09.400 Sure.

01:20:09.780 There's also another Rumble chat.

01:20:14.080 That's a random name.

01:20:16.000 The real reason Mount Taranaki

01:20:18.100 was given personhood now of all times

01:20:20.580 is because it's actually just a protrusion

01:20:22.620 sticking out of Dajwa's massive gut. 0.77

01:20:25.920 The picture is just really zoomed in.

01:20:30.780 Right.

01:20:31.600 Shall we go to read the comments for you soon?

01:20:33.760 Sure.

01:20:34.240 Well, okay.

01:20:37.080 So, Charles Ellington.

01:20:38.460 Josh, the Patriot Acts 1 and 2

01:20:40.260 completely eliminate the Constitution.

01:20:42.360 Under a national emergency,

01:20:43.720 you can, as the president,

01:20:44.960 unilaterally declare martial law

01:20:46.720 and become essentially a dictator.

01:20:49.100 Woohoo! 1.00

01:20:50.120 That is true.

01:20:51.020 Yeah, the Patriot Acts were 0.71

01:20:52.440 unbelievable that people allowed that to pass.

01:20:55.920 Like, I know America had been attacked

01:20:59.440 and everything, but still.

01:21:01.280 I know there were lots of people at the time

01:21:02.940 that did make a fuss, actually.

01:21:04.540 Baron von Warhawk says,

01:21:05.760 it seems that every time a US department

01:21:08.020 is slashed and their spending habits are revealed,

01:21:10.460 all we get is information

01:21:11.580 on how cartoonishly evil it is.

01:21:13.900 I'm half expecting the National Park Department

01:21:15.780 is going to be related to spending its budget 0.88

01:21:19.260 kicking puppies and selling heroin to nuns. 0.70

01:21:21.580 I'm pretty sure that is going to happen. 0.97

01:21:25.360 They always find the weirdest things to fund.

01:21:28.480 You need to have a really catchy title

01:21:31.460 for your organization to give funding.

01:21:35.260 The Organization for Kicking Puppies

01:21:37.380 unfortunately doesn't cut it.

01:21:40.240 George Hap says,

01:21:41.360 the moving chart of US foreign aid

01:21:42.800 was something to behold.

01:21:44.800 The money to Egypt are likely supporting

01:21:46.920 all the US operations in Africa,

01:21:49.520 like the attacks on Libya.

01:21:50.660 As for, oh, I put that in the reading list

01:21:55.360 and then took it out, actually, that chart

01:21:57.080 because I wasn't able to verify it

01:22:01.040 and I'd seen conflicting information.

01:22:03.840 And so, although it claimed to be sourced by something,

01:22:08.380 I did double check it and I was just like,

01:22:10.600 I'm not sure, maybe it's taken different data

01:22:13.720 at different times,

01:22:14.520 but it was getting close to the deadline,

01:22:17.260 so I took it out.

01:22:17.940 Because I didn't want to misinform you.

01:22:21.520 Someone online says,

01:22:22.640 this is excellent for everyone.

01:22:23.980 Foreign aid actively destroys the local economies,

01:22:26.100 making the population perpetually dependent

01:22:27.800 on the American taxpayer.

01:22:29.520 That's true.

01:22:30.200 Learned helplessness.

01:22:31.560 Michael Brooks says,

01:22:32.520 you guys need to do a segment

01:22:33.580 on the EU and NGO funded colour revolution

01:22:36.460 that was just foiled in Slovakia

01:22:38.140 against FICO,

01:22:39.560 who was shot last year.

01:22:40.740 It was being planned by a Georgian man 0.69

01:22:43.980 working for a Ukrainian agency

01:22:45.960 when he was part of the Maidan in 2014.

01:22:49.040 He has been deported to Ukraine

01:22:50.380 and banned from Slovakia.

01:22:53.440 Yes, some of the things

01:22:55.020 that are going to be uncovered

01:22:55.760 when the EU falls,

01:22:57.180 it's going to be crazy.

01:23:00.340 They're sort of mad with power

01:23:01.860 at the minute, aren't they?

01:23:02.580 They feel like they can do

01:23:03.320 pretty much anything.

01:23:04.740 And they're founded by several,

01:23:06.020 you know, other eastern places.

01:23:11.140 They have now the Qatargate scandal 0.99

01:23:13.540 and they are investigating

01:23:16.080 the role of several NGOs now.

01:23:19.300 Which are undoubtedly implicated.

01:23:22.000 AZ Desert Rat says,

01:23:23.040 what the expletive,

01:23:25.540 why is the US government

01:23:26.480 funding a foreign TV station?

01:23:28.960 Good question.

01:23:29.880 Especially a British one, 1.00

01:23:31.660 which many of us want

01:23:32.420 to get rid of ourselves.

01:23:34.080 Fuzzy Toaster says,

01:23:34.960 can we stop state-based charity

01:23:39.320 internal and external

01:23:40.740 in the US and over here in the UK?

01:23:43.100 I'd only support aid

01:23:44.420 if it were a working fee

01:23:46.000 to stop immigration. 0.69

01:23:47.600 Yes, me too.

01:23:49.160 Right.

01:23:49.480 Arizona Desert Rat,

01:23:50.760 the driver was polite.

01:23:52.060 He suggested that she request

01:23:53.700 a large vehicle instead of a sedan.

01:23:56.060 Makes sense to me.

01:23:58.260 She should have suggested

01:23:59.240 a monster truck or something.

01:24:04.960 For our King Al,

01:24:06.580 the Stelios,

01:24:07.540 is the N and B words

01:24:09.240 nibbler and biscuits.

01:24:11.540 Yeah.

01:24:12.520 How did you know?

01:24:14.420 Yeah.

01:24:14.800 And just listen to more of her tunes

01:24:16.620 to see how much she's going

01:24:18.540 against nibbler and biscuits.

01:24:22.380 Stelios' yellow pillow.

01:24:23.740 The fact that a 500 LB

01:24:26.960 Libris rapper

01:24:28.340 can even...

01:24:29.460 Sorry, did I miss?

01:24:30.880 Pound, yeah.

01:24:32.400 Can even thrive

01:24:33.860 is one hell of an indictment

01:24:35.400 of a modern society.

01:24:36.880 Never mind the laws.

01:24:38.800 Well, she's one of the few rappers 0.95

01:24:40.420 that has earned

01:24:41.160 that big prefix, isn't it?

01:24:43.280 I mean...

01:24:44.100 Big lady. 1.00

01:24:44.960 The video with her on stage,

01:24:47.800 that was priceless.

01:24:49.320 But also,

01:24:49.840 I had so many other memes to show.

01:24:52.820 Stage-shattering performance.

01:24:54.240 Yeah, well,

01:24:54.580 we ended up not playing it,

01:24:55.860 so it's okay.

01:24:56.960 That's the world we live in.

01:24:58.900 Supreme General David Ferugia.

01:25:01.100 It's nice to know

01:25:01.900 where all the food

01:25:02.700 in Ethiopia went.

01:25:06.200 Adam Hack Davis.

01:25:07.540 As a fat person,

01:25:08.740 I can honestly say

01:25:09.780 this body positivity BS

01:25:12.180 is harmful.

01:25:12.940 My fatness

01:25:13.500 in no one else's fault

01:25:14.900 but mine.

01:25:15.440 The person shoveling food

01:25:17.160 in their mouth 0.76

01:25:17.760 should take responsibility 1.00

01:25:18.980 for their arse size 1.00

01:25:20.760 and not the world 1.00

01:25:21.860 to change to fit.

01:25:23.280 I know I need to get up

01:25:24.240 and move more

01:25:24.820 and I will

01:25:25.340 but I do not want

01:25:26.760 everyone else to pander me.

01:25:28.560 I mean,

01:25:28.980 I think that's

01:25:30.040 a correct mentality

01:25:31.200 also because

01:25:32.800 the main thing

01:25:34.680 you need to do

01:25:35.620 to lose weight

01:25:36.540 is to actually

01:25:37.420 stop all the voices

01:25:39.660 that tell you

01:25:40.360 that you can't

01:25:41.140 and that everything else

01:25:43.240 and actually

01:25:44.360 change your habits.

01:25:46.100 I know because

01:25:46.860 I had bad habits

01:25:47.800 in the past.

01:25:49.100 Yeah.

01:25:49.320 It's the only way.

01:25:50.840 Just eat,

01:25:51.440 eat less,

01:25:52.500 eat more healthfully

01:25:53.320 and exercise more.

01:25:54.560 Yeah.

01:25:55.300 It's a fail-safe way

01:25:56.720 to get more healthy.

01:25:58.140 Ham Planet.

01:26:00.020 The moss is a big example

01:26:01.380 of the huge problem

01:26:02.840 facing the fullest

01:26:04.500 of figured among us.

01:26:07.180 This jiggles my confidence

01:26:08.560 in Lyft's ability

01:26:09.540 to hold up

01:26:10.740 the weighty social issues

01:26:12.080 over time.

01:26:13.240 Either way,

01:26:14.060 I hope she has

01:26:14.980 a whale of a time

01:26:15.960 if she wins

01:26:16.720 this hefty lawsuit

01:26:17.740 and isn't a gravy

01:26:19.040 trained to future gains.

01:26:23.300 Ewan Baker,

01:26:24.320 she made a new genre

01:26:25.380 called Hippo Hop.

01:26:27.700 Hippo Hop?

01:26:28.940 Yes.

01:26:29.720 Sounds like

01:26:30.320 an Egyptian pharaoh,

01:26:32.240 doesn't it?

01:26:32.520 Yeah, yeah. 1.00

01:26:32.920 And also with a fat bitch 1.00

01:26:34.280 where she put... 1.00

01:26:35.160 Sorry.

01:26:37.460 Fat, sorry.

01:26:38.420 Fat something else.

01:26:41.700 Stelius,

01:26:42.260 it's all coming out.

01:26:43.240 Yeah, fat something.

01:26:44.280 She had it with a pH. 0.98

01:26:46.260 That sounds a bit Egyptian.

01:26:49.020 Yeah.

01:26:52.160 Sorry, Kate.

01:26:52.940 It was a momentary lapse

01:26:54.720 of, you know...

01:26:55.460 Reason.

01:26:56.200 Yeah.

01:26:57.980 Lars Peter Simonson.

01:26:59.960 I think airlines should be able

01:27:02.400 to discriminate on weight

01:27:03.700 and size.

01:27:04.740 A 300 pounds bodybuilder

01:27:06.660 should pay more

01:27:07.440 or have less luggage

01:27:08.920 than a 110 pounds ballerina. 1.00

01:27:11.980 Russian garbage human. 1.00

01:27:13.840 Thanks, Russian. 1.00

01:27:15.240 Become unliftable. 0.61

01:27:17.180 Yeah, that's it.

01:27:18.180 So, for my segment,

01:27:20.680 Captain Charlie the Beagle

01:27:21.700 says,

01:27:22.120 Regarding 2025

01:27:23.100 is off to a weird start.

01:27:24.760 I've seen a group

01:27:25.180 of French people

01:27:25.780 advocating for the

01:27:26.760 restoration of the monarchy,

01:27:28.580 marching through the streets

01:27:29.460 holding a portrait

01:27:30.200 of Louis XVI.

01:27:32.720 The French should... 1.00

01:27:35.940 What is wrong with you

01:27:36.780 sometimes? 0.98

01:27:38.000 You cut off a king's head, 0.84

01:27:39.280 you want a king back, 0.89

01:27:40.280 you get an emperor,

01:27:42.300 you get another king,

01:27:43.440 you get rid of him.

01:27:45.600 Make up your mind.

01:27:47.880 We've got another comment here.

01:27:49.580 The real reason USAID exists

01:27:51.300 is because every time

01:27:52.420 DeMoss falls on stage,

01:27:53.900 there's a magnitude 8 earthquake

01:27:55.120 that goes off

01:27:55.920 on the other side of the globe.

01:27:57.420 Stay safe, folks,

01:27:58.820 with an X.

01:27:59.360 So, Eloise says,

01:28:02.980 I love that we have

01:28:03.680 so many different sources

01:28:04.500 of information now,

01:28:05.460 but also with a lack

01:28:06.380 of one narrative

01:28:07.200 or homogeneity,

01:28:09.040 life equally feels

01:28:11.160 very chaotic

01:28:11.840 as there is so much going on

01:28:13.480 and different lives

01:28:14.560 and world views

01:28:15.460 and perspectives floating around.

01:28:17.080 No wonder we also feel

01:28:18.060 less connected to each other

01:28:19.220 in a lot of ways.

01:28:21.180 That's really a very nice

01:28:22.680 and sentimental comment.

01:28:23.860 You're there giggling.

01:28:26.340 Yeah, I feel like a school teacher.

01:28:27.900 Omar Awad says,

01:28:30.020 do IKEA anti-tank mines

01:28:31.880 come with flat pack instructions

01:28:33.500 and an Allen key?

01:28:36.040 You've got to assemble them

01:28:37.260 yourselves.

01:28:38.980 And also to diffuse the bomb.

01:28:41.760 Yeah, it's really,

01:28:42.780 really difficult to diffuse them.

01:28:44.620 Diffuse it yourself.

01:28:45.840 The instructions don't tell you

01:28:46.860 how to take it apart again.

01:28:48.800 Maybe you need to add that

01:28:50.420 into the instruction manual.

01:28:53.600 AZ Desert Rat says,

01:28:54.680 this makes me wonder

01:28:55.240 how whale farts appear on sonar.

01:28:56.960 Was the sonar picking up

01:28:58.300 on the whales

01:28:58.820 because we know

01:28:59.680 what whales look like on sonar

01:29:01.480 or was the sonar picking up

01:29:02.600 the actual bubbles

01:29:03.440 from the whale farts?

01:29:04.340 I would imagine the latter, actually.

01:29:06.160 Fane Scotty of Swindon says,

01:29:07.460 Chinese police dog misbehaves,

01:29:09.240 faces consumption as punishment.

01:29:12.180 Not the poor corgi.

01:29:13.560 It looks adorable.

01:29:15.360 And then finally,

01:29:16.900 Captain Charlie the Beagle says,

01:29:18.540 I've seen a group...

01:29:20.320 Oh no,

01:29:21.040 that's already been mentioned.

01:29:22.560 It's already in the comments.

01:29:24.080 Yeah.

01:29:24.180 It's alright.

01:29:24.820 We're out of time anyway.

01:29:25.960 So yeah.

01:29:26.780 We're out of time.

01:29:27.380 So see you tomorrow at 1pm.

01:29:29.960 We're gonna have episode 1093.

01:29:34.000 Check us out.

01:29:36.700 Bye.

01:29:37.500 Bye.

01:29:37.700 Bye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - February 03, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1092

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