The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1103

00:00:00.000 hello again it is the josh and beau show once more and uh yes uh stelios was meant to be on

00:00:15.320 and he's unfortunately very unwell he's uh quite sick with the flu apparently so um best wishes

00:00:21.780 to stelios make sure to let him know you want him to be better we all do he's telling me about how

00:00:28.260 you're suffering with it it sounds awful um yeah i've only had the real flu proper influenza like

00:00:34.380 once and it was terrible it was honestly terrible i thought i was dying i thought my body was shutting

00:00:39.360 down and they're like yeah it's just the flu i'm like bedridden for like a week with it it's really

00:00:44.920 nasty days and days and days and days it's horrible anyway so yes um we are going to be talking about

00:00:50.840 how europe has become a war zone uh beau's gonna tell us about london's roman discovery i'm looking

00:00:57.320 forward to this one i don't know much about it i just saw the headline and said beau please please

00:01:01.400 talk about this so i'm just as excited for that one as as all of you when anything comes up in the

00:01:07.400 office where i can talk about history i sort of hook up like a meerkat like what i could talk about the

00:01:12.480 romans brilliant i need to do that more with psychology don't i hardly ever do that i actually

00:01:18.480 forgot yesterday i was like wait a minute i'm a psychologist aren't i that's a reminder

00:01:23.700 um and also how um the left's attempt to stop trump are futile uh this is going to be a nice

00:01:32.140 positive one again we're going to go to america for all of our positive news uh but first we're

00:01:37.500 going to get out the way the negative news and that is europe so over the past week or so there

00:01:46.300 have been a number of atrocities committed against the natives of europe and that has been uh you know

00:01:53.700 one of the main ones is this one teen dead and five injured in austrian knife attack and this is

00:02:01.820 just the most recent one this is the bbc talking about it um a few days ago this happened on saturday

00:02:09.440 not too long ago and the fact that you know all of these terror attacks are sort of blending together

00:02:16.180 and that it's actually difficult to discern you know which one is which because they're so frequent

00:02:23.140 they're in the same places a lot of the time it's a never-ending slew of atrocity

00:02:29.080 and one of the most frustrating things is this is the person that did it and there he there he is while

00:02:36.040 he's being detained smiling and pointing not it's funny it's funny yeah murdering a 14 year old boy

00:02:44.140 that's that's hilarious mate oh great one so um apparently according to visegrad here

00:02:49.960 austria's interior minister um gerard karner um probably butchering the pronunciation there

00:02:55.280 um confirmed that it was a syrian asylum seeker who stabbed five people and actually killed a 14

00:03:01.420 year old boy and he was um islamic he did it for islamic reasons and it was religiously motivated

00:03:06.920 and an act of terrorism and that's how it's been classified by the authorities

00:03:10.840 and once yeah for once i know well the austrians are um suffering quite badly with this sort of

00:03:18.720 thing and i think that they're at their wit's end they're voting very much in favor of parties that

00:03:24.660 are pushing to sending them all back and it's certainly going in that direction so if we're going

00:03:30.260 to see things change in europe i think austria and perhaps sweden are the places to keep an eye out

00:03:35.640 for um because they're having a particularly hard time truly traumatized and terrorized on a daily

00:03:43.400 basis almost certainly in sweden one of the things about modern politics that most upsets me is

00:03:49.400 thinking about how all of these innocent people in europe in particular there's not to say i don't

00:03:54.320 care about other parts of the world or you know north america australia you know i obviously care

00:03:59.220 about those places as well but i think people in europe particularly we were we had a lot to be

00:04:05.160 proud of and we had a lot of dignity and what has happened to that is it's almost vanished and

00:04:12.760 we're having our noses rubbed in the fact that we're being invaded and we're being arrested for

00:04:17.920 pointing it out and we're being terrorized even if you know it's not these acts of terrorism

00:04:24.480 austria again i said it about sweden of all places like sweden one of the most homogenous

00:04:30.320 lovely places in the world not just europe austria the same it's like an idol it's like a beautiful

00:04:37.520 beautiful place austria wonderful place both sort of just to look at and in terms of homogeneity and

00:04:44.540 culture and stuff well vienna at one point in in europe's history was the sort of point of cultural

00:04:50.640 high water mark wasn't it yeah the austro-hungarian empire exactly yeah right yeah when uh when um

00:04:58.260 during the liberation of europe at the end of world war ii a lot of the soldiers that liberated parts

00:05:04.260 of austria sort of couldn't believe how beautiful it was it's sort of of that level like they see

00:05:12.780 they see the wonderful places in france and holland and parts of germany and then when they go to austria

00:05:17.720 it's like wow it's dialed up even further it's like something from a fairy tale

00:05:22.180 well now to have this europe is like now to have this done to it well i i might be quite miserable and

00:05:31.500 quite cynical about the world but i do think um that what makes europe great is still there we've still

00:05:39.380 got it you know latent in the population it's just a matter of time i think um people will have to

00:05:46.340 warm up to remigration but i think it is a very clear and obvious way to solve these sorts of

00:05:52.460 things right and i i i want to sort of put forward that people shouldn't necessarily despair it's

00:06:00.080 very unfortunate situation at the minute to put it lightly but i do think that there is

00:06:07.440 the strength and resilience to push back against this onslaught on us

00:06:12.520 still within us i haven't given up on it yeah no absolutely i've got complete faith in it actually

00:06:18.180 mm-hmm um yeah i think that it's important for us to say that sort of thing because when we talk

00:06:24.100 about these sorts of depressing stories sometimes it's the tendency is to revel in the misery of it

00:06:29.340 a little bit isn't it and i don't think that that's actually healthy and actually the healthiest

00:06:34.280 thing is to see how to solve the problem and there is a way of solving the problem it's not

00:06:39.640 an unsolvable problem in which case you know i could understand a bit of despair but i don't

00:06:45.020 think that that's warranted well i don't i don't revel in it i've been quite vocal about being

00:06:49.520 optimistic and the doomers and defeatists and nihilists can all go to hell nothing's over i've

00:06:55.880 said that a number of a great number of times i'm quite vocal quite vocal about that um i mean

00:07:01.740 someone retook a northern variant said on twitter the other day which i retweeted

00:07:05.740 this can all be reversed don't let anyone tell you it can't be that's a superb message it is yeah

00:07:11.740 yeah because you know it's politicians that brought them here and unfortunately have to be

00:07:16.160 politicians that send them back but it's not impossible is it right and um one person um a

00:07:23.460 private security firm owner in austria has actually announced formation of a vigilante force to patrol the

00:07:29.000 streets of vilak um i don't know where that is um but following the terror attack by that syrian

00:07:35.840 asylum seeker so people are taking it upon themselves and this is what normally happens

00:07:40.640 isn't it when there's a crisis men of the hour people who care about their country in the state of

00:07:47.620 the nation will step up and fill the void and that's clearly what's happening here safety of their

00:07:53.520 own children and women folk yeah and yeah i very much commend this person for going out of his

00:07:57.920 way because i imagine it's not he's not doing it purely for profit he might run a security company

00:08:02.460 but he's doing it for the right reasons i would imagine anford burger a veteran of the security

00:08:08.720 industry with 25 years of experience runs a security firm in nearby velden said he felt compelled to act

00:08:14.580 after the ongoing terror attacks across europe came a little too close to home and he says i followed

00:08:20.620 with horror how almost every month a major attack occurs in germany due to the colossal failure of

00:08:26.160 politics but the tragic events in vilak where my own children live with the final straw i had to do

00:08:32.000 something i think that we're going to see more and more of this sort of thing and this is good i think

00:08:37.240 that people should step up and and do tangible things and uh i almost wish i could do more as well

00:08:44.440 in this sort of vein but you know it's easier said than done isn't it and it's the same sentiment of

00:08:51.480 where we work here well that's true yeah sentiment at least i know that's how i canary in the coal

00:08:57.940 mine for everyone else right we're looking at these obscure stories that um people aren't necessarily

00:09:04.320 hearing about and letting people know about it and it and it frustrates me actually that people

00:09:10.400 say that informing other people about the nature of reality is somehow not helping like you've got

00:09:16.640 to be you know sticking leaflets indoors or something well you've got more reach online normally

00:09:22.060 people are more inclined to listen than a leaflet through the door it's not to say that that's not

00:09:27.160 helpful by the way and he says um this is not for wannabe sheriffs he warned um prospective members

00:09:33.180 will be required to undergo a background check an interview and a selection process similar to

00:09:36.840 professional security firms to ensure their suitability um if we can prevent even one attack

00:09:42.320 in the next 10 years by being present then we will have fulfilled our duty that's great um the fact

00:09:48.040 that it's had to come to private citizens having to defend themselves i mean ultimately that's uh

00:09:53.720 what governments result in in my opinion but it is a failure of governance as well isn't it

00:10:00.560 well and a very deliberate one in my opinion yes i agree by accident

00:10:04.860 so there was also one in germany recently as well um this was uh last week where 30 people were

00:10:12.280 injured after a car drove into a crowd in munich um and it's pesky cars i know it's like herbie

00:10:19.500 just completely independent of anything else it's the car that did it yeah it was obviously another

00:10:24.560 muslim and um unfortunately a mother and her i presume a two-year-old girl i don't know whether this

00:10:31.800 was her daughter or a separate girl but either way it's a horrific tragedy and something that

00:10:38.400 you know should weigh heavily on the people that helped enable this that facilitated the policies

00:10:44.720 that have allowed these people to be here i think that there should be tribunals and people held

00:10:50.340 legally accountable for this because at the very least they facilitated manslaughter right they haven't

00:10:56.240 you know drove the car themselves but they've created the conditions to allow these people to

00:11:01.560 get away with this it's a real betrayal of the people of europe it's a crime yeah just two more

00:11:07.380 victims on the altar of multiculturalism i know sickening maddening and the person who did it was

00:11:15.620 an afghan bodybuilder he had a large social media following as well like over 100 000 people on i think

00:11:22.000 it was instagram and he posted like fitness videos and you you wouldn't have guessed that he would

00:11:27.520 have carried out this sort of attack because he seemed pretty westernized he'd integrated had he yeah

00:11:32.860 well that's well the crime data seems to indicate that actually it's the the second generations and

00:11:38.720 the third generations that cause more problems than the first and so as far as the integration

00:11:45.140 argument goes it doesn't hold water it's the actual opposite of that people get worse not better

00:11:50.380 and we we are living to see the consequences of this and then uh while this was going on the one

00:11:56.660 party oh um there should be a link there um but never mind i think i put it in wrong that was my

00:12:03.220 fault samson sorry uh but basically there was a 200 and a quarter of a million 250 000 people

00:12:09.060 in munich um protesting against the afd and the far right one party that seems to be

00:12:15.980 actually proposing a solution to a lot of the problems which um one has to wonder how

00:12:22.560 artificial that is uh don't worry samson it was me pasting the link in wrong it's so sorry in munich

00:12:28.820 at the same time or that same weekend or whatever i think it was before it'd be very distasteful if

00:12:33.760 they did it afterwards wouldn't it a quarter of a million that's loads isn't it that's you know

00:12:37.880 i've seen that figure banded around by people on our side of things i don't know whether it was

00:12:42.440 actually that many and then promptly a car attack in the same city yes lesson learned there hopefully

00:12:48.440 i don't think so but um as it's been pointed out there have been five terror attacks in germany in

00:12:55.300 the past 12 months all were committed by asylum seekers three of them were afghans one was a syrian

00:12:59.920 and one was a saudi arabian there's a bit of a pattern here isn't there and i expect us not to

00:13:06.300 notice is that yeah just don't notice it if you and if you do keep your mouth shut you've got

00:13:11.800 absolutely zero ability to notice patterns then you're the ideal citizen for people like this you

00:13:18.100 know that they want to cover this up but even a moron can see the pattern here can't they it's not hard

00:13:23.700 and uh then you have people like bushra shake who uh gets mainstream i know yeah i i feel the same

00:13:32.800 you get mainstream media um sort of gigs talking about these sorts of things and she said upsetting

00:13:39.860 details emerging in the 28 injured in munich attacked by a 24 afghan asylum seeker at least

00:13:44.100 she's not hiding the details there my thoughts are with those affected and seriously injured in this

00:13:48.060 awful instant and then she follows on and says but harming people was never acceptable however

00:13:54.080 germany really needs to get a grip with his increasing demonization of muslims ethnic minorities and

00:13:59.680 migrants with the racist afd party on the rise unfortunately a symptom of such hate often

00:14:05.600 results in hate you think that it's happening because of the afd do you also making excuses for

00:14:12.580 the terrorist i wonder why you're doing that bushra shake i wonder disgusting thing to say

00:14:22.900 it's morally repugnant it's it's one thing to think it and it's another thing to also say it publicly

00:14:30.980 people like that should not have the confidence you know if we lived in a just society if someone said

00:14:36.080 that it'd just be like immediate deportation like why are you in this country why are you allowed to

00:14:43.340 make excuses for terrorists and uh she's not the only one apparently a german woman blamed afghan's

00:14:50.660 actions on a vitamin d deficiency and toxic masculinity why not yeah diversity do that yeah that makes

00:14:58.740 sense sure sure sure this is a mentally ill person i it's obvious why he did it it's not because oh you

00:15:06.980 know he's a bit sad because the sunshine isn't here in the winter also if you're in a country where you

00:15:13.780 need lots of sunshine because of your complexion you're in the wrong place is the reason we have

00:15:20.420 this complexion by the way vitamin d deficiency so if he took some multivitamins he wouldn't have

00:15:29.220 carried out the attack it's madness that's a disgusting nonsense isn't it disgusting and then

00:15:36.100 speaking of disgusting nonsense while all of this is going on um 60 minutes joined the german state police

00:15:42.180 to raid a home and they seized the suspect's laptop and phone and the crime was posting what was

00:15:48.100 described by the authorities as a racist cartoon online

00:15:54.100 and uh obviously the germans and that that also that swiss green that looks like she

00:15:59.620 uh is close to starving have you seen those pictures of her was that swiss green what's uh as

00:16:05.700 in a swiss woman who's a member of the green party oh okay she's trying to ban uh x and she looks like

00:16:12.100 she hasn't had a square meal in years right like she she looks visibly sick from her imbalanced vegan

00:16:18.500 diet but but anyway i'm not talking about that today and uh there's also brussels uh in belgium

00:16:26.740 so there was a another shooting i don't know what's going on here why are you doing that

00:16:31.540 is the button stuck the button on the thing is stuck

00:16:40.420 thank you technology

00:16:44.180 it just doesn't want you to know all right that there's another shooting in in brussels

00:16:48.420 um okay it's stopped doing it now but this is only a few days after this um this picture here

00:16:56.020 there's a guy just walking around with an ak um in the train station there's another guy in belgium

00:17:04.580 and uh yeah there was a person shot and killed and then that's the third shooting in front of

00:17:11.380 that station in 10 days which is insane isn't it again we've invited this into our countries not the

00:17:20.900 population but politicians have thought diversity was a strength though is it well ak 47s are a

00:17:28.900 strength bow aren't they they make you strong right that's what they didn't tell you uh 7.62 ammo is a

00:17:35.700 strength if you're firing it oh yeah it's awful isn't it and um there's also this as well this was

00:17:45.620 in um athens there were i think there were two israelis on holiday or something i don't know

00:17:51.140 um but they were stabbed in athens by a gazon when they heard that they were speaking hebrew

00:17:55.700 just an entirely imported conflict into greece the greeks wouldn't you know care that much about

00:18:01.380 this sort of thing would they if they were turks maybe it'd be different but uh yeah it's entirely

00:18:08.100 imported the greek authorities shouldn't have to deal with this the greek people shouldn't have to deal

00:18:12.900 with this these are just foreign people causing foreign problems in greek soil my little uh shout

00:18:20.340 out for stellios get well soon um covering your your politics there and uh i i'd be remiss if i

00:18:27.060 didn't mention sweden who seems to be suffering the worst and i saw this post recently um from a swede

00:18:33.700 when i grew up in stockholm we didn't even lock our doors when we left the house because we lived in

00:18:38.100 such a high trust society today we have bombings everyday terror attacks and humiliating robberies

00:18:43.380 didn't exist when i grew up it breaks my heart and that's a key thing here is that within living

00:18:48.900 memory for most people we lived in a much nicer time even for me i'm 29 i can remember when there

00:18:58.500 was no multiculturalism when everyone in my you know in my local area was white british you know there

00:19:05.300 there weren't even that many other europeans let alone people from the middle east and africa

00:19:11.780 and yeah we we didn't lock our doors people had honesty boxes outside their houses people said hello

00:19:18.660 to each other on the street this is the kind of society you want where everyone is working together

00:19:25.220 to have a better life a homogenous higher trust society exactly certainly within living memory

00:19:29.700 i mean i'm in my mid 40s and i was an adult when it happened it wasn't even when i was a little kid

00:19:36.820 like so like now if you go to westminster there's all these crash barriers around parliament around

00:19:42.180 the palace of westminster so people can't drive a truck a car bomb yeah yeah and in the british museum

00:19:47.940 you used to be able to just walk up the steps walk straight in and now there's like this whole

00:19:51.780 rigmarole of checking everyone's bag and they're just two tiny examples the whole of london is sort of

00:19:58.660 it's got all of that and all that militarized in a way now isn't it and all of that happened when i was

00:20:03.780 already in my 20s so i absolutely remember a world before this insanity and i'm only in my mid 40s so

00:20:12.900 it hasn't happened very long ago and it's only going to get worse unfortunately um

00:20:22.740 still it does mean it can get better again but i'm going to refresh people's memory because i have

00:20:27.380 covered some of the sweden stuff but just to emphasize the point there were more than one

00:20:32.820 explosion a day in sweden um because they have problems with gang violence really really bad you

00:20:38.500 know people just hear the explosions in their houses now and know what it is before it's reported

00:20:42.980 in the news um hand grenade attacks have more than doubled in 2024 and uh this isn't obviously the

00:20:50.260 native swedes because uh three out of four murders in sweden are committed by migrants

00:20:55.220 so the the majority of them which is a preventable problem obviously and uh here's one i didn't mention

00:21:03.140 recently um a muslim migrant that was hailed as an integration success um oh go ahead samson

00:21:11.380 i can't click it for whatever reason never mind but he shot his classmate in the head

00:21:17.140 and that's what happened and that's what's hidden by that box on the screen it's always the case

00:21:22.740 isn't it you remember i covered that guy congolese man who was hailed as a he was a baker and a boxer

00:21:29.780 and then he went on to brutally sexually assault his own mother at knife point yeah but uh he had

00:21:36.980 a puff piece in a german newspaper so how could he be bad he smiled in a picture how can he do bad

00:21:42.100 things oh how terrible and then uh there was also this a man who burned the quran was shot dead in in

00:21:48.500 his flat in sweden so just you know islamic retributive attacks are just entirely possible they're

00:21:54.980 on the cards now and there was a case in london um i think this was actually on valentine's day last

00:22:01.540 friday of a guy um i don't think he's a british guy but he was burning a quran outside of i think

00:22:09.860 it was the turkish embassy and a guy comes out he doesn't actually hit him samson um but he comes out

00:22:16.900 um don't play the uh the sound though but i think he just kicks him and punches him a little bit

00:22:24.980 doesn't actually stab him but he's doing it obviously because he was burning the quran and

00:22:30.820 this sort of behavior wouldn't happen if it were a native british person it's also worth mentioning

00:22:35.780 as well the delivery driver as he goes past gives him a little cheeky kick

00:22:43.220 so guy burns a quran and and it's a bit further along um samson and um yeah he just so happens across

00:22:53.300 two people that will be violent towards him for doing that i don't think any british people would

00:22:58.500 necessarily do that would they i think it's that guy there with a balaclava which should be illegal

00:23:04.020 burning a book any book shouldn't uh have any sort of violent retribution or prosecution brought

00:23:10.900 against you i agree but uh there we go he'll he'll probably be arrested now for that i mean there was a

00:23:19.460 man uh in manchester i think he was arrested for it and the police published his address

00:23:25.540 which uh says all you need to know about where their alliances are and um

00:23:32.340 i think that this this map is eight years old but it highlights a very key point

00:23:38.020 where are all the dots where the terror attacks are countries largely were involved in migration right

00:23:43.700 obviously northern ireland is the the troubles and things like that right oh how far back does this

00:23:50.180 go i think it's quite far back okay so obviously you've got things here that's um the separatism

00:23:58.340 the basque separate basque separatism so this is all types of terrorism it is yes not just islamic

00:24:03.780 terrorism but you can see some key patterns here look at here lots and lots of uh it's basically red

00:24:11.220 look at here is basically red and here you can see the areas where all of these isolated dots

00:24:19.380 normally centered around major cities look um are coming from they're coming from these areas

00:24:26.820 aren't they that's iraq the levent egypt north africa also it's worth mentioning i was talking to samson

00:24:34.500 about this before we started that corsica here is bright red because it's because it's a migration route

00:24:39.940 to continental europe they avoid italy and go through um the islands here mainly corsica because

00:24:46.660 they can get to southern france through like marseille and places like that so leaving the

00:24:51.940 shores of north africa you go to corsica and just immediately do something terroristic i guess so

00:24:58.260 as soon as you land on corsica apparently okay but yeah you can see the pattern here also

00:25:05.860 look at which country is unaffected here wow wow i hadn't actually noticed that now it's obviously

00:25:13.460 poland isn't it yeah and what um at the time that this map was made anyway what had poland not done

00:25:19.700 had mass migration i was gonna say because the sweden isn't all red which it would be now then i suppose

00:25:24.500 yeah obviously this is an older map there hasn't been an updated one i didn't have the time to

00:25:28.340 you know map every every terror attack it's interesting there's a few countries there like

00:25:34.740 the czechoslovak region like what romania you know some of the baltic states are pretty all right

00:25:44.100 yeah poland's got it sorted there so um you have to go to the french wikipedia the french language

00:25:51.380 version to even have a list of um islamic terror attacks in europe you can't find this in the

00:25:58.180 english version but you can see here um all of the terror attacks here are all the flags you can

00:26:05.060 see lots of german flags lots of belgian flags lots of french flags the odd british flag um the uk flag

00:26:12.580 even i say this won't be all of them they're just the ones that have been documented on wikipedia

00:26:16.500 that's right it won't be anywhere near all yeah yeah right and uh there's there's a few um

00:26:23.300 spanish ones as well obviously turkey but it gives you an idea these are all the countries that have had

00:26:31.620 mass migration it's not controversial anymore not one bit and um what i wanted to end on

00:26:40.740 was this that is even getting to the point where south africa isn't safe from islamic terrorism which

00:26:50.100 you would think well how on earth does it get there and they carried out a targeted hit

00:26:54.340 against the first openly gay imam so islam on islam it was yeah in south africa yes okay

00:27:03.380 so it sort of indicates that wherever islam seems to go there seems to be trouble and i don't think

00:27:12.820 that that's a controversial thing to say considering that and that right this is a choice we we didn't

00:27:21.140 vote for this we were never asked to have this imposed on us and we can reverse it well within our

00:27:26.020 rights the politicians imposed this on us it was never the democratic will of the people to have this

00:27:32.020 so let's reverse it let's send them all back

00:27:37.540 okay do we have any chats i can't actually see them um just wanted to say uh scanline says um

00:27:45.620 that i enjoyed yesterday's segment revealing that jack the ripper was an immigrant with mental health

00:27:49.780 issues stabbing people while the police failed to do anything yes well that is exactly the case it is

00:27:57.620 yeah hedgehog's dilemma says the delivery driver kicking the guy on the ground is just a chef's

00:28:02.740 kiss pure uk vibes with a y and two o's glad to see that you're uh using that term cunley druck but

00:28:09.380 is right about everything he is one of my favorite accounts on on x easily okay take it away bo

00:28:17.540 okay so rome has been ancient britain roman era britain has been in the news a bit um so i've got

00:28:27.300 to do a piece of it haven't i got to um just to mention you are in safe hands i did formally study

00:28:33.220 roman britain at undergrad and since those many moons ago i've read a great deal more since then

00:28:40.020 uh so it's one of my things this is truly sort of in my wheelhouse uh haven't you done like a about

00:28:46.740 was it about 25 episodes now on roman history on the website all in all way more than that

00:28:52.500 really i did a series that was 21 episodes long just about the career of caesar and pompey

00:28:58.100 which finished a few weeks ago but um i've done loads so going back to uh epochs 16 anyone who's

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00:29:13.940 of paid wall content there you had your own show contemplations many many many episodes of that

00:29:18.900 171 i think right and my own one my history themed one epochs i'm up to episode 198 now

00:29:25.540 uh but even going back to even going back to the beginning uh near the beginning

00:29:29.940 loads of them are about rome i mean episode 16 was actually with you it was yeah where we talked about

00:29:35.860 roman britain or caesar's first expedition to britain um you know i really enjoyed it 55 bc

00:29:44.180 real callback when was this recorded just out of my oh august of 2021 there we go

00:29:49.860 vintage lotus seat is there we'll look visibly younger i will i probably will as well i didn't

00:29:55.700 have the these crows feet back then um and then who's doing the links who's gonna okay so also the

00:30:02.660 very next one because we didn't talk about it all the first time epochs number 17 keep talking about

00:30:08.820 britain uh when caligula uh sorry um well caligula didn't invade he nearly did but then claudius when

00:30:16.500 uncle claudius did finally invade and then we hear about some of the details in tacitus's agricola

00:30:23.300 the book uh talking about about the roman occupation of britain um so and a few next few links

00:30:31.860 oh i got it yep uh so uh recently that's part of my aforementioned 21 part series about caesar

00:30:40.740 when he's in when he's in britain so i'll talk about the same thing again but in even more detail

00:30:45.060 this time um correct use of roman numerals there i like it yeah next one more even more detail oh

00:30:55.540 um there you go because in caesar's account of his invasion of gaul which is a whole book long

00:31:01.300 there's a chapter or so in there where he just talks about oh and this summer in this summer i

00:31:05.780 bounced across the channel to england and did xyz um so okay but it wasn't until uh claudius

00:31:14.900 many many many years later decades later uh truly invaded and sort of conquered the main tribes

00:31:21.060 at cameludonum which was later called colchester so okay so that's sort of the first story so what's

00:31:27.620 been in the news what has been in the news recently um if you keep going with the links

00:31:33.540 so what is that cbs says uh that there's been that basically under a building in the square mile

00:31:42.660 in london or anyone who doesn't know i'll quickly say you've got this big massive metropolis of london

00:31:48.900 massive one of the biggest cities in the world uh but within it is a small area that's formerly the

00:31:54.900 city of london there's even a smaller bit the city of westminster and they're both subsumed within the

00:32:01.380 wider greater london metropolitan area but there's the little bit the city of london it's a tiny bit

00:32:08.180 confusing but anyway and even within that there's a an area that is quite often called just colloquially

00:32:15.540 called the square mile where there's lots and lots of it's one of the financial districts there's more

00:32:20.740 than one sort of financial district in london uh sort of canary wolf is one now as well but anyway

00:32:26.980 but there you've got sort of like the bank of england and lloyds and stock exchange and various

00:32:32.740 things just so happens that underneath that the archaeology underneath that area is is sort of the

00:32:38.500 heart of roman era london that's where we know that there was uh a forum basilica amphitheater

00:32:46.100 parts of the wall all sorts of stuff that's really the the heart of it all of course now it's

00:32:52.660 really really important part of modern london every now and again for whatever reason uh we get to sort

00:32:59.700 of dig it up if they're knocking a building down and rebuilding one or something like that or if

00:33:04.740 they're doing a bit of the rebuilding or a bit of the underground system or something or other so

00:33:10.900 every now and again it comes up that archaeologists are able to actually dig it up and so that's what's

00:33:16.980 happened recently i mean it's a few days it's a few days old now these the but still um so yeah

00:33:23.860 pretty fresh as far as ancient history goes isn't it a few days yeah um so the next few we can just

00:33:29.300 whip through the next few links uh where where was that what news is that talking about the i think the

00:33:37.220 new york slimes even mentions it um and the next one bbc i think it was yeah so um actually i can

00:33:46.900 read a bit of this the first few paragraphs i can read um we're told a discovery underneath the

00:33:53.380 basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of roman

00:33:56.820 history unearthed in the city of london certainly in recent times um archaeologists have found a

00:34:02.260 substantial piece of the ancient city's first basilica two thousand year old public building

00:34:07.060 where major political economic and administrative decisions were made the excavation has so far

00:34:12.340 revealed sections of stone wall that formed the base of the basilica which would have been a two

00:34:16.580 and a half stories higher uh the site which would eventually be open to the public sheds light on

00:34:22.100 the city's buildings you can see there it's just in the basement of a building it's like cabinets cabinets

00:34:28.500 there yeah um could you imagine just walking you know over that unwittingly and then finally having

00:34:34.820 it unearthed well that's the great thing because i'm i'm a sort of london boy or at least essex boy

00:34:39.940 born and bred and um went to uni in london and then worked in london for until i started working

00:34:47.140 here like nearly four years ago so i'm very much a london person right and so i've all and a history nerd

00:34:54.340 so i'm fascinated by london i've read multiple books about the history of london all through

00:34:58.980 the middle ages now when you walk around london it's uh it's very very easy for your imagination to

00:35:06.260 capture and link on to medieval london in all sorts of ways when you see um westminster abbey or

00:35:11.780 something um or because there are lots of remnants of of that in the city yeah lots but it's like no

00:35:18.580 it's like it's filled with it it's filled with it london is like an onion and there's so many layers

00:35:23.380 uh to it um you know like so the abbey is very old but you know something like st paul's cathedral

00:35:31.540 or you just walk past you walk past the building and it's clearly sort of um sort of gothic or they

00:35:37.300 walk down the next street and it's all georgian era um right and and on and on and on uh but of course

00:35:46.660 this the city itself goes back to even before the romans so there was a settlement there on the thames

00:35:52.900 before the romans turned up it wasn't just a complete wilderness and the romans started it

00:35:56.820 from absolute scratch but nonetheless um it was the romans that really turned londinium from

00:36:03.620 just a settlement on the thames into the most important town or settlement or city you might say

00:36:08.820 in the whole of that roman province of britannia uh as i say the in the ancient world you wouldn't

00:36:14.740 really say that colchester or camaludon was the capital it didn't really work like that but still

00:36:19.860 the romans considered that once they'd captured camaludonum the at least the southeast of the

00:36:24.980 island was pacified but they moved the center if you'd like from colchester to london because

00:36:32.020 apart from anything else just the thames is a great way to for trade or if you're if you're running it

00:36:38.340 from the continent right you want something that has easy access to one of the easier crossing points

00:36:43.700 exactly exactly and there's a reason why the bit of the city of london and westminster why the

00:36:49.460 earliest bridges are there across the thames um because the area was very marshy but there was a

00:36:55.140 there's all sorts of reasons why london grew up where it did um so i've always been always been

00:37:01.060 fascinated by every era of london history i'm fascinated by but particularly of course the ancient

00:37:05.700 world roman era bit so uh when the new bit of uh archaeology turns up of course my sort of my ears

00:37:11.860 prick up and i have to read about it and hear about what it is and the fact it's part of the basilica

00:37:16.740 it's probably the earliest basilica as well they uh there was almost certainly a second what bigger one

00:37:22.820 built a few decades after the first one seems like this is the earlier one um the archaeologists will

00:37:29.060 confirm all of this one way or another um so if we click through a few more of the images okay so

00:37:34.660 that's uh a part of the original roman wall which is right by tower hill station

00:37:40.260 yeah i've never seen that before wow and if one of the places i've uh my my elder brother used to

00:37:46.260 live uh just just south of tower bridge for years so in the 90s i whenever i visited him which was

00:37:53.460 pretty often i'd get off at tower hill and walk across the bridge and that's right there i mean

00:37:58.180 that's a statue of trajan that's obviously later and been put there deliberately in the 20th century but

00:38:04.020 still that wall is original best part of 2000 year old roman wall and it's still standing

00:38:12.420 remarkable isn't it it is yeah it's quite a tall wall as well to be still standing yeah um if you go

00:38:19.220 keep keep going uh there is just just an aerial view but there's lots of bits of that wall all around

00:38:24.820 just dotted through london if you know where to look uh keep going it's just another image of uh

00:38:31.380 yeah it's just things like that just crop up you can see there's like um modern buildings sort of

00:38:36.740 right next to it um and again it just looks like a bit of a broken down old bit of crap really but when

00:38:44.500 you told me it was like a victorian furnace yeah i didn't know what it was already i might believe you

00:38:49.860 when you're able to sort of use your imagination of uh what those walls have seen what they've lived

00:38:56.100 through right um it's sort of it's sort of beggars belief really when you really try and grasp

00:39:02.580 the antiquity of it what it what it represents um so just just keep going just got loads of pictures

00:39:08.980 to talk about there's a there's a bit in london um near a moorgate there's a road in london called

00:39:15.700 london wall that's the name of it and there's a bit of the wall there again just

00:39:19.540 if you know where to look there's all sorts of archaeology well all sorts of relics and things

00:39:26.740 so by london wall there is the museum of london now if anyone visits london doesn't know any better

00:39:34.020 um the people that the curators at the museum of london won't like me saying this but

00:39:40.020 the best museum is the british museum not the museum of london not that the museum of london is

00:39:45.140 crap it's great i love it been there a a number of times but don't think that that's the best

00:39:52.740 pre-eminent main museum in london the museum of london it's not go to the british museum in bloomsbury

00:39:58.740 and the whole day out there is oh god oh yeah endless endless it's a cathedral to history and

00:40:03.860 all sorts of ways it's i i love going there it's my spiritual home the british museum

00:40:08.100 um but at the at the museum of london completely different to the british museum um oh it's on

00:40:13.860 london wall oh there's another bit of the roman well that's actually in the tower of london oh okay

00:40:18.660 um so that's sort of the inner courtyard it's more than a courtyard but the inner area in a sanctum

00:40:24.740 inside the tower of london there's a bit of the roman wall there just another example of roman era stuff

00:40:31.220 right there to see again if you know where to look um so if we keep keep going in the in just

00:40:38.420 stuff like that just around uh so that's inside the museum of london where they've you know they've got

00:40:45.140 done a nice big that is one thing we do well is we do treat our archaeology quite well compared to other

00:40:51.300 places in the world if you go to greece or italy often or turkey or something quite often

00:40:58.260 there it's just left there completely open to the elements and no one's done anything to preserve

00:41:04.340 it or protect it or or anything it's funny you say that because i've spoken to lots of people from

00:41:09.300 various european countries and they say the one thing about the the sort of english or the british

00:41:14.500 that makes us more unique than you know any other trait amongst europe not only is our binge drinking but

00:41:20.900 also our respect and preservation of history is you know there's no mistake that many of the first

00:41:27.220 antiquarians and archaeologists and academics of that stripe were british yeah the very concept of

00:41:35.540 sort of modern archaeology sort of 19th century into the 20th century archaeology that you you treat

00:41:42.740 historical artifacts increasingly with kid gloves yeah that is that that comes from the british and a bit

00:41:50.180 the french and a bit the germans but yeah us really um okay so um that's again that's just inside the

00:41:58.820 museum of london um there's a bit more to show how we've what lengths we've gone to to try and preserve

00:42:06.980 things where we can i mean you know how we treat stonehenge for example um there's things with as great

00:42:15.140 antiquity or more throughout the world all over the world and it's just sort of left there open to the

00:42:20.660 open to the elements um and whereas we yeah try and do what we can to preserve these things

00:42:28.500 if you uh just keep keep going now oh there's just a roman a mock-up of a roman room from sort of the

00:42:36.820 second or third century easier than my flat yeah it's quite it's quite nice isn't it it is yeah i'd

00:42:42.180 live there yeah it's got a better floor than my sort of uniformly beige carpet i've got a bit of lino

00:42:50.740 my my laminate flooring isn't quite the same as that mosaic there it's beautiful yeah yeah

00:42:57.300 um yeah and that's just a model of what they think the forum and basilica might have looked like

00:43:04.100 it's probably quite impressive though yeah yeah yeah i mean by the third or fourth century a.d

00:43:10.340 britain was relatively important to the relatively important to the roman empire and economy and

00:43:16.180 things um also a drain on them but anyway it's another story if you're interested in that stuff

00:43:21.860 as i mentioned at the beginning i've got a few hours worth of content of me talking about it and

00:43:25.780 reading quotes from proper historians and all sorts of stuff so okay that's guild hall um that is um

00:43:32.980 again not a million miles from roman uh from london wall um it's sort of around the moorgate

00:43:39.940 just next to sort of moorgate not quite near liverpool street anyway um and you can see on

00:43:44.900 the floor there that sort of black line going around there you see that oh yeah yeah i see it and that's

00:43:50.980 sort of and right in the middle there right in the very middle there's a little plaque and it says this

00:43:54.820 is where the roman amphitheater once stood ah that makes sense uh we'll keep going with the images

00:44:02.180 um again it's just sort of guild hall and the courthouse there anyone can walk around there there's

00:44:06.660 a good view of it you can really see it there yeah and if you keep going there's an artist's idea of

00:44:13.060 what it might have looked like um keep going and there's uh underground there is a little museum

00:44:20.340 thing they've they've made spent quite a lot of money and time and energy on that and they're sort

00:44:25.140 of the real ruins of it so um yeah as we started this piece with the with the stuff that's in the

00:44:32.340 new cycle at the moment you know we found a new bit of roman archaeology in london there's actually

00:44:37.780 loads it's peppered with it it's peppered with you can go down there and see it and it's really cool

00:44:43.060 go through the next few images um yeah they've sort of sort of mocked up what it might have looked

00:44:50.500 like now to some people this is not their cup of tea they're like it's just a bit of old stone

00:44:55.780 and to other people like myself uh it's sort of remarkable it's still here yeah it's a sort of

00:45:02.660 it's like a link to ancient times isn't it and you you've got to have a bit of respect for it if

00:45:09.940 not a great deal there's this idea that um dan carlin's talked about it before where at the end of the

00:45:15.780 original original charlton heston planet of the apes where he sees that um the the ruined statue of

00:45:23.140 liberty that in fact um eons have passed and you're just seeing this remnant of a once lost world

00:45:29.700 um some would say i'm going over the top it's like too romantic and it's just a bit of stone

00:45:35.060 get over it but for me and a lot of people it is like the remnant of a lost forgotten

00:45:41.700 world well and the anglo-saxons for all of the roman structures were built by giants didn't they

00:45:49.620 yeah and it's part of our it's part of you know northwestern european or just european

00:45:55.300 history and heritage um because it's all very well when you read say tacitus is agricola or

00:46:01.780 something like that um and it just mentions that the romans were once here and it's it's

00:46:08.100 effectively almost it could be it could be fiction it's like it's just a story it has no meaning and then

00:46:14.020 but then ah no the physical real world archaeology shows that they really were it makes it tangible

00:46:20.660 doesn't it yeah not just stories anymore right yeah it really happened there really was an

00:46:25.700 amphitheater in sort of the second third fourth century ad in the middle of london where guild hall

00:46:32.340 now is where there would have been gladiatorial games and and beast fights and all sorts of stuff

00:46:39.620 i know what this is this is um isn't this underfloor heating yeah yeah that's yeah exactly they have

00:46:45.540 the same thing in uh the roman baths in uh yeah yeah you see it all over the place even in a

00:46:51.620 a relatively small villa quite often they would have well i think we've got an image or two of that later

00:46:57.700 uh yeah but just another says even more underneath that there's even there's even more so one of the

00:47:04.420 big things um going back to this is from the 50s the 1950s they found uh because a lot of london was

00:47:12.180 bombed out by uh by mr hitler or mr goering the evil nazis bombed uh good old london town and they

00:47:21.220 helped archaeology right right yeah so again this is in the middle of london and it's archaeologists

00:47:28.020 have decided historians have just not decided have discovered that it was a temple to mithras oh yeah

00:47:35.300 um and i could say i won't i've got time now but there's a lot that could be said about the

00:47:39.060 uh the cult of mithras uh one of the mystery cults um almost certainly from sort of the third century

00:47:46.980 the 200s a.d um so no i haven't got time to talk about mithras okay okay let's go on there's a few

00:47:55.300 pictures um and uh now they they there's some of it's that's a queen victoria street i think again

00:48:03.220 right in the middle of the financial district of london today um if you keep going good reminder

00:48:08.900 to the bankers that you know all of their endeavors are going to crumble into dust eventually

00:48:13.380 all right yeah yeah mr bloomberg look upon my works you mighty and despair yeah so bloomberg is

00:48:20.980 the bloomberg space it's called um they sort of relocated some of it and they've made this again

00:48:26.820 built this thing this whole thing around it to for for for to i mean you know what a remarkable space

00:48:34.500 and they've obviously they've recreated that image of mithras which would have stood there

00:48:38.980 um almost certainly i mean well go back one oh i just think that's a remarkable

00:48:44.980 be able to see it from the sort of perspective that it was intended as well

00:48:48.980 yeah great that they've done that yeah i also like the ambience that's sort of

00:48:52.740 of it feels right doesn't it because it was a mystery religion a mystery cult um you have to

00:48:59.300 be initiated into the mysteries and all that sort of thing yeah the the ambience they've created there

00:49:02.980 i think is quite apt probably i mean probably we don't know for sure exactly it feels right yeah

00:49:08.980 even if it isn't i might have put an image or two in of like an artist's impression oh there's

00:49:12.820 just a statue of the classic depiction of mithras and the ball sacrificing a ball um

00:49:18.420 um it's just another image of mithras and maybe it would have looked something like that perhaps

00:49:25.860 uh all sorts of rights going on um uh yeah keep going okay so there's just now moving on from

00:49:34.100 london if we if we've you know someone gives me the opportunity to talk all about roman era london

00:49:39.860 or roman era britain may as well do just a quick whip round of other things that are there so that's

00:49:46.980 uh the so-called colchester castle again in what was ancient camelidon and um still quite impressive

00:49:55.780 yeah yeah almost certainly claudius himself uh visited there well he definitely went to britain

00:50:03.700 and camelidon but it was almost certainly built at that time um it's been built on since and um there

00:50:12.500 was even like i've been there a number of times i've been there like 10 times in my life or something silly

00:50:16.980 it's a great place to visit uh but again like the the onion of history there's so much more to it

00:50:23.460 than just the roman bit so even in the civil war so like the 17th century it was sort of um

00:50:30.980 events went down there um but if i'm going to talk about roman britney you have to mention colchester

00:50:37.220 um so keep going again colchester has just got all sorts of just random you'll randomly walk around

00:50:44.260 turn a corner and oh there's a bit of it's sort of known for it two thousand year old bit of roman

00:50:48.340 wall original thing when i think of colchester i think of oh roman history that's sort of synonymous

00:50:53.620 with it these days isn't it yeah yeah um in the british museum if you come to london uh the best

00:51:00.260 repository for uh for all things roman is the british museum which is just off near holborn

00:51:06.900 between russell square holborn and tom cook road uh you'll find it um and like the tourists normally

00:51:13.380 the greek and roman collection there is among the best in the world you'd probably have to go to the

00:51:18.740 museum it's great isn't it you'd probably have to go to italy before you find a better one

00:51:22.660 um is extremely extremely good and in fact uh we me and carl once visited the british museum a couple

00:51:31.300 years ago now in order to talk about the assyrian collection there but while we were there we

00:51:36.660 recorded a few other bits and bobs just about various other bits there's a fake go back one

00:51:41.140 there's famous head of augustus uh keep going forward um there's just there's just sort of endless

00:51:49.060 brilliant artifacts i was surprised at how curved that shield was actually that's one of the thing

00:51:54.900 the main takeaways of actually seeing it in person deflect our to deflect our interesting symbols in

00:51:59.940 the corner there yep yeah uh there's a few shorts we shouldn't play any but there's a bit of a sort

00:52:05.860 of crocodile skin parade armor almost certainly a centurion or senior officers parade armor it's one of

00:52:12.900 the favorite pieces i remember being bowled over by that when i was a kid and the next few links are

00:52:17.700 just from the channel shorts of the lotus seaters where obviously shorts but just a few moments of

00:52:23.860 me and carl looking at some of the best busts that are there um there's some roman dice they love dice

00:52:31.620 games carl was very interested that they had a d20 they're playing they're playing dnd yeah romans

00:52:38.900 played dnd confirmed there you go ancient roman d20 okay so and but the whole of england or the whole

00:52:45.620 of britain really but specific more particularly england is littered in a good way with roman ruins

00:52:56.420 and this is just the wiki page that tells you where there's loads and loads of roman villas all over

00:53:01.380 the place all over the place um it's a great great history and heritage that we've got um and so some of

00:53:09.460 the most best ones some of the most famous ones uh if we keep going sorry i'm just yeah going so

00:53:15.540 the whole list to show the scale of it really not even halfway down the the page yeah

00:53:22.500 i didn't realize it's quite this extensive to be honest because obviously where i grew up there's

00:53:26.020 hardly any certain places particularly the southeast if you any old person could go out with a metal

00:53:31.860 detector and you might find some roman coins you might i know people who found roman coins metal

00:53:39.700 detecting actually right right yeah yeah um so okay keep going forward with the links one of the most

00:53:45.620 famous is fishbourne i think it was probably more than a villa it might it might be fair to call it a

00:53:51.540 palace at fishbourne um which is in sussex um yeah the the workmanship at fishbourne is uh off the charts

00:54:03.780 it's absolutely wonderful really um um yeah that's what they think it may well have looked like i would

00:54:13.860 happily live there so it's even with roman technology it is getting to the level of palatial isn't it

00:54:21.540 i would call that a palace i think more than nearly a villa again probably a better rendering of what

00:54:27.860 it might have looked like probably would have looked like incredibly impressive isn't it uh chedworth

00:54:33.860 this place called chedworth which is in gloucestershire uh in cotswolds and you can see there they've got

00:54:40.180 a version of the underground if you go back one those little mushroom things there that's because there

00:54:44.260 would have been a floor there and it's the supports isn't it yeah it's the underground heating system

00:54:48.180 once again and chedworth is on a much smaller scale than fishbourne but nonetheless it's just

00:54:54.740 sort of just sort of plunk there sitting in the countryside and uh i've seen much more modern

00:55:00.580 building there but in the foreground uh sort of roman call that modern you know americans the audience

00:55:08.340 can't comprehend calling that modern um it's merely 500 years old it's yeah yeah that's what chedworth

00:55:15.060 may well have looked like very impressive

00:55:20.420 uh that's uh that's uh lulling i've been there lullingston in kent i went there not too long ago i

00:55:26.980 went there about a couple years ago um and again it's just a footprint really of something that was

00:55:33.780 once there but still quite extensive uh well for the structure of the place don't you and

00:55:40.340 all indoors you're not going to get rained on at least all right yeah that's true and they've got

00:55:44.740 even even there they've got some mosaics on the floor which are quite remarkable if you keep going you

00:55:49.540 might i think i've got again there you go well yeah you notice there's some some swastik symbols yeah

00:55:58.500 german windmills but they're square ones they're not the diamond shaped ones so that's true it's not

00:56:03.940 the difference it makes all the difference um that's what maybe lullingstone might have looked

00:56:09.700 like in its in its heyday and bath of course classic one brilliant one again can't mention

00:56:16.340 roman britain without mentioning bath i remember when i moved to bath the very first day i went and

00:56:21.460 brought a book about roman history paid my entry which is not cheap and sat on a really sunny day

00:56:27.060 next to the baths for hours reading about roman history just on on the edge that lovely great

00:56:33.780 very much recommend it the ticket lasts for 24 hours so you can also go back that following day

00:56:38.980 lovely i can't think of much better way to spend an afternoon

00:56:43.460 nearby uh bath abbey is very nice yeah not roman no um and the the fact that um you know in this

00:56:51.140 instance it's something more than just a footprint something more than just a ruined echo of something

00:56:56.980 that once was it's still sort of it's all still there right it's uh and uh yeah i'll just say

00:57:03.860 that again could talk about the roman baths at bath for quite a while there was lots that you could be

00:57:08.500 said so this it looks like hadrian's wall and i imagine you can probably tell us all about why the

00:57:14.900 romans left right yeah i suppose yeah i mean there's the wolf the antonians as well but hadrian hadrian's

00:57:21.060 wall again another fantastic although not very tall anymore but a fantastic sort of stamp on the on the

00:57:27.620 countryside uh if you go through then i think i've got two or three images of hadrian's wall imagine

00:57:34.340 that's a form of tower or gatehouse or something yeah some sort of yeah some sort of garrisoned

00:57:41.140 area of it it stretches from coast to coast across across the borders that's what it may have looked like

00:57:46.980 in its heyday so yeah i mean by the end of the roman era in the very early fifth century um probably the

00:57:55.220 year 410 or bead the venerable monk of jarro says it's 409 and zozimus uh byzantine chronicus says it

00:58:04.820 was in the year 410 but anyway in that area is the age of sort of honorius and stilicho and aleric

00:58:11.220 the king of the goths visigoths invading italy they originally um they went on to settle spain

00:58:18.820 didn't they the visigoths yeah the visigoths were all over the place yeah but they also went to north

00:58:23.220 africa didn't they yeah yeah blimey um get about so yeah at that time um just the the empire was

00:58:31.780 the western empire anyway was just being assailed from sort of all directions some sort of massive

00:58:37.380 coalition of goths and visigoths uh germanic um migrations wasn't it yeah the vandals the alans

00:58:45.220 the swaby the macromani the alamani even franks lombards early burgundians all sorts of people

00:58:53.140 all clubbing together realizing that our rome and the roman legions are a particularly low ebb and in

00:58:58.980 fact we could we've caught them off guard because aleric tried to invade italy once and was repulsed by

00:59:04.660 the great stilicho but the stilicho but stilicho himself had been the last great roman general had

00:59:09.140 been ousted and executed and so rome was that when aleric for the second time tried to invade italy down

00:59:16.020 through the the po valley uh was uncontested marched straight up to rome um and so anyway the emperor

00:59:23.780 around that time or just before that anyway uh honorius had sent a letter to the cities in britannia and said

00:59:31.460 send back the legions they're like what legions it's like all the legions all of every man jack of

00:59:38.980 them we need in italy now and so there's like a letter that was sent sozima says that they sent a

00:59:44.420 letter saying you must look to your own defenses we need all the manpower back in italy yes we need it

00:59:50.580 yesterday do it go uh so the roman legions pulled out of britain whether it was in 409 or 410 and so

00:59:59.460 quite literally the end of an era obviously historians are going to look back on that and

01:00:04.580 that's a line in the sand sort of moment um and so ended roman britain but now we're still left with

01:00:12.100 these these footprints the these echoes these to my mind these sort of wonderful pieces of

01:00:18.940 archaeology are still left and we're still digging them up to this day and i think as time goes on and

01:00:24.860 we keep rebuilding because london not just london but particularly london it's like this onion that

01:00:30.100 will keep being built upon we won't that's not going to ever going to stop um hopefully we'll keep

01:00:35.880 finding more and more very interesting bits of archaeology so anyway that's been in the news cycle

01:00:41.060 recently so it was an opportunity for me to just bang on about the romans again well i very much enjoy

01:00:47.540 all right thank you we've got a few comments here we've got um london was mostly built by one-legged

01:00:55.120 black trans queer lesbians from wakanda bow true historical fact unassailable historical fact

01:01:00.760 hedgehog dilemma says with london uh demographics going the way they are i feel a strange sense of

01:01:06.480 pathos listening to bow a real londoner speak about the history of the city it's like that photo of the

01:01:11.840 last barbary lion i i don't think there's going to be any shortage of of londoners uh ever really

01:01:19.680 call blimey governor an authentic londoner so they're all in bloody devon and cornwall these days

01:01:27.220 pushing up our house prices um hedgehog's dilemma i re-watched from hell uh thanks to bow jack the

01:01:33.900 ripper segment um not the best film but there's an eerily prescient scene where the met police destroy

01:01:38.720 evidence in order to protect ethnic minorities i didn't know that evick ray i mean it quite like

01:01:44.600 her i don't know who she is oh just an actress um but yeah in that film they have it that it's like

01:01:50.680 uh that theory that it's the one of the royal doctors and one of the royal well a really eminent

01:01:57.160 surgeon of the day he's jack the ripper and that was that was always a fanciful it's good for a

01:02:02.840 screamer at it's fine make a movie like that if you want to it's fine but it's just not makes it an

01:02:07.140 interesting story yeah right yeah yeah anyway today we're going to be talking about how the

01:02:13.920 left can't stop trump because none of their rhetoric none of their methods are really going to do

01:02:18.940 anything and i wanted to start with this because it was interesting and i think it was interesting to

01:02:24.580 lots of people because it's got a quarter of a billion views almost and it is trump saying he who

01:02:31.960 saves his country does not violate any law which is attributed to napoleon but he may or may not have

01:02:39.000 said this it's still quite a statement though isn't it it is it's uh sort of saying i can and will do

01:02:46.680 anything it takes it's great i'm here for it uh i mean it on the one hand it's sort of good to hear

01:02:54.360 that he's willing to go above and beyond but also it does seem like ammunition to his detractors a

01:03:00.980 little bit slightly worrying because what if in four or eight years time gavin newsom saying the same

01:03:05.840 thing but the other way around that's a precedent yeah the thing is though i i think that what he's

01:03:12.800 actually responding to is the fact that there are since he's assumed office that they've been saying

01:03:18.780 trump can't do this trump can't do that and they're trying to limit his power in a sort of soft way

01:03:24.020 because obviously i think there's an eight uh eight uh senator majority in the senate for the

01:03:31.680 republicans i think there is a free majority in the house uh they they have a majority in the supreme

01:03:39.440 court as in republican appointees and so this has given trump unprecedented power uh for a u.s president

01:03:46.760 normally at least one branch of government is interfering and they're not anymore and of course

01:03:52.580 it's worth mentioning and i always like to make this point that even a tyrannical u.s president

01:03:57.800 still has you know about as much power as your average uk prime minister um make of that what you

01:04:07.480 will but it's just a little bit of perspective i'm not saying one is right or wrong it's sort of

01:04:11.440 chalk and cheese but i know exactly what you're saying i'm not disagreeing with what you're saying but

01:04:14.340 um yeah there's they're they're different they're different beasts but you certainly can have more

01:04:20.500 or less powerful presidents right you can have a lame duck president you can have a president who's

01:04:24.980 jimmy carter is a good example isn't yeah or um yeah if you've got congress and the senate and the

01:04:29.500 supreme court against you yeah your wings are massively clipped uh yeah and trump at least in this first

01:04:36.940 period before we get to the midterms is enjoying a very eminent position so he's got until november of

01:04:43.780 2026 so at least two years but then it is also possible and i think also likely that the republicans

01:04:50.500 could actually increase their majority who knows if he's doing a good job and people like what he's

01:04:54.700 doing fingers crossed yeah i mean it's not usually the case but who knows it's possible yet usually the

01:05:01.400 incumbent uh gets a few losses in the midterms don't they usually yeah but if he is as genuinely

01:05:09.500 popular as it it seems then yeah well the thing is also lots of people on the left are very careful

01:05:19.080 now about how they're assailing him so they're obviously throwing a lot of mud and that's what

01:05:22.860 we're going to be looking at today is they're throwing mud and seeing what sticks but i think

01:05:26.980 actually they sort of understand that yeah actually he won the popular vote and what he's doing is what

01:05:32.400 he promised so it's a little bit awkward but this is the the mud that is being slung at the minute

01:05:39.060 trump hates the constitution obviously this is the end of january and it's now halfway through february

01:05:43.420 but this line has carried on throughout all of the month and this was just the night

01:05:47.380 the nicest and clearest way of it being stated just that all of a sudden all of us yeah i know the

01:05:54.540 rolling stone all of a sudden the left the democrats just um darlings of the constitution

01:06:00.060 they're diehard constitutionalists and uh let's of course rolling stone where i just quickly say

01:06:06.640 goddamn burnt out hippie commies i won't let it go i know damn them let's remind ourselves

01:06:14.660 is it time to torch the constitution uh this is of course uh opinion we're living under a flawed

01:06:22.120 constitution let's start fresh and rewrite it is it time to scrap the constitution the constitution

01:06:29.080 is sacred is it also dangerous oh dangerous like a true connie constitution so yeah obviously we know

01:06:38.160 they don't care one lick about the constitution they care about enacting their agenda i mean

01:06:43.640 shall not be infringed i'm gonna you know draw a line under that you know all of the attempts of

01:06:51.560 democrats to limit gun rights as far as i'm concerned americans should be able to own

01:06:55.600 whatever they want you know from f-15s to handguns an f-15 yeah why not a howitzer why not sure

01:07:08.020 the land of the freebo what are you what are you a commie a small nuclear device no i'm playing

01:07:15.580 i don't want to be on a watch so i can't agree yeah right sure um but no i mean the democrats god

01:07:21.040 the the hypocrisy i remember it was it i can't remember if it was in obama no it must have been

01:07:25.720 the early biden administration they wanted to try and increase they kept making noises about trying

01:07:31.020 to increase the number of um justices on the supreme court in order so that they obviously could pack it

01:07:36.900 massively unconstitutional they wanted to make new states like make uh dc its own state its own state

01:07:45.180 would have been completely riding roughshod over the constitution a number of things like this a

01:07:51.340 great number of things well let just see they don't care about the constitution of course not

01:07:55.860 and to call forth another recent example all of the attempts to censor free speech as well first

01:08:01.300 amendment literally the first amendment in the constitution has been one of the things that

01:08:05.680 they have been running roughshod over four years you know they've been getting the intelligence

01:08:11.140 agencies to you know knock on the door of the uh social media companies to censor on their behalf

01:08:16.760 all the twitter files that you know musk released expose this very clearly that even small accounts

01:08:22.360 parodying anti anthony fauci and things like that uh you know with only a few hundred followers

01:08:27.640 getting removed by basically the white house yeah i don't know how that's free speech people like

01:08:35.540 benjamin franklin and jefferson and madison and monroe and john adams they must be spinning in their

01:08:41.920 graves perhaps not so much john adams but um just because of the alien and sedition act but

01:08:47.280 people like jefferson will be spinning in their graves um to know someone like george washington who

01:08:54.420 didn't even want parties he didn't think there should be political factions or parties at all

01:08:59.140 um and now we're where we are i think there's something to that you know these days yeah i mean

01:09:04.960 it's a simpler world but yeah in theory the concept of it is sound it just makes for discord it just makes

01:09:12.560 for bad government anyway go on and um where was i i've completely lost track i was too busy thinking

01:09:23.020 about the roman um senate now and how they sort of had factions so um yes um this is one from the

01:09:32.640 financial times u.s judges are the last line of resistance against donald trump and this is what's

01:09:37.420 been touted by lots of outlets it's also the guardian repeating a similar line here the courts are a crucial

01:09:43.540 bastion against trump what if he ignores their orders well um they need their last line of of uh activist

01:09:51.160 commie judges exactly and as jd vance here points out um earlier in the month if a judge tried to

01:09:58.980 tell a general how to conduct a military operation that would be illegal if a judge tried to command

01:10:03.340 the attorney general and how to use her discretion as a prosecutor that's also illegal judges aren't

01:10:08.800 allowed to control the executive's legitimate power pretty unassailable argument really there isn't it

01:10:15.680 yeah they're supposed to be of course completely separate arms of government yeah they're meant to

01:10:22.240 and the executive checks on each other to a certain extent but not limit the the constitutional powers of

01:10:29.740 of certain branches of government yeah the executive um should have primacy over the judiciary

01:10:38.680 right well because you know trump appoints well the president appoints people to the supreme court

01:10:46.040 which is the highest court in the land and so if they have the power to appoint the judges it seems like

01:10:51.140 they have a higher level of authority don't they well yeah i mean it is actually more of a an interplay

01:10:59.160 or there it is yeah there'll be fedora tippers in the comments saying oh you don't understand but

01:11:04.120 i i do is obviously the president can elect or nominate the supreme justices but then there's a

01:11:11.720 famous quote i can't remember who it was or maybe oliver wendell holmes or somebody like that said who was

01:11:17.440 a supreme court justice said the constitution is whatever the judges say it is so in those terms the

01:11:24.320 buck stops with the supreme court not the president presidents come and go but the supreme justices stay

01:11:29.400 for life right you've got sort of life tenure uh but yet it's the executive that gets to appoint them

01:11:35.400 so it's it is it's not it's an interesting relationship but there's there seems to be a bit

01:11:42.260 of a dynamic there doesn't there yeah which is fair to say and it is the um anyway there's so much that

01:11:47.140 could be said about it but um yeah it's the supreme court that says for example they can say they can

01:11:53.140 literally just say no the constitution means this we think it means this and therefore it effectively

01:11:59.120 does now so like classic examples when they said um like slavery is legal and a few decades later

01:12:06.460 said actually no it wasn't legal we were wrong uh or they could say child labor is okay and then

01:12:12.900 decades later say no it's definitely not okay so it's whatever they say it is damn it spoiled good

01:12:18.100 but the funny thing is after saying this very reasonable thing the media comes out again alarm as

01:12:25.300 jd vance says federal judges aren't allowed to control the president which is the most absurd

01:12:30.340 headline i've ever it's like yes you remember all of those federal judges you elected to oversee the

01:12:35.920 the role of the president said no or never yeah yeah it's such a it's such a transparently silly

01:12:42.280 headline i don't know whether the journal well he lives in san francisco so actually maybe he is a bit

01:12:48.340 stupid um but you get the idea but i saw um cernovich have a pretty good and well-structured

01:12:56.500 explanation of how the judges can't compel trump to do anything i do know about all of this i've

01:13:01.940 actually studied the u.s political system uh i i did a politics a level if that means anything in

01:13:08.660 in britain it might um but we within that we compared the british and american system and i spent a

01:13:14.700 whole year studying the american system so i know all of this but i know americans don't like it when

01:13:19.660 i explain their political system so i've defaulted to another um american uh judges can't compel trump

01:13:25.880 to do anything the judiciary is co um a co-equal branch of government yes um is not supreme under

01:13:32.880 the text history or structure of the constitution judges are not above the law if judges um issue an

01:13:38.960 unlawful enforcement order trump may direct u.s marshals the executive branch to ignore

01:13:43.240 the judiciary some might not like it but that's what the constitution provides those who are

01:13:48.860 disaffected have democratic remedies and rights the legislative branch may move to impeach or not

01:13:54.100 which is what the text of the constitution allows for if voters disagree with congress members

01:13:59.920 decisions regarding whether to impeach voters may remove them in the next election or vote to re-elect

01:14:05.560 them our system was set up this way to keep power within the people voters not random activist

01:14:11.860 judges to say otherwise would require one to ignore the united states constitution's structure the

01:14:17.180 debate surrounding it such as the federalist papers and lead the country to a system where judges may

01:14:22.340 act as if they are above the law which i think is said perfectly and i can't see anything wrong with

01:14:26.640 this personally nice reference to the federalist papers there i did a long-form bit of content with

01:14:31.060 benjamin boyce the great benjamin boyce talking about the life and career of alexander hamilton

01:14:35.580 uh check that out it's on his channel and mine um so yeah absolutely right um i don't think there's

01:14:42.300 anything wrong there um and uh some of the more astute outlets um here's a harvard uh school center

01:14:52.040 sort of regretfully admitting that actually they're like unlikely to save democracy from trump and musk's

01:14:58.960 attacks because they don't have the power to um i know they're framing it as protecting democracy

01:15:04.860 which is obviously bs but they can also recognize that the constitution does actually

01:15:09.060 provide trump the ability to do these things and even vox here we are vox yes they're still going

01:15:16.380 don't expect the courts to save us from donald trump they know that even the courts i've got

01:15:24.040 my tiny violin somewhere playing just for vox i'm sure i've got a handkerchief somewhere

01:15:30.300 yeah try those leftist tears oh no

01:15:32.820 and another thing as well is that they're talking about can president trump ignore congress's spending

01:15:41.380 laws the debate over impoundment so this i'm going to read a little bit from this because this is from

01:15:46.980 npr and um i found this interesting because it's trying to couch the power of the president to you

01:15:54.940 know they have their budget set by congress right they're trying to couch it in a different way than

01:16:00.480 it's intended it says a constitutional conflict is brewing over congress's power to of the purse

01:16:05.700 and whether the president can refuse to spend what congress has directed him to spend

01:16:10.100 so the problem isn't that trump is spending too much it's that he's not spending enough

01:16:15.540 which i think is well within his right he can run the executive however he wishes and if he wants to

01:16:21.720 spend less money the power of the purse is to close the purse to the president not to that's the

01:16:27.860 intention of it is to make sure the president doesn't spend too much of the american people's

01:16:32.320 money and if trump is saving the money this is yeah the weird dynamic the idea that you've got a budget

01:16:39.960 and you must spend it all no that's that that's not written in the stars is it doesn't want to do it

01:16:46.520 then he's just going to be forced to waste the american people's money which is obviously not in the

01:16:52.740 spirit of the law whatsoever the idea of this check is that you prevent reckless spending which

01:16:59.600 obviously hasn't worked very well over the years but uh nevertheless that's its intention

01:17:04.520 not to mention that it's money that congress hasn't even got it's all sort of made up money anyway

01:17:10.400 it is yeah sort of almost nonsensical numbers on a bit of paper well basically what this is that it's

01:17:17.000 not about actually spending the money it's just you're cutting things that we like please stop yeah

01:17:22.120 that's what's going on and uh they've also been trying to get this um democrats say trump's effort

01:17:29.460 to shut a u.s aid agency is unconstitutional this is even more sort of akin to that of a lunatic right

01:17:39.180 in that of course the u.s aid was set up by jfk by executive order trump is dismantling it by

01:17:47.380 executive order and somehow this is unconstitutional it was created with the same powers that it's being

01:17:53.660 dismantled from the same office and somehow the constitution has changed in that time has it

01:17:59.120 it's funny again it wasn't franklin jefferson madison and adams that decreed that u.s aid must exist

01:18:08.220 right so yeah it started in the reason and now we're stopping the tea in boston harbor is because

01:18:16.460 they wanted u.s aid yeah that's what it was it's a little known fact it's actually covered up it's

01:18:22.040 been around 60 years it's fine you can you can get rid of it that can happen it's okay and loads of

01:18:28.720 outlets have been reporting this nbc news trump's efforts to withhold federal funding triggers

01:18:32.480 constitutional showdown not calling it a crisis that's just a showdown at least that's a little

01:18:37.680 bit more honest in that it's just a showdown between two sides rather than saying it is an

01:18:43.500 actual problem and uh here's another one trump's disregard for u.s constitution a blitzkrieg on the

01:18:50.360 law legal experts say i wonder how these legal experts vote yeah i imagine they're probably democrats

01:18:57.480 presidents lawlessness in actions such as federal funding freezes and birthright citizenship order

01:19:03.380 is worth mentioning isn't that the 14th amendment or whatever that's what they're trying to argue

01:19:09.600 and i know i've mentioned it before and people said actually no it's perfectly legitimate to get rid of

01:19:14.380 it um i did say it was baked into the constitution but it's not and i was wrong and it's good because i

01:19:20.700 think they should get rid of it this is just leftoid screeching into the void isn't it blitzkrieg

01:19:25.300 they're throwing mud and a lot of this stuff isn't sticking because what he's doing is popular he's

01:19:31.540 saving people money here's another one um i think this one when was that oh that's 2025

01:19:37.660 one of these i think um trump's illegitimate power grab brings u.s closer to dictatorship apparently

01:19:43.680 this is another one that trump's acting like a dictator but of course um all of the checks and

01:19:49.540 balances still apply to trump much the same as they do any other president it's just that

01:19:54.420 there aren't going to be many checks and balances because the branches support him

01:19:58.240 uh didn't he win the popular vote he did uh so doesn't that mean by definition he cannot be a

01:20:04.740 dictator then yes okay good and uh here's another one uh trump's dictatorial theory of presidential power

01:20:12.420 what the executive orders in the aggregate tell us of course actually biden uh opened the door for

01:20:19.340 this one because biden issued 17 executive orders i think it was either in his first week or first

01:20:25.860 two weeks which was the equivalent of the first two months of trump's first presidency and so trump

01:20:31.860 thought well that's a good idea let's do even more of that so you know your guy did this first

01:20:37.940 you know the window is broken already when when he found it i've never thought that there's ever

01:20:42.960 been anything close to a dictatorial president you'll find people say that abraham lincoln was a

01:20:49.220 dictator i mean he did he did uh suspend habeas corpus for a while but it was during war but he

01:20:54.040 wasn't a dictator he won elections open free elections someone said fdr was a dictator well no he won the

01:21:00.480 elections fair and square or more or less fair and square so they're not a dictator you can you can

01:21:05.940 criticize that they're more authoritarian than you might have liked they're not a dictator by definition

01:21:11.140 it's very they won open free elections so they're not a dictator yeah it's one of those things where

01:21:18.400 it's similar to the word fascism where it's used so liberally and inappropriately right it just weakens

01:21:24.980 the term yeah and um here's one from cnn trump 2.0 versus the u.s constitution annotated all of a sudden

01:21:33.980 cnn cares about the u.s constitution which is uh difficult to believe here's politico this was

01:21:40.580 from 2016 when trump didn't do nearly much as much but they were trying the same thing then as well

01:21:47.000 is worth pointing out trump versus the constitution a guide it may be true that donald trump has read

01:21:52.540 the constitution but it's unclear if he understands it most condescending byline i've ever read it's the

01:22:00.780 most classic thing it's it's almost sort of the last refuge often is it that they're just stupid do

01:22:05.700 remember a few weeks ago when um people like aoc were just trying to make out that musk isn't

01:22:11.240 intelligent yeah

01:22:12.120 it's just it's just pure lies remember at the beginning of the ukraine war they were trying

01:22:19.100 to make out that putin's about to die he's very ill and he's about to die

01:22:22.020 or that trump doesn't understand the constitution so

01:22:25.980 who are you trying to fool who are you trying to kid it's not that complicated it's not very

01:22:30.360 complicated at all no right

01:22:32.020 and uh here's another one from the new york slimes as you called it trump's actions have created a

01:22:40.360 constitutional crisis scholars say who are these scholars yeah who are the scholars

01:22:45.400 urban scholars perhaps um here's the bbc legal showdown looms as trump tests limits of presidential

01:22:53.660 power which isn't as egregious as some of the other ones he's he's sort of he's doing that

01:22:59.240 he is a little bit yeah it's not unreasonable to say that i mean but i think not all i was about to

01:23:04.940 say all presidents i'm probably not all presidents but most presidents will be doing that and prime

01:23:09.040 ministers and chancellors heads of state all over the world all the time on and off will be will

01:23:14.180 be testing the limits of their power sort of then sort of in the nature it's expected yeah yeah

01:23:19.300 the idea is are you going to do more of what you want to do or less generally speaking people like

01:23:26.160 to do more of what they want to do uh you know i'm no psychologist oh wait i am um donald trump

01:23:33.000 keeps teasing a third term here's what to know um does he i would be a single word about that i

01:23:39.000 would be very surprised about this this is what they're trying to say he's trying to set him this

01:23:42.580 is trying to sell the dictator line yeah i don't think actually he'll want to at that age

01:23:47.760 to be honest he's quite old as is you know he's doing quite well for his age to give him credit

01:23:53.600 but i think part of the reason that he's appointed jd vance as his vice president um is that he's sort

01:24:01.180 of appointed the person who he feels is a good successor to him right uh whereas in his first

01:24:07.460 presidency he went for someone who sort of uh in mike pence the original justification for that is he's

01:24:15.680 someone who's very different to trump whereas jd vance in terms of his views and the policies he

01:24:21.220 supports is quite similar to trump and so i think that's the thinking there and there's no way for

01:24:27.920 him to have a third term unless they were to repeal um there's something in the constitution now whether

01:24:33.260 it was amendment or something it's set in stone because it wasn't until fdr that it was actually

01:24:39.340 written into law into statute that you can't have more than two terms it was always just done by

01:24:44.140 um yeah it wasn't written in law but now it is uh so he can't have a third term unless he were to

01:24:53.180 repeal that but yeah i just don't see it it's just clear it seems to be complete nonsense from time

01:24:58.100 i think it's trying to sell the dictatorial angle isn't it time magazine just to mention if anyone

01:25:02.620 doesn't know is as about deep state as it gets absolutely go down that rabbit hole if you dare

01:25:09.280 and cbs cbs and cbs has gone a bit off the rails because they're talking about how

01:25:16.960 free speech caused the holocaust somehow it's it's just uh you know germans were just shouting people

01:25:25.000 to death apparently i don't know you know the german accent sometimes can be a bit intimidating

01:25:30.220 but it does not actually kill people um at the bottom of the swamp you will find time magazine and cbs

01:25:38.360 with their loudspeakers screaming up from the bottom of the swamp so this is just desperation

01:25:45.700 trying to throw anything in that direction and then nbc were even trying to blame trump for the

01:25:54.200 toronto plane crash and uh that's a canadian plane crash by the way toronto canada uh they're trying to

01:26:00.960 blame that on trump for some reason uh which happened this happened very recently just any rationale or

01:26:07.240 reason to say that i mean what well they're trying to say um that because he did those things with the

01:26:13.360 um he did stuff to do with air travel didn't he oh all right um and they're saying oh it's causing

01:26:19.680 problems in america and now they're even saying it for canada i don't think so you know if you

01:26:24.480 if you make cuts to funding and things like that and the planes start falling out of the sky

01:26:29.920 i don't think it's the the it's not you haven't got enough cash in the bank to to fly the planes

01:26:37.120 is it they're not run out of fuel it's dropped that's not how it works it's a silly argument yeah

01:26:41.900 yeah completely silly and so i just wanted to illustrate how no matter what they're trying here

01:26:49.260 it doesn't seem to be working this isn't sticking and they sort of are aware of it as well and it's

01:26:54.880 getting increasingly desperate but uh i'll leave it there so we've got a bunch of comments here um

01:27:03.120 oh blimey so say oran says uh they have a free senator majority in the senate and many are still

01:27:13.800 inclined to stab him in the back that being said uh viva le emperor i guess uh good new uh josh

01:27:20.880 uh federal judges is that meant to be news uh federal judges and scotus are peeling back

01:27:25.460 bans and restrictions on firearms a federal judge just ruled that americans can legally own a machine

01:27:30.360 gun hooray what about fed m60 i hope so if you can't own a grenade launcher you're not free

01:27:39.480 of course uh dragon lady chris says packing the court is not unconstitutional i can't even say the

01:27:48.040 word um it's a horrible idea but perfectly legal apparently well no maybe we're talking at cross

01:27:53.220 purposes it's one thing you know there's one thing to uh but what the dems try to do is just make it

01:28:00.540 more than nine supreme court judges so if they made it 20 and appointed the 11 new ones that's

01:28:08.640 unconstitutional i think she maybe this person's talking about packing it in a legal sense as in

01:28:15.620 working within the current framework yeah yeah just have like an all democrat nine justices

01:28:21.140 you can't just like i think i'm pretty sure it's unconstitutional or illegal to just fire the four

01:28:26.940 or five judges you don't like and appoint new ones that would be illegal yes the unconstitutional to

01:28:32.360 just say there's 20 you can have 20 of them now so i suppose in a limited sense she's right but what i

01:28:39.260 was saying was correct though anyway anyway thank you for uh yeah thanks thanks for the thanks for

01:28:46.120 the the comment and money though uh in the constitution the judicial branch has zero powers

01:28:51.480 as in there are none stated the courts have taken power and given it to themselves over time

01:28:56.120 so ignoring them is constitutionally sound well there we go that's a good argument um

01:29:01.120 bo still think trump isn't a somewhat sulla figure yeah no sulla no yeah he's not yet i mean i've got

01:29:11.520 some epochs episodes on sulla sulla marched on the capital and then purged his political opponents

01:29:19.140 rounded up thousands of these political enemies and their families and things and murdered them

01:29:27.720 so no so no trump any advisors to trump watching um no anyway um no public executions because that's

01:29:35.800 not really done anymore but he's purging the state and trying to put the u.s on course it should have

01:29:40.800 been on all along all with the weapons they created to beat him with yeah okay fair fair justification

01:29:48.240 there and uh bold eagle says there is no stated limit on scoters justices a president can appoint as many

01:29:54.020 as they want nine has become the accepted number there we go okay well i'll stand corrected if that's

01:29:59.320 the case i wonder okay well if i'm wrong i'm wrong we all right to overrun a little bit samson

01:30:05.520 okay cool aristophanes sets out a satirical farce in which wives in their husbands cloaks illegally

01:30:14.980 attend a city meeting and vote to pass all powers to the women the play explores them celebrating their

01:30:20.380 success and then setting out their plans before enacting what is described in the play as communism

01:30:25.100 despite what people say about the play it's not an exploration of how women would fail in such an

01:30:30.100 endeavor but how they would merely end up imposing what the weakest men would i would argue it's

01:30:35.120 compulsory reading in our feminized age thank you alex always interesting um add it to the massive list

01:30:43.640 books i need to read there are lots of examples of sort of matriarchal societies uh throughout history

01:30:50.980 you know i was there of judgments i don't want to come across as a

01:30:56.040 i love women i've got nothing against them um many of my family are women really yeah it's

01:31:05.860 it's almost like i want to restrict immigration to protect them or something

01:31:10.460 yeah but anyway golly i went to the bookstore and i got a new book it's hindline time

01:31:19.780 also i got dune some good finds there uh the first june novel is my favorite sci-fi novel

01:31:28.020 of all time easily i got bought the the first three books as a trilogy for christmas this christmas

01:31:36.320 yeah it's massive the first one is the best one okay um i've really enjoyed the films we watched

01:31:42.280 um the latest one together didn't we yeah that's right yeah yeah yeah um it was great i uh i've

01:31:48.960 reread the first june novel about five or six times again on i've got a long form bit of content all

01:31:55.120 about it on my channel history bro and it's also i think on nate's channel mr h reviews an hour or two

01:32:01.340 hours worth of me talking all about june with with nate and starship troopers the original one

01:32:06.940 i listened to that on audiobook about 18 months ago two years ago not that long ago and it is also

01:32:13.280 excellent it's very different to the film the films of june are pretty the modern films of june are

01:32:19.100 pretty close fairly close to the book but the the the film of starship troopers is nothing really like

01:32:25.180 the book and because the film is a bit of a throwaway cartoonish romp fun action thing the

01:32:32.300 actual book is quite deep and uh very interesting it explores elements of the human condition and all

01:32:39.040 about political philosophy and all sorts of stuff sounds really interesting it's good it's a good read

01:32:42.780 i still need to watch the david lynch version of june with uh agent cooper is yeah yeah yeah it's good

01:32:50.740 and bad it's if you've not read the book it would be weird and wouldn't make sense if you have read

01:32:54.880 the book it's it's quite good it's weird to see sting in it stings in it oh yeah yeah it's the beast

01:33:02.260 i think okay uh some written comments then um adrian webb says wishing the stelios a swift recovery get

01:33:10.220 well soon um oh we got five more never mind sorry samson so i've been seeing a lot of third world is

01:33:20.360 you know defending wife burning on the basis that well europeans spent all their time burning women

01:33:25.900 for witchcraft because that's part of their culture and it's like yeah like less than like

01:33:31.700 50 000 people were executed for witchcraft across all of europe in like a 400 year period well like

01:33:37.940 you'll usually see any third world country kill half that in a 10 year period let's not even ignore

01:33:43.560 the fact that you know europeans are probably only people i think positively witchcraft these days

01:33:50.360 also worth mentioning that africans still kill people for witchcraft today um yeah there's all

01:33:57.000 sorts of weird abominations and if you're an if you have the misfortune to be african and be born

01:34:01.980 albino then you're basically doomed i was just gonna say that yeah some parts of africa you don't want

01:34:07.820 to be an albino they will eat you devilry with all the fun and games around usaid presently the one

01:34:15.180 thing i'm surprised we haven't seen come up is university funding i think the source of this modern

01:34:18.860 maladies after they whacked kennedy and wanted to go to a fiat currency they'd want as many debtors in

01:34:22.840 the economy as possible thus president johnson's fascination with getting as many people into

01:34:26.680 university as possible so they could be quickly exported to the workforce and take on debt now

01:34:30.360 presumably this is all being funded through the department of education and not usaid which would

01:34:34.060 make that the next most viable target were either great orange one while the federal government may be

01:34:37.960 the rapacious mind of this beast the universities are as many beating hearts that must be ripped out if

01:34:42.820 this thing is ever to be truly killed it gonna be good here here yeah some interesting points there

01:34:49.720 i'm sure it's on trump's list of things to address because he i think he's well aware of all of his

01:34:54.860 problems stemming from universities fundamentally the academy has is just a force for subversion in

01:34:59.960 all sorts of ways isn't it that was a chunky cool looking v8 by the way it was i think that was a v8

01:35:04.400 so an embarrassingly long time ago i saw a list online of a hundred books everyone should read

01:35:11.620 before they die and i decided to take a crack at it so far this is my collection the top two rows

01:35:16.560 being the books on the list i've collected so far and the rest being personal choices they define

01:35:21.540 extreme right wing as reading douglas murray peter hitchens melanie phillips jr r tolkien beowulf

01:35:28.300 enhance and georgia was 1984 enhance

01:35:34.840 i enjoyed that very much thank you 1984 absolutely should be on everyone's reading list

01:35:44.120 bear wolf is a bit more esoteric uh it's great but um you'd need some notes to fully like the

01:35:52.400 iliad or the odyssey or um paradise lost or something it's like it's you you need to know

01:36:00.080 what you're reading a bit before you you just like 1984 is just sort of a modern novel you just pick

01:36:05.520 it up and you read it and it is what it is but it's anyway bear was a bit different but i noticed a

01:36:09.400 few quite a few really cool books on that list i noticed the road on there which i read mccarthy

01:36:15.180 yeah which i read so depressing isn't it i read for the first time like one month ago and it's one of

01:36:21.800 the bleakest things i've ever read in my whole life i've had to keep you away from rope ever since

01:36:26.780 yeah i remember watching the film with vigo mortensen and just being like wow i've never been

01:36:34.740 more depressed unremittingly remorselessly bleak and dark isn't it not a glimmer of hope

01:36:41.480 well there is i mean the film has hope i'm not going to spoil the end maybe at the very very very

01:36:47.880 end the tiniest glimmer and that's it though that's it but the the good thing about the film

01:36:54.420 the the bit that has the positivity about it is that you go away and appreciate your life for what

01:36:59.760 it is far more yeah that's that's the one takeaway i got from it is i need to be grateful for what i

01:37:05.080 have right yeah yeah yeah good point they define extreme right wing just owning a top hat put you on

01:37:12.840 the list as well i'm not looking forward to it either but at least i didn't spend money on it

01:37:29.860 i just have to keep reminding myself of this meme besides if anything was going to get me put on a

01:37:35.500 watch list it'd be these bad boys yeah great french line is to it's just uh je ne compte pas

01:37:44.760 je ne sais pas i don't know i don't know oh just no no if they try to speak to you in french

01:37:51.580 problem is i i know a little bit but not quite enough where the french won't sort of look down

01:37:56.500 their nose at how i'm not speaking perfect french to them oh well i like just say to anyone who tries

01:38:01.820 to speak french to me just be like you what mate speak english mate are you angleterre

01:38:08.420 um anyway that's all the video comments is it not samson yes okay we'll read some more comments

01:38:15.720 um hi josh just wanted to say thanks for the uk segment yesterday most blackpilling thing i've

01:38:20.860 ever seen in my life you're welcome um wendy gold says excellent podcast with two of my favorite

01:38:28.260 load of seaters especially enjoyed bo's history segment so did i thank you i enjoyed it more than

01:38:32.180 my own which isn't saying much um for europe is a war zone um derrick power says it's understandable

01:38:39.480 why you're upset josh the influx of unsolicited people and then your nation state vilifying the

01:38:44.380 natives whilst propping up the invaders it's an abusive relationship all around very true someone

01:38:50.280 online says someone really needs to do something about those european assault cars i know they're very

01:38:54.740 dangerous someone needs to put a stop to them maybe make cars go only five miles an hour

01:38:58.320 that's that's what they've been trying to do anyway make cars safe again for the roman london

01:39:04.400 segment az desert rat says can we get an epox and on mifras that would be cool yeah could do should do

01:39:12.000 um that might be in the pipeline at some point yeah it's reasonably important i've mentioned it here

01:39:17.460 or there i'm pretty sure but yeah a whole epox on it yeah maybe the people's front of judea i'm

01:39:24.600 personally a judean people's front man myself um you lads should go to siren sester and do videos

01:39:29.800 on the roman stuff they have there there's a bus that goes from swindon and i highly recommend

01:39:34.940 going that's a good uh day out for me actually i might not do a video but i might take some pictures

01:39:39.480 and post a little twitter thread or something i don't have a proper camera so a bit difficult for

01:39:44.800 me siren sester once or twice in my life it's not been nice yeah and lord nero of us says hell yeah

01:39:50.980 roman history on the main podcast christmas has come early so there we go and then the left can't

01:39:56.340 stop trump george hap says even though um there was the initial jubilation of trump's executive orders

01:40:01.720 the bureaucratic fight against the deep state has only just begun people should be aware of the names

01:40:06.360 of the woke judges trying to block him that's very true they have names uh they have positions and they

01:40:11.660 should be fired yeah we've only just begun what is it four or five weeks or something is that all so

01:40:16.680 it's off to a very good start to give him credit hector rex says i haven't seen the left this mad

01:40:20.580 since we took away their slaves you'd think they'd want corrupt money out of politics it's funny that

01:40:25.320 isn't it and on that wonderful note i think it's time to end the show but thank you very much for

01:40:30.480 watching and goodbye

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - February 18, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1103

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