The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1130

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to the podcast lotus eases episode 1130 i'm your host harry joined today

00:00:06.100 by stelios hello everyone and returning guest we're always welcome to have him back

00:00:10.220 lewis brackpool hello doing all right lewis i'm very well yourself i'm good as well thank you

00:00:15.480 where can people find you oh or i forget to ask no worries you can find me on x formerly known

00:00:20.860 as twitter lewis underscore brackpool uh instagram as well as substack as well i've got to be shilling

00:00:28.160 that more i think oh when did you start a substack a year and a bit ago i think how much have you

00:00:33.880 posted on it since then getting there it's filling up yeah yeah as it's going hey that's all right

00:00:39.240 then i have a secret substack that none of you will ever find and i have never posted anything to but

00:00:45.020 it does exist maybe in the future something will be done with it but not today i can't be bothered

00:00:50.460 right now but uh so today we're going to be talking about uh the birth rate question and whether low

00:00:56.040 birth rates necessitate mean that you absolutely have to import the entire third world into your 1.00

00:01:01.020 country so that the bank of england can say that there is growth on a spreadsheet somewhere we're

00:01:06.020 going to talk about poland banning asylums applications a welcome change if you ask me 1.00

00:01:10.940 and seed oil communism i know that a lot of people have a lot of strong feelings on seed oils

00:01:16.860 i've never actually looked into it personally so i'm interested to see what you're going to tell me

00:01:20.460 about all that seed oil belongs to the people we need to seize the means of seed oil reproduction

00:01:28.140 and production and production yes don't use seed oils for reproduction i don't think that'd go

00:01:35.080 very well for you see the oil goes in a breeding contest to keep the birth rates of seed oil it all

00:01:40.220 fits together it all fits and then you ban those people born from that from applying for asylum to

00:01:45.880 poland see it all fits uh we also have calvin's common sense crusade out there uh later on today

00:01:52.400 at three o'clock for so for the uh the people who watch that tune in for that later if you've got a

00:01:57.920 membership if you've not got a membership then i guess you just have to miss out and with that one

00:02:03.360 or get one or get one like a cool person would you're not uncool are you i'm pretty cool i've got a

00:02:10.800 membership but i also work here anyway so let's get into it so i wanted to talk about the birth rate

00:02:18.260 cargo cult today and that has come up because there has been a new article by the um supposedly

00:02:25.180 conservative publication or center right publication the telegraph from uh lucy burton talking about how

00:02:32.580 britain must rely on immigration to compensate for our falling birth rate now i know that birth rates

00:02:38.720 are a very very popular uh a bit of discussion for people on the right and also the left mainly

00:02:45.200 because there's this idea that you need to up the birth rates to the 2.1 per 2.1 children per mother

00:02:52.900 to make sure that you're at replacement rate and if you don't do that well there will be consequences

00:02:58.340 you'll be outbred by the third world and in the case of the establishment they say if you're not

00:03:03.800 meeting that well then you will have to have migration massive levels of migration to enable

00:03:10.060 growth in your country economic growth in your country and i think there is problems with both

00:03:16.840 sides of those discussions that we'll get into just quickly this has come out timely because it was 25

00:03:24.100 years ago only the other day that the un published the replacement migration report yes so it's interesting

00:03:31.480 timing that this has come out now it is very interesting timing and it does seem as with

00:03:36.020 everything to be somewhat coordinated because the woman who published the report that ad that talks 1.00

00:03:41.060 about this sarah harper uh has had uh she's an expert on aging and she's had positions in the un

00:03:48.040 and other large global organizations she's spoken at the world economic forum as you would expect and

00:03:53.900 she's also had some very interesting positions that she's taken previously on whether it's good or bad

00:04:01.040 that england has a below replacement level fertility rate but i'll mention that in a minute first

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00:05:16.100 you scroungy bastards anyway on to the seg onto the actual segment itself so this article came out 0.85

00:05:23.240 yesterday and it was one that immediately got a lot of attention because really i find birth rate 0.98

00:05:29.280 discussion to be somewhat of a misnomer it's somewhat of a distraction i absolutely believe

00:05:35.400 you know i'm a father i've got a daughter myself that if you are in the right financial position to be

00:05:41.700 able to do so and raise a child in a healthy environment with somebody that you love you

00:05:46.300 should absolutely do so and i think that you should do so um and have as many as you can possibly

00:05:52.480 manage because having a family is incredibly rewarding bringing life into the world is one of

00:05:57.900 the most beautiful and important things that you can do however on the political dimension of a

00:06:03.460 discussion like this birth rates are always used either as a distraction from the more effective

00:06:09.540 political action of what needs to happen which is discussion in my opinion of the rapid demographic

00:06:16.220 change and people on the right will say well you just need to have more children or else the

00:06:20.860 demographics will change to the point where we're disenfranchised i would say you shouldn't get into an

00:06:25.640 arms race with birth rates with the third world because western european countries have always had lower 0.94

00:06:31.840 fertility rates than most of the rest of the world you will lose that it's breeding war it's an 0.92

00:06:37.720 anthropological observation that western europeans in particular have always had slightly lower fertility

00:06:44.260 rates because of the environment that we develop it developed in which means that we spent had less

00:06:49.760 children and spent more time on those children raising them to make sure that they survived and lived good

00:06:57.080 lives it's i think it's r versus k reproduction strategies right that's the discussion there and the other

00:07:03.220 side of the conversation is that when you talk about birth rates you're legitimizing the other side who

00:07:08.240 say okay well if it's so bad that you do not have replacement level birth rates then we're gonna have to find

00:07:15.220 some other way to boost the population because the the conversation always comes back around on these

00:07:21.520 economic terms that if we do not have a boosting population if it's not constantly increasing this will lead to an

00:07:27.820 economic downturn which will impoverish people so you don't want that do you but anyway onto this

00:07:33.380 discussion here so again it's always used as some kind of backdoor method of saying well in that case

00:07:39.040 we need more people in the country one way or another it's interesting the one narrative is oh no

00:07:44.840 no population reduction and then the other narrative is oh no no we need more people population reduction

00:07:50.320 for certain populations as we'll find out with sarah harper herself either way so what it says the

00:07:56.480 official fertility rate in england and wales is a record low of 1.44 births per woman figures published

00:08:02.760 at the end of last year show that the number of children born to british mothers has fallen by a

00:08:06.700 quarter in 15 years and of course this has nothing to do with impoverishment of the country rising house

00:08:13.480 prices deteriorating social conditions hostile culture nothing like that we've no idea why it

00:08:21.420 happened and there is only one solution says the establishment meanwhile fertility rate for foreign

00:08:27.100 born mothers have jumped to the past two years to 2.03 children per woman professor harper the professor

00:08:35.200 of gerontology at oxford university said we have to accept that we are going to be in low fertility

00:08:41.760 societies and the only way we can compensate for that is by looking at migration we have a growing group

00:08:48.280 of women who want to have children later and they maybe only want to have one child the idea that

00:08:53.800 we're going to be able to replace ourselves by births alone i really cannot see that coming back two

00:08:58.460 questions why not and again there's always this assumption with organizations institutions like the

00:09:05.980 bank of england that growing population is always a good thing but we've had a growing population

00:09:13.020 driven entirely by migration for what a decade or two at least by now and the economic situation on

00:09:21.560 the ground in the country is getting worse and worse and worse gdp per capita has remained very

00:09:27.220 stagnant or falling and you can go around the towns and city centers across the country and see that there

00:09:34.140 is widespread impoverishment there are so many closed shops so many foreign-owned shops which are fronts for 0.98

00:09:40.960 foreign criminals and you go well okay it's the same as the tax question they say the country's 0.88

00:09:46.540 getting worse everyone's getting poorer let's keep increasing tax well people have been increasing

00:09:50.840 tax over and over and over again for decades and things have got worse and worse and worse well

00:09:56.360 we've been having this much migration into the country for at least 25 years 20 uh 28 years at this

00:10:02.660 point 20 uh wouldn't it be um so the country's got worse and worse and worse the only answer is more

00:10:08.120 migration just keep your foot on that pedal the labor market yeah for the labor market and it doesn't

00:10:14.900 really make any sense to me the aging expert said that there had been a generational shift as a lot of

00:10:19.700 women who would have previously believed that to be an adult and female was probably to have children 1.00

00:10:23.800 are now reconsidering this so there has been a change in the culture and we can only guess as to

00:10:28.800 why that might be please do not refer to anything like u.s aid payments to uh foreign ngos that like to

00:10:36.600 spread leftist propaganda around western nations and the rest of the world if i'm perfectly honest

00:10:41.820 we've also got this particular graph here in the article saying the fertility rates are record low

00:10:47.020 and you can see it was already on a downward turn when it gets to about here when the abortion act

00:10:53.140 comes into force but then you see an even greater acceleration of that dip so we have the baby boom 1.00

00:10:58.600 things start to level out naturally because that was a very special circumstance that led to

00:11:03.740 that particular boom right there and then abortion comes in and it just goes and then it's

00:11:08.920 leveled off for a few decades until we get to now and things get worse and worse and worse and there

00:11:14.940 are a number of factors leading to all of this and they say experts have suggested that more women are

00:11:19.860 choosing to prioritize careers or buying a house over having a baby meaning many are having children

00:11:24.380 uh later in life or not at all in the uk the average age at which mothers give birth has riven

00:11:31.820 from 26 in 1975 to 30 or 31 in 2022 the highest since records began at the same time the office

00:11:39.380 for national statistics has projected that the number of people aged over 85 will nearly double

00:11:43.960 to 3.3 million by 20 2047 professor harper's comments come days after andrew bailey the governor of

00:11:51.380 the bank of england warned that britain's aging population poses major obstacles to growth

00:11:56.200 so that's the only thing that we've got to be worried about as always growth we need the line go up

00:12:02.920 line go up on a graph somewhere and again there's questions to ask which is growth for who growth for

00:12:09.220 what purpose growth uh growth for the improvement of living conditions in the country or growth for the

00:12:16.740 sake of uh bankers bottom lines compare that with a country like hungary for example that incentivizes

00:12:23.740 things through tax breaks through you know mat well marriage um obviously if you have i think it's two

00:12:30.180 children i believe that you you're entitled to some kind of break tax break of some sort so like

00:12:37.120 incentivizing the idea there have been some governments that have had some success i believe

00:12:42.220 i've actually got it in an article later later on um or at least it's mentioned in an article later on

00:12:47.720 but hungary's pronatalist policies i think have been able to increase the birth rate from

00:12:53.720 was a 1.23 per mother to 1.5 per mother so that's a quite a jump but still not to replacement rates

00:13:03.480 there's only so much in a modern environment that you can do to incentivize people to have more and more

00:13:10.560 children and it does seem to be a reflection of the culture it does seem to be a reflection of

00:13:16.200 uh feminist priorities wanting women to be out of the home yeah if you make it that are raising 1.00

00:13:21.580 children have kids like and the culture is no no just don't worry about that you can you know

00:13:27.440 there'll be a number of other things as well access to contraception and abortion yeah and then there's

00:13:31.540 going to be things just like general contact with globalized liberalized culture even in the third

00:13:39.880 world as i'm going to mention in a few minutes does seem to have this effect of reducing birth rates

00:13:44.980 but as i'll get on to in a minute as well the actual process of increasing diversity in countries

00:13:51.920 also has a negative effect on birth rates so it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle and on that and on

00:13:59.620 that it's interesting that sarah harper here is talking about how we need migration because the birth

00:14:06.560 rates are too low implying that birth rates being low by themselves is a bad thing well if you go on

00:14:14.260 her wikipedia page which talks about all the things that she's done you know being part of the uh unit

00:14:20.960 un ece population unit which is a un institution she's spoken at the world economic forum uh global

00:14:29.620 advisor on aging populations to the international bank hspc someone who's actually got quite a decent

00:14:35.840 amount of influence by the sounds of it well it goes to the bottom and in 2023 she told a daily

00:14:41.120 telegraph that a falling birth rate in the uk would be good for our planet yeah she thinks it's a good 1.00

00:14:47.320 thing that the high income high consuming countries of the world are reducing the number of children

00:14:52.240 that they're having so evil what changed yeah well it depends on the population she's talking about

00:14:58.740 doesn't it it's bad when european nations have enough children to replace themselves because

00:15:05.540 white man bad i suppose but as a solution to that you still need to have an increasing population

00:15:11.780 in these countries to keep the economic uh wheels spinning so you're going to have to import all of

00:15:18.180 these hostile foreign populations who by themselves as well are net tax drains and do not contribute 1.00

00:15:24.460 economically to this uh to the countries speaking of um european countries i think that the the whole

00:15:31.900 way that europe is treating this problem turns it into a self-fulfilling prophecy because what they're

00:15:39.100 doing is that they are looking upon several trends and they think that these trends are going to last

00:15:44.540 forever so for instance they're saying women right now give birth as a to an average of an older age

00:15:51.420 let's say 35 and they assume that this is going to keep happening forever that it's never going to

00:15:58.940 change that's fundamentally mistaken demographic predictions are notoriously fallible so when they're

00:16:05.900 saying that in order for us to retain the replacement rate we need influx of people well the question is

00:16:13.820 what kind where do you where do these people come from and what are they doing and frequently they come from

00:16:21.420 countries where they are let's say low skilled they don't have much education and they are low

00:16:27.820 skilled then very what happens is cultures as well what happens essentially is that you we have a huge

00:16:34.060 influx of low skill people that that drives wages down and by driving wages down it's it becomes incredibly

00:16:42.780 more difficult for let's say common people people who aren't let's say the rich of a society to procreate

00:16:51.420 raise a family and end up thinking that maybe that's a good idea so that's that's that's a

00:16:58.540 self-fulfilling prophecy whether they intend it or not that's the effect that is happening it's incredibly

00:17:05.180 more difficult for the native population to raise families but also there are several assumptions there

00:17:11.500 that are mistaken such as for instance a reductionist pop in population is always a bad thing it isn't

00:17:17.420 and the gdp goes up it doesn't always go up sometimes especially when we're talking about

00:17:24.220 particular countries from the middle east it actually has a negative effect on the on the gdp

00:17:31.020 even if it doesn't go up if and if it doesn't go down and it increases the question is how many people

00:17:38.540 is it going to be distributed towards so gdp is one thing in absolute terms gdp per capita is a much better

00:17:46.460 term to see how the common person is represented in the overall yeah how domestic product and i've

00:17:54.540 said for a long time at this point that the actual population of native-born british people in this

00:18:00.540 country has remained a pretty steady 41 to 42 million over the past 40 or so years if the population

00:18:08.700 remained at that kind of level because we're rapidly reaching i think the figure in the telegraph

00:18:13.980 article is 72.5 million by 2032 if the population reduced to a much more manageable um 41 to 42 million

00:18:23.100 say 45 million to allow for productive european migrants who remain in the country to stay here 1.00

00:18:29.340 and contribute to us as well because they can integrate um i don't see how that would be a bad

00:18:35.180 thing at all the infrastructure would have an incredible load taken off of it the nhs would actually

00:18:40.940 probably be fit for purpose to a better extent under a population of that size the roads would be

00:18:48.140 clearer there would be less competition for wages meaning that people would have better livelihoods

00:18:53.420 there would be less competition for land houses businesses business property people would be able

00:19:00.620 to open up their own businesses much easier i don't see any negative side effects to it at all

00:19:06.860 personally outside of the bank of england and other large gdp based institutions scaremongering about

00:19:14.460 it personally that's that's my look at it and you can see that this seems to be on a certain level

00:19:20.540 coordinated because at the same time you get people like lord philip hammond going on sky news as a

00:19:27.420 shown here by connor who posted this on his twitter uh saying that um saying the exact same thing we need

00:19:33.180 growth so we need managed migration let's hear hear it from the horse's mouth um deliver the effect

00:19:40.860 the growth effect there will have to be some additional managed migration we will need more

00:19:47.180 workers possibly only for you know short-term workers but we will need uh more uh uh foreign workers

00:19:55.180 in order to deliver the homes and the infrastructure that the government is proposing to build and

00:20:01.100 politically that's going to be very challenging and if i was the government i think that's where i'd be

00:20:06.220 focusing my attention now persuading the public that over the next four or five years in order to

00:20:11.740 deliver all this growth promoting infrastructure and house building we will need uh to bring in some

00:20:18.540 foreign construction workers albeit for a limited period of time okay so so the country's going to pot 1.00

00:20:25.660 how do we fix it keep doing the same thing that we've been doing accelerate for 28 years but

00:20:32.220 slightly more this time this time it'll work and as connor points out in here uh the office for

00:20:38.620 budget responsibility doesn't believe labor's promise 1.5 million new homes will decrease house price

00:20:43.260 inflation because at least 1.5 million migrants will be added to britain over the period that they are

00:20:49.020 built so you're bringing in more people to solve the problem that is constantly being caused by more

00:20:54.460 people constantly coming into the country self-perpetuating cycle of you know if i didn't

00:21:01.900 have if i didn't know better i would say that there was something malicious going on here but i would

00:21:07.020 never say that because then um large international american ngos might come after me saying such a thing

00:21:14.860 but on the birth rate question again the point about fertility rates going down seems to be something

00:21:22.140 that's universal whenever a cult country comes in touch with this liberalized globalized culture

00:21:29.180 like this is an article from the imperium press uh from almost three years ago now actually called

00:21:34.140 the third world is going to cop it where he looks at fertility rates across the world across different 0.70

00:21:39.420 populations and sees that this trend of reducing fertility rates is pretty much universal so he says i

00:21:45.900 collated data across many studies and came up with the following rates of fertility decline by race

00:21:50.540 over the same period so jewish populations had a decline of 17 percent 1.8 to 1.5 muslim populations

00:21:59.020 had 15 percent 2.3 to 2.0 hispanics 12 percent 2.11 to 1.87 black populations 9 percent 1.88 to 1.71

00:22:10.220 and whites actually had the lowest rate of decline in that time at seven percent but they started off

00:22:15.660 pretty bad already from 1.66 to 1.55 and he carries on even africa by far the content continent with the

00:22:22.780 fastest growing population is starting to show the effects of global liberalization particularly in

00:22:27.020 urban centers kenya's total fertility rate of 3.4 is still a lot higher than any western country but it is 0.96

00:22:33.820 a decline from 4.8 in the years 2009 to 2019 which is an enormous decline in fertility rate if you take it

00:22:42.940 in total percentage what's happening and he puts it down to the fact that all of these cultures

00:22:48.380 have had very traditional very particular ways of living up until very recently they've come in touch

00:22:54.460 with this globalized western liberalized culture and it has just run straight through them and this

00:22:59.820 is something that is going to happen more and more and more to the third world as as it as it's affected

00:23:06.860 by all of this i think it's mostly economic i don't think it has to do with a political aspect oh well

00:23:12.620 i mean when i say globalized and liberalized i mean i mean technology and economic people are given the

00:23:18.060 choice usually they delay having children yes i mean when when they aren't in when they aren't in

00:23:28.220 very strict environments that incentivize them to have children i mean cultures and it's in this article

00:23:33.740 that he mentions hungary as well and he says that you know they've improved the fertility rate but it

00:23:39.180 does seem there to be an upper limit got you on that and this is what leads to situations like this

00:23:44.940 this is quite a famous uh graph at this point only 56 percent of births in england were white british in

00:23:50.780 2023 you can see the different regions up in the northeast it's 80 but down in london unsurprisingly

00:23:58.220 it's 21 again to show how global this whole situation is you can also see he did one in uh

00:24:06.140 about america as well from state to state and you can see across each of these states especially the

00:24:11.980 ones across the southern border texas new mexico california they go down as low as 15 percent

00:24:21.340 in 2023 which is absolutely ridiculous and again i think that there might be something

00:24:28.540 intentional about some of this uh which is that there has been a study done last year talking

00:24:34.940 about the effects on greater levels of diversity on fertility rates and this is a very very interesting

00:24:41.260 study let me go through some of this america has seen increasing diversity and declining birth rates

00:24:45.420 for a long time racial minorities made up about 10 of the population in 1950 but account for more than

00:24:50.540 40 percent today the total fertility rate was 3.7 kids per woman in 1960 and around 2.1 in 2007 is

00:24:57.980 around 1.7 today a viral academic working paper by umit g guran and david h solomon argues the two

00:25:05.660 trends may be linked perhaps rising diversity is a reason that birth rates are declining this could be the

00:25:11.580 case for example if people tend to marry others of the same race and have more trouble finding partners

00:25:16.460 in diverse places or if places with higher diversity tend to have lower levels of trust and

00:25:20.860 more social isolation this next bits from another analysis of i've seen of this solomon's study

00:25:26.380 utilizes data from 1850 to 2021 drawing on u.s censuses and the american community survey to

00:25:33.660 establish a direct link between racial diversity and birth rates two key concepts are central to this

00:25:38.780 analysis racial isolation and immigration shocks racial isolation refers to the scenario where an

00:25:44.300 individual is part of a numerically smaller racial group within a local area for whites a one standard

00:25:49.260 deviation increase in this isolation leads to a birth rate decrease of 0.044 children per woman

00:25:56.300 conversely when the share of whites in an area increases by a standard deviation there's an

00:26:00.620 increase of 0.064 children per woman paints a clear picture as the white demographic becomes less

00:26:06.540 concentrated due to immigration their birth rates diminish longitudinally this study observes that

00:26:11.900 increase racial diversity since 1970 might explain between 20 to 44 percent of the decline in u.s

00:26:19.820 fertility rates highlighting the profound effect of demographic changes on birth rates so that is

00:26:27.100 very very interesting if you were to look at that study and take that as being accurate and an

00:26:32.140 accurate representation and as a result i can only assume that this kind of switch code switching in

00:26:39.420 in a in rhetoric that harper does where she's like well you know the falling birth rate is great for the 1.00

00:26:45.580 planet it's all about the planet and the environment and then turns around and says well this means you're

00:26:50.620 going to have to have more people in the country again as you mentioned it becomes self-perpetuating

00:26:56.700 and i would argue is being done on purpose and again this kind of diminished cultural cohesion in more

00:27:03.660 diverse populations and groups has not just been noted on a broader nationwide level it's been noted

00:27:11.660 by amazon by amazon when they were looking at which stores were at most risk of unionizing so you don't

00:27:19.660 want the you don't want the uh staff to unionize and you think to yourself okay well that'll cost us

00:27:25.580 money that'll cost us time how do we prevent that well they've got a heat map that ranks which stores

00:27:31.180 and most risk of unionizing as part of this heat map they track a number of different factors and

00:27:36.380 the higher the score of these factors are the more the less risk there is of unionizing right one of

00:27:43.340 the most important ones they notice they note here is that the heat map says lower rates of racial

00:27:49.740 diversity increase unionization risks store risk metrics include average store compensation average

00:27:57.340 total store sales and a diversity index that represents the racial and ethnic diversity of

00:28:02.940 every store stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity and lower employee compensation

00:28:09.740 as well as higher total store sales and higher rates of workers compensation according to all of

00:28:13.740 these documents so the important part there is that if you want a group to be less cohesive

00:28:19.100 not be able to work together against you who are the authority in a position of power

00:28:25.420 you want them to be more diverse amongst other factors this is this has the an equivalent in

00:28:33.100 politics and it was played by the left who was losing the working class and said that they need to

00:28:38.940 mix population and suddenly they began open borders but the people they want to they imported have 0.98

00:28:45.660 are reaching critical mass and they're going to make parties of their own so now it's not so much

00:28:50.860 i think it's not so much the left that is the issue here it is definitely an issue but also it's the

00:28:57.580 purely economic side yes that says gdp is the only thing that matters it's an establishment problem yeah

00:29:04.060 i would argue but that's all the information that i have for that do with it as you will let's go through

00:29:09.500 the rumble rants that i've received here so uh starting from the bottom five dollars from alex

00:29:14.940 adamson 55 says harry and josh you are conscripted to undertake a most holy and ordained task you are

00:29:22.620 to create tv movies and game segments covering the sharp series you are to enlist bow in this task i

00:29:29.740 need an excuse to watch sharp so cheers i've never seen that blood for the blood god with an incredible

00:29:36.220 two hundred dollars thank you thank you so much for your support we really appreciate that says have

00:29:42.220 a good rest of the night off lotus eaters crew and uh you too my friend at cruel for five dollars

00:29:48.140 says you can't be an alpha male without being a father for most people potentially i would say you

00:29:55.020 can be a sigma male though but i am a father so not sigma confirmed that's uh that's a random name

00:30:01.500 sent in two one dollar rumble rants thank you says everything in the west is inverted our elders have

00:30:06.860 created a system that treats men like defective women and vice versa criminals like victims adults like

00:30:11.900 children etc is it any wonder then that were the societies destabilized as ours most people

00:30:17.100 struggle with forming families regardless i do believe we'll come out of it stronger i can only

00:30:21.820 hope so and you've sent another one in for one dollars saying uh lewis sounded so enthusiastic

00:30:26.300 about that two hundred dollars sorry yeah sorry i was like wow it sounded yeah yeah there are

00:30:32.620 definitely cultural problems over um the suitability of uh well how many men perceive the suitability of the

00:30:40.380 the women they interact with on a day-to-day basis and have to come up with the cost benefit analysis 0.82

00:30:46.300 of do i want a family with this woman because that is that is a problem that is a problem these days 1.00

00:30:51.900 but there are still good women out there somewhere maybe anyway before i start i need to address the 1.00

00:30:59.900 chat because i do pay attention to the chat as you all know my tie is not just pink

00:31:08.140 a bit pink it's a bit pink but it's also a bit red a bit blue a bit all has all sorts of colors

00:31:14.220 that's the whole rainbow it's your pride it's not my pride tie no no no no no no um you know i remember

00:31:22.620 you bought me that pride one didn't you what i've never bought an actual pride yeah yeah he he brought

00:31:29.180 harry brought it to me i've never ever presented a tie to anyone i'm joking as he was in the in 0.88

00:31:37.100 beginning i have no pride ties right okay he's a bit gay though 0.88

00:31:41.900 harry the bully is gonna the bully i remember your lads hour call these were the guardians 0.98

00:31:54.940 okay and now you're misbehaving the bullying is going to continue until morale improves i'm sorry

00:32:02.380 i'm sorry you say it now but you're gonna mean it later oh yeah okay come on come on okay all right

00:32:11.580 nice okay it's the fist bump on air yeah the third party uh yeah i'm just witness i'm taking notes at

00:32:17.820 the back just right okay right so we are going to talk about poland and poland is an interesting uh case

00:32:25.180 in this um world we're living in because they put forward a policy that i think is a bit sensible

00:32:32.380 but it has been portrayed in somewhat a misleading light in several ways so first of all a lot of

00:32:39.180 people are saying that poland is banning application asylums full stop it's not exactly like that what

00:32:45.340 they're doing is for 60 days they are restricting asylum applications primarily from from men that come

00:32:53.340 from the poland belarus border oh okay okay so that's a lot more limited and less triumphant than i

00:33:01.340 saw people reporting it exactly so they're gonna do that for 60 for 60 days and we don't know whether

00:33:07.260 they're gonna continue it or not my view is it's it's better than i expected from donald tusk

00:33:13.660 but there are several concerns about his stance across the years but also his his uh platform so they

00:33:22.780 voted for this and we have here the president duda signed the new bill today which makes it possible for

00:33:29.260 poland to deny all asylum requests by the illegal migrants trying to break through poland's border

00:33:34.860 wall with belarus right so what is interesting here is that oh i saw that the the border between poland and

00:33:43.260 belarus is very turbulent when it comes to migration and one would expect it not to be but it is because as

00:33:54.460 far as uh as far as uh as far as migration flows are concerned russia and belarus are using migration

00:34:01.900 flows in europe as a means of hybrid warfare and the polish are excellent at pointing that out 1.00

00:34:08.620 now there's a myth in the in you know especially right-wing circles that says that russia is would

00:34:15.420 never be behind something like that but that's a myth obviously yep okay good right so we have several

00:34:23.260 a hostile a hostile nation might send hostile populations into our countries who would have

00:34:27.580 thought i mean you you're you're taking you're taking the conversation to uh to another side i'm not

00:34:34.380 saying that russia is doesn't have some policies which may be good on this but on this case oh no no

00:34:40.620 no i'm not they are i'm agreeing with you yeah i'm not saying you're disagreeing i'm just saying i'm just

00:34:45.740 recontextualizing your your comment and what i want to say so they the polish are persistently 0.99

00:34:54.940 highlighting this so we had this video that went viral here a few days ago we have people trying to

00:35:01.340 cross the border from belarus we see them here they're trying to opening a hole in the border

00:35:08.300 border when they come in and the polish border patrol comes and arrests them and it went viral

00:35:16.700 it got 26.4 million views you see the polish guards are coming and they have been accused several times

00:35:25.420 for pushbacks that are considered to be against the echr rules right now my view is that when appeals to

00:35:35.500 the echr take place it's mostly the people who are doing the appeal now that's that's a conversation

00:35:41.660 for another time but there there are several clauses within the echr for instance in article 8 when they're

00:35:48.620 talking about the right to family life that they don't suggest that there is an unconditional right

00:35:53.980 to not get deported they are condition they are conditionalizing it uh right to not get deported

00:36:01.660 according to respect for public security the common good all the things we're talking about

00:36:06.700 right so um the situation there is turbulent for a long time and this june last june about nine months

00:36:15.500 ago there was a soldier who died after from a knife attack at the border it's not the you know it's not

00:36:23.340 the forest where with winnie the pooh and christopher robin where everything is is really peaceful and

00:36:29.500 nothing bad is ever happening it's actually a very violent uh situation in a very turbulent place

00:36:36.380 right what is interesting is that the border is here for those who's for whom geographies and the

00:36:42.860 your stronger card the border is here it's literally in the heart of northern europe

00:36:51.580 and you were uh please could we zoom out

00:36:56.540 yes so it's it's literally here and what is interesting is that the main routes for migration

00:37:03.420 are here the eastern route the western route through spain the central route through italy and

00:37:10.780 the eastern route through greece what on earth happens here because the polish are correct in saying that 1.00

00:37:21.340 the russians and the belarusians are are using migration flows in hybrid warfare and i have the these

00:37:28.860 stats from the uh the european council that talk about arrival arrivals of the illegal migration they call

00:37:39.260 it irregular but let's say it as it is and they highlight only the these routes which is interesting

00:37:47.980 but watch what this uh whole thing shows is that despite some voices within the eu that are saying

00:37:56.460 that this shouldn't take place it seems like the only way for europeans to do something about open

00:38:04.460 borders is to link it to russia and this is what happens in the polish case now i have some let's say

00:38:13.500 articles here by the telegraph about uh poland and if you see just the titles say here polish border

00:38:20.860 stopped to death by migrant and belarus border here we have the previous prime minister of poland who

00:38:27.900 says muslim migrants are destroying european culture um we have here um this was an article by stephen

00:38:35.020 edgington he's written a few on it by the looks of it yes also here britain can learn from poland's

00:38:39.500 rejection of illegal migration and and globalization yeah does great work friend of the show yeah and

00:38:45.740 like the uk poland does not want does not want multiculturalism so they're pretty much pretty 1.00

00:38:52.620 switched on on this issue for their border now in depending on who you ask they may be more switched

00:39:03.180 on about the other routes in europe or not but it's it looks like there are several considerations when it

00:39:10.060 comes to donald tusk and his whole stance towards multiculturalism speaking of multiculturalism we have

00:39:16.620 a new interview gone out with uh returning guest dr benedict beckel about the dangers of multiculturalism

00:39:24.700 and we're talking uh about several things particularly the tendency of europeans to view other religions

00:39:32.380 in terms of the protestant catholic divide which led to the separation of churches and state after

00:39:39.820 130 years of bloodshed within christianity so when we're talking about other religions 0.79

00:39:45.100 the the the question arises as to why would we want to do that even if in 130 years uh things are

00:39:52.380 going to be okay why would we want to go through that stage right so there are several considerations

00:39:58.380 about tusk because people are gonna a lot of people may jump and say well he may be our guy we don't

00:40:04.700 know but there are several several indications that he is definitely pro the progressive side right so for

00:40:14.460 instance he is um he he has been accused for promoting hate speech laws especially having

00:40:23.740 to do with offenses and the and the trans lobby he does seem to be a bit uh a bit to the left on on

00:40:32.540 several key issues and this culture i think he was campaigning as essentially a moderate return to

00:40:39.180 normality uh after the pis government yes that that was his campaign and he is on the center-right

00:40:46.940 government but and also in the european's people's party that is the within quotation marks center

00:40:52.540 right that is that has been left europe's borders open yes a very large extent i will say i remember

00:40:59.100 looking into that and being a bit disappointed in the pis government in the first place uh because there

00:41:04.460 were corrupt elements of the government who were going into north africa and selling free easy visas

00:41:11.100 to people who wanted to cross the border into europe themselves so um poland's government in in any

00:41:17.260 configuration is not perfect i mean every government is any government that was particularly disappointing

00:41:22.940 coming from them well that you you have a point right here we have a political article that is

00:41:29.740 lamenting tusk's um decision to go forward with that policy and they're saying here poland's government

00:41:38.380 aims to temporarily suspend the right of arrivals to claim asylum even though that clashes with both

00:41:43.980 international law and european union rules that's from october 14 2024 that's about five months ago but

00:41:51.660 prime minister donald tusk insists he will not backtrack as he says it is our right and our duty to protect

00:41:57.420 the polish and european border its security will not be negotiated with anyone tusk said on social

00:42:03.260 media on monday afternoon right so what it's interesting is that this seems like to my to my

00:42:09.500 mind this seems like closed borders for me better open borders for thee because he has been heavily

00:42:16.620 involved with the european people party i think he was its president at some point now it's the party of

00:42:23.100 ursula von der leyen who is who is you could say she occupies a high position and she's great she's

00:42:30.620 great lovely so and he says well anything i was anything my my group my peop my my team was saying

00:42:40.220 about our enemies i'm not going to to care at all about it i'm gonna have closed borders for me

00:42:46.060 interesting it's good for poland i was gonna say it's better than lots of western governments do

00:42:52.220 yeah it's good for poland but also i think that a lot of people should follow his example and maybe

00:42:59.260 say well maybe let's guard you we should guard europe right so they say he says uh i said tusk a

00:43:06.940 former president of the european council and a key leader in the center-right european

00:43:10.940 people's party that also includes ursula von der leyen is reflecting a harsher tone on migration

00:43:17.020 sweeping the continent a tough border policy is also part of tusk's effort to ensure that his civic

00:43:23.180 coalition party is in sole position to win next year's presidential election we need to bear this in

00:43:29.740 mind right so we have here another article by rte says poland to adopt decree suspending right to

00:43:37.500 seek asylum and they're talking about how poland and the other eu states along the blocks eastern edge

00:43:44.700 have accused russia and its ally belarus of orchestrating a campaign of pushing thousands of migrants

00:43:50.940 and all over the borders in recent years right so why is it a problem for the center-right of europe

00:43:58.220 when all these migration flows come from russia and belarus but it isn't when they come from all the other

00:44:05.260 routes why is it a problem there but not anywhere else yes so what what what they're doing is they

00:44:15.500 are talking about poland in the same way we are talking about europe they're taking a very parochial

00:44:22.780 view of the problem yes but but that is really interesting because all it is it it it seems that

00:44:30.860 their only concern is the origin who is behind those migration flows and i will say yes i i do think russia

00:44:38.460 and and belarus and in this case i'd say it's mostly russia does want to conduct hybrid warfare to europe

00:44:47.260 because russia has a power structure that looks the f that is very forward looking um that's that's a

00:44:57.100 feature of of the countries that uh don't have frequent let's say change of who occupies the top

00:45:04.860 spot they have decades of policy in advance yeah it sounds kind of sensible when you put it like that

00:45:12.460 policy orientation so why is it a problem when the same people let's say come from

00:45:20.300 from the belarus border poland belarus border but it isn't a problem for europe and for donald husk's

00:45:27.260 mates when they come from every every other place and question why is it the case that they think that

00:45:34.940 only putin represents a threat to the eu because i i agree that that to an extent to an extent he does

00:45:45.100 and putin's russia does represent threats to europe but they're not the only threats and i'll just share

00:45:51.820 an anecdote i've spoken to i've spoken to several people close to me and i'm saying okay you are really

00:45:59.740 anxious about putin's russia yeah you are tell me why i'm not saying you're necessarily wrong but tell

00:46:05.100 me why they list all sorts of considerations and i say yeah i agree with you why don't you apply that

00:46:12.700 to other areas of the world that are behind these migration flows so i think what's going on here with

00:46:21.020 poland is a good wake-up call it's good if in several places people like donald husk and other european

00:46:27.980 leaders are stepping up and say no i am gonna guard my country's borders it's good if they start

00:46:35.180 doing it but we shouldn't lose sight of the bigger picture and it isn't just the issue of where they

00:46:41.180 come from the issue is saving europe yes and and you are right there seems to be a problem with the

00:46:47.260 entire european establishment which is that when it comes to fighting back russia all of a sudden

00:46:53.020 they're starting to put armies together now that america looks like it's starting to pull out

00:46:56.780 they're starting to put more money into their own defense i think that those in a vacuum are not

00:47:01.820 bad things it's the fact that at the same time most of these countries their leaders are more than

00:47:08.140 eager to say well we need to protect ourselves from putin while at the same time destroying their 0.99

00:47:12.860 own countries from the inside with rapid demographic change multiculturalism and everything else that's

00:47:18.380 going on yeah so at the end of the day that's an issue that's a welcome move i think by donald

00:47:23.180 tusk and that's a good policy but it should be extended to all the borders not just the poland

00:47:29.900 polish belarusian borders and also it shows a lot about the hypocrisy of the eu because

00:47:36.060 what donald tusk is doing here well some of them are are against it but he does it regardless and

00:47:41.660 he i think he's right on this but the problem isn't just putin's russia there are all sorts of

00:47:48.860 threats to europe too much of a convenient narrative yeah exactly so you know it's very monolithic it's

00:47:54.780 just yeah yeah we only have one problem and let's solve this problem and it's going to be heaven on

00:48:00.940 earth it's not going to be heaven on earth there are all sorts of problems that europe faces and

00:48:06.620 all right let's go through the rumble ramp we had one during that segment from alex adamson at 55

00:48:17.740 again for another five dollars thank you very much saying good man for those who have not seen sharp

00:48:21.900 go watch it immediately and go and read the books actually cover the books too aren't there something

00:48:26.860 like 25 sharp i didn't know that there was books on it based on the the series was based on some of

00:48:33.900 the earlier books i think um i forget the name of the author but he did a um kind of narrative history

00:48:41.100 book on waterloo oh cool as well which i also um yes and the the i like the fact that sean bean is

00:48:48.780 playing sharp and i have these dvds yeah i've been my friends when i was a kid were obsessed with them

00:48:56.060 showed me a few episodes which i've completely blanked out of my mind for some reason i need to

00:49:00.620 sit down and watch them and pay attention i think it's bernard cornwall yes that's the name of the

00:49:05.500 author there's a ridiculous number of sharp books written by bernard cornwall i'm gonna have to dig

00:49:10.460 through that yeah there's a lot of them though so just i don't think they're really i don't think

00:49:15.020 they're that long they're like little adventure books but you have to full soap yeah have you read

00:49:20.940 some of them yes yeah okay it has been a while but uh 22 novels in the series there you go there

00:49:28.220 you go yeah 22 of them and he's written loads of other books as well at the same time so he's

00:49:32.540 one of those really productive writers that's awesome right should we get on to your segment

00:49:37.260 shall we uh i'm gonna bring it up on the screen and there is there's a mouse here here's the funny

00:49:43.180 box funny box thank you very very much uh two seconds there we go lovely right so to preface

00:49:51.580 before we properly begin with this segment um i just want to give a warning i'm not here to give

00:49:56.940 anybody health advice i'm not here to give anybody dietary advice you're all adults you make your own

00:50:03.340 decisions because when you go into subjects like these there is a tendency in the alt health sort of

00:50:09.820 area to sort of go a bit off piste let's say but this segment is not realize make incredibly broad

00:50:15.740 claims yes yes exactly but um today i thought it would be something different to talk about seed

00:50:23.020 oils um it is one of the most prominent topics within the health sphere uh i'm sure you guys have

00:50:29.820 seen are they lots of things in the burger patties the the things that the stomach can't um they

00:50:36.620 adjust well and they yes straightforwardly turn into fat yes it's it's horrific it's in my opinion so

00:50:44.620 you're going to be hearing a lot of opinions most the most i know my opinion is that if you do a fry

00:50:51.100 up with oil of some kind tastes grim if you do it with some proper butter it tastes amazing and that's

00:50:58.620 what i've done i've i've started using butter personally it's great i've never used the oil opinion not for

00:51:04.460 any like political ideological reason i would just hate the taste of the oil on the food

00:51:11.100 after it was done frying whereas with the butter it adds to the flavor i love the taste of oil in the

00:51:16.700 morning disgusting very mad attitude it is isn't it whereas me we germanics we like our butter we do oh

00:51:29.580 lovely so what are seed oils to begin with um well seed oils are a vegetable oils extracted from

00:51:36.780 the seeds of various plants some common examples include soybean oil canola or used to be called

00:51:42.940 rapeseed oil sunflower oil corn oil cotton seed oil and um safflower um safflower and grapeseed oil as well

00:51:55.180 um obviously you've probably seen this is an american sort of version of you know seed oils that they

00:52:01.180 obviously produce over there we've got something extremely similar um but there's obviously a big

00:52:06.460 controversy around uh what they are and what they potentially do to the human body um but firstly

00:52:14.860 how are they made um most seed oils are made using industrial processing which typically typically

00:52:24.700 includes um mechanical pressings uh to extract obviously some oil uh chemical solvents um to

00:52:32.380 extract the rest um deodorization and refining to make the oil uh shelf stable and neutral in flavor

00:52:40.860 and this process often includes high heat which can affect the oil's chemical stability now if we could

00:52:47.420 just play this without sound while whilst we chat um i don't like the way it's made personally it looks

00:52:53.500 horrible um the way it's made um the way it's made and it's very very off-putting i think also

00:52:57.500 aristotle said it's bad for you yeah in my opinion aristotle said seed oils are bad for you he was the

00:53:05.980 first seed oil disrespecter it's in the politics don't ask me which page but it's in there um last book

00:53:13.580 um the big thing about seed oils as well yeah it's just grim yeah i mean that's a horrible plate to

00:53:22.460 begin with why would you want any vegetables at all but still then put oil on top of them no oh yeah

00:53:27.900 yeah yeah i don't eat salad i told you this is it's like gore no just why don't you nice what butter

00:53:36.780 on the pan sorry i've also heard that apparently um beef tallow is really really nice as well but

00:53:43.420 i've not tried that i've not tried that personally but um samson's giving the thumbs up you can use

00:53:48.780 beef tallow as well as skincare routine apparently allegedly i don't know if i'm sure if i want to be

00:53:55.500 stinking of uh beef tallow for the day it might attract the ladies you know yeah you never know 0.97

00:53:59.980 you never know um well one of the big concerns as well about seed oils in particular is how much of

00:54:07.660 it is in our supply especially within supermarkets and chains um so i run an analysis uh earlier uh

00:54:15.020 through ai uh on the estimated presence of seed oils in food products uh especially within the uk

00:54:22.220 but please take this with a pinch of salt because you know ai can be uh pretty um seed salt sea salt

00:54:31.500 yeah celtic salt um so processed foods things such as snacks frozen meals ready meals things like that

00:54:40.860 look look at that that's mental no thanks it's pretty grim but also at the same time if you showed

00:54:46.060 me video from the inside of a slaughterhouse i wouldn't be feeling oh absolutely afterwards

00:54:50.140 either television b movie yeah there's like night shift yeah that's that is minion um just keep it

00:54:58.300 rolling whilst what is that is that gravel i think so you don't want to know harry okay yeah it's it's

00:55:04.940 uncomfortably brown yeah um 70 to 90 percent of foods or processed foods contain seed oils like soybean

00:55:15.740 canola sunflower oil or corn oil restaurant and takeaway food according to the analysis um nearly 100

00:55:25.660 yeah i've heard that mcdonald's switched to seed oils like back in the 80s from beef tallow for frying

00:55:32.140 their food in and apparently mcdonald's used to taste a million times better yeah and i think rfk

00:55:38.540 wanted to do the the change yeah where is it rfk yeah come on come on we need the beef tallow

00:55:46.060 uh supermarket package package goods such as crackers uh cereals bread sauces salad dressings etc

00:55:52.380 60 to 80 percent often include seed oils especially um as uh yeah i think as emulsifiers

00:56:00.940 what it says here yeah um or fats um health branded or low-fat food

00:56:06.460 oh that's so often oh that's grim yeah yeah we're we're keeping this rolling if you don't mind whilst

00:56:14.860 we do yeah yeah we should definitely and when we should replay it if it ends

00:56:18.540 um but the question remains why is it so common um because we see so much of it everywhere um well

00:56:28.220 number one it's extremely cheap to produce on an industrial scale that's the main thing when

00:56:33.740 something's so cheap and you could replace it and you know move it around you can get it on a factory

00:56:38.620 production line that you can run 24 7 exactly um seed oils like soybean sunflower canola and corn are

00:56:46.780 cheaper to produce than traditional animal fats or tropical oils such as butter or coconut oil

00:56:53.660 these crops are high yield easy to grow on mass scale and heavily subsidized in countries like the

00:56:59.660 us and this makes them attractive to food manufacturers aiming to minimize production costs

00:57:06.140 another one is a long shelf life which benefits packaged goods industrial seed oils have a long

00:57:12.460 shelf life especially after refined bleached and deodorized a common processed technique uh you

00:57:19.580 mentioned about the 70s and 80s well government guidelines since the mid 20th century promoted them

00:57:27.740 over animal fats just just those things that we've been eating for millennia at that point no we finally

00:57:33.740 found the one thing that's better than the thing that made us healthy for millennia funny that um

00:57:39.420 beginning of the 1970s and 80s dietary guidelines pushed to reduce saturated fats in favor of

00:57:46.620 polyunsaturated fats a category that includes seed oils uh this manufacturers um to switch from animal

00:57:54.540 fats to tropical oils to industrial vegetable oils to appear heart healthily um or heart healthy

00:58:01.420 um the big one is a rapeseed oil which gained attention during the 1970s although high in its toxicity

00:58:10.220 originally um the large quantities prompted canadian scientists to develop a less toxic variant

00:58:17.580 called canola oil by the 1980s which that's where the name was coined from all right um and over the

00:58:24.620 following decades they created genetically modified varieties to improve resistance to pesticides or

00:58:30.700 herbicides contributing to its popularity um to understand as well um rapeseed oil was primarily used um

00:58:42.940 during the early 20th century as a machine lubricant especially in steam engines ships and industrial

00:58:51.820 machinery uh because of its excellent resistance to heat and its ability to cling to metal surfaces

00:58:59.100 okay yeah on its own that doesn't necessarily mean it's terrible for you

00:59:07.340 uh that's so is it so fine it so is it terrible you should buy olive oil is it just that like that is

00:59:13.500 it is it terrible for you and how is it terrible for you if it's good for you how is it good for you

00:59:18.540 these are my interesting questions exactly well the big question is is it healthy for us uh in my view

00:59:25.580 absolutely no no it's not obviously everything in excess can be bad for you but when you look

00:59:31.900 into some studies a lot of studies independent studies uh you find that the high levels of omega-6

00:59:38.860 fatty acids um particularly um i can't even say linoleic yes linoleic acid forgive me i'm so bad

00:59:47.980 at pronunciation um and how these fats behave in the body during cooking um seed oils like soybean

00:59:55.660 corn sunflower cotton seed and grapeseed oil are very high in omega in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats

01:00:04.700 which can make up to 50 to 70 percent of the fat content in some of these oils excess omega-6 especially

01:00:13.180 without enough omega-3 from sources such as oily fish or flax may promote the production of pro

01:00:21.580 inflammatory compounds in the body um so that's why there's a big uh thing around you get bloated

01:00:28.140 get bloated and this chronic low-grade inflammation is believed uh to be a contributing factor to things

01:00:35.660 such as heart disease uh obesity type 2 diabetes autoimmune conditions and others as well where does

01:00:43.100 communism come into this so we've got to have it in everything and you must eat it okay yeah yeah so i

01:00:50.860 thought play on words you could argue fascism could argue that it's just authoritarianism in general okay

01:00:57.580 yeah that was the point essentially um but what's interesting is this all came about when i put

01:01:05.820 forward a freedom of information request to the uk's food standards agency it's obviously the one that

01:01:12.700 measures of course you know safety regulation everything like that to investigate um the research

01:01:19.020 into seed oils instead of just believing everything online about it is it bad for you is it really really

01:01:24.460 horrible is and generally the answer that you'll get on whether it's bad for you or not will

01:01:30.860 depend entirely on whether the person that you're listening to is left or right wing as well exactly

01:01:35.980 so i thought well let's take away the bias of online and everything and let's just look i wanted to look

01:01:41.180 at it myself um here's the worrying thing about this is when i put forward the request and got an answer

01:01:49.420 they they gave me all these um files to go through um went through them of course but no evidence

01:01:56.940 currently suggests that the fsa has undertaken any independent investigations into the broader

01:02:04.140 chronic disease risks associated with this or associated with seed oils that to me

01:02:11.100 in my view if there's not been um this uh push for you know investigations that to me is a big uh public

01:02:21.740 health oversight i don't know what your opinions on it is gents um but if they're not conducting

01:02:29.180 like research and they're just saying yeah it's all good everything's all good and there's no sort of

01:02:34.220 counter um i go through in my sub stack a lot more information um that you can obviously have a look if

01:02:41.900 you obviously go on to it and you can see all the um the information and what i sent through um

01:02:51.500 it's pretty it's pretty scary uh when you look into it um like that so what's annoying about this

01:03:00.460 in its entirety is the fact that so much within the supermarket has it in

01:03:06.380 um that's the thing because it's so cheap and you can just distribute it out like willy-nilly

01:03:11.740 the same happens with artificial sweeteners so i like cooking stuff myself you know i like cooking

01:03:19.180 what i eat don't want other people just pouring their ingredients inside it without me knowing

01:03:26.060 and uh what i found out was that the reason why lots of takeaway food

01:03:32.540 tastes like heaven is because they throw sugar and artificial sweeteners in it it's cheating is

01:03:38.380 aspartame i think is one of the that's one of them yeah that's that's one of them i've heard

01:03:43.100 people say that that can lead to some kind of disease or heart issues or something everything's

01:03:47.340 cancerous yeah these days carcinogenic i believe the term is yes i like knowing what i eat

01:03:56.060 yeah and that's a big that's a big important thing um is is knowing what you eat and the problem is

01:04:01.340 when you look into subjects like this you end up checking the package on absolutely everything

01:04:07.500 and then you look and go i feel like i can't have that i can't have that i can't have that and then

01:04:11.820 you're just almost stuck um but i find that to be um bizarre that you know everything seems to have

01:04:21.580 like even bread has like sugar in like massive amounts of sugar and stuff like that and you're

01:04:25.900 like i thought it was only like three or four ingredients for bread it's just insane but obviously

01:04:31.820 i'm not your dietitian i'm not your doctor you know i'm just someone that loves is a bit too

01:04:38.620 nosy uh trying to figure out what's going on what the truth is when it comes to you know random topics

01:04:45.500 such as this and it is a pretty big topic um so you know it's all up to you the audience and what

01:04:53.340 you decide to do with what you consume so that's all i'm going to leave it for well generally i i will

01:04:59.260 say uh because i've had people scaremongering and carl uh going on about it as well i i don't really

01:05:06.300 eat much that has seed oils in it so i'll just stick to my uh microplastics in the balls thank you oh yes

01:05:12.300 yes yes yeah that's a big one yeah tea bags as well apparently there's microplastics in the tea bags

01:05:18.140 yeah allegedly well that's that's the thing whether or not you want to take the seed oil thing at face

01:05:24.540 value straight away there is so much in our food even in the packaging of the food which clearly has 0.77

01:05:33.180 detrimental effects to us like the microplastics which can get into your balls and they can get into

01:05:38.380 your brain um and they can be transferred by if i remember the josh segment that he did they also 0.53

01:05:44.380 were found in a child's brain which might have been due to breastfeeding as well um there is so much

01:05:50.700 that we do not understand and that you can just kind of feel on a good level this probably isn't good

01:05:57.980 for me yeah um the it does worry you it does it does worry it's understandable why people get very

01:06:04.620 obsessive about this kind of thing yeah and you know please fact check me on this but i believe it's

01:06:09.260 70 percent of like health and chronic disease is all is all revolves around the gut and bacteria as

01:06:16.460 well exactly which also has a big effect on your um on your mental stability exactly so it literally is

01:06:23.020 all about really diet and moving you know and that's and that's kind of the key things but you know

01:06:29.260 like i keep saying you know it's up to you what you want to do 80 percent of physique is built in the

01:06:35.500 kitchen work out eat lots of red meat and uh smother everything that you eat in gravy that's my

01:06:42.620 that's my uh rule oh no there you go and that's it let's go through the rumble rants and uh we've got

01:06:49.420 a few that have been sent in here so the engaged few if you like the aftertaste of butter on fried

01:06:55.500 foods harry you should try frying in bacon grease i love making my grilled cheese sandwiches with

01:07:00.380 bacon grease instead of butter not tried that before i'll maybe give that a go and some beef

01:07:04.540 tallow as well and see what i like most alex adamson again audiobooks i assume these are the sharp

01:07:10.220 audio books are 13 hours each the show doesn't cover half of them and the ones they do cover are

01:07:14.780 heavily downscaled from the books many skip plots the show just didn't have the budget as you would

01:07:19.500 expect it was a early to mid 90s tv show and i think that they were like hour and a half long

01:07:24.700 specials each as well so um they can only cover so much ko7776 says i have pretty bad seasonal

01:07:32.380 allergies and carnivore diet clears them up 80 our diets are way more connected to our health

01:07:37.100 than most people realize you'd think it would be common sense right but i tried the carnivore for

01:07:42.620 a month how'd it go pretty good it sounds pretty heavenly to me to be honest because i don't really

01:07:48.460 ever want to eat anything but meat anyway it's meat and dairy products right yeah uh yeah meat and

01:07:54.620 dairy that sounds perfect yeah are you allowed to drink booze no never mind then ramshackle otter

01:08:02.220 says remember pure olive oil is also wholesome and healthy as i learned living in coastal croatia

01:08:08.540 along with many first-hand accounts about kevin spacey oh dear that's that's a based comment oh

01:08:15.420 there you go and the habs of vacation for a dollar says if you're going to use oil use coconut oil

01:08:19.900 avocado oil or like the ancient greeks or romans olive oil there you go let's go through the video

01:08:26.540 comments hey guys you know that silly lady who was saying that oh she can't lose weight because of 1.00

01:08:34.140 racist society there's a modicum of truth there you see if you are constantly stressed out and anxious 0.96

01:08:40.700 about anything yet your brain releases huge amounts of cortisol which prevents you from losing weight and

01:08:48.780 so it doesn't matter how much you diet if you are constantly anxious about anything you can't lose

01:08:55.260 weight the problems in her head yeah they should stop cultivating victim mentality weightlifters of the

01:09:02.860 lotus is this is what i've wanted to do for ages lifting with lotus or lotus lifters anything like that

01:09:09.980 i have wanted to get a guy get samson or someone with a camera to come in and just like record josh

01:09:17.340 me rory a few others maybe working out just have a bit of fun i think it'd be great and i think it would

01:09:23.660 be good inspiration good motivation for people watching at home that's cool it's good and also

01:09:29.340 it would be fun to have a deadlifting competition as well although rory would easily beat that because

01:09:33.740 rory's one rep max on deadlift is something like 220 kg their play which is pretty damn celebrate with

01:09:39.740 slop that contains rapeseed oil and then have yeah yeah straight after yeah although i'd probably win

01:09:46.060 the bench so there you go so i've been seeing this weird revisionism from a lot of leftists online where

01:09:53.980 they're basically trying to say that the irish were never oppressed and that they're like evil colonizers

01:09:58.540 that were fully integrated into the you know british uh system and as well as the fact that

01:10:04.620 they're like oh they're also confederates because some fought for the confederacy let's ignore the

01:10:09.180 fact that like 80 of the irish were on the union side though and as well as the fact that it's like

01:10:14.940 mostly people have palestine flags in their bio and ireland is like one of the most loyal supporters

01:10:19.980 of palestine which just shows how treacherous they actually are i believe in the civil war as well 0.97

01:10:26.300 i'm mainly getting this from um i'm mainly getting this from uh gangs of new york wasn't it that the

01:10:31.980 irish were basically brought in and said fight in the army and you'll get immediate citizenship and

01:10:35.980 they were just used as cannon fodder that's another film that i haven't seen it's a really good film

01:10:40.540 mainly for daniel day lewis's performance it's a re it's a really good one um i wasn't too thrilled

01:10:47.500 about leonardo dicaprio's irish accent but all right yeah i've heard his uh south africa is it

01:10:54.060 irish accent is he playing an irishman in that yeah well to be fair blood diamond's a great film

01:10:58.540 i still haven't seen that you've not seen blood i know i know it's terrible god's sake there's

01:11:03.340 just a day to be fair to dicaprio he's got quite a few gems in his castle yeah yeah

01:11:10.220 and i i agree with him that inequality is a problem and that's why dan your economic analysis will always

01:11:16.060 be basically right but missing a special something some time ago audience member dean brooks promoted his

01:11:21.420 book the decline effect which covers the behavior of complex systems he finds that inequality is

01:11:26.460 over determined even in systems as apparently simple as youtube viewership and illiteracy rates

01:11:31.260 in areas with libraries the problem with the left is they think they can legislate against inequality

01:11:35.980 causing catastrophic failure the problem with the modern right is that they don't understand

01:11:40.060 inequality missing making it work to advantage

01:11:42.620 inequality is inevitable and it's completely natural as well the pareto principle uh alone just

01:11:52.540 shows that were those all of the video comments that we had samson got another thumbs up you're

01:11:58.300 feeling very positive today samson thank you very much so let's go through some of the written

01:12:02.460 comments from the website bisley shooter says i'm a landlord i've had two sets of couples who both said

01:12:09.100 they wanted to start a family after they bought a house neither could afford a house in spite of two

01:12:14.060 incomes each one set stayed for eight years no kids the others had kids 10 years after 10 years

01:12:20.940 then finally moved into their own house well congratulations start to that other couple

01:12:24.700 but yeah one of the big considerations with having a family in the first place is stability stability and

01:12:31.420 access to a support system so people want to have family and friends nearby so that they're able to

01:12:36.620 raise the kids and be able to have some time off as well because that's one of the big difficulties

01:12:42.700 that comes with being a parent is no longer feeling like you have any major agency in your own life

01:12:47.980 having no time off and so if you don't have the basic stability of knowing that you own the place that you

01:12:53.980 live especially when that's been an expectation for centuries up to now to be able to have your

01:12:59.580 homestead it's going to put people off having kids and it does make it really really difficult

01:13:05.100 mr fibble uh a vast reduction sorry flibble yes thank you a vast reduction in global population

01:13:12.140 would be unquestionably good for all countries reminder that it has doubled in gen x's lifetime

01:13:19.100 were we underpopulated before then the strain of this is affecting all types of research from raw materials

01:13:25.260 to food to living space i agree with this during the 19th century the british population grew from

01:13:31.340 about 13 million to 31 or 32 million and the question is were we any less greater nation just

01:13:39.900 because we had a smaller population obviously um industrial conditions changes in um in hygiene

01:13:47.340 allowed for a massive explosion in the population as well but yeah this idea of constantly growing the

01:13:53.820 population always being a good thing this infinite growth does seem to come from a holdover mindset from

01:13:59.660 the industrial revolution where you have the progressive curve of history where everything

01:14:03.740 is getting better at all times including greater and greater numbers of people in these countries and

01:14:09.660 it really does not seem to fit our current circumstances anymore when things are getting just worse and

01:14:14.300 worse yeah i just remember a few decades ago two decades ago there were people who were literally saying

01:14:21.420 the exact opposite that the the population is going to just rapidly explode and you won't have space

01:14:30.300 yeah they were overpopulated yeah it's just those same people still say the same thing but then they

01:14:35.100 speak out both sides of their mouth when they say that well we're overpopulated that's why fertility

01:14:39.820 rates going down is a good thing but also that will lead to underpopulation which is why we need to replace

01:14:44.140 you in your own country funny that so if you live well if you have less people you wouldn't need the

01:14:51.340 extra houses and infrastructure that you need people to build this is always the uh the obvious rebuttal

01:14:58.220 to people saying that you need more houses you need more in this and we need more migrants so that you 1.00

01:15:03.260 can get that built well i mean if we didn't have all these extra people in the first place then why would

01:15:07.820 we need all that extra stuff they don't have a rebuttal to that so they just call you racist

01:15:11.900 illogical irrational bigoted they have no rebuttal to the argument it's the same it's the same as when

01:15:19.980 you see people who are like 60 year old war hawks who are saying that we need to start sending your

01:15:25.580 um european teenagers and young men into the front lines in ukraine and you go well you can sign up

01:15:31.660 yourself first there buddy if you want to escalate it into a full-on ground war and then you go this is

01:15:36.740 just irrational don't you understand i'm 60 years old okay so why should you have any say

01:15:41.500 yeah in the fact that a 20 year old should go out and get shot for ukraine yeah it's it's uh people 0.98

01:15:47.340 just don't have rebuttals to this someone online is not having babies that i would have an issue with 0.98

01:15:51.900 it's the sex required to make the babies i'd rather get a tooth pulled okay i've heard that one before

01:15:58.140 okay buddy um fodder 17 i hear a lot of people say that they want kids but it's currently too expensive

01:16:05.980 for them to live for themselves and then adding a child to the mix would be impossible yeah and this

01:16:10.700 is um to address something else this is uh a problem that i've had with some of the messaging that's come

01:16:16.700 from this very podcast itself that i think has confused a few people uh which is that some have

01:16:21.820 said that well your ancestors lived in abject poverty and horrible conditions and they had as many children

01:16:27.980 as possible so you have no excuse i think for young men who are already struggling feeling

01:16:34.620 disenfranchised who have no hope for the future no ability to own a house no stability that that is

01:16:41.580 not the message that you want to be sending to them it's not an inspiring cultural as opposed it's

01:16:46.380 going to be telling them listen you are poor you have been disenfranchised nobody represents you

01:16:53.900 make life more difficult for yourself obviously that's not to say that having a family isn't

01:16:58.700 incredibly rewarding for its own sake it absolutely is but that's just ignoring the fact that having a

01:17:04.460 family having children is a massive financial burden it will make you materially worse off and it will take

01:17:12.220 all of your time and if you are in an already financially strained situation it will put massive pressure

01:17:19.740 on your relationship it's really nice to have this idealized view of parenthood that you have a kid

01:17:25.740 and then all of a sudden everything's sunshine and rainbows life is still difficult you'll still face

01:17:30.620 all of the same challenges but now you have an extra mouth to feed and yes you will love them

01:17:36.220 you will take care of them they will inspire you that's all beautiful but for young men who don't see

01:17:41.980 any hope in the country right now it's not the message that they need to hear and i think it is

01:17:46.380 counterproductive and makes people seem completely out of touch that's a just an extra little thing

01:17:51.660 i wanted to add there uh captain charlie the beagle funny that for the last 30 years in the west uh

01:17:58.380 we have been bombarded by propaganda about overpopulation only to find out that we need

01:18:03.340 to import huge numbers of barbarians because of our falling birth rates if i remember right 1.00

01:18:07.820 it was c.s lewis said that said the homemaker has the ultimate career all of those careers exist

01:18:13.020 for one purpose only and that is to support the ultimate career that's a nice sentiment lewis

01:18:18.780 farting in the bath brilliant says solving a falling birth rate by importing foreigners is like trying 1.00

01:18:24.700 to put out a fire with petrol it has never and will never work absolutely omar awad it's ironic that

01:18:32.060 they always claim to want infinite growth but in reality they want everything to stay exactly the same

01:18:37.340 but with more money natural growth is chaotic and unpredictable inflation is entirely controllable

01:18:42.860 and makes number go up which is probably why it's their favorite tool for stealing wealth yeah i mean

01:18:48.540 most gdp growth if it factors in government expenditure as well is completely worthless as a metric because

01:18:55.900 the governments and the fiat currencies can just magic money out of nowhere anyway so you can always just say

01:19:01.980 well the bank of england needs to lend this much more money to uh through um through gilts therefore

01:19:08.380 the gdp will go up therefore everything is fine right it's a complete scam let's go through some of

01:19:14.060 yours okay so um poland omar awad says never forget asylum is a charitable act not mandatory like the

01:19:21.820 globalists would like you to believe and lord nerewa this mass migration situation seems increasingly to be

01:19:29.100 a permanent solution to a temporary problem but unlike taking one's own life which is bad enough

01:19:34.940 we're taking a load of other lives along with it it's deeply responsible a demographic suicide bombing 0.98

01:19:42.700 yep you want to read through some of your comments sure omar again i believe that's beef not bean uh

01:19:48.620 bean tallow i'd be interested in that yeah what you need to do is you just need to get some nice

01:19:53.020 bean juice and fry up your food in it beans beans oh god i'm just remembering i showed i showed my

01:20:01.500 friend the other day at the pub i showed him um the true day in the life of a true brexit yeah and

01:20:08.220 he's talking about the get some beans yeah yeah i'm beans beans bean tallow is obviously cheap enough to

01:20:16.700 make a profit on fish and chips would be interesting to see if it could compete with the cheap seed oil

01:20:22.060 alternative like organic uh does with other farmed food i know i myself wouldn't mind paying a slight

01:20:28.460 premium for better food fair enough you can afford it sure um sophie again hey if you ever want to put

01:20:36.220 someone somebody off seed oil um just make them read is it junji ito's greece harry knows what i am

01:20:44.140 talking about i bet he's making a face of disgust just remembering it you yeah what is that so uh junji ito's uh

01:20:52.060 horror manga artist okay from japan uh greece is a story where there's a family who live above a

01:20:59.660 restaurant that they manage that doesn't have proper ventilation right so all of the oil collects and

01:21:05.180 pools on the walls and is in the air to the point where it creates like an oil fog as a result the

01:21:10.620 youngest son who's hit puberty has got the worst worst acne in the world and there is a disgusting and

01:21:19.900 horrific scene where he's bullying his little sister and he uh he looms over her and squeezes 0.90

01:21:26.300 out all the puss on her face it is one of the most for a guy who's done some pretty disgusting artwork 0.84

01:21:32.060 in the past that's the grossest that one scene you know it doesn't have gore there's no dismemberment 0.90

01:21:38.620 or blood but that is the grossest thing he's ever drawn yeah that sounds a bit mental yeah it's

01:21:44.780 something you know very queezing about uh yeah and when we did a comics corner on it um i think it was

01:21:51.980 jack did the video wall for it i was sat there and had had the image right there for the entire show

01:21:59.820 which was lovely you should watch that video by the way if you subscribe to the pod if you subscribe to

01:22:04.460 the website because that is one of the really really good comics corner episodes that we did

01:22:09.260 fuzzy toaster says uh i store and keep fat and lard for cooking it's bloody lovely yes lard is very

01:22:14.780 good as well very very good um az desert rat said you should try fries fried up in beef tallow yes i'm

01:22:21.260 still yet to give that a go uh because all i've known throughout my life is literally seed oils and

01:22:27.180 it's so depressing yeah yeah it really is depressing um az again i'm going to play devil's advocate here

01:22:35.260 are y'all grossed or by are y'all i'm guessing that me are you grossed out by the video uh because of

01:22:42.540 the oil processing or because of the quantity just a thought because we've been pressing olive olives for

01:22:48.540 oil for millennia i think it's it just looks great it's just coming out of a machine like that just

01:22:54.700 doesn't look natural do you know what i mean because it's a machine and me it was mainly the

01:23:00.060 the slimy stuff yeah it's slime rest out into a into a large vat although for all i know the audio

01:23:06.620 was off that could have been the uh the runoff that they don't use anything for or maybe they

01:23:11.500 always find a useful well it might go into it might go into machine lubrication who knows and in your

01:23:16.300 food but again if i were to be shown a video of the goings-on of the inside of a of a slaughterhouse

01:23:21.900 i also probably wouldn't feel particularly appetized after that either i had a friend who

01:23:26.540 his dad worked in a slaughterhouse and you know he said after a after a month or so of doing it you

01:23:32.300 get used to it yeah and i don't want to be used to such a yeah he slept very soundly and ate as much

01:23:38.220 meat as he wanted uh play to the lad uh hosep uh yenik oh yenikomshin yenikomshin i love the way i look at

01:23:48.380 you now to like help with pronunciation yeah all you southerners looking to the northerner to get

01:23:54.620 the pronunciation correct right um if you can't get oil out of a plant by squeezing it in your hand

01:24:01.340 and it's bad for you animals are the best source of cooking oils avocados coconuts olives etc are good

01:24:08.700 but not as good as animals sorry stelios there you go do you have any rebuttal stelios

01:24:15.900 i don't know why he's apologizing to me i think it's because you said you've got to get

01:24:22.380 yeah yeah olive oil avocado like oil they're the best didn't you say that no i said just olive oil

01:24:29.580 okay which is understandable fair enough and to be expected well there you have it i don't think

01:24:36.700 there's any more you do you do okay we have scroll down we have oh wow another section forgive me um

01:24:41.420 russia let's uh let's um lewis go through his next two and then we'll go through your last ones okay

01:24:48.060 justin b when it comes to seed oils there are reports that they increase estrogen production in

01:24:52.860 the body uh so not good for men and likely to unbalance women's hormones uh not to mention that the 0.99

01:24:58.780 plastic bottles that they use will be leaking microplastics into the oil this is particularly

01:25:03.660 reported for anything soy yeah yeah obviously uh slammer 101 uh tea bags are often made from

01:25:11.100 plastic fabrics yes um switching to natural fabrics is one way to greatly reduce microplastic intake

01:25:19.580 there we go and let's go to the russia garbage human says lewis is back fantastic guest who says that 0.59

01:25:25.580 sorry russian garbage human ah thank you very much i think i've seen his ex actually okay very cool

01:25:31.180 and uh he does show up on a lot before we go on the stallion zone i have a comment by a who says that

01:25:38.060 i'm banging my hands on the table and it's bad for audio but i mean i'm sorry if it if it has been

01:25:46.060 unlistenable to you as you're writing but i think we've changed the mics and i don't know if why we got

01:25:52.060 rid of the mic stands well one of many reasons they were also just horrible to use so i i'd like if

01:25:58.060 in the in the live chat now people could tell us also if they have an issue with it with uh with that

01:26:03.820 with sound because we haven't heard comments about sound sound in a long time not since we switched to

01:26:09.020 the mic arms yeah right okay so first keeper orland stelios the holy

01:26:13.740 north fc zoomer what happened to the stelios we need we definitely need to change this i i there has

01:26:23.900 been a rebellion that has to be put down it's brother stelios brother stelios yeah but also

01:26:30.860 brother stelios the stelios oh it's getting so confusing keeping all these in my mind

01:26:35.500 uh the wigan survivalists it's okay stelios i love you ty it looks like a switzerland's drums 0.97

01:26:42.700 stick lolly and russian again my friend so he says stelios you're a bit gay harry says 0.98

01:26:51.660 and stelios took that personally 0.87

01:26:55.580 it was a compliment my friend you'd wish means happy means happy it reminds me of tropic thunder

01:27:03.020 i don't know if um you've watched it we're at towards the end jack no that robert danny jr says

01:27:11.020 it's hollywood everyone's gay once in a while

01:27:15.580 wouldn't you in the audience like to know and uh one more rumble rant saying that's a random name

01:27:21.260 every every uh time i see lewis on the podcast i'm unenthusiastically enthusiastic about his presence

01:27:27.260 unenthusiastically enthusiastic i think he's still making fun of your oh yeah wow the 200 dollars

01:27:35.260 wow well i mean that was a genuine it's not like it's not like it's going straight to your pocket 0.95

01:27:39.580 yeah i know wow i wish i could no yeah sam weston says it's the lotus cedar everything's always gay 0.93

01:27:47.580 everything's always fake everything's always gay that's just how it is around here so i think that's 0.98

01:27:53.500 how the cookie crumbles that's how that's all we've got time for today thank you very much uh

01:27:59.980 everybody say thank you to lewis and uh remind them again where they can find you we've got your

01:28:03.580 sub stack up on the screen thank you very very much for having me really means a lot love the

01:28:08.620 audience obviously as always yeah i'm trying chill yeah i am anti-glazing but i'm yeah just being

01:28:16.220 trying to be well very polite um yes x you can go on to x and find me on lewis underscore brackpool

01:28:24.060 you can find me on sub stack by typing my name or the state of it dot stub stack dot com and of course

01:28:31.340 instagram by typing in my name and youtube if you wanted to there you go and thank you again

01:28:36.300 for watching we'll be back again tomorrow at the normal time till then take care

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