The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1131

00:00:00.000 Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast Lotus Eaters episode 1131. I'm your host Harry joined

00:00:06.260 today by Beau and returning guest Tom Roussel otherwise known as Survive the Jive. How are

00:00:11.380 you doing my friend? Not too bad at all thanks Harry. Wonderful thank you for coming down to

00:00:14.900 the studio and today we're going to be talking about the hidden ninja menace and how the UK

00:00:19.440 government are finally solving it. I know this is something that's been on the tip of all of our

00:00:22.860 tongues for a long while. We're going to be talking about JD Vance's visit to Greenland

00:00:27.480 and the geopolitical implications of that and we're going to be having a discussion on 23andMe

00:00:33.460 as well as far as I'm aware so if you're in a gold tier membership on the website we do have the

00:00:40.980 gold tier zoom call later on and Dan will be making his long-awaited debut for that so if you've ever

00:00:46.600 felt like talking to Dan and you've got a gold membership then make sure to come by at three

00:00:51.440 and you can have a lovely little chat with him which I'm sure will go very well and he won't

00:00:55.560 spew any nonsense. That's part of the fun of it actually really isn't it? With that anything

00:01:00.980 that you would like to say gentlemen before we get started? No let's get started again. All right

00:01:05.580 okay so finally the UK government the most serious institution in the entire world is tackling the

00:01:13.920 hidden menace that's been behind every street corner terrorizing youths for untold generations

00:01:20.860 in our country especially on the streets of London the ninjas. Finally Keir Starmer and the Labour

00:01:27.760 government is tackling our ninja problem it's been a big one I know they came here about 1948 1.00

00:01:34.200 they were shipped over from Japan by way of the Caribbean and ever since then London has had a

00:01:40.640 terrible terrible ninja problem violent crime rates ninja stars but thankfully Keir Starmer has made 0.96

00:01:47.440 the announcement that he will be banning ninja swords by this summer and he reminds everybody

00:01:54.060 that when we promise action we take it. I think that was one of the big front pages of the Labour

00:02:00.120 manifesto for last year wasn't it? Banning ninja swords and this is all related to the Ronin law

00:02:07.320 not a Ronin like this that Ronin let me get his name Ronin Kander who was murdered a few years ago

00:02:15.380 uh in Wolverhampton by ninjas I can only assume it was with a ninja sword he was murdered by ninjas who

00:02:22.540 went by the names uh Prabjeet and Sukman very traditional Japanese names and as a result of that

00:02:30.120 we've had Ronin's law which has banned zombie knives banned machetes which were already illegal to have

00:02:35.780 out in the street in the first place alongside most knives including butter knives in this country

00:02:39.860 but now it's private ownership of those as well and ninja swords have been added to the mix 0.94

00:02:44.360 and I've just got to say it's about damn time it is about damn time this is the kind of scene that 0.97

00:02:50.640 we see on the street every day in Britain these gentlemen going around absolutely terrorizing 0.97

00:02:58.100 people and already we can see the positive reception from the British public like this gentleman

00:03:02.080 saying thank you for banning them they've been constantly harassing me whenever I go to work

00:03:06.360 please ban their throwing stars next so this is this is something to consider

00:03:11.040 you can still get is it shuriken is that what they're called I believe that's what they're called

00:03:14.720 they can still yeah nunchucks allowed obviously this will not solve the ninja problem overnight but

00:03:21.500 it's a step in the right direction our Japanese diaspora has been an absolute disaster for this 1.00

00:03:26.120 country those creeping tiptoe sandals that's what they're getting yeah the ninja sandals force them 0.71

00:03:31.860 to wear bells on their feet so morris dance integration then they then they'll be part of

00:03:36.120 english society and we'll hear them coming if we can get them a dance around the maypole

00:03:39.860 then everything will be sorted that particular murder passed me by I've never heard of that

00:03:45.100 before but the kid's name was ronin well the the uk government likes to use a lot of things that

00:03:50.400 you've never heard of before or maybe aren't even real see adolescence the new Netflix television

00:03:56.400 program to be able to justify passing all sorts of draconian laws was it ronin a type of rogue ninja 0.90

00:04:02.920 that samurai I think samurai sorry samurai well that was one of the questions I was gonna say I should

00:04:06.760 know more about it's gonna have to be samurai blades next what I didn't think there was such a

00:04:11.140 thing as a ninja sword they mean a samurai sword I mean I think like ninjas did have swords but they had

00:04:17.240 to use other weapons a lot because they didn't have access to them as much as samurai that you

00:04:22.260 had to have swords to be a samurai that's like part of their accouture but uh ninjas didn't always

00:04:28.540 have them I mean we do have a photographic evidence right here this isn't this is a ninja wielding a

00:04:34.240 sword I believe this might be Brixton okay ninjas are known for congregating around Brixton as we'll find

00:04:41.140 out as well as we go along so next it will need to be samurai paraphernalia that we uh

00:04:47.220 as well just to make sure you don't want the samurai causing any trouble do you uh we've got a

00:04:52.740 variety of ninjas in the country uh here's footage of the average londoner that josh put out this is a

00:04:59.280 photograph that he took yesterday thinking ninjas could be here he hates ninjas thankfully won't

00:05:04.580 have to worry about them too much longer these are the kinds of people as well obviously one of the

00:05:10.640 problems of integration is that instead of integrating into our culture white working class 1.00

00:05:16.240 men integrate into their culture and so we have had weeaboos joining in this ninja clan violence as 0.99

00:05:23.120 well it's been terrible to see the deterioration on our streets here's another ninja as you can see 1.00

00:05:29.280 he's wearing his full outfit you can only see the whites of his eyes the rest of it's covered

00:05:33.840 um but this was a particularly bad case of ninja violence that took place at southport last year but

00:05:40.260 not to get into that josh has also been doing some research and found that actually despite only

00:05:45.120 making up 13 percent of the population of london ninjas are responsible for 61 percent of knife

00:05:50.460 murders and also 63 percent of gun crimes they're terrible with the way that they come along with

00:05:55.720 the times aren't they bloody ninjas ninjas not even once and i looked into it and the statistics are

00:06:04.020 actually even worse according to colonel otaku gatekeeper saying that japanese people only make up

00:06:10.480 0.09 percent of the population of the uk but they commit 75 percent of all knife crime with the

00:06:15.960 other 25 percent being white incels makes it adds up yeah sure why not yes and now that we're banning

00:06:22.580 these swords all of knife crime will be a thing of the past this is of course bringing up questions

00:06:27.880 of liberty though as academic agent has asked they came for the ninjas i did not speak out because i was

00:06:33.620 not a ninja how is this andrew tate's fault though a big appreciator of japanese culture obviously

00:06:41.880 otaku i hear and thankfully you can actually find areas of great ninja concentration through this ninja

00:06:49.320 clan map that i was able to find online it says drill map as in like these drill rap groups but

00:06:56.140 actually it's ninja clan concentration around london it's very very useful you can see particularly where

00:07:02.720 these clans are based cr7 based around green lane in thornton heath they're very well known for

00:07:08.700 claning around their postcodes these clans and i was able to find this daily mail article going into

00:07:15.300 detail on them i thought i'd read some of this so this is talking about the machete murder of a school

00:07:20.860 boy called kellyan bokassa in the uh on the number 472 but wait is that japanese that must be a japanese

00:07:27.500 name um in broad daylight in front of horrified passengers it was the latest in a

00:07:32.640 bloody gang turf war that's torn apart the community of woolwich woolwich sorry i'm sorry

00:07:40.600 he's american now yeah described by his mother as a polite boy who was groomed by from a young age by

00:07:47.420 a drugs gang 14 year old kellyan was knifed 12 times on the double decker bus on tuesday afternoon now

00:07:53.560 this is going back in january terrified witness told of seeing two baby-faced young men two baby-faced

00:07:59.300 young ninjas i assume sprinting from the atrocity one armed with a machete as long as your forearm

00:08:04.780 his senseless murder came as he was still mourning the death of his close friend

00:08:08.380 the juan campbell no never which which region of japan is that from

00:08:13.860 some from from from the somewhere nagasaki area i guess yeah yeah he was he was uh 15 years old

00:08:21.260 who was stabbed to death by a zombie knife wielding assassin see ninjas famed assassins that's the name

00:08:27.080 assassin in here kellyan's murder has shone a light on the postcode turf war that turned this pocket of

00:08:32.020 southeast london into a battleground notorious barnfield estate where kellyan lived with his

00:08:36.780 mother the wild batch gang operates an area to the south woolwich uh dockyard is controlled by their

00:08:42.900 bitter uh bitter rivals the woolio gang yeah yeah you're right you're right i'm sorry i'm sorry

00:08:49.920 i'm not showing enough respect to these beautiful cultures both gangs are vying for control over the

00:08:55.680 local drugs trade particularly crack and cannabis both have formed alliances with gangsters from nearby

00:09:01.100 areas woolwich boys were a huge gang said to be comprised of more than 300 members mainly those with a

00:09:06.660 somali bra- somali? somali? somali ninjas? i assume who formed at the end of the 90s

00:09:17.820 gangsters with the woolwich boys are said to have terrorized robbed and even killed drug rivals

00:09:22.220 using meat cleavers and ak-47s according to gangland folklore the gang was decimated further

00:09:28.640 when 20 of its members died fighting for isis in syria

00:09:32.560 wait wait wait guys guys well they're right okay okay right let me just kellyan

00:09:42.000 okay right somalis isis

00:09:46.720 don't i don't think they're blocks we're doing sound effects now that was that was a shock to you

00:10:04.240 i didn't know we were going to be doing this okay i don't think they're ninjas guys i'm really shocked

00:10:09.920 by this i don't think they're ninjas it's not actually japanese ninjas causing all of this violence

00:10:17.040 it's not even english people causing all of this violence for the most part it's not incels

00:10:22.480 it's not ninjas it's not japanese it seems to be third world foreigners i hate to say this because

00:10:30.160 like this this gang has members that died fighting for isis in syria to syria including a man called

00:10:35.620 abdullah hassan who was filmed boasting of wanting to kill british and western soldiers

00:10:40.260 of course i'm sure if this if this uh gentleman this this scholar abdullah had tried to do

00:10:47.040 anything illegal or untoward in england to the point where we arrested him put him in prison

00:10:52.080 tried to deport him good god maybe if we tried to deport him the echr would have had something to 0.92

00:10:57.240 say about uh one of the articles article three or article eight well he's got a right to family life

00:11:03.480 he's got a right not to be humiliated and sent back to the country you came from because uh and

00:11:08.060 then you've got to keep him he might face some real justice in somalia so we can't kind of that

00:11:13.340 yeah and furthermore this this this innocent 16 sorry 14 year old boy kellyan that's named in this

00:11:20.640 article um was an aspiring drill rapper who performed under the nomdiger gripper had links to the wild

00:11:27.580 batch gang and had just released a track called bangers and mash where in the music video he

00:11:33.300 pretended to wave a knife in the air as he rapped about pigs gangs guns swords and getting popped

00:11:40.160 well i i guess he got popped then some kind of japanese expression i'm not familiar with i don't

00:11:48.060 think it's japanese i don't think i don't think it's anything to do with the japanese anymore and

00:11:52.840 around an hour before he was killed he posted a haunting message on instagram asking any of his

00:11:58.600 followers if they had a mindi which is the somali word for a knife mindi it sounds like a nice way of 1.00

00:12:05.220 referring to a knife yeah so here we can see these people and look how young they are again like 14

00:12:14.660 15 16 years old all just murdering each other probably radicalized by online influencers

00:12:21.900 uh like andrew tate tate told them to do this and they would have otherwise been good boys who

00:12:28.380 didn't do nothing absolutely so this is his mother and i just read through a little bit more of this

00:12:33.960 article and it's a it's a i was just quickly saying yeah you're gone i was 14 i wouldn't dream of doing

00:12:41.740 anything violent like that i just wouldn't well i wouldn't now but when i was 14 i think back when i was

00:12:48.400 14 i was like into i was just into football or whatever i don't know it's just i just cared

00:12:54.860 about saving up for a new pair of football boots or something yeah i was i was right i just i was

00:12:59.740 into playing guitar and listening to heavy metal at 14 years old yeah wondering when a girl would

00:13:06.620 finally like me i was arguing over who was better out of blur and oasis not drill rap for god

00:13:11.680 obviously it was yeah it's all well that's that's the incorrect answer i'm afraid i don't know you're a

00:13:17.240 southerner you should be like you should like blur i mean i'm i'm i'm from close to manchester so i

00:13:22.460 should be the oasis guy you should be yeah um no anyways reversed it seems um yeah these are these

00:13:30.180 these are maniac people like how are you like so the cultural the cultural climate that gets a 14

00:13:37.560 year old boy to be like that it's not it's not an influencer is it it's it's a it's a general 0.68

00:13:41.620 culture and starkey identified that back in 2011 when the race riots happened in london he was saying

00:13:47.240 and he got on television and got in trouble for it but you know this is the culture that's inherent to

00:13:52.100 that subculture and pop culture associated with you know that that type of rap music that culture of

00:13:59.160 the of the streets where they're encouraged to do this kind of thing and it's been going on since

00:14:03.140 before like when we were kids this was already a thing like rap uh american rap music was already

00:14:08.720 celebrating like gangster rap music started what early 90s um late 80s really with nwa it would be

00:14:15.580 a joke though right do you look at someone like goldie looking chain or something where it'd be like

00:14:19.720 it would be a joke yeah we'd hear we'd hear um iced tea and ice cube rap about ak vanilla ice no no the

00:14:28.640 real ones okay uh we'll hear them none of them were real yeah i think they're all fake but we'd

00:14:33.940 hear them rap about like the mean streets of compton or whatever and and everyone's shooting each other

00:14:38.800 but to us living in uh like a pre-mass migration britain it was just a world away it was a joke it

00:14:45.340 was like we lived in like leafy kent or surrey or something it's like i was i was cool no one's

00:14:51.020 shooting anyway like nwa because oh yeah they're talking about how they kill police and that's sort of a

00:14:56.000 little bit naughty and and transgressive but like actually there's mum and dad are really gonna hate

00:15:00.260 that i'm listening to this right now yeah but that i mean there is actually a so i mean that

00:15:05.340 when i was a teenager i i had good music taste so all of this stuff like you completely bypassed me

00:15:11.020 i didn't i i liked slipknot so well you turned out to have great music taste in that case

00:15:17.080 uh no but i mean you get all of the media sort of like circus surround an event like this because

00:15:23.600 obviously we import violent foreign populations who then victimize each other in this country and 1.00

00:15:28.960 it turns into something where all of us have to suffer as a result of it apparently you can't just

00:15:34.460 have a decorative knife anymore you can't just have a decorative sword on your wall anymore because if

00:15:40.180 you own it privately as part of this ronin's law you can get six months up in prison for it if you

00:15:46.780 privately have a decorative sword on your wall a ninja sword as it's classified under this law

00:15:53.040 then you could go to prison for six months if you go outside with a knife you were telling me the

00:15:59.160 story beau before we came on air that you had a nice carving knife that went blunt and you needed to

00:16:03.940 go to timpson's to get it sharpened but then you started to ask well i'm gonna need to carry the knife

00:16:09.340 two timpson's could i get arrested for that yeah i don't own a whetstone myself so i'm going if i 0.82

00:16:16.800 need to get rich what a fool yeah i should have invested in my own set of whetstones but um yeah

00:16:22.360 so i could i could got arrested for it which is a shame because i would actually i don't own one but 0.95

00:16:27.740 i would quite like to own a cool katana i'll just have it on my wall yeah and um that but not allowed

00:16:34.340 that in now no it's prison if you have one of them no there was some there were some exceptions

00:16:38.360 there were some exceptions that i'll go through but just to address this right what you're talking

00:16:42.620 about about this this culture so they bring out the mum mary bakasa oh look at look at my little

00:16:48.860 angel what a good boy he was he never did nothing and then you go down you raised a little toe rag well

00:16:54.680 did she even raise him in the first place right because it gives a little detail here

00:16:58.280 kellyan's devastated mother mary bakasa wept on wednesday she blamed gangs for grooming her kind and

00:17:04.040 caring son during a spell when he was living rough on the streets after running away from a care home

00:17:08.840 in kent so where were either of the parents in that situation how did it end up that he was having

00:17:17.120 to live in a care home in kent that he ended up running away from in the first place but you know

00:17:22.420 here she is looking really sad with a picture of her son who yeah who she barely had anything to do

00:17:28.740 with raising by the sounds of it if that story is anything to go by i mean good god and the fact

00:17:34.500 that it's coming back onto us you're not allowed to own a cool decorative sword on your wall anymore

00:17:39.280 because of this like listen to this this is the sky news reporter on it and you can tell even he as

00:17:45.280 he's reading this is thinking this is a joke because watch his face the government has banned ninja swords

00:17:52.940 three years after the death of 16 year old monan candor you can see he's like illegal to possess

00:17:58.600 sell make or import the weapon from the summer with anyone caught with a ninja sword potentially facing

00:18:04.460 six months in prison he's smirking it's like that bit in hot not hot fuzz in shawn of the dead

00:18:10.400 near the end where where they're reading out all of the news and they're like i can't believe i'm

00:18:14.620 having to actually say this but he's reading it out and look look at his face he's like got a little

00:18:20.420 smirk on him he's like this is ridiculous i live in a joke country it's literally the meme oh mate you've

00:18:27.240 got a license for that you've got a license for that replica sword yeah you've got a license to be a

00:18:33.000 ninja can't they they'll just use a different sword then it's like that actor was saying oh we should

00:18:40.060 ban the pointy ends oh idris elba we already did that with a few we didn't ban them but they're

00:18:45.560 using cleavons any any weapon can be made like you can kill someone with some piece of string you

00:18:50.320 strangle them you can't ban string but uh it's obviously don't give care any ideas but it's all

00:18:57.020 a way for them to use legislation to and like and like public's like outrage as a way to pretend 0.98

00:19:04.660 they're addressing this problem so they can't be seen to be soft entirely on crime without actually

00:19:09.180 addressing it because that would be admission of the failure of multiculturalism if they really

00:19:13.620 address the cause it would be very racist of them to address the actual root problems of this

00:19:17.480 you're absolutely right about you could use a piece of string to garot someone or whatever

00:19:21.080 or strangle or whatever yeah so like okay so you ban ninja knives or zombie knives and ninja swords

00:19:29.420 but then well what about an axe or a heavy rock or uh yeah or halbards when are they going to ban 0.99

00:19:38.920 halbards yeah when are they going to ban bricks are they going to tear down all the brick buildings 1.00

00:19:43.860 across the country uh i mean but but then the debate is because it could be about guns couldn't it

00:19:50.600 so in america they've got a gun problem um and before all the americans in the comments say uh

00:19:56.200 that we're pathetic for not having guns having guns you can buy guns in england god the number

00:20:00.900 of comments whenever guns come up there's always some yank in the comments saying oh 0.98

00:20:04.700 your society is so pathetic you do need a license you can buy guns you do need a license but also 0.90

00:20:10.160 you need to go through background checks you have to jump through all sorts of hoops you have to jump 0.98

00:20:14.300 through all sorts of hoops but then you could get like a 308 rifle if you want here um so okay

00:20:20.460 and in a lot of states in america it's probably even harder actually but anyway so but the point is

00:20:25.180 that um it could be guns right it just so happens that we haven't got a big gun culture and you do

00:20:31.540 have to jump through quite a lot of hoops and handguns are banned here even though you get rifles

00:20:35.720 and shotguns even quite big rifles are used by criminals aren't they yeah you can still yeah if

00:20:41.600 you still wanted to get one and you lived in london and you knew the right people of course you can

00:20:45.220 still get a pistol i i know people who know people who have handguns in london it's not connected

00:20:51.920 of course there is a there is a legitimate degree of separation between me and these people do not

00:21:00.080 send the police to my front door please but but so the general point is is um like is there's no real

00:21:06.280 point banning banning them because all it means is i think anyway all it means is that the the

00:21:13.280 normal people have got less of a chance to defend themselves well yeah criminals shockingly enough

00:21:18.640 don't stick to the law right so if something's illegal they're gonna do it anyway yeah they're

00:21:24.080 still gonna just yeah i mean i mean listen to this so obviously as i said this whole thing was inspired

00:21:30.200 by the 16 year old ronin kander who got stabbed to death with a ninja sword and i assume that's the

00:21:35.840 only reason that the ninja swords have been included in this is because his parents have been um have been

00:21:42.860 pushing for this ever since it happened the laws named after him but they specifically wanted ninja

00:21:47.880 swords to be included under the bans as well stabbed by two teenagers prabjeet vadhasa and sukman shurgul

00:21:54.640 who was sentenced to a total of 34 years in prison for his murder again this law completely off the

00:21:59.800 basis of an event that included no english people well ronin the victim wasn't an englishman ronin kander

00:22:05.900 no whose mother is called puja kander okay and these and these and the parents are the activists

00:22:11.880 behind it but are they being themselves used by yeah the state i don't think they care that much

00:22:17.880 though because again i mean that sadly they've already lost their son right so yeah they are being

00:22:25.780 used as the um as the reason why this is all being pushed but if you do own your weapons if you've got

00:22:32.040 a nice decorative sword and you're not afraid and you're afraid of being arrested for owning it and

00:22:37.000 don't want to spend six months in prison uh the government is holding knife surrender bins

00:22:42.100 oh that's so you can go and surrender those i remember they had a long time ago and they're

00:22:46.940 doing a surrender scheme in july or you can take it to a local police station uh for those of you

00:22:52.300 wondering i checked on tom's behalf there are exceptions and defenses that you can make against

00:22:58.140 this so the uh exceptions are if you have a weapon that's an antique that being it's over 100 years old

00:23:04.460 it has functions carried out on behalf of the crown or a visiting force item being of historical

00:23:09.840 importance making the weapons available to a museum or gallery in certain circumstances if you have it

00:23:14.980 for educational purposes production of certain films or certain tv programs theatrical performances

00:23:20.740 and rehearsals of these performances if it was made before 1954 if it was made at any other time

00:23:26.540 according to the traditional methods of sword making by hand so if you have smithed your own blade

00:23:31.660 you are still legally able to own it privately just good luck taking it home with you after

00:23:38.520 you've forged it i suppose if you have a blade for religious reasons religious ceremonies

00:23:43.460 use in permitted activities for example historical reenactment or sporting activities or if it is blunt

00:23:50.420 so those are the exceptions make sure that you note those down if you have a blade that fits any of

00:23:56.180 those you are not victimized by this law but otherwise uh you might have to go to a knife surrender bin

00:24:04.980 otherwise you could face up to six months in prison you might you might argue that any weapon could be

00:24:10.500 educational because they're all they're all made to teach a lesson that is true i don't know how the

00:24:16.240 police would respond to that i've got my razor sharp katana because i'm educating myself on how to use a

00:24:21.680 razor sharp katana i mean i it makes sense to me right it makes sense to me but again the uk police

00:24:29.940 and the government are particularly uh not great with these things it's an antique i'm really old

00:24:36.320 that's all right as well because i assume in my in my mind i'm really rich and i can get an actual

00:24:41.900 antique like 15th century genuine samurai japanese samurai sword and i could just say well it's a

00:24:48.480 so that would be pretty awesome it would be cool yeah that would be great well yeah i don't want a

00:24:52.220 crappy stamped out tin one anyway i want i want the real deal he wants it to have been sacrificed

00:24:59.840 been soaked in blood at some point in its lifespan you want it to have taken a life when you want you

00:25:06.740 need what you look starts playing what you need is a cursed blade my friend the spirits of the souls

00:25:13.580 that is taken will haunt you it is cool in kill bill when there's like a wall with like 50

00:25:18.040 like expertly made so oh yeah when she goes to get her blade made one that is cool but yeah so there

00:25:27.100 you go we're a joke country and we deserve to be laughed at let's go through the rumble rants

00:25:32.440 uh we've got quite a few for that segment actually samson's coming to visit to wave his blade at us

00:25:38.680 the engaged few says serious questions some katanas are highly collectible historically

00:25:43.560 significant and very expensive will owners be compensated for their loss doubt it

00:25:48.300 doubt it so obviously if it's uh falling under one of these exceptions then you won't have to

00:25:55.220 worry about it but if you just have a very expensive one i've not seen anything about any

00:25:59.900 kind of compensation that you'd be given for it's expensive then it probably has been hand forged

00:26:04.680 potentially yes probably which means you'll probably be all right but um i think the main

00:26:11.000 thing is like don't stab anyone with it or walk around with it unless a servant yeah and you'll be

00:26:17.560 fine it used to be mandated under law that a good englishman would have to carry some kind of weapon

00:26:23.480 like a blade on him at all times for purposes to the king and those were probably i would imagine

00:26:31.200 much more peaceful times than modern london yeah you wouldn't have got as much just random

00:26:36.460 stabbings as you get in places like woolwich neo unrealist says it's good to see starmer at least

00:26:42.200 getting the discussion started on the final solution to the ninja question black pajama clad folk roaming 0.94

00:26:47.720 the streets carrying ninja are a skirt ninja blades are a scourge this is true alex adamson says well 1.00

00:26:55.120 well had i known beau would be on today i would have delayed yesterday's request harry please fill in the

00:26:59.540 fine gentleman on your mission he wants us to watch and review all of sharp oh

00:27:05.240 can do yeah that's my forte in fact on my own channel history bro history bro check out history

00:27:13.720 bro i've already reviewed long form the first three books of which there aren't any tv shows he wanted

00:27:20.220 the books to be covered as well yeah i'm doing them chronologically through sharp's life not

00:27:24.780 chronologically when bernard conwell wrote them oh all right so i do that with dan yeah i remember

00:27:29.600 yeah yeah so i've only done the first three uh but i mean to do them all and i've read all the books

00:27:34.800 and seen all the things so i know richard sharp inside out well there you go well that's something

00:27:40.640 i could happily do that's easy content for me i'd need an excuse to watch them all anyway so

00:27:45.800 there you go we'll get that sorted soon enough doom hand the uk have found their version of assault

00:27:51.020 weapons what's a ninja sword we'll tell you when we see them pretty much jarhead 2167 you can tell

00:27:57.380 where the ninjas live by following the chirping of ceiling birds dxtn64 that's a black dynamite

00:28:04.080 reference ninja please it's always the damn ninjas always wanting ninja power that's a random name 200 0.96

00:28:11.320 ninja yeah uh ninjas are known for being silent and professional those must be the other types of 0.98

00:28:18.420 ninjas the ninjas with a hard r sad face ninjas yeah uh davy verse i have an idea could we just

00:28:26.780 ban stabbing seems logical maybe we can ban murder next i think we've already beat you to that

00:28:32.980 base tape don't worry i'm sure they'll issue a correction about their ban on ninja knives after

00:28:37.060 someone points out the spelling mistake alex adamson criminal oh no i can't use x to kill someone

00:28:43.400 that's illegal that is the logic and davy verse luke 22 36 to 38 nlt but now he said take your money

00:28:52.720 in a traveler's bag and if you don't have a sword sell your cloak and buy one so i can have a sword

00:28:57.280 publicly question mark i mean we've this isn't a christian country anymore not really no it's a very

00:29:05.540 interesting uh verse though oh yeah because people have used that all throughout time because when

00:29:10.880 people say oh jesus was a pacifist and turn the other cheek and um and love your enemy as much

00:29:16.940 as yourself and even if they strike you let them do it well people point to that and say no he said

00:29:21.680 buy a sword remember when he turned the tables over in the in uh in the table the money changes he

00:29:26.960 didn't don't mess with jesus he will he'll mess with your program jesus will mess you up 0.87

00:29:31.920 i mean even in anglo-saxon england there were uh like the creation of a peasant class who weren't

00:29:40.240 allowed to carry weapons anymore so i mean they wouldn't have included knives as weapons in those

00:29:45.120 days because everyone had to have a knife you can't do any you can't prepare things but i mean

00:29:49.440 yeah like the the idea of limiting who can have weapons is pretty old and

00:29:55.720 uh as long established in this country like not everyone's allowed to have the same kind of

00:30:01.800 weaponry i think in a lot of cities there would be a rule that you surrender your weapons at the gate

00:30:07.180 yeah um you certainly have freedom of the city which you can carry if the people who have

00:30:13.740 foreigners don't know that some people it's privileged few have freedom of the city of

00:30:18.040 london which means they are still to this day legally allowed to carry a sword in the city how do you

00:30:23.460 get this freedom you have to uh your father has either has to be bestowed on you by the king i

00:30:28.920 think or your father has to have it my grandfather had it uh my great-grandfather had it and didn't

00:30:33.880 pass it on to my grandfather he didn't apply so i've lost his ability not only would i be allowed

00:30:38.040 to wear a sword in the city of london but if i was found drunk in the city of london the police

00:30:42.800 would be required to convey me home in that by at their expense with my sword just endless

00:30:48.240 disappointments really isn't it that's quite a privilege all joking aside that's quite a privilege

00:30:52.560 great it would be fantastic you get to get absolutely blasted and then boss the police

00:30:56.700 around take me home 0.86

00:30:57.940 all right let's go on to greenland then oh yes there you go do you want your box or should i

00:31:06.660 hold of the box yeah you can do that all right okay if that's all right yeah

00:31:09.820 so we need to talk a little bit about the greenland question

00:31:15.180 it's come up because it does seem that there's some real political will in washington about

00:31:23.280 doing something with greenland i thought it was just a bit of a joke to be perfectly honest at first

00:31:29.240 um in the sense of you know like the way they want to rename the gulf of mexico to the gulf of

00:31:35.200 america it's like i thought they'd actually done that i think they did yeah yeah it's like it's not

00:31:39.760 really all that important in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really mean anything i thought

00:31:45.160 that i did originally think that this greenland talk was just just talk i thought it's flex like

00:31:50.640 you know making sure the russians are listening that they're powerful government in power and

00:31:54.760 they're not afraid to assert american interests abroad but whether they actually would actually

00:31:58.880 do anything to take greenland is another matter a little bit of saber rattling a little bit of just

00:32:03.280 verbal um brinkmanship just just talk i thought it was but it seems to be i mean if you believe

00:32:09.340 the mainstream media and everything i've been reading um and listening to um it seems like

00:32:14.280 there is some real political will there i mean they're sending jd vance there and apparently

00:32:19.040 they're going to be sending um a bunch of other really really senior people in the in the

00:32:23.240 administration um to sort of open diplomatic talks with the government of greenland government

00:32:29.100 to greenland yeah denmark yeah so okay so first of all let's talk a little bit about a little

00:32:34.820 bit about greenland and denmark so denmark okay there's been sort of scandinavian or northwest

00:32:40.080 european settlements in that part of the world for like a thousand years or whatever not constant

00:32:44.340 no no no it was discovered by eric the red and there was a norse colony there it was very

00:32:50.940 important when they were trading ivory and when was that that was about a thousand years ago okay

00:32:55.760 11th century uh i think well they discovered it before one it would have been the 10th century it

00:33:01.980 would have been before america because his son leif ericsson discovered america uh vinland so

00:33:07.880 yeah it's far a good family to be in for discovering things but uh yeah there was a colony there um and

00:33:14.540 eventually i think it only lasts until the 1400s and they were saying mass there in the 1400s i think

00:33:22.620 that's the last one of the last records like last time they had a mass held at the church there

00:33:26.540 and they just sort of filtered back into uh iceland because it wasn't a very it was not

00:33:33.280 successful colony i'm not sure of the exact reason some people say it was due with an increase in ivory

00:33:37.840 available from africa and india but elephant ivory so the walrus ivory trade was diminished or some

00:33:42.600 people say it's because the cattle were dying i think it's a boring argument not relevant to this

00:33:46.640 discussion but anyway are in the 15 1600s no norse presence there uh and later on denmark asserted its

00:33:54.820 dominance over the inuit when the vikings first arrived and eric the red discovered there were no

00:34:00.480 inuit there the inuit arrived after the norse but there was a period when there were inuit there and

00:34:04.840 no norse there so it's not so clear-cut as to who is the rightful owner so the thing i found surprising

00:34:11.080 when i was doing a little bit of reading and research was that denmark sort of formal legal claim

00:34:15.900 of it dates from the 17th century right and there were inuit there at that point yes and i think

00:34:21.700 you said the inuit first arrived in like the 13th or 14th something like that looking at it said

00:34:26.340 anywhere between the 12th and 14th century arrived in alaska in in the same about the same time the

00:34:32.980 norse arrived in greenland and so like it took a long time for the inuit to get all the way across

00:34:37.420 the north american continent to greenland so denmark's claim uh goes back to the 17th century

00:34:44.040 so it's not so not since time immemorial not a thousand years like their formal legal claim to

00:34:51.200 it not not that that really matters it's still a few hundred it's still a fair few hundred years

00:34:55.740 but okay now uh greenland does have a quote-unquote home rule they have got their own government uh but

00:35:03.540 denmark are still responsible for like their security uh they're still responsible for a few key things

00:35:09.300 yeah i think that i think they're kind of a semi-autonomous kind of state aren't they that's

00:35:13.660 right yeah yeah so so it's not like does denmark pay that like pay for their infrastructure because i

00:35:19.900 i understand that a lot of them are on like in social housing and they're alcoholics and there's

00:35:24.360 no jobs or anything that's what i've understood about believe it's the rest of them are danish i believe

00:35:28.020 it's a net drain for denmark yeah it's got a lot of social problems as a country i think yeah uh so so

00:35:36.080 it's sort of semi-autonomous it's got home rule but it is like a foreign territory a foreign

00:35:41.080 dependency overseas territory of denmark right so okay now the population is tiny it's tiny it's like

00:35:50.520 56 57 000 that's sort of nothing that's tiny i mean to put it in perspective the population of

00:36:00.060 rumford is 590 000 it's 10 times as many people in rumford

00:36:05.260 there's a small english town's worth of people in an enormous landmark tiny like swindon is 230

00:36:10.940 odd thousand it's a large town though it's actually yeah i mean it's not a city it's it's got one main

00:36:19.020 high street swindon or two you two it'd be a rubbish city rumford's got one main sort of

00:36:25.820 thoroughfare high street it's got 10 times as many people not that necessarily matters but it does but

00:36:33.120 let's remember we're talking about 56 57 000 people most of which are inuit not not danish people

00:36:40.500 so i think i think the danish population is about 15 percent when i looked into it earlier it's vast

00:36:46.640 majority inuit right right so okay okay so what's going on for them economically there's not much going

00:36:54.180 on there it's not i imagine a happening place to be for me it seems like it'd be quite peaceful i

00:37:00.460 think all all anybody does there by the looks of it is like ski yeah i mean there's there's like

00:37:06.560 fishing communities like fishing and hunting is still a massive thing they're inuit people i think

00:37:10.240 they were better that there was a what i understand of a limited knowledge of like modern greenland is

00:37:14.860 that as they've been the inuit have like lost their traditional way of life and moved into like 1.00

00:37:19.820 permanent settlement like buildings and stuff they have suffered some some of the same fate as like

00:37:25.480 native americans where like there's a lot of problems of alcoholism the australian aboriginals 1.00

00:37:30.840 domestic violence quite bad in greenland so like they don't have a lot to do except beat their wives

00:37:36.460 and drink i guess and then well you got to fill the time with something yeah and uh sled sled sled competitions

00:37:43.920 there's lots of husky sled sled racing that's a thing there apparently that'd be quite fun fun yeah

00:37:50.580 so okay now so the the trump administration is making all these noises which seem pretty genuine

00:37:58.340 there's actually a fair amount of political will on this that they want to quote unquote take

00:38:04.640 greenland now it won't just be i doubt they're going to do a grenader send in the marines send in a

00:38:12.120 naval task force and take it i doubt it'd be very difficult they'll if it happens at all they'll buy

00:38:17.000 it they'll buy it off of denmark just like they bought alaska louisiana purchase just like louisiana

00:38:22.780 purchase it happens it still happens to this day in fact i thought it's very interesting when i was

00:38:27.340 reading about this that uh truman in the late 40s offered to buy it off of denmark at the time he

00:38:35.100 offered i think 100 million dollars 100 million dollars that's a lot of money right yeah that's a huge

00:38:42.100 um now it would be it would probably be trillions

00:38:45.100 uh they think that the resources there is worth trillions um so that's the next thing to mention

00:38:52.000 is that that it's a valuable bit of land i mean it's just like a massive glacier at the moment just

00:38:57.540 but it's a vast amount of land there's a lot of stuff down there isn't there and under it

00:39:02.800 is uh it's very very resource rich yeah uh not just crude oil but apparently there's lots and lots

00:39:08.260 of uranium there and it looks like going in the future uranium will be important uh for nuclear

00:39:13.640 power and rare earth metals um america doesn't actually united continental united states isn't

00:39:20.420 all that rich in rare earth metals um so there's just the resources now russia canada australia

00:39:28.140 china the united states are all sniffing around it they all really are sniffing around greenland 0.63

00:39:33.600 australia is a big money yeah no if you can believe it profidious aussies at it again i knew it 0.89

00:39:39.900 now australia is a big nation for mining if you look up all the big countries that mine on industrial

00:39:45.980 scales australia is one of them they do tons of tons of mining a lot of mining are sort of

00:39:51.740 anglo australian ventures anyway so they've got sort of the infrastructure and the technology and

00:39:57.560 stuff so all the big players that could mine greenland basically um they're all sniffing around

00:40:04.260 it they'll want a piece of it so there's the resources so then there's the argument about just

00:40:08.460 security when you look at the globe if you're going to fly icbms or even fast jets or or heavy

00:40:14.240 bombers over the north of the globe into russia i suppose um then it's sort of strategic strategically

00:40:21.480 important i'll put it another way from america's point of view but denmark would stop them doing that

00:40:25.600 anyway right well that was the next thing i'm going to get on to but just quickly to finish that

00:40:28.880 point just to say um it's not that america necessarily needs it their icbms they don't

00:40:34.420 need an icbm base in greenland in order to reach russia but it just wouldn't be good if china took it 1.00

00:40:39.920 let's say it just wouldn't be i was going to ask in america's interest they need to even buy

00:40:44.660 greenland to just negotiate some kind of deal with uh denmark to do all of this anyway so that's the

00:40:51.120 next thing i was going to talk about is just the real politic of it i want to try and a little bit

00:40:55.220 here try and sweep aside the the nonsense a little bit because in the mainstream media nearly always

00:41:01.220 the angle is evil trump evil vance are trying to oppress the good completely innocent people of

00:41:07.440 greenland they are completely innocent uh people of greenland not the wife beaters yeah apart from

00:41:11.140 the wife beaters yeah um and the seal clubbers i don't know if they club seals there actually anyway

00:41:16.780 um yeah it's just an evil expansionist plan for the sake of it by trump to just grab resources and

00:41:26.260 land so that that's one angle the other angle might be on the other end of the spectrum it's just like

00:41:30.380 this blind jingoistic ultra mega we can do what we want and suck it up the rest of the world how about

00:41:38.060 that how about them apples right can we try and sweep aside just for a moment sweep aside both of those

00:41:43.480 and just talk about reality just talk about the the real politic of the situation is uh that there's

00:41:51.820 only 56 57 000 mostly inuits there and denmark is no match for the united states in terms of military

00:41:59.160 and now might is right i'm not saying it's fair might is right isn't fair but it is a reality

00:42:04.800 okay and now the u.s navy will stomp a mud hole in the danish navy without blinking

00:42:12.440 but they can't they can't they couldn't possibly go to open war with denmark that's real politic too

00:42:17.120 like the diplomatic illusions of the west depend on not things like that not happening if you if you

00:42:22.740 do do that any and all european allies that your uh that america has would immediately

00:42:27.980 step back and step away from any agreements i mean how can you how could you how could you trust

00:42:34.180 them when you go well okay we're supposed to be allies and you're just going to openly conduct

00:42:38.540 warfare with us well i'm not saying it's likely to happen i'm just saying if it did if it did yeah

00:42:44.040 it would be a no contest right yeah i'm sure trump would rather just buy it than have to send it but

00:42:50.100 if it did come to blows i mean i looked it up the danish army is like 8 000 guys the marine corps alone

00:42:58.760 is 168 000 guys right the the danish don't have they don't have a nuclear submarine program they

00:43:06.000 don't have any aircraft carriers uh they've got like about 20 odd frigates which are not all that big

00:43:11.580 it's just it's just no absolutely no contest but beyond that it sort of like sort of actual naval

00:43:17.140 engagements or fast jet dogfights over greenland short of that there's nothing they denmark cannot stop

00:43:25.460 someone like russia or china or australia or canada just sending over a fleet of sort of mining

00:43:32.960 mining operations and just just going into greenland and doing whatever they want to do they can't stop

00:43:38.640 it as vance is uh annoyed about according to the leagues is that denmark is a dependence like it's

00:43:45.960 already like a vassal state of the america of america anyway so by de facto it's already under american

00:43:51.040 control and it depends on american military that's one of the reasons that european states don't have

00:43:56.460 large militaries is because america didn't want us to and that is how things have been engineered

00:44:01.420 they put a load of bases in our countries after the second world war absolutely but i mean

00:44:06.680 okay it's an absolutely fair value point and again i don't say the necessity of all of the

00:44:12.720 big bravado big talk coming from the administration when surely it wouldn't be that hard to just

00:44:17.940 negotiate a diplomatic deal with denmark in the first place you say that but the danish government

00:44:23.620 does seem adamant utterly adamant that they're that this it's just they're not going to have any

00:44:29.340 have any truck with it who knows they know they've got something valuable so they're playing

00:44:34.580 they're playing their cards right that's the art of the deal as trump would call it extremely valuable

00:44:38.720 i just think the reality is um that that bit of land is coveted by the biggest players in the world

00:44:46.720 china united states russia canada wants canada wants to use it to get resources canada can want

00:44:54.720 anything it's not got a military capability either it can't they're not relevant in that but well

00:44:59.480 even russia and china are no match for the u.s navy but russia and china can't take it now because

00:45:04.600 denmark is an american vassal basically so to them if russia invades it's the same as invading europe

00:45:10.440 like russia can't just send its like submarines through the baltic without repercussions like

00:45:16.040 everyone gets annoyed and nato starts you know talking about it so i don't think they can uh

00:45:21.100 they can they can do that but like the america the american administration might lament the fact

00:45:27.120 that they have to pay to defend europe but the alternative is europe defends itself and we

00:45:31.640 remilitarize and become what we used to be which is like hyper military states incredibly powerful as

00:45:36.700 well and then they wouldn't be able to boss us around anymore america wouldn't be the the power of 0.74

00:45:40.660 the world it is now so they can't have it both ways yeah they gotta have one or the other if they

00:45:45.540 go harder than they are right now then it could just completely destroy the illusion of european

00:45:49.620 and american cooperation instead of it just being what it actually is which has been america pushing

00:45:55.180 us around for 80 years well let's move the conversation on slightly from just sort of actual

00:46:00.320 military engagements like russia sending their one steaming aircraft carrier out to greenland

00:46:06.780 but just let's say i don't know china china just does a deal with the greenland government or with

00:46:14.160 nor with denmark just does a deal saying uh you know there's no military involved let us just send

00:46:19.720 over a massive mission we'll spend we'll spend a few billion on infrastructure and the net result of

00:46:26.040 all that is we get all your uh all your resources basically america doesn't want that to happen either

00:46:31.880 right so so you can see why i can see why uh america does cover greenland um not saying it's

00:46:42.620 i mean it sounds perfectly reasonable from a geopolitical standpoint why they would want access

00:46:47.000 if nothing else to all of the resources on there and also somebody in the reply in the rumble rants

00:46:52.460 has pointed out that uh uh more u.s military presence there could keep the lanes around greenland

00:46:57.480 open and free of unfriendly influence as well right yeah interesting that northwest passage

00:47:02.640 i don't know if denmark's hoping to like maybe they want to sell the rights mining rights rather

00:47:09.360 than giving up the territory wholesale to say you can have mining rights on a lease or something like

00:47:13.900 that so america wants to mine there and it may want a military presence there and denmark could say

00:47:18.920 yeah sure but you just to pay like so they get more money out of america by i mean if it does turn

00:47:23.500 out i mean we've had danes in our comments before saying that then that greenland is just a complete

00:47:28.660 drain of resources on denmark so i don't think many of them will be too sad to see it go and i

00:47:34.560 doubt the denish government would be either but like tom's suggesting they've got something very

00:47:39.380 valuable get what you can out of it that's another thing that i found quite interesting when i was doing

00:47:44.340 a bit of reading or research on this is that um greenland and denmark uh sort of not i don't know if

00:47:50.620 they hate each other but it's there's definitely tension between them there's quite a lot of

00:47:55.640 tension like you say danie i think a fair amount of danish people like this is just like a noose 0.88

00:47:59.400 this is just like a net drain for yeah that's traditional in all of the whole colonies that

00:48:04.960 the icelanders the faroese all of them like want to not be part of denmark or associated because

00:48:10.780 they did kind of like we did in ireland they did that kind of thing like banning

00:48:14.000 like local languages icelanders were supposed to speak danish and not icelandic in schools and things

00:48:18.260 like that and they tried to like just make everything danish when then it's left a sour

00:48:23.140 taste in the in the mouths of their former colonies i think because my first thoughts on this when it

00:48:30.440 first sort of started to seriously come up is um well i don't why can't greenland be entirely its own

00:48:37.040 thing why does it have to still be um under the umbrella of denmark and it's not really fair that

00:48:43.140 america should just own it outright why can't it just be it's entirely its own sovereign thing

00:48:48.080 and the arguments against that it's just it's just not realistic dan was telling me about a

00:48:53.780 conversation he had with somebody who knows all about these sorts of things and um he said it's

00:48:57.600 just not it's just not realistic where they've got no military tiny population no industry no economy

00:49:04.380 to speak of um it's all you know someone is going to come along it will be it will be china russia or

00:49:13.820 united states will come along and bully it one way or another it's just it's just a simple fact i'm

00:49:20.620 not saying it's fair i'm not saying it's right i'm saying that's what will happen i think it's it's

00:49:25.020 already america's it's just that there's a kind of facade where they can't just do what they want with

00:49:31.440 it and that is what that's what that's what is irritating the american administration they want

00:49:36.500 to just go ahead and do certain things but denmark is an obstruction you've got to keep up this uh

00:49:40.880 this mirage of uh mutual cooperation that's going on without just destroying it all you think uh if

00:49:49.380 if he has to trump will like threaten and to like nuke denmark now of course not i'm joking that

00:49:56.160 was a not very that would be a hell of a headline to wake up to not in a very good taste

00:50:00.900 threatens nuclear annihilation on denmark like when we shelled copenhagen in the when they sided

00:50:07.480 with napoleon they should learn not to mess with anglos they haven't they haven't learned from before 1.00

00:50:12.560 there's an early sharp novel about that is there yeah yeah under later written but chronologically

00:50:18.060 earlier in richard sharp's life one of those okay a little bit of sharp trivia for you there

00:50:22.720 um we'll get around so the last point i wanted to make really about all this is um if we just look

00:50:28.540 at it realistically and try and sweep away uh some of the the narratives on both sides uh just look

00:50:35.480 at the the true realities of of greenland's situation in the world i just it just the only

00:50:43.020 thing left to really ask is how serious is trump and vance and the the american president presidential

00:50:51.040 administration how serious are they about this will they push denmark you know super hard and start

00:50:59.040 making threats and things or do you think that it's just they're just throwing it out there and if it

00:51:05.240 comes to nothing it's a myth i'm just getting the impression they are quite serious probably clever

00:51:10.700 with some kind of like they're throwing they're making sure it's entering into public consciousness

00:51:15.320 america owns that zone to some extent alike and just making sure everyone's like subconsciously aware

00:51:23.920 really this is american like zone and there's going to be american activities there in the foreseeable

00:51:29.720 future even if they don't buy outright from denmark i think denmark might try and try and work on another

00:51:36.640 solution that's even more lucrative for them but yeah there's no way china or russia are going to be 0.99

00:51:42.240 able to march into greenland without uh repercussions there's just the west the atlanticists 1.00

00:51:48.800 like regime or whatever you want to call it even just even just commercial not military just

00:51:53.620 commercial like the chinese denmark can't lease like mining rights to enemies of the west can it

00:52:01.080 i don't know if it could get away with that even germany can't have a pipeline to get fuel

00:52:04.820 they'd probably be subject to sanctions or some kind of other economic punishment

00:52:09.460 no like we sold our steel industry to china or whatever anyway yeah a lot china i mean russia's

00:52:16.340 a different so china and russia obviously very very different stories but i would imagine

00:52:22.040 there isn't anything stopping denmark from signing some sort of commercial deal with china

00:52:27.360 say yeah you do what you want yeah i don't know though i don't know i might be right with their china

00:52:32.180 we were forced to give up all of our colonies and then china just moved in didn't they 1.00

00:52:36.100 belton road yeah um because then you think denmark would try and get china and u.s into a bidding war

00:52:43.200 for mining rights in in greenland yeah i mean that's a realistic future isn't it i feel like it would be

00:52:50.820 it would be the smart move it's ballsy for a little country like denmark to take on like the world powers 0.57

00:52:55.160 and then and then maybe if say that happened it may it's then at that point not entirely crazy from

00:53:01.580 trump to say well i'm just going to move the atlantic fleet closer to that because that's what america

00:53:08.180 often do there's tension in taiwan we're just going to move the pacific fleet to within 200 miles of

00:53:13.400 that's all we're going to do so what's happening just standing a bit too uncomfortable to be close to

00:53:17.640 someone yeah yeah i mean who knows and i suppose the very last point to sort of talk about on this

00:53:23.360 is the canada question and then it plays into the the thing where again i thought it was just a

00:53:28.960 complete joke where they were talking about canada in terms of the 51st state that's that's pure sort

00:53:35.380 of trumpian comedy right but it not entirely i still think it is largely almost entirely but there's

00:53:42.140 there's an element of sort of quite serious political will not necessarily to turn canada

00:53:47.000 into the 51st state but to completely rewrite their relationship to completely have an entirely

00:53:54.760 new dynamic between those two countries it seems like that is happening seems like that's sort of

00:53:59.920 starting to play out and when you look at the map canada and greenland and the united states where

00:54:04.640 they all are um yeah there's no way that they won't won't be interlinked as i say canada has

00:54:10.860 designs not necessarily on invasion or anything but canada wants a piece of greenland's resources

00:54:19.240 so there's just there's just that extra element going on there now of uh well i think do you see

00:54:27.540 a merger of canada and the united states as feasible in the immediate future i doubt no i don't see that

00:54:34.140 america actually sort of annexing canada and making it the 51st state and that seems to me still

00:54:39.760 complete craziness i don't think that will happen but just i think what is happening is that as i

00:54:46.900 say their relationship or the dynamic between the two countries is profoundly changing where it was

00:54:52.660 kind of like a sort of just sponge off the united states endlessly it used to traditionally could see

00:54:57.840 itself as like a more moderate like british form of governance as opposed to the american revolutionary

00:55:03.260 one but that just that like that just does not exist in the canadian psychology anymore the canadian

00:55:09.060 left is not really distinguishable from the democrat party and the canadian right is nothing to do with

00:55:14.600 like british conservatism or toryism it's just american republicanism so there isn't any at a cultural

00:55:19.680 level they've already won like canada is american not british and it's never gonna like become british

00:55:26.360 increasingly indian as well yeah and chinese yeah yeah and as for the quebec sort of separatists

00:55:32.780 they're way down the list now probably no i don't see america annexing making making canada the 51st

00:55:39.760 state or again sending in like uh infantry divisions tank divisions fast jet sorties over canada canadian

00:55:48.080 airspace and conquering it no no i mean that's just that's not gonna happen but um it does seem like well

00:55:54.280 it not even seems i think it just is fair to say it is the case that trump's got a completely different

00:55:59.680 uh view of canada there's been ever since the war world war ii i mean like the whole the way the

00:56:07.020 relationship between those two countries being is is being rewritten as we speak and we'll see where

00:56:11.680 it goes i mean who knows who knows where it goes hopefully it's not too um you know hopefully it

00:56:19.640 doesn't end in any sort of violence or even politically too too much turmoil let's hope not

00:56:24.580 but we shall see we shall see all right let's go through uh the rumble rants here so got one

00:56:33.340 uh leftover from my segment rick twgp reset the wall reset reset the wall okay we're in darkness now

00:56:43.540 folks we're in the void join us as we go through the land of the mighty bush

00:56:48.900 okay so rick says if i have a sword and i'm not a ninja does that mean i'm okay

00:56:53.840 i can only assume so because again ninja sword is incredibly not defined there's massive two-handed

00:57:01.460 bastard swords they're allowed jarhead and cleave a horse in in yeah maybe they're allowed he said

00:57:08.620 wait for it to restart before you before we start the next segment okay so we can carry on we're not 1.00

00:57:13.300 on youtube yeah we're not on youtube right now okay you can say fuck or bugger at this point if you 0.99

00:57:17.680 really want to jarhead asks says an anglo-saxon without his could you pronounce this for me 0.99

00:57:24.760 say axe say axe i thought so didn't want to be wrong though is a depressing thought

00:57:29.180 bet uh bebop in too says sorry bit behind here are funds for yasuke simulator and a narwhal horn

00:57:36.600 to survive ninjas thank you very much neil from parkdale says harry i agree with your position on blur

00:57:42.100 versus oasis good but who gets your vote in the sex pistols versus the clash debate sex pistols 0.95

00:57:47.280 sex pistols obviously obviously one great album versus a few good albums and a lot of shit 0.93

00:57:54.240 and the clash and so like uh left-coded like like more lip-coded and johnny lyden turned out to be 0.55

00:58:02.080 based in the end so yeah they and sex pistols were actually dangerous and anti-establishment and edgy

00:58:08.520 um the class were basically the establishment they weren't thatcherites no but they everything else

00:58:15.840 is like well what did the clash agree with that they wouldn't agree with that's mainstream now

00:58:20.280 it's basically the tony blair of punk bands yeah exactly even if they do have a few catchy tunes

00:58:25.740 a few years ago on like uh itv news or bbc news i saw an old member of the clash talking about something

00:58:32.640 rather and yeah it was the most npc boomer talking points ever of course it was whereas i saw john

00:58:38.280 lyden play with public image back in 2023 and uh it was great it was great when he did talk about

00:58:45.900 politics it was all pretty sensible stuff nothing that nothing that seemed too massively npc or anything

00:58:51.360 and it was a great live show as well the engaged few says i would suggest that you guys read the art

00:58:56.740 of the deal if you want a better insight into trump's more outlandish moves of this year you need to give

00:59:01.540 that i read it yeah i have never read it i probably should it's probably worth yeah oh another quick

00:59:06.180 thing on seeing public image was you go to those kinds of gigs and it's funny because the kind of

00:59:10.420 people who show up are all like old punks from the 1970s and 80s and they all probably still see

00:59:15.900 themselves as like npc leftists but against the system against the system i'm all for multiculturalism

00:59:23.280 because that's what boris didn't want wow whoops screw the money but whenever you go to them you look

00:59:28.960 around you go this is the most english venue that i could be in tonight everywhere else is going to

00:59:35.080 is the least diverse environment that you'll ever find yourself in which i always find funny let's go 1.00

00:59:40.460 through your segment then so if you uh have ever got a dna test with the popular company 23andme you

00:59:48.260 need to pay attention because they have filed for bankruptcy um and that is annoying for me especially

00:59:56.220 because i was a shareholder i am a shareholder i probably have to say that for legal reasons

00:59:59.740 before i talk about them but the the result is that a lot of people have been advised by

01:00:05.760 independent groups that i cannot vouch for necessarily that they ought to delete their data

01:00:11.820 and some opinion pieces have been shared around on the subject and people are panicking about

01:00:16.280 what can happen what's going to happen because there's a belief that when they sell

01:00:20.160 the company that all that data could be misused by whoever buys it or whatever um uh the the fact

01:00:30.120 remains that first off a few years ago a couple of years ago there was a data leak and millions of

01:00:36.900 people's data from 23andme was already released so you might be too late there you're going to go and

01:00:42.220 delete uh right now it might already be um too late in that respect oh and they blamed their users 0.96

01:00:48.200 you stupid users how do you get our information leaked um the i wanted to help people a little bit 0.88

01:00:57.320 understand this because people always ask me about 23andme and ancestry and other kinds of 0.99

01:01:02.120 dna testing sites because i'm something of an enthusiast um there is an option with 23andme

01:01:10.000 when you sign up or at any subsequent moment to delete your sample the sample is your actual

01:01:16.800 spit that you send them when they within a month or of how you're sending your spit to them they can 0.62

01:01:23.920 process some of the snips as a single nucleotide polymorphisms to look at the very small amount of

01:01:30.520 your genetic code and that data is all that's required for them to give you an ancestry report

01:01:35.240 and a few medical reports and that's what's referred to as the data if you selected them to delete the

01:01:41.580 sample destroy the sample they're actually destroying a physical sample of your dna and if

01:01:47.360 you said that they could keep it then then they have that sample still on frozen somewhere and they

01:01:53.480 can extract that data or other data much more because since 23andme started i got my 23andme done

01:02:00.760 10 years ago you can now get your entire genome sequence with some companies for less than a thousand

01:02:06.180 dollars uh that sounds like a lot considering like these commercial tests are like less than a hundred

01:02:10.780 dollars but that's your entire genome which means you would never have to have any other kind of

01:02:15.080 genetic test done again because literally every single part of your genome is sequenced which used

01:02:19.160 the first time that was done the human genome was sequenced was like a revolutionary event in the 90s and

01:02:23.580 it costs i can't remember billions or something like that took years and years it took years super

01:02:27.820 computers and stuff yeah now we can just do it like that and it costs a few hundred dollars

01:02:32.060 so and that's going to get cheaper and that's probably you're all going to end up doing that

01:02:36.140 and that's probably how you're going to get medical reports in future and probably you won't even be

01:02:40.440 prescribed medicines without checking that those will conflict with your unique genetic profile but

01:02:45.980 that's not where we're at right now with in terms of 23andme if you've selected that they delete that

01:02:52.160 sample but you've allowed them to share that data they can there's two other options you can that they can

01:02:58.020 share that the data with third parties which you should have already selected not that you don't

01:03:03.220 allow that and another option that they can use the data internally for i can't remember what studies

01:03:10.020 and things like that which you can also opt out of those are the three options you have within the

01:03:15.280 settings on 23andme but if the company is sold there is an additional worry that those three settings

01:03:22.580 are not that don't address that maybe this other company who will buy it will have less scrupulous

01:03:29.840 ideals or whatever or i don't actually know the legality of what uh what a buyer would actually

01:03:37.960 whether a buyer would be able to treat the data differently but what's been referred to as data here

01:03:44.180 is not anything other than what 23andme has provided you from the sample so it's not your entire genome

01:03:51.020 they can't clone you or anything like that oh yeah not well not from the amount of data that's there

01:03:56.500 because it's a tiny amount of your genome that's looked at which only gives them some insight into

01:04:01.480 your medical uh like some they can give you some say something's like you're good at drinking coffee

01:04:06.440 or not or something and they can tell your ancestry profile which uh is not a huge amount of the genome

01:04:12.100 but yes it if you're concerned you need to go and delete the entire account which will include

01:04:19.020 deleting the data and you can do that in the settings but i'm not entirely sure you need to

01:04:23.680 be concerned it's hard to know really it would depend who buys it yeah and if they how scrupulous

01:04:30.880 or unscrupulous they might be if it is some like some sort of insane chinese billionaire thing 0.99

01:04:40.080 then yeah it might be used against you at some point um yes if it's sold abroad it was not an

01:04:46.720 american company and subject to american law i don't know if they're allowed to sell it to a

01:04:50.380 non-american company that data because if it's if if that data was collected under certain you know

01:04:55.880 american laws of that like does it apply in china or is it i have no idea so why was it they went

01:05:02.600 bankrupt in the first place that's a good question they have this this reuters article has a graph of

01:05:08.300 their revenue so it seems like their revenue peaked in the first well over oh wait this is uh

01:05:14.500 one article i read it just said um it just said that demand had plummeted i mean there's a lot

01:05:21.160 more competition over over this kind of testing than there was when they originally started uh but

01:05:27.260 it does look like they've been going down a little bit but revenue of course does not necessarily

01:05:30.260 translate to profits either they might have had a bad model basically they might have had too many

01:05:34.840 employees and too much flat they needed a very easily done i i mean they i mean like you said they had

01:05:40.180 they had big pr disasters like all of the data getting leaked i also heard josh mentioning earlier

01:05:47.380 and i think i've seen people talk about it myself that apparently there was some kind of internal memo

01:05:52.640 where they were saying insert a little bit of extra diversity into certain white people yeah

01:05:58.740 results to make sure that they don't get any ideas about their ancestry or something i don't know how

01:06:03.780 what they actually you know they what they actually did is there's certain parts of the of the relevant

01:06:08.900 area of the human genome that they look at for these ancestry tests that are so generic that you can't

01:06:15.020 really assign them very easily to any one population and they could just say you know unassigned which is

01:06:22.300 what they sometimes do actually they just gray it out and say unassigned i used to have 0.1 unassigned

01:06:26.780 but there was a concerted effort they said aside if you have people of predominantly european ancestry

01:06:32.900 assign that unassigned dna to african because then in a way all dna is african or whatever they can say

01:06:39.580 but basically it is it's not like a lie because i mean you could say it like that but it's like

01:06:47.120 it's obviously misleading because it makes people think they have african it's pushing people to

01:06:51.520 towards an agenda a multicultural multi-ethnic idea of their own background in history

01:06:56.760 yeah and they got caught with that um and i think that was that was true as far as i'm aware but

01:07:01.180 i don't think they do it anymore or they stop doing it um anyway you when any of these dna as i

01:07:06.980 tell people anything less than three percent you should take with a big pinch of salt if it's less

01:07:11.960 than one percent if it's one percent then just probably ignore it because it's probably it's not

01:07:16.780 that level of accuracy told you i'm not slavic yeah there you go 1.5 it was it was one percent

01:07:23.200 slav after ancestry changed the marker updated their markers last year halfway through last year

01:07:29.400 all of a sudden i became a lot more english a lot less scottish and then all of a sudden out of

01:07:33.260 nowhere they went you're not welsh anymore you're slavic one percent slavic slavic it's a very strange

01:07:38.760 one too because it's very specific europe but i mean it's also it was yeah it's a huge region of

01:07:43.040 eastern europe that it highlighted on the map so i can ignore the two percent welsh i got

01:07:47.520 you can yeah okay yeah we'll do unless you thank god unless you know of to get two percent two

01:07:55.260 percent ancestry would be someone like who died in maybe the late seven early early 19th century so

01:08:03.280 early 1800s if you know that you have one welsh ancestor who died at that time then it's then you 0.99

01:08:07.960 can say okay then that's right but if you if you know your ancestors from that period and there's

01:08:12.060 none that matches the bill then you can just ignore it because it's just a mistake probably

01:08:15.180 um but yeah i also have said to people you can take your data from 23andme and upload it to other

01:08:21.040 services and i'm not providing you know legal advice or anything you you're worried about security you

01:08:27.180 have to do research on those other companies before you upload them my heritage living dna and my true

01:08:33.060 ancestry are three websites that allow you to upload the dna that you got sequenced from another company

01:08:38.720 such as 23andme so if you're deleting your 23andme account you'll want to download that data first

01:08:43.660 because once you delete it you can never get it back um but then you can upload it to other sites

01:08:48.960 and they'll tell you other things i think if you're predominantly british ancestry then the most accurate

01:08:53.880 commercial test available for especially for sub-regional breakdown of your ancestry is living dna

01:08:59.260 but i'm not sure whether it gets more accurate if you pay living dna for their test rather than upload

01:09:05.460 uh a genome from another website like 23andme because i've not compared the two options

01:09:10.680 i used ancestry.com and i think i'm pretty sure you can do a living dna you can do that yeah you can

01:09:16.460 download so i'm going to go ahead and do that that's what i think i'm going to do as well in terms of

01:09:20.980 these big more popular um more popular ancestry dna testing companies the ones like ancestry 23andme what

01:09:30.340 i know you're a shareholder in 23andme so that might bias you a little bit if anybody was interested

01:09:36.080 in doing it for the first time what would you recommend just for a general audience not necessarily

01:09:39.980 british it's hard to say because it's not it's very it's very much dependent on your ancestry like

01:09:45.800 some of them have i mean a lot of all of the tests are marketed for the english-speaking world which

01:09:54.540 has a huge amount of british dna but in america that is because it's a lot of the average white

01:10:00.700 american is of irish british and german mix so for them it's like very important that they don't 1.00

01:10:06.820 like get tell the irish people they're english or the german people they're english because that gets

01:10:11.100 them angry so uh they're all much to me but the um but uh so that's why if you're a white american

01:10:19.080 you probably have some british ancestry and but if you have like a mixture of other regions like you

01:10:24.180 it's not living dna is not very good 23andme and ancestry.com are two of the like generic best

01:10:30.460 websites they're big they're big and popular but they're also generically good like if i don't if

01:10:35.960 i'm just guessing that you're of mixed ancestry from across europe or even have some non-european

01:10:40.160 ancestry i have had like south asian people ask me which is the best uh because like if they want to 0.96

01:10:45.540 know like what percentage gujarati versus tamil like most of the commercial tests won't give you

01:10:50.240 anything like that accurately but 23and ancestry have been pushing more for because they're a bit 0.99

01:10:55.640 woke you know trying to make a better service for uh non-whites basically because initially these 0.80

01:11:02.640 services were were geared up at white um to be fair i don't even think you need to be a woke company to

01:11:09.180 want to be able to do that i mean you're just expanding your customer base yeah it's a lot it's

01:11:12.860 a developing but i think the thing is that the most of the people who actually buy these things are

01:11:16.600 white people so it's like that is the main market a lot of people from other cultures don't want to 1.00

01:11:22.520 care they don't care like well it also helps that other cultures tend to have a more uh concrete idea

01:11:27.440 of their direct ancestors as well because they have that folk tradition of just like you know the names

01:11:32.920 of your ancestors whereas we've kind of lost that here yeah i think that it's like industrialized

01:11:40.000 britain and america have something in common that like people are a little bit unsure like because

01:11:45.160 there's been a lot of move domestic movement since the industrial revolution in britain like

01:11:48.360 um like you know you might had an ancestor from wales who moved to london 100 years ago and you

01:11:54.240 weren't sure about it so you even though you know you're british you want to know about things like

01:11:57.920 that uh whereas like in some other parts of the world people really are still living in the same

01:12:02.260 valleys as their great great grandparents and like they don't need a test to tell them that because

01:12:06.000 they you know and also they haven't got the um the disposable income to you know invest in

01:12:11.800 frivolous things like ancestry tests so that that to be fair it wasn't racism that made them focus on

01:12:17.360 white um customers it was just uh practical but yeah they are expanding but yeah i'd say

01:12:23.440 problems with legal and privacy issues aside 23andme and ancestry are both quite good

01:12:30.380 ancestry has a really really cool feature which the others don't have because ancestry was initially a

01:12:35.840 family tree website so it's the best for building family trees heritage uh my heritage also has

01:12:42.300 family tree options it's an israeli company um but it's not as well established for like all the records

01:12:48.760 as ancestry so you're more likely to find other people who are building the same tree as you which

01:12:52.900 you can borrow from but ancestry has this cool thing that matches up your tree with your dna test

01:12:58.700 and other people with similar people in the trees and it can then identify segments of your

01:13:04.460 your dna and which ancestors they come from by finding other people with similar people in the

01:13:10.060 trees which is really really useful for confirming things like you know ancestry research where you

01:13:15.360 have someone you think your ancestors to be you're not certain because there's no records but if you

01:13:18.620 find other people who share descent from them and you compare your trees and you can see for certain

01:13:22.780 whether you both descent from them and identify segments of the code but the problem with ancestry is

01:13:27.480 i think they're unscrupulous in the way they charge customers because things that they initially offer for

01:13:32.460 free they take away or things that you pay for they you've already paid for like your ancestry test

01:13:37.260 then they now say oh some of the features that you paid for we're going to switch them into a

01:13:41.300 um a subscription model so to get back the things you already paid for you need to pay us more which i

01:13:46.260 think is not ethical at all but um yeah these companies have to do whatever they can to scramble money

01:13:52.980 at the moment yeah i noticed that josh said that because josh did ancestry literally like two weeks

01:13:58.920 before me or something and he got to have the breakdown by parent for free but it now costs me

01:14:04.960 like a quid or something or two quid yeah they changed that for me as well also on the ancestry

01:14:10.860 tree that you can go through so i've actually done a bit of that and and tried to go through it and it's

01:14:16.300 matched up a few things for me but one of the things that does it gives you like the little clues

01:14:20.500 on it where it says oh we found something that might work how accurate are those because i'm not

01:14:25.780 entirely sure if i should trust those so those are based on other people's trees oh other people

01:14:32.120 other people who have a similar person in the tree have or who what the out the algorithm thinks is

01:14:38.000 the same person because the name and the dates are similar and they think they know that other person

01:14:42.740 put them in the tree now when i first started like doing tree building in like 2009 i assumed that

01:14:48.600 other tree builders were really going to be accurate and they were saving me time to copy them

01:14:52.820 but what you learn is that then they're all doing the same thing so they're all just like

01:14:57.360 sniffing each other's behind and getting the same results like you definitely need to double check

01:15:03.300 things unless you have like i think the first thing to do if you're going to build a tree is start with

01:15:07.440 what your actual family tell you get the data from your grandparents directly and then build on that

01:15:13.160 uh solid ground uh and and like if you you go on other people's trees from ancestry and you can copy the

01:15:20.940 entire tree across but you might be copying loads of mistakes and false ancestors that you need to

01:15:26.640 spend years correcting later on if you do that one thing i think that they can my sister was thinking

01:15:31.620 of doing this which is apparently i think you can spend like 600 quid to get somebody to actually go

01:15:36.520 through records for you yeah and track it all down that way yeah but that's a fair bit of money to

01:15:41.320 just it's about what's what how much is your time worth basically because family tree research takes a

01:15:46.420 long time as i think most of people who do it are retired and they've got nothing better to do but

01:15:50.560 i for some reason spent hours and hours of my life building a tree of 3 000 people or whatever

01:15:56.500 which is uh thank thank you that that's some classic anglo autism right there you should be proud of that 1.00

01:16:03.080 yeah i am but uh yeah it's not but no one else in my family seems to care about it then yeah

01:16:07.940 it was either this or stamp collecting mum very interesting you say that everyone's sort of copying each

01:16:14.380 other and so you end up copying the same mistake it's funny that that's very often the way with

01:16:20.020 all history right everyone's copying herodotus yeah except herodotus keeps on being right

01:16:26.760 yeah or like um like um tacitus will say something and everyone's just copying that all the way through

01:16:33.260 to today yeah and if he was wrong or lying um then well that's it um it's that's interesting

01:16:40.240 it's generally also the news like all like urban myths start that way like someone you say it

01:16:44.880 enough times and it becomes like more true than the truth because it's just so everyone's so familiar

01:16:50.220 with that idea but i know and like uh marilyn manson and his famous rib yeah i thought that's true

01:16:56.080 that's definitely true or richard gear with that story is that prince had the same story it's like

01:17:01.080 prince and marilyn manson both had a rib removed yeah you copy from the best ah yeah great artists

01:17:06.240 good artists borrow great artists steal together they got the operation done at the same time

01:17:10.600 two for one discount

01:17:12.280 uh yeah there was actually a thing i learned some of the um actual before the age of the internet

01:17:21.800 genealogists like we've described that you could pay there were very unscrupulous ones among them

01:17:26.900 who sold fake genealogies especially to americans about their to tell them they were descended from

01:17:31.700 aristocrats and lords so now some of those are still popular in and they've transferred to the

01:17:37.400 online world and you can see people following these fake genealogies that were sold like 100 years ago

01:17:42.720 in america as like by snake oil salesmen whatever but then they're definitely not true and i actually

01:17:48.020 ended up copying one into my tree and then i was like going through it like he wasn't born there and

01:17:52.360 where did this come from and then i did a bit more research and i found out about how it was a big scam

01:17:56.660 like 100 years ago so it's like yeah scammers exist

01:18:00.560 and their consequences there's also like you know like historians like fake historians who like

01:18:07.500 or archaeologists who make thomas lockley oh yeah yeah i'm not familiar with the name he was the black

01:18:13.160 samurai yasuke guy for the assassin's creed game that just oh right yeah yeah yeah yeah well i caught

01:18:18.300 editing wikipedia with his own research that hadn't been released yet clever what's the famous skull that

01:18:23.600 arthur conan doyle was involved with did arthur conan doyle fake a skull no he didn't fake it but

01:18:28.200 someone near to him faked it and he bought into it and uh it was in the it was in the late victorian

01:18:34.160 period and it was they were saying it was the oldest skull because back then there was like prestige

01:18:38.760 around which country had the oldest skull yeah yeah uh i can't remember what it's quite famous

01:18:44.660 actually yeah pete down about it pit down man yeah that was complete fake churchill called it the

01:18:49.800 first britain or something but it's not not it was all fake yeah but there was the got some guy in

01:18:54.680 greece who just made like so many fake greek pots and they were perfect they were beautifully created

01:18:59.520 and like actual works of art like he spent they used his a great amount of skill and knowledge to

01:19:05.380 create these fakes so he had some incentives of money but i think there was more incentive than just

01:19:09.960 the money like he really was maybe getting a kick out of the fact that everyone just believed the lie

01:19:14.900 that he could create big artifacts that's another thing in like the age of the grand tour like the

01:19:19.740 17th 18th century loads of collectors would go to italy and greece and they all wanted to buy

01:19:26.540 sort of fifth century athenian pottery or uh sort of first century age of augustus roman busts

01:19:33.560 and of course they're extremely rare hardly any of them left by the 18th century to to buy

01:19:38.580 oh but but there was a lot of them around to be bought still yeah all fake of course

01:19:44.060 yeah but yeah i mean that's as old as high i mean look at um like uh jeffrey of monmouth or

01:19:49.900 mallory or something just making up basically making up arthurian legend or something but but still

01:19:55.300 in like the 12th century or something so it's there's no one would make up fake history now right

01:20:01.780 no one would ever do that nowadays

01:20:03.420 no absolutely not sorry i was just trying to figure out living dna

01:20:09.400 i've already uploaded my results from ancestry to that actually so i just need to give them a little

01:20:14.180 extra money so that they'll give it to me it's a british company and i can say that that's another

01:20:18.740 thing if you want to be a patriotic investor i don't know i think ancestry is american 23andme is

01:20:24.460 american and my heritage is israeli i can't remember the other ones but

01:20:29.800 fair play is there anything else that you'd like to comment on or should we go to the video comments

01:20:33.560 let's move on wonderful thank you very much let's go to the video comments samson

01:20:37.440 oh speaking of danes here's one right now it has now been six months since i decided to exchange all

01:20:44.920 of my scrolling time to try to learn how to draw and i think this actually really proves that if you

01:20:51.440 just apply yourself it's true that instead of complaining on the internet you can't learn a skill

01:20:56.980 and just do it it's really cool well i'm not good enough to be a professional but i'm good enough

01:21:01.780 that people are asking about so that's so cool although trying to transfer real life people to

01:21:08.980 a cartoon form at this is that you that bow i can tell from the bat from the uh from the brow

01:21:16.300 that that famous eyebrow there you go there's some more there's some more reference material for you

01:21:21.320 i like kawaii cheerful bow i don't think i've ever actually seen you pull that face

01:21:26.920 the other ones she showed were quite good yeah yeah they're very good on the right path although

01:21:32.520 i would argue arguing with people on the internet is its own skill yeah you get better the more you do

01:21:38.000 it yeah it was frustrating watching mr brackpool read his way through his seed oil section in podcast

01:21:44.760 1130 canola is a canadian variety of rapeseed oil with reduced erucic acid all fats and oils contain a

01:21:51.840 mixture of saturated monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats the difference is the ratio

01:21:56.700 the double bonds in polyunsaturated fats make the molecule flexible preventing solidification at

01:22:01.640 low temperature the trouble with polyunsaturates is their tendency to oxidize radically changing

01:22:06.480 their properties potentially leading to plaque in the arteries seed oils are useful for skin care

01:22:11.300 and hair care and seasoning cookware

01:22:13.380 but if you season your cookware with seed oils and that would go into your food and you would eat

01:22:20.200 it also again i just prefer using butter for if i'm frying something in a pan although again people

01:22:27.040 have been suggesting beef tallow and lard yeah but seasoning the pan is when the iron is like it's

01:22:32.280 not when you're cooking is when you're i'm not a chef oh it's it's my wife has a cast iron pan thing and 1.00

01:22:37.940 like you have to like saturate the metal it sounds like a lot of effort yeah it is a lot it sounds

01:22:43.580 like a lot of pointless effort when i'm hungry right now oh it's not for when you're eating

01:22:47.180 you've got to do it another time it's just it's like how you you care for the cast iron cookware

01:22:52.300 it was like it's when you're against non-stick and you don't want the poofers you have to get the 1.00

01:22:55.720 old cast iron pans and people get obsessed with seasoning it which just means like saturating the

01:23:00.200 iron with oils beforehand and that's what he's referring to i saw a video just the other day of

01:23:04.960 someone said what i do some asian person what i do when i buy a new wok and it was a whole process

01:23:10.700 it was a massive long process of of like breaking in and doing loads of different things to it

01:23:16.100 so i've got i'm with you i've got no intention i very rarely fry anything to be perfectly honest i

01:23:21.160 do myself a fry up basically every morning when i'm home just some sausages and eggs just uh just

01:23:26.140 for my morning breakfast get a nice glass of milk in there very airy and um butter just use butter

01:23:31.700 yeah exactly butter's all you need that is lovely is that egret

01:23:37.440 it's the person that just shares really nice uh jan havey

01:23:45.040 that looks lovely

01:23:48.920 i don't know where that is

01:23:50.980 south coast

01:23:53.440 i don't know

01:23:56.840 she's in america

01:23:59.000 that was very peaceful

01:24:03.560 and that's it so we've got a few minutes to go through

01:24:08.660 super chat

01:24:09.300 um no we've not got any more rumble rants to be fair we had a lot of rumble rants today already so

01:24:14.780 that's fine let's go through some of the written comments from the website so

01:24:17.960 on my segment we've got someone online ninja sword what kind an odachi a daito a ninjato a

01:24:23.800 wakizashi or a tanto i guess uh we'll have to find out from kistama himself i'm sure he's very

01:24:33.460 well versed in such things north fc zuma honestly i have no idea how japan has survived their ninja

01:24:39.400 epidemic they've had them for centuries at least they're fixing it now by importing people from much 1.00

01:24:43.900 less stabby cultures yeah pray for the japanese fuzzy toaster at this point if i were to get an

01:24:49.960 arming sword a male coif and a gambeson would the police even be able to do anything could i

01:24:55.280 conquer this land with a sword in hand and dream we would never ever recommend such a thing although

01:25:01.220 it's possible arizona desert rat it looks like the uk government is addressing the symptoms but not

01:25:06.000 the underlying illness kind of like what's happening to us in the u.s yeah that was the thing

01:25:11.080 that was a whole uh seam of conversation which i wanted to mention but we didn't it's just that it's

01:25:17.920 a uh yeah it's a symptom of a much deeper disease isn't it uh you know for example that we need to

01:25:27.920 re-migrate a lot of people well mass re-migration that yes yes and but also if you take for example

01:25:34.440 um the increase in just mass spree killings not necessarily by ninjas um in some cultures

01:25:43.620 very very gun heavy cultures they don't really have it swiss the swiss have guns high gun ownership

01:25:50.180 swedes have high i was gonna say that loads of hunting in sweden loads and loads of guns

01:25:55.240 but not many schools get shot up the immigrant gangs prefer grenades oh right yeah yeah they love a 1.00

01:26:01.480 grenade attack don't they uh but there's a number of countries i mean just look at the difference

01:26:06.120 between canada and the united states when it comes to school shootings uh canada's got just as much of

01:26:13.200 a gun culture as america you might be able to argue even a bigger hunting culture but so there's no lack

01:26:19.440 of guns in canada but so so we're talking about something much more difficult than simply how many

01:26:28.820 swords there are in in or how many guns there are in the in the public hands it's basically the same

01:26:34.360 kind of gin-brained attitude the american democrats have towards guns which is that the gun itself

01:26:40.260 has some kind of magical ability the second you get hold of it starts whispering to you and forces

01:26:46.080 you to commit violence it's the same attitude that they've got towards the knives you pick up that 0.98

01:26:50.940 butter knife this happens to me every morning and all of a sudden it begins whispering to you kill your 0.99

01:26:56.260 family in love do it kill them kill them and i have to resist that's not actually how it works it's 0.98

01:27:01.780 the person wielding the weapon that makes it dangerous and if we ban bump stocks or silencers

01:27:07.220 or high capacity mags then uh then we're solving something wasn't it trump that banned the bump stocks

01:27:14.200 i don't know i can't remember it was it was hillary talks about it but anyway whatever it's like it

01:27:18.940 doesn't matter because you take for example the uh the las vegas the las vegas shooter i think he might

01:27:25.500 have had some sort of belt fed thing i'm not sure but the point is if you're gonna if you're a criminal

01:27:30.900 you're hell-bent on doing a massacre or a mass killing spree you don't care if the thing is

01:27:36.240 illegal or not right in europe you can just still get your hands on a high capacity magazine anyway

01:27:40.580 when in europe and germany you don't need a weapon per se you can just use a car which keeps being

01:27:48.760 done over and over again so if you ban all of the knives if like with the idris elba thing oh if we

01:27:54.220 just take the points off the end of them congratulations instead of stabbings you'll get

01:27:58.300 hackings people will just be hacked to death instead cleaver or yeah if we call the the roadblocks

01:28:04.720 diversity barriers so when we ought to call these weapon bands diversity bands because or diversity

01:28:10.280 inspired bands because it's not it's always a way of skirting around the issue not actually

01:28:14.800 addressing it the bands have nothing to do with well that i mean you can tell just by the fact that

01:28:20.020 the ones the incidents that inspire them so often have no englishmen involved in them whatsoever

01:28:25.000 do you want to read through some of your comments bo let me uh shift down to them oh

01:28:31.640 here they are

01:28:32.580 oh sophie live has written a long one guys you have no idea the insufferable elitist attitude

01:28:40.900 here from denmark when it comes to greenland oh they want to buy greenland then what if they buy

01:28:45.400 california oh then what if we buy california and they talk like it is a smart talking point i try to

01:28:51.620 explain to people we do not have the power to defend greenland by ourselves and if america wanted to

01:28:56.640 just take it um how can we stop them it's already their military base protecting the darn thing

01:29:03.500 yeah uh she goes on but yeah i mean yeah i mean that's just a that's just california is not

01:29:10.600 within their price range they can't buy california yeah yeah which makes it i mean it's it's a point i

01:29:18.540 was making it's just the the reality of it just the real real reality again it's not fair

01:29:23.500 i mean life isn't fair geopolitics isn't fair that has to underpin it all but at the same time when we

01:29:29.820 live in uh liberal democratic globo homo world they also have to have the nice illusion of the 1.00

01:29:36.760 cooperation on top of it as well although we we know ultimately it comes down to the ability to

01:29:41.460 exercise force yeah it does unfortunately i mean i'm quite often surprised by the uh the way the

01:29:49.140 dynamics that play out in a primary school playground are very very similar to geopolitics

01:29:54.900 very very similar the dynamics between kids in a playground running around making little factions

01:30:02.700 and the biggest kid the hardest kid like what he does and says matters the most and stuff it's like

01:30:07.460 it's exactly the same it's almost it's maybe it's not surprising but um okay uh kevin fox says

01:30:15.060 let me just scroll down kevin fox says so greenland is the danish equivalent of wales semi-autonomous

01:30:21.740 by but dependent on denmark for money and security uh well i suppose so

01:30:26.980 i think uh because we've got the gold zoom call after this uh samson will probably want to get all of

01:30:34.580 that sorted and we have hit the half past mark so that's all that we've got time for before we go

01:30:39.520 do you want to just remind everybody where they can find you tom i have a youtube channel called

01:30:43.140 survive the jive which you should watch if you enjoy history documentaries particularly about

01:30:47.840 pre-christian europe and anglo-saxons and the indo-europeans and such things and i also talk a

01:30:53.400 bit about dna there too there you go so please check tom out the channel is fantastic and thank you very

01:30:59.740 much for joining us if you're a gold member join us for the zoom call in about half an hour until then

01:31:04.620 though we'll be back next week on the podcast thank you for watching and take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 28, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1131

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