The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1145

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to the podcast of the lotus eaters is the 17th of april in the year of our

00:00:04.140 lord 2025 and it's number 1145 if you can believe that crazy i'm joined by harry hello big harry

00:00:13.720 big harry not little harry we do have a little harry in the office there's another guy in the

00:00:17.360 office called harry and he's not little he's like what six one i mean he is little but compared to

00:00:21.540 you yeah he's little yeah just like you're little totally average height is harry's a giant you've

00:00:28.520 got a problem with your thyroid or something no my thyroid perfectly fine thank you very much

00:00:32.720 you don't actually suffer from gigantism no no no thankfully i'm not going to be dead by like 45

00:00:38.060 or however old andre was fingers crossed i bloody hope so i hope it's sooner than that don't count

00:00:43.840 your chickens anyway weird dark place we went there okay so today we're going to talk about uh the big

00:00:52.820 win for women's in britain supreme court i'm going to do a space sciencey segment about possible life

00:01:00.880 found somewhere else in the you know galaxy and uh and then you're going to talk about high dubs

00:01:06.360 yeah who you thought was ksi yeah but is in fact a white american and not an african who's the other

00:01:14.080 guy i speed i show speed i got i show speed and ksi and i dubs all mixed up in my mind because i've

00:01:20.980 never watched any i dubs i've never ever i googled him for the first time this morning i was like

00:01:25.040 oh it's a white dude oh okay so it's not who i thought it was so okay anyway i think about i dubs

00:01:31.800 yeah yeah it should it should be interesting uh spoiler uh i i would never huge into i dubs in the

00:01:38.500 first place so we'll discuss we'll just i'll give you a rundown explanation of what the whole thing is

00:01:43.600 when we get to all right and that's the third segment so for the first one let's kick off then

00:01:47.340 we're going to talk about uh that big victory for women in the supreme court yeah bad news folks

00:01:53.220 a man's right to dress as a woman and do whatever he wants has been stolen from us 0.99

00:01:59.940 we're we've lost one of our core fundamental rights in this country and i ask are we on the wrong side

00:02:08.420 of history now i ask well certainly the supreme court is i ask if we as british men in dresses

00:02:16.700 are going to stand by and watch as our rights are further eroded if it stops men not being able to

00:02:24.280 get changed in rooms with little girls where does it end where does it end this is obviously just

00:02:30.380 another case of fascism in starmers britain eddie izzard is gonna be pissed well he probably is

00:02:37.440 he's definitely very angry right now he's looking at the changing rooms and the swimming baths that

00:02:43.520 he's at right now and just looking at the men symbol seething seething and from being just a

00:02:50.140 transvestite to claiming you're an actual woman yeah that that always seemed very strange to me

00:02:55.740 and uh because i remember back in the day i mean mainly what i remember eddie izzard for is

00:03:02.020 his role as the disco guy in mystery men you know the ben stiller film if you ever watched that

00:03:07.400 it's kind of a deep cut going back a good few decades at this point that's what i mostly know him for

00:03:12.720 but i remember that he used to do his stand-up shows fully in drag and it was the joke right it

00:03:18.660 was a joke look at this man in drag and then what like 10 years ago is that actually actually it's

00:03:25.080 because i am a woman well i remember early eddie izzard stand up and it was reasonably funny quite

00:03:30.200 often he'd come out wearing just sort of more or less normal clothes but with a bit of makeup on

00:03:34.720 like a bit of lipstick on and his shtick was i'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body so he's not even

00:03:42.100 gay that's that's my dad's joke it's just it's just yeah that is the ultimate boomer dad joke he 0.97

00:03:49.040 just liked wearing a bit of lippy but but now yeah in the last few years he was claiming right yeah

00:03:54.620 yeah yeah if it's good enough for ziggy stardust don't knock it no uh that's the standard i hold 0.98

00:03:59.620 myself um uh yeah but in the last few years he started claiming he was transgender right isn't

00:04:06.020 he an mp for labor now or no no he tried yeah i was gonna say he stood as an we tried to stand i think

00:04:11.960 he failed to get selected oh really really i think i think that's right i don't follow actually

00:04:16.720 thinking about it this segment isn't about eddie as far as funny as his response to this may be

00:04:22.100 when he makes one so what's what's happened is that the uk supreme court because for some reason

00:04:27.800 we have one of those tony blair's well blair's labor i think in 2000 was in 2009 that the supreme

00:04:34.880 court was imposed on around there yeah it was when gordon brown was prime minister but it was the

00:04:39.840 blairite project right completely useless institution we got on for a thousand years without a supreme

00:04:48.360 court but no all of a sudden apparently we needed one and simply a vehicle for taking sovereignty away

00:04:54.260 from parliament as far as i can tell yes as was much of the reforms that labor did at that time

00:05:00.600 take as much power away from parliament so that it could be put into quangos and other outside 1.00

00:05:05.000 institutions to ensure that blairism would be able to uh hold its power for as long as possible which it

00:05:11.680 which it has but now it's done this decision where it's ruled that the legal definition of a woman 0.51

00:05:16.860 is based on biological sex and i know that loads of people have been celebrating this and yes in a

00:05:22.800 certain sense it's a oh we got common sense through the door finally something useful has happened but

00:05:28.660 it is being codified by a useless institution that shouldn't exist in the first place uh what's being

00:05:34.180 used to justify is the equality act which is a subversive document that was the uh the collection of

00:05:42.340 lots of other civil rights legislation that had been passed since the 1970s or so which basically eroded

00:05:49.640 freedom of association and men's rights in this country particularly white british men eroded their rights

00:05:56.160 they're the that's the document that codifies things like quotas fair representation and parity within

00:06:01.520 hiring processes i've looked into it before and in fact you can see the segment i did on it a few years ago

00:06:07.540 called abolish the equality act so what we're actually seeing here is a victory for civil rights

00:06:15.040 still it's a slightly older version of leftism than the leftism that we had for the past five years

00:06:22.080 but this is still ultimately a victory for leftism the kind of women who are going to be celebrating

00:06:27.180 this are still the kind of women that don't want men to be able to have men's clubs boys only boy scouts 1.00

00:06:33.200 and things like that if we're if we're frank and honest with ourselves so yes there's a victory

00:06:39.840 for common sense uh but nowhere near enough of a step forward as far as i'm concerned so a slightly

00:06:46.840 less pernicious version of of gender politics slightly slightly basically yes it's still feminism 0.93

00:06:53.960 right it's all still being done in the name of feminism in a way that will still because the 1.00

00:06:59.120 equality act was designed to negatively affect men and british men in particular everything you've

00:07:06.560 said there i completely agree with 100 but i'd still take it right you still take it it's like

00:07:11.620 if we close the borders okay it's not reversing demographic change but you'll take it well of

00:07:15.820 course i'm going to take it like i said there's a there's a victory for common sense but i always try

00:07:20.260 to couch these things in a greater context and to make sure that everybody knows that the work is not

00:07:26.780 done this is a victory in one sense but it's wrapped up in all of these other things that

00:07:33.140 further legitimize a system that i do not agree with i do not want to celebrate the uk court telling

00:07:40.520 me that something that i already knew is the case congratulations tomorrow uk supreme court decides

00:07:47.060 gravity keeps you on the ground oh fantastic oh thank god now that it's been legally codified i can be

00:07:54.080 sure that it was true it's a bit of a slow ironic hand clap yeah well done i can't believe we had to

00:08:00.500 get to this point in the first place but of course it will have some positive effects going forward some

00:08:05.080 of which are being felt immediately already for instance uh there was some reports going on that

00:08:10.960 trans police officers in the man in the london metropolitan police will no longer be able to perform

00:08:16.560 pat downs of women which i think is a positive thing so take everything that i've said there and

00:08:24.300 still realize that in terms of a day-to-day basic comfort and safety for british women this will

00:08:31.460 improve that somewhat in some of these fringe cases where you'd have a trans police officer trying to 0.67

00:08:37.040 pat down someone so some haggard 60 year old transvestite walks into a women's changing room or toilet 1.00

00:08:45.100 and the women call the police they're not going to be arrested now they won't be the ones arrested 1.00

00:08:50.260 that seems to be one of the major effects that this is going to push forward and so i'll go through

00:08:54.460 what's happened why this case was put forward and then and then you can we can all make up our own

00:09:00.920 minds on this so the scottish government uh because this all was based around the scottish

00:09:06.880 government to begin with and it was put forward to the uk uk supreme court uh because of complications

00:09:12.680 with the case and disagreements with this woman's group which was for women's scotland so scottish

00:09:18.400 government had argued that transgender people with a gender recognition certificate also legitimized by

00:09:24.340 the equality act as part of the equality act one of the protected characteristics is gender reassignment 0.83

00:09:29.780 and you can clarify that you have had gender reassignment with a gender recognition

00:09:34.880 certificate so all of that is still somewhat legitimized but there's questions of whether

00:09:40.320 the recognition certificate is going to provide any actual legal status to these people anymore

00:09:46.480 whereas before the rulings had been in the scottish government that if you had that you had the same

00:09:51.920 rights as women under the equality act whereas now now you just have the same rights as 0.74

00:09:57.440 any other sexual minority okay so i don't see what the big deal is there they said it's still illegal

00:10:04.260 to discriminate against them you still can't just have someone come into your workplace for a job

00:10:10.660 interview see that they're a transvestite and say that's not the kind of person i want for this 1.00

00:10:15.220 working for this business and disqualify them as such many would consider that unfair i consider i think

00:10:21.600 that should be a right of the person who's doing the hiring and the business themselves equality act

00:10:26.540 says that you can't do that yes reality is they can still do it just don't say that's why you've

00:10:33.640 not selected the person nudge nudge wink wink bow come on well i'm not employing anyone nor have i ever

00:10:39.260 so i've got nothing i can't be prosecuted for anything i'm just saying the reality is that's the reality

00:10:46.240 but but you've always got to consider in that situation if you were in that situation

00:10:52.240 even if i choose not to hire this person for a legitimate reason are they going to decide to

00:10:58.780 make my life a living hell by inferring that i've chosen to do it off of the basis of some discrimination

00:11:04.460 and try and take me to court over it these are the sorts of landmines that something like the equality

00:11:10.180 act produces lays for people and that's one of the reasons why i think it's just an awful piece of

00:11:16.220 subversive legislation which is only intended to try to legalistically hold multiculturalism 0.74

00:11:23.960 and progressivism together in our society i think in the future uh if we've got a government with some

00:11:30.600 spine that was going to sort of undo a lot of the blair era stuff uh some sort of great repeal act

00:11:39.060 uh yeah one of them would be would be that you'd have to sort of repeal it yeah what you really want

00:11:45.600 to do is change repeal most of everything that's been done since the end of the second world war

00:11:52.320 right since attley yeah basically basically since attley maybe with some changes the nhs can be salvaged

00:12:01.140 beyond that not much let's go back to lloyd george everything post lloyd george there you go

00:12:06.820 what i've always said i want to return to you may know the famous ajp taylor quote where he's saying

00:12:13.300 that in 1914 on the eve of war a sensible englishman could go his entire life without ever encountering

00:12:20.080 the government save for the postman yeah i i think that sounds like a very ideal um situation to aim to

00:12:29.100 get back to personally i want as little government is is is my english yearning to just have to not have

00:12:35.720 to deal with the government but i'm forced to every single day you might starve to death or die

00:12:41.080 of a tiny infection but ah why would i starve to death well if you didn't have enough money to feed

00:12:47.000 yourself for whatever reason again there are things you can quibble over some of the reforms i'm playing

00:12:51.880 and and the welfare state that was an early 20th century thing anyway i'm playing there was that

00:12:56.680 okay so let's go through here so yeah they argued that uh the gender recognition certificate

00:13:02.180 entitled to sex-based protections while four women scotland argued they only applied to people

00:13:06.660 that are born female that being women four women scotland said they're grateful for the decision

00:13:12.900 after a long road of legal battles while scottish charity scottish trans urges people don't panic 0.99

00:13:20.040 don't panic they're coming to put your penis back on but don't panic oh god i mean it was uh it was all 0.98

00:13:27.460 written down in a full 88 page judgment which if you go to the links below you can go through i'm not 0.99

00:13:35.940 i've not read the full thing i'm not going to read the full thing you can read the full thing if you want

00:13:40.980 so it's not the case that people that have had the surgery the full chop that they're actually gonna

00:13:45.940 have to have it sewn back on as funny as that would be that starmer is standing the starsy around 0.98

00:13:56.020 to sew your penis back on no that's not what's happening no so uh lord hodge lady rose and lady 0.98

00:14:03.220 similar said that the definition of sex in the equality act 2010 makes it clear that the concept 0.99

00:14:07.620 of sex is binary person is either a woman or a man persons who share that protected characteristic

00:14:13.620 for the purposes of the group-based rights and protections are persons of the same sex and

00:14:17.460 provisions that refer to protection for women necessarily exclude men although the word

00:14:23.780 biological does not appear in this definition the ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous

00:14:28.740 words corresponds with the biological characteristics that make an individual a man or a woman so all very 0.99

00:14:36.580 plain they point out that the legislation that had been folded into the equality act of 2010

00:14:42.020 was actually from 1975 it was some kind of women's rights legislation that had been put through and

00:14:48.340 they pointed out that listen in 1975 obviously they meant biological women they didn't have a conception 0.99

00:14:57.380 or only a very very early conception of anybody calling themselves a woman who was a man

00:15:05.220 clearly this was not what the legislation was intended for they do also point out as well again

00:15:11.460 that it still requires protections for people who are transgender or call themselves transgender

00:15:17.940 whatever you want to say under the protected characteristics that are already still

00:15:22.980 in the equality act it just means that women are a distinct category that aren't overlapping 1.00

00:15:28.900 with those people so recognizing reality yes put simply put simply and uh it should never have got

00:15:37.060 this far in the first place won't anyone think of the absolutely tiny number the vanishingly small

00:15:43.060 amount of true true hermaphrodites yeah won't anyone think of them but the thing is when it comes to

00:15:48.900 like actual hermaphrodites who are born that way i think everybody knows that they're their own thing

00:15:53.620 anyway every everybody knows that that's actually just a medical issue that you kind of need to treat

00:15:59.060 distinctly um but again what this seems to me also is it seems to be with a lot of the other stuff

00:16:05.540 that i was discussing with carl on the podcast the other day that woke again slowly slowly but surely by

00:16:13.940 these larger institutions many cases the blairite institutions being swept back under the rug not put away

00:16:21.220 entirely there's always the chance that god forbid if the tories get back in we know what we know what

00:16:28.020 they're like they'd turn around and say real wokeism has never been tried and they pull it all back

00:16:34.180 out and reinstitute all of the worst excesses of woke but the blairite technocrat paradigm requires

00:16:43.780 that society kind of work and have a certain set of rules that we all know the definition of and can

00:16:52.820 stick to so they didn't want things to go anywhere near as extreme as things got under the tories

00:16:59.220 between 2010 and 2024 so they're kind of reversing a lot of that right now so that we can make sure

00:17:04.900 that blair's real aim that being digital id face scanning technology everything that makes china

00:17:11.940 what china is right now can get pushed through because all of this stuff is just a distraction 1.00

00:17:17.220 to the blairite paradigm at least but co-founder of four women scotland says this has been a really

00:17:23.620 really long road today the judges have said what we always believe to be the case that women are 0.99

00:17:28.020 protected by their biological sex sex is real and women can now feel safe that services and spaces

00:17:32.660 designated for women are for women and we are enormously grateful to the supreme court for this

00:17:37.380 ruling again um you can see the celebrations that they had here i'm not actually going to play the

00:17:43.540 video because the audio is clipping like hell in this video so you i don't want to blow your 0.79

00:17:49.940 eardrums out but everybody's very happy they're all very thrilled about this who was it just out of

00:17:55.060 interest who is it that aa was arguing with ongoingly about woke being put away or a mcintyre that's

00:18:01.060 right so this is a win for the aa column yes absolutely this is a win for the aa column

00:18:07.140 again i don't think it's quite as simple as woke will just be put away and can never return

00:18:12.820 but certainly for the purposes of a paradigm that they're trying to push through right now

00:18:17.460 the technocrat stuff the globalist stuff they want to have as lit as few distractions as possible

00:18:23.380 and this stuff all serves as a distraction they've had the over politicized society for a very very long

00:18:29.300 time and when you have over politicization everybody's paying attention to it right and you

00:18:34.180 get lots of people complaining you get women like four women scotland forming their own organizations 0.78

00:18:40.020 and uh trying to affect change that's all very annoying if you're just like i just want my digital

00:18:46.980 ids come on i just i just want digital ids come on so um they want to sweep all of this under the rug this is

00:18:55.460 my read of the situation sweep all of it under the rug depoliticize society just in

00:19:02.100 very easy ways in simple ways so not as many people are paying attention as they push through

00:19:07.460 the technocrat stuff that that makes sense to me keir starmer did a terrible job of that

00:19:14.020 for a very long time when he first became prime minister because you know within his first month he

00:19:18.900 had protests and riots on the streets but they seem to have been getting a bit of a hold of the

00:19:25.700 situation since then which is actually quite worrying you should be worried if people are

00:19:31.060 going to stop paying attention to starmer and the ways that he is going to try to destroy this country

00:19:36.260 and again there's the thing there is a summary of what the case was going into this so again they

00:19:44.020 say that the judgment was all entirely based on the equality act they say about the appeal arising back

00:19:51.060 in 2018 due to the gender representation on public boards of scotland act 2018 and associated statutory

00:19:58.340 guidance so again once again just to remind everybody all of this is based around what spats

00:20:05.140 over who gets to hit the quotas really obviously there's all of the women's safety stuff that can be 1.00

00:20:11.300 taken into account as well which is important you shouldn't have potentially predatory men being able

00:20:16.660 to go into women's bathrooms women's changing rooms and such but the actual legislation this

00:20:21.540 was based on was all based around gender quotas it was saying well if you have to have a quota for

00:20:28.660 this many women you can also include men in dresses in those quotas as well whereas again for me my thing 0.96

00:20:35.300 is that i think that there shouldn't be quotas employers should be able to choose whoever they think is best

00:20:41.460 the best fit for their business and for their team and whoever can do the best job so anyway i just

00:20:48.100 wanted to highlight that again bbc did some five key takeaways from the supreme court rulings the

00:20:54.020 main ones here are that public bodies are going to be reviewing the evidence and they will be reviewing

00:20:58.020 their gender policies but how much day-to-day change we'll see is going to take time to find out 0.86

00:21:02.580 i already highlighted the london metropolitan police situation with the trans officers patting down

00:21:07.060 women there's already equality act guidance which allows for women-only spaces such as toilets changing 0.98

00:21:12.020 rooms and hospital wards in certain circumstances now that it's clarified that it's biological women 1.00

00:21:17.380 that makes things simpler for these guidelines uh wednesday's ruling is straightforward statement

00:21:22.500 that a woman is a biological woman provides a much clearer framework for a lot of debates and a

00:21:27.620 lot of this ledger um this um these guidelines will be going forward with these businesses and

00:21:32.740 could see rules changed in various sports as well as a result because one of the things that they

00:21:37.300 wanted to really highlight was the women's sports aspect of this men coming in outperforming women

00:21:43.700 because obviously they're going then usually actually not competitive in the men's version of that

00:21:49.780 thing that will kind of easily dominate the women's women's event of it yeah it's horrible is it what

00:21:55.460 about women's prisons because i mean i think it given that it was all based in scotland to begin with

00:22:01.140 i would imagine that the definition being clarified as biological women only means that yes men will 0.96

00:22:08.980 not be able to go into women's prisons because there is a genuine risk there and let's be honest 1.00

00:22:13.700 women in women's prisons are not going to be there for the same crimes that men are going to be put away 1.00

00:22:18.500 for it's going to be a lot less sexual crime a lot less violent crime a lot more white collar crime and

00:22:24.420 um and non-violent crime i've got a little less sympathy for female prisoners convicted prisoners than 1.00

00:22:31.060 your average girl trying to get on in athletics but still not much less sympathy yeah i still think

00:22:37.460 it's crazy that a man can just sometimes even during their trial or after their conviction say actually 0.88

00:22:43.700 i'm transgender so you've got to put me in a women's prison that was that was always ridiculous that 0.99

00:22:49.860 anybody went around with that and that was wasn't that um uh what what what's the face the old smp 0.98

00:22:55.780 hag i don't know the former first minister the one before um oh jim we jimmy cranky

00:23:03.780 no no the one before yusuf uh the woman yeah the woman yeah what was her name uh sturgeon yes

00:23:10.660 nicolas sturgeon aka we jimmy cranky oh that's probably before your time there was a show in the 80s

00:23:18.580 kids show and it was a really little scottish woman played a school boy but it was actually a

00:23:22.900 woman she's like five foot nothing she looked a little bit like nicolas sturgeon uh well it was 0.99

00:23:29.620 anyway with with nicolas sturgeon it was partially the controversy regarding men in women's prisons

00:23:34.180 was one of the things and her support for that was one of the things that um helped get the media

00:23:38.340 storm around her to take her down right yeah yeah they also uh say that trans rights campaigners

00:23:43.940 have said they'll be examining the judgment closely to decide on their next steps

00:23:48.420 it's possible that they could attempt to put pressure on the government to change the equality

00:23:51.940 act now wouldn't that be something now wouldn't that be something again as long as that piece of

00:23:57.140 legislation is in place it will always be politicized it is a political document people will try to

00:24:04.100 shift its definitions and shift uh what's in it for their own purposes but uh either way again we can

00:24:11.460 take a little bit of a win with this as jk rowling has deal with it yeah it's a deal with it picture

00:24:18.180 yeah i i also i'm shocked to see her smoking a cigar as well i saw a lot of people mistaking that 0.94

00:24:24.340 is a blunt which would have been very funny might be no she's clarified it's a cigar it's a cigar sure

00:24:31.940 it is i don't think she'd be posting a picture of her just like smoking a big boof with a snoop 1.00

00:24:37.380 dog just out of frame uh on twitter but i don't know i don't know what she gets up to in her free

00:24:42.980 time she's a she's an independently wealthy woman she can do what she wants really can't she 1.00

00:24:49.460 good on her i mean she's still like the feminist type yes um but no good on her for sticking by her 1.00

00:24:55.700 guns if nothing if nothing else next she just needs to protest the new casting of snape all right yeah

00:25:01.620 but important to highlight as well there are other women's organizations fighting for 0.99

00:25:07.220 important things in the country and the most important thing let's be honest for women's safety 0.96

00:25:14.980 much more of a problem than men in dresses invading women's spaces as much as that was a problem is

00:25:22.420 immigration so always bring it back to this importing violent people with different cultural 1.00

00:25:28.100 standards and different views of women into the country and so that's the next big thing that we 0.99

00:25:33.700 really need to harp down on if women highlighting their safety is actually a good way of getting 1.00

00:25:38.980 things done then let's not forget that the more violent foreigners we import into the country 1.00

00:25:45.940 the more at risk our women are every single day so i just wanted to end on that note there we go

00:25:52.260 um my screen isn't on have we got any rumble rents uh yeah there's a few uh where is it okay so 0.92

00:26:02.420 josh turned them off what a bastard lord of nothing says i quit my job yesterday no more warehouse job 0.91

00:26:09.700 we are headlong to opening my own tabletop game store oh fantastic that's great yeah good luck with 0.99

00:26:16.020 that yeah yeah uh hewitt 76 and vulnerable girls being transed into boys question mark um i think that

00:26:22.980 must have been in response to something that we've said but um i think uh it seems to me you don't hear

00:26:30.900 as much about that anymore uh perhaps that was as often happens in schools a trend that's passed by now

00:26:39.380 there's probably new fads sadly those girls who have already taken the procedures are 1.00

00:26:46.100 stuck with their decisions which is pretty horrible i just feel like in a general sense

00:26:51.300 the male to female transition is just way way way more prevalent well yes also

00:26:58.020 gynophilia i didn't know if i could actually mention all the gynophilia uh clearly that's what happened

00:27:03.300 with eddie gizzard eddie is it right he got dressed up as a woman for ages and then started to fancy

00:27:09.220 himself as a woman and decided i'm trans now happens to just quite a few men

00:27:14.740 just the perversion that men like to think of themselves as feminine or female in some way

00:27:21.940 okay that's not but but with the other way around women sort of insisting that they're a 1.00

00:27:26.340 man or want to be a man um it's just in real life just don't it's not as common is it yeah it's kind

00:27:33.860 of an opposite phenomenon as well whereas the men are overly sexualized and decide to do that it's like

00:27:39.460 the um what is it the wachowski brothers the matrix dudes they said one of them said in an interview 0.57

00:27:46.500 that basically he got obsessed with tranny porn and all of a sudden realized that he was trans 0.97

00:27:51.940 himself so it's a fetish it's a fetish with women just look at ellen page um just look at the fact that 0.97

00:27:59.140 a lot of the girls who did it when they were younger are going through puberty starting to get

00:28:03.300 attraction from men it seems to be a way of desexualizing yourself i feel like with women 0.93

00:28:08.980 as well uh once they hit the age where they get really broody uh all the other shit goes out the 0.94

00:28:16.500 window yeah uh you must have known loads of girls or young women in your time that say they're never 0.95

00:28:21.700 going to have kids they're not interested in it they hit a certain age and it's like no i need a baby

00:28:25.220 yesterday well listen it's not a cliche i mean it's a cliche but it's true it's true since i've had my

00:28:31.140 daughter right so last year when we were going back home introducing her to all of our friends

00:28:37.460 all of the girls who were all you know alternative feminist i'm progressive the second they met lily

00:28:44.420 they started squeeing one of my friends oh my god her little hands move i bloody hope so but then you 1.00

00:28:50.980 see you literally see them instinctually reach for their reach for their stomach i've seen it happen a

00:28:56.180 few times where they're like where's my baby and now my friends are telling me who are going

00:29:00.900 out with these girls like mate what have you done what have you done she's brooding for it now man

00:29:05.620 you've ruined me you've broke the seal open the floodgates everyone's yeah that also often happens

00:29:11.540 in friendship groups that there's like everyone sort of gets married and has kids or sort of the

00:29:16.660 same time when the window for just a few years well it starts the trend because we were the first one

00:29:20.820 in our friendship group to become parents and now it seems to have started the trend of the rest of

00:29:25.780 them or at least the women wanting to become parents all the other men are just like how much does it

00:29:30.740 cost them yeah i don't know if i can afford that bro how much of my life is dead now ah it's worth it

00:29:38.980 it's worth it i always just say to them just like just like make make sure she's the right one

00:29:45.540 make sure she's the right one if you're gonna go all the way get a prenup if you've got any money

00:29:50.420 yeah some more rumble rants as carl has said this also means that girls shouldn't be allowed 1.00

00:29:56.260 into boys spaces either make the boy scouts boys but scouts again that's why i wanted to highlight

00:30:01.780 the equality act prevents that sort of thing from happening i do think that girls should be able to

00:30:07.140 have whatever you know like imaginary unicorn frivolous nonsense that they want and we boys and men

00:30:12.980 should be able to get on with serious business and we're not and the garrick or men's clubs in general

00:30:17.620 yeah um yeah i mean to be fair a lot of the like um things that used to be men's clubs that are still

00:30:26.020 about i see still mainly have men in them but the fact that you can't just outright say it because of

00:30:30.980 laws is stupid as far as i'm concerned expat cayman here in the cayman islands i am perfectly within my 0.94

00:30:36.580 rights to tell a tranny who turns up for a job interview to f off with no consequences other than 1.00

00:30:41.300 feeling of righteous justification fair play i mean that's not that must be nice that must be nice

00:30:47.460 and that's a random name say it with me gen z bossa no tranny gen z bossa no tranny seriously

00:30:52.500 though i once worked with one of those freaks and it made me i can't read that next part i can't read

00:30:59.220 you always send in those kinds of comments don't you but fair play it was funny let's let's hear about

00:31:06.660 space okay uh everyone knows i love my science and space segments love my history segments big nerd

00:31:14.660 love my space and and science sections um i feel like talking about the present and just earthly

00:31:22.420 politics is sort of my least favorite of the three past present present and future um so okay today

00:31:29.140 it's been in the news cycle today that uh some discoveries of a possible uh habitable certainly

00:31:36.580 habitable but habitated exoplanet so a planet found outside of our solar system which may

00:31:44.660 harbor life uh now you have to be careful when you do these sorts of things because there's so many

00:31:49.460 fedora tippers if you're not very careful with what you say people uh people will jump on it so um

00:31:56.340 it's not it's not 100 proven so let's start there uh i don't want to get carried away uh yeah it's called

00:32:03.780 k218b i've got something catchier yeah new albion new albion oh i like it new albion and we can all escape

00:32:12.100 there well perhaps just water world because they think maybe again even this isn't proven

00:32:17.780 uh but maybe it's uh an ocean world where the whole surface is covered in water oh okay um

00:32:26.500 anyway did you ever see we can make it work we ever see the kevin cosner 90s movie water world uh

00:32:31.940 no but it does remind me of the world they visit in interstellar which is entirely made up of water and

00:32:37.860 has waves crashing on it and i think the gravity is so heavy there that it causes a time um like

00:32:45.220 some kind of time distortion for how long they're on there compared to when they get back to their

00:32:48.820 ship i'm dilation yeah i uh that's the word i uh i've only seen interstellar once and i really liked

00:32:53.780 it i would quite like to read i've only watched it the once as well yeah um okay so this discovery was

00:32:59.620 found by the james webb space telescope and anyone that follows this podcast closely will know i love the

00:33:05.540 james webb space telescope um in fact i've written and made content about it a few times before uh

00:33:12.180 there's an article back in 2022 i called called it the best thing ever and i'm referring to jwst there

00:33:20.340 um that was shortly after it uh launched from earth uh it goes to the next one um

00:33:29.860 i wrote another thing about the edge of forever i think that's among my better articles actually

00:33:34.100 where again i'm talking about uh james webb um and then i made it with josh a couple of pieces of

00:33:41.140 content about um uh yeah about james webb uh two different ones his content pleasure is number 83

00:33:50.020 and number 150 so you'd have to go over to the website uh the lotus eaters.com website for that

00:33:55.860 content it is behind the paywall still i believe right um yes yes it is and if you've not subbed yet what

00:34:01.860 are you doing bowie's gonna cry if you don't subscribe josh will cry no josh won't josh will 0.50

00:34:10.100 find you he's a bruiser our josh um so it's been in the news cycle it's all over the place um scientists

00:34:16.900 find strongest evidence yet of life on distant planet is the bbc sky news sky news goes with it what have we

00:34:25.380 got um rettas uh we've got a whole number of them the telegraph the mail the sun the new york times

00:34:33.780 independent a whole bunch of so just to make the point that it's in the new cycle at the moment

00:34:38.180 this is what's going on so this isn't new this planet we've known about it since 2015 the kepler

00:34:47.380 space telescope found it in 2015 uh just to say we didn't know even in the early 2000s we'd never

00:34:54.740 seen any exoplanets ie planets outside our solar system uh but over the years because of space

00:35:00.900 telescopes and other things uh we now have been able to prove that there's over 5000 maybe 6000 exoplanets

00:35:09.460 in other words they're not only are there other planets around other stars but they're quite common

00:35:14.420 they're really quite common it seems um whether they can hold life where they can host any sort

00:35:19.780 of life is something else but there you go um so this one we've known for a while and in fact

00:35:25.940 uh when james webb was brand new up there in sort of or starting to operate in 2023 they had

00:35:33.220 a look at this sort of straight away and it was a very very interesting one at that point already

00:35:38.900 some scientists were saying there's sort of a 60 65 70 chance it might hold life we'll talk about

00:35:44.420 why they think that in a moment but now the news today is that those odds have gone up to something

00:35:49.940 like 99 or 99.7 um so i want to go through why some scientists are saying that and go through some of

00:35:57.940 the counter arguments why um why it's not 100 or why it would be foolish to say it's 100 or anything like

00:36:04.660 that go through some of the arguments where people say come on wait calm down a bit pump the brakes a

00:36:09.220 bit on this um let's be realistic and just just go through what it is and and all the the discussion

00:36:15.220 points around it so okay um we know what we can say for sure about it is that it's about 124 light

00:36:24.420 years away which is obviously a really long way but in the scheme of things in the scheme of the cosmos i

00:36:31.060 mean even even the scheme of the galaxy it's not all that far away um something like 700 trillion

00:36:37.140 miles or 1.14 quadrillion kilometers anyway it's far enough away to say that if there was any sort of

00:36:45.860 uh blooming of life there um it couldn't be connected to earth because if they find life even microbial life

00:36:53.060 on say mars or even on enceladus or europa or something you could make the argument that

00:37:01.060 the the transpermia argument that it came from earth in some way somehow in the early bombardment

00:37:06.340 phase that anyway it's that it's far enough away to say if there if if we is shown this is life

00:37:12.020 independent of completely independent uh but so far away that we can't ever get there well maybe not

00:37:17.860 ever let's never say never if we can stuck on this planet with these people still

00:37:23.620 forever if we can make craft that go close to the speed of light maybe one day elon get on and get

00:37:32.580 there yeah do your uncle elon yeah make it happen forget mars that's far too close

00:37:39.380 um so things we can say that we know about it is um that it orbits um a red dwarf star so a lot

00:37:47.060 smaller a lot cooler than our sun but it's a lot closer to it um so well we they think that it's

00:37:54.740 probably liquid water on there's certainly water vapor in the atmosphere 100 water vapor in the

00:37:59.380 atmosphere um it's in the the habitable zone or the goldilocks zone some people call it so you know

00:38:05.620 not too close not too far away uh one thing people said oh no it can't have life on it even sort of

00:38:11.940 microbial simple life like algae or phytoplankton because red dwarf stars um are actually in terms

00:38:19.700 of radiation are much more violent than our stars and they would they would strip away any sort of

00:38:26.340 atmosphere on a planet that's close close to them well that just isn't the case because it definitely

00:38:32.500 has this planet k2 18b definitely has got an atmosphere in fact a thick atmosphere like definitely

00:38:38.340 some people saying that these solar flares or solar activity that would strip away any atmosphere

00:38:45.140 from a planet nearby planet actually from most red wolves probably only shoot out of the poles of the

00:38:52.180 star and so if there's a planet sort of on the plane of the ecliptic you'll probably be safe from it

00:39:00.020 just just telling you the arguments here okay i think in fact it's fair to say at this point isn't it that

00:39:05.220 we are still really in the infancy of our understanding of the cosmos i think that's fair to

00:39:10.740 say um so nearly everything i say here and nearly everything scientists say there are caveats or there

00:39:16.020 are counter arguments to say well no that that's not a firm conclusion um so it's all still sort of

00:39:22.820 well more than speculation but there's some things you can say for sure and some things that are just

00:39:27.860 still up for debate um okay it's in the it's in the constellation of leo um let's see what other we

00:39:36.660 we know from spectroscopy which is uh the spectrum of the light coming from it so when it transits its

00:39:46.500 star i when it from our point of view when it passes between us and its star it's it's transiting its star

00:39:53.300 just like we have the transit of venus when venus passes in front of the sun from our point of view

00:39:58.500 that's the transit of venus so same thing with this when this planet transits its star

00:40:03.860 the james webb space telescope with a couple of different instruments on it miri

00:40:07.700 is one of them um i think in the infrared they can see the light from the star skips through its

00:40:13.780 atmosphere and then and then hits the instruments on on james webb 124 light years away and

00:40:21.140 the instruments are so fantastically sensitive that they they can then split out that's that light

00:40:28.260 that spectrum and tell what it's made up of what an incredible thing right what do you know spectroscopy

00:40:35.540 um amazing and so they can say for sure basically say for sure um that it's got lots of co2 0.88

00:40:43.220 and lots of methane methane's usually a fingerprint for life because otherwise it would dissipate so if

00:40:52.180 it has to be keep being renewed suggesting that there's some process might not be life but some

00:40:57.140 process creating methane i mean it's um the blue lagoon in iceland you get lots of methane because of

00:41:04.180 the hot springs and everything right yeah yeah yeah um so there's some process going on there

00:41:09.300 lots and lots of co2 it's a smelly plant which is good yeah it may well be a very little uh carbon

00:41:15.860 monoxide which is poisonous to most life um its atmosphere is thick and it's got hydrogen in it

00:41:22.900 no oxygen hardly any oxygen so it's probably not photosynthesis going on which suggests it's either

00:41:30.100 um a gas giant or gas planet or or an ocean world probably not sort of terrestrial rocky with plants

00:41:38.100 it's probably not um yeah photosynthesis going on uh so it's still there but having said all of that

00:41:45.060 some you can make the argument that there may just be completely different chemistry going on there

00:41:51.060 it may be that all these things that to us point to life or suggest life

00:41:54.740 um it's just not it's just not the case there that is that is an argument to be made yeah there's

00:42:02.260 just a whole different set of of chemistry is happening there but a couple of the key things

00:42:08.900 that suggest that there's life is that it detected two particular chemicals called dms dimethanol sulfide

00:42:16.580 and uh dmds dimethanol disulfide hoping you're going to say dmt send joe rogan there to scope it out for

00:42:29.300 us the atmosphere is 99 dmt um no hell of a way to go and now so on earth those chemicals are only really

00:42:42.340 generated by life and a particular type of life largely sort of algae and phytoplankton marine phytoplankton

00:42:50.980 so if there is if it's an ocean planet i would expect that if there is life there this is all

00:42:55.860 pointing towards some kind of potentially primitive marine life yeah exactly yeah yeah um so the

00:43:02.900 argue the counter argument is well just because that's the case on earth it doesn't necessarily mean

00:43:08.420 that the oceans on k2 18b are filled with phytoplankton because we know for example they have

00:43:14.500 found trace elements of those chemicals on sort of asteroids that are certainly lifeless we know for a

00:43:20.500 fact that it is possible in lab conditions to create those chemicals they've done it since the 1970s

00:43:27.140 without creating actual life so make of that what you will but they're on this planet those chemicals

00:43:36.980 uh you know massive abundance something like 10 parts per million which sounds like a tiny amount

00:43:42.180 but that's thousands of times higher than on the earth so again make of that what you will it doesn't

00:43:47.940 say it's a hundred percent there's life on this planet that there's marine phytoplanks on this planet

00:43:52.500 but it does suggest that it's fairly likely as i say some of the people that have got a vested

00:43:58.420 interest because it's their research saying it's like 99.7 true so anyway when i hear these things

00:44:05.780 and see these things in the news cycle my first thing is to think well this may well be just

00:44:11.700 mainstream media uh hyperbole this may just be uh you know grab it grabbing for clicks and sensationalist

00:44:20.100 headlines so i go to a few of my go-to people on youtube so i go to my dr becky's i go to my john

00:44:27.460 michael godier's uh yeah i go to astrum anton petrov love and john petrov there he is

00:44:37.140 hello wonderful people um i go to and these are like just because they've got a youtube channel

00:44:42.580 doesn't mean they're not legit scientists because they are so i go to these people to check what they

00:44:48.340 think because i'm no scientist right my undergrad is history and my postgrad is politics so right so

00:44:56.580 i go to these people um and this planet came up before like as i say we've known about its existence

00:45:02.420 since like 2015 we know it's been interesting certainly interesting since 2023 and about a year

00:45:08.420 ago 11 months ago it was all these people it was in the news at that point and all these people made

00:45:13.460 content about it and they were quite skeptical about it people like anton petrov um were quite

00:45:18.340 skeptical about it saying look it's interesting and it could be that these are that these are that

00:45:24.340 there's life there but let's not get carried away it could well not be and they make all sorts of

00:45:29.060 decent arguments saying the data isn't clear and another team used the same data and came to a

00:45:33.940 different conclusion and as i say these particular chemicals don't necessarily mean it's an ocean of

00:45:40.260 phytoplankton and on and on but with this new these new revelations on the new data same team from

00:45:46.420 cambridge i believe it is saying no it's much more likely now than we thought and um the first person

00:45:52.740 i saw to um to make a video on it today was john michael godier and he's he's quite upbeat about it

00:46:00.100 he's saying this could be it this could be it will take maybe another year or two for the for the picture

00:46:06.660 to become sort of entirely clear for the vast majority of scientists to accept that it's

00:46:12.740 to all intents and purposes 100 or 99.999 likely it'll still take a while before they can say

00:46:19.060 something like that uh but nonetheless it's looking kind of pretty good if you're hoping for that to be

00:46:26.660 the case um i don't think we can ever really say or ever in the any sort of near future scenario that

00:46:34.020 it's a hundred percent um i think we will need to go to europa or enceladus and actually find

00:46:42.020 real creatures before we can say but even then people will probably argue that um it's possible

00:46:48.980 that is uh life came from earth i mean i've written about europa before um it's promise i've even made

00:46:56.180 a direct appeal to elon before haven't i please build a probe and go to enceladus and europa please that's

00:47:03.220 one of maybe half a dozen appeals to elon you've made yeah one of these days he'll pick up your

00:47:09.380 calls i also want to be ship's poet on the first mars shot don't i as well well of course i mean

00:47:14.180 that only makes sense doesn't it i'm the obvious choice elon come on let's do this old girl needs this

00:47:21.780 um yeah and i've also somebody cut old boa break yeah um so i've written about europa and i've made

00:47:32.900 content as well was it next one yeah i did a bit a while ago um just talking about possibly going to

00:47:41.060 europa and or enceladus um so okay i suppose the last real talking point to say is that if it does turn

00:47:49.780 out that this planet has got life even if it's only sort of primitive simplistic life like algae

00:47:59.300 that will sort of change the game in terms of our view of the if the galaxy or the whole universe

00:48:05.300 really it will we will be able to say that at least primitive life is probably quite common

00:48:12.180 because the building blocks of life the actual atoms that you need for life um the universe is

00:48:20.580 filled with them right just a case of how they're put together but if we find something akin analogous to

00:48:28.580 algae on this planet then we could say that probably um simple life is quite common

00:48:34.660 now that doesn't mean that complex life or even sort of technological civilizations are common it still

00:48:42.980 looks like they are extremely rare well it's unique as far as we know at the moment at the moment yeah

00:48:49.060 because we look out into the galaxy and beyond and find no evidence of you know um any sort of radio

00:48:58.420 transmissions there's no hot blue aliens for captain kirk to get off with right yeah not yet

00:49:04.820 yeah um let's not mention the tic-tac incident here but um nonetheless there's no there's no sort of firm

00:49:12.020 slam dunk evidence certainly that our galaxy isn't filled with civilizations beaming things around and

00:49:19.060 building dice and spheres and all that sort of stuff so yeah um but i think uh i think a fair few uh

00:49:28.100 scientists say this and i go along with it i would suspect that the universe is filled not filled

00:49:34.900 but it's relatively common simple life uh because it's like so red dwarf stars are the most common

00:49:42.180 type of star so like 70 plus percent of all stars at least in our galaxy are red dwarfs and something like

00:49:49.540 80 of those have planets in the habitable zone so we talk about billions and billions of stars

00:49:56.420 um and even if some of them are able to even a small percentage of those can support something

00:50:05.060 like phytoplankton then it will be really common if effectively um so we'll see what's the space if

00:50:12.020 and when um more data comes out or more more research is done to say something with a bit more certitude

00:50:18.820 that um there is life albeit primitive on this planet i'll i'll keep you up to date um so okay

00:50:26.820 there's that i hope you enjoyed that segment well thank you very much and don't forget to keep us

00:50:30.260 up to date on what's going on with the uh columns under the pyramids all right yeah okay as well i'm

00:50:35.220 still very interested to find out who's what we've been keeping down there and what they've been keeping

00:50:38.980 from us so we got some rumble rants from that one alex trusk get elon musk to build the red dwarf

00:50:45.300 spaceship with his upcoming generation of robots as in the actual ship from the show red dwarf

00:50:52.740 i'm sure there's a star bug in it as well i was gonna say they're all still alive aren't they

00:50:56.980 from the dwarf yeah yeah yeah so we can send them all off in it you finally get the opportunity hey i'm 0.99

00:51:03.220 just an actor hey hey no no lister stop complaining get on the ship actually put chris barry on in on

00:51:11.060 the first marshall that would be funny cat it would be quite dress him up as the cat as well yeah i

00:51:16.820 mean they still do it every so often that what one of the most recent series at least in the past what

00:51:21.300 15 years i don't know the last two seasons i love red dwarf it was a big part of my childhood

00:51:25.380 great but the last two seasons i didn't watch any of them i watched a bit of i think they did the

00:51:30.340 10th series in what like 2010 it was okay yeah i watched a couple of those actually so maybe it's

00:51:35.780 not the last two it was it was okay but it was nowhere near the peak it was one of the writers

00:51:40.180 quit was it doug naylor one of the writers i think i think one of the writers quit back in the later

00:51:46.740 series and then i think not as funny it's just not i think they all came back for the later ones but

00:51:53.700 for the revival anyway bald eagle 1787 you guys do realize we found the natural habitat of the blue

00:52:00.100 hair screeching feminist whale it's only right that we send them back to where they came from 1.00

00:52:04.900 i think that's that's a great idea scan lines due to the distance of what we've detected doesn't it

00:52:10.900 mean that currently that if it is life it would be much further on from what we're currently detecting

00:52:16.900 well no only 124 years oh it's 124 light years away and the light that we've

00:52:23.540 detected is then that old so that makes sense by the time we ever got there it would be thousands

00:52:33.380 and thousands of years later but no the light itself is 124 years old so yeah

00:52:41.700 skitten hund says please drop harry's skin care routine man is looking very healthy and glassy today

00:52:49.620 nails emoji um thank you for your curiosity um i shower i use men's face wash and men's moisturizer

00:53:00.820 because if i don't i get very very dry skin and it's gross and flaky so i kind of have to

00:53:07.460 um beyond that working out and sweating a lot while you're working out actually does wonders as well

00:53:14.100 it clears the pores yeah it really does work and i did uh because i wasn't doing weightlifting

00:53:18.980 yesterday i did an hour of cardio on the stairmaster because i'm gonna i'm gonna cut right now that

00:53:25.060 might also be part of what it is i have lost five to six kg in the past in the past few months well i was

00:53:32.260 fat you see i was quite tubby and now i'm getting back to uh my prime you're gonna get that eight pack back

00:53:39.700 yes unironically yes cool yes i will uh thank you very much it's already starting to come back

00:53:45.860 through anyway enough of me bragging uh on to some bad news folks which is after my recent cancer

00:53:52.660 diagnosis from having to watch well see clips of and quotes from the devil may cry series that came

00:53:59.620 out on netflix i've got another bit of bad news health wise which is i've now got aids from watching

00:54:06.500 the latest idubs content cop i can't catch a break i just can't catch a break for the record

00:54:15.140 just for true transparency you've got neither cancer nor aids this be no i do oh okay i i i do it's a

00:54:21.540 tragedy i've not got much longer left so um if you could please subscribe to the website lotus eaters

00:54:28.020 to make sure that my legacy will at least have some meaning that would be uh i'd be very very grateful

00:54:33.860 thank you very much in the next state of hate they're going to say that you genuinely claiming

00:54:38.420 to falsely claiming to have cancer known grifter harry robinson made an appeal to fans by faking a

00:54:46.180 cancer diet cancer liar harry cancer and aids both at the same time nick lolz you know like you're just

00:54:54.020 going to have to trust me on this one bro anyway so the actual story is that content cop is back

00:55:00.900 yay is everybody excited you don't even know who i dubs is i said at the top of the show i've never

00:55:07.140 ever watched any i dubs i wasn't even really sure who he was um so i don't know what content was it

00:55:13.940 content cop content is that his thing where he goes through other people's content was his thing okay i

00:55:18.980 think the last one before this came out eight years ago self-appointed cop well yeah it was it was a

00:55:24.980 it was a big event back in the day so i dubs used to make edgy jokes edgy content he was friends with

00:55:33.220 people like max mofo he was friends with people like filthy frank he would appear in their videos

00:55:38.100 as kind of a side character doing really gross things like making a cake out of hair and eating it 0.98

00:55:45.540 silly like the dirty senches silly puerile jackass adjacent gross stuff okay right and that if i'm 0.98

00:55:54.660 honest is when i dubs was at his best as a side character he's called ian i forget what his 0.99

00:56:01.540 original surname was because he took his wife's surname when they got married he is now ian jomer and

00:56:09.460 he has become since the glory days quite the lol cow he is very obviously long housed to hell he has 0.88

00:56:18.900 humiliated himself in too many ways to count first off his wife started an only fans and then he went 0.75

00:56:27.300 on the public record protecting her defending her from all of these people making fun of the both of

00:56:34.180 them because that she started in only fans um he has someone else do that wasn't one of the other

00:56:40.500 lefty libtard common commentary he was he was the most famous one to do that he tried to do a big 0.69

00:56:48.340 takedown documentary on sam hyde which ended up backfiring ended up restarting sam hyde's career

00:56:54.900 in the public to be perfectly honest i think that's the only reason i even have heard of the name is from

00:57:00.020 sam hyde dunking on him loads yeah he tried to do this big thing where he's going to expose sam hyde

00:57:05.620 sam hyde turned it into a big prank tried to could tried to convince i dubs that he had a crackhead

00:57:11.380 girlfriend and that his uh what was it what was it they did he goes into this office which is an old

00:57:18.660 dentist's office that they were working out of not actually where sam hyde works but he got a load of

00:57:23.380 people to pretend to be his staff and crew and they came up with goofy video ideas on a whiteboard

00:57:29.700 and then what was it he got them all to chant as if it was their mantra think it dream it do it

00:57:35.140 think it dream it do it and i dubs is there looking really confused the whole time wondering what the

00:57:40.740 hell is going on and the whole thing turned into a big prank against i dubs and and uh it's all an

00:57:45.860 elaborate ruse by sam hyde yes i dubs clearly wanted it clearly wanted to do a hit piece documentary on

00:57:53.300 him like the evil anti-semitic far-right nazi sam hyde let's see how he's fallen and what he's doing

00:58:00.020 now and sam hyde turned it into a big prank that completely changed his fortunes and boosted his

00:58:05.780 public profile so i dubs got the worst of that i just wish that sam hyde had been able to do the

00:58:10.420 sorts of things that he'd originally been planning on doing because he only got to do a few of the

00:58:14.420 pranks he was planning on they'd come up with some great ideas like the best one that i've heard was

00:58:20.100 drive idubs to a bad part of town where loads of gangbangers were and say he would be back in a

00:58:28.580 minute and lock him in the car and leave him there for four hours that would have been that might have

00:58:34.420 been dangerous but yeah it would have been funny i mean he did go like put idubs in the passenger seat

00:58:40.500 while he was reckless driving they went to the underpass of a bridge and started boxing one another

00:58:46.820 and uh and and uh sam was like come on join in idubs join in ian don't worry about it and idubs is

00:58:53.060 just very confused the whole time it was great it's great you should watch it what i'm getting from

00:58:56.900 this is don't tangle with sam hyde don't try to disingenuously tell sam hyde you want to do a

00:59:04.420 documentary when obviously you want to do a hit piece on him because i haven't watched a mess with

00:59:08.340 you i haven't watched a great deal of sam hyde but i've watched a bit probably in total two or

00:59:12.020 three hours worth of sam hyde content he seems based on funny he is is that fair enough also if

00:59:18.180 you see clips from sam's live streams that he does where he switches the character off a little

00:59:22.740 bit and he gives genuine advice to people he seems like a genuinely smart and insightful guy

00:59:27.940 as well all-round good guy big sam hyde appreciator right here ian not so much he was humiliated by

00:59:35.700 the whole experience also it seemed to be part of this larger apology tour that he was going on

00:59:40.820 apologizing for the fact that he used to do things like say the n-word in his videos because

00:59:46.180 he was an edgy boy back in the day back onto content cop so content cop was his prime series for a few

00:59:52.820 years and it was a huge event whenever one would come out where he would take on if we're honest

00:59:58.980 low-hanging fruit low-hanging fruit people like leafy people like keemstar people like rice gum 0.92

01:00:05.300 people like rice gum was scumbags who were actively pulling scams on their audience and he 0.90

01:00:10.660 would tell them off for it keemstar there's a lot to criticize with keemstar easy low-hanging fruit 0.97

01:00:18.020 i know keemstar i know leafy i've not heard of that other one uh probably for the best either way

01:00:24.180 low-hanging fruit yeah they're really steeped in political philosophy or anything leafy he was mainly

01:00:29.700 making fun of because he had a small chin and as part of it as part of the video i think leafy had

01:00:36.980 accused idubbs of having a receding hairline at one point so ian decides as part of the video to

01:00:42.980 shave the front of his hairline off and say now this is a receding hairline and i was never huge

01:00:49.460 into it to be honest because as much as it was a huge event at the time when they were coming out like

01:00:54.500 2015 to 2017 i was late to the party i watched them all in 2018 and 2019 with some friends who

01:01:02.260 told me how amazing they were and by that point without all the hype and context around them

01:01:07.460 all i saw was a skinny nerd shaving his head in his bedroom making fun of some low-hanging fruit that i'd

01:01:14.900 never heard of like another skinny nerd who nobody cared about at the time so i was never huge into them

01:01:21.060 they had their they had their moments but they weren't like this big cultural paradigm shift

01:01:26.420 for me they were old news by that point of this past but i was already sort of in my 30s with a job

01:01:31.300 and a mortgage and there's also the part that is all based around old drama old drama that didn't

01:01:38.180 matter anymore by the time that i was watching it okay and let's be honest internet drama has a

01:01:42.740 ridiculously high pace of turnaround so by the time the drama's over it's not that it doesn't matter

01:01:48.980 anymore it's literally that it basically may as well have never happened but again as part of it

01:01:56.020 the biggest one really actually thinking about it was the tana mojo one where he filmed himself going

01:02:00.820 to one of her meetups put his arm around her this is quite a famous clip and said to the camera say

01:02:07.300 and said the n-word and it really freaked her out okay so he's since apologized for that and he's done

01:02:13.860 he's done the big apology tour he went on hassan piker and talked about how regretful he was that

01:02:18.580 he did all that offensive stuff he did this video which came out uh when is that um about about two

01:02:25.060 years ago now called i miss the old idubs where he's talking about how apologetic he was how offensive

01:02:31.780 he was back then he's quite big i can see seven million subs most of those from back in the day he

01:02:38.260 he built that audience back in the day when he was doing the edgy boys quick question is this

01:02:43.220 someone that you should just feel sorry for yeah kind of right i know i feel bad for him because i

01:02:48.900 think along with a lot of people sam hyde said the same thing his wife has ruined him i mean he took

01:02:54.020 her surname he's been humiliated as a cuckold through the whole only fans debacle the man is a shell

01:03:00.980 of his former self he's he's a shadow on the wall and and now he's doing these apology tours he took on 0.80

01:03:07.780 this disgusting rat tail and mustache combo for a long while he organized the content what was it

01:03:14.740 the creator clash boxing events the first one was a minor success the second one was mired in

01:03:20.580 controversy because sam hyde was training one of the people who was going to be appearing on it

01:03:25.380 and so idubs decided to get rid of the person that sam hyde was training because he didn't want

01:03:30.260 any association with sam sam tried to buy front row tickets to the event got barred from it

01:03:35.860 and uh there was all the controversy to do with that that made him look like a coward because he

01:03:40.580 was a coward because he didn't want to be confronted by sam hyde and it was such a disaster it didn't

01:03:45.700 make the money back that they spent on it so it didn't make the money that they'd promised to donate

01:03:51.380 to charity so instead they did charity streams to try and make that money back and donated i think like

01:03:58.020 250 grand of their own money to give to the charities because it was such a failure because they paid for

01:04:03.460 no expenses spared for the people who were taking part in it right okay yeah so humiliation from top

01:04:12.020 to bottom somebody well past the prime of their career somebody that you kind of just look on with

01:04:16.980 pity it's a classic thing i think uh good advice for anyone out there if you're trying to make it in

01:04:22.900 the world you're trying to make a name for yourself whatever it is in whatever field you're doing don't

01:04:26.980 hitch yourself to yoko ono and you think that a quick way to do it is by being a baddie or humiliating

01:04:34.860 yourself resist that don't do that it might take longer or you might never get there but don't do

01:04:41.860 that well this isn't necessarily a case of that this is a case of a guy like many who was edgy back in

01:04:46.180 the day who has since turned into a massive leftist is that what he is his shtick now is being a lefty

01:04:52.420 he's a massive leftist now i mean he's associated with hassan piker okay and loads of people like

01:04:57.380 that i don't feel that sorry for him no i well i feel i feel sorry for him because i i've said before

01:05:04.580 i worry that it'll end up with a benoit situation he doesn't have kids he doesn't have kids but i

01:05:10.420 i worry because the man you can only push a man so far you can only humiliate a man so much i've got

01:05:15.700 very very very little sympathy for people that used to be centrist or right-leaning that choose

01:05:22.180 to go left like h3 h3 i did well h3 ties into this oh really because i used to watch a fair bit of

01:05:28.500 h3 h3 he was funny back in the day yeah the really early stuff is quite funny and he was reasonably

01:05:34.820 based he certainly wasn't a wokest um and i mean he was a centrist yeah he was never right

01:05:42.660 anti-sjw center-left right isn't that at least that is anti-sjw let's say that at least

01:05:48.580 um so and anyone that chooses then to go left it's like anyone born in raised in the western

01:05:53.620 tradition that chooses to convert to islam i've got no sympathy really for you yeah well i think 0.98

01:05:57.540 they call it there's a term that they've deemed it now which is trolls regret trolls regret they

01:06:03.060 were trolled back in the day now they feel bad about it mainly because they've got a nagging woman 0.99

01:06:07.540 telling them about how terrible it was i can't believe you said that that kind of nagging attitude

01:06:12.900 and so they get the regret and they like to pull the ladder back up behind them of course i got big

01:06:17.860 doing this back in the day but i would never condone people doing it now that kind of attitude

01:06:23.140 it's insufferable but in the mire of all of this and everything that i've just said a few days ago

01:06:29.060 literally five days ago he suddenly announces content cop returns and i sorry is it content cop or

01:06:37.140 content chop he put chop for some reason i don't know why it is content cop okay um and i along with

01:06:43.540 a lot of other people went are you sure you want to do that ian sure you want to do that and everybody

01:06:49.460 was saying well who's it going to be who's it going to be some were even suggesting he might do it on his

01:06:54.260 old stuff on the old content cops some were saying he might it wouldn't it it would be meta some were

01:07:00.020 saying it could be anybody some suggested it would be on h3h3 now although i along with a lot of other

01:07:07.940 people saw that and went well but they're friends they're friends they've been friends for years

01:07:12.020 idubbs appeared on ian's on ethan's channel back in the day back in like 2018 so why would he do it

01:07:17.700 on a friend well the video came out yesterday it was on h3 it was on h3 given that he's friends now

01:07:26.980 with hassan piker and he is a full-blown leftist whereas ethan is a uh well i mean he's uh he's

01:07:37.300 jewish he's married to israeli and he's a zionist can you guess what the big blow up is over 0.89

01:07:44.980 is israel palestine oh okay it's is it's israel palace so is idubbs pro-palestinian by the sound

01:07:51.460 by the sounds of it yeah okay this if you told me back in you know if if i'd known about this uh

01:07:59.540 content cop back when it was 2015 2016 2017 when it was huge i was too busy um seeing friends going

01:08:06.820 out drinking to what to pay attention to random internet drama but if you told me that the reason

01:08:12.980 the h3 and idubbs would blow up is because of a conflict in the middle east and divisions like 0.99

01:08:21.300 that i would have said that you're absolutely crazy but that's just where we are right now and

01:08:26.420 do you think do you think idubbs goes into sort of ancient history i don't think idubbs knows that

01:08:34.100 much about the conflict somehow i think theology and the 20th century fallout of world war one

01:08:40.020 you know this i don't think he's watching daryl cooper's 30 hour series on the subject no i i don't

01:08:47.620 think he is but like just to give you an idea of the um content of this content cop and the

01:08:55.460 style of humor the quality of joke that we've got so it opens up with a little section where

01:09:00.020 hassan paika is there along with all of these other people who i've never heard of who are all

01:09:06.180 you know pro-palestine one of them's wearing a hijab so i assume they're all a bunch of islamists 1.00

01:09:14.100 um and this is the quality of joke that we get and for those of you watching at home i'm sorry to put

01:09:20.660 you through this today i have a very important announcement i've finally done it i watched ethan

01:09:26.900 clients content nuke and i'm not going to call it context i am an islamist fundamentalist radical

01:09:34.660 everything how wake up ethan wake up ethan wake up ethan wake up time to be awake ethan wake up

01:09:53.140 i'm not gonna do a react content yet chat i think that's about enough of that

01:10:22.660 uh funny get a chuckle out of you oh was that supposed to be funny that was supposed to be

01:10:27.940 funny all right okay yeah uh this is this seems to be the overriding image that people got from uh

01:10:33.620 from this right now which is um i can't skip to it but it's the bit where they're all doing the

01:10:39.220 light l and the fortnight dance behind him it's really just not funny and then to i watched the

01:10:45.300 full thing i don't need to play clips from it because really what this is this isn't a content cop it's

01:10:49.540 not going over really anything other than a difference of opinion and personal feuds that

01:10:57.220 ian has with well that ethan has with all of these extra people that ian is friends with like hassan who

01:11:04.020 used to do a show with ethan back in the day and all of these other people are people that ethan has

01:11:08.980 insulted over personal differences to do with israel palestine by the looks of it so this isn't really

01:11:16.500 even like okay ethan is lying to people ethan is misinforming people ethan is doing this and that

01:11:22.980 and this and that it's personal issues it's just a big personal beef that he's made an hour-long video

01:11:31.460 about with a lot of concern trolling and a lot of fake empathy again idubs is not the kind of guy who 0.90

01:11:38.100 would say to ethan these days uh you're being retarded and then throw a load of slurs at him 0.93

01:11:44.500 which would at least be entertaining and funny right now he's going i really think i really think 0.86

01:11:51.220 that you know ethan's not feeling well in his mental state i think he's not right in the head

01:11:57.220 maybe he should go to therapy maybe he should do this and it's all concern trolling big fake empathy

01:12:02.900 hug box of like pure therapy i even found myself agreeing with clips that i saw on twitter being

01:12:09.540 shared of destiny and xqc where destiny was saying just tell just insult him call him a slur and we

01:12:18.020 would be better off if you did that and xqc saying things like this isn't content cop this is content

01:12:23.780 therapy this is not what people signed up for when you said content cops back but everybody knew it was

01:12:29.060 going to happen and destiny was the other one who got got cut by yes destiny by his wife um but yeah

01:12:36.980 this seems like worthless content i mean one of the things i try and do and i'm not always capable of

01:12:41.300 doing it but on my own channel and at lotus eaters i try and make content that is at least of some value

01:12:47.380 yeah for a small amount of time at least i try and make evergreen content as much as possible really

01:12:53.780 that might just might stand the test uh yeah and or be informative or interesting to people but this

01:12:59.940 seems like this does seem like absolutely throw away nonsense yeah it's an hour of it's an hour of

01:13:06.660 nothing it's an hour of ian airing his personal grievances alongside all these other people when

01:13:12.580 really the more more tactful thing to do i would have thought would be to try and have a personal

01:13:17.780 conversation and air and iron things out that way this didn't need to be a video that was made but

01:13:23.060 then just to show what's going on is this video at the end of it ends with again the big fake

01:13:29.620 empathy oh we care so much about you we're concerned so much about you after you've spent an hour

01:13:36.260 insulting him defending people who have insulted him defending people like hassan who said that 9-11

01:13:43.860 deserved to happen defending people like all of these nobodies one of them i think samson you might know

01:13:51.540 the name which was the the frog franco frogan frogan said that u.s veterans deserve to get ptsd

01:14:02.260 these are the sorts of people that you're defending okay these are the sorts of people that you're

01:14:06.740 associating with but no ian ethan he's got mental problems that's why he's doing the things which is

01:14:12.900 just gaslighting not that i'm a huge fan of ethan or i was just gonna say there anymore he's a 0.82

01:14:17.380 douchebag himself pretty badly but as well so in this like this is this is a bum fight between

01:14:23.540 there's two retards fighting but somehow ian has done such a good job of making himself like look like 1.00

01:14:29.780 a a fake empathetic ass that i'm rooting for ethan in the retard fight you know um you've got to go 0.98

01:14:37.380 something to be more obnoxious than yeah but he ends it with this big thing where he's like i'm gonna 0.99

01:14:41.940 try and be fair and so all these people that you've had beefs with i want them to say something

01:14:47.460 nice about you like you're on the playground and the teacher's saying you've got to say something

01:14:52.020 nice to one another after you've got into a fight with a bully or something and so it ends with this

01:14:57.140 and just watch where ian comes completely out of nowhere with no context the clip he inserts

01:15:04.180 of himself check this out okay so i think that's a big reason why people were drawn to your content

01:15:10.900 in the first place i think that's a lot of the reason why your employees chose to work with you

01:15:15.380 over anyone else ethan i think it's respectable that you even began this journey to leave behind

01:15:20.260 the anti-sgw crowd and step into a more empathetic road view i know it's not easy ethan klein i think

01:15:25.700 that when you are being goofy when you're being silly when you are being light-hearted uh and just

01:15:31.620 having fun with your friends i think that is when you're at your best so i'd love to see more of

01:15:36.500 that that'd be sick i will be reading my letter off because i don't want to sound robotic h3 used to

01:15:41.620 be the sports very good that i used to watch i hope that one day gets back to what i remember you were

01:15:45.860 one of the inspirations for me to start creating i want to sound robotic so i'll read i hope you really

01:15:50.100 hear this and i wish you in a moment i think ethan klein rocks pretty good and i think he looks he's got a

01:15:56.580 good choice of facial hair i think it's really cool what he did eight years ago fighting that

01:16:01.700 that uh frivolous lawsuit that was pretty fucked up and fighting it you know he changed youtube for 0.95

01:16:06.580 the better and i thought that was cool because i thought it was like he's fighting for free speech 0.74

01:16:11.380 you know i also see the dynamic of ethan and neil i'm like like it's really hard to be um a couple

01:16:18.980 online and see people attacking your partner and it's like okay like if you come to their defense

01:16:24.180 if that doesn't always help them right sometimes that makes it worse for them and i have been so

01:16:31.300 what's he crying about that's the question i saw that clip going around on twitter and i thought

01:16:35.860 wait does he dedicate the last 10 minutes of the video to a therapy session or something

01:16:40.180 no it's cut in with no context idubbs crying to a therapist about how difficult it is to try and 0.96

01:16:47.940 defend your prostitute wife on the internet and it's like what the hell has happened to you ethan 1.00

01:16:55.780 what's going on you little bitch like i'm sorry all of these problems seem to come from your wife dude 1.00

01:17:03.380 you're humiliating yourself by putting that clip in this video you didn't need to do that man 1.00

01:17:08.740 is it's it's it's so strange of course uh i was going to say i'll look at how the the dislike to

01:17:15.620 like ratio is going you can see it here not going great people didn't like this video it's terrible

01:17:21.380 terrible the same worse but that's pretty bad yeah there were the people involved in it were posting

01:17:26.660 stuff like this nobody cares about these people this is really embarrassing that image to me is the

01:17:33.540 type of thing where if i was trying to be obnoxious as if uncool as possible if i was for ironic purposes

01:17:43.060 trying to look like a twat i would create an image along those lines yeah and yet why would any normal 0.54

01:17:51.860 self-respective man do such a thing anyway these people are posting it themselves this isn't somebody 0.95

01:17:58.660 hacking their account going what's the most humiliating thing i can post why do they care so

01:18:02.820 much about h3 h3 of all things you could pick to make content about it seems like you really care

01:18:08.020 loads about it it's just petty funny funny enough at the beginning of this video of his video uh he

01:18:13.860 makes a joke saying that people now that content cop is back gonna want him to do content cops on

01:18:19.460 this person or that person and he name checks carl so i clipped it i've put it out on twitter and

01:18:24.900 just said do it do it please i will want to see you try to take carl down now i want to see what kind

01:18:31.460 of arguments that you're going to make when this whole thing was a personal airing of grievance

01:18:36.900 have they got an old beef then no oh okay no but i just want to see but i mean he's a massive leftist

01:18:42.500 now so i'd love to see what he would say uh there are like people just sharing screenshots like what is

01:18:49.140 going on oh so intimidating the dead eyed i mean ian who didn't used to have a lazy eye but rather 0.99

01:18:57.620 like sean michaels took a blow to the face that gave him a lazy eye yeah it's part of the most recent

01:19:03.620 creator clash yeah he got punched in the face so hard that it's given him a permanent lazy eye now

01:19:09.700 so yeah i wonder have you seen sean michaels these days like his lazy eyes basically like all the way out

01:19:15.620 because it's got it's got worse and worse and worse over time since it happened to him in back

01:19:19.620 in 04 so i wonder if 20 years from now ian's going to be like looking in like a little bit like sartre

01:19:25.940 oh god he's going to have that look that's terrible that would such one the worst ones of all time right

01:19:30.660 would be funny though it would be funny uh people have been posting that clip saying i can't believe

01:19:38.180 i can't believe that you would do this here's an artist's rendition

01:19:44.740 i know i think you're doing a bit too much credit to the broadness of hassan's shoulders but i've not

01:19:49.220 met him in person so uh ethan klein actually found out about this live on air as he was streaming the

01:19:56.660 video dropped while he was streaming so there's a few videos of him uh of him finding it the best one

01:20:03.380 is where he just he's like yeah sam hyde he and i have very different politically but congrats for

01:20:09.460 breaking i dubs his mind because i think that you've driven him over the cliff that was ethan's

01:20:15.460 real-time reaction ethan after he started he started reacting to the video over the stream okay and yeah

01:20:21.540 he said at one point he's like i mean you know congrats to sam hyde he's a really funny guy i think you've

01:20:26.340 broke ian's mind and uh this is the this is the overwhelming picture this is what people are going

01:20:33.460 to remember from this video it's not going to be the epic dunks and takedowns that you did on h3 0.98

01:20:39.540 it's going to be you crying like a bitch for no reason about how people make fun of your relationship 1.00

01:20:48.340 and they should they should because if there's going to be another content cop i've got the perfect 0.99

01:20:54.260 person for you to do it on ether ian your own wife she needs taking down a peg buddy reclaim 1.00

01:21:02.100 your surname at least for god's sake this is a notorious clip now from a live stream from a few

01:21:08.100 years ago and the voice of the woman that you can hear off camera is his wife and watch this

01:21:16.340 well i want to ask rajor a question first okay rajor wait we should get rajor in here okay yeah 0.99

01:21:24.100 i mean if he can well if he can i just want to ask him if you've always been shitting your pants 0.99

01:21:30.020 no because since i've known you you've always had like ibs you've always been shitting yourself yeah well 0.99

01:21:41.780 actively humiliating him on stream to the whole world by telling everybody 0.98

01:21:48.260 that he regularly shits himself nice thanks for that love yeah cheers yeah so maybe your next content 0.83

01:21:56.100 cop there's an idea for you buddy there we go so rumble rants uh we've got a few boba bad amiga 0.72

01:22:03.620 donation for harry's double cancer aids fund i will contact a tranny posing as sarah mcclarklin to sing at 0.98

01:22:09.140 your funeral thank you very much double cancer now it's double cancer and double aids dragon lady chris

01:22:16.260 thanks for showing that clip harry now i have cancer and aids i'm sorry they're contagious at this time

01:22:21.780 of year alex trusk get donald trump to promote the sam hyde versus hassan pike a fight i would love to

01:22:27.780 see that hassan pike needs to man up and actually fight sam hyde hewitt says had actually been probably

01:22:34.820 about the same weight class right i mean yeah but sam i feel like sam hyde v i dubs is not fair

01:22:40.340 because sam hyde's a much bigger man but yeah but maybe with uh hassan pike that might actually work

01:22:47.460 i think i think isn't hassan pike he's literally i think he's about scared scared of yeah i think

01:22:53.860 hasn't people painted him into a corner saying are you gonna fight sam hyde yeah he's basically said no

01:22:58.340 he just refuses to acknowledge it these days i think hassan's about my size and i think i think

01:23:04.500 uh sam's a bit bigger than me i think he's like six five or something he's a massive guy yeah he's a 0.97

01:23:09.940 very big guy uh hewitt says harry you've made me feel like a boomer i don't have a fucking clue what 0.97

01:23:14.980 you're talking about i tried to fill in the context for bo hopefully that helps you at home as well 0.83

01:23:20.580 and boba bad check out idub's brand new series content cook that's right see idub's as he roasts

01:23:26.100 monogamous happy couples see him bargain hunt for the best observation chair pretty sure that was

01:23:31.140 destiny on twitch for a while but uh there we go it looks like we do actually have some video comments

01:23:39.540 car miles see we play this game of we sniff everything when we're gassed out from running

01:23:48.660 so this is going to be it now for like 10 minutes till he's comfortable enough starting again

01:23:53.860 i love dogs yeah lovely lovely creatures i love dogs so much face recognition software isn't

01:24:03.620 particularly difficult i myself have a program that runs on a 15 watt computer the size of a credit card

01:24:11.140 which reminds me i need to start work on my auto gun security system

01:24:15.060 who's that guy on the bottom is that that long-haired hippie who works for timpool 0.84

01:24:24.500 that's a lot one of the timpool dudes doesn't he yeah auto gun what is that just like some

01:24:28.900 automated i assume it's an auto turret i'm imagining yeah i mean twin linked miniguns that just link

01:24:34.580 onto things and blow them away i mean good luck but be careful please be careful with that

01:24:40.500 so yeah uh remember a couple of months ago i offered to help bo get his books published well i'm still

01:24:47.300 waiting for you man but in the meantime if there's any other lotus eater viewer who's written a book and

01:24:53.620 doesn't know how to get it published doesn't know how to format it doesn't know how to do the cover art

01:24:58.340 please reach out to me on the website cscooper.com.au and i will happily help you get started

01:25:05.540 i'm trying to diversify my revenue stream too well so first of all thanks koop really really

01:25:12.820 appreciate it second of all the picture he had in the background there the great wave of candy

01:25:17.540 hour very he's got a man of good taste i happen to be wearing cuff links with the same thing on

01:25:22.820 oh there you go um so a man of impeccable taste fancy um and as for the novel i actually did quite a

01:25:29.620 lot of work on it over the weekend just gone and i've done a fair bit of work over it on it over the

01:25:35.140 last six weeks two months and um i'm still a long way off i mean months and months off um someone

01:25:45.060 asked me on twitter actually over the weekend they said how about that novel that novel you've been

01:25:49.860 working on how about that that novel um yeah the reality of it is it's brutal i can't imagine what

01:25:57.460 it's like to write something that's 80 000 words long 150 000 words long 200 000 words long to bring

01:26:03.300 it out of the ether as well purely from your imagination and to make it not complete crap

01:26:08.740 as well that's the hardest part that's the hardest part um you have to have it's there's all sorts of

01:26:14.180 skills you need to be able to do it one of the skills one of the things you need in your toolbox

01:26:20.820 is sort of almost an insane self-belief that the characters you're creating and the dialogue you're

01:26:26.980 writing and the narrative you're crafting is any good that anyone would ever want to read it

01:26:32.020 and also even pay for it you have to have a sort of a to me it feels like a sort of an insane

01:26:38.180 self-confidence um i mean i've got a fair amount of confidence where i've written novels before

01:26:44.260 um where i can just keep plowing through but you do second guess yourself a lot it's used and it's

01:26:50.180 it's it's difficult it's actually difficult and for me it's time consuming because lots of novelists

01:26:55.140 lots of writers someone like stephen king or various writers they say oh i just write every day not a

01:27:00.100 fantastic amount sometimes only a few paragraphs but more or less every day i write well i can't do

01:27:06.500 that i need to have inspiration i need to have uh i need to be in the right frame of mind i need ideas

01:27:12.500 i can't just force a couple of pages of of fiction it doesn't really work like that for me so i feel

01:27:20.900 like realistically thanks cooper and i will be hitting you up on on it um it will be months yet months and

01:27:28.100 months yeah fair fair play as long as it i mean as long as you get it done right take the time to

01:27:32.900 make it what you want and then it'll have to go through editing well i don't want to release

01:27:36.180 anything that's embarrassingly crap right yeah and that's actually a bit of an ask too many people

01:27:42.100 on the on in the online spheres have done that kind of thing but uh yeah when when you mentioned

01:27:46.740 stephen king i was going to talk about uh mention him because it are we not able to are we not able to

01:27:52.820 oh we've got common sense crusade or i forgot that it was thursday all right let's uh go through the

01:27:59.300 next video comment in that case welcome back to the gun channel the lotus heaters i thought i'd give

01:28:07.620 a tip of the hat to the justices of his britannic majesty charles the third's supreme court recognizing

01:28:16.020 under the common law that woman does in fact mean adult human female way to go you figured it out 0.99

01:28:30.100 yeah

01:28:33.780 i'm not having a liberal meltdown you're right tom you're having a socialist meltdown on a daily

01:28:38.900 basis in fact anyway enough about jonathan cry time to subscribe to wordsmith productions on patreon

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01:29:06.420 there you go boom and it had a bandy cam logo at the top as well

01:29:10.820 i've not seen that watermark in a while so i've just finished doing the calculations on

01:29:17.940 how much is owed to the minority community and when factoring in crime uh freebies 1.00

01:29:28.260 welfare benefits etc we figure out that the minority community actually owes 4.7 trillion dollars yeah 0.99

01:29:36.740 that sounds about right yeah i think that number is perfectly accurate and maybe double it actually

01:29:40.900 yeah sure just to be on just to be on the safe side however much indy is asking for that plus change

01:29:48.820 yeah yeah anyway uh i don't think we've got time for written comments if samson wants to shoe us off the

01:29:54.740 studio yeah all right okay brian tomlinson it's ironic that men wearing mig uh wigs have decreed what women

01:30:01.860 are fuzzy pirates is their scope to now joining forces with the outraged lefty

01:30:07.860 lunatics and uh to push and what and push to removing the supreme court the enemy of my enemy 0.98

01:30:14.100 is my friend no don't ally with leftists because they will stab you in the back the soonest opportunity 0.99

01:30:19.780 they get uh man of master of parsnips says harry it's a massive kick in the balls for trans women 1.00

01:30:26.740 but probably not the end of woke i'm not saying it's the end of woke i'm saying it's part of a 0.86

01:30:32.340 shift to try to downplay woke and sweep it under the carpet parts of it the most egregious aspects

01:30:38.900 of it for the time being it can always be revived later do you want me to read through some of yours

01:30:44.260 yeah go ahead yeah sure yeah lord inquisitor hector rex says bo love your passion for this now tell me

01:30:49.140 more about this thick atmosphere colin p uh says yes it's all i've always thought that given the

01:30:56.660 maths the most unlikely number of instances of extrasolar life is two if it happens twice here and

01:31:02.020 out there it will happen many more times also bo is the drake equation still considered a viable idea

01:31:09.060 i think the concept yeah i think that uh as we know more and more you have to plug in different values

01:31:14.980 but yeah i mean sure okay uh kent pittsburgh says we should nuke that exoplanet just in case they've

01:31:22.580 got oil yep yeah makes sense makes perfect sense to me we'll get george w just straight on that

01:31:29.060 russian garbage human says took me a moment to remember the boxing training thing between sam 0.93

01:31:32.900 hide and idubs look it up it's quite funny he made up this entire training routine etc it's great 0.95

01:31:38.660 slop content though be warned sophie live reminder when a woman starts trying to push you a man

01:31:44.660 around like that she is testing you if to see if you will stand up to her and if metaphorically

01:31:49.940 you are out in the wild being attacked by barbarians if you have the backbone to defend her against the

01:31:55.460 enemy yeah he failed the test she's going to leave him when something better comes along 1.00

01:32:00.500 probably and alex ptolemy make beau watch the idubbed sam hyde videos some of the best content ever

01:32:06.340 even just the list of ideas at the start that sam and co come up with a great dead wasps everywhere

01:32:11.780 talk to him about pokemon cards like they're some new thing keep asking him for money etc those are

01:32:20.500 some great ideas i like just keep asking him for money or just talk about the pokemon cards they're

01:32:26.180 great i need to re-watch those videos because they're hilarious i've got all of uh sharp to re-watch

01:32:31.460 first i'm afraid okay fair play i think you've got to watch them all so we can do yeah i do also have

01:32:37.380 to i've got a lot to do through man there's only so much time in the day man okay well so we need

01:32:43.860 to bring it to an end there because uh we've got more content coming up a bit later in the afternoon

01:32:47.380 common sense crusade that's with uh father robinson isn't it yes yeah yeah alvin robinson so okay i hope

01:32:54.500 you've enjoyed that um until next time then take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - April 17, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1145

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