The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1180

00:00:00.000 Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters. Today is Thursday, the 5th of June

00:00:13.640 2025. And I'm your host, Elias, and I'm joined by Harry and Stephen. Hello. And we're going to

00:00:21.040 discuss a Danish politician explaining democracy to a confused journalist by the BBC. Zoomer

00:00:28.660 reading comprehension and Trump banning Muslims again. Right. So there's a BBC journalist called

00:00:38.640 Simon Reeve who is uploading a series of episodes called Scandinavia with Simon Reeve. And towards

00:00:45.720 the end of episode three, he is talking to a Muslim migrant as well as a Thomas Monberg, a politician

00:00:55.720 who is from the coalition government that is ruling Denmark. And he is representing two clashing

00:01:03.280 perspectives over migration. But what is really interesting with this, first of all, I'm really

00:01:08.800 amazed that they kept it. Because he's literally getting destroyed. There's just no way of putting

00:01:15.260 about it more diplomatically. He's literally getting wrecked. So I'm surprised that they left

00:01:19.840 it. But also the way that he frames things in several clips from this video and from this

00:01:26.860 episode is simultaneously tragic, but sometimes it's very funny as well. So I want to show you

00:01:33.260 some parts of it and discuss the ideas, as well as the framing. Let's start with the first

00:01:38.540 one. Yes, let's play it. So he's talking to some Danish people there, says it seems well, but there are

00:01:56.920 problems. But it would be wrong to think there are no problems in Denmark. All this social cohesion

00:02:04.180 means outsiders can sometimes feel unwelcome. If you don't conform here, it can feel uncomfortable.

00:02:12.200 That's the first one. Go away then. Simple as. All this social cohesion for the people who've been

00:02:17.900 here for, you know, thousands of years. Someone who's just got off the boat might feel a bit

00:02:23.360 uncomfortable. All right, bugger off then. Go wherever you feel comfortable. If it's peaceful and they like 0.96

00:02:27.620 to sing their own cultural songs. And look, hey, there's happiness and smiles and joy. But I feel

00:02:33.080 uncomfortable. There's a problem with social cohesion. There's a lack of chaos. Where's your chaotic

00:02:39.000 sentiment? The BBC were horrified by the shocking lack of grenade attacks and grooming games they

00:02:44.560 encountered while they were in Denmark. Also, if you don't conform here, it can feel uncomfortable.

00:02:50.020 I've heard that. Don't conform there then. I have heard that the Danish are one of the least 1.00

00:02:54.780 demanding cultures as far as integration is concerned. Literally, not much is asked from you.

00:03:01.120 They just don't bomb people and break the law.

00:03:05.680 That's a pretty tough order for some.

00:03:08.040 Yeah, yeah. For many in a country that they're used to bombing each other,

00:03:11.640 stabbing each other to death or running away from it. That is quite difficult. But hey,

00:03:16.600 look, a white person. Sorry. 0.89

00:03:18.960 We can't have that.

00:03:19.840 In a European country. Can you have that anymore?

00:03:22.240 So what he...

00:03:23.160 I say that as someone who's not necessarily completely white, but there we go.

00:03:25.820 So what happens is that he's picking a Muslim activist to talk to. And my impression is that 0.66

00:03:33.160 this activist isn't necessarily representative of the population. He seems to have been there by

00:03:39.320 from 1975. He has four children, lawyers, engineers, a psychologist, and also someone else who is a social

00:03:48.840 worker and right now studying. I don't know if this is exactly representative, but perhaps the BBC is

00:03:55.240 trying to make some cases.

00:03:56.740 I just want to go back to it just for one moment, because the whole presentation of the BBC, the

00:04:02.020 perspective that was being put forward when he was saying about all the social cohesion, was this

00:04:06.320 idea that Denmark shouldn't really be a country for Danish people, right?

00:04:12.080 Because non-Danes would feel uncomfortable. 1.00

00:04:14.680 Yeah, it should be a country for anybody who wants to show up in Denmark and presumably take 0.93

00:04:19.140 advantage of the social welfare system. No, I believe that Denmark should be a country for

00:04:23.820 Danish people and broadly European people, if they're happy to take them. 0.86

00:04:28.940 Yeah. It's a country you can go and shop and steal from if you want and have no consequences.

00:04:33.180 So there is rise in crime and terrorism, as this person says. And in response to this,

00:04:39.280 the government is taking some measures. Let us look at this in the next clip.

00:04:43.320 I am. But still, we are not accepted as equal in the country.

00:04:52.460 Partly in response to the crime wave in Sweden and terrorism here, Denmark's taken a really

00:04:57.740 tough line on integration. Not just encouraging it, but pushing it.

00:05:02.460 Islamic full face coverings are banned. The government even introduced what was called a ghetto law, aimed at preventing neighbourhoods being dominated by so-called non-Western immigrants, along with high crime and unemployment.

00:05:14.800 Let's get out. Let's go and have a look.

00:05:17.820 One designated ghetto was the multicultural neighbourhood Mjolnir Parkin, where Mohammed raised his family.

00:05:24.580 What's particularly...

00:05:24.940 So he is taking him to that, as he says, multicultural ghetto neighbourhood.

00:05:31.300 Which looks notably more run down than some of the other places.

00:05:34.940 But I don't understand, because he says it's a multicultural ghetto, and he laments the ghetto laws that essentially destroy ghettos, but also laments the loss of multiculturalism.

00:05:47.080 You can't have a multicultural ghetto, because ghettos are, by definition, monocultural. 0.95

00:05:53.200 Now, that's...

00:05:54.200 A multicultural ghetto. Oh, my word. 1.00

00:05:57.400 Can you imagine the diversity in...

00:05:59.780 The diversity of ghettoism.

00:06:01.460 I mean, it's just the ghetto for non-European people. Really, that's what... I think that's all it really means is that...

00:06:08.280 And you know what? If the Danish government wants to prevent there being things like ethnic enclaves set up in their cities...

00:06:16.520 Like Paris?

00:06:17.260 Yeah, like Paris, that push the natives out of their homes that they've lived in for who knows how long, and stops it from being completely unrecognisable in five years' time. 0.95

00:06:28.200 Good. Good. Again, Denmark is a country that was established by and for Danish people, and they have every right to protect that.

00:06:35.040 So, now he's talking about what he says the greatest social experiment of the century, which I think it's a bit...

00:06:41.040 Really? The greatest. The greatest social.

00:06:43.540 Yeah, let's...

00:06:44.040 Listen to it.

00:06:45.540 People were forced out of their homes.

00:06:48.220 The apartments, houses, homes they lived in were sold off.

00:06:53.060 Many were refurbished.

00:06:55.260 New families have moved in.

00:06:57.960 It's been described as the social experiment of the century.

00:07:01.460 It's also been described as social policy with a bulldozer.

00:07:08.460 No one's ended up homeless, but Mohammed's family and thousands more from other ghetto areas have been or will be rehoused in predominantly white areas.

00:07:16.460 With the stated aim, they'll become more integrated into Danish society, with access to better jobs and education.

00:07:23.460 And people, including those from very different cultures, will absorb Danish liberal values.

00:07:31.460 Reports identified early language skills as key to...

00:07:34.460 So, one of the issues that the stated aim of this policy is integration.

00:07:38.460 It's forced integration, by the sounds of it, which we've seen in America.

00:07:44.460 It doesn't work. It just ruins the neighborhoods that they go into, frankly.

00:07:47.460 I don't think it works.

00:07:49.460 And there's always the question of number when it comes to policy and integration.

00:07:55.460 But, yes, I do think that this isn't perhaps the best way to go about it.

00:07:59.460 Never be more than 3%, 4%, 5% maximum.

00:08:02.460 I share your skepticism about it.

00:08:05.460 But, you know, this is the policy.

00:08:07.460 And then he's going to talk to Thomas Monberg, who is a politician who literally schooled him in democracy and all sorts of bits.

00:08:16.460 But let us look at one thing that some people haven't talked about, because there have been clips of this that have gone viral on X.

00:08:24.460 But try to look at how he's trying to frame family values when he's talking to Thomas Monberg.

00:08:32.460 And including parties called the Liberals and the Moderates.

00:08:35.460 We've got football tops here.

00:08:37.460 Yeah, it's football over there.

00:08:39.460 Is this your... this is your party?

00:08:41.460 Yes, it is.

00:08:42.460 Look, this is very nuclear family, very traditional old poster here.

00:08:46.460 Yes, it is.

00:08:47.460 Family values.

00:08:48.460 Family values, but the children have to be safe and nicely home from school.

00:08:53.460 It's interesting you have this in your office because your party is unusual from our perspective.

00:09:00.460 You're quite left-wing economically and on many issues.

00:09:04.460 Workers' rights, etc.

00:09:06.460 Yes.

00:09:07.460 But traditional cultural values, family values as well.

00:09:10.460 Yeah.

00:09:11.460 What you mean like the Labour Party was when it founded itself.

00:09:14.460 So, Thomas, can you...

00:09:15.460 Very unusual.

00:09:16.460 Very unusual.

00:09:17.460 Very unusual for the BBC.

00:09:19.460 Listen, I know what he wanted to say, which was that he...

00:09:24.460 Clearly, he wanted to say, oh, this is strange that you've got this picture up in here.

00:09:28.460 I mean, it's happy families, but they're all white. 1.00

00:09:30.460 This makes me think of Nazis. 0.80

00:09:32.460 Yeah.

00:09:33.460 So, you're very left-wing economically, but you seem to be quite right-wing socially.

00:09:39.460 Do you not think that you're a Nazi? 0.77

00:09:41.460 You're...

00:09:42.460 That's what he's trying to say.

00:09:43.460 You want a family.

00:09:44.460 You're quite unusual from our perspective.

00:09:46.460 Yeah.

00:09:47.460 You're an anomaly.

00:09:48.460 You're quite unusual because you've got a family.

00:09:49.460 Yeah.

00:09:50.460 You believe in them.

00:09:51.460 Do you think...

00:09:52.460 Come to Britain where we just don't believe in families at all.

00:09:54.460 Do you not think that white families having white children might have been what Adolf Hitler wanted? 0.95

00:09:59.460 Have you considered not doing that?

00:10:01.460 Perhaps he was breathing.

00:10:02.460 I mean, this reminds me... 0.99

00:10:04.460 Don't breed white children, you. 1.00

00:10:06.460 This kind of... 1.00

00:10:07.460 In a white country. 0.72

00:10:08.460 I'm sorry, this is a form of, like, stochastic terrorism, almost, in the same way when Channel 0.67

00:10:13.460 4 sent that disabled black guy to Orania in South Africa to tell them all off for trying 1.00

00:10:19.460 to have a self-governing community that actually functioned in South Africa. 0.64

00:10:23.460 You're not allowed to do that in South Africa.

00:10:25.460 Everywhere has to be as run down as Johannesburg.

00:10:29.460 It's terrible that they come into these countries and these communities and say, like, no, well,

00:10:34.460 you're not...

00:10:35.460 You're not globalized enough.

00:10:36.460 You're not multicultural enough. 1.00

00:10:37.460 You need to change... 0.99

00:10:38.460 You're bad.

00:10:39.460 ...the system of governance... 1.00

00:10:40.460 You're evil. 0.80

00:10:41.460 ...that doesn't work anywhere. 0.94

00:10:42.460 Yeah.

00:10:43.460 It doesn't work.

00:10:44.460 Because social cohesion is a problem, Harry.

00:10:47.460 Yeah.

00:10:48.460 Clearly.

00:10:49.460 Clearly.

00:10:50.460 You don't have enough problems for the state to intervene and fix.

00:10:52.460 Yeah.

00:10:53.460 Justifying the Leviathan state.

00:10:54.460 Well, yeah, that's true.

00:10:55.460 The background.

00:10:56.460 Even though Denmark has quite a big state as far as I can tell.

00:10:58.460 They just do what the people want them to do.

00:11:01.460 Yeah.

00:11:02.460 But also, if you pay close attention to the music that's behind it, and I think it would

00:11:05.460 be a good idea if we increase the volume for our videos.

00:11:09.460 If you pay close attention, this is the kind of music that people put in documentaries

00:11:14.460 when they want to show something childish.

00:11:17.460 So, he's trying to show the one person who says, well, I disagree with his policies and

00:11:22.460 he's putting very emotional music behind it.

00:11:25.460 And he's talking to this guy who says, yeah, I believe in traditional family.

00:11:29.460 I believe in traditional family values.

00:11:31.460 And the music behind it is just completely trying to frame this person as, you know,

00:11:37.460 someone of childish thinking.

00:11:38.460 Of course.

00:11:39.460 Very childish if you want the traditional family.

00:11:41.460 Of course.

00:11:42.460 Because the grown up adult thing to do would be to castrate your children as young as possible.

00:11:47.460 Correct?

00:11:48.460 Yeah.

00:11:49.460 That's what this man from the BBC wants.

00:11:51.460 So, we have here another part.

00:11:53.460 I'll show you.

00:11:54.460 There are two minutes here that are absolutely priceless because he's asking the politician,

00:12:01.460 can you please explain me ghetto laws?

00:12:03.460 And the whole thing is incredibly funny because he's asking him several questions

00:12:09.460 and he just doesn't shy away from telling me, yes, yes, yes.

00:12:12.460 Absolutely.

00:12:13.460 Yes.

00:12:14.460 Yes.

00:12:15.460 Yes.

00:12:16.460 Yes.

00:12:17.460 Yes.

00:12:18.460 Many of them are really tough questions from a UK perspective.

00:12:21.460 You wouldn't expect someone from here give such answers.

00:12:25.460 In fact, they would basically give the exact opposite answers.

00:12:28.460 So, let's watch this here.

00:12:30.460 He is asking him to explain ghetto laws.

00:12:32.460 Can you explain this ghetto law to me?

00:12:35.460 We started to see some areas where there were a lot of foreign people living

00:12:41.460 and the state of education was lower and more and more children didn't go to school.

00:12:47.460 And that was something we had to do something about.

00:12:50.460 But why focus on this phrase, non-Western?

00:12:55.460 Why that?

00:12:56.460 Because it sounds like it's targeted at, it sounds like it's targeted mainly at Muslims.

00:13:02.460 Yes, but true.

00:13:03.460 But it's not.

00:13:04.460 That's because of the culture we have in Denmark.

00:13:07.460 And that's about equality of gender, that's equality of education, welfare and all that.

00:13:15.460 Are you saying that non-Western people, people outside that definition have less awareness or understanding of those core values?

00:13:26.460 We can't accept that a girl growing up in a society in Denmark doesn't have the same rights as every other girl.

00:13:35.460 So you're saying this is an attempt to enforce and impose fundamental Danish values?

00:13:43.460 Yes, because we want everybody that lives here to have a good life.

00:13:48.460 But what you're talking about is painful for some people.

00:13:53.460 You are literally requiring people to move out of their homes.

00:13:58.460 You are creating a lot of trauma for some people.

00:14:01.460 I don't think you always can say trauma because not many are getting evicted.

00:14:08.460 I've met somebody who's crying at you because of what happened.

00:14:13.460 Yes, I know, I know.

00:14:14.460 If you have to have a society as ours, you have to be aware of what keeps us together than what's taking us apart.

00:14:28.460 And the thing that could take us apart is if people were living parallel to each other in restricted areas where there only were people of non-Western.

00:14:42.460 So basically, the journalist has an issue with the term non-Western.

00:14:46.460 And the politician, Thomas Monberg, tells him essentially, we are Danish, we want to be Danish.

00:14:52.460 If people come here, they should integrate, they should play by our rules.

00:14:56.460 That's simple as.

00:14:57.460 It seems pretty obvious to me.

00:14:59.460 If you want to come in and get a season ticket for Man United and you want to support Man United

00:15:04.460 and you want to come into the back of our club and shake hands with the Man United fans,

00:15:08.460 don't wear a City fan club. Don't wear a City hat and don't start chanting Manchester City on your hands and knees in the middle of the club.

00:15:16.460 I think the best part is that he's having to explain all of this to Mr. Journalist man like he's a child.

00:15:24.460 You can see the confusion on his face like, why isn't this getting through to you mate?

00:15:30.460 This is the simplest thing in the world.

00:15:32.460 What do you mean non-Western?

00:15:34.460 You can see the gears turning where he's like, because they're non-Western mate, what are you on about? 0.89

00:15:40.460 Is it that difficult?

00:15:42.460 He clearly isn't a professor in Oxford where these main people from BBC Oxford and Cambridge go,

00:15:48.460 where they have a question about non-Western is everybody in the world.

00:15:53.460 Yes.

00:15:54.460 That's it. We're all the same.

00:15:55.460 Sometimes people from universities have a tendency to fall victim to ridiculous notions.

00:16:03.460 But still, what he's really sincere about is that policy benefits some people and doesn't benefit some other people.

00:16:10.460 He's absolutely honest about this.

00:16:14.460 Whereas the BBC journalist is trying to somehow create the illusion that there aren't people who are crying on the other side.

00:16:21.460 People who are victims of this multiculturalist policies that sometimes manifest in ghettos being built,

00:16:28.460 but also they can manifest in rising crime and terrorism.

00:16:32.460 But he has a secret here, Harry.

00:16:35.460 He has a secret.

00:16:36.460 Really?

00:16:37.460 And he's asked, you know, we have these statistics.

00:16:40.460 Our government could never consider.

00:16:42.460 They could never comprehend.

00:16:43.460 You know, they need to be initiated into the internal circle of people.

00:16:49.460 Is he going to announce the secret to us now?

00:16:51.460 Yes.

00:16:52.460 This is the drum roll now.

00:16:54.460 He's going to tell us the basic thing of how this works

00:16:57.460 and how people in Denmark don't lose their trust in Danish democracy.

00:17:02.460 Okay.

00:17:03.460 Now, could that be an idea?

00:17:06.460 Could that be an issue of not turning their backs to the public?

00:17:09.460 I don't know.

00:17:10.460 I don't know.

00:17:11.460 Just maybe.

00:17:12.460 But he is citing some statistics, and I mean the journalist,

00:17:15.460 according to which non-Danish people are overrepresented in violent crime across several categories,

00:17:21.460 over six times relative to native Danish people.

00:17:25.460 Let's listen to what he says here.

00:17:27.460 Unlike other European states, the government here publishes controversial and worrying crime statistics.

00:17:35.460 They revealed men from some non-Western backgrounds are as much as six times more likely to commit violent crime than white Danes.

00:17:43.460 The facts horrified voters.

00:17:46.460 You release crime statistics showing the nation of origin of people convicted of violent offences.

00:17:56.460 Why have you been doing that?

00:17:58.460 That's because a lot of people were feeling this.

00:18:03.460 And if we want to solve ordinary people's problems, then we have to know which problems there are in society.

00:18:12.460 And there were a problem in society.

00:18:15.460 And these high amounts of crime rates reduces the trust or breaks the trust between people living in our country.

00:18:26.460 And that's very, very important for us.

00:18:28.460 The coalition here says by listening to the concerns of all voters on immigration, they maintain trust.

00:18:34.460 Immigration has been reduced.

00:18:36.460 Integration is required.

00:18:38.460 This enormous pulsating brain right now.

00:18:43.460 If you want people to trust you...

00:18:44.460 First at Oxbridge, I got a PhD.

00:18:46.460 I worked for the BBC.

00:18:47.460 And suddenly...

00:18:48.460 But suddenly...

00:18:49.460 ...listening to the people.

00:18:50.460 Fraser Nelson told me that democracy was pretending to listen to them and doing the complete opposite afterwards.

00:18:57.460 How can this be democracy?

00:18:58.460 That's why I did my PhD on in Oxford.

00:19:00.460 Don't listen to the people.

00:19:01.460 Just only listen to the BBC.

00:19:03.460 Just listen to the people.

00:19:05.460 Make some promises to address their concern.

00:19:09.460 Honour your promise.

00:19:10.460 And then magic.

00:19:12.460 They're not going to turn their back on you.

00:19:14.460 They're going to trust you.

00:19:16.460 I don't know.

00:19:17.460 I just couldn't figure that out.

00:19:19.460 Oh, I don't know.

00:19:20.460 I don't know.

00:19:21.460 He's like a child having everything, like basic concepts explained to him.

00:19:26.460 Where he's like, so you publish the statistics back.

00:19:30.460 Why do you do that?

00:19:31.460 Why are you telling the truth to your citizens?

00:19:34.460 Because people cared about it.

00:19:36.460 And now he's talking about...

00:19:37.460 And now he's going to talk about England and the UK.

00:19:41.460 And he is contradicting himself because simultaneously he says,

00:19:46.460 and I want you to focus on this especially when he's framing it,

00:19:49.460 he says we are a multicultural country,

00:19:53.460 but the politicians ignore people's concern about migration.

00:19:58.460 The way...

00:19:59.460 I think the way he frames it is just intention.

00:20:02.460 OK.

00:20:03.460 Let's just look at this clip.

00:20:05.460 They maintain trust.

00:20:06.460 That's the last clip.

00:20:07.460 Immigration's being reduced.

00:20:09.460 Integration is required.

00:20:11.460 Asylum's now seen as temporary,

00:20:13.460 rather than a route to permanent settlement.

00:20:15.460 I think sometimes in the UK there's been this feeling

00:20:18.460 that people want something difficult.

00:20:22.460 They want less immigration into the country, for example.

00:20:27.460 And a lot of our politicians haven't really liked that view.

00:20:31.460 And often they've kind of ignored what people want.

00:20:36.460 We've tended to believe as a country more in multiculturalism.

00:20:40.460 I sense in Denmark you don't really follow that path.

00:20:44.460 You believe more in a Danish way, in Danish values, in monoculturalism almost.

00:20:50.460 It depends on how you look at it.

00:20:52.460 Because if you look on it in a culture where you can practice your own beliefs,

00:21:01.460 that's a lot in Denmark.

00:21:03.460 But you have to agree it's in here that the laws in Denmark are made.

00:21:10.460 And it's the...

00:21:11.460 So basically just play by the laws and you're going to be OK.

00:21:14.460 How difficult is that going to be?

00:21:16.460 Listen to our culture, deal with it.

00:21:18.460 But it is, yes, exactly.

00:21:20.460 And there are several reports you can see about crimes.

00:21:25.460 You see here there is an article from the European Conservative.

00:21:30.460 The Statista website has reports on crime in Denmark.

00:21:39.460 But also the Danish Ministry of Justice had several reports.

00:21:44.460 You can just go in and just track.

00:21:46.460 But I'm going to give you some stats.

00:21:48.460 A report citing the Ministry of Justice numbers as of October 2024 indicates that non-Western migrants

00:21:54.460 who make up a smaller population percentage of the Danish population, around 8.4%,

00:22:00.460 account for a significantly higher proportion of aggravated violence, 14%,

00:22:05.460 and rapes, 24.3%, among convicted individuals.

00:22:09.460 Second-generation non-Western migrants, while making up an even smaller part of the population, 2.2%,

00:22:15.460 they are reported to be responsible for 15.6% of violent crimes and 8.1% of the rapes,

00:22:23.460 and combined perpetrators of a non-Western background.

00:22:26.460 Immigrants and descendants are stated to commit 29.6% of violent crimes and 32.4% of rapes, 1.00

00:22:34.460 despite representing only 10.6% of the population.

00:22:38.460 So almost a third of all of those crimes.

00:22:42.460 Yes. And I'll end this segment by mentioning the part where Simon Reeve talked about Sweden,

00:22:48.460 where he talked to a Somali second-generation migrant,

00:22:52.460 and she essentially said that all of this is economic.

00:22:56.460 She knows all about crime, but most people do it just for money.

00:23:02.460 So the message in a nutshell is we want more money.

00:23:06.460 Now, I think that this is one of the things that people should bear in mind,

00:23:10.460 because the releasing crime statistics by ethnicity and by nationality and by race and by everything

00:23:18.460 is not enough on its own, because there are all sorts of conflicting narratives that can be given of the data.

00:23:26.460 Some data, stress culture, as well as economic factors.

00:23:30.460 Other paradigms, especially leftist ones, are talking about purely economic reasons of it.

00:23:37.460 And essentially what they're saying, some groups are our political allies.

00:23:42.460 If they're overrepresented in crime, that is an economic issue.

00:23:46.460 So how are we going to address crime?

00:23:48.460 We're going to address crime by increasing taxation overall and giving more benefits to our allies,

00:23:56.460 while being very hostile against our political enemies.

00:24:01.460 I really think that this was a breath of fresh air, and I think that literally the Danish politician,

00:24:07.460 literally just, he's just talking to a five-year-old.

00:24:10.460 It was nice to hear him talk completely.

00:24:12.460 And when you point out things like this, what this is, 0.73

00:24:15.460 we're poor so we have to commit crime and murder each other.

00:24:19.460 That's blackmail, that's a threat.

00:24:21.460 Give us more money or we'll keep doing this.

00:24:23.460 And then you give them more money and they keep doing it anyway.

00:24:26.460 So I guess you just didn't give them enough money.

00:24:28.460 No, they'll keep doing it until you actually give them your nice house wherever they are 0.92

00:24:32.460 and then they'll kill you anyway. 0.99

00:24:34.460 Yeah. 0.97

00:24:35.460 I mean, that's the message of Clockwork Orange.

00:24:37.460 Yeah. 1.00

00:24:38.460 There we are, nice white liberal, comes in, brings in a complete lunatic who rapes and kills his wife. 0.99

00:24:43.460 And then it goes off years later, brings him out of prison, says, 1.00

00:24:47.460 I can rehabilitate him, and then he ends up killing him anyway.

00:24:50.460 So, you know, it's the same. 0.60

00:24:52.460 You just keep giving violent criminals and people who wish to kill for money and they'll still do it anyway.

00:24:59.460 So the only answer to that is lock them up or deport them or not let them in the first place. 0.91

00:25:04.460 And enforce the law.

00:25:06.460 Enforce the law.

00:25:07.460 And it doesn't matter what country you're from, really.

00:25:10.460 Indigenous people, people born in Britain when I was growing up, committed crime. 1.00

00:25:14.460 They should go away in prison for a long time.

00:25:16.460 I don't care whether you are committing any particular offense of a violent nature.

00:25:21.460 But here, to turn around and say, it's just for money purposes, give me more.

00:25:27.460 Otherwise, I'll continue doing it.

00:25:29.460 It's unacceptable.

00:25:30.460 Let's go to the comments.

00:25:32.460 Alex Adamson 55 says, can we see the comments section of this video?

00:25:35.460 I want to see what people think going off the like-dislike ratio.

00:25:39.460 I have a good feeling about the comments.

00:25:41.460 You can definitely go and check.

00:25:43.460 We have the links.

00:25:44.460 This one only has a thousand views on this one.

00:25:47.460 But they're all in favor of the Danish politician here.

00:25:50.460 And that is a random name.

00:25:52.460 Says, but this can be painful for some people.

00:25:55.460 You're creating a lot of trauma.

00:25:56.460 Then why are they here? 0.95

00:25:58.460 This journalist is such a weasel. 0.99

00:26:00.460 He should be deported along with his beloved migrants. 1.00

00:26:03.460 But also, what I find particularly egregious is that they constantly focus.

00:26:07.460 They have a very selective way of framing who is in pain.

00:26:11.460 Hmm.

00:26:12.460 And you were right as well with this particular clip.

00:26:14.460 The way he was being, as that's a random name said, a bit of a weasel.

00:26:19.460 In the middle of a sentence, he switches the framing talking about England, about how, well, yes, the people are concerned about immigration and want less of it.

00:26:27.460 But we in England, implying the people of England, are in favor of multiculturalism.

00:26:33.460 Well, those two seem to be contradicting statements there.

00:26:36.460 So either he doesn't understand in his own mind the contradiction or he's doing it on purpose.

00:26:41.460 Well, in his own mind, social cohesion is bad.

00:26:43.460 Well, true.

00:26:44.460 True.

00:26:45.460 That's pretty clear.

00:26:46.460 All right.

00:26:47.460 Let's move on to the next segment.

00:26:48.460 If you can get them up for me, please, Harry.

00:26:51.460 Also, I added a link to the Trivium here.

00:26:56.460 So can you admit that's how I felt after the drive in today with all the rain and the car accidents.

00:27:01.460 In the document, Harry.

00:27:02.460 In the document.

00:27:03.460 Right at the top of the document.

00:27:04.460 Right here.

00:27:05.460 Right here.

00:27:06.460 Highlighting it for you.

00:27:07.460 It's like I'm talking to my mischievous other personality, isn't it?

00:27:11.460 Harry, you can find it.

00:27:12.460 You can bring it up.

00:27:13.460 There we go.

00:27:14.460 There we go.

00:27:15.460 Harry versus Harry.

00:27:17.460 Can you add the, can you add it into the actual thing, please?

00:27:21.460 What have you done, Harry?

00:27:24.460 What have you done?

00:27:26.460 I'll just do it and then move back.

00:27:28.460 Oh, right.

00:27:29.460 Whatever.

00:27:30.460 Okay.

00:27:31.460 I'll just close this once it's done.

00:27:32.460 All right, then.

00:27:33.460 So, Zoomers, my brethren, why can't you read? 1.00

00:27:39.460 This is a very important question.

00:27:42.460 Over centuries, people have been reading for fun.

00:27:46.460 I know this may sound like somewhat of a novel concept.

00:27:49.460 Not sitting around on your phone.

00:27:51.460 Not doing whatever it is that you may do on your phone.

00:27:54.460 And instead sitting down with a good book.

00:27:56.460 And reading.

00:27:57.460 This seems to be very troublesome for some younger people.

00:28:00.460 And I wanted to investigate it.

00:28:02.460 But along with reading, you also can't write.

00:28:04.460 I see you down there typing away in your little comments.

00:28:08.460 You can't do writing properly.

00:28:10.460 You can't speak English properly.

00:28:11.460 So buy the Trivium.

00:28:13.460 And then maybe, maybe you'll be worthy of commenting on anything that I do.

00:28:18.460 375 pounds for the Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric courses.

00:28:22.460 Or, if you'd like to give us even more money, you can buy them all individually for 150 pounds each.

00:28:29.460 That's my preferred option because it is far more expensive.

00:28:33.460 Thank you very much.

00:28:34.460 Buy them now.

00:28:35.460 Anyway, so, this has been going around recently.

00:28:39.460 And it caused a bit of a wave where people were asking how accurate this was.

00:28:43.460 Was this person, Cairo Smith, never encountered them before.

00:28:47.460 So this is my first exposure to this particular account.

00:28:50.460 Saying that he'd spoken to a literary agent who told him that teens can't read third person omniscience anymore.

00:28:56.460 Now, this is unusual for me because whenever I've read fiction in the past, it's much more common to read books written from third person than from first person.

00:29:07.460 A lot of the fiction that I've enjoyed as a teenager, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, going back to my childhood, Harry Potter, the Song of Ice and Fire book series, and George R. R. Martin's other works, all tend to be written in varying degrees of third person.

00:29:23.460 Either omniscient or a third person that's more informed by the perspective of the character that you're following.

00:29:28.460 By the way, it's a very familiar mode of reading to me.

00:29:32.460 The only first person book that I can really think of, it's quite a unique one, that is really stuck in my mind, was the book L.A. Confidential that was turned into the 1990s film.

00:29:45.460 Never read the book.

00:29:46.460 The book's excellent.

00:29:47.460 It's written from first person perspective in very clipped short sentences that mirror 1950s slang to really get you into the mind of the characters.

00:29:56.460 That can be effective. But it just confused me to think that these, apparently, according to a literary agent, the younger people can't read in this style anymore,

00:30:05.460 which would of course encourage people going to literary agents and trying to get published to purely write in first person.

00:30:12.460 In the only book that I remember that was first person was American Psycho.

00:30:16.460 Oh yeah, but that's a very intentional one as well.

00:30:20.460 You also get people like Stephen King who write in third...

00:30:22.460 I just wondered whether it was a memoir.

00:30:24.460 Stephen King writes in third person, but he interjects the character's thoughts in there, so you get a little bit of first person as well.

00:30:32.460 But there's all sorts of different ways.

00:30:33.460 So to be able to cut yourself off from a huge swath of literature seems confusing to me.

00:30:39.460 And he'd posted about this before saying that young adults, of course teenagers, most of their literature they're going to be reading is probably going to be young adult fiction, YA fiction, whatever you want to call it.

00:30:52.460 Is that young adult?

00:30:54.460 Young adult. Yeah, it's like the Twilight books, the Hunger Games books, Harry Potter as well, things like that.

00:31:03.460 Apparently in the more recent stuff, and he got this little excerpt from a 2024 rainbow book list, which was, of course it was the gay book list.

00:31:13.460 Saying that it isn't even comparing books in the tagline anymore as inspirations, just movies.

00:31:19.460 So in this one, Abhida Jai-Girdar, author of one of Time's best young adult books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean's 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set on board the infamous ship.

00:31:34.460 Why don't you actually use literary sources to compare your literary fiction novel to, rather than films?

00:31:43.460 Well, I imagine it's because most of young people's cultural references these days come more from films than literature, because people sadly read less and less.

00:31:51.460 But again, all of this was just the word of this one person, so I decided to do a little bit of looking into it.

00:31:59.460 And then all of a sudden, afterwards, this hits the algorithm, and I come across this, which is somebody posting, saying that they find out that the book that they've been waiting to read for weeks is in third person, and they immediately abandon it.

00:32:12.460 Very strange. So, maybe there is something to this.

00:32:17.460 And then I found this from last year. Now, of course, I can't see the post that it's replying to, because the person it's replying to is a part of the castration committee, and has their posts protected.

00:32:29.460 But it seemed to be in response to BookTok, being book-focused TikTok, complaining about third person, whereas this person responding is saying third person's the best POV to write in, I don't know what BookTok is on about.

00:32:43.460 So, I found a thread to follow here, which is, it seems that a lot of this is coming from people posting on TikTok about how much they hate reading in third person.

00:32:53.460 So, I thought, is there any truth to this?

00:32:55.460 Is there something actually called BookTok?

00:32:57.460 It's a hashtag on TikTok.

00:32:58.460 It's a hashtag, it's not really...

00:32:59.460 I don't actually go on TikTok, I've just discovered a lot of this just today.

00:33:04.460 I'm just thinking an app there where people just...

00:33:05.460 Objectivities pour into them.

00:33:06.460 Yeah, where people just complain about thirst and third on an app, you know.

00:33:10.460 I wouldn't think there's a massive audience for that, but maybe I'm wrong.

00:33:14.460 So, I went on TikTok and the search function on TikTok, by the way, is abysmal.

00:33:19.460 I don't know how people find anything they're looking for on there, but I typed...

00:33:23.460 Scrolling down endlessly.

00:33:24.460 Yeah, clearly.

00:33:25.460 Four days later.

00:33:26.460 I did the hashtag BookTok and then typed in third person.

00:33:30.460 And I'm starting to sound like Dan when he's doing his boomer segments where he's explaining how he figured out how to Google things for the first time ever.

00:33:37.460 The first one that I found was this, where it was somebody who got, you know, 54,000 likes.

00:33:47.460 All of them are like innuenders.

00:33:49.460 Bragging, bragging about how they can read a book in third person.

00:33:54.460 As if it's some kind of achievement to be able to read a book that's not strictly from the character's perspective.

00:34:01.460 That has a level of descriptiveness to it outside of their mind.

00:34:05.460 Next to the one that's got 100,000 that said I could read my name.

00:34:09.460 That might be.

00:34:11.460 I've actually called Phil.

00:34:14.460 I think we need to react by talking about ourselves in the third person.

00:34:21.460 So, Harry, upon describing this to Stephen and Stelios, proceeded to show them this TikTok by clicking on the mouse.

00:34:30.460 Stephen turned to Harry and laughed.

00:34:33.460 Yeah.

00:34:34.460 So here you can see a selection of books that I've never heard of that I can assume are all written in the third person.

00:34:40.460 No, no, let's not go on to any more.

00:34:42.460 Thank you very much.

00:34:43.460 No, no.

00:34:44.460 And Stelios approved of the cream.

00:34:46.460 And then I found the ones that people must be reacting to in the first place, which is this one.

00:34:52.460 So here's one that's got almost 5,000 likes.

00:34:55.460 When you excited...

00:34:57.460 This is why you need the trivium, folks.

00:34:58.460 You can't write.

00:34:59.460 I'm just like...

00:35:00.460 She can't even... 1.00

00:35:01.460 Exited.

00:35:02.460 When you exited.

00:35:03.460 Can't even use the C in there.

00:35:04.460 Yeah.

00:35:05.460 When you excited...

00:35:06.460 Exited.

00:35:07.460 Yes, you're right.

00:35:08.460 About starting a new book, but realise it's in third person.

00:35:11.460 At least they figured out what an apostrophe is.

00:35:13.460 Yeah.

00:35:14.460 But it's in the third person.

00:35:15.460 Here we see her opening the book.

00:35:17.460 Never read in my life.

00:35:18.460 And she's gone to the backpack.

00:35:19.460 And I assume she's mirrored the image for some reason.

00:35:22.460 So she abandons it.

00:35:24.460 Who would make a video like that?

00:35:26.460 And why are people watching it?

00:35:27.460 Honestly, I just can't understand it.

00:35:29.460 I am confused by this somewhat because I'm like, is this...

00:35:31.460 Scrolling through time and time.

00:35:33.460 And I said, please don't do TikTok.

00:35:34.460 Please don't do this.

00:35:35.460 I mean, it's frazzling your brain.

00:35:37.460 I've got to the stage where I'm wondering, is there a way that I can connect a phone and just

00:35:40.460 have electric shocks every time she tries to scroll down.

00:35:43.460 So eventually it becomes a learned habit never to touch a phone on TikTok.

00:35:47.460 But I've...

00:35:48.460 Or is that cruel?

00:35:49.460 I do get confused thinking like, is this...

00:35:52.460 Is this people being ironic?

00:35:54.460 So I searched for a little bit more.

00:35:56.460 This one...

00:35:57.460 423...

00:35:58.460 Is this people.

00:36:00.460 Thousand...

00:36:02.460 Are...

00:36:03.460 Okay.

00:36:04.460 Thousand likes on this one.

00:36:07.460 Again, saying, excited she spelled it right...

00:36:10.460 She spelled it right.

00:36:11.460 To read my new book until...

00:36:13.460 And then she realises...

00:36:15.460 It's got pages.

00:36:16.460 It's...

00:36:17.460 It's in...

00:36:18.460 It's in third person.

00:36:20.460 So she just abandons it.

00:36:21.460 And again, the question is...

00:36:23.460 Can I go back on this?

00:36:25.460 God, I hate this platform.

00:36:26.460 The question was, is this ironic?

00:36:28.460 So I went to the replies to see if there was anything...

00:36:32.460 For God's sake.

00:36:34.460 Either way, I looked through the replies and there were dozens of heavily upvoted replies

00:36:41.460 saying, yeah, I can't stand when a book's in third person.

00:36:44.460 And it all seemed to be thoroughly sincere.

00:36:47.460 These people can't read in third person.

00:36:51.460 And there was another one.

00:36:54.460 Again, almost 4,000 likes.

00:36:56.460 And then she's just realised that, oh no, the latest series...

00:36:59.460 The latest book in this series is for some reason written in third person.

00:37:03.460 So therefore, I can't enjoy this anymore.

00:37:05.460 And there was another one.

00:37:09.460 And not only is this one in third person, it's got multiple POVs as well.

00:37:14.460 Which is even more confusing.

00:37:16.460 What, you mean there's not more than one character?

00:37:18.460 There's more than one character, I know.

00:37:20.460 That's very difficult to follow because it doesn't appeal to the narcissism, I assume, of these readers.

00:37:26.460 I, I, I, I...

00:37:27.460 I mean, it must be really difficult when you open a page and it has another letter in it.

00:37:31.460 You're making it sound very easy to write though.

00:37:33.460 So maybe that's one of the reasons they're so popular.

00:37:35.460 And of course, it wouldn't be TikTok without one of them complaining about how white all these books are.

00:37:42.460 White. 0.81

00:37:49.460 White. 0.81

00:37:50.460 All of them are white. 0.77

00:37:51.460 White. 0.86

00:37:52.460 White. 0.81

00:37:53.460 All of them are white. 0.77

00:37:54.460 White. 0.81

00:37:55.460 So you...

00:37:56.460 That was just, that was just what you expect from there.

00:37:59.460 Um, and again, I wanted to double check if this was all just being ironic.

00:38:05.460 So I found people on Reddit saying, is this a joke?

00:38:10.460 Is this a joke?

00:38:11.460 I scrolled through some of the replies and one person said that, uh, there is a subsection of TikTok book readers that vastly prefer first person.

00:38:19.460 I only heard about it because an author I followed talked about joining a group with some of these people.

00:38:24.460 And they literally kicked her out of the group because she said that she preferred third person and shifting perspectives. 0.92

00:38:30.460 So they're very protective over how retarded they are. 0.99

00:38:34.460 I just don't believe it. 0.93

00:38:37.460 It's just very strange.

00:38:40.460 I've got to admit when I, when I'm looking at this and I, I try to keep up with things, you know, in technology and well-advancing AI.

00:38:47.460 I taught myself how to use Adobe Illustrator and graphics.

00:38:51.460 And I keep going all, all these different ways of trying to keep myself up to date.

00:38:56.460 But I have to admit, when I'm looking at this and thinking, you don't read.

00:39:00.460 It's all about I, third person.

00:39:02.460 It starts to make me feel like I'm a boomer.

00:39:04.460 And then I actually like books.

00:39:06.460 I'm turning the page.

00:39:08.460 I wanted to see what these people were reading and what some of the best sellers were.

00:39:13.460 So I Googled, I think it was young adult fiction best sellers, 2024.

00:39:18.460 And it came up with a few results.

00:39:20.460 One of them was Waterstones, which is a, um, probably the biggest book retailer in the UK.

00:39:26.460 Their blog of the best books of 2024 for teen and young adults.

00:39:31.460 So I scrolled through some of this and I just checked out.

00:39:34.460 I just Googled the name of this one and what perspective it was written in.

00:39:38.460 This one, actually, I believe, was written in third person, as was this one.

00:39:43.460 The rest of them, though, as you go down, all in first person.

00:39:48.460 Also, you get ones where young adult fiction, YA fiction, is actually not as white as that girl wanted you to believe.

00:39:56.460 Because a lot of it is written by people like this Farida Abike.

00:40:02.460 That's not a very European name that I'm familiar with. 0.94

00:40:05.460 And a lot of it's also really gay, unsurprisingly. 0.95

00:40:09.460 Like Loverbirds, where it's a lesbian relationship. 1.00

00:40:12.460 And, uh, this Rani Chowdhury must die thing, where it looks pretty gay. 1.00

00:40:18.460 This looks pretty multicultural and gay as well. 0.99

00:40:22.460 The thread that connects us.

00:40:23.460 Yeah, so there is quite a bit of inclusivity and diversity.

00:40:25.460 All of them are like innuendos. The titles are innuendos.

00:40:28.460 You know when you wish you had unending amounts of money and, like, you wish you were a billionaire.

00:40:32.460 Oh, yes.

00:40:33.460 Not just the fact that you might actually be able to buy a house.

00:40:35.460 Yeah, I'd leave her.

00:40:36.460 That would be a good thing in today's world.

00:40:38.460 But, actually, the idea of being able to have a billionaire is because there's one company, one of the many companies that I would love to buy and just destroy.

00:40:46.460 And that is Waterstones.

00:40:48.460 I mean, I would really love to be able to buy up all of Waterstones, destroy the brand, destroy the image, destroy those, fire everybody in there, and actually get back to having some normal books.

00:40:59.460 Well, that's the thing.

00:41:00.460 Every time I go in there, can you ever find anything that's conservative or right-wing that's, occasionally there's one?

00:41:07.460 I mean, you can find some decent old classic philosophy from, like, Nietzsche.

00:41:12.460 Yeah, in the corner somewhere.

00:41:14.460 Typically, sometimes they'll stalk people like Roger Scruton.

00:41:20.460 I find his books sometimes.

00:41:22.460 Beyond that, the most conservative that you're going to get are old history books written by conservative men.

00:41:29.460 But this is an interesting one as well here.

00:41:32.460 This is the most inclusive and diverse that I've seen so far. 0.96

00:41:35.460 Lesbian romance between diverse woman and fat chick. 0.51

00:41:40.460 That's, we're reaching levels of inclusivity never before seen. 0.85

00:41:44.460 I assume that one of them doesn't think they're a boy or a girl either.

00:41:48.460 There was the other result that I got, which was the Goodreads website, reader's favourite young adult fiction.

00:41:54.460 This is another one.

00:41:55.460 The first one, this is one that I see promoted everywhere, which is Heartstopper, which is a graphic novel series, a gay graphic novel series, unsurprisingly. 0.97

00:42:04.460 And you don't just see this promoted in bookshops.

00:42:07.460 You go into other media shops like HMV about the place.

00:42:11.460 They'll have it front and centre, around the children's sections as well.

00:42:15.460 Exactly. I've seen this.

00:42:16.460 It's all about it.

00:42:17.460 When they had a gathering and an event for children, they had this book and books.

00:42:23.460 Yes.

00:42:24.460 Of the cinema calibre.

00:42:26.460 Then you get some repeats of some of the other ones around there, like this one by that non-European sounding woman. 0.79

00:42:33.460 And the funniest one, though, was that...

00:42:35.460 I know, I did the, you know, you remember the segment I did with the Welsh literature and gay art to Rihanna?

00:42:42.460 Oh wait, what?

00:42:43.460 That was one of it.

00:42:44.460 Gwen and Art are not in love.

00:42:46.460 Yeah.

00:42:47.460 By Lex Croucher.

00:42:48.460 Lex Croucher. 0.99

00:42:49.460 I just want to double check something about that person.

00:42:52.460 Lex Croucher is a...

00:42:53.460 Heartstopper meets a Knight's Tale.

00:42:54.460 Is a woman.

00:42:55.460 That's the other thing.

00:42:56.460 All of this stuff is written by women. 1.00

00:42:58.460 Can we see the description?

00:42:59.460 Oh, what, for this one?

00:43:01.460 Yeah.

00:43:02.460 Heartstopper meets a Knight's Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship

00:43:09.460 and being brave enough to change the course of history.

00:43:12.460 Yeah.

00:43:13.460 Written by an English woman.

00:43:14.460 You see, you have King Arthur and Lancelot there.

00:43:18.460 Just the joy I would also have in being able to put all these writers out of business.

00:43:23.460 Yes, I would not stock their books.

00:43:25.460 I just...

00:43:26.460 I wouldn't.

00:43:27.460 I mean, basically, if you want to do it, they can find some little corner shop next to a barber's.

00:43:31.460 But the funniest one that I found was that when I did my Google search, these were only

00:43:37.460 the second and third results that popped up.

00:43:39.460 The first was this little bar that comes up of Amazon Books that it recommends you under the search terms.

00:43:44.460 And the first one listed in that was this.

00:43:48.460 The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abby Darry, where you can- or Dare or whatever, where you can see the front cover, which just seems to be loud black girl, the novel.

00:44:00.460 Interesting.

00:44:01.460 Interesting.

00:44:02.460 Very interesting.

00:44:03.460 So no wonder people are reading less and less if this is the kind of selection that you have.

00:44:07.460 Especially given that so much of this is dedicated purely to, um...

00:44:12.460 Indoctrination.

00:44:13.460 Indoctrination, identitarianism regarding immutable, immutable progressive characteristics.

00:44:19.460 It's all incredibly self-obsessed.

00:44:21.460 The vast majority of it will be written into a first-person narrative perspective so that it will draw you into it.

00:44:28.460 And also because I would assume you putting yourself in the mind of that character when the whole message is progressive is going to be a more effective way of indoctrinating you as you read as well.

00:44:38.460 There was another theory that I saw regarding the original post though as well, which is of course changing demographics, where the younger people are going to be people who are made up of a greater diversity of groups.

00:44:53.460 Uh, so, this person said that, uh, half of the 25s being, uh, black or Latino, and I followed this up as well when I first saw this one by basically making the point of this skews all sorts of mass demographic or mass statistical analysis,

00:45:10.460 where you get headlines saying things like English jaws are getting smaller, English are getting shorter, getting more heart disease, getting fatter, um, becoming stupider, not reading as much, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:45:22.460 When the fact of the matter is that they will be massively skewed by people coming from different cultures who have different physical characteristics than the rest of us as well. 0.55

00:45:30.460 And you see this again, as I pointed out in my segment yesterday, uh, where everybody notices this, everybody points out that this is what's happening,

00:45:38.460 but they don't take it into account when they're looking at the more mass statistical analysis of these things.

00:45:45.460 Um, and also again, going back to the, uh, oh, young adult literature is more, is too white. 0.64

00:45:51.460 Actually, there is stuff that points out that young adult fiction is actually some of the most inclusive fiction as well.

00:46:01.460 And, uh, this I think is only a small part of it because...

00:46:05.460 Well, if you force a different culture and ideology upon the majority, then they're going to be have to have to read something and then either switch off or not.

00:46:14.460 Yeah.

00:46:15.460 And, but the other thing about this is the way that I see in schools.

00:46:18.460 And, um, my daughter was, uh, was talking about, you know, King Arthur.

00:46:23.460 And I've got a collection of old English books on King Arthur.

00:46:27.460 Oh, yes.

00:46:28.460 Including the old poetry and Mort d'Arthur, for example.

00:46:31.460 And I said, you know, are you talking about that?

00:46:33.460 And they went, no, it's a modern version.

00:46:36.460 And when I picked, I said...

00:46:38.460 A subverted, compromised version.

00:46:40.460 They weren't allowed to take the book out of school to bring it home or...

00:46:44.460 I wonder why.

00:46:45.460 I was saying, I would like to see it.

00:46:47.460 I would like to see what you're seeing about the history of King Arthur.

00:46:50.460 How about you take this book in at least 1722 that I own about this Mort d'Arthur and go and show your teacher.

00:46:56.460 You wouldn't be interested.

00:46:58.460 There you go.

00:46:59.460 Yeah. You know, you wouldn't be able to see the original written there about the stories of where it comes from.

00:47:04.460 But these kinds of narcissistic, self-absorbed, overtly progressive novels do seem to be very popular.

00:47:12.460 This article comes from 2023, but they pointed out that in the five years between 2018 and 2023, YA fiction print sales had increased by 50%.

00:47:22.460 Now, I find it difficult to believe bestseller lists and print book sales in the first place.

00:47:29.460 Mainly because you don't really get straight statistics for them.

00:47:35.460 Because a lot of them will count, say, being placed in libraries as book sales as well when you get these books into libraries.

00:47:42.460 I didn't know that.

00:47:44.460 You also find, like, the New York Times bestseller list is very shadowy with how they correlate what constitutes a bestseller.

00:47:56.460 They're not transparent at all with how they're determining how many sales books have made.

00:48:01.460 So it can be quite difficult to determine this.

00:48:04.460 But, either way, if that is the case that they are being more read than ever, that could also be part of this.

00:48:10.460 The fact that the books that are being marketed to young people are entirely written from the first person

00:48:16.460 and also kind of put you in a state of mind where you can only experience these stories in the first person

00:48:24.460 because they're entirely self-absorbed and self-obsessed.

00:48:27.460 They're to draw you into these characters' progressive struggles anyway.

00:48:32.460 In 2021, research by the Book Trust found that 11.7% of children's authors were people of colour,

00:48:40.460 which had risen from 5.6% in 2017. Combine that with how inclusive the stories in general tend to be on sexual characteristics and other things as well.

00:48:51.460 A great success for DEI and inclusivity.

00:48:56.460 And also, research found that 78%, now this is a concerning figure,

00:49:01.460 of over 18 buyers are purchasing YA books with the intention of reading them themselves.

00:49:08.460 So you're getting people who are over the target audience age who are reading these books for pleasure in the first place.

00:49:16.460 And this is more than just a worry about the ability of young people to read in a particular perspective,

00:49:22.460 whether that be first person or third person in the first place.

00:49:25.460 It also goes into the wider trend that we've been seeing for ages,

00:49:28.460 that people just aren't reading books anywhere near as much as they used to.

00:49:32.460 And some can't read books anywhere near as much as they used to.

00:49:37.460 Now this is data talking about Columbia University, along with a number of other universities in America,

00:49:44.460 where they're talking about, for instance, no comprehensive data exists on this trend,

00:49:48.460 but the majority of the 33 professors that this journalist, Rose Horowitz, spoke with,

00:49:54.460 relayed experiences where many discussed the change at faculty meetings and in conversations with fellow instructors.

00:50:00.460 Instructors Anthony Grafton, a Princeton historian, said his students arrive on campus with a narrower vocabulary

00:50:07.460 and less understanding of language than they used to have.

00:50:10.460 There are always students who read insightfully and easily and write beautifully, he said,

00:50:14.460 but now they are more exceptions than the rule.

00:50:17.460 Jack Chen, a Chinese literature professor at the University of Virginia,

00:50:22.460 finds his students shutting down when confronted with ideas they didn't understand.

00:50:27.460 They're less able to persist through a challenging text than they used to be.

00:50:30.460 Daniel Shaw, the chair of Georgetown's English department, told the journalist that his students have trouble staying focused on even a sonnet.

00:50:40.460 Failing to complete a 14-line poem without succumbing to distractions suggests one familiar explanation, as suggested by this journalist,

00:50:47.460 for the decline in reading aptitude, which would be smartphones distracting people.

00:50:51.460 I certainly think that that is going to be one factor.

00:50:53.460 I think the other factor with it affecting universities so much would be DEI practices.

00:50:59.460 Explicitly getting in students of a lower calibre purely to make up quota numbers.

00:51:07.460 I think that is clearly one of the reasons that isn't addressed in this as well.

00:51:11.460 I'm not being encouraged to read, but it does go to the kind of view that I've formed over the elite colleges that are pumping out the people going into the media, into politics, into business are thick.

00:51:23.460 Well, yes, that's clearly a problem.

00:51:26.460 And the people going into the universities are...

00:51:28.460 If you can't read a book and you're supposed to be Oxford and Cambridge and Columbia, then I would say, quite clearly, you're thick.

00:51:34.460 Well, and to draw it all the way back to the young adult fiction as well, one of the final paragraphs of this Atlantic article is quite indicative, saying that over and over the professors I spoke with painted a grim picture of young people's reading habits.

00:51:49.460 The historian Adrian Johns was one dissenter, but allowed...

00:51:52.460 My experience is a bit unusual because the University of Chicago is the last bastion of people who do read things.

00:51:58.460 So there is apparently one university where people still go to to learn and do the thing that they signed up for.

00:52:04.460 For years, Dames has asked his first students, Dames being one of the people that was interviewed for this, about their favourite book.

00:52:13.460 In the past, I cited books such as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, two books that I read as part of my A-level English course.

00:52:19.460 Now, he says, almost half of them cite young adult books. Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series seems to be a particular favourite.

00:52:29.460 So that is the kind of calibre of books that people are going to. They're not going to the classics. They're not going to more cultured literature.

00:52:36.460 They're reading self-absorbed, narcissistic bog roll. 0.97

00:52:41.460 Yeah, what I say is you stick them in the toilet so that you can read them whilst you're...

00:52:46.460 You know, because you used to have newspapers.

00:52:48.460 I mean, if you sit there reading on the toilet in the newspaper, I'd give them these books.

00:52:51.460 If you are taught to hate your culture, yes, standards are going to go down.

00:52:55.460 Yeah.

00:52:56.460 As simple as that.

00:52:57.460 There you go. So I think I've presented a few reasons why, if it is entirely true,

00:53:01.460 and I think there is some evidence that at least a subsection of younger people cannot read in the third-person omniscient perspective anymore.

00:53:09.460 I think that I've presented some of the reasons why that is.

00:53:13.460 Right. Ricky Oli says, no one reads those books.

00:53:18.460 Only a handful of tradbath authors even get read by more than 50 people.

00:53:23.460 The entire industry is a joke.

00:53:25.460 Oh, certainly.

00:53:26.460 Ficked Ages says, these people suffer from main character syndrome.

00:53:30.460 Yep. 0.96

00:53:31.460 That's a random name says, these mad bloods, that's from Harry Potter, are protected of how retarded they are. 0.99

00:53:37.460 They can't even read in third-person Draco, said Harry Weasley. 0.87

00:53:40.460 See, at least there's somebody who's read a book, is able to make an analysis, change it around, and uses intelligence.

00:53:47.460 I like that as a response.

00:53:48.460 Alex Adamson, 55, so many great books are third-person.

00:53:52.460 Like the Sharp novels, nudge nudge Harry, nudge nudge, where's my review of Sharp? God damn it, I've almost finished the whole series. 0.70

00:53:59.460 Listen man, I've got other things that I'm working on at the same time. I will get around to reading them. 0.99

00:54:05.460 Guys, why are the comments going up and down?

00:54:07.460 That's because I was scrolling.

00:54:08.460 Okay, sorry.

00:54:09.460 And we've got one more from Alex Adamson again saying, now that I've had a think about it, there are some good first-person perspective books, and those are the Warhammer 40k Kyphos Kane books.

00:54:19.460 That's a pretty damn good read. I still have not read any Warhammer books, but I'll take your word for it.

00:54:24.460 Okay.

00:54:27.460 Apologies.

00:54:30.460 My allergies are terrible.

00:54:33.460 Well, I don't really know where to go after this because it's, you know, we've got onto this, the CNN status.

00:54:43.460 No, no, we should be on CNN first, I think.

00:54:47.460 That's not the CNN status one.

00:54:50.460 I think the third one says CNN.

00:54:52.460 There we are.

00:54:53.460 Okay.

00:54:55.460 Right, I'm going to turn my glasses off because it's easier to read the glasses on there, which are short-term, rather than looking at the videos.

00:55:01.460 So what we've got is that last night, Trump was at it again with another executive order.

00:55:08.460 I love this man for the way that he just turns around and goes, I'm going to do some analysis.

00:55:13.460 And he comes out and goes, right, here we go.

00:55:16.460 I'm going to issue a ban on several countries across the globe.

00:55:21.460 No one from that country is going to get a visa.

00:55:25.460 No one is allowed to come into that country. 1.00

00:55:28.460 And then he gives a second tier where some of you might be allowed to come into this country. 0.80

00:55:34.460 And some of you may get visas, if I feel like it, tomorrow morning, if I've got a nice good breakfast.

00:55:41.460 Or you might just change your rules.

00:55:43.460 But I just love the fact that what he's done again is having gone for all two, his first term, where he got hammered consistently, right, up to about 2017, about what was called the global Muslim ban, where he just said all these countries, you Muslims, you can't come in.

00:55:58.460 I can't come in. He's kind of learned from that and said, we're coming back in once more and we're going to start it all over again.

00:56:08.460 And so what you've got here is this is how he frames it last night.

00:56:12.460 We don't want them.

00:56:15.460 It's a brilliant line within it.

00:56:16.460 So here he is giving the executive order.

00:56:19.460 I let the people listen to it.

00:56:20.460 Some of it may already have listened to it.

00:56:22.460 Others not.

00:56:23.460 But I just think he's he's pretty emphatic and he's quite dominant in this.

00:56:28.460 And it's really interesting the way he just stares at camera and says, we don't want them.

00:56:33.460 The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas. 1.00

00:56:50.460 We don't want them.

00:56:51.460 In the 21st century, we've seen one terror attack after another carried out by foreign visa overstayers from dangerous places all over the world. 1.00

00:57:01.460 And thanks to Biden's open door policies today, there are millions and millions of these illegals who should not be in our country. 1.00

00:57:10.460 In my first term, my powerful travel restrictions were one of our most successful policies, and they were a key part of preventing major foreign terror attacks on American soil.

00:57:22.460 We will not let what happened in Europe happen to America.

00:57:26.460 That's why on my first day back in office, I directed the secretary of state to perform.

00:57:32.460 I'm going to stop there because I want to carry on a little bit.

00:57:34.460 I mean, I just want to look at that.

00:57:36.460 First, he's making reference back to 2017.

00:57:39.460 Look, guys, we didn't have any terrorist attacks in the way that Europe has got it.

00:57:43.460 We're not going to let what happened in Europe.

00:57:45.460 And why is Europe doing that?

00:57:46.460 Because you're just allowing millions and millions of terrorists come into your country.

00:57:51.460 Now, not everybody who comes from a foreign country is a terrorist.

00:57:54.460 We know that.

00:57:55.460 It is a minority.

00:57:56.460 But the point at issue is, he's making it very clear.

00:57:59.460 We're not going to allow the kind of policies that we have in Europe to come here.

00:58:04.460 And do we think that is sensible?

00:58:07.460 Yeah.

00:58:08.460 Absolutely.

00:58:09.460 I mean, just...

00:58:10.460 Reducing crime, yeah, it's sensible.

00:58:12.460 Yeah.

00:58:13.460 Not allowing terrorist acts seems good enough.

00:58:16.460 Was it a trap question?

00:58:18.460 Simon Reeves of the BBC.

00:58:19.460 No, I was just trying to get the reactionist to turn around and say...

00:58:22.460 Simon Reeves of the BBC might have some strong questions about that, Stelios.

00:58:26.460 Why do you think that there might be terrorist actions in your country from foreign countries?

00:58:30.460 Because they are just doing that.

00:58:33.460 Now, and so I think it's really interesting that the way he looks at this.

00:58:37.460 He references Europe.

00:58:38.460 He references the past.

00:58:40.460 But he also references the recent terror attack where they had someone who overstayed their visa

00:58:47.460 and then tried to petrol bomb a whole load of Jews who were having a demonstration,

00:58:53.460 really a kind of reminiscence of what Hamas was doing into their country.

00:58:57.460 And then we find out that his wife and his family were also overstayers on a tourist visa.

00:59:04.460 Now, I haven't got the clips of it, but some of your audience may pick it up,

00:59:08.460 but ICE were at their doors last night.

00:59:10.460 That's the organisation that removes people and deports them in America. 0.91

00:59:14.460 They were at the door last night and they were already putting them on a plane.

00:59:17.460 Just off you go. 0.96

00:59:19.460 Your husband was a terrorist, love.

00:59:21.460 I'm sorry, you might have been overstaying your visa here to come on holiday or study,

00:59:25.460 but all of you are going.

00:59:27.460 So he's sending out a very powerful message about deportations in removing people

00:59:33.460 and that he's going to enhance his game even more strongly than it has been in the past.

00:59:38.460 And then he goes on to hear.

00:59:40.460 Form a security review of high risk regions and make recommendations for where restrictions should be imposed.

00:59:49.460 Among the national security threats, their analysis considered are the large scale presence of terrorists,

00:59:56.460 failure to cooperate on visa security, inability to verify travellers identities,

01:00:03.460 inadequate record keeping of criminal histories and persistently high rates of illegal visa overstays and other things.

01:00:13.460 Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States. 0.99

01:00:24.460 That is why today I am signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya and numerous others.

01:00:38.460 The strength of the restrictions we're applying depends on the severity of the threat posed.

01:00:44.460 The list is subject to revision based on whether material improvements are made.

01:00:50.460 And likewise, new countries can be added as threats emerge around the world.

01:00:55.460 But we will not allow people to enter our country who wish to do us harm. 1.00

01:01:01.460 And nothing will stop us from keeping America safe.

01:01:05.460 Thank you very much.

01:01:07.460 So this is sending out a total message to the liberal left in his country and also into Europe.

01:01:14.460 You've got not only a man in charge that's turned around and are going to defend the borders in the south.

01:01:19.460 I'm not only going to increase deportation.

01:01:21.460 I'm going to look at you as countries across the globe and say, you too are failing.

01:01:26.460 And he lists completely what they're doing.

01:01:29.460 You're sending people. 0.59

01:01:30.460 You're not doing visa checks.

01:01:32.460 We don't know what you're coming.

01:01:33.460 You're not linking in with ourselves.

01:01:35.460 So we don't know who you're sending over to us.

01:01:37.460 It also follows on from this.

01:01:39.460 He also attacked the universities and said he's restricting the numbers of people from those countries also coming to universities in Harvard and Yale and Columbia and others.

01:01:48.460 So he's making a very, very clear determination.

01:01:51.460 It's not just our policies over here.

01:01:52.460 We're now addressing your policies.

01:01:55.460 You get your systems up to place.

01:01:57.460 You prove that your systems work.

01:01:59.460 And if you can, then we might look at allowing you to come into this country at all. 1.00

01:02:05.460 But there's also a very clever part that we're considering on that.

01:02:09.460 I have a question on this because it sounded like maybe a completely misunderstood, but maybe it sounded like you are describing it as Trump signing that executive order and issuing it in order to address the policies of these countries.

01:02:25.460 Whereas, in fact, it seems more like, you know, he's trying to exercise political pressure.

01:02:31.460 He's doing both.

01:02:32.460 I mean, quite frankly, he is actually exerting political pressure here in the UK, but also onto those countries by saying to them, look, here is our country.

01:02:39.460 Here is our border.

01:02:40.460 When we ask you to give us visa details about them, you're not giving it.

01:02:44.460 And you're actually allowing people through that we think are terrorists or willing to overstay.

01:02:49.460 And he's saying that's a very interesting point for people.

01:02:52.460 Overstaying, I think, is the next question that this government and the United States is going to go for.

01:02:59.460 And considering we have about a million people overstaying in the UK, I wish we could do exactly the same.

01:03:04.460 So I think he's lining that up.

01:03:06.460 So just to get on the same page, the implication of what you're saying is that he will escalate and say that unless, for instance, European countries, you control your borders.

01:03:17.460 I'm going to probably introduce a travel ban because I don't want people who aren't allowed to fly directly into the US, fly indirectly via, let's say. 1.00

01:03:31.460 You know, you're picking up at a very interesting point on that.

01:03:33.460 Europe.

01:03:34.460 And I think at the moment he's just saying this message out to those 12 countries and the others.

01:03:39.460 And I think I've got them listed up there a little bit earlier.

01:03:43.460 Maybe I've got these the right.

01:03:44.460 Just do it with passports.

01:03:45.460 Yeah.

01:03:46.460 Yeah.

01:03:47.460 So I'm just saying entry of immigrants and non-immigrants banned from 12 countries. 1.00

01:03:51.460 So he's basically saying, look here to the left in this country, I'm now having effective deportation and restriction policies in place.

01:03:59.460 The clever point that I think picking out on that is he's learned from 2017 and some of the court cases that are going through in America at the moment.

01:04:09.460 Remember, they're challenging him on the individuals being deported to Venezuela.

01:04:12.460 On this occasion, he said, we've done a complete security check.

01:04:16.460 I sent out for a review.

01:04:18.460 I got the security teams and national security teams to list areas of where we're concerned.

01:04:24.460 And that's why he put them in a category one after another.

01:04:27.460 They're also demanding that the courts.

01:04:30.460 You said I've done this unilaterally.

01:04:32.460 I haven't.

01:04:33.460 I've addressed certain specific countries.

01:04:35.460 And I've classed it as this, restricting the entry to protect the United States from foreign terrorists and other national security and public safety threats as well. 0.81

01:04:47.460 And this is not me.

01:04:48.460 This is an organization that's independent of me, done this review.

01:04:53.460 So he's setting up very cleverly in executive order a number of changes.

01:04:57.460 One, the courts.

01:04:58.460 Here are some reasons.

01:04:59.460 Come on now.

01:05:00.460 Challenge me if you wish.

01:05:02.460 To the left, challenge me over what I'm doing.

01:05:06.460 It's a security issue.

01:05:07.460 And to these countries, change your ways.

01:05:10.460 And also, as you pointed out, I think some political pressure on it.

01:05:14.460 So what I did is also, which I think is particularly clever, is pulled out from you what the White House has also said on this.

01:05:23.460 So I'm going to see if this works.

01:05:26.460 Rather than read through all of it, I just want to pick up, this is actually the restriction sheet that's been provided by the White House.

01:05:34.460 So everybody can go online and have a look and see exactly what he's doing.

01:05:38.460 He's putting out the executive order.

01:05:40.460 He's cleverly using the Supreme Court in Trump and Hawaii to say to the courts, here we go, we've got some legal precedent.

01:05:47.460 Because he knows.

01:05:48.460 What do we know?

01:05:49.460 Who's going to come next?

01:05:51.460 It's the left, the liberals, the unions, the NCAL, who are all going to go to the courts and say, let's challenge him now for being wrong on this.

01:06:01.460 It restricts the entry.

01:06:02.460 So he's setting it out.

01:06:04.460 Here's the national security issues at the bottom, securing our border and interests.

01:06:09.460 He wants to get another great phrase in there, make America safe again.

01:06:14.460 So I'm waiting for the MASA hats.

01:06:18.460 You know, don't want to say too much about MASA, to be honest, because it might have repercussions back to the old cotton things. 1.00

01:06:26.460 You know, I'm sure someone's going to pick up on that.

01:06:28.460 You should lean into it.

01:06:29.460 Lean into it.

01:06:30.460 Yeah, lean, go straight in.

01:06:31.460 So he's making it very clear.

01:06:33.460 And here he's now also doing a special justification for each country as well.

01:06:38.460 I think the problem with that is he's trying to protect himself from the courts.

01:06:42.460 So in Afghanistan, he says the Taliban controls Afghanistan and lets people just get out of the country.

01:06:49.460 And this is where I think it's a clever point from him.

01:06:52.460 He could start using this against Europe by allowing people to say they're escaping Afghanistan to go into Europe and then they want to come and travel to the United States. 0.63

01:07:02.460 I mean, there would be terrible repercussions on it, if not just economical ones.

01:07:07.460 Yeah.

01:07:08.460 Why wouldn't they just localize it and speak about passports rather than just saying a flat out travel ban from Europe to the US?

01:07:19.460 No, I don't think he can do that at the moment.

01:07:22.460 It seems ridiculous.

01:07:23.460 I think that would be difficult.

01:07:25.460 So he goes all through the different countries and I want to say Somalia, Sudan.

01:07:29.460 He's got Sierra Leone in there, which is really interesting because I met the Sierra Leone president who's currently in there.

01:07:37.460 Cleverley is a really good friend of his family of Sierra Leone based.

01:07:44.460 So he goes over there fairly regularly.

01:07:46.460 So I'm intrigued to see why Sierra Leone is on that list when it's supposed to be an ally of kind of Western Europe in the bulk against Russia and China.

01:07:56.460 But he's put them on the list.

01:07:57.460 And I think that comes to your political pressure point.

01:08:00.460 Listen, Sierra Leone, too many of you have been allowed to allow China in. 0.99

01:08:05.460 For example, we had an American port that we wanted to have in the capital.

01:08:10.460 You came in straight away, cancelled that port and gave it over to the Chinese. 1.00

01:08:16.460 Well, and the Chinese are now being able to build it. 0.94

01:08:19.460 Well, to be fair, I read both the conditions.

01:08:21.460 The Chinese were giving them a hell of a lot more roads, infrastructure through the country from where all the assets and gold and materials that would come up to the port.

01:08:32.460 So the Chinese are actually giving them for a lot less, a lot more.

01:08:35.460 So if you were a pure business person, I could understand why Sierra Leone went in.

01:08:39.460 But they are now being seen as too close to China.

01:08:42.460 So I think Sierra Leone is well on that.

01:08:44.460 Togo, similar sort of thing.

01:08:46.460 They're falling within the kind of remit of Russia.

01:08:49.460 So I think they're also being targeted for that.

01:08:52.460 Turkmenistan I found also slightly interesting because that's one of the places that Tony Blair has been cultivating for quite a long time.

01:09:01.460 And that's part of the long term war against Russia.

01:09:04.460 Turkmenistan is an important place for them.

01:09:06.460 So I suspect this is about political pressure in there too.

01:09:13.460 So what I've got here is I'm going to go try and go that he's learned from that because I think some of the White House issued a fact sheet.

01:09:23.460 But one of the countries, if you look on there, who is not on it, on that list, when he talks about terrorism, I find it interesting, is this, Pakistan.

01:09:37.460 He's not put Pakistan on the list, yet they're the biggest exporter of terrorism, some would say that, between them and Saudi Arabia.

01:09:44.460 Because a lot of people like those are involved in the big terrorist organizations.

01:09:49.460 I think the danger of that is if he did so, then he'd be capturing a lot of the people in Syria who are all very nasty terrorists,

01:09:56.460 who are now being lauded as leaders of a free country in Syria as they go off murdering Christians. 0.97

01:10:02.460 But didn't Trump also meet Julani, the leader of the Syrian interim government, and actually praise him?

01:10:08.460 Yeah, that's my point.

01:10:09.460 Yes. 0.96

01:10:10.460 So Syria, very clearly, has a huge number of nasty terrorists in there. 0.97

01:10:15.460 They're carrying out terrorist actions on Christians throughout the country. 0.63

01:10:18.460 But Macron's had him over.

01:10:20.460 The Americans have had him over. 0.99

01:10:22.460 And that's because, basically, the CIA helped fund them, along with Turkey, in order to get rid of the Russian supporters who were in charge.

01:10:31.460 And now they're one of us.

01:10:32.460 It doesn't matter what sort of level of terrorism you've done.

01:10:35.460 But if we did go through Pakistan and you did ban Saudi Arabians, these people would also be suddenly caught within that net.

01:10:42.460 There could be other reasons why Pakistan is not there.

01:10:45.460 And maybe others can bring out the particular views of why are we not banning Pakistanis who are involved in that, particularly in the northern connections to Afghanistan.

01:10:53.460 So politically, I think there is another game that's being played on that once more might be down to the issue of more global politics and where they want to go.

01:11:06.460 So, obviously, we get the reactions.

01:11:09.460 What do we think the reactions might be?

01:11:11.460 Warmth?

01:11:12.460 Generosity?

01:11:13.460 Kindness?

01:11:14.460 Screeching?

01:11:15.460 Oh, and the first one is... 0.92

01:11:17.460 Happy to destroy the Middle East and rape its resources, but not so happy to take the refugees or those seeking a better life. 1.00

01:11:25.460 Well, America is so fucked. 1.00

01:11:29.460 Really? 1.00

01:11:30.460 I'm not sure.

01:11:31.460 I think the countries that they leave are pretty much that.

01:11:35.460 But why should they have to accept people who are seeking a better life?

01:11:39.460 That's the question.

01:11:40.460 Do we have to?

01:11:42.460 Do we have to take in refugees? 1.00

01:11:44.460 Actually, you do because of the UN Refugee Convention.

01:11:47.460 But the whole point about it is he's not turning around and taking refugees.

01:11:50.460 He's making sure that these people are safe and secure first.

01:11:54.460 So this is not a refugee issue.

01:11:56.460 So the first one is you've been bombing the Middle East and others. 0.98

01:12:00.460 You should take them.

01:12:02.460 Your obvious response is if you're bombing, you should take the whole world in there because of all the wars that you've had.

01:12:08.460 Then America would be pretty full.

01:12:10.460 If you're trying to exercise...

01:12:12.460 I mean, I think basically empire goes with a kind of multiculturalism together because if you try to exercise global influence, you will need allies.

01:12:21.460 And you will sometimes pressure them, but also sometimes try to make concessions to them.

01:12:27.460 And migration flows maybe one such concession.

01:12:31.460 Well, I think that's what we've obviously adopted.

01:12:34.460 But as we're seeing now with economics, cultural changes, terrorism, people are now beginning to have a different view, as we saw in Denmark.

01:12:41.460 You know, the lack of integration there, the rising criminality.

01:12:45.460 So countries now need to be able to look at whether they're globalized links with those nations and having some sort of connectivity with them, making them an ally.

01:12:54.460 Do we necessarily have to bring in so many from that country from one route or another, whether it's determined from students, whether it goes all the way to asylum seekers?

01:13:03.460 Policies now need to be made in the interests of the people that live in your country.

01:13:09.460 And I think America's making it very clear.

01:13:11.460 Clearly, you've got another.

01:13:13.460 My family is impacted.

01:13:15.460 They can't come to the wedding.

01:13:17.460 I mean, obviously, to be fair, this is, he's saying it's nothing to do with anti-Semitism.

01:13:23.460 No, it's about security.

01:13:25.460 It's about a change in policy of the United States.

01:13:27.460 And there will be some negative impacts.

01:13:29.460 Maybe people can't come to the wedding.

01:13:31.460 But I'm sure Holiday and Tories, he's clearly saying, what country is Daniela from there?

01:13:37.460 Is she Afghan? 0.52

01:13:38.460 Is she from Yemen?

01:13:39.460 I don't know.

01:13:40.460 It doesn't traditionally seem to me like an Afghan name, Daniela, but maybe that's a pseudonym.

01:13:46.460 I don't know.

01:13:47.460 And the third kind of category is, yeah, great idea, fascists.

01:13:52.460 Clearly, the fascist argument has come out. 0.67

01:13:54.460 I mean, you can't have anything from Trump without him being called a fascist.

01:13:59.460 So I would be surprised not to see them.

01:14:02.460 And of course, we won't be surprised to see a Democrat come out and do the same.

01:14:09.460 Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman of New York.

01:14:12.460 And it's great to have you here, sir.

01:14:13.460 I do want to ask you about the Autopad and what is happening here at the White House.

01:14:17.460 But before that, the other executive action that President Trump took tonight, banning

01:14:21.460 travel from these 12 nations, restricting it partially from seven others.

01:14:26.460 What is your reaction to that move from the White House tonight?

01:14:28.460 I mean, it's pretty consistent with what his quote unquote immigration policy is, which

01:14:33.460 is just essentially to keep anyone who's not white out of the country. 0.98

01:14:38.460 And that's what he's trying to do with these mass deportations of people who are going through

01:14:43.460 the asylum process, which is a lawful pathway.

01:14:46.460 That's now what he's trying to do in targeting these specific countries.

01:14:51.460 And so it's a combination of this effort to to push forward with this great replacement theory,

01:14:58.460 as well as just to distract from what's really going on, which is a revolt against his terrible

01:15:07.460 reconciliation bill that cuts taxes for.

01:15:10.460 Right. I'm going to come into that.

01:15:12.460 So sorry.

01:15:13.460 No, it's just irrelevant stuff here and there.

01:15:15.460 Yeah, absolutely.

01:15:16.460 I mean, we come and it's the great replacement theory that that doesn't kind of exist. 0.75

01:15:20.460 And he's obviously racist because it's only about stopping white people, black people 0.98

01:15:26.460 from coming into the country. 0.99

01:15:28.460 So it feeds into the narrative.

01:15:30.460 And I think it's quite interesting.

01:15:32.460 This is a nice little phrase.

01:15:34.460 It's all the same BS they spewed for the last 10 years.

01:15:37.460 But if it's so great, why is the country so so it should be so brilliant?

01:15:43.460 It should be lording.

01:15:44.460 It should be a wonderful Nirvana if you've had so much immigration coming into that country. 0.93

01:15:49.460 And then you've just touched on it there, just right at the end.

01:15:54.460 Let's throw something else in.

01:15:55.460 The reason he's done a travel ban is nothing to do about security.

01:15:59.460 It's nothing to do about terrorism.

01:16:01.460 It's nothing to do about people throwing petrol bombs over Jews.

01:16:04.460 No, it's about hiding the fact that the richest people in America can get a $270,000 tax cut.

01:16:14.460 Well, I'm not even going to play this because it was just so banal when you listened to him.

01:16:18.460 I think even the way just looking at the eyes and the face will tell you everything about this man and his ideology that it's just he's trying to hide the bill that we talked about yesterday.

01:16:28.460 I don't think the level of nonsense on that.

01:16:31.460 But it's not all bad news for people.

01:16:33.460 I mean, here in India, across the globe, India fairly okay about it, blocking travel from several high-risk countries over terrorism concerns, visa abuse, and the lack of security cooperation.

01:16:46.460 That's the Indian Hindustan Herald, and I thought to myself, okay, that seems pretty reasonable way of assessing that, because that's exactly what he's saying.

01:16:55.460 I don't see an issue with it.

01:16:58.460 Then we have DW News, Germans, though. 1.00

01:17:02.460 The new travel ban targeting several Venezuelan interior minister, though.

01:17:08.460 He goes crying.

01:17:10.460 I thought I had the clip here, unfortunately.

01:17:13.460 It was really funny.

01:17:15.460 It shows the video.

01:17:17.460 Is that not the clip right?

01:17:18.460 Oh, this, it is there.

01:17:19.460 Yeah, just, this is the man.

01:17:21.460 Just, I think it's quite amazing.

01:17:23.460 Whining, crying.

01:17:24.460 Yeah, here he is.

01:17:25.460 For the United States.

01:17:28.460 In fact, being in the United States is a big risk for any person, not only for the Venezuelans. 1.00

01:17:35.460 He's right.

01:17:36.460 If you're good for Jugo, go to the United States.

01:17:38.460 Those who govern the United States are bad people. 0.99

01:17:41.460 It's the fascist. 1.00

01:17:43.460 So, America, you've got to be stupid to go there. 1.00

01:17:47.460 So why are so many Venezuelans escaping your country to go there? 1.00

01:17:51.460 I'm sure it's all...

01:17:53.460 This is a fair point.

01:17:54.460 What you should do, if you don't want them going to a fascist country, then don't let them go to the fascist country.

01:17:58.460 That makes the most sense to me.

01:18:01.460 There you go.

01:18:02.460 If you're so worried about the wellbeing of your people going to America, best recommend they don't go there.

01:18:06.460 But maybe their economy is so great and it's fascist US that creates this false propaganda that Venezuela has a problem with its economy.

01:18:15.460 Yeah.

01:18:16.460 I mean, it is.

01:18:17.460 Maybe.

01:18:18.460 I know that recently some friends had to be...

01:18:21.460 Their plane developed some kind of problem as they're going across the Caribbean.

01:18:27.460 A speech impediment.

01:18:28.460 Yeah, and they had to land in Venezuela to have it repaired.

01:18:32.460 Oh dear.

01:18:33.460 And they had to spend a night in a hotel.

01:18:35.460 And literally, they were guarded by police to the hotel and told not to leave the hotel in the morning.

01:18:42.460 Because obviously, Venezuela is clearly a safe, culturally accepting place for people who are wealthy from other areas of the world or deemed to be wealthy because they live in those other parts of the world.

01:18:53.460 It only makes the most sense.

01:18:55.460 Yeah.

01:18:56.460 So otherwise, if it was such a place where there wasn't some form of fascism, which that is about, they would have been able to go around Venezuela in the evening.

01:19:04.460 But I just like the people laughing. 0.99

01:19:06.460 You're foolish then go to the United States. 0.99

01:19:09.460 And then we have this last one, which is... 0.99

01:19:12.460 I just thought it was quite...

01:19:13.460 I'll show this quickly.

01:19:15.460 This is Bannon who always says he never fails to provide some sense of humour against Cuomo.

01:19:21.460 I don't know whether you say...

01:19:22.460 Is it Cuomo?

01:19:23.460 Cuomo.

01:19:24.460 It is Cuomo.

01:19:25.460 Yes.

01:19:26.460 With like a Q-U. 0.99

01:19:27.460 Cuomo.

01:19:28.460 A little bit, yeah.

01:19:29.460 Cuomo.

01:19:30.460 Cuomo.

01:19:31.460 Chris Cuomo.

01:19:32.460 Almost could be like an advert.

01:19:34.460 Chris Cuomo takes on...

01:19:36.460 Bannon.

01:19:37.460 He's just a very Italian-American looking fellow, isn't he?

01:19:40.460 All right.

01:19:41.460 Well, I'm going to have to listen because Stephen Bannon goes on on this and I...

01:19:46.460 I'm glad you're a convert, but you're converting to one of MAIA's top parties.

01:19:52.460 I'm no convert.

01:19:53.460 I'm no convert.

01:19:54.460 I'm no convert.

01:19:55.460 I'm no convert.

01:19:56.460 I'm no convert.

01:19:57.460 Stopping radical Islamist attacks.

01:19:59.460 Steve.

01:20:00.460 What you're seeing is a merger.

01:20:01.460 Steve, go ahead.

01:20:02.460 Steve, hold on a second.

01:20:03.460 Hold on a second, because this matters to me too much.

01:20:04.460 Yes, sir.

01:20:05.460 I lost too many of my friends and people on 9-11 for you to call me a convert, okay?

01:20:10.460 I went over there and covered it in Iraq and Afghanistan and in Pakistan.

01:20:14.460 I'm no frickin' convert, okay?

01:20:16.460 No, hold it.

01:20:17.460 What I'm telling you is when I hear other domestic agenda issues being brought up as more pressing

01:20:23.460 as a security threat than this, it bothers me.

01:20:27.460 That's what I'm talking about.

01:20:28.460 So I'm not a convert.

01:20:30.460 I just want this to be converted to be a main concern and it isn't right now.

01:20:35.460 That's my point.

01:20:37.460 Certainly a convert.

01:20:38.460 Where were you at CNN when we did the travel ban to make sure there was better screening

01:20:44.460 coming from countries so that we didn't have radical jihadists come here.

01:20:48.460 And President Trump took all the levels.

01:20:50.460 Somehow I missed CNN and particularly your show having our back.

01:20:54.460 In fact, I think you were going after us every night.

01:20:57.460 You...

01:20:58.460 So, you know, here we have people like Cuomo suddenly saying, I'm from CNN.

01:21:03.460 I'm not a convert to the idea that terrorism exists and we should be stopping terrorism.

01:21:10.460 But now we've got like guys coming out throwing petrol bombs at Jews, like ourselves and my

01:21:16.460 friends.

01:21:17.460 I'm now actually quite happy to consider the idea of travel bans going all across these

01:21:23.460 Muslim nations.

01:21:24.460 And I think it's a very valid point that two elements from this.

01:21:28.460 First of all, are we actually genuinely getting Americans who are on the left and the CNN

01:21:34.460 suddenly becoming converts to the idea that it's right to have travel bans?

01:21:39.460 And is it only because now Jews are being attacked in their own homes or outside their own streets

01:21:44.460 by people who have been failing to qualify on the rules of visas or overstaying?

01:21:51.460 Is it because of that issue?

01:21:53.460 Or is Bannon right in saying that, you know, you've never really cared too much about it

01:21:58.460 until it's really closely affecting you at home?

01:22:01.460 Which goes on to a lot of the agenda we've been talking to.

01:22:04.460 As people start to feel it closer and closer to themselves, suddenly they're becoming converted

01:22:11.460 to the idea about it.

01:22:13.460 And that goes to show the extent of mass immigration and the breakdown in society. 0.95

01:22:17.460 But also a kind of narcissism, because if you don't like, if you don't learn by the mistakes

01:22:22.460 of others or by what happens to other people, there's a deficiency of sympathy, let's say.

01:22:28.460 And the left has turned sympathy into its flag, essentially, throughout the last two decades.

01:22:34.460 They are the, within quotation marks, good people. 0.99

01:22:36.460 Everyone else is a fascist monster. 0.99

01:22:38.460 That's what they're trying to say. 0.98

01:22:39.460 But if they constantly look at the facts of particular policies and they say,

01:22:44.460 it's okay if it doesn't affect me personally, that's when their true colors are revealed.

01:22:50.460 What do we think about these people, though, when they're just doing that?

01:22:53.460 I mean, do we really think that it's fair and acceptable that we just bring it down to ourselves

01:22:58.460 and say, as long as I've got a nice house and a great job and I've been to one of those wonderful universities

01:23:03.460 and protected myself for the last few years, that it's morally acceptable for me to ignore

01:23:10.460 what's happening in the communities across the country.

01:23:13.460 I don't see that as morally acceptable.

01:23:15.460 It's not.

01:23:16.460 And you can see just the reaction against Anna Kasparian when she said that she was assaulted

01:23:22.460 by homeless people in, I think, California?

01:23:25.460 Yes.

01:23:26.460 I think, yes.

01:23:27.460 And...

01:23:28.460 L.A. specifically, I don't imagine.

01:23:29.460 L.A.

01:23:30.460 I don't know this particular story.

01:23:31.460 Yes, and she expressed dissatisfaction with the policies that lead to events of the sort

01:23:37.460 and everyone essentially turned their back on her from the left and they said,

01:23:41.460 you're destroying the narrative. 0.88

01:23:43.460 You're a racist. 1.00

01:23:44.460 You're a bad fascist. 1.00

01:23:45.460 Yes. 0.99

01:23:46.460 Anna Kasparian, she was part of the...

01:23:48.460 Do you know her?

01:23:49.460 The Young Turks left-wing network.

01:23:52.460 Oh, okay.

01:23:53.460 So, for years she was, you know, spewing all of the same progressive talking points

01:23:57.460 until all of a sudden it began to affect her, at which point she began to separate herself

01:24:02.460 from the left-wing narrative somewhat.

01:24:04.460 But the interesting thing was, it was done in such a way that I think Stelios could probably agree with me here,

01:24:10.460 was the way that she was describing it was basically, yes, we knew that this sort of stuff was going on the whole time,

01:24:17.460 but we just didn't really care, but now it's affecting me.

01:24:20.460 Because there's no way that she didn't know that this sort of stuff was affecting other people.

01:24:24.460 It's also like now, Jake Tapper went to a leftist podcast.

01:24:28.460 Oh, yeah.

01:24:29.460 And they were saying his son is a racist because he wants to become a cop.

01:24:33.460 He's 15 years old and he was outraged by it.

01:24:37.460 Sorry, his son wants to become a what? 0.96

01:24:39.460 He wants to become a police officer.

01:24:41.460 Oh, a cop.

01:24:42.460 I thought you said cub.

01:24:43.460 I thought, wait, his son's a furry?

01:24:46.460 Sorry, that was my fault there.

01:24:50.460 I thought he was a particular baseball fan, but there we go.

01:24:53.460 He's got to be one of the Cubs.

01:24:55.460 Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. 0.99

01:24:56.460 Obviously, if you want to enforce law and order in your neighbourhood, then you're a raving lunatic racist, right? 1.00

01:25:01.460 Yeah. 0.98

01:25:02.460 And I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, OK, we've got some of the usual reactions.

01:25:06.460 We see that and, you know, four different particular points.

01:25:09.460 But the one thing that we do know that's happening in the United States is driving a massive agenda.

01:25:13.460 This well-planned, well-structured Stephen Miller plan that was connected with others

01:25:18.460 that has effectively ended the border concerns in southern Mexico.

01:25:24.460 Sorry, northern Mexico, southern United States.

01:25:26.460 That crisis is over.

01:25:28.460 He's now beginning to deal with the universities and the nasty left-wing ideology

01:25:33.460 that's enabled them to be able to kill freedom of speech on there.

01:25:37.460 He's dealing with the criminals and removing them.

01:25:39.460 He's attacking the courts and now he's got this particular order.

01:25:42.460 And he's setting up a massive agenda, which I think is not only pushing the potential that you say that to Western countries,

01:25:49.460 if you really want to have your visas, you've got to have a control on these people too,

01:25:52.460 but also enabling people to see physically what happens when you have a proper immigration policy with deterrence,

01:26:01.460 when it has a proper immigration with deportations, when it has a proper police force and a monitoring of a system

01:26:09.460 to ensure that people who fall foul of the rules or break them also then start falling into the deportation and removal system.

01:26:17.460 And how suddenly you're getting people across the globe going,

01:26:20.460 maybe it's not right to go and try and cheat America and sneak in or bring in criminality or do crimes or terrorism.

01:26:28.460 And that message is being sent out so that people in like Denmark are able to enforce their laws in a similar way,

01:26:34.460 even though they're of a different political party.

01:26:37.460 Right.

01:26:38.460 So there we go.

01:26:39.460 That's my little rant.

01:26:40.460 So that's a random name says the other wizards only start to care when the mudbloods move into their neighborhoods, 1.00

01:26:45.460 said Harry Weasley in Harry Potter and the order of the grand wizard.

01:26:53.460 Alex Adamson 55 says,

01:26:55.460 I hate the you bombed X country.

01:26:57.460 So you have to take everything in from X country as if we have committed Dresden levels of destruction. 0.89

01:27:04.460 It's day.

01:27:05.460 We were there. 0.82

01:27:06.460 We bombed evil baddies. 0.85

01:27:07.460 Simple as.

01:27:08.460 Well, yeah, this, this, this line of argument has never applied anywhere until post-World War two.

01:27:15.460 Right.

01:27:16.460 So do we have any videos, Harry?

01:27:18.460 Let's.

01:27:19.460 That one.

01:27:20.460 Yep.

01:27:21.460 Okay.

01:27:26.460 Forgive my tardiness, but back in episode 1066, Harry, Bo and Lewis discussed the history of chemical weapons development.

01:27:35.460 And during that, they wondered aloud, why not test them in the Mojave?

01:27:39.460 Well, here in America, that's exactly what we did on Dugway Proving Grounds at the bottom of the Permian Basin in Utah.

01:27:46.460 Also, as a terrifying aside, we still make weapons grade poisons.

01:27:50.460 Fentanyl has a lower lethal dose than VX nerve agent.

01:27:54.460 But George Floyd, remember, had become so used to it that he could tolerate the legal dose was the legal argument made in court.

01:28:06.460 Wow.

01:28:07.460 Okay.

01:28:08.460 Right.

01:28:09.460 Okay.

01:28:10.460 Did you not know that?

01:28:11.460 I did.

01:28:12.460 Let's go to some comments.

01:28:13.460 Every day's a school day and I learned.

01:28:14.460 They basically tried to make the argument that he was micro dosing fentanyl so he could survive lethal weapons grade doses, which is why Chauvin...

01:28:19.460 You know, that's, that's a Count of Monte Cristo. That's where they got it from.

01:28:23.460 Yes, exactly.

01:28:24.460 George Floyd's legal team was consulting...

01:28:28.460 Yeah, because there you have to do our scripts.

01:28:30.460 I don't know, have you read it?

01:28:31.460 No, I've read the Count of Monte Cristo.

01:28:33.460 Towards the end where there was a grandfather who was feeding his granddaughter poisons because he knew they were going to poison her.

01:28:41.460 Oh, right.

01:28:42.460 And that's how she survived.

01:28:43.460 Okay.

01:28:44.460 Floyd knew they were after it.

01:28:45.460 So, Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex, love me Danes, love me children, love me culture.

01:28:52.460 You will obey the laws.

01:28:53.460 You will abide by our values.

01:28:55.460 You will know crime.

01:28:56.460 Simple as.

01:28:57.460 I like the obey hat.

01:28:59.460 No, it's just, we need to have more.

01:29:00.460 It's just at the moment, it's just, yeah.

01:29:03.460 Obey.

01:29:04.460 Thane Scotty of Swindon.

01:29:05.460 If you don't fit in, you won't fit in.

01:29:07.460 Not fitting is not a crime.

01:29:09.460 Just don't destroy the country and its society.

01:29:12.460 Oh, that's why you feel excluded.

01:29:14.460 Yes.

01:29:15.460 Harm to society is and should be legal.

01:29:17.460 Time to be legal.

01:29:18.460 Right.

01:29:19.460 So, Baron Von Warhawk says, the facts horrify voters. 1.00

01:29:23.460 No shit. 1.00

01:29:24.460 Why would anybody want a large population of violent people who are seven times more likely 1.00

01:29:29.460 to attack you?

01:29:30.460 This isn't racism.

01:29:31.460 It's common sense.

01:29:32.460 These BBC journals have the self-preservation of the dode bird.

01:29:36.460 They wouldn't last five minutes outside of the liberal babble.

01:29:40.460 And by Sophie Liv, Mjolnir Park named after Thor's hammer.

01:29:44.460 So, maybe it's supposed to be for the Danes and not Mohammed.

01:29:47.460 And also, Sophie, I read your comment without being led into bloopers.

01:29:52.460 Thank you.

01:29:53.460 Warlord Wututai says, if Zoomers and below can't read, how on earth are they going to 1.00

01:29:59.460 write anything good?

01:30:00.460 Is Generative AI going to be writing all our fiction in a decade?

01:30:04.460 I do think there are still plenty of people who are of my generation and younger who read

01:30:09.460 plenty.

01:30:10.460 I mean, I read plenty.

01:30:11.460 There are people that I know who read plenty of really, really great books.

01:30:14.460 So, there are going to be people doing that.

01:30:16.460 They're just not going to be getting into the universities and they're not going to be

01:30:19.460 TikTok-ing about it.

01:30:21.460 While it was fun to do that segment, I do think the whole problem was slightly overstated.

01:30:26.460 But there is definitely a contingent of young people who cannot properly read for pleasure.

01:30:32.460 And on that, Henry Ashman says, having learned of book talk through my girlfriend, the vast

01:30:38.460 majority of the books are just Fifty Shades of Grey style smut.

01:30:42.460 So, I wonder if they can't comprehend the third-person narrative or whether they just can't get

01:30:47.460 their rocks off unless it's written in the first person.

01:30:50.460 Almost certainly has to do with that.

01:30:53.460 Sophie Liv, be a chad like me.

01:30:55.460 I grew up as a Danish person watching anime in Japanese with English subtitles.

01:31:00.460 I had to learn how to read English to watch Dragon Ball.

01:31:04.460 This is the nerd Danish experience. 1.00

01:31:06.460 D&D books were never translated ever, nor Nintendo games.

01:31:09.460 You just had to learn English.

01:31:11.460 And learning English so you can understand Dragon Ball and the power of going beyond and

01:31:17.460 how it's over 9,000 is the most based reason to learn English.

01:31:21.460 And for the last segment, would you like to read through some of your comments?

01:31:24.460 Okay.

01:31:25.460 Well, we got it. 0.95

01:31:26.460 Trump bans Muslims.

01:31:27.460 Trump used the phrase properly vetted.

01:31:30.460 Does that mean he's banning people from these countries or implementing the strict

01:31:36.460 being prices for anyone who wants to come to the US?

01:31:39.460 I think he is trying to be much more strict and giving a powerful message to those other

01:31:42.460 countries.

01:31:43.460 Personally, if I was Trump, I would have added Turkey, Lebanon, Pakistan and Syria, says

01:31:48.460 Boren van Warhoek.

01:31:49.460 These are questions that we were addressing, which ones we're doing.

01:31:52.460 Thane Scott of Swindon.

01:31:54.460 I'm stopping terrorists coming into the country. 0.98

01:31:57.460 You're stopping black people and brown people coming into the USA because you don't want 1.00

01:32:02.460 white people. 0.98

01:32:03.460 What an odd thing to say, but not odd if you're part of that liberal elite.

01:32:07.460 That's exactly what you want to do to challenge these particular views.

01:32:11.460 And finally, Furious Dan says, you don't need a new country in order to seek a better

01:32:16.460 life.

01:32:17.460 I'm beginning to think seeking a better life is code for seeking the works of white people. 1.00

01:32:22.460 Maybe, but I just generally think there is a global world economic forum argument for

01:32:28.460 just ensuring that we've got movement and labor at cheap cost all over the globe.

01:32:32.460 And we have two honorable mentions.

01:32:34.460 Colin P says, Stephen might be interested in an old Great Courses Plus series, King Arthur

01:32:39.460 in Myth and Legend, which tells how the Arthurian myths have changed over time.

01:32:44.460 She even mentions a comic series from the 80s.

01:32:47.460 Okay.

01:32:48.460 And finally, Matt P says, politician destroys BBC.

01:32:51.460 Sounds a little bit like a video title I'd see on a different website.

01:32:54.460 Let us have some fun.

01:32:55.460 Come on.

01:32:56.460 Let us have some fun.

01:32:57.460 Come on.

01:32:58.460 I didn't think that's where you were going with that segment, Stelios.

01:33:01.460 Just let us have some fun.

01:33:03.460 I was wondering.

01:33:04.460 It's okay to have fun everyone every now and then.

01:33:06.460 I was wondering if you'd found some secret footage leaked from the Tory cabinet meetings.

01:33:12.460 All right.

01:33:13.460 And on this note, we have run out of time.

01:33:15.460 Thank you very much for your segments.

01:33:17.460 Thank you.

01:33:18.460 I really enjoyed them.

01:33:19.460 Thank you.

01:33:20.460 And see you tomorrow at 1pm.

01:33:22.460 Where it will be a D-Day special.

01:33:24.460 Thank you very much.

01:33:25.460 I'll see you tomorrow at 1am.

01:33:26.460 Bye.

01:33:27.460 Bye.

01:33:28.460 Bye.

01:33:29.460 Bye.

01:33:30.460 Bye.

01:33:31.460 Bye.

01:33:33.460 Bye.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 05, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1180

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