The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1205

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to the podcast of the load seaters episode 1205 for thursday the 10th of

00:00:22.760 june 2025 i'm your host luca joined today by harry who's very enthusiastic and alumni josh firm

00:00:33.080 it's me oh that's a shame it's josh i'm sorry about everyone huh why why um i was asked is why

00:00:46.780 and now i'm here i'm sorry how gracious how gracious of you standards standards gentlemen

00:00:52.500 dropping well today we're going to be talking all about the second spanish reconquista uh we're

00:00:59.300 then going to be backhanded the mic you have to get used to the studio again josh i know what this

00:01:04.840 where am i can you hear me uh we're then going to talk about uh russia's coming demographic crisis

00:01:12.380 and then we're going to talk about a different demographic that's bringing a crisis to cruise

00:01:17.940 ships that's right yes so uh with that all said let's begin so uh trouble in spain ladies and 1.00

00:01:25.980 gentlemen and this time something different to the fact that they can't go a day without trying to

00:01:30.540 snatch gibraltar back from us on this occasion i as a brit come to them as a friend and an ally

00:01:37.300 to the spanish uno birro por favor love there's my contribution to this segment done time for a

00:01:46.660 not another not another word right so um the current spanish minority government led by uh pedro sanchez

00:01:57.100 the most spanish name uh who has been a prime minister of spain since 2018 well his uh government

00:02:05.020 has basically been embroiled in scandal after scandal um which has really come full circle

00:02:11.200 because what happened back in 2018 was he led a no confidence vote against the uh nominally conservative

00:02:19.680 party in spanish politics the people's party the judean people's party of spain not the people's

00:02:27.260 judean party no no very different that one yeah that's splitter but um but the uh the problem is

00:02:34.100 as you can see here from the first headline uh sanchez ali quits the socialist party um amid

00:02:40.920 sexual harassment allegations they have those in spain i was gonna say that exact sentence

00:02:46.220 stole it from my brain you might as well have not even come in today josh yeah we've got a we've got

00:02:51.900 a josh already at home there you go do you feel improved actually feeling redundant yet um i left

00:02:59.220 voluntarily think that's decided to stop working it's okay uh but it's not the only scandal it's

00:03:05.160 not just a sexual harassment it's also the bribery and the and the corruption and the huge corruption

00:03:11.900 line in in spain who would have thought it so the um this is so you had a francisco

00:03:18.160 salsa and then you've got santos uh kerdan i'm definitely pronouncing that wrong uh but he is now in

00:03:25.500 jail uh he's been remanded and put in jail he went to the uh the supreme court in spain and they said

00:03:32.540 that really they had to put him in jail uh they had to detain him without bail uh because otherwise

00:03:38.380 he'd get out and he'd destroy all of the evidence i mean that's if that's true that's simple as it makes

00:03:45.780 sense simple as so all of this has left the uh the spanish current spanish government in a very

00:03:52.460 very unpopular position which naturally means that well when one side of the left right you know

00:03:59.460 two-party system becomes unpopular what can you do but go back to the other one right and so already

00:04:06.560 you're getting headlines like this where fiejo uh yeah that's alberto nunez fiejo which i've

00:04:14.420 definitely getting pronounced right uh it is it's his now or never moment to lead spain again it's

00:04:21.140 now his now or never moment to save the system and you know return spain to the sensible art of

00:04:29.480 democracy so he's gonna be his pitch is gonna be we may be corrupt sex offenders but we're gonna save

00:04:35.160 spain yeah well i mean he's either gonna have to own it or yeah you can't shake those sorts of

00:04:42.200 things those are two kinds of things hanging over a political party that you can't really recover

00:04:46.720 from look at the conservatives in britain they were known as the party of sleaze right and they

00:04:52.320 still are yes and that's exactly what the these socialists are basically but you know handing out

00:04:57.200 uh taking bribes to get public contracts you know for uh all sorts of government programs and things like

00:05:04.100 that but also the problem here is of course because even though there is a general sense of two-party

00:05:12.060 system to spanish politics of course they do actually have a form of pr uh sorry of a proportional

00:05:19.400 representation and but obviously as well as that i suppose a lot like us with uh you know when we get

00:05:26.160 parties like pi cumri and the snp of course spain they're all just different variations of the same

00:05:31.880 party and also spain is of course not without its own little winging separatist movements such as the

00:05:38.280 catalonia spain is a very disunited country compared to britain spanish politics is a lot more um you

00:05:45.560 know at each other's throats i think because um although we disagree with politically internally

00:05:50.500 in britain it's not quite the same as you know the spanish where there's entire regions where

00:05:56.380 they're they're willing to turn to terrorism to become separatists the scots haven't quite got that

00:06:01.700 far yet yeah i mean it's also we snuffed that out of them after glenco and spain spain is also a

00:06:10.280 massive country where huge regions of it are separated by mountains uh that are just very

00:06:15.700 separate from one another in the first place so it makes a bit more sense although you know england

00:06:20.960 can be geographically varied we do have a bit of a better sense of unity yeah except for many maybe

00:06:26.900 whiny cornish nationalists yes nobody cares construct mountain range across cornwall

00:06:34.480 good idea harry cornwall's about devon and then we just separate from oh yeah i'm sorry i forgot

00:06:39.540 the whiny devonshire nationalists as well nobody cares um so obviously with um this general sense of

00:06:50.540 you know establishment consensus and things going from one right wing right wing government

00:06:56.680 of corruption to the left wing government of corruption it's no surprise of course that

00:07:01.680 eventually people will look for uh different parties to go to for alternative solutions and of course

00:07:08.240 this led to the establishment of the vox party uh in spain and now this came as a an offshoot

00:07:15.200 originally of uh people's party um back in 2013 2014 uh but then obviously what you had was by the time

00:07:24.080 of the general election over in 2019 you had them actually gaining some seats in amongst the um what

00:07:32.040 was it called yeah that's it the congress of deputies right i think they got six seats mostly in the south

00:07:37.160 of spain and obviously since then the uh the problems that led to that uh shift towards vox have only been

00:07:46.620 exacerbated of course in recent years uh since that 2019 general election of course you had uh

00:07:53.620 covid and you had that the really militant lockdowns that the spanish implemented you also have

00:07:59.580 excuse me you've also had um stark rise in migration of course as well well spain is in a rather

00:08:08.740 unfortunate position where um geographically speaking that is where it's very close to north africa

00:08:14.820 which it shouldn't be a mystery to anyone um but the same routes that were used to conquer spain

00:08:21.500 and eventually led to the reconquista being used for migration aren't they and i think also a lot of

00:08:27.800 them are coming from say sardinia and corsica um across as well from what i understand yeah and it's

00:08:34.840 interesting you should uh mention the reconquista that very minor event in spanish history oh yes

00:08:40.160 because when the uh vox party began their campaign for the general election uh back in 2019 they launched

00:08:48.500 it at uh covedonga in the the north of spain which was historically speaking the uh place of the first

00:08:57.760 victory of the reconquista so they're trying to tie themselves obviously you know into the spanish history

00:09:04.260 and the struggle against um conquest and uh obviously islam most fundamentally foreign hordes 0.87

00:09:12.040 foreign hordes yes not including the portuguese well not um which obviously uh hit its mark and now

00:09:23.980 you have you know obviously as they say in 2019 they were able to gain a toehold as they said in the

00:09:29.920 new york as opposed to a foothold yes no it was just it was just a little toe it was just in climbing a

00:09:35.880 toehold is more difficult than a foothold so just giving them a compliment and this and but now

00:09:42.580 obviously things are heating up and we're getting um spicier policies uh more daring policies uh and you 0.75

00:09:50.040 have here the far-right vox party is calling for eight million foreigners to get kicked out of spain

00:09:55.260 which is more than the number who live in the country they're just going to invite some in to

00:09:59.160 kick them out for the fun of it they forgot to attach the chad face to this headline yes well

00:10:05.220 obviously they go on to maybe they're counting some like particularly mixed parts of southern spain

00:10:10.740 is basically moroccan it's like we'll say we're supporting the entire basque region yeah we'll send

00:10:16.320 you back over well this will also of course apply to uh let's face it a lot of the uh the british

00:10:22.580 expats who have gone there as well they're not the biggest fan of us over there they're not

00:10:27.600 i've gone to spain i've seen like graffitied on the side of mountains which i think is a very um

00:10:32.720 that's a lot of effort to go through on a mountain it just says brits go home and i'm just like well

00:10:38.480 this is going to be a fun place to visit the um but also you bear in mind as well that um i'm entirely

00:10:46.060 for that right if you know it is at the end of the day the spanish country it's a spaniard's right to

00:10:52.040 have who they want in it and that obviously extends to other europeans as well in fact if

00:10:57.420 anything um britain could do with a few more brits returning to our shores if anyone is going to come 1.00

00:11:03.920 here uh at all and obviously it might also improve maybe we should uh do a trade it's like okay we'll

00:11:10.680 take back our expats if you give up all claim to gibraltar for all time also i did a segment um quite a

00:11:18.740 few months back now talking about the movement on the baleric islands to just get rid of tourism

00:11:23.680 and i was just like yeah it probably ruins their way of life it gets lots of drunk teenagers from

00:11:29.120 britain over there yeah why not i mean it's their it's their island they can do what they want yeah

00:11:34.780 definitely um so the um they say all the millions of people who have recently arrived and have not

00:11:41.100 adapted to our customs and in many cases have contributed to insecurity in our neighborhoods

00:11:46.440 will have to return to their countries uh rocio dimer uh vox's national spokesperson uh on

00:11:53.780 demographic emergency and uh social policies told reporters what we should have one of those

00:11:59.620 we should definitely have one of those uh calling it an extraordinary sorry an extraordinarily complex

00:12:07.380 process of remigration and we have the right to survive as a people which is

00:12:15.380 all very reasonable very reasonable and uh something that you know makes you when you read

00:12:21.320 statements like that from insurgent right-wing parties in spain it makes you realize how how much

00:12:26.560 we're lacking one over in britain we do have rupert lowe we do saying uh deep locations over and over and

00:12:34.340 over again yeah he's the one sounding the trumpet in parliament and nobody else yeah it's our very own

00:12:39.940 rork's drift of a man one man standing against many rupert is asked uh the spokesman for demographic

00:12:46.480 emergency and uh social prop policies so but then you also have uh where it goes on to say that um

00:12:54.780 if our country is 47 million inhabitants roughly 7 million or more than 7 million because we have to

00:13:02.360 take into account the second generation uh 8 million are people who have come from different origins in a

00:13:09.360 very short period of time and it's therefore extraordinarily difficult for them to adapt to

00:13:14.600 our ways and customs so yes it is not just uh the people who have arrived recently but it's also yeah

00:13:21.520 those who have began to entrench themselves basically the spanish versions of the wind rush i suppose and

00:13:27.300 those ones that you know we of course have several generations you know dug in if it's the spanish version

00:13:33.500 i imagine they're not rushing yeah well i was going to say something i won't the um so then you also

00:13:42.780 have the um leader of the vox party who said they are nervous they're already lying and manipulating

00:13:48.520 again vox has not stated the numbers of those who must be deported well they threw out some ballpark

00:13:56.180 numbers as i've just read so that's not entirely true uh simply because we don't know it's all those who

00:14:02.120 have come to commit crimes all those who intend to impose an unfamiliar cultural belief all those 0.86

00:14:07.600 who mistreat or belittle women all those who have come to live off the efforts of others and all the

00:14:13.780 unaccompanied minors because children should be with their families we don't know how many they are

00:14:19.520 when we come to power we will know and they will all leave and the first to celebrate alongside the

00:14:25.860 spanish will be the league of immigrants those who follow the rules and respect the country that

00:14:32.020 welcomes them so north fc i was going to say it's going to be all the british expats is going to be

00:14:38.220 able to stick around honorary yeah as long as he learns a bit more spanish a little bit more spanish

00:14:45.620 it's bazio it's the only it's the least you guys can do learn to order a gin and tonic as well

00:14:51.940 uno gino and tonico for favor yep but as you can see here just how quickly the uh migration numbers

00:15:04.540 are actually rising just from 2021 till now there's been 1.5 million uh new immigrants come to spain

00:15:12.880 so it's rising very very rapidly about 150 000 per quarter there it looks like at least for the most

00:15:20.040 recent figures is that uh so yeah yes yeah quarter one and two wow that's massive it's jumping almost

00:15:29.760 100 000 all obviously under uh this socialist government because of course surprise because

00:15:36.680 of course as pedro sanchez assured the spaniards that spain was for decades a land of departure

00:15:44.140 i think he's doing it down a bit there land of departure call it centuries right it's a layover

00:15:49.760 for uh flights uh the departure lounge uh of sorry so spain was a for decades a land of departure

00:15:57.980 of striving beyond our borders uh today it is a land of welcome and those who arrive contribute with

00:16:05.140 their effort to build a better spain build back better sorry is he a particular does he remember

00:16:12.540 al andalus particularly fondly or something yeah we were so much better back then so much more open

00:16:18.800 and welcoming and diverse the moors yeah yeah so so obviously spanish prime minister not really a

00:16:28.240 student of spanish history but you know we don't expect much from our politicians do we these days

00:16:32.700 but of course the question is that well vox is obviously not going to win an outright majority

00:16:38.320 and so of course it comes down to like so many of the other pr uh you know constitutions in europe

00:16:45.660 uh such as germany is the center-right party going to be willing to go into coalition with the

00:16:54.400 insurgent right-wing party and on that front the people's party have actually given signals that they

00:17:01.760 might uh which will be interesting and they said that as it says here rejecting uh political

00:17:08.860 isolation and calling for their voters and saying that they were deserving of respect

00:17:13.540 that the uh those people who are voting fox obviously deserve respect now of course of course

00:17:19.400 there will be political reasons to pander to them to give some sense of trust in all of this

00:17:27.080 to be nice to your constituents yes there is always a political reason to do that if you're

00:17:32.460 looking to win them over well exactly western most western politicians don't know this

00:17:37.180 they're just not very good at it

00:17:40.720 well there's a lot of uh but there's a lot of contempt out there isn't there especially from

00:17:47.220 from the left wing of uh spanish politics and so it will be interesting to see what goes on ahead

00:17:53.360 because at this point the uh if it was on this one and it wasn't uh but the uh voxer are currently

00:18:00.420 polling about 15 percent now which is very very good you know for a party that's really only one

00:18:06.460 only run one general election you know to now be at 15 percent and they've also got a foothold of

00:18:12.940 course in uh the european elections into the eu as well but you can see the trajectory that the

00:18:20.140 conversation is shifting in spain and of course my personal opinion on this is that uh

00:18:25.440 are you staring at me like an owl

00:18:27.860 what i'm paying attention to what you're saying luca i'm sorry it's unusual to see harry concentrate

00:18:36.640 i know he makes a funny face yeah that's true it's true well forgive me but um the so the thing is of

00:18:44.700 course that's uh even though we might bash our european continental counterparts from time to

00:18:50.440 time of course we are well we're not all free till everyone's free are we and it's sort of like you

00:18:58.020 know this panel really isn't it that we we rib each other but if if push comes to shove we'll stick up

00:19:03.060 for one another that's very well depends yeah the feeling's mutual or yeah no no with stuff like

00:19:10.780 this uh i just hope it's not a case of a maloney if they get anywhere near power yeah i've been

00:19:17.640 so let down by all populists oh indeed at this point americans have been very angry at me but i'm

00:19:25.120 seeing so far this term of donald trump's administration as mostly a complete and utter

00:19:32.080 failure betrayal is a word i would use often loudly could be better could be better could be

00:19:38.920 better but yeah trust me epstein's client list they're going to use that to blackmail to get

00:19:42.700 the agenda through that's what they're going to use it for keep coping suckers um but i just i just 0.53

00:19:48.060 see most populist parties now as trojan horses um uh so i hope that it's different with vox well i

00:19:55.940 mean i don't want to pour cold water all over you not at all no well i mean of course i have my

00:20:01.180 reservations too and you know as you point out they're entirely founded on precedent from other

00:20:07.060 populist parties who have done this time and time again but also at the same time where else can

00:20:13.400 the spanish people currently within this system put their voice you know there is a key difference

00:20:19.520 here in the you can look at other european countries like france or germany and the the center or the

00:20:27.080 right refuses to work with the the so-called right-wing parties um i'm just saying that because

00:20:32.620 you know some of them particularly in the pen in france you know socialist economics boo um but

00:20:38.840 they basically stonewall them they don't let them in and there's the cordon sanitaire exactly and uh

00:20:46.540 that's not happening in spain which is promising and it seems like actually there could be a situation

00:20:52.700 where vox could be in coalition if you take them at the word the uh center-right party

00:20:58.560 yeah which obviously as harry points out i'm not really willing to take them at the word yes but

00:21:05.200 as as i also maintain ultimately this is a genuine european struggle that we're all going through one

00:21:11.920 struggle brother and um obviously you know even if we were to come out of this uh the other end of

00:21:19.420 this in total victory uh we don't want france to become a multicultural hellhole you know we don't 1.00

00:21:25.920 want spain to be we don't want those the types of countries that we want on our borders or do we 0.90

00:21:30.960 want our traditional pesky neighbors at our borders no i agree right i've been facetious but i do agree

00:21:38.920 i wish the best for my european neighbors and just europeans more generally i would like strong europe

00:21:45.520 fortress europe together we can rule the world once more yes join me yeah unironically

00:21:54.080 so america's backing out i'll discuss it a little bit in my segment in a moment but america's backing

00:22:01.440 out of europe slowly but surely we need uh we need a united front not as the eu currently is though 0.93

00:22:09.020 that's gay indeed and fake and lame uh so yes all the best uh to the spanish patriots out there i 0.96

00:22:17.660 hope that the uh secondary conquista goes very very swimmingly for you uh just make sure that you 0.98

00:22:24.460 don't harm baz in the process please he's a good lad he's not harming anyone he's beached on you know

00:22:33.260 on an actual beach they're all cold full of lager bloating in the sun he looks like a whale that's

00:22:39.340 been there for a few days getting caught by the sun whale uh sigil stone says who's the weird new guy

00:22:46.120 with harry and luca odd looking duck can't see him being around long no i'm leaving straight after this

00:22:52.340 yeah straight out of here they state harry and josh are like a couple who broke up on good terms meeting

00:22:57.700 up again after a few months where harry's still secretly upset josh left him and is trying to play it off

00:23:02.800 like he doesn't care you saw right through me that's only when it's only when the cameras are

00:23:07.440 pointing on he's very sentimental off camera yeah oh could i have the mouse please um that's a random

00:23:13.160 name has sent two in as well the first the most recent of which i can't read you keep doing this

00:23:20.400 that's a random name i can't say those kinds of things on camera it is funny though it is funny yes but

00:23:27.700 we can read them and we do like them uh and there is another one he sent harry you said before that

00:23:33.220 you'd sacrifice anything to the eclipse berserk reference to restore the west would you sacrifice

00:23:38.920 josh i know he left to avoid this but now's our chance yep sorry josh throw me in the mountain

00:23:43.920 do me in no you've not read berserk the eclipse what happens in the eclipse is a lot worse

00:23:51.680 a lot nastier than just being thrown in a mountain but you'll do it for the west won't you it's not 0.95

00:23:58.040 like the end of tenacious d where the devil takes takes me in as a sex slave or something is it 0.94

00:24:03.200 that was a jack love that uh that was a shockingly good guess was actually kind of close to that yeah 0.99

00:24:14.300 jack jack is loving kissing himself right now he loves that all right then so should probably go

00:24:23.560 on to my segment then i'll let you i'll allow it oh let out a few farts first

00:24:29.620 more just the foreshadow making sure you know when you feel the build-up okay i want to be near the

00:24:36.800 no i think it's safe ah glad to see standards haven't slipped since i've been away josh i've

00:24:46.040 been on this desk with you plenty of times and i've had a few wafts in the air from me so you can't

00:24:51.920 at lotus eaters your flatulence per hour is a premium level anyway right so before i get into the meat and

00:25:01.940 potatoes of this segment i just want to say that i like peace i dislike war i dislike people

00:25:08.820 pointlessly dying in wars that they don't really gain to benefit from on either side people dying

00:25:15.300 is bad as such i'm not taking any one particular side in this i'm trying to analyze the facts as i see

00:25:22.720 it and what i've seen over the past day or two is people sharing about this claim which is that

00:25:30.180 russia is seeking to import one million indian workers in 2025 to replace labor lost to the

00:25:37.460 ukrainian war which seems to reflect a lot of the demographic problems that we're facing in the rest

00:25:42.480 of the west russia is interesting because it's you know it's basically the gateway to asia the large

00:25:48.320 gateway to asia where a lot of the sounds like a great name for an asian restaurant or a buffet

00:25:53.580 well gateway to asia no you're not working here anymore so you can set up your investment and get that

00:25:58.960 going gonna be the one asian takeaway in england after the deportation josh's little red takeaway

00:26:05.140 but it reflects the demographic problems that we have over here and russia is a largely population

00:26:13.840 wise european country a lot of the population is clustered in the west but also there are vast

00:26:21.120 swaths of land which are over in asia it's already quite a multi-ethnic country it's it's basically an

00:26:27.480 empire it's an enormous multi-ethnic empire i think there's something like 192 ethnicities

00:26:32.620 within russia already and i've seen that they do have some problems in places like st petersburg and

00:26:38.680 elsewhere where you're getting inter because it's big federated states interstate migration coming over

00:26:45.380 to the west to take jobs that are in places like st petersburg but this in particular seemed to be

00:26:52.480 reflective of the problems that we're facing so i thought okay what's the actual truth to this

00:26:57.780 because we're in the middle of a war and the people on the right who want you to believe that you should

00:27:03.780 be rooting for russia try and say that russia is a bastion of traditional values family values it's the

00:27:12.400 one last place along with maybe a few baltic states and poland where you've got truly european

00:27:18.040 values shining through and oftentimes other people on the right who don't want you to be supporting

00:27:24.240 russia um i don't think you have to take either of those positions by the way you can stay neutral

00:27:29.640 you can think for yourself that is an option but other people want you to think that russia is this 0.81

00:27:35.600 enormous brown country filled with muslims which is just as anti-white as the rest of us and this news 1.00

00:27:42.120 seemed to be supporting the idea that russia is this big brown anti-white horde being led by putin 0.99

00:27:48.760 who wants to screw over his population as much as our leaders want to screw over ours by importing 0.97

00:27:53.960 foreigners into lower wages change culture etc etc so i thought i would look into this subject and try

00:28:00.820 and see the truth of it and before i actually go into what i was finding first some context some recent

00:28:06.840 updates on what's been going on in the russia and ukrainian war so there was talk earlier this year

00:28:14.000 of trump reducing the amount of weapons that would be sent over to ukraine especially after his big

00:28:20.100 bust up with zelinski in the white house a few months ago but now they've said that they will be

00:28:25.120 receiving some more weapons he said that they'll send more weapons after an announcement last week

00:28:29.340 that washington would halt some shipments of critical arms to kiev during a meeting with

00:28:33.960 benjamin netanyahu i think that was the same one where netanyahu offered trump the nobel peace prize

00:28:40.800 nominated for it netanyahu the greatest man in the world yeah the greatest man in the world like

00:28:46.020 big back patting operation going on in that meeting patting so loud it could be heard all the way in

00:28:52.160 ukraine apparently yeah trump said he was not happy with putin and that ukraine was getting hit very hard

00:28:58.140 trump also indicated that the u.s would send primarily defensive weapons to help ukraine's war effort

00:29:03.220 there is probably a reason for ukraine having defensive weapons sent to them rather than

00:29:09.120 offensive weapons which is i was listening to a stream that was done last night on scrump's channel

00:29:15.020 which is that nato is beginning to run out of missiles this is the same kind of thing that we

00:29:21.060 saw in israel during the israel iran conflict that happened just a few weeks ago where iran produces

00:29:28.060 really cheap munitions a lot of russia's missiles that they're getting are from iran because iran can 0.59

00:29:34.560 has a big manufacturing base where they can produce all of them cheap and they're effective

00:29:38.560 israel has very very very expensive interception uh defenses where they're basically intercepting

00:29:47.360 really cheap missiles that can be produced indefinitely with really really really expensive

00:29:52.400 equipment that can't be produced indefinitely which is probably one of the reasons they slammed the

00:29:58.380 brakes on it after america intervened europe and america don't really have great manufacturing bases

00:30:03.980 for the weapons anymore or at least certainly europe doesn't no definitely and especially with america

00:30:09.600 pulling out slowly but surely we're that's going to become more and more of a problem what i heard

00:30:14.840 was that basically most european domestic manufacturing of weapons is being produced by

00:30:20.220 one factory in poland which is not very good in terms of defense because that's one target is a

00:30:28.780 very easy target but it is also worth mentioning as well that by supplying defensive weapons it

00:30:34.720 de-escalates some of the increasing tension that we had from ukraine actually striking into russia

00:30:41.020 proper rather than disputed territory which was using american weapons which oftentimes necessitated

00:30:47.360 american operatives on the ground to help to oversee the usage of these weapons which could have been

00:30:53.320 seen by russia doesn't seem that they did at the time but could have been seen by russia as direct

00:30:58.620 provocation direct involvement in the war so that could have escalated things things didn't escalate

00:31:03.880 and for a long while we've just had what appeared to be a stalemate going on but i've seen that russia

00:31:09.020 has been increasingly pushing into ukrainian territory and they are looking to make some moves on

00:31:14.240 other ukrainian cities in ukraine's east so trump has decided he's going to do that

00:31:19.940 trump's apparent change of heart came days after a deadly russian drone and missile barrages on

00:31:24.540 ukrainian cities including kiev one attack on the city last thursday claimed a third life according to

00:31:31.380 local officials so that's three presumably civilians killed in these attacks pentagon responded as well

00:31:37.580 saying that president trump's direction the department of defense is sending additional defensive

00:31:41.540 weapons to ukraine to ensure the ukrainians can defend themselves while we work to secure

00:31:45.440 a lasting peace and ensure the killing stops i looked into it i can't see many updates on what's

00:31:50.800 going on with peace talks at the moment so it seems that the conflict will carry on and continue to

00:31:56.680 carry on indefinitely which means you know day one peace didn't work out very well and it means the

00:32:05.020 killing will continue and not even year one peace uh well i mean year one peace would have been the end of

00:32:10.420 2022 so that's that was well behind us we'll see if trump's year one can end with peace i oh that's

00:32:17.880 what i meant i can only hope so i can only hope so uh because while we are in the middle of the war

00:32:22.880 it's difficult to be able to determine exact casualties when we're in the middle of a war

00:32:27.700 um and casualties i'm including injuries and deaths but estimates are going up to potentially

00:32:35.060 one million for russians at the moment and the guardian are claiming here in their sources that

00:32:40.160 that's based off of things like um funeral business in russia and also some some places

00:32:47.600 like uh let me see here uh a place an independent russian outlet medezona has identified the names of

00:32:55.320 more than 111 000 russian military personnel killed using official records social media obituaries

00:33:01.220 and images of tombstones estimates coming from the ministry of defense and other places are saying

00:33:08.100 that it could be anywhere between uh 250 000 to 950 000 russian military deaths that's also being uh

00:33:17.440 being said by a study by the u.s based center for strategic and international studies in ukraine

00:33:23.780 their casualties are potentially 60 to 100 000 personnel killed and total casualties of approximately 400

00:33:31.420 000 so these are catastrophic numbers if russia's numbers are anything like 950 000 that's more than

00:33:39.160 we lost during i believe the first world war i think we lost three quarters of a million it is of course

00:33:43.940 difficult to establish whether someone's been killed captured or is missing in action as well so

00:33:49.460 there's a certain degree of uncertainty with a lot of the figures that are coming out but it is

00:33:55.400 certainly safe to believe that an entire generation of young men on both sides has been lost yes and

00:34:00.980 women as well because of the way that ukraine especially is true women into it and they may go

00:34:06.500 on to mention here what will broaden out into the rest of the subject the russia's uh russia has a

00:34:12.140 demographic crisis going on outside of this as well even before the conflict sucking up the lives of so

00:34:18.000 many young men russia was experiencing a demographic crisis very similar to the demographic crises that

00:34:25.200 we are experiencing in the rest of europe and in the u.s and many liberalized and westernized countries

00:34:31.380 where birth rates are low of ethnic russians i think the birth rate is 1.4 or 1.5 well below replacement

00:34:40.020 rates and the other ethnic groups in russia it is mainly the more islamized like the people who are in

00:34:49.040 the north caucasus chechens i think russia is an interesting case as well because replacement rate

00:34:54.220 sorry um it russia is an interesting case as well because um lots of people point to the cost of

00:35:00.320 living as one of the reasons as well as deliberate programming but i don't think that's going on as much

00:35:05.860 in russia and i think actually um you know because of the sanctions and because they produce a lot of

00:35:11.660 their things internally from the old soviet times the cost of goods isn't you know extortionate relative

00:35:19.620 to say the west it's comparable as a percentage of their their purchasing and so what it seems to me to

00:35:26.900 mean isn't that it's a deliberate political thing because it doesn't seem like there's that messaging

00:35:30.680 and it doesn't seem to be purely economic i i believe it's some sort of um human thing whereby

00:35:38.480 you get to a certain level of development and people simply stop having children yes it seems

00:35:42.740 that once you reach a certain living standard for people once certain amenities and comforts are met

00:35:49.060 day to day you're not in a constant um struggle for survival people stop having as many children

00:35:56.580 and russia's also had a lot of problems because there's holdovers culturally from the soviet eras

00:36:02.660 where people were having ridiculous amounts of abortion for instance abortions to the point

00:36:09.820 highest rates in europe i believe per capita it was seven per women per woman i should say seven per

00:36:16.680 woman and that that will of course be massively spiked up by uh particular women having lots and lots 1.00

00:36:22.560 and lots of abortions but i think it was something like low access to contraceptives meant that women 0.96

00:36:28.120 were just using abortions as a form of contraceptive to a ridiculous degree which led to some women 1.00

00:36:34.200 experiencing infertility as a result of it now it seems that women aren't necessarily having as many

00:36:42.020 abortions they've drastically reduced those numbers but access to contraceptives has increased and also

00:36:47.520 what i was reading is that russian men are facing a bit of a fertility crisis as well because of

00:36:52.400 alcoholism and other such things it's rendering a lot of them sounds very stereotypical it was it is

00:36:57.360 a very stereotypical reason but that's some of the stuff that i've been looking into here and as well

00:37:02.480 as that you have people uh emigrating out of the country people having to move to the front lines

00:37:09.560 killing off lots of people that way the average male life expectancy in russia has fallen from 68 to 66

00:37:16.740 since the start of the special military operation and he said and a demographer alexander raksha has

00:37:24.900 said the government has made it harder to track long-term demographic consequences of the ongoing

00:37:29.700 fighting they stopped publishing all mortality and life expectancy data for its male population

00:37:34.760 from 2024 onwards and again if you look into this uh there's the ethnic groups here but if you just

00:37:42.200 scroll up it leads to a popular population pyramid that will look quite familiar to anybody in the west

00:37:49.800 where you have aging populations a lot more people in their um in their middle age and older than you get in

00:37:57.640 the peak working ages around here i can tell why this contraction is so sharp here which is going to be

00:38:05.400 people losing their lives or moving out of the country but in terms of the ethnic groups uh they say

00:38:11.800 in here that russia is about 70 percent ethnic russian where is the ethnic groups gone here immigration

00:38:20.200 oh god it's vanished it's vanished here we are we're back here so it's about 71 in 2021 identified as

00:38:29.400 ethnic russians uh 19 of the total population identified with various ethnic minority groups

00:38:35.480 i think the rest of it is made up of either indeterminate or people who are of germanic

00:38:40.280 rather than russian backgrounds according to the united nations russians immigration population is the

00:38:45.640 third largest in the world numbering over 11.6 million in 2016 most of which are from post-soviet

00:38:52.120 states mainly from central asia and there are 22 republics in russia and of 12 and of those 12 of them

00:38:58.840 ethnic russians constitute a minority so very already a vast diverse ethnically enriched nation

00:39:07.320 which means that surely we should have just been steamrolled over by them immediately every ukraine 0.79

00:39:13.320 very homogenous russia diverse varied strong right they should have just steamrolled over the country 0.99

00:39:21.960 so i guess i guess that doesn't make much sense but at the same time you get accounts like say for

00:39:27.800 instance radio genoa posting about oh this is moscow what do you notice and it's just slop videos of

00:39:34.760 lots and lots of white people which seems to be pretty fair given that 70 percent at least of the

00:39:40.680 population especially again if you look at some of the maps that they provide here so this this map for

00:39:47.880 instance this is the percentage of people who are ethnically russian in russia uh red is uh what is that

00:39:55.080 80 plus percent yes so you get massive swaths of the west which are 80 plus percent european russia

00:40:02.360 basically european russian whereas you get huge swaths of the land where which are mostly wasteland

00:40:09.240 let's be fair where it's not so that demographic situation seems slightly better than what we have

00:40:15.160 over here but the demographics are still dropping in terms of the total proportion of european russians

00:40:21.240 seems to be dropping because of reduced birth rates because of aging populations people not having

00:40:25.960 children people migrating out of the country but then you get the slop from one side saying like look

00:40:31.880 at how white it is and then you get other people saying well actually is also what russia looks like

00:40:37.560 because they have the largest percentage of muslims uh as a percentage of their population of any european

00:40:43.560 country oh yes and you have demonstrations hundreds of thousands performing eid prayers in the streets of

00:40:49.000 moscow this is supported of course as well by putin because he is emperor of a vast multi-ethnic empire

00:40:55.960 where most where a lot of them are already muslim i've seen some reports that by the end of maybe 2050

00:41:03.640 30 percent of the population of russia is uh predicted to be muslim uh so that's all very interesting so

00:41:09.800 again there's there's evidence on both sides for both kinds of the arguments of russia but either way

00:41:15.560 we know that people are dying young men are dying uh there are labor shortages there is a record low

00:41:21.800 unemployment at the moment in russia of 2.4 percent and when you have labor shortages and not very many

00:41:28.920 people in work who are out of work the government only ever tends to go in what the solution only ever

00:41:35.560 tends to go one way for stuff like that especially when russia is already allied with nations like india

00:41:41.720 with the bricks agreements okay sort of military alliance an economic one but um yeah i think

00:41:48.600 india is somewhat friendly with russia aren't they yes they have strong ties to one another that they

00:41:55.080 want to make stronger and when you say it's not militarily maybe not yet uh and to be fair maybe

00:42:00.680 not ever because russia has indians were scammed into fighting for russia actively been scamming some

00:42:06.760 indians into signing up to join the one has turned this is very strange it was to be fair in this 0.98

00:42:13.640 article only 91 indians but that's still more indians than you would expect to get scammed into 1.00

00:42:20.760 fighting on russia's behalf for them right they just posed as beautiful russian women on facebook and they 0.98

00:42:27.640 were trapped by unsolicited messages so most of them are from poor families who were lured by agents with

00:42:34.040 the promise of money and jobs sometimes as helpers in the russian army instead they were sent straight

00:42:40.840 to the war zone they're not going to be put on latrine duty to be fair many of them said they were

00:42:46.440 stationed in parts of ukraine under russian control where they had to navigate landmines drones missiles

00:42:51.720 and sniper attacks with little to no military training thankfully russia has now said that they're

00:42:56.600 not going to do this anymore nudge nudge wink wink they're just going to bring in north koreans to 1.00

00:43:03.240 fight for them instead i would imagine because they've got strong ties with those both government

00:43:07.080 wins then the north korean government doesn't have to feed them and the russians get troops yeah there

00:43:12.760 you go it would i bet that's probably the nicest time those north koreans have ever had they actually

00:43:16.920 get military rations it would be kind of funny if russia did this big migration agreement with india

00:43:26.440 and then just pulled all of their own soldiers out and sent them all to the front line that would be

00:43:32.520 a hell of a bait and switch but i wouldn't be supportive of it because i don't want loads of

00:43:39.160 asians overrunning european countries in any capacity no surprise surprise i know right golden horde this time 1.00

00:43:46.280 and uh so so what what what's been going on as well so they've done that uh in india and russia they

00:43:53.960 have been already discussing so to go back to the original claim of a million immigrants coming in from

00:43:59.640 india because of these agreements there is some evidence to suggest that they've at least been

00:44:03.560 looking to broaden it up and open it up a little bit so russia's first deputy prime minister dennis

00:44:09.560 mantarov announced on tuesday and this was uh back in november of last year that india and russia

00:44:17.240 are in discussion to prepare indian workers with skills through russian vocational training programs

00:44:22.360 to facilitate their future employment in russian companies and that was you know last year i think

00:44:28.360 russia already has 32 000 foreign students in russian universities but again it's quite funny because

00:44:35.080 you hear the kind of numbers that people are really worried about in russia of foreign migrants

00:44:40.360 coming into the country and it's just like a drop in the bucket compared to the west compared to us 0.98

00:44:46.520 because it's like they're panicking over the fact there's already 4 000 visa applications for

00:44:51.960 for indian workers coming into saint petersburg they're like that's way too many numbers that we 1.00

00:44:56.760 could only dream of yeah four thousand that's about at least a hundred times less than what richard

00:45:03.640 tice would promise us as a reduction of numbers coming into this country so it is funny to see the 1.00

00:45:10.440 the perspective change there uh russia has already also some companies in russia including with this

00:45:17.880 one ozon have started to turn to south asian workers as labor shortages in particular areas of

00:45:24.280 the economy open up so ozon's a big online retail place and they've been turning to workers from india

00:45:31.240 in this they include a little clip of a video that you can go to on youtube of an advert where

00:45:36.760 a man is speaking hindi and offering all of these different benefits to the people coming in they'll

00:45:41.560 get housing they'll get health insurance uh they'll get work attire food and they'll get russian

00:45:46.280 language lessons all free of charge i think one of the big differences with this though is that they

00:45:51.160 would just be coming in to do the work there's no big promise of citizenship or visa or passports being

00:45:58.760 given them to them so that they can become russian it's just like no we just want your labor that's

00:46:04.440 how the rest of the world does it really but i think hearing an indian speak russian would be the

00:46:09.640 biggest non-sequitur i would have ever heard it would maybe blow my mind a little bit

00:46:14.120 i don't know how i would deal with that and of course big surprise big surprise you're not going

00:46:22.840 to guess this one russian big business definitely wants it ah yep yeah they really want this andrei

00:46:31.400 komarov a board member of the russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs proposed training

00:46:37.080 foreign workers specifically for the russian job market at the saint petersburg international economic

00:46:42.680 forum education minister sergey kavstov also voiced support for the proposal he claimed that countries

00:46:50.040 across the former soviet union as well as in africa and latin america that's definitely what russia needs

00:46:55.400 more africans had expressed strong interest in russia's vocational educational system and its

00:47:01.320 professionalism federal project well yet of course people from incredibly poor countries are going to want

00:47:07.240 to come over and take jobs from your own people of course that's what's going to happen earlier this

00:47:12.440 year the samuel uh samuel yacht construction firm launched a pilot program to employ indian nationals

00:47:18.600 on moscow building sites company executives praised indian workers as reliable and more affordable than

00:47:25.000 central asian workers central asian i would assume meaning big non-russian parts of russia noting that

00:47:31.880 their employment contracts prevented them from switching jobs so they're literally just going we can

00:47:36.200 exploit these guys so much better please daddy government let us take in more cheap labor please 0.98

00:47:42.680 don't you love big business folks don't do it poop don't do it i've seen what you've done for the

00:47:47.560 arabs and i want you to do it for me the same for everywhere but the big thing with this one the one 1.00

00:47:55.160 million figure was coming from a man called andre besadin head of the ural chamber of commerce and

00:48:03.560 industry obviously this is a regional chamber the ural mountains that's out in you know sticks a little bit

00:48:12.280 yes this is not i think a federal section of the government this is a regional chamber of commerce he made

00:48:20.200 an assertion on wednesday saying the arrival of indian workers excuse me would assuage the country's deepening

00:48:27.080 labor shortage particularly in the sverdalovsk region but the labor ministry has said that the

00:48:34.360 recruitment of workers from india is regulated by quotas and are set a year in advance based on

00:48:39.000 regions and employers needs each specialist from visa countries invited within the quota obtains a

00:48:43.640 work visa and work permit and the company before employing a visa worker obtains permission from the

00:48:49.000 interior ministry to hire such employees so they need to get government permission to do it in the first

00:48:53.160 place russia's total quota for foreign workers in 2025 is 234 900 with 71 817 spots for indian citizens

00:49:04.360 which is less than the number of h1v visas that were issued last year in america right so but they

00:49:11.640 again point out in this article russian businesses are experimenting with it they mention the construction

00:49:17.080 pilot program they mention the other companies that i've mentioned but they say while executives

00:49:23.400 cited advantages including lower wage expectations and limited job mobility compared to central asian laborers 1.00

00:49:28.760 they also encountered early setbacks saying the results haven't been particularly successful

00:49:34.680 blaming the language barrier and cultural differences so russia is in very much the same

00:49:39.560 place as we are in terms of demographic crisis if they are below replacement rates not necessarily

00:49:45.720 that somebody like josh or i would agree that you need an enormous population especially with

00:49:50.680 automation coming along the way but for the time being the worry is while they're not doing it right now

00:49:57.160 will russia decide to pull the trigger on mass immigration to fill labor shortages for the

00:50:03.000 sake of cheap labor for big business the same way that we've experienced over here in england

00:50:07.960 the us and the rest of the west so while the statement that they're bringing in a million indians

00:50:13.240 isn't true right now i'll be interested to see how it develops because the problems

00:50:18.520 in place for the conditions to invite all of them in are definitely still there especially with the

00:50:24.120 war still going on and i can only hope as i have done this entire time that peace talks can be successful

00:50:31.000 and the conflict can be brought to an end and the killing can stop and we can all um and people can

00:50:36.920 go back to their lives whilst you're doing the rumble rants i need to quickly run to go to the toilet

00:50:42.520 that's all right uh just i'll be quick you queen eight says josh so good to see your hair again

00:50:48.200 oh well thank you nothing said about the rest of you though uh that's a random name as ukrainians

00:50:53.480 pushed back into the russian front they were taken aback by the russians lack of latrines

00:50:57.480 leaving their actual these are the new russians i would assume now have the mouse back please jack

00:51:02.440 thank you sigil stone indian troops in ukraine trying to sneak up on ukrainian troops

00:51:08.280 ukrainian troops hmm do you smell curry

00:51:12.680 scott sigh guy says my mate's russian girlfriend told him that in soviet times to boost population

00:51:17.560 there was a campaign saying that in order to be healthy women needed sperm in them at all times 0.60

00:51:23.160 i hope that's true that's what i'm gonna have to as your research for the afternoon that's what i'm

00:51:30.040 gonna i'm gonna have to look into that because that's amazing i did look into it and uh obviously

00:51:34.360 the demographic problem in russia has been a problem for a long while going back to the soviet times

00:51:39.000 they've never really been able to boost their birth rates very well um in like 2006 i think putin

00:51:45.160 started to put into uh programs to boost fertility rates to boost child better child rearing where

00:51:54.200 they were putting in financial incentives uh here's some money towards a mortgage here's

00:51:59.800 extra tax credits and stuff like that sounds like similar incentives to what orban was didn't work

00:52:05.080 in the same way that sadly orban you know bless him for trying yeah it's not worked it boosts it a

00:52:10.600 tiny little bit but not enough to get up to replacement rates yeah that's the thing it maybe boosts

00:52:15.000 it by 0.1 or 0.2 it never actually brings you up to that massive boost that you need that that old

00:52:22.120 soviet uh system sounds like it might have some merit though uh well i mean i'm a taken man i couldn't

00:52:29.080 comment that's a random name the habsification is 100 correct i'm from eastern europe and it isn't

00:52:34.280 more conservative in the west it simply isn't woke culturally it's very similar to modern day china 0.64

00:52:38.280 but with more bazes and uh on that note the habsification says russians and traditional

00:52:44.920 should not be in the same sentence russian women have large abortion rates and they're extremely 0.93

00:52:48.920 materialistic and brasses brasses i don't know what that means at the end there but uh yeah from

00:52:55.880 what i've been looking into that does seem to check out and sigil stone says as the men crawled

00:53:01.560 the general called and the killing carried on and on what was the purpose of it all what's the price

00:53:06.360 of a mile oops yeah good quote there jack's telling me off for not shutting the door when i walked in

00:53:12.280 now take us out josh give us something take you out

00:53:17.880 it's my segment gonna be that bad i'm gonna shoot you no right i need to get me uh my notes up first

00:53:24.680 don't i so there we go it is the holiday season and as it is the summer you all might be thinking of

00:53:34.440 going on holiday somewhere have you got any holidays planned october i've got one in september south of

00:53:41.480 france might have a week back up north at some point oh oh that's a that's a running yourself yeah

00:53:46.760 that's a reek good holiday that nice day at cleethorpes for me nothing fancy

00:53:51.080 but uh one thing i wouldn't suggest doing is going on a cruise with carnival cruises because

00:54:01.080 this has been a developing scandal i'd hate to be in the pr team for carnival i feel quite sorry for

00:54:07.320 them because i don't think they've necessarily done anything to deserve their reputation other than

00:54:12.600 offer cheap holidays to people i was gonna say they're an affordable brand a ryan air of cruises

00:54:18.200 yes um there's actually a guy that i'll pull up who describes them as the walmart of cruising

00:54:23.240 um which is kind of funny but back in the end of april there was a great big brawl

00:54:29.560 um and i think that this is where it was docked in texas and uh you may notice something about these

00:54:37.080 people um no i don't know they're all wearing baggy shirts um yeah but there was a 24 person

00:54:44.120 brawl jogging and um is it you know traveled across the pond the whole world saw this because

00:54:52.840 it's like wow this is unheard of a cruise ship lots of people fighting what i thought they're supposed

00:54:59.640 to be relaxing i know you think you go on a cruise it's like the most relaxed of all you don't even have

00:55:04.840 to do the traveling and then uh there was another wave of bands when this happened so uh just uh some

00:55:15.800 of the the customers throwing chairs at one another and again this did the rounds as it often does people

00:55:23.640 like a video like this it's a shame stelios isn't here because he loves this sort of thing yeah but um

00:55:30.040 you'd think that this is meant to be nice and relaxing apparently not these these cruises really

00:55:34.760 aren't very diverse are they it seems like it doesn't it and then i'm gonna play the audio

00:55:41.480 for this next one i want to talk to you all so imagine you're on a nice relaxing cruise on holiday

00:55:49.000 and you're sat down you've got a drink you're kicking back and then this walks past sorry if it's loud

00:55:56.520 jack's also good i'm gonna turn it down

00:56:07.720 what are they doing walking around through the corridors of the ship wrapping

00:56:12.440 imagine if you're in bed whoa

00:56:21.480 so these cruise ships do they come with uh waffle houses installed because they should it's just one

00:56:29.240 great big floating waffle house in spirit so i thought so well one thing i can imagine why they're

00:56:36.440 so affordable because they must save a lot of money on fire alarm batteries that's true nobody will

00:56:43.080 notice if they're very dangerous at sea on a ship as well yeah you also see this sort of behavior of just

00:56:50.120 taking the the signs off of people's doors which is just needless anti-social behavior gave the wrong mf the

00:56:57.320 drink package what's the drink package oh they've got drinks packages also

00:57:02.440 imagine coming out of the lift and then yeah i'm just trying to get back to my room

00:57:10.680 they're blaming the cruise company i don't think it's the cruise company doing this

00:57:14.680 they're just doing backflips yeah you know that's quite impressive when they say backflip yeah do

00:57:20.120 better carnival cruise do they just mean up the price well either that or they're just saying hang

00:57:26.040 on a minute remember when we had those signs on doors in america in the past that said no

00:57:30.920 no certain people of certain backgrounds i'm surprised that these people would be so eager

00:57:35.000 to be on a ship at sea i know um there'll be oh hang on i'm gonna interrupt myself actually this i

00:57:42.600 couldn't believe this when i found it so i found this video and i thought that someone overlaid um

00:57:49.880 tom hanks from toy story over the top it's just that the guy filming it sounds a bit like tom hanks like

00:57:56.520 a hick tom hanks hang on listen to this it doesn't sound like him there just when he's going whoa

00:58:14.840 no swearing mister but you you get the idea there's some more violence on the cruise ship

00:58:19.480 to be fair that guy actually sounded like he was kind of enjoying his holiday

00:58:25.400 this reminds me there was that video that went around a while back of a black guy filming another 0.67

00:58:32.440 black guy trying to rob a chinese shop where the chinese guy gets gets the upper hand on the black 1.00

00:58:38.520 guy and starts beating him like like i've seen that yeah spanking his ass with a broom and the guy 1.00

00:58:45.880 filming just switches does a complete 180 in a split second he's like oh he whipping your ass son 1.00

00:58:52.440 he whipping your ass 1.00

00:59:00.120 and here's another brawl um if you if you're noticing some similarities between those you're not 0.99

00:59:08.200 allowed to do that that is forbidden um any similarities are purely coincidence there's no

00:59:14.040 pattern of behavior here and uh just to really emphasize that here is a fight on a basketball court

00:59:22.200 they have basketball cards they know their target demographic don't they gotta play some b-ball um

00:59:30.440 yeah you you get the idea and there are other passengers here that um just look at the judgment

00:59:38.120 you get what you pay for

00:59:44.680 just are they italian women maybe they look a bit italian just a look of pure content that you i can 0.96

00:59:51.960 tell what the word that they're beaming telepathically at those women i won't say it but i know what they're

00:59:59.720 saying in their heads but if you do find yourself trapped on one of these cruises there is a safe

01:00:05.400 place now pay close attention to the swimming pool in this next one ah look at how busy it is oh

01:00:13.240 look at how crowded it is it's just kids with life jackets on in the pool there's not a single adult

01:00:20.520 person swimming in this video i still wouldn't go into a pool that's got that many people in it i find

01:00:25.720 that it's a bit crowded still isn't it but it's the least crowded part true but those kinds of

01:00:30.040 public pools are kind of disgusting i feel like um what what the ship could do with is a classical

01:00:36.280 music hall you know just a little place where you can go and enjoy some classical music i feel like

01:00:41.320 that would be one where i could be the lone anglo sat by myself enjoying some peace and quiet and the

01:00:46.360 meme of the guy at the cinema just there with the cigarette but i went on a cruise that there was like

01:00:50.760 a theater and we could go watch a theater performance and there was like live music and

01:00:56.520 we went to a nice lounge sort of bar and there's a guy playing some smooth jazz on the piano yeah

01:01:02.680 it was very nice and classy i've known some people who've worked cruises doing the music

01:01:07.800 on them and it pays well it's good work if you and you get to basically go on a perpetual holiday

01:01:13.720 yeah so uh do you think that uh if they have some magicians on board this this uh cruise ship that

01:01:21.720 you know be like oh and it's gone but that wasn't part of the act they've just gone up and nicked

01:01:26.200 things that it was oh no and your wallet has vanished i meant to make this rabbit disappear but now

01:01:31.400 my credit card is gone so i found this video on tiktok of a lawyer who's worked on

01:01:39.240 uh cruise ships his entire career okay um hang on i've got to start it from the start

01:01:47.480 sounds sensible uh yeah i actually spent some time on tiktok i'm i'm still in recovery

01:01:53.160 but this i thought was too good i don't know what's going on i've broken tiktok you might

01:01:59.800 you might have to refresh it what is this yeah just refresh your page i'm interested now yeah we can't

01:02:06.360 what right there we go now the volume it's the people fights are on all cruise lines not just

01:02:12.280 carnival really i've been doing this kind of work investigating crimes on cruise ships for over 31

01:02:19.000 years and i've never investigated a fight between passengers on any cruise line but carnival just take

01:02:26.600 a look at the dot website for the last quarter of 2022 carnival had 11 reported criminal incidents

01:02:34.440 royal caribbean was half of that and norwegian a third of that so i think it is the cruise line

01:02:39.960 that's the problem for more information about crime wait the norwegian cruises don't have big 0.95

01:02:46.520 valhalla style brawls on them apparently not apparently not i think i i love this little incredulous really

01:02:53.240 really that's great and uh i also saw this this was from a travel publication just read this opening

01:03:04.040 paragraph carnival cruise line experiences more allegations of serious crimes committed at sea

01:03:09.080 than any other cruise line sailing from north america according to the criminal activity data

01:03:13.880 reported to the fbi in accordance with blah blah blah the most common types of crimes reported aboard

01:03:19.400 carnival and all cruise line ships are assaults both sexual and those involving serious bodily injury

01:03:26.280 now if those videos are anything to go by i might have spotted a little bit of a pattern here

01:03:31.800 just i think i can't be having that i think it might be a pattern of certain people being violent

01:03:38.360 maybe it's more youth centers and and now harry you'll like this video i've got the reincarnation of

01:03:46.760 david lynch discussing the urban nature he came back but he's like a cruise enthusiast somehow david lynch

01:03:56.040 returned this guy um he he likes cruises as like his his little internet niche here he is

01:04:05.560 i'm on the dream and we have a comment wanting to know if this cruise is very good i will tell you it's a

01:04:11.800 very urban cruise the shorter the cruise the more more urban the cruise becomes he keeps on saying

01:04:18.520 it like if you take a longer cruise i'm on a six day so if i was saying on a 10 day cruise it wouldn't

01:04:24.120 be quite as urban but this is a pretty urban cruise even though there's not that many people on i mean it

01:04:31.080 is it's probably at 75 capacity but other cruise lines such as nori well you you get the idea he's basically

01:04:38.280 saying yelling like gordon cole isn't he coop it's great to see you i couldn't believe my luck we've

01:04:45.560 had tom kank hanks and david lynch amazing are we getting kubrick next resurrecting him from beyond

01:04:52.600 the grave so that he can scowl at the urban cruisers so after all of these videos is going to be a new

01:04:59.960 euphemism cruisers could be here i hate cruises um anyway as all of this uh all of these videos

01:05:10.840 came out this was shared and this got a lot of recognition 15.7 million people viewed it it says

01:05:17.240 as of june 2025 these are the new rules carnival cruise has implemented i'm going to read through

01:05:22.520 all of them because they're hilarious stricter drug enforcement cannabis even if legal in your home

01:05:29.000 state is banned on board under federal law violation and violators face removal and permanent bans

01:05:34.440 that's the first law youth curfew guests 17 and under must leave public spaces by 1am which is

01:05:40.680 pretty generous yeah unless accompanied by an adult or part of a supervised teen program

01:05:46.520 now this one puzzled me until i looked it up and found out that actually it's a black culture thing that

01:05:51.400 they have these handheld fans that go clack and really annoying they even their fans make loud noises

01:05:58.360 um it says fan restrictions handheld non-battery fans are now prohibited partly due to safety

01:06:03.960 concerns surrounding the viral where them fans at line dance i wonder who is doing this this is like

01:06:12.840 a lesson in anthropology right now josh thank you bluetooth speaker van guests may no longer play their

01:06:19.880 own music in public areas carnival says the rules is for comfort but many see racial bias in enforcement

01:06:26.120 i love that they just note that you see yeah you think it's racist just leave it at that yeah you

01:06:31.720 may think so we don't care stop doing it wait until you say what they said about people's reaction to

01:06:37.640 this um so i've been on a big old cruise i went on two week mediterranean one when i was 17.

01:06:44.760 it was very good not a single person played music from a bluetooth speaker they did exist back then i know

01:06:51.080 it was a long time ago i know i'm 30 this year so that was nearly 15 years ago but still um drinks

01:06:58.600 package enforcement 15 day drink limit on carnival cheers package has existed for years but is now

01:07:03.720 being enforced more strictly and that's the daily drink limit as well so 15 drinks plenty to get along

01:07:09.240 with that's more than enough yeah and reduced music genre options though not officially banned hip hop and

01:07:17.400 rap appear to be quietly removed from many ship playlists and beethoven added in djs also reportedly

01:07:25.480 declined guest requests now you could you could compact all six of those rules into just stop being

01:07:32.360 urban yes it's it's funny how like if we just didn't have to dance around the subject it could be

01:07:39.880 really it could be simplified it could be really simplified it was condensed to one rule in the past

01:07:47.160 um no carnival cruises it's not banning rap music says business insider um but that's not what is

01:07:54.760 claimed in the original post the original post is saying that they've not officially banned it but

01:07:58.840 they're they're saying you know maybe we shouldn't be playing that that stuff because it gets a very urban

01:08:04.440 demographic and uh here is a person who checked it out they went to um listen to some music i'm not

01:08:12.520 going to play it out loud because of copyright but it's not rap music it's very much pop music

01:08:19.400 and lots of other people who have been on cruises this month in june have said okay we've not really

01:08:25.000 heard any rap music so it seems like there's some truth to it but i don't know maybe it's just coincidence

01:08:31.880 it is possible so um i thought it was interesting and they responded to a lot of the backlash over the

01:08:40.760 rules and allow me to introduce the most legendary rebuttal here where it is here we go so it starts

01:08:49.560 with in a statement in a statement the company emphasized that the rules are intended to promote

01:08:53.800 a more peaceful environment not to signal any form of cultural erasure in fact many of these policies

01:08:59.880 have been in place for years as explained in a february 2023 video outlining what's appropriate

01:09:06.200 while on board their ship so not only are they saying now we don't care that you're calling our

01:09:11.080 rules racist it's like they're racist now and they were in 2023 as well deal with it it's our cruise

01:09:18.120 liners they're basically owning it right they're just saying yeah um there's all this controversy

01:09:23.000 and they're like actually we passed these rules two years ago which is actually quite a good defense

01:09:28.520 because then they're just weren't able to enforce them for some reason apparently not but it's just

01:09:32.760 like doubling down which i appreciate but they're saying that they're not this is like a condensed

01:09:38.360 version and they're not actually the real rules that's not like an official document however here is

01:09:43.720 an official document and it's basically the same thing here we go smoking illegal narcotics handheld fans

01:09:52.440 and beverages personal devices curfew guest corridors is saying please refrain from running and making

01:09:59.480 noise including shouting and screaming in hallways since doing so disrupts other guests who may be

01:10:05.560 resting sleeping in their staterooms which need not be said to some people i didn't have anyone running

01:10:13.080 or shouting in the hallways when i went on my cruise in fact i don't remember anyone even making noise

01:10:18.120 people whispered actually really conscientious considerate it's like a library atmosphere in

01:10:23.480 the corridors that was very peaceful it was it was good because the boat at one point was in a storm

01:10:29.480 and i was rocking back and forth in my little cabin it was making me feel quite sick along with the

01:10:34.760 alcohol i'd consumed but anyway i've just got a mental image of you in like a hawaiian shirt shorts and

01:10:41.720 sunglasses go like otto from the simpsons i was thinking more like bill and ted but yeah

01:10:52.120 it's not too far off to be honest yeah and uh understandably black people have realized what's 0.99

01:10:59.640 going on and they've been upset about it um here is uh travel noir which is a funny name to be reporting

01:11:08.600 on this basically just travel black in in french but okay black passengers feel targeted by carnival

01:11:15.800 cruise lines new rules um they they are being targeted that's true and rather than complaining

01:11:22.120 about it perhaps one must adjust their behavior to not offend other people so you can continue to have

01:11:27.160 nice things what you do is you you exhibit the behavior to continue having nice things you know you

01:11:33.400 exhibit the behavior that created it in the first place but we'll get to that in a second and um

01:11:40.120 here's another one this is from the root carnival's new rules got black folks all in their feelings 0.96

01:11:46.680 but others say cruise lands justify sorry i couldn't resist um i'm just being silly um

01:11:54.840 and they're they're complaining about the rules in in part but also pointing out that some people say

01:11:59.320 actually people are going there to have a nice relaxing holiday and people aren't doing that

01:12:04.520 and they're not specifically targeting black people and actually saying that is kind of funny in in and

01:12:09.560 of itself because you're admitting hey you've got rules against being loud and obnoxious and consider

01:12:14.920 it i'm personally offended yeah and just one specific group can't seem to find it in themselves to

01:12:20.120 adhere to those rules just can't do it if you feel like it's targeted why do you think they feel it's

01:12:26.200 necessary to do that is a question that you should ask yourself the hell is this headline i know these

01:12:32.200 rules got black folks all in their feelings i know quality journalism harry and uh oh that's the wrong 0.61

01:12:42.280 link here we go that's what i was after um they've got they've got people complaining i'm not going to 0.96

01:12:49.080 play it because it's annoying but she's just saying they they don't like black people and she's saying

01:12:56.760 saying that the rules are obviously racist which i find interesting because it's just saying like be 0.51

01:13:00.680 nice to other people you're making it unpleasant for them it's enforcing white cultural standards 0.94

01:13:06.200 that's what's racist about it but whether these this screenshot is legitimate or not it has got people

01:13:13.160 um saying so this lady is saying that she's not sure she wants to go on a carnival cruise anymore 0.99

01:13:20.600 even though she's booked it because she feels like she's not welcome anymore so sort of having

01:13:26.680 the intended effect if that was the intention she can't be annoying i guess so i i don't really

01:13:33.160 understand it's like well she's complaining about they're not playing rap music on on the cruise

01:13:39.000 do you know what it's so difficult with the kind of music you know us guys listen to to go in any

01:13:45.480 public place you don't know how lucky you have it having some degree of cultural hegemony even though

01:13:50.200 that hip-hop music is uh annoying mostly horrible yes and then here is someone who's actually cancelled

01:14:01.080 their crews because of the new rules um so these rules work i guess and we we do have a video to

01:14:09.640 pull up um i believe meet the new rules same as the old rules there is one guy that gets it oh and

01:14:18.680 i'm gonna use this to play us out basically uh hopefully you don't have bill o'reilly amongst us

01:14:23.800 he doesn't understand what that means but uh here we are sick of y'all and before y'all get on 0.97

01:14:29.080 here talking about some oh they racist they hate black people no they hate that's what they hate i 0.99

01:14:34.840 hate them too they hate that's exactly what it is y'all don't know how to handle y'all so y'all get on 1.00

01:14:40.040 here get drunk get the fighting being disruptive disturbing all the other passengers that's all it

01:14:46.840 is like i act like y'all have no home training like everywhere don't have to be a party some people

01:14:54.760 pay for this just to simply relax what a revelation

01:15:02.920 and there we go so i guess there's two lessons to learn here if you want a nice relaxing cruise

01:15:10.200 maybe give carnival a miss for the time being and there's a lesson to the the people who um normally

01:15:16.680 frequent carnival cruises the people who like going on them um if you want nice things perhaps you should

01:15:22.360 exhibit the behaviors that make their existence possible sound advice there we go right let's go to

01:15:32.040 the videos the mention of mecha hitler yesterday has reminded me that i finally solved the power

01:15:42.120 shoe with the mex arms you see the fuse boxes couldn't handle all the power so i just bypassed it

01:15:47.880 however also our control board was improperly wired and it fried not only itself but the main

01:15:52.680 computer building mix isn't easy but one day it would be fun to have an ai control one with an

01:15:58.360 emergency shut off of course i did find a potential candidate but i've run out of time so i'll show it

01:16:03.720 off in tomorrow's video comment is uh that robot doing the salute i thought it was after the mention of

01:16:09.400 mecha hitler and that was a per it was a pretty straight arm we'll just move on got a body but

01:16:17.800 i'm glad you fixed it a man is trying to drive a car in city cons london this looks like a job for the

01:16:24.040 euler's camera hey fill the euler's camera find londoners millions hunt down the driver and lock them

01:16:32.520 up but wait right wing nutters are cleaning the london underground attack them publicly in the london

01:16:39.000 assembly call them names ignore all the killers and thieves and watch london's crime wave spiral

01:16:44.760 the new sadi khan collection from lego city that's great that's amazing i respect people who make those

01:16:51.960 and thank you for sending it in yeah i'm i missed those old adverts as well they were great they were

01:16:57.320 that was a particularly good one have we got any more hi guys uh long time listener from new

01:17:03.000 zealand um just wondering if i could get a comment from you on what you think of dave smith's fake

01:17:11.000 he's like a contemporary of candace owens wondering if i could get a your viewpoints on

01:17:15.320 his talking points about current events whether you listen to him what you think about what he's

01:17:19.960 talking about okay thanks obviously i enjoy your work i'm always here i'm the crazy conspiracy

01:17:26.280 curious person i hope that none of my clients see this video it's nice to finally put a face to the

01:17:34.280 name charles thank you for sending what an auspicious day i have returned i know just for when josh came

01:17:39.320 back i don't always watch dave smith um but i do catch part of the problem sometimes and i always try

01:17:46.360 and catch up when he's appearing as guests on other people shows uh dave is a very reasonable

01:17:52.840 guy he's a very intelligent guy and he's very principled as well so even on subjects that i

01:17:58.040 disagree with him on sometimes most of the time i find that the two of us align on most issues and i

01:18:04.120 respect his integrity yeah he strikes i don't agree with him on everything but i i respect him because he

01:18:09.800 seems to be talking about these things from first principles and he seems to be very genuine about

01:18:16.600 what he's saying i've not actually seen any of his comedy because he's a comedian first i know

01:18:20.440 neither have i actually hopefully it's not like joe rogan where you see his comedy and just like well

01:18:25.400 good job he's a podcaster yeah with dave i think the thing that i most align with him on uh tends to be

01:18:32.440 his anti-war positions he comes at it from more of a principled purely anti-war uh prince first

01:18:39.560 principle uh whereas i when it comes to war would probably be a bit more pragmatic i do think that

01:18:45.240 there are some situations i he had this discussion with oron mcintyre there are some situations uh where

01:18:52.120 war could be justified particularly defensive uh but his position on trump's recent aggression

01:18:59.240 against iran and his positions on things like the iraq war the forever wars in the middle east

01:19:04.440 all of that are very well thought out and uh very well explained as well when you listen to him

01:19:11.000 okay let's go to the comments we do have some more rumble for your segment if you'd like i just

01:19:16.040 realized i'm i just realized i'm a guest and i'm already like saying let's go to the comments

01:19:21.480 stepping on your toes you'll never be just a guest there's still time to swap chairs josh i won't i'll

01:19:26.760 never be just a guest i'm a turncoat and a traitor benedict arnold all right let's have a look at some

01:19:33.640 rumble rants i hate cruisers says sigil stone uh the engaged few joggers can gonna jog guest carnival

01:19:40.760 decided they didn't want to be known as the section eight of cruise lines anymore i saw people making

01:19:45.080 that joke and i don't understand what the section eight actually is is that i'm not familiar i i guess

01:19:52.120 that's some sort of unpleasant thing i i should just google it shouldn't i section eight uh united

01:20:01.000 states isn't is that a designation housing choice voucher program yeah i was gonna say that's a

01:20:07.480 house helps low-income families okay that's that's a housing designation i had to google the joke but

01:20:13.960 thank you for making um you know that meme from no country for old men of anton sugar sitting there

01:20:19.800 with a glass of milk and the caption says stairs in violent disgust that's how i feel watching this

01:20:25.400 i'm glad i could have been a part of it what if what if counterintuitively we make the uh the

01:20:30.680 carnival cruises even cheaper um so even more even more joggers uh go go on luca don't say these 0.98

01:20:41.000 i just read it that says sigil stone says section eight is um in the us what we'd call council houses

01:20:47.080 okay and there are two related to my segment hapsification harry brass is a slang for sex

01:20:52.280 worker is a prostitute here in merry old england you'd hear a couple of geezers looking for a brass 1.00

01:21:00.440 on a night out or holiday i've never heard that before actually so you learn something new every 0.98

01:21:06.120 day or you could say um i'm looking for some brass i hope you don't run into a couple of coppers 0.91

01:21:10.920 uh sigil stone offering money doesn't be raise birth rates almost like it's not material conditions

01:21:18.120 yeah there's it's a multi-factor thing but i do think that as long as as long as people have a

01:21:25.000 certain level of urban comfort if they can urban order to let order deliveroo and their slop arrives on

01:21:32.760 time and if they can waste their days and evenings playing video games and watching mindless tv hey

01:21:39.960 don't insult my new routine then the incentives to have children are somewhat lessened there are

01:21:49.320 other factors in that as well of course but bread and circuses is a real great pacifier of the popular

01:21:55.240 of the masses especially when you're also trying to feed them other antenatal ideologies and such i also

01:22:00.600 think that there can also be a non-deliberate aspect to it that we've never had this degree

01:22:06.360 of urban density and just sheer population in countries and you know a lot of people live in

01:22:14.280 major cities now over half the world and it makes sense that the population slows because when you're

01:22:19.320 in a major city people's life strategy changes this is an observable psychological phenomenon where they

01:22:25.080 have you know they invest a lot more into fewer offspring but they make sure that that those fewer

01:22:30.760 offspring are more likely to be successful yeah so it isn't necessarily irrational i just think that

01:22:36.680 there are people that aren't exhibiting the optimal behavior yes and on that subject related to russia

01:22:43.480 it's worth noting that about 70 or 80 percent of russia's population lives in urban areas so that's also

01:22:49.560 definitely a fact you're not living in an urban area you're like in the middle of nowhere and you're

01:22:53.480 sort of surviving really aren't you in russia you're still just a serf out there tending your land

01:22:59.640 not even enforced by the state just by sheer circumstance alone didn't even know the soviet

01:23:05.160 union collapse you're so isolated that does happen doesn't it yeah that's funny anyway let's go to some

01:23:11.240 of the written comments sure all right so

01:23:19.400 there we go uh all right so uh omar awad says it's a strange political horseshoe where the left

01:23:26.360 uh come to the same conclusion as the right but about different demographics i'd hate the hate them

01:23:32.360 a lot less if they just deport the indisputably harmful groups as well well yeah yeah totally here

01:23:40.280 uh lucra if you're not careful starmer will agree to take in all the people that spain kicks out

01:23:46.600 well like say if it was just baz's then we could definitely you know imagine what we could do

01:23:52.280 with a few more thousand baz's in bradford but normally they're they're sort of pensioner baz's that

01:23:57.560 are going there for their retirement aren't they yeah they went out there for the quiet life the silver

01:24:02.440 bars um fear fear is like i can fix spain maybe maybe the uh long live vox indeed uh luke cooper says

01:24:14.760 i lived in france in the uh savoy region and saw graffiti on mountainside saying stop the french

01:24:21.960 occupation of the savoy in french and in english it's nice

01:24:26.920 what a peculiar i've seen graffiti in foreign countries where they write it in two languages

01:24:33.000 and i'm just like that's almost wonderfully quaint that's that's for our benefit

01:24:38.200 it's like they're gonna and and sometimes the graffiti is not even relevant i'm just like i'm

01:24:41.800 an english tourist this is not this is of no concern to me why did you write it in my language

01:24:46.360 the google translator of mountain ranges uh what's happening as always they're all hoping that

01:24:53.240 will bring the empire back what it always comes back to spanish will dust off their galleons again 0.99

01:25:00.040 yeah there's like one one more time for old times sake it's like the stones playing a gig in their

01:25:07.080 80s so this is our last farewell tour we swear this time hms drake uh spanish regions that uh made

01:25:15.080 turn separatist what do you uh mean spain isn't just tacos football and catholicism i think you're

01:25:22.520 thinking of mexico there aren't you yeah that's more of it it does make me laugh they play football

01:25:27.240 in mexico yeah of course i thought they do yeah they do that too it's luchadors you can do multiple

01:25:32.840 sports no you can't in mexico they allow it they also they also do mass cartel beheadings but no one's

01:25:39.080 that's not really taken off the greatest national sport yeah it's a lot of logistics that go on into

01:25:45.000 that okay no they're big big on their football in mexico i think mexico beat the us not too long ago

01:25:50.680 in a football match which was quite funny uh i mean the americans don't really care about football

01:25:55.160 do they not actual football yeah but mexico come on america you care now don't you i can see it in

01:26:00.760 your eyes through the camera lens i'll read through some of mine uh anonymity does anyone in the

01:26:06.520 developed world understand that other ethnic groups will seek to conquer you all of western 0.99

01:26:10.520 europe australia new zealand america canada japan south korea and now russia there are indians running

01:26:16.200 stores in malta does no one think that once the indians reach critical mass they will start exerting

01:26:20.200 power why is it always indians why not other parts of the developed world there's a few answers to the

01:26:24.360 questions that you've um put forward there first of all indians are quite unique in a master diaspora

01:26:31.320 when they come over to these countries because i actually disagree i don't think they want to

01:26:36.120 exert power or dominate the other ethnic groups i kind of think they just want to be here running 0.99

01:26:42.280 corner shops yeah i think for for indians i don't they take part in our culture to some degree but i

01:26:48.440 think they're just here because they they get a better quality of life to raise their family than

01:26:52.600 they do in india which is true and obviously when rishi sunak became prime minister we saw all those

01:26:58.040 videos in india of them going like aha now we're in charge but rishi sunak himself didn't like govern

01:27:06.120 like a demagogue over the english like that um and why is it always in these well there's two reasons

01:27:13.320 for that one obviously india has an enormous population to begin with the same with china but

01:27:18.680 china is less likely to send out emigres in the same way that india is because china's a very developed

01:27:24.760 country in many ways and also um certainly more so than india yeah most of the people they send out

01:27:30.680 end up being spies um and the other the other thing is that india already has ironically enough

01:27:37.880 interstate because it's an enormous subcontinental region split into multiple states interstate

01:27:42.920 migration problems driving down wages in places like new delhi so new delhi and other parts of india

01:27:49.640 they've got millions and millions of people on strike right now i was looking this up in preparation

01:27:54.840 for the segment it just didn't come up uh where they are complaining because modi is

01:28:00.200 implemented new work policies that reduce the ability to strike reduce the power of unions and

01:28:07.400 increase working hours and also you've got all of these interstate foreign other indian workers

01:28:13.800 moving into your state like new delhi and taking jobs and lowering wages so even indians have indians 1.00

01:28:19.800 yes exactly that exactly that good so they have their own internal economic migration problems

01:28:25.960 indians all the way down which will be pushing some of them out into the rest of the world so 1.00

01:28:30.760 they can try and find work elsewhere it's really really fascinating stuff send them to the front line

01:28:36.280 against pakistan well they'd be up for that yeah they'd be well up for that to be fair uh alex 0.96

01:28:41.480 ptolemy mormons are very wealthy and have massive fertility as we can see economic conditions worsening 1.00

01:28:46.680 fertility doesn't increase i think hand waving the away the issue being one of just wealth doesn't address

01:28:51.560 the issue like i said i agree i i think there are multiple factors into it it does seem that as

01:28:56.920 economies become and territories become more urban and become more liberalized as well uh that they

01:29:03.400 do experience big problems with fertility the mormons are wealthy but they're also very rural and they 1.00

01:29:08.280 do have traditional values and religion behind them so obviously they they do not suffer necessarily

01:29:13.880 the same problems one of those issues where it seems like it's a death by a thousand cuts there's

01:29:18.920 multiple different factors that add up in a very small way to a much bigger phenomenon i think

01:29:25.880 and zesty king says all of a sudden russian car crash videos will start to feature random indians

01:29:30.280 taking selfies in front of oncoming traffic that is weird the way that you see those videos and trying

01:29:35.800 to take selfies in front of trains and they just why would you do that if anybody can explain in

01:29:41.720 the comments why do they do that let's go on with your comments josh michael says this is why

01:29:48.360 when on a cruise uh stay towards the back of the ship in the the lower floors smoother sailing and

01:29:54.200 far away from the madness of the main party decks i've never known a party deck really in a cruise ship

01:30:00.920 i didn't realize it was like that if it was just like a big party for them depending on how long the

01:30:07.240 cruise is you'd get bored of it very quickly but according to that cruise expert the one i went on was

01:30:11.880 14 days so that probably filter out the urban uh element wouldn't it because it's a long and

01:30:18.200 expensive one thank you for introducing me to that man that's all right um az desert rat says isn't

01:30:25.880 carnival the company behind the infamous poop cruise i think uh 2017 right i'm googling that

01:30:31.640 cruise 2017 that's not something i want in my search history inside the revolting story of the

01:30:38.920 infamous poop cruise well i know what i'm doing with my afternoon pooping on a cruise 2013 and it

01:30:44.680 was a carnival cruise i'm pretty sure one of their boats sank as well i was going to make a joke about

01:30:50.440 it but i think people oh no toilets gave up in the middle of the sea and there's a netflix documentary

01:30:55.800 about it now oh gosh if only my evening is sorted if only there were buckets and a whole ocean to dump

01:31:03.960 them in just saying i mean it's not the worst thing if you're on a cruise liner i mean it goes

01:31:09.400 into the ocean anyway sorry the guardian poop cruise review three stars out of five a fascinating

01:31:16.040 look at a toilet disaster still haunts passengers it just keeps on coming back it wouldn't flush

01:31:25.720 where's stellios stellios needs to watch this and uh on that note that's all we've got time for

01:31:33.480 today ladies and brown shell uh if you'd like you can on that brown note it's time to end you can

01:31:41.560 come and join calvin for his common sense crusade at three and if not then we'll see you at 1pm

01:31:47.160 tomorrow for the podcast thank you for your time bye

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 10, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1205

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