The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1212

00:00:00.000 good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to the podcast the loadseaters for monday

00:00:09.520 that's monday but this is a good monday it's the 21st of july and i'm joined by beau and luca

00:00:14.780 and today we are talking about how things are escalating in epping how the japanese have

00:00:20.480 decided yeah we are actually hard right as well and uh how the late night comedians are getting 0.81

00:00:25.260 canceled because they suck uh so basically right this is a really good news episode of the podcast 0.57

00:00:30.880 so you know it might be monday but we're setting up for what's looking like a good week hopefully 0.94

00:00:34.840 um anyway right well let's let's get into epping yeah all right then so i covered uh at the end

00:00:40.780 of last week the uh the first episode uh in this whole epping saga which is really the point now

00:00:47.940 that there's now this is becoming a consistent thing right there's actually it wasn't just a

00:00:54.000 once and done oh we've been there we've shown our our rage and our ire and uh now we're all going to

00:00:59.480 go away no people it goes on saying one of the articles this is a fourth protest in less than two

00:01:05.880 weeks now right fourth protest in less than two weeks and so what we're seeing is the community

00:01:12.140 really coming together and snapping basically they're saying we're we're not leaving until they

00:01:19.460 leave until those in the hotels are packed up and sent off essentially i mean well the thing is about

00:01:25.760 the people of epping is where else do they have to go right like i and as i understand there are a lot

00:01:30.320 of them who are from london this is true refugees from london yes they've already had to flee once 0.99

00:01:35.840 because of the diversification of their towns so why what are they going to do keep keep retreating no

00:01:41.920 good that they're out it's actually kind of my neck of the woods essex deepest essex yeah i've been to

00:01:49.000 everything for us loads of time debden theed and bois all around there i know that place really

00:01:53.000 quite well um it's actually um there's a parallel with the men of essex rising up in the peasant's

00:01:59.380 revolt that was where that the epicenter of all that was around around brentwood and bocking and

00:02:05.300 places like that so it's like the northern irish right like the most hardcore the first to really

00:02:10.360 snap and then it's the essex boys something in the water in those dreams something in the south end

00:02:16.240 desk jury no doubt but um but you can see here from this article that the labor reopened this

00:02:23.780 particular hotel so the tories closed it towards the end of their very you know traitorous term in

00:02:30.760 office and then labor reopened it again right which is even more ridiculous that you've given this the

00:02:38.080 people this illusion that they've actually worn and that their streets are going to return to

00:02:41.780 peace and normality and then psych here they come again here they come again just as a reminder

00:02:50.640 this this all began because one of the migrants from wherever was accused of sexual assaulting

00:02:57.060 three times the three children yes uh and hadn't been in the country for had only been here for a few

00:03:03.740 weeks yes or somewhere laugh but that is a weird commitment uh yeah like i should wait a month

00:03:12.240 i saw somewhere it was eight days yeah so that suggests yeah that was that was why he came here

00:03:19.440 yeah you have that in mind yeah yeah and but also on top of all of this like obviously we know all about

00:03:26.960 the hotels we've been covering for them for years and years but even now this as the telecraft talks

00:03:32.840 about questions about migrant hotels uh prevented under council's privacy rules so you don't

00:03:38.500 actually have to announce to your community or the local neighborhood that this is about to just

00:03:43.680 spring up and cause untold anxiety and worry for your children just in the middle of your

00:03:49.000 neighborhood overnight it's just springs like the tories sneaking in the how many thousands of

00:03:53.780 afghans so they they're hoping they can just dump these in your community and you won't notice like 1.00

00:03:58.200 sorry i mean you know eight days and he's touching kids we're going to notice you know these these

00:04:03.920 people are visible so and also from the same article it points out that there are now thought to be

00:04:10.820 more than 200 similar hotels across the uk housing about 32 000 people a projected cost of 15 billion

00:04:19.280 by 2029 which is five times the annual cost of britain's nuclear deterrent

00:04:25.000 just to put that into perspective right i mean you talk about how they dump it in the middle of

00:04:30.880 your community without asking yeah i remember when there's one not a stone's throw from here

00:04:36.320 that was used there was and it got closed down and um yeah i remember when it first happened like

00:04:42.200 literally one day you turn up and there was i think they must have been doing a fire drill or something

00:04:46.720 because there was they were all standing hundreds of all young men standing outside waiting and so i went to

00:04:52.720 the police station there's a police community building in the middle of swindon which is also

00:04:57.240 now closed right and i said i went in there and i said uh like you know there's like this migrant hotel

00:05:03.840 thing going on like are they vetted or asked like questions like that and they were immediately

00:05:09.940 uh completely defensive saying well how do you know how do you know they're not here legally

00:05:15.440 and stuff and like basically shut up and go away uh so that that was the police's attitude and the

00:05:22.280 council of course never consulted anyone of course yeah how do you know they're not here legally

00:05:27.560 everybody knows yeah everybody knows obviously

00:05:31.340 it's ridiculous so as regards to the recent protests that we had uh yesterday on sunday so another day in

00:05:40.560 epping another protest and as you can see here it was five arrested as more than 1 000 protesters 0.63

00:05:46.960 gathered so it's picking up more people are coming out now more and more people showing solidarity

00:05:52.140 showing strength showing how they're just done with this absolutely done with this in their community

00:05:58.020 and just a quick thing on that i i very much appreciate this is local community action i agree

00:06:03.920 um i you know there are lots of people online who you know big right-wing names i actually do agree

00:06:10.440 that we shouldn't be going getting involved uh these guys seem to have this do uh and this it's more

00:06:16.740 powerful when it's the local community if we were to go and get involved this would make it about us

00:06:21.620 and not them and not the issue and i mean look at what they're saying you know send them home save

00:06:25.640 our kids yeah i completely sign off on this message completely agree with them completely support them

00:06:30.360 uh i don't need to get involved they're handling it they are they are handling it and the police

00:06:35.920 are certainly not handling it right every every day that these uh wonderful local people come out

00:06:42.420 and protest this the police just look worse and worse yeah every time which is also good what's the

00:06:48.640 argument on the other side well uh keep the rapey nancy migrants near your schools the police 1.00

00:06:54.160 just act as some sort of private army on behalf of sex criminals yeah what a concise but obviously 0.81

00:07:01.200 accurate summary like what else would you describe that yeah well it's when he says um in an apparent

00:07:07.240 response to allegations that the police had taken a two-tier approach uh that favored the counter

00:07:13.740 demonstration that sorry did any of the counter demonstration get run over like so or get their

00:07:20.840 teeth knocked out and let's not forget that the counter demonstration were literally getting

00:07:24.940 bussed in in a way by the police themselves the allegations to tell shut up because they were

00:07:29.700 locals yeah who needed bus rides yeah exactly get to the site uh and no no not at all and so it says

00:07:37.800 um let's see chief um superintendent simon onslow said unfortunately across social media we are seeing

00:07:45.320 inflammatory comments which suggests that we are supporting and enabling certain protesters well

00:07:50.800 only because you were caught on camera doing that simon getting in your vans there uh this is

00:07:56.360 categorically not true uh we police without fear or favor remaining impartial at all times and have

00:08:02.820 legal responsibilities to yes we know you have those responsibilities we're pointing out you're

00:08:07.320 failing at them terribly we know the rhetoric but we don't believe you no it's that simple no not at

00:08:13.300 all and of course this no matter how peaceful they are ah yes and we'll come to that they really

00:08:20.160 want to hammer down on the sheer thuggery of of the essex man far right thuggery far right there's no

00:08:27.040 other kind of thuggery right that's true let's bear in mind that's a good point and what i love though

00:08:31.600 we've arrived at the now we need to smear these people stage of the events right is a yeah no people

00:08:37.460 don't want their children being molested by foreigners and they i mean you know above all the 1.00

00:08:41.880 all of the things and it's like right yeah well they're far right it's like you know what i think you

00:08:45.200 do think they're far right i think that you actually think that the sort of people who don't want

00:08:48.940 their children molested by achmed or whatever are far right yeah maybe that maybe that's true but 0.99

00:08:53.420 that says a lot about you rather than them what an unbelievably perverse paradigm it is yes that if 0.97

00:09:00.680 you're against sex crime then you're the problem if you're against you're the thug 0.88

00:09:07.780 importing sex criminals right yeah even forcing people to pay for their the pleasure of having them 0.99

00:09:13.720 near their local schools and molesting their kids they're the problem yeah 0.94

00:09:17.700 again like i i put out video today so look the british state is just the enemy of england and the

00:09:24.400 english people right and this i couldn't think of a better example to show so yeah no they're going to 0.95

00:09:30.360 tax you use this money to bring in foreign criminals who are going to assault your children 1.00

00:09:35.160 and then they're going to call you the problem when you complain you know yeah you are the enemy

00:09:40.060 of the people 100 like rupert lowe is completely correct to identify the state as the enemy at this

00:09:44.920 point it's great that it shifted to the point where the slurs the slings and arrows don't really

00:09:50.900 have much effect anymore that if you're in favor of protecting children then you get called a bigger

00:09:56.560 a nazi a little hitler whatever you're like yeah sure fine yeah okay whatever you well is there really

00:10:01.960 any higher good than just protecting children no right this isn't it it's like it's transparently not 0.65

00:10:09.040 but what i love is that they they literally are saying you're in the way of us molesting children

00:10:13.760 like we bring these people into my children you're a bigot for not like well i'm sorry that that's

00:10:18.280 your goal and i'm sorry that that makes me a bigot but i'm not going to back down from my position on

00:10:22.540 this just because you think that makes me big i mean maybe i don't know but i'm not i'm not moving

00:10:27.080 from this position and that's just where it is sorry no not at all how's this for a threat though

00:10:31.360 uh from onslau where he says ourselves which have been filling up throughout the evening

00:10:37.100 are ready for you oh well they're not ready for the sex criminals no well he goes on to say it says 0.50

00:10:42.100 i think i speak for all of us including the people of epping when i say we've had enough of your

00:10:47.220 criminality the criminals are in the hotels what right they are the criminals talking about right

00:10:53.000 just fantasy land total fantasy but notice the threat the state sees you as the enemy they're like

00:10:59.740 no it's just like with southport we are going to come for you it's going to be 24-hour courts

00:11:04.080 we are going to make sure no resources are left unallocated to persecute you to stamp you down

00:11:09.620 you are the danger to the current paradigm not the not the important sex criminals they're part of the

00:11:14.660 current paradigm these people though they're the problem no and uh well even just a practical

00:11:21.440 government a pragmatic government would have looked at what happened in southport and you know the

00:11:26.660 riots and everything that happened after and gone okay really need to get on top of this now but no

00:11:30.960 it's just been allowed to continue and we're still here years and years down the road tory and labor

00:11:36.500 well a practical government wouldn't come across any of these problems i mean like no we're not

00:11:40.580 importing a bunch of sex criminals why are we doing this well i agree with you of course but i just

00:11:44.360 simply mean for the state's own self-preservation but but that's but you are right to to emphasize a

00:11:49.380 practical government doesn't do this right this is an ideological government this is a government

00:11:53.840 it's like no we are protecting the human rights of sex criminals yes that's more important than

00:11:57.720 the innocence of your children and that's what we're going to threaten you with we're going to

00:12:02.200 threaten you with jail so you won't even be around to protect your children what a thing to say that

00:12:07.240 quote you read out from the policeman that it's it's the inverse of justice isn't it yes yes it is

00:12:13.000 um again the word perverse comes to mind they've perverted what justice means

00:12:18.640 so you have here the police arriving yesterday and uh it's just the numbers that they're bringing in

00:12:28.700 to protect this hotel it's not a huge town no expense will be spared to protect the clients of

00:12:35.780 the regime and so you have um this the mounting and then but then when you look at just the people

00:12:42.900 who were turning up yesterday very powerful message very powerful message i see john wong there

00:13:01.660 it's um but um but yeah no i it's concerned mums and dads right and actually i'm very can

00:13:13.560 i'm very hopeful by just how many women there are out there by how many uh mothers yeah you know as 1.00

00:13:20.180 well it's not just the fathers coming out now it's uh you know the women as well and normal folk of

00:13:27.420 the of the area who don't want this happening to them a true grassroots movement of people so you

00:13:33.420 can see why the left hates it like jesus christ kind of that would you say it's a populist it's

00:13:38.600 like actual i mean i wouldn't even say i wouldn't call it ideological they don't really seem to have

00:13:42.880 many leaders or any leader it's actually just a yeah true grassroots i mean it seems to be based in

00:13:48.880 sort of pre-politics right it's like look this is our community we are all related to one another in

00:13:53.420 some way we're friends neighbors family members and a bunch of strangers have been allowed to come

00:13:58.600 here and predate on our children and we're not we don't want that we're not going to have it and

00:14:02.180 we're going to stand up for our kids so it doesn't seem to be like an ideological or political movement

00:14:06.960 it seems to be a like natural reaction that a normal community holds only because some people have

00:14:13.340 argued that such things don't ever happen that's a delusion well the the question of it you know

00:14:18.840 doing anything in the long run is the question i think yeah uh but i i i agree with that point but

00:14:24.920 on this this is let's face it a smaller scale project right this is this is all uh informed by

00:14:32.660 just one objective that everyone in the community can get behind close this hotel yes right and protect

00:14:40.360 the kids yeah it's basic it's simple it's pure and so i think that that will give it legs because it's

00:14:47.280 not a complicated issue there's not really any minutiae or having to quandary on you know

00:14:53.880 the morals of it yeah there's there's no moral argument on the other side right that's that's

00:14:58.520 the thing it's like look we don't want a bunch of strangers who want to touch our kids and i mean the

00:15:02.200 hotel is right next to the school as well yeah it's around the corner what the hell do you think

00:15:06.140 you're doing and so there's just no moral argument in favor of what the government and the police are

00:15:10.320 doing here and the moral calculus the weight of the argument is entirely on the protestor side

00:15:15.380 so i i completely agree with you like we don't need to think about big picture things here this

00:15:19.620 is just the battle for wrapping here and the locals should win they should and they're doing very well

00:15:24.960 although i do have i agree with morgoth's point for some reason this clip isn't playing uh but you

00:15:30.740 see a bunch of the chaps out there with flares yeah and i agree with morgoth on this that they need 0.91

00:15:36.080 to stop using these smoke flares things because it codes as a conflict zone which is precisely why the

00:15:42.220 press is leading with these sorts of images yeah and it may it makes the p the protesters look less

00:15:47.720 wholesome and homely right you know just just the mums out with the signs is perfect it is all

00:15:54.180 enough they can't win against that kind of optics so and then i saw you earlier carl quote tweeting

00:16:00.320 this and i actually wanted to bring a pretension to it because i thought it was a really important

00:16:04.280 point that you see here i won't play it it's just a guy well we can play it just so people can see

00:16:09.560 you know screwing around

00:16:11.560 carl you had a point on this i think so yeah about the fact that look this this is serious right this

00:16:30.460 isn't a lark this isn't a jolly this is not a serious person who is in harmony with the actual

00:16:36.340 messaging of what's going on here yeah right this guy doesn't come across as trustworthy

00:16:41.280 and responsible no like he actually cares about the issue right so he shouldn't be there yeah right

00:16:47.440 especially when things are going really really strongly as i say you know every time i mean just

00:16:53.700 look at this from sky news this is remarkable i i read this entire article in utter bewilderment

00:17:00.300 because it talks about even though the headline talks about being a flashpoint of frustration

00:17:06.080 you go through this article and this is sky news and saying that this is a fourth protest

00:17:11.820 uh there are no signs of far right or left that have traveled instead it was locals families sat on

00:17:17.900 the grass multi-generations of them kids playing in the sunshine tradesmen brought their lorries

00:17:23.740 allowed to protect our kids that is just the sort of thing

00:17:26.860 that this this reporting is just unthinkable five right years ago like everything that we ever did

00:17:33.820 they were just like far right far right far right and now there was no sign of far left far right

00:17:38.240 instead it was locals that you couldn't ask for better headlines give them nothing exactly it's

00:17:43.280 perfect couldn't ask for better reporting like shock that it's come from sky frankly even sky like

00:17:48.960 god are we really defending the foreign pedos are we really are we really standing up with that are we

00:17:54.660 saying well you you have been sky well yeah they have been yeah he wrote this article out of

00:17:59.980 interest yeah um so go to dan whitehead okay okay dan the man yeah well done dan uh it goes on to say

00:18:10.520 that yes um talking to one of the locals she says i've got a 16 year old daughter i worry about her in 0.68

00:18:16.900 my local area it's right on your doorstep we've got people here and we don't know who they are

00:18:21.480 and that these protests are obviously just the latest flashpoint so perhaps revealing revealed

00:18:28.500 within this the article itself actually within its title is that sense now that the legacy media

00:18:34.420 are actually becoming more aware of the genuine anger yeah and their complicity in it and that

00:18:41.620 perhaps i'm speculating here but they are afraid of

00:18:45.760 well where this might what this might mean for them in the future right i mean i look at this

00:18:54.700 overall this event on sunday was peaceful residents are simply angry about events that have unfolded

00:18:59.180 here in recent weeks like again you just couldn't imagine like every every time we ever did something 0.96

00:19:04.220 just for covid stuff every little thing like you know some like crap peeing on a wall or something

00:19:10.300 it's like oh look at this terrible people look at the fire it's like we wouldn't we were just not

00:19:15.240 capable of getting this kind of coverage so whatever the people and good people in epping are doing

00:19:19.320 keep doing it don't don't mess around just keep doing what you're doing because it's working

00:19:23.060 yes and this but you can see here i just wanted to apparently my links uh oh messing up a bit

00:19:32.200 apologies uh but the police well it's some of the police escorting some of the illegal migrants back

00:19:40.320 to the hotel and you can hear the the anger and venom yeah from from the crowds absolutely watching

00:19:46.220 them go by what do these men think they're doing here oh what's their plan like what you know where's

00:19:52.580 he come from like syria morocco wherever like what was your plan what was the goal right i'm gonna go

00:19:58.000 i'm gonna break into england i'm gonna suck up loads of money and the government for some reason is 0.62

00:20:01.700 they're gonna give me all this money and then they're gonna dump me in a local community where

00:20:04.840 i might touch some kids and what i don't think they're gonna come after me of course they're

00:20:10.580 gonna come after you what did you think was gonna happen mate what i always think is remarkable is

00:20:15.320 that it's like so in this case anyway it's rural essex yeah like i get it if you go to somewhere in

00:20:22.680 london or somewhere in birmingham a big city where there's a big enclave of your type of people but

00:20:27.680 no you go to some like epping i don't want them in rural essex it's a small as you say it's quite a

00:20:33.160 small place out of the way there won't be massive employment opportunities with the best will in

00:20:37.860 the world yeah all sorts of things why why are you in rural essex yeah i don't like why are these

00:20:43.700 people like why are they in cumbria why are they in like rural scotland or anywhere really even in

00:20:48.640 wiltshire here like swindon you came from central asia or something or sub-saharan africa and you end up in

00:20:54.820 swindon you end up in wiltshire really syria syria to scunthorpe yeah what's going on so i actually

00:21:02.320 this woman um jack hadfield was down there reporting as well and i think it was just really

00:21:07.340 worth listening to this local mother speaking my children went to epping st john's school and i was

00:21:12.820 parent governor for four years epping is a wonderful place the families of the children that attend epping

00:21:18.780 school are wonderful and we're here to support the family and we're here to support our town what's

00:21:24.660 happening how we're being portrayed is not correct and we're here to make a difference a strong message

00:21:29.880 from strong women so what's the uh the pro the placard that you have here we felt a lot of the press 0.99

00:21:36.560 were incorrectly reporting us on friday morning after our our protests on thursday and so we just

00:21:43.280 wanted to make it really clear that we're strong women we're mums we're sisters we're aunties we're

00:21:49.680 you know we're parents of the area so we're just we're just here to support yeah no it's the homemade

00:21:57.560 signs right unlike the stand up to racist brothers with a rent them of mass-produced signs these people

00:22:03.300 have got a cardboard box because obviously they don't have the equipment to well i don't have the

00:22:07.620 equipment to go protesting right we'll just paint it on this because what else have we got no ngo's

00:22:12.040 backing them yeah exactly exactly no ngo's backing them but yeah just pure perfect messaging yeah

00:22:18.080 perfect messaging give giving them absolutely nothing uh just british people before boat people 0.99

00:22:23.500 yeah another homemade sign on a piece of no piece of cardboard and so but obviously it's epping is a

00:22:31.920 microcosm of frustrations felt all over the country now all over the country take this example of

00:22:38.060 fury as 90 criminal charges are brought against 41 migrants so two crimes for each of them uh in this

00:22:46.160 taxpayer funded hotel in london and how many how many people can possibly be living in the hotel like

00:22:51.100 two or three hundred maybe when 41 of them have like 200 uh have double criminal charges against them

00:22:58.160 you've got to ask well there's a problem with the people themselves right i mean like what what

00:23:03.020 proportion of people have to show this sort of level of endemic criminality but yeah no i think

00:23:08.640 it's the group i think i think it's the people we've decided to put up in these hotels endemic

00:23:13.100 criminality absolutely again it's difficult not to come to the conclusion that that's why they're here

00:23:18.160 they came the calculation was in their homeland well if i can get to britain then i will commit all

00:23:24.260 sorts of crimes and sex crimes and take take the free stuff we've seen that's why i'm doing and the 0.89

00:23:30.120 human rights lawyers will protect me yeah we've seen by their tiktoks that is what they think

00:23:34.820 right and they explicitly say it often as well right so brazen so brazen and so yeah obviously

00:23:40.460 we know that it's not just epping this is obviously felt the country over in all sorts of hotels as i

00:23:46.920 said before they didn't even tell them that they were going to be put up in the first place these

00:23:52.740 just hives have sprung out and all of a sudden you're going to bed every day thinking about oh my god

00:23:59.220 is my kid going to be safe safe on the school walk tomorrow things that you just shouldn't have

00:24:04.920 to contemplate living in the united kingdom and it's such an evil that the the british state has

00:24:12.160 brought them all here and so obviously you get rachel reeves saying that oh we'll end the asylum 0.98

00:24:17.860 hotels by 2029 well only because a different government will be in charge and we'll have to

00:24:23.820 court will claw it away from your hands right but you're not going to stop on your own you've shown

00:24:29.040 that yeah absolutely many times over the thing is okay well you're going to end the use of asylum

00:24:33.400 hotels what's the plan then rachel yeah not deport all of these men no so what's the plan it's going

00:24:37.540 to be renting houses and putting them up in your local community still or billet them on normal

00:24:41.800 people or something well that's basically what that is yeah something even if they rent a house in

00:24:45.800 local community that is basically billeting them on the normal people it's like okay great 0.71

00:24:49.540 that's not what i want which is why of course the the correct opinion comes from rupert once again

00:24:55.200 which is people in epping and elsewhere have every right to hold serious concerns about unvetted

00:25:01.180 foreign men being placed into their communities the hotel in epping should be closed along with every 1.00

00:25:06.580 other in the country and the occupants should be sent back to where they came from simple bosh 1.00

00:25:13.380 lovely jubbly right uh and so i but i would just say uh as i actually pointed out in the last segment

00:25:22.340 that i did covering epping as well there is a petition by the local council the district council

00:25:27.960 leader and i would strongly encourage people to sign it because this is something that you can do

00:25:33.100 to support the good work that the local people of epping are currently doing uh and so it's a great

00:25:39.600 way to keep up the pressure and uh i just have to commend the people of epping for their really

00:25:45.880 impressive example and their conduct and it may well not be a waste of time or energy if you look

00:25:51.640 at the northern ireland was it not balamori what is it balamina balamina um so there it sort of

00:25:57.960 largely worked loads of the immigrant community moved out off the back of there that they actually stood

00:26:03.120 up and made their voices heard uh so if epping is shown to be a success as well sure it just kicks

00:26:09.760 the can down the road a bit but nonetheless small victory it's right it's small victory and it's

00:26:14.400 emblematic it makes a statement when the community says when the community says we don't want them here

00:26:19.220 they have to go that's how it has to be come together as a community and you can achieve a lot

00:26:23.880 more than you thought yeah yeah i borrow the mouse please of course uh any dissent will not be

00:26:29.900 tolerated gaius suetonius paulinus 61 ad what was what would that be then 61 ad

00:26:37.700 well like the jewish revolt or something yeah yeah it's going to be around that sort of time 0.95

00:26:44.580 because it before it's claudius slightly after that isn't he sorry yeah it's tight claudius is

00:26:50.460 slightly after that isn't he i thought claudius was about 61 yeah i think yeah i'm not i'm not

00:26:55.640 going to spend the time looking into it but if beau doesn't know then that's his shame uh you should

00:27:01.540 know this yeah i mean 61 it would be yeah that would be in the age of claudius then yeah see let me let

00:27:09.320 me let me okay i'm gonna oh you've done it now oh it's the budican revolt right ah perfect okay yeah

00:27:16.560 that's a little closer to home yeah i should have guessed actually but yeah you it would have

00:27:21.060 been during call of this uh or slightly after anyway um nero nero right ryan says uh yeah so

00:27:27.940 you're the historian it's nero it would be good if you guys had a movie review segment to talk about

00:27:31.980 the latest films on the website maybe we can get drinker on but the spider-man video came out

00:27:34.980 recently well um we'll do we will do the third spider-man film uh at some point oh yes um although

00:27:40.340 the next couple of the next lads hour i've got a plan for so we won't do it yet um but uh

00:27:45.480 hapsification says i'm from essex as well beau south end though south end is a stabbing capital

00:27:49.680 of essex along with drug use it's quite a rougher area and let's not forget south end and lee was

00:27:55.320 david amos's constituency and the engaged view says people get the third amendment to the u.s

00:28:00.000 constitution forbade the quartering of soldiers in private homes this situation reminds us of when

00:28:03.760 the founders thought it was important enough to ban uh yeah because this is basically what this is i

00:28:07.700 mean for some reason the current government wants children to be raped across the country and it seems

00:28:13.440 that the migrants are the soldiers that they're using to accomplish that goal anyway moving on 0.83

00:28:18.380 okay uh let me just get my document in place here before we begin okay so let's talk a little bit about

00:28:26.460 japan because they had an election just the other day um it's in in the news cycle now and they've

00:28:32.320 decided to turn right a bit a little bit well it has to be a little bit in japan because they are

00:28:38.380 already naturally quite right well it's true well their recent government for the last couple of

00:28:44.060 years since our bay was assassinated has been really weak it's been lefty and globally kind of

00:28:50.020 globalist isn't it yeah so i've i've seen uh videos of like kurdish festivals yeah there in japan it's

00:28:58.420 like sorry japan what what are you doing like have we not been a bad enough example to you there's only

00:29:04.000 three thousand kurds in the country right and already they're doing kurdish festivals like no

00:29:08.220 we can't can't permit that yeah um okay so the ruling party there although it's coalition government

00:29:15.640 the ldp literally liberal democrats right they've had a basically a status quo in japan more or less

00:29:23.120 since the end of the war once the americans won they introduced a constitution which they sort of

00:29:29.640 printed onto japan and they've and well like the rest of us they've stayed with the post-war consensus

00:29:35.060 ever since and uh in slightly different forms um it's it's been the same ever since now our bay was

00:29:41.240 uh people said he's quite nationalistic he was ldp he was lib dem but he was actually an quite a

00:29:48.980 nationalistic version of it and then after he went they've had two prime ministers since then

00:29:54.260 and they've both been much more to much much more to left like really pro lgbtq really pro bringing in

00:30:00.600 loads of immigrants hundreds of thousands of immigrants the whole the whole nine yards yeah

00:30:05.180 the whole nine yards well when when i uh covered japan uh last month uh one of the things that the uh

00:30:11.140 ambassador to pakistan was doing was trying to create exchange worker programs for loads of pakistanis

00:30:17.380 to come over and work in japan you know those videos you see of like the three-year-old going getting on

00:30:23.360 the train and going four-year-old going get on the train going to school like that that that's over

00:30:27.900 right if you if you allow this to happen because like i remember when i was a kid i remember being

00:30:32.140 about six years old and walking to school on my own like it was just normal right because you know

00:30:37.260 you have a high trust homogenous country that's over right that's what immigration takes away things 1.00

00:30:43.100 you didn't even realize you had uh don't do this yeah um just a quick thing i everyone's i'm famously

00:30:50.560 not a lover of japan uh but i am also a japanese nationalist like just don't don't let them 0.99

00:30:57.840 don't let them you you are still in a good position that we're not in now you know don't allow it to

00:31:02.860 happen i don't have to like your culture for me to want you to continue to exist yeah like at all

00:31:07.720 you know i mean i'm for nationalists all around the world yeah exactly yeah it have indian nationalism

00:31:11.960 in india fine good and stay there yeah yeah yeah have polish nationalism whatever it is 0.58

00:31:18.320 yeah in your own country absolutely because that's what we want for our country the thing is i i can

00:31:22.540 see in japan something that we used to have that they still have right it's that kind of settledness

00:31:29.300 of the you know the ancient island nation where it's like no we've been ourselves for a long time

00:31:34.880 and we've been we've been happy to be ourselves for a long time and we've had that ripped away from

00:31:39.520 us there's a there's been a real loss of innocence in england of late in fact the previous segment is

00:31:45.200 exactly what we're talking about there and i don't want to see that happen to the japanese

00:31:48.900 you know i really don't you know you don't understand it's not like being conquered in war

00:31:52.900 this is something completely different and it's something that it's it's like a poison that's put

00:31:57.520 into a cup and suddenly everyone's drinking from it and wondering why they're getting sick

00:32:02.080 and it's it's just dire i mean japan of all places historically speaking you know for the most

00:32:09.860 exclusionary right yeah all i want is an 18th or 19th century japanese immigration policy

00:32:15.100 but it's literally illegal for any foreign person to step foot on their island yes

00:32:21.020 it's so based the dutch got a little carve out for a tiny tiny island or whatever off the coast

00:32:26.860 and that was too much with one bridge one causeway which is constantly guarded yeah yeah yeah that's

00:32:31.600 that's all i want for my border force it's not too much to ask is it yeah um so yeah japan of all

00:32:37.680 places and although compared to a lot of places in europe or the anglosphere whether it's america

00:32:43.000 or australia they've got much less immigration but nonetheless it's it's spiked in the last few years

00:32:49.580 it's absolutely spiked in the last few years the government there got the memo got the globalist memo

00:32:53.980 and yeah when i was there last year one thing i noticed around osaka was uh the number of indians

00:33:00.640 working in the shops just working in the local corner shops and you're like well that's how it

00:33:06.060 always starts yeah right that's always the first symptom i just wonder if the bris person what are

00:33:10.280 you doing here are you lost get out yeah shouldn't you be in birmingham well as you might imagine

00:33:14.940 a family restaurant yeah exactly what are you doing here how dare you as you might imagine their

00:33:20.440 immigration issues are where the americans suffer from sort of lots of mexican immigration we suffer 1.00

00:33:25.740 from lots of uh subcontinent stuff or albanians or whatever their their problems are quite often

00:33:32.420 other than a very vocal kurdish community it's the chinese it's the vietnamese it's koreans

00:33:39.100 um and stuff like that um now where i was researching for this watch a whole bunch just a quick thing

00:33:45.140 though probably not as bad as the immigration we get right it's like we got a bunch of chinese 1.00

00:33:50.740 okay yeah they're they're not japanese but how dangerous are they you know if i could swap all

00:33:57.840 out if i could swap out all our pakistanian bangladeshi or albanian immigrants for chinese

00:34:04.380 ones i would yeah i mean don't get me wrong big wood i'm worried about the ccp a lot more now but like

00:34:09.020 yeah i'm not worried about walking to back from the pub or something right yeah yeah right

00:34:14.220 uh but no crime is an issue it's absolutely an issue um now where i watched a bunch of obviously

00:34:20.460 english language videos for this uh a lot of them from where it's sort of the lefty perspective

00:34:26.100 um it's remarkable really is remarkable i find it absolutely striking the parallels the exact same

00:34:34.660 paradigm and dynamics that are going on with questions around immigration in europe or in the

00:34:40.660 west in the anglosphere whatever you want to say the exact same ones are playing out in japan exactly

00:34:45.300 the same so they've got sort of this globalist lefty government which is betraying them in in every

00:34:51.240 way possible um from sort of the sort of the economic side with the cost of they've got a cost

00:34:57.580 of living crisis they've got inflation going through the roof uh their president's ishiba

00:35:02.820 mr shiba um and that the people consider them to have betrayed the party betrayed the base betrayed

00:35:11.940 the the principles uh that they're turning away from conservative ideals that they're weak on china

00:35:18.820 the exact same things and they're not serving the japanese people right right completely that

00:35:24.860 completely that um so if this the government the ldp have um had three losses recently back in october

00:35:33.080 last year there was elections for their lower house uh which they lost control of they didn't

00:35:39.560 they didn't collapse the government they're just now ruling in a minor as a minority government

00:35:44.000 and then just about a week or two ago they had the what was effectively local elections or municipal

00:35:50.360 elections which they also did terribly in and now this recent one is for for the upper house

00:35:56.360 they call the upper house which they've now also lost they're no longer the majority in that even

00:36:02.460 though loads of the seats were uncontested anyway okay yeah uh because the ldp in japan have had such

00:36:09.740 a lock for so long and that the japanese people uh with conservative with a small c uh to the extreme

00:36:17.000 yeah the the better the devil you know sort of thing um and uh but to to a much higher degree than

00:36:23.540 in the united states or britain or france or whatever um so okay where i say sort of any party to the right

00:36:31.840 of the ldp or to the right faction of the ldp they're sort of people said there's a vacuum there

00:36:38.520 just like there is in britain or in america there is no truly right-wing populist nativist

00:36:44.180 option um until recently a couple of different parties um have popped up there's the uh sensito

00:36:52.720 party which is meant to say um do it yourself i hear they're fringe and far right oh right i mean

00:36:59.840 just just from the reporting so again the parallels are remarkable um with someone sorry it's the do

00:37:07.700 it yourself party yeah that's what that quite like translation yeah i quite like that and it's

00:37:11.740 really new like before we only cropped up in 2020 as a as a as a response to covid stuff right and as

00:37:19.800 you can see the sort of legacy type mainstream media or the lefty leaning voices are trying to slur them

00:37:26.160 with the exact same stuff that they're just far right and that they're conspiracy theorists i kind

00:37:31.620 of slurs yeah i love them already don't know anything about them and uh they're just xenophobes

00:37:36.560 uh they're just making up the fact that people are scared about immigration crime um and that the

00:37:42.460 idea that you should be uh you shouldn't be able to just sell japanese property and land to foreign

00:37:49.140 people and all that sort of thing to the chinese government that yeah just all of that is mad and

00:37:55.840 wrong-headed yeah it's like well no at the ballot box they did reasonably well considering they got

00:38:04.100 uh well it's not entirely clear different sources are saying different things whether they got 14

00:38:07.880 seats or 20 uh but anyway they're expected to maybe get six so they outperformed themselves

00:38:14.300 actually outperformed themselves which is really good um and their leader kamiya he's like he's like

00:38:21.900 he talks about japan first um sensible policy right there's nothing wrong with it the nativist 0.73

00:38:28.640 interests can't believe this japanese man is saying japan first outrageous right barking outrageous

00:38:34.360 xenophobe that thing we always believed and had 300 years of isolation over and two monk fought two

00:38:40.940 mongol invasions for that thing yeah the thing that everyone always believed until really recently

00:38:46.580 yeah yeah but now he's beyond the pale now he's the bad guy but no because so the japanese

00:38:51.400 electorate at least in part have spoken um so it looks like the japanese government as as is

00:38:59.180 won't fall they should just continue to rule as a minority government it's a i've heard it described

00:39:05.000 as you know a big blow to them but not fatal but yet it says doesn't it that the winds have changed

00:39:11.120 because a lot of commentators are also saying that they're not going anywhere this doesn't seem

00:39:15.520 to be a flash in the pan so apparently in japan over the last few decades there's been all sorts of

00:39:19.760 little right-wing parties attempt to spring up and they either get subsumed within the ldp or just

00:39:26.040 fail they're not popular enough for whatever reason and they fail whereas these seem to have broken

00:39:30.640 through there's another party actually the conservative party there's there's about eight

00:39:34.800 different parties in japan um and there's another one that that started quite recently in 2023

00:39:39.380 um that haven't quite made the breakthrough um that sansito have uh but still are sort of they're

00:39:48.080 quite based they're saying really really similar things you know like japan first uh let's put our

00:39:53.640 agriculture first things like that let's not just import endless numbers of foreign people who

00:39:59.100 don't respect our culture i would respect them entirely if they deported my friend 0.96

00:40:03.420 from japan and and to be honest he he'd understand too you know he'd be like yeah fair enough

00:40:09.140 yes they need to do what they need to do right save the japanese people yeah yeah yeah good on them

00:40:15.120 um it's what i said about the spanish when they were always like oh well what about the british

00:40:19.800 expats in spain it's like i don't care send them back if you don't want them yeah send them back if

00:40:24.320 you don't want their money we'll have a few more brits back in britain it's just you know what did

00:40:28.640 like what did you think was that i was going to move to spain and i was going to set up a british pub

00:40:32.280 and speak english all the time and now the spanish are angry yeah no kidding you know it's your fault 0.84

00:40:37.280 mate anyway yeah no if that's the way it's got to be either our country is completely invaded

00:40:43.140 or we accept back like the spanish expats yeah they can see yeah price of beach yeah something you

00:40:50.760 know yeah we'll send them to gibraltar well yeah i mean good luck you're following that

00:40:55.300 so yeah they're being slurred as far but the again the parallels are interesting that this guy

00:41:00.380 and this new party do a lot of uh what they're doing sort of through youtube and social media

00:41:05.300 they're just sort of ignoring the mainstream media of japan uh again a bit like the mega movement in

00:41:12.140 various ways or a bit like maybe what rupert lowe's trying to do or will try to do and um it's just

00:41:18.620 interesting the way you sometimes think that japan is so unbelievably alien and foreign that the

00:41:25.720 dynamics of everything going on there domestically and in their politics will be drastically different

00:41:30.900 to what's going on in england or america or germany or france no no it's exactly the same you know

00:41:35.980 broadly speaking you know it's exactly the same don't you because it's liberalism right trying to

00:41:39.920 erode another nation and it's got the same tools the same rhetoric the same goal and the same enemy 0.96

00:41:45.780 is always the actual national people of the country those people who feel that collectively

00:41:51.220 they have a claim to the country it's like oh well you're xenophobic and it's like i mean if i

00:41:55.800 were japanese i'm like yeah i'm japanese of course i'm xenophobic like what you know duh yeah i apologize

00:42:01.460 for nothing yeah exactly i apologize for nothing and japan belongs to the japanese people any further

00:42:05.960 questions you know like it's it's pretty straightforward so the bbc wrote um uh well these

00:42:13.160 are these are camille's words uh under globalism multinational companies have changed japan's

00:42:20.000 policies for their own purposes familiar absolutely true um if we fail to resist this foreign pressure 0.99

00:42:26.640 japan will become a colony correct right yeah earlier this year he faced backlash after calling gender

00:42:32.960 equality policies a mistake saying they would encourage women to work and prevent them from

00:42:37.680 having more children uh yeah objectively true right and we can see that in japan's birth rate

00:42:41.700 yeah and um again the mainstream media the english language ones anyway the sort of western or british

00:42:49.380 commentary people um just try and smear them as they do with everything else um we were told that

00:42:58.920 they pretend not to understand the issues with mass immigration yeah they pretend that anyone that's

00:43:05.000 got any issues with it are just simply not see or whatever it's ridiculous they wrote in the bbc the

00:43:12.240 number of foreign residents in japan hit a record 3.8 million at the beginning of 2024 that figure marks

00:43:18.380 an increase up by 10.5 percent from the previous year so a massive spike a boris wave spike and so

00:43:25.620 3.8 million god we wish in britain it was we only had 3.8 million foreign nationals invaders in this 0.89

00:43:30.920 country so it's still lower than in a lot of other countries but as a percentage higher population

00:43:36.140 generally it's like 126 million yeah they've got way more people it's quite a large population but still

00:43:40.920 it's the the the drip drip drip wearing down the the rock isn't it well they've experienced a drip drip

00:43:47.160 drip full-blown tap on like a boris wave type spike yep and they noticed good lo and behold the people

00:43:54.400 noticed um uh yeah but that still is uh it's only it's only three percent of the country's population

00:44:02.600 yeah but yeah that's it was like that in the 90s here right like in 1991 where it's like five percent

00:44:09.540 or something and it's like well you could walk around forever and never see a foreigner and 30 years

00:44:14.220 later look where we are now well i say that i was being ironic saying oh it's only three percent yeah

00:44:19.780 there's loads there's still loads it's not that many actually well compared to what we're going

00:44:24.500 through yeah yeah no no no it actually is a lot well i don't know like again you think back to the

00:44:28.620 sort of like 1991 sort of thing where it's like 95 native it wasn't something that was a problem

00:44:35.040 and i'm not saying that we want loads or anything like that but like that that like it's it's good

00:44:40.120 that the japanese antibodies are reacting three percent because for us it was like well it's not really

00:44:45.360 a problem so i'm not really bothered about it right because you wander around you might have like

00:44:49.260 you know one caribbean guy on your street or something very you know in rare instances or

00:44:55.020 there'd be uh an indian or pakistani family running a corner shop like there was you know it wasn't a

00:45:00.340 big deal and we didn't think about it right but then at three percent being like yeah no we're not

00:45:04.400 having this excellent well it it probably helps the japanese as well that they i mean begrudgingly that

00:45:11.160 they have such a good example in europe yeah of what not to do and i mean you have we have to say

00:45:17.860 don't we that japan have got uh their history with nationalism very much like germany where it's used

00:45:26.080 as a guilt trip for the left or liberals will try and use it as a guilt trip forever you were once

00:45:32.840 extremely nationalistic so you're not allowed a country anymore now in the 2020s so open borders

00:45:38.720 forever yeah yeah yeah so infinite immigration into your country because you were once nationalist

00:45:43.740 so anyway i thought perhaps we could listen to someone so you'd have to take my word for all of

00:45:48.940 this uh if we could listen to i think maybe a couple of minutes of this guy sort of just lay it out

00:45:54.180 exactly uh what's happened all right well well um can you you walk us through what caused

00:46:01.120 this shift among japanese voters well the shift was as uh your report said a little bit earlier

00:46:10.560 caused a lot by economic conditions in the country in the last year a lot of prices have gone up

00:46:17.300 the price of rice has doubled uh and there have been uh over the past 10 years a significant

00:46:25.360 increase in immigrants uh the ldp didn't really call it immigration uh but there was one million

00:46:34.080 new immigrants who came into the country and the far right has used this so it flooded them that's a 0.88

00:46:42.300 that's a flood only a million in a year mate and uh i mean that's we we know that's an incredible

00:46:47.020 number because that's that's literally the boris wave and you must by definition be far right if you

00:46:52.500 notice that there's any issues if crimes going up or anything at all any net if you notice any

00:46:58.320 negativity or just that it's happened even you must be far right let's assume there's no negativity

00:47:02.980 still why would i want that yeah why would i want this yeah absolutely uh calling it a stealth

00:47:08.620 immigration policy to attack the mainstream conservatives and uh hit them from the right

00:47:15.340 on immigration and they're making major gains now and we're going to see a far right that has

00:47:22.080 almost 20 maybe even more than 20 seats in the upper house and uh they will be unrestrained in

00:47:29.120 the kind of language that they could use referring oh no and actually say things good and actually

00:47:35.460 express any sort of dissent if you respond use this as a bad example if you respond to the people's

00:47:42.480 concerns you make major gains i'll have to remember that yeah right nigel attention mate 0.99

00:47:48.460 the immigrants uh before the ldp was a big tent party and it did have some far right people but

00:47:54.160 they were moderated but now these people are outside of the ldp and they will be saying some

00:47:59.260 rather extreme things i think all right and how's all this been what's the reaction to this we'll say

00:48:05.360 from within japan i think the mainstream media is shocked because they spent the last two weeks

00:48:13.300 trying to debunk not a lot of the misinformation being spread by this it's misinformation they're

00:48:19.440 shocked by it's a classic thing like like the the guardian will send reporters to like bradford

00:48:24.900 to try and find out what's happened what's gone wrong where's this come from why is this happening

00:48:30.660 man the best example was uh lbc's tom swarbrick during the uh birmingham bin man strike he he goes

00:48:39.980 he can't find an english person to talk to and none of them will either speak english or just

00:48:44.760 will even talk to him and he's just like so all the bins are right and they they just don't want

00:48:48.560 to know it's like no no interest in talking to you mate and he's just you could see this is

00:48:52.420 radicalizing him it's just like right so there are a bunch of foreigners here and they're piling up bins 1.00

00:48:57.100 and they're rubbish outside and they don't care and no one is interested in even countenancing that

00:49:01.280 this is an issue i'm not talking to media so yeah well you know again how remarkable is it the 0.55

00:49:05.220 parallels where in japan their media is obviously and their lefty leaning politician political class

00:49:10.880 yes i've done exactly the same thing there's a pressure cooker and they're just putting more

00:49:15.300 and more weight on the lid of the pressure cookers so it doesn't blow off yeah and then ignoring

00:49:20.220 anyone that's got anything to say about it and then when eventually it does break through eventually

00:49:25.260 there is a some sort of crack in the pressure cooker and some steams now coming out they're shocked

00:49:30.100 by it or feign shock perhaps uh but they use the globalist language because they're taking the

00:49:37.080 globalist money right the the government uh the uh the npr the the national broadcaster they're just

00:49:42.720 taking money from all of these international ngos that have done to us what they're now doing to japan 0.97

00:49:49.000 i'm just glad for japan that they're sort of nipping it in the bud to some extent for them i mean a lot

00:49:53.720 of damage is already done but they're not letting it go as far as somewhere like germany france

00:49:58.840 britain or whatever uh we'll just let this guy speak for a tiny bit more far right party uh but

00:50:04.620 it seems to have failed spectacularly maybe it even gave them more attention but a lot of the people

00:50:10.080 who support the far right get their news on the internet so they don't trust what newspapers and

00:50:15.080 television say anyway and so we're beginning to see right-wing populism in japan something that people

00:50:21.200 said wasn't really happening in japan uh but has been happening in europe and in north america

00:50:27.420 uh it is now here to stay in japan these people have been elected so again isn't it interesting

00:50:33.700 that it's the exact same the exact same thing as somewhere like america like or it would say germany

00:50:40.620 the afd um just pretending it doesn't exist and there isn't a problem and then in the end the people

00:50:47.300 and and the politicians on the right just speak directly to the people just cut out the mainstream media

00:50:53.660 and stuff um yeah uh so uh yeah 800 000 foreign workers that that like maloney the same like maloney

00:51:05.220 or like boris or whatever uh just oh oh there is a problem we see the people don't like it so let's

00:51:12.280 quickly dial it up as quickly as we can before we before we get voted government yeah crazy uh there

00:51:18.420 are a lot of links here that i had lined up just to show examples of uh actual examples of of like

00:51:23.900 issues in their society uh but perhaps we won't uh wait for the time of sake yeah okay so well anyway

00:51:31.920 we'll leave it there japanese liberals chant inshallah while flying the turkish flag and solar oh my god

00:51:37.720 yeah like the curt like occurred it the curds i genuinely despise liberals everywhere and they're 0.97

00:51:42.780 all the same they're all cut from the same bloody cloth yeah the takeaway the headline is yeah that 0.91

00:51:48.320 liberals in japan are doing exactly the same thing as liberals wherever they are they're subversive

00:51:54.100 country destroyers i can explain at length why that is but i'm not going to now anyway let's uh let's

00:51:58.700 carry on ai is going to take all our jobs and leave us destitute but we need to import the entire 0.68

00:52:02.540 third world to fill all these labor shortages caused by jobs moving to china so we compete with china 0.98

00:52:06.280 yeah i know it's mad isn't it i mean like even china is going to be having massive uh labor shortages

00:52:11.240 in the next couple of generations so like there's there's no end to it uh ryan says i don't want to

00:52:16.740 ruin this good news segment but did you see that uh serbia is issuing 100 000 work permits to ghanians

00:52:22.220 ghanians no it is yeah yeah okay well youth unemployment sits at 23 percent approximately

00:52:30.400 151 000 young people i did not see that poland's doing the same poland brought in a load of bangladesh

00:52:35.280 years apparently it's like 200 000 bangladesh years so we've got a bunch here you could take yeah you

00:52:41.020 could take us yeah yeah uh let's just force all middle class left-wing people to house migrants 1.00

00:52:46.080 i want their noses rubbed in diversity and foreign toxic masculinity uh well to be honest with you i 0.99

00:52:50.860 think that's gonna be the only solution is you know the average liberal democrat has to have some

00:52:55.320 somalian sat on this sofa and be like what am i doing again you know what's this guy here for

00:53:00.340 yeah dave is just uh trying to watch bbc and he's just got them on speakerphone around his house

00:53:06.000 playing loud music yeah dave begins to hate the shadow band says uh why is it every country

00:53:13.120 massively spiked immigration of 2020 well i think it was just uh part of the plan uh the only problem

00:53:18.600 with nationalism is whenever some smooth-brained demagogue comes along and tethers it to imperialism

00:53:22.480 otherwise it's just enlightened self-interest and the basis of a free society uh yeah i mean basically

00:53:27.240 like uh what do you brits expect remember this is the same government that major queens sit alone 1.00

00:53:32.440 and uncomforted at the funeral of her husband yeah i know a reminder that when pewdiepie was ready to

00:53:37.820 settle down and have a kid he decided to move from brighton to japan a year or so ago he even made a

00:53:41.860 video complaining about the usual suspects invading japan yeah pewdiepie has always been based no no no

00:53:47.400 regrets supporting that guy i tell you uh japan will go full auslander house uh once the foreigners 0.96

00:53:52.400 start trying to cancel the giant penis festival you see i look look man i don't like japan 1.00

00:53:59.020 i'm all in favor of japan being for the japanese over there and not over here and nothing to do with 0.94

00:54:06.100 me anyway rousey muscle i i don't understand them and i'm not trying to understand them it's fine

00:54:12.800 anyway so i want to talk about uh the fall of the late night comedians so you're probably too young to

00:54:19.300 remember but you'll remember the the late night american comedians that uh got syndicated over

00:54:25.120 here and you see the clips everyone everyone loved them and to be honest with you i used to like them

00:54:29.460 too well they didn't used to be insufferable like not too insufferable anyway like jay leno yeah or um

00:54:36.240 letterman letterman letterman was all right wasn't it it's quite far or less a lot less political

00:54:41.120 yeah but uh we'll talk about it in a minute but like the the the the niche of late night comedy

00:54:46.840 became far more political as uh the years went on and that has crippled it frankly and uh is killing

00:54:53.360 it and so i'm glad to see that but anyway before we get in uh go and sign up to the website because

00:54:57.840 i haven't i haven't asked anyone sign up for the website for ages come and support us because

00:55:01.340 obviously we don't have big backers like uh colbert has certainly had uh and uh so if you don't want

00:55:08.860 us being cancelled go and sign up go and watch the death of man i haven't showed this for a while

00:55:12.620 because i just hadn't thought to but i'm really proud of this put a lot of work into it it's not

00:55:16.140 really very applicable to what we're talking about now but it's just great and it's worthwhile

00:55:19.360 going and signing up for anyway and behind the paywall is quite literally hundreds and hundreds of

00:55:23.820 hours of premium content which if i do say so myself is very very good it's quality so i thought

00:55:30.620 we'd talk about um the sort of the ratings that these things have had over the years right

00:55:34.760 and they used to be really big news you know people like letterman leno conan o'brien you know

00:55:40.760 really big there's um where are we back in the day everyone would talk about it when it's like

00:55:45.720 did you see letterman's monologue the other day and most people would be like yeah of course of course

00:55:50.980 yeah i mean like in the 90s there we go letterman was getting like seven and a half million viewers

00:55:55.960 an episode you know uh jay leno 11 million viewers the 10th anniversary so these these were pretty

00:56:02.940 massive right and uh you know conan o'brien three and a half million viewers from 2009 so you see this

00:56:08.420 a lot less and then 2014 jimmy fallon 6.6 million viewers so these used to be big big numbers big

00:56:15.020 deal you know you used to get a lot of people um but then from the sort of 2010s onwards

00:56:20.840 they became pretty bloody insufferable and this is uh just a rogues gallery of

00:56:27.880 absolute pricks yeah you just never want to see again yeah and it's one of those things where you

00:56:33.540 can start knocking on for like all right so where where are these chaps where's james corden these days

00:56:38.420 where's uh trevor noah these days you know i can't name a few of these a bunch of them called

00:56:43.540 jimmy uh there's a few yeah i couldn't tell you which one was which to be honest unfortunately

00:56:48.460 john oliver still seems to be standing which is unfortunate but he's surely not long for this

00:56:52.360 world time yeah uh you know it's really not long for primetime tv but um but we'll take

00:56:57.780 stephen colbert on the far left there as the sort of uh example because he's one he's basically the

00:57:05.580 leading light of this little group you've got he always got the best ratings and uh he was uh he

00:57:11.400 was a big deal man big deal his uh late show debuted with 8.26 million viewers that's big i remember when

00:57:19.180 he first came out so to speak yeah wasn't that long ago yeah yeah yeah no no it was not that long ago

00:57:25.320 although um during the bush era he was particularly effective and really made his name because he had

00:57:32.020 obviously he was being political but he wasn't being excessively partisan and it was quite easy

00:57:37.800 for both sides to once criticize the iraq war right well we used to have a different a different angle

00:57:43.600 a different persona wasn't it he used to be like this um republican yeah like a parodying an extreme

00:57:49.360 republican because he looked like a republican um and it was obviously a lefty jabbing at republicans

00:57:55.200 but he he did the shtick of being a republican and obviously but it wasn't you can't do that

00:57:59.880 forever play that character forever no so he then just transitioned into just being a lib a lib i i

00:58:05.920 particularly detest colbert uh because he never shuts up about being a uh a tolkien fan oh does he oh

00:58:12.380 yeah he is like oh i can he can name all the valor and everything it's like okay so you know all these

00:58:17.060 names but you don't embody any of the virtues that the story actually is trying to explain to you

00:58:22.900 course he doesn't but uh but stephen colbert he he is a funny guy right he is a he's naturally

00:58:28.520 talented comedian uh and he is very successful or had been previously very successful uh so yeah his

00:58:36.600 his opening show got 8.26 million viewers uh the largest they ever got was after the super bowl in

00:58:41.520 2016 with 21 million viewers uh and then the show began to really shift into politics and in 2017

00:58:48.120 it was the highest rated late night talk show averaging more than 3.2 million nightly viewers

00:58:54.260 so uh how's it going well uh there's a there's a there's a there's a face there that you might

00:59:03.260 recognize that isn't like the others greg gutfeld he's the guy the republican the fox news guy

00:59:13.040 frankly i'm not a huge fan of greg gutfeld yeah it's very american comedy for me and so it doesn't

00:59:20.380 uh wash down on my palate very well but it's fine you know i i'm not here to judge if people like to

00:59:26.620 watch greg gutfeld that's totally fine uh but he's he's trouncing them uh the rest of them uh so

00:59:32.420 steve colbert is still doing fairly well though he gets 2.2 uh 2.4 million viewers uh across uh on

00:59:39.200 average across 41 episodes it's pretty good all things considered it's not bad it's not embarrassingly

00:59:43.920 bad but compare it to he's the height of what he did that is falling off a cliff well yeah he's

00:59:49.160 he's lost three quarters of his audience and just say on gutfeld yeah um he's based on some stuff

00:59:53.720 and really not on other stuff yeah but you still take that over someone like yeah i mean greg 0.98

00:59:59.140 greg gutfeld's a pretty stock republican right but yeah that's way better than any of the shit

01:00:03.380 right and i take them a million times over you know over any lib but uh but the thing is stephen 0.91

01:00:09.380 colbert is is the best of the the libs right he's the biggest of the libs and so he's lost a third of

01:00:15.000 his audience on average uh but obviously from the potential start he's lost huge but then you've got

01:00:20.880 uh the next biggest which is jimmy kimmel again i can't tell you which jimmy this is they're all

01:00:25.460 the same to me uh but he's only got 1.77 million on average and then you've got jimmy fallon you can

01:00:31.020 tell you which one that was 1.19 million but the thing is these numbers seem big and impressive to

01:00:37.060 us but they're actually not as impressive as you think because the numbers become granular when you

01:00:43.180 are say an advertiser now the advertisers in america are interested in what is called the key demo

01:00:48.920 which is 18 to 49 year olds and 18 49 year olds they they're interested in these people because they

01:00:55.640 view these people as having disposable income but also they are young enough not to have extreme

01:01:00.800 levels of brand loyalty so old people tend to just buy the same thing they've always bought over and 0.99

01:01:05.120 over and over and no amount of advertising to them actually gets them to buy the other brand right so

01:01:09.240 they're like no i just know this one i'm familiar with this one and so i'm i'm gonna and i might not

01:01:12.900 have that much spare money or whatever um but the the key demo is where the advertisers want to go

01:01:18.980 and when you start looking at their key demo numbers you realize hang on there's something weird

01:01:23.280 about these audiences because for example uh colbert colbert has 219 000 people out of the 2.42 million

01:01:32.300 watching in that in the key demo between 18 and 49 so how old is colbert's audience like if they're

01:01:41.920 boomers yeah they're basically lib lib boomers well generation x's right 50 and up right so basically

01:01:48.740 his audience has aged out of the key demo now right but the it's the key demo that the advertisers pay

01:01:55.420 for and so actually uh jimmy kimmel actually has a larger key demo which is 220 000 viewers uh with

01:02:03.220 fallon being 157 000 and a decent third and the these are what the advertisers actually pay for they don't

01:02:09.200 pay for just general numbers because they think that there's i mean i'm sure they've done their

01:02:13.680 their research you know that is small potatoes then isn't it because if these people are syndicated

01:02:18.220 shown from coast to coast yeah across america potentially tens of millions of people and what

01:02:25.340 and you're actually only getting the people you really want is 150 200 220 000 that's a tiny slice

01:02:32.200 of the cake yeah yeah tiny then and that's what that's the that's the proportion the advertisers are

01:02:36.380 willing to pay for it's like right so you know sort of like i mean you know we we every week will have

01:02:42.140 videos that hit those numbers so it's just like you know these guys are not actually as famous or

01:02:47.820 important as their numbers actually make them seem and the advertisers are the ones who are aware of

01:02:52.520 this the advertisers like no i'm advertising on that demo so i'm paying for that i don't want like

01:02:57.980 your two million boomers who are watching i don't care about those actually isn't it funny that even

01:03:04.160 someone like us can sort of compete basically oh yeah um how often do you go on youtube and there's

01:03:09.460 some channel you've never heard of you look down oh eight million subs or something or other i've

01:03:13.740 never even heard of them and they're outperforming these guys by orders of magnitude i mean to be

01:03:18.760 fair these guys do like colbert in particular does fairly well on youtube actually uh same with john

01:03:23.860 stewart they do fairly well on youtube because they do they do a lot of people are moving away from

01:03:28.840 television to online um but uh but most of them well i'm i'm doing that well actually uh gutfeld was

01:03:35.440 the only one to grow their audience cross all of the metrics uh and so good for them and uh one person

01:03:41.940 that we shouldn't forget of course is mr lebowitz your favorite person yeah of all time uh a

01:03:50.820 congenital liar a persistent framer in i mean who was it was uh gavin uh what's his name

01:03:59.580 uh beard gavin mckinnis that's it gavin mckinnis he did an interview with him didn't he 0.65

01:04:05.860 where it was gavin mckinnis where they stitched him up completely by falsely editing the video to

01:04:12.180 make him say something i think it was gavin mckinnis but this is not the only time they've done this

01:04:15.600 obviously and so it's just like you know every everyone's favorite liar but the thing is john

01:04:20.940 stewart whether you like him or not he's charismatic and he's funny yeah and he's clever right and so

01:04:27.160 john stewart actually has uh he demolishes all of the rest of these second rate minor uh things uh his

01:04:35.520 uh average viewership uh in the key demographics is 393 000 so he has a younger and more engaged audience

01:04:42.600 so uh he's the true king but he only does monday nights now uh on uh the daily show

01:04:48.920 uh after trevor nola and because they were like we've got no one it's funny that someone like

01:04:53.400 the quartering or tim pool who does better than that though even yeah right so stephen crowder

01:04:58.420 absolutely right like it's it's it's crazy uh but you know fair enough you know he's he's the

01:05:06.580 biggest of the sort of aging libs and he was also the most clever and most funny and i personally

01:05:12.100 used to like watching john stewart until he became really political and i realized i wasn't left

01:05:16.580 wing and i didn't support any of this so did i back in the day like 20 years ago plus now

01:05:20.720 yeah i would say i would have been a john stewart fan like before i'd woken up exactly you remember

01:05:25.840 you remember the crossfire clip where it's tucker carlson some other guy and john stewart's like

01:05:30.780 you're hurting america yeah stop yeah and everyone everyone's on john stewart side and they say well

01:05:34.540 who's where now yeah right tucker carlson has got like 16 million followers on twitter and gets god

01:05:40.240 knows how many hundreds of millions of views on twitter john stewart's like well i got my 393 000

01:05:45.520 in the key demo that's important like when tucker used to wear a bow tie exactly and now tucker can

01:05:52.300 ask for what and get an exclusive with putin or whatever so it's like sorry you know there have

01:05:57.520 been career trajectories here uh but um but yeah so john stewart is the the best of them the things

01:06:04.300 they've had to bring him back because of course who watches the daily show like who wants to watch

01:06:09.320 trevor noah and he's not even there now but like who wanted to watch trevor noah complaining about

01:06:13.780 trump right who wants to watch like some other lib just complaining about trump they've had to bring

01:06:18.900 back and he's only doing one day a week uh but and the thing this is the thing right they realize

01:06:23.140 that the format is dying right and this is a fascinating uh article because they're still getting

01:06:29.620 uh nominated for this emmy awards i don't i don't know what an emmy award is right but um they they

01:06:35.640 say this in this article uh by now you've most likely heard the narrative about the impending

01:06:39.480 demise of late night television it's lost its ratings it's lost its relevance it's lost its luster

01:06:43.860 the ratings are never coming back but how's this for luster no other genre of television came anywhere

01:06:48.560 close to late night in racking up emmy nominations for 2025 oh wow wow that's incredible it's like a failing

01:06:55.460 military handing out medals to the generals who are losing battles you know it's like yeah okay

01:07:00.140 you've lost in that front you lost on that front but have a bunch of medals look at all these medals

01:07:03.000 you know like sorry that's such cope i suppose as well when you've got the fatigue of just hollywood

01:07:09.440 celebrities on panels all the time do people really want to turn in to to watch the latest you know

01:07:16.340 ridiculous yeah yeah great talking about agreeing with uh the exact politics of whoever the host is as

01:07:24.480 well and all just patting each other on the back people are just so tired of it it's an exercise 0.94

01:07:28.440 and exercising patting each other on the back yes it's disgusting um what was that documentary

01:07:34.600 recently that was um the british one about the boy that did that crime you know what i'm talking about

01:07:39.340 the thing that was in the news cycle loads a few months back um no the the boy that did a crime in

01:07:46.700 the in the uh in the drama oh adolescence yeah like that's been nominated for like 13 i don't know

01:07:54.180 what it is baftas or something it's like yeah it doesn't that doesn't mean shit to me yeah and if

01:07:58.460 i don't care it doesn't make it good suddenly that you've you've nominated it for a bunch of

01:08:02.700 fake awards if it helps i actually thought adolescence was quite good uh but not for the

01:08:06.880 reason from an ironic yeah yeah no no not even ironic well not from a right wing perspective it's like

01:08:11.020 okay what's it showing us it's like it's showing us that they've got nothing and they don't know

01:08:14.240 what they're doing and that's what this is all about right they're like well i mean yeah we can

01:08:18.860 see that we've got failing relevance we've lost our ratings and no one is interested in watching

01:08:23.200 but look at the awards we're giving ourselves okay uh did it stop stephen colbert from getting

01:08:28.540 cancelled no it didn't suck it and that's the thing after 33 years he's the last host so it's like the 0.83

01:08:38.140 fall of bloody um constantinople for the liberals yeah it's constant in the night dying on the walls

01:08:44.100 isn't it yeah i guess it is it's they're not even handing it off to another host no that's it this

01:08:48.720 is done next year is that they're letting the contract uh play out but next year that's the

01:08:53.840 end of it may 2026 uh cbs were just like yeah he's gone they say that quote the move is a purely

01:09:00.420 financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night television and it's not in any way

01:09:04.620 related to the show's performance content or other matters well hang on that doesn't add up

01:09:09.180 yeah but if the show's performance is causing you to make financial decisions

01:09:14.660 then that that's a direct correlation isn't it it must be yeah it has to be the advertisers are

01:09:21.640 just not happy to pay emu world for cope right yeah exactly right um so yeah colbert took over in

01:09:27.840 2015 uh and they say that he's become one of trump's staunchest critics on late night tv

01:09:32.840 yeah it's an expressly political show and therefore you've narrowed down your constituency from the start

01:09:38.120 because right wingers who otherwise might have watched don't watch now uh but then you've got

01:09:43.320 the same drum that you're beating every night oh i told you that donald trump's bad guys

01:09:48.220 have you got vaxxed yet you know it's like okay great you know over and over because that was the

01:09:53.980 thing that like uh jay leno or letterman were quite good at they were they would uh jab at both sides

01:10:00.480 yeah fairly equally right criticize the current government yeah who right whoever the cover

01:10:04.720 current government was they would have a dig at yeah because then you put yourself in the sort of

01:10:10.020 traditional position of the fourth estate being the defenders of people against the power right and

01:10:14.300 that's where the liberals really ought to have stayed frankly you know it's when the liberals like hey we 1.00

01:10:18.720 know how the world should be run it's like no you don't you're idiots and you're you're full of 1.00

01:10:22.820 nonsense but you you could defend people from power uh but they don't do that um anyway so this uh this 1.00

01:10:28.720 came after trump sued cbs last year uh alleging the network had deceptively edited an interview

01:10:33.920 they'd had on their 60 minutes program and so they decided to pay uh 16 million dollars to trump

01:10:39.100 and uh and then they're like yeah also be getting rid of copper like okay get rid of copper now there

01:10:46.100 are questions about you know whether this political adam schiff is like a shifty schiff is like well hang

01:10:51.260 on a second if this is being ended for political reasons the public deserve to know it's like it's a

01:10:55.700 political show mate like its entire its entire revenue model is built on politically criticizing the

01:11:01.520 president and that has become non-profitable according to cbs who are closing for purely

01:11:07.280 economic reasons or financial reasons so yeah this is political and it's that your politics doesn't sell

01:11:12.280 cbs is a deep state cutout anyway well yeah sure absolutely no doubt and of course elizabeth warren

01:11:19.740 was like uh america deserves to know if this show was council of political reasons there's no non-political

01:11:24.800 reasons surrounding or better sorry warren you're not in the demographic they care about

01:11:29.840 yeah exactly that's literally it neither's colbert himself no uh and so the audience isn't with

01:11:37.020 them and so what are they going to do uh and the the thing is this is a a real issue because

01:11:42.500 i mean we have to be profitable or we go offline uh apparently colbert's lake show is reportedly

01:11:48.360 losing 40 million dollars a year oh how's that possible is a set that expensive uh yeah how is that

01:11:54.080 possible how how does i imagine he gets paid quite a lot i imagine staff sure because it's quite a

01:11:59.420 large production okay fair enough think about it like yeah looking on these shows that's a lot

01:12:02.980 the hemorrhaging millions yes yes yeah if it was four if it was four million it would be like oof

01:12:08.980 yeah if it was a million i'd be like well that's unsustainable yeah yeah yeah yeah completely

01:12:13.260 yeah like it but yeah so um apparently it had a budget of more than 100 million dollars per season

01:12:19.220 and was only recouping 60 million in advertising revenue so uh sorry you haven't got that key demo

01:12:25.700 bro i don't know what to tell you um uh one uh one reporter called matt baloney who is apparently a

01:12:32.460 sort of inside reporter uh for the sort of entertainment industry uh has said that it's been losing 40

01:12:38.240 million a year um uh whereas other networks the network's other daytime and primetime programming

01:12:44.780 are still profitable so the advertisers will still pay money and they can make money out of it

01:12:48.880 and he says i've sensed that the networks have all been reluctant to be the first to pull the

01:12:52.700 trigger on the cancellation in the historic time slot the late night time slots cbs has now fired

01:12:57.320 the opening shots and it's reasonable to suspect that abc and nbc will follow oh chen reaction yes

01:13:03.520 his colbert remember he's he's their top guy you know john stewart aside but john stewart kind of

01:13:07.860 retired but he's been dragged back because it's a failing model um but now their top guy's been fired

01:13:13.980 because he's losing 40 million a year purely financial decision i mean i believe it you know

01:13:18.300 if that's accurate why why wouldn't i believe that and so uh thing is like john stewart's like

01:13:24.440 yeah i don't know what's happening i don't know what's happening because uh there's a production

01:13:29.000 company called skydance that's merging with um cbs is it cbs uh yeah i think it is um and this as part

01:13:36.380 of this merger john stewart's like i don't know if we're going to survive it so even john stewart can

01:13:41.360 end up getting taken off the air uh he was asked um do you think this will the skydance will get rid

01:13:46.740 of the daily shaft the merger goes through he says i haven't heard anything from them they haven't

01:13:50.420 said anything to us i'd like to think we bring enough value to the property like if they're

01:13:54.420 looking at it as a purely real estate transaction but that may not be their consideration it's like

01:13:58.100 well you can say oh it might be ideological but are you losing 40 million dollars a year

01:14:02.640 that's the question uh and uh apparently skydance media ceo has been praised by trump so he's got

01:14:09.140 he's already setting up the narratives like see we were fired because we hated trump um but the good

01:14:15.240 thing about this is they're seething right they're absolutely can't they get think to bail them out

01:14:21.280 you you know this is interesting but maybe even larry thinks that look man it's 40 million a year

01:14:26.020 like and that's just for colbert like you imagine how much like jimmy kimmel and the rest of them

01:14:31.900 but you know the no names that no one cares about how much are they losing every year right

01:14:35.580 who knows but the guardian as you can see just absolutely seething and coping uh and uh the thing

01:14:42.980 is they have to admit that well as excuses go the purely financial reason it's not entirely

01:14:47.900 unconvincing well yeah to the tune of 40 million of course it's not unconvincing uh but uh i love

01:14:53.260 this i love this paragraph right colbert took a somewhat less cutesy approach than his competitor

01:14:57.840 fallon uh which marked him out as a troublemaker the thing is trump might ultimately have consumed

01:15:02.580 him either way by providing a ready-made caricature of himself intentionally or not the president has

01:15:08.080 beaten the system again and i love that the system is designed to destroy republican presidents

01:15:12.800 right that's good admission it may not be worth mourning the hacky presidential themed jokes that

01:15:17.640 we might miss in the future with fewer talk shows than ever but it does feel like the enforcement of

01:15:21.380 one of trump's minor cruelties the ability to see himself as the only real star in the world

01:15:25.900 as in we we thought we were going to take down little trump by mocking him relentlessly

01:15:30.380 as john stewart managed to do with previous republicans over and over and over this is how we beat

01:15:36.200 them previously but trump couldn't do it and now it's us that's on the chopping block trump's the

01:15:41.860 president we're getting wrecked and trump's like yeah jimmy kibble's next

01:15:44.980 i've delighted president trump said i absolutely love that colbert got fired

01:15:51.760 so yeah he posted this on true social it's like jimmy kibble's next even less talent than colbert it's

01:15:57.200 like that's so good again you you get what you deserve you turned yourselves into a um just a

01:16:03.440 monomaniacal anti-trump machine wind about trump all day every day to a diminishing 0.99

01:16:08.600 audience of shit libs and now you're getting cancelled because you're hemorrhaging money 0.98

01:16:12.860 you haven't kept up with the times you dinosaurs you've not fulfilled your function as the media 0.99

01:16:18.300 and uh you're getting cancelled that is simultaneously the best and worst thing about trump

01:16:23.900 is that they're just like any like new york loudmouth yeah just will name drop people

01:16:30.180 and like talk trash about them like it's really unstatesman like yes but it's brilliant but it's

01:16:37.320 funny it's great i would rather that than some party robot right and you know that jimmy kimmel i mean

01:16:43.180 colbert's obviously seething over that yeah it's got a bit kimmel's just sweating bullets right

01:16:47.800 he's just like look can we can we cut down the expenses uh but anyway so yeah good news all around

01:16:53.520 frankly uh let's go to the video comments

01:16:55.440 i've no idea what the original video that is from but that's oh that was the original oh yeah

01:17:20.980 big mike yeah we all know big mike hangs on we all know

01:17:25.800 news from the colonies it was reported earlier this year than the first four months of 2025

01:17:33.300 the government of canada granted 817 000 work visas that's more than two percent of our entire

01:17:39.740 population in one quarter of a single year this is to meet the government of canada's immigration

01:17:44.000 employment targets of more than 25 of the workforce being recent immigrants it's also worthy of noting

01:17:48.760 that mark carney former head of the bank of england by the way has more than 95 percent of his stock

01:17:52.840 portfolios and investments in companies outside of canada this is a man actively betting against the

01:17:58.100 success of his own project yet he continues to turn the wick ever higher thing is he's gonna profit

01:18:04.960 either way like you say if his if his portfolio is outside of canada canada fails but i mean i've spent

01:18:11.440 all this time like you know every remittance back to india where he's obviously got investments

01:18:16.200 whatever that's profit for him so i find it remarkable someone like the governor of the bank

01:18:21.340 of england or the head of government anywhere should be have any sort of portfolio

01:18:26.360 obviously there's going to be conflicts of interest even if you don't actively seek them

01:18:32.380 they'll be there yeah anyway let's uh go to the next one apparently this video has no audio but

01:18:38.960 uh it is adorable kittens giant ears look at those big ears 0.99

01:18:46.240 i do like i'm so relaxed all of a sudden yeah

01:18:51.120 look at these old faces

01:18:55.600 not really much to say i i am one of those people like okay both cat and the dog person yeah i like

01:19:01.520 just i like both yeah we've got cats just because dogs are more energy intensive you know let's go to

01:19:08.880 the next one once again another segment about how the publication industry sucks that's why you have

01:19:16.800 me so if you've got a book you want to publish please reach out to me and i will help you get it published

01:19:23.680 and bow a little piece of advice not even tolkien thought his work was perfect it doesn't need to be

01:19:36.560 reach out man get it done though i will do i did a decent chunk of writing at the weekend

01:19:43.040 actually oh good um but still not a fantastic amount

01:19:46.880 a couple thousand words uh but coop my man when it's done and it will still be months i mean in

01:19:56.000 all really really to be realistic months and months and months yet but when it's done and i will get

01:20:01.680 there assuming i don't get hit by a bus or something um i will be in contact but i don't expect it next

01:20:07.920 week if you don't get out before george rr martin very disappointing um zesty king says uh it came

01:20:14.560 up recently that a migrant hotel in blackpool had migrants making only fans content using 0.99

01:20:19.040 expensive equipment inside its rooms yes i saw that i didn't see that needless to say the people of

01:20:23.600 blackpool aren't happy paying for migrants make sex videos shocking shocking xenophobia from the

01:20:29.360 people like this is mental a roman observer says notice the different quality and science between the 0.98

01:20:36.240 far-right thugs and the totally spontaneous anti-racist counter-protest the first is handmade

01:20:40.960 and improvised and the latter is printed and mass producing yeah exactly was there a couple of

01:20:44.880 super chats oh sorry okay go sorry i didn't see them uh migration exploded after 2020 because

01:20:51.600 covert was supposed to kill way more people justify the importance of immigrants i don't know if that's

01:20:55.280 true um i don't think that's the case i i think that they always that what they're looking at the

01:21:01.680 long-term survivability of systems and so they're like you know we need people to fulfill roles in these

01:21:07.360 systems and covert i think was just a really convenient cover never all the news was talking

01:21:12.640 about was covid constantly constantly constantly so it's like look we can just import you know

01:21:16.320 hundreds of thousands and no one's going to talk about it because they're constantly being bombarded

01:21:20.960 with this and you won't notice it visibly immediately because everyone's locked at home

01:21:25.360 so you won't see it on the streets until it's too late lock absolutely everything down apart from

01:21:30.080 the airports and the yeah yeah yeah apart from the airports and i think this is exactly what happened in

01:21:34.960 swindon man like it did not used to be like this just literally before covid right it was basically

01:21:40.000 a normal english town and then the boris wave hit sigil stone says david letterman promised the late

01:21:45.120 show to craig ferguson a far superior comedian to culbert um and we had a late show with gay robot 0.68

01:21:50.000 skeletons didn't have to live this way yeah i know that's the thing like they they um they made their own 0.99

01:21:55.200 bed now i'm glad they're getting fucked in it uh wesley says stuart occasionally has a base take 0.99

01:22:01.200 until the next day when he reverses course looking like a beaten dog well that's the thing like stuart 0.99

01:22:05.520 is smarter than your average leftist and he he is aware that on the sort of strategic level the left

01:22:13.360 has been making blunder after blunder after blunder and so what he will do is use his platform to try

01:22:17.600 and rein in the excess of the left and then he'll get harassed by everyone around him and he'll be like

01:22:22.240 okay all right whatever and he'll just have to capitulate on it i mean i consider him uh you know a

01:22:27.680 complete fifth columnist a complete subversive obviously uh an insufferable although but then

01:22:32.960 he will actually like take a pop at bernie or something once in a blue moon yeah right he will

01:22:37.760 actually make a joke about hillary every now and again i mean not that that's much of a saving grace 0.79

01:22:42.800 but you are right you his entire point was to basically undermine the united states but um but the

01:22:49.520 issue is that he he knew when the left was going too far he would try and rein it in and that's where

01:22:54.960 the base takes come from it's not because he agrees with them the engaged few says i've often

01:23:00.560 wondered if the regime gave those generals so many medals because it would be bad optics for the

01:23:04.240 generals show up wearing uh show up to parades wearing body armor uh good question a good point

01:23:10.080 um sorry i'm i'm afraid i am gonna have to skip because we're running out of time and i want to

01:23:14.880 get some of the written comments on the website sorry champs um base tape says uh wasn't it sky news

01:23:20.240 that got a bit of a wake-up call during the southport riots where they turned to spin the story as poor

01:23:24.000 defenseless minorities attacked by even white racists but all they could find was minorities

01:23:27.840 running around with weapons stabbing their tires etc uh maybe it was even uh starting to break out 0.70

01:23:32.240 of their brainwashing um that was sky yeah yeah that that was the the counter riots uh where the sky

01:23:38.880 news woman was attacked and the uh intimidated and they had the tire slashed so yeah maybe sky news

01:23:44.640 is like jesus christ guys are we are we actually on board from this looks like maybe we should become

01:23:49.840 sky news australia after all yeah yeah yeah maybe skip it got it right yeah all these evil white 0.93

01:23:55.040 supremacists while a brown person stabs your tires yeah like alex says i'm still positive that the 0.97

01:24:02.640 scousers will have an epping moment it'll be huge well they did during the southport riots oh yeah yeah 0.97

01:24:07.040 scousers was rioting right up late into the evening like everyone else had gone to bed and the scousers are 0.94

01:24:11.920 still rioting like the scousers might be insufferable communists but they are also really racist so 0.89

01:24:16.880 they have some just like carl marks 0.91

01:24:23.760 they are the football bloody things they have the banner of carl marks don't they it's like what are

01:24:28.160 you doing liverpool is famously a red yeah city isn't it oh yeah i don't just mean liverpool football

01:24:34.160 club yeah but yeah not an intersectional red city all right well last says bingo the government really

01:24:41.440 is the enemy of the people yeah it really is uh jack boot policing by consent except when the

01:24:46.000 victims can't consent yes great point uh baron von morhawk says i watched talks to a leftist at

01:24:51.920 college and the topic of japan came up the lefty was visibly angry that japan was a homogenous

01:24:56.240 society and really wanted them to get diversity well the the japanese aren't white aren't they 100

01:25:01.520 diverse like you know sorry they are by that metric yeah but anyway when i suggested that this was

01:25:08.080 something for the japanese to decide for themselves uh but he couldn't seem to understand why the west

01:25:12.800 wouldn't just force them to adopt diversity instead just got more frustrated they give this

01:25:17.360 information as you will well that sounds like we volunteered to become diverse yeah like what sort

01:25:24.640 of diversity would that person have wanted for example to see the japanese demographically diluted

01:25:30.400 with chinese or vietnamese or is he going to insist on house of somali sub-saharan africans

01:25:35.680 it's that it's that right just like america's gang uh america has really got a somali problem

01:25:41.920 you notice this i was going to cover the uh minnesota guy tomorrow it's constant somalis it's

01:25:46.800 like it's not even like you know other africans it's just the somalians who have realized they've

01:25:50.720 got like a hook in america and they're like oh we can just go back and forth and just extract as

01:25:54.720 much as we can if you'll hand omar is their their person and and literally she's like i you know i miss

01:26:00.960 my homeland it's like okay silas says the problem of immigration hit close to home when i began to

01:26:07.360 realize i could scarcely remember the last time i saw a construction site with white men working on

01:26:11.200 it which combined with the feminization of public schools and abandonment of non-academically inclined

01:26:15.760 students in school has led to the total destruction of the young male underbelly of our rural areas of 0.99

01:26:20.240 the us it's devastating to see the outcomes of so many of my friends at school japan will surely suffer

01:26:25.360 yeah this is is going to be the case um matt says i moved to japan in 2018 and i would literally do

01:26:31.760 a double take if i saw another foreigner in my town i remember it was like that in england

01:26:37.360 it used to be like that here in my secondary school there was my whole year there was one black boy and

01:26:42.080 one indian boy one i bet they didn't cause trouble right no no it was just normal because they had no 1.00

01:26:47.440 choice no what were they gonna do hang out with the other kids no you have to be normal the black

01:26:52.400 boy went on to be a solicitor he was well all right yeah good um all right yeah uh yeah they

01:27:00.080 can't speak japanese which makes me angry because i learned to speak fluent japanese and properly

01:27:04.240 integrated most of my friends are japanese having witnessed what's happening in the uk i realized

01:27:08.000 this is a slippery slope i'm so worried for the future of the country by the way luca if you find

01:27:11.600 yourself in japan again you're welcome to stay on his sofa just say the word uh that's very kind yeah

01:27:16.720 thank you very much i was talking to my uncle the other day and he said have you seen the new

01:27:19.760 lotus eater he's like basil faulty thanks boobers don't mention the mustache

01:27:28.720 michael says my wife and i traveled to japan quite a bit she's japanese glad to hear japan plans to

01:27:32.960 maintain its japanese heritage and nature well i mean it's not the japan plans it's whether the

01:27:37.040 right wing can win and actually overthrow the globalist libs in time yeah yeah in time yeah um

01:27:43.840 no you don't need to import a million bemalians so you aren't racist does that no the japanese i think

01:27:48.560 everyone already thinks the japanese are racist right everyone thinks the japanese are a racist 0.97

01:27:53.200 country yeah well that's why i like them exactly yeah there's nothing to do with why i don't like

01:27:57.520 them but like you know that's that's one of the few redeeming features the definition of racism now

01:28:02.640 is simply i'd like a country yes so yeah by that definition then yeah they are yeah yeah yeah i'm here

01:28:09.600 for it yeah absolutely sam says to luca's point about colbert and tolkien um when lefties and liberals

01:28:15.760 claim to be fans of particular ips lord of the rings for example they only seem to be fans on a

01:28:19.440 very superficial level and miss the more in-depth moral values narrative and storytelling uh yeah

01:28:24.560 they they they do have a kind of way of compartmentalizing this sort of stuff it's like 0.80

01:28:29.200 yeah i love lord of the rings also go to the shit libs and i side with real life sorrow yeah

01:28:34.240 it's i remember uh back when i was at uni there was this commie girl and she was like i love chronicles 0.63

01:28:38.880 of narnia i'm like you can't you can't do that you don't understand you can't do that have you

01:28:44.800 never spent a second reflecting on what cs lewis was trying to tell you yeah right um and obviously

01:28:49.600 they haven't uh then it says i'd probably rather watch the late-seaters in the daily show even if it

01:28:55.200 even if i was become a leftist it's actually almost happened to me at some point i didn't even

01:28:58.640 know that the daily show was supposed to be funny well i mean honestly honestly in his prime 0.98

01:29:03.040 john stewart was funny you know he was funny uh but he was also a massive liar and manipulator and 0.94

01:29:09.920 i don't like even from the beginning yeah yeah he always always was like this um

01:29:16.640 uh lancelot says uh david letterman was basically comfort food back in the day

01:29:20.880 the opening monologue funny moments with guests who are not insufferable finish off with an awesome

01:29:25.200 edgy band everything afterwards a pale imitation lacking nutrition feeling nothing yeah i remember

01:29:30.240 watching letterman when i was a teenager he was i mean a lot of it was a bit above my head to be

01:29:34.240 honest because it was like some boomer jokes in there right but he was all right and it wasn't

01:29:38.320 like like you never got the feeling it was like anti-american or something no right absolutely not

01:29:42.560 jesus christ no absolutely not yeah it was fine it was almost apolitical really yeah i mean almost not

01:29:48.960 quite but in fact arizona desert rats got a great point here i think what made the late night comedians so

01:29:52.960 popular in the 90s and early 2000s was the fact that everyone was a target in their jokes and it wasn't

01:29:57.280 a political agenda uh now it's so obvious that everything is political that none of the jokes

01:30:01.200 are funny yeah it's just embarrassing watching colbert and the rest of them whine about trump

01:30:06.000 again and again and again like you can't tell a joke under those conditions um george says i've

01:30:13.760 hated the late night comedian format ever since john lebowitz uh they spread leftist propaganda and

01:30:18.160 then when challenged go the i'm just a comedian defense now that colbert has canceled the rest should

01:30:22.480 follow i think the rest will follow because i think that it's just not profitable but yeah i i've always

01:30:26.720 hated that defense from john stewart and i'm just a comedian so then stop talking about politics

01:30:32.560 stop making jokes about politics and if you do make jokes about politics then you are not just a

01:30:36.480 comedian you are someone who is morally legislating for what you think the future of the country should

01:30:40.480 be like uh i'm very tired of that i don't respect it uh riss asks how was the holiday to norway carl

01:30:47.040 would you say you're planning for the fjords i don't know what this reference is it's monty python

01:30:51.520 right okay i hate monty python uh i've always hated monty python never thought it was funny

01:30:56.800 i'm probably the only person on earth who thinks this i think it's a bit hit and miss but it's

01:30:59.760 largely funny yeah a lot of it i hate it uh that's interesting i never knew that about you you think

01:31:04.960 you know a guy i i i i i view monty python as kind of anti-comedy uh i get what you mean that

01:31:11.600 is early subversion stuff no it's not even about that it's just not funny oh just not funny oh here's

01:31:18.480 two guys slap each other with fish oh yeah ha ha ha oh that's funny isn't it yeah what's funny

01:31:23.200 about that it is that's not that's not funny some sketches aren't funny i'll give you sure there's

01:31:28.320 plenty of sketches i don't like anyway anyway we should do a lads hour about it yeah okay we should

01:31:35.200 because i i have yet to see it see if you can dig out an actually funny one dig out a bunch of the

01:31:40.720 funny sketches and we'll see if they can make me laugh i'll do that because i i i hate monty python

01:31:46.400 uh i've never thought it was funny and i remember even you know even when i was a kid

01:31:50.320 wondering why my dad was laughing at this like in particular the fish one i was just like

01:31:56.240 this isn't funny like it's just not funny and i i i never liked it at all and i watched literally

01:32:02.800 everyone i knew thought monty python was like the height of comedy and i was just like

01:32:07.520 i never bought into that that it's the funniest thing ever i never bought into that but some sketches

01:32:12.400 i have i do think are funny but well this this has been the the legacy that python's left and i hate

01:32:18.160 it you know uh thanks for joining us folks we'll see you tomorrow have a great evening

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 21, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1212

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