The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1229

00:00:00.000 Who are the men that pick for scraps amongst the ruins at the end of history? You should

00:00:19.640 know, because you encounter them every day. Between the towering buildings of a fallen

00:00:24.400 empire, we find the Fellaheen, the historyless men, who know nothing of the turning of the 1.00

00:00:30.880 cosmic wheel and find themselves outside of civilisation itself. Cut loose from the great

00:00:37.100 chain of being, they represent the loan into which our dying culture will return. That 0.97

00:00:43.580 is, unless we choose to take up the burden once again. This Fellaheen condition is the 1.00

00:00:51.280 subject we explore in Issue 4 of Islander Magazine. On sale, while stocks last, and available

00:00:56.820 worldwide at shop.loadseaters.com.

00:01:02.100 Hello, and welcome to the podcast of The Load Seaters, episode 1229, for Wednesday the 13th

00:01:09.080 of August, 2025. I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Josh and Stelios.

00:01:14.420 Hello.

00:01:15.000 Yes, he's back. He wasn't the mystery guest on this occasion, though.

00:01:18.320 No, he was.

00:01:19.440 He was. Well, there's another mystery. Anyway, today we're going to be discussing the UK just

00:01:28.120 getting taxed into oblivion for the foreseeable future. We're then going to talk about the

00:01:33.840 EU destroying journalistic freedom, and not the good kind, unfortunately, and how to spot

00:01:41.200 high social IQ. I've been working hard to come up with my own flawless test.

00:01:48.680 So you are an expert in this field.

00:01:51.380 Oh, aye.

00:01:52.080 Oh, aye. All right, then. Over to you, Stelios.

00:01:55.580 Right, so unfortunately, it looks like the UK will be taxed into oblivion, and Rachel Reeves is after all

00:02:03.180 our money. So before she completely destroys your wallet, you may want to have an option.

00:02:09.720 You may think, where should I invest my money and put it somewhere where their value is going

00:02:16.840 to increase as opposed to evaporate? I have an idea for you. Oil under four. And they're talking here

00:02:24.460 about the Fellaheen something. It's just a concept about some broken people or something.

00:02:29.520 Yeah, it's a Spanglerian history-less people, people at the end of history. 0.99

00:02:33.680 Yeah, so it's $14.99. Click on our uk.shop.lotusseeders.com. Check it out. Definitely. It's the fourth

00:02:44.180 issue of The Islander. This is a magazine that has gone very well. Definitely get a copy.

00:02:51.480 And the good news as well is that when the economy eventually all collapses, it's edible

00:02:56.800 as well. So you can eat it if you get hungry. Exactly. And if we all turn into Fellaheen, 0.98

00:03:01.820 you might as well know what's going to happen. So let's understand what's coming.

00:03:07.260 Lotus Eaters is not liable for any paper cuts you receive following Luca's advice.

00:03:11.360 No.

00:03:12.980 Right. So I hate taxes. And I think Brother Josh hates taxes. I think Brother Luca isn't particularly

00:03:20.700 keen on them either. Just don't like them.

00:03:23.080 Right. So it looks like Labour is going for an economic policy that is disastrous. And this

00:03:30.680 is the combination of open borders and massive increase in welfarism.

00:03:35.260 And this is, of course, to fill that 50 billion black hole that we've found out now exists within

00:03:41.140 the budget. And of course, when they came in, they were complaining about the Conservatives having

00:03:44.400 a 22 billion black hole. And I, for one, I'm hoping for, you know, not a metaphorical black

00:03:51.060 hole to appear in Whitehall, but a real one. We can be rid of all of this. But alas, I'm

00:03:56.220 afraid team black hole is a very small club of people.

00:04:00.640 You have anticipated my point about black holes, Josh.

00:04:05.020 Right. So it seems that this is the policy that Labour is opting for. They have their

00:04:11.940 people. They have, who is this man with a Stevenson with a weird accent? And everyone

00:04:17.840 is falling for him.

00:04:18.780 Gary Stevenson.

00:04:19.640 Yeah, Gary Stevenson.

00:04:20.720 Gary Economics.

00:04:21.680 Yeah, tax the rich. Have you heard this before? This is such a new concept. Who came up with

00:04:27.860 it? Well, the rich are more able to move than ever. And also, that's already what's happening.

00:04:32.700 And in fact, haven't we lost something like over a thousand multi-millionaires over the

00:04:39.020 past few years? I remember seeing something like that. I'm just remembering it very vaguely

00:04:43.340 in my mind.

00:04:44.020 Brother Josh, you're anticipating my segment again. You don't have to treat everything as

00:04:47.900 a black hole.

00:04:49.780 I'll let you get on with it.

00:04:51.000 Right. So I think the combination of welfarism and open borders is disastrous because you have

00:04:57.780 a population that is rising and more and more people require benefits. That means that

00:05:03.620 people, everyday people who are working are taxed into oblivion and the taxes are rising.

00:05:10.140 And if you see the main leftist narrative when it comes to poverty and crime and all adverse

00:05:17.580 effects that we are encountering on a daily basis, it's always somehow leading into you need

00:05:24.620 to be more taxed. It's always leading into...

00:05:27.780 It's always the answer.

00:05:28.580 Exactly. And that is because the left has gone for the globally rich versus globally poor

00:05:35.840 distinction, according to which almost everyone in the West, definitely the working class of

00:05:40.920 England, sort of counts like globally rich.

00:05:44.740 It's basically a way of punishing people who are economically productive in favor of people

00:05:49.180 who are essentially financial net negatives.

00:05:52.340 Right. So in these conditions, business confidence is decreasing. So we have an article here from

00:06:00.900 The Telegraph by Tim Wallace. It's a deputy economics editor. It says business confidence worse than

00:06:07.680 during COVID. Reeves has hit firms with cost increases while failing to improve economy, say bosses.

00:06:13.660 Right. I mean, it's not particularly surprising to us. Maybe it could be surprising if you're

00:06:23.620 a leftist, but it's not surprising.

00:06:27.140 But there's also the fact that at this time, the global economy is not doing particularly well.

00:06:33.600 And so it's all the more important that you get things right at home to be able to weather

00:06:36.760 the storm. And instead, what we've got is a perfect storm of incompetence.

00:06:41.580 Because not only did, you know, the pandemic disrupt trade, and I know things are sort of

00:06:46.180 getting back to normal, but economic growth hasn't necessarily returned to the same sorts

00:06:51.880 of levels. You know, in many ways, I think we're getting degrowth, aren't we?

00:06:56.960 Yeah.

00:06:57.460 And so it's the worst time she could be possibly doing it for the country.

00:07:03.120 Right. So we have here an article that talks about key events. This is by the same

00:07:10.840 author. And we are essentially going to show you stuff and data from this article and talk

00:07:18.560 about them a bit because it's very dense in information. I'm not going to show you many

00:07:23.100 links. We're just going to talk about this. And I'm going to say, so he says stuff numbers

00:07:28.840 declined by 164,000 in July compared to the same month last year, according to the Office

00:07:35.700 for National Statistics, taking the total to 3.3 million. So last July, it was 164,000 more

00:07:45.280 jobs.

00:07:45.620 And this has got to be a consequence of making the cost of having an employee more per head

00:07:50.760 for businesses by increasing the business rates of tax previously. And that we're only

00:07:57.180 just seeing the knock on effects of that. And now it's going to be made even worse.

00:08:00.440 Yes. And they're saying basically that this has turned businesses to hire contractors,

00:08:08.260 to prefer contractors as opposed to full-time employees.

00:08:12.020 Hey, it's what I'm doing now.

00:08:15.200 Right. So it says it comes as company grapple with rising staff costs caused by the chancellor's

00:08:21.220 decision to raise the national minimum wage and employer national insurance contributions

00:08:26.160 in April. So it seems to me that we have the same age-old issue here. We have leftists

00:08:34.380 who don't know Economics 101, or they know it, but they completely choose to pay attention

00:08:42.440 to it because in their minds, it's not the morally correct thing to do.

00:08:46.100 Yes. If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a chancellor who looks like she should

00:08:51.900 have been a dinner lady hiking your taxes up forever. It says there, however, average wage 1.00

00:08:59.880 growth slowed down from 5% to 4-6%. And we will see that wage growth is higher in the public sector,

00:09:10.200 not in the private sector, which means the UK is opting for statism. And statism means that the state

00:09:16.560 is a black hole sucking all economic creativity, stifling all, you know, economic freedom and

00:09:24.780 making things worse.

00:09:26.540 Before this, I think as a percentage of our country's GDP, about 46% of it went through the

00:09:33.540 state. And this was prior to all of this. So we're probably, you know, 50% now, if not more,

00:09:40.720 you know, and that's more or less a measure of how far are you to full communism? Well, we're halfway

00:09:45.600 there. We're not living on a prayer though. And let's be very honest. It's not just labor

00:09:52.180 who was bad at economics. No, no, no. It says there, the number of job vacancies fell for

00:09:59.240 the 37th month in a row to 718,000 between May and July, down by 44,000 on the previous three

00:10:08.260 months. So they're, they're just declining in number for a long time now. It's more than

00:10:16.060 three years. That's economic mismanagement in declining a pretty steady rate, you know,

00:10:23.200 despite technical innovation, that's helped somewhat since the time of Thatcher, when she

00:10:29.180 was closing all of the industry, industry and mines and the likes. Yeah. And also we have the rate

00:10:33.980 of unemployment holding firm at 4.7% between April and June. So that's not exactly a good

00:10:42.760 job. Right. So we have here jobs in retail and hospitality hit hard. Office of National

00:10:50.120 Statistic Direction of Economic Statistics, Liz McKeon said, taken together, these latest figures

00:10:57.060 point to a continued cooling of the labor market. The number of employees on payroll has now fallen

00:11:03.400 in 10 of the last 12 months, with these falls concentrated in hospitality and retail. Which

00:11:09.720 are disproportionately low income jobs as well. You know, that what I would refer to as entry

00:11:17.640 level positions. Exactly. And now you can't even enter them because they're all getting taken

00:11:22.560 up by new arrivals. Yeah. So while the job market's contracting, the population's exploding. That's,

00:11:29.080 I'm sure, a recipe for a healthy economy. Which means that the wholesaling, retailing,

00:11:34.980 hotels and restaurants sector showed the strongest regular annual growth rate in the wake of Rachel

00:11:41.600 Reeves' decision to raise the national minimum wage. I'm not surprised about the hotels, to be honest.

00:11:46.640 I think in a thousand years time, the only thing that's going to be left to some towering golden 0.81

00:11:52.840 hotels that have just taken in every migrant and built up an empire. Some of the richest people in the 0.99

00:11:58.740 country now are the hotel owners that have been running this migrant scam. It's unbelievable.

00:12:04.860 Well, if the population is increasing, you need more food for them to eat. Right? So no wonder...

00:12:13.120 Channel migrants. 0.96

00:12:13.700 No wonder the wholesaling, retailing and hotels and restaurants sector is going to boom.

00:12:22.580 Also, if you have a government that has open borders and also opts for welfarism and says that lots of

00:12:31.840 people who come here illegally need to be placed in hotels and they're paying hotels also with taxpayer 1.00

00:12:38.180 money, obviously hotels are going to show regular annual growth.

00:12:42.960 But of course, that's going to be disproportionately weighted towards the ones that have contracts

00:12:47.960 with the state because there are many hotels and hotel chains that aren't going to do that. And because of the

00:12:54.700 state of the economy, I imagine internal tourism is down. And so actually, it's going to be very much

00:12:59.940 weighted to the hotels that have sold our country down the river and betrayed us. And that's kind of

00:13:06.780 unfortunate. Right. Also, we see here that the public sector seems to show a high growth of salary.

00:13:17.780 It says public sector pay grew by 5.7%, while private sector pay slipped from 4.9% to 4.8%, which I think is worrying.

00:13:29.440 Mm hmm. Right. It shows a steady economic centralization tendency, which I consider to be particularly detrimental.

00:13:38.440 I think it's also bad that they're getting such a significant pay cut at the expense of the private sector that has to prop it up. And, you know, I would like everyone to earn good money. So it's not necessarily jealousy. I mean, that's public sector also includes things like firefighters and ambulance staff. So, you know, obviously, I'm going to be grateful towards them, but also include civil servants to which I go, ugh.

00:14:02.080 And policemen.

00:14:02.920 And policemen. But there is also the other issue, Josh, and I'm sure you will agree with this, is that when it comes to the public sector, lots of prices aren't determined spontaneously, as they would be in a relatively free market. They very likely they reflect the choice of bureaucrats to try and gather political support.

00:14:29.040 Well, there's no profits or losses to determine values. Therefore, it's harder to allocate resources. That's the whole reason that the Soviet Union collapsed. You know, it's just in a much smaller, well, not so much smaller, but smaller scale.

00:14:44.140 Right.

00:14:44.300 I mean, half the Soviet Union.

00:14:45.840 Yes.

00:14:46.220 But also here we're talking about the per capita issue of how pay is distributed according to the population. It says total pay, which measures average wages, including bonuses, fell from 5% to 4.6% during the period. So less money per person.

00:15:04.820 Right. Let's move onwards. Ministers target people not seeking work. This here is just complete gaslighting. Honestly, this is very frustrating.

00:15:19.940 The government needs to bring more people out of economic activity and into work, a labor education minister has said.

00:15:26.740 Now, pause for a minute. And let's, for instance, talk about, you know, welfarism. One of the negative aspects of welfarism is that you are creating a culture of dependency. The more you opt for this, the greater you go for a social benefit, the more you go for increased social benefits, the more some people are going to say, well, what's the purpose in working?

00:15:52.720 I'm just going to sit and I'm going to receive benefits because if I start working, I'm going to lose the benefits.

00:15:59.520 In psychology, it's referred to as learned helplessness in that what you actually do by making someone dependent on you is you remove their ability to act in a way in which they can be self-sufficient.

00:16:13.660 And this is why some African countries have actually said, no, we don't want foreign aid because we need to build up our own industries.

00:16:22.020 Some of the more savvy ones, in fact, like actually, no, our dependence on foreign aid is actually hobbling us and we need to be self-sufficient because in the long run we'll be much better off.

00:16:32.380 And I think that's true of people as well.

00:16:33.780 I think that to a certain extent, you have to be somewhat cruel, cruel, to be kind and allow people to suffer the consequences of their own actions.

00:16:45.780 Obviously not, you know, to a ridiculous degree, but just enough that it motivates them to better themselves.

00:16:52.620 Exactly. But this rhetoric that the Labour Education Minister is using isn't the traditional rhetoric of proponents of a massive welfare state.

00:17:04.400 In fact, it's quite the opposite. But they are opting for this in combination with open borders.

00:17:10.360 And there are, what is it, 20% of welfare recipients of foreign nationals.

00:17:17.900 Indeed. Not surprised.

00:17:19.500 First, jobs slow down may be abetting. Payrolls dropped to the lowest level in nearly two years, but the pace of decline was the lowest since January.

00:17:28.940 Let's move forward. That's about the...

00:17:32.600 Right. Firms switch to contractors after Reeves' tax rate.

00:17:37.080 Business owners are increasingly hiring contractors and virtual staff as they grapple with Rachel Reeves' tax rate. 1.00

00:17:43.620 And we have here a chief executive at Moe Living saying,

00:17:47.940 Since April's employers' national insurance hike, I've resisted taking on full-time staff.

00:17:54.420 My property management business now runs entirely with 12 contractors and virtual assistants, both UK-based and overseas.

00:18:01.840 The NI increase raised employment costs enough to tip the balance.

00:18:06.500 Full-time hires mean fixed overheads, while contractors offer flexibility, scalability, and access to specialist skills without the commitment of salaries, holiday pay, or sick leave.

00:18:17.880 This is precisely what the criticism of leftist economics is about.

00:18:25.140 Stop thinking that your plans can't backfire.

00:18:28.340 They constantly talk about the precariousness of the working class, and in their economic illiteracy, they're making people's lives, and especially the lives of members of the working class, more precarious.

00:18:44.780 Because, of course, if you are a contractor, you don't have the guarantee of income you have if you're a full-time employee.

00:18:50.680 And so it's riskier, you know, I'm a contractor, however, I don't have any dependents that I have to look after.

00:18:59.380 And were I in that position, I would perhaps want something a bit more secure, because you want to be able to feed your own children, right?

00:19:06.060 And moving to a contractor economy isn't necessarily the worst thing in the world, but it doesn't suit everyone.

00:19:11.320 And particularly if you're in that camp of having a family and wanting the security of regular income, you can't take the hit or the risks.

00:19:18.980 Like I can, perhaps, then it's going to be awful for you.

00:19:23.480 And also, you're going to need some of those benefits, things like, you know, national insurance and pension payments, all of that sort of stuff that you don't get when you're a contractor.

00:19:32.200 You're absolutely right.

00:19:33.400 And I will say this, the way I saw it in universities, universities have stopped hiring, more or less, they have stopped hiring regular staff, full-time staff, and they are opting for contractors.

00:19:47.460 And there comes a time where they're saying, right, we either have to make you a full-time member, or we are going to stop our collaboration with you.

00:19:59.200 And then you have to find another place.

00:20:01.340 And yes, this doesn't particularly help people who want to settle down and have a family, because you need that kind of mobility.

00:20:07.520 Right, the minister defends Reeves' tax rate on companies.

00:20:12.160 Well, they're protecting and defending their own.

00:20:16.380 Let's move a bit upwards.

00:20:18.900 Reeves' tax rate will mean no more rate cuts this year, warns Economist.

00:20:23.500 I will say one thing, which is good.

00:20:26.160 The interest rates fell from $4.99 to, I think, $4.25.

00:20:31.340 I was one of the unlucky ones, because I got a mortgage with $4.99 a few weeks before it fell into $4.25.

00:20:39.920 But that's a good thing.

00:20:41.420 But they're saying that they are now a bit skeptical.

00:20:46.800 So they will be very skeptical with respect to considering lowering the interest rates yet again.

00:20:54.800 Right, so you get an idea.

00:20:57.080 There are all sorts of data we can talk about here.

00:21:00.640 Labor, economics is an absolute disaster.

00:21:04.620 Borrowing costs rise after jobs blow.

00:21:08.220 It says here, the yield on 10-year UK guilts, a benchmark for the cost of servicing the national debt,

00:21:15.140 climbed four basic points to 4.61%, well ahead of rises in Europe and the US.

00:21:21.000 It came as traders reduced bets on the Bank of England, cutting interest rates again this year,

00:21:26.680 following official data that indicated wage growth remains too high for inflation.

00:21:31.700 Yields on bond markets tend to rise when there are expectations that interest rates will remain higher.

00:21:37.940 So it seems like there isn't particular confidence in the UK economy by investors.

00:21:48.260 Nor should there be.

00:21:49.340 Why would anything get better?

00:21:51.460 It's only going to get worse.

00:21:53.560 Right, we have this article here from This Is Money,

00:21:57.880 which is talking about rumours about an inheritance tax.

00:22:03.920 That's just what people need.

00:22:06.460 Stealing the pennies off of dead people's eyes.

00:22:08.840 That's what they want to hear.

00:22:09.920 We have a Labour minister today up on the door to a controversial inheritance tax raid

00:22:17.500 as Chancellor Rachel Reeves looks to plug a 50 billion spending hole at her next budget. 1.00

00:22:24.040 Now, I checked and they said something like there are some research policy institutes

00:22:33.560 who are talking about a 50 billion pound hole for the next five years that Rachel Reeves needs to fill. 1.00

00:22:42.560 So that means that she will have to most probably because that's what that's what that's how leftists think. 0.82

00:22:52.160 They're going to say we're going to increase taxation as opposed to cut spending.

00:22:56.280 Yeah, there'll be no no reforms to the NHS.

00:22:58.660 There'll be no cutting back on the Gibbs to migrants.

00:23:01.100 It'll just be pinching from native Brits until there's nothing left to take. 0.99

00:23:09.200 Right.

00:23:09.980 And I think that they are definitely not going to go for cutting spending.

00:23:15.140 They also say about the NHS that one of the reasons why they want to increase their revenue

00:23:21.680 is because they want to increase funding to the NHS.

00:23:25.460 Yep, there it is.

00:23:26.660 Yeah, the NHS.

00:23:27.300 Back to black holes again.

00:23:28.440 It's one of those institutions where you have several people saying,

00:23:33.360 no, no, it's completely underfunded.

00:23:35.780 Other people saying that it's completely overfunded.

00:23:38.520 I'll say anecdotally, I have a very good friend who has worked for the NHS

00:23:44.580 and they say that they are spending incredibly and they're not particularly economic

00:23:49.900 and they're buying kits of medical equipment

00:23:54.540 and they are buying them in packs of 15 or 20.

00:23:58.440 And they may open up one and they're expensive and they may open one kit,

00:24:03.020 take a knife out of it or a scalpel or a scissor or something

00:24:07.220 and then throw all the pack just...

00:24:11.180 I can put it into perspective if you want.

00:24:13.300 Yeah.

00:24:13.400 So we spend more than the Japanese do per head on healthcare

00:24:19.120 and the Japanese obviously have almost double our population

00:24:23.700 and yet you can walk into a doctor's surgery and get a same-day appointment

00:24:27.360 and everything works over there and it doesn't work here.

00:24:31.200 It sort of suggests that it's not a matter of money

00:24:33.080 because, you know, unless the Japanese are miracle workers, 0.99

00:24:36.760 there's a comparable situation there,

00:24:40.580 it just suggests that everything's being mismanaged and there's lots of waste,

00:24:44.480 which hearing from pretty much anyone who works in it is definitely the case.

00:24:49.480 And what's more, there's no incentive by the NHS

00:24:52.880 or by those who, you know, take management of it to reduce that waste

00:24:56.900 because it's an institution that is just invulnerable to criticism, right?

00:25:01.700 And there's a threat as this holy thing that can't really be criticised.

00:25:05.400 I would abolish it in a heartbeat.

00:25:07.100 Right.

00:25:07.400 So we have lots of billionaires and millionaires leaving.

00:25:11.780 We have here Norwegian marine tycoon flees to United Arab Emirates

00:25:16.920 blaming Reeves' tax raid.

00:25:20.240 And he is not the only one.

00:25:21.940 There are many who are leaving because they are considering the UK economy

00:25:26.780 to be less investment worthy than they did before.

00:25:31.700 And definitely before Rachel's tax raid.

00:25:35.640 I'm amazed it's taking...

00:25:36.580 Sorry, Stelios, go ahead.

00:25:37.560 No, no, please.

00:25:38.480 I was just going to say ever so quickly that

00:25:40.420 I'm amazed people haven't seen the writing on the wall

00:25:42.460 that this entire economic model just doesn't work.

00:25:45.220 Like, it's so obvious.

00:25:47.480 The economic model of the entirety of the Western world doesn't work

00:25:51.460 and it's just putting our governments into debt

00:25:53.520 and we need to change it.

00:25:55.000 Is that obvious?

00:25:56.060 It might work somewhat for the United States,

00:25:58.060 but that's because they've got, you know, the dollar,

00:26:01.400 which is used as a reserve currency for a decent portion of the countries in the world

00:26:06.120 and therefore they can have, you know, they can run a debt deficit,

00:26:10.720 they can keep printing money and get away with it

00:26:13.540 because the costs are spread out to not just the United States

00:26:16.440 but other countries as well.

00:26:17.900 We can't do that.

00:26:18.800 So, it makes our economy contract like this.

00:26:24.520 This reminds me of something Milton Friedman said, I think, about the Soviet Union.

00:26:29.260 He says, when the Soviet Union collapsed,

00:26:32.080 people said that it collapsed because of a very stagnant economy

00:26:38.720 and, you know, economic centralization

00:26:41.660 and the lesson they took from it was,

00:26:45.780 therefore, we need more economic centralization.

00:26:49.520 You couldn't get more centralized than that.

00:26:51.460 There's no denying it.

00:26:53.040 They had an office full of bureaucrats running stuff, basically. 0.95

00:26:55.500 Right, so it looks like Rachel Reeves will opt for increasing taxes 1.00

00:27:03.400 and try to tax us into oblivion.

00:27:08.020 All right.

00:27:09.160 May I have the venerable text?

00:27:12.820 Let me, should I read?

00:27:14.320 Oh, yeah, sure.

00:27:14.800 Yeah, okay.

00:27:15.620 The engaged few.

00:27:16.980 In both Britain, Josh will be...

00:27:19.500 I can read that.

00:27:22.740 The colored commentator at the Fed posting.

00:27:26.060 The treason hangs, his dulcet tones,

00:27:28.100 explaining how the knot has to be positioned on the neck just so.

00:27:31.500 Oh, please, nooses are easy to tie. 1.00

00:27:33.540 It's one of the, like...

00:27:34.300 I went to scouts.

00:27:35.400 It's one of the first knots you learn how to do.

00:27:38.440 Not because you're using them in scouts,

00:27:40.560 but just that it's very easy.

00:27:41.320 Like when you've got a proper education.

00:27:43.680 Yeah.

00:27:45.120 Baystape has a very mean comment.

00:27:48.100 And he says,

00:27:49.860 I enjoy an edgy joke as much as the next person,

00:27:52.440 but I think labor going on and on about the enormous black hole

00:27:55.820 the conservatives left in Westminster

00:28:00.420 is quite a brutal way to...

00:28:03.040 Come on.

00:28:05.200 Refer to Kemi.

00:28:06.960 I finished it for you, Stelio.

00:28:08.300 Come on, Baystape. 0.81

00:28:09.740 Right.

00:28:11.120 The hapsification, 1.00

00:28:12.820 why people still keep voting labor is beyond me.

00:28:15.800 No lessons are ever learned.

00:28:17.200 I think I have an answer for you

00:28:18.980 because it reminds me of Greece.

00:28:21.760 They may be doing it

00:28:23.220 because they think that they personally

00:28:25.560 will profit from that situation.

00:28:30.320 Well, hello, Anon.

00:28:32.660 You know, and I know,

00:28:34.100 that the EU hates you

00:28:35.540 and would rather that you don't have

00:28:37.620 the opinions that you have

00:28:39.100 about certain things,

00:28:40.640 certain projects,

00:28:41.500 and the trajectory that Europe

00:28:44.280 seems to be going on these days.

00:28:46.960 And they have solutions for that.

00:28:49.620 And we'll talk about them in a moment.

00:28:51.280 But before we do,

00:28:52.580 let's talk about a bit more

00:28:54.000 about that wonderful knowledge that you hold

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00:28:57.840 with the fourth issue of Islander magazine.

00:29:01.020 This one, the theme is Fellaheen.

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00:29:09.660 and lose memory, right?

00:29:12.320 It's about losing memory

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00:29:15.300 what led to you thriving in the first place

00:29:17.940 and being a successful society.

00:29:20.080 So there's loads of really erudite thinkers

00:29:23.240 writing essays for this magazine.

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00:29:36.460 And it was quite a challenge,

00:29:37.880 but I kind of got there.

00:29:39.500 Anyway, let's start talking about the EU.

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00:29:53.260 All right then.

00:29:54.140 So you have here this wonderful post

00:29:57.800 from the EU

00:29:59.480 that they put out.

00:30:01.240 Actual schizo posting, are they? 1.00

00:30:04.040 You see, the more you repeat it,

00:30:05.820 I assume the more true it becomes.

00:30:08.740 It reminds me of Jack Torrance,

00:30:10.920 the shiny thing.

00:30:12.100 All work and no play

00:30:13.320 makes Jack a dark boy.

00:30:15.820 Yes.

00:30:16.460 So as they say,

00:30:17.500 the European Commission,

00:30:19.140 independent free media

00:30:20.700 stands at the core of our democracy.

00:30:23.140 I am so sick

00:30:25.340 of the words

00:30:26.580 our democracy.

00:30:27.700 Yeah, American politics

00:30:29.680 has sort of ruined that for us,

00:30:31.200 hasn't it?

00:30:31.960 Well, and EU politics as well.

00:30:33.920 Oh, blimey.

00:30:34.600 Just Western politics.

00:30:35.740 Anyway, today,

00:30:36.480 the European Media Freedom Act

00:30:38.440 starts applying,

00:30:40.080 designed to strengthen

00:30:41.780 media freedom,

00:30:43.320 independence,

00:30:44.100 and pluralism

00:30:45.020 within the EU.

00:30:46.340 And you can see here

00:30:48.180 that they also had a,

00:30:51.440 well, there's a link

00:30:52.480 and where it told me

00:30:54.020 that I could go and find out more.

00:30:56.200 So I did.

00:30:57.500 And you can see here,

00:30:59.340 they go on to say that

00:31:00.180 free media is a key pillar

00:31:02.260 of every democracy

00:31:03.600 and they are essential

00:31:04.900 for a healthy market economy.

00:31:07.340 On a global scale,

00:31:08.960 the European Union

00:31:09.860 remains a stronghold

00:31:11.520 for free media,

00:31:13.200 setting a standard

00:31:14.160 as a democratic continent.

00:31:19.040 You're pulling my leg.

00:31:20.740 That's what they say.

00:31:22.360 When did the EU

00:31:23.360 have a comedy division, eh?

00:31:25.280 Honestly.

00:31:26.320 Yet,

00:31:27.060 there are increasingly

00:31:28.400 worrying trends.

00:31:30.460 Building on past efforts,

00:31:32.200 the Commission has taken

00:31:33.280 a number of measures

00:31:34.480 to protect media freedom

00:31:36.280 and pluralism in the EU

00:31:37.880 in addition to enhancing

00:31:39.520 free movement of services.

00:31:42.140 So, as always,

00:31:44.940 the technocracy,

00:31:46.120 the bureaucracy

00:31:46.620 has our best interests at heart

00:31:48.820 and we'll start to explore

00:31:50.900 some of the ways

00:31:52.220 that they're going to do that.

00:31:54.600 And as always,

00:31:55.620 they don't have a mirror.

00:31:58.280 No, no.

00:31:59.580 They never come to the conclusion

00:32:01.180 of why don't we just

00:32:02.680 get out the way. 0.98

00:32:03.800 Or are we the baddies?

00:32:05.340 Are we the baddies?

00:32:07.400 Yeah, exactly that.

00:32:08.540 So, it goes on to say

00:32:09.380 that the legislation

00:32:11.540 is aimed at defending

00:32:13.480 democratic values

00:32:14.540 by fostering,

00:32:15.840 this is great,

00:32:16.560 the sustainability

00:32:17.220 and visibility

00:32:18.960 of trusted,

00:32:21.800 editorially responsible media

00:32:23.580 and news content.

00:32:25.420 You shouldn't trust any media.

00:32:26.920 Full stop.

00:32:27.640 You should never take anything

00:32:28.580 at face value.

00:32:29.860 You know,

00:32:30.140 and I'm saying that

00:32:30.920 about what I say as well.

00:32:32.240 Please don't just take it

00:32:33.140 at face value.

00:32:33.840 You know,

00:32:34.240 look it up,

00:32:34.960 check it,

00:32:35.640 fact check it

00:32:36.220 if you wish.

00:32:37.880 That's good practice,

00:32:38.860 generally speaking.

00:32:39.920 Yes,

00:32:40.240 definitely a fact check

00:32:41.700 everything that Josh

00:32:42.620 is about to say

00:32:43.280 in his upcoming segment.

00:32:45.440 Well,

00:32:45.640 that is fact.

00:32:48.300 But haven't they just,

00:32:49.720 you know,

00:32:49.900 from the very beginning there,

00:32:50.960 no,

00:32:51.160 it's about protecting

00:32:52.300 the trusted sources,

00:32:54.260 right?

00:32:54.480 It's about all the legacy media

00:32:56.020 throughout the continent,

00:32:57.500 you know,

00:32:57.720 in France,

00:32:58.500 Germany,

00:32:59.020 and all the rest of them,

00:33:00.480 right?

00:33:00.760 And it's obviously

00:33:02.100 going to be used

00:33:03.360 as a weapon

00:33:04.160 to budge in

00:33:05.980 and force into submission

00:33:07.380 all of the new

00:33:09.400 independent,

00:33:11.460 you know,

00:33:11.760 privately owned media

00:33:12.540 companies

00:33:13.080 that are popping up

00:33:14.060 across Europe now

00:33:14.900 and the independent

00:33:15.740 journalists as well

00:33:17.000 who quite frankly

00:33:18.320 do all the heavy lifting

00:33:19.660 these days.

00:33:21.100 Enough patting yourself

00:33:21.980 on the back.

00:33:22.640 Well,

00:33:22.740 no,

00:33:23.020 I was more thinking,

00:33:23.860 I wasn't thinking

00:33:24.620 about that at all.

00:33:25.900 I was thinking about the,

00:33:27.460 we are the pillars

00:33:28.320 of civilization.

00:33:29.180 Yes,

00:33:29.660 without us,

00:33:30.940 everything would crumble.

00:33:32.620 I was more thinking

00:33:33.880 about just,

00:33:34.860 you know,

00:33:35.160 the people like going out

00:33:36.180 and filming the migrant

00:33:37.180 hotel protests

00:33:38.720 and stuff like that,

00:33:39.660 the stuff that the media

00:33:40.980 doesn't want you to know,

00:33:42.680 you know,

00:33:42.960 those sorts of things.

00:33:44.700 So look at the journalism

00:33:46.000 they took from us.

00:33:47.200 Right.

00:33:47.760 Yeah.

00:33:48.140 Or trying to take away

00:33:49.460 from us.

00:33:50.260 Indeed.

00:33:51.260 So it does,

00:33:52.500 it didn't,

00:33:53.060 of course,

00:33:53.360 take long

00:33:54.000 before we got to the nub

00:33:55.780 of what all of this

00:33:57.160 was about,

00:33:58.300 which is,

00:33:58.860 it's a perfectly

00:34:00.320 legitimate word.

00:34:01.620 You can say nub

00:34:02.500 stelios.

00:34:03.500 I think it's the accent.

00:34:04.600 It makes it sound

00:34:05.260 like you're saying

00:34:05.740 something else.

00:34:06.660 Well,

00:34:07.260 I'm sorry.

00:34:08.340 I'll try to do better.

00:34:09.660 Oh,

00:34:09.820 well,

00:34:09.980 thank you.

00:34:10.480 Right.

00:34:10.860 So article three,

00:34:12.820 member states

00:34:13.500 shall ensure

00:34:14.240 that journalistic

00:34:15.180 sources

00:34:15.680 and confidential

00:34:16.780 communications

00:34:17.640 are effectively

00:34:18.660 protected.

00:34:19.900 Member states

00:34:20.540 shall not take

00:34:21.740 any

00:34:22.240 of the following

00:34:23.260 measures.

00:34:24.040 Okay.

00:34:24.600 Good start.

00:34:25.580 Good start here.

00:34:27.040 They,

00:34:27.260 and it's,

00:34:28.420 let's go to B,

00:34:29.820 detain,

00:34:31.060 sanction,

00:34:31.940 intercept,

00:34:32.820 or inspect

00:34:33.860 media service

00:34:34.860 providers

00:34:35.480 or their

00:34:36.300 editorial staff

00:34:37.580 or subject

00:34:38.640 them or their

00:34:39.600 corporate or

00:34:40.400 private premises

00:34:41.200 to surveillance

00:34:42.560 or search and seizure

00:34:44.160 for the purposes

00:34:45.040 of obtaining

00:34:46.300 information relating

00:34:47.640 to

00:34:48.040 or capable

00:34:48.960 of, 0.95

00:34:49.200 bloody hell, 0.98

00:34:49.720 they could do with

00:34:50.180 a few full stops

00:34:51.060 in this,

00:34:51.400 couldn't they,

00:34:52.120 of identifying

00:34:52.920 journalistic

00:34:53.580 sources

00:34:54.020 or confidential

00:34:55.040 communications

00:34:56.020 or detain,

00:34:57.340 sanction,

00:34:57.860 intercept,

00:34:58.440 or inspect

00:34:59.200 any persons

00:35:00.040 who,

00:35:00.360 you get the idea.

00:35:01.720 That is the longest

00:35:02.360 sentence I've ever heard.

00:35:03.500 Yeah,

00:35:03.760 I've just...

00:35:04.180 Also,

00:35:04.380 it would have been a lot

00:35:04.940 better if it was like

00:35:05.800 detain,

00:35:06.440 sanction,

00:35:06.960 intercept,

00:35:07.700 migrants.

00:35:09.160 No,

00:35:09.700 it's journalists.

00:35:10.540 Okay.

00:35:10.640 Yeah,

00:35:10.740 and you can do that.

00:35:11.620 But as it says,

00:35:12.780 member states

00:35:13.620 shall not take

00:35:14.840 any of those

00:35:15.720 following measures

00:35:16.600 right up until

00:35:17.740 we go to

00:35:18.700 point four

00:35:19.700 where all of a sudden

00:35:21.540 we can see that,

00:35:22.580 well,

00:35:23.060 by way of

00:35:23.840 derogation

00:35:26.060 from paragraph

00:35:26.720 three,

00:35:27.940 member states

00:35:28.700 may take a measure

00:35:30.020 referred to therein

00:35:31.540 provided that it

00:35:32.740 is provided by

00:35:34.120 union or national

00:35:35.280 law,

00:35:36.100 is in compliance

00:35:37.000 with articles

00:35:37.960 52.1

00:35:40.100 of the charter

00:35:41.160 and,

00:35:41.760 here's C,

00:35:42.740 is justified 0.95

00:35:43.580 on a case-by-case

00:35:45.320 basis

00:35:46.120 by an overriding

00:35:48.600 reason

00:35:49.240 of public

00:35:50.100 interest

00:35:50.760 and is proportionate.

00:35:52.300 And this is the line

00:35:53.260 that has been circulating,

00:35:54.680 isn't it?

00:35:55.040 Because,

00:35:55.460 of course,

00:35:56.680 justified on a case-by-case

00:35:58.020 basis

00:35:58.660 and public interest,

00:36:00.520 that's like

00:36:00.960 doubly subjective.

00:36:02.540 It's just like,

00:36:03.060 yes,

00:36:03.340 we very much want to

00:36:04.880 have our cake

00:36:05.480 and eat it too here.

00:36:06.840 We want to appear

00:36:07.580 like we're this

00:36:08.260 nice and noble

00:36:09.020 institution that

00:36:10.440 protects journalistic

00:36:11.380 integrity,

00:36:12.200 but actually what

00:36:12.980 we've done is

00:36:13.940 given governments

00:36:15.640 basically the power

00:36:16.580 to silence

00:36:17.560 whoever they like

00:36:18.200 because anything

00:36:19.720 can be justified

00:36:20.700 by public interest.

00:36:22.580 I mean,

00:36:22.780 whether it's

00:36:23.220 legitimately in the

00:36:24.080 public's interest

00:36:24.580 or not is a

00:36:25.080 different thing,

00:36:26.140 but that is so

00:36:27.540 subjective as to

00:36:28.560 just invite

00:36:29.400 tyranny.

00:36:30.700 Absolutely,

00:36:31.320 and if there's

00:36:32.000 one thing that

00:36:32.620 we've seen

00:36:33.580 ever since

00:36:34.300 that glorious

00:36:35.620 revolution of

00:36:36.720 2016

00:36:37.840 and Brexit

00:36:39.680 was the fact

00:36:40.980 that,

00:36:41.340 of course,

00:36:41.720 the EU

00:36:43.580 didn't take

00:36:44.560 that defeat

00:36:45.320 and use it

00:36:47.100 to be

00:36:48.580 introspective

00:36:49.480 about the way

00:36:50.260 they were

00:36:50.520 governing things

00:36:51.380 that such

00:36:51.960 dissatisfaction

00:36:53.080 had emerged

00:36:53.980 in Britain

00:36:54.500 about the

00:36:56.620 European model

00:36:57.460 and just

00:36:58.340 who has

00:37:00.100 sovereignty,

00:37:01.580 right?

00:37:01.740 Where does

00:37:02.140 power lie?

00:37:02.980 Who has the

00:37:03.860 power to decide

00:37:04.680 their own destiny

00:37:05.420 and all these

00:37:06.340 sorts of things.

00:37:07.000 No,

00:37:07.240 every step

00:37:07.940 they've taken

00:37:08.640 ever since

00:37:09.620 2016

00:37:10.300 has been

00:37:10.860 further down

00:37:11.860 the rabbit

00:37:12.920 hole of

00:37:13.340 every grievance

00:37:14.360 that your

00:37:15.360 skeptics had

00:37:16.100 about the

00:37:16.500 EU in the

00:37:16.980 first place.

00:37:17.900 So the EU

00:37:18.900 isn't functioning

00:37:19.920 particularly as

00:37:21.040 a democratic

00:37:21.740 institution.

00:37:23.200 No,

00:37:23.340 these are just

00:37:23.740 words.

00:37:24.440 These are just

00:37:25.420 words and

00:37:25.980 this is also

00:37:27.520 just words

00:37:28.140 because frequently

00:37:29.080 we can look

00:37:30.120 at documents

00:37:30.920 and they do

00:37:32.040 make sense

00:37:32.700 in the abstract.

00:37:33.840 The question

00:37:34.200 is how are

00:37:34.780 they applied?

00:37:35.880 I think that

00:37:36.360 the main

00:37:36.720 problem with

00:37:37.380 the leadership

00:37:37.860 of the EU

00:37:38.580 right now

00:37:39.280 is that

00:37:40.020 they think

00:37:40.540 that there

00:37:41.860 is one

00:37:42.280 and only

00:37:42.780 one problem

00:37:44.220 which is

00:37:46.260 basically

00:37:46.600 Russia.

00:37:48.220 And populism.

00:37:49.180 And populism,

00:37:50.200 yeah,

00:37:50.360 but they are

00:37:50.860 linking it

00:37:51.500 with Russia.

00:37:52.380 They're trying

00:37:52.920 to argue

00:37:53.340 that they're

00:37:53.800 all Russian

00:37:54.400 funded,

00:37:54.880 aren't they?

00:37:55.260 Which is

00:37:55.760 just as

00:37:56.220 spurious as

00:37:57.060 the Donald

00:37:57.920 Trump

00:37:58.240 or let's

00:37:59.960 say Putin's

00:38:00.620 Russia.

00:38:01.060 Let me put

00:38:01.440 it this way.

00:38:02.000 Now,

00:38:02.560 let me be

00:38:03.860 very clear.

00:38:04.880 I think

00:38:05.200 that to a

00:38:07.020 very large

00:38:07.400 extent

00:38:07.840 there is

00:38:09.260 an attempt

00:38:10.080 to influence

00:38:10.920 Europe negatively

00:38:12.200 from Putin's

00:38:13.280 Russia.

00:38:14.280 I think

00:38:14.660 there's no

00:38:16.140 doubt for

00:38:16.620 this.

00:38:17.280 But the

00:38:18.000 problem is

00:38:18.740 that the

00:38:19.220 same issues

00:38:20.540 that are

00:38:22.800 problems

00:38:23.640 on that

00:38:25.540 front are

00:38:26.240 also problems

00:38:27.060 on other

00:38:27.740 fronts.

00:38:28.460 Of course.

00:38:28.880 They don't

00:38:29.260 understand this.

00:38:30.320 So,

00:38:30.500 for instance,

00:38:30.700 I'll give you

00:38:31.220 two very

00:38:31.940 quick examples.

00:38:33.120 The only

00:38:33.600 border

00:38:33.960 in Europe,

00:38:36.820 the only

00:38:37.240 European

00:38:37.640 border in

00:38:38.300 Europe where

00:38:38.840 the EU is

00:38:39.840 within quotation

00:38:40.800 marks,

00:38:41.340 far right

00:38:41.720 about,

00:38:42.460 is the

00:38:42.840 border between

00:38:43.560 Poland and

00:38:44.540 Belarus.

00:38:45.560 If you focus

00:38:46.580 on the

00:38:47.480 language that

00:38:48.280 they're using

00:38:49.000 about that

00:38:50.180 border,

00:38:50.860 they're saying

00:38:51.460 everything,

00:38:52.260 everyone else

00:38:52.840 says from

00:38:54.100 the right

00:38:54.880 about borders

00:38:56.480 in general.

00:38:57.580 They're saying

00:38:58.080 Putin is

00:38:58.880 using migration

00:39:00.320 and also

00:39:01.880 Lukashenko,

00:39:02.820 both of them

00:39:03.960 are using

00:39:04.420 migration as

00:39:05.760 a method of

00:39:07.020 hybrid warfare.

00:39:08.420 That's actually

00:39:08.940 true though,

00:39:09.440 isn't it?

00:39:10.040 Yes, it is

00:39:11.140 true.

00:39:11.740 The point is

00:39:12.320 why do they

00:39:13.120 artificially,

00:39:15.100 why do they

00:39:15.660 selectively say

00:39:16.780 no, this is the

00:39:17.560 only border for

00:39:19.060 which this is

00:39:20.040 going to apply

00:39:20.660 and all the

00:39:21.540 other borders are

00:39:22.180 going to be

00:39:22.460 open.

00:39:22.860 So, that's

00:39:23.640 one thing.

00:39:24.320 And the other

00:39:24.660 bit is I'm

00:39:25.620 asking people

00:39:26.620 for instance

00:39:27.200 who are in

00:39:28.920 Greece, who

00:39:29.400 are really

00:39:29.760 close to me

00:39:30.200 and they're

00:39:30.900 smart.

00:39:33.040 I'm asking,

00:39:34.300 right, what

00:39:35.040 is your issue

00:39:35.840 with Putin's

00:39:36.580 Russia? 0.61

00:39:37.260 And they're

00:39:37.660 going to give

00:39:38.180 me a list,

00:39:38.720 say X,

00:39:39.160 Y, and Z.

00:39:40.260 Right, I'm

00:39:40.640 asking, okay,

00:39:41.640 can't you

00:39:42.140 understand that

00:39:43.540 the same thing

00:39:44.500 comes from

00:39:45.320 other areas

00:39:46.860 as well?

00:39:47.780 That's not

00:39:48.440 the only

00:39:48.980 problem that

00:39:49.680 the EU is

00:39:50.320 facing.

00:39:50.980 And that's

00:39:51.680 when most

00:39:52.440 of them are

00:39:52.780 beginning to

00:39:53.460 think.

00:39:53.900 That's the

00:39:54.180 function,

00:39:55.620 as a

00:39:55.960 sort of

00:39:56.320 the beginning

00:39:56.860 of a

00:39:57.180 rabbit hole.

00:39:58.640 Indeed.

00:40:00.080 The onion

00:40:00.860 of deception.

00:40:01.920 Yeah.

00:40:02.280 Yeah.

00:40:02.900 So, as I

00:40:03.900 say, the

00:40:04.380 problem that

00:40:04.920 we have

00:40:05.300 here, of

00:40:05.720 course, is

00:40:06.280 the fact

00:40:06.700 that it's

00:40:07.960 so transparent

00:40:08.780 that this

00:40:09.400 is just a

00:40:10.340 new power,

00:40:11.120 of course.

00:40:11.640 It's voted

00:40:12.280 to itself.

00:40:13.780 And, of

00:40:14.280 course, because

00:40:14.900 it's the

00:40:15.260 EU, it

00:40:16.160 has to have

00:40:16.740 an entire

00:40:17.380 another body

00:40:17.980 of quangos

00:40:18.680 set up in

00:40:19.380 order to

00:40:19.800 operate it,

00:40:20.920 who are

00:40:21.640 all elected

00:40:23.740 officials,

00:40:24.620 of course,

00:40:25.600 from across

00:40:26.400 the member

00:40:26.740 states.

00:40:27.400 There's a

00:40:28.260 very good

00:40:28.600 phrase that

00:40:29.280 you can't

00:40:29.780 legislate

00:40:30.320 freedom.

00:40:31.320 In many

00:40:31.920 ways, freedom

00:40:32.420 is the

00:40:32.860 absence of

00:40:33.420 legislation.

00:40:34.760 And so,

00:40:36.220 you look at

00:40:36.660 this and

00:40:37.080 you think,

00:40:37.400 hang on a

00:40:37.720 minute, how

00:40:38.680 can you make

00:40:39.520 the press

00:40:40.080 free with

00:40:40.920 a law?

00:40:41.840 How does

00:40:42.140 that exactly

00:40:42.600 work?

00:40:43.260 Well, you're

00:40:43.660 protecting them

00:40:44.200 from the

00:40:44.480 government at

00:40:45.120 best, perhaps.

00:40:46.800 But then

00:40:47.940 also, it

00:40:48.600 gives domestic

00:40:49.700 governments

00:40:50.160 power, as

00:40:50.940 long as it's

00:40:51.300 not inconsistent

00:40:51.940 with EU law,

00:40:52.840 which, as

00:40:53.200 we've seen

00:40:53.580 here, is

00:40:54.380 pretty subjective.

00:40:55.680 Well, as

00:40:56.060 we say, they're

00:40:56.560 making their

00:40:57.560 press free.

00:40:58.740 Their trusted

00:40:59.620 press is going

00:41:01.140 to be free.

00:41:02.120 And everyone

00:41:03.080 else will simply

00:41:03.980 have to tread

00:41:04.980 on eggshells.

00:41:06.620 So then you

00:41:07.560 get, this is,

00:41:09.260 from what I

00:41:10.360 understand, actually

00:41:11.380 an older video

00:41:12.680 now, but it

00:41:13.560 just goes, it's

00:41:14.420 a perfect

00:41:15.220 case study for

00:41:17.800 the sort of

00:41:18.180 thing that

00:41:18.440 happened.

00:41:18.820 So in

00:41:19.160 Finland, Ursula

00:41:20.300 von der Leyen

00:41:20.900 gave a speech

00:41:21.680 as she praised

00:41:22.420 Finland for

00:41:23.160 being a

00:41:23.600 democratic country

00:41:24.600 where people

00:41:25.520 are free to

00:41:26.160 express themselves

00:41:27.100 and saying

00:41:27.920 that in

00:41:28.280 Moscow, a

00:41:29.320 protester will

00:41:30.040 be arrested

00:41:30.580 within minutes.

00:41:32.140 It's within

00:41:34.160 hours.

00:41:34.540 No, it's

00:41:35.280 actually...

00:41:36.200 And first

00:41:38.140 of all, to

00:41:38.620 those who

00:41:39.300 scream and 0.99

00:41:40.320 yell here so

00:41:41.200 loud, they

00:41:42.440 can be happy

00:41:43.520 that they are

00:41:44.320 in a free

00:41:44.860 country like

00:41:46.120 Finland, where

00:41:47.380 the free

00:41:47.900 speech is a

00:41:49.160 right, where

00:41:50.180 they have not

00:41:51.120 any restrictions.

00:41:52.780 If they would

00:41:53.240 be in Moscow,

00:41:54.480 they would be

00:41:55.200 in jail in

00:41:56.000 two minutes.

00:41:56.900 Thanks God we

00:41:57.900 have a democracy.

00:41:59.360 Thanks God we

00:42:00.280 have free speech.

00:42:01.140 I'm so sorry

00:42:04.080 about that

00:42:04.540 Josh.

00:42:05.220 My poor

00:42:05.680 ears.

00:42:07.340 Hopefully it

00:42:07.980 wasn't as bad

00:42:08.600 for you.

00:42:09.060 That German 1.00

00:42:09.820 aggression was

00:42:10.660 coming through.

00:42:11.620 Hopefully it

00:42:12.060 wasn't as bad

00:42:12.600 for you at

00:42:13.060 home, but my

00:42:13.760 poor ears, 0.99

00:42:14.580 they're still

00:42:15.020 ringing.

00:42:16.160 You get the

00:42:16.820 point.

00:42:17.360 So that chap

00:42:18.220 in the audience,

00:42:19.100 he was fined

00:42:21.440 110 euros.

00:42:24.480 That sounds like

00:42:25.080 freedom to me.

00:42:26.060 Yeah.

00:42:26.620 Just for

00:42:27.260 shout heckling.

00:42:28.860 It's the freedom

00:42:30.140 to be fined.

00:42:31.540 Saying that he

00:42:32.460 disagreed.

00:42:33.460 And yeah, it

00:42:34.620 was for harming

00:42:35.640 a public official.

00:42:37.500 She looked so

00:42:38.520 harmed.

00:42:39.060 Criticism.

00:42:39.760 Carried on

00:42:40.200 talking while it

00:42:41.000 was all going

00:42:41.520 on.

00:42:42.680 Criticism is the

00:42:43.540 worst form of

00:42:44.260 harm that an

00:42:45.600 EU official can

00:42:46.400 take, frankly.

00:42:47.520 I have a

00:42:47.940 migraine now.

00:42:49.240 I'm so sorry.

00:42:51.580 I'm very,

00:42:52.720 very sorry.

00:42:53.780 So then you

00:42:55.340 have, I'll be

00:42:56.280 cautious before I

00:42:57.120 play this about

00:42:57.740 the volume.

00:42:58.860 Now that I've

00:42:59.460 spooked you both

00:43:00.340 terribly.

00:43:00.560 I'm sure it'll be

00:43:00.660 all right.

00:43:01.740 But it's also,

00:43:03.580 you have here,

00:43:05.000 of course,

00:43:06.460 within the EU,

00:43:07.800 you know, as far

00:43:08.480 back as, you know,

00:43:09.180 back when we used

00:43:10.020 to participate in,

00:43:11.700 you remember that

00:43:12.120 time when we used

00:43:12.940 to have European

00:43:13.760 elections in

00:43:14.760 Britain? 0.71

00:43:15.620 I do, yeah.

00:43:16.300 That far off past

00:43:17.480 now.

00:43:18.060 I even voted in

00:43:18.680 one.

00:43:19.180 Yeah.

00:43:19.700 I voted in one 0.57

00:43:20.920 too.

00:43:21.480 And invariably what

00:43:22.700 would happen is we

00:43:23.840 get a load of

00:43:24.980 UKIP MPs just

00:43:26.840 sort of shouting

00:43:27.860 and jeering.

00:43:28.860 from in that

00:43:29.720 venerable chamber

00:43:31.140 right there in

00:43:32.000 the European

00:43:32.460 Parliament.

00:43:34.160 But what does

00:43:34.760 any of it really

00:43:35.520 matter?

00:43:36.840 Right?

00:43:37.380 Does any of it

00:43:38.440 really matter?

00:43:39.600 Yes, you can

00:43:40.060 elect them, but

00:43:40.760 they're not.

00:43:41.080 Nothing else

00:43:41.340 matters.

00:43:41.760 Because the decisions

00:43:44.120 have already been

00:43:44.980 made.

00:43:45.960 The commission, who

00:43:47.200 are, you know, a

00:43:48.560 tight cabal of

00:43:50.300 coterie, have

00:43:51.600 already decided what

00:43:53.080 is going to happen

00:43:54.100 and what the

00:43:55.700 democratic will of

00:43:57.680 the people is.

00:43:58.720 And here I was

00:43:59.440 thinking of making

00:44:00.080 an existentialist

00:44:00.980 point.

00:44:01.940 But no, you're very

00:44:02.820 much right.

00:44:03.560 Well, you can make

00:44:04.160 the existentialist

00:44:05.240 point if you wish.

00:44:06.400 I don't want to

00:44:07.280 depress people

00:44:07.880 anymore.

00:44:08.420 That's all right.

00:44:09.000 How considerate.

00:44:10.740 And it's exactly the

00:44:12.000 same now.

00:44:12.500 Of course, you still

00:44:13.180 get the odd based

00:44:14.260 Polish voice in the

00:44:16.280 EU saying exactly

00:44:17.980 what they're doing.

00:44:18.720 And the chap is

00:44:20.720 absolutely right.

00:44:22.320 Dear colleagues, the

00:44:23.460 discussion here is

00:44:24.380 not about the so-called

00:44:25.400 Media Freedom Act, a

00:44:27.300 label given by the

00:44:28.160 European Commission to

00:44:29.200 this regulation, but

00:44:30.860 the Media Surveillance,

00:44:32.500 Control, and

00:44:33.400 Censorship Act, which

00:44:34.760 accurately describe the

00:44:36.020 nature of this

00:44:36.580 regulation.

00:44:37.920 It is unacceptable

00:44:38.880 that the European

00:44:39.560 Commission claims to

00:44:40.720 promote the media

00:44:41.400 freedom while, in

00:44:42.440 fact, this regulation

00:44:44.280 opens the doors for

00:44:45.500 journalists, their

00:44:46.540 employers, and even

00:44:47.440 their families to be

00:44:48.460 subjected to

00:44:50.020 surveillance and

00:44:51.240 spying by the

00:44:52.100 security agencies.

00:44:53.720 As the shadow

00:44:54.320 rapporteur in

00:44:54.960 Libé for the

00:44:55.580 ECR group, a

00:44:56.800 table amendment

00:44:57.520 aimed to eliminate

00:44:58.600 the provisions that

00:44:59.520 permit such spying

00:45:00.880 and surveillance for

00:45:01.760 journalists, but they

00:45:02.520 were rejected by

00:45:03.760 EPP, S&D, and

00:45:05.680 Renew.

00:45:06.700 Joseph Stalin said,

00:45:07.960 and I quote,

00:45:08.920 the press is our

00:45:09.720 party's shatest and

00:45:11.720 most powerful weapon.

00:45:13.360 Clearly, under the

00:45:14.240 leadership of

00:45:14.780 Ursula von der Leyen,

00:45:15.740 the European

00:45:16.100 Commission does not

00:45:17.080 desire a free press,

00:45:18.140 but rather a propaganda

00:45:19.260 machine, which is

00:45:20.700 tightly controlled and

00:45:21.760 subjected to

00:45:22.400 surveillance like it

00:45:24.100 was in the Soviet

00:45:24.760 Union.

00:45:25.760 The dangerous

00:45:26.460 precedent established

00:45:27.560 by the so-called

00:45:28.440 Media Freedom Act

00:45:29.320 regulation will have

00:45:31.040 unreceivable and

00:45:32.240 devastating consequences

00:45:33.440 for democracy and

00:45:34.400 freedom of the

00:45:34.920 speech throughout the

00:45:36.200 European Union, which

00:45:37.580 is why, as the

00:45:38.460 parliament, too heavily

00:45:39.640 rejected.

00:45:40.140 I hope Ursula von der Leyen

00:45:43.880 doesn't change her name

00:45:45.080 to political potential.

00:45:47.360 You know, it's one of

00:45:49.060 the theories about

00:45:49.820 Pol Pot, about the 0.89

00:45:51.400 name.

00:45:52.100 Oh, right.

00:45:52.700 Yeah, because they're

00:45:53.280 talking about Stalin and

00:45:54.360 yeah.

00:45:54.700 Yeah.

00:45:54.900 There's just a few

00:45:55.700 points to make on this,

00:45:57.020 of course.

00:45:57.480 One is that we have

00:45:59.680 only ever seen high-handed

00:46:01.640 authoritarian tactics

00:46:03.680 come from the EU.

00:46:05.180 But the other thing as

00:46:06.200 well is that with the

00:46:07.700 wave of populist

00:46:10.500 growth in the

00:46:11.660 political parties

00:46:12.500 across Europe, now,

00:46:14.060 of course, you know,

00:46:15.180 we all have our

00:46:17.120 contentions with these

00:46:18.760 populist parties and

00:46:19.940 how much they're just

00:46:21.420 simply seizing on the

00:46:22.480 political capital of

00:46:23.480 the moment and

00:46:24.320 whether or not it's

00:46:25.160 actually all charged

00:46:26.620 by principle.

00:46:27.880 And invariably, it

00:46:29.800 just so happens that

00:46:30.900 you just have to vote

00:46:32.600 them in like you do in

00:46:33.640 Italy, wait for them 0.96

00:46:34.720 to screw you over and 0.97

00:46:35.720 find out the hard way.

00:46:37.680 But in other cases,

00:46:40.140 it's more about the

00:46:41.160 fact that, well, all

00:46:42.120 of this apparatus is

00:46:44.100 being set up by the

00:46:45.700 European Commission

00:46:46.680 and by all of these

00:46:49.600 Europhiles in order to

00:46:51.120 keep the populist

00:46:52.080 threat at bay so they

00:46:53.560 can clamp down on

00:46:54.520 populist media so that

00:46:56.080 they can, as we say,

00:46:57.680 clamp down on the

00:46:58.540 independent journalists

00:46:59.440 so that they can

00:47:00.440 control the narrative,

00:47:02.460 right?

00:47:02.760 It's all of this.

00:47:03.640 It's just about

00:47:04.160 controlling the narrative

00:47:05.100 and trying to

00:47:07.100 obviously shape your

00:47:08.180 perception of what's

00:47:09.400 going on in Europe,

00:47:10.760 which I needn't tell

00:47:12.280 you isn't great.

00:47:14.140 But also in making

00:47:15.720 this, if these populist

00:47:17.940 parties do get into

00:47:19.080 power, or dare I

00:47:20.320 suggest parties even

00:47:21.640 more radical than

00:47:22.520 that, then they are

00:47:24.020 creating this entire

00:47:25.200 apparatus that those

00:47:27.340 parties will then be

00:47:28.320 able to inherit and

00:47:30.460 use against the people

00:47:32.300 who created it in the

00:47:33.200 first place.

00:47:35.980 I feel like the

00:47:36.660 beauty of this is we've

00:47:37.720 left the EU, but

00:47:39.060 they're still speaking

00:47:39.940 English, even though

00:47:41.080 we're gone.

00:47:41.660 I did think about

00:47:42.620 that.

00:47:42.820 Cultural victory, my 0.99

00:47:44.020 friend.

00:47:44.460 The eternal Anglo 1.00

00:47:45.420 strikes again.

00:47:47.400 All right, I'll head

00:47:48.580 over to these comments.

00:47:50.040 Engageview says, yeah,

00:47:51.360 it's our democracy in

00:47:53.260 the same way that

00:47:54.000 there's a democratic

00:47:54.940 people's republic of

00:47:56.080 Korea.

00:47:56.960 Indeed.

00:47:58.160 Habsification says,

00:47:59.380 it just tells you

00:48:00.900 they've lost all

00:48:02.440 control of a

00:48:03.120 narrative.

00:48:03.940 They yearn for the

00:48:04.560 days of publicly

00:48:05.440 funded state

00:48:06.220 broadcasters and

00:48:07.760 news media and

00:48:09.060 state-approved

00:48:09.960 private media.

00:48:11.120 Yeah, they

00:48:11.520 absolutely do.

00:48:12.740 But that's the

00:48:14.380 thing as well.

00:48:15.100 If they actually

00:48:16.640 had any sense of

00:48:17.640 containment, they

00:48:18.840 would just address

00:48:19.820 some of the most

00:48:21.080 contentious issues

00:48:22.180 and obviously new to

00:48:25.440 the populist energy

00:48:26.480 around Europe.

00:48:27.740 But they can't even

00:48:28.440 do that.

00:48:29.140 They can't pivot.

00:48:31.160 This also applies

00:48:32.280 to Labour.

00:48:33.440 Maybe even more

00:48:34.520 so at this rate.

00:48:37.520 We've got Sigil

00:48:38.620 Stone says, the

00:48:39.640 EU more like the 0.99

00:48:40.700 PU.

00:48:42.260 Funny.

00:48:43.180 Ha, got them.

00:48:46.560 Banger comment,

00:48:47.700 Sigil Stone.

00:48:49.580 Habsication says,

00:48:50.720 the EU despises

00:48:51.720 the alternative

00:48:52.320 platforms,

00:48:53.480 independent new

00:48:54.400 media and

00:48:54.900 citizen journalists,

00:48:56.620 not only because it

00:48:57.520 exists, but

00:48:58.420 also because they're

00:48:59.360 unable to sink

00:49:00.420 their managerial

00:49:01.980 hooks into it.

00:49:03.160 Yeah, but also

00:49:04.120 because the

00:49:04.820 independent media

00:49:05.720 actually has an

00:49:08.300 organic fan base,

00:49:10.520 right?

00:49:10.720 You're not just

00:49:11.220 watching it because

00:49:12.340 your great-grandfather

00:49:13.780 used to listen to

00:49:15.620 the BBC on the

00:49:16.760 wireless back in

00:49:17.660 the 1920s and then

00:49:19.040 the television.

00:49:19.840 It's like, no,

00:49:20.980 the times have

00:49:21.840 changed, the

00:49:22.340 circumstances have

00:49:23.420 changed, and if

00:49:24.840 they're not going to

00:49:26.020 cater to the

00:49:26.740 moment and

00:49:27.900 address the

00:49:28.440 problems that are

00:49:29.160 going, then the

00:49:30.500 stakes are so high

00:49:31.520 that people are

00:49:32.360 going to look

00:49:32.980 elsewhere.

00:49:33.880 Whatever

00:49:34.280 information, you

00:49:36.720 know, the EU

00:49:37.200 tried to control,

00:49:38.540 if people feel like

00:49:39.620 they're being lied

00:49:40.300 to, they will look

00:49:41.940 elsewhere.

00:49:42.580 It's that simple.

00:49:43.340 All right.

00:49:45.320 All right, then, 0.98

00:49:46.080 Josh, hit us with

00:49:46.760 these facts.

00:49:48.000 I need to be

00:49:48.920 giving me stuff

00:49:49.720 first.

00:49:50.240 Oh, go on,

00:49:50.660 then.

00:49:51.120 Ibs.

00:49:51.900 There's going to

00:49:52.180 be lots of link

00:49:52.980 pressing.

00:49:53.960 Yes, I do.

00:49:55.700 The Veer was

00:49:56.580 hilarious before.

00:49:59.300 Right.

00:50:01.120 Get my hair out

00:50:01.920 of my face while

00:50:02.500 I'm at it.

00:50:03.620 Right, I'm good to

00:50:04.500 go now.

00:50:05.080 I took my time,

00:50:06.880 but it's worth

00:50:07.740 taking the time.

00:50:08.000 All right, stop

00:50:08.360 pampering yourself.

00:50:10.720 You've got to get

00:50:11.360 into the...

00:50:11.920 All right, all right.

00:50:12.920 So, we all know

00:50:14.700 how IQ tests

00:50:15.720 are racist. 0.84

00:50:16.620 I mean, here's a

00:50:17.440 book, which is

00:50:18.720 obviously definitive

00:50:19.420 proof.

00:50:20.380 The Racism of

00:50:21.120 Intelligence, How

00:50:21.880 Mental Testing

00:50:22.820 Practices Have

00:50:23.500 Constituted an

00:50:24.420 Institutionalized

00:50:25.440 Form of Group

00:50:26.320 Domination.

00:50:27.920 And it's not just

00:50:28.640 books, there's also

00:50:29.480 research papers here.

00:50:30.660 Here's one.

00:50:32.300 Race and Racism in

00:50:33.920 Intelligence Testing.

00:50:35.480 And why are they

00:50:36.400 saying that?

00:50:37.060 Well, here's a

00:50:39.380 graph.

00:50:40.740 On one side is

00:50:42.640 your average IQ

00:50:44.020 of, you know,

00:50:45.420 certain levels of

00:50:46.700 education and the

00:50:47.800 average IQ of

00:50:49.200 certain groups.

00:50:50.280 And there's this

00:50:50.560 very awkward

00:50:51.300 lining up here

00:50:54.500 between nine to

00:50:55.820 11 years and a

00:50:56.840 certain group,

00:50:58.020 which makes it

00:50:59.440 quite uncomfortable

00:51:00.740 because, of course,

00:51:02.600 you look at, say,

00:51:04.460 white or Asian,

00:51:05.300 that's equivalent to,

00:51:06.300 you know,

00:51:07.560 college, you know,

00:51:08.920 university, what have

00:51:10.200 you, education

00:51:11.120 almost.

00:51:12.480 And that doesn't

00:51:14.400 look good.

00:51:15.300 And, of course,

00:51:15.980 the answer for this

00:51:17.380 is that it's caused

00:51:18.260 by racism.

00:51:19.880 Of course, this

00:51:20.380 graph is taken from

00:51:21.700 this, which is the

00:51:23.620 most widely used

00:51:26.020 intelligence test for

00:51:27.020 adults in the world.

00:51:28.160 And that graph

00:51:29.340 itself came from

00:51:30.160 this book, which is

00:51:31.540 associated with that

00:51:32.520 test.

00:51:32.940 So it's only the most

00:51:33.900 widely used one,

00:51:34.760 which, of course,

00:51:35.980 just goes to show how

00:51:37.000 deep the problem is.

00:51:38.420 And, of course,

00:51:39.400 I've spent a lot of

00:51:40.560 time thinking about

00:51:41.320 this because I've had

00:51:42.020 a lot of time on my

00:51:42.700 hands, let's be 0.94

00:51:43.280 honest.

00:51:44.760 And I think I've

00:51:45.760 come up with a

00:51:46.400 solution that will

00:51:48.540 cater towards the

00:51:49.360 people who weren't

00:51:50.260 getting quite the

00:51:51.060 scores.

00:51:51.660 And it's a different

00:51:52.840 kind of test, more

00:51:53.880 to their sort of

00:51:55.180 level, I suppose.

00:51:56.600 And it's that of a

00:51:58.840 source of social or

00:52:00.060 civic IQ.

00:52:01.480 But first, I suppose

00:52:02.780 it's worth mentioning

00:52:03.640 that if you've already

00:52:05.200 got a high civic

00:52:06.660 IQ, you know that

00:52:08.540 buying Ireland a

00:52:09.300 magazine is probably

00:52:10.080 a good idea.

00:52:11.940 It's internationally

00:52:12.860 shipped, you can get

00:52:13.900 it in most countries,

00:52:15.080 I think, and it's

00:52:16.100 relatively cheap and

00:52:17.280 you get some

00:52:18.200 beautifully designed

00:52:19.120 things and some

00:52:20.420 well-written stuff.

00:52:21.800 And guess what?

00:52:22.320 It's on paper when,

00:52:23.940 you know, the EU

00:52:24.880 bureaucracy destroys

00:52:25.900 the internet.

00:52:26.680 You'll still have

00:52:27.380 this, you can still

00:52:28.040 have stuff to read

00:52:28.860 in your electricity-less

00:52:31.140 house.

00:52:32.300 So there you go.

00:52:33.940 It's a plan for the 0.60

00:52:34.700 future.

00:52:35.060 With that out of

00:52:36.880 the way, I put out

00:52:39.120 this.

00:52:40.280 This is my first

00:52:41.640 attempt at trying to

00:52:43.500 devise a test, but

00:52:44.960 then I soon

00:52:45.420 democratised it to

00:52:46.560 you, the people at

00:52:47.460 home, the audience.

00:52:48.880 I asked you to help

00:52:49.800 me come up with some

00:52:51.140 questions as well, and

00:52:52.060 I've selected my

00:52:52.960 favourites, and we're

00:52:54.200 going to go through,

00:52:55.340 and there is a point

00:52:56.500 at the end of all of

00:52:57.320 this.

00:52:57.840 So I'm not just being 0.76

00:52:58.820 silly, although it's 0.79

00:52:59.520 going to be a lot of 0.98

00:53:00.060 fun.

00:53:00.880 There is a proper

00:53:01.960 political point here at

00:53:03.320 the end.

00:53:04.860 So I say, at the

00:53:06.100 start of IQ tests,

00:53:07.640 they should ask, do

00:53:08.600 you use your

00:53:09.260 speakerphone in

00:53:09.900 public?

00:53:10.500 And if the answer is

00:53:11.260 yes, the pen is

00:53:12.200 taken away and the

00:53:13.080 rest of the test must

00:53:13.920 be completed in

00:53:14.660 crayon.

00:53:15.560 Each crayon eaten is

00:53:16.820 a deduction of 10

00:53:17.620 points, which I feel

00:53:19.460 like is an important

00:53:20.260 point.

00:53:20.780 I will say, as per

00:53:22.140 my previous segment

00:53:23.380 where I was berating

00:53:24.980 the term democracy, I

00:53:27.100 am a fan of

00:53:27.680 democracy on Twitter.

00:53:29.160 I feel like that's

00:53:30.120 the best place for it.

00:53:31.160 I tell you what, this

00:53:32.040 process actually made

00:53:33.460 me feel like, you

00:53:34.500 know what, the

00:53:34.880 internet's not such a

00:53:35.720 bad place after all.

00:53:37.100 I was sort of proud of

00:53:37.920 you all.

00:53:38.320 I was just like, you

00:53:39.220 got the assignment,

00:53:40.140 you've given me lots of

00:53:41.040 good answers.

00:53:42.240 It's like, ah, you

00:53:43.740 look, you know, better

00:53:45.260 than you think, really.

00:53:47.020 Sounds almost like a

00:53:47.820 backhanded compliment.

00:53:48.640 I meant it in a nice

00:53:49.340 way.

00:53:50.900 So the first subsection

00:53:52.520 of my test is called

00:53:53.740 in the store.

00:53:55.300 And it relates to

00:53:56.400 obviously things that are

00:53:57.680 in stores.

00:53:58.380 So the most obvious

00:53:59.800 one, of course, is do

00:54:00.880 you return the shopping

00:54:01.740 cart, the ultimate test

00:54:03.260 of self-governance, which

00:54:04.800 I don't feel like needs

00:54:05.740 much explaining.

00:54:06.840 I think the question is

00:54:07.800 self-evident.

00:54:08.620 I imagine you both

00:54:09.900 return the shopping

00:54:10.720 cart.

00:54:11.660 Well, I want that quid

00:54:12.440 back out of it, don't

00:54:13.280 I?

00:54:13.300 That's true.

00:54:13.960 Stelios?

00:54:14.640 Yeah, of course.

00:54:15.300 Why would I leave it in

00:54:16.700 the middle of nowhere?

00:54:17.760 Exactly.

00:54:18.400 Or in a river.

00:54:19.900 Yeah.

00:54:20.180 It's not exactly like,

00:54:21.960 you know, a post-apocalyptic

00:54:23.300 setting.

00:54:23.940 So the next question I

00:54:27.360 quite liked.

00:54:28.460 When shopping for

00:54:29.080 groceries, you realize

00:54:30.000 you grabbed an item

00:54:30.800 accidentally that you

00:54:31.720 did not want.

00:54:33.520 Do you, A, place the

00:54:35.620 item on the closest

00:54:36.540 available shelf, or B,

00:54:38.840 return the item to its

00:54:39.900 proper place on the

00:54:40.760 shelves?

00:54:42.400 Well, I think we know

00:54:43.660 the correct answer to

00:54:44.480 this one, right?

00:54:45.440 Right.

00:54:46.140 Obviously, you throw it

00:54:46.980 on the floor.

00:54:48.180 Right.

00:54:49.200 Josh, I think there's

00:54:50.640 the other element.

00:54:52.180 There's people who

00:54:52.820 understand what you

00:54:53.880 want to hear,

00:54:55.100 irrespective of what

00:54:56.520 they're going to do.

00:54:57.860 So let's say I'm a

00:54:58.920 very sneaky person.

00:55:00.220 I can understand what

00:55:01.180 you want.

00:55:01.380 You look left, you

00:55:02.500 look right, there's no

00:55:03.240 one else in the aisle

00:55:04.020 with you.

00:55:04.780 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:55:05.600 Throw it away, not

00:55:06.760 just destroy it, you

00:55:08.540 know, destroy it in 1.00

00:55:09.380 seconds. 0.99

00:55:10.080 In a similar vein,

00:55:11.060 while shopping you

00:55:11.820 noticed a garment has

00:55:12.680 fallen off the hanger

00:55:13.560 and is laying crumpled

00:55:14.420 on the floor.

00:55:15.100 Do you, A, put it

00:55:16.420 back on the hanger,

00:55:17.480 B, ignore it and hope

00:55:18.640 nobody notices, or C,

00:55:20.740 kick it further under 0.97

00:55:21.620 the rack so other

00:55:22.440 shoppers don't notice

00:55:23.220 you ignore it?

00:55:23.680 Or D, wear it.

00:55:27.220 D is shoplift it, yeah.

00:55:30.660 To be fair, when I was

00:55:32.340 a kid, I did do C once

00:55:33.960 or twice, but then

00:55:34.920 more often than not,

00:55:36.040 it wasn't me that

00:55:36.680 knocked it over and I

00:55:37.400 was just like, well,

00:55:37.900 I'm going to move out of

00:55:38.500 the way because it's

00:55:39.100 better than someone

00:55:39.720 standing on it, but I'm

00:55:41.060 not going to take the

00:55:41.700 time to pick this up

00:55:42.440 because it's, you know,

00:55:43.640 shop that's somewhat

00:55:44.320 beneath me.

00:55:44.920 And then you had a

00:55:45.900 slightly higher education

00:55:47.800 and you learned that

00:55:49.000 that was wrong.

00:55:49.820 Now I pick it up and

00:55:50.680 put it back on the

00:55:51.280 hanger, yes.

00:55:52.460 But the point being that

00:55:53.820 it is children that make

00:55:54.980 these sorts of mistakes,

00:55:56.220 ideally.

00:55:57.480 But not anymore.

00:55:58.120 Oh, yes.

00:55:59.740 Well, as we've seen,

00:56:01.600 sometimes it's not always

00:56:03.520 the children, is it?

00:56:04.900 And if you have a full

00:56:07.100 trolley and the person

00:56:07.860 behind you only has a

00:56:09.200 couple of items, do you

00:56:10.340 let them go in front of 0.96

00:56:11.300 you?

00:56:11.780 Now I've seen this happen

00:56:12.680 quite a lot and it

00:56:14.120 happens normally in more

00:56:15.340 high-trust areas.

00:56:16.940 I know where I grew up,

00:56:18.940 this was always the case.

00:56:20.100 People would actually

00:56:20.780 stand in the queue and

00:56:21.800 look behind them to make

00:56:22.860 sure that they could

00:56:24.060 facilitate a speedy...

00:56:26.200 Yeah, but what if you

00:56:27.120 want to go to the

00:56:27.820 bathroom?

00:56:30.900 What?

00:56:31.400 And you've got a full

00:56:32.180 trolley or you're the

00:56:32.960 person...

00:56:33.260 You have a full trolley

00:56:34.200 and say, okay, let's

00:56:34.880 get it done, let's get

00:56:35.880 it done.

00:56:36.180 I've done that before

00:56:36.940 actually and I just

00:56:37.780 asked the person next to

00:56:39.900 me, is it alright if you

00:56:41.500 watch my trolley while I

00:56:42.320 pop to the toilet?

00:56:43.120 And they're like, yeah,

00:56:43.540 of course.

00:56:44.480 And then by the time I'd

00:56:45.740 come back, I'd say

00:56:46.320 my trolley was there

00:56:47.220 with a very annoyed

00:56:49.140 cashier.

00:56:50.080 I was just like, I had

00:56:50.760 to go, I'm so sorry.

00:56:52.600 I was desperate.

00:56:53.720 I drank so much tea.

00:56:54.460 It's fine, I'm Josh

00:56:55.520 Firm from the Lotus

00:56:56.300 Sears.

00:56:57.000 I wasn't at that

00:56:57.800 point, I was just

00:56:58.580 Josh Firm.

00:57:00.860 And then finally, do

00:57:02.560 you have your wallet,

00:57:03.380 purse, cash or card

00:57:04.660 ready at the checkout

00:57:05.720 when it's time to pay

00:57:06.560 or do you react with

00:57:07.440 surprise and have to

00:57:08.760 locate it when given

00:57:09.720 the price of your

00:57:11.020 purchase?

00:57:11.700 I think this is a

00:57:12.660 man-woman thing.

00:57:13.420 Stelios is going to

00:57:16.320 stir the pot.

00:57:17.280 No, because I think

00:57:18.400 generally speaking, you

00:57:19.640 know, I just have the

00:57:22.000 car ready and I pay.

00:57:24.240 But I see my wife many

00:57:25.300 times, you know, she 0.71

00:57:25.920 just sits there, she

00:57:27.000 opens her wallet, she

00:57:29.000 looks...

00:57:29.700 Counting the ten

00:57:30.660 pens.

00:57:30.900 Yes, I've seen other

00:57:31.900 women doing it because 1.00

00:57:33.260 they frequently have

00:57:34.660 more, carry more stuff

00:57:36.060 than we do.

00:57:38.080 That's true.

00:57:38.780 I'm always there with a

00:57:39.660 card ready.

00:57:41.020 Sometimes I might even

00:57:41.800 get my wallet out whilst

00:57:43.700 I'm putting the shopping

00:57:44.520 away, even before I've

00:57:45.800 paid, just so I can get

00:57:47.160 it as quickly as

00:57:47.760 possible, tap it and

00:57:49.000 leave. 0.99

00:57:49.320 But also shopping isn't

00:57:50.360 a religious experience for

00:57:51.680 me. 0.65

00:57:52.080 I hate it.

00:57:52.920 Yeah, I absolutely hate 0.71

00:57:54.280 it.

00:57:54.420 I'll go into the store,

00:57:56.180 I'm going to look at,

00:57:57.600 I'm going to x-ray it,

00:57:59.100 I'm going to instantly

00:58:00.160 find out what I want to

00:58:01.920 buy, I'll either buy it

00:58:03.460 or not and I'm gone.

00:58:04.720 That's called being a

00:58:05.540 man, Stelios, and that

00:58:06.620 is the correct way of

00:58:07.380 doing it.

00:58:08.000 I know what I like, I'm

00:58:09.560 in and out of the shop.

00:58:11.320 It's like a surgical

00:58:12.260 strike.

00:58:13.140 Yeah.

00:58:13.600 Precision hit.

00:58:14.760 It's like a special

00:58:15.660 military operation, you

00:58:16.940 go in and out, no

00:58:18.040 witnesses, no surrender.

00:58:20.100 For all of this, you

00:58:20.960 know, it's like, no, I

00:58:21.780 just want to get in and

00:58:23.100 do my shop as fast as

00:58:24.660 possible.

00:58:25.640 There is still that, no,

00:58:26.640 I will take a little bit

00:58:27.980 more time if it's

00:58:29.080 means taking the right

00:58:31.540 answer to these

00:58:33.020 questions, right?

00:58:33.800 No, it means putting

00:58:34.480 things back on the right

00:58:35.400 shelf or letting someone

00:58:36.720 with far fewer things

00:58:38.160 than you go ahead,

00:58:39.740 right?

00:58:39.920 Just these social

00:58:40.640 things, social

00:58:41.580 considerations for other

00:58:42.960 people.

00:58:43.340 Naturally, courtesy

00:58:44.300 comes first.

00:58:47.760 Next, my subgroup is

00:58:49.260 travel.

00:58:50.380 So, you're leaving a

00:58:53.120 bus, what do you say?

00:58:54.460 And now they didn't

00:58:55.220 include any options, but

00:58:56.200 I thought this was a

00:58:56.780 good question.

00:58:57.340 I have option A,

00:58:59.280 nothing, option B, a

00:59:01.300 bunch of gibberish to

00:59:02.080 your cousin Abdel on

00:59:02.880 speakerphone, or C,

00:59:05.700 thank you.

00:59:07.460 And I think I've been

00:59:08.980 basically coded to always

00:59:12.120 say thank you to the bus

00:59:13.240 driver.

00:59:13.800 Yes.

00:59:14.280 Same.

00:59:14.660 But then you don't have

00:59:15.420 a cousin called Abdel.

00:59:16.760 That's true.

00:59:17.720 But if I did, I'd be on

00:59:18.840 the phone.

00:59:19.220 But what if the driver is

00:59:20.420 the leftist?

00:59:21.840 I'm still grateful that he

00:59:23.280 transported me safely,

00:59:24.380 more grateful, really.

00:59:25.260 Yes, but he did it

00:59:26.700 because he was aiming

00:59:28.400 towards the revolution.

00:59:30.840 Not to help you.

00:59:32.080 The revolution of bus

00:59:33.280 drivers.

00:59:34.320 What's he going to do?

00:59:35.160 Just go on strike.

00:59:36.000 Oh, wait.

00:59:36.580 They never turn up

00:59:37.240 anyway.

00:59:38.520 Yeah, he's not going to

00:59:39.260 notice.

00:59:40.600 So, this one was almost a

00:59:42.220 trick question because I

00:59:43.360 actually found this one

00:59:44.140 difficult.

00:59:44.900 Who gets the last seat on

00:59:46.100 the bus?

00:59:46.440 So, you know, there's a

00:59:47.340 final seat and for some

00:59:49.660 reason there's this mix of

00:59:52.040 people.

00:59:52.520 First come, first serve,

00:59:53.620 which is, you know, the

00:59:54.940 London rules. 0.97

00:59:56.320 A mother with children and

00:59:57.400 bags who I'd normally give

00:59:58.640 up a seat for.

00:59:59.660 Whoever is the largest, I

01:00:00.840 would make them stand out

01:00:01.680 of principle.

01:00:03.060 They need it.

01:00:05.580 Four, the oldest passenger,

01:00:07.300 another good candidate.

01:00:08.300 I give up my seat to old 1.00

01:00:09.320 people.

01:00:10.140 Five, a pregnant woman, 1.00

01:00:11.680 which is, you know, I feel

01:00:13.000 like a given you give up your

01:00:15.200 seat for a pregnant woman. 1.00

01:00:16.520 Six, a disabled man, or 0.92

01:00:18.580 seven, yourself.

01:00:21.060 And to this, I'm just like,

01:00:22.480 well, have I got to pick

01:00:24.200 between a mother and her 0.95

01:00:25.160 children with lots of bags,

01:00:26.280 obviously needs lots of

01:00:27.180 room.

01:00:28.080 A pregnant woman, the oldest 1.00

01:00:30.080 passenger, so an old person

01:00:31.520 or a disabled person.

01:00:33.540 At this rate, I would just

01:00:35.040 say, you know what, you guys

01:00:36.040 figure it out between you.

01:00:37.400 I'm not going to sit down.

01:00:38.920 You know what, I might get

01:00:39.580 the next one, actually.

01:00:41.040 This is too awkward.

01:00:43.160 But I feel like the

01:00:44.000 disabled person, normally they

01:00:45.820 come on wheels, don't they?

01:00:47.220 As in, onto like a bus.

01:00:48.580 They'll be in like a wheelchair. 0.99

01:00:49.760 So you can tuck them away

01:00:51.180 like close to the luggage

01:00:53.360 rack.

01:00:53.840 Obviously, still in their

01:00:54.700 wheelchair.

01:00:55.260 Tuck them away.

01:00:57.320 So I, unless they're like on

01:01:00.100 crutches or something, but then

01:01:02.600 I think it should be the

01:01:03.420 pregnant person, then the old 0.97

01:01:05.380 person.

01:01:06.240 So I think old people are 1.00

01:01:07.120 happy to stand for a

01:01:08.040 pregnant woman. 0.64

01:01:08.920 They understand the

01:01:09.920 importance of it and they're

01:01:10.800 most likely to adhere to

01:01:11.820 that.

01:01:12.860 However, if anything, I would

01:01:15.060 encourage other people to

01:01:16.380 stand to help some of these

01:01:18.380 people sit.

01:01:19.180 But it's a very difficult

01:01:20.120 one.

01:01:20.620 This is, uh...

01:01:21.340 Yo, I just sat there.

01:01:22.200 He's like, oi, get up for

01:01:23.420 that woman. 1.00

01:01:24.560 I've done that before.

01:01:25.460 Yeah.

01:01:25.940 You shame people into being

01:01:27.220 good.

01:01:28.100 It works.

01:01:29.740 Might catch on.

01:01:31.400 Here's one.

01:01:31.880 When you're waiting for a

01:01:33.040 lift, when the doors open, do

01:01:34.240 you immediately enter or do you

01:01:35.720 wait for current passengers to

01:01:37.260 disembark?

01:01:38.420 Now, in Britain, people are

01:01:39.520 normally pretty good for this,

01:01:40.820 except, um, I think in the

01:01:43.100 underground in London, where

01:01:44.900 people sort of scramble, but

01:01:46.460 not always.

01:01:47.420 Yeah.

01:01:47.740 And I, I've noticed that more

01:01:49.140 and more over the years as

01:01:50.900 well.

01:01:51.200 Yeah.

01:01:51.380 It's getting worse.

01:01:52.200 Yeah.

01:01:52.400 Lived in London for five

01:01:53.360 years.

01:01:53.580 And to begin with, I didn't

01:01:54.560 notice that.

01:01:55.000 Like everyone, wherever they

01:01:56.420 were from in the world, like

01:01:57.620 the people getting off had

01:02:00.180 right of way.

01:02:01.300 And now that's becoming less

01:02:03.200 and less common.

01:02:03.920 You need to exit like a 1.00

01:02:05.320 juggernaut.

01:02:05.940 I've shoulder barged people

01:02:08.340 before.

01:02:08.960 I'm just there walking out

01:02:10.380 the door, just like this.

01:02:12.260 It's taking out as many as

01:02:13.440 possible.

01:02:14.520 Now, um, you look at them

01:02:16.240 like a hater.

01:02:17.380 It's the broken window effect.

01:02:18.600 Stun back.

01:02:20.320 Here's another one.

01:02:21.620 Do you move, um, to the

01:02:23.080 side of the escalator so

01:02:24.200 people can pass?

01:02:25.620 Lots of people fall off out

01:02:26.700 of this one.

01:02:27.500 You have a fast lane and a

01:02:28.900 slow lane.

01:02:29.900 To be fair, it's more of a

01:02:31.860 London thing in my mind,

01:02:32.900 because where I'm from, we

01:02:34.580 didn't really have fast and

01:02:35.920 slow lanes.

01:02:36.720 If you're on the escalator,

01:02:37.780 normally you're just standing

01:02:39.960 there and people take their

01:02:41.920 time.

01:02:42.480 You know, I'm from the West

01:02:43.140 country.

01:02:43.960 It's a slower pace of life.

01:02:45.040 People are just generally, you

01:02:46.300 know, less in a rush.

01:02:47.700 I'm one of those people that I

01:02:48.860 just, I always walk up them

01:02:50.180 anyway.

01:02:50.640 So do I.

01:02:51.020 I normally take stairs if you

01:02:52.240 have given the choice.

01:02:53.020 But the ratio of standards to

01:02:55.640 walkers is quite, for want of a

01:02:58.340 better way to put it.

01:03:00.320 Too many idle men in London.

01:03:02.060 I've seen too many videos from

01:03:03.680 Russia where the escalator

01:03:05.100 collapses and people get

01:03:06.520 swallowed up.

01:03:07.180 And I'm just like, you know

01:03:07.660 what?

01:03:08.140 I'm going to take the stairs.

01:03:09.600 I don't know who's maintaining

01:03:11.220 this.

01:03:12.580 Here's another one.

01:03:13.520 When travelling by train, do

01:03:14.760 you A, sit inside, B, sit on

01:03:17.980 top, or C, hang on the

01:03:20.080 outside?

01:03:21.580 I'll tell you what.

01:03:22.400 A part of me is waiting for

01:03:24.000 this to happen in England.

01:03:26.620 I've thought about this before.

01:03:28.240 The thing is, if it happens in

01:03:30.460 Britain, I think the first 1.00

01:03:31.460 people to notice it are going

01:03:32.800 to be all of the anorakts that 0.55

01:03:34.740 are watching the trains, all

01:03:36.620 the train spotters getting

01:03:37.960 upset.

01:03:38.480 Just like, narrow that. 0.51

01:03:39.220 You can't do that.

01:03:41.440 No one will believe them.

01:03:42.780 No.

01:03:43.960 They'll be the canary in the

01:03:44.820 coal mine for the decline.

01:03:46.980 And then the final one in

01:03:48.500 travel is starting your car's

01:03:50.560 turn signals or your indicators

01:03:52.060 if you're in Britain indicates

01:03:53.740 one, you'll be turning or

01:03:55.640 changing lanes in three or more

01:03:56.980 seconds, two, you're

01:03:58.360 beginning to change lanes

01:03:59.400 right now, three, what are

01:04:01.940 those?

01:04:04.920 Imagine if you put a stop

01:04:07.740 lesson, now I'm just

01:04:09.120 stopping.

01:04:10.120 Four.

01:04:10.780 Instantly.

01:04:11.940 Four.

01:04:12.380 Indicate one way, go in the

01:04:14.040 other direction.

01:04:15.740 Diversion.

01:04:16.660 I'm actually going to correct

01:04:17.980 this one because the correct

01:04:20.040 answer, according to the

01:04:21.200 British Highway Code, is that

01:04:23.020 it indicates that you wish to

01:04:24.980 turn, not that you're going to

01:04:26.340 turn in any amount of

01:04:27.300 seconds, it's that you're going

01:04:28.160 to turn or change lanes when

01:04:30.220 it is safe.

01:04:31.220 So it's indicating your

01:04:32.580 intention, which is why we

01:04:33.640 call them indicators rather

01:04:34.900 than turn signals.

01:04:36.680 So that is the correct way.

01:04:39.260 I got a good score on my

01:04:40.640 theory test, all right?

01:04:42.200 Not so good on the

01:04:42.880 practicals.

01:04:44.400 Still not road legal.

01:04:45.500 Hey, I've got a licence.

01:04:48.840 Next, I've called this food and

01:04:50.620 entertainment.

01:04:52.460 Here's a good one.

01:04:53.540 Do you ever feel peckish when

01:04:54.820 you see swans at the park?

01:04:56.960 I feel like this is, do you

01:04:58.920 see the ducks and the swans in

01:05:01.340 the park?

01:05:01.760 Do you see them as free to be

01:05:03.040 taken?

01:05:04.100 Or do you see them as, in a

01:05:06.720 sense, collective public

01:05:07.780 property that beautifies the

01:05:09.300 area?

01:05:10.720 Well, on a personal level, I

01:05:11.920 don't like swans.

01:05:13.400 Not do I.

01:05:13.780 I wouldn't go so far as to

01:05:15.660 eat one, though.

01:05:16.140 No, but I wouldn't make a

01:05:17.080 picnic of one.

01:05:18.180 No.

01:05:18.680 No.

01:05:19.320 Buffet, perhaps, but not a

01:05:20.580 picnic.

01:05:22.040 Well, we don't want a swan in

01:05:23.580 my house.

01:05:25.560 They can break a man's arm,

01:05:26.660 you know.

01:05:26.940 Go around loitering.

01:05:28.420 Just a one swan, actually.

01:05:30.980 So here's one that's

01:05:32.620 particularly topical.

01:05:33.480 For each meal, which is the

01:05:34.880 correct eating tool for the

01:05:36.100 job?

01:05:36.680 Knife and fork, spoon, hands,

01:05:38.600 and four.

01:05:39.240 Hands in mouth, up to the

01:05:40.540 knuckle.

01:05:41.500 So we've got a roast dinner, top

01:05:43.260 left.

01:05:44.000 Some slop, top right.

01:05:45.620 A burger, bottom left.

01:05:47.800 And soup, bottom right.

01:05:49.440 I would say, obviously, roast

01:05:53.080 dinner, knife and fork.

01:05:54.380 Slop, use your hands to 0.95

01:05:55.920 launch it away from you

01:05:57.000 because it's probably going to

01:05:58.460 give you food poisoning.

01:05:59.920 A burger, depending on its

01:06:02.760 integrity, I might use a knife

01:06:04.260 and fork, but sometimes hands.

01:06:05.860 And the same with the fries or

01:06:08.780 chips.

01:06:09.540 And soup, obviously, use a

01:06:11.240 spoon.

01:06:12.240 Obviously, hands with a spoon.

01:06:14.760 Hands for soup.

01:06:18.380 I've seen it happen before when

01:06:20.240 I've been in London.

01:06:21.200 I've seen someone eat soup with

01:06:22.720 their hands.

01:06:23.440 And the thing is, it wasn't that

01:06:25.320 they didn't have a spoon.

01:06:26.200 There was a spoon next to them.

01:06:28.520 So they chose to do it.

01:06:29.740 Honestly, how do they do it?

01:06:31.560 Take a hand?

01:06:32.760 They, like, cup their hand.

01:06:34.740 You go up to them and you're

01:06:35.580 like, teach me.

01:06:37.180 I don't want to learn.

01:06:39.400 No, just study them.

01:06:41.140 Eat my cereal in the morning

01:06:42.440 with a cupped hand.

01:06:45.440 Unbelievable.

01:06:47.640 So, this one gave me PTSD.

01:06:50.520 As I said in the reply,

01:06:52.460 when you visit a busy takeaway

01:06:53.600 restaurant, do you read the

01:06:54.820 menu, contemplate your choices

01:06:56.620 and decide on your meal while

01:06:57.880 in the line, or only do that

01:06:59.600 after the cashier asks for

01:07:00.880 your order?

01:07:02.380 Which was one of the most

01:07:03.660 popular suggestions, actually.

01:07:05.160 This one is annoying.

01:07:07.180 Yes.

01:07:07.540 Please, make your decisions

01:07:10.160 before you talk to a, you know,

01:07:12.780 customer service representative.

01:07:14.460 Well, I never have this problem

01:07:15.860 because I'm a very, very basic

01:07:17.300 man and I just always order

01:07:19.180 the same thing from the

01:07:20.360 takeaway, whichever one I go to.

01:07:22.840 So, I like to go for

01:07:25.280 adventurous stuff.

01:07:26.240 What should I take?

01:07:27.320 You know, they ask you,

01:07:28.080 what are you going to order?

01:07:29.520 What do you recommend?

01:07:30.040 What do you recommend?

01:07:31.560 That's all right in a

01:07:32.700 restaurant, but if you're, you

01:07:34.420 know, takeaway, no chance.

01:07:35.860 So, I've got some questions

01:07:38.360 here that I came up with

01:07:39.740 for at the cinema.

01:07:41.240 I'm just going to leave this

01:07:41.880 to play in the background.

01:07:42.860 Oh, come on, please.

01:07:43.760 No.

01:07:44.960 So, when at the cinema, 0.98

01:07:47.060 do you take your rubbish 0.99

01:07:48.100 with you? 0.95

01:07:49.120 As I've always done this.

01:07:51.780 Obviously, yeah.

01:07:52.600 Yeah, growing up, you don't 0.91

01:07:54.240 leave your rubbish in the 0.92

01:07:55.300 cinema, you take it with you. 0.96

01:07:56.400 And when everyone left,

01:07:57.820 there'd be no sign that

01:07:59.060 people had been there to

01:08:00.260 watch a film.

01:08:00.920 But this is, of course,

01:08:01.660 the West Country.

01:08:02.760 So, everything works

01:08:03.820 down there.

01:08:04.940 And it was just that no one

01:08:05.920 went to the cinema.

01:08:07.200 To be fair, towards the end,

01:08:08.640 yes.

01:08:09.900 Do you talk to the person

01:08:11.040 next to you the whole way

01:08:12.060 through?

01:08:13.060 Which apparently is a thing.

01:08:15.600 I've never really seen this

01:08:17.680 in the cinema myself,

01:08:18.940 but in London,

01:08:19.800 apparently, it's really bad.

01:08:21.720 Multicultural areas.

01:08:23.240 Do you answer phone calls

01:08:24.620 and shout over the film

01:08:25.740 to be heard?

01:08:26.740 I've seen videos of this

01:08:28.160 in the cinema.

01:08:29.380 I've never seen it myself,

01:08:30.960 but if I did,

01:08:32.020 it would be seconds

01:08:33.400 before I say something.

01:08:35.180 I went to a,

01:08:36.680 one time I was in London,

01:08:39.420 when I was living in London,

01:08:40.600 and I went to the cinema

01:08:41.960 in Wimbledon

01:08:42.660 with a few of my friends,

01:08:44.160 which is still a more

01:08:46.820 British area of London,

01:08:48.580 let's put it that way.

01:08:50.000 That's where the tennis is.

01:08:50.900 Everyone was very

01:08:51.640 conscientious, you know,

01:08:52.840 and it felt like,

01:08:53.880 it was just a nice atmosphere

01:08:55.140 to go and enjoy a film in.

01:08:56.860 But then there was another

01:08:57.700 friend who couldn't catch it.

01:08:58.860 I enjoyed the film,

01:08:59.660 so I went again.

01:09:00.680 But that time,

01:09:01.700 we went to the cinema

01:09:02.660 in Peckham,

01:09:04.080 and it was...

01:09:05.520 If you're not from Britain, 0.98

01:09:06.740 that is a very diverse,

01:09:08.360 particularly black area.

01:09:10.180 There was a lot of cries

01:09:12.940 from the urban youth,

01:09:15.080 and it was honestly

01:09:15.840 the single worst experience,

01:09:18.100 the cinema experience

01:09:19.140 I've ever had.

01:09:19.800 Speaking of a movie theatre,

01:09:21.400 you know,

01:09:21.600 one thing that constantly

01:09:23.040 makes me go ballistic,

01:09:25.620 and, you know,

01:09:26.380 in seconds,

01:09:27.060 is when people

01:09:28.820 are kicking my seat.

01:09:30.040 I hate seat kickers.

01:09:31.680 That's another question.

01:09:33.060 Do you kick people's seat?

01:09:34.200 Yeah.

01:09:34.300 Also, whoever invented...

01:09:35.880 I'd be an absolute tyrant there.

01:09:37.520 Whoever invented

01:09:38.340 eating popcorn in the cinema,

01:09:39.860 I want to find you 1.00

01:09:40.840 and hurt you. 1.00

01:09:42.400 No, you know what?

01:09:43.240 That would be funny.

01:09:44.120 Dude, in the place

01:09:45.460 where you most want silence.

01:09:47.000 No, because I...

01:09:48.040 Okay, if we were in a movie

01:09:49.560 and you were frustrated

01:09:51.260 with people eating popcorn,

01:09:54.540 I'd laugh hysterically

01:09:56.140 with you getting frustrated.

01:09:58.120 I know you well enough.

01:10:00.260 It need not be said.

01:10:01.460 That's another thing.

01:10:02.460 Do you have a high enough

01:10:03.980 social IQ so that

01:10:05.280 if you do take snacks

01:10:06.400 to the cinema,

01:10:07.260 you open them all

01:10:08.500 and, you know,

01:10:09.960 get rid of the noise,

01:10:10.880 the noisy bits,

01:10:11.700 before the film starts?

01:10:13.080 When I went to see

01:10:13.880 Top Gun Maverick,

01:10:14.740 someone brought along

01:10:15.720 what can only be described

01:10:16.700 as a cooked meal

01:10:17.600 in a Tupperware,

01:10:18.700 which was still warm

01:10:19.860 and stunk out

01:10:20.640 the entire cinema.

01:10:22.120 If that's you,

01:10:24.240 consider Dignitas.

01:10:26.880 That's the politest way

01:10:28.180 I can put it.

01:10:30.020 So,

01:10:31.320 imagine you're busy

01:10:32.800 barbecuing indoors

01:10:33.820 and you hear a beep

01:10:34.800 from your hallway.

01:10:36.400 What do you do?

01:10:37.520 Or a chirp.

01:10:38.260 A, I don't hear no beep.

01:10:40.380 B, offer a sacrifice

01:10:42.160 to satiate the Skybird

01:10:43.560 or C,

01:10:44.820 change your smoke alarm battery.

01:10:47.500 It's an important question.

01:10:49.540 So, here's one that

01:10:50.560 is actually quite a good one

01:10:52.020 because it's sort of

01:10:52.940 counterintuitive to some people.

01:10:54.820 In a busy pub,

01:10:55.840 you find a place

01:10:56.460 to stand at the bar

01:10:57.200 and wait until,

01:10:58.540 you know,

01:10:59.520 it's your turn

01:11:00.040 to be seen by the barman

01:11:01.620 or do you start

01:11:02.820 forming a single file queue

01:11:04.060 like somebody

01:11:04.600 who's never been

01:11:05.260 in a pub before.

01:11:06.960 So, yes,

01:11:07.800 we like a queue in Britain.

01:11:09.340 Not always appropriate.

01:11:11.120 Sometimes when you're

01:11:11.860 at the pub,

01:11:12.840 the man at the bar

01:11:14.080 or the lady,

01:11:15.240 you know,

01:11:15.560 different times,

01:11:16.780 keeps rough track.

01:11:19.880 And also,

01:11:20.600 the people at the bar

01:11:21.740 normally say,

01:11:22.580 oh no,

01:11:22.860 you were here before me.

01:11:24.040 There's a certain amount

01:11:24.920 of deference.

01:11:25.920 And what it does is,

01:11:27.280 having this method

01:11:28.300 makes people talk

01:11:29.400 to each other,

01:11:30.240 makes people

01:11:31.000 show some good faith

01:11:33.720 to one another.

01:11:34.300 You don't just slide in

01:11:35.620 and barge ahead. 0.55

01:11:37.260 Nothing breeds ire

01:11:39.220 in my English heart

01:11:40.160 more than someone

01:11:41.380 who slides in

01:11:42.300 and gets served

01:11:43.300 before their time.

01:11:45.040 It's a complete violation

01:11:47.100 of the social contract.

01:11:48.540 And speaking of which,

01:11:50.700 do you bathe daily

01:11:51.660 and wear deodorant?

01:11:54.740 You've been to the gym

01:11:55.900 with me before.

01:11:57.000 Yes.

01:11:57.100 I've noticed

01:11:58.520 that certain demographics,

01:12:00.560 largely the subcontinent

01:12:01.820 of India

01:12:02.600 and the continent

01:12:04.460 of sub-Saharan,

01:12:05.460 well,

01:12:05.820 part of sub-Saharan Africa,

01:12:08.180 just refuse to wear them

01:12:09.380 in the gym of all places.

01:12:11.200 And sometimes,

01:12:11.960 when you're trying

01:12:12.520 to do reps,

01:12:13.280 you get a big lungful

01:12:14.520 of someone else's body odour,

01:12:15.900 pungent,

01:12:16.440 worse than I could ever produce.

01:12:18.800 That is enough

01:12:19.560 to put you off

01:12:20.200 and is actually

01:12:20.700 probably dangerous.

01:12:21.980 And I'm not saying

01:12:22.560 this to be like hyperbolic.

01:12:23.900 You just drop

01:12:24.860 the tongue yourself.

01:12:25.960 Like I'm just like,

01:12:26.480 oh! 0.60

01:12:27.100 I'll be there

01:12:27.880 lifting,

01:12:28.820 you know,

01:12:29.620 95kgs bench press.

01:12:31.820 And then I'm there

01:12:32.400 catching the whiff

01:12:33.200 of someone's armpits 0.91

01:12:34.180 and I'm just like,

01:12:34.840 it makes the rep harder.

01:12:36.960 It does.

01:12:37.680 It really does.

01:12:38.660 Because you're getting

01:12:39.560 less oxygen intake.

01:12:40.520 because it stinks.

01:12:43.920 Here's a nice basic one.

01:12:44.980 Do you say sorry

01:12:45.840 when someone bumps into you?

01:12:47.180 Of course.

01:12:47.780 I do as well.

01:12:48.940 I remember someone

01:12:49.980 in Slovenia

01:12:50.960 stood on my foot

01:12:51.940 and I said sorry to them

01:12:53.340 and then they looked at me

01:12:54.200 as if I was 0.99

01:12:54.900 like mentally ill. 0.69

01:12:56.400 Okay, guys, 0.90

01:12:57.160 I don't understand.

01:12:57.920 Why are you apologizing

01:12:59.100 if someone bumps into you?

01:13:01.600 Because it's just good manners.

01:13:02.100 I know this happens,

01:13:03.060 but...

01:13:03.320 It's just to say,

01:13:04.460 I'm sorry,

01:13:05.020 it's like,

01:13:05.900 I'm sorry this has happened.

01:13:07.200 Yeah,

01:13:07.400 I'm sorry for this

01:13:08.160 entire situation.

01:13:09.600 Yeah.

01:13:10.320 Maybe they did it in purpose.

01:13:12.060 It's not claiming response.

01:13:13.020 Well,

01:13:13.260 you don't say sorry then,

01:13:14.100 do you?

01:13:14.360 In that case,

01:13:15.580 you don't leave

01:13:16.160 until they've said sorry to you.

01:13:17.700 Yeah,

01:13:17.800 they're going to be sorry.

01:13:20.240 You're going to be sorry.

01:13:21.540 Here's one the Japanese understand.

01:13:22.940 If there's no bin around,

01:13:23.920 do you put your rubbish

01:13:24.740 in your pocket

01:13:25.460 or throw it on the ground?

01:13:27.160 I'm proud to say

01:13:27.800 I've never littered

01:13:28.660 in my entire life

01:13:29.560 and in fact,

01:13:30.040 they've probably picked up

01:13:30.800 more of other people's litter

01:13:33.160 than most people.

01:13:34.060 Based.

01:13:34.680 That's going camping for you,

01:13:36.060 eh?

01:13:36.300 You pick it up,

01:13:36.960 you find a nice spot

01:13:37.800 and you tidy it up

01:13:39.100 because there's inevitably

01:13:39.860 a crisp packet or something.

01:13:42.560 So yes,

01:13:43.320 very good question.

01:13:45.000 Here's one from

01:13:45.760 Proper Horror Show

01:13:46.540 who,

01:13:48.020 coincidentally today,

01:13:48.960 I think,

01:13:50.060 our conversation about

01:13:50.980 Stanley Kubrick's films

01:13:51.900 are coming out

01:13:52.420 on Low Seaters.

01:13:53.820 Are pyjamas

01:13:54.580 a houseware item

01:13:55.640 or good for trips

01:13:56.940 to the supermarket

01:13:57.760 or Mackie D's? 0.51

01:14:01.160 I like that question.

01:14:03.760 Very good.

01:14:04.780 Dunking on the underclass.

01:14:05.960 Pyjamas are also a shroud.

01:14:08.840 And here's one.

01:14:10.360 A customer service worker

01:14:11.460 is female.

01:14:12.300 She smiles

01:14:12.840 as she assists.

01:14:14.240 Is she

01:14:15.240 A. 0.62

01:14:16.040 Hitting on you?

01:14:17.320 B.

01:14:17.860 Doing the job

01:14:18.560 she is paid to do 0.97

01:14:19.400 and no more.

01:14:21.320 I quite like this one.

01:14:22.620 This was quite astute

01:14:23.460 because lots of people,

01:14:25.620 you know,

01:14:26.060 regular English people

01:14:27.000 even fall up on this.

01:14:29.020 And I've had it in my life

01:14:30.940 where people have been like,

01:14:32.420 oh,

01:14:32.520 they were really nice.

01:14:33.340 Was she,

01:14:33.940 like,

01:14:34.300 hitting on me?

01:14:34.720 I'm just like,

01:14:35.120 no,

01:14:35.340 they're just being friendly.

01:14:36.840 You're so starved of attention.

01:14:38.580 Fell for it again, 0.96

01:14:39.840 the wart.

01:14:40.380 Yeah.

01:14:40.740 It depends how

01:14:42.000 attractive you are.

01:14:47.400 Stelios is, 0.98

01:14:48.800 you sly or dog? 0.71

01:14:50.360 Stelios is like, 0.60

01:14:51.160 it's always a,

01:14:52.380 with the Stelios.

01:14:53.220 It's always a,

01:14:54.360 I'm a man, 0.99

01:14:56.920 damn it. 1.00

01:14:58.660 Stop looking at me like that. 1.00

01:15:00.540 So the final one for manners

01:15:02.300 is a series of questions.

01:15:03.940 Do you stop dead in shop doorways?

01:15:05.200 This is one that I hate the most.

01:15:06.960 This is very prevalent in Swindon

01:15:08.480 with its large Indian population

01:15:09.920 because they haven't quite

01:15:11.820 acclimatised to having

01:15:13.660 a civic sense of spatial awareness.

01:15:16.700 Escalators and things like that as well.

01:15:18.820 When walking down the street,

01:15:19.680 do you look more than two steps

01:15:21.540 in front of you?

01:15:23.520 This is true of a lot of people.

01:15:25.220 There's no one demographic.

01:15:27.100 You know,

01:15:27.420 plenty of teenagers

01:15:28.740 on their phones do this.

01:15:30.180 And when walking

01:15:30.700 with a group of people,

01:15:31.600 do you leave room for people

01:15:32.680 to pass going the other way?

01:15:34.560 This is something

01:15:35.120 I wish more people would do. 0.80

01:15:37.220 Fat people are guilty 1.00

01:15:38.200 of this one particularly. 0.97

01:15:39.560 They do take up more room

01:15:40.620 in the pavement,

01:15:41.340 but still,

01:15:42.580 they're not,

01:15:43.120 they're bumbling along

01:15:43.940 at a slow pace,

01:15:45.200 taking up all the pavement.

01:15:46.340 I don't want to have to step

01:15:47.160 in the road

01:15:47.500 and nearly get hit by a car

01:15:48.660 just to get around you

01:15:49.820 and I'm too impatient to wait.

01:15:51.460 So, yeah. 1.00

01:15:52.560 It's so idiotic 1.00

01:15:53.160 to do the fourth one. 1.00

01:15:54.620 I know.

01:15:56.140 I've seen it happen though.

01:15:57.860 Someone gets to the bus driver

01:16:00.000 after queuing

01:16:00.920 to get on the bus

01:16:01.840 and it's like,

01:16:02.560 does this bus go

01:16:03.620 to such and such place?

01:16:05.260 It'll be on the front

01:16:05.940 of the bus

01:16:06.400 in big letters.

01:16:08.000 It's like,

01:16:08.580 dear Lord,

01:16:09.920 are you sure you're okay

01:16:10.700 to be travelling on your own?

01:16:12.200 And then I've got

01:16:12.700 some questions for the pros.

01:16:14.400 So,

01:16:14.880 here are some difficult ones.

01:16:15.940 Do you know what

01:16:17.180 per capita means?

01:16:18.800 No, sir.

01:16:19.900 I didn't think so.

01:16:21.620 But one number's bigger

01:16:22.640 than the other.

01:16:23.160 I don't understand.

01:16:25.660 Also,

01:16:26.120 I forgot to mention,

01:16:27.200 when it comes to the,

01:16:29.100 do you return the shopping cart?

01:16:30.900 What I was going to say,

01:16:32.360 it would have been

01:16:32.660 a lot better if I did,

01:16:34.100 was,

01:16:34.780 no,

01:16:35.000 I actually use a basket.

01:16:37.660 This is a play

01:16:38.500 on the breakfast question,

01:16:39.420 isn't it?

01:16:39.680 Didn't work.

01:16:40.220 And here's

01:16:42.280 a big brain

01:16:43.660 meta question.

01:16:45.640 Do you respond

01:16:46.140 to any of the wrong answers

01:16:47.440 with any variant of

01:16:48.540 lol,

01:16:49.040 why do you care though?

01:16:50.700 Because of course,

01:16:51.540 we've seen this,

01:16:52.800 where people get called out

01:16:54.260 on their poor behaviour

01:16:55.880 publicly.

01:16:57.040 And it's like,

01:16:57.400 why do you care?

01:16:58.480 What was it to you?

01:16:59.560 Is it,

01:17:00.000 you know,

01:17:01.100 which is,

01:17:01.700 of course,

01:17:02.380 a very low IQ response.

01:17:03.560 Because it affects you

01:17:04.220 every single day

01:17:05.400 at this point

01:17:06.420 in some capacity

01:17:07.640 or another.

01:17:08.700 So,

01:17:09.040 why have I designed this?

01:17:11.140 What's the real purpose

01:17:12.440 of this segment?

01:17:13.760 Well,

01:17:14.260 I read this

01:17:15.080 and I thought it was

01:17:15.820 very good

01:17:16.500 and I'm going to

01:17:18.280 read it to you.

01:17:19.240 You didn't need

01:17:20.140 to be a crime victim

01:17:21.180 to feel it.

01:17:21.880 It wasn't just

01:17:22.420 in the air.

01:17:23.580 This clicks

01:17:24.080 when you watch

01:17:24.600 somebody blast videos

01:17:25.580 on subway speakers

01:17:26.860 or underground train,

01:17:30.780 bus,

01:17:31.240 any form of transport really.

01:17:33.080 Nobody else

01:17:33.600 in the subway car moves.

01:17:35.300 Nobody speaks.

01:17:36.140 They're all running

01:17:36.600 the same calculation.

01:17:37.900 This person

01:17:38.460 already broke

01:17:39.400 the basic social contract.

01:17:41.280 So,

01:17:41.460 what else would they break?

01:17:42.640 Someone who forces

01:17:43.540 30 strangers

01:17:44.280 to listen to their

01:17:45.000 TikTok videos

01:17:45.780 has already announced

01:17:46.800 they don't follow rules

01:17:47.800 or care about consequences.

01:17:49.680 So,

01:17:50.080 when you think about

01:17:50.680 tapping their shoulder,

01:17:51.600 you're not wondering

01:17:52.140 if they'll turn it down.

01:17:53.200 You're wondering 0.99

01:17:53.580 if they'll stab you.

01:17:55.000 The antisocial behavior 0.87

01:17:56.080 works because

01:17:56.880 everyone else

01:17:57.940 does the math

01:17:58.600 and decides

01:17:59.040 their discomfort

01:17:59.840 or their comfort,

01:18:00.920 sorry,

01:18:01.480 isn't worth finding out

01:18:02.480 whether this person's

01:18:03.220 boundaries actually,

01:18:05.060 where these person's

01:18:06.320 boundaries actually end.

01:18:07.220 it's soft terrorism.

01:18:08.900 And I think that this

01:18:09.480 is a good characterization

01:18:10.600 of it.

01:18:11.620 Someone's basically

01:18:12.440 holding a whole group

01:18:13.460 of people to ransom

01:18:14.380 through the potential

01:18:16.160 threat of violence

01:18:17.240 because in a perfect world

01:18:19.520 where we knew

01:18:20.140 that people wouldn't

01:18:21.340 be violent, 0.75

01:18:22.220 people would say

01:18:22.980 something,

01:18:23.320 wouldn't they?

01:18:23.780 And they'd feel

01:18:24.160 comfortable doing so.

01:18:25.000 Yeah,

01:18:25.140 this is why so many

01:18:26.120 of the people

01:18:26.660 that you see

01:18:27.400 on the buses

01:18:29.040 or on the trains

01:18:29.840 who are blaring

01:18:30.620 their music out,

01:18:31.580 why people don't

01:18:32.460 just go over to them

01:18:33.240 and say,

01:18:33.560 excuse me,

01:18:33.900 can you turn it down

01:18:34.580 please,

01:18:34.880 or turn it off

01:18:35.580 because they're scared

01:18:36.940 of the repercussions.

01:18:38.140 What will happen

01:18:38.620 if they intervene?

01:18:39.880 I still do it anyway

01:18:40.980 but then not everyone's

01:18:42.460 as crazy as me.

01:18:44.200 Formidable. 0.89

01:18:44.940 Yes,

01:18:45.500 the formidable firm.

01:18:46.740 Tenacious.

01:18:48.200 I'm a big guy.

01:18:49.380 I can get away with it.

01:18:51.160 The threat never gets spoken,

01:18:52.520 never gets recorded

01:18:53.180 in any crime database

01:18:54.280 but it controls

01:18:55.020 every interaction

01:18:56.020 and that's the key point here.

01:18:57.580 This is a new way

01:18:58.420 to view these sorts of things.

01:18:59.500 They're not just,

01:19:00.080 you know,

01:19:00.300 I had some innocent fun

01:19:01.200 with it

01:19:01.560 but actually there is

01:19:02.500 a dark undertone to this

01:19:03.800 that it's someone

01:19:05.000 announcing that they

01:19:06.040 don't care about

01:19:06.960 wider society

01:19:07.800 and then they're willing

01:19:09.040 to go against the norms

01:19:10.260 and so it suggests

01:19:11.780 that they're going

01:19:12.420 to hurt you basically.

01:19:14.380 You hear someone

01:19:15.040 playing music out loud,

01:19:16.900 it means that

01:19:17.880 there's a higher chance

01:19:18.860 that they're going

01:19:19.440 to try and hurt you.

01:19:20.960 It's that simple really

01:19:22.380 and this extract

01:19:23.580 by the way to credit

01:19:24.820 comes from this guy,

01:19:26.740 I think it's from

01:19:27.500 his newsletter,

01:19:29.240 I've never heard of him before,

01:19:30.320 I just saw the extract

01:19:31.300 by chance on Twitter

01:19:33.120 and it got me thinking

01:19:34.300 about this sort of thing

01:19:35.340 and actually,

01:19:36.700 yes,

01:19:37.100 these sorts of behaviours

01:19:38.340 they're not just restricted

01:19:41.060 to migrant communities

01:19:42.580 or people from abroad,

01:19:44.060 they are also present

01:19:45.360 domestically

01:19:45.980 even before mass migration

01:19:47.420 to a certain extent

01:19:48.700 but it was limited enough

01:19:50.400 that we didn't feel

01:19:52.980 this same sense,

01:19:53.840 we felt like we could

01:19:54.520 police ourselves

01:19:55.360 but now it's to the sense

01:19:57.300 of not only are there people

01:20:00.100 who simply just don't know

01:20:01.420 our norms

01:20:01.980 but also it lowers

01:20:03.280 the boundary

01:20:04.040 for our own domestic people

01:20:07.040 because it's like

01:20:09.160 the broken window effect,

01:20:10.500 well there are other people

01:20:11.220 on the bus playing their music,

01:20:12.360 why can't I?

01:20:13.080 and so not only is it

01:20:15.200 the new arrivals,

01:20:16.180 it's also the natives

01:20:17.160 that are having their standards

01:20:18.280 lowered just by being

01:20:19.460 in the presence of these people

01:20:20.800 and what it does is

01:20:22.460 it just makes people

01:20:23.200 more afraid of being out

01:20:24.560 and about in everyday life

01:20:27.160 and that's obviously

01:20:28.340 not a good thing

01:20:29.320 but it hasn't received

01:20:30.500 nearly as much attention

01:20:31.460 as the serious problem

01:20:32.880 that it is

01:20:33.440 because it's presented

01:20:34.600 as a petty convenience

01:20:35.580 actually is one of those things

01:20:37.600 that is a looming threat

01:20:38.620 that affects everyone's life

01:20:40.580 in the modern

01:20:41.840 mass migration world.

01:20:44.360 I think there is a distinction

01:20:45.420 between very combative

01:20:47.420 and reconciliatory behaviours.

01:20:49.540 I think these are the terms

01:20:50.680 and when people are polite

01:20:51.940 they show that they have

01:20:53.860 the ability to be reconciliatory

01:20:56.680 when it comes to minor social friction

01:20:59.460 that happens every day

01:21:01.620 so they show,

01:21:02.700 yeah listen,

01:21:03.180 I'm prepared to look past that

01:21:06.360 and move on,

01:21:07.620 move forward.

01:21:08.620 The people you're describing

01:21:09.900 and the people who are

01:21:11.240 routinely acting

01:21:12.420 as if they don't care

01:21:13.600 about the people around them

01:21:14.840 they show,

01:21:16.440 basically they're signalling

01:21:17.840 unintentionally perhaps

01:21:19.260 that they're very aggressive

01:21:20.660 and that they are not going

01:21:22.400 to reconcile with others.

01:21:23.820 They're basically anti-

01:21:25.200 They are looking for trouble.

01:21:26.760 They're basically anti-civilisational

01:21:28.360 aren't they?

01:21:29.780 They're thumbing their nose

01:21:30.900 at the notion of a civil society

01:21:33.000 and civilisation more generally.

01:21:35.020 But if you do care about civilisation

01:21:36.580 perhaps you should check out

01:21:37.560 my YouTube channel

01:21:38.320 because I've got lots of videos there

01:21:40.540 I've got a new one on the way soon

01:21:41.900 and yes,

01:21:43.720 hope you enjoyed this.

01:21:44.660 Something a bit different

01:21:45.480 from my usual segments

01:21:46.500 but hopefully it was a bit of fun

01:21:48.160 with a good moral lesson

01:21:49.280 in the end.

01:21:50.820 Thank you for watching

01:21:51.600 and goodbye.

01:21:52.080 Not from the whole podcast though.

01:21:55.520 No, no.

01:21:56.440 I would just say particular as well

01:21:57.900 go watch Josh's camping video

01:21:59.520 because that one in particular

01:22:01.180 is something you can take

01:22:03.020 in bolding your daily life

01:22:04.080 that's really helpful.

01:22:05.060 Oh, well, thank you.

01:22:07.040 Do you want to go through

01:22:08.020 your rumble?

01:22:08.980 Oh, yes, of course.

01:22:10.920 Habsification says 0.74

01:22:11.980 the alternative platforms

01:22:13.160 independent media

01:22:13.960 and citizen journalists

01:22:14.820 are like a hydra

01:22:15.880 to the EU.

01:22:17.300 They take one down

01:22:18.560 and two more

01:22:19.120 will take its place.

01:22:20.980 That's very true, yes.

01:22:23.020 And Sigil Stone

01:22:23.780 intelligence is racist,

01:22:25.400 yeah, because smart people

01:22:26.340 start noticing things.

01:22:28.200 Pattern recognition

01:22:29.040 is a sign of intelligence,

01:22:30.520 yes.

01:22:32.520 Sigil Stone says

01:22:33.400 Oh, I got a great

01:22:34.220 grocery IQ question.

01:22:36.060 Do you wash your chicken

01:22:37.080 with dish soap

01:22:38.000 with bleach?

01:22:38.720 If yes, with bleach

01:22:39.660 instantly committed

01:22:41.080 to a care home.

01:22:41.900 OK.

01:22:43.700 Yes, please don't do that.

01:22:45.720 It's unnecessary

01:22:46.280 and it's weird.

01:22:49.020 Tom Rat says

01:22:49.900 we will maintain our freedom

01:22:51.480 by ensuring our press

01:22:52.500 supports our freedom

01:22:53.340 in our democracy

01:22:54.140 even if it means

01:22:55.040 we have to deploy

01:22:55.820 our boot boys

01:22:56.920 with our billy clubs

01:22:57.980 and send you out 0.98

01:22:58.780 to our gulags.

01:23:01.040 Very clever.

01:23:03.060 Habsification says 0.74

01:23:03.880 I think I found a way

01:23:04.680 to gamify

01:23:05.240 to increase the

01:23:06.400 indigenous population

01:23:07.240 birth rates.

01:23:09.740 Not sure.

01:23:10.740 No context.

01:23:12.060 OK, I'll read

01:23:13.720 the top one.

01:23:14.540 Oh, I see.

01:23:15.200 Only open to

01:23:15.920 3.5 million women.

01:23:17.320 Must be married.

01:23:18.200 Lower taxes each child born

01:23:19.540 with lower taxes

01:23:20.300 if you have 12 kids.

01:23:21.900 You'll never pay

01:23:22.620 any type of taxes

01:23:23.460 and all goods and services

01:23:24.600 are half-priced forever.

01:23:26.840 Now the two work together

01:23:28.000 to make sense.

01:23:28.800 I want to be very selective

01:23:29.760 about which 3.5 million, please.

01:23:34.000 Skiddon says

01:23:34.760 what if I got hit by the train?

01:23:37.260 You get points for that.

01:23:38.720 Trying to film yourself

01:23:39.780 in front.

01:23:40.160 Unless, of course,

01:23:42.120 you delay me.

01:23:43.280 I had someone jump

01:23:44.040 in front of my train

01:23:44.920 when I was coming back

01:23:45.880 from Christmas

01:23:46.500 and it made me really grumpy.

01:23:48.040 I was just like

01:23:48.400 if that person's alive again 1.00

01:23:49.680 I'd kill them all over. 1.00

01:23:51.400 Such a selfish thing to do. 1.00

01:23:53.380 Jump in front of a train.

01:23:54.580 You not only traumatise

01:23:55.780 the driver

01:23:56.280 and the people

01:23:56.720 that have to clean 0.77

01:23:57.360 your gelatinous goo off

01:23:59.560 but you delay a whole

01:24:00.980 group of people.

01:24:03.220 Bobababad says

01:24:04.560 comparing IQ

01:24:05.180 between race and age

01:24:06.180 is the show

01:24:07.180 Are you smarter

01:24:08.040 than a fifth grader? 1.00

01:24:09.180 Now a racist dog whistle. 0.83

01:24:11.240 Can you tell

01:24:12.080 when they answer questions

01:24:13.740 or try to grope the women 0.83

01:24:15.040 and scam the host?

01:24:17.480 Yeah, we need a modern day.

01:24:18.540 I'll leave one comment

01:24:19.820 from sister Texas gal.

01:24:22.320 Oh, sure.

01:24:22.900 She says

01:24:23.340 Good day, brother Luca

01:24:24.320 brother Josh

01:24:25.120 and brother Stelios.

01:24:26.600 Good day to you as well.

01:24:27.660 Good day.

01:24:27.820 Good day.

01:24:29.360 Sigil Stone says

01:24:30.040 the proper answer 1.00

01:24:30.640 is you scratch your arse 1.00

01:24:31.740 and then eat with your hands 1.00

01:24:33.120 knuckles deep

01:24:33.760 both times.

01:24:35.760 That's grim, that is.

01:24:37.320 Dear me.

01:24:37.880 Sandwings raging.

01:24:39.040 I recommend

01:24:39.480 just never leaving the house.

01:24:41.120 Thank you

01:24:41.740 from our resident shut-in.

01:24:43.120 I think you've almost

01:24:44.340 embodied that one

01:24:45.280 haven't you

01:24:45.620 apart from one day a week

01:24:46.780 now coming here?

01:24:47.920 I've been a bit

01:24:48.460 of a social butterfly

01:24:49.380 recently, thank you very much.

01:24:51.180 I've been out

01:24:52.400 at least the past

01:24:53.600 four days in a row.

01:24:55.720 Habsification 1.00

01:24:56.200 if the indigenous women 0.97

01:24:57.580 has 16 kids

01:24:58.480 and still married

01:24:59.140 will never have to pay

01:25:00.180 any taxes and 70%

01:25:01.320 that's

01:25:02.560 I don't like this idea

01:25:03.900 of giving people tax cuts

01:25:05.020 for churning out kids

01:25:06.820 because in Britain

01:25:08.400 the people who have

01:25:09.140 the most children

01:25:09.760 are either very rich

01:25:11.780 and can afford it

01:25:12.740 okay, that's fine

01:25:13.780 or very poor

01:25:14.680 and I've got to pay for it

01:25:15.840 which is annoying.

01:25:17.640 That's random names

01:25:18.520 so social IQ

01:25:19.220 seems to be just a fancy way

01:25:20.520 of saying conscientiousness

01:25:21.980 just like EQ

01:25:22.960 is a fancy way

01:25:23.620 of saying empathy

01:25:24.380 which ironically enough

01:25:25.640 is something directly

01:25:27.040 proportionate to one's IQ

01:25:28.300 which is true

01:25:29.060 yes, the two do correlate

01:25:30.200 and there's still a debate

01:25:31.040 in psychology

01:25:31.660 about whether they should be

01:25:33.180 the same thing.

01:25:34.600 The engaged few

01:25:35.200 says in Josh's Britain

01:25:36.260 Bluetooth speaker violators

01:25:37.700 can legally

01:25:38.700 be garrotted

01:25:40.000 by other passengers

01:25:40.920 I mean

01:25:42.100 something like that

01:25:44.880 maybe not garrotted

01:25:45.720 flogged

01:25:47.240 that's a random name 0.99

01:25:48.700 black female co-worker

01:25:49.660 got into an argument

01:25:50.420 with some of the

01:25:51.400 white ladies at work 0.91

01:25:52.240 they couldn't understand

01:25:53.040 how she could keep

01:25:53.820 her phone on speaker

01:25:54.740 in public

01:25:55.280 she just kept repeating

01:25:56.520 it and didn't bother her

01:25:57.800 yeah, she doesn't think

01:25:59.960 of other people

01:26:00.700 it's funny that

01:26:01.580 perfectly believable

01:26:02.580 she eventually got fired 0.83

01:26:04.100 because all she did

01:26:04.820 was talk instead of working

01:26:06.060 she tried to sue

01:26:07.160 for racism

01:26:07.840 fair enough

01:26:09.740 brilliant

01:26:10.260 occupant says

01:26:12.180 the correct response

01:26:12.860 to someone using

01:26:13.440 the speakerphone

01:26:13.960 in public

01:26:14.320 is to join in

01:26:15.080 the conversation

01:26:15.720 when they say

01:26:16.200 it's a private conversation

01:26:17.140 point out that

01:26:17.760 private conversations

01:26:18.620 are kept private

01:26:19.380 I like your

01:26:20.700 passive aggressive style

01:26:21.780 my favourite thing

01:26:23.120 is to have a loud

01:26:24.340 conversation

01:26:25.000 with someone next to me

01:26:26.320 saying how much 0.60

01:26:26.900 I hate people

01:26:27.460 talking on speakerphone

01:26:28.500 in a very passive

01:26:29.360 aggressive way

01:26:30.000 last time I did that

01:26:31.140 on a train to London

01:26:31.880 the woman actually

01:26:32.620 talking on speakerphone

01:26:33.540 got up and moved

01:26:34.360 oh really?

01:26:35.260 yeah

01:26:35.860 well I just went

01:26:36.720 and had a speakerphone

01:26:37.980 conversation

01:26:38.580 in the hallway

01:26:39.460 in the correct place

01:26:40.900 based ape says

01:26:43.160 I have a high social IQ

01:26:44.580 Stelios can't understand 1.00

01:26:45.700 my high level genius

01:26:46.840 what do you say

01:26:48.500 to that Stelios?

01:26:50.440 he says based

01:26:51.540 but he also says ape

01:26:52.780 we're all apes

01:26:55.460 Stelios

01:26:55.900 technically

01:26:56.500 we're all apes

01:26:57.500 right

01:26:57.880 video comment

01:27:05.260 it's a lovely cat

01:27:32.000 yeah

01:27:32.300 I love cats

01:27:33.220 getting more confident

01:27:34.220 as it went

01:27:34.780 I love how cats

01:27:35.720 are always

01:27:36.240 fascinated

01:27:37.380 and terrified

01:27:38.240 of water

01:27:38.800 simultaneously

01:27:39.740 the Adeptus Arbites

01:27:42.940 are meant to be

01:27:43.380 a satire of

01:27:43.940 authoritarian

01:27:44.400 and brutal police

01:27:45.200 but if I told you

01:27:45.940 that the party

01:27:46.440 of the Lotus Eaters

01:27:47.140 won the 2030 UK election

01:27:48.480 and sent in the

01:27:49.180 Lotus Arbites

01:27:49.900 to stop the sorts

01:27:50.600 of people we see

01:27:51.160 in sections

01:27:51.560 from this podcast

01:27:52.160 who would you support

01:27:53.020 when watching this video? 1.00

01:27:54.300 Attention scum 0.99

01:27:55.600 prepare for sentencing 1.00

01:27:57.660 that was very very loud

01:28:14.800 but still easier to listen

01:28:16.260 to than Ursula and

01:28:17.100 von der Leyen in that video

01:28:18.620 yes we do need

01:28:19.780 people like that

01:28:20.400 going through

01:28:20.920 and forcing the rules

01:28:21.920 I was discussing

01:28:22.620 in my segment

01:28:23.780 hello Lotus Eaters

01:28:25.760 today

01:28:26.160 I'm at Loch Ness

01:28:27.960 beautiful day

01:28:30.360 as well

01:28:30.660 beautiful

01:28:31.560 I was just at

01:28:32.200 Loch Castle as well

01:28:33.320 very nice

01:28:34.140 brought the Islander

01:28:36.300 I was taking pictures

01:28:37.620 with that

01:28:38.000 and climbing Ben Nevis

01:28:39.160 with it tomorrow

01:28:39.820 I'll also share

01:28:41.320 some pictures

01:28:42.660 with it today

01:28:43.860 actually

01:28:44.200 so see you then

01:28:45.400 I hope by the time

01:28:46.880 you see it

01:28:47.580 it went well

01:28:48.460 it looks a lovely day

01:28:49.680 for Ben Nevis

01:28:50.220 to be fair

01:28:50.800 hey sheep

01:28:52.520 bye Islander 0.79

01:28:55.560 this should be the video

01:28:59.780 where you do

01:29:00.820 the marketing campaign

01:29:02.220 for Islander

01:29:03.140 sheep breeding Islander

01:29:04.620 yeah

01:29:04.700 right

01:29:06.200 we've got another

01:29:07.420 rumble rant there

01:29:08.200 do we have another video?

01:29:13.580 nope

01:29:13.800 right

01:29:14.240 the comments

01:29:15.600 okay

01:29:17.640 do you want to go

01:29:18.160 from your segment

01:29:18.820 Stelius

01:29:19.160 yeah

01:29:20.060 so

01:29:20.620 North FC

01:29:21.360 Zuma says

01:29:22.140 the Stelius is back

01:29:23.580 good video on AA

01:29:24.980 I'm too low IQ

01:29:26.540 to understand who won

01:29:27.700 but Stelius is a martial arts man

01:29:29.580 and AA is a bit chubby

01:29:31.380 so Stelius wins

01:29:32.500 I think that's the most

01:29:34.040 the best criterion

01:29:35.580 for intellectual exchanges

01:29:37.640 you know

01:29:38.520 who knows martial arts

01:29:40.060 right

01:29:40.860 okay

01:29:41.160 the UK will be taxed

01:29:42.780 into oblivion

01:29:43.240 right

01:29:43.540 Ash F

01:29:44.500 they heavily tax

01:29:46.140 cigarettes and alcohol

01:29:47.520 to reduce their consumption

01:29:48.980 but think the result

01:29:50.760 would be different

01:29:51.460 when they heavily tax productivity

01:29:53.320 yep

01:29:55.340 yeah

01:29:55.760 just

01:29:56.600 textbook leftists

01:29:58.260 Jimbo G

01:29:59.760 reminds me of an old joke

01:30:01.480 we need to address

01:30:02.420 the 20 million

01:30:03.280 billion black hole

01:30:04.840 what do you mean

01:30:06.020 you don't want

01:30:06.700 to fix the 40 billion

01:30:08.140 black hole

01:30:08.760 how are we supposed

01:30:09.900 to fix the 50 billion

01:30:11.440 black hole

01:30:12.040 with that attitude

01:30:13.160 that's a great comment

01:30:14.500 right

01:30:16.300 Alex Ogle

01:30:17.580 my Islander 4

01:30:18.800 has arrived

01:30:19.400 via Canada Post

01:30:20.840 risky venture at best

01:30:22.440 and I'm glad to see

01:30:24.060 Luca has fixed

01:30:25.020 his variant spelling

01:30:26.220 that should drive up

01:30:29.380 the value

01:30:29.820 of the first three issues

01:30:30.980 as more are

01:30:31.920 added to the catalogue

01:30:33.860 I'm glad to see

01:30:34.940 that I've done that too

01:30:35.920 I'll try to keep at it

01:30:37.500 George Happ says

01:30:38.720 taxation is theft

01:30:40.400 doubly so

01:30:41.680 when the intention

01:30:43.160 when they intend

01:30:44.500 to get what your parents

01:30:45.600 built

01:30:45.960 their whole lives

01:30:47.120 absolutely

01:30:47.980 leads people to

01:30:49.000 you know

01:30:49.540 just massive spending 0.93

01:30:50.920 and just ridiculous

01:30:52.680 lifestyle

01:30:53.400 spending lifestyle

01:30:54.800 Henry Ashman says

01:30:56.180 the inheritance tax rate

01:30:57.620 just makes me feel

01:30:58.600 like the state

01:30:59.380 hates parents

01:31:00.540 investing in their children

01:31:01.780 yeah

01:31:02.600 I wouldn't be surprised

01:31:04.740 if they were on board

01:31:05.780 with the leftists

01:31:06.500 who wanted to randomly

01:31:07.500 assign newborn babies

01:31:09.260 to parents

01:31:09.860 to stop people

01:31:10.700 caring about the child

01:31:11.780 they raise

01:31:12.260 if they try to take

01:31:14.020 my assets when I die

01:31:15.380 or tax everything

01:31:16.620 I've ever given

01:31:17.240 to any potential children

01:31:18.760 I'd rather

01:31:19.480 spuff it on a billboard

01:31:21.260 telling them

01:31:22.400 where to shove it

01:31:23.500 the day

01:31:24.000 before the

01:31:25.420 NHS

01:31:26.080 euthanizes me

01:31:27.080 for being too expensive

01:31:28.160 under the

01:31:28.800 assisted dying bill

01:31:29.980 it's all so

01:31:32.260 poetry

01:31:32.660 yeah

01:31:33.300 shall I read a few

01:31:34.640 and one more

01:31:35.600 Janvi

01:31:36.120 says

01:31:36.700 afternoon

01:31:37.260 Stelios

01:31:37.820 Josh

01:31:38.260 and Luca

01:31:38.880 the inheritance

01:31:39.700 the inheritance tax

01:31:41.800 just sounds like a scam

01:31:43.220 to steal money

01:31:43.840 from people

01:31:44.380 does the NHS

01:31:45.460 have some

01:31:46.660 organization

01:31:47.360 where people

01:31:47.980 can report

01:31:48.920 things like

01:31:49.580 fraud or waste

01:31:50.520 I think it probably

01:31:52.340 does

01:31:52.860 but I think

01:31:54.000 that

01:31:54.360 there's so much

01:31:55.760 of it

01:31:56.040 that it's

01:31:56.600 an insurmountable

01:31:57.860 task really

01:31:58.740 I'll read

01:32:01.060 it from

01:32:01.320 Anoni

01:32:02.360 Roulette

01:32:02.940 says

01:32:03.520 my favourite

01:32:04.400 is when

01:32:05.060 most of the

01:32:05.940 Lithuanian

01:32:06.700 independent

01:32:07.220 journalists

01:32:07.840 turned out

01:32:08.320 to be

01:32:08.580 directly funded

01:32:09.320 by USAID

01:32:10.420 and Open

01:32:11.440 Society

01:32:12.080 yeah

01:32:13.320 many such

01:32:14.880 cases

01:32:15.380 Roman Observer

01:32:16.520 says

01:32:16.960 is the far

01:32:17.720 right funded

01:32:18.260 by Russia

01:32:18.920 or is Russia

01:32:19.720 funded by the

01:32:20.460 far right

01:32:21.300 Henry Ashman

01:32:24.380 says

01:32:24.820 the longer

01:32:25.720 it goes on

01:32:26.580 under

01:32:27.060 Ursula von

01:32:27.800 der Leyen

01:32:28.240 the more

01:32:29.260 it feels

01:32:29.620 like the

01:32:29.960 EU

01:32:30.140 is just

01:32:30.560 another

01:32:30.860 German

01:32:31.340 takeover

01:32:32.000 of continental

01:32:32.720 Europe

01:32:33.160 by the

01:32:33.560 back door

01:32:34.080 third time's

01:32:35.280 their charm

01:32:35.680 though

01:32:35.900 it's the

01:32:37.260 front door

01:32:37.700 at this

01:32:38.000 point

01:32:38.360 I'm sure

01:32:40.560 the Germans

01:32:41.000 are more

01:32:41.260 into the

01:32:41.540 back door

01:32:41.840 aren't they

01:32:42.160 sorry

01:32:43.160 lowering the

01:32:44.400 tone again

01:32:45.000 oh dear

01:32:45.640 instead of

01:32:46.840 comparing them

01:32:47.500 to the Soviets

01:32:48.160 maybe it's

01:32:48.740 time to start

01:32:49.300 comparing them

01:32:49.980 to the other

01:32:50.560 no we

01:32:51.520 we shan't

01:32:52.040 be that

01:32:52.380 that lazy

01:32:53.240 Henry

01:32:54.100 but yes

01:32:55.000 it is definitely

01:32:55.880 another German

01:32:56.820 power grab 0.89

01:32:57.460 you're quite

01:32:57.860 right

01:32:58.220 alpha of the

01:32:59.420 betas

01:32:59.780 our democracy

01:33:00.760 is a euphemism

01:33:01.920 for the status

01:33:02.660 quo of lies

01:33:03.500 manipulation

01:33:04.200 and centralized

01:33:05.060 control

01:33:05.780 quite true

01:33:06.780 and az desert

01:33:08.260 rat says

01:33:08.840 if you're going

01:33:09.700 to be a public

01:33:10.520 official or in

01:33:11.500 the public eye

01:33:12.200 be ready for

01:33:13.160 public criticism

01:33:13.960 yeah

01:33:14.600 remarkable how

01:33:16.160 many public

01:33:16.740 officials can't

01:33:17.600 seem to

01:33:17.960 understand this

01:33:18.820 yes

01:33:19.640 especially

01:33:21.060 the MPs

01:33:22.080 in Britain

01:33:22.520 I will say

01:33:23.280 as well

01:33:23.700 people will

01:33:24.920 say mean

01:33:25.840 things about

01:33:26.440 you

01:33:26.660 yeah

01:33:27.240 why do the

01:33:28.860 British choose 0.96

01:33:29.440 to use a

01:33:30.000 knife and fork

01:33:30.600 for a burger

01:33:31.220 I said

01:33:32.460 sometimes for

01:33:33.340 a burger

01:33:33.780 and that's

01:33:34.260 only if

01:33:34.720 its structural

01:33:35.280 integrity

01:33:35.700 is such

01:33:36.320 that it's

01:33:36.720 falling apart

01:33:37.380 and I

01:33:37.680 couldn't

01:33:37.860 possibly

01:33:38.160 pick it

01:33:38.600 up

01:33:38.840 with my

01:33:39.420 hands

01:33:39.700 sometimes

01:33:40.080 I get

01:33:40.480 burgers

01:33:40.820 that are

01:33:41.100 too big

01:33:41.680 to physically

01:33:42.800 get my

01:33:43.260 mouth around

01:33:43.880 because

01:33:44.380 why wouldn't

01:33:45.900 you

01:33:46.160 with a burger

01:33:46.860 it is a

01:33:47.660 question of

01:33:48.580 circumstance

01:33:49.220 yes

01:33:50.640 I take

01:33:51.200 burgers

01:33:51.600 by a

01:33:51.920 case-by-case

01:33:52.400 basis

01:33:52.960 someone online

01:33:56.480 says I have

01:33:57.200 such a low

01:33:57.820 social IQ

01:33:58.460 that they 0.90

01:33:58.860 slap me 0.99

01:33:59.200 with an 0.99

01:33:59.440 Asperger's

01:34:00.100 diagnosis

01:34:00.660 welcome to

01:34:02.880 our audience

01:34:03.480 and the

01:34:05.340 panel

01:34:05.580 actually

01:34:06.000 Colin P

01:34:07.800 says

01:34:08.140 another question

01:34:08.940 for Josh's

01:34:09.400 IQ test

01:34:10.100 at the

01:34:10.700 self-service

01:34:11.200 checkout

01:34:11.560 do you

01:34:12.000 A get

01:34:12.440 your bag

01:34:12.840 ready

01:34:13.120 before starting

01:34:14.480 to scan

01:34:14.900 your items

01:34:15.440 or B

01:34:15.940 scan your

01:34:16.420 items

01:34:16.720 then get

01:34:17.260 your bag

01:34:17.680 out

01:34:17.900 and put

01:34:18.380 your

01:34:18.520 shopping

01:34:18.800 in

01:34:19.060 that is

01:34:19.840 a good

01:34:20.080 one

01:34:20.320 and then

01:34:20.800 I'm going

01:34:21.080 to quickly

01:34:21.420 read this

01:34:21.800 rumble

01:34:22.020 rant

01:34:22.240 before it

01:34:22.680 gets

01:34:22.860 forgotten

01:34:23.280 Shimo

01:34:24.060 says

01:34:24.500 freedom

01:34:25.320 isn't a

01:34:25.820 right

01:34:26.000 it's a

01:34:26.380 duty

01:34:26.640 everything

01:34:27.040 else

01:34:27.420 are rights

01:34:27.960 given to

01:34:28.680 use

01:34:29.040 of that

01:34:30.040 sacred

01:34:30.460 duty

01:34:30.940 yeah

01:34:32.720 well said

01:34:33.500 well said

01:34:34.320 all right

01:34:36.300 well that's all

01:34:37.640 we've got time

01:34:38.160 for today

01:34:38.620 ladies and 0.98

01:34:38.980 gentlemen

01:34:39.180 I hope you've

01:34:39.800 enjoyed the

01:34:40.220 show today

01:34:40.740 and we will

01:34:41.680 see you at

01:34:42.300 1pm

01:34:42.780 tomorrow

01:34:43.200 have a good

01:34:43.820 day

01:34:44.140 you

01:34:57.700 you

01:34:58.700 you

01:35:00.740 you

01:35:12.480 you

01:35:13.100 Thank you.

01:35:43.100 Thank you.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 13, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1229

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