The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1235

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

00:00:11.360 know, because you encounter them every day. Between the towering buildings of a fallen

00:00:16.160 empire, we find the Fellaheen, the historyless men, who know nothing of the turning of the 1.00

00:00:22.560 cosmic wheel and find themselves outside of civilisation itself. Cut loose from the great

00:00:28.800 chain of being. They represent the low into which our dying culture will return. That is,

00:00:35.680 unless we choose to take up the burden once again. This Fellaheen condition is the subject 0.99

00:00:43.280 we explore in issue four of Islander magazine. On sale, while stocks last, and available worldwide

00:00:49.840 at shop.lotusseaters.com. Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters. I'm your host

00:00:57.360 Stelios and I'm joined by brother Harry today. Thank you brother Stelios. Or podcast number

00:01:02.800 1235 and this is Thursday the 21st of August. That's right, apologies if I've seen. Not 2024,

00:01:12.240 not 2026, 2025. Well apologies if I seemed a bit distracted. I was simply admiring this copy of

00:01:19.600 Islander. Many have asked how the contents are. I wouldn't know. I can't read. But it looks very

00:01:25.680 nice. Are you going to give us a sign as with an autograph with X? Can you read? Can you write

00:01:32.480 Harry? Brother Harry? No. It's overrated. You don't need it. Longtime viewers of the podcast may have

00:01:38.560 noticed at this point. Hopefully they've picked up on the signs that I'm actually completely retarded. 0.97

00:01:43.600 I don't think that this is the case, my friend. Right, so today we are going to talk about how you

00:01:49.520 should all say hello to your shoplifters. The iDubbbz situation is getting worse and random cringe 1.00

00:01:57.600 trends that you absolutely don't want to know about. So if you proceed... Click anyway. You proceed with

00:02:04.800 caution and it's your responsibility. It's like the parkings where they say, you know, you just park here,

00:02:10.880 but if they steal it from you, it's not our responsibility. Right, so the shoplifting epidemic

00:02:19.440 is not particularly good in the country right now. It seems to have hit an all-time high. We have this

00:02:28.560 article here from July. Shoplifting epidemic sees three thefts every day per minute. Right,

00:02:37.440 the crime has hit a record high and is happening at nearly double the rate from 20 years ago.

00:02:43.440 So 20 years ago, it was a particularly bad year. They say that the year 2003 to 2004 was

00:02:49.840 particularly bad in some respects, but things have been getting worse.

00:02:55.200 I do remember, I think it was AA spoke about this years ago, that it was around 2005, 2006,

00:03:02.800 that the Blair government started to really come down hard on crime. So I would imagine that that

00:03:08.880 was inspired, motivated by this massive crime wave that happened back then. But no, crime waves aren't

00:03:15.200 good. Typically speaking, shock news for everybody out there, more crime in society typically is a bad

00:03:22.080 thing. It is a bad thing. And I think that that's again going to be shocking for people who may be

00:03:28.000 leftists, that the way to solve crime is with police force. Just, there's no other way of saying it.

00:03:35.520 Right, so there are some very disturbing statistics that I'm going to give you

00:03:40.480 here from this article. So shoplifting is at an all-time high. They say that from the period between

00:03:47.040 March 2023 to 2024, we had 444,000 recorded offences. So that's, that's huge. That's a lot.

00:03:58.960 And bear in mind that when we're talking about recorded offences, they're not all the offences.

00:04:03.440 A lot of people just don't, don't report them because they don't think anymore that the police

00:04:08.720 is actually going to help them. Well, I mean, my missus worked in a corner shop, not a corner shop, 0.96

00:04:16.080 a brand shop a while back, just a convenience place where it sold a bit of everything. And it was in a

00:04:22.320 somewhat bad neighborhood and they had shoplifters every single day. Wait, what do you mean bad

00:04:28.000 neighborhood? Bad neighborhood as in bad neighborhood. And there was lots of poverty and lots of crime in

00:04:34.960 the area. And people would come in every single day and shoplift. Sometimes an entire aisle would

00:04:42.880 almost get cleared. Not an aisle, but an entire shelf could almost get cleared out. And they were

00:04:46.560 basically just told, don't do anything about it. They had security, but the security didn't do

00:04:51.600 anything about it. And most of the security would ask them to stop, but would never lay hands on the

00:04:56.720 person. I don't know if they were worried about legal repercussions, but given how much shoplifting

00:05:01.680 was going on, they weren't reporting it to the police. There was no point. They did nothing

00:05:05.680 to stop it. Staff could do nothing to stop it. So it just went on and on and on and encouraged more

00:05:10.880 of it. And sometimes it's not just people walking in and nicking something and leaving. They have

00:05:15.680 weapons. Oh yeah. They're threatening. Well, I've been the victim of that.

00:05:21.280 Sorry to you. Right. So that was between March 2023 to 2024 in that period. What do you think

00:05:30.480 about the period between March, 2024 to 2024, March, 2025, there was a 20% increase and there were

00:05:38.480 five, five hundred, three, 30,643 recorded offenses, reported, reported offenses. So there was a 20%

00:05:49.040 increase from last year. And they say that their rate of shoplifting is double the rate of shoplifting

00:05:55.760 two decades ago. And they're saying that basically there are more than around 10,000 thefts per week,

00:06:02.880 more than 1,400 thefts per day, about three thefts per minute, and an estimate of 2.5 billion pounds,

00:06:16.800 you know, essentially lost. Because it's 1.8 billion pounds stolen and 700 million pounds extra spent on

00:06:26.480 extra security. So that's a huge... I wonder what else has doubled in rates since about 20 years ago as

00:06:35.280 well? That's a good question. And also I think that there isn't just that. There is also the...

00:06:42.800 Obviously there is influx of people from several areas of the world, and some of which, you know,

00:06:49.440 show groups that are vastly over-represented in crime across several categories. It's just data,

00:06:58.640 it's suggested. But it's not just the over-representation of...

00:07:03.200 It was a co-op. It was a co-op my missus used to work at, and we've got one up on here.

00:07:07.280 Co-op shops hit by almost 1,000 crime shoplifting and antisocial behavior incidents every day.

00:07:13.600 Yeah, that would make perfect sense for me, given my experience with my missus used to work at one.

00:07:21.040 Right, and...

00:07:22.080 And yeah, police failed to respond in 71% of serious retail crimes reported. And that's why

00:07:27.360 one of the reasons I would imagine that they just didn't report them at all. Because,

00:07:31.360 well, if the police aren't going to do anything about it, what's the point of the police?

00:07:34.960 Exactly. And that's not just the whole story, because we have these numbers,

00:07:41.120 and these numbers are just the reported ones. A lot of the time, the police, the people think

00:07:48.400 that the police isn't going to help them. Shop owners don't think that the police will help them,

00:07:53.440 so they just sometimes don't bother reporting crime.

00:07:56.400 Yeah, and that leads to a situation where the police don't report to it, but they would potentially

00:08:01.520 report to it if a shop owner or staff member did something forceful to prevent shoplifting.

00:08:07.920 Meaning that you've got this situation where you would be more likely to be persecuted

00:08:12.480 for defending your property against theft than the criminal would be in danger of being in trouble

00:08:19.920 for actually stealing it. Giving this weird incentive where it's basically free to commit crime.

00:08:25.760 Exactly. And the police right now is essentially being told to oversee the desired racial relations of

00:08:35.920 whoever happens to be bureaucrat, which means that in many cases, the approach to justice is neither the

00:08:41.760 retributive one nor the forward-looking one, which says, well, let's, irrespective of whether the criminal

00:08:48.080 deserves punishment or not, let us punish them for the good of society. We have approaches like

00:08:54.640 restorative justice, like Sadiq Khan's London, restorative justice. Let's have these poor people 1.00

00:09:01.440 and let's sit down and have a good discussion and we're going to recognize them and we're going

00:09:07.680 to raise their self-esteem and we're going to tax people more in order to give them benefits so

00:09:12.800 they don't have to steal. So they steal one way or another. No. And they still go out and commit

00:09:18.000 the crime. So we have here from Manchester in 2023 have co-op shops hit by almost a thousand crime,

00:09:25.760 shoplifting and anti-social behavior incidents every day. 71%, as you just said, of serious

00:09:32.880 retail crime is crime that the police fails to respond to. Right. And we have here another example

00:09:41.040 from this year. Police let shoplifter go. He's seen stealing from Sainsbury's moments later.

00:09:48.000 So they, the man was then spotted stealing from Starbucks. And I think that this is ultimately

00:09:53.920 political because the police can do its job. There are also people within the system who are saying,

00:10:00.400 well, no, we need to actually have, you know, we need to actually treat some people with

00:10:08.160 the particular delicate treatment. Well, there'll be policing guidelines for how to deal with this

00:10:14.720 sort of stuff. And it will be handed down from institutions like the College of Policing. I

00:10:18.800 don't know if that's exactly where they get their guidelines from, but I would imagine it's them or

00:10:23.360 someone similar. And they will be very politically motivated organizations. I mean, Peter Hitchens was

00:10:28.560 complaining 20 years ago about how the College of Policing was organized in such a way that it was

00:10:34.960 preferential for people coming in to have university degrees. They set all of these different

00:10:39.760 standards where you needed to have university degrees. And of course, universities acting as

00:10:45.040 gatekeeping mechanisms, social programming institutions. You come through university,

00:10:50.800 you go to the College of Policing, and you have a very particular set of values that have been pushed

00:10:55.440 into you that will influence how you decide to deal with crime. Absolutely. Just an example that comes

00:11:04.800 to mind is Ricky Jones. We did two segments on this, but he essentially, if that wasn't an incitement to

00:11:13.760 violence, I don't know what it is. It was a direct call to violence. A direct call for, you know, people's

00:11:18.560 throat to be cut. And he got away with it by jury trial, because the people who were members of that 0.84

00:11:28.480 jury, you know, that decision-making body, they had the values that you mentioned. And there was also

00:11:35.840 a high chance in the constituency that it took place in that there was ethnic reasons, potentially,

00:11:42.080 for the jury letting him off as well, in group preference. Yeah, but Harry, there's, there are

00:11:48.000 several schools with respect to how you deal with crime. One is you deal with, with it by overwhelming

00:11:54.160 force from the very beginning, so you don't allow it to grow. But then there are other things, because

00:11:59.760 I wonder sometimes whether we are, I'm a bit, you know, insensitive and callous about it. It seems like

00:12:07.600 Lancashire Constabulary would say that I am. In what way? In the way that they have

00:12:15.280 Operation Vulture going. Operation Vulture. That's actually a good name too, when you're talking about

00:12:21.680 shoplifting. But they are failing marketing 101, which is not, do not over promise and under deliver.

00:12:29.920 Right. So Lancashire Police's Operation Vulture is cracking down on shoplifting. And what is their

00:12:35.840 main piece of advice? And something like Operation Vulture, you hear their name like that and you

00:12:41.360 expect that it's just shoot on sight and leave them for the vultures. No, it's not say hello to my

00:12:48.080 little friend. It's say hello. It's, oh, say hello. Simply say hello. Because you know, Harry, if the people

00:12:53.920 who steal, steal because the others are impolite. Shop owners are impolite. So when they walk in,

00:13:00.400 they don't say hello. Of course. That's exactly, that's the root of crying. They're crying out

00:13:06.160 for social attention. They just want a nice hello. It's because we've forgotten manners

00:13:11.360 in this country. Exactly. Because the old man isn't giving you a good morning as he walks his dog

00:13:17.440 that day. I didn't lie the way he looked at me. I'm going to have to go steal that. This is the same

00:13:22.000 kind of logic where people say, well, communities are over policed, which is why they commit more crime

00:13:28.240 or are caught committing more crime. Whereas it's like, to me, I would get the feeling I

00:13:33.760 wouldn't be incentivized or encouraged to commit more crime if the police were in my neighborhood

00:13:39.600 more often. That would do the opposite for me. I'd be like, well, best be on my best behavior

00:13:44.080 because they're looking for me. But it is essentially a cry against the decline of society

00:13:48.880 and manners. They're accelerationists. I don't know. I don't know, man. I don't know.

00:13:53.040 Nick Land appreciates all of these shoplifters. Clearly, they've just got a greater appreciation

00:13:59.840 for post-liberal philosophy. Exactly. So say hello to customers to deter shoplifters,

00:14:05.440 police tell retailers. Advice included in an online guide from Lancashire Force as store crimes surge.

00:14:16.000 Who would have thought? Who would have thought that this wouldn't work? Shop owners should have

00:14:20.800 greeters saying hello to customers at the door to deter shoplifters. Lancashire Constabulary issued

00:14:27.760 the advice to business owners in the wake of thefts from shops reaching a record high and recent

00:14:33.680 hour in the media around shoplifters. As part of Operation Voucher, an initiative launched at the end

00:14:39.840 of last year, Lancashire Police has urged businesses to introduce customer greeters in an attempt to curb crime.

00:14:47.680 So if you say hello to people, if you say hello to people, they're going to be nice. So what I'm

00:14:55.440 going to tell you is, hello, we are selling Islander issue number four. You got it in there.

00:15:02.560 With it? Yes, let's show it. And you literally can't steal these because they can't be found in shops.

00:15:09.440 Yeah. 1499. This is issue number four. Hello. Hello. Hello. It's waiting for you. Don't miss

00:15:18.160 this opportunity. It's here for you. It's waiting for you. Right. So everyone should be polite, Harry,

00:15:24.000 as you said, and they do it precisely because they are appreciators of Nick Land's accelerationism.

00:15:29.840 So I think essentially that they've been reading the Dark Enlightenment. That's all it is. Yeah,

00:15:37.280 because I'm returning to the Bronze Age. I don't know about this mindset. So that's why they're saying

00:15:43.600 essentially that their human psychology is you walk into a store and if they're not polite to you,

00:15:50.640 yeah, you are you are about to go like a bull in a china shop. You have broken the social contract.

00:15:56.640 There was an unwritten agreement that we all agreed to at birth that says you have to show me polite

00:16:02.480 manners or I can take your property. Right. And I think that was in lock.

00:16:09.360 Right. So we have other examples here from Manchester Police Force, and that was from a segment I did about

00:16:16.160 two years ago. That was a long time. And they said that it actually worked, which meant that they

00:16:21.360 essentially told police officers to actually patrol areas and actually arrest people. Because why,

00:16:31.120 you know what they did before, as they said in Manchester? Not that. Not that. And they had

00:16:37.840 lots of police officers working on mental health and mental illness calls and departments. So they said,

00:16:45.520 no, we're not going to put you there. You're working there. We're going to actually have you patrolling

00:16:52.640 the streets. So you're telling me that if you implement negative consequences to poor behavior,

00:17:00.080 yeah, people commit poor behavior less. Yes. It's like we're playing in a cop movie. Revolutionary. We're

00:17:09.360 about to catch the bad guys. And the corrupt leader of the police department tells us, no, you go, 0.56

00:17:15.360 you guys go to work on mental illness from the local mob boss. Exactly. Yeah. Right. And the point is that 0.97

00:17:23.440 I think the police can definitely do its work. But the point is, why from a statesman's perspective,

00:17:31.920 from a statist labor perspective, why have the police work instead of you actually hiring people

00:17:43.040 to guard their own stuff and say hello to shoplifters? I mean, it saves the state money,

00:17:49.040 I would assume. I mean, they have to save a lot of money in London at the moment because they were

00:17:53.440 shutting down a load of the front desks. So they've got all laborers got all of these huge budgetary 0.95

00:17:59.840 black holes and deficits that they need to fill up. So why not just, you know, let people steal?

00:18:07.280 I guess that's the answer. So basically, we have taxpayers paying for police protection

00:18:13.840 and police fails to respond to the crime, not because it can't respond to, but because it's

00:18:21.680 to a very large extent, a political decision, a lack of political will, not because of the police,

00:18:27.600 it's lack of political will. So yeah, get more people to just say hello to shoplifters. 0.97

00:18:35.040 And the results will speak for themselves.

00:18:37.200 Right. Okay, so Sigilstone17 says, so is Harry's hairstyle more late career Ron White,

00:18:47.200 background vampire from Twilight, or Cletus from the hills?

00:18:50.880 Ron White, late career. Okay. Oh, I see what you're going for. It's actually just convenience,

00:18:59.680 because I like wearing my hair long, but I also don't like having it in my eyes all the time.

00:19:04.160 And so I do it like this. I've not done it like this for years, since I had my hair cut all the

00:19:08.480 way back in 2021. And I'm remembering why I like it so much. That's a random name says,

00:19:14.800 I have barbarian fatigue. I have traitor fatigue. But most importantly, I have retard fatigue. 1.00

00:19:20.400 Sorry, Harry, I guess only your IQ got IQ got taken by the eclipse.

00:19:25.600 If you're talking about the eclipse from Berserk, my innocence, my innocence was also taken by

00:19:32.880 the eclipse. If it's some other kind of esoteric reference, I'm sorry, I don't get it. I'm too

00:19:37.760 retarded. Anyway, let's move on to the next segment. So one of the most fascinating character 1.00

00:19:46.000 arcs to follow over the past five years or so has been iDubbbz. I did a segment on him when he did a

00:19:52.800 new content cop a few months ago. He resurrected what was a very dead series to create something that

00:20:00.240 was not a content cop, completely different from the previous format, was mainly him going over

00:20:06.000 personal issues, as in direct personal issues, that he had with H3H3, otherwise known as Ethan

00:20:12.960 Klein. It was a disaster, it blew up in his face, and not only his face, but it also blew up in the

00:20:19.680 faces of those who were collaborating with him in that video. Hasan Piker is enough of a joke by himself,

00:20:28.240 so his life are the negative consequences of his actions. But all of the other people who

00:20:32.960 collaborated in that video went out of their way when Ethan produced a follow-up, a response video,

00:20:41.280 I believe it was. Wait, no, it was the content nuke. That was it. Ethan produced a content nuke,

00:20:47.360 I think last year or something, on Hasan Piker. And all of these people went on their Twitch streams,

00:20:54.640 or at least a few of them went on their Twitch streams, to stream the entire video with no

00:21:00.560 commentary, explicitly in one case, this was said on the stream, to prevent views going to Ethan,

00:21:08.000 so all of the people who were watching it on the stream weren't contributing to the total view count

00:21:13.280 and ad revenue going to that video. That's sneaky. It's called theft, it's called content theft,

00:21:21.440 and it's illegal. So Ethan Klein is now suing most of those people who iDubbbz collaborated with in that

00:21:28.880 content cop video from a few months back. But his character arc goes back a few years now. It really

00:21:35.840 starts in 2020 or 2021, I forget exactly which year it was, when his wife, whose surname he took,

00:21:43.200 because iDubbbz, as it was pointed out to me, must have been desperate to take his wife's father's surname.

00:21:49.280 Why? Um, well because he's a new man. Okay. He's one of those progressives who want to take the

00:21:56.800 surname of his wife. Yes, and he's got trolls remorse as well. Back in the day he was a counter-cultural 0.95

00:22:02.960 internet warrior who made jokey videos where he was more than willing to push boundaries and offend

00:22:08.720 people saying slurs and all sorts. Now he's got a lot of regret for that. In one of his more recent

00:22:13.920 videos he explicitly says he's very glad he didn't carry on down that path. Either way,

00:22:19.280 things started changing for him when his wife announced that she was on OnlyFans. He immediately

00:22:24.720 got made fun of for it, so he came out and defended it and said, yeah I suppose you can all pay to see

00:22:30.960 my wife naked, but I get to see it naked in person for free. It's not for free iDubbbz, it's taking a 0.99

00:22:39.200 great toll on your soul and we can see that. It's very visible on your face and how humiliated and

00:22:47.120 crushed you look every single day these days. Either way, so that happens. Then he completely by accident

00:22:54.640 backfires a hit piece documentary on Sam Hyde where he's trying to take down Sam Hyde who at that point had

00:23:00.480 been in the wilderness and a bit obscure for quite a few years since his Comedy Central show got taken

00:23:06.560 down. He accidentally manages to reignite Sam Hyde's career with that by getting absolutely trolled for

00:23:14.080 an hour straight in the video that iDubbbz posted himself. And then of course there was the content

00:23:20.160 cop since then. It's just been one disaster after another. His creator class boxing events, the second

00:23:25.760 one was a disaster. His wife continually humiliates him on live streams where at one point she revealed

00:23:32.640 that he's essentially incontinent and has bowel issues that means that he craps himself most days.

00:23:38.720 Just what you want to hear about when you're watching an iDubbbz stream and you can see iDubbbz's face,

00:23:44.640 you can see him die a little bit inside when she just drops that on a random stream.

00:23:48.240 I just don't get it. It means he has zero self-respect. As part of this transformation

00:23:55.840 with Troll's Remorse, a few months ago, I think about almost a year ago now, he decided that he

00:24:01.600 wanted to be a BreadTuber. Now that's interesting enough in itself because BreadTube is kind of a dead

00:24:08.080 part of YouTube now. You know, there are all of those creators years ago now, people like ContraPoints,

00:24:15.120 people like Hbomaguy, Thought Slime, that formed this small group of very leftist YouTubers. Who else was

00:24:23.520 Philosophy Tube before Philosophy Tube took money from the government to promote lockdowns and vaccines 1.00

00:24:30.320 and other such things? They were very leftist, promoting left-wing messages through cultural

00:24:36.640 critique and such, but nobody talks about them anymore. Most of their content, if these creators

00:24:42.880 release content these days, is maybe one video per year, one niche video per year, where they

00:24:49.520 don't really talk about anything that's interesting. They still get lots of views, but simply because

00:24:53.680 their output has been so constrained. They don't have anywhere near the same influence or relevance that

00:24:59.360 they once had, but Ian just randomly decided that he was going to start commenting on cultural

00:25:04.960 matters. This one from 10 months ago, where... Is he criticizing modernity? He's criticizing right-wingers

00:25:13.200 in a very BreadTube-style way. The thing is, he did this one on 100... So he's talking about the trans

00:25:20.080 issues here, but he's not actually talking about the trans issues when I watch this video. He's talking

00:25:26.480 about the case where it was, I think it was the Algerian woman boxer at the Olympics, who all of,

00:25:33.520 who a load of people like JK Rowling and Logan Paul and Piers Morgan thought was a man because she

00:25:38.800 looked quite mannish, but then there was testing and other things done to prove that she was actually

00:25:44.160 a woman who just looked mannish. Um, so he was criticizing that. That was it, but that's an easy subject,

00:25:51.520 right? Because a load of people got it wrong, because they immediately jumped onto a bandwagon and got really,

00:25:55.840 really hysterical about it. So it's very, very easy for him to come out and go, all of these people

00:26:00.640 were wrong, they're all massive idiots for half an hour. He also went over this about half a year ago 1.00

00:26:07.760 almost now, your body my birth vessel, where he's kind of talking about abortion, but also kind of

00:26:14.720 talking about, um, some centre-right hypocrisy with some of these people who have got very, very strict

00:26:23.040 ideas of gender roles and a woman's place in the household and how a woman should, uh, should

00:26:28.880 organise her life when she should do things while their own personal circumstances and lives don't

00:26:34.080 reflect that at all. You know, they're all like, oh, have children at 21, raise your kids and then go

00:26:39.520 have a career when, like, all of these people basically have career-orientated wives who later

00:26:45.680 chose to be mothers. So it's very, very easy to comment on hypocrisy like that. In terms of the 0.56

00:26:50.960 actual abortion arguments, he doesn't really address those at all, other than just shrugging

00:26:55.440 his shoulders and saying, hey, you know, women can do whatever they want because it's their body, 1.00

00:26:59.600 their choice, right? He's going through the typical non-arguments for privacy and agency,

00:27:05.680 the kind of things that were supporting Roe v. Wade. And those two videos, because there are some

00:27:11.280 points in which he's, like, pointing out obvious failures on the part of centre-right commentators,

00:27:17.600 they're not the worst things in the world. But then...

00:27:21.440 It's mostly that he has some okay takes every now and then, but it's basically his lifestyle that...

00:27:28.320 Well, it's easy wins. It's easy wins, but his lifestyle seems to be problematic.

00:27:32.480 His lifestyle is completely and utterly degenerate. He's been at the end of a

00:27:37.200 long string of failures in his personal life for the past five years or so. He, of course, tries to

00:27:45.440 explain them away, but when your wife is on OnlyFans and you have a very public and obvious

00:27:53.280 rivalry with Sam Hyde, who keeps trying to appear at, like, Creator Clash and you keep banning him from

00:28:00.240 doing such things to the point where loads of people opted out of Creator Clash because of the fact

00:28:05.120 that he was trying to gatekeep Sam out of it, when you have such a public and obvious hatred and

00:28:09.680 rivalry with this person and your wife is on OnlyFans, it's not great when your biggest rival, 0.86

00:28:16.000 the man you hate more than anybody else in the world, can just on live stream look up your wife's nudes

00:28:24.560 and laugh at them on stream with his entire office.

00:28:29.520 Now, one of the reasons that men tend to be a bit insecure about the idea if their missus has a high

00:28:35.920 body count is because, frankly, you don't want to walk down the street and pass by some other guy

00:28:43.040 that's shagged your wife. And that would be a really horrible thing to do. That's kind of supposed to

00:28:49.360 just be between you two. It's a personal thing. But if, say, you get married to a woman who's been with

00:28:54.720 half the town, that's a bit humiliating because it's not specific to you. It's not precious to

00:29:01.200 you anymore. Everybody's been that. It shows something about the content of her character.

00:29:07.680 That too. But imagine if it was the worst person you know. The guy you hate more than

00:29:16.320 anybody else in the world. Your childhood bully. Imagine that. And imagine you're at the pub, 0.99

00:29:23.440 and he can just walk up to you, lean in real close, and whisper in your ear, does she still do that thing? 0.99

00:29:33.920 No. But that's basically what iDubbbz has done to himself by being okay with his wife flashing her 0.89

00:29:40.160 arse on the internet. The utmost humiliation. But the most recent controversy has come because he 1.00

00:29:48.720 uploaded this a couple of weeks ago. Are you scared of immigrants? Which is a much more difficult

00:29:56.640 subject to discuss in the current climate than the other ones where you're pointing to, well,

00:30:03.600 here's just a situation where they got it wrong, and here's a situation where even on the right there

00:30:09.440 are divisions between people who consider themselves pro-life to the utmost degree,

00:30:14.560 and other people who draw lines down it, and you can kind of argue across drawing those lines.

00:30:21.280 This is much more difficult right now, especially when he's in Europe, not talking about immigration

00:30:29.040 in America, but immigration in Europe, as an American. What I find particularly interesting is that

00:30:35.440 it is the same channel, and this has 46k dislikes and 19k likes, whereas the other one has sort of

00:30:46.400 the opposite ratio. Yeah, you can see here the like-to-dislike ratio. There's still a fair amount

00:30:51.120 of dislikes on these ones, but this has been... What did he say there?

00:30:55.200 This one has been a complete disaster for him. Well, there is a lack of strong arguments in this.

00:31:05.120 Because of the fact that he's on shaky ground, he's responding to direct realities. He can basically

00:31:11.440 just point to, you're racist, bro. I mean, the point is, if someone is happy with having his wife on 0.88

00:31:19.520 OnlyFans, I mean, I don't want to, I don't care to listen to him, because his value system is so

00:31:26.160 different to mine. Well, you're going to listen to him anyway. You're going to listen to him anyway.

00:31:30.000 Which is why I'm going to actually get revenge. Oh, you're going to get revenge on me. You're

00:31:35.360 going to get revenge on the next segment. But let's listen to just a few clips of the kind of arguments

00:31:41.200 that he's making here, to see why he's really not cut out for this. He's really, really not cut

00:31:47.360 out for this. And so just to set the stage, there is the travel vlogger, I think his name is Kurt Kaz,

00:31:53.360 or Kurt Kaz, who goes around to different countries across the world and just documents what he sees.

00:31:59.840 And there was that viral clip going around a few weeks ago of him in Rome, talking to third-worlders 1.00

00:32:06.320 who shouldn't have been there, who were acting very aggressive to him. And that's kind of what

00:32:10.880 starts this whole thing, and that's what he's responding to here. So let me just, let me just get it

00:32:16.560 here and we can, uh, we can see what arguments being made. So here's Kurt Kaz's original clips.

00:32:21.040 This looks like in Bangladesh or something. Look at this, guys. 0.99

00:32:26.240 What do you mean, or something? I would like to hear more, but you're just saying it looks like

00:32:30.560 Bangladesh. Is that because there's people from Bangladesh here? Or are you just assuming where

00:32:35.120 people are from? There's a lot of people with brown skin in the world and they don't all come from

00:32:39.360 Bangladesh. I don't know, do they have fresh fruit and vegetables in Bangladesh? I mean,

00:32:43.440 that's one indication it might look like Bangladesh. I've seen this guy's videos,

00:32:47.280 by the way, he goes to Bangladesh. He's gone to a random farmer's market where the population

00:32:57.840 of immigrants is a bit higher than other places in the city. And he's saying, yep,

00:33:02.720 we're in fucking Bangladesh. Look at the state of this place. 1.00

00:33:09.120 You mind telling us what the state is? Look, uh, dirty, unkempt, disorganized, disordered,

00:33:18.800 loud, rowdy. It's just, it's the typical gaslighting arguments that you would expect,

00:33:24.800 made even worse again by the fact that Ian Idubs lives in California. He's very okay with everything

00:33:31.520 that goes on in California, despite the fact that, you know, he's probably very, very shielded from it

00:33:36.960 and lives in communities where the kind of, uh, non-white people that he will meet will be

00:33:41.920 self-selecting so that they can fit in better in his social circles. So he doesn't get a good

00:33:47.920 representative sample of what's going on here. But even then, he's from America, he comes to Europe,

00:33:54.960 sees footage of Europe, of people of historic European ancestry being unhappy with it,

00:34:01.760 and then just says, what's the problem, bro? What's the problem? You should be fine with this.

00:34:05.840 Are you racist or something? Does he have any argument other than,

00:34:10.160 I think you're offensive? Because that's all I heard. No, let's, let's see the next argument

00:34:15.600 that he makes on along those lines. Eyes that we're going to look at. They, they have an idea.

00:34:20.720 Oh wait, sorry, are you? Of what you're... I skipped ahead a little bit far.

00:34:25.280 Look at this, guys. This is Rome. This is Europe. Does this look like Europe to you?

00:34:32.000 Yes. Yes, it looks like Europe to me. What the else are we supposed to gather from this video?

00:34:38.240 It's like this guy, ah, this is so obnoxious. A lot of these...

00:34:42.480 Yes. Yes, it is. Again, it's just gaslighting saying that don't believe the evidence of your

00:34:49.760 own eyes that it's not normal and hasn't been normal in Europe, save maybe for the height of

00:34:56.560 the Roman Empire before now, for there to be hundreds of thousands and millions of non-white,

00:35:04.400 non-European people to set up their own little ethnic enclaves within European major cities that

00:35:10.960 change the makeup, change the demographics and change the culture of those places.

00:35:15.200 He's just saying that's normal. He's just saying that's, that's, that's normal. Don't worry about

00:35:20.400 it. He then goes on. I won't subject you to any more of this. He goes on to deny that Italians are

00:35:28.240 their own explicit ethnicity who are arguably white. Depends how north or south they are. I will say we can 0.96

00:35:36.480 maybe, we can maybe have some wiggle room there, but he basically is saying that there is like,

00:35:41.440 basically, if you're just off the boat and you have a passport, you're Italian. That's the argument 0.98

00:35:46.960 that he's making. The same kind of arguments that we've heard for years now. And people obviously are

00:35:52.320 sick of it and he was really not... I'm gonna hold it against you because I will say that...

00:35:56.400 You're gonna hold it against me? Yeah. Yes, because my knowledge of the left-wing, you know, commentator

00:36:03.680 sphere on media is relatively low. It's not significant. And you're actually exposing me to

00:36:13.280 these people. I don't appreciate this. Brother Harry, why do you do this? I do this because Ian was a once

00:36:20.640 respected and well-liked figure on the internet. And it's kind of an interesting, uh, an interesting

00:36:27.120 experiment to see what's going on with him and how much further he can go. Because he's really not

00:36:31.920 qualified to talk on these subjects, but he decided to anyway. And as a result, he only had the same kind

00:36:38.640 of empty, hollow arguments that we expect from this. But one of the better things about it is he

00:36:44.560 decided to follow up this with a six hour or so live stream where he was responding to a lot of the,

00:36:54.400 a lot of the comments that were left on that, uh, on that video and some of the responses that were

00:37:00.720 done in, say, Reddit threads where people were anti-immigration. Let me see if I can find, uh,

00:37:07.600 this is, Callum took a few of them and, uh, let's just see the sorts of arguments that he's making here.

00:37:14.960 In Somalia and many more countries in the Middle East, so already trying to like generalize the

00:37:21.040 Middle East, 48.7% are cousin marriages. Is this a way of life you would like to import into a Western 0.99

00:37:28.720 country? This is insane. This is an insane thing because what they're not including is that this

00:37:35.120 is a country is in horrible conditions in every regard. Honestly, I'm not going to, I'm not going to

00:37:42.480 question the statistic. The statistic might be wrong or it might be right, but I'm not interested

00:37:49.440 in fucking discovering that. Why? Because it doesn't change the argument. If you are, 0.95

00:37:55.360 because it's the same as all the other pink washing nonsense where they're like, did you know they're 0.99

00:38:01.040 not very friendly to gay people in this country? And then they name a country that's, uh, 0.96

00:38:07.520 uh, experiencing the utmost poverty and the utmost crime and lack of healthcare and lack of all of

00:38:16.160 your needs being fulfilled. So it's like, it's almost like a non-starter. It's like, why,

00:38:21.120 why are you even talking about this shit? You're yeah. So according to that logic, 1.00

00:38:28.000 if your country is poor and doesn't have the proper healthcare, you are much, much,

00:38:36.320 much more likely to marry your cousin and have deformed incest babies. If the average cousin is a 0.95

00:38:42.320 10 or a 9 or a 10, don't ignore context, Harry. Stelios, I don't know how people do things where

00:38:50.160 you're from in the world, but we don't look at our cousins that way over here, all right? I may

00:38:55.200 discover I have been a Habsburg or something. They were much closer than cousins, I'm told, mate.

00:39:01.840 But yeah, so he's, he's just saying, he's just using, he's throwing out any leftist talking point

00:39:07.360 possible. Where, I think this is a, this is a thread of quite a few of them. Where is, uh,

00:39:13.600 where is this one? Here we go. This is the best one that kind of sums up all of his arguments quite

00:39:21.040 neatly. Yo, I mean, oh my gosh. This one. This person says, here in Italy, many of my friends have been

00:39:30.160 robbed, assaulted, and it's been by North African immigrants each time. But I guess the smug 1.00

00:39:36.320 Californian has ruled that drawing any kind of conclusion from that is wrong.

00:39:42.000 It is wrong. It is racist and fucking weird. 1.00

00:39:48.000 And it was to that that I tweeted out saying that leftism is a mode of thought that simply 0.99

00:39:53.680 teaches people to make themselves unsafe at all times. Because apparently, according to Ian,

00:40:00.720 seeing, observing objective reality in the world, noticing patterns and coming to conclusions as a

00:40:09.760 result of that, that's just racist, bro. That's just racist. You're not allowed to do that. And 0.94

00:40:16.480 it's wrong. So what are you saying? My, my thought experiment was this. You have two neighborhoods on

00:40:23.600 your way home. Left street, right street. Okay. Left... I'll pick the right one.

00:40:29.440 Now, let me finish first. Because it's the right choice. Let me just... Are you jumping very...

00:40:34.000 You're jumping head first into this. I might change your mind. Okay. Right. Left street is

00:40:40.880 an entirely English neighborhood. But it takes, say, an extra 20 minutes to get home from your job.

00:40:47.840 Right street will save you that 20 minutes, but is entirely made up of Pakistanis. And you are a 1.00

00:40:54.800 lone woman trying to get home. Do you take the risk and save 20 minutes? Or do you take 20 minutes 0.85

00:41:02.480 extra? I mean, it's just, it's a no brainer. If, if, if, you know, if I had a daughter and I was

00:41:10.000 going to give her advice, I'd tell her, get the English road. Well, obviously. But, according to,

00:41:16.400 why does he not want people to follow data and say that some groups, for instance, are overrepresented

00:41:23.280 in crime? What, why? Because it's ideologically wrong in his estimation. You're not allowed to draw

00:41:30.080 conclusions from these things. And as a result, you have to put yourself in danger. But again, as we see,

00:41:37.680 Ian has put himself in danger. The Candyman is still on his way. He may have been coming for Hassan 1.00

00:41:43.280 Piker. But don't get it wrong, Ian. Hassan Piker's just in the way. Sam's coming for you. But because

00:41:50.720 of the fact that Ian has been going on his humiliation kink again, and has been making

00:41:56.000 disastrous choice after disastrous choice, and allowing all sorts of terrible things to happen

00:42:01.600 to himself, it's only appropriate, it is only appropriate, that, uh, after this most recent

00:42:09.840 catastrophe, his wife has announced that she's going back on OnlyFans. I didn't even realize she'd

00:42:17.840 gone off it. So, presumably, he'd managed to convince her, please, Sam Hyde can look at you naked for free.

00:42:25.200 Please, stop. I want to be an independent content creator. Yeah, I mean, he did take her surname,

00:42:30.480 so she clearly calls all the shots in that household. People are also joking that he's gone

00:42:34.880 down the bread tube arc on her command. But, um, yeah, she's back. This creator, this poster,

00:42:43.360 clipped it out of this, but this announcement was also accompanied by an arse shot that she posted. 1.00

00:42:51.040 Because I thought, no, this has to be a meme, this can't be real, so I looked it up to make sure

00:42:55.600 that this wasn't just a fake screenshot. No, it's a real screenshot, but they cropped out her arse from 0.99

00:43:01.280 it. Because she was like, my husband's just humiliated himself again, come look at my arse! 1.00

00:43:07.280 And in response to that, and this is a real screenshot as well of a real tweet, 0.99

00:43:11.760 iDubbbz himself responded,

00:43:13.360 I love succubi. Sorry to those who have never experienced the love of a succubus.

00:43:20.640 What?

00:43:20.960 Dude. Dude. The thing is, he's joking, but also, that's the reality of what he's living in right now.

00:43:31.600 Right? She's, she's... 0.99

00:43:33.360 I don't know, I feel disgusted by this, um, area of discourse.

00:43:38.480 She's destroyed him, man. She's destroyed him. There's no recovering from this. Even Sam Hyde has

00:43:45.600 said, you know, you need to drop Yoko Ono, you need to get some respect for yourself, build yourself

00:43:52.400 back up, but he's not going to now. He's too far gone. He won't be able to recover from this.

00:43:59.280 But he might have been able to, had he picked up an issue of Islander, particularly the fourth issue,

00:44:06.400 which is the one that's available for sale now, which you can get on the website for $14.99.

00:44:11.600 I've heard that it might protect you from multiple concussion syndrome, and if you read it,

00:44:17.280 women around you will delete their OnlyFans and go on the path to Christ. 1.00

00:44:22.320 That's not a guarantee. Don't take my word for it or anything. Just buy it, okay? All right. God. You people.

00:44:30.240 Right, uh, the engaged few says that all he sees in an iDubbbz video is a roach in a desperate need

00:44:37.200 of a hard heel and some bug spray. Alex Trusk, contrapoints, does not want the migrant philosophy 0.99

00:44:44.480 tube in her neighborhood. Apparently she is very hands-on. 0.75

00:44:48.560 Yes, I'm very well aware. Sigilstone17 says, Harry's information is out of date. iDubbbz owes money

00:44:54.800 of a creator clash, so he has fled the US, is selling his house in California. It smells foul.

00:45:01.840 It was lost in Canada at Anissa's parents' house. Well, I suppose it would smell foul if he just 0.80

00:45:06.400 spends all day shitting himself. Again, that's a random name, says, don't be mad at Anissa's 0.98

00:45:11.440 husband for defending the third world barbarians in Europe. After all, he doesn't want her losing any 1.00

00:45:17.680 customers. Oof. Bonnie Blue situation there. Although you and Nick Buckley will be able to

00:45:24.880 have a nice chinwag about that, I'm sure. Sigilstone17, don't forget that Anissa,

00:45:32.000 iDubbbz's wife, got famous for making videos of pissing herself in public and then recording 1.00

00:45:36.960 sitting on her couch still in her pissed pants. Allegedly their house smells foul. 1.00

00:45:42.960 Is that true? I thought that she was just famous for being, you know, in a relationship 1.00

00:45:47.360 with iDubbbz. Okay, and again, two comments before we proceed. That's a random name. Again,

00:45:53.040 says, who is this Ian or iDubbbz? Y'all keep mentioning. Ola sees footage of Anissa's husband

00:45:58.800 waiting for her to finally fully consume him like a mantis would eat her mate.

00:46:05.440 Listen, I've speculated on how all of this ends. And I've given my result,

00:46:11.280 I've given my conclusion many times, and it doesn't end very well. The crippled cross face 1.00

00:46:17.440 will be applied. No, I'm joking. I'm joking. Sigilstone, I don't know if you meant to post it

00:46:22.240 again, but we've already read that. Yeah, we've read it. It showed up again.

00:46:25.600 There are several cringe trends that you don't want to know about, but also sometimes you do want to

00:46:30.800 know about because they're dangerous. Some of them may be dangerous. Some of them may be funny,

00:46:35.920 they may be a bit disgusting, cringe, good laugh, but also some of them can be dangerous. And I will

00:46:42.000 say that, Harry, I have detected some trends that are particularly, they are simultaneously funny and

00:46:48.640 disgusting. Scans. And doctors found out that some of them are particularly dangerous. And I will talk

00:46:56.480 about them. Oof, you got me hooked. Right. So, if you don't consider yourself to be someone who

00:47:05.760 is a member of disgusting trends, and you are not, because you're an audience, you can buy

00:47:10.640 Islander number four. Issue number four. It's $49.99. You have a great opportunity now to buy it. It's about,

00:47:18.960 it has great articles from Karl Morgoth's review, Luca Johnson. Buy it. Buy Islander. Just $14.99.

00:47:26.800 Not even $15. $14.99. Right. So, Harry, do you know what yarn makeup is?

00:47:33.200 Yarn makeup? Yeah. No. Right. So, I want to actually, um, I want to show you what it is,

00:47:42.000 because you showed me some disgusting things in the previous segment, so I have to respond. You know,

00:47:46.880 I can't just let it see. Judging by the final results in the right-hand side of the image here,

00:47:53.360 I mean, it's at least impressive. It is impressive, but look at what's going on here.

00:47:59.280 Look at what this lass is doing. Oh. Okay. It's a TikTok trend, so anything on TikTok is mostly cringe. 1.00

00:48:06.880 Right. So, what is yarn makeup, and why are so many people trying it despite the pain? Because it's

00:48:12.720 particularly painful. Wait, the pain? So, look at this slack. Oh, yeah, actually.

00:48:17.680 So, Nettie Lombardi is an 18-year-old makeup artist and influencer based in Connecticut.

00:48:22.400 She saw her friend Anna Murphy, a Canadian makeup artist, post about using yarn for makeup,

00:48:26.720 a trend that involves gluing yarn to your face and painting over it with makeup, which has since gone

00:48:32.720 worldwide. She knew she had to try it, so she posted videos of the different looks on TikTok,

00:48:38.320 where they went viral, amassing millions of years. What do you think of it, Harry?

00:48:41.840 It's very Faustian.

00:48:43.280 Why? I want to hear your deep philosophical trend.

00:48:48.000 The Faustian is because you are... Oh, God, they are just sticking it to their face, aren't they?

00:48:53.600 The Faustian nature is you are producing something that is impressive. It's an impressive display

00:48:59.920 of technical skill and artistry. The pact with the devil part comes that when removing it,

00:49:05.600 you may rip your face off. Face off. Yeah. Right. 0.99

00:49:11.680 Which can still be an impressive piece of art after you've taken your face off.

00:49:15.520 Okay, so that's your take. It's an issue of modernity that has to do with the Faustian pact.

00:49:19.280 This is the Faustian spirit. This is the Faustian spirit.

00:49:22.320 And do you think... I think actually this means that there is an infantilization of people.

00:49:30.160 It's just that we have too many morons. And because we have too many morons, we have adult pacifiers. 1.00

00:49:36.240 Now, do you know of this trend? Do you know of adult pacifiers? Do you feel the need to have a 1.00

00:49:40.640 pacifier at some point? Oh, no. Harry, what do you think? Do you occasionally need a pacifier?

00:49:47.120 This is just autism. This is just autism. Find a healthier way to stim, you retards. 1.00

00:49:53.120 Imagine we appear on the podcast with adult pacifiers. God forbid. 0.98

00:49:58.560 And we also have the little bibs and the little propeller hats as well.

00:50:02.080 Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves. I feel a sense of safety from childhood.

00:50:07.600 Oh, God. The world is so unsafe, Harry. The world is so unsafe. We need to have safe spaces.

00:50:15.040 So let's not have policing. Let's have adult pacifiers. 0.97

00:50:18.560 It's young adults in China are doing it. When the going gets tough, a tough pop in a pacifier.

00:50:28.080 Can you imagine? I've never been to China. I would like to try going there at some point.

00:50:32.560 It seems like an interesting place, but getting off the plane and everybody around you has a dummy in their mouth.

00:50:39.040 It was once a niche quirk, Harry. Brother Harry. But the silicon soothers are supposedly now big business on Chinese e-commerce giants like Taobao and JD.com,

00:50:51.280 where they are priced anywhere from a budget-friendly 10 yuan to a luxury 500 yuan. $70. Imagine having a luxury pacifier.

00:51:00.400 What an idiot. What an absolute idiot. What a moron. Look at this. 1.00

00:51:08.640 Adult-sized pacifiers priced up to $70 of growing in popularity in China as a way to relieve stress and anxiety.

00:51:16.240 To be fair, you know what? Screw it. This is a good thing in the long run. Do you know why? Self-sorting mechanisms in the same way that people who still go around wearing COVID masks are telling me,

00:51:30.480 you're a neurotic weirdo. Stay away. I'm getting the same feeling from this. If I see you as a grown adult walking around in a dummy, I will not go anywhere near you. 1.00

00:51:43.440 Look at this lad over here. Look at how happy he is. Look at how happy he is. He says,

00:51:49.040 When I'm under pressure at work, I suck on the dummy. Right, just smoke. Just smoke cigarettes. Get a pipe. Smoke a pipe. 1.00

00:51:57.760 Like Mads is telling us. Exactly. Smoke a pipe. Look at this smug face here. Okay, look, I'm so cool. I have an adult pacifier. You don't, sucker.

00:52:09.760 Just drink. Day drink like the rest of us. Honestly, this sucks. Right, so they have several videos here. 1.00

00:52:17.840 If you just type adult pacifiers on YouTube, you have people wearing them.

00:52:26.560 Freaks. Look at this here. Freaks and or trend chasers.

00:52:31.280 Everyone. Look at this guy over here. Look, he's trying to, he's trying to be like a, I'm like a giga chad with the dummy.

00:52:41.040 You will have an adult pacifier and be happy. That's WEF 2035 agendas.

00:52:48.640 Okay, I want to say something. I absolutely hate food podcasts.

00:52:52.640 I absolutely hate them. I've seen this. I've seen this.

00:52:54.960 I've absolutely hate them because why on earth would I want to see someone just eating?

00:53:00.560 It's absolutely gross. Sometimes it's good food, but why on earth would I want to see it?

00:53:04.800 And hear them chewing directly into the microphone. That's the worst part.

00:53:09.040 Yeah. So I think that, you know, this is a very cringe trend and I, frankly, I have to say that this meal

00:53:15.520 was a complete non-starter.

00:53:17.520 Boom. Let's see it.

00:53:21.360 Munching.

00:53:27.760 Jesus.

00:53:33.920 Honestly, that, that, that, that turn, my, that's now, now one of my favorite videos.

00:53:41.200 People almost stop this food podcast, you know, dying and almost

00:53:45.360 getting shattered, shattered glass all over them. And you're just like serves you right.

00:53:49.840 You fat. Yeah. 0.99

00:53:51.680 I mean, most probably this is someone who forgot, forgot to put the reverse and put drive.

00:53:58.640 Yeah.

00:53:58.720 But I like to think as someone who's an absolute hater of food podcast.

00:54:03.200 You're not going to do this. Not on my watch.

00:54:05.200 Sat at the dinner table with the camera and gone, that's the final straw.

00:54:09.680 Not on my watch.

00:54:10.640 Shifts into first gear.

00:54:12.480 Right. So we talked to you about food podcast. They're absolutely disgusting. 0.83

00:54:16.880 But now we need to talk about drink, about liquids. And I have to say, Harry, is that coffee?

00:54:23.440 Is that coffee you have there?

00:54:24.400 It was, but I drank it.

00:54:25.760 You drank it. How?

00:54:26.960 By ingesting it through my mouth.

00:54:30.160 You ingested it, but you did not inject it.

00:54:32.400 No. What? No.

00:54:34.320 Okay. So you don't know what I mean, what I'm about to talk.

00:54:37.040 Why would I inject coffee?

00:54:38.160 Right.

00:54:38.560 Inject it where?

00:54:39.440 I'm going to show you something and then I'm going to tell you about what experts say.

00:54:45.440 Because this is actually a dangerous trend.

00:54:48.720 You know coffee enemas?

00:54:50.000 Yes.

00:54:50.720 Yes.

00:54:50.960 Right. So there are people who actually wake up the day and say, well, I can't do anything

00:54:57.280 other than have coffee. And instead of making a normal cap like other human beings, they just

00:55:05.440 ingest it up their bottom. 0.77

00:55:07.280 See, I'm familiar with this because I think it was back in secondary school in my media class.

00:55:13.040 Go, go back, go back for a sec. This TLC, My Strange Addiction of the Coffee Enemas was the

00:55:19.280 actual video that we were shown. I don't remember why they decided to show us this one in particular,

00:55:26.000 but sadly, that is where I learned that people do this.

00:55:28.400 There are lessons to extract from there, from coffee enemas.

00:55:32.080 What, don't do them?

00:55:33.520 That's one of them. That's the only one I can think of.

00:55:37.920 That's our message. That's the official message of the channel.

00:55:41.120 Don't do coffee enemas.

00:55:43.040 What's this? The powerful benefits of coffee enemas explained?

00:55:45.200 Look at this. Look at this.

00:55:47.040 Because actually, this is a trend that is growing.

00:55:50.800 This is not particularly a watched video that says the powerful benefits of coffee enemas explained.

00:55:57.040 Then you have my addiction, coffee enemas, My Strange Addiction.

00:56:00.480 That's six million views. They have a video. You look at this smug face here.

00:56:07.040 How to do a coffee enema. Remove the enema nozzle and go to the toilet.

00:56:13.920 Samson is killing himself. 0.80

00:56:15.520 She's so smug about it. 0.67

00:56:17.040 Yeah, look at this here.

00:56:20.000 I'm so much above you peasants.

00:56:24.320 I'm an aristocrat. You don't know.

00:56:26.720 When's the last time you shoved coffee up your arse? 1.00

00:56:30.160 You don't know. You don't know me. 1.00

00:56:32.080 Yeah, we have science talking about coffee enemas, helpful or harmful.

00:56:36.720 And we have this ginger dude here. We will talk about him.

00:56:43.120 But do you see what he's doing with this?

00:56:44.560 I mean, he looks somewhat less smug about it.

00:56:47.600 No, actually, he's very smug.

00:56:49.200 No, no.

00:56:49.600 Because he's part of the video you mentioned.

00:56:52.880 Right. So let us talk about here about what it is.

00:56:55.440 On the...

00:57:02.160 Contrary to popular belief, the coffee solution is held in the colon, not the liver.

00:57:06.400 Blood vessels in the lower part of the descending colon and rectum carry the solution to the liver.

00:57:11.840 The potent compounds in coffee, including caffeine, theobrymin, and theophylline, are absorbed by veins

00:57:18.400 that route to the liver, enhancing detoxification.

00:57:21.520 And three, bioproduction and blood flow.

00:57:23.600 Coffee enemas stimulate the liver to produce bile.

00:57:26.240 The comodalities in coffee dilate the blood vessels and the bile ducts,

00:57:30.000 relaxing smooth muscles and increasing the bile flow.

00:57:33.600 So...

00:57:34.320 Now, this is a disgusting trend, but do you have people who are saying

00:57:38.400 something that is actually really dangerous, according to experts?

00:57:42.480 And we will...

00:57:43.040 Does she look exactly like the kind of woman who... 1.00

00:57:46.640 Doctors warn of risks with coffee enemas as the practice gains steam on social media.

00:57:52.320 The alternative cleanse approach lacks scientific evidence and can pose health hazards.

00:57:58.240 Also, we have...

00:57:59.680 Where's the link?

00:58:01.040 We had another link.

00:58:02.000 They're saying with doctors from Birmingham are saying that it's particularly...

00:58:06.480 It's a very bad practice and it has linked to some deaths in some cases.

00:58:12.320 So definitely, you know, this is a really disgusting trend.

00:58:15.760 But I want to show you here, this dude here who is...

00:58:18.400 No!

00:58:19.440 What is the kind of person who is attracted to it?

00:58:22.080 The nozzle and two times a day, and now I'm addicted to coffee enemas.

00:58:26.080 Look.

00:58:26.480 But I tried it, and now I'm addicted to coffee enemas.

00:58:30.560 Look at this guy here.

00:58:32.880 I've pretty much been like...

00:58:33.760 And he let somebody film him do this.

00:58:36.480 Not only film, but he says that with his wife, they wake up and they do it two to four times a day.

00:58:42.640 And they say there's absolutely nothing that's going to stop us from doing coffee enemas.

00:58:46.800 I really don't think this world we're living in, Harry, is a particularly sensible one.

00:58:55.200 What do you think?

00:58:57.600 Right, so don't do it.

00:58:58.480 Now, another cringe trend I absolutely despise is ASMR videos.

00:59:03.600 You know what these are?

00:59:04.400 I am aware of them.

00:59:06.160 Right, so I actually wasn't aware of them until very recently.

00:59:10.720 And a friend of mine told me that it helps him sleep.

00:59:17.120 These videos help him sleep.

00:59:18.880 And I asked him, right, well, what is it?

00:59:20.640 Because I do have insomnia occasionally.

00:59:23.600 So it showed me this.

00:59:25.920 And I said, one...

00:59:27.840 Oh my goodness.

00:59:30.160 Can I play with it?

00:59:33.280 Yes.

00:59:34.560 Have you seen ASMR?

00:59:35.760 Have you watched these videos?

00:59:37.120 I've been showing it before.

00:59:38.160 It's grating to me.

00:59:41.200 Why on earth would that help me sleep?

00:59:46.640 Like the incredibly intense, like, close might.

00:59:49.520 I hope that there's none of you right now who rushed for your headphones

00:59:54.080 so that you could get a nice dose of ASMR for this.

00:59:56.800 Look at the ASMR.

00:59:58.080 She has bimbo nails and she's hitting on a piece of plastic containing honeycomb in. 1.00

01:00:05.600 And they're just whispering. 0.63

01:00:07.680 What's this disgusting thing? 0.95

01:00:09.440 It's annoying. 0.96

01:00:10.160 This just seems like a porn substitute for people.

01:00:13.760 Honestly, why on earth are people doing this? 0.96

01:00:15.120 Because it's always women doing it. 1.00

01:00:17.120 It's always women doing it. 1.00

01:00:18.320 You don't get men doing this. 0.85

01:00:19.920 Yeah, this reminds me of a horror movie, you know,

01:00:22.640 where you have this evil spirit trying to haunt a child.

01:00:26.480 And it actually, you know, it's disgusting.

01:00:29.920 And the thing...

01:00:30.560 Also have here...

01:00:31.200 Look at this here.

01:00:31.840 That you've got both of them playing at the same...

01:00:34.080 No, you've got all three of them.

01:00:35.040 Yeah, look at...

01:00:36.000 She's actually trying to... 0.90

01:00:37.040 You've got all three of them playing at the same time.

01:00:39.040 ...cast a spell on you with her bimbo nails. 1.00

01:00:42.560 Yeah, yeah, because it's, you know, symphonic.

01:00:44.560 No!

01:00:45.920 Look at...

01:00:46.560 Harry, imagine...

01:00:47.360 Why are people doing that?

01:00:49.680 And look...

01:00:50.480 Again...

01:00:51.600 1.9 million views five months ago.

01:00:54.800 Right.

01:00:56.720 This, again, is a porn substitute for some men. 0.99

01:01:00.080 Or a weird kink. 0.98

01:01:01.280 It has to be.

01:01:02.080 But how?

01:01:03.520 Don't ask me to explain other people's degeneracy.

01:01:08.640 Honestly, for me, the worst thing about this, outside of that,

01:01:12.480 it's just that, like, there's...

01:01:14.400 Turn that off.

01:01:16.400 Turn it off.

01:01:19.120 There is nothing more grating than someone having the microphone so close to their mouth

01:01:26.240 and speaking so close into it, and then smacking their lips, rolling their tongue around,

01:01:31.920 sort of clearing their throat.

01:01:32.880 Doing a food podcast.

01:01:34.320 Yeah, doing their food...

01:01:35.760 Like, doing a food podcast where you can hear everything, like, going on in their mouth,

01:01:40.640 smacking their lips.

01:01:41.520 I don't need to hear all of the disgusting saliva roaming about your mouth. 1.00

01:01:47.680 It's the most vile sound in the world to me. 0.98

01:01:50.400 So how anybody can find that soothing, or God forbid, attractive, like, makes me sick.

01:01:57.920 Right.

01:01:58.240 So I asked people on X what are the trends they consider particularly disgusting,

01:02:04.160 and they...

01:02:05.520 Some of them told me the word labubu.

01:02:09.440 You know what labubu is?

01:02:10.560 Isn't it some weird doll that China is selling?

01:02:14.720 Right, so I'm...

01:02:15.520 To go with those dummies they're selling.

01:02:16.720 Let's just find out.

01:02:17.440 Let's just find out.

01:02:18.400 You get a free one with your...

01:02:19.440 You know...

01:02:19.600 With your $70 dummy.

01:02:20.720 We had the FA stage, now we have the FO stage.

01:02:23.920 Oh, okay.

01:02:24.560 Right, so labubu dolls among £2,000 worth of fake toys seized from Walsall Town Centre shops.

01:02:31.760 Around £2,000 worth of counterfeit toys have been seized from shops in Walsall Town Centre.

01:02:38.400 Now, these are these dolls over here.

01:02:42.560 Police issued warnings to retailers about the sale of counterfeit and unsafe products.

01:02:48.560 So what is this?

01:02:49.520 Despite being advised to remove the items from sale, a week later officers found the labubu toys still on display in several shops during a follow-up operation on Thursday, August 14.

01:03:01.680 This sounds really dark, man.

01:03:03.840 A total of eight bags of counterfeit toys were removed during visits to four premises in the town centre.

01:03:09.520 The doors were flugged as non-compliant with safety regulations with potential risks invoking choking hazards.

01:03:16.400 Samson, could you please tell us what labubu dolls are?

01:03:22.080 Because, in fact, you told me you know.

01:03:27.840 It's like Warhammer, but for autistic women and they want to collect something. 0.99

01:03:32.240 You open them like blind bags, I think.

01:03:33.680 Like, you get a random box.

01:03:35.840 And, uh, yeah, it's...

01:03:40.320 It's a mass-marketing, um...

01:03:42.320 Is this like Beanie Babies?

01:03:43.760 Is it like the Beanie Babies thing?

01:03:45.200 It's like Beanie Babies, exactly.

01:03:46.480 And you get...

01:03:46.960 I assume you get rare ones that go for, like, higher value.

01:03:50.320 So it's Beanie Babies mixed with Pokémon cards for women. 0.99

01:03:54.160 Yeah, and they resell them for silly amounts of money because they're crazy.

01:03:58.800 Right, so why are they considered to be unsafe? 0.85

01:04:03.520 No, the counterfeit ones are because they're being made out of rubbish materials.

01:04:07.440 Right.

01:04:07.680 Oh, okay.

01:04:08.160 Okay.

01:04:08.560 It's not that people are trying to eat them.

01:04:11.440 Right.

01:04:11.760 So, and I want to end with actually a palette cleanser.

01:04:16.400 Mads posting.

01:04:18.240 Europe maxer is actually...

01:04:20.320 Okay.

01:04:21.280 Right.

01:04:21.920 Europe maxing is good.

01:04:23.280 Oh, no, it seems chill.

01:04:24.480 I mean, I go to...

01:04:25.840 I've been to Europe plenty of times, so at least continental Europe. 0.88

01:04:29.760 I'm in heaven, which is just an entire isle of white monster. 0.90

01:04:34.400 And there he goes again. 0.93

01:04:37.360 Yeah.

01:04:37.680 Uh, Europe, especially on the coastline, can be a very relaxed place to be.

01:04:42.880 And sometimes you just want to sit around at a cafe, smoke and drink all day.

01:04:49.680 Yeah, exactly.

01:04:50.480 Very relaxing.

01:04:51.440 What I absolutely love about this account is so funny because it's, you know, as you said,

01:04:55.040 it's Mads and he's effortlessly cool and stuff, but also he has this tired, you know, thing about him.

01:05:01.520 Sometimes it's just made that just want to relax.

01:05:04.640 I'm exhausted.

01:05:06.000 And that's why I know.

01:05:06.880 He's got, he's got like dad getting his five minutes away from the kids energy.

01:05:14.240 Right.

01:05:14.960 And I like, like I said, the first 12 months of the year are the hardest.

01:05:20.720 And then it starts all over and over again.

01:05:22.560 Okay.

01:05:22.880 So, uh, coffee enemas, enemas are bad, right?

01:05:27.520 Let's see.

01:05:27.920 That's a random name says we've, that's a good way to end.

01:05:30.960 There's the moral of the story.

01:05:32.560 Yeah.

01:05:33.520 With all the, stick coffee up your arms.

01:05:35.360 All the demonic segment.

01:05:36.560 No, guys, let's, I'm reading, I'm reading a comment.

01:05:40.880 That's a random name with all the demonic segments.

01:05:43.120 Y'all have subjected us to, and now understand why Harry went with a witcher haircut for today.

01:05:48.400 Connor is smug mug.

01:05:50.640 Some ASMR is cring, cringew and disgust us.

01:05:54.800 But I would say naked yoga and mukbang is more of a problem on YouTube.

01:05:58.640 Bob Ross is reportedly how ASMR started.

01:06:02.240 Really?

01:06:02.960 But Bob Ross was just a painter.

01:06:04.960 Yeah.

01:06:05.120 I suppose because he spoke all soft and everything and relaxing people may have.

01:06:09.360 Yeah.

01:06:09.600 I feel like I need to check that.

01:06:11.520 That's a random name says the reason coffee enemas are so potent must be because they wake

01:06:16.160 you right up before the liquid has even made contact.

01:06:23.360 Sigil Stone 17.

01:06:24.880 No, Harry.

01:06:26.000 You imbibed the coffee, not ingested it.

01:06:28.800 An American should not have to correct an Englishman on speaking English.

01:06:32.720 Thank you for paying to correct me.

01:06:34.160 I will continue to misspeak so that you will continue paying us.

01:06:39.040 That's a random name again says always look on the bright side lads.

01:06:42.240 If the number of retards reaches critical mass, we'll finally be able to get them to vote against 1.00

01:06:48.160 women's suffrage. 1.00

01:06:49.440 Because women have suffraged enough. 1.00

01:06:51.920 It's true.

01:06:52.480 Is that the people who are saying repeal the 19th?

01:06:57.760 It's a joke.

01:06:58.800 Yeah.

01:06:59.360 Okay.

01:06:59.920 Right.

01:07:00.400 And, um, okay.

01:07:02.240 And breaking news Sigil Stone 17 says a man has died after attempting the sit in an oven

01:07:08.880 for 20 hours and eat your own 1.00

01:07:12.000 shit challenge from shit from tick. 1.00

01:07:14.160 From shit. 1.00

01:07:17.200 Sorry, guys. 0.99

01:07:17.920 Sorry, guys.

01:07:18.480 Right.

01:07:18.720 Okay.

01:07:19.040 Let's go to the comments.

01:07:21.680 Do we have any of your comments?

01:07:22.800 There was one more as well related to my segment, which was the, according to Sigil Stone, the

01:07:27.280 pants pissing is how Anissa met i-dubs. 0.99

01:07:30.320 It got her brought into his circle.

01:07:33.040 Is that how you initiate yourself in i-dubs?

01:07:35.520 You need to have some kind of incontinence or bowel problems.

01:07:39.040 And I did mean to post it again because I thought you missed it.

01:07:41.840 Oh, well, thank you very much.

01:07:42.960 Are you tired of the vacuous virtue signaling affluent white female leftoids or offals? 1.00

01:07:52.720 Are you tired of academic apologists? 1.00

01:07:57.360 Are you sick of dimwitted adults demanding diversity? 0.99

01:08:01.040 Of effeminate elitists elevating equity over equality? 1.00

01:08:04.720 Of inane idiotic incompetence inculcating inclusion of incompatible individuals? 1.00

01:08:10.640 Then bye. 1.00

01:08:11.200 Bye, Islander Magazine.

01:08:16.240 Thank you very much.

01:08:17.440 Actually, that's a good shill.

01:08:19.680 Yeah, nice shill there. 0.97

01:08:21.440 Do I have another video?

01:08:23.920 Is that the only one?

01:08:24.640 The only one there.

01:08:25.360 Okay, great.

01:08:25.920 That was the only one.

01:08:26.640 Thank you, Samson.

01:08:27.600 Right.

01:08:27.920 Honourable mentions.

01:08:29.120 Marcus Melville says,

01:08:30.560 My copy of Islander arrived today all the way down in the winters of New Zealand's South Island.

01:08:38.240 Bless lads.

01:08:38.880 Oh, thank you.

01:08:39.920 Thank you.

01:08:40.640 Right.

01:08:41.040 So, let's start with the comments for the first segment.

01:08:45.760 Ramshackle Otter. 0.70

01:08:48.160 Crone.

01:08:48.640 I live in an expensive leafy suburb.

01:08:51.280 Almost daily, there are shoplifters wandering in with huge backpads and firing them, filling them with high value, fast moving consumer goods to resell.

01:09:02.880 They walk out and molested.

01:09:04.560 The diverse security guards don't even look up from their phones. 1.00

01:09:07.680 You then see stuff for sale on Facebook marketplace.

01:09:11.680 That's tragic.

01:09:13.200 And essentially, the guideline from the state is, you know, get more security, who is again going to do nothing.

01:09:21.680 And if the police manages to arrest people, we'll probably call for them to be housed and to be given social.

01:09:28.960 They're actually, they'll just go in and fail upwards, essentially.

01:09:32.720 They'll be straight out onto the streets.

01:09:34.800 Theodore Brewer says, the reason Walmart has greeters is to discourage shoplifting.

01:09:42.480 It works for Walmart, but I suspect this isn't going to help the shopkips of England. 1.00

01:09:48.480 But I mean, it could work for Walmart.

01:09:51.840 I don't know.

01:09:52.320 I don't know.

01:09:52.800 But the point is, again, it's not a segment.

01:09:55.120 I didn't do the segment so much about the police.

01:09:57.280 I did it about the state and how the, essentially, anything the police does, they're going to let them out.

01:10:05.280 Also, Walmart has guns.

01:10:07.760 We don't, sadly.

01:10:10.160 Yeah, I'm trying to piece through the logic.

01:10:12.640 I'm imagining that on a certain level, perhaps it's twofold.

01:10:16.720 One is to try and humanize the staff of the shop so that you don't feel as inclined to steal from them because they're people too.

01:10:25.040 Look, they said hello to you.

01:10:26.400 The other is to let them know that they're watching you.

01:10:29.280 So, we're people too.

01:10:31.760 Also, we've got our eye on you.

01:10:34.400 That kind of thing.

01:10:35.440 If it works for Walmart, great.

01:10:37.600 But yeah, in a little corner shop in England, which I've seen robbed before in big cities.

01:10:44.720 I mean, typically, the shopkeeper, whoever's standing at the counter, will say hello to you anyway.

01:10:49.920 It doesn't change anything.

01:10:50.960 But also, the most important thing is for the police to do its job and to not meet with, not be met with obstacles in doing its job.

01:11:00.480 And it is.

01:11:01.520 Right, Henry Ashman says,

01:11:03.040 Ultimately, the policing strategies in the UK revolve around the assumption that people are fundamentally good and will obey the rules.

01:11:11.040 If someone breaks the rules, being told that they upset someone would be enough to horrify them into changing their ways.

01:11:19.360 Sadly, the rest of the world isn't a quaint Saturday morning kids cartoon, so this will never work.

01:11:25.760 We're increasingly seeing that empathy.

01:11:27.920 And the behaviors that allow civilization to function without brutal tyranny to enforce them are not universal and are in fact almost exclusive to Northern European cultures.

01:11:39.040 Now, I don't know precisely about this, but I think that a lot is correct here.

01:11:44.880 And I will say about crime in general, that the people who are about to commit crime, they essentially they don't care about social norms.

01:11:55.360 Also, even within European cultures, it took a long time of pretty brutal application of strict laws to shape people's behavior into the way that we see these days.

01:12:10.480 It doesn't come about overnight, even within people who, due to hereditary traits, are still more inclined to behave that way than others.

01:12:20.320 It was still a very cultural thing as well.

01:12:22.480 If they're coming from cultures that don't have that same behavior or experience, it's going to be even more difficult. 1.00

01:12:28.040 But also, the law is not for good people.

01:12:30.800 The law is for people with the potential to be bad.

01:12:34.100 So, right.

01:12:36.320 The Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex, in some cities, there are something like 30 youths who commit 50% of the car thefts.

01:12:44.060 Look into the Kia boys. 1.00

01:12:46.100 That's interesting.

01:12:47.060 I'll definitely give that a look in.

01:12:49.120 Thanks, Lord Inquisitor.

01:12:52.080 Arizona Desert Rat says, this makes me wonder how many stores and shops have had closed due to shoplifting.

01:12:58.540 Stores don't stay open if they lose too much money off their insurance rates are too high.

01:13:06.320 And this isn't just something that happens in the UK.

01:13:09.760 It also happens in several blue states.

01:13:12.300 We constantly talk about, we frequently talk about San Francisco and California and the very relaxed treatment of crime by Gavin Newsom.

01:13:23.800 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:13:24.420 Right, so Martin Rabson says,

01:13:27.420 As I still pick up litter, but as most bins are now removed in my local area in South London, I'm thinking it's a lost cause.

01:13:35.540 There are street cleaners, but in those small sit-in machines, and they miss most of it.

01:13:40.840 It's the small things that make a community pleasant.

01:13:44.520 It seems to be falling away now.

01:13:46.280 When I shop in small stores, I'm polite, friendly, and always get that back towards me.

01:13:52.100 They know I'm not going to abuse them.

01:13:53.900 I wait patiently as they unlock my small items from the locked cases.

01:13:58.380 My guess is they are expressing a little relief, but what do I know?

01:14:02.800 And Jimbo G says,

01:14:03.880 Maybe the shoplifters experience racism at schools like Ricky Jones, and therefore the law doesn't apply.

01:14:10.420 Well, obviously that makes everything alright, doesn't it?

01:14:13.040 On to my segments, Jan Javi says,

01:14:16.320 Good morning Stelios and Harry, good morning to you too.

01:14:19.240 Yeah, the iDubz situation was completely brutal and tragic.

01:14:22.600 Also, people like iDubz just don't get that Europe and the US are different.

01:14:26.820 That's true, and yeah, it is brutal and tragic, but I think we also, we can't let him off the hook,

01:14:32.560 and feel too sorry for him, because it's entirely self-inflicted.

01:14:36.320 Like he said in his video, he's so glad he didn't carry on down the path that he was originally on.

01:14:41.440 This was a conscious decision, whether influenced by other people, that he has made,

01:14:46.720 and therefore, he has made his own bed.

01:14:49.200 He can lie in it.

01:14:50.680 Chance from Canada,

01:14:52.100 Racism is a simplified, low-resolution straw man of the adeptive truth

01:14:55.960 that many people and their cultures are vastly different and do not harmoniously coalesce.

01:15:00.700 Also, it's just not as effective as it used to be.

01:15:03.180 Most people are saying,

01:15:04.220 You can call me whatever name that you want, that doesn't change the reality of the situation.

01:15:08.760 And as you've seen, Ian doesn't really have any response to that,

01:15:12.660 when people say,

01:15:13.740 Here's the statistics, what am I supposed to do with them?

01:15:17.700 And Ian says,

01:15:18.920 Nothing!

01:15:20.160 Ignore that they exist altogether, you can't draw any conclusions of them.

01:15:24.480 He's asking you to ignore reality and put yourself in danger.

01:15:28.480 Carrying on,

01:15:29.000 The liberal trend towards ideological deconstruction is forcing us to relearn this ancestral truth the hard way.

01:15:34.300 And yeah, it is something where if Ian were to acknowledge that,

01:15:38.940 if he were to acknowledge the idea that people from different backgrounds are different

01:15:44.100 in large, group-centered ways,

01:15:48.160 then that would destroy his entire worldview,

01:15:50.280 because you're not allowed to think that,

01:15:51.520 because he imports moral value on everybody being the same.

01:15:56.260 I don't.

01:15:56.900 I think moral value comes from your behaviors as an individual,

01:16:01.540 whereas he puts moral value on the idea that everybody starts from this blank slate.

01:16:06.920 I absolutely despise what they are doing,

01:16:10.320 what the lefts are doing,

01:16:11.320 because they are wrong on so many levels.

01:16:13.840 One is like,

01:16:14.840 they're saying,

01:16:15.480 We need to focus on the potential people have,

01:16:18.640 and people have equal potential,

01:16:20.380 which is wrong.

01:16:21.440 And they say that based on their equal potential,

01:16:23.900 all should have equal treatment,

01:16:25.300 which is again wrong,

01:16:26.380 because what you need to reward in society is not the potential,

01:16:30.200 but the exercise of potential.

01:16:32.060 When you go to the doctor,

01:16:33.300 you want them to cure you,

01:16:34.500 not to potentially cure you.

01:16:36.540 Not to give a good try at cure.

01:16:38.240 Yeah, yeah.

01:16:38.360 Not to give a good try.

01:16:39.500 So as a society,

01:16:41.120 you need to,

01:16:42.300 everyone,

01:16:42.760 we need to reward the exercise of power.

01:16:46.880 And good,

01:16:47.500 the good exercise of it.

01:16:48.700 Yeah, exactly.

01:16:49.340 Yeah.

01:16:49.680 So that's why,

01:16:50.560 you know,

01:16:50.700 if you're a couch potato,

01:16:52.200 and you're constantly someone who does nothing,

01:16:55.860 yeah,

01:16:56.080 no,

01:16:56.300 you shouldn't be given money.

01:16:58.180 Like,

01:16:58.460 Labour now wants to do an inheritance tax to 100%.

01:17:01.680 There are people.

01:17:02.660 They've been bandying about the idea,

01:17:04.840 suggesting.

01:17:05.380 Yeah,

01:17:05.400 and Kentish on LBC,

01:17:06.700 and another commentator today was saying,

01:17:08.520 you did nothing to deserve it.

01:17:11.420 What did you do, mate?

01:17:12.460 Yeah,

01:17:12.660 what did you do?

01:17:13.280 What did anybody else do?

01:17:15.300 My family earned that for me.

01:17:17.140 Yeah.

01:17:17.420 So that they could pass it along.

01:17:18.580 It's an attempt to break down potential rival power structures.

01:17:23.720 People with money,

01:17:24.620 especially people with old money,

01:17:26.680 could pose a threat.

01:17:28.240 So let's just eliminate that.

01:17:29.500 But see how all of them,

01:17:30.660 they're essentially egalitarianism,

01:17:32.480 how it brings everyone down,

01:17:33.680 because they are constantly focusing on,

01:17:36.560 really,

01:17:37.580 on things like,

01:17:39.080 you know,

01:17:39.320 self-esteem,

01:17:40.360 self-respect,

01:17:41.820 you know,

01:17:42.000 very subjective feelings.

01:17:43.080 And they're saying,

01:17:43.700 well,

01:17:43.860 my political friends,

01:17:45.280 they may be lazy people, 0.92

01:17:47.820 they may be couch potatoes, 0.93

01:17:49.540 but,

01:17:50.120 you know,

01:17:50.480 I want their political support.

01:17:52.580 So I'll have a crazy,

01:17:54.360 you know,

01:17:55.340 intellectual way of justifying how I engage in resource extraction from productive people in order to support unproductive people.

01:18:05.960 Yeah,

01:18:06.140 and if you're going to suggest 100%,

01:18:08.320 so,

01:18:09.220 I mean,

01:18:09.480 depending on the personal circumstance of the family itself,

01:18:12.920 so you're potentially suggesting to just,

01:18:15.620 let's just make these people destitute,

01:18:18.320 potentially,

01:18:19.200 out of my own jealousy and petty resentment.

01:18:21.760 Let's just make them completely,

01:18:23.120 steal everything they have.

01:18:24.460 Great idea. 0.99

01:18:25.600 Arizona desert rat, 0.99

01:18:26.700 just because a country is poor doesn't mean they have to be mean to gays, 0.98

01:18:30.700 and being poor doesn't mean one is unable to be charitable.

01:18:33.540 There are many instances in history of groups of poor people working together to provide charity.

01:18:37.840 Yeah,

01:18:38.040 there's this weird cause and effect logic that he's suggesting,

01:18:41.140 which is the poorer you are, 0.98

01:18:43.080 the more homophobic you are. 0.99

01:18:45.800 Which is, 0.99

01:18:46.580 like,

01:18:47.720 okay,

01:18:48.660 interesting.

01:18:49.320 Also,

01:18:49.660 those countries you're referring to aren't poor.

01:18:51.680 Some of them are incredibly wealthy due to their oil resources.

01:18:55.000 So that doesn't,

01:18:55.840 you're wrong in the first place.

01:18:57.660 Michael J. 0.98

01:18:58.080 Does iDubs understand that Succupi are soul-sucking demons? 1.00

01:19:02.600 Well, 0.98

01:19:03.020 he should.

01:19:04.060 He should,

01:19:04.860 given that's exactly what has happened to him. 0.94

01:19:07.220 Arizona desert rat,

01:19:08.040 I'm wondering why this iDubs guy feels like he has the right knowledge to tell Europeans 1.00

01:19:11.880 what Europe looks like.

01:19:14.620 Well,

01:19:14.760 because he's an entitled Californian.

01:19:17.000 He's sheltered,

01:19:18.220 he's shielded,

01:19:19.140 so,

01:19:19.380 of course,

01:19:20.340 um, 0.87

01:19:20.900 desert rat again, 0.96

01:19:21.580 the description of this relationship is giving off major abusive vibes. 0.93

01:19:26.120 There is an argument.

01:19:27.800 Marcus...

01:19:28.080 You have to be in denial.

01:19:29.380 Yeah.

01:19:30.060 There's no,

01:19:31.080 there's no person...

01:19:32.220 There's at least a major amount of emotional manipulation.

01:19:36.140 The only other explanation

01:19:37.220 is that he gets off on it.

01:19:40.080 Yeah.

01:19:40.580 That's the only other reason...

01:19:42.080 He likes to sit on the chair.

01:19:43.620 Yeah,

01:19:43.860 he's the reason they have the extra chair in the corner.

01:19:46.640 The extra chair in the hotel.

01:19:47.820 Marcus Melville,

01:19:49.920 you'll be making a segment on the suicide of iDubs in about six months,

01:19:53.180 I reckon.

01:19:54.220 Sam Hyde still wins.

01:19:55.480 Sam Hyde does keep winning,

01:19:56.980 and I don't want to make that segment,

01:20:00.040 but I will just say I wouldn't be surprised

01:20:02.280 if,

01:20:03.860 whether in six months or six years...

01:20:05.980 Yeah,

01:20:06.320 obviously we don't want him to.

01:20:07.520 No,

01:20:07.740 I don't,

01:20:08.000 I don't...

01:20:08.560 We are essentially,

01:20:09.900 in a good way,

01:20:10.940 shaming him to change his ways,

01:20:13.800 because he's led down a very dark path.

01:20:16.720 Yeah.

01:20:16.940 Again,

01:20:17.460 like,

01:20:17.700 dude,

01:20:18.860 you'll...

01:20:19.260 Stop it.

01:20:19.540 Your greatest enemy

01:20:21.220 can look up your wife's nudes online...

01:20:24.340 You continue.

01:20:24.820 ...any time he wants.

01:20:26.500 Yeah.

01:20:26.960 Stop what you are doing right now

01:20:28.900 and reconsider.

01:20:30.300 iDubs,

01:20:30.760 if you go down this path,

01:20:33.240 it's over.

01:20:34.520 Stop.

01:20:35.080 You're so over.

01:20:36.000 Stop it.

01:20:36.640 And Alex Ptolemy says here,

01:20:38.540 the trans boxer was actually a man.

01:20:40.160 They did more tests later

01:20:41.200 and found out they were born male.

01:20:44.440 That's very interesting if that's true.

01:20:46.060 I didn't follow up on the...

01:20:48.160 After I watched his original video.

01:20:49.820 So if that is true,

01:20:51.280 that's very interesting,

01:20:52.520 but I'll need to confirm it myself.

01:20:54.760 Right.

01:20:55.320 Kevin Fox says,

01:20:56.320 I used to date a girl 1.00

01:20:57.380 who used to use way too much makeup

01:21:00.000 and would take hours to put her face on 0.98

01:21:03.160 just to go outside.

01:21:04.620 I suggested a way to speed up the process.

01:21:07.460 I haven't read all of it,

01:21:08.940 but I'm just laughing

01:21:10.000 because it just sounds hilarious.

01:21:13.000 Smear her face with Vaseline first 0.87

01:21:15.140 and at the end of the night, 1.00

01:21:16.960 I could slap the back of her head 1.00

01:21:20.040 and the makeup would come off complete. 0.81

01:21:22.580 Then next day,

01:21:23.840 she could just smear,

01:21:26.080 print, 1.00

01:21:26.520 stick on her face 1.00

01:21:27.480 and stick the previous day's makeup back on. 0.97

01:21:30.500 She dumped me.

01:21:31.380 No pleasing some women. 1.00

01:21:32.420 Well, it sounds like

01:21:33.740 you were ahead of the curve there,

01:21:36.000 Kevin,

01:21:36.420 because you predicted all of this.

01:21:40.040 Sam Weston,

01:21:41.280 Brother Stelios,

01:21:42.300 adults with pacifiers is nothing.

01:21:44.840 Look up the video called

01:21:46.080 He's a Grown-Up Baby,

01:21:47.980 my crazy obsession full episode

01:21:49.740 from TLC's YouTube channel.

01:21:52.180 In it,

01:21:52.780 the guy has built a cot

01:21:54.000 and a high chair for himself

01:21:55.680 and he even wears an enormous onesie

01:21:58.220 and has a babysitter to look after him

01:22:00.880 despite the fact that he's 31 years old.

01:22:03.900 I feel like...

01:22:04.220 I've heard of that.

01:22:05.260 Yeah.

01:22:05.820 I mean...

01:22:06.560 Pretty sure it was before my time,

01:22:09.100 but I'm pretty sure at my secondary school,

01:22:11.100 one of the teachers who left the year

01:22:12.940 before I started

01:22:14.060 turned out to be into that.

01:22:17.440 Ramshack Lotter says

01:22:18.780 there is a booming trade in jewelry,

01:22:22.840 basically teethers dog toys

01:22:24.600 as attention-seeking jewelry for adults.

01:22:29.020 What can I say?

01:22:29.960 Sorry.

01:22:31.380 People just...

01:22:32.020 People are weird.

01:22:33.140 People just need to start smoking again,

01:22:34.880 all right?

01:22:35.360 Yeah.

01:22:35.760 Okay, like there's better ways

01:22:37.600 to deal with stimming

01:22:39.140 and fidgeting habits

01:22:40.700 and it's just like

01:22:42.260 just smoke a pipe or something.

01:22:44.300 You don't have to inhale the smoke.

01:22:47.060 Chance from Canada says

01:22:48.280 China is a rising threat 1.00

01:22:49.540 to Western hegemony.

01:22:51.020 Chinese adults 1.00

01:22:51.920 literally sucking pacifiers. 0.96

01:22:54.900 Yeah, it does kind of

01:22:56.600 change your mind on a few things,

01:22:58.700 doesn't it?

01:22:59.040 Arizona Desert Rat says

01:23:00.600 what happened to chewing gum?

01:23:02.060 That's super cringe and icky.

01:23:04.000 It is.

01:23:04.880 Arizona Desert Rat says

01:23:06.380 I'm surprised

01:23:06.940 another of these people

01:23:07.840 got sliced open by the glass.

01:23:10.000 Yeah, I thought that

01:23:10.980 when I saw the video of it

01:23:12.220 because they get absolutely

01:23:13.360 showered with shattered glass.

01:23:16.140 So I honestly hope

01:23:17.540 that they both turned out all right.

01:23:19.460 Stelios, of course,

01:23:20.320 is standing there,

01:23:21.780 sitting there,

01:23:22.480 hoping that they were both

01:23:23.460 in horrible condition

01:23:25.540 at the hospital or something.

01:23:26.880 No, they're not.

01:23:28.800 They were safe.

01:23:29.840 That's why I laughed.

01:23:30.820 I wouldn't laugh.

01:23:32.540 I wouldn't be laughing

01:23:33.720 if they hit.

01:23:35.980 They got hit.

01:23:37.520 All right.

01:23:38.540 But that was,

01:23:39.160 that was, you know,

01:23:39.800 just don't do a food podcast

01:23:41.060 like that.

01:23:41.900 It's just disgusting.

01:23:43.440 That's true. 0.74

01:23:44.000 That's true enough.

01:23:44.720 Right.

01:23:44.920 John V says

01:23:46.300 the only ASMR I can think of

01:23:48.540 that's good for sleeping

01:23:49.660 is something like ocean waves

01:23:51.280 or rain or fire cracking,

01:23:53.200 crackling.

01:23:54.160 Sorry.

01:23:55.420 This video is just bizarre.

01:23:58.520 Well, yeah,

01:23:58.760 if you're listening

01:23:59.160 to the sound of nature.

01:24:00.700 Yeah.

01:24:01.040 Relaxing music.

01:24:02.120 I put on relaxing music

01:24:03.260 because, you know,

01:24:04.160 some people in the office

01:24:05.300 are very loud.

01:24:08.560 I wouldn't know

01:24:09.300 who you're talking about there.

01:24:10.740 Yeah.

01:24:10.920 Ram Shack Lotto says

01:24:14.040 ASMR is enjoyed by NPCs.

01:24:17.060 I can believe it.

01:24:17.820 That's absolutely true,

01:24:19.400 but not the good ASMR

01:24:21.320 that John V said.

01:24:22.660 Is your friend an NPC

01:24:25.040 now that we've discovered it?

01:24:26.260 No, I actually told him just,

01:24:28.220 mate, you need to stop this. 0.89

01:24:29.880 If you continue this,

01:24:31.820 you're going to become iDabs.

01:24:33.540 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:24:34.280 Stop it now.

01:24:35.320 You're going to be starting

01:24:36.020 your message.

01:24:36.300 What you want is

01:24:36.900 bimbo nails like this. 1.00

01:24:38.500 Just disgusting. 0.94

01:24:39.300 That's weird.

01:24:40.640 Bass Tape says,

01:24:42.020 after 36 years,

01:24:43.380 I'm finally ready to say it.

01:24:45.540 I'm tired of denying

01:24:46.500 who I truly am inside.

01:24:48.140 I need to start

01:24:48.860 being honest with myself. 0.96

01:24:50.540 I can't stand women. 1.00

01:24:53.020 Preach, brother. 0.97

01:24:54.580 Preach.

01:24:55.660 Right.

01:24:56.200 So, I think, honestly,

01:24:57.420 I feel a bit bad

01:24:58.860 about the third segment.

01:25:00.680 Why?

01:25:00.880 It was fun.

01:25:02.080 It was fun,

01:25:02.740 but, you know,

01:25:03.240 that's part of our predicament.

01:25:04.520 Sometimes, you know,

01:25:05.400 lots of things are happening

01:25:06.740 and we can't decide

01:25:07.800 what to do

01:25:09.480 and other weeks

01:25:10.220 there is just

01:25:10.840 weeks and nothing happens

01:25:12.520 or if things happen,

01:25:14.120 they need a crazy amount

01:25:15.260 of preparation

01:25:15.920 that we just don't have.

01:25:17.900 The trick

01:25:18.460 when you know

01:25:19.320 that you can see

01:25:20.180 through the matrix,

01:25:21.040 when you can truly know

01:25:22.360 is when everything

01:25:23.840 seems to be happening,

01:25:25.180 but you can still recognize

01:25:27.180 that in reality,

01:25:29.220 nothing is happening.

01:25:30.860 Exactly.

01:25:31.840 It's all

01:25:32.600 nothing happening.

01:25:33.940 Also, the fun thing

01:25:35.600 is about these segments

01:25:36.740 that lots of people

01:25:37.980 are constantly asking

01:25:38.940 for, you know,

01:25:40.500 lighthearted.

01:25:41.260 You're asking frequently

01:25:43.000 for lighthearted segments,

01:25:44.520 especially towards

01:25:45.420 the end of the week.

01:25:46.560 They don't do that well

01:25:47.660 on YouTube or something,

01:25:49.260 but it's okay.

01:25:50.100 Let's have some fun

01:25:51.140 once and every once in a while.

01:25:52.380 That's all right.

01:25:53.260 Just name it something

01:25:54.420 outlandish, crazy,

01:25:56.980 and right there 0.87

01:25:58.820 on the line

01:25:59.580 and people might,

01:26:01.280 you might look out.

01:26:02.360 That's happened to me

01:26:03.760 a few times.

01:26:04.480 People click

01:26:05.200 if it's scandalous.

01:26:07.540 Yeah, but also

01:26:08.280 Samson had a really good laugh.

01:26:11.080 That's right.

01:26:11.860 He had a really good laugh.

01:26:13.160 And we do it for you, Samson.

01:26:14.760 Yeah, he's giving a thumbs up.

01:26:15.340 That's what this whole operation is for.

01:26:16.700 Was the chat happy?

01:26:20.660 They were horrified.

01:26:22.420 They were horrified.

01:26:23.560 Okay, absolutely.

01:26:24.240 So Stelios has done his job.

01:26:25.880 Yeah.

01:26:26.500 Now, I want to say

01:26:27.260 because we still have

01:26:28.400 a minute left,

01:26:29.500 I want to say

01:26:30.520 to people,

01:26:32.020 the lovely people

01:26:33.040 on the chat

01:26:33.600 that I very frequently

01:26:34.960 watch what they're writing

01:26:37.000 and I want to

01:26:38.180 thank you for

01:26:39.460 being there with me

01:26:40.800 in some cases

01:26:41.460 where I'm just zoning out

01:26:42.860 because

01:26:43.720 sometimes I just

01:26:45.540 don't have things to add.

01:26:46.560 Also, chat.

01:26:48.180 If you think...

01:26:48.920 You haven't watched

01:26:49.860 that I am blinking

01:26:50.840 when you're telling me,

01:26:52.480 Stelios,

01:26:52.880 if they're holding you hostage,

01:26:54.360 blinked three times.

01:26:56.020 I've done it,

01:26:56.760 but I've seen that

01:26:57.680 in some cases

01:26:58.280 some of you haven't noticed.

01:27:00.640 What?

01:27:01.040 Don't worry, Stelios.

01:27:03.160 We'll get you back

01:27:03.740 in your cage

01:27:04.320 after we're done.

01:27:05.660 But...

01:27:05.860 Yeah, just to let

01:27:08.560 the chat know

01:27:09.180 as well, right?

01:27:09.860 You think some of the stuff

01:27:10.880 he showed you there

01:27:11.640 was bad?

01:27:12.480 That's nothing.

01:27:13.960 That's nothing at all

01:27:15.020 compared to

01:27:16.000 what he sends us

01:27:17.520 on Discord

01:27:18.760 in private DMs.

01:27:20.640 Some of the

01:27:21.360 absolute filth 0.98

01:27:23.240 this man 0.92

01:27:23.820 has thrown my way.

01:27:24.860 I cannot confirm this.

01:27:27.740 Yeah, but he's not

01:27:28.340 denying it either, is he?

01:27:29.460 I absolutely cannot

01:27:30.020 confirm what you're

01:27:30.940 talking about, Harry.

01:27:32.520 I have been traumatized

01:27:34.380 beyond all recognition.

01:27:36.480 If people worry about me,

01:27:38.060 why does Harry have

01:27:38.820 that glazed-over look

01:27:39.900 sometimes?

01:27:40.480 It's because I'm

01:27:40.940 in the trenches.

01:27:42.100 Up here,

01:27:42.900 I'm in the trenches

01:27:43.940 and it's flashing 1.00

01:27:45.200 through some of this shit 0.99

01:27:45.960 I'm giving you 0.99

01:27:46.360 some homework.

01:27:47.300 That this man

01:27:48.000 has sent me.

01:27:48.920 I'm giving you

01:27:49.880 some homework.

01:27:50.900 Yep.

01:27:51.380 And on that note,

01:27:53.180 I think that

01:27:54.040 our podcast

01:27:55.140 has reached

01:27:56.160 its climax

01:27:57.340 and see us

01:27:59.600 tomorrow at 1pm.

01:28:01.300 Thank you

01:28:01.780 and goodbye.

01:28:18.920 Bye.

01:28:48.920 Bye.

01:29:18.920 Bye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 22, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1235

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